WitchCraft Book 1: Gem

Prologue

The three of us are witches, and we have one thing in common: we're all in the White Circle. This is our story.

Shadowrunn

"We can't hold it down much longer, Carlos!" I remember saying to our conductor. We were trying to hold down a somewhat out-of-control house fire, I still don't understand why he held us back until the last minute, but somehow, it caused him to lose another life.

I'm Shadowrunn, by the way. I'm kind of what they call a halfie in my world. I specialize in white magic although I will do certain types of black magic upon request. I have a known reputation, among my friends, as the trickster of the group, but I like to refer to myself more as a con-artist.

I- along with one of my group members- am responsible for most of the runes that we use. You'll learn more about me and where we are as we go along, but for now, all you need to know is that I'm a furry, I'm fourteen years old and in my last year of middle school, and I live in New Castle, Virginia. My three favorite hobbies are swimming, drinking, and- of course- drawing.

Bloodstone

My name is Bloodstone, though people mostly call me Becca. I am a mage furry and I am always picked on for my beliefs, but I have faith in who I am and I don't care what people think. I am really into movie editing and writing novels, I am very nice, but don't make me mad or you will pay for the consequences. I am fifteen years old and I live in Craig with Shadowrunn.

Skynight

I am Skynight, but my friends sometimes call me sky for short. I'm still trying to figure out what the heck I am and where I come from. My favorite things to do are reading and drinking. I am in the same grade as Becca and Shadowrunn, but I am the youngest of the group at thirteen years old. We all live in Craig County, mainly because it's a tight community.

Chapter 4

I remember it all too clearly, how my mother and father died. My father died when I was two, his heart savagely ripped out and tied to a tree, I was forced to watch it all, the burning of his body, and the still-beating heart being knocked around by his murderers. Two years after that, my mother was killed by the same people during my Marking. My mother was an angel. She was dead by the end of the ceremony. One of her wings were ripped off and on the other side of the cave. She was lying in a pool of blood. I buried her and flew away, but I had nowhere to run, so I went to the mortal world. It was there that Becca and her kind family took me in, we've been friends ever since.

The two of us have been through a lot together and then, a couple of years ago, we met Sky. We clicked instantly and we became virtually inseparable. We've been in the White Circle for two years now, and Carlos was appointed as our conductor three months ago when Wavestone died at the rightful age of 110.

Now, I can't imagine life without Becca and Sky and Carlos. It'd be too hard too, anyways. The people who murdered my parents are after me now, and I'm putting my friends in danger, I know it, so do they. And, yet, they help me. It's a work-in-progress, but we're training to fend them off' but it won't be easy, that's for sure.

Today we were training at Fenwick Mines with water. Its kind of the same concept as with Avitar, you know, water bending and all. Anyways, it was my turn for a break so I settled down to some whiskey