[Bovice]

Holden sighed, "It's fine, I don't like the feeling I'm getting from you right now, myself." He ran his hand through his hair with a frown. "He went back to London." He sighed again. "I needed to help Melody, but since Mystic was alive and well..." He stopped mid sentence when the stone on his pendant started to glow. He growled at it, "Ah sorry. The sun is coming up." He pointed to the window. "As I was saying, I didn't want Jaelynn to get hurt helping me again. And this was the only thing I knew to do." He sighed for the third time. "I should go, the bank will be opening soon, and I would like to get a house before the day is over. I will see you soon, I hope." He waved and went back to his room to grab his bags.

***

After a couple hours of searching Holden found a house he really liked.

***

Alicia knocked on the door to Holden's study, "Holden? Can I come in? It's me Alicia." She gently opened the door.

Holden suddenly closed the book he was reading, "What Alicia?" He snapped as he brushed his now long white hair from his eyes.

"It's been two months, and you have barely left this.. these rooms. You even blew a hole in the wall to your bedroom." She pointed to the hole. "You need to go and talk to Solomon. I know you miss him." She stepped back slightly afraid of how he was going to react.

"I destroyed the relationship Alicia. I have nothing to say to make it better." He stood up. "These books, all of them. I could never mess up my relationships with them." He pointed to the many books around the room.

"Holden... You... Look at yourself. You look like a seventy year old man." She pointed to him. "A-..and these books are giving you a vast knowledge of witchcraft, but your power is going to kill you." She stepped backwards as he got closer. "I feel the power rolling off of you Holden. And when this much power is coming from one person it is never good." She squeaked when she hit the wall.

"You think that Alicia? I can show you my power if you really want." Holden's eyes turned black.

"N-..no, Holden please... This isn't you." Alicia started to cry. "I-..I'm sorry. Please just let me go." She pointed to the door.

Holden's eyes turned back to their normal color. "Go." He waved the door open and went back to his chair.

Alicia ran out of the room and teleported away. She landed in a study in Solomon's old house. She fell to the floor and started to cry harder. "Solomon?"

[Evil Tink]

Throughout the next few weeks, Solomon set out to regain his property, his horses and his former employees. They were entirely thrilled to come back to work for him and jumped at the opportunity. Solomon was relieved that he would not have to find new workers. Anne had even come back to work with him; she was even running a small bakery from the large kitchen which was perfectly fine by him.

Suddenly, he looked upstairs, sensing someone in his house; a vampire. He let out a quiet sigh hearing Alicia's voice in his head. Solomon appeared, kneeling next to Alicia. He helped her up and to the couch, "Alicia, please calm down.." He held out his hand to her, a fresh bottle of blood appearing in his hands, "What's wrong?"

[Bovice]

"I-..it's Holden..." Alicia looked up at Solomon. "H-..he isn't himself. He is consumed with magic, he sits in his study all day and read his books. His power has grown immensely." She trailed off. "He had it planned out he was gonna buy a house, and get settled and then come talk to you." She said starting to settle down. "But we were walking through the city one day and he saw a little occult bookshop." She paused.

"Why they would have an occult bookshop in Fond du Lac Wisconsin is beyond me. Anyway he wanted to go in there and check it out." She sighed. "He walked out carrying every single book with spells and about witches and witchcraft, that the store had." She looked away.

"Every time I try to talk to him I get scared. He has gone through ten pendants in the past two months." She looked back at Solomon. "I know he burned the bridge to you by having his powers activated, but can you talk to him? Maybe you can talk some sense into him." She closed her eyes. "He doesn't even look like the Holden you knew two months ago." Alicia opened her eyes, they had deep worry in them.

[Evil Tink]

Solomon frowned, shaking his head, "I can't go anywhere near him Alicia. If he's as strong as you imply, the darkness in my aura that built up over 570 years would cause him to react violently, even to me." He sighed, leaning on his desk and pushing his sleeves up to his elbows, "I'm surprised you could even get that close for that amount of time." He glanced out to the window, watching the outside world, "I'm sorry Alicia, but I can't do anything..and don't go asking Cameila either...she may have been a witch, but now her aura reeks of Vampire..she'd be of no use either. Your best bet is to hunt down a 'white' witch...or..or a neutral party!"

He looked to her and stepped over, "H-have you guys heard anything from Mystic or Melody? Melody would be perfect...Holden does care about her, and she has no darkness in her aura; she's innocent. She's a smart girl...maybe we could use her to help us get some sense into Holden."

[Bovice]

Alicia shook her head, "Soon after he started reading his books he stopped talking to Mystic and Melody." She sighed. "I'm the only one allowed in the house. He has a spell around it now that I think of it. Now one can enter except for him and me." She looked down at the floor. She looked up with a somewhat glimmer in her eyes, "I do have an idea. But knowing my luck Holden will kill me or something." She sighed.

[Evil Tink]

He lifted his hand, indicating for her to continue, "Do tell Alicia. I have a block around this room so powerful that not even Mystic and Azriel could break it."

[Bovice]

"Well, Holden has these journals. Chronicling every white witch or warlock in the U.S." Alicia paused. "He used to have them in his bedroom.. study thing. But now they are in the basement. I can teleport them here." She stuck up her hand. "No that wouldn't be safe right away, I would have to do some teleporting first. Just in case Holden would notice." She thought for a moment. "But when I get enough places teleported we can use this." She pulled out one of Holden's old pendants. "To summon one of them, and we would need some..." She face palmed herself. "What is it called? It's a root or a herb... It cleanses the soul, and makes us seem like light creatures." She rubbed her temples. "It's an old Wiccan thing." She looked at Solomon. "He told me a lot of things before he went mad with power. Sweet grass!" She yelled a little. "That's what it is... We need to meditate with it burning in front of us. And we have to picture our aura's clean, and supposedly it works." Alicia smiled a little.

[Evil Tink]

Solomon lifted his hand, "You can do that..I won't be involved with no Wiccan magic...I will remove myself from my property so you can do this properly, but I will not..." He had to admit, it sounded like a solid idea.

[Bovice]

"I understand Solomon. But when Holden is back to somewhat normal, can you please come and talk to him?" Alicia stood up. "I know under all of that power, that he misses you. And you flinched a little bit when I mentioned his name. You miss him too." She crossed her arms in a 'I am right' fashion. She sighed slightly, "If you come and see him afterwards, be careful." Alicia smiled.

[Evil Tink]

Solomon frowned, "Of course I miss him Alicia, it doesn't take a genius to figure that out." He sighed a bit, "We will see..once things have played out."

[Bovice]

"Ok, I will be back shortly." Alicia gave Solomon a small hug and disappeared. After about twenty minutes of teleporting around the world she landed back in Solomon's study. "Well if he figured it out, he hopefully would of lost my trail. I even made sure my portals closed." She slammed the book on the table. "And this thing is heavy." She leaned on the table a little bit. "Now let's see, how his ranking system works." She opened the book and threw some sweet grass on the table. "Well, it seems that his system is very complex. I think he was getting a little paranoid." She closed her eyes to think.

"Ok, I think I understand it a little. Three stars means very powerful. And the one through five means their rank in the witches council, one being low and five being high. He also has his own ranking system." She sighed. "We will go with the Witches council ranking." She flipped through the book. She stopped when she saw Holden's picture, "He's ranked at six!" She looked to Solomon. "That's not possible... Their system is one through five." She was very confused. "Camelia..? How is Holden ranked six by the witches council?" She started flipping through the book again.

"How did you know that?" Camelia jumped a little when she heard that. She sighed, "Six is a number we give to a witch, warlock, or paladin, when they have learned most of the white magic. Seven is when they have. It also goes negative with the dark arts. But no one is supposed to know about the after fives." Camelia blocked the conversation from anyone who was trying to spy.

"I'm sure you heard that Solomon." Alicia sighed. She stopped, "Her, Clara. She is a five, she should be able to help." She looked to Solomon.

[Evil Tink]

Solomon had his hands in his pockets, "I just wish he would've listened to me..." He lifted his hand form his pocket, waving it idly in the air without looking at her, "Then hop to it." With that, he vanished.

[Bovice]

Alicia nodded, she quickly went to one of the plants and grabbed the plate out from underneath it. She placed the sweet grass on the plate and set it on the floor. She sat down on the floor pretzel style, she lit the grass on fire with a match and closed her eyes. After about ten minutes of sitting there she opened her eyes. "I do feel cleansed." She stood up and went to the book. She looked for a summoning spell, as she pulled out the pendant which was glowing slightly. "Ok, here goes." She quickly read the spell and turned around. She held up the pendant, "I a daughter of Venus, use the power of a son of Mars, to call Clara to my aid." The pendant started to glow brightly.

Suddenly a light blonde hared woman appeared wearing a flowing white gown. "What is it you need daughter of Venus?" A bell like voice came from the woman.

Alicia bowed slightly when the woman spoke. "My friend needs your help Clara." She said looking at the woman.

"And what is your name? As well as his?" The woman's hands floated out and up.

"I'm Alicia, and my friend's name is Holden." Alicia wanted to say more but was silenced by the woman.

The woman floated her hand up after she got the names. "Alicia, your friend Holden has strayed off of the path of light. He has started digging into the dark." The woman frowned. "You have not been fully truthful to me child of the dark." The woman's light blue eyes turned to a dark blue.

"I'm sorry ma'am, but I care deeply for my friend, and I wish to help him. I need you to do that." Alicia begged.

"I know this child. As I also know that your heart is in a good place." The woman's eyes turned back to light blue. "We shall go and bring your friend back to the light." The woman extended her hand to Alicia.

Alicia gently took the woman's hand.

[Evil Tink]

Two Months Ago:
The red eyed woman known as Acera sighed a bit, closing her eyes as she rubbed her temples. "You really do amaze me sometimes Mystic.." She opened her eyes, leaning back in her chair and crossing her left leg over her right. She quietly folded her hands neatly in her lap as she stared at him, her eyes glowing slightly, "You have avoided me rather well these past few months, but you can't hide from me forever~"

Mystic frowned, keeping his gaze low, remaining down on his knees. "I understand your wrath Mistress, but please hear me out." He waited a moment, glancing up to see her nod. He stood, keeping his gaze respectfully low, "I do deserve punishment to the fullest extent of the law, but Melody is just someone who got caught up in all this. If you allow me to do a proper attachment for her, I promise I will endure any punishment you deem necessary for both myself and her. She de-"

Acera held up her slim hand, silencing Mystic, "Quiet now. Your stupid wife already explain the circumstances to me. However, you broke my laws..four times..I cannot simply let you or those people walk around as if it were nothing. If I do, we'd be seeing hundreds of reattached demons and vampires..it would throw the world into chaos." She stood, going over to Mystic. She looked to see his face, as he was much taller than her at 6'2". She gently lay her hand on his cheek, "While it's a shame to get rid of two of my most powerful demons, I have to remain firm with the law. That's what they're for."

Mystic tensed as Acera touched his face; the color draining from his flesh. "Acera, please...you can kill me and Azriel, fine...teach the demons a good lesson..make it a spectacle, I don't care. Just..please don't hurt Melody or the vampires. If you kill the vampires, you will upset the peace we currently have with them..while they stand no chance, a war is just not in our best interests right now."

Acera was silent as she thought, trailing her hand down his chest to his heart, her sharp nail digging hard into his shirt. "Hmm..this event is rather isolated, and the only ones aware of your..disobedience are the Council and myself..." She removed her hand, allowing the color to return to Mystic's skin. She turned on her heel, heading back up to her chair and sat down, staring down at him with her bright eyes. "If you ever go against me again, I will not be so forgiving. I will call Irith off her hunt and you can have Azriel back." Suddenly, she grabbed him with a powerful wrap of telekinesis, squeezing him tightly, "I mean it Mystic...I will have you dead faster than you can blink. Bring the doll to me, along with a body...I will do the attachment myself.."

Mystic nodded, as that was all he could do; until she released him. He fell to his knees, gasping for air, "If I could but plead one favor from you..." He stood, coughing a few times as his ribs repaired, "You are our best warrior, and I was hoping you could pass some information to Melody. I have a feeling that even if you call off Irith, Melody will still be in danger. I would like her to be able to at least protect herself long enough so I can get to her." He quickly looked down, realizing how ridiculous his request sounded.

Acera grinned darkly, "Well, since you asked me so nicely, I will do that, and a bit more. Just bring me a body, and I will take care of the rest. I wouldn't be too worried about Irith going after her, but rather the other demons if they were to get wind of this. Just beware Mystic, my knowledge might..change her..she won't be the cute, innocent girl she is now."

Mystic nodded, "I will forever be in your debt Mistress." With that, he vanished.

Present Day:
Mystic sighed deeply, looking over to the young black haired girl whose eyes were glued to a book, "Really Melody...you need to actually get out and..do something. All you do is sit around and read demonology books..."

Melody glanced up, her dull grey eyes narrowing slightly, "Don't blame me Mystic. You have nothing for me to do here..I can't go anywhere near Holden, and you refuse to teach me anything, I have to learn somehow." She shut the book, setting it down on the table, "Don't you have to be somewhere?"

Mystic flinched, "Oh shut up..Acera will have to wait..you little Missy need to eat something. Now go." He pointed to the kitchen.

She sighed, standing up and smoothing her dress, "I know Mystic...I'll eat when I'm hungry." She walked over, giving him a light shove, "I wouldn't keep Acera waiting if I were you Mystic..."

Mystic growled then disappeared. I'm going to have to teach her some manners!

[Bovice]

{Accidental double post Dx}

[Bovice]

Alicia and Clara appeared outside Holden's front door. "This boy is truly powerful. This spell..." The woman trailed off as she started to break it.

Holden snarled as he felt the spell starting to break. "Clara." He vanished appearing just behind the door. He put his hands up to keep the spell going.

"Well he is a fast one." The woman said as she moved Alicia behind her. She quickly put her hands up to combat his adding power.

"You have no hope against me Clara." Holden quickly said an incantation slashing Clara's abdomen.

The woman only flinched when her abdomen was sliced open. "You may be ranked higher then me but I have had my powers for hundreds of years boy." She pulled the front door off the hinges. "Your not ready for this child."

Holden's eyes turned black as his door was ripped off. "I'm more ready then you know." The sky started to turn black, and lightning started to flash in the clouds. Suddenly a lightning bolt slammed into the ground mere inches from Clara.

Clara didn't falter when the lightning bolt struck next to her. She looked up and started to turn the sky white. "You have moved from your path Holden. This is what Paladin's are supposed to do." She looked at Holden with white eyes.

Alicia skittered away when the lightning bolt struck the ground.

Holden growled as his sky was turning white. He made a lightning bolt fly right at Clara.

Clara stuck her hand up as the lightning bolt came to her, suddenly the lightning bolt turned to snow.