The Witches Dragons

There weren’t always dragons in the Valley.

Dragons were creatures of myth and legend that lived long ago. Now in 2022, 2 years after the pandemic that brought the world to a grinding halt for months, the death toll of the newest plague is over 15,000,000 and still going. Covid-19 has changed the world in thousands of ways.

One of the biggest changes came on October 31, 2021, It is said that on Halloween or Samhain, the veil between the physical world and spirit world becomes thin. Many believe that when this happens it allows the Spirit world to cross into the physical world. While many people did not believe in this theory, It became very real this night. What caused it is anyone’s guess, But that night the physical world learned that the Spirit world did in fact exist, and that the creatures of that were believed to only be those of legends and myths were very, very real, as these creature’s crossed the veil, and showed their existence to the human race.

Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, Ghosts, Ghoul’s, Goblins, Shapeshifters, Banshee’s and yes Dragons showed themselves to the human race. Creature’s legend’s and myth’s from around the world came through the veil that night. Many believed that with the creatures entered into the human realm because the virus had become rampant, and it had caused the veil to become extremely thin, allowing the world of the supernatural to cross over to the the physical realm.

Once these beings had crossed over, it was discovered that many humans were these creatures. It was discovered that over the centuries, many of the creatures had crossed over when the veil was thin and created and procreated their bloodlines. So when the Great Shift, as it was now called happened. Human’s in the physical realm that were created or procreated from these bloodlines, became what their lineage was.

That was how I became a witch, My name is Alexandrite, Not a common name, but I was not a common girl. Once the Great Shift happened. Several witches from the Spirit realm got together and preformed a ceremony, that made those in the human realm, that carried witch blood, become actual witches. We gained some powers but needed to be trained. A school was created for us and we started learning our craft.

Which has lead to today. Today five of our coven members will be getting their familiars. Witches do not choose their familiars, the familiar will choose their witch. It is said that the stronger a witches power is the stronger and more powerful her familiar is.

Grace and I are anxious to see what familiar we get. Sandrine and her two lackeys Kathryn and Victoria however are convinced that they will get extremely powerful familiars. Even though we are all in our late 20’s, with those three its like high school all over again. They are the mean girls everyone had in class.

The Priestess of our Coven has just announced that the ceremony will begin in a few minutes. The 5 of us head to our places around the ceremonial circle.

“Blessed Be, my sisters” The Priestess says as she steps into circle.

“Blessed Be, Priestess” the coven answers back.

“Sister’s we have gathered tonight here at our ceremonial circle, so that our new sister’s may receive their familiars, and become the witches they are meant to be.” the Priestess says as she walks around the circle.

“Sandrine, Alexandrite, Grace, Victoria and Kathryn each of you will walk to the center of the circle close your eyes, raise your arms up to the goddess and repeat the mantra “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis” three times. Once you finish your familiar will appear before you.”

“Kathryn you will go first.” the Priestess said. With her words Kathryn strutted forward like a peacock. She got to the center of the circle closed her eyes, raised her arms, and repeated the mantra, “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis”, “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis”, “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis.” Upon uttering the last word their was a bright flash of light. When the flash ended on the ground at Kathryn’s feet was a white rabbit.

“ A rabbit really, that's what I get?” Kathryn whined.

“Rabbit’s are considered sacred by many goddesses, It is common knowledge that they have the ability to commune with the Faerie world.” the Priestess explained.

“Yes Priestess, I understand.” Kathryn said as she bent down and picked up her rabbit and carried it back to where the rest us stood.

“Victoria, you are next.” The Priestess said. Victoria walked to the center of the circle, she closed her eyes, raised her arms up, and repeated the mantra, “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis”, “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis”, “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis.” And again there was a flash of light, and when the light went away on the ground in front of Victoria was a large, very hairy brown spider. Snickers could be heard through out the group at the horrified look on Victoria’s face. It was a well known fact that she hated spiders.

“Well Victoria, apparently you will now be able to get over your fear of spiders.” The Priestess stated “You do know they are linked to creativity and patience. I think that your familiar chose wisely.”

“Grace it is your turn next.” stated the Priestess. Grace walked to center closed her eyes, raised her arms up, and repeated the mantra, “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis”, “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis”, “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis.” This time there was a loud howl when the light flashed. At Grace’s feet stood a beautiful white wolf. The wolf’s fur was white as snow and it had the most beautiful Amber eyes.

“Well, Grace this is quite a surprise. wolves are loyal protectors of their witches. They are protectors of the earthly realm as well. This points to you being a green witch and a powerful one at that.” stated the Priestess.

“Sandrine you are next.”

Sandrine sauntered to the center of the circle and did the same as the others, closed her eyes, raised her arms up, and repeated the mantra, “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis”, “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis”, “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis.” Bang a flash of light and draped over Sandrine's arm was a large brown and yellow constrictor.

“ Sandrine, you too are apparently meant to be a green witch. Snakes are considered to be healers of the Earth. They possess the secrets of Earth’s creation and wisdom.”

“Well I am sure that I will be a great Priestess.” Sandrine said with a smirk on her face, as she sauntered back off to her place with the rest of the girls.

“Alexandrite, you are next. Let’s see what our most studious sister gets for her familiar.” announced the Priestess. Nervously I headed to the center of the circle. As my sisters before me, I closed my eyes, raised my arms to the sky. and repeated the mantra, “Manifestum Spiritus Animalis, Manifestum Spiritus Animalis, Manifestum Spiritus Animalis, ”

When I finished the ground started to shake, there were loud claps of thunder, and lighting brightened the sky. A loud deep growling could be heard. The entire coven had scared and terrified looks on their faces. Even the Priestess had an expression of shock and worry on her face. Suddenly the sound of flapping wings could be heard. The ground stopped shaking and as the coven looked to the sky, two very large creatures could be seen, swooping through the sky.

And in an instant both creatures turned and headed at breakneck speed towards the center of the circle. And with a loud thud that shook the earth the creatures landed.

When everyone looked towards the circle, standing before Alexandrite were two very large jet black dragons. They were full grown, and they looked like twins, but once Alexandrite got a better look at them there was a noticeable difference between the two while they were both a shiny, jet black, they each had a different eye color. One had emerald green eyes and its scales on its body had a green hue to them. The other had vivid purple eyes and its scales had a purple hue to them. The coven was in shock and awe, none had ever seen a dragon appear as a familiar, and two familiars for a witch was unheard of. The dragons looked down at Alexandrite and then bowed to their witch. As the coven started to talk among themselves over the meaning of what they were witnessing, Alexandrite was too stunned looking at the dragons to hear the Priestess comment.

“Well, well, apparently the dragons have come back to the valley.