Chapter Five

Future Meeting, A power Switch, and A Cold Cave

The Canaby sisters started to descend from the sky around midday, they dove through the clear sky to the ground below. As they descended they could see a seemingly small lake with fields of grass surrounding it. They also saw a small mountain that was shaped like a rigid tooth sticking out from the ground.

The Canaby sisters landed by the lake and took out their trunks and made them to size to change their clothes. Madeline took off her blood stained tunic that had gotten blood on it from the day before and changed into a white and blue tunic that lay at the top of her trunk.

Rose changed into a red jumper suit that made her look big and inflated and Sarah just changed her tunic from a dark green one to a light green one. Sarah then took out all of the gifts that the witches had given them in the night before and laid them out on a towel that lay on the ground.

“What are you doing?” Madeline asked

“Well I just think that we should learn how to use them” Sarah said “and these are our only tools to ward off any danger, I think if we know how to use them right then we can increase our chances of survival.

“Your right” admitted Madeline

They sat in triangular form on the ground surrounding the pile of miscellaneous objects. Madeline picked up a palm-sized glass ball that seemed to have a blue smoke swirling in it, and then it started to swirl faster.

“What is this” Madeline said

“I don’t know but I think we should all hold on to it so we can all experience

what it will do” Rose said

The Canaby sisters touched the glass ball as it swirled faster, it swirled so fast that it was one solid color inside instead of a few strands of blue. Just then a blinding yellow light expanded from the glass ball, engulfing them, they all screamed as a swooshing sound surrounded them, they felt as though they were in a vortex that was spinning out of control. Then it all stopped and they were right where they were before but now they weren’t alone they came face to face with themselves.

The past Canaby sisters stood up from the grass quickly in shock wondering why they were looking at their selves

“Who are you?” past Madeline said

“Apparently you” Madeline said

“But how….” Past Sarah said

“We were going through the gifts that we got and Madeline came across a glass ball that just started to swirl and glow so we all held on and now we’re here, five minutes in the past.” Rose said breathlessly

“Oh, well how do you get back?” past Rose said

“I don’t know maybe if we all hold on to it again it will reverse itself” guessed Rose

The future Canaby sisters held on to the glass ball and like rose guessed it started to swirl and make a swooshing noise around them. The past Canaby sisters watched the future Canaby sisters get engulfed in the blinding, yellow light then vanish. As the Canaby sisters traveled through time chills went up their back, they were shot through a portal five feet in the air and landed with a thud.

“Ouch” shrieked Madeline “I don’t want to do that again”

“It was weird wasn’t it?” Sarah said

“It was, and I never noticed that I was so pale” Rose laughed

The Canaby sisters went back to the gifts and put the time ball as they called it away in the trunk. Sitting around the objects again they picked up a metal, flat triangle that had power insignias on each point and the word power engraved in the middle. They each instinctively pinched a corner of it and as they did so the power insignias glowed, in fright they dropped it on the other gifts making a metal to metal clanking sound.

The triangle started to levitate in the air slowly and spin as the Canaby sisters stood up, it rose in the middle of them until reaching the center point of their heads.

The triangle started to spin slowly then faster and faster until it looked like a circle disc floating in the air. Then the Canaby sisters felt dizzy and slowly went down on the ground, just then the Canaby’s magic came out of their stomachs in a swirling blue, green, and red sparkling light.

Each power went into one of the corners and with that the triangle began to spin even faster making a buzzing noise in the air. The Canaby sisters laid half alert in the grass feeling sick to their stomachs wondering what was going to happen to them.

The triangle’s tips shot out each of their powers but in a different person’s body making each of the sisters have the other sister’s power and not their own. The triangle came to a halt and fell on the ground and the Canaby sisters were knocked out.

A couple of hours later when the moon started to rise and the sun started to go down, Sarah woke to find her sisters still asleep. She went over to them and shook them and called out their names until they woke with her.

“What happened Rose” Madeline asked “ use your power to tell us what that thing did to us.”

“Hold on” rose said

Rose closed her eyes as she usually did when she looked for an answer, then she opened them with a scared look on her face.

“What’s wrong, what did it do to us?” Madeline asked

“I, I don’t know” Rose said shocked, being that her power was knowing

“I think I do” said Sarah “that thing is called a power switcher and it swaps the powers of witches for twelve hours, and I think I have Rose’s power because I don’t know how I would know that without the power of knowing.”

“Then who’s power do I have?” Rose said frustrated

Sarah closed her eyes and came up with the answer that Madeline now had the power of control and Rose had the power of premonition.

“What if something attacks us” said Rose “we don’t know how to use each other’s powers.”

“I don’t think we will have to worry, this place is completely devoid of human life other than our own” Sarah said.

“Well its getting dark, I think we should fly up to the mountain and try and find somewhere to sleep.” Said Madeline

“Why do we have to do that?” said Rose “why can’t we stay here”

“Well if your power tells me right then it’s going to get really cold and we haven’t any blankets or any form of shelter to keep us dry.” Said Sarah “I know there’s an empty cave is on the other side of mountain but it’s all too fuzzy to tell with your power, I know that there is one but I can’t tell where.”

“Well, just try, think hard and visualize the cave you know is there and it will all come together.” Rose advised

“Ok, I’ll try” Sarah said

Sarah closed her eyes and focused on where the cave was and what it looked like, a minute later she opened her eyes up with victorious delight.

“I know where it is, lets pack up our things and hurry because I think it’s going to rain soon.” Sarah said

The Canaby sisters put all of the miscellaneous magical objects into their trunks, careful not to activate one by accident. They shrunk them down and put them into their pockets and as they did so a cold breeze hit them making them get chills. The tall grass was getting wet and cold from the little sprinkles of rain that fell from the sky, which was getting darker and darker with time. The Canaby sisters took their flying staffs in hand and without the Canaby sisters doing anything they put up a force field round them, keeping them dry.

They soared upward into the air following Sarah to the cave as a bolt of lightning brightened the whole area for a moment. They were nearing the cave when Sarah stopped in mid flight making Madeline and Rose go past her. Madeline and Rose turned around and asked her what she was doing and she responded by saying “I forgot where it was hold on.” So they waited and waited as thunder rumbled in the sky for Sarah to remember, then all of a sudden,

“Oh I know, follow me” Sarah said whizzing past them

Madeline and Rose followed Sarah all the way to the cave that was really just a hole in the mountain. They had a little landing area just outside of the cave that was filled with rocks that made it hard for them to land. Huge boulders sat on top of the cave also, threatening to fall on them. The Canaby sisters walked around the rubble to get inside the small opening of the cave.

“Couldn’t you see a better cave?” Rose asked

Well, this is your power and I can’t use it as well as you can.” Sarah whined

“It’ll have to do until morning when we leave” Madeline interrupted

Inside of the cave, the walls were cracked and water seeped through them, the ground was cold and damp, and bugs lived towards the top, crawling around. The Canaby sisters moved the rocks to the side of the cave walls to make room for them to sleep for the night and a cold one it would be. The sisters got out their trunks and opened them up to find something to make it warmer inside of the cave, and when that didn’t work they relied on their magic.

“Sarah do you know a sealing spell?” Madeline asked

“Yes but why?” Sarah said

“Because you can seal off the cave entrance to stop the breeze” Madeline said

“Ok, here it goes” said Sarah

Block out

Block in

Close off

Seal in

Make the entrance

Close off within

An almost clear force shot out of Sarah’s hand and formed around the cave entrance making the outside noise and cold, stay out. And with another request from Madeline that Sarah perform a air warming spell they would go to sleep.

“Hurry its cold in here, do the spell” Madeline said

“Yes right away” Sarah said sarcastically

The air is cold

Release its hold

Warm the air

From cold to warm

Make this air

Warm with care

The air around them started to make a vortex of a gusty wind that was cold but then turned warm, making the Canaby sisters get goose bumps and feel relieved, but tired. The lightning outside and the rain was still going strong when the Canaby sisters got their first good night’s sleep and they quickly fell asleep.