Vera kissed her daughter on the cheek as she ran out the door to the bus stop. Vera giggled at her daughter's behavior; she had the feeling someone was watching her. She looked over at Aimery's house and Aimery's father was smiling at Vera. She had never met nor seen Aimery's father.

"Well, hello there! You must be Aimery's father."

Aimery's father smiled and came over so Vera didn't have to yell. "Yes, I'm Leslie." He put his hand of her for to shake. Aimery was a spitting image of his father. Leslie was very hansom. The only difference is Leslie had deep brown eyes that looked almost black.

Vera took his hand and introduced herself and asked if he'd like to come in for a cup of coffee. He smiled and said how delighted he would to.

When Jordan got home and burst through the door to her surprise there was a man in her house.

"Jordan, I don't know if you met Leslie or not, but this is Aimery's father."

He smiled and looked at Jordan putting his hand out. Jordan took it and she got a strange feeling from this man. She just smiled and shook his hand. "I know who you are, you're Jordan. Aimery talks about you all the time."

"Umm… Mom if it's okay with you I was going back to the lake and finish my school project."

Vera smiled and nodded. Jordan was out of the door fast as lightning. She didn't know if it was a good idea living her mom with Aimery's dad, after getting that feeling from him, and the dream. Leslie looked just like Aimery. Maybe it was supposed to be Leslie, and it wasn't Aimery. She knew her mom could handle herself and continued on to the lake.

Jordan went into her cavern and was beginning to finish the work she started yesterday. Then she hit something. She picked around it with the axe and discovered it was a coffin. She jumped back. There was an inscription on a little silver plaque. She read it to herself.

"This is the grave of Janine Nicole Piper, priestess of the Moon Goddess Coven. This is a sacred sight of the coven, only descendants and coven members are able to pass here..."

"Janine Nicole Piper"? Piper was Jordan's last name! And not only that but Nicole was her first! Could she be the descendant of the mighty priestess? Tallulah said her ancestor, Dorothy Octavia Morven was the priestess and under her mother's teachings, and initiations and whatnot, that makes Tallulah the current High Priestess. Well, she knew her and her mom were descendants of the Moon Goddess Coven, and knew now Tallulah was wrong. Either that or she was lying, but Gram Tallulah couldn't be lying. She was Gram Tallulah! So sweet, and nice, just like her granddaughters.

For some reason Jordan had to open the coffin. She clutched her eyes shut and hailed the axe above her head and hit the side of the coffin. It popped open and it wasn't a coffin at all. It was a doorway. Then Jordan's eyes widened. A ghostly apparition came out of the cave. It looked just like her mom!

"Janine?" Jordan said.

The ghostly figure nodded her head. Slowly floating down the ghost of Janine Nicole Piper was at eye level with Jordan. She smiled and her eyes looked so lovingly as she caressed Jordan's face. It was so cold, and as if her hands were made of some kind of lucent jelly. She leaned over and kissed her on the forehead, her lips felt even weirder, but it was a loving and kind gesture.

"You're everything I hoped you would be Jordan." Janine smiled. "You've freed me from my purgatory. Now I can go and pass on and be able to be reborn into another life. No longer will I be here alone."

"What about the Oracle? And the Lady of the Lake?" Jordan asked. She should have been afraid, but she wasn't. She felt safe. She felt like she had been there before.

"The Oracle had warned me, but I didn't listen. I foolishly thought that I could get through to the people. Teach them that our ways were not of evil. Those thoughts killed me." She looked into the cave where the Oracle was. "The Oracle and the Lady are waiting for you. They have been waiting for you for a long time my dearest."

"Me? Why me? I'm not important." Jordan scoffed.

"Don't be foolish. You've known it all your life. You knew deep inside you were different from others, that you are here for a reason! The reason is great! But you don't have a lot of time."

Jordan looked into the eyes of Janine. Even though they were ghostly and halfway transparent, she could see the same colour blue that was in her own eyes. The same magickal way it looked like ocean waves. "Don't disappoint us." Janine said as other ghostly forms came out of the Oracle's cave freed from the purgatory by Jordan.

They all smiled at Jordan. They were happy to be out of the limbo they were in that kept them in that holy place as if it was a prison. They smiled and then looked up to the heavens, and disappeared. Janine looked at Jordan one more time lovingly before she disappeared. Her voice echoed in the Oracle's cave.  "Be brave, be strong, and you will conquer."

Jordan dropped the shovel, stared off into space for a moment. She couldn't believe what had just happened. She saw the ghost of her dead relative, and others, then she shook her head and started to go down with the flashlight. Almost as soon as she started walking the flashlight's light dimmed until the batteries died completely. She went back and made herself a torch with some wood and went into there. As Gram Tallulah described the violet looking stone looked as if there were silver sparkling in it.  She reached and orb of light, it couldn't be described as words. She felt a clenching pain in her chest. She held it as she fell to the ground. The pain, so intense she prayed for it to stop. Jordan's screams echoed. She felt her eyes get heavy, as they rolled back in her head. Her body was stiff, it was limp, and Jordan was dead.  The door that Jordan used to always enter sealed up with rocks and locked her forever in her tomb.

It was now midnight and Jordan didn't come back. Around eight Vera, the girls, Aimery, Leslie, and Tallulah were all looking for her. They couldn't find her. Vera was crying, convinced she had fallen into the lake.  Days went by, police report filed, Tallulah trying to scry, get any vision of where Jordan had gone.

Tallulah offered Vera to stay with them, but she was convinced that Jordan was going to come home. She was going to be there soon. She just got lost, and someone found her, not knowing she was a kid, because she didn't look like a teenager. Tending to her, caring for her, and when she got better she was going to come back. For now Tallulah was going to respect Vera's thoughts, but if they got any worse she was going to take her in by force.

It was now a two months; everyone just assumed what was true. They didn't want to admit it, but there was no sign of her anywhere. She wasn't the type to runaway, she loved her mother, and all her friends. They all assumed that she must have drown, but Vera never gave up hope. She couldn't give up hope on her daughter. Every day she thought of Jordan coming back, but as the days passed, her hope was beginning to fade.

Leslie took great care of her loving Vera. He seemed to want to find Jordan as much as she did. But they had to face reality, even though hers twisted quite a bit, there was still some basis to it.  She soon fell in love with the man, and they were now dating. Aimery and Demeter's love flourished. Everyone was trying to get on with life, assuming she was dead, but they just couldn't. There was always that doubt. They didn't know for sure that Jordan was dead. Just as there was no proof she was alive, there was no proof she was dead. Tallulah was some how imagining that Jordan had come across the Equal Evil, and it had killed her, whatever it was.

Even though it had been two months, Jordan's dead body looked just as it was when her soul exited it. She at first didn't know she was dead, it took her a while to realize that she was. All the people, who must be worried about her, was the only thing that she could think. No matter what, whether she was dead or not, she was going to continue looking for the Oracle and the Lady of the Lake. She and her body weren't in the same place, and she still didn't know how she had died, and why her soul hadn't passed on. All she could think of was, that some how she was trapped like Janine and her fellow coven members. She was going to get to the bottom of this. Why did the Oracle kill her?

Even though they never did find Jordan's body, they had a funeral. Her tombstone stood in the Morven family cemetery just a few blocks from the Morven house. Everyday Demeter came and prayed at Jordan's grave, prayed that it was all a lie. She was really a live, and she had got amnesia and doesn't know who she is, or where she is. Hestia would come too; leaving a single yellow rose every week on her grave, and prayed to the Goddess that Jordan was in good hands. For some reason unlike Demeter she knew she was dead, but she was going to come back. Kaine for some reason wasn't welcome. Tallulah would not allow him on the property. No one got why she didn't want him around. Hestia would still sneak him in. She sensed good things about Kaine, and she was going to trust her feelings.

After a while longer, Vera couldn't live in the cottage anymore. She moved her stuff and Jordan's stuff in the Morven house, but she practically lived with Leslie. Tallulah found that rude, after all she wasn't a storage shelter, but she wasn't going to say anything. Vera was going though a lot. Tallulah knew how it was loosing a daughter after all.

Jordan continued through the caves. Then she saw the same light that she assumed had taken her life. The Oracle. She came up to it and looked upon its glowing wonder. It was the most beautiful thing she had ever saw in her entire life…and after-life. Then she shook her head and looked at it angrily.

"Why did you take my life Oracle?!"

The Oracle glowed with intensity, and a Lady of white emerged from it.  "Jordan, you should have known a living thing could not gaze upon me."

Jordan looked at it confused. "Then how was I supposed to see you like Janine said?"

The Oracle vibrated; and the Lady glowed with intensity, the movement made it seem like the entity was laughing. "A witch should have known to separate the spirit from the body through astral projection, but I should have known better, you are a lot younger than I expected. I'm sorry for what I have done. Now besides that, what is it that you wish to ask me Nicole Jordan High Priestess of the Moon Goddess Coven?"

"Me? The High Priestess of the Moon Goddess Coven? I don't even had the right training to be in a position like that. I was just introduced to this way of life. Why would you think I'm the priestess?"

"Janine had certain rules, as did her ancestors before her. As her, you have the great leadership within you, and it was the Piper family who held onto the title of High Priest, or Priestess. It's in Janine's Book of Shadows, Tallulah has it." The Oracle bubbled as the Lady spoke.

"Why does she have it? If it belongs to my family."

The Oracle seemed to liquefy and start molding itself into the Lady's body. "Tallulah isn't the woman she seems Jordan. She isn't the Gram Tallulah you think. You must get that book from her, if the Equal Evil is sought to be destroyed."

There goes the Great Good, Equal Evil crap Jordan thought. What the heck is this all about?!

"Now if I told you that young Priestess, then you wouldn't be able to handle it." The Lady formed a smile, as she became the Lady of the Lake fully.

"How'd you know I thought that? You're the Lady of the Lake Tallulah was talking about!" Jordan's ghostly eyes widened.

The Lady laughed. "You should know I know just about everything young Priestess, and I am not a Lady of the Lake, not really. I'm your guardian, your family's guardian. This is the presence I use to show myself to the Moon Goddess Coven long ago. I should have done the same with you, but did not know it was you. As I said I expected someone much older."

Jordan nodded; things were beginning to make sense. If they made any sense at all. "One thing, how am I going to get the book from Tallulah if I am dead?"

"I will put your soul back into your body, as if you had astral projected in the first place. Jordan, you must learn how to do this, to avoid this next time. But I'm sure Tallulah doesn't know how to get to me, since I am your guardian." She laughed a bit.

Jordan kind of giggled, for a great family guardian, she seemed somewhat human. Jordan was happy, she could see her mom. Though she was a little scared because she knew everyone was going to be mad at her for being missing, but happy at the same time. She never got that feeling or what it was about.

"Will I ever know what the Great Good and Equal Evil are?"

"You will discover the Evil before the Good, but the Good has always been there. You must get the High Priestess' Book of Shadows. Tallulah keeps it in her bedroom closet underneath a small rug, there will be a small door, and there will be a safe. The combination is 34-23-12 and 9, it seems easy but Tallulah has put a connection spell between her and the door to the safe, it will be like an alarm, but once the book is in your hands she can't stop you!"

Wow. She didn't understand the Lady, she was so cryptic on some things, but gave so much information on where the book was. But most of all she couldn't believe it, Tallulah wasn't the great person everyone, including herself, thought she was. What was behind her ways? Why did she lie about being the High Priestess of the coven?