Book of Shadows: Behind the Entries

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Not sure if this has been done...I'm fairly new to the board. But I think it would be cool to do mini short stories in one post by various members of the board to do this.


You pick a demon, warlock, magical creature's entry from the book (Shax, Abraxas, The Triad etc / Nicholas, Anton, whoever/ Whitelighters, fairies, firestarters, Cupids) Then you choose a Warren witch who you either know to have or assume to have written the entry on this creature.

I find this idea interesting because if Belthazor or Shax were in the BOS that must mean that one of the sister's ancestors must have come across the at some point (eg One of the 20's cousins could have came across Belthazor at some point or the witch Brianna who has been compared to Prue could have ran into Shax.) If a demon like Zankou has been around longer than the Warren line eg older than Melinda Warren, then maybe you can write a post about how their whitelighter has ran into them since whitelighters tend to be much older than their charges. Also feel free to take the story bigger and include one or two bad guys and a good guy if you feel like it. (Eg. Barbas and a Genie).

List of Entry ideas to start from (Feel free to pick one from the list or to pick your own known entry). And keep in mind this is to be the story behind the ENTRY of the demon so we are assuming that this is the story of the first encounter one of the Warrens may have had. 

Evil:
Abraxas
Barbas
Belthazor
The Crone
Darklighter Tracker
Darklighter with Touch of death
Darklighter Trainers
The Darklighter Rennek
Water Demon
Grimlock
Seer
Shax
Siren
Source
Triad
Vampires
Vinceres
Zankou

Magical Beings/Artifacts:
Cupids
Fairies
Lepracauns
Trolls
Familiars
Firestarters
Wizards
Genie
The Hollow
Valkyrie
Mermaid
Nymph
Cleaners
Witch Doctor

Warren Witches prior to the Charmed Ones:
Melinda Warren
Prudence Warren
Cassandra
Beatrice the One Legged Witch
Pamela
Brianna ¹
Astrid
Helena
Laura ¹
Grace
P. Bowen
P. Russel
P. Baxter
Penny 
Patty

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Entries created: Shax / To Call A Lost Witch

Brianna was a powerful telekinetic witch. She was the leader of a coven that was growing in power stronger and stronger by the day. Their weekly rituals and gatherings drew more and more witch practitioners and witches with actual powers together and demons were being vanquished left and right. They seemed to pose no opposition directly to the Source until one day the Seer had a vision...

"The witch known as Brianna will bring together a coven that is so great in numbers that not even one as powerful as you will stand a chance." The Seer said to the Source. "She will figure out a way to empower those with none and that will be the key to your demise." The Source scoffed at the Seer and had threatened her with death if she was implying that there is any witch that could defeat him.

"You misunderstand me my liege," The Seer replied "I do not imply that a single witch could vanquish you. However I see no feasible way that you can stop a league of 21 witches, all with active powers. In my vision they all surround you and use their powers to hold and destroy you. Fire, Ice, Lightning, or even Energy waves would normally have no effect on you.. but being held down with forcefields and telekinesis; slowed by time stopping witches...they are no match on their own but combined you have no chance against these forces."

The Source thought for a moment and finally came to a conclusion. "Gather the best and tell them the one who completes this deed will be rewarded greatly."

Meanwhile at one of their weekly coven meetings Brianna had an announcement. "Sisters, I am developing a method to which we may share our powers as a collective. Those with no active powers should not feel as though they are powerless. Deep inside all of us there is a hidden ability and those of us born into magical families were only fortunate enough to receive the key that unlocked these abilities. In addition to unlocking your abilities I have found a way to bind us all to each other and share these abilities with one another."

Brianna first took all the practitioner witches and used on them a potion she and another witch practitioner, Matilda had created together. Matilda demonstrated the ability to create fire in the palm of her hand. The potion used the emotions and hidden potential of the practitioner witch to manifest as an active power just as Brianna had mentioned. The first practitioner to stand up, Eleanor, had drank the mixture which included witch's blood as well as many other ingredients that served as opposite to the ones described to separate a witch from her powers as previously enscribed in the book by one of Brianna's ancestors... as everyone watched in curiosity as a swirl of white light surrounded and then entered her.

It was clear that she was imbued with a power. The only problem was that no one could figure out what that power was. No fire or lightning came from her hands. No telekinesis manifested, no ice from her breath. Then all of the sudden a crash of thunder made all of the coven jumped with surprise and the practitioner turned witch disappeared in a blink. Brianna "Well I guess it's safe to say we can devise what her ability is..." The rest of the coven chuckled then lined up to receive their gifts.

While they all drank their potions Brianna had quickly came up with a ritual to bring their lost sister back. No one seemed to remember that their sister Eleanor had not returned and most likely had little control over her power. She mixed together in a bowl, almost as if by instinct rosemary cypress and yarrow. She asked a few other witches to chant with her as to ensure the strength of the spell: "Power of the witches rise, course unseen across the skies. Come to us who call you near, come to us and settle here. Blood to blood we summon thee, blood to blood return to we.". In a swirl of white light similar to those that imbued her with power Ele had return and gushed her excitement and fear. She had appeared in her kitchen at home which served as her grounding space for years. Ele loved to cook and make potions so this would be a natural space her her power to bring her.

Witch by witch was being created displaying abilities one of after the other. Three practitioners had developed telekinesis, a handful showed for be firethrowers and ice breathers. Static manifested in a few and a force field bloomed for two witches. One single witch though displayed an amazing power. As she tried out her power all the practitioners who had not yet drank the power potion seems to slow to almost a halt. They still slightly moved but only if you focused on them could you tell. Brianna then complimented her sister Laura for the amazing ability that hid deep within her. Laura always looked up to but also envied Brianna as she always wondered why her sister had gifts but she did not.

As the handful of witches who did not slow down used this moment as a chance to playfully switch places to confuse the nearly frozen witches, the prank turned into a more insidious mistake than they ever thought. A visible tornado had appeared out of the edge of the forest and threw branches and blasts of air toward the group of witches both decelerated and aware witches. Most of the practitioners who were slowed were blasted by the air some impaled by branches. A few witches who were not slowed were even devastated by the blow beyond recovery. Shax, the sources assassin was deployed in order to prevent the vision the Seer had foreseen. Shax blasted the alter which contained the notes and ingredients used to create the potion that gave the witches their powers. Brianna had gotten up from ironically having the wind knocked out of her. As she looked around she saw only few witches actually moving. Matilda the practitioner turned witch who created the potion with Brianna was dead.

Her sister Laura had slowed the demon of wind, however not as much as she did the other witches. Shax appeared to be speed walking toward them as opposed to running as he actually was and in this moment Brianna had gathered the few remaining witches including Eleanor, the witch with the new ability to blink. The 5 surviving witches clung to Laura and she held Shax back with her molecule slowing power. As all the witches focused as they gave energy and power to Laura allowing her to completely freeze Shax. Brianna started rhyming as though almost being given the words to her by an angel "Evil wind that blows, that which forms below, no longer may you dwell, death takes you with this spell" Shax flew back with a blast of magic and this attempt to destroy him did nothing but bruise his ego and thaw him from Laura's freeze.

Shax threw an aero blast back at the group. Eleanor touched every witch she could in her panic and the next thing Brianna knew she was in a strange kitchen. She looked around and only saw 3 other witches beside herself. None of which had the auburn hair and bright green eyes that Laura possessed. She grabbed Eleanor by the collar and commanded "TAKE ME BACK. TAKE ME BACK TO HER NOW!!!" Ele started crying saying " I can't go back there I don't want to die!" Brianna cursed her and called her a coward and she stormed out of Ele's home. She knew the field near the forest in which she held her coven meetings was only a half mile away. She heard unnatural wind howling from the area and knew she needed to move faster than she was if she wanted to save Laura. All of the sudden Brianna tripped and as her head slammed into the dirt she saw herself standing next to Laura. Brianna's astral form had been forced out of her body. She saw Laura bloody and bruised on the ground as Shax crept nearer. "Claude!!!" She screamed as the evil wind drew closer "Claude!" a brilliant white swirl of lights surrounded her and Laura. "Take her!" Brianna commanded her whitelighter "What about you?" Claude replied. "Just go!"

Brianna's astral form and Shax were the only beings that remained standing. Brianna went in full force using her telekinetic abilities to enhance her strength and agility. Brianna's strength in advanced telekinesis allowed her to keep some form of her ability which she channeled through her fists. She and Shax fought fiercely in hand to hand combat until finally Shax had her on the ground. He held out his hand and shot a blast that surely would have caused deadly blunt trauma to Brianna. Instead of killing her this attack sent her astral form back to her body which had not been in the same location that it was before. It was in Brianna and Laura's home. Claude had sensed her physical body and had brought it to safety.

She saw Claude rocking back and forth with his head in his knees like child. Sobbing and cursing. Brianna shook him and asked him why he was crying and where was Laura. Claude confessed in a defeated voice "Whitelighters can heal only those who still lived. Laura's spirit left her body in the moments between orbing from the field and returning home."

Brianna in the moments after hearing this confession wrote all she knew about Shax in her book of shadows. She wrote the spell she used against him in hopes that a more powerful witch would be able to use it against him in the future and destroy him. She also recorded the spell she used to summon Eleanor, "To Call a Lost Witch". The Source promoted Shax to be his personal assassin. Brianna never saw him again as he was too high in the demonic hierarchy and well protected. Brianna hunted Shax for years and years until her eventual demise by another demon. She never continued with imbuing power to other witches. She concluded there was no point since Eleanor had decided to cower in fear and she realized great power meant nothing in the hands of weak individuals. Her spirit was not at peace until the next century when her descendants culminated into the power of three and the Charmed Ones had vanquished the evil wind. Her sister Laura was never consumed by the hatred like Brianna and for that reason was able to lovingly bless the Charmed Ones with her ancestral power and assist them in vanquishing the Source of All Evil.