Since their first meeting, Hesperos visited Selene everyday teaching her things Althea told him about white witches. About incantations to call animals and every incantation for each magic being. He told her what potions Althea used to prepare for the battle with the black witch and how she knew when and where the battle would take place.

There were signs that appear before the final battle. The first one appears two days before as a massive gathering of dark clouds over the area the battle will take place. The second one is endless darkness covering the battlefield. The battle starts when the white witch steps into the battlefield and banishes the darkness, so the black witch chooses the place, but the white witch chooses the moment the battle starts.

Althea chose her moment and her tactics wisely. Althea knew that she couldn’t win alone so she gathered as many witches as she could to help her battle the black witch. She prepared the potions for the humans near the battlefield to protect their souls and their minds from the black witches power, so she couldn't use the humans or their souls as her slaves. After all the preparations were done she still didn't start the battle. She waited for the old black witch to die so the new black witch had no one to help her in battle. This also meant that her mentor, a woman she respected and loved as her own mother, will die. They said their goodbyes and as her mentor died, she went to start the battle.

Selene learned a lot from Hesperos and she was very grateful to him, she even made him another potion for unicorns, because he said that he loved them and almost never got the chance to drink them.

One day Selene heard knocking on her door and every part of her body told her not to open the door. Selene could feel powerful dark energy coming from the other side of the door. As if her whole body was made from ice, she stood in the kitchen, frozen with fear. The knocking on the door repeated, this time louder. Still frozen with fear, she managed to turn her head toward the door, trying to see if she locked the door and trying not to make any noise, hoping that whoever was knocking would just go away. Shock appeared on her face as she saw that the door wasn’t locked. She stopped locking the door during the day so Hesperos can come and visit her. The next knocking on the door was so strong that it opened the door ajar.

The person, with the dark energy, pushed the door wide open. Selene saw a teenage girl, around fifteen or sixteen years old, with a soul so black it looked like in its place was a hole in the world. She was slender, with pale skin and long straight black hair that reached all the way down to her knees.

“Hi, I’m Lamia. I heard you were good at making potions and, as it happens, I am in need of one.” Lamia said walking into the house, closing the door behind her.

“You heard wrong.” Selene said.

“No. One of the villagers said you were a master of potions.” Lamia said looking at the jars full of different items on the shelves in the room. “Are these the ingredients for the potions?”

“No. Those are spices.” Selene said thinking about how to get rid of her. She felt that Lamias sheer presence poisoned the air with darkness.

“All I need is a simple love potion. You can make one of those for me, can’t you?” Lamia said with a begging look on her face but all that Selene saw was evil in her eyes. Lamia wasn't here for a potion, she was here on a scouting mission, to see how powerful her opponent, for the battle, is.

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“I don't make potions. Please leave my house.” Selene said firmly pointing at the door.

Lamia, feeling that her true intentions were discovered, left Selene's house. Hesperos pushed his head through the kitchen window startling Selene, whose mind was still preoccupied with what just happened, that she almost jumped out of her own skin. “Hesperos...Are you insane? Don’t you ever startle me like that, ever again!” Selene, still in shock, shouted at him. “Where were you when that black witch was here? Why didn’t you help me get rid of her?”

“I didn’t step in because I know that by now Morgaine, her mentor, told her Althea is dead and that you had no mentor. Therefore, they think you don’t know anything about your powers. If I showed up they would know you know more than they think.” Hesperos said calmly. “Let them think you have no mentor. Lamia is still young, it will take years before she reaches her true potential. Until then I will be your mentor without them knowing and that will give us an advantage in the battle.”

Making advantage for yourself in battle was the key to winning, that much Selene understood. In an all out battle, she couldn’t win alone against Lamia using just magic power. Althea took her time to prepare and create the advantage she needed to win the battle. Selene had a big disadvantage here. Morgaine was still alive and probably already told her successor Lamia how Althea beat her, what tactic she used. She wasn’t skilled and fighting and in battle tactics, Selene wasn’t friends with other witches, especially earth witches because they always fought, which she didn’t like. Most of all, she didn’t have the last sing to choose the moment to attack that Althea had, the death of her mentor. No, she couldn't use the same tactic as Althea, she needed to make her own plan.

If the black witch chooses the place of the battle that had to be a tactical move on her side, just like the white witch could choose the moment to begin the battle as a tactical move. Selene doubted that Morgaine and Lamia would choose the place for the battle at random, they were preparing their own tactics and their own plan for the battle.

Selene asked Hesperos if he knew how a witch, who won the battle, took the magic from the witch who lost.

“There is an incantation for taking someone's magic, but we still didn't get to that part. You have a lot to learn. Why are you interested in that all of a sudden?” Hesperos looked at her confused.

“Ever since Lamia was here and saw that I don’t have a mentor I’m afraid that Morgaine will speed up teaching Lamia about her powers and that the battle will start sooner than we expect.” Selene said worriedly. “I’m worried that Morgaine still holds a grudge against white witches, for losing the battle, and that she’ll do everything in her power to still be alive and see a white witch get defeated in battle.” Turning around Selene looked at Hesperos. There was panic and worry in her eyes.

“I get your point.” Hesperos said. “I’ll teach you the incantation. You need to make an amulet in which you will store the magic of the black witch. You can't take the magic of a black witch inside you, it will corrupt your soul.” Hesperos explained.

“An amulet? How big? Does it have to be a special kind of amulet? Does it have to look like something?” Selene asked, she didn’t want to do it wrong, this was the most important part.

“Just get a piece of wood, a knife and start carving what's on your mind. Trust me, the amulet will come to you. Each white witch I knew had her own amulet that represented something that was hers or that was important to her.” Hesperos explained. “Just start, it will come to you.”

Selene picked up a piece of wood, a knife and started carving. After a few hours she finished carving, she carved a small figure of a unicorn.

“I am honored.” Hesperos said. “I didn’t know I meant that much to you.”

“You taught me everything I know about my powers, about how the world and magic work, you are my mentor. You changed my life, you mean everything to me.” Selene said with a warm smile on her face.

“Put the amulet on a string around your neck and don’t take it off. Come on I’ll teach you the incantation and then will get back to our studies.”