So it was. Selene learned the incantation to banish the darkness from the battlefield, she made the amulet and learned the incantation to take the magic from the black witch. All she needed now was a plan for the battle.

Two years passed since Selene first met Lamia and one morning she saw dark clouds gather over one place, not far away from her. She summoned a griffon and instructed him to fly over the place covered with dark clouds and report what he saw. The griffon reported that the clouds gathered over a valley near a castle guarded by only summoned demons, as far as he could tell. She thanked him and released him from her summoning incantation.

Morgaine and Lamia decided to start the fight. They chose the place right in front of their castle. Selene didn’t know what that meant, she knew that it was a tactical move on their part, she just didn’t know what kind. In two days, the valley will be enveloped in eternal darkness and they will wait for me to make the next move.

‘I’m sure they still think I don’t have a mentor and that I won’t know what to do, I think that Hesperos and their ignorance is my only advantage at this point. ‘ Selene started thinking, trying to see what she could use as an advantage in the battle to come, to form a plan of attack either Morgaine or Lamia would expect. ‘Summoning magical animals into battle would just attract too much attention and give away the fact that I know about my powers. I’m not friends with other witches and I don't want humans and animals to get hurt.’ As different scenarios went through Selene's head, a plan started to form. She just hoped it would work.

For two days, Selene looked at the dark clouds, made three special potions and waited for the eternal darkness to appear. As soon as the darkness appeared and enveloped the whole valley near the castle, Selene summoned Hesperos. Hesperos came to her house. “I see it’s time for the battle. What’s your plan?” He asked Selene.

“Do you remember two years ago when Morgaine sent Lamia on a scouting mission to my house?” Selene asked Hesperos.

“Yes I remember. Why?” Hesperos answered.

“Well we are going to do the same now. I made two potions for myself, a potion to make me invisible to all beings and a potion that lets me see in the eternal darkness. You have the same powers, you can turn invisible and you can see in the eternal darkness.” Selene said, not mentioning the third potion. “If you would let me, I would like you to take me to the valley enveloped in darkness, so we can go on a scouting mission and see what is waiting for us there. If we know what is there we can better prepare for the battle.” Selene explained.

Hesperos looked at her with a brief look of doubt but said “Ok. I will take you there. Climb onto my back.” He bent his front legs so Selene could climb onto his back.

Sitting on Hesperos back Selene drank the two potions, Hesperos used his powers and whit speed they rode towards the valley. With the power to see in the eternal darkness, they saw an army of evil beings and the dead summoned by Lamia. There were thousands of them around the castle, occupying most of the valley, just standing and waiting for the battle to start.

Hesperos and Selene continued into the castle top look for Morgaine and Lamia. They found them sitting in the throne room, dressed like evil queens from fairy tales, talking about Selene.

Lamia seemed worried, she said that starting the battle so soon wasn’t a good idea, that she still didn’t reach her full potential and that she didn’t want to be defeated. Morgaine kept telling her that the white witch Selene, her opponent in battle, would never reach her full potential because she doesn’t have a mentor. Althea, the last white witch was dead and she was the only one that could transfer her knowledge about the powers to the new white witch, so she had nothing to worry about. There was no way that she could lose the battle this time, fate was in her favor this time.

Selene was right, Morgaine still held a grudge against the white witches for defeating her and taking her magic. She even went so far that she convinced her successor to start the battle before she reached her full potential, just so she could see the defeat of a white witch. Lamia was probably worried that without her full potential there was a chance she could lose and end up an empty, angry, bitter husk, like her mentor after a thousand years without power, without magic.

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Selene jumped down from Hesperos back as quietly as she could as the two black witches were arguing. She walked slowly towards Lamia trying not to make any sounds. As soon as she was half an arm's length away from Lamias back, she took the third potion bottle in her hand and silently chanted the incantation to banish the darkness. The two witches stopped arguing and started looking around, they both felt the power of the incantation, they looked at each other and Morgaine said to Lamia that it’s time for the battle.

As Lamia turned around she felt a hand on her chest and heard Selene's voice chant the incantation to take her magic. As all the magic started draining from Lamia into the unicorn amulet and Lamia fell down to the floor. Morgaine screamed with rage, rage that boiled in her blood for centuries. By the laws of the world, the new black witch was defeated and there cannot be two old black witches, Morgaine’s scream was silenced as she died. During this, Selene drank the third potion and after a few seconds became visible.

The everlasting darkness was gone, the black witch had no more magic and all the summoned evil beings and the dead vanished from the valley. Lamia was still lying on the floor, unconscious, as Hesperos walked over to Selene.

“You deceived me. Why didn’t you tell me your plan?” Hesperos said. Selene could see that he felt betrayed and hurt because she lied to him.

“I told you the truth. I really meant for this to be just a scouting mission. But when I saw them arguing and saying that Lamia didn’t reach her full potential I knew all of this was the work of Morgaine’s selfish reasons, trying to get back at me, to get back at white witches. This was never meant to be a real battle, this was meant to be a trap, so I reacted.” Selene said apologetically. “No plan in the world could stop the hatred of a bitter black witch so I used the chance of surprise to sneak up to Lamia and take her magic. It was the only logical move to make. If I didn’t do it we would have never won.” Selene looked at Hesperos trying to find approval for her actions in his eyes.

Hesperos hit the floor with his front hoof a few times, he looked like he was thinking. “I see your point. They thought you had no mentor, that you didn’t know about your powers, and summoned thousands of slaves for their army. It was a trap.” Hesperos looked at her sideways agreeing with her, thinking how he missed that this was a trap but Selene saw right through it, this was so unlike him.

“What are we going to do with Lamia?” Hesperos asked Selene.

Selene crouched next to Lamia and slightly shook her shoulder. “Lamia, wake up! Can you hear me?” Lamia was still unconscious “Come on Lamia. Wake up!” Selene shook her shoulder again.

Lamia started to wake up and opened her eyes. “What...Where am...” She saw Selene crouching over her and a unicorn standing beside her, panic and fear appeared on her face. She backed away from them. “Don’t touch me! What have you done to me? Where is Morgaine?”

“I’m sorry. Morgaine was out of control, I had to stop her and the only way to do that was to take your magic. I’m sorry.” Selene said apologetically. “You saw yourself that there was something wrong with Morgaine.”

“My magic! No!” Lamia screamed. “No! I don’t want to end up as Morgaine! A hateful, bitter empty husk. A witch with no magic for a thousand years. Give me back my magic! NOW!” She screamed at Selene.

“I can’t give you back your magic. It’s not yours anymore, it’s not mine either. Your magic now belongs to the world. Didn't Morgaine tell you that?” Selene looked at her confused.

“No, she didn’t. How do you know that? Your mentor is dead. Where did you learn that?” Lamia asked Selene baffled.

“I taught her that. I was her mentor.” Hesperos said.

Lamia looked at Hesperos, trying to comprehend why the most magical being in the world would help a white witch, trying to understand the connection between them. “We thought she didn’t have one.”

“You thought wrong and your and Morgaine’s ignorance and arrogance was the cause of your downfall.” Hesperos said.

“Don't be so hard on her. It wasn't her fault. Morgaine was the one that caused this mess for her own selfish reasons.” Selene said to Hesperos. “What will you do now Lamia?” Selene asked.

“I don’t know. Just leave me alone.” Lamia said as tears started appearing in the corners of her eyes.

“I just wanted to say that if you ever need help or a friend you can always come to me.” Selene said, hoping her words will bring some comfort to Lamia, but lamia just sat on the floor crying.

Selene and Hesperos left the caste, the valley and returned to Selene ‘s cottage.

“A thousand years of peace sounds good. I know I’ll miss you so I would like that you still come to visit me when you have time.” Selene said to Hesperos.

“Be safe until we meet again. And I wouldn’t mind a potion once in a while, they are just so delicious.” Hesperos said, with what could only be described as a bad attempt to wink, and left.

“A thousand years until I become someone's mentor. It’s a long time, I hope it will be enough to prepare the world for another thousand years of peace.”