After the whole village was dead Karen went back to her house; the splattered remains of her father still on the walls. Karen first went into her room and tucked the picture of her mother in her pocket then she proceeded into the living room and picked up the spell book; tucking it under her arm Karen left her home and the empty village behind.

Karen traveled for four years; learning all she could about magic and spells. She read other books that she found by Megara but held on only to the spell book. She was able to live by herself but didn’t really feel like taking care of herself. So she set out to find parents. She wandered for only a few days before coming across a family with only one child. The child was about Karen’s age and the parents spoiled their daughter. So Karen decided to take this girl’s place. She went up casually to the door and knocked on it; the mother opened the door. Since it was almost winter Karen asked if she could spend a few nights with them. The woman’s eyes were filled with sympathy and she practically pulled Karen into the house.

Karen stayed with them for a few days; just enough to get some information. The parent’s names were Carl and Stephanie and their daughter was Judice. Karen also learned that Judice was born in the woods; Stephanie having not been able to make it to the hospital. Karen wanted these parents so bad and decided that she couldn’t wait any longer. Sneaking into Judice’s room Karen quickly killed the child. She cast a hypnosis spell over the parents and started her new life.

But life wasn’t the perfect thing in the world for Karen, for one thing she hated the name Judice because it meant "sweet child". And it took a lot of energy to cast a spell over the parents so she was usually gloomy. And for another thing the other villagers knew that she wasn’t Carl and Stephanie’s real child so she had to avoid them too. But even still; they were parents that didn’t necessarily hate Karen and they were alive. But no matter how hard she tried to love Stephanie, Karen wanted her real mother; she would take out her mother’s picture and cry for her mother.

Soon two years had passed.

Karen was playing in her room one day when Stephanie walked in. Karen franticly tried to hide whatever she was playing with; but Stephanie was two quick and she grabbed the object and pulled it away from Karen’s hands. Stephanie stood there terrified for a minute; staring at the dead rat then she started screaming. Carl came rushing into the room when he heard his wife scream. When he saw the dead rat his eyes seemed to clear and he looked around as though confused. “No,” Karen said as Stephanie’s eyes cleared too. The hypnosis spell must have been broken when they saw the dead rat. The two adults looked at Karen for a while and then suddenly attacked her. Karen fumbled backwards as the two adults came after her; shouting a spell quickly. Carl and Stephanie froze and their eyes glazed over once again.

Karen went for a walk the next day, after that last encounter she realized that she needed to be more careful when using magic around her parents as the spell might be canceled out. She walked through the village; passing a few of the villagers. They stared coldly at her as she passed. She kept on walking until she reached the edge of the village; it was a pretty small village so it didn’t take long. Karen looked around a found a lone boulder some ways off. She walked up to it and stood there staring at it for a while. She slowly walked around it getting a good perspective of it before making her decision.

She came back to the rock a few days later this time taking her spell book and her mother’s picture. Finding the spell she was looking for Karen began to shape the rock. It took a whole week to sculpt because she had trouble getting the rock to look like her mother. After a long strenuous process and sometimes leaving Karen empty of strength, she was finished. There stood her mother, carved out of rock, and it wasn’t just any statue. Karen was now having trouble keeping her parents under the spell so she was going to store dark energy in the statue that would make her stronger. But of course to activate the statue to that use would require a human sacrifice.

Karen walked into the village and stood there waiting. Soon enough a young girl walked by and when she saw Karen she stopped and stared. For a minute no one moved then the girl said cold voice, “What are you doing here freak?” That was just what Karen had been waiting for she smiled and replied, “Waiting for you blood.” The girl’s eyes widened in fear and she turned and ran. Karen gave chase leading the girl to the statue. The girl saw it and ducked behind it; attempting to hide. Karen stopped in front of the statue and said with a laugh, “You’re finished.” The girls screamed as a huge hole appeared in her chest; her dark blood poured out of the hole. Karen walked around the other side of the statue and grabbed the girl around the neck. Lifting up the girl so that the blood flowed over the statue’s face, Karen began to chant. The eyes of the statue flashed black which quickly faded away.

Karen walked home quickly and told her parents that it was time to leave. They obeyed her because of her magic over them. Taking only a few of their belongings they headed out of the village. Karen looked behind her to where her statue was and closed her eyes. As the villagers gathered around the statue and the dead girl they wondered who had did this. Suddenly the statue next to them vanished.

Karen and her hypnotized parents traveled for a few weeks before arriving at a small village surrounded by a high wall to keep out the wolves that lived in the forest surrounding the village. This is where Karen decided to settle down to start her reign of evil. Off in the woods, in a small empty clearing, a statue appeared. The village was a quiet one and welcomed the strangers into their village. The children were nice to Karen and always wanted her to come over to play. But Karen didn’t interact with them; for past experiences have caused her to place distrust in most people. One day one of the girls came over and Stephanie ushered the child into Karen’s room, but what they saw was startling. All over, hanging from the ceiling, were dead birds. Some of them were fresh. It filled the room with a foul stench. The girl ran from the room screaming and, once again, Stephanie was free from the spell. Karen didn’t get a good aim to recast the spell and Stephanie ran from the room alerting Carl. He reached over, grabbed a sharpened knife, and slashed Karen’s face.

As she felt her own blood running down her face, Karen got a jolt of energy and healed the wound on her face leaving a lone scar. She was also able to recast the spell over her parents. This time she made sure that her parents would stay away from her at all costs.

Karen left the safety of the woods the next day in search of her statue; she found it in the small clearing. Just then she heard a growl behind her and slowly turning around, Karen found herself looking into the eyes of a lone wolf; the wolf had blood around its mouth leading Karen to believe that it had already killed something. Smiling, Karen stood there as the wolf charged at her. Karen then stepped aside and the wolf smashed into the statue. The dazed wolf staggered to its feet, but Karen had already reached the wolf and using her nails, she cut open the wolf’s stomach and lifted it up so that the blood ran down the face of the statue. Once again the eyes glowed for a few seconds before returning to normal.

As she walked back to the village she found out what it was the wolf had killed. There was a horse lying on the ground a few yards ahead. Karen walked over to it and saw that it had a huge gash ripped out of its stomach so that the inside of the horse could be seen with dark red blood all over the ground. Karen heard a small whinny and looked around to see a young black foal. Holding out her hand, Karen stood still; the foal slowly approached her and sniffed her hand. Karen looked with genuine pity at the poor foal; its mother taken away from him. Just like her. Karen decided to raise the foal, which she named Midnight, herself and she walked back to the village with the foal following happily behind.

A year past and Karen grew more and more powerful. Karen became more and more isolated at the same time. The only time there was ever a smile on her face was when she was riding her horse Midnight; the two had formed a deep bond ever since she had found him in the woods. She loved the way she felt as well when she was able to generate lots of power inside her statue. She found out that pets seemed to have an amazing amount of power and was able to store a lot more of it within the statue. The children knew it was her who killed their pets but were too afraid of her to do anything about it.

Then Tyler came. At once the other children knew that he was like Karen. He never talked to anyone but eventually started talking to Karen and the two became good friends. The other kids thought that Tyler was a warlock and that he and Karen were going to kill all of them. Finally, a year after Tyler moved to the village one of the bravest of the kids went up to him and asked, “What are you and Karen planning?” Tyler looked at the child confused and replied, “Nothing, I don’t know what you are talking about.” The kids now were convinced that Tyler didn’t know what Karen was and tried to warn him many times. Tyler refused to believe them; sure Karen was weird but she wasn’t capable of that kind of thing.

Finally, after two years of being bugged by the other kids Tyler decided to investigate to prove that Karen wasn’t a witch. He saw her one day reading that book she always read; the one that the children claimed to be a spell book. He asked her casually, “What are you reading?” Karen looked up startled but relaxed when she saw Tyler. “Nothing,” she said before getting up and leaving. When following her in the woods one day and he saw what she was capable of he wished he had taken the children seriously. He then broke off all connections with her and refused to talk to her.

This startled Karen; she wondered what the other children had told Tyler to make him treat her like this. She then moved on to the livestock of farmers so that they wouldn’t have enough money as her personal revenge for making Tyler turn on her. Yet she was reluctant to kill anyone because she didn’t want her parents to leave; she loved this place and she was going to stay here and become the most powerful witch in history.

When the other children went as far as to kill her beloved Midnight she swore revenge on each of them and their families. She was furious and decided that she was now going to be on her own. She made the decision and then followed through with it by releasing her parents from the spell. But she didn’t want them alive so she cursed them; they slowly were eaten from the inside out. After that was taken care of she walked deeper into the woods and came across a clearing. Once she had freed the spirit of Megara, Karen was able to fulfill her revenge on the village.