Belinda's RAGE Is Burning...

On that somewhat questionablly possible note Amanda and Tracie climbed out of the tub, and were confronted by Belinda. Her eyes betrayed hurt, hate, pain, (both emotional and physical,) and White Hot RAGE barely held in check by a will of refined ADIMANTIUM.

"'You can only Awaken vergins'." Belinda repeated in a mocking sing-song voice as she strode up to the tub, stripping clothing from her body as she went. "Yes, I heard all of it, and you know what? That is sexist, racist, bulshit patriarchal crap and I am," she grabbed a handful of the ectoplasm, which both witches suddenly realized she COULD touch, "having nNoOnNeE oOfF iItT!" Belinda declared, a strange echo, (like the resounding "BOOM!" when the doors of an Emperor's tomb are closed for the final time,) coming into her voice as she drew a spiral on her belly with the ectoplasm.

As the two witches stared in disbelief more symbols were daubed on Belinda's skin. Where the ectoplasm touched her skin began to blister, then peal, then crack, and finally flames burst forth: flames that burned the color of the first buds of spring...

All the while Belinda was Singing:

"Maiden, Warrior, Mother, Crone: Help us keep this land our own! Rover, Guardian, Hunter, Guide: with us now, forever ride!"

"Gold, the dawn sun spreads his wings! Follow where the East wind sings! Mothers, Sisters, side by side: to defend our home we ride!"

"Maiden, Warrior, Mother, Crone: Help us keep this land our own! Rover, Guardian, Hunter, Guide: with us now, forever ride!"

"Brave the great cat guards her lair, teeth to rend and claws to tear! Lead the battle first to last! Daughter of the cat; HOLD FAST!"

"Eyes of hawks the borders see! Watchers guard it carefully! Let no stranger pass you by! Daughters of the Hawk clan, fly!"

"Maiden, Warrior, Mother, Crone: Help us keep this land our own! Rover, Guardian, Hunter, Guide: with us now, forever ride!"

"Speed of Deer, oh grant to these! Swift to warn of enemies! Fleeter far than any foe, Deer child, to the border GO!"

"Cunning as the wolf pack now! To no overlord we bow! Lest some lord our freedom blight, Sisters of the wolves now FIGHT!"

"Maiden, Warrior, Mother, Crone: Help us keep this land our own! Rover, Guardian, Hunter, Guide: with us now, FOREVER RIIIDE!"

As the last syllable left her lips, the fire engulfing her skin became a roaring bonfire and hurricane of magical energy sucking up the ectoplasm in the room at a fantastic rate, then as suddenly as it began, it was gone. Belinda stood, changed, but still herself. Her once fair and freckled skin was charred black by the mystical fires of whatever **** she had just summoned, and not just any black but a black so dark that it didn't reflect blue, but rather purple, because only violet light could escape its stranglehold. Her once red hair was now white as pearl-ash, and clung to her skull like the wool of a lamb. Most disturbing however was her eyes: before they had been a muddy dark green, now they were the same color as the flames, and a sleeping POWER still tossed in them fitfully...

Tracie looked frankly terified. "Belinda, what the HELL did you just DO?" she managed after a few seconds.