The Champagne Coven

By Daniel Coble

The Champagne Coven revolves around the Champagne family. The Champagne Family finds out that one of their own is pregnant by a rival family, but they decide to protect her anyway. Eventually one of their own betrays them and ceases to be a member of the family. At the time that the unborn child is being born, an attack by the traitor and her new allies wipes out the entire family except the boy and his mother, who now reside with that rival family. The boy grows up with his father's family learning more about himself and his family history than he ever thought possible, until one day he is forced to face a tough decision to either accept his destiny or to try to defy it. Read more to see what happens when he decides to defy his destiny.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniel Coble
• Release date: Mar 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310388200

Daniel Coble

Growing up in a small town in Kansas, I always loved writing. While my brother's were in the yard playing or fighting or hanging our with neighborhood kids, I was in my room reading or writing. As such, I began to pursue my dream. When I graduated from high school, the Navy had a 2 year wait on journalists, so I chose to go in as a linguist. The Navy chose the language...Spanish. So, I became a Spanish interpreter for them. After getting out of the Navy in 2013, I was bounced from job to job through various temp agencies. Finally, I chose to continue some of the stories I had started. The Champagne Coven is the first story I have taken the time to consider a completed work, with sequel potentials. The other stories I've worked on before are still being worked on and should also be released in just a little more time.

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The Champagne Coven

Copyright 2015 Daniel Coble

Published by Daniel Coble at Smashwords

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Table Of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

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Chapter One

Charlene knew something was wrong the minute she heard the noise. It felt old, it felt powerful, and it felt very familiar to her. Knowing something was wrong, she immediately hit the alarm button and the entire compound went into a defensive mode. Blast doors six feet thick dropped over the outsides of every door and every window. Even though the castle was now secure, she knew that the enemy might have ways to break through the defenses.

As a side effect of the lock down, alarms and red lights were flashing everywhere throughout the castle. This castle had been the family home for many generations. It was enormous and it housed the entire extended Champagne family. As quickly as they could, the family all reported down to what would typically be the dungeon in the castle. In this layout, it was a working area, specifically the coven meeting area.

Arriving in the coven area Charlene began issuing instructions. She knew all of her relatives abilities, she also knew where they would best be utilized. She had gotten a flash image of the assailant, and she knew enough to recognize the face in the old family book. Quickly she hovered her hand over the book and used her gift to randomly flip through all of the pages until she saw the face that had appeared in her vision.

Unsurprisingly, the individual appeared in the book. It was unsurprising because of the fact that the book contained pictures and information on almost all creatures that existed in the magical world. Sometimes the book even had images of future creatures that hadn't existed at the time the pages were written, at other times, it didn't have any information, however, the majority of the time the information was there as long as the family knew what they were looking for.

Quickly reading the page, Charlene realized that it was a mortal who was attacking them. The mortal may have been possessed by another creature, but from what she had seen, they hadn't. This was an old routine, the castle had been through attack after attack for generations. This was another attack by a rival family. The Rodriguez family had been merciless in their assaults and their enmity with the Champagne family. For a few generations the majority of the family had been killed. Eventually protections were placed on the castle that allowed them to protect it from all outside attacks, thus protecting future lives from being murdered or harmed by attacks.

Still, there were ways in which the protections could be broken through back in those days, but now with modern technology combined with their defensive magic, it was practically impossible to get into the castle without being an invited guest. Of course, in the need for modern defenses, the family had invested in lots of modern weaponry for personal defense, but they very seldom utilized it for home defense, as it would prove practically useless in combat against their normal enemies. By this point in time, fear over witches and other supernatural phenomenon, including psychics, was starting to grow again, and it was common for the vast majority of those who practiced supernatural phenomenon to fear the possibility of government assaults against them.

Covens were much more prone to keeping to themselves, forming in inner circles, and forming into family groups that remained concealed. Many of them had finally seen the sense in forming in secret compounds with modernized defenses and military grade equipment, others, though few and far between, were able to conceal themselves with their immense political ties. Some of them had managed to make their ways into the upper echelons of political circles over the many generations, and that had managed to keep them safe, after all, who would really risk their career by accusing a politician or the politician's family of being something that most of humanity was now seeking to wipe out?

This attack was no real exception to the normal rule, except for the fact that if there were any outside observers, a military strike or a public trial could be imminent. The odds of an outside observer seeing the attack were quite slim, but could prove to be a risk all the same. Even though things could be very safe in an isolated and extremely rural area, that could change in a heartbeat. Many farmhouses had already been burned down because the government believed that the residents had in fact been practicing the old ways on the land.

As the attack began, the Rodriguez family assailants tried to break through the gate, rather unsuccessfully, Charlene thanked the family gods and the ancestors who came before them. Because of them the shield was holding and the gate to the property was still undamaged. She then had the family all gather hands around the book and led them in the recitation of a familiar old curse, one that would prove to work in very unique ways.

Everyone, here we go, the same one we do every time we're under attack, she announced, and moments later everyone began reciting practically in unison. The enemy at our gate bawls, trying to break through to our hearts, coming in to destroy us, defend ourselves in truth we must. Now send them all far away, to a place where no one goes, to a place no man has seen, a land away from our land and us, take them now through space and time, with this rhythm and with this rhyme, that none of them shall know time, until at last our land is safe within our minds. As we ask in rhythm and in rhyme, so mote it be in space and time.

Moments later the attack ended as suddenly as it started, the enemy was nowhere to be seen. A lock down of the interior of the castle had fortunately not been necessary. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as Charlene went back to the office and released the lock down. As the lock down ended, Charlene heard the rest of the family returning to the tasks they had been working on before the attack. Luckily the time on the lock down was slow enough for anyone on the premises to make it into the castle, if it hadn't been designed that way, with an intentional delay, their relatives could be trapped outside and potentially harmed.

It wasn't until dinner that everyone realized that something was very wrong, something they couldn't explain outright. Sitting down to eat in the immense dining room, someone suddenly bellowed out the problem. No one had been expecting it and everyone was in shock as they heard it.

Where the hell is Georgia? Georgia Champagne seems to be missing, has anybody seen her since the attack? came the screams from Georgia's sister, Patricia.

There was a loud murmur throughout the dining hall as everyone tried to remember when they had last seen Georgia. Suddenly a loud voice boomed through the hall. The last time I remember seeing Georgia was while we were all gathered around the book reciting the spell. I know for a fact that I haven't seen her since, which is unusual as she is normally easy to find, it announced loudly.

Everyone else suddenly murmured in agreement that they hadn't seen Georgia since the attack either. Upon hearing the agreement Charlene began processing the information in her mind. Georgia was almost as powerful as she was, and