Wellness Retreat for Witches

“

This is a wellness retreat, for witches, by witches.

”

— Lizzie about the wellness retreat in This Feels A Little Cult-y

The Wellness Retreat for Witches was an elaborate ruse created by Andi to recruit witches to help her perform a dark summoning ritual to raise a creature. Thwarted by Hope, Lizzie, and Josie, Andi sacrifices herself to raise "Lord Marshall".

Throughout Legacies Series[]

In I Was Made To Love You, Lizzie magically informs Josie that she's temporarily left the school to attend a Wiccan wellness retreat to help her manage her control issues, among other things.

In This Feels A Little Cult-y, over a week has passed and Josie convinces Hope that she's not heard from Lizzie and believes her to be in trouble. However, this is a ruse to get Hope to the wellness retreat herself, considering her breakup with Landon. Hope, on the other hand, believes the retreat in of itself to be a trap.

Lizzie takes them on a tour. Upon entering the compound, numerous witches are frockling on the grounds; it's euphoric and free. Hope is more pessimistic and describes the situation presented before her as if everyone is on drugs. To Lizzie, it's not like that. This is a wellness retreat, for witches, by witches; particularly by Andi. She's been a real mentor to Lizzie, who's helped her to refram her former, limiting mindset to reflect her emotional goals. Hope calls the retreat a cult, but Lizzie reaffirms that it's just a collection of like-minded individuals, all following the teachings of a brilliant and charismatic leader. Around them, the witches are all dressed in white with various colored crystals around their necks, prompting Josie to ask what they are for. Lizzie explains that each color represents a step on the pathway to enlightenment. Blue is the top step, which allows her to participate in a sacred purification ritual in the following week. Hope notices that Samantha's crystal is red and she's hauling a wheelbarrow of soil. Lizzie elaborates that the witch was Andi's star pupil, that is until she arrived and her petty jealousy and anger knocked her down several pegs. Meanwhile a blue crystal witch summons the witches for afternoon enrichment. All colors on the crystal path are welcomed and Lizzie must get them to meet with Andi. Hope, however, is not convinced and believes something weird is transpiring.

Andi stands before the witches. She welcomes the new witches as they're here because they're struggling and she can relate to what they're going through, for she too has struggled in darkness. Due to that, has dedicated herself to helping other witches. She asks Lizzie to help her demonstrate how they accomplish that. Before her, she has a large crystal, linked to all the crystals that the witches wear around their necks. She explains that they have all of the new arrivals to lay their hand upon the crystal to discover where they will begin their journey on the crystal path. Lizzie lays her hand on the crystal and it glows a brilliant blue. Andi explains that her ancestors' coven believed that they were ruled by their emotions. If they could learn to take control of their emotional state, they could take back control of their lives and live them to the fullest. She applauds Lizzie for her work and explains to the new witches, particularly Hope and Josie, that blue represents complete purity of thought; the elimination of all negative feelings preventing them from living free and fulfilled lives.This is the ideal they should all strive to attain for this is enlightenment. To continue her demonstration, she asks for another volunteer, someone less accomplished. She chooses Hope, who's unwilling to have her help, believing her to be a fraud. Andi wants her to prove it and she agrees to place her hand on the crystal. The crystal reacts to her negative emotions and shines a bright red. Andi is taken aback by her extraordinary power and wants to try and help. She takes Hope by the hand and her emotional state changes immediately, the crystal changing various colors until it becomes blue. Andi tells her that this power is what her coven has spent generations mastering - empathic transference. This is why she must always wear gloves. Skin-to-skin contact with an empath can feel overwhelming for the uninitiated. Hope was so angry with Landon, but Andi has freed Hope and presents her a crystal. She's been waiting for someone like Hope for a while and, together, they are going to do great things. Lizzie, however, has an influx of negative emotions and her crystal immediately turns red.

Later, Lizzie seeks out Andi in her cabin and apologizes for interrupting her mediation. Andi notices that Lizzie's crystal is missing and she explains that she's had a setback. Placing her crystal back around her neck and it turns red. She admits that she was jealous of her working with Hope and has heard it all before. She wonders if she could juice her back up to be prepared for the ritual next week, but she politely refuses. Lizzie doesn't understand so she explains she must conserve her energy. Given recent events she decided to move the ceremony up. Lizzie correctly assumes that's in response to Hope's arrival. Andi explains that Hope is so powerful, that she doesn't need to recruit more witches so the ritual will happen later this evening as opposed to next week. Lizzie wonders what she must do, and Andi tells her that she must follow the path of the red crystal.

As Lizzie performs red crystal witch tasks, such as washing clothes, Samantha finds ones of Andi's gloves. Lizzie immediately wants to take it back to Andi, but Samantha grabs it first. Rubbing it on her face, Samantha's crystal changes back to blue and her attitude completely changes. Lizzie wants to see the glove, but Samantha leaves her to finish the wash.

Alone in her cabin, unknown that she's being watched by Lizzie, she prepares for a shower. She takes off her gloves and disposes of them into the trash using tongs. She looks into the mirror, happily. She's finally going to be free and she deserves it. While she showers, Lizzie sneaks into her cabin and rifles through her drawers, finding a vial from Triad Industries. After hearing Andi, she is startled and drops the vial, breaking it. Lizzie sneaks away just as Andi comes out of the bathroom to find the broken vial on the cabin floor.

Lizzie leaves to find Josie and Hope and attempts to leave, citing that Hope was right. Andi, believing that someone has found out her secret, has Samantha summon all the witches by banging a hammer on the main crystal. Josie and Hope, previously agreeing to leave, immediately change their attitudes as if they've fallen under Andi's spell. Lizzie attempts to leave on her own, but Hope casts a sleeping spell, knocking her out.

Josie and Hope bring her to Andi's cabin. She's impressed that Lizzie has broken her hold over her and believes she can't be mind controlled anymore with the drug's psychotropic effects. She explains that just one drop on her gloves is normally enough to make all the witches here at the retreat worship her. Coyly, she wonders if it's her brain chemistry or just her overwhelmingly bad vibes. Touching on her past, she tells Lizzie she should have seen what Triad did to witches that drug didn't work on. Lizzie believes that she worked for them, but Andi corrects her - no supernatural ever worked for Triad. Like her, they were imprisoned and forced to do their bidding while being drugged. Lizzie doesn't buy the sob story because she's doing the same thing to all the witches at the retreat. Andi brushes off Lizzie's comment because she's self-indulgent and never had a real problem in her life, unlike her own. Lizzie knows she's not a real empath and demands to know what the ritual is for, but Andi refuses to give out that information. It's privileged only to blue crystal witches. Josie appears at the door and Andi asks her to bring Lizzie to the ritual for the grand finale - a human sacrifice.

With Josie watching her, she believes she knows a way out of this mess. Maybe, Andi was right and her negative emotions are what kept her from being able to mind-control her. Lizzie begins to insult and get under Josie's skin, basically citing that their dynamic is similar to the mind controlled witches. Josie wanted to be independent but is already back at the Salvatore school and that her human phase lasted about as long as her Dark Josie bender, all the while neglecting her own happiness. Joise snaps out of it, believing that Lizzie is pinning the whole situation on her. To get to the ritual, Lizzie believes that Josie must act like she's still under the drug's effects so that she can get close enough to Hope to rile up her negative emotions to break the drug's effects.

Andi begins the ritual and prepares a large chalice with more of the psychotropic drug. As the ritual nears the end, Josie brings Lizzie before Andi and Hope. Before Lizzie can really get anything out, Samantha knocks her out from behind. Realizing that Josie is free, too, Andi tasks Hope with throwing them both into the hole as she splashes the witches with more of the drug with Samantha's assistance. Before Hope does so, however, Josie breaks her free from the drug's effects telling her that Landon did the one thing that she was too weak to do - break up with her. Hope, back to her senses, takes down the various witches as Andi stands frozen in place, under the effects of a spell. With the witches down, Josie releases the spella and the three of them confront her. The ritual has seemingly been foiled. Beaten, she explains that she needed a lot of witches with a lot of power who wouldn't ask any questions. Considering she experienced the drug first hand, she knew it would be easier to catch flies with honey than vinegar. Josie demands to know that the ritual was for, but all Andi is aware of is that it was a summoning ritual. For what wasn't her concern. Given her treatment at Triad, she would have raised the devil himself to gain her freedom. Hope questions who she cut a deal with, but she doesn't remember. It wasn't that long ago, but the memory is just gone. Lizzie connects the missing memories to Malivore. Andi, however, does remember that the deal was bound with an unbreakable covenant spell and, if she failed the ritual, she would die. Hope is adamant that she's going to fail anyways. Her witches are unconscious on the ground and Hope, Lizzie and Josie are freed from the drug's effects. Andi considers her options, turning around to look at the crater behind her, and makes a final decision. Turning back to the trio of witches, she tells them that the peace she will know is that the three of them will have to deal with what her death will raise. Throwing the drug-filled chalice at the three of them, she turns and throws herself into the crater - the human sacrifice the ritual needed.

Hope, Lizzie, and Josie are hit with a large dose of the drug and fall back under the drug's psychotropic effects and begin to hallucinate. Eventually, Andi's death raises a creature from the depths of the crater in a towering burst of fire.

In A New Hope, the creature bypasses Hope, Lizzie, and Josie, who are asleep and still reeling from the effects of the psychotropic drug. The creature makes his way to Andi's cabin and showers. Waking from their shared hallucination, they discover that Ryan Clarke was what Andi's death had summoned.