Scion

I lived with Mamma Greta since my parents died of murder when I was eight years old in New York City. The Greta Manor in Newland City became my hiding place. The place was peculiar. A place that seems no one knows. The mysterious country house and nights I hoped to uncover those puzzling thoughts that came across my mind. I heard those nights from my bedroom the beautiful classical music. The etiquettes laughed by the women at the gazebo. When I looked by my window, I saw those older men in the black suit were smoking their cigars and drinking wine. And one young man sat in the same chair every night.

One evening, when my grandmother and I were eating at the triclinium. We heard someone knocked on the door. My grandmother looked in the direction of the door, an unexpected visitor. She walked towards the door and went out. A few minutes after, grandma came back to the dining table and stared at me for a while, and was very silent. My heart was pounding like a drum. And the silence was so bizarre. And all I knew the Newland City was a peculiar place.

“Mamma, is everything alright? I asked with worries in my voice.

“Catherine, follow me upstairs, and please go directly to the room on the left."

My grandmother went upstairs, I was wondering. I didn’t finish my dinner and I went in the direction of the big front windows and peeked out of the window. I saw those women's faces, the first time. I could hardly hear them and they were more than those voices I’ve heard those nights. The men in the black suit were many as well.

I ran upstairs and went to the room that was opened for the first time. I went in and it was wrapped with a mystical secret. I saw grandma holding an exquisite small coffer. I was abstruse of the painting canvas on the wall. The portraits of unknown creatures, occult landscapes, preternatural objects around. I am not sure if it was a part of grandma's collection.

I was muddled by what I saw and befuddled by the situation that I was facing. I could hardly walk when grandma was calling me to walk forward towards her. She became different from the joyful face I was used to, turned into a despairing. And that moment was woeful in my heart. She handed to me the coffer and I was woolly.

“Catherine you are the last young female regnant in our bloodline.” grandma talked in melancholic.

“What do you mean Mamma?

I was scared of the things she told me. I was terror-struck and I was helpless. She revealed to me that my parents were killed by bloodthirsty creatures. The monstrous dogs are cannibal creatures and one of the Interitus-witch groups who will eat flesh and drink blood. The people in Newland City are not typical human beings. The Newland City is the abode of the shaman's coterie, the witch-healer. And we have a rival of surviving in this world.

“Catherine, keep this and take care of this coffer”

"Mamma what is this and what’s happening?"

A strange sound we heard outside. My grandmother and I peeked out by the window and saw other people besides my grandmother’s friends. My grandmother told me that those friends are our kind. And the other people were monstrous dogs who were hunting them for many years. She needs to escape from Newland City. They are found by their enemy and they need her blood and the amethyst stone.

I saw the brutal killing downstairs. I saw those other creatures turned into cannibal witches. I heard the terrifying voices, smashed and growling of dogs. I saw our kind fighting the cannibal witches through their spiritual spells. A huge wolf-like crawled by the window and I was frightened and all I remember someone held my arms and carried me, a fast-speed creature. In one blink of my eyes, he was sitting at the driver’s seat and I was sitting at the front passenger seat drove away far from Newland City. I sobbed and was worried about my grandmother left at the Greta Manor with the enemies.

The driver was the young man I saw all the time by my window. He had a dark pair of eyebrows and aqua-blue eyes. He was silent the whole time and we drove long on the highway. We arrived at the old big stone house. He told me that it’s my aunt’s house. My Aunt Emily welcomed me. They brought me to my room and this whole time I was carrying the coffer that grandma gave to me.

I heard my aunt called him Jacob. They talked for a while and I saw Jacob outside drove away. I never saw the young man again. My aunt went into my room. We talked about many things. I learned from her that my grandmother belonged to a highborn good witch group. My Aunt told me that we are different from the ancient witch-healers, our kinds came from in a heavenly body and now live around in the different parts of the earth.

Our family was the highborn witch of our kind. The cannibal witches were hunting us to kill the last holder of the amethyst stone. The witch-healer are the witches that performed rituals and spiritual divination and destruction of the evil cannibal-witches. The amethyst and the heiress are one. The only way to stop the cannibal-witches to take over the earth.

I could hardly understand everything. I never heard from grandmother again and all I was told she died. I stayed for many years in Ogdensburg City and earned my bachelor's degree in Journalism in feature and magazine writing from a prominent school. I became obsessed with writing. The writing became my close friend since my grandmother died.

In the news, I heard many killings around done by an unknown cannibal. And so many times I’d wish to tell the whole world that I know them. I became a journalist and witnessed these injustice murders in the whole country and different parts of the world. And one day an illness became an outbreak, people getting bit by dog turned to became very ill and aggressive. Every victim yearned for fresh meat and a thirst for blood. The chaos in the whole country became rampant and spread around the world.

I was in my room and stared at the coffer and I never opened it ever since. For a quite long years, I was scared and a coward to open it. I am afraid to see who I am but the rampant of the killing, the innocent child murdered on the street, the fears of every family and the country were never been the same anymore. And everyone is longing for peace and secure living. The pervade terror of the enemy fears everyone’s lives.

I unlocked the coffer and saw a letter.

My Beloved Catherine,

You are my precious gem. The love of my life and my little girl. The time you will read this letter probably you are a full-grown beautiful woman already. I wish I can change your destiny. The destiny that was bestowed before you were born. And if I can change this life into a beautiful one, I would always choose it. I am so sorry you became a part of this wretchedness. I would not call this an ill-fated but rather to call this, a duty of a righteous creature like us. But my sweet girl you always have an option to fight or to go away. I would always respect your decision. I can spend my life protecting you but even a lifetime is too short to use. I left and prepared everything I can for you. You are the beholder of the amethyst stone. You and the stone are one, the destruction of the diabolic face who will slaughter the human race. You are the symbol of righteousness, the healing of everyone’s fear, and the comfort of everyone’s terror.

The necklace with a gold heart-shaped locket is yours and wear it. The face of the devil will hunt you but once you face him the gold heart-shaped locket will open itself and the amethyst stone will show herself and her light. The light will fight for you and all the human-kind. The brave is righteous and will never be defeated.

I love you ‘till to the next lifetime.

Loving you always,

Mamma

I wore the heart-shaped locket and drove to Greta Manor. On the highway, I saw people on the road craving for human flesh and hankering the fresh blood flow. The avidity of these contagious illnesses is in front of my eyes. And it’s like polydipsia that ravaging in everyone’s mouth and throat. The police patrol and armed forces were incessantly aiming to put an end to this torment. I saw no joyful light in everyone’s home but dread in everyone’s door.

My car was followed by these monstrous dogs when I was nearer and nearer to the Greta Manor. I knew it’s the start of my destiny. The destiny I didn’t want to face for a long time. The strength and bravery came upon my soul. I drove to the tall gate of the Greta Manor. I saw the torch lighting like a white fire lighted the whole manor. I saw Jacob with his bow and lighting arrows, showed valorous on his face. I saw many witch-healers, was performing the spiritual divination calling for enlightenment and succor from the almighty.

I walked in their direction and noticed myself I was lighting, a white and purple fire around me. The whole front manor became lighted. And slowly saw the monstrous dogs around the whole manor. They are ready to slaughter every human flesh. In a glimpse, I saw one monstrous dog came in and another one attacked each of my kind. A huge human- wolf, like a devil face, appeared in front of me. The face appeared to be a dragon with long fangs who was parched of my blood. His whole body was full of fire, a fire that came from hell. His hefty-culprit hands were ready to slay me.

I screamed some spells that I never knew before. The spells that made me feel so strong. A strength that I never had my whole life. The heart-shaped locket opened itself and created a thunder sound. The amethyst stone that was inside lit up that felt like a sweet pain in my chest. The many spellbinding voices unite within my voice that made the wolf baffled. The heart-shaped locket lit up more and the stone throws a white-purple fire to the giant wolf. The wolf outstretched his arm to hurt me but many ghost-body from the heavenly stars came out and fought with their powers.

The many lives were given justice. The murderer was revealed. The ancient demon turned his body into a white fire floating and I pulled the heart-shaped locket from the chain that was around my neck. I held it up and the amethyst stone pulled the force of the floating fire inside the heart-shaped locket. The ancient demon was locked forever. The monstrous dogs who were hit by the lightning arrows of Jacob fell on the ground and turned back into humans again. The heart-shaped locket was still lighting. The light became harmless fire and went up in the sky and it was like a speck of raining silver-purple dust and rained over the whole mankind and healed everyone.

I turned around saw Jacob and all the people of my kind. I smiled at them and raised the heart-shaped locket as a sign of the vanquishment of the enemy.