The Protectors

What's This The Wizard Of Oz

As i looked around, trying to work out where i was. The more i looked around, the more amazed i was getting, we were in a bright green feild with a lone willow tree stood magestically in the middle of the feild on a bright sunny day. Maria-Hope stood on my right still holding my hand tightly.

I looked at her with great confusion on my face, still deprived of answers, a weird feeling of this is not a world i know, something felt so different to normality. Obviously Maria-Hope wasn't who or what i thought she was, so i asked her "whats going on?", "you need to sit down" she demanded "what do you know about your parents?" she asked, interogating me like she was a sergent major. Confused and still paniced i replied "my dad died when i was 3 weeks old i know he was called tom, my mum's Jenny, shes a librarian at the local library, she's always there for me as any mother would be, and she always works hard. Right, now its your turn, who/what are you? And what happened to my mum?, what just happened?". Trying to calm me down she said calmly "last night i was undercover, i am your protector" "protector?" i exclaimed "protector from what?".

Maria-Hope sat down with me and explained "when you were born, you were born with life threatening complications. Your mother, is what is known as a half witch", to my amazment and disbelief i struggled to believe this was true, convinced Maria was lying i accused her of her lies. i argued that my mum was no witch oe half witch, she to my knowledge anyway was just a normal human being with a job, home and son. This angered Maria so she told me "im what is known as a protector witch" mocking her i replied "what is this the wizard of oz", with no humour she angerily exclaimed "will you shut up and listen, if you like, i am the good witch of the north, happy, i am your protector, when your mother summoned a soul keeper she was told of a soul price to be paid", realising what shes telling me, that this must be aload of rubbish i told Maria-Hope that i was going home, as i got up and went to walk off i floated into the air like gravity suddenly vanished, and slowly started to turned back towards Maira, i started to well up when it hit me she must be telling some truth, how could she teleport me here otherwise?, and how could she lift me with just a raise of her hand into the air, if she wasn't a witch, i cried "no, she wouldn't, she loved my dad, please, why are you coming up with this rubbish?" She explained "its not rubbish, when she was told of the price, your father also knew the consequences involved and he agreed, if a life is to be spared and soul must be taken, which was your father".

Slowly i was coming to terms with what Maria was trying to tell me but what she was saying, still had me dazed, i asked "where does my mum come into this?" "She was in the way" she calmly replied with a look of despair "when the soul keeper came for your father, she must have made more then 1 deal and your the payment that she didn't realise was going to be you and your mother tried to cast a spell, which back fired and now her soul is held as a hostage".

In fear i asked "where is she and what does it want?" She paused for a while and sighed and gently informed me "shes held in hell" she paused for a moment longer and continued "and it wants you".

My heart started skipping beats as Maria eventually lowered me back to the ground, i sat next to her in fear and dread, lost with nowhere to turn, trapped in a room with 4 walls and not door or window. Life was so good and we done what we needed to do, but how can this happen?

Maria sat with me until i was ready to move, she was so patient, and i will admit, the feelings i had for her before, i still have, surprising given the cercumstances of her being a witch and me a mortal, when we first met she to me was a mortal, working at the cafe to earn her keep, like any normal human being.

As i sat admiring the view and trying to chill my panicy self out, i realised something, i noticed as i looled around the feild there was not 1 gap in the trees, this feild was just surrounded by tree tall trees, and the more i looked the more i realised that there was hardly any gaps between the trunk of the trees, but the question remained, what was they trying to keep out, the wall of trees were therr for a reason, but what reason.

Fearing what the answer maybe i thought it best that i wont ask that question yet, im not ready to hear that there are more monsters out there that ive only ever heard of in fairytales or horror movies. suttaly i wanted to have a closer look at the trees tp see if there was a way out so I asked Maria "can we just go for a walk around the perimeter im struggling to clear my head sat here?" with a small glimmer of a smile she agreed and stood up.

We walked from the middle of the feild near the willow tree and walked over to the edge of the feild to start our walk.

As we walked i wondered what was going through Mria's head? what she thinks of my mother? does she dispize her for what she has done in the past and put 2 people she should love at the hands of a soul keeper, to be honest thats the question that keeps going around my head, and i just cant shake it off.