Human vs. Phantom

Chapter- 9 Episode- 10

Chapter- 9

Episode- 10

To purge it out

As they walked around the place, they saw many houses, old or newly designed and large or small, which had the same fairy ring in their gardens, or on their lawn, or anywhere that is near their house. They must have spotted at least five of them there, without even looking for it. They were all identical with their girth and shape, but some of them looked fresh and sparkly and like recently grown while some were dried and lifeless, and writhing their once sparkling leaves, it was out of their glory days. That looked as if their life is somehow connected with the human vessel they were possessing, the one dead was near the houses of the kids who passed away. There were only a few fresh once, many were running out of their time of flourish, of glory. They knew the kids won’t have many days to live once they are possessed by the evil fairy, and they knew that many other innocents could be possessed, so they decided to look for anything that could help with everything they had.

“I think I know why these fairies are still haunting this town rather than going back to their land,” Reeve said, as they were back in their car, where Jim was looking his journal which he brought along with him, he noted the stuff he translated from the Book of the Darkness in that journal. Although it wasn’t making much sense in its current form, he was hopeful and still tried to look at it. The words he noted in it was making up sentences that he couldn’t figure out the meaning from. After going through the pages filled with what looked like doodles for others, as his writing was bad, he said, “see this, I think what it is saying is that a fairy can’t be sent back once they escaped on the land where human lives unless they voluntarily want to go back to their place, their land where creatures like them live. They can live in human form, reproducing a new species by mating with other humans. And they can only be sent back they are immortal and can be killed by any weapon or herb and magic.” Jim told Reeve what he comprehended from his journal.

“the one to be stepped out of the world of the unknown shall be back from the will they had, they shall remain on the earth with the beings of the land, for as long as the world lives. No weapon shall end their fright.” He again read.

“Is there a way we can make them go back in your journal?” Reeve asked him, his hands on the steering of the blue beauty.

“okay I think there is listen here, ‘the one it started should bleed for the one gets hurt, only then shall the evil be gone to where they stand.”

“does it mean the one who started it was Lily? She would have to bleed to end this.” Reeve spoke.

“I will need the book for the darkness to know that,” Jim replied.

“let’s check it out then.” They drove back all the way to the motel to get the book, it has been protected by powerful sigils and warding to ward off any supernatural being who has the ability to track it.

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“Okay, I think we will need some ingredients for the spell in the book. We cannot kill it, but there is something else that can be done to send it back.” Jim said to Reeve having his gaze at the pages of the book.

“what are we going to do?” Reeve asked and he again said, “what will you need for that?” Reeve asked him the ingredients he needed to perform the spell.

“The spell will need eight ingredients, six of them will be easy to get for you. They are just some simple herbs and plants, Hellebore, mandrake, wolf’s bane, devil’s shoestring, and angelica roots, and a silver tool for purification. The remaining two would have been hard for us to get them but luckily it can be arranged, the spell will need the blood of a human touched by a fairy and the soul of a fairy.” Jim said.

“I’ll get it all no matter what,” Reeve said dialing a number on his phone from a business card he had in his wallet which now he is holding in his hands. It was from the same shop they visited two days ago, The Occult Emporium. The owner of that shop told Reeve to just give him a call whenever he needs any herb or plant and he will arrange it for him when he told him that he was a hunter.

After the call ended, he said to Jim, “the owner said that he will arrange the ingredients in an hour, we will just have to pick it up.”

“We are running out of time Reeve, the two other fairy rings looked like they were almost dead. If our theory is right, we don’t even know if the kids even have an hour or not.” Jim said worriedly.

“I know I will do it as fast as I could.” Reeve resolute.

Suddenly Reeve’s phone started ringing, he saw the caller id and it was Juliane’s name flashing on the screen. He right away answered the call.

“hello Reeve, there is something wrong with the kids in the neighborhood, they are fainting one after the other. One kid is in a very serious condition. Even the doctors can’t answer what is wrong with them. Is it something related to what happened to Lily?” she sounded worried as she spoke in a single breath.

“yes, Juliane it is actually the same that happened to Lily and it could get worse, but don’t worry me and Jimmy are working on how to stop it,” He said. “you just look after Lily and the other kids and don’t worry too much, it’s gonna be fine. They all will be fine.” He added trying to relax her out-of-breath nerves.

“where are you now?” Reeve asked her after a pause.

“I am at the hospital with the other kids and their parents.” She told him.

“okay send me the address, me and Jim will come there,” Reeve said.

“Ask her if Lily is there”, Jim said.

“Is Lily there with you?” Reeve asked on the phone.

“yes, she is with me, she won’t be home no matter what.” She answered.

“Okay call me if anything happens.” He said and their conversation ended.

“Why did you ask about Lily?” Reeve questioned Jim, who was busy reading the journal.

“The spell should be performed in the presence of all the kids, I think. And we will also need her blood for the spell.” He said still unbothered to look at his brother.

“the hurt and the one who caused, they should pray and purge the evil back to the world of evil together.” He again said reading his book.

“did you only write down poetry lines in that book of yours? It feels like I am in a poetry club.” Reeve said.

“This is what I get from the creative writing class.” He said plainly.

“they went to the shop for the ingredients they ordered after they brought the book of the Darkness and the bottle of alcohol in which they cast the fairy in their last exorcism. with them. Jim was writing the spell from the book when Reeve was driving to the address texted her.

Parking their car outside, they went inside the hospital, like a warrior they had their weapons and a big heart that loves protecting the life of the innocents even if they have to risk their own. Their walk was like that too, fast, their eyes on the prey and mind on their goal of protection and safety.