Human vs. Phantom

Chapter- 4 Episode- 7 Let’s Kill This Witch

Chapter- 4

Episode- 7

Let’s Kill This Witch

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“Now tell me what happened yesterday.” Mother Ann demanded. We were in her living room, sitting on the couch as she questioned us.

“So, the story goes like this………” I started telling mother Ann, what happened with them at that house yesterday.

“Okay, and did you see anything in that room. Anything strange or related to the spell she is working on, some blood, some herbs, or maybe souls?” She questioned us both, and we were confused, how can we see a soul?

“There was nothing much in that room as much as I can remember. The whole house was mostly empty.” I told her.

“I think I remember something. Let me...” Reeve said meddling in their conversation.

“First when we entered the house, there was nothing in the first room. It was pretty much empty. But in the second room as we entered, where she had all her magic going on, what we see were candles, lots of them with their flames burning spread all over the room. They were all fixed on a shiny silver colored candle stand. The stands were kind of tall than usual candle stands, almost about three feet. Then there was a table on one of the corners of the room, a wooden table. Like yeah high.” Said Reeve with his hand raised in the air to his waist level. “And the walls they had sigils all over, I recognize many of them, some of them were bounded in a protection spell. Some were from occults that do human sacrifices to become powerful. The next thing I saw was that the table in that room was carrying several books, wait I think I can name some of them, ‘The Book of Shadows’, ‘The Magical Kabala’. Yeah, there were these two books among them. But the book of Darkness wasn’t on that table. It was with her, in her hands. And when we tried to take that book from her, she hexed us.” It was amazing how Reeve had so much recollection from last night. Usually, his memory is not this remarkable and on point when it comes to remembering things. He was amazed by himself. He never knew he had this genius.

“Wow! I'm amazing, aren’t I?” Reeve spoke out in his hoarse voice giving out his toothy smile trying to be funny but he doesn’t know something. What all that happened last night I was in his brain and body. It was me who store that information inside his brain, usually, it just flows from his head. But what difference would it make? It’s good that he is happy. He is so am I.

“And one more thing that I just remember,” Reeve spoke out in excitement again like he had a realization.

“Why didn’t I realize it before?” He said to himself clicking his tongue.

“What is it, Reeve?” I and mother Ann spoke in unison.

“there was a bag in a corner of the room, it was small and black, maybe leather, I don’t remember it clearly but it was shining like it has something big and luminous inside it.” He said.

“Okay, I think they were the souls that she took from the people she killed, she captured the souls so they couldn’t cross over into the afterlife. Here see, one of my other clients died yesterday, it was in the papers today. He drowned in his bathtub last night. I just got the information from Kevin. You know what this means?” She questioned.

“Yeah, it means that now she has all four souls that she wanted for the spell now,” I said in a jarring tone.

“That’s right and maybe all the other ingredients that she needed too. And there are only a few hours left for the full moon to shine in the sky in its full glory and once the spell is cast there is no going back. That means we have just a few hours to stop the spell to be cast.” She said in an informative tone.

“Do you even know what could happen if today the spell is cast?” she said aggressively.

“She will be the killer that could kill people without getting her hands dirty,” Reeve said edge of insolence.

“Not just that. If she succeeds today in that spell, she will be the queen of all the evil spirits and lost souls wandering on the earth. Do you know how much power that will be? She will be able to control all of them. Just a single soul has so much power manifested in it, to do the good and the bad. She can create chaos from it. It won’t be just deaths then; it would be a m******e. Millions would die in just a snap of her fingers.” She said.

“If that book was so strong and destructive of every creature on the planet, why did your high priest let it got stolen. How can they not protect it well enough? And not find Anna themselves. Why are we helping you in cleaning your mess and getting that damned book back?” Reeve said agitatedly.

“That book is made by a witch who hated other witches because they tortured her and was captured by them, so when she made that book while in capitation, she protected it too, with a spell so powerful that no witch can ever use its witchcraft to locate the book and use it for their interests. Besides no one in the coven think that Anna is powerful enough to use that book. The book has a heavy codex in its design and to c***k it, it needs high knowledge of witchery and witchcraft, and Anna didn’t have that in her. I still don’t know how she is doing all that magic. She was even weaker than me. She must have been collecting knowledge for herself under some other powerful witch, that’s how she is so powerful now.” She explained.

“So, what do we do know. If we go there again, she will hex us again and maybe she will kill us this time. Either way, we won’t be getting that book from her that way.” I said trying to make a new plan.

“We need another plan,” Reeve said.

“I have something in mind.” Mother Ann proposed.

“What is it?” We both asked curiously.

“Protection hex. Take it keep it close to your body and it will protect you from even her strongest magic.” She said pulling out two hex bags from her purse. She opened the knot in it and asked us to give her a hair strand of ours.

“You had this stuff too. You should have given this to us yesterday.” Reeve said astounded.

“If I could have, I would have.” She spoke out.

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“I mean, usually to make the protection hex, the magic of the witch you are protecting against is needed, so yesterday I didn’t have that, but today I do. So, take it. It will help you fight against her.”

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So, here they are again, driving through the same road in the same car, to the same place, for the same reason, but there was still a difference. This time we knew what we are against, and this time it wasn’t all dark. Neither the way nor their plan.

The sun isn’t set yet. We parked our car a bit far from that house, thinking that maybe the witch Anna will hear the car coming. Getting out of the car that we parked in the dense woods, we went inside that stinky old house again. We had the witch killing brew in our pockets. Our uncle taught us how to brew it. It just needs a few simple ingredients like The Dragon’s Tail, The Devil’s Flower, Fruit from The Phantom Tree, and The Ghost Orchid. They are easy to get hands-on but the real artistry is in actually brewing it. The consistency of each of the ingredients should be maintained. Only then the potion will be powerful enough to kill the witch. We knew how to prepare it.

We were prepared so without wasting any more time we entered the room; we knew the witch will be in this room. As we entered the room, the witch was sitting right next to the table on a chair.

“Oh! here you boys are. Are you still stuck in each other’s meat, or are you now back to normal?” she squeaked in her rather calm voice.

“What do you think?” Reeve said enraged.

“I think, that my dumb little sister put your souls in places by a reversing spell. Is that correct?” she spoke out again in her uneducated tone.

“But maybe she doesn’t know that I am not that weak witch anymore. I have a lot to offer now. Colloportus” she incanted the spell.

From her spell, the door in the room closed with a loud thud giving out strong vibration from it.

“You can’t run anymore.” She said in her calm tone.

“Good news sunshine, we are not planning to either,” Reeve said in his duh tone.

“You know boys there is a very pretty little spell that I've learned from this book. It will turn your brain to jelly just in a matter of a few seconds. I used it on a woman before and oh my! The way she died, that poor soul. What a horrible way to die. I am thinking of using it on one of you. Whom should I choose any suggestions?” she timbre.

“You seem to pity them a lot I see, why do you have them in a bag then?” Reeve said again.

“Oh! Do you know about it? Let me guess, Ann told you, didn’t she? Good, it saved my time and energy. So, you guys must know how much power I will have once I am done with my spell. You all will be nothing but a petty little insect who I can tramp under my feet in a few hours.” She said in a calm but hurried tone.

“I think it’s too early for you to dream about that. Don’t you think so reeve?” I said and walked closer to her. She was still seated on the corner near the table.

“Locomotor Mortis” she yelled.

“Sorry to tell you this sunshine but your spells won’t work on us anymore,” Reeve said again in an unhushed giggle.

“so, she brewed you a protection spell I see.” She spoke.

“Yeah, what can we do about it?” I said.

“Oppupanawe” as she cast that spell, all the objects in the room started levitating in the air and hitting us hard. There wasn’t much there but whatever there was, it was enough to make us bleed.

The candle stand hit my shoulder very hard, that from the intense pain that I felt, it almost feels like I dislocated it. Burning candles were coming to us, throwing melted wax on us. It gave me many bloody burns all over.

That evil witch still sitting on her chair, she was laughing thinking that her magic can stop us. But maybe she is that stupid to not even realize what favor her magic did to us. The luminous bag came flying to us, to hit us but we both dodged seeing it coming to us and it rather than hurting us, it hit the wall. It had a glass bottle inside which crashed from the force and the bounded souls inside it escaped out of it. The souls were so bright that even looking at them was impossible for our eyes. We shut our eyes close and it escaped from the walls making a buzzy sound.

“No, no, no……what did you do? You freed them; how will I do my magic spell now.” She yelled devastated.

“We didn’t do anything. It was you and your stupid magic.” Reeve said again in a duh tone.

“I will kill you both.” She was enraged.

“Not before we kill you. You b***h… Reeve catch it.” I said throwing the witch-killing brew which was in a glass bottle to Reeve. He broke it when he fell earlier from the hit of the candle. Taking the catch, he opened the cork and threw it on the witch.

As each drop of the brew hit her body, we saw it writhing away into dust. She fell on the floor agonizing in pain. Leaving her to die I and reeve took the book and leave that old place.

“So, what are we going to do about this book. As dangerous as they call it, I don’t think we should give it back to them.” Coming out from there and walking to the car I said.

“I have an idea. First, we will throw these hex bags she gave us, in case she locates her magic and came looking for us. Second, I know a place to hide this book. Let’s go.” Completing this mission, we both hunters are now on our way again for new adventures and dangers.

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Lightning crashes, a new mother cries

Her placenta falls to the floor

The angel opens her eyes, the confusion sets in

Before the doctor can even close the door

Lightning crashes, an old mother dies

Her intentions fall to the floor

The angel closes her eyes, the confusion that was hers

Belongs now, to the baby down the hall

Oh, now I feel it comin' back again

Like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind

Forces pullin' from the center of the earth again

I can feel it

Lightning crashes, a new mother cries

This moment she's been waiting for

The angel opens her eyes, pale blue colored eyes

Presents the circle, and puts the glory out to hide, hide