Carranca - Based on the legends of the Myrtles Plantation

Chapter 3

     Angela is scared.

“Ugly, yes.”

“It’s a sculpture with a half-human and half-animal, made out of wood. It was first used as a figurehead on the boats traveling through the rivers, to ward off evil spirits. It spread around the country as a popular art form, being sold in fairs and crafts stores.”

“So, I'll have to buy one?”

“I don't think so. I'll give you a little one, you should use it.”

Acauã takes a small sculpture out of his pocket and gives it to Angela.

“But won't you need it?”

“I think you need it more than I do. Your brother and sister are not here, you must return to your home.”

“Where are they?”

“Inside the house. They’re under the influence of something. I can't explain it but if they leave the house, they’ll be freed from its influence.”

“Is that the reason is much colder inside than out here?”

“I think so. I'm leaving now. You should go too.”

     Angela puts the small totem in her pocket and heads back home. Acauã goes back to his house. She arrives and sees her father talking to a priest on his cell phone. She is afraid and doesn't want to tell them about the amulet. Her mom estranges:

“Weren't you in the bedroom? How did you get in through the front door just now?”

     With all that happened, Angela forgot that she had gone out the window and her parents weren’t supposed to know she went out. She thinks fast and says:

“I went out there for a while, I don't think you saw me going out. It was cold inside.”

     Angela and Valquiria also notice that the cold inside the house seemed less intense. Mr. Wagner hangs up the phone and says:

“I talked to a priest. He said to put crucifixes in the house and pray in the room where the children were.”

“But we don't even have crucifixes here,” says Angela.

“I know, but we can improvise. I’ll go out there, there’s some pieces of wood in the back. I’ll nail some pieces together, won’t be perfect, but that's what we have.”

     In the meantime, a neighbor arrives. His name is Claudio. He was a friend of the Police Officer and learned what was going on in the house. He was white, as it was common in the area, but he was not German, or a descendant of immigrants. He arrives at the door and claps his hands. Mr. Wagner answers his call.

“I found out, through Dagoberto, you were facing some strange problems here. Can I help?”

“You came just in time. I was thinking of making some wooden crosses, you could help me with that.”

“Dagoberto left here pretty scared and told me the story of what happened.”

“I still can’t believe it myself,” says Mr. Wagner. “Come on.”

“Let's go.”

“Well be back in a moment,” says Mr. Wagner to Valquiria and Angela.

     They are alone in the house. Angela remembers Acauã told her that the Christian symbols wouldn’t work. She thought her father would just be wasting time. Valquiria was sitting at the table, worried. Angela wanted to tell her about the amulet.

“Mother I...”

     A noise came from the children's bedroom, as if it something was falling on the ground. The two were frightened. They rushed to the room and the kids were back in bed. Awake. Valquiria is scared:

“Where did they come from?”

     Angela is frightened, the falling sound implied they could be on the ceiling, not from outside, but from within. She looks up, but there’s nothing to see.

“My children, are you okay?”

     The girl says:

“We are, but an evil presence got into the house, now.” She speaks with a high voice, which she didn't have before.

“It’s true, mother,” says the boy, Fagner. “It just got in, right now.”

“What just got in? What would it be?” asks Valquiria.

“Angela knows.”

     Valquiria looks at Angela. She gets scared. The two kids begin to cry. The girl says:

“Tell her to throw it away, tell her to get rid of it.”

     The cry goes up, the two kids are in despair, starting to yell. Valquiria tries to calm them down. Mr. Wagner and Claudio, who were out there, hear the screams and come running inside from the back door. Mr. Wagner is surprised with the two kids’ reaction, but is happy they are awake.

“What happened to you?” asks Mr. Wagner.

     Claudio, the neighbor, notices something strange and, without anyone noticing, turns away and grabs his phone and starts filming.

“Please dad, make Angela take away this evil that she brought into the house,” said the girl, screaming and crying.

     The boy too:

“Yes, dad. Make her do it.”

     The father turns to Angela, who’s very scared, and says:

“Angela what did you do? What did you bring home?” He asked, with a harsh voice.

“I brought this, it was given to me.”

     She takes out the totem. As she takes it out, the kids begin moving strangely. The girl lays on the bed and starts to have convulsions. The boy, however, is very calm. Valquiria tries to hold the girl, as does Mr. Wagner, but the girl’s strength is too much. Angela realizes that the amulet is the cause for all that. The kids don't like it. Claudio could not believe it, but without despair, filmed everything. Mr. Wagner has trouble holding the girl down and tells Valquiria.

“Bring me the crucifix we have in our bedroom. Is the only one we have in the house.”

     Valquiria goes to the master bedroom, while Angela enters the room, she looks at her brother. He cries, but is calm. The girl is the big problem. She says to Mr. Wagner:

“Dad, listen to me, this amulet…”

     She shows the amulet to her father, but before she could speak, he takes the amulet from her hand and throws it out of the house.

“This thing is evil. How could you bring it here?”

“No, dad. Since I brought it in, the children returned, and it’s not so cold anymore.”

     However, he didn’t want to listen. He was having difficulty holding the girl down. Valquiria brings the cross. Its wooden, medium size. Mr. Wagner puts it on the girl’s forehead, but the crucifix starts to burn and he takes it off quickly. The house is all made of wood and, afraid, he also tosses it out the window. Claudio, the neighbor, is still filming everything. Then, Mr. Wagner is pushed to the wall of the bedroom. He hits his back and Valquiria rushes to help him. The girl’s convulsions increase and then, she says, with a low voice.

“I'M NOT AN INTRUDER. YOU DISTURBED MY RESTING PLACE, MY HOME. THIS IS MY HOUSE, GET OUT, GET OUT.”

     Angela is near the door and gets more frightened than the others. She runs out through the front door, trying to find the totem, but it's dark and the amulet is small. She rummages through the dirt.

“Where is it? Where? Damn.”

     She finds it, close to the road. It’s covered in dirt, but she doesn't care. She grabs it and runs back to the house, through the front door. She comes running into the bedroom. Her dad is on the floor, with Valquiria at his side and the little girl is still seizing. She puts the totem on the girl’s forehead, who cries out:

“AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!”

     The cry is so loud that the whole neighborhood hears it. Some people even go outside, trying to see what’s happening, but the girl faints. The boy, who was crying, is even calmer. Angela turns to her parents, on the floor and scared, and says:

“Dad, pay attention, this amulet is our only chance. The Christian symbols do not work in this case. Please open your mind...”

     In the meantime, the girl jumps on Angela’s back and pushes her out of the bedroom. The two fall to the floor. The totem falls far away. The girl, with incredible strength, punches Angela’s face and body. Claudio, the neighbor, who was further back, films everything, but does nothing to help. The parents are in despair, they get up and try to break up the fight, holding the girl. They manage to hold her on the floor, on her back. The girl screams. Claudio, seeing the difficulty they’re having, finally goes to help, but without stopping the film. Angela, with her face bleeding and bruises on her side, takes the totem and puts in on her sister, that’s being held by parents. She tries to break free and throws up something green on the ground. Her strength increases. The parents have to work harder to keep her down. Claudio comes closer, wanting to help, but not wanting to stop filming, totally freaked out with the scene he could never imagine witnessing. Angela puts the totem on the girl’s head, who calms down and goes back to sleep. The parents get up, slowly. Angela too, in pain. They carry the little girl back on the bed.

     Angela goes to the bathroom, to wash her face. Claudio, scared after everything he saw, and filmed, goes to the children's room and tells Mr. Wagner:

“I think I'm not really helping much, I've never seen anything like that.”

     Mr. Wagner, realizing that Claudio was scared, agrees:

“Alright, my friend, you can go. We’ll call if we need anything.”

     What Wagner did not know, was that Claudio had filmed everything. He left and headed back to his house.

     Angela sits in a corner of the bathroom, puts her hands on her head and lowers her head. She lifts her head, calmly, stands, staggering, goes to the lavatory and begins to wash her face. Startled, she looked in the mirror in misbelief when she notices something behind it, in the reflection. Scared, she turns around, sees nothing and looks back in the mirror. She is looking at the mirror, frightened, trying to see if anything shows up again in the reflection, but she can’t see anything. She says:

“It's okay.”

Then she is grabbed by the hair by her own reflection, who’s screams:

“YOU THINK IT'S OKAY GIRL. YOU JUST GOT BEATEN BY YOUR POSSESSED SISTER!!! IS IT A DREAM? COULD YOU STILL BE ASLEEP ON TOP OF THE TABLE, OVER THE GERMAN LESSONS?”

     Angela wakes up abruptly.

     She was sitting in the corner of the bathroom with her head down. Was sleeping, it was a dream. She gets up quickly.

     She gets scared, but it all goes away, back to normal. She takes the amulet, points to the mirror, but nothing happens. With her face still wet, she leaves the bathroom.

It was a dream. Am I dreaming? Everything that happened is a dream, that's it!

     In the meantime, Claudio gets home, and watches the footage he had made with his phone. He plugs a cable in the phone and transfers the footage to his computer. He knew a reporter from a TV Network in a nearby city and call him, telling the whole story. The journalist, named Dominick, is skeptic.

“It’s hard to believe it. Nobody's going to believe it without any evidence.”

“I knew you wouldn't believe me, so I’ll send you the video I’ve made.”

     Dominick receives the footage and is impressed.

“I'm coming with a team, right now.”

     Back in the house, Angela sits in a corner, next to the toilet, scared of what just happened. Mr. Wagner sees her there and call her.

“Angela, come here. Walk me through it.”

     Angela tells him that everything is because of an old owner who didn't want the house to be sold. She explains that the amulet is the best thing to get rid of the spirit that has possessed the children and that traditional Christian symbols will not work.

     Mr. Wagner recalls the cross used, and that burned up, and agrees with her. Dawn was almost upon them, no one had slept, the morning came.

“I'm afraid to go to work and leave you here alone, we won't go.”

“You can go, dad. This amulet protects me.”

     He had to go. He did not sleep at all, but he had to. Valquiria leaves the room and says the kids are asleep.

“I doubt they’ll wake,” said Mr. Wagner. Along with Valquiria, he takes their things and leave for work.

     Angela is lonely, and scared. She takes the amulet from her pocket and has an idea. She goes to her bedroom and looks at the sleeping children. She takes the amulet, thinks of putting it near them, but remembered Acauã feared doing that before, so she didn't. She goes to her drawer, grabs a string and ties up the amulet to her right hand so it wouldn’t fall if something where to happen. She was sleepy but was afraid to go to the bedroom, where her brother and sister slept. She still felt some pain, but it hurt less now. She sat on the table and remembered the German lessons, so she went and picked it up. Now she had a desire to learn, to ward off the fear in her mind.

     Angela begins her lessons, but the same table as before. There is silence in the house. She looks from one side to the other, and suddenly the door to the children's room is pounding. She gets scared. He takes the frown, stuck it in his hand, gets up from his chair and goes slowly to the bedroom. She takes it slowly on the door handle and opens it slowly. She notices that the beds are empty.

 "Not that, where are they?"

     When suddenly.

“I'M HERE!!!”

      Angela turns to the side and sees Walquiria, her sister, possessed.

“We are here, because this is our home !!! You have invaded.”

     Angela scowls at her, she is frightened.

"You think it will destroy us, too." No, you're leaving, we're not.

"What are you?"

"We own this place. You are leaving. This image of yours will not stop us, nothing will stop us."

"What's in this house, are you attached to it?"

"No, we just like it here and we're going to throw it out."

     Suddenly Fagner, from behind, picks up Angela with both arms, over her shoulders, trying to crush her head, they fight, sister advances on him and then ... Angela wakes up.

"It was a dream, it was another dream.”

     Angela wakes up on the desk where she was studying.

     She leans back in her chair, puts her hand on her head (camera comes close) and suddenly ...

"WAS A DREAM?"

     She hears a loud scream from the side, takes a fright, was her sister possessed. She grabs her and they both go to the floor. Angela tries to take the frown, but Walquiria does not leave.

"NO, LET'S PLAY TWO ONLY, WITHOUT ANYBODY!!!"

     Possessed Walquiria tries to crush Angela's head on the ground. Possessed Walquiria uses both hands. Angela is frightened as though realizing she is being crushed, but she grabs the frown and puts it on Walquiria's face.

"AAAAAHHHH !!! She screams and lets out a green vomit on Angela's face and writhes smashing things in the house and runs to the bedroom, closing the door."

     Angela all dirty, she says:

"I will not have another chance to destroy her."

     She runs to the bedroom and opens the door. He gets to her bed, where she notices there's something under the mattress, something big. She hesitates, looks sideways, comes up slowly from the bed, picks up the blanket and pulls quickly. It was two pillows underneath, when all of a sudden .... Her possessed sister attacks her. She grabs her from behind, her face on her shoulder. Angela grabs her frown and puts it in front of her face, she screams,

"AAAAAHHHHH !!!!!"

     And he runs out the door, into the kitchen.

"I have to follow her."

     She grabs her hand and goes after her, opens the door, looks at the kitchen and sees her sister, sitting on the floor, with her head between her legs, leaning against the wall, crying. Angela comes close and the note is crying. Walquiria says:

"You said you'd take care of me. He said he would always help me. We are sisters, help me, take care of me."

     Angela begins to cry.

"What can I do, tell me, and I'll do whatever I want." I'm here to help you, I'll always help you, you're the youngest, tell me and I'll help you."

"Throw that picture away, throw it away, I'm healed.

     Walquiria raises her head with a normal face.

"I'm fine, look, I'm better, I'm your sister again, let's play, talk, how your German classes are going."

"Yes, well, our father wants me to learn.

"Yes, he wants the best for you, for us, learning is always good. I also, I want to, learn to teach me, learn and both of us go on display, speaking German around."

-"Yeah, I'm glad it's all over."

"True, our brother must be around. Together we will find him and help him."

"Yes true. Let's go find him. I think he's still in the bedroom."

"Then throw that picture away, we'll save it together, we do not need it."

     Angela grabs her frown, turns away, and throws herself away in the house, when she turns around, her sister suddenly slaps her, and she falls to the floor. She is possessed again.

"Your integrity made you a strong girl, but it also made you an idiot."

     Walquiria goes to a closet on the side, takes glass cups that are in it and begins to play in Angela, a hit on the wall, she plays with more speed, she tries to run, goes to her desk, picks up the chair and puts her as a shield while Walquiria continues to throw the cups on her. She looks to the side and sees the frown on the floor. Try to catch. Walquiria, possessed, shouts:

"OUT OF YOUR HIDING AND DESTROY IT."