A Search For The Unknown

The facility

“As you can already see there are many buildings to this facility we do e everything we need to in house here at the facility. We have a lab, testing building, warehouse, and multiple factors at this facility along with a home for the Winters when they come to visit the facility.”

Max first showed them the outside of all the facilities and the location of the district that had been caused by the unknown creature causing problems.

“As of right now the creature or spirit has only attacked the outside of the buildings. It mainly focuses its attacks on the lab, wearhouse and the Winters office and Winters home. We aren’t for sure why but these building are the closest to the strange ritual that was soon on the grounds before we had Completed building the facilities here. We assume that is why the creature or spirit attacks this area most because it is bond to the area where it was summoned.”

Asher look up at max as he said this looking close at his face to see his reaction at these words.

“So you think this thing was summoned by the ritual that was done here and not something that was already in the area? Why do you think that?”

Max looked at Asher with a smile on his face.

“Well what happened before the ritual could have been explained away to a witch doing hex’s on the builders and even the builder who got thrown could have been a witch but once the ritual was done it was a game changer. And my mother and sisters are witches and I had my mother look at the pictures of the ritual and she is certain it is a summon ritual, but she couldn’t tell for sure what they had summoned. We are from the south so she use a different type of symbolism with her magic then the witches up here do.”

Asher looked at max in surprise. He couldn’t believe that he had met someone who had a family of witches.

“So, are you a witch too?”

No Asher unfortunately I never got magical powers like my mother and sisters. I’m just a plain human like my dad.”

“Oh I was really excited at the idea of meeting another witch.”

“Well I may not be a witch but I could have you meet my mom and my one sister. They will be come for a visit in a few days and you can meet them then.”

“That would be amazing thank you.”

“Any time kid oh, well next let me so you what is left of the super were the summon took place and then I will show you all the places the thing has attacked.”

There wasn’t much left behind of the ritual but a lot of the marks and circle around the symbols were burnt into the ground. Asher started to wonder why only some of the symbols were burnt into the ground and not all of them. He took the backpack he had on off his back and opened it up. He started looking through all the papers he brought with him and pulled out the picture Thomas had given him of the ritual that was taken after they found the ritual. The symbols were all there in the picture so what caused some to burn into the ground while the other disappeared.

“What did you do to the ritual after you found it? Why are some symbols burnt into the ground while the others are gone?”

Max sighed and rubbed the back of his neck and looked away from Asher.

“Well it might be my fault it’s like that now. You see I was here then and I was the one who tried to clean up the ritual and when I went to touch it it all caught on fire and what was left over is what you see now. I think the fact I have magical blood caused a reaction that may have finished the spell.”

He showed his hand to Asher. It had a burn on it that looked like a crescent moon.

“It gave me a bad burn and the fire started right where my hand was.”

Asher took a picture of the burn on Max’s hand.

“I’ve read about something like this it’s called a witch trap. Witches add them to there spells to prevent other witches from messing up there spell or ritual. That burn might be a curse or hex. I would have your mother look at it when she comes. I don’t know enough about them to be sure that it is, but I’m sure that this is a witches trap spell.”

“Oh man I had no idea, I didn’t know witches did such a thing. I never even thought to tell my mom about the burn or the circle catching fire when I went to touch it. Thanks for letting me know I will ask my mom about it when I talk to her later.”

Max rubbed his hand with a concerned look on his face but then he looked up at the group and smiled and laughed nervously.

“Well no point in worrying about what is already done. Let’s move on to the next place that is being attacked. The warehouse is the closest place to check out.”

As they walked to the warehouse Asher watched the woods on the other side of the fence. As he did he felt like something was watching him back and it made him feel uneasy. The whole facility made him feel weird and worried. All he kept thing to himself was that there was something abnormal about this place. It made him feel on edge and as he stairs at the woods he stopped walking and thought he saw a shadowy figure moving in the night just be on the tree line. Shock filled his body and he turn from the group and started moving toward where he had seen the shadowy figure hoping he could get sight of what was causing all the trouble.