⊱🌹 ⟿ Occasionally, pieces I’ve written will fit in more than one challenge or would be easily expanded to fit in more than one. However, I would never force elements into a story just to meet a challenge. In that case, I would just start a new work. In this case, I had two challenges at the same time. ⟿ 🌹⊰
⊱🌹 ⟿ The first was from Writing Prompts and Stories under “Short Horror Story” Challenge. The challenge was to write a story with a good plot giving enough detail with the characters and their environment so the reader could visualize the characters and the action. There was a limit on gore, which honestly I usually only use gore if it is needed as an element of the story. Additionally, there was a ban on sexual content, self-harm, and talk of suicide. It also required at lease one picture of one of the characters. Cussing was allowed with limited use as well though I don’t go into the heavy use of cussing. Everything else was left up to the author to decide on. ⟿ 🌹⊰
⊱🌹 ⟿ The second challenge was from Paranormal On YouTube under “Challenge Post. “My Ghost Adventure”. This challenge was to tell a story, either made up or real life experience, of a ghost story. It needed to have at least 300 words with a start and finish date. Grading was based on neatness, creativity, spelling, and how many words/characters were used. Everything else was left up to the author. ⟿ 🌹⊰
⊱🌹 ⟿ Now you can see how the two challenges went well with each other. So since they were due the same day, I decided to do one piece for both of them. ⟿ 🌹⊰
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Last Investigation
**** Trigger Warning: Mature and violent subject matter, including blood, and the paranormal. #WTW ****
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July 15, 2019
I pull my legs up to my chest to wrap my arms around my knees over the blanket. My blue eyes are focused on the bay windows covered by the drapes and blinds across from the bed. I’m waiting for something I hope will not happen. It’s out there. It knows where I am. It knows I saw it. It knows I’m the only one left. It wants me. I just don’t know why.
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Three weeks ago, this all started. We were just trying to help a family find some peace. They had something in their house. It was a modest four bedroom split level brick ranch. The part that always gets to the five of us is the involvement of children. We just never could turn our backs on a family who needed help to protect their children.
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The five of us had been ghost hunting for three years together. Jasper Nermual – our lead organizer and founder. Without Jasp, none of us would be here at all. He was thirty-seven and had a biology degree of some sort. I know he told me, but it isn’t important now. He worked in the city forensic lab for his day job. He had close cut, light brown hair with brown, puppy dog eyes. He was is fairly good shape for a man his age at six foot two.
For us, his specialty was checking for biological explanations for what is happening, such as high EMF readings which can cause hallucinations. He would also put the occupants, if we were doing an occupied location, through a physical exam of sorts to make sure it wasn’t something physical or biological causing the events. This would include, possible tumors, drug abuse, medications which could cause side effects mirroring what we were told about, etc. Jasp made sure there was actual events happening. He also was able to qualify any physical attacks reported. In this case, he had been documenting for two days while the house was being checked for environmental effects. He ruled out everything he could while documenting the wounds the family was reporting as paranormal.
Next was Jasp’s younger brother, Sid. Sid was a technical hardware genius. He worked for a computer and communications company. If you had as computer, video, or audio question he was the guy to ask. All of our electronic and technical tools to capture evidence. He was an expert with. He was five years younger than Jasp, though he looked like it was probably ten. He was a blond copy of Jasp with amber eyes. He was more muscular, but I always thought it was because of his carrying the cases of our equipment. I know he had always been the more fit of the two of them while he stood at six foot four.
He would go into the location, in this case the house, to take baseline readings for temperature variances, EMF readings, electrical or magnetic anomalies in the location, and basically anything that can be recorded or measured with equipment. In this case, he had done this already. Then, he had set up motion activated full-spectrum cameras around the house for monitoring. These were monitored and recorded off location and on location. We have found that sometimes there would be discrepancies. He had the whole house set up before the rest of us would show up. He had cameras up a week ago.
Working closely with Sid is Jade Prorot. She’s an environmental engineer. Jade was spitfire smart and sharp as a tack twenty-five year old. She didn’t take anything off anyone. If she found something in her investigation, she had no problems telling someone. She was also extremely thorough in everything she did. She was five foot ten with a crown of shoulder length fire red hair and jade green eyes. Her medium build allowed her to move around any location we had with ease.
She and Sid would go in together checking locations for everything. Since they worked closely together on baseline readings and checking environmental conditions. They were usually first on location. We usually had the residents, moved to friends or family or a hotel while we worked. In the early stages, when Sid and Jade were there, the residents were still there. The three of them had more interaction with residents than the rest of us.
We had a psychic who worked with us occasionally named Paige Suptan. In this case, we talked with her off site. She wasn’t interested in going to the location. She said she could see what she needed through the monitors. It wasn’t a good place for her to go. I felt she was letting us down, but I never brought that up to Jasp. He had a history with her. It wasn’t worth the argument at the time. It also doesn’t matter in this story. She wasn’t with us on the investigation after Tuesday before we went to location as a group. Paige told me I shouldn’t go either. I just told her I would be careful.
Our record and history document hunter was Jareth “Wolf” Praxson. If there was a record written or oral still in existence Wolf could find it. Wolf was a forensic historian. He worked with Jasp. We were lucky to have him. He was able to get information on locations none of us would even know where to look for.
Wolf was half-Cree with long, straight, black hair down to his shoulders. He had dark eyes, which were between brown and black. He was six foot four and muscular. He was twenty-nine which put him four years older than me. He liked to go off on two week bow hunts every year living the whole time on the land while gone. When we talked about it, he told me it was his time to get back with his ancestors and the spirits of his people and nature. His spiritual links helped us to protect ourselves.
Of all our group, I was closest to Wolf. He knew more about me than any of the others. He was also against me going into the location after he got us the history. He’d been there once. Then he spent the better part of two hours trying to convince me not to go on location. We needed another camera person. I was a camera person in the group as well as an investigator. We had also noticed the spirits liked to talk to me, usually. There was a reason for that, but only Wolf knew of it.
My name is Phoebe Aria. I’m twenty-five and the shortest of the group at five foot eight. I’ve got curly strawberry blond hair, which I usually keep braided when I’m on an investigation. I’ve got a medium build and can usually slip between things the others can’t. Wolf says I’m far too hard on myself. He keeps telling me I’m far too thin for my height and that is why I can slip where the rest of the team can’t.
Anyway, my specialty is video and audio editing, writing and translating captions, as well as any graphic or audio work needing to be done. I’m the one who gets to look through all the video and audio make captions for it and translate to any language we need. Most of the time it is for the client. The main reason I go to the investigation is to help get good video and audio. The team knows as well I seem to be a magnet for the spirits, good and bad.
The team believe it was because I died a year before the team was formed. I was in a car accident and was actually “brain dead” and removed from the machines. However, I continued breathing and my heart continued beating. They waited. The doctors told my family, it would stop because my brain was not responding. Then twelve hours later, my parents continued to ask why I continued to breath and how I still had a heartbeat and blood pressure. I opened my eyes while the doctor told them I would not wake up.
I don’t talk about it. I honestly don’t like to think about it. However, ever since, I’ve been a spirit magnet. Wolf says it is because I was there on the other side with them. They know it. Some want to take me back; while others want me to pass on information. Then there are the ones he wants to keep from me – the ones who want to use me.
Wolf introduced me to the others. Originally, it was to find out why I seemed to be having strange seemingly paranormal things happening to me. I honestly didn’t believe in the paranormal at the time. I was going with Wolf to humor him. What happen led to me joining the group. While still being skeptical of things, I started to believe there was something there when there were no other explanations available.
I’m the first one to ask if there are car sounds or could it be the house settling. Is it possible the pipes could be making the sound? Or is there a wind? Suction could have closed or opened a door? Or not? I want the answers to be non-paranormal. Unfortunately, they aren’t always able to be rationalized away. So when I tell you what we found in that house was paranormal, I don’t say it lightly.
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Friday night, there wasn’t much investigation time. We were finishing up our set up making sure the static cameras were working properly. Checking sound levels and getting a feel for the location with finalizing base settings on everything. We set up REM-pod EMF proximity detectors around the entries to the house as well as some key points. These will alert if someone enters the house or key locations which could be vulnerable if there are no living people around.
Once we were sure everything was set up, we spent the rest of the night testing and doing what Jasp calls pre-investigation. Basically, we want to find out what the atmospheric sounds around the location are. Cars, insect, animal sounds which come into the location as well as those things within the house which make noise. This is so we can debunk those pieces of evidence. We also check doors and such for opening to wind, pressure, etc.
What is not unusual in these locations, which actually do have spirits, the spirits are curious about us. This Friday set up was no different. We could all feel the eyes upon us. They were keeping their distance, but they were watching us. There was more than one that night. I didn’t feel threatened until we went into the children’s bedrooms.
We reached the upper level after already deciding we would be sleeping in the living room in our sleeping bags. We just needed to finish our pre-investigation before we went to sleep. Wolf and I were walking through the upstairs bedrooms. The parents’ bedroom didn’t seem to be very different than a hundred other’s we’ve been through. We both felt the eyes of the spirits, but they were only watching. Wolf kept repeating a soft prayer every so often to protect us.
Then we went in the oldest daughter’s room. The closet or under the bed is where the children fear in their rooms. However this eight year old’s room had a window across from the door which felt dark to me. I actually stopped outside the door. Wolf gave me a look as he asked what was wrong.
“I don’t know,” I said before taking a deep breath. “It’s a…there is definitely something dark in there. Give me a moment.” It did take me a moment to calm my heart before I walked into the room.
We finished what we had to do in the room. Wolf watched me as I tried to work while avoiding the window area of the room. The cameras covered all of the room as well as the closet. I was trying not to deal with the fear I was feeling from the darkness around the windows. When we left the room, I felt like I could breathe again.
The son’s room was typical of a six year old boy. There was army men and Legos scattered on a small table. Where the daughter’s room, had been stuffed animals and Barbie dolls. Legos seemed to be a theme in both children’s rooms. Books were in bookshelves. The closet had toys and clothing somewhat neatly placed in it. There was another dark presence in the son’s room, but it wasn’t as foreboding as the one in the daughter’s room. Nor was there any single point of focus.
It took us little time to finish the son’s room. Wolf watched me again. I knew he was looking for what I was feeling and not talking about. Wolf knew me well enough to know I wasn’t one to talk about everything I was experiencing. Besides, this was the first night. We were in pre-investigation mode, this was not the time for investigation activities.
However when we moved to the last room upstairs, I stopped outside the door. I shook my head at Wolf. “I can’t go in there,” I said looking at the room. I couldn’t look away from the figure I could see standing at the head of the crib in the baby’s room. “I’m sorry Wolf. I can’t.”
“It’s ok Phoebe,” Wolf said with a tight grin. “I can take care of it. You just wait there. Let me know if I need to get out, ok?”
He worked quickly to finish up the room while occasionally glancing back at me to see if he was still safe in the room. The figure didn’t move. It just stood there staring at me while I stared back. I knew if I advanced on it, it would attack me.
There was no doubt this was one of the entities threatening the family. I could tell this was not the one in charge. It wanted to come at me, but something was keeping it at bay. I didn’t know what at that time, but I knew there was something.
Finished, we went down to rejoin the rest of the team. I went immediately to our monitor bank to start looking at the cameras. Checking angles and ranges of the cameras is what I appeared to be doing. However, what I was really doing was trying to see if the entities I felt and saw were showing on the cameras.
Only one set of the entities were showing. There were three at the windows of the older daughter’s room. I couldn’t stop looking at them. Why did they show up on the camera when I couldn’t see them in the room? Where was the figure from the baby’s room? Wolf came behind me looking over my shoulder he saw what I was really looking at.
“You saw them?” He said softly his braid dropping down next to my face across my shoulder.
“No,” I said still scanning the monitors.
Jasp saw us talking. He came over to see what we were looking at. He said “What secrets are you two discussing?”
“No secrets,” Wolf said quickly without letting me answer.
Jasp looked through the cameras feeds showing on the monitor bank. I looked back at him. I could see he was seeing what we both saw. He wasn’t going to let the rest of the team know what we were seeing. Looking back, I wish we had packed up and left or at least talked about it with the team. What I didn’t know at the time, it was already too late.
Regardless, we all bed down to sleep in the living room. I don’t know about the rest of the team, but what dreams I did have.were nightmares of each of the members of the team dying in front of me before I died myself. I finally gave up trying to get restful sleep. I got up and started working by making notes on the video footage and reviewing some of the cameras from the day while we were all sleeping.
Jade was up next. She started by brushing her hair and braiding it up. We had both gotten in the habit of braiding our hair on all investigations. Then she started pulling together breakfast for us when she was joined by Sid, who had made most of the food we would be eating through the investigation.
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The night of July 13th to the morning of July 14th started as most of our normal investigations did. Game planning with mapping out the location. Running down what we would be doing in each part as we try to find evidence and help our clients. Pairing off, left me as usual at the monitors for half of the investigation. I was also on the ground floor while Sid and Jasp were in the basement and Wolf and Jade were upstairs.
I wish I knew if Wolf asked for the upstairs or to have me allowed to skip the upstairs’ initial investigation. It might make me feel better about what happened.
The first event was in the basement. Jasp asked me if I saw anything in the IR. I couldn’t see anything at first, then I heard a voice. “Please tell me the camera’s caught that,” Jasp said over the mic.
“Yes,” I said answering him as I pulled the fed record to the review monitor. I listened to the voice repeatedly. “I can’t tell what it says Jasp. I’m sorry. It’s not distinct enough.”
“We can’t understand you. Please repeat yourself a bit clearer so we can understand you,” Jasp said trying to get a clearer response.
Then it came clearly through the mic “This is ours. Get out or pay the price.” I swallowed hard as I heard the voice. Jasp continued telling the entity it was in someone else’s home and needed to move on. He went on trying to talk to it and make it leave. There was a crash in the kitchen. We all jumped.
“Stay at the monitors!” Wolf yelled at me from upstairs. I knew he was yelling at me. He knew I would have grabbed the handheld at my side and run to the kitchen to see what happened. I could hear Wolf and Jade running downstairs into the kitchen.
I looked at the monitors to see all the cabinets open. All the pans were all over the floor. As Wolf and Jade entered the kitchen, we watched the pans pick themselves up and put themselves neatly back into the cabinets, which closed after. However, the other cabinets stayed open.
Jade came running into the living room saying “Please tell me you got that on camera!”
I nodded. I played it back so we all could be sure it was what we saw then there was a scream from the basement. “You two stay here!” Wolf said as he ran down towards the basement.
Jade watched as I move the cameras around to see where Jasp and Sid were in the basement. Jasp was holding Sid strangely trying to get him up the stairs. The camera didn’t show Sid well enough for us to see what was going on with him. Then Wolf came into the picture. He helped Jasp pick up Sid before they headed up the stairs to join us.
Jade was at the basement door before they reached it. She had it opened waiting for them. “What happened? Is Sid ok?” she said repeatedly as the guys moved into the living room. Sid said nothing. I started to get up, but a look from Wolf kept me where I was.
They put Sid on the couch. Jasp started working on his leg which was bleeding. Wolf got a splint to put around the leg and immobilize it. Finally Sid started talking as he took Jade’s hands saying “Something hit me with something like a block of metal or something. My leg went out from under me. I think I passed out for a moment from pain.”
Jasp and Wolf finished their first aid measures for Sid. Sid was going to take my place at the monitors. The groups would be moved around. Jasp and Jade would be together. I would be with Wolf. Wolf didn’t like the arrangement and made it known. Jasp put his foot down. We had to finish the investigation.
As we moved back to work, I looked at Sid to make sure he was ok with the controls. When he looked up at me, his eyes glowed red. I gasped as he raised a finger to his lips to silence me. I don’t know why I didn’t say anything. I should have. I have no excuse for it. Looking back, it probably is a good thing I didn’t.
Wolf and I reached the top of the stairs without a word passing between us. We moved to the son’s room. I looked around with the handheld camera. Through it, I saw the figure I had felt in this room standing at the table with legos and army men on it. As I looked at him, something grabbed my braided hair throwing me into the wall. I was actually thrown so hard I made a dent in the wall.
Wolf had me up and out of the room almost as fast as I hit the wall. He looked me over while asking how I was feeling. I was dizzy and my body ached, but I was basically fine. Before I could answer, we heard a scream from downstairs. We ran down to the ground floor. Jasp was pulling Jade up from the basement. She was unconscious.
Wolf helped him get her to the couch as Sid came over to join us. I backed up. I looked at Sid. Something was off with him. Then he looked from Jade to me. The red eyes I thought I had imagined were there. I swallowed, but his look kept me silent. Then moved to the farthest point I could while keeping my eyes on Sid. Wolf noticed so I made a comment about checking on the monitors.
I looked to see if I could see what happened down in the basement. I blinked a moment. The basement camera monitors were off. The backup recorders were still on, but the live feed to the monitors were down. I worked to bring them back up while I kept an eye on Sid and Jade. Something was going on here. I didn’t like it.
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The clock on the monitor console showed it was just before 3 am on July 14th. I looked back over to see Jade waking up on the couch. She looked directly at me letting me see the red eyes that mirrored Sid’s. I started to call Jasp and Wolf over to me, but then Jasp looked at me. I swallowed seeing Jasp’s eyes were red as well. This was not good at all.
I wanted Wolf to come over to me. I had no way to get him to me without alerting the other three that I knew they were not who they looked like. I fought with my mind to keep control of my panic. I couldn’t panic here. Nothing good would come from losing control or panicking. Then the camera came up from the basement floor with the live feed. There on the monitor was three bodies – their bodies.
What I was looking at in the living room was not my teammates. They were dead in the basement. Wolf and I were the only ones actually alive. Now I knew we had to get out. A monitor went to snow then came back distracting me as I heard a little girl’s voice “Not safe, run!” Looking at the monitor, I was shocked to see Wolf’s body in the master bedroom.
Looking back at my “teammates”, I forced a grin. What I saw was a dark figure coming down the stairs behind them. I knew this was the entity which had been controlling the entity in the infant’s room. My teammates looked back at it then towards me. I knew they would be after me in a moment.
However when they started to step towards me, a voice filled the air “No, she’s mine.”
They stopped to let him come after me. I don’t know why I grabbed the handheld camera next to my bag when I grabbed it out of reflex, more than actual thought. All I wanted to do was run. I did make it around the monitors. I had a straight shot to the back door. I couldn’t make it to the front as quickly.
I didn’t look over my shoulder as the little girl’s voice urged me to get out of the house faster. I made it to the back door. I had to unlock it as I kicked the REM-pod out of the way. “You can’t leave. You are mine,” I heard the entity growling behind me as I worked to get out the back door.
I fell through the door then down off the small patio outside the door. It was a short drop to the ground, but I landed on the broken wood and my back. I moved to get up as the darkness filled the doorway. I watched a moment to see if it would stop.
As if reading my mind, it took a step out before saying “I’m not restricted to this house. I will have my prey!”
I struggled to get up before I ran around the side of the house to my car. Blessing the full moon as I ran. I pulled my keys out of my pocket. Soon I was pulling out of the driveway into the street. I looked towards the house to see the dark figure moving down the drive. I knew it could move faster than I could, but for some reason had chosen not to. I took off down the street.
First, I drove the ten minutes to our offices. I collected the hard drives from the monitoring station. Grabbing my bug out bag to stuff them into, I stopped at Wolf’s desk to get his spare keys and his bug out bag. Then with the drives in the bottom of my bag. I was back in the car on my way to Wolf’s house.
It took me twenty minutes to get there. Once inside I collected the talismen I needed along with a few other little protection items he taught me to use. Getting them into the car, I went back in for the three five pound bags of salt in the entry closet. Wolf always kept three bags there. I knew I had little time. If I thought I would be safer at Wolf’s place than mine I would have stayed there, but with the entities using Wolf’s body and image I couldn’t be sure.
I took off in the car to my house. Silently cursing the three bay windows which had been one of the reasons I loved the house so much. I didn’t know how the thing was tracking me. I only knew it was. Forty minutes later, I pulled into my garage. Grabbing the talismen, I took them in first with my bug out bag. Back out to the car, I grabbed the handheld camera, Wolf and my bags. The last thing I did was bring in the fifteen pounds of salt. I locked up my car.
First, I used what Wolf taught me and set the large talismen on the four directionals with the spells, prayers and blessings for protection. Then I placed salt across all the openings throughout my house. From the garage door to my attic windows and fans, I placed salt. Of course, I didn’t use all fifteen pounds. I barely used five, but I knew I didn’t want to run out in the future.
I drew this sketch of Phoebe Aria’s house. It is not to scale , but helps show the layout.
The sun was coming up as I finished. I wasn’t deluded enough to think I was safe just because the sun was up. I was hoping the protections I was working would be enough to keep me safe. I went to the bags to pull out the other protection and power items. I moved around the house to place them the way Wolf had taught me.
Then I went up to my computer room with the bug out bags, investigation bag, and the handheld camera. I started with the camera. Downloading everything to my raid would take hours. I would have part of it uploading to a cloud space only I could access once it was on the raid. This would give me time to go through the evidence and find out how this investigation went so wrong. It might also give me a clue as to what I was dealing with as well as how I could fight it.
I don’t have a basement in my house. I never really wanted one. My living room has a bay window on the back wall of the house. My kitchen is off the front entry. It led into the dining room which was on the side wall. The dining room also has a bay window, which showcases the flower bed I built on the side of the house. The dining and living room share a French style doors leading to my expansive backyard. My office, where I work on my computer is actually just above the living room and at the top of the stairs. You have to go into the living room to get to the stairs. My bedroom is directly across from my office upstairs. The rest of the layout is unimportant to this.
I had all the drives set up for transfer. While I was sitting there waiting, I passed out. I don’t know how I was even able to sleep, but I did. I had nightmares of my team coming after me to assault or kill me in various ways. Behind the dream was the dark and foreboding figure, before they manage to kill me it stops them claiming I am its. Then either I woke up slightly or the dream changed to another version of the dream.
I woke up sometime in the afternoon. The upload was complete. I started loading to my monitor bank to watch what the cameras caught. I moved to look through the Friday feeds. There was a point Jasp was alone in the dining room. As I watched, he seemed to be talking to something. I turned up the audio. It was a deep voice telling him how he could only succeed if he allowed himself to be merged with. The voice claimed to be a good spirit which would help him cleanse the house. Jasp had been taken before the rest of us knew. The voice led him to the basement to merge with him. Killing him and taking his form. I saw it all on the camera feeds.
The next morning when we all split up, Jasp had taken Sid down to the basement for the same treatment. However, the ones upstairs were interrupted before Jade could be taken. Wolf was taken in the master bedroom while alone in there. I knew if I went up there I would find his body. However, I was never planning to go back to that house.
I watched my team turn into these things one by one. My stomach turned. How did I not know? I should have known.
There was a rumbling voice I heard in my head saying “You were not meant to know. They were cloaked from you.” I didn’t know how it found my mind, but it did. I knew it was still trying to track me down. I just felt it. It wasn’t supposed to be able to get through the protection I had up.
I took a breath before I said to it “Why do you want us?”
“To possess you,” said the voice in my head.
“Then why are you killing…” The voice interrupted me by laughing as if it thought my belief of its words was hilarious. I knew it didn’t want to possess us. It was lying. I still didn’t know what it wanted as I felt it pull out of my thoughts.
As easy as it did it, I realized there were several protections which obviously were not strong enough. I spent the rest of the afternoon placing stronger protection crystals. I used what Wolf taught me to empower crystals for me to wear.
I was hoping to keep from having another mental talk with this creature. I also hoped it would cloak and shield me from allowing it to find me. It was probably a useless action, because it had found my mind. I made a bag and put it in my bra. There had to be a way. The rest of the evening I checked my existing protections.
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I finally stopped to eat food around midnight. I moved up to my bedroom with my laptop to see if I could find anything online that might help me. It was around two when I heard the first sounds outside the house. First, it was knocking on my front door with Jasp’s voice calling to me. One by one they called out to me trying to get into the house. I knew it wasn’t them. It was still hard. I was close to these people. We worked together. We were like a family. Wolf was the hardest to ignore.
There were other sounds trying to coax me out. They also had others with them. Voices I didn’t recognize called out to me. It seems they were able to take control or remake themselves into anyone they wanted. I was fighting to keep from letting them in when my cellphone rang. I looked at the phone. It was Paige, or it said it was.
“Hello?”
“Oh thank the goddess, Phoebe,” Paige’s voice said over the phone. “I’ve not been able to reach the rest of the team.”
I swallowed before saying “Is that really you Paige?”
“Yes,” she said a bit confused “Oh no, uhm, Wolf and you have matching tattoos on you…”
I interrupted her saying “Ok, that’s enough. You can stop. Paige, they are all dead.” Just then there was a scream and a growl from outside. I closed my eyes fighting the pain the voices brought with the knowledge they were dead and I was to be next.
“What was…” Paige started to speak. She paused before she said “Phoebe, do not let them in! No matter what is said or what you hear. Do not let it in.”
“Paige, I don’t know how long I can hold out. I put up Wolf’s protections and salt as well as my crystals and candles. They can’t get in, but they are trying to reach my mind and get inside.”
“You can’t let them. Give me some time. I’ll come up with something,” she said “Just give me time.”
“Don’t take too long,” was all I said before she hung up. I didn’t consider the knowledge she had anything she shouldn’t have, after all she is psychic.
I pulled the blankets over me as I listened to the creatures trying to get into my house. I pulled the laptop close and started this record. For a moment, I peeked out to see them. I hope Paige finds something. It’s there outside. It isn’t above killing others to use their appearance. I don’t know why it wants me. I don’t know what it wants to do with me.
The sun is almost up. They are starting to knock on the house walls again. I can’t move. I’m so scared. What I do know it might not stop with me. It may try to take over the city…maybe more. We were just the beginning. I don’t know where it will end. Someone has to stop them. I may be their target now, but eventually they will go after everyone everywhere.
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