My Sunshine † Arne Johnson †

First Exorcism

The two teenagers and their demon were running throughout the house like chickens with their heads cut off in search of the youngest Perron girl. A task that Malthus would normally have no problem doing considering his superior senses but this case had been anything but normal from the very beginning so why wouldn't it be the same until the very end?

It was a combined effort, Malthus assured himself, his Reagan's parents were trying to exorcise Bathsheba from Carolyn causing said spirit to lash out with her now unstable and uncoordinated powers which was causing everything else to go haywire as a result, the numerous other spirits of the farmhouse were all clamoring and frantically trying to escape from the now erratic witch with the youngest of the group cloaking April Perron from view of other supernaturals - which included Malthus, and Malthus had to both worry about his humans' safety while worrying about whether or not he might accidentally be exorcised should he remain in the house.

Something that was worrying and distracting both Reagan and Arne which kept them from truly being able to properly look for April with a recently returned Drew.

Finally Reagan gave into her own mildly selfish desires to protect her first and best friend from accidentally being exorcised and sent to Hell. She called for Malthus who wasted no time in flashing to her side in one of the upstairs bedrooms, brown eyes met gold in a quiet stare off for a few brief moments before Reagan pleaded with the demon to go and protect Christine in the police cruiser while they kept up the search for April inside.

Malthus looked appropriately shocked and agitated at the thought of being asked to leave his humans unprotected with a vengeful and admittedly powerful spirit lashing out at everything and everyone within range. Reagan eventually won out though, and Malthus begrudgingly flashed into the police cruiser with a quietly sobbing Christine as Reagan dashed back downstairs to meet up with Arne and Drew to continue their frantic search for April and the shouts and screams from the basement filled the house.

Something is going wrong down there....Reagan thought to herself, her father was likely the one preforming the exorcism right and while he'd never done so before he'd participated in enough to know how to do so on his own so Reagan was understandably concerned when rather than things improving they seemed to be only getting worse as time progressed.

Arne clearly shared the same concerns as she, and nodded his head firmly as their eyes met across the room, a silent conversation passed as Reagan gave a firm nod once before turning on her heels and racing down into the cellar. Somehow through the cacophony of shouts and screams Arne could hear Reagan's voice doing something he'd only ever heard her do twice before in the time that he'd known her and only in situations of extreme duress; she was praying to St. Michael the Archangel. "- by the power of God, cast into Hell Satan and all the evil spirits -" her family might've been Churchgoers and devout members of the Roman Catholic Church but Reagan was never truly as...invested as her family, she'd attend mass with them of course and would occasionally pray if the situation was with dire enough or called for her to do so but she truthfully had no desire to do things expected of a Church member, "- who prowl about seeking the ruin of souls -" Arne wasn't entirely sure she took the stairs conventionally because now she had joined the adults in the basement as they were thrown back while Carolyn/Bathsheba howled in rage and pain from where they'd been tied to a simple wooden chair with a simple white sheet thrown over top that was now stained in blood that the possessed Carolyn had spat up.