Normally people have to die to become a ghost but not in this family.
At age 15, they start to develop their ghostly essences and by age sixteen; they have all the characteristics of a living breathing ghost with their one exception being life.
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It was the following day......the whole community was in preparation for the birthing ceremony. I didn't know why it was significant or if I would even go.
But I was excited for the 2 hours yet to come; when I'll finally know what kind of child I brought into this world.
My dad also seemed rather exicited, he talked about the rites of passage he would do for his grandchildren, the way he did for me.
The two hour came and nth happen. Five minutes passed and in my hands still was my little shadowling, no changes.
"It's time my love", said my father.
"Time for what?", I asked him
"His/her birthing ceremony", he said as he took it from my hands and headed outside in our back yard.
I follow closely behind him, many people gathered there to witness what was taking place and I wasn't excited to see the birthing mother.
"Must she be here", I asked my aunt Ci Ci.
"Be quick", she said.
I watched as my dad passed my shadowling over a fire of some sort. Then he spoke, "I now commit my third generation McCleary, to her ancestors of the shadows and of the light. I here by give to it this chain, as it rest upon it's chest, may it bring her closer to the previous owner, my late wife Yashsena."
Ci Ci took my hand and lead me to a chair seated next to my dad with a mirror before it. "I hereby recommit my brother's second generation to her ancestors of the shadows and of the light. Upon her chest, lays the chain given to her by my brother from our dear mother; may it bring her closer to the previous owner."
They then place my shadowling into my hands. And I too reverted to my shadow form but something about me was different. It's been quite a while since I look upon my shadow side. I looked in the mirror and for both of us, I saw complete darkness with our glowing blue eyes.
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heard my shadowling cooed and just like than it transformed into a normal human like baby. They allowed me to hold it within my hands until I too reverted back to my human form. Within seconds we were both human-like.
I wanted to move the towel and peak but tradition requires me to hand it back to the head of the McCleary family.
He removed the towel, it was wrapped in and held up the baby first to the crowd and then to my aunt. It was then given to the birthing mother for her to blessed it. The crowd erupted into cheers.
"It's a another girl", said a man.
"I am so jealous", shouted another and that's how I knew my baby was a girl.
My shadowling has now taken it's human form and I was quite happy I could call my husband and we could go home.
Being a ghost, was no walk in the park I had no idea all this needed to be done. Wonder what my ceremony was like and if my mother held me infront a mirror the way I did my child.
I know you are wondering how are we ghost if we are not dead. We are a new addition to the supernaturals and paranormal beings that exist today; you know werewolfs, vampires, witches, zombies and so on.
Ghost have been here since people been dying but us McCleary, McMelons, McCain and McIntosh are the only living breathing ghost families.
So allow me to tell you the story of how the McClearies came to be. We only go back four generations starting from my dad. We are still very much fresh. It is rumored that we are myths amongst other supernaturals, that they know not of us or our abilities. And we like keeping it that way. Our Council is made of the heads of the four families.
Anyway back to our original stories. It all started when five bestfriends; all originally girls went on a school trip. On the way back the bus crash. Every student on that bus either died on the spot or in hospital while receiving treatment for their injuries.
Two days after the crash, four of the girls awaken. One legend said they refused to leave their families in this world alone. Another spoke of the girls' ghosts pleaing with death himself to send them back. As they were popular and not yet ready to leave the world or its desires.
However it was said that death requested a price and that was the fifth friend; Leana Bell. It was said that the girls didn't know that Leana wasn't coming back. She made a deal with death, behind her friend's back. Death was to choose randomly who would stay but she offered up herself willing. It happen the year they all turn 15.
When the girls came back they had all their human qualities but some which were also not so human like. They could walk through walls, revert to shadows, communicate with the dead and living, among many other things.
When the girls family realized of their ghostly nature. They became scared of them and looked up on them as freaks of nature. All except the McCleary family which were happy they had their daughter whether she was a bit different or not.
When death made the deal he knew the way they would come back different and that they would not be accepted. He knew only God himself could send somebody back from the dead without consequences or defects. But death was bored and wanted entertainment. He knew it was just a matter of them before the humans start resenting and killing them. As they did with vampires and zombies before them. But he didn't count on the capacity of how pure a human love could be.
Eventually the parents came together, organized a sleep over at one of the friends house. And once the girls were asleep, it was set ablazed with them inside. That's when they discovered they could simply turn into shadows.
Their shadow ability allowed them to escape and made their way to their friend McCleary's house; her mother and father drove away that night with the girls to their family farm in the country never to return. Death was beaten at his own game.
The people just thought the girls died in the fire. And so the town move on. The girls change their surnames and became McCain, McIntosh and McMelons.
...................................................................................later they realized their abilities were hereditary when they began having children of their own. And thats our origin story.............
