THE VESSELS

CHAPTER FIVE

VESSELS

CHAPTER FIVE 5️⃣

 Maryanne knelt down in the middle of the dark angels, picking on her nails as they all waited for Amanda to bring the calabash oath. She walked in majestically with two ugly demons behind her, holding sharp knives. Maryanne was terrified as she avoided their faces.

“Here, we take an oath with our blood, we would sacrifice a pint of our blood each, including yours, and you will drink it all”. Amanda explained handling the two calabash to the demons as they went to each line, pricking their fingers with a knife and dropping the blood into the calabash until it got to Maryanne's turn.

“Will it be painful?”. She asked the demon with closed eyes. He didn't bother to answer her but held her hand and cut it as her blood spilled into the calabash.

“Chimo!!!”. Maryanne cried as she checked her finger. It stings a little bit. She looked at the other ladies, they were not feeling any pain but joy. She swallowed hard as she collected the calabash shakily and drank the blood. She wanted to vomit it as she held her stomach.

“Don't you DARE!". Ifabanke roared. Maryanne blinked in tears and swallowed the blood of covenant.

“Welcome to the Dark Angels, you're finally one of us. You're empowered now, you can do absolutely anything. One of our mission is to ruin the believers with money, food, and sex. Those that are greedy and not contented, those who blame their creator for their misfortune, we will manipulate them until they become ours. As much blood you bring to the altar as sacrifices, your rank will be increasing and your money too. Amanda will introduce you to the ladies and tell you your first assignment.” Ifabanke said, and she stood up from the throne as they all bowed down, including Maryanne. The two ugly demons followed her too.

“Your first assignment is to kill your uncle, and you have until the end of this week to bring his blood to the altar”. Amanda said, after introducing her to everyone. Maryanne's heart skipped a beat. Her uncle? It had been her dream to have his throat ripped out and tear him from limbs to limbs with the hurt he had done to her family. But, she had never killed an animal before, not to talk of a human being.

“What?! How…how is that pos... possible?". She stuttered, placing her hands on her head.

“Use your instincts and power, Maryanne. Take this amulet and never take it off”. She rolled her eyes at her and faced the rest of the witches.

“The Dark Angels!”. She called.

“We rule, we reign, and we dominate!". They all responded.

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Maryanne woke up sweating profusely as she looked around. Her mother was still sleeping soundly.

“Phew! Such a terrible dream”. She sighed as she stood up and walked to the standing mirror and saw the amulet given to her around her neck. She wanted to remove it due to shock and immediately, she remembered the warning she was given. She sank back into the bed, shivering. She stared back at the mirror and a dangerous smile curled up the corner of her lips and she started laughing.

“Let's get to business”. She whispered softly and stood up to her Uncle's room.