Fifth Member

September 25th 2011

      My great grandfather, Great Lex would tell me stories of how demons were real and as scared as I am to say it, I am starting to think Great Lex was right. Even worse, I'm starting to think one of these demons he spoke of has now taken control of my little sister Sofia. I had suspicions that something was wrong, and so I set up cameras in and outside her room along with in various places leading to my own room. I convinced Great Lex to lock our doors each night. This morning, We found him dead, killed brutally in his sleep, and my sister a blubbering mess. The way our house works, The two bedrooms downstairs are occupied by the two of them, the basement was my parents' and I got the upstairs. There is a door to the stairs, a door halfway through, and one to my room each with a lock. The lock on the first door had been demolished, the second had scratches, but was intact. Great Lex's was destroyed as well. I called my friend Sam and asked him if I could come over and stay a bit, terrified to stay home. He was fine with it, knowing of my suspicions of my sister. As soon as I arrived, we pulled up the camera footage on my laptop, starting it at 3 am, since that's when my dad went to sleep. At exactly 4: 28 something happened. This was inside Sofia's room. Her blankets flew off her bed like lightning. She began to float, a dark light surrounding her edges as her hair floated up around her head. Her head whipped to where the camera was, eyes closed. In an instant she was right in front of the camera. She opened her eyes, and they glowed a fierce red. Her eyes narrowed in anger and she screamed a monstrous, mortifying, furious scream and tore the camera from the wall. On the camera outside their rooms, I saw her come through the door of her bedroom and go to his door, scratching at it, getting annoyed and taking blows at it with her fists. By the time the door flung open, the time read 5:15 and our mother would be awake in forty five minutes. She tore through the room looking for things, throwing the irrelevant clutter around the room. She then turned to Great Lex, and took great slashes at him with a letter opener of all things. Slash after slash she drew the life from him, until he lay dead. That's the point at which she shot from the room and I next saw her at the first door leading to my room. She skipped scratching at it and just began to take terrible swinging blows at the lock. It broke with only five minutes left until mother woke up and she began to scratch at the next door. She went to take a swing at it when she must have heard Mother's alarm as the time read 6 exactly and she disappeared to her room, wide awake and dripping with sweat, no longer in what I will now call her demon form. She pushed open her not fully closed door, and saw the horror she created, remembering nothing of her actions. When she stepped close enough to Great Lex to see him, she let out a sobbing scream, and my mother came running to the room where she found her this morning and called to my father and I. At that point, I realized he had been right and there were now things I had to find out on my own.

      I went back over to our house to collect my things. Of course my parents protested but in the end I guess they understood. I was really close with Great Lex so even if Sofia wasn't out to kill me, being where he was killed is extremely hard for me. When I walked in, I went straight up to my room, which had been locked when I left, and dragged my suitcase out of the closet. I filled it with the clothes and shoes I would need.. I fought with myself on whether or not to take my guitar as I still want to play it and finally set it on top of my suitcase. I threw some other things into a backpack before taking them downstairs to my car, thankful I managed to get my license early. I said goodbye to my parents, then went to Sofia and placed my hand on the side of her head, scared I would never get her back and let a tear fall. She attacked me in a hug and for a moment II thought she would kill me but I realized she would never do anything when a policemen was coming this afternoon. She cried into my shirt and I hugged her back. I know if Sofia is still in there, she's getting hit pretty hard by this too, and I'm sure my leaving won't help. "Please don't go!" She sobbed. I leaned forward and rested my head on top of hers. "Sofia I have to. There's something I have to find out and to do it I have to leave for a bit, but I'll come back soon I promise." I said and kissed her forehead. Our mom had to pull her off me, and I got into my car, started it up, and pulled out of the driveway.

      I pulled up at the airport and realized I never thought about where I was going exactly. Great Lex always seemed to be dropping hints to me about going to college in California, but when it was just the two of us, he would say Australia. I went in, I pulled out my passport and money, I bought a ticket, and soon boarded the plane.