Misty- The Cursed Doll

The Ritual Part 1

"Ritual? You mean like those games like.....Elevator ritual??" Jenny asked confusedly.

"Yes....but it is more complicated than those. To get rid of the curse from your family and get your brother back, you have to perform this ritual." Jenny thought something for a while.

"What do we have to do?"

"Everything's written here. But....you wil have to do this in the Full Moon night. That is....tomorrow. That means, you have to find the previous owner by then."

"Tomorrow?!" Jenny and Jack said in unison. "But we don't even know anything about that person."

"You have to find that family. Most probably, some members of that family are dead. You have to find the person who took this doll as you need some of her belongings for the ritual."

After hearing a final 'Good luck' they headed back home with the page of the page in which the rules of the rituals were written.

"Oh Jesus....its so scary, hard and dangerous too!" Jenny worriedly said after reading the page. "Plus, i would have to do it myself....at 3:30 of night!!"

"You don't need to worry. I will be there too, right?"

"What? No! Its too dangerous! I will do it myself. He is my brother,"

"He is my brother too. The way you treated my mom like a family member, that makes me one too, okay? So....I will go with you."

"Okay....but first we have to find the previous owner."

They returned back home. It was so busy with all the police officers and detectives. Mom and dad maybe didn't even notice that they were back. They went to their room and locked the door.

"Try to look up in the internet," Jack suggested.

"I dont think we will find anything from tjere...." Jenny hopelessly said.

"We gotta start from somewhere....and by the way, where are we going to perform it?"

"In the previous owner's....graveyard."

"Oh! Really? In a graveyard....3:30 of the morning, ritual for a cursed doll....hehehe sounds adventurous!" He forced a nervous smile.

"More like scary-turous"

Jenny started surfing the internet while Jack was roaming around her study desk. That's when he noticed something.

"Whats this?" He held out a small dress.

"Misty was wearing it when i found it. I then changed it."

"Oh theres something written here....Moon. What does that mean?"

"Moon....oh!"

"Dont you know? A girl died here. A seventh grader like you. Her name was.....Moon. She was stabbed on her head with a knife. My friend told me. She was her cousin. My friend told me that she bought a DOLL with her that day," Jimmy had said to her.

"We have to find Jimmy's friend." Jenny said to Jack.

It didnt take much effort. Soon, they found Jimmy's friend named Bloom. They got to know from her that Moon's dad was the only survivor of the family. The rest of them died. The doll was nowhere to be found after Moon's death. They took the address from Bloom and headed off to there.

It was a small house, at least it looked quite small compared to all the big houses around. It was old and looked lonely just from outside. There was a garden in front of the house, seems like no one took care of the garden for years.

Jenny and Jack went to the door and knocked. No reply. They knocked again. Still no one opened the door. But after sometime the door opened revealing a man of almost 50 years of age. He was thin like a matchstick, he wore round glasses with such lenses which made his eyes look bigger that it actually was. He looked weak and sick and of course lonely.

"Yes kids?" He said putting down his glasses which almost changed his face.

"Umm....are you Moon's dad?" Suddenly, he looked more lonely and sad.

"Yes....what brings you here?"

"Sir, we need to talk to you.....about the doll that Moon had."

Suddenly, he looked a bit angry. But he controlled it and said, "Come in."

They told him everything starting from how they got the doll to about the ritual. He listened carefully and it looked like bad memories were coming back to him. He sighed and said, "I lost my mom, my wife, my daughter and my best friend because of that cursed doll. My daughter found it in her school's playroom maybe. Naturally i dont want anyone else to suffer the same fate. If you can put an end to it, i will help you in every way i can. What do you want me to do?"

"Nothing much sir. We just need some belongings of Moon and bit of the soil....from her grave. More like....we need her grave."

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Sorry guys for this boring chapter!!! Really, nothing was coming to my mind and i was feeling lazy to write. I promise the final chapter will be more scary. And thanks to all those who voted, commented and followed. Thanks for the support!!