One Shot Mania

One Shot Mania- Chapter 6

Witch Season (pg-13)

Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall

The cycles of all year long

Among the hidden we can be seen

But first you must find out what this riddle means

Black veils and long nails are not all that we are

But something like a forbidden shooting star

The tales have been told through generations of believers

But first this riddle you must maneuver

There were four

And never more

But is that for sure

One will die, one will rise

Another will meet their untimely demise

One will run and try to escape insight to be free

She may not succeed as you might see

Day's time you have to find what is hidden with the mind

But you may have to look toward the behind

The last will be short but a long wait

Once you have completed this you have reached your fate

Or have you?

"Momma what does this mean, why is this bedtime story so important?" I asked. She looked at me and brushed my hair away from my face. Her smile was slowly fading but her eyes showed the most extreme happiness. "Don't worry my child, you will see soon enough, the truth will come to you." Those words gave me a confused expressio, why was Momma acting this way. Just yesterday she was playing house with me in the backyard. "My dear sweet, sweet child you are in safe hands and you will always be safe, I am always with you." She kissed my head abd whispered a few things into my hair. I couldn't understand what she said but I didn't really care. She got up and walked over to the second bed in the small cramped bedroom. She went under the bed and pulled out a chest I have neveer seen before. From the chest she pulled out a small dragon doll. She handed me the doll and gold locket from her dress pocket. "Here take this, it belonged to your sister, Ellie, she passed before you were born." Something flashed through Momma's eyes, it showed that she wasn't telling me the whole truth abput Ellie. I took the dragon doll from Momma and placed it next to me, I never met my sister but I heard wonderful things about her over the years. Like she was an amazing singer and was a spitting image of my mother.

"My child you need to listen to me and listen to me carefully," she said in a sudden frantic. "You cannot lose doll or this locket, okay, always wear this locket and keep it safe and the doll as well." she said. "Yes Momma, I promise I will do as you say." At that moment, my father and my brother barged into the room. They looked as frantic as momma. "It's time to go Mom, out Anges to sleep so we can go.....and come back." My brother, Salem, paused before he struggled to say come back and my father, Creon, his eyes beamed with sadness but awareness. "Okay give me a minute" Momma said. Suddenly I was starting to get sleepy. "Sweet peaceful dreams my child, we are always with you. Don't ever fell alone cause we are always here." With that she kissed my head and I feel into an unwanted sleep.

That was 7 years ago and the last thing I remember about my parents on that day. Then they were different, they didn't look or at the same as before. They seemed almost unreal until the day house fire killed my parents and I saw a flash of the past them before the fire collapsed between us. My brother and I survived barely he's in a coma and with little chance of waking up. When the house was inspected they found no remains of my parents not even their ashes. Investigators thought was strange and impossible. Since am the only living victim of the fire the finger was pointed at me.

That day before the fire started I knew I was going to happen but I didn't know how to stop it. With cops on my tail and my "undead parents" to find I am basically.....running for my life

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