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2 - A slightly less boring chapter..?

Lexa was in the living room, the sheet of paper in her hands. She looked down at it and it said... Who knows. Lexa couldn't read it if her life depended on it.

"Lexa can you please give me the paper...?" Camila requested, worry in her eyes. No way she was going to to summon a damn demon, no way in hell.

"Hang on, do... Do demons even exist!?" Doubt flooded over Lila, because only now did she realise how stupid this all was. The things on the paper were most likely just a stupid prank. "This is stupid."

Lexa looked over at Lila. A mischievous glint was in her green eyes. "They don't exist, right? So if we try and summon it, nothing will happen." She walked over to Lila. "Well read it then!"

Lila was hesitant to read the spell, but Lexa was right. Demons didn't exist.

She scanned the paper with her brown eyes, up and down. "So for starters, this crap is in Latin."

"Do you speak Latin?" Asked Lexa.

"No," replied Lila

"Crap."

"Okay, good, so how about we just forget this?" Camila laughed nervously.

Lexa thought about what to do. "Umm... Maybe we could use-"

"Google translate?" suggested Lila.

"Yes!" Lexa grinned.

It took a while. Google translate didn't exactly work well, so Lila had to work out what everything meant. It was fun at first. Eventually, however, things began to get confusing.

According to the translator, the spell required a drop of human blood.

Lila thought that maybe it was a mistake. As she translated the rest of the text, things became weirder and weirder. Darker and darker. Lila snapped.

"WHAT... WHAT ON EARTH IS THIS!? LEXA DON'T ASK ME TO TRANSLATE STUFF EVER AGAIN, OK!?" Lila slammed her laptop screen down to close it and grabbed the 'demonic' piece of paper. She began to walk off until Lexa grabbed her arm.

"No, come on, you need to translate it, my curiosity needs to be fed!" Lexa pleaded.

Lila escaped Lexa's grasp and tore up the paper right in front of Lexa's eyes. She stormed away.

Lexa looked at the bits of paper on the ground. Rage slowly started to fill up in her.

Thankfully, it soon stopped, because Lexa had noticed something.

When Lila was translating the text, she had taken notes down in her notebook.

Lila had left her notebook and it was right in front of Lexa. When she picked it up, Lexa tried her best to read it but to no avail.

Azura warily walked down the stairs, "hey, Lexa, I'm going to go home now since Lila's parents are coming soon, do you want to come w-"

"Can you read this?" Lexa desperately asked.

"Err, is that Lila's notebook?"

"Yes, now shush and read it already," hurried Lexa.

Azura opened her mouth to speak. But then she closed it; she saw what was written and she didn't like it.

"What's the matter Ruby?" teased Lexa, "did you forget how to read?" She giggled.

"First of all, I told you not to call me that," Azura paused before speaking again. "Second of all, I don't think what's written down here is appropriate..."

"Nonsense, it can't be that bad; read it," blurted out Lexa.

Azura didn't exactly have a choice at this point. "before you do the spell, you need human blood..."

"That's bullsh@t," Lexa pulled out a red sharpie, "this will work just as well."

Azura questioned Lexa's intelligence and how she became friends with this person,"okay, so now we need five candle-"

"Look, here!" Lexa pointed at a couple of Yankee candles on the windowsill.

"NO LEXA, THOSE ARE LILA'S MOM'S!" But it was too late; Lexa was now holding eight Yankee candles proudly in her arms.

"I think they're strawberry scented."

"Ugh fine... But you do know that you only need five."

"Oh, right," Lexa then threw three candles on the ground, smashing them, "...oops...?"

"LEXA, WHY WOULD YOU-" Azura looked at the pieces of glass and wax on the ground.

"My bad, I thought it was plastic, not glass," explained Lexa.

"LEXA, I HOPE THIS DEMON KILLS YOU. SLOWLY AND PAINFULLY."

Lexa glared at Azura, "wow, thanks Ruby."

"THAT'S NOT MY- ugh I give up." Azura shuffled the notebook in her hands. "Ok so now you need to use the human bloo- I mean red sharpie, to draw out a f@cking pentagram," Azura double checked if she read that correctly. Yep, she sure did. They were going to draw out a pentagram.

Lexa went into one of the draws, got out a sheet of A3 paper and drew a rather wonky pentagram on it, "soooo, what next?" She looked at Azura.

"Light the candles and put them on each of the points on the pentagram. LEXA NO DON'T TOUCH THAT LIGHTER I SWEAR TO GOD YOU'LL SET THIS HOUSE ON FIRE!" She sharply snatched off the lighter from Lexa. "I'll just do it."

The pentagram and candles were set up.

Azura glanced down at the pentagram, "so now we just need to say the spell or whatever it is..."

"I can't read properly."

"I get to do it, yay..." She stepped closer to the pentagram and hoped that she wouldn't die. Azura quietly read out a few words, trying her best to pronounce them correctly since they were in Latin. Then nothing happened.

Then Lexa saw it behind Azura. A girl with black, messy hair and a black, ripped T-shirt. When she came out from behind Azura, you could see that she wasn't wearing shoes, just some bright, purple socks. She sniffed the air. "Is it me or does the air smell like strawberries?"

"Why are you wearing socks but not shoes?" asked Lexa, ignoring the girl's question.

"Cuz I'm a demon and I can do what I want," the girl remarked.

Azura had no expression whatsoever on her face; she stared.

"How do we know you're a demon then?" asked Lexa.

The demon floated up. She was hovering in the air like it was nothing to her.

Azura, still having a completely blank expression, turned around and went out the room.

"Wait for me, Ruby!" yelled Lexa as she ran out the room.

The demon smiled. Her name was Arrith, and 75,000 years in hell had almost driven her mad. After all this time, she was on the face of the Earth. She could gain so much power from humans' sins which made her black heart fill with joy.

She stepped through the wall to get out the house, since demons didn't exactly have corporeal bodies.

Arrith only had two powers currently: flight and the ability to speak to humans. But even though Arrith only had two powers, she could still be perfectly lethal. The demon couldn't wait for when she got the chance to use her powers. When she did get her chance she wasn't going to hold herself back.