Violet Foras

chapter 33

(Video/ music credit to soul candle)

I pull a light jacket from my suitcase and put it on pulling my hood up enought to cover my eyebrows. I sit down on a bench close to a brick wall the wind blew past me, light snow begins to fall and land on me and the ground. It felt peaceful, people passed me as some stared at me, probably noticed that im not from here.

I simply smiled at them and zipped up my bag and grabbed the handle. I stood up and stretched a bit before making my way out of the town to this abandoned church i heard a few people talk about. Apparently it flooded by water and no one really goes to visit so i decided i might stay there for the night until I find a decent place.

As i walked toward the abandoned church i watch the snow fall from the dark clouds. The moon shied behind the clouds as it shines bright enough to see the detail of each cloud around it.

As i walk I use a bit of magic to stop a couple snow flakes and levitated them over each finger. I combined them and made a large one over my index. I designed it to my liking, each end of the snow flake different. I looked at my index it was pitch black as my nail grew.

I let the snow flake go as it breaks back into the five from before. My finger goes back to "normal" as i shove my hand into my pants pocket and kept walking.

❄time skip sorry im not feeling well❄

As i approach the church i noticed a dim light with some smoke. I stopped walking as i watched for movement, i look closer and see shadows dancing with the light. I turn to walk away, before i took a step, something felt off. I listen to the voices that came from the building. Then a child's scream, i froze and looked back at the entrance. I let go of my bag and took my book out and carried to the building.

As i get closer i smelled the blood of an animal. I become consumed by my curiosity and looked through the open door way, there stood five figures in dark robes. On the ground was a symbol made from the animal blood.

In the middle of that symbol was a young boy he was tied up with his arms to his sides as his ankles bound together by rope. His head covered by a brown bag that was soaked with dried up blood. He was screaming and crying for help.

'Don't save the boy, just let him die master.'

'I can't just leave him, he still has so much to live for.'

He laughs before speaking through my mind again. 'Nevermind do as you please.'

'what is so amusing to you?....'

'Oh, you will see.' He laughs as he shuts himself out of my thoughts.

I roll my eye's as i watch the group of cloaked figures. The one figure holds a book as he speaks loudly, his voice echos through the building. He spoke in Latin, his voice sent a slight shiver down my spine. I listen to his words as i watch the one cloaked figure above the boys head holding a dagger as the figure kneels down and props the boys head up onto his knee.

I stepped in and formed a crystal in one hand and threw it at the figure that knelt down. I fade into the small amount of shadows that were behind me as the crystal hits the blade out of its hand. It jumps back and lets the boys head hit the floor as the one speaking in latin stops chanting and looks around.

"Who goes there?" He yells out in his deep voice. He pulls another dagger from under his robe. He nods to the other cloaked figures, they put out the fire and spread out around the church. "We know you are here, show yourself." He spoke again as i remain silent.

I looked at the boy "sacrificing innocent children to your god?" I spoke loudly in latin for them to hear me. I felt my form grow as i pass around the shadows ending up behind the one who spoke out to me. I remain in the shadows slowly forming behind him, "Who are you?" He begins to have panic in his voice. I raise one hand up that was pitch black as the smoke surrounds it, i pulled his hood down and pressed my fingers against his head. "Feel the pain and fair you put into all of your victims." He makes a slight sound as his eye's roll to the back of his head, as i look through his mind blood begins to spill from his eye's, nose and mouth. "You humans make me sick sometimes." I pulled my hand away as he falls forward with his face into the ground as more blood spills from his body.

I look up at the other members two step away with their hands up and their hoods down revealing their faces. I look at the male he was skinny, short brown hair, clean shaved face green eye's. The second my eye's widen a bit, it was the lady i met when i first arrived. "Ronda? What is this?" I asked as i remain giving her eye contact. She remains silent looks away after realizing she was making a terrible mistake.

"I had no choice." Tears fall down her cheeks as she looks at the boy. "They said if i don't do it They will kill both of us." I look at the boy, "that's Jacob then?" I pointed at the young boy. 'No wonder why is aura felt familiar.' I thought to myself as I look back at her.

"What kind of mother sacrifices her own child?" I walk over to him and placed a finger over the rope that kept him together. It broke by the touch, i took the bag off of his head and helped him sit up. Ronda pulls her hood up hiding her face, Jacob looks up at me as panic and fear still fill his eye's. Tears left trails down his cheeks i take off my jacket and put it on him.

"Ronda look what you did to your own child!" I yelled at her, Jacob looks shocked as i said his mother's name. He looks over at her and the male with the green eye's. "Momma?" He calls out as more tears build up in his eye's.

I held him close and zipped up the jacket. "Stay here and close your eye's." I spoke softly to him as he nods and covers his eyes with his hands. "No looking until i say so, ok?" He nods again and sneezes from the cold i put the hood over his head.

Before I could stand up the one that held the dagger stabbed me between my shoulder blades. I let out a scream as i turn to face him he stabs me again. I grab his leg from behind as i squeezed to where i hear a snap, he screams as he let's go of the knife in my back and falls as I reach for the blade and pulled it out. Black blood covers my hand and the blade.

'Blood? Since when did i have blood?'

'When you consumed your first soul.'

'w-'

'If you haven't consumed that soul you would have died, you would turn into dust.'

' what happens if i stop taking souls? Will i die?' I stood up and looked at him as he holds onto his broken leg groaning in agony.

'Yes, and your parent's will be disappointed if you made that desicion.....the war that started after you were born.'

While he talks I listen as I rest my boot on the mans head. "Jacob keep your eyes shut and cover your ears." He nods as i look at him, he does as i ask and he lowers his head and hums a song.

I smiled as my form grew to its fullest and remains. "Now for you..." 'Haha! You are just like your mother!' Darius laughs a bit more I press harder on the mans head, my boot squishes his nose in as he puts his hands on my ankle trying to push me off him. I smiled and looked down at him as i press harder he screams under my boot. "You are just like an unwanted roach." I press harder and twist my heel as his head turns to one side with a snap as his bone sticks out of his neck. His eye's become lifeless.

"NO! PUT ME DOWN!" Jacob yells out. I quickly turned and looked his mother has left the front of the building with the guy with green eye's carries Jacob over his shoulder as he follows behind her.