“I am sorry about everything”, Laura apologized. “I am sorry about everything and I wish… “.
She halted halfway with her eyes and vision now catching sight of Laura where she sat.
Laura smirked and spat to the ground. “Looks like you managed to weasel your way back”.
Sarah let go of her husband, and began to march towards her sister with purpose. She yanked Laura by the scruff of her collar ad jammed the lady into the wall with an absurd strength unlike anything Muzin had seen in his wife before.
Staring directly into Laura’s eyes, Sarah growled, “You! You bitch! Did you really think you could keep me away!?”
Unrepentant and seemingly unperturbed by Sarah’s strength, Laura replied, “You don’t scare me! You have never scared me and I hope she knows exactly what you are and what you did!”
Nora got to her feet with her friend leaning against her for support, while the entire house turned their gaze towards Laura.
“I know everything now, Aunt Laura”, Nora informed the lady. “I know what you did and how you have manipulated us all”.
Laura’s eyes widened and her lips curled into ones of disbelief. She looked from Sarah who bore a thin smirk on her face, to Nora with nothing but disbelief lining her forehead.
“You have got to be kidding me!” Laura muttered. “What exactly did you see in there? Your brother died because… “.
Sarah jammed her fist into Laura’s throat, causing the lady to gurgle her words without being able to let them through. Her eyes bulged in their sockets, and streams of veins began to appear all over her neck and face as Sarah threatened to choke the life out of the woman.
“She is my daughter! Not yours!” Sarah yelled.
Naomi looked perplexed as she whispered to her friend. “Your mother is going to kill her… do something”.
Nora felt torn in between saving her aunt and letting the woman die for her heinous crimes. Her heart wouldn’t let desire for vengeance wouldn’t permit her muscles to move, even while her heart cried for her to do the right thing.
A loud bang blared into the air and caused everyone to startle, as Sarah eased her grip around Laura’s throat, allowing her fall to the ground.
Muzin cleared his throat and spoke, “I don’t know what happened in there and honestly I don’t think I want to know, but, we have bigger fishes to fry”.
He pointed his gun towards the window and to the sight of the Mega-Onamega approaching a step at a time.
“Oh my!” Sarah gasped in despair. “It knows I’m here! It knows you’ve broken the rules!”
She turned and looked at Nora, who looked lost and confused as everyone suddenly began casting their gaze on her.
Laura coughed aloud from where she remained slumped into the floor, and cackled out in a hideous manner. “You know what your choices are now, Sarah”.
“What? What is she talking about?” Nora looked to her mother and asked.
Sarah seemed rather lost in thoughts as she slowly planted her backside into the seat behind her.
“Get your cards!” Sarah yelled. “Get them, now!”
Nora felt herself almost jump out of her skin as she looked to her father. He nodded his head towards her and commanded that she went to get the cards, while Naomi looked like she had been smashed in the face with eggs. She had not the slightest clue on what was going on and wished someone would tell her.
“What will your choice be, Sarah?” Laura laughed. “The mega-Onamega or the wraith wishing to tear through the veil and come for you right about any moment from now?”
Muzin leaned towards his recently returned wife and asked, “What is she talking about?”
Sarah looked blank in the face and seemed unwilling to speak. Muzin had seen the look on his wife’s face before and he knew exactly what it was; sheer fear, tainted with guilt.
He found himself in need to ask. “What have you done?”
***
Sarah drowned herself in thoughts for a while longer, before getting back up as Nora walked back into the room. She cleared the dining room table by bringing it back up and dusting debris off of it, before picking up some of the used candles now lying around from the ground.
“Sarah!” Muzin called to his wife again and in sterner tone.
Sarah ignored him while she rubbed her hands together and caused the candles to light up immediately.
She turned to Muzin and placed her hands on his shoulder, “Listen carefully to me honey… I have no time to explain, and I sincerely don’t want to, but if you like this our reunion, then help me kill two monsters coming for me”.
Nora interjected with a slight cough. “Everything is set… can we begin already?”
Laura shot up from where she sat and yelled, “No! Nora, don’t do it! Don’t trust that beast beside you!”
Nora looked from her sweet looking mother to the dirty, haggard looking aunt whom she had clearly seen provoking the most unthinkable occurrence, and sighed. “The one we will not be trusting here, is you”.
Luara motioned to head towards them, but Nora waved her hand rather instinctively, as Laura got tossed into the air and hammered against the wall before passing out on the ground in a loud heap. Muzin’s lips parted slowly and his eyes widened in the process too. Nora gasped in shock as did Naomi, while the former stared at her hands in surprise.
“Let’s begin”, Sarah called to her daughter.
Nora agreed with a nod and settled into her char. Muzin drew closer and stood behind his daughter, looking lost and still unsure of what exactly was going on.
“What do you want to do?” Naomi asked Nora.
Sarah looked up to the girl and replied, “She needs to draw cards strong enough to doom the Mega-Onamega outside and also the wraith coming for us all through the veil”.
Muzin cleared his throat and
