“With your aunt, my little sister, dead, you and I remain the only surviving members of our bloodline”, Nora’s mother snickered. “We will be unstoppable”.
Nora shook her head and declined the claim. “We will become monsters, which is exactly what you have managed to become”.
Muzin held up his gun and steadied it towards his wife. “I never married this being before me”.
Sarah snickered derisively in her husband’s face, as the Mega-Onemega outside jammed Daren into the ground and placed its large foot into his neck.
“Nora”, Sarah called out to her daughter. “Events are about to follow which will largely rest upon your abilities to read the tarot card bestowed upon you”.
Naomi raced past Sara and pinned her face into the window as she came to see the beast clearly for what it was; a hideous creature with multiple eyes on its skull, and scaly skin of those it had absorbed. It shrieked and yelled at her from where it stood, almost as if it was frustrated at not being able to make its way in, before looking down at Daren.
“What is it doing?” Naomi turned to Nora to ask.
Nora hurried to the window as did her father to watch the beast grab unto Daren’s head while its leg remained pinned into his chest.
“It wants to break the barrier!” Nora gasped. ‘It wants to make a sacrifice so it can break the barrier!”
“It is only appropriate, isn’t it?” Sarah asked rhetorically. “Seeing the barrier was first created to keep it out by spilling the blood of my innocent son and the same sacrifice will be what brings it down”.
Muzin had had enough of his wife’s shameless bickering and he held his gun to her face and threatened to squeeze the trigger. “I mourned you! We mourned you for years!”
Nora looked at her mother with teary eyes, as beads of warm tears slowly began racing down her cheeks.
“Yet, you brought another woman into my bed some years after my passing”, Sarah answered sarcastically. “So much for love and desire”.
Naomi screamed out her lungs suddenly, causing everyone to look in her direction. “Oh my God! Oh my God!”
Slowly, and rather painfully, the creature yanked at Daren’s head, spitting it clean from his body, before holding the blood up for it to drip along the edges of the front porch. The vileness in its eyes was incomparable to anything Nora had come across in her life, and the manner in which it stared at them seemed to bear a soul sucking intent with it as well.
“You need to make you decision now Nora”, Sarah called to her daughter. “Make a decision on whether you want to stand with me or fall against me and that common enemy out there”.
Like a trapped mouse with nowhere to go, Nora felt her choices towards survival seriously dampen.
“Why will I want anything to do with you?” Nora asked as she turned around to look at her father and Naomi, before settling a despicable gaze on her mother.
Sarah spread her arms apart slowly, smirking boldly as she looked towards the wall through which Laura had been taken by the wraith. Loud and bothersome screeches eased from the hole in the wall, and whatever was inside of it began to crawl closer as evident by the noise it made.
“I have something to fight for me”, Sara finally replied. “I’d bet you don’t want me as an enemy and that beast out there as one too”.
Muzin looked lost and drained of strength as they continued to watch Daren’s head drip its blood into the front porch. The creature stepped closer, with sizzling sound and fumes oozing from the porch as it broke through the barriers a drop of blood at a time.
“I will kill you! I will fucking kill you!” Naomi raged at the beast.
She fell to her knees, weeping profusely, while Nora remained undecided on what next to do. She cast her gaze on the deck of magical cards in her hand, and looked up to her deceitful mother whose power for hunger was insatiable. It was left to her to stop the woman, but it was easier said than done.
“The wraith is coming”, Nora whispered to herself with her head bent low. “The Mega-Onamega is coming too”.
She felt trapped in between and her shoulders weighed heavily with the need to make a choice as soon as possible. The wraith reached out from the wall with its bloody claws and a loud shriek, just as the Mega-Onamega took its first step upon the front porch. Nora closed her eyes to think, knowing their lives could very well end any moment.
Death was literally at their door… death was inside the house too…
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Chilling cold and unaired words filled the room as Nora had to face the reality that her world isn’t ever going to be the same again. Having a treacherous bloodthirsty and power hungry mother, an aunt who would connive to kill a newborn for power, and a father whose world has been destroyed through betrayal, all summed up to be nothing but recipe for catastrophe.
Yet, she remained undecided on what part to play in everything. The beast at their door seemed to be taking its time to come in, while that crawling through from the other dimension also seemed to be waiting and bidding its time. Naomi looked driven with loss and unable to move her limbs, even while Nora tried to urge her to find a place to hide.
“I need your help!” Nora finally broke her words out to her best friend.
Naomi shrugged, closed her eyes and began to weep. “What sort of mother are you?”
She turned to Sarah with a frown and reddened eyes, clenching her fists and grinding her teeth angrily, while the woman seemed undeterred and absolutely unperturbed by Naomi’s pain or
