“I didn’t kill your boyfriend”, Sarah simply replied. “He was simply part of something larger but he never realized it”.
Naomi nodded her head and smiled awkwardly, while Nora shot her mother a damning look. Without notice, Naomi lunged at Sarah, shoving her to the ground and jamming her entire weight on the woman as she threatened to choke the life out of her.
“You caused all of this! You are to blame for all of this!” she cried atop her voice.
A loud bang ensued from the front door, followed by the creaking noise from rusty hinges falling off just as the door fell inwards and flat on the ground. A shadow stretched into the house, causing Muzin to breathe aloud and ready his gun firmly in his hand, while daughter hurried over to assist Naomi to her feet.
“We need to find a place to hide!” Nora muttered to her friend.
Naomi resisted, but slowly eased off the smirking woman who bore no regret for anything she had caused thus far. Nora dragged her friend along, while her father hurried behind them towards the basement.
“You need me, if you truly want to stay safe from any danger coming your way!” her mother lifted her hand and cried.
Nora paused, just as her father did too. They shared a brief look with one another, before casting their gaze on Sarah together.
“I don’t trust her”, Naomi voiced.
Nora nodded her head and responded. “We don’t trust her either, but with those things coming for us, and her being in control of one of them, we need her”.
Naomi shrugged, showing her reluctance towards entertaining the woman anywhere near where they intended to hide. The Mega-Onamega took one step into the house, to the sizzling sound emanating from its feet as though rotten flesh was being burnt, as the last line of defense placed on the ouse came into effect.
“You have precisely five minutes to decide, before the last barrier wears off and it comes in here to kill us all!” Sarah yelled at her daughter.
Muzin knelt before his treacherous wife, staring into the eyes he used to love and had fond memories of, but finding nothing remotely close to any of those affections and emotions in them anymore.
“If you try to harm our daughter, or crate some scheme to have your way, I swear to… “, Muzin tightened his jaw and looked to his daughter and her friend.
Sarah sat up to square up to the ma threatening her. “I control the wraith, Muzin… you need me and if you want this entire mess sorted, she needs me to help her channel power from the cards”.
Her words seemed convincing enough, even while they still spelled enough arrogant tone to piss everyone off. Muzin assisted her to her feet while she dusted herself clean.
“It is good to have my family back”, she snickered, before leading the way.
Muzin tailed the group, keeping his focus on the door as the creature finally crosses the threshold and makes its way into the room. It looked in Muzin’s direction, causing the man to feel sick within his stomach as he felt the need to puke immediately overcome him.
“Don’t stare at it Muzin!” Sarah warned.
Averting his gaze immediately, Muzin looked to the ground but held his gun towards the beast while he let off three rounds, the bullets struck it hard and well in the chest, but it simply continued walking in their direction as though it had been hit with fodder.
“Shit!” Naomi muttered. “It is coming!”
Sarah turned around, waved her hand in the air and with it came the disturbingly frightening creature from the walls. It stank of death and oozed of blood dripping from its lanky fingers. Upon spotting the Mega-Onamega, it let off a loud shriek, almost like two enemies coming to face each other, as the Mega-Onamega shrieked in return.
“Now is our chance!” Sarah cried, forcing them to run towards the basement and down the stairs.
Naomi stumbled, catching her knee against the edge of the stairs. Muzin raced back to held her to her feet, with her arm slung over his shoulder and around his neck.
“We are almost there… we are almost there honey”, he sounded to the terrified and injured girl.
Naomi nodded her head and tried hard not to wince or moan as they made their descent into the basement. Sarah received them all before hurriedly closing the door behind them. She slipped her hand into the pocket of her dress and yanked out a small bag.
“This should hold them for a while”, she smiled to herself while she began lining the foot of the door with some grey dust within the bag.
“What is that?” Nora asked with a raised brow.
Sarah turned to look at her daughter and replied, “Dead man’s ash… it wards off such creatures as the ones trying to kill us, or at least for a while”.
“Dead man’s ash? Whose ash is that?” Muzin asked directly with a frown.
Sarah shook her head and bit her lower lip as she stepped away from the door. Loud shrieks and really troubling noise emanated from the living room, with items being broken and knocked off. The wraith could be heard shrieking intensely, while the Mega-Onamega’s groan and roar indicated they were both hurting one another rather badly.
“They can kill each other, can’t they?” Naomi asked worryingly.
Everyone turned to look at Sarah, who shook her head. “They can only wound each other until one absorbs the other… these are creatures of the old times and they seek what is theirs one way or another”.
Nora let out a loud sigh and turned to her mother. “What happens when the wraith absorbs the… “.
She paused and assumed her mother already knew what she intended to say. It was a pretty damning thought, since her mother controlled the beast, and should that happen, she would stand to gain immense power.
“The wraith is only here to serve me, but the beast with which it fights wants balance between the world of the living and the
