"I'm ready too". you blurted out,much like Lex had said 'why should she convince you'.
The scroll was now sat, open on the desk, this was probably dangerous, but there were only her drunk parents in her house. But that could have been pretty funny albeit worrying if her drunk father had read the spell, or her mother. you floated over to the wooden table your fingers gracing the rough page.
'Better start reading' you thought to yourself. grasping the paper between your forefinger and thumb. You eyes flitting over the strange language. It started to brighten and changing color to match the background of the sheet, as if it was almost disappearing. Your mouth started unwillingly moving, you weren't sure at what volume or whether you were speaking at all. You tried in earnest to avert your eyes, to look at Lexi, to see her reaction. Yet this spell had encapsulated all your attention. A smile formed on your previously neutral expression, again the words somehow forced this facial changed, your eyes stayed attached to the spot. you yearned to move your neck even if it was just a minute, insignificant movement, but alas this freedom was not afforded to you.
As you reached the end of the line another line began dissolving into the hemp sheet, this carried on for another 5 lines. Until the parchment slammed down onto the space, dispersing any remaining piles that happened to be on the elevated top. There was a moment of complete silence, unnatural silence, as in there was nothing to be heard. As if the dust itself had been abruptly shut up.
Then out of nowhere a whirlwind of dark colours, that formed, only to your eyes, formed a goat-headed demon, long nails on her hair invested hands. A furry torso with scratches and marks, that looked like they could have been made by human means but you had you theories that they weren't. Towards the bottom of this creature were to deer legs, but contorted in a way that the entity was able to stand upright, like a man but it obviously was not. Where feet should have been, to mirror the creatures distorted hands, there were hooves.
Held in the horned human hybrid's right claw was a book, that looked familiar, it looked just like the book that you had, but was another in some sort of collection or series of novels with different spells, but if it wasn't another spell it could have been an extension to this one, a prelude or an epilogue to this mumbled mess of an inscription.
In it's left it had a stick, it looked like it was made out of wood and taken directly out of the bark of a tree but there was a quality to it, as if it was made this way, your suspicions were answered when indents appeared on the wand-like piece of equipment, they were similar to the symbols that were in your book but they were slightly altered, reminiscent of an accent in a foreign alphabet, but if there was more to this language than you knew maybe there was more to the spell.
The being stood there, you couldn't hear any breath or see his chest moving but you could feel a collective heaving as you did, as if there was some connection between you and this beast. You felt scared but comforted at the same time, this oxymoronic combination of feelings. You looked around now seeing Lexi, frozen her face in a confused expression. sat on her bed. In the same clothes as she had worn, you began to speak but nothing came out. Turning in haste back to the entity you spoke but not any human way, in this horrible tuneless droll, a language you could not recognize but you were fluent, you knew what you were thinking but not what you were saying, maybe you were saying what was on you mind, but you doubted it on account what you were imagining was you wondering how you were speaking over and over again. Your face also did not match the confusion that was in the forefront of your psyche was not present on the forefront of your head.
You seemed by your own denomination to be having a conversation with the goat/ chimera but it remained cold and silent through it all. You hoped that you were asking about the book, your book and his. But you had no way of properly knowing so you needn't think too much of it. It didn't take long for you to stop talking regardless of whether you ended mid sentence or at a reasonable full stop. Your mouth came to close and the monster seemed to take that as an excuse to leave and just as abruptly as it came it disappeared. The tornado of blood and tar whisking it away within an instant. It then flowed into you. Your spine arching in an inhuman bend. Your lips snapping open and your pupils and iris being flung into the back of your skull. The lights did not stop flashing, but occasionally the face of the one you saw appeared in the same emotionless goat that you had seen before.
You were thrown back upright, your back no longer ajar. your eyes now back in their original position. Your lips slamming shut. Oxygen filled your lungs almost like it had never had air in them before. You were back.
Lexi looked at you her face unchanged from how it was when you looked at her during the fire typhoon.
"What did you see?" your eyes met hers, wary, if she had seen the display that had just taken place what must she think of your tongue twisters of satanic linguistics.
"What do you mean?" her voice suggested she was innocent, that she had not witnessed anything, but surely, she must have. The experiences you had just undergone were too intense for nothing to have transcended to the point that your friend could not have seen anything.
"When I read the spell, did you SEE anything." your voice was erratic and louder than you intended.
"I saw your eyes roll back, that is all" she was surprised by, what looked like to her to be an instantaneous burst of anger.
"Good." You respired, the world falling back into place as it was before. The demon you saw, was it true that she saw nothing, no swirl, no lights. Not even your spasm which caused your back to move and mouth to snap open.
"Why was I supposed to see something, I mean, what did you see?"
"Nothing." your answer quick and spat out like a vat of venom.
"Okay..." she reacted in a perfectly rational way, but she knew not to press on with the cross-examination.
"So are you going to do it then?" Her attitude was now back to her usual discourse.
Without answering, you looked at your hands, they were just as you had seen them always but different some how as if there were some invisible marks on them. It was explicit to you, there were not black marks on your skin, nor was there marks beneath creating bumps upon your flesh, you just had an inkling that there may be an image or some writing that was hidden from your mortal sight.
Lexi's eyes were on you, but she did not look like she wanted an answer to her question, she looked as if she was waiting for you to do it. At this point, you had very little query that the spell worked you just didn't understand why it did. Previous to what you had just seen you wouldn't question how the spell worked, much like bees and flying regardless of logic you would have just taken the win, but this was different, this added a layer of horror that you had never pictured not in your wildest nightmares.
A new sensation brewed inside you, as you blinked you caught a quick glimpse of the demon. The emotion that accompanied it though was not the same as the one you had earlier this was a safe feeling. If you were able to be worried at this you probably should have been but inside you a cog turned, a switch clicked. And this was different, maybe this was the kick you needed but a kick towards what, was this the chain reaction that leads to your eternal doom, or is this the water slide that lubricates your life into a level that no normal person could ever achieve.
Your focus landed on Lexi. It felt like time was passing but you knew it wasn't, it was almost like every time you had a thought about the Goat Demon time stopped, to give you time to contemplate your choice. You knew your time was running out, that soon time would properly resume and you'd be forced to make a choice. To cement your decision by possessing your first victim, but you had come to far to quit now, you also had no idea the consequences if you did refuse.
"It's now or never" a voice said, it did not belong to you but only you heard it. Suddenly a noise sounding like footsteps came up the stairs, you could not tell who it was, what you did know is that they were coming towards Lexi's room. If they found you, they would go insane. At that time which was versioning on midnight, they would assume the worse and would ban you from seeing Lexi with the exception of visitation hours throughout the week. If that.
Your destination was clear, you heard whispers around you could not discern between Lexi's frantic pleas and the darkness within you starting to take hold. It was now or never. Actually it wasn't never. It couldn't be never. It had to be now.
Glancing at your palms once more you felt the power. Your power. Rise within you. Your pupils dilated and intent, a smile grew on your face. Lexi whose face was still racked with fear, concern and worry was miming at you to do something.
"Just as you ask".
The door opened.
you dove into her locking her backwards into a lying position, flooding her frame was a burst of energy, in the form of your soul hijacking her body. Her eyes rolled back creating just two white balls. Her mouth wide just as yours had and her back arched but on the bed. Then. Snap. Blackness.
The sound of the door opening, as if it had happened twice. You heard a women's voice "Alexandria, I thought I heard voices are you okay?"
Without thinking your mouth opened and with no hesitation you said "I'm fine mom, I was sleeping". Your new voice was high. It was new.
As your new mother left the room, you aid to yourself your eyes still closed.
'This is going to be fun.'
You fell fast asleep,
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