amdreams
Black Market Witch
People often say that everything happens for a reason. It's mere phrase, a collection of words, with no science proving it true or otherwise. Yet in world full of "Why me"'s, it often proves to be the only thing that allows people to look past all the sh*t life dumps on them. The simple belief that in the end, your suffering leads to a happily ever after. And perhaps, it is the only thing that can explain the string of events that plagued a small group of teenagers in Baiting Hollow.
Baiting Hollow was a rather typical city resting on the Californian coast. Beginning to modernize, there were tall steel buildings downtown while the original brick ones littered the outer parts of the city. The beautiful coast line and the forest up north allowed Baiting Hollow to retain some of the natural beauty of its landscape. It was a generally peaceful city perhaps even described as boring by most.
At the moment, the city was preparing for the event that attracted the most tourists, Halloween. Halloween was the biggest celebration in Baiting Hollow. There were parties and carnivals, haunted houses and contests, even the trick or treating yielded mountains of candy. The biggest attraction was of course the Demon Dance Hall. It was an urban legend that said that every Halloween night, a cemetery would appear in the woods north of town. Demons, witches and all matter of creatures of the night would gather and dance among the graves. It is even said that whoever passes through its gates would be dragged down to Hell. Each year, occult enthusiasts, curious tourists and stupid teenagers would navigate through the Silent Forest and try to find this graveyard. So far none have.
But this tale begins a bit earlier, at Crowley High School. Within its halls are the four students, friends turned strangers, who are about to stumble upon something no one has before. This is the story of @Halo @Alexina @Faith Eliza Cord and @amdreams .
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Okay, this is the posting order:
Yeah, I have no idea what order to put you guys in so first come first served. For your first post, please start with a glimpse your day at home and/or school. You could even pass eachother or something. End it with you going into the graveyard. That should give people plenty to write about.
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Lucy sat at the breakfast table chewing on some toast. To her left was her older brother, Max, sipping his coffee, and to her right, were the twins, Lucas and Kevin, both in a race to see who could finish their cereal first. Though they all got along like full blood family, the Hargreaves kids all had different fathers. The only exception being the twins sharing a dad. Their mother wasn't the most chaste woman in the world.
Speak of the devil, their mom shuffled into the kitchen and poured herself some coffee. The kitchen was silent except for the twins' eating contest. Of course with everything that had happened in their lives, the awkwardness was expected. The quiet was broken when her mother's latest boo came into the kitchen. This one was a police officer. He greeted the kids good morning and gave their mother a kiss on the cheek. The breakfast finished in more awkward silence and soon the kids all piled into Max's car to go to school. Lucy didn't have a car yet but she had a motorcycle that used to belong to her father. She had gotten her motorcycle license over the summer and was itching to ride it. But the school didn't allow her to park it in their parking lot.
After dropping the twins off, Max and Lucy drove to Crowley. As she got out of the car, some students were already backing away, not wanting to anger her. The rest of the day went as usual, boring. Lucy didn't have many friends so there were no stories, conversations, or gossip. No one talked to her. To her, the day didn't end soon enough.
After school, she and Max took the twins to a haunted house. It was poorly done at best. Nothing but fake blood, cobwebs and people in costumes desperately trying to shock you behind every corner. None of the kids were scared, though there seemed to be plenty of kids who were, based on the screams heard. As they approached the end, a man with a chainsaw jumped out, scaring the twins. Lucy was also surprised and before she could think, she had already knocked the poor guy out with a straight punch to the face.
The Hargreaves had planned to take Lucas and Kevin out trick or treating after the haunted house. The twins were in matching vampire costumes and seemed set to go, except Lucas seemed to be troubled by something. Lucy bent down to his level and patted his head. "What's wrong Lu? Do you want to go home?"
The boy shook his head and continued looking to the ground. Kevin was the one that spoke up. "Evan stole Lucas' backpack and said he put in the silent forest. I hit him though. But he still won't get it back for Lucas."
Evan was a sixth grade bully. He was constantly picking on Lucas for their loose mom and also because Lucas was the more soft spoken of the twins. If she could, she would hang that brat on the flag pole by his underwear. But she couldn't fight her brothers' battles for them. She patted Kevin's head and held up a congratulating thumbs up which was mirrored back. She turned to Max. "Could you take them trick or treating yourself. I'm going to go find Lucas' backpack in the Silent Forest."
Her older brother looked at her. "Are you sure you should go alone? We can search for it this weekend."
"By then, who knows what could've happened to it. Besides, Evan's a bedwetting twerp. How deep in the woods could he have put it?"
After a bit of arguing, Lucy had won and left for north. Navigating through the trees, she noticed the complete silence of the forest, thus its name. No one knew why but there had never been any other living creatures in these woods other than trees. No birds, squirrels or even bears. For what seemed like forever, she shined the flashlight along the ground and branches without finding a trace of her brother's backpack. Maybe Eva was lying when he said he put it here. Suddenly her flashlight ran out. Smacking it a few times, she swore before putting it in her jacket pocket. Now blind, she decided to head back but found out quickly that she was lost.
She soon found some light and headed toward it. Exiting the trees she discovered that she wasn't back in town but rather a clearing. The full moon shone brightly and illuminated the space as well as the sun itself. Then she saw it. In front of her was a large iron gate and past it was a cemetery. Was this the Demon Dance Hall? This graveyard certainly wasn't one used by the townspeople. If so, she would've heard about funerals in this place.
Curious, she walked bast the rusted gates. The moonlight made each of the graves glow with a silver hue. As the wind blew it sounded like music and Lucy could swear she heard whispering and even giggling. The shadows on the ground did seem to dance even if the moonlight was steady. It wasn't like the legend said but it certainly had a scary beauty to it.
Baiting Hollow was a rather typical city resting on the Californian coast. Beginning to modernize, there were tall steel buildings downtown while the original brick ones littered the outer parts of the city. The beautiful coast line and the forest up north allowed Baiting Hollow to retain some of the natural beauty of its landscape. It was a generally peaceful city perhaps even described as boring by most.
At the moment, the city was preparing for the event that attracted the most tourists, Halloween. Halloween was the biggest celebration in Baiting Hollow. There were parties and carnivals, haunted houses and contests, even the trick or treating yielded mountains of candy. The biggest attraction was of course the Demon Dance Hall. It was an urban legend that said that every Halloween night, a cemetery would appear in the woods north of town. Demons, witches and all matter of creatures of the night would gather and dance among the graves. It is even said that whoever passes through its gates would be dragged down to Hell. Each year, occult enthusiasts, curious tourists and stupid teenagers would navigate through the Silent Forest and try to find this graveyard. So far none have.
But this tale begins a bit earlier, at Crowley High School. Within its halls are the four students, friends turned strangers, who are about to stumble upon something no one has before. This is the story of @Halo @Alexina @Faith Eliza Cord and @amdreams .
*****
Okay, this is the posting order:
- Amdreams
- Halo
- Alexina
- Faith Eliza Cord
Yeah, I have no idea what order to put you guys in so first come first served. For your first post, please start with a glimpse your day at home and/or school. You could even pass eachother or something. End it with you going into the graveyard. That should give people plenty to write about.
*****
Lucy sat at the breakfast table chewing on some toast. To her left was her older brother, Max, sipping his coffee, and to her right, were the twins, Lucas and Kevin, both in a race to see who could finish their cereal first. Though they all got along like full blood family, the Hargreaves kids all had different fathers. The only exception being the twins sharing a dad. Their mother wasn't the most chaste woman in the world.
Speak of the devil, their mom shuffled into the kitchen and poured herself some coffee. The kitchen was silent except for the twins' eating contest. Of course with everything that had happened in their lives, the awkwardness was expected. The quiet was broken when her mother's latest boo came into the kitchen. This one was a police officer. He greeted the kids good morning and gave their mother a kiss on the cheek. The breakfast finished in more awkward silence and soon the kids all piled into Max's car to go to school. Lucy didn't have a car yet but she had a motorcycle that used to belong to her father. She had gotten her motorcycle license over the summer and was itching to ride it. But the school didn't allow her to park it in their parking lot.
After dropping the twins off, Max and Lucy drove to Crowley. As she got out of the car, some students were already backing away, not wanting to anger her. The rest of the day went as usual, boring. Lucy didn't have many friends so there were no stories, conversations, or gossip. No one talked to her. To her, the day didn't end soon enough.
After school, she and Max took the twins to a haunted house. It was poorly done at best. Nothing but fake blood, cobwebs and people in costumes desperately trying to shock you behind every corner. None of the kids were scared, though there seemed to be plenty of kids who were, based on the screams heard. As they approached the end, a man with a chainsaw jumped out, scaring the twins. Lucy was also surprised and before she could think, she had already knocked the poor guy out with a straight punch to the face.
The Hargreaves had planned to take Lucas and Kevin out trick or treating after the haunted house. The twins were in matching vampire costumes and seemed set to go, except Lucas seemed to be troubled by something. Lucy bent down to his level and patted his head. "What's wrong Lu? Do you want to go home?"
The boy shook his head and continued looking to the ground. Kevin was the one that spoke up. "Evan stole Lucas' backpack and said he put in the silent forest. I hit him though. But he still won't get it back for Lucas."
Evan was a sixth grade bully. He was constantly picking on Lucas for their loose mom and also because Lucas was the more soft spoken of the twins. If she could, she would hang that brat on the flag pole by his underwear. But she couldn't fight her brothers' battles for them. She patted Kevin's head and held up a congratulating thumbs up which was mirrored back. She turned to Max. "Could you take them trick or treating yourself. I'm going to go find Lucas' backpack in the Silent Forest."
Her older brother looked at her. "Are you sure you should go alone? We can search for it this weekend."
"By then, who knows what could've happened to it. Besides, Evan's a bedwetting twerp. How deep in the woods could he have put it?"
After a bit of arguing, Lucy had won and left for north. Navigating through the trees, she noticed the complete silence of the forest, thus its name. No one knew why but there had never been any other living creatures in these woods other than trees. No birds, squirrels or even bears. For what seemed like forever, she shined the flashlight along the ground and branches without finding a trace of her brother's backpack. Maybe Eva was lying when he said he put it here. Suddenly her flashlight ran out. Smacking it a few times, she swore before putting it in her jacket pocket. Now blind, she decided to head back but found out quickly that she was lost.
She soon found some light and headed toward it. Exiting the trees she discovered that she wasn't back in town but rather a clearing. The full moon shone brightly and illuminated the space as well as the sun itself. Then she saw it. In front of her was a large iron gate and past it was a cemetery. Was this the Demon Dance Hall? This graveyard certainly wasn't one used by the townspeople. If so, she would've heard about funerals in this place.
Curious, she walked bast the rusted gates. The moonlight made each of the graves glow with a silver hue. As the wind blew it sounded like music and Lucy could swear she heard whispering and even giggling. The shadows on the ground did seem to dance even if the moonlight was steady. It wasn't like the legend said but it certainly had a scary beauty to it.