Page 109 of Raijin

“You know I hate being apart from you don’t you?” She said, this time kneeling and wrapping her arms around young Sabina. “I love you.”

“Another lie.”

Her mother pulled back, only this time her mother’s face was gone. It was no longer youthful, instead it was gaunt and twisted, her slim but curvy figure now emaciated. She held onto a now sixteen years old Sabina’s wrist tightly her body shaking.

“Come on, Bi-Bi. I love you. I promise, I promise. Can you loan me twenty dollars? Won’t you do that for mommy?”

Releasing a scream, she jerked her hand out of her mother’s hold and turned away only to feel the sting of a slap turn her head.

“Why can’t you do something so simple?” Her husband mother demanded, her face twisted and ugly. Her eyes narrowed, as she pointed at the burned casserole. “Do you not understand how I raised my son? He’s perfect, and I raised him to marry someone who’d raise him up and not something worthless and abandoned like you.”

Sabina cringed, the words hurting her more than anything she’d ever heard. She shook her head, backing away trying to cover her ears. The back of her foot nearly fell off the edge of the kitchen floor

Turning around she gasped as she stared into a dark pit below.

The many bodies of young children, their eyes open as their bodies had been bound. The spell casters standing around the opening, all spelling for the dirt to fall over them. Her stomach rolled in disgust, until her eyes landed on herself, the little and helpless her. Her eyes wide and staring in empty wonder at the stars she hadn’t seen for so long.

“It’s such a disappointment,” her eyes jerked to the side, to see Dr. Clinger standing right beside where she laid. Cleaning his glasses on his lab coat, “that such specimens have to be disposed of, ah. Well, it’s more disappointing none of them bloomed. We only needed one more flower.”

The world tilted as she took a step away from him, her eyes were met with the sight of a blazing fire. She stiffened, her whole body tightening as she looked down and saw the sight of Raijin laying still at her feet, a hole through his chest.

His eyes open and mouth wide in a look of terror.

Falling to her knees, she sat still looking at him.

“They killed him.”Arms wrapped around her; lips brushed her ear.“They always take away our precious things. Mommy, Grandma, and then Raijin. And we are always too weak to hold on to them.”

The phantom removed its arms and walked around to the other side of Raijin and knelt. Their face a mirror image of hers, their smile ugly and twisted.“We should punish them.”

Sabina lips were the only thing that moved. “How?”

“With magic.”The phantom replied easily.

“What if we hurt someone?”

The Phantom shrugged,“They deserve it,”she leaned across the body and placing her black hand under Sabina’s chin she lifted her face. And it smiled at the sight of tears falling down Sabina’s cheeks..“That’s a good face.”

“Tell me.”The phantom urged her,“Tell me what you want?”

“What do you want Sabina?”She nearly hissed, placing her other hand against Sabina’s face.

Sabina smiled brighter, “To kill them all.”

“Good, that’s what I’m here for.”

Dr. Clinger

Dr. Clinger only had the spike in the vitals to know something had changed. Turning his eyes on the witch, he stilled when he saw her eyes open and staring directly at him. She was grinning. The thorn patch quickly spread broadening until half her body was covered in black ink. She Tilted her head right and hissed his name.“Clinger.”

He jumped in surprise; the voice had echoed in his head. He looked at his assistance, only to see dead bodies. Startled he looked at her, “Wha—.” Before he could finish, the Witch was no longer in her bonds but standing in front of him. Her hand covering his face. His lips parted as his eyes widened, but it was too late. His body jolted once as a spike entered his mouth, chest and eyes. The pure pain that rammed into his body had him choking on scream that never made it out of his throat. As his body lifted and slammed back into the brick wall with a solid thud.

Staring at his dead body pinned to the wall, Sabina asked no one.“Who’s next?”

“Everyone else.”She answered herself.

Chapter36

The Children

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