Chapter 9: Shadiras Wrath
Once inside the house Morgana immediately felt her power over the child weaken. A combination of the girls childish thoughts of ponies, teddies, paella, her bedroom, little kittens, love hearts together with her babyish insults and the power of the house itself meant that she wouldnt be able to hold the child much more and would soon have to leave her. She would then have t materialise properly in the house but she would rather wait as long as possible before she had to do that.
Jessica was shaking and shivering and crying immediately y Marina Rowan and Chiquita Sanchez knew something was wrong. The girls noise also attracted Lexi who was doing her homework upstairs, Bethany and Abi who were playing together in the play room as well as he two mums who were already there. Mama Sanchez was the first to ask
Bambino are you okay what is wrong?
Jessica took the opportunity to tell the truth before the evil spirit inside her could speak she cries.
there is something evil in my head mama shes trying to control me please get her out ,please Miss Rowan please help me.!
Suddenly Marinas voce changed and became hypnotic like it had done with Abis exorcism of the same spirit.
Morgana I know thats you now leave the child alone, show yourself to us properly, hide behind an innocent 7 year old girl no longer come out and let her be.
Marinas eyes went gold again and she stares right at Morganas eyes through Jessicas. This last attack proved too much for, Morgana to hold her victim any longer and black mist left the little girl who immediately fell to the ground.
The mist slowly materialised into the most beautiful women any of the girls had ever seen: her hair was black and wavy; her eyes the most piercing shade of blue and her dress a blood red dress with gold edging that hugged her figure. The stunning women then grabs the fallen child in her way and takes her to one side and whispers in her ear thank ya child for getting me in ere you will be rewarded Morgana then kisses Jessica on her fore head and gently lays her down. She then turns to the women and girls in the room and Chiquita Sanchez runs at her with a kitchen knife she keeps in her purse as she connects with Morgana, becomes mist and the Spanish woman falls down next t o her daughter having banged her head on a table after over balancing.
Then she looks around and asks almost conversationally in a soft Irish accent
Any one else want ta try and kill me?
No one moves although its not because is stopping them it is because she asked the question in such a friendly manner that stunned them all. The Bavanshee laughs coldly
Well Dats a shame then cos I woulda liked a challenge since im gonna kill all of ya but one anyway. Let me show you the power of The Dark maiden of Holloway.
Morgana sends 3 jets of red energy towards the three white witches who only just dodge them. Bethany who knows no offensive spells land cant levitate things yet dives be hind a sofa at her mothers instruction. Marina telekinetically levitates a chair and launches it at Morgana who sends a fire ball to reduce it to dust. Lexi calls the banishment of Dark sprit spell which doesnt cast properly cos she is panicking. Then Morgana levitates her while Lexi is recovering because the spell took allot of energy. Then and throws her as hard as she could into the sharp corner of the kitchen sideboard, there is a very audible ,sickening crack as some part of Lexis anatomy is shattered in many places.
Seeing this Marian loses the will to go on and breaks down into floods of tears, unable to fight any longer she begs for the Life goddess Shadira to help her.
Mighty Shadira goddess of all life I beg thee to aid me against one who turned from you, only with your power I can beat her and destroy her she is too strong for me to fight alone, I beg you Shadira. She falls to her knees distraught and Morgana whispers sadistically in her ear.
how pathetic, The Matriarch of the Rowan Family who were once such a deadly threat to their first cousins the Murphys now kneels broken before one she swore to destroy and even her goddess has abandoned you after all you have done for her. Your oldest daughter is dead your other daughter is paralysed with fear and knows no way to defend herself. You are finished Lady Rowan and so is your whole family since you have no relatives left on the Rowan side and your husbands side wont even let you see them because they blame you for your husbands disappearance. If I had a heart it really would bleed for you cousin. Just like yours is about to
The Bavanshee laughs evilly and draws a curved dagger from her dress and theres no resistance form the broken women as the knife plunges deeper. OR is there not?
As the blade touches her heart something takes over Marina Rowan, the dagger melts and pours from her wound but causes no pain or burning, the wound instantly heals and Marina slowly turns to face her cousin. Her eyes so bright Bethany frozen I n fear and shame before is realised from the spell that fear wove over here and can see them from where she is hidden. Marina specks straight to the Bavanshee In a voice that is not her own.
No betrayer, fallen one it is you who is broken and finished. It is you who fell so far form my grace that you were beyond redemption; it was you who murdered your own father because he was doing my will of ridding the city of Holloway of your kind. Did you not give your half brother small pox for being the sun of a rapist?
Now it is Morgana who fell to her knees in tears and what was marina Rowan stands over her.
This act of senseless cruelty had sealed your fate Bavanshee, I was going to offer you one more chance of redemption but possessing an innocent child to get into a house you are forbidden to enter and then killing a child who was only defending her mother. You will suffer my greatest wrath.
No please my Goddess please give me one more chance I beg you please. Morgan is in hysterical tears of fear.
Shadira took pity on the broken women she decided to show mercy and compassion as an example of what she had lost for she wasnt a vengeful goddess and couldnt bring herself to condemn one of her own to such a dire fate.
Morgan Murphy Dark maiden of Holloway, you will not be condemned for then I am no better then you, instead you will be forced to live as a Rowan child without magik or powers. I will give you back your soul and you will be saved and forgiven. You will replace the one you killed and will become as a baby and you will be raised as one of the Rowan witches. Your soul is saved you are my chid once again and you shall be Marinas child also
With that Shadira touched Morgana on her forehead and kissed her on the lips and she began to change. Then Shadira left Marina to bury and greave for her dead daughter. Bethany came out of her hiding place and threw herself onto Lexis chest and cried her heart our, for her dead sister. Marian came along side her but want crying she embraced her youngest daughter and Abi came over and marina embraced her to Abi was traumatised and it wasnt surprising, after all she had just watched a fight with magik and had just seen her mummy kill someone. Slowly The Sanchezs got up and saw the body and left the Rowans Giving they time to grieve for their lost love one.
Abi then noticed that Her mother was gone and so were her cloths and in their place was a naked, bewildered looking baby girl ,she pick up the baby and let marina know ,the baby had blond hair and green eyes and was very pretty, she was sitting on a beautiful red dress all scrunched In a heap. Who was this Baby girl they all wondered but one amongst them knew exactly who it was¦..
Epilogue: a family reunited
After 1 year Marian got married to Paddy Brightwater after they got to know each other really well and it was discovered they had both lost a child Marina had lost her oldest daughter to a sorceress and paddy lost his youngest twin to a hit and run accident, she went into a coma and died soon after. This mutual grief brought them closer together and the big Irish man was like a gentle giant with the kids he never shouted or slapped the girls and he fully accepted that every girl in the house except the 3 year old Jessica was capable of magik and all of them followed the wiccan faith, he even agreed to enter in to it himself and learn the magik that Mariana taught to her children.
The Brightwater- Rowans were a family once again, Abi had a mother who loved her and Bethany and Jessica had father to protect and teach them. Then things started to go wrong after the couple had only been married for 3 years they began to row constantly about little things ,the 3 girls were worst affected, the now 5 year old Jessica started regressing a little ,she started having accidents at school and she became withdrawn and sad, Bethany and Abi started falling behind in school and couldnt always sleep properly and the memories of their dead sisters came back as new wounds. It seemed that after many months of heated rows, angry words and tears things started to settle down but the family was nearly destroyed in the process and there was nearly a divorce, the ill feeling lasted for 9 months until October the 31st2009 when the was two new additions to the family: two identical baby boys called Jonathon and Joshua. It then became obvious to the kids why their mum and dad were arguing so much and why it settled down after the twins were born. Both parents were overjoyed at the new additions to the family but marina would rather have had other girls to add to the Rowan coven although she never let this on to anyone.
After another year Paddy had a dream and he was called to the Oath bound cause his family had pledged three hundred years ago to Them, he was called before the Raven hallow council but marked for execution not to take up his oath of service although he was not aware of this at the time¦