Unforeseen Consequences
"Alright Henry, good luck!" Viola cheered on her best friend. Henry, with all the courage he could muster, started walking towards the house. Viola, Viola's boyfriend Paul, and Henry's girlfriend Xena smiled as they saw him walking towards the house to complete his dare.
What they didn't see was that, midway there, his foot slipped and he fell into a whole. Hitting the ground with a THUD, he groaned and looked up.
"HOW DARE YOU INTERRUPT THE RITUAL?!" a voice screamed. It seemed to have come from a black cat? The cat was glaring at him over the cauldron, and Henry felt worried.
"I'm sorry, I was.." he trailed off. What excuse could he use? He was at a loss of words.
"THERE IS NO EXCUSE!" the cat yelled, and with a poof, a young woman was sitting there in a witch's outfit.
"Cool costume?" Henry offered. He had a sheepish smile.
"THAT WILL NOT SUFFICE!" the woman screamed. "YOU INTERRUPTED OUR RITUAL!"
"Greta," another woman suddenly appeared, looking Henry over. "He would make a good sacrifice."
"Whoa whoa whoa," Henry backed away. "I am not being sacrificed to a crazy lady."
The first witch, Greta, hadn't been listening. She smirked as she looked at the fellow witch. "Ah yes, I agree Malory." As Malory went to get the supplies, Henry felt his heart sink.
"Wait! What about my friends up there? My girlfriend?" He tried to offer.
"We'll erase you from their memories. It'll be like you never existed," Greta shrugged. Henry couldn't move. That was it? Nobody was going to remember him. He wouldn't get a funeral or anything. He'd just be gone.
"A piece of human lung, a human heart, two eyes..." Malory's voice was heard. "Yep, this boy has everything."
Henry tried to run, but he couldn't see an escape. Something unintelligible to him was spoken and in a poof of green, he was frozen. In another flash, he felt weakness taking over him.
In a flash of blue pointed up, he could only watch hopelessly as the blue left the whole and presumably spread around the upper ground.
"Now then," Greta grinned. "Let's continue on with the ritual with our sacrifice."
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