The Ouija Demon
Hello Everyone TomboyJessie13 here, before you ask: No! It has nothing to do with the new Ouija movie coming out, I don't even plan on watching it anytime soon(unless if I'm forced to), the story here is loosely inspired by an idea bluebarnowl came up with while we chatted over EC things after I showed her that "out of this house" meme by JonTron. My little sister zelda4ever1987, I won't tell you what it is though.
ENJOY! And a Happy Halloween!
Chapter 13
The Ouija Demon
The house they're residing in had been restored to it's natural glory as promised by Held, but the sinners are now precautions about the basement since the "Black Widow Incident" and had decided to leave it alone...however the only sinner brave enough to go down there was Kayo Sudou of Envy, who suggested in turning it into her personal tailor shop, the sinners agreed, now the basement belongs to her. The sinners had returned to their box after being discharged from the Hospital, their wounds have been fully healed thus allowing them to remove their bandages, they've spent the whole afternoon and evening just relaxing and not getting on each others throats like they normally do, well the only ruckus that most of them made are about Margarita's new engagement to Jun. Margarita was sitting at the dining room table with Banica and Kayo, talking about it.
"Ooooh I'm so nervous! I'm getting remarried and here I am getting chills." Margarita said, she can fell her pigtails moving with excitement, but then she started to feel sad. "But what if it doesn't go well like with...you know."
"Come now, Jun seems like a nice young boy." Kayo said. "Even better than that worthless playboy of a noble, forget about Kasper." She smiled.
"Yeah, plus his food is wonderful." Banica said, liking her lips.
"True but that's not a good reason to marry someone."
"Oh well, speaking of food, I'm hungry."
"Where was I? Oh yes, Maybe I can tailor you a wedding dress, Margarita, I got the best material for it."
"You're too kind Kayo, but you don't need to put yourself through all that work." Margarita responded.
"Think of it as a kind gesture." Just then, she saw Allen coming in the dinning room with a large pumpkin in his arms "Oh Allen, do you need help with it?"
"Ugh, no thanks." Allen said while showing signs of struggle. "I'm almost at the kitchen anyways. " Allen walks to the kitchen, he tries his best to not drop the pumpkin on the ground.
"Are we having a giant pumpkin pie?" Banica asked with an excited look on his face. "Maybe even pumpkin soup?"
"Riliane is cooking dinner, she can't make those two things in one night." Margarita said.
"Can't I dream?"
"You can but still." Kayo replied.
"Oooh you're no fun, Sudou."
"DINNEEEEEEEEEER!" Riliane called from the Kitchen, a triangle can be heard to, Sateriasis, Gallerian, and Nemesis soon walked into the dinning room once they heard her.
"Finally, I was starving." Banica said.
"And you'll soon be hungry in an hour." Sateriasis joked.
"Oh hush." She sees Allen coming into the dining room. "So what are we having tonight Allen?"
"I don't know, I was too busy bringing the pumpkin inside."
"I doubt Riliane can make dinner very well." Sateriasis smirked.
"She made pancakes on the first day." Gallerian said.
"Yes, but that's breakfast, this is dinner and it's more complex, I bet she comes out with disastrous results.
"I wouldn't be too sure, Sateriasis." Allen said smiling. "Look."
"Here it is guys." Riliane came in with a platter of food. "I made Grilled chicken breasts, homemade mashed potatoes, green beans with sliced carrots, and last but not least: buttermilk biscuits with a side of trauben jam." Sateriasis can mentally feel multiple wash pans landing on his head after seeing how well Riliane did in preparing supper.
"Told you."
"You brat, how did you do all this?!" Sateriasis asked with an angry tone in his voice.
"I learned it from Clarith while residing in the Held Monastery, age 15, brioche, and was a natural on the first try." Riliane said with pride in her voice, causing the Duke to feel even more wash pans falling on his his head mentally.
"Settle down you two, this ain't a popularity contest." Kayo said, Riliane then took her seat at the table.
"Now everyone hold hands, because we're gonna say grace." Allen said as the sinners did what he tells them, he began his grace: "Dearest Levia, we give our thanks and ask for your blessings for the meal we're about to partake in, Amen."
"Amen." They proclaimed and began digging into their meals.
"So Allen, what's with the giant pumpkin?" Banica asked while stuffing her face.
"Please don't talk with your mouth full." Allen said in disgust. "Also I'm planning on having it carved into a jack-o-lantern, tomorrow is "Hallows' Evening" after all."
"That time of the year already?" Nemesis asked, visibly excited. "Awesome!"
"I beg your pardon but what is Hallows' Evening?" Sateriasis asked.
"It's a holiday first constructed by the natives of Lioness and Marlon during the late-Magic Kingdom era." Gallerian explained. "It was celebrated on the 31st of October, a time of year that was often associated with human death. The Followers of the Levin faith believed that on the night before November 1st, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead become blurred. On the night of the 31st they celebrated Hallows' Evening, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In these days however before Margarita was born, many Levin followers began to detest the holiday as a ritual associated with demon worship currency of the Behemo Sect due to having a undead theme."
"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn." Riliane said sarcastically.
"So it's like a Behemo sect ritual?" Sateriasis asked.
"Sort of but no, fortunately there's still some followers and people outside of Levin Faith who celebrate it up till this very day." Gallerian continued. "How can you not know that?"
"I've been indoors most of my life."
"Figures, *cough* pervert *cough*!"
"Anywaaaaaaaays, what are the customs?"
"Back then: it would be just bonfires and offering sacrifices to their gods." Banica said. "Though in recent years they removed the sacrificing and included trick-or-treating, costume parties, decorating, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror films instead."
Nemesis started making scary faces at the Duke. "Y'know anything scary related and filled with pure terror?" Sateriasis started shivering from looking at her, but then stopped when something hit him.
"Oh right, I saw some dwellers of hell viewing it, I thought it was just demon worship or a masquerade party."
"Nope, it's the very same holiday. Though trick-or-treating was a thing to satiate the ghouls or ghost's hunger, it now became more of a child thing." Nemesis drank some water.
"What do you mean?"
"It involves children dressing up and going door to door getting candy or fruit by saying "trick-or-treat"." Margarita said. "I heard It also became more mandatory in Gallerian's time because of the Witch Trials."
"That's correct." Gallerian said. "The fools believed that the witches would eat the children if they don't dress up as monsters."
"Pfft, please not at the table." Kayo said, holding her neck to prevent vomiting.
"Sorry."
"Ok, I see your point, If that were the case: what I should dress up as?" Sateriasis was brushing his chin with his forefinger.
"Now we're talking!" Riliane said patting his back vigorously. "I think we may have something in the attic...do we?"
"Yes, I checked." Allen said.
"Wait wait wait wait!" Kayo called out. "Aren't we just gonna stay in the box though? We can't leave the box and no one but Behemo and the Demons come here." The sinners sighed in a bummed out way, drooping their heads down.
"Not to worry, I have made a deal with Sickle for tomorrow night."
"What?"
"I asked Sickle to allow the children residing in the Heavenly Yard to visit the box to trick-or-treat tomorrow and extend us their good wishes." The sinners became relieved when Allen proclaimed it. "All I need now is help getting these bags into the living room for tomorrow night." He pointed at the bags by the door, they're five in total and are just around the same size as Allen and Riliane.
"What's in them?" Gallerian asked.
"Lollipops, each child participating gets one, no more, no less." The sinners were surprised by what Allen told them, who knows how many lollipops are in those bags, or better yet: how many children are coming?
After dinner
The sinners were browsing through the attic to see what they can find for tomorrow night, so far they found white bed sheets, black and orange fabrics, old masks, old clothes, and a stuffed black cat. While searching for more things to do for Hallows' Evening, Nemesis heard a thud from behind her, she saw a game board covered in dust, she picked it up and blew the dust off, the title of the box reads "Ouija".
"Oh! an Ouija board!" Nemesis said with a smile. "Mom and I used to talk to spirits with it when Friday the 13th is around."
"How you do it?" Kayo asked from behind her.
"You'll know while the others aren't around."
"Why?"
"Because I don't want my father getting involved and screwing everything up!"
"Don't be so negative."
"Oi! What are you two doing?" Riliane said, Nemesis hid the box behind her back. "This ain't a vacation now helps us out!" The two nodded, Nemesis hid the box under the shelf.
"We'll use it while the others are asleep." Nemesis whispered.
"Ok." Kayo agreed.
Later that night
The sinners eventually gotten ready for bed. Showers, teeth, pajamas, and all, after which they went to sleep...except for Margarita who sadly cannot sleep and can only lay down in the living room so she won't disturb her roommates with her chronic insomnia, and is unaware of the events that are about to occur tonight. At 11:30 at night, Nemesis woke up, she made sure that the people around her are asleep, she got out of bed and proceeds to wake Kayo up.
"Hey." Nemesis whispered as she shakes Kayo, Kayo slowly wakes up and sees Nemesis standing over her. "Ready?"
"Yeah." Kayo yawns and gets out of bed, the Sudous proceed to head into the attic, trying their best not to catch Margarita's attention. Once there, Nemesis got the board ready and lit the candles around her. Kayo has gotten slightly anxious from the site of the fire.
"What's wrong?" Nemesis asked.
"It's the fire...are they...?"
"No they won't catch anything on fire, I moved the furniture and put stands under them so they won't fall over. Now turn off the lights." Nemesis said, Kayo did and sat on the floor across from where Nemesis is sitting.
"So you and your mother can talk to spirits with this thing?"
"Yes, so far me and mother were able to contact a mischievous ghost from the spirit world, always telling us jokes and riddles, even the ones I'm not supposed to read."
"Read?"
"Yes, this planchette here with the open glass tells us what the spirit is saying by pointing at the letters and numbers, that's how they communicate."
"I see, I would like to know about my family with it."
"You sure?" Nemesis was concerned about what Kayo was seeking.
"Yes."
"Oh right, put your hand on the planchette." They both put their hands on it, they both clear their minds and took deep breaths. "Spirits living between heaven or hell, come forth and speak." Nemesis said, they waited for a response for at least a minute or two until..."Ah!" Nemesis gasped.
"What?" Kayo asked, she felt something moving under her fingers, her heart began pounding when she saw the planchette moving. "I-it works."
"Don't be afraid or shocked, demons from Ouija boards are attracted to fear." Nemesis instructed her, Kayo took deep breaths as the planchette moves, all the while the fire from the candles turn into an eerie red-violet, which could only mean one thing: "...It's here."
"WHAT GOES ON MORTAL?" Was the board's response, supposedly by a ghost.
"I'm Nemesis Sudou, this is my friend Kayo Sudou...no relations."
"THAT'S RIGHT, YOU'RE THE SINNER OF WRATH."
"So you know of my sins?" Nemesis asked, she was quite calm about this.
"WE BEINGS OF THE SPIRIT WORLD SEE MANY THINGS."
"C-can I ask?" Kayo asked Nemesis.
"Sure, remember don't stress yourself and don't show fear."
"Ok...Do you know me or my family?" Kayo asked, she tried her best not to show fear.
"WE KNOW NOT OF YOUR FAMILY." The being replied, "BUT WE KNOW OF THE SINS YOU'VE BESTOWED UPON ENBIZAKA."
"Ah!" Kayo gasped in surprise.
"Stay calm." Nemesis snapped.
"Sorry."
"ARE YOU TWO RELATED?" The ghost asked.
"No, I mention that already." Nemesis said.
"YES BUT THERE'S ANOTHER WAY THAT SHOWS THAT YOU TWO ARE RELATED." The ghost said. "BUT IT'S NOT THE SURNAMES, IT'S SOMETHING ELSE."
"Uhhhhhhhhhhh..." The two got confused by what the ghost had asked.
"TOO SOON?"
"Wait, aren't we the ones asking questions?" Nemesis asked.
"ASK YOUR QUESTIONS THEN."
"Um, ok...Wow you stumped us." Kayo said.
"IT'S QUITE ALRIGHT, THEN I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU."
"Oh, what is it?"
"I HEARD THAT TOMORROW IS HALLOWS' EVENING...IS IT TRUE?"
"Uhhh yes...why?" Kayo was sounding anxious.
"JUST WONDERING, WE SPIRITS DON'T NORMALLY COUNT THE DAYS OF THE HUMAN WORLD."
"Ok?"
"THE WITCHING HOUR IS ARRIVING, YOU MORTALS MUST GET TO BED SOON."
"Oh, your right." Nemesis said. "It's a pleasure talking to you." She then moved the planchette to the word "goodbye" under the numbers and letters, the planchette stops moving and the candles went back to normal.
"Wow, just...wow." Kayo breathed out finally, her heart was pounding really hard and fast.
"Awesome, huh?" Nemesis asked.
"Well actually to be honest, I thought it wasn't gonna work, but we actually talked to someone from the spirit realm."
"Well it did work, Mother and I are professionals." Nemesis puts the board in the box.
"Have you find it odd that the spirit asked if tomorrow is Hallows' Evening?"
"Well yeah but not to worry, I made sure the board is put back properly, so the spirits won't get out."
"Oh good." Kayo sighed in relief, the two Sudous blew the candles and left the attic...however, the bottom part of the shelf that was holding the box broke, causing the board to fall out, it glowed in an eerie red-violet just like the candles, then a red-violet silhouette came out of it, appearing like a young woman with long draped hair and no clothes on. In the bedroom, Kayo was about to fall asleep in her bed when she heard something, she left her bed to see what's going on. In the hallway, Kayo saw that everything was just the way it was, just as she was about to head back to bed, she heard a slow creaky noise that made the hairs on the back of her head stand on end. She turned around and saw that the attic was slowly opening and a ladder coming out, Kayo walked over to try to close it...but, she then saw a red-violet foot on the step, that surprised Kayo. "Wh-whose there!?"
Kayo breathed out in fear. There was no response from the person in the attic, but instead jumped down to the ground and began staring at Kayo with a sinister grin that signifies dread. The area around her and the strange being in front of Kayo was turning into a deep shade of red. Kayo ran back to her bedroom to warn Nemesis but as she runs, the hallway starts to get longer and narrower until the doors disappear and she was just running in complete nothingness. She turned around to find that the being behind her is gone, she stopped for a moment or two before letting out a sigh in relief, but as she turned around, the strange red-violet being was standing in her way. Making a very frightening demon like face and letting out a scream that is loud as a banshee.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHH!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Kayo screamed out in horror as she began flaying her arms around, she stopped and found that it's already morning and that she was still in bed, she looked around and saw the girls in the room were laughing and the being in front of her was only Riliane wearing a Red Hannya Mask. "Y-you little brat! How dare you scare me with that thing!?" Kayo berated the Princess as she snatched the Hannya Mask away from her.
"HAPPY HALLOWS' EVENIIIIING!" Riliane proclaimed as she made a v-sign hand gesture.
"I GET YOU FOR THIS!" Kayo was about to chase her before being held down by Banica.
"Geez calm down, Kayo it's only a harmless trick." Banica said as she was eating a black and orange swirl lollipop. "Though to be honest, I kinda expected that type of reaction from Nemesis." She pointed at Nemesis who is face planted on the ground, possibly from Riliane's prank.
"Hm, your right...where did you get the lollipop?"
"Allen lets us have one each." She gave her one.
"Good." Just then, the door opened up, slowly revealing a strange cylinder shaped creature with black holed eyes completely void of any light, this surprised Kayo to which caused her to let out another scream. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" And grabbed her scissors to attack it, but Banica stopped her.
"Oh, did I really scared you?" The creature said as "she" removed the white sheets from her head. "Good Morning!"
"Phew, it's just Margarita." Kayo calmed down. "Why are you wearing a bed sheet on your head?"
"I'm a ghost!" She said with a smile.
"Ha! I knew it was you the whole time." Nemesis said as she was standing up.
"Could you girls be any louder?" Gallerian asked with a cranky tone in his voice from being woken up by Kayo's screaming. "One of us wants to sleep more." Margarita, not pleased with what he said due to not being able to sleep herself pinched his nose, startling him.
"How do you think I feel, old man?" Margarita said to the Judge with a dark tone in her voice, she pulls on his nose before letting go of him, he covers his nose after that, she then smiles. "Sateriasis is making croissants and omelets for breakfast!"
"I hope he doesn't contaminate it." Riliane said as she and the others left the room. "Who knows what disease he maybe carrying?" After everyone left, Kayo grabbed Nemesis by her arm and pulled her back in the room.
"Hey!" Nemesis called out before being slammed into the wall.
"Have you closed the box properly?" Kayo asked with an angry tone in her voice.
"The Ouija box? Yes I have!"
"Are you sure? Because I had a dream about a demonic being attacking me because the box wasn't closed properly!" Kayo for years possessed an ability that once belonged to her ancestor Lukana Octo, the prophetic dream ability, which allows her to see the past and future via dreams based on a specific color. If colored purple, the future will happen and cannot be changed, No one in the box knows about her ability except for Allen and Nemesis.
"What color was it?" Nemesis asked, sounding scared.
"The dream was red." Kayo replied, which calmed the former dictator down.
"Then there's a chance that it won't happen."
"Yes, but still, we have to make sure." The two Sudous went to the attic to see if the box was properly close, much to their chagrin however, the box was tipped over because of the broken shelf, glowing in an eerie red-violet. "Oh no! Oh no! NO! NO! NO! NOOOO!" Kayo was now in a state of panic. "THE DEMON IS OUT! THE DEMON IS OUT!" She screamed on the top of her lungs before being slapped across the face by Nemesis.
"GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF KAYO!" Nemesis yelled at her. "Ok so a demon is out, but it's not like it has the will to kill anyone here right?" She finished with a smile before she began to frown. "Right?"
"We're dealing with a being who was haunting me in my sleep! Can you send it back to the box?"
"I don't know how."
"But you and your mother used this thing right?"
"Yes but the being we had was well-behaved, it had no malicious intentions on escaping the Ouija board, I never learned how to seal it back as a result."
"OOoooooh this is bad! this is oh so bad!" Kayo was pacing back and forth.
"Heeeeey! Nemesis! Kayo!" Sateriasis called from down stairs "What are you doing up there? Your breakfast is getting cold!" The girls let out a huge sigh.
"Ok, let's just calm down, we'll deal with it soon." They went down from the attic and down the stairs into the kitchen, Sateriasis was by the stove placing an omelette on a plate with a croissant and a couple of strawberries and blue berries on the side. "There you two are, don't you know how long I've been waiting?" He berated the Sudous, but then he smiled.
"Sorry we're late, Kayo accidentally knocked over her tailoring supplies so I was helping her out." Nemesis nervously smiled while receiving a plate from him.
"I thought you broke your toe up there." Gallerian sneered as he ate his breakfast, he received a middle finger from her, Gallerian threaten to bite it off.
"Where's Allen?" Kayo asked, playing with her blueberries.
"He went back to the heavenly yard to make preparations for tonight." Riliane answered, as she talked, Kayo was too distracted to hear her words because behind her was a hallway, but what caught Kayo's attention was the red-violet spirit standing in the halls, the tailor was petrified bu the site of it as it stared right into her soul through her eyes with it's black ones. "Kayo? Hey! What are you looking at?" Kayo snapped back into reality when Riliane said her name.
"Huh? Oh it's nothing." She lied, trying her best to not cause a panic in the box.
"Anyways, should we dress up for tonight?" Margarita asked. "I got my ghost costume ready!"
"We could actually!" Banica said as she licked her plate clean. "It's Hallows' Evening after all." She then took a bite off her plate.
"HEY HEY HEY! DON'T BITE IT!" Riliane exclaimed, she looked at the plate's bite mark. "Hm, actually I'll let this slide, makes a great edition for tonight." She gave the plate to Margarita, as she walked to the counter, she nearly felt limp, almost falling over. "Oh! Are you ok, Margy?"
"Y-Yeah, just almost tripped." She smiled as her arm shook a little.
~After breakfast~
Kayo was digging through Nemesis's box under her bed, she found a dark green book with the title "Bible of Held", indicating that the bible is from the Held sect, and inside is a necklace with a silver cross on it. "I just hope these work." She said.
"What are you doing?" Nemesis asked.
"I'm gonna try to bless the others, hoping that the demon won't posses them."
"Don't bless the sinners, it'll make the demon worse for us."
"What about exorcising?"
"Hmm...We could, actually. But we have no idea where that ghost went!"
"Where what went?" Riliane asked as she entered the bedroom.
"Uuuuuh Makeup! Yeah! Makeup for tonight!" Kayo answered.
"It's right here." Riliane said as she took out the box. "What are you guys gonna dress up as?"
"I'm planning on going as Kaguya-Hime, the protagonist of my country's folklore: "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter"." Kayo said.
"And I'm going as a Shinigami, the Death Gods of Jakokunese mythology." Nemesis said with a devilish smirk on her face.
"But there hasn't been any official depictions on them, other than the fact that they're rumored to be hideous." Riliane said, apparently she's aware of Jakokunese folklore and myths.
"That's why I'm Improvising through literary works." Nemesis pushed a stack of black books under her bed with her foot. "I just need some red contact lens...what about you?"
"I'm thinking of going as the Queen of Hearts."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" They heard a scream coming from the men's bedroom, it sounded like Gallerian.
"Heh heh heh, looks like he's afraid of the queen." Riliane chuckled at Gallerian's scream, just then they heard a thumping noise.
"No, something is wrong." Kayo said with a worried tone in her voice, she walked out to the men's room, only to find only a judge's coat on the floor. "Gallerian's coat."
"Oh great, is dad running around naked again?" Nemesis said.
"He wouldn't leave his coat like this."
"What's going on?" Riliane asked.
"It's nothing, where is he though?" Just then, they heard a loud thumping noise from the floor. On ground floor, the only people there are Margarita who is making candied apples while wearing her ghost costume, and Banica and Sateriasis were in the living room, possibly working on their costumes. They then heard another thumping noise, but under their feet. "The basement." Kayo whispered to herself. They went down the stairs to the basement in order to confirm their speculations of Gallerian being in the basement, once they open the basement door, they heard muffling noises, indicating that Gallerian is down there, they went down the stairs, preparing for the worst to come. Riliane turned on the light to find Gallerian being tied up in a chair with the same red rope used on Sateriasis the other day, gagged with a handkerchief, struggling, and wearing a maid's dress. He gave Nemesis a death glare upon seeing her. While Kayo and Riliane are stunned, Nemesis burst out laughing at her father's situation.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Hey! hey! Riliane! Take a picture!" Nemesis said as she passed the camera to the Princess, Nemesis smiled for the camera while doing a peace sign in front of her bonded father, Riliane took the picture, Gallerian made a angered muffle from that.
"NEMESIS!" Kayo called out irritably.
"Riiight right." She began to untie Gallerian's gag, he began panting
"WHY THE BLOODY HELL WOULD YOU BOND ME LIKE THIS, YOU SLUT!?" Gallerian cursed her off loudly.
"What?!" Nemesis was baffled by what he told her.
"DON'T BE OBLIVIOUS! YOU CAME IN THE BEDROOM, DRESSED ME UP! TIED ME UP LIKE AN WILD ANIMAL, AND LEFT ME HERE TO ROT!"
"I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! I WAS WITH THESE TWO THE WHOLE TIME!" Nemesis was so enraged by this wild accusation that she was fixing to clock him in the jaw, Kayo got in between the two conflicting family members.
"Desist you two!" She said. "Nemesis would never use bondage rope on you! Even if she wanted to."
"That bitch obviously wants to try something new to torment me with." Gallerian sneered.
"Don't make me kick you again." Nemesis growled.
"Enough!" Kayo untied the red rope. leaving red marks on his wrists and arms, he stood up saying saying to Nemesis:
"You'll pay for this, bitch." He stormed off from the basement to change, they can hear Sateriasis laughing upstairs. "SHUT UP!"
"What the hell?" Nemesis muttered to herself.
"Ok, what is really going on?" Riliane asked again "I demand an explanation so no more excuses." Met with no other choice, Kayo sighed.
"Fine, but you can't tell anyone." Kayo said, she began explaining about the Ouija board to the former princess, from using it to contact spirits to how it was improperly closed. At first she thought that the Tailor was joking, but the more she hears, the more Riliane's smile goes away, now becoming aware of the dreadful curse that's now in the sinner's black box.
"If that's the case, then the one that attacked Gallerian was the ghost." Riliane said, fully aware of the situation.
"Yeah, who knows what it'll do next." Nemesis said as they walked back upstairs. As Kayo and Nemesis talked about the ghost, Riliane walked back into the hallway...that's when she felt a disturbing aura in the area, she looked and saw the same ghost with her very eyes, it caused her to be frozen in place that she can't even scream out. The red-violet being floated all the way to the bathroom upstairsbackwards, Riliane traversed up to the second floor and walked to the bathroom door, she stopped once she heard noises in there.
"Don't be afraid, Riliane." She thought to herself. "You have to be bold like father was." She slowly opened the door to find steam coming from behind the shower curtain, is the ghost taking a shower in there? She grabbed a shower brush and slowly walked to the shower, her heart was beating out of her chest, but was ready to punish the ghost for what's it done. Riliane took hold of the shower curtain with her left hand and thrashed it open to reveal the person inside the shower who unknowingly to her looks suspiciously like her...it was her brother.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Allen let out a scream in horror as Riliane began to whack him silly with a shower brush. "NO STOP! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" But Riliane didn't stop, the ghost haunting the box clouded her judgment and continued to whack the daylights out of her twin brother before she began tiring out. At the same time, Allen, on his last legs desperately grabbed hold of the shower curtain and pulled it down with him to the floor. Riliane panted for a bit before straightening her dress, it was then that her expression turned from exhaustion into horror when she realized what she had done.
"A-A-Allen!?" She stuttered. "I-I-I-I-I'm sorry! I didn't know it was you!" Allen began to crawl on her dress with his hands.
"...E-e-every moment I live...is agony." Allen said weakly as he fell on the ground again.
Few Minutes Later
Margarita was putting an Ice pack on Allen's head, Sateriasis was in the background laughing his head off over what Riliane had done to her brother.
"I'm so sorry, Allen." Riliane apologized. "I didn't know it was you! I thought you were a ghost!"
"What Ghost? Is this a joke?" Allen groaned in pain.
"Yeaaaaah." Nemesis lied. "I was pulling a prank on Riliane, making her think there's a ghost here."
"Bu-" Kayo was about to say something, but was silenced by Nemesis. "I see, you should be ashamed of yourself, tricking his sister like that."
"Enough you two." Allen said, holding onto the Ice pack. "I know it's Halloween but like Kayo said, someone could've gotten seriously hurt, I know I had, Ow. So no more pulling dangerous pranks, especially on me!"
"Yes Allen." Nemesis said.
"And Riliane, please knock on the door next time, it's rude to enter without knocking."
"Ok." Riliane said.
"Now if you excuse me I'm gonna take some painkillers, finish taking a shower, and bring the kids over here."
"But it's not even night yet." Gallerian said, now dressed in his usual suit, sans the judge's cloak.
"I mean the ones who don't celebrate Hallows' Evening."
"Oh right, the religious ones." Banica said.
"So please, behave yourselves." Allen heads back into the bathroom. "Owwww, she whacked me hard." He said under his breath.
A half hour later
The sinners are setting up their chairs on the front porch, they're waiting for the children of religion to arrive and give the sinners their blessings in hopes of redemption, Nemesis was pacing around the porch with a nervous look on her face.
"Oh dear, I just hope that ghost doesn't get aggressive." She said to herself, "Considering that blessing us would make the it worst."
"I hope so too." Kayo said to the dictator.
"KIDS HOOOOO!" Banica exclaimed as she pointed at the distance, a bunch of tiny lights began falling from the keyhole shaped sun, coming down on different colors and sizes much to the sinners's amazement. Once they've reached the ground, the lights formed into many, many children, each of different ages, era, and nationality, and every single one wearing red church gowns and holding song books. The last one to appear was Allen Avadonia holding a conductor's baton. "Oh look how adorable they are! I just wanna eat them up!"
"That better be a figure of speech." Sateriasis said as he took his seat, "We cannot afford to be dragged back to hell because of your cannibalism.". After the sinners sat down in their seats, Allen readies his baton to conduct the children in front of him, the children began humming a tune, and soon began singing a lovely hymn.
"O our lord of old"
"From the heavens with this hymn I call to thee"
"To these souls damned by sin and blasphemy"
"Your light shall still be shown"
"To purify their sins"
"and return signs of hope to their heart and souls"
"Please allow these sinners to go hand and hand with thee once again"
The sinners quietly listened to every word coming from the hymn sung by the children of god, meanwhile in the house, the demon that was tormenting the household earlier was sitting by the window listening to the hymn. As Nemesis said earlier: the blessings would cause the demon to get worse...But something else had happened, the demon instead just laid by the windowsill listening to the children, nodding as a shear sign of fatigue before falling asleep there. Kayo looked by the window to see the red-violet being slumbering, much to the tailor's delight, Kayo tapped Nemesis's shoulder and pointed at the sleeping demon, to which confuses Nemesis but at least she can calm down a little.
"Lulila la lulila la la"
"Sinners and Saints, though differ"
"They're both our lord's dear children"
"And so are seven of thee"
Their song ends, the sinners gave a full round of applause to them.
"BRAVA LITTLE DARLINGS! BRAVA!" Banica exclaimed in happiness as she clapped vigorously, the children bowed to them.
"Thank you so much everyone!" Margarita said as she threw a bouquet of roses. "You're too kind."
After a few more hymns, the children bowed once again and said: "God bless you, and we wish you the best of luck." The sinners thanked them for their wishes and their performances. After the children left, Kayo, Riliane, and Nemesis returned to the attic to see the ghost, the said being was still asleep by the windowsill much to their confusion.
"I don't get it, mother told me that blessing the household would make the demon worse, but it's asleep instead." Nemesis whispered.
"Maybe there's a reason, either the hymn was a lullaby or it's a child." Riliane whispered back.
"Oh well, at least we won't have to deal with it anymore." Kayo sighed.
"I found my Mom's old journal." She said. "It also has the spell to put the ghost back". Nemesis then opened the Ouija box and began quietly chanting the words from her journal:
"Spirit from the hellish yard, desiring innocents to be maimed, return to the pit from whence you came." And like that, the ghost was sent back into it's box while it was still slumbering, the box closed by it's self, both of the Sudous and Riliane let out a sigh in relief, finally they can be at peace away from the demon within the box. Nemesis put the box under the broken shelf and put a book on top of it to increase the weight and chances of it not escaping, the trio left the attic soon after.
Sundown
Allen, dressed as a purple wizard with a fake beard carried the large jack-o-lantern he carved to the front porch and lit a candle inside of it. Inside the house, Banica was in the kitchen dress as an "attractive" chef with fishnet leggings, a mini skirt, a chef's hat, and high heals, she wants to try some of the cookies Margarita made for the sinners, but Margarita, dressed as a ghost again slaps her hand with her sheet covered hand.
"No! Bad chef!" Margarita said.
"Oh come on!" Banica complained. "I just want some of the treats."
"Why don't you snack on a ice cream pint in the freezer?"
"Oh very well." Banica walked over the freezer and found a few pints in there, Banica picked out a mint flavored one. Banica remove the lid, takes out the spoon, and happily devours it.
"What flavor did you get?"
"Mint chocolate." That answer caused Margarita to freeze in place, she knew full well of who likes that particular flavor.
"MINT CHOCOLATE!?"
"Yes, Mint Chocolate, why?"
"TH-THAT'S GALLERIAN'S FAVORITE FLAVOR! HE'LL KILL YOU FOR IT!"
"Ah bologny."
"Oookay, it's your funeral." Margarita said sheepishly as she left the room, possibly to avoid the judge's wrath. Banica blissfully enjoys the ice cream pint, completely unaware of her surroundings let alone another visitor in the room, she stopped when she felt a cutlass sword near her neck, scared, she slowly looked up and found that it was Gallerian, dressed like a pirate with a dark blue coat, white blouse, black gloves, black boots, brown pants, red sash, and a black hat with golden rims. He also has an enraged look on his face.
"The ice cream, give it back." Galleran said coldly, Banica frightfully complied, giving the pirate back his frozen treat. Gallerian causally bonked the chef on the head with a cutlass sword revealing it to be plastic. Gallerian took a bite out of his ice cream, forming an expression of happiness and pleasure.
"You scared me Judge!" Banica exclaimed irritably, "Who do you think you are?!"
"A pirate who loves his ice cream."
"Geez Dad, you've could've just said "please"." Nemesis came in dress in a biker chick-esque attire with platform boots, ripped thigh high socks, fishnets, one biker glove, a dark grey jacket with holes secured by baby pins, a black tank top with matching skirt, a cross with a choker, red eye contacts, and a black notebook in toll.
"What are you? an urban slut?" Gallerian asked, changing the subject.
"Screw off trash-beard-the-pirate, I'm a Shinigami...my interpretation that is."
"Whatever." He takes another bite of his ice cream.
"Oof!" Banica exclaimed when someone grabbed her from behind, she looked and saw the one responsible was Sateriasis, dressed in a nice black suit, black cape, and a white mask that's covering only the right half of his face. "Sa-Sati! We're related you nimrod!" She exclaimed embarrassingly.
"Sati? Who is Sati?" He teased as he picked up and tilted Banica's body back as is he was gonna tango with her. "I'm the phantom of the opera." He leaned in "Now, sing for me, my Angel of Music." He was then smacked in the back of the head by Nemesis's black notebook, dropping Banica in the process. "OW!"
"Knock it off pervert, we got kids coming over."
DING DONG
"Speak of the devil." She saw Riliane going to the door, dressed in a black and red version of one her dresses and holding a stuffed flamingo, going as the queen of hearts liked she promised. She opens the door to see several kids dressed up for Hallows' Evening, quoting:
"TRICK OR TREAT!"
"Oooh! Great costumes!" Riliane cheered as she gave the children their own lollipops.
"Thank you!" They thank her before being on their way.
"HAPPY HALLOWS' EVENING!" She shuts the door.
"I'll take it from here." Margarita said as she grabbed a bowl, the two sinners see Kayo going down the stairs dressed in a layered kimono called a junihitoe, pink, red, orange, and fuchsia colored layers of them. She was also wearing a black hime cut wig with parted bangs and a golden crown. "Oh my goodness Kayo, you look beautiful!"
"Thank you, I'm Kaguya-Hime." She said with a smile, "It's a little hard walking around in this though." She and Riliane enter the kitchen where the sinners are, she sees Banica messing with the radio.
"What are you doing?" Riliane asked.
"Jun gave me a radio channel before we life the hospital, he said something about "K-Pop"." Banica said as she was turning the nob on the radio, just then music started, it was loud and thumping and was speaking in a language that sounded like Makokunese but different, there were ounces of English in it though.
"What the hell is this racket?" Sateriasis asked, covering his ears. "Can you even make out the lyrics?"
"I'm not familiar with this language, it does have a catchy beat though." Banica was shaking her hips to the beat, but then the noise stopped, finding that Nemesis had pulled the plug.
"That is the most annoying thing ever, next to dad's crying." Nemesis said.
In the attic
The box under the shelf was glowing in an eerie red-violet color and convulsing, indicating that the ghost from earlier is now awakened from it's slumber once again. The box tipped the shelf and book over, allowing it to escape it's box again, it stretched before looking out the window in the attic. Seeing a bunch of children arriving to the box, the ghost smiled creepily.
In the kitchen
Allen had made homemade pizza, made with pepperonis, tomato, and basil, and had sliced them into slender pieces for each sinner, Gallerian was removing tomatoes from his slice with a fork and putting them on Banica's plate. "Giving me more tomatoes?" She asked while eating her slices.
"Well yeah, I don't like them so here."
"Huh, how generous of you, Father." Nemesis said, that comment made Gallerian blush a little.
"Don't get the wrong idea, everyone knows I hate tomatoes but I can't just waste them either." Puffing his cheeks.
"Looks like someone's has a little warm side to them, don't you agree, Riliane?" Sateriasis smiled, Riliane giggled.
"Sh-shut up!" He exclaimed. Just then, the lights went off, startling everyone and scaring the children trick or treating.
"Oh no, did we blow a fuse?" Allen groaned, he went to the cabinet and found a wax candle and lit it, he went out of the room to fix the fuse box.
"I-it's ok children! There's nothing to be afraid of!" Margarita said as she tried calming the children down, while saying that, she felt faint, "There's...nothing...to be..." She fell on her back, startling the children.
"HEY! G-GUYS!" A young boy exclaimed, "YOUR FRIEND FELL OVER!" Overhearing it, Sateriasis and Riliane ran over to Margarita and checked her pulse.
"Her pulse is normal, but what caused her to faint?" Sateriasis asked.
"I don't know, but she never slept either, maybe it's fatigue?" Riliane asked, they heard some of the children screaming outside, causing the kids present to run inside the house. "Wh-what's going!?"
"MONSTERS!" A young girl screamed.
"THEY'RE HEADING THIS WAY!" Another boy yelled, just then Allen came out of the basement.
"The fuse box isn't blown but I don't understand why the power we-...Why are the children here!?"
"Th-they're monsters coming this way!" One of the kids said.
"Monsters?" Allen moved through the sea of children to look out through the window, it was dark with the only exception of the keyhole shaped moon, he looked for a bit until he saw that there's several red-violet balls of light slowly coming towards the Marlon flat, and in those lights are strange looking creatures, each having a dark grey skirt and crown like appearances with red faces and arms, and large glowing yellow eyes. The site of them has made Allen's spine shiver and his hair stiff.
"WHOA!" He exclaimed. "WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS!?"
Banica looked out from the kitchen window. "Cripes, they're Flatwoods Monsters." Banica said in astonishment.
"What?" Sateriasis asked.
"Flatwoods Monsters, very common in Mastia's Alien folklore, they terrorize people until dawn, but how are they here?"
"Red-violet lights?" Kayo whispered to herself, that's when she realized something was wrong. "The ghost!"
"Kayo, now's not the time for ghost pranks!" Allen said, recalling the shower incident from earlier.
"N-no, I'm being serious! The ghost is real!
"What are you saying?"
"It's my fault." Nemesis said. "There was an oujia board in the attic and I brought the ghost who is possibly controlling those things upon ourselves." The sinners were both baffled and confused from what Nemesis said.
"YOU WHAT!?" Allen yelled.
"I'm sorry! I never meant for it to happen, I just wanted to show Kayo how it works! I closed the box properly! Honest!"
"Honest nothing! That thing tied me to a chair!" Gallerian yelled angrily. "I've could've rotted in there because of your friend, you sl-!"
"Hey hey hey! Not in front of the children." Riliane said, cutting him off from swearing.
"I'm so very sorry." Nemesis said with her head down.
"We'll deal with it later but now we have to take care of those monsters here." Allen said irritably as he pointed at the window, "They're getting closer."
"We need guns to shoo them off." Banica said.
"We don't have any, Held confiscated the weaponry."
"I found a BB Gun in the basement." Banica said while holding up a hand held BB Gun with a container.
"How did-".
"I guess the gods forgot about it when they made our house."
"Mine." Gallerian takes it and runs outside.
"Alright, but remember to give it back when your done, It counts as weaponry." Allen said, he then saw Riliane running up into her room, a few seconds later she comes back with a slingshot. "Where did you get that?"
"From my toy chest." Riliane stood next to Gallerian, took out an acorn from a small bag and aimed it at the monster coming towards the front door.
"Just a little closer." Gallerian said quietly, he shot the monster and it disintegrated, Riliane shot the other one coming from the right, Gallerian did the same to the one on the left, and so on. The children cheered for the their aim.
"Excellent! You two!" Kayo said.
"We're not through yet." Banica said, there's three near the kitchen's door, and the ones that were shot will just keep coming back til dawn."
"We'll either need to fight them off, or shut the oujia demon away!" Riliane said as she shot another one heading towards the kitchen door.
"Nemesis, this is a chance to redeem yourself for this mess." Allen said, "You need to properly seal the oujia demon away before we run out of ammo."
"Why don't we just attack them with brooms or rakes?" Sateriasis asked while holding a broom, he was about the exit the flat when Banica pulled him back by the arm.
"NO SATI! It's too dangerous to attack them at close range." Banica said, "There have been people getting pneumonia and swelling throats from making physical contact, you have to shoot those buggers from a distance."
"How? We only have plastic weaponry."
"It will have to do for now." She turned to Nemesis and said: "Seal the demon, Nemesis."
She nodded upon hearing the Epicurean's words and went to the bedroom, there she grabbed her cross and bible. Nemesis then returned to the attic with the things in hand and found the demon, fully awake, and floating. the Ghost turned around and saw Nemesis. The demon smiled wickedly at the former dictator. "I didn't want to do this..." She takes out the cross. "...But you left me with no other choice..."In the name of the great millennium tree, I command thy evil spirit: back to the depths of hell"!" As she was holding up the cross, the demon let out a wicked cackle, the cross didn't work. "Alright then, maybe a passage from the bible will do the trick then." She opens the bible and says:
"When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person
It passes through waterless places seeking rest
but finds none.
Then it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.'"
Downstairs
meanwhile, the children are hiding in the living room with Kayo treating a comatose Margarita, she was confused to why Margarita fell unconscious when she could never sleep herself.
"Is she going to be ok?" A little boy dressed like a vampire asked.
"I hope so little one." Kayo said, "It's just weird though, what made her faint? Did something happened to her demon?"
"THERE'S TOO MANY OF THEM!" Sateriasis yelled from the front yard. He was throwing rocks at the monsters slowly gliding to them, each sinner present were shooting or throwing their own ammo at them, Riliane with a slingshot and acorns, Banica with a plastic bow with suction cup arrows, and Gallerian with a hand held BB gun. But every time they get hit they revert back to their original spot they first appear in and continue coming for them.
Soon Sateriasis and Banica ran out of their own ammo and ran back inside. "You can't be out of ammo now!" Gallerian yelled as he was shooting at the Flatwoods Monsters, he soon ran out of his round, he tried refiling the gun but accidentally dropped his bag of ammo, forever lost in the vast darkness, even finding them would be futile because they gotten too close. "SHOOT!" He dropped his gun and ran back.
Riliane and Allen were the only ones to stand up to them, Allen soon ran out of rocks.
"Oh no! Riliane we have to get back!"
"No! I can take care of these savages!" Riliane said as she kept on shooting acorns.
In the attic
"...And whenever the unclean spirits saw him
They fell down before him and cried out:
"You are the Son of God."
Nemesis finishes reading a few passages, only to fine that the demon is still there, mocking a yawn and wicking at Nemesis. "HURRY UP NEMESIS! WE'RE ALMOST OUT OF AMMO!" She heard Allen calling from downstairs.
"DAMMIT!" Out of sheer frustration, she kicked a tower of boxes which caused a chain reaction to occur, the boxes landed on the red-violet being, rendering it useless. Seizing the opportunity, Nemesis jumped on the demon and began to bash the ghost's head with the bible and yelled: "THE POWER OF HELD COMPELS YOU! THE POWER OF HELD COMPELS YOU! THE POWER OF HELD COMPELS YOU!" Over and over.
"O-O-OK! UNCLE! UNCLE! YOU WIN!" The demon said, it sounded feminine yet childish.
"Huh?...That voice...who are you?"
Downstairs
Riliane was out numbered by the Flatwoods Monsters surrounding the house, just then they all disintegrated into nothingness. "I-Is it over?" Riliane asked as the lights came back on and the kids cheered, Margarita began to stir, waking up.
"Oh your awake, Margarita!" Kayo exclaimed, relieved.
"Wha? What happened?" Margarita asked tiredly while rubbing her eyes.
"You've passed out."
"I have? That means Eve must be doing something."
"Eve? As in Eve Moonlit?"
"She's right." Nemesis said suddenly, over her shoulder was the bonded ouija demon that was terrorizing the household. ""She" told me everything." She began walking down the stairs as she continues. "This so called ouija demon had set the whole thing up, the oujia board that I used turned out to be a fake just to lure me and Kayo into a false sense of security thus starting a chain of events, why? Just for her own twisted amusement."
"Oh come on! I was just bored that's all!" The demon said. Nemesis threw her on the couch next to Margarita.
"Allen, remove her wig."
"Wig?" He asked.
"Just remove it." Nemesis said, Allen complied, he stepped forward and removed her wig, long strains of teal green hair fell out, much to their surprise and confusion. "The false Demon of Sloth; Eve Moonlit, I've should've known...how did you get out of the doll?" He asked.
"The Demon of Wrath let me out." Eve answered. "He wanted me to do him a favor, I only agreed because I was bored."
"That would explain why Margarita fainted." Sateriasis said. "By using your powers, Margarita temporarily went out of existence due to just being a persona."
"Now I get it, I fainted because her powers were on overdrive." Margarita said.
"What favor did the Demon of Wrath want with you?" Allen asked.
"I'm not saying, if I did you all be dead by now." Eve answered with a sadistic grin on her face, enjoying the view of the sinner's frightened expression.
"And why was Dad tied up while wearing a maid's dress?" Nemesis asked.
"I thought it be funny, plus I want to see if he looked cute in it, and he is."
"I AM NOT ANYONE'S DRESS UP DOLL!" Gallerian yelled. Just then the doorbell ringed, Gallerian answered the door, it was Behemo, wearing a black gothic dress with skeleton makeup on. "Behemo?"
"That's my name, don't wear it out." He joked. "I believe I have misplaced some children in this here residents...there they are." He stepped inside. "Where have you all been? Your parents are worried sick." He then saw Eve. "And what do we have here? An escaped fugitive?" Eve raspberries him.
"Eve was summoning those Flatwoods Monsters at us!" Riliane said.
"Is that right? Well then we'll make sure she doesn't do that again." Behemo then walked over to Eve and threw her over his shoulder much to her disdain, "Come kids! Back to the Heavenly Yard!" Just as the children are leaving, one little girl stayed behind, she smiled and said:
"Thank you for protecting us, Sinners."
"You're very welcome dear." Banica said, smiling. The girl ran back with the others to the Heavenly Yard, they saw as many partials of light flew into the keyhole shaped hole. Just as things are finally calming down, a piece of parchment flew down onto the porch. Kayo picked it up and saw that it was written, it said:
~Dear Sinners,
You've think I'm through with you yet? I think not. In fact: I've enjoyed my time terrorizing you eight with my Flatwoods Monsters that I've decided to make it a new tradition. "Every year on Hallows' Evening night, at 2:30 AM, my Flatwoods Monsters shall attack your home until 5:45 AM, if you can fiend them off till then you win! If not...well you'll just have to find out yourselves." Be sure to stock up on plenty of ammo! Happy Hallows' Evening!
Love, Eve Moonlit! XXX~
This news had gave Allen and the sinners a look of horror, now they're forever cursed with having to deal with Eve's new "Holiday Tradition". "I'm so sorry about this, I never attended it to happen." Nemesis said quietly.
"It's fine, Nemesis, it wasn't really your fault to begin with anyways." Allen said.
"Yeah but now we got an invasion coming after us next year."
"That's true, but we'll be ready when it happens...Come on, let's just enjoy the rest of the evening before it gets any later, we got to get up early tomorrow." They all headed inside.
"Get up early? For what?" Riliane asked.
"We'll be returning to Capriccio Academy tomorrow." The sinners stopped when they heard the name of that place, their first day of course was pretty rocky so it was highly understandable to why they hanged their heads down in utter disappointment.
END CHAPTER
I've worked really hard on this story for weeks on it, though I felt like it started to lag a little, I hope you guys liked it.
*I had to look up for the history of Halloween for it's origins(it's also modified with an EC flavor), and of course the witch trials are from the new JOC novel.
**If you look closely on what Nemesis's costume ideas are based off of, you'll notice that it's inspired by the Anime and Manga series "Death Note", though her costume is based off of Misa Amane's outfit from her official artwork.
***The Shower incident was parodied from the famous shower scene from the 1960's horror film "Psycho".
****The song the children sang is made up, but it's melody and Lu Li La is inspired by "Recollective Musicbox"(Luka Version).
*****The Flatwoods Monsters are in fact the same creatures from American Folklore, though the attack pattern is inspired by the "Alien Invasion" quest from Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, because the aliens there and the Flatwoods Monsters are identical.
******The Bible quotes Nemesis used are real, they're taken from Matthew 12:43-45 and Mark 3:11(please don't hate me for that)
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