prologue
It was a clear spring night; a light breeze filled the air, the light but faint stench of ash and char swam through the air. The sky was clear for miles, stars sparkling like a disco ball. It was midnight, it was exactly 12:00. A gunshot was heard. Attention was pulled to old, unused, train tracks. The night sky had embers of a distant fire, a quite large distant fire. A young man was shooting at AK-45 at something, dragging his wounded friend, “J-Just stay away!” The young man stuttered out. A roar responded to him, he flinched, “I N-never thought we be doing this!” The young man screamed out. A darken creature of black slowly patrolled around the men, its face was not visible except for its many, many red eyes. It eyed them angerly. The older man groaned in his deep southern accent, “Just get the fuck out of here kid!” the young man shock his head, “NO. You have a wife and kid's man! I'm not going to let you die!” The creature suddenly halted. The young man finally looks from the older man. His heart nearly stopped, the creature stared at him, he dares not look away. Nor did the creature. Finally, the young man looked away, closing his for the attack to happen. But it never happened. He looked up, the creature was near inches away from his face. It was staring him down. His eyes widened, pulse quickened. The creature breath was calm and controlled. But the young man was chaotic and short breaths, he started to cry. His hands shook uncontrollably, God he looked scared. The look in his eyes showed total and uncontrollably fear. He wondered who would make the first move. They both just stood there for what felt like hours. The creature charged them and a bloodcurdling scream was heard and-
Becky awoke suddenly in a cold sweat. She sighed heavily, “Fucking hell” she slumped back to bed with a groan. She rolled over to her side to grab her phone. The time read 4:28 AM. She sighed. She fell back to sleep, what a fucking nightmare.
6:45 AM
Lucas burst through the door, “Breakfast is ready!” Becky grabbed her stuff bear and chucked it at him, he nearly got hit if not for the door covering him, “Ok! Not awake yet! Got it!” She slowly slid off her comfortable navy-blue bed, and sluggishly moved for the shower. The hot water soothed her bruised body, she always won the fights, sometimes they would just run two seconds into the fight, she never knew why, but she would take what she got. After the nice shower, she grabbed one of her nice bras and underwear and a black crop-top that said, ‘Death Eternal’ with a red dragon in the middle. She then slides on her ripped jeans, with her brown belt. She brushed her wet raven black hair back, then curled it like it was the 1950’s, she stared into the shattered mirror, looking at her two scar’s, it was technically one big scar that was on the left side of her face, it stretched from the bottom of her cheek to her nose, the last one was on her right eyebrow. She got them when she was a kid, some accident of sorts. Rabid dog, that’s what her mom said high one night. She sighed and walked away from the shattered mirror. She grabbed her red plaid over coat, and headed for the door. She stopped to pick up her teddy bear, its name was Betty, it was white with stickies and a heart in the middle of its tiny chest. She smiled and place it by her bed.
A loud yawn left Becky's mouth as she left her bedroom. The smell of cigarettes hit her nose, she cringed and walked into the kitchen, where Lucas was making Mac & Cheese, “look who up” Becky rolled her eyes, she moved for the coffee pot when Lucas threw a cookie at her. She caught it before it hit her head, “Don’t throw sugary goodness bro” Lucas chuckled, “I didn’t think you could catch it!” Becky took a bite out of the cookie, “I have better reflexes then you little bro” Becky looked at the clock, it read 7:59, Becky's eyes widen, “Shit were going to be late!”
Becky floored it and making it just on time. When she got into 1st class the usually group of nasty girls started talking. Sure she never cared because of her beating all their ass’s, but it was just funny to see how ugly they were. “Becky Woods!” Becky cringed at her own name, Mrs. Collins flat voice made her cringe even more, “where is your late slip?” “up your ass” Becky coughed, the whole class laughed “what did you say?” she said angerly “Nothing Mrs. Collins” Becky smiled. “Just sit down” she sighed in defeat. She did. Once she sat down Penelope, her best friend started, “Sooooo. Who asked you out yesterday? Please don’t tell me you pick Isaac, he is soooo gross girl. Please say you picked Dillan I-” “Peggy. Calm down, I didn’t even pick One” she laughed, Peggy gasped, “Really???” She nodded, Peggy gasped again, “what?? Why??” Becky shrugged, “I don’t know girl-” “Becky! Pay attention!” she rolled her eyes, “yes ma'am”
In 4th an interesting conversation came up. “wait, so you have a magic book that is 5000 years old and you never told me?” Becky looked over, “Ya I got it when I was ten. James I thought you knew about this?” James shook his head, “not even once” Becky look in dismay, “well shit, guess you haven’t heard about my dreams either?” “Nope” Becky looked even more surprised, “God dam” James squinted his eyes in the sassy's way Becky and Peggy have seen, “well aren’t you going to tell me? What are you waiting for girl, spill the tea!” Becky nodded with a little chuckle, “Yes James, Yes” Becky continued, “well it always starts with this nice view of a little town, clear sky's, a light breeze, you know a normal spring night. Then this faint smell of ash and char, these sudden gunshots rang out. And this young man I named Miles and this old guy I name Jedediah because of his thick southern accent-” “sounds like my type” James laughed, Becky laughed as well, “Yes, exactly your type! Anyways like I was saying the older guys wounded right and the older guys shooting at this, thisss-” she thought for a moment, “actually I’ve never seen its face but, it stood like 8 feet tall with four wings on it head and back, with 4 arms. And so many red glowing eyes, and six horns. It was really scary looking, and it just stared at the men, with this sense of anger and sadness in its eyes. And Miles just looked so God dam sacred and then it just charged at them and-” “what is it doing? Charging for their credit cards?” James laughed, Becky rolled her eyes, “oh my god James, that was so caliche! But seriously, that’s where it just ends, mind you there is a bloodcurdling scream at the end, but that’s the same recurring nightmare I’ve been having” she shrugged, James thought for a moment, “what if you use that spell book to summon that thing in you dream?!” Becky looked at him, “you know, that’s not such a bad idea!” she took out spell book and looked, “no. No. No. definitely not. Ah yes hear it is, the soul summing! It says we need 5 people to summon the being. And it has to be at midnight.” James nodded, “ya lets do this!” Peggy agreed, “Fuck Ya!”
It was 3:30 at Elkwood high, the normal group of cool kids gathered around Becky’s locker, Becky laughed as her brother, Lucas fell due to his untie shoes. The hall was filled with laughter. Lucas stood up in embarrassment and walked over to his locker; Becky watched subconsciously. As Lucas opened his locker, the star quarterback player, Michael Walsh stood behind him, pinning him there, Lucas didn’t notice or didn’t want to notice, accidentally backed up into his chest after shutting his locker. Lucas swiftly backed up against his locker. Michael was so much bigger compared to Lucas, and much stronger than Lucas's weak noodle arms. “Michael?” Lucas said gulping down hard trying to avoid Michael’s cold dead glare. “Listen here nerd, you and me are in the same Math class, and if I don’t get an A on the next test, I’ll go to summer school. So, you're going to help me study, got it” Michael growled. Lucas let out a nerves laugh, “I’m sorry but me and my sister-” “I don’t fucking care! you're coming with me tonight” Michael slammed his fist on the locker beside him, leaving a dent in it. Lucas exhaled slowly, “OK. Jesus Christ, you don’t have to break the school for me to go! I still need to go with to my sister and 11 deal? Maybe you can even come?” Michael growled in annoyance, “NO! But I’ll let you go at 11 got it.” Lucas nodded, Michael let him pass. Lucas sheepishly walked over to the group and signaled to talk to her alone. Becky parading herself and walked over to him, “what's up?” Lucas huffed, “I’ll be there by 11” Becky grunted, “hold up your not coming with me. why??” Lucas glanced over at Michael, Becky nodded, “oh. well have fun with the vegetable” Lucas rolled his eyes, “very funny, see you later” Becky laughed, “just don’t have too much fun” Lucas walked to Michael, who glared heavily at Becky. In return she snickered and quietly whispered under her breath, “Good luck bro.”
Becky walked back to her locker, “ok so my brother will be coming at 11. Who else can come?” Peggy grunted, “seriously? He won’t be helping with the preparation?” Becky sighed, “no. But who else can come?” Peggy laughed, “I think you know who to call” the group cringed, “Jason Cross” they said in sink, Becky cringed, “really? My toxic ex?” Peggy placed a hand on her shoulder, “he’s the only one who will join us” Becky sighed, “fine, James call him” James nodded, and called him up. mumbling from the other side of the side of call could be heard. After the call James spoke up, “So Jason is coming, and he wants to say something to Becky” Becky raises her slit eyebrow, “oh god what is it?” “Jason says you're still hot” Becky rolled her eyes and sighed, pinching her freckle nose, “of course he does” Peggy laughed, “ok so who all is bringing food, cas’ I’m bringing cupcakes” Becky smiled, “I’ll bring something to drink.” James chuckled, “I’ll bring the sass” Becky laughed again, then walked to her truck, 12:00 at night here we come!
11:35 PM
“Everyone ready? Everyone here?” Becky spoke, Peggy looked around, “James is here, you’re here, I’m here, Jason's here, no Lucas though” Becky looked back, “he’s said he’d be here by 11, God Dam- Oh there he is” she ran over to him, “so how was it?” Lucas sighed, “lets just say he has a lot to learn still.” she laughed, “oooh that sounds bad” Lucas shook his and chuckled, “your just cracking them out today” Becky patted him on the back, “Ok guys! Its time! Circle up!” Jason elbowed James laughing, James just unimpressed. Becky spoke again, “ok so all you guys have to do is stand in a circle and hold hands!” they did so, “ok now the pigs blood” she grabbed it and put some on her hand, and made a strange symbol of a moon with arrow and cross on the concrete. Becky spoke and light filled the air, wind rushed to there faces. “Holy Shit-” an expulsion of pure energy and light cut Jason off. Everyone got up with grunts and moans.
Becky looked up at the figure, “you look like shit” its voice spoke, Becky slowly exhaled, “who are you?”
“My name Ash”