Running to the consultation room with
items in hand, Angel put them down and helped to move the heavy oak table to
the side room.
“This thing weighs a flippin’ ton!”
“Stop whining and hurry. We need to get
this circle cast, and get this house cleared.”
“Hurry? Are you not feeling how heavy this
thing is? Or have your Wonder Woman powers kicked in?”
Celeste tsked at her and rolled her eyes.
With the table finally moved, they worked in unison. Sprinkling the room with
holy water, reciting the 23rd Psalms, and then sending prayers to
the loas for their help.
“I’ll be right back.”
“Hun we don’t have time we need to start
now.”
“We also need something to get a reading.
I’m grabbing the bones, since those are the only thing that have not been
incinerated…yet.”
“I have an onyx pendulum in here. We can
use that.”
Ignoring her, Angel ran to the kitchen and
turned around to start heading back to the consultation room when a wave of
dark energy hit her like a brick wall. Collapsing on all fours , she wretched
uncontrollably.
“Angel, hun? Come on we don’t have…Bon Dieu!”
As Celeste ran to help her friend, she was
knocked back and slammed into the living room wall by the same dark
energy. Grabbing her head and
trying to control the buzzin in her ears, “Angelique…oooouch? Are you ok?”
“Yeah, just got the wind knocked out of
me. What about you?”
“Got the black knocked of my fine ass, but
other than that, I’m just peachy, sweety.”
Both of them let out a tight bitter laugh,
but it did help to relieve some of their tension.
“Can you come towards me? Can you make it
back to where I am?”
Angel, tried to get up on her feet but her
stomach was still lurching from the foulness of the energy that was swirling
all around her. “I’ll try.” She crawled on all fours taking it slow, inch by
inch, until she reached Celeste. Sliding down against the wall next to her, she took in a deep
breath, centered herself and drew
down a beam of white protective healing light to encircle herself first, then
extend around them both. Grabbing Celeste’s hand, power arched between them and
the bubble of light solidified like a crystal. For now they were safe. For now
they could rest and think.
“Ok. So what’s the plan?”
“Je ne sais pas, ma cher. I just don’t
know. But, I know that we have to get to the consultation room. Get that
protection circle erected and get some answers.”
“Why not do it here?”
“Hell to the nah! Are you forgetting what
just happened or, what happened earlier? I am not about to become a human
lightening rod in here because of those things. “
Looking down at the leather bag sitting in her lap, Angel knew that their
chance of making it to the consultation room was slim to none right now, and
their best bet was to do the reading there. Why not do the reading
here? We are in a protective bubble. If we can get at least some information as
to what is going on then that will give us a better shot at resolving this
issue. She had made up her mind.
“I’m gonna do
it. I’m gonna do the reading in here.”
“Have you lost
your goddamned mind?!!”
“Think, C-. We
are in a protective circle…of sorts. The negative energy that was affecting
them out there might not affect them in here. “
Celeste looked
at her friend with doubt, then finally gave in.
“Fine, but if I
get electrocuted to death, and you survive, I am coming back to haunt yo’ ass. Hope the men you bring to your bed
enjoy voyeurism.”
“Just plain
nasty”
“Oui, that I am.
And proud of it!”
Fear shining
brightly in both of their eyes, they give each other a hug and set to work.
“Ok, let’s do
this. This bubble is tight as all hell, and I have got to pee like a friggin’
horse.”
“TMI…t.m.i.”
“What’s a little
sharing of personal bodily functions between friends?”
“Refer to the
first fucking statement.”
Maneuvering
around so they were facing each other, legs crossed, they crossed their wrists
and grabbed each other hands.
Focusing their energy, a gold thread wound around them like the infinity
symbol getting larger and brighter, extending the crystallized bubble to make
more room for them and push back the darkness that was on the outside slithering over their refuge trying to
find a way to get at it’s prey. The light they generated was warm, loving, and
sparkled with the purity of bon Dieu.
“K. I think
we’re good. Let’s get this over with.”
“Agreed.”
Angel emptied
the contents of the protective bag out into her hand this time the bones did
not feel electrified, they thrummed like a strong heart beating in an
athlete’s chest. Hello
my loves. She thought.
“Papa Legba! I
call to you we need the door way open, we need to see what can not be seen.
Show us the hidden truth.”
The bones were
thrown in between them. They bounced and rattled around what seemed like an
eternity. Then finally an answer…ALL strong no’s.
“Merde! Cher,
that is no good. No good at all.”
“Really? I
hadn’t figured that one out.”
“Hey, no need to
get pissy with me.”
Angel sighed, “I
know. Sorry. But this is the last thing I needed to see.”
“Roll them
again. Not sure if it will make much of a difference, but it doesn’t hurt to
try.”
The bones were
rolled once more. And much as they had expected, they got the same answer.
“Ok, we are
going about this the wrong way. We already know that we got big, bad, and
definitely ugly out there causing all hell to break loose, but we need to know
why.”
“True dat,
sweety. So what we need to be asking is who is doing this and why.”
“I knew I kept
you in my life for a reason.”
“Well one out of
the two of us has to be the brains of this operation.”
Angel playfully
punched her best friend in the arm. She was right. They needed to know who and
why. So the bones were rolled asking if what was trying to harm them had to do
with Angel’s dream. A strong yes. Was it the thing in her dream that was causing
the this mess? A strong no. Was it someone connected to the thing chasing her
in the dream? A strong yes. Last question…was it someone she knew?
The bones
bounced and then did something she had never seen before, they up ended and
spun and spun, without stopping. They heard a crack and looked up. Their
protective barrier was weakening.
“Fuck! What
now?!”
“Grab those
things and put them back in the bag.
Angel tried to
grab them and they shocked her.
“Ouch!” shaking her hand , she turned the bag inside out and grabbed
each one in turn then righted the bag with the bones inside. They buzzed with
deadly energy.
“Hun, we have no
time left. We have got to get to the consultation room. “
“Celeste, there
is no way we will be able to make it there. You see how thick that is?”
Looking out
through their protective bubble, they saw the dark energy becoming thicker and
blacker, almost as if it was absorbing everything it touched. But they saw a
clear path. A slim one, if they took it now they might be able to make it.
“Ok, ok. We got
one shot at this. Take my hand we stay linked no matter what. We run that path
there straight through. No looking back. You got it.”
All Angel could
do was nod her head in agreement. The fear building in her was too great to do
much else.
More cracks were
forming, the passage was starting to close, they got in a crouched position.
“On the count of
3. Un…deux…”
“Hey what
happened to three?!”
Celeste ignored
her shot forth a blast of energy she had been building to break their barrier,
and took off in a life or death sprint dragging her friend behind her.
Almost there, she thought. Just as she placed her foot within the
consultation room there was a scream, but not from her. It was Angel. She
turned to see her friend lifted partially in the air. Something had grabbed her
ankle long, inky black sinewy strands of the nastiness was trying hard to take
Angel.
“The hell you
will!”
Celeste pulled
down as much energy as she could with a speed she had never done before and
shot it out through her free hand at the center of the black mass. It recoiled,
dropped Angel, and she dragged her friend into the consultation room before
their path permanently closed.
