A/N: Based on an RP with AnnaleaseTurner. Read & Review!
It was the year 1693 and three siblings were meant to be in bed. There was a boy and two girls. A shadow brushed past the window and the two girls were gone. Only the sleeping boy was left. These siblings were Thackary -the boy-, Emily -the youngest girl- and Tabitha -the eldest girl-. The girls followed the figure, entranced. The figure was female but not clear who, a hood covering her hair and face.
The figure woke up the boy as there were farm animals roaming about, minding their own business. "Emily? Tabitha?" the boy asked in his thick accent, but didn't find his sisters. "Emily! Tabitha!" he came out, looking for them, but couldn't find them at all.
There was another young girl, but she didn't seem to be in any trouble. Emily and Tabitha followed the figure, smiling and even laughing. Another boy stood watching, worriedly. The figure led them towards the cottage in the woods.
"What this be about?" the young girl asked as she saw the boy ask for his sisters.
"Emily and Tabitha are in the woods, I have to find and help them." the older boy, Thackery, told her.
The two then decided to go together. Thackery told his friend to get his father and the others after a failed call to get Emily and Tabitha away from their doom.
"Come on, Constance." Thackery told the younger neighbor girl who was like a friend to Emily.
The girl, Constance, nodded and ran with him to do just that. Elijah ran to get them. Tabitha was dancing. Emily skipped and laughed and danced too. The figure led them into her house. Tension builds up as Thackery and Constance were running to find the lost girls. However, they got far into the woods and tripped, falling over several dead leaves and rolling down a hill, though thankfully, not being injured or killed.
The two looked up after hearing the giggles from girls going to a cottage and they finally made their destination. Constance and Thackery got up and went to continue to get Tabitha and Emily away from the hooded figure luring them away.
"Come, children." the figure says, leading the girls in.
Emily went in first, followed by her eldest sister. Tabitha was still entranced too.
Thackery and Constance got down and watched the girls go into the cottage. The door shut behind them. Whether by bewitching magic or the autumn wind remained a mystery. Thackery carefully crossed the path and Constance followed behind him and they got to a window.
The two peeked inside to see now three cloaked figures together with candles surrounding the inside with a cauldron in the corner. The one leading pulled back and started to dance. Emily was sat in a seat. Tabitha was sat next to her. They smiled but looked surprised when they saw Thackery and Constance.
"Emily..." Thackery whispered.
"Tabitha..." Constance added.
This caused the three cloaked figures to look to the window, making Thackery and Constance duck down to avoid being seen. The one who led them continued to dance. Tabitha sat back.
"Come, but be quiet." Thackery whispered to Constance.
The girl nodded and followed him to help save Emily and Tabitha. They went to sneak around inside the cottage, but it drew the attention of the three wicked women to look to the source of the sound, but the two kids hid every chance they had so they wouldn't become victims as well.
Sarah looked around.
"I smell children..." Mary says.
Emily and Tabitha sat, holding hands.
Constance and Thackery were together inside the cottage as the wicked sisters were together while Tabitha and Emily were just sitting. Constance went to Thackery's sisters while the boy was trying to trick the witches and set himself and the girls free and expose the villains for their acts of witchcraft.
He flung the boiling pot against the two after him and made the cauldron spill over them with the fowl liquid inside from their brew. Sarah was advancing with Mary. Unfortunately Tabitha and Emily were almost like dolls with their stares. They didn't react.
Sarah was focused on Thackery.
Mary glanced over at the two. "Sisters..." she says.
Both girls had a wispy glow surrounding them.
The three grouped together to see the spell they were casting over upon Emily and Tabitha. They seemed to have been sucking out the girls' souls in just one breath.
"Wherefore art they do such criminal things to innocents?" Constance murmured as she tried to help Thackery up to stop the witches in time that they would be burnt, drowned, or any form of punishment a witch could have in Salem.
Thackery signaled for her to keep quiet so that they could help his sisters, but it nearly seemed too late. The witches danced in celebration that they have defeated the young girls as their heads were bowed in the chairs they were lured to. Both the girls were dead.
Sarah laughed. "I am beautiful... Boys will love me!" She exclaims.
"We're young." Mary laughs.
"But, it's a start," Winnie added jokingly, then grew dramatic.
Thackery and Constance were now standing, seriously and angrily.
"You hag!" Thackery spat out at them for doing such a thing to his sisters. "There are not enough children in the world to make thee young and beautiful!"
"Hag?" Winnie caught that in his fighting insult.
Sarah and Mary looked shocked and a little angry. Constance looked worried as the witch sisters looked outraged.
"Sisters, did you hear what he called you?" Winnie asked rhetorically.
Mary gave a weird noise. Sarah wanted to play with Thackery.
"No!" Winnie snapped at the playful sister. "Book, come to Mommy..." she summoned their book which floated over into her hands and she flipped through pages on how to punish Thackery and Constance. Sure, Constance didn't do anything, but they wanted to make sure she was just as much in trouble as the boy was for also trespassing.
"Dost thou think-eth they will killeth us?" Constance asked.
"I sure hope-eth not." Thackery whispered, and held her close to protect her from the incoming doom that would be plagued on them.
Winnie slammed the book shut and gave it to Sarah to put away as she came up with a wicked idea. Sarah put it carefully away. Mary grinned.
"Their punishment shall be to not die," Winnie said, allowing them all to sync that in until she would reveal what she had in store for the innocent kids. "But to live forever with their guilt."
Constance and Thackery still stood bravely, even if they were a little scared inside.
"As what, Winnie, as what?" Both her sisters ask excitedly.
Winnie made her choice. Constance managed to escape, but was cursed to live forever as well as Thackery. The boy became a black cat and the girl now looked alittle younger, but still looked like her normal self. She would now never age or die.
Suddenly the door was heard knocking upon. "Open this door!" a male's voice shouts.
Mary covered the two dead children. Mary and Winnie tried to sound innocent as the man called for witches and they were accused of their witchcraft. Winnie insisted they were kind spinster ladies. Mary added in that they were spending a quiet evening at home. However, Sarah revealed they were sucking the lives out of children and that infuriated her sisters. This caused the villagers to surround the Sanderson sisters and take them to be hung for their misdeeds.
Sarah was choked by her sisters, but soon they were all standing on the platform. She grinned. "This is terribly uncomfortable..." she says, sounding pleasurable.
Winnie looked bored as she had a noose around her neck.
"Winifred Sanderson?" a man asked, standing with a woman, presumed to be his wife.
"Yes?" Winnie answered without interest.
"I will ask thee one final time," the man grew aggressive. "What hast thou done with my son and the young lass, Constance?"
Sarah smiled. Mary laughed quietly. Thackery's father glared at them. Winnie refused to answer for a good while. As she was pestered, she simply answered that she didn't know and that a 'cat got her tongue'.
"Enough!" Thackery's dad yells.
Sarah and Mary silenced but look amused.
"Sisters, sing." Winnie commanded Sarah and Mary as they were about to be lynched to their death for their wrong-doing like many others accused of witchcraft. It was the system and the way to go. The Sanderson sisters sang a song that was unholy to many. Little did everyone know, Thackery and Constance were hidden away and listening to this as the Sanderson sisters vowed on every 'All Hallow's Eve' that they would return for more wicked bidding.
Thackery's dad, annoyed and finally having enough gestured for the sisters to be hung. The Sanderson sisters continued their songs and some of the people were told to cover their ears. They were going to come back. Although when was the question. This was no normal All Hallow's Eve. This would probably plague the state of Massachusetts for centuries and years to come. After the sisters had been hung Thackery's dad went to walk away.
"Neither their mothers, their fathers, nor anyone else, knew what became of them those 300 years ago," a female voice came up, revealing that this is a story being told in a modern day school classroom in 1993. "And so, the Sanderson sisters were hanged by the Salem town folk. Now, there are those who say on Halloween night, a black cat and an ageless, immortal girl still guard the old Sanderson house, warning off any who might make the witches COME BACK TO LIFE!" the teacher jumped to surprise her students and even wore a witch's black hat to fill the mood.
One boy seemed bored while another girl, one similar to him jumped with the class. The boy scoffed. Meanwhile the girl looked almost embarrassed by the boy's attitude.
"Aha, it seems we have a skeptic in our midst," the teacher smirked to the boy who seemed sarcastic about the story. "Mr. Dennison, would you care to share your California, laid-back, tie-dyed point of view?"
"Everybody knows that Halloween was created by the candy companies." 'Mr. Dennison' says.
"Max..." the girl groans quietly, shaking her head.
Some of the other students snickered a bit, along with him talking about how Salem was obsessed with witches and wearing black, mostly because of the ancient witch trials. The teacher was not amused by that answer either, until a girl named Allison explained what Halloween was all about.
Max stood up and walked over to Alison. "Here, call me if Freddy Krueger comes for you." he says, handing her his number.
The girl, called Harriet or Harry by her family, looked so annoyed. She ran a hand through her hair and made it slightly more messy.
