The night was dark and dry, unlike the eyes of the household of the Knight Family. Today was rather emotional for all. A valuable woman of the family died of an incurable disease. Her name was Martha Knight. She had two daughters and a husband. The husband, Darrel Knight, was deepest in sorrow.
Two girls were saddened by their mother's death. Sophia, the eight year old, was being comforted by her younger sister, Elizabeth. Even though Elizabeth was two years younger she acted like the anchor to keep her sister strong. This girl wanted to comfort her father as well but she didn't know how to comfort a grown man.
That night Elizabeth and Sophia were tucked away in their warm, comfortable, beds. Sophia was sound asleep while her little sister was having troubles sleeping. Elizabeth tossed and turned, trying to find a comfort but the evil feeling in the atmosphere was making her uneasy.
So the little six year old rolled out of bed and lit a small candle. She slipped on the pair of slippers next to her dresser and took the candle to guide her way downstairs. The hall way pitched black from the lack of light. It made Elizabeth uneasy because even though she had a candle giving her light, it still seemed mysterious to her.
At the bottom of the steps Elizabeth was about to turn towards the kitchen until she heard her father's voice coming from the family room. Regretfully, curiosity made her look to see who her father was talking to. She peeped into the room and became frightful after seeing a man she had never seen before.
This strange man was plumped and had a rather large grin on his dark face. The glare on his glasses made it hard to see his eyes correctly, that made him seem more mysteriously evil. Elizabeth kind of didn't like the looks of him but that's not what's making him frightening the most. It was the energy that this fat man was carrying that made this six year old girl afraid of him. It felt like she was facing death himself. Her chest tightened and gave her a slight cough, but she tried to keep quiet for she didn't want to get caught by anyone. But that didn't work when her older sister snuck up on her.
"Lizzy, what are you doing here?" Sophia asked sternly, scaring her little sister.
"I'm sorry, sissy," Elizabeth looked down.
Sophia grabbed her younger sister's wrist to take her back upstairs but Elizabeth protested against it. Though Sophia was about to scowled Elizabeth they were interrupted by their father's voice calling out to their mother's name.
"Come back, Martha!" Darrel, their father chimed.
A dark beam of light shot down on a mechanical, iron, skeleton, trapping their mother's soul inside. This made Elizabeth's heart quiver as she witnessed a return of a dead person. Even though a naive child would be excited to know that their mother was alive again this made Elizabeth afraid even more. All she could sense was a thirst from something ungodly, death.
"Well done, son, but your wife is not yet complete," the mysterious fat man said to their father. Then he turned to their mother as if to give a command. "Now I want you to kill everyone in this house then wear this man's body as your own.
Elizabeth gasped as she watched her mother take her first steps in that God-awful body. Sophia was confused about what was going on and there was no time for Elizabeth to explain. The small children witnessed their brainwashed mother strike down on her own husband, therefore killing him. His body collapsed down to the ground in a pool of his own blood, lifeless.
Elizabeth's heart pounded against her chest and it increased in repetition as their controlled mother struggled towards her children, to murder them. Elizabeth panicked, not knowing what to do. She didn't want to die, she wasn't ready to die and be put six feet underground just yet.
Suddenly Elizabeth heard her mother's voice coming from the machine.
"Elizabeth, help me!" She heard her mother pleaded.
That's when the young child was struck by a power like no other. It felt like her body was reacting on its own, the voice of her mother's soul must have triggered it. This power was greeted by an overwhelming presence like Elizabeth was the presence of God himself. That Higher force rushed through her veins making her body painlessly metamorphose into something that was obviously not human.
Elizabeth was unsure about what happening but she accepted it. Her sense of smell increased and hated the scent that came from her mother's new body. That's when her body decided to attack. With one strike of her right hand; which looked like a canine's paw but with thick fingers and end the suffering that her mother was put through.
The girl looked around for the evil man, who was responsible for this and noticed he was gone. He must have just given the order and vanished. That strange man was obviously not human, otherwise he wouldn't have had the ability to leaned his power to her father and brainwash him to summoning her's and Sophia's mother back from the dead. But that wasn't important at the moment.
The young girl sniffed the air and smelled smoke. She looked behind to find fire spreading throughout the room. Elizabeth completely forgot about the candle that was in her hand, she must have dropped it when she transformed. Fire was quickly casting its flames around the place and the first thing that came to her mind was her older sister, Sophia.
Elizabeth looked around for her older sister and couldn't find her anywhere until she heard Sophia call out from the stairway. The young humanoid canine sprung into action and went straight towards the sound of her sister's coughing. Sophia screamed as Elizabeth ran towards her. The girl struggled against her younger sister's grip unaware that this "monster" was Elizabeth. But Elizabeth was strong enough to endure Sophia's aggressive protesting to get them both outside before they both die in the fire.
They headed towards the forest to get far enough from the burning house. Sophia was still struggling in Elizabeth grip until she realized it was her. The six year old fell to her knees as she changed back to normal. The transformation really tired her out in addition to making her feel nauseous. But that suddenly went away when a small golden ball with wings and tail hovered over the two of them. Elizabeth jumped to her feet because it frightened her.
"To be able to transform your entire body into humanoid wolf in addition to being able to destroy a demon would make you one of the chosen ones," said a strange male voice coming from the forest's shadows. It didn't sound like the evil fat man's voice but Elizabeth still kept her guard up and stepped in front of Sophia to protect her just incase.
"Who's there?" Sophia scowled staying behind her younger sister.
"My name is Marian Cross. I am an Exorcist, whose job is to hunt down and destroy those demons like the one that contained your mother's soul," the strange man said as she walked into the moonlight's shadow.
Elizabeth let her guard down as she looked into his gentle gaze. Tears flowed down her face she just realized that she just made her mother die for a second time and that her father was dead. The golden ball rested itself on Elizabeth's shoulder in trying to comfort her. Sophia also hugged into Elizabeth, weeping over the loss of their parents.
"I know you two are struggling with this and seeing that you two are young, it would be a shame to take you to Headquarters just yet," Marian muttered. His attention turned towards Elizabeth and lifted her chin to make her look at him. "You are an exorcist as of today but I know you don't want to leave your only piece of family just yet. But until you're ready to leave your sister I'll train you within this town and see if I can find a decent home for the two of you."
Elizabeth looked down again and thought about what it meant to be an exorcist. This strange man was telling her all this to her directly but she was still unsure of what he meant by training. She supposed there wasn't any harm in trying and she thought it was really nice of him that he was going to help her get a new family, though she didn't want to think about that at the moment.
Because she didn't want to be away from her sister just yet, since she is only six years she chose to take up the man's offer. But there was one thing for sure that she will lock up her emotions inside to try to forget that she was responsible for her own parent's death.
