Happy October everyone to celebrate this spooky season I've decided to write a few owl house horror short stories a few of them based on creepy classics like The Twilight Zone, Goosebumps, and Scary stories to tell in the dark, and a bit of Stephen King following a few characters and OC's with twists turns, and not so happy endings. Here's the first story enjoy!
"Stop running so fast!" Lilith shouted to her younger sister as they ran around the house while their parents were gone.
"Last one kisses a trash slug!" Eda told her as Lilith gagged a bit from hearing that as Eda then slipped and tumbled down the stairs that lead to the basement while Lilith slowly walked down.
"You alright sis?" Lilith asked.
Eda then spat on the floor as a small sharp tooth came out. "Really after two months of you twirling it now, it comes out," Lilith told her rolling her eyes in disbelief.
"On the bright side now I can trap a tooth fairy and hold it for ransom, ten snails sounds like a good bargain," Eda told her sister in glee as the two sisters then looked around to find most things covered in tarps and dust.
"We should leave, this place is too dark," Lilith told Eda who then pulled a tap to find an old crow phone or what was left of it as the beak was broken. "Must be something worth keeping here."
"Nothing here but old junk that mom and dad just leave down here," Lilith said as she pulled out a tarp to find a cracked mirror. "See nothing but a rusty old mirror."
"No, it's not," Eda argued as she then blew the dust off it and starred at it for a bit before touching it. "OW!" Eda yelled as she sucked on her finger as the cracks made a small cut.
"It's not fatal, just stay there I'll get a band-aid," Lilith told her as she went upstairs to the kitchen and found a box as she heard a scream as she ran back to the basement. "Eda what's wrong?"
The youngest Clawthone simply pointed at the mirror as Lilith starred at it. "What did you see?" Lilith asked as Eda responded, "Myself with... couldn't tell if it was a guy or a girl."
Lilith looked only to find her reflection. "I think it's like a blood oath," Eda said as Lilith then backed away. "No, I am not getting involved in... OW!"
Lilith then felt a prick on her finger as Eda held a sewing needle. "Sorry just try please," Eda said as Lilith moaned. "Fine but it's just a mirror and nothing else."
She then placed her bleeding finger on the mirror's glass and looked at it to see what looked like an older version of herself in a dress with a small crown.
"Ok wow!" Lilith said as she turned red before starring at Eda. "Let's keep this between us alright?" Eda then held her bleeding finger. "Blood oath?" "Blood Oath," Lilith replied as the two then placed their bleeding fingers together, and later that night Lilith stayed awake. "It was just an illusion I'm sure of it."
Years Later
"No really no way you can be a band all by yourself?" Eda asked bard track student Raine who was practicing the violin.
"Have you seen anyone else try it?" Raine asked Eda who simply shook her head as Raine then asked "So about next week." "Hey, you know what my answer to your question is."
The two then kissed each other's cheeks while in the hallway Lilith was having a breakdown. "I picked for Grom queen? I don't even know what my fear is!"
"Sis, you alright?" Eda asked as she and Raine were trying to get their lockers to open their mouths.
"How am I supposed to beat something that if I fail will destroy the world!" Lilith asked. "I can take your place?" Eda asked her as Lilith shouted, "No!, it's my responsibility and I'll handle it."
That night
"Is that all you got you weird slob thing..." Lilith chuckled nervously as she held a sword and had fought a few small phobias but now Grom was shifting into her true fear as it then shifted again as Lilith quickly started slicing it to bits before it show it. "That's it right?" Lilith asked as a small crown landed on her head.
"That's my sister right there!" Eda shouted as Riane held her a bit. "I think you've been drinking too much punch and apple blood." "What? HIC!" Lilith simply chucked as she helped her sister walk back home where Eda then threw up in the bathroom while Lilith went downstairs to the basement where she found the mirror was still there.
"So anything else you want to show me?" The mirror then showed her a large trophy. "Yeah, anything more special?" The mirror then kept showing things she could easily be good as Lilith was losing her cool. "Just show me something that will change my life!" It then showed her being admitted into the Emperor's coven robes and all. "Oh, my titan yes! All my hard work pays off that day nothing can go wrong!"
Lilit then went to sleep in calmness as Eda then stumbled into the basement as she saw the mirror. "Hello, old friend soo... anything you want to share?" The mirror then turned bright red as screams and shrieks came out of it. "Ok how about a clear picture instead?" Eda asked as it then showed herself much older with greyish hair on her knees with tears leaking out of her eyes begging an unseen figure for mercy and forgiveness just as a bright green light flashed. Eda was simply in shock as she then quickly ran upstairs.
A few months later
"One spot only, you deal tomorrow." The coven member told them as Eda and Lilith then stayed silent for a while as Eda went to her room while Lilith went back to the basement. "This might sound obvious to you but who wins?" The mirror then showed her and Eda fighting as Eda then beat her with a simple spell. "No, you said that I would make it!" The mirror then flashed to the night market and then to a scroll with an owl seal on it. "The night market? but that's full of thieves, cons, and... curses..."
Lilith thought for a bit before putting a few snails in a sack as Eda approached her. "Hey sis about tomorrow I just wanted to say..." "Sorry can't talk, a quick errand," Lilith said as she rushed out of the house.
"The coven position is all yours... I'll forfeit." Eda finished as she saw a bright red glow from the basement as she went down and saw the mirror. "Ok well you've been enough help but your service is no longer..." It then showed the same image from last time now with her speaking "Can't you see this is wrong!? Sure a bit of pickpocketing and illegal vending but I don't deserve petrification!" Present Eda then quickly covered the mirror before running back to her room trying to sleep the whole thing off as the door then opened.
The next day after the duel
Eda woke up and found herself covered in leaves her school uniform slightly torn as she walked barefoot back home and locked herself in her room. "Ok, a curse that what it had to be right sure Eda you've pulled a few pranks and scams but nothing too harmless."
Lilith then burst into the house in tears before pulling out the scroll from her pocket and carefully looking at the words but nothing except the incantation. "Whoever wrote this could've at least leave a tiny fine print!"
She screamed before tossing the scroll into the fireplace as she realized her mistake. "NO NO NO!" Lilith then tried to grab it but ended up burning her hand instead as the scroll then turned into ash. "Some other way there must be..." Lilith then quickly went down to the basement again as she looked at the mirror and asked "How do I fix this?" The mirror then simply showed a bottle of elixir. "No not a temporary fix, a permanent one!" She yelled as the mirror then showed a metal plaque with her sister's name on it. "Till death..., NO! she can't live with..." "With what?"
Lilith turned around to find Eda holding her stomach aching in pain. "Eda just rest, mom just got the news you should be getting an elixir soon." "I can wait a few minutes as I ask our old friend something."
Lilith tried to block Eda but to no avail as Eda asked the Mirror "Do I ever find out my curser?" "You don't need to ask it that," Lilith told her as Eda simply asked. "Why?"
Before Lilith could reply the mirror then showed the both of them Eda on the floor with grey hair and Lilith simply smirking her hair much longer and dyed. "Lilly please we always had each other's back, this curse I've managed to keep the beast in since it first happened." "Your a danger to everyone Edalyn contained or not a beast is always put down, began the petrification." "Don't do this." "Oh and my last words to are, you've been looking for your curse all these years and yet they were always right in front of you just like... now"
Soon the machine then fired its energy at her as there was nothing left but a stature of mercy.
Lilith then felt sick, "We had our fights but there is no way it could lead to..." "You..." Eda muttered as feathers slowly covered her. "Sister please I can..." One minute Lilith was with Eda, the next she was face to face with a snarling owl beast. "Eda, I know your mad but think before you..."
Lilith then felt a sharp pain as blood leaked from her torso as the beast's claws were now with blood as Lilith quickly made a run for it as she was slashed in the back and was now crawling up the stairs as the owl beast then bit her leg and dragged her back down as Lilith was crying tears of pain and sorrow as she held out her hand close to it. "Eda, please I can still..." Lilith then screamed as the beast then bit and tore off her hand before clawing her face and driving its beak into her torso.
Eda woke up again this time in the basement as she then coughed up an owl pellet. "Ok going to have to get used to..." Eda then stopped at she was covered head to toe in blood.
"What did I... LILY!" Eda then ran up to her sister trying not to vomit over the horror as her eyes were pecked out, organs spilled on the floor, and she was missing a hand. Eda then burst into tears before looking at the mirror.
"Your fault... YOUR FAULT!" Eda screamed as she then kicked the mirror as it shattered into pieces before going back cradling her sister's corpse.
The first story is done, wow that ending was dark!
