Escape the Night: Origins of the Society Against Evil

A/N: Hello, world and welcome back to Escape the Night! And also, a birthday shoutout to Joey Graceffa! Happy Birthday, Joey!

Anyway, it's time for the final installment of this story and on Monday, I will be posting the start of the prequel to the series. If you don't want to wait until Monday, then you can start reading it on my AO3 account. Onward!

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CHAPTER THREE: A DISTURBING DISCOVERY

Returning to the study, James picked up the folder of Dawn Hatcher and sat down before opening it once again.

As he read through it, he frowned since there was information in the folder that a man like Arthur shouldn't have access to, and his concern grew the more he read through the folder, plus he was starting to feel fear for the girl.

'How can he know any of this?' he wondered since there was information in the folder that practically screamed that the girl was a Light-bearer, and that shouldn't have been possible since any and all information about the Light-bearers was suppose to be in the possession of the Society Against Evil or of one of their many sub-societies. 'He shouldn't know any of this at all. No one outside of the Society should have any knowledge of this!'

Setting the folder aside, James went through the rest of the folders, and as he did this, the puzzle pieces began falling into place.

By the time James found what turned out to be the diary of the late Arthur, the image that the puzzle pieces were forming wasn't pretty, and it was starting to look like the incident at the 1920s house wasn't what he had expected it to be.

`"Vincent has been having more visions about some kid that the evil is trying to lure with the nightmare. Why the evil is trying to bring in someone new when I have proven that I serve it after I took out my own brother, this is troubling, but this might be the thing I need in order to take control of the evil and take possession of the house itself. I hope so, for if I can use this boy, then I can get rid of the four owners, and then I can control the evil while being the sole owner of the house.

`"I must question Vincent about the boy in the visions and find out as much as I can about him. I was right, this boy is what I need to make the evil work for me! Somehow, this boy has a unique female friend, who is more of sister to him then anything else, and this is intriguing since they come from such different backgrounds. I must do more research on the boy and his female friend, for there is something more to the girl other then her acting career, I'm sure of it.

`"I have convinced the boy, Joey Graceffa, that he is to inherit the house and he has invited the girl, Dawn Hatcher, to stay here with him. Thanks to my own research and Vincent's visions, I now know more about Joey and Dawn then they know about themselves, especially Dawn, and the Light inside her that even she doesn't know about.

`"The evil is scared of the Light, but I highly doubt that she'll be able to summon it before she, Joey, and the friends that are coming in a few days have completed the little game that I have planned.

`"Tomorrow the guests will arrive and Vincent has been having some strange visions that even I am have troubles making sense of, and that has me a bit concerned since I had had to work hard to make sense of his visions in the first place. Of late, his visions have been of a mansion frozen in a different period of time, and that a Sorceress is living inside it.

`"Apparently, this Sorceress is waiting for the time to come when she can lure in an innocent taken by Darkness, and use this innocent to lure in souls from the future, including the keeper of the Light.

`"What is really confusing about all of this, is the innocent that this so-called Sorceress is waiting for sounds a lot like Joey, and it seems like the keeper of the Light is Dawn. I'm choosing to ignore these visions since it's unlikely that this Sorceress will ever set eyes on either Joey or Dawn after I have taken control of the evil with their help, help that they don't even know that they are going to give me."`

This was the last entry in the diary and James dropped the book, feeling uneasy since there was only one Sorceress that he knew was hiding away somewhere in time, and if this was the same Sorceress, then his decision of not telling Dawn the truth about the Light and her being a Light-bearer was probably going to backfire on him if this all turned out to be true.

'This still could be a one-time event,' he thought, getting up to pace around the study, mulling over what he'd learned. 'It's still possible that what occurred at the 1920s house isn't going to happen again, and it's still possible that both Dawn and Joey are going to be able to heal and move on with their lives. I just hope that I'm right.'

James waited until the last funeral for the victims of the 1920s house was done before he went to see Joey and Dawn, catching them at the cemetery shortly after the ending of the funeral for Benny Miller, and he wasn't surprised that they weren't happy to see him.

Especially since he was aware that they, Oli, and Eva being pestered by a newspaper reporter named Jermaine Whitehouse, who'd also been posting on his blog questions about the Society Against Evil, and while this was worrisome, he didn't expect the reporter to find out the truth…hopefully.

Although he'd assured them both that he was just checking up on them, and not stalking them, he knew that the Society was keeping tabs on them both.

After talking with them both, James had given to Dawn the letter that he'd written after reading through Arthur's diary and some research of his own, and when they both left, his driver had taken him to the new safe house that he was to stay at for the remainder of the year.

He'd been tempted to tell them the truth about what was about to happen, even though he was hoping that it wouldn't happen, but he hadn't, and he was hoping that this decision wouldn't come back to haunt him come next year.

James hadn't been at the safe house very long when there was a knock on the door to the study. "Enter."

When the door opened and Teresa Yaw, mother of the late Shane Dawson, entered, James immediately stood up and moved around the desk to greet her properly. "Teresa, I wasn't expecting to see you."

"I know that I should've called ahead, but with everything that's been going on, I needed to see you about what happen to my son," Teresa said curtly as they sat down on the couch. "James, out of all the agents you have access to, why did you send Shane into that place? And just what is so special about that Dawn Hatcher girl to merit so much attention from the Society?"

James had expected this and was ready with an answer. "Teresa, I understand why you're asking me these things and how upset you are over Shane's death, and the truth is that I chose him for this mission because of his friendship with both Joey Graceffa and Dawn Hatcher," he explained. "You see, Dawn is the descendant of two of the most powerful Light-bearer bloodlines, and the Society has been watching over her ever since her birth."

Teresa's eyes widened. "Oh my," she whispered. "I had no idea that she was one of the potential Light-bearers."

"Not many do, and those that have figured it out are either Society members or are currently dead, like Arthur," James stated. "Now, you can see why Shane was given the mission, and had he been successful, I would've shared this information with him, but as it is…"

"I understand," Teresa reassured him. "As upset as I am that my son is dead, I now know why this happen, and I will do whatever is needed to make sure that Dawn remains safe. Does she know that she is the Light-bearer?"

James shook his head. "No, and the Council of Elders had wanted me to tell Dawn the truth and start her training," he responded. "However, I convinced them that she needs time to rest and heal from what she, Joey, Oli, and Eva all went through during those three months in the 1920s house."

"Hopefully what happen is a one-time event and won't happen again," Teresa agreed.

"Here's hoping."

The end…or is it?

A/N: After I wrote the prequel series, I updated this for it to fit in better. I will see you all on Monday because I have another morning shift at the movie theater on Tuesday. Bye for now! R&R everyone!