Chapter 14

Christina was the last one downstairs the next morning. She walked into the kitchen as Katherine was sitting at the table, breakfast plate in hand. 'Morning.' She said as she saw her older sister come in.

'Morning.' Christina said. She saw their father standing over a frying pan as she sat down between Amy and Lisa. Lisa poured her a coffee which she accepted gratefully.

'Do you want some eggs?' Robert asked her.

'No, thanks.' She said sipping her coffee.

'Chris, you didn't eat dinner you need to eat breakfast.' Amy said. Christina sighed and took some bacon from Amy's plate. She took a bite.

'Happy?' She said sarcastically.

'Yes.' Amy grinned. 'Dad can I have some more bacon please?'

'Sure.' He said, a slight smile on his face as he put more bacon on Amy's plate. 'So, do you have a game plan for today?'

'Well, now that we know every member of The Trinity I can try and write a spell to defeat them.' Lisa said.

'You were telling me earlier that they're elementals?' Robert said.

'Yes, water, earth and metal.' Katherine said. 'So Lisa's spell needs to account for all three.'

'I was also looking into destroying the amulet.' Katherine said.

'Yeah? What did you find out?' Christina asked.

'That we'd need a lot of power to destroy it. It's only been attempted once and the explosion wiped out a twenty acre farm.'

'Shit.' Dani said.

'Danielle, language.' Robert said.

'Sorry.' She smiled.

'Hmmm, okay.' Christina said, chawing on more of Amy's bacon.

'I wanted to ask you guys something.' Robert said. 'I had the strangest dream last night, I don't know if it was just all the talk of demons yesterday, but I think I had a dream about demons.' Christina shot Katherine a worried look.

'What happened in this dream dad? Exactly.' Katherine asked.

'Well there were these two guys in cloaks, asking me all of these questions about you and the amulet. It was very strange.'

'Did you tell them anything?' Christina asked.

'I might have, I don't really remember. But it was a dream so.' Robert shrugged.

'Shit, shit!' Christina stood up and looked out of the window before running to check the front of the house.

'What's wrong?' He asked.

'They're demons and they're dream walkers. If you told them where we are they could be here any minute.' Dani told him.

'They're a part of The Trinity.' Lauren added.

'Oh dear God, I'm so sorry girls.' He ran a hand through his hair.

'It's fine dad, you didn't know.' Amy said.

'I don't think they would come themselves anyway, not until they know for sure the amulet is here.' Lisa said, trying to be comforting. Christina came back into the room.

'It looks clear but Lauren, Dani, can you load up on potions just in case?'

'Sure, we'll be back.' They said, leaving the room to collect the potions.

'Where is the amulet Chris?' Katherine said.

'It's in a safe place.' She confirmed.

'I know that, but where?'

'I'm not going to tell you.' Christina said. 'If you know, you're a target.'

'Right now you're the only target.' Katherine stood up.

'And that's the way it's going to stay.' Christina said firmly.

'Damn it Christina, we talked about this last night. You're going to get yourself killed.' Robert said.

'No, we yelled about this last night, and you also told me to protect my sisters. This is what that looks like.' She said before leaving the room.

'Dad, I don't mean any disrespect, but I think you should stop talking.' Lisa said, following Chris out of the room.

Xxxxxx

There was a scream from upstairs causing everyone to go running. Dani and Lauren were in the bedroom gathering potions when Lauren began to yell. 'Lauren!' Dani said, trying to grab her arms as she freaked out. 'Laur, calm down.' She yelled, but it was no use. Everyone appeared in the doorway.

'What happened?' Katherine asked.

'I don't know, one minute she was fine, the next she was screaming.' Dani said. Lauren had backed up to the wall and slid down it.

'Amy, what's she feeling?' Lisa asked.

'She's scared, she feels like she can't breathe.' Amy told them.

'Lauren, what's happening?' Christina asked. She knelt in front of her and put her hands on her knees. 'I'm right here with you but I don't know what's going on, you need to tell me.'

'The room….' Lauren said. 'It's getting smaller, too small.' She said. 'I can't breathe it's too small.'

'She's claustrophobic.' Amy remembered.

'She is?' Robert asked.

'Lauren, the room is fine.' Christina told her. 'If you open your eyes I can show you, but you have to trust me.' Christina begged. 'Please trust me.' After a moment Lauren peeked one eye open. 'That's it.' Christina smiled as her other eye opened with it. 'See, it's just a room.'

'I swear it started to shrink.' Lauren said, calming down.

'I know, we believe you.' Christina extended a hand and helped her up. The next thing they knew, Dani had jumped up onto the bed yelling.

'Holy shit there's a massive spider in here!' She said.

'What, where?' Amy asked.

'It was right there!' Dani pointed to the middle of the room before looking up. 'Oh my God, they're on the ceiling!' She said, running towards the door. Lisa stopped her in her tracks and turned her to face the room.

'There are no spiders in here.' Lisa said firmly. 'Not a single spider.'

'You're sure?' Dani asked softly.

'I promise you.' Lisa said.

'But I saw a spider, a really big Jumangi level spider.' Dani panted.

'What's going on?' Robert asked. Katherine didn't respond but she went to the window.

'Guys, there's someone in the garden.' She said. They all went to the window and saw a woman standing in the middle of the garden, eyes glowing gold. Right before all of the windows were bricked over.

xxxxxx

They had gathered in the living room. 'So that's a demon? And she's trapped us in here to what? Scare us into giving them the amulet?' Robert tried to make sense of the situation.

'Pretty much.' Christina said. 'Lauren is claustrophobic, Dani hates spiders. She's playing on our fears.'

'So how do we beat her?' Amy asked.

'Well, the spiders disappeared when you convinced me they weren't real. Just don't believe anything that happens.'

'Great, that'll be easy.' Lisa said, turning towards the widow. She was met with an angry face standing before her. 'Holy crap.' She said, stepping back.

'Ghost?' Dani asked.

'I don't know, you said not to believe anything.' Lisa said.

'You killed me Lisa.' The ghost said. It was an older man with a beard, and a gunshot wound to his head.

'I know you.' Lisa said. 'I arranged your funeral.' She backed away but heard a whispering in her ear.

'You killed me too.' The woman said.

'No, no I didn't kill you, I spoke to your daughter.' Lisa said, turning away from her and walking backwards around the room.

'What about me.' A third voice said from the doorway. 'You could have saved me.' Said the eight year old boy with his chest ripped open.

'Luke?' Lisa whispered.

'Luke?' Christina turned to the group. 'She arranged his funeral a few months ago, I remember her telling me about it. Lisa, they aren't here. You've helped them all move on.'

'We can only move on with the amulet Lisa, you need to tell us. Pretty please?' The boy asked.

'Luke I can't.' Lisa said.

'Tell us now!'

'Tell us.'

'You're all going to die!' Lisa hunched over, hands on her ears to try and block them out.

'You're not real, you're not real, you're not real.' She repeated over and over for a solid minute. She felt a hand on her back. It was Katherine. Lisa looked up and saw the room empty of ghosts. 'They're gone.' She confirmed.

'Are you okay?' Katherine asked.

'Yeah, I think so.' Lisa said, still a little shaken.

'How could you leave us?' Robert said quietly. Lauren turned to him.

'What was that dad?' Lauren asked, but his eyes were on Christina.

'How could you leave us!' He yelled at her. Christina took a step away from him.

'Dad, it's Christina.' Lauren said.

'Michelle, why did you go with him?' He took a step closer to Christina.

'Dad, it's me.' She said firmly. 'This is the demon, you have to fight it.'

'You could have tried harder, why didn't you try harder?' He sobbed. 'The girls needed you, not me.' He stepped closer once more, Christina got an energy ball ready.

'Chris, really!' Amy said.

'Yeah, really. It's low voltage.' She said.

'Michelle, I loved you. With or without the magic I loved you. And I love our girls. If only you could see them. But you can't because you left us! You didn't have to die, there must have been another way.'

'Dad, fight it.' Katherine said. 'This is Christina.'

'No, it's not Chris, Chris is the reason you died. I left because of her.' Robert said.

'Chris, is this your fear?' Dani asked.

'No, this is just dad.' She said sadly.

'Christina should have been the one to die that night, why didn't you give her to Belial!' He said angrily as he charged towards her. Christina couldn't bring herself to use her power so she took the hit. He crashed her into the wall, knocking the wind out of her.

'Chris!' Amy yelled. He had her pinned up against the wall, and Amy and Katherine's attempts to pull him off were unsuccessful. A second later, Robert was flying across the room into the other wall, hitting his head on the way down. Amy went over to him and made sure he was okay. 'He's unconscious.'

'Chris, you alright?' Katherine asked.

'Fine.' She said unsteadily. She looked at Dani. 'What was that?'

'I think I have a new power.' Dani smiled. 'He was hurting you and I couldn't stand it, so I just thought about throwing him across the room.'

'Telekinesis.' Katherine said.

'Well, thanks.' Christina smiled.