Chapter 57 A dreadful night

Book:Mia and Mara Published:2024-5-1

At Mia’s school
The school periods went by ever so quickly and as if the day was also awaiting what the night was about to bring it also went by quickly as well.
All the students were very anxious and happy that they were going to have a sleepover at school but the person who was awaiting the night the most was Alyssa, she just couldn’t stop smiling all day and that made Mia and Lakshmi very uncomfortable.
They knew that there was something wrong, Mia tried to reach out to her dad but she couldn’t.
Alyssa was ready to strike and her first attack was the rainfall with hauling thunder that made everyone scream, it was so loud that it made the school vibrate, the stairs especially with Mia walking down and she fell down hitting her head hard on the floor.
While everyone rushed to check what had happened to her Alyssa couldn’t stop smiling to herself as she turned to Lakshmi who just refused to take her eyes off her.
“First shot successful” Alyssa slowly walked towards Lakshmi and whispered into her ears as she also went to fake her care towards Mia.
But Mia didn’t bleed as Alyssa had expected but she wasn’t going to give up, the night wasn’t over yet.
The whole place went dark and the teachers thought it was a power outage so they brought out their phones to use as torchlight but everyone’s phone had died at the same time even that of the students.
No one could see anything as they kept bumping into each other.
Mia, felt someone approaching her from behind as the person wrapped their hand around her neck, trying to strangle her but it felt as if the person got an electric shock as he/she let go of her.
The lights came back on again, by this time all the students were already sweating and everyone looked so scared as it felt as if the floor was moving.
They felt like they were on a wave as the floor wasn’t settled.
Then the lights went off again and it came back on except this time grasses had grown on the tiles floors, everyone was itchy except for Alyssa who only pretended.
“Mia!” Lakshmi called out as the grasses kept on growing taller and taller until they were now the same height with their tallest teacher.
No one could navigate througly but Lakshmi was still very persistent as she struggled to find Mia in the now made forest.
“Lakshmi.. Lakshmi.. Lak..” Mia was trying to reply her friend when something covered her mouth from behind, it also squeezed her face so much that she couldn’t talk as it began to drag her from the scene with the grasses clearing up anywhere she passed.
“Stop! Leave me alone!” Mia was crying as it now dragged her by the hair, she was trying to free herself but it’s grip on her was too strong.
Mia had been screaming so much but surprisingly no one could hear her.
Mia found herself in some kind of bubble where she could hear and see everyone but they couldn’t hear and see her as she was hitting on it as if it was a door but no one heard her.
Mia sat inside the bubble, shivering and shaking.
“Dad please save me. What is all this ?” Mia kept on yelling for help and calling out to her father but she didn’t get any reply, no one came to her but then she felt something from behind.
She felt like she wasn’t alone and when she turned around to look at what was standing behind her, she nearly passe out as the horrible creature stood in front of her.
It’s face was so beautiful and she couldn’t tell who or what is was but part of its face had the scale of a fish and it’s hair was made of brown snakes.
“Welcome to a world where it is just you and I my beautiful Mia” the creature spoke and brought out it’s tongue which looked like that of a snake except it was longer and thicker.
She looked at the feet which was flat and had a very good balance on the bubble. It had only three toes on each feet and the feet was bent backwards.
“Wh…at.. are.. you?” Mia was stuttering and sweating profusely.
“It really doesn’t matter baby girl. Look I want your death to be very easy that is if you are willing to give me that necklace” the creature spoke bringing out it’s tongue after saying each word and the snakes on its head, moving and trying to bite Mia who kept on moving backwards to get away from her until she stumbled at the end of the bubble and fell but she managed to sit up.
The creature stretch forth its hands and tried to pull the necklace from Mia’s neck but retracted immediately as the necklace was too hot.
“So you want us to do this the hard way huh?” The creature stretch forth its hands towards Mia again who was shivering on the floor of the bubble, she looked very pale and scared.
It hands turned into a big snake that was still attached to it’s body as it tried to bite Mia’s eyes off but it didn’t succeed as a shield appeared from nowhere to cover Mia’s face.
Something threw a knife and it cut the head of the snake off, causing the creature to bleed.
Mia looked in the direction the knife came from but she didn’t see anyone.
“Why do you want to make things tuff?!” The creature was enraged as it’s entire body was now red and it had smoke coming out from it’s eyes and ears.
The hand which had been chopped up suddenly grew back and it’s form began to change and it completely looked like a human being, Alyssa.
“What wrong have I ever done to you?” Mia was crying and her eyes were already red and swollen.
She looked at Alyssa helplessly but this witch just didn’t have any feeling towards her, her heart was too frozen to feel any form of sympathy. She was determined to kill Mia at all cost