Mara’s POV
“Stop! No! Please! Don’t kill me. What are you? Let go of me! I can’t take this.. you are going to kill me” I couldn’t stop myself from screaming when an unimaginable and undescribable creature kept on strangling me.
I woke up from my sleep breathing heavily as I wiped the sweat on my forehead, then I heard footsteps and crawled backwards on the bed as I used the blanket to cover myself.
“Mara are you okay?” My mum turned on my room lights and I looked beside me to find my younger sister still sound asleep.
“Yes mum.. I am fine” I dropped the blanket and kept on wiping the sweat from my forehead as I tried to lie but my efforts were all a waste as it was clear that I was scared to death.
“Mara, you clearly had a nightmare. You look so terrified and you are sweating so much” my mum walked towards me and sat close to me on the bed.
“I am fine mom, I am only sweating because it’s hot” I touched my forehead.
“It’s raining Mara” my mum looked at me a bit confused.
“Shh! It’s okay. It’s just a nightmare, everything will be fine now, close your eyes and go to sleep” I struggled to make myself comfortable as my mum parted my hair, making soft and gentle backward strokes.
Meanwhile in another world.
“Arthur!” Banshee screamed at the top of her voice when she saw a ghost walking towards her as she laid on her bed.
“Are you surprised?” Arthur kept on coming closer and closer.
“You.. you.. you are dead” she stammered as she tried to move back away from him.
“How dare you be comfortable? How do you even think of having a good night’s sleep when your daughter is after my daughter’s life?” Arthur was already hovering above her as he started to strangle her.
“Ar.. thur.. let.. me go” Banshee was seriously choking as she struggled to catch her breath.
“Ask your daughter to release mine or else you will be the sacrificial lamb” Arthur threatened her but she still kept on struggling as she managed to push his hand away from her neck.
“I have had enough of you and your daughter. First I had to deal with your mother and now you!” she was screaming at the top of her voice.
“What is your problem really? I killed your mother and she didn’t even trouble me once but you, you are just disturbing me left, right and center. Are you the only person I have killed?!” Banshee’s eyes were bloodshot red as her table was now floating towards Arthur.
A rope suddenly rounded her neck and was strangling her, with floating knives tearing and piercing through her skin.
“You are a wicked woman aren’t you? After all your claims and confession of love towards me and my father, you ended up doing this to us?” The rope strangled her more and more, making it difficult for her to breathe but then the rope was now on fire.
“You and I know that if it wasn’t for you and your rejected mother then I would have had your father all to myself!” Banshee fired back as she threw a table at him but it passed through him.
“Are you that f**lish? Or you are just trying to play dumb huh? You and your partner k*lled me, you burnt me alive after all the gunshots and you want to k*ll me again?” Arthur let out a wicked laughter.
“You see, the strength I have is that I am dead and you cannot hurt the dead. I will continue to lurk around you until you leave my family alone or better still join me in the land of the dead.
But honestly you don’t deserve such an easy death, you deserve a torturous and painful death” Arthur was venting out his anger as more knives were stabbing Banshee, she was too weak to even cast any more spells.
Her back had a very deep wound and she couldn’t do anything.
“Do as I have asked you! Get your daughter here right now!” Arthur yelled at her as one of the floating knives slit through her face, giving her a deep scar.
“And what if I refuse?” Banshee was trying her best to fight back. But another knife stabbed her in the stomach as she watched her own blood flow out of her like a river.
“Then I will continue to torture you. My daughter wouldn’t be the only person suffering at least” Arthur folded his eyes and looked at her with immense anger and deeper hatred.
” I cannot believe my father loved you. I cannot believe he loved such an evil and shameless woman” Arthur cursed as another knife stabbed her right leg.
“Ahh!.. hmm.. ahh” Banshee was running out of breath as she clutched her stomach, trying to get some kind of strength.
“You are running out of time , Banshee. The clock is ticking and you are running out of places to stab as well” Arthur looked at her as she was stabbed on the neck as well.
“I will never stop your daughter’s suffering, believe me I will make her suffer, she will endure all you are putting me through” Banshee was still stubborn as blood poured down her mouth.
“We will see about that” Arthur raised his hand in the air and a heavy Stone from nowhere landed on her head.
“Stop it!” She screamed, she was bleeding everywhere and she was running out of breath.
“I will do it” she finally gave into Arthur’s demands.
“I didn’t hear you well. Please repeat” Arthur moved his right hand sideways very roughly and Banshee’s head was slammed on the wall.
“Please stop! I said I will do it” Banshee was helpless and pleading with her blood almost everywhere in the room.
“Then why haven’t you done it?” Arthur slammed her head on the wall again. Banshee’s couldn’t take it any longer.
“Alyssa!!!” Banshee screamed and called for her daughter’s help.