Chapter 57

• 40 YEARS AGO
• The circles of salt spread across the manor of the Blossom household made little David terrified as he clutched his elder sister's hand tighter. Candice on the other hand, held onto a jagged dagger whilst protecting her little brother from the recent horror her father just unleashed on the world. One that had promised his father he would devour every soul in the house if it wasn't set free to wreak havoc on the world. As they tiptoed room to room trying to get to the demon before it crept up on them, David felt the room grow progressively cold. It was their late mother's room. The windows were open and the gentle night breeze blew at the curtains with the grace of a dandelion in the wind. Candice pushed her brother behind her instinctively. Their mother's room had been strictly off-limits and considering only herself, her brother and her father who was currently marauding the house under a cloaking spell lived there. It was smart to assume that the demon was hiding somewhere in the room. Muttering a spell that made the jagged dagger in her hand burn bright blue, Candice called out to the demon. "Genie, I know you are here."
• "It's Djinn." The creature retorted in a voice of fire and brimstone. The room's temperature tilted and progressively got hot. Behind the laid bed where their mother took her last breath, Candice and David watched as the monster crept out of his hiding spot. Its eyes were magma hot and its jagged head seem to come alive as red flames licked out of its skull of foreign bones. The ugly ribbon of fire that engulfed the body of the demon spread to the bed. Candice cringed in anger as one of the things she could remember her mother by dissolved right in front of her eyes.