Poison Orchid

Chapter 18

The moment Isis stepped into the room she knew that again someone was there. And it was broad daylight which would not make it possible for her to see any spirit. But fortunately she was wrong on that count too.

This time the girl was even younger than others and her condition was far more worse. She was wearing a pair of muddied sneakers, a lilac coloured frock which retained its original colour only in a few places, the girl had two pony-tails of her dirty blonde head. One side of her face was streaked with mud. Her throat had been almost ripped off and there were puncture wounds on all the main artery points of her body. The back of her skull had been bashed in with something heavy and blunt. The most important point to be noted was that the girl’s ears were pierced and she was wearing earrings but only on one ear, her left ear was empty.

“Where’s your other ring?” was the first question that Isis asked the girl.

“In the woods,” said the spirit in the usual small voice.

“Okay so it is lying somewhere on the wood’s floor?” Isis prompted.

The girl nodded her head in response.

“Can you give me any clue regarding where those monsters have buried you?” asked Isis.

“It is almost in the centre of the woods and I could hear a stream nearby,” said the spirit.

“That is by far the most constructive and useful answer I have got till now,” said Isis with a huff.”But tell me why you were in the woods? You weren’t dragged there like the other girls, you were there from beforehand that is the reason you know that you were in the centre almost and also you could hear a water body near you. No point in lying. If you want me to help you I need to know the truth,” said Isis analyzing the situation.

“My Daddy sent me there,” said the girl her eyes welling up with tears.

“WHATTTTTT????? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SPEAKING?”

“Yes,” again a small reply.

“Your father took you to the woods and then left you there? Are you trying to say me this?” asked a furious Isis.

The girl nodded again.

“Will you care to explain what nonsense is going on exactly?” asked Isis.

“Can show you,” said the girl in a small voice again.

“My goodness, again? The last time this happened I woke up unconscious, but I don’t think I have any other option…Fine then,” said Isis and extended both her hands before the spirit of the girl. When the girl held her hands she felt that her hands uptil her forearms had been dunked in ice-cold bone-chilling water.

She was at the edge of the woods near to a trailer-home, standing in a cute little lilac coloured frock, fiddling with her earrings hearing her father speaking to a vile woman on phone. She could even hear what the woman was saying because she was shouting her voice-box out like anything.

“Danny I am very well telling you that if you f*****g want me to warm your bed tonight then that cute little daughter of the b***h you had as your wife will have to be out,” said that voice from the other end.

“Eva, what are saying? Where will I take the child? She is so young and it is too dangerous to have her go outside at night,” her father was saying.

Isis who was currently possessing The girl’s body was thinking how many kinds of bitches are there present on earth, this woman named Eva was on the top of the list.

“Listen Danny, I don’t want to hear all those stupid s**t that you are trying to feed me right now but tell me what you are going to do with that little fucker?”

“I shall do what I can but don’t cancel the plans tonight, I really need you,” said her father.

“Love you Danny boy, will be there in 15 minutes,” chuckled that woman and hung up the phone.

The man whom she had known as her father her entire life was ready to keep her out of their home at night for another foul-mouthed woman, she did not understand that what that woman had in extra for which her father behaved like an addicted person.

“Riley baby, shall we take a walk in the woods?” asked her father

“At night, now Daddy?”she asked very well knowing that she had to stay out of home for the whole night and this was just a ruse to divert her attention.

“Yes babycakes, a walk after supper helps you to keep your tummy tucked in. Come,” said Danny.

They started walking through the hunter’s trail and Isis started carefully noting the path through which they were going not paying least attention to what that spineless bastard was speaking. After reaching a certain place Danny said that now she had to come back through the path alone after counting 1000, so that she knew the woods very well by herself. She tried to cling to her father but he couldn’t be swayed at all. Of course he couldn’t be, that bastard wanted to f**k like mink rats thought Isis.

A few minutes after Danny had disappeared leaving her there alone, suddenly she felt that someone swooped down behind her but she could not see anyone. And suddenly she felt that someone more swooped down from the trees but she still couldn’t find anyone. She started walking back the trail when she heard that voice,”Well, well, well, what do we have here boys? Look today is our lucky day,” said that voice.

“You mean lucky night, right?” asked another one.

“Where are you going sweetie? Come here, let us play,” said the first voice.

“I want to go home please,” said Riley in a broken voice, she was really scared.

“Well now that’s sad, you don’t want to play with us? Tell us your name will you?”said another voice.

Before she could open her mouth to speak, someone suddenly caught hold of her neck in a very tight grip and she felt that her neck was being crushed, she tried prying of the hands from her neck, trying to breathe but the strength in those hands were almost inhumane, And then she found three other bigger sized boys in dark hoodies and black leather pants surrounding her.

“This one seems tasty enough, doesn’t she?” smirked one of them, by the time she heard this sentence she was sprawling on the forest floor trying to get free, and crying her voice out but she also knew very well that it was useless, because no one was there to hear her screams. She knew that they were going to rape her, her legs were spread and her white cotton panties were torn off from her hips and the animal who was holding her down thrust in her, and the pain she felt was beyond anything she had endured earlier, and she knew that she was bleeding but that was not the end, all the boys who were there did that and the final one when he was ravaging her insides bit down on her throat with his sharp teeth and started sucking her blood and her vision started swimming but still she found that two more of the monsters had started sucking from her hands and one bit just above her calfs on the main artery. She saw that his canines were far more bigger and sharper than normal. When those monsters have had their fill sucking her blood, still she was alive. She was just wishing that if they left her now still she would probably make it.

“Judah, I knew that only cat had nine lives, but it seems that this wench has even more,” said the first voice.

“Kill her,” came a voice which she didn’t hear before and it was the last thing she heard before she felt a huge rock on the back of her skull. Isis was still in that body trapped and feeling all the pain that Riley had felt and she wanted to avenge her death. A few seconds later Isis was back in her room, throwing up once more like the first time. But this time was better than the time Naomi took her, and the best thing was that she knew the names of the perpetrators and also had heard their voices very carefully and today her suspicions were confirmed that they were the monsters who dwelled only in the night. The ones who were called Nosferatu in the book. Isis was only sixteen and a virgin but the way she had endured getting virtually raped, the pain was beyond any normal comparison.

But how could Riley retain so much of her memories even after being dead for so much of time that was something she didn’t understand. There was something fishy here and she needed to know that was necessary in knowing the background of Riley’s powers, moreover Riley had life left even after all the blood from her body had been sucked, this was also something beyond normal. She needed to know the reasons if she had to solve the mystery but now she had to get ready for the mission she was about to embark on last night.

“Avenge me,” said Riley’s ghost dropping a penny amongst Isis’s thoughts.

“I shall Riley, you have my promise on that count,” said Isis in a shaky but a determined voice.

“Not those monsters,” she said again confusing Isis more than ever.

“Then whom are you talking about Riley? How will I avenge you otherwise?” asked Isis in bewildered voice.

“Kill my Daddy,” she said with grit in her voice so deep that it shook Isis to the core.

Isis very well understood that from which pain she was speaking in this way, because not only Isis, Riley also very well knew that it was due to her father’s indecision that she had to lose her life. Isis knew that taking someone’s life was a matter of a few seconds and she would not even feel guilty at taking this bastard’s life, the man who left his daughter in the midst of woods at night in order to satisfy his physical cravings was nothing else than a bastard.

“Are you sure about what you are asking Riley?” asked Isis.

Riley nodded her head.

“Tonight will be the last night of your father’s life, I promise you this much Riley. This earth will not have one more burden on it dear. You have my word on it,” when Isis was saying this her eyes were burning like glowing embers.

Satisfied Riley nodded her head and left the room. Rossetta was standing at the door and she had watched the whole incident without providing her any kind of help or support. Because she knew that whatever she might try to say or do she would never be able to sway Isis from doing what she had decided because she also knew this that whatever currently Isis was facing she would never be close to even relate to it. The only thing she could do now was to see that all the grounds for protecting Isis were completely covered. So that even if she killed it was a full-proof murder which could not be traced back at her.

“Killing is definitely easy for you Isis, currently nothing more than child’s play for you but are you ready to face it’s consequences?” asked Rossetta from the door itself.

“Yes Aunty, I know it’s time to accept who I am, and I don’t need to be racked with guilt for that later on. This is my conscious decision and I am ready to stand by it,” said Isis without even turning back. She was well-aware about the responsibility that she had to take for taking this single decision.

“And one more thing Aunty, I don’t feel that it is necessary to embrace darkness in order to handle dark powers. Without being lured by darkness I can do things necessary of me,” Isis declared.

Rossetta understood there was nothing more to teach her girl ethically. She was all grown up. And her sense of ethics was not at all warped, it was probably the best thing anyone can ever do for the poor tortured soul which she would, rather world would never understand.

“She needs to have her own world,” Grandma Brassia had said. Rossetta knew that her child will build a world of her own. It was just a matter of time now.