"I got to get you out that shape." said Sister Sin. My spirit quivered. "Think about a memory."
I thought and I thought; What else came to mind. All I could think about was the room. Mama walked on her soul. Ubayd ran out the room. He was eating the food in a rush, I couldn't understand why he was so disrespectful. "There you go!" says Sister Sin. "You got it. Now be a woman."
"What?"
How the fuck did I turn into him? "I can see…" I grasp my throat. "You'll get the hand of it." she grins. "Try thinking about yourself."
"Myself?"
What could I think of? Oh! I was in the backyard crushing my steroids… maybe I shouldn't think of that.
I was outside and I saw a man--no, I heard something in the house and… Uncle dragged a man out. He had no face.
I couldn't see anything. I got up from the tent and uncle was yelling. I heard… I heard… Okra…
Something about… money?
"That is one hell of an appearance. You got the tendrils coming out of your face like Cthulhu or something. You kept the black part but this thing you are…" she gritted her teeth. "It's nasty."
"I look that bad?" I look at my hands, my left hand is a hook. I have a black trench coat on. "You scary." says Sister Sin. "Will you stop telling me I'm ugly!"
"You are…" she shrugs. "I mean, I can do this shit but I have never seen somebody show they depression."
"Well goddamn!"
"Mokiri, you are retarded."
"Daisy!" I shout. She stomps, "Don't use my government name goddamn it. Try the shit again. Out here looking like a confused chipmunk with french fries in his fucking ears. Try again!"
What the fuck do I look like? "Can I see myself?"
"Bitch, you want a mirror?" she gawk's at me. Sister Sin clicks her tongue and summons a floor mirror. I shiver and set my arms beside me. "I remember--"
"Mokiri!"
.
.
.
"GET THE FUCK OUT!"
The beast roared as it was shoved out the door. A lion's tail, head of an octopus and human like hands. Mokiri slept outside, there wasn't much room in the house for her.
She had her mattress she slept in the living room with in the tent. At least her uncle dropped enough money for the largest he could find.
"Get the fuck out!" Chai looked back towards the door. "Okra!" And soon her fake ass came racing outside. "John!"
"What the fuck!"
Mokiri came beside the house and saw the strange man. Her blood dropped. "Who fuck is John!"
"Baby, calm down!" she waved off his intense rage. Chai's ankles crinkled and jaw extended. "You cheatin on me again!" he stomped back to the porch, fully a werewolf. "I let you in the house!" he grabbed her throat. "You been fucking with that shit stain!"
"Chai!"
"I beat yo ass just fuckin yesterday and you doing this shit again!" his left hand didn't even feel like a hand. She hit the porch, Okra's eyes fluttered. "Chai, please!" he stomped on her head. Once to the temple, twice to the lip and bottom nose. "I'm fucking tired of yo disobedience!" he spit on her. "I know…" he smirked. "I need that body…"
"Chai!" she put her arms up in the defence. Chai grabbed them, Okra hollered. "Beat Mokiri!"
"What?"
"Beat her!" she swallowed. "I didn't say anything…" she clenched her fist. "Beat her! She talks about you!" Okra cried. "I swear to God. She took your medal!"
"My medal? My chain?" Chai let her go. "I swear to god--she has it, she has it!"
"No I don't!" Mokir shouted. "What medal!"
Chai sauntered down the steps. "Come here!"
Mokiri didn't hesitate. In her werewolf form, she rushed to the backyard. But she couldn't sleep on this. She waved to the side and tried to jump over the backyard fence. Chai bit into her side, knocking her down.
He bit the side of her face. She barked and her voice pushed him off. Chai charged at her. She was a big wolf, she gave him his side and rammed using her right waistline. She struck his chest, he gasped for air.
She couldn't just let me lie there… breathing. She bit into his neck and that bite turned into claws racking his face. She took an eye.
Okra had gotten up and ran upstairs. She grabbed a necklace from the jewelry box with the lock in the shape of Yawa's five claws. She raced outside and looked for the devil thing. She didn't have to look far as it came out of the dirt from a pool of darkness.
"Take it to Saint John." And thing cooed as he grasped the necklace. "It's the Fe Yon Bagay…"
"F̷̰̈́͑̒̆̇́̍ȩ̵͇̳́̍́̽̕ ̶͎̪̂̽͐͂̐͌͝Y̴͚̋̃̃̿͛̍̅͗̉ǫ̷͓̘͙̤̥͖͙͙͒͛͌̕ņ̷͖̞̼͙̜̥̀" the thing held the medallion with care. "K̷̡̜̝̩͕͖̙̲̞̈́̽͐̀̐ḯ̶͍n̷͇̣͊͒g̸̢̥̼̺͑ͅ." It looked at her. "I have the Pendant!" she looked at the grass. "At least I know where it is."
"W̷̛͙͆̑͆̃̐̓͠h̴̯̥̼͉̰͚̲̫͒͂͝ͅȇ̶̦͒̂͒͋̔r̸̞͚̔͋̆̈̾͑ḛ̵̢̟̲̺͕̓̅́̇̚?"
"Dazz? She has two of them, at her shop!" she pointed in the direction of the shop. "Near Rappahannock! Go… she has a son… but is ashes…"
The devil's eyes glowed pink, "A̵̛̪̬̰͈͍͈̰̱͈͛͂̎͌̕s̴̝͈͓̣͇̩̏h̸̛̙̦̙̮̬͈͐̄͑̄̐̈́͜e̵̫̗̩͝s̴̬̾͗͒͊͒͌͆̑?̶̝̾"
.
.
.
"You are shifting into a lot of shit." said Sister Sin. "Mokiri?"
I could feel and what I felt was the floor. "What happened?"
"Still changing…" she shook her head slowly. "What did you remember?"
"This THING was around the house!" she tried to sit up but a pain struck her. She winced and held her waist. "That bitch bite me…"
"Something awful happened to you after all these years."
"Why do you act like you know me but don't know nothin'!"
"I choose to see. And this place is still connected to the realm. It chooses."
"The Ghetto is a fucking lie!"
"Mokiri!"
"No! How the fuck did I end up like this! That man tried to kill me!"
"Calm down, get up." she beckoned. "My side!"
"You aren't bleeding for real. It's just memory."
"What did I do!" she cried. Sister Sin grabbed my arm and dragged me up. "Stop it!" she shook me. "Listen, I can't see it and you have to go through it."
"I hate him!"
"I bet everybody hates him but you are your father's child!"
"So?"
"Yawa had a key to the Ghetto. A key in the underground of the under. And we keep burying shit, that's where it ends up."
"Where is my father? My daddy?"
"Baby I don't know--" she looks at me. "You got it."
"What?"
"You have your shape." she lets me go. "Now you look like Yawa's daughter."
I face the mirror and I see myself. I need to pay attention. I got such a chubby face, my eyes are green. I took steroids, I didn't know my hips was so… well shaped. I'm thick.
"Mokiri…" she puts her hands on her hips. "I think you finally found yo-self."