As daylight fades, the sky turns gold, a quiet hush, as the night unfolds, the air grows cool, the shadows long, evening singes its gentle song as it was the eve to my 18th birthday and yes am turning legal tomorrow as I sat at the dusk wondering what it would be like and why my parents had to invite our whole family and not allowing me invite any of my friends from school for my birthday party. My name is eve and this is my story.
I had a little argument with my mother earlier today when she dropped the bombshell that I should withdraw my invitation and tell my friends that the party has been cancelled, without telling me the reason for that and it cringes me out not to have any friends over, including damecove my best friend. On the bright side of it, I was told that all my relatives both old and young, including aunt Everson whom I know for any reason shouldn't be interested in attending my birthday party would be coming over as my mum says that's its necessary as it was a family ritual for every child who turns 18, which I find very weird.
As I was outside still pondering about it then I felt a tap on my back and it was my mother and in that instinct I frowned my face showing a visible anger so she would know how hurt I was.
"Hello my darling daughter" she called.
I didn't answer, was just still and maintained my frowned face.
"why are you wearing a sad face? talk to mummy".
"why wouldn't I? since I don't get to celebrate my iconic birthday with my friends but with people I know nothing much about them". I talked back angrily.
"Hey, it would be alright. It's just this birthday that you didn't get to invite friends over", she said, trying to console me.
"But mum, I would be laughed at when I get back to school and the mean girls would surely insult me". I said, trying to give her reasons to invite some of my friends.
"They will say that I am still a mummy's girl that I can't even throw a party and" ...….
She immediately cut me shut without hearing all I have to say.
"Let them say what they want to say," she shouted angrily.
"And perhaps you might not even go back to that school again" she added lastly.
"I raised my eyebrow in dismay. I can't just understand what's actually going on.
"I just don't understand you mum, I'm not just going to invite my friends over, am also quitting to continue school with my friends" I rephrased what she said.
"What wrong have I done?". I asked in confusion. Not directing the question to anyone in particular.
"What about Damecove, my friends at school?" I reminded her of Demecove and how close we are as friends, maybe she might change her mind even if it's to invite just she.
"Hey babe", she called with a smile.
"You're going to be alright, you will make new friends once again". She assured me.
"Now go upstairs your food is ready pumpkin" she said beaming a smile at me.
"Oh gosh pumpkin?" I said frowning.
"I so much hate that name mum, I'm no longer a baby" I cleared her.
"But you're still my baby", she replied with a smile.
I went upstairs to the dinning and ate the food she kept for me which was rice. Although it wasn't my best food, but I ate it with a broken heart. Being sincere, I didn't enjoy the meal.
It was around 6:00pm I decided to sleep at least for an hour before the party will start around 8:30pm.
I immediately got up and went to my room to sleep.
I had the weirdest dream.
In this dream was a tall hall where both men and women glowing in their white apparel were all standing. I couldn't see their faces, so I can't tell exactly who they were. Before me was a book in a glass container which looked old enough to have existed three thousand years ago. The people in the hall all spoke in unison and I couldn't understand what they were saying. Then the book in the glass container left its container and placed itself on the table and opened to the first page. I couldn't see anything written on it from where I was standing. Then I heard an echoing voice that asked me to go closer to the book.
Immediately, the first page magically appeared and the book read out, and each word appearing as it reads.
"EVELYN EVERLON THIS IS YOUR REIGEN WELCOME THE CURRENT BEARER"
Then immediately, I got up sweating profusely. I quickly glanced at my wrist watch to know if I have slept past the given time. Its only 30 min to 7: pm.
"Just a 30 mins sleep?" I asked rhetorically.
I sat at the edge of my bed for a while and try to recall all that happened in that dream.
Still heavily confused, I took the stairs down and saw my mom cooking. This could be the food for the party I guess.
"Oh birthday girl come over and help, your cousins and aunts are on their way." She said as soon as her eye caught me.
I sluggishly and lazily went over there to help with the food preparations as there was different types of delicacies my mom was preparing and I wanted to tell her about my dreams but I know I needed to wait till after the meal preparations which took almost close to an hour before everything was ready.
My mum went upstairs to take her bath so I waited for her. It was 7:40pm already and few of the guests has started coming in with their cars.
I hurriedly went to my mum's room to inform her of some of the guest arrivals and I seized this opportunity to tell her about the dream since I might not have the chance again to tell her before the meeting.
"Hey mum". I called her
"Why are you not dressed?" She asked.
"I just came to tell you about the guest's arrival and also inform you about the weird dream I some hours ago". I said.
"What dream?" she asked, although she didn't sound too curious to know what the dream is all about.
I told her everything about the dream I had and she just smiled and said it is just a figment of my imagination.
I felt that feeling I feel whenever someone lies to me I can't say what it was but I have always had this gut feeling whenever someone lies.
"Mum you know you can't lie to me". I said.
"I would explain everything this night during the party celebration okay?" She replied and kissed my forehead.
"Now go and prepare for your party you don't want to be late for your own party", she added.
Then I left for my room. Getting to my room, I bumped into a guy looking through my stuffs, which got me raged because I respect my personal boundaries and space very well, the only person that has the right to trespass through my stuff is only damecove.
"Hey you're not supposed to be here go downstairs where the others are". I shouted angrily.
"Slow down tigress, I didn't take out any of your stuffs". He said.
"Just because you were chosen by the key doesn't mean you get to shout at me like that, I could burn you into crisp with just my mind" he added.
I was lost for a second. what do he mean by the Key? and burn me into crisp?
Everybody around is acting whirled since today she told.
I still gathered courage to talk back at him even though he sounds so mean.
"Dude you're seriously drunk", I said.
He immediate smiled. And he looked through my eyes.
"You mean you don't know?", he asked.
"Know about what?" I asked.
"Well, you're about to find out this night sis". he said and left
I stood there wondering what he was saying for a second then shoved it aside. I quickly dressed up, ready to go and meet the weird people downstairs.
As I finished dressing I went downstairs and saw people that I haven't meet in my life except aunt Everson who just come over and go anytime.
A sound was heard which was coming from my grandparents.
"Happy birthday princess", my grandpa said.
"Hey grandpa" I said smiling.
"Happy birthday pumpkin" my grandma said and smiled which I returned back.
The crazy part is they're in their 90s and still looked 45 and was practically the oldest in the room every other person looked 30.
This looked a little bit suspicious, but still I didn't think too much of it.
Then my mum came and start the introduction and started introducing me formerly to strangers whom she said earlier was my cousins.
I later learned that the pervert earlier in my room was aunt Everson's first child and his name was Emerald after everyone introduced themselves.
We all went to eat the food my mum prepared earlier in the dining.
As soon as we finished the meal my mum called me in a calm tone but to the hearing of everyone.
"Evelyn Everlon" she called.
It sounded strange, why will she be calling me by my full name at this particular moment I am supposed to be bathed with all kinds of pet names.
"Do you know why the whole family is here and not even one of your friends is present?" she asked.
I couldn't reply because I haven't gotten a nice reply for that question, I have also been wondering why.
"No" I managed to reply.
"Well, I think this is the best time to let you know what you are meant to know". She said.
"We all come from a different bloodline called the 'Everlons'". She said.
"And we're one of the most powerful witches in the world". She added.
"We chose today to be special for you and to let you know this because, it's a rite of passage for you to possess the type of power we have". She said.
"And your father didn't die in the military in fact he never worked in the army before".….….
I was astonished, this has been the story I have always believed.
"Wait mum, I'm lost bloodline? Witches? Rite of passage? I managed to ask.
"EVE LET ME SPEAK". My mum replied.
"Your father wasn't a human and so is each and every one of us here", she continued.
We're witches and your father was different, he was a vampire while I'm also a witch with telepathic ability". She explained.
"My sole gift is to telepathically hear someone's thought and communicate with every one, while others have different abilities." She said.
She pointed at the perverts and said he's primarily a pyromancer, he controls fire with his mind, she pointed at the next person and said she's a healer who heals with mind, she pointed at another person and said she's hydrokinetic she controlled water, she pointed towards the last person and said he's an earth witch he controls green grasses and trees and so on.
"But you're different". She said.
"The book chooses you, that dream you had isn't just a mere dream and those people you saw were your ancestors, the previous handler and only you can see them when you concentrate" My mum said.
"They can speak through you and you possess all types of magic, I mean all but your primary source is also telepath like me that's why you are able to know when someone is lying to you" she explained further.
"You're not just a telepath, you're special, your father's vampire DNA came down to you which makes you a heretic the first ever vampire/witch in the history of supernatural, and unlike us when we cast spells and get weak, you have your vampire strength which serves you very well". She said.
I just stood still, and was reflecting on all these she was saying. How possible is this and I haven't been able to discover this myself.
I have to pay attention to get every information my mum will pass across; I might not get them again after now. So I listened.
"The way to unlock your vampire emotions and feelings is if you kill a human". She added.
I was terrified when I heard this. How can I kill, I thought?
"You're not just a heretic, you're a miracle baby". She added.
"Vampires aren't supposed to procreate, but somehow you managed to take your father's DNA which made you special, and with all that power comes great responsibilities. She said.
Everyone in the place were silent, just her voice alone was heard echoing, no one was helping to interpret all she was saying to me, not even my grandpa.
"You're meant to be a protector, the reason why your grandparents call you princess is because you are you chosen to be queen of all the supernatural, the one who brings peace to all and that's a great responsibility". She continued.
"I know it's too much for you but you can do it, and tonight under the full moon you're going to access all that magic". She concluded.
"Now let's step outside". She beckoned on everyone in the room to come outside. We all left to our backyard.
At the backyard, I was gathered around and they all circled around me with their hands held together.
My Mum still echoed with a tiny voice.
"Now Clivo, do your thing". She said.
Immediately, a petite redheaded girl start muttering a spell
"circulum arboris, forma virens, fronds rotunda, ad caeli vertens (circle of tree, form of green, round branches grow, reaching towards the top layer)".
Clivo is an earth witch and soon a branch of trees start growing round around me as I stood in the center.
"Emerald you're next", I heard my mum's voice once again.
He stepped forward and his eyes starts glowing yellow and he started his incantation saying
"ignis luminis, formis arcana, pentagramma ardere (fire of light, shape of the arcane, burning pentagon arise)"
As soon as he says that I started feeling hotness around and soon I saw a devil's triangle burning around me and then I heard my mother's voice
"Eve", she called out.
"Now concentrate and repeat after me with your eyes closed, raise both arms towards the moon, with your palms open and facing upward and then visualize the full moon's light radiating down on you, filling your body with the power and energy and repeat after me slowly" she commanded.
"lunae fulgens, magicae mea, expanse arise! Noctis potential, lumen Arcanum, voco te (shining moon, my magic, expand, arise power of the night, secret light, I call you)" she said
"Now say it slowly with intent". My mum said.
I took a course in Latin which my mother forced me to so it was easy to follow up, and I started the incantations slowly soon I start feeling dizzy and my nose started bleeding that was when my mother and my relatives started chanting a spell saying…
"per lucem lunae et gratiam astrorum, nunc congregamur in spatio sacro. Ex terra, igne et mari, vocamus vim quae eam liberabit (by moon's light and star's grace, we gather now in sacred space. From earth, air, fire and sea we call the strength set her free)".
They chanted in unison and I started felling a kind of energy building up in me and soon I felt myself in the room I was in my dream, everything felt the same.
"step forward great-granddaughter" a voice said.
Soon I started moving forward towards the room and there was something different, beside the book was a jug that was filled with a purple liquid, it wasn't there in the dream.
"Now drink the elixir handler", the voice said again.
I lifted it up and drank, they hundreds of people in that room started clapping and saying welcome handler and then I was back to the realities and everything began being blurrily and I felt dizzy and fell unconscious and then I heard a scream.