In Dreams:
Sabin Duvert woke from his slumber, breathing heavily as he struggled to
remember the dream he had been having. He brushed his brown hair back from
his face, not knowing exactly what it was, but thinking how it must have been
important to have awakened him in the middle of the night. He shrugged and
figured he would remember later on, moving from the bed to the table against
the far wall in his room, pouring water from a jug to a bowl before lifting
some of it to his face with his cupped hands, cooling himself off slightly
this way.
He thought he remembered something about there being a way to see a monster
of some kind, and this got him excited. He had been enthralled by the idea of
there being monsters and demons from the time he was little, and wanted to
see one for himself. This brought on memories of his mothers' attempts to
stop him from doing what he wanted, but his abilities seemed to have grown
past the limits that those plants in his room put on him. If he was able to
dream through the plants for some other reason, he was not aware of it, and
he did not care much. He did not care about much anymore, save the
fascination he had with magicks and all things macabre. His mothers'
deceptions and betrayals had hurt and confused him, but now all that
mattered, or seemed to, was his ability to make things happen.
He looked about his room as he patted his face and neck dry with a cloth from
nearby, thinking on how it had been a virtual prison when his mother had had
the plants preventing his dreams in there. But now, the plants there were not
the same; they looked similar, but upon close inspection you could tell they
were much different. He only hoped his mother would continue to believe that
these things were the ones she herself had put her for a little while longer,
until he moved away. He was of age, and knowledgeable about a few things,
having watched his parents and other adults work while he was young. Upon
learning about his mothers' attempts at stopping off his learning of magick,
he had decided to get out of the house as soon as possible. He worked odd
jobs to get experience at other things, on the pretense of earning money for
the family, keeping some of his pay for himself; to use when he finally left
this stifling excuse for a home. He had always looked up to his father and
loved to listen to his stories, but he was not fond of the way his father let
his mother control him, getting him to act concerned about what Sabin did
right or wrong.
He sighed and went back to sleep, feeling as if he would need the rest for
something soon. In the morning he hardly remembered what he had figured out
about the dream, but the next night the dream came to him once more, coming a
bit more clearly to him this time, telling him that there was a way to use
MAGICK in order to call the demon to him. When he figured this out the next
morning, he was ecstatic. It was exactly what he had wanted to try for quite
a while.
He thought on whether or not to tell Renee, and decided against it. She was
agreeable about most things with him, but he did not think she would like it
if he told her he planned on doing what the dreams told him to do.
Meanwhile, in another reality...
Creante smiled - well, if you could really call the corners of it's horrendous mouth turning up in evil jubiliation a
smile - and waited for the next night patiently. Time had no real meaning to
it, and it was very good at waiting. Hadn't it waited all this time for the
right boy to be born, to grow? A few more human nights wouldn't hurt it's plans. It thought on how much to send in the next
dream, and figured that the recipe would be good, so that the kid would have
the proper materials, even if he didn't yet have the spell. Creante fashioned
a dream for Sabin, one showing Sabin himself picking different herbs. This
way the boy could think it was a prophetic dream and believe he was meant to
do as he was seeing. It was about a fortnight from the correct night to
perform the ritual, and that gave the boy plenty of time to find the herbs
and a place, as well as planning the way to sneak out. Yes, the anju smiled
again as it thought about how smart and cunning it was. I have planned this
perfectly. Soon, I will live on the human plane, and be able to cause much
more fear than I ever could stuck here in this non-place.
A week later, in the physical realm...
Sabin sat in the forest, in a clearing near the caves he loved to visit. He
was busy grinding the herbs he had collected into a very fine powder, as the
dreams had shown him. He had chosen this area for the spell because no one
knew about it but himself and Renee, and she was out of the area with her
parents for some reason. He shook his head to clear the thoughts from it and
finished making the powder, then poured them into a small leather bag he'd
brought along. He put it and the chalk to make the circle into a larger bag,
then hid that inside the cave. This was as far as the dreams had taken him,
and he assumed that was because the night for the ritual was still a week
away, judging by the moon's place in the sky. In his dream it had been
further along than it was now. So, he waited, and day after day he continued
to ready himself for the ritual. He bought some candles with the little money
he had, matches so that he could light them quickly, and a bowl to keep a
small fire in. This was as much as he knew to do, and he continued to wait.
His mother had been saying something lately about bad omens, and he tried to
ignore her, since she had always been so full of it. Ever since he was a kid,
he'd heard her speaking about bad omens and how he would turn evil or
something if he did not do as she said, and he was tired of it. He was not
going to be a bad guy, he just was curious. So he tuned his mother out. The
dreams continued to show him what to do for the next week, and he did as they
instructed, his excitement growing all the while. Each day, Sabin would take
whatever he was going to need to the caves, hiding it there and clearing a
little spot nearby where he could cast the spell. The ritual wasn't very
complex, but would take a bit of space and time to set up.
The day of the spell, Sabin was so excited he had a hard time hiding his
feelings from his mother. He told the woman he was going off to see Renee,
leading her to believe that her family had returned. Sabin knew Renee would
cover for him if need be, and everyone thought that they were in love, or
something of the sort, so it was a good way to lie. He and Renee both thought
it was funny how people automatically assumed they would eventually get
married, when they felt more like brother and sister, or cousins, than
paramours.
Sabin arrived at the cave a little early, but that was okay because he would
need a bit of time to set up, anyway. He set his candles - seven in all - in
a circle, each of them having been carved with the symbols of the Seven
Deadly Sins - he did not know that that was what they were, he just knew to
carve them there - and anointed with oils gotten from certain plants grabbed
from his mother's garden. He would wait to light them until it was time, for
now he just set up the rest of the ritual space. The candles were supposed to
represent fire, or so he assumed. He'd heard tales that in rituals like this,
everything brought into the circle represented an aspect of nature. Candles
or a fire pit for fire, incense for air - it could also be used for fire
since it needed to be lit with a flame, but Sabin was only doing what was
pointed out for him. A bowl of salt or dirt for earth, and a bowl of water
for, well, water. But what he did not know was that in good rituals, the
water should be cleaned and blessed. This water had just been taken from a
very muddy pond. He set up the little table he was using as an altar the way
he'd seen it set in his dream: the bowls of water and dirt - salt was hard to
come by in this day and age, you know - in the center of the table, incense
on one side and a small oil fire - in a stone bowl of course - on the other.
The altar was deliberately shown to him set up backwards, although he did not
know that. His every thought was on doing what he had been shown, not whether
or not it was the good way of doing things, because he was assuming it was
the right way.
Soon enough, the moon was in the right place overhead, and he lit the
candles, thankful that this was a calm, clear night, and no wind would blow
out the small flames. He sat where he was supposed to, and began chanting
some strange words he had heard himself saying in the dreams. He knew not
what they meant, but he would say them, just the same. Almost as if being
controlled by something, Sabin continued doing what he thought would bring
him a view of a monster. The altar had been stationed in the center of the
circle, pushed only slightly toward the south so that Sabin himself sat at
the exact center point. The chant ended a few moments later as the wind
raised itself, amazingly leaving the candle flames lit. He had made sure to
write down the spell so that he would remember it, and he pulled out the
paper, ready to recite it.
"From the dark realm to the world of light, I call upon the moon
tonight.
Bring to me what causes fear, open a portal and bring an anju near."
While saying this, he tossed some of the dirt over the oil fire, the incense,
and the water. He tossed the water over the incense and the fire, and dumped
what was left of the loose incense into the fire as well. It had grown in the
confines of the rather large stone bowl until it threatened to overflow from
it, but suddenly, the flames were extinguished. Clouds rolled in to cover the
moon and thunder boomed overhead. Lightning crashed across the sky, keeping
Sabin's attention as a portal opened behind him. He did not know what was
happening behind him. Smoke from the fire had curled around the appearing
portal, and as it opened it shone faintly with green light. The demon of fear
that had been waiting patiently finally had its' chance, and it took it
swiftly. It jumped through the portal to the real world,
and right into Sabin's unprotected body from the back. The poor, unsuspecting
boy gasped and clawed at his back for a moment before collapsing on the
ground, his body twitching madly as the thing fought to control his body.
Sabin lost his grip on both consciousness and his body, and his mind
retreated to a part of him that would soon be in anguish at what had
happened. The two entities now sharing the body merged.
And the rest, as they often say in situations such as this, is history.
Gaia Name :
Saekochan
ANs:
#1 I admit I stole the name of a movie to use as the title for this story,
but really, it fits SOOOO well, don't you think?
#2 Er, how else did he get the money that was stolen from him at the gypsy
camp? - Read the info on him to get that part of the story, cause I'm not sayin it here.
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