'Paranorma' Paranormal, Supernatural, And Horror Short Stories by C.W. Works - HTML preview

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5 Demon Huntress

In the 1800s there was this young named Michela, and she was poor baker's daughter, and she was very beautiful, and she was gifted but any normal human talent what she had was different and special. Her parents were very fond of their daughter but very worried for they knew of her gift because it ran through their family for generations. No one in town knew of her gift if they did, she'd be locked are accused of being a witch. Michela was at her father's bakery working when a mysterious string of murders began, most of the towns people thought it to be a traveling stranger making his way through town and he the murderer. Some say it was local that went crazy and lost it, but no one really knew. Michela felt something weird and creepy and she felt it in her gut, Michela told her father told her of her feelings and told him she was leaving to go investigate so she quietly went walked through town looking for clues. She made to the woods which was at the edge of town and she started to sniff, it smelled off sulfur, fire, and burnt wax from candles. Michaela knew that if she smelled sulfur demons were near, she continued her search; she found a bloody knife, torn clothes, there was a pentagram and around that pentagram were candles, pentagram meant that either witches or warlocks were performing human sacrifices, but where were the bodies? Now if witches or warlocks are involved, they would invoke demons and cast a spell over them and make them their slaves. She sniffed at the fire and grabbed a stick and poking at it, it smelled of charred flesh, whoever was killed must have been chopped up and burned in the fire as a sacrifice and they had help. Now by this time the townsfolk are in a panic and are forming mobs and wanting to find whoever did this and find the fire they're going to think it's a witch doing this and there will be a hanging. The mob begins to form as they look for the killer and are making their way through town, Michela can hear them yelling they are making their way through town to the woods. She had to think quickly she takes out a glass jar and scoops out the remains of the burnt bodies and hides in the pockets of her cloak then she takes her foot and scrapes off the pentagram as quickly as she could, hoping the mob wouldn't find it. She walks further into the woods and ends up finding a cave, she lights her torch and enters the dark black cave. It's eerily quiet and she hear the own beat of her heart thumping as she continues on and goes deeper into the cave as she makes her way into the cavern, she sees shadows dancing on the wall and sees the scariest, evil demons, they were big, and gruesome. They turned towards her and hissed and growled at the sight of her, Michela ran as one of the tried to lunge at her, she ducked, and the demon missed her hitting the cave wall. They're growling, hissing, and drooling, they smelled of sulfur and rotting flesh. She pulls her from her belt and the demon lunges again this time landing on top of her trying to choke the life out of her she then takes the knife plunging into the demons chest, it shrieks loudly; she kicks it off and it goes flying hitting the wall hitting with a loud "THUD". The second demon comes at her from behind her and trying to grab her hissing and growling, she turns and takes the knife and stabs the demon in the head killing it instantly it slinks down to the cave floor, she then takes the torch and sets the demons on fire and they go up in flames. Michela hears the mob coming so she decides to lead them away, she went back out to the woods where the mob was, the mob asked her if she'd seen the murderer, and she said she chased him away and saw him run through the woods into a clearing. That night Michela was treated like a hero, and the night of the murders a neighbor claimed to see a strange man in the woods who looked like he was up to no good and apparently was a warlock and he did a spell conjuring up demons to do his bidding, turns out the warlock ended up getting hit by a horse drawn wagon and passed away, and they never found the true killer and never found out the truth about the demons or Michela. Folklore says that the warlock still haunts the woods and the town. There in a town in England in Berkshire stands a statue of Michela that all the local people honor once a year in September, and it's said that there is girl in that same town that is related to Michela through many generations that live in England today.