Week 4 Storytelling: Matty Was Missing

(Spellbook by: Eclipse_ETC)

WARNING: This story is mystery/horror. There is some graphic violence, a bit of gore, and it deals with some difficult themes. --If that's not your cup of tea, please don't read. I don't want to upset or trigger anyone.

**If it's required that you read my story, but don't want to read it, THEN read last weeks story, or the story from the week before.

Matty Was Missing

Matty was missing.

For someone who was missing, I couldn't run away from him, even if I wanted to.

We lived in a small town, where everyone knows everyone and everything. So, when Matty went missing, the missing person posts went everywhere the next day, was all the local news talked about.

Everyone had their idea of where he was. That he ran away. That he killed himself. That the serial killer, the Night Wriath, got him. Afterall, he'd killed teenage boys in the counties near us.

I shook my head at each speculation, because Matty was still alive for all we knew. 

He had to be alive...

Afterall, there was no evidence to say otherwise. All anyone knew was that Matty's blue Volkswagen Beatle was found, abandoned, in a mall parking lot. That he hadn't made any purchases since he's been missing. That I was the last person to see him.

He was happy then. It had been a full moon, and as we were both Wiccan, we did Full Moon Rituals for happiness and prosperity, and he left my house with his big smile on his face. Yeah, it was late, midnight or so, but he always left late like that.

I held onto the pentacle Matty had given me, it was on a black string, with letter beads that spelled out, "Willow", my name. 

I relied on the white magic behind Wicca. I tried every spell I could think of. I begged my Patron Goddess, Isis, to find him.

But Matty was still missing and it had been a week.

One night I fell to the ground, and I cried out, "If there is anyone out there, good, evil, help me find Matty!"

I cried a long time, and I guess I eventually fell asleep.

When I dreamt, I was in a forest that I'd never been in. I felt ike there was a string attached to me, and someone was pulling me along through the forest, until the pull stopped in a clearing.

When I looked in front of me, I screamed. 

Matty was looking at me with lifeless, white eyes, his head on the ground. The rest of his body was in pieces, scattered around me.

I jolted awake, and started to get out of bed to turn a light on, as if that would chase away the nightmare. But, when I did, I saw dirt in my bed, and covering my legs. I jumped onto the floor, and stepped away from the bed, but I wished I stayed in bed.

When I looked down, Matty's lifeless head was looking up at me, and his body was spread around him. There was a brown book next to him.

I look at Matty again, so I pushed him under my bed. I picked up the book, and saw that the title was, "Spells."

There was a piece of paper wedged in it like a bookmark, and I turned to that page. The page said, "A Spell of Resurrection." 

There was no way that this was white magic, it couldn't be.

I saw that the piece of paper read, "You're Welcome. ~Asmodeous." A demon. This was black magic.

But Matty wasn't missing. Matty was dead, and he was under my bed.

Matty was my first love, and we had two amazing years together. I needed Matty.

I had to do the spell. I had to use black magic.

The spell read, "Requirements: needle and thread, chalk, knife, five candles, and one soul."

But, if it took my soul to bring Matty back, then I would do it.

I looked down at Matty, and I closed his white eyes. I gritted my teeth as I picked up each body part and sewed Matty's body back together. 

I drew a pentagram, along with the required symbols around it. I then placed the candles on each point of the star. I lit the candles, and cut my palm, dripping blood on Matty.

In a shaky voice I read the spell outloud.

After I spoke the words, nothing happened. I sighed. I was feeling numb all over. I was like an empty shell.

Suddenly Matty's fingers twitched, and then his hands closed and opened, and then his eyes opened, no longer white, but blue and full of life!

He groaned and started to sit up.

"Matty..." I whispered. But, I saw that I was no longer in my body. I was next to my body, but when tried to touch Matty, my hand went through him.

He sat up, and the thread I had sewn him together with faded, and he was completely back to life.

He looked in horror as he saw my lifeless body. He cradled my body in his arms, screaming, "Willow!" Over and over again.

I was screaming, but he couldn't hear me.

My parents ran in, shocked, and rushed to my now, lifelfess body, being held by the now, full of life Matty.

I screamed, but no one could hear me.

The floor suddenly cracked open, with fire crackling. Matty didn't seem to see it.

A grey-skinned man with long black hair flew out of the crack on black wings. He tipped a wide brimmed hat. "Nice to meet you."

"Asmodeous," I said. "What have you done?"

"Me?" He said and laughed. "That was all you. You asked, and you received."

"But what's happened to me?"

"Well, let's see..." He snapped his fingers and the Spell Book was in his hands. He opened it to the Resurrection Spell page. "Requirements: Needle and thread, blah, blah, blah, and…OH,, and what's this? A soul."

"But, doesn't that happen when I die?"

"It happens when I want your soul, and I want your soul..." He said softly and slowly, but in a furious flap of his wings he was in front of me. His eyes were ablaze with a orange fire and he roared, "NOW!"

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Author's Note: First of all, sorry if this was too creepy and dark! I guess Halloween coming soon is on my mind! Secondly, Matty was murdered by the serial killer, the Night Wraith. I didn't really have room or a chance to fully explain that.

Anyways, you're probably wondering how on earth I got all of this from mythology, right? 

I chose the reading unit: Ancient Egyptian Myths and Stories. 

I borrowed the idea of cutting one's head off from The Tale of King Rhampsinitus. That got me thinking about how the head was going to be re-attached, and I thought of a Frankenstein sort of concept. 

The Spell Book was borrowed from The Book of Thoth. I don't know if The Book of Thoth is supposed to be good or evil. However, thinking about spells and magic made me think of good and evil magic, and the consequences of using black or evil magic. 

And, if you noticed, I snuck in that Willow's Patron Goddess is Isis, who I learned about from this week's reading unit!

This story is mostly a moral story about being careful about what you ask for. As a second moral, it warns against using black magic. I was happy that my story actually had morals, as my stories don't usually. I didn't even mean for it to have a moral--it just ended up that way!

ALSO, I was in the mood for something different today, but there will be more vampire or faerie stories soon!