Horror Movie 9

In a normal house on a normal street in Nashville, Tennessee a sleepover was happening. One just like many others that have occurred in this very house, except in one small way. One of the participants brought what she believed to be a party game.

The participants were a trio of friends, sisters in all but blood.

Sapphire was a young woman with red dyed hair and pale white skin. She was wearing a faded band t-shirt and worn-in pajama pants. Her biggest passion in the world was magic in all its forms.

Elizabeth was blonde with blue eyes. She had a white night gown on. She was the only daughter of the neighborhood's preacher.

Cassandra was a young black woman with long wavy hair. She had gym shorts and an over-sized T-shirt on. She was her school's star athlete and was on track to be the valedictorian.

"Look what I got here, a real-life spell book." Sapphire said with a glowing face.

"Come on. I know you like all this witchcraft stuff, but it's just not real" Cassandra explained to her friend.

"I know that of course, but isn't it cool to imagine" Sapphire said with a starry look in her eye.

"You know my father would freak out if he got even a whiff that I was even anywhere near that. I'm already on thin enough ice as it is with the gossip going around." Elizabeth said with a worried look.

"Lizzie it's just a party game. Let loose a little, your father's not going to find out." Sapphire exhorted.

"That's what you said last time we were in a situation like this and look how that turned out." Elizabeth said with a glare.

"Oh, come on Lizzie, it sounds like it could be fun and if it's not, we do something else. The only reason that happened was because Chris is a b***ard." Cassandra explained.

"Ok, let's get on with it." Elizabeth said with a defeated look.

They all sat cross-legged on the ground around the book opened on a page describing a cleansing ritual. It was not the most magical or visually stunning, but it was the least dangerous and resource intensive. It was also the only ritual that Sapphire and Cassandra could convince Elizabeth to even pretend to try.

"Let purity scrub the wicked deeds from our minds, bodies, and souls" They all chanted.

"Let purity scrub the wicked deeds from our minds, bodies, and souls" They all repeated.

"Let purity scrub the wicked deeds from our minds, bodies, and souls" They all repeated a third time.

When they were finished white fireworks launched out of the book and hit the three teenagers around it.

Each girl had a different reaction to this mysterious event: Sapphire was elated, Cassandra was curious, and Elizabeth was scared.

One firework purified Cassandra's mind. All that stress she accrued maintaining her athletics, academics, and social life just melted away leaving her at peace.

Another firework purified Sapphire's body. The spark scrubbed her hair of its dye, her skin of the secret tattoo she got, pushed piercings out of her body, and then healed the resulting holes.

The last firework purified Elizabeth's soul. Her spark cleansed her soul of its needless guilt and regret over her previous choices, but the largest effect was that the spark shattered the chains of her father's repression. She felt freer than she had in as long as she can remember, all the chains that previously bound her were gone.

The three sisters in all but blood looked at each other in shock as none of them expected the ritual to work and for good reason too. The only reason it did was that several conditions were met: the three considered each other sisters, all of them had magical potential, the artifact belonged to the same branch of magic as them, and there were three of them which was an important number in magic. These conditions made the three teenagers into a coven and also empowered them thus allowing them to perform magic without skill, experience, or even true belief in the mystical arts.

Elizabeth's face turned bone white, "What have we done?"

"We discovered magic, that's what we did" Sapphire replied while beaming.

"We performed the devil's work!" Elizabeth cried hysterically.

"Didn't what just happen just seem right. I know personally that I haven't felt better since running around on the playground." Cassandra, trying to comfort her friend.

"Its… its… just the devil's influence. It corrupted us." Elizabeth said before slumping drained of energy.

"It felt so right. If that's the devil's work, then maybe he is better to follow than some distant deity." Cassandra, trying to convince her friend.

"How could you say that!!" Elizabeth screamed at her friend.

"Do you even really believe any of that?" Sapphire asked from the side.

"Yes. No. I don't know at this point. All I know is that ritual changed something in me, and I don't know if I'm okay with that." Elizabeth, confused with the situation surrounding her.

"Some change is for the better. And this was better. This has the possibility to change all of our lives for the better. Think about it: me out from under the thumb of my father, Cassandra you could be the star student and athlete of our school, and Elizabeth you can have your vengeance against Chris." Sapphire looking at her two friends.

"Alright I'm in." Cassandra looked her in the eye full of resolve.

"Me too" Elizabeth looked her in the eye with albeit less resolve than her friend.