The Black Book and a Rose

During my Foundation in Education, my lecturer asked every each of us in the class to do a journal and free to write anything. Therefore, i decided to do a short story. Here is my short story:



Once upon a time, there was a young lady lived in the hut. She did not have any siblings or family. However, before her adopted parents passed away, they left the hut for her. One day, while walking towards the hut compound, she saw a door. She opened up the door and there were stair towards the basement. That place was so dusty and the air was so damp. She walked slowly toward the treasure box. The treasure box was locked. She took the axe and broke the key. She saw there were many gold coins in that treasure box. Her face glowing effect from the sparkling gold coins. She was jumped with joy. While she was digging the gold coin, there were a huge black book and a black rose inside the book. The black book was so thick. She opened the book. There was strange and ancient language in that book. She brought the book into her room and tried to read it. Unfortunately, she could not understand a thing.

Finally, she brought the book to the old lady that lived in the forest. That old lady surprised to see the book. She was very excited. Later, she explained everything to the young lady.

The black book and the black rose was the curse from the young lady ancestors. They cast the spell onto the black book and the black rose to take revenge to the villagers who neglected them, as they believe the young lady family was the Evil Family.

The truth was Emily McBright, the young lady name, family were wizards. However, they came to the village with peace and hoped to live like other normal family.
The villagers could not accept them, as they looked very awkward to them. Emily McBright family’s house was huge and creepy. There was once, Chris, the son of the neighbour sneaky into her house and saw they cast a spell on the foods and the foods floated towards the dishes.

All the villages believed on Chris and that night, the dark history in Emily McBright family had begun. They burned the Emily’s family into ashes together with the house. Emily’s mother managed to release herself into the jungle.

In the jungle, she saw an old hut and an old lady in it. The old lady helped the Emily’s mother. Emily’s mother, Delilah, lent the book and the black rose to the old lady before she died. She said that the book and the black rose had being cursed by her ancestors for the sake of her family safety and against toward the enemy. Delilah mentioned that as Emily turned 18, she would come to the old lady for help. She knew the future because Delilah was a great psychic. She also asked the old lady to help Emily and turned her into the greatest witch through the book’s guide.

As soon as the old lady finished explained to the Emily, Emily was in rage and fury. In a blink of an eye, Emily ran away. While still running, she cried. She stopped at the lake nearby. She screamed and cried with all her heart.

She felt sad as all her family died in the tragedy. Her soul full of hatred. She began to think of evil plan to the villagers. But first, she must learned all the techniques and spells in the books in order to become the greatest witch. That night, she could not sleep. She was being haunted by the old lady story. She could not forgive the villagers. Her soul screamed for revenged. She got up and seated on bed. Finally, she burst into tears. She really missed her family.

Early in the morning, she woke up and headed to the well. After finished bathing, she got dressed and went to the old lady house. The old lady started to advice her and translated the language in that book. She listened to it very carefully. These things went day after day until for months. Later, the old lady taught the techniques to Emily. Emily started to learn the easy techniques before moved to the hardest magic. She learned with full of spirit. Even though the knowledge was very hard to learn and no term in that book was ever heard before, she never gave up. She tried and kept on trying. Soon, she mastered all the magic. Before she ended her lesson, the old lady told her that the rose only working to the creature that have soul such as human being. The rose must touch parts of the human body such as skin, hair, nails and so on before cast the spell on the victims.

Emily returned home after her last lesson. On the way home, she crossed the lake, the one that she always crossed before on the way to the old lady home. She saw a father and a small son fishing at the bank of the lake. They were laughing at each other. Emily approached them and started talking to them. While talking, Emily gave the black rose to the man. He took it and gave an awkward smile to her. He felt weird with the colour of the rose. While he observed the rose, she mumbled the spell. All of sudden, the man’s head was missing but the body still there. The boy was screaming when saw his father became like that. Emily quickly covered the boy’s mouth. She took the black rose and shoved it into the boy’s mouth. Again, she was mumbling. And then, the boy was missing and floating rose dropped from the air. She slipped the rose on the man’s toe and mumbled the spell. Later, the entire man’s body was vanished.

After that, she examined all her surroundings. When she saw no one was there, she quickly left the place and went to her home. As soon as she arrived home, she felt relieved. She went to the bathroom and washed her face just like when someone finished murder people. In fact, she did but in different way. She went to her bed. She sat on her bed and thought for a while. She tried to recall the spell that working and not working. She was trying to compare it and saw the difference so that she would not repeat the same mistakes again. Finally, she traced it and repeated the working spell repeatedly according to the black book until she fell asleep.
Next morning, Emily woke up and headed to the bathroom. As soon as she finished, she prepared a breakfast for herself. While preparing her breakfast, she began to think to try the spell the villagers. She wanted to practice repeatedly so that she could master it. The entire evil plan kept lingered in her mind.

She went to the florist and bought a bouquet of roses. She covered her head with hood and kept bow down. After the florist gave her the roses, she gave the gold coins and walked away as soon as possible. She left went to the Christ Barber Shop. She left the roses in front of his shop. Then she was hiding besides the building while watching him through the windows. When she saw that nothing happened, she went again to the front door and rang the bell. Again, she was hiding. She saw a lousy fat man went to the front door, yawning. When he saw the bouquet of roses, he threw it into the garbage can and shut the door. She returned home. She filled with anger. She punched the mirror in her bedroom. Blood flew all over her fingers. She did not feel pain of the wound compare pain to inside her, which seemed like chocking her to death.

As the night approached, she followed Christ to the bar. She asked the bar tender to give a glass of beer to the Christ. Before that, she put the black rose into the glass. Swiftly, she was hiding in other corner. As the glass arrived, without hesitation, Christ drank the beer. Emily quickly cast the spell. In a blink of an eye, Christ disappeared. All people in the bar ran away and screaming. Emily smiled wickedly and walked away.

After few months, Emily still vanishing the villagers. She put the rose in a bouquet of roses; she slipped the rose on the victim’s hair or ears, made it as a necklace or bracelet and many more ways. Day by day, the police had accepted many reports regarding missing people in that village. Even the police almost gave up. Each day, there must be missing people spread rapidly until it reached to the Helena Petra‘s ears. Helena was a famous vampire hunter in the other village. She was well-known of her went to the Emily‘s village to investigate the mystery of missing people in that village.
Each day, Helena tried to solve the mystery. She asked questions from the witnesses, she analysed the evidence and tried to make a researched about the mystery through old book. After few months, she had all the information about Emily. She knew that Emily was a witch. She even knew about the tragedy that happened to Emily‘s family. After she traced Emily’s house, Helena started to follow anywhere Emily went. Helena saw many incredible things happened in front of her eyes.

Soon, Emily sensed something unusual. She could sense that someone following her. When she were at bar, Helena put poison into her drink. She could sense something wrong with her drink. She cast the ‘Poison Detector’ spell. The glass exploded. All the people in the bar were shocked. She quickly ran away. She felt very angry, as she knew someone wanted to poison her. Helena clenched her jaw and her hands as she saw that her enemy released from her trap successfully.

Even though, Helena trap did not work out, she did not give up. She used her frustration and anger as her booster to capture Emily. She knew everything that Emily did. Helena mission was to steal the rose from Emily. After that, she wanted to put the rose at the parts of Emily’s body so that the spell could reflect on Emily.

The next morning, as usual, Emily will left home to continue her evil work. Helena used this opportunity to capture Emily. Helena came to the Emily’s house. She came with her black horse. She wore her boots, tight leather pants and a black corset together with her jacket. She looked like a cowgirl as she wore the hat. In contrast, Emily wore a beautiful gown, a corset and a long jacket together with hood. As she covered her head with hood, she really looked like an Evil Witch.
A soon as Helena reached at Emily’s house, she examined around her house. She did not want the same mistake happened again. She knew that her enemy was not easy to capture. Even for few years she haunting vampires, she never felt this hard. However, she loved challenging work. It gave her more spirit to do the work as it tested her abilities. After few hours, she was sure that the house was empty. Emily was not in the house. She quickly broke into the house. She took coal in her bag. She drew a big round circle and weird symbols on the ceiling. She tried to draw the symbol based on the old book that she brought. Later, the trap was set up. She just had to wait for the enemy to come into the house. While waiting, she sat on the chair and held the old book on her palm. She kept staring at the fireplace.

Helena kept waiting eagerly. She was waiting until dusk. Emily came home. Emily sensed something was not right. Therefore, she sneaky into her house. As she arrived at the living room, she could see that there was someone on the chair. She started to cast a spell. A storm-like light came out from tips of her finger. The light seemed reflected to her. She screamed in pain. Her hands burned seriously. Helena laughed all of suddenHer laughed made Emily burst into anger. Helena moved toward Emily. She walked around the circle slowly. Emily’s breathing getting harder as she tried to controlled her anger. She stared at Helena eagerly. Her face was full of hatred. Helena laughed more boastfully. Emily could not run anywhere as she had being trap by the invisible force. Emily screamed so hard as she saw the weird symbols on the ceiling. Helena started to torture Emily by read the old book that she brought. Emily screamed in pain. Helena asked Emily to give the black rose and the black book to her. She refused it. Again, Helena read the spell.


Finally, Emily gave the book and the rose, as she could not stand with the agony. Helena commanded Emily to bring all the people that she had cast back to human world. She followed the order as she did not want to die or injured badly. She started to mumble in strange language and sparkle light spread to the air forming the human shape. There were many people in the house and they were staring wondered where they were. Helena continued read the book. She wanted to remove all the Emily’s power. Emily screamed in agony. Finally, Helena stopped reading it. Emily was very exhausted. Helena took the black book and the rose. She threw it into the fireplace. Both of them watched the book and the rose burned into ashes. Emily could not do anything. She kept screamed and cried with all her heart. Helena took the coal and scribbled the symbols on the ceiling. Emily was free to go. However, Helena did not say a word; she took her horse and went away.



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