This part is a wild ride for all involved. I was not sure whether I wanted the story to go where it ended, so I let it sit for months after writing it. But here is it is in its original state. So let me know what you think.
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Chapter 8.
I rolled off of Carrie and just lay next to her, she was breathing very heavy as she rolled to her side.
The girls in the hall sprawled out to get their own relaxation after being so close and cramped.
The next morning...
As I lay there next to Carrie I was caressing her hands softly.
"Carrie where's your ring?" I said in a scared tone.
"It's over on the night stand." Carrie said and I let out a sigh of relief.
She quickly sat up in bed looking at me in horror. She got out of bed in a flash and was on the floor next to the night stand looking around. Then she was looking under the bed and all around on the floor. She jumped up and started looking on the dresser.
"Oh NO!" She said sacred. "It's not here... I don't know where it is Chad?" She continued in frightened tone with sacred to death look on her face.
Suddenly we heard an extremely loud female voice scream, it was like a horror movie scream coming from outside my room. It sounded like someone was in severe pain.
Carrie turned around and then she seemly did a high hurdle track jump over the entire bed and sprinted out the door toward my sister's room. As I got in the hall she was already in my sister's room. I was mesmerized by her athleticism as I ran after her. How she managed to run that far in a split second I have no idea. Her ability to jump and run was why she was the number one cheerleader in the state I surmised. Her massively powerful legs were able to propel her so high and so fast to leap over objects in a single bound and sprint in nothing flat. Suddenly my mind wondered back to my sister's antics of saying Carrie got a double dose of some of her parts.
"Oh My Gaud!" Carrie screamed as she entered my sister's room. I stood there in shock as I saw smoke seemly coming up from the floor. Alisha was laying on the floor passed out. As I looked around the room I saw empty snack bags and half empty liquor bottles. They both just recently turned 21 and evidently were having a girl's night of fun.
"Get it off her!" Carrie screamed.
"I can't it's too hot to touch, its burning MY fingers!" Alexa shouted.
"Here let me try," Carrie said quickly getting down on her hands and knees next to Alisha's hand.
Carrie yanked the ring off Alisha's finger and it went flinging across the floor.
It stopped in front of my sister's night stand and was smoldering.
"Oh My Gaud!" Alexa screamed, "That ring is possessed!"
"It's not possessed," Carrie said calmly, "it's mine," She continued as she reached down and picked it up.
She walked over to me and reached out to hand me the ring.
"Nooooo!" I said in a fright, "I'm not touching that thing."
"Chad honey; you have to place it back on my finger," Carrie said with enthusiasm. "See it's OK it's not hot anymore. Go on my Knight; place it back on your maiden's Ring finger, Please." Carrie said pleading.
I was looking at the back of her hand as she cupped the ring ready to drop it into my hand.
"Come on... Sir Chad... of Robertson... my Knight in shining armor." Carrie said with a sultry look on her face.
I was still not moving as I looked into her eyes. I was shaking my head back and forth as I looked down at her and I could see her amazing green goddess eyes dancing back and forth inquisitively.
"Come on now Chad, It's Okay, see I'm holding it." Carrie said nonchalantly.
She reached up and grabbed my hand and forced the ring into it.
"See it's not hot. Okay; Now place it... back on my ring finger, my Knight." Carrie said with purpose.
I slowly placed the ring on her finger while staring into her eyes. She leaned up and kissed me on the side of my face while whispering "Thank you" into my ear.
"I think I need to take Alisha to the doctor?" Alexa said.
"You have to call her mom, Alexa, and I don't know what you're going to tell her this time?" Carrie said unsure.
Alisha was stirring now.
"Oh my Gaud! my hand, my hand, what happened to my hand." Alisha screamed out.
I could now see a glow coming from the Ancient Prophecy Manual.
"What is that?" I said quickly.
"It's writing something again." Alexa said as she walked over toward it.
We all looked at each other scared, too scared to open the manual and read what we thought it might say about Alisha.
Suddenly our attention was forced again to Alisha who was holding her left hand in her right hand and was moaning in severe pain as she lay in a fetal position sideways on the floor.
"We have to take her to the hospital!" Alexa barked as she moved over to Alisha.
"No!" Carrie shouted then she looked over at the book.
"If they find out she burned her hand on that ring; all sorts of questions will arise; and the ring will be confiscated; never to return; and the prophecy will die with us." Carrie continued.
Alisha was rocking back in forth on the floor as her eyes fluttered and she was beginning to lose consciousness.
"We have to do something; what if her mother finds out about this?" Alexa said in a panic.
Carrie then moved over directly in front of the book as Alexa and I looked on in horror. Carrie slowly tentatively reached out to open the book. We could see the page she was opening was smoldering. Carrie began reading the words in her mind; we could see her finger tracing as she read. Next Carrie looked over her shoulder at Alisha then back to the book and was reading it again; she studied the words for a while tracing with her finger back and forth and seemed to be whispering to herself as she read it.
Carrie then turned around, walked over to Alisha and slowly kneeled down. She looked at Alisha face in sympathy.
Alisha's focus changed from her hand and she was now panic stricken as she was looking up at Carrie's face in horror. Next Carrie changed her focus and was now looking at Alisha's hand. Carrie ever so slowly reached out toward Alisha's burnt hand.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Alisha screamed, "Don't kill me please!" Alisha said pleading for her life.
Carrie shook her head back and forth as she maintained concentration.
Alisha closed her eyes thinking her fate was death as she started cowering and blubbering on the floor.
Carrie looked down at Alisha's hand and pried Alisha's right hand fingers off her burnt ring finger.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Alisha screamed again, "Please, I beg you, I'll do anything; anything, Please."
Alisha was now shaking in severe panic as she lay on the floor. Her eyes were closed so tight and she was breathing very heavily and was delirious as she awaited her fate of death.
Carrie grasped hold of Alisha's finger and held it in her hand tightly, then looked up to the ceiling as she closed her eyes. The prophecy manual started glowing and vibrating on the dresser as Carrie chanted words in Latin.
"Haec... misera... anima... sanandum," (heal this wretched soul) Carrie spoke each Latin word very slowly.
"feminam... dimittitur," (female is forgiven) Carrie continued slowly in Latin.
"facere plagis evanescunt" (make her wounds disappear) Carrie finally said.
Carrie let go of Alisha's finger and slowly lay down on her side next to Alisha as she passed out.
Alisha was out of it at this point; her eyes were upturned in her head as she lay sprawled out and we thought she was dead by some magical spell that Carrie cast on her.
Alexa and I just stared into each other's eyes and held each other tight. We mortified to move in our panic stricken state at what was going on; thinking Carrie was possessed and had just killed Alisha as we watched in horror. I had no idea what she was saying, speaking some un-comprehensible nonsense it seemed to me. "A death chant," I thought as she summoned the Evil Spirits from some higher place to strike down Alisha dead in her tracks. I thought Carrie was dead as well since she was not moving.
Alexa and I still holding each other slowly backed out of the room into the hall.
"What the hell just happened in there?" I quietly asked Alexa.
Alexa looked at me in disbelief not uttering a sound and shaking her head.