The Bela Grayson Chronicles: The Book of Demons

Chapter Four The Resurrection of Lucy Grayson

"The book was created over 5,000 years ago, it belonged to Lucy Grayson, your great, great grandmother, she used this book to trap all the demons who would have killed or enslaved our kind, she had placed a spell on it to keep the dangers against the witches and the sorcerers out. And if this were to be opened after being placed in the wrong hands, it would mean the end of our days and the earth would be overrun and enslaved by monsters." Gerard said "That's why you keep it locked up. So that the demons and monsters have no form of escape... So, Lucy, what was she like?" I asked "She was a kind and pure soul, much as the women in our family, like my Valerie, like your mother, and she looked much like you.. It's a mystery as to why she has a great great granddaughter that is identical to her. But she was killed by Maurice Duloche, an evil sorcerer who sought Lucy's hand in marriage, it turns out that he had actually trapped Lucy's soul inside this very crystal. I have tried many a century to free her, but it is said that only the future Grayson witch is the only one that can expel her soul from the crystal." Gerard said "And since Mom and Grandma Valerie have passed, then that would make me the Grayson witch with the power to set her free." I said "That's right. Here's the spell." Gerard said "Dearly departed, jsem se vážou k tobě, uvolnění tohoto ducha, s těmito slovy, já vás osvobodí." I chanted repeatedly "5,000 years of being trapped in that crystal, I'm finally free. You must be the witch that freed me from Maurice's curse." The woman said "I'm Bela Grayson, your great great granddaughter." I said "I am Lucy Carolyn Grayson, I sense my body nearby." Lucy said "Carolyn, I have always loved that name." I said "It was your great great great grandmother's name." Lucy said "Here it is, preserved in my study." Gerard said "You preserved a corpse? What other dead things do you keep in this house?" I asked "Lucy asked me to take her body if she ever found a way out of the crystal, it has been preserved since Maurice stole her life." Gerard said "I still look beautiful after 5,000 years. Okay, Bela. Repeat the first half of the spell." Lucy said "Alright, Dearly departed, jsem se vážou k tobě, merge the body and soul. Two will become one." I said "Lucy." Gerard said "Thank you for keeping my body safe, Gerard. And thank you, Bela, for bringing me back to life. I deeply appreciate this." Lucy said "We really do look alike... But how is this..?" I asked "'Tis but a mystery, my dearest granddaughter, there were no signs of a doppelgänger in our family bloodline, until 5,000 years later..." Lucy said "Once Maurice finds out that you rose Lucy from the dead, he will come for us." Gerard said "I don't understand, isn't Maurice dead?" I asked "After he thought he killed me, he placed himself in a deep millennia year sleep until I could be brought back, since that day is my rebirth, he will come and kill us all..." Lucy said "I hope that day won't come for a long time." I said "All we can do now is hope for that, Bela." Gerard said 'It was then the lights had begun to flicker, the house beginning to shake, the floorboards cracking, glass breaking and shards flying everywhere... This was the dawning of evil sorcerer Maurice Duloche...' "Grandpa, what the hell is happening?" I asked "He knows. Maurice Duloche is awake..." Lucy said