The Unexpected

Chapter 5: A Vessel for evil

Hartley's POV

I slowly open my eyes and look around to see that I am now in a very run-down cottage. "Where am I?" I ask my head still hurting but it now that I notice that I have been tied down to a chair. "What is going on? Why are three of you doing this to me?" I ask struggling against the ropes as Wilhelmina looks up from the strange book in front of her. "I wouldn't struggle too much, those ropes have been enchanted to get tighter the more you struggle." I lean back against the chair feeling my frustration starting to bubble over. "WHAT AM I DOING HERE!" None of them answer me as I lean back in my chair letting out a sigh.

I see Wilhelmina studying something from her book as Marla is looking at stuff in an overflowing back room and Samara is humming as strangely calming tone as she dances around the room. "Everything is almost ready." Wilhelmina says turning her attention away from the odd-looking book and over to me. "Either tell me why you took me captive or I will make sure that the rest of your life is pure hell." I snarl at her but instead of fearing me like everyone does in Gotham Wilhelmina just laughs as she slithers close to me and hisses. "Your threats to not scare me, my sisters and I have waited far too long for our chance to perception of our family legacy." I roll my eyes getting bored which is not a good think considering who my parents are.

"I don't care about your family; all I want is to go back home." I snap at the young woman who just scoffs at me. "At least you have a family to go back too, all I have left are my idiot sisters who are not the brightest crayons in the book if you know what I mean." Wilhelmina brushes some of her hair out of her face and I see a look that I know all too well, it is a look of longing. "What happened to your parents?" Wilhelmina sighs running her hand along the book that is on a pedestal, "I don't know who my father is because he left before I was born and as for my mother she and my aunts got killed a long time ago by a group of bratty kids." I can see the disdain in the eyes of Wilhelmina as she talks about the people that killed her mother.

"Why did they get killed?" I ask trying to stall as long as I can until I figure a way out of this. "The first time was because the three of them used a spell from that very book in 1693 to absorb the youth of children to replenish their own, and even though my mom knew the price of this spell was killing innocent children she didn't care as long as it got her what she wanted." I prideful smile comes across the lips of Wilhelmina. "My mother along with my aunts were hanged for this crimes, but not before my mother casted one last curse to make sure that they would one day be resurrected." Suddenly Marla turns her attention to me and Wilhelmina. 

"300 years later they returned to complete their plan of living forever, but I guess they didn't learn from their mistakes because they were killed once again but only this time they were defected by snot nose kids and an immortal black cat." Marla snarls at me rolling her eyes as Samara comes up behind me getting me to jump in the chair. "They were resurrected one last time 22 years later by orders of King Beast and Queen Belle, but that was only for them to be shipped off to the forsaken place called the Isle of the lost where we called home for a number of years." Samara growls slithering around the chair and joins her sisters in front of me.

"What does any of this have to do with me?" I ask getting so bored of their family sob story that a bullet to the brain sounds heavenly right now. "When the barrier was broken my mother's spell book finally awoke and we were visited by a strange woman who wore a black hooded rode with a red outline, a gold belt around the waist, and over their face is an orange full face venetian masquerade mask with a purple design.

She filled the three of us in on the one called the first woman of the world and how her spirit was released after King Ben destroyed the bracelet that held her spirit in it, and how if we joined the cause then in return this first woman of the world would reward us with anything we wished for." Marla steps up on the right side of Wilhelmina, "Of course we accepted then the strange woman informed us on everything we needed to do in order to do our part in bringing this woman back into the land of the living, and that is why you were meant to fall through that portal." Samara steps up to the left side of Wilhelmina,

"You are the chosen one that shall be the temporary vessel for the spirit of our Queen, at least until the final spell is casted and her spirit and her body are one again." I see the evil intent in their eyes and I soon find myself struggling as hard as I can to get free. "You should be honored to play host to such a powerful woman." Samara says laughing as the door to cottage burst open and the three of them start to laugh and this spin chilling and evil sense fills the room. "The time has come sisters, now that our guest of honor has arrived." I start trying to do anything to get free but nothing seems to be working.

"Transfer this soul into this vessel, let it not be a hassle." Wilhelmina chants as the room gets colder. "Make it easy." Samara chants with a giggle. "As her mind becomes a blur." Marla chants as the three-wacko sister join hands around me and the inside of the cottage starts getting dark. "Let this body be home for her!" They chant and suddenly everything goes black. I feel my body completely relax as I open my eyes and look around to see the faces of the three Sanderson sisters. "Well done ladies, a very successful spell casted." The three of the them look at me with the same dumb founded expression on their face. 

"We really don't have time to waste." I look down at the ropes that entrap me and suddenly they snap and fall to the ground. "It really is you." Samara says as the three of them take a step back. "Of course it is, but unfortunately in this body my powers have their limits and we still have a lot of work to do." The three sisters kneel and bow before me. "We are at your service mistress." I smile down at them before raising my hands bringing them to their feet. "You three will be preforming the necromancer's curse." The three of them nod their heads as Wilhelmina speaks up.

"How can we preform a curse that we know nothing about?" I smile a very evil smile. "I will take care of everything my dearies and all you three lovely ladies have to do is show up at a location that I will give you when the time comes and then preform the curse." I wave my hand opening the door of the cottage. "What about Auradon?" Marla asks as a sour look comes onto my face. "I have something very special in store for the people of Auradon when time is right, but first I must go see my Black Ravens and my most loyalist follower who happens to be the daughter of Diablo and the leader of my Black Ravens." The three ladies bow to me as I turn myself into black smoke and start heading to the hidden headquarters of my Black Ravens.