You need Jesus
After mia went away Paula didn't stay much longer as she ran away and the school was calling her mother about Paula missing three months of school. Her mother was in trouble now and Melina was the only one left in the house as she couldn't control Paula . Like she couldn't control mia . When the opening of vacation bible school as Melina was pawn off to one vacation bible school after another.
Melina's mother didn't know what to do with her as she basically found Melina a neighbor who was deeply religious as she went to bible school with that family. It made Melina feel dirty and odd to see a loving family operate and how they were happy and how they took naps after church before lunch was made. The peace for Melina was unsettling to her as she was raised on chaos and mayhem. When things were calm for Melina it scared her.
When Melina was in the system when all was quiet it was a temporary abridgement. It was the calm before the coming storm. It was the whispers in the dark and the alliances in waiting. When it was calm. When it was peaceful in the group home it was the scariest moment ever.
When Melina saw the calm loving family take her in and bring her to church and show her kindness she didn't know how to react . She stayed quiet .she watched . When they told her to take a nap she knew it would be two more hours when her mom would get her and she would have to go home to the world she knew the world she grew up in.
The sad reality was she went to a loving family to vacation bible school and pretended like she was normal and like she didn't know what she knew. Like she didn't know her mother was getting rid of her to be able to go see a new man or to pick up hours . Like she didn't know her family was in shambles that she was one bad move waiting to be another story she had to endure. It was like foster care all over again getting moved around to suit others interest. And Melina had no choice at all . She was powerless to do anything about her circumstances.
When that week of that family hosting me in their spiritual guidance like a good little Samaritan teaching me their family values and beliefs as I was being groomed with manners and kindness and seeing the way a normal functioning family worked. Then I was moved to another families where their church had vacation bible school just a different faith but the family was all the same. Happy families taking her to church to learn about Jesus and love. Then being fed sitting at a table with a normal family and watching others have happy lives . Between these five families she was groomed in manners that her mother never took out the time to teach. She was experiencing sisterly love from strangers as their little girls and boys played with Melina and didn't harm her.
When it was all said and done I had visited five families with five different religious beliefs. She learned five different stories and five different beliefs. When the summer was over she knew more about Jesus Christ then Jesus himself. This little push for making me follow a religious path. For some sick deranged concept my mother had if she made me adapt to religion it would save her the time and trouble of me becoming another out of control child that she couldn't control.
Instead of taking accountability of her lack of being able to provide me a normal childhood and she disguised it as me needing Jesus instead of me just needing a mom. It was a cruel slap to the face honestly. To dangle in front of me the hope of a family I would never have and then rip it away from me each and every night by reminding me the actual life I had verses the one I deserved to have.
This was one of many psychological mind screws she was capable of to teach me right from wrong. To teach me how to keep my mouth shut about the things I was going through at home . Where i had to pretend I was a normal happy child that loved Jesus and was a perfect little angel . This was her way to make sure I didn't end up like the rest of my sisters .
When she finally enrolled me in the last vacation bible school I refused to go. I stood my ground and told her this was against my religion to go to another vacation bible school as I was sick of sitting in a car with a happy family. I was sick of eating cookie and juice boxes as I colored and learned about Jesus Christ our Lord an Savior. I was sick of taking naps after church and told to be quiet as the adults made lunch. And I was sick of my mom coming to get me like she wasn't sinning while I was having my soul saved .
It was a bit hypocritical to send your daughter to have her soul saved and yet your sinning and doing God knows what. It left a really bad taste in my mouth the concept of religion and how we use it to cure behaviors and make excuses of why things happen to us. When I would go home with her we didn't speak or talk about the classes I took to be a better Christian. She wasn't really interested. All she was interested in was getting rid of me and making me feel guilty in the process.
The actions of a self centered narcissist that didn't recognize her own faults and overly projected them on her innocent child that she forced to be subjected to her choices. At this point of my life I was a witch who was allies with a hunter and I lived in a house that had an absent mother and I knew I had to keep up pretences we were fine. No matter what happened to me I had to keep up the role I was forced into for survival.
But I also knew one day something had to give. Something would snap inside of me and when it happened heaven help the soul that was the other end of it. I was cornered. I was angry. I was sad. And all I wanted was to right the wrong that was done to me. But how does one make someone take accountability for something they aren't willing to admit they were doing wrong? My sense of justice was beginning a curve and the direction it was bending it was beginning to cloud my judgement for the darker side .
This was the point in my like I began to embrace my darkness of who I was and accepting the things that happened to me and in the wake of it all I knew there was a revolution coming and I was the hand that was welding it. It was time for some retribution for my neglect. I was time to tap into my dark side of what I was. Of what I was capable of. This was me. This was my new path.
Melina saw the life she was robbed of and she was out for vengeance to justify her life. She saw the cruelty her mother subjected her to as she grew older in mind then she needed to be . Her mother's attempt to groom her to be a perfect child without lifting a finger on her part was infuriating. The woods was her comfort as she raised the earth asd sheltered the trees in her anger and she called the winds and storms as she summoned lightning and ire. I screamed as it echoed as the birds flew to escape my wrath and one by one they fell down in a blaze of fire .
The woods began to smoke as I felt my hunter come behind me" put it out little one. Those creature are not part of your ire. Show them mercy . " He said as he grabbed my arm as I activated my shield as I threw him across the woods as I laughed.
" This path is too dark for you my child. To not submit to your worries. You are not destruction and hate you are love and good." He gasped as he got up.
" I was good and love once. Well what I thought love looked like. But now I know better." Melina yelled as lighting struck the tree beside her house .
" Little one you are not ready for this. This is too much for you. Please stop." Pleaded the hunter as he used his abilities to put out the flaming birds as the neighborhood dogs all began to howl and cry at the utter disturbance in the earth. Melina screamed as more lightning touched the earth as lights flickered in the house and a loud pop went off .
" Little one you are not ready to chose this path." He pleaded.
I was but a child once with naive childish thoughts well at least that's what I thought. But I realized I was taught more then I should know and my childish thoughts should never be childish again. My thoughts were of a scorned child who was never afforded a childhood as I felt anger and desire to destroy everything in her path.
Not this way little one. If one must rule it should be thought mercy not tyranny. You do not want this path. Listen to me little one." He asked more desperate than normal .
" Rule! What do I rule over hungry children and loveless families. Who are my people that I rule!" Yelled Melina as the storms softened as she stalked towards her hunter as he kneeled before her.
" You are not a normal witch. You are not a normal mark. You are the real deal. You are the queen above all other queens all shall bow to your infinite mercy. You are a witch queen . You are the light child queen .become the light not the darkness." He said as a stone tear rolled over his left cheek.
" Your wrong. I'm a DarkChild queen. I seen it in my dreams. I've seen the towers rising and the axes fall and the blood splattered my castle walls. I've seen the people call me the DarkChild queen." Spatted Melina as the hunter lowered his head in defeat as his shoulders looked weighted by the words that were spoken.
" My queen please spare the world your vengeance. I tell you this you are very powerful but not yet ready. You will take lives before you save them .please don't diminish." He started as Melina interrupted .
" The memory of your daughter. I'm not her. And I never will be. Save your words I want what I want." She said as the hunter shot up and her paced forward to her with the insult she slurred against the memory of a daughter he never got to know. He came dangerously close as Melina stepped back and put up her shield as it bounced with electricity and waves of silver. The hunter came closer ignoring the pain as the energy touched him.
" If I was any other hunter you would be dead. I wouldn't share one single tear over your ungrateful corpse. Know this you may defeat me but your soul is at risk from destruction. You soul not actions will save your people . Don't act on haste and anger because there will be no people to rule of all is dead from your rule ." He said as she winced as he came closer to Melina as she saw his flesh peeling off his face as she just stood there and his arms started to burn as he hissed in the pain in response to touching her shield.
Melina heart softened as she caused him pain as her shield flickered in seeing his pain and she ran to him as she saw him fall as she ran to him as she cried out as her tears burned as Melina began to scream as she could feel the burn on her hands as she touched his hands as she burned and screamed she watch his hands heal . The pain was unbearable as she passed out in the pain and the storm settled and the winds ceased and the animals grew silent. Melina was asleep as the burns transfered to her hands and the hunter ran to get water from a puddle that had formed from the storms as she tried to wash her burned arms as she healed him and took his pain away.
As he washed her hands the skin returned normal as it cooled down but he knew he had to get her inside somewhere safe so she could rest. Melina had used a lot of energy in her rage . He knew she would be a sitting duck if she was left out her unconscious. As he watched her mother pacing in the side window of the house he took Melina to the car at the top of the hill that her sister mia stole and was sitting at the top of the hill. He layed her down as he watched her from afar throughout the night . Wondering why her mother hadn't checked on her .
Melina slept in the back of the car as she was exhausted and she dreamt of a nation of blood. A darkened sky and a moon high above. She dreamt of a mighty gold dragon. She dreamt of walls rising high as it blocked out the moon light. Hail the DarkChild queen .she heard is muffled screams as she saw darkness.and surrendered to it.