"I will save her!"

\*A mysterious small box appeared in front of Faith’s living place.Inside the box there was a tape recorder with a tape\*

The camera gets set down on a table and plugged into a computer revealing a video. The video starts...

“**C-can you hear me**” a young woman could be seen fondling with the camera. She had light platinum blonde hair and pale blue eyes. Her skin was fair apart from her rosy cheeks. She clears her throat *\*ahem\** “**Hello, my name is Madelyn Montgomery, I’m 23 and I witnessed something unpredictable**.” she said in a soft mellow voice. “**You see, my father was the major priest at the church of Augury. His name was Edward Montgomery, and he was pretty well known around the town so there is a possibility you might know him. Well anyway, if you did know him you would also know that he passed away in his sleep a year ago**.” The girl sighed before shaking her head and trying to get back to the topic. “**He was a brave man, he was known for working with “possessed or cursed” people. Records say he died in his sleep due to a heart attack, but I disagree. The day before,..he had a secret exorcism. It was successful but he came back home drained of energy, he didn’t even want to eat. I was worried, and I was right to be worried because the next morning I found his lifeless body in bed,..but his eyes,...his eyes were wide open”** her voice trembled slightly. “**You might be wondering why I’m saying this but I promise I’ll get to my point. After that night, I started seeing visions,..small glimpses into the future. I was having Deja Vu as they call it, I was able to see what would happen the next day, week, or even month. Blessing, they called it but I wish I wasn’t “blessed,..I didn’t even know why I was blessed”** The woman looked down at her lap fixing her skirt ” She looked into the camera as her eyes dimmed. “**You see, to honor my father I started following his path. I helped police catch cold-blooded killers. Using my visions, I was able to accompany other priests in exorcisms. I stayed on the low because I didn’t want to be recognized,.I was doing this for my father,..not for acknowledgment.”** Every now and then she would fiddle with her scarf around her neck. “**If losing my father wasn’t enough, I also lost my very close friend. Her name was Ellora. She was a lively and passionate girl, always full of energy. We grew up together and became close friends: despite our completely opposite personalities. We made cute nicknames for each other, nicknames only we knew about. We shared secrets and made promises. God.., I miss her so much, I just wanted to see her. But I didn’t expect to see her so soon.**

**One night…. I believe it was in April, I woke up in cold sweat because I had dreamt a nightmare. All I saw in my dream was that I was looking up at the sky in the forest and my vision was blurring. As I was falling unconscious, I saw two orange irises before I blacked out and woke up from my nightmare.”** The girl took a deep breath “**Well the upcoming morning, I headed straight to the police department and talked my vision over with the people I usually worked with. They asked me many questions, like what my location was in the dream but..to be honest, I couldn’t really tell apart that I was surrounded by trees and was looking up at the night sky. In the end, we searched by the entrance of the forest on the outskirts of town. It turns out there were a lot of missing people that later turned up dead. All of them had one thing in common,..they were all strangled.** She stopped for a brief moment, collecting her thoughts before she continued talking “**The professionals dispersed, going on a lookout as I was left alone, or so I thought. Suddenly, I sensed a familiar presence in the woods. I looked around before deciding where my fate lies. Without a doubt, I felt myself urging towards the forest. It was as if something..or perhaps, someone was calling to me. Soon enough I found myself surrounded by tall pine trees. The place,..it looked familiar. I realized that I had set foot into the forest.”** At that moment her voice intensified “**The nightmare from the previous night replayed in my head as I was desperately trying to find my way back, not realizing that I had only gotten further into the forest.** Her face grew pale and she looked as if she was trying to hold back vomiting by swallowing and clearing her throat, she mumbled  “ **I-I remember it vividly, there was a girl slumped against a tree. As I walked closer I noticed a piece of barbed wire that remained around her neck. My stomach sank as I realized the young woman was dead and her eyes were wide open, staring at me. I just couldn’t hold my disgust any longer and proceeded to bend over and throw up. I fell down onto my knees sobbing feeling deep remorse for this young woman. I remember wiping my mouth as I rose up slowly.**

**Then I felt it,..it was a warm breath on the back of my neck. Before I had time to turn around, I felt a sharp pain around my neck consumed by a warm sensation trickling down my neck. Soon I found myself pinned on the ground, struggling to breathe. I grabbed the object around in an attempt to free myself, only to be cut in return. I looked at my hands covered in my own blood. My body started shaking as I was gasping for air. At that moment I saw it, I saw the same exact image that I had envisioned from my nightmare being played out before me. Bright orange irises stared deeply into my soul sending down chills all over my body. My eyes became blurred with my own tears as I desperately tried to fight back with any strength I had left. The figure came close enough and my heart practically stopped. There in front of me was the girl that I had spent most of my life with, and she was about to be the reason why it ended. I tried to yell at her to stop, I wanted to tell her that it was me...but no words came out. She looked at me with bloodlust eyes, giggling to herself as she tightened the barbed wire around my neck making me wince in pain. ‘This was not her,.this couldn’t be her, my friend would never want to hurt me.’ I thought to myself seeing my life flash before my eyes. All the memories we had together were slipping out of my fingertips. I felt my whole body go numb as I tried to talk to her for one last time. ‘It’s not your fault’ I wanted to say but instead, I managed to whisper “Ellie..” At that moment I felt myself breathing again, I looked at her tiredly from all the struggling noticing that her eyes had softened. This time it was she who was shaking trying to unwrap the barbed wire that had pierced my neck. I gasped in pain coughing up blood. I saw the pain in her eyes and noticed tears streaming down her face. “Angel..? Her voice trembled. She burst out crying “I'm so sorry.,” she kept on repeating, breaking down before being interrupted by yelling and footsteps coming towards us. I could see the panic in her eyes as she looked at me getting up. She started walking away deeper into the forest. She looked back at me. I saw her grasp a hold of something. Then, I realized it was a locket I had given to her when we made our promise. She was reminding me of that promise. My eyes widened and I managed to nod in response. She smiled before she disappeared into the woods.** Maddie sighed as she took off her scarf revealing deep scarring around her neck “**I blacked out shortly after, due to the blood loss and I woke up in the hospital. The next few days, I was asked many questions..but I only dismissed them saying that I didn’t remember. More and more people started talking to me about my “tragic” event, that’s how I learned about you.**

She smiled sweetly **“This might be my last recording ever, this might be the last time someone hears me speak. As I’m recording this I’m getting ready to face her once more. I won’t break our promise,..but I have to save her….I will save her! Because Ellora is my Ellie, and I am her Angel”** The video gets cut off.