Hessian Hex part 1

You may not believe this story, but then again pretty much given that i've dealt with the paranormal before this is nothing new.

But this is one that you would have to see to believe.

It started off on a seemingly quiet and normally night, I was with my new friend Ariana and we were going on a tour of the famous town of Sleepy Hollow.

Almost all of the buildings where closed except for the library, the church and several other places of interest.

Of course, given this town's infamous history of the supernatural - something was sure to happen.

I had just left the library and it was pretty dark but luckily I had a torch with me, as I looked around and checked the map.

"Alright - Ariana. What do you say we meet outside the woods near the old windmill? I'll take the left and you take the right."

"But what if something happens to you like if you get eaten or killed or something?"

"Relax - everything's going to be fine."

"I don't know, this being the town of ol Sleepy Hollow and all. What if you run into the Hessian Horseman?"

"Man that would be awesome. Oh no, I mean that would be horrible! I don't want to lose my head."

"I just want you to be safe out there...alright?"

"I'll try to."

I took off to the left and headed over to the mainly woodland area to go and have a look around, I crept around quietly - not making a sound - making sure not to make a sound.
Everything seemed normal, except for the glowing eyes in the background and the ghastly moaning.

"So far so good.."

Just then I heard the sound of wicked laughter, coming from not too far away. I turned around to see where it was coming from but the laughter stopped.

"Huh? I could have sworn I was being watched. Oh well."

I continued on my way but as I did, a crow that was sitting upon one of the branches of a knarled old tree looked down at me.

I didn't stop to question this, I just went on my way , but as I continued walking the crow started following me.

"Why is this bird following me? Oh well..I really shouldn't be questioning these sort of things. After all i'm used to weird stuff."

When I got to a clearing I took a breather and as I did, the crow flew down onto the ground as it did it morphedi nto a woman with long black hair and a pale complexion as well as green eyes.

"Gah! Who the heck are you?"

"I am...Michayla...the maiden of the night."

"Are you some kind of demon, werecreature or vampire? What are you?"

"I'm a witch. And i've had my eye on you for quite sometime."

"Really now? What would a dark maiden like you want with someone like me?"

"I want you to carry out a very important task of mine."

"Let me guess..it involves killing..."

"It does. Do you think you're up to it?"

"Ummm...does 'no thank you. I'm not going to kill anyone for you' count as an answer?"
"I'm afraid you're going to do it."

"Well i've got news for you, Little Miss Black Magic. I'm not a killer, and besides i'm no ordinary human being...."

I leaped into the air and growled, turning into Growler the weregrinch and turning to face Michayla.

"Oooh, I like you already. You're going to be a very useful and powerful addition to the little plan i'm concocting."

"Sorry, Mistress of the Dark but i'm not going to be part of your evil plan...not even if you asked nicely. Now prepare to face my wrath!"

"We'll see about that....."

I started fighting her with my monster powers but unfortunately she used a dark magical energy attack to drain my powers rendering them useless and turning me back to my normal human form.

"Ugh. Please gimme my powers back."

"You won't be needing them once I get through with you."

"What are you up to? You're not going to turn me into a frog are you? You better not think about eating me."

"Oh I wouldn't do that."

"Aaaaw...you're not gonna eat me either? Not even without fattening me up first? Pitty, I was so looking forward to that."

"I have something different in mind..."

"Is this some kind of weird witchy voodoo spell?"

"Yes..it's a spell."

'Is it an animal transformation spell? I've already been turned into several different animals, heck...even my own best friend Staten turned me into a pony once."

"No...."

"Well what is it? Huh?"

"A Transferance Spell."

"And just who or what are you going to transfer into me?"

"The Hessian..."

My face turned to a look of pure shock as I did a double take, my eyes bugging out of my head all cartoon-like.

"W-W-W-What? The Hessian? As in the mad Hessian Horseman that decapitates his victims and has razor sharp teeth? THAT Hessian?"

"Yes...."

"Oh that's just great, that's just trucking great. I'm going to be possessed by the spirit of a Hessian warrior with a love of carnage and bloodlust."

"Now this won't hurt a bit."

"That's what my doctor said when I got my vaccine. He lied."

Michayala waved her hands and spoke an incantation in Latin as dark magical energy flowed through them, shadows came to life and started sneaking up on me as a dark magic aura surrounded me.

I struggled to fight the shadows but the shadows were too fast for me to fight without my monster powers.

"It's no use. You can't fight it now."

"What do you mean by that?"

"What I mean is that once this spell is in effect...that you're going to be my Hessian."

"What? I'm going to BE the Hessian Horseman? Oh no no no no, tell me it isn't so."

"I'm afraid it is."

"I won't let you do this."

I tried to break out of the dark magic energy field and swat away at the shadows but I was knocked over.

"It's no use trying to fight it."

"No matter what you say, i'm NOT going to turn against anyone. I am the hero of this story here - NOT the villain."

"You won't be once this is done though."

She stared deeply into my own eyes as the spell took affect, the spirit of the Hessian taking control of me for a brief while as my eyes turned from brown to a ghostly shade of blue.

The dark magical energy aura dimmed down but the shadows were now permantely surrounding me.

Michayala laughed evilly as she turned back into a crow and flew off, leaving me alone in the woods.

"Damn it!"

"Nathan? Where are you?"

"Oh no....Ariana's coming. I can't let her find out about this."

My eyes turned back from blue to their normal brown colour as I calmed down a bit and the shadows dimmed down.

"Nathan? Nathan?"

"I'm here, Ariana."

"There you are. So what happened?"

"Well I was going through the woods and some weird witch lady put a spell on me."

"Oh. I'm glad you're okay though."

"Me too..."
"Come on.....let's go."

She grabbed my hand and as she did, she noticed that something wasn't right - she stepped back as a shadow stretched out and hissed.

"What's wrong?"

"Nathan....what did she do to you?"

"I don't know but for some reason...i'm starting to feel like I want to go on a rampage now. "

"Oh no....we better get out of here before something worse starts happening to you."

With that the both of us ran out of the woods and headed back towards the town square.

The townspeople started looking at me like I was some kind of monster, I had no idea why.

Something weird was definitely going on. Why did my eyes turn blue earlier? And why did I just I felt like I wanted to go on a rampage? Oh no..could it be? Could I really have been starting to turn?

All these were questions I would have to seek the answers to without causing a scene, and to do that I would have to keep it on the down low and keep it under control.

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Has the spell already started taking effect on our hero? Will he able to kept it under control without freaking people out?

Find out in part 2.