Nora was only halfway done blow-drying her hair when the power went out.

“Ugh! Seriously?” She complained out loud.

As if responding to her, loud thunder rattled the windows of her house. The sound of a loud crash caused her to flinch. She grabbed her phone to turn on the flashlight.

She pulled her hair up and walked out of the bathroom to investigate. She was only halfway down the hall when a loud crash once again drew her attention. Her heart rate increased when she realized the sound was coming from the attic. A place her parents always told her was off-limits. There was even a lock on the attic door.

“Hello?” Nora called.

The sound of rustling caused her to yelp and run into her room and slam the door. She turned the flashlight on her phone off and went to call her mom, but she found that she had no cell signal.

“Really?”

Another loud crash caused her to jump in place.

“Who’s there?” Nora called as she cracked her bedroom door.

This time it was the thunder that caused her to jump.

Nora slowly opened the door and was about to turn on her flashlight again when she saw bright glowing seeping out of the cracks of the attic door.

“Hello? Anyone up there? I’m calling the cops!” she threatened.

There was no response the light only seemed to glow brighter.

“Okay Nora don’t freak out, it’s probably some old flashlight. Yeah… nothing to be freaked out about.” She tiptoed downstairs and went to the kitchen to grab a knife.

Then she went to her parent’s office, which she was also often told was off-limits. She turned on her phone light and shined it around the room.

“I should have just went to Destiny’s,” Nora said to no one in particular.

She walked over to the desk and opened the top drawer, she jumped back when a silver gun greeted her eyes.

“Why would they keep a gun in their desk?” she grabbed it.

She held it in her hand and pointed it.

“Freeze.” She whispered to herself, pretending to be a cop.

“Stop right there.” she changed poses.

“I got you now.”

Another loud crash caused her to jolt and drop the gun.

She scrambled to pick it up before standing back up and dusting herself off, checking to make sure no one saw her. Then she tucked the gun into her waistband. After a few minutes of digging around, she found the key to the attic.

She walked back up the stairs and grabbed a chair out of her room and set it under the attic door. Then she unlocked it and stepped back down before moving the chair and pulling the string that caused the attic to open up. A bright flash blinded her for a moment before it was gone.

She grabbed the gun in one hand and climbed up slowly with the other.

“Hello? Is someone up here?” she poked her head into the attic.

She glanced around but found only a bunch of old boxes and things knocked over.

“I’m warning you; I’m not messing around.” She slowly pulled herself up into the attic and held out the gun.

She fumbled her phone as she attempted to turn on the flashlight before dropping it down on the floor below. She was about to go down and get it when a light caught her attention. Bright flickering from an old iPad.

“Okay… that’s not scary at all.” She crawled over to the box with the iPad sticking out.

In the box were a bunch of old photos and baby toys. She grabbed the iPad which was already turned on, it had only 15% battery life. She tapped the screen and scrolled through the front page but the thing looked blank. She was about to put it down when the unread message caught her eye.

It was sent a little over 15 years ago. She clicked it open.

“Hello, say hello.” A girl who looked to be around Nora’s age now, held on to baby Nora as she grabbed Nora’s baby hand and waved at the camera.

Nora felt a pang of familiarity when looking at the girl. Something about her almond brown hair and kind smile seemed familiar. Nora recognized her younger self, she was just a baby, couldn’t even walk yet.

“Say Hi to mommy.”

“Rebecca she’s a child, she can’t talk.” A pale girl with black hair and green eyes walked into the frame before sitting next to Rebecca.

“Oh hush Lyssa, she will talk. I’m going to be the one that gets her to say her first word. It’s that right Nora, who’s going to say their first word for me, you are, that’s right.” Bex held Nora with both hands as she shook the baby lightly.

“Anyways, Joan this is our daily diary entry. Just showing you that your daughter is in safe hands.” Lyssa said to the camera.

“Say hi to mommy, say hi.” Bex waved baby Nora’s hand.

“Hheee” Baby Nora cooed.

“Did you hear that Lyssa!? She almost talked!” Bex said in excitement.

“Hardly,” Lyssa rolled her eyes.

“Oh don’t listen to her, aunty Lyssa is so grumpy all the time.” Bex talked to Nora in a baby voice.

Lyssa smiled at Bex as Bex played with baby Nora.

“You really like babies.” Lyssa pointed out.

“Only cute little babies like you, that’s right, who’s a cute baby?” Bex tickled the baby causing her to laugh.

“You would have been a natural.” Lyssa moved behind Bex and wrapped her arms around her as they sat in some meadow.

“You think so?” Bex smiled at Nora.

“I know so.”

“It’s like in a way… she’s almost like my own. Like I get to experience being a mom through her. That’s silly right?” Bex turned to face Lyssa.

“Nonsense. She is like your own. You are her godmother after all.”

“I don’t know, I think Joan might have some protest, isn’t that right, mommy won’t like it if I take you away.” Bex pinched the baby’s cheeks.

Baby Nora grabbed Bex’s finger and began to teeth on it.

“I think she’s hungry, can you get her bottle?”

“Of course my love.” Lyssa got up and seemed to vanish into thin air.

Nora stared at the screen in confusion when in a flash Lyssa was back again this time with a bottle.

“Who’s hungry?” Bex grabbed the bottle.

“I think she’s getting too warm; we should take her inside.”

“You think so?” Bex felt Nora’s face for a fever.

Bex made a face before turning back to the camera.

“Alright, say bye to mommy.” Bex got Nora’s hand and waved bye as the baby drank from the bottle.

There was a loud boom that caused Nora watching the video to flinch.

“Rebecca watch out!” Lyssa said as a large tree came falling towards them.

Lyssa caught the tree with her bare hands and held it up as Bex disappeared with baby Nora in tow.

Nora watched as Lyssa’s eyes turned red and she threw the tree to the side like it was nothing.

“Who’s there!?” Lyssa demanded.

Someone ran into frame and punched Lyssa hard in the gut. Nora’s heart raced as she watched the man pick Lyssa up from the ground as if she was weightless, his eyes also red.

“You’ve made your bed vampire; I hope you’re prepared to lie in it.” The man threw Lyssa at the camera which turned the video off.

“Vampire?” Nora said out loud in confusion.

The sound of a box falling over caused her to yelp in surprise. She glanced around in the dark before setting down the iPad and crawling towards the noise. The gun, forgotten on the floor next to the old box.

She found another box with its contents spilled out on the floor. Old stakes and slayer kits. Some old silver-plated boots that looked to be just her size.

“Cool.” She smirked before putting them on.

She dug around in the stuff before finding an old necklace with a sword pendant attached. She picked it up and flinched when the box next to her began to shake a rattle. With a shaky hand, she opened the box and a bright flash blinded her. She blinked a few times before peeking inside.

Only one thing was in there.

A chest made of iron and steel with interactant patterns all over. The light was coming out of the keyhole. It was so bright it was impossible to ignore.

“Whoa,” Nora said as she pulled the large chest out.

She shoved all the junk to the side to make room for the heavy chest. Her eyes were wide with wonder like any kids would be after finding hidden treasure. She eyed the keyhole and looked back at the sword pendant.

Then she stuck it in the hole and wiggled it around to try and unlock the chest. She grunted and tried for a good few minutes before pulling the tiny sword out. She frowned at it and touched the point just to see if it was sharp.

“Ow,” She hissed when it cut her.

A drop of blood slid down her finger and onto the chest landing with a sizzle. Then like magic, the chest opened. Nora shoved the sword necklace into her pocket and peered inside.

“Whoa,” she said as her eyes beheld a perfect glass box with no cracks or way to open in it.

Inside the glass case was a light. The light was moving around and banging against the glass wall, almost as if it was alive.

Her natural curiosity got the best of her and ignoring all her mother’s warning and everything strange she had seen so far, she reached in and pulled out the glass case. As her bloody finger tainted the perfect surface. The glass instantly shattered on Nora, spraying glass fragments everywhere.

Nora screamed.

The light slammed into her body, disappearing inside of her. Nora got blasted back and fell out of the attic with a loud thump. Her body lay motionless on the floor below.