Chapter 1
Clair slowly wakes up as her alarm goes off. She had been exhausted from the party last night but couldn’t miss school, she had a big test today. She instantly starts regretting setting her alarm 3 hours before the bus gets to her house, but she needed to shower. Clair stretches and stands up, wobbling a bit. She walks over to her dresser to grab some clothes, ‘jeez… why do I do this to myself?’ Clair thought as she grabbed a pair of jeans and walked into the bathroom. Clair took off her Pajamas then got into the shower, "hopefully I don’t take too long", Clair said to herself, "I’m always zoning out in here". Clair quickly washes her hair, and turns off the shower. As she steps out she hears a loud crash, "what the-?!" Clair quickly wraps a towel around her body and opens the bathroom door.
She ignores the blast of cold air and rushes downstairs. After looking around for a bit Clair found the cause of the crash, her cat Jason had knocked over a bunch of cups and was now laying on top of the pile. "Stupid cat", Clair said as she picked him up, "you’re always making a mess aren’t you?". The cat meows in response. Clair chuckles as she puts Jason in his cage "no more messes this morning", Clair locks the cage and walks back upstairs, "stupid fatass". Clair walks back into the bathroom and gets dressed. She then puts her hair into a messy bun and walks into her bedroom. She checks the time “how the fuck is there only 1 hour left?!", Clair quickly starts packing up her bookbag, "Damn it!".
Clair hurryingly takes her phone off its charger and stuffs it into her pocket. She runs downstairs and fills her dog, Michael’s, food bowl. Once the bowl is full she lets Jason out of his cage, and goes outside, shutting the door behind her. Clair walks to the bus-stop and takes her phone out of her pocket. She opens Instagram and starts texting her best friend, Olivia. The bus arrives a few minutes later, Clair steps into the bus and sits next to .
"I wish we didn’t have school today", Olivia says once Clair sits down, "it's too cold".
"You say that everyday" Clair responds. Olivia rolls her eyes and takes out her phone. The bus pulls up to the school after about 10 minutes, the bus slows to a stop and opens its doors. The two girls step out of the bus and walk into the building. The girls wave goodbye and walk to their separate classes. Clair puts her phone in her bookbag and sits down in her seat. Three hours later Clair and Olivia sit down at their lunch table, "
"Clair, how is it not boring here?" Olivia asks, "like there’s nothing to do".
"Not my fault you don’t do experiments in your science class", Clair says in response. Olivia scowls at Clair and starts eating, Clair rolls her eyes in response to the scowl and she also starts eating. After school the girls waved goodbye to each other and went to their houses. Clair walks into her room and sees a large box just sitting in her living room "mom?" Clair calls out, after not getting an answer for a few minutes, Clair decides to open the box. Clair picks up a pair of scissors that were sitting nearby, and starts cutting the tape. Once the box is open Clair pulls out a large throne-like chair and sets it down beside the box, "why did mom buy me a chair? I don’t think I asked for one". Clair moves the chair by her desk and looks inside the box, "a note?" Clair reaches into the box and picks up a small piece of paper, "I wonder…".
Clair unfolds the paper revealing a single sentence, "Beware, for you have chosen the devil’s chair", Clair’s eyes go wide, "devil’s chair!?". Clair looks at the chair in shock, it's a large black chair with a dark red cushion with silver spikes on the cushion, "oh, now I see it". Clair calms down and runs her hand along the top of the chair. "It doesn’t match my room, so I’ll put it in the basement" Clair says as she picks it up. Clair struggles but after about 20 minutes she has entered the basement with the chair. Clair slumps down the basement stairs and sets the chair in the corner next to an old mirror. "weird.." Clair thought, she hadn't ever seen the mirror before, "mom probably just bought it and had nowhere to put it". Clair goes back upstairs to her room and shuts the door so that she can change.
Clair changes into an Oversized Hoodie and a pair of grey Pajama Shorts, she decides to go to sleep in order to regain the hours she lost because of homework. She fell asleep for around 4 hours but was woken up by a loud crash coming from what sounded like the basement. "What the fuck?", Clair thought as she stood up, "did Muffin get shut down there or something?". Clair quickly runs into the basement and see’s that the chair had been knocked over, "that's weird", Clair walks over and sits the chair up, "and not a single cat hair on it". Clair examines the area around the chair to see what knocked it down, she came across a set of footprints and froze in fear. She stands up straight and runs as fast as she can into her bathroom and locks herself in. “I need to call Olivia” she thinks as she takes out her phone.
Clair quickly dials Olivia’s number and after a few seconds Olivia answers.
"Yea?" Olivia says.
"O-Olivia I need you to please come over", Clair struggles to keep herself from bursting into tears, "please".
"Okay? I’ll be over soon" Olivia answers, a bit confused. Clair hangs up and puts her phone away,
"Please hurry…" Clair says quietly to herself as she curls up in the corner of the bathroom, beside the sink. She gets a text from Olivia asking where she is. Clair stood up and opened the bathroom door "Olivia", Clair says in a hushed voice, "over here". Olivia walks over to her, still a bit confused, Clair steps out of the bathroom, "there is someone in the basement", Clair says, her voice shaking, "I- i saw footsteps". Olivia nods and walks towards the basement "where are you going?!" Clair says, alarmed.
"To the basement, I need to see the prints" Olivia answers calmly.
"So now you’re a detective?!" Clair yells.
"Shush! You can’t be too loud, if there is someone in the house then we don’t want them knowing we are too" Olivia scolds.
"S-sorry" Clair stutters nervously. Olivia motions for Clair to follow her, and they both walk slowly into the basement. Clair leads Olivia over to the chair and shows her the footprints. Olivia starts inspecting the prints to find out where they came from and where they went.
“They lead under the stairs”, Olivia says as she points towards the staircase, “and they start at the chair somehow”.
“The note…” Clair says quietly. Clair runs upstairs and grabs the note that came with the chair. She runs back into the basement and hands the note to Olivia, Olivia reads it.
“You seriously think it’s a devil?” Olivia scoffs.
“It could be!”, Clair deffends, “what else could it be? A chair just mysteriously arrived in my room with a note saying it's a devil’s chair, and footsteps randomly appear walking away from it? It’s a devil!”. Olivia shakes her head
“I had a feeling you were pranking me” Olivia says as she starts walking upstairs.
“Wait please!” Clair yells before being dragged into the darkness, screaming. Olivia looks back and runs back down the stairs
“Clair?! Clair come on! Quit joking around!” Olivia yells as she looks around the basement. Clair screams as loud as she can but suddenly goes quiet. Olivia runs in the direction of the scream and ends at the mirror. “The mirror?” Olivia thinks, she takes the covering off the mirror and jumps back. Clair is trapped inside the mirror and screaming at something beside her, but the screams can’t be heard. She is looking towards the chair and Olivia starts freaking out. Clair see’s her and starts banging her fists on the glass.
Olivia reaches out but can’t get through to her. “Hang in there Clair! Don’t let it get you!” Olivia yells as she takes out her phone and calls 911, “I need a priest or something! My friend has been taken by something and I don’t know what it is!” she says, terrified, “no this isn’t a joke! Please! Send a priest or an exorcist!”. Olivia tells them Clair’s address and hangs up. Olivia looks back at the mirror and Clair is looking at the chair again, fear can be seen on her face. After around 10 minutes the police arrive with an exorcist and a priest.
“Police, where are you?!” an officer yells.
“In the basement! Please hurry!” Olivia shouts, hoping they can hear her. They run downstairs and see Olivia standing by the mirror with Clair still trapped inside.
“oh dear, how long has she been in there?” the exorcist asks as he walks up to Olivia.
“About 14 minutes” Olivia says, her voice shaking. The priest and exorcist both start examining the mirror, the priest then stops in his tracks as soon as he sees the chair.
“The devil’s throne” the priest gasps, he sounds terrified.
“Devil’s Throne?”, Olivia says as she looks at the priest, “oh that's right! Clair gave me this before she was trapped” Olivia hands the note to the priest, he reads it and hands it to the exorcist. Once the exorcist has read the note he starts setting up crosses and candles around the chair and mirror.
“I’m going to need a few matches in order to light these candles” the exorcist says, looking at Olivia. Olivia nods and goes upstairs, a few minutes later she goes back into the basement holding a matchbox
“Here” she says as she hands the box to the exorcist. The exorcist starts lighting each individual candle and the mirror suddenly shatters. They all jump back, Clair is seen in the shards of glass and a large black shadow is looming over the group. The policeman takes out his gun and aims it at the shadow.
“It is too late to save her” the shadow says in a deep and powerful voice.
“No it’s not!” Olivia yells as she runs towards the shadow with a large cross. “The power of Christ compels you!”Olivia screams, “the power of christ compels you!”. The shadow transforms into a large demon and picks Olivia up. The exorcist starts going through his bag and pulls out a vial of holy water.
“I am Satan, the king of hell” the demon says in a deep voice. The exorcist grabs another vial, opens them, and hands one to the priest. They both throw the holy water onto the demon, Satan groans in pain and drops Olivia. The policeman picks her up and puts her on a couch, she had been knocked out by the fall. He rushes back over to the priest and exorcist, the exorcist takes out some more holy water and splashes it on the demon. Satan falls over and slowly starts disintegrating.
“It’s working! We need more!” the officer yells.
“I’m out!” the exorcist says, looking at the priest, the priest starts looking in his own bag. After a little bit he pulls out 3 water bottles, filled with holy water. He hands one to the officer and to the exorcist, they all screw off the caps and start spraying the water on the demon. After a few minutes, the holy water is completely out and Satan has completely disintegrated. The priest examines the shards of glass from the mirror, Clair is still trapped, so he lays the mirror frame down flat and starts putting all of the shards together like a puzzle.
“What are you doing?” the officer says, walking up to the priest.
“Hopefully once she is made whole, she will be released from the mirror” the priest replies, still arranging the pieces. The officer nods and walks over to Olivia to check if she was hurt. Once sure she isn’t hurt he goes back to the priest,
“Any luck?” he says.
“I’m unable to place some pieces, could you assist me?” the priest asks. The policeman nods and starts trying to piece together the mirror. After around 10 minutes of struggling the mirror has been completely put together. “Now the girl can come back” The priest says, a bit worried. The policeman nods and sets the mirror up against the wall, so that Clair could be seen. Everyone gasps once they see her. She is cut, bruised, and slumped against the wall like a ragdoll. “Oh dear, the killing of Satan must have done this to her,” The priest claims, “let us hope she is still alive”.
“Yea” The officer says, obviously worried. The officer goes over to Olivia to check if she’s awake. Olivia groans, waking up slowly. The officer places a pillow under her head and kneels by her. She opens her eyes. “Are you alright ma’am?” The officer asks, lowering his voice. Olivia sits up, rubbing her forehead.
“Yeah I think so” She stutters, sighing a bit. “What happened?” Olivia asks.
“It's quite hard to explain, but you had been knocked unconscious” The officer answers. Olivia nods, looking around nervously.
“Where is Clair?” Olivia asks. The officer, the priest, and the exorcist exchange looks.
“She is trapped, we don’t know if she’s going to be released” The priest answers. Olivia’s eyes go wide.
“Trapped? Where?” Olivia asks, stuttering a bit.
“In the mirror” The exorcist answers, looking at the mirror. Olivia gasps in shock. She runs to the mirror and puts her hands on the mirror. Clair puts her hands on Olivia’s, she looks scared. Olivia starts to cry. “Dear if we are correct, then she will be released now that the mirror is complete” The exorcist states, trying to help her stop worrying. 1 hour later, Olivia and the officer are sitting on the couch, the exorcist and priest are pacing back and forth. Olivia is staring at the mirror then quickly stands and runs to the mirror. “Is there a problem miss?” the exorcist asks.
“She’s fading! She’s fading away!” Olivia yells. Everyone's heads quickly look at the mirror and see, Clair looking at her hands, she was fading! “Clair! Listen to me! Fight it! Fight the demons!” Olivia yells into the mirror. Clair looks up, terrified, as she fades into nothing. Olivia falls to her knees and sobs into her hands. The priest, exorcist, and officer run to her, and make attempts to comfort her.
“She’ll come back,” The priest states, “god will notice that she doesn’t belong and send her back-”.
“I don’t care about God right now! If he was real then Clair would still be here! Wouldn’t God care that Satan just arrived on Earth?!,” Olivia interrupts, yelling at the priest, “I swear I’ll get her back, no matter the cost”. The priest, Policeman, and exorcist look at her in shock then nod, reassuringly.
