The Fourth Power

A Binding Spell

By Air and Earth

By Water and Fire

So be you bound.

As I desire.

By three and nine

your power I bind.

By moon and sun,

my will be done.

Sky and Sea.

Keep Harm from me.

Cord go Round.

Power be Bound.

Light Revealed.

Now be sealed.

Words are powers deep in me, as I say so. let it be.

Officer Brooks had been investigating these four for months. In all his years as a police officer, he never could fathom that he would actually be in a library trying to find answers about something he does not believe in.

Witches.

It was 2023 for Christ Sake.

It wasn't the dark ages. No one was getting burned at the stake. They were getting shot.

But the manner in which the young man had been found had aroused many questions. Were people performing witchcraft and voodoo in this day in age?

What had the young man done to deserve such a fate? He had ran into traffic while chasing an unidentified woman, witnesses said. Hit by a car.

Officer Brooks was too old for this shit. But as he checked out a few books as he ate a donut, he wondered was it all in this head.

After a long pursuit to figure out what triggered the young man to run into traffic, he realized that the whole thing had him puzzled. After much research he found out that the young a man, A Mr. Romello Baptiste had been exclusively involved with a young woman by the name of Jacks Mcgee.

Jacks seemed to be a ghost. No priors. No known criminal record. It was however a known thing that Jacks was heavenly involved in the occult. The granddaughter of a power voodoo priestess. Jacks had a specialty for guns. She and Romello had been in a very toxic relationship. They had started out as strangers in college. He barely paid her any attention. Then one day, he just started paying alot of attention. After that, they were inseparable.

Jacks spent a lot of time with her three college dorm mates. Monoco, Sparkle, and Chastity.

They were a weird looking pair when they all stepped out. Officer Brooks was intrigued as he watched them during surveillance.

They had no way to know about it. But Officer Brooks knew that kid had not decided to just run into traffic. He knew it was more to it.

He could not understand the connection. Yes, the young ladies attended college together. Jacks seems as if she should have gone to an army base instead of college.

But Chasity, Monoco, and Sparkle was another thing.

As Officer Brooks looked over the files on all four women, he became obsessed with their lifestyles and could not see them doing things like chanting spells and doing outrageous things to make them come true.

Chastity Wilson. A trust fund baby who always arrived in a foreign. A dancer.

Monoco Lombardo. An Italian bred woman studying science.

Sparkle Freedman, An around the way girl studying psychology.

Officer Brooks had no dirt on these girls. But watching their day to day satisfied him in some way.

It was Halloween night. Officer Brooks was tailing the girls again. Particularly Jacks.

He watched the group go to Home Depot for a couple of shovels. He followed them to a local cemetery and watched them from distance through binoculars.

The four girls drove in silence as they went to the cemetery. Jacks had noticed Officer Brooks minutes before she mentioned it to the group.

"We are being tailed ladies." Jacks laughed. Chastity, along with Monoco who sat in the back seat, began to turn around and try to see the driver who had been following them.

It was there that he witnessed the foursome collect graveyard dirt. He watched them perform what appeared to be some sort of ritual.

The group had formed a pentagram with salt. Jacks had pulled a pair of men's drawers out of her bag and buried them in the middle of the pentagram in cemetery near a group of trees. She then sprinkled the graveyard dirt on top of the burial site.

Monoco lit four black candles.

The collective began to chant:

Blood turn black, and flesh turn blue

I will curse you, if you force me to.

By the left hand and the unclean food.

I will curse your eyes.

I will curse your lies.

I will call down a plague of flies.

Blood turn black and flesh turn blue.

Evil from me and back to you.

My soul is clean, and yours is on fire.

You mess with a witch, you get burned liar.

Officer Brooks began to take pictures, but an aware Jacks saw him through the shadows.

The others watched as Jacks walked up to the vehicle. Officer Brooks had been made.

"Officer how can we help you on this Old Hallow's eve?" Jacks smiled. Officer Brooks had been startled again but finally got to see his now obsession up close and personal.

"I'm sure you know we are following leads on information in regard to the death of Mr. Romello Baptiste." Officer Brooks said.

Jacks leaned into the officer's window.

"How are you feeling officer? Like, you been keeping a close watch on us. Why?" Jacks smiled again.

It was at that moment that Officer Brooks began to feel ill.

"I just don't think your boyfriend killed himself." Officer Brooks said.

"It was an accident officer. But, I do have a question for you. Did it ever occur to you that you were summoned here?"

"I know you have been watching us. But alas, it is time for you to go now." Jacks said as she touched the officer's hand.

Officer Brooks began to feel dizzy. He felt like an unseen force was now guiding him. For a few moments he felt a wave of nausea and began to cough uncontrollably.

Officer Brooks did not understand what had come over him. He simply started up his car and drove off.

You see, Jacks already knew the officer was watching them. So, Jacks sent in Chasity and Sparkle to watch him. Sparkle had a background no one knew about and knew exactly how to get in. The pair had broken into his apartment to steal a pair of his drawers.

Jacks knew that with this spell, she would have full control over him, and protection over the foursome would be granted. Shall it be.