Helena The Meekest

Helena The Meekest

She lived alone, she talked to no one, and she died alone. She played the harp and the piano. Likewise, she loved children, and sang nursery songs to them. Furthermore, she was Helena, the meekest.

No one knew how she died, but they all knew she died a very terrible and painful death. Helena was beheaded, and her soft little fingers chopped into several bits. Her Ash colored hair was shaved and was scattered all over the place on her library. They were so terrified they couldn't bury her, so they left her body locked up in her library. Her house was locked too, and the little children were banned from ever going there.

After Helena gruesome death, a little girl who attended a nursery started having a scaring and sleepless night. The girl Evelyn Brooks had seen Helena in her dreams. Helena didn't look usual, except for her smiles. The dead lady's certain dress was soaked with blood as she played the harp in a solemn manner. Evelyn, in her dreams, had tried to talk to her, but she didn't reply. She kept on singing the famous lullaby ROCK A BABY, stroking her fingers on the strings of the violin.

Over and over again, Evelyn kept on having these nightmares. She had told her mother about it, and she was talking to the priest for prayers. Her mother had lit candles around little Evelyn bed to stop the ghost of Helena from disturbing her child, but the scary dreams kept coming over and over again.

Weeks passed into months and months into 3years with scary and more terrifying dreams by this time, children of different ages had died mysterious deaths and sickness, strange illness had ravaged the town. Evelyn, who was getting tired of these nightmares, made up her mind to fight whom Helena's killer was. She stole the key of lit Helena's house which was kept by the basement "her father was kept in charge of the key and by midnight she had crept out of her house the hours of the night were so quiet in the town except of the sound of tree cats and rats running from one end to another.

Helena gate opened slowly as little Evelyn inserted the key. Evelyn wept slowly as she entered. Right from when she could walk, she had attended Helena's nursery, and now she was nine years. She couldn't believe she could die such a painful death.

The furnitures were still in place, although they were covered with dust and cobwebs. Her nursery books were piled up in a corner, and on the table was a cup of coffee and some stacked bread. In another corner was a basket filled with toys and clothes in expensive materials. Evelyn had wanted to grab a toy in the form of fish when she noticed a line of blood from a library door, she walked to the door and opened the library, to her greatest surprise she didn't find anything. She expected a lifeless body or at least a skull, Helena's skull.

Evelyn gasped tiredly as she turned to go, she had thought Helena the meekest was trying to pass a message to her in her dreams. She felt disappointed and a little hungry. She was about living when she heard Helena voice singing the songs she had sung in her dreams, but this time loud echoes had followed it. Terrified, Evelyn followed the voice to a very tiny passage in the room. Here she had found fresh little fingers all over the place with Ash colored hair just like Helena's. A paper which lay on the floor had a message described in it saying :year after year ten little fingers and a bunch of shaved hair will follow. Evelyn sensed danger, and she became alerted when she saw a shadow figure of a man who was obviously holding an axe. He looked familiar, like the man who kept the keys to late Helena's house. He looked like her father.

Father ?she asked, As the man came into her full view it was her father "how did you find me", she asked, grateful that he would take her out of the place.

"Why did you do these, he asked in an anger grieved tone, but before she could reply him, he had sliced her head with the axe, chopping the little girl's head of her fragile body. He killed her without letting her know the person who had killed Helena or why he had done so.