Chapter 2: CHAPTER 2
Two months into the pregnancy of Mrs. Ronin, she started to feel somehow and unusual. At first, she thought it was the early signs of pregnancy so she didn't bother much. She kept having these strange feelings within her.
Whenever she was alone in the house, she began to hear weird sounds from their backyard and had weird feelings.
It got so worse and whenever she went to the backyard, she felt something pulling her towards a particular tree. She managed to rush back into the house and locked it.
She didn't want telling her husband about her experience whenever he wasn't home. She began to get restless and disturbed but didn't say a word about it to anyone or her husband.
He called frequently to find out if she was fine and she always answered in the positive so he was less worried about her and focused on his work.
Mrs. Ronin's strange pregnancy attack became worse. She started seeing strange figures in her dreams and shadows on walls and the floor.
That happened to her when she was always all alone, she heard the cracking of door, banging and strange noise coming from the room prepared for their unborn child.
Acting as a brave woman, she went to see what it was. As she approached nearer and nearer, the loud noise became lower and lower and suddenly everywhere was silent.
As she turned to go, the door was shut on her. She was scared. Out from no where, a baby jumped out of her stomach unto the bed. She started screaming.
The baby took a knife from the table and went towards her, almost about stabbing her. She shouted from her sleep as she woke up and started crying and shivering in fear. She was very scared.
Her husband was still up, working on some office documents as he had a presentation to make the following day. He quickly went towards her and asked if all was well, she was already sweating as she held him closer.
She put her hand on her belly and started crying. He told her to try and get some sleep, in the morning they will talk about it before he left for work.
He was a loving husband, sacrificing and making time for his wife out of his busy schedule.
She didn't want to talk about it to him, she convinced him it was just a nightmare and was fine.
Believing her as she tried to act strongly, he went to work after giving her a warm and reassuring hug.
He asked her to call him whenever she needed someone and she said okay and kissed him good bye and he left.
Her husband came back home from work, all tired and hungry, rushed his dinner and they went to bed.
His wife woke up in the middle of the night to ease herself when she noticed breeze blowing from outside.
She went and discovered that their room window was opened. As she tried to stretch her hand to close it, something held her hand and tried pulling her outside.
The wind got so strong that she had to scream for help and her husband woke up and rushed to her. The wind became calm when he reached the window.
He asked her what was wrong as he closed the window. She showed him her hand and he noticed some redness on it. It was as if something bruised or burned her.
He took her to the bed and told her to sit as he went to get the first aid box and applied some ointment on her hand as it was beginning to get swollen.
He asked her how it happened and she narrated it to him, not suspecting anything, he told her all will be fine, she just needed some rest as he cuddled her to sleep.
She was restless. It wasn't ordinary, she felt something pulling her, something stronger than an ordinary wind.
Whatever that might be, she decided to check the next morning to see if the window was broken or whatever that injured her that night. She managed to sleep that night.
The next morning which was a weekend and off day for her husband, she finished all the chores together with her husband and went out to check the window, probably it must have broken last night because of the strong wind.
She was still checking it when her husband called out to her from her back, asking her what she was doing. He looked for her inside the house but couldn't find her so he came out.
She told him that she wanted to know what injured her, if the window was broken so that it could be repaired that day before evening fall.
They checked together but everything was okay. She wondered what the problem was. She asked her husband if the window was fine, then what injured her.
He told her probably she bruised herself on the wall or something before getting to the window since it was dark.
He didn't suspect anything but she was already beginning to suspect something weird was happening around her. They surveyed the place for anything strange so that she would be convinced all was fine.
They went back in but she was still thinking. She told her husband she wasn't convinced and decided to tell him all her scary nightmares.
She narrated all her nightmares to him and told him all her experience that happened in his absence. She was already sure something was wrong but she didn't know what exactly.
She then told him about that particular tree, she kept having strange feelings whenever she was around it. The tree was the only big tree in their backyard.
Others were still little and seedlings. What brought about that strange wind that night? She asked him if he ever felt that way before but he told her no.
He then became convinced that something definitely was wrong but he didn't want her to know he too suspected something before she gets worried.
He told her all was fine and managed to change the topic by playing with her. That same night, his wife had thesame nightmare again, this time, he had same too.
The same strange nightmares she always had repeated itself but to the both of them. His wife woke up, determined to find out what was all about that particular tree, got out of bed that same night and went to their backyard, where the tree was.
She heard eerie sounds and felt very cold but was still determined to reach to the location of the tree.
As she was closer to it, she went round it as if looking for something at the bottom of it, then as she tried to touch it, she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen as something pushed her away but she also felt something attracting her like a magnet in her belly to the tree.
She was screaming for help when all of a sudden, a strange wind swept round the house so her voice was faint. At that moment, her husband woke up.
He checked but didn't see her in bed, he checked the bathroom as he called her but she wasn't in, he checked the living room but she wasn't there.
He went towards the door and noticed the door lock was opened and went out, as he was sure his wife was out. When he saw her on the floor badly injured, he rushed to her and immediately, the wind stopped blowing.
He too got scared and they went into the house together, after locking the door. Morning did but they were still in bed. They woke up late.
By the time they woke up, it was already past 9 am. It was a free day for the both of them. They discussed what happened last night and her husband was finally convinced that there was something strange going on in that house. He told his wife not to be scared, he would find out what caused that.
The wife suggested that the tree should be cut down. He accepted and brought some men to do the felling of the tree later that day.
Just as they were about to saw it, the edge of the saw suddenly became blunt. It was very sharp and so they decided to use machine. The machine refused to start.
Unusual, they then tied the tree with a rope but a fierce force pushed them backwards. The push was so hard that they fell and died. It wasn't a normal death. Mr. and Mrs. Ronin were both confused as they ran back in shock.
Seeing none of the men getting up or attempting to get up on their feet, they went to them and found out that they were unconscious, all six of them.
They quickly put a call to the hospital in demand for an ambulance. They told them the number of people and three ambulances came almost immediately followed by the cop's cars. They took the men to the hospital but they didn't survive it, they were dead already.
Investigations were carried out and they asked no one to go near the tree. They were asked to vacate the house for proper investigations so they lived with their cousin, who had two grown up children, studying outside the country.
Gifts
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received Weekly Power Status
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Ranking 
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