Daughters of Hecate

It felt like I had been in a deep dream and I was coming too. I looked around and saw we were in the forest, I didn’t know how I got there but I did know that I was supposed to be here. We walked by a waterfall looking at it made me think of the last thing I could remember before getting here. “ Will you come with me to help me be a part of something greater?” I must have said yes because now I was here in the middle of the forest with the girl I had been hanging out with for a while now. I remembered that we were going to a meeting then I wondered how far are we from the meeting. “ Are we almost there?” I ask. To which the girl shook her head yes. Then in the distance, I could see some shadow looking shapes standing in the trees, is it them? After another minute of trekking through the forest, we go to the shapes which I could make out now. Three girls were standing in a clearing wearing black dresses their faces obscured by their veils.

“Sisters we have arrived with the newest member for her first meeting,” The girl says. She didn’t tell me her name but I knew somehow that this meeting would tell me everything that I needed to know. My mind started to wander and I wondered if agreeing to this was going to be a mistake but it was too late now to go back.

“Thank you now we must get started right away,” The one said. “ Come closer and stand in the middle,” I obey without question and get in the center of them. “ We here are part of a group a mission started not long ago by us. We are not sisters by blood but we are family. We are the daughters of Hecate. A secret society that has a goal to bring down unruly men taking advantage over women using gifts given to us by our mother Hecate,” She says. The other girls are standstill they look like statues. “ Mother Hecate has given us our names we no longer go by our birth given name. I don’t know their names, they don’t know mine. I am Ivy, sister would you like to introduce yourself next?” Ivy says gesturing to the girl on her left. The girl nods her head.

 “ I am Peaches. My sister Ivy and I were the first to create this group after we both were humiliated by men and got no justice for it. Once our devotion to Mother Hecate was given she gave us powers of witchcraft. Sister, would you like to introduce yourself and continue the story?” Peaches adds. She points to the other girl in the circle, the girl who took me here was still standing outside of the clearing standing still as well.

“ I am Juniper. I was lucky when I happened to run into Sister Ivy and Sister Peaches. It was my gift from Hecate. I was harassed by a man and everyone took his side. When they told me about their group I joined immediately and I’m still thankful for that to this day,” Juniper says. The three of them turn towards the girl who leads me here but doesn’t say anything.

“ And I am Olive. Like Sister Juniper was found at a time where she needed them most I found them when I needed them too. I was in a terrible relationship he used to beat me almost to death sometimes and Mother Hecate must have sent them to me because they found me and took care of him.” Her eyes were staring straight to the ground with an evil smile growing across her face before she looked up to us.

“Now we have introduced ourselves it’s time to see what Mother Hecate has named you,” Peaches says. They all start to move Olive getting into the circle. They walked the outer line of the circle and were chanting something but I couldn’t hear it. The wind started to pick up a bit carrying leaves in its way. They were growing louder and louder until I could make out what they were saying. “Mother Hecate, giver of magic, give us the name of this new girl. Loyal Mother, we ask you bestow this young girl the gifts that you have graciously given us!” they continued saying this as the wind picked up more and started going a circle formation. They started walking in the circle closer to me now. They were screaming now and the wind was whipping.

Overwhelming feelings started to rise in me and the girls were now not even a foot away from me. Then there a whispering voice in my ear. “ Dahlia,” It said I got confused.

“Dahlia?” I said. Instantly the girls stopped dead in their tracts and the wind stopped to the clearing cleared of leaves again. I felt like I had awakened from a dream again but the feeling didn’t last long.

“She has named you Dahlia,” Ivy states looking me in the eye. There was a wave of calm that came over me and I felt at home with them now.

“Welcome sister Dahlia. Will you be apart of our mission?” Olive asks. There was a sense of power when she said my name and all of the sudden I didn’t know my name. I knew that it was now Dahlia and that I was going to do whatever they told me to do. Mother Hecate had come to me brought these girls to save me from the evil men of this world. She knew the evil that happened to me. I knew that I could make their mission successful. 

“ With great honor,” I say. They smile at me as there was a burning feeling in my wrist then there was a symbol burned onto it. I could feel Mother Hecate smiling down on me with pride.