It Happened one Night...

I live in a mansion. My house is a beautiful brown sprawling three storied building.
It was formerly owned by Mr. Samuel PaperwickScissorGarden. He had a weird name and so were his habits. He sold his house to us just a few days before his death. It was as if he knew he was going to die…
Mr. Samuel P.S Garden is known to have died a mysterious death.
Some say he set himself ablaze and committed suicide.
Others say he turned into a Werewolf after an accident in the jungle during a hunting expedition. The most prevalent rumor is that he still haunts ScissorGarden Mansion as a Vampire.
The locals hardly came to visit us. They kept on telling us to be careful and leave the house. My dad never believed in such rumors and laughed it off.
However my Grandmother warned me and Unicorn about any unnatural happenings.
I believed my Grandmother more than any body else.. It was she who had first given me the Dragon Tooth. A heirloom passed down from 13 generations of our family. It was believed that when Assam was made, the sacred creature that rules the east, the Dragon had come to bless our ancestors. The other sacred creatures that ruled the earth were the Phoenix of the south, the Turtle of the West, and the Tiger of the North.
The Dragon blessed our land that it would always be green and never face droughts. Our ancestors swore loyalty to this mighty creature and the Dragon gave us his tooth saying that he would always protect us if we summoned him.
Now, one day it happened that I was combing my hair and then suddenly I could not see my reflection in the mirror!!!
It was freaky. I was horrified and rubbed my eyes. “Tension due to studies” was what I thought. I was by no way a vampire but then it could be a bad omen.
Day and night my pet Myna bird would sing her new song_
“People have many secrets to keep.
Untold stories that lie very deep”
Sometimes I felt as if she was trying to tell me something.
Then our 3rd floor was suddenly locked up. No one was allowed to go there.
Dad casually said that it was under repair. His face had turned pale. Weird things had always happened at our home. That week, things were fine but dogs would howl every night, disturbing Unicorn’s sleep. I could not sleep. I had to protect Unicorn no matter what. No force could touch her without passing through me.
Just after a week, our psychic gardener found the carcass of a big bat in the 3rd floor. No one knew where it came from . The lock was broken and the poor creature was shredded to pieces. What was freaky was _A dragon tooth was struck in the bat’s heart. The same tooth I wear around my neck. That night it was missing…..
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P.S: ScissorGarden mansion ,pronounced in Assamese as “Kesibagan Ghor”, has been renamed as Fairy Villa, located near low green hills.
That was when I realized that my life is much steeped in the supernatural.
This was not the only weird incident that has happened to me. Ill tell u later about my psychedelic Gardener and what I found out about him…
_Dragon XIII