Once You Follow (Wishing Willow Fanfic)

"He doesn't love us." Said Boba... This... Entity over Carly... To Carly, The original version of Carly.

"Are you sure that's not a demon?" Said the child, Coal, next to her. This child was created by Harz for one purpose: To Worship Harz. He used the one wish willow to create a child. 60 children who were raised by 70 of his members.

The wish was "I wish for you to make 60 children that will worship me from the dust of this ground starting from newborn hood. I planned out this wish." And he did.

He wrote down what they would look like, that they'd be human, that their skin would be the palest of pale, that their hair would be long and lustrous meaning curly, that their hair would be red colored like a cherry,

Both Carly & Boba are dead in their eyes under this new entity... Harz. Forced to worship by a willow branch, and while they both attain free will, it will always be full of devotion. He planned all his wishes. None are spur of the moment.

Boba asked Carly "Do we have to live in tandem forever? Am I your body?" And Carly replied "Are you? I do not know."

Carly asked "Do you love Harz? Does worshipping someone mean you love them?" Boba asked, "I wonder about this all the time." Carly asked "Can you be devoted to someone you don't love?" Boba said "I think so."

They share the body of Carly, but Carly doesn't know how

Boba asked "Will you stay in my- Our body forever?" Carly said "I will have to go back to the hell place very soon."

Boba asks "Is it better than here?" Carly replies "Unfortunately, no. It is not. I would have stayed if it was."

Boba asks "am I in your body or outside of it?" And Carly replies "I don't know. I don't know if you are my body."

Coal asks "Is that a demon, Carly?"

Boba shouts "NO!" At him then grips his arm, So Carly comes back to stop her from spanking him as Boba's been stressed lately.

Carly asks Boba "Have you gotten pregnant like he asked?" And Boba replied "May we be free in the next generation."

Carly smiles through the body they control in tandem.

Then a child with long blonde hair, brown eyes the color of the bark of a willow tree, her body created from broken wishing willows; Her Name was Willow Band.

She was the color of a willow tree's branches, witness the weeping willow watch watch one of the unforced members be crucified at the stake.

This member left. Demons like Harz don't like it when you leave. He nailed her hands atop each other, then he tied her feet to the stake as a bit of mercy for the devastatingly poor woman.

Harz then caused a fire from the sky to fall upon the base of the stake and he contained the fire to set only the stake ablaze after putting the member, Joyce, into a coma so that she may not feel a pain worse than childbirth -- the pain of being burnt alive.

The child covered her eyes, keeping them closed -- not for weeping -- but to block the sight knowing what was to come.

No one looked at it. Harz is not a man -- well, he's a male -- but I meant he's not human.

Six legs, three on each side, a... creepy, inhuman face...

Pitch black skin, white eyes, no iris and no pupil, pure white like a white void.

Skinny, large... Unnaturally large.

Harz trotted over to the women shifting into a human form, blonde, wavy curls, blue eyes, slim face, slim body, tall, regal facial structure...

Harz looks to the 40 he made to worship him forever in pride, he's proud that he got a wishing willow stick to worship him, viewing them as powerful.

Harz looks to the humans he'd trapped in pride. Happy he planned this out, and got both the original souls to follow him as well as their... entities.

He looks to the 60 children he made, their kind an older version of the blonde willow children as he called them, and he laughs this deep, foreboding and creepy laugh.

Harz says "Once You Follow, you do not leave until you die... Like the willow."

Then he cackles in this... echo. This multi pitched voice. He says "I can't die, so do not worry... You will never cease to exist."

Boba had gone out to gather Birch wood, but she had noticed the scene and saw Harz then asked "Who Are you? What are you?" And Harz replied "Harz. I am older than Earth itself."

Boba was... Afraid. A dread came over her and she ran back into the house. By force, the wish led her to worship him on the spot.

Boba is devoted to him as much as the wish is forcing her, at first, it was genuine love, but over time, his colors poured out and all she saw was the color Blood.

Boba has free will, Carly has free will, but Carly does not know if the one she named Boba is her or not. They do not know who Boba is. Is Boba Carly? Is Boba not Carly? Is Boba just Carly's body made to act independently of the spirit and soul without need of the spirit or soul to be sentient? They do not know.

To be continued...

Harz is not a deity/god, he is a demon who was kicked out of heaven after he used the wishing willow to create this cult.