She'ra: The Supernatural Fiction Story of a Beautiful Half-Human Woman

By Salena Williams

Shera is a beautiful young girl who came into the world carrying a curse from the spell the voodoo priestess WuTu Amutar of Stellenbosch, South Africa; she had placed this curse on Sheras ancestors who lived generations before she was born. While Shera was growing up in a village in Stellenbosch, South Africa, her mother, MumDo, shelters Shera from her unique and usual human conditions that does not allow her to run free from the bondages of her half-human side. The village people are frightened from the many mysterious dead animal parts often found throughout their village, where their children often play with their playmates. The local doctor, Dr. Zotlar Amutar, runs a free health clinic in which he tries to keep the villagers calm and healthy. Sheras beauty is challenged by the jealousy of an attractive young girl, Testa Cronwell, who does not want to see Shera succeed in life, nor does she want Shera to find love. Testa Cronwell wants to seduce Sheras handsome cousin Lazar Dumonga. Somehow, Shera is not quite bothered by the distractions of others because she is an ambitious young girl who dreams of finishing school. She is surprised by an inheritance she never saw coming, which has allowed her to travel outside the country of South Africa. There is one thing that some individuals will experience from Sheras half-human side that they never saw coming nor will they ever be able to tell about the destruction of life beyond recognition. Shera meets the distinguished professor Joseph Damant, who gives her the attention she needs to help her to start a career as a CEO of the Wellington Wines International. Professor Damant is her first crush until she visits New Orleans. In New Orleans, she will meet a father she never knew, Priest Adam Moore, and she will meet an interesting multimillionaire, Lucas Cane. The parties attended by Shera will show her ability to enter into a crowded room with beauty and grace. She will show how family and friends mean so much to her. Sheras half-human side will show how she does not tolerate bad decisions and bad actions made by others who cross her path.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 15, 2010
• ISBN: 9781453530689

Salena Williams

Salena Williams was born in Richmond, VA and she was raised in Petersburg, VA. Her late mother (Barbara Lewis died in 2008) was a homemaker and her father (Curtis Williams Jr. deceased) was a general contractor. Williams grew up with three sisters and three brothers in which she is the elder child and she has two other half brothers and one half sister. Her upbringing started in the Third Baptist Church of Petersburg, VA. Williams has always had a love for horror movies among other movies. Her late grandfather & grandmother (Willie Lewis & Christine Lewis) had often taken many of their grandchildren to their local drive-in-movie theaters to see the horror like “Night of the Living Dead” in black and white. It has always been a treat and a joy of Williams to see movies of sci-fi monster movies like “King Kong” starting from the age of 7 years old. After graduating from Petersburg High School in Petersburg, VA, Williams attended Virginia Commonwealth University in VA, for two years 1974-1976. She then later transferred to Virginia State University in VA, for completion of her Bachelor Degree in Business Education in 1982. She currently is employed as a high school business teacher in Jefferson County, WV. She has been employed at the same high school and she is in her 29th year. She received her Master Degree in Strategic Leadership from Mountain State University in WV, May of 2008. It is safe to say that Salena Williams had no idea she would write a sci-fi story at this stage in her ending teaching career. She always had thoughts of becoming a movie actor and a gospel singer. She also appeared in the play You Can’t Take It With You at the Old Opera House in Charles Town, WV in 1982. As time has gone on she has appeared in an article in which she was featured in 2007 in the Week Ender Weekly Entertainment Guide dated Aug. 02, 2007 on Pages 7 & 11, which was published by The Journal, 207 W. King St., Martinsburg, WV 25401, Vol. 3, Issue 14 showcasing two of her three published contemporary gospel songs with HillTop Records in CA.

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Copyright © 2010 by Salena Williams.

Illustrations by: Salena Williams

Image of She’ra on cover page was created by: Salena Williams

Library of Congress Control Number:   2010909654

ISBN:   Hardcover   978-1-4535-3067-2

ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-4535-3066-5

ISBN:   Ebook   978-1-4535-3068-9

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1    She’ra’s Family Beginnings

Chapter 2    Shania Visits Grandparents Mr. And Mrs. Scott And Joan Wellington

Chapter 3    Back To Cape Town University

Chapter 4    The Funeral Of Shania Smith

Chapter 5    She’ra Grows Up With Voodoo Priestess Mum’Do

Chapter 6    Shania’s Grandparents, The Wellingtons Mentors She’ra

Chapter 7    She’ra The Teenager

Chapter 8    Mum’Do Reveals She’ra’s Birth

Chapter 9    She’ra Meets Testa Cronwell At Cape Town University

Chapter 10    She’ra Farmuza’s Graduation Ball

Chapter 11    Shania’s Grandparents’ Scott And Joan Wellington’s Plane Crash

Chapter 12    Scott And Joan Wellington Leave She’ra Their Inheritance

Chapter 13    She’ra Ventures Out Into South Africa’s High Society

Chapter 14    She’ra’s After-Party Danger Alert

Chapter 15    Professor Damanté Invite She’ra To Lunch

Chapter 16    She’ra’s Pool-Party Sleepover Scare

Chapter 17    Mum’Do Introduces She’ra To Her Half-human side

Chapter 18    She’ra Becomes CEO Of Wellington Wines International

Chapter 19    She’ra Meets Her Father In The U.S. City Of New Orleans

Chapter 20    She’ra Has Been Smitten By The Rich Millionaire Lucas Cane At Their Family’s Dinner Invite

The Author’s Imaginary Characters

In the memory of my late mother, Barbara Delores Lewis, who died at age SEVENTY-ONE on June 16, 2008, and laid to rest on June 20, 2008;

Kyra Tyquella Grant, my deceased daughter, who died before her birth on September 1994; and to my one and only living son,

Tytwan Jermaine Williams.

and

I would like to thank God for my life of creativity, and may this first novel of the saga of She’ra be a blessing and inspiration to others.

Song: SHE’RA

Chorus:

She’ra, She’ra

Verse:

She was born in a world

Half-human this girl

Ready to fight

Attack for what was right

Chorus:

She’ra, She’ra

Verse:

She was born to protect

Half-human this girl

Never lost track

Of her eternal destiny

Chorus:

She’ra, She’ra

Verse:

She could never be compared

Half-human this girl

Two identities

Unknown to you and me

Lyrics Written By Songwriter: Salena Williams

Introduction

She’ra is a beautiful young girl who came into the world carrying a curse from the spell the voodoo priestess Wu’Tu Amutar of Stellenbosch, South Africa; she had placed this curse on She’ra’s ancestors who lived generations before she was born.

While She’ra was growing up in a village in Stellenbosch, South Africa, her mother, Mum’Do, shelters She’ra from her unique and usual human conditions that does not allow her to run free from the bondages of her half-human side.

The village people are frightened from the many mysterious dead animal parts often found throughout their village, where their children often play with their playmates. The local doctor, Dr. Zotlar Amutar, runs a free health clinic in which he tries to keep the villagers calm and healthy.

She’ra’s beauty is challenged by the jealousy of an attractive young girl, Testa Cronwell, who does not want to see She’ra succeed in life, nor does she want She’ra to find love. Testa Cronwell wants to seduce She’ra’s handsome cousin La’zar Dumonga.

Somehow, She’ra is not quite bothered by the distractions of others because she is an ambitious young girl who dreams of finishing school. She is surprised by an inheritance she never saw coming, which has allowed her to travel outside the country of South Africa.

There is one thing that some individuals will experience from She’ra’s half-human side that they never saw coming nor will they ever be able to tell about the destruction of life beyond recognition.

She’ra meets the distinguished professor Joseph Damanté, who gives her the attention she needs to help her to start a career as a CEO of the Wellington Wines International. Professor Damanté is her first crush until she visits New Orleans. In New Orleans, she will meet a father she never knew, Priest Adam Moore, and she will meet an interesting multimillionaire, Lucas Cane.

The parties attended by She’ra will show her ability to enter into a crowded room with beauty and grace. She will show how family and friends mean so much to her. She’ra’s half-human side will show how she does not tolerate bad decisions and bad actions made by others who cross her path.

Chapter 1

She’ra’s Family Beginnings

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Her name is She’ra because she was robbed of a normal life from the day she was conceived in her mother’s womb in 1997. She was cursed by her Dutch family who robbed the poor and destroyed the freedom of the people in South Africa. Her family wrong doings went far back into the seventeenth century during the great flood near the Eerste River. In this small South African village of Stellenbosch, She’ra’s family had unbelievable wealth and riches they acquired from their wine lands. Her family’s Victorian mansion stood on the top of a hill, surrounded by oak trees and acres of wooded swampland. The neighboring South African village people lived in single-story homes with wooden beams and thick walls made of sundried bricks lined with mud and outside lime finishing.

A curse was placed on her Dutch family by a practicing black South African voodoo priestess around the age of fifty-five named Wu’Tu Amutar, who had been in charge of nursing many of the elderly in She’ra’s Dutch family in the late 1700s. Each member of her past and future families had no idea the curse would carry over into the twentieth century. Especially when one of the third-generation granddaughters named Shania Smith was born in 1977, and she transferred from Harvard University in the United States of America in 1997 to attend the well-known Cape Town University in South Africa.

Shania Smith was a twenty-year-old white female who was quite beautifully tanned. Most South African black and white students passed her off as a biracial young woman who could have her choice of any suited nationality. Often, Shania had visions and dreams in which she often confided in her roommates, who thought her dreams and visions a little bit weird and strange. Most nights, Shania awakened from her dreams of the black South African voodoo priestess Wu’Tu Amutar, quoting, Life for your firstborn will never be the same. Shania had sleepless nights stemming from those bad dreams.

Many of Shania’s bad dreams did not go away while she took numerous medications prescribed for depression and sleep disorder. Shania loved the campus life at Cape Town University. Often, Shania would visit the campus library to read about her ancestors and the Zulu War, to the Boer Wars, and the segregation of apartheid society. Shania lost her parents, Harry and Martha Smith, in a car accident in the United States. Martha Smith was known as Martha Wellington, who was born in 1957 as the daughter of Scott and Joan Wellington, who both were born in 1937 and resided in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Shania knew she had to visit her grandparents once she transferred to Cape Town University in 1997 after attending Harvard University for three years in the United States. It was important to Shania to research and read about her grandparents, in and out of the local society papers before she actually went to visit them. Shania’s parents left her a large inheritance that afforded her the luxury to live and work anywhere in the world. It had always been Shania’s mother Martha Smith’s high hopes to go back to South Africa to see her parents, Scott and Joan Wellington, before her and her husband’s untimely deaths.

Shania’s mother was embarrassed and ashamed for what her parents’ ancestors had done throughout three hundred years to the Stellenbosch villagers to gain their inherited wine land wealth. Martha Smith distanced her husband and herself from the ridicule and gossip that often followed her as a teenager. Shania held on to the memories of the stories her father and mother told her about her grandparents. It was apparent to Shania how her mother Martha really loved her parents Scott and Joan Wellington, but at the same time it was obvious how Shania’s mother Martha could not handle the local gossip of the stories told by the local villagers. The accident of her parents had always been questionable after she had time to read and study the history of the past and present Wellington family tree. Shania would stay in her dormitory room many evenings after studying to waste time on how she would introduce herself.

She did not want to give the appearance to her grandparents that she was out for their wealth, nor did she want them to think she was helpless. It was unfortunate for Shania to behave as a lost soul who did not have dreams and ambition to succeed in life. Shania always knew she was from a driven family who dared not to capture what life had to offer. It was not evident to find Shania learning the culture of the people who surrounded her during her stay on campus. There was one important thing that kept Shania sane, and that was her ability to meditate on the rich environment of love and kindness that her past family shared with her. Shania had traits of her mother’s ability of nurturing people who were less fortunate and people who were down and out. While on campus, Shania never lost track of her career in human anatomy.

Shania wanted to save the world from the people whose intention was to take advantage of the poor. On many occasions, Shania would wear the attire when she attended cultural events and rituals of the local villagers in Stellenbosch, South Africa. It was at one of the ceremonies that she had attended that she made a request to the local villagers to reach her dead parents. She wanted to know if they were happy on the other side and if they had a peaceful death. While she was about to get an answer, a silence like no other gripped the villagers to stop because they had seen something so disturbing; they could not put Shania through to the other side because she had awakened a curse unlike anything these villagers had encountered.

After the villagers had decided not to help Shania with her request, she went back to her dormitory. There, she had another dream of the black South African priestess Wu’Tu. Shania awakened from her dream to take more of her prescribed medication so that she could sleep through the night. Also, she knew she had to look well rested in several days. Nothing or no bad dreams would stand in Shania’s way, for she had high hopes to visit and meet her grandparents. Shania would call Scott and Joan Wellington for their permission to bring three of her closest Cape Town University friends. Her grandparents responded to Shania with delight.

Shania ran through the hallways of her dormitory yelling and screaming the names Kiki, Neka, and Tora. She was trying to find each of her friends’ whereabouts. Eventually, she found all three of her girlfriends Kiki Clayborne, Neka Sorbay, and Tora Maroni in the laundry room folding clothing. The three girls were quite alarmed as to why would Shania have such an outburst to call their names with such excitement and joy. The girls tried to tell Shania to calm down so she would not get too exhausted. They did not want her to lose too much