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(TFT) SOLO III, 019
Solo III
Demon World
Part 019
The boy wakes up with a stream of profanity and cursing. "What the
hell! Who the blood sucking are you?" He jumps to his feet in a low crowch
like some feral dog, his corn husk forgotten, and snarls.
Rebecca says "Don't you remember..." and then she stops. Remembering
what Gail told her. Let Uncle do all the talking. She looks to you.
You say "I'm here to take you back. If you want."
He growls back "I'm here to crack your skulls together, if YOU want."
And he barks three times like a hound.
"Do you want to stay here, stealing food, and living under a rock,
or..."
"I'll peal your skin, break off a rib, and stab you in the throat with
it."
"... or ..." you repeat "Do you want to come with us."
He turns his head sideways like he's not sure what you are. He seems
to calm down for a second. He doesn't trust grown ups. They don't treat
him well here.
"You can come with us, if you want, and learn to be decent again."
"Eat glass." he says defiantly.
Rebecca touches you on the shoulder and looks in your eyes. She shakes
her head from side to side. You can tell what she means. This isn't going
to work.
You try again. "Look. You're not yourself. You've just been treated
badly." You hold out your hand. "Take my hand. Come with us."
He growls a little. "Jagged tooth, toung swallowing, slime drinker."
But his eyes don't look so certain anymore. He's begining to doubt that you
are a threat he thought you were.
You keep your hand extended as an offer, and stay calm. You're having
doubts about how well he'll fit in now. He seems to have been totally
corrupted by the poor lost souls up here. But there is still a chance.
"Free food." you say, still smiling.
He looks you in the eyes for the first time and you can see. There is
still humanity in him. Like a dull ember that has amost gone out. A faint
touch of warmth in his pupils surounded an icy world of cold heartedness.
He seems to feel the connection and his hand slowly reaches out to you, like
it has a mind of its own.
In that instance two things happen suddenly.
Rebecca slaps his hand away from yours with lightning speed, and the
lake of fire erupts. She says "He's possessed, they know we're here!"
While a spot of blackness launches out of the burning lake, arcs overhead
disrupting the clowdy heavens, and rumbles with explosions. You can't help
but look up.
Dropping out of the sky is an enormous ancient demon. It suddenly
leapt up from the pool of flame. Like a burning meteroite streaking through
the air leaving a black trail of smoke. The ground shakes as it lands
before you crushing countless skulls with its enormous feet. It's smokey
path still marked out as an arch in the air leading back to the molten
sulfer. Like some kind of dark rainbow of oily blackness.
Your heads comes up to the knee on the demons right leg. Massive wings
of smoke and fire spread around you. The Demon looks at you. In its eyes
you can see all of the cold heartedness that trapped the boys pupils.
In it's hands is a long black rod. This rod sucks the light out of the
very air into itself. Not emiting darkness, but bending the light rays and
drawing them into itself. Leaving the area around you growing dimmer and
dimmer. The rod is some singular measuring tool of hungry evil.
He turns the rod on you, and you snap out of it. Luckily you are
faster than even an ancient demon and teleport home. No point in staying
around. You appear instantly in the eating hall. Rebecca is already there.
"That was disturbing." Rebecca says.
David Michael Grouchy II
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