"nah," he looks at my backside. "You gon' have to give me instructions."
Delbert looks at us before he begins to speak. "Coochie dropped to the Old Hood. I feel it in my spirit."
"What's that feel like?" I asked.
"Like my soul on fire." he says. "They must be hot from heat. Or cocaine baking."
"Aleigha has people doing drugs under his house?" my lip lifted. "so he running a crack house underground?"
"Aleigha ain't one to fuck with drugs. The antichrist is underground." tells Sweet. "Aleigha is King. The King of the Ghetto sits on the throne and that's like the battery to the world itself. If the wrong person sits his ass somewhere; we all going to hell."
"And you the grandbaby…" says Delbert.
"So like…" I look at Delbert. "I got my stomach fondled by a mummy. Care to explain?"
"Aleigha and Changany eat people. Mostly Changany nowadays. But, you the antichrist so don't worry."
"Is granddad still in the apartment?" questions Sweet.
"He has to, the man holding on from the bridge… Mummy bodies don't hold up."
"So what happened?"
"You know the realm is on repeat. It's still 2012."
"When I was in Canada," he looks at me. I can't help but stick my neck out, stupid bitch. "Calm yo stupid ass down with all that. What? You dyed yo hair the lost color of a rainbow?" he looks me up and down. "It's probably weave."
"I grew out my hair!"
"And bald…" he takes a sip from a glass looking away from me. "Deelo… you don't have friends."
"They dead except Loose. He can't see." he states.
"What about me?" I say.
They both look at me. "So… we got roaches?"
"The throne is back at the church. Aleigha has more then one holding. You feel like collecting rent?"
"That's all I fucking do." he faces me. "Guess I'll take the hoe."
"FUCK YOU LIKE JESUS HANGNG! DON'T TOUCH ME!"
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I cannot believe I got into a car with a nigga… AGAIN! This is life for me. I'm finna for real sucking a dick because I don't learn.
I HATE ME.
This bitch is driving. Besides that, the realm is actually pretty. There this light fog in the air and the world is constantly at dusk.
People actually have lives over here. The houses are broken but a lot look nice in front of dead grass.
We drove by a house with a werewolf on a chain. How does one walk by a werewolf? Personally, I cannot stand walking home and a damn dog barks at me. Fuck if he lose in the yard and it has no fence.
So like… in the hood of uncanny eldritch shit. Does ASPCA still take care of that? That's sad because, werewolves is still human. "No they not." says Sweet.
"I wasn't talking to you!" I shout. "Don't read my mind. My thought--getting all hot from looking into my business."
"It's small…"
"WHAT!"
"You said I was looking. It's small. About the size of a fist."
"Nigga I'll wreck the car."
"See, it's shit like that, that let's bitches end up in a grave. If you pull this wheel. I'll bite you."
I hate my life. I hate my life.
I just sit in the passenger's seat with my arms folded. A gunshot goes off in the distance. We make a turn and it's morning. "What happened to the night?" I sit up. "This is Happy Day Valley." the car moves slow and comes to a stop near a large cathedral. It's a white building with flags hanging off it. You have the flag of germany torn in half, a piece of america flapping from a window, the flag of china burned, a green, white and black flag hanging slightly off it's pole, I think the flag of Egypt laying across the top and at the stairs, a ripped red and half black flag with a symbol in the middle.
"What's all the flags for?" I ask.
"Decoration." he unfastens his seat belt. "It's about 131 missing. The rest of the big flags is in the church. They for gang."
"Gangs have flags?"
"You never seen The White Parade?" he looks at me. "They have a flag, it actually powerful. Literally the KKK counts as a gang… they look stupid waving it but still." he takes his keys out the car. "Get out."
It appears normal. Just a regular catholic church with flags until something gastly creeps out the bushes around the church. I can't help but try to jump on the car.
It's slithers. It has hands and a broken neck to the side. It's eyes bulging out and elongated body with heart hanging out it's chest. "HEY!" Sweet shouts. "Get yo ass out of here!"
It hisses and slithers to the back of the church. "What the fuck was that!"
"Mermaids. Come on, I have to babysit you."
"You don't have to do shit for me!"
"I do. If I leave you, the fairies will take you away."
What's so bad about--I leave the car alone. We make it into the church. They chairs are broken, the ceiling has fallen on top of the walkway but you can get to the stairs from either side near the door.
"That's sad…"
"Aleigha sits on the throne so…" he moves his head to the side and I follow up the stairs behind him. "So, what do people go to church for in the Ghetto?" the church actually rocks. Sweet looks at me. "Watch ya mouth. Church is the last peace of hurt. You get that?"
"I guess." I'm not church heavy. I think it's cool like you always have a piece of jesus but in terms of like prayer or other. I don't care.
"So you an atheist?" he squints. "You believe in Idols?"
"What? No… you mean like the golden cow or some shit."
"Close to it."
"Why don't you have a soul?"
"My daddy."
"He evil?"
"Something like that."
"He whoop you?" Sweet ignorants me and heads upstairs with me trailing behind. We walk down the hall, pass a picture of the virgin Mary with eight eyes. I can't help but look and then she blinks at me. "why?"
"It's a soul in the frame… don't talk to it."
The railing his broken, "How do you know where you going?"
"I have a charm." he says. There is a large portion of the rail broken with a piece of wood long enough to walk on. I look at the ceiling and see a gargoyle smiling at me. "JESUS!" I fall on my ass. "Come on…"
"THERE!" I point at the sky. The gargoyle flies away with snickering. "You go! I'm good!"
Sweet goes on rolling his eyes and takes the plank down. There are boxes below covering some seats that are trashed and topple over candles; even a coffin in the middle of the floor.
I look through the railing on the floor. "Be careful!" not that I care.
He gets to the throne and pick up growling and voices. "YOU! SAVE-- IT'S IMPOSSIBLE--take a selfie with me. FUCK YOU!--What God did for us! And What we can! It's all over from here--I TOLD THAT NIGGA--love is a word…"
What is all that? "What the--" Sweettooth flies back, sliding across the ground. "ARMS!" he shouts and the words become guns. I see fabric come from behind the boxes. It's a giant voodoo dool with its mouth open and pins in it body. The body of the doll is torn across the chest, stomach and upper left shoulder. Buttons for eyes and stick for a nose; it has a hutchback.
It speaks in an gurgled voice. "YOU AIN'T SHIT!" It twitches. "Buy one get two for free at--I THINK I"M PREGNANT!"
"Motherfucker…" sweet fires at the puppet, shooting the eye off. The voodoo doll roars, lights coming out of it's mouth.
"DON'T HURT HIM!" speaks the ball of light. "Nope…" he fires again, every bullet hitting the torso. The ball of light becomes an anvil, it hovers over Sweet. As it comes down, he dodges it. "GLARE!" the word illuminates. The soul shivers. "IT"S TOO BRIGHT!" it bursts and the puppet sticks out a set of hands from it's cloth. "GO TO CHURCH! Praise him. God I don't wanna do--I fucked my dog…"
"I SAID BE CAREFUL!" the puppet picks up one of the broken seats. A strong light surrounds it. The puppy chucks the seat at Sweet. "Straight." using the power of word, a whip is in his hands. He lashes it forward, breaking the chair. The puppet dashes towards him and engulfs his whole shoulder. "AH!" I go down the plank in a rush. "SWEETOOTH!"
His screams grow as I catch sight of the puppet trying to swallow him. What am I supposed to do?
Without looking, I hear the coffin break open. I finally turn and see… a fucking cow. "Hallowed be thy name…" it twitches. "Thy kingdom come; thy will be done." the cow steps out the coffin. "on earth as it is in heaven."
The cow's mouth is closed. "I AM!" it's neck cocks to the side so strong it breaks. The body gyrates, the neck stiffens. "THAT NIGGA!" a black snake coes out and drops to the floor but staring at it. It's not a snake; it's a leech. I step back, "oh shit…"
"Give me your soul…" it reaches it's hand out to me.
"GET THE FUCK OFF ME!" gunfire blasts off behind me. "NOW!" the cow rushes at me on two legs. I'm fucking scared. It's eyes red with a yellow light in the iris. I run to the right and grab a candle stick.
I don't know what to do. I just throw it. I go to the throne and pick up another candle and throw it.
I'm quick to grab I'm not paying attention. I go back to the west wall and back to the throne. "ENOUGH!" the cow's head bends forward, blood blasting off it. "stupid son of a--" Sweet just fires at the cow. It turns and jumps to the second floor balcony. "I GAVE YOU… LIFE!"
"What the fuck!" I yell, hiding behind the throne. "Sweettooth!"
"STAY HERE!" he chases it and the gargoly swoops down, blocking him. "MOVE!" he puts out his hand and the gargolyle blasts into the wall. Sweet goes up the plank and I follow, dumbly.
"I AM!" the cow bellows from a far. "Mine! Mine! Mine!"
I race behind a man with no soul and we lead out the church. The cow rounds the car to the driver side, then to the passenger side. Sweet takes aim, he shoots off the ear of the cow. The cow races to the driver side and hops in. "Are you fucking with me!" he takes out the front window and takes the cow's shoulder.
The car goes backwards. Sweet keeps shooting but the cow doesn't care, it ride on flat wheels. "ARE YOU FUCKING WITH ME!" Sweettooth hollers. "GODDAMN!"