That's it for today guys make sure you read this" said Mr Rodriguez. I wished that I should have paid attention to what he said that day.
"Jack!" my mom called out because dad was waiting outside to drop me off to my first day as a high school senior.
It was after the vacation. When I came back, my friends were waiting for me. Jason was fun guy of the group or so he thought and his girlfriend was my oldest friend, Sarah O'Brien. She was exactly opposite of Jason; that is nice and sweet.
We had known each other since 5 grade and she always protected me, and was always there for me. And at last Sam, he was the nice guy of the group.
That day we stayed up all night and talked and Jason had heard a rumour about a house that was abandoned for decades, people told him that the house belonged to a Dutch family and no one goes near it.
Jason suggested that we should check out the place but Sam disagreed he said "there are things we shouldn't mess with".
But I agreed with Jason as even I was fascinated by these scary things. Sam was my best friend so I made him agree too.
So, tomorrow morning we got ready to go to the house. We had flash light, candle and many other things. But Sam still persuaded us to go in the morning or we were planning at the night.
When we arrived at the gate a chill went up from my toes to my head it was like my soul was telling me not to go but I thought of it as a feeling of excitement and I think so did the others.
The floor was made up of wood so it made a faint sound while walking. We were thinking of staying there till the afternoon. Others came for fun but I came hoping for a real ghost or some thing.
In my history class our sir Rodriguez told about types of spirits and how real they are and what were the of ways to call or send them away. I brought all the voodoo stuff like the Ouija board and candles and stuff.
After we spend some time inside, I asked them to play the Ouija board. So I brought it out and we all sat in circle.
First chance was Sarah's, she put her finger on the board and asked "are you here Mr ghost". But it didn't move, they said "we knew it was a fake".
But when I tried moving it wouldn't move, even the others couldn't remove it and when somehow, we removed it, we saw it was stuck on yes and the continuous sound started again which we thought someone of our own made.
Seeing this, other started to get scared. After some time, Sam Snapped and ran towards the main door. When he opened it there was a terrified look on his face.
Then I saw that at that time there was night even though we were barely 30 minutes there. Before I could think, I noticed that Sarah was missing I told the guys about that, then Sam decided to come with me to find her. Jason said that he will get help from outside.
Then me and Sam walked through that door slowly calling her name with a trembling voice. When we were in the living room there was an attic that led to the rooms.
We saw someone there that was not Sarah it was a woman; we only saw her half face she had a pale dark skin and black hair and a little smaller than us in size. Suddenly Sarah came from the back, it startled us.
She was completely fine, we asked what happened to her, she without any hesitation said "l got lost". But something was not fine, at that moment we couldn't think of anything.
Then Sam said suspiciously "when we came here you were scared like hell and now suddenly, you're not". I also noticed and even though Jason was a jerk he would never leave Sarah alone.
Then Sarah suddenly started laughing and said in a different voice "that was not fun" and she suddenly got dragged into the attic by two hands. Sam held my hand and started to run towards the door and when we open the door the other was a room even though it was the main door.
And suddenly I realized Sam started to tremble in fear. I what happened he said "this is my room". I started shaking him, saying in a loud voice "what is happening, man? What is happening?".
Sam said in confidence "nothing, nothing is going to happen?". After a few seconds I calmed myself down and said "we should find Jason and Sarah first", Sam agreed and said "let's get out of here".
When we opened the door again it brought us to the kitchen the door to living room was right around the corner. We slowly walked there; the Ouija board was still there Sam said "how is this happening?" I replied "it's probably a poltergeist or you can an evil spirit".
Sam said
"I have never heard a poltergeist can be that powerful"
I said "there is no time for this, he also said that the way to kill a poltergeist is to burn its bones"
"so we have to find its dead body now". Then I decided to split but Sam disagreed where its bones were or if they existed at all.
Suddenly we heard Jason's voice, we ran towards the door from which it came, inside the room Sarah was holding a picture of someone saying "you did it, you killed her" and Jason was shouting "no, I didn't do it".
While that was happening, we were shouting at Jason but he couldn't hear us. Suddenly Sarah smiled and, turned into a bunch of big spiders and they devoured Jason alive in front of us. While I was shouting, Sam got to his senses and took me out of there.
I said "I am sorry" because somewhere in my heart I felt guilty, because I was the one who made Sam come here. Sam told me and said "it's alright, I never thought you would say that".
After a while, I thought that I have to save Sam and Sarah at all costs. I told Sam that he should get out of here and call for help because Jason never actually left.
After all this, we knew this much that the ghost can Change its form and look like others and it can create illusions and make them real.
Sam said "you know what it did, last time when tried to get out of here" for some reason Sam didn't wanted to tell me about what happened to him in his room. But I was more traumatised by what happened to Jason, so I couldn't ask.
As we walked through that nightmare, I remembered that first day I met Sam. It was the first day of high school in history class, there was a silent kid, was eating alone in the cafeteria and Jason being Jason tried to approach him but
he said
"sorry, I have to go" and then I came to him and said "sorry for Jason, he is a jerk but if you want you can join us".
He said "no, I am fine" and I knew that he was hiding his true self for some reason.
I asked him "if you want to be alone, I have no problem but just know we won't mind having another friend". From that day he was always with us.
A voice came to me saying "Jack, help me". Sam didn't notice that I was left behind. I was going to call out his name but I suddenly realised that it was Sarah's voice, I ran towards the door it came from and opened it and the other side was a road and there was a car on that road that place and the car looked familiar somehow. Then I slowly started to walk towards the other side of the road and I found a dead body.
After seeing that dead it was like my old memories were coming back to surface but suddenly a voice started to say "remember" continuously. Then suddenly that dead body started to stand up still saying "remember" so I started to run towards the car and got inside it. The dead body was still out banging on the door. Then I remembered what happened.
A few years back during my senior year me and my friends went on a small road trip and we were a little drunk, so was I, suddenly a very bright light came out of nowhere and we suddenly realised that we hit something my friends said not to stop driving, they said ""you probably hit a deer or something" and believe it and kept on driving maybe because I wanted to.
I didn't know what to do, there was nothing to do except wait. Then I suddenly thought about how I have to save Sarah and Sam and how I have to burn this ghost's bones.
Then I thought that she was someone's family. All that time believing that was an accident. I looked at her and said "I am sorry", then suddenly a bright light came out of nowhere and I crashed into something and when I came out of the door, everything changed.
I was in the house again in front of the door through which I got in that place. I couldn't get how it knew about that accident. While walking I thought it must be a power which I didn't know about.
First thing I thought was I have to gather Sam and Sarah, and tell them about this. I started walking towards the direction where Sam went, I was hoping to find him because I didn't have any idea where Sarah was or went.
So continuous opened every door I came across. When opened third door there a man sitting on the ground with his face towards the wall. He was looking like Sam from back and his clothes were also the same.
I went to him saying "Sam, stand up, Sam!". He looked at me and it was Sam but his throat was cut, he grabbed my hands and started saying "you didn't save, look at me now, l thought you promised to keep me safe".
Suddenly Sarah came through the door and hit that thing with a rod and when I saw her and I was so happy. But that thing started to turn into sand like it was becoming weak.
When it was gone, I hugged Sarah, then she asked about the other guys. I didn't know how to tell her I told her that "Sam is probably fine but Jason" she asked "what? what happened to Jason?" I told her "he died and I don't want to tell you how". She started crying, so I hugged her, after a while I told her to pull herself together.
While seeing her cry the old memories started to come back, when I was in fifth grade, I was a major troublemaker and people were kind of afraid of me and usually avoided me.
One day a new girl came to my class she always smiled and kept quiet in the class and on her first day the kids started to bully her because of that, I don't know why, but I helped her maybe because she looked like my mother or so I thought.
After that she started to talk me and said she wanted to make me her friend But I pushed her away maybe because I was used to be alone or she deserved better than me.
Tomorrow, while coming to school I saw three-four kids bullying and hitting her, I ran towards them, they ran away by seeing me.
After that she held me and cried even though she was always smiling.
After a seconds when she calm down I told her that we have to find Sam, she agreed. But we didn't know where look and it was important for all of us to be together. Sam was always a nice guy and always protected us. Now it was my chance to protect him.
So, we started walking and while walking we were calling out Sam's name. Then we found the main door I remembered that door. This was the door that took me and Sam to his room.
So, we opened the door and it was empty which was still weird because it was the main door. Then Sarah said "not this place". I asked "you know this place", she said "close the door".
So, I closed it but when I closed it, we were somehow inside. Sarah closed her eyes and ears and started saying "no" continuously. I asked her what happened, she said my father used to lock me in this room.
I was shocked, I thought I knew her and I have met her father he was not like that.
I said "why didn't you said he did that"
"no, my previous foster dad".
I was so confused and said "when were you going to tell me that".
"I didn't want to trouble or you can say confuse"
"let's get out of here".
She was going to say I am sorry but suddenly someone started to bang on the door shouting "Sarah, open the door".
She suddenly started crying saying "no, leave me alone" then we suddenly heard a sound of someone hitting that thing, then the door open and it was Sam.
He said "it's okay" and then I said "that was pretty heroic". We started to laugh. After we pulled ourselves together, I realised one that that this very powerful and it is taking our worst fears and making us live through it.
But we now knew that we can take it down together because it might show us our fear but other won't be afraid of my fear and I won't be afraid of theirs. But if we get separated we will surely die. There was no other way.
But when I went through the door the place changed, I was suddenly in a banquet hall and Sam and Sarah were not there but there was a woman standing in distance a distance and then she looked at me then suddenly she was at my left.
She said "let's dance, Jack". She put her hand forward, I said "okay" and held her hand. Then we started to dance.
I asked her "what are you?"
"someone who likes to play, so let's play a game Jack, if you win, I'll leave you and your friends but if you lose you all will stay here forever".
"what kind of game".
She started laughing and suddenly everything went black around me but I could still see her.
"okay I'll rephrase it for you, if you burn the bones before you die, I'll leave you and your friends but if you lose, I'll keep your soul here forever, and as you danced with me, I'll give you a gift, even if one of you burn the bones I'll bring everyone back even if they die".
"you can bring back the dead".
"no, not even I can do that but you see I have not killed Jason yet so as long as even one of you burn the bones, you'll have a chance to save your friends, when one die or you can say not exactly die, I'll just keep you in a place until one of you burn the bones, but if you cannot then you know".
"then tell me where are your bones".
"I have already given you gift".
"if we don't know where your bones are then how can we win".
"fine, that's just because I like you, and they are in the basement inside a cell, well thanks for the dance and I wish you best of luck, goodbye, jack"
Suddenly I came back in front of the door, I heard Sam and Sarah calling my name. I called out to them and they came running.
When they found me, they asked me "where were you?", I said "I know where the bones of this ghost are". They asked "what, where?".
I told them the whole story, then Sam asked if I knew the name of that ghost, unfortunately I didn't. But this was the best thing that has happened in a long time, we knew where the bones were, we were together and we can bring Jason back.
Now the game officially begins, Sam said "that ghost said if we burn his bones before we die, so how will he try to kill us because I think he will up his game now".
I said "I know that but we have no choice but even if one or even two of us die we'll still have a chance to win".
Sam said sarcastically "this ghost is here for a century or what, that means everyone who came here has played this game and he is still alive that means he is pretty good at this game".
I replied "what other choice we have and we have some tricks up our sleeves or just I".
I was thinking that Sam might be right about the ghost. This ghost was very powerful and we didn't have anything that could counter him.
Now we all started to walk towards the kitchen because there was a door near the kitchen that might lead to the basement.
But still for all we know, we can open a door and end up in our own place again. Sam was very silent at that time, I asked him what was he thinking.
Sam said "did you notice that when one is in the nightmare room the other one is not, that means it can only get us one at a time, so what if I go inside a door and you two go inside the other so it might only come at me".
I said "no way that's way too risky, if you have managed to be alive till now that doesn't mean you are ghost expert or something".
I suddenly felt bad for saying that, I was going to say I am sorry but I didn't wanted Sam to die.
Sam said "we have no other choice please; Jack, I believe that you'll win and bring me back if I die".
I had no choice but to do it, so I said "okay, I'll win". We hugged each other
He said "if you die, you'll be the one to be the play toy of this ghost".
I said "sure, why not". We all laughed a little.
When we were going to part ways, I asked him "this might be the last time we meet so, can you tell me what happened to you in that room?".
Sam said "before I came to this collage, someone came to our house, late night we heard some noise from downstairs so me and my older sister went there and then we found our mother lying dead on the ground, and then we saw a man with a black coat and glasses near mom, when we saw that, I froze, I couldn't move so my sister held my hand and ran to my room which was in the left, she put me inside the room and then closed the door she said "don't open the door" and then went to downstairs to call the police but after a few seconds I heard her screams suddenly I heard her voice saying "open the door Sam, she will kill me".
I asked "hey, didn't she said don't open the door". He said "I wanted to open the door but I couldn't, I couldn't move my body. After a few minutes police came and took me to my father who was on a business trip"
I said "why don't both of you tell me these kinds of things, I am you friend, man". He said "this might be my chance to redeem myself".
I said "if you mean that dying will redeem you, then no, you won't redeem yourself".
After that Sam walked into a door in the attic. After he went there, me and Sarah opened the door to basement it was dark but there was a little light down the stairs. Sarah held my hand I said "it's okay".
She asked me "will Sam be fine".
I told her "He may look like a sweet boy but he is a tough son of a bitch, he won't be hurt easily".
We walked down the stairs, there was a yellow bulb on the roof. We walked to where light was coming from, when we came near the end there was a cell. The door was closed we opened it and there were the bones.
We took a deep breath and took out the match suddenly we heard some noise and then we saw Sam walking towards us covered in blood, he said "Sarah help me , please". Sarah said "hey, that's Sam, we should help him"
I held her hand from the back and said "we don't know that".
She asked "what, no that's Sam and he's hurt"
I said "we should burn the bones first then help him".
She said "no you burn the bones I'll help him".
She started to run towards Sam, she hugged him and said "are you okay".
He started to laugh, I shouted "get away from him".
He suddenly bit her and whispered "here is my gift to you". Sarah went unconscious for some time and then woke up. I couldn't stop myself by seeing her in pain I ran towards them and punched Sam and he barely moved and when he punched me, I went like 6 feet away flying.
Suddenly he turned into the woman I met before, when she was going to grab Sarah, I ran towards smiling her and took her down by jumping on her.
I told Sarah to grab the match and burn the bones and that I'll hold the ghost off. She wasn't trying hard at that time, I looked at her, she was and suddenly bit me on the neck and I think I went unconscious for a second. She pushed me off her and started walking towards Sarah.
She said "don't do it Sarah" and Sarah suddenly stopped and looked at her. I was shouting "do it, Sarah" but she wouldn't move. At last, I stood up and took the match from Sarah's hand and went inside the cell and when I was about to light the match there was a name written on the wall.
It was "Mary De Varies" and this name, I had heard of it somewhere, then I remembered my mother told me a story of a girl named Mary who lived in this house. When Jason brought up this house, I couldn't remember at that time but seeing this name had made me remember.
This house belonged to a wealthy Dutch family and in that family there was three brothers and one sister named Mary and they lived with there parents. One day another family came into the town both the families became good friends but Mary and their elder son, William fell in love with each other. Both the families were happy about it and they even got engaged but after some months William had to go to the World War 2 from America or the allied powers side.
But didn't came the way he was. He died on the field and was buried in the national cemetery. Everyone was in a bad condition but Mary was in deep shock. My mother said after that she did everything to bring him back so she eventually got into some bad things but her family, seeing her obsession locked her away.
They went away from the house leaving her in that cell to die but while she was there, she was still thinking about the person she loved and eventually died.
After remembering that I couldn't move or didn't wanted to. She came to me and said "you know it, right and you have made me realize it to". She said "thank you" I lit the match and threw it on her bones. And then she fades away in a light.
Me and Sarah got out of the basement and as she said "if one of you burn the bones, others will also come back even if they are dead". We were hoping to find them we checked the house; they were not there.
Then Sarah said "what if she was lying and they are not back". I said "no, they are alive, let's check outside". I somehow had faith that she wouldn't lie maybe because I was sympathetic towards her, aside whatever she did I felt a part of her was good.
We went out of the house and found Jason and Sam lying there. We started to run towards them, they were not unconscious but it looked like they were sleeping. We shaking them a little, Sam was the first to wake up, we asked "what happened man?".
He said "shouldn't I be the one asking that, and did you burn the bones or are we all dead?".
I said "well I don't like to brag but I heroically burn the bones". We started to laugh a little.
Then Jason woke up we asked if he's alright. He said he's fine. He asked us about what happened, we asked him "what's the last thing you remember?".
He said "Sarah tried to kill me! I remember now, I was just wondering around the house and I saw Sarah going into a room and when I went inside that room Sarah was holding the picture of my...".
We asked "what? Whose picture". He was hesitating to tell us, then Sam said "tell us man, did you do anything to her because that ghost shows us our greatest fear or regret.
He said "my friend she was staying over my house, my parents had gone somewhere, we were playing, then we heard a voice from downstairs we went there".
Sam continued "and saw a man in black coat and glasses". Jason said "yes, he noticed our presence and she ran towards him by herself for me, that bastard killed her in front of me".
I said "sorry, man". He said "I am fine, really".
After this incident everyone was a little shaken up, no matter what we said it was on our mind for days. Jason and Sam were absent for a few days because they were the ones who were the most traumatized.
One day, when our class was going on Mr Rodriguez said "do you all remember what we were discussing about one week ago?". Everyone started thinking except me because I was fascinated by occult but not interested in classes that and I always managed to get good grades.
Then he said "do you all remember the Dutch house?". I got shocked for a second I asked him "Sir, you mean the house near the town" he said "yes, that house belonged to a wealthy Dutch family".
The whole story was the same except, when he said "it was said that she turned to the devil and released something that was terrifying.
Her family was killed by her or that thing. But before dying her father locked the demon away in the house or at least that's what the elders in the town said".
After the class I ran to a library and picked all the books which had demon, devil or anything related to that written on it, after reading a few books I found out many things about the demons.
But then in a book I found out that demon can be locked away in the remains of the host's body and that it can be lifted only if a human who knew the host burns the bones.
And then while just surfing through the pages I found out that the meaning of Drivel is "Demon". I got so shocked that I started to sweat, after a few seconds I called Sam, Jason and Sarah and told them to meet me in the park near the library they asked "what happened?". I said "it's not dead" and then I put the phone down.
And then suddenly everything stopped, I looked around and then saw her coming towards me and suddenly she was sitting beside me.
She said "hello Jack, don't worry I am not like the other vulgar demons, I just want Sam and Jason and I'll be on my way. But if I can get Sarah too that will be amazing".
I asked "why do you want Sam and Jason?".
She said "you'll find out soon enough".
By that time other came, and saw us sitting together, they came to us and asked me "who is she?".
Jason whispered to me "She is kind of hot" and then she said "yes, but unfortunately this is not my true form".
Then they all looked her then Sarah asked me "what's going on? Jack".
Then she said "my name is Lilith, you must have heard this name somewhere, well as much I would like to have fun with you all I need Sam and Jason for my father".
I said "your father?".
"yes, the devil or you might also know him as Lucifer, his name is quite popular".
"yeah, he is very famous for being the evilest thing in existence".
"you shouldn't talk like this about him".
Suddenly she said "sorry I'll have to excuse myself with Sam and Jason".
"what are you talking about? We are not going anywhere"
"I am afraid you are, all of you are not as strong as me. If you will resist, I will kill everyone in this library".
"no, we will go".
But Sarah couldn't let them go and she said that she will exchange places with them and at that time Sarah held Lilith's hand and Lilith suddenly felt something she said "how do you have too?" and laughed and said "I could use you too?" and then vanished and I couldn't do anything. That time, I felt so weak, helpless seeing my friends being taken away.
After they vanished everything started to move again and I just sat there for hours thinking what could I have done. Then I went to my home, my mother was surprised to see me because I didn't come often but I was there to tell her about what happened.
Since I was small my father didn't really like me for some reason. Always staying a little distant, but my mother was always there even when I made some trouble in school or in the neighbourhood because of my anger towards my father.
So, I came to tell her about what happened but I couldn't, thinking that this could put her life in danger. Then suddenly I felt the same feeling as that demon Lilith and I turned around my mother, she was different I said "mom are you okay?" and she said "meet me upstairs". Then the doorbell rang and it was Chris, my older brother.
Chris was a really great brother he was someone that always helped me, taking the blame for my mistakes or helping me when father scolded me.
But when I turned around my mother was fine, so I took a breath and hugged Chris and asked him "how are you, man?". When he hugged, he suddenly was looking confused and asked me "are you okay, Jack?".
I said "yeah, and I am going to check my room". He said "I should come too" and I didn't want to put his life in danger, so I said that it's fine I'll come back in a minute.
I went upstairs to my room and she was standing there the ghost from the Dutch house. I got a little freaked out and said "what the hell are you doing here?".
She said "is that how you treat you guest, well whatever I am here to talk about your friends". I said "what why?!" and she said with a sigh "I was going to but didn't expected him to come". I asked "who?", she said "the angel, well whatever, after your family dinner come to the town's restaurant, we'll talk there".
Then she vanished but I got weirdly used to stuff like this. I went downstairs and had a little lunch and said my good bye to them. But after leaving the house Chris came to me and put his hand on my head like he used to when we were young and said "take care, Jack".
I went straight to the restaurant and she was there looking kind of beautiful but then she was suddenly standing beside me.
I asked "what about my friend and the angel". She said "okay one question at a time, I'll start with angel , when I was inside you mother I suddenly felt an angel's presence a particularly strong one and I am a demon, so you see the chemistry is not good"
I said "you are a demon or ghost". She said "no, I am not like some lowly ghost, I was summoned by this girl to bring back the man she loved, so I took over her so I could get my real form here and just so you know she agreed the terms that I take over her body to get my body here and then I'll help her bring her love back but her damn father confined me to the house and eventually she died and her body started to rot, so I roamed around the house for years".
I asked "but why didn't you burn the bones yourself?".
"If could I wouldn't have been stuck there for years" she said.
That old man did some spell that I couldn't touch or hurt her bones, but you did"
So, I asked "what about my friends?".
She said "oh yes, well your friends are in hell literally, but they are not dead".
I said "okay, do you know about that demon Lilith?".
She said in fearfully voice "the mother of demons, Lilith. She took your friends that's weird, why would the strongest demon comes to get a few demon kids".
I said "what demon kids, my friends are not demon?". She replied "unfortunately they are, and you would probably want to know that I am the one who turned your little friend into a demon, including you".
I said "I am a demon and Sarah, but what about Sam and Jason?".
She said "they are also demons but has been for a long time, remember the stories they told you about how they got orphaned, don't you think that the one who killed their families were awfully similar". I said "it was a demon right".
"yes and one more thing why can't I feel your demonic presence even after touching you".
"I don't know but tell me if you can help me save my friends or not".
"yes I will help you but don't you think you are trusting a demon pretty easily, either you are stupid or naive".
"I just want to save my friends and for that I will do anything".
"I nearly forgot how cute you are, you might be the first guy I like".
"I don't care, I just want my friends safe".
"of course, but don't you think I would also want something from you".
"that's why you're helping, so nice of you, so what is it?"
"don't worry I will tell you".
"I don't like anonymous demands, just tell me and I am wondering why would a demon help me save my friend from another demon".
"fine, look I am a very high ranking demon not on Lilith's level but high, and as Lucifer is dead she is taking over hell".
"Lucifer is dead, how and more importantly what does she want with my friends?".
"well that's what I want to know and yes Lucifer is dead no one knows how except Lilith and she was always his favourite, always staying with him like his pet but I never expected her to take over hell as she always said that Lucifer is the only rightful king of hell".
"then what do you want?".
"I am starting a Revolution against Lilith and I need demons and I am guessing so does she, that's why she took your friends it's makes sense now, she knows that I am starting a revolution".
"but why do you want a Revolution, don't you like her".
"no I hate her, everyone does, Lucifer was a tyrant but she was the executioner, she killed anyone that opposed him and leave this topic, Tomorrow we will go to hell to find your friends and the favour is that you and your friends have to support me in the revolution".
"we will walk into hell, well whatever and before going what is your name".
"just call me Mary"
"you don't have a name".
"Lucifer didn't name all of us except Lilith, now you see how she is favourite".
"okay tomorrow here right"
"yeah, bye Jack"
She vanished and I was apparently taking this hell, demon and all that pretty well, I don't know how but I did. My mind was so tired that I went to my room and fell asleep without any hesitation, that made me fell weird.
The Revolution
Tomorrow night I went to park and found her. I went to her and asked "when are we going to go?".
"now" she said
"and I actually wanted to ask you something"
"what?"
"you said that back in my house you felt an angelic presence but there was no one except my mother and brother".
"that is weird, but your mother is not an angel that's for sure but I don't know about your brother".
"no, he is not an angel" I said suddenly in a confident voice.
"okay, but he could have an angel guardian".
"a what?"
"some humans are protected by angels for many reasons and we don't have time for this, your friends could be dead or being tortured".
"Okay, let's go".
She created a circle with some patterns inside of it from her blood and then both of us stood inside the circle and she chanted something.
Suddenly it felt like a black light surrounded us and I closed my eyes and when I opened them there was this field and it was not what I expected. I thought it would be all fire and torture but it was not like that the whole place was covered with red light and when I looked around the place was on air, the whole field.
"not like what you expected right"
"Yeah, it's weirdly nice"
"Tomorrow we will go to the city to meet the rest of the group"
"Okay, and where are we exactly?"
"it's a place with high magic atmosphere, so no one will probably come here"
"can you use magic?"
"obviously, and we have to check what kind of magic you use"
"humans can use magic too?"
"yes and no, humans don't have their own magic power but they can use magic objects"
"but you don't have to worry, you are not human anymore, remember our first bite"
"yeah, it's a little hard to forget"
"we will stay here for now and you should get some sleep, tomorrow we will discover your magic"
"before I ask you about 'discovering my magic', where are we going to stay"
"in a house"
"where?"
"let me tell you about my magic, it creates illusions and if you believe them they become real"
She snapped her fingers and suddenly a house came in front of me and I was able to touch it.
She said "it's because you believe that it's a real house"
"okay, I admit that an awesome power"
"it's not just awesome, It's one of the strongest power out here"
"what could my magic power be super strength, super speed or time stopping power"
"probably not you are the weakest kind of demon, normally used as slaves"
"what!"
"don't worry I won't let anyone have you, you are my slave"
"that makes me very happy"
After that I went into the house and tried to sleep but couldn't, I was processing everything that was happening and about my friends, I was a normal human before this.
The next morning when I woke up I felt something touching me and when I looked it was Mary without any clothes, I pushed her away and jumped to the corner and then she woke up.
She said "good morning" in a sleepy voice
"why?, when"
"what?"
"you in my bed, without clothes"
"two things, first this is my house I can sleep where every I want and I was cold"
"so you took your clothes off, if you are cold get a blanket, don't get naked and cling to me"
"most guys would happy to see a naked women, are into men"
"no! and they will be happy until they know who you are"
"fine next time I'll wear clothes"
"no sleep in you own bed and get dressed you told me that we have to go to the city to meet the group"
"oh, yes just a second"
She again snapped her fingers and got dressed.
"seriously"
"I believe that they are real clothes and they are"
Then while we were walking, I asked her "how far is the city?"
"a few hundred miles"
"what!"
"don't worry last night I called my people they'll be coming to pick us up"
"your people"
"yeah, the group"
"what is the group?"
"my followers"
" you have followers?"
"I may not look like it in this pretty face but I am one of the most ancient demon alive and powerful"
"if you are that powerful how were you trapped in a house"
"Mary's father was a relic user or you can say he used a magic object to bind me to the house"
"magic objects are that powerful yeah"
" they were made for humans to fight demons and now I think about it, Lilith send me to help the girl, that bitch set me up"
"I don't see much difference in both of you"
"I am nothing like her"
"why do you hate her?"
"expect Lilith, there were other three generals of Lucifer and I was one of them and we always butt heads and Lucifer always took her side"
"ooh, so affection jealousy, very unexpected of you"
"I am not jealous of her, she-"
Suddenly a bright light came from the ground and two men and one women appeared. They came forward, and got on their knees and said "it's been a long time, Sire".
"is this the human you talked about?" the women said in a rude voice.
"yes, but he is not actually a human, I turned him into a demon"
"he is a demon? "
I got the feeling that they didn't like me. But l actually didn't care all I was thinking was about my friends and how were they doing. I saw people feeling this way and thought that for me it will be easy to deal but it isn't, this feeling that my friends might be dead or worse, the people who I care about.
Suddenly the woman came up to me and said "let's go, we will not wait for you"
"yeah, sorry I was-"
"stop talking and come here"
When we got teleported, what I expected was demons, big horn, teeth and other things but what I saw was the most good looking people in my life. Wherever I look there was no demon look person there but it was like a medieval time town filled with people looking better than me. At first I thought they were looking at me but then I realised that they were looking at Mary and were not exactly afraid but were shocked.
"I don't think that we should gather attention like that"
"don't worry, demons like you live here, those who weren't made slaves made a small town at the end of the city"
"that so racist"
"oh, that human word, this word was made like 200 years ago but you humans never really applied it"
"we are trying"
"but you still do it"
"I don't"
"whatever, let's go"
There was a abandoned house near the city. Where I met 'the group'. It had total 12 people in it and all of them were strong demons. Mary also seemed to wonder why we were in this house.
She asked them in a high voice "what happened here?"
"when you were gone for the mission, Lilith send a whole army to kill us many of died but some how we managed to save ourselves"
"god, I'll kill her"
"hey, before killing them, my friends"
"yeah, of course before that everyone this is jack"
"hi" I awkwardly raised my hand.
"They don't seemed too happy to see me" I whispered in her ear.
"No, I am sure you will not end up like the first one"
"like the first one?"
"yeah, there was demon that I brought from the military because of his skills, so they heard about that and thought that I was preferring him more so they tortured him and cut his head off and put it on a spike. I heard they learned that from France"
"okay, slap me right now"
"no, like you so much, you are my favourite"
"so, what do you guys do to pass time?"
"torture"
"oh, that's great"
"let me show you around" said the women
"no, it's okay I have seen everything I wanted to?"
"no, I will protect you who know what can happen to you"
"no one will touch him" Mary said in terrifying voice. Everyone stepped back.
"I let that demon's death pass because I didn't liked him myself but not this one"
"yes sire"
At that moment I realised how strong she is, not just because everyone was afraid of her but that feeling. I felt the difference between our strength.
"oh I almost forgot your magic"
"yeah, so do I have touch something and it will tell my magic"
"no, where do you think you are"
"then?"
"you'll have to practice magic, and don't worry you'll have a instructor"
"yeah I don't think you should leave me alone with them because I don't want my head on a spike"
"I'll be you personal instructor"
"at least you won't kill me"
"and don't worry about them killing you, when I say something that's absolute even to those who aren't my followers"
The next day, when I went to the place she asked me to be, she wasn't their but the demon woman with murderous intent to kill me was. She gave me a note in which and this was written in it.
"sorry, can't make it a little busy. But don't worry she is the best after me.
Bye, yours truly, Mary
PS. She isn't really fond of you.
I felt the anger going through my head to the earth.
I asked "so what do I have to do?"
"jump from that cliff"
"I don't think that's how you discover magic"
"who knows magic you and I"
"you know Mary said not kill me, so you are going against her word"
"ugh, fine come here"
"put your hand forward and imagine the magic from your body concentrating in your hand"
I did that, and apparently was able to use magic from the first try. A black hole came out of my hand, it was fairly large in size, almost as big as me.
"you have an insane amount of magic power for the weakest kind, rivalling that of royals, and you were able to do a large spell from the first try. But your magic power matches that of a slave demon"
"what?"
"that black thing didn't damage anything and by the looks of it has to be something related to space magic, probably storage magic suited for servants"
"can't you try to be a little nice?"
"there is no need for that"
"okay"
When I was about to leave a man appeared from the group. He was badly injured and when he was about to say something, suddenly his head fell off and then we felt an magic power even more than mine and more terrifying than Mary, it was Lilith.
"how useful he was" said Lilith in a low voice
"what do you want? Why did you kill him?"
"in the name of Lucifer, your group has been arrested and those who will try to run will be punished and not to mention your leader or Mary or whatever you call her has been captured for trying to kidnap my three trustworthy soldiers and killing many of soldiers"
"soldiers ?"
"yes, your friends Jack, they are quite useful, more than I thought especially Sarah because she was a new demon but has a lot of potential but Sam and Jason were already royal blood so I expected this from them"
"we will kill you if you even touch her"
"two things, first its not 'we' all of you are either captured or dead and second you are also going to get arrested, don't resist"
Lilith also had an object in her hand and I was wondering how did she appeared like that because transportation magic takes a lot of time to be ready to use and a very bright light usually comes.
"okay" I cried loudly
"we will surrender peacefully"
"no, I will kill her"
She was going to attack Lilith and just when she was about to go I held her hand and said.
"if you go now you will die"
"shut up, you don't know anything"
"what I know is if you die you won't be able to do anything and your death will be meaningless, for now let's corporate with her"
"you are smart, I always liked you and I see why that demon likes you so much. But expect for that I don't get anything I'll just kill her and make you my slave"
"don't kill her, she's strong you know that, even I know that and Mary, no matter how much you dislike her, you know how strong she is"
"I don't dislike her, to be exact I like her but she doesn't share the same goals as me"
"what if I can get her to your side? She likes me after all,. She will listen to me"
"fine"
When she approached me I grabbed the magic object from her hand and pushed her away, then she was about to raise her hand probably to attack but before she could the demon hit her with magic. I accidentally concentrated my magic and the object fell inside the black hole.
"what the hell happened? " said Lilith in a confused voice
"I don't know"
"okay I am taking it even if I have to tear you apart"
While she was coming towards me I fell and when my hand touched the ground it opened a hole but it wasn't black. I couldn't think of anything so I grabbed the demon and jumped into the hole. The next thing I know I was falling from a cliff.
"what did you do?" said the demon shouting
"does it look like I know"
"that magic object has the power to teleport, did you use it"
"no, I mean I guess "
"try to do it again"
"if I do it now, it will still be like to fell on the ground, I have to decrease our speed, I got an idea"
"what?"
I opened the portal in our opposite direction, because of that we suddenly went upwards. It felt like travelling through the earth. When we stopped in the air I opened another portal to the ground.
"that was smart"
"thanks"
"now, we have to save our master"
"from the palace in which murder queen is"
"she was trying to save your friends"
"damn it"
"I don't understand why she was going that far for you, what are you to her?"
"I don't know, but I'll ask her, will you help me?"
"for her I will do anything"
"well, we can't teleport there, from what I know I can only teleport to places I have seen before"
"just when I thought you were useful"
"don't at all mighty, I saved your life"
"let's go to the house in the high magic area first, we will probably be safe there"
I opened the portal and we went to the house. So many things happened but I could only think about Mary, why did she do that?. While trying to sleep I saw a light, when I went to it, the woman was sitting there.
"I was not jealous of you, no one was"
"really"
"we were just having fun because she returned after a century"
"what about the other guy?"
"he was just annoying and we want to try the French thing"
"that's a nice reason"
"you're not that bad"
"why?"
"when you said all those things I could only think of killing you and her but you did a brave thing, whoever does that to Lilith dies for sure, I mean you probably have like few thousand gold coin bounty on your head.
"what!?"
"I thought you knew that considering Lilith is the currently the most powerful demon in hell"
"but you hit her, I just grabbed the object from her hand"
"yeah but if your kind of demon even touch Lilith it will be punished death but you humiliated her, I was kind of impressed"
"well, that's great"
"before dying you have to save"
"thanks for the support and I wanted to ask you something"
"what?"
"why do you follow her?"
"when l Lucifer ordered to attack my village, the captain of the army was our master. She spared me and raised me. When I say I will do anything for her I mean it"
"can I give you a name?"
"why?"
"I don't exactly like calling you demon or woman"
"you know what, now she also has a name Mary so I think I will also do it, come on name me"
"you seem excited, well how about Kylie"
"it sounds goods"
"I don't know why, it just suit's you"
"okay"
We went to bed after that. While in bed I thought that it doesn't matter what has happened, what matters is that I have to save my friends and end this at all costs.