He was devouring his meal when he slammed the spoon on the table. "Come on!". Whatever he did, whatever he does, he couldn't fill the hole in his chest. "No matter how much I eat, the emptiness inside me doesn't cease to grow; a dark pit, a black hole that keeps eating me from the inside."
He took a deep exhale, "At least I have you with me guys" . In a faint smile, he turned to look to the table's chairs and the five puppets sitting on them. "Yeah, I'm glad I still have you when everyone leaves, at least I love you and you wouldn't reject me!".His eyes filled in longing and the smile collapsed. He felt throbbing in his heart, random aches.As his consciousness cowered in the back of his mind, he felt a mingling rage towards himself. His chest was pressing like he was suffocating, drowning in cold water wanting to reach the beams of the worm sun in the surface. But it's hopeless, there's no use, the pressure is breaking his ribs and everything turned dark. The room felt narrow, yet he felt the need to hug himself tight. Everything was ugly as monstrous shadows were dancing mocking him loudly. And in a lean he collapssed to the ground.
He begun to cry heavily " Make it stop, make it stop, ghkhehihe! Please just let me,... please" he was bursting in tears. His saliva leacked from the gaps of his grimaced face, he seemed in atroce agony. He rolled and clenched his knees to his chest; the face in between them. ''I didn't want that, khaaaagh, I did..''. The pain was greater for him to form any coherent speec, even mustter words now as it dragged. He stayed laying on his right side, face hidden, and he cried,... and he cried.
It was a dark room decorated by antics. Gloomy under the moon's gleam infiltrating from dirty windows. The walls stained by some dark splashed spots and several old photos of some headless people were hanging on the surface. The corners were full of dust and some spider webs hanging here and there; only the spot where he was sitting and rolled over was cleaned up. It was actually suffocating, lacking a certain feel of life and care.
The whining, it all stopped suddenly. Without any deceleration it just ceased abruptly.I was drawn to watch him again. He was struggling to lift himself up to his chair, and by difficulty he adjusted his psture after repeated creeks. His facial expressions returned cold, totally freezing. He grabbed the spoon wipe his tears and put them in the boil. He digged it, and started to eat. "Yep, now with salt is better!" he turned his eyesight to the puppets. "And there's no awesome than eating it with friends" .... "Heartless" he whispered in empty eyes.
He continued pretending to enjoy his meal, with the five puppets hanging there, watching him through their buttons eyes, putting a fake smile, a smile he crafted with his own hands.But I don't remember that one of the puppets was looking at my direction, this is strange.
His chewing stopped. Aaaaaah! the silence, finally. I could hear clearly the tick tacking of the clock in the corridor, the silent laughs at the end of nowhere. I want to know what are those strange noises in my home, but I can't get past the door. I tried, however I couldn't pass through. Something is strange.
*Ding-Dang! Ding-Dang" it's 4 am.
The spoon was in my hand, I'm finally back to my body. The damn puppets has vanished, only one remained. This one was looking at me now, to my physical body, she got a great meal right now.
*kakakakahe~ salt you need!*
Sorry I mean a 'he'
"just shut up" I yelled to him calmly.
*waaahe, waaahe! you are gonna leave me!Waaah! kahkahkahka* damn him mocking me with his toothless mouth.
"shut up! you were the one possessing the body!"
*you know that your emotions are the ones getting leaked in the swap!* *cause of your whining I got to miss up the last bit when the time run of us*
"Yeah thank you for the meal!" it was just a small piece of dry meat left, such selfish bastard, he knows we are low in stock, yet he was planning to leave nothing.
*so did you recognize the voices!*
"hmmm, mame mame! oh yeah, I couldn't leave the room."
*what!* *I restrained four evil spirits for you so that you could search with ease*
"tree!"
*What?*
" Tree evil spirits exactly, the other was a demon"
*No, no it can't be! how did you know that!*
"One of the puppets could see my projection"
*Impossible!* he returned to smoke, and flew to my mouth.
"Kooookh! koookh!'' I chocked. '' you taste bitter man!". "Why did you return?"
*This is bad! this is bad ! you should get out of the room immediately!*
"Drop trying to scare me man, I know we could handle everything. The worst that can happen is getting killed!"
*Now!*
I felt shiver in my body. It was cold, I never get cold. I duck under the table instinctively. I looked up, I could see the moon in the night above. The entire sailing was wiped out. This would be fun!
*No, getting killed isn't the worst thing that could happen! this is some highest ranking demon. Even me, I couldn't see your projection earlier.*
''Oh come on! you know we can't die even if we want, why you had to skip that attack. I wanted to feel my legs only remaining!"
*As I said..* my body jumped to the right when the left side of the room vanished.*getting killed is not the worst that could happen*
"oh come on man! I mean come on demon it was the only table in the castle. And the only boil here, you know how hard it is to find furnitures these days!"
*drop it, we are fighting a demon*
''What a drag'' I got up, dusted my pants. "Yeah, you are right. So there is no need to back off" "come to me you filthy thing"
|Thinnng~ hahehahahe!| it was a deep voice who responded from the corners.
*there, just in front of us*
I couldn't know more since I can't see him, so I dashed in a linear line "weapon!" a black dagger appeared in my left hand. I jump up, and swung it randomly in the air "you will get purified!" I said in such confidence.
Suddenly my left hand vanished, "wha.." something hit me and sent me flying. I could tell by the texture that it was his tail. I crashed to the corridor "akh!", he sure is some highest demon!
|hahehahahe! good! goooood!| Black aura was getting condensed, spinning around |khahekhahekhahaha!|
*this is bad, he is manifesting in this world*
| I don't believe that just one hand could have this much life energy. I was right about what I saw earlier|
The aura was clearing up, the first thing that I saw was his long tongue licking his sharp teeth. I don't know how he didn't bit it, I would have a hard time with teeth like those.
*here he comes*
An horrific creature appeared in front of me. The demonic zone disappeared, so the damage he dealt to my room also disappeared. Since to now, we were fighting, I mean getting attacked in a dimension between our world and the underworld, now his attack can deal some true destruction.This is baad, I was reckless, I got sucked up in the moment and lost also my arm.
I couldn't get up, my spin was crashed.
|hmmm!| he was checking up his body and his right hand's sharp nails |I never got to manifest in my true form since eternity. I want mooore!|
He looked at me with his red lifeless eyes, lifted his right hand up, and smirked slowly. |exterminate me! you sure don't know your place, mortal!|
"Mortal!" I got up when my wounds healed. "You have no idea who I am!". He seemed surprised for a moment, but I was more surprised than him when my arm didn't regenerate.
|hahahe! you startled me!| he tilted his head to the right and smiled evilly |TIME TO VANISH| and with a swing of his arm the air sliced open.
(Alaric, why can't I regenerate?)
Space was getting cut in front of me.
*That's what I wanted to tell you; he didn't cut it, he removed it. Look! we will get removed from hahlfe khkhkhhe*
"I need a hand to block it"
*Why! you will finally perish!*
"Alariic!"
The castle and I were cut to half,