It was late into the night, Tommy was sleeping inside his room when all of a sudden he found himself in the last place he wanted to be, in the place he called hell.
The sky was still red and the surrounding was filled with bodies of what looked like humans, There was blood and guts everything, Tommy poked immediately when he saw this, and the smell of decay and rotting flesh filled his nose.
He could hardly breathe, he already knew this world was dangerous so he didn't wander around carelessly like last time, he immediately began to walk away from the scene, he knew dangerous animals would eventually come for the spoils.
After getting far away from the gore scene, he sat on the sandy floor to gather his thoughts.
"I know this day would come, am still not ready to face another devil," he said, he had been hoping this wouldn't happen till he got out of the hospital, and had a few defense training maybe learned how to use a gun or a sword but he knew he would pick a gun, because it was faster and easier to learn than a sword.
But it seems his luck ran out, he patted his body to see if anything followed him into this hell world.
"Great only the deck of cards, What am I supposed to do with this, Do some magic trick for the devils while they are reaping me apart," he said with a sigh.
He brought out a card from the deck, Since he wasn't planning on walking around blindly in a place he knew nothing about and a very dangerous place he sat still wishing maybe there was a timer that would return him to his world after it finished the countdown if there was one.
He continued to stare at the card, thinking of things to do, That was when he got the idea, of "Extra sharp cards" since he could already make thin paper cards hard enough to be thrown, What if he tried to make them sharp around the edges?
It was easier said than done, Tommy had no idea how difficult it was to change the density and mass of an object.
'So how should I start, would be nice to have some help Esu' he purposely added esu name at the end trying to get responses from the entity that was no doubt living inside his body.
Ever since he signed the devil's contract Esu had never once responded to his call, he had tried numerous times.
"No show again, well I will have to do this myself, how hard can it be, first I will have to gauge how much of this dark smoke I have"
Now he was faced with another problem, how could he gauge the amount of dark smoke he had, He remembered the amount of dark smoke the SACU officer emitted back at the hospital.
That didn't help his situation, but he didn't give up, heck he had read a lot of materials from the web that could potentially help him, he sat in a lotus position, he began to control his breathing, trying to see if he could have on of those moments where he could connect to his inner-self.
Yes he was trying to meditate but his current location didn't help since he knew danger could spring up from everywhere, he still remembered the last time he died, but he didn't even see what killed him.
"Let for get about gauging for now, I should focus on trying to protect myself first" he stopped trying to meditate and focused on the card in his hand.
The normal throwing card trick that he knew was not something he could use to protect himself, the cards were too thin and weak to cut through skin and hard surfaces, and he had to find a way to increase the sharpness and mass of the paper-thin cards.
He began to pour his dark smoke onto the card, instead of covering the sides with a small amount of dark smoke, Tommy was pouring his dark smoke on the card, as he pours the dark smoke on the card he was also trying to increase the sharpness of the card, it was easy to do.
"Is that it, I can't believe it was this simple" he said as he tried to throw the card, he threw the card forward with a little bit of his strength, and the card completely flew off-course, the wind pushed it off-course, that was when he remembered he didn't try to increase the mass of the card only the sharpness, which made the card go off-course.
He brought out another card and repeated the process, Trying to increase the mass of the card came with a lot of problems, first how was he going to increase the mass of the card permanently?
After trying for what felt like hours, Tommy finally got a hang of it, he had to use his dark smoke to cover the whole card like an exoskeleton, while also making it light enough.
He threw the card with a little force, but the card trajectory was off, This was his first time using deck cards as a weapon, and he knew he would have to practice more before he could become a master at card throwing.
After he finished, Tommy decided to run around to see if he could find a way to get back, he was hoping that he wouldn't have to die to wake up back in his world.
He also wanted to see if he had any change in his physical attributes since he made the contract, he used his dark smoke to cover his body as he dashed towards a random location.
"Woowwwwww..... This is awesome" Tommy was surprised by his speed, he felt like he was in a dream, he was moving so fast that his brain and eyes were struggling to keep up, he was moving too fast, and he didn't even notice that he had run past several creatures.
Some of the creatures wanted to follow him but after seeing how fast he was going they stopped, Tommy decided to do something crazy he moved more dark smoke to his legs as he leaped off the ground, shooting upward, it was one of those leap he had seen in movies, as he got to a certain height his body started descending, before he could reach the ground a Sharp projectile shot towards him.
He was suspended in the air which made dodging the projectile difficult, he subconsciously used all his dark smoke to cover his body, and the dart stopped a few inches from going through his head.
Tommy landed on the ground, he had already expended a lot of dark smoke during his practice and while running and he had used his dark smoke to protect himself from the dart that appeared out of nowhere, he looked tired and wanted to rest but his senses screamed at him to move sideways, which he did and another dart passed him.
Tommy followed the location of the dart only to see the creature that attacked him, creature was taller than a lamppost and moved crouched and close to the ground. Its pasty skin looked smeared over its massive muscles. Its body appeared to be covered in cactus-like needles. It had 2 arms one shriveled and one huge. Its back was covered in fin-like spikes. Its face was too big for its head. Its mouth was bursting with teeth. Its eyes were 8 blood dripping burgundy stocks.