The lair was filled with corpses, the whole floor littered with bits of flesh and black blood which were already dried lumps. An unbearable stench wafted the atmosphere, causing every sane person to turn sick. In the middle of the lair was a very young child stripped naked and hung by chains fettered to his hands and legs. He was suspended in the air between the ceiling dripping with an unknown liquid and the floor littered with corpses.A man stood before the child, his hands fiddling with the silvery needles on top of a wooden desk. The needles were of varying sizes and lengths, the longest being as long as an average adult's arm."I need to get through with this experiment," he muttered to himself as he took one of the needles and walked towards the child.Seeing him approaching, the child began crying as he struggled to break free from the chains but his efforts were fruitless. He could only fearfully await his doom.The corpses in the lair all belonged to the children who had bee
On Monday morning Daniel was already up before 4:00am to familiarize himself with his new abilities. Ever since he became a Wolfman he had been testing his abilities in order to build them. Now he could transform at will and it felt so good.When he told the Alpha about his advancement, the latter couldn't hide his shock."How is this possible?" the Alpha had asked. "You've only been a Werewolf for just a month!"Daniel had smiled wryly and told him everything, the Alpha sighing in the end with a few words, "That's why..."He also told the peeps on Curious Mythologists and all of them except Evil Buddha showed their shock. Of course they did not ask him how he did it because Evil Buddha had already told them about harmonizing. Crimson Moon who wasn't around at that time was the only one left out and had to ask how. Daniel had happily told him.As Daniel stood in front of the mirror he curled his lips into a smile as he muttered to himself, "It's good to be a Wolfman. No more killing t
Cough! Cough!Daniel coughed as he walked through the yellow puff of smoke, waving his hands. His brown hair was dishevelled as if it had not been combed for some months now, his brown eyes dreary. He kept on walking till he came out of the puff of smoke."What's this place?" he asked himself as he looked around. The whole place was desolate and barren. If there had not been scraggy skyscrapers drooping down like an old man and the vehicles caked in rust and dirt Daniel would have thought that he was in another world.Isn't this Earth? Daniel asked himself as he looked up into the sky. Where's everyone gone to? What happened here? Why are there no living beings?So many questions were left unanswered as he kept on staring in the sky. The sky which was supposed to be blue or white or red (or whatever) was caked in a kind of haziness he couldn't describe. No it wasn't right to call it haziness. This was literal nothingness!Abyss? Daniel was shocked as his pupils dilated. Wasn't this th
Marcus stood before the young girl who was bound to the wall with several chains, his lips curled into a smile. This young girl was strapped naked, her face filled with despair as she watched the cruel man fiddle with needles as he smiled at her."You know, when I was a kid I used to be scared about the unknown," Marcus began chatting with the girl as if he was discussing with a friend. He controlled the needles on the desk to soar into the air, surrounding him."I've always wanted to complete this experiment of mine...this experiment to create a powerful army for the Abyss Cult," he continued as he summoned magical energies and ejected them into the needles. "As a Path three Cursed I couldn't do that but now that I'm a Combat Magician, I've broken that barrier!"Actually it was not a mistake that he called the Path four of Wizards Combat Magician. Ma'am had deliberately told him the wrong name to get his hopes unnecessarily high. Arcane Mage was the name for Path five of Wizards and
That night Daniel was sprinting across the street in total freedom, moving along with the wind. He avoided places he was likely to bump into the cops or Special Cops and moved through places he would pass undetected. He didn't care if his mother would discover that he had been leaving the house every night. What was more important was becoming more powerful so that he could protect those he loved.As Daniel ran he suddenly remembered what had been happening between Felicia and Orpheus throughout that week. Those two had gotten so close to each other that Felicia even began treating him as if he was non-existent. He was greatly shocked about the outcome of everything as he saw both of them become even closer. Was that how Orpheus was getting back at him?—by snatching his girlfriend? For God's sake they had not even visited each other for once and a total stranger had just appeared out of the blues and snatched her away! It was totally unbelievable!"Felicia has been having a major cru
I'm on the brink of death...My body hurts badly...I'm so done for...Those were Daniel's last thoughts as he lay in the pool of blood which felt cold to his body. The entire world was becoming hazy and he felt himself becoming lighter and lighter. He had heard a click and a loud bang but he didn't know how long he had heard those sounds. The whole world seemed to have frozen around him momentarily. Everything was just silent as if he was in a world without any sound. He couldn't even detect the slightest sound. While he was dying he could only have an unanswered question in his heart. No it wasn't just one question. There were many of them. There were so many questions that he hadn't found their answers and he was dying right now.No, although Daniel's mind had almost become empty he could still think. His will gave him the strength to gain control over his fleeting thoughts. Strength came back to his limbs and he slowly moved them."No!" he yelled as he instinctively rolled away fr
That Monday all the Grade 10 students were gathered in the assembly ground to listen to the Principal's announcement. Everyone except Orpheus and Selene was aware of everything so they weren't clueless about what Miss Pinmaker had to announce."So it has always been a norm for this class to embark on an excursion some few days to Halloween," Pinmaker said. "On Sunday is 31st of October, the day which we're supposed to celebrate Halloween."Orpheus who heard this couldn't help but narrow his red eyes. Why would humans celebrate something that was gory? He had interacted with humans and knew their culture like the lines on his palm so it was natural he knew what Halloween was."You embark to some gory place to celebrate this Halloween?" Orpheus asked Felicia who was standing beside him, her right hand locked in his left hand."Yeah," Felicia replied. "Last time we went it wasn't even gory. It was easy to see through the props set up to scare us. Only a few weak-minded people were scared
That afternoon a school bus bearing the 15 Science Class students of Grade 10 drove from the school, its destination being the haunted house in the woods outside of Crimson Springs. No art student had been chosen for the excursion. It was either they were too afraid or some other reason well-known to Pinmaker. As the school bus drove onto the highway the students chosen for the excursion couldn't help but begin to chat among themselves, wondering how the haunted house would look like. Miss Pinmaker who had also joined the excursion sat near the driver listening to their conversations with a complicated expression which no one could read.Daniel who sat close to the window beside Selene was busy looking out through the glass as he wondered what Pinmaker was up to. He didn't know why but he suddenly had a very bad feeling about the whole excursion. He wanted to tell the others but he knew very well that they were stubborn and wouldn't believe him. Also it was very late now and the excur