A loud hiss vibrated in his head. He raised both hands halfway but paused to keep the hand holding the rabbit foot in front of him. Dangling in the air because the thought of bringing it closer made his skin crawl with revolt. “I command thee by the light that weaves all space, say your name!” Cyrus said. The room vibrated and rocked, making a few debris fall from the ceiling.The impact rocked the bed and Cyrus is forced to take a step toward the edge of the bed where a ghost with gray-black energy coursing through its body crouches at the edge of the salt barrier.The spirit, a man dripping black blood with the markings of a missing oxygen mask, grinned. Its nose was cut out in a way that the inner bone showed with a mouth that lacked several teeth. The grin forced the taste of bile to the surface of Cyrus's tongue. It was that disgusting.Arnorld,” it said, calling its own name. The word drifted into the air and settled. It reached out at lightning speed to grab Cyrus but an invi
Arnorld resisted with all his strength but his bones cracked and broke as Cyrus twisted his arm.Cyrus' legs dropped to the floor, the bones cracking but he did not feel the pain. He stood upright. Each step taken was bloody. His black eyes stared at Arnold's widened gaze.Arnold tried pulling his arm from Cyrus's grip but it did not move an inch. “You're possessed,” Arnold said. “How's that possible? What're you?”Cyrus ignored the question and kept staring.Arnold spinned the room and tilted the space but neither of them fell. Even upside down they stood unaffected.“You pest,” Arnold called and squeezed Cyrus' neck with his greatest strength. It did not bulge. Cyrus raised his good hand and broke off each finger on his neck; one by one. Arnold shrieked in fear.Cyrus laughed at Arnold's pain. The
Anderson and Cyrus, running side by side with six other armed men, made their way to a modified black hilux that sat on a pound of snow.“What's with the cold? I didn't know it's that time of the year.” Cyrus asked over the bizarre weather.“It isn't,” Anderson replied. “it just started to snow in this city two weeks ago at the time of her disappearance.”“It's Tyla.”“What?”“Her name is Tyla, the mother of my child.”“Oh,” Anderson said and relaxed into his seat. Cyrus glared at him. “ Sorry about that. Let's just say we're all on edge. Okay?”They passed a signboard that displayed a welcome sign. The name of the town and location were obscured in thick ice.“Where are we?”
BANG, BANG, BANG Colbert fired backward without looking. They were all highly trained, so at their mad rush, they coordinated effectively. The force from the shot knocked four freed ice men to the ground, but they stood up, unharmed. Winced in a loud pitch that sounded like a horn and started dashing toward them. The sound of cracking ice tripled. “Three up ahead, behind the snow, on our right,” Hatie said. She was the medium in their team so her senses are higher than most. Cyrus didn't doubt her statement. “Shit,” Cyrus said. “Selene, do something about them. Bennie, back her up and Jude beeline for a car once we're clear. Ruth and Hatie follow him.” They all nodded and separated in a way that permitted them the ability to carry out the order. “Our guns are inefficient. I've tried all the bullet types we've in store. Sliver is useless. Iron only slows them down by a fraction.”Colbert stated while strapping in more iron bullets.“Everyone switch to iron!” Cyrus said. They a
THE RATE AT which the flames poured out to the surrounding area, spiking the temperature from zero degrees to a range above boiling point. Each iceman close to them was on fire and melted from the heat that licked at them like they were in a furnace. “Run” Selene said. Most of the icemen obstructing their path were gone, but the spell was not strong enough to finish up all of them. Cyrus glanced at the body of Jude as they made their escape. The icemen were not chasing instead; they gathered Jude’s body. “What do they want to do?” Jude asked his teammates. Selene, who was leading, felt like dropping to the ground for a nap. Each of the team took a rest and watched. The ice men bent down and started ripping Jones apart, each one tore at his limbs and splattered his inside. Once they were done, they gathered the body while holding hands together. John’s eyes widened. A hand shot up from the ground and pulled the rest of its body out of the ground. Members of the teammates gasped. I
Cyrus Night, a large man for his young age, ran across the park as fast as his legs could carry him toward a black Maserati. On his left hand was a glass box that held a strange looking mask and on the edge of the glass in gothic red was the sentence “tumba del diablo”. He's coming from a building, the only bungalow in the expanse of area around him, any passerby would think of it as a private resort owned by a very rich tycoon who just wants to be left alone but Cyrus knows that's not the case. It's a facility owned by a secret organization called the Foundation, that's funded by the government to keep track of the unexplained or supernatural, they have many like this spread around the globe but this one is a research facility that he heads, well not anymore since he's running away with his latest research not that they've anyone that'd understand it. “They think this is very funny but it isn't,” Cyrus muttered to himself. They had ordered him to destroy his latest research and bu
Cyrus Night lay within the confinement of his solitary cell that had just one bunk and a basin that consistently dripped a drop of water every five seconds; each drop echoed. The room was cold and damp, with its light source coming from a single small window high up on the wall, from which the Arctic wind gained access to the room. This was the Iceberg Jail, and Cyrus Night was freezing. Deep within the darkness, Cyrus eyes opened. He shifted with unease as the residue of the dream he had latched onto him with intense fear. He heard a soft, feminine voice call his name in the cold wind, causing goosebumps to break out all over his body. He began to shake his head with extreme force because he didn't want to listen. He could live with anything but that voice. It was eerie, and it made his skin crawl. "I'm in a cell. I'm in a cell," he muttered to himself repeatedly as he forced down the dream. He did not hear the door to his cell open, and two large men stepped in with a large black b
Cyrus felt like he was walking in the clouds; his head hurt and he had just inhaled the most awful thing since his meal. A gas used to wake up victims that are put into a forced sleep. He groaned as he tried to register his new surroundings; the room was gone. He sat within the confines of a car. He looked around; everything in the car was black. The keys were attached to the ignition and a walkie-talkie sat on his lap. And beside him on the passenger seat were three guns: an automatic rifle, one shotgun, and a handy handgun. “ Pick up?" Anderson's voice echoed from the device. Cyrus just stared at it as he rubbed against his face, he imagined smashing it or throwing it out the window and flooring accelerator far from here but he shook his head and the idea away when he sighted an army of men with armored tanks and guns raised toward his direction from the car's side mirror. There was no turning back. "Pick up the goddamned device, I know you're awake." Through the mirror, he saw