Chapter 8 - Nightmare

*Details below may be graphic. Read with caution 🔞⚠️*

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Alex's POV

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"Alex," a voice called out, sounding as if it were coming from a distance, yet all that surrounded me was darkness and a thick, gray fog. 

I struggled to sit up from my side due to a pain in my back.

I was eventually able to hold myself up in a kneeling position. My hands were propping me up between my legs while my bottom rested on my calves.

Splish…splash…

The sound of the liquid below me was audible as I shifted into my current pose. A warm liquid stuck to my hands, the left side of my body, and now my legs.

I raised my hands close to my face to try and get a better look at what the liquid was, but the darkness and fog provided me with hardly any vision. 

I swipe my thumb over my four fingers to get a feel of it, and then swipe my fingers on the palm of my hand. It was a bit sticky and warm, with a metallic scent.

'Blood?' I thought to myself. 

'Am I bleeding?'

"Alex," the voice called out again, but this time sounding closer than before.

"Mom?" I answered the unfamiliar voice questionably.

Trying to stand up from my kneeling position, a flash of pain erupted from my back. 

I inhaled through my teeth and exhaled out until the pain died down to a numbness.

Grabbing at my back with my right arm, wrapping close to my neck, I came into contact with an appendage around my left shoulder blade. 

Touching the wing felt sensitive, causing it to twitch. Then a memory flashed through my mind. The moment my parents told me that I wasn't human, and the feeling of something unknown and foreign awakening within me. I for sure didn't forget the pain of my wings breaking through my back.

'Go—,'

I couldn't even start the thought before a brief headache hit me, accompanied by ringing in my ears, causing me to grab at my head. The action caused the blood on my hands to smear on the temples of my head and hair. Thankfully, the pain didn't last long and disappeared just as quickly as it came. 

"Oh my…G—,"

I tried to voice out due to the pain earlier, however, the pain hit me once again, causing me to whimper.

Then the realization hit me as my eyes widened in shock once the headache and ringing in my ears passed. I couldn't call or think of the supreme being's name at all.

Did I really become a demon?

"Wake up, Alex." The voice echoed through the darkness and fog. I looked around, trying to pinpoint the voice with no luck.

"Who…," I swallowed saliva to parch my dry throat.

"Who's there?" I asked, but I didn't get a reply, and I sat in silence for a couple of seconds.

'Ooookay, not creepy at all.'

That's when the fog in the darkness suddenly began to thin out. Up ahead, in front of me, was a large black orb that would pulse red in a steady rhythm of a heartbeat. Each time the orb pulsed, a wave of wind would blow, clearing the fog, while the red flash provided a source of light.

Multiple chains and paper-like talismans covered this orb, from which a feminine figure with dark, black hair appeared to emerge, in the pose of a crucified individual.

However, the chained orb and the feminine figure hanging from it weren't what struck fear in me, but the corpses that surrounded me.

Mutilated bodies of girls left in different sexual positions and void of life. Heads and body parts were decapitated and scattered away from the body of whoever that body part belonged to. Some bodies were even hanged from tree branches that sparsely populated this void I was in.

The worst part was that I knew some of these girls, if not all of them. They all had one thing in common as I stared at the mutilated and decapitated corpses.

These individuals were women I slept with. The body count crossed nearly eighty individuals, piled up all around me.

What were they doing here in this gruesome scene? It was a nightmare—a nightmare I wanted to wake up from immediately.

My eyes began to well up with tears when I stared at the bodies of the two most recent partners who were the closest to me.

'What the fuck?' I thought. 

Each breath of mine that I took came out rushed as I hyperventilated. 

Isis's body was tied behind her back with a rope while her chest rested on the bloodied ground. Isis's bottom was raised in the air as her back arched. 

A white substance would drip out from her reproductive area and mix with the pool of blood formed by the bodies. Her head was ripped from her neck as Isis's eyes were rolled back, and her tongue was hanging out. Whoever did this wanted it so that Isis's head 'watched' what was happening to her own body.

Next to Isis's body was Sophie's. Her body didn't seem to have any mercy in its cruelty, and the contents of my stomach wanted to spill out of my mouth. No matter how hard I tried to hold it back.

BLERRGH!

I threw up and threw up until there was nothing left to throw up, and kept dry heaving while crying.

I couldn't dare to look at Sophie's corpse, but it was hard to look away.

Her windpipe was crushed by a hand with an incredible grip and then sliced open by four claw marks around her neck, and hanged loosely by a minimal amount of her skin. Her upper half was twisted 360 degrees while her lower half stayed in the missionary pose. The arms were broken into multiple pieces. Stomach cut open so that her intestines hung out and her ribs pulled from her body to reveal her heart, lungs, and other major organs.

What made it worse was the sticky substance that drenched her body and organs.

'Where the fuck was this?!'

The more my heartbeat started to quicken, so did the red pulse emitting from the black orb that floated high up in front of me.

The sound of chains being lowered echoed through the space, but it didn't register in my head due to shock.

I looked up only when I heard the sounds of chains being dragged across the floor and the sound of something getting closer.

Each step it took caused a splash sound from the pool of blood.

Splash…splash…splash…splash…

I looked up to see the figure that was once hanging from the black orb getting closer. It raised its right arm slowly in my direction as a creepy smile formed on its lips. Black horns protruded from its forehead while black angelic wings grew from its back.

'What the fuck is that thing!'

Something inside me was screaming for me to run, so I turned around on my knees to try to get up and run away, but unfortunately, before I could even get up from my kneeling position and take my first step. Something cold, wet, and heavy wrapped around my ankle.

'Shit!' I thought as the chain around my ankle began to drag me towards the unknown demonic figure, as my whole body got drenched in blood.

As soon as I could feel that I was close to it, I shut my eyes, not wanting to turn and face it. All I know is that more chains wrapped around both of my wrists and my other ankle and pulled tight so that I was somehow being hanged in the air by four of my limbs.

At this point, my heart was pounding and beating in my ears at a rapid pace.

BADUMP BADUMP BADUMP

Its clawed fingers caressed my face until it rested its index finger by my jugular vein.

"Loooook…at meee.' It hissed out in a hushed whisper that sent chills down my spine. The feminine voice sounded familiar, yet at the same time, the tone of multiple voices at different octaves laced with it. Giving off the iconic demon voice.

'That voice? Why does it sound like...'

"LOOK AT ME!" The voice yelled out, and my eyes snapped open on their own by the command, and I couldn't help but be shocked at the individual I was looking at.

It was me, but at the same time…it wasn't. The body structure and the face were all there. However, the stark difference was evident in its black hair, which moved and danced in the air like black flames, its black sclera and orange irises, and the black horns protruding from its forehead. Not a single piece of clothing covered the demon's body as it stood before me. 

"Gooooood," It whispered out as it stuck its long tongue out and licked my neck seductively, and before I knew it, the blood-drenched clothes that were on me were ripped off so that I was naked before it.

My eyes widened with fear as I shook my head slowly at he demonic version of me.

'No,' I thought as it caressed my body. First, the demonic version of me started to massage my breast and softly brought its hands to each side of my hips. 

My demonic side took a step closer to me so that our bodies were practically touching. I felt disgusted and wanted to free myself, so I started to pull at the chains to try to free myself.

'NO! Someone, save me. Anyone!' I begged in my thoughts as I tried to kick, knee, and push the thing in front of me away, but the chains wouldn't budge.

My demonic side lowered the chains slightly so that it was closer to me, and my legs were on either side of it. The demon lightly dragged the claws of its right hand on my back, which sent tingling down my spine.

My heartbeat started to rise at an unimaginable rate as I feared what might happen, and my heart nearly stopped once I felt something hard and warm pressed against my newly transformed genitalia, threatening to enter my body. A painful resistance hit me, and the more my demonic side tried to invade my body. I gritted my teeth in fear as the gate of my purity began to unravel little by little.

"NOOOOOO!" I screamed at the top of my lungs at the same time another voice screamed out into this nightmarish void.

"WAKE UP!!!"

[1] This chapter is slightly over half the word count at 1,700 words, but I wanted to release something for today lol. Hope you enjoy!