Stories From Below [FINISHED]

Angel

There I sat, holding my best friends hand, there was panic around the room. Doctors, nurses, family members... Anyone trying their best to keep him alive... But I knew he was already dead, I was holding his hand to keep him calm but... The hand had grown cold, I cried all the tears I could've that day, I stood up and let go of his hand, leaving the room to enter the lobby.

I sat down on the lobby chair, sniffling and sobbing softly, god damnit... Here I am crying... Heh, I act like a child... I looked up from the chair, a nurse approached me and handed me a piece of candy, she must've passed me off of as a kid, guess being short does that to a guy, I just took the candy. "Nurse? The patient in room 13 is dead... I saw him... Why are they still trying?" I asked, the nurse looked at me, "Well... Loss is hard for people... Some people get over it... Some people never get over it... But, if you believe in something like heaven, or an afterlife of sorts, just imagine they're there-... Talk to your parents about it, I'm sorry I can't provide more I'm just a silly old nurse" she said as she then walked off.

Hours passed, family and friends had all left the scene, a couple of them tried to talk to me but ultimately, I was like a broken record. I stayed in the hospital that night, I closed my eyes and took a nap, maybe this was all a bad dream...

The nap wasn't long term, I woke up close to 1 to 2am in the morning, the lights were all off, even the nurses desk wasn't occupied, I put my hands in my pockets and went to room 13, I saw a sheet over my friends body...

"...."

"... They can't know it was me..." I said aloud as I climbed onto the operating table, and checked my friends body, I checked his wrist, and closely examined his lifeless hand, the hand I had been holding... Heh... I was holding it for a reason... I checked the insertion and there a small bit of blood streaming down his hand, Damnit... The wound hadn't healed, if they found out I poisoned him... "Fuck..." I said aloud as I covered his hand back up, I'm such an idiot, I should've checked what the poison held, I didn't think he'd have a seizure from it... Or be able to get a doctor for that matter, I tried to get a pair of stitches, maybe stitch up the small wound, make up an excuse like he cut himself on some barbed wire...

As I went to grab stitches from a doctors cabinet, I turnt around... "What?..." The body was gone... "Oh no.... No-No-No..." I said, as I covered my mouth with my hand, the body was standing up, his face, bloodied from the jerking and shifting of his seizure, his body crooked and limp... He just breathed and stared at me... I was shook, frozen still, suddenly I felt a cold hand on my back.. "Out of my way sinner..." the creature said, he was tall and lanky, having so many small arms on him, but he didn't seem to he after me, he approached the dead man and touched them on the face with one of his arms, a bright light shined as the man's body disappeared, in a bright shining second of a moment.

"T-Thank you so much" I said aloud, the multi-armed creature turnt around and suddenly all of his arms wrapped around my body, I perked up and screamed at the top of my lungs, "Hey! Hey! Let me go! Nurse! Doctor!" I yelled as loud as possible as suddenly one of his hands covered my mouth, "Shhhh-.... You really think I was here for him?.... I was here to cleanse his soul sure.... So He may reside in heaven with the other saints now... Heh... No.... I was here for the sinner... You spent years making friends with him... Just to get your sick pleasure in another life being in the palm of your hands..." he said as his body became visible as it got closer, his body was covered in faces, screaming souls, in pain, begging to be set free, and the arms... Were the arms of the sinners he had obtained

"Hold still, sinner..." his arms wrapped around my legs and wrists, I couldn't escape no matter how hard I tried, the arms grew spikes and jammed through my legs and arms, "Gah!- M-Mom! D-Dad!" I yelled but it was muffled, I said helplessly, the creature pushed his body against me, the faces on his body began to bite into me, tearing chunks of my flesh off, "A-AHHHH!- P-Please!" The Angel just looked at me, "You really do act like a child.... Don't be so sad... Once I'm fed.... You'll have a place in my body... Shhhhhh.... Listen.... Calm.... It'll only be more painful if you struggle...."