Short Oneshot Stories )by Leiras(

Story 1#

"Listen Children," said the father to his two sons, "Those are the sounds of the forest." 

The oldest brother looked into the crowns of the trees and saw birds, squirrels and the leaves, moving with the wind's direction. The younger brother hugged his father and looked at the, fallen leaves, moss and a small ladybug.

 The forest was beautiful. It was calm. It was quiet, too quiet. Birds stopped chirping and the orange autumn leaves on the trees turned into small flames of fire, small like a flame to light a single cigarette.

 Tears started to run down the father's cheeks as he lost all colour and faded, like the lost memory he was. The younger brother ran to the older brother, weeping as the flames got stronger with each second. "Big brother! What's happening?!" he screamed with puffy eyes from crying. 

The older brother looked at his young brother who slowly turned into butterflies as his cries echoed throughout the burning forest. The older brother smiled and looked around him, laughed under his breath and admired the fires around him, he admired his own creation.

 He found calmness in the fire, the fire mesmerised him as thick black smoke collected itself into a womanly figure with a small white smile. 

"Did you do it?" asked the smoke with a creaking and disturbing voice. The older brother walked over to the figure and hugged it. "I did it," said tho older brother with a wide smile on his face, ",Mother." He looked in the face of the smoke. 

The figure rubbed the older brother's cheek and congratulated him on his task. "Now, boy," the figure pushed the older brother back to the centre of the the forest fire and laughed, the womanly laughter turned into a sociopathic laughter of a man, the figure grew horns, a small beard and a moustache and the smoke turned into a man with a hairy chest, an unwashed shirt and an uneven tie. The Devil himself.

 He swung his hand and a portal opened after it. "You've proven worthy, boy, come see your family." The older brother accepted with a smile, burning in the fire.

The fire felt nice, as it burned his coat and yellow cardigan, getting to his skin. He laughed as the fire smouldered his face and hair, his laughter echoing through the forest with the cries of his little brother as the fire disolved his smooth face into an emotionless skull.

Soon after the older brother was gone, leaving his round glasses which fell on the ground and a partially burned happy new years family photo. 

The flames died out, as the evidence of the Evergreen family every being, ceased to exist. The older brother didn't feel regret at his last moments of life, he only felt calmness and happiness.

 He opened his eyes and the place he was dark, without anything or someone, only voices. "I loved you, Liam." The voice being similar to his now ex-girlfriend. "Come play with me big bro!" someone said in the tone of his little brother. "I'm so proud of you, William." said his Father, the voices starting to get closer.

 "You're insane!" He heard his ex-girlfriend scream. "Put the knife down William, we can talk about this." his father said calmly. "Why do you have a knife Big Bro?" his brother said with an innocent tone. "Why? William, Why?" Echoed throughout the place, screaming at the older brother.

"Why Did You Murder Us William!?" yelled the voices at the disturbed older brother, but as soon as he blinked, the voices were gone, only the reds and oranges of the underworld.

 The Devil sat on his chair and smiled as he saw William being conscious again. He released him from his chained chair and made him a contract to sign, a feather and a knife. William understood and sliced his wrist with the knifed, sinking the feather in his blood and signed the contract.

 William Evergreen it read.

Lucifer hid the contract in his desk and sent William to collect the deeds of mortals, their own souls and lives. William for once in a long time happy with himself and his doing. 

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