Creus(Full Book)

Part 20

He woke up again. This time, falling past skeletons. Each hanging above ledges, swinging red bones, creaking, while he fell lightly into the Abyss, and light above him in a jagged shape, sand falling with him. An entire cliff. He fell into the Abyss, past death and into the Abysm's jaws. The light faded from his eyes again.

David woke from his slumber and looked around. Above him, light streamed from the outside. It shone from the sinking sand, which revealed a small hole. Clacking, clicking, erupted from outside the cave.

"Darrell?", David asked. He grunted as pain hurtled through his spine and exited through his fingertips.

He stumbled into the light, and saw fires burning in daylight. Ahead of him, thousands of creatures crowded around them. Creatures that scrabbled, crawled, clambered over to him. They unsheathed teeth from wide mouths, and bared them outward at them all. Demons crowded over them, and surrounded him all over.

Bones stood in piles around him, sticking up from the ground, and forming rapports and supports. Broken planks and jutting rocks formed the walls. Smoke rose in thick puffs to the ceiling. Creatures worshipped things above towers, bowing and bending. David saw a city of demons. Demons crowded around, crawling along the streets, and roads of shattered planks moved underneath the ceiling. They changed their faces and warped their expressions into ones of anger, fear, disgust, surprise, and further with their eyes shifting, their jaws opening, and their teeth shining in it all.

David limped back and ran past them all. David ran, hopped, and jumped over boulders, pebbles, as the demons ran toward him. He went further into the Abyss, stumbling, tripping, and falling into one final pit, where he flipped through the air and tumbled onto the cave floor, and...