Behind The Mask

Prologue: The End Is The Beginning

     The Trees swayed in the forest as the quiet night froze in the middle of the night. The sound of the wind whispering into the ears of millions as they lay dormant in their homes. Everyone in town was asleep and dreaming of all kinds of things, but none of them dreamed of such a horrifying, yet marvelous, site that they would see in the morning. While everyone was snoozing away in their long, soft, wood framed beds there was something going on outside that would change the world as they knew it forever. All the lights of the town were turned out except for one. In the forest there was a small, dim light of a lantern, as it slowly made its way into the shadows. A woman was walking by herself, looking for her husband. As she walked the woman called out to the night over and over calling his name.

     After a while it came to a point where she was farther in the woods than she had ever been, but she had told herself she wouldn't go back without him, so she continued on, and the leaves cracked at her every step. The clouds were dark and gloomy and the moon lit up the night and shined like a spotlight on the woman.

     As she kept walking through the endless maze of trees and ponds, the feeling came when she felt that it was time to give up. She would just search for him tomorrow, so she turned around heading for home. She turned and walked towards the town and from there the rain began. She kept walking in the same direction determined that this was the way, when she came upon a man. He was about the average height of five feet and eight inches tall. The man had very little muscle, and he had short black hair. He wore a long gray coat and black pants; they both looked old and dirty. This man, from what she could tell from the back, was her husband.

     The woman called out his name, and as he turned around she noticed something was wrong. As the man turned to her his limbs stretched in multiple directions and the creature had giant, red, glowing eyes. The woman screamed, for she knew the sight in front of her was not her husband. The Monster grabbed her and said, "My Father has sent me for you!" It roared as its jaws unhinged. Then it took the woman and sat her down. The woman stared at the creature afraid to run away. The creature held out its hand kindly, and she took its hand gingerly. Then they vanished into thin air as the leaves swirled around them.

     As daylight struck the window of every home in the small town the people woke up like every other day. They got up and got ready to do something with their lives, whether it was shopping, working, playing outside, or even cleaning the house. Then a few days went by and people started to notice the woman's disappearance. They knocked on the door hoping that the husband might answer, but no one was there. Eventually the people who noticed this occurrence as strange, found a way into the house. They noticed that it was completely empty and has been for some time. The town noticed the empty house questioning what had happened to the couple, and where they might have run off to, and for eight years they would never know.

     Then the woman returned from a nightmare that she was a part of, but now there was something different about her, she was pregnant. A lot of people will never know the true story of this event, because the woman never told anyone what happened that night or where she had been. The only person she ever told was the one person she could trust, but she didn't tell him until her final breath, her six year-old son.

     The woman that went through this tragic event was my mother, and at the age of thirty-five she passed away, as I told myself this was the end. Her words didn't make sense at the moment but I would soon figure out what they mean now, "Lucifer is your father!" My name is Danny Stingman and I am seventeen years old. It was about time I told someone about my beginning.