The Master's Tale - Nightmare On Memory Lane, Book 1, Part 2

Chapter 1 - Guilty as Hell

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"And so it shall be..."

Images of the fiery pit beneath me flashed in my mind, between images of myself hanging on a rack with my insides falling out and watching Sam fall into the pit.

"When the daughter of pure light..."

"Sam?!"

"And of the morning star-"

The stony dark cell walls started to close in on me, snapping my arms in two as I tried to push against it, feeling myself being crushed to death as I screamed at the top of my lungs.

"Shall beseech each other in a battle to the death..."

Diana stood over me with a wicked smile as I begged and pleaded with her to stop, just as she started to run needles through my neck and hear the pitch of my voice change, "No! Help me!"

"One shall be chosen in the name of light-"

"Make it stop! No! Please, I'll do anything! Please-"

"And the other in darkness."

I began to feel hundreds of small insects eating away at my flesh as I pushed against the claustrophobic coffin in pitch black darkness and cried out in agony, "Somebody help me, please!"

"The skies shall turn as red as blood..."

"You can end all of this, Kit-kat..."

"And the sun will be overshadowed."

"Yes... I'll do it, just please make it stop. Please..."

"And the earth will stand still until one victor stands."

I grabbed onto the woman, pulling her by the hair and ran my long thin blade across her neck, hearing her choke and gurgle on her own blood and hit the ground with a sickening thud.

"Whoever of the daughters that remain..."

"Please, don't! Please, I have a family-"

"Shall inherit life eternal..."

I kicked open the door, seeing a woman holding a crying child in her arms, begging and pleading, "No, no, please! Take me instead, take me- No! My baby!-"

"And the other shall be cast into the pit..."

I dragged a man by his ankle as he clawed at the ground and screamed out, yanking him up and tossing him into the pit, watching as his body hit the surface of the flowing magma, immediately bursting into flames as he started to scream for his life.

"Where there is weeping..."

I stood above the young woman, watching as she grasped for my ankle, crying and choking on her own blood with her chest, stomach and face peeling apart from the claw marks and gashes that the hellhounds left behind. I bent down on one knee, listening closer to her when I heard her gasp, "Kill me- plea- kill-"

"And gnashing of teeth..."

I sat at the feet of Diana, surrounded by other naked and bloody bodies all falling over one another as Diana stood up and stepped down the stone steps while carrying a little girl on her hip, coming to a stop at the edge of a deep pit as the girl started to cry and struggle to break free. Dozens of malnourished and half torn apart hellhounds clawed and sliced at each other, snarling and chomping at the bit just from the smell of the small girl's fear. I sat frozen in place, staring blankly ahead as Diana tore the child off her body and tossed her inside, all the drunken bodies starting to cheer loudly as they all came closer to watch.