Survived This Land

Survived This Land I

CRACK! My ear drums seemed to shatter with the sound. I took a drag of my ciggerette and turned my head towards the sound, I cough on the smoke startled. Through the demolished ice over the lake came a bundle of flames that licked the fur of this strange creature. I pulled up my gun and without hesitation I fire a shot in its neck which seemed to awaken the creature. Its cat face lite up with a malicious expression and it shot lava from its horn. All I felt was heat and then I was falling. I felt like I was falling forever then I landed on a pile of human skins and it must have been millions of skins, skin and hair. I felt my stomach turn and I almost puked on myself, I held my breath and climbed down. I looked around the place and it looked like I was underground. "Fuck! Does this mean the Christans were right about hell?!"

"H..Hello?" A voice echoed throughout my bones. Fearing what creature that voice belongs to I lept back in the skin pile, hidden. Great skins again gross! I heard footsteps near the skin pile, I held my breath once more. "I thought I heard somebody. I'm friendly so dont worry." The voice spoke again. It sounded like a kid, I cocked my gun and lept out. In my sights was a young boy maybe 11 years old, I lowered my gun but kept my finger on the trigger. "Friendly right?" He nodded and opened his mouth to speak. "I'm..." AHHHHH! "Let's get outta here!" He shouted. We ran to a near by cave that had a small entrance and was very well hidden. Inside there was more skins but these weren't human, there were skins with scales and skins with fur, some looked like burnt cardboard. The kid goes to a pile of fur, sits down, grabs his knees and takes a deep breath. "I'm Hunter, welcome to The Underground. Any questions?"

"Over a million, but lets start small what is The Underground?"

"I thought you were gonna start out small." Hunter smirks, "The Underground is the core of Mars and Earth they use blackholes to travel to each Planet. People who escaped The Underground went crazy and some were apart of writing the bible The Underground is essentially hell and there are rules." My mind began twisting, "Rules, of course the rules are...?"

"If you were cast down here by a demon you are here for that demon to feed and you should be marked. There!" I look at my arm and see a symbol that looks like burnt blood. "The demon that brought you here branded you when it shot fire, water, steam or possibly what looks like a snake but more tree like. By the looks of your brand it was fire. The demons are born into four main clans Fire, Water, Forest or Steam and I could give you a quick lesson on them but let's continue with the rules. The demon that marks you is the only demon that can set you free or kill you. Other demons can always torture you obviously but most likey won't since you were marked by Karluclus or 'The Great' you're safe enough. Karluclus is over a billion years old in human years but they only age if they feed off certain humans Karluclus is only 2 and some others are in their hundreds but..."

"Let me guess this karlusty guy got power from his dad, am I right?"

"Karluclus, and yes he got power from his father Saztac."

"So you said kalucstic can free me, so tell me how."

"Karluclus!...can free you but you must kill him and then you can actually decide to be a demon instead and be the new Leader of The Underground if you choose but you'll lose your soul and will be here forever."

"Where can I find kelustlou?"

"Karluclus has a castle in the very middle of The Underground, I'll draw you a map.