Devil Says 'H!'

Chapter 03

A loud hissing sound was ringing all over the winding lane. The dark night kept getting darker as owls hooted from elsewhere. A lone night dog howled loudly which made a dozen of other dogs to accompany the first. The unmistakable sound of a long dark cloak swished through the rusty leaves. The sound of hundred crickets was damaging the silence of the night. The cloak swished for two more miles and finally stopped on a dead end. A high pitched scream issued from inside the hood of the cloak. The head turned down, examining the victim below its feet.

Skylar looked up. She was shivering in horror. She could not see clearly. Her vision was blurred. She could only hear what was happening around her. She felt as though she had even lost her voice. She even tried to scream, but only air left her mouth. Her fear was too much for her to bear and she started shivering too much. She felt the heat rise up in her cheeks. There was an immeasurable level of pain issuing from all over her body. She was lying down in a very awkward angle and she tried to move her body so that she could take her arm from under her body. She could feel the hand pressed under her go numb, due to the stopping of blood flow. But as soon as Skylar tried to move her arm, pain shot through her left knee. If she was not mistaken she thought that her left leg might be scratched or it was folded in a very awkward angle. Skylar tried to sit up straight. She shut her eyes tight and trying to withhold the pain she bit her lip. But as soon as she tried to move her head to the side, a sound of cracking was heard. Skylar howled in pain as the birthmark behind her neck started to burn. She tried to turn her head to the other side and again the cracking was heard. Skylar assumed that the birthmark behind her neck was attached to the ground, as though a wire made of a bone was connected to the ground, which was issued from her birthmark, and Skylar had a very bad feeling thinking that the cracking she had heard was from the breaking of her neck. She cried in pain. She had no where to turn to. Sobbing uncontrollably, Skylar tried to open her eyes. Pain shot through her eyelids but suddenly she was able to see. There was clear vision again. Skylar looked up. She screamed.

It was her. Yes, there was no doubt about it. That same face which had been following Skylar for a long while. Skylar was not able to see her face as it was covered with a black hood, but she knew that it was her face beneath that cloak. She stood towering over Skylar and the odd eerie silence rang through Skylar's ears again. She screamed and screamed loudly. Suddenly she felt her move over her and she turned her head to the side. At once Skylar was pulled up to the sky. She screamed and her sound fell only to deaf ears. Skylar felt a rotten skinny hand touch her right ankle as she flew through the sky. The rotten skeleton hand was pulling her up from her ankle. Skylar screamed again as she felt the blood rush through her body to her head. The only thing she felt was the fear building up inside her as she gained altitude. Skylar opened her eyes and looked down. No wait, it can't be. If she was being lifted with her right ankle, where was her left leg? Skylar looked more clearly. Only her left knee was hanging limply attached to her body. A blotched patch of blood was seen around her darkened knee. Skylar screamed her lungs out. She felt the blood vein pulse on her forehead and she did not know whether she was more afraid of her hearing Skylar, or the pain in her body, or fear of falling down or for losing her left leg.

At once, Skylar felt the skinny hand leave her right ankle and Skylar's scream only improved by a few decibels as she lost altitude.

Falling... falling...

Skylar thrashed around in her sleep and she opened her eyes. Her eyes widened in horror as she realized that she saw the bed two feet beneath her. Skylar opened her mouth to scream again and she landed heavily on the bed. She sat up straight at once and looked around her in fear. No, it can't be. Not in her own room. She was sure that she had locked the door securely behind her. There was no way that someone was able to get in through the locked door.