Gateway to hell.

Chapter 9

**************Author's note. I may or may not add an epilogue, depending on your reactions! Remember...don't play with ouija boards unless you're prepared to dance with the devil!***********

Kendall screamed!

" Mom, lookout!"

Mrs Conner whipped around, a twitch in her right eye, her nerves shot by her daughter's blood curdling scream. She glimpsed the curve of a large blade, and promptly fainted in a crumpled heap.

Alex followed at breakneck speed, straddling his girlfriend's mother and again raising the blade high. Kendall threw herself at him, knocking him off her defenseless mother , and grabbed at his wrists in the hope of pinning the knife to the floor. Alex opened his mouth and the low rumble of a chuckle from hell rolled out.

" Kendall, Kendall, Kendall. I AM going to kill your mother, and then your father, your sister, and your puny friends too! How will you stop me....you weak , pathetic human!"

The demon spat the last word with all the contempt it could muster. Sweat beaded on Kendall's upper lip as she felt Alex's wrist break free of her grip. The knife flashed wickedly, as he released his arm and swung it towards Kendall's mother, the knife ripping through the shoulder of her blouse, exposing the pale vulnerable flesh underneath.

He bucked his hips, and raised his knees, using the momentum to send her tumbling away, knocking her head on the thick, heavy leg of the kitchen table. She winced, and touched her burning scalp, her hand coming away wet with sticky claret.

She had no time to focus on her pain as Alex now on his hands and knees, inched closer to her mother, her exposed throat now the focus of his hateful gaze. She scrambled across the floor toward him, and with a nasty grin he adjusted his grip on the knife, and brought it down right through the open palm of her mother's right hand.

Kendall froze, her mother shot bolt upright, howling in pain, and shock. Mrs Conner stared down at her eviscerated hand. She panted, took one look at the thing that had been Alex's grinning, frothing mouth, her eye's rolled back in her head, and she passed out once more.

Kendall stared at what had once been her beloved boyfriend, unable to move, shock vibrating through every nerve end. His eye's were black, burning coals, pitted deep in his face, his skin had a sickly green tinge, and veins, shot through every inch of the surface of his once perfect, tawny skin. Thick ribbons of yellow saliva dripped from the corners of his open mouth, his teeth covered in blood from his gums that bled profusely. Giving him the look that he had fed on human flesh.

He pulled the knife from her mother's palm with a grunt, and trailed it up the front of her blouse, cutting the buttons open as he went. Kendall took one look at her mom laid there, helpless, her bra exposed, and rage tore through her!

She scrambled to her feet, and kicked the hand that brandished the knife, threatening her mother's life. A sickening 'crack' filled the air as Alex's hand snapped back at an unnatural angle, sending the knife skittering across the floor. The demon laughed again, as she dived for the knife. As she snatched it up, he stood, and drove his knee into her back, sending her sprawling to the floor again. He stepped on her , and the second she felt the pressure release she flipped over. Before she could try to sit up, he had thrown himself onto her, and slammed his elbow into her throat. She wheezed and gasped for air, clutching at his arm with her free hand, but he was far too strong for her. If she didn't do something, he would kill her for sure! Her hand tightened around the knife, and she brought her arm up with all the strength she could muster, slamming the knife into the side of his throat.

Blood spurted from the wound, arterial spray splattering onto the kitchen floor. She felt his grip on her release, and she scooted out from under him. Slowly, as the blood drained from his body, the eye's that had been black pits, returned to Alex's puppy dog brown ones, his skin returned to a paler version of Alex's, and the demon disappeared, leaving just Alex.

He clutched at the knife in confusion, his eye's forming a question as they found hers. His mouth forming words, as blood gurgled from his throat, and bubbled over his lips, as he desperately tried to speak her name.

" Alex?" She screamed, as his life drained away in front of her, and his eye's glazed over. He shuddered as his last breath racked his body, and he fell still and silent, and unmoving.

The silence was overwhelming. She began to hyperventilate, taking in great shuddering breaths, to fill her lungs, that constricted painfully. Before she could get her breathing under control....

A high pitched cackle behind her.

She turned, slowly.

Her mother was sat up, laughing...her eye's black like coals from the pits of hell.

" Silly little girl." The demon raged.

" That first night you called on the spirits of the dead with that trifling toy of yours, you invited me in. I tore your flesh, and sowed the seeds of evil, and doubt. I had you, but fully claiming an innocents soul requires, a mortal sin ."

The demon laughed uncontrollably.

" One I just tricked you into committing child. And now you belong to me!"

The thing in her mother's body pointed at her. It got to it's feet, and rising to it's toes, glided toward her. It stopped an inch away, breath hot, and putrid in her face, it's head at an unnatural tilt. Like her mother's skin didn't quite fit.

Kendall looked at Alex's ruined body, her eye's wide with horror, as the implications of what she had done slowly sank in.

" Now I have ALL your family! I really wanted your sister, but she would have been too strong, too smart to think killing my host would have destroyed me."

It's laughter made her insides shrivel.

" I just want you to be aware of what you have done before I take over your body. You will be stuck in there too, somewhere. Able to see, and feel everything I do as I destroy everyone you love, one by one! Unable to do a thing about it! Then when I am done, I will slit your wrists, and take your soul back with me to hell." It hissed in her ear.

" Why? W—hy.....me?" Kendall stuttered.

" You are an innocent of course, and your sister...your sister , will be a real prize! She would have been a beautiful successful doctor, helping thousands of people, that I will now make sure never comes to pass."

" How will you explain Alex when mom wakes up?" Kendall screeched, hysteria setting in with every second that passed closer to the demon taking over her body finally.

The demon cackled again. A high pitch shriek of madness.

" Your mother saw Alex attack her! He stabbed her! Of course you would save her life, defend the both of you. He would have killed you." It grinned.  "Besides, that little broach I made sure you're mom wore, means she will do and say, anything I want her to."

With that, the body of her mother collapsed like a puppet with it's strings cut. Kendall felt the suffocating madness of pure evil fill her. The first thing to go was she was unable to use her own arms, and legs any more. Numb, she watched them twitch and move on their own, as the demon tried out it's new body, she heard her own tinkling laugh, but she wasn't laughing. It was practising being her! She watched as it raised her hands, and smoothed out her golden hair. It's thoughts filled her mind, and she saw every detail of what it intended for her  family, and eventually for what remained of her. The evil filling every corner of her being, pushing her down, deeper and deeper into her own consciousness somewhere. Screaming in the dark.