Case Files of Detective Kenneth Cohl

Character File Three: Guardian of Hell

His story begins back in Houston, Texas, years ago back in the 1930s. It was there that a large number of serial murders took place over forty years, hundreds of people were found dead. The connection between every one of them; was that they had a face resembling that of the devil burned onto their chests. Men, women, children, all had been killed by this person. There were never any other signs, and what they didn't know was that the person behind it all; walked the streets with them every day. His name was Thomas Delgado, born back in the year 1910; he was now hitting age sixty. He lived a normal life, normal job, never made a family of his own. Every now and then he would just get this itch and then end up killing someone.

Eventually in the 1970s, his luck would run out. He was walking down the street and was hit by a stray bullet in the chest from a shootout some crooks were having with the police. Although he was in his sixties he was well built, so the bullet didn't make him flinch or fall down, and no one around seemed to notice he had been shot, so he took the chance to run off to get out of the sight of any possible witnesses. The wound wasn't fatal yet, but he knew it soon would be and couldn't go to a hospital because once they removed his shirt, they would find the same image he burned onto everyone of his victims. Then the cops would be called and he would be spending the rest of his life behind bars. It was then, that he decided he would rather die now as a free man then end up alive spending a couple more years rotting in a prison cell.

He found himself down an alley where he fell to the ground. Thunder ruined the silence of the night as a storm opened up and rain began to fall. He looked up and saw a man standing before him in the shadows.

"I like the work you have done, you are a terrific bringer of death, and the blood you release into the world fills me with such a high. I will save your life, but in return, you will be immortal and forever have the face and body of a monster, and I demand you to continue your killing ways."

Thomas of course agreed to this as he felt the bullet being pushed out of his body, he watched as it left his chest and fell to the ground. He stood up filling stronger than ever, but then bent over screaming in pain as he threw his arms across his stomach, tearing off the shirt he had on. The mark on his chest was glowing along with his body as he started turning a blood red. He could feel the skin on his face melting away until all that was left was his skull, though he could still see, his eyeballs were gone, and he was able to see just through his eye sockets. He had long stringy black hair pop out from the back of his skull. The last change was he had horns appear from atop his skull.

"You are no longer Thomas Delgado, you are nothing but an immortal being of death, from now on you shall be known as Hell's Guardian, travel around and kill, kill, and continue to kill more, eventually a man named Alister Crowley will come and greet you, you shall work for this man, if you don't, your powers will be taken and neither heaven nor hell will be open to you, you will spend the rest of eternity in purgatory."

Those were the man's last words before he vanished. He left Hell a bag of clothes, inside was a pair of black pants, a black trench coat, an old western style cowboy hat, and some black gloves and boots. He got changed and then began a journey of death, killing people on a daily basis. Finally in the year 2003, he ran across the man known as Alister Crowley. When he saw him there was just something that reminded him of the man that gave him his powers. Something just let him know that was who he was looking for. He got down to one knee and bowed calling to his master. He never questioned any action that Alister asked him to take and never second guessed killing someone he was ordered to kill. He was truly living up to the name that was given to him, Hell's Guardian.