The Darkness Inside Of Her

The Beginning

Loud crunches echoed through the woods as I stepped on the dead branches on the floor, it was all to dark I almost couldn't see where I was going but I felt as if I knew where I was, a low whisper rang my ears and I couldn't make out what it was saying, a light shunned at the end of what seemed to be a tunnel and I went straight inside of it, I could hear drums beating in the distance and the closer I got the more intense the rhythm got, all of a sudden it stopped and I could only hear the wind whistling and a calm feeling swallowing me whole

'CLOSER'

A woman's voice gestured me to move forward and without hesitation my feet moved in command, laying on the ground was an old woman that whispered into the fire pit lit in front of her, when she saw me a smile spread across her face and this brought a disgusting feeling in my gut, as I made out her face I could see her eyes where stitched shut and her mouth cut in the corners making it look wider, her hair was all knotted and in her forehead she had a tattoo of what seemed to be a triangle and in the middle of it a two headed snake wrapping itself around a human skull, entering the mouth and coming out from both eyes

'DO NOT BE AFRAID OF HOW I MAY LOOK,FOR THIS IS YOUR HOME AND MINE'

Her voice sounded as if thousand of people tried to speak at once and it made my head hurt

'Who are you?'

A small grin spread across her face making me see her petrifying teeth, she had sharp small ones in the bottom and in the top she had two large ones and most of them where missing, I tried not to shudder at her gesture but I couldn't help being afraid for I knew that what stood before me was not human, but I also did not understand what or who 'IT' was

'I AM THE MOTHER OF THE SNAKES, THE QUEEN OF THE DARKNESS, I AM WHAT YOU KNOW AS NIGHTMARE, FOR I AM WHAT LURKS UNDER YOUR BED AND WHAT FEEDS OF THE FEAR OF THE MAN'

It stood up from where it was sitting and I could feel how my heart just stopped, she had rotten flesh hanging from the sides of her naked body, I could see how maggots feast on the open wounds, her legs where skinny almost skeleton like, her long nails scraped the sides of her skinny body cutting her every time they grazed along her skin but she didn't seemed affected by it, as she moved her bones made a loud cracking noise making all of the voices that lived inside her scream in agony, I wanted to run but It was if my legs couldn't react and I was being forced to watch such a fowl thing walked to me, the smell of discomposed flesh hit my nostrils as she stood in front of me, her hands made her way up to my face and touched my chin, forehead, temples, and eyes

'MINE'

A low growl escaped every soul that her body held hostage and before I could realize what was happening I felt the side of my temple being grazed with her un-humanly nails, I felt a hot liquid stroll down my face and I soon realized that it was my blood, the stitches of her eyes started to fall and the snake in her tattoo started to glow a bright red, when the last stitch fell I sucked in a breath and watched how her dead eyelids opened to reveal her hollow sockets, I could see how something moved and I squinted my eyes to see closely, suddenly the red eyed two headed snake startled me, I tried to convince myself that it was all a nightmare and that I would soon awake, my eyes flew shut and I tried to count until I felt I was calm enough I wanted to open my eyes and be greated by the blue sky from the early morning
'THIS IS NO DREAM MY CHILD, THIS IS THE NEW REALITY OF A NEW GOD BEING BORN ONCE AGAIN"

The fowl thing said grabbing my wrists but I soon shook my arm to make it loose it's grip and dashed out running

As I was running away  a branch got caught on my shirt and made me lose my balance making me fall and hit the back of my head, when I opened my eyes I saw the gruesome creature stare down at me

'THE DARKNESS HAS ALREADY CLAIMED YOU, THE MORE YOU FIGHT IT THE MORE YOU AND OTHERS WILL SUFFER"

At this point her voice had anger and I could see her face morph with what seemed like to be horns and different demon faces

I opened my eyes in disbelief , this couldn't be real, I saw as  Djn she lowered her face onto mine and the two headed snake jumped into my mouth making me feel as I was suffocating as it slithered down my throat, my vision started to get blurry and before I blacked out I saw Lucia hiding in the bushes, I reached out to her but she backed away into the woods.

* Beep, Beep, Beep *
I opened my eyes and felt as if daggers where being stabbed into my eyeballs when the bright light shined on my face " Where am I ?" My voice sounded rough and my throat felt dry, I tried to get up but a sudden hand backed me once more on what it seemed like to be a bed,
" it's okay, you're okay now"
I shifted my attention to the familiar voice and saw my brother Angel look at me with pitiful eyes, he had bags under his eyes and I could tell he had been crying

"Angel?, what are you doing here?" I tried to get up but felt a sharp pain in my chest I groaned when my body fell once more on the hospital bed, I looked down at my chest when I noticed four cuts starting from my chest down to my abdomen, stopping right up my navel, they seemed fresh and I got startled by how gruesome they looked
"Who did this to me?"
Angel had a confused look in his face
"We don't know, actually we where waiting till you woke up so we could ask you the same question, paramedics say it may had been a bear attack, but police beg to differ since every door and window in your house was locked and there couldn't have been a way for it to enter "
I tried to remember the incident but it all seemed like a big blur, the image of Lucy popped into my head and I soon remembered the dream, images of the gruesome woman popped into my head and I jumped up on the bed when I thought I've seen her looking through the door window, Angel looked at the door startled from my movements but didn't see anything, a worried look flashed across his face and held my hand tightly in his
" It's okay Michael, Your safe, whatever happened to you, just forget about it, you will be safe now and I will make sure of it"
I slowly looked at Angel, confused by what he meant by that and he continued to explain
" I'm moving in with you for a couple months, I already talked to my boss and he's agreeing to let me work on the documents from home"
I sat up on the bed this time ignoring the sharp stinging feeling that I got from my wounds
" Brother you don't have to do that for me, I assure you, I am truthfully capable of taking care of myself, the wounds will heal and I will be going to my old work place soon, I will be fine"
I tried to convince him but he didn't listen, I soon got very tired of trying and felt drowsy all of a sudden, I looked at my brother for one last time and he nodded as if telling me to give in to sleep, so I did. I closed my eyes and let the drugs work its way to my blood stream into my heart pumping the drugged blood through my veins, rushing it to my brain and taking over me completely, thinking of this I let my body go into a deep sleep.

'Michael'
A blurry figure in the wind called out to me, the air was cold and I could feel my tired eyes close and open again
'Lucia?'
I looked closer to see Lucia extend her arms at me
'Come to me Michael'
I felt as if I was walking on air but when I looked down I couldn't see my feet, not minding this, I kept approaching Lucia until she was on my reaching point, I held her small frame tightly to my chest I inhaled the sweet sent of her hair when suddenly I felt a sting run down my back, I pushed her away from me and saw the hideous demon standing in front of me, she scrapped her nails all the way down my back and I could feel as all the blood from my body gushed out, she opened her mouth and I could see the pit of hell itself on her stomach and what seemed to be millions of snakes curling up into a ball, suddenly the snakes moved and revealed what seemed to be Lucias face, her eyes opened furiously and I could see how she was battling for her life

'MICHAEL!!!!'

My eyes shut open and my ears rang, I saw my brother sleep on the chair that was located on the side of my bed, I could see how tired he was even though he was sleeping,  I could see how he had purple bags under his eyes, his curly hair was all over the place and from the look of how chewed up his nails where I knew he had been anxious
"How long have I been here" I whispered to myself not wanting to wake my poor brother
"Far too long"
My eyes widen and my muscles tensed up when I realized who had said that
"Lucia.."