Hell

Eryk has a sister

         All I remember is smelling lots of blood, and wanting to drink all of it. I saw the demons rip Austin in half with their claws. At first I was happy then I felt it. The hatred of the demon, the beautiful hatred that they produced. Ah it was madness yet sane. Crazy yet predictable. If the demons wanted blood then they would drown in a sea of their own for hurting my family... At least that's what I thought until it showed up. The damn demon that plagued my dreams ever since the day that I founded my clan. He swung his ax and ripped apart my right wing and used his whip of flame to ruin the left one, but I would not go down without a fight. I stabbed him through the chest and proceeded to decapitate the demon, but missed the swing up and cut off a part of his wing. We fell while still fighting for supremacy, but my wings were completely ruined. His were only minor. He used that damn whip to launch me through the building and to bury me under tons of debris. Even though I knew that I was slowly drifting in and out of consciousness I found the darkness quite calming. I knew that it might lead to the rest of my family's death, but I couldn't help it. The shadows already began to take hold of my mind and the voices came back stronger than ever. All the men and women I killed. All the hunting voices. I thought that I would be driven insane by the sheer presence of them, but then the light showed up and I saw her again. The reason I kept fighting off those damned demons that lost their ways... The reason Brian and I had to be trained not to fear what the others said. I remember those days when Brian and I were hated among the devil hunters for being part devil as they said. They were half right. We both came from a cursed bloodline and were born as demons. I remember the day that almost everyone was slaughtered because a single high ranked demon broke free... It broke all the bones in my body, but I held on to stop it from killing the other younger members. All of those memories poured into me and I remembered why I kept fighting. Later I woke up again and saw her tormenting my family again... I could not let her tell such things to my family, but I blacked out as I stood with a hand through her engine. A voice in my head said to let her have the gun and decide her fate. I blacked out again when I got back into the car, hearing the voices again. I woke up at my airfield and told the pilots their orders then was placed within the black plane. I felt someone sit next to me and figured out it was her. Now we sleep yet not even my dreams are sanctuary from the voices. I am walking down the corridors that I made and find myself lost. Ah to be driven insane by your own mind.... There are worse fates, but right now I have to find a way to the middle. There is freedom and control once again, but I have to suffer the insanity of these dark corridors until I find it. I have to find it if I ever wanna help them, no help her once again.

       I wake up when we touch down on the ground and see that Eryk is still asleep. I get up and carry him out of the plane while waking everyone up. When we are about to get into the cars Tod shakes his head and heads back to an open plane while saying, "Gotta find the others before something like this happens again." I look at Tod for a moment then yell, "Don't get yourself killed. Can't see another one of us killed right now." I hear him laugh and he turns to us, "If a million demons could not get me a storm cloud sure as hell won't." I sigh and get into one of the three cars that were prepared for us, another pickup for Ryan, a black dodge charger hellcat, and a small limo. I got into the dodge along with Matt, Kalista, and the still unconscious Eryk. Like last time Ryan got into the truck and David, Lili and, Hanna got in. Everyone, but Jasmine managed to get in. "Wait... Jasmine where did you come from?" I ask. "I drove the cars here and wanted to join you in this... whatever this is." She replies. "Our friends were slaughtered, the mansion is no more, and Eryk is drifting in and out of consciousness." I reply and get out of the driver's seat to let her get in. I go to the passenger's seat and sit on Eryk's lap. We follow the little limo which is being driven by Tabitha. After a couple of hours we arrive on an out of the way farm house. When we stop the cars and Tabitha gets out I ask, "Is this really your place?" She nods and smiles saying, "It may not look like much to you, but to me it is Heaven... well if demons could go to Heaven." "Um... We saw Heaven. It's not a good place to visit right now." I say and pick up Eryk. "How did you get into Heaven?" She asks. I see Aamon and Czarek run into the field and sit down before Tabitha and turn into humans with lots of scars on them. "God visited us and hired us to go into Heaven before we found you." Czarek says. "Not gonna question that." She says and walks into the house. We walk into the house and are greeted by a long haired man and three kids. "Kids go greet your mother." He says and the kids rush into Tabitha's legs. "May I ask who you are?" He says when he looks at us. "Sorry Caesar. I forgot to call ahead. These are my old friends and their house was destroyed in an earthquake and had nowhere else to go." Tabitha says. "Caesar... a good name..." Eryk mutters. "What does he mean by that?" Caesar asks. "Caesar is translated as long-haired in Latin..." Eryk responds and looks at the kids. "What are their names?" Caesar stares at him for a moment and says, "The boy is named Emil. The nice blond girl is Rhea and the one that is tugging at your leg is Vanessa." He says. "Good names... Emil translates to excellent in Latin. Rhea translates to daughter of Heaven and Earth in greek and Vanessa translates to butterfly... all fine names." Eryk responds and looks at Vanessa. "May I know why you are tugging on my leg?" She backs away a bit and says, "Why are you all red?" Eryk stays silent for a moment then looks at Tabitha while saying, "I got a lot of ketchup spilled on me in an accident with old friends of mine." Czarek and Aamon walk into the room in their dog forms and sit while wagging their tails. Vanessa walks over and pats Czarek on the head. "Cute puppy." She says. Czarek licks her hand and lays down on his back, belly exposed. She laughs and starts tickling him. "May I ask your name and what it means in... German." Caesar says. "My names Eryk, and in German it means eternal ruler." Eryk says and passes out again. "Is there a place I can put him so he can rest?" I ask. "We have a spare room he can sleep in, but we can't house all of you. Not enough rooms." Caesar says. "That's alright. Most of us are insomniacs and go six days without sleep." I say, knowing that we could not last that long without sleep. Eryk wakes up again right as I get in the room and sits down on the bed. "The voices are back... All of them screaming around me..." He says and I sit down next to him. "What did he mean by that?" Caesar asks. "So many accidents... All their deaths my fault..." Eryk says and passes out again. "He was a rescue worker, but someone bombed the hospital he worked in a few months ago and now he hears the voices of those he failed to save, seeing that he was the only survivor." I say quickly thinking up a lie. "That must be hard..." He says and walks out of the room. I realize that the entire time since the car I have not seen his eyes. I look at him and move the hair from his face. I see that his eyes are the red golden color, but the outline of the red was glowing greenish. "He has strange eyes." Vanessa says as she enters the room. "Yes he does." I say and smile. She walks over and looks into his eye for a bit. "It looks like he has a star in the center of his eye." She says. "Are you sure?" I ask and look into the eye. "Yes look right into the middle and it looks like there are red lines that make a star in the middle." She says and I notice it as well. "You have a good eyes to see that." I say and pat her on the head.