Gone to the Place of Foggy Dreams

Desecration and Rage

Trigger Warning: Graphic Violence

When he opened the door, Beast Boy recoiled at the sight of blood welling up from the floor and dripping down the walls in crimson streaks. Lines of fire intermingled with the blood, creating a horrendous stench, and causing the entire hall to overheat. He saw through the lone window in the hall that the sky outside had turned into an infernal orange, and agonized screams could be heard echoing in the distance once more.

The walls of the temple were now colored in a rusty scarlet, everything in sight consumed and corrupted by the stain. Upon closer inspection, Beast Boy could see demonic faces leering at him from within the walls, demented and twisted visages sneering at him with mouths filled with razor-sharp teeth. He turned and fled towards the stairwell, desperate to make his escape from the depraved temple.

He dashed down the stairs, the steps utterly blackened and distorted. When he neared the landing next to the dormitory, horrific screams could be heard resounding from all directions. Beast Boy carefully peeked around the corner and beheld the carnage transpiring in the distance.

Numerous feminine-looking scarlet demons with rapidly twitching faces shrieked with insane laughter as they seized the fleeing cultists and ripped them apart, limb from limb. The hapless cultists had nowhere to run, as the maniacal aberrations rushed in hordes towards them from every corner of what was once the peaceful dormitory. Beast Boy shuddered as he glanced at the beds, which were now nothing more than metal frames filled with cruel spikes, where numerous cultist corpses were brutally impaled.

The last of the cultists died with a bloodcurdling scream as one of the demons swiftly decapitated him with one swing of her sharp claws. A ferocious roar was heard around the corner, and the demon maidens, all finished with their victims, snapped their heads in the direction of the noise, which was coming from the study. They all continued to shriek their horrible laughter, and capered towards the roaring entity, nodding, twitching and looking beyond overjoyed at the horrors that they had wrought.

"I feel like that hellish laughter they have could drive me insane! Where did these things come from?!"

He silently followed the mob of demons, terror gripping him as he neared the source of the roar. When he came within sight of the room, he saw that it was no longer recognizable as a study, as everything in sight was splattered with blood, and more lines of fire were crisscrossing everywhere, setting the entire room ablaze. In the middle of the room was an entity even more monstrous in appearance than the cackling she-demons surrounding it.

The fiend held the last of the cultists high in the air with numerous wriggling black tentacles that spread his limbs far apart. The terrified man struggled in vain, watching his captor sneer up at him in a twisted smile that revealed the same horrible teeth as the images in the uppermost hall. Beast Boy shuddered and continued to watch in morbid fascination as the demons gathered around what must've been their leader, eagerly waiting for it to finish its execution.

The demon leader, which from a distance also seemed to be feminine, lifted a vicious looking black-tipped claw to the man's chest, and Beast Boy backed away, knowing what was about to happen. He turned and flew back to the stairs as the man's shrieks turned into a nauseating squelch, and then the demon queen could be heard bellowing a triumphant roar. Beast Boy shuddered and ran as fast as he could, his legs pounding the withered metal flooring. All of a sudden, the queen emitted a violent, fury-filled shriek, and Beast Boy could hear the entire horde chasing after him.

He shifted into his cheetah form and bolted down the stairs to the ground floor, zooming past the obliterated chapel. The twelve-pointed star lay on the ground in shattered pieces, and more blood and fire could be seen swirling around the room. The pews had been crushed and overturned, with bloody, dismembered limbs scattered about. All of the imagery combined made Beast Boy gag, as he rounded the corner towards the main doors.