My Husband: The Devil

Where Am I?

I slowly opened my eyes. I was on a cot, in a severely dirty room. I sat up, frantic. My backpack was lying next to me. 

Where the hell am I?

I tried to remember what happened. I was running way from the Shadow Man.....

Oh my god, the Shadow Man.

He took me.....

I raced towards the door, and tried to open it. Locked.

Damn it!

I tried again, desperately. Wherever I was, I needed to get out.

"Escape is futile", said a voice behind me.

I turned around. It was him. He wore a jet-black suit, and still had his greyish looking shaggy hair. But now he had thick black horns coming out of his head. And his eyes weren't red and glowing this time. They were completely black, like a demon's eyes. I gulped and shivered.

After a while, I mustered enough courage to speak. "Who are you?", I asked. "Where am I?" He laughs and strides over to me. He strokes my cheek and plays with my hair. I push his hand away violently. "Don't touch me you rodent-munching freak!", I say.

He then punches me across my face, and kicks me in the gut. I wail in pain, and double over on the ground. He plants his foot on my jaw. "If you were smart, you'd watch how you speak to me, understand?", he growls. I try to escape from his shoe, but he just presses down harder on my face. "I said, do you understand?", he says. "Yes", I manage to choke out.

"Good", he says, and removes his foot. I cough, trying to get my breath back. "Who are you?", I say. He cleans under his fingernails. "I thought you'd never ask", he says, and grins. "My name is Kim Taehyung, and I am the son of the devil." I roll my eyes. "Yeah, no kidding", I mutter. He grabs my throat and shoves me against the wall. "I'm serious", he said, with a deadly look in his eyes. I kick and scream for him to let go, but he tightens his grip on my throat. "Shut up!", he yells, and slaps me. I shut up instantly. He lets go of my throat and I fall to the ground. I hear a cracking sound in my arm when I fell, but thankfully, it wasn't broken.

He gets in close to my face. "The only reason why I don't eat you right here, right now is because.....well.....you're too beautiful to be eaten", he says, smiling and touching my face.

"Now, as to where you are?", he said, and laughs. "You're in hell. And I'm not talking about that stupid prep school you go to, I'm talking about literal hell. With blood and fire and many once-humans who did terrible, unforgivable things that caused them to come here."

I couldn't believe this. I was in hell?! Literally?!

"Ah", the devil spawn said. "You don't believe me. Well, see for yourself." He waved his hand, and the dirty white room was gone. Instead, we were on a cliff, and I could see and hear, and smell so much. There was a gate labeled, ASPHODEL: THE FIELD OF PUNISHMENTS. I swallowed. Field of Punishments? Well, I knew the one place I wouldn't be exploring. I could also see a giant field of fire. I could hear screams erupting from that field. Dragon-like animals flew by us. And I could see Ceberus, the three-headed watchdog of this world, guarding the entrance. I stood up. "Why did you bring me here?", I said. "What did I do? I mean, I've done some pretty bad things in my past, but I didn't think it deserved for me to be here!"

The supposedly Kim Taehyung son-of-the-devil laughed. "Oh my dear, I agree you have had a checkered past, but that's not why you're here", he said. I eye him suspiciously. "How do you know I've had a checkered past? Have you been spying on me? Also, am I dead?" Mr. Kim rolled his eyes with disgust. "This is what I hate about women. They ask too many questions", he said to himself and then turns to me. "We haven't been spying, we just know these things. And no, you're not dead. Yet", he says and grins. I fight the urge to kill this douche, although I know it might be next to impossible. "Wait. You said we. Who's we?", I say. He looks out at his kingdom in the distance. "Me and my brother, Hades", he replied. "Hades?", I say, and almost choke. "B-but, I thought he was-"

"A myth?", Mr. Kim says, and throws his head back and laughs. "On the contrary, he's very much real. But don't worry your pretty little head about that. Come with me." He grabs me by my arm and pulls me along. Where is he taking me? I pass a room that has two different types of guillotines in it. One where you get your head chopped off, and one where you have a rope around your neck and get hanged. I put my hand around my neck defensively. He drags me to a lavish room that's pitch black and really fancy. If I wasn't so terrified, I would be in awe. "This is our room", he says. "Our?", I repeat. "We're sharing this room? Why?" He turns to leave. "Because you", he says. "Are to be my bride." I froze. 

What.

The. 

Fuck?!

"Your bride?!", I say in disbelief. "But you can't be-"

"Serious?", he says. "Yes, I'm afraid I am. You and I are going to be married at the end of this week. Hence you are my future queen." I shook my head furiously. "I can't marry you! I'm only in high school! And I have a life! A reason to live! And I don't even know you!"

He turns to me. "Well that's all about to change", he said. "This is your life now, so I suggest you get used to it."

He walks out the door. "Oh, and you're not allowed to go poking about anywhere. Exit this building without my permission at any time, and you'll be severely punished. By me", he adds, smiling churlishly. "And if you somehow manage to escape, I will find you and kill you." He then leaves. The door slams behind him with a heavy thud.

I break down on the floor and cry. This was more than I could bear. I was going to die here, I'm sure of it. I wouldn't last a day. I'm going to be married in the hands of a monster. Then the television in the room switched on by itself. I scooted back, mortified. The news channel was on. The anchorman showed in the alley where I had first seen that rodent eater. 

"We bring to you today the tragic news of the passing of a young lawyer, who's body was found not too far from here. His autopsy showed means of cannibalism, and several dead bodies and bones of rodents were also found in this area. We can't be sure, but there may be a predator on the loose who has a craving for human/rodent flesh. We advise you to protect yourselves, and be alert."

I gasp. That young lawyer they were talking about must have been that dead body I had seen before I ran away. Poor thing, I thought. That monster, aka my fiance, must have ate him. How could he? It was inhuman. Then again, that was exactly who he was. But the anchorman wasn't finished. 

"In other news, an eighteen year old girl has been reported missing. Witnesses say that Joo Ree-Ha had stormed out of school after an emotional outburst, and no one has seen her since."

My photograph showed the whole time he was talking. Oh God, I thought. They'll probably never find me. Then my mother showed on the screen.

"I guess it was my fault", she said. "I never should have never driven her away. I should have believed everything she said. If I had, she never would have left."

She then turned to the camera.

"Please, I beg you, whoever has my daughter, please bring her back to me. I'll pay the price of whatever you want. But she's all I have left. Bring my baby back to me please."

I can see the tears rolling down her face as she's speaking. I can feel tears coming to me too. "I'm sorry Mom", I say, touching her face on the screen. "I shouldn't have gotten so mad at you. I wish I were home."

I hide my face in my arms and cry, knowing there was no way for me to escape this. This monster will probably torture me forever, and I won't be able to get away.....