Death's Bitter Embrace (#Wattys2015)

Chapter VII: Delving Deeper

My mind digs deeper into when I first claimed Raven as my own, I didn't forge her in hell-fire, I didn't buy her, no, she was too precious to buy. I did what I love to claim her-I killed for her-I won Raven, I won my love as a prize. I was walking in the back alley streets of the Australian city looking for someone to grace into Death's arms, when a dark, shady figure walked up to me holding Raven in his grasp like she was nothing, he didn't care for her-I would show him that a lady is to be treated with the utmost respect, especially Raven.

She was all worn and battered, her blade, blunt like a butter knife, he decided to swing at me with her-and his unbalanced weight, he couldn't handle her power, so, I relieved him of her. I jolted my leg at his shin with lightning-like speed causing his femur to snap in two, he bellowed out a low pitch roar and I head-butt him-it hurt my head too, thus the saying nobody wins in a head-butt-with brute force knocking him unconscious instantaneously.

I took Raven from his oversized hands, it was sad to see Raven like this, bruised to the core, her blade almost shattering to pieces when I cut his head off and disemboweled him in the empty back alley.

I then took her to the small house I was living in, it had everything I needed to shape her up with, a forgery which would give me the tools I need to fix her, to make her better than what she was before.

Did I steal from that man? No, she, Raven was calling to me-more like screaming for me to take her and help her, to use her-her beautiful coiled pole seized in my hands, her blade rounded, for slicing and dicing with minimal resistance, it just felt right to embrace her, to hold her.

I tried to get my shit together and robbed a small bank... "Oh yeah, Toby, this is definitely getting your shit together" I remember thinking whilst sniggering to myself after I was long gone from the cops. I then bought the mansion with the money, I then started to play games in The Games Room, with Raven, my stunning Raven.

Most of the games I played in The Games Room are either traps for the victim or led by the victim, most of the traps are rigged up to a control panel or timer-my favourite trap is one I like to call Seconds Away from Death or S.A.D for short. S.A.D consists of a dating couple with a gun strapped to their hand, which, is pointed at the partner's heart, they are tied to a chair and wrapped around their necks is steel wire-which are rigged up to a cog and the cog is rigged to a clock.

Each time the clock strikes the 5th minute the wire tightens around their necks and makes them choke until the 25th minute when the wire tightens so much it chops the heads of ever so cleanly.

The victims can stop their head from being sliced off by killing their treasured companions, an then, they are free to go-well that's what they always think, no-one leaves my Games Room, no-one.

The most exciting game I had hosted was with the doughnut loving freaks, the "pigs." They were all imprisoned in a foggy room-so foggy in fact, you couldn't see five feet in front of you-i actually didn't plan the game, they wandered around my Games Room looking for me, how they knew where I was surprised me. My victims were a bunch of crooked cops.

Tom Hymenas, plants his evidence on his victims so he can get the busts he needs to get promotions.

Nadia Jonaz, sleeps with the defendant of her victims, making sure she gets the case win.

David Lincs, murders any witnesses to his crimes of drug trafficking and human trafficking.

Ah, it was just what I wanted, I wanted blood and that, is what they gave me-it's like they were thinking of me when this game was taking place.

It all started with talking, reasoning and pacing-boring, but, I knew that's what anyone would have done so I waited. Then as I knew they would they all parted ways, storming off in a huff-that's when it got interesting. Hymenas found a searing hot pipe and picked it up not caring whether his hand would get burnt, he then found Jonaz, he and Nadia started talking to her-making sure to hide his hand.

After a couple minutes of talking, arguing and vowing to kill me, without notice or such as a word to say so, he buried the still scorching hot pipe into her face melting half of her face in an instant, her screams drowned out the sizzling sound against her face-in a matter of seconds she was on the floor in a melted mess.

Hymenas then found David Lincs and started battering him from behind to his untimely demise. Tom kept on beating him with the pipe that he used to kill Nadia-it went cold after it transferred it energy into Maria's face. Tom Hymenas had won the game but not the battle, or the right to live.

He walked to the door thinking he was clever for memorizing where it stood in all the fog-he stared at it in awe as the six foot door was wide open and for him, it was the gateway to Hell.

As he stepped out of the clouded room and into the gateway to hellfire and brimstone awaiting, I rush him from the shadows beside the door and connect Raven's blade to his neck, swiftly insuring his place next to all the poor souls in the depths of Hell. Ah the good times that I had with Raven.

I then realise that I am leaving this world without my Raven, my everything, I push back the thought as I continue to dig through the memories good and bad one last time before I die.