He was there alone, crouched, hands hugging his knees while he cried his eyes off.
Ears still numb after the loud click sound that got him where he is now.
He had trouble to breath the more he inhaled the air around him, which was contaminated with violet dust.
A few seconds have passed, he began feeling some strong stomping vibrations coming all around him on the ground.
In the horizon he witnessed hundreds of horrific beasts, some had hornes, some wings, others both, but they definitely all looked eager to murder.
The little kid panicked, he got up, and peeked anxiously at ever each direction really fast hoping to find and escape, his hands were trembling, his voice shaking as he implored his creator some, and called his mother some.
The beasts now a few metters away, he crouched again put his head between his knees and covered the whole with his arms.
"I'm gonna die, i'm gonna die, i'm gonna die..." He cried repeatedly to himself as he strived to breath.
His echoing words resonated so loud in his mind, that he began imagining his nostalgic joyful days with his mother, memories of her feeding, playing, teaching and holding him, a last grasp of his beloved, away from the calamity he got involved in, while he waited for his inevitable fate.
...
He saw a demi-man demi-demon wearing white clothes, with blue lines and a hood over his head from which a horn protruded out of his left forehead, the borderline between the demon and the human side was glitching, each side was striving to take control of the rest of the body.
The kid then looked around him, dead fiend corpses were laying on the ground, his clothes were now sullied with blood and guts from the now dead monsters.
The wight then extended his hand palm up to the kid, inviting him to grab it.
Which he hesitantly did, he then walked behind the demi-human who said: "Hush, hush boy, Ecclector is here now" in a rather assuring yet cunning modulated voice.
For Stone Rienhart it all started with some bad luck and a demon. His life was a quiet one, lived in a modest home on the coast of Florida until one rainy night when his curiosity gets him entangled with forces out of his control. He gets dragged into the afterlife and meets friends there, powerful friends that will accompany him on his journey to become a demon hunter. However, as he strengthens himself to get revenge on the beasts that tore him from his peaceful world he begins to doubt the authenticity of what he thought was a normal life. As he travels deeper down the rabbit hole that is his new life he now has to answer a question he thought he knew. Who is Stone Rienhart?
*EXCERPT FROM BOOK*
James grinned, "Ah, but you see we're not here for money, we're just here to give you some advice. We came to make sure you stay healthy!"
"I'm sorry but I don't understand." Lincoln looked more than a little hesitant to hear this so called 'advice'.
"I just wanted to let you know that there are some people in Eden that are very, very dissatisfied with your work. I would recommend leaving the city alone, or you might end up getting hurt, and we wouldn't want that, now would we?! I mean, look what happened to your slaves over there!" James laughed as he watched Lincoln realize what he was saying. Then, without warning he grabbed a metal pen and slammed it into the desk, leaving it embedded halfway in. "So if I were you I would let the people who are in here go free and leave Eden alone. Do we understand each other?"
Lincoln gulped and squeaked out a, "Yes."
James once again brightened up and patted the side of his face, "Yes what?"
"Yes...sir."
"Good boy."