American Demon Hunters: An Urban Fantasy Supernatural Thriller by J. Thorn

Author:J. Thorn [Thorn, J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: demons, Paranormal Romance, horror, metaphysical science fiction adventure, dark fantasy, thriller, suspense
Publisher: Molten Universe Media
Published: 2018-07-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Hank felt a pressure where the base of his skull met the top of his neck. His glass of iced tea was empty and his mouth was dry. He cracked the knuckles on his left hand and looked out of the front window, trying to will Martha and Corey home. At the same time, he knew he had to hear the conclusion to Fred’s story.

“She could speak?”

“Oh, yes. She certainly could,” Fred said. “At first, she seemed...normal. I mean, if you consider a walking, talking corpse normal. She knew us, could talk to George and she knew what happened. I think she did, anyways.”

“A summoning?”

“Yeah, that’s what we called it. Not very original, is it?”

Hank looked at Fred and decided not to answer his question. He could tell Fred was stalling and Hank needed to hear the end of the story before Martha came home. Hank felt like he was getting a glimpse into something, a peak through a curtain that may not ever open again.

“‘Why did you do this, George?’ Those words are burnt into my head forever. Mary was standing before us, summoned with a death map and incantation through a space/time portal. In that moment, she recognized the gravity of the situation, but I don’t think Singleton did. He ran up to her and they embraced, Mary’s thin arms wrapping around his neck. Her skin glowed but not in a healthy way. It had a tinge of light to it that was not from Earth. When Mary was in George’s arms, that’s when I began to feel the effect.”

Hank leaned in closer.

“I didn’t even realize Martha was sitting on the floor, her back to the wall. She was mumbling and giggling to herself and using her finger to draw phantom shapes in the air. She wasn’t injured or distraught. It was like she was drunk. And then there was an energy in the observation dome, one we brought here from some other place, and it was inside of us. I felt a distant thumping in my head and stumbled backward as I lost my balance. I thought maybe the place was collapsing or we were having an earthquake, but that wasn’t it at all. It was the power we brought through the portal now wafting through the room with a stench of rotten eggs.

“George and Mary flickered. Their forms flashed before me. They looked like they were on an old black and white television that was losing reception. Interference, TV snow, layered over my vision. Time felt as though it stopped and a pit of tension blossomed in my stomach. The evening meal crawled back up my esophagus and I had to put a hand over my mouth in an attempt to keep myself from getting sick. I looked over my shoulder and back to the door and that’s when I first saw them.”

“What?” Hank asked. He forced the question as a whisper between tight lips.

“Gakis. They were crawling from the darkness, sneaking through the portal and into our world like an infestation of rats.

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