Deliverance: A Preternatural Chronicles Novella by Hunter Blain

Author:Hunter Blain [Blain, Hunter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

T he endless expanse of nothing filled all that I could see; an abyss that hungers for my dreams.

A scene coalesced as if being made from colored grains of sand, before solidifying and starting my daymare.

I stood in a vast cavern that was bathed in a faint orange glow from a dying fire. Without a thought as to why, I approached the weak flames and stared into them. The dancing fire was not made of flames, but souls. Emaciated faces with gaping mouths and sorrow filled eyes rose from the wood only to deform at the precipice and fade into acrid smoke that stung my eyes.

A torrent of green and red hellfire violently erupted from the firepit, throwing me backward as I shielded my face with my forearms. I impacted the hard stone with enough force to rattle my brain. Smoke tendrils rose from my scorched trench coat and bald face.

“Ah man, not my beard,” I said weakly as a hand rubbed my bare skin.

An imposing figure stepped through the roiling flames with muscular goats’ legs covered in pitch black fur. Obsidian hooves glowed bright orange near the bottom like a blacksmith’s creation, leaving molten footprints as he stepped into the cavern. Above his waist was tough leather skin the color of charred flesh covered in an unreadable roadmap of red winding veins that coursed over striations of proportionate muscle. Jutting from his huge back were massive reptilian wings that were reminiscent of a dragon. They unfolded, spanning at least twenty feet from tip to tip with obsidian spikes lancing out at the joints. On top of bulging shoulders sat a deformed face of a once beautiful man, with a crown of horns circling his head in unholy contrast to Jesus of Nazareth. Unlike the obsidian predominately associated with hell, these were made of bone-white ivory. They pierced through flesh, reaching a foot skyward at four even points around his skull. Halfway up each horn, a section branched off at a ninety-degree angle and curved around to meet another counter-clockwise to it. Heat vapors curled off the corrupt halo, making the remaining points that stabbed into the sky seem to dance in the haze. Green and red flames roared in the eye sockets of the beast that stood ten feet tall. Though I couldn’t see pupils, I knew his infernal gaze was locked onto me.

My hands began to tremble in frozen terror as Satan, Lord of Hell, Father of Lies, took ground rumbling steps toward me. I didn’t know how I knew it was him; but I knew.

Satan stuck out a hand tipped with massive claws that looked like they belonged on a horror movie monster, and I began sliding on the rock floor.

“No!” I shouted as my fingers attempted in vain to find purchase on the smooth stone. “NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!” I shrieked in unbridled panic as I slid closer to the horrific monster before me. Tears ran down my face, attempting to flee the fate that was before me.

I lifted off the ground and into his closing fist.

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