The Jake Helman Files Personal Demons by Gregory Lamberson

Author:Gregory Lamberson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781605420738
Publisher: Medallion Press, Inc.
Published: 2009-10-16T21:00:00+00:00

The elevator doors opened and Jake stared out at an incredible tableau: an awesome figure stood fifteen feet away, holding the guards above the floor by their faces. Fear spread through Jake like ice water, immobilizing him. The naked, humanoid creature stood seven feet tall, its frame as muscular as a bodybuilder’s. A large penis hung flaccid between his powerful legs, and fiery sinew clung to his ebony skull. Two tiny pinpricks of light pulsed within dark, empty eye sockets, like miniature stars, and a pink brain throbbed beneath the glassy surface of the dark skull. Black light pulsed through the transparent organs and bones in his body, and the blood in his veins glowed like lava.

What had Tower called him?

The Reaper.

Jake recalled the Anting-Anting, with its image of a warrior slaying a demon. Sweat trickled down his face, and he realized that the temperature had climbed despite the elevator’s air-conditioning.

Laddock and Birch screamed as one, their feet kicking the empty space above the floor. Dark smoke rose from between the Reaper’s fingers as they dug into the guards’ faces, and Jake choked on the stench of burning flesh. The men clawed at the Reaper’s forearms, desperate to free themselves. Paralyzed with fear, Jake allowed the Glock to hang limp at his side. He wanted to flee upstairs, but he couldn’t even raise his hand to press the necessary button, and he could not bring himself to step out of the elevator. He felt puny and insignificant before this monstrous being, and powerless to help his subordinates.

The Reaper spread his arms wide apart, swinging the guards in opposite directions like rag dolls, then swung his hands together in a thunderous clap, smashing the guards’ heads against each other like watermelons. The screaming came to an abrupt stop, replaced by a wet-sounding explosion that showered Jake in blood, brain chunks, and skull fragments. Jake slid to the floor with his back against the elevator’s rear wall.

The Reaper dropped the bodies to the floor, blood gushing out of their caved-in heads. Noticing Jake for the first time, the Reaper twisted his features into a hideous imitation of a grin, his gums and teeth visible through transparent lips. He stepped forward and Jake shuddered.

The monster was coming for him!

The Reaper advanced on him like some great, unstoppable behemoth. Jake felt the muscles in his neck twitch as he strained to raise his gun and failed. The Reaper’s movements slowed, his body trembling as if he were walking against a mighty river’s current. He pressed one shoulder against an invisible wall and tried to knock it over, his features contorting with effort. He swung his fists at the force field, thunderous blows that would have toppled a house. Jake flinched with each impact as the Reaper inched steadily closer to him. Then the Reaper stopped struggling and stepped back, surveying the space before him from floor to ceiling. He opened and closed his fists, the black light within his body pulsating faster. His chest rose and fell, and he narrowed his translucent eyelids.

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