This chapter gets REALLY weird. You'll know what I mean, when you read
this chapter.
Enjoy! *_*
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Chapter 12: Denials.
The moon was high in the sky and darkness was all around. Shadows
danced back and forth in this cold bitter night. It was all like some
sort of twisted nightmare, with passages leading here and there and then
somewhere else. Nothing seemed right. Nowhere place was a maze, most
likely designed to keep people out.
Consulting the map on the back of the card again, I turned left,
entering another dark alleyway. This whole area of the city was just
alleyways, no buildings. Just walls, twisting, endless walls.
Taking another right, I saw two people standing in the middle of the
alley. One was a, average sized man, wearing a blood red sweater and a
dark black pair of jeans. He had brown eyes and dark black hair that was
combed very neatly. His skin was a pale white as though he had not been
out in a while.
The person standing net to him was a girl, Sarah Delir to be exact.
"Hello Douglas."
I stood moving only a meter in front of them. "So, Sarah, you've
come with one of your pathetic friends. Get the fuck out of the way and
let me pass. I'm not in the mood for games."
"And you shouldn't be. Now let me introduce my friend. He's called
Mephistopheles, also known as Lucifer, Diablo, le Diablos, Satan,
Beelzebub, Prince of Darkness and Mephisto. Once in a while he's also
refereed to as Loki, but it's not often."
Lucifer bowed, with a smile on his face. "Ah, Christ. I bid you
greetings on behalf of hell and all within it."
"And you want to use me?"
She shook his head and leaned back on the alley wall. "It's such a
bad word for it. We're not as bad as the angels, even though we have a
reputation for being evil. If you work for us, we will give you
everything short of the world itself. Money, women, items, servants,
anything is yours."
"And why should I accept?"
"Because one of us is going to get you one way or another. Angel,
Demon, A.C.M, in the end one of the three will get you. The angels will
kill you once they're done with you. The A.C.M will offer you nothing,
and may even kill you. While we, will offer you an eternity of luxury,
an eternity of pleasure. What more could you want?"
"My soul."
"It's long dead. It died that day when you killed your parents when
you were ten. When you sliced them open with that knife so mercilessly
long ago, your soul died. I cannot give you what no longer exists. You
are condemned to live a life without a soul. Much like myself and all
the other Demons."
"I don't care what you do or don't have. Let me through or someone
will get hurt. And guess who it is."
At this time Sarah decided to enter the conversation. "Please,
Douglas. Come with us, I would like you to come join me. Won't you
follow me? Won't you just let go of all the pain and come?"
"I can't do that. NOW GET OUT OF THE WAY!" And so, with that, they
both vanished............
A long haired woman entered a large dark throne room. "Sire."
"Yes?"
"I have come to tell you of my displeasure with how you're handling
the Douglas Moores case. He's drifting so far away from you."
"I AM GOD! I RULE ALL AND NO ONE SHALL STAND AGAINST ME! IF DOUGLAS
DARE STAND AGAINST ME, I'LL TEAR EVERY LAST BIT OF HIS MIND TO PIECES. I
DO NOT WANT YOUR INPUT, JUST YOUR SERVICE. NOW GET OUT ALICE BEFORE YOU
REGRET IT!"
"Yes sir." And she left.................
I looked at the door in front of me, It looked like the end of the
maze. The door was connected to what seemed like a large, black bricked
building. But I couldn't be sure, it may be a dead end. Things now were
never sure, never solid. Everything was do damned confusing, if only I
knew that absolute truth. But truth is in the eye of the beholder.
I knocked on the door, once, twice, three times. And waited. It only
took a minute for someone to answer.
I knew the man who pulled open the door, it was Steven. I couldn't
forget that face for some reason, it hung in the back of my mind. "I'm
here."
"I see. Good! Why don't you come in?"
Not like I had much choice. He quickly dragged me in..........
"I think he'll go with the A.C.M."
"I'll make sure he doesn't. That bastard isn't going to break my
heart!"
"You're falling in love with him, aren't you."
"........................"
"I would normally take you off the case for that, but I'm not going
to draw anymore attention to us. And I don't think Douglas would act
kindly if another face showed up. He doesn't need any more confusion in
his life.".........
I sat down in the chair and rested. It was a comfortable chair, made
out of purple silk. Actually, most of the stuff in here was made of
silk. Various banners, the wallpaper, the carpet, the chairs, tables and
pretty much everything was covered in it. This man sure liked silk.
He sat in a chair in front of me, about two meters away. He was
wearing a white dress shirt, a black overcoat with tie and black dress
pants. He looked very sharp in the suit, almost dignified. Almost.
From beside the chair he sat on, was a small table. On it rested a
blue glass bottle of wine with red wine in it. There was also two
glasses next to the bottle. "Would you like a drink, Douglas?"
I shook my head, but he quickly got a drink for himself. "I'm glad
you came. It has been a while, I thought you would never come."
"I only do this because I have to."
"I'm sure that IS the reason. But you are here not the less. And I
suppose everyone is bothering you, wanting you to join them?" I gave a
swift and barely noticeable nod. "And I think I will have to add my
request to the list."
"You want to use me like the others."
"I would be lying if I said no. I'm just saying that we need you."
"To win. Like the rest."
"Exactly."
"So why choose you over two others?"
"Because I work for humanities interest. The A.C.M was designed to
prevent the apocalypse and losing the war. And war will come if we don't
stop the apocalypse."
"How are you going to prevent this war you speak of?"
"By destroying the church, and if the war does come, we would fight
the Seven Angels."
"What do you mean by, destroying the church?"
"The church is working with the God to destroy the world!"
"You're insane. This is total insanity."
"Isn't your life full of it now?"
"You got me there."
"Let me explain. The church was set up to carry out subverse
activities on earth with arousing little too no suspicion. The messages
of love and peace are a lure for new members and camouflage for
destroying mankind. Faking all this goody two-shoe stuff is the perfect
cover. So us, the A.C.M, the Anti-Christian Movement, were set up to
stop all of this before it's to late. If we do not stop the church, then
the Seven Angels come."
"And don't tell me. You need me to defeat the evil guys for you so
you and all of mankind can live happily ever after while I'm wallowing
in misery. Correct?"
"To be honest, that was pretty much it."
"And why should I do it then?"
"Because they tried to kill you."
"The church......."
"Exactly. But the Angels need you, so why kill you is the question.
Unless there's a fifth group........"
I quickly got up off the chair and walked towards the exit. Once I
opened the door though, he asked, "Will you do it? For humanity."
"No." And I left.
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