IN DARKNESS THOU SHALT FIND ME

 

Rating: PG13
Genre: Controversial.
Setting: Hell
Main Characters: a demon

 

WARNING: Contains explicit controversial thoughts on religion. If this is likely to offend you in any way DO NOT read. I repeat: Controversial religious thoughts.

Note from the Authoress: this is VERY controversial. Note the warning. If you are incredibly religious, read this, and get mad, I will not be held responsible, as I have given you fair warning.

 

Part 1

 

Screams pierced the dark murky depths of a bottomless cavern. All around the souls of the damned floated, writhing in eternal agony. And the tortured souls of demons floated around, binding the fallen angels who now roamed the earth to the evil underworld. While their soul was trapped in the timeless eternity of Hell, no demon bound to the dark lord could escape his evil clutches. They were forced to wander the earth, bringing souls to feed their masters unending hunger.

 

I gazed miserably at those condemned to eternal pain in the dark recesses of Hell. I pitied them in a way. Pitied their ignorance. Only those who felt they would end up here actually did, and only their foolish minds kept them chained to the incessant torture that they endured because of it. But what could mere mortals hope to understand about the workings of the world. The world under the command of demons. Demons like me. We spread the rumours, opened the horrific possibilities to the world. They never stood a chance. All that it took to seize one of their souls for our own was a small idea that they were doing something wrong. And that was all that made our own agony worthwhile. But  as I watched those fools tormenting themselves, I knew what they felt. Even if they realized, how could it be possible to banish such torment from ones mind? It wasn’t possible, and that made it even more satisfying, in a morbid, twisted way. Knowing that even if they had some inclination of how to escape, hey would never manage. But there must be some way. I had seen it happen. Some of the damned vanished. That wasn’t the point of the place. If they just ceased to exist, there would be no point to all of this. The superiors had hushed up the disappearances, but word gets out. Knowing this, was it plausible to assume that there was some means to escape here? I could only dream that it might be true

 

Think of them. Those fallen angels. Living in torment day after day. Think of them. They had once seen true pleasure, true paradise. Then a cruel force had snatched them, ripping them from the paradise they knew, despite their every effort. No chance to repent, no chance to beg forgiveness. Plunged from paradise to torture in one move, and forced to live with their memories for all eternity. Those damned souls; they think they know pain, and suffering. Yet they have never seen a place free of all horror. Like the demons. Bound in this place of suffering, torture and pain. True Hell. Suffering happens all of the time, but to have everything that is good, to know true paradise, and have it snatched away, replaced by everything that is wrong, the very opposite of the paradise you knew. This is true Hell.

 

I hated it. I wished for a way out. I would give anything. Those damned souls, they got away. But they were never truly bound. Is it possible for a captive like me to escape the chains that bind me? Is it possible for me to escape? I am a demon, yet must I prowl the Earth forever, searching for sinners to add to the cruel cage that I m myself a part of? Is there a way out? Can I return to the place of paradise I once knew? I hide in the darkness, and watch for my chance. I am always waiting, watching, hoping, for a gateway to appear. Forever. Can it ever happen?

 

They say that their master is the cruelest being who existed. But how can such a statement possible be true. It was not their master that sent them all to this place of eternal night. It was another. How can any being do that to another? True cruelty exists, yet none see it. What monster could allow someone to taste paradise, then shun aside to eternal agony without a chance? But is there a chance for a demon to redeem itself? Will a doorway open, to give the fallen ones a chance to rise again?

 

The light pierced the blackness in front of me. Such light I had not seen for millennia. It was the light of paradise. I could not believe my luck. Was some divine form of freedom being offered to me? Some desired doorway back to ultimate pleasure? With an overjoyed feeling I scrambled to the portal. My freedom was within my grasp. I could taste it. I stepped into the light.

 

No demon could escape from the timeless caverns. Many may fool themselves. The phrase never step into the light. It was directed at them. When one stepped through the potential gateway to freedom, a pain like no other was fated to pass through them, draining all of their energy, causing white hot heat to burn every part of them. Pray you never hear their screams, as the very sound of pain, and ultimate suffering given voice would destroy even the most stable of beings. But this pain is no easy way out. They are forced to stay forever, writhing in the agony at their futile attempts of escape, hidden in the darkest recesses of Hell, hidden from all. Left for all eternity suffering ultimate pain. Unable to warn others what fate lies in the portal? What cruel twisted trick is it, to tempt a tortured soul so much that they would risk everything, merely to end up suffering more than before? How can anyone be this cruel?

 

I had heard the divine voice. Laughter ringing around me. Foolish demon, to imagine escape to be so easy. The pain is constant, there is no escape. Yet I live on, stuck with this blinding torment through the lonely eternity. There is no escape from this place. I know this now. This is the only way I can warn others. Take heed to my plight. Listen to my warning. There is never an escape. Only the doorway to more pain. I lie alone in the darkest corner. My only companion my own pain. My body prowls the Earth, but my Soul is bound forever in the dark recesses of Hell. I lurk in darkness. I cannot leave. In the darkness thou shalt find me.

 

THE END