Dark Creature
“Get the left! The chain, get the chain!” The sound of dragging metal was loud but so were the unearthly sounds and men where tugging on four large chains to get them pulled and connected.
They were massive black metal chains that had a gold etching all over the links. Four men per the four chains, three of which were attached. One man dove sliding on the floor just missing a sleek tail that ended in a serrated spade. The creature attached to it looked almost demonic in nature and it had this dark smoke that rolled around it. Powerful magic.
The man that dove slid across the stone floor that had a great deal of blood on it, and he was half-coated in it a moment later. Another man was impaled by the tail and yanked toward the creature who grabbed him with his free left hand and tore his throat out.
It gave a roar of frustration, spikes going up from the back of the spine all the way down the tail. The head was serpent-like and the arms and legs had a more human-like quality to them, long and powerful it could stand on two legs, but was not at the moment. Those with the chains got the last loop in and pulled hard.
The creature was pulled into an upright position and its arms out and the legs pulled taut as well. The creature changed then as its body was pulled in an uncomfortable way and the magic in the chains worked.
Several torches were lit that had been out a moment before. The creature was now what looked like a man with sapphire-colored eyes that glowed, the look on his face was angry and hostile. Pure hatred in those eyes and a warning of death.
“Finally,” the man in charge said and moved forward ignoring the dead and the blood all over the floor. The rest moved to check those that were down but they were all dead.
“You will regret this. You have made a grave mistake,” the creature who was now a man said in a tone that nearly echoed in the stone like room. “I’ll destroy it, all of it. I’ll let them through to devour your land. Nothing will stand between you and them now.”
“You will never be getting out of this, this is where you will stay. This is where you will eventually die. Your gate will seal forever and we will fear your creatures no more,” Jerrel said. The thing just looked at him, and was breathing evenly. The hatred in its eyes was even more immense than moments before.
“You’ve no idea what you’ve done. You understand nothing.” There was a sudden screeching from behind in the room and with the light that was now in here the back of the room looked like it was made of water or glass.
Behind it you could see all manner of smoky forms testing the barrier that was there. However, they’d closed it after they dragged this one out. With the being who controlled the gate captive, it was locked and the creatures on the other side could not come through.
“I know exactly what I’ve done. What we have done!” Jerrel shouted and there was an agreement from those standing here. Like they were proud, the creature just thought them foolish.
They had signed their own deaths, they knew nothing of his world, his gate. They had screwed themselves horrendously and the pain he would bring them for this was beyond describing.
“Your kind can’t come through now that you are held. They will stay over there and you here.” The man who spoke pulled out a blade and pointed it at him.
“Kill me, I dare you,” the captive said.
“If it were that simple we would have done it rather than chain you. No, you have to choose to do it on your own, and we will work at it. Break you to that point you want to die, creatures like you still have a use.” The creature just stared at him and the blade he had. There was no fear no concern, just a daring.
“This time we won, yours will never feast here again. We closed the gate, and they can watch what we do to their king to show how serious we are.” There was a flurry and rage of movement on the other side of the transparent barrier but they weren’t coming through. The beings on the other side were powerless to get to their master.
Jerrel raised the blade and jabbed it straight forward into the creature’s abdomen nearly to the hilt. It came out of his back. The creature made a deeper sound like he was winded.
“Let’s see how much you can take,” Jerrel pulled it back, and the creature man barely made a sound or showed pain, but blood did pour from the wound and a bit showed on his lips. He bared his teeth at Jerrel and the red was brighter on his white teeth.
“When you get to hell, I’ll make sure to greet you properly,” he said and Jerrel motioned for a different weapon. He was going to see if he could wear this one down and kill him.
A hell beast that had power over this portal and now it was sealed as long as they had him bound. If they killed him it would open it, if this creature expired on his own either from exhaustion or how brutalized his body was that would work. They could just not deliver the final blow. It had to be ‘natural’ and oh Jerrel had plans on how to make that happen.
“This is god’s work.” The creature just narrowed his gaze and the man took the new weapon that looked more like a mace. Those here gathered to watch wanting to see this thing die for all the crimes those like him had committed against humankind. Against mortals.
He’d let them through, let them feast on humans or others. They wanted him to pay the price, even if he wasn’t the direct one to have done it. This powerful creature controlled those that did. The creature looked away from Jerrel and it was a blatant silent stance telling him to get on with it then. Which Jerrel did having no idea that his blind conviction was the worst kind and had just damned his world.
