The Madness at Koresh Manor Part 13

The monster lifted Raphael’s to his feet showing its teeth. “You fought well,” the voice from everywhere said. “You will die with great honor.”

                Raphael stilled cloaked in his armor fought to get free, but it was not working. The monster was far too strong for him and in that moment, he wishes he had the power of his little brother. He would give anything to be super strong. “You can keep your honor,” he screamed back. “I’m not dying tonight.”

                “Fighting to the very end,” the monster told him. “I hope all humans are like this.”

                The monster tossed him into his mouth biting down on his armor with all his might, but the armor held true to both of their surprise. The monster bites down against creaking its teeth against him like an unbreakable jawbreaker. The teeth shatter into a thousand pieces, but the beast didn’t spit him out. He tried even harder to sallow Raphael, but he wasn’t doing down without a fight. He stuck his arms and legs out like a cat over a bathtub.

                The monster cried came from with inside its throat trying to force him down, nothing was working. Raphael started to crawl back up the monster’s mouth, but something pulled at his feet. He looked down to see a smaller monster holding him.

                “What the heck?” Raphael wail. The one eye monsters were staring right at him. The eyes looked like a snake’s eye after it has eaten for the year. The body of the thing was a mix of bones cast in rust with black steel trying with all it might bring him lower into the massive monster. He kicked at the head of the thing, but all it did was enrage him even more.

                He keeps kicking trying to break free only to see to his dismay more of the same monster crawling up the throat of the beast.

                “This is the worst day ever,” He yelled at the monster holding his feet knowing he couldn’t hold on much longer. He would soon have to let go and fall into the belly of the beast. “Karalius?” He asked into the radio. “Can you hear me?”

                “Barely,” she said over the static radio, “but thank the goddess you are alive.”

                “I am and get me out of here,” he said back letting go and falling back into the pit of the monster’s throat. The smaller monster holding on to his foot falling with him. He didn’t balance off the side of the monster’s throat but watch all the other things stare at him jumping after him. They didn’t reach him and quickly join him in the fall to somewhere.

                The fall was longer then he thought it would be before he reached the bottom. He crashed through some white trees with black leaves and nailed into the hard ground. It wasn’t earth, but it felt as if it was from what Raphael could feel. He rolled out of the way of the falling bodies of the monsters, some of them didn’t land right while other hit the ground jumping up to their feet. They raced at Raphael as he did the same creaking one of them in the jaw, breaking it. He knocked a few more out before he had to turn to run into the woods.

                He stopped somewhere in the odd forest wondering how to get out of this place. “Karalius?” He asked the earpiece, but nothing came through. He sighed a little looking up at the red ceiling which had to be the inside of the monster’s belly. This was not good, and he had no way of getting out here or well, anyway he wished to travel.

                Before he could move the ground beneath started to move with the trees started to move out of the way of something, but he guessed it wasn’t smart to stick around to find out what it was. Raphael took off into the forest hoping to escape whatever was coming after him. To his dismay the more he ran from the sound, the more it seems he was running toward.

                It came face to face whatever monster or beast was about to come crashing through the woods after him. He ready himself for the fight making sure he could get away if need be, if there was anywhere to get too, that was.

                He stepped forward shaking his head as a wave of exhausted permeate over him. He dropped to the floor watching in horror as the armor around his fist started to melt back into his flesh. His skin was left bear to feel the burning acid of the monster’s stomach. He yelps from the unexpected pain jumping back to his feet and shaking the pain. He closed his eyes forcing the armor to from about around his hand and for a moment, he wasn’t sure it did unlit he opens his eyes seeing the metal around him.

                He grinned under his mask as a giant monster stepped out from the trees roaring at him. The was no point in wasting any time, so he dashed at the monster hitting him with all his weaken might within the kneecap. It did nothing to the beast.

                Raphael stared up at him saying, “Sorry, sorry.”

                He took off running with the monster chasing after him trying it’s best to grab him for dinner. He ran only a few feet before the roaring monster started to scream in agony. He stopped with a slid facing the dying beast with a green vision of Rain pulling a yellow and blue sword from the monster’s body.

                “What are you doing here?” Raphael asked walking up to the ghostly form of his friend.

                “I am not here,” Rain said. “This is an astral projection of me.”

                “Right and this is the most normal thing to happen to me today,” Raphael said. “How do I get out of here?”

                “You have to kill the Lesser One’s heart,” Rain said tossing him the sword.

                “Of course,” Raphael said looking down at the odd weapon. “Was your plan to be eaten by this thing?”

                “No.” Rain shook his head. “I was going to seal the gate, but now that you screw up and you are here, we can kill it.”

                “What are friends for?”

                “Hopefully to kill a demon god,” Rain fading away. “We’ll try to help when we can, good luck.”

                “Sometimes, I hate my life,” Raphael said to nothing heading into the forest wondering how he was going to get to the chest of this monster.

Author's Note

Writer’s Notes: Well, this story got a little weird but then again one of the main characters is a fox lady, so maybe, it started off weird. I kind of wrote myself into a hard place with having the Lesser One come out of the gate and Rain being knocked out. I knew Raphael wasn’t going to be able to hurt the Lesser One without the help of Rain, which is the whole point of the Lovecraft family. They are the only ones who can stop the Elder Ones and the Lesser Ones. So, I had to come up with something else and fast. What does a giant monster do best outside of smashing things? They eat things, and that is how we ended up with Raphael being eaten by the Lesser One.

Rather I like this part in the plot or not, don’t think matter much, all that matter is rather or not it works as I hoped. I think it works for now until I come up with something a little better.
Anyways, I’m off to take a nap.