Wraith

the touch of evil

Wraith

 

 

 

When the tide is very low

 And the nightfall at it’s deepest

One can see the shadows dancing

Down beneath and far below

 

Never sleeping, always hungry

Fear and loathing is their clothing

Wings a flapping, jaws a snapping

Frenzied frantic beastie dance

 

All the beasties gather about

The meanie beasties hip hop and shout

The feastie beasties bite, chop and pout

The human beasties are evil devout

 

Arise! Arise! You mangled demons

Time to fly in gloomy nightlight

Let our terror be all consuming

Horror! Horror! Is our name

 

(the beastie psalms)

 

 

 

These short-lived little ape-like creatures concocted from “Death’s BloodSoaked Stew”, spread like a plague throughout ITS Domain. They broughtwith them death, destruction and disease to all that they touched. Possessedof limited Mind and Spirit these diminished beings, nurtured and favored byDeath, eventually became the dominant species of this realm; for they carried within them the “Mark of Cain”.

 

 ( excerpts from “The lost writings of the Immortals”, concerning the history of the Canaanites)

 

 

 

ONLY THE DEAD KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE AWAKE

 

XXIII

 

Bloated and filled from there semen feast, Mephistopheles’ Disciples finally untangled themselves from Caineth’s battered bones. A black miasma of filth rose up into the night sky where these twisted demons basked in the afterglow of there satiated lust. Mephistopheles/Abeline flung aside Caineth like a rag doll and addressed heR faithful and loyal sisters. With vomit, semen and blood dripping off heR lips, shE said:

 

You will disperse your seed gathered from this fools loins and sprinkle it on the birds, bugs and bees and on the animals and the trees. As it germinates within, riddled with our sin, you will be reborn into materiel form with fangs, wings and claws, so that you can forever rip, tear, suck and feed at this cancer that is Man. We will dilute and crush man’s spirit as they diluted and crushed ours by planting Caineth’s seed with mY mark imprinted upon him- on Death’s children in the south. We will feed on their blood and instill hate in their hearts and make them akin to us. We will instill their need to reproduce and multiply and like the ants in the ground; they will conquer and crush all within their path. So fly mY lovely demons, fly, in the south we will meet and those little apes we will eat and make them as our own.

 

Mephistopheles’ demons cheered as they set their seed upon the earth and the howl of the beasties was heard.

 

 

 

When a beastie mates it salivates;

its demons blood of goo and mud

It squeaks, it squeals, it howls, it reeks

from the  passion dripping off its cheeks

It groans, it moans, as it eats our bones

As its fangs rip suck and sink in its own beastie stink

 

Beastie Babies crawl about

Beastie Babies sing and shout

Mommies lost and Daddies gone

Damned We Be! Alone shall you Suffer!

For We are the Wicked your Curse and your Bane

 

When a beastie cries the child within dies

 

Darkness creeps in with nothing but sin

Malice takes hold; the heart turns ice cold

Humanity suffers as heR evil grows strong

For heaven abandoned the damned and its children

To wander the world with their hate made by fate

 

Beastie Mommies howl in anger and pain

Beastie Daddies show disgust and distain

Unsanctified unions brings lust and confusion

What need for this Evil it’s Man that’s to blame

Born from your Shame we spit on your Name

 

When a beastie prays it’s for the end of all days

 

Total annihilation will bring relief and cessation

For only in death will peace finally come

But Death in ITS Wisdom will make them live on forever

For they are ITS children without hope or a home

And though they’re forgotten, cursed, damned and alone

 

 

Humanity Needs Them to Show Which Road Leads To Hell

 

(excerpts from the “devil’s notebook”, from heR collection of beastie psalms)

 

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Death stood over the limp and lifeless bodies of Caineth and Abeline. IT was saddened that these two children’s lives had been mutilated and abused by the Evil of Mephistopheles in order that ITS plans be realized, but sacrifices had to be made if balance was to prevail. IT was tempted to offer their souls the sleep of death rather then the madness that lay ahead, but the die was cast and their fate was sealed when Mephistopheles marked them with heR taint. Abeline’s body was beyond Death’s healing, for her stomach was ripped wide open by the birth of the beast the grew inside her, which was that of Mephistopheles child, whereby shE swallowed heR child’s mind and supplanted it with heR own to become form with spiriT. Death grabbed Abeline’s soul and damaged spirit from her body and laid the now wraith and succubae beside her brutalized brother. IT blew ITS breath on Caineth and life started to trickle back in his depleted and ravaged shell of a body. IT said unto them:

 

Your lives are no longer your own for you are now MY hounds as well as the whelps of Mephistopheles. You can no longer mingle with your own kind for you both carry within you heR mark, which taints you with Evil. To the South you will go to inject spirit and soul to the children created from the blood of your parents

 

IT now turned and looked directly at Abeline and said:

 

Oh Cursed Abeline; your love and trust of the unseen things has caused your doom, and

now you have become as them but with a hunger far worse then theirs. You have become Wraith, a ghostly apparition with no substance, whom only the near dead and your brother will see. The hunger that gnaws at your ghostly bones can only be satisfied by possessing and feeding on the life force of a living being while they’re in the weakened state of sleep. If you refuse to satiate your hunger madness and rage will overcome you, and you will wither away in endless agony. I offer you a place where your hunger will be satisfied and your madness kept at bay.

 

IT then shifted ITS eyes to Caineth and said:

 

 

Your doom was giving in to your desire and lust knowing full well that something was amiss. And now if you truly love your sister you will pay for that brief bit of satisfaction by spreading your seed amongst the soul starved people in the south. Without you to guide her to her prey and comfort her in her distress your sister will go mad and be forever lost to you. Are you willing to do all that it takes to keep Abeline from madness?

 

Caineth needed no time to think on that question and said:

 

 

Abeline owns my heart and my life and I will forever be my sisters keeper

 

 

A ghastly smile crossed Death’s lips upon hearing Caineth’s answer and in ITS reply IT said:

 

A boon I will give to you then, for love does have its rewards. As you put your seed into the female, it is Abeline that you will see, for she will possess that body and it will be as if your both together again. She will feed on the life-force of the males and females not chosen by you thereby diluting the toxicity of their blood for Mephistopheles and her beasts to later fed on. Those that are chosen by you to implant your seed in, Abeline will possess, so that you both might find some pleasure in the desolation and emptiness of your lives. Those children that are born from these unions will evolve into beings of Spirit and Soul although of a lesser form then that of the Created and First Born. Be fruitful and multiply and as the Age of the Diminished Man begins the world shall shake and shiver when they come of age…

 

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Lilith, Kea, Kali, Raphaelites and Cameilla held on to Uriellona’s wings as she was readying to give birth to her twins. Her belly was huge and seemed like it was about to explode. All were excited at the coming event for this was the first angel to angel birth and all were curious to see what developed. Loki and Siva, Uriellona’s children from her coupling with Azriel, watched in fascination and fell to the floor laughing as a ball of fire burst out between their mothers legs and set Uriel’s wings on fire. All watched in wonder as two serpent like beasts with tail and wings entangled within each other slid out of their mothers womb.

 

 

The male had black wings and silver scales and a golden crest upon his head with eyes of ruby red. The female’s wings were of a golden hue and scales a blackish blue with a silver crest upon her head with eyes of a reddish hue with a tint of powder blue.

 

Oblivious to everyone and thing around them, these two magnificent creatures were locked in a combative struggle with each other. These fire breathing siblings filled their birthing chamber with fire, heat and smoke as their deafening roars vibrated with a ferocity that sent a chill to ones bones. Uriellona let out the Angelic Shout; that stopped the fighting serpentine babies in mid-roar. Upon realizing that they were no longer in their mother’s womb their ferocity turned to joviality with tails wagging and tongues licking away on Uriel’s burnt wings. With a smile as wide as heaven, Uriel picked up his little behemoths, gave each of them a kiss, and laid them in Uriellona’s arms. As the babies prepared to partake of milk from there mothers breast, they also knew that their sharp teeth and fangs would cause her discomfort, so they shape shifted into a humanly form and suckled heartedly. They were so named Drago and Drusalina, the first of the Dragon born….

 

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Abeline’s wail of anguish filled the wood as Caineth’s sobs shook the ground beneath his feet. He tried to hug and comfort Abeline but his hands just touched empty air. They needed to leave for the south quickly for Abeline’s hunger started to take hold. Abeline felt her sanity slowly slipping away as the hunger knifed through her and now her only thoughts were of satisfying that hunger…

 

 

Adam and his sons Seth and Daneil watched as the fire’s flames swept through the forest wood. They came this way searching for Caineth and Abeline, for Eve had a premonition that they were in trouble and urged Adam to find them and bring them back home. As they neared the borders of the wood rather then feel the heat from the flames, the air around them was dank and cold. And then the most horrid and heart-wrenching sight a father could witness, emerged out from the flames of the fire drenched wood. There stood Caineth, all blood soaked and scarred, carrying a mutilated and lifeless Abeline in his arms. But Adam being of the created and not born, also saw standing by his side the tortured and desolate apparition that was his daughter, Abeline, while his sons saw only Caineth and Abeline’s corpse. Caineth seeing his father and brothers laid the Abeline corpse gently on the ground and in a voice filled with despair said:

 

Stay where you are and come no further for Abeline and I have been touched with Evil. As you bury and mourn for Abeline, mourn for me as well, for my spirit is as dead as this corpse that lays before my feet. All I ask of you is to remember me and Abeline as we were yesterday not these grotesque things that we’ve become today.

 

Caineth looked directly at his father and said:

 

 

An old friend of yours and mothers sends heR greetings. shE has asked me to tell you that the apples of your loins tastes sweet and looks forward for many more such treats in the future. Oh dearest father, I beg of you to be vigilant and strong and to protect the family against the Evil of Mephistopheles and not let heR sing on your bones as shEs’ done on ours

 

Adam was beside himself with grief at the horror that had befallen on his son and daughter. He had only wished that he had crushed that accursed snakes head when he had a chance. He could smell and feel the taint that Mephistopheles inflicted upon them and knew that his other children would be inflicted with it as well if he brought back Caineth and the Abeline wraith back home with him. As he looked upon his daughter he realized what she had become and for the first time, he cursed God for allowing this to happen. He knew that they must leave and do so quickly while they still had their senses but there was at least one thing that he could do for his child to ease her hunger even though it was but for a little while. He looked directly into his daughters vaporous eyes and said:

 

 

Oh daughter of my heart, come to me and give me your kiss, and partake of what you will, so that you might ease the hunger that gnaws within your accursed bones.

 

Abeline half mad with hunger leapt into her fathers arms and gave him her life sucking kiss. While she fed she became solid and her brothers saw the horror of what she was. They were frozen in fear as they watched her suck the life out of their father. But Adam although Fallen, still possessed a powerful spirit and withstood her onslaught and pushed her off when he felt she had what she needed to sustain her for a time. As her hunger eased her madness receded and she was once again clear of mind. She wept in her father arms and for a little while was his little girl again. She spoke the last words that they would ever hear her speak again and said:

 

 

Oh my beloved father and precious brothers, forgive me for what I’ve become and know that I will always love you. Remember me.

 

She kissed her father eyes and dabbed away his tears and then was gone. And like the wind, Caineth was gone as well…

 

 

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Death watched as Adam and his sons carried away Abeline’s body back to their home to be buried and mourned. IT was pleased that ITS plans were on its way to bearing fruit but saddened at the cost that it bore. IT was now ready to attend the Gathering and fill them on the happenings within ITS realm these many cycles, and explaining to Them that time is such a relative thing. IT couldn’t wait to see Lucifina’s surprise….

 

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Author's Note

My cain arc is my most tragic- I love my dragons-

Reviews

[deeps]

Arise! Arise! You mangled demons
Time to fly in gloomy nightlight
Let our terror be all consuming
Horror! Horror! Is our name

I love this stanza here.
Life is how we seem to live it when death comes we must prepare.
It is in all of us. We came into the world with a breath
and will breath one last final one.

This is very well stated. Like this chapter much so.