The Awakening of the Demon

Marcus walked in a hurry, his long black cloak trailing behind him he held a silver goblet in his hand, ahead of him was a campfire, with a circle of 5 people in similar black cloaks around it, they appeared to be waiting for him. When he arrived the circle was silent and he pulled a knife out from his pocket. He slit his hand open and let the blood spill into the goblet, he handed it to the next person, and the goblet went around the circle completely filled with blood when it returned to him. Marcus nodded and everyone except him joined hands and walked counterclockwise around the fire. There blood mixed and there fingers dripped blood as they walked. Marcus started the chant when the others following along “Ad hoc citatus, cuncta quæ mandabo per daemonem iubeo sanguinem pro eius meritis offero!” he chanted this 13 times, before tossing the blood on the fire. He signaled for the others to stop and they waited… but nothing happened. They waited silently for 10 minutes but nothing happened, suddenly a girl spoke “I TOLD you idiots that this wouldn’t work, I don’t even get why you wanted to do it” She threw her cloak on the ground and went over to the cooler to grab a bottle of water.

Marcus sighed, and sat down, and the others began laughing. When they threw their cloaks to the ground you could tell that they were all young, probably in there early 20’s. Some of them went to grab something to drink while others sat around the fire laughing and talking. Marcus sat there quietly, brooding, he couldn’t understand what they did wrong… The girl who had spoke earlier sat down next to him and handed him some water. “cheer up Marcus, you didn’t really expect it to work did you? there’s no such thing as demons. and we just proved it “

“Your right Silvia,” Marcus said with a smile “ Now cmon, we should pack up and head back to town.” They gathered up their things, and put out the fire, they laughed gaily as they walked along the path. The sun was almost up and it was a saturday morning. As they planned for there day, some going to a spa some of them going out on dates, or to the movies, they didn’t realize they were being watched. Hiding in the shadows was a creature, with a human like face, except for his red eyes and fangs. His nose was simply slits, his body was covered in fur and tail hung down, his sharp claws dug into the trees surrounding him, as he drooled slightly at the sight of the group.

Silvia went straight home, to wash the cut on her hand and apply a fresh bandage. She wasn’t surprised to hear the stairs creaking, she just assumed it was the house settling. It was an old house, and it creaked often. Her friends joked about it being haunted, after all, why else would it sell for so cheap? Silvia sighed she was exhausted from her day. Or rather the night, the ritual had taken all night and she hadn't slept at all. It was so stupid, she had told them nothing was going to happen, but they insisted anyways. Just like they always did, ever since they were children especially with Marcus. She laughed slightly, if nothing else it was fun to do something stupid on occasion.

Silvia went and made herself a cup a tea before heading to her room, it was too bad that she had used her favorite cup that day, because when she entered her room she dropped it and it shattered as she screamed in terror. The creature was squatting on her bed her pillows were shredded and feathers were everywhere. “Blood… you promised me blood…” the thing said, it’s voice was unnaturally deep and it whispered, as if it couldn’t speak any louder. As Sylvia tried to run the thing pounced on her, tearing her throat open he drank the blood that spilled out, once she has drained he licked blood that had spilled off of the floor. Once he finished he ran out on all fours. Sylvia's body was laying in pieces around the room, and blood splattered across the walls, and sheets.

Marcus laid on his bed, staring at the ceiling, he had just woken up from a nap and was trying to decide what to with his day, when he got a phone call. It was from Silvia’s mom, which was odd, but he picked up knowing she would only call if it was something important. When he answered he could hear her crying “Laura? What’s wrong, is everything ok?”

Laura spoke in between sob’s  “n-no, Oh Marcus… Silvi… she... she’s dead…” Marcus was in shock, he couldn’t speak.  “Are you there Marcus? I.. I know you two have been friends so I thought… I thought you would want to be the first to know…”

“Sorry… and thank you… yes I did want to know… How..?”

Laura started crying again “It’s on the news” was all she said before she hung up.

Marcus flipped his TV on, the first news station he found had a picture of Silvy’s house, it was announcing the the next images may be sensitive for some audiences….  After the announcement, it displayed an image of silvi’s room, pieces of her body still lay on the ground and blood was everywhere. Marcus immediately turned it off and called Aaron. He was still cleaning up from there camping trip, after he told him the news, he hung up and collapsed on his bed, crying. He slept through the day, and didn’t wake up until the next day.

Cece had freaked out over the news, Silvi was her best friend, she almost skipped out on her spa trip that she had planned, but Colin had convinced her that it would be good for her. She spent most of the day in the mud bath and near the end of the day she had washed herself off, as went to the massage room. The Masseuse told her to lie down and that he would be right back with the lotion for the massage. Cece heard the door open and assumed it must be the masseuse, but instead the creature walked in, when he trailed his long claws across her back she simply thought it was the cold lotion, being squeezed on her skin, that is, until he ripped out her spine and began to lick the blood off of it. He ripped her apart drinking the blood out of the holes he ripped into her body, he was dripping with blood when he jumped out of the window and disappeared behind the bushes. The masseuse returned to find the bloody mess of Cece’s body sprawled around the room.  the words I need more blood were written on the wall in blood that dripped down to the floor.

Aaron Collin, Marcus and Glen got together, they were all that was left of the group, the girl’s Cece and Silvia were dead already. “Do you really think that… that this is our fault?” Glen asked.

“of course not,just like Silvi said, it was a stupid joke, nothing happened. If it was a demon wouldn’t he have killed us while we were in the forest? Why wait until now?”

“If not the demon then who else is doing this Aaron? Think about it, we promised him our blood, and whoever it is is after our blood!” Glen was shouting, which was something he only ever did when he was worried  “we need to protect ourselves, he obviously isn’t satisfied yet, who knows which one of us he’s going to come after next”

“there’s no such things as demons!” Collin growled “I never believed in them before and I don’t plan on starting now”

Marcus finally spoke up “Demon or no demon, something is after us, that much is true… I think we should call the cops.”

They drove down to the station and told the police there story. Only to be laughed at and told that demons and ghosts don’t exist. They were led out and told to let the police find the real killer and to stop bothering them with ghost stories. They decided to split up and go to there homes and grab what they needed to spend a few day’s a Marcus’s, his place was the biggest, and there was safety in numbers .

Glen walked home, looking over his shoulder all the way, he was terrified that the demon was coming after him, and sadly, he was right. when he entered his house the thing was waiting for him. it was crouched on his kitchen counter drooling. it pounced on him the minute he walked in, it ripped his chest open and ate his heart liking up the blood off of his chest. He drained him, and left his body there, grey from bloodloss.

The other three stayed at Marcus’s house, the demon didn’t come during that night. Leaving them in a false sense of security. Marcus didn’t sleep during the night, he couldn’t sleep, after all he had caused the death of his friends… or had he? They had all agreed to it, and besides he still wanted a demon for a slave perhaps the thing would be satisfied by Aaron and Collin’s blood, and he could control it. After all, he had been the leader when they cast the spell, that meant that the demon was his.. right? Why shouldn’t it be his?

When the day come Marcus was sleep deprived,  and couldn’t stop thinking about how he wanted the demon for himself… even at the cost of his last two friends. After all, who need friends when he could take over the world with a demon? He decided to let the thing has his friends, then he would take it as his slave.

When he saw the demon outside of his window he knew what he had to do. He simply walked over to Colin, and asked him to take the trash out, it was full, and if they were going to be staying there for a while he would appreciate the help. Collin agreed and went outside, just as he was dumping the garbage, the thing pounced on him, Marcus and Aaron heard his scream and looked out of the window only to see the thing drinking his blood.

Aaron turned to Marcus “How… how could you!! You sent him out there, did you know the thing was waiting for him? is this some sort of sick plan?! How could you kill your own friends.. for what?!” Marcus stood there laughing, he had left the door open and it was leering behind Marcus. It cut off his head with his claws and drank the blood that spurted out of his neck.

Marcus stood over him watching. After a while he turned and walked away, “clean up once you are finished slave”

“Yes.. master” the thing replied spraying blood over the wall as he spoke.

Marcus smirked, he was slightly surprised that it had worked, that the monster was his now, but he should have known, no bad deed goes unrewarded. He walked to his room to mark the day on his calendar it was October 31 2014, How ironic he thought. Halloween day. Ah well, time to start planning.