Dreams of Hellfire and Brimstone
By: Krista Tidwell
Brown curls fly in waves against darkness and stone, the girl runs from her captor. His skin is paler than a corpse and he has the touch of hell frozen over. She runs knowing there isn't an escape, there never was and never will be. He knows she will continue to run though, she would fight him. He also knew that she belonged to him and he did not care for his treasures to be taken from him.
The girl is Kirsty Cotton, and the man is, as the humans call him "pinhead". His brood of cenobites though knows him as Xipe Totec; he has made a deal with time herself and bargained for their paths to cross again. He has waited for her and doesn't intend to her to slip away from him again! She though has never wanted more than to get out of his grasp, she has never forgotten the first time they and met. He always stayed with her though, even though he doesn't know it, she has never been able to escape him. Not in her waking day, not in her sleepless nights, and not in the almost comma inducing dreams, or nightmares some would call them.
So her let he run, let her tire out, and let her spirit become weak. Only then can he approach her, so let's go now to them as they meet in darkness, and we will share their experiences from here on out. I collapse onto the cold stone floor of the passage and try to catch my breath, which comes only in gasps. My muscles are weak from the strain of running after so long of doing nothing. From the darkness I see an even darker form emerge. My eyes widen if fear and I begin to tremble and push myself against the stone wall that confines my space with him. His voice finds me just before his eyes do, "Kirsty, after so long you would think that you would be more accustomed to seeing me", his eyes seemed to stare through me, to see my soul, to see my true self.
"What do you want from me?" He chuckles under his breathe and replies "I have always wanted the same thing from you Kristy, YOU" I shudder and grip the wall tighter and stand leveling my eyes with him, " I want to make a deal" He smirks, "I am afraid your time for deals… has expired." I am paralyzed with fear, I feel as if the air has been knocked out of me, he steps closer to me closing the distance in two easy steps. I hold my breathe as I silently will the wall to just swallow me whole right here. "I am surprised to see you giving up so quickly, Kristy, you who has had has the gall to fight me, bargain with me, and allude me; until today." He smirked darkly at me and what is left of my stamina has run out, fear has won over and what was left of my adrenaline has faded from my system leaving me drained. I did something I never though I would do, I passed out within the most dominant predator in hell.