Title: Sin's Apprentice

Author: Holly Dane

Rating: PG-13

Summary: A poem about the night that Victor created his monster. How he wanted so badly to bring him to life, only to fear him the moment that he lifts the lid of one stone cold eye.

The thunder cracks like fury's fist

As rain pelts across the midnight sky

While droplets fall the wind whips fiercely

Through the black night the silence cries

It has taken two years to finally make it

But to him it seems like an eternity

When you work all day for each waking moment,

You barely have any time to breathe

Fastening clasps and tightening wires,

He rushes around like one possessed

With nimble fingers he positions the bolts,

For what he has discovered no one will ever best

Tedious hours and long preparations

Have been his companions during long, lonely nights

But the hours spent were worth every moment

They gave him hope of mastering God's might

Will they marvel at his genius

Perhaps they will ask him how it was done

Although he knows not which one it will be

He knows that his moment has come

So with a pounding heart he walks towards the table

And gazes down at the creature of death

His stony eyes are closed and his limbs lie dormant

But the young man knows he is to soon take his first breath

So now he runs quickly up the winding stone stairs

With each step he takes his goal grows nearer

And as he runs, his footsteps echo

But there is no one to hear them in his lonely prison

When he reaches the top he looks outside to the lightning

His anticipation boils over as he watches it boom

Obsessions has blinded him,

And led him to untimely doom

Pale hands fasten around the lever

His nerves run wild and he bites his tongue

As he cranks it the tables rises

His creature will live before this night is done

When the cold steel table reaches the open ceiling

The lightening rod trembles with unbridled energy

In awe, the pale student gapes at the sight

Never before has anyone see the dead brought to life

Excitement reached the boys' wide, blue eyes

And with grave trembling, he cried to the sky

He had finally discovered the power of God

But he knew not the consequences of creating life

A strand of black hair fell in front of his face

And within a moment fear flooded his heart

For what he had seen was more terrifying than death

What he saw was the yellow eye of his sick art

Stumbling backwards, the student shook with horror

All he had wanted was to father life

But instead he had given death a face

The face that would haunt his dreams day and night

Fate was sealed, and doom grew near

And all for the price of science

For science he would lose those his heart held dear

That night a young man signed over his life

For the beast he created was hated

This creature would stab him in the heart like a knife

But to do so use those he cherished

And one day this beast would call himself Satan

One day he would cry for his wrongs

He will claim that his father is the one to blame,

But in truth he is no fallen angel

I really enjoyed writing The Scarlet Girl, and I wanted to do a sister piece for Frankenstein. So Sin's Apprentice is that piece. I like the way it turned out. I would really like to know what you all think though! So please leave a review. It means a lot to me.

Thanks for reading.