PRELUDE
Hot flames of white fire licked the flesh of the screaming souls that decorated the walls, their skin melting off and the muscle and bone beneath blackening with the slow roast. The painful shrieks and screams were accompanied by high pitched laughter that found its way from a banquet table not too far from the sinister view.
Seated at the gruesome table made of human bones melded and twisted into ornate furniture, was a monster shape like a man with no eyes that seemed to forever bleed. The blood dripped down its face only to sizzle as the drops met with his hairless naked flesh. Its hands kept long fingers with jutting knuckles and curled talons as nails. It was bald and on his scalp were three ringed piercings, connected by a small black rope that the man would like to pull and revel in his own pain. Its physique was that of a skeleton with a skin covering, the bones jutting everywhere. The feet it contained were not really feet at all but stumps that had eight spiderlike appendages. Its nose was nonexistent; instead two large holes replaced them. It inhaled and the two would even larger, smelling the cooked human flesh that was prepared on a plate in front of him.
The human dish was well burnt, and still alive. The creature licked its lips and smiled, revealing sharp, black stained teeth.
It slowly rose from the skeletal chair and bent over the faintly breathing charred body. The near corpse, had seemed to once been a woman, yet the breasts had all but been torn off. Her eyes were gone but she still managed to cry out in pain, if only in small whimpers that could never convey her suffering.
"You smell delicious. The adulterers and liars always are though." It snickered in a deep voice, crawling around its meal. The woman gave a startled sound. This seemed to please the disgusting creature.
"Oh, no, you're not in hell, but I promise my dear you're going to wish you were." It laughed heartedly before lowering its head and biting into the face of the burnt body. The woman screamed before her lips and tongue were too ripped away.
It lifted its head and began to savor the torn flesh in its mouth. It looked down to the now dead corpse.
"Welcome to the evil of the world…let's play some more shall we?"
It waved its hand over the corpse and soon the woman came back to life, only this time the burns were gone and her torn flesh healed. She looked terrified at the monster. It smiled and then proceeded to dig his talons into the woman's belly making her scream. It laughed and bowed down to drink the fountain of blood spewing forth from her stomach.