12And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.
"Reid…"Reid Garwin awoke with a start. He shivered as a cold sweat covered him head to toe. It was raining out; the hard striking sound of the drops hit his window and a constant tempo. This wasn't, however, what brought him out of his dreams. Someone had called out his name. The voice seemed feminine, almost longing. The haze of sleep was beginning to wear off.
"Reid…"There it was again. His room was dark, faint light leaked through the door to the hallway. Turning over he squinted at the large, angry, red numbers of his clock. 3:00 a.m. Groaning, he rolled back over and sat up slowly. Touching his bare feet to the floor, a shiver went up his spine.
The floor was never ice cold, his parents kept it heated. Was the heat off? He realized then that he could see his breath. The room was like an icebox, strange for the early days of August. Making his way into the bathroom, he wondered what had said his name. Turning the handles on the faucet, he splashed warm water on his face. Before looking up into the mirror, he grabbed a towel and dried off.
The face that he saw startled him so much that he let out a scream, jumping backwards into the tub. His eyes were pitch black and his face was aged away to nothing. A loud cackle echoed throughout his room. A woman waltzed into the room. Her hair was dark red and layered down past her shoulders her piercing green eyes watched him with a feral hunger.
"Soon enough Reid…you will fully give in to your powers…and the covenant will fulfill their true purpose. Until then…" she cocked her head to the side slowly. Before Reid could react she came rushing towards him, her face changing to a horrible form. Her hair became the color of blood and her skin pale. Her teeth became sharp and her hands clawed. Grabbing him by his barefeet she dragged him out of the tub and out onto the wood floors.
"We will break everything that can be broken in His Kingdom!" She straddled his waist. Her skin was like ice. Reid tried to struggle but his body wouldn't move. She grabbed on to Reid's hands one at a time and pulled them flat against the floor, palms out. Raising her hand into the air a wooden spike appeared in her grasp. In a flash it was brought down into Reid's left wrist. He howled in pain as the warm blood began to flow. His vision faded. He screamed again as she impaled his right. Hot tears poured down his cheeks. She leaned down above his face.
"Just think of yourself as the sacrifice for the Godly ways of your covenant. The true god is Satan, and you will embrace him as your ruler." She bent low to his ear. Her hair and breath smelled like sulfur and rotting flesh.
"Let the marks of your savior be a reminder to you that we are the most powerful, not your god" She hissed. Reid to jump involuntarily as she pulled away. In an instant his room transformed into a hill above an ancient city.
He was high above a crowd of taunters, ancient soldiers, and the forms of six demons surrounding the crowd. They grinned maliciously at him as hot blood poured down his forehead. The pain was unbearable. Two men on wooden crosses were on either side of him. They were twisted into horrible demonic figures that terrified every fiber of Reid's being.
"This was his fate…now feel his pain!" The woman hissed into his ear. She floated in front of him.
"Your soul is ours Reid!" she screeched as blackness engulfed him.
"Reid! Reid Honey wake up!" It was his mother. She was standing over him, along with his father. A worried look was strewn across his mother's face, but a look of anger fell upon his father's stony gaze. He found himself back in his bed, covered in a cold sweat.
"Reid?" She asked again.
"Where am I?" He choked out. His hands and feet burned as if they were dipped in fire.
"Honey your home, where you've been all summer. You were screaming so loud I think the Parry's could here you next door. What did you see? Oh God…your wrists!" she put a shaking hand on her lips. Reid's Father shook his head.
"What the hell did you do to yourself Reid?" Reid sat up and looked down to his wrists. A round bloody hole was intricately placed at both his wrists. His mattress was wet with blood. Turning the light on his parents gasped. His bed was covered in blood.
"Call the doctor!" His mother screeched as his father took off out of his room. Reid slipped back into unconsciousness.