Lucius promised Bale something to feed. Let it be so :) This is a short chapter, but it'll show Bale's true horror.
Enjoy. Contains gore and blood.
It was bright of day. A few hours since Lucius's event that took place with the demon.
Inside the corridors of the factory walked a patrol of three Minotaur's. In Misyeryville, these bull-like creatures were Lucius's loyal guard, and Miseryville's soldiers. Neither of them looked any different, they patrolled these dark corridors alone. The area had been long shut off many years ago from all workers. Their objective was to search and destroy any living thing that got in their way. Armed with standard issue submachine guns. Yet it was mostly their muscle that made the Minotaur's most deadly. Their faces were gloomed in a serious look. Under the command of Lucius, they rarely showed any less harmless look.
The corridor itself was made of complete metal, and was almost quite cramped. There was barely any sign of light, except a few light bulbs that hanged from the ceiling. The area was practically a labyrinth. It was sealed off from a virus spillage, made to create inevitable Misery, yet it proved far too fatal. In attempt to not waste any of his workers lives, Lucius had sealed it off. As the years went by, it came to be ignored. The Minotaur's themselves however, were immune to the effects of the disease, any creature inside would likely be infected, and had to be killed.
The Minotaur in front of the group raised his arm behind him, as a sign to halt.
"I can see something" He said. Pointing at the endless tunnel way. He was right. There was some figure standing far in the distant. It looked almost dead, the figure was unclear. But the Minotaur could tell its head hung from its body, like it was a standing corpse.
"YOU THERE!" The Minotaur shouted. The figure remained motionless.
"THIS IS A RESTRICTED AREA! YOU WILL BE SHOT UNLESS YOU GIVE GIVE IN TO US!" But the figure did not move.
"THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING; GIVE IN YOURSELF OR WE WILL SHOOT!"
But the creature did not move at all. The Minotaur's raised their weapons towards it.
"ON THE COUNT OF THREE"
They aimed their weapons.
"ONE"
The figure did not move at all.
"TWO" They cocked their weapons.
"THREE!"
In an instant, they pulled the triggers, and the weapons fired rapidly down the corridors, the exploding bursts of bullets penetrated the figure, after many bullets punctured into the figures body, the Minotaur's seized fire. The figure fell to the ground.
The Minotaur pointed at the creature's body. "Gabriel, go and examine the body."
The guard reloaded his weapon, and was about to make a move towards the distant dead figure, but then the light bulbs began to flicker. On and off, the corridors blinked from light and dark every second. After the light came, the Minotaur gave a look of confusion. He turned his head to the body. It was not there.
The lights turned off again. But when they turned back on, standing in front of them, was Bale. His head hanging gloomily down towards the Minotaur in the front rank. He was no ghost like when Lucius saw him. His body was in complete physical form, his legs were thorny and disfigured, and his arms were two disfigured hands, with sharp nails hanging from his finger tips. Before the Minotaur could raise his weapon, Bale screamed in pain, the Minotaur looked at its disfigured hand, it burst into black blood, reshaping itself into a crab like claw.
With that, Bale grabbed the horrified Minotaur by the neck, and lifted him up high with inhuman strength. In horror, the other Minotaur's open fired into the beast's body, the bullets punctured into it, the black blood pouring out of it. Bale screamed in pain, but from that scream, he morphed into a horrific laugh. No matter how many bullets pierced its body, it would not fall.
A massive explosion of black blood ripped from Bale's thorax, out of the gory explosion, came a horrific tentacle, with a clawed hand on the edge if it. It hit one of the Minotaur. Grabbing him by the chest, then pinning him by the wall. Another tentacle ripped out of Bale's body, grabbing the other Minotaur and pinning him to the ground. Both Minotaur's dropped their weapons in shock. Bale turned its head towards the one he was handling.
The Minotaur watched looked at the demons emotionless face in horror. His hand found his side-arm in his pocket, pulling it out; he shot Bale in the face instantly. Bale screamed in pain. The bullet left a massive wound in its left eye. He turned his wounded face back at the Minotaur. The Minotaur looked at the wound. In horror, the wound closed up, and healed instantly, back to Bale's original face.
"You may be promising to me..." Bale said in its horrific, hissing tone.
With that, Bale opened his mouth. The mouth opened wider, wider eventually impossibly wide. Bale made a horrifying scream, which travelled with the wind itself, the Minotaur screamed in fear, just then, Bale launched at the Minotaur, almost as if kissing him, Bale's mouth on the Minotaur's. From the sound of it, the demon seemed to be sucking something out of him. A moment past, the helpless Minotaur remained motionless. Bale ripped his mouth from the Minotaur's. A black tongue leaked out of the demon's mouth, licking its lips. The Minotaur itself was completely motionless, his eyes were completely white, and his face was left screaming.
Bale took a deep, ghastly sigh. It looked like the demon had sucked the Minotaur's soul right out of him. Bale slowly turned its head towards the other two Minotaur's
"I feel the pity you have for your friend. Don't worry. You'll soon be joining him.'' Throwing the victim's motionless body away, he began to walk towards next one.
The two Minotaur's screamed in pure fear. But Bale's horrifying cackle drowned their screams of horror. The feast had commenced.