Whispers In The Dark
Chapter 12
Em stared at Zalgo, her unblinking red and black eyes frozen on his red ones. Em snarled at him, baring her fangs in a screech of rage. She wanted to tear him apart. He was the true reason why Arshen was dead. "Slenderman!" she turned her gaze to the tall man. He had moved and was placing Ben down carefully at the base of a tree. He looked up to her. "What is it?" Em cleared her throat. "Zalgo, you have commited atrocities, many of them, but there is one not yet addressed. You have meddled with the will of another demon, you bent his will. Your manipulation demands punishment." Em shook her head fiercely. "T'was not me you entirely wronged, as a result, the Sle3nderman will have a hand in shaping your fate, this night." Zalgo shrieked and charged, his one good hand outstretched, his claws ripe and ready to spill her blood. She didn't fool around. She sidestepped him as quickly as she could, thrusting a knee up into his midsection. It connected with a crack, and she grabbed him arm and bended it behind him, forcing to be still. "Quit moving, or I will break your arm." She looked over to the Slenderman. "Slenderman, will you have your hand in deciding this demon's fate?" she called down to him. She saw she shock and awe on his face. "You mean…" Em shook her head, her grey white hair following her movements. "He has wronged both you and I, and I don't want this to go unpunished. A life was lost because of him." Slender nodded. "He has also harmed a great many people I know of, and changed them beyond repair." Em nodded. Zalgo shrieked and squirmed in her grasp, so she tightened her hold on him. She lowered herself to the ground, moving her large arms from her back to keep him held in place. Only one arm was free, she kept all others busy. Slenderman was by her side a second later. "What shall be his fate? T'will be as you wish it so." Em said. Slenderman looked down at the demon. A smile ripped through the Slenderman's features. "I want him to suffer through all the pain of anyone he has ever harmed or caused to be harmed." Em deliberated this for a moment. Then she nodded. "I agree, though I want it to go a step forward than that." Slenderman tilted his head, still grinning. This i9njured Zalgo's pride even more, and he tried to break free. The consequence for this was that Em nearly smashed his spine. He screamed, the strength draining from his body. "What would you take a step further?" Slender asked. "I want him to feel it all, as they did. I want him to continue to feel it. I want him to feel the pain and memories of everyone he causes to die or be harmed in the future as well." Slenderman smiled. "And if he tries to make life miserable for us after that?" Em raised her red and black eyes to the gaze of the Slenderman. "If he dares, then I will inflict upon him such things that truly, hell shall hath no fury." Em continued to hold Zalgo in captivity. "And your proxies, friends and family. What say they of this sentence?" Slender turned back to them, raising both of his hands to them, expecting their reply. Jeff was the first to speak. "There probably isn't a soul that hasn't been meddled with because of that bastard! I say we let the little fucker have a little of his own meddling back!" Em smiled coolly. Then there were more voices. A little girl that Em hadn't noticed before spoke up. "I agree with Jeff, Zalgo is such a meanie!" Then there were voices of two more that spoke up. "Zalgo has caused much despair." Just then. Em snapped her fingers, and Ben awoke. "Ben." She nodded at him as he stirred from the clutches of sleep. Once he saw Zalgo, broken and bloody, his eyes widened. "Ben, what say you to the fate of this being, who has caused so much hurt to others you know and do not know?" Ben thought for a moment. He smiled. Then his smile became bigger. "Let him meet with a terrible fate." Em nodded. "So everyone is satisfied?" Just then, a small melody began to play. Em's eyes widened. The words were strange, and Slender's Tendrils popped out and slammed down on Zalgo's head. The melody was silenced. "What was that?" She demanded. Slender snickered, glaring mockingly at Zalgo. "He was trying to play his final trump card. When the last mouth opens and begins to sing a melody, the world basically comes to an end." Em whipped around, her fury spiking. "You dared to try to end everything in existence, all for this?" Em's eyes glowed in her fury. "You…" Slender quickly moved out of the way, not wanting to be in the woman's warpath. Slender did notice however, that Zalgo flinched under her rage. "You're not mortal." Zalgo spat. Em laughed humorlessly. "No shit." Zalgo snarled. Em bent down so she was face to face with Zalgo, both inches apart from each other. "If you were wise, you would deal with the punishment given and get on with your life." Em stared at Zalgo as he did the same. Em raised her hand to the air, and Slender, cautiously, moved back a few steps. Em's hand glowed, then burst into a blue flame. Em slammed her hand deep into Zalgo's chest, and he shrieked in outrage and pain. Em hissed in effort "I will not take your soul. That is not my place to do. But I will change your soul." Em yanked her hand out of Zalgo's chest, and hell fell on his hands, to the ground. "What have you done!?" he rasped. Em shook her head. "Simple. Every other soul you have ever caused to hurt in any way is now coming to you. They will cling to your soul for the rest of your existence, always showing you what they felt." As Em said this, multiple faint lights glowed in the distance, then more and more, and then from hundreds to thousands. She noted Slender stared at the glowing orbs. Zalgo did as well, only he for once in his life, felt fear. And rage. He snarled at the woman in front of him. "This isn't over." Em sneered. "We shall see I suppose." Em snapped her fingers, and the orbs surged forward, like a sea of falling stars. They absorbed themselves into Zalgo, hitting into him, sometimes dozens at once. When the last orb touched Zalgo, he disappeared and was nowhere to be found. Em sighed, as if rocks where falling from her shoulders, instead of falling onto them. She turned to Slenderman, a smile on her face. "I am sorry for…" her words trailed off, she stumbled and fell. Slender just barely caught her. He shouted to his proxies, concern immediately filling him. His proxies were by his side before he called. Slenderman felt the gratefulness from each and every one of them. He himself was filled with gratitude.