Note at the end (mention of death and torture)
Mondays, were supposed to be the dullest day of the week, bringing about the beginning of school for children all around.
For Gunther in particular they usually consist of getting woken up by his mother,eating breakfast with his family while listening to his crazy grandfather everyday rant about the beast,get dressed and spend his time at school and out of school with Kick.
It wasn't anything special but Gunther enjoyed every second of it.
This Monday let just say it was a little different.
After all, getting kidnapped doesn't happen everyday and to make matters worse, they took Kck as well.
And now here they were blocked in a secluded house deep in the forest ,surrounded by 4 adults with sky masks including one that was monologuing.
"Hey, asshole!" Kick said losing his patience. "Stop talking."
"Aw,of course," the creepy leader smiled. "I have heard about that temper of your Mr.Clarence"
At the sound of his real name Kick growled
"Fuck you"
Hoping to defuse the situation Gunther whispers to his friend to stop antagonising the adult but he just as quickly shrank into his seat as the masked person moved his eyes on him.
"You," he said coldly. "Are you planning something?"
As he said that his hand move to touch him, but Gunther moved his head away trying to avoid it.Kick took that as an opportunity to bite the adult,leaving a deep bite mark on his palm and back palm to the point that you could see the bone.
The man screamed and one of the other men backhanded Kick across his back making the chair rattle in place.
Kick bared his teeth against one another but still snicker at the man's pain.
The bitten guy still hisses now and then when air made contact with the wound but calmed down a little at least.
" Be that way, then," he said coldly. as a cruel smile spread across his face. "You want to act so tough than let play a game"
He suddenly looked at the other people that surrounded them.
"Jorge and Peter bring this little shitbag in the back and give him a reason to laugh" The leader ordered and not 1 minute later Kick was out of the room
Gunter in all honesty was really scared now that his friend was gone and only hoped someone would come rescue them already
"Hey boss please don't tell me you are gonna let them torture the little guy because that kinda fucked even for you"
The last guy in the room beside the "boss" asked and as Gunther took a better look at him he looked really uncomfortable
The leader moved back in his line of sight and as a way of explaining how torturing a fucking kids was ok he showed his hand which now had 4 holes where you could see the bone
"Look at what that freak has done to my hand so you better be sure he ain't getting way without a few bones broken"
With that said the man turned his eyes away from them on to the wall almost seeming to ignore their presence.
"Hey kid" Gunther didn't move but he blink twice as to give the man a sign he was listening
"Don't worry i am from the police and we are getting you and your friend out of here"
He felt his heart blossom with relief at the stranger's words and he almost wanted to jump up and down in happiness that this nightmare was soon going to be over.
How wrong he could have been
The entire cabin was assaulted by the sound of Kick screaming in pain and Gauntlett felt like he was about to throw up as he froze in his chair
"Ahh music to my ears but got to give the kid respect for resisting this much ti-" Yet the disgusting man couldn't finish his sentence as he was cut off by..silence.
It felt like someone has flipped a switch as Kick's screams were cut off almost instantly
"Man i think you killed him" He heard a panicking man blurt out
There seam to be some commotion beyond the door
"Shut the fuck up peter he ain't de-" and for the second time in a day someone was caught off mid sentence but instead of silence,a grosome crunch shot through the air
Gunther didn't realise he wasn't breathing until scremes of terror started to assault his ears
"What the fuck are you" The man in the other room screech as the sound of something falling to the ground resonated through the chalet.
"You..you fucking killed Jorge" He scremed in a scared but angy tone
Gunther felt the room shake as something jump in the other room impacting one of the walls and breaking the door that stand between them
The man was down on his back trying to scramble away from the thing that was towering over him and kick was nowhere to be seen.
As for the thing.
It stood on two legs that were digitigrade
like the one you would find at cats or dogs though it reminded him more of the one seen at raptors in movies.
Small hips thatswiftly extended to a relatively big torso that was almost hollow in the middle with 8 long and rigid ribs extending out of the spine.
Instead of skin,a solid black substance took its place which would sometimes swirl around on its own as if mimicking the movement of muscles.
The leader was the first to move as he took a step back but froze once again as the thing turned to face them.
The hard black substance was hooded along its face set waver almost every second and its head was shaped to something akin to a combination of a deer skull and an crocodile
Burning purple eyes and a mouth full of overcrowding obsidian teeth decorated the face as its mouth just like its eyes glowed with a sickening purple.
However the strangest thing about it were the slender hand with finger the size of his own humerus that ended in slightly hooked claw
As it regarded them Gunther mind was having trouble reconciling what it was seeing
How could something like this could ever exi-
'Beware the beast with too many teeths'
The realisation that all this year his grandpa was always telling the truth hit him like a truck.
He almost missed as the leader fumbled and pulled a small revolver from his coat, leveled it up at the creature and fired.
The bullet was invisible for him as it shot through the air but he definitely heard the thudding sound it made.The creature was completely unfazed.
So the man fired again and again and he didn't stop until he emptied the gun of all it rounds.The demon didn't even stagger and took it without raising a single complaint.But that wasn't completely true.
It was making a low almost inaudible sound that when Gunter identified he wet
himself a little.
The monster was laughing.
It sounded like nails scraping on chalkboard but probably even worse was that it echoed in the creature maw which made it vibrate all around the room.
Gunther looked back at the man on the ground as he heard the leader scream at him to get away.
They will never know if that is what actually killed him but deep down they all knew he was going to die.
The monster turned back to the cowering man but before Gunther could see what would happen he felt himself scooped in the undercover policeman arm as they dashed out of the hut.
He might not have seen it but he definitely heard that indescribable sound of the man's skull bursting open like a balloon.
Outside,a black rover was parked near the door and the man holding him didn't waste a second as he entered the car and almost threw Gunther to the other seat,turned on the engine and slammed the gas pedal.
His mind was clouded at this point and he didn't even know if they were heading for the road or deeper into the forest.
After they put 100 meter between them and the hut, the policeman's body finally relaxed a little.
Big mistake
You see Gunter has felt his ears being assaulted so many times today that he honestly wants to be deaf.
But nothing.NOTHING can be compared to what he heard in that moment.
It was bellowing and high in pitch.This was the thundering screech alerting them that something evil and ancient was among them.
The shrill cry grated against Gunther's
eardrums so he placed his hand tightly against the sides of his head to block out the noise from entering his ears, yet he was still able to hear it just as perfectly.
It was so impossibly loud that every single window of the car exploded in millions of pieces,sending shards of glass all around them making the driver collide the carwith a tree.
Over the sound of blood in his ears he could still vaguely hear the thudding of the monster running after them..
As they exited the car the man looked around everywhere trying to find any kind of escape for them and when he found none a grimm expression expended on his face.
"Kid you need to go i will hold it back for you to escape"
A gasp escape from the boy but word seem to be stuck on his tongue so he just shook his head
"There is no time for the both of us please just run"He could only watch in awe at the man in front of him offering to sacrifice himself.
So for the first time in his life he listened to an adult without a second thinking about complaining.
Gunther ran
He ran as fast as his legs could go because he knew one second of resting would mean one second away from the creature teeths.
He didn't stop running until he saw the red and blue light of the police cars. Until he was in the embrace of his worried parents.
And as his adrenaline started to dwindling andhe felt himself drop in to unconsciousness he stared one last time into the forest.
Starving eyes stared back
He knew what he was doing was a death sentence but he would have hated himself his entire life if the kid died to that thing
If he was honest he would have probably escaped the beast if he let the kid to die but the price was too big.
So as he waited for his predator to appear he quickly scooped a small paper from one of his jacket pockets.
It was a photo that showcases a family of three all of them smiling at the camera.
One of the most precious item he ever had.
On the right was a beautiful woman with orange hair and piercing black eyes and a wild grin plastered on her face.
The love of his life
In the middle stood his little girl making a cute pose for the camera.
His life biggest achievement
Maybe he was selfish for leaving them so quick but now it was too late to run away.
He felt more than heard the beast hot breath on his neck and not more than a second later he was flung into the air.
His arm and shoulder broke instantly on impact as he went through one tree and stuck the second one.
The sounds of the forest were completely gone by now and all there was left was the rhythmic drop of a liquid hitting the ground.
Even as he stared in the direction where the best was a moment ago, he could not see anything but darkness.
When he realised at what he was looking he knew his fate was sealed
He was staring at its torso.
Slowly even though his entire body begged him not to do so he looked up to find the beast with its mouth wide open.
Maybe he should have died when he hit the tree
The only satisfaction he gained from that action was the realisation that it was no beast or demon.
But the hunger of the void
The space in his mouth spanned forever as billions of crooked teeth decorated every inch of it.
It was never ending hall of death
Yet as he stared in it maw instead of the feeling of fear or terror he only felt anger blossom in to his heart.
This thing really only cared about its hunger.
It didn't care about the loved ones he separated from one another
People with accomplishments and dreams were broken under its claws just because it felt hungry.
It was indifferent to the families he destroyed beyond repair.
And it definitely didn't care about how his beloved wife and precious Jackie had to live only by themselves in this world.
"Kill me already you fucking bastard"
The beast close his mouth shut
How long had he been here?
He honestly couldn't tell if it'd been two days or four years.
After all, this dull night sky never changed its stars.
He knew in what kind of place he was from the white walls to the smell of medicine.
His life seem to blur before him from the doctor doing check ups,his parent hugging him more tightly than they ever did to hearing news that Kick had finally been found by the police alive and relatively well
Sadly
But from what the adults have been discussing, to call it a successful operation is like calling Burj Khalifa a small building.
Seven people were killedand 3 of them died after Gunther had been rescued.
But when it comes to animal casualties,the number were in the hundreds
So here he was 1 day from being released from the hospi awaiting the only person that can help him arrive
His back was turn to the door as it open knowing exactly who entered.
The man was a giant standing at 6.7 feet tall(sligh over 2 m) a white bear sprouted from his chin that fell slightly on his collarbone.
Contrary to what many in the city would at first believe after seeing his family he was one of the only adults in the Magnuson family who dressed in more casual attire instead of the Viking clothes.
"You were right grandpa"
Gunther said out loud and he heard the man chuckle to himself slightly
"Boy i am always right but i am no mind reader so you need to explain about what i was right"
The boy only sight to himself as he turn to face him
"About the beast"
His expression change from smug to shock and than to a grim frown almost in second that if he wasn't paying attention he would have miss
"You have meet it than"
"Sure did,i mean 9 days ago it claimed 7 life after all"
The old man didn't say anything as he suddenly found the window that faced the forest very interesting
"What do you want me to help you with than"
He said not moving his eyes to meet his grandson's
"I need to get strong grandpa" Gunther explain in frustration and in that moment he really wanted to go back to his old life even though he knew it wasn't possible
"I need you to train me so i could face the beast on equal ground"
That seems to finally make Bjørn look back at him surprisingly whit a sly grin on his face
"I don't really believe that possible but hey if it gives me the opportunity to spend time with my grandson why not"
He smiled back
He needed to be strong enough to protect everyone from Kick
You hate us for the actions we took but we just honor the end of our bargainTheir lives,were insignificant when compared to yours and yet even though they torture your majesty you weep for themWhy? We will never understand and maybe that the problemYour judgment is clouded by humanity while our judgment by the void.So that would be our final duty for you.We will leave our bodies in the void and merge in one mortal being that will possess the humans emotions you hold so dearlyWe hope this decision will finally make you 'happy'
Maybe that decision was for the best wouldn't you say ClarenceWho am i?A human just like you my dear brother
That all for today,hope you enjoy.
Also i would like to mention that next chapter we will finnaly enter in to the main story and i know it will be really confusing but everything would be explain though the chapters so until than.Bye