The Crow Tides of Sin
By
Shaz Shaz220885@hotmail.com
The flash ends, I open my eyes and
stand up. The crow is still looking at
me. Now do you understand why you've been brought back? "It was you
wasn't it?" Yes, now you must
prepare for your task what do you mean?" You cant be an angel of death
looking like that I realise that the bird had a point. I walk into the bathroom and look in the
mirror. My face is dirty and I look
pale, my hair is knotted and it's full of dirt. I decide I better get cleaned up first. I couldn't deliver my killers into the hands of death looking
like this could I? It would be bad manners. I laugh at this thought; I can't wait to see their faces. Will they
recognise me? Will I have to remind
them of that night? I know one thing,
I'm going to enjoy the look on their faces when they realise they're going to
die, even more I'm going to enjoy killing them one by one slowly and
painfully. First you must look the
part as well as think the part I turn on a tap hoping the water still works
in the building. It does and I decide
to have a shower. I undress and step
under the falling water its cold but this doesn't bother me and it feels good.
I have a happier vision this time –
-Jack and I
making love in the shower –
I smile at this memory and carry
on washing the dirt out of my hair. You really should start to get ready now if you want to get this
done soon I look at the bird and get out of the shower. "What can I wear?" I say while looking at
the rags I had been wearing you'll find something if you look I wander
into my old room "how will I find anything to wear, the room was torched"
some of the closet wasn't I walk to the closet, it was a walk in closet
which held all of our clothes. I felt
drawn in a way to the black clothes. I
found some black trousers and a black long sleeved top. I found some black underwear and when I was
dressed I went over to the full-length mirror and wiped away the soot to look
at myself. "Not bad but there's
something missing" then it hits me. I
walk back into the closet and come out again wearing Jacks long duster
jacket. You have the clothes but
what about the face? "I know exactly what to do" I walk back into the
bathroom and open the cupboard under the sink and get out two cans of paint,
one black and one white (we were going to start redecorating a few weeks after
our anniversary). I look in the mirror
and dip my hands into the white paint and rub it all over my face I then take a
thin paintbrush and fill in my lips. I
see Jacks mutilated face again and extend the edges across my cheeks I remember
the streaks of blood running down his cheeks and paint lines from my eyes and
down my cheeks in two thin lines. I
then carried the lines on up my forehead. I step back and look at my new face and smile. "This'll scare the shit out of them" Lets go I follow the crow out of the building and to a
department store. "What are we doing here? I thought we were going after those
men." You need weapons
first" "Ok so we just break in and
get what we need right?" I feel a bit uneasy about breaking and entering but
then I think what the hell what are the police going to do, I'm dead I
smash the display window with a kick and walk inside. I head straight for the weapons section. "This is going to be fun!" I look around and see all types of weapons,
guns, and swords and knifes. I giggle like a child in a sweet shop and start
collecting weaponry. I see a sword I
like the look of, it looks like something a ninja would use. I take it and strap it to my back. I then see a smaller, knife version of it
and put it into the back of my trousers. I grab 3 lengths rope (You never know, I can be inventive) then head for
the guns section. When I was alive I
had no idea about guns but now I knew which ones to go for. I got the most powerful gun I could find and
two smaller guns and then I head for the back where they keep the ammunition I
break the door off its hinges and fill my pockets with as much ammo as I could
and then head out the way I came in.
"Who's first?" Snake, he's the
one who pulled the knife on Jack, follow me I follow the bird again and it
leads me to a club. It looks like the kind of place drug addicts, drunks,
murders and rapists would hang out. "Looks like the right kind of place I would find them in." I'll wait
outside, don't be too long you have much to do "You sound like a parent" I
walk in. The smell is awful and its
very crowded and noisy but I try not to think of it as I scan the crowds
looking for him. I see him in the far
corner of the room sitting at a table with a whore. I ignore the looks I'm getting from the other customers I have my
mind set on my task. I stop at the
table and wait for him to notice me. This is hard because being this close to him makes me want to kill him
right here and now in the most painful way possible however I want to play his
death out for as long as possible. Then
he looks up at me, he doesn't recognise me, that's good for now. "What the hell do you want freak?" "I want
some fun and I heard you're the one to provide it." My appearance doesn't seem
to faze him. But then I wouldn't blame
him, looking at the whore next to him. She must be wearing more make-up then the whole cast of cats put together! I walk closer and sit on the table in front
of him and smile. "Can you provide me
with the most fun I'll ever have?" he stands up and looks at me with his beady
eyes he seems to be looking at me like I'm a piece of meat, that's fine by
me. By the time I'm finished with him
all that'll be left of him will be a piece of meat. "You'll have more fun then you can handle, " he sneers. He then grabs me by the arm and then leads
me upstairs leaving the whore behind. He leads me to a small dingy apartment room at the back of the building
I look around.
There's a bedroom, a bathroom, a
living room and a kitchen. He lets go
of my arm and closes and locks the door. He starts to take off his clothes I can't stand waiting any longer. I take off my coat and silently unsheathe my
sword while he struggles to take his shirt off. I walk closer silently. By the time he finally pulls the shirt over his head I'm standing right
in front of him with my sword pointed at his head. "What the fuck!" he looks surprised and jumps back. I smile, enjoying the look on his face and
his fear. "What's wrong? Aren't we
having fun?" I advance on him as he retreats towards the kitchen. I could stop him but I think it'll be more
fun if I give him a chance, make him think he can win. He grabs a knife and throws it at me. To my surprise it hits me in the chest, I
look down at it, he must have thrown it very hard because the entire blade went
in and only the handle showed. He
laughs "Stupid bitch" I look up at him and smile. He is beginning to worry because I didn't fall down, if I were
alive that would have killed me. "Ouch
that hurt" I pull the blade out of my chest to show him the wound as it
healed. I begin throwing the knife up
in one hand smiling as he looked at me too shocked to move. "Its not nice to play with knives" I throw
the knife into his leg and he cries in pain and falls to the floor and passes
out. I walk up to him and pick him up
and carry him to the bedroom and drop him on the bed. After a search of his apartment I find a pair of handcuffs and
use them to cuff him to the bed. I then
gag him and put the can of gasoline I found in the kitchen next to the
bed. I slap him a few times to wake him
up. "Does this scene seem familiar
Snake?" I take the gag out of his mouth
"Do you remember me?"
"What are you talking about?" "You
must remember a year ago tonight you and your friends killed three people, a
street beggar and a couple all in cold blood!" "So what if we did! They
deserved it!" "Jack didn't deserve to die that beggar didn't deserve to die!
You do!" I put the gag back into his mouth and pick up the can. I cover him in
petrol. I then decide to do something else I want him to die more painfully
then Jack and I did. I take the knife
out of the back of my trousers and cut out one of his eyes. "An eye for an
eye." His screams are muffled by the
gag in his mouth I take the gag back out of his mouth and put the eye in then I
quickly put the gag in before he can spit it out he starts to choke on the eye
before he swallows it. The crow flies
in through an open window If you want to really hurt him then give him your
pain "What do you mean?" Place your hands on his head and you'll see. I do as the crow says and close my eyes
there is another flash but this one isn't painful. It makes me feel slightly better. I take my hands away and look at him. He is now thrashing around on the bed and screaming much
louder. I hate to put him out of his
misery but it must be done. I light a
match I found in the kitchen and throw it on him. He is instantly covered in flames and the smoke rises and stains
the wall in the shape of a crow. I
smile at my work and walk towards the window putting my coat back on. I jump out of the window straight to the
ground landing in a crouch. "Where to
now?" This way . I follow leaving the sound of Snake's tortured
screams behind me.
