The Crow Tides of Sin

The Crow Tides of Sin

By

Shaz Shaz220885@hotmail.com

The crow leads me to the city park and forest area. I stop at the edge of the wooded area and listen. I hear a muffled scream and allot of movement in the darkness. Eddy, he enjoys raping young girls, sounds like that's what he's doing right now "Not for much longer" I climb the nearest tree and start to soundlessly climb towards the sounds. When I am in the tree directly above the sounds I look down to see his exact position. He's lying on top of a young girl she looks about 12. He's savagely beating and raping her. I've had enough of this. I jump down behind him and before he knows what's going on I've pulled him off her and threw him into a tree knocking him out cold. The girl looks frightened. I hold out my hand "Its ok now no one's going to hurt you any more" I pull her up and pick up the remainders of her coat and put it over her shoulders. I have an idea I put my hands on ether side of her head and close my eyes. Her physical and emotional pain is horrendous…it almost makes me cry out but I don't, I open my eyes and look at her. "Go now don't worry about him getting to you again ill take care of him" she looks at me through teary eyes "Thank you" she turns and runs away. I turn to face Eddy who I just coming too. "Good evening sleeping beauty" I chuckle. He stares at me through hazy eyes. "What the fuck are you!" "I'm the destruction you have caused I am the pain of every soul you have destroyed I am vengeance made flesh, I am your death."

I give him my evillest looking smile. He pulls a gun out of his back pocket "You come near me and ill kill you!" I take a step towards him with a mocking smile "You've already killed me Eddy." He shoots me 6 times in the upper torso but I keep walking towards him. He doesn't seem scared that I haven't fell down yet he must think I have body armour on each hit feels like I'm being hit by a sledgehammer but I keep coming. Finally he was down to his last bullet. This time he shoots me dead centre in the forehead the force of this one knocks me down and I fall to the ground he laughs thinking he's killed me. I feel my wounds healing and I feel strong again. I close my eyes when I hear him coming. He walks towards me just to check.

He kneels down beside me and moves the hair away from my face. "Holy shit!" he must have recognised me. He sounds scared this'll scare him even more I open my eyes and look him straight in the eyes. "Boo!" I laugh when he screams and jumps back "Fuck!" I get up and look at him. He looks afraid. "You can't kill someone who's already dead" I pull out a gun and point it at him. He runs into the darkness. "Its no use running you cannot escape death!" I was hoping he would run…it made it more fun watching his terror, smelling his fear. I put the gun away and climb up the nearest tree and run across the branches above him. I overtake him by about 100 meters and take out a rope and make a noose. I then lower it down over a branch into his path, its dark so he won't notice it. I can hear him coming his struggling for breath not as much as he soon will be he's nearly here. I feel the rope pull as his head goes through the noose.

I jump down off the tree holding onto the rope, pulling him up as I go down. I tie the rope securely to a tree root and climb back up the tree to a place where he can see me. He is trying to loosen the noose that's slowly choking him. "No use trying that…it wont work the more you struggle the faster you will die, and I want you to suffer." He starts to climb the rope to stop the strangling. He's smart but I'm smarter. I take the other ropes and climb up to the branch the rope is tied and make a noose in each rope to and pull him back up just far enough for me to reach his hands. I tie each rope around each of his hands and tie each end to opposite sides of the branch so his hands are away from the rope. He hasn't got a chance now. He looks like he's being crucified I jump down to the ground and look up at my work. He's about 10 feet up in the air. He seems to be more panicked now he knows there's no way out for him except death. I watch as he struggled for his life and then after about a minute he was still. The crow landed on my shoulder. Well done…that's very effective "Thank you, now where?" That's all for now it'll be daylight soon and you need to rest, go home I do as the crow says and go home. As soon as I get through he door I fall on the floor asleep before my head touches the floor.

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Detective Stewart Evans walked into the torched bedroom of Snakes apartment. "What the hell happened here?" "His name is Anthony Dawson aka Snake, he was a member of a street gang, a right group of scumbags" answered a cop by the bed. "Looks like he got on the wrong side of a really sick bastard…handcuffed him to the bed, cut out one of his eyes and torched him." "What's that?" he asked pointing to the markings on the wall. "It's soot and smoke stains from the fire, its strange…the stains shouldn't be in that shape." "And what shape is that?" "Well…it looks like a…bird sir"

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Across town in the park detective Susan Jeffers looked up at the corpse hanging above her head cameras flashed around her from the forensic investigators. This isn't the sort of thing I like being called out to first thing in the morning "Who's this poor bastard?" A uniformed police officer answered her. "He's Eddy Dawset, he's a member of a street gang it seems they're becoming an endangered species, another member of that gang was also killed last night." "He was tortured and set on fire on his bed, I'd hate to be caught on the wrong side of whoever they pissed off!" "It was reported by a Mrs Lindsey Stevens, she was looking for her daughter in the woods at the time, she found more than she bargained for." Susan looked over towards the woman, she was holding her daughter tightly she was crying but the girl was eerily calm and quiet. Her clothes were ripped and muddy and she was bleeding. "What happened to the girl Tony?" "She was beaten and raped by the victim." "Victim? He was a rapist and a murderer!" "But he was murdered and its our job as much as we'd like to leave this one alone we can't" "I know your right Tony but I hate to see people like him get treated like they're ordinary law abiding citizens when I know they're murderers." She walked to the girl and knelt down to talk to her. "What happened?" The girl calmly looked into her eyes. "That man was attacking me and an angel came and saved me, she took my pain away." "How did she do that?" The girl smiled "She put her hands on my head and I felt better." Could be some kind of healer thought Susan. "What did this angel look like?" "She was dressed in black with a white face and black tears. She looked strange." "Detective Jeffers!" Susan left the girl standing with her still weeping mother and walked towards the tree where the uniformed officer was standing. "What is it?" "Look at this" he pointed over to the tree and what she saw was a bird carved into the wood, "there's one on the opposite tree too this mark was found near the body of the other gang member who was murdered across town" "Looks like we have a vigilante on the loose" she sighed. It was going to be a long day.

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