Chapter 7

Luke laid on the floor feeling like he was going to die at any moment. His eyes slowly started to fall to the bottom of his eyelids as they felt like they were bricks. Luke felt too much pain. He tried to sit up but screamed in pain from his wounds. He didn't understand why they didn't heal.

All the sudden, he felt another presence in the room. He looked around seeing a dark shadow in the room. He looked up to see something terrifying, but at the same time, and little strange.

It was a skeleton dressed in a cowboy costume. It had on a trench coat, cowboy boots, and a cowboy torn and frayed hat.

Luke thought this skeleton was going to hurt him as it bent down reaching out its hand. Luke did not scream though for he could barely talk. The skeleton rubbed his hands over Luke's wounds. Luke's pain was gone. He looked down at his stomach. The wounds were gone.

He slowly got up. He still was a little frightened, but he thought if this skeleton was going to harm him, he wouldn't have healed him. The skeleton stood there staring at him (the skull did have eyes.)

"What are you?" Luke asked.

"I am your guide," the skeleton replied.

"My guide?" Luke asked.

"Yes," the skeleton replied.

"That's a little strange to have a skeleton for a guide," Luke said.

"It's strange that you were resurrected. Now I bet you have many questions," the skeleton said.

"Yes. First off, what's my brother mean by a ritual to make his boss the devil?" Luke questioned.

"Well, his dear boss, Frank, has discovered a ritual that'll give him the path to immortality. He is going to perform a ritual that'll turn him into a demon," the skeleton replied.

"Next, why'd I not heal when my brother stabbed me?" Luke asked.

"Now that is a little complicated, basically, you broke a rule. The rule of not interacting to help a living human," the skeleton said.

"Who did I help?" Luke demanded.

"The girl who Frank and his henchmen raped. You helped her, you loose your immortality," the skeleton replied.

"I didn't know this though," Luke said.

"But it was still a rule, and you broke it," he replied.

"I can't stop them though without my immortality. I don't stand a chance against a demon," Luke said.

"I have granted you your immortality back already. There is one catch now though."

"What?" Luke asked.

"The catch is that your powers do not apply to demons. They can harm you. There is only one thing that can harm the demon," the skeleton explained.

"And that is?"

"This," the skeleton said revealing a dagger from his robes.

"Is that what I think it is?" Luke asked.

"Yes. The dagger that pierced into Christ's blood when he was crucified."

"Is there anything else I should know?"

"Yes. If you give up your powers for a good deed, something magical will happen," the skeleton replied.

"Why do I need to know this?" Luke asked.

"Just in case," the skeleton replied. "And now I must go," he said disappearing into thin air.

Luke stood there alone grasping the dagger as if his enemies were right behind him. He wasn't going to let evil spread through Earth.