THE DEMON OF HELL

Chapter II: Gravestone

-Heavens Palace Hotel Cafeteria, July 10th 6 :00 P.M-

"Envy! Give me back my book!" Korra yelled, "Never!" Envy said to him as he ran around the table, and Korra chased him.

Sherlock sat there with the newspaper that Alice had given him as well as two photographs of the two mob leaders. He tried to think about the man that had been murdered but he mumbled curses to himself with the noise going on at the table. "Will you two shut up!" Sherlock yelled, "God, you two are immature!" "Sorry Holmes." Envy said as he came to a stop, "We're just trying to have a little fun." "You call THAT fun?" he asked, "We may be specialists, but we've got to have fun too." "Honestly how does your brain function?" he asked. Envy turned to Shadow about to make a point when he noticed that he was just poking his food, and pushing it around.

"Hey you do realize that it's dead, right?" he joked. Shadow said nothing to him; it didn't look like he heard him. "Hello, Earth to Shadow?" Envy said waving his hand in front of his face. Sherlock tapped Shadow on the back, which made him jump. "Just checking if you were alive." He said, "Oh were you?"

K.S: "What's wrong? You don't have appetite?"

S.F: "What makes you think that?"

K.S: "Well for one thing you barley touched your food."

S.F: "I'm not that hungry."

E: "Than can I eat it?"

K.S: "Envy!"

E: "What?"

S.F: "Korra, it's fine okay?"

K.S: "You sure your alright?"

S.F: "I'm fine."

K.S: "100 percent su-"

S.F: "I SAID I'M FINE! WILL YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE?!"

Shadow was shocked that he had just said those words to Korra. He covered his own mouth and told himself that he didn't say those words. Looking at Korra he saw that she was shocked as well. "Korra, I'm sorry." He said, "I-I don't know what came over me." "No, that's fine, I didn't mean to ask so much." Korra said to him. "Shadow, you're bleeding." Sakura said. Shadow looked and saw that his hand was on shattered glass. "Did I really do that?" he asked lifting his hand off the glass.

"You did, 5 seconds ago actually." Sherlock replied hand him a napkin. John entered the cafeteria; he looked like he was in a hurry. "Sherlock! I have got big news!" the doctor said. He stopped in his tracks just to find a napkin covered in Shadow's blood. "What happened?" he asked turning his head to the consulter. "Couldn't say." Sherlock said to him, "You were saying?" "Oh right, the police found the same killings in one of the cemetery's." John said as he handed him the paper. Sherlock took the paper from John and read the article.

He than handed the newspaper to the other three, and they read the article. "Was they're a witness?" he asked, "The cemetery caretaker." The doctor replied.

S.H: "Where's the cemetery?"

J.W: "On Brooklyn Avenue."

S.H: "Are you sure?"

J.W: "Yes, I'm sure, it's in the bloody paper!"

S.H: "Did the police leave the area?"

J.W: "They left an hour ago, and they already moved the body."

S.H: "That's fine. Everyone get ready to leave."

S.K: "Where are we going Sherlock?"

S.H: "Tell me, are you afraid of the dead?"

-Manhattan Cemetery, July 10th 6:30 P.M-

"It was nothing like I have ever seen before in my life." The caretaker said to Sherlock, "I explained it to the police but they wouldn't listen."

S.H: "Eric, correct?"

E: "Yes."

S.H: "Can you describe to me what you saw explain to exactly what you saw, Eric?"

E: "Like I said, it was nothing like I have seen before in my life. It was some sort of monster from hell."

S.H: "What did this monster look like exactly?"

E: "Well I did see a man but I couldn't see his face, because of a dark fog."

S.F: "Dark fog?"

E: "That's right boy. Dark fog. Out of the fog was two heads, didn't look like no creature that God made to walk on Earth."

S.F: "What did it look like?"

E: "The creature had teeth sharp as a diamond, had more teeth than the Great White itself. It killed off five goons from the mob gang."

S.H: "Who leads the mob that the man killed?"

E: "The leader was named West Goliath, used to work for Paul Estacado."

K.S: "Paul?"

E: "He used to run his own gang, until one of them finally had it and killed him 2 years ago."

S.H: "Where did you see the killing take place?"

E: "Can't remember, sorry. But I suggest you check downhill in the cemetery."

S.H: "Thank you Eric."

Sherlock decided to have everyone split up into different parts of the cemetery. Envy went with Korra, Sherlock went on his own, Sakura went with John and Shadow went on his own. Shadow went check out downhill of the cemetery where Eric suggested looking. Shadow looked behind gravestone, to gravestone. He didn't know exactly what he was looking for but he wanted this case done. He searched hours and hours and he had found nothing.

"Shadow... Shadow..."

Shadow jumped by the sound of the voice. He used his flashlight to look around. "Is someone there?" he said while turning from right to left. All of a sudden his head began to throb; images began to go through his head again, this time it showed his nightmare he had a week ago, and the nightmare he had about Jackie and of the girl. Than Shadow screamed and fell to the ground falling unconscious. The next thing he knew when he opened his eyes he found himself inside some kind of factory filled with manikins. Shadow took a look the factory.

'Where the hell am I? Wasn't I at the cemetery a few seconds ago? Well, at least my head stopped throbbing.'

The silence broke when he heard a car pull up outside. He went to investigate, and he was shocked to what he had found. The car was a fancy black car that had been recently waxed and the tires were changed just a few days ago the way Shadow saw it. The man that had stepped out of the car was Jackie, the man he had saw in the warehouse. 'Him again? But why?' he thought. Jackie approached the factory and went inside towards a door filled with light. 'Why would he go in there?' Curious to why Jackie was here, he followed him inside. As Shadow followed him inside he saw that there were two men, he could tell just by looking that they were both bodyguards, but for what exactly?

They searched Jackie for weapons, and probably for some kind of hearing device. They gave him the clear and he followed him inside to wherever he was going. When he followed Jackie inside he couldn't believe what he had seen. The whole place was filled with women and men, mostly women. Shadow saw that the women were flashing right in front of the men; he tried real hard not to look. It didn't take him long to find Jackie again. He found him talking to a woman with red hair and a green dress, a short one; he heard Jackie said that her name was Venus, hence the name. He saw them leaving the room, wanting to get out of that room he followed them from behind.

"Hmmm... Yes..."

Shadow again jumped by the sound of the voice; yet this voice was different from the last one. He shook the thought when he saw them go in to an elevator. He quickly ran inside before the door closed shut, not knowing if innominate objects could touch him. As soon as the door closed he saw that the expression on Venus's face changed. She turned to Jackie:

V: "Okay listen to me; there's no camera's in these elevators but we ain't got much time. I stashed Vinne's gun in my room, if these new guys find it, they'll kill me. They don't play games Jackie. These are some messed up f*** people. They all tweaked out and sh***. Just promise me if anything goes wrong you won't rat me out. So you gotta get up to third floor quickly. Are you listening to me?"

J: "Yeah. Yeah, I got it."

S.F: "The third floor?"

They exited the elevator and went down the hallway. They went down through hallways with open rooms where the men's "fun" took place. Again, he tried real hard not to look.

"All this delicious... suffering..."

The moment he heard the voice Shadow looked around, but saw that there was no one there.

'What is going on?'

They soon got to Venus's room; he followed Jackie inside, and to his surprise he didn't come here looking for a good time. "Got something' for ya." She said as she went to get something from under the bed. Venus walked over to Jackie with what he can tell was no pistol in her hand.

V: "They closed off the top two floors. We figured they was just shootin' pornos up there, but then...

There was a moment of silence in the room. 'Why would someone close off only two floors in this building?'

V: "Then Chantelle went go see that hunchback guy on the third floor. Now we ain't seen her in a month."

Shadow's eyes widen when he heard Venus say that. However he still didn't know why he was seeing this. 'What is this trying to tell me?' She gave the gun to Jackie and she walked towards the door.

V: "Now you find these assholes and make sure you give'em one for me. Shot Quasimodo upside the head an' put us all out of his f**** misery."

Closing the door the two heads appeared again from his back, this time there was a new feature. A strange looking imp that wore a shirt from England, and a hat of a beaver appeared right in front of him.

'What...The...Hell?'

"Let's go monkey!" it said. They began to go down hallways and made tight turns. As they did they took down all kinds of people, he saw in horror that they tore the men in half, letting the creature bite there heads off and the jumping on people and snapping their necks into two. The next thing he knew a dark fog began to cover him up. He couldn't see where he was going now, and he couldn't find Jackie.

"Embrace the Darkness... You know... you want it's power..."

S.F: "WHATEVER YOU ARE, STAY OUT OF MY HEAD!"

"We... can never leave... You know, we are... your... salvation..."

All of a sudden he began to smell smoke. The fog cleared up only to find that he was surrounded by fire. Panicking he quickly made a break for it, and try to get to the nearest exit. No matter where he turned the fire blocked his way. He tried to absorb the fire, however it didn't work. The floor soon began to become weak, and started to collapse under his weight. With a scream he fell in to the dark abyss; as he fell images began to go through his head, showing images of the creature killing and of the fire.

Than it showed images of a place filled with darkness and blood, at the end of the pathway he saw the same girl of one his previous dreams in some kind of white dress all torn and chained on to a cross; he saw that she was in pain.

"Monkey...Oi monkey, you still alive?"

He slowly opened his eyes and found himself back at the cemetery. He sat himself up from the ground and rubbed his eyes; he looked around and saw that night had already come. "Dear God, how long was I out?" he asked himself.

"Probably about a couple of hours."

Shadow froze at the sound of the voice. He quickly grabbed his flashlight and used it to look around. Shadow soon shined some light on a statue of a Gargoyle, which actually screamed in pain. "Turn out the bright light!" it said. He let out a scream dropped the flashlight and backed up into a nearby gravestone. His screams were soon ceased when the Gargoyle quickly covered his mouth. "Calm down monkey! Other people can see me you know?" it said to him with it's hand on his mouth, "Now, I'm going to let go of your mouth and you are going keep your blooming mouth shut, got it monkey?" Shadow quickly nodded his head and it released his mouth and he was silent.

"There, that wasn't so hard. Now was it monkey?"

S.F: "You-Your one of those Gargoyles, from my nightmare."

"Your pretty observant."

S.F: "No, you can't be real. This is just one of my nightmares, that's what it is!"

"Mate, does this really look like the dream world to you?"

S.F: "Since you're here it might as well be!"

"Look monkey, you're not dreaming. Stop telling yourself that false fact."

S.F: "I'm not a monkey!"

"Well I know that! It's just easier to call you that, since I'm bad with names. But you look more like a hedgehog than a monkey."

Shadow realized his hood was off and quickly put it back over his head. "Oi why are you panicking?" it asked, "There's no one here, right now anyway." "Someone could've seen me!" he yelled, "People would freak out if they saw a hedgehog that actually walks on two legs and talks!"

"Keep your voice down! Or we'll both be in trouble!"

S.F: "WHY THE HELL AM I EVEN TALKING TO A GARGOLYE ANYWAY!? OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHY ME!?"

"I told you shut up monkey! Anyway, before I forget completely I came here to warn you."

S.F: "WHY GOD!? WHY-Wait, warn me? Warn me about what?"

"Two things, one about the You-Know-What you got inside of you, and about Quasimodo."

S.F: "You-Know-What? What are you talking about?"

"You know, the nightmares you've been having, and the visions, and the creature you saw."

S.F: "My nightmares? How do you know about them?"

"Look just listen to me! The nightmares you've been having the past week. The You-Know-What, can actually play tricks."

S.F: "Play tricks on me?"

"Create dreams, show you things that the You-Know-What wants you to see. Make you go to the Looney Bin."

S.F: "But that can't be, just now it showed me an image of... Argh! What was her name?!"

"Can't remember?"

S.F: "No. I can't. Wait a minute, what did you mean by Quasimodo?"

"The hunchback, the one thing that the You-Know-What fears most, and you should fear him too."

S.F: "But why?"

It was only than Shadow realized that he was not in the same place he was in the cemetery before he passed out. He turned to see that the exit to the cemetery was visible. "How in the world did I get all the way to other side of the cemetery?" he asked himself. All of a sudden he heard footsteps in the distance. "You better hide monkey!" the Gargoyle said to him. Shadow didn't think twice about it and quickly hid behind another nearby Gravestone. He was shocked to see where the footsteps came from.

It was Jackie, from his dream, but what was he doing here? He saw that he was holding a bouquet of flowers in one of his hands. He kneeled and set down the bouquet, and he saw he was talking; he couldn't make out what he said. After a while Jackie got up off the ground, and turned to leave. Shadow got out from behind the gravestone along with the gargoyle. "So the rumors are true than." It said.

S.F: "Rumors?"

"The man that took control of the Darkness. Jackie Estacado."

S.F: "The Darkness? Is that what that creature is called?"

"Your right on the money. Whatever that is."

S.F: "But why was he here?"

"Why don't you see for yourself?"

S.F: "What?"

"The name on the stone, look at the name."

Shadow walked over to the Gravestone, but he couldn't make out what it was. He tried looking for the flashlight but saw that the light was out. With the movement of his he created a small flame. He blew on it and it floated over where the name would be carved. Shadow read the name and it said:

"Jenny Romano"

-End Of Chapter Two-