"Austin, burying you alive, that's just too good for you." I said as I placed my hand around Austin's face who lied unconscious on the cold dirt.
"What are we gonna do?"
Paul asked while I took a moment to think of the most sadistic way to deal with Austin when an idea just came to me.
"I'll tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna embalm him."
"Alive?"
"We're gonna embalm him alive."
"Yeah, yeah." Paul sounded very excited with my plans for Austin.
"Austin, you're gonna know what pain is. You're gonna feel the wrath." I stood up. Towering over Austin's helpless body.
"Let's load him up again."
"How far is the funeral home?" I asked.
"It's not too far. Only ten minutes away." That was good to hear. The chloroform should keep him out long enough.
After a short drive, we would finally arrive at the funeral home that Paul still worked at. Reaching into the hearse I pulled Austin's unconscious body out. Placing him over my shoulder and carrying him inside, with Paul leading the way down to the embalming room.
"This is the place!" Paul shouted from the embalming room.
It wasn't surprising to me that Paul seemed very excited about all of this, given his own beef and history with Austin in the past.
"Put him right here, oh yeah!" Paul pointed to what I assumed to be the embalming table.
"Put him right there. Right on the nice cold hard slam, the stone cold hard slam! Turn him around." Paul smiled while I placed Austin's body on the cold embalming table.
"Yep, just drag him up there. This has got to be the best idea you've ever had. Right up my alley." Finally, I had Austin right where I wanted him. All alone. With no one around to interfere and prevent me from sacrificing him to my Ministry.
"Austin, you can't tempt fate. You can't disturb the Ministry. It didn't have to be this way."
I looked down on Austin who lied helplessly before me, in an embalming room with no such hope of escaping his fate. A fate where he will be sacrificed to my Ministry and where I will consume his soul.
"This is your own fault. And this is what you get, when you cross the line into a realm of darkness. For which there is no escape."
It was true. This all could have been prevented had Austin chosen not to get in the way of my Ministry from progressing. And unfortunately, he did, and now I have no choice but to sacrifice his mind, body, and soul to my Ministry.
"This is the final road, for you Austin."
As I lean forward, towering over Austin, Paul would step forward and place something underneath Austin's head.
"Let me just position his head a little bit." Paul continued smiling. "Yeah." Paul laughed, even going as far as to shake Austin's head a little, probably in his way to mock him.
I kept my gaze on Austin while Paul grabbed a pair of scissors.
"Let's get these nasty, beer smelly clothes off of him."
I would have to agree with Paul on that one. Austin did smell a little too much and unfortunately there wasn't enough time to clean him up properly.
"Yeah, yeah." Paul had cut through Austin's shirt right down the middle while I helped to tear it off of him.
Me and Paul looked down. Enjoying the sight of having Austin to ourselves, alone, with no one around to stop us from the sadistic thing we were about to commence.
"Don't worry, , this won't hurt a little bit." I couldn't help, but smile a little at that comment Paul made.
I placed my hands on the edge of the table, looking down, towering over Austin while Paul helped himself to prepping Austin for the embalming by removing the small patches that were placed across his body from the hospital he was resting.
"I hope that you can hear me. Because what you're about to experience is gonna be the worst, imaginable pain and horror that you can ever endure."
Everything I had said was true. Nothing but horrible suffering was what awaited him.
"You see death, Austin. And when one understands it. They become ageless. They become deathless. They become immortal."
After successfully removing all the hospital patches from Austin's body, Paul placed Austin's hands across his stomach, smiling. He had also wanted to remove his gold chain around his neck, but there wasn't any time for that.
Austin's body was now all prepped and ready to be embalmed, alive, and sacrificed to my Ministry.
"The end has come for you, Austin."
I would chant in tongues, praying to my Ministry, slowly raising the sharp object above and over Austin. Paul looked at me, confused on what I was chanting, but it mattered not to me. I now had the sharp object hovering over Austin's bare chest.
'Removing Austin's filthy shirt was the right call. Now I will be able to see his blood flowing out of his body.'
Paul stood by the door. He raised his hand up and when he raised it back down?"
"Farewell , Austin."
I brought the knife down hard through Austin's chest. Drilling it in deeper as Austin awakens, crying in sweet agony and pain. Which was like music to me and Paul's ears.
"AHHHHHHH!" Paul smiled. My eyes rolled in the back of my head. Austin's eyes widened in horror.
"UNDERT-" He tried to speak, but ended up coughing up blood in the process.
"Yeah, rest in peace now, you son of a bitch!" Paul shouted. Shaking his head in sheer mockery of the boy.
I removed my hands around the knife. Leaving it in Austin's chest. I looked down. Towering over Austin as he attempts to remove it, but alas he fails to do so. If he could speak, no doubt that foul mouth of his would be swearing at the top of his lungs.
I looked at him, his chest covered in blood. Mouth spitting up blood. Looking at him eye to eye before rolling my eyes to the back of my head as Austin, at long last, would draw his final breath. My face being the last thing he sees in this world before fading away to a realm of eternal darkness.
"Is he?" Paul stepped forward. Rubbing his hands.
"Yes, Paul. The deed is done. Austin is no more. He has been sacrificed."
Paul laughed and smiled.
"Ohh yes! Finally! I've been waiting for so long to see that no good, beer drinking, son of a bitch get what he had coming to him. Oh yes, oh yes indeed. Good riddance if you ask me."
"His mind and body are now properties to the Ministry. His soul however," I pulled the knife out of Austin's chest. Blood poured out from it. "Will forever be mine to own." I licked the blood knife covered in Austin's blood.
With the task at hand finished, now that Austin was finally taken care of, I could now move forward to progress my Ministry.
"Let's go, Paul. Nothing left for us here now."
We walked out the embalming room and out the building without ever looking back for a second at Austin's lifeless corpse. I had his soul, that was all that mattered now.
As Paul started the hearse and proceeded to drive off, I sat in the passenger seat. Looking out the window and muttering under my breath.
'Farewell Austin. May you never rest in peace.'