Pray for Daylight

Pray for Daylight

  Drac Von Stoller

  Copyright 2012 by: Drac Von Stoller

  Just over the hill was this little town called Eadondale with a population of one hundred and twenty-five. Eadondale had one church, one school, one bank and one restaurant. Eadondale may not be as big as a big city, but if you ever came to visit you would think otherwise. Everyone left their doors to their house unlocked. Everyone smiled and waved to any stranger that came through this small town. The neighbors were always eager to lend a helping hand to anyone in need, but evil would be lurking in the shadows, waiting to strike at any moment.

  The evil I'm talking about is a man by the name of Johnny Walker. Johnny is what you would call a true hell raiser. Johnny stood six feet two inches tall and drank a lot of beer. When he had just a little too much to drink he would get into fights at the bar. Johnny would like to drive his loud Harley Davidson motorcycle in the wee hours of the night, waking up all the neighbors in town. The only thing Johnny was good at is using his pickaxe that he always carried on the side of his motorcycle.

  One night as Johnny did what Johnny does best, harassing people at the bar one man came up to Johnny and tapped him on the shoulder and sucker punched him.

  Johnny fell to the ground and staggered up and said "You're going to pay for what you've done to me."

  The man just laughed and kicked Johnny in the ribs. Johnny got up and spit blood on the ground, wiped his mouth off and limped over to his motorcycle and pulled out his pickaxe and while the man turned to walk inside the bar laughing, Johnny raised the pickaxe over his head and with one whack hit the man in the back of the head, and the man fell to the ground. Instead of panicking like any normal man would have done, Johnny spit on both hands and put his hands back on the handle of the pickaxe and axed him to death. Johnny spat on the man’s dead body and went over to his motorcycle and placed the pickaxe back on the side of the motorcycle and rode off into the night.

  As Johnny was riding his motorcycle through town, he said to himself, "You know something Johnny you're one bad ass dude. There is one thing I could really use right now. Some cash and I know just the family that has it all. Jonathan Walters, the Mayor of Eadondale."

  Johnny reached in his satchel on the side of his Harley and pulled out a beer and gulped it down. Then he squeezed the can and threw it in the ditch and yelled "Who's the baddest dude in Eadondale? The only person I know is Johnny Walker."

  Being that Eadondale was such a small town, the Mayors' house wouldn't be hard to find. The Mayor had the biggest home in Eadondale.

  Finally, Johnny reached the Mayors' house and parked his bike right in front of the Mayors' house. Johnny got off his bike and pulled out his pickaxe and went up to the front gate and noticed it was locked. That didn't worry Johnny any. He just broke the lock with his pickaxe and walked up the long driveway ready for some action. Johnny was just ten feet in front of the Mayors’ front door, when all of a sudden a Doberman pinscher started barking loudly. Johnny told the dog to shut up, but the dog just kept barking and Johnny said "I told you to shut up!" Johnny raised the pickaxe and the only sound heard was a yelp from the dog and the dog was dead.

  Johnny rang the doorbell and the Mayor woke up and said "Who would be at our door this late at night?"

  The Mayor got out of bed, got on his slippers and house coat and his wife said "Be careful."

  "Don't worry, I will," replied the Mayor to his wife.

  The Mayor headed down the stairs to the front door, turned on the porch light and just as he opened the front door Johnny Walker swung the pickaxe and hit him right between the eyes. The Mayor didn't even have a chance to ask the person at the door what they wanted. The Mayor was dead and Johnny was inside the house and in too deep because he now has killed two people and a dog. If he left the scene, somebody in the house might be able to identify him and Johnny didn't want that to happen.

  Johnny said "I didn't just come here to kill. I came to get some cash and a lot of it. So it's time to finish everyone in the house off and then find the money. Johnny went to each bedroom and killed each family member with his pickaxe. Then he entered the master bedroom and the Mayors wife was pleading for the intruder not to kill her. Johnny replied "Are you crazy! You're the last one I need to kill, but before I do, you need to tell me where the money is hidden."

  The Mayors’ wife said "If I tell you, will you let me go?"

  "You Betcha!" said Johnny.

  She told him where the money was hidden then Johnny said "Apparently you don't know who I am. Well my name is Johnny “Hell Raising” Walker." Johnny laughed and hit her in the back with the pickaxe and she screamed bloody murder. Then she begged him to finish her off because the pain was so great. Johnny just sat next to her on the bed as she whaled.

  Johnny said "You really are in pain. I know how to fix that."

  Johnny raised the pickaxe and hit her in the back and the axe split her spine into. Then Johnny said "Stop your screaming and whining it's really getting on my nerves. I think I've heard enough."

  Johnny raised his pickaxe over his head and with one whack he hit her in the head and split her skull right in to. Johnny ransacked the house took their money out of the safe and walked out of the Mayors house and stuffed the money in his satchel and rode back home to rest for the night.

  Johnny’s little killing spree didn't last long because a neighbor heard screams coming from the Mayors house and moments later spotted a man climbing on his motorcycle in front of the Mayors house and ride off at a fast pace.

  When the police arrived at the Mayors house to see why screams were heard coming from inside the house, the police were shocked at the gruesome scene laid out in front of them. Right as the police stepped on the Mayors front porch a dead Doberman pinscher was laying in a pool of blood along side of its owner, the Mayor. The police stepped inside the house carefully because the Major was lying in the doorway dead. They noticed the house had been ransacked and found a safe wide open, completely empty. They cautiously walked up the stairs with guns drawn. When they entered the bedrooms the scene was horrific. Each body had large holes in their skulls and large pools of blood. It was as though the officer's stepped onto a Horror movie set, but this would not be the case.

  When Johnny arrived back at his house, he opened the refrigerator and got a beer, turned on the TV set to watch the local news in his lazy boy recliner. There was the Mayors' house on TV. Johnny said "Wow! I'm going to be famous. The fun has just begun."

  Johnny’s little pickaxe murders were about to come to a screeching halt because he had another run in with a couple men at the bar the next day. These two men were just as bad as Johnny. Johnny came up to one of the men's girlfriend and pinched her butt. That's when Johnny took it just a little too far, and the two men told Johnny to step outside and settle this matter with fists. Johnny told the two men "You don't know who you're messing with. You might want to turn around and go inside before you both regret it."

  The two men just laughed and started punching Johnny. Johnny said "If you don't stop I'll do what I did to the Mayor and his family."

  "What did you do?" said one of the men.

  "I used my pickaxe on them," replied Johnny.

  The men just laughed and started punching Johnny on the ground and squirted lighter fluid in his face, then lit a match. Johnny was able to put the fire out on his face, but his face was totally disfigured. One of the men went over to Johnny’s motorcycle and pulled out his pickaxe and they threw his body in the back seat of their car and drove to an undisclosed place to do him in. The men pulled out Johnny's weakened body out of the trunk of their car and threw him on the ground, and one of the men said "Johnny, we've got a surprise for you."

  Johnny wasn'
t very coherent and his last words before the men used his own pickaxe on him and threw him in a shallow grave that was dug for him, were "I'll be back from the grave to finish you both off and I will raise so much Hell in this town that you all will be praying for daylight."

  The men just laughed and took turns hitting Johnny's body with the pickaxe until he was dead then tossed his body in the shallow grave and one of the men said, "What a pathetic piece of trash. You deserve what was brought upon you for killing the Mayor, who was my Uncle and my Aunt and everyone else that succumbed to your pickaxe."

  The men laughed and got back in their car and drove off into the night thinking that would be the last time anyone would ever see Johnny “Hell Raising” Walker again. They were dead wrong because a Witch who lived about a hundred yards away in a cabin happened to see and hear the whole thing as Johnny was being killed by these men. The Witch heard Johnny Walker's last words and said to herself "Don't worry Johnny you'll be back and when you do you'll get your wish beyond the grave I can assure you."

  Months went by and the two men thought the town was safe now that Johnny Walker was out of the picture.

  It was a day like any other day so it seemed, but there was a full moon out and it was Friday the thirteenth and what a perfect day for the dead to come back to life. The Witch got her spell book out and headed to Johnny “Hell Raising” Walker's grave to conjure him up from the dead. The Witch held her hands high in the air as she read from her spell book bringing Johnny Walker back from the dead. It was thundering and lightning, then all of a sudden Johnny Walker rose from his shallow grave and the Witch said "Johnny Walker, I have brought you back from the dead so you could make good on your promise to those men that put you in the ground. Now go out and do what you do best, Kill!!" The Witch handed Johnny Walker his pickaxe that was buried along with his body and summoned his motorcycle to his gravesite. The Witch also told Johnny she will guide him to where the two men live that killed him, so he can make good on his promise.

  Johnny found his way to each one of the men's home knocking on their doors with his pickaxe. When the men answered their door Johnny said in an eerie voice, "I told you I would be back from the dead and now it's time for Johnny Hell Raising Walker to raise Hell like never before."

  Johnny made good on his promise and pickaxe the two men that put him in the cold dark ground. Then Johnny went door to door to each house pick axing his way through town. Each person that answered their door Johnny said, "I hope you don't mind if I stay a while," Then Johnny would let out an eerie laugh and chase his victims through the house and when he was done killing everyone in their home, he would walk out the front door and close it and carve J.W. into the door, then hop on his motorcycle letting out an eerie laugh down the road. As the sun was rising, Johnny's spell wore off that the Witch put on him, then Johnny went back in his grave never to be seen or heard from again.