Wright looked at Tony and said “We will see how this all turns out”. When Tony
disappeared as did the void, Wright was back in the stairwell leading God knows
where, but he was happy to be out. Wright started walking up the stairs as he heard
what sounded like a banshee screaming or crying, he really couldn’t tell but he didn’t
like the sound. When he got half way up the screaming got louder, it seemed like it was
coming at him so he rushed up hoping he could avoid it. The words of Tony kept
echoing in his ear, about how he wouldn’t be able to stop his little game of murder.
When Wright got further up he saw this beautiful woman just standing on the steps,
she asked him if he thought she was beautiful in a soft voice and of course Wright told
her she was. Then like a scene out of a horror movie she opened her mouth and was cut
from ear to ear and screamed, “DO YOU STILL THINK I’M BEAUTIFUL.” Wright
quickly took a few steps back as she rushed towards him screeching her banshee
scream.
When she got to Wright she passed right through him and disappeared, like she was
never even there and the screaming stopped. Wright looked around for any signs that
what he saw was really there but there was nothing but silence. Wright looked at his
watch, it was now 12:13am, he now had less than ten hours before Tony did what he
was going to do so he needed to hurry. Wright hated the number thirteen, his mother
died on October 13, 1944 when he was just 17 years old. Wright continued to walk to
the end of the stairs when then realized it was October 13, 1962. The only day of the
year he hated, not only did his mother die on October 13 but his wife died on October
13, 1950 by two men that worked for Tony. Wright continued to walk, when it seemed
like it wasn’t going to end it reached what at first looked like a dead end but when
Wright took a closer look there was a way out. Wright pushed on what he assumed was
a wood bookshelf, when it stepped into the new room it was hot in there like someone
cranked up the heat as high as it would go just to make people miserable. When Wright
looked around he saw four boilers in the room and figured he was in the boiler room
which would explain the heat.
Wright left the room and found himself in the basement, but a part of the basement he
didn’t know about. Wright walked around and saw a door, when he opened it, it
looked like a prison there were cells and chains on the wall. Wright suddenly saw the
room full with people getting whipped and thrown on the ground and chained up. He
saw someone that looked like Nurse Peters hitting a patient with a spiked club. Wright
saw some of the doctors and nurses pass through the door like it wasn’t even there.
That’s when he saw the lady from the stairs, she then noticed him and smiled, she
opened her mouth to where you could see the cut from ear to ear. She then closed her
month and ask Wright if she was beautiful again. Wright looked at her followed by her
screaming “DO YOU THINK I’M BEAUTIFUL” Wright jolted but just looked at her. He
noticed that now all the ghost or whatever they were, were all looking at him. When
each one smiled he saw the same cut on their faces. They all rushed towards him but
when they hit him, they disappeared. Then the woman asked one more time “Do you
think I’m beautiful” then she began to weep, which shocked Wright so he asked her
what was wrong. The woman then said “I want to be beautiful again, like I was before
he cut me.” She then turned around while crying and went through the wall. Wright
started to look around the room, he saw a lot of black spots, to him it looked like dried
blood. In the middle of the room he saw a note on the floor, he knew Tony wrote it for
him. He picked up the note which read, “This is an asylum from the 1800s, this is where
I’ll get to torture you for all eternity.” Wright crumpled the note up and threw it on the
ground, that’s when he saw himself in chains with Tony right by him.
Wright Saw Tony whipping the ghost version of himself several times then he looked at
him and smiled and said that they were going to have some much fun. The ghost then
disappeared as Tony started to talk to Wright about what he was going to do, only
stopping enough to laugh then he continued to talk about the torture. Wright then told
Tony that if he stops him that he could do whatever he wants to do. Tony smiled and
said that Wright wouldn’t be able to stop either and that it’s useless to try. Wright
asked Tony why he wanted to kill everyone her. Tony smiled and said that he loves
killing people and that he wanted the souls of everyone here to take them to hell. Tony
then said that when he goes to hell he wants other people to suffer with him. Wright
looked at Tony confused and asked if there were already people in hell to which Tony
said there are but they deserve it, he wants people that don’t deserve to be in hell with
him. Wright looked at him with disgust, that’s when Tony smiled and said, “It’s all a
game to me, you can look at me however you want but it doesn’t change the fact that
this game of murder is fun and with an opponent like you I can’t lose” and started to
laugh. Tony smiled one last time then disappeared and so did the room, now Wright
was in the second boiler room and it seemed hotter than the first room.
When Wright left the room the building was on fire, he heard someone that sounded
like his father yelling at someone else to “leave the kid, he’s worthless”, that’s when
Wright remembered when he was 6 years old his house caught on fire and his father
wanted to leave him there. Wright’s father never wanted a kid, he thought his mother
cheated on him and that Wright was just a bastard child of an unfaithful wife. Wright’s
father was a drunk that worked at a sawmill, he hated his job and hated his life. His
father was named after John Freeyoung, a comedian from the 1920s who was beloved
by the whole world. John Wright did everything he could to make his wife’s life a living
hell and he did. Wright’s mother Diana tried to commit suicide three times, but never
could completely follow through. Every day that John would come home drunk he
would beat her until she was unconscious and when Wright was born he would beat
her worse. Whenever John would beat his wife he would go back to the bar and drink
some more then sometimes pass out in a gutter, sometimes that’s when his wife hoped
he would never come back, but he always did. Wright also hid when John would go on
a rampage except twice, once was when John came home drunk and started to beat his
mother and Wright screamed at him to stop. John punched Diana, he then rushed to
Wright, he put his hands around his neck and told him that he would kill him just like
he will kill his wife. The second time was when he was seventeen, he just got home
from school and John was already drunk and starting to yell at his wife, he raised his
hand to Diana, that’s when Wright threw a glass bowl at him. John turned towards him
then walked over to him and punched him in the face, knocking Wright out that was
when John killed his wife with a shot to the head, he then shot Wright in the chest then
shot himself.
Wright heard what sounded like a little b
oy screaming for his mother to save him. The
flames were almost as high as the ceiling was and what the flames didn’t cover the
smoke did. The smoke didn’t seem to bother Wright, it was like the smoke really wasn’t
even there. He tried touching the fire but it wasn’t hot and for some reason Wright
started to feel like he wasn’t even real as if what was happening around him was but he
wasn’t. Wright then saw a burning pentagram in the number thirteen in that, all written
in fresh blood on a burning door that reeked of rotting flesh. Suddenly Wright felt a
burning sensation on his hand, when he looked at it, it was the same pentagram that
was on the door. Wright walked to the door and slowly opened it, he saw something
with the legs of a goat, the body of a man, and the face looked rough with two k-9s that
were curled like tusks of a boar with two horns on the top of its head. The beast was
drinking something from a goblet, that’s when Wright saw several naked human bodies
with some of them have the heads removed. The beast picked up the headless body then held it
over its goblet only to squeeze the blood out of it into the cup. The goblet had a
pentagram on it with the number thirteen in the middle. Wright slowly closed the door
so he wouldn’t let the beast know he was there.
The hallway was no longer on fire but it had the smell of burning flesh and rotting
meat, Wright looked around and saw the pentagram everywhere. He saw another door
but this one just had the pentagram; Wright put his ear up to the door to see if he could
hear anything on the other side, that’s when he heard a woman scream. Wright opened
up the door and saw a woman in shackles with fire underneath her feet, the flame
covered her whole body her face was the only thing that was showing. Wright could
smell her flesh burning but he could not see any burn marks on her, it was like her flesh
couldn’t burn away. The woman stopped screaming only to look at Wright and smile,
he could see her teeth were black and rotting. He then saw her right eye pop out and
maggots begin to fall out while she started to laugh. Her skin started to melt off her
bones and soon all Wright saw was blackened bones with an eye in the left socket. The
woman started to scream again as the flames consumed the rest of her then she fell
silent as the flames disappeared.
Wright then saw the beast from the other room carry a man in, shackle him up, then
light a fire under him. The fire started out small but quickly grew larger, as soon as the
fire reached the man’s waist he started to scream in pain. Then beast looked at Wright
then turned and walked away. Wright remembered a story his grandmother told him
about Thorpe, the demon that chained people to a post and would light fires under
them; depending how evil they were in life would determine how slowly the fire would
burn them. Thorpe was rewarded by Lucifer with the blood of the damned. Thorpe was
also one of seven demons that ruled over a layer of hell. Thorpe used to be one of the
thirteen generals of hell but when he refused to follow an order from Lucifer, he was
banished to the fourth level of hell. Thorpe was one of the fallen angels that followed
Lucifer when he tried to take over heaven and was the second angel the “good”
banished to hell. Wright started to walk deeper into the room, when he heard the man
scream at him for help but Wright knew there was nothing he could do so he continued
walking.
The further he walked the hotter it got then he saw a pit, he walked to the edge of it and
saw people falling and jumping in. He looked down and saw a river of fire and lava
with people floating and burning. He had the feeling that he was supposed to jump
down so he did, as he was falling the river was not getting closer but the edge was
getting further away. As he fell he heard screaming getting louder as people would
rush past him. Wright finally landed on the ground, it looked like it was stained with
blood and it was surprisingly cold. He looked around to find blue fire everywhere, the
closer he got to the blue flames the colder he got. Wright then saw a sign that said
“Welcome to the Fourth Layer of Hell.” Wright’s grandmother told him that each layer
of hell had a different torment and the further you went down the worse it gets. The
fourth layer of hell is the layer of frozen fire, fire so cold that it could freeze a man’s
blood in an instance. If Wright remembered correctly the ruler of the fourth layer was
Balthazeen.
Balthazeen is a cold hearted demon that that loved to freeze humans and break off their
limbs to eat them like popsicles. It’s said that the worse you were in life the more pain
was felt when he eats you. Wright then heard a harsh voice say, “Come to me my little
morsel so I may devour living flesh.” Wright felt compelled to follow the voice to see
the face of whatever it was that was calling him. He walked a little ways and saw frozen
bodies, some with and arm torn off and some with both arms and every now and again
he would see a leg missing. Wright came to a giant door with the number four on it, he
then heard the voice say “Hurry little morsel I’m hungry for your flesh.” The door
suddenly opened and Wright saw a room covered in blue flames, at the far end of the
room was a throne with a large thing looking at him smiling. Wright stepped into the
room, it was colder than anything he had ever felt, when he took a breath he could see
it. The thing sitting in the throne was huge with four tusks two on his upper jaw and
two on his lower jaw, his face was deformed and looked like he got into one too many
here, now it’s time to eat.” When he stood up he towered over Wright, then he reached
out to grab Wright as Wright started to back away. Balthazeen took a step forward
making the ground shake, that’s when Wright turned around and started to run
towards the door.
Wright got to the door, he tried to close the door but they wouldn’t budge so he
continued to run and could feel every foot step that Balthazeen made. Wright ran down
along the icy road until he got to the pit, at the pit he turned around and saw
Balthazeen behind him catching up, so he jumped into the pit then felt a hand grab him.
Balthazeen brought Wright up to his face and laughed, telling him that he has him now
he then opened his mouth and ate Wright. When Wright woke up he was on the floor in
the boiler room, he stood up and looked around only to see nothing out of the usual.
Wright walked out of the room and saw a hallway, this time it wasn’t on fire, just warm
from the boilers. Wright looked down at his hand to see the pentagram with thirteen in
the middle was still on his hand. Wright walked down the long hallway until he came
to a room, his hand started to burn, when he looked at it, it was bleeding when he tried
to walk past the door it only hurt more. Wright turned the knob and opened up the
door, only to see Thorpe sitting on a throne of skulls, in his right hand was Grace
screaming and in his left hand was a torch. Thorpe and Wright’s gaze met and
suddenly Wright felt weak and collapsed
Chapter 09
Man’s Kingdom Burn and the
Cross Burns
Wright looked around to see the asylum was in shambles, it looked like it was ready to
come down at any moment. Wright walked to the stairs noticing some steps were
missing and others were broken, he stepped carefully up the stairs so not to cause
anymore damage. When he got to the first floor there was red grass everywhere, when
he looked around, there was no one there. He went to Doctor White’s office, he knocked
on the door but no answer came, when he tried to open the door it wouldn’t budge.
Wright slammed his shoulder into the door a few times till it finally opened, when he
looked inside he saw a skeleton sitting in the chair behind the desk with what appeared
to be a gunshot wound to the skull. There was another body in the left corner by the
door, it looked like this one was shot in the chest with the bullet bouncing off the third
rib. Wright went around the desk to see on the floor a standard issued police revolver,
that one that he usually carries. Wright walked out of the room wondering if that was
him in the chair or if it was Doctor White and if it was, how he got ahold of the gun.
When Wright stepped out of the room he saw a pale nun with bloodshot yellow eyes.
The nun walked up to Wright and said “Welcome to the Temple of the Burning Cross.
How would you like to die today?” The nun then roared to show several shard teeth
that looked too many to fit in a normal person’s mouth, then she ran towards him.
Suddenly a pentagram appeared on her forehead as she stopped less than an inch away
from his face still showing her teeth. He could smell her, it was like smelling rotting
flesh that should have decayed a long time ago. Suddenly ash surrounded them and the
nun was the only thing visible. The nun put her had on Wright’s forehead, it started to
burn, when she took her hand off his head there was an upside down cross on fire. The
nun then looked at him and smiled, she then roared and as she disappeared, she went
towards Wright and in a puff of ash she was gone. When the ash cleared Wright saw a
room in ruin, like it hadn’t been used in years; beams from the ceiling were on the floor
and there were holes in the floor.
Wright heard a whisper in his ear saying “kill”, when he looked around there was no