《The Demon's Heart : Hell On Earth》


 CHAPTER ONE : Where On Earth Am I

    The sound of a fallingwater droplet woke me up.


    "..........Where am i........"


    Everything was pitch black as if you were looking into a dark, black void.


    I heard it again, the sound of dropping water it sounded like a poorly closed faucet. but I paid it no intention As I was trying to remember what happened


    "Ahh, I remember now.....I was in that garbage dump, then I saw that beggar that I wanted to save, but he pushed me in the incinerator"


    I hear the water dropping....this time clearer than before


    "I never helped anybody; I was scared to do so and it made me despise myself, and when I finally charge up enough courage to help somebody.....I die incinerated....with garbage"


    the water droplets fall faster now with each time clearer than before; it started to annoy me


    ".......was I that disgusting........"


    "...If I just didn''t help that guy like I did with others before him. if only I didn''t go to that garbage dump. if only that heart of mine didn''t ache every time Ididn''t help someone in need"


    ".......I could''ve been alive, not that I really loved it or anything, but my life had many good things that I didn''t really appreciate it"


    now the water dropping water became louder and louder and faster as if someone was slowly opening the faucet as I slowly realize that even though I can''t feel my body I can still talk and feel regret.


    "DO YOU WISH TO LIVE, MATT?"A clash of different sounds echoedall around me.


    "Wait! Who is there! I CANT SEE ANYTHING DAMN IT!" I screamed back at the echo


    "DO YOU WISH YOU HAVE NEVER HAD THAT WEAK HEART OF YOURS, MATT?" The Echo asked meThis story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.


    ".....yes.....I wish I didn''t have a human heart, I want to live" I replied desperately to that weird sinister echo


    "WELL, MATT, I GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT!" it replied


    And just like that, I was capable of opening my eyes and looking around. I was in a very deep pit with a poor stream of sunlight, naked but I had all my limbs and no burn marks which made me think that what a happened with that echo was a dream.


    I started climbing the pit trying to grab anything to push me up to the point that I, sometimes, had to push my fingers and legs inside the pit''s wet and sticky walls. I fell a couple of times from varying heights which was supposed to hurt but I didn''t feel anything.I screamed for help but it doesn''t look like someone was near a garbage dump, if I was still there anyway.


    I didn''t have a choice but to climb. I climbed for a couple of times again but I failed, then the thought that this was much of a workout that my heart should ache struck me and I checked my heartbeats which didn''t look like there were any. I didn''t even feel surprised or shocked; I didn''t even feel anything. it was like I was really dead but not. Was what happened with that echo real or not. Am I alive or not.


    all of that was more of a reason to get me working on coming out of this pit as soon as possible!


    I started climbing and I was so close to falling but I punished the wall with my hand so hard it stuck in, even though I am not that strong, and I started climbing again.


    As I reached the top the, sun became more visible until I finally reached the top.


    okay, I wasn''t in a garbage dump. I was nowhere to be described as a garbage dump! this was a place stricken by an apocalypse of some sort! debris of demolished buildings, limbs of people and decayed corpses were everywhere, and dark smoke was coming out of burning buildings.


    I walked with the pit behind me and grabbed worn out clothes of a dead body, decayed to the point that u can''t see anything but a black skull and some remains of bones, I wore the clothes just in case I meet somebody in this mess.


    I don''t know what happened, maybe a great war or something, it just seems like I was in that pit for far too long.


    I couldn''t recognize a thing around me; I was so curious about what happened, this amount of dead people varying in age from young children to old men and women is not normal. surprisingly, I just continued walking as if the corpses were just some sort of rocks


    I walked until I saw a destroyed building that I recognized; it was my house, where my family lives or, to be more precise, lived, was totally annihilated.


    and again, I didn''t feel a bit sad.


    I took a deep breath of which made me realize that I was not breathing until now and I continued walking to where my school is.


    I came across a small store where I picked a newspaper with the date of (2117/09/23) I know I was in the pit for a long time but I never thought that it would be as long as a hundred year because I am sure it was 2017 when I went to that FUCKING GARBAGE DUMP! that said, the headline of the newspaper which was ''PROFESSOR ZAYLOF FINDS AN ANGEL THAT COULD SAVE HUMANITY FROM THE VICIOUS DEMONS'' left a stronger reaction of '' WHAT THE FUCK?! '' on my face.

 CHAPTER TWO : This Has To Be Hell

    Perplexedby the headline''PROFESSOR ZAYLOF FINDS AN ANGEL THAT COULD SAVE HUMANITY FROM DEMONS'' I continue reading the newspaper.


    ''After the despairing beginning of the demon invasion, professor Zaylofdiscloseshopeful info about some ancient artifact that he found buried deep under one of the Egyptian pyramids.He argues that the ancient artifact is the wings of an angel named Lerian and after many experiments, he found that the artifact responds to innocent souls: the nearer and the more innocent someone is to the wings, the brighter the wings shone. he chose the most innocent human souls who are kids between the age of 7 to 10 that included his son and placed them near the wings only for the wings to bond with his only son, rayan, and manifest into what looked like an angle that radiated bright yellow light that he referred to as the ''light of hope'' then reverted back to his son''s body with wings on his back.


    is this the true light of hope that will save us all. will we finally be free from the fear of demons''


    I didn''t understand a thing, even though it was all driving me crazy: how I survived being burned in that incinerator, that it has been a hundredyears since then,that echo asking me whether I wish to live or not, that everything around me is burning or destroyed, that there are dead bodies everywhere,and whatever was in that newspaper, I needed answers very very badly.


    I continued walking lost in thought until I reached my, or what looked like the debris of my school, I wouldn''t have known it was my school if the huge bell that has its logo on it was smashed violently on the ground , the logo was a flag with an open book that emitted light inside , I was always fond of that logo back in the time.


    whatever smashed that bell was huge.....too huge that it could grab such an enormous bell from a huge school building and smash it to the ground.


    I looked at what was left of my school and thought how terrible the things are around here the cool grass I used to sit on with my friends Bayrauk, Maria, and Cassie, was burnt and thelibrary books were torn apart and thrown all around. this has to be hell, this can''t be earth anymore!


    I didn''tmeet any living thing, let alone a human being and Istarted losing hope thinking that the humans died in that demon invasion and I was better off not wishing to live againif anything I am now was to be described as living. I didn''tfeel pain, starvation, thirst, or any human emotions other than the despair I feel now and my heart didn''teven beat once ever since I got out of that pit.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.


    I continued walking without a destination wishing that I could come across anything alive in this hell.


    the sun started setting and the threads of the night were taking over the sky just when I heard a voice somewhere from afar to my right; I started running towards it with the hope that it could be a living thing.


    and there it was, between a narrow alley... a disgusting 5-meter tall dark purple monster with a drooling mouth filled with unaligned pointy, curvy teeth and a bloodshot eye with a triangular iris that stared at me while I halted to a stop 2 meters away from it. the more I looked at it the worse it got, that thing had three horns: 2 large ones on both sides of its eye and a short one between them, 4 arms with spikes all around them were sticking out of his long, slender neck, and down that long neck of his was a big jelly stomach with a tail coming out of. it looked at me growling for about of 5 seconds then it screamed loudly and screechedone of its arms on the buildings on the right side of the alley while aiming to smash me into the buildings to my left and it hit me so hard that the spikes on its arms left holes on the right side of my abdomenand destroyed the building I was smashed right into; I heard my bones break.


    even though I didn''t feel pain or bleed, I struggled to stand on my legs for some time but I did just in time when I heard a scream coming from far away.


    "INNCOMINGGG!"


    and suddenly someone appeared with giant brown arms that were two times the length and width of normal human arms with dark blue carvings that shone brightly and sharp black claws that had emitted black vapor as he was falling diagonally into the thing''s eyes smashing it dead to the ground


    "Oh...., that was an easy one." He said while his arms reverted back to the normal human sized arms and hand and the carvings stopped shining but stayed on his arms


    "r-r-rau....i-i-s....th-tha-..... y-y-ou" I said then heldmy throat,because what did I expect with a dry mouth caused by dehydration? of course I wouldn''t talk easily but I knew it was Bayrauk, one of my greatest friends and I couldn''t believe he was still alive...let alone...being exactly like I saw him last time at that construction site, ignoring the fact that he has weird tattoos that shine.


    he looked at me totally surprised.


    "Matt.....Wait....MATT, YOU ARE ALIVE !!" Bayrauk said running at me.


    "Oh god, Matt, you look.....terrible......."


    I looked at him one, not knowing what to say but even if i knew, i couldn''t speak.


    "oooh wait till the others see you, man." Bayrauk said, which meant that my friends, from a hundred years ago, are still alive .