Chapter 355: Angels and Demons (1)

The issue with Yggdrasil was not so easy to fix, he knew where the other fragments were and that was the issue.

They were in the wildernesses which included two prisons he didn’t have access to.

" What’s your plan?" Annie asked.

" First I’ll need the world piercer and to take that I need to be at least a Demigod myself, it won’t be easy." Replied Adrian.

" Alright, for now I’ll have the pack try to get stronger as fast as they possibly can, we don’t have much time."

He nodded, " Do that." Annie left to take care of matters on her end.

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Somewhere in the human world, a group of teenagers found themselves trapped in a haunted house.

" Wha..what are we going to do, I’m scared." A girl cried and clinged to her boyfriend, he too looked terrified.

But he tried to act brave in front of his girlfriend, there were seven of them in this house.

They’ve been trapped for 4 hours and strange things have been happening, at first they thought they were hallucinating.

But over time they realised everything they were seeing was real, there really were ghosts here.

One of the girls turned her head with bloodshot eyes and looked at the only single one amongst them.

" You..you Samantha, this is all your fault." She accused him, the one called Samantha gritted her teeth.

She felt her anger boiling, " My fault? I warned you, I told you going to an abandoned house was a bad idea." She argued.

" We only came here because you said there were ghosts here, you said you had seen one of the supernatural." The girl argued back.

Samantha felt like laughing, she could see the others leaning towards the other girl as well.

" Only a fool doesn’t believe in the supernatural anymore, after so many people claimed to have seen them.

There are videos everywhere on the internet, I told you this place was haunted and you lot dragged me here against my will and now you’re blaming me, fuck you."

Samantha exploded catching all of them by surprise, they were used to her keeping quiet and taking everything.

" You..you how dare you, you still.." the girl couldn’t finish her sentence between something dragged her boyfriend to the shadows.

" AHHHHHH, HELP ME!" He screamed, they rushed towards him but he disappeared into the darkness before their very eyes.

His screams disappeared returning the house to a chilling silence. For a few seconds nobody reacted.

" AHHHHHH!" The girl screamed to the top of her lungs and ran towards the door even though she knew it was locked.

Panic had taken over, the others followed her, Samantha was the only one who didn’t run.

She looked around the house and found her backpack and inside was a jar of salt, " I hope this works." She whispered.

Then poured the salt around her forming a circle, she could hear the screams of the others.

Soon everything grew quiet and the screams were replaced by an eeri silence, she was getting nervous as well.

The house had many rooms and each of the other six found themselves in different rooms.

The rooms were completely unlike those one would expect to find inside a house, they looked more like torture domains.

Each of them found themselves in a room of their greatest nightmares made live, the girl who accused Samantha found herself strapped to a metal bed.

Nurses in bloody uniforms and smiles so wide they reached both ears stood around her carrying surgical tools.

" No no, please stay away from me, stay away!" She screamed and struggled but the straps did not break.

The nurses began, they injected her with blood red liquid, she felt her vision blurring then lost consciousness.

Next time she woke up she was in another room, clean and well decorated, there bandages on her head.

She walked towards a mirror and slowly removed the bandages with shaking hands, her eyes turned misty.

She shook her head and back off with shaking legs, " No no no this is not real, this is not real WAKE UUUUP!" She screamed.

The face she had seen in the mirror was not hers or rather there was no face, her skin was peeled off.

Her cheeks were sunken as of somebody had scooped up all the meat and fat on her face.

She crouched on the floor and started bawling her eyes out while hugging her knees.

Despair took hold of her, the others faced similar fates, they weren’t being tortured in the traditional manner.

They were made to experience their worst nightmares, her, she has dreams of being a model.

For a pretty teenager, her looks were everything, her boyfriend had his legs and spine broken never to work again.

He was an athlete, one of the girls had her hands chopped off, her dreams of being a surgeon forever gone.

Another lost her voice, she will sing no longer, whatever was torturing them sought not physical pain but despair itself.

Samantha’s situation was completely different, salt can stop spirits dead in their tracks.

Demons weren’t fully spirits, it can slow them down but not stop them completely, for that she would need a demon ward.

But Samantha knew nothing of demon wards, she believed in ghosts and had seen the supernatural but demons were a different story.

The circle of salt was moving as if being blown by the wind, she kept pouring more salt until she ran out.

She found herself against the wall shaking in fear, she couldn’t see what was coming after her.

Demons couldn’t be seen by mortals, not unless they wanted to be seen. When she was about to despair.

A curtain of golden soul calming light fell on her, Samantha felt all her fears and worry evaporate..

’ Child, welcome me into your body.’ she heard a voice in her head which caught her by surprise.

She looked around for whoever spoke to her, " Who are you? Come out right now!" She shouted and balled her fists in a fighting stance.

It was sloppy and cute, it was obvious she had never taken any fighting classes in her life.

Her stance wouldn’t even threaten a child let alone a monster but Samantha had no liberty to think about about whether she’ll break her fingers when she punched.

’ I am an angel of the lord who came to rescue you from your suffering, surrender yourself to me and I’ll save you.’

Said the voice again, strangely she found herself trusting it, she didn’t know what surrendering herself meant.

So she spread her arms and raised her head with her eyes closed, " I surrender." She was desperate.

Did she believe it, not really but it was her only hope right now. A beam of light hit her forehead.

She felt her body getting hot and the next moment she was in a dark endless space and floating before her was a woman with wings.

Her entire body was made of light like particles, she hugged Samantha reassuringly then disappeared.

Samantha’s vision changed, she saw the world through her own eyes but it was as if looking through a window.

Her body moved on its own, she finally saw what was coming after her, a caterpillar like creature.

It was blood red and covered in disgusting pores that excreted red puss.

" Filthy demon." Said the woman controlling her body in Samantha’s voice then she pointed a finger at the creature.

" You pigeons, why do you always interfere?" The demon growled and a beam of light pierced its body.

It disappeared, she found the others near the door unconscious with those demons on their backs.

The one who was dragged away first was a bit further away but still on the same room, the angel killed all the demons then left.

Leaving the others still unconscious.