The Season of War (Part II "The Journey")

Season of War  
(Part II “The Journey”)  
   
The voice was misplaced  
A human’s voice in a demons body  
Only added to my terror  
Spreading  its wings wide  
An incantation sprang from its maw and    
The world closed in on me  
Snatching me up it threw into its waiting jaws  
I was not alone  
A clutch of glowing orbs waited inside  
Wallowing in the stench of its mouthy secretions  
The serpentine usher showed me to my seat  
Up it leapt and hovered  
The very ground opened to swallow us whole  
With a rush of wind, we were gone  
Into the all encompassing darkness we were carried  
Horrid screams emanated from the depths of this abyss  
Some human, some not  
The stench of rotting and burning flesh  
Permeated every screaming mouth there  
As the intensity of our screams increased  
I saw the demon smile devilishly,  
Taking pleasure in our suffering  
My mind raced with constructed beings of horror waiting for me  
I struggled to silence my minds ramblings of the things they would do  
But it had gone insane in the moment and    
All I could do was scream  
Fire erupted from the demons nostrils and    
The darkness was illuminated for an instant  
A bequest not welcome to its benefactors  
Hoards of demons,    
All ravenous and blood soaked  
Writhed over one another    
Ripping flesh from human bodies  
Their prey still alive screamed in agony and terror  
Helpless to stop the unholy beast attacks  
Starving and lusting for fresh meat  
A frenzied rush sprang throughout the chasm  
As the beasts raced to quench their unholy appetites  
Bathing in gushing crimson sheets of blood from their feast  
They trundled on the cadavers with delight  
It stained and permeated the brimstone and fire around them  
As we sailed overhead    
We were seen and they shrieked in pleasure  
Of the banquet yet to come  
Ghastly, soul gouging human howls  
Pleading for mercy    
In a merciless place  
From the screaming occupants served up for their sins  
Breaks through the brutal, surreal scene  
It was deafening and  
Could be heard  
Above the rapture of the beasts pleasured moans  
It sliced threw me with one torrid blow  
I cover my ears but to no avail  
I cannot keep them out  
The sweet serenity of unconsciousness eludes us all and  
We must suffer this as it is only the beginning of our condemnation  
We are still screaming as we reappear in a vast cavernous dwelling  
The place smells of rotting flesh and death  
Arches of white marble walls    
Dappled with golden gates    
Rise from the ground and vanish into the ceilings miles above  
Enormous flying fireflies illuminate the ceiling  
With an eerie fluorescent glow  
Numerous, gigantic, white marbled angels, wearing golden armor, muscles bulging    
Strain to hold the walls erect  
From some, unseen force    
Trying to topple them down  
Broken pieces of weapons lie about  
Amongst the bones and amputated flesh  
Torches light the cavern as we enter and    
Our host spits us out disgusted with our taste  
Without a second look it quickly turns and disappears  
To bring another ill-fated group of predestined inmates, no doubt  
Reanimated, born into an unholy place  
Quivering, drenched with demon saliva  
We are surrounded by other souls  
Pieces of flesh dapple their faces and bodies  
Zombies dressed in old garbs from different eras gone by stand silent    
Watching us as though we are the freaks in this madhouse  
Sickened by it all we heave the living essence from our phantom bodies and    
The orgy begins  
They fight one another for this glorious gift  
We have bestowed on them  
They lap it up with the fervor of a starving man at his first meal  
We are all aghast and frightened by this  
We cower at their feet waiting to be torn piece by piece and  
Consumed by this undead hoard but  
Before our eyes they turn human once again and are able to speak  
You are at the gates of hell in the Dead’s World  
The leader denotes  
To protect the Living World  
Your futures are set here  
You must obey and fight to complete your judgment  
You will battle or be condemned to the other side  
The one you glimpsed when you entered here  
True Hell!  
All body functions cease to exist  
You are dead  
Save for replenishing the divine essence of life  
Which you will consume during the arrival of replacements and  
As the watch keepers see fit to bestow upon us  
It said and pointed towards the fireflies  
We wept as children  
With no shame of being adults  
For we were children here  
With new slates to be filled  
With rules and boundaries  
Courage and hope  
Condemned to fight both the demons  
Trying to invade the living world and  
The fear threatening to condemn us  
To a more horrid existence



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