Wind and rain pelted the stone and marble of the old and forgotten remnants of a graveyard so long ago forgotten that even the dampening winds and vegetation had almost escaped its notice. The cascading darkness seemed to swirl in a never ending attempt to let whatever lay here remain forgotten, almost as if it truly meant to death of millions should the truth actually be seen. Rugged plant life had all but swallowed the broken stone works and tapestries. An intricate networking of vines and moss has corroded all but the newest of additions, and even those markings were some several hundred years old.
It was within this revenue of decay and rot that two people, victims of their own lusts and greed slowly brought themselves into this old cemetery to try and find what others had not ever remembered being there. But these two were different. They knew the truth behind the lies of history. They knew the horrors even nightmares were frightened by. And they wanted that power, no matter how hard they would fall from it.
"Are you certain this is where the marker is supposed to be, Marcus?" It was a female voice barely audible above the clapping thunders and extreme streaks of brilliant lightning. Her frame was small and petite. Short, red hair whisked around and whipped along her glasses, leaving streaks of rain over the lenses. Her left eye was pierced as was her bottom lip and tongue. There was a spiraling tattoo over her neck and a shredded tank top that barely covered her youthful looking breast line. Her mid-drift showed a pierced navel and tattoos that seemed to go from her stomach down along her v-line and lower still. The rest was hidden beneath a leather skirt buckled with silver. Her thin arms held a shovel that was constantly digging within the soft yet unyielding trench of gray earth. Her muscles ached yet her dark green eyes glistened with anticipation as she continued to sift through the rotten ground.
"According to the text we found in the old Gaalish province, 'he was moved to an area guarded by angels who were lost. The ground bathed in his blood never to grow the fruit of the land until the light no longer finds him. His own words shall release him and those that speak them shall live forever.' This old cemetery was founded long before Columbus discovered America and was forgotten by the druids who left him here. It's even said that this place was considered unholy by even the most feared of witchdoctors and Houdon practitioners. This has to be the place. Even though vines grow here, there are never any other plants alive. Not even grass or weeds. So, it has to be here Klarise." The man's voice was not much louder than hers as thunder crackled above them as if warning them not to go further with their search. His frame was barely covered by a drenched, ebony wife beater T-shirt and black shorts beneath. His pale skin was unmarked but he wore several silver trinkets about his neck. Long and stringy locks of reddish black adorned his head and spiraled a bit beneath the rain's torrential downpour.
Klarise looked back as she felt the shovel she had striking something hard underneath the writhing mass of earth. Worms, wretch and insects of all kinds thickened the ground and tried to keep the ancient stone sarcophagus hidden in a ridiculously futile effort beneath these two people's onslaught. Her thin lips curled and looked up to her counterpart as he smiled down at her with renewed need. "Seems we found it, Marcus. Rasputin's notes were right."
The legends of the mad monk soon went crashing through the young man's mind. About how the monk used the forbidden and seductive religion of Cliqueism to try and revive the ancient evil only to be consumed by the residue of its spirit. Even that small amount of released power was enough to give the mad monk prowess enough to nearly fell all of Russia and in the end did not die from being shot, stabbed, poisoned and drowned. It took decapitation, and still the legends of the mad monk echo out today, giving wake to his true immortality.
Marcus soon awoke from the memory with a smirk and slowly turned to the side of the deep hole they had dug to get the pick axe and the crow bars. Soon, they knew what he had within the rain-coated backpack would have to be read, and then the real tests of the legends would begin anew.
A crinkling crack and breaking stone soon sounded off even more boisterous than the sound of the lightning above. A hiss of aid blew from the sealed compartment, along with the stench of hundreds of years of rot and rancid decay. All at once, broken stone erupted before them, cutting parts of their arms with debris. Beneath what they had uncovered was almost frightening enough to make devil's dance. They never knew that the stone top held a seal against evil, they never realized that it was never to be opened. Nor would they have cared. Their thirst for power was so damning that nothing, or no one would have been able to satiate it.
Beneath the rubble as they removed it was a rather startling image. A bubbling mass of flesh seemed to be remarkably preserved even as the air had struck it and caused it to show its deterioration more. No bones were showing through the still somewhat wet muscle tissue and it looked as if the corpse still was alive. The two people almost looked upon the thing with shock as they tried to let realization strike them. There was no way this should happen. The corpse was at least one thousand years old and it still remained wet and pliable. This was impossible, and yet there it was before them as rain and lightning belted above them.
Klarise was elated. She knew what this meant. Marcus began to have second thoughts and tried to back away. Fear and self preservation was enough to make his mind snap to the reality that this was indeed evil and should they go through with it that the both of them were not to be powerful, but dead and damned.
Klarise caught his hesitance and shook her head. "No you don't, Marcus. We have come too far to turn back now. All of the studying over the past five years, the translations, the items we had to destroy, sacrifices and those damned sexual rites I had to do with those animals and your skinny ass. I have come too far not to do this. I deserve this. You deserve this. And if you don't do this, then I will kill your scrawny butt. You got it? Huh?"
Marcus' eyes did not even register her words as he crawled feverishly out of the hole they had dug. She did not have time to react otherwise. If Marcus would have left and told someone, then they both would be in jail. That, and all of her dreams would be shattered, and she had been through far too much to allow that to happen at all.
With a sudden swing, Marcus felt a stinging pain against his head. He looked down at his partner in time to see the second strike of the shovel against his head smack him between the eyes. Darkness took complete hold of him then. He did not feel what came next. He was not conscious when she took the sharp end of the shovel and removed his head. Blood splattered upon her face as she shivered from the knowledge of what she had done, and the revelry of not caring because of what she was about to do.
As she turned back to the meaty corpse, she shoved Marcus aside and removed the remnants of rotted clothing and debris from the decayed creature. She then looked on in awe as she saw the still intact erection it had there. She smirked and gripped the book bag and took out the leather-bound notebook they had stolen from the Russian museum of the occult earlier in the year. She then removed her clothing and slid herself upon the corpse, her shaven folds between her legs accepting the corpse's erection into her. As she felt the girth enter her, she adjusted herself and placed the ancient text on the chest of the decayed being, and began to read its last words in hopes to have what she wanted to happen become real ...
It was within this revenue of decay and rot that two people, victims of their own lusts and greed slowly brought themselves into this old cemetery to try and find what others had not ever remembered being there. But these two were different. They knew the truth behind the lies of history. They knew the horrors even nightmares were frightened by. And they wanted that power, no matter how hard they would fall from it.
"Are you certain this is where the marker is supposed to be, Marcus?" It was a female voice barely audible above the clapping thunders and extreme streaks of brilliant lightning. Her frame was small and petite. Short, red hair whisked around and whipped along her glasses, leaving streaks of rain over the lenses. Her left eye was pierced as was her bottom lip and tongue. There was a spiraling tattoo over her neck and a shredded tank top that barely covered her youthful looking breast line. Her mid-drift showed a pierced navel and tattoos that seemed to go from her stomach down along her v-line and lower still. The rest was hidden beneath a leather skirt buckled with silver. Her thin arms held a shovel that was constantly digging within the soft yet unyielding trench of gray earth. Her muscles ached yet her dark green eyes glistened with anticipation as she continued to sift through the rotten ground.
"According to the text we found in the old Gaalish province, 'he was moved to an area guarded by angels who were lost. The ground bathed in his blood never to grow the fruit of the land until the light no longer finds him. His own words shall release him and those that speak them shall live forever.' This old cemetery was founded long before Columbus discovered America and was forgotten by the druids who left him here. It's even said that this place was considered unholy by even the most feared of witchdoctors and Houdon practitioners. This has to be the place. Even though vines grow here, there are never any other plants alive. Not even grass or weeds. So, it has to be here Klarise." The man's voice was not much louder than hers as thunder crackled above them as if warning them not to go further with their search. His frame was barely covered by a drenched, ebony wife beater T-shirt and black shorts beneath. His pale skin was unmarked but he wore several silver trinkets about his neck. Long and stringy locks of reddish black adorned his head and spiraled a bit beneath the rain's torrential downpour.
Klarise looked back as she felt the shovel she had striking something hard underneath the writhing mass of earth. Worms, wretch and insects of all kinds thickened the ground and tried to keep the ancient stone sarcophagus hidden in a ridiculously futile effort beneath these two people's onslaught. Her thin lips curled and looked up to her counterpart as he smiled down at her with renewed need. "Seems we found it, Marcus. Rasputin's notes were right."
The legends of the mad monk soon went crashing through the young man's mind. About how the monk used the forbidden and seductive religion of Cliqueism to try and revive the ancient evil only to be consumed by the residue of its spirit. Even that small amount of released power was enough to give the mad monk prowess enough to nearly fell all of Russia and in the end did not die from being shot, stabbed, poisoned and drowned. It took decapitation, and still the legends of the mad monk echo out today, giving wake to his true immortality.
Marcus soon awoke from the memory with a smirk and slowly turned to the side of the deep hole they had dug to get the pick axe and the crow bars. Soon, they knew what he had within the rain-coated backpack would have to be read, and then the real tests of the legends would begin anew.
A crinkling crack and breaking stone soon sounded off even more boisterous than the sound of the lightning above. A hiss of aid blew from the sealed compartment, along with the stench of hundreds of years of rot and rancid decay. All at once, broken stone erupted before them, cutting parts of their arms with debris. Beneath what they had uncovered was almost frightening enough to make devil's dance. They never knew that the stone top held a seal against evil, they never realized that it was never to be opened. Nor would they have cared. Their thirst for power was so damning that nothing, or no one would have been able to satiate it.
Beneath the rubble as they removed it was a rather startling image. A bubbling mass of flesh seemed to be remarkably preserved even as the air had struck it and caused it to show its deterioration more. No bones were showing through the still somewhat wet muscle tissue and it looked as if the corpse still was alive. The two people almost looked upon the thing with shock as they tried to let realization strike them. There was no way this should happen. The corpse was at least one thousand years old and it still remained wet and pliable. This was impossible, and yet there it was before them as rain and lightning belted above them.
Klarise was elated. She knew what this meant. Marcus began to have second thoughts and tried to back away. Fear and self preservation was enough to make his mind snap to the reality that this was indeed evil and should they go through with it that the both of them were not to be powerful, but dead and damned.
Klarise caught his hesitance and shook her head. "No you don't, Marcus. We have come too far to turn back now. All of the studying over the past five years, the translations, the items we had to destroy, sacrifices and those damned sexual rites I had to do with those animals and your skinny ass. I have come too far not to do this. I deserve this. You deserve this. And if you don't do this, then I will kill your scrawny butt. You got it? Huh?"
Marcus' eyes did not even register her words as he crawled feverishly out of the hole they had dug. She did not have time to react otherwise. If Marcus would have left and told someone, then they both would be in jail. That, and all of her dreams would be shattered, and she had been through far too much to allow that to happen at all.
With a sudden swing, Marcus felt a stinging pain against his head. He looked down at his partner in time to see the second strike of the shovel against his head smack him between the eyes. Darkness took complete hold of him then. He did not feel what came next. He was not conscious when she took the sharp end of the shovel and removed his head. Blood splattered upon her face as she shivered from the knowledge of what she had done, and the revelry of not caring because of what she was about to do.
As she turned back to the meaty corpse, she shoved Marcus aside and removed the remnants of rotted clothing and debris from the decayed creature. She then looked on in awe as she saw the still intact erection it had there. She smirked and gripped the book bag and took out the leather-bound notebook they had stolen from the Russian museum of the occult earlier in the year. She then removed her clothing and slid herself upon the corpse, her shaven folds between her legs accepting the corpse's erection into her. As she felt the girth enter her, she adjusted herself and placed the ancient text on the chest of the decayed being, and began to read its last words in hopes to have what she wanted to happen become real ...