The Unexplained 8

For the next few days I ran, hardly stopping to catch my breath. I only stopped to drink and sit for a few minutes, never eating, never sleeping, trying to run myself six feet under. After about a week of this, I couldn't push my muscles any further and my legs gave out under me, forcing me to collapse to the ground in pain and exhaustion. Delusional with hunger and sleep deprivation, I felt unconsciousness sweep over me as a wave of pain wracked through my body. I'm sure I would've died right then and there if it weren't for the kindly farmers who found me passed out in their field.

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It was two weeks before I woke up, two weeks filled with nightmares and pain. Not much worth telling happened in my month long stay with the farmers. I helped in the fields to earn my keep at their house and I became quite affectionate towards them. My stay was cut short though, by the hounds and their Keeper.

Apparently he had been planning on taking my "mother" to the Abyss, alive, as a guardian of something or other, and I ruined his plans. He was pissed when I met him.

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It was nearing the end of the month when a man with a pack of dogs came up to the house asking for a place to stay the night. The farmers let him in with smiling faces and open arms, but I had a bad feeling about him.I was right too.

That night I was woken by a strange mixed howling, screeching noise coming from the barn where the man and his dogs were sleeping. I looked outside to see the barn ablaze and the farmers sprinting towards it. There was a loud cracking noise and as I watched, a flaming chain whipped out from the blaze, striking the man and causing him to implode, then did the same to his wife. Five dogs, well they resembled dogs anyways, came running out the flames, shaking fire from their fur, and all looked up at my window.

"Seron Lucifer Pivel!" I heard his echoing voice shout, " you will atone for the crime you have done unto me. If you choose not to come out of the building, I will bring it down around you and have my hounds my hounds devour your flesh."

I stared down at him, unable to move or speak.

"I see your choice than."

With that, I watched as long flaming chains ripped the house from beneath me and the hounds ran towards me.