In_Darkness_Dwells - Sex Stories

In_Darkness_Dwells

... twice, everyone heard the defenses rattle as claws scraped against the wood. No one could even breathe in those moments as utter terror gripped them.

Volker continued deciphering the pages, looking for anything that could help them, though his face became gaunter and gaunter with dread as he went on. Then, finally, the sun rose, and the demons retreated beneath the earth. The few survivors emerged to find most of the town reduced to ash and the ground soaked with blood. There were no bodies, only drag marks.

"This town really is dead," Sorine murmured with tears streaming down her face.

"Help! Somebody help me!" The fearful cry reached Sam, Volker, and Sorine, and they followed it to find to Captain Matei, who had locked himself in Volker's cage. The bars were scratched and bent from the demons trying to break in, and their claws had shredded his uniform. "Please, get me out of here," he sobbed.

"Were you in there all night?" Volker asked as he unlocked the cage.

Matei slowly crawled out, like a newborn horse taking its first steps. "The screams, those horrible screams. All night, they were reaching through the bars, clawing at me and screaming. I could see it in their eyes, their utter hatred. They weren't just trying to eat me, they truly and utterly despised me existence."

"Do you know if any of your men are still alive?" Sam asked.

"They were eaten and then dragged away."

"I don't get it, I thought these monsters only ate brains and dug up ...

... corpses for their nests," said Sam.

"Not nests, soil," said Volker, drawing everyone's eyes to him. "I'm afraid things are far worse than we imagined."

"Worse? WORSE?! I'm about to shit myself here and you're talking about worse! And I'm pretty sure he already shit himself!" Sam exclaimed. Matei simply put his head to the ground and cried.

"Volker, what are you talking about?" Sorine asked.

"We didn't translate its name correctly. Rathodor doesn't mean "Devil's Seed," it means "Seed from the Devil's Garden." When God created the Garden of Eden, he included the Tree of Knowledge and Tree of Life, so the Devil made his own garden in Hell in mockery of God's creation, and cultivated the Tree of Death."

"Trees don't run around, attacking people!"

"This one does, in the early stages. I mentioned before that by eating people's brains, Rathodor feeds on their souls, but he feeds on more than that. Specifically, he feeds on the free will we gained when Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge, as well as our Original Sin from them disobeying God. The purity and corruption of our souls nourishes him. Then, once he gains enough strength, he begins digging up graves. What Sorine thought means "nest" actually means "soil." Rathodor uses the bodies and grave dirt as the soil in which it takes root and becomes the true Tree of Death. It is a tree that can only grow underground, for sunlight burns it like fire."

"And what were those monsters?" Sorine asked.

"The fruit. ...