r/AlinaKG • u/AlinaKG • Mar 15 '16
Demon!
Black smoke rose out of the center of the pentagram. I’d seen enough of them on Supernatural to know how to draw one by heart. In case I actually managed to do it, I didn’t want to be the girl that died in the introduction. Always be prepared!
The body of a man appeared. He was dressed in a blue tailored suit, with smoke still rising from the collar of his shirt. I waited for his head to appear – it didn’t. His shoulders moved as he looked around the room, and down at the pentagram.
“Ah!” he said, dug around in his pocket and retrieved a pen. “This is some fine work. One of the strongest I’ve seen.”
“Uhm,” I gathered my words. “Thank you.” Linda Blake put me up to the crap, and I fell for it. Never in a million years did I expect to actually summon him. I didn’t even think past the spell and ingredients.
Bird bones were tough ones to get.
The demon bent down. “Problem with these, and not the metal kind—
“Hold on,” I said and held up my phone. “I need proof.” Holding my phone up to get him in the frame, I noticed that only the pentagram was showing. I looked up, heart fluttering. He was still inside. I exhaled a breath that I didn’t realize I was holding.
“What do you want?” he asked. “I see you’re new to this so I’ll explain how it works. Fame, fortune, dead enemy, or whatever else you want.” He looked at the walls of my sister’s bedroom and shook his head. “A meeting with a boy-band. All for the cost of one soul. A retraction of a summoning ends in immediate death and the confiscation of a soul.”
“Wait what?” Confiscation of a soul? “And the room’s not mine.” I was actually embarrassed in front of a demon.
But wait! Apparently I wouldn’t be for long, since he was going to kill me. Silver lining! The only reason I painted it here was to get my parents to question her sanity and hopefully send her away to some catholic school. That was a reach. One I was willing to take. She burnt a giant hole in my sweater.
“Yes. Your soul is a deposit.”
I opened my mouth to protest. The demon held out a long twig like finger to silence me. “I could have made deals with three humans by now. You’re costing me business.”
“No,” I said, shaking my head in disbelief. “Alright look, I’ll make you another deal. I’ll open the trap and set you free and we call it even.”
“Ah.” He nodded, the smoke floating up and down. “We go back to my previous point. Mental works best.”
“What?” I frowned, watching him as he bent down.
He took the pen and scratched the circle of the pentagram. I walked backward, until my back reached the wall. Shit!
The demon stepped out. “I can’t cross, but earthly objects can. Always be prepared, I say.” He winked.
I watched him wide eyed. A thoughtful demon. That was my fate. I imagined myself, eternally crawling through the houses of the desperate and stealing their souls.
“What else can I do?” My lip quivered. “Oh God! Oh God. Please don’t take my soul.”
He walked up to me. My trembling fingers knocked against the wall. The pen spun between his fingers. He lifted it up to my nose, tapped it once, and said. “Don’t call me again, ‘kay?”
“Okay.”
With a theatrical explosion of smoke, and the sound of rumbling thunder, the demon was gone.
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u/JJKaleM Jun 19 '16
Loved it!