Lord of light (story)

[Spawn]

Yeah going to try and type a story, since i hated what I wrote last time I decided not to continue it, I think this is better.


Chapter 1: Howling Winds

Rain pattered gently against the train as it rushed along its track. Street lights blurred as the train moved past them. On one of the back carriages, a group of teenagers sat, they were coming back from watching a movie. The cart was deserted, they weren’t paying to much attention to how busy it was, they were more involved in there own conversations. One of the five people wasn’t so involved in the conversation, she occasionally smiled as the conversation came to her but didn’t really contribute much. She was to busy looking at the window, watching the world go buy. At the time she was lost in thought, trapped in her own mind. This happened to her a lot, she liked to be quiet a lot of the time, especially after a day like this one. While she always had fun with her friends, it was always an odd experience, she never fully seemed to gel, every time she got a little closer but still never managed it. This wasn’t something she particularly worried about anymore, they liked her and she loved them, it’d probably always be like that.
“Hey, Kitty, you okay.” Asked her boyfriend, well kind of, as is generally the problem with teenage relationships, it was complicated. The boy was good looking as boys went, long blonde hair, with purple streaks going down it. Big, brown eyes that shone in the dark, large lips that could break into a huge smile, slightly tanned skin.
“Yeah, I’m fine, Mike. Just a bit tired, is all.” She replied giving him a complementary smile, it looked as though he was going to say something else, but he shrugged to himself and went back to talking with the others. He liked Kitty, but a lot of the time she was very distant, he couldn’t be bothered to try and find out why anymore. He guessed it was her own choice is she wanted to push people away. Fortunately he found her very attractive, she had long brown hair, that fell down past her shoulders, light blue eyes that seemed to move like an ocean in the light, bright red lips that could light the room when she smiled. Kitty was slightly smaller then most people but not small enough to be considered short. It gave her a feminism that most people found very attractive. She wore light blue jeans and a pink top, it had golden writing going across it. To most people she would look like a nice, normal girl, even if she did come of slightly shy…or very shy when spoke to. Although she knew she wasn’t normal, she wasn’t exactly odd…well not more odd then everyone since no one is normal. Yet some of the things that happened to her and some of the things she saw would startle her. These visions weren’t part of her normal imagination, she liked to dream of nice things and she liked to see warm places. When these visions came to her she saw pain and suffering, sometimes she saw men’s bodies breaking or grim monsters coming alive. She wouldn’t mind these visions if they were like her normal day dreams but they weren’t. In fact she strongly doubted that anyone else saw things like she saw them. When these vision popped into her mind it felt as though a bullet had entered her skull, everything was so vivid so clear, she could smell every smell, hear every sound, taste every taste. Worst of all when they came she felt as though they would never leave, even though she only saw them for a few seconds.
“Hey, Kitty…wake up.” Said one of her friends, she hadn’t been asleep but it did occur to her that she had gone into a trance.
“But its so much more peaceful there.” She replied somewhat jokingly
“Hmmm, oh well we’re almost home you can go into a trance as long as you like then.” Said her friend
“Yeah I guess.” Replied Kitty dreamily. Her friend had short blonde hair and a very pink face, sometimes she could look extremely innocent and charming, on other occasions she could look extremely threatening. She was slightly bigger then most people her age, which came from working out and going to the gym…a lot. The train slowed to a stop, this was the last stop until they got back into Greensleaf, at this time of night it was common for the stop to be utterly deserted, but not on this occasion. There was one man waiting for the train to stop. Kitty looked at him casually, he looked familiar but not in a good way. His grey eyes looked old and worn, so did his face, it was tatty and pained. Yet he was young, his golden blonde hair was almost brighter then the sun, his grey eyes while old, exuded power as did everything about him. He wasn’t a big or buff man but he was intimidating all the same. To Kitty it seemed like the entire world was moving just to let him past. To her small dismay he stepped on there carriage and walked silent over to the seat opposite them. For a second everyone fell silent and there eyes fell upon him, then they went back to talking after deciding he wasn’t going to do them any harm. Well everyone other then Kitty, she wasn’t so sure. The man wore a business suit, his jacket was meant to be a light grey, but it was so damp from the rain it looked more black, he didn’t have a tie on, underneath his jacket he had a dark red shirt on, in the light of the train it looked to be on fire, his trousers were black and perfectly ironed. His shoes were well shined and a highly expensive make. Kitty found it hard to take her eyes of him, there was something about him, it was incredible and almost overwhelming. His presence seemed to be disrupting everything in the whole train, everything felt slightly different and everything made slightly less sense. Slowly he raised his head to see who was looking at him, Kitty didn’t move her eyes away fast enough, and for a second they were locked. It was just a second but it felt much longer, it felt as though everything she had ever felt and everything she ever would feel all just entered her mind. She was the first to break the eye contact, but it left her breathless, she felt as though she had been forced to run a hundred meter course. Mike had been paying attention to this whole exchange and was getting slightly angry, he put one of his well toned arms around her and pulled her closer. The man watched this whole exchange and smiled at her, then went into his briefcase, he pulled out a book (Of mice and men) and buried his head in it. Kitty didn’t like being so close to someone, she still liked her own space, if felt as though she trapped up against him, even so she supposed she was being slightly unfair so went along with it. For the rest of the journey she couldn’t stop looking over at the man, or fidgeting uncomfortably in her seat.

Finally the train stopped and the wind picked up fiercely, it echoed around the town. Kitty had to squint it was so powerful and hurting her eyes. Mike went to hold her hand but she slipped into her pocket before he could grab it.
“Wow its chilly.” Said Kerry. Kerry was Kitty’s best friend, she meant everything to her, she was the person who aloud her to be herself. Kerry had long fiery hair that looked even more alight then usual in the wind, her eyes were a bright green, it looked as though emeralds had been inserted into her head. She was wearing a fleece coat that she had wrapped around herself in order to keep herself warm. To Kitty’s surprise the man also stepped of the train, he moved silently, he would have reminded Kitty of a ghost, but he was alive in every sense of the word, there wasn’t a thing about him that wasn’t electrifying.
“Right, come on.” Said Mike eyeing the man surreptitiously, he was starting to feel uncomfortable, he kept eyeing Kitty up and down.
“Okay.” Said Kerry and they started walking, Mike dictated the pace and it was fast one, sometimes Kitty had to jog to keep up with him, she didn’t really mind though. The way home from the train station wasn’t all that nice, especially not at this time at night. Not that they lived in a particularly rough town or that there had been many murders, just a lot of the streets were usually deserted and this weather played on paranoia. The wind was getting worse, the rain stung as it hit against there faces.

Suddenly Mike stopped dead in his tracks, Kitty walked straight into him. Then she saw why he stopped and froze with fear. Standing in front of them was a wolf, its lips were curled, saliva running out of its growling mouth, its yellow teeth showing as it growled at them. Its cold yellow eyes locked onto Kitty for a few second then travelled over her and fixed on something behind her. They all turned around to see what it was looking at, the man on the train was standing a few paces behind him. One of the street lights illuminated him, he was smiling confidently at the wolf. Now Kitty grabbed onto Mike, this man was starting to scare her. He had managed to keep up with them all this while. Why was he following them? What was a wolf doing in the middle of England? None of this made any sense. Kerry whimpered gently under her breath, she seemed much more concerned with the wolf then she did with the man. Its shackles were raised and it poured the ground getting ready to pounce. The mans grey eyes looked straight into the wolfs fierce yellow eyes. A little whimper escaped the wolf, it stopped growling and slowly turned around and run as fast it could in the other direction.
“What the hell is going on.” Muttered Kerry under her breath as she watched the wolf run into the darkness, she turned around to look at the man, he was staring of into the darkness, seemingly to make sure the wolf had gone. Casually he turned around and walked of into the darkness. Kitty breathed a sigh of relief, she looked into the blackness of the night to make sure he had gone, fortunately he didn’t look as though he was going to come back.
“What the hell is going on.” Repeated Kerry, this time louder so everyone could here her.
“I dunno, I don’t really like it.” Said Mike and they started walking again, he was close to running now, Kitty and Kerry couldn’t keep up with him, it was to much walk, he was a lot bigger then both of them. Kerry fell behind so she could talk to Kitty.
“Have you seen Hazel?” She asked
“Yeah, she stayed on the train.” Panted Kitty, she wasn’t the athletic type all this running was making her tired, she felt sick to her stomach from running. Everything that had happened tonight was becoming a bit to much for her.
“Do you fancy sleeping round mine tonight, I didn’t like the way that man was eyeing you, plus aren’t your parents out tonight?” asked Kerry, she was starting to sweat now. The rain couldn’t cool her down, she was starting to wish Mike would slow down.
“Yeah, I didn’t like it either…actually I haven’t liked much that’s happened tonight.” She replied
“No, me neither, I want to get home, I’ll feel much safer there.” Gasped Kerry, she was trying to draw in enough breath.
“Same.” Answered Kitty, she stopped talking since it was proving to much effort.

Eventually Mike split away from Kerry and Kitty. It wasn’t a long until they go to Kerry’s house, but they slowed down there pace of walking considerably, it was to tiring to keep that pace up for a sustained period of time.
“So, why do you think that wolf was there?” Asked Kerry, shivering slightly in the cold
“Dunno, maybe it escaped from a zoo or something.” Replied Kitty, she didn’t really believe her own answer, there were know zoo’s close and even if they were the wolf probably would have not run away from that man, if it wouldn’t run away from them.
“Yeah, probably.” Replied Kerry, it seemed like she was struggling to believe her own reasoning as well. Kitty couldn’t help but notice she was avoiding answering the two questions that were on both of there minds, who was that man? And why did the wolf run away from him?

After a short while of walking they got to Kerry’s house, she lived in a small house. Even so it was nice and cosy, they seemed to have the latest of everything inside the house, flat screens TV’s, leather sofas, they even had a mechanical salt shaker. This was really pushing the line into becoming ridiculous Kitty thought to herself, but she never said it. She always had fun playing around with there gadgets. Kerry fumbled with the keys, she was to cold to get a good grip on them and she was shaking to much to manage to turn them. Finally she managed to get the door open, Kitty was almost overwhelmed with the warmth of the house, it washed over her, she felt as though she was bathing in it.
“Hi!” Kerry shouted
“Hi!” Replied her mum, her sister scoffed slightly as she entered the room.
“Is it okay if Kitty sleeps round, just there was this weird guy following us and her parents aren’t home.” Explained Kerry
“Yeah, I guess that’s fine, I don’t have any food though.” Replied her mum
“Don’t worry, we ate while we were out.” Replied Kerry
“Oh, okay…Hi Kitty.”
“Hiya.” Replied Kitty, she was very tired and wanted to go to sleep, fortunately she still had clothes round at Kerry’s house from the last time she slept round so she could jump straight into there spare bed.

It didn’t take her long to drift of to sleep, she had so much on her mind she thought it would, but it seemed as though the adrenaline had wore of and all that was left as a ache and exhaustion. When she was asleep she had an odd dream, well odd not being the right word, she had a terrifying dream. Standing in front of her was a bald headed man, if he was a man. His eyes resembled the eyes of the wolf, his arms were long and skinny, his fingers were more like claws and webbing running in-between his fingers, he was dressed in grey rags, a broken chain was locked around his ankle, it chinked along the ground. Kitty saw a small version of herself between his thumb and index finger, the thing was admiring as if it was a model. Slowly he raised her up to his mouth, she realised she was struggling against the thing. The monster opened wide his black mouth and popped her the miniature her. Without knowing she was doing Kitty screamed no, the beasts wolf like eyes turned to her. It started to advance towards her, as he moved forward she saw the man that had been following her standing behind him, he had that confident grin on his face. His grey eyes were looking at her, the monster grabbed her by the neck and raised her of the ground. She could feel his iron grip around her throat, it hurt but before the pain became to intense she woke up. Sun was shinning through the wind and birds were tweeting merrily, her nightmare slipped quickly out of her mind

Somewhere far below, in a place where the sun never shone the man was sitting on his throne. The throne was made from red stone, it towered up higher, higher the most houses. He was resting both his arms casually on the side pf the chair. He was looking out over a place that seemed to go on forever, it was a horrible image, it was full of people screaming, begging for mercy, terrible creatures roars echoed through the huge caverns. A huge spider approached the man, its eight eyes trembled with fear as it looked at him, even though he was twice the size of the man and much more fierce looking he still coward while near him.
“Lord Lucifer how was your trip to the world above.” Asked the spider shakily
“It was…educational.” Replied Lucifer picking his words carefully
“Do you intend to leave us?” Asked the spider cautiously
“Hmm, I think so. I’m tired of hell, the wars have finished and I do not feel like my presence here is needed. I will return, after all this is my home. But I think its time to try my luck in the real world…”

[Spawn]

Chapter 2: His rise

Kitty looked opened the curtains, it was a sunny day. Accept it didn’t look like it would stay that way for long. Clouds hovered ominously overhead, there was a slight growling in the air, as if it was threatening an all out storm. Kerry knocked gently on her door
“Hiya, are you awake?” She asked
“Yeah, I am and you can come in.” Replied Kitty, she was slightly groggy and her dreams last night wore her out.
“How’d you sleep?” Asked Kerry entering the room
“Okay, I had bad dreams though.” She said, the image of the monster flashed into her head
“Awww, babes.” Said Kerry comfortingly “So what do you want to do today?” She asked
“I dunno, we could call on Emma, I think she said something about wanting to see us.” Answered Kitty. Kerry agreed, it took Kitty a while to get ready, even though she didn’t usually wear make up or anything. They left the house and started walking to Emma’s. There was something odd in the atmosphere, it was cold and the wind was harsh. The sun was sinking beneath the black clouds, rain started to drip slowly. It was the kind of rain that felt like ice, Kitty shivered and slid her hands into her pockets, to try and warm herself up.
“So yeah, its cold today.” Said Kerry obviously, Kitty hummed while looking up at the sky. She couldn’t put her finger on it but there was something unusual about the day she felt like she did on the train last night. As if something has been disturbed and the world no longer made sense. It wasn’t a very noticeable feeling, but she could feel it all the same. Kitty felt like the world was changing and things that shouldn’t be happening were.
“So I take it your going to be in a subdued mood all day?” Asked Kerry, she was used to Kitty acting like this, it didn’t really matter, Kerry didn’t mind talking, in fact she could do it all day.
“Yeah, I guess so.” Said Kitty airily and went back to staring at the sky.

When they got to Emma’s she jumped with delight at seeing them, Emma wasn’t the most sociable person and normally got forgotten about. No one ever invited her to do anything and it was a rarity to get called on by her friends. She had short brownish, blonde hair that was unevenly cut. Her nose twitched a lot and it reminded Kitty of a mouse when they were sniffing something, her body was slightly uneven, she had wide hips but a skinny middle. Her eyes were a light blue, that shone happily. She usually wore a tops that would reveal her belly since she liked to show of her emerald stone, she had her belly pierced just so she could wear it.
“So how are you two?” She asked
“I’m good and Kitty’s not talking.” Replied Kerry, Kitty smiled and nodded to indicate she was good.
“Oh, I take it she’s in one of her moods?” Asked Emma
“Yeah, she’ll probably brighten up later in the day.” Replied Kerry

Back down, far below Lucifer was sitting in a large room, it had all sorts of things in. Ancient torture devices, different clothes that ranged from human skin to business suits. There were many different types of balls, some glowed and other hummed. Going around the room there were many bottles, some had liquid in, others had fish in. One or two had a small human being in, they were knocking against the glass begging for a release. Also in the room was the giant spider he was watching Lucifer pack his suit case.
“So I take it your not going to Earth with out precautions?” He asked Lucifer timidly
“Arak, I’m the lord of Hell, I’m the only angel ever to betray God. Being stuck here was meant to be my punishment, do you really think that heaven is going to be happy when I start wondering around Earth without a care in the world?” Asked Lucifer
“No, I suppose not.” Arak stopped talking for a while and watched Lucifer pack his suitcase, he could get an abnormal amount it considering it was so small. Lucifer admired a large pair of wings, trying to decide whether he would need to fly while on Earth.
“Master, may I ask a question?” Asked Arak
“Go on.” Yawned Lucifer
“If you could always just walk out of hell, how come it took you so long to do it the first place.”
“I had no need to, I like Hell, its my home and in Hell I’m probably more strong then all of Gods army…but Earth is getting much more interesting now, the shape of the all our worlds is going to change over the next centaury, I want to make sure it goes my way.” Lucifer stopped and considered his sentence for a little while, then he added “and I’m bored in hell, there’s only so much suffering you can relish before it gets tiresome.”
“Bu you don’t cause suffering because you want to do, do you?” Asked Arak
“Nah, I do it because I have to, if evil men got to go to heaven there would be no heaven, then I’d have no opposite and my powers would be gone. I’ve always warred with heaven, not because I intend to win or because I dislike them, just because it entertains me.” Arak went silent and thought about Lucifer’s statement.
“So Arak, how do you fancy coming to Earth, obviously I’d have to shrink you a bit, but you could come and make some spidery friends.” Said Lucifer throwing the last of his possessions into the briefcase.
“I’m good here, thanks. I like hell, I feel comfortable.” Replied Arak, all eight of his eyes looked down at the ground, he hated not going along with what Lucifer told him to.
“So in other words you scared that you’ll get on my nerves and I’ll turn you back into the whimpering human you used to be?” Asked Lucifer, a smile spread across as he saw Arak try and work out an answer.
“Yes.” Shamefully spat out Arak
“Hmm, I thought that may be the case, well suit yourself, I just have one more thing I need to do before I leave for Earth.” Said Lucifer lazily, he wondered over to the desk in the middle of the room.
“What’s that my lord?” Asked Arak
“Oh, nothing terribly important, there’s just gem stone I feel like activating”
“May I ask what one?”
“Yeah, the gem of control, a very powerful item and since I’m going to be meeting the girl who has it when I go to Earth, I think I might try and take it for myself.” Explained Lucifer while drawing some odd symbol on his desk. Arak watched intrigued, for a moment nothing happened, the a green glow appeared around Lucifer’s hand he raised his hand into the air and the green glow shot of his hand and straight out of hell.

Kerry and Emma were talking amongst themselves, when suddenly her emerald glowed a bright green and started shaking, then as soon as it started.
“OH MY GOD! What the hell just happened?” Asked Emma removing the emerald and cautiously inspecting it.
“That was odd.” Said Kerry, she had stepped away from Emma and was looking at the ring apprehensively.
“Where’d you get that ring from?” Asked Kitty looking at it, this seemed like a strange case of deja vue to her.
“I got it out of some charity shop, it was really tacky.” Said Emma, she continued to pear inside it, she kept thinking that she would see and LSD or something like that, but it was totally empty. The rain was coming down a lot harder now and the wind was much more fierce, the trees were struggling to keep there roots in the ground.
“Well things are getting freaky.” Said Kerry, she had told Emma about the wolf incident.
“Yeah, I’m sure its nothing and just a series of events, give it a while and everything will go back to normal.” Said Emma helpfully, Kerry nodded in agreement, neither of them really believed that but they were to scared to disagree, so it was apparently true. Kitty still hadn’t said much, she was busy trying to process everything that had gone on, the whether, her weird dreams, the wolf and the man. Everything seemed to be going wrong and all at once and it all seemed to be around for all of it.

Later on they left for to go home, they didn’t really want to stay at Emma’s to late since it was getting dark much earlier these days and after all the strange events they just wanted to be in there own homes. Kitty had a small house, she didn’t have much space to herself other then her room. The living room and dinning room were together and there was one room going of from them. Kitty used that room to do her homework and go on MSN, other then that she was pretty much surrounded by her parents when the were in. Fortunately they weren’t in a lot, both her parents had full time jobs that caused them to be out until late at night, or all through the day. She didn’t mind, by her age she was pretty good at looking after herself, it wasn’t a big challenge. Although on nights like these she did wish that someone was around to comfort her and tell her that’d everything was fine. The rain hit against her head and by the time she got to her house she was drenched, the rain was dripping against the ground, she could hardly stop shivering. As soon as she got in she rushed up to her room to change into something warmer. When she opened the door she let out a loud horrified scream. Sitting on her bed, reading casually through one of her magazines was the man that had been following them yesterday. In terror she went to rush down stairs and grab her phone, but something was keeping her in the room, the door blew shut and to her despair that handle broke of so she could open it again.
“What are you doing in my room.” She asked trying to back away from him, his grey eyes looked up from the magazine and looked straight at her.
“Waiting for you.” He replied slowly.
“Why, what do you want with me.” She asked starting to shake from head to toe with terror.
“I want to show you things.” He replied, that cool and confident grin spread over his face.
“Oh God, please just leave me alone.” Said Kitty continuing to try and push herself through a brick wall, it wasn’t working.
“Don’t worry, I’m not going to hurt you.” He said calmingly
“So are you going to do with me?” Asked Kitty, her voice shook with fear, she wanted him to stop looking at her.
“I’m going to give you a present.” He said, she noticed that he had one hand behind his back, it was holding something.
“I don’t want a present.” Said Kitty, again starting to panic
“Yes you do, let me ask you something Kitty, were you one of those children who always wanted a pet? But were your parents always to mean to let you have one?” He was picking his words very carefully, obviously enjoying toying with her fear. Kitty didn’t say anything, she just whimpered under her breath.
“Well?” Pushed the man
“Yeah, I guess so.” Said Kitty, the man was clearly insane. She wanted to start hammering against the door, try and beat it down, but she was scared that he may do something to her if she tried to do this.
“Good, I’m glad, after all if you weren’t one of those people I don’t think you’d enjoy your present much. Now let me ask you another question why do you think people want pets?” Asked the man, he spoke smoothly and very powerfully.
“I dunno.” Replied Kitty
“Yes, well you must have a theory, look trust me it doesn’t matter what you say the end result will stay the same, so you might as well say something.” Clarified the man
“Well, I guess its because people want to love something.” Replied Kitty
“Hmm, one would think that, but there’s another reason. People want to love something and have control over it, pets are smaller and weaker then humans, they’ll love them because they can control them, they don’t have to be intimidated by them.” Explained the man “so this is why I thought you might like my present.” He took removed his hand from behind his back, he was holding a teddy bear by its neck. Again Kitty let out another scream, the teddy bear was moving on its own accord struggling against his grip, it was letting out muffled sobs, accept it couldn’t cry properly since its mouth had been sown together, instead of having teddy bear eyes it human eyes, they looked familiar to Kitty, not that she really cared at this point she was to scared of what she was seeing, she thought she was going to be sick with shock.
“What the hell!” She stuttered.
“Don’t you like it, I thought he looked quite cute.” Said the man, holding it up to eye level and admiring it.
“Its moving.” Said Kitty in shock
“Yes, that’s what happens when you put a soul in a lifeless object, it moves.” Explained the man slowly, as if this was all completely normal.
“Wait, who’s soul did you put in there?” Asked Kitty cautiously.
“Your boyfriends, you were intimidated by him, I thought you might like him more like this.” Said the man, he smiled casually and tossed the teddy bear to her, she caught it, to her shock it was warm, she screamed and dropped into the floor, it muffled a whimper of pain. As it struggled to get to its feet, accept since it was a teddy bear its balance was off.
“Your lying!” She screamed
“No, I’m not lying and you know I’m telling the truth, come on, all your dreams, all your visions, all your feelings. You’ve got to know there something not quite right this world. Now your just seeing it.” Said the man
“Who are you?” Asked Kitty finally
“Me, I’m the lord of light, I’m the devil, I’m Lucifer and I’m your new guide…be seeing you.” He laughed, to Kitty’s surprise the handle reattached itself to the door, Lucifer strolled over to it and let himself out. Leaving Kitty looking at the living teddy bear in horror