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Diablo’s Deal by Jacob Black

My life was perfect I had every thing I could ever want, and every thing I ever wanted was Natalia’s love. Natalia was an angel on earth she had golden hair with a sweet face that could melt the coldest heart. We were to be married when we turned nineteen, but as fate would have it she passed away. For three days I mourned her death on the fourth I thought I had found my cure for this disease called death, but instead I found damnation, but on that day I never looked back.

I will never forget that day; I was sitting by Natalia’s grave shedding what tears I had from my dried eyes. I had lost the time of day it seemed like a few minutes yet the sky was dark and heavy with rain. It seemed even God who had forsaken me was crying. As I rose to leave the cemetery a voice colder than ice and sharper than even the sharpest sword called to me, “You really loved her didn’t you.” I guess I was scared to even move, or was I drawn to this voice. I looked to where the voice came from; there was nobody but the grave markers. Yet the voice came again, “If you desire I can bring her back,” this time it came from Natalia’s grave there on the tombstone there was a dark shadow yet it was night how could there be a shadow. As I stared into the thing red glowing spheres where I guess eyes should be and it took the shape of a person yet still inhuman it spoke again yet the voice was stronger now, “Well do you accept my offer but I must tell you I want something in return.” In my moment of shock and disbelief I agreed yet I asked what it wanted and it opened its jowls revealing many sharp white teeth and it replied, “Don’t worry when I am finished I will take what is mine,” he replied after that I had never expected to see what horrible sins I have caused.

It had all happened so quickly it was hard to realize what had happened. The shadow spoke in a language I never knew. In a flash of blinding light, the next thing that happened, it felt as if I was consumed in flames yet I wasn’t after my eyes adjusted I looked to find the shadow. I thought it had ran away, but what about his pay. My clothes still felt soaked from the rain. Then I heard my beloved Natalia’s voice as I turned to the direction of her voice I saw her. Something was wrong so horrible the creature that lay before me was the source of her voice

Her form was twisted and deformed, blood was every where, I screamed in horror of this moving corpse creating the sound of my love. as I used my hand to cover my eyes from the abomination I looked upon my hand and saw that I had my skin replaced with what looked like muscle and raw tissue like my skin was torn from my body. I felt my face to see if it was only my hand in despair it was not only my hand it was my arms and my face it seemed my entire body had it flesh ripped off. Yet only my long raven hair seemed to remain of my original body.

My god what have I done to enter this wretched form I come to see before me? This is not what I had asked for my beloved was not before me only this wretched piece of rot and decay. As I thought this the wretch that was to be Natalia crawled to me leaving a trail of coagulated blood behind it. As I stared at it in shock it continued to crawl towards me coming closer and closer; oh god help me what have I done? As I tried to move my terrified body the wretch spoke in a short almost raspy voice, “Killl……mmmmeee…..killl….mmmeeeee,” it repeated this over and over again. My terror was then quickly replaced by sadness and remorse as it continued to repeat it’s self. In my mind thoughts of ways to kill the abomination came quickly, yet as these thoughts came so did another that had sent a shiver down my spine. What if this was truly Natalia and she was suffering all because of me and my selfishness. So I finally decided to do the only thing I could do I placed my newly raw hands around the creatures throat and applied pressure as it was suffocating through its last breath it said, “thank you Allen I’ll always love you,” then she fell limp in my hands as I stood and placed her lifeless body on the ground. This was the second time I had to witness Natalia’s death. I then fell to my knees and cried at what I had done. Then after I had regained control of myself I had found a shovel in one of the grounds keepers sheds and dug her new grave to place her in. As I did this I thought to myself that once again I’m alone in this world. It wasn’t till I had found that man that I had been given a chance to repay for my sins. Natalia you will always be my one candle in my dark heart; I love you.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, evil to darkness. Amen