The Godsend Backfire: The Beginning by Harold Straugh (best e reader for academics TXT) 📗

“PLEASE STOP!” he screamed, spewing food all over me.  I wiped it off my face and looked at him.

“No one stopped for me. What’s wrong? Don’t like things being forced in you?” I asked, shoving more food in his mouth.  I patted his rotund cheeks as some of the food spilled out.  I got behind him and pulled him away from the table and picked the scythe.  I said nothing more to him as I brought the scythe up over my head and brought it down on top of his stomach, taking off one of his large man-breasts and slicing through his stomach.

He screamed, tried to break free, but he couldn’t.  Halfway through the cut, his insides spewed out on the ground.  He quit writhing about, and his eyes rolled to the back of his head.  I watched his lungs slowly stop moving.  I looked at Abakanazar’s abdominal skin that was laying flapped over.  I thought it would make a good focal point and thought a minute on what to do.  It occurred to me, it would make a great cape.

I found a thin, filet-like knife and using my knowledge from watching them cleaned the fish, I separated the fat from the skin. I held it up and admired the torch light shining through it.  I flopped it back and forth, then tossed it over my shoulders. I held it in place with two, fork heads I stabbed into my clothing and broke them off at the shaft. Let me explain the forks back then, they were rough cut from rock or forged and only had two tines.

I stepped outside the Hall and there came a great rumble.  I looked at the mountain across the lake and saw bright red lava flowing down the side of it, then came a cataclysmic explosion. It blew me back and on the ground. Lava flew up in the air and sprayed out, it was raining lava. I ran to the outreach of the raining lava and watched as it caught every hut on fire, the Hall went up in quickly. The lake started to boil, and I could hear a sizzling as the lava reached the water.  The two villages were up in smoke and I could also see the lava was catching random people on fire.

I was enjoying the show when I heard something crunch to the side of me. I looked quickly, fearing maybe Derium was about to attack but when I looked, there was Mer-Alz-Azkiban’s mother, badly burnt and her night was about to get worse.

“Help me!” she said through a strained, raspy voice.

“I will,” I said and walked over to her, I dumped the eyes out from the little bag and tossed them down by her face, “Someone wants to see you!”

She breathed heavy and wheezed, it sounded like she was crying, then she cradled the eyes.  She started talking, and I didn’t understand it, but I knew what she was doing, she was casting a spell on me. I acted quickly, removing her jaw before she could finish saying anything.  I tossed her bottom jaw down next to her.  I turned around and walked away. I’m sure, even to this day, that last thing she saw was my stomach-skin, cape.

I took to a nearby tree and watched the rest of night as Sodom and Gomorrah and everyone within, burned, I wish popcorn was around back then, it would have been the perfect time for it.  Once day broke, I got down out of tree and started to walk amongst the rubbish of Sodom.  There were dead bodies everywhere, I simply kicked them out of my way. I made my way out to Al Hubarb’s hut, it was gone and the fact that there wasn’t a baby crying, confirmed that the baby burnt up in the night or someone took it, I would never know.  I almost felt bad for the ugly little thing.

The mountain the lava erupted from, volcano I guess it was, was gone, there was just a big hole where it was at. I could still see smoke rising from it.

“What have you done?” I heard a familiar voice and turned around to see Mylicous.

“Impressed? Don’t worry, your time is coming.” I said, taking credit for the destruction

“I tried to help you….”

“You did? I didn’t see you, if it weren’t for Lucifer, I’d probably still be in there, being raped over and over and….”

“STOP BROTHER! I don’t want to hear anymore…”

“Even the women got involved, imagine that.”

Mylicious broke down in tears, “They had me chained with silver brother, I couldn’t move, I couldn’t change, I couldn’t help.”

“Do you know why Derium went with her?”

“He was compelled by her for some odd reason, I couldn’t be and when they found out, they chained me.”

“I will get Derium and I will kill him.”

“Please don’t kill him, he wasn’t himself.”

“I believe he was exactly who he wanted to be,” I raised my voice. Even though I didn’t feel any physical pain, the emotional pain was way worse.

Mylicious put his head down, “I knew she was bad. I wish Derium would have stayed away.”

“Where are they?”

“Will you spare Derium?”

“No,” I was offended he even asked that, “You’re going to defend him after what he did to me?”

“He wasn’t himself brother…”

“Brother? Brother? We may be blood, but after today you are not my brother, neither is he, now go away,” I turned away, my cape swirling in the air, then smacked my side.

“Is that skin?”

“Yes, and I could use some fur to keep warm on the cold nights to come,” I said, then turned my attention back to him, “I would heed my warning and go away!”

Mylicous put his head back down and then slowly walked away. I was left alone to admire the carnage