Famous (The Soul of the World Book 1) by David Skato (best book reader .txt) 📗

feeling of petrifying fear and abysmal hopelessness. It floated upwards until it touched the ceiling the gently descended until it was face to face with Roche’. The creature had a look of pure admiration for the beautiful young woman. “Umm,” this was his new body, and what a body it was.

“Baphomet!” The old woman screamed, causing the creature to quickly look in her direction.

“My lord, I welcome you to this vessel. We are humbly here to serve you, my lord.” She continues.

The creature looks back at Roche’. It then rises to the ceiling once again, but this time darted downward, impaling her at lightspeed. Roche’s body went into a seizure. Her mouth oozed foam as her arms and legs shook uncontrollably before finally coming to a complete stop. The old woman walks to the table and stands over Roche’. With one swift move, the creature, now inhabiting Roche’s body, breaks the restraint holding its hand and grabs the old woman by the neck.  Its face morphs into what looked like a more deadly Carasaca, letting out a loud screech. The old woman’s eyes bucked in a look of sheer surprise and horror. The creature throws her against the wall breaking her back and killing her instantly. Baphomet breaks the remaining restaurants and steps onto the floor. This was Roche's face and body, yet anyone who looked upon her would know that this was a monster. The thing oscillated evil as shadow beings circled around its body. It walked slowly until it was at the head of the table. She then went into a trance, and with a quick thrust, it raises its arms, and a mass of shadows begin to protrude from its body at lightning speed, leaving the building by going through walls as if the stone, plaster, and glass weren’t there.

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Dontae started his steady pace run, keeping his eyes on the strange things happening at Quest. As he proceeds in that direction, he is perplexed by the sight of a massive blob of shadows ejecting from the building going in all directions. He runs faster. Suddenly a man tackles him from the side, and they both go crashing into the window of a small boutique. The man gets a few good punches in while on top of Dontae’ before he realizes what’s happening. He then gives the guy a right hook to the side of his head, knocking him to the ground. He rolls on top of the guy.

“What the fuck is your problem?!” He yells.

With much surprise, he looks into the guy's eyes to see total darkness. His eyes are completely black, and his face is expressionless. “They have done it,” he thinks. He gives the man a hard hit with his elbow, knocking him out cold. He peeks out of the broken window to a sight of terror. A car drives at full speed barreling through a crowd, sending bodies flying as high as eight feet in the air. Three men drag a kicking and screaming woman into an apartment building as a body comes flying from a sixth-floor window of the same complex. A crazed man chased an already blood-soaked man down the street with what looked like a machete. An explosion in one of the distant highrise buildings shakes the ground and rocks the city. People had lost their minds. Maybe even a better explanation would be, people had become possessed. Dontae’ had to make it to Quest fast, and he hoped Jessi would be there. Most of all, he hoped she was safe. He continues using back streets to avoid confrontation until he arrives in front of the building just in time to see his partner pull up. Jessi steps out to a surprise attack by a pretty sizable guy, but she is much too fast for the fat man. She manages to swing a bat and proceeds to beat the guy senseless. Dontae’ walks over with one eyebrow raised.

“It had to be done.” She remarked, wiping sweat from her forehead. “What’s our move Wade?”

They both look up to see swirling clouds in the sky and shadows still coming out of the Quest building at lightspeed. The entire sky now had a purple hue but translucent enough that the stars still shined. They knew that this was not just downtown Atlanta, but people were being possessed all over the world. The video challenge had over two billion views, and it could be estimated that at least half of those people completed it. Life had led Dontae’ to a suicide that occurred in a building that was now the epicenter of the apocalypse.

Dontae’ brought his attention back to Jessi. “Rochelle is in there, Roland is in there, and most likely, the Devil is in there.”

“Fuck. I’m sure that means we need to head to Fiji, but I know what you gonna say.”

He nods in agreement. Other officers start to pull on the scene and group around the detectives.

“Detective Mason, we’re following your lead,” one of the officer's states.

“Ok, we need to get into this building. Whatever is going on, started up there”, Jessi tells the officer as she nods to the top floor. “Remember, these are still people, only use deadly force of you absolutely have to.”

The officers agree.

Jessi and Dontae’ walk to the doors to quickly discover they are locked. Jessi takes the bat and bashes the doors sending glass flying everywhere. At that moment, an unusual silence pulls her attention. Around the city, the possessed have all stopped in their tracks simultaneously. They all turn and head for the Quest building running at full speed and letting out an unbearable screeching noise—all in unison.

“Oh shit,” Jessi whispered.

The team of officers sees the onslaught of people headed in their direction and group closer to the doors. One of the officers throws Dontae’ a gun.

“You two go; we’ll hold the line.” The officer says as he pulls another gun from a hoster tied to his ankle.

Jessi and Dontae step through the broken glass and