• My Life was bliss; I had every thing I could ever want, and every thing I ever wanted was Natalia’s love. Natalia was an angel on earth with her golden hair set with a sweet face that could melt the coldest heart. We were to be married when at nineteen, but as fate would have it she passed away and into the world of death. 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 only damnation, and the darkness that would consume me.

    It was that day I was sitting by Natalia’s grave shedding what tears I had left from my eyes. I had lost all sense of time, it seemed like a few minutes yet the sky was dark and heavy with rain. It looked as if even God who had forsaken me and given me only woe, was crying. As I rose to leave the cemetery a voice that was colder than any ice in all the frozen planes of Antarctica and sharper than even the sharpest razor called to me, “You really loved her didn’t you.” Was I too scared to move, or was I drawn to this voice as if caught in a dream (or a nightmare). I looked to where the voice came from; there was nothing, but the grave markers and the bleak darkness of the night. Yet the voice came again, “If you desire I can bring her back,” this time it came from the shadow cast by Natalia’s grave marker.

    There on the tombstone was a dark shadow yet it was night how could there be a shadow. As I stared into it, red glowing spheres where I guess eyes should be appeared 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, or shall I say render onto Caesar what is Caesar’s” he replied after that I had never expected to see what horrible sins I had caused.

    It had all happened so quickly it was hard to realize what had happened. The shadow spoke in a language I never heard of. In a flash of blinding light, it felt as if I was consumed in flames yet I wasn’t after my eyes adjusted I looked to find the shadow, Who I thought had run 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 horribly wrong I did not know until I beheld the creature that lay before me was the source of her voice.

    Her form was twisted, mangled, and deformed to the most horrific degree seen by my eyes or any man who lived on this earth. Blood was every where, I screamed in horror of this moving corpse that could create the sound of my beloved. 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 ribbon like muscle and raw tissue like my skin was torn from my very 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 dear 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.

    I finally decided to do the only thing I could do, I placed my newly raw and bloody hands around the creatures throat, or what appeared to be it’s neck and applied pressure as it was suffocating through its last breath it said, “thank you Allen I’ll always love you,” she then 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 my sweet Natalia’s death. I then fell to my knees and cried at what I had done, Then after I had regained control of myself as dead as it felt to me, 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 ;no words to comfort me, no hand to hold mine when I feel alone, no one. My heart is now a dark and decimated thing of emotions that will send me and others into this hell that was released upon us.