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  Wright looked at Tony and said “We will see how this all turns out”. When Tony

  disappeared as did the void, Wright was back in the stairwell leading God knows

  where, but he was happy to be out. Wright started walking up the stairs as he heard

  what sounded like a banshee screaming or crying, he really couldn’t tell but he didn’t

  like the sound. When he got half way up the screaming got louder, it seemed like it was

  coming at him so he rushed up hoping he could avoid it. The words of Tony kept

  echoing in his ear, about how he wouldn’t be able to stop his little game of murder.

  When Wright got further up he saw this beautiful woman just standing on the steps,

  she asked him if he thought she was beautiful in a soft voice and of course Wright told

  her she was. Then like a scene out of a horror movie she opened her mouth and was cut

  from ear to ear and screamed, “DO YOU STILL THINK I’M BEAUTIFUL.” Wright

  quickly took a few steps back as she rushed towards him screeching her banshee

  scream.

  When she got to Wright she passed right through him and disappeared, like she was

  never even there and the screaming stopped. Wright looked around for any signs that

  what he saw was really there but there was nothing but silence. Wright looked at his

  watch, it was now 12:13am, he now had less than ten hours before Tony did what he

  was going to do so he needed to hurry. Wright hated the number thirteen, his mother

  died on October 13, 1944 when he was just 17 years old. Wright continued to walk to

  the end of the stairs when then realized it was October 13, 1962. The only day of the

  year he hated, not only did his mother die on October 13 but his wife died on October

  13, 1950 by two men that worked for Tony. Wright continued to walk, when it seemed

  like it wasn’t going to end it reached what at first looked like a dead end but when

  Wright took a closer look there was a way out. Wright pushed on what he assumed was

  a wood bookshelf, when it stepped into the new room it was hot in there like someone

  cranked up the heat as high as it would go just to make people miserable. When Wright

  looked around he saw four boilers in the room and figured he was in the boiler room

  which would explain the heat.

  Wright left the room and found himself in the basement, but a part of the basement he

  didn’t know about. Wright walked around and saw a door, when he opened it, it

  looked like a prison there were cells and chains on the wall. Wright suddenly saw the

  room full with people getting whipped and thrown on the ground and chained up. He

  saw someone that looked like Nurse Peters hitting a patient with a spiked club. Wright

  saw some of the doctors and nurses pass through the door like it wasn’t even there.

  That’s when he saw the lady from the stairs, she then noticed him and smiled, she

  opened her mouth to where you could see the cut from ear to ear. She then closed her

  month and ask Wright if she was beautiful again. Wright looked at her followed by her

  screaming “DO YOU THINK I’M BEAUTIFUL” Wright jolted but just looked at her. He

  noticed that now all the ghost or whatever they were, were all looking at him. When

  each one smiled he saw the same cut on their faces. They all rushed towards him but

  when they hit him, they disappeared. Then the woman asked one more time “Do you

  think I’m beautiful” then she began to weep, which shocked Wright so he asked her

  what was wrong. The woman then said “I want to be beautiful again, like I was before

  he cut me.” She then turned around while crying and went through the wall. Wright

  started to look around the room, he saw a lot of black spots, to him it looked like dried

  blood. In the middle of the room he saw a note on the floor, he knew Tony wrote it for

  him. He picked up the note which read, “This is an asylum from the 1800s, this is where

  I’ll get to torture you for all eternity.” Wright crumpled the note up and threw it on the

  ground, that’s when he saw himself in chains with Tony right by him.

  Wright Saw Tony whipping the ghost version of himself several times then he looked at

  him and smiled and said that they were going to have some much fun. The ghost then

  disappeared as Tony started to talk to Wright about what he was going to do, only

  stopping enough to laugh then he continued to talk about the torture. Wright then told

  Tony that if he stops him that he could do whatever he wants to do. Tony smiled and

  said that Wright wouldn’t be able to stop either and that it’s useless to try. Wright

  asked Tony why he wanted to kill everyone her. Tony smiled and said that he loves

  killing people and that he wanted the souls of everyone here to take them to hell. Tony

  then said that when he goes to hell he wants other people to suffer with him. Wright

  looked at Tony confused and asked if there were already people in hell to which Tony

  said there are but they deserve it, he wants people that don’t deserve to be in hell with

  him. Wright looked at him with disgust, that’s when Tony smiled and said, “It’s all a

  game to me, you can look at me however you want but it doesn’t change the fact that

  this game of murder is fun and with an opponent like you I can’t lose” and started to

  laugh. Tony smiled one last time then disappeared and so did the room, now Wright

  was in the second boiler room and it seemed hotter than the first room.

  When Wright left the room the building was on fire, he heard someone that sounded

  like his father yelling at someone else to “leave the kid, he’s worthless”, that’s when

  Wright remembered when he was 6 years old his house caught on fire and his father

  wanted to leave him there. Wright’s father never wanted a kid, he thought his mother

  cheated on him and that Wright was just a bastard child of an unfaithful wife. Wright’s

  father was a drunk that worked at a sawmill, he hated his job and hated his life. His

  father was named after John Freeyoung, a comedian from the 1920s who was beloved

  by the whole world. John Wright did everything he could to make his wife’s life a living

  hell and he did. Wright’s mother Diana tried to commit suicide three times, but never

  could completely follow through. Every day that John would come home drunk he

  would beat her until she was unconscious and when Wright was born he would beat

  her worse. Whenever John would beat his wife he would go back to the bar and drink

  some more then sometimes pass out in a gutter, sometimes that’s when his wife hoped

  he would never come back, but he always did. Wright also hid when John would go on

  a rampage except twice, once was when John came home drunk and started to beat his

  mother and Wright screamed at him to stop. John punched Diana, he then rushed to

  Wright, he put his hands around his neck and told him that he would kill him just like

  he will kill his wife. The second time was when he was seventeen, he just got home

  from school and John was already drunk and starting to yell at his wife, he raised his

  hand to Diana, that’s when Wright threw a glass bowl at him. John turned towards him

  then walked over to him and punched him in the face, knocking Wright out that was

  when John killed his wife with a shot to the head, he then shot Wright in the chest then

  shot himself.

  Wright heard what sounded like a little b
oy screaming for his mother to save him. The

  flames were almost as high as the ceiling was and what the flames didn’t cover the

  smoke did. The smoke didn’t seem to bother Wright, it was like the smoke really wasn’t

  even there. He tried touching the fire but it wasn’t hot and for some reason Wright

  started to feel like he wasn’t even real as if what was happening around him was but he

  wasn’t. Wright then saw a burning pentagram in the number thirteen in that, all written

  in fresh blood on a burning door that reeked of rotting flesh. Suddenly Wright felt a

  burning sensation on his hand, when he looked at it, it was the same pentagram that

  was on the door. Wright walked to the door and slowly opened it, he saw something

  with the legs of a goat, the body of a man, and the face looked rough with two k-9s that

  were curled like tusks of a boar with two horns on the top of its head. The beast was

  drinking something from a goblet, that’s when Wright saw several naked human bodies

  with some of them have the heads removed. The beast picked up the headless body then held it

  over its goblet only to squeeze the blood out of it into the cup. The goblet had a

  pentagram on it with the number thirteen in the middle. Wright slowly closed the door

  so he wouldn’t let the beast know he was there.

  The hallway was no longer on fire but it had the smell of burning flesh and rotting

  meat, Wright looked around and saw the pentagram everywhere. He saw another door

  but this one just had the pentagram; Wright put his ear up to the door to see if he could

  hear anything on the other side, that’s when he heard a woman scream. Wright opened

  up the door and saw a woman in shackles with fire underneath her feet, the flame

  covered her whole body her face was the only thing that was showing. Wright could

  smell her flesh burning but he could not see any burn marks on her, it was like her flesh

  couldn’t burn away. The woman stopped screaming only to look at Wright and smile,

  he could see her teeth were black and rotting. He then saw her right eye pop out and

  maggots begin to fall out while she started to laugh. Her skin started to melt off her

  bones and soon all Wright saw was blackened bones with an eye in the left socket. The

  woman started to scream again as the flames consumed the rest of her then she fell

  silent as the flames disappeared.

  Wright then saw the beast from the other room carry a man in, shackle him up, then

  light a fire under him. The fire started out small but quickly grew larger, as soon as the

  fire reached the man’s waist he started to scream in pain. Then beast looked at Wright

  then turned and walked away. Wright remembered a story his grandmother told him

  about Thorpe, the demon that chained people to a post and would light fires under

  them; depending how evil they were in life would determine how slowly the fire would

  burn them. Thorpe was rewarded by Lucifer with the blood of the damned. Thorpe was

  also one of seven demons that ruled over a layer of hell. Thorpe used to be one of the

  thirteen generals of hell but when he refused to follow an order from Lucifer, he was

  banished to the fourth level of hell. Thorpe was one of the fallen angels that followed

  Lucifer when he tried to take over heaven and was the second angel the “good”

  banished to hell. Wright started to walk deeper into the room, when he heard the man

  scream at him for help but Wright knew there was nothing he could do so he continued

  walking.

  The further he walked the hotter it got then he saw a pit, he walked to the edge of it and

  saw people falling and jumping in. He looked down and saw a river of fire and lava

  with people floating and burning. He had the feeling that he was supposed to jump

  down so he did, as he was falling the river was not getting closer but the edge was

  getting further away. As he fell he heard screaming getting louder as people would

  rush past him. Wright finally landed on the ground, it looked like it was stained with

  blood and it was surprisingly cold. He looked around to find blue fire everywhere, the

  closer he got to the blue flames the colder he got. Wright then saw a sign that said

  “Welcome to the Fourth Layer of Hell.” Wright’s grandmother told him that each layer

  of hell had a different torment and the further you went down the worse it gets. The

  fourth layer of hell is the layer of frozen fire, fire so cold that it could freeze a man’s

  blood in an instance. If Wright remembered correctly the ruler of the fourth layer was

  Balthazeen.

  Balthazeen is a cold hearted demon that that loved to freeze humans and break off their

  limbs to eat them like popsicles. It’s said that the worse you were in life the more pain

  was felt when he eats you. Wright then heard a harsh voice say, “Come to me my little

  morsel so I may devour living flesh.” Wright felt compelled to follow the voice to see

  the face of whatever it was that was calling him. He walked a little ways and saw frozen

  bodies, some with and arm torn off and some with both arms and every now and again

  he would see a leg missing. Wright came to a giant door with the number four on it, he

  then heard the voice say “Hurry little morsel I’m hungry for your flesh.” The door

  suddenly opened and Wright saw a room covered in blue flames, at the far end of the

  room was a throne with a large thing looking at him smiling. Wright stepped into the

  room, it was colder than anything he had ever felt, when he took a breath he could see

  it. The thing sitting in the throne was huge with four tusks two on his upper jaw and

  two on his lower jaw, his face was deformed and looked like he got into one too many

  fights with the wrong guy. Balthazeen laughed loudly and said “Finally my morsel is

  here, now it’s time to eat.” When he stood up he towered over Wright, then he reached

  out to grab Wright as Wright started to back away. Balthazeen took a step forward

  making the ground shake, that’s when Wright turned around and started to run

  towards the door.

  Wright got to the door, he tried to close the door but they wouldn’t budge so he

  continued to run and could feel every foot step that Balthazeen made. Wright ran down

  along the icy road until he got to the pit, at the pit he turned around and saw

  Balthazeen behind him catching up, so he jumped into the pit then felt a hand grab him.

  Balthazeen brought Wright up to his face and laughed, telling him that he has him now

  he then opened his mouth and ate Wright. When Wright woke up he was on the floor in

  the boiler room, he stood up and looked around only to see nothing out of the usual.

  Wright walked out of the room and saw a hallway, this time it wasn’t on fire, just warm

  from the boilers. Wright looked down at his hand to see the pentagram with thirteen in

  the middle was still on his hand. Wright walked down the long hallway until he came

  to a room, his hand started to burn, when he looked at it, it was bleeding when he tried

  to walk past the door it only hurt more. Wright turned the knob and opened up the

  door, only to see Thorpe sitting on a throne of skulls, in his right hand was Grace

  screaming and in his left hand was a torch. Thorpe and Wright’s gaze met and

  suddenly Wright felt weak and collapsed

  Chapter 09

  Man’s Kingdom Burn and the


  Cross Burns

  Wright looked around to see the asylum was in shambles, it looked like it was ready to

  come down at any moment. Wright walked to the stairs noticing some steps were

  missing and others were broken, he stepped carefully up the stairs so not to cause

  anymore damage. When he got to the first floor there was red grass everywhere, when

  he looked around, there was no one there. He went to Doctor White’s office, he knocked

  on the door but no answer came, when he tried to open the door it wouldn’t budge.

  Wright slammed his shoulder into the door a few times till it finally opened, when he

  looked inside he saw a skeleton sitting in the chair behind the desk with what appeared

  to be a gunshot wound to the skull. There was another body in the left corner by the

  door, it looked like this one was shot in the chest with the bullet bouncing off the third

  rib. Wright went around the desk to see on the floor a standard issued police revolver,

  that one that he usually carries. Wright walked out of the room wondering if that was

  him in the chair or if it was Doctor White and if it was, how he got ahold of the gun.

  When Wright stepped out of the room he saw a pale nun with bloodshot yellow eyes.

  The nun walked up to Wright and said “Welcome to the Temple of the Burning Cross.

  How would you like to die today?” The nun then roared to show several shard teeth

  that looked too many to fit in a normal person’s mouth, then she ran towards him.

  Suddenly a pentagram appeared on her forehead as she stopped less than an inch away

  from his face still showing her teeth. He could smell her, it was like smelling rotting

  flesh that should have decayed a long time ago. Suddenly ash surrounded them and the

  nun was the only thing visible. The nun put her had on Wright’s forehead, it started to

  burn, when she took her hand off his head there was an upside down cross on fire. The

  nun then looked at him and smiled, she then roared and as she disappeared, she went

  towards Wright and in a puff of ash she was gone. When the ash cleared Wright saw a

  room in ruin, like it hadn’t been used in years; beams from the ceiling were on the floor

  and there were holes in the floor.

  Wright heard a whisper in his ear saying “kill”, when he looked around there was no