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- Wednesday 14. September 1994
- (C) Joona Palaste
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- The Coming of the Power
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- This time it would be perfect. I had it all planned beforehand. I had chosen a
- deserted castle from the 13th century for the site, and had all my equipment
- ready and waiting. Tonight the world would witness His coming.
- I tried to open the door. The door headstrongly refused to become at the very
- least ajar. "The fool", I thought, "it doesn't know the extent of my unspoken
- powers!" Silently I muttered a spell which I had learned from the Holy Book my
- tutor had given me, and the door gave way.
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- Inside I went straight to the ballroom. It was the largest room in the castle
- and so the only one which would seem fit for the Lord. I poured my equipment
- from the case I had kept them in. With a morbid thump, they fell to the floor.
- I placed the body right in the middle of the room. It was a body of a dead
- necromancer, which I had robbed from its grave. It had already began to smell
- foul and vile, even though it only had been in my case for two days. Then I
- took out the candles.
- There were thirteen candles in total. Twelve of them I placed in a ring
- around the body, and the thirteenth on top of the body's breast. I lit the
- candles and poured the venomous fluids of the Power into the flames. The flames
- changed colour to black and emitted noxious fumes which would have blinded me
- had I not the power to see thoroughly in the dark, in the realm of the Lord.
- I stepped towards the body. I placed the skull of a new-born child between
- its legs and stood behind the feet, with the Holy Book in my hands. Trembling
- from the Great Power I was about to disturb, I hesitated a little. But then I
- realised that the ritual must go on. Otherwise I would have no purpose in life
- and would only seem fit to join the dark legions of the unliving.
-
- I screamed out the first invocations. A wriggling mass of giant larvae appeared
- on the body. They were the Children of the Lord, His spawn to rule the
- Underworld. Instantly the larvae uncoiled themselves and began to eat the body.
- Slowly I walked to the biggest larva and called out its evil name.
- The larva rose from the body it was eating and faced me. I stared deep into
- the circular cavity that was its mouth. Its bloodstained fangs opened and
- closed its mouth and foul-smelling drool dropped from it. It began to crawl
- towards me, obviously intent on placing its thirsty fangs in my juicy flesh.
- Slowly walking away from the larva I said to it: "Leave me alone, for I wish
- to call thy Master!" The larva hissed in reply. "Thou art a foolhardy man. If I
- or my Master choose to detest thee, then thou shall never live again!" But
- then, it stopped, stood completely upright and called the evil name of its
- Master, whose name no mortal man must ever mention.
-
- Then, the Lord appeared. He called the larvae back, and they disappeared into a
- small dot in His hands. Then, the whole room seemed to vanish, so we were in
- utter darkness, just the Lord and I. "Greetings, mortal! What is it thou
- wantest of Me?" He spoke.
- Still dizzy from the Power of His coming, I replied. I said: "Have pity on my
- worthless soul, o Lord, but I have come to see the One power that is greater
- than even thee." "What hast thou got to offer as a payment?" He asked me.
- "This", I said to Him, handing Him a small case full of gold.
- "Gold? Mere gold?" He said, furiously. "Not just gold, o Lord, but very
- special gold. These are the ornaments a daring highwayman has stolen from the
- heart of the church. They have been used as an offering to the False Prophet,
- and now their power can be thine." "I am pleased", He said. "I have heard thou
- wantest to contact the High Power. So be it."
-
- So the Lord disappeared and the utter blackness in which we had stood dispelled
- into a retina-burning brightness - it was the Holy Light.
- And behold! the True Power came to me, and I combined with it. Now, my
- knowledge and power would be complete, infinite and invincivle. I savoured
- every drop of the Power I had at my disposal.
- Just as I had received the Power fully, the door burst open and the Holy
- Light vanished. The body and the candles were back again. The candles had
- extinguished, and putrid corporal fluids dripped from the bite-wounds in the
- body.
-
- From the door emerged a priest, an infidel believer in the False Prophet. He
- held out his heretic holy book in front of me, with the enemy insignia burning
- towards my soul. He said the words which they used to banish daemons, the
- servants of the Lord.
- Undeterred, I drew my pistol and fired it towards the priest. Through the air
- soared a silver bullet which, in the hands of the Enemy, would have sufficied
- to kill a werewolf or a vampire, but which at my disposal would kill any
- unbeliever foolish enough to disturb me.
- The bullet pierced the priest's book right in the centre of the cross, where
- the False Prophet's heart had been. Then it hit the priest and his back
- exploded in a delightful shower of blood and flesh. He dropped to the floor,
- lifeless.
- "What a fool", I thought. "He was no match even for my former self. Now, I
- shall truly wipe out the infidel!" I swept the priest's body into my case and
- went to the music room, where I played ghastly tunes on the piano for the rest
- of the night.
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