Soul Fiend Chapter 5

Soul Fiend Part 5
Country- United Kingdom
State- Wales
Takes Place- Aberystwyth

Beasts are around us every day, taking different form, hiding in shadows. But for some they can be the same height as us and hide their appearance under our flesh. Some can even take over a human soul.
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I'm a security officer, I patrol Aberystwyth Cilgerran Castle. I have seen many things while working here. I have seen kids trying to sneak up here at night to see if this place is haunted. I have seen couples argue over which part of the castle they want to go visit first. But, I have never seen anything like this. . .

It was like any other night. I was closing up the castle, checking every hallway and room to make sure no one was in them. Once I made sure no one was in the castle, I went back to lock all the doors inside of the castle. I was, of course, suppose to lock the main gate on the way out. So I did just that. On my way out, iI caught something out of the corner of my eye. Quickly, I opened the door back up to see nothing standing there.
"Must have been my imagination."
I spoke out loud, to myself.

Deciding to blow it off, I made way to my car. Once I was inside of my car, I stared at the tall, dark castle that stood before me. As I looked up, I saw someone up on top of the bridge leading to the West tower. Quickly, I got out of the car, running to the entrance. Once I unlocked the door, I quickly ran up the stairs to get to the roof. As soon as I got there, no one was up there. At first I thought it was my head playing tricks on me, then I heard laughing coming from down stairs. Not wasting any time, I quickly darted down the stairs. When I was on the main floor, I knew someone was in the castle and was playing tricks on me.
"Who's there?!"
I called out, but no one responded. I reached down to my side and pulled my flashlight out of my utility belt. I then proceeded deeper into the castle, checking every hall and room for someone in them.

I was now making my way to the back of the castle where the modern bridge was. Once I was on the bridge, I pointed my flashlight down below. There I found two teenagers hiding in the dark.
"Okay, get up here now."
"I told you the bridge was a bad place to hide."
The male said, as he made his way up to where I was, holding the girl by the hand.
"What are you two doing in here at night?"
"Look, we didn't mean any trouble. We just wanted to see how creepy the place was at night."
I took a brief second to look at both of them. The teenage girl was scared. I could tell by the look in her blue eyes. She wasn't that tall either. She had to be around 5'4, wearing all black clothes.
The guy is dressed in all black, standing about 6'0 tall. He had long blonde hair. I also noticed his eyes were brown.
"What's your guys' names?"
"Mine's Shawn, hers is Seria."
"Okay, I'm going to let you two off with a warning this time. But next time I see you guys in here, I'm going to have to take you guys in. Now lets get out of here, I got to get home."
I said, leading them back to the main entrance of the castle.

Once we got to the entrance, I pulled my keys out of my pocket. When I finally found the right key, I placed it in the key hole. But for some odd reason, when I turned the key, it didn't move the lock.
"Okay, this is weird."
I said, once again trying to turn the key. The harder I tried, the more it seemed like it didn't want to move.
"What's going on?"
"It's the key...it wont move."
"Here let me try."
He said, coming up beside of me, moving me out of the way.

He then tried the key left, right, then left again. But it was no use the door's lock wouldn't budge.
"Oh, come on. Can it really be that hard, let me try."
Seria said, moving Shawn aside. She then tried moving the key, right then left.
"Okay, enough. This is stupid, it's a key. It should easily move."
Once again, I stepped up to the door and tried to turn the key. This time I put all my body weight into it. But this time I wasn't as lucky, the key snapped in two when I tried to turn it.
"..Okay, it's not a big deal. We can get out from the bridge and just walk around."
I said, not bothering to even try to get the other half of the broken key out of the door.

The others agreed by nodding there heads. So, once again. I led them back to the bridge, where I first found them. When we arrived at the bridge entrance, the whole castle started to shake. We didn't waste any time running for the door. But by the time we already got to the door, it had collapsed.
"That's just great. What are we going to do now?"
"Look just stay calm. We are going to find a way out of this."
I told Seria.
"How?! It seems every entrance we come across is either locked, or collapses on us. How are we going to get out?"
"There are plenty more entrances, just calm down."
"How is this happening anyways?"
Seria asked with fear in her bright blue eyes.
"I'm not sure."
"No, I think you know. You come and find us in this castle, make us tell you our names. You come in here trying to get us out of the castle, but I think your trying to kill us."
"What are you saying?"
"I think you have this placed rigged to go down. With us in it!"
"You're crazy!"
But before I could say anything else, Shawn grabbed me by my uniform and forced me up against the wall.
"Why don't you tell us your name?"
He said, reaching into his pocket to pull out a knife which he held up to my face.
"Shawn What's WRONG WITH YOU!?"
"STAY OUT OF THIS!"
But Seria didn't listen, she was tugging on his arm. The same arm the held me up against the wall. While his other hand held the knife he was threatening me with. He then quickly released me from his grasp to push Seria away. From what I could see, it was a rather hard shove. She went tumbling backwards, falling right on her butt.
"Now, you got two choices. One, you tell me your name and your little scheme you got going on here. Then, I will let you go. Two, if you don't tell me these things, then I will carve your face up and make you look like a Halloween decoration. So which is it going to be?"

I once again saw Seria, out of the corner of my eye. She was slowly getting up, but this time she had a rock in hand.
"Look, I don't want any trouble. So, my name is Tony and I'm telling you the truth. I have no scheme."
"Fine, Tony. If this is the way you want it, then so be it."
He started to move his wrist over to the side to cut my face. But before he could do anything, Seria hit him in the back of the head with rock.
"Is he always like that?"
"No, I don't know what got into him."
"I think it might be best that I hand cuff him. Who knows what else he might try to do."
"Good idea."

Crouching down, I put handcuffs on Shawn while he was unconscience.
"What are we going to do with him?"
"For all I care we can just leave him here."
"We can't just do that, that wouldn't be right."
"If we don't, one of us is going to have to carry him. I'm sure as hell not going to."
"You're right. We should just try to find a way out of here. Once we get out, we can have help come back to get him."
As soon as we started to walk off. We heard Shawn start laughing. A weird look came over Seria's face, as well as mine. Slowly, but surely we turned around to see it was him that was laughing.
"That's not humanly possible. That knock to the head would knock anyone out for awhile."

Not saying anything to Seria. I walked over to Shawn, once I was where he was. I realized he was on his back, still laughing his demonic laugh. When I got to where he was, I crouched down and grabbed him by his hair so I could get a look at his face.
"What seems to be so funny?"
"You and her. That's all. HAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!"
"What about her and I?"
"You two think you will make it out of here alive. I just find that so funny."
"Oh, we're going to make it out of here alive alright. Once we do, we might not send help back for you."
"Damn, I guess I'm exposed. Time to show what has really been going on here."
"What THE HELL DO YOU MEAN?!"
"Watch this!"

Seria moved closer to where I was. I was still holding Shawn's head by his hair. For some reason, just out of no where his eyes began to roll in the back of his head and his body began to shake like he was having a seizure. Then, something told me it wasn't right. So, I had no other choice but to let his head go. I was now standing beside of Seria pointing the flashlight down, watching him shake like he fell into an ice cold lake.
"Aren't you suppose to do something?"
Seria asked.
"Not with this, something's not right."
Not saying anything else, Seria just gave me a weird look. After I saw her look, I looked back down at Shawn. His skin color was turning pale white, not an ordinary pale either. His skin was as white as snow. The left side of his head now had blood running out of it. It seemed that something was trying to push it's way through his skin. Then, just out of no where a giant white horn surfaced from that spot of his head.
"WHAT THE!"
Seria cried out in fear.
I was too much in shock to say anything.

Not being able to feel my legs, I stood there. All of this seemed to be so unreal. It was like a nightmare, but while all this was happening it seemed his body didn't stop shaking. Now he was laying in a puddle of his own blood, it looked like the blood was coming from his back for some reason. After waiting a little while longer, long, white wings that were the same color of his skin came out of his back.
"Don't you have a gun or something?! SHOOT IT!"
Seria sobbed.
But her words just echoed in the dark castle. Still in shock, I wasn't able to do anything. Most of my attention was now on his legs. They were now expanding outward. Once again, I heard Seria call out, but I still ignored her.

"Now here is the fun part."
Shawn's demonic voice said.
Within less than a second, his white masculine chest split down the middle, shooting four long, bloody tentacles out. Within a second the tentacles impaled me through my chest.
"Tony!"
Seria called out, rushing over to me. I wasn't able to speak. Blood just spewed down my lips, then out of no where it felt like something was being ripped out of me. While all this was going on, I was able to see my body below me. It seemed that this thing was sucking out my soul.
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