This is a short story I wrote for Creative Writing, as twisted as it may sound at first, it is quite delightful.
It is said most spend their entire life trying to achieve Lichdom…
Through the thick miasma lies the crypt of the lich, surrounded by the shrieks of banshees in sheer agony and torture. Spiders sinking their venom-soaked fangs into their helpless prey hang from the wilted trees and bogs that relentlessly ensnare those who try to pass line the ground. This is where the crypt of the Lich lies. Deep within his crypt he rises from his coffin in the mist of morning. Moss soaks the dank walls of the crypt and cobwebs line every corner. As his bleach-white feet touch the ground he dons his blood-splattered cloak. His skeleton feet scrape across the ground like fingernails across a blackboard as his crimson eyes pierce through the darkness. As he enters the Altar Room, the stench of death and decay burns the nostrils of anyone still alive. A sense of infernal suffering fills the room as blue-flamed torches light the walls revealing scattered bones and entrails coating the corridors. Moans arise every so often from the suffering and cracks can be heard from bone-clenching rigor mortis. Alas, those suffering will soon pass onto the other side like their predecessors. A puddle of blood could be spotted seeping out from a recently closed iron maiden, but only the most fortunate can die such a quick death from that as opposed to the Lich’s more preferable methods of agonizing torture. As the Lich approaches the black diamond alter in the center of the room he grabs a chair to be seated more comfortably for the main event of his busy morning. Reaching slowly across the alter he sets a bowl dead center as if going to eat something… but what? When you’re a lich, there is only one thing that satisfies your lust for blood. Wheaties, the breakfast of champions, after all, how can one torture poor souls on an empty stomach?
It is said most spend their entire life trying to achieve Lichdom… He did it over breakfast.
 Cynical Satan · Fri Oct 05, 2007 @ 04:19am · 1 Comments |
