Chapter 17: Bloody Canvas

I woke up... in a place full of fire and destruction...

I thought I died... didn't he take my soul?...

"Not just yet, my queen..." The devil in his funeral attire came towards her. The wind blew across their face.

Valentina, who was on the ground, turned and stood up...

"What are you doing?! Why am I alive?!"

"Let me ask you... Do you now value death?..."

Valentina looked around, not a living human was in sight. She saw hundreds of corpses laying beneath her, as she tries to stand firmly on the earth's crust.

"... This is what you wanted... you wanted me to be the last one living...!" Valentina began to tear up.

"Now that you're all alone... Give me the words that I want to hear..."

"Kill me! PLEASE! I have nothing! There's no point! Everyone I ever loved is dead! All because of you!"

"Now you value death... Because death...is better than being alone...! Ha! What sweet irony...! Death in your loneliest moments...is just as lonely...!"

"Get rid of me!-"

"I can't... You've sold your soul... Now... I must have you...fill this hole in my heart...!" He said as he revealed the hole to her.

"Fine!... But please...allow me... to paint... One...last...time..."

"Of course... my queen..." The devil pointed his hand downward, where Liam's dead body laid.

Valentina gasped as she saw him, she knelt down and cried. She looked at his body, and was alarmed that Liam had a wound on his neck and several other cuts on his body.

"This... Doesn't make sense... Liam's body was in a fire... How come there's cuts all over his body?..."

The devil turned around slowly, smirking as if he's been caught...

"Do you realise?... That this whole time... When you have been repeating the same torture for seven days... This world of reality remained dead by the meteorite crash that took place in that dream of yours..."

"What...?" Valentina said confusingly.

"That's right... This whole thing was just a game! Everyone in the whole world died by that meteorite crash! But you three! Went through the 7 day repetitive Torture!"

The devil extended his arms out, as rain of blood poured down, he opened his mouth wide to catch the taste!

"It was just a game! Your minds went on in a repetitive state! Believing that everything around you was bizarre! When in reality! You two were crazy! Once you left Jennys house! Liam got shot on the spot because he was running after you! You believed that everything was back to normal-but you're wrong!

You went to the destination where the meteorite crashed and even after looking at it! You believed that nothing happened! So stupid! Liam got SHOT! But because his dead body was acting strange! They cut him up into pieces and threw his body down into the pits!

You acted as if everything was normal! Then you got hit by another meteorite! Your body is now in a hundred Pieces! And your daughter is dead gone! Hahaha!! You stupid bitch!

All of this! Was a game! I made when you were dead! You said that you didn't value death! When you've already tasted death!"

The devil began to laugh hysterically, while Valentina looked confused. The shock of her life, made her shiver as she was drenched by the bloody rain.

"Stop it... Stop it... STOP IT!!!"

The devil finally became quiet...

"WHAT ARE WE? A PAWN FOR YOUR EVERY BIDDING!! HOW DARE YOU?! LIFE IS NOT A GAME TO BE PLAYED BY MONSTERS LIKE YOU!! WHAT DID YOU WANT TO GAIN OUT OF THIS?!!"

"What I wanted?... I wanted to fill up this hole... And since everybody was already dead... I needed to find a way to get a soul, who wanted to die..Who knew love and... wanted to sell it..."

Valentina, looked down and beside Liam was a canvas, it was dirty and bloody. But she picked it up from under him, she used her hands as the brush and Liam's blood as the paint...

She created... a bloody canvas...

"What will happen...After you take my soul?..."

"You will find out... But more importantly...you will be my queen in hell... My heart will be restored and I shall be able to love again...Now..I shall have your soul... Are you ready... Valentina?..."

Valentina looked up at him, tears falling down but she continued to smile. She prayed for forgiveness...and mercy.

The devil held his execution weapon; his scythe... he lifted it over his head...and SLASH!!

"Forget everything...and fall asleep..."

The end