24 Devil Incarnation

"Nooooooo!!!"

Tiberius ran up towards some bushes and dragged out a fat half naked person. It was Gorst!

He resisted at first, but when he saw that his attempts were futile he tried pleading for mercy:

"PLEASE! My Lord! Spare me! I don't want to get eaten by a dog and then turn into its shit!!!!"

Seemingly insulted by Gorst's words, Tiberius didn't drag him with its jaws anymore. It just threw its left paw out and lunged at Gorst with its bestial power.

Gorst was delighted at first as the beast didn't try to devour him anymore, but before he could process what Tiberius intended to do, he heard cracking sounds coming from his right side and his world turned upside down!

The wind hit his face and body from all sites and he looked like a kite with its strings cut off from the distance.

But as fast as he lost contact with the ground he regained it. In a painful way, that is.

He fell down on some patches of grass and rolled on for a couple of seconds before coming to stop in front of Michael.

Gorst felt pain inside and outside of his body. From the inside he felt like a tomato that was smashed into a pulp and from the outside he looked like a tomato that was smashed into a pulp!

The force that Tiberius, this monster hit him with was too great and coupled with the rough ground and landing his body got covered in more than just cuts and bruises. Especially since he didn't wear any clothes or amour there wasn't much protection that could have resisted the impact and prevented his skin and flesh to burst out!

With the strength he was left with, he heaved himself onto his knees and fearfully looked up.

Even if his head had been hit by a hammer he would know that the person standing before him was his Boss!

It was a kind of aura that spread from his Boss' body and made the people in his surroundings feel nervous and anxious. A feeling that let you know you were never truly safe and there was nothing you could do about it!

Michael's red eyes pierced daggers into Gorst's mind, he shuddered as a reaction and had to look down or he else he might have lost his consciousness instead.

Michael spoke with a calm tone:

"You can't be part of the scouts, they are still far behind this location, but ... you have my sign on your skin!"

He approached Gorst and slowly put his right hand onto Gorst's back. Gorst's heart stood still and his face paled up when he felt the cold skin of his Boss' hand on his back. It felt like he was only a paper thin distance away from certain death!

Michael caressed Gorst's back and suddenly a fiery red glowing sign came to be! It was a symbol that looked like a '3' that connected itself with a sign looking like an 'U'.

Gorst felt a searing pain coming from the same place on his back. This pain... it was the same pain he felt on the first day he came to work under his Boss!

"All of my underlings receive one of these, this way I will find you wherever you are, wherever you go till death do us part, hahaha. So, I assume that you are that Gorst, right?", just at this moment, his caressing hand turned rigid and grabbed Gorst by his throat!

It was a ridiculous sight to behold! Michael looked muscular indeed but Gorst was still as fat as a pig! But Michael lifted Gorst up by a single hand as if it was child's play! What humongous strength!

"That same Gorst who led some milk drinking children into MY CAMP and then stole MY BELONGINGS from within MY MANSION!?!? Because if you really are that treacherous servant of mine then I only have some words left for you!", he pulled the gasping Gorst closer to his mouth and whispered to him,

"I have no need for pets who bite back at the hand that fed them!", and threw him back onto the ground.

Gorst almost lost consciousness again but was awoken back by the pain when hitting the ground. Yet, something else was much more important to him:

"We-we-waster! I-I-I wem a loyal servand! Gorsd is a loyal servand! I swear on wy life for dis!", Gorst had problems speaking with his injured head and jaw.

"Your life is worth Gnarsh fart!"

"Lo, lo! I didn't wetray ou! Welieve we! Dose shildren! Id wash dem! Id wash deir fould!"

"You pitiful creature, a shame for the people of Aldara even! Getting overwhelmed and toppled over by little, weak, pathetic children!? If this was true you would be even less worth than Gnarsh fart! You wouldn't be even worth being eaten by Tiberius!"

"Yesh, yesh! Nod worth! Nod eaten!", Gorst agreed energetically and nodded his head as much as he possibly could.

"Still, you have betrayed me, my camp and its rules! Its rules are law, law for every one of my servants! If I spared you, others could get funny ideas and think I grew kindhearted maybe, and this I can't allow!", Michael's disgusted face turned cold and he seemed to have made up his mind now.

"Before you die now, I will show you why you should never have turned or acted against me! Listen children of foreign lands! Listen and watch closely, because the same verdict awaits you as well!"

When he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly flared up! Rays of blood red light poured out from his eyes first! Then cracks formed on his face through which even more light burst out! He moved his head upwards and shouted loudly against the sky!

A loud *bomb* sounded out. An explosion had occurred! In the next moment, at the place were Michael had stood on before, a big monster appeared now!

Cracks had formed up all over its body and red light pulsed out from within! His head looked like a skull with dried up dark skin. Two small horns hung above his ears, and his blond hair had turned into a grey fur that spread from his head down unto his backbone. Dark wings hung over his back, and his feet had turned into long feet looking claws. His clothes had burst apart from the transformation and revealed his upper body.

His body was muscular yet took on a sickening gray colour. It was hairy and made his new appearance resemble a wild beast more than a human being.

"Do you feel awe now?", he spoke with a deep rough voice that was far away from a normal human's voice,

"Do you feel majesty? This is the most recent power I was gifted with by my angel! I have to admit this form is ... unusual and still not stable but it grants me unimaginable power! I can feel it flowing through my veins and into my brain! I can feel it in my very soul! This is true power! True perfection! I will stand atop of humankind and tear anyone apart who dares to oppose me! Starting with you ...", he looked at Gorst and pulled him by his arm,

"You should be grateful that you got to witness this form of mine. Remember it well, even in the after life you can tell the ghosts of your stories!", after which he threw Gorst far away into the forest where the darkness swallowed him up,

"Oh, I didn't want that actually to happen. I wanted to play a little bit more with him. I am still not accustomed to my new powers, I guess. Hmmm, now, we come to you little children!", he turned his sight towards the trees in his vicinity.

Sweat ran down Sieg's back. He and the others had all witnessed this 'confrontation' between Gorst and his Boss. It was insane, everything was insane. The three headed dog, the way Michael had treated his former servant and now this, this, this grotesque abomination that that Boss had seemingly turned into! What perfection? What majesty? This was simply disgusting and frightening!

But the moment that that creature turned towards their direction, it was like fear had grappled their minds and made them unable to think or do anything!

Should they continue to hide? Should they run away? Should they surrender? Nothing seemed right, they would probably end up like Gorst anyway!

But time didn't wait for any of them because this inhuman approached them more and more and slowly closed in on the place where Jean and Craig where hiding at! He was only half a minute away, but if they didn't do anything at all their fate would come to an end!

When Michael was almost near a tree where he thought one of the children to be, something moved very fast in the corners of his sight. Something shiny. His mind didn't take the time to think or process the information, instead his instincts grabbed ahold of him and he jumped across the field towards the light and grabbed at it with his clawish hands.

He thought one of the weak willed ones couldn't hold it in any longer and decided to run away! But his prey turned out to be a couple of glowing stones! In the dark he didn't see any bodies moving and only focused on this shiny light!

Furiously, he crushed the stones into bits and pieces and directed his gaze towards the field again.

"Smart kids, trying to delay the inevitable. Just give up, so you can leave the pain behind. Don't worry, I am not a monster, hrahhrah, contrary to how I look now. I will do it painlessly so you won't be put under too much suffering, I promise."

Instead of an answer, more shiny stones flew in all kinds of directions, confusing his mind for a moment.

"Nice idea you have there, but don't expect me to fall for it a second time. You have given me your position instead, what do you have to say now?", if monsters could smile, they would pale in front of Michael's visage and expression he was making in this moment.

Sieg's heart beat faster and faster. He had thought that maybe the Gemini Stones could distract that creature for some time now. It was something he had come up with on the spot and he was well aware of the dangerous implications for him. It also destroyed any way possible to get back to the others who were still imprisoned but ...

But he couldn't have stood still while watching how his classmates got killed by some fantasy monster!

He knew that his decision had sealed away his chance at survival, but maybe ... he could make his friends and classmates hold out long enough for them to get away. At least till the fog arrived!

He took the initiative and began standing up from the ground.

Jafar saw how his best friend was delivering himself to his certain death and shouted at him:

"Sieg, what are you doing?! This is not the right time to play a fu%&ing hero!", but his call got left unanswered.

Anastasia was looking at Sieg and knew exactly what was going through his mind. She had thought of doing the same thing but in the end, fear was stronger than her self.

"Hey, you ugly monster! I am here, can you see me?!", Sieg shouted as courageously as possible.

"Oho, so do you want to be the first to surrender? You were that kid with the glowing stones, right? If you pledge your allegiances to me, I could keep you alive, what do you say?"

"I have not come to surrender!"

"What, you want the painless death then? Hrahhrahhrah ...", Michael asked amused before falling into a beastly laughtler .

"I have come to make a bargain!", he shouted and held up a book.