PART-2
'Hello neighbor', the figure chuckled. The voice was cold, scratchy like metal grating upon metal, and gave David goosebumps on hearing it. It was devoid of emotion, and brimming with evil intonations. The hooded figure finally looked up and pushed back the hood, uncovering his face.
His handsome face was young, smooth and pale, unnaturally so. He had high cheekbones, a sharp chiseled jawline and a long aquiline nose. His lips were thin and the ghost of a malignant smile was playing upon them. His ears were inhumanly long and pointed. But it was mainly his eyes that gave him away. His eyes were crimson orange, and they flickered like the flames that burnt forever back in his domain. They gave him the impression of being an ethereal specter, one just as human and inhuman as any of us. And although he had said nothing after that, as he stood there smiling, David's soul cried in the hope that this was a dream and he wasn't actually seeing the Devil standing right in front of him.
'So how's it going David? Having good trips lately?' He spoke conversationally, as if he were a friend meeting David after a long time. When David still failed to say a word, he seemed annoyed and bent forward to give him a rap on the wrist.
'There. I am real, in case you are still harboring any doubts.' The part where he had touched was burning as if it were on fire, and at the same time, it was soothing like the touch of ice. He smiled knowingly at the look of bewilderment on David's face.
'Now let's get to what I came here to tell you. Well, contrary to what your folks believe, me and the Boss are pretty good buddies. And God isn't all of that benevolent and forgiving, come-hither-my-child kinda guy. Not really.' He was speaking in a casual, mocking, walking around and waving his hands; as if he was doing stand-up comedy.
'He sends me to get the people that really annoy him. People who fail to appreciate the gift he's bestowed upon them, who waste their lives and leave it being nothing more than a mockery of the enigmatic power of existence. This whole life-creation thing is pretty cool actually you know, even He admitted it the other day. But every so often come along the unworthy. That's where I come into the picture. He just points the finger and I do the rest. Now to be honest, he's been mighty pissed with you for some time now. With you wasting away your life in the pills, smokes and syringes and whatnot.'
'He'd almost passed judgement on you, but it seems your mother back home has been praying for your excuse-of-a-life. That sort of mellowed his anger a little, and he's sent me for a different purpose today. I'm here to just shake you up a little. Make you realize what you've been bartering away all these years. Trust me,' and here he smiled the most hellish smile David had ever seen,' this will be one night you will never forget.'
'So let me tell you what's going to happen now. You see those two doors in front of you?' He waited patiently till David nodded his head. 'There's uh...things behind each one of them. Things that might be injurious to you. Things that might scare the senses out of you. In fact, to put it in a single sentence, the very natures of fear hide behind each one of the doors. Its one in the night now. What I want you to do is to decide within the next two hours, in which of the rooms you will spend the rest of the night. You cannot come out once you decide.'
'However, if at the end of two hours I find you in this room,' and then his face went blank, devoid of emotion, his voice lowered to a growl and he raised his hands, with talons at the end of each finger,'then things will get very unpleasant for you.'
'Remember, two hours. And of course, I cannot guarantee that you will survive this night, I just said it was your test, I don't know the outcome. But know this; in spite of what your movies might say, the licence to kill lies only with me...all the best.'
These last words were followed by a thunderclap and a massive force pushed David off his bed and sent him sprawling onto the ground. When his head finally stopped spinning, he realized the gravity of the grave danger he was in. Something firmly told him this was not a dream. He rushed to the entry door, but it would not budge. The windows in the room had mysteriously disappeared. He was trapped, and his only way out was a gamble of his life. At was this truth that dawned upon David, and the full measure of the horror crashed upon him. He lay on the ground and starting shouting, the notes of despair and hopelessness ringing within its very soul...
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