《Darkness Of Hell》


 The Mud Of Flesh And Blood

    The air was stinking with the smell of corroded bones in the mud of flesh and blood. The people standing in it were numb to that smell, cheering and shouting out loud.


    A man wearing a black suit was walking, tearing a crowd into two. With a touch of air, the corner of his jacket was flowing into the air and pushing his black tie on his shoulder. His dark black hair was wet and rolling all over his face touching his lips which has been darkened with continuous smoking of cigarettes.


    A dark black jaguar was walking along with him, taking slow and heavy steps. The jaguar was dark and almost invisible in the night, only his golden eyes can be seen, walking like the two headlights of the car.


    In the left hand, the man is holding the right leg of a man pulling the man with him. The man on the ground wearing a suit, which colour is hard to recognise due to the layer of thick blood over it.


    Winston takes out a silver case of cigarettes from the pocket inside his jacket with his right hand, carries that case to his mouth and takes out one cigarette from it with his lips. As he put the case back inside his jacket, looked towards the man in the crowd, the man came forward with a lighter in his hand and lit his cigarette.


    Winston took a deep breath of smoke inside his soul, which touched every particle of his soul and created a sensation, which he used to feel when he was alive and had a physical body.


    At the centre of the crowd, there was a big stone. To reach that stone there are seven steps.


    As Winston climbs up the stairs, the wind strikes his jacket hard, making the feather in his inner pocket slightly visible.


    Winston threw the man that he was holding with his hand at the centre of the stone. And turn to look at the crowd. Everyone was shouting his name, they were shouting as if they had found their saviour. One can see it in their eyes, the pride, and the sense of achievement that they were feeling with someone else''s achievement. As if it was their own.


    Maybe they did achieve something today. Is there a bigger achievement for a soul, living in hell, than finding hope?


    "There is joy in vengeance, '''' Winston said softly, and the crowd stopped shouting. A silence fell all over, a deep silence. Only a sound of wind can be heard, roaming through the crowd and entering the forest.


    "I didn''t seek vengeance for joy though, it''s about self-respect." He said disturbing the sound of the wind. His voice was a bit heavy this time.


    "The enemy of Winston must know that Winston never forgets and neither he fucking forgives." He said with a firm voice, a bit louder, that his voice started echoing.


    A man appeared in the middle of deserted land, it was dark everywhere. Half-moon was flickering in the sky, it''s the only source to see what''s around.


    It was Winston, who had just died. Winston starts walking, without knowing where he was going, there is no way to understand the routes and directions here, everything looks the same. Dark and glittering with silver moonlight.


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    He was walking for hours now, to his amazement he didn''t feel any of the tiredness, after that continuous long walk.


    He keeps walking in the hope that he might find someone or something. Part of him also wanted to be left alone, the fact of being with himself is frightening as well as encouraging for him.


    Hours passed but there was no sign of morning, instead, the moon looked smaller.


    Winston somehow started to see more clearly than before. Living in the dark for a while and you start getting used to it, he thinks in his mind, taking a glance at his memories.


    At a far distance, he saw something, something like a dot, and a green shade around it. "Finally this fucking desert end", he said to himself, and start walking towards it.


    It was a bar, with a wall without colours, a busted window, and the smell of a fish market.


    Winston stand at a distance from the bar and notice it, with wide-open eyes, " this is a fucking hell, I have no more doubts", he said with a sarcastic tone and walk towards the gate.


    There were four people in the bar, two were playing cards, one was passed out on a table, and one was at the counter looking at his half-filled drink. Thinking.


    Winston takes a look at everyone, the guys who were playing cards notice him entering, both the players look at each other and start playing again.


    Winston walks towards the counter and sits on a chair beside a thinking man. On the other side of the counter, there were a few bottles on the dirty rack.


    Winston, take a look at the bottles, it has liquid of various colours, the unusual thing about liquid is that they look like someone added something lustrous into them.


    Sitting on a chair Winston takes a look behind the counter, there is no one there to serve those lustrous liquids. Winston turns his gaze towards the door.


    Suddenly, a voice came from behind him, " you look thirsty". Winston turned back towards the voice, it was a woman with dark light skin and curling hair rolling over her chest. She was looking unusually beautiful with her seductive smile.


    Winston was shocked, for a moment, thinking where she came from. But going with a moment, with a little pause, he says, " bit".


    "Then what do you like to have?", she said and looked at him like she was offering more than just a liquid.


    Winston looked at her seductive eyes, a thin smile spread over his face, and said,


    " I don''t have anything to pay".


    " You sure about that", the woman said, with a miscellaneous smile and looked straight into his eyes and turned towards the shelf where lustrous liquid was placed. She picked a blue-coloured liquid bottle, took out its lid, and poured that liquid into a circular glass.


    " it''s from horse soul, smuggled from Warrington forest", she gives glass into his hand scantily touching his finger for a moment.


    Winston notices her touch and looks towards the liquid in a glass. He thinks for a moment and then looks at a woman, there is a pause of suspicion in his eye, but look firmly and says, "fuck it, I can''t die again", and starts drinking it.


    It tastes like a fine whisky, he likes the taste with a first sip. And he finished his drink with another sip.


    " thank you", he says, as he finishes his drink and puts the glass on a table.


    Women smile as if she has achieved something.


    "So how do things work here? Winston asked, feeling a little whirling.


    " you will know, let the time come", the woman said with a mysterious smile.


    Winston looked at the people playing cards, both of them were masculine, and had long beards, one of them had a clean-shaven head.


    Suddenly, his vision started to feel blurry, he turned towards the woman, and before he could say anything, he fell out of his chair on the ground.


    The mystery behind the smile of a woman starts to be uncovered.


    There was the sound of people bargaining.


    "Look at him, he is worth more than that, you are just robbing us", the woman said, with an enraging voice.


    " Look, my final offer is one and a half bottles, and it is a pretty generous offer", an unknown voice said.

 Crazy Or Stupid

    Winston was lying on the ground, his hands were tied to each other at his back with a rope, and his face was covered with a piece of cloth.  But he is conscious and listening to the conversation.


    "Fine, hope you put that extra half, that you snatch away from me into your stinking ass", the woman said growling and started stepping out of the bar.


    "You know it, better than anyone baby", the man said, with a victorious smile, and put his hand inside his pants pocket and took out two little bottles the size of eye drops serum.


    The liquid in it was dark black and shiny, it looked like boiling tar. Before he handed it over to the bald man, he paused for a moment, and said, " there is a shortage of nectar everywhere, hope you will be wise with it".


    The bald man snatched the bottle, one full and one half, from the man, and said, " you don''t have to worry about that".


    The man looked with an angry gaze and picked up Winston from the ground, but before he could make him stand, Winston slipped away from his hands.


    The man runs to catch Winston, but Winston jumps up in the air and blows him with his leg. The kick fell on the man''s face and he fell to the ground.


    The two of them who were playing cards ran towards Winston to catch him, but before they could reach him, Winston flew up in the air, turned his hand from his back to his front side, and punched one of them, and the bald man punched Winston on his face.


    Winston falls to the ground, he removes the mask from his face, now he can see everything. He was looking angry with that punch, he ran towards the bald man, bounced on his chest and struck both of his hands on his head.


    The bald man fell to the ground, another man came to hit Winston, but Winston rolled out and grabbed his neck with a rope that was tied to his hand and pushed him to the ground. The man grumbled for a few seconds and fell unconscious.


    The man who was passed out on a table woke up with chaos.


    Winston loosens up the rope of his hand with his teeth. He picked up the dark bottles that were rolling on the floor and stepped towards the man.


    "Do you have a cigarette?"


    The man put his hand inside his pocket, pulled out the pack of cigarettes, and offered it to Winston. His eyes were wide open with shock and fear.


    Winston took out one cigarette from it, and put it on his lips, "lighter?", Winston said softly.


    The man put the cigarette packet back into his pocket and pulled out the lighter, Winston took it and lit his cigarette.


    He took a breath of smoke inside,


    " It doesn''t feel the way it feels when you are alive, does it? Winston said, flinging the smoke out.


    The man didn''t say anything, he still looked high and had his doubts about whether what was happening was real or just another bad drink.


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    Winston turned to look at the counter, the woman who was at the counter, was out at some distance from the bar, smoking her cigarette, completely unaware of what was happening inside.


    "Do these things burn like alcohol?" Winston asked. The man was still silent.


    Winston hold up for a moment and said,


    "I think, I need to know that by myself". And he threw up the lighter in his hand towards the bottles.


    The lighter was burning with fire, as it struck a yellow bottle it broke and liquid started to spill out and the moment its touch fire it catches fire and the man starts running towards the door.


    Before Winston could understand anything, the fire turned into a blast and threw the man from the door and Winston from a broken window out.


    The whole bar was on fire, the woman who was smoking a cigarette was shocked at what happened and started running towards the bar.


    Winston was on the ground, he had a few scratches on his face and hand. He sits on the ground looking towards the burning bar.


    " So it does burn?" Winston said with a sarcastic smile on his face.


    The man looked at Winston coughing from the smoke that went inside his lungs, which makes him sober now, said,


    "I can''t decide if you''re crazy or stupid."


    "I have so many good qualities," Winston said. "It can be hard to choose".


    The woman came from behind gasping for her breath, " what have you done? You asshole",  she said looking angrily at Winston.


    Winston laughed and said while standing on his feet, " of all the people, you should know that".


    The woman looked at him with questionable eyes. Winston lit his cigarette and started walking.


    "I didn''t burn you with it, I paid for my drink", Winston said, while walking without looking back.


    Warrington, the city near the border of the Qeorin dynasty, is known for its madness. Most of the souls living here spent their time drinking toxins, smuggling humans and animals souls across the border. It''s the most corrupt city of the Drulian dynasty.


    As they say, in a mad world, only the mad are sane. filthy roads filled with people wearing ragged clothes. A body may die, but the illusion that people carry through their life stays. The illusion that there is something that belongs to them. Most of the people spent their time in hell, believing that they still have their physical bodies.


    And toxins help them to keep this belief. The hardest thing for any person to realise is that they are the bad ones. The amount of arrogance they create over this ignorance can be seen in their eyes walking through the narrow streets of Warrington.


    Toxins can be extracted from animal souls. Different animals have different toxins, the higher the animal in the food chain, the better the toxin.


    Toxins create the illusion of reality in your mind, that you wanted. People in hell often chose to run away from the reality of hell. The reality of their existence. Such people became a slave of their habits. They are ready to do anything for toxins.


    So high demands for toxins are everywhere. To buy toxins either you need nectar or a human soul. So people often capture someone and sell them for toxins. In Warrington, there are many tribes, who are constantly in a fight with each other for control over this trade.


    The moon just appeared in the sky, and till now Winston has realised that in hell it''s always a night. Moon flashes in the sky for a few hours and then hides behind the dark clouds rolling across the sky and comes moonless hours filled with even more darkness.


    Winston''s vision has become clear now, he can notice things at the longest distance. He was walking through the forest, with every footstep the dry leaves lying on the ground were making a crunching noise like someone is munching chips. The howling of animals, and the playful wind were flirting with the sleeping leaves on a tree, with their touch the leaves on the tree were grumping with the noise. Chasing away the wind like a beautiful girl chasing away the guy around her.


    "Is it cold, what is it? How am I feeling? He didn''t know how to make sense of his feelings, it was different, something he has never experienced before. At this very moment, he looked at his confused mind trying to make a decision, trying to be certain in an unknown land.


    The environment of hell is different, and it''s started taking over Winston. In his mind, he was still an old Winston, the king of the Asian mafia. But who is he, in this unknown place? The question starts swirling into his mind like a snake around a sandalwood tree.

 Madonna

    Inside the forest, animals hide from their biggest predator, the human soul. The wet feeling of one''s fear can be sensed in the humid air. And with the presence of humans, this tense feeling turns into chilling vibes, crawling inside the skin, making them feel terrified.


    Winston notices chimps hiding behind the bushes and owls flying away into the dense forest. The whooping and Howling of humans who have come to hunt down animals for toxins.


    When humanity''s soul starves, love has nowhere to roam, definitely not inside the forest in hell. Hunger can break down the nobility of a human soul, but in hell, you don''t have to pretend that you are noble or ethical. No one judges you here for your inhumanity, or simply for your true nature.


    Winston walks past the Acacia tree filled with thorns and small leaves. Even smaller ants were walking on a stem avoiding the pointed thorns ready to wound anyone who came to harm them. In Winston''s mind, he was trying to make sense of what happened in the bar, he was more cautious now.


    What is nectar? Why were they selling him for that? The question was raised in his mind. He didn''t have an answer for that yet, but one thing was sure, it''s something important that is worth selling a person for it. Winston thinks in his mind and takes out the bottle from his pocket. The dark liquid was spattering with a touch of the silver stream. The liquid looks mysterious and the eye seductive.


    Winston put the bottles back inside his pocket. He has almost crossed the forest. He can see the open desert through the dancing trees. Suddenly, he felt like someone was following him, but he walked without showing it. He noticed the small crunching of leaves, which followed his movements. He kept walking until he reached the edge of the wilderness and suddenly turned toward the footsteps making noise.


    It was a cat. Soft like foam formed by soap on water. Chunky like a panda. Staring at him with her big curious eyes.


    "Madonna?"Winston shouted with surprise and uncertainty. Is it her, or is it some trick that''s been playing off? he thinks in his mind.


    " Boss", the cat said with an expression that was hard to read.


    "What the fuck, you can talk?" Winston said, moving one leg behind.


    "This can''t be real, my mind is fucking with me again, this whole is my imagination, Madonna is dead", he said while holding his head and closing his eyes. But the next moment, he realises something and opens his eyes. " So does me", he said with an agitating voice.


    "Boss, this is me. I am real. We both are dead." Madonna said, moving her front right foot forward. Winston was feeling anxious, his whole life he has faced death so many times, that he almost stopped being afraid of it. But death is more complex than that. The ideas of loss, everything that you loved and cared for was gone, leaving memories behind to torture.


    "Calm down boss, it will go away", Madonna said with a delicate voice.


    Winston comes back to his senses. There is a sense of happiness inside him, seeing Madonna, but he doesn''t want to acknowledge it at that moment. Because what if it is all just a dream or some trick. He has already felt the pain of loss, and now he was trying to avoid it by not getting attached to something that can be lost.


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    " What are you doing here?"Winston asks, grasping his conscience.


    "What do you mean? This is hell, this is where I should be." Madonna said, stepping closer to Winston, remembering his face from her memories when she used to live with him.


    " I don''t understand", Winston said with wonder.


    " Only a human soul can go to heaven, every animal has to come back to hell", Madonna said as she had already accepted her fate.


    Winston felt bad for her, for a moment, and said, " So what about me? I am going to be born as human again and get my chance to be in heaven?" It was a bit of a relief for him.


    Madonna chuckled, and said, " it''s not long that you have been here, are you?"


    " no, maybe a day or two, I didn''t fully understand the days here yet", Winston said while trying to remember the moment he arrived. It was a bit hard for him to remember, it''s not that long so he was a bit surprised by his memory.


    "It''s hell, it has a completely different rule, you will get to know it," Madonna said and started walking.


    Winston was following Madonna, he was still not sure about her existence, and lately the way his mind behaved he is becoming more and more uncertain.


    " So you need to find nectar, as soon as you can, otherwise your memories will start to fade away," Madonna said while walking, twirling her fur left-right. " and if you don''t have nectar for long you will degenerate into the animal soul", she looked behind while finishing her sentence just to see Winston''s reaction.


    " what?", a deep worry crawled inside him, thinking about becoming an animal, he was speechless for a moment, lost in his imagination. A part of his mind already started to imagine himself as a cat-like a madonna. He shook his thoughts in his mind and tried to ask something but the question in his mind couldn''t be conveyed in words. And he stays silent, looking at Madonna, who was enjoying his expressions.


    The forest was left far behind, it was a desert. Winston was following Madonna brief silences walking between them, they were about to reach Warrington. Even though they were not talking it felt like they were having the most significant conversation in that silence.


    Winston found Madonna when she was tiny, like a mouse. She was looking so delicate, which abducted his heart, and he took her with him to his home. She used to walk around with him all the time whenever he was home. It''s the language of silence that they have spoken their whole life. It was what they were comfortable with rather than words.


    They reached inside the city, and different kinds of animals were walking with humans like a pet. A tall young man with a clean shave followed by a white dog hanging his tongue out passed beside Winston. Dogs look at a Madonna for a moment and then keep following the man. An old woman standing beside a monkey was arguing with an old half-bald man, there was a crab between his legs crawling on the ground. Shops selling toxins and nectar, small and big bottles of colourful liquids placed on the shelf watching the pedestrian. Only faces change, but lust and greed in the eyes remain the same. There was bidding going on, a group of people were circling the pigs and goats and three men and one woman tied with a rope on their hand and fear had entirely taken over the lust in their eyes. Fear of death, fear of extinction is something common that stays with a person even after his death.


    Two and a half bottles for a woman, a man shouted, he was old and had a white beard, wrinkles on his face have completely hidden behind his long and thick beard. He was blushing while he shouted, and a woman noticed the perverts in his eyes. And with her stare man who had already taken her to his bed in his dream, almost got an orgasm.


    The desire for lust is the kind of thing that eats you and leaves you starving. But people often choose this hunger, to pass their time, because without this hunger they will need to face who they are inside. Which is a not good idea for many, not perhaps in hell.

 Trust No One

    Winston and Madonna walk past the bidding crowd into the narrow street. A single person can walk through this street at a time if someone came from another side, they have to walk brushing their bellies and nipples to each other.


    A man wearing a ragged cloth was walking from another side, Winston was already puzzled by the idea that how they will cross each other? This was a daily business for Madonna so she just swooped through the gap that she found. While Winston and a man dance for a few seconds left and right. A stinking smell clouds inside the Winstons'' nose, making him feel unbearable to stand in front of that man. Finally, the man pushes Winston, rubbing his whole body against Winston and walks away. It takes a few seconds for Winston to get over what just happened. In his mind, the memories keep flashing, again and again, the touch of his beard against his face and rubbing of the penises against one another.


    "Come on, you''ll get used to it", Madonna said, laughing at his discomfort.


    Winston couldn''t believe that this is happening, and his cat advising him is something hard for him to digest. He tries to wipe the smell from his suit with his hand and keeps walking.


    They reached the old and crumbling building that seemed like it could collapse any moment. Madonna walks inside, and Winston was terrified with the question that what if the building collapsed? But he doesn''t want Madonna to see him being terrified so he just keeps walking without letting his worry reflect on his face.


    The building has small apartments made of 3 and 4 rooms. Most of the doors to the apartments were closed, some were open. Winston noticed people and animals lying on the floor, as they have no life left in them. On some faces, you can see the pain of life after death, the pain of waiting for better, the pain of walking through an unending cycle, and especially the pain of non-acceptance.


    Looking at their faces Winston feels pity for them in his heart. And in his mind, he started to feel a sense of the unfamiliarity with his memories, as if they are not his, but of someone else''s. You cannot become courageous without being afraid. Winston always acknowledges his fears but not to this extent, where he has started to feel like someone else. It''s scary when the world around you is unfamiliar but it''s terrifying when you see this unfamiliarity with yourself.


    They stop at a brown door, the colour of a door has started to fade away and so does the wood. Madonna struck on a door twice with her palm, Winston noticed her sharp nails while doing that. Again the silence fell around them, and within a few seconds breaking that silence, the door opened, making the sounds that come from a door in horror movies when the actors entered the newly bought house in the jungle.


    a woman''s head appeared behind the door, a beautiful woman. She first looks at Madonna and then at Winston, and then again at Madonna, like she was asking something with her look.


    " He is an old friend", Madonna said, understanding the question in the woman''s gaze. The woman looks at Winston upside down, a sudden craving of being likeable runs through Winston and he tries to make his tie proper and drift his finger through his hair. Winston has no idea why he did that.


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    "He looks like an idiot", the woman mumbled and opened the door wide. Madonna entered the apartment, Winston followed her, the woman was staring at him with suspicion in her eyes. Inside there was an old white dog with black dots on it, lying in the corner. Besides the dog, there was a pig, the same size as a dog lying down.


    As Winston entered both of them stood up and came towards Winston. Madonna starts introducing everyone.


    " Guys, this is Winston, an old friend and Winston, this is Silvia, Tobie(dog), and Ranger(pig).


    Winston greeted them nervously, Tobie shook his head in reply, while the Ranger come further and hug Winstons'' leg,


    "Finally someone who can match my style, these old people are so boring, all they do is lie in the corner talking about miseries and losses", the ranger said while rubbing his stomach on Winston''s feet.


    Winston didn''t say anything, but he was happy that someone liked him.


    The room has blue shades on the wall, the colour has almost faded away. There were other rooms inside, so to reach there it had a small hallway. Outside every room, there are small arcades who were offering the visuals of the street and other apartments.


    " Where is he going to stay? We don''t have any more rooms left", Silvia said.


    "It''s fine, he can stay with me", the Ranger said, looking at Winston and blushing with his mouth open wide.


    Silvia makes an annoying face and walks inside, vanishing inside the dark hallway.


    " I don''t think she likes me at all,'''' Winston said as Silvia left.


    "Silvia doesn''t trust people easily, she follows her trust no one''s rule", madonna said


    "trust is hard to find here, you will know that with time", Tobie said while sitting back in the corner, where he was sitting before.


    " told you, all they could talk about is misery", Ranger said, with a tiring voice.


    "Don''t worry, I will show you your room", Madonna said, reading the puzzled face of Winston. They walk towards the hallway, Ranger lives in a second room after Tobies. The Ranger opened the door to his room, it was filled with old and rusty things. There is very little space that was not occupied. " Welcome to our room,'''' the ranger said, making his voice a little dramatic.


    Winston takes a look at a room, " where do you sleep", Winston said while noticing the little space inside.


    Before Ranger could answer, Madonna said, " we don''t sleep, no one sleeps here".


    " What do you mean?"Winston said with a puzzle in his eyes.


    "We are dead Winston, we don''t have a body, which needs rest, we are just a form of energy that is waiting to obtain some physical self", '''' Madonna said with a heavy voice and left.


    A silence fell all over again, and his mind started wandering again, he entered the room. " hey" a voice came from behind him. He turned towards the voice. It was Silvia. She gave him a small bottle containing the nectar, and said, " this is very precious, I hope you will prove me wrong", and left.


    " This is nectar, you need to take it every day, so you can''t lose your memories and yourself, and eventually degenerate into lower species", Ranger said walking towards the gallery.


    Winston followed him. Outside on the street usual things were going on.


    "You should take a drop from it, you already look confused, your memories must have started to feel like an unknown to you", Ranger said while looking at Winston''s face.


    Winston opens the seal and drinks a drop from the bottle. It tastes like cough syrup. As it went down inside him, a sense of fulfilment juggle through his mind. Suddenly, he felt like his mind stopped wandering, and everything started to make sense again. A sense of unfamiliarity started to fade away, and his memories fell back in order. Confidence rose inside him and with his confidence, his fear fell back, as darkness fell to the ground with the arrival of the light.


    Moon was going back to his shack, the colourful sky was turning towards darkness, letting go of his light with every moment. Ranger and Winston were lying on the floor, looking out at the passing moon.

 Hunting Hunters

    Suddenly, the door opens and Silvia''s head pops up, "Ranger, let''s go", she said looking at Ranger.


    " Where are you going?" Winston said, standing on his feet.


    "We are going for a hunt", Ranger said, looking for something on the shelves.


    Before Winston could say anything, Silvia said, " you don''t have to come".


    Winston walks towards her and stands very close to her, putting his hand inside his pocket he takes out one and a half bottles of blood that he takes from the bar and puts it on her hand. He intently grips her hand strongly, making Silvia''s eyes wide open, she didn''t expect that he would touch her that way. "I don''t take charity", Winston said, while holding her hand and pressing it firmly. " I want to come, and want to earn my living", he continued. Ranger was looking at them with wide-open eyes and he had forgotten what he was looking for.


    Silvia freed her hand from his and left with fury without saying anything. Winston chuckled and looked at Ranger, he had a winning smile on his face.


    On a footpath towards the jungle, Silvia with a bow and arrow followed by Madonna, Tobie, Ranger and Winston. Everyone except Winston knows what was happening, it was a daily play for them. Silvia has a Tulip arrow, which can make any animal unconscious for a few hours.


    They reached inside the jungle, many groups came for the hunt. There is no rule of hunting, it''s just not animals that get hunted here but also a hunter. Some come to hunt down animals, and some for hunters. The animal soul is valuable and can buy one to three bottles of blood, while the human soul is precious. It could give you up to six to ten bottles of blood if you find the right customer to deal with, or else you have to be satisfied with whatever you get.


    But capturing the human soul is not easy. Firstly they live with the tribe, so capturing and selling any one of them is waging a war against the tribe. So only these tribesmen capture each other''s members and sell them either here or across the border into the territory of the Qeorin dynasty, where they have high demands from here.


    But to sell anything across the border is prohibited by the devil, the head of every dynasty called the devil. The Devil controls the cities through demons. The demon is the one who controls the cities, and in return, every demon has to pay a certain number of human and animal souls to the devil as a tax.


    The human souls are the source of power, the devil melts and takes out the encryption that God put in them when he created them. This encryption contains the power and the memories of the soul. Whoever put this encryption into them gets the power but also the memories with it. So sometimes it can be dangerous as memories start juggling inside and create confusion and the illusion of multiple personalities.


    Winston and Silvia along with others reached deep inside the jungle. And their usual play started. Silvia finds a place to hide behind the bushes, everyone hides with her other than Madonna. This part of the jungle is known for its dog habitats. It was a very simple trick, a cat walking alone is an invitation for a dog. Madonna starts roaming, making voices intentionally in the range for Silvia to shoot an arrow.


    Behind the bushes, Ranger was staring at Silvia, he had an innocent smile on his face and she noticed him staring at her. First, she tries to ignore him, but then, "what?", she said with an irritating voice.


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    " Nothing", Ranger said, while continuing to stare at her with a smile.


    "Then look somewhere else", she said with an alarming voice.


    The smile faded away from his face and he turned towards Winston who had guessed the play now. He was looking towards Madonna, taking a small step and waiting for a dog to attack her. Besides him sitting Tobie doing the same.


    Suddenly, they heard voices, behind the tree there was someone, hiding behind the darkness. Winston can see clearly into the dark now. This place has its effect, step by step it pours away the humanity inside you, every day you become less and less human. Getting a night visual is just the beginning.


    Brown eyes glistened into the darkness and behind that eye appeared the shape. In the beginning, it looks like a dog, but as they got a visual of its skin they realised that it is not a dog.


    " It''s hyena", Silvia shouted at Madonna and she started running.


    Hyena followed Madonna, and as it jumped and was about to catch her, Silvia pulled the string and shot an arrow, it went straight tearing everything that came in its way and hitting the open mouth of the hyena in the air.


    Hyena fell on the ground, before falling, he struck a tree which broke a few of his bones. A bombing sound explodes taking over the silence of the trees. And suddenly from another side of Madonna appeared two more hyenas.


    As Silvia spotted them she put an arrow in her bow and shot two consecutive arrows at both of them. They end up kissing the ground. Madonna reached out to the group, and before they could get over, what just happened. They realised that they were circled by hyenas.


    Everyone in the group comes closer to each other. Tobie, Madonna and Ranger hid behind Winston and Silvia. Silvia was holding her arrow and about to shoot but Winston stopped her with a hand gesture. It''s amazing how in a situation like this people often communicate without saying and still they understand each other perfectly.


    They were not sure how many total hyenas there are. If they misjudge the number at this point it may end up badly, so they communicate with their eyes and just wait for everyone to come forward.


    There were nine of them, they came from every side, circling the group.


    "It''s not wise to shoot", a hyena who likes their leader and is bigger than the rest, he has a scar on his face comes forward and says.


    " What if I did? just like I did to them", Silvia said while pointing towards the dead hyenas with her eyes.


    Hyena with a scar takes gaze at dead hyenas lying down and said,


    "You may have shot them but you can''t take them from here"


    "You wanna bet?", Silvia said while pointing an arrow at him.


    Winston comes forward, guessing the intensity of the moment, and said,


    " Look, guys, we don''t want trouble. It''s unexpected what happened, can we just move along on our ways?"


    "You think I am stupid, I can sell you both and those little scumbags for fortune", a hyena with a scar said.


    Silvia looked at Winston, it seems like they had made a plan, and communicated the plan with their eyes. And so does the Hyenas. But before hyenas could take any step Silvia shot the arrow at the leader, it struck between his eyes and threw him back. Winston jumps towards Silvia, picks up two arrows from her back and strikes at the two hyenas attacking from behind.


    Every hyena started attacking as they saw their leader get hit. Three hyenas have already fallen. Out of six one goes after Tobie, one after Ranger and two for Winston and Silvia each. Tobie got bitten on his stomach, and a hyena tried to grab his neck. But Tobie resists and bite him back on his tail. But the hyena was too strong for Tobie, so he pushed him away and put his sharp teeth again in his stomach, tearing the skin off. Thick red blood started to flow off, from his skin.

 Silence After Thunderstorm

    Tobie fell to the ground. He knows that this blood is not real, it''s just an illusion. He knows that he cannot get hurt or die, or as a matter of fact, he doesn''t even have blood. But this pain, this is real. It''s born out of the illusion of being alive. Out of attachment that he has for himself. And he can feel that pain even without blood or life, as much as strongly, one feels who is alive.


    Winston on the other hand was occupied with two hyenas, both of them grabbed him by the hand and planted their teeth inside the skin of his hand. A wave of pain was running through his mind, but it was not the first time he had seen this much pain. Even though his heart was terrified of the pain, his mind was calm and focused. Looking for ways to deal with the situation.


    One hyena tried to bite Ranger, but he was too sharp for him to find. He runs through small bushes and teases to trick him into sharp wood, which tears down the stomach of the hyena.


    Silvia was playing with two of them with her bow. Trying to keep them away from Madonna, who was standing between Winston and Silvia. Madonna saw Tobie getting beaten badly, she ran towards him. Tobie was on the ground and the hyena was grabbing his neck, which was bleeding like a leaking tap.


    Madonna swung in the air, and before the hyena could understand her movements, she scratched his eyes with her nails. He was bleeding like he was crying with tears of blood. He loses his grip on Tobie and starts running here and there. He was in immense pain, with his shivering leg and his eyes blind. He struck a tree and fell to the ground still shivering with pain, his eyes were scratched out like tar from the road, leaving the dead rock behind.


    One hyena tries to bite Silvia''s leg, but before he could reach her skin she pulls out an arrow and puts it into his eyes. Hyena falls like a flying bird who suddenly gets hit by a bullet. And to another, she picked him between the string and wood of her bow and threw him on a tree, like a small kid through stones in the air. His ribs broke with a strike of a tree plank.


    Winston pushed both the hyenas towards the dead one, which he had killed before. And before they could understand what was happening he pushed one of them into the backside of the arrow. Which goes inside through his anal region and comes out through his stomach. He loses his jaw from Winston''s hand, there were eight holes on his hand, dropping blood, like a sprinkler throwing water in a farm.


    His other hand is still in another hyena''s mouth, his teeth have reached to his bones now, he senses the touching of his teeth on his bones, a silent pain runs in mind making him feel like someone has touched his soul with a sharp blade. He screamed and swung his hand in the air along with the hyena and threw it on the ground like a woodcutter striking his axe on wood with all his power with the intent of breaking the wood into two.


    Hyena might have forgotten how to breathe after that strike and couldn''t even care to move even slightly, some of his teeth broke and were left in Winston''s skin.


    Everything was silent. A silence, like after a thunderstorm. You are happy that you made it, that you survived, but also sad with all the loss. With all that thunderstorm taken away from you, that you gather with such hard work.


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    But even though storms take so much from you, they leave something behind. A souvenir from his meeting. The snow on the ground and the freshness in the breath, may not be what you want, but it''s something.


    Everyone gathered their breath and turned to each to look for the damage. Tobie was the one who seemed most hurt, he was on the ground, he was bleeding like a pig in mud, from everywhere. Silvia ran towards Tobie holding him in her arms. A tear fell from her eyes and fell onto Tobie''s face. Everyone gathered around them.


    Madonna noticed Winston''s wounds.


    " This looks very bad, we need to get back to our place", she said with worry and pain in her eyes. Her nails were still red with the blood of a hyena and his skin was stuck into them.


    "No, it''s fine, I have seen worse", Winston said, removing the broken teeth from his wound which had gone too deep into his skin and touched his bones. He was in immense pain, but only if he acknowledged it. For him, it''s just another wound that will be healed with time. As they say, time is the best healer.


    " We can get so much nectar from these hyenas, we can''t just leave them here", Tobie said with a wailing voice.


    "It''s not important right now, let''s take you home first", Silvia said, wiping her tears which had come down rolling from her eye to her cheek, making her skin feel itchy with that salted wetness.


    " he is going to be fine, and you know that", Madonna said, placing her hand over her shoulder. "Let''s not get carried away and do what should be done", she continued.


    "It''s fine, you carry him and we will handle the rest", Winston said looking at Madonna.


    Winston found a long tree plank and he tied the legs of hyenas with the ropes. Then he hung five hyenas on that plank, one of them was a leader. Ranger carries Tobie on his back. Silvia and Winston hold the two sides of the plank and start carrying. With every step, they take the hanging hyenas on the plank, move left to right, forward and backwards, striking each other, making a sound like someone walking with heavy steps.


    Walking through the moonless night they reached their home. Everyone was tired.


    Winston was about to put the plank on his shoulder on the ground in the first room, but Silvia stopped him.


    They walked through the hallway at the end of it. It was a wall. Winston was confused about what was happening. Silvia pushed the wall and it opened into the room. A room is full of inventory of items, around twenty bottles of nectar, different types of bows and arrows, swords, and a few bottles of different kinds of toxins.


    "Let''s put them here", Silvia said, pointing towards the corner of the room, there were a few chains there made of iron shining like a silvered. Both of them put down planks from their shoulders, with all that weight they carried the plank left a mark of its shape on their shoulders.


    Silvia chains all the hyenas. They are still unconscious, but they will be conscious at any moment. Silvia took a bottle of orange toxin from the shelf and started walking out of the room, Winston followed her.


    Ranger put Tobie into his room and started cleaning his wounds with a piece of cloth. Madonna was helping to clean the wounds. Silvia walks into the, there was a wetness in her eyes. She sat near Tobie and poured a little liquid from the bottle into his mouth.


    As liquid walks down from his mouth towards his throat, a sense of relaxation starts to appear on his face. Toxin started his magic and he started to become numb to his pain. He closed his eyes like he had fallen asleep.


    Winston was in his room in the gallery. Looking towards the usual things happening on the street.

 Mariko

    Silvia comes from behind and stands beside him, looking on the street where Winston was looking. On the street, there were two kids, playing, and trying to catch each other.


    "Sometimes I couldn''t believe that I am in hell", Silvia said looking towards the kid, she has a sense of innocence in her voice. The voice she usually uses, the strong one, started to fall back behind her innocent voice.


    Winston looked towards her, through her pretentious look, the girl behind that face. He noticed how unusually beautiful she is, her dark brown eyes were a little wet and her hair was flowing with air on her face, which she was moving with her hand.


    Winston doesn''t say anything but looks for a few more seconds toward her beautiful face. Silvia does the same, but after a few seconds, she comes to her senses and gives the yellow bottle to Winston''s hand.


    "It will help you with the pain, and heal your wound rapidly", Silvia said while handing over the bottle.


    " What is it?"Winston said, looking towards the liquid in the bottle.


    "It''s from jaguars soul, only it can heal wounds and numb your pain", Silvia said, " while it''s very valuable and has to give so much for just a bottle", she continued.


    Winston continued looking toward her while she was talking, he noticed her lips movements, they were pink and soft like fur, he found them very attractive. Silvia caught sight of his eyes and felt shy. Winston noticed it and moved his eyes away.


    Both started looking again at the street, the kids were still playing. One of them falls and the other helps him get up.


    "You know what separates hell from the earth", Silvia said while feeling happy looking towards the kid.


    " what?"


    "On earth, people don''t know what they are doing? Why are they doing it, what are they doing? But here you always know, you always know that you are selfish, so the guilt that comes with it never leaves you", Silvia said, her breath felt overwhelmed while she said it.


    Winston listens to her carefully, he notices her changing expressions with every word she speaks. He didn''t say anything, just looked at her in a way that she knows that he understands what she is talking about.


    Madonna entered the room, " guys, we need to sell those hyenas as soon as we can, we can''t keep them locked up here for long".


    "Okay, I will go to Mariko and set a deal", Silvia said and started walking away from the gallery. Winston stays behind, he wants to ask something but keeps quiet. Silvia reached the door, turned around towards Winston and said, "would you like to come with me?"


    Winston answered with a very light smile and nodded his head with it in affirmative.


    "Okay, have some toxins and get some rest, we will be visiting Mariko in a few hours", Silvia said while closing the door behind, Madonna followed her outside.


    Mariko is the leader of the Gaza tribe. It''s one of the most powerful tribes of Warrington. Silvia often sells her hunting to Mariko, he is a kind of cruel person. He offers very little in exchange, but as they say, beggars can''t be choosers. It''s a kind of monopoly, you can either sell your stuff into the market or to someone directly. Most of the bidders in the market are fixed and usually take your hunt for a very low price. At least here you get a say, and sometimes even a good deal.


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    Silvia and Winston start walking towards the Gaza tribe which is a little far from their place. At the entrance of the tribe, there was a big skull of a bull hanging over the entrance. The entry gate was made from old bamboo, which has turned grey.


    People were sitting outside their houses. Some were playing cards, some were drinking and smoking, the sound of women''s screams came from inside the house as if someone was beating her. shouting of a man, abusing.


    Winston and Silvia kept walking. At the gate of Mariko''s house, there were two guards. Silvia has been here before and has done many deals, so they recognise her and ask her to stop until he goes inside and asks Mariko.


    Within less than a minute he comes back and opens the door made of bamboo sticks wide to get Silvia and Winston in. Mariko is a black man with a round face tall about seven feet. People say that once he fought a tiger with his bare hand.


    As they entered the room where Mariko was lying bare, a young woman was applying oil on him.


    The woman was white and had a thin body, and she looked like she had been doing this forcefully. She was wearing a white robe that had pink flowers on it.


    As Mariko noticed that Silvia arrived, he looked up with his face while his body facing the ground.


    "So, what did you bring this time?"Mariko said with a creepy look on his face.


    " much more than before", Silvia said with a playful tone.


    A greedy smile appeared on Mariko''s face, and with a smile, he seemed even more ugly, his unusually big nose swells like a frog on his face with that smile. He takes a look at Winston, something about Winston that he didn''t like, maybe his appearance.


    "Who is this?", he said. There is a sense of jealousy in his tone.


    "He is a friend", Silvia said while taking a gaze at Winston, he also looked at her, their eyes met for a second and got separated again.


    "We have five hyenas", Silvia continued.


    " Five? How did you manage to get five hyenas?", Mariko said, with wonder on his face.


    "We were just lucky", she said with politeness.


    " Hmm, lucky! So how much did you expect?"


    "Three bottles of nectar for each".


    "Hahaha, it seems you have become ambitious".


    "it''s hyenas! you will earn a lot with the toxin you will derive from them".


    The woman massaging Mariko turns towards his hips from his back and starts applying oil there, and he starts moaning with her soft touch.


    Winston who was already uncomfortable with Mariko''s nudity, his moaning makes him even more uncomfortable.


    "Do we have the deal then?" He said with haste.


    "You seem to be in a hurry?" Mariko said, with a little anger in his voice, as he felt that Winston was spoiling his massage, and also felt disrespect by his tone.


    "What he means is, we have a wounded friend at home and also want to get rid of hyenas as soon as we can", Silvia intervenes, trying to calm the situation.


    "Is it so?", he takes a little pause and continued,


    "one and a half, that''s the best I can offer"


    "That is too less", Silvia said, trying to suppress her anger.


    "It''s quite a generous offer if you look from my perspective", Mariko said with a sarcastic tone.


    "Two and a half, I can''t go lower than that", Silvia replied.


    Mariko gazed at Winston, there were signs of anger and frustration all over his face, in his mind he was thinking about burning down the whole. But he stayed quiet, he didn''t want to take any action in a hurry. Besides, he doesn''t know anything about Mariko and this place, and it''s stupid to jump in the water that you don''t know how deep it is? But he preserves this moment in his mind.


    " Two bottles and that''s final, no more bargaining, take it or leave it", Mariko said, putting his face down facing the floor like his body.


    Silvia expected two and a half for the hyenas, but looking at the situation it seems impossible now, so she decided to take the offer.

 Different Paths

    "Okay, we have a deal", she said with disappointment in her voice.


    "I will send my men tomorrow after moonrise", Mariko said this time without turning his face upward.


    Winston and Silvia were walking back to their home. Both of them were silent.


    " I don''t like that man", Winston said.


    Silvia looked at him, she was angry, "you don''t have to like him, he is just a broker, who buys my hunt", she shouted.


    "Why are you shouting? Do you think it''s my fault that he offers less than you asked?"


    Silvia stopped and turned towards Winston and said,


    "Look, Winston, this is not some game for us, it''s about survival. It''s not the same as when you''re alive. You just die there when you don''t have enough, but here you turn into something else, you lose your memories. Every half a bottle decides in which species you will live here and be born again".


    Silvia was palpated with anger and disappointment. She felt like Winston is not serious about everything as she is. But Winston was serious, it''s just that everything that''s happening around it goes against Winston''s character. Winston wasn''t the person who gets dominated by others. He is the one who dominates others.


    "You are right, it''s not about survival for me. I can''t live being dominated by others or at someone else''s mercy. I never have, I don''t have that quality", Winston replied with a calm voice.


    "This is not earth Winston, where you can point a gun at someone and they will start dancing at your beats. This is hell, we are like puppets of their play, it doesn''t matter to them, who do we play? It''s us who have to suffer", her voice was trembling with the rage in her heart.


    Winston stays silent for a while and says, "Perhaps you didn''t understand earth then, it''s the same everywhere. They do what their masters tell them to do. It''s because they are too afraid or to keep getting what they are getting from them, it''s the same. And I know how to control such people. The only thing I am good at is leading, and I am going to do that here too, and I don''t care about the consequences, I never had".


    A long silent fall between Silvia and Winston. The moments when they felt close to each other now seem like a distant past, like a thousand-year ago. This is different from what both of them are looking for, one is too scared to live and the other too scared to not live. The two sides of the same river walk across each other for their whole life but are never destined to meet each other.


    They reached their home but before entering Silvia stopped Winston and asked him,


    "you need to decide Winston, either you live with us our way or you know".


    " It''s fine, I already made my mind", Winston said looking at Silvia.


    Silvia understands what he wants to say.


    "Okay then, see you someday", Silvia said, her eyes wet. It''s been a long time since she has started to trust someone and felt something about someone. It''s fine when you don''t have anything, but when you find something which makes you happy, losing it is terrible. It makes it hard for you to get attached to anything again.


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    Winston starts walking down the stairs with heavy feet, and a bleeding heart. But he knows that this is for the best, he knows that he can''t live like this and it''s not the first he has felt this way. He has already walked through this path and knows how it ends. In the beginning, it all seemed good and sweet. But along with the time when this honeymoon period gets over and the time comes for hard decisions, it won''t last. Either you could be free or everything else. It''s the freedom that he is used to, it''s the freedom that allows him to be himself.


    As walking down the stairs he put a cigarette in his mouth and lit it with a lighter. Smoke entered inside his soul, his imagined lungs, and giggle. As usual, some doors were open and some were closed on every floor. Winston passed them and came out of the building on the narrow street.


    What a coincidence. The man he met before was walking on the narrow street. As he saw Winston, he giggled and kept walking straight. Winston also walked straight, both of them met at a point. The man was about to push Winston aside, but before he could place his hands on him, Winston grabbed them. The man tries to free his hand but Winston''s grip was too tight.


    "Not this time you fucker", Winston said while grinding his hand. The man starts whining with the pain. Winston leaves his hand and before the man could do anything Winston punches him in the face and the man falls to the ground.


    The man was about to stand up, "if you try to stand I will punch you on the ground again", Winston said firmly.


    The man kept lying on the ground, Winston stepped on him, the first leg between the legs and before putting the second leg he waves It for a second in front of his face. The man sobbed with fear. Winston jumped over his face and crossed the narrow street.


    Most of the people were on the hunt in the city. Some rich brats can be seen on the streets sitting on a horse and high with toxins. Winston walks opposite the side of the jungle, inside the main city.


    At the centre of the city, there is a big house where Lanark lives, he is the demon of the city. The house looks like a Chinese castle and has three floors including the ground floor. Lanark lives on the third floor and does all his business on the ground floor. He has an army of deadly soldiers lurking around his palace.


    People from all the tribes come for business, to sell human and animal souls in exchange for nectar. The soul cannot be killed by anyone; only the one who has the feathers can kill the soul and remove encryption from it.


    Lucifer, the king of hell, gives feathers from his wing to Devils who are the head of dynasties. Which gives them incredible powers. And these devils give feathers from their wings to demons, which gives them power like opening a portal to travel anywhere, and also some other magical powers.


    The more encryption you have the more powerful you will become, so these feather bearers are always in a fight with each other for more and more human souls.


    Winston until now has understood that nectar is the source of life and humans are the source of power. And whoever gets control over this thing will be the most powerful person.


    Winston reached the sophisticated area of the city. Here the houses have newly painted colours and design works. Beautiful hotels and people eating meat in the restaurant without hunger just for the sake of taste.


    Winston stopped at a place named Malik porn bar, the name makes Winston curious. There are pictures of a nude woman holding a red drink with the name board. He entered inside.


    He was inside the hallway, there were two men with heavy build standing at the inside gate. Both of them were wearing a black suit and there was one fixed expression on their faces, it was not anger but neither less than anger, it was hard to know what they were thinking about.


    Winston walks slowly towards them, he puts out a cigarette from his pocket and stands in front of these people.


    "Can any of you gentlemen have any lighter?"Winston said casually.


    None of them replied with anything.

 The Porn Bar

    "You guys don''t seem to smoke! What a shame!"Winston said sarcastically.


    And took out a lighter from his pocket, "Ahh, I think I am getting old, forgetting my stuff, in my pocket". Winston lit the lighter and put the flame on the cigarette, looking at their eyes.


    As he lights his cigarette he takes the smoke in and vomits it out in the air upward.


    He chuckled looking at them and entered inside with his waggish walk. Through a dark hallway, he walked into the bar. There were colourful lights all over and loud music. people dancing on the tune, mesmerised by the surroundings.


    You can''t see the worry and stress on their faces, as if they have forgotten they are in hell. Women and men dancing, kissing. Some of them were topless and some were fully nude. Rubbing their bodies to each other. At the corner, on the table, a man and a woman were having sex. Both of them were so into their act that they have forgotten where they are? Women moaning and the man breathing loudly, and with their movements, the table shook like a house in an earthquake.


    Winston looked at everything until his eyes felt satisfied. It''s been a long since he has seen something eye-watering.


    He noticed every little thing that was happening.


    He starts walking through the dancing crowd, brushing his body against nude and half-nude women; he purposely avoids brushing against the dancing men.


    while he walks brushing his body against the woman he stares straight into their eyes and leans his face towards them, portraying as if he is trying to kiss them, while the moment woman catches the signal and lean forwards to go with the moment he steps back and move away with a giggle in his eyes.


    He was unusually handsome and had great physics; any woman instantly felt attracted to his attitude and charisma.


    He passed the dancing crowd. Eight naked women were dancing on the counter, behind them on the shelf bottles of toxins. And a man looking like a Korean pop star was serving them behind the counter.


    Winston stands in front of a dancing woman. Their breasts were bouncing with their steps creating a rhythm. All of the women were beautiful. Winston takes a gaze at everyone and they stop to look at the fifth girl. She has reddish long and straight shining hair which comes till just over her hips.


    Winston keeps looking at her with a smile and she also starts seductively looking at him. Inviting him to come closer with her hand gestures. Winston moves closer to her, close enough from where he can identify the exact colour of her nipples.


    Winston asked her to come closer with a finger. She bends down from the counter and jumps on the ground. The counter was not that high just enough to showcase the dancing women.


    She held his hand and started driving him inside. Through a dark hallway, they reached inside the hall. Around ten big couches were separated by shining transparent curtains. Six of them were empty and four were occupied.


    The woman takes Winston towards the third couch and pushes him on a couch. She sat on his lap and was about to kiss him, but Winston stopped her.


    "What''s hurry, my love? Let''s know each other first a bit", Winston said, placing his hand on her lips.


    The woman gets up from his lap sat beside him and said,


    " What do you wanna know?"


    "Anything, I just want to see your beautiful lips moving for a while"


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    The woman blushes, and said,


    "You seem new, is it your first time here?"


    "Yes, it is. That''s why I want to know a little bit"


    The woman comes closer to him and puts her head on his shoulder.


    "Why don''t we begin with your name?", Winston said, placing his hand around her.


    " Maria", she said, waving her hand through his thighs.


    Winston takes a look at the people around busy in their act. And Maria noticed it.


    "Do you know any of them?", she asked.


    " no, not really", he said


    "Did you see that guy over there?"Maria asked, pointing towards the couch in the next row.


    " yes"


    "He is related to the demon"


    "Really?"


    "Hhhm him, he is after demons feather"


    "What does it mean?"


    "I don''t know, but I heard him talking once about it."


    "Did he know you?"


    "Yeah, we have been together a couple of times. He spent most of his time here with his agony".


    Winston took out a cigarette and lit it.


    " Can you introduce me to him?" he said, throwing smoke in the air.


    "Sure, but he is kind of short-tempered. You need to be careful about it"


    Winston looked at Maria and chuckled,


    "They all are my love. It''s not easy to be close to the power. It makes you impatient", he said looking towards her eyes and then rolling them down to her lips.


    She couldn''t resist but started kissing him. For a few seconds both dive into a passionate kiss. Winston tries to move away from her but Maria keeps holding his lips with her teeth trying to hold him for a little longer. A sweet pain ran through his lips with her bite.


    "Bars and the brothels are the only two places where you always find important people", he said as she abandoned his lip from her teeth.


    She looked like she had been mesmerised by him.


    "Let''s go then", she said, holding his hand.


    Both of them stand up, and Winston starts following Maria. While following her, he couldn''t resist but notice her rounded ass, which was moving upside down with her every step.


    Frank was lying on the couch, it seems like he has done it for now. A woman was sitting near him waiting for him to wake up again.


    Maria asked the woman to go away with a signal. And the woman moves away. Maria sits near Frank and moves her hand on his chest, he giggles and opens his eyes.


    "Oh, Maria, what a surprise?", he said while trying to sit on the couch.


    " You seem tired already?"Maria said with a naughty smile.


    Frank laughed in reply and looked at Winston as he was standing in front of them.


    "Who is this gentleman?"Frank asked.


    " This is my friend", Maria said, with a little blush looking at Winston.


    Winston step forwards and offer his hand for a shake,


    "Winston", he said.


    Frank grabbed his hand for a moment and replied.


    "frank"


    "You guys talk, I will get something to drink for you", Maria said, and stood up to leave the room. While leaving she purposely held Winstons'' hand and caressed it on her vagina for a moment, looking into his eyes intensely, and left.


    "She is very seductive", Frank said looking at her posterior while she walks away.


    "She is", Winston said while sitting on a couch.


    "So tell me something about yourself? What are you looking for in Warrington?"Frank said, he seems high while he speaks.


    Winston paused for a moment and said,


    "Power"


    "Hhmm, so does everyone. But power only comes to those who deserve it".


    "And who decides it? Who is deserving and who is not?"


    Frank chuckled, and said,


    "You seem to be a smart guy, so I would like to advise you to stay away from this road, it''s very dangerous and addictive".


    "It''s like a free fall, you can''t help it but only want it more and more, I know how it is, I have been walking on this road forever now ", Winston said, looking into the frank eyes.


    Frank noticed the confidence in Winston''s eyes, and said,


    "So that makes two of us then!", and laugh.

 New Way

    A very light smile spread on Winston''s face.


    "Power means nothing without feathers, if you want power, you need feathers", Frank said with his eyes glittering while he said it.


    "then how to get it?"


    Frank giggle and said,


    "It''s not easy getting a feather, my friend. You need to make deal with the devil to get his feather"


    "What kind of a deal?" Winston asked curiously.


    "Deal to live forever in hell, you can''t ever be free", Frank said with serious eyes.


    "And if you are ready to do that, he will offer you a feather but also in return you need to give souls as a tax. If you provide a soul to devils, feathers will make you more and more powerful. But if you fail to do so, that feather will abandon you. And you will be left only with the curse to be trapped in hell forever", Frank said, this time his face became even more serious.


    Both were silent for a while, and Maria returns with white colour toxins. She has a beautiful smile on her face, which lightens Winston and Frank''s mood.


    "What were you guys talking about?"Maria said as she gives, both the drink she carried in her hands to Winston and frank.


    Frank took a sip from the drink and said,


    "Your friend here is an ambitious man"


    Maria didn''t say anything, just blushed and sat between them.


    "But if you have to give souls to the devil, with all that power you can capture anyone and give it to him", Winston said, suddenly realising something.


    " That''s the trick, my friend, the devil will ask for the soul from his and other territories too. Every devil wants to be more powerful than others. Souls in his territory are like his own, he can have them whenever he wants", Frank takes another sip from the glass as his throat starts to feel dry with so much talking.


    "It''s a nasty game of power my friend, everyone tries to snatch from each other whatever they can", he continued.


    " I have seen power before, but what seems exciting here is the power without accountability. You have power and you are free to do whatever you want to do. That is what I was looking for my whole life. Power without accountability is something else." Winston said while taking a sip from his glass.


    Frank smile while standing on his feet, and said,


    "You, my friend, is something else. I like you. I think we will be good friends", then he looked at Maria and said,


    " Maria makes him happy with your magic moves, this one on me" and he walks away with a smiling face.


    Maria puts her hand on Winston''s penis, and said,


    "I have to give you my service, I don''t take charity?"


    Winston drops his glass on the floor from his hand and starts kissing her. Maria kissed him back with the same enthusiasm. Maria starts undressing Winston while kissing him, while she was already naked. Within a few seconds, both were naked like a newborn.


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    Their bodies met lips to lips. Chest to chest. Thigh to thigh. And the friction began between two immortal elements, in pursuit of mystical pleasure.


    Winston was wandering through the street in the city. In his mind, he was thinking about something. The Streets were filled with the usual hustle and bustle. People selling something, shouting. Arguing. Negotiating.


    Suddenly into the crowd, he felt like he had seen a familiar face. He stops and turns to look back. It was a hyena who started walking as he noticed Winston looking at him.


    It was a hyena from the hunt with a scar on his face, the leader.


    "But what is he doing here?" Winston thought in his mind.


    "Whatever", he thought and started moving on his path. But suddenly something stuck in his mind and he turned back towards the hyena.


    "Hey", he shouted at the hyena.


    As the hyena heard his voice he started running.


    "You stupid fucker! Stop", Winston shouted even louder and the hyena started running even faster.


    Winston starts running after him.


    "You dumb motherfucker! Stop, I am not going to hurt you", he shouted again while running.


    But the hyena was in no mood to believe him and he kept running. Through the street between peoples. Both kept running, hitting everything that came in between making way through it.


    Hyena was way faster than Winston so he easily left Winston far behind. But Winston was way smarter than a hyena.


    So Winston let the hyena slip away until the hyena believed that he was safe. And Winston pretends like he has given up.


    Hyena was happy that he was safe and walking straight with a smile on his face. He was tired so he was walking slowly, catching breath. In the meantime, Winston runs through a different route and reaches the street where the hyena was walking.


    "How far are you going to make me run?"Winston said while walking calmly on the side of the hyena.


    Hyena was shocked to see Winston there, and he was about to run but grabbed him with his hand around his neck.


    "You animals are dumb motherfuckers. Why do you have to do exactly the opposite of what I ask you to do?"Winston said while sitting on the side of the road catching his breath while holding a hyena under his arm.


    "What do you want now? Aren''t you satisfied with already selling enough from my group?", hyena groaned.


    Winston didn''t say anything but kept looking at him while his breath reached a normal pace.


    "I am not here to sell you. What the fuck! Did you not hear me shouting from my ass that I don''t want to hurt you", Winston said while losing the grip of his arm.


    Hyena sits straight and rotates his neck to relax the muscles of his neck.


    " I thought you were bluffing, It May is another trick to trap me.", hyena said as his neck started to feel normal.


    "It''s fine. I would have done the same", Winston said while looking at him. And Both chuckled looking at each other.


    A few minutes passed with silence.


    "I have something to offer you?", Winston said, finally breaking the silence.


    "And what is it that you want in return?", hyena said, adding a little pause to the sentence.


    "Absolute loyalty," Winston said looking into his eyes.


    Hyena went silent for a while. A wave of heat was running through the air, even though there was no sun. Where does this heat come from? The usual question will arise in any sane mind. Both of them were feeling the sweat between their arms and legs.


    "And what do you offer?"The hyena finally speaks, breaking his silence.


    " Humanity", Winston said instantly.


    Hyena laughed a sarcastic smile, his ugly face with a scar started to look even uglier with that laugh.


    "You sound like those religious saints who sell heaven like heaven is his property. But my friend I am not that stupid", hyena said with a bit of resentment.


    Winston didn''t say anything instantly; he let the hyena have his moment. He knows that when you offer a diamond to a beggar he will think of it as a joke.


    "Okay, so I think. You have decided then to live your whole life like this. Being pathetic without any self-respect. Running here and there for a bowl of soup", Winston said, with outrage in his voice.


    "Tell me that you want to be human. If not then fuck off from here and I will never bother you again. But if you want this then you must take every little chance that comes in your way. Even the smallest one. Even the Smallest and most unrealistic hope that I am offering you today. You should take it", he continued and paused.

 Towards Salvation

    A silence fell between them. A thick and wide silence like the mud of thick soil.


    "I am going to make a deal with a devil, and to fulfil that deal I need my tribe. Who can I trust and who will hunt humans here and across the border with me?", Winston said Breaking that thick silence.


    "Whatever you are saying is too ambitious. Yes, I want to be human, who doesn''t? And I am also ready to take every chance for it. But this is a one-way street, once we start, there is no coming back", hyena said.


    " That''s the fun of life in hell, my friend, that there is no turning back. This risk makes living in hell worth it". Winston said with a wide smile on his face.


    "I hope you realise that you are talking about waging a war against humans", hyena said trying to confirm.


    "And hunting them inside their cities just like they hunt the animals inside a forest", Winston confirmed.


    A big and wide smile spread on both of their faces with the hope of a new dawn.


    Winston and hyena were walking on the footpath in the forest. Voices of animals and scattering of leaves.


    "Do you have any name or something?", Winston said while looking at the hyena.


    Hyena stared at him with no words.


    "Of course, you have a name", Winston said, trying to hide his embarrassment.


    Hyena didn''t say anything and kept walking.


    "It''s cupid,'''' the hyena said.


    For a few moments, the silence of the jungle felt even more intense. But Winston couldn''t handle it for long and started laughing.


    "What?" cupid said with an irritating voice.


    "Cupid? really?  Who gave you that name?", Winston said while trying to suppress his laughter.


    "Dilda, my lover", he said while looking and blushing a little.


    Winston start laughing even more loudly and said with a surprising voice,


    "You have a what?"


    Cupid looked with anger towards Winston and Winston suppressed his laugh, but his face and eyes spread wide with his impossible attempt to stop his laughter.


    They reached far deep into the forest. The trees seem different here, it was wider and taller. It seems like moonlight doesn''t reach the ground through their branches and leaves.


    "How much further?" Winston said impatiently.


    "We are almost there", cupid said with a little smile on his face. The kind of smile people has when they reach their home after a long time.


    Few hyenas were walking, and they saw Cupid and Winston walking together towards their dwelling. They were surprised and started following them. To date, no human has been able to locate their site. They hide it on purpose from humans because once they find it, they know they are going to destroy it. More and more hyenas started to appear and they looked surprised and started walking with both of them with questions in their mind.


    There were shacks carved into trees, inside them hyenas looking out with their brown surprised eyes. Finally, they reached the place where the old hyena, whose skin looks a bit wrinkly, was sitting on his back legs and he was looking straight towards Winston and cupid.


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    Both of them stand in front of him. The other hyenas gathered around them curious to see what is going to happen now. While the old hyena keeps staring at Winston, it seems like he is trying to calculate something. Everyone was waiting for him to speak.


    But he keeps starting without saying anything. After a long and suspenseful silence, he finally speaks,


    "You are the only human to make it here. Cupid brought you here, and I know that he cares about our tribe a lot. So I believe he has the reasons to bring this man here".


    " Yes master, I have a reason. This man''s name is Winston. He is my friend", he looked at Winston with trust in his eyes. Winston felt overwhelmed for a moment.


    "He has a hope for us, and I can see that hope. I want everyone to see and have your trust in him the way I did", cupid continued.


    " What are you talking about cupid?" Master said while trying to understand where cupid was going with all of this.


    "Humanity", Winston intervened.


    Everyone felt silent for a moment, and the master looked at cupid and said,


    "What is he talking about?"


    "He is talking about making us humans", cupid said with a strong and firm voice.


    Master stays silent for a moment and laughed and said,


    "I thought you were smart, but look what ambitions and dreams did to you".


    Cupid''s face turn red with anger, he moves forward from his place, coming closer to the master and said,


    "And you are old and coward, who has been cripple with his mind without hope and dreams"


    "How dare you?" Master howled with anger.


    Everyone around was staring at them with surprise. Even Winston was also a little shocked by cupid''s reaction. Cupid turned towards people and start talking,


    "Yes. I know that what he is offering is almost impossible. But what the fuck have you achieved so far from hiding in the shithole for your entire existence in here? Let me tell you what it is. It''s nothing. It''s fucking nothing", he shouted so loudly that his voice echoes around the trees.


    " you have crossed your limit cupid", the master said from behind interrupting him. Cupid turned towards him and got even closer to him, so close that they could feel each other''s breathing.


    "We can''t live anymore hiding like rats, we want what we deserve and we deserve salvation," Cupid said his eyes were boiling like a volcano and seeing that in his eye master fell silent.


    "You are too old to understand this", cupid said and moved back his face towards the crowd.


    "I am asking you. Everyone in here, I want everyone to make a choice today. The choice to live with their situations forever or to fight. Fight for salvation". He finished and felt silent.


    The crowd was also silent, no one was speaking. Everyone was looking at each other''s faces. Master was happy with the silence. And he was about to speak but someone shouted from the crowd,


    " I want to fight, I am done hiding". Then second voice and third, fourth, fifth and the whole crowd join the voice,


    "Yes. We want salvation".


    With all voices, the trees in the jungle started to flutter, like the houses in the earthquake.


    Inside the jungle, four men were walking with bows and arrows in their hands, looking for prey. They are wearing ragged cloth and faces like juiceless mangoes. They were following some animals that they saw around some trees.


    They reached a place where they lost that animal. They start looking for him here and there,


    "Does he vanish into paddy''s fat ass?", a muscular man said, looking at the fat man. And everyone''s started laughing.


    "Maybe he does! But for that, you need to take a look at it by yourself", the fat man replied with a sarcastic tone. And again everyone started to laugh, except the muscular man.


    Suddenly, they heard something and a muscular man shoosh everyone. They saw glistening eyes through leaves.


    " I think I found him", he said.


    "That''s nice. You got saved from peeking into paddy''s ass", one said in a sarcastic whisper.


    Muscular man points his arrow in the direction of an eye. His friend put a hand on his shoulder, but he tries to shake his hand away and tries to aim. But he saw more eyes. And more. His friend pinches him to take the look around.


    As he turned to look at what his friend was trying to show him, he saw two hyenas, a wolf, three bears, a tiger, all kinds of animals together, more than a couple of dozen, they came from all the sides and created a circle around them. They were staring at them like a hunter looking at his prey.

 Man In The Armour

    They were scared and confused. Looking at the animals around them, they never saw different species of animals together. And that too on the hunt.


    "What do we do now?" A thin man asked.


    "Just don''t do anything, it''s a lot of them". Muscular one said.


    Suddenly the surroundings went bright with a splash of light. A circular white light appears out of nowhere between the people and animals.


    " what the fuck is this now?", a thin one said with wide-open eyes.


    "There is someone inside that lighted circle", Paddy said, noticing the movement inside.


    The movement grows wider and a shadow appears. Shadow of a person holding a sword, sharp and shining like a diamond. The man steps outside from the circle, he was wearing an armour-like outfit, with colours black red and yellow. And he has a mask on his face painted half red half black.


    Everyone pointed their arrow towards the person, they were shivering with fear and confusion. A lot is going on in their mind and what is happening around them is that they don''t know how to comprehend. Paddy has the weakest heart, and he has almost lost his grip on his bow. His hands were sweaty and his palm slippery.


    The man steps forward, and paddy couldn''t control but with extreme fear his fingers betray him and he pulls the arrow. Arrow went straight and struck on armour making a sound like when someone hit the stone on metal.


    The man looked at the falling arrow and them at paddy,


    " what the fuck you do? You dumb motherfucker!", the muscular man shouted at paddy with anger.


    The man in the armour move his feet ahead,


    "Hey, hey, we don''t want any trouble. We are just going on our way man", the muscular man said, while trying to stop him with his hand gesture.


    But the armoured man doesn''t stop, and he keeps moving forward.


    " Hey man, listen, we just want to go", he said again.


    Man in the armour continued and come very close to them,


    "Hey, heyyy, stop you motherfucker", he shouted and shot his arrow in his face.


    Man catches that arrow in front of his face. And everyone started shooting their arrows. Man drops the arrow on the ground and swings his sword thrice. And before anybody could understand anything, they lost their heads.


    He has chopped off two heads in his first strike and then third and fourth with second and third, in time before they blink their eyes.


    Headless bodies drop on the ground like birds from the sky and heads fly in the air like watermelons. Thick red blood was dripping from the sword on the ground. Man moves forward and cleans his sword with a muscular man''s cloth. His head was lost somewhere in the bushes.


    " get their heads", the man shouted in a low voice looking towards the tiger behind.


    Tiger along with hyenas went looking for the heads. Within a few seconds, they come back with a head in their mouth and they drop it, in front of the man.


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    The man took off his mask and held it in his arm. He was Winston, his skin was looking pale, and his eyes deadlier. There was a look on his face, that says that he has become something else.


    He picks up heads from the ground and puts his hand inside them towards their brain and removes something out of it. Something like a small bulb, shining with yellow light. He looked at it for a moment and then threw it towards the tiger. Tiger eats it and within a moment he starts screaming, like something from inside torturing him.


    After a few seconds, he went silent. And suddenly he starts changing, a long and thick beard grows around his neck. And the so-called tiger turns into a lion.


    Winston picked up another head and did the same. As the animal eats the encryption they turn into another species. Higher Into food chain, more evolved.


    Inside the city, into the Lanarks palace. A man with a black and white beard walked into the room where Lanark was meditating. His eyes were closed and looking at his face it seemed like he was in some kind of heaven in his mind.


    "What is it now, Rubin ?", Lanark said, without opening his eyes.


    " My lord, we are short of the animal soul", Rubin said, with a fumbling voice.


    "Hmmm, this can''t be your reason to disturb me, Rubin, tell me the truth", Lanark continued.


    " My lord, the incidents in the jungle are increasing every day. It''s getting harder to hunt down the animals anymore and people are afraid to go to the jungle anymore", Rubin said without taking a breath.


    Lanark opens his eyes, he has a peaceful smile on his face. He stands up and comes towards Rubin, and said,


    "This is the thing about power Rubin . When you have it, you can''t help it but want more and more". He comes very close to Rubin. Rubin''s palm-sweating with fear.


    " But you know what? This need for more makes you blind and even ignorant. This little man, let him have his fun. He is not the first who has believed that he can take my city", Lanark said while moving away from Rubin and sitting on a throne-like chair.


    "Such people come and go, Rubin, relax everything is under control" he continued while lying back on the chair.


    Winston along with the animals came back to their place. It was far different than before there were small huts, made of bamboo. All the kinds of animals roaming around are busy with their task.


    A man comes towards Winston and stands beside him while he removes his armour. Winston hooked his armour on a tree and turned to look at a man.


    "How was the hunting?", the man asked, he has a scar on his face.


    "Hmm, it was usual. What about here?" Winston and the man both start walking and taking a look around.


    "We have enough of everything for almost a month now", the man said.


    Winston smiled and said,


    "This is just beginning cupid, we have a long way to go".


    "I know,'''' Cupid said, with a happy face.


    "We need to be prepared. These people around us, from whom we are snatching their powers are going to come for us someday", Winston said, looking at a group of wolves walking, passing them.


    " I know, they will. But how do you suggest being prepared?" cupid said with a question on his face.


    "No, not that way, you will do it when the time comes. Not just yet!"Winston said, reading the question on his face.


    "Why not? I am ready to make a deal. We can fight together", cupid said impatiently.


    " I know. But we need to stick to our plan. Remember if we go according to our plan, we will always be in a winning position", Winston said.


    Cupid''s face turn pale, looking at his pale face Winston stopped and said,


    "Look cupid, we are playing a very dangerous game and have made so many enemies already. If we didn''t play our cards carefully it would be very dangerous for us".


    Cupid moves his head in the affirmative to say that he understands what Winston wants to say.


    It''s been around a month since Winston made a deal with a devil and he has already taken control of the forest. Humans are now scared to go to the jungle. More and more humans are getting abducted every day by animals, who come in a group and take them into the jungle.


    On the other side of the border, it''s the same condition Winston has Also made a pact with them. They supply the humans from their dynasties to Winston and in return, Winston offers them the same number of encryption derived from humans of this side.

 Closer To The Truth

    Animals were happy on both sides. Winston has a simple plan, to replace all the humans with animals. And that''s how he will have their loyalties.


    But people who were in power didn''t like what Winston did. Of course, how do they like someone snatching away their power every day a little? But not everyone was threatened with his ambition. Because still the arrogant demons, drunk with the power for years, how could they believe that Winston would ever be able to come to their throat someday?


    But in truth Winston has already reached there. He has already placed his fingers around their neck waiting for the right time to grab them by their necks.


    On the other side of the border in the Qeorin dynasty. Star city, which shares the border with Warrington city, has a demon named Mongrel. He was kind of impatient and insecure. He was very angry with Winston for taking so many men from his city.


    His heart was burning with a desire for revenge. Inside his palace, he was walking left and right inside his chamber. He was murmuring something with anger. Over time with the power you developed an ego, where you felt how can he? How can someone stand in front of him? You became more and more touchy. With the slightest touch, you react like someone put a sword in you.


    Particularly when you got power in inheritance. His father who used to be a demon of the city recently decided to give up his feather. And he gave it to his son Mongrel.


    His father has acquired a lot of wealth in his time, they have an immense amount of nectar, toxic and encryptions from across the dynasties. So he got most of the things that others have to work so hard for almost free.


    Which makes him a little insecure about his position. That''s the thing right when you feel you don''t deserve it, and also people around you have the same feeling about you. You get this desire for proving your worth somehow.


    Mongrel was going through that sort of thing, he somehow wanted to see respect in everyone''s eyes. What Winston did was pour oil into the fire. His ego was hurt. How can Winston take something below his nose? He felt disrespected by Winston''s act.


    So Mongrel was inside his chamber, burning with shame. A man enters the room. He was around his father''s age. He entered inside with haste, he was looking worried about something.


    "My lord, you asked for me?", he said, as he entered the chamber and stood in front of Mongrel.


    Mongrel stopped in front of him, his face was red with anger, and also turned pale with worry.


    "Do you have any idea what''s happening in our city?" he shouted with anger. His spit flew on the man''s face while he said it.


    The man couldn''t say anything but keep silent inside his mind. He was waiting for Mongrel to turn so he could clean a dew of his spit from his face. But Mongrel didn''t turn, instead, he came even closer.


    "Yes, my lord", the man said, with fear, as he seemed more afraid of Mongrel spit than Mongrel himself.


    "Then what are you doing about it?"Mongrel shouted again, spitting even more.


    The man almost felt it unbearable but he didn''t say anything. Sometimes you have to agree with an idiot just to avoid him.


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    " What can we, my lord? How can we fight united animals now?", he said, while cleaning his face. As for a few moments, Mongrel turns his face to the other side.


    "Kill them all. Kill them all. Kill every one of them who thinks that they can stand in front of me and join eyes with me". Mongrel shouted with anger.


    " send our army to the forest, and bring those filthy animals", he continued.


    "Yes, my lord. Whatever you say", the man said with relief and started going out of the chamber.


    Silvia has heard about Winston. She heard that he had made a deal with the devil. She also stops going to the jungle to hunt now. These days everyone is afraid to go to the forest.


    Silvia was in her room, looking out from her gallery. She was thinking about what Winston said to her. She started to think that he was right. But she was too proud to accept it.


    She was missing Winston, he was the person that she has trusted after so long. After so long in her heart, something has happened. She felt the feeling she used to think that she didn''t have.


    She remembered her dream from last night. In her dream, Winston has come back. Come back from the forest for her. She ran towards him as she saw him, and hugged him tightly.


    So tight that there is no place left between them. Even the air can''t be passed through them. Her breath became just like last night when she was watching that dream. Her heart was pounding with her heavy breath. Up and down.


    She blushed with her memories, and unknowingly her hand started touching her own body. After a long time, she has been feeling this sensual pleasure. And she is liking it.


    Suddenly, she heard a voice and she came back to her senses. It was Madonna, she entered the room.


    "Hey", Madonna said.


    " Heyy"


    "I want to talk to you about something", Madonna said while getting closer to Silvia.


    "Yes, of course, about what?", Silvia said, trying to look normal and hiding her expressions behind her pretending face.


    "About Winston", Madonna said in a peaceful voice.


    Silvia didn''t say anything but turned her back, again to look outside through the gallery.


    "I understand if you want to go", she said without looking at her.


    "We all think we should meet him", Madonna said standing in her place.


    Silvia inside dying to meet Winston, a very light smile spread on her. She took a heavy breath and said while turning towards Madonna,


    "I think we should. We all will find hope there".


    Both keep looking at each other for a few more seconds with very thin smiles on their faces.


    Inside the jungle, Winston was sitting on a stone. Thinking. He was on a hillside from where he can see the wide forest spread across their territory and Mongrel''s territory.


    Moon was about to set in the sky and the birds were chirping on the trees, walking and here and there looking for a place to spend their night, without getting hunted in the night.


    Winston knows that this silence won''t last for long. Mongrel and Lanark will come for him one day or another. And he is not powerful enough yet to fight any of them. They have far more powerful feathers than his.


    He needs more power, and the way things are going is not enough. He needs to find some other way of acquiring more power and that is even, soon.


    His vision has become so clear now. The biggest perk of being a demon is you see beyond the physical illusion. Like normal people and animals, they still see the physical self as themselves.


    But Winston sees them as a soul. He sees them as energy. The truth is for powerful people only, not everyone can handle it. Most of them choose to stay in the illusion fearing what truth might hold for them.


    Being a demon means getting closer to the truth of power. Closer to the source of everything. It''s about accepting life the way it is in hell. It''s only survival of the fittest, there is no other rule. Powerful deserve to rule and the weak deserve to serve them, this is the only rule here, and you can be powerful only by embracing it, there is no other way around.


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    Inside the porn bar, frank was having sex with a woman. The woman looks like an actress from Hollywood movies. She was leaning down on her knees on the couch. She was completely naked and frank too.


    Frank was standing on the ground and holding her with her hip. Both were moaning loudly and hopping from their places. Both of them looked like they had taken a bath in a sweat. Their sweaty thighs were collapsing on each other, making a sound like someone clapping their wet hands on each other.


    Their moaning gets loud and then louder. And again louder, it reached its pinnacle, before it went silent. Silent like after thunderstorms.


    Both of them lay on the couch looking at the ceiling. Just a few seconds before where they were before. Both of them were breathing and sweating heavily, like someone who has done a load of heavy workouts.


    They kept silent for a few more minutes. Letting go of their tiredness. Then the woman wakes up and places her hand on Frank''s chest. She kept looking at him while his eyes were still closed.


    She rubbed her palm on his chest, which made Frank giggle. And that giggle slowly turned into a smile on his face. He took a deep breath and said,


    "Your touch makes me happy, and you know it".


    She smiles and touches his chest with her tongue, licking it from upside down. He moaned again with a smile.


    "You know Lucy! There is a bigger pleasure in life than being with a woman. But for mortal beings, who are too attached to their physical selves will never attain it", he said opening his eyes.


    Lucy looks at his eyes mesmerised by his insight. She kept staring at his beautiful and slightly blue eyes. He was quite a handsome man. Being privileged and spending his whole life with those privileges has made him softer.


    "For me, it''s still a great pleasure to be with a man. Although being with a real man is the greatest of them all", she said while looking at his eyes, she slightly bit her lip with her teeth while she finished her sentence.


    " Hhmm, Stop trying to impress me, I am already impressed with you", Frank said.


    "I am not, I am just telling the truth", Lucy replied.


    Frank didn''t say anything for a minute.


    " I have known that with the first meeting that Winston will do it", Frank said looking at Lucy.


    "I saw the lust for power in his eyes. It is kind of same that I usually see in Lanarks eyes", he continued.


    "Do you think you will ever get Lanarks feather?"Lucy asked casually.


    Frank looked at her and smiled without saying anything.


    " Why don''t you make a deal with the devil, and have your feather?"Lucy asked further.


    Frank placed his hand on her hand which she was caressing on his chest again, and said,


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    "It''s not hard to make a deal with the devil. The real problem comes after it.".


    " What do you mean?"Lucy asked innocently.


    He looked at her with a smile on his face.


    "It''s a different world around the feathers. Once you acquire a feather and taste its power. You just can''t help but crave for more and more. And this craving starts to take over your head and end up destroying you", Frank said.


    "Then why don''t you stop Winston from doing it?"Lucy asked again.


    "Hhhm. I didn''t say anything because I knew that he wouldn''t listen". He said and then held her close to himself. Her face was in front of his face. They have very little gap between their lips. And he continued looking at her lips,


    "He was already familiar with the power and the one who has seen it wouldn''t stay away from it for long".


    Lucy leaned forward and put her lips on his lips interrupting him in between. For a minute they indulge in a passionate kiss, like a newlywed couple, who just couldn''t get enough of each other.


    Frank is a nephew of Lanark. He has been living in Warrington for most of his life. He is one of the smartest men in the city. But Lanark doesn''t appreciate his wisdom. He doesn''t consider him worthy of anything at all. He thinks that Frank is childish and has an unrealistic understanding of the world.


    No one in the family takes him seriously, they all think that he is just a drunken whore keeper, who spent most of the time in the porn bar drinking and fucking.


    Actually, in the beginning, Frank was a very dedicated man, and ambitious. Everyone in the family used to phrase his wisdom and mind. But Lanark felt threatened by his wisdom and started defaming him.


    He used every opportunity to belittle him and break his confidence day by day. Frank chose toxin to run away from pain and misery just like most of the people in hell. He started spending most of his time in bars.


    And then whoring. He went to the whores because they are the only ones who don''t make him feel worthless like everyone else. This woman here to whom he makes love makes him feel special. And just like any normal man, he also got driven by the love and the validation he got here.


    He starts spending more and more time here, which makes his image even shadier. The smart man who seeks his salvation in the toxin and whores.


    But even though he is drunk all the time and has a bad name. He is still the smartest man in the city, and he knows it. He is just not that ambitious anymore. But that day when he met Winston, he felt alive after a long time.


    He felt his ambition and dreams waking up from the box which was buried deep inside his heart, never to open again. He saw hope with Winston.


    He knows hell and the people in the hell-like no one knows around him. He has read many books and visited many dynasties around. Seen many cities. Seen the creature most of the people never even heard of, know the secrets that can change rulers.


    And now as Winston made a deal with the devil, his mind again started working. His ambition again starts shaping inside his head. He knew that Winston will eventually need his advice and he will come here looking for him.


    Frank has already predicted the future in his mind. He already knows what kind of person Mongrel is? And how will he react?


    He knew that soon Winston would be at the kiosk. Because from here Lanark and there Mongrel both will try to take his feathers from him.


    Frank has seen this happening many times in many cities where someone gets too excited and makes a deal with a devil. But soon they realise that it''s not easy to find that much of the human soul.


    And they get weaker and weaker and looking for the chances the other feather bearer takes his feather from him and becomes even more powerful.


    Frank knew that they would soon after coming for Winston. But Frank had already made a plan and he was waiting for Winston. He knew that Winston would soon come here looking for him.


    After a long and passionate kiss, Lucy starts kissing on his neck. And Frank was moaning softly, closing his eyes. She moves downwards while kissing. On his chest. She caressed her tongue for a few seconds on his chest and then bit his nipples. Frank cried with the sweet pain that Lucy gave him.


    She kept biting his nipples and he kept sighing with pain and joy. She put her hand downwards through his thighs and started rubbing on them.


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    While staring at him, he has a seductive smile on his face. She moves downwards further towards his stomach and keeps caressing his skin with her tongue.


    Frank was in heaven, enjoying his journey of sensual pleasure. And Lucy was enjoying hers, both of them were doped into their senses and had forgotten the world around them.  Just like it doesn''t exist anymore. What exists and what matters is this moment, this moment of togetherness. This moment of joy. And they were living it fully. Without any hesitation, they are ready to explore further realms of sensual pleasure through each other.


    Lucy moves ahead with her fur like soft tongue conquering everything that comes in her way. Licking it, and biting it, gifting her enemy with sweet pain, and her enemy is just craving for more and more. She further slides downward and puts her beautiful lips around his manhood.


    And a battle begins. Battle for the bay of black water, both of the soldiers fighting with their full strength. No one is in the mood to give up early this time. A hard knight fighting against the soft lips. It went for a while until both of them were tired of their struggle. And decided to find a midway, for both of them.


    Finally, it happens. Blackwater released into the thirsty bay. Which seems like dryland waiting to be wet, and everything went silent again. Silent like forever. Like nothing has ever happened here.


    The bay gulps all the traces of water, cleaning behind all the evidence of the great war.


    The black and white-bearded man walking in a hurry in Star city. Outside where a knight practising his arrow on a tree. As he sees the man he stops, stand straight in front of him.


    A man comes closer to him and said,


    "Lord Mongrel has ordered to capture those animals who were dealing with Winston"


    The knight said, without moving from his place,


    "Whatever lord orders. I will get to it, first thing after moonrise".


    "No, we don''t have that much of a time. Take your men now and get them as soon as you can", the man said interrupting the knight.


    "You know about lord Mongrel. He is very angry about the situation. We don''t want to play with his patience. Let''s get done with it, as soon as we can". The man further continued, and then placed his hand on the knight''s shoulder and left.


    Another knight who was standing a little away from them, who had also heard their conversation. As the bearded man left, he comes forward and said,


    "What lord Philips exactly wants from us this time?",


    "Don''t act like you didn''t listen john. You already know what he is talking about", the knight said, looking at John.


    John comes a little closer to him, and said,


    "Still Albert, I like to hear it again with your annoying tone".


    Albert comes closer to John at a kissable distance and keeps staring at his eyes. Both keep staring at each other for a few seconds and then Albert falls back with a blushing face. Both of them start blushing.


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    John comes closer to Albert and starts kissing him, a bow and arrow fall from his hand. Albert kisses back John. They stayed that way for a few seconds and then got separated.


    They kept looking at each other for a few more seconds without saying anything. Then Albert starts speaking,


    " We need to get those animals as soon as we can. Get our troops ready. We will be leaving in two hours".


    "Okay, meet here after two hours then", John said looking at Albert.


    Both of them went in different ways to get prepared for the hunt.


    Inside the jungle, Cupid was going through the inventory.


    "Five, seven, ten. And that''s nectar, eleven. Encryption from here hundred and seventy. And for today''s trade, we need twenty encryptions''''


    He keeps murmuring while going through the inventory. After he finished his counting. He came outside from the cottage. And started walking, after walking for a while, he went inside another cottage, which seems like a house.


    There were women inside, she had black skin and curly hair. She was sitting on a bed made from wood. As she saw cupid she stood up and hugged him. cupid hugged her back.


    After staying for a while clinging to each other cupid separated her from himself.


    "You better be careful out there". The woman said with a worrying voice.


    " I will, you don''t worry Dilda. You just take care of yourself", Cupid said, holding her face with his palm and caressing her chicks.


    She was looking at him and her eyes were wet. A very small tear comes from her eyes and stays on her eyelid for a while, then as she closes them and opens them again, that tear rolls down on her chick.


    Cupid watched the tear rolling down from her chick and reached to his hand he was holding her chicks with. He wiped out her tears. And kiss her on the chick.


    "They are getting more and more cautious every day. You better not enter into their territories. Whatever the business asks them to come to our side", Dilda said, as Cupid wiped her tears.


    " Up of course my love, whatever you say. Have I ever not listened to you?", Cupid said with a smile on his face.


    Dilda smiled back at his assurance and hugged him again.


    Winston was at his usual place looking at the wide forest. He likes to come here when the moon is about to set in the sky. It helps him get his thoughts clear.


    Today he somehow remembers his day in Thailand when he was alive. It was a different time. He has been invited to Thailand for business by a Chinese businessman. He has a wide business in Europe and Asia. He wants to try his luck in guns now. And Winston is the biggest supplier in the Asian market.


    So they decide to meet on an island, owned by a businessman. Winston reached there with an electric boat, he was wearing a white suit, and had long hair. Which comes to his shoulder and some of it is tied with a ribbon making a ponytail.


    As the boat reached the island he stepped outside the boat and took a look at the whole place. Two men wearing black suits and black goggles have come to receive him. He looked at them and took out a cigarette from his pocket and a gold lighter which was diamond-studded. He lit his cigarette and kept staring at them for a moment, and then he started walking. Behind him, the two men followed him towards the cottage. The cottage seems like some kind of underground station that they might use as a hideout.


    There were people all over wearing the same kind of black suit and goggles, the kind these two were wearing. Out in the open sky, the Chinese businessman Dang lee was sitting on a designer wooden chair, with another same chair across the table.


    As he saw Winston he gets up from his chair in chivalry, and said,


    "Finally Mr Winston", and offered his hand for a shake.


    Winston comes closer to Dang lee with his waggish walk, he stops for a moment, and throws the cigarette from his mouth on the ground, he looks at him with a sarcastic smile and holds his hand.


    " Mr Dang lee, you have a very nice place here", Winston said while taking a look around.


    Both of them sit on their chairs. On the table, they have a golden colour whisky in a transparent bottle, which looks like a bottle of French perfumes.


    Behind Dang lee, there was a muscular man who seemed like his main bodyguard. He was wearing the same outfit except he was not wearing any of the goggles.


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    "So Mr Winston I hope you didn''t have any trouble reaching here?"Dang lee said while pouring whisky in the glass.


    " Not at all Mr Lee, except some beautiful women from your town trying to distract me with their beauty", Winston said sarcastically.


    Dang lee chucked and his golden teeth appeared. He offers one glass to Winston and holds the other in his left hand while saying,


    "You have a great sense of humour Mr Winston".


    Winston take a glass from his hand and said,


    "I''m just telling the truth. Have you ever noticed Mr Lee truth is the funniest thing in the world? People often laugh at the truth like it''s a joke".


    Dang lee looked at Winston while taking a sip from his drink. He was also wearing a suit except it was blue and seemed quite expensive. He has white hair and a very small white beard. He looks like he is about to reach his sixty.


    "They suppose to, otherwise how will they keep doing what they are supposed to do?"Dang Lee said, looking at Winston.


    "Hmm, A system''s way to maintain a system, It exists until they think that they are free. Anyway, Mr Lee, let''s talk business", Winston said while taking a sip from his glass and putting it on a table.


    Mr Lee''s face become a little serious and he said,


    "I am tired of this fucking Europeans, they think that they are better than us. I hate their white arrogance".


    Winston keeps looking at him while he says everything and keeps calm in a way that seems like he is listening to him seriously.


    "They are trying to destroy my businesses in Europe. They have support from the underworld, and to fight I need a man like you", he continued.


    Winston didn''t say anything for a few seconds, he just kept looking at him while Lee grabbed his glass from the table and drank another sip. Winston lean forward and said,


    "And what do you propose then?".


    Lee puts his glass down on the table, he stops for a moment to think about something and then caressed his tongue over his lips making it wet with his spit, and said,


    "I don''t want to stop. I want to fight back, they threaten my business and now I want to fuck theirs".


    " Have you any idea Mr Lee, what you''re talking about? What you are saying it means a bloodbath", Winston said while looking into Lee''s eyes.


    "I don''t care about it, Winston. It''s about self-respect. I need to give back this pain to them. They need to understand that they can''t just cross me like that and get away with it", he sighed, and leaned back on his chair.


    A beautiful woman comes from behind, for a moment Winston couldn''t help but keep looking at her. She comes closer to Lee and put her hand on his shoulder, he turns to look at her,


    " Ahh, Mr Winston, meet my lovely wife Fiona", he said while holding her hand and looking towards Winston.


    "Hello", Winston said looking at her, she was extremely beautiful and had a very young and innocent face. Winston couldn''t help but think about what she was doing with a man like Lee.


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    Moon was all set up, and Winston was lost in his memories looking towards the vast forest. Cupid comes from behind, and with the noise of his breath Winston wakes up from his memories.


    "How long are you going to stay here? Moon has already set up", Cupid said.


    "I was about to get back,'''' Winston replied while getting up and cleaning the leaves and the dust from his pants.


    "I am going to the border", Cupid said while looking at Winston.


    Winston looked at him and came closer to him, and said,


    "Don''t cross the border, do all the exchanges there only. And if you find any problem come straight back to me".


    "Okay, I will", Cupid said in an assuring voice.


    Cupid, along with four others, was walking on a footpath in the jungle. One of them was carrying a wooden box in his hand. They were going towards the border to exchange humans from their side with encryption from here.


    They reached the border at a given time but they are still not here. Cupid and his mates kept waiting on their sides, but there was no sign of animals from the other side. Cupid felt frustrated as time passed.


    "What the fuck! How much longer these idiots are going to make us wait?", he shouted in frustration.


    "We need to go and take a look from another side", he said looking at his mate. And everyone felt afraid, one of them said,


    "I don''t think that''s a good idea, we should go back. I am not having a good feeling about it".


    Everyone around seems to agree with him, but Cupid looked at them with anger and said,


    "What are you talking about? We cannot go without trading".


    Everyone fell silent and started looking at each other. Noticing their fear, cupid moved ahead and said,


    " Look, I know you are afraid and it''s quite risky there. But we need to take that risk. We are not in the position where we can go back empty-handed".


    Everyone again looked at each other, and through their eyes, it seemed like they had reached some conclusion.


    "Okay", one said and the other waved their heads in the affirmative.


    John and Albert gathered around thirty animals of different kinds. They tied a mystical rope around their neck, which was given by Mongrel. This rope has a special quality that once it is tied to someone he starts following the orders of the person who tied that rope, in short, it makes you his slave.


    "It''s that it?", Albert asked John


    "I think so,'''' John replied.


    Albert took a look at the animals, and the animals were looking at him like they were extremely intoxicated. Their eyes were looking like a drunken man who lives to drink.


    Albert was about to turn back but something cross his mind and he stops, he looked at the soldier who was standing at some distance from him and asked him to come closer with a hand, and said,


    "Go and take one more look, that anyone might be left behind?".


    The soldier starts running towards the bushes where this animal lives. John comes closer to the tiger who has a rope around his neck, and an arrow stuck in his leg.


    John sat on his knees and removed that arrow from his leg, the tiger grumbled with pain, and then looked at John with thankful eyes. John stands up and walks towards Albert. He stands beside Albert and said,


    "I don''t like doing this to the animals".


    Albert looked at him without saying anything.


    "Is Mongrel going to kill them all now?", he continued with anger.


    Albert sighed and put his hand on his shoulder, caressed it, and said,


    "We all have to play our little role, whether we like it or not. That''s the way everything works. It''s called balancing the system".


    John looked at Albert with disagreement, and said,


    " No, it''s called being a faithful servant to a powerful".


    Albert didn''t say anything but kept staring at his eye. It''s not the first time that they argued about this. They have done it before many times and he knows how this conversation will end.


    "Let''s just do our job and get back to our home", Albert said, trying to change the topic.


    John looked at him, he was a kind of emotional person. He felt bad about the animals and killing. It would be interesting to know how a man like him ended up in hell. Who has such compassion for others, who drafted this rule where a man like John has to suffer through this? Any sane mind would raise such questions.


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    God created a soul, an immortal being without any shape and size; this being is free from every kind of desire. Pure like a newborn. Everywhere used to be heaven. But without purpose and meaning, this soul started to feel lost. A great depression begins.


    Soon the heavenly voices started to fall silent. No one finds any reason to do anything, to wake up from their places, to move. They have no hunger, no desire and not any kind of need. What will they live for then?


    Time passed, and God started feeling worried about his creations. They started to fall into deep sleep without any need to wake up, millions of years passed like that. Into sleep.


    Finally, God came up with an idea. The idea of creating mortal beings. So he created mortal beings from five elements, earth, water, fire, air and space.


    This time he gives the shape and size to this mortal being. He created hundreds, then thousands, then millions, types of being. He was so lost in his creation that he almost forgot everything and kept on creating more and more beings. He finally ends up creating millions of species.


    Now he integrated this immortal being into this mortal form. And as they integrate into each other, they develop desires and needs. Which started to give them purpose and meaning.


    God wanted every soul to explore his all mortal creation. One by one. So to ensure that he created death, a force of nature that will eventually decompose every mortal being. And free soul to walk towards the next creation.


    But souls started to develop an illusion between them and their mortal forms. They started getting attached to it, they started recognising themselves as a mortal being.


    And this illusion turns into emotions that are started to hold them back to their mortal self. Fear of death, anger and greed. They started to live into this emotional high, in pursuit of pleasure.


    With this fear, anger and greed this soul started to corrupt which makes death powerful.


    The more souls corrupt with these emotions the more control death has over them, which makes death powerful. So death starts intentionally corrupting more and more souls so it can control them.


    God was worried that death might end up taking all of his creation from him. So God sent his beloved angel Lucifer to fight with death. Lucifer travels across heaven into the mortal world. Where death has created his territory into a mortal being.


    He saw that it lives in their fears and anger. And it has become a part of themselves so much that they have no existence without it. Killing death means killing mortal beings, and without death, there will be no balance.


    A long war began between death and Lucifer. Which they fought for years. But nothing came out of it. Lucifer soon realised that God didn''t send him to kill death but keep fighting this war for eternity.


    Lucifer used all of his power and trapped death at the end of the universe and created hell out of it. But to keep death that way he must be there to control it. So Lucifer got trapped inside hell for eternity to keep balance in the universe.


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    And hell becomes a place for an immortal being who is trapped inside the mortal illusion of death. They are meant to suffer until they are free from this illusion and return to heaven as pure beings.


    Anyone who dies with anger, greed, lust, jealousy or any kind of negative emotions in them gets born into hell. And they get punished according to their attachment with their mortal self until they decide to release themselves.


    John was a good man and had a compassionate heart. He was empathetic towards others'' pain. And because of that he usually gets into unnecessary trouble.


    He graduated from the top college in the country and got placed into a very good company with a great package. Everything was good, but one day when he was returning from his work at midnight.


    The road was mostly empty with only a few night rovers that could be seen on the street. John was driving his car, listening to the music on his music system, it was his daily ritual while returning from the office.


    Suddenly he saw three men dragging a girl into the bushes. The girl was shouting for help but there was no one to help except John. He stops his car, men have already dragged her into the bushes beside the road. He ran behind them and shouted to stop them. As they saw John they got alerted, and one of them comes forward and said,


    "Hey, mind your business and get the fuck out of here". The man looks like a goon, they all have that look on their faces the kind of look criminals have.


    "Listen, guys, let the girl go, here! take my wallet, I have enough money in it", John said while removing his wallet from his pocket and showing them the money inside it.


    They kept looking at him for a while, John could see the greed in their eyes. They communicate with each other through their eyes. And to encourage them, John throw his wallet towards them, and said,


    " Take it guys, it''s a lot. You can have it all. Just let the girl go, and we will be on our way".


    The man steps his foot forward and picks up the wallet. The girl was on her knees and one of them was holding her hair, the other one was standing beside her.


    The man checked cash in the wallet and his eyes glittered with the fantasies that he was going to buy with all that money. He showed it to the people behind him. They again communicate with their eyes.


    And suddenly the man who was holding the wallet kept it in his pocket and take out a knife, and showing it to John he said,


    "With all that money we promise you that, we will be gentle with her".


    John got very angry, and he stepped forward. But the man waved a knife to keep John away. And the man who was holding a girl with her hair pulled her up and started tearing her clothes.


    John couldn''t resist and walked forward and punched down the man who was holding the knife. He fell to the ground and the knife fell off his hand. John ran towards the knife and picked it up, and showed it to the man who had almost torn down the girl''s top. She was resisting and slapping the man with her hand.


    Man lost her grip on the girl and the girl started running towards John, she was trying to cover her upper body with her torn clothes. John took out his jacket and gave it to the girl, and the girl wore his jacket with shivering hands.


    John was shaking with anger, he wanted to punish these people for what they did to this poor girl. He moves ahead and slaps the man who tore her clothes. The man starts staring at John with angry eyes,


    "What are you staring at, you piece of shit?"John shouted looking at the man.


    The first man was on the ground, his nose was bleeding with the punch. He checked his blood with his hand, he felt very angry looking at himself bleeding. He kept lying on the ground pretending to be unconscious.


    John took a look at him and thought that he might be unconscious. The girl was shivering, John spits his anger looking at the girl''s condition and starts walking along with her while keeps showing the knife to them. He started walking towards the car, and he was about to cross the first man who was unconscious on the ground.


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    Suddenly, he picked up the stone from the ground and hit it on his leg, with extreme pain John fell to the ground. And everyone starts running towards him, the man starts hitting john with the stone and in resistance john stabs the knife into his neck.


    Two others start kicking John in his face, and the man who got stabbed in the neck collapses screaming with the pain. The girl was screaming with fear,


    "Run to the car and get away from here", John screams looking towards the girl. She hesitates and keeps looking at John with a confused face.


    " Runn", he shouted from his stomach, and one of the men started walking towards her. Seeing the man coming towards her she ran towards the car. The door was open already and the keys were already placed into the keyholes.


    She sat inside and closed the door behind, the window was already closed. The man who was following her started punching on the window,


    "Come out of the car you bitch", he screams, his eyes filled with anger and lust, dripping down like water from an overfilled glass.


    She was scared and confused and she tried to start the car, and the car got started as she turned the key.


    "No, no, stop. You fucking bitch", the man shouted but the girl didn''t listen and started driving the car and within a few seconds she was out of his reach.


    John was bleeding from the face, and the man he stabbed was already dead. Another guy checked his pulse,


    "This fucking joker killed our friend", the man said to the guy returned disappointed without a girl.


    They both were angry, but John was happy that the girl escaped. But he paid a very high price for it. He was lying on the ground bleeding from the legs, hand, and face.


    He was happy as well as angry, angry that he was in this situation. Angry about thinking that why such people exist? So many questions but suddenly something hit on his head and within a moment everything fell silent. Silence of eternity.


    The man who has gone to take another look shouted from bushes,


    " There are people here", and went silent. Albert and John run towards the voice. And they saw four men running, while a soldier was bleeding on the ground. Both of them aimed their arrow towards them, and the next moment everyone was on the ground.


    They ran towards them, cupid and his companions were bleeding on the ground and still trying to stand and run away. Albert come closer and say,


    "Who are you guys and why are you running?". No one said anything but kept staring at him.


    He saw the wooden box lying in the bushes, he walked towards it and looking towards it, he said,


    " what''s in it?", still no one answered. So he picked up the box and opened it. He was shocked to see what was in it, he walked with the box towards cupid and said,


    "So you are from the other side?"Everyone is still silent. Albert looked at them for a moment and then tied a mystical rope to their necks, and said,


    " let''s take them to Mongrel and he will decide, what to do with them?".


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    Inside the Warrington, Silvia was walking on the street along with Madonna, Tobie and Ranger. The street seems different now, people seem different. Without the animals from the jungle, they were craving toxins and nectar.


    People have started losing their memories and control over themselves. They have started developing animalistic behaviour. This is the plan of Winston to change the jungle into city and city into the jungle and it was working finely.


    The people in the city were turning into animals without nectar. Madonna took a look at a man passing them, he was scratching himself like crazy, and with all that scratching his skin started to fall off, and he was bleeding from everywhere.


    "I heard that a few people robbed the toxin shop", Madonna said pointing towards the shop which looks like an empty box.


    All the shops on the street were closed. Everyone was in fear. Except for Lanark, he was standing in his palace, with a woman. They both were looking out from the balcony to the city.


    " Aren''t you worried about Winston? It seems like he is succeeding in what he is doing", the woman said, while looking at Lanark from the centre of her right eye.


    Lanark looked at her with his expressionless face, and after a moment he said,


    "Winston is stupid, and also everyone who thinks that he can succeed".


    The woman looked at him with both of her eyes she has a pinch of anger in it, but she gulps down her anger and said,


    " Is it your ignorance or do you think that?".


    Lanark looked at her while enjoying her expression and said,


    "What Winston is doing is trying to change the whole system. Of course, no one in the system will like it. And besides, Winston doesn''t have enough power to fight me. His feather is still a newborn".


    "But he is acquiring powers very rapidly", the woman said with a worried voice.


    "He still didn''t know anything about power in hell. He is too impatient, and Mongrel is already on his back, ``It won''t be long until the forest will be ours", Lanark said in a confident voice.


    Silvia along with others reached on a footpath in a jungle. They were going to meet Winston, but they didn''t know where to find him. But from what they have heard, they were quite sure that they would find him as soon as they entered the jungle.


    Inside the jungle into the cottage, Winston was practising his magic. After being a demon, he has access to many powers from the feather. But to be able to use this power you need to be worthy of it.


    This feather gives you control over five elements. But only the devil can achieve control over all five elements. Most of the demons can have control over one and very rarely on two elements.


    It is every demon''s journey to find the element he can control over time. Winston was trying to control the air, for moments he felt like he had started controlling it, but then again he found he was not.


    He also tried to control water and fire but the same thing goes with that too. He was quite frustrated with all this. He wants to know his element as soon as possible and then master it.


    Suddenly, he heard that someone was calling him from outside,


    " What happens?" he asked without moving from his place while trying to control the flow of air.


    "There is someone, who says that they know you and they are your friends", the voice said from the outside.


    Winston was surprised that who might that be? And he came outside the cottage. It was Silvia and others. They all were looking at him with a surprising look and Winston was also surprised to see them here.


    Ranger comes running and hugged Winston,


    " We missed you, man", Ranger said.


    Winston just caressed his hand over him and kept looking at others. He was happy that they were here. He looked at Madonna, she had a beautiful smile on her face. After a few moments of staring at each other, finally, Winston speak,


    "What a great surprise, how are you guys here?".


    "We came here to join you", Ranger said, while getting away from his foot.


    "That''s a very good idea. I don''t believe that you guys are here", Winston said with a smiling face.


    "Of course, where else would we be?", Madonna said, while stepping forward from her place. Winston looked at her with love in his eyes.


    "You guys must be tired. Lemo takes them to the cottage beside cupid''s", Winston said looking at the guy who took them here.


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    "It''s been so long but cupid hasn''t come yet", Dilda said, while she came running towards Winston.


    " what? He was supposed to be back till now", Winston said with worry in his voice.


    Both of them seem scared and worried. Somehow Winston inside knows that something bad has happened because he knows cupid and how impatient he can be at a moment.


    He waved his hand in the air and drew the circle. A portal opens in the air. And Winston steps inside and the portal disappears behind him.


    Winston was at the border. He has an owl watching him all the time from the tree here. As she saw Winston she came down from the tree.


    "Did you see cupid?" Winston asked the owl.


    " Yes, he went to the other side", the owl replied, making her wide eyes even wider.


    "That stupid motherfucker!"Winston shouted in anger. He walks left and right, he knows that something bad has happened.


    " What if they caught him?"Winston thinks and chills walks on his spine.


    "I should have known better, I need smarter people on my side if I want to go ahead", he thinks in his mind.


    "Go and try to locate cupid and inform me as soon as you find him", Winston said to the owl. Owl starts flying and crosses the border to another dynasty. Winston stays there for a while. He was thinking about something, deciding and finally seemed like he concluded.


    He opened the portal again, this time inside the porn bar. He looked around and as he thought Frank was there, he was lying on a couch, waiting for a girl to bring a drink for him.


    Frank saw the light appear from nowhere and Winston coming from it. A wide smile spread on his face and he woke up from the couch and stood to welcome Winston.


    "Look, look, look, who is where? I thought you had almost forgotten me", Frank said while walking towards Winston.


    Winston has a mixed expression of a smile and a worry on his face. Frank hugged him, Winston can smell the strong smell of toxins coming from Frank while he hugged him. They both walk towards the couch and sit on it.


    "So, tell me, Winston, what makes you remember me?" Frank said, with a sarcastic tone, even though he knows why Winston came here he still likes to hear it.


    Winston kept silent and stared at him for a while, and then said,


    " I need your help to complete my grand vision. You have been here longer than I have. You know hell better than many people I know", Winston said without taking a breath.


    Frank has pride in his eyes, something he has lost along the way. Something that he thought he would never find again was in his eyes again. Someone has considered him worthy again.


    "Tell me Frank, are you with me in this?", Winston said impatiently.


    Frank smiled in the way that Winston understood that he was. Winston felt a sigh and rested on his back on a couch.


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    "I know Winston, you are in a tricky situation. But that''s fine. Problems happen only when you want big things", Frank said, looking at Winston.


    "I think Mongrel took Cupid, one of my reliable friends", Winston said.


    " Here Lanark, and there Mongrel I am trapped between them. I can''t live like this. I want to outgrow them", Winston continued.


    "And to do that you need Lanark out of your way and full control of Warrington city", Frank said interrupting Winston.


    "Yes", Winston said after Frank finished.


    Frank chuckled and said,


    " you have already achieved everything that can be achieved with this amount of power", frank said and paused for a while then continue again,


    "You need more power to have your control over Warrington city. Lanark is way more powerful than you can think. He has an insane amount of control over fire. And I also heard that he is trying to take control over water now".


    Both of them were silent for a while. A nude woman entered holding a tray in her hand, and she gave drinks to Winston and frank and then left. Frank took a sip from his drink while thinking about something. And said,


    " stay low for a while. When you have a powerful enemy in front of you, the smarter thing to do is to do nothing. Let them believe that you give up, let them believe that they win and you lose", Frank said looking at Winston and taking a sip from his glass.


    "And what should I do in the meantime? Someday I have to face Lanark and to do so I need more power", Winston replied impatiently.


    "Yes, I know and there are many ways to acquire power,'''' Frank said.


    "What do you mean?"Winston asked instantly.


    "Hell is a lot more complex and bigger than you can imagine Winston. We are not even pawns in this game, it''s a lot bigger than you can imagine", Frank said with wide eyes. He paused for a moment and continued.


    " There are many people who would like to bet on you for Warrington city. This city is closer to the border and can be used in many ways. At this point what you need is the right ally".


    Winstons'' eyes shine like a kid who finds cake inside the fridge. Finally, his worried face seems to be a little lighter.


    "So you already have a plan, right?" Winston said with a smile on his face.


    "Hhhhm, you don''t worry Winston. I have already thought about everything", Frank replied.


    Winstons'' face again turns serious as he remembers something,


    " But what about cupid?"Winston asked with worry in his voice.


    "Relax, Mongrel won''t kill him. He knows that he can use him. It''s not the right time for us to think about Cupid, we can''t do anything about him right now. But there will be a time when we release him", Frank said with a serious voice.


    Frank was right. It''s stupid to walk into Mongrels territory right now. It would be dangerous for him as well as for Cupid. The only good chance to save Cupid is to wait for the right time.


    John and Albert brought Cupid to the Mongrel. He was sitting on his chair drinking a toxin. As Cupid stands in front of him, he stares at him upside down. Something was going on in his mind, he kept staring at him without saying anything.


    Cupid was confused, they untied the rope on his neck, he was feeling a little dizzy while standing there in front of Mongrel.


    " You used to be an animal, right?"Finally, Mongrel speaks, breaking the silence in the room.


    "Yeah, I was", Cupid said. There is a sense of pride in his words, Which Mongrel didn''t like at all. He stares at Cupid with anger and in return, Cupid stares at him with pride.


    " You filthy animal. How dare you look into my eyes?" Mongrel shouted from his place.


    "I will have your eyes pop out from your skull", he continued with anger.


    Cupid chuckled and said,


    "You think you are better than us. With all this power and wealth, you think you are above us". Cupid move forward from his place and continued,


    "You are not. You are like just the rest of us. Well, there is one difference though, you are a coward. Who hides behind these big walls and thinks that he can do whatever he wants". Before he could finish, Mongrel stood up from his place and ripped out the piece of ground and threw it at him, by waving his hand in the air.


    Mongrel has control over the earth elements. And as it struck Cupid got dragged to another side of the room and hit the wall and fell on the ground, crying with the pain.


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    John and Albert cough with the dust flying in the air. John didn''t like what Mongrel did, and Albert knows that so he held his hand so he didn''t commit something stupid.


    Mongrel was shaking with anger, inside he wants to kill Cupid, and he was about to, but Albert came between and said,


    "My Lord, forgive me. But this man can be useful. His name is Cupid and I have heard he is quite close to Winston. We can use him better alive". Mongrel was so angry and he didn''t want to listen to anyone but he thought for a moment and something stuck in his mind, and then Mongrel calmed himself, he liked the idea.


    He was quite gullible, and Albert knows it. If you find his right nerve it''s not hard to make him do something.


    " My lord, now you have an upper hand with Winston. He will try to release him, and now that we have captured all the animals who were dealing with him, he will be helpless", Albert continued, seeing that Mongrel is listening to him.


    Cupid was on the floor and trying to recover from what just happened. John was behind Albert looking towards Cupid trying to get on his feet.


    Mongrel step forward listening to Albert, and said,


    "Throw this pathetic animal into the dungeon".


    "Yes my lord", Albert said, while bowing down his head in front of Mongrel. and then walking towards Cupid, he pointed John to come with him. Albert picked up Cupid from the ground, he was hurt and bleeding from the head.


    Albert put his arm on his neck and started walking him towards the dungeon. John was following them. Lately, John was having second thoughts about everything. About working for Mongrel. About being in a relationship with Albert. He was working for Mongrel because of Albert and his love for him.


    But it''s the usual question that at some point comes to every relationship. Is it worth it, to live to be someone else so you couldn''t lose the person you love? Albert looked behind to John, he was lost in his thought,


    "Hey, are you gonna help us or what?" Albert said in a sarcastic tone while walking in front of him holding Cupid''s arm around his neck.


    John looked at him with a pretentious smile and ran to hold Cupid''s other arm around his neck. Now Cupid was walking far more comfortably with support from both sides.


    "What were you thinking about?" Albert asked John, as they were walking beside each other now.


    "Nothing, just something from a past life, nothing important," John said while trying to avoid answering the question. Albert senses his hesitation, but he doesn''t want to force John, so he just changes the topic, to lighten up the mood.


    "Hey, what about tonight? I heard that people are gathering for combat in the city. Let''s go, and have some fun" Albert said with a smile on his face.


    John paused for a moment thinking and said,


    "Okay, let''s go", he didn''t want to argue with Albert, so he just agreed with him. They kept walking in silence for a while. Cupid was between them and sensing this awkward silence. He can imagine that they were carrying something together, that they were no longer sure that they wanted to carry. But also too scared to throw it away. Because maybe that''s the only thing that keeps them away from going insane.


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    They walked downstairs into the darker hallway. They have a small room with iron bars, rusting with humidity and hopelessness. Watching prisoners come and go for years now. These prisoners change and their faces change, from human-like into animal. From animals into more animals.


    These rusting iron bars have watched so many stories and so many devolutions while walking on the journey of extinction.


    But in that, all hopelessness Cupid manages to find hope for himself, with a belief that he has in Winston. He believes that someday Winston will come looking for him, and release him, but until then, he is left with these rusting bars, to watch himself getting degenerate every single day without nectar.


    John and Albert locked him inside the cell, and before leaving John took a last glance at Cupid, with a pity in his eyes and a million questions in his heart. Why is he doing this? He was not like this. He used to think of himself as someone who stands beside the weak and fights against the oppression of the powerful.


    But now he is doing exactly the opposite. He saw the innocence in Cupid''s eyes. An animal who is born and reborn thousands of times into animals. Desperate to come out of this cycle and finally someone offers him a chance and he takes it.


    Who is right? and who is wrong? Is Mongrel right? Is Winston right? Is what Cupid is doing right? Or what I am doing is right? Questions and more questions ran through John''s mind while walking upstairs from the dark hallway.


    "Sometimes you need to do what needs to be done, instead of thinking about what''s right and what''s wrong? Give a little space in life to regret, without regret, you have nothing to inspire you to do something great", Frank said to Winston as they stepped out of a portal into the forest.


    Winston just smiles in reply. Dilda was waiting for Winston and the owl had already given the news to everyone that Cupid was captured.


    " Where is Cupid Winston?"Dilda came running towards Winston, she thought that Winston had gone to take Cupid back, but seeing Winston without Cupid she felt disappointed.


    "Don''t worry Dilda, we are gonna get him back, as soon as we can. You need to have little patience", Winston said, trying to console Dilda.


    " What do you mean Winston? How much time?", Dilda asked with surprise and anger.


    "Not much?" Winston said and get close to her to hug her but she refuse to let him touch her, and said,


    "I thought you were his friend", and ended her words with a sob and left with fury. Winston tried to stop her but Frank stop him with his hand, and said,


    " Let her go, Winston. She won''t understand it right now. And besides, you have bigger things on your plate to think about".


    Winston knows that Frank was right. The game has got bigger now and everyone is making their moves.


    Silvia came looking for someone and instead, she saw Winston so she stopped. Winston introduce her to Frank, Frank offer his hand for a shake and said,


    "I didn''t expect to meet such a beautiful woman here?"


    Silvia got shy with his flirtatious voice and looked towards Winston. Frank noticed the gaze between them and noticed the chemistry between them. But he was also a little confused because he saw the same kind of chemistry Winston had with Maria too.


    While interrupting his thoughts he says,


    "If you try to define love you will see that it has no definition. No boundaries and specifically no limits", no one understands what he was talking about, but they understand what he was implying. Silvia looked at Winston with seductive eyes and left. Winston tries to understand what she was saying with her eyes.


    " Okay man, see you tomorrow then, let''s have some rest. We have a long day ahead", Frank said and left to find a cottage for himself.


    Winston stays there for a while thinking about something and then he starts walking in the direction where Silvia has gone.


    Moon has gone from the sky long back. Silvia was watching the empty sky and drifting water in the river. She was sitting on the rock, Winston saw her from behind. Her beautiful back was hiding behind her long hair.


    Winston walks close to her, and she notices him, but she doesn''t seem surprised, as if she knows that he is coming. She didn''t say anything, just moved a little further from her place making the place for Winston to sit on the rock.


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 Dry Leaves

    Winston steps on a small rock climb onto a big one to sit beside Silvia. They kept silent for a while and then Silvia spoke,


    "You did it. You are going after what you want". She looked at Winston while she said it, she noticed his beautiful eyes.


    Winston smiled a little and looked into her eyes, she was looking so innocent at that very moment that it almost melted his heart. He felt the sweet sensation running through his heart, and killing down the heaviness in it.


    " Did we have any other choice?", Winston said, mesmerised by her presence and this moment.


    Silvia chuckled and turned her face towards the flowing water, making his way through small and big stones, layered with white tar. She was lost in her thoughts and Winston noticed it.


    "I think whatever we do, we can''t escape from regrets. One way or another it will find us. I think we need to choose what we want to regret?" Winston said while trying to make sense somehow. Silvia noticed it and said while smiling,


    "Then why are you doing all of this? Why are you going through this struggle? What''s the point?" She was looking at him with wide eyes and the smile on her face faded away as she finished talking, and curiosity took over it.


    Winston kept silent for a while, inside he was conflicted between something. A man like Winston who seems strong and composed all the time seems to feel vulnerable in front of Silvia.


    "I have seen people my whole life abusing power. They don''t care about people who get affected by it", Winston said looking at Silvia with a serious tone.


    "I don''t want to be powerful, I just don''t want to be powerless. I have been there, I saw my mother getting killed in front of my eyes and I was too weak to save her. I felt so helpless and pathetic that day, I was just seven years old. I cried for 2days until there were no more tears left in me".


    he continued while looking at Silvia, his voice was heavy and filled with pain. And Silvia who is sitting beside him can feel it.


    "And that day I decided not to be helpless again. Not be powerless again. You know, I killed the man and his entire gang who murdered my mother when I was twelve years old. And that too with the knife, I have a gun in my pocket but still, I choose to kill them with a knife. Because I want to feel it, feel them screaming with pain. I thought that would make me feel better, that it would take my pain away".


    He sighed for a moment while he said it, and Silvia held his hand in hers. Both were silent for a few moments. Winston felt the softness of Silvia''s hand and she felt the roughness of his. And he continued with a soft voice,


    " But it didn''t. The pain was always there. Now whenever I see someone powerful abusing their power, I see my mother''s murderer in them. Even though I know that fighting with him doesn''t make my pain go away. I don''t know why I still do it?"


    Silvia caressed his hand to make him feel calm, and Winston looked at her with love in his eyes. He can see how much she cares about him in her eyes.


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    Both of them were silent again and watching water flowing through the stones.


    "What are you looking for then?", Silvia asks, after being quiet for a few minutes, and placing her head over Winston''s shoulder.


    " I don''t know. But sometimes I like to think that I am looking for power. It makes me feel calm and composed" Winston said, feeling the weight of her head on his shoulder. Her beautiful hair was scratching his neck.


    "I think no one truly knows what they are looking for? Everyone just believes in the stories that suit them" Silvia said. And she noticed that she was still holding Winston''s hand. She felt the warmth that built up between their fingers.


    She remembers the day, she was irritated by his presence and now she felt like he is the closest person to her. The connection they felt between each other was beautiful. Which drove both of them into unknown lands.


    Winston was also thinking about their connection, but he didn''t know yet how to define this connection. He felt a great amount of joy being with her. But he is scared to walk beyond that.


    He doesn''t want Silvia to get hurt. Because what if he doesn''t feel about her the way he feels now, for very long? What if this feeling goes away? He is not sure whatever he feels about her is love or lust or anything else?


    Silvia move her head away from his shoulder,


    "I think we should get back, and have some rest", Silvia said looking towards his eyes. He has lots of questions in them, and she felt it for a moment, he flipped his eyelids and she lost it, like a drop of water inside the pond.


    "Okay, but what about no one sleeps in hell?", Winston said with a sarcastic tone.


    Silvia chucked, and said,


    "Sometimes we do, to run away from the nightmares".


    Their eyes meet for a second, and non-verbal communication begins between their eyes, it goes for a few moments until they come back to their senses.


    They jump off the stone and start walking towards their cottage. Everything was silent, only the cracking of dry leaves could be heard with every step they took. They reached a point where their paths get separated.


    " Okay then, see you tomorrow," Silvia said.


    "Okay" Winston replied. They both were staring at the eyes of each other. Like both wanted to say something but couldn''t find the right words to say it. And Silvia turns to go on her way, Winston sees her from behind for a moment, her beautiful back and her long hair, bouncing from her hips left to right as she walks.


    Suddenly, she stops thinking about something, and turns back, Winston was still staring at her, and she saw it. She came almost running towards him and placed her soft pink lips on his. Winston holds her closer and also starts kissing her back.


    Silvia was holding his head, and caressing her fingers through his hair, and Winston was holding her with her hips, pulling her closer. Both of them were licking each other''s lips and trying to move further inside with their tongues, getting bitten by their sharp teeth while attempting to enter inside.


    Even with that struggle, they kept trying to enter further. And finally, they succeed, a sweet pain runs through their lips as they start biting each other''s lips. They don''t seem in a mood to let go of each other. A strong passionate kiss goes on for a while.


    No matter how beautiful a moment is, it has to eventually end, just like this one. Silvia comes to her senses and stops and takes her lips away. Winston also stopped. Both looked into each other''s eyes and felt embarrassed. Silvia turns back and walks away rapidly towards her cottage, Winston couldn''t understand anything for a few seconds and kept staring at her from behind. Until she vanished behind the trees.


    Silvia has a big smile on her face, she couldn''t stop herself from blushing anymore. She didn''t remember the last time kisses someone. She didn''t kiss anyone, after coming into hell, she never found someone to trust enough to kiss him.


    Now finally, she finds that trust and intimacy she used to miss here. Her heart was pounding like lightning in the storm. And she was still feeling his lips on hers,  the pain that his teeth gave to her lips were still there, and to feel that pain again and again she was caressing her tongue over her lips.

 The Right Spot

    Winston walks toward his cottage. He also has a smile on his face. A wave of happiness and joy was running through him. It is strange that when you are happy, everything around you looks beautiful. The usual footpath, that same old tree you see every day but never notice. The door of your house, the fainted colour, the strange odour everything suddenly starts to feel beautiful.


    They say that love is magical, and everything it touches turns into something beautiful. Like a philosopher''s stone which can turn any metal into gold. Even the hell started to seem beautiful to Winston with a touch of love. But is it love that Winston was feeling?


    Some questions don''t have any immediate answers. We need to wait until situations change, to see if it''s still there or wash away with a wave of time.


    Winston opens the wooden door to his cottage. As entering the room he thinks about turning the lights on, this is something that comes into his mind again and again. He chuckled at that thought and closed the door. There was more light in the room without light, it''s amazing how Winston has developed such clarity into the darkness.


    Suddenly, someone comes running tearing the darkness, towards Winston. Winston''s heart sank for a moment, but the next moment he knew who it was. He just stands in his place and shouts,


    "Maria?" And Maria grabbed his lips with her lips like a thirsty person grabbing a bottle of water.


    Winston was shocked for a moment by this sudden invasion. While she was trying to take as much as she could from her loot. Winston tried but couldn''t resist. He has visited Maria many times after their first meeting. And they have developed a bond between them.


    Maria was bold and audacious, with an adventurous mind. What Winston likes about her is the way she dominates him. An empowering woman who is not afraid to take what she wants. Who is not guilty about her desires and dreams?


    She pushes Winston to the wall, Winston couldn''t help but put his hand over her head and start kissing her back. She had grabbed him with his hips and almost bit his lips.


    They were kissing each other for a while. And Maria starts removing his clothes. But Winston stops her, not sure why he did that. Maria was looking at him with confusion, she thought Winston would be happy to find her here.


    Although Winston was happy, just a few minutes back he was kissing Silvia and she was still in his mind. He was kind of feeling guilty about everything, and Maria noticed that something was not right.


    "What happened?" Maria asked, looking into his eyes. From the beginning, they shared everything openly, but this was different and Winston didn''t know how to tell this to her.


    But Winston was not a kind of a person who lies to someone. He never liked it. He knows that it''s a never-ending circle, once you lie you have to keep lying to maintain your story.


    So he didn''t say anything, but he looked at her in a way that she understands that there is something and he needed time to say it. Winston walks towards the bed, and sits on it, Maria did the same.


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    Both of them were silent for a while and finally, Winston started speaking. And he told her everything about Silvia and what happens outside. Maria was listening to him very carefully.


    After he finished he looked into her eyes to see what she had in them. And to his surprise, she didn''t seem even a little angry at all. She holds his hand and said,


    "Winston, we are together because we like each other. We don''t own each other. We both are free to do whatever we want to do. Love should make us free, not chain us. It''s fine if you like someone else too, I don''t care about it. We are not husband-wife or have any commitments for each other", she caressed his hand and came a little closer to him.


    " It''s been almost four hundred years since I have been here. There is the beauty about hell that we don''t have to feel guilty about our desires like we feel when we are alive. Where they say that you are bad and all because you want so and that. Here you can be, who you are. You don''t need to pretend here, no one will judge you here", she continued. They both were looking at each and Winston was feeling a sense of relief in himself.


    There are very few things that Winston is afraid of and breaking someone''s heart is one of them.


    Sometimes the illusion of hell almost gets you so bad, that you forget you have died already and the rules that used to apply down there won''t apply here. You are free from the society that judges you and tries to control you and decides how you should live at every point of your life.


    He knows that he has to talk to Silvia about all of this and make everything clear so no one has any misunderstanding about anything.


    Seeing Winston lost in thoughts, Maria said,


    "You don''t need to keep living the way you used to live". She was looking at him with seductive eyes. Winston was feeling much lighter now. And she saw that in his eyes. She took his hand that she was holding and put it on her vagina, and she started rubbing it with his hand. Though it couldn''t reach through the clothes that she was wearing to the spot that she wanted him to reach.


    She was feeling desperate, so she just unhooked the buttons of her pants and put his hand inside, and then further inside into her panties.


    Winston felt the warmth inside. She slid his hand deeper until it reached the place where she wanted it to reach. To the source of that warmth. As it reaches there she starts moaning. And now Winston starts putting in his efforts.


    He caressed her vagina with his fingers for a while, and she kept moaning with joy and pleasure.


    Suddenly, he stops and starts removing her pants, and she was helping him to do it. Firstly he removes her pants and throws them on the ground and then her panties.


    And he puts his head between her legs. She was shivering with excitement. She crosses her legs over his head and starts pushing his head inside.


    The whole room got filled with her voices, shouting, cursing, and yelling in joy and pain.


    This goes on for a while, Winston was trying to go deeper and deeper with his tongue. He was moving it inside like a trained knight moving his sword in a battle. It''s not the first time he was fighting this battle with her, he has done it dozens of times before, and he knows how to conquer it.


    Finally shivering and shouting got louder. And she presses his head inside like she wanted it to swallow whole inside. Her thighs were jumping on the bed, as she shouted and came inside his mouth.


    Not every man has the ability to make women come. Winston was one of them who thinks about a woman and their sexual needs.


    As the moon rises, someone knocks on Winston''s door. Maria and Winston were still sleeping, they had just slept an hour ago. They both were naked and woke up with the knock.


    Maria steps down from the bed, to open the door. Winston was looking at her from the bed. Winston couldn''t help but notice her beautiful ass, while she walked towards the door.


    " You do that on purpose, aren''t you?", he said, laying on the bed.


    She turns back and said,


    "What?" With surprising and playful eyes.

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    "You know what I am talking about?", Winston said with a smile on his face.


    Maria chuckled and said,


    "No, I didn''t". And then she turned back and started walking and bouncing her hips, intentionally so Winston could notice it again.


    She opened the door and as she was naked so she made only her head visible to the outsider.


    "Heyy", Silvia was outside, with a morning smile on her face. It seems like she didn''t sleep much. Her eyes looked like she had been drinking the whole night. She felt confused as she saw Maria. And Maria guesses that she is Silvia.


    " Hey, you must be Silvia", Maria said, with an excited voice.


    Silvia was confused and looked at her with surprised eyes.


    Suddenly Frank came from behind and had a surprising smile on his face. He comes closer and stands beside Silvia, and looking at both of them, he said,


    "So, you guys finally met then?".


    An awkward silence took over the entire place. And to break that silence, Frank said to Maria,


    "Tell Winston that we need to go"


    Winston overheard the little conversation and got up from his bed to see who was at the door. He stands behind Maria and looks outside with his head out.


    Silvia was outside and as she saw Winston she felt heartbroken, but she didn''t say anything and started walking away. Winston tried to stop her, but he was naked so he didn''t go outside. Frank and Maria were looking at each other.


    " Winston, we need to go. Right now we have a bigger problem to deal with", Frank said looking at Winston''s disappointing face.


    Maria turned to Winston, and come even closer to him until her breast rubbed against his chest  and said,


    "He is right. You go deal with your problems, I will sort things with Silvia".


    Winston was feeling heavy inside but he also knows that this is not the right time for these things, he has bigger problems on his plates. He sighed and started getting ready for his journey.


    Winston and Frank were a little away from their cottages. Frank stopped Winston, and said,


    "We have been invited by Boris, he lives in Tantrian city and he is the closest person to the devil".


    Winston looked at him with a surprising eye, and said,


    "What do you mean by closest to the devil and why did he want to meet us then?".


    " There is no simple explanation to that, but there have been rumours that Lanark has connections with the Qeorin dynasty", Frank said with wide eyes.


    "And this is no surprise that Lanark wants to have control over five elements and get feathers from Lucifer. And these people believe that the Head of the Qeorin dynasty is helping Lanark with it".


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    Winston''s face turn happy, and with a smile on his face, he said,


    "So the devil wants Lanark out of the race?" Frank nodded his head in affirmation.


    Winston think for a while and something came to his mind, and he said,


    "But can''t he do that by himself? The Devil is so powerful, he can easily kill Lanark".


    Frank didn''t say anything he just kept looking straight at Winston''s eyes and said,


    "Why don''t you keep some of your questions for Boris?".


    Winston kept silent and waved his hand in the air while looking at Frank with irritation, and drew the circle. Portal opens into Tantrian city, and both of them step inside one after another.


    Big houses, better roads, and sophisticated people walking on the street along with the animals. This city looks quite wealthier than Warrington city. People seem to have enough resources at their disposal.


    Boris is the only person in the territory who has control over three elements: fire, water and earth. Most powerful person after the devil, while Lanark is considered to be the second.


    Boris is like a hand to the devil. He managed everything in the region for him. Everyone in the hell runs their race. Everyone is after something bigger. But to keep your hold on bigger things, you need a proper grip on smaller things.


    The devil knows that he can control Boris, and Boris knows that by doing what the devil wants him to do, he can have what he wants.


    Once you get your control over five elements you can have Lucifer''s feather which will give you the power to make an army of your demons. And with that army, you can conquer as much as the region you want, and you can keep.


    They reached the gate of the palace. It was a huge palace with a Golden Gate, guarded by the two swordsmen. They have a mystical rope hanging to their hips. As they saw Frank and Winston they opened the gate for them. Which made them question how they knew who they were? Maybe Boris already told them that he was expecting someone.


    But that someone is these two people. How does the guard recognise this? They entered inside with the question in their mind. At the entrance of the palace, there was a huge fountain, sprinkling the water.


    They crossed the fountain and reached the gate, few people were around minding their business. Suddenly, one person came from inside and met them at the gate. The man looked Chinese and was as fat as three people in one.


    He was wearing a purple robe with black flowers on it. His neck almost vanished with all that fat on his face. He has a ponytail on his head with very little hair he has. As he saw Frank and Winston, he bow down to greet them, and in return, they both did the same,


    " Master is waiting for you inside", the man said, without any expression on his face. And even if he has any, it would be hard to detect them on his fat face.


    Winston and Frank looked at each other, Winston was wearing his usual black suit, which he usually wears, and Frank was wearing a white suit. He doesn''t have any specific colour of choice that he likes to wear all the time. He often changes the colour of his suit from all ranges.


    The man started walking with his slow steps and Winston and Frank had to walk slower to match his steps.


    Through the stairs, they reach the second floor, and then start walking through the corridor. It has small rooms on both sides with a small door, which was closed. After passing all those rooms they reached the open space which seemed like a waiting room.


    The man stands in front of the gate and opens it for Winston and Frank. And keep standing there waiting for them to enter inside. They both looked at each other again, started walking through the door and the man closed the door behind them.


    As they entered inside they were both shocked to know that they were standing on the water. Their hearts sank for a moment with a fear of getting drawn. But within a moment they realise that they can stand on it.


    They both looked at each other with smiles on their faces and then looked down into the water. They saw their smiling faces reflecting inside it, and below that small fishes swimming followed by large fishes.


    There were two big couches placed in a half-circle. And a man was sitting on one of them, wearing a red funky goggle. He was wearing a sky blue shirt with big white flowers on it. He was black and had a clean-shaven head.


    He was staring at both of them, with an annoying face. He seems unhappy, or maybe he has that face, which always looks unhappy.


    Winston and Frank saw him and walked towards him. As they walk on the water, with every step it starts making circular waves.

 Arrogant

    Frank moves ahead to sit on the couch. Boris was still staring at them, though his eyes were hidden behind the red glasses, they could still feel his eyes on them.


    "You can sit there", finally he speaks like waking up from sleep like silence.


    Frank and Winston sit on the couch. Everything in the room was floating on the water. And if you look down into it, you will see all kinds of marine life wandering.


    Everyone was silent for a few moments, Frank tries to break the ice with a compliment,


    "You have a very nice room, Mr Boris. I can see that you have mastered the water element pretty well"


    Boris removed his glasses ignoring the Franks compliment, and with an annoying face, he said,


    "Let''s talk about what we here for"


    Frank and Winston looked at each other, and Winston said with a rough voice,


    "Let''s do that"


    "So, we need Lanark out of our way. That son of a bitch is flying too high" he said, while his face looks even sadder as he talks about Lanark.


    "And why should we do that for you?" Frank asked.


    Boris stares at Frank angrily, and said,


    " Because you motherfuckers don''t have a choice. Either you fuck him or he will fuck you. It''s not you, that helping us, but it''s me helping you" he changes his stare towards Winston and said,


    "Remember that, and keep it clear. I am offering you Warrington city and the way to get it. Lanark has already after you, and it won''t be long until he gets you"


    "And what do you want in return?"Winston asked with wide eyes.


    Boris chuckled, and his faintly yellow teeth pops up from his mouth making him look even uglier,


    "Look at you. What do you have that you offer me?" He said with a sarcastic tone.


    A brief silence takes over the whole room. A shark went between the two couches, showing her big scary teeth.


    "Let me tell you. it''s nothing. I invited you here, to give you something not to take anything from you", he continued, and then he leaned towards both of them, putting his both legs on water, which started creating a circular coil into them, and said,


    "Do you think I need to ask? If I need anything from you, I will just take it from you" and he leaned back on his couch. Meeting over and Frank and Winston got out of the palace.


    Frank and Winston sit at a table in the bar, just outside the palace. Both of them were silent, they don''t want to talk after all that humiliation that they went through together. But for how long?


    "I don''t like that motherfucker even a bit", Frank finally said, breaking the silence.


    Winston didn''t say anything but took a sip from his drink, and kept looking at him.


    " Aren''t you gonna say anything?" Frank said being annoyed by Winston''s silence.


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    Winston chuckled and say,


    "I remember my old days when I used to be a beginner in the underworld. Everyone used to treat me like shit. It''s not new to me how Boris treats us" he took another sip from his drink and put down the glass on the table, and continued,


    "But what Boris didn''t know is that time changes. You know Frank, sometimes you just need to feel this moment when people treat you like shit. Don''t run away from it, this is who you are at that moment. That man just reminded you how weak and pathetic you are, feel that pain of being helpless, and seed it in your heart, preserve it there until that pain turns into the wound which slowly rots your heart and kills this helpless you, so the stronger one can be born"


    Winston sighed, his eyes were burning with anger, but he is not the kind of person who wastes his anger. He knows how to cultivate it into something better.


    "So what do we do now?" Frank said, reading Winston''s eyes.


    "I don''t know," Winston replied instantly.


    "Well, we have another way to kill Lanark, but that''s gonna take lots of time and effort". Frank said while taking a sip from his glass.


    Winston didn''t say anything but kept looking at him while drinking from his glass.


    " This is from Africa, it''s handmaid by the local peoples", Fiona said while showing a vase, which looks quite old, and beautifully painted.


    "Look at the texture here, the paint looks so alive", she continued while looking at Winston and pointing towards the colours on the vase. Winston lean forward to look closely, and said,


    " Sometimes I think that the best artists in the world remain unknown and undiscovered" Fiona smiled at his thought. She had a very beautiful smile. She was wearing a white dress which came till her knees, and she looks extremely beautiful in that dress.


    "Being creative is different, and being able to sell is different. The world often remembers who knows how to sell" She says, with an intense look in her eyes.


    Winston smiled slightly at her thought, to show his agreement. They walked ahead, it was a big drawing-room, decorated with artefacts from around the world, and Fiona was showing them one by one.


    Dang Lee lives in Beijing, and Winston has come here for work, so he thought about meeting him. But Dang Lee was out of town.


    Deep inside Winston was happy that Dang Lee was not home. He was surprised by his feelings. It''s been almost two months since their first meeting. After that meeting, Winston started selling his guns into the western market through Dang lee.


    War has already started, the western underworld has already destroyed 3 consignments travelling from China to Germany via sea. And in return, Winston destroyed their drug consignment travelling from Afghanistan.


    Every day people are dying from both gangs. And things are getting complicated with every passing day.


    Winston lives in Singapore and does all his business from here. After meeting Fiona last time, he kept thinking about her. When he used to be with a woman, he started fantasising about her face with another woman.


    And now that he finds out Dang lee is not home, he kinda feels excited about it. They both walk out of the hall to the pool area,


    "So, why did you start selling guns?" Fiona asked while walking beside Winston and looking at him, throwing away the hair that fell on her eyes with the wind.


    After a little silence and thinking, he said,


    "Because it''s profitable and always in demand, people are getting angrier with every passing day. Everyone wants vengeance these days" he looked at her beautiful wide eyes and for a moment he forgot what he was talking about and fumbled, and stopped speaking.


    Fiona noticed it and smiled a little. She kept walking in silence for a moment and asked again,


    "So you sell vengeance in return for money?"


    Winston stops and turns to look at her, she also stops and turns towards him, they reach the end of the pool, there is a garden ahead with small and big trees. A gardener was watering the bushes, he noticed them from the corner of his eyes, and again started minding his business.


    "Sometimes it''s vengeance that keeps people going, Mrs Lee" firstly he looked at her eyes, and then he turned them towards her lips, and he couldn''t help but stare at them, she had a very beautiful pair of pink lips, she noticed his stare.


    Winston felt embarrassed and looked away, while Fiona felt shy and also looked away. They again start walking, into the garden a minute passed by without saying anything.


    "So do you have any kids?" Fiona asked, trying to push away the awkward silence with the words.


    "No, I am not married yet," Winston said without looking at her.

 Reasons

    Fiona was out of questions, she was feeling a little nervous after what happened. She is usually quite composed, but now she was feeling a little confused inside. Like something that she created with great effort, suddenly fell to the ground.


    They passed the gardener with that silence, Winston was thinking about talking about something, but he couldn''t fix his mind on anything.


    "Why are you with Mr Lee?" Something unexpected comes out of his mouth. He didn''t want to say that out loud, but when you think about something for a very long time, it becomes a crucial question for you, and somehow it finds a way to get it answered.


    Fiona was silent and shocked, and Winston felt even more embarrassed, he quickly said,


    "I am sorry, you don''t need to answer that. I don''t know, what was I thinking?"


    Fiona didn''t say anything but kept walking, awkward silence started walking with them,


    "You don''t have to say sorry. It''s the usual question that would come to anyone''s mind seeing the age gap that my husband and I share" Fiona spoke looking at Winston, her eyes looking deep and dark like they had been holding thousands of secrets inside them.


    "You probably think that I am a gold digger, who is using her beauty to win an old man" she continued, this time her eyes were looking even deeper.


    "No, I didn''t think that. I have seen such a woman, and I know that you are not one of them" Winston said instantly, to clear the misunderstanding that she has about him.


    She just smiled innocently looking at him, and their eyes met and stayed that way for a few seconds. Until they came to their senses and pulled it away.


    They kept walking for a few more seconds in silence and this time with a very soft smile on their faces.


    "In this world, everyone thinks that women need a man to protect them. People are still scared of independent women, who can protect themselves, who don''t need a man. And sometimes it''s better if you just go with what the world wants from you, so they could stop staring at you for a while" Fiona said While taking her step on wet grass.


    Winston stopped and looked at her again, she also stopped, this time there was no awkwardness between them. No embarrassment. They were looking at each other without any guilt, like a man looking at a woman, like a woman looking at a man.


    "Life is too short to live being scared of what others will think. You know this is a habit. Once you let them control you, they just gonna move ahead and slowly take more of you, until there is no more, you left in you"


    Winston said looking at her eyes, this time to dive deeper into them. And she also let him dive without being shy or guilty.


    ***


    Winston and Frank are out in the forest thinking and walking.


    "So that is it?" Winston said.


    "Yeah, pretty much" Frank replied


    They kept walking in silence for a while,


    "So there is no secret," Winston said


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    "Nope. You just have to be focused and believe in yourself enough to have control over any element" Frank said.


    "Hmm, that''s bull shit," Winston said with an annoying voice.


    "No, it''s not. Look you already have enough power and control over the element, it''s just you didn''t have any reason to unlock it. So look into yourself and see why you are doing this and why you need to unlock it" Frank said, trying to make Winston understand.


    Winston felt irritated by this idea, he was about to say something but suddenly the light appeared in the middle of the trees. Both of them stopped.


    A portal opens, and Lanark steps out of it. Frank and Winston stood in their places, shocked to see him here. Winston didn''t see him before, but somehow he managed to understand that he was Lanark.


    "You little son of bitch. I always knew that you will go against me, the day you will get a chance" Lanark said looking at Frank as he stepped out of the portal.


    Frank stays in his place, and said, looking at Lanark,


    "Well, that''s something I learn from you. I must give you credit for that"


    "Oh, classic Frank. I should have killed you earlier. Well, it''s not that late yet" Lanark said, stepping a foot forward. He moved his eyes to Winston and continued,


    "Hmmh, when I heard about you, I thought I finally found a worthy opponent"


    Winston gave him an angry stare,


    "But look at you. I think killing you would be the most shameful act of my life. But I think I will have to live with that shame" he continued.


    Both of them were looking at Lanark and Lanark step forward,


    "I don''t think I will even need my magic to kill both of you," he said and started walking towards them.


    Lanark hit a punch to both of them before they could understand. Both of them fall on the ground to different sides.


    "Come on, don''t make it too easy for me," Lanark said, looking at them smiling.


    Both of them get up from the ground and run towards Lanark to hit him, but before they could reach him, he jumped in the air and hit them with a kick. They again fall to the ground. Lanark started laughing, Frank and Winston looked at each other and got up again.


    Winston opens the portal and attacks him from different sides. He managed to give him some punch and kick, but Lanark was too smart, he also used the portal to confuse Winston and injure Winston and Frank very badly.


    The same thing happens again a couple of times. Lanark was too strong for both of them, and they also realised it.


    "So tell me, how you wanna die, burning or drowning into the water," Lanark said while both of them struggled to stand up on their feet.


    "How about, I will show you how I recently mastered the water element," he continued.


    Winston and Frank were on the ground struggling with pain, they looked at each other. It''s like a moment for them when they see death coming to take them again.


    Lanark opened the portal, and on the other side there was a river flowing, and as Lanark opened the portal the water started flowing into the forest from the portal.


    Lanark laughed out loudly and pushed the portal towards them to throw them into the river.


    Both of them went inside the portal and started floating into the water. Lanark followed them inside. He stands on water, and said,


    "With your feather, I will take control of the earth element. And then It''s Boris who is next. And after killing Boris and taking his feather no one can stop me from being the devil"


    He starts creating waves in the water. And in those waves, Frank and Winston start struggling for their breaths. Winston tried to open the portal for him and Frank to escape, but Lanark threw both of them away with the wave of water.


    Finally, Lanark made a sword from the water, a big sword. And he throws it at Winston. The sword comes swinging tearing through the air at Winston. He felt that it was over, and this was the last moment for him.


    He looked at Frank, he was struggling with the wave of water and looking at Winston for help helplessly. Winston looked at him with the same helplessness. He was feeling disappointed with himself, and a sword came closer to Winston.


    And in that helpless moment, he just closed his eyes and got ready to face his fate. And as the sword is about to cut his neck, it stops.


    Something was happening, the waves that were holding Winston started losing their grip over him, and he started floating into the air.

 Discovery

    Lanark didn''t understand what was happening, he tried to push the wave, but he couldn''t. Winston has his eyes closed and floating in the air.


    A wave of air starts gathering around him, and he opens his eyes.


    "This is not possible. You can''t possibly do that. You can''t have control over the air"  Lanark shouted in rage and shock.


    Winston looked at Frank. He was still chained with the waves, Winston raised his hand and separated the waves from him, and pulled him closer in the air.


    Lanark created a bigger wave and threw it towards them. But Winston created a shield of air around them and held it between Lanark and Winston. Lanark with his other hand opens the portal, there was a big fire on the other side.


    He pulled that fire and threw it towards Winston and Frank. But the shield was too strong for both the fire and the water to break it. It was a great view for Frank. Fire and water fighting with the air.


    They were between the storm of water, fire and air, blowing from all the sides like a thunderstorm, throwing fireballs instead of ice. Lanark couldn''t believe what was happening, but he still has his last trick to play.


    So he opened the portal and threw it towards them, it went straight towards Winston and Frank. And to avoid falling into that trap, Winston also opens the portal, but until then the portal has come too close to them, and as he opens it both the portals clash with each other.


    A big blast happens, and everything gets thrown away, as both of the portals get interconnected, it creates a huge amount of energy which spreads throughout the river that they were fighting.


    And before they could know they got sucked into it and thrown to the different dimensions.


    Everything was dark for a while. Frank and Winston were on the ground coughing with pain. They were at some deteriorated fort, most of the walls fell to the ground while some were still standing. Without a roof, it looks like a giant maze from above.


    Frank and Winston stand on their feet and take a look at the walls, it has a picture of a snake craving them all over. Frank looked at that picture with wide-open eyes and said,


    "Fuck. This cannot happen"


    Winston looked at him and walking towards him while limping a little, said,


    "What do you mean? Where are we?"


    Frank looked at him with worry in his eyes, and said,


    "We are in the fucking hell of hell"


    ***


    Silvia was practising near the waterfall with her bow and arrow. She aimed for a particular leaf on the neem tree, but every time she tried to hit that leaf with an arrow, it blew a few more leaves along with it.


    The tree was shivering with the touch of wind, and the leaves on it were continuously flickering with it, dancing along with it. Which makes her job even more difficult. But that''s about her, she likes it because it''s difficult.


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    She was the kind of person who looks for a challenge. Some people seek a settlement, while some strive to grow. And the one who wants to grow like challenges, because this challenge makes them push their boundaries, and find a newer version of themselves.


    She was feeling disappointed with her failed attempt. A lot was going through her mind. Love and anger were fighting inside her heart. What is love anyway? it is only how we define it. Is it me expecting too much? Is he pretending that night? Questions and questions.


    But that kiss doesn''t feel fake. It was real, so real that she can still feel it on her lips. Remembering it just makes her crave more and more for it. She wanted to love him, she wanted to believe him.


    But is it ever easy to believe anyone? Perhaps not. People don''t even believe in God wholeheartedly, they just keep their beliefs only if he acts according to them.


    Just like at this moment. Silvia expected Winston to be some kind of person; she created his image in her mind, but Winston turned out to be a different person. Now her mind is struggling between what she wanted him to be? and who he is?


    Is the usual conflict in everyone''s life, a pleasurable illusion or dark truth? While she was conflicted between her inner feelings. She shot another arrow at the leaf, which was waving with the wind, and as the arrow came nearer, the wind pushed the whole bunch of leaves in the other direction. She missed it again.


    A wave of disappointment curled around her heart. She pulled out another arrow and aimed again on a single leaf. Suddenly, someone came from behind, placed a hand on her shoulder. Silvia looked behind, it was Maria.


    "You don''t aim your eyes, but with a mind. And to aim with your mind you need it clear to focus on what you are aiming for" Maria said while her right hand was on her right shoulder.


    Silvia was still holding the arrow in the direction of the leaf. Maria comes even closer to her until her thighs touch her hips. Silvia was feeling Maria''s breath on her neck, it was warm, like a tea in the winter''s morning. Her heart was pounding like a frog in the puddle.


    "Relax, and feel the air moving around. See how it''s flowing. Talk to it. Talk to it with your breath. And let it carry your arrow to that leaf", Maria whispered in her ear, and Silvia felt her words striking in her ear, with a warm breath.


    For a moment she felt extremely focused, she couldn''t see anything but that leaf and wind that was playing with it. She shoots her arrow through the thick layer of air. And the arrow went through everything that came in its way and pulled out the single leaf from the branch without even touching another one.


    Silvia felt the sigh in her heart. Maria smiled softly at her, pulling slowly herself away from silvia. Silvia felt the pressure on her back slowly decreasing as Maria pulled her breast away from her back. Even though now they are not there, her mind still remembers its weight on her back.


    Both of them were silent for a few seconds, Silvia was still looking at the tree and Maria at her.


    " You seem very good at this," Silvia said, turning towards Maria.


    "Good at what?" Maria said, not being sure if it was sarcasm or she was saying it.


    "Making people do what you want," Silvia said looking into her eyes.


    Maria chuckled, understanding her sarcasm, and said,


    "I don''t decide anything for others. But yeah sometimes I help people to make up their minds"


    Silvia didn''t say anything for a while but kept staring at Maria. And then she takes her eyes off her and says, turning towards where she was looking before.


    "You seem good at archery too. Where did you learn it?"


    "An old friend of mine taught me to fight," Maria said looking towards Silvia while Silvia put another arrow in her bow, and aimed towards the leaf. This time she seems confident and has a clear mind. She shot an arrow and a single leaf flew in the air.


    "First time it''s lucky, but if you hit the second time, it''s good to aim," Silvia said, turning back towards Maria.


    They both start walking along with each other.


    "You like Winston?" Maria asked, turning her eyes towards Silvia while walking on her right side. Silvia looked at her, there was little pain in her eyes and Maria noticed it.


    "He has something that makes people like him," Silvia said, pulling her eyes away from her eyes.


    "Yes, he has, but so do you," Maria said which gave Silvia a little smile on her face which stayed there for a moment and vanished the next like it''s never been there.

 Choose Freedom

    "What do you mean?" Silvia asked as a smile faded away from her face.


    "Your innocence is captivating, it melts people''s hearts," Maria said looking into her eyes, she wanted to see the glance in her eyes. Silvia''s eyes glared with her compliment, and that glare slowly walked from her eyes and spread on her entire face.


    "You did have a beautiful smile," Maria said instantly as Silvia blushed for a moment.


    A few seconds pass away in the silence, though there is nothing like silence, there is always something that can be heard inside or outside. But our ignorance can create this illusion. This illusion of silence.


    "Why are you saying all of this?" Suddenly, Silvia stopped and turned to Maria and asked.


    Maria sighed and said, looking at her,


    "Winston cares about you. And he wants you on his side. Time is very crucial right now. And yes, we also like each other. And it is what it is. And we can''t do this to him, make him choose between us"


    Silvia lean a bit further and asked, with a bit of rage in her eyes,


    "Then what do you suggest?"


    "Let things go the way it''s going. Let him be free. Don''t try to bind him with you. And you need to find your purpose, so you don''t feel dependent on him. You can also be free, I suggest you should choose freedom for yourself and us too"


    Maria said looking compassionately into her eyes.


    Silvia felt silent, she didn''t have anything to say. She just looked at Maria for a while, and then slowly turned to walk ahead.


    ***


    Lanark fell into the desert, full of sand chilled with moonlight. He stood on his feet and dusted his clothes. He took a peek around and opened the portal, he walked into it and entered his palace.


    As he entered, a woman came to him, and asked, looking at his dusty clothes,


    "What happened?"


    "Not now Militia," he said, with rage in his voice. And start walking left to right in the room.


    Militia kept looking at him for a while, and said,


    "So you failed to kill them, aren''t you?"


    Lanark looked at her with rage in his eyes but didn''t say anything and kept strolling. Militia laugh out loudly, and said,


    "You can''t even kill a newbie and dream about being devil"


    Lanark comes running towards her, and grabbed her neck, and said,


    "I said, not now Militia"


    She laughs this time looking into his eyes, she also has raged in her eyes,


    "What do you think? I am your puppet, who caresses your ego" she holds his hand strongly and her nails pierced his hand, making him bleed,


    "Don''t ever try to put me down with your filthy arrogance" she said while moving his hand away from her neck. Lanark kept staring into her eyes. Both of them were staring at each other with rage in their eyes.


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    Suddenly Lanark leans ahead and starts kissing Militia, and she kisses him back. They release their hands and grab each other''s neck to kiss each other. It was less kissing and more biting each other.


    Lanark bites her lips, so strongly that it almost makes her bleed. And as he leaves her lips, she holds his tongue with her teeth and pulls it outside which makes Lanark scream in pain.


    She leaves his tongue and starts biting him on the neck, both of them start biting and scratching each other everywhere like animals. Both of them were enjoying that pain-filled with pleasure. It''s just making them more excited.


    Lanark tore down her red gown that she was wearing and her breast fell open. Lanark grabs her right breast and rubs them with his finger and palm, so strongly that she screams with pain.


    Then he holds both of her nipples and pinches them, and she starts to scream even louder with pain and pleasure. She hits her nails into his shoulder, and blood comes out. He starts biting on her breast and nipples, and the whole room got filled with her voices, filled with pain and pleasure.


    Lanark turned her towards the wall, her gown was hanging to her stomach, he slid it further down to the ground. And started biting on her back, while sliding down his pants. And within a few seconds, he was riding on her.


    He was holding her breasts, from behind while riding, and she put her hands on the wall scratching it and moaning loudly. It went for a while until both of them reached where they were destined to reach.


    ***


    "What do you mean by a hell of hell?" Winston asked instantly looking at the fainted images of snakes on the wall. Frank looked at him, and said,


    "This is a phantom zone. A place for the biggest monsters of hell"


    Winston kept looking at him for a while with worried eyes and said,


    "Monster?" Then paused for a moment and said,


    "Why do we care where we are? We can just go wherever we want in seconds" and he waves his hand in the air, but nothing happens. He was confused, so he did it again and still, nothing happened.


    Frank looked at him and chuckled, and said,


    "You don''t know anything about hell and the world, do you?"


    "I guess so," Winston said instantly, being frustrated, and waved his hand again this time a little strongly,


    Why the fuck, this is not happening?" He shouts out loudly.


    "We can''t go out from here like this" Frank said looking at Winston.


    "What? Why not?" Winston said looking at Frank


    "Because this is a kind of jail. And to get out from here we need a jailer''s permission"


    Frank said, and Winston kept staring at him with wide eyes.


    "Who is that?" Winston asked with the same reaction on his face.


    "Well, she is the Goddess of snakes, Manasa," Frank said with a nervous voice. And Winston looked at him with curiosity and asked,


    "Goddess of snakes?"


    "Yeah, she controls this dimension of hell. I think both the portals overlapping each other throw us into another dimension. And your portal cannot help us to get back to our dimension" Frank said looking towards Winston.


    "Then how are we going to get out of here?" Winston asked, waving his eyes.


    "We need to find Manasa, she rules this dimension, only she can help us. But first, we need to get out of this shithole that we are trapped into" Frank said and start walking through the fallen gate.


    Winston follows him, he thinks for a second and asked,


    "But why do you think that the goddess of the snake will help us?"


    Frank turned towards Winston with an angry gaze and said,


    "I don''t know. Maybe you have a better plan" He keeps staring at him and Winston keeps silent, and to avoid his gaze he crosses him and starts walking ahead of him.


    "I thought so. Let me do the thinking Winston, and to do that I need a bit of peace. So please stop questioning" Frank said following Winston.


    They kept walking in silence for a while,


    "Congrats on finding your base element," Frank said, with a rough voice, after a few minutes of silence.


    "Thank you", Winston replied with the same voice.


    Again they keep walking in silence for a while.


    "You know that you are the only one, after the devil who can control the air. It makes you quite strong. Because controlling air has its benefits over other elements" Frank said with a soft voice.


    "What kind of benefits?" Winston asked with a softer voice.


    "Firstly air is available everywhere and in huge amounts. Demons can control elements, but to control fire or water or any other element you need that element available around you with a sufficient amount" Frank said while looking for a way out.

 Goddess Of Snakes

    "But you need to learn to use your capabilities" Frank continued and turned to look at Winston.


    "Can you just fly in the air and see where is the way to get out of here?" Frank said nervously


    Winston stares at him for a moment with confusion, and then he closes his eyes, but nothing happens. He opened his eyes and looked at Frank with embarrassment, and tried again but nothing happened.


    "I don''t know how to do it. Maybe power also doesn''t work here" he said looking at him.


    "You don''t know how to use your powers, do you? " Frank said with wide eyes


    "And also power works here perfectly, it''s just we can''t get out of here through the portal" he continued.


    "So now what should we do then?" Winston asked


    "Well keep trying. It''s a normal thing that you are facing. You just need more focus to use it properly" Frank said and started climbing on a broken wall.


    Winston keeps trying again and again but nothing happens. Suddenly he got into the air for a moment, he didn''t know how he did it but he was in the air for a moment and saw a way out, and fell to the ground as he lost his focus.


    Frank couldn''t help but laugh a little, and Winston looks at him with an annoying face. And said,


    "I found a way out"


    Frank steps down from the wall and starts following Winston out.


    Manasa is the goddess of snakes, she lives in another dimension. Only those who have mastered the space element can travel to another dimension of hell. Space is the last element out of five to master, after which demons usually become the devils. When the devil wants to torture someone, they throw them into this dimension, where the most dangerous snakes live. They have evolved and developed monstrous capabilities here. Whoever comes here gets hunted by these snakes.


    Manasa herself is the snake with five heads of a woman attached to the single snake body. She walks along with the thousands of snakes, who act according to her commands.


    Most of the people the devil throws here are the demons who either betrayed him or were too ambitious. They still have their power here, but cannot get out of here. So they have to live here running away from the monstrous snakes and Manasa, so they don''t get hunted.


    Frank and Winston came out of the collapsed fort, into the forest. They could hear the water flowing at some distance. Frank put his hand inside his pocket and took out a bottle of nectar and drank a sip from it. Winston also took out a case of cigarettes and lit one from them.


    "I thought you quit, as you haven''t smoked in a long time," Frank said, putting back the bottle into his pocket.


    "I didn''t, I just don''t remember to smoke any more. Winston said, inhaling the smoke inside.


    Frank looked at him with wide eyes,


    "I don''t feel many things anymore, the way I used to feel. And after fighting with Lanark everything just changed drastically. I feel so light. Before I used to smoke to feel light, after becoming a demon, I already felt lighter. The guilt and worry are getting less every day" Winston continued.


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    "It must feel great to be powerful?" Frank asked curiously.


    "Sometimes it does, sometimes you are just scared to lose it. It''s the thing about power, you will know it, Frank. It won''t be long when you have your powers" Winston said, looking into his eyes.


    Frank smile softly and said,


    "My mind is my power, Winston" and Winston smiled looking at him affirmatively.


    They start walking silently towards the river.


    "Sometimes I think that I am losing myself in this pursuit of power", Winston said while walking beside Frank, they looked at each other with silence


    "I never felt so powerful before. When we were fighting Lanark and I made that shield of air around us, that moment was very different. It was like there are two of me inside me" Winston paused to look at Frank, while Frank was looking at him in the sense that makes Winston comfortable to talk further.


    "One is scared and weak while another is strong, clear and bold. I have seen pain and helplessness very closely, so I always feel scared that I might not do something bad to someone, who is helpless or in pain. But at that moment something just came to me, a clarity, and with that clarity, I felt so powerful. But I also felt that I am losing something on the way. Something that makes me who I am" Winston continued without taking any breath and Frank was listening to him very carefully.


    They both walk another few moments in silence, the sound of water striking rock and flowing through it is getting louder. They can feel the wetness in the air that the water droplets created. The smell turned a little humid, and their legs were taking slow steps to reach for cold water in the river.


    "Whatever you are feeling is quite normal. Power changes people. I would say that power reveals to people who they are deep inside, beneath all that lies and the fake image they have created of themselves" he looked at Winston with a soft smile on his face and Winston was looking at him nervously.


    "But, as you say that you are scared to lose yourself, it says a lot about you. It says a lot about you. You don''t want to turn like others who get blinded by their power and start abusing it towards the weak" he continued trying to shy away Winston''s nervousness.


    A faint smile spread on Winston''s face, and they reached the bank of the river. Water was flowing rapidly through stones.


    "Now what?" Winston asked looking at Frank, and he looked back at him with a smile and said,


    "Let''s just walk along the river, and we might find something or someone"


    Winston didn''t say anything, he just smiled back and started walking with Frank.


    ***


    Fiona and Winston were kissing each other passionately. They were at some beach, and Fiona was wearing a red bikini, while Winston was wearing shorts.


    Sea waves touch their feet and shake them. But they were completely unaware of it, dipped into each other. Sun was almost setting, creating a red scattered light in the sky. And the whole sea looked like blood with its reflection in it.


    There was no one on the beach. The place looks like it is yet to be discovered by the people. Free from all the after-party things that people left behind after their vacation. Only clear sand, shining with the last rays of the sun.


    They both were softly touching each other''s lips like they were scared that they might hurt each other. After a few minutes, they both stopped and separated their lips slowly from each other. But they were looking like they were still craving for more of it.


    They slowly opened their eyes and looked at each other. Both of them were blushing like a seventeen-year-old falling in love for the first time. Their eyes were shining with happiness. Winston curled his fingers through her hair and she felt his touch on the back of her ear.


    Her hair was loose and came till just above her waist, it was spread all over her back. Winston put his hand around her shoulders, and they started walking on the beach, through the tides hitting their bare legs and rubbing them with foam.


    Fiona curled her arm around Winston''s back, and she was touching his stomach with her fingers.


    After their last meeting in Beijing. On one fine evening, Fiona called Winston out of the blue. Winston also thinks about calling her a few times. But he thought about Dang Lee and the business that they are building together.

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    But when Fiona called him, he just slipped towards her. They start talking and texting each other. Dang Lee was out most of the time for business, so Fiona is mostly alone, so they start spending their time talking to each other.


    Soon they developed a connection between them and started meeting each other. Fiona feels happy when she is with Winston. But also she developed guilt about cheating on Dang Lee, and so does Winston.


    Winston doesn''t like hiding things or lying. But that''s the thing about love, it makes you do the thing that you thought you would never do. Love pushes your boundaries for good and bad. When you are in love a thin line between right and wrong gets even thinner, and it''s hard to see it with the blurry eyes of love.


    Just like these two love birds, who have stopped thinking about all the consequences, and getting ready to fight the whole world for each other.


    Winston invited Fiona to this island that he recently bought in the Indian ocean. There was no one there except these two. Dang Lee was on a trip to the African country for some business deal, so Fiona flew with Winston on the Island by chopper.


    It''s been 3 days since they were here, and they were planning to stay for 2 more days. For 3 consecutive days, they were making love everywhere. On the beach, in the sand, in the water, in the house, outside the house, everywhere.


    They were enjoying their freedom, and when you have freedom and love together, what else do you wish for in the world? Maybe that''s the perfect definition of Heaven, love with freedom.


    Just a few minutes before they made love on the sand. Winston doesn''t want Fiona to wear anything, but Fiona still wears her red bikini as she thought it will keep his mind off from having sex again for a while. She also made him wear those shorts, and he wears them because he doesn''t want to be the only naked person walking on the beach.


    It was a long beach and they were walking without any notice of the time. As the sun was about to go down, and darkness was about to enter, they kept walking in silence.


    "I don''t want this to ever end," Winston said softly looking at Fiona, who was also looking at him.


    "Me neither," she said, with an even softer voice.


    They again kept walking without saying anything. It''s beautiful how two people feel comfortable with each other without saying anything for a long time. The level of understanding required to have such a relationship is immense.


    They both had that much understanding between them.


    "I want to have kids with you someday. Not soon, but one day. I always dreamed about having a family. 3 kids playing in the garden, fighting and crying" Fiona said while holding his one arm and placing her head over it.


    Winston didn''t say anything for a while, and then, he speaks up,


    "I never thought about having a family. I always thought that family and kids are not for people like me"


    Fiona caresses his arm and looked towards his eyes sliding her head from his arm and asks,


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    "Why not?"


    Winston sighed and said,


    "I guess because with family comes the responsibility. And..." and he goes silent.


    "And?" Fiona said looking into his eyes.


    Winston looked at her but didn''t say anything,


    "And, what Winston? Don''t you trust me enough to share your feelings with me?" She said looking innocently into his eyes.


    He smile a little and said,


    "I think that family makes you weak. Your decisions get emotional rather than practical. Family is beautiful but it also makes you responsible for others'' happiness. And when you try to make someone else happy you somehow forget to live for yourself" he said without taking a breath.


    Fiona was looking at him with wider eyes. People expect you to be honest, but it''s not necessary that everyone likes honesty. Most of the time people prefer lies, they want others to lie because it''s comforting for them.


    They wanted you to tell the truth that they have already considered as truth. But Fiona was not one of them, she likes his honesty, and she smiles over what he said.


    "You just seem scared to get attached to someone," Fiona said flirtatiously.


    "What? Why would I be scared of getting attached now? Aren''t I already attached to you?" Winston said while trying to convince her with an intense look.


    "Yeah, but kids are different," she said looking into his eyes.


    "How? And how do you know that? You don''t have any kids" he said instantly.


    "Because I am a woman and I just know these things," she said, taking her head away from his arm.


    "What? It doesn''t make you right though" he said with wide eyes.


    " it does. And I don''t know. I want kids, two boys and one girl" Fiona said while twisting his arm a little.


    "What? No. No. No. If we ever have kids it will be two girls and one boy, ``Winston said.


    "No, it will be two boys and one girl," Fiona said, leaving his arm.


    "Ohh. Let''s just start making them then" he said and grabbed her by the waist.


    "I didn''t say now, I said, in the future," she said while removing his hand from her waist.


    " So it''s all about you then. What if I want them now? No, let''s just do this. I want to have a kid right now" he said while grabbing her again into his arms.


    "Stop it winston. Stay away from me. I know what you are trying to do" she said while slipping away from his hands and starting running and laughing. Winston ran behind her and she ran left and right laughing in the sand, while he also followed her with a smile.


    Winston chased Fiona on the foamed water, and he grabbed her by the waist again with both of his hands, as he grabbed her they both fell into the water. They get pushed with the wave a little on the sand. They both got wet and their very little cloth succumbed to their bodies.


    Fiona was on the sand and Winston was on top of her, they both looked at each other for a moment, with lustful eyes and started kissing each other. This time it was a little harder. Their bodies met each other, rubbing their chest and thighs on one another.


    In a minute Winston slides down from her lips to her neck. Kissing it softly, and then between her breasts. There was not much to take off there, which Winston slid with one hand. Her breasts were soft like foam on the water, and with Winston kissing them with his lips it got red like they were shy of his touch.


    She is tall as Winston and has a beautiful body. Her skin is beautiful and sensitive, with a little touch it turns red. She has a perfect figure, attractive breasts, which makes the man on the street take another look at her. Winston kept going down on her and reached to her navel, and kissed her there, and she sighed with pleasure. She has a beautiful flat stomach, Winston moves ahead with his lips. Kisses on her thigh, and she was feeling impatient, she wanted him to reach a goal. So as Winston puts his head between her thighs, she holds his head and pushes it inside between her legs.


    Sun had gone down, and the air was chilled. Tides of the sea keep bringing the foam onto the shore, wetting the dry sand on the beach. The whole environment got silent and peaceful at the beginning of the chilled evening. While these two were on their journey, with their boat on fire, into the deep sea to find hidden sensual pleasure.

 Why?

    Frank and Winston were walking along the river. They were not tired but frustrated by this helplessness. River got wider as they came further and the forest beside it got even denser.


    "I just want to get out of this shithole as soon as possible" Frank mumbled with frustration, Winston gave him a stare without saying anything.


    Suddenly, they heard something and both of them stopped.


    "Did you hear that?" Winston whispered.


    Frank looked into his eyes and whispered back,


    "I think there is someone there" they kept standing in their places while looking towards the forest.


    The sound was like something was crashing against the trees and leaves. And with every passing moment, the sound gets louder.


    Winston and Frank kept staring in the direction of the sound, to see what was coming? And suddenly two eyes appeared into the darkness, like flames of fire, coming towards them. And then they notice the long tail and big teeth.


    "Fuck it''s a snake," Frank said, and start running, Winston also start running behind him.


    "Fuck. This is the right time for you to use your magic, Winston" Frank shouted while running.


    "I know. But I don''t think it''s coming" Winston shouted back, running behind Frank.


    The snake came out of the jungle and tried to grab Winston, but instead, he fell into the river and started flowing with the water. Frank saw him falling and realised that It is the safest option for him to jump in the water.


    The snake looks like an anaconda, but his skin was thicker, like a crocodile. It was nothing like they have seen before. This kind of snake is only found here. Snakes jump in the water behind them.


    Snake starts going after both of them and trying to grope them with his teeth. The water in the river was flowing rapidly, and both of them along with snakes were flowing in it. The only advantage Frank and Winston have over the snake is the size.


    With that speed of the water, it''s getting hard for the snake to keep control over its body and movements. While Frank and Winston succeed in maintaining a distance from the snake and flowing with the water.


    But there were stones in the water, which was frequently hitting both of them, while the snake was unaware of the stone because of his thick crocodile-like skin.


    They kept floating in the river along with the snake while the snake continuously tried to grab them. But both of them know that they can''t do that for a long time. Snakes can grab them at any moment,


    "I wish, I would have brought my sword, then at least we would have a chance to fight" Winston shouted looking at Frank while tripping into water.


    "Yeah, as if we know that we are going to end up in this shothole" Frank shouted back sarcastically while the snake tried to grab him again, but he saved himself getting down into the water.


    Further, the river gets wider and the flow of water gets slower, and snakes start moving more rapidly towards them. Frank lost his balance and his right leg hit the rock so badly that it almost broke his bone.


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    The snake swam towards him and swung his mouth towards him, and this time Frank couldn''t save himself, the snake grabbed him by the same leg that got hit earlier.


    Long sword-like teeth went through his skin and bones and came out from another side. Blood was dripping from his legs into the river and he was screaming with pain. Winston swam through the water towards him, he picked up a sharp stone from the water and stabbed the snake.


    But he was too thick for the stone to wound him. Winston tried frustratingly multiple times, to stab him but nothing happened. Then Winston closed his eyes and tried to control the air. But it was not happening. Frank was in the air hanging to the snake''s teeth and looking at helpless Winston trying hard to save him.


    Snake takes a look at Frank and puts him inside his mouth.


    "Nooo, you son of bitch. Leave him. Leave him" Winston screamed in pain and helplessness.


    This time he again closed his eyes and tried again, and something happened.


    The water in the river created a circular wave around them. And the snake and Winston fell inside the waves. And both started tripping with the wave.


    Soon Winston realised that it was not him who was making it, something shone on the other side of the wave. And it came straight tearing the wave into two. A sword with fire on it, chopped the snake into two.


    Snake starts moving with the pain, both the side, the head has got separated from the tail, the sword cut him from the middle.


    The tail is moving like it still can''t believe that it''s got separated from the head and the head is in shock seeing its own body separated from him. They both flutter in the pain for a while and then fall silent. Blood was flowing through them like water from the tap. And with all that blood everything around them turns red, a circular colourless wave turns reddish with all that blood.


    Frank slipped down from the snake''s head and fell coughing into the blood. Winston ran toward Frank to hold him,


    "Are you alright?" Winston said, holding Frank by his shoulder, while Frank kept coughing and struggling to breathe. But he looked at Winston and told him with his eyes that he was fine. But his leg was bleeding like a leaking tap.


    It was a woman wearing a silver-colored skin-tight dress, with some kind of logo on it, who came to their rescue. Winston didn''t see her face, he didn''t get a chance to see it. She came out so fast and killed the snake in a second. A wave goes down, and water separates to make a way for Winston and Frank to come out of the river.


    Winston picked up Frank with both of his arms and carried him to the bank, through the path she created and put him against the tree. A woman came behind him walking, while behind her the path closed and the river started flowing as it is again.


    Winston was trying to comfort Frank while, the woman stand behind him, the flame on her sword went down, and she said, looking towards Winston,


    "Hello Winston, long time no see" Winston shocked with a familiar voice, he waited for the moment and then turned back to look at her, and as he saw her he was even more shocked to see her.


    "Fiona?" He said with a surprising face. Until now Frank got normal breathing and looking towards Winston and his surprised face, he asked,


    "Do you know her?"  No one said anything.


    "You need to do something about your wounds, excessive bleeding could be harmful to you," Fiona said looking at Frank. His leg was very critical and his bone was shattered by snakes'' teeth.


    "No I am fine, it''s just too much..." and he screams a little while trying to move his leg.


    "What are you doing? Don''t move you idiot" Winston shouted looking at Frank. Frank didn''t say anything, just kept looking at Winston and Fiona and the awkwardness between them.


    "Firstly thank you very much for saving us, thank you," Frank said looking at Fiona. And she answered him with a smile and shook her head. Frank smiled back at her. Again the awkward silence stands between them. Frank looked at both of them again and couldn''t resist but asked,


    "I am sorry, but who are you? And how do you know him?" Frank asked again, looking at Fiona.


    "I am Fiona, and we know each other from a past life. We used to be together, and I am¡­"


    "And also the person who killed me," Winston interrupted her.


    ***