Well, I'm glad
today's story was finished nice and quick and early. (My time zone
its around 11:00 AM here) so that gives me lots of time to work on my
book and such. Being so early in the day nothing has happened yet. So
nothing to report. In fact no seizures yet( but they usually happen
at lunch and later anyhow, had some yesterday later in the day but
none in the morning as I recall) but whenever I don't have any early
in the day it usually bodes well so yay!
Demon Dining
Grim Reapers
served the demons at their dinners. They brought human souls to the
demons for them to eat. Each soul was contained in its own ball of a
glowing, doughy, jelly-like substance. The demons could tell what
kind of soul it was based on the kinds of glowing colors in the ball
of jelly-like substance and the taste of it. Demons had their own
tastes in souls and lived off them, it was their source of food.
Though it was just the natural order of things, the energy the demons
and other creatures gave off from The Other Side is what made the
reality humans lived in exist. But the demons didn't actually care
about that fact. It was just a footnote to them.
“So what do
you think of the food tonight dear?” said Xorxi to his wife Yurg.
Tonight's dinner was a large gathering of demons so it was actually
provided by the host and many of the guests, like Xorxi, didn't know
what souls were going to provided. It was what demon's call a 'soul
surprise dinner'.
“Absolutely
lovely.” Yurg responded. She was 300 years younger than him and way
too attractive for him. Attractive by demon standards that is. The
demon's thought her red skin was beautiful but her giant horns were
obviously fake. (Some didn't care.) “I got the souls of several
human children and you know how I love their sweetness.”
Xorxi frowned.
“I'm glad you like them. I've got a more varied spread. Some bitter
old people, a few vanilla lawyers, but I do have one sweet child.”
A demon neither
of them knew the name of chimed in. “Eh, you're lucky. I just got a
bunch of gangsters. Sure, one or two can be nice and tough but man
can it get redundant.”
Yurg then said,
“You can have one of my children. I've got plenty.” she then placed
the sweet human child soul on his plate. He quickly grabbed it and
popped it into his mouth.
“Thanks!”
he replied, “I thought I was going to be stuck with the flavor of
gangster all night.”
Xorxi then
added. “It's the risk of a random sampling dinner. Sure you can get
some fun surprises but it can backfire.”
“True.” the
stranger demon added. He then looked over at the Demon Princess. That
really was pretty much her name as nobody called her her normal birth
name. She was the host of the party, and a massive glutton of souls.
She would eat as many as five demons at a single meal at least. To
mock her demons would say they had more than one princess. “Y'know
for a 'random sampling' our princess is just getting tender nuns, the
best delicacy. How convenient.”
“Quiet!”
Xorxi commanded the stranger. “If she hears you, your soul will end
up on a platter!”
“What do you
mean?” the stranger responded.
Xorxi sighed
and reduced his voice to a whisper. “That's what she does. If you
cross her she turns you human. And you live in the human world,
knowing eventually the Grim Reapers will come to get you and you will
be back here and she will be waiting.”
The stranger
then remembered something. “So wait, the rumors were true? She
would do something so cruel to her fellow kind as turn them into
humans?”
“Yes.”
Xorxi responded. “And at her meals the reason she is the only one
to get a second course is that she's doing her executions. And she
makes us watch. All out of providing an example.”
Yurg then
added, “Let's change the subject.”
The stranger
then said, “Good idea.”
Author Comment:
I started out thinking of this story by deciding “maybe I should
write a scary story today” I thought “I could make demons eating
human souls scary” and the story that eventually came to be was
this. Still creepy but not exactly horror. Even if it doesn't go with
the original idea it doesn't matter. I let a story roll out how it goes,
that's what makes it natural. So it's not a horror or spooky story in the end but if it's a good story I'm happy.
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