Lanterns swayed side to side on the tree branch and Carl felt himself hoisted up by his feet. As a woman approached covered in tattoos from head to toe even across her feet. Her hair braided with chicken bones as she had a long needle through her nose followed by three tiny ones in her throat and two tiny ones in her nipples.
Her long black nails scraped the back of Carl's head as she peered deep in his eyes as his two attackers stood behind her patiently."You say,this one was around during the arrival of the fallen prophet?"
Her voice stung Carl's ears as the two men nodded,"What do you want to do with him..kill him?" The giant asked as the woman hissed in disapproval responding with a smile of black teeth and bleeding gums.
"NO!!...this one is our vision Serpent,prepare the covenant for the ceremony." Hands bound by what felt like barbedwire Carl lunged his body forward yelling in contempt,"Hey,who the F*ck are you people!!!"
The woman turned toward him smiling as she reached from a tree branch to retrieve a giant python,replying in a quaint tone." We are the children of oblivion,beings from a realm beyond time and space. Our father emperor Krasuer has declared a ultimatum among his children,to leave oblivion so he can rebuild it from the old ruins of new on his throne of living flesh or stay and become part of it's demise."
" A war broke out,we weren't powerful enough to over throw our father with so many of us already left to new horizons. So we came here using the flesh of your kind as our own,soon all the children of oblivion will make this planet their home and then together thirty-five million strong we will declare war on our father."
Carl was hoping that all this was happening because he was overdosing and his mind was giving him a bad life lesson on death's doorstep."Lady,you're crazy...so what you think your some kind of malevolent being on god like standards."
Suddenly a tall man spoke for her as Carl noticed the odd attire the man wore,it looked like leather with metal armor stitched into his flesh. Red face paint marked his face like a barbarian prepared for war,his voice gentle but jagged.
"Young man,we have been here before you human's and we'll be here long after humanity is extinct. After all who do you think taught your kind to build the pyramids of Egypt or whispered the ingredients of creating the atomic bomb in Einstein's ear."
"Humanity doesn't really have a word to describe us in any language and trust me I speak all tongues on this planet and others. I suppose the closest words that remotely comes close to us is....Immortal Enities."
Carl eyes widened as the man's eyes sunk inside his skull as a centipede crawled out of his eye socket and entered his mouth;chewing on the insect the entity spoke in a jester matter. "You look like you just saw a ghost?"
"How do you do it?" Carl asked looking the thing up and down as it followed his eyes,"Oh you mean get the flesh suit,glad you asked because this revolves around your future."
"You see when we arrive here it's from the sky although we don't come from the stars or at least not your version of the galaxy. So we grab humans and give them a dose of a hallucinogenic that puts them in a coma as we lower them in a tank of water filled with leeches. As we hook a car battery up to the tank we heat it up until it reaches temperatures so hot the leeches attached to your blistering body burst and your skin slowly melt."
"As your bones catch ablaze,they will rupture and turn to a graining ash that will scatter in the air. Yet your mind will stay intact with a device created by my sister lanizareth. Don't worry your conscience will be in oblivion in my home of the Cosmo,you will be chosen by one of my siblings and return here to join your family..well your flesh will be that is."
Suddenly a strong force grabbed Carl by the back of the neck as his whole body jolted in fear. It was the giant as he cut Carl down from the tree and slung him over his shoulder. Rain and the crackling of thunder blinded his senses as he looked from side to side of the giant.
Figures gathered closer toward them as Carl noticed where the giant was taking him,an abandoned factory in the distance. Lights glowed from the building's decaying exterior of rusted metal and loose nail boards. Making their way in the building Carl became like a mad dog, kneeing the giant in the chest as he saw the tank the entity spoke of in his story of true damnation.
Though Carl was no match as the giant tossed him into the empty tub,Carl's head hit the metal bottom hard as he felt blood pouring from his skull. Still bound he tried wiggling out as the tattoo woman attached a device to his head as another man drove tumb tac nail in each side of his head to keep the device in place.
Screaming from pain and hysteria Carl's jaws were pried open as the entity moved forward;a container in his hand. Removing the cap,he bend down and poured the black liquid down Carl's throat,gasping for air all he could do is choke the bitter juice down.
