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Walking in a wide open field Luke couldn't help but feel uneasy. It looks like his hometown town area but for some reason it seems much older. Near the edge of the field there's a large dark woods. Luke: Hello? Anyone there? Fairly sure he wasn't going to get a reply he slowly started walking toward the woods. He makes it about 4 steps in when a blood curdling scream lifted over the wooden blackness pushing every bird and squirrel alike from the trees in a terrorized frenzy. Luke spins around with a start to see if anyone was behind. As he looked he noticed four huge humanoid creatures charging straight for him. Bolting through the woods he didn't notice the hill in front of him and fell with a roll down it. Sitting up holding his head he looks over his right shoulder one if the creatures are right there and let out an inhumane screech. Ring ring, just as Luke jumps awake from the horrific nightmare the phone rings. Officer Milton: Hello this is officer Brett Milton of the PRPD is this Luke Vogel. Luke: Yes it is how can I help you Officer Milton: Mr.Vogel I'm sorry to inform you that your mother has been murdered and your brother Jack is nowhere to be found as of right now he's the prime suspect Luke arrives at his mother's house a squad car in the driveway with a tall but thick man stood leaning against the driver side door. Luke: Good mornin you must be Officer Milton. Officer Milton: And that makes you Luke The officer stood there for a couple seconds eying him from head to toe. Officer Milton: My sincere condolences about your mother. Luke: Do you really think Jack would've killed our mother? Officer Milton: That's what I'm trying to figure out son, when was the last time you talked to Jack Luke: last Christmas we don't talk very often Officer milton: well if you hear anything or he gets ahold of you please be sure to give me a call you have hopefully a better afternoon Luke: you as well The policeman get in his cruiser and drives off. Luke: Jack where the f**k are you, you didnt kill mom did you? Walking through a town Luke hasn't been to in nearly 8 years he starts to notice it hasn't changed, the people doing the same things, the same stores, the same small town greeting. Luke: Where are you Jack? ( whispered to self) You really got yourself in the s**t this time. Walking through an old parking lot past a dark alleyway two hands suddenly spring from the alley and grab Luke by his left arm. Jack: Shh don't say a fuckin thing Luke: Jack is that you? Jack: Not here, follow me Jack led Luke to an old abandoned farm house peeking over his shoulders and checking every dark corn on the way. Once inside he began to speak Jack: What are you doing here Luke I thought you were done with pleasant ridge? Luke: well when you wake up to a phone call saying your mothers been murdered and that your f*****g brother is a suspect at 3 in the morning you show up to a place you've been telling yourself you got away from. Jack: Maybe it's a good thing you showed up Luke: Oh and why is that Jack Jack: Didn't you ever wonder why Pleasant ridges murder rates were so low, Why nobody's ever stolen anything? Jack: The whole town's run by some sort of cult Luke, they were pissed you left Town and so they made an excuse for you to come back. Luke: What the f**k are you talking about? What f*****g cult? Jack: They are call The Cult of Vein they've run the town since it was built in the late 1800s. Jack: Children going missing and no one cared about it, even the parents don't say anything. Jack: Didnt you ever wonder why luke? Luke: Well … yea but-- Jack: Well that's fuckin why Luke, the Vein have their hand in everything Luke: Then what do we do? Jack: f**k'em up Luke woke up the next morning to a strange rustling noise in the other room, when he went to investigate he noticed a dark hooded figure with some strange cryptic symbol on their back. He seemed to be looking for something important because he didn't notice Luke sneaking up behind him holding a cleaver. Luke: What in the f**k do you think you're doing? Who the hell are you ? Suddenly the cultist turned around seemingly unbothered by Luke and pulled a severely waved short sword from under his cloak and let out an inhuman screech not unlike the noise that the monsters in his dream let out. Luke standing stunned didn't notice that Jack had walked up behind him with a double barreled shotgun. Jack: Luke get down Jack screamed as he shot the cultist sending it flying about fifteen feet. The cloaked figure hit the wall behind with a sickening thud. Jack: What the f**k did I tell you Luke, the Vein are crazy motherfuckers. Luke: well s**t, What the f**k are they because that thing does not seem human Jack and Luke slowly walk up to the slouched figure against the wall. Luke reached his hand out and pulled the hood down. The cultist wasn't human at all in fact, humanoid but not human. The things skin was paper white and had no eyelids, its mouth seem to be beaked with sharp teeth protruding from under its edge, instead of eyes there seemed only black void, the creature was almost bald save for the very thin white strands of hair barely visible to the naked eye. Luke: Well that's unexpected Jack: but what the f**k is it? Luke: that's what I think we'd better figure out before the next one kills us Standing over the pale humanoid the two brothers start contemplate what their next move will be. The library like the town was small but held a lot of knowledge. For such a small library they had a lot of occult books in fact half the library was the occult section but little to none the leather bound texts held any information about the Vein. Luke: I don't know why I thought they'd have much info on the cult, I should have suspected that the town being run by them they'd probably hide most of the texts or put them in private libraries. Jack: wait… you know I think you may be right, do you remember the strange book mom had, you know that black bible looking s**t Luke: didn't mom always b***h at us about that stupid ass book, she always sa-- Librarian: shhhhh… please be quiet you're in a library you loud mouth Luke: sorry ma'am Just then the lights above us started to flicker. Luke and jack(in unison): What in the f**k All the lights in the library seemingly all at once shattered, spraying glass and phosphorescent powder everywhere. Just as the glass hits the carpet the librarian screams. Both brothers spin around as fierce as a tornado. What they saw standing there holding the poor lady above its head was a tall and very thin beast. The beast's head looked like a wolf's head that had been shaved , its eyes dark red with at least an eight point rack of antlers protruding up behind its ears. The creatures body though very thin was impressively muscular, its hands and fingers were about a foot in length from wrist to tips of fingers. The librarian continued to scream, with a ear splitting screech and a quick thrust to each side with it's long paper white arms rips the librarian in half with a nauseating squelch spraying blood and entrails all across the check out desk. With flame red eyes the monstrous thing glare at us screamed and jumped straight up and through the room disappearing into the chilled evening air. Jack: what are you doing don't just stand there it's getting away. Luke: and what do you propose we do there Jack Jack: well fuckin follow it you dumbass Bolting out of the library the two brothers notice the pale shape of the monster running on the rooftops straight toward the court house. They started to run after it only to be surrounded by six cult members. 1st cultist: stop right there 2nd cultist: the master wants to see you 3rd cultist: you're gonna need to come with us Jack: the f**k if I d- Just then two of the other cultist grabbed Jack and a third one smashed him in the back of the head with a small mallet knocking him unconscious. Just as Luke looked over he too was rendered unconscious. Luke: what the f**k As Luke looks around he sees a familiar pasture with the dark woods. Without taking a step the woods seemed to rush towards him as if to swallow him whole. A horrible screeching cry rose through the air and in an instant again he found himself surrounded by the pale animals. Without moving its mouth the creature tells Luke to run. Bolting through the moss covered trees Luke suddenly stops to examine his surroundings. The woods felt different, more malevolent, more evil. A long finger outstretched and tapped him on his shoulder. Luke turned around only to be staring his own mother in the face. Without warning her features suddenly shift. Her teeth grew sharp and pointed, her lips hardened and shift into a beak, her eyes melted leaving only a black void staring back at him. The her mouth shot open with a deafening shriek and she lunged straight for him. Luke jumped away awake and noticed that his hands had been shackled to the wall above his head and was in some sort of makeshift underground dungeon. With a loud clang the huge iron door opened and a short figure no taller than five foot two stepped into the now dimly lit room. Cultist: Oh my son why did you come back to this town? Luke: who are you The cultist removed their hood revealing your mother's face. Betty: Don't you recognize your mothers voice? Staring with a blank horror stricken face Luke had no idea what to say. First he thought his mother was dead, next he finds out she's a part of the cult. Betty: you should've never come back,now there's nothing I can do to save you Luke: save me, why would you have to save me mom Betty: well you see Luke the Vein controls everything and who doesn't follow what the tell them to do either dies or has to be contorted Luke: contorted? Betty: transformed into a Dolve the deer of the devil Luke: so your telling me that the monster from the library used to be human Betty: yes, a human transformed by torture and magic Luke: you're f*****g insane mother why, why are you doing all this? Why do you do what they say? Betty: Don't you see my son, I dont listen to them, they listen to me because as you can now understand I am the head of the cult, they do as I tell them Being pulled by chain down a dark hallway for what seems like hours. Luke sees a big oak double door, on the door was the same symbol that the cultist and the old farm had on the back of his cloak. The giant door creaks open and a huge ceremonial room becomes visible. Tied to a post in the middle of the room was Jack face beaten and swollen. Luke: Oh god no, come on what are you gonna do to Jack Betty: Its called a sacrifice sweetie Betty throws her head back in a fit of horrible laughter. On the other side of the ceremonial hall a barred door open and a dolve crawls out and crawls toward Jack sniffing at the air like a rabid dog looking for its next meal. The creature slowly made its way to Jack's feet while the cult chanted in some old forgotten dialect. The dolve reached its bony white hand upward and grabbed Jack by the head. With a swift upward thrust Jack's head and spinal cord ripped from his body showering blood and chunks of flesh everywhere. Luke:NOOO JAAACK!! Betty begins to cackle at the sight of her younger sons untimely demise. Betty: SEE, SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DEFY THE VEIN, YOU f*****g DIE MY BOY , YOU DIE A HORRIBLE PAINFUL f*****g DEATH, so now my beautiful son what will your choice be join us or DIE Luke: Never you crazy bitch As the words left his mouth Luke felt a sharp pain in the back of his head and everything goes black. Walking downtown Luke noticed something is off about his hometown. The sky has a red-violet hue and all the buildings seem to be distorted through one of those mirrors that make your whole body appear wavy. Stranger: Luke is that you ? Luke turns around to see his high school sweetheart standing right in front of him. Luke: Luci what are you doing here? Luci: looking for you silly, I've been everywhere looking for you Luke: but why? Luci: cuz I want to f**k Luci started to giggle making Luke feel uneasy Luke: we haven't been with each other since high school why now Luci: follow me and I'll show you Following Luci, Luke sees her old house about a block down the street. As they walk up the front walk Luke noticed that her house was the only normal looking house in town. They walk inside. Luci: follow me upstairs Luke: where to your room Luci: of course stupid I said I wanted to fuck The walked upstairs and as they reached the top Luci bolted into her room and Luke ran after her just in time to see her crawl through a tiny door on the fall wall. Luke followed Luci into the crawl space. The crawlspace was bigger than he remembered it even had a queen sized bed in it somehow. On the bed lay Luci still clothed and cackling at Luke. As cackle diminished into sob Luke approached the foot of the bed. There laying on the bed sheets covered in blood lie Luci staring up at the ceiling tears still falling down her cheeks. Luci: why did you let them do this Luke, WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO ME LUKE?!?! Luke: I didn- Mid sentence Luke looked down to see Luci's legs were gone, her legs seemed to have been ripped off. Luci shot up into the sitting position her hair covering her face and she makes a low death rattle, and launches herself against the wall behind her obliterating her body into a bloody stain. Luke turns slowly and leaves the crawlspace, as he ducks under the small door frame. stepping into the upstairs hallways loud clawing noises like nails on a chalkboard seemed to circle the entire perimeter of the house. With a sudden explosion of wood splinters and wiring two dolves spring through the wall. Luke diving to his right narrowly missed by the first dolve, luke notices a weponized scythe leaning against the wall. Grabbing it he spun in a deadly whirlwind and loped off the head of the first cursed beast. From and unseen advantage the second dolve lunged grazing luke's leg leaving a big gash. with blood rolling down his leg and pain shooting up it Luke winched then with an upward swing managed to horizontally slice the second dolve in half. Black blood and entrails spray across the hard wood floor steaming with the stench of rotting flesh.