The Wrath of Jeremy (17 page)

Mary screamed, cried, started to run away
from the monster-like angel she thought was a nurse, and
frantically ran to the metal door, trying desperately to unlock the
locks. The glass statues walked toward her, slowly, and she felt
their body heat throughout her sweaty flesh. Her hands shook too
much for her to get a good grip on the keys, so she dropped them,
and tried to pick them up, knowing that the monster-like statues
were coming toward her with the same motion in them all.

Suddenly, as she bent over to pick up the
keys, grasping the rusted keyring with her right index finger, the
door burst open and out came Victor and Curtis with the boys in
their grips. The building began to glow with a faint white light,
and they all hid their eyes with their hands, becoming blinded by
the light for a moment.

“Remember, Victor, don’t look at Grewsal when
we reach the outside!” Curtis yelled out.

Mary pulled Jeremy away from Curtis’s tight
grip, and she shouted, “What’s going on here?” Curtis turned to her
and slapped her across the face, causing Mary to fall to the ground
in a heartbeat. Jeremy, with his eyes showing remorse for Mary,
turned around and punched Curtis in the stomach while Gabriel bit
Victor in the hand. Victor released Michael and Gabriel from the
pain of the bite, and held his hand like a baby, seeing Gabriel’s
bite mark on his hand, and how his own blood wasn’t red, but
yellow. Mary noticed Victor’s yellow blood and gaped at the wound
in shock, sensing the room shaking even more at the same time that
her eyes were on his wound of mystery.

“Run!” Jeremy screamed, helping Mary to her
feet. Mary, Michael, Jeremy and Gabriel all ran through the
hallway, seeing fog-like ghosts of angels flying about, with long,
claw-like nails that they used to scratch at them as they ran.
Arms, legs, backs, all of them were inflicted with scratch marks
from these flying demons, but they still ran, screaming most of the
way from the sting and fear of what they were witnessing around
them. They finally reached the foyer when the chandeliers
unexpectedly fell to the ground, with the statues of saints that
stood tall on their pedestals jumping off from them. Mary screamed
as she noticed five of the employees with wings on their backs,
comprehending or else sensing in her mind that Grewsal was Hell, or
at least had hell-like attributes that stunned her imagination.
Jeremy saw her panic, her innocence becoming wounded with frenzy
and fright, so he covered her eyes, not wanting her to see any more
of this sinister world.

He opened up the front door to Grewsal and
they all ran out of the building, in the midst of the gargoyles by
the staircase that released their paws from the rocks on which they
stood, and began to run up the stairs. “Look out,” Jeremy yelled,
seeing the two gargoyles with red, glowing eyes and sharp, pointed
teeth standing in front of them. Mary screamed, tears in her eyes,
as she watched the gargoyles snapping and snaring their teeth at
all of them. Mary saw David in the lot of Grewsal, standing by her
car stiff, just smiling at them all, but her fright was too great
for her voice to ask David for help.

“Come on, I know another way out,” Jeremy
screamed. He pulled Mary toward the entrance, and they all followed
his path quickly, with the gargoyles just sitting in the middle of
the staircase, guarding it from them escaping Grewsal’s evil.

“No, I can’t go back in there, I can’t!” Mary
wailed out. Jeremy clenched his right fist, ready to fight anything
that stood in their way, and the hand he held tightly onto Mary
with he used to pull her all the way inside of Grewsal. Mary pulled
Jeremy’s hand off of her while Michael and Gabriel ran back in
also, seeing her run past them and to the door, trying desperately
to escape. Yet, the door shut in her face.

“Come on, I know another way out of here,”
said Jeremy, again grabbing Mary’s fear-stricken hand. They began
running toward the metal door again, seeing the hallways shake even
more. Jeremy tried to open the door, but it was locked again, so he
questioned, “Mary, do you have the keys?”

She didn’t answer, her voice was paralyzed at
the sight of three angels down one of the hallways coming toward
them, gliding in thin air. They were all panic-stricken, with Mary
screaming as Jeremy asked again, “Mary, do you have the keys?” Mary
quickly reached her shaky hand in her pocket and threw Jeremy the
keys, while her eyes looked up at the white walls with blood still
pouring down them, and noticed the walls were beginning to shine
with a red light. Jeremy frantically opened each lock and Mary
still screamed toward the three angels, detecting them closing in
on them even more. Gabriel, Michael and Mary waited impatiently for
Jeremy to open the door, but when Jeremy unlocked the last lock, he
looked down at the floor, seeing blood pouring out from the door’s
crack at the bottom. The three angels turned into demons, making
Mary’s heart jump, her spine freeze and her mind freak. She was
crying blood now, she saw it as she wiped her tears.

“Open it already,” yelled Gabriel. He pushed
Jeremy aside and grasped the handle himself. The door was bending
from the middle toward them, as if some great pressure was filling
behind its metal, waiting to explode.

“No, don’t!” After Jeremy’s loud words of
warning, Gabriel, not noticing the door’s bending shape, opened it,
with abrupt gallons of dark red blood pouring out from behind the
door and flowing quickly into the hallway. It pushed them all away
from the door and began filling up the foyer, pushing the three
angel-demons back down the hallway as well. Jeremy fought his way
through the river of blood, pushing his way through it and reached
the doorway, seeing that most of the blood had poured out already.
He grabbed onto Mary’s hand and ran through the doorway with her,
and Gabriel and Michael followed. They came across the elevator and
Jeremy pushed the down button with his bloody hand. They waited
with panic in their minds for the elevator to come, seeing snakes
pouring out from the cracks in the gray walls, like water, and the
snakes slowly started to fill up the hallway. The elevator reached
the main floor, opened and Jeremy started to go in it, when
suddenly he saw roaches that were filled up to the top of the
elevator compartment. When he looked back at Mary, Michael and
Gabriel, he saw the snakes filling the hallway even more.

Gabriel and Michael, shocked at their sight,
screamed with Mary’s tone, watching the slimy insects move about
while Mary concentrated on the snakes filling up to her knees.

“Come on, it’s the only way!” Jeremy’s words
were serious, yet when Mary turned around and saw the roaches, she
ignored his words and started screaming even more. Jeremy shouted,
“Please, Mary, it will only be for a little bit, the basement is
only one level away from this floor.”

“Are you crazy? I’m not going to no
basement!” Mary’s words were frozen again by the sight of the three
demon-angels. As she watched, they appeared by the bloody metal
door, which was opened. Breathing heavily, feeling his own
perspiration mixing with this mysterious blood all around them,
Jeremy leaped into the roaches, with Gabriel covering his mouth and
jumping as well. Michael closed his eyes and ears and entered the
roach-filled elevator.

Mary turned away from the three angel-demons
and her eyes froze on the elevator, not knowing what to do. “What’s
happening? Why is this happening?” she screamed out. “I know, it’s
not real—this is all my imagination—it’s, it’s, it’s not real!”
Mary tried to close her eyes and make everything go away, but when
she opened them, to her sight were the three angel-demons, reaching
out their gray, wrinkled hands toward her, attempting to grab her.
Before they could, Jeremy pulled her into the elevator, pressed the
down button, and the elevator door closed, their bodies engulfed
with roaches that reached their necks in mass. They noticed the
elevator wasn’t moving, so Jeremy pressed the down button in the
elevator again, and, once again, nothing happened. Suddenly the
elevator started to plummet downward with great speed, holding
their bodies and the roaches flying up toward the ceiling, where
they smashed into it and with the roaches like one, big sandwich,
feeling the ooze from the smashed insects dripping from their skin
while gravity kept them on the ceiling of the falling elevator. The
elevator fell to the basement floor and they bounced toward the
bottom of the elevator and the roaches comforted their fall,
smashing against them with great force.

Jeremy pulled the elevator doors open,
feeling Grewsal shake even more, its bricks vibrating like a
nervous cat. They got up and exited the elevator box, while Mary
pulled roaches out from her beautiful, red hair, wiping the roach
blood from her face with great disgust. They ran frantically
through the dark basement as Jeremy said, “Shit, I forgot where it
is!”

“Where what is?” asked Michael, pulling
roaches out from his pockets.

“The sewer cap. There’s a sewer cap down here
that leads to the outside of Grewsal, but I forgot where it’s
located,” Jeremy replied, turning around due to Mary giving out a
loud scream. They all turned around to face Mary, following her
eyes to what she was screaming at. They all gave out a loud yell in
the darkness. Their eyes saw a man with white light shining from
his body; he was standing down the hallway that seemed as if it
stretched for miles. The ghostlike man opened his mouth, stretched
it more than a normal person could, with pale white skin that
looked like elastic, and they all perceived little white angels
flying out of the mouth of this creature like fireflies giving out
a low buzzing noise. Thousands of these little angels flew toward
them all, and all Jeremy could say was “Run!”

The run and chase began, hearing the buzzing
noises from these little creatures growing louder as they ran
faster, knowing that these creatures were growing nearer to them,
through the labyrinth that was called a basement. Mary screamed the
whole time and the rest stayed silent, concentrating on breathing
slowly, due to their hearts pumping quickly from the torturing
fear. The darkness took over their minds, the buzzing noises took
prisoner of their ears, and the rhythm of their feet grew larger as
their pulses raced faster than ever before. Jeremy grabbed Mary’s
hand, trying to give her some relief through the darkness. Hearing
her screams, he felt that she needed to know that he was still
there with her. Suddenly very pale lights came on in the basement,
and they all saw the walls of the hallway, coming out toward
them.

“My, God, we’re gonna get squashed,” Michael
yelled, distinguishing the left wall was coming toward the right
one. They ran faster and faster as the walls became so close
together, that they had to walk in front of each other because the
hall was too thin.

To make matters worse, the walls shot out
snakes from their newly formed cracks that jumped on their bodies
while they made a hissing noise that echoed through the thin
hallway of Hell. Pushing their feet harder and faster, hearing the
buzzing noises growing louder and quicker, all of their eyes
flushed out tears of fright that washed the blood from their faces,
leaving two long streaks that showed their skin color, while the
rest of their skin was still covered in the red blood of
trepidation.

Abruptly, Jeremy noticed a ladder at the end
of the hallway, and yelled, “There it is, come on!” They ran toward
the ladder while the serpents began filling up the small space that
was considered their escape route, hissing and slithering past
their bodies, mostly torturing Mary’s mind to the sight and feel of
it all. Finally reaching the ladder, Mary turned around and saw the
thousands of little angels coming toward them, resembling a swarm
of bees, forcing Mary to scream even louder and cry harder. Since
Gabriel was closest, he ran up the ladder first and opened the
sewer cap by pushing on it with great strength, while his terror
allowed him to gain force that his adrenalin gave to him. Gabriel
and then Michael exited Grewsal first, while Jeremy let go of
Mary’s hand and climbed up the ladder. When he reached the top, he
turned around and saw Mary as stiff as a board, just looking at the
flock of little angels heading for her, seeing her shock, her
agony, knowing he had to be her feet, he had to help her. So Jeremy
climbed back down, grabbed onto her arm and pushed her toward him,
forcing her hands on the ladder and guiding her up toward the sewer
opening. She exited it and that’s when the little angels reached
Jeremy and bit at his skin, poking little holes in his flesh that
gave out a shaper sting to his scream. He jumped out from the sewer
and slid the sewer cap over it, breathing in relief, and then
looked at Mary’s terrified image.

“Help me,” Michael yelled in a fearful tone.
They saw that the guard dogs bit into his ankles. These dogs of
mystery stood six feet high, looking like large, saber-toothed
tigers with black fur and sinister black eyes. Foaming at the
mouths, they had no ears, but spikes that circled their eyes and a
growl that sounded like a female dragon in heat. They commenced
attacking Gabriel and Michael while Jeremy and Mary looked into
their eyes and knew that this was it.

Suddenly the two gargoyles that they saw
before jumped out from the darkened foliage that surrounded Grewsal
and grabbed at each of the dog’s necks, cracking both of them and
killing them instantly. Gabriel and Michael lay there in pain as
Jeremy and Mary looked at the eyes of the gargoyles in despair,
wondering what to do next. One of the creatures opened up its mouth
wide and showed its razor-like fangs, shooting in route of Jeremy
while he closed his eyes for an instant. Before the fangs could
pierce Jeremy’s skin, Grewsal began to glow from the outside,
causing the two gargoyles to stop and look at the glowing fortress.
Instantaneously, the creatures turned into dirt, while the sounds
of crying and moaning that came from the dirt that once were the
creatures wailed everywhere.