Truth of the horror of the doomsday gospels

[Seifer Black]

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Louis L'Amour

The scene opens and all you see is a tv screen showing the news, a cute Japanese woman sitting there dressed in a pink dress with her notes in front of her and English subtitles at the bottom of the screen…

BREAKING NEWS

Reporter: Hello this is Akari Yubari and this is a breaking news story for the NHK news network, I will warn you all now the images we are about to show you are very graphic in nature and young children are not to watch the videos that are going to be shown… It has just been reported that several murders has taken place at Tokyo general hospital and the person who is responsible is still not apprehended… We take you to the woman at the hospital reporting on the story Emiko Ito what’s going on over there…

The screen switches over to an older Japanese woman dressed in a Black suit and skirt standing in front of a hospital door…

Emiko: Thank you Akari, as you said before we cannot stress enough how the images we are about to show you is of a very graphic nature…

She lets her hand fall a moment and takes a deep breath to compose herself before she lifts the microphone to her lips…

Emiko: The scene that unfolded a normal nurse was reported to be like stepping into a horror movie, the carnage that unfolded in this room has turned the stomachs of many that saw it…

She turns slightly opening the door to see the room where a lot of the room is still in a bad shape, blood still coating the walls and the furniture in the room, ceiling panels are hanging from the ceiling and the bed and other equipment are scattered across the room…

Emiko: The police are still baffled by the turn of events that ended in the sight you see here, in the reports they said they also found three bodies in various states of damage… The deceased are not yet reported to us fully but what we have been told so far is that there was three nurses and a doctor who was caring after a patient but the strange thing is the cameras in the room where switched off and all the records pertaining to this individual that resided in this room has been wiped clean leaving hospital staff and police baffled to who was residing in this room…

Looking like she is about to gag she walks over to the other side of the room and opens the window to let some air in before turning back to the camera…

Emiko: One of the most disturbing parts of this whole story is the level of ferocity that has been shown here, each victim was almost beyond recognition one of them having to be identified by their dental records alone… Police are asking for any information anyone may have which leads to a possible perpetrator to this horrific crime…

As she says this a spot of blood falls on her head and trickles down her face, a little confused she puts her hand to it and stares at it horror struck for a second when a creaking noise is heard and suddenly the ceiling gives way and another body topples from above landing on Emiko… With a loud scream of terror the feed cuts sending it back to the studio…

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Here I sit in the corner of an abandoned home still wearing the hospital clothes, here I sit still covered in blood my hands shaking as I stare at the decay around me… The stagnant air filling my nostrils with stink as I breath and the distant sounds of humanity filling my head with a drone that I can’t get rid of and a fire coursing around my veins burning me up more and more as the visions of the last day or two floods my mind saturating it with my deeds like the blood that clings to my skin… Thinking over and over again about each and every little mistake that had happened which lead me to this course of action again and again hearing that voice announce another’s name as the victor it drove me more and more away from myself… Snapping out of my melancholy I hear a creaking up the stairs and a voice I knew calling through the dark…

Lorelei: Seifer… Seifer… Are you there…

Not knowing what to do at this point I sat there pondering a moment to if I should respond, but soon enough that choice was taken from me as she walked into the room carrying a bag with her…

Lorelei: Seifer… Seifer are you ok…

Dropping the bag to the floor she dashes up to me putting her arms around me getting herself partly covered in blood also…

Lorelei: Don’t worry about a thing baby we got it all sorted out at the hospital, no one knows you were there, thanks to Takamichi and his connections with the police…

I hear these words and a smile starts to form on my face as a thought struck my brain, followed by a slow chuckle that makes Lorelei let go of me and sits on her knees in front of me…

Lorelei: Now there’s the Seifer I know and love…

A bigger smile forming I start to laugh uncontrollably, a high cold laugh with no humanity left in it, leaping to my feet I walk across to the bag and take my clothes from it getting changed into my normal gear throwing the blood soaked rags to one side…

Seifer: This is it… This is what I have been searching for…

Lorelei: What have you been searching for?

Seifer: Why isn’t it simple my dear it’s the answer for the question…

Lorelei: What question?

Seifer: Why did I lose… The answer my dear is very simple…

Turning to face me properly I see a bright happy look on her face nodding to say she wanted to hear more…

Seifer: The answer is the human condition, I should have been going for the kill more than the win… But rest assured that it won’t happen again not after tonight… Never again will I be over looked… Never again shall I fall prey to human weakness… From now on I shall burn all that stand before me and laugh as I watch people’s faces turn from the glee of seeing their heroes to the looks of horror as they watch their heroes die…

I start to walk towards her slowly still with a smile on my face…

Seifer: Because it’s true what they say, you either die the hero or you live long enough to become the villain and when I was the hero they laughed, they taunted and they diminished me when I was trying to do what was best for everyone… Now I see I shouldn’t have given a shit about what they thought… I don’t anymore and I feel fantastic… Now then you know what I am going to do next?

Lorelei: What?

Seifer: I am going to create some chaos, I am going to shake up their little world they created for themselves and make it implode… It’s going to be glorious and you my dear…

I reach my hand still covered in blood to Lorelei but without any hesitation she takes it and stands up…

Seifer: Are going to be there, every step of the way…

Both of us start to laugh as we leave the house hand in hand, I take a container out of her bag and opening it up I start to spill the contents behind me trailing as we walk outside… The laughing may have stopped after we left the house but it still rings loud and true inside my head…

Seifer: Create a little anarchy and the world shall see the idols topple from their high horse, I shall make them all fall one by one till all are nothing but ash.

Throwing the container to one side I take a book of matches out of my pocket and light them up dropping them on the trail setting alight the gas that I trailed behind me, the fire creeps into the house and within seconds the whole house is ablaze… With a contented feeling in my soul I turn around and get in the car… It’s time to go back…

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

William Shakespeare

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Pushing the doors open I get a sense of truly coming back home, looking around the old church it makes me laugh as Lorelei who had never been here before comes in and starts to skip around the room… Though this time it is not just me, Lorelei and Samael here, back from Japan I have with me many others, all waiting in with military like precision all wearing black with masks on resembling my face paint… I have my drones here at last; I have my full army of devotees to create anarchy for all that step in my sight… I can’t help but laugh at this sight, everything is falling into place… I walk through the great hall of the church all of them looking down as I walked past them with Samael…

Seifer: I am glad to see you managed to get all this set up while we were traveling…

Samael: As soon as your next victims where announced I had the drones set everything up for you here my lord…

Seifer: Very good…

I look around at the old walls, the stone that is slowly crumbling away over the centuries that this place has stood with all the candles lit illuminating the ever present dust that is swirling around in the air and at the end the old steel cross and my armchair which I walk up too and sit down in taking a deep breath of satisfaction…

Seifer: Coming home is a wondrous thing isn’t it… I cant believe I have been away from this place for so long… What a difference a couple of months make in a monsters life don’t you agree…

Samael: Yes my lord…

Lorelei: Of course it is a wondrous thing…

She turns and faces me and skips walks towards me…

Lorelei: Why wouldn’t it be when you are coming back to a place like this…

One of the drones walks towards Samael and whispers something in his ear, I look amused at it till it walks back into line…

Samael: He reports that it is fully ready downstairs… Whenever you are ready my lord we should head to the catacombs…

Seifer: No time like the present… Have you got the camera ready Samael?

Samael: Of course my lord…

Seifer: Good, now Lorelei…

Lorelei: Yeah baby…

Seifer: I need you to stay here for this one…

I can tell she’s about to protest so I quickly sit up and place a finger over her mouth…

Seifer: Don’t worry my dear your time for fun will come soon enough, I just need these ones to get back into my stride…

Lorelei: Ok Mr S I will stay up here and be a good girl…

Seifer: Just what I wanted to hear, don’t worry I shall make this up to you later I promise…

Just smiling I stand up as she swoops into my empty armchair…

Lorelei: What… If I have to stay here I may as well be comfortable…

Seifer: Very true…

Samael: I have the camera ready my lord…

Seifer: Very good, now then let’s begin…

I walk out of the room followed by Samael down to the catacombs, the all so familiar walls lined with the bones of the past illuminated by the candles that hang from the ceiling, I feel most at home here than anywhere else as I look upon it all once again after my absence and I feel at a calm peace with it all…

Samael: My lord…

Seifer: Let’s get this started…

I stare at the camera a moment as I see the red light come on…

Seifer: Welcome one and all, we are back here at the old catacombs I call home and you all know it only means one thing… The doomsday prophet is back at his church and I am ready to give you all the newest gospels to be read in the road to the end of days… Throughout all the injustice and disappointment here I stand still with a smile on my face and people may ask me why… You lost your chance at gold once again Seifer why are you still smiling… Well it is because I have realised my real role, my true reason for existence in the cesspit known as humanity and that is to destroy it all… One by one it shall all fall…

I take a few steps forward reaching an old oak door a faint stench reaching my nose…

Seifer: All journeys have problems and it shows the character of the man to be able to get over these obstacles that lie in their path and use them for their advantage… I shall do that now by showing you something you have not seen before…

I open the door and a white room is revealed, all plain white apart from a man strapped to a chair in the centre of it, his eyes forced open with duct tape pointing at the wall of the white room…

Seifer: How long has he been here?

Samael: Since Monday my lord…

Seifer: For three days, I hope the drones have been keeping him comfortable…

Samael: They have my lord…

Seifer: Very good…

I walk around and see an unusual set up, a set of two boxes connected with wires, one with a crank on it and the other an electrical generator… Two other wires are connected to this device and they are wrapped around the man’s toe and the other wrapped around the mans genitals…

Seifer: Isn’t this a tucker telephone?

Samael: We thought we should set up something special for your return…

Seifer: Too kind Samael… This should be interesting…

Looking closer at the man I recognise instantly and I start to laugh for a moment seeing the man squirm a little in his seat his bindings not letting him move much…

Seifer: Now isn’t this great, we have the so called real deal here Samael, Colin Marshal…

Laughing some more I walk around the chair placing a hand on his shoulder making him jump a little before he lets out a scream, after a moment I slap him across the face…

Seifer: Now now, stop that… Bad Colin, save your screams for later… You see I have a lot to say to you… You see you like so many others like to run their mouths and as much as you claim not to care anymore I have seen nothing more than a spoiled brat pining for someone to pay attention to him well guess what… YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION NOW COLIN… Aren’t you happy about this? First and foremost you mention my family, doesn’t anyone read the news anymore, doesn’t anyone pay attention to what people has said before in the past well I shall tell you now once and only once nice and clear for you…

I walk over to the second box with the crank on it and place my hands on it…

Seifer: My family left me Colin… They have been taken away and there is nothing we can do to get them back so I say there is no need to cry over spilled milk and carry on with our lives as long as mine shall be and how miserably short yours shall be…

I turn the crank quickly generating an electric current and as it does the charge goes straight up the wires to him sending a severe electric shock to his genitals making him convulse in his seat screaming in pain…

Seifer: See I told you that you needed to save those screams for later, now then to continue and also answer your questions Colin, you ask if I am ready to die… Haven’t I proven that at Blast, what I put my body through in one night there I am still feeling now but I regret none of it and I would have welcomed the reapers of death if it came to that… You then go on to talk about leaving it all behind for a lack of tangible glory… Don’t you see Colin not the entire world is made up of gold and leather, I have dedicated my own soul to the end of the world of idols so that is all the glory I require… You call us clowns in a circus then let us entertain you shall we…

I turn the crank once again sending another charge of electricity up his body making him shake uncontrollably screaming in pain once again till I stop turning…

Seifer: I know you are nothing but a mere effigy of my new victim but that none the less makes it as potent as it is… The real Colin Marshal will put up a fight I am sure of it, many a man does in the face of something that they can never understand… You say about you having a nightmare, don’t you think that is nothing less than your subconscious trying to give you a warning? Well let me answer that question for you… Yes, you see just my infamy has gotten to your head… Just the word spoken by the normal mortal has spread across the globe and people are starting to fear what I will do next with good reason, Colin you need to learn that you may believe that you will end me at slam… That only one of us will be walking away from this match and it shall be you… Don’t you see that is nothing but a foolish pipe dream for you to comfort yourself because in your heart you know what you are going up against and you can never be ready for it… You say you will make me beg for death then all I have to say is GO AHEAD AND TRY! Others have done in the past and none have succeeded, even the best in this company the world champion Steve Orbit had to risk his own life to defeat me so what do you think you are going to do to me to make me beg…

I turn the crank one more time making the man convulse and scream in pain till the screaming stops and his body falls limp as I stop turning before walking over and placing my hand on his neck feeling a pulse, giving him a slap he comes back too grunting nonsense under his breath…

Seifer: Shame, just knocked out for a moment… Let me tell you something Colin, every bit of pain your effigy just endured I shall bring onto you tenfold, you want to make this whole thing personal then just try it… You see us as a doorway… I see you for what you are, a little child that is crying out to be let in with the rest… You say my actions are unforgivable well I say to you that my actions are just and is nothing but a platform for my philosophies to reach the undeluded… I shall show you the power of my convictions at slam, be prepared for it because I shall be the one that shows you the strength of Doomsday…

Laughing I walk out the room passing Samael on my way…

Samael: What about him my lord?

Seifer: Get the drones to dispose of him somewhere, somewhere he can’t be easily found…

Samael: Very good my lord…

We walk out the room and down the corridor and with each step a strong stench gets stronger and stronger till we reach the second door Opening it up reveals a darker room stonework on the floor and walls and a box is placed in the middle of the room with a couple of holes in it which can be seen as I walk closer and closer, looking around the room I also see a table with a large kettle over a fire…

Seifer: There is only one other person this could be…

I lean down a little and open the clasps on the lid of the box opening it up to reveal the next victim in a box where its way too small for him so he is bent around in an uncomfortable position, staring up at me in clear pain and the stench emanating from it shows he has been here for many days because the source of the stink stink is the excrement the man is sitting in…

Seifer: Terry Roberts… I knew you would be coming across my path soon enough…

Laughing a little I put the lid back down and fastening the clasps again…

Seifer: Terry you know at one point me and you used to be so a like… You where once upon a time a monster and now what are you… Nothing but a sell out to the masses that want to see nothing but the jester that will make them laugh…

With a snort of disgust I turn around and walk towards the kettle…

Seifer: What was wrong, where you not able to cope with it all… Where you too weak to maintain your convictions and stay the course… You like so many others have complied to what society sees as the norm and you make me sick…

Picking up the kettle I turn around and walk over to the box with him in…

Seifer: Terry you are nothing more than the lowest common denominator now, if we faced when you where the monster you once where I would have had some respect for you but you are now going out your way to associate yourself with filth like ICE Beckman you deserve everything that you are going to get at our hands…

I go to the opening in the box and pour the scolding hot water into the hole causing the man inside to scream in shock and pain, after a moment I stop and walk back and put the kettle back on the fire to get it back to its highest temperature again…

Seifer: You know what, its truly sad to see a man fall so far from what he was meant to be, you are meant to be a monster and now you are nothing but a joke… So I welcome you to make your jokes, play the fool because it will make my job more the easier come slam because you will be too focused on pleasing the fans while I am going to be focused on beating the both of you into a bloody pulp…

Picking up the kettle again I walk over to the box again…

Seifer: Become one with the faceless masses, you have lost your faith and have lost your way, hopefully through the blood and pain you will be able to see the error of your ways…

I pour the rest of the boiling hot water into the box making him scream in pain… Laughing I throw the kettle to one side and walk out the room and close the door, the screams echoing around the catacombs…

Seifer: At the end of the day you will all fall, the fallen one and the delusional one shall face their end this week at the hands of the seraphim I promise you that… Through me the way is to the city dolent; Through me the way is to eternal dole; through me the way among the people lost. Justice incited my sublime creator; created me divine omnipotence, the highest wisdom and the primal love. Before me there were no created things, only eterne, and I eternal last. All hope abandon, ye who enter in the ring with me, pay heeds to these words for they are the words of the Doomsday Prophet Seifer Black… All those that ignore this gospel shall fade to black…

I turn around and walk back up the corridor towards the exit to the catacombs, the fire burning hotter than ever and determined to destroy everything that gets in my way…

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Winston Churchill