Keeper Of Tartarus

Breakfast was a silent affair, everyone's eyes were on me. I kept my cool, devouring all I can. I do not care who looks when I have eyes only for the food on the table, and if all they do is looking. They are going to run on empty stomach. After filling me to the brim, I rather felt lazy and I decide to take a walk.

"Hey frogy, let's take a walk shall we?"

"It's master Khamayutho for you human!"

"Yeah, call me human, I'll call you Frogy, seems fair" saying so I walk out

"Why you…you're going to pay for it"

I always endure myself in physical activity to the point of exertion to calm my mind, for that is what I want now. I need to stay calm and formulate a plan, as much as real the things seem. I need a break from all this lunatic rollercoaster.

I started climbing the tallest cliff around and it took nearly an hour to reach the top, and I almost broke a sweat, almost. There standing up the frogy guy with a mock grin.

"Hey kid this isn't called a walk, you have endurance I give you that much, your heart rate is calmer, you are much calm and composed than any human who endured such energy loss, you also do it with ease"

Climbing up, I said, "So you are the master of fighting arts huh? What types of fights you know?" I said gazing up the scenery from the top of the cliff.

"Ha-ha kid there isn't any form of combat I don't know of. Though more than any weapon combat, fist to fist is my specialty"

"Uh-uh do you know sorcery?"

"Well I'm very good at sorcery than most of the mages but can't quite boast it as one of the best"

"Hmmm, how about teleportation spells?"

"Ha that's a kids walk in the park, I can teleport to any place, can even lend my power of teleportation to anyone, but for that, the person has to be in physical contact with me and I have to be teleported with them"

"Uh-uh, you know you talk too much?"

"Come again...ARRRHha" I kicked the frog guy in the crotch, not sure where his balls are, I'm just going to hit the obvious place. Although my intensions are to kick his ball, taking the moment of surprise to my advantage.

I spun around him, taking a wrenched arm lock and a twisted neck lock. This neck lock avail me to either snap his nick or choke him to death, not knowing the flexibility of his neck and not wanting to kill him. I am going to choke him a healthy amount.

"What is the meaning of this" the frogy choked out with a constrained voice

"TELEPORT ME, BACK TO MY HOUSE!"

"But it's too dangerous there they are looking for you" he managed to choke out again. I squeezed even tighter, frogy gasped out air unable to restrain my hold. "well frogy if reasoning and argument is what you want to do. I have all day, but unfortunately you are running out of time and I'm running out of patience" saying so I tightened the grip a bit more.

He glared at me with his big golden red frog eyes, "u asked for it" he manage to speak as if it's his last word, then the place around me, started to get as a liquid of swirling colors.

If girls without makeup are termed awful, I need to find a stronger word for teleportation. I felt as if I puked a gallon and then punched several times hard in my gut. Heavily panting for air, I regain some of my sense.

Regaining my composure barely enough to make me understand I'm alive after that experience and I coughed several times and try to slower my breath and rested my head on the floor a bit. After resting a bit, I opened my eyes to take in the green sight.

It was grass and I lift myself to look around, I was teleported a block before my house and I see the frog person leaning on a wall with a killer piercing stare at me. Expecting a fight, I take up a stance.

"Not necessary kid, the responsibility of your safety is entrusted in me too, and besides they might be still here"

Not wanting to delve deep into his bullshit that does not makes any sense. I walk for my home, funny part is I have not seen any person on the way, no soul can be seen. Shaking off the bad feeling I continue to walk towards my home.

It's actually a flat of at a not so posh area, but not bad a like drowned gutter. After walking for few minutes, I was awarded with a sight that I still don't believe, the place was totally trashed, the whole building was like it had been chopped at irregular angles.

Designed with a Great Axe or something. Police tape surrounds the whole area and it is deserted.

"You should have believed us," said the frog shooting me a dirty look

Not able to take up the sight of to make any sense out of it, I decided to head for the gym, least I could talk to someone there and ask what happened.

So I silently walked towards the gym, it is a good 15 minutes away walk into the busier town.

The frog guy shrank down to hand size and asked to keep him in my pocket, which I did without any qualms. Well walking around with a frog in a pocket is better than walking around with a frog person. I silently make my way to the busier part.

As I treaded in was a bit relieve to see some people. Yet, more confused to find lots of police, S.W.A.T., FBI, Special Forces are bustling around. One of them stopped me for enquiring, for me being in the restricted part. I feigned being lost and made some dumb shit excuse, which the cop seemed to buy.

'Hmmm restricted area huh? Wonder what happened, for what reasons, how it happened and when?' While pondering all this I've made into the former busier part of the town. I spotted some people and many business shut down. Another shock struck me when I came to the gym.

The whole place is wrecked, not a single thing unbroken. The total joint is busted, taking in the sight and sighing to myself, I make it to a nearby coffee shop. Thinking of what was all this shit about.

"Hey David where the hell you have been?" tailing the voice I see a familiar face, its Richard, the douche bag son of the gym owner, but I am still glad to meet someone I know.

"Ummm well I was at the hospital, had a minor accident, and knocked cold for few days" I lied

"So what the hell happened here? The whole town is different, the restricted area? The gym is wrecked?"

"Well you have been knocked out for quite a while, it's been a week and a half since those things showed up, and started trashing your neighborhood, being in the hospital did you well. How is Sarah? Is she alright?"

"Sarah's fine, what things showed up?"

"-sigh- demonic things started showing up on the earth, people term it the beginning of the Armageddon, they are wrecking everything. "

"Though not going berserk, looks as if they are searching for something. Something of importance, cause there is no direct attack even though our weapons do minimal damage. The government is going haywire, things are really crazy. No one knows what is happening or what we are up against"

Listening to the outburst of the feared and worried words of Richard, a glimpse of the newscast in the TV of the coffee shop caught my eye.

"Excuse me can you turn that thing up please?"

[Lady on the news] "Its seems these unknown creatures which are supposed to be a dark bible myth are roaming on the earth attacking innocent civilians and general population at various places in search of something."

"Their recent attack was on a famous romantic restaurant on the east of the town, any which got in the way lost their lives. The authorities seemed to let them do what they want as not getting in their way is their only option to lower death counts."

"What do these vile creatures want? What they have to do with us? Is Armageddon beginning? Has god forgotten us? Are the questions swirling around in the minds of the people of the world?"

"That is the restaurant that Sarah and I often used to go," I silently said to myself

Then suddenly the reaper like scythe bearing creature that I first encountered, jumped behind the woman on TV, caught her head and lift her, the camera operator made a run for it, but other lowly demon like creature that had horns, tails and weapon captures him.

They made some gesture to continue shooting the video; the quick wit camera operator took the hint and focused on the women. Then, a golden aura surrounded her, she twitched and twisted, her eyes rolled back until no pupil was visible even with her eyelids wide stretched. Her tongue came out salivating and dripping. She had this crazy look on her, like a mad dog, like she has been infected by some deadly rabies.

See looked intently from the screen, like she could actually see me, then she spoke in a, in a booming double echoed voice

"We are looking for you David! We will find you human! You have no place amongst us! We will take your soul, ripping it from your flesh and bones! "

After stating the message the thing that held her tossed her up and impaled her on his scythe and crushed her head. Where she threw into a fit gushing blood and dying eventually. Tossing the corpse away, then the scythe came for the camera shredding it and probably killing the cameraman.