The Devils Game (standard:horror, 26379 words)
Author: Mark Tival	Added: Sep 04 2007	Views/Reads: 3178/2275	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The Devil hunting down a select few in a twisted game where only he knows the rules

The Devils Game 

Some people think that the nice guy always wins. They believe that the
evil always gets its just desert. They know that it will always be 
alright in the end. Some times they're wrong. The Devil never looses. 
Not at his game. 

It was the fifth night of his hunting the pray that would set him free
of this curse. The 'game' it called it. The voice hadn't spoke to him 
for a little while. Not since it had been released any way. That was 
ten days ago by Johns reckoning. Tens days of almost no sleep, the fear 
of the feeling of it getting closer and closer building with in him. It 
was getting closer; he could feel it, the imprint of its fear stuck in 
his mind telling him, cutting through his blind panic making his bowls 
loosen. This however was the last of his ‘game'. The last person that 
he had to hunt, yes hunt was the word, as good as any John decided. 
Stalking too would be a good one if he was talking about the last few 
days out. It was a cold night, cold like the voice that cut through his 
head telling him what to do to end it. He moved, the moon momentarily 
obscured by cloud helping cover his movements. His breath barely 
visible in the shadows that he hid, as much for his own safety as not 
to be seen. The man below him, moved carefully in the dark as if trying 
not to be seen unaware of his watcher. It was always the fact that you 
could watch them and they couldn't watch you that gave John his thrill. 
For three nights now he'd followed the footsteps of the man, eventually 
finding him running through the woods a few days ago his mind lost to 
all sane thoughts pushed over the edge by the fear of what was hunting 
them. He was looking for some thing, John knew it, and he was scared 
shitless, looking over his shoulder every few seconds. John had spent 
the last few days knowing time was running out stalking the man as he 
ran away, far from the car crash he had left. It was hunting him too. 
John knew from the look in the mans eyes. He was part of the game. The 
last piece. John crouched behind a car and continued to watch his prey 
with out being aware that he was being watched himself his tiredness 
stopping his feelings that he normally had. The feelings that had kept 
him safe and yet had signaled his doom. The man had for some days now 
in John's minds eye shown that he was the man he was looking for. He 
had not stopped moving, from small town to small town. John new he was 
looking for some thing. Some thing that was missing in all the other 
small places the man had taken him too. The man continued to run the 
darkness keeping his face from being seen. John however knew what he 
looked like. He had seen him, the fear in the mans eyes piercing into 
the deepest depths of his soul telling him he was the one he hunted. 
The man was part of the game. The man continued to move looking 
nervously behind him every few seconds, more now so than he had before 
as if what was hunting them both was moving closer. The thought didn't 
enter Johns mind. Had he noticed it he might have been safe for a 
little while longer. He didn't. The thought of what he would do next 
sent a thrill of power through Johns mind blinding him to his usual 
senses. His sense that would have kept him alive just a bit longer. He 
was going to us a power that he wouldn't be allowed to have in the day. 
In the day, before the game had been forced to run, they usually saw 
him, their screams leading to him nearly being caught many times. but 
not here in the dark oh no way Jose. A flash of movement in the back of 
Johns mind should have warned him but Johns mind was on other things 
and he didn't register it. His mind was focused on the man in front of 
him only. If only it wasn't he might have lived just a bit longer. In 
the night he became the master. In the night he could do what he wanted 
and he did just that. The man for no reason that John could see 
suddenly running through the dimly lit streets twisting his head behind 
him his breathing coming out in short sharp breaths, was a well built 
man with graying hair that had once been a deep black. His next target. 
The final one he needed. The last before he would be safe from the 
hunter. The beast, black as night. Its fear filling his mind making him 
think of nothing else for so many days. The feeling of it getting 
closer. The man though was the last one. After this, he would be safe. 
He could afford to enjoy this one. The beasts presence hadn't been in 
his mind for some days now. He had finally left it behind.  John could 
do what he did best; stalk. Watch. The word filled him with a thrill 
that was echoed by the lump in his trousers. How many times in his 
youth had he just sat there and for the thrill of it relieved himself 
over some one he was watching, man or woman it didn't matter to him, 
just the fact that they couldn't see him sent him into spasms of 
excitement. The man started to move and John prepared to move with him. 
He moved father along the street his steps echoing off the silent 


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