TW: contains violence, blood and gore, not for the faint of heart

Chapter 7: ‘the night before’

Joseph hissed, fur standing up and tail swishing.

Covered in fog, Isak was in front of Cass and Joseph breaking into the Graves’ family mausoleum, which was dug into the hill in the Midnite City cemetery.

He was knelt fiddling with a hefty padlock purposely ignoring them, Isak tutted, gripped it and crushed it in his fist. He stood up and turned towards them, dropped the padlock to earth where with a thunk it stuck in the wet grassy earth.

Cassandra grinned, ‘Joseph hates demons, but you are not one are you?’

Isak strode through the fog, his human body suit broke through first, the body he had chosen was that of a male news reporter that had been shot and murdered recently, ‘Simon Colter’, Isak mouthed, pointing to an open grave to his far right.

Simon was 5 ft 8, black shoulder length hair, wide shoulders, neck and chest covered in Latin and scripture tattoos, stocky chest as well as legs like tree trunks.

Isak arrived after, as a deep red glow came through Simon’s brown eyes, the ghoul, awkwardly manipulating the human’s body like one would try and move an ill fitting jacket.

Joseph settled and prowled around the cemetery, making his way to the open grave that Simon had once inhabited.

Cass, sighed and pulled out a potion, containing a black and red viscous liquid in a lab vial shaped container.

‘I arrived here thinking I would be finding the voodoo doctor that had brought Carl back’, she twirled the vial between her fingers on her right hand, ‘all i have here is some lackey that Morgana Graves summoned’.

She tilted her head to one side and smirked as Isak tried to make Simon speak.

‘I am just a tool’, Isak growled through Simon’s lips.

Joseph had rummaged around Simon’s grave and had found a scroll that had been left inside his casket. He ran back over, with the scroll in his mouth and leapt onto Cass’s shoulder and dropped into her empty hand.

Isak growled again and took a step forward, Cass tutted and gripped her potion in a fist.

He lunged for her, she rolled her eyes and in one fluid moment smashed Isak over the head with the Vial, with a smash the red and black viscous liquid spilled over Simon’s features and proceeded to dissolve the hair, skin and muscle around his skull and neck.

Cass stood back observing her potion working, Joseph meows loudly, Isak tried to speak again but just ended up spitting muscle and tissue in her direction, Simon’s top and bottom lips ended up at Cass’s feet, the rest of Simon’s face peeled away and formed a collar around Simon’s now skeletal features like some gory orchid.

The potion had stopped, ‘what did you try and say?’, Sniffed Cass, at least it doesn't smell she thought.

Simon’s skull grinned, happy to not have the skin prohibiting Isak from speech.

‘The Great equaliser is on his way’, Isak spouted though boney jaws before falling over.

‘OH’ Cass dropped to the grass as Simon’s body exploded as it hit the ground in a bloody explosion of gore and bone, covering the witch in crimson and viscera.

Joseph laughed, Cass looked at him and shook her head ‘I forgot about that part’.

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