Two glowing red eyes peered out from beneath the bed. They watched as two kids ran around the small bedroom, toys in hand, pretending they were airplane pilots. Narrowing, the red eyes glowered until a voice called for the kids from outside the room.

Dropping their toys, both children giggled and ran out of the room. They seemed blissfully unaware of the eyes watching their every move. The instant they left the room, the eyes focused on a lone sock on the ground by a messy laundry hamper with clothes spilling out the side.

In a flash, a dark shadow passed over the room and the sock disappeared. Meanwhile, under the bed, a deep voice cackled. Reatreating to the darkest corner under the bed, a small demon shivered and crawled into the sock. With a sigh of relief, the demon stopped shivering and closed his eyes.

Having drifted into a restful slumber, the demon snored softly. He didn’t even wake when the humans entered the room. They weren’t the usual humans that the demon had grown accustomed to, but two older men in white and black robes.

They walked around the room chanting and sprinkling water, which burned into the demons skin through the sock when it was splashed under the bed. Shuddering, the demon awoke with a hiss. The men gasped and began chanting while throwing more water at the demon.

Crying, the demon howled in pain. It convulsed as th words and water caused searing pain to shoot through its entire body. With a scream of agony, it rolled out of the sock and launched itself at the closest man.

With a scream, the man staggered backwards and stopped chanting, easing the pain of the demon, but that wasn’t enough. The demon’s eyes burned bright red as it leaned over the man and sucked is soul out of his body in an instant.

The other man screamed and threw a bucket of holy water at the demon, but the demon was able to roll out of the way. As the water splattered on the wall, some of it splashed the demon. With a screech the demon sprang forward and consumed the other man’s soul. Growing slightly larger, the demon stepped over the contorted faces of the two old men and retreated under the bed.

It tried to crawl back into the child’s sock, but it was still damp with holy water that burned the demon’s hand. Howling in frustration, the demon smacked the sock and began to shiver. Then, the normal humans entered the room.

The two grown humans screamed and fled, but the two kids stared at the demon shivering under their bed. Backing away slowly, they disappeared into the hall for a moment. They returned a minute later with a large sock from their dads bedroom.

Their eyes wide with wonder, the two small kids walked across their bedroom and placed the sock on the ground with trembling hands. Shivering, the demon’s head perked up as they approached. It hissed before realizing that they were already backing away from it, leaving the sock near the edge of the bed.

With tripidation, the demon slowly crawled towards the sock. Looking up at the children, it make a purring noise much like a cat; then, it snatched the sock and retreated back under the bed. Slipping into the sock, it stopped shivering and sighed.

Drifting back to sleep, the demon nuzzled into the sock. The two kids didn’t return that night, or any other night, but the demon found a large black sock waiting for it at the edge of the bed each morning. Grateful, it spent its days slumbering in peace in a cozy sock.