The Beast Within :: Creative Writing Essays

The Beast Within         The spawn knelt in the shadows of the corner. His uncertain eyesearching the dark for his prey. A prey he knew truly well, almost too well.     From the end of the stone corridor the spawns ear picked out a singledisturbance. From behind the mask a valets mouth twisted in a smile and a thoughtof satisfaction crossed his mind.         acclivitous to his feet the spawn walked defiantly down the corridor. Hisarmoured boots making no work on the cold floor. A heart that beat no blood,pounded inwardly the unnatural armour of the spawn. At last his mission wasdrawing to a close and so too would this endless torture. The one being trustworthy for his spawning would now ultimately reach its death.      The door was close now, and the spawns soulless eyes peered into the roomfrom the doors barred window. Standing over a bench stood a man. An old man,gnarled with age and working on an intricate machine. To a mortal man the sightwould appear ludicrous. An old, befuddled man could just attract the attentionof such a powerful warrior. merely to the spawns eyes, he only saw the truth.      He didnt see the lines of age which covered the mans face. Nor did he seethe disfigured spine which pushed the mans back into a painful composure. Buthe did see the sentient being within.      To the spawn, what stood in the other room had no dimensions, it glitteredwith a warriors sweat and had an evil which protruded off its hide like deleterious spines. This creature had roamed the aeons sending multitudes ofinnocent children to nothingness before their season.         In ages agone it was know as Ra, god of the sun, then it was known asXeues. nevertheless a thousand years ago they called him a Dragon, and now, he was knownas a scientist. Figure heads for the world, able to control the elements totheir wishes.      But today, it was time for the creature to end its cultivation of evil onearth. One man who the beast had killed had refused to die. By sheer power ofwill he had re-spawned to scram the Spawn, and now, after centuries of silentfollowing had finally decided that plentiful was enough      Kicking open the barred door the Spawn raised his pit blade in a warriorssalute and cried, Your time is up beast Never again will you commit crimesagainst humanity With this sword I commit your body to the flames The spawns