Chapter 11 The Appearance Of The Leprous Animal Jinn

The jinn taking animal form is a fact no rational person can deny.

Malik opens his apartment door, enters, and closes it. He finds three black animals with red eyes standing before him. Suddenly, an unseen force lifts Malik and hurls him onto his bed.

He doesn't understand what this force is that lifted him and hurled him onto the bed.

Malik lies on his bed and slowly opens his eyes to see three animals standing before him. They transform into the true form of the jinn, a terrifying image. Three bodies unlike humans. They are unusually tall, with red eyes, long noses, and fangs protruding from their mouths. Their appearance is utterly terrifying. Zafer, Nafer, and Dajir.

Zafer: We are three from the world of the jinn. We were banished from our world and given a mission in the human world. We cannot return to our world until the mission is complete. You, Malik, are our human assistant on this mission.

Nafer: When we were banished from the world of the jinn, we found no one but you to help us. Zahir: The first murder we witnessed upon arriving on Earth was the killing of your mother, Noor, so we chose this house to live in. Zafir: Look now and see our story.

He pointed to the wall. The wall was removed, and a window opened onto the world of the jinn, allowing him to see their world and what happened to them in the past. In a world unlike our own, blood is its hallmark, and loyalty its covenant.

Within the realm of the Jinn, King Damur sits on his throne, a guard beside him. The king is larger than all of them, and his appearance more terrifying. He is superior in stature, wearing full regalia and a large, circular crown on his head, resembling the sun, its edges adorned with stars. The guard stands beside him, holding iron ropes wound around his shoulders. Before him lies a vast lake, filled with blood. The lake is circular, its shore black, its edges stained with congealed blood. His Jinn soldiers are all the same: large, long noses, narrow, indistinct red eyes, long horns, and clawed hands. They all wear black cloaks that cover only a portion of their bodies, the rest exposed except for their armholes, which are draped with bits of fabric. They all look to the king, awaiting his commands. They stand in rows around the lake, each holding an empty goblet. The king rises from his throne, looking at his soldiers, and says: "Today is the day..." My birth, which the kingdom celebrates, has been deep within the earth for over eight hundred thousand years.

Therefore, I invite you to drink one cup of the blood of humanity, which I, my ancestors, and my soldiers collected from the blood of humanity, from their graves and their tragedies. We filled this lake with it and waited a thousand years for the blood to ferment without anyone touching it, until it became what it is today. It gives strength and prolongs life. One cup from this lake will extend your lives by a thousand years and increase your strength a thousandfold. Drink, noble sons of the jinn. This is your celebration, which you have awaited for a thousand years. And the lake will retain its drops of blood.

Guard: The King! Drink the blood. Each of you fill your vessel only once. All the elves approached the lake, filled their vessels, and drank the blood, laughing as it dripped from their fangs into their mouths. They all laughed, and the king laughed too.

The king saw three elves filling their vessels again. He pointed to the guard and said,

"Seize them!" The lake suddenly dried up, not a drop of blood remaining, as if the blood had evaporated.

The guards attacked the three who had disobeyed the king's order, standing side by side and drinking for the second time. But the guards couldn't stop them or catch them, and they overpowered all the other elves like themselves. The guards seemed powerless against them.

They had become stronger than them. They had drunk twice from the lake of blood. Their lifespans also increased.

The king intervened, raising his left hand to the sky. Then, pointing at the three, he unleashed iron ropes that wrapped tightly around them, binding them. The king stood glaring at them, his anger evident, and said:

King: You accursed traitors! Leave my kingdom! The covenant has been sealed, and you have drunk two cups, becoming twice as long and strong as your fellow jinn. The lake has dried up because of your actions. In the Old Testament, if anyone breaks my covenant, the lake will dry up, and my kingdom will vanish. You are cursed, cursed, cursed! You are banished from my kingdom to the world of humans until you bring me three cups of blood, so that our lake may be filled with blood once more. Zafer, Nafer, and Dajer, go out to the world of humans and spread death and bloodshed until the three cups are filled with hot blood.

The king's face changed with intense anger, and he breathed forcefully upon them. They vanished from the world of jinn and reappeared in the world of humans. Malik was on his bed. The three jinn, Zafar, Zafar, and Nafar, stand around him.

Zajir: Now that you know why we're in the human world, you must understand why we chose you over your human peers.

Nafar: Because the first murder after our appearance in the human world was the murder of your mother, Noor. We were going to take her hot blood to fill some of our cups, but you hindered us by fighting with your father, Nasser. Her blood became cold and unusable. Blood mustn't be left for even a minute to cool and spoil, otherwise it won't be suitable for filling the cups.

You also prevented Nasser from committing his other crimes. We were going to make it easy for him to kill your sister, Sophia, and you as well, but you ruined our plan. You are guilty, Malik.

Zafir: And because you are guilty, you must complete what Nasser started yourself, Malik. You will kill until the three cups are full. We will help you, and no one will be able to harm you or stop you from achieving your goal. Zafar approaches Malik, tears his shirt, and draws a large disc-shaped tattoo on his chest. A sun with stars on its edges, resembling the stars of the sky, and within it are six-pointed stars.

Zafir says: This is the symbol of protection. You are now under the protection of the jinn, Malik.

Nafir approaches Malik and blows a long breath on him from head to toe, then steps back. Malik's body changes and becomes twice as strong.

Nafir: You have become stronger than humans and have taken on the power of the jinn, Malik.

Dhajir approaches Malik and scratches his finger with his claws, then grabs Malik's hand and scratches his index finger with his claws. Malik trembles. He presses the scratch with his finger.

Dhajir: Now your blood is mixed with the blood of the jinn, Malik. You can summon us if you need to at any time.