What Hell May Come

What Hell May Come

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By:  Crystal Lake PublishingCompleted
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Based on the untrue writings of the Satanic Panic. The Satanic Panic was a moral outcry in the United States over supposed “satanic” influence in media that were warping the youth of America. Claims that playing an elf in Dungeons and Dragons could lead to demonic possession, that playing heavy metal music backwards would reveal satanic messages, and that therapists could uncover repressed memories of satanic ritual abuse, were all too common. Volumes and volumes of material were produced on this fake subject. These texts lead to What Hell May Come, which takes a look at what the world would actually be like if all of the claims of the satanic panic were true. Set in 1986, Jon St. Fond’s life is a living Hell. Deliberately abused and neglected by his parents, the only joy he has in life is an escape into a fantasy land of role playing games. Soon he discovers that his parents are part of a secret occult religion with hidden ties all across the world. As Jon and his friends dig, they learn more of the secret history of the world and discover the power of making deals with creatures from Beyond. However, power has its price, as Jon and his friends quickly discover. One-by-one they begin to become consumed by their own desires and hatreds. Jon learns there is method behind the madness of his life, as his Father begins to bring him closer and closer into the ways of the cult. Ultimately, Jon must make a choice between all the pleasures of the earth and the future of his soul. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

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Chapter 1

Prologue

Wenny Cladia mengetahui bahwa suaminya Hendro Jamil telah berselingkuh.

Dia berselingkuh dengan seorang mahasiswi.

Hari ini ulang tahun Hendro, Wenny telah menyiapkan hidangan di atas meja. Tiba-tiba terdengar suara "ding", ponsel Hendro yang tertinggal di rumah berdering, Wenny melihat pesan teks yang dikirim oleh mahasiswi itu.

[Aku terbentur saat mengambil kue. Sakit banget.]

Terlampir swafoto di bawah.

Foto tersebut tidak memperlihatkan wajah, hanya kaki saja.

Gadis di dalam foto mengenakan kaus kaki putih dan sepatu kulit hitam. Rok biru putihnya ditarik ke atas, memperlihatkan sepasang kaki yang ramping dan indah.

Lututnya benaran memar, tubuh gadis muda serta kata-kata manis memancarkan godaan.

Dikatakan bos perusahaan yang sukses suka memilih gadis seperti ini untuk dijadikan simpanan.

Wenny memegang ponsel itu dengan sangat erat.

Ding.

Mahasiswi itu mengirim pesan teks lagi.

[Pak Hendro, mari kita bertemu di Hotel Wima. Aku ingin merayakan ulang tahunmu malam ini...]

Hari ini ulang tahun Hendro, selingkuhannya ingin merayakan ulang tahunnya.

Wenny mengambil tasnya dan bergegas menuju Hotel Wima.

Dia ingin melihat dengan mata kepalanya sendiri.

Dia ingin melihat siapa mahasiswi ini!

...

Setelah tiba di Hotel Wima, Wenny ingin masuk.

Namun, dia melihat kedua orang tuanya, Andy Cladia dan Landy Salim. Wenny melangkah maju dengan terkejut, "Ayah, Bu, kenapa kalian di sini?"

Andy dan Landy terkejut. Mereka saling memandang dan berkata, "Wenny, adikmu baru pulang dari luar negeri. Kami mengantarnya ke sini."

‘Hana Cladia?’

Wenny tertegun ketika melihat Hana melalui jendela.

Hana yang berada di dalam mengenakan rok biru putih yang dikenakan mahasiswi, persis seperti di dalam foto.

Ternyata mahasiswi itu adiknya, Hana.

Hana sangat cantik dan dikenal sebagai mawar merah di Kota Livia. Dia memiliki sepasang kaki terindah di Kota Livia. Banyak pria yang jatuh cinta padanya.

Kini, adiknya sedang menggodai kakak iparnya dengan sepasang kakinya yang indah.

Wenny merasa konyol. Dia menoleh Andy dan Landy. "Sepertinya akulah orang terakhir yang mengetahuinya."

Andy berkata dengan canggung, "Wenny, Pak Hendro sama sekali tidak menyukaimu."

Landy, "Ya, Wenny. Apa kamu tahu berapa banyak wanita di Kota Livia yang tertarik sama Pak Hendro? Daripada bersama wanita lain, kenapa tidak berikan saja pada adikmu?"

Wenny mengepalkan tangannya, "Ayah, Bu, aku juga putri kalian!"

Wenny pun pergi.

Landy tiba-tiba berkata dari belakang, "Wenny, apakah Pak Hendro pernah menyentuhmu?"

Wenny tertegun.

Andy berkata dengan tegas, "Wenny, jangan kira kami berutang padamu. Saat itu, Pak Hendro dan Hana memang dikenal sebagai pasangan serasi, tetapi Pak Hendro mengalami kecelakaan dan menjadi vegetatif, jadi kami memintamu untuk menikah dengannya."

Landy menatap Wenny dengan jijik, "Wenny, lihatlah dirimu sendiri. Dalam tiga tahun pernikahan, kamu hanya seorang ibu rumah tangga yang bergantung pada suami, sementara Hana sudah menjadi penari balet utama. Seorang wanita jelek dan putri cantik. Bagaimana kamu bisa berbanding dengan Hana? Segera kembalikan Pak Hendro ke Hana!"

Kata-kata ini menyakiti hati Wenny, dia pergi dengan air mata berlinang.

...

Ketika Wenny kembali ke vila, hari sudah gelap. Mbak Nur sedang libur. Hanya Wenny sendiri di rumah. Lampu tidak dinyalakan, jadi suasana menjadi gelap dan sepi.

Wenny duduk sendirian di meja makan dalam kegelapan.

Makanan lezat di atas meja sudah dingin, ada juga kue yang dibuatnya sendiri, dengan tulisan "Selamat ulang tahun, Sayang".

Wenny merasa kesal. Semua ini tampak konyol seperti dirinya sendiri.

Hendro dan Hana dikenal sebagai pasangan serasi. Semua orang tahu bahwa si Hana adalah kekasih Hendro. Namun, kecelakaan mendadak yang terjadi tiga tahun lalu membuat Hendro menjadi vegetatif, Hana pun menghilang.

Saat itu, Keluarga Cladia membawa Wenny kembali dari pedesaan dan memaksanya untuk menikah dengan Hendro, seorang pria koma.

Begitu mengetahui bahwa pria itu adalah Hendro, pria yang selalu dicintainya, Wenny menikahinya dengan senang hati.

Setelah menikah, Hendro berada dalam kondisi vegetatif selama tiga tahun. Selama tiga tahun ini, Wenny merawatnya dengan sepenuh hati, tanpa keluar rumah dan bersosialisasi. Wenny mengabdikan diri untuk merawatnya dan fokus menjadi seorang ibu rumah tangga. Akhirnya, Hendro pun sadar kembali.

Wenny mengeluarkan mancis dan menyalakan lilin.

Cahaya redup dipancarkan, Wenny menatap seorang ibu rumah tangga di dalam cermin, yang selalu mengenakan gaun hitam putih, kuno dan membosankan.

Hana, yang telah menjadi penari utama balet selama tiga tahun ini, tampak muda, lincah dan cantik.

Dirinya hanya seorang wanita jelek.

Hana itu putri cantik.

Setelah sadar, Hendro kembali bersama putri cantik dan meninggalkan si wanita jelek.

Tiga tahun ini sungguh tersia-sia.

Hendro tidak mencintainya, tetapi Wenny mencintai Hendro.

Konon katanya, orang yang duluan jatuh cinta ditakdirkan menjadi pecundang. Hari ini, Hendro membuatnya kalah telak.

Mata Wenny berkaca-kaca, lalu dia meniup lilinnya.

Seluruh vila jatuh kembali ke dalam kegelapan.

Pada saat ini, lampu mobil tiba-tiba bersinar dari luar, mobil Rolls-Royce Phantom milik Hendro melaju kencang dan berhenti di halaman.

Tubuh Wenny sedikit gemetar, ternyata dia pulang.

Wenny menyangka Hendro tidak akan pulang malam ini.

Tak lama kemudian pintu vila terbuka, terlihat sosok tampan nan anggun dengan embun malam yang sejuk di luar. Hendro pulang.

Keluarga Jamil merupakan keluarga bangsawan di Kota Livia. Sebagai pangeran dari Keluarga Jamil, Hendro memiliki bakat bisnis yang luar biasa sejak kecil. Dia memperoleh dua gelar master dari Harvard pada usia 16 tahun. Kemudian, dia mendaftarkan perusahaan pertamanya di Lagas dan menjadi terkenal. Setelah pulang, Hendro secara resmi mengambil alih Keluarga Jamil dan menjadi orang terkaya di Kota Livia.

Hendro melangkah masuk. Suaranya yang dalam terdengar acuh tak acuh. "Kenapa tidak nyalain lampu?"

Pop.

Hendro mengulurkan tangan, menyalakan lampu dinding.

Cahaya terang membuat Wenny memejamkan matanya sejenak. Ketika membuka matanya lagi, Wenny menatap Hendro.

Hendro mengenakan jas hitam buatan khusus. Dia tampan, dengan sosoknya yang sempurna serta sikap tenang dan bermartabat. Dia telah membuat banyak wanita terpesona olehnya.

Wenny menatapnya dan berkata, "Hari ini ulang tahunmu."

Tidak ada emosi di wajah Hendro. Dia hanya melirik meja makan dengan malas, "Lain kali jangan buang waktu. Aku tidak rayain ulang tahun."

Wenny tersenyum dan bertanya balik, "Kamu tidak rayain, atau tidak mau rayain denganku?"

Hendro menatapnya dengan sangat acuh tak acuh, seolah-olah tidak ingin membuang waktu padanya. "Terserah apa yang kamu pikirkan."

Setelah berkata demikian, Hendro melangkah ke atas.

Hendro selalu bersikap seperti ini padanya.

Wenny tetap tidak bisa menghangatkan hatinya.

Wenny berdiri, menatap punggungnya sambil berkata, "Hari ini ulang tahunmu, aku ingin memberimu hadiah ulang tahun."

Hendro tidak berhenti atau menoleh ke belakang, "Tidak perlu."

Wenny tersenyum dan perlahan mengangkat sudut bibirnya, "Hendro, ayo kita bercerai."

Hendro baru saja menginjakkan kakinya di tangga, langsung tertegun. Dia berbalik, tatapannya tertuju pada Wenny.
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16 Chapters
Prologue
PROLOGUEThe ritual had taken eighty-one days.They were at it for more than a quarter of a year.Eighty-one days of smoke, and animal shrieks, and groans of pleasure, and spilled blood. Months of heady incense burning. The occasional hallucinogen was tossed into the mixture, turning the world into a fever dream. Weeks of chanting. The constant intonation fell behind the ears and awoke powers in the subconscious. Robed heroes of all races and classes came and went, adding to the celebration, until they collapsed and were dragged off to recuperate.Crixen Runeburner, elf mage, had been there for all of it. The chanting, the killing, the sex. He had cast down enemies, seen proud heroes fall, and evaded all magical traps to come here at this time. Many adventures across bleak and alien landscapes had led him to this ancient crypt. He had faced dagger fanged monsters, green skinned humans with cruel blades, and pale shadows of the formerly alive. All of these he had struck down to reac
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Chapter 1: Do Unto Others First
CHAPTER 1Do Unto Others FirstEvil had always been in Jon St. Fond’s life. Lurking behind the wallpaper. Breathing down vents. He would turn quickly and in the span of an eye blink, the beast would be there. A horned shadow on the wall, a cold dusk of air, a tail slap on the door, a fallen picture frame, a deformed insect scuttling over the ceiling. It was there.Right now, he couldn’t care about any of that. Right now, Jon was kicking open the screen door at the back of his parents’ suburban home and bringing something cupped in his hands over to the sink. He placed it gently into the basin and wrapped a hand towel around it.It was the end of Indian summer in 1986. School had just started up and all of the anxieties that went with being a teen in the ‘80s plagued Jon. Lack of social graces, teenage awkwardness, no money—all these bothered him, but none of his problems loomed as large as his family.Jon heard a sharp intake of breath. The warning “Oooooo,” of his snitchy little
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Chapter 2: The Tragedy of Man
CHAPTER 2The Tragedy of ManBuffalo was the faded queen of old New York, the leftovers of an industrial era ground to shit. It had once been a showpiece of culture and success, industry and shipping, where the working slobs could pull down beer money and the educated snobs could twitter their noses at a host of artistic feasts. It wasn’t fully gone, but the city was quickly fading into a new Detroit or Baltimore—hubs of corruption and squalor. As opportunity slowly leaked away, so did Buffalo’s best and brightest. More and more vanished each year, leaving behind only those who were too lazy or stupid to get the hell out. Nowadays, all the city had to boast about was a chronically losing football team and the invention of Buffalo wings.If the city proper was that bad, Jon’s home of Black Rock, the area he now pedaled through, was its retarded cousin. Once the berg had been a commercial rival for its dominant sister and had nearly been the chosen terminus of the Erie Canal. The War
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Chapter 3: What Rough Beast
CHAPTER 3What Rough BeastFather found him on the way back from Kathy’s house.A town car, freshly minted and fully loaded, pulled up to Jon on an empty street. It sparkled under the streetlights and the yellow eyes of its driver sparkled along with it. Jon’s father stepped out. Well-muscled and trim, he was always perfectly dressed with neat crisp lines. He never seemed to sweat or get dirty. He always knew what to say and how to act, to get what he wanted. Perfection clung naturally to him. From that perfection came a confidence Jon could never hope for.Punishment was looming. Mother found the problems. Father corrected them. He towered over Jon like a giant. The teen shrank under his shadow. The elder fixed him with his eyes, seeming to drink in Jon’s every weakness before saying, “So you didn’t do as you were ordered.”He let that dangle like a viper between them.“What do you have to say for yourself?”Jon’s head hung down, his ball cap shading all but the lower jut of hi
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Chapter 4: The Judas Goat
CHAPTER 4The Judas GoatJon woke with a start on Michael’s bedroom floor. The grungy shag carpeting had scored a number of macaroni-sized ruts in his face. The usual disorders of not knowing where he was claimed him for a second, but his senses took in reality quick enough. The stink of yesterday’s clothes, hard particles of crud from a carpet that had never been vacuumed, stale air from an unventilated room.A typical teenage boy’s room. Iron Maiden posters on the wall. A pile of dirty laundry in the closet. A tottering stack of well-read comics next to the bed. Porno mags hidden under the bed. Trashcan filled to the brim. Loose leaf paper, pens, spiral notebooks, backpack. Textbooks with a brown paper bag cover to minimize damage. Not much different from his own, except the furniture was more ragged.He shook the sleep from his face. Michael was elsewhere, which was just as well, Jon needed to scratch his balls and didn’t want anyone around for that. After the game last night, w
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Chapter 5: Sign of the Beast
CHAPTER 5Sign of the BeastHe stayed with Michael the next two nights, at the latter’s insistence. Jon didn’t need much of an arm twisting. Where else did he have to go? Michael’s parents didn’t want him there, but they paid so little attention it was easy to sneak by. The dad got up early to go to his job repairing conveyor belts, while the mom ran out soon after for her job as a crossing guard at the elementary school. Most nights, they went out bowling after a fast-food meal. Meanwhile, Michael’s brother was always high or in the process of getting high, so he didn’t care. He just stayed in the room reading comics when the parents were home, then scavenged for food afterwards.It couldn’t last, though. What was he to do? Become some kind of homeless derelict, eating garbage and collecting aluminum cans? There was no job he could get above minimum wage. Even if he could work full-time, he would be living out of an abandoned car or with ten other guys in a fly-trap college flop. E
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Chapter 6: Blessed are the Bold
CHAPTER 6Blessed are the Bold“The name means Hill of the Ghouls. Isn’t that messed up?”The black van clunked on through the fading light of day. It was All Hallow’s Eve and rather than get drunk and steal candy from children like their peers, Jon and friends were bundled away in warm winter gear and passing around a bottle of scotch Kathy had stolen from her parents’ liquor stock.“How much longer, you reckon?” Louis asked.“Soon. Maybe twenty more minutes,” Michael answered from the driver’s seat.“You actually been there?”“Uh . . . ”“That’s what I done figured.”“Hey, I got a road atlas.” He hefted up a massive spiral notebook filled with the finest AAA maps. “It’s current. Came out last year. I know where I’m going.”Michael lapsed back into discussing the fanciful and grotesque history of Goodleburg Cemetery, their ultimate destination. Jon only tuned in with half an ear, since he knew the first thing Michael said was untrue. The place was named after one o
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Chapter 7: Hammer or Anvil?
CHAPTER 7Hammer or Anvil?“They do not listen, but they hearCowards who strut like a buccaneerThey’re committed to evil,Their soul’s past retrieval; You’re the devil’s puppet, I fear.”That was Michael’s opening line as they drank coffee and ate scumdogs at one of the innumerable all-night Greek diners riddling the area. After the coffee was dropped off, he had dumped twelve creamers into it and churned the mixture slowly with a spoon, turning the black liquid light tan. He refused to tear his eyes away from the vortex being created in the middle of the cup.Jon bit into the scumdog. The specialty of the house. Onions, eye-watering mustard, hot sauce, and some kind of Greek glop were ground together into a lumpy greyish-brown paste and dumped over a lonely hot dog. It needed to be eaten fast as the concoction had a tendency to dissolve the bun into a sticky blob. The mixture sounded disgusting, but damn it tasted good. Hurt going out the end, though, especially after about f
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Chapter 8: Snakeland
CHAPTER 8SnakelandMichael claimed he was fatigued, so they agreed to meet after school the next day to attempt contacting Brian Elder. The school day stretched on at an agonizing pace, until that blessed final bell released them all from captivity.The day would’ve easily been forgotten, tossed into the lump of other boring days in their memory, except they were about to leave the building with a gaggle of Italians, led by the snarling Gabbaducci. As usual, the girls followed. Jon’s nightly fantasy girl was among them.“I heard you’ve been telling people that I’m a faggot,” Gabbaducci yelled at Michael. His nose bumped Michael’s.“I . . . I didn’t.”And of course, he hadn’t. It’s just that the boy wanted to fight and rather than find a reason, he manufactured one to justify his assholeishness.Gabbaducci slammed Michael’s head into the wall.“You want to fuck me in the ass? How ‘bout I do it to you and we’ll see who’s the queer.” He punched Michael in the nuts and s
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Chapter 9: Drowning the Ceremony of Innocence
CHAPTER 9Drowning the Ceremony of InnocenceOn the way out, Jon was subjected to all the nocturnal haunts exactly as what happened at Goodleburg Cemetery. With every blink, a new horror filled his sight. It was so ghastly he nearly fell through a hole in the floor. Michael needed to guide him down the treacherous stairs. He asked questions all the way about what Jon saw.As had happened at the cemetery, visions of evil clouded his senses. Up and down the structure, people from different times and fashions committed vile acts. Beatings, thefts, rapes, and murders viciously played out around him. Dark creatures with indistinct features floated all around. Dark tendrils, rippling with profane power, rubbed over the evil doers, transferring a joy of sin to the men.A spectral Brian Elder was on the bottom floor of the grain elevator, dressed in the style of the 1920s. He had pinned down one of the demonic things and was sucking power from it via a paper straw punctured into its skull.
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