It's dark, pitch black, and you can't see anything, not even your own hand mere inches from your face. The wind is screaming at you, sounding eerie like that of a werewolf howling at the moon and the wind is icy cold like a blizzard making you shiver and numb. It's pooring rain, pelting the ground loudly making slippery mud like silt that sucks at your bare feet as you stand still and as you move around. Thunder crashes so loud it is like a war zone with each sounding boom. Lightning flashes so bright that it is nearly blinding. You're standing on a hard, rocky surface of cold, muddy ground...looking over the edge of a cliff that each lightning flash gives you a quick glimpse of. What you see over the edge looking down, is an endless dark abyss. The abyss begins to brighten into red, hot molten as if an opening in the Earth is letting out the demons and trapped souls of Hell through this opening. You see these creatures ripping at one another and at these poor souls, eating flesh with their sharp teeth covered in blood and using their sharp claws to tear into the damned while they're alive and screaming in blood curdling terror. Some souls see you, they reach for you, begging for help with their eyes, praying for mercy. Only one creature notices you for the others are too busy feasting on the rotting flesh, burnt by the heat. The smell of sulfer and decay in the air, the atmosphere is heavy, the air is thick and stuffy. You struggle to breathe and you freeze in absolute terror. This creature, this demon, it sees you and it starts up the cliff at you. It is attacked by one of its own and you turn to run and find somewhere to hide...you fall in the mud, having slipped, then as you start to get up, something grabs your leg. You pull away, feeling the hot sting of scratches down your calf muscle all the way to the heel of your foot as you slip away from its grasp. You run, but it leaps into the air and knocks you down, pain in your shoulder and on your side. It turns you over and grabs your wrist, so tight it feels like it is breaking. You fight your way from it once again, scratching its face as it is choking you laughing at you. The face with dark sinister eyes of hate, the flesh from its cheek is missing, having been ripped away by another creature, leaving an open wound that is bleeding and reveals bone, the color of its skin is sickly green and murky brown with a pale grey. The skin is a bit loose on a body that is so starved yet strong. One of its horns is broken, leaking puss and blood, torn off during its fight with another creature. You manage to get away again and hide in the tree hollow that you spotted during a flash of lightning. There are large boulders all around up here on the cliff and only a single tree. The hollow is large enough for you to fit and somewhat hidden by a scraggly bush in front of it, one without any leaves, but mere branches that are rough. You stay there hiding in the hollow, hugging your knees not moving, barely breathing. The creature sniffs the air and moves like a wild animal stalking its prey. It is sniffing and looking off into the boulders away from you and you see other creatures up here now too, lurking about. Then as this creature sniffs the air, it stops for a moment, then suddenyl snaps its head to face directly in your direction...and it grins...it grins so evilly that you feel as if your heart could stop. You can't move, you can't run, you can barely breathe as it walks slowly closer, clearly seeing you. Your chest tightens, your throat hurts as it closes, silent tears run down your face and you begin to just pray for help. The creature is almost to you, mere feet away from the hollow that has become a trap. The creature then stops. It stares for a moment but it feels like ages. You then wonder, why has it stopped? You take a deep breath and gulp, then move slightly forward towards the opening of the hollow to look past the bush branches and get an even closer look. You feel confused more than scared now. Then, the demon turns and slowly walks away back towards the cliff edge, disappearing back into the abyss and the others follow. You feel safe again. That is when you wake up gasping and coughing for air, with a faint fould odor around you and you realize you have areas that hurt. You check your leg. There are scratches all up it that are welting and hurt. You gently put your fingers near your throat, it feels tight and sore. Your eyes and cheeks are stinging from tears and you can taste the salt from them. Your nose is running and begins to bleed. You walk into the bathroom and deal with the nose bleed. That is when you notice in the mirror, red marks around your throat. You look down at your wrist and see red marks there as well that appear as if someone or something grabbed your wrist hard. You cry on the bathroom floor for a few minutes and then rinse your face and go back to bed. When morning comes, you get up for a shower and as you are undressing, you notice that the red marks around your neck have vanished but the marks on your wrist have now darkened into bruises. You get a sharp pain in your shoulder and side. You notice red marks there as well, which vanish the following day while the bruises on your wrist remain for a week. You brushed it off as a nightmare but after some time goes by, you start to wonder...was that really a nightmare? Or was I attacked by evil as I slept? Did an angel come to protect me as the demon closed in that final time, is that why it finally left? I had real marks