She came in the night.

She had the upper body of a woman but Her legs were those of an animal. Her eyes, two pits of burning red fire, seemed to bore right into my soul.
Fear paralyzed my limbs as She bent over me, crooked wings spread, long crimson tail twitching with anticipation. Her surprisingly soft black hair fell around Her two impressive horns, coiled around the sides of Her face, and gently caressed my cheek. She smiled at me, revealing a set of menacing fangs, but I felt strangely soothed.

That was up until She dug Her ebony claws into my chest, and ripped them through my body.

The terror tightened its cold fist of steel around my lungs as I struggled to breathe, choking on the blood and bile that bubbled up my throat. Eyes rolling in their sockets, I grabbed frantically at the sticky sheets around me, searching for something, anything to relieve my pain.

But She had other plans for me.

She slowly withdrew Her hand from inside of me, licking the dark liquid that dripped from Her fingers and that pooled around me.
I spluttered and convulsed in a feeble attempt to cry for help, in vain. She turned sharply and I fell silent, unable to tear my gaze away from Her blood red stare, filled with lust, a permanent hunger that ate Her from the inside and demanded to be satisfied.

My suffering was not yet to end.

She dug Her nails deep into my skin, carving up my limbs, carefully peeling off my outer layer in strips, then carelessly tossing them aside. Unable to move, I coughed and whimpered in pain, shuddering as She lay Her claws on me, digging and scratching to reveal muscles tendons and bones.
Her forked tongue flicked from between Her lips as She hungrily lapped up the blood trickling down Her chin, Her cloven hooves leaving deep grooves in the hard wood floor as She moved around my bed.

From the neck down I was a crimson mess, all muscle and tendons oozing with blood and other bodily fluids. I was in agony, screaming in my head for Her to stop, as She flipped me over and violently flayed the skin off my back and buttocks. I tried weakly to drag myself from the bed but She hauled me back, a cry of pain finally escaping my lips as I was thrown onto my back and a coil of intestines slipped out of the gaping hole in my front and landed in a sloppy mess on the floor.

She leaned in close, whispering words of pain, suffering and despair, Her ice cold breath hitting my ear, as She dug Her burning fingernail into my cheek and slowly traced a crimson line around my face and eyes. She then proceeded to slip Her fingers beneath my skin and slowly peel it back. I clenched my lips together hoping to slow Her down but it made no difference, She pulled it clean off, lifting up a mask of my own face triumphantly. She admired it for a moment before tossing it away indifferently, propping my head on a pillow so I could see myself, and pulling off my eyelids with a deft flick of Her wrist, just to be sure.
Unable to blink, tears welling up and streaming down my ruined cheeks, I watched helplessly as She surgically widened the hole in my body, slipping Her clawed fingers inside to root around.
She pulled out whatever she came across, my kidneys, liver, stomach...everything. She uncoiled and cut strips from my intestines which She wrapped around my organs before hanging them from the ceiling. She took Her time, long, excruciating minutes just dragging by. When She was done, a single line of intestine snaked out of my lower body towards the ceiling, coiling around the light that swung gently in the inexistent breeze. Attached to it was Her work of art. Stretching out in all directions was the rest of my digestive system, with my organs hanging down at regular intervals, forming a dripping, bloody canopy above our heads. All that was left of me was an empty sack of meat held together by bones. My ribs had been separated in the middle and pushed out to the sides to reveal a gaping red hole in my chest and all that remained...my heart feebly pumping what blood I had left around my ruined body.

The demon uncoiled Her tongue and with it gently stroked my toes, the forked end moving up my legs, then my chest, caressing the edges of my broken skin, and leaving a trail of scorching saliva up to my cheek.
"Oh but I'm no demon..." She murmured in my ear, whipping Her long appendage back through Her blood caked lips and swallowing greedily.
She laid a searing kiss on my forehead before curling Her fingers around the last organ in my body, as I screamed and screamed in my head, why the hell wasn't I dead yet??
"Why the Hell indeed...", She sniggered, "but you see..", She continued, tightening Her grip, "you already are". And with these final words, an agonizing wail tearing through my throat, She ripped out my heart, the arteries snapping and flailing wildly, spraying blood in all directions. I hiccuped once, my eyes glazed over and I fell, spiraling down into a pit of eternal darkness.

I woke up with a jolt and sat up in bed, pushing back the sheets. I was covered in a cold sweat and trembled slightly, but I sighed with relief. It had all been but a nightmare. I lay back against my pillows, preparing to fall back to sleep, when I heard the familiar creak of my door as it was slowly pushed open, and saw a set of long, slender, clawed fingers curl around the opening. Her eyes glinted red in the darkness of my room and Her fangs flashed white as She opened Her jaws in a wide smirk. Her hooves thudded loudly on the hard wood floor as She moved closer.

She came in the night.