The Host

I sprint down the street, as the hoard of masked beings spray their acidic, green venom at me, melting the back of my jacket, and scorching my back with the toxic fluid. I take off my jacket, drenched in the fluid, and throw it away, hoping it'll at least buy me a few seconds, but they turn it to goo before it even hits them. No luck.

As I keep running, the road begins to change. The houses I dash by begin to grow less frequent, and the grass and trees begin to thin out. The road itself begins to change as well. It begins to become more of a brown color as the sky darkens until I find myself approaching some sort of massive wooden tunnel. There's an incline before I enter, leaving me standing on what appears yo be a massive wooden table in a dark, dimly lit room. Candle light fills the area as the masked follow me, closing in. Massive bottles of booze and food are in the table that I have to avoid.

I vault over a giant loaf of bread, slip between the space between two hams, and go around a giant pie, which the masked, clawing over one another like a mass of flesh, venom, and malice, simply push out of their way. They grow ever closer until I reach the end of a table, where a man in a party hat, wearing a wedding tuxedo, a pair of new year's glasses, having tan skin, white hair, green eyes, and standing thirty feet tall, smirks, and greets me chugging a bottle of beer, "I am Revelery. Devil of drugs, and I am the ruler of this land."

The masked stop, leaving me between a rock and a hard place to say the least.

"I'm not looking for trouble," I explain, "I'm just passing through."

"Well you got trouble kid!" Revelery exclaims, rage in his eyes and he slams his fist on the table, knocking me off my feet, "you think you can tell the masked what to do? Who cares about all that shit you said? Nobody! You're just a little, snot-nosed brat who's in way over his head."

Revelery smirks, grabbing a wine bottle, but holding it upside-down, as if he's about to hit someone with it. I think that someone is gonna be me...

"You should learn the truth child!" Revelery howls with laughter, "the masked rule the world and nobody cares! Devils are your God now! I am Revelery, Devil of drugs! I am the host of this endless party! I rule the world!"

He slams the bottle down on me, but instead of wine, it's filled with acid. I scream as the burning, shooting pain spreads throughout my body, my flesh melting off my bones before my eyes until...

"Leo wake up!" A voice exclaims. I awaken to my mom shaking me.

"Are you OK?" She asks.

"I'm alright," I reply yawning, "just had that dream again."

"Yeah that's why I woke you up," mom explains, "you seemed really disturbed by it and frankly, I got worried. Are you OK?"

"I'm fine," I reply getting up, "but thanks."

"OK," mom smiles, "remember, if you ever need to talk about anything, I'm here."

"Thanks mom," I smile.

"Well," mom begins towards the door, "you go ahead and get ready for the day. Breakfast is almost ready."

With that and a kind smile, mom leaves the room. I get on a pair of jeans and a grey long sleeved shirt and reach for my jacket...

The thing is ripped to shreds...

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