Grabbing The Hot Gate - Episode 11

 

 Gladys screamed from the cage Stella had placed her. If she thought the smell of the room was horrid, now it had worsened. Somethings that looked like monkeys were flying all about the room, and were laughing at her. She had repeatedly called the name of Jesus, but she didn't get the reply she wanted. Maybe Stella was right? Maybe she had become another witch? But whatever the case was, she would never comply with her wish, no matter the power Stella wielded . She didn't have time to tend to her injured jaw as she followed the erratic movements of the demons.
Another monkey-like object appeared near her cage, she screamed and crawled away from its fang. Others copied its action and decided to surround her. She yelled. They shrieked and made horrible faces. Some of them had snakes culling around their hands, and emerging from their noses and mouth. The one that was a source of maggots and cockroach placed its hand near her. Maggots and cockroach followed its shriek and began to troupe out of its hand to the floor. She tried to crush them with her feet, but for everyone she killed, three more surfaced.
The ones she crushed would suddenly become liquid and begin to spread to the whole path of the room. For every part they spread to, a new maggot would emerge

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. She shrieked again and pranced as cockroaches began to fly to every part of her body. She brushed them repeatedly as she screamed 'Jesus' as if her body was on fire. Every of her anguish excited the demon the more. Quickly, she hanged on to the head of the cage, and kicked repeated as the demons with the snakes began to direct them to her. This time, her hearing aid was about to drop from her ear, but she couldn't remove one of her hands to replace it.
Like a ray of hope, the door opened and Stella walked down gracefully. She waved at the demons, and they all disappeared. Gladys sighed, dropped and placed her hearing aid firmly into her ears. Immediately she touched the ground, she crawled to the edge and wailed. 
'Please Please Let me go. I swear to God and everything you serve. I will not tell anybody. I promise. Please', she cried. But Stella only came nearer and turned her head as if she was looking at something around her body. Gladys turned about to see what she was staring but couldn't see anything. She grabbed the bar of the cage with her sweaty hands, and poked her head to plead with Stella.
'Are you ready to be a witch?'
'Is it by force? I want to be Christian. Calvary conquered it all, my sins and shame don't.'
'Shut up. God has left you to us'.
'God is'
'Shut up. You are now ours. Become a witch', Stella said as she moved nearer. If Gladys had ever seen anyone with red or bloody eyes before, this would be the first to make her wet her pant. Her body shuddered as Stella moved nearer. 'Accept Lucifer as your lord. Demons have been operating in you since you were a child. Your uncle raped when you were just a child'.
Gladys was surprised at that deceitful statement. 'How will my Uncle rape me? When he died when I was just two?'
'He died because your father killed him when he discovered it. That's why your father drank before his death to keep the information to himself. Even your mother didn't know'.
Shocked, Gladys stared at her, and wondered the pain that would have come from that knowledge.
'So you see that demons existed in you all these while, and would even take lordship of your soul very soon'.
'No'.
'Okay then. Try not to scream, it's like music to their ears', Stella said as she stepped back and snapped her fingers. The demons reappeared and advanced towards the cage. Gladys screamed. How could she not scream, when they lurched at her from different corners. 
'I told you not to scream', Stella shouted as she switched off the light, and locked the door.
The darkness excited the demons and they shrieked. Gladys screamed till her voice was hoarse. She inhaled to catch her breath and to regain her strength as she tried to shout. But she didn't have to catch her breath before something slimy fell on her laps. She shrieked and jumped up.
'No I'm not doing'.
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Stella told her not to scream, but her stubbornness would mess up her beautiful body. If she had accepted her offer, she wouldn't have to go through all these troubles. Now, she would have to go through horrible torture, which she never intended for her first protégé. 
In their world, top and powerful witches know that getting drunk was at the expense of one's life because another powerful witch might decide to strike at that time, but she wasn't ready to care. She checked her protection spells, and strutted to the fridge in the parlor. Then, she grabbed a bottle of Diva Vodka, a glass cup and headed to the front of the television, and began to drink. The demons were under strict instruction from her to only scare but not touch Gladys. Although they might try to be disobedient, Heetah was ready for them. She gulped down another glass cup, and felt the hotness sip through her throat. 
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Japheth saw her in time, and reversed into the darkness of the night. Alexis was going to his house, that night.

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. He was so lucky to have gone to welcome back Mirabel's mother, who had finally returned from taking care of her sister, who was one of those who escaped from the kidnapper unscathed, but was still traumatized by whatever she saw at the place she was kidnapped from.
He watched Alexis enter his compound, and expected her to come out in no time, but after waiting for a long while, he knew he was done for. The moment he saw her, every of his desires to make them both end in bed flooded his mind, and he felt his trousers becoming tighter by the second. He checked his wallet and headed for the nearest hotel in town. He hated his lifestyle, he had to leave home, and move to a hotel to sleep. Tomorrow, Chuks will hear the story of his life.
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Alexis entered the compound and pleaded with the gateman. The man kept pleading with her to leave. She knew he loved her because of what he always got from her, and knew she needed him to allow her to stay. So that God would answer her prayers.
'I will give you what I always give Japheth'.
 The man swallowed hard and stared intently at her. He bit his lower lips and looked over the gate for any ray of light. 
'Quickly, enter', he said and opened the door. He rolled his shirt above his head, which was hanging from his shoulder. She would give him whatever he wanted to see Japheth, anything at all.