Grabbing The Hot Gate - Episode 13

 

Stella sprawled on the ground, still coughing and gasping for air as Heetah's seemed to tear from within. When someone tried to open the gate, and she opened it, she met no one there. She tried to scan around to see who it was, but Heetah's grip on her throat tightened. She had allowed her emotion take over, now she must pay. When Japheth came around earlier, and she started teaching him, Heetah allowed her to teach him basics of Christianity then directed her to teach him misleading facts about God . The teaching looked real to him; the teaching was for him to believe some facts about God, then her demons would make a lot of things happen to him that would cause him to question and later hate God. They would make him encounter bad occurrences that couldn't be explained with any basic fact of the Bible; thus, he would gradually stop believing in God. 
However, two hours later, the demons torturing Gladys in the underground room informed Heetah, which informed her that Gladys was ready to break. So, Heetah sent a smaller demon to the demon around the lady with whom Japheth was fond of fornicating. The demon made her suddenly find her parents obnoxious and made her go to Japheth's house. While she was on her way, she called him, and Japheth reacted the way she and had planned.
Japheth once told Stella that he had given the girl a key, but he trusted her not to invade his home any longer

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. The demon's job was to compel the girl to think she was so in love with him that she couldn't live without him. The demon had been planting seeds in her mind, and had been waiting for their activation. When it got the command to activate the seeds in her, she made the call that rattled Japheth. And owing to the fact that he felt a need to show his own demon, the girl, that he was freed from her chain, he decided to leave to confront her.
However, when they got to the gate, she saw in Japheth a man that sincerely wanted to have what she also needed: Salvation. She knew Lucifer was lying, but to renounce him at her stage meant a lot, meant her life. But if she gave Japheth what he wanted, his salvation can make God find a way to bring her to Christ, to forgive her. So, she told him what he needed most- the truth.
  'I told you to let him go, didn't I?' Heetah roared from within as he continually tore her from within. It had the right. She had given it the right by accepting it into her soul. It was ripping her flesh from within and was tormenting her with horrible images from her past. She screamed as she was made to see things that had happened to those she loved in her past years. Many of her friends being burnt at the stake by the Roman Catholic Popes for being a witch. She also saw most of her family members and friends being tortured to death with grave illness through her. She cried in distress, but it could only come out as a cough. She sprawled on the floor. 
'You told him the way to get rid of the devil within him'.
 'I'm sorry'.
'I don't need that. I need you to undo what you've done'.
She kept coughing as if she would vomit her stomach. The pain was everywhere in her body. No matter how much she shouted, no one would hear her. She had put a spell on the house that immediately she locked the gate it became soundproof. At least, if it wasn't there, the person that tried to open the gate would get the chance to save her. Now, she was in her own cage, in a place she would die without help. 
'I'll undo it. I'll send Gladys to him...'
Cough.
'She will do my bidding.'
'As if you have any power. I own you. If you think you control me. You know it's a lie. My thoughts are linked to yours, you think what I think', Heetah bellowed loudly from within her, through her voice.
She snapped back into her normal self and screamed, 'I don't want that again'.
'I know it's a lie. You love to remain Satan's eyes and wife. You love the wealth and enjoyed the fact that no other witch is after your life.  That's because I, Heetah, have given you the chance. So that you can do the devil's bidding.'
'I'm sorry'.
'You're still whining like a baby'.
'I hate you. I hate you, Heetah. I hate lord Lucifer'.
 The pain subsided. She crumbled to the ground, panting heavily. Unlike the other times, the pain stuck to her like needles. She staggered up and moved towards the house. Then, she stumbled into the dungeon, where she met Gladys, who looked ragged. Her eyes were puffy from tears. Gladys' hair was scattered. Demons were useless. They have only one job: to destroy. She sat at the edge of the staircase, and burst into tears as she saw the haggard look of the one that would soon become her protégé. Gladys joined her to cry, but this time, because she herself desired freedom. Although she wasn't wailing like Gladys, every part of her cried. She cursed the day her grandmother passed the demon into her. At least her grandmother died in peace, and must be probably in the lake of fire. But she grew up with an insatiable desire like Gladys, and no one had ever met that hunger, no one had gotten to the height of her own hunger. Very soon, Gladys would be the one in charge of that power. She had seen the hunger in Gladys already. Very soon, things would turn sour for her too.                           

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Gladys laid on the floor of the cage, panting and sweating as she fondled her hearing aids. It took her a long while to find. If not for the good quality that characterized Fundel Collections, her cloth would have been torn with the way she was swatting at the Cockroaches and the irritating maggots, and the way she had to escape the sizzling hands of the demons. She had quoted all the scriptures she could and none of them was effective. She tried every means, but wondered why God had forsaken her. She remembered every of Stella's word, but didn't want to agree with her.
'How do you think you've been doing the stuff you've been doing? By the spanking power of the Holy Ghost?' Stella bawled that morning. 'God has forsaken you. You're in our care. Your hedges have been broken and serpents are inside. You've been empty since you were raped by your uncle. All the demon within you did was to make allowance for this'.
 She screamed and begged but nothing happened. Before Stella proceeded to use the demons, she had used every method, but none worked. In fact, she pleaded with Gladys to accept her offer before she used her last resort, but Gladys was adamant. 
When Stella noticed that Gladys was adamant, she did something strange. She drew a pentagram (five-pointed stars) on the floor, and placed a bulky candle on each point of this pentagram. When Stella was putting on a black robe, she felt she had given up on her, and was there to kill her. But when she didn't come to her cage, she scrambled to the edge of the cage to watch her do whatever she wanted to do. Even if watching her wouldn't prevent her from dying, it would give her the chance to see her death whenever it came towards her.
 With a baleful grace, Stella waved her hand and all the candles were lit. Then she started saying something that looked like an incantation. Her voice sounded like howling of bats. 
In her tiredness and weariness, Gladys could only stare at her as she did whatever she did. Gladys was so sure nothing would make her recant her love for God. Without anything being poured in it, the pentagram was suddenly engulfed in murky smokes and a blurry type of light that one sees when one opens one's fridge in the middle of the night. Suddenly, the room smelt of Sulphur. She cowered to the extreme of the cage and covered her nose, but she made sure she watched Stella as she did whatever she did. It was intriguing as well as frightening.  Suddenly a dark monstrous head emerged from the smoke. Gladys batted her eyes thrice, then screamed. With a wave of the hand from Stella, the gate of her cage sprung open. Gladys screamed louder. The demon was huge and stood about 8.5 feet tall. He stared at her as if she was another prey, and it knew how to tear her to pieces as it swayed from side to side. She screamed louder.
'Don't worry, I will not allow it move near you now, but by the time I return and you're not ready I'll release it', Stella said dejectedly as if she didn't want to do it.
Gladys stared from the fang-baring demon to Stella. This woman was definitely joking. There was no way she would leave her with the demon.
'You can't force me. I love God. I'll die and die again before I do this'.
'Good! Keep digging your grave', Stella said as she climbed the stairs out of the underground.
Gladys began hyperventilating as she watched Stella's head disappear. She loved to have a taste of this type of power and ability, but it should come from the right source- God.
'I'm ready'.
 Sister Stella stepped down and stared menacingly at her and shook her head. 'You are not ready. Demon, move forward a bit'.
'No... Not at all. I'm ready. I swear'
 Stella stared at her. Maybe she was reading her thought. Oh! God, I'm sorry, she thought. Stella should see that she was ready. Gladys glanced at Stella and at the fierce demon. There was no fear that had overtaken her like this. What was wrong with this woman? She was a witch and should detect that she was ready? Closing her eyes reminded her that she hadn't gotten the chance to sleep for close to three days.
'I'll be back. Demon stay put'.
'No', she screamed and cowered back against the wall of the cage. 'I'm ready. I'm ready'. Her hearing aid clattered off her ear to the floor, and, even without her hearing aid, the demon's voice roared into her ear.
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Japheth returned home to meet Alexis seating at the edge of a chair in the parlor. A pink traveling bag sat on the floor beside her. Her puffy eyes should have called his attention to her, but he wasn't in the mood to even look at her. He had made sure he fought the gateman for allowing her into the house, and that one had promised to never allow her again.
 'What are you doing here? I told you the last time that we are done and over. That you should never come back here'.
'I can't go'.
'Then you are calling for fire'.
'I need you'.
'You have mental...I'm a Christian. I don' have time for frivolities. I've given my all to Christ. We don't even know one another. In my world, you are darkness and I am the light of the world. The bible says what shall light have to do with darkness?'
'Jaffy, I know you. A dog that knows one before cannot suddenly stop wagging tail at one's presence'.
'One. I'm not a dog, I'm a live-grown man. Two. I'm like the masquerade. I don't know you, but you know me'.
'I don't know what got over me. Since Wednesday, I can't stop thinking about you. I'll do everything you want'.
 'You will?'.
'Yes. I've been studying hard', she unzipped the bag and picked books from the bag. 'I'll be good to my parent. You've made me good to them. I'll be better. See I'm preparing for the University. If my post Utme result comes out well, and I do well, I'll make sure I do well at school'.
'Are you sure?'
'I'll be a Christian'.
'That means you are saying the truth'.
'Good. So what do you want?'
'I want you out of my life'.
'I can't do that. I just can't. My heart is fixed on you'.
'Then, let's get a scissors or blade. Get out. I'll be a Father of a Catholic church soon.

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. I won't have or I can't have sex anymore...'
'I will be a nun in that church. I'll love you. I wasn't always like this. I remember everything you told me after that day. I can't forget them'.
'Get the... Your dirty body out of my house'.
 He pushed her out after he opened the door. 'Get out of my house and my life. I should not see you again'.
'I love you'.
'Shoot me... I'll rather die than love you again'.
'I'll be a changed person for you', she cried as she resisted him. 'I love you'.
'I don't...Get out. Go'.