She Has No Heart

Posted on May 30 2000, 01:45 AM

Gasp

Cold stank air once again filtered in to the lungs of Morgan Blackflame. IT was very hard to take a single breath. It was if her body no longer wished to live. Morgan slowly began to open her eyes. The light in the room, though very little, beckoned to her to keep her eyes close.
But she eventually opened them. She was in a room, no a temple or great hall. She could not see the ceiling.

Then the stench hit her. She recognized it right off. It was the smell of rotting flesh. Morgan then saw the body to her right. IT appeared to be a male body. IT was crucified up side down. But there was more than that. All of the flesh was missing. The body was all muscle and blood. Lots of blood. Morgan then tried to sit up.

CRACK

Morgan was shocked to see one of her ribs splinter out her side. But what startled her the most was that she felt no pain. She then also realized that she had no clothing on her. To Morgan's horror she also noticed something else.
A maggot was coming out of her breast. Her flesh was barely hanging on to her body. Her skin was a dark gray and her hair was falling out. Her beauty was no more.

She tried to cry, but no tears came, for there were no true eyes anymore. Morgan looked about the room. There were four other crucifixes around her. Forming the points of a pentagram. The other corpses were also stripped of flesh.

Morgan began to wonder. *Is this my tomb? Why has my beloved and master not raised me. By the looks of things I have been here a long time, a very long time.*

Morgan then stood up from the obsidian altar. She began to slowly walk towards the entrance to the room. There was a large wooden door. As Morgan approached the door, it began to open.

"I don't know what all the fuss is about. Yeah She was the head priestess in her day, but she is dead now. Why do we have to keep pouring virgin blood on her..."

"Because Master Malevolence has decreed it. He said that the spell holding her is strong and that this is the only way. Now off to your duties child!"

Morgan watched as a fair young, blond headed woman entered the room.

"AHHHHHH", screamed the woman before she fainted.

The door flung open and a dark robed man walked in. "Lady Morgan, you have awakened! But you are not healed or whole."

Morgan then realized the man was staring at her chest. She looked down to see that a gapping hole was in her and there was no heart. Morgan then vagly remembered being shot in the chest by a necromancer. She knew he was a necromancer but could not recall a name.

Morgan then began to feel uncontrollably hungry. She saw the woman on the ground and made a beeline for her. Morgan knelt beside the woman. She went to lick her lips but her tongue fell out of her mouth. It landed on the woman's face and worms began to crawl out of it.

GASP went the man. For he saw what Morgan did not know was happening. He saw to fangs grow in Morgan's mouth as she instinctively knelt over the woman. He slowly began to back away.

Morgan bit down on the woman's bosom with all her might. She felt the blood spray into her mouth. She hungered for it, she wanted more, she needed more. She began to bite down harder on the woman's breast. Morgan felt life flowing into her...

The man stood in horror. He saw the flesh of his student turn darker and sink into the body like a drained corpse. But he also saw new flesh appear on Morgan. Blood began to flow through her body. Her hair grew back out, but it turned blond. Then in horror he realized that Morgan was changing places with his student.

Morgan then stood up. She looked over her new body. IT was more beautiful than before. Her body curved in all the right places. She looked up at the man. "Fetch me some cloths before I strip the flesh from your body!"

The man ran out of the room in a flash

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"What has happened to me Garroc? And what year is it? For the last time I saw you, you were but a child in the church."

"Master Malevolence said that he knew a ritual that would raise you. However you would not be the same. Your heart was destroyed be the Necromancer. The ritual would corrupt your body to that of a demon's. You will crave blood like a vampire but the sun will not harm you. And of course you cannot be staked for you have no heart. Your skin will be like ice except unto those of your blood and the Master. And you have the ability to take the form off those you devour."

"But I am no longer truly alive anymore either?"

"Nor will you be until you retrieve you heart, which the necromancer stole."

"Very well. So it shall be."

Morgan then turned eye West towards the country of Feldar. "Reign of terror shall begin a new. I will find the Master and join him by his side and find my revenge!"

And Morgan began to walk out of the small temple hidden in the Black Forrest of Torment...