Evil Lord

## Evil Lord: by kardamaHHmoon or eloisekardama

Brandon was a man who lived at the time when cowboys of the old west existed, he loved his small town where he lived, everyone liked him and he the same. One of his hobbies was reading storybooks of ancient legends that he even believed in some, and he was usually investigating with his friends even though they took it as a joke. One night he went horseback riding with his mother and his younger cousin, halfway through a cave, near there, Brandon was looking more closely at the cave and sees a silhouette of a strange figure, he proposes that it is a woman by the hair, but very strange, distracted he gets scared with his mother's hand calling his attention and then when he saw the cave again, the silhouette suddenly disappears, Brandon was bothered by this but took it as just in his head or it was because of the heat. A few more days passed, Brandon started to act strange, it seemed that he was very paranoid, scandalous and disturbed, this worried his father and so he decided to talk to him alone.

In the conversation, Brandon could not correctly describe what he really feels, even so he showed that he was afraid of losing someone else as he lost his uncle who was mysteriously murdered, he was completely afraid of being alone, his father clearly realized that he needed someone to be close to him, so he stayed with his son long enough for him to feel safe. Happiness is never forever, Brandon ended up getting Tuberculosis, at that time there was still no cure, he was already accepting his destiny, his father was desperate, what hurt his heart the most is his beloved son thanking him for experiencing all the moments he experienced with him, his mother and his cousin, with those last words, he closed his eyes completely.

His father was frozen perplexed, the sparkle in his eyes disappeared completely and I hug Brandon's body until dawn. There was Charles, heartbroken, puffy-eyed and grim-faced. 2 months passed after losing his son, the city was not the same, everyone enjoyed his company and now they pray that his soul rests in peace. As every man does when he has a broken heart, he tries to forget these feelings with alcohol, he never drank in his life, it made his wife upset, and soon she gave him a very well given lecture to her husband and told him to stay in the street the night without dinner to see if it gets better, because it hurts her to see him like this even though she feels the same way about losing her son. So Charles took his horse and went for a walk outside the city, halfway through, he found the cave that his nephew had talked about, so he decided to go and stay in there, inside it, he found a book on the floor, it was Brandon's book that he loved to read, talked about a creature with a similar appearance like a woman but had certain strange characteristics like marks on the corners of the mouth, in the book, he told all the reports about this creature that had a name called "*Kardama Dead Child*", deaths , mysterious mass genocides, sacrifices and torture sects in honor of the creature.

When Brandon's father was reading the book there came a freezing wind that curled in the cave, he had heard footsteps behind him, every noise, his heart was beating faster, he took his gun and turned his back, there was nothing, he was calm and put the gun away but when he turned forward, he was faced with sharp teeth with drool, big blue eyes and with veins and the marks in the shape rhombus at the corners of the mouth. It was the creature that was in Brandon's book, it was real, it was the most horrible thing he had seen in his entire life, he didn't move a muscle out of fear, Kardama spoke with her voice completely terrifying and it hurts just to hear...

"*Darling, this feeling is so beautiful that I wanted my late 'Pater' (Father in Latin) to have on his countenance,*" Charles managed to open his mouth and drop that phrase "*I wanted my filius (son in Latin) back to his beloved city.*"

The creature smiled showing its sharp teeth. "*Son Quinlan? Back to your home? My dear, I want something back too.*"

Charles already expected what the demon wants after a request. "*A life in exchange for many lives.*"

Even with this cryptic answer, Brandon's father understood the whole scheme of chaos that the demon wants to cause and immediately refused. Obviously the creature is persistent at a high level, haunted him for 3 years and finally got what he wanted and Charles accepted the proposal. Brandon wakes up in his bed when he was dying in his father's arms , he saw his room, it was full of dust and things covered with a white cloth, he got up, looked in the mirror seeing that his health was better and he ran excitedly looking for his relatives saying that he was cured of his illness, but unfortunately, no one was in home, went outside, it was all empty, not furniture, but people. Nobody was there anymore, her father, mother, cousin, coach, boss and neighbors; everyone disappeared.

Brandon didn't understand what was going on, he started to get desperate. "*What happened to everyone? Mom? Alexandre?...Dad?*"

He went to his house again and in his father's room he found a strange symbol on the wall painted in blood, snow on the corners of the wall and a box with the note:

> "*Son, forgive me, I was never good to be a good father, when you said in your last words, I... I couldn't bear it, even though I was a man, I was young to die, I never hurt anyone and I would have a better future. I'm sorry.*"
>
>

Brandon was the same way his father was at his death. He dropped the paper and opened the box, it was his uncle's gun that he would give to him when he had more maturity and courage. Brandon took the gun and said "*It was all my fault*" and a shooting deck was retreated in the ghost town.

Legends say that in the ghost town, there is a mystery there, there is something of value in that city, nobody knows what it is, but whatever it is, nobody should set foot in that city, if you go in and find out what's there, will not come out alive. Evil lord, the guardian of the old west.