As a note, the other language is Latin.
*
The bright light of torches shines through the trees as the sounds of hurried, angry voices follow it. The sound of overexerted panting can be heard closer. Besides, the thick overgrown forest is dead silent. The chilled air has quieted all the night creatures. The crescent moon shines brightly and the stars twinkle freely in a clear sky. There is no wind to rustle the leaves that have grown orange and yellow with the coming of fall.
A younger girl bursts through the trees to a clearing with a large, ominous church in the middle. She hastily runs across the clearing to the doors of the church. The unlit, abandoned building is devoured in vines with the stone tattered and discolored. She struggles with opening the molded wooden doors, tugging and pushing, almost in a panic. The door finally creaks and slowly opens. She hurries in. The inside looks just as run down as the outside. The air is musty and dank. Remnants of moldy, infested carpet and half-eaten benches are scattered about. Rusted candelabra surround the bare altar. There is no light from the dusty stained glass.
The girl quickly grabs the nearest candelabra and bars the doors with it. She then takes a moment to catch her breath and compose herself. She smoothes out the wrinkles in her brown puritan dress and brushes back the brown hair sticking to her sweaty face. Then, she approaches the altar and pulls a lump wrapped in a black cloth out of a cloak pocket. She puts them on the altar, revealing the objects. The first object is a large, black, faceted stone; the second is a tiny animal skull and the third is a gold locket. Then she hurriedly fumbles a piece of chalk out of her pocket and begins drawing a pentagram on the altar around the objects. She puts the piece of chalk back into her pocket and gets on her knees in front of the altar. She folds her hands and begins praying, "Per navitas inter mihi quod navitas intus mihi, EGO dico super ceterus universitas plagiarius. O valde unus, EGO voco vos!" Her voice rings out. She jumps, stands and turns around from a loud, sudden bang on the doors. The candelabrum rattles as the bangs and yells get louder.
The girl closes her eyes and re-centers herself. But before she can continue, she jumps again as a loud snap and a creak comes from the door. In a last effort, she quickly falls to her knees and chants in a loud desperate voice, "O, valde abbas o lies, senior o atrum guise, EGO tribuo vos meus somes quod phasmatis pro regimen huic terra o ratio. Commodo!" Dirty looking peasants carrying pitchforks and torches crowd the church with a large priest carrying a large gold cross leading them. She repeats "Please," over and over as the priest moves behind her. An aged pinnacle of old faith, he is wearing all black. He has a severe face as he raises a bible and smacks her in the back of the head with it. She yelps and falls to the ground.
She lays still as the priest starts yelling, "Vile, wretched, demon-spawn; we will send you back to the fiery pit of Hell from which you came!" He continues yelling as the girl struggles to get up, looking dazed and rubbing the back of her head. The crowd behind looks fierce and determined, agreeing in chorus with the priest and waving their farm tools at the girl.
The girl stands up defiantly with tears in her eyes. The crowd moves back in horror, all except the priest. The girl's expression moves to bewilderment and caution. The priest pauses in his ravings. For a moment there is silence except the girl's hoarse breathing and the shuffling of feet. She raised her hands and yells out, "Shanareal, meus Deus, quod meus senior. Adveho quod smite qui votum mihi vulnero!!"
All goes quiet as the girl falls to her knees. The priest smirks, "Your false gods mean nothing in the face of the Lord and his unwavering justice. You will burn like the rest of the devil-worshippers."
All of the sudden, a male-cocky voice fills the room, "I am not a devil or false. And it is your God that means nothing." An average figure steps through the crowd. His pale skin is the color of the moon on a black night. His hair is slick, long, stringy and the color of ravens. He is like Greek statue, bare-chested with rings at the peak of his breast. Casually covering his hips are leather pants, black like his shadow instead of part of him. He has chains and straps like Dante in the inferno around his legs. Six large metal rings pierce his back down his spine. His face is Romanesque, free of color and metal. Curvy, spiked metal crowns his ears. His eyes are obsidian orbs. His commanding, rich voice echoes again, "You just had to challenge me, preacher." The last word was said with spite. The priest looks shocked and frightened. The figure continues forward confronting the priest. "The average whining of a follower interests me not. However, she was smart enough to say my name, and then you had to insult my status."
The priest shrinks to the god's presence and lifts his cross, "Leave us, evil creature..." his voice is shaking.
The creature rolls his eyes, "I am not evil, just self-serving. Such symbols mean nothing." The cross melts in the priest's hand.
The god turns his attention to the girl, "I, Sharaneal, Lord of Night, name humility as my price. Are you prepared to pay it?" The girl, shaking and scared, nods slowly. Shanareal points at her and she flies back, hitting the wall behind the altar. Animated dark vines sprout up from the stone floor and pin her to the wall. Thorns tear at her clothes and mar her skin. He turns again to the priest; "I'll save you for last." He faces the crowd of villagers, speaking to them, "Poor, hapless sods. Like lambs to the slaughter, it's almost too easy." An oversized stiletto forms in his hands. It is a slim, sharp piece of metal that emanates an aura of darkness, with a jewel encrusted handle wound in black silk. He lunges forward, cutting down villagers with graceful ease. The doors slam close as people clamor against it. The god slithersamong the crowd, flaying arms, legs, torsos and heads. Limbs and chunks of gore cover everything before the altar. Blood covers the walls and the floor, making them a slippery, sticky surface. Many people slip, making them easier targets. The priest watches in horror as the butchery continues. Screams and cries echo through the room. The girl cries, burdened with the guilt of her actions.
Finally, when the last person falls and the screams die out, Sharaneal walks up to the altar again. He is covered in blood and gore until he shakes it off like a dog, covering everything around him. "Ah, the joy of the kill. Something so rare," he snaps his fingers causing creatures to form from the shadows. They look like dark, metal, spine covered wolf-like creatures and they start devouring the corpses and bits. He grins at the priest and grabs his throat, "You will live to tell the tale of this night but not without suffering." He shoves his fingers into the priest's eye-sockets producing a squelch and a gush of blood. He pushes him to the floor, bleeding and moaning. The priest drags himself to the door as the wolves snap at him, leaving gashes across his frame. He watches him go with a look of satisfaction upon his face He watches him go with a look of satisfaction upon his face He watches him go with a look of satisfaction upon his face He watches him go with a look of satisfaction upon his face He watches him go with a look of satisfaction upon his face.
Shanareal's attention turns to the altar and the gold locket upon it. "Now, what to do with you?" He picks the locket up and opens it up. A picture of the girl and an older woman calms him. He snaps his fingers and the dark wolfs leap back into the shadows. He looks at the girl, who is sobbing and hanging from the vines. A strike of anger flashes through his features as he makes his way towards her. The church doors slam shut, almost flying off the hinges in the process. When he reaches her, he lifts her chin revealing her ruddy, wet face. He speaks softly, "Is this not what you wanted, young one?"