II
I suppose that before we go into how this really became my life I should explain the basics. First of all hell is not chaos it is perfect order and perfect chaos like standing in a forest in autumn each tree is randomly placed but each species looses its leaves at a certain time. Order and Chaos. There are other planes of existence but most are pure madness and heaven is off limits. God made sure we children could not fuck with his angels but wouldn‘t it be wonderful to have Michael as a slave.. You can summon human souls but most after hell are senseless gibbering idiots. Satan does his work well. You can not summon a fallen if you do it’s certain death hence this journal. Lesser demons are easy and there is a hierarchy, greater demons are more powerful than lesser devils but nothing compared to the real devils. They are legion but devils were made by the fallen and demons were made by devils. The demon lords are very powerful and numerous supposedly there are 666 of them but an arch devil is beyond human comprehension there are only 13 of them we are talking of Asmodeus or Beelzebub or Mephitises. The trick is to hide from them while you ply your craft. Once your noticed then bad things can happen alas I have been noticed. A Daemon is from pandemonium and is pure madness they are the biggest traps one touch of a mind like that can leave even the skilled man a gibbering fool luckily they are barely formed you can look at one then know and just unsummon it. Revenants are powerful human ghosts like Hitler they can be summoned but don’t have much to offer; good for terrorizing an enemy but if you hide you have no enemies. Never use your own blood but blood greatly enhances your power. Blood is hard to come by in today’s society and you unfortunately got to deal with bodies. The Inquisitors know all this and they are looking for you. Satanists are idiots and useless half the time they don’t even believe, it’s just an image Mr. Anton Levay when summoned was even more useless than Hitler. Where you work must be sealed with sorcery or you will get caught. Caution is always the key. The infernal though brilliant are ignorant to reality where they live is nothing like the earth you can seduce them with rat meat or convince them they are rich by giving them pennies this is not always true because some have possessed a soul recently. That’s why Fetch is so awesome he has modern appetites and has the best advice he is Satan’s greatest servant and his greatest traitor. All because he published his own book a hundred copies to be exact, but I was the one that found her and bound her, did I say it was a trap. More than anything though it takes an iron will to seduce and enslave an infernal. I have just that. I am not writing you a users manual now just my history so find your own books.
III
I write of sheep but don’t get me wrong I loved beauty and women, instead of starting my work that night I went to a bar found the most beautiful redheaded woman I could find and spent the next three nights in a passion that is rarely found in today’s world all with the simple power of suggestion. I needed that, then retired to my warehouse after stealing a blanket and well you know shit I forgot and got down to work. Two weeks had passed I had slept four hours and barely ate. This would become a worse problem than even my drunkenness. Finally done all of it laid out in blood and minerals the summoning translated to English they don’t care what language you use. I sent fetch to get me some money and a big ass dog. I would be occupied and relying on my connection to fetch So I wanted a guardian I guess I didn’t actually say but I could get in animals heads and they would just love me. I wanted a backup and fetch once again brought me the most monstrous beast I could of imagined he weighed 200 lbs and stunk of dog kennel I could tell he was vicious but he just ambled up to me with a doggy smile and gave me a kiss. I promptly named him Bael after a arch devil fetch rolled on the floor with laughter saying “you haven’t even began and your pushing it.” He also brought me Chinese I had forgotten to eat for days. It’s the little things that mattered though I think he was just hungry.
I began at midnight it’s not necessary but appropriate. I summoned a greater demon right off one of those 13 names I had, had no idea of what they were but just dove right in like a sow to a dead body. To bind her took hours, I know, the sun rose and I learned one of the greatest things ever; the battle of wills between a demon of hell and a simple mortal man. They will say anything to keep from succumbing and convince you to set them free. Lies and truths evil pure evil it is better than sex and booze. They will promise you wealth, fame, kingdoms even immortality and you must stay focused or the end will come. Giving in is death and a terrible one at that. I spent two more days sleepless just binding her into a beautiful piece of jade carved in the likeness of Buddha how wonderfully ironic. I immediately went back to it and summoned a demon of war. I named him Ajax and he would show me the pleasure that I loved the most. I spent six days battling just to bind him. I was always great and now three infernals that were all mine and I was just 17. The books I later got told of men or women were in their 50s before they ever bound a demon and I had three. I then slept for three days and starved it took five days just to regain my strength I lost 20 pounds of my measly 150 but I had done it. I learned so much in those two conjurings and had never even looked into their heads. I cleaned up collected the minerals and washed away my parents blood. I found a man that owned a BMW suggested that he gave me his keys and sent him home to murdered his traitorous wife in some unspeakable manner then kill himself. Remember caution, no loose ends and if I stayed the Inquisitors would be looking. I promptly drove to Maine and had fetch find me a cabin in the woods in the middle of nowhere. I made him drive the car to Portland to ditch it and he got pulled over 4 times he had never driven somehow he pulled through it and only killed two pigs. He later said that was the greatest experience of his existence. Picture a female midget killing cops on the highway in rural Maine now that is funny.
I picked up the Buddha as Bael fled the house and made Sidi appear. She wasn’t to scary to look at emaciated body only four feet tall long nails that looked like steel and no eyes. They appeared to have been ripped out but when I looked closer I realized they were set in her palms. “How may I serve you master” I smiled like a greedy man in a bank vault. “I don’t really know to tell you all I want” I crooned. “I suppose we should start with the books I want books of summoning and books of names and nothing that can be traced to me.” She closed her hands and began to speak. A new lesson these things will do everything to hide the truth from you they hate truth. So I asked her what she was made to do; after what I would learn to be the usual bullshit. I picked up I see past present and future but it was all just jibberjabish. I figured a seer or an oracle just great unintelligible crap all the time. I realized I would need fetch to figure her out and put her back in her Buddha.
I then picked up the obsidian and called the next one. Ajax was female a snakes body and ten feet tall an exquisitely beautiful woman up top with six arms and four enormous breasts but bald. And what is your purpose I asked. “I am the essence of war it smiled I have been on the battlefield for thousands of years.” “show me” and then I was lost.
I knew the pleasure of horror immediately. You can not describe it in words but there in it’s mind I saw life but not like the movies, I felt the grime on my skin, the taste of the stench of dead bodies, the sound of battle and the glory of conquest. I was lost in the madness of war. I new a boy that killed many men in the time of the roman empire. I knew his pride the day he was made a legionnaire. I knew the first time he pushed his sword in a mans gut. I knew the feeling of exhaustion as he sat amidst the dead in glory while he swatted away the crows. The pleasure of his fellow soldiers and the glory of their approval. I knew what it felt to sack a city and get rich on coin and pussy. I knew the sound of a babies heads popping on a wall and the wail of her mother. I knew the empty stare in that mothers eyes as I was the last of 20 to rape her and to cut her throat “put that bitch out of her misery” so I did. I knew lust, greed, terror in a way that you could never imagine. I had only begun my journey. I knew how it felt to hold my guts in my hand and know I was going to die at 17. I knew the feeling of loss. I learned that possession is common but not some girl puking and twisting her head around like in the movies. I found that possession is simple just a little nudge while they look through their eyes towards rape or murder or worse. I lived lifetimes in her head and only woke days later with fetch franticly shaking me how long have you been in there. He had taken days to return from his car trip and I had spent all that time in Ajax’s head. He went and got me food always mothering me he was. I was literally shell shocked and had only seen one of that demons possessions he had she had it had hundreds more all for my consumption.
I stared that 100 mile stare of a war survivor into Fetch’s eyes and saw compassion even care strange in a devil I realized love and I said “dear Jesus what have I gotten into.” I can not call you fetch anymore I name you Shakespeare. I thought I need more. Again time to heal, eat, and sleep the mortal coil is so fucking weak. “I need you to look in a mirror Stephen” she softly spoke I did I was amazed my hair had gone half grey and my eyes had faded into a true grey and into a sea of Galilee green. I had bags under my bags and lines and my teeth had yellowed. She said “you cannot sit in a demons mind it is a recipe for disaster.” I nodded slightly and thought- I want more. I reached up and picked up the Buddha and said I need help Shakespeare, her name had changed she had evolved she had become my protector and my soul mate. I knew her love and I wanted more.
I brought Sidi forth and he started laughing in her strange melodic way. I asked “what” and amidst his laugh he cried “ that one is a waste its mind has broken send her away.” I was crushed my first real summoning and the fight to win and it was just shit. “Wait he cried she might have a use,” he walked her into the kitchen and described in detail how to cook a turkey gravy stuffing and all the fixings. “she needs a use give her time and we will make a servant of her, I pity her so lets give her a purpose.” Our dinner was good well not bad and she only got better. I grew to like her immensely speaking total nonsense her hands in the air looking at the pot on the stove with one hand and for her wooden spoon with the other. I also saw that with a purpose she never stopped smiling. And she doted on Shakes she never again went hungry and neither did Bael. Sidi had found a use.
I looked at Shakes one day and said I need to get a fake ID and a new car go fetch. I was ready to summon again and realized we needed a getaway car. He never failed how I became Stephen S. Lost was her doing with a perfect picture of me she also had a birth certificate and a social security card delivered in a burgundy Volvo station wagon. She muttered as she handed me the keys “ with this crew we needed a family car.” I just fell on the floor and laughed, life was good. Besides his ravenous appetite Shakespeare was a collector of random things. Almost daily he went what he called “gotta go forage motherfucker,” and then he would come back with a parasol, some rubber bands, “to make bael a ball” food and pockets full of money. I don’t know how he did it he was physically here but she could become incorporeal go hundreds of miles and come back all in a few hours sometimes though she would be gone for a few days. “I was just playing motherfucker” master had gone away a while ago and now his term of endearment: motherfucker. At some point he had started fucking Sidi they had their own room but would keep me up at night going at it. Bael had come to love them but still feared Ajax. I spent little time in Ajax’s mind having learned my lesson. We had become a happy fucked up family until the day came to pack the Vo. I was going to summon again and we had to be ready to book. I informed the crew to pack we would be leaving in a few days. Later that day I heard cries of misery and Sidi came gliding out of their room ”sh tis mis wis his slime” I was starting to understand her so I went and looked, there were huge immense piles of stuff and shakes was trying to put it all in one black trash bag. He had a keep pile and a trash pile now how she assigned value to things I don’t know but it was entertaining. I watched her put a bathing cap, a rabbit skull, and two nails of different size in the keep pile, while he threw away a gold bar and a globe of the moon in the trash. She kept her parasol of course she always was carrying that he was holding a rat carcass. I chuckled “nothing dead, but if you pack my stuff and the clothes you got Sidi you can fill the rest of the back of the Vo.” After the final pack two garbage bags tied to the roof we sat down to a meal of flank steak, sweet potatoes and a vegetable medley and drank ten bottles of wine. I made the circle. What took me weeks the first time I did quick, I didn’t use much of my stagnant left over blood so it went fast like.
I spent three days in the next binding for a chain demon. I knew of this type and immediately set it as my second backup guard. I was fortunate to have gotten him I soon found out. I ate and started a second summoning but was rudely interrupted by a Bael freak out, I shook my head as I stood up bringing my mind back to this world. I knew before I looked out the window as silently shakes handed me my knife. I peeked out the window and saw a cop car and a simple beat up ford ranger.
Knock knock knock “shit hide Sidi shakes can that thing become invisible like you?” “I’ve got it” he said “ were gonna have to kill them.” He was right I was obviously in the midst of something unnatural and I was just squatting in this cabin. I opened the door and looked into the pigs eyes and glanced up. I reached around my back thinking this pigs a decoy that man walking up behind him is a priest, Motherfucker I thought as I slit the pigs throat. I had learned something else all that time in a roman soldiers body had given me the smooth instincts of a cold hearted killer. I watched that Inquisitor move two hundred yards and catch the cops body in a second. He had the audacity to perform his last rights while he stared into my eyes. He gently laid down the body covered in blood and said “we haven’t seen one of your filth in a long, long time.” “May I come in?” and he was already around me looking at my circle, I wondered if he could sense the three demons in my house but Sidi answered that question she couldn’t become incorporeal and walked out of the kitchen with a plate “kis yis me ne foo snatch,” I just cracked up. She was trying to feed the inquisitor but didn’t think he deserved any better than Baels dog food. Bael had disappeared some guard dog. “ I see I interrupted your work,” I was on my knees and he had me by the throat in less time than he took to say “I”. “You have bound her where did you learn to do that where did you get her name speak maggot.” I was suddenly bound in air but tight and a little painful. I realized as he started to go through my books that he couldn’t kill me until he found my tomes. I had time to spare he obviously knew Sidi wasn’t a threat but he couldn’t send her back to hell without her name. I got cocky this sucked but I had the upper hand her presence was hiding shakes and that chain thing I was in control though bound. “How did you find me priest?” I started to play that old hot and cold game you know cold, cold getting warm no cold while, hot, hot, hot he was ripping up my apartment. I knew I had won. Remember I never forget I had burnt all my books months ago, he was searching in vain next he went outside and ripped the car apart. Shakes did not like him going through his things “I will have to throw it all away” he whispered in my ear “wait both of you” I muttered. “I want knowledge.” He came back in and squatted down grabbed me by the hair “were are they we can make this easy or hard and slowly sank a knife in my belly. Shakes struck with his tail I was free and stood over my would be executioner. I was freed of the bounds yes he was conscious but his magic didn’t work but he could speak interesting I thought. I sent shakes for some rope and Sidi outside to find Bael and repack the car. I opened my circle and hung that fucker up right in the middle. Shakes just looked on as I chose to improvise a summoning something special for my friend.
I hoped my circle would be strong enough to hold a demon lord, without his name, I knew my thaumaturgy well so I thought it would. I was going to make a deal with the devil. I stumbled through once what I thought would bring the demon lord Graz’zt and failed. I had to try two more times I was swimming in waters I had never been to. On the third try he appeared. First of all I want to say he was magnificently beautiful chiseled of green marble he had a topknot of jet black hair and delicate features with curving fangs and pointed ears. He came dressed in a black leather kilt and had a wavy bladed two handed sword. He looked at me hefting his sword and tried to step forward. The circle held, he tried again and again but it held. Next he noticed the squirming priest and smiled a smile that probably made everyone in a hundred mile radius cringe. “YES” he Questioned.
“I have a present for you and I only want a simple favor from you.”
He sat down cross legged grabbed hold of the priests arm and bit it then between suckling it he spoke to me. “ I think we should get to know each other a little before I grant your favor and I will grant it.” He nodded to Shakespeare and took a little drink I handed him a bottle of wine and asked “what would you know of me,”
My ego was going to kill me.
“ I have not known of your kind for a very long time and never knew one to catch a filthy inquisitor you have my attention worm.” “Tell me your story”
Shakes sat mute looking at him in awe and fear. I told him. I could not resist even through the circle, had he told me to eat my fingers I would have done it.
“You got balls I don’t know of any man ever born under this cruel sun has summoned a demon lord and lived to tell the tale” he chuckled.
“I will give you some free advice,” he softly spoke “it is easier to bind a demon if you fill it with love, they know pain and a battle of wills is hard, just love it and it will break.”
“ I see you have done that unintentionally with those, two and your doing it right now with me.”
“ If you were full of fear right now or anger or greed I would be right through this barrier harvesting your soul but you have made it strong with love.”
“What is your favor?” he commanded.
“ I need a demons name that can make me a master sorcerer so I can defeat an inquisitor at his old game and I want a succubus to fuck.”
“That is all but I want their true names.”
“Ha ha ha hoooooo… you give me an inquisitor who has just confessed, a pure holy soul, one of Gods chosen and you ask for only two names.”
“ It is a gift I should ask for nothing” I replied.
“ I will give you more I will give you my favorite concubine she can fulfill both your wishes.”
He snorts “I will also give you this.”
“One day you will die and you will stand before Lucifer himself. A summoner of this power hasn’t existed for many long years.”
“ I swear I will stand on the other side of you and your imp and ask to have you in my court.
“Fare thee well lost Stephen” and with that he raised the wine bottle, cut the rope winked at me and took the inquisitor to hell.