BLACK BIRDS IN MAHLA'S EYES
Right Hand Azazel

Mahla wakes up in the early hours of the morning with her head feeling full. He saw so many things that he did not recognize. It seemed, a great many entities were simply going in and out of his body as he fell asleep.

“Barikh?” Calling Mahla doubtful, he did not expect an ancient spirit like Baruch to appear every time he called out to her. But there is no harm in trying. He had called Baruch dozens of times, because there were many things he wanted to ask. But apparently his mother was right, Baruch would only appear if his soul was between life and death.

Mahla attempts to go back to sleep when something suddenly catches her attention. From the direction of the door of his room, the figure that approached him with a dragged step was extremely tall. It has arms and legs that stretch long, as if drawn to stretch.

It also has an oblong head and is sticking up. The mouth part is a cavity, with a red tongue sticking out. Meanwhile, his pair of eyes was only a bottomless black hole.

The creature's body was pale like most other spirits, but it seemed to be different, Mahla saw the fire-crackers dancing in her hands.

“What do you want?” Ask Mahla softly. Sometimes, a curious spirit just wants to tell a story about something. The creature then dragged its feet and stumbled towards Mahla. He seemed to be getting smaller, his head no longer hit the roof of the room when it got closer to Mahla.

The tiny flame that danced in the figure's hands grew bigger and more dazzling, Mahla too late to realize that it could possibly be dangerous for her. When it was very close and facing each other, Mahla felt a lick of flame tongues begin to envelop her body, without having a chance to scream, her vision turned blurry and then completely dark

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It was Sharai. His body was flattened and made of fire riaps. On its large, hairless head, nesting a thousand scorpions with tails sticking out in all directions. Near his neck, a gaping wound filled the screams of pre-predited souls. The parasite is a cruel woman with burning eyes, her lips only half left, the other half looks crushed and rotted.

It was Sharai, Azazel's right-hand man who destroyed the earth order. Soul predators. Disaster bearer. You can see how much he has such a mighty aura. You'll be ruined just by looking at it. You will not remember who you are anymore. You will no longer be able to survive so as not to melt in the reach of his eyes.

Mahla falls. He saw the terrible crackling running towards him. He could never forget the terrible hissing sound that took him to his senses. The girl was thrown. The gap is very deep. So dark. Groundless. Carnation over there. It's rotten in here. The hole contained only blood and pus. There is only pain that Mahla can remember. There was only a jeri that filled his body now.

Mahla realizes Sharai will come back to power over her, so she tries to crawl up. But the place was wasted too deep. It was too steep and there were only shadows that felt liquid and dense. The dark veil began to eat him. He felt little by little he was eroded and would melt in there.

Meanwhile, the thousand scorpions on Sharai's head started to descend the hole fiercely. Each one opened his mouth, born a hundred others. Their throngs swarmed Mahla, leaving every inch of her skin covered with the cursed animal, and her sting frozen. The girl was no longer able to move, she was unable, even just to scream.

It will be preyed upon. In the hole of the unknown. With Sharai ruling over his body.

Am I going to die?

Sharai's face smirked vilely with half of her lips smashed, her voice loudly filling Mahla's mind.

The day you ask, you will die. 

***

Marya woke up heartbroken, and she turned on her room light. He heard a voice clashing in Mahla's room that disturbed his sleep. Mahla's room is directly opposite her room, while Melekh's room is next to Mahla's. All the rooms are on the second floor of their home.

“What else now?” Marya was upset. He let his hair fall out, then walked reluctantly to his son's room. After opening Mahla's kamat door, the sight inside almost made her heart pluck out of her roots!

“God forgive us!” Said shouting. Marya's voice tore through the silence of the early morning.A second later, Marya's body was pushed in, then the door slammed shut behind her. He fell close to Mahla's body but did not dare to touch her. Whatever was happening to her daughter was beyond her means.

Mahla, are you still in there?

The woman saw her daughter wriggling on the floor with a tongue of fire that continued to vibrate nonstop. His head was facing towards her while his body continued to twitch nonstop. In horror, Marya saw Mahla's pair of eyes blushing blood.

There is no visible flap of wings that usually flashes there, which indicates it is not Mahla who inhabits the body now.

“Don't take him!” Marya shouted louder. Unexpectedly, Mahla's body that had been floundering on the floor suddenly stopped. As the flames began to leave Mahla's body, Marya again screamed in horror. Her pair of daughter's eyes were still blushing like a pool of blood!

The door then suddenly opened.

Melekh stood firmly, something he could not do at all. Perhaps her eyes were rubbing her, but Marya saw a faint golden glow shining around her son's body.

“Do not touch him!” Melekh's orders were firm. There's no trace of stuttering in there. Nor is it broken. His voice sounded amazingly clear and steady. His son then approached Mahla, and tried to hold her sister's body back in convulsions on the floor.

The tongues of fire may have been lost from there, but it was definitely not Mahla who inhabited his body.

“Sharai! Your presence is not welcome here! Leave Mahla's body!”  Melekh exclaimed while putting down the second

his hand on Mahla's shoulder. Mahla's twin sister restrained Mahla's shoulder so that the girl's body does not move uncontrollably.

Perhaps a few days ago, Melekh managed to exorcise Sharai because the demon had not managed to uproot Mahla's soul and confine her to the pit of hell. But now, when Mahla's body was just an outer shell with no contents, Melekh could do nothing but hope that his older sister was strong enough to be able to get back into his body.

The sound of hoarse and raucous laughter came out from within Mahla's mouth. The laughter was wildly uncontrollable.

She's mine. He's already in the hole. He's not coming back. I'm gonna have a baby in this body. I'll take the demon legion with me. 

Melekh was aghast in horror, he then bounced not far from Mahla's body. The glower on his body slowly disappeared, but with all his might, Melekh held himself back to stay conscious. He would not leave his mother and brother alone.

Simultaneously, Marya heard a smooth braid and a cold wind was hitting her body. Something exists between him and Mahla. Baruch there, right in front of him, looked at him fixedly with purple eyes flickering alternately with grey bludgeons.

“He must have your permission to help Mahla.” Melekh cried when he saw his mother hesitated. “He serves you, and needs your approval!” He cried again when he saw his mother flinch.

Marya nodded slowly, while Melekh slowly lost his consciousness.

Baruch developed its massive wings, the ancient creature then melted into solid crystal grains which then rapidly melted inside Mahla's body.