A New Killer Is Born

Chapter 18: Hell's Celebration PART I

(Author's Note: The picture on the side doesn't belong to me, but it is a picture of Jeepers Creepers)

That day, when my family came back from getting rid of the cop's body and his police car, Uncle Boogey told them the news of the party and they all agreed. Uncle Pinhead seemed happy at the idea. I never saw him happy before, not even smile for once (unlike an evil smile after he's done killing somebody). Everyone was in the living room, discussing about the party and where exactly in a place called Hell, where we were going to throw it.
"Pinhead, why don't we throw it at your quarters. We'll have everyone in hell come celebrate with us and that way, Glen and Ashley would meet the rest of the family.", Uncle Chucky suggested.
Uncle Pinhead was thinking about what Uncle Chucky said and then nodded his head. "Good form.", he said. "Then, they would meet our lord, Leviathan."
Everyone all nodded their heads and turned to Glen and I. Glen and I stood side by side as we both watched everyone talk about the plans and such. Glen turned to me and whispered, "I don't like the sounds of this."
Uncle Chucky, whom must of heard this had snapped. "I heard that Glen! Say something else and I'll-"
"Chucky!", Aunt Tiffany yelled. "Knock it off now!"
I held back a laugh as I watched Uncle Chucky mumble something under his breath and walked over and took a seat beside Uncle Freddy on the couch. Uncle Freddy was laughing at Chucky while the other's were either laughing or shaking their heads.
"Now.", Tiffany sighed, turning to Glen and me. "You two go upstairs and change quickly because we'll be leaving soon."
Me and Glen both nodded our heads and walked up the stairs to our rooms.
"Have you ever been to Hell before?", Glen asked with a shaky voice.
I shook my head, looking at him. "No, have you?"
Glen shook his head and gulped. "No. My parents didn't talk to me about it, but Uncle Pinhead did. He's from there you know."
Glen took a pause and then let out a laugh. "Well, correction, all of our Uncle's and Aunts are from there, but Uncle Pinhead, he kind of lives there you know. That's why he's always gone all the time because he has work to do for the Hell god"
"Hell God?", I questioned.
"Leviathan, supposedly known as our lord."
"Oh.", was all I could manage to say before I left Glen and walked off to my room. I walked in and closed the door behind me. I walked over to my closet and scanned through all my clothes. I didn't know what to wear. Since this was suppose to be a party, I didn't know if I should dress properly, classy or just dress regular (pants, sneakers, t-shirt). In the far back of my closet, I pulled out a black, strap dress the hung above my knee. It was a plain dress, but still very pretty. I pulled it off the hanger and then grabbed some black pumps along to go with it.
I slipped the dress on and put on the pumps. I had a body mirror that hooked to the wall and I walked over to it. I looked at myself and thought I looked pretty. I looked at my hair and so how straight and plain it was. I thought for a moment and remember back at the camp at how teenage girls would wear their hair. They either had it straighten like mine, curled or pinned up in a clip or had it in a bun. I decided to style my hair the old fashion way and have some of it pinned up in the back and have the rest hanging down. I clipped a black barrette in the back and looked at my hair. It was perfect.
"Well aren't you a sight for sore eyes.", I heard a voice say.
I turned in the direction where the voice came and saw Uncle Freddy. I smiled. Uncle Freddy walked in the room and over towards me.
"We're all waiting for you downstairs. You ready?", Uncle Freddy asked.
I nodded. "Is there going to be a lot of people?" For some reason, the thought of a lot of people made me nervous. I wouldn't know them people and coming to find out, they were all just like my family: murderers.
"Probably, but nothing you should be worried about because most of them are your other relatives."
I nodded my head and let out a long sigh. Uncle Freddy put his glove hand on my shoulder and gave it a light squeeze.
"Nothing bad is going to happen Ashley; I promise you that it that's what your afraid of.", Uncle Freddy reassured.
"How long are we gonna be at this party?"
"Depends how long it lasts."
I let out a sigh and nodded my head. I didn't want this party nor did I want to attend it, but I looked on the bright side and thought about meeting my other family members. I wonder what they looked like and how they acted. I wondered if I had other cousins like Glen that I could hang and play with. I notice Uncle Freddy leaving out the door and saw him turn to look back at me.
"You coming Ash?", he asked.
I nodded my head and went to follow him. Once we were downstairs, I saw Glen tucking his dark blue silk shirt in his pants. He was dressed up for the occasion. He wore black dress pants along with black dress shoes. His hair was brushed to the sides and his bangs hung over his eyes.
"You look good Glen.", I said as I walked over to him.
"Thanks, so do you.", he smiled.
I nodded my head in response and turned my head to the others as everyone was gathered in the living room. Glen and I both walked in and I walked over and stood beside my dad.
"Hey dad.", I smiled, looking up at him.
My dad looked down at me and I saw his eye twitch. 'What are you wearing?'
I looked down at the dress and shrugged. I didn't see nothing wrong with my dress. Nothing was bad about it. Not unless, I was showing to much cleavage. I looked at my straps and saw that my shoulders and upper chest was showing, but nothing bad. My legs were showing, but nothing bad. I looked back up at my dad and asked, "What's wrong with it?"
My dad, from the sounds of it, let out a groan and grabbed my arm harshly.
"Jason! Don't you dare!", I heard Aunt Esther yell.
I let out a groan of pain as my dad squeezed my arm harder.
"Jason let her go! There is nothing wrong with what she on. It's better than what those young ladies be wearing nowadays.", Uncle Pinhead said, walking over and grabbing my other arm.
I didn't know what exactly was happening. I looked between my dad and Uncle Pinhead as they both had a stare down. I didn't know what was wrong with my dress. I thought it was pretty. It wasn't nothing like the dresses that those teenage girls be wearing that be showing all their cleavage. Was showing a half portion of my legs and arms bad?
Suddenly, I felt my dad's hand loosen on my arm. Suddenly my arm dropped and I felt myself being tugged away from my father as Uncle Pinhead led me over to Aunt Esther. Aunt Esther was her grown up self and took me in her arms for a hug.
"Don't worry about your father Ashley, he's just being overprotective."
Overprotective? What was being overprotective having to do with my dress? Then it occurred to me about the teenage girls that my father be murdering. Maybe my father thought that I was dressing up like one of those teenage girls.
"Booger! Get your ass down here now! We're leaving!", Uncle Freddy shouted from up the stairs.
I heard some rustling coming from up the stairs and then I heard footsteps. Uncle Boogey appeared from the door way and walked in.
“So how are we doing this?", Uncle Boogey asked.
I stood between Aunt Esther and Jeepers Creepers and watched as a couple fingers pointed at Uncle Pinhead. Uncle Pinhead reached unto his pocket and pulled out what I suppose was a box. I didn't get a good look at it since Uncle Pinhead was rolling it around in his hands. He mumbled a few words that didn't understand and just then, blue light shined into the room. I quickly closed my eyes and covered my face. I heard a few screams and groans and wondered what everyone was screaming about. I quickly found out as a pain shot through my arm and then I felt myself being pulled down on the floor and being dragged.
I let out a scream of pain and felt myself still being pulled. I didn't dare open my eyes; I was afraid to see what awaited me. Suddenly, I felt myself being sucked. I didn't know how, but then, I felt myself falling. The pain from my arm disappeared and I felt myself falling and falling. I was screaming at the top of my lungs and this time I opened my eyes. I saw nothing, but complete darkness. I didn't understand. I screamed out for my dad and then Uncle Michael, but there was no response. Suddenly, I crashed onto something hard and cold. There was a dim light that hit the room. I didn't know where the light was coming from, but as I looked around, I saw bricked walls with goblets and sculptures of gargoyles pinned on them.
I quickly stood to my feet and looked around for a door or any exit of some sort.
"Daddy?", I called out.
No answer.
What exactly just happen back there? What did Uncle Pinhead do? Did something go wrong? Where was everybody and where was I?
I continued looking around and began to wonder if I was in Hell yet. Was I in Hell, or was I in some other place?
I pressed myself up against the wall and began to wonder what I was going to do and where I was going to go. I didn't want to stay here by myself any longer. I had to find the others or luckily, they'll come and find me. Either way, I hope we find each other soon.
"Daddy!", I called out again. I looked down towards my left as there was a long hallway. Light shone down there and the hallway looked like it stretched on and on. I looked to my right and saw just the same. Which way should I go? Which way would leave me back to my family.
I let out a slow sigh and took the hallway towards my left. I stayed close to the wall as I walked and looked straight ahead incase something popped up. Silence filled the atmosphere and it scared me.
"Daddy?", I called out.
Again, silence, but the feeling of air hit my side as I looked up at the wall and saw Jeepers Creepers. He looked down at me and let out his monstrously growls. I smiled.
"Jeepers's Creeper's! You have no idea how happy I am to see you.", I smiled.
Jeepers's Creeper's let out a huff and crawled down the wall and walked over to me. Without warning, he picked me up and sat me on his back. His wings began to flap and he started to fly down the hallway. I wrapped my ars around his neck as he flew fast around the corner. I almost slipped off, but thankfully, I regained my posture and held on once more.
Jeepers's Creeper's flew down another long hallway and slowly lowered himself to the floor. He took me off his back and stood me back on my feet. He gave me another huff and walked over a wooden, double door. He opened one of the doors and turned to me and let out another huff. I walked over and walked inside into another hallway except this one was well lit with the goblets on the wall having fire shining out of them. On each wall, shiny armored knights stood neatly and held their swords in place from the looks of it. Jeepers Creepers flew before me, but not that fast so I could keep up with him.
Once I reached down the end of the hall, there was another double door and this time, I opened the door. I let Jeepers Creepers in first and I followed after. The sound of people talking, laughing and eerie piano music playing had sounded throughout the room. I looked around and gasped in shock. The room was huge. It was like a ballroom. The floor was decorated in black and red smooth tiles. The walls were painted black and had old frame portraits of monstrous creatures of all sorts. There were also small black wooden tables that sat orderly on half side of the room while the other side was empty and what I assume was the dance floor. There was hundreds of people everyone. Some looked human, so did not. Some looked similar to Jeepers's Creepers. Some looked similar to my dad and Uncle Michael since some had on masks and then the others just looked like me; human.
I saw a few ladies dressed in black, red or violet masquerade dresses along with matching masks. They looked very pretty and when I went to wander off, I felt a pair of hands grabbed my waist and lift me up. I turned to look to see who was my capturer and saw no other than my dad.
'Are you ok sweetie? Where have you been?'
I nodded my head. "I'm fine dad and I don't know. Jeepers's Creepers found me and brought me here so."
Speaking of Jeepers Creepers, he flew over towards my dad and I and landed on his feet next to us. He turned to my dad and let out a monstrous growl and then a huff. My dad looked at him and nodded his head. Jeepers Creepers let out another huff and then swooped away.
My dad turned to me and then slowly, sat me down on my feet.
"Is this the party dad?", I asked.
My dad nodded his head. Then suddenly, his eye twitched. 'Yeah'.
I looked around the room and saw couples dancing, and people sitting down talking, laughing and having what looked like a good time. I smiled and began to get a feeling that I wanted to get in on the action as well.
"Ah, there she is!", I heard Uncle Freddy's voice.
I turned around and saw Uncle Freddy walking over towards me with a beer mug in his hand.
"Hey Uncle Freddy.", I waved.
Uncle Freddy held his drink in his glove hand and grabbed my hand with the other. "Come on Ash, I want you to meet somebody.", Uncle Freddy said.
'I'm coming along.', I heard my dad said.
Uncle Freddy pulled me along with him and my dad followed close behind. Uncle Freddy gulped down the rest of his beer and suddenly threw the mug glass over across the room. I heard the crash breaking of the glass and then heard someone shouting. The shouting didn't seem to phase Uncle Freddy, but when I think about it, nothing ever does. Just then, Uncle Freddy pushed me in front of him and I was face to face with a man who was bald headed and had on a half mask that only covered the bottom of his face. The mouth part of the mask was open a little and had three little bars pinned in the spot.
"Hey Hannibal.", Uncle Freddy called. "I got her."
Uncle Freddy pushed me in front of him so that I stood before the man known as Hannibal. The man looked down at me and I could see through the mouth part of his mask that he was smirking. He had a drink in his hand and he handed the drink to a lady that stood beside him. Hannibal lowered down so that his face was leveled with mine. I felt a little nervous to be this close to him; I could feel his warm breath tickle my face.
"So this is Ashley Voorhees I presume, am I correct?", Hannibal asked.
He looked at me and then turned his eyes up towards my dad. I felt Uncle Freddy move to the left side of me from where I stood and I felt my dad shift behind me and pressed one his hands firmly on my shoulder.
"The one and only.", Uncle Freddy spoken.
I took a couple steps back away from Hannibal and had my back pressing against my father's legs. My dad's hand gripped my shoulder and then rubbed it to reassure me that everything was fine.
"My goodness.", the lady beside Hannibal said. "She's human isn't she?"
I cocked my eyebrow, wondering what she meant by that. I took a good look at the woman and saw how pale she was. Her skin was almost white. Her eyes were black with black circles around them, her lips were a bloody red and she wore a black, short laced dress that was almost see through.
"Why of course she is!", Uncle Freddy said. "But aren't some of you people here human too?"
The lady seemed to be taken back and handed Hannibal back his drink and walked away. I watched the lady disappear through the crowd of people and now it was just Uncle Freddy, my dad, Hannibal and me.
"Well.", Hannibal sighed, taking a step towards me and sticking out his hand. "It's a pleasure to finally meet you Ashley."
I exchanged a handshake with Hannibal and nodded. "The pleasure is all mine."
"How old are you my dear?"
"Ten.", I replied.
Hannibal nodded his head and scratched the back of his head.
"And this is your father?", he asked, pointing back at my dad.
I turned around to face my dad and nodded. "Yes sir", I replied.
My dad clutched me to his side and took a step forward to Hannibal.
"Well Jason, it's nice seeing you again my friend.", Hannibal told my dad.
Hannibal and my dad exchanged a handshake also. My dad didn't spoke a word to Hannibal, but it made me wonder if he was talking to Hannibal privately in his head. Reason why I thought that was because Hannibal now and then would laugh, smile, shake his head 'no' or nod.
While my dad and Hannibal were having a "mind-talk", Uncle Freddy took my hand and led me away from my dad.
"I can't stand it when your good-for-nothing father does that.", Uncle Freddy growled.
I cocked my eyebrow and pushed past people to stick close to Uncle Freddy. "What do you mean?"
"Back there when your father was speaking his mind to Hannibal or whatever the hell he was doing. I hate it when he does that. Your father can block people from hearing his conversation you know that right? And it bugs the hell out of me when he does that. It makes me wonder if he was talking shit about me, because I saw how Hannibal was looking at me out of the corner of his eye.", Uncle Freddy growled.
I ignored Uncle Freddy's remark and thought about Uncle Michael and Glen. I wondered where they were.
"Uncle Freddy?", I asked, walking close behind him.
Uncle Freddy was leading me out of the dance floor and over towards the other side of the room where the small tables sat.
"Yeah?", he called over his shoulder.
"Where are the others?"
"Dunno"
Uncle Freddy walked over to a table that stood in the back. It was empty and we both took our seats. This table could seat at least seven people. I took a seat beside Uncle Freddy and looked over at the other tables full of people. I couldn't help, but stare at a few of them. They weren't people. They were hideous creatures with demonic faces and had body's of an animal. One of them caught me looking at them and at that moment, I quickly turned my head. I acted as if nothing happened and decided to start a conversation to keep myself from looking back at the creature.
"Uncle Freddy, do you know all of these people?", I asked.
Uncle Freddy nodded. "Yup. I worked with some of them in the past."
"Really?", I asked, trying to sound interested.
Uncle Freddy nodded. "Yup, that was the time where I met your Uncle Pinhead. We had to go on some damn mission to find this one guy who escaped the barn and entered the human world."
"What's the barn?", I raised an eyebrow.
Just before Uncle Freddy went to speak, a lady with a black and white outfit walked over to the table with a tray of drinks in her hand. His skin was black as if it was burnt, her eyes were a bright red and his lips were a red also. She smiled at me and then at Uncle Freddy. She showed her pearly white teeth and also what looked like fangs.
"May I get you two anything to drink or eat?", she asked politely.
Uncle Freddy looked at me and then turned to the lady with a raised eyebrow. "What is there to drink?"
"Um.", the lady began to think. "There's the Bloody Mary, the Blood Bath, the Bat's Eye, beer, Vampire's Kiss, and our newest, the Deadly Sin."
"Deadly sin?", Uncle Freddy raised his eyebrow again.
The lady nodded.
"Yes, it's a smoother drink that everyone can enjoy. It's made out of snake venom, blood and a tablespoon of the human vodka. It's a very good drink sir.", the lady smiled.
Uncle Freddy thought for a moment and shook his head and said, "Just get me the beer and get the kid here a juice."
"Um actually,", I cut in. "I don't want anything to drink, thank you.", I smiled at the lady.
The lady nodded and went away with her tray of drinks. Uncle Freddy turned to me and chuckled. "Not thirsty?"
"No offense Uncle Freddy, but I'm not dumb. If that lady brought back a juice for me, I'm sure that it wouldn't be from the human world.  Whatever would be in that juice, would have no doubt get me sick or worse, kill me."
Uncle Freddy let out a sarcastic laugh and shook his head. He sat back in his seat and tilted his head to the side. "I don't know about you Ashley, I don't know about you."
I didn't know if he was being sarcastic or not, but I didn't respond back to that. Just then, the music started to change and this time, another piano song was playing, but this one wasn't as eerie as the one from earlier. It sounded soft and mellow. I looked over and saw couples dancing in rows. They all were dancing the same dance so I assume it most of been a traditional dance or something.
"What are they dancing?", I asked.
Uncle Freddy turned his head into the direction where the couples were dancing and shrugged. "I think it's the LaVeista. That dance is a tradition in the kingdom of Hell. It's the lord's favorite dance."
"You know how to dance to it?"
Uncle Freddy nodded. "Yeah, everyone in Hell does because there comes a time where the Hell God throws a celebration where everyone is welcome and everyone dances the LaVeista."
"Who did you dance with?", I asked.
"Your Aunt Esther. I danced with your Aunt Esther, your Uncle Michael and father danced with the two Jennis twins, Leatherface danced with some bimbo who was a stripper and of course Chucky and Tiffany danced together and as for Pinhead, he danced with some bitch named Angelique."
I took in everything Uncle Freddy said. Everything else was clear except for one thing: Angelique. That name sounded so familiar and so real and then it occurred to me who Angelique was. She was the lady from my nightmare. She was one of the cenobites! But wait a minute, she's real?