I had been going to Rocky Horror for well over a year and had become
rather well known to both the crowd who went in to see the movie as
wellas the crowd of people who'd hang in the parking lot while the
movie was playing. I'd had many interesting conversations with people
and my views on the metaphysical and the surreal were well known to some...
One night while hanging out in the parking lot a friend of mine named
Freya found me and asked me to come talk to some people about something
she thought I might have an idea about. She led me over to a group of
teenagers sitting huddled together under a streetlight. I've never seen
such a frightened group of people before in my life. During the next half
hour a story about black magic, summonings, incomplete rituals and
subsequent weird goings on evolved. One girl even had three very long,
you'd have to call them claw marks, going from one shoulder to the
opposite hip. These kids were totally terrified. As we were talking to
suddenly you could feel the temperature drop, the hairs on the back of my
next stood up. Freya nudged me and looked towards the sky where some huge
black shape was rearing up from behind the building into the sky. Several
of the kids started to panic. The girl with the claw marks was screaming
"It's back! It's back!" So I shouted, and thought and emoted and
challenged "Try taking on someone who knows what they're doing and isn't
afraid of you!" and with that, the shape fell apart like a cloud in a
stiff breeze (of which there weren't any that night).
An hour or so later the show let out. We hung out in the parking lot for a
while and then as we usually did we went to some diner to get some
breakfast. I don't know what time it was when I got dropped off at my
apartment, it had to be rather late (or early for that matter) the matter
in the parking lot was forgotten and I crawled into bed to get some sleep.
A little while later I noticed something odd. There was a main road that
had heavy traffic on it 24/7 just down the way from our place and the
white noise of the trucks and cars going by often lulled me to sleep. I no
longer could hear the traffic noises. I then noticed that the fish tank at
the other end of my bed which had been gurgling happily for months also
wasn't making any noise. I tried snapping my fingers and though I could
feel them snapping, I couldn't hear a thing. Nervous I rolled over and
reached to turn on the light, or I tried to. All of a sudden I was frozen
in place, I couldn't move a muscle. I then became aware of a presence or
more than one in the room with me, they were talking, the first sounds I
could hear. What language they were speaking I have no idea but there were
three separate and distinct voices two of which sounded male and one
vaguely female. Their voices sounded both as if they were right next to my
ear and coming from a million miles away. As their 'discussion' continued
it changed and sounded as if they were arguing and I somehow knew they
were arguing about me. I thought as hard as I could "Get out! Get out! You
have no power over me!" Suddenly, it felt as if one of the beings came
rushing towards me and the female of the voices said, in quite clear but
totally flat and emotionless English, "I only speak in blood." At the same
time it sounded as if my bass guitar had be flung off it's stand onto the
floor. The sound of a lamp shattering was heard. The floor from one end of
the house to the other creaked as if a gigantic weight had been dragged
across it. It was then I also noticed I could move again and the normal
sounds of traffic and fish tank had returned. I sat up and flipped on the
light expecting to see my room in ruins and found that everything was in
it's place and nothing had been broken. Moments later my roommate who was
as into psychic phenomena as I am was standing in my doorway asking "Just
what the FUCK was that?"
I never heard those voices again. I never again felt the mysterious loss
of sound and paralyzation. And to this day I have no idea what "I only
speak in blood." means or why I was told it.
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