Hospitality in the darkness

[Ash Williams]

"W-woah!!!" yelled Ash coming through the gateway, face planting to the ground. He looks up from the ground and sees the landscape that surrounded him. A field of tall grass he has landed in but the height of the plants was up to his knees. The sky was gloomy surrounded with clouds barely having any sunlight shining. Off in the distance was a forest what seems to be dead trees taking up the land and nothing living can be seen only despair. Crows fly over Ash, cawing to one and another then eventually landing ten yards away from the boomstick wielder. Ash spits out a bit dirt that ended up in his mouth from the hard landing then stumbles a bit to stand up in the middle of the field.

"Where in the hell?" muttered Ash under his breath, confused by what just happened. Wind starts softly blowing on the field moving the grass back and forth, making the newcomer feel the cool breeze. The temperature wasn't too cold or humid but felt alright to be wearing short sleeves or even shorts. Ash made his way by trying to walk through the tall grass which made him have to take big steps. A flock of Crows got startled from Ash's movement making them fly off in a panic with a bunch of racket.

The field was on smooth hill easy to walk down on which below was were the dead forest sits at. It took seven minutes for Ash to get down from the hill and stand at where the forest is at. He inhales a deep breath and says "Well ]this looks welcoming." What gave off a creepy factor of the forest in fact was the dead silence with no sign of anything. "Alrighty Ash, no turning back now. That might've been the only thing we can find in the empty world." said Ash to himself then starts to enter the forest.

As deeper Ash got into the forest, the more darker the environment was becoming due to the amount of trees blocking the sky. The only sound that was coming out of the woods was Ash's footsteps he was making since the ground is mostly covered in dead leaves and some branches. His mind was focusing on keeping an eye out on something since after all it's a creepy forest. A howl of a wolf is heard off in the distance letting Ash know that wolves are present in this forest.

"Oh great, just when I was thinking I could be all alone." said Ash reacting to the noise he just heard. A gust of wind blew above the trees causing the branches to rattle a bit making some dead leaves fall off. Ten minutes in on Ash's journey through the dead forest, nothing much hasn't change with scenery around just more trees that are lifeless. Ash's stomach starts to groan a bit making him hungry and follows up saying "That long nap I took is starting to make me want a meal right about now."

[Ash Williams]

The sun is starting to set, making the forest to succumb to more darkness. "Is there anything from the wild that I can snack on a bit?" said Ash looking around to see if there is any shrubs that had any berries growing on them. All the shrubs though were dead as the woods and shriveling away from the environment it was put into. "I may need to set up a camp since it's getting dark. At least take a break from what's all happening to me." said Ash as he continues to hike through the forest and is twelve miles away from the gateway destination. He finds a clear open spot in the woodland that looks like a perfect place to set up a small camp for the night and begins to gather up fire wood. After ten minutes of setting up his campsite for the night, Ash kneels down at the ready fire pit to set it a blaze.

The sunset lasted only minutes then the forest became pitch black. Ash summons a box of matches and starts the fire from a small flame. He begins blowing in the camp fire to make the flame live longer. It only took about a minute for the stack of dead wood to start burning away. This fire made the camp area lit up a bit with a little light source. Ash also summons a tent that came with a sleeping bag about twelve feet away from the bonfire. The survivor of the evil dead sits on a log he moved and puts his hands in front of the fire to stay a bit warm due to the nightfall is actually making the weather feel a bit chilly.

Suddenly, cracking of twigs can be heard right behind Ash which makes him have a natural reaction turning around quickly, whipping his shotgun out of his back holster for a split second with his left hand. He holds the shotgun with one hand pointing in the direction where the sound was heard. After two minutes not hearing another sound, Ash puts his shotgun up in the holster and continues try to stay warm. The fire continues to pop and crackle making Ash hot which makes him sit back to take a break from warming up. He looks up and can see the night sky that has a full moon but still looks cloudy.

After fifteen minutes of relaxing, more noise was made coming from the woods except this time it was a constant scratching noise on a tree. This made Ash jump up quickly with his shotgun again in his left hand. He aims the shotgun and picks up a big piece of branch setting it on fire with the conflagration.  The boomstick wielder starts walking slowly towards where the sound is coming from which was in front of him and the fire. The light of the fire didn't reach far enough not letting him see what was causing the ruckus. This made Ash feel weird what was in the woods with him giving off a unnerving look with climax. Now, he is coming up to where the sound is and the fire on the branch was slowly lighting the way.

His heart stops to finally see what was causing this scratching noise. A owl was scratching the tree above Ash and hoots at his appearance. This made him sigh with relief and had smile on his face of comfort. He lowers the shotgun and turns around but gets jump scared by a hideous winged demon landing in front of him that was a bit taller then his height causing him to scream. The beast roars at Ash hits his gun to the side before he could pull the trigger. Ash fights off by swinging the burning branch at the demon causing the horrific creature to back up from the range of the fire. A scratch was made by the demon on him but Ash tries to block it with the branch but it gets sliced in half, making the burning piece fly behind him. It landed on a dead tree which fed the flames and started slowly growing

"Foolish human! Give up and Succumb to the darkness so I can devour you!" growled the hell-spawn in a demonic voice, activating his long claws ready to attack pointing at Ash Williams with his right arm. "Your going get yourself in a world of hurt, pal." said Ash then takes off his metal hand which disappears into omnilium and he summons his chainsaw hand. Ash equips the chainsaw to his missing right hand and yanks the starter with his other. "Ho ho ho! Your a prime, that means my dinner is going to be satisfying!" cackled the demon at Ash realizing he isn't a secondary. "Oh yeah, let's see if you can even eat when you lose your head!" remarked Ash revving up his chainsaw.

[Ash Williams]

The pale demon and Ash clash together in a fight to the death. They both knock each other back but Ash's opponent used his wings and flies straight towards him. Ash starts running towards his enemy with his weapon and attempts to slash his target. He managed to clip off one of the demon's wings making it crash into the ground four yards away behind him. From the tree catching on fire earlier, the forest begins to get engulfed by fire due to the dead and dry environment. A snarl was made by the demon seeing his wing has been cut off and gets back on his feet, forced to fight on the ground. Ash quickly goes for his boomstick behind him and grabs it off the ground with his left hand, raising it to the hell-spawn. It roars at Ash and starts making a full on sprint towards him but is getting slowed down by the two shots that Ash unleashes making it stumbling.

This gave a chance for Ash to make another move on his opponent. "Ha!" screamed Ash swinging his Chainsaw arm cutting off the demon's right arm and does another slash on the left one leaving it arm-less. This makes the monster scream in agony and kneel before Ash from the pain. It hisses in anger looking up at Ash with it's mouth wide opened. Ash plugs the evil one's mouth shut with his shotgun in the jaws and says with a smirk "Here's a side order of lead." He pulls the trigger making the demon's head explode leaving a corpse with no head or arms. After the fighting was done, Ash was covered in demon blood and realizes that the forest is having a wild fire. He flees the scene and runs deeper into the woods.

Everything started catching on fire fast which made Ash surrounded by burning plants and the woodland was lit up with spread. Ash continues to run through combust forest trying to escape the dangerous flames. All of sudden, Ash was stopped by more monsters that blocked his path which they looked like they must've known the demon he just killed. "Hay...uh....guys, how's it going?" said Ash in jokingly manner while the burning kept going on behind him. "You know, I just met your friend and he seemed like a groovy guy and did I mention he was pretty handsome too. We chit-chatted for a while until I had to saw his arms off and blow his brains out. Anyways, I'm going on my way now, you guys try to stay cool." said Ash trying to stay calm then runs off in another direction away from the monsters.

They chase him, trailing behind Ash as he tries to escape from the situation. "Shit! Shit! Shit!" cursed Ash running through back into the dangerous forest fire trying to throw them off his track. Most of the time, he had to change the direction which way he was running due to some of the flames blocking his path. Still the monsters where high tailing behind him and didn't care if they had to run through all of the fire to catch up to Ash that killed one of them. Ash comes across a big oak tree that was burning and dropping huge flaming branches. He manages run across in the nick of time before the branches hit the ground.

The tree falls apart, blocking the monster's path to catching up with Ash and they become trapped in the burning forest surrounded by flames. The undead killer manages to escape from the monsters and the forest fire, hearing the screams of agony being burnt alive. "Burn in hell, you creeps." said Ash breathing hard and looking back at the fire while he was still running. He focuses back on his path and jumping over the obstacles that were in his way. Ash manages to come across a paved dirt road and runs in the middle of it. Right when he was still trying to get far away from the forest fire, he gets hit in the middle of the road by a horse drawn wagon. This makes him fly back from the impact, landing on his back but didn't get anything broken. "Gah." muttered ash under his breath but starts to faint from being hit by a wagon. 

The men stop their horse when they passed by Ash and got off the cart with their oil lamps. They run behind the wagon to see what they hit and find out about Ash. "I say we should leave him here." said the 7 ft., 45 year old man who had a full on black beard but a bald head and muscle-built body who was wearing Blacksmith clothing. "No. no. no. That's not right. He's not one of them. We need to see if he's alive." said the other man who is 38 years old and 5ft tall that had brown hair which the style looked messy a bit. His apparel was medievalesque farmer clothing but the way it looked was wore out from a hard day of work. He checks Ash to see if he was still breathing while the blacksmith thought what a strange object that replaced his right hand.

"He's still breathing, we should take him back to let him rest up a bit. The stranger looks like he's been through hell today." said the farmer getting up after checking if Ash was alive. "Grr. Fine." responded the blacksmith, helping the farmer to pick up Ash and put him in their wagon. They climb back on and got the wagon moving again down the dirt road.

[Ash Williams]

"U-uh. Where am I?" said Ash waking up in a bed after being knocked out for two and a half hours. The room he was in looked wooden which means, the floor, walls, and ceiling. There wasn't much light source in their but only the moonlight that is shining through the window on the left side of the bed which didn't light the room up much. Ash sits up in the bed and rubs his head from a headache he is having with his left hand. He notices that he doesn't have his artificial hand on nor his chainsaw and he was shirtless too. His holster with his gun was missing which kinda worried him about his missing stuff.

The door of the bedroom opens in front of the bed and light shines through the room. Ash could see a silhouette of a lady blocking most of the light wearing a gown holding a bowl in front of her that had something in it. She walks in the room and sets the bowl down on the lamp stand that was on the left side of the bed. The woman lights the oil lamp with a match on the stand. The room partially lights up from the lamp and the woman takes a cloth and begins soaking it in the bowl. Ash can see what the woman looks like and she was a redhead in her early thirties. Her body was normal and fit which her height looked to be a bit smaller than Ash's height.

"Oh, you don't look quite well dear after you took a heavy hit in the head." said the woman taking the soaked rag out of the bowl then begins twisting it to get most of water out. She begins to rub ash's head a bit, trying to wash him off from his black out. After rubbing his head for a moment, she washes Ash's chest off which had a big scratch mark. When she made contact of the wound, Ash grits his teeth and reacts in pain from her washing the gash. When she was done washing his cut, the woman puts the rag back in the bowl then looks at Ash seeing if he looked better. "Can you please tell me what happened to me and where am I?" said Ash looking back at the woman.

"Oh, well you got hit pretty hard from my husband's wagon when you were in the middle of the road and fell unconscious. They picked you up and brought you to our ranch." said the woman then sits down next to Ash on the bed. "Also, where is my gear?" said Ash concerned for his equipment. "Don't worry we put it up in a safe place." said the lady having her focus on Ash. "By the way, sorry if I didn't introduced myself. I'm Shirley McFarland." said Shirley giving off a welcoming smile. "My husband John, decided it was wrong just to leave you here knocked out in the wilds of the deadly Pale Moors. Who are you?" questioned Shirley wondering who this stranger was. "The name is Ash. Ash Williams." answered Ash in a confident manner.

"Well Ash, I just made supper. If your feeling better, your welcome to join us or if you are not alright I can bring some food in here." said Shirley having a hospitality attitude. "No it's fine, I'll be there in a minute." said Ash trying to sit up more in the bed. "Very well then." chimed Shirley standing back up then walks out of the bedroom. Ash gets out of the bed and follows her out of the room.

[Ash Williams]

Before Ash left the room, he looks around to find his shirt so he wouldn't be half naked a the dinner table. After a minute fumbling around in the room for his shirt, he finds it on the floor next to the closet. Ash buttons his shirt up then heads to the dining room where supper was taking place. He had to go through the living room first to be able to access where dinner is at. The living room was similar to a cabin one having a stone fire place burning, a buck mounted over it, a brown comfortable couch, loveseat, two armchairs, and a bear rug. Wood is what the house is built out of but not artificially. His bedroom gave him immediate access to the living room which is a nice spot to have a guestroom at.

Ash turns to the right and heads down a small hall and on the right side was a stairwell that gave access to the second floor of the house. Left side of the hall had a door that is opened and it was the dinning room. He can see the family gather around the table already having food placed out but they where setting utensils down. The family consists five members which was John, Shirley, a young seven year old daughter, a fifteen year old son, and the farm caretaker which was the well muscle built man.

They noticed Ash's appearance in the doorway seeing he was doing fine. "Nice to see you fully awake Ash." said John in relief that Ash was doing fine. "I almost thought I killed you when you got hit by my wagon." continued John walking across the dining room towards Ash as the family is still busy trying to get things straight. "I'm pretty surprised you looked alright since being out in the wild Pale Moors at this time of the day is usually when Dracula's people is out to hunt humans." said John concerned about how he survived. "Let's just say, I have an expertise for some situations." responded Ash. Both of the men walk to the table and the family begins to settle down for dinner time. The table was filled with some vegetables and fruits for the side dishes. Main course of the meal was a fully cooked turkey steaming from being fresh out of the oven.

They begin to pick what they want on their plates and pass around bowls of food. "Oops, I forgot I need something for my right hand." noticed Ash not having his metal hand on. He summons his metal hand then equips it to his right risk. This made the family have a strange look on their faces what Ash did. "What, never saw a guy with a metal hand before?" said Ash to the family what they just saw. "Just great, we brought home a prime." said the farm caretaker in discouragement dropping his utensils on the plate. "All they do is bring nothing but trouble." continued the bearded man with a scar on his left eye. "Gus, quite your griping. Ash is our first guest here on the McFarland ranch." replied John not in the mood for his negative mood. "Sorry Ash for Gus complaining about you. He hasn't had a well history with their type." said John looking across the table at Ash.

"Ok first off, what's a prime?" questioned Ash raising his brow up after what John just said. "You see Mr. Williams, primes are beings that are brought to the world by Omni. They have powers that us secondaries don't really have. Such as what you did right there with your hand is something that we can't do since we don't have the ability to use Omnillium." lectured john about the Omniverse. "By the way, sorry if I haven't introduced my family to you Mr. Williams. This is my daughter Esmeralda, my son Thomas, and you already met my wife Shirley. Gus isn't blood related to our family but he's a long time friend I known." said John talking about his family.

[Ash Williams]

"Hay Mr, how did you lose that hand?" questioned Thomas focusing on Ash's metal hand. "Thomas! You know better then that being rude about questioning a missing limb at the dinner table. I'm sorry Mr. Williams, Thomas hasn't really seen anything like your hand before since we are very secluded from society." said Shirley apologizing about her son's manners. "Nah, that's ok. It's a long story how I lost it. Hey kid, remind me the next time to tell you the story when we aren't at the dinner table." said Ash smirking at Thomas's question. They still continued to fest on the dinner but out of all of them, Ash was eating the most due to his hunger earlier. All of them looked at Ash how fast he was eating which makes him look at everyone then says "What? Can you tell that I'm hungry?"

After twenty minutes later when supper was put out on the table, the dinning room table was littered with empty plates that had scrapes. Ash takes a drink of the beverage that dinner offered which was watered. He burps after when he was done with the meal and rests a bit in the chair. Ash and the family continued to have a conversation about some minor things but wasn't anything important. After they finished talking, the family gets up and starts cleaning the dinner room from the meal they had. Ash helps some by getting the table clear from all the dirty dishes and scrapes.

The undead slayer walks up to the big window of the dinner room that was centered with the table. He looks outside, being able to see the McFarland ranch which he can see a big crop field that was next to a good size fenced pasture of cows. A wooden old barn sits out close to the cottage that was next to the field. They also had a wooden silo next to the barn that they store their grains in. Ash finishes looking outside and turns away heading out of the dining room. He walks back out into the hallway and heads to the kitchen which was at the front of the house, next to the front door on the left of Ash.. A wooden counter was set up in the middle of the cooking area which consists an old iron stove that's next to a couple wooden cabinets holding items. The kitchen was also half Sculley room which Shirley was in that part of the area trying to wash the dishes with Esmeralda which she is a brunette wearing normal house clothing and Thomas who is a redhead like her mother wearing overalls with farm clothing underneath who's also helping cleaning too by sweeping the area.

John and Gus wasn't there which made Ash questioned "Hey where is your husband and his friend at?" Shirley turns around to see Ash and responds "They're resting in the living room after a long hard day of work." Ash nods and turns around to head back through the hallway. He walks in the living room seeing them sitting in the arm chairs. Gus across the room, was smoking his tobacco pipe sitting there having his focus on the fire until Ash arrived. The evil dead slayer comes around John and sits on the couch that was next to him. "Sorry to be noisy Mr. Williams, since primes do have a history of themselves before they come here. I'm interested in hearing where you came from." said John turning to Ash when he was seated.

"Listen, you don't have to call me by Mr. I rather you call me Ash" responded Ash correcting John on his name. "Alright then Ash, can you please tell me about you?" questioned John eager to hear about Ash's origins. "Fine then, Once upon a time I used to be a store clerk at a retail store called S-Mart. I had a girlfriend named Linda that I used to work with. We decided that we wanted to have a get away so we decided to drive off to a cabin in the deep woods. It had a book that a archeologist was studying at, named Necronomicon Ex Mortis AKA the book of the dead. The book was bound in human flesh and inked in blood. Pages in the book consists bizarre burial rights, funerary incantations, and demon resurrection passages. A book that was filled with nothing but evil. I accidentally read something aloud in the book that awoke something dark in the forest. It came for Linda possessing her which I was forced to put her down. Then, it came for me. The evil got into my hand so I had to lock it off at the risk. I tried to cast out the evil with something in the book but it took me too bringing me to the ancient past. I helped a kingdom fight off the evil and obtain the book so that no one will try to activate the dark power. They wanted me to teach them and to be king but I thought my place was being back in my own time. Now, here I am when the wise man said that if I swallow the juice and said the words. I would be home." finished Ash with his story having John intrigued what kind of person he is.

"Did you say every word right?" questioned Gus looking at Ash. "Well maybe I didn't say every tiny single syllable no but basically I said them yeah." said Ash back at Gus with a confident expression. "Basically..." continued Ash looking away with an uneasy look. "Oh sure you did, King." said Gus puffing smoke out of his pipe.

[Ash Williams]

The three guys got finished talking in the living room and see that Shirley comes back from putting Esmeralda to bed. "I'll be heading off to bed now, good night men." said Shirley walking back upstairs to head to the master bedroom. "Well, it was nice meeting you Ash. You can stay here as long as you like since your new. I'll see y'all in the morning. Tomorrow, we need to gather more wood from the forest. Your welcome to come along if you want to Ash." said John getting up from his chair and is about to exit the living room. "Yeah sure, I wouldn't mind helping you guys out for a bit. By the way, is it alright If I can get my stuff back tomorrow. My belongings are things I can't live out with." responded Ash to what John said. "Oh yeah, sure thing. I'll hand them back to you." said John nodding at Ash.

"Goodnight, y'all!" said John cheerfully, walking upstairs. "From a day of running, sawing, and shooting. I think it's safe to say to call it a night." said Ash getting up and leaves for the guest bedroom. Gus still sits there at the fire still smoking his pipe before minutes he puts out the fire and goes to his living space. Ash takes off his shirt in the room and lights the oil lamp to have light. He falls back on the bed and lays there for seconds then gets himself in underneath the covers to get comfortable. The evil dead slayer blows out the lamp when he was ready to fall a sleep. "Tomorrow is another day..." said Ash then dozes off in his sleep that took a minute.