So at one point, Mark stopped laughing manically and looked peacefully at Nora "Next, it's your turn, Nora. I won't kill you and your family because of some freaking opinion of people, I will kill all of you for my satisfaction, cuz I think you all deserved the worst death possible in this world. And for that to happen, first, I will peel your entire skin but keep you alive, Nora. Then peel your family's skin and cook them alive in front of your sight, and then I will hang you upside down on the tree to let you die slowly with each passing moment."

  Silence!

  An unprecedented silence suddenly filled the forest as even the screaming Noah stopped screaming, hearing Mark's words.

  He and the others realized that whatever had happened till now was nothing but a start for something worse that was about to come.

  This was all just an appetizer, as they say.

  As fear drilled into every family member, and without them knowing, their bodies started shaking.

  While Nora was a goner, as she shook her head furiously and said deliriously, "No, no, no, Mark….. My family……. not Mark……."

  Giving Michael enough time for him to stand and run towards his wife and son with conviction.

  No way he would let his family die such a horrifying death. He would rather kill them with his own hands than to let some monster destroy them from the inside out, cook them alive, and let his daughter see their terrifying deaths.

  But before he could reach them to snap their necks and kill them, Mark appeared and slapped him hard.

  “You just won’t st……” In mid-sentence Mark stopped as he disappeared to reappear in front of Natalia, who had her son’s head in her hand and with all her power, she turned it around, and it did, as the sound of snapping rang in the surrounding, but instead of dying serenely, a loud screaming of Noah’s rang again in the forest as his head now looked 120 degree turned.

  It was such a horrifying scene that it gave chills to everyone and even shocked Mark to his core. He couldn't believe such a thing was even possible.

  While Natalia, who did this, was now a goner, her face looked so pale from shock that it literally felt as if blood had stopped flowing from her heart to her face.

  Michael and Nora looked as if they had seen a ghost, as the sound of screaming rang in their ears, piercing such that they felt themselves deafened in horror.

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  The screaming finally awoke Natalia from her stupor as she again tried to snap her son’s neck, but this time Mark was there to stop it and kicked her hard on her face, picked Noah up, but the shock Noah had felt had made his body go limp as foam started to coming out of his mouth, making Mark take instant decision and throw him at the lake.

  In the air Noah flew, as with him, Natalia and others necks turned as they saw him falling into the lake.

  SPLASH!

  The sound was so horrible that it was indescribable, but it was still less horrible than the screams that rose afterwards.

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH……

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH………

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH……..

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH……….

  AHHHHHHHHH……..

  From louder to smaller, the screams kept going, while Noah thrashed crazily, his face without skin burned such that, alive, it looked bloody cooked.

  In seconds, his clothes got dissolved as his naked body flailed in the same place like crazy.

  As blisters started to rise all over him, just to pop and shed with water, just to get burned even more horribly, as slowly and terribly his body went from pale to blood red, until cooked completely and wafting a disgusting yet delicious smell.

  For more than thirty seconds, his screams rang, for more than thirty seconds, everyone looked at this scene, as Nora and her family even forgot breathing, as they just saw this scene and kept seeing it.

  It felt like eternity when Noah's screaming finally stopped, as his naked cooked body floated in the water, and from afar the fishes came swimming crazily, and the moment they reached Noah's dead body, they started biting and eating like crazy.

  From death to seeing their son/brother getting eaten, it was as if every barrier, every sanity in the three members bodies shattered, as they just fell right where they were, making tears leak out of their eyes like pouring drizzle.

  It was such a scene that it was indescribable in words.

  "My son…… my son…… my son……" Natalia mumbled as she looked at her husband in confusion, looked at her son's eaten body in shock, and looked at Nora in disbelief. It was as if she had gone dumb. The thought process in her mind had just stopped.

  As finally it hit her hard that her son was gone. Even when all this happened in front of her eyes, the shock made her realize her son had gone when everything had already happened.

  When her son had already died and she had just watched all that happen, fallen to the ground.

  "MY SONNNNNNN….. MY SONNNNNNNN……. OHHH MY POOR SONNNNNNNN……… MY SONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN……" As finally like crazy, Natalia started crying, bawling like a kid, shaking her body on the ground, beating her chest with her fists.

  And seeing her like this, finally, Michael and Nora couldn't control themselves as they also started bawling like crazy.

  The entire family cried, screamed, yelled, and wailed as they all finally went crazy.

  For them, Mark had just suddenly disappeared, the forest had disappeared, everything in the world had disappeared, and the only thing that was remaining was their grief and misery.

  But Mark hadn't disappeared, he stood right where he had stood before. Right at the place from where he had thrown Noah in the lake.

  And seeing Natalia and her family going crazy made him remember the day when everything had started.

  The day when he became a murderer, when calls rang in his home, when just like these people his family had gone crazy in shock and madness, but he was alive back then, Noah had died.

  And he was the one who made all this happen, but for some reason, he felt nothing.

  There was no anger, no sorrow, no satisfaction. All there was an emptiness as to what he had become.

  As to what monster he had become.