Short stories

Satan

This story revolves around a character, who used to do short podcasts on streaming platforms, His name on the online website was Sam. He was quite popular until his popularity reached the wrong audience. This turn of events would change his life and he wasn't aware of it. During his life streaming he suggested that the audience give him random dares that he would perform, most were funny and random, like eating chocolate with ketchup, meeting and greeting anyone on the street or dancing in the middle of the street. He was doing all of it until one weird dare popped up, it seemed to be strange at first but then the person said they would pay a large sum if Sam would do the task. The task was the person would share a website link and all he had to do was open the website link on his phone or laptop. At first, he thought it to be extra weird and denied but the person agreed to pay him a large sum in advance and later if he opened it. To take the large sum, Sam decided to open the link, and the person shared the link in his email and opened it, but nothing happened at that time, as per agreement the money was transferred into his streaming account. He was happy to get a large sum on such a small task and forgot about the link and why he got this sum for this much work.

Not thinking much about it he continued his stream until one day he received another weird message from the same user, this time he asked him to draw a symbol on the white paper, it was a star-like symbol with an eye in the middle, Sam joked about it said he is not a good painter but he can try and he again got the large sum for it. Then he continued his link with, many other viewers on his stream commenting saying the thing he drew links somewhat to woo-do things or scary horror things, he likes the attention and the number of viewers increased and he also got the pay for it. It got greedy and started doing live every day, but a week went by and the weird guy didn't join and the number of views was going down every day.

In great desperation, he emailed the weird viewers asking to join his live stream and said he would agree to any weird stuff for free if he got the high for view for the video. Another week went by but he got no reply from the weird guy, after a week he felt sick. Fever and headaches, after not getting any reply from the weird viewer and not much view he decided to take a break for a few days. He was staying alone, so he decided not to go to the hospital and just took some medicines at home, after a couple of days when he had no hope, he got the mail from the weird guy saying he would join the livestream if he would do it right now. It was around midnight when he got the mail. But he denied saying he wasn't feeling well and couldn't do it right now. But the weird guy insisted on doing it at night time so he agreed he would do it the fortnight. The weird guy said he would send him the details he needed to be done, also he said the link he had sent at the beginning and to keep the drawing he drew in the last life. Sam agreed to do all of it and he uploaded on his socials about the stream he would do at 3 AM. To gain more view he also mentioned the weird guy. The weird viewer sent him the mail with the instructions-

"All you had to do is say those words while keeping the painting on the floor and a candle on every end of the corner of the stars and there is a tune on the web link I had shared the first time, and you should say these words very carefully. Also, keep the dark you can.

The words are - "I own SATAN. And SATAN is my pawn. I keep him in between my fingers."

This is all you have to do and you will get the maximum number of views."

He agreed and he did exactly as he was told, but strangely the weird guy didn't join the stream but there was maximum audience. It was the maximum amount he ever got. He was excited and happy with all the vibe so he didn't care about the weird things and the weird phrases all he could think about was his popularity and the money this stream would earn him. He did the whole set-up and played the tone, many in the comment supported him and a few of them warned him not to do something that he would regret later but ignored all of those warnings and said the phrase out loud--

"I own SATAN. And SATAN is my pawn. I keep him in between my fingers."

"I own SATAN. And SATAN is my pawn. I keep him in between my fingers."

"I own SATAN. And SATAN is my pawn. I keep him in between my fingers."

He did the whole ritual, and he got even greater pay from the weird viewer, he wasn't in the stream but somehow as soon as he stopped the ritual he got the thank you mail and money from the weird viewer, he thought it to be weird. Suddenly then all the candles around the painting blew off one by one and all of the viewers were leaving their steam one by one, only a couple hundred were left and soon after 5 minutes he felt like someone was in his apartment so he went to check but there was nothing. He checked his stream and all of his streamers were gone by then and one new streamer joined, it was the weird guy. He asked in the stream "What is happening?", he got the text "It's over" from the weird guy and all of his house lights went off.

It was that day and after that day nobody saw him when his family noticed his strange absence they filed a missing report but sadly nobody knows where he was now. As he vanished, his phone and almost all of his belongings, they couldn't even search his mail or his streaming account.