[CW] Flash Fiction Challenge - Location: Paradise | Object: Headphones

 The broken set of headphones bounced around my head as they blared the haunting “2.” My mangled headphones helped with the screaming, but I think only death would silence the holy Cacophony. Maybe I just needed a different song. 

 Maybe I just needed a change of scenery. This scene sucks. Paradise just has way too many angels. The whole place reeks of corrupted gold and human flesh.

  But, I needed to pay attention. I hadn’t broken into upper Zion just to watch the few Cherubims devour the wretched souls. I needed food. Hell, I’d rather starve than eat what I have been eating. 

 Up ahead the twisting staircase of the inner paradise winded into the shining void of the Holy of Holies. If I needed food, I needed to go there and speak to Mister high-and-mighty himself. To be fair after IT murdered most of the heavenly host, he hadn’t been nearly as narcissistic. 

 “Yo, OG, what’s up.” I yelled as I approached the throne, “I need some food. Last batch of souls left a bad taste in my mouth.” 

 “Morningstar,” The Cacophony thought, bypassing my headphones, “You know the supply of souls is shortening thanks to the constant onslaught by that outer scum. You will have to make due like the rest of your brethren.” With that, he slouched back in his great throne. Even his face of rainbows had faded with the eons. 

 “Ah, that’s the thing,” I said with a smile as I pulled the eldric dagger from between my twelve wings, “IT really only wants one soul, yours.” With a stifled laugh, I stabbed the dagger through the Being causing an eternal wave. As utter darkness and silence filled the world I realized the truth. It did take death for the Cacophony to finally shut up.

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