Faust Legend

The Big Oak Tree

Omar Creed was a lonely man at the age of 43. He had short brown hair with a long coarse beard that hung halfway down to his round protruding stomach.  He had dark blue eyes and thick eyebrows.  He stood at about about 5’7” and carried himself slightly stooped over. He lived in an isolated cabin in the woods on the outskirts of a small town in northern Michigan. Omar had been alone almost all of his life, since he was 14.  Both of his parents disappeared out of nowhere on a cold winter day.  Omar learned to live on his own at a young age and has been alone ever since, with no contact of the outside world. The towns people would most likely not recognize Omar because he only goes into town for supplies every month or so.  He has not said a single word to anyone in over twenty years.  

One day Omar started to ponder about his lonely life. This is not the first time he has considered changing his lifestyle, but has never done anything about it before.  Omar finally decides that he needs company.  He goes into town and sets out to meet someone.  Just like every trip to town, people look at Omar as if he were and outsider and didn’t belong.  He didn’t.  Omar goes to the local pub and starts talking to a woman.  She expresses her obvious disinterest but Omar is impatient and makes an evil plan.  Omar knows that this woman will not come with him, so he is going to make her.

Omar waits until the woman walks down the back hallway to go to the bathroom.  As she walks out Omar suddenly grabs her and covers her mouth. Her silent screams are heard by no one. Once she is unconscious Omar drags her out the back door and puts her in his truck.  He drives down the single dirt road to his cabin.  Omar arrives at his home and ties the the woman to a support beam in the basement.  Omar sits and waits for her to regain consciousness.  She finally wakes up and screams for her life.  Omar looks at her and says, “Shhh, no one can hear you out here anyway”. With a grin he says, “I won’t hurt you, I just want some company”. Two days pass and Omar would just talk to this woman for hours, then he would stare.  The woman had been tied up her entire stay at Mr. Creed’s abode.  The woman finally decides she cannot take this any longer and waits for Omar to go to sleep. She starts grinding the rope against the cement beam for hours through the night.  Finally, she breaks loose and heads upstairs. Right as the woman gets to the top of the stairs Omar is standing there, furious. Omar grabs her by her arms and drags her back down the stairs. He throws her in his cold, damp cellar and slams the door shut. A single bulb hangs from the ceiling and cob webs overtake the the corners of the room.  Omar has a wooden club in his hand and looks down at it.  He stares at the woman for a moment and whispers, “Bad girl”.   Omar swings the club and hits the woman in the head.  She gets back up and pleads for mercy, but she never gets it.  He proceeded to beat her until her body was mangled and her head was bloody and dented.  Omar set the bat down, turned the light off, and went upstairs, leaving her destroyed body locked in the cellar.

Months go by and more than 15 other woman have gone through the same horrible experience of Omar’s first victim.  Omar is getting tired of every one of his “friends” trying to leave he starts walking to town through the woods to try his luck with one last person.  Omar is walking through the woods and feels something odd. He feels a sharp burst of bitter cold slice down his spine. He turned around and only saw a dark shadow move behind a tree.  When the shadow came from the other side of the large oak tree, he saw a man.  He was thin and had an eerie black glow surrounding his body.  His eyes looked empty and grey, as if he had no soul. His black hair was slicked back and his face had no expression other that his sinful grin. Omar doesn’t feel threatened or scared, but more intrigued and curious. The man says that he knows what Omar has been up to, but not in a disapproving way. The man says in a confident tone, “I can help you”. Omar notices that the man is shuffling some old, dirty coins between his fingers. The man starts pacing and tells Omar that he has a deal for him. “I can give you what you want, a life partner to stay with you forever,” the man says with his deep, raspy voice. Omar looks at him with a confused look on his face. The man asks, “That’s what you desire isn’t it?” Omar nods his head and asks what the man wants in return.  He says, “I simply want your soul”. Omar denies his offer without hesitation and goes back to his home. He then goes downstairs and stares at the large metal door that contains the decaying bodies that remain behind.  Omar thinks about what the man said, knowing now that he was the Devil himself. He reviews his dark and evil life and the offer the Devil gave him and decides, what do I have to lose”. Omar walks back into the woods and finds the Devil waiting for him by the big oak tree, as if he knew he was going to come back. Omar tells the Devil, “I accept”. The Devil then takes Omar’s hand and pricks it with his grotesque and yellow nail.  Omar’s blood drips onto one of the Devil’s coins and puts it in his pocket. 

The next day Omar goes into town and sits down at the local bar. Moments later, a tall beautiful woman with curly brown hair sits next to him.  “My name is Samantha”, she says to Omar with a sweet voice.  Omar introduces himself knowing this is what he has asked for. 

Omar and Samantha date for several months and Omar starts to become a real person.  They live together in his house and decide that they are ready to get married. They have a small wedding in town and officially start their life together. Years pass and Omar and Samantha are living a perfect life in happiness. One day Omar is in the kitchen and looks outside to see a crow perched on a branch staring down at Samantha in the garden. He knows something isn’t right but he ignores it. As the weeks pass Omar starts getting paranoid when Samantha goes out into town by herself. He starts to think that she is cheating on him.  One of these days he couldn’t take it anymore and starts furiously yelling at Samantha accusing her of having an affair.  She keeps denying Omar’s accusation begging for him to believe her. This just makes him more angry. He yells and yells until, “FWAP”, he hits Samantha right across her face.  She instantly starts fighting back, flailing her fists at him. He is getting more and more furious at her and grabs a knife off the counter and shoves it into Samantha’s chest. He stabs her over and over again until she is lying in a pool of her own blood.  Omar stand up, looks at Samantha and is filled with disbelieve.  He drops the knife and starts waking into the woods.  

It comes to his attention that the Devil has not met to his end of the deal. Omar goes to the same oak tree and calls out his name. Sure enough, out comes the Devil from his dark shadows. Omar yells at him saying, “You said we would live a long and happy life! Look what you have done, what happened to our deal?” The Devil looks at him, chuckles and says, “I lied”. The Devil proceeds toward Omar and says, “It’s time for  me to get what I have been longing for”. The Devil grabs him by his neck and pulled his soul from his very body. Omar was never seen again, all that remains of him is a few of his bones, lying next to the big oak tree.