The Summoning of Mark

During the winter of 1996, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone were sitting alone in their apartment in Germany, Mexico. The newly married couple had just come back from their honeymoon and were beginning to think about what they wanted for their future. “You know…what if it was about time we had a kid?” Emma said while looking into her husband’s eyes. Ryan stared off into the distance, thinking about her question. “I think that is a great idea! You can teach him how to act, and I can teach him to play the piano! He would make us so much money after we retire!” He responded with a smile and a laugh. Emma took his hands in hers and gave him a peck on the lips. “The thing is, though, Emma, how am I going to have a kid with you if I am infertile” Ryan asked with a sad look now.

Emma grinned and stood up, then walked to the kitchen and grabbed a large knife from the drawer. He watched her confused, a tiny bit of fear going down his spine. “I met with Kevin Hart about a week and a half ago, and he told me about a way to create a child through the forces of Hell…it was how he got his kids because he is infertile just like you” She says before sitting back down in front of him. Ryan looked down at the knife in his wife’s hand and began to sweat. “I am going to cut my hand open and spread my blood in a satanic pattern on the floor” Emma says before slicing her hand open and letting the blood drip onto the floor. “Oh my god! What the fuck!” Ryan yelled in shock and horror.

Emma slammed her hand face down on the floor and started to smear her blood all over the hardwood. After a few minutes of drawing it out, her satanic circle was complete. Ryan stared on, still in shock at what was happening in his living room. “Now, my love…it is time for you to give part of your lifeforce to our baby” Emma whispered to him creepily, handing him the knife as she did so. He hesitated to grab the knife, but she forced it into his hand. “What had gotten into you…your whole personality seems to have changed in only a few minutes” Ryan said while still staring down at the bloody knife. She cracked her head back and forth, her eyes rolling to the back of her head as if she was just possessed. Her voice went deep before she spoke again. “Cut your fucking hand and spill your blood across the circle before I just kill you and offer your whole body as a sacrifice” Emma said while staring into her husband's soul.

Ryan didn’t seem to have any other choice. He stood up and walked to the middle of the circle, his whole body shaking as he did. “Well…here goes nothing, I guess” He said before taking the knife and making a significant cut in his left hand. He yelled out in pain and agony as blood fell from his hand and onto the floor. Once his blood made contact with the circle, the room began to turn a bright red. Different objects started to rise and float in the air in the living room. Emma smiled and began to laugh as everything unfolded. “You have done great Ryan…I can now finally be free from this world and go back to my home!” She yelled happily.

He fell to the floor and covered his head, not knowing if things were going to be thrown around or not. Upon hearing what his wife said, Ryan sat up and looked at her confused. “Wait, what do you mean go back to your home! We are home!” He yelled. The ritual started to get louder and louder. The screams of lost souls could be heard from a small portal opening on the floor in the middle of the living room. Emma approached the portal slowly and stood over it, looking down inside and seeing the fiery pits of Hell once again. “This ritual is not used to bring more life into this god-forsaken world! It is used to replace my spot with another unfortunate demon who has to live here in my place!” She yelled once more. The heat coming from Hell began to burn the flesh off of Emma. A bright red replaced her white skin. Horns broke through the skin on the top of her head, and blood ran down her face which was also peeling off slowly. “All of these years! Everything we have been through, and you’re just going to throw it all away!” Ryan cried out, tears falling down his cheeks.

The living room was being torn apart piece by piece. The couch and loveseat had caught on fire and burned the ceiling and walls nearby. Emma could see her replacement being brought up towards her. “The thing is, Ryan, you are the biggest reason for my departure from this world! Your character is weak and boring! A man who will live his life in loneliness and sorrow!” She said before a human baby has landed in her hands. “All these years, I had to deal with you…having to listen to you play that lousy ass piano every night! Singing so many horrible songs and forcing me to sing along! If I could have killed you, I would have! But letting you survive alone in a world with this child here is a heavier burden for any man to bear!” Emma yelled before throwing the child to Ryan, catching the child in his arms.

All of Emma’s human skin was gone and she looked like a demon once more. She stared Ryan down and laughed before taking a step forward and falling into the portal to Hell. Suddenly, the portal had shut, and everything had normalized. The apartment was destroyed, everything that Ryan owned was gone and he was left with nothing but a child. He stood up, crying out loud and screaming at the top of his lungs while looking out a hole in the ceiling that revealed the night sky up above him. The baby began to cry as well with him. “What am I going to do with you…you are just another fucking demon!” He yelled.

The child didn’t seem to have any recollection of being a demon and was acting as any other human baby would. However, Ryan knew that he couldn’t just abandon the kid and had to raise him himself. “I will raise you to be the best man you can be…a kind, caring, and heartfelt man who people will respect…Mark” He whispered to the child. Mark had stopped crying and fell asleep in Ryan’s arms. His name was settled. “Let’s get out of this place…this country is going downhill, and we can start a new life in Califordaho, just you and me” He said with a smile before carrying Mark out of the destroyed apartment, leaving everything behind that he had once owned.