The Army of Five

Inside a cave a fire could be seen lit. A scrawny, tired looking man was inside. The man had just summoned an arc demon from the fifth hell. The demon emerged from the summons circle. ‘I have brought what you wanted, now give me power!’ The man presented the demon with his child who was just born to act as compensation of the deal he had struck with the demon. In exchange for power, he was to sacrifice his child. The demon scoffed “Humans, always greedy as ever. Are you sure you are willing to give away your child just for power?”. The man replied ‘I already killed my wife and my entire family just to get this child here, I’m as serious as ever. Now give me what I came for!’. The demon laughed and to the child and absorbed it in its body. ’Very well. Your desire is yours to keep.’ The demon grabbed the man’s head and pierced his claws into the man’s head. It transferred something inside the man through the claws the and let him down. The man lay down there weakly unable to get up. ‘Should you survive you’ll get what you wanted, but if your body is weak you shall die in agonizing pain.’ The man lay there in agonizing pain unable to get up, thinking of what he had done. Killing his entire family and going against his honor as man. Was it all worth it? As the demon was turning to return to his hell, a blade went through his chest from the back. It was the man whom he had given powers to. He had the ability to manipulate the shape and density of his body into anything he desired. He had formed a blade and attempted to kill the arc demon. The demon was now furious. How dare this puny human try and harm him. Didn’t he know where he stood and who he was trying to annoy. The demon grabbed the man’s neck and threw him to the cave wall. The man smashed into the wall and but he had already increased his density hence decreasing most of the damage. “Don’t think I’ll die just by a little stab through my body. It seems you don’t where you stand puny human. You might think you have power but it’s nothing compared to where I am now.” The demon said to the man. But the man said “I sacrificed everything I had just for this and I’m going to get more, whether it kills me on the way I do not care”. Standing up he charged at the demon with his hands formed like blades and started swinging at it. The demon dodged them with ease and caught the human again. ‘Don’t underestimate me you filth!’ said the demon. ‘NO! It is you who shouldn’t underestimate me,’ said the man. He opened his mouth and stretch out his tongue. He thickened it and turned it into a sickle and wrapped it behind the demon’s neck the and snapped back the tongue in his mouth cutting the demon’s head off. The demon’s neck bled out as his severed head lay on the ground mildly conscious. The demon’s head started to speak, “This is just a minor misstep, once the others hear about this you won’t live long in this world.” But the man said back “That will make my work easier for me, for I plan to take every demon’s power and make it mine. I, Dwai, will reign supreme in this world with the power of all the demons of the nine hells put together. That I swear it, and you will be the one to help me start this journey. With your power I have a starting point and enough strength to start up slowly.’ Dwai started a ritual which would transfer the demon’s power to him. The ritual didn’t take long. Just a two second incantation but required a lot of energy and required a lot of willpower to cast. “Do not delude yourself of such visions. There are powerful forces that will stop your ambitions before it becomes catastrophic, you shall not succeed” These were the demon’s last words to the man who killed him. But Dwai said “I will be waiting for them and destroy them” He started the incantation “GLEUS ANAM, TAR CHUGAM!” The demon’s power transferred into Dwai’s body in form of black whisps that penetrated his body. It was a powerfull spell which exhausted him and caused him to collapse on the ground. Moments later just as he recovered and woke up, a bright light appeared and someone teleported in front of him. He wore a jade kimono and glowed with radiance. “I suggest you stop what you are doing before it gets out of hand and you have to be judged accordingly.” Said the person who had just teleported in. “And why would I listen to what you have to say?” asked Dwai. “Because I am the Divine one. Though I do not interfere with worldly matters I’m in charge of keeping order within the realms and you are making a grave mistake here.” Boomed the person. “You are the one he was talking about. I can sense that you are stronger than me but I will not stop until I get what I desire and crush you all”. Dwai said as he ran and disappeared into the night. At the moment the Divine one couldn’t do anything as he can’t interfere with fate but he had to think of a way to stop Dwai before things got out of hand and threatened the order in the realms.