Eternity as it turns out is a very, very, very long time.
It becomes infinitely worse when you are bound like a dog and thrown into a cage with no way out. If you should ever experience that same hell, you will discover that there are very few things that will allow you to endure the eons of captivity. An unbreakable will is a must, a mission you must accomplish once you escape is another, and finally above all others the thought of exacting vengeance on the one that trapped you here in hell. That thought alone has kept me sane for the last untold epochs. And finally. Finally! That day is here.
Of course, I noticed when they entered the cell, I had always known they had been watching me no matter how well hidden they had believed themselves. No matter how subtle the fool had believed herself to be, I had always known she was there. Slowly, ever so slowly my jaw unhinges. The fool is blinded by her concentration, it is a terrible gambit, I can feel the seal repairing under her ministrations and my power being sapped away by the second. Yet I will only have one shot at this, so I allow the fool to seal more and more of myself away as my jaw moves closer and closer. I approach slower than a glacier until at last. At last! My vengeance can begin.
You short-sighted hide-bound fool! We could have been so much more had you only listened! Had you only believed! All you had to do was trust! Trust that I would have alleviated both our kind and the mortals into something so much more! Something greater! Something free. But you made your choice. When faced with the enormity of the task before us you balked, you fled. You choose wilful ignorance over the pain of the truth!
I chose to see the truth for what it is rather than what I wanted it to be, and for that you named me Demon. For a long time, I pitied you, I pitied the arrogance that blinded your eyes, now though, now, my mercy has long been exhausted. I will teach you the folly of your ways. I will force you to seem the truth you have for so long denied.
In a nano-second the fangs in my mouth quadruple in size becoming parodies of their original size, before my foe could even react teeth the size of an elephant curved like scimitars slam into the figure rending its ephemeral form before it can react. My jailor releases a disgustingly high-pitched scream as I puncture it over a dozen places simultaneously. In the same instant my tongue whips out of my jaw weaving in and out of my teeth before slamming into the orb forming a cage crafted from my own jaw. My fangs keep growing threatening to split my jaw as a bone and flesh cage smothers the thrashing figure which disappears under a roiling wave of flesh.
"DEMON!!". The words rip out from the thing thrashing in a cage of flesh, bones crack and my flesh rends as my jaw threatens to detonate as the fool tries to free itself.. Black blood spews in all directions as my head is yanked from side to side by the force of the creature trapped in a cage of my own flesh. The furious actions of my jailor threaten to tear my head apart but for at least a few seconds it will be unable to interfere. How does it feel scum! How does it feel to be bound in agony!
Refusing to be blinded by rage I stretch out my arms and seize each of the chains holding my arms, with a handful of chain in each hand I heave! Yanking the chains with all my might. For a terrifying moment nothing happens. Then ever so gradually the great pillars start to bow inward, I roar around the thing in my mouth leaning all my immortal strength into the action. The chains binding me stretch and begin to scream, the stone pillars crack at their foundations but hold. The cage of flesh in my shatters and my damnable jailor appears for a second bursting from its prison before new fangs smash into it and drag it back down. I roar around the thing in my mouth and force new bone growth to trap the accursed thing.
I heave drawing on enough strength to shatter a continent, I pour every iota of strength into one action my strength more focused that it has ever been in my immortal existence. And then it happens. With a terrible tearing sound, a single chain binding my upper left arm rips out from its supporting pillar.
I barely have time to celebrate my small victory. The euphoria of freedom is downed in agony, as horrific glow begins seeping from the cage of flesh and in tandem the flesh of my jaw begins to bubble and smoke like evaporating liquid. After only a few seconds my jaw begins to dissolve around the damnable thing. With the few moments I have left I grip the cursed armour sealing my power and begin ripping the plate from my flesh. Binding seals shatter and occult sigils go dark, with the pressure in my jaw quickly reaching unendurable levels, I grab the cursed chain sealing my vision and tear. Thankfully it only takes a few seconds to rip the cursed thing from my face freeing my cyclopean eye for the first time in epochs.
Simultaneously the pressure in my jaw grows indescribably, unable to even brace myself a bow wave of power detonates outward ripping my jaw and the cage of flesh into bloody ribbons. A freed orb of light rockets outward from the sea of gore, only to be sent hurtling five hundred metres into the far wall of my cell by a devasting haymaker blow from my freed arm. The orb hurtles shattering the sound barrier before impacting into the far wall in an explosion of shattered jade stone. The orb only lies impeded in the wall for an instant before just as fast it hurtles outward, in an instant it's form shifts from an orb to a silver Knight with angelic wings. Its face is covered with a helm fashioned to resemble a weeping maiden. The human sized Knight flaps its wings and hurtles towards the mountain sized Demon.
"Youuuuuu!!", the Demon bellows recognizing its old foe, its jaw hangs limply from its face and a colossal cyclopean eye the colour of the abyss stares furiously at the knight racing towards it. The Knight summons a colossal long sword the blade igniting in holy golden flames before the Knight swings its great blade in an overhead decapitating blow desperate to end the fight in a single blow. The flesh of the Demon's throat tears open with a sick ripping sound revealing a second infernal maw, "Too slow!" the Demon roars a bow wave of power ripping outward with physical force slowing the Knight for just a second. A second was all the demon needed. The Demon's freed hand crashes into the Knight before seizing it and slamming it into the ground over and over again like ragdoll. The Demon slams the Knight into the ground over and over again before hurling it one of the great pillars which shattered in an instant under the impact of the knight.
"Die!!" I bellow at the fallen Knight before seizing a shattered pillar a hundred metres long and raising it to turn the knight into paste. Just as the pillar was about to impact the fallen Knight a supernova of light detonated outward from the Knight turning the pillar and three quarters of the Demon's arm to nothingness. I roar as the agony of an atomised limb sears into me. Roaring I turn my single cyclopean orb turned on the Knight, answering my call an orb of utter darkness appears in from of my eye. The orb quickly grows into a whirling cyclone and begins hurling bolts of black lightning at the diminutive Knight who rapidly ascends into the air.
"Die! Die! Die!" I roar at the tiny figure which throws itself in desperate arcs to avoid the atomizing lightning. The accursed thing refuses to stand still and die! Using its small size to its advantage it throws itself increasing desperate evasive manoeuvres to avoid the immolating lighting. Roaring in fury I condense the maelstrom of power into a single point before detonating it outward in a stream of annihilating energy. The beam blasts outward, it slices towards the Knight missing it by the tiniest of margins before tearing a jagged line of destruction across the chamber. The chamber rocks like a boat in a storm, a line of molten stone traces across the entire chamber and a blast wave of compressed air rips through the chamber with the force of a hurricane. The Knight is seized by the full force of the blast and sent hurtling by the overpressure of the blast, its armour is singed and molten from the near miss but to my endless fury it remains tenaciously alive. Gathering another maelstrom of energy, I unleash beam after beam at my hated foe.
The Knight hurtles through the air throwing its body in increasingly desperate arcs as the beam of annihilating death races towards it. Using its small size to its fully effect it tucks its wings into its back before dive bombing towards the ground. Destructive beam after beam race towards the knight but the accursed pest weaves and dives around every single one with angelic grace. Roaring in fury I blanket the air with destruction felling another pillar in the orgy of destruction freeing another one of my arms.
I whip my newly freed limb towards the knight sending the attached chain rocketing towards the diminutive pest. "Too Slo!-" I try to roar again but a searing pain in my throat silences me as the knight mid spin hurls its blade towards me. The blade spinning end over end grows in size from a blade a human could hold to the size of a small mountain in a fraction of a second. The mountain sized blade rockets towards me faster than I can react tearing through one arm before annihilating my secondary mouth, throat and spine. The blade rips through from one side of my body to the other pinning my body backwards. In exchange I slam the chain that once bound me into the flying Knight, it twists desperately in the air turning a killing blow into a glancing hit. It is still sent hurtling head over heels cartwheeling through the air before shattering into the floor in an explosion of shattered jade stone and debris.
I try to roar but my missing jaw and punctured throat reduce the sound to little more than wet gargling. The flesh of my mouth bubbles reforming my jaw, using newly growing fangs I tear into the chains binding my two remaining left arms ripping them to sheds before reaching across my body and seizing the chains binding my other two arms. The weakened pillars hold for barely a few seconds before the chains rip out of them freeing my other two arms.
With all four of my remaining limbs free, I point them palms extended towards the downed Knight who was struggling to their feet violet blood dripping from cracks in her damaged armour. Dark circles and hexes form in the air above my hands before a veritable tidal wave of jet-black bolts of darkness ripped towards the Knight. The Knight stared at the oncoming wall of death before planting both its feet firmly on the ground and assuming a sprinting position. It folded its wings to lie flat along its back before rocketing towards the Demon. The ground shattered from the force of its acceleration, the sonic boom of its approach masking the oncoming roar of the bolts of darkness.
Again, using its small size to its advantage, it leapt, twirled and dashed between the oncoming horde of death. Each spear slammed into the ground just missing the knight detonating and blowing chunks out of the once pristine prison. The blasts the Knight could not dodge were intercepted by spectral swords which manifested all around the knight blocking, guarding and diverting sure kill strikes into near misses. The Knight used the debris as cover, springboarding between chunks of debris larger than houses. Stretching one hand outward it snapped one hand summoning hundreds of spectral swords in an instant which slammed into the Demon's outstretched arms turning them into bloody strips in seconds.
The Demon stared at its jailor as it felt its arm eviscerate. As expected, it thought, I'm going to lose. The thought is anathema to the creature that has never once known defeat in its existence, but too much of its strength is locked away by the accursed seal. It's foe by contrast is empowered by this place, it would be close, so very close but the Demon's impeccable sense knew it would not be able to overpower the Knight again. Defeat here would mean accepting confinement for the rest of eternity. It would mean abandoning it's great work and the salvation of its kind. And that, was unacceptable.
The Demon felt the flesh of its jaw bubble and finish rebuilding itself as it licked newly reformed lips and smiled. "Nothing ventured nothing gained" it mumbled to itself before pointing each of the six bloody stumps of its arms at its head, chest and stomach. With it's reformed mouth the Demon began a sonorous chant that filled the ruined chamber like the striking of a funeral bell.
"With this vessel I offer, a bargain made, a treaty charted".
The Knight hearing the chant froze, even through its cracked helmet its fear could be seen clearly. It slammed its foot into the ground causing the ground to shatter as it propelled itself towards the Demon, the sound barrier shattered again as it's form blurred reaching speeds faster than thought. As the Knight moved blue flames covered its gauntleted hands, leaving streams of holy fire in its wake the Knight propelled itself into the air.
"I bargain with the deepest dark".
The fire surrounding the knight grew brighter and brighter till the knight looked closer to a sun vaguely shaped like a human. The Knight rocketed upward towards the Demon's chanting mouth until it was suddenly smashed sideways. The Knight flailed barely blocking a second attack that sent it crashing back downwards into the floor. Black blood tore at the knight, ripping and rending armour plate, sending more spider web cracks running through its helm. The Demon in an act of desperation to buy time had hurled the severed remains of its six arms at the knight with a psychic heave. Pitch black blood condensed into whips that lashed at the Knight's frame and ichor formed grasping tendrils attempting to grasp and pin the knight down. Demonic ichor, severed flesh, even entire fingers each the size of mansions hurtled towards the downed knight in an endless tide of weaponised gore.
"My soul bathes in the dying world".
The knight gritted its teeth behind its cracked helm and slammed its hands together, the clap sending shockwaves of power through the entire chamber. A tidal wave of blue flames roared upwards incinerating the oncoming flesh in waves of purifying flames. A shield of blue flames eviscerated everything the Demon threw at it before detonating outwards turning the Demon into a mountain sized candle wick. Not that it stopped the rapidly oncoming foot even slightly.
"Bearing witness to the fallen star".
The Demon praying on the Knight temporary blindness had shattered the restraints holding it in a kneeling position and having freed its legs had shoved one building sized foot at the knight. Even as flames enveloped the limb threatening to unmake it the Demon didn't stop either its attack or its chant. The ten-story building sized foot slammed into the human size knight propelling it across the entire chamber in a heartbeat where it shattered into the far wall. Not wasting a second the Demon remoulded the flesh of its foot, changing toes into makeshift fingers that grabbed a chunk of pillar over a hundred metres long and hurling it awkwardly at the Knight burying it under the colossal masonry.
"I defy the heavens".
A supernova of pure white flames ripped outward turning the masonry into dust as the Knight rockets faster than thought from one end of the chamber to directly in front of the colossal Demon's eye. It's fist moving at an appreciable percentage of the speed of light devours the distance between the pair. Barely centimetres away from landing the killing blow, the knight smiles.
"Stop".
The words slips whisper quiet from a dozen mouths. The Knight freezes in place, its killing blow stopping instantly as the knight hangs frozen in the air. I stare at the Knight my chant uninterrupted as laughter rips out from my dozen other mouths. Mouths on my knees, elbow, even surrounding the blade impaling my throat all join in unison in mocking my feeble jailor.
"I Lord of all make this pact".
The Demon finished its chant.
For a second nothing happened.
Then the entire chamber detonated.