Demon

Chapter 1

March 16,1329

It has been 12 days since last I saw a human face. I've been wandering in this cursed cave since I set foot on my journey so many days ago that I've lost count. The last face I saw was the face of my brother, but now I'm in an endless cave the only thing I've found in the cave is demons and despair. My sword runs dark red with the blood of the demon I just recently slain. As I walk alone I hear noise entirely too familiar its a demon without a doubt, I draw my blade once again ready to slay my foe. When I see it draw closer I see that's a young woman, I sheath it and approach her cautiously with my hand still on the handle of my blade ready to draw it. I look her over and see that she's unarmed and wounded so my hand lets go of the handle and reaches out to help her when she looks at me with one eye redder than blood and the other white as ice up north in the mountains. My body says draw your blade but I don't draw but instead I keep it sheethed. She says help me, I run up to her as she drops into my arms from blood loss.

Quickly, I reach into my bag and pull out cut rags, freyed at certain edges. Fear ebbs at control, at reason. I bunch a few into my hands, holding them against her. Black oozes over every inch, coloring a once clean fabic dark as the midnight sky. She jerks away from my touch, hissing with pain. My jaw tightens and, almost unconcsiously, my hands press harder agaisnt the bleeding gash on her body. At her side, a hand balls to a fist, another falling over my back clad with stained armor. Three or so hours pass when she comes too, as I extend my hand she looks at me then jumps up and dashes to me and embraces me. Shocked from what just happened my mind makes my body hug her back, she lets go then backs up apologizing for her actions I reassure her that it's all okay. She tells me her name is nova, and I tell her mine is Ronan.

After the situation is resolved we walk down the same path I've been walking for so long but now its less lonely, we walk what sees like hours and still no sounds or movements besides our foots steps and breathing. After a few more hours she tells me that its good to see a face that isn't trying to eat her, I smile and ask her
"Why is your blood black not red?"
She looks puzzled and asks,
"Is your blood not black?"
I shake my head no as I take out my small dagger and cut my hand open, as she see mines red; she walks up to examine it when I hear darting in the shadows. I stop her in her tracks and draw my blade. The darting stops and glowing red eyes appear in the dark shadows as they slowly grow bigger and brighter the girls runs behind me scared, the shadow jumps at me and with a single swing my blade cuts threw the demon tearing it down the middle letting black acidic like blood fly threw the air. The two halves hit the hard cave floor and slides a good 20 feet past me and the girl. I turn to her to see her still like a board and shaking. I sheath my blade and sigh from the pure fact that im tired of slaying demons. The girl walks over and hugs tight out of fear as she hugs I hear her heart beat and its nothing like a humans but I shrug it off because I'm tired. We soon make camp a little further down in the cave, I set up the fire as she sits on a dried, old and termites infested black looking log. I ask her as I work,
"How long you been in this hell hole of a cave?"
She tells me that she's been here her whole life and she knows it like the back of her hand, as I listen I cant help but hear sadness in her voice longing to see the light and warmth of the sun. Three hours pass when she asks what its like outside of the cave, I tell her that its wonderful and beautiful that the sky is almost always blue where I live and that there is a beautiful view of the north mountains. Another hour or so we fall asleep to the sounds of soft fluttering of wings of the creatures above us, many hours pass before I wake to find her laying with me asleep and smiling a beautiful pale white ghost like smile. I rub my eyes to make sure I'm not hallucinating, as I gently cover her up not to disturb her slumber she rolls over making me freeze mid-action till her movement stops and returns to a peaceful sleep. I lose my self in thought as my eyes watch her sleep but my mind is else where, I am so lost in thought that she wakes up and sits next to me without me knowing.

She nudges me and knocks me back to reality and our eyes meet and she asks if I'm ok, I nod and lose myself in her eyes but snap back to what was happening and stand up to stretch. I ask her if she knows where any water source or something like that might be and she nods leading the way after we pack up camp and head out. We walk and she asks me in a soft sweet voice,
"Why do you come to this place you call a hell hole"
My answer is nothing she expected as I tell her "I'm here because I'm trying to find an artifact of legend to hopefully rid my home of an unknown entity that kills for fun and fears no weapon or man."
She stares at me with fear in her eyes, we continue to walk and my curiosity get the best of me my mouth moves faster than my brain and I blurt out;
"So why are you alone in this cave?" Sadness falls upon her face and she tells me that her mother was a human and her father is a demon and that he abandoned her and her mother on the day of her birth. Soon after when she was 5 her mother died by the hands of her father.
"He has been trying to kill me ever since because he is ashamed of the blasphemous unworthy child he made."
I gently embrace her in a hug when we hear a loud, deep, evil growl from the shadows ten feet or so away from us; She's frozen in fear and I tell her to let go and stay put. As she lets go I jump up with my blade ready, before I can even try to attack I'm suddenly slammed to the wall from the swing of the creature. As I try to get to my feet I feel dazed and all I can see is blurred movement and her running towards me. I rise to my feet and my vision is still blurred when she picks up my sword and begins to battle with the creature, by the time my vision returns to me she has what looks like a demon dire wolf on its back as she runs it through killing it. A river of black acidic blood flows from the beast as it turns to ash and disappear into the wind. she walks over to return my weapon when I fall to my knees clinching my sides, she takes off my shirt to find a gaping gash in my side flowing red with blood. I suddenly pass out and as she takes me to a safer place. She contemplates what she could do to help him as she reaches the safest place she know, her mothers old den where she was born and lays him down on the bed and it comes to her what she must do.....