Glutton

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Johnny has been wandering through the void for decades. He doesn't hunger and he doesn't tire. The nothingness around him is the home for the most unimaginable devils your stories could ever muster. This is the fate of a man who knew no boundaries, a man too lost to greed and gluttony to ever hope for recovering. 

His eyes wander the emptiness, seeking out the hint of a being waiting for slaughter. He is the guard of the void. A man punished for the third sin has to punish those without vices, those without limits. For one must become the very thing he destroys. 

The void suddenly roars. The white ground shakes. Johnny does not know what the ground or the skies are made of, but he recognizes the roar instantly. "Reveal yourself fool" his monotone voice echoes through the nothingness, and out of the ground seeps out a grey liquid which takes the form of three legs, three torsos stitched together and no head to be seen. Two mouths adorn the kneecaps, and froth glistens through its teeth. It has no eyes. It roars once more. 

Johnny had seen it before. His shoulder aches where the monster had slammed into him during their previous battle. This time Johnny was equipped though. The void had given him a sword longer than two of him combined, one that he should not be able to lift due to the sheer weight of the thing. But physics hold no power to the sinner. 

The creature screeches and dashes directly towards him, recognizing the smell of gluttony instantly. One quick swipe of the sword however is enough to cut the monster in half, and it instantly erupts into flames. Johnny sighs. Then he drops to the ground, kicked unconscious by a man in the skies. 


Johnny wakes up tied down by what looks to be the very ground itself, known to be unbreakable no matter how hard he'd tried to dig through it during his first week in the void. 

Black liquid is thrown directly at his face, quickly angering him and getting his attention.

"Awake? Took you long enough, Glutton." Before him towered a man whom had the complexion of a noir villain. The void was replaced by a black and white room, with symbols etched into the ceiling Johnny was unable to recognize nor read. It was strangely beautiful. Colorful flowers decorated the walls, the scent almost blinding him. "Your work in the void has been admirable, Glutton. But I'm afraid it must come to an end. This will be your new domain for now" the ground sank down right through Johnny as if it had always been a transparent thing, leaving him free to move as he pleases. 

"Why have you brought me here?" his voice coarse as if sand had been dribbled into his throat, the noir man laughs. "Someone of your stature shan't be held away from my kingdom, beauty is a thing to be admired not punished." The man before him rips a vine covered with flowers and thorns and uses it to tie up his silver-stranded black hair long enough to be tied to his waist, long and slender. "You will live with me here. You will find it much more comfortable than the emptiness of the void. I can give you everything you want".

"Who are you to keep a void guardian here?" Johnny slowly, painfully rises up to his feet, almost falling down as his head pounds louder and louder. Is that hunger he's feeling? 

"I am Asmodeus, forget everything you've heard of me in your previous life. 

Reality is much crueler than stories"







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