The Demonic Challenge of Purity: Prologue – Virgin Scarifies
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The Demonic Challenge of Purity: Prologue - Virgin Scarifies
"Hurry up, midnight is near and the time of the dark moon approaches" A dark robed figure hissed to his fellows, as they striped a young, unconscious girl and placed her naked body on a onyx altar, in the middle of a black pentagram, with night-black candles at each point of the pentagram. They lighted the candles and stood in a circle around the pentagram. As the clock neared midnight, they began chanting a dark, unholy hymen as their dark ritual began.
As they chanted a black shadow arose from the pentagram enveloping the young girl in impenetrable darkness. After a few minutes their chanting stopped and they watched as the darkness receded, then they gasped as they saw the girl still laying on the altar, completely untouched by their dark ritual.
They began to mumble among themselves, never before had anyone resisted their ritual. After a few minutes of discussion the Head Cultist told the other to watch the scarifies while he contacted their Master to ask for directions. He entered another room where he, in front of another pentagram, began the ritual for summoning their Master, after a few moment a demonic entity shrouded by a black robe so only his tail, wings, sticking out of the back of the robe, and his eyes beneath the cowl was visible. "Why do you summon me, Akitra?" it spoke in a deep voice as it looked at the Head Cultist.
Akitra bowed down before his Master. "Sorry my Lord, but something has happened," the demon lord looked down at the human, waiting for him to continue, "we have begun a rituals my Lord but the first scarifies we have chosen...completely resisted the Ritual of Darkness." He fell silent as the demon just looked at him for a moment while thinking.
"Take me to the scarifies." He then said and Akitra stood up and bow to him.
"As you wish, my Lord." He then led the demon into the other room where the other cultists was waiting in worry, as they saw their master they all kneeled down in worship, waiting to hear the will of their Lord. The Demon Lord walked over to the unconscious girl on the Onyx altar, he looked at her for a while before sighing, he then waved his hand and the spell that keep the girl asleep vanished.
"Wake up, child," he said and the girl opened her eyes looking at him, the cultists were shocked as their Lord woke the girl from her magical enhanced sleep "What is your name, child?" he asked as he looked at her.
"Aleriel" she said with a small but calm voice, without even a hint of fear "and you, Demon Lord?" she asked making him chuckle before looking into her eyes.
"My name, little Aleriel, is Valzerel," he looked at her "what am I going to do with you, your soul is too good to just let go but I can't just take it either" he said then he thought to himself for a few moments before turning back to her "What do you say to a little challenge Aleriel? If you win I'll set you free." She just looked at him.
"Why," she said and looked him in the eyes "should I trust a Demon Lord's word, even if I win you challenge, you can bend the saturation so I'll never get free and beside, as you said, you can't take me, so why should I run the risk?" she asked and he looked at her while thinking that she seemed to know an awful lot about demons but without even the faintest glimmer of demonic corruption.
"Aleriel, do you know of the Codex of Abriphelgah?" she looked at him for a moment, while the cultists just looked at each other not knowing what their Master was talking about, before nodding.
"The Codex of Abriphelgah binds demonic entities, and those that follow them, to abide by whatever they swear on it, as the consequence of braking it is the complete and utterly destruction of the oath breaker and those that follow him/her, body and soul, after a horrifying torment." She ended making the cultists' faces white with horror, while Valzerel nodded.
"Indeed, little Aleriel, but may I ask where you know that, that knowledge is not written anywhere and no Demon Lord would just tell that to humans," he turned around for a moment and the next second all of the cultists fall into a trance while he remove that tidbit of information from their minds before turning back to her "So how did you know?" he asked her sweetly and she just stared at him.
"I...I don't know, I just do." She said and shrugged her shoulders, for a few moments they just looked at each other.
"Then I swear by the Codex of Abriphelgah, that I Valzerel will set you free under my protection, if you can successfully complete the Challenge of Purity" he smirked at her before saying "and if you don't agree then I'll lock you up her in a cell, making you watch as my disciples scarifies you entire village and gives their souls to me," he then smiled at the horror on her face "it's true I can't hurt you or take you soul by force but I can take the soul of all you know, while you watch helplessly, but if you accept the Challenge of Purity then I swear by the Codex of Abriphelgah that I will order my disciples to leave this village, tonight, and not return or hurt anyone from you village for the next 80 years, what do you say?" She looked at him for a while before nodding.
"Ok Valzerel, I accept you challenge," she said sternly before looking at him strangely "but," she began and he looked at her in puzzlement "what exactly is 'the Challenge of Purity' I can't seem to get what it is, I know there something about it but I can't place it." Her words made Valzerel laugh.
"Heh, heh, in a way it is quite simple, you need to make you way down through the levels Hell, by overcoming the Lord of the realm, until you reach my realm where your last challenge await," he saw horror on her face at the thought of fighting all of the Lords of hell, making him laugh, "you don't have to fear, none of the Lords can or will kill you, or cause you permanent damage, they can't the law of the Challenge of Purity prevents it but they can, and most likely will, cause you pain but if you can overcome each of their challenges then they will let you pass onto the next level of hell, are you ready?" he asked after a moment she nodded and stood in front of him looking into his eyes "then good luck, who knows maybe we'll see each other at the end." He smiled as he placed his left hand on her head and chanted in Demonic for a moment before she shimmered and disappeared from the room, he then to his Cultists who stood behind him waiting for his orders.
"What now my lord?" Akitra asked and Valzerel smiled inside his cowl.
"We leave this village, in seek of another prey." Valzerel said as he turned around and opened a gate to his own realm.
"As you wish, my Lord." All of the cultists said before bowing and beginning to park their packs, as he stepped through the gate, a few hours later the cultists where long gone leaving their site of worship sealed behind them, it would be there in 80 years if they would need it, the Head Cultists thought to himself as he led his fellow Cultists away from the quiet village towards a new place with souls to scarifies to their Master.
Meanwhile Valzerel sat on his throne looking into a mirror, that showed the naked Aleriel walking through the first hell, he smiled "The first Lord is the Imp Master and his Hordes, wonder how she will handle her first challenge?" he pondered as he watch her with a smile on his lips and his large cock sticking out of his sheath "This will be fun."
Continued in "The Imp Master and his Hordes"
Note: This is a story idea I had today not sure when or if I'm going to be write more to this so if there's someone out there with writing skills just as or better than mine who want to work together on this, give me a pm if not then I don't know when the next will come good luck.