*Damian*
I am held in chains on a platform outside of any cell block. I was on my knees, my head hanging low since the collar on my neck is so heavy. I was weak, I was starved and dehydrated, days without sleep. Every day, a woman comes to torture me with something new to offer. I’ve been beaten, stabbed, drowned, burned, suffocated, and much more. Yet somehow I healed quickly and no scars appeared on my body. I look up to see the sun rising over the wall, the cold air from the night still lingering. The sun was warming me up but not by much. I needed to escape! I need to do it today or else I’m afraid that my life will end here. I try to get up but my legs are weak from sitting on my knees. Blisters started to form on my wrists and knees. There are other prisoners here besides me. Monsters and humans alike, yet I did nothing wrong! Or did I? I couldn’t remember how I got here or why I’m here in the first place. All I remember is waking up in a cell next to a crazy lunatic screaming profanities at something. I needed some rest, so I closed my eyes for only a minute before my eyes opened on their own. I was on high alert as I heard someone coming towards me and I knew who it was. A Japanese woman with spider legs appeared in my line of vision. Every time I looked at her I wanted to vomit but I was too weak. She cocked her head to the side with an evil grin on her face. "You look tired, Warrior. Didn’t you sleep well?” The woman asks, getting into my face. I scowled at her saying nothing. She slaps me across the face. “Saying nothing will not save you from your punishment, Damian. I’ll admit that you are strong both physically and mentally, but eventually you will break like everyone else.” I continue to just scowl at her. She turns her head to whistle for a torturer to come. “Let us see if you are strong after this.” She whispers in my ear. She crawls away back from where she came from. That’s when I notice thunderous footsteps approaching. A shadow comes in front of the sun, blocking it out. The monster has one eye, is at least twelve feet tall, has sharp teeth and a horrible grin. "Welcome to your prison for all of eternity.” He says. I stay silent as my fists ball up in rage. I’ve had enough of this torture. “Strong silent type today? You won’t be silent for long.” He starts laughing as he sharpens some tools of torture. It took him about ten minutes to sharpen them. He cuts himself on his hand. “Hmm, sharp enough.” He says to himself. He turns around and outright stabs me in the abdomen. I let out a scream of pain as he cuts deeper. “That’s it, keep screaming! Soon you’ll run out of strength and you will break.” He then takes the bladed weapon out of my stomach. I notice that his blood was made out of fire or more specifically, lava. I started to whisper something to myself. “Huh? What is it that you say?” He comes closer to hear me. My plan is in motion. “Is that a prayer? There is no God that can help you here.” He laughs manically. "I need no God.” I say before I bite his ear off. He screams in pain, holding where his ear used to be. I spit the ear towards one of my chains to melt it. Once it melted, I used it to break the other chain off. With both hands free I use my strength to take off the collar on my neck. The brute comes towards me with a club but I shatter his knee with a brutal punch. I grab a sword to decapitate him, yelling as I swing it. I cut his head clean off with one swing. The guards come quickly with spears, swords, knives, and other weapons of that nature. I ready myself for a fight seeing that there are about one hundred of them and only one of me. I charge towards them yelling a war cry.*Warden* I go through a stack of documents on my desk, retracting my spider legs into my back. I searched for Damian’s file to see why he was so strong, so well powered, and so forth. At last, I found it in a drawer where I keep a bottle of wine. I pulled it out, poured myself a glass and drank as I read his file. Strange, he doesn’t appear to have a birthdate or parents. In fact he has no history of any kind. As I read, a commotion from outside drew my attention to the door. The door suddenly kicked itself open and in front of me was a blood stained Damian, anger lacing his features. He slowly walks towards me with a sword in his hand. He is breathing very heavily. “Give me the keys so I can walk out of here. No one else needs to get hurt.” He threatens. I let out a shallow laugh. “Do not laugh at me!” He yells. “You’re adorable! Thinking you can get out of here alive. No one has ever escaped the Prison of the Damned and that record will remain unbroken.” I say, calmly. “Though I am impressed that you made it here to my office. Tell you what, let’s make a deal. If you can kill the biggest fighter in this prison, I will let everyone in this place go back to their lives and leave everyone alone for all of eternity.” I mocked. There was no way he could defeat what I had in store. “And if I don’t defeat it?” He asks. “Then you will stay and the torture that comes with this stay will be the prisoners choice. Do we have a deal?” I ask. He nods. “Deal.” We shake hands as I teleport us to the coliseum. I sit on a throne overlooking the whole battlefield as I release the prisoners from their cells. All of them take their seats, not knowing what is going on. I look upon them. All their souls are broken since most have been here for many centuries or millennia. All of us see Damian, alone on the battlefield. I’ll admit that he has impressed me so far getting through hundreds of guards that were armed with stabbing weapons and crossbows. But my champion in this coliseum has never been defeated nor has he ever been injured. I use my magic to conjure a table of weapons in front of Damian. “Choose your weapon!” I shout down at him. Damian comes to the table to pick out two swords with serrated blades. This man sure did love his swords. I nod at a servant of mine to ready himself to pull a lever. “Release the Kaiju!” And with that my servant pulls the lever.*Damian* “Release the Kaiju!” The warden shouts. I readied myself for one hell of a fight as a gigantic gate opened. The prisoners stayed silent. At first, nothing seemed to move in the darkness or even made a sound. But I spoke too soon when one of this thing’s footsteps felt like an earthquake. Another footstep cracks the ground all around me as the monster steps out of the darkness. It had a lizard-like body with bat wings, spines out of its back, large hands, saber tooth tiger fangs, long claws on its hands and feet, and three heads! It lets out a massive roar that deafens me for a couple minutes. The prisoners cheered as the roar excited them. Please God let me live to see the rest of this day!She begins to crawl towards me as I ready myself for her attacks. She spits acid towards me, missing my head by only inches. I go under her to grab a shield so I can block her attacks. “She seems weak right below her abdomen!” I looked towards her abdomen to see that she was pregnant with eggs. Now I had a plan forming in my head on how to take her down. She spits more acid at me. This time I blocked it, throwing it back at her. It burns two of her eyes out of their sockets. She growls at me with hate in her features. I throw the shield at her to daze her. I use a sword to cut off one of her legs, grabbing it to stab her in the stomach! But she lets out an angry scream before she grabs me, tossing me around like a rag doll. One of her legs slices through my right leg, my chest, and both of my arms. She spits acid in my face, disintegrating my jaw. Her fangs came close to me and next thing I know I feel a sharp pain. She bit me! That bitch! I could hear my heart beating rapidly in my
I had been running for nearly two hours with an injured body and a fractured state of mind. My legs felt as if they were about to give out but I still kept going. I finally spotted a house that had been abandoned for years, still it was worth a try to see if there was anything here. I looked around and sure enough it was abandoned, no one in sight. Ever since I stepped foot in the prison, I had no clothes to keep me warm at night or even to cover me up. I only had underwear on! That would be so embarrassing if I found someone while I had just underwear on. I opened the door to find that the owners had left everything here: furniture, dishes, food, and clothes. I went to a laundry hamper to see if these clothes would even fit me and sure enough they looked to be my size. I quickly change into some sweatpants and a dark long sleeve shirt, not the best clothes but at least I am comfy now. It wasn’t until my stomach growled that I didn’t stop looking around. “We need food.” The voic
*Damian* I awoke in a… cabin? Last time I checked I was in the woods! Ow my head! What the hell happened? I sat myself up, dazed and confused when I came face to face with a beautiful woman! She had the most beautiful hazel eyes that I have ever seen with reddish brunette hair. She wore a black cloak with a dark blue shirt and black pants under it. I looked around her and saw that I was in some kind of bedroom or something like that. Behind her was a black cat that looked scared. “Hi.” I finally managed to speak. She swallowed a huge lump in her throat but managed to get words out. “Hello.” She says. She seemed nervous in my presence. I stood up and she jumped. Why was she so nervous? “Look, I'm not going to hurt you or anything. I can tell you’re nervous and scared but unless I have a reason to, I ain’t going to hurt you.” I say, calmly. She nods and looks down. “Um… what’s your name?” I asked. “E-E-Ember.” She stutters. Ember? What a be
*Damian* I could tell that something was going through Ember’s mind the whole time we ate. Something was bothering her and it was almost like she was hesitant to talk about it. Her mother had told us to get to bed since we would work early in the morning. I decided that I could sleep in Ember’s cabin since she had room to spare. I may not be sleeping on a bed but it was worth the warmth of the cabin. But as soon as I closed my eyes, I heard sniffling. I listened closely as the sniffling turned into crying and it was coming from Ember’s room. Was she crying? I don’t know if I should go in interrupting her sleep to see? “Go to her.” Drago sympathizes. I got off the floor to walk over to her door, the light still shining in her room. I knock softly. “Come in.” She says with a little sadness in her voice. I opened the door carefully to see her and my heart shattered at the sight. Her cheeks and nose were red and puffy from crying as she also sniffled more.
*Damian* “Well since we’ve made it known that I’m a witch, what the hell are you since you heal so fast?” She asks. I raise an eyebrow. “Come again?” I asked, unsure of what she just asked. Her jaw drops. “Oh my god! You’re a werewolf!” She points a finger, accusing me. “I'm pretty sure I don’t have fur, a sense of entitlement, or a lack of manners so no I’m not a werewolf. Even if I was, I'm pretty sure I’d only transform at night!” I say. She laughs. “Werewolves don’t transform just at night! They can shift anytime and anywhere. So clearly you’re not a wolf? Are you a vampire? And before you say no…” “I DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM!!!” I yelled. She jumps as well as Binx. I sigh. “I’m sorry…” I sit down against a tree trunk. “Ever since a month ago, I’ve been trying to figure out who I am, what my place in this world is and what I… am. I can’t remember anything before I was in that prison and it’s driving me nuts! To liv
*Damian* *Three months later* So what has happened in the last three months you ask? Well nothing. Boring ass shit that you readers think is a critical plot point. Well it’s not one of those stories! And if you were any smarter than the book character that you’re reading about… you should probably listen to the book character! ‘Oh haha fourth wall break, maybe it is something important’. Listen here reader, it's my story and I don’t care what you think it’s not gonna happen. I sigh, anyways now that that’s out of the mind, I have been doing some chores around Ember’s farm. It’s gradually getting hotter as summer rolls around. I had quickly become accustomed to farm life. I had made some friends with the chickens, fed all the animals at specific times including Binx. Binx and I have been getting along pretty good but he was starting to ask a lot of questions, mostly if I had a crush on anyone. If I told him that I kinda had a crush on Ember, I think those cla
*Damian* I was finally happy! Ember was mine and she will continue to be mine until she says she no longer wants me but I have a feeling she’ll never let me go. Honestly, I don’t mind it either. Since Ember and I were still not ready for each other’s company yet, I slept in my bed until she could grow more comfortable with me. I flicked out the light in the lantern and headed straight for bed. I fell asleep in no time. *Flashback* I woke up to the sound of thunder outside as it rumbled the ground below me. I get out of my bed to watch the storm from my window. I narrow my eyes as I see something moving in the trees. I squint to see what it is but all I can make out is a shadow. It drew closer as it walked. I see that it’s a man! He appears to be in his early forties from what I saw, not much taller than my father, and he wore some kind of robe. He also had a rice field hat on. Who is this guy? My door opened, making me jump out of my skin.
*Damian* I come outside for some fresh air to let my lungs breathe some fresh air. I paced the yard not wanting to invoke the Yokai any more than I had to. That spirit… I didn’t even see it until my rage started to boil. I wasn’t even gonna bring up the teleportation thing to Ember because I was too wrapped up about the Yokai calling me a “demon” and even Ember said she noticed some things that are demonic about me. Was I truly an evil demon? Is that why I was locked up in that prison? Did I kill someone or steal an innocent person’s soul? So many questions were popping into my head. Why can’t I remember if I was a demon? I thought I was human all this time but I was fucking wrong! I should be damned for all of eternity and burning in fire right now but I’m not. "Because you are not a full demon!” Drago’s voice sounded close but not in my head. Suddenly a dark shadow appeared in front of me! I was about to yell until this thing covered my mouth and shushed me. I looked clo