in a crouched position and elbowed the creature in the back and kicked out at the side of its knee. Then its wings expanded outwards, doing so with enough force that it knocked me back into the wooden post, so I ended up hugging the damn thing!
But this also meant that the creature staggered forward enough for me to push off the post and run back towards it. Then, just at the right time, I jumped with one leg forward, so I was now running up its back whilst its body was still hunched over. I ran up its webbed spine that connected its wings together and before it could throw me off, I hooked the chain between my shackles under its chin.
Then I jumped off its shoulders and off to the side, so it crossed the chain over around its neck. Doing this meant I had it chained around the neck and could then use my weight to strangle the fucking thing!
“Okay, time to die now.” I wheezed out as I yanked even harder but still feeling the thing fighting me, I decided to use a different tactic. I rolled forward and took the creature to the ground with me, making sure to keep the chain around its neck tight. This meant that I could swing once more to its back and use my feet to pin each wing down so it couldn’t knock me off with them again. Then, with a surge of energy and rage, I screamed as I lifted my arms up as if I was doing a power lift. My bellowing anger somehow aiding my strength as I did so, finally ending in snapping its neck. The sickening sound was only one indication that it was safe to let go, the other was when the body beneath my control went limp.
I let go and once the danger was over and my adrenaline was spent, I staggered back a step, staring at the creature I had just killed. I looked back at the wooden post I had been chained to and started to ask myself what the fuck had just happened? How the hell had I managed to free myself, and kill a fucking demon at that?!
And I was happy to report without the aid of a piss pot…or shelving unit, or bed sheets, or…well, I think I made my point. But I swear, it had almost been as if I had been possessed or something. Like a deeper part of me had snapped or broken free and once that switch had been flipped, someone else had taken over. I mean, yeah, I had always been able to handle myself but being able to do so in Hell was another thing entirely. Especially seeing as I was still mortal, despite my stolen birthright. Not that it had been Lucius’ fault, but still, my abilities as a human in Hell were limited at best…or at least, they should have been.
But then what else was there for me to think when the proof of what disproved that mortal fact was right in front of me, lying dead on the floor of what looked to be my cell.
I took in more of my surroundings to see that it looked like some kind of cave with a stone block wall that rose higher at the back than the front of the cell where the bars were. They also looked crudely made, just like the chains that still hung loose in between the two-inch-thick cuffs that were rubbing my skin raw.
I looked over to the dead demon, who was still face down in the dirt floor, and it took half a second to see that there weren’t any keys on the thing, or clothes for that matter. I decided to take a closer look and started to kick the body over, asking aloud,
“So, let’s see what you are then…whoa, well shit me!” I said the second the thing rolled to its back and its jaw flopped open to the side as if death had made it go slack. Its elongated jaw stretched further to allow all the rows of teeth to be seen. I shivered at the thought of the damage one bite out of me could have caused had I not reacted quickly enough.
Its hideous wings creased and folded at a strange angle due to the sagging skin that was void of feathers. Pitted marks in the skin looked like a plucked chicken in between long finger bones and its