บท 53: Demon Communions
In faraway lands beyond mountains were nations of Demons. They are the natural predator race of human beings. These demons have unimaginable powers, not one percent less than human warriors. They were rulers of this world as superior beings who gain strength as they grew up, humanity was just another animal to them.
But all of this changed when the first human Warrior appeared, with racial differences there was no chance of peaceful cohabitation. They were used to treating humans as low life beings, all of this further lead to conflict and war between races.
In the latest second demi - beast war, demons suffered terrible defeat with their ruler being sealed for eternity and this was forced to move back, beyond mountains.
They were like wounded beasts, licking their injuries to attack once more to reclaim the world which was once theirs.
Various clans and tribes lived in Demon nations, each having several villages and cities. Stronger Demons were rulers and weaker ones were slaves to strong.
It was propagated in every village and cities about their existential war with humans, all Demons were mentally preparing their race to emerge out to kill this threat for once and all.
Due to such notions, various armies, kingdoms were training Demons to their limits. They were pitted against themselves to choose the best out of them. It was the survival of the strongest. Due to such harsh methods, very few demons were able to remain alive but those which are left were strong, ferocious, and brutal as ideal Demon warriors.
In such a small village of Demons, a group of soldiers was taking humans caught by them on border areas to monthly Communion. The prisoner was a very young girl probably seventeen years of age and a young man who was missing one arm.
The girl was frightened beyond measure seeing the demons around her, whereas the young man, probably a warrior, was lying inside the cage while trying to soothe the little girl.
"We are going to serve these delicacies to the villagers, this is not fair. These villagers didn't realize how much difficult is to gather humans nowadays." spoke one guard to another one. He was seven feet tall with curled horns on his head. His face had a pointy tongue and providing teeth.
Another guard who was resembling to be snake men replied to him,
"Don't speak so loud idiot. These are rules from higher demons and just speaking against them would lead you to your death."
"What's wrong in speaking to you? Seeing the tender flesh of this human girl and energy-rich human warrior makes me drool. But we have to take these flesh to those villagers to eat who does nothing all day."
"Hey….speak less, the captain is here"
A tall demon with two sets of horns over his head, red eyes, and all pointed teeth perfect for tearing off raw flesh. He even had a tail behind him which was coming from his loincloth. He was carrying a large axe over his shoulder. He yelled reaching the guards escorting humans.
His eyes flashed with desire seeing prisoners but he quietly controlled himself because these communions were ordered to be strictly followed.
"Quick take these to village center tree and bind them there. Local Demons are already waiting for a long time to taste these delicacies "
These communions were held like festivals by local authorities all over the nation to maintain the ferocious and cruel nature of demons. The captured humans were tied to display and it was encouraged to villagers to cut their bodies and flesh themselves especially when they are alive and eat them raw.
The girl had almost reached the brink of insanity with the appearance of so many crazy demons drooling while gazing over her. She wanted to cry but no voice came out from her throat.
She looked toward the human warrior who had been her companion for some relief or false assurance. The one-armed warrior smiled at her and said something to her in a whisper. She got visibly relieved hearing her words with tears fishing out of her eyes.
Both humans were tied to the dried trunk of a large tree with villagers surrounding the tree. They were waiting for word of the local Captain to start tearing out the tasty raw flesh of these humans while hearing their pitiful screams. They had taken part in similar gatherings many times so they knew the process of the event.
Captain cleared his throat and said to villagers,
"I know you are restless to dine on human delicacies but we have to follow orders of higher Demons. Thus I will not waste time and invite any one of you to start the process by taking the first bite of them."
Soon several demons rushed to move forward but were kept in line by the demon guards. Captain gazed at the restless crowd and soon he spotted a young boy with four eyes gazing at humans with visible hate in his eyes.
Captain pointed to that child and said,
" You can come ahead and start the ceremony. Don't be merciful when killing these vermins. They are in this world as prey to our demons, Come ahead now"
The boy moved forward from envious Demons and reached the two tied humans. He opened his usually closed second set of eyes and spoke word by word to tied humans.
"I will kill you, each one of you. Your race is not suitable for living in the world."
Listening to hate-filled words Girl finally broke down and started screaming in horror. A single tear dropped from the eyes of a warrior who was tied beside the girl. He opened his now red eyes and said to the demon,
"Are you a superior race? Ptooh!"
He spitted over the Captain which landed in feet of Captain. He was looking with mocking gaze to human warrior. Inside he was enraged beyond words but he knew the importance of ceremony thus held himself back.
The child demon looked towards the human warrior and went towards him. He broke off his bindings and freed him.
"I freed you now, do what you can "
Guards tried to stop the child but Captain held them back with his gaze. The rule is clear chosen demon was free to mutilate the body of a human.
The warrior fell on the spot due to his injuries, he managed to get up and looked into the eyes of a demon. The first time since being caught, he felt fear. His mind froze watching the hate-filled gaze of Child.
His consciousness screamed to kill this demon before him otherwise it will one day become the biggest threat to humans. He wanted to move but the pitiful screams of the young girl brought him back to reality.
The girl had lost her mind, she was screaming in horror relentlessly calling her mother. A warrior standing with help of a tree trunk, sneaking took out a blade from the sleeve of his robe.
This was a suicide blade given to all warriors going to the front lines. He should have ended his life earlier when he was caught like other warriors but he was unconscious when he was captured. He had only one chance to end his life to avoid eaten alive by these monsters. He took the blade in his fingers and suddenly jumped at the girl.
Not expecting his move towards the girl, several demons tried to stop him but he was too close to the girl. He leaped and channeled his almost last serpentine energy and stabbed blade in girls' neck.
One stab and life began to leak out of her body, she regained brief clarity and felt calmed in her release by the death. She watched due to sudden movements, all demons jumped over Warrior tearing out his flesh and eating it out.
Captain tried to maintain order but the situation has gone out of hand with all simultaneously jumping to claim bite of him.
Most amazed was the Child as he saw the smile in the face of a warrior while being eaten alive.
He failed to understand why he was happy ending the life of his companion but chose himself to die most painfully. The girl slowly lost her consciousness with the vision of blood-stained demons rushing towards her. But there was no fear in her eyes only peace and relief with the last words of the warrior resonating in her mind.
"I promise you, I will not let these demons eat you alive ."
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