The burning screams of Hell echoed as Lucium crashed into the volcanic pits of the damned, the rough red rock landscape scratched up his body as he landed. Small, one-eyed lizard-like creatures swarmed Lucium as soon as he landed, jumping on top of him and attempting to eat his body.
Lucium: He tapped his claws together, and with a sudden flash, thousands of the strange creatures were sliced in half, the rest scurrying away from him. His body bent and shuffled around, healing his small injuries as he looked around the hellfire landscape, "Hmm...the realm of the damned. So this is where he expects to contain me? Pitiful."
He noticed a large spiraling tower of black stone and bright red hellfire. "Hmm?" He began to make his through the volcanic lands, marching through a demonic city of spirits and demons. Demons took a single look at him and wouldn't dare even to come close to him. They ran and hid just as they saw something so strange. He looked over at a couple of larger demons threatening and beating a couple of young spirits.
Demon: "I will rip you in half and eat your spiritual heart!" She felt a shadow cast over her, turning around to notice Lucium standing behind her. "What are you looking at" She gripped her throat, suddenly feeling the need to breathe all of the sudden.
Lucium: "You feel that don't you..." His smile widened at her struggle, watching as the spirits and the other demon watched in horror at the scene. "You feel mortality grasping back at your body, the concepts of immortality and mortality pulling you between the two realities. You struggle to breathe as your once resilient skin begins to boil and bubble..."
Demon: She let out a horrifying scream as her limbs melted off, her face revealing flesh and bone, her eyes melting within her socket as she clawed at her neck with what strength she had left trying to breathe. Bubbles of blood popped at the surface as her body slowly became nothing but a steaming pile of blood and bones.
Demon 2: "What did you do to her!" He shouted, fear bubbling from within his body as he stared at the looming creature.
Lucium: His neck snapped, and he stared at the other demon. "Me? I did nothing, I simply...dreamed." His smile widened so far, that the skin covering his mouth ripped open. His many razor-sharp and jagged teeth revealed themselves, and his long tongue grabbed onto the demon's head, ripping it off as his teeth blended it up. "mmm, such an incredible taste, but I do wonder..." He turned towards the two cowering spirits.
Spirit: "Please, we didn't want any part of this! We are just children mister! Please I beg of you!" They began to cry, their lives were in the grasp of this beast.
Lucium: He knelt to their level, "Hey... it's okay." He wiped their tear away with his long claw, "I won't kill you, don't worry." He thrust his finger into the neck of the spirit, the other one screaming as he injected a strange red fluid into their neck. The spirits once transparent red skin reformed back to a mortal state, their skin burning and melting away, revealing flesh and bone as their limbs began to break and stretch into abnormally long proportions. Their eyes rolled to the back of their head, just to pop like balloons, their body turned a deep rotten brown color as they turned into a thin, almost starved-looking creature with void eyes and jagged teeth.
Spirit: "..." He tried to speak, only for his tongue to fall out of its mouth. It stood completely still, breathing heavily, staring forward as if it lost complete control over its mind but it was still there. Tears of blood dripped down its empty eye sockets.
Lucium: "This is my truth, purity in its greatest form, a being with no choice, no free will, no disease to plague their body of choice. Now, kill the other one."
Spirit 2: "What! But you said!" before they could say another one, the mutated spirit tackled them, feasting on their ghostly body.
Lucium: "I said...I wouldn't kill you~" He stood upright, absorbing the mutated spirit into his own body. "You'll be useful later." He turned back toward the giant spiraling tower, walking towards the massive staircase before him, before noticing a large being sitting on a throne of black stone at the top.
????: A large bulky figure loomed at the top of the stairs, its gleaming red eyes staring down at Lucium. Smoke blew out from its nostrils, its form resembled that of a large demon with animal-like features, hooves for feet, a dear skull for a head with dragon-like horns, and a large demonic black furr carcass draped over him like clothes. Its lizard-like hands tapped against the armrests of the throne, his fire crown burning brightly above his head. "Who dares to invade my kingdom of the damned..." The beast's voice was deep and booming.
Lucium: His smile widened, his body shifted with excitement at the being before him, a challenger, "Satan...The Beast of Wrath."
Satan: "You know who I am creature, then you must know what exactly is going to happen." He stood up slowly, his hands balling up into fists, "I will not tell you to leave, I will not tell you to stand down that it is better to surrender. Please, fight back, please put up a grand challenge against the mighty King of Hell." He raised his hands in excitement, challenging Lucium to a glorious fight.
Lucifer: He walked up to the side of the throne, "Sire, should I gather the other sins for backup?"
Satan: He put his arms down slowly, turning toward the fallen angel. "What did you just say? You dare insult me!?" He grabbed Lucifer by his neck, raising him into the air. "I do not ask for help! I will not beg for your aid, especially from you, you embody but a fraction of my pride! I would rather die than ever ask for someone else's help, to be robbed of victory disgusts me!" He threw Lucifer into the wall of the spiraling tower, turning back to face Lucium. "Are you ready creature!? Make this a glorious battle for me!"
Lucium: "Heheh...Be worth my while oh great King~" His smile widened as the two charged each other, their fists colliding with each other, splitting the realm into two halves from the staircase. He grabbed ahold of Satan's fist, attempting to pull him towards his body to stab him, but the demon was unphased.
Satan: "Pathetic! You lack any true physical strength!" He broke free from Lucium's grasp, grabbing a hold of his arm, and flinging him up into the air. "Speed only gets you so far!" He slammed Lucium back down into the ground, destroying everything around them except for the spiraling tower which was protected by some kind of red barrier. Before Lucium could do anything else, he kicked Lucium through the ground, creating a large tunnel. "We have barely begun our fight, and yet you disappoint me!"
Lucium: There was a sudden bright flash, and the land above the tunnel was sliced into oblivion, Lucium rising from the rubble. He laughed manically, clawing at his own body, feeling it heal immediately. His one big eye gleamed red, igniting the entire area in a red aura, the place began to shift and change formation, Hell's reality breaking and being put back together again in different spots. "I sense no fear from you, your pride glows brightly within you Satan! Your crown represents you well, but it means little~!"
Satan: He gritted his teeth, "You dare to speak my name in the same sentence of the word fear!? Fear does not exist within my body, I have never felt it, and I never will! I am Satan, King of Hell, FEAR BENDS TO MY WILL!" He leaped forward, and a shockwave burst from under his feet as he charged toward Lucium, grabbing him by his throat and dragging him against the ground as he flew forward. "I am not nearly entertained enough! Show me what you are!" He spun in the air before throwing Lucium's body into the wall of Hell, shattering it and revealing a glitchy black blankness.
"You are not doing enough, you are not being enough!" He grabbed Lucium once more, punching him through the black blankness into a different version of Hell in a different timeline. "This battle does not fulfill my thirst!" He punched Lucium down into the ground, shattering the floor and sending his body into a different Hell once more.
Lucium: He stabbed his claws into the walls of this Hell, using his fear reality magic to absorb the entire realm into a beam and fire it at Satan as he was entering after him. "Your ego is unmatched! It is irritating to hear!"
Satan: "Get used to disappointment!" He slapped the energy beam away from him and tackled Lucium, punching his jaw completely off. He then grabbed Lucium by the neck with both hands as they slammed through the ground, traveling through a seemingly infinite number of different Hells. "You are unaware of your true strength Corvex Being!" He shouted to Lucium as he continued to bash him through the floors.
Lucium: His jaw regenerated, "You know what I am?!" He grabbed ahold of Satan's arms, smiling widely and laughing, this encounter was exhilarating.
Satan: "I do, and I must say it is underwhelming!" He threw Lucium forward, and he summoned a small red portal next to him, reaching his hand inside of it. Suddenly a giant red portal opened behind Lucium, and a huge version of Satan's hand grabbed hold of Lucium's body, crushing him, the sounds of his bones and flesh being squished echoed throughout the realm. "Discover your power, before I end this battle too quickly for my taste!" He threw Lucium through the wall, and they ended up back within the main version of Hell.
Lucium: He stumbled slightly, his body quickly regenerating, he laughed loudly, "The overwhelming intensity of this emotion! It's coursing through my veins like wildfire! I can hardly contain it! This battle is everything...no, it's more than that! It's life and death! Victory or obliteration! I can feel the electricity crackling in the air; the thrill is intoxicating! I thrive on this chaos! It's a sweet madness!" He slowly stood up, brushing himself off a bit. "Allow me to learn from this experience!"
Satan: He landed on the ground, a couple of hundred feet away from Lucium, and they stood off between one another. "This fight bores me. Tell me your name so I know of the creature I dismember." Red hellfire erupted from his hands as he stared Lucium down.
Lucium: "My name? I am Lucium, The Lord of Fear. As for dismemberment...You may try~!" He pulled Satan down by his waist into a shadow below him, and then thrust his claw through Satan's chest, attempting to pump the same liquid as before into him. "Feel all that I am overwhelm you and your pride!"
Satan: He looked down at Lucium's hand, and then back at him. "Pathetic." He broke Lucium's hand, his severed claws remaining in his body as the rest of his hand was broken, he was then punched away. He crawled out of the shadow, his chest flexed itself and the broken claws popped out of him, "One who controls their whole body, is a man who has control over everything, but I am no man. I am much more, your fear is nothing to me!"
Lucium: His hand healed itself, he stared at Satan with great pleasure. "You indeed are~." He stabbed his claw into the ground, and then suddenly the ground exploded with red energy and the rubble latched onto Satan's body, he swung him around by the rubble until he hit the barrier surrounding the tower.
Satan: He landed on his feet, looking back at the tower, and then back at Lucium, but he was gone. He looked around, "Do not hide yourself Lucium! Fight!"
Lucium: "When you said speed only gets you so far, I believe you forgot something." His voice surrounded Satan.
Satan: "And what is that!" He readied his first for whatever might come at him.
Lucium: He quickly appeared suddenly, "A fast person, is a fast thinker!" He sliced Satan's arm off with his claw and then stabbed his claw-like feet into his back, using them to throw him away.
Satan: He grabbed onto the ground with his remaining hand, looking up at Lucium with great rage. "Do you believe you are the only one who can regenerate!" He attempted to heal his arm, but a strange red smoke was blocking his limb. "What is this?!"
Lucium: "You told me to figure out my strength, didn't you~?!" He laughed as red smoke surrounded his right hand, warping the reality around his severed arm, causing it to be erased.
Satan: He smiled, "It matters not, I am always open to new challenges. All you did was actually make this fight exciting!" He slammed his fist into the ground, before charging at Lucium with his horns out, attempting to ram him.
Lucium: His claws grabbed ahold of the horns, stopping Satan completely. Suddenly Lucium had overwhelming strength and broke his horns off. "Not exciting enough. I was hoping you'd be good enough for my true strength." He appeared before Satan, ripping off his skeletal head, watching as his body slowly turned into the Sin Shard of Wrath and Pride. "I was wrong." His smile dropped, throwing the skull at the barrier, the force of the impact shattered the barrier and Satan's skull went straight through the tower, collapsing it.
As he watched the tower fall, he watched as a dozen of those red spirits escaped through the roof of Hell, flooding into the mortal realm. He stared at the other sinful beings, watching them back away from him. His smile widened again, "Quick learners." He felt a glowing white light envelope the entire area, he turned around to notice a being floating above him with wings made of holy light.
????: "Stand down invader, or you will face the might of an Archangel." The being had golden flowing hair and gleaming silver armor plating over his red robes. His sword glowed bright with white flames. "I am not the type of being to ask twice."
Lucium: His smile widened, all this interaction taught him was that there is more out there to conquer, destroy, and then fix. "Archangel Michael."