Hellbound

Chapter One

The streets were quiet today with the only sound being the scurrying of mice and the shuffled of homeless people's feet's. Other than that the night was silent, no cars passing by and not too many people in sight.

I was heading home after a long day. I ran into a demon and he put up quite a fight against me. I still killed it though. Long story short I saw him possessing an old woman and I took him out before he could finish.

As I finally arrived at my apartment I saw that my mailbox had a few envelopes inside. I took them out and they were all just advertisements for menswear. I walked up the stairs and saw my neighbor, she always knew how to make me smile.

Her name is Sammy Jimenez, she comes over to my house sometimes and we just watch movies and eat popcorn. She had an abusive boyfriend but I taught that guy a lesson on pain. After that me and Sammy got close and we started to become best friends. I've started to grow a love interest for her but after everything that has happened its difficult to create attachments.

I approached her and gave her a hug, she squeezed me and kissed my cheek. I knew she also had interest in me, but once again I don't want her to get attacked by a demon or something.

We spoke for a while and then I went home. I sensed someone inside my apartment and immediately rushed in. There standing was a tall man wearing an all black suit.

"Hello" he said to me. "Its been a while Mason." His voice was familiar but I couldn't remember it at the moment.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"You don't remember me?" He asked rhetorically. "Its me Daeda."

Daeda, the demon sorcerer, he taught me how to use my magic better and gave me a hell bound symbol boosting my dark side up.

"Daeda" I shook his hand. "Its been a while. I didn't know you can take a human form."

"I never really needed to back home" he told me. "So hows it been so far?"

"Its good" I replied. "But we have a problem. A portal has mysteriously opened in this city and all sorts of demons are coming out."

"Thats why I came here" he began. "This portal is like nothing I have seen before. Its huge and it cannot be closed, even by someone with the magical potentials like me. An all out war is going to start between Heaven and Hell. I came to warn you. Angels are going to hunt you because your hell bound symbol and demons will try to kill you because you have other demon blood on your hands."

"Hunted by two powerful armies" I said. "This cannot end well."

"It won't" Daeda explained. "I also cane here to offer you refuge in Hell at my sanctuary. There no one will hurt you and you'll be safe from this war."

"No" I began. "I cannot leave Earth. There are people still here that I care about. They will be killed by demons as well and I can't let that happen. Even if it means I have to fend off some angels too."

"Listen to reason Mason" Daeda pleaded. "If you kill an angel you will forever be damned and your soul will turn dark. I have killed angels before, but I was banished to Hell where I learned to master sorcery."

"No" I answered. "I'm not changing my mind. I'm thankful for the offer, but I can't."

"Fine Mason" Daeda gave up. "Whenever you change your mind you know where to find me." He teleported away.

This is crazy, angels and demons at war and I'm in the middle. I can't kill an angel but I can always incapacitate them. Demons on the other hand deserve to die. I need to go hunting for demons now, weaken their forces. I should start slow however.

Maybe a group of hoarders, which are demons that infest buildings and terrorize people living in them. Hoarders are weak demons, but when in groups they prove to be a troubling case. My spell book has a homing spell to find these things.

I reached into the case under my bed and pulled it out. The demon symbol was on top of it and I opened it. My spell books sat in there, as long as a bunch of other stuff needed to survive in my line of work. I grabbed the book and gave a good look at it. Its been a while since I had to use it.

My previous battle I just used basic magic, but tracking a demon after a catastrophe like the "Portal". I opened my book to the tracking part and looked for hoarders. I found the page and set up the room. I put candles around the area and turned off the lights.

"Sredraoh erew tra uoht" I said the spell. Soon I felt the feeling of their presence. Two miles away from here they are infesting a building and killing innocent people. I can also sense that their is a battle demon protecting them from angels. Battle demons protect smaller demons like hoarders, these demons are fast, strong and intelligent. Great hunters that kill for sport and torture for pleasure.

Well its time to get to work.