For the Love of His Family

PROLOGUE

He could hear the screams all around him as he inhaled the smoke that surrounded his room that was once filed with toys and posters of cartoons that he loved. he turned his head to his prized teddy bear as it looked at him with his beady black eyes.

"Don't worry bear-bear. everything's gonna be alright. Mom and Dad are gonna save us, Mom and Dad..." he choked on those words because he knew it wasn't true because he saw the dead bodies of his parents in the living room with their killer standing over them. he ran to his room to hide from the terrible man-monster but then the house caught on fire and here he was, on his bed, soon to die due to smoke inhalation.

He looked up to the ceiling, already turned from blue to black due to the smoke, "Please... somebody help me. Please, I wanna take...revenge...against my family...Please someone..." he coughed out. He could feel the smoke feeling up his lungs, as he felt light headed and closed his eyes.

"Do you seriously need help?" A voice echoed and his eyes flew open to see a man wearing only a black robe with a hood covering his face.

'Has he come to take my soul away?'

The man chuckled as he sat down on a nearby seat next to the bed, unconcerned about the smoke surrounding the room.

"If you want me to take your soul, I would gladly oblige but I assure you I am not the grim reaper. You said you wanted to live boy to avenge your family?" The man asked and the little boy would have sworn that at that moment the man was smirking despite his covered face.

"...Yes... I do." the little boy coughed out.

"Save your breath, little one. I can hear your thought just fine. I can make you live but under one condition." the man said as he lifted one pale, bony finger to signify his point.

'What is it?' the boy asked through his mind since he couldn't talk anymore due to the smoke he inhaled.

"When you finally take your revenge against those who have wronged you and your family, you will give me your soul."

'My soul?' the boy asked confused.

"Yes. As you can see, I am a demon and we do love taking the souls of you humans." the man replied, chuckling. The boy thought about this. On one hand, he would die now, without avenging his family, and get his soul taken or Die later, avenging his family, and get his soul taken. The boy looked at the demon with weak but determined eyes.

'I agree.'

The man smiled under his hood. "Perfect. Then, a contract has been created." As he said these words a bright light shone between them for a moment and quickly disappeared. The man chuckled again as he put his hand on the boy's head and said

"Now sleep, little one. And don't worry I will be here, always and forever... until you die" The boy suddenly felt tired as his eyes began to droop and the last thing he heard, before he fell into a deep sleep, was the demon's light chuckles.

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