The Masked Demon

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I was surrounded by darkness once again. Fear filled me as I expected for the consuming darkness to come for me. I attempted to gather up power to pull myself out again, only for nothing to happen.  Actually, now that I thought about it there was a distinct lack of anything happening around me.

"hello, Is anybody there!?"  I tentatively shouted hoping to make something happen.

I waited for a few moments and nothing changed. Taking another breath I was about to call out again when a small red light blinked into existence in front of me, it was soon followed by many others. Within the array of red lights in front of me I could sense a familiar presence, one that I couldn't remember where I recognized it from. The feeling it gave was that of an beast and I felt its gaze come onto me.

We sat there watching each other for awhile not saying anything. I decided to try to break the silence but he beat me to it.

"Who are you and what do you want with me?" his voice coming out in a growl and demanding an answer.

"What do you mean 'What do you want with me?' I don't even know what or even who you are!" my voice came out indignantly.

"Don't give me that crap." he said in a snarl. "When we collided and escaped from Avgrund I wasn't expecting to be trapped in this place. Now, you will tell me who you are and you will tell me why you are holding me here!" His voice got louder with every word.

I did my best to keep my voice steady "Can I ask some clarifying questions first?"

"Why would I answer your questions if you wont answer mine!?" His red lights flared up brighter again.

I felt a shiver go throughout me and I nearly had to force the words out "Because, my answers to your questions are dependent your answers to my questions."

He sat there for awhile, saying nothing in response. My heart would have been beating hard and as more time went by but I could still feel myself shaking. Suddenly the red lights flared up brighter than they had ever before I tried to think of any way I could defend myself as they engulfed me. Then all the lights dimmed significantly leaving me tensed up in a defensive position.

His presence suddenly got really close to where my face would have been "Fine, But you only get 5 minutes, after that, if I don't have an answer to my questions I'll attack even if it kills both of us." he then pulled himself back while keeping his focus on me.

"Alright, Ill start then." It was harder to keep my voice steady but I still managed somehow.

"So to make sure you were the one I collided with inside the void, or Avgrund as you called it, correct?"

"Yes, You should recognize my essence because of our collision in there, and that place or thing is called Avgrund." 

" Yes, I recognize your essence as you call it, I just couldn't place where I recognized it from. Since you know what its name is do you know what its purpose is?"

He sat there for a moment before he spoke. "I only remember its name, but I can't remember what Avgrund is. I only know that I was put into there and that we escaped from it."

I took a few seconds to process this information and took a breath for the next question."What can you remember about yourself? Do you know who you are and what you did?"

His presence rose in indignation. "Of course I know who I am, I am...." He hesitated for a moment and then I saw the red lights around him light up as he searched through them. They started lighting up faster and faster until he had gone through most of them. He then settled down with a subdued tone in his voice. "I Can only remember being surrounded by trees and that I'm a demon." His voice became inquisitive as he asked "What about you, what can you remember?"