Mephiles and Iris fell all the way through Hell, hitting the volcanic ground with force. Mephiles had landed on a clump of molten rock and just began to open his eyes. Rubbing the back of his head, he got up with a shaky start.
This must be the Flame Core then. He thought to himself, observing the fiery landscapes of cliffs and volcanoes.
Everything had a sense of negativity as the orange lightning constantly flashed across the gray skies. In a slight panic, he realized that Iris was not beside him. He began to drift across the lava, calling and searching for her. He had heard a scream coming somewhere in the distance. Mephiles ran over more barren land until he came across a huge cave system within a dormant volcano. Entering cautiously, he blended into the darkness and watched whatever that was going down below, in what looked like the main room of a den. A group of three, dirty demons watched Iris curiously as she stood fast, holding her ground.
The males kept their distance, talking to one another in a series of growls. Even though her primal was rusty, Iris knew that they were talking about what to do with her. She's probably one of the only female demons that they have ever seen. She growled lowly when they started talking about the "options." They looked at her for the fiftieth time and started to come closer. She stood still until what seemed like the leader had reached for her.
"Don't even do it. Drop those filthy claws!" She yelled at him as he gave a look of interest through slitted eyes.
"Excuse me your greatness. How DID it feel to be kicked out of inheritance? I'm surprised you still know your native tongue." The leader demon said trying to circle around her. But Iris knew what he was doing and rotated her body as he circled, he was not going to make her his toy.
"There is no need to try and corner me it isn't going to work. And I'm actually quite happy that I left this place. It was never my home and you were never my people." She responded as she saw the outline of Mephiles hidden in the shadows, waiting until she had needed him. She gave a nod and Mephiles burst from the darkness, grabbing two demons by the necks. Then Iris jumped the leader demon while he was distracted and dug her diamond claws into his arms.
He screamed for more to help but was silenced by Iris' small serrated teeth biting into his neck and piercing his jugular. Like a crocodile holding an antelope in a death grip, Iris held on and bit even harder, making the male's attempts futile. The blue blood came gushing from his neck, spilling out of the sides of her mouth and onto the floor. Mephiles had smashed the other two demon's heads into the stone wall, caving their skulls in on the back. The big male demon Iris had attacked was left slowly dying on the floor. Iris and Mephiles had found the last two demons hiding in a part of the cave with fresh clear rivers, red stalagmites, and homemade soap bars.
They begged for their lives as they kneeled before the two more powerful ones, but Iris and Mephiles weren't listening.
"We could be of use to you! Keep us around and we'll do whatever you want!" Said the thinnest demon out of exasperation, kissing Iris' hands as the other lowered his head to Mephiles.
"No. None of you weak mongrels are of any use to us. Your words are empty and false and that is the most insulting." Replied Mephiles as he crushed the one demon's head between his blue crystalline hands.
"Your nothing now but dust in the breeze." Replied Iris to the other demon, sticking her pointer claw right through the demon's heart to the other side of his body.
"Come on Mephiles. We must find a way back to the mortal realm, reclaim our children, and destroy those pests once and for all!"