SLADE´S DESTINY

When slade opened his eyes, he found himself in a unknown dark place.

-wh…where am i?-

Suddenly, there was a strange red light that enlightened the place: a place that looked like a type of cavern.

-what is this place? I don´t remember anything!-

While he tried to scratch his head, he discovered something terrible: his hands had no flesh! Not just that, all his lower body was pure bones. Slade got back in horror, and said:

-what is this? What´s going on?-

After that, he Heard somebody laughing with a strong and tetric voice. He lift his eyes up, and saw 4 strange red eyes coming from the ceiling.

-what is that?-asked slade

-my name is trigon…your soul is mine now, slade…-

-what is this place?-

-what do you think? You´ve been a really bad boy-

-this can´t be possible…-

Slade was scared about the idea of being a skeleton. His days on earth were over now.

-no…i´ve had so much to do-

-well…we could do something about it-

-what do you mean?-

-you´re the nearest person at hand that knows about the gem-

-what gem?-

-the gem of evil that will be my portal to the world-

-really?-

slade didn´t know what trigon was talking about. But he decided to get along to escape from that place.

-slade…do you know a girl called raven?-

-what happen with her?-

-raven…is my daughter-

Slade was astonished by that revelation: raven was a demon girl?

-are you serious?-slade asked, still hesitating

-yes…and you´re gonna work for me-

-why should i?-

-well…i can give you back what you have lost-

Slade looked his skeletical hands and said:

-well…it´s a deal-

Trigon started to laugh, and show his real self…slade saw a colossal red being with White hair, muscular, elf ears and Sharp teeth. And he was standing in his huge hand.

-what are you?-slade asked

-i´m trigon, the source of all evil. And you´re my servant!-

Trigon send a red beam over slade, that restored his armor and marked his forehead with a strange symbol: a jeroglyphical "S" letter

-what is this mark?-

-that is the seal of your master: the mark of scath. Symbol of our pact. It will grant you the powers of the darkness for your mission-

-well…i´m ready then-

-not now…you need to know more. Sit down, i´m gonna tell you a story…-

Slade did as commanded, and Heard trigon´s story. He learned about raven´s childhood, azarath, the mark of scath, the prophecy and the future of the world. After ending the story, slade was impressed of all those arcane secrets. Raven was a treasure box, her power was unlimited, and she was destined to destroy the whole world, guided by her evil father.

-any question?-asked trigon

-well…i´m too surprised of all that info. Raven was totally unknown for me, until now…what is my job?-

-your job, consists in three evil deeds to prepare my coming-

-i feel bad to destroy the world, though-

-it´s your only chance to escape your grim destiny-

-ok…what are those deeds?-

-first: you need to seal the warning on raven´s skin-

-how i do that?-

-just hold her enough to mark all the seals on her skin-

-sounds easy. That kid can´t do anything against me-

-so…prepare yourself. I´m gonna take you back to the world that you left behind. Don´t even think of betray me, or your destiny will be worst than you thought-

-i´m ready-

Trigon used his evil powers to teleport slade to the earth…Already in earth, slade appeared underground, in the cave where the days of terra and his ended. He has to dig his way out of the bottom, and when he finally got out, he said:

-the day…has…begun-and then, he smiled, prepared for his new opportunity.

TO BE CONTINUED?