Cedric started to come to, through the black fog he could see that there were only 2 people in the room other than him. Lust and what looked to be a young boy laying his head in her lap watching him. The young boy sits up and almost bounces over to him looking him in his half-mast eyes.

"Hey Lust, he woke up! Can I play with him?"

Lust laughs sensually,

"No my little Sloth, we need to let his darkness eat him."

The boy that was apparently the Deity Sloth frowned and the walked back over to where he was before laying his head back into her lap looking like a dejected puppy. Cedric tries to move but the chains don't budge, coughing up another large black chunk onto the floor it turns into fog and attacks his body, screaming in pain, it felt different from the last time it had attacked him. Looking down he noticed that his skin had burned off in areas; it literally was trying to eat him alive. Thankfully his healing tattoo was doing its job the best it could. As soon as his skin would start to heal another area would start to burn and turn to ash.

His entire body felt like it was being eaten alive, closing his eyes shut trying to distract himself from this pain, he started hearing footsteps coming closer to him. Opening his eyes again he looked up to see Lust staring at him.

"If you give up and become my slave I will take your pain away, you won't be a full Deity but you won't have to worry about a pathetic mortal body getting in your way."

Spitting a chunk on purpose this time at lust, it hit her kimono turning into fog and attacking him. It did nothing to her but made him scream in pain. Deciding that wasn't the smartest thing he ever decided to do. Lust just smirk turning away from him, sitting back down she looks over at Sloth smirking and nodding to him.

Sitting up now on the pillows he crossed his legs grinning deviously,

"Oh you just got Lust mad; I get to play with you now!"

Sloth placed each of his 10 fingers into his mouth making them all bleed, hovering his hands over the floor a drop from each finger rolled out and dropped to the floor,

"Come, my minions, my precious little imps. It is time for us to play."

He laughs evilly as the drops of blood started to grow in size turning into 12 inch blood red imps. The danced around Cedric's feet before pulling on the chains, hanging on them and then climbing up them to start clawing at Cedric. Biting his lip he was holding back at how much agony he was in, each imp started to talk, but what he heard, he never expected. The one closest to his left ear sounded just like Baileywick the steward at the Castle,

"Hmp, that Cedric, he is nothing but a bumbling idiot."

The on next to his right ear sounded like King Rolland,

"Maybe I should find a replacement Royal Sorcerer, Cedric it's as great as his father."

Each imp went on and on in other voices, from other staff from the Castle, until it came to the last imp to talk it had dug itself into Cedric back making him wince in pain.

"My Boy, you are nothing but a great disappointment to this family. You will never amount to anything; you will never obtain the family wand. You disgrace this family."

Those words rang deep into Cedric entire being, that voice was his fathers and something inside him snapped. His eye's turned black losing all that color that he once held, his head goes limp and the black fog that was around him quickly got sucked into his body, like it had done to the wand. Cedric skin turned black. Lust scratched Sloth under his chin like he was a pet,

"Such a good little Sloth, your minion's did a great job."

Sloth was pleased and curled up into her lap letting his minions do all the work for him. They both sat watching as time went by, the imps continued to say mocking things to him in other people's voice. Every time it was his father's voice that would give a reaction. Sloth snapped his fingers and then all 10 imps were talking in Goodwin's voice, after a good 5 minutes the black that had stained Cedric's skin seem to be dissolving inside of him, his normal body color returning.

The room went eerily quiet and Sloth rose an eyebrow over to his imps, having not commanded them to stop, he was about to say something when all of his imps let at an ear-piercing screech. Sloth watched as his imps were being sucked into Cedric's body as well, in a panic mode the Sloth snapped his fingers making the imps vanish leaving behind nothing but blood to fall to the floor, it didn't even have time to hit the floor before it started swirling around Cedric going into his body. While he was still lost in his dark stat he looked up eyeing both the deity's sitting across the room from him, he hisses something in a language that was not audible, This of course turned on Lust to no end, seeing the darkness that lived in Cedric, Sloth was hiding behind her because he just stole some of his power and tried to eat his imps!

"Don't worry my little sloth; he can't break free of those chains, even in this state. He is in my realm and can't do a thing to stop it."

Pouting up at Lust,

"I know that but he was trying to eat my babies! He even stole some of my power, what kind of mortal is he?"

She had a smug look on her face,

"A fascinating one isn't he, now if he can become one with this darkness we see before us he will join us and be a Deity,"

Sloth remained behind Lust; he started to rub her shoulders just because he was back there.


Cedric had remained in the possessed like state just staring at the 2 deity's, sometimes the others would join to watch how it was going but shortly left, One day Envy tried to go up to him wanting some of that power that was leaking from Cedric, Envy tried touching him but started to get pulled into him when his fingers were an inch away, quickly pulling away he went and jumped behind the Sloth,

"You weren't kidding, he has gotten to grabby for my liking, I'm out of here."

With that Envy at made his leave, the few other that were there that day made a note not to go near him, even though it was fascinating that he a mere mortal could hold on this long. Sloth was the one, who hanged around the most mainly because he likes to nap on Lust's pillows,

Day's turned into weeks that went into months, none of the Deity's could do anything about him for fear that he would suck them in or any magic that they would throw at him. Lust was over this game and just wanted to eat him and get this horrifying décor out of her living space, watching him one day she noticed a shift in him, wondering if he finally gave up the eternal battle that must have been ragging inside him.


[The battle inside Cedric]

Cedric stood there in what looked like space, he could see what resembled planets and stars, a spiral stair case appeared in front of him, walking up the stairs he glanced behind him the floor was disintegrated into what looked like molten black lava, He picked up his pace now sprinting up the spiral stairs, the space he once saw around him looked like it was melts, fueling the black lava making it rise even faster, Daring another glance behind him he saw a pair of hands coming from the blackness, keeping his pace up the stairs he kept looking back watching the hands turn into arms and a face appeared out of it, stumbling a bit being caught off guard by the fact that whatever that was coming out of the blackness was, him? It looked just like him but it couldn't be could it?

Running as fast as he could up the never ending stairs, he looked in the middle seeing that there was a platform up top, taking another look back the entire thing had come out of the blackness; it was him, well him in his robe at least. This him, looked dark and cruel like it wanted to eat him alive, looking up again it was close, the platform, finally reaching it he ran across it, the black creature appeared in front of him making Cedric fall on his rump. He now stared up at his what he could only assume was his inner darkness.

This darkness grin holding out a hand, Cedric stared at it for what felt like forever, finally taking the hand the darkness instead dissolved into him. Sharp pain spread through his entire body, feeling like he was being stabbing by a thousand needles at once, he squirmed around on the floor screaming in pain. Not understanding what was happening to him he seethed more on the floor, pulling himself up in a sitting position, it started to rain, the he realized as it was hitting the floor this wasn't rain, it was blood. Not knowing where it was coming from he stood up to try to get away. As soon as the blood stopped falling it jumped up attacking Cedric. Feeling the blood attack his body, like it was forcing its way into to his very pours of his skin. Screaming in agony, he wraps his arms around himself holding himself. It was bad enough that he felt like needles were stabbing him now his whole body trembled with the added feel of the blood forcing its way in.

Losing track of time he couldn't tell how long he was in pain, feeling like he was being ripped apart, that every fiber of his body was being torn to pieces.

A voice echoed all around him, it was hard to tell what this voice said. It may have been an echo but it sounded like a whisper at the same time. After the tenth time hearing it he could understand what the voice was saying,

"Accept me,"

"Accept what?"

Cedric replied to the voice, it was hard for him to think at all with all the pain he was fighting, the voice continued never changing. Huffing at this point unable to continue he angrily said at the voice, just about yelling at it.

"Fine! I Accept You!"

Everything around him went dark.


Cedric opens his eyes slowly, he was on the floor, sitting up he looked up and noticed Lust shocked expression with what she had just witnessed, He had just turned into black fog, the fog had fallen to the ground and Cedric slowly reappeared from it. Composing herself, she got up and walked over to Cedric holding out a hand for him to take.

"Welcome my newest brother."


Note: Holy pandas, I did it! this was a tough one to write. I hope you all enjoyed it and I hope I did well in this chapter!