Devi groaned, even with a demon's high tolerance and even slight enjoyment of pain, Devi didn't like the feeling in his body. He felt like table scraps, picked at and then thrown into his cell for god knows how long.
"Bastards," Devi hissed, forcing himself up off the cot to fumble toward the bars. A small whimper made him pause.
He frowned as he looked into the cell beside him. A child was sobbing in the corner, hands covering the little face.
"What are you here for?" Devi winced as pain roared through his chest.
"I don't know! I want my mom!" The little boy sobbed, looking up at Devi with the brightest blue eyes he had ever seen.
Devi's eyes widened as he took a closer look at the boy. He knew that cute little face, knew the little blonde curls and gentle eyes.
"Is your name Aridan?" Devi asked, kneeling down as close as he could get to the boy through the bars.
"Mmmhmm, how do you know that?" he asked, his words hitched as he tried to calm his breathing down.
"Its too sad that you were found so easily by them when your friends have been searching for you for so long," Devi smiled sadly, reaching through the bars and laying a hand on the boy's shoulder.
"They killed mom. If they just wanted me why did they kill her?" He asked, leaning into the bars so that Devi could hold him.
"Because that is what evil people do, they hurt everyone they can and make sure that there is no one to stop them. But don't worry, I'll get us out of here,"
"Did they kill everyone who would come to save you? Cause no one's coming for me, they killed everyone," he had heard the evil people call this creature a demon, but for some reason this demon was so much kinder than those humans.
"No, they didn't have to kill anyone, there's not a person in this world who would bother to save a demon like me. But don't worry, I'll save you. I'll make sure that you live, you just have to be strong," Devi could feel his heart breaking as he clutched to the child. He would live, if only to save this child he would live!
"If I live, when I get bigger I'll save you some day, okay? I promise that one day I'll be the one waiting to save the demon," his little hands clutched to Devi's shirt.
"Well then I'll just have to make sure that you get bigger one day then, right?"
Author's notes: Poor Devi, poor little Aridan. By the way, for those who haven't read the book, Aridan is the Forger, he is constantly reborn, all cute and blonde, until he matures, and then his hair turns white, his eyes turn gold, his ears get all pointy and fangs grow in. When that happens he grows into his powers, he can pull weapons out of his body and give to the champions that he chooses to fight for him, but he can't ever use the weapons himself. He can also scream so loud that people around him can't walk or even think straight.
But until he comes into his powers he's just a cute little 'thinks he's human' boy that loves jellybeans and bunnies.