CHAPTER 6: SATAN

Once they returned to the future, they saw a squad of demons head their way, bearing a white flag.
Richter: Demons parlementing? It had to be a trick! He took his whip and it tore the flagbearer to pieces, sending it back to hell. The other demons looked in utter surprise from Richter to the flag now laying on the ground. They stared back at him with a look of utter dismay, soon turning white and evolving. Huge horns tore out of their back and head soon followed by blazing wings of incandescent flames. Their normally small talons converted to enormous claws capable of tearing across their friend's body with ease. Their muscles tripled in size and their tails became ended with three morningstars (Spiked iron club).
Alucard: Nice going.
Richter: How was I supposed to know they'd evolve?! The demons now completed returned their attention to their friend's assassin. As they bellowed a challenge, an enormous beam burst from their mouths, combining and leveling the spot of the corridor they'd just stood in. Richter was projected up into a small corridor above the ceiling and started to run further away. Alucard was in a corned, observed by three of the giant creatures. He noticed the demons had wings, but were just too bulky to fly. He turned into a bat and flew up to join his friend, just in time as the demons blew up the corridor behind them. The pair rested a bit at a crossroad, giving them time to think of which road they'd take... but their decision was taken for them as they heard the sound of metal against stone on one size, from the walking of approaching Mecha Zombies. They ran down the opposite hall, hoping to escape. The zombies stood at the end of the corridor, sniping them, but always missing until one threw his missiles. Fortunately, they'd expected the attack and parried it. Alucard raised his Medusa Shield, letting it take the blow for him and Richter whipped it aside. Alucard soon heard Richter wail in terror and felt something sinking into his fingers. He looked at his shield and found a large drill sinking fast into the shield. He threw it aside and saw that Richter's whip had been shattered by such a drill as well. The zombies tried to snipe their immobile targets, but found themselves out of bullets and so left to get more. The pair looked dumbfound at their idiocy and remembered that they were zombies after all... They kept going down the serpentine path to a room where they found a enormous orb of black liquid floating up near the tall ceiling. As they fully entered the room, the door behind them closed itself shut and the orb began to stir, it's perfect roundness shattered by a pair of taloned feet emerging from them until the full demon had emerged. It had clawed hands and legs, black and red skin, bat-like wings and a horned face with the ears of a bat. It's arms were crossed upon it's chest for but a second until it deployed them, sending black goo spraying all over the room. Where it collided, the floor seemed to melt away. It stared at the for a minute and extended it's hand to the orb it had come out of and it let it go in. Power left it's arm, making the liquid pulse and vibrate. It arched itself torwards them and sent the orb reeling down on them. The orb crushed them, making all their strength leave their newly tired bodies. When they'd reached their limit, it had faded, but the demon remained floating up on the ceiling near a small black divided into two distinct parts. On one side was a skull and over 100 small lines, on the other was a happy face and two fresh line it had just carved in.
Demon: How surprising, finally a foe worthy of my time. Let me introduce myself, I am Satan, AKA the devil, the lord of darkness, the master of evil and other such nicknames. For over 50 years, I've awaited foes such as you, who might survive my attack. We will battle to the death, agreed?
Richter: And why should we?
Satan: For to continue on to the castle, you need to kill me, unless I wish for the door to open, it will not, it will also open if I am destroyed, so you need to do so. I'll even allow you to ask from me anything you wish, but of you loose, I get to claim something from you... He turned away from them.
Satan: We will start in an hour, be ready. Above it appeared a small orb that split into two halves. Each one burst above their designated person, spraying them with black goo that restored their strength it had stolen earlier. And so the waiting began...