// story comp entry start here// We All Have Inner Demons Demons danced around me. They danced in glee at the fear i was giving them. No. i wasn't going to back down, not anymore. “ What's that, mutiny?” a grey demon scoffed, " don't try” his eyes flashed a warning of, what i will do to you will be very, VERY painful. Very well, i won't. “ don't toy with her,” a grumbling voice snapped. Two amber eyes rose with a pair of blood-red horns to resemble a petrifying face of a dragon. HE smiles, rows and rows of razor-sharp teeth.a muttered apology goes round the ashamed group of demons, “ yes majesty, sorry majesty,” “Your worth a lot, you know,” HE said. “ excuse me, but when are WE receiving OUR payment?” a cute-but-deadly demon asked, jumping up, out of the crowd. “ SILENCE!” HE roared, “ you will receive your payment soon” HE added, in a calmer vshowingoice. “ any way,the little one needs HER payment,” “ NO!” i screamed, sending the demons into a cacophony of sheiking laughter. “ oh yes, we’ve kept you alive for FAR too long…” I grit my teeth as the cacophony went on and the stone in my belly enlarged into a rock, a hill, a mountain.HE beckoned to two demons ( one purple, one yellow) to carry me towards the looming face. “ now then, there’s 2 way’s i can mercilessly kill you, 1. Slaughter you. 2. Curse you, oor i coould turn YOU into, a DEMON!” he cackled with evil laughter at the prospect of doing such a thing. I bit my tongue as anger bubbled and boiled up my chest and into my mouth, “ you, you, MONSTER!” i raged, anger blurring my vision. Then, nothing. I blearily blinked my eyes open, “ ARH!” i yelped, HE was there, amber eyes gleaming, pointy teeth shining and monstrous wing flapping, the whole lot, “ today's the day you demonise!” HE declared. “ hmm, just think you’d mention that then?” “ hm, smart mouth, glad your becoming a demon,” “ grr,” i responded. At the demonising trails, demons big and small roamed ( or flew) around, screeching and hissing, trying to get the best view of the platform. Which is where i was standing, squirming, trying to squeeze out the bone chains holding me captive. It didn’t work.HE came on the platform and breathed a firework’s display of flames, A equally huge dragon walked on and breathed the same fireworks display, but of ice. “ it is time!” HE boomed, : to get out of here!” i thought, “ too late” Suddenly, HIS amber eyes grew wider, then black as midnight. Slowly, they became a piercing red as a black and red swirling ball of pure magic formed in HIS hands. WHOOSH. HE shot the ball straight at me. Blackness swam in front of my eyes, blurring my vision. Videos of wickedness and cruelty played in my brain, ripping every ounce of my kindness to shreds. When i opened my eyes, A blacked-hearted smile cracked apon my face, Demons cheered and whooped. HE gave me a mirror and i looked inside the glass, the figure grinning back at me had horns sprouting out either side of their head and eyes a crimson red, “ oh, no this is very,very bad” I thought. i was no longer in control of my body. The bone chains disintegrated into ash. i was free! or so i thought... " don't celebrate just yet..." HE said, " there's more, a REAL trail" That night, i tossed and turned about the 'REAL' trail. if i passed, i would become a REAL demon- my mind possessed- but if i didn't... i don't want to think about it. When dawn came, red won the sky,. Today, the 'REAL' trails. demons were silently nervous as we waited for the iron doors to slide open. when they did, we walked in an bolts of fire and ice shot out of holes in the ground. i gulped( inside of course). A sound of a goats horn being blown symbolised the start of the trail. i stood there, not knowing what to do. A young demon pounced onto me shieked with glee.I roared and scratched the demon in defense. Apparently, your meant to fight the other demons and race to the other side of the arena. The demon backed off me and ran toward the clearly marked finish line. I picked myself up and sprinted at full pelt to catch up with the other demons.I was doing well, only a few demons were ahead of me. CRRK. a gargantuan worm-like creature with long tentacles at the ' head ' smashed out the hard, rocky ground and growled. i didn't want to hurt it, so i tried to dodge it. i stepped left, it smashed right: blocking my exit, so i tried stepping right, it smashed right. it knew my every move. i had to think different. i had to think... DEMON. i thought back to the young demon who attacked me and then i saw my oppotunity, a stone wall burst out the ground, leaving the rest of the demon behind it. i sprang myself towards the wall and jumped off it, towards the worm-creature, the beast was confused for a second, which is all i needed. I made it! i sunk my red claws into the creature. it screeched and flung me off it's back, leaving itself to deal with the other demons. // continued in notes and credits//
"Phhh!" i spat out a mouthful of sand and looked up. " we have a winner!" a voice echoed around the stadium. A locust-demon walked up to me and pulled me off the ground. " Your our lucky winner!" he announced, " Tomorrow, HE will preform the PROPER demonising ritual," My body made me smile, showing off jaggered teeth. " help" i thought. When the red moon rose, it was time. i strided onto the platform, sat myself on the and grinned, outside of course, inside i was a nevouse reck. HE came on, looked at me with those amber eyes, one last time shearching my mind, seeing what I had to say. " i hate you, i hate you, i HATE you!" i repeated and repeated in my brain. HE cackled, so he got my message just fine then. " SO," he whispered to me. " dont," i replied. " Clover," he whispered again, so close to my ear i could feel his hot smokey breath, " How is it, having your last controlled minuties?" Clover, no-one called me Clover. it wasnt my name. well, it WAS technically my name, but it, wasnt. HE knew he got to me. "cant handle having a ..." HE paused. " DONT" i said, though gritted teeth. " demon, name?" " Just demonise me already" "i am" HE grinned. " wha? how?" I interrogated. : Your name is YOUR demon," " no," i'd realised what had happened, my name had MADE me demon, bit by bit, and all this - the trails- was a con. HE has a name, but no-one says it because it will launch ARMAGEDDON. " If you say yours, ill say mine," HE offered. " no," "YES, YOU WILL!"" HE said, losing his cool for once in his lifetime ( forever), " do it," HE forsed. I hung my head in shame, " fine," i whispered. " Clover," The End.
