Demonic appearance
On the planet Earth most humans believe there are 3 realms. Celestial, The Centre, and Hell.
The Celestial realm is where gods, and angels reign supreme. The Centre is the land of humans, goblins, elves, dwarves, and devils live. Constantly warring for supremacy. Hell is as you most likely guessed, the territory of demons and the demon king.
This story starts off with a demon like any other, but this demon has a dream.
High Demon Chief: HEY!!! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, SOAR?!
Soar: Ah! Oh nothing sir.
High Demon Chief: GET RID OF THAT BLADE AND GET BACK TO WORK!
Soar: Understood.
Soul harvesting is one of the most frowned upon jobs in Hell, unluckily I was summoned into it. All we do is run around He'll, looking for souls. Unlike your human realm, wages aren't a thing here. All you get for doing your job is the ability to live another day. If any of us fail, we'll be killed. I've always wanted to be a member of "Hell's Guard". They are basically the knights of hell, making sure no powerful soul gets in the hands of the wrong demons.
Soar: … Hah!
I think I see a blue light shine from a far rock, the light of… A Soul!
Soar: huff… huff… huff.
I start running towards it, the light only getting brighter the closer I get. Some other low rank demons see me and then turn to it. They all follow, trying to get it first.
The light seems to be getting farther and farther away, many of the demons stop running, presumably to get other souls. This one is very far away. Luckily as my name suggests I was born with the uncommon ability to speedily drift in the air. As the others notice this, they all eventually stop running, until it's just me.
I keep gliding, eventually I get there, through my long trip I almost hit many pillars, beaming up into the violent red sky. As I put my feat down on what I thought was solid ground, the terrain starts to drop beneath my feet.
In a situation like this I would normally just float, however due to a combination of my exhaustion and my surprise, I don't.
As I fall through the seemingly never ending hole that has appeared I try to use as much magic energy I have in my body. I've heard of many demons using black magic to use supernatural abilities, I hope I can to!
I use the only black magic I've ever tried, and conjure up a small glowing dagger. I twirl my scaly dark grey hands around and chant the words…
Soar: Demonic blade hear me now! I offer my energy! Please bring yourself before me!
As I say this, white light which quickly shifts to read appears in my palm.
I grab it and it forms the black shiny short sword I love to practice with in my hands.
I grab the soul and stab my sword into the side of the pit.
It halts my fall but because it's too short it quickly comes out. As I'm tumbling down smashing into the walls, I decide absorbing the soul might give me enough power to lessen the damage done to my body when I eventually crash into some actual land. It might even save my life.
My hand reaches forward and grasps it. I feel a surge of energy, but because I'm so low rank I was never told how to absorb it. I try the method I use with my sword, I motion my hands and chant but it doesn't work, I see the ground below me hit a large rock. It's The End!
I think as fast as I can, until I finally realize the way I remove my sword is by absorbing its energy into My soul. It could be the same with this! I draw in all the surrounding magic and focus on the area close to my hand. The soul starts to shrink and I feel immense power flowing through me.
Something is wrong! The rock that I was supposed to hit is gone, replaced by a blinding light. I feel fear crawling up my back. What is this! As I fall through the light I see a forest of strange green trees. And I crash land into ground that is also peculiarly coloured green.
"BOOOOOM!"
…
I feel the new, cold, ground. I don't know how long it's been since the landing. I haven't opened my eyes but I start to stand up. When I finally open them, I inspect my body, expecting to see a battered up and destroyed figure… however there are no visible wounds. My grey scales are all intact, and in fact I'm feeling better than ever. Not even a chipped claw.
Suddenly I hear a voice shout from behind me, and instantly swerve around.
???: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!
I see a creature the same shape as me but smaller with light beige skin and scruffy brown hair. I've never seen a demon like it. This actually seems like the depiction of humans I always hear about.
???: IT MUST BE A HIGH DEVIL! RUN!
Now that My eyes have adjusted I notice there are 4 'humans' in front of me, all screaming at each other and starting to run. Except for one who comes at me and swings it's small knife. At least, to me it's a knife, compared to them, it's a sword. I grab the human and lift them off the ground, I investigate and ask:
Soar: Where am I?!
The human seems to be full of shock and terror. It doesn't even look like it knows what I'm saying.
Human: HURRAAAAGH!
They stab their small weapon into my arm and free them self. They immediately start to run after the rest of the humans, but I'm mad and don't seem to be in any danger, so I chase after them. I smash into the strange trees and eventually because of my size advantage, catch up to them. I slaughter the one who stabs me with a swipe of my right hand. His head comes clean off his body. Next I attack a less broad human, who I believe is a female human. They seem to believe they can fight their way out, or at least allow their ally's to escape. She pulls out a necklace with a golden Ā simple on it. She then yells:
Human 2: Take That You Devil!
And thrusts the necklace into my chest…
…
Nothing… what was she expecting to happen? I don't have much time to think. I slam my closed fist into her stomach and launch her into a tree. While I was distracted the other humans seem to have ran away.
This is a strange world. There is green everywhere and symbols I've never seen before. It then hits me. If there are humans here… then this must be…
THE CENTRE?!