The second and third ring

Madd ran to the door with all of his might. All he wanted right now was to be in his mother's embrace and forget about the world and everything he just experienced. But unfortunately for Madd, Korn knew that Madd's inner demons would be extremely cruel and malicious. So he made sure to double check the sound proof barrier and seal the door. The only way that the door will open is if Madd reaches the third ring. But at least Korn made it so that he could leave before the first condensing stage because that will be the hardest for Madd and he will need to be prepared.

After banging on the door for about 10 minutes, Madd gave up knowing that his grandpa or mom did it. 'There has to be a reason why they won't let me leave yet. I guess they're telling me that I have to push myself. Since I know mom believes in me I will make sure not to disappoint her!' So with his morale raised once again he walked toward the center of the formation and sat down. But as soon as he sat down he started to loose his confidence again. 'But I don't want to go through that again. I don't want to be reminded of him, he's dead. Wait. He's dead. Why am I still scared of him? Ok Madd lets do this!'

It went back and forth like this in his mind for awhile until he finally reached the point of collecting the shadow power from the formation once again. This time it would take longer. After about half a day of absorbing the power around him, Madd could start to feel the ring solidifying under him.

'It's now or never, I just have to push through this.' After one last pep talk to himself Madd made the final push and once again entered a black world. Just like last time he couldn't see anything at first but then he heard a noise. It sounded like it came from behind a door so Madd leaned closer to where the sound was and he hit his head on something. It felt like a door so Madd went to slowly search for the door knob until he finally latched onto something. He twist it as slow as he possibly could and peeked out of the opened part of the door where light was visible, though it wasn't much light.

Madd looked around at what he could see and he saw a bed in the corner that looked like someone was in it looking at the door across the room from the bed. But they weren't looking at his door but another one that was on the right side of Madd's door. He then saw that person quickly got under the covers once it looked at the opened door. Madd then saw a hand come through the door and looked like it was checking for something.

'Wait.

That's....me?'

It took him a little bit to figure out but it was indeed him from the first encounter with the first inner demon. Madd started to shiver once again because he didn't know why he was here now and why his body was still on his bed. But he was distracted from his thoughts when he saw the hand go back from the door and the demon starting to crawl in the air in the most grotesque way possible by flinging it's arms and legs everywhere but also kind of looked like it was crawling. It's head kept spinning from left to right and every time its head spin for some reason it would do a whole turn and look everywhere around it. On closer look Madd noticed that it had about three layers of eyes that were visible on the revealed face flesh.

Madd wanted to start breathing quickly until he noticed that he lost control of his body and it seemed to move on its own. The only thing his body did though was watch. Madd once again saw everything again but from a different perspective.

'So the floor really did turn into all of the liquid and also the bed. I thought it was just an illusion but I guess I was wrong.'

He then noticed once again that thing start to crawl in the air to the corner to the left of we're Madd was watching from.

'Wait! I know where this is. It's my closet. But why am I in here and why and I watching?'

Before he could think about it any further Madd saw himself get out the bed and start approaching the closet door. And just like last time he got pounced on and attacked. That's when his body started to move. It slowly opened the closet door to make sure that no sound would be heard and walked over to the inner demon. For some reason Madd was a lot taller than he usually was and his head was about a foot away from the ceiling. He looked down and saw that he had long arms that almost touched the ground even though he was standing up.

'Where have I seen this?'

He then saw that one of the hands started to move upwards. And it quickly slashed at the inner demon that was just about to do something to Madd's asshole once again. But before Madd could see anything else he woke up in his body that was on the formation. Around him were two light grey rings both with red specks floating in them.

'Well that one was a lot easier than the first one. Maybe I'm getting better at this?'

So with his new found confidence he started to absorb more shadow power around him. This time it took a lot longer and only after three days was Madd able to almost completely fill up his third ring. He also noticed that each ring was bigger than the other. 'I guess it's time to once again go there. But I know this is my third ring and I still have one more stage. What is it going to be like when I am in the condensing stage?'

After thinking about that he deemed it irrelevant for now and refocused on absorbing more power. It didn't take long until he blacked out once again.

This time he was on the bed once more with pain all over his body and something holding him down and about to enter him. Instead of panicking he started to struggle with all of his might. The inner demon wasn't really expecting this because this boy was just so scared that he wouldn't move an inch even after being scratched up all over. So the inner demon was shoved off of Madd for just a second until it noticed something from the corner of its eyes. It found this strange because it practically had a 360 degree view of all around it other than one spot where all of its eyes are blind. That's why it would move its head around while crawling in the air. So the thing that is attacking it somehow found it's only blind spot and attacked it.

The inner demon reacted as fast as it could and managed to raise its arm to block it. It's arm had stopped what seemed like another arm but at the cost of almost having its arm completely severed. If the inner demon could sweat it would. Because it knows that it's arm is one of the toughest things on it body. So it dashed toward the door to leave as fast as it could.

When Madd looked over because he couldn't feel the demon on him anymore he noticed it dash toward the door in a very awkward way which was kind of funny to look at. He also noticed that it's arm was almost chopped off but was slowly putting itself back together. Madd then remember what happened in his second ring and he looked over.

He saw the same thing that was from his original closet. But instead of attacking Madd it just looked at him with its hollowed eyes, nose, and mouth. It's head almost touched the ceiling while it's arms touched the floor while one of them was dripping blood from the finger tips. Madd didn't know wether to panic or scream but for some reason he didn't do anything. He just continued to look at the thing until he saw it point at him. And then point at itself. And once again pointed at the door. Madd was wondering why this thing was doing that until he realized that it was what did that to his inner demon.

"You want to help me?"

Responding to Madd's question the thing just nodded and once again did the pointing thing.

"Ok. I know you are strong and I can't do much but if you want me to go with you it's not like I could say no anyway."

So Madd got up and stood next to the thing. He had to look up as high as he could to fully look at the things face. But Madd tried to forget about that as soon as he could and waited for the thing to move.

Once it saw that Madd stood next to it it assumed that he was ready and started to walk toward the door. Madd followed closely behind making sure that the thing would be the one confronting his inner demon.

*cccccrrrrreeeeeaaaaakkkkk*

The thing had to open the door as wide as it could so it could fit it's whole body through. Almost instantly it pounced toward a direction. Madd followed it with his eyes as best as he could and saw it attack his inner demon that was standing in the middle of the room with its now healed arm.

'How did it heal so fast!'