Promises kept

"You should have died! But you have surprised me and for that, I will kill you myself and hold to my promises." I once again stood at the doors of gold feeling the same as I did before, "I can't wait for you to try."

His words "I will kill you myself and hold my promises." there is something else being played here, a game perhaps, but I am not going to try and understand these games of theirs, what I do know is I can turn this game into my favour. I walk up to the door and force it open, "I am here, show yourself demon filth or is an Astartes, a space marine too much for you to handle." Silence, is this his response to his challenger, "What was your promise? to kill me? Many have, very few have had their head still attached after." Again I was met with silence, I found myself a distance away from the door, standing in complete darkness devoid of all light, save the entrance I came through, then I stopped, and a thought came to me that made me question his motivations "Are you trying to break my will and then convert me to your side? the last one who tried to convince me is very dead."

At last, the silence was finally broken, "Hahahaha you are indeed perceptive for a human, my patron said as much, he has taken an interest in you, for many can't kill a greater demon of the Chaos gods." He is indeed a Lord of Change, Iacobus shared with me their description a large bird-like head with beady eyes, sometimes growing multiple, two large wings, two large bird-like legs, wearing armour studded with gems that amplified his sorcery but the thing that stood out more than the rest was his staff bearing the mark of Tzeentch.

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The lord of change knocked his staff to the ground, summing a barrier covering a fifty-metre radius, "I don't begin to understand the motives of my lord but whatever you have I will take and become his favoured greater demon, rather than that two-headed idiot Kairos!" The ground gave way, changing from utter darkness to an arena. Oh, this feels weird to stand still yet my empty stomach would start to turn if I had anything to eat, bracing myself to my little piece of land mere seconds later the arena was formed.

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I need more information on what he promised, "Lord of change, what power do I have that you don't? Surely a mighty bringer of change like yourself has the knowledge and power to do anything he wishes." Let's see if this gets him talking. The demon stood there unchanged by my words "Human, space marine your words flatter me and I do indeed possess powers beyond your imagination, however, you are an anomaly that even clouds the future wherever you walk save the god of change himself and that is why he wants you. I for one have my ambitions, I plan to use you to fuel my powers and become a god." He likes to hear himself talk, but now I know a little more.

I think that's the most I am going to get out of him, "Okay demon now we know the stakes of this match, but let me ask you this what happens to a demon that doesn't know his place." I smirked under my helmet, knowing that would start to piss him off, "You dear to speck of my place!" he began to through a flurry of warp-powered orbs that would not be good for me to touch, I rolled out of the way, kneeling, now taking aim I returned fire unleashing fury from my bolter, however, my armaments not having the intended effect on him, seeing him charging up another round of warp magic, only having missed his beam of pure warp energy, the thought that made sigh is that has a barrier to block incoming attacks and I doubt I have anything that can destroy his barrier.

Fighting for almost half an hour, I know I can still hold out but this can't last forever, I searched my field of view until I spotted a crack forming in the barrier small enough to be unnoticed but potentially devastating. The demon approached "Have you come to realise the power gap, you are unworthy of facing me!" I stood up facing the great demon in defiance, "I know your weakness you... what are you a bird, a man?" The demon was visible fuming like a volcano, "You tiny, little shit, I will kill you, turn you into a pile of ashes and torment your soul till the end of time!" I put myself in front of the crack and started to shoot his staff, while he charged up, focusing his power into one point. He is almost ready to launch his beam attack. I need to make sure I am out of the way, I started to run forward and at the right moment, "Die you Insect!".

The air turned hot like an inferno, the sand on the ground started to turn to glass, and I felt the beam of energy singe the top of my crest, I dove forward at the last second hitting the deck. The lord of change heaved a heavy sigh, "You thought that using my power and your sour attempt to destroy my staff would defeat me?" I stood up brushing myself off from dust and glass shards, "No I didn't think I could defeat you, but I know someone else that can." The demon stared at me with puzzled eyes and then looked behind, "The barrier, NO!" The barrier began to fall apart turning back to nothingness. The demon continued to curse my name. I started to look towards the sky of the arena, storms approached leaving rage in its wake even worse than the storm that guarded the tower.

Chains sprung forth from the ground like vines crawling across my body, where the fuck are they coming from? I looked towards the demon to see if he was responsible but no he was in chains sitting on his knees, he looked like he was talking to someone, "My lord, My god please have mercy on your servant I miss understood your orders give me a second chance." he shouted his pleas towards the sky, only moments later his expression turned to horror and faced toward me in anger, "You filthy space marine, you don't even understand the power you hold given to you by yo..." as he was about to speck that last crucial sentence an axe appeared from thin air red like blood and fire so hot I could feel it as if I was the one holding it. "What the hell."