The Demon Tamer

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  «Come to us! Come to us! We will be at your service!» they said in chorus.

  Those young sailors, bewitched by so much beauty, began to quarrel about which woman they should have chosen and then fell into the sea because of the argument.

  The demonic mermaids, with their black eyes, showed their ugly features. They had long hair that was the same as that of a crude old woman, pointed noses, shark teeth, wrinkled nudity and a worn-out fin. They grabbed the two rowers and drowned them in the water to then make a banquet with their teeth, sharper than those of a shark. The ship was five meters high, the thuds in the water were clear, but the heroes, because of ear plugs, heard nothing. Not even the others heard nothing, because everyone were drunk. The Captain heard something, but then fell asleep again to the instant. Those evil creatures then went to the other rowers, who slept at their posts near the oars, placed on the first order. A dozen of those creatures came to the level of the quadrangular windows, where the men slept on wooden benches. They began to sing and woke them up.

  «Where does this tune come from?» a rower said. He looked over one of those openings and saw those women. He immediately woke up his friends who, attracted by that melody, were bewitched.

  «Come here, we will give you everything you want! Come closer!» the Demons said to the unison.

  The men were attracted to those creatures and leaned over the windows, they were willing to do anything to get a single kiss, but what they got was not the sweet kiss of a woman, but the kiss of death.

  Those creatures quickly changed appearance and with their jaws damaged that part of the boat, biting men and devouring their faces and their heads. The Demon Mermaid silently killed many sailors, then disappeared into the depths of the sea and pushed the ship to unknown waters.

  Demonic classification

  Low Rank

  1. White Demon: Demon whose soul does not has been totally corrupted.

  2. Demon born of animal beast: Shark with three eyes.

  3. Humanoid demon born of a beast: Rakshasa.

  4. Demon born of man or another creature: Nimue.

  High Rank (Able to possess living beings and create Demons)

  5. Pure Demon: Mephistofeles.

  6. Demon born of an angel, the Tenshirok.

  7. Nephilim, the hybrid sons of Satan.

  8. The Seven Infernal Princes and the Seven Chief Demons.

  9. Satan.

  The Demonic Power is classified according to the color of the eyes: red (1), black (2), yellow (3), green (4), gray (5), purple (6).

  At the apex of power, in some Demons, becomes visible the pupil whose color is index of Demoniac Force: red (1), cobalt (2), indigo (3).

  08

  The Mediterranean Sea Pitfalls - The Necromancer

  It was the dawn, the Captain finally woke up. The man immediately understood that his ship had come to a close. He left his room and to his surprise found no one on the deck.

  «Rowers! Where are you? Get out!» Maximus said, but no one answered him. He went to the rowing area and saw the horrors of the previous night. He screamed so loudly that he awoke Diosmed and the others.

  «What happen? Who’s screaming so loud?» Diosmed asked, half asleep.

  The four ran out of their room and went in the direction from which those screams came. They saw the Captain crying for the loss of his men.

  «Curse! We have been attacked! All my men have been killed, but they will have neither me nor my ship!» he shouted loudly.

  At that moment there was a loud noise. Large holes opened in the hull and the water invaded the ship.

  «Soon, let’s run away! The ship is about to sink!» Diosmed said.

  «Captain, come with us! We must take the raft and run away!» Damian said.

  «Take it and go away. I will never abandon my ship!» Maximus replied.

  The captain ran to the wounded in the hospital wing with Tanya and Emmanuel, while Damian and Diosmed went in search of the boat which was inside of the cargo hold.

  «Here it is! It is under this veil!» Diosmed exclaimed.

  «It can not be! There is only one! We will not be able to escape all together!» Damian noted.

  The two boys took the boat, a small boat for four people, two meters long. They quickly transported her to the bridge, passing through the trapdoor that led to the hold.

  «When did we arrive in this group of islands?» Diosmed asked in wonder.

  «I don’t know, I don’t like this place, but now we have to escape!» Damian replied.

  They had arrived near a group of small islands, all close together, with rich vegetation, but they seemed to hide something dark.

  The mast fell and broke the deck. The Trireme was about to sink. The wounded were in serious condition, they could no longer move on their own.

  «Crew! Soon on the deck!» Maximus said as he walked in the water, high up to his ankles, towards the infirmary.

  «Captain, the man who lost his leg is dead! The two wounded are unable to move. Carneade is still in a deep sleep!» Adrianus answered.

  «Carneade? Who is he? You were four injured until yesterday, where did he come from?» Maximus asked.

  «Is this man with a short beard. He has a very high fever!» Adrianus answered.

  «Let’s get them on the bridge, soon!» the Captain ordered.

  Adrianus, Tanya and the Captain took the three wounded and with all their strength helped them walk to the bridge.

  «We have only one boat! With only four seats! How are we going to escape?» Diosmed asked.

  «Take it and run away, young heroes! I owe you my life! I could not complete the task entrusted to me by the Emperor, but I will save you! Take that boat and go to those nearby islands» Maximus proudly said.

  «Damian come on!» Diosmed shouted, then threw the boat into the sea and reluctantly forced his friend to jump into the water.

  «We can’t leave them! Captain come with us!» Damian shouted.

  Diosmed used all the strength he had and pushed his friend from the ship. Tanya threw herself into the water with Emmanuel.

  «Thank you for what you did for us. We will never forget it!» Diosmed said and then jumped into the sea.

  While his friends had already boarded the boat, Diosmed was still at sea and in those dark waters he felt a strange presence behind him, so he began to swim quickly. He reached the boat and Damian and Emmanuel held out his hand, but out of the water came out one of those strange creatures with long green hair, sharp teeth and black eyes. She was awful, screaming and trying to carry Diosmed underwater.

  «Help me! Soon!» Diosmed shouted and Damian instantly grabbed the Dragon’s Claw and pierced the demon in the head, who screamed in pain and then disappeared forever. The boys hoisted their friend on the raft and together they began to row as fast as possible.

  «What was that thing? Let us go on that island and after landing, I will return to save others on board» said Diosmed panting.

  «It was a mermaid that was turned into a demon. A Demonic Mermaid, a demon of grade 4 born of a creature with a power of 2 because she had black eyes. The Demon Mermaids enchant sailors with their songs, so much so that in their eyes they appear as charming girls. They force them to drift into the water, drown them and feed on their flesh. We are in a very dark place» Tanya said.

  The four were near one of those islands, but not too far from the ship. The islets were separated by small inlets. When they disembarked, many Demon Mermaids flung themselves on the roman ship and began to destroy it from the stern. There were about twenty of them and some of them even boarded the ship.

  «We must go back! We must save them!» Diosmed said.

  The Captain and Adrianus were at the bow, they saw the boat of heroes far away and they were happy.

  «Captain run away! We will come to save you! If you do not, you will die!» Damian shouted in a voice so powerful that the Captain could hear him and turned to him.

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p; «Yes, now I write it in my logbook!», Maximus Troix said with a smile, «We will kill all the mermaids! I am the Captain, I cannot abandon my ship! I will sink with it!» and then the man threw himself into the fray.

  The ship began to sink from the stern and in no time at all.

  «Captaaain!» Damian shouted as he turned to his friends and noticed that they had fainted on the ground. When he tried to figure out what was happening, a strange creature hit him in the head and he also fainted on the ground.

  A few hours later.

  «Where I am?» Damian said, trying to focus. His vision was not yet completely clear.

  «You are in the most beautiful place on Earth» the voice of a strange woman said in the Language of the Demons.

  Damian regained consciousness and realized he was on an island in the center of as many small islands separated by the sea. He was lying next to that woman on a white bed with cushions. After a while, he realized that Diosmed, Tanya and Emmanuel were interior of the three cages, from the cylindrical shape, hung on the palms.

  «Let free my friends!» Damian said, trying in vain to get up from that bed, «What are these black chains? I can’t break them, I can’t move!»

  He had tied his hands and feet with black chains made of an unknown material.

  «It’s all useless, they are haunted chains. Only I can remove them».

  She was a woman dressed all in black, with a long dress and a cloak. She had a superfine beauty, but she was wicked. This was perceived only by looking at her in those green eyes that hid a strange mystery. She had fair skin, a nose at the upward, lips very colorful and two thin eyebrows temples whose ends are curved towards the inside.

  «Who are you? Where we are? And what are these strange creatures that shake those palm leaves?»

  «She is a witch! Soon, run away Damian!» Diosmed shouted.

  Damian realized that he was not in good condition.

  «Be silent, vile human! I am more powerful than a witch. I am a “Necromancer”!» the woman replied using that perfidious language and only Damian understood her words.

  «Bad witch, release us now!» Diosmed shouted as one of those creatures, working for the woman, hit Diosmed’s cage and swung it.

  «What is this creature?» Emmanuel asked.

  «It is a Harpy, a grade 3 humanoid demon born of a beast. She has black eyes, so she has a power of 2» Tanya replied.

  « Oh, but you always know everything, don’t you?» Diosmed said slightly annoyed.

  «Silence! Here I am what command! These are “the islands of dispersion” and all the Demons present here obey me. Together they form a single island and are all controlled by me. In each one of them my demonic power flows and all the creatures that live there are in my possession! the Necromancer said, who could understand them.

  «Did you send those Demon Mermaids? Damn!» Damian said.

  «Calm down, Son of the Dragon, don’t strain yourself. You will stay with me forever! You will live with me, you will be my companion and you will serve me for life!» she said as she stroked his face and soon kissed him. Black blood came out of the woman’s mouth and entered Damian. The young man fell under his control.

  «Yes, my mistress. I am at your orders» he replied hypnotized. His eyes had become light gray.

  «What did you do to him? Stop monster!» Diosmed shouted.

  «How dare you speak to me?» the woman said and with her power set fire to the cage in which Diosmed was confined. Black flames wrapped around him and the young man started screaming in pain.

  «Stop! I’ll do anything! Take me and release him!» Tanya shouted.

  At the sight of this sorcery, Damian’s heart throbbed, he returned to himself and with enormous force he destroyed those black chains, then with a fist he struck the necromancer and threw himself into those flames to save his friend. The Dragon Power, immune to fire, protected him and ran away from the fire with the friend resting on his right shoulder. He laid him down on the ground and tried to revive him. He gave him a cardiac massage and soon his heart throbbed again, but Diosmed did not open his eyes.

  «He don’t breathe! You must give him mouth-to-mouth breathing!» Tanya said.

  «But how?» Damian asked.

  «You have to open his mouth and blow him in!» Tanya shouted.

  «I don’t know how, I can’t!» Damian answered.

  «You must do it! Or he will die! This damn cage will not let me use my powers. You’re the only one who can save him now!» Tanya replied.

  Damian opened the mouth of the friend and was ready to make due, when suddenly Diosmed recovered. «What the hell are you doing?»

  «You’ve finally woken up!» Damian replied.

  He helped his friend to get up and together they tried to destroy the cages that held prisoners Tanya and Emmanuel. The Necromancer regained consciousness, black blood dripped from her mouth.

  «Harpies! Take them!» the necromancer screamed and dozens of demons came running. They were demons with half-bird bodies and half women, with powerful wings and bird-like legs, a woman’s bust and face, and finally had two black eyes. They easily blocked the two heroes, who had been deprived of their weapons. The Necromancer took the Dragon’s Claw and dipped it with its black blood.

  «My dagger! Thief gave it back to me!» Damian shouted.

  «Of course you’ll get it back!» the woman said.

  In an instant she beamed close to Damian and thrust the dagger into his left chest.

  «Stop!» Diosmed screamed incredulously.

  He tried to reach his friend, but the Harpies did not let him.

  «Thanks to the black blood that will enter your heart, you will be mine forever!» the Necromancer said.

  Black blood penetrated Damian’s chest and the young man fell back under the control of that evil woman. The dark Necromancer, wrapped her in that black dress, puts her right hand on the waters that bathed the island. A small circular wave spread over the water and quickly became enormous. From the sea a rectangular chariot appeared with a spiral-shaped shell that formed the roof. It was all white and was drawn by two black horses, with a mane and a white tail, a silver horn on his forehead and red eyes. Instead of the hooves, they had fins for swimming and gills on the sides of the neck to breathe underwater.

  «Damn! How dare you do this to us! You will pay for it!» Tanya roared.

  The great rage that ignited in Tanya allowed her to cast a powerful fire spell that liquefied her cage in an instant. She also freed Emmanuel, who continued to hold his golden cross in his hands. The two were quickly surrounded by the Harpies. Damian got into the wagon and the Harpies locked him in a strange silver cubic cage, which was inside the shell.

  «You know nothing of this boy, the blood of the Dark Lord flows within him. When in the beginning Helel fell from the sky and hit the legendary place Yilawid, the Gate of Hell was born and thanks to it we Demons reach all the Worlds. Then the gods created that dull village, which was destroyed by the very Son of Dragon! And in that mystical place life died and death began, for now the Tree of Life has become a Tree of Death! One of the Seven Head Demon now stands guard over the gate. Even if you defeated my Kraken, you will never defeat us! Forget about him, he belongs to us!» the Necromancer said in a human language and this time they understood her.

  The woman began to drive the wagon and became its coachman.

  «Now we will go into the depths, into my submarine cave. I am Azef, the queen of the Marine World and you will be my husband forever!»

  The cart rushed into the water and disappeared.

  «Damian, nooo! Damn! I must find my sword!» Diosmed said angrily.

  «I will help you, I will keep these beasts at bay for a moment. You take the opportunity to reach your sword, which is at the foot of that bed» Tanya said.

  «I will help you too!» Emmanuel shouted.

  His golden cross lit up with a white light. It began to grow and became as big as its palm and
from the long side of the Latin cross came a white blade, very thin and light. It was forty-three centimeters long and ended in a pointed shape, while the golden hilt was seven centimeters long. The letters “VRS” were written in silver on the groove. He started fighting the Harpies using all his energy and Tanya also started to fight back. The girl punched her fist, then put her thumbs in contact and uttered magic words:

  «Miphàttel kléssh zhascleggàh, clupal ha tél!»

  «Flames of salvation, come to me!»

  Remarkably high red flames appeared that burned the ground and wounded the harpies that were in their path. The flames designated a path, Diosmed managed to free himself and following that road he reached Dragalòs and used it to fight against those dozens of harpies.

  «They never end, they continue to attack us!» the Demon Slayer said.

  He defeated one of those creatures with the Dragalòs, cutting off her head, and realized that as soon as one of them died, another appeared from some Hell Gate.

  «It is the Necromancer who invokes them, we must defeat her and save Damian!» Tanya said.

  «They appear more and more!» Emmanuel shouted, who with his sword could quickly defeat the harpies. He used all his strength and finally showed his courage. His White Sword had great powers. When he wounded a harpy, a purifying white light emerged from the wound that caused the demon to explode.

  «Only Damian can do it! I’m sure, his dagger won’t kill him! You will have to make it my friend, wherever you are now! And don’t you dare to die!» Diosmed shouted with the hope that his friend could hear him from the depths of the sea.