1 Betrayal

The dark clouds cleared, making way for rays of sunlight to shine down on the ground. The ground stopped trembling as the dust started to settle.

In the middle of the battlefield, a devishly-handsome man with purple skin and horns atop his head was lying in a crater with a shining sword piercing through his chest.

There was a motley crew standing around the crater, humans and demons alike.

"Demon king Gabrial, How does the sword of light feel? It burns doesn't it?" A young man in his mid twenties, heavily clad in silver armour, said. He slowly walked up towards the Demon king.

The man's armour was damaged but it seemed it magically regenerate itself in the sunlight.

Ren was covered in blood and cuts, panting very hard and ultimately looked tired but in contrast his armour was radiating a strong silver light and his sharp eyes matched it.

"Hmm" Gabriel, the Demon king looked at the famed hero, up and down and then he looked at the people around him.

He opened his mouth and struggled to ask "Even my generals betrayed me! Are these people... your people or are they just your people?".

Ren arrived in front of the Demon king, he viciously pulled out the sword and prepared to swing again. He looked at the Demon king with hatred and asked, "Are these you final words?"

"You look at me with so much hatred in your eyes, I wonder what I did to make you hate me this much." Gabriel said as he closed his eyes, tears started to flow from his eyes. "Even my generals betrayed me, huh, how funny."

Seeing the tears in his enemies eyes, Ren stopped his attack for a sec.

"Master! Do not allow yourself to be swayed, this is what you've been working hard for! for this moment. Don't forget the suffering he's caused, see it through!" From the group of people, an honest looking middle aged man said as he walked into the crater.

"With his death, the pain and suffering will end, you need to be strong" The man, his first disciple, Judas, added as he arrived besides Ren.

Judas, just like most of the people there was clad in a unique set of armour.

Ren looked at Judas, then he threw his gaze towards the group of people surrounding him. They were all his family, friends, and allies.

"So it seems that they aren't your people, huh?" Gabriel said as he looked at Ren with pity in his eyes.

He dropped the black sword in his hand and awaited his death. As soon as the black sword hit the ground it released a lot of black smoke and it dimmed down and turned a soft and dark colour.

"After this, we can all have the lives we want" Judas added with an encouraging look.

Ren looked at the Demon king, closed his eyes and took a deep breath and swung his sword.

He served the Demon kings head. "Well meet again real soon, hero!" Gabriel left these last words as his head rolled on the ground.

"*sigh* it's finally done!" With a smile, Ren said as he looked at a woman among the crowd.

Strangely enough the woman had an ugly expression on her face and even the others didn't have on their happy outfits.

This confused Ren, afterall this was their goal, this is what they worked hard for and it was completed.

They had freed most captured cities and killed hoards of demons and fiends to get here, surely they could at least show a bit of joy.

Just as Ren open his mouth to ask what the matter was.

His shimmering armour dimmed for a second and the sword of darkness, pierced through his armour and into his heart before finally out the other end, in the back and out the front.

Black smoke emanated from the sword and entered Ren's body. Ren's body quickly grew weaker with each passing second, his power got drained and he started having negative thoughts.

"What the...?" Ren opened his eyes in shock.

Getting cut by the sword of darkness was a bad thing as even the smallest of cuts could remained unhealed for years and took a lot of effort to heal. Not only that it had a unique poison. Getting pierced through the heart with it was tentamount to a death sentence.

He quickly tried to grab the sword but it was abruptly pulled out. Ren looked back in shock, "Judas! Why?"

"How naive can you be, you had it coming for a long time. Always aware of the enemy even the one behind you, yet you don't realized the one standing in front of you. "Judas pointed the sword at Ren.

He added "But blinded by your ego and modesty. With your death the war will continue."

"What? The demon king is dead, there's no need for a meaningless war!" Ren grinded his teeth in anger as he fell down.

To say he was angry would be an understatement, he was livid but sadly there wasn't anything he could do about it.

"People treat you as some Devine symbol of peace and justice but your no God, your not even worthy of being a Hero. How can you give hope to others when you can't even save yourself."

"So who are you to say this war is meaningless. This meaningless war is what keeps us alive but I don't expect you to understand the true reality of our world." Judas monologued.

"Judas don't waste any more time just finish it!" from the crowd of people, a tall man wearing pretentious and religious clothes, shouted.

"Yeah, the sooner we're done, the sooner we can break these sad news to the public, I'm sure they'll be happy to hear it.!" A joyous voice sounded from the crowd.

"Judas! After everything I've done for you! Is this the thanks I get? and you lot, is this how you repay my KINDSNESS!?" Ren Raged out, he clutched his fists so hard that blood began to flow from it.

"Screw your kindness!"

"Finish him!"

The crowd began to shout angrily. Some even cussed out.

Judas got closer and picked up the sword of light and gently pushed it into Ren's neck, " The great hero Ren, the god slayer, beloved by his people, killed by his own sword, maybe your not so great afterall."

Judas then stuck the sword of darkness in Ren's chest.

Both swords simmered with a dark and white light respectfully.

"Why! why! Answer me, Damn it! WHY!" Ren's body was growing weaker and weaker but that didn't stop him from slowly getting up and pulling the swords out of his chest and neck before equipping them.

Blood gushed out of the wounds like a fountain but Ren didn't care.

He ran towards Judas who had walked away but he stumbled and fell to the ground and remained motionless.

"He couldn't even die with his dignity, how can the people have seen him as the hero"

"I may not be as strong but I at least have my dignity."

From the crowd, ridicules started being thrown everywhere and they started to have a conversation.

"Someone contact the temples and tell them to tell "them" that we did it. The hero is no more. We'll tell the people that he died fighting the Demon king and that they both killed each other." Judas's commanding voices sounded.

Just then a bright blinding light appeared in sky and surprised everyone.

.....

Ren tried to attack Judas but his body gave out. He lied there listening to their conversation for a while, he heard more of their conversation and was angered even more.

His vision went dark and strangely enough, the image and face of the Demon king before his death played in Ren's head.

"So it seems that they aren't your people, huh?" Ren was startled when he thought back to this.

'Is this my life flashing before my eyes? No! I'm not willing to die like this! I want vengeance. I want to kill them all, Every last one of them' Ren ranted in his head.

Ren's consciousness drifted alone in the darkness, his state started deteriorating.

"I gave everything for the cause, I gave it my all, time and money, Why did things end up like this. I gave up on everything else, myself and love, everything. So Why, why did they betray me?" he cried out in his head.

Gradually his emotionless state started to disappeared and was replaced by a burning fire.

"Quite the sight we have here. Tell me kid, how badly do you want your revenge?" Suddenly a charming woman's voice sounded.

"I'll do anything for it!"

"Even if it means selling your soul to the devil?" the voice asked.

"Yes, if it means they'd get the deaths they deserve!."

"Even if it means your not gonna have an after life?"

"If it has to be done!"

"Even if it means you'll be tormented for the rest of your life?"

"Whatever it takes!"

"Good boy. I'll help you but what if you come to regret your decision in the end." Suddenly a sudductive woman's figure appeared out of nowhere and hugged Ren's head.

"I won't regret it." Ren's said with determination in his voice.

"Wait who are you and why are you helping me." Ren asked as he couldn't see the woman's face.

"I'm helping you because I know how you feel. To be used and casted away like trash afterwards. I know the pain of betrayal like no one else and because I like a good revenge story, don't you?"

"As for who I am, I go by many names, Dysnomia, Daeva, the destroyer, the devil but you can call me." The woman intentionally paused to add some tension.

"Satan"