A Task

The jaws gaped wide, fangs dripping ichor as the Felhunter hurtled through the air towards its prey. In mid-flight, the flat of a glowing runeblade met it and slapped it out of the air, throwing it to the ground like a broken toy. it lay still in the red dirt of hellfire, motionless and dead. A few feet away, an enraged wrathguard charged towards Celessiel, bellowing in demonic. She raised a hand, pointing with one finger at the creature. From her black laquered nail a bolt of death magic hurtled into the demon's chest, throwing it to the ground where it writhed from the power that had struck it.

"I will rend your soul from your body and torment you for an eternity!" it bellowed at her in demonic.

Celessiel smiled, looking over her shoulder at the pile of mangled demon bodies lying behind her. Her work here had been fruitful, and the dark power she had been cursed with was finally being used for good, just as she had hoped. She looked back at her latest foe as it struggled to rise from the ground, and reached down to her belt pouch, taking out a small goblin detonator that had been given to her. Holding her runeblade in one hand, she brought the detonator's activation pin up to her mouth, pulling it out with her teeth. She casually tossed it over her shoulder and into the demonic summoning portal that the creatures had been defending. The quiet <clink clink=""> of metal striking and then rolling across stone could be heard.</clink>

The demon's eyes widened, "W-what are you doing?! Your suffering will be unimaginable!"

A massive explosion boomed behind Celessiel, the hot wind of it whipping her cloak around her and making her white hair fall across her face briefly. Shards of razor sharp, molten metal flew past her, pattering across the dirt. She took a few steps forward, looking down on the struggling demon, the smile gone from her face. After a moment, her plate boot came down, snapping the horrible creature's neck.

"It already has been unimaginable you foul thing," she muttered at the slain foe. She turned and looked back at the smoking hole in the ground where the portal had been. "I will not stand idly by while your kind torment the innocent, not while I draw breath. I can at least make what happened to me mean something."

Celessiel turned and walked away, leaving the wreckage of battle behind her. Her duty in Hellfire would continue for a while longer yet, but for once in a very long time she felt some satisfaction inside. Perhaps she was proving to herself that the creature she had become did not wholey possess her.

Time would tell.