• Gabriel stood in front of the two toppled stone pillars the marked the entrance to the demons lair.He tightened his fist around the finely crafted gold and blue cross pendant his friends had given him for his fifthteenth birthday.remembering his friends brought him pain because he knew he wouldn't see them for another long while.remembering Shana's tear streaked face as he got on his horse and told her he wouldnt be gone very long made him feel a searing pain in his heart.He told her a lie he knew it,but he couldnt stand to see her if he had told how long he'd really be gone.All of this felt like it had happened ages ago but in reality it had been only about half a year.
    He was brought back to the present by a loud roar up ahead in the direction of the demons lair.He carefully started walking that way and soon found himself entering what looked like an abandoned sanctuary.Two waterfalls cascaded down the sides of the circular walls of the sanctuary forming two miniature ponds on either side of the room.In the middle of the room a rock jutted up from the ground and on it crouched the demon.It was truely the ugliest thing Gabriel had ever seen in his life,scaly,gray and blue tinged skin that looked and smelled rotten,cold gray eyes that saw nothing and everything at the same time,black bony wings that where at least twenty feet long,and very sharp claws.After a moment it looked over at him let out a massive roar and started to fly towards him.
    "Lets get this over with" he thought to himself grimly as he unlatched his bow and quiver from his back.In one smooth motion he brought up his bow,knocked the arrow,sighted his target,adjusted his height,and released his blessed arrow.It hit the demon in the neck,right where he had aimed it.The demon started back-peddling and flailing uselessly in midair,already disentegrating into ash the way all demons do when killed with a blessed weapon.He walked over to something he had seen laying on the ground when he entered.when he got there it turned out that it was a sword,and a nice one at that.
    the handle was gold and silver that spiraled upwards to the handguard which was that of a rapier,the blade was like a finely made longsword,going evenly until the end where it curved back a little,and the whole sword was almost as light as a dagger.
    Carrying his newfound treasure he started to make his way back to the entrance when his feet stopped and his body froze.Quickly he turned around and scanned the area...and to his relief saw nothing.He looked around again and saw nothing...but he had heard something.A sort of rustling and maybe some small rocks falling,thats when he looked up.On a rock cliff he hadn't seen when he entered he saw a demon like the one he had just slain,except this one looked stronger,bigger,and healthier then the one before.Its skin was black and red,its claws were long and sharp looking,its wings were much bigger than the other demon's,its eyes were pure black...and they where staring right at him.