Chapter 6: Love Is Still Alive
"Nash you're a moral, you'll get caught the minute you step foot in the Underworld." Don says seriously.
"I have to do something, I have to make this right. I can't just sit here and pretend this never happened." Nash says with a bit of guilt in his voice.
"You'll never come back live let alone bring Dumon back."
"I don't care if I die, I'll never be able to forgive myself knowing that I hurt him the way I did."
"I suggest talking this over with your own emperors before doing anything."
"Fine." Nash ends the call and calls his emperors to a meeting.
They all come to the meeting even Vector who normally just ignores what Nash has to say most of the time.
"Did you and Don Thousand ever find Dumon?" Merag asks with a bit of hope.
"No we haven't, but Don has a pretty good idea on where he might be." Nash replies.
"And that would be?" Durbe asks with slight worry.
"The Underworld, a place that Don Thousand himself won't even go."
"That's odd even for someone like him to say, even if he isn't our own." Vector comments.
"What could be so bad about the Underworld?" Gilag says not so impressed.
"Because no mortal has ever come back alive. He said I'll be caught the minute I step foot there."
"It's not worth risking your life over it if what he says is true." Mizael says crossing his arms.
"But Dumon may never come back and Nash will never be able to apologize." Merag says with worry.
"I'm with you all the way Nash, I know you can make this right." Alit says.
"Promise me that you'll come back." Merag says gently taking her brother's hand.
"I'll do my best to. Do any of you have any objections beside Mizael?"
The group is silent as their answer.
"I'll take that as a no then, Merag you're in charge while I'm gone."
She nods and Nash dismisses them back to their duties while he goes to call Don. Don sets a time and a place for Nash to meet him, he's there on time as instructed. Don makes a portal to the Underworld which he has to make out of his own blood.
"I wish you the best of luck Nash, stay safe." Don says but he doesn't believe Nash will come back.
"I'll do whatever it takes to bring him back." Nash says with determination and walks into the portal which closes behind him.
The Underworld looks awful, at least to a mortal's view point. It's hot, there's fire everywhere and there's no life to be seen anywhere. It's desolate and bear, crumbling away little by little. Nash looks around in what appears to be a dead forest, he feels his guilt even more so here then he did in the mortal world.
It feels like it's suffocating him, squeezing away all his will to make things right. As Don predicted Nash is picked up on the "demon radar." Some demon hunters for Lord Blood are out and about, they pick up on Nash's mortal presents pretty quickly and goes to scoop him up.
Nash ties to fight them off but he's no match for a demon's physically capability, he's dragged to Lord Blood's dungeon and thrown into a cell.
"He's a lively one, you don't see to many live mortals around here." A hunter says with a laugh.
"Yeah he'll put on quite a show for Lord Blood." The hunter's partner giggles.
The two of them leave and Nash is left alone for hours in his cell, all around him are the moans and cries of the other prisons. The two hunters eagerly tell their master about the lively moral they captured, which makes the lord pleased.
"What a rare find, a live mortal is much better entertainment then one that's already dead.~" Lord Blood says with excitement. "Guards get the colosseum ready for a bloodsport!" He yells out.
"Yes Lord Blood!" The guards call back.
The colosseum is prepared for a round of bloodsports with Nash as the main attraction. News spreads to a near by demon city and many flock to see a live mortal be tortured to death.
The bloodsport begins after the colosseum is setup and a crowd of demons take their seats. Prisons are dragged from their cells up to the roaring crowed and are slaughtered in the most gruesome and horrific ways possible. All the talk about a live moral sparks Dumon's curiosity and he goes to see who the moral is. His normal stone cold face turns to that of horror when he sees Nash.
"N-Nash..." Dumon stutters out, not wanting to believe who he sees in front of him.
Nash turns his head to the barred door to see Dumon and quickly runs to the door.
"Dumon we're all worried about you, why did you run away?" Nash asks as he puts a hand through the bars to touch Dumon's cheek.
Dumon steps back so Nash can't touch him.
"No... you can't be Nash." Dumon turns his head away from him. "Nash would never come for someone who can't do anything right."
Hearing this brakes Nash's heart and tears welled up in his eye threatening to fall. Dumon turns to leave Nash to his horrible fate.
"I'm so sorry Dumon, I should of never accused you of something so stupid. I never meant to hurt you the way I did, I'm so so sorry. I deserve whatever fate awaits me." Nash says as his tears that he could no longer hold back fall.
This makes Dumon stop dead in his tracks, he yearned to hear those words that Nash just spoke but would never think he would ever hear them.
"It seems fate has other plans for us..."
"And now for the moment you've all been waiting for, the live mortal!" Lord Blood shouts out to a roaring crowd.
"Quickly before you're dragged to the arena." Dumon says as he unlocks the cell Nash is in.
Nash quickly hugs Dumon tightly apologizing for hurting him, but Dumon doesn't hug him back. Instead he makes a portal back to the mortal world and pushes Nash through.
"Dumon!" Nash cries and tries to grab Dumon's hand but Dumon just watches him fall back into the portal.
Nash is particularly thrown back into his thrown room where Merag was meeting some guests. Embers comes out of hiding from within and is surprised by what Dumon did.
"I won't leave him to suffer..." Dumon says sadly and separates from Embers.
"Dumon what are you doing?! You're going to get yourself killed!" Embers yells at him.
Dumon doesn't listen to him and locks himself in Nash's cage of a cell. A guard comes to get Nash which makes Embers hide so he isn't seen, the guard finds Dumon instead of Nash but not knowing any better forces Dumon out of the cell and to the arena.
Once in the arena Dumon is brutally tortured in front of a roaring crowed of demons. The torture is slow and painful but Dumon feels like this is the price to pay for love, he's lucky that Lord Blood isn't instead in sexual or mental torture because if he were things would of been much more painful and worse. Embers is forced to watch as his human side cries out in pain from the physical hits of a whip and cuts from a knife, he turns his head away in shame for not being able to help or protect him in anyway.
Dumon falls to his knees barely able to breath and bleeding badly, it's a miracle that he's even still conscious.
"What should I do with this moral?" Lord Blood calls out to the crowd.
"Behead him!" One demon shouts
"No burn him alive and watch his skin boil!" Another demon yells with a laugh.
"Spill his guts all over the arena floor!" Goes another.
"Sell him and let us have some fun with him!" Says another demon with an evil smile.
The crowd shouts all kinds of gruesome ways for Dumon to die.
Lord Blood takes a moment to think of this. "The highest bidder gets the mortal and can do whatever they want with him!" He yells out.
The crowd roars with excitement the bid starts at 100 gold coins. The bids poor in each one higher then the last, Embers bids as well hoping to get his human side back alive.
"I bid 1000 gold coins!" A male demon shouts.
"I bid 2000!" Embers calls out.
"I can spare 2500, his soul looks good enough to eat!~" A female demon yells.
Now Embers doesn't have any money what so ever but he keeps bidding anyway. He'll steal the money if it means getting Dumon back.
"I can pay 3000 for him!" Embers shouts.
The arena goes silent for a moment to see if anyone would outbid Embers but no one speaks up.
"Sold for 3000 gold coins! You have one week to get me the money or the moral dies." Lord Blood says.
"I will get you the money as quickly as I can Lord Blood." Embers says with confidence.
Dumon is taken from the arena and thrown back into the cell he had locked himself in. Left to slowly bleed to death until Embers can come up with the 3000 gold coins he promised as payment.
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