Sold to hell
Rosa remembers a time of rooms and play, Her and her sister in the house of her farther, there Nana would look after her and tell them story’s of the world outside. Rosa knew she and her Lilly could not go out, it was a bad thing and if ever there father found them close to a door or shaded window, he got very angry.
"You must never go out, the world out there is changing, a new force is rising and the hate beings like you and I, so we hide for now."
There father was strict and they did as he commanded. All the servants where magic but for Nana, her Horns had red gold tips and she told the best story's. Of Devils and demons, angels an saints.
In there great court yard of the Keep, life was sunbeams for shuttered trees, play and sleep. The magic servants had a party for them, and Nana gave them both a new dress. Rosa had just put it on when her Farther came. He told Nana it was time and they where to come with him to his workshop. Nana was a little upset, but lead Lilly and Rosa behind their father. The workshop room was deep below ground, it was big and Rosa looked at all the books and bottles. A strange Patten had been made in the middle of the work area floor. Something was there, a monster, Rosa was not scared but Rosa was not. Monsters before.
Her Father looked at the Monster, and taking Lilly lead her to it, she was crying.
"Take this one, and the bargain is made, We survive this night, all I ask she that she must not die in the hells."
The Devil looked at Lilly and then shook its head, it pointed at Rosa
"No! that one and the deal is done, the energy of our master come this night, none left in this house hold will live."
It held out a scroll,
"This is the spell you wish, now take it and I will take her, to serve my lord, and she will live."
Her father came to Rose, he picked her up and carried her to the monster, Lilly pulled at her legs begging that Rosa stay. Rosa was in shock. He father said,
"To save us all Rosa, I have sold you to may lord, his to do as he feels it, its this or death for us all tonight."
He placed her in the patten close to the Monster and took the scroll, he then pulled Lilly away.
“You come with me now”
Rosa looked at her Farther who just nodded, She new her duty, Rosa held her hand out, the Monster teeth beard in a grin, She did not complain or cry, she had been trained never to do such. She did as told. Lilly called out crying.
“The deal is done, you have want you wanted “
There was a flash of red and Rosa was in a hot place, all around Monsters walked and worked, One came over grabbed her and with out a word placed a metal collar around her neck.
“You is slave now, you work here, carry and fetch from kitchen do fast or pain”
He placed a drinking jug in her hands and shoved her and then her mind fogged over.
The war tent
Time passed, she worked with others like her, sold slaves. The great tent made of skin and bone. All she did was work, eat, sleep. If she was slow they crushed under foot, only to awake the next day in the blood pits, Her body whole once more, dragged out and sent back to work carrying food and drink to the Monsters.
The tent moved as its owner the lord of hell willed and she with it, she never once looked outside the tent, she knew only work, pain and sleep.
Then came the time of a fight, another slave, a new one was being slow, he would not move quickly or let her past from the kitchens, so with one swing she smashed he head in and walked over his body to the tables. The Monsters seem to think this was funny, one of them picked Rosa up in its clawed hand,
“Fine one this, she has fire in her, you wast such fire on a slave, place her in the army, she will do well or suffer.”
With that he broke her neck. When she came to she was in a blood pit she had never seen before, it was a cell and standing over it was a Devil Monster holding large knifes. There was others around her,
“worms you are mine, so heed me well, lean to fight and die well and I may let you live again, you will fight and you will die, each time as our lord wills and you will do so no matter what”
with that he throw the Knifes into the pit, there was 12 of them and only three knives.
"Last one standing gets out".
Rosa did not win that day or the next or next, but she learned, soon she did and in doing so joined the ranks of hells army. There she became fodder to fight and die in Hells endless wars. All manner of weapons and armour where given to her, Devils trained her in cut and thrust, throw and smash. She was a fast but her body was weak, The blood pits can do that, make you fast of mind bit weak of body. She used her mind, she learned to force is past the norm, making her will and focus do as she wanted.
The sword
Time passed, then came to time of the sword.
She and others had been sent to frontally attack a rebel Devil, who had called on Demon help.
“You will charge this filth all of you and keep it distracted while and agent of our master deals with it, A Hound of Hell kills it. Most if not all of you will be sent back to the blood pits and death, this is what you are meant to do, and what you are ordered to do, you have Armour, you have weapons, use then on his hoard kill them and make a way for the hound. Now go and die has our lord wills”
They ran over the fire covered hill and down to the waiting Devils/demons, and they died, Its Minions fell but its its grate hammer smashing them while it tail flicked from side to side. Rosa was hit and thrown next to a large rock, her body broken, there she waited for death.
But as she lay dying she had time to see a shape move up behind the Devil. This traitor to the hells was now eating some of her fellow dead unaware of the thing behind. The Shape held in its hands a large black and red sword, closer and closer it moved to smite the Traitor Devil, but somehow it gave its place away, the devil move so fast, it span around and cast a chaotic gaze on the Devil with the sword.
“Do you think you could get me like that hell hound, I could smell your reek of law a mile off!”
One with the sword stopped dead.
Why is he not moving? why do's the one with the sword not strike the corrupted Devil?"
Rose thought, and then she could see, he had become stone.
“Silly little hell hound”
The now demonic devil said,
“He should know better than to send the likes of you, such and INSULT!!!,”
It screamed the last part
“if he wants ME! He can come himself”
with one move of its tail it smashed Stone form of the hell hound, for it had been made into rock.
Rosa closed her eyes as the rubble and stone of the thing fell around her, she could hear the Devil had gone back to its meal. When she opened her eyes again, the pain was grater, but she could also see that the hounds sword had fallen by her side. It was not rock, She looked at it, it was a work of art, the runes on it seemed to flow and shift, so pretty, slowly she moved her hand to touch them, then a voice in her head.
“Arr, a gifted one, so you know that child, there is a spark in you my last owner did not have. Now who do we have here, weak and small but there is room for improvement, you are one with a soul, but life yet, you must do, now lets crack that mind open and get to work, our master will not be happy if I fail”
Then there was great pain in her mind, as the sword poured into it new Knowledge. Knowledge that ripped her mind apart and remade it, Knowledge that found magic in both faith and herself. She could pull power from her own mind and from her master realm. She grow in power and awareness.
They found her 2 days later, Still holding the Sword in the Back of the Dead Devil. They went to throw her back into the blood pits but the sword spoke.
"This one is mine now, She has gifts few have, Make her whole once more and send her for Cleric Training, she is to be sent back with me, our master has given us a new task"
This is how Rosa's life as a Cleric and mind mage of Hell, and they sent her back to the prime.
