And Glows Some More

The light keeps growing more and more until it becomes to bright to look at. Once the light fades Dick has vanished. Dick opens his eyes and finds himself floating in darkness. He looks around and doesn't see anything. Suddenly he hears a loud, booming roar. He looks to it and sees a giant man made of shadows. His body is literally a shadow. It's constantly moving and pitch black. It has horns, claws, and its feet are clawed like talons.

"So, your the one huh. I expected more." It says bored and unimpressed.

"Who are you! What am I doing here!?" Dick shouts cause the shadow to laugh.

"You are here to become more. Now silence, and brace yourself." The shadow says. Dick tries to respond but his body won't make any noise. The next moment an indescribable amount of pain courses through his body. He tries to cry out but no sound escapes his lips. This continues for what felt like hours to Dick but was really a few minutes. When the pain disappears Dick finds himself back on the table he groans and hears a chorus of laughter. Looking around he sees five of the seven horned people around him laughing.

"Good, I knew it'd work." Says the short red guy. Dick slowly gets on his knees and looks around.

"Wha-what happened? What was that monster!?" Dick try's to shout but barley raises his voice. A tall muscular blue horned and skin colored man answers.

"That was our god, Kurdes and you'll address him with proper respect!" He shouts.

"God!? You people are insane!" Dick replies weakly and failing to stand.

"Oh, well you should look into the mirror." The pink one taunts raising her hand and casting a spell. A small screen of light appears in front of Dick, with a bright pink border. He sees himself with two orange horns and matching orange skin. Dick shouts in shock and crawls backwards staring at the image mimicking him. He falls off the table and hears laughter. The blue one gets up from the chair Dick landed next to and picks him up.

"Congratulations Dick Ridgeway! You've abandoned your weak humanity and became a Devil!" He says holding Dick off the ground.

"Now Dick." The short red one starts. "Take a seat, let us introduce ourselves. And don't worry, everything I told you earlier is true. If you help us you'll have Myla to yourself and can even kill Eric once we're done with him." The blue Devil sets Dick down on a chair that came out of the ground from a bright light. The blue Devil then sits back down and starts the introductions.

"I am the Devil of Strength." He slams the stone table and it breaks, before being repaired by light traveling along the cracks and lifting the broken chunks off the ground.

"I'm the Devil of Seduction." The pink one says seductively.

"I'm the Devil of Fear." The black one states, disappointed.

"I'm the Devil of Temptation." Says the short red one smiling and nodding to the golden one.

"I'm the Golden Devil, if you try to run I'll be the one killing you." He says smiling sadistically and raising his dripping golden claws.

"I'm the Glass Devil." Says a scrawny looking woman with blond colored skin and horns.

"Guess I'm last, I'm the Spatial Devil." A grey horned and skin colored man says, bored.

"Now." The red, Devil of Temptation starts. "Rest up, when you wake we'll be starting your training." Dick tries to respond but the blue one hits him on the top of his head, knocking him out.

"Well, he's not bad, not good but could be worse." Says the Glass Devil.

"Yeah, but are you sure we shouldn't just go get him now, two or three of us would be more than enough." The Devil of Strength says.

"No, we're using him as a test remember. We need the kid to be at least as strong as me or else he won't have enough power to break the seal. And besides, you know that the Starry Night guild has been keeping an eye on him. In fact, Larion is probably there already." The Devil of Temptation says, causing the Devil of Strength to slam the table, much much harder this time, causing the entire room to shake.

"Calm down, I know how you feel." Says the Glass Devil. "I want Larion killed so we can free Zeferon just as much as you do. But we need to wait, if we rush in now we'll lose this chance."

"Glassy is right." The Golden Devil chimes in. "The kid is smart. I have no doubt that he knows were coming for him. I don't know if he knows why but we have to be careful. If we rush in then they'll just hide him. Remember the Starry Night is world wide, if they take him away it could be years before we get another chance and by then he'll be much stronger than he is now."

"That's some high praise your giving him." The Spatial Devil says. "You sure he's worth it?" The Golden Devil nods and the table is silent.

"I never thought I'd see the day when Goldie here took caution." The Devil of Seduction says before giggling.

"He is right though, we need to wait and bide our time. But let's not waste it. Strength, you Gold and Temptation will stay here. You'll train the newbie and when he's ready you'll take him to fight Eric one on one. If Eric loses take a hostage with you. We'll need an incentive to make him grow stronger. If he wins, well capture him at all costs. Even if you need to call us back. The rest of us will go and distract the Starry Night. We'll split up and take out their outposts. Oh and make sure to collect the materials our partner needs. And remember, be nice to the Katorg weaklings, he still needs their product. Understood." The Devil of Fear says. The others nod and all except Dick, Strength, Temptation and the Golden Devil disappear in an instant. The three stand and walk out of the room, with Strength carrying Dick, into the castle they built to give to their God upon his release.