We find ourselves in Dis, the second circle of Hell, ruled by Dispater.Specifically in the city of Dis or city of Pain, A city built completely by Black iron all around that is burning hot, at the center of the city stands the Iron Tower, Dispaters home and statement of his Iron Rule of the Realm. Hopeless husks of people walk about the city going for work doing illogical changes to the city at Dispaters behest. Breaking down buildings to make a new road that most likely In some time will be covered again, behind them others scream in pain having to handle the scorching hot black iron plates to pave the new path.
The Iron Tower in the center of the city, a searing mountain of gray iron that constantly shifts from one massive shape to another. The tower's ringed by a 30-foot-high rock wall that seems a good deal more solid. Painted — in blood, apparently - with scenes of baatezu victories over the tanar'ri, the sides of the wall slope slightly outward, making the top wider than the bottom. Along the top of the wall squat stone gargoyles, spread out every eight or ten feet, all around the tower.
Inside the tower in a room of exquisite but very hostile architecture, black iron pointing at many directions on the corners of, the ground made out of this perfectly polished black marble that it itself emanates a warmth to it not enough to harm. The room appears to be a statue room of some kind. 8 Statues of people being killed or tortured in gruesome ways a very gore filled display, the statues themselves made out of Black Obsidian. Maleus now about early 40s, wearing a sleeveless black tank top with golden lines running across it with black sweatpants with the same almost Elvish like designs made by gold, his fists wrapped in black cloth tightly that seems to be a bit damp, signs of a recent fight. He turn his head on the side as he is thinking about the statue in front of him, a man impaled from head to his bottom by a spear as he looks puzzled by it.
Behind him sounds of frustrations as we turn to see Carl a mid-50s Man now, wearing his very expensive black golden robes with very beautiful intricate elven designs as he looks to his notes reading something very fast on it saying “No, nothing to do with this” flipping more pages. Diana a 50 year old woman now with one arm on the hilt of her sword her other arm inside covered by her Blue Robe that has a depiction of a green rose on them as she looks around the room, actively looking for a way out of the room turning to Carl as she says: “Carl, lets just go back and I will beat the demon into telling us how to enter deeper into the tower”.
Carl stops reading his notes as he looks at Diana with a face of semi disappointment but nothing out of the ordinary for Diana as she says to him: “What..?”, “Ah yes Beat it out of a Demon, what a Diana original Idea” as he shakes his head and turns back to his notes flipping through pages as Diana continues: “Hey f*ck you, it’s definitely faster than waiting for you to look through your sh*t which clearly isn’t working”, Carl sighs as he looks at Diana again: “Demons Diana, they are Demons, they don’t respond to pain with fear if anything they adore it, paying them would work but we are out gems to pay anything really cause you kicked that Demon” Diana says back to Carl angrily: “That freak said he wants to grind my face to the ground” as Carl remarks louder the conversation turning to a fight of words “WE ARE IN HELL DIANA, THERE ARE DEMONS THAT WANT TO KILL US, What the f*ck Did you think is Hell, a Hot Resort where you can sip Margaritas?”. “f*ck YOU CARL” Diana says louder back at him “We got lost Twice you idiot through Avernus to get here and all because you KNEW A GUY” Carl shakes his head as he says “OH! I’m Sorry did you have a BETTER IDEA OF TRAVELLING THROUGH AVERNUS, I DIDN’T SEE YOU SHARE IT WITH THE GROUP”. As they continue barking at each other fighting fully.
Nyari slowly lands behind Maleus, a late 30s woman, wearing a very exquisite and very practical fighting suit not too different from Maleus’ but with sleeves and a Blue Cape on her with the Sign of Lathander (a road travelling into a golden sunrise), the Cape hiding a Big Platinum Sword that a bit of light emanates from it as her hair flying through the air defying gravity, their edges on fire and in an instant they extinguish as she lands and gathers her angel wings behind her back . She puts his arms around Maleus as she says “Nothing, there is no top, it keeps going forever…what about here?” Maleus sighs as he looks at Diana and Carl fighting again “Oh you know same ol same ol, but yeah nothing”, Nyari sighs as she looks at Carl and Diana, resting her head on Maleus shoulder as she says “You know sometimes they remind me of our twins with their fights” Maleus chuckles a bit as he turns and says to Nyari “Yeah, only difference our twins are 12 and these are 50 year old people fighting like Children” Nyari laughs at that as Maleus laughs too.
“Come on I will go break it off” as Nyari gives him a kiss and then Approaches Carl and Diana who are screaming at each other “Children, Children” she proclaims loudly at them to bring their attention to her “This helps nothing…..” immediately getting cut off with them saying both together to Nyari “f*ck off Nyari” Nyari stopping her sentence and just raises her hands in the air turning around heading back to Maleus as Carl and Diana resume. Maleus chuckles as he says to Nyari “No Luck huh?”, Nyari: “Yeah give them 5 minutes they will work it out”.
Back to Diana and Carl fighting, Diana finally says “I Swear to god, I have no idea how Eva managed to fall in love with you and no less marry you, you’re an insufferable person”, Carl still flipping through his book says quieter “At least I am married and not a lonely bitch like you”, Dianas eyes and expression are fueled with anger as she says “WHAT THE f*ck IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?”. Nyari lays her head on Maleus shoulder saying to him “sh*t, Carl hit the one spot he shouldn’t have”, Maleus “Oh for f*ck sake” he whispers as Carl says Louder to Diana: “You know very f*cking well what it means…. WHAT? Do you expect me to say OOPS Sorry too Early?” As he stops flipping through the notes “ITS BEEN WHAT?” As he turns to Nyari and she mouths 35 to him “35 f*ckING YEARS SINCE YOUR BREAK UP WITH DWP…. MOVE ON WOMAN YOUR 50 whatever we Humans don’t have Forever like Lovebirds over there” Nyari Exclaims “Well not Fore..” as Maleus taps her hand whispering to her “No don’t get dragged into it”, Nyari nods not continuing the sentence.
Carl continues to flip through his book looking closer into his note, Diana stopped, not taking her eyes off Carl fueled by anger as she says “Its My f*cking Life you f*ck I will Do Whatever the f*ck I want, I cannot believe you..” As Carl cuts her off “yeah, yeah sure, stop talking I found it” “You Motherf*cker” Diana says going to punch him stopping inches as she sees him close his eyes, catching her a bit off-guard as she looks at him and then withdraws her punch slowly. With that the wall that once were starts to fade as Carl Smiles and before them the corridor leading to Dispaters throne room spans. “f*cking Ego Pricks, had to meditate on Dispaters magnificence to open the way” as he turns to everyone and says “Come on let’s continue we are close."
As they proceed through the corridor ever vigilant looking around, the corridor illuminated in a deep red light from the red hot burning iron walls, the ceiling having this red hue as a top but seeming like it goes forever.Nyari at the front with Maleus next to her, prepared in a ready for combat stance with Carl in the middle and Diana behind them as she is the first to break the silence saying: “Hey dickhe*d I’m sorry about what I said” Carl nods as he says “I know, but I’m not its for your own good..” Diana gasps but then quickly closes her mouth before saying anything and eventually says “Btw your son Merlin, he was flirting with me last week after the Wizard Tournament” Everybody stops in their tracks slowly turning to look at Diana and break out in laughter.
Nyari says “Carl your sure your not like my brother in law” Carl still laughing says somewhat seriously “No I don’t think so, He never visited my world so I’m good but I wasn’t that horny as a youngster” as they continue to laugh and Diana start laughing as well as they continue she says “All Jokes aside he is a good kid, good job” Carl nods as he looks up, his mind racing with calculations of arcane explanations about the ceiling as he says “Yeah I know” Nyari says “Yeah and powerful as well, he won the Wizard Tournament with ease and had enough magic to show off after” Carl laughs at that as he looks up something on his book as he says “As he should, was a shame I couldn’t see him, was tied up with some bullsh*t far away, with old Elminster, some bullsh*t with the Church of Shar again”. Maleus then says “Either way, he was amazing, he even beat Eletha which she wasn’t much happy about that”, Nyari adds “Yeah I think she slapped him for beating her a bit too hard” as everybody laughs a bit and Carl says “Yeah well, with great power come lots of slaps” and laughs.
With that the eventually arrive at this red light at the end where an enormous palace throne room expands, all kinds of cages in the air with empty husks screaming in pain from the red hot iron cages, the wall adorned in many carvings of thousands of demons fighting, depictions of them winning and torturing their victims. The room mostly empty but that of bodies strewn about, the black shining marble covered in blood splatters.
At the end of this seemingly enormous Corridor sits Devil Dispater in a throne made of chains and cages, with people in it screaming, as this deep voice fills the room “QUIET” as immediately all the screaming seizes and that voice continues “Well well well, what do I owe the pleasure to you people?." As he gets up from his Throne moving a bit forward now in full view, quite tall at 7ft, his washed purple skin having a red hue from the red light behind him in the wall as his goat lower body makes his steps sound a bit louder, his red clothes with golden finishes at the end perfectly fit and his goatey like beard pristinely kept same with his devil horns, on his one hand holding a just as tall Mace-Like Scepter.
Carl Taps both Maleus and Nyaris shoulder as they flank him around and he walks forward. Everyone remaining on a very much active battle stance waiting for anything and everything at the ready. Carl then says “I am Carl the God slayer which I am sure you have heard of me”, Dispaters eyes glint as he smiles. The group continuing to walk towards him as a unit as Dispater says “Mm Yes the one who slayed Bane, what do I owe the pleasure of you and your people here Mr. God Slayer?” as he cackles a bit the laughter filling the air all around them.
Carl taken a bit back by that but immediately proceeding pushing any fear aside says “ Not so long ago you pulled Fortitude all the way down to the Hells and now Elturel has been pulled as well…I Am Here to question you about these incidents” As Carl reaches on his holster placing his hand on the grip of his pistol and says looking straight at Dispater “Now we can do this the hard way or the easy way where you just tell me”.
Dispater erupts into a complete maniacal laughter that fills the whole throne room as his laughter is almost enough to shake anybody but not these people. Every one of them with full confidence and power standing opposite of him ready for whatever as Dispater says “My, my you are such an excellent specimen, truly magnificent” as he laughs some more looking on the ground hitting his staff on the ground and immediately his head snaps back at them and his eyes fire up as he says “Lets see what will it be then” with incredible speed flying towards them cutting through the air, in mere seconds inches from them before just as fast Carl says “Now!” and they scatter.
Nyari taking to flight and Maleus teleporting away same with Carl as Diana remains where Carl would be with her weapon drawn ready to stab at Dispater, mere second before she does so Dispater avoiding it and taking flight to the air as Carl says again “Hold NOW!” Immediately all of them in perfect sync casting Hold Monster on Dispater, as golden chains erupt from each of them, the magical chains wrapping around Dispater and immediately after all of them pulling them to ground making him hit the ground chained and held.
Holding the Spell to make sure it works they all look at each other, grimacing a bit as his willpower is fighting the magical chains but for now it is holding at which point Carl says “Do Not Drop your Hold not for a second” and while holding the spell himself approaches Dispater unholstering his pistol and putting it straight under Dispater Throat as he says “Be a good Devil and tell me what I want” as he co*cks the hammer of the pistol he says “Or else you will taste the same bullet that erased Bane”.
Dispater erupts into laughter again, Carl grimacing a hint of anger at that pushes the pistol deeper as he says “SPEAK MOTHERf*ckER”, at which point Dispater continues “Oh you are excellent, all of you but so incredibly out of your depth….ahhahahaha….you Think Banes Dead?” Carl Immediately getting confused at that “A God Cannot die Carl…ahahaha…you are no God Slayer but a inconvenience, hahahahha” Carl punches Dispater with the back of the pistol “Explain what the f*ck are you doing, what do you mean NOW!”
Dispater continues “We know all about Eva and what happened, we know about you Champion of Lathander” as he turns and looks at Nyari and Maleus “All about you failure of a Huntress” as he says to Diana “We know everything and I would be scared to see what happens when you’re here and nobody home” Immediately at that point the whole area shakes from massive explosions outside the citadel, the cages and chains hanging rattling as Dispater looks around not knowing what was that, as Carl says Smiling “Oh I knew you would try to hit our Families, so I cut a deal with Tiamat, you see she wants your territory and I want a chromatic dragon and since our enemies aligned she agreed..” Carl Leans closer and says to Dispater looking straight at him “As we speak your precious Iron City is flooded with Dragons and any sort of minion Tiamat has, as for our families they are protected by one of the Chromatic Dragons under Tiamat which not even your Balrogs can beat SO since you don’t have long to reign so how about you tell me what I want, WHAT THE f*ck IS YOU PLAN?”
Dispaters Eyes Widen as he erupts into laughter again and eventually says “Magnificent Marvelous Absolutely SPECTACULAR” his voice and way of speaking completely unhinged as he continues “YOU ARE PERFECT, YOU COULD BE SUCH A GREAT A PERFECT POWERFULL DEMON but Alas you are mortal and you just did exactly what we wanted” As Carl pulls back not expecting that as Dispater continues “You with your deal and attack now Brought the Eye of our Lord Asmodeus here and to you, you Messed with his Set of Order of the Nine Hells with your Little Play, the Order that was placed there by Asmodeus….OUR GREAT LORD WILL NOW LOOK UPON US AND HEAR OUR PLEAS THAT WE SO LONG HAS BEEN MAKING..” As he continues louder and louder as he says “WE WILL RIDE UPON FAERUN AND BATHE IT IN MORE BLOOD THAN THE RIVER STYX, ALL OF FAERUN WILL RUN RED WITH THE MASSACRES WE WILL BRING UPON THEM AND WILL FINALLY PLACE OURSELVES AS LORDS ABOVE YOU FILTH OF BEINGS” with that in a instant he vanishes from the Hold Person as everyone of the group looks around, completely taken back by that as they quickly huddle together and the Cackling Laughter of Dispater echoing through the chamber.
One of the Walls Crumbles as this Massive Balrog enters and growls loudly at them, immediately they all fall in together and move towards it covering Carl, as he is breathing heavily, his mind racing with possibilities on fixing this as the depth of his actions and realizing he played right in what they wanted seeps into doubt and then he hears it “And Now God Slayer you die” from behind him, in Seconds he turns around to avoid whatever attack it is only to see 2 Perfect Clear Glass Spears hurling towards him, at the last second avoiding the first only scratching his shoulder but the other one piercing him straight through his back and stabs itself to the ground with Carl pierced on it and Dispater disappears.
The moments that ensue all of his Friends yelling “CARL!!” as Nyari and Maleus rush to Carl, Diana quickly turning to cover them from the Balrog.
Maleus seeing Carl with this Clear Glass Spear straight through his chest in an instant teleports straight to him, “Carl, stay with me buddy” as he immediately goes and tries to lift some weight so carl doesn’t slide down the spear turning his head to see Nyari who also swiftly with her wings came by Carl’s other side,
-Nyari, ”Tell me what to do quick”, as Carl’s mouth start filling up with blood and he coughs quite a bit of it to the ground as he says “Fuuck…” with rugged breaths.
-Maleus, ”Honey quickly heat up your sword and I need you to cut cleanly here and here” he points right underneath Carl and above him “We need to get him off this ”carl coughing even more blood his breaths become more and more rugged as Nyari nods.
Nyari opening her cape and unsheathing her Platinum sword, a beautifully made platinum longsword, complete beautiful platinum blade and white hilt with iconography of Lathander in golden writing, inscriptions laid all across the blade itself, as she Brings the Sword right in front of her facing it and closes her eyes. In seconds her white hair starts to defy gravity as the ends of them start to burn up with a bright fire as then ends of her sword start to heat up quickly, the metal quickly turning red as a small metallic wine starts to be faintly heard.
In the Background, Diana starts walking towards the Balrog, turning her head from side to side cracking her bones as she says “Alright you big f*cking bastard, lets see what you got” unsheathing her sword immediately the silver blade lights up together with the inscription on it with a blue hue as the enchantment is activated.
Taking a big breath and turning her blade on the side as the Balrog growls at her very loudly the whole chamber almost shaking as it starts moving towards her faster, trying to swing its clawed hand to hit her but mere seconds from touching her, her eyes light up with a green hue and she leans forward sprinting behind it between its legs with incredible speed as a small almost like a sonic boom is heard and in instant she does it again coming right up to the Balrog starting her powerful attacks and then moving to an another point, pummeling the Balrog from all points at incredible speed but the blade always grazing the hard exterior and bouncing off.
Diana getting more and frustrated tried to use her speed to leverage more power in her hits as to a normal eye you would probably lose sight of her. Pushing herself more and more she starts to get angrier as the comment of Dispater creeps in her mind “Failure of a Huntress, Failure of a Huntress, Failure of a Huntress…Failure…Failure” the word repeating in her mind like magic mouth as she lets her focus due to anger drop for a second, immediately the Balrog sensing it and quickly faking an attack and with its other claw backhand hit her behind her back. The Hit cracking against her powerfully as she groans in pain and gets send her with incredible speed to the opposite wall hitting it like a cannonball and dropping to the ground.
Her Body ablaze from the pain as her ears are ringing, her training kicking in seconds as she still holding her sword staggers getting up holding her head and blinking quite a few times as her vision was blurry, clearing up she sees the Balrog turning towards her starting to move towards her slowly, ‘is this Bastard taunting me?’ she thinks, quickly shaking her head and reaches with her hand behind her back grabbing a white liquid potion, ‘if I go faster I will crack those f*cking scales or whatever it is’ as she downs quickly a potion of speed, taking a big breath as immediately the effect of the potion hit, the green hue in her eyes becoming even more vibrant as she leans forward and sprints towards the Balrog with even greater speed then before continuing her Assaults at the Balrog, faster than before that the monster can hardly keep track of her.
As the Blade is fully heated Nyari says to Maleus, “You holding him good?” Maleus nodding as in an instant Nyari swings her Longsword and cutting cleanly very close to Carl the lower part of the glass spear and bringing back her sword cutting the upper part cleanly and quickly reaching to grab it so it doesn’t fall onto them. Maleus immediately putting more weight and picking up Carl as he continues coughing blood, his breath ragged and shallow, placing him with his back to a nearby wall sitting. At that moment he says as his eyes light up with a red hue placing his hands over the big wound that still has the spear portion in Carl “We need to get out of here fast, I can’t treat this at all and we can’t remove this part cause he will bleed worse” starting to heal around the wound closing as much as he can to stop some of the bleeding “At most I can slow down his bleeding but we need to leave and get a proper Cleric”
-Nyari quickly coming next to Maleus “Maybe your Sister? She would be the only one that could heal such a thing”,
-Maleus, “Can you contact her? Will she come down from the Celestial Realm fast enough when we get home?”
-Nyari, looking at Maleus with a worried uncertain look “Well we have to try”
-Maleus nodding, “Alright contact her, I need to heal him some more to take him away from immediate danger and then ill pause his body with my Ki, it doesn’t last long though”,
Nyari nods and quickly gets up and turns around raising her head looking upwards, closing her eyes as she casts Sending to Arch-Priestess Dwp in the Celestial Realm of Mieliki, Goddess of the Forests and Forest Creatures.
Maleus continues the healing as he looks at Carl who is barely there, his face covered in blood so his neck and clothes at this point, “I don’t know if you discern what is going around you at this point from the pain, if you can, I will pause your body in a bit with my Ki, Do Not Resist it ok?” Carl slowly nodding.
At that point Diana yells, “Nyari I can’t crack his f*cking Armor, we need to change in 1 minute, I’m very low on Magic and I will go to Mana Lockdown after”, at that Instant as Nyari opens her eyes yelling to her Diana “OK I’m ready” quickly saying to Maleus “She will be there.” And turns towards the Balrog using her wings to take off holding her Longsword on her side.
At that point Diana yells loudly as she tries for all her might to crack the Balrogs armor and again the sound of metal hitting metal and bouncing as that point she feels her body starting to slow down as the effects of the potion start to rundown and additionally her body starved of Mana starts to seize its function, immediately with a last ditch effort she turns running away quickly with her last speed, eventually her whole body seizing and falling the rest of the way crashing a bit further in the wall next to Carl Groaning, Maleus saying “I see you still have issues stopping”, “Shut...the…f*ck…up” as she groans in pain staying there not moving as her whole body has seized and stopped. Maleus stopping his healing as gathers his hands and looks straight in Carls eyes and moves his hand snapping his fingers at Carls forehead, a red magic hue coming out of it as Carls body completely pauses in time. Maleus taking a big breath looking down as he nods and turns grabbing a blue potion out of his bag and gets up heads to Diana popping it open as he brings it to her mouth “Mana pot, drink up” and helps her drink it, immediately Diana taking fast deep breaths as her body unseizes and she starts moving to lean against the wall as Maleus leaves going to his bag.
Nyari Continues flying upwards as she reaches basically eye level with the Balrog as she says, her white hair lighting up in fire as she closes her eyes saying, the Balrog sensing something in the air change that makes it stop moving, “I am his Will…I am his Judgement…and you require no judgement other than death…I AM LATHANDERS CHAMPION” Nyari says loudly as then she opens her eyes and they are burning brightly with fire, immediately her hair ignite completely in Fire and along follow her wings, magical golden chains appear across Nyaris Chest and one of them wraps around her sword arm going locking to the Longsword, standing in front of the Balrog not Nyari but Lathanders Champion now, the Phoenix Born of the Rising Suns Power. Nyari bring her Longsword close to her as she says “Execute” the sword lighting up and catching on fire as it extends beyond the size of a normal Longsword.
The Balrog shaken a bit from amount of Magical pressure filling the atmosphere, flowing from Nyari as it goes to Attack with Claw Attack at her right, a Powerful Bang as air escape in a ring, Nyari having caught and holding the Claw of the Balrog with her hand as she smiles at it and says “Too anxious are we?” as she moves its claw and throws it back at the Balrog with enough force that it hits itself, the monster groaning in pain as it stumbles backwards, Nyari quickly grabbing the opportunity to fly with incredible speed and kick it right in the middle of his spine sending it quite fast hurling towards the wall crashing through it and disappearing.
At that Moment from the Darkness the monster growls and from the darkness light starts to appear as fire comes hurling towards Nyari the monster using its breath attack as Nyari quickly bringing the sword in front of her cuts the fire in half with one fast swing “Can’t hurt a phoenix with fire” The monsters eyes widen as it looks at Nyari completely unphased by that attack, all around the chamber Bells start to be heard everywhere, the monster looking around quickly as Nyari looks at her sword and slowly raises it as she says “Yes, monster, that is coming from me, means that we are ready to execute”. Nyaris Smile turning into a wide grin as she lunges forward pointing her sword forward towards the Balrog at a speed that the Balrog has no chance to react. Piercing it and moving her whole self through the middle of the monster, quickly turning around opening her fire wings that were covering her as she went through the monster, flying quickly and swing upwards her sword cutting through the Balrogs left arm, as the monster wails in pain stumbling on his side, Nyari flying to the other side kicking its face as it start stumbling to the other side opening his right arm for attack as Nyari takes the chance to pierce the sword straight through the middle of where the arm joins the body and cutting downwards and with another fast cut upwards severs the other arm, the monster growling loudly both from anger and pain, Nyari taking the chance to move behind it fast and Cut with one swoop both it calf muscles as the Balrog kneels on the ground barely standing, Nyari flies fast in front of it and says “Ta ta now” and swings her sword across decapitating the monster with enough strength that it sends the head flying on the side.
Nyari giggles a bit “It never stops being fun” as she turns around and start flying towards the rest of them but at moment the Exhaustion from the intensity of the magical energy that was used catches up with her as she loses her consciousness, she goes back to her normal form and starts falling down. Maleus sensing it quickly turns around and teleports to the air grabbing Nyari and teleporting away back next Carl where Diana is also, just letting her body recover, still holding Nyari and turning to Diana grabbing her hand, Diana grabs Carls Hand “Take us away” Diana nodding and bringing out a Scroll teleports them away back at Solace Mansion.
Immediately arriving at the Garden where Dwp is waiting next to a Unicorn, Diana not looking at her at all as she helps carl inside the Living Room. Dwp quickly going to Carls other side and bringing him to the living room where Merlin already had cleared a table and they place Carl There. Maleus meanwhile turning to the other door going through it and taking Nyari to the Guest Bedroom closing the door behind them.
Upon Placing Carl on the table Diana says “Don’t let him die”, Dwp responding “Never…” and before Dwp continues Diana already leaves the room, Dwp sighs and starts to heal Carl which after removing the other part of the spear it does start to have an effect as Carl snaps out of the Ki Pause.
