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A Hell’s Batlle
By Gabriel Sanchez

Almost a month has gone by since the destruction of the eighth circle of hell’s boss and now everything’s quiet a disturbing silence invades all “Rat’s Alley”. Our hero, once known as Al Simmons, an ex-assassin who made a pact with the devil itself in change for revenge of his murderer, is thinking in his next move. His mind stills thinking in what happened one year ago when he had to kill the being who gave him a second chance, the same who turn him into a hell's spawn, a armored warrior with infernal weapons with the purpose of command the hell's troops to the victory against the entire world in exchange of his revenge. Hell spawn, that’s how he was named, had a different thought about this infernal alliance. He did have the intention of lead troops to war, he just wanted to get vendetta, so this situation became an infernal war.
Now with his thoughts messed up he can not see what’s coming next, so he's still waiting in the shadows for demon’s counterattack. The anguish consumes him like flames on paper, but it wasn’t fear what he felt in that moment was uncertainty of not known his own future.
One stormy night in special when he was watching “Rat’s Alley” from a church’s ceiling. He heard screams of agony and joy at the same time somewhere deep in the street which can have an only one meaning: the demons are back for the traitor. The hell’s spawn started to run to the screaming direction, the lightings and the rain seems raising the sound of the demons, all that it could be hear besides the agony shouts is the crashing of the heavy boots and the chains of our hero on the buildings roofs, these were breaking with the strength of his falls.
When he got there, the screaming was gone and a dark cloud began to rotate around him. Suddenly a hundred of skinny claws started to scratch hell spawn body like hungry dogs, but the pain caused by these claws was nothing to him if we compare it with the suffering the demons would feel. In the moment when hell spawn threw his full of spikes chains against the demons, it started piercing their thin bodies and mutilating their arms and legs. The chains seemed to be possessed, turning around to inflict more damage and holding back all the demons. Later our hero took out of his wounded body an enormous sword; it was the same that he used to kill the hell’s ruler. In that moment the entire infernal group screamed again, but this time the fear was the reason. The hell spawn started to swing his blade around cutting everything on his way, the black blood and the smell of dead covered the entire alley and the dark of the night was cut by the gleam of the gigantic sword. The battle lasted at least an hour, it was the endless fight he has ever had. In the middle of the cadavers pile, was hell spawn dripping a mixture of his blood and demons´, scarcely breathing, almost bled to death, but at the same time with a big smile like he enjoyed the battle. After he recovered his energy he went to the only place he had considerate his home, the last church in “Rat’s Alley”.
The belfry looks like the best place in the world now. He just sat there and wait that his injures heal by themselves and think about what had just happened. Whereas the green blood reentry to our hero's body, he started planning what he would do with the rest of the demons, he has just killed a little part of them and they don't have any intentions of staying under surface.
The only thing he can figure was, even though seems ironic, take the hell himself. Have the throne of the king of devils looks like the only way to guarantee his own safety and humanity’s, so when he felt ready to leave he get close to a fire because it's the connection with the hell.
When hell spawn arrived to that infernal place, he realized that the second in charge known as “the annihilator”; a really big demon with great powers, twice the size of our hero, was preparing the next attack. Hundreds of creatures formatted around the throne waiting for orders. The hell spawn knew that was time to act, so he jumped like there wasn’t a tomorrow and a red blood cloak cover the hell's ceiling, when he finally landed with a big clatter; spawn was just in front of “the annihilator”, this one reaction was to attack hell spawn, but the fist of hell spawn was already full of spikes and getting into the demon mouth. A yell of pain resound in the all Hades, the claw of Annihilator reached to pierce the hell spawn's body, the enormous demon threw what he thought was the lifeless body of his enemy, but in the moment that the body was in mid air the powerful chains of hell spawn flown to the annihilator’s neck inviting him to fly too. Both infernal warriors strike against the floor, but they immediately got up and continued fighting. Have just been some second when the battle started, but seems like an eternity for the devilish watchers. They knew everything will finish soon.
The roar of the Annihilator could be heard for all the Averno and the both blood was scattered for all over the places they fought. Then in a moment of weakness the enormous demon disregard his defense, moment that our hero take advantage of and threw his chains over the diabolic neck of his opponent and start to saw it with its spikes finally taking his head off.
Tomb silence covers all the hell. Every demon got quiet and began to kneel with acceptance to the new ruler of the hell. Hell spawn, understanding the situation got sit his painfully earned throne. Laying there and resting quietly, thinking again, but this time he is safe because no one in hell can defeat him on battle, so he can concentrate in have under control the hell and only he can decide in doing good or evil on his life or the entire world because that is the power the hell's throne gives.

Word cited
Based in hell spawn character created by Todd McFarlane.