"Piss off you crazy bitch!" I yell back to the succupony without looking, but by the sound of her hooves she's gaining on me quickly.

She giggles as she picks up speed. "Come on! Surely you can go faster than this! This won't be as fun if I catch you too quickly! Try flying with your wings!" she replies and suggests.

'Wings?' I think as I look back to see two wings that look like they're made of shadows coming out of my shoulders. Come to think of it, my hair is now longer and black with red tips instead of my short brown... I try getting my wings to flap but all I accomplish was making them flail spastically.

"That's funny! But if you don't hurry I'm going to get you!" she shouts out to me and I try harder but to no avail.

After a minute or two she's had enough of chasing and leaps at me. I yelp as we tumble and end up with me on my back and her straddling my waist.

"Gotch'a" she whispers and smirks.

"Look miss demon lady, I'd very much appreciate it if you didn't kill, eat, or rape me," I ask her with wide eyes as I can't help but stare at her chest which she has squished together between her arms as she pins me down.

"Kill? Eat? Well, I'm not gonna kill ya cause then I'd starve, but I can eat you in a good way," she replies suggestively and licks her lips. She then leans down and puckers her lips as she gets closer to mine.

"STRANGER DANGER! I NEED AN ADULT!" I scream as I try to pry her off me but she's surprisingly strong.

She giggles again as she kisses me for a second time with a needy moan and this one includes the use of her forked tongue, but this time I notice something being pulled out of me like energy or something. 'Fuck! Is this bitch sucking the life outta me!?' I wonder with panic and redouble my attempts to get her off.

She then pulls back and sighs licking her lips again. "Oh that's tasty, hmmm yes I think I'll keep you for myself stud," she tells me and slowly sits up but not removing herself off me.

I just stare at her with wide eyes. "The fuck you just do to me?" I ask her while I'm strangely calm.

"I just fed on your lust, or testosterone if you want to be technical about it, it seems you've been pent up for a while and it is simply delicious," she tells me.

"Wait, you eat lust?" I ask her with a raised brow. At least it's not my life or soul...

She giggles and twirls a finger on my chest. "Of course, I'm a lust demon, we feed on another's lust be it for us or someone else, but you are full of repressed lust and testosterone as it seems you haven't gotten any in a long time," she says teasingly.

I just frown at her and cross my arms. "So what? I was busy looking after my mother and sister while working two jobs..." I say with a sad expression at mentioning my family, I may never see them again, and how are they going to cope with my death? Who'll keep them going? I shake my head from those thoughts and look back at her. There may still be a way for me to see them or at least send a message. "Let's see you have time for dating while doing that!" I reply with a huff. Wait why am I still talking to this crazy girl? "Now will you get off me please?" I ask her.

"Please? Well aren't you a polite little demon?" she replies with a smile. "And what will you do once I get off?" she asks with a grin.

'If I take off she'll just catch me again,' I think to myself as I stare at her eyes. "Well if you promise not to jump me or rape me I won't run," I reply.

"Alright, but if you try to run then I'll have my way with you until I'm satisfied," she tells me and slowly gets up but not before rubbing her groin against mine making me shiver.

Once she's off I get up and dust myself off. "Thanks," I mutter as I look around. "So, questions, where am I exactly?" I ask her.

"You don't know where you are?" she asks with a raised brow. "Oh you did come through a portal so that does make sense. Well you're in the blasted wastes, a place where we lesser demons live away from the higher, greater, and demonlord demons who treat us as slaves or snacks," she tells me. This girl is just full of energy... or is that from the lust she just fed off me?

"Well then, thanks for the meal. I haven't eaten in a while and that hit the spot, hmmm maybe next time I can have a full course meal?" she asks and then giggles as she begins walking off.

I just watch her leave as her hips sway back and forth and tail swinging happily behind her, I just shake my head and look around and spot what appears to be a small shabby looking town in the distance. I shrug and start making my way over there.

It took me an hour of walking over the hot ash covered land which also had small pools of lava, rocky outcrops, and potholes around, but I arrive and the place looks more like a slum. Rusted metal sheets cover the houses and buildings as a multitude of different demons are walking about. Some look like harpies with eagle like heads while others I can only guess are imps along with some... I have no idea what they are.

Some of them give me odd looks as I walk through the run down town and I spot what appears to be a bar if the sign suggests so, it seems I can't read demon writing. It's a big place but it's like it'll give me tetanus just from looking at it. 'Well, no better place to get information than a pub,' I think to myself and walk through the door.

The music from a four man band with shoddy looking instruments -if you can even call it music- stops and everyone here stares at me. I raise an eyebrow and walk over to the bar and sit on one of the uncomfortable wooden stools.

"Never seen you around here before," a demon that looks like a bipedal pig or boar says to me, he's wearing a pair of ripped trousers and dirty apron.

"Yeeeeah, you could say I'm new in town. I seem to be lost and don't know exactly where I am," I reply and good god this guy smells bad, even if I had any money I wouldn't buy a drink here.

He laughs which also sounds like snorting as he looks around. "You're at the charming little town of Felfire, and this is my bar called Ifrit's Armpit," he tells me and chuckles.

"Right, so what direction would I need to go to find Demonlord Val'hades?" I ask which gets the whole place to go silent again.

"And why would you want to go and find that nasty piece of work? Looking to join his army?" he asks me with a raised brow.

"Not exactly," I reply, I don't think it would be prudent to tell them that I need to kill him.

"Then why? It's the only reason anyone would willingly go to him," he then asks as the music starts up again.

I'm not sure how to reply to that without spilling the beans. "Erm, I guess I just want to see what the guy is like myself. I've only heard rumours about him," I reply and hope he doesn't take note of the sweat on my forehead.

"Ha! Then I'd give that up if I were you, you'd be forced to either join his army, for manual labour, or his personal cocksleeve," he tells me.

I grimace at the last one and shake my head. 'Yeah no thanks.' "Well then, I guess I'm not going anywhere near there then," I say and get up. "Thanks for the info," I tell him and he huffs.

"Yeah yeah, now if ya ain't buying you can just shove off," he tells me and returns to serving his other customers.

I leave the pub and grimace at the sight of a dog that has a light amount of flames on its body pissing against a building where it hisses and slightly melts the rusty metal sheeting.

I continue to walk down the streets looking around as my stomach then rumbles, how am I going to find something to eat? I have no money and I doubt anything here is healthy.

"What do we have here?" a person that looks similar to that girl I first met expect it’s a guy with short hair and sleek muscles says and struts over to me wearing only a loincloth. "You're a strange looking incupony aren't you?" he says as he circles me while three others that are with him chuckle.

"What the hell do you want?" I ask him with a cautious glare.

"You, you'd make quite the pretty decan when we sell you to the local deamon," he replies with a cruel grin. Decan? Is that what the currency here is called?

'Well, I should have expected this from a bunch of demons.' I look between him and his buddies, they don't look like much and apart from pretty boy here the others are malnourished and skinny. One is short and red with pointy ears, the other looks like a harpy with a loin cloth and nothing covering her breasts and the third looks similar to the red one but green and butt fucking ugly with his pruned looking face.

"Yeah, I'll think I'll pass on that," I tell him and start backing away.

"I'm afraid a weak little demon like yourself doesn't have a say in the matter," he replies and goes to grab me by my shirt.

I frown and grip his wrist and twist it to subdue him, but instead the bones snap and he cries out in pain... 'Holy shit! I just snapped his wrist like a fucking twig!'

"Don't just stand there! Get him!" the guy yells at his friends while holding his broken wrist in his other hand. The others snap out of their stupor and rush me with rusty looking knives.

"SHIT!" I yelp and take off back the way I came and make my way towards the exit of town rushing past surprised demons who scramble out of my way.

I feel something impale my right calf and I tumble to the ground, I look down and hiss in pain as a rusty knife is stuck in my leg. I pull it out and my jaw drops as the wound just closes. 'Whoa...' I stand back up and glare at the little red fucker who doesn't have a knife anymore and just looking stunned that I'm back up already. 'So he threw it huh?' I think to myself as I lift my right arm up and feel something pulse in my hand with the knife.

I ignore it and toss the knife back at the bastard and notice the knife has a dark purple aura around it, the red prick yelps and can't avoid it in time as the rusty blade makes contact but instead of sticking into him, it fucking detonates and blows his top half clean off.

"Wow..." I mutter in disbelief.

The other two look from the corpse to me and then to each other. "Screw that! This bastard's a deamon!" the harpy screeches and flies off.

"Wait for me!" the green bugger yells after her and runs off.

Demons in the street stare at me and start to back away. At least I won't have any more trouble hopefully, though I think it would be best to leave before something else goes wrong.

I turn around and run out of town for a good hour and sit on a rock to catch my breath. I then look to my right hand and stare at it. 'Now, how did I do that?' I wonder but I can't recall the feeling that came with it, dammit.

I sigh and look around, nothing but wasteland for miles... god this place sucks. That demonlord couldn't have given me information about this place or my new powers... jerk.

I frown and look up to see if there's a sun and notice there isn't one... just dark grey clouds covering every inch of the sky above me. Surely all this fire and lava can't be producing all this light? I don't know how long I've been sitting here but I eventually get up and start walking off in a random direction.

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I'm not sure how long I've been wondering around aimlessly as it felt like days and night hasn't arrived once. I've had to avoid a demon or two and I've also been chased by a big brown worm thing with rows of teeth which wasn't fun, but at least I've figured out how to use these damn wings to fly for a full minute at least.

I think I'm nearing my limit as I sit down panting heavily, tired, and starving. I then hear footsteps behind me so I get up and turn to see that girl again, Dark Desire I think she said her name was.

"Ah, so we meet again, Damien wasn’t it? I must say you've done well to survive out here for five days by yourself so far, I also saw that little scuffle in town, nice use of the volatile shadow with the knife by the way, and surprisingly good regeneration too," she says and walks over to me.

"Oh, it's you again. What do you want now?" I ask her, if she decides to molest me again I don't think I could resist her now even if I wanted to.

"What? I can't come over to say hi? Maybe steal a kiss or two," she replies and giggles. I just roll my eyes and my stomach rumbles again even louder this time. "You must be really hungry to be that loud... come with me, I know where some blood apples grow around here," she tells me and starts walking off.

Blood apples? Doesn't sound very appetising, but I'm willing to eat anything right about now. So I follow this girl across the wastes where we arrive at a grove of green barked trees with orange leaves, and hanging from the branches are blood red apples.

She picks one and takes a bite out of it. "Mmmmm. Not as good as lust from a strong demon, but still tasty," she says and picks another before tossing it over to me.

I grimace at what looks like bulging veins along the skin of the fruit but once my stomach rumbles again I give in and take a bite. My eyes widen and I take another bite and another until I've eaten it down to the core, tastes kinda like cooked chicken. "That was surprisingly good," I comment and toss the core away before reaching up for another.

"Yeah, they're alright, but I know what I want more," she says before swaying her hips over to me and roughly kisses me again. Her tongue molests mine as I feel that same energy drain as last time.

She then pulls away with a slight moan. "Mmmmm. That's the stuff," she says and giggles with a smile.

"Good for you, now if you don't mind I'm starving," I tell her and start eating through fruit after fruit.

I sigh happily as I toss my twentieth core away and grin, I feel much better and stronger now that I've eaten something.

"So what are you going to do now? I've noticed you've just been wandering in circles for the last few days," she asks and tells me.

"What?" I ask with a frown. 'I've been going in circles?' I sigh and sit down beside her on the bench. "This place fucking sucks... I should've just stayed in limbo," I say and pinch the bridge of my nose as I think I feel a headache coming on.

"Limbo? You mean that portal you came out from was the world between worlds?" she asks with shock.

"That's what that demonlord told me when he dragged my ass here," I reply and lean back on the bench.

"A demonlord brought you here?" she asks with a curious tone.

"Yeah, said his name was Val'ketoph," I tell her.

"Val'ketoph!? But he was killed by his brother six days ago! How did he bring you here if he was dead!?" she replies and asks me.

"I just met him before coming here, said he was a dying soul and then he asked me to kill his brother and gave me his power," I tell her making her gasp and back off.

"Y-You're a demonlord!?" she yells and starts to panic, huh, her attitude changed quickly.

"I dunno? I just got here when you found me," I reply and scratch my chin, wait... I have a beard now?

"Oh, so you're not going to enslave or hurt me?" she asks calming down.

"No? Why would I do that?" I reply and chuckle.

"Oh good, I came out here to get away from my last master when he was killed by another demon, who wasn't at all pleasant or even good at sex, his lust was disgusting," she replies looking calmer now.

"Yeah, too much info there," I tell her.

"What? I can't help what I am," she huffs and crosses her arms.

"So do you live around here?" I ask her.

"Yeah actually, I've got a cave just over there," she says and points over to a decline in the ground which leads to an underground cave.

"A cave?" I ask her with a deadpan stare.

"What? I'm a lesser demon, you expect me to have a castle?" she huffs again and scowls at me.

I shrug and look out towards the wastes. "Better than nothing I'll admit... The fucks that?" I reply and then ask as I see three dots and a large blob heading towards us.

Oh shit, it's that pretty boy with his two lackeys and a bigger demon behind them.

"Oh no. It's the deamon who runs Felfire Town," Desire says and starts backing up towards her cave.

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