Demons

The story starts off with a young adult named Cole living out his normal life. He lives in a small town as a farmer. Then he’s approached by a mysterious woman. She introduces herself as Circe and offers her services to him in exchange for one thing. For him to offer up a part of himself. He refuses and this enrages her. She reveals herself as a demon and curses him but something goes wrong. The curse only goes part way through and Cole is made into a half demon. This cues up for Cole to go on a journey to remove the curse.

Cole goes on his this journey to remove his curse. As he goes the world slowly becomes over run by demons as the top ones turn humans into them. The world isn’t exactly a post-apocalyptic land but things have gone down hill. Cole runs into a group of demon hunters. They don’t trust him at first when he mentions his curse. Cole tossed around with the idea to lie about it but decide to tell the truth up front. The group of hunters try to kill him at first but are then ambushed by other demons. Cole helps defeat them, thus gaining their trust. They take him in and promise to help him get rid of his curse.

To add to the scene where Cole helps the group of rebels against an ambush, it all starts when Cole reveals he’s half demon. He promises to not use his new powers on them in exchange for a place to belong. Internally, he swear to not use his powers unless absolutely necessary. He wants to keep his humanity instead of diving into his darker side. Later on when an important character returns, he learns it’s okay to use his powers, especially for good. Back to the story line, Cole confesses he’s been turned half demon. The rebels do not like this especially since their sole purpose is to defeat the demons. An all out battle takes place and the rebels try to kill Cole. They injure him pretty good but jut before the final blow, there’s a scream. They turn their attention to it and find demons taking out their team one by one. Soon their turning away from Cole to fight off the ambush. To prove his loyalty, Cole aids them infighting off the demons. They eventually win with a few casualties but in the end they accept Cole as one of their own.

The group continue the journey across the world to defeat the demons and help Cole. The leader of the group is Clark. Clark formed the group when his family was taken out by demons, left for dead as a warning to others in his town. Many others in the group suffered the same story. Philip is their medic and acts almost as a mentor for the younger members of the group. They run into demons daily and many get injured along the way, some die. The numbers in the group dwindle but they gain more as they go.

Soon Circe comes back into the picture. She promises all she wants is to help. She wants to teach Cole how to use his demonic powers. She even goes so far as to tell him the curse can’t be removed. The group, including Cole, are wary of her but decide to let her join them. She trains Cole for weeks before the group is ambushed again. Circe turns on the group. More members are severely injured or die. Cole is left feeling guilty that he convinced Clark and everyone else to trust her.

Delving further into Circe’s return, she mysteriously finds the group camped out on a hillside. She comes in ready to surrender, the rebels chain her up with special chains that reduce the use of demonic abilities. They take her before Clark to judge her fate. She pleads her case and Cole is the first to say she should die. Clark hears her out and decides to let her stay and help Cole with his powers, after all, if he can control them better he can protect them better. For weeks on end, still in chains, Circe helps Cole master his abilities. It isn’t until he’s finally done with his training that Circe escapes and comes back with a hoard of demons. They fight and eventually win. Just as Circe flees, Cole catches up to her and asks why she bothered helping. Her response was it’d be way more fun to fight him in the end if he knew what he was doing.

It takes well over a year since the ambush put on by Circe for the group to come face to face with the top demons. With Cole’s training and all the hard work the group has put into their own training, they are able to fight off the top demons. Some perish but in the end they win and defeat them. As the demons slowly disappear, all around the world the humans who were turned into demons perish as well. They finally did it, Clark’s band of rebels as well as Cole rid the world of demons. But at what cost? It cost several lives but their deaths didn’t go in vain.