It wasn’t often that a level of hell had a traitor among them, normally they would be sent down and frozen in the ninth circle with all the other traitors. But today was a special occasion, a lower level demon tried to assassinate the Lord of Violence, and Beelzebub did not take kindly to it. He had all of the demons among the seventh circle to gather round to the chained and bound imp, as it struggled for freedom, cursing death and destruction on all those present, Beelzebub walked forth with a silver bottle in his clawed, but smoking, hands. The bottle gave off a small holy light, not enough to harm any demon but enough to make them wince in pain. The Lord of the seventh circle approached the imp grabbing it by the head, forcing it to look up at him. “It has been a very long time since I had any need of this, but I am happy to have found a very good use for it. So thank you worm, for giving me this opportunity.” He said as he bared his tusks in a wide grin, before he opened the bottle with his thumb and proceeded to pour the contents of the bottle down the imps throat. The small demon raged against its chains, as a pure white liquid went down its esophagus and into the pit of its stomach, when all of the liquid had been poured out Beelzebub stepped back, tossing the bottle as he did so, “Now let us all see what happens when a traitorous little demon drinks an entire bottle of holy water.” There were hushed whispers and stunned grunts of surprise among the gathered demons at the Beelzebub’s words. It took barely a second before the imp burst into blue flames, blinding most of those gathered. The flames themselves began to shoot not only from the imps mouth, but the eyes soon began to melt away allowing more of the holy fire to spew forth. The imps arms and legs had small but noticeable blue cracks forming and they appeared to grow in size as time went on, the most gruesome part of this spectacle was the imps stomach and chest. The chest itself began to crack and fall away, leaving only a burnt rib cage in its wake, the stomach, however, having been holding all of the holy water within it, had exploded outward sending organs and entrails across most of those close enough. This show continued, until finally the demons limbs began to crumble away turning to ash leaving nothing but bone before those to turned to dust. The imps head was the last to fall as the last of the fire died from within its skull and its screams were finally silent, it fell along with the rest of its body to the ground. The skull itself, had detached as it hit the floor causing it to roll a small distance before stopping at the hooved feet of Beelzebub, who promptly crushed it under hoove. “Well, that was quite the show.” He said as he turned to his gathered army, “Now let this worms pain and suffering act as a reminder, to all of you, treachery will not be tolerated, nor will it go unpunished! Now return to your duties, we are done here!” Beelzebub waved his army away and watched as they either took flight or ran as fast as they could, so not to suffer the same fate as their fallen kin.
