Prologue- A Dark Soul with no purpose.

"The First Flame quickly fades. Darkness will shortly settle. But one day, tiny flames will dance across the darkness. Like embers, linked by Lords past. Ashen One, hearest thou my voice still?"

Prologue- A Dark Soul with no purpose.

It was dark, horrible pitch black in the mines as Harvey found himself lost there, barely 6 years old and trembling in the darkened caverns, all he could do was crumble into a pile and hunker down.

The only comfort was that there was nothing in the darkness except the darkness in his families old mines, that was what he told himself over and over again.

Then he saw it!

Light, bright, filled with hope, from the pitch black he could make it out and immediately he moved towards it, his family or perhaps one of the miners had come for him had found him.

"Over here! HERE!" Harvey shouted with a smile and ran towards the light and when he reached it he stopped dead in his tracks from the horrible creature in front of him.

This was not light, but fire! Hellfire!

The creatures growled an otherworldly sound out of its putrid mouth.

"Innocence, how tasty. Heheh!" It said with a maddening laugh as it moved, taking one step towards Harvey, extending it's hand to grab him.

"Duck and roll away!" His father, Ash's, voice echoed through his mind and Harvey ducked under and rolled away from the strange morbidly obese like creature that was the size of a man, had wings on its back.

Harvey ran as fast as his little legs could carry deeper into the mines, there he grabbed a cable and climbed up above and hid in a small area between the support beams and the mine's tunnel's roof.

Putting his hands over his mouth Harvey smothered his breathing as he could hear the steps of the creature come after him.

"Strike from behind and above! Strike fast, Strike first, No mercy!" Another one of his father, Ash's lessons came to the forefront of his mind as the creature came under him looking for its prey.

Fear overcame Harvey. Fear of such intensity that he no longer felt like running like a scarred mouse, but rather the fear was that of a cornered rat, one that was so desperate that it would bite the predator chasing him, even if it was a tiger.

"I wish this was a tiger!" Harvey thought as he put his hand inside his pocket and pullet out the lawn dart, it was a toy nominally, but in truth it was somehow a very big piece of sharpened steel that could be thrown like a small javelin that was sold to kids.

Harvey steeled himself as the creature neared his position, remembering the lessons his father imparted.

And as the beast came closer and closer it wasn't fear that overcame him, It is not fear that grips him ... only a heightened sense of things. Cold air in his lungs ... wind-swept scent of coal and copper trough darkened pit. His hands are steady...his form perfect.

And so Harvey dives down striking right at the base of the creature's neck, making it drop down on its bely. But it was still alive.

The creature turned it's eyeballs, shifting its gaze towards Harvey, for it was now crippled from the waist down.

Harvey came to the forefront of it, his bloody dart still in his hand, hesitantly Harvey raised his hands to deliver the killing blow.

And the creature actually smiled.

"Yes...yes...do it...send me to hell. Give in to your fear and soon we'll meet again in Hell...Hehehe!" The creature said, enticing Harvey to strike him down while he was defenseless.

And that made Harvey stop.

The boy felt that the creature could heal, could recover and could one day come back for vengeance if left alive by him.

Every single logical cell in his brain told him to cut it down, strike while it was at his mercy.

But his heart denied such an act.

His heart told him that if he did this, if he struck down someone, something that was defenseless, then he would never come back after taking the first step down that Dark Path.

So Harvey discarded the dart, grabbed the cable wall, and started following in the opposite direction from where the creature came.

This act of battle had given him clarity, the clarity to remember that by following the cables you would eventually reach the main hub where the elevator was.

As Harvey left the creature in the darkness it raised itself on its feet the moment the young boy was out of his sight, the wound that would have killed another was not serious for the creature, it had only been pretending in order to temp the boy into tainting his soul.

"Innocence..."The creature said as it shifted its form into that of its goat-humanoid shape of Satan"...such a delicious thing..." Satan licked it's lips as he sensed that Harvey would soon reach the end of the mines and escape it, this boy would be very entertaining in the years to come.