1256 AD - Medieval Europe

FLASHBACK

She had heard legends from the Templars in the High Court of the Kings that a being of immense power was making himself known to the likes of the magic users around the empire. Many hushed whispers of reverance and terror were often spoken.

Her form she had chosen had made men very telling and soon she had finally come to the location. A great cave which reeked of chaos lay in front of her. Taking her step within she finally came to a podium to see spectral figure growling in pain and anguish, "A pitiful dog who should be put down, look at you a mere pretender forever stuck in limbo. I can change that, Erebuz."

Before her was a massive crystalline shard of ice. It shimmered and faded in and out of view, as if in the process of materializing As she approached it, she would feel a powerful aura of darkness, death, despair, and woe seep from it like a fog. The echo of a hundred thousand souls writhing in eternal agony resonated from the ice. A powerful weight pressed on her shoulders as a gaze that was immeasurably ancient, terrifyingly powerful, and darker than the blackest pit glared at her with scheming curiosity. Locked within the ice was a winged being of darkness and depravity.

Suddenly, a clawed hand slammed against the inner wall of the ice. Long streaks formed on the icy surface as the talons were dragged long it like nails to a chalkboard.

"Who are you to approach me, nonentity?" a disembodied voice echoed through the cavern. "What has given thee consent to stand before the divine presence of The Emperor and utter His Holy Name?!"

Rolling her eyes, she would respond her hair long and red and wearing a green dress, while great beautiful jewelry adorned her, "Funny, I read so much about you, and here it is and you can't recognize a fan, I am hurt. Maybe should just leave and not offer you this deal."

The being leaned forward, glaring at the woman with unnerving phantasmal glowing eyes. He did not operate in such mundain identities as names and titles of lesser beings. Erebuz looked into the succubus, seeing her role in the Grand Design. Before him was the road of her existence. Every choice. Every path. Every future and past. Every end. Such was how The Emperor saw Existence - not as a linear road of cause and effect, but as a whole. The course of time was to him a physical object to be observed.

"Ahh..." Erebuz sneered. "You are her. This occurrence of events is truly unique compared to both former and upcoming incarnations."

"Why have you come?"

Laughing she would take a while to respond, "Because even dogs get a chance to be put down, but instead I am offering you something better, something you crave power, there is a price a large price. But first do you wish to hear more." as she waited, she would conjure a chair and sit with her leg crossed over the other, and pretend to appear impatient.

Erebuz narrowed his eyes at the woman. Every shadow seemed to writhe at his presence. The ground around the ice was being consumed by a layer of frost. It was withered, blackened, and dying. The Unweaver reared back and flexed his cramped wings.

"Time is on my side, whelp." he retorted. "I exist because I am. My presence exceeds the limitations of time, so I am not bound by such inconveneances as death or conclusion. I was, am, and always will be."

"Nevertheless..." he continued. "I will give hearing to whatever proposal you wish to present. Despite my incarceration, my powers are nearly limitless. Whatever thou desires, I may grant - for a price."

"I make the deals here, but enough of penis waving, instead I shall say this. I offer you entire City of Dis as your realm to with what you wish, it is Heresy and believe it suits you, but the price is this. I know you killed many forms of me, but well I have found a deal even you can't break, I got it written in your original tongue and the words written in the original people who imprisoned you... So here it is, you can never betray me, try overcome me or take control of hell, if you try too, you shall be destroyed for centuries but shall return, as in actually destroyed, not existing actually dead." continuing she would laugh, "Not only this but there is leeway if you do ever somehow get freed you can have Earth, I don't care, it's failed experiment of Yahweh."

Standing up she would pause and then go on, "This contract is full-proof I have use of you and well I am a fan, so I am willing to give you more freedom in your cage, how that does that sound?"

The cosmic being laughed maniacally - amused. "My my... For being such a stagnant Temporial, you have revealed admirable intelligence and conviction. I am curious how you came across the language of the pathetic Aryites. So tell me, why would I wish to take possession of Dis? After all, you know that its existence will eventually be unwoven along with the rest of your domain. Such is the way of things. Given time, I will emerge fully from my prison and retrieve what has been stolen from me. How will this deal benefit me other than a limited parole?"

"Because you have a City of your own to mold according to yours whims and I know you want more power, I know you crave it more. I also know that you could easily gain followers from Heresy many fallen angels would follow a being such as you." she would smirk still looking incredibly proud with self.

The Emperor remained stone-faced, but his mind was running ten lightyears a second. There were at least a dozen ways he could circumvent her supposed impengretable contract. Sooner or later, he would emerge devise a way to construct the Rune of Sundering and direct it at the chains that held him bound. Then all he required was the talisman containing the majority of his god-like powers. However, his jailor had hidden it annoyingly well...

He decided to play along with her power-play.

"Your offer intrigues me, demoness." he replied. "However, I must ask... Why? What purpose would you have of harnessing me as an ally, other than preserving your own existence against myself?"

"Simple I am Lilith I always think long-term and can also read minds, I read everything and trust me my contract only prevents you harming Hell and me, you can do what you wish with rest of the world, but I would not come here if I could suspect the contract could be broken. For good measure there is also some older blood on that contract. I found the only fragment left of your original creator and transmuted his blood into the paper. I thought about everything." pausing she would go on, "I also have use of you some of Princes died when Lucifer was imprisoned, I have need of guardian of another circle, what do you say?"

Erebuz raised his brow. If what this woman said was true, then she had indeed gone through great lengths in order to conjure this agreement. A piece of the Creator Himself, forged into this small parchment meant to bound him to the service of some demonic whore. Existence was strange indeed.

"My my..." he snickered. "You have gone all out, have you not? I suspect you are quite pleased with yourself... It appears that I am trading one master for another. You truly seek to tame the All Consuming Darkness; to harness the raw powers of complete obliteration for your own ends. Your ambition is... invigorating."

"I could care less what you do, I just don't intend to be one of your victims, I been screwed over by one God too many, I am not being screwed over by another. Thus why I went to such lengths." with that she would smirk and sit back down, "I could only get it due my lineage I am first of Eden therefore I could peer into the Ark of Covenant and collect the Holy Blood, everything I do, I plan in advance. I just want Hell and myself unharmed, does this contract appeal to you?"

The foolish child. She was merely delaying the enevitable - grasping for support on squirming shadows... The same shadows that will suck the life from her eyes.

"Appeasing and bribing the judge and executioner..." The Emperor snorted. "I have clearly underestimated you. Very well. I will submit to your agreement. Who knows? Perhaps one day, you will choose to join with me in the Unweaving, and together we will gaze upon the serene beauty of Existence in its natural true state - that of Nothingness."

Erebuz then placed his hand against the inner wall of the ice shard. His black claws scraped against it. Slowly, an intricate and complex system of runes illuminated across his palm. A portion of the paper ignited with black flames, where a smaller and more simplistic version of the rune was scorched into the parchment.

"Perfect, remember I know what you think, keep thinking you can break free of this. You can't I guarantee, but glad we can come to agreement." taking a quill she would sign and open a portal below the crystal and say, "Enjoy your new Kingdom, I best return to my Knight he probably worried sick."

"Oh I am sure you have ensured my complete loyalty." he replied.

Her hubris will be her downfall.

Smirking she would say, "Keep believing that, just remember whom helped you and show some appreciation." with that she would turn and start heading out, yelling, "I am never going to stop learning more about Erebuz, after all fans are like that aren't they." with that subtle threat, she would exit the cave.

Erebuz quirked an eyebrow and grinned wickedly. Did she honestly think she could fully comprehend his existence? He was the Unweaver of Creation - destined to return the omniverse to emptiness. The All Consuming Darkness was like the fire that devoured the forest, paving the way for new growth. So was his duty - his purpose.

Lilith was foolish to think herself apart from this Grand Design.

The shard of ice dissipated in a shower of a billion tiny crystals - like sand to the wind. Erebuz had cancelled the teleportation spell that had taken him roughly two centuries to conjure. He had a much better idea to conjoin himself with this new realm.

FLASHBACK END