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She graced the moonlit stairs
Floating effortlessly between steps
The air circled her visage and cascaded her raven hair
And somewhere in the atmosphere, came shuddered breaths
Her ascent into this edifice
Echoes trailed the windswept lawn
Transfixed on her direction
Dedicated to heeding the call
Through the empty corridor, she traipsed along
Seemingly aimless as she meandered to and fro
The journey through pillars and paintings drawn
Led the path toward a dim-lit glow
A dance of the divine beckoned every string of her heart
And called to the depths of her soul
This journey was perilous from the very start
But there was no place she wasn’t willing to go

Another soul cried out into the night
More a whimper than a scream
So she gave in and ran from her life
To let the echoes recede
In a darkened hallway at the base of a stair
She alit softly on the barren Earth below
Effortlessly she stood and hardened her stare
Listening to where this journey would go

From the depths of darkness
At the end of her trek
She listened, intently, to the silence
Until she heard one more ragged breath

With fever she raced on the air
Scavenging the silence for any sound
With the cavernous ground lain bare
She found her pathway down
Deep into an inferno she ran
Striving before it would be too late
She would do anything that she can
To make sure this soul will be saved

A glimpse onto the other side
A torturous scene taking place
She rushes in, with her blade held aside
And gawks at the wretched disgrace

”Another?” came a voice, strong and rough
”I was beginning to think that this one was enough”

”There is never enough, when you capture a light
And do all that you can to erase it from sight
A hero once stood to strike you at your core
And now, I have come to even the score”

A gasp erupted from somewhere behind
And the demon turned, just barely in time
The prisoner chained to his torture rack
Had broken free, and stood at his back

“I suppose you believed I was the only one?
And with my capture, you thought you’d won?
A sad tale, I must now impart
Nothing can destroy a hero’s heart”

”My, my,” came a soft-hearted voice
”And here, I thought, this was between the boys”

A battled ensued, and the demon soon fled
With his charge in tow, into the valley of the dead

“My dearest Angel,” came a pain-riddled tone
“I thought in this battle, I’d fought on my own”

”My darling, I’m here, don’t you see
To save the one who tried to save me
Did you honestly think that I’d just lie and wait
While you ran off to every helpless slave?
Did you really think this was only your choice to make?
Sometimes, even a hero, needs to be saved”