The cubicle in front of me exploded as something looking like a wooden bat came swinging from the left. I quickly squatted down as the wind from the bat swung above my head, but the creature's body turned back towards me with a fist coming towards me. I quickly pulled the chair to protect myself, and I flew with my back, hitting the wall and started to cough blood. I tried to get up from the ground quickly, but the pain on my back made it feel like I tried to go up as slowly as I could. A fist came towards my head, and I managed to get my balance. I rolled to the side and grabbed the chair as protection when the creature managed to swing again with the fist toward my head. I pulled up the chair for protection, but this time, the distance to the other wall was far away, and I hit it with more strength as everything just went black for me.
I woke up and stared at wooden planks in the ceiling. I quickly turned around to check after the creature but noticed I was not in the Office anymore. I was on a terrace in what looked like a cabin. I got up slowly with the pain in my back when the door opened, and a young boy came out running out to the grass and made some kicks and punches in the air. I went down from the terrace when the boy suddenly yelled:
"STOP!"
I stopped and didn't move as the boy kept doing his punch and kick movements. His hands started to gush out black fire as he continued his moves.
"Your hands!" I said as I was interrupted in the middle with "Quiet!" from the boy.
He kept going for a minute when he suddenly closed his eyes and hit both his fists into each other as the black fire disappeared. He opened and relaxed his body and sat down on the grass, smiling.
"Do not be scared. I am a demon from my mother's side and a human from my father's side. So there is no reason to be afraid of me... the man in a black suit and the smell of a mixed human!" He told me.
I didn't move my eyes from him and slowly sat down, trying not to make an expression to hide my back injuries.
"Where am I, and how did I end up here from the Office?" I asked without trying to dabble in a discussion and try to get answers quickly.
The boy scratched his head and looked at the sky weirdly. Did he try to fool me?
"I am going to give you an answer, black suit! Your demon's powers got activated. I suppose you are on your way to die?" He asked.
I laughed at his question as if he was joking as I looked around in denial.
"What happened?" he asked with a more serious look now.
He caught me off guard, but I needed to return to the Office and the battle. I don't even know if they are still alive.
"How do I get back to where I was?" I asked him, ignoring his question.
He blinked, and one of his eyes turned black. It looked like he was becoming angry.
"Answer my question, hybrid human!" He said with tension in the air, screaming that a battle was coming.
I need to calm the boy down before he starts his black fire crap on me.
"I was in an office with two women trying to pass a lot of monsters in Hell's fourth Level," I explained, thinking that he would not know what I was talking about.
"I see! Did you experience near death or pass out?"
That is a weird question. I flew across the office space to the other side. Damn, did the chair die when it got hit by the monster?
"I felt my back hitting something, and then everything just went black, and I woke up on your terrace."
The boy looked down at the grass, probably trying to figure out the situation.
"Strange! Who is your parents? Because you would not be here if it were for them."
My parents? I am a freaking orphan. Why does he ask about my parents suddenly?
"I am an orphan! I do not have any parents."
His expression changed, and he looked confused by my answer.
"That is not possible. Everyone from the clan inherits powers; it does not matter if your blood belongs to different races. You belong to the clan, so you can't be an orphan. Parents from our clan are not allowed to leave their children's side until they have passed the five tests. Our clan's children usually pass the fifth test when they are 18. There has only been one instance where a little girl with red hair passed it as a child. Her mother's powers helped her a lot during the tests. It is forbidden to abandon your children. You will get excluded from the clan, and the children will not inherit their powers. You are here sitting with me. That means your parents did not abandon you."
I tried to understand the explanation, but there was nothing. The Van Polan organization sounds like a clan of Witches, so maybe he tried explaining that to me.
"Am I belonging to a clan of Witches?"
He laughed and fell on the grass like I had just told him a comedy sketch. He took it far for a simple question. He calmed down, sat up again, and coughed a little to clean his throat.
"No! You belong to a clan of Demons, or I would say that you have the blood of the fallen angel of Uzza. A great warrior, and it makes me sad to say that Uzza disappeared, but not without starting our clan. Everyone who carries Uzza's blood belongs to the clan. We belong to nobody and do not serve anyone, making us different from other demons. I have heard a rumour that the reason Uzza disappeared is that heaven took the angel back, but we belong to Hell and will always belong to the demon families."
All this is starting to go overkill on imagination stories about fallen angels, great warriors and the feeling of a scarface without boundaries.
"Look, boy! I think there is some misunderstanding here. Is it possible to send me back to the Office?"
He stood up and started to stretch when I slowly got up from the grass, staring at him as he was looking to prepare himself. Was he going to join me in the battle in the Office with his brown stone-age clothes?
"At least change clothes, boy! do you have a suit?" I asked him.
He smiled and put his hand as he wanted to shake my hand. I reached out, and he grabbed it and commented:
"My name is Sterk Polan, brother of Lark Polan, Son of a human father and a mother demon who died while saving their children. I will be your first test, and you can not pass it and return to the Office until you beat me. I belong to the Uzza clan, and your future in inheriting the Uzza power rests on me for your training. I will provide the training until you pass all five tests." He explained while he took a few steps back and went into a fighting position with black fire suddenly gushing out from both his hands.
I knew something was damn wrong. Why do I have to take all the shit? I put both my fists up, and we stared at each other. A bird flew in between us and sat on the grass with a moment of silence before the battle would start.