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Chapter 1: A Friend Like Me
Everything was ready. The red candles, the occult symbol, and the sacrifice, who was in fact Jayna herself. The book she had obtained detailed the few steps required in order to summon a gateway to invite a demon. First, she had to prepare the ceremonial display that would welcome the demon she'd be summoning. The traditional method was to use a dark room, red candles, and to use the occult symbol like a welcome mat to the beckoned demon, as demons prefer gloomy surroundings. But to summon the demon itself, one required a great deal of spiritual energy, as that would entail summoning a portal across the dimensional plane. Normally a task that would require a sacrifice of many contributing human souls, Jayna has actually reached the realm of Hell with just her own soul. What that may have entailed was beyond her, but it did mean that summoning was in fact possible.
Kneeling before the symbol in concentration, Jayna was attempting yet again to summon a demon from the realm of Hell. Searching, she reached out as she did all those times before, reaching her thread of magic to a place not of this world. Far beyond the earth, beyond the skies, and to the stars, Jayna felt her tiny thread of extended existence reach a world she could never manage with her physical body. Once she had passed through the barrier between their worlds, then came the next step of forming a gateway which those of that world could pass through.
Every time Jayna did this, nothing came of it. She'd hold the portal until she was too exhausted to continue, and no demon would accept her beckoning. Likely, this time would be the same. She would wait for a demon to step through, and would end up exhausted. But to her surprise, and likely excitement, a demon did accept her call. The threads of magic she had formed pulsated as a form passed through her portal, and in the blink of an eye, stepped through the portal she had formed in front of herself.
A blinding light came from the portal as Jayna's summoned demon approached her from beyond the gateway, making it too difficult to make out her appearance, asides from a pair of glowing red eyes, and a pair of green jewels shining majestically, hanging from her horns. "You're an annoyingly persistent little girl," the succubus growled with irritation on her tone. "I didn't accept your summoning before, couldn't you take a hint? But since you kept bugging me, I'll grant you something you desire, in exchange for..."
The light from the portal faded as Jayna no longer needed to support it, allowing her to see from the candlelight, the features of the demon she summoned.
"... Your soul!" she concluded with an evil grin.