I wake up and open my eyes. Darkness. The same cold darkness I fell asleep in. I look down and see the angel, still sleeping, her wings around me. Slowly and gently I move her wings and break free from her grasp. There's no need to wake her. The demon, yes, I must see him. I kiss the angel softly on her forehead and start to leave for the demon. Goodbye dear angel, I wish I could stay in you arms forever, but I must learn more of this world and how it came to be like this.

I move towards the demon, I can see him move in the distance. A strange world this is. No ground, no air, no gravity, just darkness. I move not by walking, not by swimming or flying, but I float merely on my thoughts. While floating slowly to the strange figure in front of me I can see his appearance more and more clearly. The demon is a tall man wearing a cloak similar to the angel's, yet his is completely black. His skin is a dark red, slightly darker than blood. His hands and feet are large and claw-like with but three fingers. His wings are like those of a bat and spread out widely. His face is that of a young man, with long black hair. His eyes are just small bright-red slits, glowing beacons which guide me to him. His mouth is large, with long canines, laughing manically. He notices me as I approach and starts shouting at me. "Hey you! Come here, I got something to tell you!" I come closer to the demon and he grabs me by the shoulder like I am an old friend of his. "You see this world mate? It's dead!" He starts laughing again. "I was there when it happened you know. I was just reporting to the Big Boss when al of a sudden some minion stormed in. Wounds everywhere, arrows still stuck in his wings, hehe, and the best part: one of his arms was missing! Hahaha! The guy missed an arm! Hehe! Anyway, this guy just stormed in and kept on shouting to the Boss 'WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! THE ANGELS ARE STARTING THE ARMAGEDDON!!!' Hehe, the Armageddon! Could you believe this guy? So he was just thrown in the pits."

"But the Boss still wanted to check it out, so me and some of my mates went up to some weird cave. Inside the cave we came to a big open space with an altar of some sort. On the altar the angel where the weirdo was talking about stood! All wrapped up in that cloak of hers, waving with her arms and everything. So we started to attack, but before we reached the altar other angels were suddenly attacking us! Ambushed by those bastards! We fought and fought, a nice battle by the way. Old Mike even grabbed one by the breasts! Hehehe! While the boys were having fun I sneaked behind the cloaked angel and tried to backstab her. Just before my blade struck she lifted her hand and a huge explosion shook the ground! The cave started collapsing and all of us started running, the fighting angels, me and my mates, and the cloaked angel. We were a lot faster and blocked the exit on the way out! Haha! Take that angels! Hahaha!"

"Anyway, we returned to the Boss and reported everything. All's well that ends well eh? Well after a while strange thing started happening. The sort of stuff they say happens when Hell freezes over. Well, Hell froze over alright. Hehe! That blasted angel must have continued her spells while we were running to the exit! The things that happened were strange all right. Once I walked into wall, literally in it! What happened to Old Mike was even better, he fell apart! Hahaha! Just fell apart into little pieces!! Everyone started dieing all of a sudden, and Hell itself was falling apart. Stones were falling upwards, lava streamed faster than water would, and the Big Boss moved only in slow-motion. I passed out when the air started flowing opposite from my breath. And then I woke up here! In the middle of nowhere! Haha! Everything was gone! Everything!! Hehehe! Hahahaha!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

The demon starts laughing uncontrollably. I leave him alone and move back to the void, thinking about what he told me. His story was largely the same as what the angel had told me with the main exception that in his version an angel was the cause of the world's end. But if neither angels nor demons wanted the world to end then it can't be either of them. A human perhaps? But why would a human do such a thing? And where would she get that kind of power from? The demon mentioned an altar was already in place in the cave, could it have been build for this purpose by ancient powers? If the altar held such powers the human would only have to activate it. But why would such an altar exist and why would someone want to activate it? Where does the altar gain this power from?

There is only one question troubling me more than all the others. Why am I here in this emptiness where my world used to be? Why did everything disappear but me, the angel and the demon? The meaning of life, yes, I'd like to know that. But is this even life? Filled with questions I float off into the emptiness.