A Hero's Duty: A Zero and Maero Production

[Maero]

"Fine fine, dont die." Angel said as he left. Melody merely watched with worried eyes as he descended the stair case. It was a spiral stair case, and there were no lights or candles to guide him at all. As he went down and down and down he would begin to lose his perception of time and space, until finally he would feel as though he had been walking down those stairs for hours, though his watch would reveal he had only been walking for three minutes. Finally he would arrive at a large black door flanked by two torches, the door seemingly created out of tangles of obsidian snakes. With a push the door would swing open to reveal a haunting seen.

The chamber within was bare and empty save for a few things. In the center was...something, man of some kind, wrapped from head to toe in chains. The chains themselves seemed to be coming out of the walls, and held the man's arms out tightly to either side of him, leaving no skin to show in how utterly they covered him, his toes not even touching the ground. Behind him was something even more puzzling...wings. Of course, these were also thoroughly wrapped in chains as well, and the only reason he could tell they were wings was because of the black feathers that poked out between the links. Only one part of the man was bare, and that was his mouth and chin.

On the walls around him were glowing runes of some kind, dimly glowing purple and red. He shuffled a little in his chains as the door opened, revealing that he was still very much alive. "Melody..." he hissed out softly. "Have you returned? Or isss it just you, Venra Dark Ssssspell?"