An excerpt from my short story:
"You know, life has a way of messing you up. It has a way of changing your perception so that you realize that your hopes and dreams are nothing than just passing thoughts that'll never take fruit in reality. And all you can do is just stand there and watch as your entire state of mind, your entire world, crumbles before you.
It happened to me. It happened to the world. Where I once thought that everything was going to be better, everything ended up becoming worse. I ended up screwing the world over and I was happy about it, thinking that things can't get any more bad than how they already were. The demons were gone, so the only direction humanity could go was up, right?
How dumb was I. How stupid was I to think that getting rid of the demons and making human see the world for what it truly was was going to make things better. It didn't, and I learned that the hard way. I learned that when I saw a five- year- old girl lose her parents get sliced in front of her eyes. I learned it when I saw a banker get killed by the beings he served. I learned it when every person went crazy as they saw their own souls go haywire in front of their eyes. I learned it when I saw Kat get shot by a human. Mankind was betrayed by me, it only makes sense that one of them would pay me back.
So what was I to do except give up? Fight back? Against every demon in every city in every part of the world, right? For what? For who? Mankind's freedom? I already tried that and look where that got me. I'm not fighting anymore. I'm done. I delivered the world to the Devil and I can't get it back. I'm sorry, but I just don't want to try anymore."