Naming Demons four

Her touch was warm, but it could extend that warmth and send thought and sensation directly through a person's nerves like a telegraph line communicating at a speed and intensity several fold several times the speed of speech.
      Her touch started sending him information as he stared out into the sea of blinking eyes all connecting to gnashing teeth in the darkness. he knew they were all waiting to eat him.
      "You know there is only one way out of this, max." a soft feminine voice said in his head. "you need to appear strong while convincing them you are not . Ivtxo had some one waiting at the council building so he could attack you the minute you were no longer an officer of the law. they all know they can kill you with impunity now."  
      "He knew about us, max. he forced me into the form of the chair you were sitting on. he wanted to make me devour you. I stayed as that chair immobile and unchanging for the better part of a year, except when he would force me to change because he needed a toilet, or wanted me to stimulate certain appendages."
       The intense communication had stimulated Max's own lucidity to spite his injuries. he replied in thought to his lover "last time i try to filibuster a demon-lord" and "don't worry gorgeous, you are going to get your green card out of eternal damnation.( or i am going to get chewed to death slowly by a thousand tiny mouths)."
     He spoke to the hungry demonic horde before him in a hoarse but unshakable voice... 
 "Your former master challenged me to combat, I beat him twice. Two of your own bore witness. by your custom I claim all that is his. My first order is that all here may take all his belongings, and the stores of the place above the floor belong to you now. Go get them."
     Max passed out as the female demon incased him in her own form hissing at the demon horde, and twist dragged his feared claws along the dungeon wall creating sparks as he watched protectively over his friend. 
      Many demons ran off as fast as they could into the keep to beat the others to centuries of loot collected by their master, others moved off slowly not wanting any trouble, while the smaller demons, knowing they would be overpowered in any attempt to gain wealth began to devour the corpse of their former master like a swarm of frenzied may-flies in the hopes of gaining some of his power. one massive demon that looked like a cross between a grizzly and and iguana stayed silently watching as slowly changed colors. Twist looked and the creature, and it nodded, and began to relight the lanterns as it watched the door. 
   Twist formed himself into his healing form that looked like a muscular black and red manta-ray with numerous tentacles where the mouth and tail would have been, and wrapped himself around his friends arm. 
      A few moments after max had re awakened a fat pockmarked blueish-green imp with blisters that would pop and burst into tiny fox fire like flames dropped a bundle before the female demon that was still protectively cradling max. 
     Dark tendrils composed of solidified shadow emerged from her and unwrapped the burgundy cloth to reveal a Neanderthal shaped skull coated in a greenish silver. from it's half opened mouths emerged three chains. the outer two were about 4 feet in length and connected to realistic sculpted bronze hands with symbols engraved on them. the central chain emerged from a meso-American style tongue and connected to a iron stylus. 
     "WE need to get started max" she said as she rested the skull on his stomach. 

     Max had already begun to heal remarkably, and the burning sensation all over his body had dimmed to just some dull pain on the side of his body opposite twist. The demon shifter her body to cradle max more comfortably upright. "you need to put the hands on your shoulders dear"'
 she helped him with the side of immobilized arm. as soon as the hands where positioned properly on his shoulders they began to move and grab on to his body with a terrible force driving needles from the fingertips into the veins around his neck. Blood flowed through the sinister hands coiling around the chain in a small rivulet that was adding weight to the skull resting on his stomach. The last thing he saw before his mind awoke in another time and place was a monstrous antlered shadow slowly move into the room at an even glide. 

see you next time for our next diabolical installment
" 0878"