Bridget Aquipura

Her Beginning
Bridget is a Hell Dragon hatched in a cult fortress in Hell, she never knew her parents and was raised by dragon cultists whom she loved in her early years, but due to them sacrificing her pet for Diablo, she grew to despise them. When she reached adulthood she tried to fly away from her home, but was outed by the dragon who raised her for having thoughts to leave, after the cult leader was told he ordered Bridget to be captured and to be sacrificed to Diablo the next night! She cried herself to sleep that morning awaiting her eventual demise until in her sleep she heard a hellish voice whisper to her in the back of her head. The voice was deep but calm and seemed to want to help Bridget. "Do not cry.....for your time will not end here....you are destined to do great things...Slayer..." It said calmly. Bridget slowly gets up and shakily responds "Wh-What?". "Break through the bars....tear all who stand in your path.....with time they will submit...". Suddenly Bridget felt a blood rush, all she saw was red and her veins, and the guards in front of her prison bars. She felt a strength unlike anything she has felt before as she ripped open the steel bars and grabbed one of the guards and squeezed his head right from his neck, when the other guard tried to stop her she slammed his head into the wall and his head burst into pieces of skin and skull. She rampaged through the entire fortress slaughtering anyone who stood in her path until she read the housing of the cult leader Hayden. His eyes widened as she ran up to him and grabbed him by his throat, as he was choking he said to Bridget "You can kill me, but my soul will carry on". Bridget proceeded to pull out a soul medallion and cave his neck in. His memories, magic, and soul power flowed into her, his memories overwhelmed her at first almost making her black out but she collected herself, she knew what she needed to do.

Her Time Exploring Hell
Bridget walks away from her old home dazed, but not confused. She has absorbed Hayden's memories and knows her next move, she needs to find the cultist priest Damballa. Damballa is the serpent who leads the Cult of Envy, a branch of the cultists who follow Diablo. Slaying Damballa is the first step in her revenge on those who have wronged her and almost brought the extinction of Hell Dragons, each priest is a step closer to Diablo.

She arrives at another cultist base and is attacked by the residents before even entering, it seems the word has spread of what she did to her old home. She slaughters everyone who dared to attack her in another blood rush and finds herself at the residence of the leader of this cultist base with her hand once again strapped to a cult leader, his eyes are widened with fear as he realizes he cannot escape. "What are you here for," He asks, "WHAT CAN YOU POSSIBLY WANT FROM US!?" He screams. Bridget calmly replies "I need to know the location of Damballa". "You will never get a word from me" He swears. "I will never betray her". Bridget pulls out a soul medallion and the cultist leader struggles but she slams his head on his throne caving his skull in. She absorbed his memories and remembered the location of Damballa, the Fountain of Envy. After the deed was done she loots the base for food and supplies as it will be a week's trip, after grabbing everything she will need she treks to the fountain. She went through lava lakes, blue warp forests, and many other cultists who tried to assassinate her, but failed. After one week and 3 days, she reaches an expansive area surrounded by netherrack, she sees a fountain in the middle of the area dispensing water. Water is very scarce in hell, it can only be kept around by someone's magic or it has to be in an area with some of the highest magic affinity in hell. But in front of the fountain was a spore blossom and a lady with a serpent tail meditating on the spore blossom, she was of considerable size but the spore blossom continued to not falter.

Bridget approaches the serpent meditating in front of the fountain, she seems to act as if she cannot see Bridget; as Bridget raises her axe the serpent jerks awake, and Bridget is thrown across the netherrack floor. As Bridget gets up she feels a sharp pain in her belly and sees she has been cut along her stomach, but not fatally injured. The serpent rises and her eyes glow green, the color of envy. While she is rising Bridget looks around for any kind of cover but her search is fruitless as the serpent lets out an ear-piercing screech and a blade flashes in front of Bridget, the sword should have cut off Bridget's head but somehow she blocks the attack with the axe she collected from the cultist base, as this happens Bridget feels the rush of blood, her veins pop into her eyesight, the redness covers her sight, all she can see is red and her instincts take over. Bridget gives the serpent a right hook to the neck and raises her axe, but the serpent uses her magic to stop the momentum of the axe to a standstill, Bridget predicted this and drops it on her and in the confusion reaches for the blade of the serpent. Bridget skillfully grabs her blade and in a split second pierces her stomach with it and slices upwards, the serpent's body splits and lets out a fountain of blood while falling. Bridget grabs another one of her soul medallions and places it on the serpent and the memories flood in, the cult, almost everything about the cult is revealed to her. The priests, the 7 deadly sins, and Diablo are all revealed to her in a rush making her black out.

An Almost Eternal Slumber
Bridget awakes in the fountain even though that is not where she fell, she is wet and covered in watered-down blood. But she has slayed Damballa and she can now prepare to slay the Sin of Envy, but she will need a better weapon and she would need to recover first as she almost died fighting Damballa. Bridget looks around and then takes a drink from the fountain for it is the first time she has ever had water, it was tasteless yet refreshing but her mouth began to steam when the cool water hit her hot-firelike throat. She winced in pain, leaned back up from the fountain, and began traveling to her next destination.

As she walks through the expensive netherrack field she reminisces about the past 2 weeks, she thinks of how bloodthirsty she has become and how she learned to fight so well even though he never had been in one in her life until she heard the voice. Bridget trusted the voice, the voice seemed to know every move she wanted to make, almost like it was feeding into her thoughts and ideas. The voice saved her life and seemed to be her only guidance at this time, so she instinctively trusted the voice when it started to talk again.

"You have done well......but your time is not yet....." The voice echoed. "My time is not yet...?" Bridget repeats as if she is asking why, then suddenly she feels a pain in her stomach and she starts to lose consciousness, she starts a coughing fit and looks to see the water she drank not long ago sprayed across the netherrack she cannot fight the slumber that is inducing her as she flops to the ground. Bridget looks up with the little energy she has and sees 3 hooded figures approaching her...

"Yeeeeeesss....it seems we have a new priest......" One of them mutters.

"It does seem so........" The other hooded figure mutters and Bridget begins to levitate.

"Come, our priestess, you must......rest" The third hooded figure mutters as they bring Bridget to the Fountain of Envy.

Bridget can't keep her eyes open anymore, she slowly closes them and feels the sweet release of her consciousness. As she dangles in the air the hooded figures slowly lower her into the pool with her hand resting on the rim of the fountain hanging out.

"She must slumber.....for we need her to succeed......" The third hooded figure mutters and the other two agree.

They turn and leave the netherrack area, as they do they turn around and all 3 chant a spell that splices up the ground covering the expansive area around the fountain. After this, they chant another spell and teleport away and Bridget has fully lost all consciousness.

The Chip on Her Shoulder
As she slumbered all she did not think or feel, just purgatory. She was not dreaming, but couldn't wake up either. She was in this state until the voice that had not spoken in a long time decided to speak.

"Remember......." The Hellish Voice echoes. "Remember why you seek revenge..."

Bridget suddenly wakes up back in her old home, she looks around her bedroom and feels herself. She checks her entire body and everything is there, it seems to be a normal day when she was 17. When she looks at her table on the other side of the room, she is delighted as she sees her old pet, Rosie. Rosie is a lava fae dragon that Bridget found as a child and that she has been attached to ever since. She always hugged her every morning before she went out to do her chores and daily routine, but this time she hugged her much more closely as she already knew what would happen later that day.

She wanted to take her with her to protect her from what would happen when she got home, but no matter how much she willed her body to she continued to walk out the door. She started to cry a bit after walking out and left towards the middle of her old town. She spent the day talking to the other cultists, helping cook, cleaning the square, and doing mostly women's work. but she felt queasy the entire time. Briget was dreading going home as she didn't want to see the note that would be left on her table. As she is walking back home she sees her neighbors outside whispering, but they proceed to stop as she walks by. She opens her door and goes to her room to see the note on her table, Rosie is nowhere to be seen.

The note reads the following:

"Hello Bridget, it is about that time in your life, isn't it? You have almost reached adulthood and I could never be more proud! But becoming a woman is not the only thing that you will accomplish, you have yet to prove your full devotion to Diablo yet! So I decided to set something up for you a week before your 18th birthday and even afterward we can have pork chops! After you are ready come to the altar in the lava chasm to have your ceremony."

The note had a heart at the end of the message. After Bridget read it she tore it apart and cursed. She started making her way to the altar and when she got there she was greeted by her standing in the middle of the altar's pentagram and 5 other cultists on each point of the pentagram.

Her caretaker greets Bridget.

"You made it!", she says enthusiastically and nods to the other cultists as a signal. The other 5 cultists start chanting and the pentagram starts glowing red. Bridget looks in her hand to see Rosie struggling and a dagger in her hand, she wants to run over and save Rosie but she won't budge.

"I believe you are finally ready to reach adulthood in the eyes of diablo Bridget." Her caretaker says. "I have been working on your ceremony all week! Come and stand in the middle where I am!' She urges her to the middle of the pentagram and Bridget moves there on her own even though she was trying not to. She places Rosie and the dagger in her hand and moves from the center.

"We are gathered here today to witness Bridget's passage into womanhood, she has been a devout follower from her inception into our fine village all the way to this ceremony." The Caretaker started preaching. "With all that diablo has given us and with all he has given you, you shall give back to him." The 5 cultists say "Amen" in unison and they watch and wait. After a few seconds pass Bridget's caretaker motions her to do a stabbing motion and mouthing "Rosie", but Bridget still does not move so her caretaker moves her way to the center. She tries to grab Rosie out of Bridget's hands but she resists and the caretaker has to grab her arms as one of the other cultists come to help keep her down, the caretaker puts the dagger in Bridget's restrained hand and has Rosie in her hand squeezing her as hard as possible and repeats the line "With all that Diablo has given us and with all he has given you, you shall give back to him" and thrusts Bridget's hand down into Rosie with the dagger in it and blood spatters across Bridget's body as the tiny Fae screeches as its heart is impaled by the dagger and the Fae goes limp.

The cultist begin cheering and her caretaker congratulate her on becoming a woman in the eyes of Diablo