Ariel meets Demongo

In one of these small tunnels, she saw that she wasn't entirely alone. She could see a large glass skull, inside it was a pitch-black entity. It was slim and had glowing blue eyes. The top of it's head ended in wispy smoke.

He looked so sad and harmless, Ariel couldn't help but try to approach.

The ex-merchant of doom looks up to his unexpected visitor, barely having any strength. Too wounded to fight, too weary to even try and frighten her away.

"What're you in for?" Ariel whispered to him.

The demon, named Demongo, just glanced sadly at the mermaid swimming in the barrier opposite to him.

"I…" he said in his squeaky high-pitched voice, still exhausted from being nearly tortured to death, "failed to fulfill my mission. Soon after I've been exiled. . .I'd …begun to become mortal…defying orders. . . and. . . the very purpose I'd been created for…"

The little mermaid blinked in surprise, a demon from Aku's side going against his own nature? This is unusual.

Hesitantly Ariel asked him, "W-w-what changed your mind?"

Demongo slowly closed his glowing eyes and Ariel was able to see tears fall. "I…" he said softly, "became attached…I fell in love."

A small portion from my fanfic: "Mermaid and the Samurai", chapter 15.

Ariel meets another prisoner in the pit of hate.

Don't worry girls, they're not paired up, just two prisoners exchanging stories. Promise.