(Demon III #8, 9) - Tenzin lay catatonic in Arkham Asylum, and after no medical treatment helped him his doctors decided to put a television in his cell to see if it would stimulate him. Gotham news covered the trial of Glenda Mark and Randu Singh, who'd been accused of murdering their friend occultist Jason Blood. In reality Jason had been trapped in Hell with the demon he hosted Etrigan, and he burst into the courtroom, proving he was alive and bringing an end to the prosecutor's case. Wyatt recognized the man whose demon put him into a catatonic state, greatly disturbing him, and his mind stirred. He accessed his mystic powers, causing the television to explode, and later spit out the sedatives his orderly gave him. Wyatt's memories started coming back, and through meditation he started to access his mystic powers again. Wyatt's rage seethed until he created a raging monster of a tulpa designed to destroy Etrigan. Jason's friend Harry Matthews was in Jason's apartment while he traveled to the Far East to seek the wisdom to control the demon within him when the tulpa burst into the apartment and demanded Etrigan. Harry didn't know where he was, so the tulpa turned on him. Etrigan seemingly appeared and let himself be destroyed by the tulpa, ending Wyatt's wrath and its' existence. Etrigan's former foe Klarion then visited, telling Harry he'd escaped the Beyond Region the demon had sent him to and and created the illusion of Etrigan to get the tulpa to go away. The Phantom Stranger sensed dark forces growing, and saw Wyatt as a weak link in the forces. He tried to enter and heal his mind, reminding him he had no need for anger with his tormenter gone, at least as far as he knew. The Stranger saw he was too lost in his madness and violent fantasies to be changed, so the Stranger let him be.

Wyatt (Demon III #11, 12) - Klarion, the Witch Boy, wanted revenge on Etrigan and after recruiting Harry Matthews, a friend of Etrigan's human host Jason Blood, began assembling a gang to confront the demon. He tied up a doctor at Arkham Asylum, stealing his clothes, and demanding a nurse take him to Tenzin Wyatt. His ruse didn't work, because he was clearly a child in adult clothing, so he cast a spell on the nurse, turning her feral and creating a distraction so he could enter Wyatt's cell. Wyatt was still catatonic, and Klarion found he couldn't enter his mind, which was still a hellish landscape, so he created an illusory Etrigan, enraging Wyatt, who produced his rage tulpa. The tulpa crashed through a wall chasing the illusion, and engaged in a brawl with Arkham resident Killer Croc, allowing Klarion time to put Wyatt in a wheelchair and wheel him out of the asylum. Klarion brought his familiar Teekl and a severely hungover Harry to a Gotham river, where he used a scrying crystal he found in Jason's apartment to locate and raise up Etrigan's foe C'th. Klarion took his gang to the Jolly Roger bar in Gotham, and took a femur from the bar's namesake decoration, imbued it with magic, and offered it to C'th as a new rod of power. C'th was underwhelmed, saying it would serve, but that a true rod of power was soaked in the blood of a hundred virgins. He related his history, from being worshipped as a god in ancient Babylon to how he ended up in the waters of Gotham, complaining all the while about his new lowly station in life. Klarion told his gang it was time to put his plan into motion, and had Harry call Jason Blood's friend Glenda Mark.

(Demon III #13, 14) - When Harry and Klarion's gang arrived at Glenda's apartment Klarion immediately showed his true colors, having Teekl threaten Glenda, and pressing her friend Randu Singh to use his psi powers to locate Etrigan. C'th tried to kill a homeless man he spotted outside Glenda's window with his rod of power, but only managed to severely burn him. He complained to Klarion about wanting more power, and Klarion responded that after they destroyed Etrigan he would let C'th sacrifice Glenda. Randu's visions revealed that Jason had gone to the far East to find peace with the Order of the Green Dragon, but they used him as a pawn to summon the intergalactic bounty hunter Lobo to Earth to destroy the planet and fulfill their cult's prophecy. Etrigan teamed with Lobo to procure an atomic bomb, so Klarion and company drove to Gotham's Woodside Military Base. Klarion hypnotized Major General Whitehead, who was pleased to show his "nephew" where the nukes were stored, and when Etrigan and Lobo arrived Klarion's gang attacked. Etrigan let Lobo take Klarion's gang on by himself while he rushed to the base's missile silo. Angered at being betrayed Etrigan told Klarion's group where Etrigan went while he went to find his own nuke on the base. Klarion's familiar Teekl followed Lobo to see what he was up to, and after transforming into her cat-lady form did a dance to bring him close so she could try to disembowel him. Lobo overpowered her, slamming her into a wall and leaving her in a heap before going back to his mission. Klarion and C'th focused their mystic power on Etrigan, staggering him, before Klarion cast a spell to turn him back into Jason Blood and stringing him up with cables. C'th demanded he be allowed to take Glenda as his sacrifice since he'd helped Klarion and the With-Boy told him to have fun. Lobo found his nuke, and the Phantom Stranger appeared to him, trying to appeal to his better nature to rethink what he was doing, but Lobo laughed him off. C'th grabbed Glenda, and prepared to kill her, but Lobo spotted them, and still angry at C'th attacking him unprovoked struck him, shoved his head in a tank cannon and fired it, blasting his head clean off. Glenda, with Randu and Harry following close behind, ran to the missile silo where she found Klarion torturing Jason with dark magic, and bashed him in the head with a nearby metal bar. She embraced Jason's broken and bloody form, and hoped he still lived.

(Demon III #15) - Glenda found that Jason was clinging to life, but just barely, and seeing no other choice she said the words that turned him back into Etrigan. Etrigan taunted her for her choice and teleported away to kill Lobo for his double-cross and end life on Earth by himself. Klarion, recovered from his head injury, snuck away while the Phantom Stranger appeared to Glenda, Randu and Harry to explain the predicament they were in. Every 13,000 years, halfway through the Great Tropical Year of Earth's orbit the planet entered an area of space that vibrated at a higher frequency, and at that time the chances of cataclysm were great. The Bible and the ancient records of China, Egypt and Babylon all recognized that every 13,000 years the world could undergo catastrophic change, and at that moment Lobo was set to detonate his nuke in the fault line of Megiddo, Israel, which would unleash an earthquake that would knock Earth from its' orbit. Klarion reunited with Teekl, overjoyed that she was alive but furious with Lobo for having harmed her, and when he came across C'th's corpse he took his rod of power and charged it up to cast a spell on Etrigan and Lobo. Etrigan and Lobo were having a fierce battle on Lobo's bike above Israel, and during their combat the nuke came loose and plunged toward Megiddo. Phantom Stranger sensed all these events and had Harry use the minor magic he'd learned during his time in Hell to combine with Klarion's spell, sending Etrigan and the falling bomb off to the Beyond Region. Harry, Randu and Glenda celebrated the world not ending, but Phantom Stranger had to break it to Glenda that Jason and Etrigan were either destroyed or severely altered by the spell. Tenzin, catatonic yet peaceful because of the Demon's absence was discovered sitting in his wheelchair by Woodside military personnel.

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