Chapter 4 MEETINGS

Wednesday, another full moon, so I am out and about again, as a demon of course. I am hungry, and it does not help in the least that the refrigerator is empty and I don’t have any time do shopping till Friday. I am flying around searching for prey when I catch a scent: a young man, in his mid-twenties, that does err, sound good (Lucy told me this is about the right age you should hunt for. Any younger and the meat is stringier and bland, and a few years older the meat is riddled with alcohol or be tough and dry; and older than THAT and the meat would be all flabby and saggy and soggy and ugh) I sense something else, something unfamiliar to me but I ignore it. “Hey, that’s another de- HEY KID! Don’t do it”-Lucy shouts in my mind, but I ignore him I swoop down to strike and-WHAM! Something large and feral slams into me and says “MY KILL!” I raise a claw in preparation for the unknown when I am surprised to see another demon, except more- well, demonic than me. “That IS a demon, idiot, and a FULL FLEDGED demon to be more precise” said Lucy. That thing is a real demon? “Who are you calling a ‘thing’ you worthless excuse of a half breed? I happen to be a much higher demon than you; you little piece of-“SILENCE, UNDERLING!” I am shocked to realize that that came from my mouth, though I did not utter it of my own free will, not that I have much in this state but still-“IT IS I, DEMON PRINCE LUCIFER HIMSELF! BOW BEFORE ME, LEST I CONSUME THEE ON THE SPOT WITH MY UNDYING FLAMES OF RAGE!” Lucy? LUCY is Lucifer himself!?!! It’s THE great demon prince himself Lucifer at that. The demon immediately saluted and bowed down onto his knees. “y-your m-majesty, I uh, I didn’t know it was your lordship occupying this filth”-“SILENCE, I HATH CHOSEN THIS BODY MYSELF AND THOU SHALT NOT INSULT IT IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER, DOST THINE PUNY MIND COMPREHEND?” “Y-yes, I understand your lordship. It will be done great lord” “Lucifer?” I say. “You mean to say that your”-“yes, yes, I am the demon prince Lucifer; I heard your thoughts the first time. Yes, I know you’d very much like to know why I have chosen your body and I know that I have a lot of explaining to do, but it will all be explained in good time. Now, demon, state your name, class, and assignment”. “Gnarguch, 9^th class afrit, assigned to archiving duties, currently on leave sir.” “On leave, that’s good, that means that you can sneak me back in!” “Pardon, sir, but as I remember your lordship has been banished from hell” he swallowed nervously. In his mind he wondered what sort of trouble he had just gotten himself in to. “Ah yes, they have banned me, yet they have not banned the demon Necrophyton!” “Who might that be, sir?” “That happens to be the demon name that I shall bestow upon you, Jethro Summers.” “My demon name so you say? Won’t they be able to tell that I’m only half a demon?” “Good question, all I have to do is leak a bit more of my energy into you, and as a countermeasure I’ll also loosen my grip on your mind. It’ll be hard to do both at the same, considering they kind of are opposites, but I am not called demon prince for nothing, excluding the fact of my blood relation to his most exalted one Satan, and this is a simple matter for me compared to what I have had to do in the past. Gnarguch, ready the portal to hell!”

Author's Note

if anybody actually reads this, will probably not add anything till after christmas. or maybe after my b-day on the 30th. maybe after new year. unless i get the writers' itch and feel like writing somewhere within that period. XD

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I'm definitely digging this so far. LOVE it. great job. :)