lillium
Fatima's Sexophone
He Who Fights Monsters
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Post by lillium on Mar 23, 2011 2:19:29 GMT -6
Marian stared at the fork a few feet away from him. This wasn't a big deal, he reminded himself. He'd been in life-or-death situations plenty of times! Like that time when he'd almost been sacrificed, and that encounter a few hours before with the giant Morning Star child.
Speaking of that Morning Star child.
Marian held out the heart of the pride demon and stared right back up at Moggnigua. "Because this is the heart of a 'disobedient' Morning Star child," he said, sounding confident but really having no fucking clue why this was so important. Oh well, hopefully he would find out soon. He probably wouldn't, though. Lucifer seemed to like to make him do things and then not let him know why.
Just like the rest of tonight. God, hopefully this would end soon. He'd be able to go home, and explain to Dago why they had had to do this.
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Post by Soprano on Mar 23, 2011 2:34:53 GMT -6
“You fool! ‘Insolent child!’” Lucifer muttered, meaning the name of the heart.
Fortunately for Marian, Moggnigua seemed to understand, “A heart of an insolent child? I don’t care if it’s a Morning Star child, so long as Lord Lucifer doesn’t… Oh well. It’s a delicacy…”
She pondered for a moment and reached down past her leg through the crack. She pulled out a cup that looked tiny in between her giant fingers. She placed it carefully on the ground next to her fork. It was a simple goblet that was surprisingly normal sized. There was a golden honey-like liquid in the cup, enough to be full, but not enough to be a problem carrying.
She took the heart from Marian’s hands and reached beneath the crack again, quickly wrapping it into a bit of butcher’s paper, “Thank you for that delicacy. Now leave before I eat you.”
“She’s serious,” Lucifer said, “Go east, just over the hill. Don’t go much further or you’ll regret it.”
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lillium
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Post by lillium on Mar 23, 2011 2:44:02 GMT -6
Marian was very glad that she'd accepted it. He felt the urge to roll his eyes at Lucifer's comment, but didn't for fear of Moggnigua thinking it was to her. It wasn't like Lucifer had told him to specifically say 'insolent child,' after all. Marian couldn't read his mind.
Marian took the goblet and peered inside of it. Gold and honey-like. Huh. Wasn't ambrosia the nectar of the Gods, not the nectar of the demons? Oh well. The goblet was much, much smaller than he had thought it would be, thankfully. He looked over at Dago.
"Let's get going," he said, before beginning to trek in the direction Lucifer had told him to go. Just over the hill, huh? He wasn't planning on going much further- Exploring Hell was not something he wanted to do any time soon. It sounded like a recipe for disaster, especially considering the times he'd met the very powerful demons. Even the weakest of them could easily beat him to a pulp if they so chose to.
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Post by Soprano on Mar 23, 2011 2:53:29 GMT -6
Dago swallowed heavily and nodded. He followed Marian up the hill. It wasn’t very far to go. He’d stopped holding the stab wound a bit before Moggnigua came by, so he was doing just fine by then. Moggnigua watched them go before she pulled her fork out of the ground and sank back in the earth. It began to rumble again and the crack closed up, like a zipper.
Just over the hill, there was a small box on a pedestal. There seemed to be a small fly buzzing inside of it, angrily hitting the sides of the glass box occasionally. There was a grate at the top of the box for air. Once Marian and Dago came into view, the fly began to morph. The box began to shift to accommodate his growing size. A tall, but young looking form began to take shape along with a great pair of bat wings that began to sprout from the form’s shoulder blades. Beelzebub stood up, looking like a 15 year old, dark haired boy; he wore an annoyed expression on his face. The box transformed into a cell with bars instead of a grate.
“If you’re what I’m supposed to eat, you’re both too damn thin,” Beelzebub complained.
“Give him the ambrosia, watch your fingers,” said Lucifer with a bit of boredom.
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lillium
Fatima's Sexophone
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Post by lillium on Mar 23, 2011 3:00:50 GMT -6
As they got closer, Marian felt his stomach begin to drop. A man with bat wings who had transformed that way from a fly. He remembered reading something about Beezlebub in a demonology book- That he had the wings of a bat in his humanoid form. In addition, it was a well-known fact that another name for Beezlebub was the Lord of the Flies. Anyone who had been forced to read the book in a high school English class knew that.
If this was Beezlebub, he didn't look very scary. Not compared to Lucifer, at least. Still, though, appearances weren't always the most important thing. He was a Lord of Sin, after all, even if his circle was one of the weakest ones.
"We're not," Marian said, handing the glass full of the ambrosia out to Beezlebub. As Lucifer advised, he was attempting to be careful with his fingers. He didn't want them being bit off or anything.
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Post by Soprano on Mar 23, 2011 3:08:43 GMT -6
“I could eat both but…,” Beelzebub was pondering as Marian spoke.
“Good, you won’t fill me,” shot Beelzebub, sniffing to see what was in the cup, “Oh! Ambrosia!”
Beelzebub snatched the cup from Marian and greedily began to suck down the contents of the cup. He made very loud gulping noises as he drank and the cup seemed to go on for a really long time, much longer than it seemed to be large.
As Beelzebub drank, his skin started taking on color and he seemed to grow at an odd rate. Once he put down the cup, he didn’t look fifteen any longer, he looked about ten years older. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and gave Marian a cruel smile.
“I see what’s going on,” he said, “Just enough so I won’t be harmed, but not enough to harm you…”
“You know that fun party trick you know?” Lucifer said suddenly, “Blow up that box, try not to kill the contents.”
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Post by lillium on Mar 23, 2011 3:15:14 GMT -6
Marian rolled his eyes. It wasn't a fucking party trick; it was magic. As tempted as he was to shout that, though, he didn't. He'd just look crazy, and that wouldn't reflect very well on him. Besides, Lucifer would enjoy it too much.
After that thought, the gears finished turning in his head. "I have to do that?" he hissed, aware that Dago and Beezlebub could hear him but not giving a shit. He wanted to just leave right then; this was going to cause too much damage to the Order. But then again, so would Lucifer knowing where he was all the time, especially Lucifer knowing the exact location of the Library. After all, Haven was there, and he had a new student guilty of pride. Granted, Lucifer might have not known that, but still. Marian wasn't completely immoral- He didn't think many people deserved to belong to Lucifer, and he'd probably feel a little bad if he ended up being the person to send Haven back there.
And so, Marian concentrated on the box and blew it up, making sure to not destroy the contents. It was hard, so he ended up just blowing up the very top. Beezlebub could crawl out if he needed to. Marian didn't fucking care.
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Post by Soprano on Mar 23, 2011 3:32:38 GMT -6
The top of the box exploded in a shatter of glass. Beelzebub spread his wings and lifted himself out of it with a few flaps of his leathery appendages. He landed in front of the box and grabbed Marian by the front of his clothes. He seemed to be quite a bit stronger than he said he said he was going to be.
“Free man and a free meal, I couldn’t ask for a better deal,” he drawled with a glittering smile, “Moggnigua gave me more ambrosia than she should have, she probably knew where you were going to take it. Never trust a skinny chef, they say.”
Dago swore under his breath and quickly juggled with himself whether or not it was a good idea to interfere. Last time he had, Marian wanted him to back off, but they weren’t trying to eat him and it was a lot less obvious what they wanted! If he did though, Beelzebub was much stronger and could kill both of them without much trouble…
“Fuck it,” muttered Dago and made an attempt to shove Beelzebub off of Marian with some pitiable results.
Lucifer was silent, again.
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lillium
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Post by lillium on Mar 23, 2011 3:40:04 GMT -6
Shit. Shit. Shit. Maybe he should've named a successor before he left. . Shit, and now Dago was going to be wiped out of existence, too. All because of some stupid seal and some stupid little 'game' with Lucifer. The bastard had said that he wasn't going to lead him to his death, and had put up the effects of his magic with the seal as a result! Hah, what a sham. Beezlebub was going to eat him now; Lucifer's magic didn't matter.
Oh, fuck no. He wasn't going to be eaten by a rotting sow's head on a stick sharpened on both ends. Fuck no. He sent all of the will he could towards pushing Beezlebub away from him. He'd be super tired after this, but if it meant surviving, it was worth it.
He noticed he wasn't hearing anything from Lucifer. It figured, although Marian found it odd that the lord of sin wasn't taunting him for once. Well, why would he? He would have eternity to in a few minutes.
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Post by Soprano on Mar 23, 2011 3:48:36 GMT -6
Beelzebub narrowed his eyes when Marian shoved his magic toward him. He slid quite a distance, he even took a moment to let go of Marian’s shirt. He flapped his wings again and shot forward, grabbing Marian around the neck this time.
“You’re not going anywhere, morsel,” he growled.
“That’s terribly ungrateful of you, Beelzebub,” Lucifer said, snapping into place right next to Marian.
He carefully flicked Beelzebub in the forehead and Beelzebub went flying, much further than Marian had pushed him. He turned to Marian with a thin smile.
“Now for my end of the deal,” he said, swiftly taking Marian’s hand.
He traced the seal on Marian’s hand with one long fingernail twice and it immediately faded like it had never been there in the first place. There was the sound of flapping and Beelzebub came hurtling toward Lucifer. Lucifer immediately dropped Marian’s hand and raised his arm to shield himself.
Dago saw an opening and grabbed Marian’s other hand, without a word. He was kind of afraid that any noise would draw attention from the two Lords of Sin’s squabble and bring it right back to both of them. He pulled the spell tag he’d stolen out of his pocket and attached it to the box. The portal opened up and Dago ran through.
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