It was a very quiet morning in the tiny apartment, just like any other day. The apartment was so quiet without that little pest clicking and typing obnoxiously. To be fairly honest, they kinda missed having him around, even though none of them would ever admit it. Ashiya was in the kitchen, cooking breakfast as always and Maou was lazily loafing on the floor, reading a magazine. The silence was broken for a second when the two men heard a knock on the door. Ashiya wiped off his hands of the vegetable that he was cutting up to make a nutritious meal for his sire, and walked to the door and opened it. Emi was standing there, holding Alas=Ramus in one arm, the small child playing with a teething ring. She looked up at Ashiya with such innocence and smiled at him.

"Good morning," Ashiya said with politeness. After several months, they put their years of hatred aside and became good friends. All of them did.

"Hello, Ashiya," She answered with a smile. Alas=Ramus let out a mumble and giggled, making Ashiya smile at how adorable the shard was.

"Come on in," He invited her in and she nodded and took her shoes off, leaving them at the door. She walked in where Maou was laying on the floor. He sat up and smiled at the both of them.

"Hi sweetie," Maou greeted Alas=Ramus and Emi gave her to him. He sat her on his lap and looked at Emi. "Hello, my love." Emi let out a slight chuckle, blushing just a tad bit. Ashiya went back into the kitchen and continued cooking while Emi and Maou made small talk until they were interrupted by another knock at the door.

"Suzuno must be bored. That kid sleeps constantly," Maou said, getting up, while still holding Alas, and walked over to the door. He wondered why he just didn't say to come in. He shook off the thought and opened the door. "Hey, Suz-" His eyes widened as he stared at the blue-haired girl, bloodied and beaten. Tears were streaming down her face as she let out a sob. Emi ran up to the door and Ashiya put down the kitchen knife and came over as well. She almost collapsed at the door but Ashiya caught her arms, and Maou gave Alas to Emi and helped out as well.

"Suzuno, what happened?!" Emi exclaimed while the two men helped her get inside. They made her sit down at the table and Ashiya rushed into the bathroom to get the first aid kit.

"Lucifer- *hic* he was taken!" Suzuno stuttered out and all three of them looked at her with horror.

"What?! By who?" Emi asked quickly.

"Heaven! They said that he didn't belong on Earth, so they took him! I think he's dead!" She said sobbing loudly and Maou carefully wiped her eyes with a tissue. Ashiya came back and started treating her wounds, mostly focusing on the large gash on her forehead.

"Where did this happen?" Maou asked, getting worried about him, and angry at Heaven.

"We- we wanted to go out for a walk this morning," She paused, hyperventilating at this point.

"Suzuno calm down," Emi said and Alas walked up to her and held up her teething ring.

"Better?" Alas said timidly and Suzuno looked at the child and gave her a slight chuckle.

"We tried fighting them," Suzuno said, looking up at Emi. "They've gotten stronger. Smarter."

"Can... can we get him back?" Ashiya asked, wondering what was the last thing he said to Lucifer.

"I- I don't think..." Suzuno paused, trying her hardest not to cry, "I don't think so."

"They can't just take him like that, though, isn't there a rule?" Maou asked Emi.

"I'm pretty sure that heaven can do whatever they want. They are heaven, after all," Emi said, watching her daughter offer her teething to Suzuno. Suzuno took it and smiled. Alas giggled and gave her a hug, making Suzuno cry even more.

"Can we call an angel here, to see what happened?" Maou asked and everyone looked like he was crazy.

"Oh yes, let's summon an angel here to a home of King Satan and his subordinate. That will go well." Emi said sarcastically.

"Do you have a better idea?!" He shouted at her.

"Do you?! You know what they'd do to us? They could kill us or take Alas away from us!" She shouted back and he looked away from her.

"I just don't like the fact that they have him," He muttered and she sighed.

"Neither do I," Emi said quietly and she looked up at Ashiya.

"What do you think, Ashiya?" She asked and he looked away for a second and pondered.

"I think we should conjure up some magic before calling one of them forth. Because if they do attack us, and they are stronger, then at least we'll be ready." Ashiya explained and they all nodded.

"So do you know any legal way of doing that?" Emi asked and Ashiya and Maou both looked at each other with a frown.

"No. Lucifer was always in charge of that. I know that he had a website on his computer on festivals that were going around in Tokyo. Maybe they'll have that scaring thing like last time. We got some good magic with that." Maou said and Suzuno looked at him.

"Okay then, let's go on his computer," Suzuno said and they all got quiet.

"Does anyone know how to use it?" Maou asked and they all shook there head no. "I think Chiho would. I'll call her."

20 minutes or so later...

Chiho opened Lucifer's laptop and everyone crowded around her and watched.

"What's the password?" She asked and everyone blinked.

"Uh..." Suzuno muttered.

"We need the password to get on..." Chiho said and Maou sighed.

"Dammit. Come on, why does it need a password, why does he have one? It's not like we're gonna go on it." Maou said irritated.

"Sire, we're going on it now," Ashiya said and he turned to him.

"This is an emergency to come save him," Maou said with a frown on his face, "When he comes back-"

"If he comes back," Suzuno whispered and Maou glanced at her.

"When he comes back," Maou said and she rolled her eyes, "We'll need him to take this password off."

"I wonder what he has on here. He wouldn't have one if he wasn't hiding something." Chiho said, not meaning to say it out loud. Emi thought for a second and looked at her.

"If he was hiding something," Emi said, making Chiho realize what she just said, "What if it that's the reason why he was taken?"

"He did have a lot of magic. A lot more that I was surprised to see. And he was the one that brought up going out today." Suzuno said and Chiho glanced at Maou, looking worried.

"I wonder if he knew what was coming to him," Chiho muttered and they all went silent. After a while, Chiho spoke up again, "So do you have any ideas what his password is?"

"Suzuno, how do you spell your name?" Emi asked and Chiho smiled sweetly, if that was his password, Chiho swore her heart was going to melt.

"S-u-z-u-n-o." She spelled out and Chiho typed all the letters but it came out as it being wrong. Chiho pondered for a second and saw that there was a password hint. It said; 'Get off my computer'. Emi and Chiho both frowned on the message but Chiho raised an eyebrow. She typed on the computer; Get off my computer' with all the spaces and the computer unlocked.

"Wow. Sarcastic little bastard. That was either very witty or very smart." Emi said and Chiho nodded.

"Something that someone would never think of," Chiho said and Emi looked at her.

"Except you," Emi said and she chuckled, blushing at the comment. The computer came to the home screen and Chiho and Emi both smiled.

"Aww! Have you seen this?" Chiho said and the three turned and looked at Lucifer's wallpaper and Suzuno blushed. It was of her, reading a book and Lucifer making a dumb face. Suzuno looked so timid and he looked so happy. Tears welled up in her eyes.

"He took that picture last night." She said and they all looked at her.

"If he really knew this was going to happen, why wouldn't he tell us?" Chiho asked them.

"Maybe he knew that he wasn't going to win against them and didn't want to trouble us..." Emi concluded but Suzuno shook her head.

"No. He would've told me." Suzuno denied but nobody argued. They all thought that if he was in trouble, he would've spoken up. Chiho looked at all the saved bookmarks and saw something about a festival and clicked on it.

"Here, there's a festival going on, and they have a spooky exhibit, showing all the haunted places in Japan. They even have a haunted house." Chiho said and Maou looked at Ashiya and back at the girls.

"We'll go there. Meanwhile, you guys should find if there's a certain ritual we have to do to summon an angel. If so, get it set up, but don't do it until we get back." Maou said and they all three nodded. Maou and Ashiya left, and the three girls stood up.

"I know that I have a book somewhere around here with a bunch of rituals, I haven't gone through all of them, so maybe it has something about getting an angel here," Suzuno said and they started looking around the apartment. Suzuno's apartment has changed drastically over the last few months since Lucifer came to live with her. Suzuno sold another one of her rings, so Lucifer, surprisingly instead of buying video games, bought books and so they have books scattered around the tiny room. Suzuno tried to keep organized by having a bookshelf, but with the more books that they bought together, the less space they had. So, they just stopped trying.

"So you guys read together?" Chiho asked, looking around in the piles of books that's around the computer.

"Yup. Manga, magazines, cook books, novels, anything." Suzuno said, going through the bookshelf.

"That's sweet," Emi said, going through the stack of books on the table, similar to the one in the boy's apartment.

"Yeah, I guess. Usually, that's all we do. I have been teaching him how to cook as well. He's really good too, following the recipe, of course." Suzuno said and Emi chuckled at the idea of Lucifer trying to cook anything.

"Hey, maybe when he comes back, you two can cook us a big, welcome back meal!" Chiho said excitedly and Suzuno smiled but didn't say anything. As much as she wanted to correct her, saying that he wasn't going to come back, she didn't. They still had hope that he was going to come back.

And hope is all they have left.