Chapter One: Satanic

I Want – One Direction
If I looked inside your brain, I would find lots of things.

Blackened vision.
Disorientated sounds.
An unfamiliar cold touch.

Her hands clenched the softness of the ground she laid on, pain coursing through her body like electric waves that travelled to her head. She knew she wasn't home anymore; she was far from that place.

Sanguinem filio, sanguinem effurgarex perpetuum. Sanguinem filio, sanguinem effurgarex perpetuum. Phesmatos filio, phesmatos effurgarex perpetuum

The phrase ran through her head over and over again and as it did she started to remember how she had actually come to be in this particular situation. Witches, she thought. She had gotten herself caught up in witch business, of course not by accident. She had meant to seek out the witches but they did not want to be found and so they had to silence her another way.

Sanguinem filio, sanguinem effurgarex perpetuum. Sanguinem filio, sanguinem effurgarex perpetuum. Phesmatos filio, phesmatos effurgarex perpetuum

This very phrase had been the one that had sent her somewhere unfamiliar. Now, she just had to find out where and with that in mind, she began to move her hands more, exploring. Then the sounds started to become clearer, with birds hawking and the trees rustling and one hefty sigh that did not come from her and that's when she snapped her eyes open, the light immediately blinding her.

"Oh, good morning," a male voice drawled out, the amusement clear in their tone. It came from above her so high that she thought it was Jesus wishing her a merry morning but after a quick shake of her head, her thoughts were sorted. "You can open your eyes, the sun's not that bad," the male voice said. "I mean, it's not a nice sight as you would probably lose your sight but yeah," he added.

She sighed opening her eyes and looked up at him, excusing his charming looks and his confident aura and instead focusing on his attitude towards her. She pushed herself up, stumbling forwards slightly from the lack of feeling in her legs, she soon steadied herself before his awaiting hands could catch her.

"You've got some jelly legs there, huh," he pointed out with a chuckle, his lips quirking upwards when he saw the anger on her face. "Why the sour face?" He pouted, cocking his head to the side. "I didn't make you have jelly legs."

"Who are you? Where am I? Why am I here? Why did that Coven send me here?" She questioned, crossing her arms with a huff. She cocked an eyebrow as he stared back at her amused for a moment before he glanced away, laughing to himself. "What's so funny?" She snapped.

"Where are my manners? My name is Kai, as for where you are, you're in Portland and why are you here? I don't particularly know, or care," he answered with a polite yet fake smile, his hands clasped together in front of him. Without warning his smile had dropped and a hand was abruptly around her neck, her back slamming into a tree that was behind her. "Now what coven sent you here?" He snarled, his face a few centimetres from her own.

She didn't answer, she couldn't, her mind had made a decision, he was hot when he was angry. But in all seriousness, she couldn't answer due to her oesophagus being strangled. She pointed to his hand with her finger and he loosened his grip the tiniest bit but enough to let her breathe.

She stared directly into Kai's blue/grey eyes that were slowly but surely turning dark with clouded anger. "I don't know." She was telling the truth, she didn't know who she was looking for, she just knew what. "If you let me go, I'll tell you the whole story," she whispered pleadingly.

Kai clenched his jaw before jerking his head, letting go of her neck completely. He stepped back a few paces and pointed to the floor. "Take a seat then, I assume this is long," he told her, sitting down on the grass. She made to sit down but he stopped her. "What's your name?"

She almost fell on her face at the innocent question. She expected everything, apart from that, to come out of his mouth. "Lilith," she replied quietly, sitting opposite of him.

Kai sat up, his eyebrows raised as he crossed his legs, his knees touching hers. "Looks like both our parents assumed we were destined to be evil," he muttered, amusement flickering in his brown orbs.

Lilith frowned, confused by his words. "What do you mean?" She inquired.

"My full name is Malachai," he told her. His eyes held something other than amusement, she didn't know what, but it was almost stronger than the steel eyes she had first seen. "It's like my parents expected me to be evil or something," he scoffed, although, he didn't seem too bothered about his name.

"And are you?" She asked, her hands playing with the grass blades. She looked up from the green floor and saw him purse his lips at her.

"You tell me," he said and smiled at her genuinely. "Now on with your story."

2006

"Lucifer, Lucifer!" Lilith shouted, running after her younger brother. They had been at the local restaurant with their parents and another brother, Gabriel when one of Lucifer's classmates had spotted him and began to shout things at the boy. "Luce, stop running," she panted, coming to a stop just as he did.

"I hate it, I hate it," he chanted through his tears, staring up at his sister. "Why did they have to name us after the only things they love, angels and demons, why, why?" He asked, running towards her, his arms circling around her waist. "They're never home and when they are all they do is ignore us and go on tours about the freaking devil!"

"I don't know Luce, I don't know," she whispered, kissing him his through his black curls. She brushed them back and kissed his forehead once again before bending down to look at him square in the eyes. "I told you, I would always be here for you, you trust me, don't you?" She asked him.

Lucifer nodded, his tears slowing down as he pulled his face body from her hands. "I-" He was cut off, blood spluttering from his mouth as he coughed, his face contorted into various emotions. Pain, anguish.

Lilith stood over him as he dropped the floor, his body now a corpse. She could feel her eyes hurt from the tears she was holding back, her eyes solely focused on her dead brother. "Luce? Lucifer?" she breathed, the realisation finally hitting her but before she could move a body swept up her brother and ran off into the streets of Vancouver. "Hey!" She shouted after them but they were gone before she could even call for help. "Lucifer!" She screamed. She kept screaming until Gabriel ran towards her, his arms wrapping around her tightly.

Two years later Lilith was searching for a Coven, they were called the Gemini Coven, full of witches and warlocks alike. She had discovered who, or rather what, had killed her little brother and she was immediately in pursuit of them. For two years she had been chasing this Coven until she finally realised where they were hiding. Portland.

That night she arrived she didn't wait, she asked around and she received directions to their grounds, unluckily for her, they were expecting her to arrive on their front doorstep and when she did, they began to chant.

"They murdered your brother?" Kai asked, his eyes held doubt and uncertainty much to her dislike but that soon changed when Kai saw the honesty in her eyes. "Pity," he said indifferently, his face passive. "You're stupid enough to go after a Coven, though?" He shook his head, laughing. "That's brave, I gotta say," he said. "Do you mind if I cal you Lily, or Lil? Lilith is just so, well let's just say you don't look evil."

Lilith frowned, showing him her anger and confusion. How could he just overlook the death of her brother so quickly and not care? Even the concept of death itself? "Piss off," she muttered, sullen and stood up, storming off through the trees, leaving a partially shocked Kai staring after her.

"You'll come back!" He shouted, waving at her with a large grin before standing up himself.

"One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes," she counted, remembering the old English rhyme she was taught in middle school, as she hopped from one stone to another. She had found a small river behind the forest which was surprising. She concluded that this leads to one of the main rivers downtowns and decided to hop from one side to the other for the time being.

"Don't fall in." Lilith gasped at the voice and swayed. Luckily she was close to the familiar voice and her arm was grabbed just as she nearly fell in. She looked up at the culprit and glowered. "I told you not to fall in." Kai clicked his tongue and tugged her onto land.

"I wouldn't have if it wasn't for you sneaking up on me," she snapped, straightening her top. She sniffed as she looked around her, she noticed something wasn't right. "Where is everybody?" She asked, stepping closer to Kai.

The older boy laughed at her question. "There is no one here, you won't find anybody apart from me and now yourself," he told her, gauging her reaction.

Lilith's eyes widened in horror as she stepped away from him. "Wh-where are we, Kai?" She asked again, her heartbeat racing violently.

"We're in a prison world," Kai confessed, sitting down by the stream, he leant back on his palms, staring into the distance. He acknowledged her sitting down closely next to him. "Back in 1994, May 10th to be exact my sister promised me that we'd merge-"

"What's that?" Lilith cut him off, confused by the word.

Kai sighed, annoyed by her interference but nonetheless answered her. "Merging is a powerful ritual performed as a practiced tradition that takes place in my coven when a pair of twins reach their 22nd birthday," he explained quickly.

Lilith hummed and nodded for him to continue.

"So yeah, my twin sister, Jo, promised me to merge and so I followed her into the woods, I should've known what was going to happen then, I didn't realize what was happening until I saw my dad and the rest of the coven chanting and then boom, I was placed here," he finished, spreading his arms wide.

Lilith felt her face drop at his story. "There must be a reason why they trapped you here, all alone," she whispered. She contemplated on comforting him or staying away. No father would banish their son to a world with the population of one person.

Kai turned his head towards her, his lips quirking into a small smirk. "Oh, there is," he purred, winking. "I slaughtered four of my younger siblings, I tried to kill six but my damn sister just had to hide them," he growled, cracking his neck. "They're still out there, somewhere."

"What?" Lilith shrieked, she felt shivers of fear and horror course through her body at the new information. She didn't move, however, her mind wanted to her but her body didn't instead it reacted differently, it almost brought her closer to him. Now it made sense that he never reacted to her story about her brother's death.

"Malachai, such an evil name, they really did want me to be evil didn't they?" Kai chuckled darkly, licking his bottom lip. "I had to live up to it somehow," he tutted.

"Why?" She whispered. "Why would you kill your own siblings if it was your parent's faults?"

"I'm different to any normal witch or warlock in our coven. You see, I wasn't born with magic, but instead, I can absorb it from another who possess magic, apparently that made me unstable for the merge so my parents just had to keep having children until another set of twins were born," he explained. "I personally think I would win," he added as an afterthought.

"And I assume that happened," she replied quietly, looking down at her shaking hands.

"Yup," he agreed, popping the 'p'. "Hence, me killing most of them, but Jo hid the twins with her magic and then lied to me," he laughed. His smile then dropped and a dark glower descended on his face. He looked up at her. "Don't trust anybody, not even your family, all they do is betray you."

"I had two siblings, one dead and the other could care less about me, same goes for my parents, I'm pretty much alone anyway," Lilith confessed, gripping the grass blades between her fingers. "It's amazing how much your family can drive you to insanity," she said.

She no longer felt the fear towards Kai, in some sort of sick and deluded way, she understood a part of him. He was scared of being rejected, the only one he thought loved him was Jo and even she betrayed him, so had Lucifer, he left her on this damned planet alone.

Kai acknowledged her sudden change of mood and frowned. "Who says you're insane?" He asked, intrigued by her words.

"My feelings," she replied, laying on her back. She closed her eyes as she listened to the boy next to her inhale slowly and the winds rustle through the trees before something dawned on her. "1994, does that mean you're old now?" She joked.

Kai scowled down at her. "I should be 40, but as you can see I'm still 22," he snapped, throwing grass at her face.

Lilith spat the blades out, panicking as one got in her mouth. She rolled onto her side and gagged it out before punching the boy in the arm. "Dick," she grumbled, turning onto her stomach. "I'm 20 if you're wondering," she whispered.

Kai hummed, staring back into the distance.