I own nothing.
Void of a Lullaby.
Seduce her, my demon.
"Some people thought that when you died, the last feeling you felt in life was what you'd be feeling for eternity. If you went out watching paint dry during sex, you'd be yawning and fucking forever. But what about those who'd be stabbed to death, those whose houses would burn down? Those innocent would go to hell without the fun of getting there. Life really wouldn't be fair, and it wouldn't matter who was right as long as they were in the right place at the right time. What about those who'd be buried alive?"
That was my theory. I stuck to it, too.
Life on earth wasn't fair, hell no. It was hard to comprehend, hard to grasp and take it all in; but hell had hardened me. I was a kindred soul, during my short time on earth, having been strangled to death by my own stepfather at the tender age of nine. Being dragged down into the deepest, darkest pit of hell to spend the rest of my eternity had brought about my lack of emotions.
I'd been in luck, however.
After being stuck for almost eleven years, tortured and lost in my own mind, wondering why I hadn't been sent up there, up to where I could be at peace and look down on my mother and sister. I'd been noticed.
Satan, as people would call him, wasn't all he was cracked out to be. Sure, he was the father of all sin, despair and evil. But my first glance at him had been something that makes me chuckle to this day. An old man, seeking out the purest souls, and sending me, his Reaper, for them. I'd throw them down to him, and consuming the souls would grant the old fool immortality. Or so he's convinced.
I knew the devil was aging, his corrupt heart was withered and dying. Ofcourse, aging didn't come to me, as of the day I turned twenty, because of my position as Reaper. And Satan himself shouldn't age, shouldn't be ready to die, but it's unknown why he suddenly is, - but I just supposed there's only so much torment a heart and body can take. If he did die, there would be nowhere for him to go. The underworld is already his very own garden of Eden, and Heaven would rather fall from the clouds than accept him to their utopia.
"Ikuto."
I quickly dropped to one knee, and bowed my head. The old man looked worse off than he had the day before, the flames of his sacred throne casting a sickly amber glow over his pale face. His long, greying hair, and small horns curling out the front of his hairline, and his body was getting thinner, weaker. I almost pitied my master.
"I have a soul for you," he wheezed, bringing a skeletal hand to his mouth, and coughing up what I guessed was blood, - as he had been for the past few months or so. ".. To collect for me, this may be the one."
Ah, another goose-chase. The last time he'd sent me on one of these, I'd ended up murdering a young man who's name was Hotori Tadase. To put it simply, he saw me lounging on his bed as he walked out of the shower, and almost quite literally shit himself.
I mean, I wasn't exactly scary, but with the sheer size of my blood-stained Scythe propped up against his bed, and the pair of onyx wings unfurled from my shoulders must've been a shock.. obviously.
Needless to say, I took great pleasure in.. removing, that one.
"Yes, my lord."
With the information suddenly registering into my head, I realised this time it would be a young woman, - eighteen years old, pink hair, gold eyes. Her name was Hinamori Amu, and my heart almost wrenched, what a waste of such a beautiful creature.
"However. I've come to realise why the souls you reap do not help with my predicament. Before they arrive here in my realm, the shock of their slaughter drains their innocence. Their purity. So, for this one soul in particular, - I want you to seduce her, my demon."
My breath caught in my throat. I could most certainly have fun with this one.
A trademark smirk, one side lifting higher than the other, exposing my enlonging canines, - i was excited.
"Yes, anything, my lord."
I disappeared in a startling haze of purple and black flames, the whisper of my soft chuckle haunting the chamber i'd soon return to.
oh my. short. very, very, very short.
but i just needed to get a first bit of my story out, and i promise the next chapters will be waaaay longer. (:
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- lixx.