Hello! Okay, so this is my first posted fanfiction, but I have loved this site for a very, very long time! Please feel free to tell me of any mess-ups you see, and hopefully you enjoy!
~Mamma Sherer!
The cries of the laboring woman echoed down the long hallway, while a man paced in an empty room. The man winced at the screams as he silently fumed. The woman had been in labor all day, and now it was well into the early hours of the next day. The hospital was quiet around him and his two companions as they waited
The pacing man flinched as another scream was heard. He walked up to the nurse's station and asked "Madame? Do you have any news on the woman in rom 912?"
The petite woman continued writing as she said, "Sir, what is your relation to the patient? Are you related to the woman or her husband?"
The man sighed as he replied, "No madame, but I am a really close friend of the family. If you could just be so kind as-"
"Sir, we are not allowed to release information to anyone other than family and approved people. If you will take a seat then someone be out to speak with you at their convenience." She said as she typed away at the computer, not sparing a glance at the man. If she had, she would have seen the red flash in his normally icy blue eyes.
"Madame, Please. I am just really worried for my friend and her child…" The man spoke in a velvety soft voice. "Just a moment of your time and you will have settled my heart."
The woman finally looked up into the man's eyes, just about to mention calling security, but the words died on her lips. The look on the man's face was one of profound worry and sorrow. She nodded her head and stood up. "I will poke my head in and see if maybe I can check her chart. I cannot promise you that I will be able to tell you anything though…."
The man smiled and sighed, "That is all I ask. Though, please do not disturb them with my presence. That can wait until after."
He turned to one of his companions and said in a low voice, "Joseph, go and make sure no one enters this hospital without us knowing. Debrief the lookouts, and sweep the surrounding buildings and make sure that there are no uninvited guests. Oh, and find me that reaper."
Joseph bowed his head and said, "Yes Sir."
The nurse walked back towards the man, calling out softly, "Excuse me, sir." The nurse came to a stop just a few steps away from the man, and softly said, "She is close to having the baby…. The baby had been facing the wrong way, but now everything is fine."
As the man turned to acknowledge her, he picked up on a faint feeling of something truly ancient. As he closed his eyes and breathed deeply he could almost smell the evil. His eyes flared, and in a blink of the nurses' eye's he was gone. He rushed to the room, and as he pushed on the door he heard the first cry of the baby, and the doctor said, "It is a beautiful baby girl! Congratulations Ellen and John!"
Then everything around him and the doctor froze. There standing in the middle of the room, holding the beautiful baby girl, still covered in the slimy white paste, was an ancient dark demon. It's true form hideous and dripping in a dark slime. The demon leaned down close to the cooing babies face, as if to kiss it, breathing deeply.
The man roared, shaking the windows, causing the lights to flicker, and the building to quake. The roar drew the other demon's attention and it made eye contact with the man. The man's eyes burned red and his fangs were bared as flames flickered around his form. As the other demon's eyes widened, the man's form shifted and grew. Dark flames licked at the horns and crown on his head, and with another roar he started towards the ancient demon.
"How dare you touch my daughter! You will regret this day, and the day you chose to walk this earth!" and with that he shot a clawed hand forward and wrapped it around the demons throat. He gave a mighty yank and pulled him body and soul from the doctor. There was a jolt through the hospital's foundation as the mighty demon fought the ancient demon for control, pushing him through the window.
As he roared, his companion from the waiting room had cast a sleeping charm on the nurse, and rushed through the door. He came through just in time to see his lord barreling through the window. He heard his lord cry over his shoulder, "Take care of this for the moment, Cerberus! The humans must not know! The doctor, make sure he takes care of them!"
Cerberus shifted into the background behind the doctor, out of sight for the humans, as time began again. Everything was as it should be in the room. Though he swore the little girl was staring and smiling right at him….
The doctor blinked a few times, as if clearing away a daydream, and looked down into the baby girl's face; she was staring right behind his shoulder, cooing to something.
"Ellen, she is beautiful! Let's let the nurses clean her up, and let me check you over." The doctor handed the baby girl to the waiting nurse and then leaned down to check Ellen. He cleaned her up and then stepped forward and placed his stethoscope on the left side of her chest as he read the monitor next to her. As he moved all of the extra equipment out of the way, he gave Ellen a little water and then excused himself for "a brief moment."
The nurse laid the baby on the little warmer and cleaned her off quickly. She then pricked the baby's little heal and dropped the medicine in her eyes. Then she had her foot prints down and was putting a diaper on her.
The whole time she marveled at how beautiful this little baby girl was, softly speaking to her. "You are a beautiful baby, you are so quiet and sweet, already cooing and smiling at nothing and everything…. Oh you sweet little thang….." She was very quick to notice that something behind her was catching the baby's attention, making her smile and coo. The baby even lifted a single hand, as if to grab something.
Cerberus was enjoying looking at this little girl, and cooing back to her. He could feel his master's life inside of her, but then also her own soul. Even though it has long been taboo to have your child born unto a human, but he trusted his lord. He would follow him into the void and back.
He felt Joseph rounding the corner, carrying coffee and fresh water and heard him say, "Mrs. Ellen, Mr. John! The doctor told me to drop this by for you two and the nurse! He told me you two have had a long night!" Joseph was dressed some of the night staff scrubs and had a badge that said -Nurse Stenson- on it. Cerberus snickered and then nodded his head to the window. Joseph handed the coffee to the human man beside the bed, noticing that he was tightly grasping Ellen's hand. Then set the fresh water on the side table, helping Ellen take a small sip.
None of the other human occupants of the room noticed the slight crack that had formed diagonally across the window, and later the next day the maintenance would marvel at how it was formed…
The two demons in the room flinched as they heard the final shrill cry of the ancient demon as their lord destroyed him. The lord was kneeling in the alley with his other underlings. They looked on his battle torn form, and the smile of glee on his face, as he was covered in the gore of the dead demon. Then they stepped forward and started cleaning the leftover of the ancient demon. He leaned down and caught the escaping essence of the ancient demon in a glass vile.
One female demon stepped forward, and offered a new suit and an elegant pink gift bag. "This is from all of us Sir. Go and we will finish up here." She said softly as she smiled and bowed.
The man appeared in the shadows of the hallway, buttoning the buttons of his new suit's coat. He nodded to Cerberus and Joseph, who was at either side of the door. To Cerberus he asked, "The doctor?"
"He believes it was a temporarily stress induced blackout, Sir, and that he was only out for a second. He has already called his nurse in to check his vitals and downed a couple cups of expresso. I made sure that he "remembered" to recheck her vitals and the baby." Cerberus said, looking over to Joseph to finish the report.
Joseph nodded and said, "We have checked over every other person in the building, Sir, and rerouted any other incoming people. No one else is possessed by any more uninvited guests. We are still searching for the entrance point, but we had purged and warded the room."
The man nodded and placed a hand on each of the demon's shoulders, "Thank you boys the first rounds on me tonight when we get back!"
He pulled out two cigars, handing one to each of them, "Boys, these are Gurkha Black Dragon Cigars. We will light these up tonight!"
Then he pushed through the door and quietly walked in. The room was dark except for one light from behind the bed. On the bed, Ellen was feeding the baby girl, cooing at her with a soft lullaby.
The man stood in the corner for a few moments, taking in the sight of this human woman, watching her with his daughter.
He had waited a long time for this, to find the perfect person to raise his child, to teach it, mold it into ferocious being capable of truly immense power. He had a feeling that this woman and her family was just the humans to do it. This woman would love and care for his daughter, while showing her how cruel and evil the world would be around her, molding her into the most powerful demon in a very, very long time.
Ellen looked up, and looked at the man, "I was wondering when I would see you," she beemed at him while she beckoned him closer, "have you seen her yet? Isn't she beautiful?"
The man sat on the bed beside the woman and opened his arms to take the baby girl, "No, there was some unexpected business to take care of, but I was by the door when she took her first breath."
He looked down into his daughter's eyes, seeing her round eyes flash pink as she raised a hand to grab his finger. He looked up into Ellen's eyes and asked, "Does John know I'm here? Where is he?"
Ellen laughed and said, "He ran to the house to get some fresh clothes and let everyone know… her eyes… Does everyone notice that? What does that mean?"
"The pink in her eyes means that she is very healthy, and already very strong, it is her demon nature showing through. Right now she is fully human, soul and all, but also has my demon life force flowing through her. It is very complicated and hard to explain to you how this works, but I will tell you that I need to bind her demon side, just for the short time of her developing years, then on her 20th birthday they will be "unlocked" so to speak. She will be fully human, even after her demon side is unlocked, only when she chooses will she change." The man explained. He pulled out the glowing vial, and uncorked it. "I brought her a gift, one that will help to keep her demon side bound."
"What is it…? A soul..?" Ellen asked.
"Yes and no. It has many souls in it, but it is the essence of an ancient one. It will make her stronger than any of those before her… It will protect her." Then he placed the vail on the sleeping baby's lips and tilted so that the essence slid out. The baby made a sour face and moved in her sleep.
"I know little one… One day we will give you something much better…" the man smiled down at the child. "Ellen, what are you and John going to name her?"
"Oh! I thought you would want some input… so we…" She blushed a little at this.
The man shook his head and chuckled, "Ellen, I had no part in 'making' this beautiful human girl, she is entirely you and him… She has a name in my realm, what do you want to name her here?"
"We were thinking… Eloise Scarlett."
The man smiled and looked down at the baby girl, his very human baby girl. "Eloise Scarlett… That is a perfect name, for a human and a future demon… My Eloise…"