Disclaimer: I do NOT own Beelzebub! All recognizable characters in this story belong to Tamura Ryuuhei.
Scum of the Hell
Chapter 1: Back to the Demon World
„Hilda-him-… Hilda-neesama, Hilda-neesama!" Lamia ran through the deepest gulfs of hell while looking for a certain blonde-haired woman.
The said woman was sitting on her favorite spot at the water's edge and reading under a huge oleander tree. It was the only species of its sort there with the beautiful pink flowers, which were five times bigger than a normal blossom in the human world and didn't wither for the whole year.
Hearing Lamia's voice, she closed the thick encyclopedia about demonic spells and seals, and spotted the pink haired assistant doctor running towards her. "What is it, Lamia? Why are you so winded?"
Lamia stopped in front of her and tried to catch her breath. "Something,… something horrible has happened!"
Hilda was filled with horror as she imagined the worst scenarios. "No! Did-… did something happen to the Master?" She jumped up and grabbed Lamia's shoulders.
The latter shook her head. "No…no, even worse than that!"
"Is… is it the Demon Lord? Did something happen to our King?"
Lamia continued shaking her head. "No… but he's coming back!"
Suddenly, Hilda's face became as white as sheet and she let her hands slide down from Lamia's shoulders. "You… you mean…"
"Yes! He has finished his training and is on his way back to the Demon World!"
Hilda gritted her teeth and clenched her fists until her knuckles turned white. "So, that bastard is returning after so many years?"
After the incident three years ago, Lamia knew that her idol was still mad at that human. The incident that had changed her personality, her whole life and made Hilda to what she was now. Though people had always described her as cold and ungrateful back then, Lamia knew that Hilda had also had a hidden caring and lovely side.
But even that part of her had completely vanished.
Her deep frown disappeared as quickly as it came when Hilda grinned evilly. "Finally…!" she murmured lowly under her breath.
At last, the long awaited day when she would settle her score had come.
"So this is the Demon World? It doesn't look that… frightening to me. Besides those green creatures here and there, which look as if they're ready to attack us any moment."
"Don't worry, Kunieda-senpai." Furuichi assured her. "Those Yoppulu monsters are peaceful creatures that are guarding the valley of Vlad. You could also call them the police of this area."
"You sure know a lot for being here only twice." the dark haired-girl remarked quite impressed.
"Yes, we've met them here during our first journey when we came to rescue Angelica-san. That's why we're taking this route although the valley of Vlad is said to be a dangerous place in the Demon World." he explained as if he was some kind of a guide. "Anyway, you don't need to worry about them. They're really harmless and if something happens, our man here will scare them to death, right Oga?"
The latter didn't reply.
"O-Oga?" Furuichi repeated.
"I don't know…" Kunieda whispered thoughtfully. "Oga is the only one making me worry here. Was it really a good idea to bring him here in his current state?"
"Would you two shut up for a second?!" The man in front finally snapped at them. "If you're wetting your pants from the start by seeing a few Yoppulus, then go back right off the bat! Nobody asked you two to come along anyway…"
"D-Don't get the wrong idea." Kunieda disclaimed. "I've only come to see if Koma's behaving himself. And the Red Tails asked me to give some souvenirs to Lamia…"
"For my case, I haven't had a choice anyway, right?" Furuichi sighed, being overexcited at the same time. "But I want to see Angelica-san that I'm even putting up with meeting Alain Delon again!"
"Then stop annoying me and be quiet until we reach the royal palace." Oga hissed back, being more moody than usually. "Your drivel's giving me a headache!"
Furuichi and Kunieda exchanged a pair of worried expressions and turned their gazes back to the man in front. Their lousy excuses from earlier were only half of the truth for coming along with him to the Demon World. The fact is that they wanted to keep Oga under control and prevent a similar event as three years ago. Kunieda had heard the complete story from Furuichi when they had returned from the Demon World that day but the story itself had been less frightening than Oga's state at that time. Having already fought against demons herself, she knew how strong they were and heard from her grandfather that they were multiple times stronger in their own territory.
Nevertheless, her biggest worry was that Oga's own power level had probably surpassed a demon's long ago so that he could easily wipe the floor with that Jabberwock if they were in the human world.
She turned her gaze to the other man walking next to her. Furuichi tried to smile at her nervously but was preoccupied with something else.
"I hope that we can get over with this before we meet her."
"My Lord." The King's fugleman bowed in front of him. "Oga Tatsumi and his two companions have arrived."
"Send them in." The Demon Lord commanded as the older servant did.
"Jeez! Why all these formalities instead of letting us in directly?" Oga nagged as he stepped in lazily in front of the King.
"Still lacking of respect, human?" the King noticed. "I'm somehow glad that you haven't changed a bit after all…"
"Like hell I haven't changed!" was what Oga wanted to say but he thought better of it. "I've come back and kept my part of our agreement, just as I promised. Now it's your turn!" He pointed a finger at the King. "Where are they?"
"As hot-blooded as ever, Oga Tatsumi! Fine. Me, too, I'll stick to my side of our bargain since you've completed your task and proved me that humans aren't very useless in all likelihood." The Great Demon Lord turned to his servant and demanded. "Bring my youngest one here!"
"As you wish, my Lord." The servant bowed his head and was out of sight.
"Who would have thought it'd be that simple to get Beel-chan back." Kunieda whispered relieved to the silver-haired next to her.
Once again, Furuichi smiled weakly at her and wondered skeptically. "Is it really so easy? No, something's definitely wrong here! Be careful, Oga…"
The Demon Lord turned back to his visitors. "You sure, you don't wanna stay and rest for a while? You must be quite tired after your long trip here."
Furuichi opened his mouth to say something, but Oga was the faster one. "No, let's get over with this quickly. No need to stay here any longer than necessary!"
Just as if on cue, a certain blonde-haired wet nurse and the green-haired baby in her arms entered the hall. Whereas his companions made delighted faces to see Baby Beel again after so long, Oga had a different expression on his face and looked rather disappointed at the woman. "You…!"
A/N: Finally, I present you my fourth fiction for Beelzebub!
Compared to "A Father, A Lover", this story will have shorter chapters (around 1000 words) to provide you faster updates hopefully. However, I probably won't update this one before ultimately finishing "Rapunzel in Ishiyama style!", so I'm just publishing it now to collect your first impressions. I'd be glad to get as many opinions as possible although this chapter isn't very informative…
Anyway, I can give you some hints about this story: it's going to be multi-chaptered, too, but unlike "A Father, A Lover", demons will play a central role as you can see (even the plot starts in their world). In addition, instead of an 'adventurous' and humorous love story, the theme will be… (have a guess)… yes: the impossible love.
PS: The lyrics in the summary belong to the soundtrack "Bios" from the anime Guilty Crown. It's in line with this fiction, therefore you can also regard "Scum of the Hell" as a song-fiction for it.