Like a Demon from the ashes
After returning to his world Satan has an inner battle. Does he return to his conquest to rule the world or face the consequences of his sins? Will Emi and Suzuno, and unknowingly Chiho return to a world overrun with demons and how will Chiho deal with the destruction Satan has caused?
Urushihara typed away on his laptop. It was the only light emitting in to the dark room he shared with his fellow demon general Ashiya and their master Satan. Urushihara frowned as his laptop took ages to load up a page he was trying to get onto. How he so wished he could get a new laptop but Ashiya would have a fit at the mere idea and go on a rant about money and Urushihara wasn't really up for that. He toyed with the idea about buying a new one anyway. If it arrived here before Ashiya and Maou realized what he did he was sure they would cave in and let him keep it plus it would piss off Ashiya which was a bonus. Urushihara was about to do just that when he noticed that he got an email in one of his other tabs. He clicked the tab open and looked at the title of the email.
"Wonders and places of true magic" it read. Urushihara had a small snicker to himself. Humans in this world often confused many things for real magic. Most of his time spent online was separating the real magic from the countless fakes and sadly there was only a small handful that could be classified as real. Those either lacked enough magic to be of use or where just too far from them to go to on their current budget. Out of a whim he signed up to a website dedicated about magic and often got many emails about magic and places believed to be magical. These were often lies but he still checked just in case one had any truth behind them. As Urushihara opened the email his eyes shot wide open as he read it.
"Well this is interesting..." he thought to himself. It looked like he found that email that would prove to have some truth behind it a lot faster than he thought.
Maou put his hand on his forehead trying to block out the bright sun from them. He had just finished a shift at work. He would off gladly stayed on longer at work but today he was seeing off Chiho, Suzuno and Emi on their trip. Chiho's father had rented out wooden cabin far out in the woods and planned to use it observe the eclipse that was happening that weekend away from the lights of any major city. Chiho had invited Suzuno and Emi along and both whole hearting agreed. Suzuno was glad at the idea of going somewhere that had some resemble of their old world and Emi had never really had a chance to appreciate an eclipse before since it was usually at this time demons were at their strongest and so most dangerous.
Chiho walked out of McRonalds after Satan. She too covered her eyes from the bright sun. It was a lovely day and though she was happy for her upcoming trip she was sad at the thought of not seeing Maou for the next few days.
"Well shouldn't we walk to your place?" smiled Maou to Chiho.
Chiho felt herself blush at his smile but was able to muster a "sure" before walking home with Maou. Both chatted about random stuff, mostly work and their upcoming plans. As they reached Chiho's house they saw a car parked outside, boot open, half filled with items for the trip. Chiho's father came walking out of the house carrying a rather large box. He was followed by both Suzuno and Emi with smaller boxes in their arms.
"Oh hi Chiho can you go up and change? We will be leaving shortly" Chiho's father asked.
"Sure thing!" Chiho said happily before running off into her house. Both Suzuno and Emi said hi to Maou though while friendly did not have as much warmth in their eyes Chiho had towards Maou. Both knew very well that while nice in this world the horrors that he can bring and never let slip that mistrust they had for him.
"So you're Maou to finally meet you!" came a booming voice from the front door. Chiho's mother came walking over towards Maou a smile that threatened to go beyond the width of her face and a bosom that rivalled Chiho's own.
"I have heard so much about you" she smiled before putting Maou into a tight hug, his face lost between her cleavage. After he finally emerged between the walls of flesh he greeted Chiho's mother between gasps of breath.
"Nice to meet you to!" He just about mustered. Both Suzuno and Emi laughed at this. Maou may have been oblivious to Chiho's flirts to him and the times she has tried to use her boobs to get his attention but the sight of seeing him forcefully come into contact with Chiho's mum's boobs was well worth a laugh.
Maou shot a frown to the two girls. It wasn't exactly fun for him to nearly die by a woman's cleavage 'oh how he would be mocked among demons if he did!' and their laughs didn't help the cause. Before Maou could throw a witty remark their way he felt a hand on his shoulder. Turning around he meet the smile of C's father police detective Sasaki. Both had met already but thanks to Maou's mind wipe had forgotten all about it.
"So you are the man my Chiho has fallen in love with! I'm glad to meet such a young, honest, hardworking man! Those qualities are rarely found in today's generation! If you ever want to move up from the job you are currently at, just ask me, I'm sure I can help you out!"
"Thanks Mr Sasaki but right now I'm happy being assistant manager at McRonalds" Maou smiled. 'Chiho's parents were certainly a friendly bunch' he thought.
It was at this moment that Chiho herself came running out of the house. She had changed out of her uniform and into a tank top and a pair of shorts. She was trying to make as much use of her curves as possible to try and attract Maou's interest. She got smiles from Emi, Suzuno and her mother and a shocked expression from her father still unaccustomed to seeing his daughter wear such clothes. Maou gave her a smile to but not one that came from seeing the clothes she wore but just from seeing her in general.
"So honey you already for the trip" smiled her mother. After getting a nod in return she continued on "well good your father and me will be waiting in the car. You girls say your goodbyes to Maou don't keep us waiting now!" before dragging her still shocked husband with her.
"Well Chiho I guess this is goodbye" waved Maou to her and the three girls. All three said goodbye back before adding some of their own words.
"I hope you be careful Maou while I'm gone and I hope you don't run off back to Ente Isla while I away!" said Chiho a look of pure dread in her eyes at the thought.
"Don't worry Chiho I don't plan to anytime soon! I still got to work my way up the McRonalds business chain before I can even think about returning home!"
"Oh good!" Chiho replied before putting Maou into a hug similar to the one his mother had just did to him though failing to put his head between her boobs.
"You better get up to nothing while I'm gone demon" Emi growled towards her foe. She didn't mean to be as harsh as she was but she couldn't help herself. This would be the first time since meeting him in this world that she would leave him to his own devices for a large period of time and the threat of him pulling a fast one was real.
"Don't worry I wouldn't dream of it" Maou said sticking out his tongue.
"There is some food over in my place, help yourselves to it" Suzuno said.
"I'm sure Ashiya would be more than happy to" Maou said thinking about his commander.
After that was done all three girls hurried off to the car and Maou waved them off until the car turned a corner and was lost from his sight. Turning with a sigh he made for home.
Upon his return he was met with the sight of both Ashiya and Urushihara sitting quietly looking at him. This unnerved him since Urushihara was usually always stuck on his laptop and Ashiya was being sick, cooking or complaining about something (he had managed to do all three at once before!)
"What with the faces" he asked his two generals.
Ashiya looked to Urushihara who put his laptop on the table facing Satan. "Read" was the only word that came from Ashiya's mouth.
Maou did what he was told and sat down in front of the laptop. The laptop was open to an email about a local shrine and strange occurrences that are meant to take place around an eclipse.
"So?" Maou asked. It wasn't the first time they had come across a place in the human world that was meant to have magical properties.
"Well this shrine isn't far from here and so I and Urushihara decided to check it out. When we got there we felt no magic at all but once we touched it we felt a rush of magic surge through us. We stuck around to find out any more information. We learned that the shrine is meant to be a place where a battle between a demon and mage took place. The mage won and the shrine was made in his honour. Legend had it the demon was killed on the night of an eclipse and since then on every night of an eclipse strange things are meant to take place. After learning this we made to leave put not before touching the shrine again and we felt the same surge of magic as before but this time stronger! We believe there is some truth in the old legend. It could be our best chance to get home!" Ashiya finished.
"Wait you really think we can go home now!" Maou say shocked. He always planned to return home but it always seemed so far off. Now though it could be a real possibility to him he felt uneasy. He has really enjoying Earth.
"Yes at the minute this is our best chance that doesn't rely on the sorrow of humans" Urushihara said. "I also did some research about actual demons in this world. One thing I noticed was that demons never stayed around long. Just create chaos and leave, some return to the same area every now and again but their stay is usually short, I think it could be possible that long exposure to this world is poisonous to demons"
"But we have been here for over a year and nothing bad has happened" pointed out Maou.
"Not exactly true I'm sure you noticed but it takes longer for us to gain the same amount of power as before even with a large amount of human sorrow and it has gotten easier for Ashiya to get sick the longer he has been here. I think it is only an amount of time before something really bad happens to us" countered Urushihara.
"So this is it then, either leave tonight or stick around and die!" questioned Maou.
"I'm sorry my lord but that seems to be the way" nodded Ashiya .
"Fine let's get packed, time to go home!" and though he tried to sound cheerful he couldn't help keep the disappointment from his voice. As the demons started to gather their things Maou pulled out a notepad. Ashiya had got one as it was his belief it could come in handle and the fact it was on special offer with a set of pens helped too!
Maou decided that if they were going to leave he had to have a way to say goodbye to the three girls they were leaving behind and hope that they could forgive him. He also hoped that they would pass on the message that he wouldn't be in work anymore. He really didn't want to leave McRonalds without giving them some sort of message he was leaving.
That night all three demons stood beside the shrine waiting for the eclipse. Both Maou and Urushirhara had waited an hour for Ashiya to show up. When asked why he was late he gave some excuse about being late though Maou was sure he had went back to get back his cloak!
Maou could feel the magic from the shrine grow and nervously counted down the time he had left in this world. At the full height of the eclipse he felt a rush of magic erupt from the shrine. With his veins throbbing with magic he willed a gate to open. A gate appeared to his left of the shrine big enough for them all to fit through.
"Well this is it" said Ashiya aloud.
"I'm so glad to leave this world behind it really is a boring place" spoke out Urushihara before walking through the gate.
"I know this is hard but we don't belong in this world" Ashiya said to his lord.
"Your right" Satan said to Ashiya . Ashiya smiled to him before he too walked through the gate as well.
Maou turned to look at the lights of Tokyo one more time. He smiled at his broken promise to Emi but frowned as he remembered his promise to Chiho. She had told him her fear of his return to Ente Isla and he did promise he wouldn't just leave her. "I'm sorry C looks like I'm gonna have to break that promise" said Maou and he walked through the gate. It disappeared from existence after he entered. Returning the demons to their word and opening up another chapter in the human VS demon war.