Author note: This chapter is dedicated to backstory! It is mostly OC but the good stuff is coming, I promise. I don't care if you like it or not, if you skip ahead, nothing is gonna make sense probably. Just sit back and enjoy the crazy ride that builds! Any dialog marked like this: "/.../" will be used in a preset language. Example being: She looked at him like he was stupid for not understanding and switched to his native German tongue. "/I don't care, figure it out on your own!/" The dialog in between the / is in German. It makes translating a lot more easy, don't you think? NOW ON TO THE MAIN EVENT!

Erza fell out of the branches, or more precisely their shadows, falling down onto the ground with a hiss of restrained pain. The battered demon collected her thoughts and assessed the damage as calmly as her situation allowed. The anger bubbling within her at each injury she counted however minor or severe, she was going to destroy the foolish people responsible for her predicament. One meal was enough to have her condemned to death was it? How rudely unfair. Oh she would enjoy their deaths... If she didn't suffer hers first. The albino lay on the forest floor, unknowing of the raven haired pixie punk heading her way.

Jade practically was steaming as she walked out to where she hid extra clothes for situations like this. Those fuckers ruined her iPod with that damn oil! With a huff, she ripped the ear buds from her ears to throw the now useless device as far as she could. Her body stank of whatever the fuck was in that anointing oil and she was pretty damn sure it would give her a zit the size of Mount Fuji. She was heading straight for the giant oak in front of her where there was a hole she kept spare clothes in to change; Erza blinked her purple eyes as a small device bounced into her peripheral vision, Oh? What was this now... She widened her magical sensory field. Sensing the nearby souls of various small creatures, a few deer and one very agitated young lady... Ooohh~

This Erza could use; and the girl was nearby. She retracted her extra features and left herself appearing as just one badly wounded woman. "... Hello...?" She rasped, making a face at the sound of her voice, "... Someone here...?" Jade didn't even flinch when she heard the voice and continued to change clothes. Someone had been smoking a pack too many.

"What do you want now, assholes? Haven't you done enough for one day?" Jade looked back to the voice, silver eyes trained for anyone she knew that would try another attack. She had just the answer for them here.

"I believe I am only one asshole. And what do you mean? I can't settle on nearly dying in a forest. That is not satisfying for an over achiever such as myself. I have several other places that I would like to almost die in by sunset." Erza coughed, slightly amused by her tongue.

Jade finished pulling on her new clothes and rolled her eyes. She reached in for her switch blade and started in the direction of the voice. Enough was enough. "What are you playing at?"

"I'm not really playing much of anything right now. Right now if things go their course I won't play much of anything ever again." For someone claiming to be dying, she sure did talk a lot, Jade thought. She flipped the blade open as she walked around to find the woman and just blinked.

"Good afternoon." The albino greeted, head falling to the side as a slight cough left her. "Are you really pointing a knife at a defenseless and dying woman who is incapable of doing little other than talk and bleed out?"

"To be fair, I didn't believe you. The fuck happened here?" Jade asked, flipping it closed and crouching down to look at her curiously. She'd never seen this woman before... her sliver eyes taking in the cuts, bruises, and burns she had long gotten used to seeing on herself.

"Not much. Could you help me of fulfilling my simple dream of nearly dying in a hospital? And possibly quit staring at me as though I am a white tiger in a zoo." She rolled her purple eyes, squirming a bit in attempt to maybe sit up or at least roll off of her stomach.

Jade looked her over once more and stood. "Yeah... That isn't happening." She said and started back to her tree. She had learned a thing or two about stitching a person back up. She had a lot of practice on herself.

"What the hospital or you not staring at me?" Erza asked, watching the teen go.

"Both!" She called back as she walked before digging into the hollow tree for the little plastic box.

Erza laughed, "Oh why not? I am amazingly attractive but I'd rather you didn't stare at me as though I was an endangered species. And I am dying. I'd rather place my life in the hands of a certified stranger instead of just a random stranger."

She waltzed back with the box and rolled her eyes. "Trust me, you are better off with me. Any doctor in town would turn you away just because of your eyes." Once she reached her, she crouched down and looked at some of her wounds and took out the sutures and rubbing alcohol.

"Hm. Judgmental sods." She huffed, ah she would just have to settle then.

Jade huffed but smiled a bit. She could get along with this chick. "I'm not sugar coating it. This is gonna hurt like hell." With that as her only warning, she poured the alcohol on her wounds and used the burn to cover the prick of the needle as she sewed quickly. She was getting too good at this.

Erza barely winced as the teen worked. "I thought this was supposed to hurt~?" She grinned, watching her curiously.

"Normally it does..." Jade said, cutting the thread and moving to the next. She left professional quality stitches in her wake as she worked. "Even I still wince and I'm used to this."

"How do you know I'm not, hm?" She teased; they were satisfactory although not comparable to the quality that Aki showed.

"Because I am right here and I'd see your muscles flinch. It's like I'm not even touching you." She mused as she finished the next wound. "And shit, how many are there!? You piss off a bear?"

"Oh no I meant how do you know I'm not used to this?" She chuckled lowly. "And ifthere were any bears, it would be a possibility."

Jade looked over her nearly flawless skin and rolled her eyes. "You'd have scars. And there are, they just normally aren't this close to town."

"They've left." No doubt due to her presence. This girl was so naive... It was amusing how humans couldn't sense beings like her anymore without special training but other animals were still quite aware.

"Probably. Wish they would come back, I'd love for them to eat someone." She kept stitching, finishing the large one on her chest. Honestly, this woman was creeping her out. How was she even conscious after all this blood loss?

"Hopefully not me, right?" She grinned, watching as the girl sewed her back together.

Jade cut the last thread and shrugged. "I don't care. You aren't going to die and it be my fault now, so if you get eaten, big shit." For all she knew, this woman was just as big an ass as the rest of her town.

"Hm. You won't let me starve as I recover will you?"

Jade looked her over, thinking for a moment. She was pretty much helpless in this state. "Can you walk?"

"If I could don't you think I would have by now? I can't even roll over let alone walk silly girl."

"There is your answer. Come on, it'll be fun to piss my parents off with a houseguest." Jade grinned and bent to help her up.

"Mm. I can manage that." She said, struggling to help herself up. "What is your name?"

"Jade. You?" She asked, deciding to offer her a hand.

"Nice name." Erza grinned, finally standing on her shaky feet with the assistance of Jade. "My name is Lucifer."

The black and red, spiky haired girl laughed at that. "Oh, God my folks are gonna love you..."

"Hm? Why's that?" Erza asked curiously, tilting her head as she leaned on the much younger woman. She used her for support as her body protested being upright adamantly.

"Cuz they certainly love me..." She said as she rolled her eyes; had the scars to prove it.

"Ahh. Well I might make it a point to be extra lovely then~"

"Please don't. I like them pissed." She made sure she had a stable hold on the albino and walked her out.

"I was being sarcastic love." Erza laughed, stumbling a bit.

"Easy." Jade caught the other and held her up. "I live just outside the forest. Can you make it or do I gotta go hotwire a car?"

"I am fine for now. Let's just hurry."

"Alright. Just hold on." Jade started back down her path but taking the quickest way possible. Erza leaned heavily on her, taking her steps carefully.

Eventually, they arrived at a modest and unassuming house and the pixie of a goth girl looked at it in contempt. "Welcome to Hell." She sighed before walking the other up the stairs.

"I believe you are mistaken. Hell is a bit more red and warm." Jade didn't comment as she opened the door to help her to the couch. She took a strange route though, one that kept them as far away from the guest bathroom downstairs as possible. Jade always avoided that bathroom if she could. Erza flinched as they entered, this place was just dreadful. Religious artifacts everywhere; oh it even burned a little. She absolutely hated this house.

"If you need the bathroom, it's over there." She pointed to the door to the full bath and sat her down on the couch. "My family shouldn't be home for a bit, so enjoy the calm before the storm."

"I'm just going to have a nap if you don't mind..."

"Whatever floats your boat. I'll be in my room. It's the one the loud music will be coming from and has a lock on the door."

"Alright. See you then." She said, watching her from her spot on the couch as she slowly slipped off into sleep. Jade headed to her room and shut the door behind her. Soon after, alternative music that was loud to her was soft sounds to Erza as it drifted down the stairs. From the couch, Erza hummed lowly with it before truly falling asleep, her body allowing herself to rest.

The peace was kept until a car pulled up and a 'fuck' drifted down as the music stopped suddenly and Jade was flying down the stairs to the couch. "Lucifer! We gotta book it, now isn't a good time to fuck with them." Jade had heard her parents car arrive and had looked out her window to see a new nightmare.

"What is it?" She asked, snapping awake quickly looking up at her.

"They got more of their shit. I guess once wasn't good enough for tod..." Her words were cut off as the front door opened and her face paled. In walked a normal looking man and woman who lacked any and all of their daughter's creativity. In their hands were a few bottles of water and oil and a few black boxes. Erza felt herself immediately get defensive, if she had her wings on there would be no doubt that she would be puffing them up. But she didn't do anything and watched from the couch although her eyes were sharp. Her purple eyes wandered over the man with chestnut hair and in a suit, hazel eyes that appeared warm at first but she could see the darkness underneath. Next she glanced at the blonde woman in the floral sundress with blue eyes that matched her husband's in the same respect. She was slowly piecing together this Jade girl's life as it unfolded right before her.

"Jade? Who is this?" The man asked nicely but he met her gaze with disapproval. He wasn't a fan of this new woman's hair or those inhuman eyes.

"She... she ah..." The girl stumbled for words as she turned to her parents, her mother frowning at her hair. It was still dyed that god awful way she loathed.

"Didn't we tell you to get rid of that... mess in your hair?" She frowned upon the red highlights her daughter wore and looked her over, still finding more issues with her attire. That miniskirt, the fishnets, that ripped shirt with that damned band about some romance with a skeleton and some "black parade". Had she gotten more earrings too? Sarah thought her daughter lucky that there was a guest here or her hide would have been tanned.

"I believe her hair is rather nice. It's definitely not boring like yours." Erza said, curious about what boundaries they had. What they would do. She'd have to be careful though, or it could end badly for her.

"And I believe you are trespassing in our home. Your thoughts are not welcome in here..." James looked her over with a scowl as he thought of what to even call her. She so far wasn't as bad as his devil spawn of a daughter but she was clearly a sinner.

"Oh well. You really should be more kind after all aren't people like you supposed to look after the injured? Isn't that what your god wants?" Erza hummed, smiling up at him.

"He is your God as well, even if you choose not to accept him. And even He strikes those who are heathens."

"He did not strike me. A few people who have made great mistakes did."

"He works in mysterious ways. I would appreciate it if you would leave. My wife can escort you to a hospital and then a ministry for help."

"Mmm-no."

"Would you rather I call the police?" He asked, crossing his arms.

Jade looked to her and tilted her head. She had never seen anyone talk to her parents that way. Or anyone around here that way. She envied this woman and the power she radiated even as injured as she was. Envied that she could speak that way without fear. "Just go, Luc…y."

"I can't get up." It certainly didn't help that there were more crosses in this house than most churches. It was taking all she had just to speak.

"Sarah? Get her out of here. I'll prepare the water to clean the couch." James scowled and the woman nodded.

"Lucy, was it? Let's get you to a hospital." She turned to her daughter and shot her a look that could kill a hardened criminal. "We will deal with you later." The look of fear that crossed the teen's face was unmistakable as she wondered if she would survive this promise. Erza, however, rolled her eyes, humans. They were so ridiculous. For now she decided to just bend to their wills, she'd play later when she could walk on her own. Sarah helped her up and took her to the car to take her to the hospital. They weren't quite out the house before a loud slap hit their ears as the door shut and her father's muffled voice could be heard through the door. "How dare you infect our home even more than you already do with that scum!"

"Oh, so that's the sort of people you are." Erza said plainly, looking to the woman with disapproving eyes.

Sarah said nothing, plastering a smile on her face to try and not match her disapproval. "We are just the good god fearing people that we all should be."

"Well that's stupid. If there is anyone you should be fearing it definitely isn't him."

"Why fear him when you do as He asks? I do not fear His wrath as I am clean. I do fear for you and my daughter, however."

"You did just say that you were the god fearing people that everyone should be and please, you are about as clean as the mud on my shoes."

She took a deep breath to keep her cool as she put the other in the car. "You would understand if you mind was not clouded by sin."

"You are rather dumb, aren't you? Everyone sins, especially you and your husband."

"It's a shame we cannot fix you like our child." The blonde sighed and closed the door before taking the driver's seat and started to pull out the drive.

"We are talking circles around each other. Not listening to the other to deduce who is truly wrong or right. But I don't think you'd like the answer." Erza sighed, looking out the window.

"God is always right, dear."

"God is a blithering idiot." She rolled her eyes; the man could never make up his mind. Sarah sighed and shook her head. This girl was a lost cause. She said nothing to her the rest of the trip. This girl though was already planning, she knew what she wanted to do and... she knew where they lived. After a silent thirty minute ride, Sarah parked the car and went in to alert the staff and soon a male nurse came out with a wheel chair.

"Lucy?"

"Yes?" Lucy was a decent enough name for now, Erza decided, looking to the man.

"Let's get you in..." He offered, helping her out and into the chair before Sarah left to help her husband with their child.

"Thank you... Doctor Peterson." She said, watching the car go. Erza was slowly getting her strength back... Oh hopefully there was some angry doctors to feed off of.

"Please, call me Dave." He wheeled her into the hospital with a smile, just to meet her with more crosses. Erza gave a face that basically was the most are you fucking kidding me as she looked at them all. Fuck humans. She was going to burn this town down. She doubted that they would interfere too much although she probably wouldn't be managing any visits home.

Two days later and Jade was running out of her house, leaving everything she had behind as she coughed desperately for air and dripping wet. She just had to her to the woods. Her safe haven... she couldn't go back home. She didn't want to. If she couldn't leave this town, she knew another way out and she wouldn't be missed. She stumbled a bit as she ran, smacking low hanging branches and limbs away, ignoring any slaps or scratches they gave her as she tried to not fall. Freedom was so close as she neared her clearing. She broke through and froze at the sight that met her, one that was unexpected but not unwelcome. There in the forest stood a familiar woman, although any signs of illness or injury were gone and she stood proud in her full white uniform. Her arms crossed as she leaned against the oak tree, everything about her oozing power. Erza watched as Jade came to her, "Hello Jade."

She looked up at her and fell before her, still coughing and trying to catch her breath from where she nearly drowned. "L-Luc...ifer?"

"Of course." Erza grinned, "Do you want to make a deal with me?"

"Deal?" She asked, looking up with a broken look on her face.

"Of course. I'll help you. I'll do anything you say if you help me." Erza said, her fingers tracing Jade's cheek. She ignored the searing pain on her fingertips as she smiled at her.

"...I just want it to stop. Either to die or kill them all..." She admitted, closing her eyes at the first gentle touch she ever knew.

"Then I'll kill them. It's not so hard. Will you help me with what I need?" Erza said lowly, this girl... Ah she was so familiar to herself.

Jade reopened her eyes, a bit of hope sparking in them. "Anything."

"Then do you accept the deal?" Erza asked, holding her hand out to shake.

Jade didn't waste a second, taking her hand. "I accept."

"Good. Now you should go home and wash up. You will eat dinner with them and you will spout off any religious nonsense you need to in order to make this happen... When you believe it's time just say my name." Erza said told her softly. She softly petted her hair before falling through a shadow, vanishing instantly.

"Make what happ...en?" Jade asked, looking up to see no one and sitting back on the ground. She had to go back... She sighed and stood. She was a girl of her word but if she died, she was killing Lucifer. She started back for home slowly, determined to follow her orders. The next few hours of her life were the worst as she conformed to her parents' wishes to their utter delight. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore. She knew what Lucifer said, but damn it, she couldn't hear one more crack about her. She was doing every damn thing they had ever wanted her to do. She even dyed the red streaks out of her hair and had boring brownish blonde hair that was her natural color. But now they were expecting her to date a boy they wanted her to marry!? "That's it. Lucifer." She whispered as she stood, leaning on the table.

"What was that, dear?" Her mother asked with a smile, proud if her child for once. Her father followed her gaze with the same smile. They were interrupted soon though as someone cleared their voice at the head of the table, directly across from Jade; she had cleared her throat since no one was looking at her.

"Good evening. How are you all?" She purred lowly, her chin resting on her closed fist as her elbow sat on the table. Erza was always one for a wonderful entrance.

The adults looked to her and jumped back in shock, having no idea how she even got in here. Jade just looked up, nearly unrecognizable as she had some make up on and whatever the hell her mother had dressed her in. "Miserable."

"That's to be expected, you are surrounded by religious idiots." She purred, reaching out with her free hand and grabbing a carrot stick. She eyed the girl and frowned at the style she was in. Pure white dress and hair bleached back to its natural dirty blonde and more makeup than a circus clown. It was pathetic.

"H-how did you get into our home?" James asked, anger growing.

"I walked through a shadow on a willow tree back home. It's quite convenient, shadowtravel; I'm surprised more beings don't do it." She said, grinning as she bit into it.

His wife was confused, just as he was. "What? I don't care, leave the way you came."

"No, you see... I made a deal. And creatures such as I never break a deal. It's a quirk~" Erza grinned, swallowing the remains of the carrot.

"Deal? Creatures?" James turned to his daughter and glared. What had she done now? Right when they finally had a break through.

"Now, I don't know if we've been properly introduced. My name is Lucifer. A pleasure~" She grinned, her irises swelled until her eyes were a solid purple, black liquid began to sluggishly drip from her eyes like acidic tears. Large black horns curled from her head with thorn like spikes coming from them, her impressive wings came next and they filled up the space behind her easily. The combination of bat like and bird like wings were proudly unfurled as far as they could in this small space, and last but not least two tails waved behind her. One resembling that of a lizard and the other reassembling the tail of a fox. "James and Sarah... Due to your sins it was only a matter of time until I came for collection. Today is that lucky day."

Jade slowly smiled at the sight, in awe at her appearance before her parents stood and backed away. "We have no sins!" The woman protested, cowering behind her husband.

"No sins? You've abused a young person who is utterly defenseless against you, turned away people who've needed assistance and many others. You cannot tell me, the queen of hell itself, that you have not sinned." She said standing up with elegance and poise, each movement and syllable radiating power.

James threw his arm around her and growled at the demon before him as he said the Lord's Prayer. He wasn't going to let this beast terrorize his wife. He couldn't give a shit if she took Jade though. He would be glad to be rid of that problem for good. Jade just watched the demon still, shivering but not of fear. She was in awe of the woman before her, looking to her like she was the Calgary. The prayer, however, stung slightly but not enough to stop Erza, if he was a hunter that might have been useful.

"Oh is that praying I hear?" She purred and continued walking forward slowly, pushing them into a corner. "That might have worked if your God hadn't abandoned you... He has no need for sinners such as you." Jade turned to watch, glad to see the fear she had on her face for years on their faces. She wanted to watch.

"Nothing to say? Humans like you are so pathetic... Relying on an outer force to dictate your lives." Erza sneered, her disgust and amusement dripped from every word before she lashed out with speed not observable to the human eye and grabbed the woman by her throat. "Sarah Sarah... I believe you need a lesson on mothering." She purred, pulling the woman away from her husband; using her powerful magic to freeze James in place.

They couldn't say anything, frozen in their terror. They waited for some divine intervention or sign to show they would be saved but none came. Sarah teared up with fear, pushing at the hand that was crushing her throat.

Erza held the woman up, forcing her to look at Jade. "See Sarah. This is what you call a teenager. Do you know how to treat teenagers?" She purred into her ear, her grip tight enough to keep her off the ground but loose enough that she could still breathe enough to live and speak. "Come on Sarah I haven't got all day you know." She said when the woman remained silent; she dug her claws into the Christian's shoulder, drawing crimson blood.

Sarah screamed in pain, arching away from the demon. "Y-you make them into proper adults!"

"No no. Wrong answer." Erza purred, digging her claws in further. "You support them and allow them to be their own person while offering advice from your experience in the world. You don't make them into anything." She said, her voice low and dangerous.

Sarah screamed, tears flowing down her cheeks. Jade wanted to laugh but she knew she shouldn't enjoy this. But she did anyway. It was like a world's weight was lifted off her shoulders.

"Now. You shall apologize to Jade for all the years of her life you wasted and destroyed. Repeat exactly after me." Erza grinned, clearing her throat a bit. "I am sorry, Jade." She said, slowly so that Sarah's pain addled mind could understand her. She pulled the claws down her arm when she didn't repeat the words she was supposed to fast enough.

The woman screamed at the pain and sobbed the words out. "I-I'm sorry, J-Jade!"

"For being a failure of a mother." The demon continued, grinning sadistically. Ah, nothing like a bit of torture in the evening to unwind.

"For being a failure as a mother!" She cried out as her husband watched on in horror.

"I especially apologize for wasting your youthful years." She grinned, "And for abusing my place in your life." The demon purred, grinning at Jade. Her eyes sparkling, oh she was pleased that the girl was enjoying this as well.

Sarah repeated the words perfectly as she sobbed. Jade just grinned, for once enjoying her mother.

"Now... Jade. Do you forgive your mother?" Erza asked, her grip tightening around her throat to keep her quiet.

Jade tilted her head slightly. "I don't think she really means it... So, no."

Erza grinned, and clawed an X into her back. "Oh... That's unfortunate..."

The woman screamed in pain again. "I mean it! I'm sorry!"

"Not." Erza beamed and then with the clenching of her fist, the fragile neck of Sarah was snapped.

"Sarah!" Her husband screamed and tried to move to her body but still couldn't.

Jade just stared at the body in shock a moment. It didn't really register for a second before a grin spread over her face. "Dickhead next?"

She dropped the body and turned to him with a grin, "Of course." Erza stalked over to James slowly. Draping herself over his back with a grin, "Hello James. Having a nice time out?"

"Go back to hell, Spawn of Satan." He spat at the demon as he looked to his daughter. "And you are nothing but Hellspawn. I regret ever siring you."

"You are too kind James." She grinned, "Now Jade... Lovely... Come here would you? Bring that knife please."

Jade didn't grab the knife though, choosing to pull her switchblade out and snapped it open before pointing it at her father. She just wanted to sink it into him then and there. "Give me one reason. Just one. One that would make me not slit your throat like I've dreamt about for years."

"It wouldn't be as fun as cutting one of his hands off for stealing your time from you." Erza grinned, purring lowly as she clawed the X into his back.

He ignored the demon as he glared at his daughter, gritting his teeth at the pain. "No reason would work on a monster. May you rot in hell."

Jade took his hand and slashed his wrist as fast and hard as she could. It wasn't enough to take his hand but she could just keep cutting as he screamed.

"Hell is a rather nice place... I know you'll enjoy it." She purred, digging her claws into his cheeks.

He screamed again as the pain built and soon his hand was gone as Jade held it up and moved to lift his middle finger. "Here's to you, pops."

Erza giggled, "Oh you are so fun! I'm so proud of you my dear. You're doing very well."

She smirked and looked to her. "So, once he is dead, how do I pay up?"

"Well. Once we destroy this town... We're going to go kill a few angels."

Jade laughed before freezing. Did she just hear the other right? "Wait, everyone!? This is a better deal than I thought!"she got revenge on this entire place and what, she lost her soul? According to everyone she didn't have one, so joke was on them.

"I can't stand such religious places. Makes my skin crawl."

"Can't blame you." She hit her father with his own hand and trailed the knife over his body before stopping it over his heart.

"You want to kill him now? This is your chance to repay everything he's done..."

"Nothing can really make up for almost twenty years of pain."

"But don't you want to play with him? You can do anything you like and he's entirely helpless to you."

"Anything?" Jade asked, looking back to the bathroom she hated so much. The one they had baptized her on so many times and nearly drowned her in just a few hours before.

"Absolutely anything."

Jade flipped the blade closed and walked to the bathroom and filled the tub. She knew exactly what she wanted to do. "Bring him on!"

Erza purred, picking him up and pulling him in. He was powerless to fight back, growling at them both.

"Remember all the fun in here, old man?" He started to speak before Jade shoved his own hand into his mouth. "No, no! What was it you said? No speaking? It would be over soon?"

Erza sat back, she couldn't get involved with this. It would definitely hurt her if she did, even if it was just tap water. Sometimes the water in religious households like this began to take on some nasty magical properties. Jade just wanted him to know how it felt to be gagged and forced into water. But Jade was fine. She honestly got a kick out of it, even found a way to justify it to his logic. "An eye for an eye? You casted the first stone, bitch. Enjoy your reward." She pushed him in and held him under, humming to some techno.

Erza chuckled watching them, he couldn't even struggle due to the force of her magic... but of course this was beginning to wear on her... Stupid would get her payback though soon once this girl had her own. Her magic was why Jade paled when he stopped bubbling however. Without him struggling, she had no idea when to pull him back up. "Shit, I think I killed him to soon."

"Mm... That's okay..." Erza hummed, rubbing her arms a bit.

Jade dropped him into the tub and turned to her. "Next victim?"

Erza released the magic, shaking her head. "For now. I must rest. I've been resisting my bonds for a while now."

"Bonds? And what about angels earlier?" Jade asked, she had focused more on the killing the whole town bit.

"Oh. It's simple. An upstart hunter got some help from angels and now I'm strictly bound against doing anything considered... morally unsavory."

"Killing is savory then?" Jade grinned but wondered where exactly she fit in all this.

"No it's not... I'm currently suffering for doing all that."

The teen frowned upon hearing that. "Anything I can do?"

"Let me feed on you..." Erza purred, "If you give me permission then it's alright for me to feed off of you..."

"Uh... Sure. What do you eat?"

"Pain, Pleasure, Anger, Jealousy, Blood and Fear."

"Go for it."

Erza didn't need to be told twice. She moved forward, pulling the other close and bit her shoulder. Soon she was drinking the blood, enjoying the way the blood slid down her throat. It helped much more that rest, that was for sure. Jade had worse pain from her family and just grit and bared it. Thought it hurt almost as bad as when they branded the cross on her stomach.

Erza pulled back after a time, not wanting to cause lasting damage, and sealed her wound shut. "We will rest before we destroy the town and then we will rest further until we go to New York."

"Hmm. What's in New York?" Jade asked, rubbing at the slightly tender area. Her head was slightly fogged from losing just over a pint.

"Those bothersome angels and hunters." She purred, "Do you want to come with me to my home? We destroy the town tomorrow."

"Sure. Why not? I kinda wanna hear this story anyway..." Jade said, remembering how she found this powerful demon as weak as a rabbit and on death's door.

"Maybe I'll tell you. Maybe not."

"Fair enough."

Erza purred and pulled her back into the shadow, taking her into her beautiful red forest of weeping willows. The world around the girl turned black and span out of control before just as suddenly as the ground dropped out from their feet it returned. Jade landed with the demon and gagged as the world spun.

"W-what the hell...?" Jade blinked as she looked around to the forest landscape that looked more medieval fairytale than Hellish.

"This is hell. Thank you for noticing." Erza grinned, gesturing to the world that seemed to be bathed in blood.

Jade stared at the scenery as the shadow sickness left her, feeling more like her stomach was finally arriving in hell than waiting for it to settle. "You gotta be joking..."

"Why?" Erza asked, blinking feeling confused.

"It isn't on fire, it's a rather nice temperature, and it's too fucking beautiful."

"I think it's rather nice." She huffed a bit, "Now come on. We're going to my home."

"…it was a complement…" Jade huffed as she walked, still staring at it all in awe. If this was hell... what was Heaven?

Erza led her through the forest, past small or large houses that occasionally dotted the otherwise quiet landscape. Jade blinked at each one in wonder as she passed. In a few, she could just see inside where demons were living. From what she saw, they were special snowflakes. Each had different horns and wings and tails… filled with diversity between them all.

"My circle is one of the lesser populated ones. Usually demons with children or ones that want safety live here." Erza explained as they stepped out of the houses to see a mansion that was just as red as everything else and big enough to be comparable to a couple palaces pushed into one.

"Safety? And demons can have kids?" Rosemary's Baby came to mind...

"It's very rare but possible, most of us adopt."

"Adopt?"

"Take in humans that don't want to be human anymore as our children but usually they are frozen in time. If you're turned at thirteen then you stay thirteen in appearance forever. It's simple." Erza purred, leading her up to the mansion. Jade glanced at the demon and chewed her lip. Stuck at nineteen didn't sound so bad. And she liked this demon much, much more than her mother. She was more a mother in this last hour than her real mother was in her lifetime.

She bounced up the steps with a purr, "Welcome to my home." Erza grinned, opening the double doors and stepping inside.

Jade looked up at the mansion, still in awe of it all. "You really are the Queen of Hell..."

Erza found it amusing and laughed loudly at that. "Oh if you insist~ Come now dear we must settle you into a room for yourself! After dinner we have much to do~"

The girl nodded and followed her in, watching all the people work. "Are those demons too?"

"Nope. They are people that used to be sinners. This is what is left. A damned soul. Here in hell since there are so many to go around we use them to trade for things..." Erza explained, leading her through the house. "Hm. An example would be four damned souls for a new house."

"Houses are cheap in hell..." Jade mused, watching the souls pass with a smile. She wondered if she would be one when she died.

"No not really. That would get you perhaps a hovel in EverFrost. And even that's not guaranteed." Erza said, taking her up to the fifth floor. "If you wanted to get a house like this it would take... Maybe six hundred thousand damned souls. Although, me being who I am, I could just build it as a go."

"EverFrost?" Jade asked, confused but not surprised about the cost. That made much more sense.

"Hm. This will be your room but follow me to my study." Erza tapped on a door, turning the wood a blue so she could find it easily in the otherwise red home before she set off once more.

Jade nodded, looking at the blue door before following her. Up on the ninth and highest floor she hummed to herself, used to the long walks that it took to traverse her home. The human wasn't so much though. Jade was winded by the sixth floor and was wondering when the hell they would stop.

"Come on dear, almost there~" Erza called out, ignoring that fact that she had been saying this since the seventh floor but she really meant it this time.

"That's... what you said... two floors back!" Jade huffed, trying to keep her breath. She really hated exercise.

"I mean it this time!" Erza promised, the teen hoping so, her body protesting each step.

Erza took a sharp left turn and opened a door, walking in with a hum and leaning against her desk as she waited for the girl. Honestly. Humans were so out of shape these days. Said human was in a second or two behind her, bending over and breathing heavily. She walked a lot but this took the prize for most steps she ever climbed.

"Do you need a minute? Please take a seat." Erza hummed to herself as she picked up a folded piece of paper as the girl sat down, getting her heart rate back down and breathing normalized. She tossed it to Jade when her breath was caught, "Here. This is a map of Hell."

Jade opened it to see it all. So EverFrost was an area? "Where are we?"

Erza pointed to the second innermost ring, "This is RedGroves. My home is specifically here." She pointed to an area near the edge close to the circle.

"Cool." Jade grinned and faintly wondered who lived in the middle. Shouldn't it be her?

"EverFrost is the ring here." Erza pointed to the largest ring that stood on the very outside. "It's constantly snowing there and it's the only place where humans, angels and demon hunters can enter hell without dying first or being taken in by a demon."

"Shit. It's snowing in hell!? I lost the Superbowl then..." Jade said as she stored the information.

"Well it's simply the wish of the demon that rules that space. A demon by the name Beelzebub. It's also the only ring in hell that has the cycle of time. Everywhere is constantly stuck with evening."

"Why's that?"

"The evening is the best time of day to go hunting for a meal and it's generally a nicer time if day. But Beelzebub is sort of crazy. But that's why a house there is so cheap. Location, location, location."

"Crazy is my kinda language. I like this guy already."

"You won't like him so much when your entrails become garlands on the skeletal trees in his land."

Jade blinked in shock a bit and decided to maybe avoid that area. Always. "It's funny when it isn't you so..."

Erza chuckled. "Ah well. Is there anything else you want to know or shall we go downstairs for dinner?"

"Yeah. Not that I'm complaining or anything about it, but how did I find you? The hell kicked your ass that bad and why didn't you just kill me when I found you?"

"Oh. I didn't kill you because I needed you to live."

Again she avoided the question about how she got hurt. "You seriously make no sense but plenty all at once."

"Thanks love."

"Sure you aren't a politician?"

"Mm. Not quite. I'm more of a General." Erza purred, standing up. "That aside let's go get dinner, love."

"Wait. You mean we just came up here for a piece of paper and now we gotta go back down!?" Jade groaned, thankful the climb down was always easier than the climb up. She was going to be so fit by the end of this, she swore it.