Title: Priceless
Author: ForestGlenny
Rating: PG for no reason a'tall
Summary: Some things money can't buy. Eclipse/Raenef, mildly slashy.
Were he human, Eclipse would cheerfully admit to enjoying the finer things in life. But seeing as he is, in fact, a demon, he would then have to cut off your left big toe, make you wash his laundry, and then finally smite you with a sledge hammer, because it is well known among demonic handbooks that demons are never cheerful. Anyway, Eclipse would eventually admit to liking the finer things in life, such as burning and pillaging, if you tickled his left foot right at the top of the arch, or if your name were Raenef the Fifth.
Eclipse considered himself to be a fairly old fashioned demon in respects to his fondness for destroying quiet little towns at advantageous times like holy days and alternate Wednesdays. In all other respects, he considered himself a rather more modern demon, as he hated dealing with the stupid gods and their wishy-washy "power of love" rubbish, and greatly disliked attending long, boring meetings filled with evil, boring demons. Especially demon lords. Except for one.
Whenever Eclipse could escape the path of destruction left by said (well-intentioned) demon lord, he also enjoyed reading books or lurking about in the lovely library of Raenef the Fifth, which, in his humble opinion, had only ever been rivaled by one library. Books gave him a pleasure that pillaging didn't. Well, it was a different sort of pleasure, anyway; a quiet, subdued one, where he could sit calmly in a soft chair and pretend that he didn't hear Raenef being beset upon by his empty-headed pages, or that various portions of the castle were not collapsing due to some misdirected spell. He had gotten very good at pretending to be deaf.
Though he was most decidedly not deaf when sounds involved Raenef V, Pathetic Wuss come Demon Lord, crying, or when certain knights called him 'kitchen wench.' Then he had a tendency to get violent. In such instances people often bled or attempted to consume various and sundry water supplies. For their own sake, hopefully not the water source intended for the preparation of the next meal, a chore which Eclipse would NEVER under pain of DEATH admit to liking. In fact, he would slit his own throat first. Psh, kitchen wench? The great demon Eclipse? I don't think so.
In fact, many things brought great pleasure to the life of Eclipse, especially when said things somehow involved his lovable (Rule # 47: Demon lords are not lovable), clueless (Rule # 342: Demon lords will know exactly what is going on around them at all times), painfully kind (Rule # 873: AND FOR BADNESS SAKE, DEMON LORDS ARE NOT KIND!) master and (gulp) friend, Lord Raenef the Fifth. Tutoring Raenef brought Eclipse great pleasure most of the time, but not when Raenef blew up the castle. Talking to Raenef brought Eclipse great pleasure until he actually listened to what, exactly, his little lord was saying. Cuddling Raenef brought Eclipse great pleasure until he had to run off to take care of a little problem. Raenef was, in fact, quite pleasurable to be with. Though Eclipse would never admit to that.
Burning and reading and torturing were all well and good, but being with Raenef was priceless.
-fin-
24 June 04
Um, hope you liked it! Sorry if the format is screwed up. I will try to fix it in the future... Reviews are appreciated, constructive criticism welcome.
