I participated in the DGM Rare Pair week and these are my entries! Starting with Neallen, my all time fave.
Prompts: Purple, Royalty, Creativity, Determination, Opulence, Wisdom, Maturity
Nea stared at the prince standing in front of him and couldn't help but pity him. Stripped bare of his riches and fine robes, all that was left was a brat with nothing to himself but his name and rage.
Poor little princeling, having lost everything.
"How much have you fallen from God's grace to come to me?" Nea asked curious of what could have driven far enough to seek out the help of a demon.
"What grace?" The prince retorted, glaring at Nea with his bright gray eyes.
Perhaps Nea had misjudged the human in front of him. That was not the glare of a boy, oh no. A child is unable to hate as strong as the prince. There was fire in his eyes and Nea would enjoy seeing the spark into a bonfire.
"The only thing I've been graced with is pain. If that is God's understanding of a gift, then I don't want it," the prince spat.
"Big words for a human like you at the constant mercy of a higher power."
The prince smiled, if one could call the baring of his teeth that, rather cockily.
"Like you are any different from me. Discarded from heaven was it, oh so powerful light bringer, because you didn't want to grovel at your father's feet anymore, right? Stripped bare of your title and wings-"
Before the prince could continue, Nea stepped forward, enjoying the shocked expression of the human as Nea left the summoning circle behind him. Easily he reached for the prince's throat, black claws digging into warm flesh, and held him up by it. The man weighed almost nothing.
"Don't try my patience," Nea hissed but that just seemed to aggravate the human further.
"Or what? You'll kill me? Get in line."
For a moment Nea really considered just dragging his fist through the man's chest and rid him of his heart. He certainly deserved it for disrespecting him like that, for making him remember the feeling of first his wings and backs being on fire, than his whole being screaming in pain as all signs of grace were burnt out of him.
But the little prince had shown a surprisingly huge amount of courage for a human. It was refreshing, which made it almost a waste to kill him right now.
And so Nea dropped him to his knees, let the human take his precious breath.
"Is that what you do to all of your clients?" The prince asked between coughs.
"Usually there's more blood and death involved."
The man snorted as he slowly stood up again. "How kind of you to let me live then."
"Right?" Nea replied smirking. "Now remember that when you speak to me."
"No promises," the human muttered below his breath, but obviously not too concerned about Nea's threat.
Was he simply that indifferent to death? There was no other possibility to the sheer ignorance the prince displayed.
"What do you want? What have you summoned me for?" Nea asked.
"I want to see the world burn," the man answered and again, there was this determination in his eyes.
Perhaps it wasn't indifference to death but rather that he didn't particularly care if he died in the process of getting his revenge. How fascinating.
"You don't need me for that," Nea stated. The man in front of him had figured out how to summon hell's strongest, surely he could forge a plan to ruin his treacherous uncle who had stolen the kingdom from the prince without the aid of a demon.
"Of course I don't," the man sneered. "But they chased me out of my home like one would a demon."
At this he balled his deformed red hand to a fist. It did look similar to the hands of some demons Nea commanded.
"So it's only fair that they die by the hand of a real demon."
As far as Nea was concerned the prince's reasoning was nothing but petty and deceitful. To risk his own life only to get the perfect revenge, that was something Nea could get behind.
"I accept your preposition, little human," Nea said and held out his hand. "I'll help you with your revenge and in turn when you die your soul belongs to me. Deal?"
"My name is Allen," the prince hissed but shook Nea's hand without hesitation anyway.
"And I'm Nea. Pleasure doing business with you."
Thanks for reading! I'd love to hear what you think about this strange little OS.