3rd Demon General

Chapter 2

She's here?!

The sky cleared, but gained darkness when Alciel came in. I spoke in Earth's tongue, I might as well get used to it. "You back from the library? Find anything out?"

He sighed in disappointment. "No. But I did find out about some cooking recipes from books they had there."

I shrugged, leaning against the wall and sitting down, putting my hands behind my head. "Your job, not mine."

He put his hands on his hips, turning to face me. "You could help out, you know."

"I don't want to cook. I might do that at my job, a job which you don't have."

He rolled his eyes, before opening one of the books and getting some ingredients together to put in a top. "Shut up! I hate you sometimes."

I smirked. "Aw, only sometimes?"

"Mellano…"

I raised my hands with a teasing laugh. "Ok, fine."

I laid around bored and was broken out of it when I heard him yelp, the soup was steaming. He ran over to it and I blinked while looking at him. I then burst into laughter. He turned to me after moving the pot from the hot part. He put his hands on his hips again. That just made me laugh more. "Okay, Mellano. What is it?"

"W-why are you wearing an apron?"

He raised an eyebrow. "The cookbook says it's the proper wear of a cook."

"Well, it makes you look stupid."

He glared. "I hate you."

I took some of the soup and put it in a bowl. I cringed before I took a bite. I then raised my eyebrows in surprise. "Wow, this taste good. Did you use any magic?"

He scoffed. "Of course not! I happened to follow the rules within the cookbook."

I shrugged this off. "Ok-King Satan, you're back."

Alciel stood straight as King Satan came in. He looked tired. I got up, filing a bowl and giving it to him. He nodded. "Thanks Akito."

I stiffened and replied stiffly to my false name. "No problem."

"Sire! Where is your umbrella?"

"Oh…I, uh threw it away."

I looked at him blankly, he lied horribly. No one would…

"How could you do that Sire!?"

I muttered. "I stand corrected."

I decided to just go to sleep.

/ / / / / / / /

In the middle of the day, I changed back into my uniform, going to work. I walked in and saw my boss. He waved me over. "Miss Akito, I'll have you work half the day as a waitress and the other half as a cook."

I nodded my head. "Sounds good to me."

As I finished throughout the day, I was brought in to the back where the kitchen was. I saw 2 men in the back with white pants and a white jacket like shirt with buttons down the front and a white hat.

The manager waved his hand. "They will teach you."

One of the cooks grinned, he had black hair and brown eyes, teeth a bit on the filthy side. I ignored the feeling of insult of a human teaching me something. I just repeated in my head, 'it's a different world'.

He said. "Hiya. I'm Shibi Totomaru. Chef Shibi or just Shibi is fine."

The other one who had dark hair and a mix of colors in his eyes spoke. He was a bit younger, around the age of my human appearance. "Yuuma is fine with me."

The rest of the time was spent leaning about the pizza I was supposed to make. It wasn't hard and came easy to me. They ate some. "This is amazing! You ever make this before?"

I shook my head. "Not that I can recall."

At this time, my shift was over and I did something called 'clocking out'. Earlier, I was given that cooking uniform. At least I didn't have to wear a apron. The thought was enough to keep me smirking.

I got back to our building and saw King Satan already there. Alciel was putting food down. He said to me. "Hey, Mellano! How was work?"

I shrugged, sitting down with my legs crossed at the table. "Good enough."

Before anything else was said, the food was out. I dig in without saying anything else. I didn't eat much other than the pizza I made. It was basically rice, cucumbers and some vegetable in brown sauce. King Satan grumbled. "I wish we had more protein this time."

"You eat hamburgers on a daily basis sire, you get plenty."

I rolled my eyes. "It's food, eat it."

The doorbell rang. I rose an eyebrow. "Who'd be here?"

King Satan shrugged. "Dinner crasher guy?"

Alciel replied in a annoyed tone. "I'll have to say no."

"Sales person."

I shook my head. "Nah, nothing we want would people come to a stranger's house to sell."

The doorbell rang again. I groaned. "They aren't going away."

Alciel sighed. "I got it."

He got up. I loosened my tie from around my neck. Alciel went to the door and said. "Hello? To whom do we owe the pleasure?"

"That's an unexpected courteous greeting coming from a demon! Especially you, General Alciel."

I froze in disbelief with my hand still on my tie and stared at King Satan. He spit out his drink. I shook my head. "No, no."

King Satan groaned. "Yes."

"You should all remember me, Emilia the Hero!"

Just hearing her name pissed me off. She was the reason we were dealing with this in the first place. I moved my hand from my tie and I stood up angrily as Alciel gaped. "E-emelia the Hero?!"

I walked over to him. She shouted. "Yes! Now open this door immediately and accept your punishment with a little dignity."

Alciel let out a panicked sound, locking the door with the chain. "It's the Hero, sire! The Hero's here and she found us!"

I stared at King Satan. "My lord? Why don't you look surprised?"

He sighed. "'Cause I'm not. I kinda know already."

I was indignant. "You didn't say anything?!"

Alciel was just as upset.

I heard the Hero. "General Mellano is here too!?"

I snarled at the closed door. "Shut up, human!"

King Satan poured some tea in a cup. "I probably should have mentioned it to you earlier. I ran into her yesterday, she might've tried to kill me."

I threw my arms up in the air. "You think!?"

The Hero screamed. "Hurry up!"

I snapped. "Shut up already. We're not opening the door!"

"You better!"

King Satan scoffed. "We ran into a cop and he thought we were dating and having a lover's quarrel."

I lost my anger for a moment and snickered. "She must have been happy about that."

I could see the Hero at the window screaming at us. "It was the most mortifying thing ever! Me dating the ruler of demons?" She went back to slamming her hands on the door. "Open up! Open up!"

I groaned, sitting back at the table with Alciel and King Satan. "Now, she's here. Do you want to tell me why you felt the need not to tell me this sire?"

I waved a hand. "Or me."

"Well, I figured she didn't do any real damage. Other than completely stressing me out, she doesn't have any powers to use against me."

Alciel asked. "So, she's like us? And most likely doesn't have a way to replenish her powers either. Which means, the Hero has no more power of the Gate than we."

I leaned forward, looking at my king. "My lord, if I may. You are the demon king, she is the Hero and we are your Generals. We need to defeat her when she is at her weakest and outnumbered."

I ignored that the Hero was yelling the whole time. King Satan waved a hand. "Nah, we don't need to do that. We don't want the attention. It's fine, she harmless."

I snorted. "We're not humans who follow their laws. She's not harmless, she kicked us out in the first place."

King Satan rolled his eyes. "It's fine…ok, let her in."

She was crying behind the door. I looked at Ki-Satan in disbelief. I shook my head. I wasn't so hateful of these humans from Earth, but Satan was acting too different, like the Gate changed him somehow.

I stood up with a growl of annoyance, storming to the door. I unlatched the chain and opened the door. I stared down at her from where she was on the floor. "He is right, are you so weak that you can't kick down a door?"

She snapped, starting to stand up. "Shut up and let me in."

"You certainly changed your attitude. Fine."

I moved aside and she came in. She sniffed. "This place is a dump. It's tiny, it's shabby and it has paper thin walls."

I glared at her, indignant she was insulting our place after crying outside our place of residence. "No one wanted you here, Hero! Stop insulting our place!"

Satan agreed. "She's right, now you're just being mean."

Alciel said in an stiff tone. "The Devil's Castle priorities functionality over comfort."

She looked at us dryly. "Oh, really? This is what you can functional? Quite the royal feast you got there."

Satan said indignant sounding. "Hey! Ashiya is an amazing cook. He whips up meals out of practically nothing. It's like magic."

Ashiya was actually blushing. He put a hand over his chest and bowed his head. "I'm honored by your praise, sire. Many thanks."

Satan replied. "Word."

I slapped a hand to my forehead. The Hero snapped. "Are you all idiots? The Prince of Lies is dining on jelly and cucumber?"

I crossed my arms over my chest. "I don't see an issue. You were wailing like a newborn babe because we wouldn't let you in and now you insult us. Seriously?"

Satan nodded. "Akito has a point."

I twitched. The Hero was pissed. "I was not, you filthy demon general! Did I really travel to another world to kill this disaster? It's pathetic and even I found a better way to live than this and I live all by myself!"

Satan asked. "Your comrades aren't here?"

She snapped, throwing a small box at us. "No and shut up! I'm all alone here. One of the High Priests were supposed to come too. Our plan was to go home as soon as we destroyed you in this world. But then Alba was…he was too slow. It turned out I was the only one to make it through. "

Satan said. "Wow, that sucks."

The Hero glared. "The last thing I need is a demon's pity."

Alciel replied. "'Tis rather amusing. You like a search party that requires its own search party."

Satan said. "Now that that's settled, you should find yourself a way home. You know where we live, but it's not like we're going to move away and hide. We can't afford to. I just have to begin my conquest at this current devil's castle."

I smirked widely. "I like the sound of that, my lord." Now he was sounding like the demon king I remembered.

The Hero's tone was arrogant. "This coming from the man who can't get a full-time job."

Satan replied. "If you think I'm going to live a peaceful part-timer's life, your dead wrong. I got goals. One of which is to subjugate this world."

I liked the way he was talking. Satan stood up and put a clenched fist in the air. "For your information Hero, McRonalds sometimes lets part-timers go fulltime. Face it, Emelia! I shall be a full time worker in this world! Thus accumulate wealth and social status. I will become so powerful, all manner of humans will kneel before me. Then I will invade Ente Isla once more!"

Alciel was clapping and I just stared up at Satan in shock before falling on my back. I can't believe I agreed with the Hero on something, it made me sick. Satan just smirked at her. "Don't feel so bad, I'm sure a mere human like you has no way of understanding my lofty aims."

I was speechless as I sat back up. Alciel said. "I suspect she understands all too well, sire."

I spoke up. "Okay, ignoring the McRonalds thing."

Satan cried out. "Hey!"

I continued. "We will invade and conquer Ente Isla when we believe it's time. Nothing you can do will stop us."

The Hero sniffed angrily. "We'll see about that, General Mellano! I took down Lucifer and I can destroy you."

Alciel and Satan quieter down at the reminder. I stood up slowly. "Now, you listen, Emelia the Hero, you will pay for that, I'm telling you that."

She snapped. "Like that's going to happen with how weak you are."

I growled at her, but Satan said. "What else do you want, Emelia?"

She sighed. "I…just don't care, I'm going home now. I have work tomorrow. Don't get the wrong idea, if I use my remaining power, I can kill you anytime I want."

Satan raised an eyebrow. "Really? Than what are you waiting for?"

She was walking toward the door. "If I waste it all on you, I won't be able to go home to Ente Isla. As long as you behave, I'll let you live until I find a way out of here. Oh and in this world, my name is Emi Yusa. Try not to forget it."

I snorted. "I will, Emelia the Hero."

She shoulders stiffened. "General Mellano, you're as annoying as ever."

I smiled. "Why thank you, coming from you, that may as well be a compliment."

She grumbled under her breath, but then sounded amused. "What's with calling yourself Sadao Maou. Nobody in this generation has that name."

She laughed as she left. I glared at the closed door she left from. Satan snapped, angry. "You need to apologize to all of us for that crack!"

I slapped a hand to my face. "That is not the problem here."

I looked over at Satan with a scowl. "Sa-my lord, don't you think we should be worrying about getting home?"

Satan nodded. "Yeah and we are."

I scowled deeper. I muttered. "As long as you don't like the humans."

I didn't hate them, but I didn't like them either. The humans were our enemies.

/ / / / / /

The next day I had off of work and laid around the house, reading the 'comics' that Satan had. When night was almost here, Alciel said. "Me and sire are going to get groceries."

I nodded. "Yeah, we are bare. Have fun."

Satan said cheerfully. "Sure thing, Akito."

He and Alciel left.

They came back with eggs and other things because apparently there was a sale.

They even went to a bath, but I had to work that day and time, plus I didn't really care all too much.

Another day passed and I was getting this bad feeling, it was an itch that couldn't be scratched. I may have been in a human's body, but my instincts were never wrong and that's what this was.

I just got back from a day of making pizza. I sighed to myself, leaning back on the wall. "This is almost more work than being a war general!"

Alciel raised an eyebrow as Satan got ready for work. Satan then ran out. He opened the door and called. "I'm leaving you behind and not waiting any longer! Won't you just relax like Akito?" He ran off.

I smirked. "Yeah, Alciel."

He glared at me. "Shut up, Mellano."

I chuckled, but sighed, standing up. I put the comic down. I looked out the window. I asked. "Alciel, you didn't have any strange feelings this past week?"

He shook his head. "No, you have?"

I nodded. "Yeah…I guess it's nothing. Forget it."

The next day I had to be at work all night, only getting back early in the morning. That's why I laid around the whole day yesterday, the feeling bothering me even more. Satan wasn't working tonight, he was off.

My boss told me he wanted to start me on really cooking tonight and that was why he wanted me to work all night. As I was pounding dough, making the pizza and cooking them, I lost track of time. As I was a demon, doing things like this was easy for me. I was thinking about King Satan and how strange he was acting. Even Alciel was acting a little different. I even started calling him Satan instead of King Satan.

I yawned as I saw something from above. I frowned in confusion as the light above me started shaking. I heard a cry. "Earthquake!"

Yuuma and Shibi were back here with me. The light above, which shook some more. I wasn't exactly scared, just warier. I'm a Demon General who fought in a war, not much scares me. The lights flickered out and I saw the light about to fall on Yuuma.

Suddenly, on something mixed with reflex and instincts, I slammed into Yuuma, moving him out of the way. I landed on him and managed to block him from anything else. He froze as did I, I just saved a human, a species I didn't care about. He must be frozen in fear. I clenched my fists in anger, which were resting on the ground.

Why did I do that? I shook my head, it was a fluke. The lights went back on, I looked down at Yuuma to see his face red and his eyes adverted. I frowned at him, but stood up. He stumbled to his feet in shock, looking at where the light from above crashed. He stuttered. "T-thank y-you."

I shrugged, pretended it didn't bother me. "No problem."

Shibi chucked with a grin. "Well, we're all fine."

The boss has us working again after he checked on us.

/ / / / / / / / /

The next day I was working late again and so was Satan. I was getting compliments from the costumers and things like that. It didn't bother me much, I was a Demon General, I could make lousy human food.

I was walking home when I heard a familiar voice, one that grated on my nerves, it was the Hero. I grit my teeth. "Great."

I saw her talking to Satan, he was sitting on his bike. I stepped back a little to see what she wanted, leaning behind a post close to them. The Hero said. "-I was ready to write off what you said about trying to concur this world for yourself, but now I'm starting to think there was some truth behind those words. Because if you're willing to spend the rest of your life in this world, I don't feel the need to defeat you just for the sake of it. Why don't you, Akito and Ashiya just stay here and conquer stuff."

Satan said dryly. "If telling mixed straight people to live with one another forever is some twisted thing you got, then you need major help, lady."

The Hero's voice was stern. "I think you should give up on Ente Isla. Fine a new life and a new enemy here on Earth."

I froze at them, disbelief curling in my gut. We couldn't do that because Ente Isla is ours and we needed some type of revenge for the defeat in the first place. Satan spoke and in a dark tone, a tone I remembered fondly from the past when it wasn't aimed at me. "Ha, not gonna happen! I told you I am going back to Ente Isla and I will subjugate it."

I smirked widely and darkly. That's the King Satan I knew. We wouldn't give up what is ours. I suddenly heard a crash. I spun my and moved from the post. I saw him on the ground. I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose between my thumb and forefinger. I shook my head. The Hero stared at him in disbelief which made me smirk.

Satan wailed. "How can you die on me right after I bought you!?"

The Hero scoffed. "Jeez, dramatic much? You know you can fix a flat for practically nothing, don't you?"

My eyebrows shot to my forehead. You can? I walked over. "My lord? Hero."

He turned around with a grin. "Hey, Akito is here! You just get off work?"

I nodded. "Yeah, what's-"

I dodged to the side as purple light hit where I was before. I saw him tackle the Hero and I stared. Saving a human is one thing, but the Hero?

She snapped. "I didn't say you could touch me!"

I rolled my eyes. "He saved you, though I don't know why. Stop complaining."

My eyes widened when I saw the power blast through a sign, that was magic.

Meanwhile, Satan sighed. "Are you seriously arguing with me right now?"

She saved him and I was on the other side, ducking and trying to see who it was. Satan said. "It's early enough to have plenty of people at the train station. How fast can you run?"

He didn't need to ask me, he knew the mostly about our abilities just as we knew about his. We fought for years together. The Hero snarked. "I bet I can run faster than you since you always ride a bike."

I groaned, moving over to the both of them. "We don't have time for this, Hero. My lord?"

Satan called. "Come on, let's go!"

We all ran off, all three of us keeping us with each other. We finally stopped at the train station, leaning on pillars to catch our breath. I put a hand to my chest, feeling my heart pound. We haven't had to run like that since we were in Ente Isla and these are human bodies.

The Hero gasped. "What was that?"

Satan huffed tiredly. "I don't know, that wasn't an ordinary sniper."

I gave a deep breath. "He's right, it was magic, some kind of bullet it was made of."

The Hero was shocked. "Magic?! So, what does that mean?"

Satan replied. "We're dealing with someone powerful, someone who knows who the three of us are."

I nodded. "Unless they are from another world, I'm guessing Ente Isla, which means they must know Alciel too."

I couldn't remember where I recognized that purple magic from, it was like on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't remember where or who it came from. Their face and name wouldn't come to me.

Satan nodded his head. "That could be true."

The Hero asked. "Who could that possibly be?"

Satan's tone was serious, something it was lacking since we got here. "A mysterious sniper in a place a demon and a Hero meet up, plus another demon showing up. Akito must be right about Ente Isla. You see the kind of trouble you get me into?"

She snapped. "Wait, you think this is my fault?"

I rolled my eyes, here we go again. She has way too many temper tantrums. Satan replied. "If you picked a safer time or place this wouldn't have happened! So, yes I think it is your fault."

"Wrong! It's totally your fault for working so late!"

Satan scoffed. "We could've met in the afternoon."

"I have to work in the afternoon, genius."

I stopped them before they could speak more. "Woah, woah! Why are you meeting?" I had a thought and felt my lips curl in disgust. "Please don't tell me you are dating or something like that."

Satan jumped back in disgust. "Hell no! C'mon, Akito!"

The Hero let out a scream. "For all that's good in Ente Isla, that would never happen. How can you say such a thing?"

"Why the hell are you meeting then?"

The Hero rolled her eyes. "If you must know, I was talking about him staying here."

I nodded. "Oh, I know. I heard that."

They both looked at me. "You did?"

I nodded again. "Uh huh."

Satan said. "C'mon Akito, let's go."

I shrugged. "See ya, Hero."

She screamed at us, but we ignored her. I was very amused. I groaned as she followed us. We pretended she wasn't there and it was a silent walk, normally I didn't care if Satan talked or not, but she was following us.

Finally we were in front of our little house and Satan turned to face her. I shrugged. "I'm going in, bye."

Satan whined. "You're going to leave me with her?!"

I walked up the stairs. "Yeah."

I opened the door, walking into our home. I saw Alciel. "Hey."

He nodded. "Your back late, where's sire?"

I pointed behind me. "He's coming, we ran into something."

He looked at me confused. "Wha…ah Emelia the Hero!"

I spun around. "What?! Go home already!"

Satan waved a hand tiredly at both of us. "Keep your pants on, she doesn't have the energy to fight us at the moment."

Alciel screamed. "Unacceptable! You cannot simply party the night away with a simple pink hair floozy!"

I smacked a hand to my forehead. "That's not the problem here!"

Satan sat down, saying. "We got shot at tonight with magical bullets. The three of us were targeted too."

I stayed standing and stared at the Hero. She did look depressed. Alciel gasped. "No, my liege…"

Satan sighed again. "Yes, so she dropped her wallet while we were running away. So apparently, she lives too far away to walk, guess having a bike is better then you thought, huh?"

I snapped, glaring at her in shock. "You lost your wallet?! Are you a complete moron!?"

She whined. "Shut up!"

Alciel asked. "I'm confused, sire. Are you saying she's spending the night?"

"That's exactly what I'm saying. Come on in, Emi."

I shook my head. "Don't! Come on, Satan! You can't be serious!"

He huffed. "It was a long day, Akito. And my name is Maou, remember."

I scowled at him. "This is mad, whatever." I muttered in annoyance. "As my king commands."

The Hero said in a quiet tone. "Thank you for having me."

Satan replied. "You can sit wherever, but don't expect any special luxuries, like a bed to sleep on."

She said. "I won't."

I frowned at her, what is wrong with her? Alciel flipped out, pointing at her. "What kind of disrespectful attitude is that in the face of King Satan's act of benevolence!"

I rolled my eyes. "Leave it alone, our king says she stays so she does." I muttered. "Even if I don't understand it."

Satan was telling Alciel not to yell so we didn't wake up the landlady. I shivered at that. I might be a Demon General, but she creeped me out. The Hero sat against the wall, away from all of us. I leaned against the wall and said down, my legs stretched out in front of me.

Satan said. "Here Emi, you can use this." He tossed a white blanket at her, telling her to use a couple of magazines for a pillow. King Satan tossed her some money. "I suppose I can give you some money now, use it to get on the first bus."

I stared in shock, but I kept my mouth shut. I could tell what I would say would get us nowhere. I was just happy I work too or we'd be in trouble. The Hero looked just as shocked. "…Okay…"

"His evilness graciously lends you money- "

I threw my hands up. "Shut up, Alciel!"

He turned his glare to me. "How dare you! I was just saying- "

I snorted. "The time you finish just saying we will be here all day."

He glared darker than before. "Why you…"

Satan raised his hands. "Both of you just calm down."

I glared at Alciel, feeling confused at the way Satan was acting now and before this.

The Hero waved her hands. "You made your point, I'll leave in the morning, goodnight."

She turned on her side and went to sleep. Alciel said. "I dislike this one."

I snorted with an eye roll. Satan said. "Akito, let it go."

I shrugged. "Fine."

Satan said. "We should also turn in for tonight."

Alciel agreed. "Alright, but know I shan't let my guard down!"

I sighed and stood up stretching before grabbing my bed stuff for the night. Satan was in the middle of me and Alciel.

I was laying on the pillow on my back when Satan said. "You know, we were pretty miserable when we first got here?"

I scowled at that, hating the feeling of sympathy I felt for the Hero, the one who forced us from our home. Alciel sighed. "I know, sire."

"And we got through it okay because there were three of us. But Emi doesn't have anyone."

I shook away the tiredness. "Yeah, but that's why were demons and she the Hero. We all do our own thing. If this was us or even just you, my lord, she wouldn't help you."

Satan seemed to be in thought. "I suppose your right."

Alciel said with a tired tone, I knew he wanted to go to sleep. "Is it me, King Satan or are you growing soft?"

I bit my tongue from saying anything. I didn't want to think about the notion of this Earth making my king going soft. I heard him grab his phone after it vibrated and I was about to go to sleep, but I heard him say. "Earthquakes? There are more of them coming?"

I turned to him. "Earthquakes? You dealt with them too?"

He turned to look at me. "You felt one?"

I nodded. "Yeah when I was at work."

He frowned. "Ah-hold on. I get a text from Chi."

I think that was the little human girl that he worked with.

"There's going to be another earthquake, what do I do? Weird."

I sat up, staring at him and saw Alciel doing the same thing. Satan said. "What is going on?"

Satan shook his head. "Don't worry about it. We'll figure it out in the morning."

I yawned. "Fine."

I laid on my side and went to sleep.

I know it's been a while, so I'm not going to give an excuse. But at least it's long, even if it's shorter than the last chapter. As for changing him from King Satan to Satan, that was done on purpose. That's done to show the different in seeing him, from how he acts on Ente Isla to Earth.

I don't know when I'll update this, but I can say this, I won't give up on it.