Here's the second chapter if you actually want to read it w I want friends... Be my friend *^* Enjoy this chapter of "Blood, Lust, and Death. Edited to avoid offending anybodies sensabilities! So if you're touchy? Just get over it.
When Roy finally got to work, his subordinates seem unusually chipper from their usual silence after Hughes' death. Roy looked around, trying to decode while everybody was acting like nothing happened.
"Woah Colonel, you look like a mess! Did something happen? Did a date go wrong?" Second Lieutenant Jean Havoc asks, taking a deep puff of his cigarette before blowing it out in a perfect ring. Roy stared at him appalled, unable to find the correct words for his attitude. Have they all forgotten about Hughes already? Are they that cold hearted?
Roy was about to yell at them when the door suddenly slams open and a voice he had missed suddenly yells through the air.
"Hey Roy! Elysia and I went to the park yesterday and I got some really good pictures! Would you like to see them?" Hughes yells, his green-yellow eyes sparkling with excitement. Roy stared at him, his body frozen in fear and confusion. Hughes was well as alive, standing in front of him, talking as if everything was normal and he didn't die. Roy remembered the funeral quite clearly and the one stray tear that faltered from his eye. He wanted to run to his friend and hug him for years, but he held himself back and tried to look composed.
"That would be great Hughes." Roy found himself answering, opening the door to his office as the entire office, including Hughes, looked at him in surprise. Hughes then eagerly skips into his office, gushing about his daughter as Roy closes the door behind him. Once the door is closed, he turns around to see a very serious Hughes staring at him.
"Roy. I was dead and now I'm back." Hughes immediately states and Roy goes numb, realizing that this was not a dream. Hughes waited for Roy to say something, but nothing is to be said at the moment. "What exactly happened? How am I still alive and that everybody is acting as if I never died?" Then Roy remembered the dream, in which he now realized was in fact not a dream.
"He made a contract with me." An all to familiar voice announces behind Roy, sending a blast of heat straight to his groin. Both men turn around shocked to see the Demon girl sitting on his desk in different clothes, making her look somewhat human.
"What are you?" Hughes immediately asks, stepping away from her with alarm.
"What am I? I'm the one Roy made a contract with. He happened to trade is soul for your life." She grins, twirling a piece of black hair between her long finger tipped with a painted and sharp fingernail.
"You what?!" Hughes roared, turning to face a pale Roy with fury written on his face. "You would trade your soul to a monster for me? What the hell were you thinking?"
"Hey hey! I am not a monster!" The demon snaps, standing up sharply and marching over to the man she had brought back. "His soul isn't going to hell you know. I wanted his soul for personal reasons. Besides, I won't be taking it until he drops dead from natural reasons. I'm one of the more human Demons if I must say so myself." She finishes, glaring at Hughes darkly.
"I was killed by a monster because I found out something I shouldn't have. How do I know you aren't working with that thing?" Hughes demands, challenging the demon with an equally pissed expression.
"Because I brought you back, didn't I?" The demon scoffs, crossing her leg over the other. Hughes rolls his eyes and then looks to Roy.
"I need to tell you something."
"I thought you said you were killed by a monster because you knew something you shouldn't have. If that's the case, I would you suggest not to say anything to protect yourself." The demon suggests, crossing her arms over her overly large chest. "Enjoy the life you have now and stop digging. I'll deal with the guy who killed you so he doesn't do it again and piss me off."
"You can't! He's immortal damn it!"
"So am I."
"That could work… Two immortal creatures up against each other. " Roy points out, suddenly remembering that he was also in this conversation.
"Is he a demon too?" The demon girl questions, looking at Hughes with confusion.
"No. He is a thing called a homunculus, created by using the lives of others so that it can live almost immortally."
"Almost!" The demon grins, suddenly feeling victorious. "Now isn't that a shame for him? I am immortal since I'm already dead." Roy looks at her shocked, but unfazed by the fact she is dead and a demon. Her looks make up for it. "Any details I can get to lure this guy out?"
"Since everybody is acting like nothing happened, wouldn't Envy too? " Hughes suddenly asks and they all nod in agreement.
"So they could be plotting to kill you again."
"Which means if Hughes pretends to be alone with me watching him, Envy might try to attack again but I will swoop in to kill him myself." The demon concludes and Hughes nods but Roy shakes his head furiously.
"I will not let you put Hughes into this situation again!" Roy snaps at both of us.
"But that's the only way to prevent him from killing him without me around!" The demon snaps right back at him, puffing her chest out in dominance.
"I'm all in if it means I can go home and see my wife everyday without worry." Hughes pipes up, stepping between the two before they could get physical.
"But Hughes-"
"No Roy! This is based off my own decision. I'll have to take the demon up on her offer." The demon watches with amusement as the two bicker back and forth until Hughes eventually wins.
"You ready?" The demon asks, giving one lasting look towards Roy before I follow Hughes out of the military building.
What will happen? Will Envy fall for the trap? Will Envy actually die? Will Roy get with the Demon chick? Will I ever stop asking questions? Find out next time! On 'Contract with a Demon!'