The wind whistled like crazy in the devil's ears, accompanied by the little demon screaming.
Noxfero opened his eyes, groaning: he had the delightful visin of a forest, far below him, getting closer evry second. He moved his eyes: he was falling, rolling in the air, while Jaco was grabbing at his tail, screaming in a very feminine way.
"Nox! Do something, I don't want to die!"
"We are already dead idiot, we can't die again!" shouted back the devil, rolling in the air and getting a parallel position to the ground
"Well, I'll appreciate anyway the absence of pain." stated the little demon, suddenly calm. Noxfero groaned, his ears flapping due to the air, then spread his wings: that was the good of his raincoat, he could easily hide his wings under it, and if it was the necessity, he could just open them, passing through the fabric.
His big membranous wings snapped open, flinching from the strength of the air. The devil bared his fangs as his wings were pulled back.
"Fuck, that's hurting…" he growled, trying to keep his wings open to slow down the fall. With a loud snap, one of the wings twisted back, lifeless. The demon growled in pain, while flapping the other wing frantically.
"Mh… I think your wing is broken… I suppose the fall is going to hurt…" stated the little demon.
-oOo-
"Wow, that didn't hurt at all!" Jaco exclaimed happly , walking off the smashed body of the bigger demon.
"You fucking used me as a damper!" growled Noxfero, standing up slowly and kicking the little demon. He pressed one hand on his chest cautiously, then sniffed the air while furling under the raincoat his still whole wing.
"Two broken ribs, wing thorned… well, not soo bad." said the demon, pulling his broken wing under his raincoat with one arm.
"Yeah! You will regenerate in a jiffy!" smiled the little demon, jumping on one of the trees.
"I fear that it's not going to be so easy…" growled the demon "When we will be back at home, I'll send Pumpkinhead to clean the bottom of the Pit of Despair…"
"Wait, why can't you?" asked the litte demon, swinging upside down from a branch.
"That stupid machine sucked out all my powers" shouted the demon, punching Jaco's face, pressing it against the tree. "And in the air here there isn't a single trace of Envy… or any other sins for that matter… And if I can't absorb any sins, I'm without powers, including regenerative powers." He groaned, holding his belly. "That would explain why I'm so hungry."
Jaco fell on the ground, taking off wood splinters from his head. "Maybe it's just because here there are only animals. But I saw a village not far away from this forest or whatever this thing is. Maybe there are people and sinners."
Noxfero scratched his chin with a black nail "That's a plan...well done Jaco" he praised him, stomping on him as he walked away.
-oOo-
"Why in the name of the abyss is there no one here?" asked the demon, jumping out from the bush where he was hiding. It had been half an hour, and he hadn't seen anyone in the little town.
"Well… no one to be seen…and not a single sin in the air…" He snarled.
"Oh come on! If there is something you taught me it's that everyone is more or less a sinner." said Jaco, walking along the street as he looked at all those bright colored houses.
"Yes…there is a little bit of gluttony in the air… a sprinkle of pride… but nothing more." He groaned again, licking his lips. "I'll just have to regain energy in the old, rough way: eating something. And eating a lot, I'll add." Then he raised his nose, sniffing the air. "Ugh… It's hard to find food's scent with all this equine stench in the air."
"Oh, horsey!" screamed Jaco, receiving a kick in the face (again).
"I hate horses" mumbled the demon, following the most strongest scent of food he could sense: after a couple of minutes, they were standing in front of a building that seemed to be crafted with sweets. The smell of sugar was overwhelming, and the door was no match for the devil's claw.
"Oh…for… my… glucosic god! Look at all this stuff!" yelped Jaco, walking inside and looking at all the treats. Noxfero was already gulping one cake after another, while the little demon approached a group of chocolate candies. "Hey Nox, do you think we should leave some money or something? This is almost like stealing." The demon rose his face from the rest of a cake, looking at the other one with an exasperated look on his face.
Jaco sighed, beginning to eat the candies "Never mind…"
-oOo-
After ten minutes, all the sweets were finished, gulped rushly by the two creatures, that started searching for another place to plunder. Unfortunately for Noxfero, in all of them they could find only flowers, salad and every kind of veggis.
"Oh come on! No meat? Come on, I can't absorb these things!" groaned the demon, while leaving out from another house.
"They are tasty." shrugged Jaco, gulping an entire tomato. "Listen, let's just split, you keep the veggies for me, and I'll keep the meat for you. Deal?"
"I'm the one supposed to make deals around here…" huffed Noxfero, before nodding. "Deal. And don't do anything stupid."
"Who, me? When have I ever done something stupid?"
"Do I have to answer that?"
"Better not."
-oOo-
Noxfero was fuming: he had four pockets full of vegetables, and he hadn't managed to find a single chunk of meat. Angrily, he smashed the door of another building; an elegant looking one with (he couldn't explain why) a horse silhouette as an insignia. On the inside, it was something like a dress shop, or similar. The demon huffed, looking around: it seemed to be a boutique for horses, judging by the dummies.
"Small horses… what kind of sick place is this? A horses centered theocracy? This is just creepy…" he mumbled, looking around for food. In the kitchen he found only a couple of eggs that he swallowed whole, but nothing else.
"I'm hungry!" he whined to no one in particular, sniffing around: still equine smell, cat smell, and nothing else. He groaned, frustrated: maybe on the second floor there was something. He stepped on the stairs, sniffing around.
"Fabrics, cat hairs… man, is there really nothing?"
"I know, can you believe it?"
Noxfero jumped when Jaco popped out of a vase, smiling. That cost him a punch in the mouth.
"Don't…do that anymore…." Panted the big one, opening one room: it was a large room, half occupied by a big bed, while the other half was full of fabric and dummies.
"Seems like the creation room of someone." stated Jaco, walking towards a mirror table on one side of the room, looking around at the makeup. Noxfero groaned and looked around: no food.
"I'll need a lot of time to regain my powers…" moaned, sitting on the bed.
"Hey! Hey Nox, watch this!" exclaimed Jaco, turning to the other demon: he had put white makeup all over his face, red lipstick on his lips and over the edge of his enormous smile, and two stains of black foundation around his eyes. He cleared his throat, then muttered in a dark voice: "It's simple… we kill the Batman."
"After the tenth time that is not funny anymore." sknikered Noxfero. Then his ears rose up: there were sounds outside. Rumors of hooves and voices, getting louder and louder. They were talking about something called "run of the leaves" or something like that.
"Ok…ok let's not panic… it's not like some cultist of a pony-centric religion is going to come here… isn't it?" asked nervously the little demon, wipping the makeup from his face. The other one just raised his ears: there were sounds all around, but suddenly he heard the rumble of numerous gasps all over the street. Of course. The smashed doors.
"Oh for Celestia sake! Sweetie hurry up! Check upstairs if anything is missing, i'll look here… all my work…" spoke a melodic and melodramatic voice, followed by a more younger and sweeter one.
"I got it, sis." Then the sounds of steps on the stairs.
"Uh, someone! Maybe they can help us to-" The little demon was cut off when Noxfero grabbed him by his face, putting him into one of his pockets. Then he crouched on the other side of the bed, preparing to leap on whoever was going to show their face. The door opened, followed by the light sounds of steps. When the devil saw the movement, he jumped, grabbing the creature by its neck and raised his other hand, ready to pin his claws into its flesh.
It was a filly. A white, little filly with a curled pink-violet mane, and two scared olive eyes staring at the demon. Noxfero was too surprised to do anything, while his brain was trying to elaborate what his eyes were showing him. Leaving the little filly time to react.
"RARITY!" she shouted with all her might. Noxfero snapped back to reality, and threw the little filly on the bed, growling, before he moved his eyes around, searching for an exit: his eyes stopped on the big window, and he began approaching it. But before he could reach it, something extremely heavy hit the side of his head.
"Stay away from my sister, you brute!" shouted the same melodramatic voice he had heared before: a white mare with a curled purple mane was at the door, while a sewing machine stained with the demon's blood was floating at her side, engulfed in an azure aura.
"That's what I'm trying to do, marshmallow bitch" was the answer in the demon's brain, but his mouth just growled, baring his fangs. Then his body reacted instinctively: his wings snapped open in an intimidating way, his muscles forcing the broken one to open flatly, despite the broken bones. He dropped on all fours, and roared.
Between all the archdevil, Noxfero could boast the most magnificent roar: it was a combination of a Dragon's roar, a Balrog's scream and a Nazgul's screech. Even the boss said that was the best roar in Hell.
And that was the roar that he emitted, terrorizing the mare and the filly. He could also hear outside the sounds of terrorized creatures. Taking advantage of the frightened look on the mare's face, Noxfero turned towards the window and jumped out.
He landed with a scream of pain, while his broken ribs cringed inside his chest. Around him, there were terrorized little horses thet were runnin away from him.
"That's good…back into the forest…" he mumbled, dragging himself along the street.
"Somepony stop that ruffian!" screamed the melodramatic voice.
"Ah'm on that partner!" shouted another mare with an orange coat and blond mane, charging at the devil.
"Are you really kidding me?" growled Noxfero, dodging the mare and beginning to run on all fours towards the forest. Another mare, a flying one this time, darted on him and hit him in his back, trying to pin him to the ground. The devil just grabbed her rainbow colored tail and tossed her away, still running. A purple one began shooting something from a horn on her forehead, hitting his wing, but he continued running. A big red stallion went out from a side way, hitting him with his hindlegs, smashing another couple of ribs, but the demon continued to run.
But then suddenly, a pink blur smashed in front of his face, shouting: "Hi there, who are you?" The impact was so strong that Noxfero stumbled to the ground, hitting his nape on the edge of a house. At that moment, his brain decided that he had enough, and decided to close up.