...Uh, oh wow, I really never expected this measly first attempt at writing in the fandom to be so well received! Thanks everyone who bothered to read the first short chapter and leave a review! :) It got me really riled up to continue writing it so thank you a lot! (bows)
GUESTS: It's not a necessity but if you could, could the 'Guests' without an acc think up of a name for themselves? Just so I can address them personally when writing a reply to their kind reviews! :) Thanks!
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Guest 1#: Yeah...that's what I meant with the "coming up with a name" I hate to address guests as "Guest 1" or such because I just think it's too impersonal ^^ (blushes) Aw, thank you so much! Thanks for the encouragement and the nice compliments! :3 Oh and thanks for the tip on Maou's name too ;)
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The Demon King Invites a Guest!
"Urushihara..." a shadow covered Ashiya's eyes as the tall former demon general surveyed the plethora of square-shaped, half opened containers which seemed to hold the current interest of the fallen angel sitting before the 'TV', fully absorbed in fighting off what appeared to be a strangely shaped demon.
"URUSHIHARA!" Ashiya's aura flared as the fall angel finally acknowledged his presence by jumping in his seat and turning around to glare icily up at the pale blonde man.
"What?! Can't you see I'm kicking demon butt right no-" he took a good look at Ashiya's features before swallowing roughly, "-...now?" Ashiya's expression darkened, "Uh...Alciel?"
"What is the meaning of this?" Ashiya gestured to the floor, covered with the latest games Urushihara has secretly purchased through the internet before Ashiya had checked his browser history.
"Uh...well...ya see...I kinda got lost in the internet and this website popped up and it sort of read something like "50% off" and "the latest hack and slash fantasy games" and-"
"I DID NOT ASK YOU THAT!" Ashiya roared, the house shaking with the intensity of his voice, hands clenched into fists beside him.
Urushihara paled like a ghost, "...Ok, ok, look. Here's the truth, so I got kidnapped and the creepy guy with some pig mask or whatever tried to bribe me into buying all these cool and awesome games or he would threaten Maou and everyone else and-" a solid kick sent him flying into the wall face first.
"Do you expect me to believe a children's story of getting kidnapped and some human bribing a fallen angel and demon general?" Ashiya fixed him with a look, arms crossed and a demonic expression tainting his handsome features.
Urushihara groaned, slowly picking himself up from kissing the wall and dusting himself off, "Former demon general mind you," he frowned, "Hey, that was convincing admit it,"
Ashiya mentally counted to ten before taking a deep breath and asking the one thing that has been on his mind since the start of this ridiculous conversation, "...How much money did you spend if it was 50 percent off?" he rose an eyebrow skeptically.
Urushihara actually winced, "Uhh...well..ok the thing with 50 percent off was a lie so-"
"How much?"
His voice turned meek and he tried making himself as small as possible as he dashed toward the bathroom on the other side of the room and locked himself in before saying, "OVER one hundred thousand yen!"
There was a considerable amount of silence in the small apartment and Urushihara briefly thought of unlocking the door and checking if Ashiya fainted before he heard a loud, heavy force slam itself into the door, frantically jamming the doorknob as Ashiya's enraged, demonic voice rang through the door , "I SHALL BANISH YOU TO THE DARKEST PITS OF HELL AND FEED YOU TO ENTE ISLA'S MOST VILE DEMON EATING CRETINS OF THE UNDERWORLD YOU VERMIN!"
Urushihara panicked and quickly dug into his pocket for his cell phone, quickly dialing the only emergency number he knew could help in this situation.
"Thank you for your call today, my name is Emi Yusa, how can I help-"
"HE'S A DEMON! A DEMON! HE WILL KILL ME! CALL AN AMBULANCE! CALL THE COPS! JUST HELP ME HERO!" a panicked, distraught voice of a very familiar demon entered her ears, some of her colleagues sending her weird looks at her next outburst.
"Urushihara! Not again! This is a call center, not a police station or a support group! I don't have time for your stupid daily problems-"
"BUT HE WILL KILL ME! KILL ME I SAY! HEAR ME OUT! I PURCHASED A FEW THINGS ON THE INTERNET AND NOW ASHIYA IS OUT FOR MY HIDE!" the frantic demon shouted into her ear and Emi gripped the desk tightly in order to calm down.
"...I'm sure Ashiya has very good reasons why he would like to kill you, just what and how much did you purchase?" she frowned, having a very good idea of how much money he must have spent in order for the domestic, peaceful Ashiya to lose his cool so much as going full demon on him.
"THIS ISN'T IMPORTANT NOW IS IT?! I THINK HE WILL BREAK DOWN THE DOOR!" loud thumps and thuds were heard through her ear piece and Emi rose an eyebrow, wondering just where in the house Urushihara locked himself up in to avoid Ashiya's wrath.
"YOU INSOLENT VERMIN! YOU HAVE NEARLY MADE US BROKE! OVER ONE HUNDRED AND THOUSAND YEN FOR SOME STUPID SQUARE PACKAGES YOU CALL "GAMES"!" Emi nearly fell over her chair at hearing the surprisingly large sum of money for what Ashiya called "some" games.
"What?! Just how many games did you buy for them to cost so much?!" she nearly shouted into her earpiece, not caring for the strange looks sent her way.
"Hey, hey, hey! I'm not being interrogated here! A hundred or something games isn't a lot ya know!" Emi slapped her forehead, sighing heavily and slumping into her chair as she heard another loud bang.
"Whatever! I don't have time for your antics! You deserve to be killed for wasting so much money," she promptly hung up, exhaling loudly when she felt the beginnings of a headache worming their way into her skull.
"Hey uh...Emi? You okay? Just who was that anyway? That weird caller again who thinks he's a demon?" Rika blinked, tilting her head in confusion at the distressed and slightly irritated look on her friend's face.
Emi felt herself sweating at coming up with a believable excuse this time, "Uh, yeah, yeah, you know how people are these days," she didn't even notice her hand rapidly fanning herself in a feeble attempt at appearing calm, "Some need help or get too immersed with video games and all that they think they're demons! Ha!" she laughed, mentally smacking herself for her poor acting skills.
Rika frowned in thought, "Hm...uh yeah, I guess..." she glanced at the clock and smiled, "Oh hey, our shift is almost over, who knew how time flies...so where do you want to eat? Want to go to Mg-"
"No!" Emi's answer was far too quick for her friend's taste.
"Aha, and why not? I think last time was just fine," she commented with a impish smile that gave Emi a devilish idea.
The red haired hero leaned on her elbows, seizing her friend up, "Oh? I wonder why? Well, I suppose your stay there was very nice when you talked to Ashiya the whole time-"
"I-I-I did not talk with him all the time! Y-you just suddenly disappeared and he was there and it was nothing, nothing, nothing! Completely nothing!" Rika's face took n interesting hues of red and pink.
Emi smirked almost evilly, "For your information, I didn't disappear, my tray was suddenly on a different table and I was somehow forced to eat without my friend," she winked, laughing at the look on Rika's stunned and embarrassed face.
"But you did eat together with a certain MgRonald's employee," Rika's grin was anything but innocent.
Emi flushed, "T-t-that, that h-he forced himself upon me! I didn't even want him to do that!" her sudden, loud shriek of mortification ended up in half of the office staring at her with mixed feelings, various thoughts running through their minds at the innuendos in her sentence.
"Uhh...it's alright Emi, l-let's just go and eat," Rika quickly shed their earpieces and uniforms and dragged her out of the office, leaving behind an office full of confused employees and disturbed clients.
A violent shiver ran down Maou's spine as he handed a customer's order out, rubbing at the back of his neck with a uneasy feeling settling into the pit of his stomach.
"Somehow, I have this weird feeling like something happened...could it be another demon?" Maou wasn't sure if his fears were of any concern to be taken seriously, but he couldn't shake it off no matter what he did.
"I hope everything is alright with Ashiya and Urushihara," his thoughts were promptly interrupted by the arrival of a new customer.
"We will not speak of this again," Ashiya's sour attitude toward the fallen angel had only tripled after the...'bathroom incident'...
"Agreed..." the purple haired youth grumbled under his breath, not daring to touch his computer again after the recent attempt at his life only moments prior.
"So...what are we gonna eat?" lazy, purple eyes lifted to meet sharp gold ones.
Ashiya remained silent, fixing him with a glare capable of sending even the purest of angels into the deepest crevices of hell as he dialed a number.
Maou felt his phone vibrate and excused himself for Chiho to take over as he moved toward a corner to talk undisturbed, "Ashiya? What's up?"
"Sire...you do not possibly have take out services as well?" the voice of his former general rang in his ears and Maou rolled his eyes. He knew something had happened!
"You've gotta be kidding me..." he ran a hand down his face in exasperation.
This was going to be a long day...
Ashiya bowed his head while still miraculously managing to eat his burger, "I thank you from the bottom of my heart, sire! You have truly saved us from starvation!"
Urushihara deadpanned, "We still had those chocolate chip cookies in the fridge-"
"I shall not poison my body with sugary products such as 'cookies'! Have you not read the latest edition of our landlady's magazine? It said eating sugary food only further enhances our fat supply, which is commonly known to cause diabetes and overweight," Ashiya said matter-of-fact and Maou gave him a strange look.
"Ashiya, you know our burgers are also fat-"
"Sire, please, let us feast in peace," Ashiya's chewing turned into full scale wolfing down of the burger and the nuggets, Urushihara and Maou shared a look and shrugged.
"Anyway, just what happened here while I was gone?" Maou looked around the room, spotting a large trash bag filled with strange rectangular things inside in one corner of the room.
At this, Ashiya glared icily at the former angel, causing Urushihara to clear his throat, "Yeah well...that's not important,"
Ashiya bristled, "Sire, this, this cretin was working to making us broke! Have you noticed his latest purchases! Absurd! He will call that awful company so they take their things back and we get our money back, thankfully there is still a guarantee," Ashiya chewed more subdued on his food, watching how Maou's face darkened slightly as he looked at the smaller purple haired youth.
"You...what?! Urushihara! That had been over two months worth of my loan! You can't just randomly buy expensive things without first consulting Ashiya!" Maou barked at the purple haired demon, who seemed to try and shrink under the scrutinizing glare of his lord.
Ashiya nodded vigorously, feeling a sense of pride swell in his chest at the thought of being named the official "financial minister" of their castle.
Ahh...a financial minister...regulating all and any purchases within the household, buying everything on sale, waiting for the first day of the month to go grocery shopping for a week and perhaps even stopping at the candy store to buy a few sweets he had seen the humans take such delight in consuming...
"Ashiya? Hey, Ashiya?" Maou waved a hand in front of his subordinate's dazed face.
Urushihara snorted, "He's out of it, I think he's daydreaming of being a financial minister or whatever again," he shrugged, loudly munching on his fries.
Maou sighed and hung his head, excusing himself and hastily returning back to work. He had only so much time on his hands for deliveries after all.
Once arriving back at MgRonald's, Maou had to rub at his eyes to make a double take on the scene before him.
"W-What the-?! What are you doing here?!" Maou pointed at none other than Emilia the Hero, accompanied by her human companion, sitting and laughing together with Chiho! That traitor!
"Chi! What's the meaning of this?" Maou rested his hands on his hips, staring the ladies down, they had already ordered!
Chiho smiled brightly at Maou's arrival, "Ah, Mr. Maou! Don't worry, I already took their order while you were away on delivery," the smaller girl smiled impishly, a small blush coating her cheeks. Maou groaned.
Emi snickered, "Oh, what's wrong Mr. Maou? You look a bit stressed," she grinned like the devil at him, snickering to herself.
"Oh and by the way, I suggest you flavor your food more, the taste is quite bland, right Rika?" Emi smiled at her friend, who only sported a confused look on her face.
"Umm, actually I think the food is just-"
"Mhm, that's right! It's just terrible! Well, I suppose we can't expect anything better than from you anyway," there was a dangerous sparkle in her eyes as she seized Maou up, mocking him.
"Oh I shall show you! Mocking the king of hell himself, worthless vermin! I shall enslave you once we return to Ente Isla and make you obey my every command!"a picture of Emilia the Hero, on her knees in front of his very throne, holding out a bowl of delicacies to her master as Maou's malicious laughter of triumph echoed through the majestic halls of his castle.
Maou shook the thought off and forced on a quivering smile, clasping his hands together in an effort to not try and claw at Emi's face.
"Well, actually, how about I invite you over to dinner and see for yourself how good our food is?" his eye twitched in annoyance and suddenly Rika sprung up.
"Oh! Like a date? I think that's a great idea!" she clasped her hands together, eyeing her friend with suspicion and excitement.
A hot blush flooded Emi's cheeks and Chiho just looked like she would faint, her eyes big and round and watery.
Emi spluttered, trying to find words that could diffuse the terrible situation that was quickly not going in her favor, "W-what? H-ha! You must be completely insane to think I'd go out with you!" She flicked her long red hair over her shoulder, a nervous, quivering smirk on her lips as she tried to calm down her suddenly racing heart.
Maou quickly corrected himself, "Oh no, I didn't mean it like that. I actually meant to invite all of you to dinner at my ca-I mean apartment," he cleared his throat, raising an eyebrow when he noticed Chiho was hyperventilating.
"B-b-b-b-but a-all of us Mr. Maou?!" Chiho looked less than thrilled at the invitation.
Maou wasn't sure if he found her reaction disturbing or worthy of concern, "Well, yeah, Miss Suzuki is invited as well." And suddenly, an idea popped into his mind, more precisely something Emilia had said that one time, "In fact, I'm sure Ashiya would be very happy to hear we would have guests over!" he laughed, trying hard to suppress his growing amusement at Ashiya's mortification once he told him the news.
Today was a good day.
"Y-You WHAT?!" Ashiya nearly suffered heart failure right there and then, gripping at his chest.
Maou tilted his head to the side, confused but still munching softly on the rice ball in his mouth, "I said I invited them over for dinner, that's fine right?" Ashiya's face was the equivalent of a tomato.
"B-but M-Milord what if...what if the Hero makes any attempts on your life!?" Ashiya's shivering grew worse.
The demon lord just shrugged casually, "Nah, she's tame. By the way, I think you're more nervous about her friend than Emi," Satan adopted a evil smirk, mischief apparent in his red eyes.
Ashiya scrambled to find words, ignoring the roaring laughter of the nosy fallen angel in the background, "W-well I...I of course not! Miss Suzuki, I believe, is well liked by the residents of the Devil's Castle that it should be no problem with her coming here," he took a deep breath, rubbing his hands over his apron as he tried to wipe off the sweat forming on his palms.
Urushihara decided to use the opportunity and make his presence known, "Oh? But I never met her before, so that means the only ones that really like her are dear Satan here and...well we all know how you react when somebody mentions her-" he was promptly shouted at by the taller general, an uncharacteristic outburst of barely suppressed violence.
"That is none of your business! I suggest you stop meddling with my affairs and eat!"Ashiya just looked about ready to transform and slaughter him.
Urushihara blinked lazily, unimpressed at the demon's fit, "Eat what? Maou's eating the rest of what he brought from MgRonalds but you still didn't go shopping," he pointed out and Ashiya froze.
The blonde robotically turned his head to his master, who was still eating his chicken nuggets, undisturbed.
The demon king jumped himself when Ashiya's sudden loud shout penetrated the air, "OH MY GOODNESS! I have forgotten to go to the grocery store! Sire, please punish me!This is an unforgivable act worthy of death!" Maou set down his nugget box and sighed heavily.
Urushihara interrupted whatever Maou was about to say with a exasperated shout of his own, "JUST GO GET THE DAMN FOOD NOW!" Ashiya growled at his friend before Maou stood up, a shadow covering his face.
Ashiya expected the worst.
Maou suddenly lifted his head and smiled kindly, "It's no problem Ashiya, you can use Dullahan if you like,"
Ashiya was out the door in a heartbeat, grabbing a empty grocery bag and money from his secret stash, shouting from the street, "I SHALL BE RIGHT BACK MILORD!" the neighbors all looked at each-other quizzically, before deducing those must have been cosplayers.
As Ashiya sprinted to the store, he was thankful for his demonic stamina and endurance, he wasn't so sure if he would survive running so fast and for so long as a human. He dodged incoming shoppers as he practically flew into the grocery store, a small building reasonably well stocked and open longer than some others nearby.
Ashiya quickly found the correct isles for milk products and eggs. He was pleasantly surprised when he saw a discount reading to buy three carton boxes of eggs and get fifty percent off. He had tears of happiness in his eyes as he quickly filled his basket with the goods.
Next came finding the rice, he quickly took a package of milk before rounding the corner and what he saw next made him freeze in his tracks.
Thank you all for reading! :) Cliffhanger! I wonder what Ashiya saw that made him stop like that? ;)
