Wellp, I was planning on uploading sooner but an extreme case of the flu and writers block kind of set me back... by a lot. I'm really sorry!
Chapter 7: The Beez Knees
"Can I join too?" She added.
"Hey guys! I see you made it!" Slim Jim said cheerfully.
The rest of them lowered their weapons slightly. Surprisingly, everything seemed perfectly calm and normal, despite the fact that a guy they hardly knew was having tea with a giant fly in the middle of Hell.
The fly raised it's cup. "Please, do join us. I am absolutely famished and I cannot wait to dig in," it chuckled.
"Why, thank you!" Yona said, taking a seat. "Come on, don't be rude!" She invited, beckoning the others over.
Zeno ran over excitedly, with Shin-ah slowly following from behind. Reluctantly, the rest of them took a seat.
"So, Jim, could you be so kind as to introduce me to your friends?" The fly asked politely.
"Right! This is Shin-ah, who doesn't say much..."
Shin-ah waved slightly.
"...Kija, the one who got us into this mess..."
"Hey!"
"...Yoon, the bishounen..."
"Handsome boy genius, thank you very much."
"...Princess Yona, whom I'm sure you've met before..."
"Hello again, Beez!"
"Wait, you've met him before?" Hak asked.
"...Hak, who is obsessed with Yona and everyone sees it except for her-"
Jim was cut off by a spear being launched at his head. Jim dogged it and continued speaking. "...Jae-ha, the lecherous pervert with a soft spot for children"
"Hehehehehe?" He greeted with a grin.
"...and Zeno, the overly cheerful yet surprisingly angsty immortal hobo."
"Oh hai maaaark!"
"And guys, this is Beelzebub, the demon of gluttony, Lord of the Flies, one of the seven princes of Hell, and all that good stuff."
"Welcome, friends of Princess Yona and Jim! It's a pleasure to have you all! Please, eat your fill! Oh, how long it has been since I last had guests..."
"Wasn't it like, 50 years ago?" Slim Jim asked through a mouthful of cake.
"Well, not counting Yona's occasional visits, I believe it has been 50 years. My last guest was...you!" They both began chuckling.
"Wait, Jim, how old are you?" Hak asked.
"Ah, no need to know that! Now, eat, you guys will need all the energy you can get to defeat Satan!" Jim said cheerfully.
"Hold on, defeat Satan!?" Yoon yelled.
"I thought you couldn't eat food in Hell or else you'd be trapped there forever." Hak said, not at all surprised by the 'defeat Satan' thing.
"Naw, that's just a rumor someone came up with," Slim Jim replied.
"Hello? Defeat Satan?" Yoon repeated.
"Enjoying the cake, Princess?" Beelzebub asked.
"Mm-hm!" Yona replied in between bites.
"And how about you, enthusiastic one?" The demon prince then asked Zeno.
"Everything's great!" He replied, drool flying everywhere.
"I'm not even going to bother," Yoon said quietly.
"Kija-kun, you've been usually quiet this entire time," Jae-ha noted.
"Well, yeah, he hasn't been getting any lines, despite this being his ark kinda," Yona mumbled to herself.
"Silence, I'm thinking..." Kija said to Jae-ha.
"White snake needs complete silence to think after all, otherwise his tiny brain can't conjure up any thoughts," Hak deadpanned.
His comment was met with silence.
"Wow, he must be really focused on thinking right now-" Hak was silenced by a teacup flying at his head.
"SHHHHH!" Kija went back to thinking.
Several minutes later, Kija lifted his head up.
"Beelzebub, where is Satan?"
"He is in that large imposing castle over there," he pointed one of his fly arms towards a large purple castle in the distance.
"Kija?" Yona questioned.
"We shall go defeat Satan!" The white snake declared.
"That was a given, shiro-hebi," Hak said monotonously.
"Well then, Kija-kun, if that's what you want to do, I'm going to go scout ahead," Jae-ha prepared to jump when-
"NO!" Yoon yelled.
"Problem?"
"Ah, well... You don't have the best sense of direction so you'll just get lost anyways!"
"Now, now, Yoon, I'm sure Jae-ha will be able to figure it out," Yona said soothingly.
Jae-ha sent Yoon a reassuringly creepy smile and flew awaaaay.
"So now we-"
"SUUUURPRISE!" A booming voice said in bold.
"Oh dear, it appears as though Lucifer as come to join us!" Beelzebub said a little bit too cheerfully.
"Uh-oh, looks like it's time to go!" Slim Jim said before disappearing.
"Hellooooo assholes!" A giant black blob descended from the heavens, stirring up dirt and grass. "How are ya!?"
"Uh..." Hak and Yoon said, bewildered.
The rest of the group looked on, stunned.
Standing in front of them was what appeared to be a visual kei guy. Black emo haired draped his pale face, black makeup was smeared across his obnoxious expression, and if that wasn't enough, he had dark angel wings fanned out behind his back and horns.
"Lucifer, I take it?" Kija said glumly.
"Ya got that right, tight wad!"
"Tight wad?" Kija echoed, horrified.
"You wouldn't happen to know the way to Satan's house, would you?" Hak asked.
"Wha? That asshole? Why the hell would ya wanna visit him?"
"No reason." Hak replied.
"Ah, well, I could probably take ya there- wait, no!" Lucifer crouched and then took flight.
Hovering in the air, he sneered down at the group bellow. "You think I'd help you people? Ha! I have waaaay better things to do then-"
"Like what?" Yoon interrupted.
"I, uh... What?"
"What better things do you have to do?"
"Well, uh, I have to uh..." Lucifer thought for a second. "Oh right! I have some villages to destroy and some people to mess with!"
"Villages? What century do you think we are?" Yoon questioned.
"1600-ish?"
"Not anymore."
"Oh."
"Just let go of your pride and help us!"
"But that's my entire gimmick-oh shit." Lucifer just realized that he revealed his secret- that he was nothing but a one trick pony, a bland character with one personality trait, a-
"Now will you help us?" Yoon said, catching on.
"I uh..."
"Lucifeeeer," Beelzebub boomed, "help them out. One of my oldest friends are these people's acquaintances. So..." The fly paused to sip his tea, "Be a dear and refine your social skills."
"Ugh! Fine! But I'm only doing this because I want to!" He turned around and began flying towards the castle.
"Well that was easy," Hak whispered.
"I feel like we just witnessed a mother scolding her child," Jae-ha teased with a grin BECAUSE HE'S ALWAYS GRINNING.
Later, the gang was walking along a purple bricked road, closely fallowing behind an airborne Lucifer. Zeno had jogged up next to him and was attempting conversation. By that I mean he was annoying the living hell out of him. Just as Zeno was getting into the topic of how it was indeed possible to live in a trashcan for six months (for him anyways), Shin-ha turned his head sharply towards the field to the left of the trail and began running in that direction.
"Shin-ah!" Yona called out. "The castle is this way!"
"Princess, don't worry, he doesn't have Jae-ha's sense of direction." Hak stated flatly.
"Hey~"
"So something else must be going on..." Yoon concluded. "Should we go after him?"
"That would probably be a good idea," Kija said, nodding.
"Hey! Where do you guys thing you're going?" Lucifer called out.
"Shin-ah sensed something that way, so we're going after him," Yona explained.
"Whaaa? Do you just expect me to wait here for you?" He complained loudly.
"Pretty much, yeah."
They turned towards the field of purple grass when a loud cry erupted from further down the path.
"PRINCESS YONA!"
Everyone looked down the path to see a young man with light colored hair running towards them. He wore a large, joyful smile on his face, but it's effects were ruined by the dozen or so arrows sticking out from his back. Skidding to a halt in front of Yona, he gently touched her arms, his face changing into a mask of concern.
"Princess, what are you doing here? In Hell?" He asked quickly.
"We're going to defeat Satan!" She answered cheerfully.
The young man appeared taken aback for a moment before composing himself. "You... A-anyway, you're not...dead, are you?"
"Oh no, a squirrel tried to suck Kija into Hell but we fell in the portal too."
Ignoring the weird details, he sighed in relief. "Thank goodness you're okay! Oh, um..." He appeared to realize something. "So, I uh... suppose I'm dead..." He began awkwardly.
"Who are you?" Yona asked in that same cheerful tone.
The young man made a startled noise before quietly saying, "Y-you don't know who I am?"
"Nope, sorry."
"O-oh..." He remained quiet for a moment before saying, "well, as long as Princess Yona is okay, then it's fine," he smiled. "My name is Min-soo."
"Oh! Right! You're a character from that manga! I mean uh..." Yona looked away for a moment. "It's nice to meet you, Min-soo."
"Hey!" Hak suddenly exclaimed from behind them, "aren't you one of the regulars at Taco Bell?"
"Hm? What is a... taco bell?"
"Oh, guess not," Hak turned towards the field. "Princess, we should go find Shin-ah."
"Oh! Right!" She turned towards Min-soo. "Well, it was nice to meet you!" She leaned closer to him and whispered, "thank you, even though I'm not the Yona that you saved", and left with the others.
Tears welled up in Min-soo's eyes, and then he realized something, "Defeat Satan!?"
Yaaay another one done! Now I need to finish this little arc. So tell me, O wonderful few readers, should I continue this story after this arc or let it die?
