Chapter 23
It was a very quiet afternoon at the George manor, so Hannah decided to take Maddie out into the garden to play for a while before dinner. However, a dark and shadowy figure began to appear at the edge of the woods that surrounded the George manor soon after the two went outside. Not knowing what it was, Maddie became frightened and ran to Hannah.
"What's wrong my Lady?" the demoness asked, then looked up to see what had frightened the little girl.
Hannah moved in front of Maddie protectively, not knowing who or what the figure was. Within moments, the figure became more solid and took the shape of a woman in a long, dark red, Renaissance-style dress with a black crown on top of her curly maroon hair. Hannah went wide-eyed, recognizing the woman. "L-Lady Lilith?" she asked hesitantly
"Oh hello Flora dear," Lilith replied, moving toward the two. "The human realm has advanced significantly since I was here last . .I see I may be a little . . outdated in my appearance." Maddie peeked out from behind Hannah's leg, still a bit frightened from the appearance of the Queen of Hell.
"What are you doing here?" Hannah asked. "You don't leave Hell unless it's something important."
"It is, I'm looking for Malphas," Lilith replied, then noticed Maddie from behind Hannah's leg and kneeled to the little girl's level. "It's alright little one, no need to be scared." Maddie peeked out a bit more, her fear melting away seeing Lilith's kind expression. Hannah gently pet Maddie's head to coax her out a bit more.
"It's alright my lady, she's a friend." Hannah assured.
"Hi" Maddie replied shyly. "I'm Madeline, but everyone calls me Maddie."
"It's very nice to meet you Maddie, my name is Lilith. Watch this." Lilith said before picking a small weed. She muttered something under her breath and the weed morphing into a beautiful crown of blue and white roses. "Here, this is for you." Lilith said, giving the crown of flowers to Maddie and putting it on her head.
"Thank you" Maddie replied, smiling widely.
"You're very welcome," Lilith replied with a smile before standing up and turning to Hannah. "Do you know where Malphas is Flora?"
"He's inside." Hannah replied, taking them inside the manor. Lilith looked around, fascinated that humans had come so far in the last 500 years since she had been there.
"Hannah, why does she call you Flora? I thought your name was Hannah?" Maddie asked.
"Well Hannah is my human name, given to me by one of my previous masters, Flora is my demon name." Hannah explained simply. "To be perfectly honest, you remind me a lot of her."
"Oh. okay," Maddie replied. "Why did she make a contract with you?" Hannah smiled sadly at the question.
"She wanted me to find her little sister, so they could be a family again." Hannah replied.
"She seems nice, what was her name?" Maddie asked, not noticing the sad look on Hannah's face.
"Bella." Hannah answered after a moment of silence. "Isabella Clara Trancy." Before Maddie could ask further, they reached the library where Sebastian was cleaning. Lilith smiled, seeing her beloved son.
"A butler once again, Malphas?" Lilith asked, happy to see him. Sebastian grew wide-eyed hearing her voice and turned to her.
"Mother . . what on Earth are you doing here?" Sebastian asked, knowing it must be something very important.
"I'm afraid I come with bad news." Lilith began to say, but was cut off by the arrival of Lord George.
"Uh, Sebastian who is this?" Lord George asked, shocked at the sight of the Queen of Hell.
"My Lord, this is my mother Lilith." Sebastian explained, then turned to his mother. "Now why are you here?"
"As I was saying, your son and daughter were captured by Cain along with that little master of yours and a human boy." Lilith continued. "Cain has already been taken care of. The human boy had to be sent to a human hospital but the other three are recovering at home." Sebastian went wide-eyed hearing the news, the color draining from his face and his blood running cold.
"W-What?" he finally muttered, in shock. Lord George, Hannah and Maddie were also shocked by the news.
"Are they going to be okay?" Maddie asked worried.
"With time, yes they will recover fully." Lilith assured her. Lord George turned to Sebastian, knowing he had to go to them.
"Go to your children Sebastian, they need you." he said.
"Thank you sir" Sebastian replied, feeling returning to his body as white-hot anger toward Cain came in. How dare he lay a hand on them!, Sebastian thought. Noticing this change of emotion from Sebastian, Lilith put one hand on her son's shoulder to calm him.
"Thank you, we must be going now." Lilith thanked, then their bodies turned into smoke, vanishing within seconds.
Logan's P.O.V.
Fuck, everything hurts. It feels like my entire body is about to fall apart at the seams. Fuck. But at least my body is too numb to feel that damn wall anymore. Actually, it sort of feels soft and comforting.
I slowly opened my eyes and saw that I wasn't in that damp, dark dungeon anymore. I actually have no idea where I am now, but it's a whole lot better than that torture chamber. From what I could see from laying down, the walls were a deep maroon red and well kept. I tried to sit up to get a better idea, but a horrible, sharp pain went through my entire body. I groaned and held my waist trying to soothe it, but it wasn't enough. I laid back down still holding my wounded waist, panting and coughing a bit. It felt like I couldn't even breathe. It hurts so much. I hope that Melody and the others are okay. God I don't even want to think of that. I couldn't live with myself if any of them…
Before I could even finish that though I heard some footsteps in the room. I panicked a bit since I didn't want to be Cain or some other psychopath.
"Logan, Logan can you hear me?" Well that thankfully wasn't Cain. Actually I'm very surprised to hear this voice. I looked up and saw Sebastian hovering over me, concern written all over his face.
"Sebas-" I began to say before breaking in a terrible coughing fit. Each cough felt like my chest was going to burst open like that guy from Alien. I started to calm down a bit feeling someone gently rubbing circles on my back. I looked to Sebastian and saw that he was the one doing it. He looked at me giving me a reassuring look.
"It's ok...you're safe now", he said softly, "you're going to be ok". I nodded, not trusting my voice just yet. It still felt too sore from the coughing fit. I guess Sebastian noticed this and gave me a cup of water. I wasted no time and drank the entire cup in one gulp. Once I felt like my throat was ok I started to talk a bit again.
"W-Where's...where's Melody and...and the others" I asked my throat still very sore.
"Melody and Ciel are in this room with you. They're still healing, but they're ok", he told me. I was glad that Melody and Ciel were ok, but what about Hector.
Oh God please don't tell me he's dead.
"H-Hector...i-is he", I didn't even want to finish this question, but luckily Sebastian answers it quickly.
"Hector is fine as well. He's at a hospital in the human realm. He's going to be ok Logan". I don't believe it. He's ok. Hector's ok. He's going to be ok. I felt a huge weight lifted off my chest knowing that he was somewhere safe and alive. I'm still relieved that Melody and Ciel are ok, but Hector's my best friend and is like my brother. He was the first family I had since my mom died and losing that would have broken me. I felt a tear slide down my cheek. Sebastian frowned a bit and wiped it away. It was really weird seeing him so...caring, but I didn't mind it. It felt good to be taken care of. I let my eyes wander a bit and I saw Melody and Ciel laying on two separate beds through my peripheral vision. I also saw this...Renaissance woman? I don't know, that was how she dressed so I'm calling it as it is. Anyway, it looked like she was helping and treating their wounds too. Who the heck was she?
"Sebastian...w-whose..", I was too exhausted and sore to finish the sentence and just gestured to the woman with a simple turn of my head. He looked to the woman and looked back to me.
"That is my mother, Lilith".
"L-Lilith...like S-Satan's mate Lilith".
"The very same", he said nodding to me. I slowly nodded back. I looked over to the side and saw that Lilith was coming over. She had really long red hair and she overall appeared so nice and warm.
"How are you feeling Logan", she asked with a small smile on her face. She had a nice voice, it was refreshing and soothing. I started to smile back, but then another sharp pain went through my body again and groaned and whimpered a bit.
"H-Hurts...i-it hurts", was all I could manage to say. I could see that she frowned a bit and placed one of her hands on my forehead. I was really confused, but then I felt a rush of energy from her hand into my head and body. The aches and pains in my body started to fade away and it didn't hurt so bad as before.
"That should do it", I heard her mutter, "Is that better Logan?"
I nodded to her and let out a soft "yeah". Sebastian looked to me and pet my head a bit. I leaned into it, it was weird but it felt nice. It felt really nice.
"Just rest ok", he said softly. I nodded again and slowly let my body relax and let sleep take me.
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Lilith let out a small sigh and pet the teen's head. "Poor thing, you've been through so much . ." she muttered. She had no idea she had grandchildren, but she would be damned if she let them go without knowing they were loved and they had a loving home to go to. Sebastian moved over to his daughter and frowned seeing that she was in worse shape than Logan or Ciel. He gently pet her head, feeling guilty for what had happened. Sebastian soon smiled a little seeing Melody move into his touch in her sleep. "You should call their mother." Lilith mentioned, smiling at the scene. "The poor woman must be worried sick."
"That would impossible," Sebastian replied, looking up at his mother. "They're dead." Lilith went wide-eyed hearing this, and frowned slightly.
"Oh I'm so sorry I didn't know," Lilith said in a sad tone. "Hold on, they?"
"Y-Yes, Melody and Logan have different mothers." Sebastian explained.
"But they appear to be the same age . . Malphas . ." Lilith said slowly, under the impression that her son was with two different women at the same time.
"No, no. Melody is over a hundred years older than Logan." Sebastian explained quickly
"I see, okay then why didn't you say something to me or your father?" Lilith questioned. Sebastian looked down, not wanting to meet her eyes.
"I . . I don't know. I panicked" he muttered, feeling more guilty. "I was never good at handling death . ."
"Oh, Malphas." Lilith said, going to her son and hugging him in an attempt to comfort him. "Sweetheart, no one is good at handling death. But me and your father are always here to support you, you know that?" Sebastian was surprised by the sudden hug but held her back. Lilith pulled away a little and held Sebastian's face so he was looking at her. "You didn't have to go through all of that alone." Lilith continued. "We're going to do everything in our power to help you and your children, okay?"
"Alright," Sebastian replied, feeling a bit better about the situation.
"Good," Lilith stated.
All of a sudden they heard frantic running and the door slamming open and closing rather quickly. Upon hearing this Sebastian and Lilith turned to see who had done it. In front of the closed doors was a girl around fourteen years old. Unlike most of the of the residence of the palace, the girl wore ripped black jeans with generic rock band t-shirt and a pair of combat boots. She also had long, bright red hair that was partially shaved on the right side of her head which also showed off her pierced ears. Any other person would belong there, but that just means that they didn't know who her parents were. Lilith let out a sigh of annoyance and rubbed her temples.
"Calypso, what in Hell did you do this time?" Lilith asked her youngest child. Calypso twiddled her fingers nervously.
"I uh...I sort of, kind of...pranked…. Lucifer ", she replied muttering the last bit of her reply. Lilith's only reply was a facepalm and Sebastian merely chuckled at this.
"You really haven't changed have you Calypso", Sebastian said chuckling still.
"I would totally hug you right now, but I. Don't. Have. The. Time! Hide me!" Calypso exclaimed. Lilith let out a sigh.
"Trapdoor underneath the lilac bush" Lilith replied, pointing to a light purple flowering plant in one corner of the room. Calypso nodded quickly and removed the potted plant and went through the trapdoor quickly.
"She's gotten taller since the last time I saw her", Sebastian stated looking in the direction where his sister had left.
"Indeed, she has matured slightly since you were here a few years ago before you were contracted to that Lord George fellow." Lilith commented. "But she still has that large knack for trouble you had at her age." Sebastian nodded and headed towards Logan and Melody. Lilith followed him and watch him stare at them guilt and concern in his eyes. She frowned a bit and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry, they'll be fine...they just need time". Sebastian nodded to her.
"Can I stay here, for a little while I mean" he asked his mother.
"Of course, sweetheart." Lilith answered. "As long as you'd like."