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Chapter 34
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Devil say what?
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Jaffa just stared at the being.
The being stared back.
"Let me get this straight...you're the Devil?" Jaffa asked.
"To use your worlds more common avatar for evil...then yes. I am he."
The being calling itself the Devil didn't even move its lips as it spoke.
Jaffa just looked at him.
"What do you mean by my worlds most common avatar? Are you the Devil or not?"
The Devil waved his hand and a chair rose up from the ground beneath them and he sat on it. He waved his hand again and a chair appeared behind Jaffa.
"Please, have a seat. I have a feeling this is going to be a long conversation." he said with a sigh.
Jaffa warily sat down. The chair despite being made of, what he assumed to be stone, was actually quite comfortable.
A table appeared between them. On it was a selection of assorted biscuits, cakes and drinks.
"Care for something to eat or drink? I know how thirsty and hungry you mortals can become."
"No I'm good for now." Jaffa said.
"Suit yourself." the Devil replied. "Now to answer your earlier question, I am the Devil, but also not. You see, I am the Original, and I do mean Orginal force of Darkness in the Universe."
Jaffa looked at him.
The Devil sighed.
"Gaia never told you and your friends the whole story did she? Can't say I blame her. Everyone has their own view of how events played out back then."
"So why don't you tell me yours then?" Jaffa asked. "And what exactly is your name? Its just gonna feel a little weird calling you The Devil all the time."
The Devil chuckled.
"Yes I suppose it would feel a little weird...oh of all the names I've been given over the millenia...I find I favor the name Daemonus from a world not too dissimilar to your own in fact."
"Ok, then Daemonus it is." said Jaffa.
"Well, my story goes back oooh," the demon said counting off his fingers. "Well back to the beginning of time I suppose. The Universe was a very different place back then."
"My world," he said with a gesture of his hands indicating the place they now sat, "and the world of what you mortals would call the Celestial Force, we were one world. Heck the entire Universe was the world."
"Of course the Universe got bigger and bigger and then life began to evolve." Daemonus said with a sigh. "That's when the problems started. Both of us had our own idea on how these new life forms should be goverend. I opted for a "let's wait and see how they get on" approach. You know, to see how these new forms of life got on, before we decided to help out. If they ever actually needed help."
"Celestius, to use the name the same world that gave me the name Daemonus gave him, thought that that was a terrible idea, and that it was our responsibility, nay our duty to rule these new forms, to insure that peace continues."
"After a while, we compromised that a few simple nudges in the right places would be ok...at least that was the way he put it at the time. You know, no over-interference."
"So we nudged here and there, and we stopped a few disasters early on. But then you humanoids appeared on several worlds. One world in particular, the first world. That's where we got our first name. Daemonus and Celestius. And they noticed the work we did. And well...that's when we started getting worshipped. Hence the need for names. Mortals feel the need to name everything they encounter."
Daemonus took a cake from the table and bit into it.
"That all went to Celestius' head of course. He just loved the attention the mortals gave him. He even went so far as to accept the title the mortals gave him...God." Daemonus said the last part with a spit.
It then started to melt through the rock they were sitting on.
"Of course things really went downhill from there. The mortals wanted to, I think the word they used was ascend, to our level of power to serve us in the afterlife they called it. To become Immortal like us."
"And we figured, hey they could be helpful in keeping the other worlds in check a bit, cus they were also starting to evolve humanoid life. So we imbued a few of the ones who were about to die of old age, with a tiny little bit of our own powers. They became the first Angels of Celestius and the first Demons of Daemonus. How I got to be the bad guy I will never know..." Daemonus said with a sigh. "Probably some mortal's idea. Since Celestius' guys were the more peaceful lot whereas mine were the muscle I suppose. He tried to talk the mortals down, if that failed, in went my demons to depose the leaders, set-up new ones, or whatever was needed."
"And over time, our agents did a good job with keeping the cosmos in one piece. But then Celestius got it into his head that I really was the bad guy!" Daemonus said with a look of shock on his face.
"Bloody mortals. Over time, this thought in his head kept growing and growing. Until one day, when we were having a spot of tea, just like we're doing now, he suddenly stood up and decalared that I was trying to poison him so I could rule his kingdom!"
Jaffa stared at Daemonus at that part.
"Um, but from what I know of Immortals, you can't die from poisoning."
"That's exactly what I said to him! And he referred to the world we were sitting on as his kingdom! A kingdom!" Daemonus exclaimed. "Well, he just stood there and got all his little angels and forced me to the opposite side of the Universe. So I took my demons with me."
"Then I'm guessing that's when the war between heaven and hell began?" asked Jaffa.
"Indeed. Although I didn't know it at the time. He imposed a universal order in his region that anyone who didn't follow his laws exactly to the letter, would be banished to my realm when they died. All those that obeyed him perfectly would go into his paradise world and become Immortal. You can imagine the backflow I recieved as billions of mortals wound up on my doorstep the very next day."
"So that was the birth of the whole heaven and hell deal then?"
"Indeed. Take your worlds Christianity for example. The closest version of your Christian history to what was happening would have to be an amalgamation of your Spanish Inqusition, the Salem Witch trials, and the Puritan rule. Oh the amount of rules and regulations and laws that had to be obeyed at all times. I got billions upon billions of mortals every week. Of course I turned the ones I desired into my Demons. I wasn't going to allow the mortal races to suffer under Celestius' iron rule forever."
"I bided my time for oh...a millenium, gathered my forces, and struck first. Back then I tried to force my way through. But Celestius had cheated. The deal was to give the mortals the smallest fragment of power. Barely an atoms worth. But he went ahead and put in a whole thimbles worth into the mortals! Just because I out-numbered him." Daemonus said, angrily taking a drink of his coffee.
"This war continued on for oh I don't know...ten maybe twenty- thousand years or so, give or take a century. Then one world in the center of the war front decided to take it upon themselves to end it."
"The world of Gaia and Twilight. They captured one demon lieutenant from my side, and one angel footsoldier from the other side, drained their energies, and transplanted them together into Twilight. Here was now a being who had both sides power. The perfect balance between good and evil. Then Gaia did the same to herself and four others, who became the First Elemental Lords."
"These six beings, then channeled their new powers into their own planet. By doing so they then started to create a barrier between my side of the Universe and Celestius' side...creating a whole brand spanking new Universe in the middle!" Daemonus finished with a laugh.
"I applauded their ingenuity. That had to be the best idea I have ever seen anyone come up with to stop a war, any war. Of course there were a few holes and gaps here and there, but it was a rush job so that was expected. Then Twilight spilt himself in two to help out Gaia now and again...being two places at once. He reformed every thousand years back into Twilight. The elemental lords spread themselves over the new universe, to try and fill in the holes that the universe creating had made."
"So I decided to leave the new Universe alone. But mortals in the Newverse as some were calling it, still remembered the Celestius and Daemonus of the war...and continued fighting it on their own worlds. And they discovered magic! A left over energy from the Oldverse that neither of us had thought about. Of course the mortals then used this new power to summon out my demons on their enemies and so on and so forth. Crime, poverty, disease, war etcetera were all associated with me because of this! Then Celestius found the holes and sent his own mortal agents to spread the word of God again."
"And so religion is born once more on the clean slate." finished Jaffa, who had decided to try a biscuit.
"Exactly. So I sent my own forces through the gaps. Whereas Celestius sent mortal agents with promises of heaven, I sent my own demons to show them my power. The first notable one on your world was in Egypt during the rule of Phaoroh Atem."
"You mean Zorc was one of your demons?" Jaffa said spluttering out biscuit bits.
"Yes, in hindsight he may not have been my best choice. But as one of your writers once wrote, "Gods made man, man makes God." Celestius and I are defined by how mortals percieve us, and the same goes for our agents. Unfortuantly Celestius' influence on your world was quite thourough. And so Atem summoned one of Celestius' agents, Horakthy I believe her name was. So I tried again, in Nazca next."
"The Earthbound Gods?" Jaffa asked. "Those things are yours?"
"Calm down, calm down. To be honest. I never sent them, but the locals did this whole summoning spell, and those are the ones that got dragged through it. Luckily, Celestius couldn't do a thing about it because Gaia was already on it. You know the Crimson Dragon? Well there's the Star God. He was one of Celestius' agents before he got wise and joined Gaia. He sent his agent the Crimson Dragon along with five dragons, one of which used to be mine."
"Let me guess...Red Dragon Archfiend."
"Exactly. How else would he be able to merge with a demon to create Scar Red Nova Dragon?" Daemonus asked.
"Of course, Gaia and the others got wiser over the years...the demons and angels over the millenia that had snuck through that didn't end up on your world, Gaia had the Elemental Lords seal them all away within the moons and stars of the Newverse."
"So you're telling me..." Jaffa satarted.
"Indeed. All the moons that you see in what you call Space, are all prisons for demons, and the stars are prisons for angels."
"After that, I got wiser. I bided my time even more after that. I sent little minor demons every now and again, to gauge the mood of your world. Ones that Gaia and the Lords wouldn't consider a threat enough to imprison."
"Why my world?" asked Jaffa. "What was so special about it?"
Daemonus clapped his hands. The sound echoed throughout the entire area for a while, and resembled the sound of a volcano erupting.
"I am so glad you asked. Your world is teeming with energies left over from the Oldverse, that it makes for a perfect staging ground for whoever gains control enough of it. Also your planets moon holds a particularly powerful enitity, that I would like to see released. Your Sun also holds an angel that Celestius would love to get his hands on as well. Anyways, I was overseeing another world ideal for a foothold. You see this world was one which remembers the true events of the war."
"This was the world of Yubel. Until it got wiped out by the Light of Destruction."
"Yubel? As in the Duel Spirit Yubel?" Jaffa asked, still pondering over what demon could be sealed in Earth's moon. And why Daemonus seemed so interested in releasing it.
"The one and the same. Her people invoked a ritual to turn her into a guardian for a young prince who would yield the powers of the Gentle Darkness when he got older. And Jaden was a reincarnation of that prince."
"But didn't she go insane?"
"True, but that was because of Celestius' Light of Destruction agent. But as you know, that was defeated, and Jaden and Yubel became one."
"So Jaden was a mortal agent of yours?" Jaffa asked.
"Indirectly I suppose you could say that. Yubels goal was to gauge the mood and energy of your world. She wasn't there to try and take it over. She was...reconnasaince you could say."
"Then after that came the whole Dark Signer events."
"Unfortuantly so, yes. I do apologise for all the trouble those events caused you I truly am..."
"So that thing that came out of the portal that...King of the Underworld..."
"That was an avatar of myself. I was ecstatic. I was finally on your world!" Daemonus said standing up and spreading his arms wide. "Oh but I was going to severly punish the Earthbounds for that little display of destruction. But then Yusei got in the way and destroyed my avatar." he said sitting back down.
"Then as time went on, Celestius sent his own agents, because your world had evolved too fast for his liking."
"The Machine Emperors." said Jaffa.
"Bingo. The rest of that sorry history you know." said Daemonus.
"Yeah, Z-One had made himself like Yusei so that humanity would have hope for surviving the Machine Emperor invasion...but then they were all wiped out anyways." Jaffa replied. "So he decided to make the Ark Cradle."
"Indeed. So Z-One came back to change that future by wiping out Neo Domino City since that was where Momentum was born, and if Momentum was never born then humanity would never be wiped out by the Machine Emperors."
"You're telling me that the the whole deal with the Machine Emperors was Celestius' idea?" Jaffa asked.
Daemonus shrugged.
"In a way. One of Celestius' agents decided that if humanity continued at their acclerated rate of evolution, then they would have no need to worship a deity, or worse be able to directly challenge his master."
"So he sent the Machine Emperors to destroy humanity before they became a threat?"
"Exactly...but another of his agents witnessed that four humans had survived and saw that you couldn't destroy your race so easily...so she decided to help them go back in time and try to change events so that that future never occured. She didn't plan on Z-One trying to wipe out an entire city and all of its residents though. But then Gaia got wind of Z-One's plan and warned the Crimson Dragon. Yago really should pick her agents a little more wisely before giving them divine power...they tend to go over the deep end."
"And so the WRGP events happened..." Jaffa finished, before realising that Daemonus had just said that Yago, Stuart's angel friend, had given Z-One those Temporal Machine God cards and had started the whole WRGP mess.
What is his game? Is this truth, or some kind of lie? Jaffa thought to himself. What hasn't Yago been telling us?
"Precisely." Daemonus said. "I was content to just sit back and watch the show. It was fairly entertaining...I was not expecting the Aesir to take a hand in events though."
"Yours or Celestius'?" Jaffa asked, wondering who the Aesir were working for.
"Neither. The Aesir are an offshoot of Gaia's group, that didn't exactly see eye to eye with her. But that's beside the point. I figured at this point, since Celestius was messing with timelines, I thought I might be able to as well. And that's were you and your team come in." Daemonus said finishing his tea.
"What do you want us for?" Jaffa asked.
"Simple really. I want you to take over the world."
"Just like that?"
"Just like that."
"Using those...Hells Demons cards of yours?" Jaffa asked.
"Of course. How else are you going to be able to channel my energies onto your world?"
"I'm sorry but if those cards turns me as insane as Ali then you can take your offer off of the table." said Jaffa. "He threatened to blow up a hospital if I didn't duel him. Along with five blocks of housing with people in them."
Daemonus sighed and stood up and walked to the edge of the pillar.
"Again, how mortals percieve us is how we are. And unfortunatly for your world, your world sees me as an insane, devious monster bent on destroying everything. And so does Gaia and her colleagues just to let you know."
"Well I don't care how the world sees you, or how Gaia sees you, but I am not going to be under any Immortal beings control again. Now now, not ever...especially if it means harming innocent lives in the process." Jaffa said thinking about his new family.
"You're quite sure about that?" Daemonus asked, looking back at Jaffa. "After everything I've just told you about the history of the Universe and the nature of this battle between myself and Celestius?"
"What do you mean? Of course I'm sure about that. I don't care about your little war. All I care about now is protecting my family, and I am not going to be under the control of any more Immortals."
Daemonus sighed.
"I wish I didn't have to do this...if you will not join me willingly, and since I've already told you my plan then I have no choice but to make you join me."
Daemonus turned around and conjured an orb that he then threw to Jaffa.
"That's your wife's soul." he said. "Either you join me willingly, or she comes down here and joins us...in death, pain and suffering."
"What?" Jaffa yelled, leaping out of the seat.
"Join me. Or your wife will be damned for all time." Daemonus said with a frown on his face.
"I won't join you...but I will save Jasmine." Jaffa said, drawing his Duel Blade.
His mark glowed with a vibrant green light, which then extended itself around the Duel Blade.
Daemonus pondered something for a moment.
"Ok, how about this then. We duel. Duel Monsters style before you and your little sword get any ideas."
"You and me duel?" asked Jaffa, not letting his guard down.
"Yes. You win, you and Jasmine's soul are free to go. I won't try to convert you into my agent. You will be allowed to return to your world to be with your wife and child. You lose however, and you become one of my... Hell Riders I believe is the term that's being used in the future. Anyway, you lose, you become a Hell Rider, and Jas's soul becomes another part of my collection and your child is orphaned."
Jaffa thought about this for a while, holding his wife's soul to his head.
"Jasmine...what would you do?" he asked the ball of light.
He looked at it for five minutes.
Then nodded his head.
"I agree to your terms Deamonus. But no cheating. A fair duel." Jaffa requested.
"Cheat? Me?" Daemonus asked, actually sounding hurt by the accusation.
"You are what mortals made you, didn't you say earlier?" Jaffa asked.
Daemonus thought about this for a bit.
"Ok, for this duel I will only draw on the presentation that the mortals from Yubels world have of me." said Daemonus, the lines of energy along his body changing hue slightly.
"Then lets duel." said Jaffa, reassembling his Duel Disk.
"Let's duel." said Daemonus conjuring his own Duel Disk. It looked like a bats wing for the card table, with a goats head for the deck slot, and an open mouth for the graveyard slot.
Both of them got to opposite ends of the pillar, and Daemonus waved the table of food and chairs back into the ground.
"Let's duel!" both of them said at the same time. Again.
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Hope you guys enjoyed this filler chapter, and are looking forward to the final(?) chapter.
I'm not sure myself if this duel will be the last chapter or not...
Guess we'll both find out.
Leave a review after the tone.
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
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