Hey, guys! I'm back with chapter two. I hope you like it.
Chapter 2 – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
"Hey, Adora. I think you have a little wish for me." The silhouette spoke to her in a soft and alluring voice, squatting to get closer to her face.
Everything on that figure looked human, except for a couple of things going out of her head that looked like big horns. Also, both of its eyes were a different color.
She couldn't speak. Even when she could move her mouth, words just wouldn't come out. Fear had overtaken her body and there was nothing she could do about it. She had messed up big time and she knew it. Another mistake to the list, girl.
"Are you like… retarded or something?" The silhouette in front of her asked. Her eyes showed confusion, but she couldn't really tell given how everything was so dark. "I mean, it took you longer than expected to know exactly what to do to bring me here and now you're just moving your mouth like a fish." The figure stood up again and turned around. "I guess you can just be afraid, but still, I'm pretty sure you're not the sharpest one."
The pressure she felt in her body due to the fear was immense. She could hear every word the presence was telling her. Her brain processed everything that was happening, but the overwhelming fear didn't let her do anything aside from looking at it.
"Anyway…" The silhouette kneeled in the floor in front of her, looking at her in the eye. She felt cold sweat on her face and back and her hands were even colder. "I came here for a reason and I don't have much time. I've never liked earth so, I would appreciate it if you could just tell me what you want, we make a deal and everyone is happy. How does that sound?" For a couple seconds they looked at each other's eyes. She thought about how beautiful the eyes in front of her were, but then her brain thought that it was still the devil in front of her and that the beauty she saw could be deceiving.
"I…" Finally, she was able to speak. Trembling like a leaf on a windy day and sweating profusely, but she could speak again. "Do you really want my soul?" She asked, lowering her head once she was done, but not because of the shame the question made her feel, but for the overwhelming fear of having the devil in front of her.
"Obviously. I wouldn't be here otherwise, right? Now, tell me what you want." The figure took her by the chin and made her look at its eyes again.
"I can have whatever I want?" She asked, starting to feel a little bit calmer with each second that passed.
"Of course! What do you want? Money? A lover? War? Those three together? Just ask, and it's yours in exchange of your soul." The voice sounded enthusiastic.
Her brain started to work properly and that was when she realized that she didn't have anything to fear. She was about to kill herself a few moments ago so, why was she afraid just by being in the same room as the devil? She would have surely seen it after her death, so this should feel like a normal thing.
"Then please, make me happy." A deafening silence overtook the room for longer that what she would have expected. She didn't know if she just asked for a very hard thing to do or if she had asked for the only thing the devil couldn't provide her.
"I'm sorry…" The silence was broken by the voice coming from the figure in front of her, standing up again and looking at her eyes without hesitation. "But you will have to be a little more specific. Like, happy with what? With money or…? What do you mean?" She also stood up and then sat on her bed, not losing sight of the silhouette in her room.
"I just want to be happy, but I don't know how and, since you're the devil, I thought you might know." Another silence, but shorter and then shattered by a loud laugh coming from the figure. It was weird and it made her feel embarrassed. Maybe she asked for a very stupid thing or something so easy the devil thought it was stupid that the summoning was about that.
"You really are a weird one." The laugh continued for a couple more seconds and then it stopped suddenly. "Okay… first of all. I'm not actually the devil, I'm one of his daughters. My name is Catra, (sorry for the late introduction, by the way), I guess you could say I'm a devil, since I'm over the demons but below my father, but that doesn't matter here. The thing is, little girl, that what you're wishing for is an idea, but not a real thing. More like, a concept or something like that. So I cannot just… you know, make it happen. You will need to be more specific, like I said. Happiness is different for everyone."
Okay, she understood now, but that made it even harder. She knew she wanted to be happy, but she didn't know what she was missing in her life in order to accomplish that. Should she tell her that? Maybe this devil would just turn around and go back to hell, right? Or she could ask for a shit ton of money, just to not waste the opportunity.
"Well, I don't know what I need to be happy, that's basically the whole reason why I attempted to make a deal with the devil." The lights suddenly went on again and she started to hear the noises from the street, something that she had noticed gone since the devil arrived.
"God dammit, girl! That's why you had that knife on your wrist? You're such an idiot, really. How can you not know what makes you happy? I could give you everything and yet you don't know what to wish for. How dumb can a human be?" The figure was showing her its back, but she could tell that the body did have a very feminine figure. She had said that she was one of Satan's daughters, right? It made sense.
The figure turned and she could see it all. She was dressed in a very human way, not what she had expected. She just looked like another metalhead you could find on the street. The things she had thought were horns were actually ears; cat ears, it seemed. She had a tail too. And to be honest, she was really pretty, but that was something you would expect from the daughter of the most beautiful angel god had created, or so she had heard.
"I have tried everything, but nothing seems to work for me." She answered, feeling more ashamed as the time passed. Not only did this devil girl could not give her what she wished for, but now it felt like she was mocking her too. It wouldn't be the first time, but it still felt uncomfortable for her.
"I mean, you live in a pretty ugly shithole, so I think that you have not tried money for real, but I'm not here to judge." The devil kind of had a point there, but she still felt that, somehow, money would not be the answer for her problem.
Her phone suddenly rang, announcing a new message and they both turned to look at it. Adora grabbed it from the old nightstand and saw that it was just a message from Glimmer, so it could wait.
"What in the world is that?" The devil asked, showing confusion through her face. She got close to the blonde to see the device that she had on her hand, scrutinizing it with her eyes.
"It's just a phone… No big deal, really." She answered, confused too. She could think that phones were not a thing you would find on hell, but people going to hell everyday could have talked about them, right?
"Oh, it's one of those things that you humans use to play and watch porn right?" She saw the eyes of the devil glowing in excitement, like when a child sees a new type of candy he has never tried before.
"Well, you can do more than that, but yeah, I think that's what we mostly do with them… Not the porn, I mean, but the games and apps… you know, stuff…" She felt extremely ashamed by that statement. She almost made the devil think that she masturbated a lot. But, wouldn't that be a good thing for a devil? It's god who condemns it, right?
"I have heard of these things, yeah. They're used in torture sometimes in hell…" The cat-girl didn't take her eyes away from the device she had on her hands, so she offered it to her and the girl snatched it so quickly she didn't even see her hands.
For a couple minutes she saw the devil looking at the lit up screen she had placed in front of her face. A couple of sounds of amusement leaving her mouth every once in a while, as if she was having a lot of fun just by seeing it and then she went crazy once she opened an app or something. But she choose not to say anything and just looked at the amused girl while she discovered that new item.
There was something about seeing someone else being happy that gave her a pleasant feeling. It has been like that since she could remember so, each time the girl made a sound on chuckled, she felt warm inside. She couldn't help but smile at the sight. A devil, powerful, wise and beautiful, acting like a five year old who just got his first video game on Christmas. It was amusing for her too.
Seconds transformed into minutes and the devil girl just wouldn't let go of her phone. She was so entranced with it that she didn't notice when Adora got out of her room and went to get a mop to clean the pentagram on her bedroom's floor nor when Adora took a towel from her small closet and took kind of a long shower to let out some steam and clean herself from all the sweat her body had accumulated from her daily routine and the previous interaction with the devil.
After a whole hour of watching the phone, the cat-girl stopped and looked at her, who was also looking at the devil. Her amused face had become an annoyed one and she felt a little afraid because of it, not knowing what had happened on the other girl's mind to make that change.
"This thing just died. Piece of shit." Oh, so she had ran out of battery. She couldn't help but chuckle at that, making the other girl look at somewhere else with a faint blush on her face. "You think this is amusing!? You're such an idiot…" The blonde stopped chuckling immediately and looked at her with a worried face.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. It's just that… you were really cute while you played with the phone." The blush on the devil girl got even redder and she turned around, not allowing the blonde to see her face.
"You're really a weird one, little girl." She saw the devil breathing deeply a couple times and then she turned back to see her, watching her with those mismatched eyes that suited her nicely. "Now, I think I gave you enough time to think about what you want, right? So just tell me and let me go back home." She spoke with annoyance on her voice, but also, with curiosity. A very weird combination, she thought.
"First, I would like to ask you a question." The blonde said and the girl in front of her sighed in annoyance, rolling her eyes and then sitting on the small bed beside her. She then nodded, letting the blonde now that she could ask her question. "What's up with this tattoo?" She lifted her shirt's sleeve and showed her the little cat on her arm.
"Well, that's my mark, obviously." The blonde looked at her in confusion and she rolled her eyes again. "You didn't finish the ritual at first, so I had to mark you in case you tried again. If I hadn't, someone else could have come to take your soul instead of me. It will go away once we make the contract, don't worry." Adora nodded and stood in silence for a couple seconds. "Any other questions? I don't have all day, girl."
"Yes, actually." The devil pinched the bridge of her nose and made a sign with her hand as if telling her to go on. "If we make a deal and I get whatever I want, how fast will I get it and how much time will I have to enjoy it?" The cat-girl looked at her, surprised.
"That is actually a good question. I cannot answer it fully, but I will do my best…" The blonde nodded and she continued. "How fast do you get what you want depends on what you want and if you want to hide the fact that you made a deal with the devil. Usually, no one likes other people finding out about the contract because they want to show off as if they did it or got it themselves, but if you don't care about it, I guess it could be faster. Get it?" The blonde nodded again and she kept going. "And about the time you have to enjoy it, that's something that I cannot answer." She saw the human's confused face and allowed her to ask the question she knew she had on her mind.
"What do you mean? If you own my soul, you surely know how much I will live, right? You could even kill me yourself." The devil looked surprised again for a second. It seemed like this girl was not as dumb as she had originally thought.
"Yes, I know how long you will live, but I also have rules to follow, and one of those rules is that I cannot let you know when you will die. Also, it is true that I will be the owner of your soul and I would have a right to claim it whenever I want within a time we can arrange." She made a sheet of paper appear out of thin air, surprising the blonde who looked at it in amazement. Little drawings appeared on the paper as she talked. "Let's say that your wish is to be rich, okay? Then we would have to talk about how fast do you want to get rich, (you know, the thing I explained before). Once we have that, you can ask for a certain amount of time to fully enjoy your money. The interesting thing here is that no one actually goes over that part when we make a deal, so I usually just give them a couple years. If you hadn't asked, I wouldn't have said anything, honestly. Since you asked, I have to tell you about it. Part of the rules." The blonde nodded again, trying to assimilate what she told her.
"What if I ask to enjoy my part of the deal for longer than what I am supposed to live? You know what I mean?" Damn, she really turned out to be smarter than she thought at first.
"I get it. In that case, your contract would be set to 'indefinitely' and I wouldn't be able to take your soul before you die when you're supposed to. I am also telling you this only because you asked. Like I told you before, everyone is blinded by greed when we're making a deal but I'm obliged to respond any question you have before you sign and renounce your soul." She saw the blonde looking down at the floor, as if she was in deep thought, something that kind of annoyed her. "So, can we make the deal already? Like I told you: if you are specific, I can give you everything."
"No." What the flying fuck?
"What the fuck do you mean 'no'? There's no going back now, girl. I was just asking nicely, but if you're going to make it hard…" She got interrupted when the other girl started talking again.
"That's not what I want. It's just that… I still don't know the specific way I can be happy and you said I can't just ask for happiness like that. I'm not backing off, I just need more time to think. Besides, you are 'obliged' to answer all my questions about the contract and I feel like I will have more questions that I would like to ask instead of doing it blindly." She couldn't help but sigh and roll her eyes again, trying not to get mad, which was proving to be a difficult thing.
"Once you start this process, it cannot be stopped. If you were to die before making a contract, you wouldn't be able to go to heaven nor hell, you would just basically disappear. There's not an estimated time that we have for this process, it depends on the devil and let me tell you this: I'm not a patient one." She got up from the bed and saw the phone she had left there, thinking back at how fun it was to play with it. "But I think we can make an arrangement." The blonde looked at her as if she was eager to know about it, so she kept going. "I will give you some more time to think about what you want, but in return, you will teach me more about the new technologies and the way you humans live nowadays. Once I'm done with that, your time will be over and you will have to decide. If you don't have an answer by then, you will ask for whatever thing crosses your mind first and that's it. Do we have a deal?" She extended her hand to the blonde and saw the girl hesitating about taking it. She supposed it was normal. In the end, she was already making a deal with the devil, even if it wasn't a formal one.
"Okay, I will take it." The blonde took her hand and that made her smile a little.
"Then we have a deal. This is not a signed deal, but still, if you break it, I will just kill you on the spot." The blonde looked at her in surprise, but there was no fear of death in her. She suddenly thought that the girl was actually more interesting than what she had previously imagined.
Now she just needed a short explanation as to why she wouldn't be back to hell in a few days and also, she needed to find a place to live on earth, because she sure as hell didn't want to live in the same shithole that this blonde girl lived in.
And that's it for today. I hope the change of perspective in the middle of the chapter wasn't hard to understand.
I'll do my best to have the next chapter by next week.
Thanks for reading!