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Chapter 19 – Praise Lord Satan
"Catra!" Scorpia had suddenly appeared in Angela's living room, hugging the cat-girl tightly. "Why did you do it!? You're going to be punished!" The remaining two devils appeared too, not saying or doing anything, just standing there, watching the interaction between their sisters. Both had smiles on their faces, but it was obvious that each smile had a completely different reason to be there.
"Scorpia, wait!" The youngest devil got out of her sister's hug releasing her full power immediately after she saw Hordak. "Adora's soul is already mine and she is not immortal! Leave her alone!" She was about to jump to hit him but a couple of pincers on her shoulders stopped her.
The smile on Hordak's face had changed from a wicked one to a surprised expression and then to anger when he realized that he had been defeated, even if his sister was about to get punished. He needed a miracle now but sadly, he was not on god's good graces.
"He's not here to fight." The white haired devil told her sister, trying to calm her. She had a saddened expression on her face, a thing that worried Catra. "We're here to punish you…" The words came out almost in a whisper and the room fell completely silent, everyone watching the devil about to be punished.
Adora felt her heart skip a beat when she heard that. She had almost forgotten about the fact that what she and her devil did the night before was one of the worst offences she could commit against the rules of Lucifer. She couldn't help but feel anxious at the thought of the cat-girl being killed because of it. It was a little bit extreme but she remembered that no one had ever been punished before and so, no one really knew how strict would the lord of hell be when carrying out a punishment.
Angela and Bow just looked at each other, not knowing what to do or say and uncertain if they should actually do something. They had no reason to meddle in hell's business, even if they wanted to help and, with so many devils there, trying to stop the punishment would surely get them killed. They had to patiently wait and see how it ended, they had no other choice.
"Okay, let's start!" Entrapta said excitedly, snapping her fingers and making an old looking paper appear in front of her. "Can I be the one reading it?" She turned to look at Hordak, who just nodded, still angry but trying not to show it, and then she looked at Scorpia, who also nodded, still saddened. "Great!" She snapped her fingers and the whole room suddenly changed. They were not in Angela's living room anymore, they were in a room with metal walls and floor, no windows or doors.
In the room, Catra had appeared standing in front of the other three devils, Entrapta in the center, Scorpia at her right and Hordak at her left. Behind her, Adora, Bow and Angela were seated in a metal bench at the end of the room, unable to get up from it thanks to the devil's magic.
"By the rules of Lucifer, when carrying out a punishment all of us have to be present…" The white haired devil spoke, trying to fake seriousness. "And so…" She was quickly interrupted by the purple haired devil.
"And so, we're here to read Lucifer's word." The cat-girl felt her heard pumping faster than normal, nervous about what her punishment would be. "I'm reading this in English since we have spectators, okay?" She looked at her siblings nod and felt her stomach turn, anticipating the worse by how Scorpia looked before and since then. "Okay. It says: 'By breaking the rules that I have made for you, you have brought shame to me and to hell. Therefore, your punishment will be equal to the damage you have inflicted to me.'" Catra closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "'This is the punishment I bestow upon you: any contract you made after breaking the rule will be nullified and the soul's ownership will be the person itself again until they decide to either sin to go to hell without a contract or attain to god's laws to go to heaven. Endless purgatory will be waiting for them if they attempt to make a contract with you again.'" She opened her eyes in surprise and fear, knowing what it meant for the human girl she had grown to like so much. Then she looked at Hordak who had his signature wicked smile again and her fear increased, knowing she couldn't do anything now. "'You will lose all of your powers with the exception of your immortality.'" Things kept getting worse by the second and she knew it just by looking at her brother, who seemed to be containing his laughter. "'And lastly, you will make amends with the human you tricked into your foolery. For as long as the human lives, you will be forced to be with them, helping them in whatever they need or want. You will also be banned from hell until the human dies. Once the human is dead, your powers will be back and you will be able to come to hell again.'" That last part didn't sound so bad for her, but that didn't solve the problem she and the blonde had. "'On that account, no other devil will be able to make a contract with the human or have ownership of her soul in any way for as long as they live since the human has proven to be easily fooled by my children. That is my will and, from this moment, it will be reality.'" The paper in Entrapta's hand suddenly burned itself until it was nothing but ashes in the floor. The purple haired devil snapped her fingers again and they were back in Angela's living room. "That's it. I thought it would be more interesting."
Catra felt a sudden weakness overtake her body as she fell to the floor on her knees. The weakness of a fully normal human body. She also felt relief and, given her brother's face, she knew she was right in feeling that way. His face showed her how furious he was by knowing that Adora's soul could never be his now and so, she couldn't help but laugh out loud in her relief.
"Catra!" She was hugged suddenly, still in the floor, by Scorpia, who had tears running down her face. "I'm sorry! You must be so upset you went crazy and now you can't stop laughing." The cat-girl tried to calm herself for a second to answer her.
"No…" She said between chuckles. "I'm laughing because now you…" She signaled Hordak. "…won't get what you wanted. Fuck you, cunt!" Her brother growled as she showed him both of her middle fingers and he opened a portal beside him, getting into it and disappearing, a thing that made her laugh even harder.
And as her devil laughed, Adora felt immense relief too. She had been worried not only about herself, but about the cat-girl too. Her worsts fears had made her feel so anxious and scared that she felt for a second that she was going to vomit and then lose consciousness, but thankfully, things were not as bad as she thought. At least that's what it looked like, giving how Catra didn't seem to stop laughing any time soon. And so, she felt a few tears escaping her eyes for what it felt like the thousandth time that day, only that now, those tears were the good kind of tears.
And she was not the only one feeling that immense relief, because both angels felt it too and they couldn't help but smile widely at the outcome. They looked at each other and nodded, knowing that, even if this was not the best case scenario, it was pretty good for everyone involved.
Angela specially felt lighter now. Maybe she had not been able to accomplish her mission and become an angel again, but Adora was safe from the worst enemies and she was sure that other angels would not do any harm to her since god didn't seem to care. Yes, the outcome was great. No injured, no deaths, no more fighting. Finally, the peace she had first dreamed when she had fallen.
A room once filled with negative thoughts had suddenly changed to be a very animated one where only one was crying in sadness. It was a huge improvement.
"I'm really going to miss you." The tallest devil didn't want to let go of her sister, still pinned to the floor by her big frame.
"I know. I will miss you too, but we will make it work somehow." Catra had finally stopped laughing but couldn't help to still giggle at every word she said, extreme happiness flowing through her body.
"Catra, she's immortal… I think we won't be seeing each other again soon…" The cat-girl took her sisters face and made her look at her directly to her eyes, smiling soothingly and calmly.
"I am immortal too, and so are you. We have nothing but time." For the first time in her life, she was the one hugging her big sister as tightly as she could with her now human body. "Now, get off me. I'm basically human now and you're really heavy." They both chuckled as they got up, the white haired devil trying to make her sadness flow out of her mind. "Now, you should get back to hell before Lucifer gets mad at you too." The tallest devil nodded and then hugged her again.
"I will be keeping an eye on you, and if I see you are in trouble, I will come running, okay?" The cat-girl reciprocated the hug happily and then whispered into her sister's ear:
"I know. Thank you." They broke the hug and looked at each other for a couple of seconds before Entrapta opened a portal and dragged Scorpia into it with her hair, waving one last good bye for the moment.
The devil then turned to look at the human girl that had caused all of it to happen and smiled widely to her, running towards her and jumping on her to give her a kiss that she now knew wouldn't be the last.
"Wow. You should get punished more often." The blonde spoke sarcastically after the kiss and looked at her while she hugged her.
"You're such a dumb ass. But I guess you're now my dumb ass." She kissed her again, almost desperate to feel those lips on her. And even with her desperation, she still wanted to convey all her feelings to Adora through that kiss.
"I'm really glad things turned out like this, even though I'm sorry about you being punished, Catra." Angela spoke as she looked at them with a warm smile and watery eyes.
"It's fine. This is the best thing that could have happened to us in this situation. No devils to attack her and angels that will surely stop once they know that god doesn't care." As she spoke, she took the blonde's hand in hers, interlacing their fingers.
"They will not come after her. I believe my mission is still in the table and either they choose not to interfere in it or they know that god would not give them anything for doing so. I truly believe Adora is finally safe, and it's all thanks to you." The fallen angel approached them both and hugged them, something that didn't bother the cat-girl, even if it would have been annoying for her before.
"Also, if it's just a fight between angels, I plan on staying here for as long as Angela has her mission." He joined them in the hug and Catra couldn't help but chuckle at his comment.
"That's not really reassuring giving how weak you are, but thank you." At the devil's words everyone chuckled too.
"I'm now stronger than you so, you should know not to be mean to me." They broke the hug and the older woman took the blonde's free hand.
"I'm going to keep looking for a way to make you mortal. I know it's alluring to think about everything you could do like this, but I can also assure you that it gets old really quick." Adora just nodded and hummed happily at Angela's words, then she turned to look at Catra and just kissed her again. She felt as if happiness was just exuding out of her.
They both separated when they heard a yell coming from Angela and a loud gasp coming from Bow. They turned to look at her and saw she had a couple of fluffy, shiny wings coming out of her back.
"You're an angel again!" Bow almost yelled in surprise unable to contain his excitement.
"I feel like it… but why? My mission is not completed." The older angel flapped her wings a couple of times as if she couldn't believe they were real. Or maybe she just thought she didn't deserve it.
An envelope suddenly appeared in front of her and she took it to open it. Just by looking at it, both angels knew it came from god himself.
"What does it say?" Bow asked with curiosity, a little bit of worry on his voice.
"It says: 'you're going to need more time. Good luck.'" Angela giggled and then dropped the letter to the floor where it disappeared leaving a feather where it used to be. "I see… I'm immortal again… I'm an angel again…" She chuckled again as a few tears ran down her face, happiness overflowing in her body.
"Mom!" A sudden scream startled them all and they all turned to look at the entrance of the living room where a really panicked Glimmer stood, white wings coming out of her back too. "What the hell is happening!?" Her mother went to her and hugged her tightly as she cried with even more happiness.
"We're angels now, Glim." The little girl seemed to calm at her mother's words, hugging her back.
"Okay, but I have like… a thousand questions now." Angela laughed a little and hugged her even tighter.
Bow couldn't help but cry at the scene. One way or another, he had accomplished what he wanted and, even though he felt like he had been completely useless, he also felt grateful that it had turned out like that, with no one injured or dead.
"What a softie." Catra whispered to Adora, making her giggle and then look at her with fake annoyance.
"You're a devil." The blonde whispered back to her sarcastically and the cat-girl gasped as if she had been offended, making them both chuckle.
"Well, now I'm your devil." The human pulled her closer until their noses were touching but stopped before kissing her.
"'Till death tears us apart." The devil giggled shortly before answering her, faking annoyance.
"We're immortal, idiot." Adora looked at her seductively and put her hand in Catra's head, making her aware of the imminent contact their lips were waiting for.
"Then be prepared for a long ride of my silliness and awful social skills." The blonde spoke with an enticing tone that didn't really fit with what she was saying.
"I can't wait. I just hope you don't snore so loudly every day." The cat-girl responded with the same tone, sending shivers down the human girl's spine.
"You're mean."
"And you're dumb."
"I think I might love you."
"I think I might love you too."
They stopped looking at each other with love-struck eyes and kissed. A kiss that felt as if it was the greatest one humanity had witnessed ever. A kiss filled with passion and love, even a faint of lust.
They may be forced to spend their lives together now, but for neither of them that felt like a punishment. It felt more like a gift, and they were sure they would enjoy it fully until the day they had to actually separate. No regrets would haunt them after that. After all and without knowing, they had found happiness in each other as they would never find anywhere else, even if they hadn't known each other for a long time. It just felt right for them to be together. So right that they couldn't stop thinking that maybe everything that happened was planned by god himself and was supposed to end this way. The right way.
Maybe I should have told you that I'm a sucker for happy endings (or I think I did), I just can't help it.
In the end, I think all of you knew how this was going to end since the beggining, but I still hope you enjoyed reading the story as much as I enjoyed writing every single chapter in it. I loved it so much that I can't stop thinking about what I'm gonna do next (I already have a couple of ideas but I can't decide which one to write first).
There are a few things I would like to point out:
1.- I barely used Glimmer in this fic even though I like her very much, but it was because of how I wanted the story to run. I will definetely use her more in my next work.
2.- The reason why this story didn't end with Adora asking to be together with Catra for as long as she lived (since that was basically the end result anyway) was because of something I didn't write in the fic since it would have been a lot of exposition without reason, so I'm gonna explain it as simple as I can here: If Hordak killed Catra, Adora's soul would have no owner again and he could push her into making another contract with him. Of course I wouldn't have let that happen, but it would have extended the story in a way I thought it would be boring, so I decided to use Lucifer's punishment as my "Deus ex machina".
and 3.- If I can come up with a way to make Adora mortal without breaking the rules I wrote in this fic, I will 100% write a continuation for the story.
Also, I don't know if you noticed but, each chapter was named after a Black Metal song, band or album. I'm gonna leave them here just in case you're into that kind of harsh thing like me or just curious:
1 Summoning (Band)
2 Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (EP)
3 Dark Funeral - Diabolis interium (Song)
4 Bathory - In Conspiracy With Satan (Song)
5 IXXI - Devil's Mass-Control (Song)
6 Immortal - Demonium (Song)
7 Bewitched - Hell's Triumph (Song)
8 Venom - Sons of Satan (Song)
9 Behemoth - Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer (Song)
10 Hexen - Private Hell (Song)
11 Ketzer - Satan's Boundaries Unchained (Album)
12 Cruel Force - Infernal Winds (Song)
13 Pagan Rites - Satanic Sadist (Song)
14 Vital Remains - I Am God (Song)
15 Infant Death - Demonic Perversion (Song)
16 Tyrant - Hell Has Broken Loose (Song)
17 Necrodeath - At The Roots of Evil (Song)
18 Murk - Unholy Presences (Song)
19 Nifelheim - Praise Lord Satan (Song)
Anyway; I'm really thankful for your support and reviews through the story. I know I'm a piece of shit for not answering them directly, but like I've explained, I'm not really good at making a conversation through the internet.
I really hope you enjoyed the story and maybe you will see me again soon with a new one.
Have a great life and keep pushing on twitter for a She-ra movie!