Chapter 2. Welcome to hell.
Note: for all the new terms such as DGO, flaring and such, please refer at the end of the chapter.
Mara sighed as she looked upon the layers of paperwork that she has to perform for the day. The DMO (Demonic Mischief Office) she worked at demanded paperwork for days upon days. So much work, such as relationships between lovers to trash, business opportunities to fail, major embarrassments to create for people and many-many more.
"I guess this is what I get for being the head of the DMO," Mara sighs. "I really missed my video games, haven't played them for a few days," she sniffed, as she still wants to finish the "resident evil extreme: Demonic version" she started earlier.
She couldn't sleep at home either. She missed the noise from her sister's chambers. Every single day now and then will hear screams of pleasure, pain and torture emitting from her sisters mansion. It would be one of the victims her sister brought back home. The screamer would probably be an unlucky soul or demon/demoness. She missed hearing the loud erotic noises or clashes of weapons from her next-door neighbor.
Her sister stays beside her house, in her own special chambers.
"I know she wants to show to every single demon in Vanagdrasil how truly skillful she is, but what's with the huge loudspeakers she places around her place? I guess she still wants to show what a former demoness of lust can do. Brrrrr...." She shivered. She was sad that she was not one of her sister's targets anymore. Her sister once had affection for her, and Mara remembered the long, joyfull, and wet but exhausting nights.
(Mara flashes back to the past)
However, the "activities" drained her too much of her energy, and she was behind in her paperwork. Hild, the ruler of the dark realms, Vanagdrasil, and the total opposite of Kami-sama, demanded an audience and explanation from both of the sisters. Failing to give an appropriate answer, Hild sentenced Mara and her sister to fifty years of punishment, in a comatose state. Forcing her to watch people having wild, erotic sex around her. It was torturous, being trapped motionlessly, but the worse of all, the dark mistress tortured her emotions, sending her into an emotional turmoil of jealousy, helplessness and anger.
Although the punishment is not that serious for a demoness that lived for 210000 years, it was enough, more than enough. The dark mistress is incredibly skillful in ensuring total loyalty from his subjects. She pitied her sister somehow, the dark mistress gave her an extra punishment: she was unable to do a "flaring" until she finds her perfect love. Being the demoness of lust, lust is always placed before love, so it was a perfect punishment for her sister.
"I'm really sorry, sis. I'm truly am," her sister spoke through broken works. Again and again her sister repeatedly apologized after the 50 years of punishment. Her sister's attitude and job changed after that, from the demoness of lust to the demoness of combat. Due to the fact that she still loves her sister very much, she forgave her after 3 years.
(Back to the present)
Her sister had recently been called to a very secretive job. She has broken the link form her for a few days now. The mental link between her and her sister is a genuine sister love, and when the contact ceased, either her sister was severely hurt, travelled into another dimension, or met the reaper. That worried her much.
True, a demoness must show no passion in front of other demons or demoness, but her heart reeked of worries. Her sister claimed that her mission was long, and when she enquired her sister about it, all she replied was "Military secrets", and she hated that. "They must have some really lethal, dangerous and evil project going on again," she guessed.
"Zarah, where are you? I'm worried," said Mara in her heart.
"YARGH!!!" Zazu screamed, as he appeared 20 feet above the ground after stepping through the portal. Lounging towards Zarah that was in front of him, he quickly grabbed her legs.
Zarah stepped out of the portal. "Aah, home sweet home, how much I missed you," before hearing Zazu scream behind her. "Oops, I forgot that he's just a one hour demon, doesn't know anything yet," she smirked. "A bump from a 20 feet vertical fall won't hurt him much, hehe."
What Zarah didn't anticipate was the quick reaction from Zazu. He quickly grabbed her legs to avoid falling any further. Zarah was caught off guard from the sudden increase in weight that her form could manage, and down they come falling vertically together, with Zazu still screaming while grabbing her legs.
"Don't look up, you pervert!!!" (Note where was Zazu compared to Zarah's position while still in the air). It was the only word Zarah managed out before they both crashed into a heap on the floor.
Two.....
Zazu remembered the number two again. Wait, two? I remembered that number when I first met her. He felt it once when she came crashing down on me a few hours ago. It had the familiar softness too.
!!!!SLAP!!!!
"OH, S**T!!!!" That the only word he could manage before he was flying 20 feet horizontally across the room.
(Back to Mara)
It wasn't long before Mara sensed her sister again. "Zarah!" she screamed. Her minions around her office turned to look towards her, but quickly turned back when she glared at them. None of her minions wants to get "disciplined" by her. None of them could stand a few hours of her famous "leash of fire" whippings.
"By the devil, I will torture her for this! How could you make your big sister worry!" Before she stormed into a CD. (CD is Mara's form of transportation)
(In Zarah's room)
When she exited the CD from her sister room, all Mara could notice was an object flying towards her.
"OOF!" as she was head butted by the object.
Back to Zazu,
"Pain...Pain...Pain...," was an Zazu could felt as he was still flying diagonally. "At least I will stop when I crash at that wall." But before he could reach the wall, a woman appeared before him, and he rammed straight into her.
Whack!!!! Mara hit Zazu aside angrily.
"This is certainly not my day," Zazu murmered, as he went flying 20 feet horizontally again, with a 90 degree deflection from the previous course. And this time he managed to "safely" hit a wall.
"Hey, Zarah! Where the hell you went? Do you want to eat my fireballs?" screamed Mara. She is pissed, first her sister and now she was head butted in the stomach.
"Hi sis, sorry for that. I had something really important to do, military business," replied Zarah.
"Yeah right, and what's that demon doing over here? To entertain you again?" Mara screamed.
"No, please listen to me," and Zarah went to a deep detail on what had happened when she broke her contact with Mara. She described what happened from the part where she was called to duty to hunt a potential demon. The demon was said to be "unawaken" yet, and she was assigned the duty to corrupt and convert him towards darkness. She hacked into the Yaggdrasilian mainframe with some help from a demon who "owed" her. She then went off towards her target. Unfortunately Yaggdrasil spotted the hacking.
She found the location of her target but before she managed to reach him, a battle goddess intercepted her. Zarah underestimated the goddess strength and was hurt bad. She managed to make a final teleport towards Zazu's location and awoken him. Apparently, she did not have the strength to maintain a mind link towards more than one being at a time, because she was too exhausted from fighting with the goddess. Therefore she had to severe her link with Mara.
"My little ignorant sis, however powerful you are, you are still a second class demoness. Please don't frighten me like that again," pleaded Mara. Mara's face turned soft for a second or two before it hardened again.
"Yes, big sister. I know you love me as a sister with all your heart," Zarah sniffed.
"True, and now as a show of my sisterly love, taste my famous "leash of fire"!!!"
"Nooooooooooo.............," a long echoing sound was heard from Zarah's chambers.
By the way, Zazu was still unconscious.
"Nice place you have here, warm and cozy," Zazu commented. "It certainly doesn't look like what I expected." The room given to Zazu was very comfortable, with a studying table, a computer, a bed and a wardrobe for him to put his clothes on. There is a nice chandelier hanging on the ceiling, giving ample light. "Well, I created this room according to your humanely tastes, but it will not look the same if you open the window," answered Zarah
And so Zazu did. And it shocked him into nothingness.
The sky was black, totally obsidian black. The clouds were a fiery orange, with deep red thunderstorms between them. Over in the distance he could see a "rain of fire" pouring over. And he could see kids playing there in the rain. Demonic kids. They were laughing and hurling fire towards each other.
All the structures outside him were made of obsidian stone; they were made into polygonal shapes, with sharp, jagged edges on all sides. Some the buildings look like a huge weapon to him, like a four-sided dagger or a sword. The buildings were all very systematically arranged in order, as opposed to his belief as the chaos he would imagine what hell is. The buildings were organized in an orderly chaos fashion, with some combining to look even more menacing.
There was something sort of a shopping complex and an arcade nearby, which he saw many demonic beings strolling in and out of the buildings. Huge advertisements in three dimensions hovered in the air. One of them read "Best torturing devices in the world, all a sale at a 99% discount." He smirked; probably the price was outrageous anyway.
Lava pools were scattered everywhere around the place. There were quite a lot of beings "bathing" there, with some "copulating" on the spot. Yuck. He irked.
He was standing probably in the middle of a 700-story building, and the view was excellent. He could see parks where wild beasts roam, all looking fierce and menacing, and something caught him: couples in a romantic embrace out far.
"Seems like I'm truly a loser, even in hell there are happy couples," he muttered.
"Well, we are demons and demonesses, we have emotions, you know," Zarah replied.
"Where are all the tortured souls who are condemned to burn here?" Zazu asked.
"They are in another realm of hell, the place you are at now is currently the residential area of hell, the more 'peaceful' area," Zarah answared. "I don't think you are ready yet to see the other realms. You might have a mental collapse when other sights overwhelm you," continued Zarah.
What the demoness said was so true, he was barely able to stand already. All he wanted to do was sit. And he shut the window, unable to look out further.
Wait a minute....
What he saw was hundred and hundred of miles! Since when did his vision improved that much? Is this a benefit when he transformed into a demon? Everything was detailed and sharp. Like he was looking through a telescope, but without the limiting boundary of the circular vision when you see through a scope. No wonder he was overwhelmed, he was seeing now more than what his normal human eyes could see at once.
What other things that might affect him too?
Zarah looked at Zazu when he was gawking out through the window. He looked like a 5-year-old demonic child. Kinda cute too. She smiled. It remembered her of her past, both the happy ones and the sad ones. Remembering that, she just remembered that she has to brief this demon about his history and the role he will play in the future. However, she is not going to brief him that early yet, his brain was still trying to process the information he absorbed earlier. She will probably brief him in another few hours.
Brain??? What Brain???
Wait a minute; demons are actually forms of energy that can manipulate objects and atoms to their free will. Practically, a brain does not exist except for crafting purposes. This half-demon she sensed does have a brain, not an energy wave. Yet she can still sense the demonic aura within him. He had a demonic aura, a human life form, and something else, something that she could not understand. This is something she should look into when she asked her superiors later. Perhaps she should consult with her sister because her sister is currently active in giving grief and mischief towards mortals in the human realm.
What she remembered that her sister is still currently busy with a certain project. She remembered that her elder sister is supposed to bring grief towards a mortal named Kenichi. However, there were three goddess, named Belldandy, Urd and Skuld which constantly protects the mortal. That brought her sister a lot of frustrations. All her sister's attempts to bring grief to the mortal, including turning Kenichi into a frog, usually backfired and did not turn out terribly at the end.
"Heh, looks like I'm not the only one having hard times after all," she mused. "Looks like I'll be off for some hot springs to clean myself," truly Zarah has the same enjoyment as her sister has.
Hours later....
Zarah paid a short visit to her sister's office later that day. Mara was busy with her paperwork, as usual. Zarah's method of transportation is unique. She does not need any medium of transportation to bring her around. All she needs is to simply burn a set of runes on the floor, and a portal will open in front of her. However, one drawback is that her portal often misses the destination anywhere by 0 to 10 meters or so. Sometimes she ended face first into a pile of earth.
Mara was working on her computer when Zarah's face popped from her keyboard. She can't cross the portal because the top of the portal only appeared into thin air. Mara's table and computer blocked the rest. Then her eyes were jabbed by Mara's fingers. Mara realized that she was poking something soft, and saw her sister's face. She jabbed her face even more vigorously, laughing at her condition.
"Ouch! Quit that, sister!" as Zarah closed her eyes. "I'll morph into a mini-Zarah shape," and crossed the small portal opening that was left. She then changed back to her normal size.
"So what brings you to my office, I'm busy you know," said an amused Mara. Zarah rarely paid her a visit at her office.
"Sis, I need to know more about human beings, the demonic mortal I brought in is acting like a mortal," Zarah said.
"Well, what you do need to know is that human's are very affected by their emotions. Many times, their judgment is often clouded by their emotions. We demonesses working at the DGO have very good experiences about this. Sometimes, we let the mortals' torture themselves up. All we need to do is push them a little and they will wallow themselves up in self- misery," said her sister, acting like an expert.
"No wonder that half-demon had so much emotions in him, it shocked me a little. However, in my case it pushed him into a berserk mode through. It shocked me, knowing that emotions made him more powerful than anything I have seen. I saw him taking down a god in one cleave! Sis, he is mentally unstable, I'm afraid he will strike at me when I tell his heritage."
"One cleave? Now this is what I want to see. Just don't stir his emotions when you tell him, that all. Prepare your spells before you tell him his origins, who knows you might know that he is one that could control his emotions well in other situations," said Mara. "Well, good luck, I need to go back to my paper work."
"But sis!" Zarah wanted to continue the topic, but seeing her sister all occupied in planning another plan to upset a mortal, she left. "My sister is a workaholic," Zarah sighs.
Zarah begins to chant as she prepared her spells. She had three spells on her inventory, regeneration, fireball and increased resistance to elemental elements (such as fire and lightning). She prepared the regeneration spell, and take a deep breath before entering Zazu's room.
"Zazu, I need to tell you about your past."
"Well, ok, I'm all ears for it, lets start."
In heaven:
Peorth was in a shock: One of the gods is dead. Simply dead. How could this happen to a god? The goddess Imma was still in a shock, and the doctors advised her not to trouble Imma for a while. She will need time to recover.
However, from what the records have said, this Demon named Zazu and Demoness named Zarah virtually slayed Zhao in battle. It was the first case ever to happen over a long time.
Peorth doesn't want an all out panic to happen within Yaggdrasil, so she tried her best to keep the records hidden in the mainframe. Perhaps they are a bunch of rouges within the Demonic hierarchy. Well, to confirm things, she will question the goddess later. And when the confirmation is true that the god was slain in pure hatred and murder, they will be put into the wanted list in Yaggdrasil and will be hunted for the rest of their lives.
Peorth was well aware of how critical the situation is. All you need is a whisper to the battle council of heaven. And they will be totally committed toward killing the demons. This Zealots are well known towards their hatred of their opposite kin. It is known that anyone who enrolls in the battle council is taught specially to hate demons and learn all kind of techniques to slay them. The highest honor bestowed upon members of their council is when one of their members has slayed a demonic being. They will not stop their mission until the target is sent to the reaper.
"A deep investigation needs to be done in this matter. It is a very serious matter. And must be kept in total secrecy," Peorth muttered to herself.
However, not all the gods are as patient as Peorth.
Two second-class god and goddess twins, Veran and Vera, just knew Zhao as he graduated into second class the same time as them. However, Zhao was missing after his first assignment, and they were curious. Zhao was known to be an ignorant competitor to them, often boasting to his friends who failed to be promoted to second class. They were not given their first assignment yet, so they were curious of his first mission.
Soon, the twins successfully hacked into the Yaggdrasil mainframe and both of them went immediately towards their goal: records for Zhao's first mission. Maybe they can taunt the ignorant Zhao if he had failed his mission.
However, what they discovered shocked them apart.
Zhou was killed! A demon and a demoness killed him. How could this could ever happen?
They searched the records for the action that should be taken once these kinds of things occur. And it pointed out to one action: the demon and demoness must be slain. No questions asked. Slain on the spot.
However, there is one thing that bugged them. In their studies, matters like this should be brought immediately to the battle council. Why the administration is so sloppy about this?
"I know," Veran said. "We will bring this matter to the battle council of heaven, we will get prestige for doing this." His twin sister agreed.
They met a member of the battle council later......
"HOW DARE THE ADMINISTATION KEEP US A SECRET ABOUT THIS?!!" the god roared. "THIS IS A DISRESPECT OF US!!!! PEORTH WILL PAY FOR THIS!!!" Both of the twins were frightened by the voice of him. His voice was booming over them. "DEATH WILL BE UPON THOSE TWO DEMONIC BEINGS!!!"
Seems like the idea of telling this to a member of the battle council was not good at all. No wonder Peorth kept it as a secret. Sometimes, things are better kept hidden than the truth revealed. What they have said might spark a war between heaven and hell. Worse off, they have put Peorth's position in jeopardy. Now Peorth will be in deep trouble if the member of the council spreads the news towards the entire council.
Guilt was forming in their hearts.
"We better tell Peorth," Veran said to his sister. And off they went.
Mars, looked at the two twins as they scurried away from him. He smiled. No, he will not tell the battle council first. He would capture and slain them by himself first. He will then get the prestige. No one else will get it. Among the most powerful of the first class gods, even first class demons are cautioned against him. True, there were a few foolish first class demons that challenged him, and they died. All of them.
"Argh, all the sacrifices needed to be done for the greater good," he said, as he began his hunt.
Back to hell:
Zarah began her story:
Who were Zazu's parents? Apparently, he was mixed blood, certainly with a demon as his mother and a mortal as his father. His mother was in Vanagdrasil's records, and so was his father in the earthen realm. Both of his parents died when he was young, because the lords of the underworld required all demons to be registered. His parents, not wanting their son to be corrupted into a world of demons, fled hell and seek refuge on earth. After all, he was the first demonic-mortal hybrid, and tests upon tests will be conducted on him to fill the demonic scientists curiosity. Terrible tests such as what that makes him cry, what that makes him tickle, how much he hurts when he bleeds, and many more monstrous tests.
Their joy in hiding was short lived through, as in a few months, his mother realized that she couldn't protect her family anymore, and decided to put a seal upon her sons' power.
The seal was designed that it would seal Zazu's demonic power off completely so that he could not be detected other than a simple ordinary mortal. Therefore hiding him from the underworld.
The seal was only designed to open only when certain conditions was met by her son. One, when he was matured enough, two, he has witnessed and experienced enough pain that he might be able to control his powers and three, when he is destined to find his soul mate.
The Vanagdrasil's records indicated that he was hidden from demonic scans until he was the age of 20. Around 21, as Zazu increases with maturity, his powers began to develop and the Hild sensed his aura. So did heaven, because he was a permanent living demon on earth for a long time.
The records did not have a record of Zazu until he was the age of 20 through. Until 20, he was invisible to the under-realm. However, they do have a record of both of his parents. Apparently, their joy was only short- lived for about two months after Zazu was born. As the records say, two demons came barraging into his parents home, and promptly flayed his father by layer upon layer of his skin till he bled to death. His mother, held by a stasis field, was brutally ravaged with every heinous act possible while seeing her beloved husband die in front of her eyes. Eventually, she killed herself while they were still ravaging her.
The records say that the two demons that brutalized her mother were rewarded with their skillful act of bringing pain towards his parents. Torturing the victim until she decides that her life was not worth living anymore, so saddened that she decides to put out her own life was a very skillful craft in the underworld. (Making her kill herself) They are now both honored high members of the underworld for their skillful acts of torture.
The records did not say when his parents left him. There were no pictures of his real father and mother; as there were only pictures of his parents after they were tortured. In other words, even their memories were charred by the demons.
And finally one thing, the Vanagdrasillian records indicated that the first hybrid of immortals and mortals would bring severe changes of all three realms. All heaven, hell and the mortal realm will be changed. A lot of destruction and chaos will happen while the process is in progress. The dark mistress, noticing the destructive potential of this hybrid, ordered all records of this hybrid to be erased and to be forgotten in the underworld. Finally, upon sensing his awakened powers, the Hild ordered her to big him to hell.
"And that what I could say," Zarah finished. Anticipating for the worst, Zarah turned her face towards Zazu, fully ready if he does anything crazy.
"Ok. Thanks for revealing my past. Now I know much more," thanked Zazu, through a calm voice.
That shocked her as she was anticipating the worst.
And that's before she looked into his eyes, his black eyes.
She saw an enormous amount of pain hidden there.
Pain that was so much that he couldn't express it.
Pain that was so much that he couldn't hide it.
It had so much pain that she could fell it.
And then he cried. Soft sobs, as he tries to hold his voice, while his body was shaking tremendously.
All Zarah could do was to extend her wings. And completely cover and hug him till he cried till he slept.
Well, that's chapter two. Please R&R. I will not know how to improve it unless you tell me how.
This are some terms that I made use from Trail By Tenderness (TBT):
DMO - Demonic Mischief Office, the total opposite of the GRO - Goddess relief office.
flaring - This is a term where demons who are in love with each other decides to share whatever they have throughout their entire lives with each other. They will share whatever they know, their memories, their past loves and the feeling towards each other to the outmost sincerity. This happens by the touching of the head marks of each other of the couples. Memories, emotions and feelings will then flow from one towards another. In goddess terms, it is called sharing.
In my fan-fic, the leader of heaven (Yagdrassil) is Kami-sama, the leader of hell (Vanagdrassil) is Hild and there is one more powerful being in all existence, the reaper, which can claim all souls, including gods and demons.
Note: for all the new terms such as DGO, flaring and such, please refer at the end of the chapter.
Mara sighed as she looked upon the layers of paperwork that she has to perform for the day. The DMO (Demonic Mischief Office) she worked at demanded paperwork for days upon days. So much work, such as relationships between lovers to trash, business opportunities to fail, major embarrassments to create for people and many-many more.
"I guess this is what I get for being the head of the DMO," Mara sighs. "I really missed my video games, haven't played them for a few days," she sniffed, as she still wants to finish the "resident evil extreme: Demonic version" she started earlier.
She couldn't sleep at home either. She missed the noise from her sister's chambers. Every single day now and then will hear screams of pleasure, pain and torture emitting from her sisters mansion. It would be one of the victims her sister brought back home. The screamer would probably be an unlucky soul or demon/demoness. She missed hearing the loud erotic noises or clashes of weapons from her next-door neighbor.
Her sister stays beside her house, in her own special chambers.
"I know she wants to show to every single demon in Vanagdrasil how truly skillful she is, but what's with the huge loudspeakers she places around her place? I guess she still wants to show what a former demoness of lust can do. Brrrrr...." She shivered. She was sad that she was not one of her sister's targets anymore. Her sister once had affection for her, and Mara remembered the long, joyfull, and wet but exhausting nights.
(Mara flashes back to the past)
However, the "activities" drained her too much of her energy, and she was behind in her paperwork. Hild, the ruler of the dark realms, Vanagdrasil, and the total opposite of Kami-sama, demanded an audience and explanation from both of the sisters. Failing to give an appropriate answer, Hild sentenced Mara and her sister to fifty years of punishment, in a comatose state. Forcing her to watch people having wild, erotic sex around her. It was torturous, being trapped motionlessly, but the worse of all, the dark mistress tortured her emotions, sending her into an emotional turmoil of jealousy, helplessness and anger.
Although the punishment is not that serious for a demoness that lived for 210000 years, it was enough, more than enough. The dark mistress is incredibly skillful in ensuring total loyalty from his subjects. She pitied her sister somehow, the dark mistress gave her an extra punishment: she was unable to do a "flaring" until she finds her perfect love. Being the demoness of lust, lust is always placed before love, so it was a perfect punishment for her sister.
"I'm really sorry, sis. I'm truly am," her sister spoke through broken works. Again and again her sister repeatedly apologized after the 50 years of punishment. Her sister's attitude and job changed after that, from the demoness of lust to the demoness of combat. Due to the fact that she still loves her sister very much, she forgave her after 3 years.
(Back to the present)
Her sister had recently been called to a very secretive job. She has broken the link form her for a few days now. The mental link between her and her sister is a genuine sister love, and when the contact ceased, either her sister was severely hurt, travelled into another dimension, or met the reaper. That worried her much.
True, a demoness must show no passion in front of other demons or demoness, but her heart reeked of worries. Her sister claimed that her mission was long, and when she enquired her sister about it, all she replied was "Military secrets", and she hated that. "They must have some really lethal, dangerous and evil project going on again," she guessed.
"Zarah, where are you? I'm worried," said Mara in her heart.
"YARGH!!!" Zazu screamed, as he appeared 20 feet above the ground after stepping through the portal. Lounging towards Zarah that was in front of him, he quickly grabbed her legs.
Zarah stepped out of the portal. "Aah, home sweet home, how much I missed you," before hearing Zazu scream behind her. "Oops, I forgot that he's just a one hour demon, doesn't know anything yet," she smirked. "A bump from a 20 feet vertical fall won't hurt him much, hehe."
What Zarah didn't anticipate was the quick reaction from Zazu. He quickly grabbed her legs to avoid falling any further. Zarah was caught off guard from the sudden increase in weight that her form could manage, and down they come falling vertically together, with Zazu still screaming while grabbing her legs.
"Don't look up, you pervert!!!" (Note where was Zazu compared to Zarah's position while still in the air). It was the only word Zarah managed out before they both crashed into a heap on the floor.
Two.....
Zazu remembered the number two again. Wait, two? I remembered that number when I first met her. He felt it once when she came crashing down on me a few hours ago. It had the familiar softness too.
!!!!SLAP!!!!
"OH, S**T!!!!" That the only word he could manage before he was flying 20 feet horizontally across the room.
(Back to Mara)
It wasn't long before Mara sensed her sister again. "Zarah!" she screamed. Her minions around her office turned to look towards her, but quickly turned back when she glared at them. None of her minions wants to get "disciplined" by her. None of them could stand a few hours of her famous "leash of fire" whippings.
"By the devil, I will torture her for this! How could you make your big sister worry!" Before she stormed into a CD. (CD is Mara's form of transportation)
(In Zarah's room)
When she exited the CD from her sister room, all Mara could notice was an object flying towards her.
"OOF!" as she was head butted by the object.
Back to Zazu,
"Pain...Pain...Pain...," was an Zazu could felt as he was still flying diagonally. "At least I will stop when I crash at that wall." But before he could reach the wall, a woman appeared before him, and he rammed straight into her.
Whack!!!! Mara hit Zazu aside angrily.
"This is certainly not my day," Zazu murmered, as he went flying 20 feet horizontally again, with a 90 degree deflection from the previous course. And this time he managed to "safely" hit a wall.
"Hey, Zarah! Where the hell you went? Do you want to eat my fireballs?" screamed Mara. She is pissed, first her sister and now she was head butted in the stomach.
"Hi sis, sorry for that. I had something really important to do, military business," replied Zarah.
"Yeah right, and what's that demon doing over here? To entertain you again?" Mara screamed.
"No, please listen to me," and Zarah went to a deep detail on what had happened when she broke her contact with Mara. She described what happened from the part where she was called to duty to hunt a potential demon. The demon was said to be "unawaken" yet, and she was assigned the duty to corrupt and convert him towards darkness. She hacked into the Yaggdrasilian mainframe with some help from a demon who "owed" her. She then went off towards her target. Unfortunately Yaggdrasil spotted the hacking.
She found the location of her target but before she managed to reach him, a battle goddess intercepted her. Zarah underestimated the goddess strength and was hurt bad. She managed to make a final teleport towards Zazu's location and awoken him. Apparently, she did not have the strength to maintain a mind link towards more than one being at a time, because she was too exhausted from fighting with the goddess. Therefore she had to severe her link with Mara.
"My little ignorant sis, however powerful you are, you are still a second class demoness. Please don't frighten me like that again," pleaded Mara. Mara's face turned soft for a second or two before it hardened again.
"Yes, big sister. I know you love me as a sister with all your heart," Zarah sniffed.
"True, and now as a show of my sisterly love, taste my famous "leash of fire"!!!"
"Nooooooooooo.............," a long echoing sound was heard from Zarah's chambers.
By the way, Zazu was still unconscious.
"Nice place you have here, warm and cozy," Zazu commented. "It certainly doesn't look like what I expected." The room given to Zazu was very comfortable, with a studying table, a computer, a bed and a wardrobe for him to put his clothes on. There is a nice chandelier hanging on the ceiling, giving ample light. "Well, I created this room according to your humanely tastes, but it will not look the same if you open the window," answered Zarah
And so Zazu did. And it shocked him into nothingness.
The sky was black, totally obsidian black. The clouds were a fiery orange, with deep red thunderstorms between them. Over in the distance he could see a "rain of fire" pouring over. And he could see kids playing there in the rain. Demonic kids. They were laughing and hurling fire towards each other.
All the structures outside him were made of obsidian stone; they were made into polygonal shapes, with sharp, jagged edges on all sides. Some the buildings look like a huge weapon to him, like a four-sided dagger or a sword. The buildings were all very systematically arranged in order, as opposed to his belief as the chaos he would imagine what hell is. The buildings were organized in an orderly chaos fashion, with some combining to look even more menacing.
There was something sort of a shopping complex and an arcade nearby, which he saw many demonic beings strolling in and out of the buildings. Huge advertisements in three dimensions hovered in the air. One of them read "Best torturing devices in the world, all a sale at a 99% discount." He smirked; probably the price was outrageous anyway.
Lava pools were scattered everywhere around the place. There were quite a lot of beings "bathing" there, with some "copulating" on the spot. Yuck. He irked.
He was standing probably in the middle of a 700-story building, and the view was excellent. He could see parks where wild beasts roam, all looking fierce and menacing, and something caught him: couples in a romantic embrace out far.
"Seems like I'm truly a loser, even in hell there are happy couples," he muttered.
"Well, we are demons and demonesses, we have emotions, you know," Zarah replied.
"Where are all the tortured souls who are condemned to burn here?" Zazu asked.
"They are in another realm of hell, the place you are at now is currently the residential area of hell, the more 'peaceful' area," Zarah answared. "I don't think you are ready yet to see the other realms. You might have a mental collapse when other sights overwhelm you," continued Zarah.
What the demoness said was so true, he was barely able to stand already. All he wanted to do was sit. And he shut the window, unable to look out further.
Wait a minute....
What he saw was hundred and hundred of miles! Since when did his vision improved that much? Is this a benefit when he transformed into a demon? Everything was detailed and sharp. Like he was looking through a telescope, but without the limiting boundary of the circular vision when you see through a scope. No wonder he was overwhelmed, he was seeing now more than what his normal human eyes could see at once.
What other things that might affect him too?
Zarah looked at Zazu when he was gawking out through the window. He looked like a 5-year-old demonic child. Kinda cute too. She smiled. It remembered her of her past, both the happy ones and the sad ones. Remembering that, she just remembered that she has to brief this demon about his history and the role he will play in the future. However, she is not going to brief him that early yet, his brain was still trying to process the information he absorbed earlier. She will probably brief him in another few hours.
Brain??? What Brain???
Wait a minute; demons are actually forms of energy that can manipulate objects and atoms to their free will. Practically, a brain does not exist except for crafting purposes. This half-demon she sensed does have a brain, not an energy wave. Yet she can still sense the demonic aura within him. He had a demonic aura, a human life form, and something else, something that she could not understand. This is something she should look into when she asked her superiors later. Perhaps she should consult with her sister because her sister is currently active in giving grief and mischief towards mortals in the human realm.
What she remembered that her sister is still currently busy with a certain project. She remembered that her elder sister is supposed to bring grief towards a mortal named Kenichi. However, there were three goddess, named Belldandy, Urd and Skuld which constantly protects the mortal. That brought her sister a lot of frustrations. All her sister's attempts to bring grief to the mortal, including turning Kenichi into a frog, usually backfired and did not turn out terribly at the end.
"Heh, looks like I'm not the only one having hard times after all," she mused. "Looks like I'll be off for some hot springs to clean myself," truly Zarah has the same enjoyment as her sister has.
Hours later....
Zarah paid a short visit to her sister's office later that day. Mara was busy with her paperwork, as usual. Zarah's method of transportation is unique. She does not need any medium of transportation to bring her around. All she needs is to simply burn a set of runes on the floor, and a portal will open in front of her. However, one drawback is that her portal often misses the destination anywhere by 0 to 10 meters or so. Sometimes she ended face first into a pile of earth.
Mara was working on her computer when Zarah's face popped from her keyboard. She can't cross the portal because the top of the portal only appeared into thin air. Mara's table and computer blocked the rest. Then her eyes were jabbed by Mara's fingers. Mara realized that she was poking something soft, and saw her sister's face. She jabbed her face even more vigorously, laughing at her condition.
"Ouch! Quit that, sister!" as Zarah closed her eyes. "I'll morph into a mini-Zarah shape," and crossed the small portal opening that was left. She then changed back to her normal size.
"So what brings you to my office, I'm busy you know," said an amused Mara. Zarah rarely paid her a visit at her office.
"Sis, I need to know more about human beings, the demonic mortal I brought in is acting like a mortal," Zarah said.
"Well, what you do need to know is that human's are very affected by their emotions. Many times, their judgment is often clouded by their emotions. We demonesses working at the DGO have very good experiences about this. Sometimes, we let the mortals' torture themselves up. All we need to do is push them a little and they will wallow themselves up in self- misery," said her sister, acting like an expert.
"No wonder that half-demon had so much emotions in him, it shocked me a little. However, in my case it pushed him into a berserk mode through. It shocked me, knowing that emotions made him more powerful than anything I have seen. I saw him taking down a god in one cleave! Sis, he is mentally unstable, I'm afraid he will strike at me when I tell his heritage."
"One cleave? Now this is what I want to see. Just don't stir his emotions when you tell him, that all. Prepare your spells before you tell him his origins, who knows you might know that he is one that could control his emotions well in other situations," said Mara. "Well, good luck, I need to go back to my paper work."
"But sis!" Zarah wanted to continue the topic, but seeing her sister all occupied in planning another plan to upset a mortal, she left. "My sister is a workaholic," Zarah sighs.
Zarah begins to chant as she prepared her spells. She had three spells on her inventory, regeneration, fireball and increased resistance to elemental elements (such as fire and lightning). She prepared the regeneration spell, and take a deep breath before entering Zazu's room.
"Zazu, I need to tell you about your past."
"Well, ok, I'm all ears for it, lets start."
In heaven:
Peorth was in a shock: One of the gods is dead. Simply dead. How could this happen to a god? The goddess Imma was still in a shock, and the doctors advised her not to trouble Imma for a while. She will need time to recover.
However, from what the records have said, this Demon named Zazu and Demoness named Zarah virtually slayed Zhao in battle. It was the first case ever to happen over a long time.
Peorth doesn't want an all out panic to happen within Yaggdrasil, so she tried her best to keep the records hidden in the mainframe. Perhaps they are a bunch of rouges within the Demonic hierarchy. Well, to confirm things, she will question the goddess later. And when the confirmation is true that the god was slain in pure hatred and murder, they will be put into the wanted list in Yaggdrasil and will be hunted for the rest of their lives.
Peorth was well aware of how critical the situation is. All you need is a whisper to the battle council of heaven. And they will be totally committed toward killing the demons. This Zealots are well known towards their hatred of their opposite kin. It is known that anyone who enrolls in the battle council is taught specially to hate demons and learn all kind of techniques to slay them. The highest honor bestowed upon members of their council is when one of their members has slayed a demonic being. They will not stop their mission until the target is sent to the reaper.
"A deep investigation needs to be done in this matter. It is a very serious matter. And must be kept in total secrecy," Peorth muttered to herself.
However, not all the gods are as patient as Peorth.
Two second-class god and goddess twins, Veran and Vera, just knew Zhao as he graduated into second class the same time as them. However, Zhao was missing after his first assignment, and they were curious. Zhao was known to be an ignorant competitor to them, often boasting to his friends who failed to be promoted to second class. They were not given their first assignment yet, so they were curious of his first mission.
Soon, the twins successfully hacked into the Yaggdrasil mainframe and both of them went immediately towards their goal: records for Zhao's first mission. Maybe they can taunt the ignorant Zhao if he had failed his mission.
However, what they discovered shocked them apart.
Zhou was killed! A demon and a demoness killed him. How could this could ever happen?
They searched the records for the action that should be taken once these kinds of things occur. And it pointed out to one action: the demon and demoness must be slain. No questions asked. Slain on the spot.
However, there is one thing that bugged them. In their studies, matters like this should be brought immediately to the battle council. Why the administration is so sloppy about this?
"I know," Veran said. "We will bring this matter to the battle council of heaven, we will get prestige for doing this." His twin sister agreed.
They met a member of the battle council later......
"HOW DARE THE ADMINISTATION KEEP US A SECRET ABOUT THIS?!!" the god roared. "THIS IS A DISRESPECT OF US!!!! PEORTH WILL PAY FOR THIS!!!" Both of the twins were frightened by the voice of him. His voice was booming over them. "DEATH WILL BE UPON THOSE TWO DEMONIC BEINGS!!!"
Seems like the idea of telling this to a member of the battle council was not good at all. No wonder Peorth kept it as a secret. Sometimes, things are better kept hidden than the truth revealed. What they have said might spark a war between heaven and hell. Worse off, they have put Peorth's position in jeopardy. Now Peorth will be in deep trouble if the member of the council spreads the news towards the entire council.
Guilt was forming in their hearts.
"We better tell Peorth," Veran said to his sister. And off they went.
Mars, looked at the two twins as they scurried away from him. He smiled. No, he will not tell the battle council first. He would capture and slain them by himself first. He will then get the prestige. No one else will get it. Among the most powerful of the first class gods, even first class demons are cautioned against him. True, there were a few foolish first class demons that challenged him, and they died. All of them.
"Argh, all the sacrifices needed to be done for the greater good," he said, as he began his hunt.
Back to hell:
Zarah began her story:
Who were Zazu's parents? Apparently, he was mixed blood, certainly with a demon as his mother and a mortal as his father. His mother was in Vanagdrasil's records, and so was his father in the earthen realm. Both of his parents died when he was young, because the lords of the underworld required all demons to be registered. His parents, not wanting their son to be corrupted into a world of demons, fled hell and seek refuge on earth. After all, he was the first demonic-mortal hybrid, and tests upon tests will be conducted on him to fill the demonic scientists curiosity. Terrible tests such as what that makes him cry, what that makes him tickle, how much he hurts when he bleeds, and many more monstrous tests.
Their joy in hiding was short lived through, as in a few months, his mother realized that she couldn't protect her family anymore, and decided to put a seal upon her sons' power.
The seal was designed that it would seal Zazu's demonic power off completely so that he could not be detected other than a simple ordinary mortal. Therefore hiding him from the underworld.
The seal was only designed to open only when certain conditions was met by her son. One, when he was matured enough, two, he has witnessed and experienced enough pain that he might be able to control his powers and three, when he is destined to find his soul mate.
The Vanagdrasil's records indicated that he was hidden from demonic scans until he was the age of 20. Around 21, as Zazu increases with maturity, his powers began to develop and the Hild sensed his aura. So did heaven, because he was a permanent living demon on earth for a long time.
The records did not have a record of Zazu until he was the age of 20 through. Until 20, he was invisible to the under-realm. However, they do have a record of both of his parents. Apparently, their joy was only short- lived for about two months after Zazu was born. As the records say, two demons came barraging into his parents home, and promptly flayed his father by layer upon layer of his skin till he bled to death. His mother, held by a stasis field, was brutally ravaged with every heinous act possible while seeing her beloved husband die in front of her eyes. Eventually, she killed herself while they were still ravaging her.
The records say that the two demons that brutalized her mother were rewarded with their skillful act of bringing pain towards his parents. Torturing the victim until she decides that her life was not worth living anymore, so saddened that she decides to put out her own life was a very skillful craft in the underworld. (Making her kill herself) They are now both honored high members of the underworld for their skillful acts of torture.
The records did not say when his parents left him. There were no pictures of his real father and mother; as there were only pictures of his parents after they were tortured. In other words, even their memories were charred by the demons.
And finally one thing, the Vanagdrasillian records indicated that the first hybrid of immortals and mortals would bring severe changes of all three realms. All heaven, hell and the mortal realm will be changed. A lot of destruction and chaos will happen while the process is in progress. The dark mistress, noticing the destructive potential of this hybrid, ordered all records of this hybrid to be erased and to be forgotten in the underworld. Finally, upon sensing his awakened powers, the Hild ordered her to big him to hell.
"And that what I could say," Zarah finished. Anticipating for the worst, Zarah turned her face towards Zazu, fully ready if he does anything crazy.
"Ok. Thanks for revealing my past. Now I know much more," thanked Zazu, through a calm voice.
That shocked her as she was anticipating the worst.
And that's before she looked into his eyes, his black eyes.
She saw an enormous amount of pain hidden there.
Pain that was so much that he couldn't express it.
Pain that was so much that he couldn't hide it.
It had so much pain that she could fell it.
And then he cried. Soft sobs, as he tries to hold his voice, while his body was shaking tremendously.
All Zarah could do was to extend her wings. And completely cover and hug him till he cried till he slept.
Well, that's chapter two. Please R&R. I will not know how to improve it unless you tell me how.
This are some terms that I made use from Trail By Tenderness (TBT):
DMO - Demonic Mischief Office, the total opposite of the GRO - Goddess relief office.
flaring - This is a term where demons who are in love with each other decides to share whatever they have throughout their entire lives with each other. They will share whatever they know, their memories, their past loves and the feeling towards each other to the outmost sincerity. This happens by the touching of the head marks of each other of the couples. Memories, emotions and feelings will then flow from one towards another. In goddess terms, it is called sharing.
In my fan-fic, the leader of heaven (Yagdrassil) is Kami-sama, the leader of hell (Vanagdrassil) is Hild and there is one more powerful being in all existence, the reaper, which can claim all souls, including gods and demons.