Thankx for all the reviews everyone!!! I bask in my happiness!! YAY! Ewww... This ish a mushy chapter... Anyways, for the sake of Cyber -Undead, moogles are little pink teddy-bear-like things w/ big noses and a pom-pom on it's head and tiny wings! And now for the new chappy! Hi's to Ashley! Oh yeah, and magi DO exist in this story. Right now, it's their soul goal to kill the Three but ...um...I haven't revealed any yet... Don't forget to vote for your fav. character!! Yeah... Oreos!
Disclaimer: Diablo stuff is owned by Blizzard and moogles are still slaves to Squaresoft and my soul belongs to me. ME, I TELL YOU!
The imp appears and says rather blandly, "Later...uh...kupo."
The priest arrived in his limo at exactly nine o' clock, with about ten nanoseconds 'til the next second to the next minute. Rika was the first to greet him. By then the girls had found out that he too was a brother and yet none could distinguish anything similar between them. As everyone slept, the Three remain awake.
"I believe I felt a different presence enter this realm as I respawned into this world," informs Mephisto at their late-night table conversation.
"Could it be that the two warlords could be after us?" asks Diablo.
"It very well could be true, most likely seeking our destruction, but the presence I felt was one of pure essence."
Brian states, "Well, the only pansy I know who would dare come down here would be-"
"Tyrael..." Derek finishes.
"Of course the Archangel would feel us walking amongst mortal men again," Mephisto says.
"Angels are sneaky, cowardly fools so... he might try to cajole the humans from us," says Brian.
Derek shifts, uncomfortable in his human skin. "You mean Kyra, Rika, Salem, and Selena?"
"Yup."
"So we must find a way to secure the humans to us," deduces the false preacher. "Any ideas?"
"Nope..." says Brian.
"Well...uh... we could go out with them. Well, except for Selena, but she's already my friend so..."
"Go out?" asks Melvin.
"I personally do not want to go anywhere right now," says Brian.
"No, not that kind of 'go out' Baal. It means to be their...umm..." says Derek, trying to recall the information. "Their friend who is a boy...er...no... a 'boyfriend' or intentional mate. All you have to do is be nice to them an' all, but watch out if they ask you to marry them. I think that means they want to stay with you for all eternity or somethin' like that... though I don't get it 'cause humans barely surpass the age of one hundred..."
"Ick.. Sounds disgusting," Melvin states.
"That's just 'cause you're the Lord of Hatred. Lighten up Mephy."
"No. And my name is not Mephy!"
"Hmmm... Your plan sounds cool ta' me. Plus, if it's the only way, then we must," says Brian.
Outside, the sun begins to rise...
The moogle stares at the imp who is, in turn, staring at him, and says, "Recorded Day 7, kupo. Go away kupo!"
"Okay, so we have the flowers and candy and now we just have to ask them?" asks Brian shakily, not knowing why he was so jittery all of a sudden.
"Uh huh. Remember, you get Salem 'cause she already told me she liked you-" Derek turns toward Mephisto, while Brian is stunned, "-and Mephy gets Rika 'cause she has a soft spot for you too." Mephisto looks surprised and curses under his breath, just to see if he was still demonic enough to go through with this and not fall in love. "I wanna' ask Kyra 'cause she's the cutest," Derek finishes.
"Ick," the two flinch.
"I hope this works."
And so the three demonic lords of the entire Underworld trod off in search of the girls.
In Mephisto's case, Rika sits on the delapitated couch and is reading a book on the wonders of space. Though demons have no true hearts, the false preacher feels as if his pulse (if he had one) is ten times faster than normal. The female in black looks up and brushes a few stray strands of blonde hair from her face. Her legs rest on the couch's arm and she is stretched comfortably, yet she feels she must greet him in the proper fashion, so she sits up. He seats himself near her and offers her the candy and flowers. She blushes.
"Er. I was just wondering if maybe I could develop a relationship with you in the event that you acquiesce to my offer."
Rika hesitates, stuttering and taken by surprise, but answers.
"I acquiesce."
Brian went into the kitchen where Salem was cooking some type of noodles on the stove with the awaiting, hungry Selena sitting at the kitchen table. The demon clears his throat to make it known that he was there. Salem spins around and smiles.
"Hey Brian."
"Hi. Umm... Could I speak with you for a moment?"
"Yes?"
Brian, whose hands were behind his back, reveals that he is holding an odd bouquet of black roses and some chocolate and presents them to her. "Would you like to ...uh.. Go to dinner some time tonight? Say around 'seven?"
Salem's reaction is the same as Rika's and she turns around to recover a little. After a few seconds, she swivels back around. "Is that a date?"
"Ooo...Salem's godda' boyfwiend. Salem's godda' boyfwiend," chants Selena.
"Would you quit already?" says Salem, breaking out of her romantic reverie.
"Salem and Brainyhead, sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-"
Before Selena could finish her taunt, the elder sister shushes her by explaining the supernatural disappearance of the soup should she continue. The small child gasps and runs out the kitchen in small strides...
For Derek... Well, let's just say the circumstances were not exactly normal.
The youngest of the evil lords of the triumvirate walks down the halls of the small-yet-soon-to-be-larger-house-due-to-the-increasing-income-spawning-from-nowhere, and sees Kyra. She is standing in front of a mirror in her nightgown and she seems to be talking to herself. Upon closer inspection, Derek notices that some of his and his brother's servants, the imps, are gnawing on her head to no effect, since they couldn't touch anything of actual solidity in their ethereal form. The only way for them to truly be able to interact in the world was to possess anything that was or resembled a living organism. However, they even had trouble with that, often acting very unlike the thing they inhabited , like bumping into walls while still thinking that they were ethereal, because they had no fully functioning brains.
"Look Derek! The squirrels have chosen me as their Almond Goddess!" she says to his reflction in the doorway on the mirror. The imps look pretty annoyed.
"Uh..yeah..Um, Kyra I was wondering if you-"
"I shall hearby dub thee Sir Loin of Beef!" the blonde, anorexic-looking girl says to the one on her head. "And ye shall be charged with the nether realms of thy pantry!"
"Er, Kyra-"
"And I shall name you Pinky Gladys Gutsman because... you are very Pinky-Gladys-Gutsmanny-like."
"Kyra!"
"Ahh!!! What? Is there a fire?!"
"No. No fire," says Derek, who steps near and mutters "Kieti ap" under his breath. The imps begin to hop down from her head and hide under her bed. "Kyra-"
Kyra whips out a piece of gum sitting on a nearby drawer and begins to chew on it, smacking loudly. After a few seconds, she blows a huge, pink bubble and it bursts on her face, just missing her hair, which had been tied up on her head.
"Well THAT was uncalled for! Wrongness!" she shouts.
Derek sighs and spends the next five minutes helping the gum-covered girl get it off her face.
"Kyra," Dereks says and she finaly turns toward him with gum still covering her nose. "What I meant to ask you was... Will you go out with me?"
Kyra bounces up and down on, maniacally screaming, "YAY!!! Really?! Okies!!!"
The moogle tries to hit the imp, saying, "Your mamma, kupo!" while the imp hold shim back by the nose saying, "Day 8, kupo."
The private dinner with Brian last night had been splendid to Salem, and she smiled at that memory as she drove the car. Today, the group is going off the mall. The plan was for the girls to and guys to form separate groups to shop, for Valentine's Day is drawing near. Since demons didn't really have actual holidays, Baal had to explain the concepts of it from Kyra's thoughts to his siblings.
The cluttered parking lot of the mall had been the third time Brian had seen such a mass of cars together. Each reminded him of great, fuming, bellowing beasts of his realm and the more he thought of it, the worse the nostalgia became. But whenever he thought over this, his demonic rage returned, eager to reclaim and conquer their world back from the grips of their traitorous warlords. 'And then they would pay...'
When Salem says, "Geez. There's almost no parking space left," to Rika sitting beside her, it snaps him out of his thoughts. Just then, the demon locks eyes with another teenage guy walking past the car. Brain notices that the boy's hair is blond like Derek's and a long, vertical scar runs down the left side of his face. Now that the car was parked near the entrance, Brian saw the other disappear into the glass doors...and it disturbed him.
"Okay guys. You go that way and we'll go this way," instructs Rika, pointing to two ends of the mall. "We'll meet you back here in the Food Court at four o' clock."
"Got your watch Derek?" asks Kyra.
He nods and the group separate.
Ooo... Yeah. My FinGErS!! ThEY PrOTesT iN PaiN! Well, you know the romance was bound to happen. Umm.. Well, here's the votes for the most fav character so far:
Brian/Baal:2
Salem:1
Everybody else: 0