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Chapter 3

A Demon Half and a Discovery

"Go on then kid, quit your stalling and tell me!"

"As you wish, my lord.

Basically I was banished from celestia when I was 200 years old… I repeatedly broke the rules about been kind and believing the power of love. When I was banished I was given some advice to come here to learn from an angel called Flonne." He turns to Flonne "which for that I apologies for been late." he turns back to Laharl "well on my way through the dimensional gate something went wrong and I was sent to the wrong Netherworld. I was found by the Overlord Zetta and his army when they were on their way to battle the god of destruction Alex. He had me taken back to his netherworld and after a few years imprisonment I was forced to join Zetta's army."

Laharl interrupts by laughing in his usual way, Chaos continues his web of lies

"When it turned out I wasn't much of a fighter I was forced to become lady Solome's servant. I was in that position until I was nearly 1000 years old. Then one day a powerful witch came through the Makai gate in Zetta's castle, she was badly injured, I used almost all the power I had to cast a healing spell strong enough to help her survive long enough for a healer to find her. I passed out from using so much power and both the witch and me were taken to the hospital. When we had been fully healed the witch had thanked me for what I did and was willing to grant me more power. But there was a catch… I had to become the witch's bodyguard. At first I refused but I was convinced to take on the roll by someone I respected a lot, so I accepted the offer. We left Zetta's castle without anyone knowing. The next couple of days were nothing more than a blur to me, when I woke up I was more powerful than I had ever imagined before in my life. It was like I was under a constant braveheart enchantment. It was during a battle that I found out that I had the ability to morph my body into what is generally seen as what demons look like, that muscle bound creature you saw before. At first it could on be used when I was extremely injured or tired, but now I can change at will. It has taken me a 1000 years but I can now control that form. I later found out that the witch had turned me into a demon but I still have the traits of an angel. Hence the wings, or the thing which Flonne saw when she looked at me. She saw the angel like goodness in my heart."

Laharl now looking interested

"So that is like some sort of demon form. Tell me what happened to that witch that gave you the power?"

"She died… not at a bad age either… I believe she said she was more than 50,000 years old."

"50,000 years… she must have been powerful… but why didn't the enchantment over you wear off when she died?"

"I don't know… she may have transferred her magical essence to me, considering before she died I didn't have the power to use the Multiplex or the Flash Flare Blast… it is only logical to assume that she transferred her power to me which increased my abilities further."

Flonne jumping up and down now says "wow we have another angel here… with more angels it means I will have help convincing Laharl that love is the key to achieving anything."

"Don't get excited Flonne, the kid might not be allowed to stay here… you know what the prince is like."

Flonne with question marks above her head "why wouldn't Laharl let chaos stay here?"

"Well for one thing the kid has ties to Zetta, and you know what the prince thinks about him… secondly if the kid gets stronger there is the chance he could actually over throw the prince."

"He wouldn't do that…"

"Hello Flonne he has already tried…"

"Laharl will defeat Chaos with the power of love if he tries to over throw him."

Laharl cuts in

"YOU TWO… STOP YOUR STUPID TALK… AND FLONNE"

"Yes Laharl?"

"WHEN WILL YOU GET IT THROUGH YOUR DAMN LOVE FREAK HEAD THAT I'M A DEMON I DON'T BELIEVE IN LOVE"

Flonne looks down and mentally decides to try again later to convince Laharl that demons can feel love. Laharl turns to Chaos

"I happen to agree with Etna… you are dangerous, you have ties to Zetta… for all I know you could be a spy to find something to publicly humiliate me… but then again Zetta and me have an agreement not to attack each other. Yet that was only made because of the respect he and all the other overlords had for my father. Next if I let you stay I could keep an eye on you and prevent you from becoming too powerful, whereas if you left you could become powerful quickly, and raise yourself an army to attack me."

Laharl thinks to himself for a second

"MY DECISION IS AS FOLLOWS… YOU CHAOS WILL REMAIN HERE AS MY VASSEL… BUT I WILL NOT GO BACK ON WHAT I SAID BEFORE ABOUT YOU DOING WORK MORE DEMEANING THAN THE PRINNIES HAVE TO AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

Chaos nods his head and gets to his feet

"Then what is my first job, my lord"

"You will first go clean out the corpse pile which Artemis has gathered outside this castle"

'God no… Artemis in this time is still young… and still rips humans apart to make his Zombie force which serves Laharl… why the hell didn't I just tell dad to go call upon that army. It would of saved me a hell of a lot of time here… in my time there are more than a million Zombies which make up that force'

"It shall be done my lord"

Chaos stands and leaves the throne room casting a healing spell on himself as he goes to return his body to a state where he can actually move.

Etna and Flonne walk up the throne and look in shock at Laharl, both for completely different reasons

Etna speaks first

"Prince? He is a threat to m… I mean your throne… you should have done away with him there and then…"

Flonne jumps in

"No Etna… Laharl did the right thing letting him stay… but Laharl It was mean of you to give him such a job when he is injured like he is."

"I don't care… he made an attempt at my life but I did the merciful thing and allowed him to live. He must be punished"

"But Laharl…"

"Leave now both of you…"

"Prince?"

"Laharl?"

"I SAID LEAVE… NOW"

"Fine with me… come on Flonne lets leave the grumpy prince to be childish"

"But…"

"GO NOW…"

Flonne and Etna leave the throne room with Laharl still on the throne.

'The kid was lying… but in that fight he pushed himself beyond his limits… I know for a fact that he isn't a fallen angel… no angel would have a demonic smile like he had… I want to know the truth and until he tells me I will continue to force him to do jobs which prinnies are even to good to do.'

Laharl puts his feet up and closes his eyes, as always keeping his sword close by so he is not caught off guard.

(A few hours later, Flonne and Etna's room)

"ggrrrr why didn't the prince listen to me… that kid is trouble…"

"I don't know Etna… he didn't seem so bad to me… yeah he fought Laharl but he was defeated and I think he has learnt from that, that he can't defeat Laharl"

"You really are gullible aren't you… he will bide his time and when the prince least expects it he will strike and kill him."

"He isn't the type… no angel could strike anyone from behind"

"He isn't an angel… he has been trained as a demon for so long… he is capable of anything a demon is."

Flonne gets up and heads to the door.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to see Laharl… something was troubling him"

"The prince told us to go… when he has stopped been childish he will call on us"

"I'm still going…"

Flonne exits the room

(Throne room)

Flonne enters and sees Priere and Marjoly sitting on the steps, which lead up to the throne. Flonne looks up at the throne to see Laharl isn't there

"Umm, where is Laharl?"

Priere looks up "he left a while go… said something about blowing off some steam…"

"You know where he was going?"

"The gatekeeper might know, that's if he didn't go to the item world"

Flonne nods and leaves

(Dimensional Gate)

"Gate keeper… did Laharl come through here?"

"Yes he came through about an hour ago…"

"Where did he go?"

"He had me open a gate the Sea of Gehenna"

"Will you open it up for me… I want to go talk to him"

"As you wish"

The gate opens and Flonne steps through

(Sea of Gehenna, with Laharl)

Laharl cuts down the last demon and sits down on a nearby rock

'This is boring there is no challenge… there hasn't been for years.'

Laharl gets up and goes searching for more demons.

(Sea of Gehenna, with Flonne)

Flonne looks around at the countless number of dead demons scattered all over the floor

"Oh my… Laharl must have been really angry about something… he has left so much destruction in his path."

She runs as quickly as she can to try and catch up to the prince hoping she can stop him before he destroys so much that the area will be left in ruins.

(Sea of Gehenna, With Laharl)

Laharl cuts down a group of demons easily before proceeding to blast what is left of the demons in the area with mana blasts. When he is certain that the demons are no more he decides to take a rest, the prince sits down on the floor

'well that was a bit better, at least these demons provided a small amount of entertainment. But I still can't get these damn thoughts out of my head.'

Laharl lies back on the ground and continues to think. He lies there for several minutes until he hears foot steps approaching him at a fast pace, Laharl hearing this jumps to his feet readying his sword, he looks around looking for who is coming and lowers his defence as he sees Flonne. The though crosses his mind to kill flonne but pushes it away realising he would be bored senseless with out the constant chance to tell flonne to shove her love freak speeches where the sun doesn't shine. Flonne stops a small distance from the overlord and leans over in exhaustion, trying to catch her breath. Laharl looking confused at not only the reason as to why Flonne was there and to why she was running to him. He looks at Flonne and notices something he had never realised before. The light radiating from the lava pools shining upon the fallen angel making her look beautiful. Laharl realising what he is thinking gets scared and shouts

"WHAT THE HELL YOU DOING HERE… I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE ME ALONE… NOW YOU BEST GET READY TO RUN THE OTHER WAY UNLESS THERE IS SOMETHING EXTEMELY IMPORTANT HAPPENING REQUIRING YOU TO DISTURB ME"

"Umm… there isn't anything important but I just wanted to talk to you. I wanted to find out what was wrong with you."

"There is nothing wrong with me you stupid little love freak…"

"But Laharl…"

"I don't want to hear it… now you're going to go back to the castle now… it just so happens that's where I am going so I will walk with you."

Flonne smiles and attempts to link Laharls arm but gets a look of death so retreats slightly. As the two walk Laharl keeps looking at Flonne remembering how he had felt when he had seen her in the light which had made he look beautiful trying to make sense of it. He, the overlord was not permitted in his own views to even consider such foolish behaviour. Flonne notice that Laharl is looking at her as they walk and blushes slightly but tries to hide it trying to make it like she is getting burnt slightly from the heat of the lava. Laharl notices the blush and thinks to himself

'I wonder why she is blushing… there is no reason to… no one has said anything and no one has done anything worthy of it. But she does look cute…. Ahhh what am I thinking… I am the overlord I am not allowed to think like this… even if what I am thinking is true… AHHH…'

Laharl suppresses with all his will power an embarrassed blush because of what he is thinking. Flonne notices something but doesn't realise Laharl is blushing. She goes for it again and links his arm this time Laharl doesn't give her any looks, he doesn't fight it, he just continues walking. Flonne now blushes deeply. It was obvious to even the most simple minded of demons that for most of the time Flonne had known Laharl she had been in love with him. She just never told anyone and Laharl still refused to embrace love in any form. Flonne had also not told Laharl how she felt because she had a feeling that Etna might have feelings for the prince as well but wasn't sure.

The two take the rest of there journey with out saying a word despite the fact Flonne wanted to tell Laharl everything. Was the reach the base panel to take them back to the castle laharl unlinks his arm from Flonne's and just smiles at her as he is teleported back to the castle, Flonne confused enters the base panel been sent back to the castle.

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