The eight demon queens

chapter 8

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We find ourselves back in Mephisto's office with all the sisters taking the chance to simply relax. The only thing that could count as 'odd' would be a certain teenager trapped inside a giant crystal.

"I'm boooored!" groaned Iblis laying on her stomach.

"Yeah yeah, we heard you say that before." Deadpanned Beelzebub.

"Need something to do~!" whined Iblis as her eyes trailed to Rin's imprisoned form and a lightbulb went off in her head.

"Which is?" Asked Azazel, feeling a disturbance in the force.

"I shall awaken Rin's inner man by going commando!" declared Iblis as her flames burned her clothes away.

"WHAAAAAAAAAT?!" Roared all sisters in shock. All the sisters grew angry, including Mephisto, as Iblis rubbed herself around the crystal to see if her body would awaken Rin.

"STOP THAT!" Roared Astaroth darkly.

"Why?" asked Iblis who kept up her act while grinning at her sister.

"Because you're not supposed to do that." Said Azazel with a shaken up smile, showing how close she was to snapping.

"Or what?" grinned Iblis who continued rubbing up against the crystal.

Azazel finally stopped smiling, making the other sisters panic since every time that she didn't smile, there was a lot of bloodshed as a result.

"Get. Away. From. RIN." she growled gripping her bible until her knuckles went white.

Iblis flinched as she quickly backed out, not willingly to fight a pissed off Azazel.

"Much better." smiled Azazel resuming her smile.

'Scary.' Thought all siblings at once.

"How much longer until Rin's blade is repaired?" asked Astaroth turning to Mephisto.

"Some hours, but meanwhile I must unfortunately take our dear brother to deal with the geezers." Mephisto answered. All of them sighed before Mephisto stood up and made it to where the prison would follow her as she walked out of the office.

"It's not fair!" Moaned Iblis in annoyance.

"We know." groaned Astaroth.

"We can now only pray to father for Rin's recovery." Azazel said while praying.

"Maybe I can break him out." spoke Amaimon raising her hand.

"You know that if you try that, you would have to fight several of the strongest exorcists of this generation to get to him. Right?" Pointed out Beelzebub.

"If I freed Rin, me and him could run away and start a family." she replied popping a sucker into her mouth.

Now THAT froze up everyone as they imagined each one with families of their own…

Astaroth pictured her a Rin on a picnic blanket with a small baby girl held in her arms with her hair color.

Azazel imagined her and Rin, who is dressed as a priest, teaching their young child how to respect Satan.

Beelzebub was showing her daughter how to mix chemicals with Rin as her 'very' close assistant.

Amaimon imagined her and her child being given sweets by a more mature Rin.

Iblis pictured her and Rin on the beach while their kid was playing in the sand.

Lucifer imagined her and Rin in uniform dressing their child for an important event.

Egyn imagined her and Rin showing their daughter how to swim.

Mephisto imagined teaching her child how to prank others with Rin as her 'test subject'.

All of them smiled before glaring at each other while the seven other sisters followed Mephisto. They'd just hide in the shadows and watch what happened.

'This is going to be quite the ride~!' Thought Mephisto as she transformed into her male form.

Soon Mephisto made into the room where the old Exorcists passed judgement. "Hello there gentlemen~!" Mephisto said loudly with a smirk as if nothing was wrong.

"Mephisto, is this the one we've heard about?" asked one of them pointing to Rin.

"I'm afraid you'll have to be more specific, your highness." Mephisto said with a grin.

"The demon we've had reports of using blue flames!" shouted another one.

"Half demon actually." Corrected Mephisto.

"The point is, he can control the flames of satan!" exclaimed another.

"What about it?" Asked Mephisto with a shrug.

"He's a demon who must be executed!"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk...Can't you all see the possibilities that this boy can give us?" Asked Mephisto while inwardly scowling at the threat to Rin.

"What good is a demon to us except dead?"

THAT made Mephisto lose 'his' smile as 'he' barely held back from killing the one that said that.

"I say we end him now!"

"Gentlemen, gentlemen! Can't you just see the possibilities of this~?" Mephisto said before continuing, "We can use this boy to our advantage!"

"Explain."

"Just imagine the poetic justice of Satan's own flames being used against him!" Declared the white dressed demon.

Some of the exorcists did admit that would be interesting to see. "So that's why the boy was left alive?" Asked one of them.

"Indeed." smiled Mephisto. Yet despite the happy look, Mephisto was anything but happy…

'They better let him live or else.' were her thoughts.

(Rin's Mindscape)

Rin ducked as his dark side nearly cut him in two with his claws.

"Awww, what's wrong Rin-chan~?" Mock asked his dark self. "Getting tired already~?"

Rin didn't want to say it was true as his heavy breathing and sweat on his brow easily gave it away.

"What about you then?!" Growled Rin as he saw his dark self shift ever so slightly.

"Please, I can keep going until you collapse." chuckled his dark self.

"Funny, because I thought the same about you." Taunted Rin with a tired grin.

His dark self snarled before charging with his claws aimed at Rin's eyes. Rin grunted as he ducked behind the attacks, yet he had a smile because if he was going down, then he might as well go with a bang!

Before he could try and tackle him, both noticed a shimmering figure begin to appear between them.

"What the hell?!" Both of them said at once before looking at each other awkwardly.

Soon the figure was clear as day as it was none other than Amaimon.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Repeated both Rins in surprise.

"Yo." spoke Amaimon before sitting down and popping a sucker into her mouth.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" Snapped Rin.

"Just watching." came her response.

"Watching what, princess~?" Chuckled the other Rin.

"The fight." she replied.

"Ah yes! That reminds me." And with that, Rin was forced to avoid more slashes from his demonic self.

Amaimon stuck to the sidelines while idly sucking on her sucker. But inwardly she was surprised to see how Rin's demonic side looked like. 'If Rin just gave in, he'd be real hot.' she idly thought.

"COME ON, ME! IS THAT ALL YOU CAN DO?!" Roared the other Rin madly.

Rin growled and unknowingly had blue flames on his fists as he charged at his copy.

The copy seemed surprised before he grinned as his fists also got covered in flames and he rushed to the original Rin as well.

Rin ducked one of his punches and brought one of his fists up and into his stomach. "SHIN!" He shouted as the demonic counterpart gasped in pain before the other fist hit his chin! "SHORYUKEN!"

The result was his counterpart falling on his back as Rin stood up with a victory grin. 'Thank you, Street Fighter 3 and 4.' Thought Rin as Amaimon clapped for him.

"Nice work." praised Amaimon who kept her usual face up.

Rin scowled at her, but he then saw his demon clone get up, albeit shakily.

"I'm...not...out." he groaned out with a snarl on his face.

Rin just scowled before he said, "Somehow...I'm not surprised about this..."

His dark side cracked his neck before leaping back at Rin with a primal roar.

'Well, shit.' Plainly thought Rin as he jumped towards his dark self.

Amaimon at this point had gone to eating from a bowl of popcorn she had made in this mindscape.

"This is very fun." She said as she ate some popcorn.

Dark Rin and Rin though were starting to reach their limits.

"Damn...you're...pretty tough..." Said Rin while panting.

"You...too..." panted his dark side.

Both of them raised their fists at the same time for a final strike against each other. They yelled out and ran at the other, putting all they had in their fists.

Amaimon was merely watching with an excited grin as the final clash was about to happen. The result was a loud boom across the mindscape as Amaimon was stunned at the results.

The result was the original Rin's fist smashing against the fake's face!

His dark side was wide-eyed before he was sent crashing against the ground.

"How's THAT FOR YOU?!" Growled Rin in victory.

His dark side groaned as he tried to push himself up.

"Try getting up, and I'll smash your knees instead!" Threatened Rin.

"Heh...who knew...you'd win?" chuckled his dark side.

"You should...have known...because...you're me!" Said Rin.

"Yeah, but you beat me." he chuckled.

"That will teach you to not underestimate me." Rin huffed.

"Winner." spoke Amaimon raising Rin's arm like she was a referee.

"What are you doing here?! Heck, HOW did you get here?!" Snapped Rin at her.

"The bond between siblings is strong." she replied being cryptic.

Both Rin's deadpanned as one before asking, "Seriously, how did you get here?!"

"I managed to link up with your brainwaves thank to Mephisto."

"...Somehow I'm not surprised." Deadpanned Rin.

"She's trying to keep you alive."

Now THAT came as a surprise to him, especially when he remembered what happened before he was sealed in the crystal. "Wait...Mephisto...is a GIRL?!"

"Yup." nodded Amaimon popping a sucker in Rin's mouth.

"Lemme guess, besides you, Mephisto, Yukio, and both Iblis and Beelzebub, who else is female?" Rin asked with a groan.

"Egyn, Astaroth, Lucifer, and Azazel."

'Then that means...' Rin's eyes widened to comical proportions as his dark self summed up the situation they were in with a mere word:

"Shit..."

"How did you even get near me in the real world anyway?" asked Rin.

"Well...it's quite the long story~!" Began Amaimon as she focused some of her power and a screen appeared in front of both Rin's! "So I think I should show you instead~!" All three of them watched as Amaimon walked down the hall to where Rin was being held.

But then they saw her being stopped by several exorcists, including Shura and a blonde haired man in white garbs and holding a sword with an arrogant look on his face.

"Who are you?" asked the man.

"That's Amaimon, the recently revealed Queen of Earth." Informed Shura as she summoned her sword.

"Hello." waved the queen of earth.

"So a queen, eh?" Mused the man before shaking his head, "No matter, we won't let anyone pass, regardless of whom or what they might be."

"Have it your way." remarked Amaimon. And with that, Amaimon's body was suddenly covered in some sort of demonic rock like armor, leaving only her mouth visible as her face had a rock helmet with horns on top.

Shura had her sword at the ready while the other guy calmly pulled his sword out of the sheath.

"Let's do this, Arthur!" The blonde's sword said in a female voice, shocking both Rins.

"IT CAN TALK?!" they both exclaimed.

"Yeah, it surprised me too." Amaimon said.

Shura charged with her sword at the ready.

But Amaimon merely walked forward as Shura's blade was stopped by the rock armor.

Arthur charged in with more grace as he tried to cleave Amaimon in two. But Amaimon managed to catch the sword with her armored arms before throwing Arthur away.

Before Shura could try again, Amaimon sent out a loud whistle.

Everyone stopped upon hearing that, wondering why she did that when…

The hallway began to get flooded by Hobgoblins.

"SHIT! How did they get here?!" Cursed Shura as she slashed at some of them.

Arthur didn't reply as he slashed any of the demons close to him.

With the way free, Amaimon quickly went forward to her objective. She placed a hand against Rin's crystal before the screen went black.

"You should be thankful that I risked myself to come here, you know?" Amaimon spoke.

"Mephisto put me in that damn thing in the first place!" retorted Rin.

"That was to make sure you didn't go out of control due to the broken sword you had." Explained Amaimon.

"So how long until I'm free?" asked Rin with a sigh.

"As soon as your 'friends' arrive with the fixed sword." Commented the earth queen.

Rin frowned at the way Amaimon said the word friends and felt there was something she wasn't telling him.

"Is there something wrong?" She asked curious upon noticing his look.

'No." he sighed taking a seat. "So what's happening now?" Then he saw his demonic self flinch, as if feeling something unpleasant. "You know something."

"It seems...they have returned with that blasted sword..." Grumbled the demon half.

"Yes!" cheered Rin.

The demon glared at him before sighing and resigning himself to be lead by his human half...for now.

"Well I better go." spoke Amaimon.

"Wait!" Rin suddenly said, making her look curious, "Thanks...for, you know, helping us..."

"It's ok." Amaimon surprised him by taking the sucker he had in his mouth and popping it into her own before vanishing.

"Well, see ya later King!" The demon self said.

Rin watched as the mindscape began to vanish with him as well.

(Real world)

His body was currently free of the crystal and began to wake up. "What...happened?" He grunted in a tired voice.

"Rin! Thank god you're safe!" came Yukio's voice hugging him close.

"Y-yukio." He muttered as he noticed the rest of his classmates alongside Mephisto looking at him relieved.

"Got the sword fixed up." spoke Bon.

"Thanks." Rin said sincerely as he was given his sword back. He could faintly hear his demon half curse as he placed the blade back into the sheathe. 'Calm down, will ya?' He mentally told his demon half.

'Up yours.' he retorted back.

But before he could answer back, he heard Mephisto's voice ask in a playful tone, "How are you doing, Okumura-kun~?"

In reply, he stood up and frowned at his sister. "I'm fine..." He grumbled before whispering low enough for Mephisto to hear, "sister."

"Aw, is that anyway to thank me for keeping you safe?" smiled Mephisto.

Rin sighed before he felt Yukio hug his left arm and look at him worriedly.

"Are you sure you're ok?" asked Yukio.

"Yeah, just tired..." He answered before looking around, "So where is Amaimon?"

"She went to go get more suckers." smiled Mephisto.

The Ex-Wires couldn't help but deadpan upon hearing that.

"So," the Ex-Wires looked at Rin, "about me being a demon..."

"Don't worry about it!" Shima spoke, surprising everyone. "You actually looked badass!"

"Eh?" replied Rin.

"Yeah, you're still Rin no matter what happens!" Shiemi said boldly.

"I hate your dad, but not you." spoke Bon.

"Besides, if you were a real demon, you wouldn't have had bothered to save me from that demon in the bathroom." Izumo said as some of the presents, mainly the girls, blushed upon remembering a shirtless Rin.

"You were pretty good." remarked Shura.

"Y-yeah..." Said Konekomaru slightly nervous.

Rin smiled and felt tears of joy at hearing his friends stick with him.

"A-Are you alright, Nii-sama?!" Asked Yukio in panic, which made her look cute in Rin's eyes.

"I'm just happy, that's all." he smiled hugging Yukio.

Everyone just smiled, yet some couldn't help but think that this was just the beginning...