The eight demon queens
chapter 9
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(True Cross Academy)
Rin walked down the hall with his sword strapped to his back, glad to have it back. But despite that, he was thinking about the recent events and everyone's reactions towards them.
He was glad that his friends didn't think any differently of him. But even so, he could feel the distrust of several exorcists increase ever since his heritage was revealed.
The angry looks he received reminded him of who exactly he owed that to.
'That bastard Satan...I can't wait to become a paladin and kick your goddamn ass!' Growled Rin before he thought, 'Seriously, what kind of woman would ever fall in love with-!?'
He stopped when he realized something. He never really got to know his own mother. Mainly because she died when he was born, but still he barely got any information about her from his adopted father.
'I wonder what kind of person she was.' he thought. 'Could someone here...know how she was like?' Rin thought to himself as he looked around.
He tried pondering names for an answer when it hit him. 'Mephisto! Of course!' Rin thought between excited and worried.
He was still blown away at how he was actually a she and that she was one of his sisters. Not only that...but she was somehow familiar to him.
'I feel like I've seen her much sooner than when dad died.'
Then he held his head as the memory of a younger Mephisto in her true form at a store appeared briefly before vanishing.
"Damn. What's wrong with me?" he grumbled to himself.
'Just remembering some things you forgot, King.' Spoke a familiar voice in Rin's head.
'What do you want?' growled Rin in his head.
'Eh nothing, just came to inform you about your forgotten memories.' Said Rin's demon half.
'Forgotten memories?'
'Yeah, memories that you forgot at some point but now are coming back since you defeated me.' Said the demon being.
'Well what else have I forgotten?'
'Nothing much besides your meetings with the other sisters.' Revealed the demon half.
'What?! I've met all of them before?'
'Yes you did, but they were all younger back then.'
'I need to talk to Mephisto.' thought Rin hurrying his pace towards her office.
'Good luck then, me.' Chuckled the demon Rin.
Rin got to the door and hastily knocked on it.
"Enter~!" Sang Mephisto's voice.
Rin opened the door and saw Mephisto in her male disguise.
"Ah, it's Okumura-kun~! So what do you need of good ol' me~?" The director asked amused.
"For one, can you be yourself? It feels weird seeing you as my sister when you've got a beard."
Mephisto chuckled before switching to her real form, much to the relief and embarrassment of Rin.
"Have a seat." smiled Mephisto who was leaning back in her chair.
Rin did as told with an awkward look on his face, especially since Mephisto's voice was more childish and feminine.
"So, what can I do for my baby brother?" grinned Mephisto.
Rin blushed a bit before answering, "Well...I wanted to ask you if...do you know anything about my mother?"
Mephisto lost her grin at seeing this was very important to Rin. "I see...what do you want to know about her?" She asked seriously.
"What kind of person was she?"
That made Mephisto smile in a bittersweet way and answer "Her personality was somewhat like yours, Rin-chan," That surprised the mentioned boy, "She also rebelled against her...father's wishes by living in the forest. Despite being an Exorcist, she thought of Demons, such as the Goblins and the Snowman, as her friends. She believed Demons enter Assiah because they were curious. She was kind, as she wasn't afraid of Satan, even feeling sorry for him."
'Sounds nicer than him already.'
"Then how did she fall in love with that bastard of Satan anyway?" Asked Rin curious.
"It might be because she saw another side to him."
"What side is there then?!" Frowned Rin.
"Beats me." shrugged Mephisto. That made Rin sigh in annoyance. "Any other questions?"
"Well, something you said got my attention..." Rin admitted.
"And that is?"
"It's about my mother's father...or better yet, my grandpa..." That made Mephisto frown.
"What do you want to know?"
"Well, just how was he like, and if he's alive." Answered Rin.
"Oh he's alive, but he hates demons so much, he was willing to kill your mother."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" Rin cried out horrified. "WHY THE HELL WOULD HE DO THAT?!"
"Because she loved father, and he's also part of the council I had to talk to."
"What do you mean with just because she loved father?!" Growled Rin.
"He despises demons, all kinds. The fact his daughter was associated with Satan really didn't help."
"T-Then what about...when she was pregnant with us?" Asked Rin feeling nervous.
"He wanted to burn her." replied Mephisto without hesitating.
All air left Rin's body as a look of horror appeared on his face. "...What...?"
"It's true."
"B-But then...how am I and Yukio still alive then?!" Rin screamed.
"She must have been protected."
"By who?!"
"Father."
"Wait...you mean...Satan?" Rin mumbled surprised.
"Yup." she nodded.
"H-How did he even manage to do so?! Heck, WHY would he do that?!" Rin asked in shock since from his first meeting with the demon king, the latter told him that he and his sister were created on a 'mere whim'.
"He possessed several men and had them slaughter each other. AKA, the Night of the Blue Flame."
Rin's eyes widened upon hearing of that event, the event in which he and his sister were born, and in which several dozens of Exorcists died by blue flames. "What happened next?" he asked.
"Your father, while possessing an exorcist, managed to get your mother away long enough before his host burned to death, and later on me and Shiro were assigned by your gramps to search for Yuri-san." Admitted Mephisto.
"Then?"
"After a while, we arrived at a cave where we saw her resting with two very familiar bundles that were just brought to this world."
"Me and Yukio."
Mephisto nodded before giggling, "You should have seen how cute you two were when you were born~!"
Rin blushed at the out of nowhere tease. "A-Anyway, what happened with my mother?" Rin asked rather nervous.
"She passed on." replied Mephisto with a grim look.
"And then the old man decided to take care of us?" Rin deduced.
"Yup." nodded his sister.
"I see...thanks for telling me about it... that's a lot to take in..." Rin admitted grateful.
"No problem~!" she sang.
But unknown to both of them, a certain sibling had been listening to their conversation as well.
'So that's what happened.' thought Yukio with her ear to the door. Right now she was feeling a myriad of emotions, like happiness at how much her mother cared for her, sadness at her death, and rage at her so called grandfather, who tried to kill her because she carried Satan's babies.
'I need to try and get rid of that bastard.' she thought. But before that, she needed to find out who he was and when she could kill him...
Meanwhile, we find ourselves with the other sisters. There we can see the sisters resting in different ways.
Amaimon was sleeping on a bed made entirely out of rock, Iblis was resting on top of a ice bed with several fans around her to keep her cool, Azazel was sleeping with a smile while clutching her bible, Astaroth was sleeping in rags while surrounded by insects, Beelzebub was sleeping in a green bed with fluffy pillows, all the while hugging a pillow and muttering, "Rin" to herself, Lucifer was trying to stay awake, but was failing while holding a plushie close to her, and Egyn was sleeping peacefully in a dark blue colored bed with wave designs on the sheets.
This was the scene that Mephisto walked into. 'Aw, so cute. It'd be a shame if someone woke them up.'
That caused Mephisto to develop a grin worthy of a cartoon devil and prepare herself to unleash chaos once more.
Each girl kept snoozing while Mephisto quietly brought out a megaphone from her hat. Then she put it past the levels "Low", "Med", "High", "Very High", "OK, Stop.", "Are you serious?!", "WARNING!", until she got at the last one, which was "OH SHI-!"
She grinned and aimed it at her sisters before clearing her throat and taking a deep breath. "OF COURSE RIN-CHAN! OF COURSE I'LL MARRY YOU~!"
"WHAT?!" shouted the other sisters bolting up with frowns.
"WHO IS THE SKANK THAT DARE TO MARRY HIM?!"
"THAT CANNOT BE!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! RIIIIIIIIIIIIN-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
While each of them looked around for the supposed girl and Rin, Mephisto was already rolling around laughing her head off. But then Amaimon looked at her sister, yet misinterpreting everything, screamed with anime tears "NEE-CHAN! HOW COULD YOU MARRY RIN-CHAN WITHOUT US?!"
"It seems our sister forgot to inform us of this." remarked Lucifer while Beelzebub brandished a rope.
"W-Wait! I-It's not what you think it is!" Said a now nervous Mephisto trying to find a way out of this...but...
"GET HER!" roared Astaroth before they tackled her to the floor.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!" Begged Mephisto with a chibi comical look. Pretty soon Mephisto was tied up.
"Now we just need to get rid of the body and cancel the wedding." spoke Lucifer taking a commanding tone.
The rest nodded as Egyn got a hacksaw alongside salt and Iblis got a chainsaw on fire!
"WAIT! It was a joke!" shouted Mephisto crawling away like a caterpillar at seeing the tools.
"Yeah right! Like you would dare joke about that!" Frowned Azazel.
"It's true!" shouted Mephisto who managed to cut the rope with a pair of scissors she conjured up before bolting out of the room.
The rest of the siblings looked at each other before nodding and going after their fellow sister and current target.
Meanwhile, Rin had gotten to the room with his friends and took a seat just as Shima ran over.
"Hey Rin," Shima called the half demon child, "What was all that fuss about those two babes?"
"Iblis and Amaimon?"
"From what I heard," Bon's voice made everyone look at the mentioned, "is that they're two more of the demon kings of Gehenna under Satan's control."
"They're still babes!" replied Shima with a raised fist and a determined look in his eyes.
"Babes who weren't interested in you at all." Izumo said flatly, making Shima hit the floor in sorrow.
"Why must you ruin my chances!" cried Shima comically in despair.
"What chances? You didn't have any to begin with." Rin said, adding fire to Shima's despair.
"Oh the cruelty!" Shima cried out clutching the floor as Yukio walked in at that moment.
"Alright cla-...What's going on here?" Yukio asked with a sweatdrop upon seeing Shima's condition.
"Nothing." spoke Rin as Shima crawled back to his seat with a depressing air above him.
"Eh? But I thought it was about Shima's low chances of getting a girlfriend." Shiemi said naively, making Shima's aura increase.
'Why me?!' Shima cried in his head.
"Seriously guys, you shouldn't be doing that." Yukio admonished the rest, making Shima feel hope, but- "After all, we agreed to tell him together in an intervention."
And just like that, any leftover hope shattered.
"NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo!" Cried out the pink head in despair.
Everyone started laughing while some shook their heads.
"He he he, anyway class, stop tormenting Shima on his inability of getting girls-" That caused another "NOOOOooooo!" from the mentioned, much to everyone's amusement. "And let's focus on our lesson."
"What's that?" asked Bon.
"The le-" But before Yukio could answer, they heard several shouts and crashes before the door was opened by Mephisto, who was back in the male disguise, who had a panicked look before closing the door!
"They've lost it!" shouted Mephisto grabbing empty desks and propping them against the door.
"Eh...who lost it?" Rin asked in an awkward tone as everyone stared at the panicking director.
Before Mephisto could say, a burning fist broke through the door while frantically grabbing for something. Then several more fists joined as well, each one with a different element to boot!
"Come out here!" roared Azazel.
"DON'T YOU DARE ESCAPE!" Iblis snapped.
"And just like that, I exit stage left." grinned Mephisto before literally jumping out the window
"WAIT! What about them?!" Yukio screamed to the retreating demon lord.
"They'll get tired!" called back Mephisto.
"I-I don't think so." Muttered Rin nervous as he saw the hands get more wild.
Pretty soon Iblis' hand managed to burn the door and barricade down. "WHERE IS THAT PIECE OF SHIT?!" Roared Iblis as she and Amaimon went inside as the rest stood outside, looking for their missing sibling as Egyn quickly went to her place in the classroom.
"Uh, who?" Yukio feigned ignorance.
"She means Mephisto." Frowned Amaimon.
"Haven't seen him." replied Yukio.
"You're Lying!" Growled Iblis. "I can sense his scent here!"
"He went out the window." replied a depressed Shima in the corner.
Both demon queen's nodded before going outside, discretely followed by all other siblings except Egyn.
"What's with them?" asked Rin who noticed Egyn in her seat.
"I-I don't know!" Said Egyn nervous.
Rin gave her a confused look before Yukio coughed to get the class's attention.
"Anyway class, we should get ready to-" But then she was interrupted yet again by a certain sound:
*RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!*
The students got up for recess while Yukio growled at being interrupted, again.
'This isn't my day...isn't it?' She thought hollowly.
