The Asmodean
By
Neztro
Chapter 30: Repentence.
Authors note:
I see you have come back for another chapter of the harem anime owl house… thank you and I am sorry for the cringe. Hello everyone I hope you are enjoying the chapter and I want to say thank you for sticking with me to this point. Let me know what you think of my story on the reviews… please don't be a creep.
The garden of stone had an eerie air… always did. Even back in emperor belos's day but it was a lot smaller back then.
The empress used her magic on the statue and she hoped this would be a success… ever since the comformitorium was destroyed she had been working on this project. She didn't have a choice if she wanted Luca to come home with no bloodshed… this project had to succeed.
She used her magic and the stone turned bright red and then she switched the type of magic she used and the statue responded by turning bright green.
The empress smiled when she saw the stone shell of the statue crack away revealing a witch man underneath. She had done it, found a way to undo petrifacation… it was one of her greatest feats she had ever accomplished.
"Hello? Where am I? Is anyone there." The witch asked looking around wildly. "I-i Can't see! My eyes! what happened to my eyes!?"
huh, I guess I have another problem to deal with. Luckily blindness is a lot easier to cure then petrification. The empress was tired and needed to rest, so she used her magic to return the witch to stone and then walked back to her castle's top.
She took steps toward her room passing artwork commissioned by the former emperor of the boiling isles.
The empress looked up at the portraits of his victories.
"I've always hated you belos," She said clenching her fist. "I was glad to find a reality where you still existed… it was a pleasure to kill you a second time." she said walking the portraits.
She thought about the things her belos spouted. "the day of unity… what hogwash… that was your dream. I plan to steal it from you… just like you stole my dream from me." The empress returned to her room and saw near her four poster bed a nightsand with portraits.
the empress walked to nightstand and grabbed a picure of him and her hugging each other on the day they went to the beach.
"Luca! No!" the memory pierced her mind like a dagger as she fell to her knees.
"L-luca, i-i'm sorry… I didn't mean too." the empress was crying and couldn't even rise to her feet.
I failed you once before luca… but never again. She thought.
"My empress?" esdeath asked standing In the doorway.
"what is it?" the witch growled.
"the rebel leaders are ready to talk… do you wish to receive their information?"
"No! Take them to be petrified immediately after you right down all they've told you."
"and what of their families?"
"Leave them be… I have plans for them." The empress knew that he would enjoy having new people to feed off of… in fact she thinks it has been a long overdue visit.
"Now get out." The empress ordered walking past esdeath. Shaking her head.
The empress made her way in the deepest bowels of castle where the worst prisoners are kept along with what the empress nicknamed her repetence. She had faced the creature before in her reality and bested it… and thus knew it's weaknesses. She used those weaknesses to best it and then made a deal with it to act as one of her servants.
She passed through the cells where the rebels were chained to the walls in a giant cell and across from the in an equally big cell were their family.
The prisoners trembled in fear at the empresses presence. In her reality she hated people who ruled by fear… like that fool of an emperor. But now, she knew it was the only way to get what she wanted.
She entered the room where an ornate door was locked. The empress used a spell circle to open it and inside the room was pitch black. Just the way he liked it. The light illuminated a shifting mass of black ooze.
"So, you have returned to me… empress." the creature asked it's voice like a boiling cauldron.
The empress did not reply she just bowed before him. She removed her mask and gloves which the thin light from the open revealed to have tanned skin… the skin of her people in her realities human realm.
"what? No words for your oldest friend?" the creature mocked. "I see the look in your eye, memories are back to haunt you. I'm jealous… let your old friend grom take care of your fears empress you know I do them better then anyone."
The empress just glared at him, her brown eyes bearing into the creature. Though the empress had wrinkles and crowns feat from her age she still cut an intimadating feature.
"Oh there it is, the face of the woman who usurped the emperor and took his throne… I wonder how your people would feel if they knew you the way I do… that your scared… scared of history repeating itself and that you'll be reponsible for the death of luca… again/" the creature chortled as it raised a tendril.
The empress's face went blank. "Just get this over with… I have a meeting with an old friend to organize…"
"your no fun empress… I mean, I appreciate the captives you feed me all there fears are delicious but you… you have such a well that could break you… but you don't let me see your reaction and you act like it doesn't hurt… frankly I'm bored."
The empress still remained silence.
"I guess today is gonna be more of the same… let's see how far I can push you… my empress."
