Chapter Three: Opressed emotions
Eventrough the last day was much to handle for Ryuga, the white haired demon sleept very tight and wouldn't be able to wake up until his batteries recharged.
He was dreaming. Dreaming like a little kid. He dreamed about his past life. About his family and about their bound.
He found himself in his hometown. It was berlin, in germany. The city was beautifull, day and night. He espacially liked the „berliner Fernsehturm". No matter how often he was up there, the view was always breathtaking. You could watch over the whole city. There were rivers, boats, trains and even planes if the weather would allow it.
He was on a walk with his family: a middle aged father with rather big torso. He wore black snieckers, a blue jeans and a comfortable sports jacked that was closed. He had chocolate brown hair which was short but curled. He had the classic „one week didn't shave" beard and wore a pair of glasses that showed his green-blue eyes. His skin was noticably brighter than the skin of his on.
His mother on the other hand was a thin, tiny women. Even Ryuga was a bit bigger than her. She wore sandals and a pair of riped jeans. She also dressed herself with a brown shirt that had a silver heart with the word love on it. She had a 80's hair style with the same chocolate brown colour as her husbands hair. Her eyes had the same deep brown tone as her hair. Her skintone was the same lightly taned as her son's.
They were walking their dog. A tiny boulonka, a dog who was a bit bigger than a chivaouva but still very tiny, cute and fluffy. She had a white hide with brown stains.
Ryuga was in the nostagia of his memories. But he didn't expierience that luck for long. The sunny summer weather quickly turned into a cloudy, dark evening. And before he could say something his family was gone, in fact everyone was gone. He was all alone in a dark place exept…. He wasn't a big female shadow appeared. His heart began beating at an abnormal fast rate, he began to breath quicker the fear he felt was intense his legs wouldn't move despite his will to run away. His body was shaking and he was sweating bullets as he was held down by the shadow.
It laughed in a horrifiing voice." Hahahaha yeah you get what you deserve now take it you little bitch."
Meanwhile in the real world his dragon-brand which was positioned on the side of his neck started smoking. It relased black steam that was rising up to the celing and dissapiert after a while. Ryuga was rolling in his bad. He unconsciously held onto the wood of his bed. His black claws diged themself deep into the laires of wood.
Back in his dream he heared the mixed laughter of thousands of people. There were also the judging voices:" What kind of excuse are you."" You should feel honored!"" How can you not like that?"" No one will ever believe you." You lost."
He woke up from his nightmare with a horrified scream. He looked around his room ready to defend himself. He was all alone, breathing heavily his heart beating like a machine gun with unlimitet ammunition. He stood up and tried to calm himself down. Ryuga looked at the clock of his room." 12:37. I missed breakfirst." He startet to make himself ready for the day. Starting with showering himself, it was a new thing to wash his tail but it was suprisingly soft and comfortable, unlike yesterday. He cleaned himself pretty intense with the soap.
After he was done Ryuga put a towel on himself that was a little bit to short to reach his knees. The water of the shower was still dripping down his sharp chin. Over his neck down to his muscular chest that sat ontop of his sixpack. It wasn't very muscular how you would expect from a superhero or a bodybuilder but it was clearly visible. He was standing right in front of the mirrow and eyed himself. It was still very new to see himself like that. He touched the tip of his tail and noticed something seriously important, it was super soft, way softer than yesterday. He tried to change it and it suceded the tip of his tail was again har das stone. As he tried to brush his teeth he had a few problems because all of his teeth were sharp as razorblades and the tothbrush wasn't stable enough to withstand the force that Ryuga implied on it. His new body defenatly was not under his total control.
He sighted frustrated. Purple-black flames climbed out of his mouth and vanished infront of his face as fast as they appeared. Fascination filled Ryuga's face, he opened his mouth to see if something changed and where the flames came from. Sure enough there was no sign of the flames but all of his teeth were clean." Damn that looks like it came out of an add."
He put his normal clothes on: The boots, the biker pants, his vest and finally his jacked. He wore his jacked as a cape like usally.
Ryuga took a look at the clock again."1:25. Nice." He calmly went downstairs to start his day taking the ball with him.
Once he was downstairs he saw some unfamiliar faces. Tables were streching all over the place with demons sitting at each one with delicious food. He grabed a plate of chicken poured over with sauce and mashed potatos and some water. He sat down at a tabble across the room so he could see everyone clearly. No matter how warm of a welcome he got yesterday, this is still hell, he needs to be carefull. Before tasting his food he looked over at the other tables. He saw Charlie the owner of the hotel, she was wearing a pink tuxedo with a white shirtwith a black tie and a pair of black pants, her snowwhite face remined him of the winters in his childhood, her golden locks were more precious than all the gold of the world. But there was something off about her eyes, they seemed fake laking the life and good will she is showing with everything else.
Siting beside her was a silver haired, hispenic woman with a white dress. She seemed to be pretty happy with charlie. But she didn't paint out the welcoming energie like charlie. Overall she seemed to be a protector or something like that. At the opposide end of them sat a tall spider like humanoide. It had it's back to Ryuga but glanced in his direction from time to time. Eventrough the spider seemed to be feminin ist voice and behaviour was that of a twelve year old boy.
Over at the bar was a cat with birdwings eating his meal. His wings were patterned with symbols of poker cards. He had a empty dead stare. Ryuga wasn't sure how long that one was in hell but it was obvious he didn't have anything in his life to look foward to. Well exept the bottle of alcohol in his hands. It nearly looked like he prayed to it.
Two other demons were eating together at a separat table one loked like the demon counterpart of a robin. The other looked like a mixeture of a catus and Jesus crist. `I bet these are the other hotel guest. Wait a moment where is Alastor? I don't see him anywhere`
Ryuga finally took a bite out of his meal and was visible disgusted by the taste of it. It was a hard fight but he managed to not spit it out. Before he could think staight again the spider was standing at his tabble." Heeyy you must be the new guy that came in yesterday. I am angel dust but you can call me whatever you want." Angel leaned over to show Ryuga his cutout. Ryuga answered:" Oh hi dude i am Ryuga. Nice to met you angel." Ryuga instantly knew that angel was horny but also didn't trust him." I heared that you died pretty recently and i would looove to hear what changed since i left earth" Angel nearly moaned saying this sentence. Ryuga lauged" Hehehe well you should sit down and let me tell you. When exactly did you die?"" Must have been around 1947."" Well then let me summon something up for you…"
Meanwile Charlie and Vaggie enyojed their meals as much as they could." Mmmhhhhh, Vaggie that is….. delicious." Vaggie sighed" You don't have to pretent to like it. I know you to well we are best friends after all." Charlie dropped her fork on the table." Uh okay you got me. But it is better than last time you are really improving." Vaggie answerd frustrated:" Thanks but I really want to get better and i just don't know what to do." Charkie tried to calm her down:" Hey you just need some help nobody can do everything on their own. Maybe Angel can help you I heared italians are fantastic at cooking." Vaggie looked over to angel and wishpered back at charlie:" Before or after he seduced our guests." Charlie trieed to hold back her laughter:" How about before. We all know that Angel lasts for hours." Vaggie decided to ask him right away.
„…And now it's bassicly a joke how horrible 2020 is." Vaggie was right at the table where the two boys were sitting. Angel noticed her first" Oh hey Vaggs. This my new friend Ryuga." The two exchanged looks and quickly shook hands." Hi nice to meet you"" Same Angel already told me something about you Vaggie"" Oh did he" She looked angry at angels face directly staring into his soul. Angel said straight away" Only good things of course." Vaggie started to smile" Hey angi I wanted to ask you something." Angel took this oppertunity" Ok I will tell you what dick tastes like." Vaggie let out an obvious sarcastic laughter." Haha realy funny angel. No I wanted to know if you can cook." Angel nearly burstet into histeric laughter" Girl I grew up in a mafia family I NEVER cooked anything. At leasted not food." Ryuga got himself into the conversation fairly quickly" Well if you want i could cook something. I Always did it with my mom and still know all the recipies." Vaggie was super happy as she heared that" Really that would be great! How about you help me making dinner?" Ryuga responded equally happy with a smug smile on his face" Of course then people will finally enjoy eating again" Vaggie saw that it was a joke and didn't want to ruin it." Oh we'll see." She smiled back at him.
They both took their food and headed towards the kitchen. Vaggie took another look at Charlie who gave her a big smile and two thumbs up. As soon as they were in the kitchen Ryuga wanted to grab his yellow smiley-ball, but it wasn't there. He quickly checked his other pockets. Vaggie saw it amd was confused" Everything alright?" Ryuga responded" No i think i forgot something important. I'll be right back. You can start without me." He stormed of without another word and headed towards his room. Vaggie sighted and started getting to work." Teenagers."
As soon as Ryuga came to his room he noticed something. His door was open. He immediantly took out his claws and made tail ready to fight. He got into the room and saw a little cyclops girl maybe ten years old at max. He was confused for multiple reasons and wanted answers to all of them. The girl noticed him and started talking before he could say something." Hi I am nifty, it's always nice to meet new friends" Ryuga was even more confused because of her hyperactive behaviour." Hi I am Ryuga. Excuse me but what are doing in my room?" Nifty answered in a heartbeat." I am cleaning the rooms"" But you're a child" Nifty was slightly offended by that" I am probrablly older than you!" Ryuga raised his finger in the ai ras if he wanted to make a clear point." That is…..most likely entirely true!" He began to laugh seeing himself as an idiot. Nifty jonied him in this funny situation. Ryuga excused himself." I am sorry for being such a douche but i was just a bit suprised to see you here."" It's okay I get that alot" Ryuga remembered that he didn't saw her at lunch." Hey I didn't saw you eating earlier aren't you hungry?" Nifty answered while she speeded trough the room like a rocket" No I always eat with mister Alastor. He is super nice."" Yeah he really is. Say Nifty did you see a yellow smiling ball somewhere?" Nifty quickly resonded:" Yes, I did. I put it ontop of the frigde." Ryuga turned his head and there was the ball. He grabed it and walked back to the kitchen." Thank you Nifty see you later!"" Yeah byeeeee" Shouted the girl as Ryuga left.
When he came back to the kitchen everything was already set up. Vaggie was putting some ingriediens on the counter and was ready to start as she saw her assistant." Good your back. Found what you were looking for?" Ryuga took out the ball, threw it in the air and caught it without looking." Yep and it was worth it!" Vaggie quickly ignored the fact that he ran back and forth for a ball." Whatever lets get started. Today we are going to make burger." Ryuga looked at the counter and became hungry at the view." Ohhoho this is gonna taste amazing."
Vaggie got out a pan and got some butter into it. Ryuga got some salat oil and said:" wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. The parry really need to get a light burn before you start to cook them." Vaggie stared at him in a slight disbelief." Really?" said the grey haired woman with a spark of sarcasm. She didn't think that would work." Yes, they are gonna taste like a fresh piece of… well meat but trust me i know what i am doing." He had such a cherrish smile that vaggie just couldn't deny his request." Ok fine but don't ruin it."" Oh, defenatly not."
While they were cooking they talked to each other over various things: How the world changed and such. Vaggie continued the conversation" So I wanted to ask you what's your favorite food". Ryuga answered without needing to think" Pizza with ez. I love this Italien piece of art. What about you?"" It might seem a little like a clishe but I always loved burritos." She was sunken into their fantasie of food when Ryuga's tone became darker and he asked a unpleasend question" Hey I asked myself something. Why is nifty here?" Vaggie's face lost it's smile and she responded" You don't mean the hotel do you?" Ryuga was shaking his head. Vaggie continued." Well i had that same question when I first met her. So I talked to Alastor about it, he said that she never talked about it but that he knows her well enough to know what happened. He said she was born into a satanic cult and accepted what her religion is. But no one knows how she died, it's most likely better that way."
Ryuga looked shocked as he heared that." Unholy shit that is sad and unfair. Now i hate god even more." Vaggie was crurious at that sentence." What about you? How did you die?" Ryuga became nervous and obviously stressed at that moment." I-i don't remember it either seemes like i am also one of the lucky sinners right he right?" Vaggie put her hand on his shoulder and tried to calm him down." Hey it's okay you don't have to tell me, if you don't want to." He took ad deep breath and asked one more question." How did it happened to you?" Vaggie was silent for a moment but the answered." I was born in north mexico and it wasn't always very peacfull. My family didn't had much money, weh ad to steal to survive. And then we stole from the wrong people." Ryuga felt bad for asking. She clearly still felt the pain of that day." I am sorry."" You don't have to be. You coulnd't believe how happy I was to see him land here and get taken to the high secrurity end." Ryuga's attention was now fully focused on the woman to his side." High secrurity end?""Thats a special place in hell where sinners of get brought when they were to dangerous or evil in the living world to get punished. People like: Jack the ripper or hitler. That my murder is now there is only thanks to charlie."
As soon as he heared this Ryuga grabed Vaggie turned her around and hugged her. She hugged him back they both needed that." Thank you Vaggie i really needed this….and if you tell anyone this happened I am going to kill you."
After they let go of each other they finished the dinner preparations and got the food to the hotel guest. Ryuga sat down with angel and the two made jokes and talked for a bit. They really seemed to be good friends. Everyone seemed to enjoy the food. Vaggie and Ryuga wanted to cook again, together, everyday. After everyone was done and the lobby was cleaned Ryuga wished everyone goodnight and headed towards his room. But he couldn't sleep for the whole night. Once it was 2am he made a decision. He sneaked out of his room and tried to be as quiet as possible to not wake anyone up. He looked at the signs of the first five rooms.`Owner, no thats Charlie. Manager aka Vaggie. Ah there he is.` He was standing in front of the third room:" Organizer, Alastor."
He knocked at the door and wisphered." Hey Alastor are you awake?" The door slowly cracked open and the room was comletely dark. It was impossible to see the ground you're walking on. A hand, likely to be Alastors gave Ryuga a wave. Letting him know that he can come in. As he was in the room the door closed behind him leaving him in the darkness.
A single candle lit up and revealed two seats. In one of them sitting was Alastor but his shoulder and face were covered in shadows and couldn't be seen Ryuga sat into the seat in front of him." I wanted to cash in my favour." Alastor answered in a creepy radio static supported voice." So what is it you desire?"
Ryuga declared in one clear voice." I want revenge on my killer!"
(Thats it for this chapter hope you liked it. And dont try out any recepies from the story i just made something up. And now the only thing i can say is: Stay tuned!)