"-and that's the story of how I corrupted King Solomon." Crawly took a dramatic bow. He hoped that everything he said was somewhat in correlation with what Aziraphale had written. Okay, he may have skipped out on the redemption and Ecclesiastes part where the spoiled brat in adult form got his shit together but to be fair he kind of ditched in that last part. The demons didn't look too pleased but then again they never did. He was slowly winning their respect. Or at least he hoped he was.
Hastur, of course, had to be an asshole about the whole thing. "I don't exactly get what any of this has to do with disrupting the line of Christ. Solomon is still in it. She said it Herself."
What surprised him was it was not Crawly who answered but Beelzebub the Lord of flies herself. "Because Duke Hastur it isn't about making sure the Christ isn't born anymore. The Heavenly forces on Earth have already proven they are more than capable of dodging each and every temptation we throw at humanity. The goal now is to make the ancestors of the Christ child untrustworthy. When the child is born into royalty the people will no longer have faith or trust within the political system so therefore they will not trust the son of God. We will have won and all the effort and plans the other side have been making about will have been for nothing."
With Beelzebub dismissed the demons but Ligur lingered near Crawly. He didn't like it as Ligur was giving him a really creepy careful look and it was making his skin crawl. He desperately wanted to slither away but instead decided to play the asshole card.
"Hey Ligur if you want to finger me maybe just get over here and give me a nice big kiss on the lips rather than stare at me like a child pedophile." Crawly hissed out sarcastically.
Ligur only chuckled deeply and moved closer to Crawly making his stomach feel uneasy. "No Crawly. Human affairs are lost to me. I should tell you I had no idea what half of your nonsense means most of the time. But I've got something to show yah."
"If it's your dick I'm leaving for the earth."
"No not that. In Hastur's torture chamber 14."
"Oh. Kinky."
Ligur frowned and grabbed Crawly's wrist so hard he would have bruises there for three weeks and pulled him through the jutting crowds. Down, down, down to the depths of Hell. He felt his breath leaving his lungs in anxious drones but kept a steady face. He couldn't show how very little he liked Hell. The pits of Hell reeked of sulfur especially down here. With a loud creak of a metal like door the hellfire light reached the far corners of the dark cell. He saw the body of a naked female angel leaning over a bucket. Her face was bloody and her gentle blue eyes beaten into blackness. Her pale skin was covered in bruises and scars and welt marks. Her once pale skin was now a greyish color making her resemble a stormy afternoon. He could feel her tortured aurora from where he stood and it made him visibly cringe. Ligur didn't seem to notice as he went on to discuss with a little too much glee in explicit detail every little torture Ligur and Hastur had put the poor thing through. Her corporation looked like it was about to break and would have melted into the floor. Crawly had to turn to look at a blood-spattered wall as it was just too much. He realized he had stopped listening to Ligur when he felt a sharp whack on his right shoulder blade. He turned to see the glimmer of pleasure in his fellow demon's eye over all his expert torture devices and expenditures.
"But I have one thing better. One thing I think will please our Dark Master the most."
"And what's that Ligur?"
"Public execution. Trial and everything. The entire thing will be glorious."
Crawly felt like he was going to vomit which was impossible for he had not even attempted to eat anything for the past few years. Well besides alchol. Then he had an idea.
"I don't think you should kill her."
Ligur's eyes shot into a firey rage. Even the chamilion on his head seemed to be moaning in anger. They both stared at him as though he had just said he was betraying Satan and going to join Micheal's angelic army.
"Whyever should we not? Enlighten me Crawly."
"Well because-erm-it'd be a waste-of-resourses-or something-yeah..."
"Waste of resources? She is angelic scum. Once we throw her in the Hellfire we will wipe the ashes on our boots."
"Yeah that sounds great and all. Love a good angelic execution me. But I just think since you already have her spirit broken why wouldn't use that to your advantage?"
"Our advantage?"
By Satan, Ligur was definitely the most daft demon and Hastur came in a close second. He was practically shoving the bread crumbs into his mouth at this point.
"I'm saying you could use her to attack the angels you are fighting on Jupiter right now."
Ligur stared and gasped. "How-how in Satan's name did you-"
"Well, maybe you shouldn't have had Deliah on your group therapy meeting because the bitch can't keep her mouth shut for all the gold in the world." Also, she had made fun of a certain Princibitality and threatened to burn him with Hellfire. Killing two demons with one stone in this case.
It worked as Ligur looked like he was about to shove a javelin through her stomach and declared "That motherfucking bitch is gonna be in the deepest pit for the next ten thousand years!"
"Great idea! I think the darkness suits her. After all, she was responsible for the whale fat shortage and had everyone stabbing each other for the next ten days. But that's besides the point. I know about the Hellfire shortage and I know you are trying to get pure sodium iodine from the surface of Jupiter. I also know your little daft demon buddies couldn't stop bragging to the angels about it and they found out and Micheal is over there as we speak discorporating demons left and right. But your forgetting angels aren't like demons. Train her and break her spirit some more and she will become an impenatriable machine for discorporating angels and there won't be a thing Micheal can do about it."
"I see. But how? Angels are loyal to their cause. This bastard here still won't stop proclaiming praises to God even when I clamped electrical cords around her vagina."
"Promise her freedom or something. I don't know. You are a higher ranking demon than me. Anyways I got to get back to Earth and stir up some trouble." He was all too happy to get out of that awful situation.
Ligur turned back to the angel as she began to wake up as much as she could with how bruised her face was. Ligur smiled toothly at her.
"Well well well. What do we have here?"
