Chapter 8:
"Victoria!" Zorro yelled not noticing that the devil had changed his face into his true form.
"Where did he go with Victoria and your friend?" Zorro yelled towards the devil only now seeing his burned and scarred skin and his eyes of fire.
The fox stood riveted to the floor by shock at the view in front of him. This was what Lucifer meant by breaking people.
"I am fearing that he has taken them to the future probably back to the year 2019," said Lucifer noticing the shock in Zorro's eyes.
The devil sighed, "Oh bloody hell, I broke a fox."
Zorro shook his head to make it clear again remembering that this celestial being had an angelic side too and he stood on that side of him.
"Nope, you didn't break anything, I was just a bit shocked by the view," Zorro responded still a little shaky.
The bandits took that moment to try and sneak away from the fox and the devil. The fox on his own was bad but with help from the lord of hell was a real disaster. There was only one thing they didn't think off, the black stallion at the entrance, also called horse of the devil by his enemies.
Zorro and Lucifer looked back at Toronado's warning. They saw the bandits looking from a rearing stallion to a masked man and a devil and back towards the horse. They were stuck, there was no way in hell that they would get passed either of them.
They both looked away from each other, one looking Toronado's way, who was threatening with his ears flat on his neck legs wide apart, the other one was looking towards the devil and the fox, the looked back at each other and screamed so hard for help that they would have heard it on the other side of the pueblo.
Lucifer smiled his most evil smile, while he walked towards them, Zorro, on the other hand, stay where he was. He leaned his shoulder against the cold cave wall. His arms crossed over his chest, he wasn't going to double-cross his new friend.
The fox had seen enough, this was no ordinary friendship, not that it ever would be if you are friends with the actual Lucifer, but besides that, it was love from both sides. Chloe was too important for him.
Lucifer took both of them by their throats, one in his left hand and the other one in his right hand. He lifted them above his head without effort. He let the two bandits squirm a little bit.
Zorro didn't intervene because of something Lucifer had said on their way here. That there is own rule his father made that he tried to follow, he had made only one exception in all his life and that was Cain because above all his was a devil of his word.
His father's rule was that he wasn't allowed to kill a human being and that he didn't surpass that rule. The rule said nothing about maiming and scaring though. These two needed to be punished and if there was one creature that was an expert in punishing it was the devil himself.
"Please, please don't kill us. We didn't want to hurt them." One bandit cried tears in his eyes.
"Yeah, we only wanted the money." The other one said with fear in his voice.
Lucifer leaned his head towards the left, "You messed with the wrong devil this time, amigos"
"Zorro, please you value life, why don't you help us out here, we will go with you willingly!" Said the bandit on the left still tears in his eyes.
"Yeah, please Zorro." Plead the other one.
"Sorry Amigo's, I know I value all life, but unfortunately I value mine and Victoria's the most at the moment," Zorro said with a serious face. He knew Lucifer was just scaring them.
"You are lucky today, I am not allowed to kill humans but know this I am the lord of hell and if you don't change your ways we will meet again and I won't be so nice the second time," Lucifer growled before knocking them both out by hitting their head against each other.
Lucifer turned to Zorro, his face back to normal, "let's deliver them to the authority and we while we do that I will think of a way to go to the future. Several siblings can bring us there but I need to think of one who is willing to help me after my raid against Dad."
Zorro was worried sick at the moment but he knew there was nothing he could do to speed the process, the life of Victoria and Chloe were in the hands of the devil.
LUCIFER/ZORRO
Michael threw the two women on a bed in what looked like a bedroom completely made out of wood. The room was simple, there was a double bed with a nightstand on each side. and a big dark wooden closet. The only decoration was a large painting of winter landscape with mountains, some trees with between those trees a little cabin with snow on the roof.
"Welcome in the year 2019 my dear Victoria." Michael laughed evilly before he continued, "You weren't part of my plan in the first place but you were on the wrong place at the wrong time so enjoy your time here."
"What do you want from us, Michael?" asked Chloe angry
"From her not much she is a nice bonus to have some fun with. You, on the other hand, my dear, I want you and my brother apart forever, my dear Chloe. He took the only brother who ever loved me and he is going to pay for it."
"That's why you wanted me in the past in the first place, it wasn't your intention that Lucifer would go with me. Did you think that Lucifer wouldn't try and help me?" Chloe asked still angry at the celestial being in front of her.
Victoria on her part looked around the place. There wasn't much in the room but still, there was a lot she didn't understand. There were no candles for light. How did they see anything in the dark and what was that strange thing hanging from the ceiling?
The black-haired woman pulled her knees up and circled her arms around it. She looked around her in fear. Was she ever going to see her beloved Zorro again and what about Diego? She didn't know who she missed the most.
"You are going to stay in this room, for now, I got guards running around the place so don't even think about escaping. If you are good girls I may give you some more room in time but for now, enjoy each other's company." Michael laughed evilly before he closed the door from the room behind him.
Chloe looked towards Victoria and kneeled before her on the bed, "Hey, are you alright?"
Victoria looked at her with fear in her eyes, could she trust her if she was friends with the devil?
"It's alright, you can trust me, I know there must be a lot of strange things here for you but I know Lucifer will find a way to come back to us," Chloe said trying to comfort the other woman.
"You are sure that the devil will not want my soul after he helped us?" Victoria asked with fear in her voice.
Chloe smiled, "No, that's what people made of it, in fact, they made up a lot about him. He punishes evil souls. He is an honest man and he won't rest before you are back where you belong."
"I am still afraid of him," Victoria said feeling that the woman could be trusted
"I know what you are going through, I was afraid of him too when I saw his face for the first time. I was working with him at my side for years. He never made a secret of him being the devil but I never believed him until I saw his face. It took me months but I there was something I remembered he has always been honest to me, he was still the same Lucifer who was my friend and even more I started falling in love with him." Chloe smiled
"So he isn't the man who the Bible said he is?" Victoria asked curiously
"He loves women, alcohol and drugs but other than that he is the most justly being I ever met. He wants to be loved for who he is. In reality, he was a lonely man before he met all of his friends." Chloe sighed a little thinking about her sweet devil.
Victoria smiled at that, "I think I would want to get to know him before our ways part again but without the ugly face."
"I don't think that's a problem he only uses that face to scare off bad guys." Chloe said smiling, "But I will try and come up with a plan to escape and try to reach his place, we would be saved there." Chloe opened her arms and Victoria fell in her embrace. Her thoughts going to the two men she loved more than life itself.