Religion has existed for generations, a way for humans to worship higher beings, thought many religions each have their own god they also have their own devil. A being of malice and hatred, that only wishes to see humanity's downfall. In Christian and Catholic religions, they propose that there are 2 other worlds different than our own, thought death would be the only way to gain entry into these worlds. The first is a plain of beauty, peace and tranquility and a land of everlasting life, the other however, is a land of pain and torture, where the pained screams of tainted souls ring out through the land. These 2 worlds dubbed, Heaven and Hell, can only be entered by those who make different choices in their life, if one's choices are kind and righteous, they will gain immortality and entry into the gates of Heaven. If one's choices are selfish and antagonistic, then their souls are condemned to Hell where they will pay for their crimes for all eternity.
The ruler of Heaven is an omnipotent and immortal being, he has gained many names over the years but is commonly known as God. He created humans in his own image and gave them a planet to live on so they could prosper and thrive. Aside from God are his loyal followers, beings that resemble humans but have holy power and bird like wings on their backs dubbed as angels. They are messengers, warriors, and servant, who do what they can to help humanity in any way. The ruler of Hell however, is the polar opposite of God. Once he was the second in command of Heaven, he would always stay at his master's side, he was Lucifer, second in command of Heaven and God's right hand angel, he would always obey and see to it that his master's wishes were fulfilled, but when God showed Lucifer his new creations, humans, Lucifer refused to serve beings that were inferior to him or his master.
Lucifer began to rebel against God, he wanted his power, he wanted his titled, Lucifer wanted everything, all he needed was a chance, a chance to disrupt his master's plans, he soon found it when God created the first two humans, Adam and Eve. Seeing his chance Lucifer transformed himself into a serpent and persuaded Eve to take a bit of the Forbidden Fruit from the Garden of Eden, to which she and Adam gladly did. He had done it he had tainted Gods creations, he had introduced them to sin, but his actions didn't go unnoticed, for when he returned to the gates of Heaven he was promptly blocked from entry as his fellow angels had turned against him. He tried to convince them to join him and overthrow their master, but his pleas fell on deaf ears. For his actions against him.
"Join me my brothers and sisters! Do you really want to keep that old oaf as ruler of Heaven!?" Lucifer yelled out towards the amassing crowd of angels who each had weapons pointed straight at him. Lucifer was backing away slowly at the amassing army of angels, until he froze completely when he heard a booming voice call out his name, "LUCIFER!" the voice rang out as all the angels stopped what they were doing and made an opening in the middle of the crowd. From there he could see his master, God, floating towards him with a scowl on his face, "What have you done, Lucifer!?" God boomed as he stopped directly in front of Lucifer to which he returned the glare, "I did what you could never do master! I gave them free will!" he yelled back. God crossed his arms, "You manipulated my creations, Lucifer! You persuaded them into eating the forbidden fruit, you tainted my creations!" God angrily yelled towards the angel. "I would never bow down to inferior creatures like your 'humans', even if they were made in your image!" Lucifer shot back. To this God only closed his eyes and shook his head, he couldn't believe his right hand angel had done this, he had manipulated his own creations to sin. God opened his eyes and looked towards Lucifer, "I'm sorry, Lucifer." God said in a more solemn tone, "But for what you have done, is the greatest of sins." With that said God raised his hand towards Lucifer. "Lucifer, from this moment on, you are hereby forbidden entry to Heaven, and so you will be cast out." Before Lucifer could react an invisible force launched him backwards, all the way outside of the gates of Heaven, pushing himself up Lucifer tried to run back into Heaven but only saw the gates close in front of him, locking him out of his home. Lucifer tried to think of a way back in but he soon noticed that the clouds beneath his feet began to dissipate until there was nothing. Lucifer began to fall towards the Earth until he used his wings to slow his descent, however it was short lived as an invisible force kept pushing him down at high speeds until he finally made contact with the ground below stirring up a cloud of dust from the Earth.
A crater was there as the dust cloud cleared with Lucifer in the center of it, he tried to get up but suddenly felt immense pain all around his body, but a shadow loomed upon him as he saw his master, God, float down to him. "P-Please! Master!" Lucifer choked out, "Forgive me, master, I was a fool to go against your wishes! Please give me another chance!" Lucifer yelled towards God. God only closed his eyes as his scowl diminished to a frown, "Lucifer, for what you have done to my creations, I don't believe you deserve a second chance." Lucifer's pleading stopped as his look of shock turned into a look of anger, "After all we've been through together, you would just throw me away? Just like that!?" he said in a rage "Lucifer, you manipulated my creations to sin! You've not only betrayed me, but you've betrayed your brothers and sisters as well!" God retorted. "I've seen into your mind, Lucifer, your thoughts, your feelings. It seems you have your mind set." God said solemnly as Lucifer stood up to face him. Lucifer only smirked as he came up with a backup plan, "This isn't the first time you've casted an angel out, old man. All I have to do is do something noble or to prove my worth and you'll let me back in." God on closed his eyes and looked towards the ground, he sighed sadly, "Lucifer." God began as he faced his former second in command "For you, there is no coming back."
Lucifer's eyes widened in shock, his mind raced to figure out what his master meant by that, he couldn't have meant death, angels are immortal but they could be killed by demons, wait, demons, he couldn't, he wouldn't. "No, you don't mean!?" Lucifer screamed as God raised his hand again "Forgive me, Lucifer, but for what you've done, I can only see one punishment that is fit for you. From this day forth! Lucifer you are forever condemned to the fiery pits of Hell!" God yelled out as the clouds in the sky turned darkened and began to swirl around him. "Please master! Have mercy!" Lucifer pleaded but was quickly stopped when the ground cracked beneath him, and from the cracks bright red searing chains shot from the ground and wrapped around his right arm. Another set of chains erupted from the ground and wrapped around his left arm, the chains began to burn both of his arms as Lucifer cried out in pain, but his cries were silenced when another set of chains sprung out and wrapped around his throat pulling down against the ground, tears began to form in his eyes, the pain was unbearable. Lucifer could only hold out his hand in one final plea to his master to stop but was met with the sight of his master closing his eyes and looking away from him, he was ignoring his pleas completely.
Finally the ground gave way as the chains pulled Lucifer further under the ground, he could on scream as he was dragged further and further underground, he could feel the temperature start to rise to scorching heat. Lucifer cried out agony as the chains pulled him straight down to what appeared to be a gigantic cavern, from what he could see where abstract and twisted structure which appeared to be buildings, bodies littered the ground as grotesque creatures walked the scorched earth. The second thing he noticed were the screams, bloodcurdling and agonizing screams could be heard all around him, many of them being pleas to stop, probably from the constant torture. A sudden pain in his back snapped Lucifer out of it as he crashed onto the ground, he noticed that the searing pain had stopped as the chains that wrapped around him only faded away, however the chains had left their marks on his arms and his neck. Lucifer then felt rumbling and quickly turned his head to what would be the sky but was only the top of the cavern, he quickly noticed the hole he fell through began to close, acting quickly, Lucifer spread his wings, but before he could jump to fly he cried out in pain as he felt a searing heat flow through his wings. He finally noticed it, his once beautiful white angelic wings were now set aflame, crying out in pain, Lucifer tried his best to put out his wings but he soon froze in pain as he fell onto his knees, he finally screamed towards the heavens in pain as the fire that was burning his wings had suddenly disappeared, leaving them blackened and charred. Suddenly his wings began to convulse as they contorted and grew longer, Lucifer clawed at the ground trying to muffle his screams as his wings had taken a mind of their own. He could feel his bones bending, breaking, and repairing all at the same time, tears flowed down from his face as one more shockwave of pain flew out from his body as he finally let out a pent up scream as his wings unfurled themselves. They were no longer the beautiful white wings he once had, they we're now a dark crimson, longer and more demonic looking as a leathery membrane connected his wings together instead of feathers. Lucifer had collapsed in pain as he cried, but he felt comfort that the pain had finally stopped, oh, how wrong he was. The pain soon returned, however this time it was throughout his entire body, his arms grew larger as he could feel his bones begin to dislocate and grow bigger, his hands became claws, a crimson red tail sprouted out from his tail bone and finished in the for of an arrowhead, he screamed the entire time as finally the pain had left once again, leaving Lucifer to study his new from. His study was short lived as he clutched his head in pain as he began to feel a throbbing pain emanated from his head, he began to claw at his head trying to make the pain stop but to his shock he could feel...something starting to poke out from the sides of his head. He could feel small little nubs that began to grow, he then screamed as the pain accumulated as the nubs suddenly grew 3 times its size and shot out of his head. Lucifer collapsed to the ground as he weakly tried to feel the sides of his head, and he felt something, he felt whatever it was, it was hard, and big and almost curved on the side of his head, his eyes widened in realization, he had sprouted horns.
Standing up to his full height Lucifer inspected his new form, and was horrified. No longer was he one of God's beautiful angels but now a grotesque creature, a demon. The ground then began to rumble and shake around Lucifer as the earth itself began to split, and from the crack molten magma began to rise until a pointed object sprouted out from the crack. Upon closer inspection Lucifer saw that the object was in fact a trident, that was now red hot thanks to being submerged in magma. Once Lucifer saw it he could feel something emanating from it, a sort of energy, evil energy no doubt, but powerful energy.
Lucifer seemed almost entranced by the weapon as he got closer reach out for it. Grasping onto it Lucifer grunted in pain as his palm met the searing hot surface of the weapon, one the heat died down the weapon began to glow a crimson color, and in a matter of seconds Lucifer was engulfed in an aura of red energy as he heard a sinister voice in his mind, "This weapon, forged in the fires of Hell, that is stained with the blood of angels, shall be wielded by the King of Hell, only the king shall wield a weapon this powerful, that is feared by angels and demons alike, 'The Trident of the Nine Circles.'" Once the voice finished Lucifer finally realized that by grabbing the weapon, there was no going back.
He was no longer Lucifer Morningstar, one of God's elite Archangels, but now he was the King of Hell. Letting his anger seethe, Lucifer roared to the sky as pillars of hellfire sprouted out of the ground. On that day Lucifer swore his undying hatred towards God and everything he stands for, including his creations.
Present Day
A massive castle that sat on one of Hell's many peaks, surveyed the land as the king himself sat on his throne. It had now been thousands of years since his banishment and in all his years of being the ruler of the underworld, Lucifer felt, bored. Thousands of years of punishing the souls of foolish mortals had finally began to grow dull to Lucifer as now boredom reigned in his castle. Sighing as he rested his head on his fist Lucifer, had just finished conversing with another human soul who, like so many others, had paid the dark lord a visit to beg for forgiveness and to be given passage to Heaven, and the response was the same every time, a big 'NO'. "Pazuzu!" Lucifer shouted and soon the throne room began to rumble as the ground split open and from it an 8 foot tall man who was completely made out of stone and bore glowing orange eyes arose from the ground and knelt at Lucifer's presence.
"You have summoned me, my Lord?" Pazuzu asked as Lucifer yanwned and rubbed his temples, "Anything on the old schedule, my stone friend?" Lucifer asked as Pazuzu conjured a clipboard from thin air and began to read, "You have another 7 o'clock meeting with Mr. Hitler." Pazuzu read out as the Devil groaned in response, "How many times do I have to tell him he can't leave! What part of 'here for eternity' doesn't he understand!?" Lucifer shouted as Pazuzu kept reading his list of appointments.
Lifting a claw signalling Pazuzu to stop, Lucifer rose from his throne and began to leave the room as he signaled his stone bodyguard to follow him, "Please tell me there's something interesting going other than more lousy appointments." Lucifer groaned as he walked down the halls with Pazuzu in tow, "My apologies, my Lord. But there appears to be nothing else." "Just like everyday." Lucifer mumbled under his breath.
Lucifer finally stopped walking as he turned to face a portrait of himself standing over a pile of humans writhing in agony on the wall, the portrait was his favorite one to look at, it would always bring a smile to his face to see the suffering of others, now it only reminded him of the sheer boredom of his job. "Pazuzu, I've been feeling strange lately." Lucifer said earning his stone bodyguards attention, "Whatever do you mean, my Lord." Pazuzu questioned as Lucifer kept staring into the portrait, "I'm bored, Pazuzu. I can't believe I'm saying this but I think it's finally gotten to me." Lucifer explained. "Preposterous, you of all people find as much enjoyment in the torture of mortals as I do. Why, all we need to do is to brainstorm some ideas then we-." "BUT THAT'S JUST IT!" Lucifer yelled interrupting Pazuzu, "I can't think of any new ways to torture people, it's the same old thing every, single, time! I need something new, I need excitement!" Lucifer said as he imagined going to the surface, or well anywhere but Hell.
"Pray tell, my Lord, but where will you find this 'excitement' you're looking for?" Pazuzu asked as Lucifer grinned in response and pointed upwards, Pazuzu only sighed in response, "My Lord, need I remind you that the only way that you are allowed on the surface is to bring forth the Apocalypse and to battle the Son's second coming." Pazuzu said as Lucifer groaned, "Ugh, I know, I know. But with the way everything is now it doesn't look like he's coming at all!" As Lucifer hated to admit, his bodyguard was right, there were very few places where he could find the excitement he was looking for, Heaven was an instant no-go for...obvious reasons.
The human world however, had a few opportunities for his demons to possess and corrupt humans, but there weren't many opportunities for him to cross over. Or where there.
Lucifer's eyes widened in realization as an idea popped into his head, Lucifer let a devilish grin creep up on his face as he turned to address his bodyguard. "Pazuzu, I think I've just found a solution to my 'boredom' problem." Lucifer grinned as Pazuzu only raised his eyebrow in suspicion, "And what might that be?" Pazuzu suspiciously asked as Lucifer conjured a portal of fire in front of the two, "You'll see." Lucifer said mischievously as he and Pazuzu entered the portal. Stepping through the duo now found themselves in a dark room, conjuring fire that surrounded his hand Lucifer used it as a makeshift torch as he and Pazuzu walked down the dark hall, "My Lord, if I may ask? Why are we in the artifact room?" Pazuzu asked as Lucifer chuckled, "To find the solution to my boredom problem Pazuzu, and I think I've found it." The two stopped right in front of a large stone door that strangely had no lock or handle.
The two looked at each other as Lucifer stepped forward and began to chant in Latin, soon after a rumble was felt around the hall as the door slowly opened. Stepping through he door Pazuzu immediately felt a sharp pain in his head, it was more annoying than painful and nothing could break Pazuzu's stone cold expression. Lucifer felt the pain as well but ignored it and continued inside the pitch black room.
Using his powers Lucifer ignited the torches around the room as it revealed that the two aren't alone. On the wall stood a crucified skeleton, wearing pure white and gold armor. "My Lord, that couldn't possibly be." Pazuzu said as he realized what the source of the pain was, "Yup, the corpse of an archangel, Slater long ago." Lucifer smiled as he stared down the now dried up remains of one of God's own angels. "Why would you keep something holy in the castle, my Lord." Pazuzu asked as he kept quite a distance away from the corpse.
"Eh, I kept it as a trophy, a sort of victory for me back when I arrived in the first age." Lucifer replies as he recalled the memories of him trying to break out of Hell and engaging God's angels. While most of his demon army was wiped out Lucifer was able to land a small victory for Hell. By injuring and dragging an archangel to Hell, "His screams we're music to my ears for days." Lucifer sighed to himself as he grabbed the sheath of the angels sword, inspecting it Lucifer unsheathed the sword causing a blinding light to erupt from the blade.
The light dimmed slowly until it was completely gone and in his arms was the pearly white blade of a Holy Sword, a weapon created by God and his angels to fight against demons. "Careful, sire. That is an archangel's blade." Pazuzu warned his stoic voice faltering a bit. "I know, I know." Lucifer reassured Pazuzu as he completely unsheathed the sword, his hands began to burn on contact with the sword as Lucifer hissed in pain.
"Answer me this." Lucifer said gaining Pazuzu's attention. "What happens when the Devil dies?" Lucifer asked "Well, sire, it has been prophesied that the son of he Lord will defeat you. In the event Hell will remain exposed without your rule, allowing the Son to eradicate demon kind." "Right, right." Lucifer responded to Pazuzu's explanation.
"Now, tell me, what happens when the Devil dies early?" Pazuzu was not at a loss for words, the thought had never crossed his mind, what would really happen if he project wasn't fulfilled. His questioning thoughts turned into some of horror as he realized what Lucifer was implicating, "My Lord, surely you don't mean?" Lucifer answered Pazuzu's question with a devilish grin, "Exactly, Pazuzu. Where do I go if I die. Will I become mortal? Will I get into Heaven, pfffft it'll be hilarious to see the look on the big guy's face!" Lucifer began to ramble excitedly.
Lucifer turned the sword and pointed it at his own stomach but before he could impale himself the blade was stopped by Pazuzu who grabbed onto it with his bare hands. Pazuzu cried in pain as the blade burned his hand as he let go of it quickly. "Sire, please! You do not know what this blade could do to you!" Lucifer sighed, "I know, Pazuzu. But I'm tired of being here doing the same old thing every single day. This is the only way I could be able to leave this place." Lucifer said as he stared at his own reflection on the blade as his reflection morphed into his angel form.
"This is the only way I'll be able to leave Hell, so as ruler of Hell, Pazuzu, I order you to stand down." Lucifer said his voice becoming a lot more firm. Pazuzu sighed in response and backed away, "Plus, as long as I can feel a connection to this place, I'll be able to teleport to it." Lucifer said reassuring Pazuzu a bit. Pazuzu sighed, "You'd better return, who else is going to run this place in the meantime?", Lucifer thought for a moment before replying, "Just ask Lilith, I'm sure she'll think of something." and with that Lucifer brought the sword back and drove it through his stomach, immediately on contact the sword began to glow brighter and brighter to the point where Pazuzu had to avert his eyes in order to not be blinded. Once the light died down the sword fell to the ground with a "clang!" and Lucifer was nowhere to be seen. "I hope you know what you're doing, My Lord." Pazuzu said as he left he room and began to seal the door. "Because the denizens of Hell need you."
Lucifer's eyes shot open as he let out a pained groan, as he sat up he noticed he was lying in a forest, "Nothings on fire, that's good." Lucifer smirked to himself as he noticed through the brush were something that resembled…..buildings. "A city huh, well there aren't no pearly gates for people with wings so that's even better." Lucifer said aloud as his excitement grew, he had done it, he had finally escaped Hell. After millennia of serving out his punishment to God, Lucifer was finally free. Lucifer began to walk towards the city until he stopped as he realized that his demonic form would not be a good choice to blend in with the locals. Breathing in deeply Lucifer began to chant, once the chant was over his entire body began to change shape, his hoofed legs morphed into black shoes and a dress pants, his wings shrunk as his muscular body changed color and became much slimmer. His horns began to recede, as his face took a more human shape, not long after, in place of a 8 foot tall demonic creature was a well dressed man with short black hair.
"OK, this looks good. Hopefully I won't draw too much attention to myself." Lucifer said as he was about to take a step forward he heard a low growl coming from some large bushes behind him.
"Me and my big mouth." he grumbled as he turned to face whatever was growling at him. A large canine like creature with pitch black fur and a bone like white mask corrugated it's face. "Well that's new, can't really say that I've seen anything like you before." Lucifer said as he stepped forward causing the creature to snarl at him. "Moody today,huh?" Lucifer muttered as he noticed something about the creature was off. The biggest red flag was that the creature had no soul he could sense, the only people he knew who didn't have souls were his demons.
The creature began to growl louder, snapping Lucifer out of his thoughts as the creature ounce on him. Lucifer jumped back to get some distance from the wolf like monster until he heard more growls coming from the bushes. "Oh come on! Give me a break, I just got here!" Lucifer shouted as two more wolf monsters appeared form the brush, joining their friend as hey surrounded Lucifer. "C'mon guys, we're all soulless guys here, can't we all just get along?" Lucifer chuckled as the monsters snarled at him.
One of the monsters abruptly stopped and pounced on Lucifer, what it didn't expect was it was instantly impaled by a large spike that bursted out of the ground. The spike slowly receded dropping the monster's limp, dead body on the ground. Turning back to Lucifer the monsters noticed that his eyes were now glowing crimson, "You know it's not really nice to attack someone out in the forest. Looks like I'll have to teach you a lesson."
With that said Lucifer began to float as his eyes glowed brighter, he began to chant in a low demonic voice, soon he began to speaks backwards as his eyes glowed brighter and brighter. One of the monsters began to shake uncontrollably and convulse, it fell to the ground as it's body began to twitch uncontrollably, inky black liquid began to flow out of its mouth as it shrieked in pain. The convulsions began to worsen as the creatures bones began to snap and crack, almost if something else was breaking its bones. The creatures pain wouldn't last long as in one quick motion the creature had snapped its neck and flopped onto the ground.
The last monster quickly turned to face the man who killed its comrades ready to pounce but instead of a man it saw a large blood red creature with wings and horns on its head. The horned creature began to walk closer to the wolf, the wolf tried to move but noticed that it couldn't move its legs, it was frozen, in fear. Normally the creatures of Grimm would bask in the negative emotions of humans and Faunus alike and would use those emotions to attack them. But staring at the red monster that was lumbering towards it, for the first time the Beowolf felt fear. This was not a regular human, in fact it couldn't have been human at all, the red creature was something else, something inhuman, something, demonic.
The red monster grabbed ahold of the Beowolf and lifted it up to his level, "You will obey." the monster said in an inhuman voice. The monsters said as it stared deep within the Beowolf's eyes. The Grimm began to cry out in pain as it tried to squirm out of Lucifer's grasp. Lucifer was disappointed that his various attempts to try to control the monster went working. "Well it was worth a shot anyway." he thought to himself as in one quick swipe of his arm, the Grimm's throat was slit open as it began to choke on its own blood. "Hmph, well that was pointless, why have soulless monsters if I can't even control them, well at least I know I can scare the living shit out of them." Lucifer chuckles to himself as he morphed back into his human form, "Now then." he said as he straightened out his suit, "Let's see what this new world has to offer." Lucifer smiled as he walked towards the city.
Hey everyone, thanks for stopping by to read my story, I really liked the idea I came up with this one and I hope I can work on this one for awhile (or until we get to the end of volume 6). There will be other characters from Lucifer's realm like Pazuzu who'll appear in the story. Next up Lucifer meets everyone favorite red reaper. Remember to Favorite and Follow the story so you'll get notifications when I upload a new chapter. Until next time, everyone!