For those of you who have submitted a character but it hasn't appeared in this one. They will appear in the next chapter. Don't worry they are being included.
"A son of Satan?!" Astarte shrieked as she continued to beat the head of the American Branch up for not mentioning this to her. "You have another fucking son of my father here! AND YOU DIDN'T THINK TO MENTION THIS?!" She screamed, slapping him before her tail smacked him straight in the face. The class all watched, experience suggesting staying away from her when she was like this. "DID YOU LOSE YOUR BRAINS DURING A MISSION OR IS THIS A GENETIC DEFECT OF YOU HUMANS?!" Astarte kicked the head in the gut one final time before turning away, her teeth gritted and her claws clenched into angered fists. She was well and truly pissed off.
"We didn't tell you because we were ordered by the Paladin to keep it quiet from you." The female exorcist who had brought them here exclaimed. Astarte glared at her before turning back and kicking the head of the branch again.
"WHY?! DIDN'T! YOU! TELL! ME! ANYWAY?!" She kicked him with each word spoken. He hunched over, cowering away from her as Mephisto and Amaimon both grabbed her and dragged her back from him before she killed him. "I can't stand to be in the same room as any of you damn exorcists! I'm taking this class outside! You dare! And I mean you just dare! To come outside I will rip you in half and use you intestines as belts!" She snarled as she led the class outside.
As they arranged themselves into their groups, Astarte paced back and forward. "Damn exorcists! Always think they know better than me! This is the eighth time they've left me out of a loop and look where it gets them! Chaos reigns and they come running back expecting me to fix it! UGH!" She ran her hands down the sides of her face before turning back to her groups. "For those of you who are new to the group, you have been divided into a group depending upon your abilities. There are the elementals, the specialists and then those that have familiars. Each group has a specific training method. I want you to train for the rest of the day. If you start to feel weak from using your powers too much, inform one of us and we will stop your training method. Begin."
So, the elemental users began trying to hit the targets, the specialists trained with the souls of the damned and the tamers began to work with their familiars. As they did, Leon was pulled to one side along with Emiko. "I have already set aside specific methods for you. Leon, I want you to try to light these candles." Astarte said whilst handing him a bag. "Set them up in a four by four square of sixteen and then light the middle two candles of each row separately." Leon nodded and moved off before setting up the candles whilst Astarte turned to Emiko who glared back. "If looks could kill, I'd be straight back in Gehenna by now." Astarte remarked which got a small hint of a smile. "Anyway, I wanted to know if you can fly." Emiko looked rather un-nerved and shook her head.
"I...I've never tried." She said, looking back over her shoulder at one of the two large, draconic wings on her back. "I guess...I always thought they were just for show."
"Ok, well we'll start simple." Astarte said before glancing at Amaimon who nodded and made a platform of earth raise slightly off of the ground. "We're high enough for you to try but I do have an alternative method if you want."
"What's the alternative?" Emiko asked.
"I take you up into the air and fly with you until you feel comfortable enough to try yourself." Astarte explained. Before Emiko could answer, Astarte snapped her fingers. "Oh right. Cassandra, I have something for you that should help with your...little problem." She said whilst walking over to her and handing her a pendant. "That seal will hold it back until the point when the pendant is removed." Astarte explained before heading back to Emiko.
"Can we try the alternative method?" Emiko asked her as she approached. Astarte nodded and opened her wings fully. She held out her claws and Emiko slowly took them.
"Follow my lead ok? Rotate your wings like mine." Emiko watched and began to mimic the movement her wings made. Astarte's wings began to pick up speed and lift her off of the ground. Emiko copied and closed her eyes as she too lifted off of the ground. "You know, you won't be able to see the joys of the world from the air if you keep your eyes closed." She slowly opened her eyes and looked to see she was right up off the ground, in the air. "Ok, now I'm going to help you down now. You're not used to flying and if you spend too long in the air on your very first attempt, you could damage your wings." Astarte slowed the pace of her wing-beat and lowered them both down. "We'll practice that a little each day, get you used to it. Now go and join the elementals and practice." Emiko nodded before heading off.
"Do you know something? She really reminds me of you when you were her age." Amaimon said as he walked over to her. She laughed softly and turned to him.
"But I wasn't trained in the same method. If I recall, father would try to get me to fly by throwing me off of the roof of the tallest tower of the palace. If I also recall correctly, he broke every bone in my body numerous times until I learned how to fly." She stated. They both chuckled when they heard something. It sounded like wings.
"Did you summon one of your familiars?" Mephisto asked. He too had heard the sound. Astarte shook her head. It was at that point the sound stopped and a shadow fell over the three of them. They all looked up just in time to see a large object come crashing into them. Everyone froze and stared at the entanglement of demons before laughter emerged from the groups.
"Do you think this is the group we were told about Sachi?" A male voice asked. The students looked to see a boy of about 15 with emerald colour hair which was medium short in length, light coloured eyes and a large tail. He was thin looking and had two large horns that curled all over the place above his head.
"It could be Takao. But isn't there supposed to be a demoness leading them?" A girl, who they determined to be Sachi, answered. She too, had emerald coloured hair which was long in length, charcoal grey eyes with yellow pupils and two large, jet black bat wings as well as a long thin tail that curled at the end. She looked at the students and said. "Where's the one who's meant to be teaching you?"
"You're sitting on me." Astarte's voice was muffled as the two new students looked down to see her, face crushed against the ground. "GET OFF!" The two of them were thrown sky high as Astarte shoved herself up onto her knees. Her flames flickered momentarily as she got to her feet and tried to take a step forward, only to be tripped up by her own tail which had knotted itself around her legs. The class snickered. "WHAT'S SO FUNNY?!" They jumped as purple erupted near them. "Get back to training!" She snapped before turning to the two demons that had fallen on them. "Takao and Sachi I assume?" She asked. The two of them nodded before suddenly falling to their knees and bowing respectfully.
"We heard of this group, but we never imagined you would be training them princess." They said in unison. Astarte looked over the two of them and spotted a pair of deformed wings on Takao's back. She chose not to mention them, figuring it may lead to some issues when shouting started behind her.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?! Get out of my space!" She turned to see Noel glaring at Autumn, her hell-bat voicing its anger with its mistress.
"You invaded my space! Not that I would expect anything less from the daughter of the whore Asmodeus!" Autumn snapped back. Noel clenched her fist.
"What did you say?!" She snapped, her familiar starting to grow more agitated.
"You heard me! Daughter of a whore!" Autumn said. Everyone else had frozen. Even the familiars weren't moving. Noel glared at the girl before snapping her fingers.
"Teach her a lesson!" She shrieked. Her bat familiar shrieked and flew at the girl. Autumn jumped back and ducked, narrowly avoiding the creature's razor like claws. It circled the air before aiming at her again. Autumn jumped onto its back when it flew down low to grab her and held on tight as it did all its power to try to throw her off. Noel continued yelling orders at the familiar as the others dived out of the way. Footsteps sounded to reveal a large number of exorcists had come running out to see what was happening.
"BRING THAT THING DOWN!" A girl, about the same age as Ben and Eric yelled. The exorcists all raised their weapons and took aim at the hell-bat.
"Heed my commands, stop my enemies. Baphomet, I summon thee!" Black flames erupted from the ground and the great chimera shot out of a fissure and grabbed the hell-bat and Autumn. It hovered in the air and snarled at the exorcists as purple flames grabbed their weapons.
"What are you doing?! We need to exorcise that beast!" The girl yelled, storming over to Astarte and yelling right in her face.
"I'm protecting my students! That hell bat is a familiar of one of them and another student of mine was at risk of being injured by your incompetence!" Astarte screamed right back, her flames flickering around her hinting at the power she held.
"Commander Ribbons, perhaps we should retreat for now?" A male exorcist said before pausing and spotting Meiko. "Hey." Everyone stared as the boy shot past them and stood before Meiko and bowed. "Hi there pretty little thing. Is your name as pretty as your face?" He said. Astarte quickly went and tackled Mephisto before he could attack the boy.
"Come on Aniue, I think she's old enough to deal with this herself." She said, grabbing his hands and pulling him away. Mephisto tried to pull away. "She'll be fine. I'll keep him away from her. We'll be heading back to Japan soon anyway, I don't like being here." She whispered furiously. Meiko meanwhile, just looked at the boy like he was mad.
"I'm Sev Greyscale. So, now I've told you my name will you tell me yours? In fact, would you mind telling me if it hurt?" He said.
"If what hurt?"
"When you fell from heaven. Because you're an angel."
"Oh Lord Satan no! He's got cheesy chat-up lines!" Astarte sighed before going and tapping his shoulder. "Come on you, back away from her before you get hurt." She said, dragging him away.
"Hey, here's my number. Give me a call sometime yeah?" He threw a piece of paper with a mobile number written on it at her as Astarte threw him at the others. It was then she noticed Ben and Eric cowering away from the girl.
"So this is where you two disappeared to. Why am I not surprised? But still, at least I can keep an eye on you now." She said. Astarte shook her head. Another bunch of exorcists joining her class was just what she needed. She placed her hands on her hips.
"I think now is a good time to call an end to this session, to let some of you calm down" She aimed a glare at Noel and Autumn. "And also because I can sense that some of the familiars are slightly angered and over-protective." She glanced at Grim who stood close to Eve and glared at the boys. "So, we'll call it a day for now. Come on Sora, Chikyuu." She didn't get a response and turned to where they had last been. "Sora? Chikyuu?" Everyone suddenly realised none of them had seen the two boys since the fight had started. Panic started to build as she spun frantically. "Sora! Chikyuu! This isn't funny anymore!" She moved towards the woods that surrounded them. "Seriously! Come out, mummy doesn't want to play right now!" Still no response. She was truly terrified now. "Sora! Chikyuu!" She screamed when she noticed something. Blood decorated a tree along with a symbol.
Your little darlings have come to me. If you want to see them again, you'll come to the valley at the other side of the American Headquarters tomorrow at midday. I'm going to prove to all that it is not you who should rule the demons. Meet me tomorrow if you want to see your sons alive and in one piece, false queen. Lilith.
She stared in horror at the message as the others came. "Oh my God." Shima muttered under his breath. Noise buzzed in her ears as the exorcists began issuing orders to each other. The students all stared as well, waiting to see how she would respond. She looked deathly pale, as if she was going to be sick or pass out at any moment. But the look was soon replaced by one of anger.
"She has my sons! I'm going to murder that bitch!" She spun and faced her class. "As soon as we get back to the headquarters, you lot are undergoing extra training." She snapped.
"For what?"
"You're going to be taught how to use your powers to fight the whore Lilith. She wants a fight, she's got one!"
Damn! Astarte's pissed! You do not go kidnapping her babies. Anyway, like I said at the start, for those of you who have submitted characters but they didn't appear in this chapter, they will appear in the next chapter. I didn't include them because when I got the submissions, I was quite far through the chapter and couldn't find a way to fit them in. So they will be introduced in the next one. But yeah, next chapter will have training of powers and maybe a little fight scene for you.
Ok, now with regards to the submissions, I am still accepting characters. However, aside from the three I missed out this chapter I am not introducing any new ones until the fight with Lilith which will be a chapter unto itself. I plan to focus more on the students being taught how to access their powers and beat Lilith. So, hopefully you lot will enjoy. Also, if you check out my profile, you should see a little poll for you. It doesn't involve this fic but I want to know your opinions. Basically, since Heaven's demon is coming to its conclusion soon, I would like to know who you would prefer to see Astarte with first. Amaimon or Mephisto? It's simply because I want to write a couple of chapters at the end that will tie Heaven's demon in with this.
Also, any suggestions as to where the class should go next will also be appreciated. I like to know what you lot think. Please leave a review with your opinions and vote for which character you want Astarte to end up with and until the next chapter, this is sayonara from the pyschotic author.