Chapter nine:

"Pity, the spell doesn't work on other demons." Comely, the female, speaks mostly to herself with an unpleased look on her face as she stares at the other two.

Beyond is the first to move closer with Always following after him. "And what the fuck do you think you're doing here?"

Comely chuckles at the two. "Oh surely by now you should have figured that out." She crosses her arms over her chest looking Beyond right in the eyes.

"This is our assignment." Beyond growls bringing his face right up into hers as he glares in an attempt to intimidate her but she stares back smirk coming to her face. "Not yours."

"So go back to the pits of hell." Always growls stepping forward a step or two as he glares at the female.

Comely bursts into laughter at the two of them as if their words had been the funniest things that she had ever heard. "We'll see about that. I'm clearly more superior at the job considering you didn't even use this ability before that petty human found out the secret."

"We were being smart. We had to use precautions. Besides, it takes a lot of magic to keep it going. There wouldn't be enough magic left for their minds to be changed to take Near out of the picture." Always points out with narrowed eyes as Beyond leans back but neither of them are backing down. "Then the spell would wear off before we could get everyone and then what do you think will happen? It'll be an endless chain of trying to erase memories then being spotted and having to do it again. Only for it to repeat." He tries to stand taller than he already is. "But even if we did manage to get all of their minds erased before the spell runs out then the magic would be drained causing a collapse. We'd be found and then how exactly do you explain that to those that find you? Who knows how many would know of you then. And the only way to gain power again would be to go back to the underworld. Where his majesty would be extremely angry and who knows how many more will be told before that mess can be attempted to be cleaned up!"

"Long story short it would take too big of a risk. That's why we are being tactical and came up with a plan for this." Beyond adds crossing his own arms over his chest. "Now beat it and let us do our job that was given to us!"

"Not in a million years." Comely responds coldly as she glares in annoyance at them. "Your plan sucks as much ass as you two do with each other."

Always snarls and clenches his hands ready to punch her lights out. "At least we fucking only have eyes for each other! Unlike you, you filthy whore! You enjoy being the little whore for anyone and everyone to do whatever the fuck they want with you!"

"At least I get laid properly." Comely tells him checking her nails as she remains cold to them. "Unlike your pathetic attempts to do so. You'd think with all that practice with how many times you do it with each other you'd actually be good. But nope. You just always suck at it and it appears that both of you have the lowest standards of any living creature."

"Why you little fucking shit whore!" Always snarls and Beyond lowers his arms preparing for a fight with his lover to try to take down the female demon for all that she is saying.

Comely smirks widely and doesn't seem even so much as fazed by the threat of possible attack from the two male demons. "I'll get what I want anyways." She lightly shrugs after whispering to herself. "I always do."

Meanwhile back with Near and Mello…..

Near gasps when Mello freezes and he realizes what has happened. "Oh no." He looks around nervously as he tries to think about the possibilities of options of what to do. He could run but Mello would get killed and sent to hell even though Near had given him another option. He doesn't think that he can do that to Mello as it'd be too cruel for his standards. He looks down feeling a little lost as he fears that whoever stopped time is coming for him. He fears that they'll arrive and take him back to hell for punishment that at this point will for sure lead to his demise in a rather unpleasant way. He shuts his eyes tightly trying to think harder on what to do and not think about his fears of the situation. His eyes snap open and they are red now. He raises his head to look into Mello's eyes even as he remains frozen in time. He spreads his wings that he allows to appear deciding to go to find whoever did this and to stop them from taking him away. He grabs a piece of paper writing on it before placing it into Mello's hand. He dashes off into the hall spreading his wings to glide through it then down to stairs in search for the demon that has done this. His red eyes slightly narrow in his determination to do this and to truly stand up as he faces the possibility of death. He lands on his feet folding his wings as he comes to a corner hearing voices from around it. He knows those voices and they sound rather angry. He carefully peers around the corner to try to get a look at what is going on.

Beyond, Always and Comely are standing with their wings out and red eyes glowing as they glare at each other not seeming to notice anything around them anymore.

The air is heavy and almost steaming from the amount of anger rolling off of the three demons who look ready to start a battle right there and then.

Near knew immediately that it was Comely who had cast the spell that had frozen time in its place. He knows that despite it almost seeming to take place away from the real world where no one can actually see them, as it looks like time has come to stand still, they can still cause damage to everything around them.

This can turn very dangerous for everyone and everything around them if they do indeed end up fighting.

Near bites his bottom lip wondering if he should or even could stop this from happening. He's not strong and his demon magic is still developing. He struggled with just the two but now there's a third powerful demon in the mix. He isn't even sure he can stand up against all three of them or even try to tear them apart from a fight. He lowers himself slightly as he contemplates running back to Mello and escaping to a safer area with him because he's caught up in all of this. He glances back over his shoulder before turning back to the scene that looks like the fight is about to start when both sides tense.

Their wings even raise slightly in a spreading out style motion.

Near has to make his choice now or it will be decided for him.