Here's Chapter 21! I hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: Beelzebub belongs to Ryuuhei Tamura, not me.
Chapter 21- Mama Bear
We all stare in shock at Mom as she stands on the freight containers, her hair blowing in the wind and her body becoming soaked in the rain. She looks as pretty as ever but right now, she looks really, really angry. Right then, she summons a rapier and jumps down from the freight containers, walking up to a stunned Caligula.
"You're… You're alive?!" he demands. "How the hell are you still alive?! I stabbed you, didn't I?!"
Mom glares coldly at him. "It'll take a lot more than that to kill me, Caligula. You should check to make sure your victims are dead next time," she says. "And you need to do body-checks to make sure there are no transportation devices among them. After dragging me back to my cell, I used a transportation device to escape to the home of Dr. Furcas, who healed my wounds." The wind blows through her hair, making her even more fierce than before. "What you dumped in the Human World was a fake corpse that Dr. Furcas created himself."
I stare in shock. "Mom… I never even knew…" I whisper.
"What?!" Caligula snarls. "How dare you make me look like a fool!"
"Afterwards, I disguised myself to be a maidservant serving you. I couldn't go back to the Human World, otherwise my family would be targeted next! You took so much away from me!" Mom continues, seething with rage. "I refused to serve you for a good reason. You've killed countless other maidservants, and I refuse to end up like them! The maidservant you called Ariadne for fourteen years is actually Elsa, the one you supposedly killed!"
Caligula glares at her. "You little bitch!" he growls. "I'll kill you!"
"No." Mom holds out the rapier, glaring fiercely. "You tried to kill my daughter just now. No one harms my daughter and gets away with it alive!" Demonic energy surrounds her as she points the rapier towards him. "You want me? Come and get me! But I promise you this, you won't get away with hurting my daughter!"
"We'll see about that, bitch!" Caligula snarls in response as he charges towards her, raising his sword and demonic energy surrounding him. Their blades clash and they engage in an intense swordfight, both of them fighting viciously.
I suddenly feel myself being helped onto my feet by Hecadoth. "You okay?" he asks, gently pressing my wound to try and stop the bleeding.
I slowly shake my head. "I… I had no idea that my mom was really alive," I tell him. "I… I don't know what to say…"
"But still… why wait this long for revenge?" Agiel asks.
"So she could have time to plan," Furuichi concludes. "Also, I'm guessing that if she tried to go back to the Human World, they would've found out and come after her again."
We stand and watch the fight between Mom and Caligula. Mom looks fierce and is fighting viciously, almost like how Hilda fights when protecting Baby Beel. "Come on, you coward!" she snarls. At this point, Caligula is having a hard time blocking a lot of the attacks that Mom is directing at him. Suddenly, to my shock, I see a tendril of demonic energy shoot out from Caligula's palm and coil around me before holding me in front of him as a shield.
"Yumi!" Hecadoth shouts in shock.
Mom's eyes widen in shock and she forces herself to stop. I stare at her in shock, her rapier merely inches away from my chest. "Mom…" I whisper.
"Yumi…" she trails off, horrified.
Caligula laughs sadistically. "Did you really think you could beat me, maidservant?!" he taunts. "I know everyone's weaknesses. And it seems that your daughter is your biggest weakness of all..."
"Bastard!" Mom snarls at him. "Let go of her, you sick son of a bitch!"
"Once I know a person's weakness, I can use it against them in a fight!" Caligula declares. Right then, I'm tossed to the side, hitting the ground and skidding a few feet in front of the Pillar Division.
"Yumi!" Mom shouts. She turns and glares at Caligula. "You… You son of a bitch… You'll definitely pay for that!" She raises her rapier to deliver a strike. However, Caligula merely strikes her with a tendril of demonic energy and sends her flying into a stack of cargo.
"Dammit…" she curses as Caligula walks up to her.
"Prepare to die, maidservant," he taunts, raising his sword.
Suddenly, I find myself standing up and willing my powers to surround me. "You stay away from my mother, you bastard…" I snarl, glaring at him. "I've warned people before. Don't fuck with me, or you'll pay the price." A snarl crosses my face. "This is what happens to those who fuck with me."
I charge towards him, limping slightly, raising my dagger. He charges towards me and once again, our blades clash. Right then, I surround myself with the demonic energy and hold my fan out. "This is my finisher," I say, materializing into demonic energy.
I swiftly move behind Caligula and materialize into my physical form again, unfurling my fan with a single tendril of demonic energy circling me. "Moonless Night… Cruel Insanity!" I shout, slashing the fan towards him. Right then, I direct the tendril of demonic energy towards him, coiling it around him and striking him repeatedly before slamming him towards the ground.
When the dust clears, I glare down at his unconscious body. "Don't you dare hurt my family, or I won't hesitate to kill you next time," I order.
Suddenly, I feel a sharp pain in my calf and I let out a cry of pain. My calf wound. I nearly forgot about that. Clutching onto it, I fall down to the ground, my vision going blurry.
"Yumi!" I hear Mom cry out alarm as I feel a pair of strong arms carefully lift me up. And that's the last thing I remember before I black out.