A/N: Hey everyone, up to no good again, but at least I'm getting another chapter out

Disclaimer: Yano.

A New Town

Anthony sighed as he continued to read, Madeline glanced over at him from her place in the driver's seat. He just continued with his book and ignored her, she smiled and shook her head. She'd noticed that he had a habit of sighing while he read a lot, it didn't matter what it was, fiction, history, cooking, he always sighed while he did it. The book, or rather tome, in the young boy's lap wasn't one of the ones that she could understand, it was written in some strange and bizarre language. Anthony had said that it was the most common tongue in the demon world, it looked like gibberish to her.

"What's going on now?" she asked, passing another semi on their way to the island. It was a very long drive but neither of them minded, Anthony didn't care if she played the radio while he read and she didn't mind that he just wanted to read. The older woman did appreciate that Anthony seemed to like to tell her about what he was reading, or he at least liked that she cared enough to ask him about it.

"They're talking about the rise of the first kings of the Underworld." He said absently, turning to the next page, mumbling under his breath the sounds of the demonic tongue. Madeline still felt a shiver run down her spine when she heard it, it sounded so strange coming out of a ten year old boy, if she didn't know any better she would say that he was possessed.

"It's a history book?" Madeline raised a brow, Anthony nodded, sticking a ribbon between the pages and closing the book

"It's the history of the "royalty"," she could see him put quotations around the word from the corner of her eye. "as told by the recorder."

"Recorder?"

"The one who writes down the stories of the rulers, the rulers change often, the recorder has only changed once in this book."

"Why?"

"Because the Recorder has no attachment to the current ruler, it is allowed to stay when everything in the royalty changes, its only attachment is to the story, the history of the ruler."

"Is it like England's old royalty?" she asked, hearing some similarities, mostly in the bigger military ruling.

"What's England's old royalty like?" Anthony asked, sitting up a little straighter now.

"Very bloody, people wanted the throne so they would fight for it and if their children didn't defend it they would lose it to somebody else."

"Yeah, it's very much like that, that is the essence of the demonic throne, whoever is the most powerful holds the throne, this is back when the human and demon worlds weren't separate though."

"They weren't always separate?"

"No, a very long time ago they were merged, humans were ruled by the strongest of the demons just as lesser demons were."

"What happened? How did they become separate?"

"My dad." He said this so casually but Madeline nearly choked on her own spit

"What?!" she asked, completely shocked, she had been about to ask about the history of the old rulers and what the succession had been like and so on but now she was so stuck on the idea that this boy's father was the reason that they weren't subject to demons anymore

"He separated the human and demon world through sacrifice, he didn't want to but he had to, and sealed all the demons away along with his own power."

"And how long ago was all this?"

"Two millennia."

"Jeez…" Madeline breathed the word out, she felt like all this information had hit her on the chest, hard and fast. "How long do devils live?"

"A long time, but it's hard to say, they live to fight, many die very early. And there are just as many species of demons and devils as there are animals and plants." Anthony explained carefully

"So…" Madeline paused, organizing her thoughts "Wait, what species are you?" Anthony shrugged

"I don't know, my mom never told me, I've been trying to find out ever since dad left but…" he looked to the book in his hands "besides, it's harder to find out since I'm half human too."

"Your dad never told you either?"

"No, he left before I ever thought to ask, I was very young."

"I see…" the car was quiet for a moment before the older woman spoke up again "So what happened to the old rulers?" Anthony smiled and looked down at the book again

"It was very bloody for a long time, at least as far back as this book goes. They fought tooth and nail and generations fell to one another before the ancient ones took power."

"The ancient ones?" Anthony nodded

"The first ones to hold supreme, ultimate power for a long time. They shared power for a long time, though the balance did shift a little bit in one way or another. They were in power for so long that many, many devils forgot that anything came before." Anthony patted the tome in his lap

"This book is a very, very rare thing. It makes me wonder what my father did to get ahold of it."

"No kidding." Madeline mumbled, it was fascinating to hear about a society that wasn't measured in hundreds of years as many human cultures were, but in millennia. She looked out the window for a moment as they crossed the bridge, pondering what she'd learned. Anthony didn't go back to reading as she thought he would but looked out the window curiously. He leaned forward as she pulled into a spaced out neighborhood, staring at the houses. She couldn't help but grin at his excitement, he was back to being just a little kid again. She pulled into a driveway and parked the car.

"Welcome to your new home."

A/N: :) This chapter was interesting, and fun :)

Till next time,

-Winged Element