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Faust
And so you know who I am. My name is Jack and I've been telling the story all along. Faust was the only human that was nice to me and he betrayed me. I of course still had feelings for the man and sympathized. I decided to save his miserable soul from this crazy fiend. Let us listen to the end of my best friend's tale.
I pull at the iron chain wrapped around my neck. It hurts to even think. I can't get the thought out of my mind that I ought to stay with him. I suppose it's part of being owned. I belong to him and that will never change. I will not let him take away too much, I will fight back. I watch as the silver-haired Fiend walks with a smug smile to me. His smile splits his face in two as he approaches me with a smirk.
"Ready for your bath love?" He whispers getting ever closer.
His hands find mine and he digs his claw-like nails in taking me to his bathroom. It is quite lovely, marble fixtures and a large mirror on the wall. The bath is rather large, large enough for me to sleep in. He runs the taps and grins again. Primo's voice calls out and the silver-haired Fiend spins on his heels and leaves me to think.
I can escape his horrid grasp. Too bad Brave has to stay here. Oh well, if I survive I'll carry his tale. I need to become more powerful than The Granter of Wishes. In order to do that I will need the black book. When he walks back in I have already started bathing myself. I hope to distract him with his own lust. He walks over slowly and lifts an eyebrow with an amused look on his face.
"Why the change of heart Faust?" He asks in that smooth voice.
"There is no use in fighting you. I choose to merely drown myself in your essence to achieve peace. " I reply.
"Lovely" He breathes in my ear.
I smile a smile that looks like I could split my mouth in two. He looks at me with a bemused expression and leaves to attend to business.
Several years later:
"I think you are the most loyal man I have ever met." He says while peppering kisses down my throat.
"I take pride in serving you Master." I reply in the most simpering voice I can muster.
"Indeed."
"I have a question."
"Yes. What?"
"Remember that black book that I had?"
"Yes."
"Are you sure that it is in the right hands?"
"Yes."
"Who owns it?"
"Jack."
Excellent. Of all the fiends, in all the places, in all the world he chose Jack. I will use the bond we formed to gain back his trust easily.
I believed him too. What a silly thing I am.
I walk briskly to Jack. After the third year with the silver-haired Fiend I gained enough trust to be allowed to wander about the grounds on my own. Jack takes his purple eyes off of a piece of fine clothing and glares at me.
"What do you want?" He asks with his accent in full bloom.
I drop to my knees and sob.
"P-please! Give me your forgiveness! I was scared and felt trapped in my own skin! I need your friendship Jack! I need you!" I beg like a dog.
His eyes fill with tears and he leans down to reassuringly touch my shoulder. I smile up at him.
"Please don't worry mate! I forgive you! You were scared and felt trapped! We all feel that way sometimes! I can't abandon you now."
Jack and I shake hands and I smile my kindest smile as I walk back to the silver-haired Fiend's room. I miss the sound of clacking on the floor; the carpets prevent me from making a sound. I know this will come to my advantage but still I miss it. Funny how sentiments to silly things almost makes you give up something important. I'd burn all my books for this one. Kill anyone for this book. Why I'd even kill Brave. Then again isn't freedom the only thing that matters? Love is for the weak. I was blinded by my love for Brave. Preoccupied with the thoughts of him. If I had not wanted him so badly I wouldn't have opened that accursed book. I wouldn't have trapped myself in this hell of a plane! Ah well, what's done is done. Besides I can have all the power in the world with that book, with Jack's trust.
I walk into the room that I and the silver-haired Fiend share. I pull up the red covers and climb in barely giving the Fiend a second glance.
"Where were you?" He asks.
"Everywhere." I answer.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Everything."
He smiles at that and rolls around so our backs are touching. As he sleeps with a faint snore I slink out. I open the door with a jump as it creaks and listen as my feet hit the plush carpet. I walk over to Jack's room and open the door to see him staring right at the spot I entered from.
"'Ey Dr. Faust what do ya need?" He asks.
"The Granter of Wishes has horrible plans for everyone! I listened to him talking to the Aku and they are going to kill remaining humans! I need the black book to open a portal out of here!" I exclaim with the falsities creeping into my begging voice.
Jack's eyes widen in shock and he blinks them slowly.
"W-what? N-no. We can't let them do that!"
"I am glad you agree! In order to open the book we need blood!"
"But where are we gonna get some?"
I smile because I thought this all through.
"We might have to use Yu's."
"WHAT? NO!"
"You're right; we should use a human's blood. I suggest we use Brave's because all the others are dead or too heavily guarded."
You see I distracted him with something he would never agree to, to get him to agree to a more agreeable deal.
We walk in the darkness our purple eyes illuminating our way into the room of the winged fiend and Brave. We walk over to Brave's bed and grab him up. His eyes fill with fear and he tries to scream only to get his mouth covered by me.
"I should have done this all along." I whisper to him.
He flails and kicks about, his not-screams fill my ears. We carry him to Jack's room where the book lies in wait for us to use. I run my hand up and down the thing. Jack apologizes to Brave before cutting his forearm. He bleeds onto the book. His eyes fill with delicious fear. I smile. The book jumps open and I flip to page four. The book tells me that this enchantment can give me the power I seek. 'I desire power stronger than the strongest being, be it mortal, fiend or otherwise and let me drench my skin in the pleasure that I gain from becoming a God!'
"I desire power stronger than the strongest being, be it mortal, fiend or otherwise and let me drench my skin in the pleasure that I gain from becoming a God!" I scream to the sky.
Brave's eyes fill with dear again as a black vortex opens up blowing paper and my hair everywhere. Jack opens his mouth in shock. I smirk. The vortex permeates my soul as the darkest powers fill me. I laugh a laugh that I thought that only fiends laughed. As the vortex dissipates Jack opens his mouth even wider as I see the silver-haired Fiend standing in the doorframe.
"When you stare into the abyss the abyss also stares into you. And beware he who fights monsters lets he become a monster. But you were always a monster weren't you Faust?" He says.
I rush into Jack's bathroom and look in the mirror. From the base of my skull two long and curly horns had erupted. My hair was mixed with a yellow colour and my teeth had lengthened.
"Ah Faust the only thing stronger than me is the Hell Kaiser. The man that I have to marry! So you and I still are mixed together! You and I will rule all the lands together my dear!" He smirks.
"No." I say.
I shove him to the side and wlak into the largest room, the throne room and stand upon the table. I scream as loud as I can and the room fills with fiends. Primo, Yu, Andore, Paradox, Aku, The Godwin Brothers, the winged one, Amnael, the other female, the one with the scare and of course Jack and my Fiend.
"I am your new master, dogs!" I scream with a wild laugh.
They all shift nervously and clap their hands, albeit slowly.
"As my first order of business I demand that I never have to see The Granter of Wishes face ever again." I continue.
And with that he leaves this place. I laugh again.
The last words he says before walking off are: I'll be back.
And so you see Faust wins. Well won, Harald got his vengeance and made Dragan fall so hopelessly in love with him he couldn't think. Brave and Crow became friends. Primo fell in love with the mechanic twins. Sherry, the blonde woman with the long tresses, played so well that Carly, the other female demon, let her go. Aporia and Paradox adopted Lucci and the other twins. Andore, Jean and Breo became racing stars. Aku died in an accident with Divine, the mayor. He stabbed her with a potato peeler. Yu's father ran off with The Godwin Brothers and Yu and I are in love. Guess all it took was a monster to set us all free. Poor Faust, I hope after the next hundred years or so he realizes what he did was wrong.