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Can I just ask what the hell is happening with the italics? Why do none of my italic sentences have spaces?

"W … who are you?" she asked softly as she stared at the man in front of her with curious eyes, there was no fear or repulsion of what was going on around her she was just curious.

They always said curiosity killed the cat she thought at the same time as the man chuckled and said "They say curiosity killed the cat".

Mai ignored the fact that he had said exactly what she had thought and smirked "they also say that satisfaction brought it back".

Another chuckle that sent shivers down her spine "indeed they do" the man stood up from his throne and silently moved towards Mai.

He gently bowed at the waist and held out his hand, Mai frowned at him then hesitantly reached out to take his hand.

He smiled and lifted her hand gently to his lips, Mai averted her eyes as she blushed but couldn't help as he eyes flickered back to him.

"Who are you?" she whispered as she looked at him.

Her eyes scanned around the room again, what handsome man could have such a monstrosity of a party. Her gaze flickered to the caged beings in the corners and she sadly averted her eyes. The man who still held her hand gently in his watched her every move with mismatched eyes. He seemed satisfied in what ever he saw because he turned and nodded with a smirk towards his son.

Violet nodded back with a smirk and moved towards them both. The handsome man felt Mai stiffen and briefly wondered what his son could have done to make the beauty afraid of him. He watched her as she stared wide eyed at his son, Tatsuo.

He smiled down at the petite woman before him and said in his best velvety voice "Many people call me ..."

He smiled down at the petite woman before him and said in his best velvety voice "Many people call me Satan".

Mai's mouth fell open in shock and disbelief as the man carried on.

"Or the Devil" he mocked using air quotes "or Lucifer, personally I prefer Lucifer seeing as it is my name" he smirked down at Mai who couldn't help but stay openly staring at him.

"Erm" she started unsure of what to say.

Lucifer waited patiently as Mai's mind seemed to catch up with what was being said "you're Lucifer?"

Lucifer nodded and bowed "at your service".

"Erm" she cocked her head to the side as she regarded him in thought "you're not how I thought you would be then".

Lucifer rolled his eyes "I'm not actually evil".

Mai raised an eyebrow in question "oh?"

Lucifer shook his head so his hair fell around his face swaying with the movement, Mai couldn't help but be captivated once again by the man's beauty.

His mismatched eyes looked at Mai in amusement "do you always believe in rumours Miss Taniyama?"

Mai frowned "no"

He nodded in satisfaction "then why believe that I am as evil as the stories say?"

Mai looked at him in thought "maybe because you have people in cages?" she asked more then stated.

Lucifer chuckled "those people are in no way good" he turned to point at the man Mai had first seen "that man there is a child molester, he does not deserve any pity from you Mai".

Mai shuddered as she looked at the man and shuffled slightly further away from his cage even if he was far away in the corner.

Lucifer nodded and then gestured to another cage "that woman there murdered her family because she couldn't deal with her new born child crying all the time and her husband being at work".

Mai peered at the woman in disgust "she killed her own children?" she asked in a strained voice.

"Indeed" Lucifer said with slight disgust showing in his own voice, he couldn't stand the humans who did horrible things and then always shouted at him telling him that they didn't deserve to live in such places as hell. He shook his head to clear his mind and pointed to another cage where a man was looking hungrily at Mai. Lucifer glared at the man slightly and moved closer to Mai, almost as though he would protect her.

"That man has raped over 112 teenage girls and has murdered 63"

Mai stared at the man then narrowed her eyes as he seemed recognisable. Where had she seen him before? She peered closer at him and then flinched back. She had dreamt about him … dreamt about what he had done. She took a deep breath on the urge to throw up and scanned the other cages. She came to the scary realisation that she had dreamt about everyone one of the people in the cages.

"My God" she whispered to herself before looking at Lucifer, she took a step back from him warily "why they all here? Why all these people?"

Lucifer's smile sent chills running down her spine "well my dear Mai the reason is because that all these people seem to be very angry at you . . . I just thought you should see what might happen if I wasn't here to stop them all taking revenge".

"Revenge?" she gasped out with wide eyes "I didn't kill them?"

Lucifer smirked "of course not" he looked her up and down "a small girl like you couldn't do much more then look pretty".

Mai narrowed her eyes in anger and scrunched up her fists until her nails were digging into her palms. How dare he! She glared at him and felt her anger well up until she was ready to snap.

"Did you know I've met your parents?" Lucifer said as though they were the closest of friends.

Mai watched him warily as he moved around her in a circle like a predator watching its prey. Did he think this was helping him in his cause to show her he wasn't evil?

She watched him with furrowed brows waiting to see where he was going with this.

"No?" he asked mockingly, he sighed deeply as though it was taking a lot of effort talking "yes, I knew that their child would be very special" he reached out and gently pulled some of Mai's long white hair away from the side of her face. She flinched away and looked at him warily as he brought the hair up to his face. He smelled the hair and let out a long sigh as though he were in heaven. Mai nearly laughed at the thought before another popped into her head.

She frowned at him as he gently tucked the hair behind her ear, she moved her face away from his hand as it trailed down her cheek. He pulled back with a smirk and moved to lounge on his throne again. He swung his right leg over the right side of the chair and used his left arm across the back of the chair as he looked at Mai.

He clapped his hands once making everyone in the room jump apart from Violet eyes who was lounging against the wall looking at Mai with sinister amusement "I was right" Lucifer said happily "You are a very special little thing aren't you?"

He looked towards his son who moved forwards "and that is why I am allowing the engagement of my son Tatsuo to Mai Taniyama" I spoke loudly so every creepy creature in the room could hear him.

It took Mai a moment and only a small one before she realised what he had just said "what?" she shouted staring at him wide eyed. She shook her head in disbelief "no, no way! Absolutely not, never going to happen!" she laughed shakily and shook her head whilst backing up slightly.

Tatsuo smirked at her "I told you I would be seeing you again and this time we can get much closer".

Mai took a deep breath so she didn't panic and pass out right there and then "Y … you can't do this".

"I'm afraid we can" Lucifer said with a roll of his eyes, he reached out a hand and a wine glass flew towards him landing neatly on his palm. He smirked at Mai again "welcome to the family" he said sarcastically as he watched her shake.

Before Mai could say anything Tatsuo had stalked forwards and grabbed her arm. She flinched in fear and looked up at him. He leaned down to whisper in his ear "you're mine now Mai" his breath sent chills along her neck.

"Come" he spread his free arm around the room "let me introduce my fiancé to a few friends" he then used the hand to stroke her cheek "we have plenty of … time to ourselves later" he sneered at her making her want to cry and scream right there and then.

She shakily gulped and wanted to protest but was pulled forwards. She desperately looked around the room for a way out, where was Naru? She thought to herself desperately. There was no way she was going through with this wedding, no way at all.

Her mind wondered as she was introduced to the ugliest and nastiest beings she had ever heard of or met. Many creatures that she was introduced to were things she had only heard of in myths.

She could feel Lucifer's eyes on her through the night and every time she accidentally looked his way her was staring intensely at her over the top of his wine glass. Not once that night did his son let go of Mai's arm and she was sure that bruise would be forming with the strong grip he kept on her.

How does one defeat the Devil?

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