A/N Just watched an awesome episode of Archer and am now resuming my marathon of editing chapters.
Chapter 3:
Faster than the blink of an eye she disappeared moving at immense speed, her body reappeared behind Haku, before anyone even had time to process the situation she kicked the back of his knees causing him to collapse.
She quickly grabbed hold of him, Haku felt her right hand wrap around the front of his head grabbing the left side of his chin, and her left arm wrap around the back of his head until the tips of her fingers were just brushing the back of his right ear.
She heard the entire bathhouse gasp, "Ha seems like this boy here is very important to all of you." she said leaning in towards his ear.
"I wonder how badly it would hurt all of them if they lost their precious Haku." she whispered in his ear loud enough for the people around to hear.
She tightened her grip, Haku grabbed the her right arm trying to pry her arm off a bit to let oxygen through. 'I have to get out of this' Haku thought as he struggled in her grip. 'How is she so strong, stronger than me!?' he thought unable to pry himself from her grasp.
'I'll have to transform' he closed his eyes...nothing..."What!?" he mumbled out loud.
"What, is there a problem?" Lucifer taunted him tightening her grasp all the more. "I'm know a lot more than you kid, more than you all give me credit for, anyone my age would know that every spirit's pressure point is behind the ear." she said applying more pressure just behind his right ear.
"Mmph." he felt the slight pain run down his neck, he was helpless, no magic, he wasn't physically strong enough, 'Just how old is this Devil? Even with my experience there's practically no record of her other than the stories from the Human World.' he questioned. He was practically 20,000 years old and had rarely come across anyone like her before.
"Now..." Lucifer began. "You can all shut your eyes or watch as your one life line dies in under a second."
Haku felt her grip adjust and tighten for the last time into a twisting position.
Lucifer inhaled deeply preparing to strike pushing his chin to the left read to pull it back to the right and just as she was about to twist...
"Lucifeeerrrr..." They all heard a deep male voice speak from down the hall in front of the two. He spoke as if she were a dog about to piss on the rug. His hair the same black as hers, he had deep sapphire blue eyes, he wore dark blue jeans that were a bit tattered, same as Lucifer's with black shoes along with a black T-Shirt. His arms were crossed and he was tapping his foot like a parent looking down on a child.
"Se-sebastian!?" She was obviously just as surprised by his presence as everyone else. "I-I thought you were doing things, at other places, that aren't here..."
"Yes but I finished early and you can imagine my surprise when I found that you had left while I was gone going who knows where and who knows why. Jeez I leave for 5 seconds and come back to find you about to snap an innocent boy's neck." Sebastian eyed Haku for a moment, causing confusion in Haku's eyes before he returned to Lucifer.
"Bu- but they made me take off my shirt!" She pleaded.
"Yes I can see that, but that was most likely your own doing correct?"
"Well...yeah but they wanted some kind of proof so I decided to show them the mark." she looking down towards the pentagram.
"Alright alright I know you have your pride and all, now how about letting that poor boy out of your death grip before he suffocates?." he said looking down at Haku.
"Bu-..." she looked down at Haku, then back to Sebastian, then back to Haku, then back to Sebastian...
"...finnnnnne..." She said releasing Haku than standing up straight. Haku fell forward onto his hands coughing and gasping for the sweet sweet oxygen his body now craved.
"You owe me." Lucifer said walking towards Sebastian, the second she was a safe distance away from Haku yunas swarmed him asking things like "Are you aright?" or "How dare she do something to our dear Haku?"
Haku didn't like the annoying attention of the yunas and tried to shoe them away as he stood up, pushing away their hands that tried to help him stand. He looked off at Lucifer with a hateful glare filled with confusion.
Then one of the Yunas made a huge mistake. "Ho- How dare you hurt Haku! I'I'll kill you!?" she yelled at Lucifer's back.
Lucifer stopped walking then let out a diabolical chuckle. "Heheheh, oh you willll will you?" she said turning around back towards the Yuna that stood slightly ahead of the rest that were still hovering around Haku. Lucifer's eyes began to glow with blood thirst staring deep into the Yuna's soul.
"Lucifer don't." Sebastian said, he knew exactly what she was thinking and wanted to do, but he knew that he shouldn't get in her way.
"No no...it's fine, she said waving her hand back at him shoooing his comment off. "She's a daring one I admire that."
The Yuna swallowed thickly, a drop of sweat fell down her face. "However..." Lucifer began. The Yuna's eyes widened in fear. "Weaklings especially as weak as this one shouldn't make threats they can't possible follow through on." She disappeared moving just as fast as previously, grabbing the Yuna by her throat and slamming her into the far wall behind Haku and the other Yunas.
Her feet dangled off the ground as she struggled under Lucifer's tight grasp, the Yuna squirmed in her hands gasping for air and grabbing onto her arm desperate to pull her hand off.
"Now now...you're going to help me remind the rest of the bathhouse of my warning, ok?" she spoke in a deep voice, the Yuna's eyes became teary.
"Do you remember what that lesson is?" Lucifer asked louder so those around could hear. The Yuna shook her head frantically as the tears ran down her face.
"Don't anger the devil." she spoke firmly before her right hand that gripped her neck erupted into a dark red flame, the flame quickly spread onto the Yuna, soon engulfing her head then spreading downwards until her entire body with covered. Her cries and screams of pain had the entire bathhouse terrorized and paralyzed.
Lucifer released her right hand from the Yuna's thick neck, her body fell to the floor squirming around and rolling desperate to put out the flames that were melting her skin and penetrating her bones. The entire bathhouse could only watch as one of their workers slowly and painfully died.
Lucifer looked down at the Yuna with a face that held no empathy whatsoever, her dark and emotionless eyes that only seemed to show hatred and darkness stared down at her.
After what was only a few moments the flames dispersed in a gust of wind leaving nothing, not even ashes behind.
"Well..."Lucifer said clapping her hands together then turning around. "I hope you've all enjoyed today's lesson, now if you don't mind I would like to go speak with an old..."Friend" so to speak, come Sebastian." she said heading off towards the elevator waving for Sebastian to follow. She always said his name with an English accent.
Sebastian quickly followed her into the elevator, she pulled the lever down with a loud thunk and clank, the doors slowly closed from either side, not once did her eyes leave Haku's who could only remain frozen with the rest of the bathhouse, stunned in disbelief and fear.
Half way up to the top the elevator couldn't go any higher, so the two were forced to exit, walking down the long halls filled with petrified workers, the entire bathhouse had been watching and the entire building was silent to the point where you could hear the slightest breath leaving their lungs.
Lucifer and Sebastian walked one behind the other, Lucifer was the lead though Sebastian walked up beside her to have an almost inaudible conversation.
"You know you didn't have to do that." He said leaning down slightly, Lucifer reached just past his chin in height.
"Didn't I? You know I have a reputation that I intend to keep whether this world likes it or not, I don't care how many have to die, or be forced to watch my victims and hear their cries." Her face remaining emotionless yet firm with every word she spoke.
Sebastian could only let out a sigh full of sorrow as Lucifer walked ahead of him once more, 'Yes but I will forever be the only one whom understands you this way.' he thought, his eyes full of sadness for the one before him, longing for her to experience the things that everyone else had had the chance to. 'No one knows your story'
After having entered a second elevator the doors opened for the last time allowing them to exit into a quiet hallway with not a soul to be found. The two exited one after the other heading down the hallway.
"God that old hag certainty knows how to decorate" Lucifer said statistically and slightly irritated looking around at the walls until her and her companion reached the large doors.
She lifted her hand up flat to the surface of the door ready to push it open, she could feel that Yubaba had placed a seal of protection on the door, however even without using magic Lucifer's brute force could push it open if needed. 'Why waste my energy using magic when I don't need it' she thought as she applied a bit of pressure to the door.
"Hmph not even using the handle!" a scratchy voice said from her right level with her head.
"Nope!" Lucifer responded popping the P.
"Do you even know what time it is?" the knocker that resembled Yubaba's ugly face retorted.
"Adventure Time?" Lucifer backfired with the highest form of sarcasm along with a snicker laughing inside at her own joke.
"Why I-" but the knocker was cut off by Lucifer. "Yeah Yeah." she said pushing the doors open with little to no effort.
She walked in, leaving the doors open behind her, Sebastian followed closely as they turned down the maze like hallways until reaching a large set of doors that lead into Yubaba's tacky office.
Lucifer simply barged in same as she had before at the other set of doors, pushing the doors open with a kick from her right foot with her hands in her pockets.
She walked in nonchalantly with a "friendly greeting".
"Hello old "friend"" she said taking a seat sideways with her feet dangling over the armrest in a chair that sat in the far left corner of the room if you were sitting in Yubaba's desk.
"No manners even after another 2000 years." Yubaba said looking up from her papers at her guest.
"No...is that a problem?" Lucifer asked making eye contact with the witch, her eyes flashing for only a moment.
"No of course not." Yubaba responded to the blunt threat.
"Now..." Lucifer said sitting upright in the chair than standing up and walking over to Yubaba's desk.
Slamming her hands down on the desk leaning on them she resumed,
"I need a favor."
A/N Alright I think I'm done editing for today. I've got shit tons of bio honors work to do so i'm gonna head off to do that.