Chapter 8: And Unpleasant Surprise
Haku had spent nearly the entire night rumadging through the book that Sebastian had corrected and noted. He was surprised at how thoroughly it had been done, nearly evey page had things crossed out or noted along the side. By the time Haku had finished it was nearly 6 in the morning and the bathouse was preparing to open. There were so many things that the humans had thought wrong, Haku had read the part about the "fallen angel" that Sebastian had told him of before, and many others like it, but he was rather surprised at how much the humans seemed to truly despise somone they truly knew nothing about. Blaming her for any bad happenings, sins, so called "hauntings" of their homes and the deaths of loved ones. Though Haku wasn't entirely sure what Lucifer had done to the Humans but after what Sebastian had told him he highly doubted that what she had done was to this extent. Going against God was obviously her going against the Lord and Lady, most of the killings that were recorded were partially correct but had obviously been tweeked to fill in the blanks that they hadn't eye witnessed themselves. In short Lucifer certaintly made a bad reputation for herself, but it was that very reputation that gave her power and control over others.
Haku was still confused, he didn't understand everything...well he understood her story and everything but...he still didn't understand...her. 'The way she kills without even blinking an eye, that demonic aura, those eyes...' he thought as he through his legs over the side of his bed and got into fresh clothes, the same he had worn since he first began working there, white shirt, blue pants and a purple sash. Walking out into the halls he could hear that the bathouse was either reallt busy at such an odd hour or something was up. Hearing the commotion he decided to head downstairs expecting to find Lucifer terrorizing someone again or breaking things or messing with the bthouse in SOME way or another.
But to his surprise she was nowhere to be found, she hadn't killed anyone or messed with anyone...everyone was seemingly just running around yelling things that all mashed together in the crowds making their cries inaudible. He decided he would go find Lin to see what was up and so he headed to the big tub that she had been assigned yet again. He turned the corner and entered the large room with the oversized tub at it's center, walking up to the tubs edge he found a woman in a pink samon uniform scrubbing away with a brush at the grimey edges of the tub mumbling to herself about the disgust.
"What do you want Haku?" she said rather annoyed.
"What's going on, why is everyone in such a havoc?" he asked deciding to ignore the womans desrespect.
"That guest is arriving again today, uhh what was his name...Kazuma? Well whatever." she said resuming her scrubbing.
'Oh no...and with Lucifer here!' Haku thought as he quickly lept off the edge of the tub and took off towards Yubaba's office as soon as his feet touched the glossy wood floor. Racing through the crowds of workers he went up several elavators until running down a silent hallway until reaching the gaudy red doors with the jack ass of a door knocker.
"What do you want!?" it's scratchy voice asked.
"I need to speak with Yubaba it's urgent." he responded calmy hiding his irritation.
"Well you'll have to wait she's talking with someone else at the moment."
Though the knocker was ignored and Haku pushed the large door open heading down the endless maze to her office listening to the yelling of the knocker behind him, telling him to stop and come back or you can't go in!.
Haku walked quickly until coming to another set of doors and pushing them open with little effort but to his surprise there was noone in the office.
"Uhh another one of Yubaba's illusion spells, whoever that guest is must be really important if whatever they're talking about is a secret or should be kept secret." Haku thought as he looked around a bit, 'every illusion spell had a release trigger' Haku thought as he began looking and rumadging through the fake office looking for something the would release the spell and place him in her real office. He felt arounf under her desk to feel a strange lever hidden up inside a drawer and pulled, a rush of wind blew against him as the room seemingly imploded and he was left back in the hall infront of the actual doors that led to her office.
He reached for the handle but just as his fingertip touched the golden bar he heard Lucifer's voice from inside.
"So what do you want ME to do?" she asked in a "it's your problem not mine" tone.
Haku placed an ear up against the door though he didn't really need to being a Dragon and all.
"Well he is your problem it would seem, word had it he's been looking for you and has been taking his anger out on my bathouse!" Yubaba's old and ragged voice yelled a bit in annoyance that even when Lucifer wasn't here she was the source of the destruction.
Lucifer let out a sigh, "That certainly sounds like Kazuma." she said as she scratched the back of her neck.
"Alright I'll make you a deal," Yubaba began, "If you take care of Kazuma then I won't assassinate your little butler."
But Yubaba didn't see the slightest bit of surprise in Lucifer's eyes when she had told her, surprising Yubaba herself.
"What?...I already figured you were gonna try something like that considering you sent the little dragon who's listening in on our conversation to fetch an assassin the other night." Lucifer said calmly while pointing her thumb back over her shoulder towards the door.
Both Haku's and Yubaba's eyes widened, Haku backed up slightly from the door while Yubaba was shocked by the fact that Lucifer had felt his presence when she didn't and by the fact that she knew...everything that went on around her. She was very aware of her surroundings.
Lucifer walked over towards the door and opened it slowly to see Haku standing a few feet back. Looking at him blankly she simply said, "You know if you're gonna spy, spy correctly and don't spy on me cause you'll never succeed." she walked back into Yubaba's office leaving the door open for Haku, who after comprehending what he had just been told decided to enter.
"Ok how bout I make the terms of the deal." Lucifer began, "I'll take out Kazuma cause frankly I want to that guy is so annoying." she grumbled to herself. "And in return..." Lucifer was thinking...she didn't particularly want or need anything at the moment. Her eyes wandered the room until her mouth rose into a close lipped grin as she looked over at Haku.
"Scaly here obeys my every command for a day."
"WHAT!" Haku yelled looking over at Yubaba then back to Lucifer hoping the deal would fall through.
"DEAL!" Yubaba agreed before Haku could really object.
"B-But-"
"Ah Shut it scaly it's just for a day and I probably won't make you do anything unless I think of something." Lucifer said placing her hands in her pockets and walking towards the exit.
Haku only stood in dissarray as he watched her leave with a look of utter "uhhhhh" on his face. 'Better start praying now' he thought and with a sigh he left Yubaba's office and headed down to the first floor along with Lucifer.
The crowd downstairs seemed to quiet down a bit as Lucifer headed towards the enterance hall. She walked with such dominance and her aura was a bit different, it was a strange mixture of annoyance and...excitement? She was looking forward to something.
Sebastian was at the enterance waiting for their guest to arrive when Lucifer walked up.
"Can you feel him?"
"Yeah he's close." Lucifer replied.
"Well just don't go too overboard."
"Me!? Go "OVERBOARD " Why I never..." she playfully acted as if she were being accused.
Then from seemingly out of nowhere the wind suddenly picked up.
"That's my cue." Lucifer said while heading out onto the bridge a few feet from the center.
The wind began to swirl a bit before a man appeared in the center of the bridge. His hair a light blue, his eyes the same, wearing a skyblue noble's shirt and black pants. He was obviously showing his status...trying way to hard to appear above everyone.
After a few seconds of silence he spoke.
"I've finally found you." his voice was higher than Lucifer's which still resulted in Lucifer chuckling slightly. 'It never gets old.' she thought.
"You dare to laugh at me!? Last time I checked I was still in the ranks of nobles in the high palaces, not living in some hole in the ground!"
Lucifer roled her eyes as she yawned.
"Tck! You dissrespect me like that! It's no wonder they tossed you in the trash-"
"Yeah Blah be blah be blah I've heard all that before jeez come up with somethin new will ya?" Lucifer said waving her hand in a dissmissive manner.
Kazuma's face was visiby turning red with anger. "You peace of shit-"
"Pfft now you're just tryin to act like you're above me or something. I am still your superior so I'm aloud to disrespect you all I want anyways."
"I AM ABOVE YOU! In status and in everything!" He yelled in a seemingly desperate manner to prove himself to be better than her.
"HAH now you're just lyin to make yourself look cool! That's comeplete bullshit!" Lucifer chuckled out. "You wouldn't be here if you were any of those things need I remind you. I the first born of the current 5, which results in ME being the heir to the throne, now I believe that makes me the highest ranking noble besides the current 5. The rest of you come after me as Secondary and Thirds and so on. You are nothing but backup incase I die or something, which we all know will never happen."
"It isn't fair! You were even banished and you're still the heir, you're still higher up than us purebloods! An impurity such as yourself has no right to the throne! Kazuma yelled.
"Well apparently I do. And until one of you losers kills me I will be the heir and take the throne, though frankly I don't really care about it."
"Then why don't you just give it to me! Just cause you were born mere months before me you became the first child...!?"
Lucifer sighed..."I don't know...but I don't like you and nore will the council allow me to "give" you my title as heir. Only way for you to become the heir would be to kill me which I don't plan on allowing you to do so you're just plumb out a luck."
Kazuma was grinding his teethn by now. The only thought that filled his mind was the urge to kill the Demon before him.'She just stands there...looking down on me...how can she be so nonchalant about all this! She doesn't even give a shit!' He thought. His hand slowly slid down until reaching the handle of his sword that rested at his side. Lucifer noticed but didn't show Kazuma that she had, instead she turned around placing her hands in her pockets and slowly started walking towards the enterance to the bathouse where several workers stood quietly as well as Haku and Sebastian.
She walked with her head looking down a bit with her eyes closed and a relaxed look on her face. 'She's waiting for him to make his move.' Haku and Sebastian thought. Haku was also wondering how she would kill him, 'In the most painful way, or perhaps quickly and quietly so long as there's blood I don't think she cares.'
Lucifer walked as quietly as she could, she heard the wind softly blow through her hair, the breathing of the workers...then a shift in the wood of the bridge.'Right foot 2 inches to the left, then she heard the nearly silent clink of the sword being pushed up from it's sheeth ready to be drawn, 'Left hand, sword half an inch,' She heard a drop of sweat fall from his chin and hit the wood, '3...2...1...'
And right on cue Kazuma sprinted towards her while drawing his sword. The tip of the metal heading directly for the back of her head. Just as the tip of the sword was about to brush her hair her eyes opened now glowing their bloody red as if they were on fire, she turned sideways allowing the sword to pass by her face in what to her eyes was slowmotion. She struck his wrist causing him to let go of the sword, sweeping his feet out from under him he fell to the ground with a thump, all in one fluid motion. Catching the sword from out of the air Lucifer stood above Kazuma as she pointed the tip of the steel at his throat.
"How pathetic." She said. "Tell you what I'll give you 3 tries, each one with me unarmed and unprepared, if you win anyone of those tries you may kill me. You've already used attempt number 1 so you got 2 left. I suggest you try a bit harder this time."
She tossed the sword up this time catching it by its blade and holding the handle out for him to grab.
He took it with a glare as he stood up and Lucifer once again placed her hands in her pockets and quietly stood there with her eyes closed in a relaxed way.
Kazume lunged with his blade towards her facebut she swiftly dodged by turning her head to the side, he swung at her torso but she dodged once again in a fluid body movement. Becoming frustrated his attacks became sloppy and Lucifer easily dodged no matter how many times he swung his blade. Lucifer would strike every once in a while after dodging his sword with a punch to the gut or tripping him. All she was really doing was playing and making a fool out of him. Once he was bent over panting and dripping with sweat Lucifer called round 2.
'Damnit! At this rate I'll never even scratch her! Think Kazuma think! It's my last shot...His eyes widened...he knew what to do! If I can't hit her directly maybe I can "hit" something else, ha she'll be the cause of her own destruction. But what to aim at...' His eyes serveyed the crowd until falling upon a man with emerald eyes standing at the front along with her servant. 'Her servant's too strong but HE shoul be an easy target so long as she falls for the bait. Let's hope you hold some value to her...but judging the look in your eyes I would guess you too have become aquainted. Ah well it's my only shot.' He stood up straight looking at Lucifer who still looked relaxed.
For only a second Kazuma's eyes shifted to looking behind her before looking back at her. 'What's he thinking...he can't be planning to attack Sebastian he's way to strong for Kazuma...'
But before Lucifer could figure it out the wind picked up and Kazuma seemed to teleport behind her. Her eyes watched in slowmotion as he appeared behind her while she spun around. 'He's not going to attack...' she could tell y the shifting in his weight. Instead Kazuma sprinted towards the crowd using the wind to propell himself faster. His blade thrust forward as it was soon inches away from Haku's stomache.
...silence...the wind blew soflty...and a soft and steady patter could be heard as blood dripped down onto the smooth concrete...
A/N Alright DONE! Now just gotta update The Twelve before people find out where I live...0_o Anyways R and R PLEASE! Gives me a reason to update as soon as I can and inspired me to continue! Till Chapter 9!