Chapter 3: Monks
Six days ago
It all started on a beautiful Friday morning with a call from the detective to join her at a crime scene. A man in his mid-twenties was crucified. That was the first reason they had called detective Decker, because with her comes the handsome consulting devil who has an infinity of knowledge about the church, religion and God himself.
Back to the body… without an ID or anything else was it a 'John Doe' for now. The man was naked and had marks, scaring and fresh wounds on his back that could come from whipping with a nine tail. Lucifer informed them he had seen many such marks in hell. Ignoring Lucifer's 'Luciferness,' Chloe tries to find a lead or something else to work with. They had nothing so far. No witness, only an elderly couple who had found the body on their morning walk around the park, and the cross.
Not much to go on until they lift the body down and free it from the cross. Inside the wood was a picture of a horned devil figure, something that Lucifer comment as inaccurate and inappropriate. But it was this very symbol that lead them to a church kind of community of satanistic-fanatics who miss their old priest. Paul Smith (fake, that has to be a fake name..) told them that Carl Morris went missing. The identity was confirmed through a picture of their 'John Doe'.
After interviewing half of the "Church of Blood" members, Lucifer wonders why do they think he would want to be worshiped for some lies his brothers told mankind millennia ago and why does everyone think he wants their souls and a blood sacrifice? Lucifer and Chloe had enough.
On the way out, they meet a new group of people. A group that had been hiding from them initially. What surprised Chloe the most was that they knew Lucifer and seem to believe he is the real devil. The person in question, Lucifer, was on the one side happy that finally someone was believing him, but as one of the group members starts to talk to him like he was really the devil and wished that Lucifer would kill his ex-girlfriend, he had enough of this. Before Chloe could stop him, Lucifer did his 'Mojo-thing' and had them all in his hand. In the end was an arrested teen, two broken (very expensive) status and the devil giving a speech to his believers.
Chloe ignored most of it, getting their killer into custody was more important. Lucifer left shortly after, with a 'Thanks for nothing Dad'. He had enough of one day form his followers. What he missed was the combined spell spoken in the group later that evening. Real words in Enochian to send a spell curse, A spell that frees the devil of his divine-self.
The devil doesn't help the police to get one of his followers to jail, the devil doesn't do good. His angel-self had to be the problem so they would get ride of it. By forcing it out.