The first week was the problem… but the second week was the time Stolas never in his life knew that the food he had in his house was the best he could have, and even the little expired milk could become a good cheese later, he learned how food was important, and how they never should be stupid when it comes about angering Bee-lzebub and her punishment...
Stolas walked towards the fridge, still reflecting after doing the punishment if he ever refused any kind of food because the idea of Gluttony punishment would still be craved deep inside on their stomachs.
The time of their first week was over since the torturing hours as being humiliated by the king of Pride himself in front of the nobles made them understand that now they would always be a joke among the other nobles...
"Well then, aaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnd your first week of punishment is done. Well done Paimon, you were a very comfy chair for this whole week. When someday I would need a good chair for me to sit. I will have you in mind." Lucifer complimented the heir of the Goetias, but still, the insult was clear in front of everyone.
"You think too highly of me." Paimon wanted so much to curse, to scream, to simply die rather than suffer this same humiliation again, but he held his tongue... Because there is nothing he could do, just to accept the compliment.
"Well I do, but now your punishment time in me is over. So tomorrow Bee-lzebub will come here to give the second week of your punishment." Lucifer commented as he tapped the back of the Goetia's patriarch.
Most of the members of the Owl family sighed in relief, thinking that the sin of Gluttony wouldn't be that bad in comparison to what they suffered.
Stolas on the other hand... He was wary, since the time on the morning he woke up from the bed and there was a note on his fridge...
(Enjoy the last food from this fridge before tomorrow)
That note was enough to remind him of the warnings of Belphegor and Bee-lzebub, many times they gave the same warning.
So he did his best to enjoy every single sweet, protein, carb, and even fruit and vegetable that was inside the fridge. Drinks? He just had a very good sweat drink and even beelzejuice which was a good drink with alcohol.
And yet on the next day... How much he regretted to have not eaten more.
How can a person who did his best to enjoy everything from the beginning still regret not having enjoyed more of it?
Simple...
The night was calm, and the tiredness of being a statue took over him and made him sleep like a log... Just for the next day, to be instructed once again at the Pride Castle, but this time in the main dinner hall.
"Hello, and good morning Goetias." Lucifer cheerfully called, as the entire family... Even the hateful Stella and Andrealphus were in silence, since everyone from the family, and even Paimon himself had to be in silence when the higher rank than them were speaking. But for the relief of many, the other nobles and families weren't there to see the other punishment so that was a good sign for them to create hope that the punishment would be easy.
"Oh how naive we were," Stolas said as he took another spoon of cereal, the sugary, the crunchiness, and even the milk itself felt so different after receiving the Blurgh...
"Strange, I always thought from all of them she was the kindest" Millie commented as she received a nod from Blitzo.
"Actually, she is, but there are times that you wish you wouldn't be on that bitch's bad side. She is ruthless." Blitzo once remembered his first year after adopting Loona, and while Beezy didn't adopt Loona, she somehow always managed to track down the former adoptive parents who were using her... Blitzo talked with the queen of Gluttony once... And if he didn't love his daughter so much, he would have been terrified of her because of how protective the queen of Gluttony is when it comes to a family friend.
"You can say ruthless was a kind word Blitzy..." Stolas commented as he once again drifted into his memory.
"Good morning Goetias," A polite and kind voice was enough to bring their heads in the direction of what would be the hellhound queen herself. Bee-lzebub uses her iconic clothing and hairstyle. But one thing which made their eyes wide open... Was a giant cauldron she was carrying with her 4 arms. "From what I gathered, it seems that you all are on time, so that's good. I won't have to explain myself then."
Stolas felt his stomach drop, and his tongue dry like paper... He had a bad feeling about it.
"Good morning your highness Bee-lzebub" Paimon decided to show courtesy but suddenly he felt in his own hands an empty bowl. He then raised his eyebrow at the Queen of Hellhounds before he even asked. Beezy already went to the explanation.
"I hope you guys are hungry. Because this is the food I created specially for you all." The sin of Gluttony had a cathartic smile on her face. And Paimon and Stolas immediately knew the implication of her words... That was going to be her punishment.
Some of the owl family seemed to be eager and happy to have a break from all the torture... But how fools they were.
Beezy simply put the cauldron on the floor. And the time she opened the lid... The putrid smell went around the room.
The worst smell Stolas had in his entire life, the description would be like in comparison to rotten dead bodies, with rotten food and even baby shit diapers... It was just the smell.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SMELL?" Many shouted in outrage, but Paimon saw the sadistic smile from the queen of Gluttony.
"Your food. And don't worry, you will get used to it. After all, 3 to 5 meals a day... With this food, every day until 1 week." Beezy commented as she smiled at seeing the sweat from Paimon's face. "Who would be kind to be the first one to try?"
The silence was enough to answer the yellow party hellhound. But that didn't bother her at all.
"Ah Stolas, I'm so glad that you offered yourself" Bezzy commented as the prince Goetia had his eyes wide open, and without realizing he was with his hand raised... "Come here."
"Wha...wha I..." Stolas looked confused as he stared at his hand until he realized when he stared in the corner of the wall, there was the smiling King of Pride which made Stolas palled from realizing what happened.
So gulping dry saliva, Stolas marched towards the hellhound, while every single member of his family, stared at him with anticipation and pity. It was like he was walking toward his death sentence.
Until he stared at the heir himself, his father, who seemed to be also with his tied hands. Both father and son now holding a bowl.
"Well, father and son, a good way to make an example. So let me tell you what is this... My father once made his followers eat a scroll which represents his words over humanity, and while the scroll tasted like honey, inside of his stomach made it terrible to keep inside." Beezy explained the origins of the concept of the creation of the food they are going to get. "Here is Blurgh, a food which tastes so terrible, that you will desire to vomit but you can't... Because this is the opposite will be very good for you, and it will make you feel well inside. This is my punishment. Food grounding, you lose the privilege to choose what you want to eat, and will eat only what I will give you to eat because it's good for you."
Stolas looked at the said food... It was a combination of black, brown, and green goo... And he was too afraid to ask what was that. But the next words made his spine shrive.
"Stolas, for the love of Moxxie and the friendship you are trying to save your family, listen to this warning, do not try to avoid eating it. It knows when you are trying to not eat it." Beezy sounds came like a whisper, but all the red flags came toward his being. The queen of hellhounds warned that the food itself was sentient.
Stolas glanced at his father, who acted the same way as him, both nervous about why the queen of Gluttony must have warned them about such food.
But knowing sooner or later both had to give it a try... They simultaneously took their spoon and proceeded to give the first bite...
"UGH, UH, UG, UGHH" The gagging from his throat was like he was being choked by his own body and refused to let that abomination of nature move a milineter more from his throat... He was choking, but even with that, his body would recover... But somehow something touched inside of his throat... It was like tiny legs moving and forcing that liquid to go down towards his throat... And with that, he finally could breathe again."AHHHHHHHH"
All Stola's eyes were crying from the first bite of the food, it was like his being left his body and the taste. Oh, fuck the taste... It was the taste of pain... Because your pain doesn't have flavor, it is what you feel at the moment that happens, and he felt violated by the food itself.
And he has the entire bowl to eat...
Stolas was about to release the spoon, but he remembered the warning once again... So he looked at the heir Goetia, his father... And to his surprise, Paimon was eating spoon after spoon. With his face agonizing in pain, and his face getting more palled by every minute...
Stolas saw that his father was extremely in pain, so he decided not to give up, because he knew that the food was waiting to be eaten, and he was afraid to ask what the food would do to him if he refused to give it such an end.
So with the spoon in his hands, Stolas ate every single bite of it.
"Holyshit, it was that bad to eat that shit?" Blitzo whistled as he saw how his husband had triggers when it comes to soups since once he saw Stolas freaking out from seeing a pea soup.
"No... I tasted shit a few years later... The Blurg... Was 10 times worse." Stolas remembered a case he would never wanted to admit the case that he was hungry and drunk... But after Gluttony's punishment, he could eat anything that he wouldn't complain about it.
"But what happened after you both finished the food? Something happened when someone refused to eat?" Millie asked as she found questions inside her mind. And from looking at her husband sweating, she isn't going to like the answers.
"Oh, there were a few who tried to avoid eating and created an excuse..." Stolas glanced away...
"Err, your Gluttonous Highness, you see, I have an allergy to many things..." A Goetia with green and white feathers tried to avoid any costs to eat what would be that monstrosity, after seeing both heir and the next of the heirs still gagging and suffering from eating the food...
But then he glanced at the kind woman who always wanted to party, but that kindness wasn't there anymore... She narrowed her eyes and took something behind her back... It was a wooden spoon.
"Hmmm? Well then..." Bee-lzebub hummed, as she approached the Goetia who seemed to be having a bad feeling about that. "Well. That's unfortunate..."
SMACK
The queen of the hellhounds used her wooden spoon to smack the hand of the said noble. Making shout in pain.
"AHHHHH, why the fuck did yAhhhhhhhUGHHHHHH" The same bird Goetia was outraged by the sudden attack, but he was interrupted when the disgusting food itself jumped inside of his mouth and nostrils... And that way making sure to forcefully get inside of him... Just to his dismay. The gags he was doing and the lack of breath, it seemed that it was like he was being abused by the food itself, and he just wanted to die at that moment.
3 minutes later, he was on the floor, mindless, like a very poor pornography movie with a bad ending... He felt horrible, and he would have nightmares because of that...
Everyone watched in horror, even Stolas and Paimon who seemed to have dodged a bullet. But also terrified of another truth...
"We have to eat this 5 times per day, for a whole week," Stolas mumbled, as he realized, why they insisted so much for him to enjoy the food before. Because this isn't a punishment, but torture itself.
Beezy remained quiet, as she then glanced at the other nobles.
"Let this be a warning for you all. If you are going to refuse, I'm going to smack you with the wooden spoon of discipline, and also, the food will always be consumed.. it doesn't matter if you want to eat it or not. They will insert inside of you in any way to accomplish its purpose. Which is to feed you." Bee-lzebub explained as she glanced at the bird fool who didn't understand the mistakes he made. But without any remorse or sympathy. She glanced at all of Goetia. "I'm going to say it once. Or you eat it by yourself, or it will be forced to feed you. Your call."
And after all that suffering from being statues... The next punishment proved to be far worse than what they always suffered.
Sniff
"Stols, you are crying." Suddenly a remark was enough to make him snap from his thoughts.
The prince Goetia looked at his loved ones and felt his face wet.
"Awwww, your poor thing, let me hug ya." Millie quickly walked onto the table and jumped behind the chair to hug the big prince who was feeling silly. "Don't worry, your wife will protect you from the bad food."
Stolas chuckled as he couldn't help to be grateful to the duo in his life.
"So that's why you always ate everything we have for food, without even complaining once." Blitzo mused as he recalled a few times that food looked awful to him, but the owl prince seemed to eat like a snack.
"Oh yeah, my daddy was surprised that someone else liked to eat demonic bulls' testicles and devil fish brains like him." Millie once admitted that she never understood her father's tastes when he cooked but at the time her husband went to visit Wrath Ring and her daddy was with a dislike of her owl hubby, he decided to eat both foods to intimidate Stolas. But after that dinner, somehow Stolas got the respect from her daddy. Which is a big issue for her family.
"Well I still said it lacked a bit of pepper sauce, but it was still enjoyable to have eaten a cuisine like that." Stolas defended Joe's cooking, while Millie turned his neck 180° to her.
"Stolas, my love. Not even my brothers had the courage to eat my daddy's cooking like you did. Stop defending it." Millie said sternly, and the owl prince rolled his eyes.
"Mildred, my sin apple, please. In comparison to Blurgh... Anything tastes like a gourmet food. You just need to appreciate it." Stolas once again affirmed his opinion that his father-in-law from Wrath Ring has good taste.
Blitzo and Millie rolled their eyes, as Stolas coughed into his hand before continuing the explanation.
"The food we had was the same, since from Breakfast, Lunch, Afternoon Snack, Dinner, Midnight Snack..." Stolas resumed as he could see the sweat coming from their faces.
"This is madness. PLEASE KILL ME NOW." Stella begged as she could see the food coming towards her. "No, don't come any closer. No, no. NOOOAGUUUGHHH."
The group then saw, that Stella was being captured by the food, as the liquid itself went from inside her beak, and possibly even from her eyes. Making the whole family terrified and see it like a horror movie.
"Please, spare my son. HE DOESN'T DESERVE THAT." A brother whom Stolas remembered not seeing in years desperately tried to beg the queen of Gluttony, while the kid was palled like a paper. And the bowls in front of them were simply untouched.
"I know that most of you don't deserve that. But in comparison to being Black Listed, this is painful for you now. But listen to me. This food is good for you. You will see your son grow up stronger and even more healthier than he will ever be." Beezy showed sympathy towards both father and son, but the reality of the punishment was to ensure that it was for their well-being.
The father hesitated. But then both his hand and his son's hand were slapped strongly with the wooden spoon, which made them both yelp. And in a blink. Both were attacked by the same food. It was just heartless and disgusting as the way his family saw it. It wasn't a meal... it was a torture section.
It took an hour to finally all the Goetia family full from the breakfast... which wasn't satisfying.
Most members of the family tried their best to vomit the food, but it didn't matter how much they tried, even sticking a finger inside their throats... nothing got out. It was like the food was stuck inside their stomachs, preventing it from leaking in any way.
At the time everyone was done with the... Blurgh... the Queen snapped her fingers, and the cauldron disappeared.
"Good, good. Now that we have breakfast done, you all need to wait for 3 hours for the lunch." Beezy commented as she could see the despair looks from all the owl nobles around the main hall. "Don't worry, you guys can enjoy your free time walking around and talking with your family. But you also can go back to your facilities and sleep to digest the food. That's also an option. But I recommend you all to be here in 3 hours."
Stolas could see the glimpses of hope towards the parentage he has...
"So you mean, that we are done with it? We just have to endure minutes of eating this shit, and then we can go back to our facilities? Nothing more? No humiliation and nothing else?" Andrealphus finally opened his mouth as he pondered the sentence given by the queen, and with her smile showing that it was true, the icy prince Goetia finally could sigh in relief. "Well it's just 5 meals per day, and eating it for one week. It's not that difficult."
"Andrealphus you stupid bastard," Stolas commented as he made Millie and Blitzo stare at him in surprise. "Ops, sorry. It's just the sudden glimpses of memories about that horrible food, something that still traumatizes me to this day. I remember having a nightmare of eating it once when I was in the Envy Punishment section." Stolas explained by the time he pointed out how terrible the situation his entire family was. "Andrealphus thought if we just have a few minutes eating the punishment of Gluttony in minutes while trying to live our lives in the other hours, it would mean it was an easy task... However, it was 5 meals per day, for 7 whole days... And each time we thought our bodies could handle... not, we couldn't."
"Holyshit Stolas you got raped by the food?" Blitzo commented as he saw Stolas looking away from that comment.
"I wouldn't word like that, but the food also got inside of my throat and forced its passage inside of my stomach... My father was also one of the victims when we thought we could handle it, but we didn't... I don't remember how many times that happened to me. But I remember the first time I tried to refuse the food was on the fourth day in the dessert time. I thought I was full, but the food knew I was trying to avoid it..." Stolas commented as he experienced the worst... "Seeing the others suffering this was too different than actually being the fool who decided this was a good idea to try to do."
Millie and Blitzo looked at each other, knowing that the second week may be one of the harshest punishments to owl prince may have suffered with his family.
"I wonder why they didn't let the other noble families see you all on that week," Blitzo commented as he glanced at the gentle demon prince, who just seemed to try to remain strong.
"Well, Lucifer said that one of the reasons was they had work to do, and one week for their entertainment was enough for them." Stolas reminded that was probably one of the excuses, but from that even he glanced at Bee-lzebub, like someone wary of how shitty the next punishment would be. It also made Stolas understand another thing. "But that also means that they don't want other nobles to see the punishment, because that would make them try to prepare themselves to eat terrible stuff, to make it less suffer the idea of eating that creation of seven Rings of torture."
"And now you are being philosophical, Stolas, I think it's time to stop thinking about that food and move on to the final day."Millie now saying enough was enough made Stolas glance at her, before nodding his head in agreement.
"You're right. Well, what Queen Bee-lzebub said was true, the food as much I hate to admit it, even if was unbearable, disgusting, and the worst thing we ever ate... Every day made our feathers cleaner, our eyes rested, and even gave a good shape to our bodies." Stolas commented on the reaction of how every single one of the Goetias, even his father seemed to have become slim and yet bulky enough covered in muscles, from eating the worst food and yet the one which may be the healthiest. "I think that was the way Beezy was trying to show a bit of mercy... And make us question ourselves if eating all that punishment was worth it ..."
"And your conclusion" Blitzo commented as he saw Stolas looking at him in horror.
"OH FOR THE 7 RINGS HELL NO. IT WAS NOT WORTH IT." Stolas shouted at the idea of how trying to be healthy and beautiful was sometimes needed for sacrifices. "Even if it made us healthier and helped us at all, that was still by far the worst thing you would eat in your whole life. Nobody from my family had the strength or even the insanity to insist on eating Blurgh."
"Wow, I never thought it would have been that horrible shit." Blitzo laughed as he suddenly noticed something that made him realize... "Wait a minute... Loony once told me that time she accidentally ate an expired food, she shrugged and said it wasn't the worst thing she ate..."
"Oh, that..." Stolas waved his hand as he smiled at what happened. "Moxxie once pranked Loona into eating Blurgh... I remember it was the time they were kids and April Fools, I remember Charlie and Lucifer always laughing from the story Loona had when it comes about the time Moxxie tricked her into eating it."
"No way," Millie commented as she laughed at the idea, of how a little rebel hellhound got herself pranked into eating the worst food ever made.
"I still didn't believe in how cunning Moxxie is when it comes to April Fools, I think both he and his grandfather always had a competition into trying to be creative with their pranks. " Stolas was sincere when it came to the time...
"Anyway we got sidetracked here. Is anything else that happened when you were in the final days of punishment of the Gluttony sin?" Blitzo decided to keep going the conversation, making Stolas stop and ponder for a while...
"Well, I think I was so tired and so despaired that I don't remember much. But I think there was the final conversation... OH THAT'S RIGHT. The time I got a surprised visit from..." Stolas recalled as he went back to his storytelling.
"Well, I have to say. I'm proud of all of you. You managed to eat everything and now look at yourselves. Each of you seemed to be so healthier that you actually got younger and have the best looking and even got your muscles back." Beezy smiled sweetly at the group of nobles, who were on their knees. And with the final food over.
"We are free? Please. Tell us we are free." Stolas remembered that one of his step-siblings, a sister whom his father had after a long time, looked like she was in her 20s again, but she had the triple of his age. And yet from looking at her face. She seemed despaired and even dared to create hope.
"Well, yeah, duh." Bee-lzebub smiled as she even gave the same Goetia noble, a glass of water. "Take a sip of this water... you will notice that even the taste is different now."
Stolas, as the other members of his family were looking in anticipation at his step-sister... who when she gave a little sip... her four eyes started to shred tears, but instead of despair tears... from the smile on her face... it was tears of joy.
"Water, oh from seven rings of hell, I never thought I would love to drink water once again." Then when she went to drink more, she realized it was empty. "What happened?"
"Well, you just drank it, without realizing it. But you got the point." Beezy shrugged, as she walked towards the whole group of Goetias. "Well, the second week of grounding is over..."
And with that, every single member of the family Stolas had, even his father. Seemed to be joyful to finally be free from the worst torture they had in their own lives.
"But tomorrow, Satan will come here to give you his punishment." And that announcement from the sin of Gluttony made the entire group of bird nobles stop their cheerful spirits, and then sweat drops from realizing that their punishment wasn't over yet. "Oh, don't worry, he isn't going to give you physical punishment as beating you up. So you don't have to fear that. But bear in mind that you are still going to have your punishment. So I hope you all have a good night of sleep, and have a good breakfast tomorrow. Eat everything you guys want. And enjoy the food from now on."
And at the time Bee-lzebub left... it was the time that the Goetias went to celebrate their piece of happiness... by never once eating that shit food ever again. The worst punishment food ever created by all the 7 rings. And once that they will always have inside of their hearts and souls from now on.
Stolas went back to his bedroom... And to see the refrigerator once again, made him have tears of joy, and by opening it, and see the beauty of fruits, vegetables, mouses, water, juice, beer. It was a banquette for him. And somehow, that was the best food he ever had in his own life. It was like eating at 5 Stars Gluttony Ring restaurant... From a simple pea can... he ate it like an heir on that night.
"Oh look at that. It seems that you are enjoying the good stuff from the refrigerator once again." At the time he heard this voice. Stolas turned his back to be surprised by seeing nobody else than king Lucifer and from his side Satan, the sin of Wrath himself.
"Your highness," Stolas said a second before gulping in one go and staring at the king in anticipation. "Is something wrong?"
"Nah, everything is fine. I just heard you and every one of the Goetias managed to have a very fun reward for eating Blurgh." Lucifer commented as he and Satan tried to make vomit motions as both themselves never wanted to eat something like that. "I heard from Bezzy that you guys can eat even actual shit and would find it not bad at all. So that's a good advantage, so I hope you guys would be great as eating garbage."
From slight jabs, Stolas didn't seem to mind, he was eating a fruit, and from ignoring reaction from the Prince Goetia, Lucifer then coughed on his hand.
"Well, the effects went better than I expected. But now that we are here. I came here to give you one annunciation. Tomorrow is not going to be a whole group punishment like we did in these two weeks. Tomorrow's punishment is going to be particular to every single one of you." Lucifer commented as he then glanced to Satan who went to step further.
"And so from the time I got here, I want to explain the punishment to every single room, so to make it fair..." Satan explained, as the flexed body of the sin of Wrath himself looked so bulky, that Stolas felt blush from seeing it. "But for you Stolas, you are a very kind person, and you made Moxxie a happy imp from that shit. So instead we are going to fake that you got the punishment."
"Oh sir, please don't be courteous." Stolas while he felt flattered by that decision, he shook his head, and he wanted to receive the punishment like his family.
"Oh don't come to like my balls Stolas." Satan protested as he walked towards the prince. "While you are not going to get the punishment. I have a favor to ask."
"A ...favor?" Stolas asked as he had no idea what the sin of Wrath was going to ask.
"I just want you to cancel my cable and my hellphone chip account. From two different companies from Mammon's Greed Ring." Satan shrugged, as he gave a paper with the numbers of the companies and the actual info from the king of wrath himself.
Stolas then glanced at it, and then at both kings, and he couldn't help but be confused.
"That's it? That's just easy." Stolas commented...
Then Lucifer started laughing... which was a terrible signal.
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"And how it went Stolas?" Millie asked... but suddenly she noticed something was wrong since she noticed that her husband was staring at the void with his 4 eyes twitching. "Stolas? Honey?"
Stolas stared at the void, as his own 4 eyes started twitching, and suddenly his memories replayed every single time for the same purpose.
"1. No no no no, Rodrigo, Rodrigo, RODRIGOOOOOOOOOOOO. 2. Judite, Judite, Judite, JUDITE... JUUUUUDITEEEEEEEEEE. " These were the names the prince recalled from his memories.
"STOLAS WAKE THE FUCK UP." Suddenly a slap was enough to make the prince Goetia break up from his thoughts. "You just petrified all the ants who were walking around the table.
"Ohhhhh... sorry," Stolas commented, as he then used his own eyes to undo his magic on the little creatures. "I just got a glimpse of a memory that I didn't want to remember now. I think I'm going to take a bath, and then you both can make a good cup of coffee for me. Because I can start explaining how the punishment of King Asmodeus went."
"Don't you mean King Satan?" Millie asked as she then saw his own eyes twitching again.
"Oh yeah, Satan that's right... I will explain after I have a great bath time while thinking about every curse I can wish upon Mammon. So anyway I will be right back soon." Stolas quickly said as he immediately left the kitchen, with both Millie and Blitzo staring at each other...
"I think he hated the Wrath's type of punishment," Blitzo said as he was stating the obvious to Millie, and she couldn't help but nod at the glimpse of how her beloved owl prince, seemed on the verge of killing so many others... which was turning her on.
"Welp. Gotta go touch myself later." Blitzo and Millie said in unison, after seeing their twink prince go almost into rampage. And that's how their crazy lives worked from there.