Preamble: Checkerface
Checkerface's dropped to his knees and began to take deep breaths of air, his lungs, his body, his very soul hurts... all because that monster that looked like a child! It hit him now what the humans feel about the Arcobaleno. BUT that THING wasn't human and even Reborn would take lessons, the thing that trapped him... was evil incarnated, something that acted out of pure innocent cruelty and didn't saw anything wrong on the acts that it caused to others.
"Hello mistah C!" The child was unnaturally happy, looking like he had managed to do something that made him truly pleased.
The smile of the thing was so pure and free that made him lower his guard, it was the first error. The child called himself Kane Gremory and summoned him to get power, didn't know about the Dying Will flames so to amuse the little child, Kawahira decided to test him to see if the species had someone the potential to become a future Arcobaleno. It was for the good of the world, the Trinisette needs to be maintained no matter what needed to be done for it.
"I activated my Trap Card!"The child funnily enough showed a card that was blank with the word TRAP in it and throw it at him, it didn't have any sort of flames so Checkerface dropped his guard and caught it.
A second later, the world turned white and pain explode in a way that in his centuries of living never once felt such a cruel thing, Checkerface burned and his mask melted in his face. He screamed and thrashed around to catch the little monster but he slipped and fell to the floor. The instants that took him to get back onto his feet were what ended being his end as the monster showed a sheer ruthlessness that wasn't fulfilled, and instead of being methodological and predictable, the brat began to... experiment.
"This one is from a mixture of 'Don't touch very explosive' and this other 'For the love of Lucifer don't throw!' bottles." The red blood monster explained while throwing random things that exploded and somehow ended in different sets of mind-blinding pain.
He couldn't breathe after that, the noxive fumes of the flames were just toxic and too abnormal in their properties to keep his head straight. His knees bucked over and began to vomit, that vomit also caught on fire and spread in his insides. He discovered that he had the capability to cry after that and it turned into something that feeds the flames more than any other mixture thrown into his body by the devil. The cruelest of the ironies was that in the end, it didn't matter, it didn't truly matter for his torturer.
"I think that this one is from Surty's fire, this one from Muspelheim, and this other from Yomi. I don't know how McGregor got them but Sirzechs said that I could take anything from his lab!" His gleeful show of childish excitement showed that he didn't even care about it to understand, the monstrous childish desire was similar to ripping the wings of a butterfly.
It was then that the situation became clear for Checkerface... for Kawahira. He was powerless. At the merciless hands of a monster that took the appearance of a child, that twisted the knife if only because it could get away with it. Was this what the humans called Karma? He didn't know what else to do but... surrender.
"Okay, you surrender so now can have some water." A mockery of sadness at the end of the fun, a childish desire for more.
And it was gasoline, very flammable gasoline that was thrown into him.
For a second it looked like the abomination was honestly trying to help... it was a lie a cruel lie. The torment continued until Checkerface made the ultimate sacrifice of blowing himself apart using the greatest accumulation of Dying Will flames possible, but what he saw in that instant was something that would follow for the rest of his life, something that was proof that the biggest error that anyone could commit ended happening, a nightmare was born and was his fault.
The grin of pure glee as the Devil took the flames head-on, it bathe on them, laughed as it was a shower of tickles, and devoured it completely without letting a single spark leave.
Damnation had come, with the last push of his Dying Will some flames managed to return before he lost completely his conscience and returned to his shop. But there weren't mistakes, he has lost a permanent part of himself in that place and nothing will ever be the same.
But... he has things to do finally so he could pay back his debts, as he fears. As he truly fears that the devil would come back for him.
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Now you remember!
Today was the best day ever! Happiness truly was a real expression of punishing evil and the world was even brighter now thanks to your actions!
Kane Gremory, the devil of devils and the super-cool villain... errr hero? Yes! Hero, because only a hero could win and use consumable items in the middle of a battle like those RPG, but the thing that you summoned was what made it easy, he looks like a bad man that tricks kids and use them for nefarious plans! And you got a valuable lesson too, the fire didn't betray their believers and choose you over... the pedophile! Your smile turned into one of complete happiness as you feel the warmth coursing through your body, a new power was now permanently integrated into your soul and you are so glad for it... now if you only know the best way to abuse your new powers...
But that is for later, now it was time to get to Dis and use all the money that you had been saved to celebrate the beginning of your greatness.
When a young devil got his Evil Pieces it was a day of happiness, and adding the Gremory Luck means a day where you are absolutely free to do what you wanted. Your whole family was surprised that you have three more Mutation Pieces than what is possible! A Knight, a Bishop, and two of your Pawns! This truly you were born for greatness, when others get a single piece you got three more of them! Gasp! Maybe was because of Acchan! You knew that he liked your nickname and used the power of nepotism to help you!
But a budding-budding gut feeling made you narrow your eyes, something feels wrong about the goblin that follows Acchan around, something that makes you think that the goblin would cause problems for Acchan and Sera-need... and Baldy and Sirzerchs but they were of lesser importance than the former two. Maybe you need to kick the butt of the goblin to make sure that everything is right, but if something has taught you the bad guys is that don't do anything that makes you look like you are the bad guy. For that reason, the goblin hasn't been roasted by the power of random things that you looted from McGregor's lab.
You still don't understand why everyone forced McGregor to sleep in a doghouse out of the manor or eat on the floor with dog treats, just that he did something bad and is paying for it.
Anyway, you took one of the teleportations papers and got into the city of Dis without supervision, because you are now responsible enough to do it alone. This was one of your favorite places, Sera-nee always shows So-chan and you the best place to get snacks, buy mangas, get games, and even taught you were was the Black Market of Magical Girls' merchandise. That was years ago and now you are a veteran of big cities, places where the best and worst would be happening alongside the trade of used panties pass every Tuesday.
You can't get lost in this place, and visit hundreds of different candy stores, some movie theaters for overpriced snacks, and a carnival for sweets that were bad for the health, you aren't going to waste this opportunity and ended with so many bags of glorious treasures that would last until the end of time or maybe tomorrow, these things were tasty. Dis was always a good place to go, but for some reason, there was always a bunch of poor people around... that was weird should they do something productive with their lives. Alas, you paid for your distracted throughs about peasants and crashed into... what can be called a bunch of rags shaped like a person.
Rags' was confused too, didn't expect to crash into someone and bring you into an alley. If this was a kidnapping it was badly done, your expectations were ruined but when a bunch of cosplayers passed dressing in bad quality suits the situation turned better! Now, this was an adventure, you found a good minion and managed to avoid being kidnapped thanks to rags!
So being the merciful boss that you were. And hopefully, be capable of recruiting Rags, you dropped one of your loot bags in front of the covered... peasant but for some reason that doesn't sound well maybe you have to find another word? Ah! It was family, there! A new possible familia's member like a proper Gremory should think.
Rags barely reacted at it or touched anything of the loot bag, just looked confused at the action. Never tasted candy? That was horrible! And something that must be fixed.
So you sit down in front of them, opened a bar of chocolate broke it to 70% for you and put the rest in the mouth of Rags.
"Hmmm!?" Rags apparently didn't expect this action and now had their mouth filled with delicious brown sugar.
"Eat." You ordered, it was something important so you put a serious face, Rags being the good minion and your favorite began to slowly much it like a squirrel, slowly and tasting it before a gulp was heard. "How it was?" This was the best moment of anyone's life, the moment of the truth where the hopes and dreams are realized.
"Cold." Was the opinion of Rags who nodded like they had discovered the truth of the world.
"Hmmm, that was a problem." You managed to make a poker face but internally you were panicking, the chocolate didn't melt inside the mouth! That was a sacrilegious thing against the natural order of the world.
You will teach Rags the power of snacks or die trying!
So you brought one of the popcorn's bags that you were going to enjoy in the new movie of Miracle Levia-Tan: The attack of Soggy Grabrielu Part 2. You weren't sure if the grains could handle your sheer awesomeness and make the first good use of your incredibly super power that maybe would have other uses besides melting chocolate bars to cover your lunch... The inspiration hit you in that instant! A true stroke of genius formed only through the most powerful minds of your generation, yourself. As Kane Gremory discovered the perfect snack for the entire history of the children in Underworld, but it was possible? Such a miracle is possible?
Your Will began to burn inside your core, your soul shouted for this miracle and sole existence was determined to make a miracle happen.
It was your very destiny to make this possible!
The Flames of Sky burned and the bag of popcorn exploded in a rain of hundreds of delicious snacks in the alley but that didn't matter to you. What did matter was that the rest of the chocolate melted over the pieces of popcorn that fell into your open bag.
You spend seconds admiring your creation. The popcorn is covered in the sweet nectar of hopes and dreams.
"Taste this." You put one of the sweet treats in the hand of Rags who looked confused.
But curiosity won and Rags took off the hood of... rags and showed you that Rags had white hair and green eyes. Also, Rags was a girl, but that was secondary, you found a Grayfia!
Rags's inspected the snack for a few seconds and put it into her mouth. Instants after her eyes widened and her expression melted on an expression of surprise as her eyes began to shine with such light that almost looked flourecent.
"See this is the result of my genius! I am the best!" You declared with a level of impossible happiness, this was victory and it was delicious!
"...Warm." A single word, but the amount of emotion inside. Her expression was a slight red blush as a smile formed while she enjoyed the sweets alongside you.
Well done Kane Gremory, even a stranger knows the greatest use of your glorious imagination and the power that your stole... acquired by risking your life! Because heroes don't steal things from their enemies and just keep it from the hands of the bad guys!
"Let try more!" You declared, if your flames made this treasure what other things can it manage to make?
"Hum!" She nodded with complete seriousness, Rags got more animated after this taste! Truly this a person who is capable of understanding the culture and potential of his power!
Mixing any type of candy and snacks, eating and drinking while mixing weird things that shouldn't make sense liked fried potatoes and ice cream bars, it was science and art! Rags was truly a genius as began to be more animated once the ten or was twentysomething mixture came into existence. Everything was a blur soon after, you think that at some point the color blue taste like oranges and Rags shanked someone while you took protection money... nah. That probably was your imagination.
Aaaaaaand now the alley and part of the city were on fire. How did this happen!?
"Oops?" Rags, didn't have an answer.
"Rags let's run away! We will blame this on the gangs!" Your order, your favorite and best minion in a show of true leadership didn't doubt on following your leap and trusted your genius to get both of you out of the hole that the sugar trip made for both of you.
When Rags nodded the both of you bravery ran away! You aren't witnesses and nobody can break your impeccable alibi, Rags is proof of it as both of you meet far away from Dis.
It was late when you were returning home, many empty bags of your loot was planted as evidence inside the truly evil villain's hideouts thanks to Rags being awesome while you being the proper devil that you were called the authorities and gave the True version of the story of how you both saw many guys in suits were setting things on fire.
But both of you were smiling and laughing, even if Rags didn't understand what was so fun. Only when you both calmed down was that you realized that you had been keep calling her Rags all the day while playing!
That realization hit you hard, you didn't present yourself or know Rags' name. It was a clear break of courtesy and if your mothers' discover it they will make Grayfia's teach you again!
"I am Kane!" You presented yourself. "Kane Gremory, King and future Pillar Head." You were quite proud of that.
"Jack." So that was Rags' name, but wasn't too short?
"So short of Jacqueline?" You asked and found that now there is a very shard knife deep inside the door of your home. "...Got it, only Jack." You got the clue, you weren't Sirzechs.
Jack has many quirks but she was yours, now if you could find what Piece you can give her. She was your first familia's member and you are sure that she is special.
Trait Gained: Mixer!
The Sky Flames can facilitate the combinations, under their influence, even the weirdest mixtures can show the best result of their traits like tastes.
Note: Many had discovered that she is Cloud as the primary element, good work voters and bad QM for spoil that while being too impatient of my part leaving it fresh on other minds. But her secondary element is fluctuant at the moment as she is kind of unstable for obvious reasons. Over the course of time is going to stabilize and will be faster once she gets a piece so don't worry you can influence her.
