Magi and Djinn World Tour- Student of the Dark Arts
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Chapter 27: A Lonely Devil's Lament
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Raku's state itched at his brainstem as Lothos scratched his skull. He knew what that lousy child was up to. He'd done it once before; he'd back then been beaten by his mentor.
"I'm to leave, take this as…unacceptable behavior. You'll see to that, Magi?" The incubi's red orbs glazed over in desired execution, as Atticus nodded back promptly.
"S- sir! There is a meeting with the benefactors of our mission. Amber, she will be in the classrooms, Jack may be there after all."
Lothos smiled at the thought. "I'm going to see that older magi after class. Be sure he does as expected. Raku will have what's needed. Go!" Lothos shooed his minions as they got to their separate roles.
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Which was where John and Atticus Gray now stood within the same room, staring each other down intently.
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" He's a criminal. You're letting him advise these students?? My charge??"
"He has been rehabilitated completely. His record is clear, enough." Huffed the headmaster. "Atticus will be teaching philosophy, while you'll take to the main history courses here, Constantine as you have been. Raku though, must return. There is no defending him from this point on." The headmaster pulled out a solid contract. John stared at it, as did Michael, sneakily, like his daddy.
Gold letters, that black inked signature.
"You put a casting on that boy!" John shouted. "When was this??"
"Adam refused to take part, so as a part of one test, the child signed with a set of questions. You realize that Adam was a lowered arch – angel meant to project his findings of any abnormalities to the other realms? The fact that he was murdered by a creature that still is on the run from authorities on this plane, shows that the boy cannot be sent to you for all of his lessons."
"I find it most fair, in fact." Michael's father nodded, smugly agreeing woth his allies. "That child is half deity himself, isn't he? Not fully fledged?"
"He's refused the post, he believed it would sap him of his humanity-
"Bullocks, father!" Michael pointed at John. "That boy would be an alumni. A great asset if he didn't remain a full mortal in face. I swear! He's no god-
"He is half djinn, the kind that controls manifestation magic. His tome is the "heart" of that magic, correct?"
"How…?" John bit his lip, cussing Atticus from across his seat in the room. "He's no less than a Buddha. Harmless if you let him figure himself out –
"Exploration will not bring a disciplined lifestyle. That boy is wild enough. Stopping time? Knocking students out with a stare? Holding sway over too many familiars that refuse to cooperate due to holding their own sentient will –
"They are more so "aspects" of his former self. Raku lived lifetimes, and he claims this is the last." John stood up, ready to leave. To get as far away as he could.
"We'll allow him to stay, should you be there for all of his classes as ….a reassurance."
Michael's father dropped the if bomb as John shuffled over to his smug face. "I'll homeschooling him before you ever have the –
"We want him in the newest class for the gifted. You'd be teaching part if that, along with A –
"NO." John turned to Atticus and dismissed that idea right off the bat. "His own fault was coming back with a magic drug to keep himself lively. Why? I can't ever let my charge do what you want! I've got the gods' eyes at my back, and so will you."
"According to the agreement built by the spirit beings, " the only disagreement is loss of control, the theft of power or abuse of the charge in question."
John was gobdlstopped as his head poubded out of rage. Damn it! They were one step ahead. "You are just an unlawful crook yourself. Setting a rebellion through these halls. Arson conspiracies…we could absolve it, make it go away so that you and that boy might have another tomorrow."
"To start over." Atticus added in after Michael's dad. "Constantine. I have forgiven you, and I hope you will –
"This place was fine and dandy, was." Snorted John. "No special treatment. No pulling him aside, nothing without my part to add in."
The group went quiet. "Yes, you are his guardian after all." The headmaster bobbed his neck.
"Damn straight." John cracked his neck and walked to the exit, standing with a weary eye on Atticus and Michael's daddy dearest. Michael's fists were already clenched by his sides. It looked, painful to hide.
"Raku is still overcoming traumas that you couldn't fathom from his past. I'll notify the school in less than two days if he's well enough to join."
"Very good. Then, we'll be happy to have you back…should the child have his full recovery." The headmaster nodded for John to have his wish to leave.
Down the hall, the red haired janitor knew that school would be out, if not that last bell. He took to his guise and made quick work. Shadowing John to the door was a breeze. The sun was gone. Winter still picked its pattern as John stuffed his hands into his pockets and fished for his cigarettes..
"Fuckin –
He stopped and found that his car wasn't there. In the street!?
He searched, knowing it was a tow by the slip left on the ground. "Fuckin manners on that…." He clicked his tongue and walked, seeing a metro not far. And, a bar with neon lights about it.
While his body avoided going home until he warmed up, found what was dragging his ass through the slush.
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The bar was on a typical Monday. Dead, minding the women on the pole –
He pushed by as his feet refused to quit.
Crap...crap!
At the back rooms, there was the whip of red, like a tendril to his neck. That bite was his summons.
Seated with blood red wine in hand, two women with bites to their throats and hazy eyes, across was none other than a demon in black and red military garb. He looked fresh as a daisy, yet from the wrong time period.
John was ushered to side on the other side of the love seated booths, his spine already bending to speak in to the red haired sociopath.
"Ah, after hours? Good of you to, drop in…" Lothos grinned woth shark's teeth and no one else pointing that out. His tail was hidden and his horns, thank God for not having them...
"My lord is sleeping, or is he? I sense a lot that happens in that muddled expression by the way. My, you look bushed." A glass was poured by some hostess as she made sweet eyes before playing with Lothos's hair again.
Hair. Like a dragon?
Dragons had hair as their manes, their power. Yet Lothos was a sorcerer of a sort that needed powers he'd preserved by taking, not by having B his own unless Lilith had granted those. In truth, he was another pedophile- bully from Raku's extensive history with these freaks.
Refusing to be one had made Lilu curse him, using his energy to craft her empire and to control her minions far better. Yet, Raku got his revenge, killed and caged his former rapists.
Lothos deemed himself imperial, yet pity was in his veins. He wanted power, as any washed up leader.
"Here I thought the bites were not to gain followers. Why drag me in and be a bloke, hum?" John didn't touch his glass, instead pulling out his cig as one of the women hissed like a cat at the thing.
"Gloria! Bad, kitty!" The man shrugged her as her nose twitched, eyes going dark while her body shuddered at the half incubi's touch. "Would you care to join us? I've rented out the entire den…if that is of your –
"STDs from demons isn't." John sniffed into the table as his eyes then rose. "There is one thing that I know; Atticus had help where he is now. You didn't just bite us, he was you."
"No, John. Not exactly. We, are each other…"
John wondered what that meant before Gloria let out a squeal. The blood at her throat trickled as teeth dipped into her collarbone "She tasted to wet for my jaws. Funny how humans are fragile once you test their limits, yet of course…" The second woman remained pliant as that tail cursed as it was, wove up the other's skirt to reveal –
"Damn you!"
"What? A little of everything exists at MY expense. This good fuck would mean nothing to a god. Even if it pretends to wear the clothing of a whore." Puffs of breath slipped from the transgendered dressed teen, that face begged. Ached, even by a curse as it's legs kicked. Panty – less.
"You have no place being in our world. If the gods catch you, you're done."
"Am I?" Lothos traced a red line from the femboy's shoulder to their cheek, earning a moan. Red, long nails as talons.
"Drop him…" Warned John, his hand reaching for the wine glass. He started to whisper a casting. The sigil interrupted as the teen was let to flop on their side, dazed and drooling. Lothos burst out laughing as his hand moved to the glass, causing it to splinter. "Don't raise hell on me, Constantine! I was perfectly in my lifetime, I'm only trying to help you….."
Shuddering as the glass stopped shuddering via his failed spell, John released his breath. "Fuck it all, you can't have anything. I want you dead and banished with your hired help."
"On what trial? I have every right to belong, and you can't even guess?" Sneered the demon. "Atticus wasn't the only one, John! You are soo close…that boy's very existence tethers us both. So? Why not this; I gather your blood, let him figure out his place. Never changing. Call me, from afar. And if I tend to get close, so close, you meet. Like this, we-
"Why would you act like a separated parent in an abuse case when you ARE?? A RAPIST!"
"It was for power, Constantine." The creature's eyes began to shift to a deadly scarlet. The boy on the sofa was up. His neck was victimized as the red collar dropped about, moaning two victims on that side while John only had a single nip. Enough to keep him here.
"Try and kill him if you can't see it. He isn't like a demon. Isn't a mortal, not even an Ethereal. He's the in- between. A body lacking a true soul. Why do you think he's gone to search for it??"
"You…" John stood up, seeking the memory in time that explained what had taken that truth from Raku. His…
~ HE STOLE IT. MY INNOCENCE…~
"You still, have his powers." John rasped.
The demon sat back in his seat as he snapped his fingers with a leg crossed over his knee. "Better, you're understanding. Raku is mine, forever he never wasn't. After Lilith was…executed with that book, I managed a part of myself to preserve what was, what Roku never let me lose."
That, that was right. Even as the kid grew, he was controlled after the turning by Lilith's casting. Lothos had branded the kid. Even…
"Where is his mark?? You-
The boy on the sofa sat up, smiling dazedly as it had a hand to its stomach as if expecting…
John's eyes went wide.
"His….core?? What –
"LILITH tried it, I almost failed to want it. Did you thing the cosmic egg was a myth?" Grinned the devil. "Raku could birth a universe if he so wished, yet that fire Azag left behind was stored within the core by rite. The boy is Constantine going into trances, isn't he? Poor thing." Sighed the pouting red headed menace. "He doesn't want enlightment, Constantine. He wants completion, through another to fill that desire. I just, had him a little-
John lunged at the demon as it pushed the table back into John's knees. "It wasn't innocent, you…are a distraction. A moron without a soul, not him!"
"And you think he's human." The demon tilted its head as a door opened behind it in a spinning black vortex. John couldn't go on ahead as his entire body was pulled back towards the entrance whence he'd come. Gloria and the cross dressed teen both were escorted through the door to Lothos's domain to be drained of their lives their bodies and mind, nothing but husks.
John reached and was shoved out as the door vanished.
As if it were a portal into the ring of lust, he found himself panting rather loudly before pounding a fist at the brick wall in front of him.
Raku, cosmic egg?? Birth??
What…what was he shifting this to??
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If John goes back, Lothos will try to hurt Raku is what he's concluded. John has to now, stay awayin his own hide away – but Lothos wants his deal. This next part is pure vampire. Coming in through the window bull to psychically and physically drain John to give up his soul to give up his position as protector of Raku. So?? Raku has to go back to school, hands down he will be fighting Michael's crap, his father's crap, Ignito saying I told you so and Amber and Atticus. What next?? Find out!
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