Failed God's Son - The Tragedy of Lucifer Percival

Chapter 6 - Can't dance the "Earth way"

The day after the trip to Limbo...
A poster is slapped on the wall of St. Justin Catholic Highschool. The poster shows bright lights, a music stand and a food bar with people dancing, it is time for the late-semester school party.
Percival passes by one of these posters and reads into it, and quickly after he tries to find Mitchell to ask about it. Turning a corridor, he's met with a new sight, a girl. A girl wearing the usual female uniform of the school, white plad shirt, gray stockings, black skirt and black shoes. Her hair curls and curls around her head like twisters in storms, showing bride in their brown colour. Her eye brows and lips are thin, eyelashes not tempered with, and eyes with a bright redish-purple colour.
Those eyes lock Percival in for a second, before shaking his head out of it.
- Execuse me-.
- You are Lucifer Percival, right?
- Yes, that is me.
The girl suddenly pulls Percival around the corner, being grabbed by his shoulders.
- What the hell?
- Y'know, I kinda saw someone fight in the cafeteria a few days ago. Charcoal black skin and nice, long wings with plump muscles around. Could it be you, Mr. Lucifer~?
- ...How can you think it is me?
- Is it that surprising? Lucifer Percival? Lucifer Morningstar? The connection is easy to spot~.
The girl pulls Percival closer, making our boy very much uncomfortable.
- Let me go, now. - Percival says in a weirded out/annoyed tone. Who's this girl? What does she want from him? And why is she getting so close to bursting his personal bubble? This is what humans refer to as "uncomfortable"?
- Aw, but why? I love demons!
- What makes you think I am one?
- I just explained, dummy. You? A pale as the wall boy, rocking your 6'11" height and baby hair? Suddenly turning into a muscular, charcoal blackened, winged beast? It is the way of satanist magic. You are the first demon I have ever seen in my life~. And I wanna see you closer. - The girl pulls Percival into hugging distance. - Really close~.
Percival is disgusted. This type of behavior?! AT HIM?! What kind of human she think she is to touch and rip into the soul of the Prince of Hell?
- Let me go at once! Not meeting this action will be met with report to the proper Earthly authorities! - Percival pulls himself away from the girl. - Who the fuck even are you?! How can you expect me to mate with you if I don't even know your name?! You absolute sinner or lust, creature!
- Oh, yeah, I-I forgot to tell you my name, whoops I'm a cluts~! I am Sonia Bethern, and I am 17 years old, and I am in Class 3C. I study theology and chemistry!
- I cast you to the circle of Lust, Sonia Bethern! Burn in the unholy abyss!
- OH PLEASE~!
- YOU ABSOLUTE CREATURE OF HORNINESS!
A teacher hears the two shouting and shouts back at them.
- Hey! You two quit that kind of language now or you both will be sent to detention and to the principal! - the teacher shuts the door.
Percival looks at Sonia, who looks back at him with her sinful grin. Percival rushes away to his and Mitchell's classroom, before this scene gets too uncomfortable, even for my friends. And trust me, we've seen some weird shit. He slowly arrives at his class and enters. It's the middle of a math class.
- I am sorry for my delayed entry, teacher. I have fallen into an argument on the halls. It won't happen again.
- I sure hope so, sit down. You get no extra homework, since this is your first time being late.
Percival scoots over to his and Mitchell's spot. He whips out the poster which he ripped off, showing it to Mitchell. He quietly asks:
- Mitchell, what is this?
- Oh, it's the late-semester school party. Every year or semester, the school holds a large party in the cafeteria for all students to attend, to celebrate the soon-coming summer break, and to get the graduating students' mind off of exams and finals.
- What do you usually do during it?
- I usually just go for the food and music. I can't dance all that well. They serve crab legs which I really like.
- And what else can you do?
- You can dance, I guess. You can find new people to be friends with, eat and just generally hang out.
- How do you dance the Earth way?
- What?
- You humans, how do you dance?
- I... can't really explain. It's a set of swift but smooth moves, usually with a partner.
- The demons have their own way of dancing.
- Oh?
- But it's mostly a violent mating dance. The male and female fly up in the air and brawl there, which ends with a kiss. The winner of the brawl takes the role of the head of the family.
- Sounds rough.
- It is.
The teacher looks at them.
- No talking in class! Mr. Percival and Mr. Whitehouse!
- I was just asking about the subject of today, I was late to class, teach. - answers Perci.
- Oh, alright then, I see.
The class continues as normal until the bell rings. Percival and Mitchell walk down and encounter Sonia.
- Hey hey Perci~!
- Oh fucking damn it. - mutters Percival.
- You know this girl? - asks Mitchell.
- Yeah, she pulled me aside last break with her lusty hands.
Sonia skips infront of them.
- Perci, how are you doing? - she asks kindly.
- Im... doing okay, as okay someone can be aftee encountering you.
- Awh, I thought you liked our little meeting earlier~.
- Well I didn't. I don't wanna be around succubus-ful women like you.
- Ouchie~! Now that's just an insult!
Mitchell looks at Percival.
- Dang Perci, bullying a girl eh?
- You shut your mouth before I rip it off.
- okay okay I'm sorry-!
Percival shoves Sonia aside and they continue their walk down the hall. The day goes as casual. Class after class, annoying teacher after annoying teacher, encounters with the horny bitch known as Sonia Bethern, just life.
The two boys sit at the cafeteria, which has been decorated for the party. Disco ball, music set, curtains, large tables, and a clean dancefloor. Percival looks around.
- Can we sit down?
- I think the place is closed for now until the party ends.
- I kinda wanna see it, see what the human dance is like.
- Are we gonna find out that you actually like Earth things?
- I still yet to answer that question myself. Everything I've seen so far was mediocre.
Lets cut to the chase and skip the day to the party. The party has started around 4PM, students have gathered around, chatting. Percival and Mitchell tried sticking together, as to not drown in the sea of students. Someone pushes Mitchell aside and sends him deeper into the student sea. Soon after, Percival feels something slide into his pants from behind. He snaps around, yep, it's fucking Sonia again.
- Sonai how many fucking times do I have to tell you to leave me alone?!
- I was just checking if you have a tail tho.
- My tail?
- Yea, there's a clear small lump in your pants' butt. Or you might have shit yourself?
- I have manners bitch. I am room clean and know how to use a fucking toilet.
Percival checks and, a small tail does seem to be shoving, extending from his tailbone.
- Fuck, I thought I was fully human. That trip to Hell with Mitchell must have upsety form. Whatever, it'll be gone shortly-.
Sonia touches Percival's tail again.
- So thin but so smooth~!
- GET OFF MY TAIL YOU BITCH! - Percival pushes Sonia off him.
The principal arrives at the party and speaks into the mic infront of the crowd.
- May I get some silence?
The crowd keeps chatting.
- I said silence please!
More chatting.
- ...SILENCE ALL! - now the chatting stopped. - Finally, thank you. You have all gathered here to celebrate the upcoming summer break and the soon coming finals. Me, principal Markus Pledger, student council, and the teachers council, wish all participants of this party a very pleasant time. We also wish our future graduats a huge best of luck for their finals, which will begin on next week's Tuesday! Anyone can leave this party any time! Your attendance isn't forced. Eat and drink as your heart desires! I wish everyone fun!
And with some claps, the music fades in and the party starts. Percival does not seem too amazed. Mitchell seem to ne having fun tho, swinging and swaying in the crowd to the music. Percival just moves aside and sits down at a table where no one seems to be sitting. Something suddenly hops beside him and- goddamn it it's Sonia again.
- ...I am THIS close to ripping your spine out.
- Perci, I know I might be pushy alot, but, I am genuinely interested in your world. Hell and all. I love demons of all kinds and I wanna learn more. I wanna be friends, Percival. I just wanna see you perform as a demon and examine you. Anything to see you be your other self.
- ... - Percival switches into his demon form in a quick blaze. - Are you happy?
- W-Woah. You look...s-so much bigger this close. I can feel heat radiating off you. - she touches Percival's arm, which is hot like a stovetop. - OW! OUCHIE!
- I thought you knew our bodies are hot from being so warm blooded and for living in HELL.
Cut to Mitchell, still swaying swinging. Getting tired of swinging and swaying, he goes to the tables for a drink, and grabs a glass of punch. And then he notices something thanks to his hell sand burned eyes. The drinks and food let off a black aura. And then he notices a large, dark figure in the corner. He drops the cup and it shatters. He rushes to get Percival.
- Perci! Perci come!
He finds Percival patting Sonia's head.
- Bro what the fuck?
- She said she'll shut up if I pat her head enough times.
- Now's not the time! I found something!
- Is it bad?
- I think it's a demon! The food and drinks are in black.
Percival jumped up from his seat.
- Take me there. - Mitchell complies and takes Percival to the table in question. It still lets off that black, smoke-like aura still.
- It's infected. - Percival sniffs the food and drinks. - Sleeping poison.
- So everyone who drank or ate will faint?
- ...Yes. - and with that word, a student falls on the floor, and a nother, then a nother, then 30 more. The students start leaving after seeing the students collapse. Percival scouts the room and sees the dark figure aswell. It turns into a tall woman, huge bust and hips, wearing the fur of animals, two red horns striking out of her head's sides, dark blond hair, white skin, belly showing, a sickle on both of her sides, and two falcon's wings on her back.
Percival instantly recognizes the figure, back in his human form.
- Lilith!
- Perci! Step-brother! How's it going?
- Oh I don't know, I was trying to enjoy the party here, until your face popped up.
- Sorry to be such a party killer! I see you've made a friend, I saw him eyeing me. - Lilith walks up to Mitchell. - Aw, he looks cute up close!
Mitchell can't really decide if he should feel scared, or happy that a woman thinks he's cute. Lilith pats his head, which he gently chuckles about.
- Maybe I can take him home with me?
- No! You can't!
- But why~?
- He doesn't belong in Hell yet. He still has a life to live. He isn't supposed to die yet.
- Wait when am I supposed to die? - asks Mitchell.
- Age 87 is the age when your natural death will happen.
- ...Now I'll have an existential crisis.
Lilith puts Mitchell down.
- Humans are so cute, just like their wildlife! Pale, smooth skin, puffy and nice hair, their range of voices, I love em! People are wonderful!
- Then why did you try to poison or kill these students?
- I wanna take them home! They can't refuse if they are asleep.
- You'll have to get through me first if you are going to do that!
- Please, stepbro?
- No, sister, no matter how many times you beg, I will not let you take them.
And suddenly, a sickle strikes through Percival's stomach, making him bleed lots.
- PERCI NO! - Mitchell shouts and rushes at Lilith. - You bastard!
Mitchell grabs a glass cup from the table and smashes it against Lilith's head.
- Ow! That really hurt, Mitch~!
- How dare you hurt my friend?! Your own brother!
- He's fine! Look!
Mitchell turns to Percival, and gets scooped up by Lilith with her sickle. He's thrown against the table, knocking him half-unconscious. He gets up somehow and rushes to Perci.
- Perci! Stick with me dude! Are you still alive?
- Yep, I'm still kicking the can, don't worry. - says Percival casually. He removes the sickle from his body. - ...Thats gonna leave a mark.
He drops it next to him.
- How are you still alive?
- A demon can't be killed by non-demon made weapons. These sickles are human made. They can only harm me. Demons can be only killed completely with holy weapons.
Percival grabs the sickle and charges at Lilith, who blocks his attack with her other sickle. This sickle against sickle fight goes on, until Lilith hooks her sickle against Percival's, and throws him against the window, knocking him out onto the street. He jumps back in, now turning into a demon. With a roar, he jumps on Lilith and tries to wrestle out the sickle from her hand, but she's holding onto it real strong.
- We are matched evenly, eh? While you were getting puny and weak in this Earthly hell, I was getting ready to overtake your spot! I will be the next queen of hell, you little son of a bitch! I am the daughter of Eve and Satan! THE THRONE IS MI-!
Suddenly, Sonia comes rushing in with two knives from the kitchen, no fucks given, jumping onto Lilith's back, stabbing it deep.
Lilith let's out a scream and drops the sickle, which Percival grabs and cuts her jaw off with.
Lilith tries to shake Sonia off her back, but she stabs the knives back in, into a different spot. Mitchell, joining in the brawl, he grabs the best weapon he can find near by, a broomstick, and pokes Lilith into the belly button, causing her to lean down, and Mitchell tries to shove the stick down her throat. Percival helps with this action by punching the broomstick through Lilith's body. Sonia jumps off of Lilith.
- We are bullying one giant son of a bitch! - Sonia goes to attack Lilith again, but she grabs her and squishes her against the ground, her blood and guts splattering onto the floor.
Mitchell screams.
- OH FUCK! OH SHIT! OH JEEZUS! SONIA IS FUCKING DEAD!
Percival grabs the sickle again and with a smooth move, cuts off Lilith's head. Lilith falls on her side.
Percival lifts the hand up which crushed Sonia.
- She's a pulp. She's 100% dead.
- W-What are we gonna do?!
- We leave.
- WHAT?! Are you just going to leave her here?! What about her parents?!
- They'll be sad, they'll be depressed. What about them?
- ...D-Do you seriously not care?
- No, I don't. - he looks at Sonia's corpse. - Humans can die, unlike demons. They are less significant than demons or angels. They are pests. They don't matter. They die, and the world moves on.
- ... - Mitchell tears up a bit. - Can you love anything, ANYTHING?! Does the son of Satan care about the tiniest thing?!
- I still yet to find someone, or something, to actually love. I am open to finding someone.
Mitchell wipes his tears off. He tries to punch Percival for the things he just said, but Percival stops him.
- Do you want to be insignificant like them?
- ..N-No!
- Do you want to know the Hell of mine, or the hell this Earth is?
- ..Y-Yours.
- Do you want to be my friend, Mitchell Whitehouse? Can you take the friendship of a demon?
- ... - Mitchell doesn't know how to answer. If he says yes, his life will never be the same, it's gonna be a living hell. He'll fight demons, angels, beings of unimaginable sizes. He might turn into a demon himself. But if he says no, his life will be boring like before all of this. He takes a deep breath and shouts. - YES, I CAN!
- ... That's spirit. - Percival lets go of Mitchell's fist. - Meet me tomorrow at the gate of your house. I'll have something for you. - Percival leaves Mitchell at the fight scene. He turns to Lilith's vaporizing corpse.
- ...She was so beautiful before all of this roughing up. I wish there would be a way to just talk with them and find a compromising way. I don't wanna kill demons, they are beautiful.