Artificial

EPILOG

I don't know where I am,
all I remember off the top of my head was that I won my fight,
saved humanity,
fell into the deep end of the river face first and passed out.
Now I'm currently float in a pitch black space with zero gravity,
and if there is any,
it's barely noticeable.
I felt my feet touch the floor then I saw wall lanterns light up,
revealing a very dime hallway with a red carpet that spread for several yards.
I follow the light to a giant marble door and not too long getting there a demon opens it up and greets me,
it was a Imp of sorts with small goat like horns.

"Master Satan would like to see you Seth Thompson."
Surely this is all a dream,
yeah a dream.
Has to be right?
Right?! I follow the Imp inside and the room has more wall mounted lanterns,
Satan himself wore a expensive red suit and black tie as he sat comfortably on his throne despite being chained down to it by golden holy chains.
This maybe a dream but it sure as hell was a real one.
"Welcome to my throne boy."
A long table spawns into the room like a video game and a chair for me as well,
I sit down and pull myself up to the table. "You wanted to see me king of demons?" Satan chuckles,
I was honestly expecting someone more oh I don't know,
red skinned with horns and buff as hell but nope,
he's choosing to look like a human despite his eyes still being a orange red color. "I did as a matter of fact,
first congratulations,
you're a Demon Lord and no longer need that ring, second you longer need to consume humans,
congratulations. And finally now that Brandon is dead,
I will bestow apon you the power he had myself."

Satan's eyes glows bright red as I realize this isn't a dream!
I get zapped right in the eyes with two eye beams like Superman and I fall over out of my chair.
All of a sudden I felt more powerful and more in tune to my demonic instincts then suddenly my chair magically lifts itself up and sets me up straight at the table again. "There you go,
now this concludes my business transaction, off to the mortal realm you go."
My surroundings go black again as those set of ominous eyes disappear,
I wake up nearly instantly only to groan in pain.
I take in my surroundings to see i'm in a hotel room,
laying on a bed coverd in bandages.
"Easy dude, your body isn't quite heald yet." Chace says from the other bed,
I groan some more as Sora and Terra enter the room,
Terra holding a few bags of groceries and a first aid kit,
Sora carrying a get well soon gift basket and two katanas.

One was a black katana with a gold colored tsuba in the form of a flower and pink flower design on the black sheath,
the other reminded me of a certain someone's Zanpakuto with a diamond shaped tsuba,
for some reason I felt holy energy radiating from them and yet it didn't seem harmful to me.
I tried speaking but my throat was too sore from all the talking and yelling,
oh well.
"Hey Seth, some woman with pinkish red hair in a ponytail gave us this to give to you. She says feel better soon mister gilded hero."
Sora says as she props my katanas against the wall,
Chase helps me raise up and Terra begins to changing the bandages on my chest and head,
I barely mutterd a few words.
"How long was I out?"
Was all I could ask.
"A day and a half."
Terra responds,
once Terra was done,
for the next few days I spent family time with my three siblings.
I'm somewhat anti social with Sora,
not because I don't want to but because her aura is kinda intimidating.
Terra was the chatterbox,
I bonded with Chace over anime,
manga, comics and movies and I mainly just listend to Sora talk when she said anything. I was always anti social to begin with, my grandmother raised me like that,
to be the perfect obedient kid.
Strange how my life played out,
I spent about a week with them in a hotel, traveling,
eating at restaurants and yet after four weeks of moping,
self loathing and blaming myself.
I bought Brandon's property by forging his hand writing and processing a few humans, once Brandon's work place was legally mine I went back and removed the illusion rune, revealing the small building.
I often found myself pacing the place,
laying in Penny and Leon's room for who knows how long and after a few days to a week,
Terra shows up.
"Hey." I turn to face her as I sat on the couch. "Hi."
I reply. "I understand that you're going through some stuff but I think it's time we got you your own place."
Terra tries to mence her words in the least painful way possible.
"I don't know how to pay bills."
It was a sad truth,
the only reason why my old office had power at all was because Akil would take my paychecks and he'd pay the bill for me. "I'll teach you."
So I end up going with Terra and I bought a mansion in downtown Greenville,
she showed me how to pay bills and my siblings helped me move everything into my mansion.
I told them they are more then happy to stay anytime and they took me up on that offer, just not now.
Chace and Sora gave me six million dollars a peace sense all my money I made from the Demon Council was spent getting my mercenary services out there.

I told them to keep it but they said they had twelve million dollars by putting both their money together so I accepted the money, then all three of them left in a taxi to venture the world and explore all there is to explore.
I walk over to my coutch and the last thing I expected from all of this was a phone call from my parents.
Naturally I picked it up to hear the voice of my mother.
"Son, why is grandmother in prison?"
I sigh and take the time to explain all the years that I've been through,
every single last memory of all the mental abuse my grandmother put me through. And like a water dam all my years of bottled up anger and resentment come flowing like a raging river,
I expressed how much I hated them for leaving me with her but I also told her I forgive her and dad because they put the needs of America over the needs of one person.
It pains me that I couldn't tell her about being a Artificial Demon and turning into a Demon Lord,
then again no sane person would ever believe me.
I could hear my mother getting choked up and to my surpise she says something that rattles me to my core.
"I'm so sorry Seth. I'm sorry we left you, I'm sorry that you grew up hating your grandmother,
if I could rewind time,
I'd make sure me and your father raised you right."
I could hear her breaking down and sobbing into the cell phone which caused me to do the same.
"It's too late for regrets,
but at the very least the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
I can't say what I'm involved in but what I can say is that I too am serving our country." Mother asks me what did I get myself into to which I inform her that it was classified information.
Knowing my mother's work ethic she'll look into what I meant and will likely look through the CIA's new recruits, unfortunately for her,
once this call ends I'm blocking her number and sometime in the near future I'll change my number.
We continued the talk but in the end before I hung up I had to tell her we aren't family anymore even if we are related by blood and that broke her.
I wasn't doing it to be a dick by any means, I'm doing that because I'm the only Demon Lord in the state of South Carolina to my knowledge that has a target on his back and a price on his head.
If some crazy demon found out who I was related to then she would be a hostage or worse killed.
This is better for the both of us this way unfortunately.
Finally the last thing on my list was visiting my grandmother in jail.
"So have you finally decided to apologize and bail me out?"
I look at her like she's stupid.
"Hell no." She slams her hand on table and tries to slap me,
I grab her arm and begin crushing the bones in her arm.
"AHHHHHHHH! HE'S HURTING ME! HE'S HURTING ME!"
I let her arm go but she wonders where her help is.
"You need Jesus, you need to repsent for your sins,
or burn in the ever lasting hellfire that is Hell!"
Little did she know I used my demonic power to influence the guards thoughts and morals.
"Let me tell you something Patricia."
Yeah I called her by name.
"I don't need your brainwashed mentality." I begin to tell her everything about my adventure and at the end of it all I showed her my Demon Lord form and she went pale and lost the will to speak.
I left the room and left her in jail to rot by using my demonic power to influence the court and police. I begin skipping down the side walk, I can finally move on in my life.
_____________________________________________(Author's Notes)

ANNNNNNNNND WE'RE DONE! BOOK 1 IS DONE EVERYONE! I want to thank my supporters and followers, shout out to my YouTube/Twich streaming friend The Uncrowned_Otaku! Follow him on YouTube he's Uncrowned Otaku! Shout out to my co writers and best friends Michel Joseph Maritato and my Canadian friend Travis Allen Goupil! Shout out to my dad for supporting me and shout out to some family members! You know who you are. That wraps it up. Look forward to book 2! The trilogy will continue!