The Inky World Of The Ink Machine

Chapter 34 - Devil's Language

(Y/N)

I was walking throughout HeavenlyToys as suddenly I heard a familiar voice.

"Shit! Shit! Shit! I'm screwed."

"Dimitri?!"

He didn't answer. But I guarantee you that it was him. I ran behind him. He didn't notice me. Finally I caught up to him and grabbed his arm.

"Dimitri! What's wrong?"

"Let go, (Y/N)!"

"No! There are enough problems out there! Tell me what's wrong!"

He blinked. As his golden eyes opened again, golden ink flew down out of his eyes.

"|-b#!# =^ n0 ☆♡ (0! •#}"

"Dimitri? What did you say? I can't understand you."

He grabbed my head with his claws.

"|-b#!# =^ n0 ☆♡ (0! •#}"

I saw the symbols. But what did they mean? Suddenly Dimitri threw me across the hallway. I almost broke my neck. He then ran off.

I was left alone... bleeding. I was hoping that someone would find me. I hoped I would be okay.

I didn't last long before I got unconscious.

I woke up in a different room. I never knew it or never saw it. I touched my neck. It was bandaged. Someone took me here and took care of me. But who?

"Oh! You're finally awake. How do you feel, (Y/N)?"

I turned around. I recognized that voice.

"Sammy?! How did you-? What happened?!"

Sammy wasn't looking the same way as we met before. He looked human. Like a real human. But how? His nose, chin and ,even the shape of his eyebrows seemed to be pointy. His hair was slicked but not fully, not quite long and floppy on the top. The angles of his body were even more pronounced.

"I know it's a big surprise. The curse melts, (Y/N). We're going to be set free from this cycle as well."

"Thank you for helping me."

"Don't worry, (Y/N). Who did this to you?"

I thought for a moment. I wasn't sure if to tell Sammy about Dimitri. But I had to. It would be better for him and for all of us.

"Dimitri grabbed my head with his claws and threw me. He also talked in a... very strange language."

"Very strange language?"

"You mean the Devil's language?", asked a woman entering the room.

"Devil's language? What do you mean by that, Susie?"

Now me and Sammy were both very confused. Devil's language? What's that supposed to mean?

"Devil's language is the way Typhon speaks with the other Devils in hell. If Dimitri spoke it, means that the golden ink formed into a devil. The golden ink made their own spirit that controls Dimitri."

I was still confused. Who was that woman? How did she knew about that? Sammy looked at me.

"Oh... you seem to be a bit confused. (whispering to himself) Maybe because of hearing about this stupid language. (normally talks) But... is it about the woman in front of us?"

"Yeah. You called her Susie. Who's that?"

"You knew her as Alice or Twisted Alice. This is her human form."

Oh. So Susie was basically Alice. Now that I think about it, I never heard her voice. We never met. That's why she was completely new to me. Susie looked quiet beautiful. Her hair went to her shoulders, were in curls and had the color of honey. She wore a black below the knee skirt, a white blouse with stains of ink and black kitten heels.

"Nice to meet you, Susie. I'm (Y/N)."

"Nice to meet you, (Y/N). One important question. Do you remember every single sign you saw?"

"I do... but how did you know I saw-"

"I saw them too. It was until I broke from the spell. Well,... basically Henry and Sammy saved me. They came in front of my safehouse and fought Dead Angel. So... write them down.", said Susie, giving me a sheet of paper and a pencil.

I wrote down what I saw.

"|-b#!# =^ n0 ☆♡ (0! •#}"

After I wrote them down, I gave the sheet back to Susie. She looked at it and suddenly a sad face came out.

"Oh my... he's hurt."

"Who's hurt, Susie? What do you mean by that?", asked Sammy.

"The message he said in the Devil's language was... There is no miracle for me!. He's hurt emotionally. Did he say something before that?"

I thought for a second. Then I remembered.

"Yeah, he did. He was repeating a shit and then said that he's screwed. I don't know why he was acting that way, but he didn't answer when I called out to him, as well he looked like he was panicking."

"Typhon... again. The golden ink somehow is connected to him. I don't understand why? He's out of smoke. Not ink. It just... doesn't make any sense."

"We think the same way, Susie. But there has to be something that makes it that way. That it makes sense. Even though it doesn't now.", said Sammy.

"We have to find Dimitri. That's what we're going to do. We have to find him, bring him here and make him talk. He might know more than we do.", suggested Susie brave.

"And how are we going to find him? Thought about that? We can not let him escape!", said an unknown voice.

First I thought, why would an unknown creature involve themselves into our private conversation? Susie turned fast around.

"Pfui... It's only you Henry. You didn't have to be so rude.", said Susie calm.

"It wasn't me. But this guy.", told us Henry, dragging a tied up Lost One in our room. It was Flynn.

"Long time not seen, Mr. Hadminger. How was their weekend?"

"Stop playing dumb, (Y/N)! I know you and that abomination of a human went with that grinning demon girl through a portal to freedom, leaving all of us behind! EXPLAIN YOURSELF, (L/N)!!"

"Flynn! Don't shout at younger people. Just 'cause you're deaf, doesn't mean we all have to be."

"Cut that out, Susie! Ugh... I hate you people."

I looked at Henry. He looked... a bit pissed off. But now I was curious about one thing.

"Have you seen Roxana, Henry? I saw Dimitri but not her."

"She was with me. She's now in her brother's lair. Why do you ask?"

"I wanted to be sure she's ok. Besides, she might know about the Devil's langu-"

"Why the hell would you wanna know that?!"

" 'Cuz Dimitri started talking that way. The golden ink made a devil spirit inside him.", I said.

"That's because Roxana made a ritual to save his life.", told us Henry.

Sammy stood up like he got shoot from a canon. His eyes were wide open. He looked frustrated, upset and shocked. He started talking that way:

"Did you just say... she made a RI-TU-AL?! The one I totally forbited everyone in the studio to do?! I definitely told you about it."

"Sammy, calm down! She wasn't at the studio at that time. She couldn't know."

Henry tried to calm down Sammy.

"Then how does she even know about this ritual?! IT'S DANGEROUS!!! I threw the paper away with it so that no one would find it. It makes a devilish spirit, Henry! Dimitri has lost his mind! ...

... It might be too late for him!"