Evil Reincarnated

Survival

Ezara POV

I wanted to follow him, to chase him and talk everything out. I wanted to know how he felt so I could help him understand it all, but I just stood there like an idiot. I let him walk away because I was shocked by what he said. I now we didn't know each other that well, but he spoke to me as if we were strangers. We weren't, were we?

"Since he won't listen, perhaps you will." A deep voice says from behind me. I turn to see a wolf walking up to me.

"Who are you?" I ask.

"That doesn't matter. Vexel is being lied to." The wolf sits down beside me. "Lilith is manipulating him and he doesn't see it."

"What did Lilith tell him?" I ask.

"She told him everything he knows about what he is. Vexel is a prime evil, but it wasn't the prime evils who did this to him. Yes, they wanted him gone but no one dare stood up to him. Lilith wants the prime evils gone, why would she spare him?"

"You're saying Lilith did this to him? Why would she manipulate him like that?"

The wolf stands again and walks around, pacing. "Because she wants me gone. She thinks Vyriviz can help her. Once I'm gone, she'll find a way to get rid of him again."

"Vyriviz?" I ask.

"Vexel. That is who he really is." The wolf responds.

I knit my brow. "Something isn't adding up here..." I state.

"Let me start from the beginning." The wolf sighs, sitting down. "Vyriviz is the prime evil of torture. He was stronger then all of us. We planned to work together to get rid of him, but Lilith was the one who came up with the final plan. Trap him in a human body. Before we had planned it out and enacted that plan, Lilith already killed a human and used a soulstone to trap Vyriviz momentarily and to use the human she killed as his prison. She killed Vexel to trap Vyriviz and make him a human. She told him that the prime evils did it so he would work for her."

"We... you're a prime evil as well. How do I know I can trust you?" I cross my arms. "All this talk of manipulation and you could be the one trying to manipulate me."

"I have no reason to manipulate you, human." He responds. "I'm the first prime evil Lilith wants to end. I'm her father. She plans to absorb my essence. Then she may be stronger then Vyriviz." I pause, trying to put two and two together.

"You're Mephisto." I state and the wolf nods. "So Vexel isn't the only prime evil on Sanctuary?"

The wolf paws at the ground impatiently. "This is a projection of myself. I'm still in Hell. Vexel isn't a projection of a prime evil, he is a prime evil."

I frown. "Then how am I going to get him to stop thinking he's some horrible monster? I get he's a prime evil but he cares for humans, at least I thought he did."

"Somewhere deep inside him, the human Vexel still lives." The wolf says, standing up again. "It has made him share a connection to humans no other demon or prime evil has. In some ways, he is still human. In others, he's the prime evil. He shares our power, but he feels love and compassion as you do. Either way, you humans need his help to stop Lilith and I need his help to stop her from absorbing my essence."

"I'm still wondering why I should help you do either of those things. To get Vexel on your side, you need me. It sounds you haven't been that nice to him." I cross my arms. "You wanted him gone in the first place. Maybe Lilith isn't the bad one here."

The wolf laughs. "You're a fool to think that."

"I don't think so, Mephisto. Either way, I don't want Vexel to be manipulated by another demon." I turn away from the wolf.