All I am (Completed)

All it takes

One false step.

One wrong move.

One bad choice.

Things could go wrong in an instant. One thing could decide the fate of a generation.

My choice.

I think that I made a mistake. Before I went to bed last night, Lucifer told me to make things right. I do not remember anything but I do faintly recall someone making a mistake. I don't remember what it was but I remember a mistake.

I walked up to Lucifer as he was staring out the window looking at the demons trying to consume each others souls. That was a game they played because some people go to the underworld with their souls in tact while others become ruthless demons.

"Why are you here."

"Because, we need to talk."

"About?"

"Just listen."

"No, you listen. I am the boss here. If anything, anything! I am not your slave. I have slaves. Multitudes. You are my slave. Got it?"

He bowed his head to me, "yes my queen."

I sighed, what came over me? "Now speak."

"You get one question answered today." He checked his watch and looked in my eyes for approval. I eyed him up and down.

"Why?"

"That was the arrangement." Unfolding a piece of paper, he showed me my signature on the formal document. "You signed on it."

"Fair enough."

He sat me at my throne, he graced me and asked me to proceed with one question.

"What do I ask? I have so many questions."

"Give it a minute. The old you will know."

Deep breath. The old you will know. Post millennium Helania will know. Come on. Which question deserves answering the most?

"Make it right."

Make what right?

"Just know you have to make it right."

"What am I-"

"-you will know soon enough my lord. Please, rest."

"Make what right?"

"Excuse me?"

"Last night you told me to make it right. What is it?"

"Huh, well. You have. Um."

"What?"

He looked to the window and rubbed his temples, it seemed as if he was fighting an inside battle.

"I don't want to-"

"ENOUGH! Lucifer, tell me. That is an order."

"Balance it. Make the world right. Turn the earth back on its axis and close the gaping hole that's destroying heaven."

Sitting in confusion, I laughed. He cannot be serious. He wants me, a demon- the demon- to fix heaven? That's insane.

"Wow. You're not joking." I said. "You want me to fix heaven because of-? Do you know what god did to me? Do you know that he wouldn't let me near a divine being? I can't. No no no, I won't."

He crossed his arms and looked at me sternly. "You don't have a choice."

He left me standing in the throne room, completely shocked. I will not fix something I did not break. Heaven can fix itself. Let their 'god' do it for them. I'm not under his control anymore. Down here, I am the boss.

"Hades!"

Within a minute later, Hades appeared, he was hot with anger and his energy fed my aching bones. It has been a while since I fed of negative energy. It was much better than consuming souls, it was the very essence of what a persons soul is made of.

"Yes my queen. I was attending some-" he paused and smiled evilly at me, "-business. Now, what may I assist you with?"

"They want me to fix heaven."

"Who? I don't know. Lucifer told me to make things right. I asked him about it and he said I have to fix heaven. What do I do?"

He took a moment to process it. I know Hades was trying not to let his personal feelings get in the way of my problem.

"Do you trust Lucifer?"

"Definately not."

He smirked and then laughed. "Then, he's right. Do it."

As he was about to leave, I thought of something I wanted him to know. People do things in different ways.

"On earth, they do things differently. If they don't trust a person, they don't follow their advice. They avoid that person and dealing with them."

"We're not people H."

"I know that. They feel, they have these...emotions. And-"

"-And nothing. That's what makes them human. What if you felt emotions?"

"The underworld would collapse. Everything we have worked for would be dead."

"Because of hard work and hopeless souls, we have all of this. Fix heaven then tear it down with your bare hands, that's what makes us demons."