Silents before the storm Ch.8

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(Reaper POV)

Lucifer looked into Leviathans eyes and answers his question “I never said it would be now. The fight will take place 9 days from now in my colosseum where all of hell will be watching! With today being an intermission day” The whole room goes silent as everyone's shock sets in.

“WHAT? My lord you couldn't possibly expect Reaper to take on one of the Seven Deadly Sins?” Baal tries to reason with Lucifer “He is still getting used to hells environment”

“I agree with Baal, Reaper is inexperienced with this type of combat. There’s no way he’ll win” Alice crosses her arms “And what’s your plan if he actually kills Reaper?”

Everyone continues there bickering as I begin to walk away and go find Roxwell to fix my suit, but I feel a soft tug on my wing I turn to see it was that peach haired girl from earlier “Yes?”

I watch as she fixes her choker and looks at me to speak “Umm...I like your wings” She shyly twiddled her thumbs “T-there pretty” Her hair hiding her face.

“Thank you, I haven’t had them for long, but they are cool” I open my wings and wave them up and down “I’m not sure if I can fly though”

She stares in awe but snaps out of it as I stick my hand out for a handshake “I’m Reaper, you?” As I ask her this, she starts frantically shifting her eyes side to side.

“Uhh....I-I'm Ruby!” she takes my hand and begins to shake it abnormally fast “I-I'm Mr. Leviathans a-apprentice"

“Apprentice, that must suck” I wrapped my wings around me again and turned to leave “Anyway, sorry I have to cut this conversation short but I gotta go somewhere, bye”

I walked away from her and continued through the winding hallways until finally I arrived at Roxwells shop. I open the door only to see that no one's there, I walk to the front desk and peer around the corner and see a shadow being cast on the wall. I walk a little closer and hear what seems to be Roxwell talking to himself “Once I’m done with this, I’ll have all the power I want”

All the power? What is he talking about? I put my ear closer to the wall and listened more. “And once his plan is complete, I’ll finally be something more than a servant!”

Just as I’m about to confront him the bell at the front desk rings *DING* “Be with you in a minute” His shadow stops, and he gets up to leave the room. I barely had time to react, but before he left the room, I managed to hide in a nearby locker. I peer out the vent of the locker and see Roxwell greeting someone.

“Oh, nice to see you again. Loki” Roxwell sticks his hand out “You know, you shouldn’t be here it violates the treaty”

“Oh, Roxy you know I could care less about that damn treaty. Plus, I’m not here for that, I’m here to check the progress on our plan” The man shakes Roxwells hand “And with this power there won’t be any force in any mythology that could stop us!”

“Speaking of which, why don’t you come and see the progress on the device?” Roxwell gestured to the back room “And observe the progress on our plan”

“Why not? With Odin out on one of his little “Expeditions” I’ve got nothing better to do” Roxwell and the man walk past me and into the backroom “Incredible! It's better than I could have imagined. With this and the power of Ragnarök, we'll be unstoppable!”

With them distracted by whatever is in that room I snuck out of the locker and made my way to the exit door but just as I’m about 4 feet from the door I hear footsteps behind me. “Once are plan is in order I’ll personally make you the new king of hell” Roxwell and the man walk side by side until Roxwell stops “Who are you?” Roxwells voice changes to one of annoyance and anger. “Reveal yourself now!”

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