The Curse of Once Upon a Time

Chapter XVI: Evangeline

"Hey Saige... oh no, what are you doing?"

I glanced up from my pondering at my friends, Zephyr and Pollux as they came into whatever shell of a house my imagination had formed. "Do you have to ask?" I said, dropping the pen I'd been holding and pushing myself up to my feet. It felt like I had been sitting for centuries. "Why is so complicated to interact with humans?"

Zephyr shrugged. "You know their world. We've all seen it changing." They said. "They go through wars, they deal with death and murder. Blah, blah, the internet is false, they all have trust issues. Earth is screwed up and humans are no better."

"Yeah, yeah, I know, but this is a one-time thing." I said. "I need one human to trust me and she won't even believe me."

Pollux shook his head, wandering towards the paper I had been scribbling jumbled ideas on. Even though it created a chaotic mess, it helped me think. "She did believe you when you told her about the demon."

I shot them a glare. Pollux was right that some part of Serenity had believed me when I told her that there was a demon living inside of her, but she hadn't seemed to trust most of the things I had told her. I tried to tell her that she was in danger from her grandmother and I had tried to tell her that Salvadore wanted to help her, but she decided to ignore it.

It happened to be that the one person in the entire speck of a town Aoiski, the one person that didn't believe in ghosts, spirits, demons, and angels was the one that had a demon living inside of her. I suppose that I couldn't blame Serenity all the way though. With a demon living in her head, it would have tried to inflict her thinking. She would have had no other choice.

A demon usually means bad news. It's almost like a parasite. It takes what it can and will often leave the body that it occupies to move onto another. But there's a difference. Demons aren't commonly able to live inside of a human. Living in humans makes them stronger and their human host dying leaves them weak.

When they get a human body as a host, they try to take care of it. They'll use it as if it was their own body. They make them stronger, faster, work harder, smarter. They do whatever they can to make the person the best they can, but they're not positive creatures.

Demons are mischievous and they feed off misery. Even though they might be creating the best body for themselves, they tend to put their human through bad situations. In Serenity's case, the demon didn't make the best body. While it hadn't been the cause for her lungs in the first place, it was part of the reason that they stayed so bad.

It had helped Serenity with some things, but it had made her worse with others. Her lungs, even her disbelief in paranormal strand from the demon overtaking her. The human world is already filled with disbelief, doubt, and as Zephyr had mentioned, trust issues. Getting a human to trust a supernatural being was hard. Getting a human with a demon living inside of them to trust a supernatural being was near impossible.

Serenity had made her situation complicated by not taking my help. I like to think that if she had let me help her, I could have helped her from the start, but the demon didn't want that to happen. The demon knew what would happen, but when things get to the worst of the worst, demons can come in handy.

Lots of demons are what I would consider idiots. They'll do whatever they can to put bad into the world—the opposite of angels. Sometimes presenting them with an option to do something bad will create an opportunity for someone else.

"Okay, maybe not." Pollux said. "But what are you going to do?"

I sighed. I knew what I was going to do and I owed Serenity a huge apology for it. "I need to get in contact with Evangeline."