The Devil's way of business

Chapter 50 : Peace

El finds the promise keeper eating a lot on top of a hill as he says " Count ? " Gale sees El " Hey look " Gale waved their wings at El , but the sight of seeing a chubby bird waving their wings made El wonder what to say about the rest of the fattened promise keepers who took the form of an animal .

" Please I'm already full " Ember said and so did Truth as they were tired on the ground , El looked up " Count ? " the eye watching the promise keepers moved to El " Oh what are you doing here ... " Count quickly covered Gale and everyone else in a protective cage with crooked cells .

" I'm not here to do anything to your children this is more about what I did , and I promised I wouldn't just let you kill me " " I did want to kill you for all the troubles you made my children but " El looks at Gale and felt familiar with them .

" I'm sorry I couldn't give you my thanks when you all kept me fed and warned of the dangers " " It's okay we are alive now " Gale said while Dream also nodded in the form of an alpaca " It's not my place to do the revenge thing for them "

" What about my angels ? " El asked " I might do something about that
" No father and mother El did it because you were really scary so ... it's your fault too "

Ember said trying to direct the crime to Count " I guess it only make sense for me to be the one at fault I might have saved my children if I decided not to meet you "

Count said as El thinks of what could happen when he didn't see Count early on " I probably would be braver if that happened " " I know I got too greedy " El thinks of the primal instinct that was gathered in his thrown .

" I'm not sure what to do now , this thing I thought would take a while to resolve was done so quickly " El sat on the ground without using his powers to make it convenient " El ? " Gale said going to their side .

" You're that little wind that kept telling me what to do right ? " " Yeah are you okay ? " " You should think about your parent first " " Then you should go think about your angels they fell hard on the ground . "

Count felt guilty and whispered to El " Sorry I was harsh on your children " " I made them with your body part " " You raised them so I wouldn't call myself a parent , plus I can hardly call myself the parent of the Fae I haven't been helping them survive I only manage to save every one of them "

El sighs looking at both himself and Count as parent " I'm a terrible parent too , I created my children only for my kind to be served , I feel disgusted " " Me too some of my children barely survived being born to this world , Karma was the one who helped all of them and his spouse too "

" Are they competing to be the worst parent ? " Gale whispers to everyone as they nod slowly . Isir finds them as they return to the shelter and takes Moirai " Don't worry Moirai soon we'll get to go back "

Reed looks at Isir as they wonder what he wants now " Isir can you take me back to Count ? " " Are you kidding me ? " " I'm afraid not " " Alright it's okay they are no longer killing each other " " I'll go as insurance "

Isir didn't want to go through so much time trying to argue an unwinnable argument " Moirai I'll be back " Isir dropped Reed with them as he looked at the promise keepers " Hello how are those two ? "

" they are okay " Gale said " Everything ending seems strange " El said " Why ? " " I had planned for everyone to unite and work together while Lucifer leads the rest of humanity who chose to believe in themselves and their work but that descendant of his took the role and forced a different future on me "

" That's just how he is " Count said " I watched him from afar because I didn't want him to rely on me , back then he was just a small child , but because he had all sorts of silver spoons he wanted to outgrow them all "