Dancing With The Devil (#Wattys2015)

Chapter 8: Immortal Mischief

⁠⁠⁠A cheeky blond woman with big brown eyes approached the newest couple on the block. Her hair bounced in a lively fashion as she trotted down the sunlight road. How did it get to this?

Lucifer had found out his "beloved" son was reeking havoc in his life yet again. Down on earth reviving the very being of death itself in some mortal girl, and seducing her while at it, was his Damien. Understanding this, he popped out of his throne in a frenzy and grabbed Lilith by her gangly wrists, dragging her out to Earth in anger. But not before promising a level of authority to Damien's mother herself. Damien was the son of a mortal woman banished to Hell, and Lucifer, king of Hell. The duo was a fiesty set of emotions and after horrible abuse, Olivia gave birth to a baby boy. Son of the Devil. Olivia held a level of respect from other souls that wandered through hell, and yet, she was treated poorly by the devil. Lucifer still looked down on her and called her wretched things. Whore, slut, immoral dirt beast. It was as though she didn't birth his only child. Ever since Damien acted up, and caused chaos on Earth, Lucifer had caused more quarrel and pain in her life.

"Lucifer. Lucifer! Why are you leaving?" Olivia screamed at the older being as she stood, legs shaking in fear over the glass tomb of souls in the throne room. Lucifer swished his head back to look the wench in the eyes, before demanding, in a loud booming voice that she know her place.

"Damned bitch! What I do has nothing to do with you. You give birth to one digesting excuse for a son, out of your ugly, misshapen mortal body, and now you are equal to me. Nay, better? You are in hell, because you are scum. Leave me alone in my endeavors, whore."

Lucifer spat out his venom soaked insult before stomping out of the throne room, Lilith in hand as Olivia held back tears brought forth by endless emotional trauma. But she had been down such a path too many times for tears to flood her face. She is a strong, broken soul.

Lucifer hand Lilith stood over the Portal to the Otherside. A dim light flooded the dark lair they resided in. And the Portal spoke a heavy, low tone drenched in high whispers of the undead seeing the lights of a life once lived. The bodies of the two in the Portal shook and shivered as their forms warped into another dimension. Soon, they flashed into existence on Earth in a flurry of bright colors with darkened lowlights. Much to their chagrin, Earth was rather sunny this morning. Or at least, Florida was.

They stood like statues stunned into shaking as they looked over their newfound land. Their garments were turned and rewoven into various... pedestrian materials. It was then Lilith spotted a blond hag in a god awfully bright yellow sundress. Oh how she wanted to scream when the woman scuttled closer, a broad smile on her face

Yellow. Of all possible colours she wore a yellow as bright as those annoying curls bouncing about petit shoulders and her lips stood out in a glossy red. A high pitched voice greeted a frozen Lilith and a horrified Lucifer.

"You must be the new couple! We've all been expecting you," her hands gestured around to the various houses or, more appropriately, mansions that filled the residential lot. New couple? Lucifer turned his head to the right where a for sale sign had 'sold' stamped in red across it. Ah..how convenient.

"I'm Sarah Joseph, your new neighbor!" This...Sarah held her hand out to Lilith and, fighting back the urge to slap the happiness off this all too vibrant creature, Lilith joined hands with her whilst internally throwing up.

"I'm Elvira," the mother of demons lied in her most casual tone. It was no strange nature to her kind but she found it difficult to dwell in the presence of mortal idiots of low standards such as yellow dresses and blonde curls. "This is my..fi--" Lilith's well put together cover up was interrupted by the low tenor tone of the man who'd been silent for the past few minutes. "Husband," Lilith quirked a brow as he continued, "Nicolai Salai."

He was all too clever, using the ancient words that described him in another tongue to keep both of their sanity. Their surprise visit to the surface hadn't been planned in extent, only a few hours held the idea. Their false identities hadn't been the first thing nor last that was discussed. Instead they spoke about the great confrontation and the plans that would follow...secretive plans kept between the mother of demons and father of lost souls.

"Forgive my rudeness but I didn't think you'd arrive today so I didn't bake my usual batch of cookies..everyone loves them! But I will see you around. Maybe later? With those promised cookies."

Nobody gives a shit about your cookies, peasant.

Lilith held the thought back from becoming audible and turned to her supposed husband.

"Mind us miss..Sacha, is it?"

"Sarah," the woman quickly corrected resulting in a roll of the eyes from Lilith. She was done with the kind facade, she was a demon goddess for crying out loud! Kindness..what a joke.

"Right..my husband and I have business to attend to," with that, Lilith turned on her heels and walked through the tall gates of the house, Lucifer chuckling softly as he followed leaving a dumbfounded blond in the driveway.

"We are moving!" The door slammed shut and she pulled the colourful top over her head to fling it on the backrest of the couch. "Are we now?" His playful side emerged. "Nicolai," she pointed a finger at him. Oh how she loved having his attention..not that she craved it but she took it whenever she got it. "Wife," a smirk crawled across his lips as he shrugged his heavy jacket off to free his shoulders.

"It is only..two in the afternoon," she glanced at the grandfather clock across the hall. Classic house...she approved. "Elvira, we have hours until nightfall. Occupy me with wifely deeds."

(A/N)

Both writers would like to apologize for the lack of updates over the past few weeks. This was because both were in examination mode and barely had time to update. The upcoming chapter will be very soon as it holds a scene we've been waiting to share with you since the start of this book! Hope you enjoy! - Vice

(The image attached is our visual of Olivia who was introduced in this chapter)