『Beautiful Revenge』

The King's Return

《HAPPY NEW YEARS! This picture is not linked to this chapter, nor to this book tbh. Whatever ^-^》

Chapter 4: Hiryu's pov
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It was just yesterday when my soul was judged. "This dragon has done many bad things in the past," they said.

"After his freedom of slavery, he went on killing the wealthy dragons and burned down their homes. Yet, he managed to try to cleanse his soul by trying to live as a normal human in their community. What he didn't know is that creatures are not supposed to reveal themselves to humans. Even to a human nymph who eventually became a goddess..."

"He belongs in hell!" The jury chanted.

The judges talked and decided that that's where I belong. "You shall be an eternal slave for the Devil King. If you die, you will simply go back here to be sent back as a slave." They sent me off.

I woke up this morning with my wrists tightly chained in what seems like a cage with 5 or 6 other creatures . Where am I? This area is too dark with such foul air...

"Oi," I called out to the closest creature in their human form, "Why are we here?"

He bared his teeth at me, the shape of his fangs told me that he was a hydra (mythical creature of Greece that is said to be a huge serpent with several heads...). "Sss, the King is alive, so we are left here waiting for his return."

"That makes sense... Any information on when Aku- I mean on when the King will come back?" I asked nervously.

"Sss yeah, rumors are saying that he will return very soon." He cracked his neck, "I hope he picks me to be his slave, staying in this cage for millions of years is way worse. Sss no one likes a hydra that brings war and chaos."

"Shut your hissing," Shouted a phoenix, "Everyone is picked but YOU'RE just in here because you tied to kill the old King."

"Sss, I forgot about that, he he." His long nails passed through his green hair as he giggled.

The phoenix glared at me with her fire eyes through her long blonde bangs. "Dragon, what's your name? I feel like i have seen you before..."

"My name is Hiryushi from the Dragon Kingdom of Japan." I held my head high, ''Whom asks?"

"So you're the missing dragon....Call me Miki from Africa, I died twenty years ago to a stupid ghoul in a war in Egypt." I didn't know African creatures could speak Japanese.

Everyone in the cage greeted themselves. They were very kind to me as a "rookie" of this new world, I was kinda expecting pure evil creatures.

The day died on and, judging by how quickly everyone fell asleep, the night ruled the sky. Loud yelling from the other cages woke me up.

"Sss, I don't understand their language!" said Radai the hydra.

"They're talking Spanish." Umi the devil replied. "You've been here longer than us, so you should know."

"Sss, who here understands such a language? It's too complicated." He crossed his arms.

"They're saying 'The King has arrived! Spread the news!' " Umi translated. Her facial expression is always plain, as if she has no emotion whatsoever.

"What?! Already?" I yelled with excitement and fear. I'm glad that Akuma died and Sakae's safe, but why and how did he die?

There was a sudden loud, dark laughter that silenced everyone. "Who would've known that this dragon would be put as my eternal slave?" Akuma said from an unknown area.

"Sss, is the king talking to you?!" Radai whispered.

I nodded.

"Sss?! How do you know the king?!"

"Because my girlfriend is a goddess and this d*ck took her away from me-"

"Cursing at me already?" Akuma chuckled.

The cage raddled, it made me fall onto my knees. "What do you want with me?"

As the cages burned and disappeared, a huge hand of pure blackness grabbed my body whole, "I'm going to make you as my personal slave. The rest of you, start building a 50 meter (164ft) statue of what Greeks call the god of war." His huge eyes looked at Radai, "I'll let you work too, don't do anything funny."

"Sss, yes!" Radai jumped with joy.

I struggled to break free, "Let me go!"

"If you don't stop your rude act, I will crush you until you die again. After that, I will continue to painfully kill you over and over. Do you understand?" His devil form was very scary and large, we were all little barbie dolls compared to him.

I nodded my head to his response, trying to hide my fear. The fear wasn't well hidden...

Once he took me to his throne room, he went to his human form, so he was average size. The chains on my wrist and feet was causing an itch.

"I'm glad I'm back~" he chirped, "I can transform to what ever size I want and rule over a bigger kingdom."

"How did you end up here?" I asked out of nowhere

"Well, I was born as a demon and-"

"No, idiot. I'm asking why and how did you come here?"

"I know, I was being sarcastic." He rolled his eyes, "The sip of the poison got to me and I decided not to drink the antidote that one of my butlers made. I fainted and angered Sakae, so she killed me."

"Liar, Sakae wouldn't do that."

His eyebrows raised, "She has been killing that whole day. I think my evilness rubbed off on her."

I wanted to throw him across the room, "No, it's all because of you toying with her brain. You killed everyone she loves and now her anger is expressing. "

He chuckled, "And it has taken over her, just as I hoped it would." He pulled on my chains. "Let us go, it's time to punish you."
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Word count: 1009

How do you say happy new years in Japanese? Something omedetou? Whatever, have a nice year guys! ^-^
-ちあんな (Tianna)