Hello, My Name Is Death (Book II)

Chapter 17 - Those Titels Are Too Serious Lately

I spent so much time at the hospital that the sun slowly rose from behind the horizon and light floated the city. It was already bright in the building because a lot of the people got ready to go to work, kids went to school and other are just used to wake up early in the morning.

I scanned the plate with the names beside each door bell and after seeing the name "Ferron" I rang. It was silent for a moment and I started thinking that he maybe wouldn't open the door or worse - that the demons found him. Luckily I heard a deep beeping from the door, which meant I could open it. I pushed open the door and walked inside.

Walking up the bright-lighted stairway of the building I saw Cupid. He wearing sweatpants and a wide shirt. His hair standing in every direction and after giving me a short smile he yawned and covered his mouth with his hand.

"Why are you here and how did you even find me?" He asked sleepily.

"Let's talk about this inside. I don't want anyone to hear it."

He nodded and both of us walked inside his apartment. It was huge. The furniture and the decoration looked perfect like it was straight out of a magazine.
I looked at him after he closed the door "There are those demons who are trying to get you and they found out that we wanted to meet at my house, so there is a herd of them now."

"Oh no. We should get going then so you can get Cassiel back before they get me." He answered with a worried undertone in his voice but he tried to hide it.

"They won't get you. I won't let that happen." I assured him confidently "But let's go now. We are saver at Lucifer's."

I walked closer to him and reached out my hand to teleport us but he brushed it off.

"Lucifer's?" He asked shocked and confused at the same time.

"Yes. Long story but to shorten it, he lives on earth and still has his wings." I replied more casual then Cupid might have expected because he looked even more shocked.

"I can't believe he lied to me about all this." He muttered to himself. His hands were clenched to fists and he shock his head in frustration. After he inhaled deeply and let the breath slowly out of his lungs his body was more relaxed and he looked at me with sadness filling his gaze "I thought we'd be friends."

"I'm sorry." It was more a whisper, but I didn't know what to say. I could imagine how he felt right now - but it was Lucifer's fault, not mine.
Before I could try teleporting us to his house someone knocked on the door of the apartment.

I showed Cupid to stay where he is and then I walked to the door. Silently I pressed down the door handle and opened the door just slightly. The next moment the person pressed open the door so we were facing each other.

"Taylor?" My eyes grew wide when I saw him and then my expression changed to a frown. He had no reason to be here - something was off about this situation. While holding my hand behind my back I let my scythe appear in it, in case something would go wrong.

"No." Taylor, or whoever it really was, spread an evil grin on his face and his eyes turned pitch black.

Immediately I pulled my scythe forward and held it towards him. Taylor stumbled backward in shock until his back was pressed against the wall and my weapon was pressed against his throat. I shouted at him "Get out of his body! Taylor doesn't deserve that!"

Instead of being afraid, the demon laughed and shouted mockingly "He doesn't deserve that!"
I stared at him but he laughed again. All in sudden he looked cold at me "Taylor is dead - since years. I played my role really well; I deserve an Oscar."

Suddenly I felt like my whole world just broke apart. For years I thought Taylor would be a normal guy and that we'd be friends. I never noticed anything, not even the slightest hint that he is a demon. He indeed did play his role really well, but that didn't explain why I didn't see his real eyes earlier. I should have seen them when I first met him.

"If he's really dead since such a long time, how come I didn't know you are a demon?"

First he laughed but when I pressed the scythe closer to his neck until some drops of black blood escape and covered the ends of the silver metal, he looked serious at me and groaned "Your precious archangels aren't the only ones who can hide their wings. Some of us can hide their eyes as well."

"And why are you hunting Cupid?" I asked quickly before he would stop answering.

"He's not the only one we're hunting, darling, you are interesting as well but this body is a little hindrance right now." He said looking down at the scythe "So bye."
After that smoke escaped from every part of his body and covered completely. I took a step back to look at the scene and lowered my weapon. All in sudden the smoke sunk into the floor and Taylor's body dropped.

For a while I didn't move at all and just looked at the body but then I walked inside and directly to Cupid who looked at me in horror about what just happened. I placed my palm on his shoulder and teleported both of us in Lucifer's house.

Cupid didn't say a word. He just looked around and examined the room. I didn't say anything either, I was sure he needed some time to process everything and so did I.