By The Darkest Light

Chapter 5: A favor (Gem Pov) by Ruby

It was then that Max, seeming nervous, leapted back out the window, though for some reason he leapt out a totally different window leaving another hole for poor Luna to fix.

Gem squinted at this rediculous display infront of her before noticing the blinding glare of the angel behind her and glared back instinctively.

She decided she'd learn the name of this obnoxious angel she'd have to spend Lunas life time with. "Not that I care, but you got a name?" She asked.

"Halo." Scoffed the angel, unamused with this situation.

"I'm Gem." Said Gem, "Now tell me, why are you here with my human?" She thought that'd get her point across now.

"She's my assignment demon, and she's going to Heaven." Said Halo, raising her voice in slight anger. "So scram."

That made Gem upset, 'what does she think just because I'm a demon I don't take my job seriously?' She thought. "My job is not to 'scram' " She snarled back, any traces of amusment once in her voice now gone. She was getting angry but she really didnt want to deal with this at the moment, "But it's late and I'm going back to Hell for the night." She stated before doing just that and teleporting to her office deep in Hell. She didn't have an actual house or room, the only one in Hell with any real kind of luxery was Lucifer himself and the only reason Gem even had an office was because of her high ranking in the underworld.

Gem had a rank called killer, it was a rank directly under Commander, the highest rank.

There was only three killer ranked demons who where the most unique and powerful who could give orders to any other demon under them.

When Gem first arrived in Hell demons where hesitent to do as she said with her young age, Gem being only 14 when she died, but upon seeing her power they became eager to take her orders and now here Gem was, alone in her office wishing she had someone to talk to.

There was the other two killers, they got along with her but she didn't want to interupt whatever they might be doing.

She was about to resign to just sitting in silence when her phone started ringing, which was strange, she only gave her number to those she owed favors to so they could call her.

It was then she realized the only person or rather Archangel it could be.

Gem then remembered a conversation from long ago.

Gem was stuck, she was so close to making this guy kill himself.

She just had to kill the right person in his life, but which one?

If she screwed this up she could make his will even stronger than before.

She was voicing these thoughts out loud to Maxamillion before he looked at the ground and said, "His mother."

Gem didn't notice the twing of sadness and said, "His mom.. thats perfect! That's just what we need to make this guy snap, thanks Maxi, I owe you one."

It may have been small, but Gem kept her word.

She picked up the phone.

"Hey Gem.. I was wondering if I could call in that favor?" Said Max, his voice a little shakey.

"What do you need?" Gem replied, curious.

"I was wondering if you could get us into Hell's memory halls..?"

Gem raised an eyebrow forgetting Max couldn't see her, "Us?"

"Me and Halo."

Gem inwardly groaned, "Fine, meet me outside of Lunas house in twenty minutes." She then hung up. She really wasn't looking forward to interacting with her again, but as perviously stated Gem would keep her word she immediatly teleported to a tree infront of Lunas house and fell asleep for about fifteen minutes until she woke up to someone calling her name.

"Gem!" Max yelled.

Gem wasn't awake enough to remember her agreement, "What?" She asked.

"Take us to Hell." He stated simply.

"Sure Maxi, lets go to Hell." She grinned and teleported them to Hell.

"Ugh.. no more teleporting.." Halo groaned.

"Sissy." Laughed Gem.

It was then Cerberous, Gems favorite 'little' guard doggy, jumped at Halo.

"Cerberous! Get off me please! Why does he only do this to me!?" Yelped the angel as Cerberous licked her face.

Gem held back a laugh and opened the gates, Cerberous prancing off in another direction.

Once they got in Gem turned to Halo as she spoke.

"Alright Gem, please direct us to your 'Memory Hall' right away." The angel gave a fake smile which Gem could obviously tell was fake, she was not going to spend anymore time then nessasery with her and was thankful they had a tour guide.

"Oh honey, you cannot command me like some pet, I'll have the tour guide show you around." She said.

"Wait you're not coming?" Halo growled sounding much more frusterated.

Gem thought Halo would be thrilled to get rid of her but Gem didn't really care, she was tired.

"Nope, sleeping." She simply said before walking to her office.

When she got there she tried to sleep but she was very curious as to what they where doing, so she turned invisible and teleported to Max, quickly noticing he was playing with lava.

The temptation was strong to say, "Hey hotstuff, how are you doing?" But she decided against it.

This really wasn't as interesting as she hoped and returned to her office.