Hell

Austin is back

       I was matching blow for blow from Austin when I saw Selaphiel, spear in hand coming straight at me and Austin. She misses stabbing him. "What are you doing here?" I ask. "Saving you from having to re kill him. Only an angel's weapon can permanently kill a demon," She says, "and only a demon weapon can permanently kill an angel. Get out of here while you can." I say as Austin stabs at her. Faster than even my eye could follow I stab his arm and knock the blow away. "Why do you continue to protect me even though you're a demon? It's so frustrating not being able to kill you." Selaphiel says. "Feelings mutual angel and to answer your question I do not protect you because I'm an angelic demon who can put aside differences. In fact if I could I would kill everyone in the world. The reason I save you is because I do not stand for any abuse or harm done to women." She seems shocked at that comment but Austin laughs. "I knew madness would corrupt you." I look at him. "While you treat madness badly I treat it as a friend." I say and charge at him forcing him back a bit. He laughed and said, "Looks like you failed. I finally stole her from your protection." "Stole who? I see that all of them are safe, while Lili is safe with Rian and Kevin." I say. He laughs. "How the mighty fall. There were 10 of us you only named 9." He said and I finally realized who he was talking about. "If you dare harm her nothing will keep me from killing you. Not even the lord of the West's rules." I say. He pulls out a tiny bag of blood and asks, "You would do what now?" My rage explodes and everyone is forced to the ground by the sheer power of the initial release. Everyone looks at me and Austin, who is still holding the bag of blood. "You will not be able to kill me." Austin says with a smile as he takes a sip of the blood. Unable to control myself I charge forward and stab him in the gut with a knife. "You will not harm another of my friends." I say as a red haze of bloodlust descends over my eyes. I lean forward so his ear was right near my lips. "I always wondered how your blood tastes." I say. He pales a bit and says loud enough for all to hear. "You can find out if you want, but she will not live without my help." I smile and say, "By drinking blood a demon gains the knowledge the giver of the blood has. That is enough help from you." I hear gasps as I sink my teeth into his shoulder and rip off a chunk of his flesh. Austin falls to his knees. "You will never stop me. I cannot die." I smile and lift him up by his shirt collar. "You cannot die? Then what's this nice weakness I learned just a moment ago? Something about certain death if you bled out more than a liter of blood." He pales more and I toss him aside. My bloodlust subsiding, I turn and walk into my house past gaping mouths of my friends. "Looks like I was right. You are a much better host than he would ever be." Said a deep voice. I turn to see a 20 year old man in a royal blue suit. His hair is sea blue and he has green eyes. "I don't feel like dealing directly with you right now Asmodeus, but if you have something to tell me, you might as well come in." I say and walk into the house. "What did you do?!" Selaphiel screamed and walked in to view. I look at Michael and say, "Can you put a muzzle on her? I have pressing matters to deal with right now." Brian sucks his breath in as Michael walks into view. "What is an archangel doing here?" Asmodeus asks. "Scuse me, I do not have to answer the likes of you." Selaphiel says. "Ignore her. She is just mad because she can't watch my movies right now." I say and go into the kitchen. Asmodeus and Michael come in as well while I make tea. "So what is a demon like you doing on the surface Asmodeus? You prefer the dark and cluttered halls of your palace more than empty space." I say. "Lucifer came to me asking for a way to seal the demon of the West." Asmodeus answered. "Why would he go to you of all the hellspawns he could've gone to?" I ask. "Who better then the lord of the seventh layer?" He asks smugly. I take a sip of the tea and say, "The lord of the North. He has much better connections to Malphas and Beelzebub." "He has long since went off the grid as you know." The conversation drifts into topics about the 7 princes of hell.

      "So can you explain to us again." Brian asks me. "The angels have been with us since a surprise trip into Hell." I answer, hearing bits of the conversation Eryk, Michael and Asmodeus were having. "Why would angels align themselves with demons? Even if he is an eccentric demon." Chris says. "You know you could ask an angel why she does something." Selaphiel says. Chris grins and says, "You should get a nice and long pointy..." He is cut off by Eryk throwing a knife a millimeter from where it would count. "Any reason I should aim a millimeter higher?" "N...no" Chris says moving away from the knife. "Smart boy." Eryk says and goes back to his conversation. Selaphiel started laughing and said, "That's the reason we stay. He is so unpredictable, one moment he threatens to end the world while the next he is giving advice." I laugh and she looks at me and says, "You are another reason we stay. For some reason he admires and protects you more than any other like you and him have something you wanna keep hidden. Something like sle..." She is cut off by Michael saying, "Finish that statement and you are out of here." We lean into the kitchen to see Asmodeus in a choke hold by Michael next to a laughing Eryk, who looks at us and says, "We're going to Canada, pack your bags." He loses his smile "But it requires us to pick up 3 others..." I had a feeling I knew who he meant by that, the one person I did not wanna see for the rest of my life.