Deception

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I begin forming a weapon in my hand. I can feel the atoms coming together in my palm, the molecules creating a sword just like the one she holds in her hands. I walk into the center of the dojo with my weapon pointed up and Maze stands in front of me with her sword. She goes to slash me across the face from my chin up, but I push it down with my sword. I jump over her and I kick her in the head, and as I go toward the ground, I slash her back open. She turns and goes to stab me but I just barely move out of the way and she stabs through my coat. I move over the blades she can't pull it back, but she pulls It out anyway, cutting through the skin on my left arm. I grit my teeth and kick her in the gut. She goes back a couple feet and I'm able to jump away. I throw my sword at her but she hits it away and sprints towards me. She puts her sword to my  throat and I wait for her slit it open, but she doesn't, she spares me.

" Wanna take a break?" She says with a smirk on her face.

" Yeah." I respond with a bit of a chuckle in my voice.

Her smirk turns into a full smile and we both walk out of the dojo and I go to see Lucifer. I walk up to the throne and I can finally see his real face, the face if the devil. His face is grotesque and bloody, with vein like growths rolling over his head. His eyes glow red with hellfire and hatred, and he wears a well tailored dark blue suit.

" Where's your horns?" I ask.

" I've never had horns, the whole horn idea is a work of fiction." He says.

" Anyway, how long am I gonna be here?"

" As long as you need to be."

" What does God think of all of your hitman creating?"

" You don't speak of him." He says angrily.

" Oh, have I hit a nerve?"

" Silence boy."

" How do you feel, knowing that Daddy can erase you at any time?"

He steps out of his throne and walks toward me, and he clenches his fist.

" I guess I can add pissing off the devil to my bucket list." I say.

" Why, are you testing me?" He says gritting his teeth.

I look at his grotesque face, and his red glowing rage filled eyes. He lifts his fist... and puts it on my shoulder, laughing whilst he does it.

" You're funny, he's funny." He says and turns to Maze.

He looks at me and pulls me closer to him.

" Piss me off again and I'll chop your testicles off and feed them to you."

" Okay... Lucy."

He throws me to the ground and orders Maze to take me to one of the chambers and he walks away from the throne through one of the eternal corridors. I pick myself up and I walk over to her and she grins. She giggles slightly and looks at me.

" You've got some balls." She says.

" Yep, they're made of pure steel." I say.

She laughs as we start to walk towards whatever chamber he assigned me.

" Why'd you do that?" Maze asks.

" To befriend someone, you have to know their weaknesses." I say.

" That's an unorthodox way of doing it."

" Yeah, but it works.... and since we're asking questions, why does he order you around?"

" I'm a demon, and he's the devil."