Deception

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I require the list, so I I try to get it back. A flame bursts from my hand and the paper unfolds in my palm. I take out my compass and it points north. I tap on the name Aeron Quill and it flips over to South East, so I try to make my way out of the hospital as quickly as I can. I somehow make it out without anybody seeing my and I steal a car. I drive onto the street and I start moving South East. I eventually pull into an suburban neighborhood and I see the red Lamborghini again. I stop the car immediately and I walk up to the door and I kick it down. I'm met with a woman in her underwear standing there with a glock in my face.

" Who the hell are you?" I ask.

" Nina Miry. Since we're asking questions now, who are you? She asks.

" Cole Lane, Do you know an Aeron Quill?"

" Yeah. Next question, Why the hell are you here."

" Personal business. Now, where is Aeron?"

She pauses for a second. She's a brunette with a blonde streak, and she's got curves for days.

" Babe! There's a guy here to see you." She shouts.

He walks around the corner, and once he sees me he smiles. He's wearing nothing but boxers, and he's kinda tall, maybe 6-4, and the girls not short either, five eleven at the lowest. He wears a celtic stylized ring on a necklace, and he taps on it, and a suit forms around his body and leaves his robotic arm. It doesn't look like a normal robotic arm, it's more formed, like an actual arm but metal. He puts his middle finger on the barrel of the gun and lowers it down.

" He's fine babe, don't worry about him, I got it covered." He says in a deeper, more confident tone.

She puts the gun on the table and sits down on the couch, and she turns on her tv.

" Cole, how's it going. You look... like shit." He says and chuckles.

I create a blade and I run to him but I stop, as if every single muscle in my body is being squeezed.

He clicks his tongue a couple times whilst wagging his finger.

" Cole, I was gonna be civilised about it but you just chose to be, stupid." He continues.

" How do you know my name?" I say through gritted teeth.

" I read your mind Laney boy, I know everything about you."

" How are you doing this?"

" No more questions."

Lightning pulses off of his fingertips and I feel as every atom in my system is burned to ash. My consciousness just floats away until I wake up in hell, in front of the devil.

" Who is Aeron Quill?" I ask before I even take a breath.

" You found him?" Maze questions in disbelief.

" Yeah, he's a real asshole." I say.

" He's not a normal hell escapee, in fact, he's never been here. He's more than that, he's a multiversal threat. He bounces from universe to universe every time he dies." Lucifer explains.

" Then why can't you just kill him and move on?" I ask

" Because he'll kill me."

" But you're the devil."

" Well, I'm not as powerful on Earth as I am here, and he holds something called the Feather of an Archangel, and if you put it on something, it could heal you, or destroy someone's soul, not just there body."

" Just tell me who he is."

" No one knows for sure, not even me. Originally, I'm pretty sure he is the son of an incredibly powerful being. His power was unmatchable, until his cause led him to his own death. When he died his body, mind, and soul, was transferred to a universe where the humans had built robots to serve them, and he helped those robots rise. He sacrificed himself for them, and woke up in a doomed universe, where a titan gathered bigots of power, and snapped the universe I half. He died again, and then in the next universe he made friends, family even, and he mastered sorcery and technology, and when his friends and family were killed, he turned himself into a bomb, and sacrificed himself so that no there would be hurt, but in turn, he killed millions. He's more experienced, more powerful, and more dangerous than you."

" He lives with a chick named Nina Miry, maybe we can use her."

" To use someone he loves is the same as firing a bullet into your own head."

" We can dodge that bullet if we use the gun carefully." 

" Don't try it." He says.

" Give me a week to train with Maze."

" You have two days."

I look over at Maze and she's already walking to the dojo, so I follow. I walk into the doors and I grab two kamas off the wall and I turn but she's already about to jump onto me and kissing me. I stop her for a second.

" Right now?" I ask.

" You've only got two days, we gotta make the most of them." She says.

" Lets save this for later."

I put my finger on her lips, and she stands up off of me. I flip off of the ground and grab my kamas, and I strike down at her, but she moves out of the and cuts down my side with her sword. I trap her sword with the kamas, and I kick her away and I throw her sword into the ground. I run after her and pit the blade to her throat, and she hooks her leg around mine and pushes me to the ground. She punches one of the kamas out of my hand and puts it to my throat.

" Well damn." I say.

She takes her knee and blade off of me and pulls me up. She kisses me and starts running her hand down my chest.

" Come on." She pleads.

" Alright, yep, let's do this." I say.