Show me your smile [Beelzemon x Reader]

25: Gluttony

You find him after tens of minutes of flying around. There's a cliff afar and he seems to be walking into its direction. You nosedive to fly down to him. "Baalmon! Stop!" you yell before the energy covers your legs and you land so hard there forms a basin with cracks on the ground. You run to his back, grabbing tight onto his robe and cry. "Baalmon, stop! Don't go there! Please, I need you!" He stops and pets your head. "I want to show you the view" he says calmly without looking at you. He offers his hand and you hold onto it, walking with him.

"Why did you leave the tower?" you sniffle. "I guess... It's just bad memories. I really hate that place and the mess there was" he says, his voice growing more cold. You look up at him. "Even after I cleaned up for you?" you ask. He doesn't respond. After a moment you arrive to the cliff. Under the cliff there is a vast sea. "Isn't it so beautiful and inviting?" he asks. You hold onto his hand tighter. "It looks so lonely..." you answer. The sea looks as dark as the sky. He loosens his hold of your hand, making you release his hand. He pets his head and plants a kiss there before hugging you. "I'm sorry, but I can't become the Demon Lord considering how much I love you. I don't want to become someone who would hurt you." You're confused by his words and can't do anything as you watch him jump off the cliff in a suicidal manner. You get on the edge of the cliff and yell his name. No answer, just a sound of him splashing on the water. You sit down and start crying.

No. You get up and hastily jump after him without a second thought. You're not willing to lose him. You lean your head down and put your feet up to fall down faster. You take a huge breath and some extra air into your mouth before diving into the water. It's dark, but an amaranth red glow starts emitting on your chest. In the depths you see another light of the same color. You dive deeper, reaching him. He's passed out already but you still try giving the extra air to him from your mouth. As you do, his eyes open and the glowy eye on his forehead starts glowing.

You hug him close and salty tears come out of your eyes that float slowly into the depths. The glow in your chest is now against the glow on his chest. You look at him and speak to him in your mind with a loving tone. Even if your personality changed, I'd still know it's you and be with you to the end of my days. You know you can't hurt me when I get serious and I wouldn't let you do that anyway. Just for a moment you think you hear him say "I love you" and start losing consciousness. His arm wraps around you and you feel him starting to resurface.

You feel his lips against yours and him blowing air into you. CPR. You open your eyes only to see Baalmon's crying face. Your chest hurts a little. You cough and look at him smiling a little. He hugs you tight immediately. "I... I thought I'd lost you... Don't ever scare me like that again!" he cries. You chuckle lightly. "I could say the same about you..." He sniffles. "I'm sorry for not evolving the moment I could... I just wanted to be myself while I was able to and love you as my own person." You pet the back of his head. "Remember when you said you'd love to gluttonize on me all night? I really... miss the face that told me that... But I know it's also a part of you. The reason I haven't agreed to your proposals has been because I fell in love with him at first, but now I love you too. I'm somehow glad that the two people I love are becoming one so I don't have to make a choice I'm going to regret."

He sighs and helps you up, hugging you before backing off. "I think this is where a part of me says goodbye" he says, tears flowing out of his eyes along his cheeks and dropping on the ground. A light envelops him and a yellow symbol with a circle around it changes the color of the light to yellow. The cloak vanishes along with his sleeve and respirator. His clothes shrink from a baggy onesie to a less baggy one that follows his upper body's more muscular form closely and on his hips a couple belts tighten before the lower part is a little more loose compared to the top. The color shifts to black and the material changes to leather along with the long sleeved vest that turns into a leather jacket with fur on the collar. His shoes turn black with metal details and rise all the way to reach under his knees. He gets a gun holder and a purple-ish mask, under which his hair lightens some more and shortens into a spiky mess. He gains a metallic tail and the proportions of his arms' length compared to his height fix. The light vanishes.

He looks at his hand, clenching it into a fist before opening it, repeating this a few times. "I guess I'm stronger than I used to be." He takes a stance and looks at you with a grin. "How do you like my appearance now? Am I real enough for you now?" he asks. You blush. "G-gluttony?" He smirks. "In the flesh." You run to him, feeling through his body, observing his overalls before hugging him tight. "It is you!!" you say, looking up at him with teary eyes.