Only If you swear...

Chapter Ten

"Stay," He said. "We'll all have so much fun!" Cass uttered, quite obviously sarcastically, and he picked up on it "Shut it, Cassia!" Cass glared at her father. "So, you must be the half-fang," Although I didn't know what that was, I believed it to be a demon or something with one human parent and one non-human parent? In any case, without thinking I spoke to him "Listen up, you better watch your mouth with me, sir, because it seems both you're daughters are half-fangs. So if you didn't want half-fangs for daughters perhaps you shouldn't sleep wit-" Cass cleared her throat. I didn't know whether she was doing it to help me or hinder me. I decided, in any case, it was best not to continue with my opinion, especially by the look on his face. "Oh, you think you're better than me huh? Little girl, let me tell you. The fate of both you and your pathetic little friend lies in my very hands so I suggest you shut your mouth." Oh right. Forgot about that. Shit. Almost damned us both. Great. Better just quit on that one. "Stay. You are my daughter after all, don't you love it here? I do. Enjoy my kingdom. There are schools here. The children are not arses as they are, or so I've heard in human schools, and the teachers are firm but fair. So, want to stay in Hell?" I nodded. "Then It's official. Just read out this statement," This whole time Cass had cleared her throat about seven times, "If you've got a cough please take it outside, Cassia!" Knowing she was faking it, he had a lot of confidence in himself and seemed to be the only one around here to called Cass, Cassia. She nodded and walked solemnly out of the room silently. The book that had appeared into the Devil's hand had, as he had said, a statement engraved into the pages. 'I swear my loyalty to my father. I swear my loyalty to Hell. Ave inferos' I repeated what was written and then realised something, I did not have a single clue what Ave Inferos meant. "What does the bit at the end mean?" I asked as he was gazing  happily at the book, "Ave Inferos?" He asked as I nodded. "It means Hail Hell,"  My eyes were met by recognition, honestly I wasn't surprised, he did seem like the kind of guy to make you say that. "Here," He passed me a red and silver card with my name on it."What's this?" I say turning over the card to check the back, it said the number of days, years, months, seconds, minutes, hours that I had been alive for and it was going up every second! As expected, obviously. I have to get used to the magic in this place. I have learnt one thing from my time here, time goes much, muchhhh slower here. Like really slow. "It's your ID card, kind of." He stated, "It lets you into certain places that you can only get into when you are of a certain age, the humans have nightclubs, we have helliars. There are basically the same thing, to answer the question I see your expression making," Okay. Was my face really that obvious? Just as I was questioning my questioning face, I noticed Cass wandered back into the room, wearing an evil smirk "Hey father," He turned to his eldest daughter with an expression that said 'What now?' "Jordon's outside," His expression of evil, annoyance and malice dropped completely. "My son. Where is my son?" he asked with a look that I'm surprised hadn't killed her, because if looks could kill then, oh god would she be doomed. "Told ya, dad. He's OUTside. So that means you need to go out of the building to see him or wait for him to come inside." The sarcasm in her voice was clear, she was trying to annoy him, that much was obvious. But it seemed that nothing could upset him today. He pushed past his newly reunited daughter and walked off outside. "We have more than one sibling?" Cass laughed, "Yeah, I think we have around 462? Something like that?" "Whattttttttt..." "Hey, a man gets around in the years of space and time," We both burst out laughing, once we recovered I started to think about on it more. "That's a lot of Christmas presents." Cass looked awkward. "Oh, um we don't celebrate Christmas. You know the whole, 'Christ' thing really doesn't appeal to most of our kind." Forgot about that. "Yeah, sorry, force of habit. You're not mad about me staying?" Cass waved her hand dismissively "Nah, I mean what's another sibling, am I right?" Now it was my turn to laugh "Right you are," I began wondering, "You mentioned you always wanted to meet your sister, but you have 465 other siblings, why were you so interested in me? Don't tell me we have 465 brothers, oh please," Cass flicked her hair behind her shoulder, "No, and I'm glad about that, It's just you are the only half-fang, so I thought I'd relate to you a lot more." I nodded, "Yeah, I like you, you're a great sister. Do you know all the other sibling's names?" Cass sighed, "Yes, and it was literal HELL to learn them," Oh god, "You mean you had to repeat them all until you got them right?" She nodded, "And learnt the difference between the quintuplets," What? "Quintuplets?" This may be more difficult than I thought. "Uh-hu  Five babies. But don't worry, you're not the baby of the family." I was actually shocked at this, more children, I'm only 15, so that can't be good. "Who is?" Cass put her hand to her head, "Um, Draconia and Akantha, twin girls. Aged 3." Damn. "You'll probably see them a lot they live here in the castle, It's where we all live," I froze, "467 PEOPLE LIVE HERE? AND PROBABLY A GROWING POPULATION?" Cass giggled, "Not exactly people, but yeah, you see, when Hell gets full it expands, It's the reason we aren't overpopulated like Earth. When a new baby is born in the family the castle expands a new room to match the baby's needs and tastes." And I thought Earth was cool, "Damn, That's pretty cool." Cass began to play with her hair, "Oh and I have a new progression on saving Becca, father said he would deal with it if we do um... Well... I believe humans call it chores, we call it slavery." I laughed, "Oh, don't worry a share of teenagers call it that on Earth too!" Cass sat down and read the list out. It was going to be a looongggg hour and a longggg eternity, but you know, I think I might just love it here.