It All Started With a Smile

The Book of Demonology: Cyzex

I returned from Eve's room and got out the book, I went back to the living room and sat on my throne, then I started actually reading it. Cyzex is a demon of misery and sadness, he can easily control humans emotions, making them less willing to live and even committing suicide, he is most famous for his manipulation, he can manipulate both angels and objects, but he doesn't use any command spells, rather he uses his speech to influence whatever and whoever he wants, he is a patient demon, he used to bet alot with his fellow demons and never had he lost a bet, but one day their bet went too far, the demons bet him to become a god that humans worshipped, and so he did, he was known as Dolos in Greece, Dolos is the god of trickery and guile, and people worshipped him, God didn't like what he did so Cyzex was given a warning by God, saying that if he does any blasphemous tricks ever again, he's going to be sent to hell, at that time Cyzex didn't want oppose God, so he accepted and apologized, but one day as he was completing a bet, he met an angel named Xernia, she looked at him and -to him- she seemed lovely, but he didn't give much attention to her and continued working on his bet, the bet was to make a dinosaur mate with a fish, he managed to convince a fish into mating with a dinosaur, Xernia didn't like it, she rolled her eyes and left him be, he felt bad for playing with her creations like this, so when the dinosaur's egg got fertilized and was about to lay the egg, he started influencing the dinosaur not to lay it and to keep it inside her, then he influenced the egg to grow into a lovely and big but harmless sea creature. Words spread throughout heaven that a dinosaur is pregnant, Xernia lost her mind as she knew another demon is trying to destroy her creations, she went to the dinosaur and used every purifying spell she knew, but nothing would change for Cyzex used influence and not a single curse, she quickly remembered about the guy she saw playing with her creatures, so she went and looked for him, when she found him she pulled him by his ear all the way towards the pregnant dinosaur "it was a long and painful flight" Cyzex described it, but when they got to the dinosaur, its water broke, Xernia felt angry and asked the guy to get rid of whatever sick joke he made, but Cyzex didn't reply to her, instead he went to the dinosaur and helped it give birth, after it was done he told Xernia to look at the creature, Xernia was shocked, for it was a lovely creature, it looked like a fish but was the size of a normal baby dinosaur, the creature looked at Xernia and smiled, Xernia's heart was warming, so she took the creature and hugged it, but she put too much force into her hug, the creature squirted water from its head all over Cyzex, they both laughed it off and decided to call it the blue whale, they then went to god and asked him if they can put the creature on Earth, god accepted which made them both happy, and from there they became friends, Cyzex started spending less time betting with his friends, and spent more time hanging out with Xernia creating live or just chatting, they stayed together as friends for many years, till the day Cyzex admitted his love to Xernia, she was happy and they both became officially in a relationship and all of heaven started talking about it for a while, they even spread rumors that Cyzex used his influencing abilities so that Xernia would fall in love with him, but they both knew it wasn't true, because when they were together, each one was himself and their relationship was built on trust and honesty, whenever Cyzex did something wrong he would go and tell Xernia, even if it meant he was going to get scolded, he loved being honest with her and that he didn't have to use his influence around her.
But one day, one of Cyzex's friends was becoming more and more hateful towards God, Cyzex tried his best to make him change his mind, but he couldn't so Cyzex used his influencing powers to change his mind and it worked, the friend's hatred towards God was no longer there. Cyzex was proud of himself, so proud that he started using his influence to change the demons-to-be in heaven. He kept changing minds, and with each one he changed, he got more and more prideful, Xernia told him to stop doing that because it was changing him, but he didn't listen to her, instead he used his influence to change her mind and make her cheer for him, but it wasn't long before he realized that he deceived the love of his life, and so with few words he broke the influence he put in her, when Xernia was back to her sense, she started crying because of what he did, they broke up and she left him, Cyzex was devastated by it, for his lover left him while the only thing he wanted was to let no angel suffer from becoming a demon, he was so devastated that he went back again and started breaking his past influence, and one day he was hanging with his friends when they gave him a bet that required a spell, so him being patient he learnt the spell and won the bet, he liked the feeling of using spells so he started to learn more and more spells but his favorite were the manipulation and command spells, for they resembled him in both complexity and power, so he learnt and perfected every one of these spells, this changed him, he became more self absorbed and more selfish. One day Xernia went to check on him, but he didn't accept that she'd visit him. Xernia was not a dumb angel, she instantly knew he was studying control magic, and learning this type of magic gets you to a point where the spell is commanding you. She wanted to help him, but he wouldn't accept, they started bickering and out of his anger he shouted "All of you are just jealous that I'm the most powerful" but then he was quite for a while then said "yet" it was at this point that Xernia knew what was coming, Cyzex was going to challenge god, she tried to stop him but it was useless, he pushed her off him and used a control spell to keep her away from him for the next hour, "one hour" he said "that is all the time I need to finish God, after that you're becoming my lover, whether you like it or not. Then he left, he went to God and stood in front of him, he challenged him, God laughed and told him he accept it, the fight was over in less than seconds, but God didn't allow him to leave, instead God gave him back his energy "59 minutes" God said "that's how much I'll be torturing you" God knew Cyzex was coming, it was at that point where Cyzex knew how dumb he is for challenging God, "these were the longest 59 minutes of my life" Cyzex's comment was "he kept destroying every bone I had then healing me back to normal, over and over and over..." then God sent Cyzex to hell, Xernia appeared a while later in front of god asking him about Cyzex, God didn't reply, instead he showed her what happened, Xernia broke to tears for she felt it was her fault Cyzex was tortured like that, she asked God to allow her to return Cyzex back to his sense and return him to heaven, God accepted, but there was a catch, Xernia couldn't leave heaven, to most angels this seemed impossible, but not to Xernia, she started creating creatures and sending them to earth in order to give Cyzex a message, she succeeded and finally a creature made it to Earth's center, It started lookinh for Cyzex till it finally found him, sitting alone next to molten lava, his wings were gone and his skin was starting to melt, Xernia took control over the creature who was dying and told Cyzex to follow the creature, the creature took Cyzex to an abandoned place of hell, then the earth shattered allowing Cyzex to get to the earth crust, the creature collapsed due to the sudden change in weather, they were in hell but then they got to the top of a cold mountain, Cyzex didn't know what to do, untill he saw fog forming around him, he knew it was Xernia, he could feel it, after the fog completely surrounded him, he saw the figure of Xernia, he rushed to it in order to hug it, but it was only a mirage, so it disappeared, then it showed up behind him, Cyzex started apologizing to Xernia telling her how guilty he feels for influencing her, and how dumb he felt for not listening to her about not fighting God, she accepted his apology and started telling him how she talked with God and he accepted that she'd show him how Cyzex doesn't deserve to go to hell, but then the mirage started getting closer to Cyzex and hugged it, Cyzex didn't move for he didn't want the mirage to disappear, and then she told him that she was pregnant with a girl, Cyzex was more and more devastated, he broke into tears for he knew he couldn't be with his wife nor with his daughter... Then God himself interfered, he told them that being the generous him, he was going to put them through a test, when their daughter is born, "she is going to be put directly on Earth," he said "while both of you will be put in Limbo, where souls Only wander for a short while there, will your daughter become a good person on earth, she will be allowed into heaven as an angel and with her the two of you, but will she become a bad person, Cyzex will go back to hell, she will be condemned to stay in Limbo, and You Xernia, I will personally erase your memory, everything you've known about Cyzex and your daughter will be erased, you two will be allowed to watch he from limbo, but you will not be able to go to her, you two must use tracking spells, and had your daughter known about this, her memory will be erased and she will be reborn as a human." He finished his sentence and waited for their response, Xernia was nervous but Cyzex wasn't, as a matter of fact Cyzex was relieved that his daughter will be allowed to be born, and he was sure that she was going to become an angel that he quickly said "Sure no problem old man, my daughter's going to prove to you that we deserve heaven, and sorry about the fight thing I was dumb, I hope you can forgive me" God laughed at what Cyzex said, then he replied "Yeah sure Cyzex, but whether I forgive you or not is a matter your daughter will decide" Cyzex then answered "sure thing, I'm so excited to go back to heaven, I feel like I want to become better than I was, I might even make another whale for celebration, or something better, I don't know, but that's not the last you've seen of me god, you can't keep me away from my love Xernia and my daughter..."
The book ended here and with it was a message written from a fellow demon, it said "my brethrens, this book was stolen from heaven like any other book, we must find the daughter of Cyzex, if you find her do not tell her about this story because she will die and her soul will be reborn, and we must turn her into a demon, for Cyzex would be a great asset in our fight against God, cursed be your night, and let the souls you've gathered scream in agony and pain for the rest of eternity"