Bloody Rose

Chapter 5: Home

"Where are we?" I tentatively asked Lucifer, glaring at him. He avoided my eyes and shifted uncomfortably beneath my gaze.

"WHERE DID YOU TAKE ME?!" I growled and it echoed throughout the cave. Lucifer stumbled backwards with the force of my voice.

"I-I-"

"You what? Huh?" I knew I was being unreasonable, but I did not have a care in the world. I needed someone to tell me what was going on here.

"I brought you home..." Lucifer finally brought his eyes back up to mine and held my gaze in his.

"Home?" I instinctively took a step back. "What do you mean, home?"

Lucifer evidently began to avoid my eyes again.

"LOOK AT ME! WHAT DO YOU MEAN HOME?!" I screamed, outraged at his lack of answers.

"We-we-" Lucifer hunched over as if he was in pain.

"What's wrong?" I rushed to his side concerned for his well being.

"You-you placed a spell on me." Lucifer spoke through gritted teeth, but there was no hint of anger, only pain.

"Spelled...you? For what reason?" I was so confused that my brain was fogging up, and I could feel a migraine approaching.

"This place was so...important to you, that you made sure that when the time came... you would be the only one to remember it, with no one able to help you. Including me." I could tell he was serious by the sorrowful expression he had on his face.

"How much do you remember?" I asked, paranoid of a lie, suddenly noticing that he could remember a lot of details of our missing memories.

"Nothing." He bluntly stated. Why are you lying to me?

"Okay then." I whispered, slowly turning around until I could no longer see him.

"Hey, what's wrong?" He placed his hand gently onto my shoulder. I could feel the sparks flying around us and I closed my eyes, trying to focus on getting the truth out of him. I could feel the rising temperature around us and opened my eyes to see literal sparks circling us. It was getting dangerously close to us so I had to find a way to stop them. I brought my hand up to try and direct it into the pool of water I now noticed in the middle of the cave, but they wouldn't stray from their current path. I tried to rack my brain for a reasonable spell to stop the sparks, but could only come up with one word.

"Prohibere (Stop)!" I screamed, hoping that it would work.

Slowly, the sparks came to a stop; but they did not go away. I looked through my mind again, seeking something to make the sparks disappear.

"Et demetam posteriora tua (Away with you)." Shortly after uttering the phrase, the sparks faded from existence.

"Nunc mihi verum (Now tell me the truth)." I turned to Lucifer, demanding the truth.

"About what?" He replied smugly. About what? I thought with anger. How dare he speak to me with that tone!

"Exaudi me (Answer me)." Despite my anger, I found it within me to keep calm and stone-faced during this confrontation. After all, he was avoiding the question and I needed him to answer me.

"Everything...I remember everything." He answered with his head hung low.

"Everything? For how long?"

He stayed silent for a very long time.

"ANSWER ME GOD DAMMIT!" He jumped back at my cry, as if it had startled him.

"L+A."

That was all I needed to hear to get myself trapped inside my own head.