Luminescent

Tartarus

Rin found herself in total darkness, clothes gone and body bared to whatever pulled her in. She tried opening her eyes, but her eyes were already open, staring into the pure black surrounding her. It was confusing and messing with her senses. She could see, but she couldn't.

She finally decided to close her eyes. When a strange, almost chilling sensation covered her whole body. She kept her eyes clenched shut as  she felt something firm around her body. Was she being restrained? No, her arms and legs were still free and she could still flail around if she wanted. She felt material form around her body to cover her before she was dropped onto a cold floor that had goosebumps breaking across her exposed skin. She seemed to have a long dress on.

When she stood up, her feet felt the frozen ground and material wrapped around her feet until shoes formed–heels, it seemed. She felt jewelry form in her piercings, around her neck. Her hair was lightly tugged into some style and an accessory of some sort was placed in it, possibly decorative.

She looked around and still could see anything, even herself. As soon as she thought about it being too dark, the whole area around her lit up in red light.

She gasped, looking around her. She seemed to be in a building. It had two staircases going up to another floor and huge double doors in the middle of the wall under the staircases. She furrowed her brow and walked forward, pushing the doors open.

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"Where did she go?!" Mephisto demanded. "She was pulled away by something in that alleyway, she disappeared!" Amaimon answered, shocked at what just happened. They got closer to said alleyway, even walking into it.

"Woah.....that's–"

"It's Tartarus. It found a way to take Rin Home." Mephisto finished for him. They could both feel the ancient, but familiar energy that used to pulse through Gehenna before Satan came along.

"So....she's safe?" Amaimon ventured. Mephisto shook his head.

"I cannot say. Though Tartarus is Rin's and she can use it however she pleases, I don't know if her father has been alerted by her appearance there. She could be in danger." He paced in the shadows of the alleyway, floating umbrella following him and keeping him dry as he did so.

Amaimon's hand tightened on the tree umbrella he'd made. "Even if he does, you said Tartarus is hers and that it pulled her to it. If that's true, will it not do everything in it's power to protect Rin?" He wondered.

Mephisto stopped pacing and then rounded on the Earth King, picking him up and spinning him once. "Ah, my dear Amaimon, you're a genius! Of course it will protect her! Satan could lock its location away, but Tartarus can use that against him to keep Rin hidden from Satan. He probably doesn't even check the dimensions he locked away because it takes so much willpower to hold Gehenna in a material state!" He planted a happy kiss on the shorter man's lips and they carried on walking back to the Manor.

"Couldn't you just snap us there, Mephi?" Amaimon pointed out.

"Oh, you're right! I ought to speed this up!" He grabbed Amaimon's hand and snapped them into the living room at the Manor. "Perfect, now to get ahold of the others and tell them what's happened. Unless Rin is called in for a mission, no one breathes a word to the Grigori." The man decided it was easier to just text Ryuji and have him to text the group chat the former ExWires and Shura all had.

When he was done, he turned around with a baffled expression painting his features. Amaimon raised an eyebrow. "Did you just use the nickname Rin gave me a minute ago?" The Time Lord questioned.

"Yes. Why?"

A smile graced Mephisto's face. "Nothing. I like it. You just don't call me any endearments." The Time Lord actually enjoyed being called endearments, but Rin and Ryuji were the only ones who did so. He had endearments for all of his lovers because they always blushed or smiled at him so nicely when he called them like he did.