'This feeling that I am feeling, is the best feeling I have truly felt. And it started when I first saw you.'
- Anonymous
"Yeah lessons. For you Mia. Dante wanted you to learn the terrain and grounds and provide you with lessons on defending yourself if you were to ever need it.", Zelus answered.
By now Mia was used to the surprises, she just went with the flow. "Great! When do I start?"
"As soon as we have all our grounds set up.", Aciel replied.
"This is going to be great!", Mia for once was genuinely excited. 12 handsome guys all to herself, hiking and exploring by means of 'classes and lessons', Mia thought to herself and giggled softly.
Victoria could read her so well. She slapped her hand on Mia's back and smirked at her.
Mia was a little stupefied. She just met Victoria, and Victoria could already read through her perverted intentions. Hah! So much for being discreet. Mia gave her a Victoria that said 'I can't help it. Don't you see these hot guys here?'
Victoria scoffed at Mia's look. "So who's escorting Mia to her lessons?"
Lanser replied, "Dante is."
"Who else?" Mia probed.
"Just Dante. He is the best person to guide you. He never gave us any lessons but he is one of the best to learn from.", Lanser replied feeling a little envious. The mighty King of Hell who was super busy set aside time to escort Mia to learn about the terrain and personally teach her, of course he would be jealous.
Victoria giggled and looked at Mia, "No need to get jealous Lanser. You are already really great, what more do you need to learn from Dante."
"But Master is the best! Of course there is a lot of learn, I am nowhere near him.", Lanser argued.
"There there Lanser, I will teach you some amazing skills of mine.", Zelus added.
"Amazing skills? Yeah right, I have more skills than you. The Offense Team is better than the Defense Team is more ways than you know.", Lanser chided Zelus.
Just like that Zelus and Lanser started bickering with each other.
"What is the Defense and the Offense Team? What is it about?", Mia asked curiously.
"Oh, we's like the military head for Dante. You see the 12 of us here?", Victoria started explaining.
"There are 6 of us in the Defense Team and the rest of the 6 are in the Offense Team. Basically the Defense team guards the walls inside Hell, and the Offense Team guard the outer threats of Hell.", Victoria detailed out.
"Zelus is the captain of the Defense Team and under him, there's the twins Xylos and Xyler, Aciel, Soren and me," Victoria added.
"And as for the Offense Team, I, Lanser is the captain and in my team there's Kace, Titan, Nero, Jax and Atticus.", Lander offered his explanation for the Offense Team.
"There's only 12 men in the military? Isn't that a sum too little?", Mia was a little stunned. She expected more from Hell and the 12 people there could see disappointment written all over Mia's face.
Soren coughed and elaborated more. "There's 12 of us as the Head of the Military. Under each one of us, theres thousands of Demons under us that we command."
"Thousands?... Wow! That's amazing!", Mia's eyes light up.
"Wait does that mean all you guys are Demons as well?", Mia asked.
"Indeed. We are. Are you afraid of us?", Jax asked in return.
"Nope. You guys seem more human to me than some people I have met on Earth. And besides, you guys don't look like Demons and Monsters that people portray in books and on tv.", Mia was surprised that the 12 demons here were so much welcoming and they didn't look terrifying at all. In fact, their beauty and handsomeness could rival the celebrities and idols alike. In fact, one can safely say these bunch were even more better-looking.
As soon as Mia said that, the 12 demons looked at each other and laughed so hard that tears spilled out of their eyes.
"What's so funny?", Mia was utterly confused and she looked across the twelve a little distressed.
"We look more relatable because we are not in 'Inferno' mode.", Atticus answered.
"Inferno?", Mia asked.
"Yes, 'Inferno'. When we are in 'Inferno' mode, that's what our true form is like. But we are not in that mode all the time. Only when we sense danger, does that stage come out or when we choose for it to come out as it is our most powerful form", Atticus explained.
"Oh....", Mia nodded as she understood how the demon realm worked. "So can I see your 'Inferno' mode?", she asked.
The twelve was shocked. "Its really not that pleasing to the human eyes. That's what all the folklore in the Mortal Realm talk about and being scared of it.", Nero replied when no one spoke after Mia's request.
"But I really am curious. Can I please see it? If I get scared, I can ask you to switch back from the 'Inferno' mode, can't I?", Mia pleaded.
"Well, are you sure about this?", Victoria asked concerned as she leaned over Mia and studied her face. She looked at the others and slowly nodded. They were given strict commands by their Master, the King of Hell of comply to all of Mia's demand but was also strictly advised not to go overboard as she is a mortal after all and some things in Hell, can't be easily fathomed. They were worried if they were to scare Mia, then the Kind of Hell would have their heads cut off.
"If you insist, we can show you our Inferno stage but let's do this one at a time and Mia you HAVE to let us know if are scared right away or close your eyes.", Victoria strictly advised.
"Yes. Yes. Yes. I got it. Can I please see it? Pretty please?", Mia pleaded to the twelve with her round big eyes looking at them eagerly.
'Gosh she looked so cute and pretty', those were the thoughts of the twelve. 'No wonder my cousin is so deep in love with her. Her actions are so cute and lovely.', Victoria sighed as she looked around, the other demons were entranced by her as well. Including her. 'Damn it!' Victoria silently cursed.
"Okay. I'll go first.", Victoria offered.