'You either die and be remembered as a hero in your own story or live long enough to become a villain in someone else's.'… is a quote I suddenly thought of as I pity the heroes of what they had become.
They really have become monsters, figuratively and literally in a sense to what a hero should be. Oh the irony…
Lucifer and Lilith fought the four monsters with a combination of magic and brute strength.
Even if the heroes are monsters, they still have good coordination and the use of their powers… though their powers looked morbid and gives off an evil aura.
Case in point, the healer. She is a priestess and yet whenever she uses her healing powers it looked like something else. Like she was casting an evil spell on her companions.
Lilith used some kind of force barrier to repel all of the mage's attacks whilst casting one of her own in an attempt to stop the priestess.
Lucifer on the other hand blocked the on coming attack from the knight whilst pinpointing the location of the assassin. Whenever the assassin would be coming in from the strike, Lucifer would use the knight's miss positioning as an opportunity to deflect the assassin's attack. It's almost like Lucifer wasn't even in the battle at all and from an observer perspective, it looked like the knight and the assassin was fighting each other.
"ARGH!" The knight let's out an ear piercing groan.
Lucifer was playing the game too well and caused the assassin to be blinded by annoyance and anger. In an act of impatience, the assassin went in for a killing blow but like the game Lucifer is orchestrating, the assassin fell into his trap and the blow pierced the monster's hide, making the knight monster yelp in agony.
{"I think it's time to end this. Honey! Use that skill!"} Lucifer shouted to Lilith but she shook her head.
{"Master! Release up to 15% of my power!"} Lucifer shouted to me in response to his wife's refusal.
"I… okay…" I responded nervously and was about to do as Lucifer asked when Lilith stopped me.
She used one of her powers to restrain me… at least that's what I think it was.
{"Dear! We had this conversation before! You shouldn't use anymore of your power above 5%!"}
{"But…"} Lucifer tried to appeal to his wife but he instantly shut his mouth when she gave him the death stare.
{"Dear. Listen to your wife when I say, I do not want you to unleash anymore of your powers… please. Let go of your pride. For this battle alone, I will use that spell but only this once and you'll have to repay me for this."} Lilith thinned her lips and gave Lucifer her stare whilst still holding off the two female monsters.
{"At your service!"} Lucifer saluted to his wife with a smile but all Lilith gave him was a little shake of her head.
Lilith sighed before turning her head to the two monster women.
{"Sorry ladies, fun's over."}
Lilith ended the strangle hold between her, the mage and the priestess by leaping backwards causing both of the monsters to falter in Lilith's action.
Lilith eyes glowed scarlet red and black wings sprouted from her backside. A thin long tail poked out from underneath her skirt.
She then opened her mouth wide and voiced an incantation that didn't come out from her mouth but instead came from the air around her.
{"Agram Mos."} Her voiced echoed like a ripple in the now destroyed courtyard.
Within seconds of the incantation starting, wisps of red entered her mouth.
"Ah!" All four monsters howled in pain that even made my whole body tingle.
As the wisps of red kept going into Lilith's mouth, the four monsters howled so loud, all four of their voices were cut off as blood spewed out from their mouths.
It looked like a scene from a movie where the victims were tortured into insanity.
All four monsters fell to the ground with a 'thud' as the red wisp slowly dissipate.
The pupils of the monsters eyes slowly faded into white as all their monster parts and features slowly disappeared, leaving behind the corpses of all four once heroes of the humans.
{"Bleh! Disgusting!"} Lilith said as she wiped her mouth. {"I will never do that again! What a horrid after taste! Dear! Come over here!"}
Lucifer rushed to his wife's side. Once he arrived, Lilith grabbed a hold of Lucifer and smashed her face against his. It was a rough kiss that caught Lucifer by surprise.
Lilith lips pressed firmly against his as their make out session started to heat up. Lilith was about to unzip his pants when I rushed in and stopped the two from going any further.
{"Why stop us master?!"} Lilith pouted.
"Lilith, guide us to the throne room." I sighed inwardly.
{"Yes. Of course master."} Lilith responded but her hand never left the zipper.
I raised an eyebrow and Lilith dropped her hand to her side in defeat.
{"Alright everyone! Let's go! Follow me and please keep up!"} Lilith shouted, turned from where she stood and walked through a double arched door.
Lilith led us through an open walkway that led to a corridor that had insignias lined all along the walls. Crests of all the generations of the demon king's family displayed from ascending order from the oldest at the start of the corridor to the newest.
You could feel the weight of this family's history as we walked through the hallway.
Every step we took felt like electricity running through my body.
As we walked towards the double doors at the end of the hallway, the doors opened, revealing the throne room.
It wasn't like any typical throne room, the whole room radiated with power. It felt like weights were draped over my shoulders, crushing me to the floor.
{"The demon King is the strongest amongst us demons. This throne room reflects that. The pressure your feeling right now is the power of the demon king, enforced by the throne room. The stronger the demon king is, the heavier the weight of the power feels. It's to instil authority and dominance to all those that are not familiar with the king."} Lucifer explained as he walked with Lilith like they were leisurely strolling through a park on a Saturday afternoon.
It doesn't seem like they are affect by the pressure at all.
{"Your power is weak Zilma! You are not a demon king at all."}
Zilma laughed as he was sprawled out on the throne like it was a bean bag.
"That's because I'm not a demon king. Yet. I really hate these Royal rules. That bastard Amano pulled a fast one on me… again. Thankfully it's something easy to rectify. All I have to do is to kill his precious little daughter. Welcome to your resting place Demon Queen Lilith!"}
The whole room dimmed down as the temperature dropped.
Zilma untangled himself from the throne and smiled widely.
"Look up there."
Zilma pointed a finger up to the ceiling.
We all looked up.
{"Father!"} Lilith screamed.
Tapered to the ceiling was the previous demon king, Amano. A long slither of white thread connected Amano to Zilma.
"I am his lifeline. Your father's life is in my hands. If the tether breaks then your father's soul will disappear."
Lilith's eyes zeroed in onto Zilma.
{"Dear, don't interfere."}
Lilith didn't break eye contact. Instead her tail wrapped itself around Lucifer who gave a little pat as his response.
"What a lovely scene… a low grade noble married to a monarch that has potential to rule if not for the fact that all your people weren't dead."
{"Are we doing this? Or not?"}
Zilma systematically cracked all the joints in his body with a ghastly grin.
"Alright."
Zilma raised a hand and made a gesture to Lilith.
Lilith taking the gesture as a threat only narrowed her eyes even more on him.
Lilith made the first move and charged forward.
But before her attack could connect, she instantly deployed her wings and leaped backwards.
"Oh? What's wrong?" Zilma's grin grew wider as he watched Lilith make her retreat. "It's a stalemate, isn't it."
{"Fuck you! Your playing dirty…"}
"And that's how I will win."
Zilma hover his hand over the thread and as he did, a loud scream came from the ceiling.
Lilith bit her lip and drew blood.
Lucifer reached over and placed a hand on her shoulder.
Lilith turned his head to him, her eyes were on the brink of leaking.
{"I love you honey. Please don't be mad at me."} Lucifer spoke but he wasn't facing his wife but instead his head was tilted upwards, his eyes fixated on something.
I could see her tail twitch a little whilst still wrapped around his waist.
1 time. 2 time.
Her tail twitched multiple times and yet he wasn't responsive to her.
Zilma's eyes grew wide all of a sudden and he too looked up.
"Lucifer, what a dirty trick. But do you think that will help, to save your father in law?"
Lucifer lowered his head back down and he was now staring directly at Zilma.
{"I've known you for a very long time Zilma. Don't ever think I've forgotten all your dirty little tricks. My wife is fighting to save her father and I'm fighting to save my wife."}
It was like watching a chess match happening right in front of me and Lucifer had just called for a 'Check'.
Lilith looked confused as she stared at her husband.
Is Lucifer the king? Or is he the queen on this chess board?…
{"I'm neither."} Lucifer responded as if he read my thoughts. He said it out loud as if he wants Zilma to listen. {"Lilith's the Queen or the king as you have depicted in the game you called 'chess.' However, I'm not the queen, I'm the pawn."}
"And what piece have you chosen?" I asked curiously which prompted a tiny smirk to tug on the corner of his lips.
{"The knight."}
I looked to his position of where he was standing adjacent to where Zilma was and I laughed inwardly hard.
"What are you talking about Lucifer?" Zilma eyes narrowed in onto Lucifer, his grin fading.
{"Oh me? I'm just stalling."} Lucifer pointed a finger to himself, his other hand stroking Lilith's tail.