"So at what age did your powers manifest?" I asked because I was trying to start up a conversation at the breakfast table.
"Well since I'm a full demon my powers came around 6 years old I think." Greg told us while he stuffed 3 loaves of bread into his mouth.
"Yes. It was around that time. By then he was in school. You can't imagine the number of people's memory we had to wipe because they saw this boy flying around the classroom or with his horns out in his full demon form." My dad added.
"Wait, so you have a demon form?" I enquired
"Oh. Um… yeah all demons have one even demi-demons but for demi-demons, yours is more, friendly as compared to us full demons. My father's demon form is crazy scary even for a demon that's why he doesn't often use his full demon form." Greg explained
"Can I see your demon form?" I asked sheepishly.
"Yeah sure why not." Greg was so comfortable showing his dark side to me. My dad wanted to tell him not to but before he could, Greg had already began the transformation. It was one the scariest things I had ever witnessed. He had increased almost exponentially in height to around the height of a basketball rim or probably taller. He had four pair of black wings that made eight in total, his skin was crimson red and his horns were long, curved and pitch black. He had a flaming crown hovering over his head and had blood oozing out of his mouth. His waist band had a huge skull on it-probably not a human skull. He had a large white scar running across his chest with two axes on his back and a sword in its sheath around his waist. He had a gauntlet on his arm with claws that looked like they could pierce through your soul. He also seemed to have chains around his feet. They looked like they were lagging him but he didn't seem to mind and he spoke in a completely different voice which for some inexplicable reason turned me on, "How do I look?" I was speechless.
"It was too scary right? I knew I shouldn't have gone as far as 40%" He said while he transformed back to his adorable 6'0 self.
"Wait? That was only 40% of your demon form?" My father asked in astonishment.
"Yeah If I had gone past that there would be several demons swarming around me like flies ready to do my every bidding."
"Well I for one think that it was super cool?" Toby said as he finished his cereal.
Toby had woken up earlier than all of us and Gregory had filled him in on the happenings of the previous night. He took it way better than we all expected judging by the fact that he used to be afraid of the bogey man up until the second Greg told him the he was our cousin.
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My dad had taken Toby to school and gave him strict instructions not to tell anyone otherwise he would send cousin ben-that's the bogey man's actual name- to come for anyone who knows, and make Toby watch as he ate them. Toby believed my father and kept quiet. Greg told me that the bogey man doesn't eat children, only adults who behave like children.
"So tell me, how did this whole Devil dad thing start?" I sought to know more about his past. He seemed reluctant at first but he decided to open up to me.
"Okay" Greg showed me a mental picture of his memories while he told me the story of his birth.
"Well my father got bored of ruling in hell so he came to earth for entertainment and he found it in earthly women. He slept with half the women on the planet but very few of them bore him children mostly because he didn't want to put the world through the stress of having to deal with the demi-demon baby of Lucifer, but the ones that were born were killed because their mothers were branded as heretics and witches so they and their babies were burnt to death but as you know normal fire cannot kill demi-demons they retreated to hell to await the return of Lucifer but before he came he fell in love with one of the fallen angels and had twins with her a boy and a girl. The girl was more skilled than her brother. She was fast, agile and very smart, her brother on the other hand was strong and used brute force to solve all his problems. Their parents thought that since they were twins, their powers would manifest at the same time but the boys powers came when he turned 6 years old. So his father shifted all his love and attention towards the boy raising him to be the next king of hell. When the twins turned 13, the girls powers had just manifested, but Lucifer had been on earth for too long and his powers were diminishing so he had to return to hell to sit on his throne and hibernate, but before leaving, he told his son, "When I come back, you and I will enslave this world and make it our own." But the boy didn't want that. So he and his father had a huge fight that caused natural disasters all over the planet. The fight left the boy with one scar across his chest and the father with one across his cheek. It was a very bloody fight resulting in many casualties and fatalities. In the end the boy defeated his father and banished him to hell only to return when the boy comes of age and he must fight his father one last time to decide his fate and the fate of the world."
Gregory was almost driven to tears when he had to remember the fight he had with his father before his banishment to hell.
"My sister, Gwen, followed my father to hell and has been with him ever since and now that they have returned I'm not sure I'm strong enough to take them both on." Greg wore his heart on his sleeve and I could see all over his face that he didn't want to have to fight his family but he has to do it to save the world.
I hugged Greg as he sobbed and assured him that I'll do all I can to make sure that I help him in whatever way I can.
"What's going on in here?! Sigh… You told her about your father and Gwen right?" My father walked in and clearly had pity written all over his face. Then I heard in my father's voice 'Why does a little kid have to go through all this?'
"Well dad he didn't choose to be like this so he has to go through this now not only for his sake but for the sake of all mankind." I answered my father
My father looked amazed and said to me "Dear, I didn't say that out loud. You heard my thoughts?!"
I couldn't believe it. Could my powers be awakening?
"Yes. Your powers are awakening. The first sign is hearing of other people's thoughts, then the seeing of apparitions and other demons in their true form, then the awakening of your full demon potential. That's when your demon form will appear." Gregory seemed happy to see that my powers were beginning to manifest themselves.
"Wow this is crazy amazing. Imaging how many tests I could cheat on now just hearing the teacher's thoughts?" I looked for the most insignificant use of telepathy and made it my forefront.
"Don't get ahead of yourself only special demi-demons can read thoughts of both demons and humans and it seems like you are one of them. Even my father and I can't read human thoughts we can only feed off what you say to assume what you are thinking." Gregory said with a hint of jealousy in his voice. I tried to read his mind but as I got to the gate of his subconscious someone blocked my path and it came through as a thumping headache.
"Oh and only high ranking demons can block telepathic waves of other demons or demi-demons into their or someone else's brain." Gregory said as if he had gotten revenge on his long time enemy.
"Also telepathy can be very tricky and very loud. You need to know how to control it before you even step on the patio. Because you can now hear the brain waves of every person around you within a 55 square kilometer radius." Gregory said like a master training his pupil.
"Well of course my range is infinite because I'm limited to only supernatural beings, but for you it's different. The whole world is at your mercy, so long as the being is within your telepathic radius. And stop trying to get into my brain, I'm protecting you from insanity because if I show you even 10% of the stuff that goes through my head your brain wouldn't be able to handle it and it might just cave in." He warned me once again since I persistently kept knocking on the door of his mind.
Greg continued to train me on how to use my telepathy correctly and without injuring myself or the person whose subconscious I'm entering.
By the end of the hour I was able to read the mind of my 4th grade gym teacher who was living about 19 blocks away from our manor and found out that he has a crush on the English teacher and jerks off to videos of her when she was a porn star. On a related note I also found out that my English teacher was a porn star called 'lolli-dolli' which is crazy because her name is Olivia Dillde.
Greg took so much pride in teaching me how to use my telepathy. He even showed me how to blow someone's mind up with telepathy, just by feeding it with all the thoughts of every other brain around it but every brain has a capacity so I'll have to watch out for those with the high IQs.
I was beginning to get the hang of my telepathy when Greg said with a wryly look on his face, "Your telekinesis have also been awoken…"
BOOM!!!
A large blast of energy came at us right through the window. It didn't really come through the window in as much as it obliterated the entire west wing of the manor. I wasn't sure how long I was knocked out for but when I came to, Gregory was standing in front of me ready to protect me like a knight protecting a damsel in distress.
"Are you okay Lenette?" Greg asked me while looking very concerned.
"Yeah I'm okay. Where's my father?" I was scared. I didn't see him anywhere amidst the carnage of the explosion.
"Don't worry. He was unconscious so I teleported him to a hospital where I have a demon doctor, he'll be properly taken care of." Gregory assured me of my father's safety and helped me up on my feet.
"Well what happened?" I asked Greg because I had no idea what was going on- for the past 10 hours I've had that feeling a lot.
"We were attacked by some low ranking demons, and they're standing right there." Gregory said as he pointed towards three rabbits in the corner of what until a few second ago, used to be our kitchen.
"Oh come on Gregory. Do you really think that these three little harmless bunnies could do…this…much…damage?" I didn't even finish my sentence when my eyes were opened and I saw the demon form of what I thought were rabbits. They looked like evil incarnate with their giant fangs and sharp claws and long ears. They stood up to 10 feet tall, probably as tall as Gregory's 40% demon form.
"Okay you little pieces of shit. I was having a nice conversation with a very pretty girl and you guys thought it was the right time to attack? Well now you're gonna have to deal with Gregurioua, Son of Lucifer and Prince of hell!" Gregory said while taking his sword out of its sheath. They looked like they instantly regretted attacking us.