Una Commedia Dall'inferno

Fill my cup, Melinda” Shouted Lesthar at the bar tender, she poured some beer in his cup and said “There you go Les, enjoy!” As he was drinking his beer two young women entered the bar, their beauty was enchanting, so much so that every person in the bar besides Lesthar stopped doing whatever they are doing and just stared at them.

The women over all appeared the same, they were twins in fact, and both were of middle height with well-endowed yet slender bodies, both sisters sported a long black hair with some colored bangs in it. The one on the right was wearing knee high boots, with a short skirt and black buttoned sailor shirt.

Her sister was wearing a dark gray sleeveless minidress with a white collar and a red belt that has a heart shaped buckle along with that she wore long black socks and black shoes.

The bar went silent as everyone just set there as if hypnotized and stared at the twins, Lesthar noticed the sudden change of atmosphere turned around, had a glimpse of the sisters and Murmured to himself “How not surprising”. The girls who immediately noticed he was the only one not staring at them approached him and set each by one of his sides. The one with the sailor shirt asked Lesthar, “So what does a handsome man like you do in a dump like this?” he answered with a question of his own, “What two young girls like you want with an old man like me?” The woman answered, “Oh you don’t seem old, honey, by the way, I’m Mesia and this is Ruby” pointing at her sister who just smiled and winked at Lesthar. He grinned and replied, “Believe me, I’m old, and I want nothing to do with you, sweetheart”. In response Ruby said, “Even if you’re the type for men, we’re special, we can make you like girls” and her smile grew wider as her sister slowly crept hand across the man’s right leg. Lesthar sighed and said, “It’s not that I’m not into women, I am, it’s just that not into *your* type.” After finishing drinking his cup he stood up, brushing of Mesia’s arm, he placed his hand on her shoulder and said, “I better get going now, girls. They say odd things happen around this time late at night” and started walking towards the existing as he was going his way he let out a laughter.

Suddenly, the atmosphere in the bar changed again, the hypnotized stares turned into stares of surprise, which in turn quickly turned into bloodthirsty stares. Ruby got a shocked look in her eyes, and Mesia noticing this turned her eyes off of Lesthar asked her, “What’s wrong, sis?” Ruby answered “Mes, you’re camouflage is gone…” Mesia immediately looked at her hands to find out talons sprout out of her finger endings. She quickly grabbed the mirror in her pocket to find out her irises were catlike and her mouth full of fangs” She angrily said “That basta...” and before finishing her sentence she was stabbed in the stomach by one of the people in the bar. Lesthar turned around and said “Oh I must’ve knocked of your concealing magic… sorry about that, by the way, people aren’t too fond of Succubae or any other kind of Lilin in here” before turning around again and walking out of the bar. Mesia looked at her assailant with angry eyes and shouted “Why you, little piece of s\*\*t” before slitting his throat with her talon. Ruby noticing this pulled out a dagger out of sock and the twins started rampaging inside the bar. Meanwhile Lesthar stared at the moon outside and thought aloud, “Kids these days are so noisy.”

A few moments later the noise inside the bar stopped, Lesthar turned to face the door and it shot open, the two sisters covered in blood stormed outside with Mesia yelling at Lesthar “We slaughtered them, are you happy now, Deepshit?” Ruby put her hand on her sister’s shoulder and told her to calm down; claiming that if the man in front of them could knock off her magic it means he is either a demon or an Angel, or some holy man.

After hearing Ruby’s words Lesthar said, “Finally! At least one of you has her brain inside her head, and not her vagina. I am a demon, didn’t my red eyes sell me out?! My name is Lesthar, formally known as Aodhan O Coileain. A twelve-century Irish soldier, murderer and terrible family man.

Mesia interrupted him and angrily said, “I don’t care what you are, even if you were God himself I’d go after you for insulting us and ruining our night like this”. Lesthar shook his head and answered to Mesia’s threat, “Honestly, you need to stop with this us and we, look I understand you’re an idiot, but how couldn’t you notice the only thing that you and your sister share now is appearance?” Mesia looked at Ruby and asked her “What the hell is this man talking about?” with trembling voice. Lesthar chuckled and said “Allow me to explain, Ruby here, is not a Succubus. She’s a typical demon” making air quotes, he proceeded to speak, “While your sin was being a b\*\*\*h who loved sex more than life and used it for personal gain and blah blah blah, Ruby was sent to hell for being a murderer, and not just any a typical murderer, but one who enjoys killing…” he chuckled again. “Stop spreading bullshit…” Said Mesia before snapping and launching herself at Lesthar who just pushed her away and her flying back a few feet. Ruby just stood there frozen with her head lowered. Mesia spat some blood and yelled, “My sister can’t be some lowly demon, she’s a masterpiece of Lady Lilith, just like me and we’re going to butcher you for comparing us to yourself, and even Lucifer himself won’t save you”. At this point Ruby started hissing violently and Lesthar just started laughing at what Mesia just said to him. Ruby looked her sister sitting on the ground wiping blood off of her lips and said while deepening her voice out of anger, “A lowly demon… a lowly demon, is that all I am? I just wanted to be with you… This is why I wasted my time on *your* hobbies, on *your* needs. All this time I’ve spent sharing guys with you I could be spent on something more productive like working in Hell or perhaps even bumming around like him” pointing at Lesthar. A comment to which he responded with, “Hey, I’ve retired after six hundred years of loyal service.” Mesia got back up on her feet and started speaking, “So it’s true… we don’t even have the same eyes anymore, Ruby, yours have gone red.” She brushed some dirt off her clothes and preceded saying, “Are you with him or are you with me?” Ruby breathed deeply and answered, “Look I don’t see a reason to kill Lesthar, we’re all demons after all, just of different kinds, you are a Succubus and I and he are Cacodemons.” Lesthar interrupted her to praise her knowledge. Ruby continue, “Everything he said is true, I got to hell because I killed one of your exes and his friends, who tried to rape me. Lesthar again interrupted her saying, “What you did was not killing it was a genuine psychotic murder… After you killed one of them, you kept stabbing his body and then even when his buddies begged for mercy you just butchered them, like cattle.” Giving off a goofy smile, to which Ruby answered with a scream, “Would you shut the f\*\*k up, old man?”

After which Mesia quietly said, “So you’re with him, too bad sis, this means I’ll just kill you both…” Before Ruby or Lesthar could react, Mesia already hit Ruby, the letter dropped on her all fours, and Mesia proceeded repeatedly kicking her sister in the stomach.

While Mesia was pummeling at Ruby she looked up at Lesthar and said, “look what you made me do, hit my own dear sister, I can’t let you live after that, can I?” At that moment, Ruby grabbed Mesia’s leg and yanked on it, tripping Mesia in the process. Ruby climbed on top of her sister and started viciously punching her all over her face and arms with which she tried to protect herself from Ruby’s punches. The beating continued until Mesia’s face had been damaged badly and Lesthar pulled Ruby off her.

Lesthar crouched to Ruby and said, “Well you clearly have some anger issues, and I could help you resolve them. Instead of going back to hell, to waste your talent on making deals and playing naughty nurse with dead people, you should come roam this planet with me, I will teach you how to control your murderous urge and so much more. So, what do you say, Ruby?

Ruby collected herself took a deep breath, exhaled from her mouth and replied, “Sure, what’s the worst that could happen, it’s not like I have anyone else left in this world”.

Lesthar grabbed her hand, helped her get back on her feet, and as the both of them started walking away, Mesia called at them while coughing blood “Hey… Come back… we’re not done yet”.  She tried to get back up on her feet, Lesthar sighed, “Kids these days” after which he snapped his fingers, and Mesia was lit up on fire, as Mesia was screaming and moaning in agony while her body was being burned to ashes. Ruby looked back and said “Wow, you’ve gotta teach me how to this”, and Lesthar just looked at the sky and said, “The moon is so beautiful tonight… Don’t you think, Ruby?”

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The shopkeeper of “Monroe’s weaponry” weapon store heard the entrance door of his store crack open and he called from within the back room, “Welcome to Monroe’s Weaponry, a place where you can find any kind of weapon, we have anything from guns to knives to pitch forks”. Ruby approaching the counter smiled and yelled back “I hope it’s not just cheap advertising”. The Shopkeeper heard her voice and hurried back with an old riffle in his hands, which was meant for the mysterious man standing there, next to Ruby. He gave the rifle to the man and said “That’d be 2500$, Sir” The man gave him the money, thanked him and quietly left the store. Ruby turned around, glanced at the man for a brief moment and turned back to counter. The shopkeeper said, “How could I help you, beautiful?” and Ruby replied, “I need a sturdy dagger preferably with a nicely decorated handle, do you have something like that in your store?” The shopkeeper opened a drawer behind the counter while saying, “Yeah, I think I do have what you’re looking for”. He pulled out a medium length dagger made of a shiny silver blade with a black and gold handle that is shaped like a dragon’s head at its bottom. “Here it is, you know, they say it’s a cursed dagger, but I don’t believe this kind of stuff”, said the shopkeeper as he gave Ruby the dagger. She held the handle and said “feels like it was made for me” and proceeded to cut her own hand with the blade, the shopkeeper just watched in horror and exhaled, “The hell are you doing?” Ruby smiled at him and said, “Just watch”, the shopkeeper looked at the palm of her hand and the gash was being closed by itself. The Shopkeeper grew even more terrified of Ruby and asked with a trembling voice “What… are… you…” Ruby just smiled at him and said “a demon…” She looked at the price tag attached to the dagger’s handle which said 200$ she pulled out a couple of hundred dollar bills and put them on the counter and said “There you go, buddy, see you” and walked out of the store, the shopkeeper just fell off his feet after the door closed behind Ruby.

When Ruby the store the man from earlier approached her and took his cap off, revealing his unnaturally yellow eyes, he said, “Yo, little sister”, Ruby in turn said, “What a surprise, two demons meet in such a tiny god forbidden town”. The demon replied, “There’re way more than just the two of us here. A whole platoon was sent here investigate the death of a Succubus named Mesia, You know anything about that?” “No clue”, Ruby replied, she proceeded to ask, “What’s so special about her that a whole platoon was sent to find what killed her?” The demon answered, “Well they say she was the best at what she did, second only to Lilith herself, that’s probably the Demon Princess order a search by a platoon”. Ruby said, “I see, well if I get any info, I’ll let you know” and left the place. After she was far enough from the other demon she reached out for her phone and called Lesthar, he picked up and said “Yeeees?” Ruby answered, “Les, there’s uhm a sort of problem, Lilith has sent a platoon of demons to find out who killed my sister”. Lesthar answered, “Oh, that’s why there are so many demons, well I guess we’ll just have to take care of that platoon or leave town, which ever you like more.” Ruby thought about the choices they could make and said with a fake Irish accent, mocking Lesthar, “I like the former, mate” he just laughed and said “Well then, it’s settled, have a nice day, child” and hung off.

After talking with Lesthar Ruby headed to find something to drink, she found herself entering a small local bar. Just as she sat at the counter and asked the bartender for a shot of whiskey, a drunken man set next to her and said, “Hey, you’re a woman, look at me, is there something wrong with me?” She looked at the man with a slight annoyance and said “Nah, you’re fine, old man”. The man sighed and said, “A young girl like you thinks I’m fine but my wife, ex wife in fact, thought otherwise, I’m Chester by the way” and stretched his arm for a handshake, Ruby shook his hand and said, “I’m Ruby”. At that instant, the bartender served her a shot of whiskey she drank it and proclaimed, “Hmm, this is good, could you bring me the whole bottle, please?” she asked the bartender. Ruby looked at Chester’s cup and said, “By the looks of what you’re drinking it seems you’ve good cash, and if your wife is around your age I don’t see why should there be a problem with the intimate parts of a marriage.” Chester took his cup, drank his spirit and said, “Well you see, I guess she found me not good anymore or something. I caught her f\*\*\*\*\*g some dude on the couch one day when I came back early from work.” He continued, “Naturally I filled in for divorce but the b\*\*\*h ended up getting half of *our* belongings. She took half of what I worked my whole life for, she ruined my life!” Ruby took another shot of Whiskey and said, “Well, that’s a sad story, Chester”. He answered with a desperate voice, “I’d give anything to have that b\*\*\*h pay for what she did, even my own life” Ruby smiled at him. She then filled her cup once again and said “Well even if it’s just your soul, I could arrange something”, Chester asked with excitement, “Oh you would?” and Ruby goofily answered, “Yep”, causing the drunken man to yell “Do it then!” . She raised her cup and said “Cheers to our deal and to the justice that’s about to come”. After this toast, she parted with Chester and said she’ll find him some day to take her part of the deal.  Once she left the bar she was greeted by Lesthar who was standing across the street, he said “You’ve struck your first deal, I’m proud of you, kid” And they both returned to his mansion.

The next week was spent researching Ruby’s target. Once she gathered all the information she needed, Ruby headed to her target’s apartment in Kansas City, Missouri. Once there, Ruby simply broke entrance door and found a couple having sex in the living room. Once they noticed her, they both tried hiding their private parts and started yelling at her, “who the hell are you? What’re you doing here?” The man yelled, “Get out before I call the cops” to which Ruby answered in a mocking voice, “Oooh, I’m so scared” and proceed asking the woman, “Are you Linda? If so, I was sent by your ex husband to kill you”. Hearing Ruby’s statement the man tried to attack her and yelled at the woman to run. Ruby grabbed the man’s arm and started tightening her grip, which caused him a lot of pain and he started screaming loudly. The woman in her horror tried running but slipped over her own feet and fell near the entrance door. Meanwhile Ruby slid her dagger down her jacket’s sleeve in a way that the blade is revealed. She told the man with a soft and gentle voice, “Big boy, you should’ve stayed out of this” before stabbing him in the stomach and letting his body drop on the floor. She skipped towards the shaking woman and slid her dagger back into her sleeve, once standing over the woman she crouched and said, “Well, Linda, this is it, time to pay for what you’ve done. Oh yeah and, Chester asked me to make it as painful as possible, so buckle up it’s going to a hell of a ride. The woman tried crawling away but to no avail, Ruby simply grabbed her by the hair and started bashing her head against the floor, slowly, repeatedly. After a few hits she pulled the woman’s head backwards and asked her how she felt, the woman painfully murmured, “Let me go please”, by then her face was badly bruised, Ruby simply looked at it and said “Nah” and kept pounding the woman’s head into the floor until she stopped making noises. Ruby then yanked the woman’s body backwards and dropped it hard against the floor.

She got up and walked towards the entrance door of the house, but then she decided it would be a good idea to thank her victims, she turned to the corpses and gracefully bowed before them saying “Thank you for your attention *kind* people”.

Just as Ruby turned around to leave the apartment the door shut open and a bright light blinded her. She closed her eyes with her arms but the light just got brighter, she asked, “What the hell is this? Who are you?” A high pinched voice answered, “I am Coloel, and I’m here to bring you to heaven”.

Before Ruby could even react, a figure grabbed her and deprived her of her ability to move just as the figure was about to teleport them away, Lesthar appeared before the both of them. He Looked at Coloel and said, “Let go of the girl, little angel”. Coloel replied, “Oh, you’re here, this makes it a lot easier. You both better come with me or I’ll just kill your precious girl and might even kill you afterwards”. “Is that so?” asked Lesthar. The angel pulled out a short sword, and said, “Yes, you see this sword is meant for killing demons and other inhuman beings” be placed it across Ruby’s throat as he was speaking. Lesthar replied, “Alright then, we’ll come with you, peacefully” in what sounded almost like a sarcastic tone. Coloel let go of Ruby and opened a gateway to Heaven that looked like a shinning set of white and gold stairs.

After climbing the stairs, they faced a giant gate made of pearl and various gemstones. Coloel shoved open the gates to reveal a blinding light and instructed the two demons to go forward. After passing the light of Heaven’s gate, the demons realized they were inside a structure that looked like a human office. Lesthar looked around and said, “No wonder angels are so grumpy, being a corporate is depressing…” Coloel instructed the two to towards a large wooden door that was stationed a hall’s walk away from them, as they were passing through the room various angels kept staring at them until Lesthar had enough of it, stopped dead in his tracks and said “Yes, we’re demons, here, in Heaven, enjoy the view, freaks”. Ruby pushed him while saying, “Just keep walking, Les… Just keep walking”.

Eventually they reached the large wooden door, and Coloel said, “Go ahead, Les, open it.” Making it sound as if it was a trap, Lesthar opened the door to find none other than Metatron sitting in a large leather chair. Metatron’s appearance was that of an old Middle Eastern name with short and messy white hair and a white beard and mustache. He was wearing a large white coat with golden edges and the buttons of his coat were made of sapphires, he wore white loose pants underneath the coat and wore gray spiked boots. On top head, he had a sort of a silver crown. Upon seeing the demons he smiled and said, “Welcome to my office”. Lesthar got a serious look on his face and said, “What do you want, Enoch?” Metatron answered, “I see you’re all about business, Lesthar, well then, I’ll get straight to the point. You see I know you killed a certain demon, a succubus named Mesia, well that succubus was very liked by Lilith, and now thanks to you and your little lackey Lilith has her minions cause a lot of trouble in the human world”.  Lesthar interrupted him and asked “So what do *you* want with me?” Metatron’s grin grew wider and he said, “I want to ask you for something, would you kill Lilith for me?” Lesthar answered, “Like hell I would work for you... let’s go Ruby, we’re done here” they started heading for the door but then Metatron called out “Breandan” Lesthar turned around and saw the ghost of his son, and started laughing, “You brought my son, the one who hates me to help you? Really? Is this how low you’ve stooped, Enoch?” Metatron replied, “No, I’m just going to ask him to help me force you to work with me, he knows where your remains are”.

Lesthar’s laughter had gone louder after hearing Metatron’s words and he said, “That hopeless brat hated me so much he cursed my grave in the name of God so that no one would be able to see my remains again… and now that God is gone, no one will ever see them again for sure”.  Breandan lowered his head and said, “He’s telling the truth, this piece of s\*\*t of a father deserved to be cursed like this”. Lesthar looked at his son and said, “Is this how you greet your father after so many years? It seems you still haven’t learned any manners, brat”. Breandan started cursing his father in Gaelic and Metatron sent him back to the afterlife. After sending Breandan back, he got up from his chair and said, “Well if I can’t make sure you’ll do your job right I’ll just have to kill you and give your body to Lilith.” Lesthar smiled and said, “Are you sure you can?” Metatron grinned again and answered, “We’re in heaven, surrounded by millions of angels eventually even a powerful demon like you will fall here”. Lesthar ran his hand across his faced and said, “You know what, I’ll make a deal with you, you’ll know where to get Ruby’s bones, and I’ll take out Lilith” Ruby yelled out, “What?!” Lesthar just silenced her and asked Metatron if he agrees, “Sounds like plan, since she’s that precious to you according to Coloel, I’ll take her bones as a bargaining chip”. Metatron then reached out his hand to seal the deal but Lesthar said, “You have to bring Degriel to help me with this”.

Metatron’s facial expression became serious, “I don’t know where he is, nobody knows” and Lesthar replied, “Well then there’s no deal”, to which Metatron replied, “Fine I’ll find Degriel and get him to work with you on killing Lilith”. Lesthar said “Good!” and shook Metatron’s hand, he proceeded to tell him where Ruby and Mesia’s grave is and the two demons left the room.

While they were walking towards the gate of Heaven to return to the Human world, Ruby hasn’t said a word, but after the left heaven she grabbed Lesthar by the arm and said, “I thought we were partners” to which Lesthar responded “Oh but of course we are, Ruby”. Ruby’s expression became puzzled “then why did you tell Metatron where my bones lie?” Lesthar chuckled and said, “Because you had a twin with whom you share a grave, and because I transferred your bones to my resting place, just in case something like this happens”. Ruby sighed in relief and said “You tricky b\*\*\*\*\*d” and then proceeded to ask, “But you said nobody can enter your grave except God himself, so how could you hide my remains there?” Lesthar put his hand on her shoulder and answered, “A soul could always reach her original body. Anyways I’d like to take you a very special place”. As he said that he opened a portal with the clap of his hands to a section of Hell Ruby has never seen before, she started at the walls and ceiling which were covered in diamonds that were shining in various beautiful colors and asked, “What is this place?” Lesthar set down on a large sofa made of white and red leather and said, “This, my friend, is my palace in Hell, this is where we’ll plan our next move”

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Ruby’s expression turned from a surprised to serious, she set on the second sofa in the room; it was made of black leather with white linings. She crossed her legs, tossed herself back and calmly said, “Les, we’ve got to talk” Lesthar gave out a reluctant “Oh here she goes…” with a comically annoying expression on his face to which Ruby laughed and said, “Oh no, it’s nothing like that, I just have a lot of things I’d like to know”. Lesthar sighed in relief and answered “Sure, anything, let’s get ourselves something to drink first”. After finishing the sentence he snapped his fingers and two well dressed demons appeared out of thin air to Ruby’s surprise, Lesthar commanded them, “Get us something to drink, and make it quick” to which the pair simply answered “yes, sir” and disappeared again into thin air. About a moment later, the pair of well-dressed demons reappeared in the room where Lesthar and Ruby set with coffee cups and served the pair.

Lesthar straightened up on his sofa and asked, “So, kid, what do you want to know?” Ruby sipped some coffee and said, “Well if we’re partners in crime, buddies, BFFs, I should know some things about you, so first of all what is this place, who are they, and how’d you get all of this? Who is Degriel and why you need his help? And what is your plan to get rid of the Queen b\*\*\*h that’s on our tail?”

Lesthar drank some of his drink and proceeded to say, “You sure have a lot of questions, okay so, in hell everything works in terms of strength " The more powerful you are, the more privileges, oh and these two good-for-nothing-demons are just some followers hoping to gain some power and reputation in Hell.” Lesthar drank some more of his drink and continued to speak, “Degriel is my guardian angel you could say, I got to work with him a lot, he’s the only holy monster I trust. We’ve been through some tough times together like the resealing of Belphegor, so yeah, if I need Angelic help, I only ask for his”. Just as Lesthar finished talking about Degriel a trembling occurred inside his chambers, Ruby asked him, “What’s going on?” and he replied in an annoyed tone “We’re being summoned by someone up stairs, you kids no nothing these days, huh?” Lesthar put his cup on the golden table that was standing between the sofas and urged Ruby to go along with him.

The demons teleported to where they were summoned from and found out that the one who summoned them was a man of average height with short black hair combed backwards, deep brown eyes and an unshaved face who was wearing a black coat over a buttoned white shirt with brown pants. Lesthar smiled and said “Good to see you again, angel crap”, The man in the coat smiled back and replied, “Good to see you too, future purification target”, the two shook hands and as they did, Ruby shyly asked, “Is this Degriel?”. Lesthar was about to reply to her question but Degriel answered before him, “You must be that red eyed she-devil Metatron was hissing about, and yes, I am Degriel, pleasure to meet you. A friend of Les is a friend of mine.” He turned to Lesthar and asked him, “She is a friend and not some servant or something, right?” Lesthar put his hand on her head and replied, “She’s like the daughter I’ve never wanted to have, to me” Ruby gave out an annoyed expression. Degriel proclaimed, “Well let’s get to business, I’ve seen a lot of Succubae, Incubi and other Lilith sympathizers around this area, and from what I know, you want her head on a stick, so what’s your plan?”

Lesthar put both his hands in his pockets and said, “Well, it’s simple, we find the most knowledgeable Succubus in existence, Meridiana, and ask her how to get and kill Lilith. If she co-operates, we’ll just talk and leave for the rest of the job, if she doesn’t " we’ll torture her into revealing the details, and then we find Lilith and take her out”. Ruby tightened her right hand into a fist and proclaimed, “Let’s go!” Degriel sighed, put each of his hands on the pair of demons, and said, “You should thank the Lord I know where Meridiana is…” before teleporting the three of them to Meridiana’s Location. Upon arriving Ruby noticed they were standing in front of a sex store and groaned “Really? Really now?” and Lesthar said “Typical of their kind”, Degriel just walked opened the door of the store and called the pair to come in.

Once the trio went in Lesthar approached the counter while Ruby and Degriel are standing behind him and a young lady with brown hair that reaches her lower back along with dark brown eyes wearing a white buttoned shirt and many bracelets on each arm greeted him asking, “How may I help you, sir?” Lesthar smiled and said, “We’re looking for Meridiana…” The woman’s eyes widened in shock and she said “I’ve retired, I don’t meddle in these things anymore, go away please…” Ruby stepped to the counter placed both her arms on it and said, “We just want to ask you a few…” before she could finish her sentence the woman shouted at her “I said I’m done!” revealing her true form to the trio and bearing her fangs at them.

“Well then, to plan B, she’s all yours, Les”, said Ruby after which she locked the door of the store from the inside and closed the purple curtains that were hanging on each side of the door while Lesthar pinned Meridiana to the wall using telekinesis. Lesthar asked her where he can find Lilith but all Meridiana answered was “F\*\*k you!” after which Lesthar’s red eyes gleamed revealing an obvious blood lust. By moving one of his fingers, he made one of Meridiana’s bracelets lock itself tighter and tighter on her hand until it reaped her skin and pressed on her bare flash causing her to scream in pain. She yelled at him, “Is that all you’ve got?” and Lesthar calmly answered “No” he then proceeded to move all five of his fingers which caused all of her bracelets to tight themselves like the first one, causing her tremendous pain she started crying out of pain and Lesthar asked, “Well, where is Lilith?” Meridiana answered “Torture me all you want, I won’t tell you a word!” Lesthar looked at her hair and then moved his eyes upwards, which made her hair wrap around the Succubus’ neck and then around the fan, hanging in the store’s ceiling as if a hangman’s rope. Lesthar asked his question again, but Meridiana refused to answer once more, he then asked Ruby for her dagger, which she tossed to him and he scalped Meridiana with it, causing her to arrogantly laugh and seemingly die.

Lesthar then said, “Well, Degriel, could you please revive her for me?” Degriel came over the counter, reached the corpse, and said, “I can” He placed his hand on Meridiana’s head and brought her soul back into her body, reviving her in the process. She opened her eyes in shock to find out she is back to the world of the living with her torturers in front of her, Lesthar’s face gave out a maniacal expression and said “Welcome back darling” with a heavy Irish accent. Ruby set on the counter swinging her legs and asked Meridiana, “Are you going to speak now, or we’re going to continue our game of detectives?”

Meridiana moved her head from side to side and Lesthar proceeded to torture her for about two hours. Eventually Meridiana gave out and told the trio that Lilith is going to have a huge *party* for demons at the Orca hotel at night in order to collect all of her followers in one place and attack Ruby and Lesthar. She also revealed that the only way to kill Lilith and Cain is by using the original blade " the blade Cain used to kill Abel. Meridiana also revealed that the blade is hidden on Mars, far from human hands.

After being done with torturing the succubus Lesthar and Degriel headed out of the store and Lesthar gave Ruby her dagger back, Ruby then stood up in front of a barely living mangled Meridiana and said, “Look at you, lipless, teeth less, chocked by your own hair, your eyes were gouged out. Every bit of your finger tissue was torn off, leaving nothing but bones, your arms are shredded, your legs are cranked backwards, your body is full of cuts… Look at how much blood you’ve lost” pointing at the blood pool beneath their feet, Ruby smiled and said “Thank you for your help” and proceeded to stab Meridiana in the throat killing her for good before leaving the store and catching up with Lesthar and Degriel. Lesthar snapped his fingers and Meridiana’s shop went ablaze.

Degriel looked at him and asked, “Was that necessary?” he proceeded to say “I’ll go get the blade, you find that hotel meet you there at eleven pm on the roof” before teleporting himself away. Ruby asked, “Was he always this stressed?” and Lesthar replied, “I believe so” as they were walking down the street.

An hour before midnight the pair of demons was standing on the roof of the Orca hotel, Lesthar drew a pentagram with white chalk on the roof and Ruby asked him, “What’re you doing?” He replied to the girl, “Summoning our angelic friend” he then poured holy water on the pentagram and called Degriel’s name, Degriel appeared with a bone tied to a long blade shaped obsidian stone, and said, “Well, this is it, that’s the original blade.” Lesthar looked at the thing and said, “I wonder how that guy became the best torturer in hell” Ruby coldly grabbed the weapon from Degriel’s hand and said quietly, “let’s get this over with”, she then athletically slid into the window of the top floor and Degriel along with Lesthar teleported themselves inside the hotel.

Ruby walked inside the top floor opening each door she came across, Lesthar and Degriel lagged behind however they do opened each and every door they could find, the closer Ruby got to Lilith, the angrier she felt. Until she reached the purely wooden doors of the top floor’s suite, the doors had two large metal handles that had to be pushed simultaneously in order for the doors to open up " Ruby took a deep breath and pushed the handles. At the center of the room stood a beautiful blonde woman with her hair braided into a long bun, she was wearing a revealing black dress and high heels, her neck was decorated with a necklace with a medallion reading “Lilith”, she wore sapphire earrings a half heart bracelet on each forearm.

Ruby paused for a second and said to herself, “Found ya”, she slowly paced inside the room passing through the various demons inside the suite. She walked for a few moments until she was about five feet from Lilith and then she jerked her arm which stabbed Lilith in the stomach, she grabbed the demon queen by the back with her other hand and started laying her on the floor slowly, in order to pay respect to the fallen queen. As Lilith coughed some blood she put her hand on Ruby’s cheek and said, “that figure, those eyes, that determination, you must be my favorite’s, Mesia’s sister… Ruby… she told me a lot about you…” At that moment, Lilith hypnotized Ruby. By then the flock of demons inside the suite noticed what is happening and moved in for the kill, but then Lesthar and Degriel showed up knocking the doors down and started killing the demons inside. Degriel’s touch would purify a demon’s soul with a white holy light and Lesthar simply burned the souls of the demons he came in physical contact with. By then Lilith started moving in for what seemed like a kiss, when she was an inch from Ruby’s face she started sucking a purple substance out of Ruby’s mouth, Degriel noticed that and yelled “Ruby!” realizing she didn’t hear him, he threw a demon’s corpse at the women which sent Ruby flying into the wall thus saving her.

Lilith got up on her feet, pulled the blade out of her stomach and with a swing of her arm; she sent both Degriel and Lesthar flying to the wall opposite of her. Both the demon and the angel fell to the ground and Lilith’s flock gathered in front of them, one of the demons asked, “What should we do with them, my queen?” and Lilith simply shouted, “Be gone!” her scream alone made the whole flock disappear leaving behind small clouds of dust.

Lilith approached the fallen pair and started talking, “I am Lilith, first wife to Adam, my sin? Wanting something other than missionary…” she laughed maniacally and proceeded to speak, “God sent Samael to take care of me and the angel of death simply showed me his true form. It was horrid, a humanoid black giant with millions, billions of eyes, red bloody eyes staring deep into my soul, that didn’t kill me, nor did it blind me, it corrupted me. I became the first demon thanks to Samael and to think I could not even see his face to thank him”.

Lilith then took off her concealing magic to reveal woman with a serpentine tail, long claws and fangs, snake like eyes and black feathered wings on her back. Lilith used telekinesis to raise both men to stand against the wall and then she slit Degriel’s throat, killing him as he died a powerful explosion of light occurred which blinded both Lesthar and Lilith, after the light dispersed only wing marks remained on the wall with a few feathers floating in the air. Lesthar became enraged and managed to break free from Lilith’s telekinetic hold for a moment, and punched her in the face causing her to fall down. She spat some blood on the floor and rose back up while laughing and then she pushed Lesthar, this time harder into the wall with her telekinetic force. She came close to Lesthar and whispered in his ear, “Look at you; caring about angels, I thought they called you the best at being the worst and not the best at being a puss.” As Lilith moved in for the kill a pillar of light struck the room from above and from it, came out a horrid figure with four faces on one head, six burning wings and armor clad that looks like a living metallic lion upon it’s chest and a halo behind it’s back. This scene distracted Lilith so much she let go of Lesthar and stumble backwards onto the original blade that was held by Ruby right behind her. Ruby smiled and said, “God did not save the queen this time”, revealing for the first time an English accent. Ruby started twisting the blade inside of Lilith’s causing her much pain. Lilith started crying at the notion of meeting Mesia again and thanked Ruby for taking her life, Ruby in return said, “If you get to meet her, tell her I said Hi” before pulling out the original blade out of Lilith’s back and letting her body fall ground. As Lilith’s body disintegrated into nothing but bones, the pillar of light faded away and the figure with six wings turned into Degriel’s human like form with his wings turning into a shadow and fading away. Lesthar got back up on his feet and said, “Welcome back, old friend” and Degriel smiled at him. Ruby dropped the original blade and said, “Man, I need a break…” Lesthar limply walked towards her, put his hand on her head and said, “I’m proud kid, now let’s get home and drink something.”

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“Hello there, Ruby”, said Degriel after appearing behind the young demon. Ruby turned around with a surprised expression across her face, “Degriel? How did you get here?” Degriel raised his hands and answered, “Oh this, I’m a Seraph now, remember? I can go in and out of hell, purgatory, heaven whenever I feel like it” and dropped his hands down. Ruby stood up and asked “Hmm, interesting, would you like a drink?” Degriel declined and said, “I came to tell you something very import” as he was saying this Lesthar and another demon’s voices were heard coming closer to the Ruby’s chamber. The other demon was heard saying “Come on Lesthar, you’ve to do this, you have a lot of back up down here, we trust you and we need someone just like you to take on what Lilith left behind”, and then Lesthar reply was heard, “I’m not interested in Hell’s throne, let Asmodeus take control like he wants to, Elazar”. At that point, the two demons were standing in the entrance of the chamber and Elazar asked, after seeing Degriel, “What is he doing in here?” Ruby turned her attention to the pair standing in the entrance and said, “Calm your horses, he’s a friend”. Lesthar and Degriel greeted each other and Degriel said, “I’d like to speak to the both of you about something, private”. Lesthar tapped Elazar’s shoulder and the latter was gone, “Okay”, said Lesthar, “Let’s talk”. Degriel replied, “Simply put " the Apocalypse is coming”. Ruby’s expression was once again that of a surprise and she asked “What?!”

Degriel sighed and said, “You haven’t been out for quite a while now, huh? New York City is a mess, the whole state is a mess…” he was interrupted by Lesthar who asked, “So, Lucifer is coming back?” Degriel looked at them with a surprised look and asked in return, “No, but why the notion of the devil coming back bothered you so much?” Ruby sighed and answered, “First of, because he’s going to destroy every hellish daemon in existence to gain their power, and second, why’d you say the Apocalypse is near if Lucifer’s not coming back?” Degriel turned away from the two demons and said, “I could not think of any other way to describe what’s coming”. He turned back and touched the demons’ shoulders, teleporting the three of them to New York City and said, “The Watchers were freed and they will destroy every species on the planet in order to conquer it for themselves, they tried in the past” with a cold expression on his face.

The city itself appeared as if a nuclear war had occurred in it. The sky was black, buildings in ruin " some burning some, broken in half, the roads were cracked,  glasses shattered cars destroyed no sign of human life whatsoever, street lights laying broken off their metallic roots on the cracked asphalt, fountains of sewage were coming out the gaps on the road. The smell of carnage was immense in the city. After a few moments of scanning the area around Lesthar asked, “Who did this?” Degriel ran his hand across the lower part of his face and answered, “Unfortunately the ones who did this are just small fry”. Lesthar found Degriel’s answer funny and started laughing uncontrollably; Ruby on the other hand found the angel’s words terrifying and asked, “If that’s the doing of small fry, just how powerful the big dogs of these Watchers are?” Degriel gave out a cold glare and said, “The big dogs are monstrous, and the top dogs, well, the Archangels had to lock them up by themselves.”

Lesthar stopped laughing and noted, “Well if it gets out of hand the Archangels will lock up again”. Degriel looked at him and said, “It’s not that simple, the first time The Watchers were under Heaven’s banner, now they’re on their own, and this time it seems like someone from Hell let them out”. Lesthar smile disappeared and he asked, “What? Who would’ve been stupid enough to do such a thing?” Degriel shrugged his shoulders and said, “I have no idea, but I guess it’s someone who’s been fooled by Rameel. Is there anyone who got more powerful or perhaps influential all of the sudden in Hell?” Ruby grabbed her own head and angrily said, “Asmodeus, that idiot!”

Degriel then said, “Well as I was saying, the Watchers don’t belong to heaven and Michael gives a rat a\*s about humanity recently so I doubt he’ll budge as long as heaven itself is not threatened.

Out of the sudden, a figure appeared in the distance getting ever closer to the trio, Ruby noticed him first and said, “Shh someone’s coming”, then a loud call could be heard from the distance “More humans to sacrifice to the bosses” and a fireball came flying at the direction of the trio. The three dodged the fireball and Lesthar asked Degriel, “is this one of the small fry you were talking about?” Degriel nodded his head in approval, Ruby smiled and said quietly, “then we’ll just butcher em’” and pulled out her silver dagger, by that moment the figure was already clearly visible. It was a middle height man with short brown hair with two bangs framing the sides of his face; he had blue eyes with a scar running across his face from the top left corner to the right side of his chin. He wore a checkered unbuttoned shirt on top of a T-shirt with its sleeves folded up and jeans. His arms were covered in blue tattoos. The figure noticed that the trio was not consistent of humans and he said, “Oh, you’re not humans, but blood is blood, so I’m going to kill you anyway”. Ruby just charged at him and stabbed him in the shoulder, he did not budge, just grabbed her arm and said, “Well there, I’m Bartholomew and what’s your name, young lady?” Ruby jumped on his shoulders and while doing so she said, “its Ruby”, she then proceeded to spin her own body and break the Watcher’s neck after which she jumped off him as he seemingly died.

Lesthar and Degriel were watching the fight as suddenly they heard chuckling behind their backs, Degriel turned around to find eighteen other watchers coming for them and a physical fight erupted between the groups. To Ruby’s surprise, Bartholomew suddenly got back up on his feet grabbed his twisted head and said, “You got me good, honey, but not good enough” and turned his head back into its right position, he then charged at Ruby and then the trio decided to start spiritually destroying the watchers who came after them. On each opportunity Degriel and Lesthar had they would purify or burn out a soul accordingly, then in the midst of the fight Lesthar said, “I’m going to hell to take care of the one who caused this mess, can you handle them?” Both Ruby and Degriel nodded in approval and Lesthar teleported himself to hell.

Once in hell Lesthar started looking for Asmodeus, he ended up reaching Asmodeus’ palace and broke in by blowing away the golden doors that were instilled at its entrance, he then proceeded to burn out the soul of every demon that he came across, and eventually he found Asmodeus performing some ritual over an altar. Once facing Asmodeus Lesthar shouted at him, “Do you know what you’re doing?” Asmodeus turned around to Lesthar and said, “Yes, of course I do, I’m freeing the ones who could turn hell into the dominant force in the universe.” Lesthar chuckled at Asmodeus’ answer and said, “No, you’re bringing your kind’s destruction and I won’t allow it to happen”. Asmodeus gained a surprised expression on his elderly face and asked, “Since when do you care about us?” to which Lesthar answered, “Since my life became a target for the monsters you’re trying to free”. Asmodeus pulled out a knife and said, “Well if it bothers you, come and stop me” after having said that a clone of Asmodeus appeared behind Lesthar and the latter said, “Oh I will” he proceeded to turn around and pierce the clone’s chest with his arm. The clone turned out to be the real Asmodeus as the first Asmodeus Lesthar saw disappeared.

Lesthar pulled his arm out of Asmodeus’ body and said, “You’re a pathetic excuse for a demon, always were and always will be” before turning and walking away from the body. As Lesthar walked away the fallen demon’s blood started flowing across the room until it touched the altar and then a large light beam broke out of the altar, which started cracking. Lesthar turned around to see what is going on but all he could see was blinding light, it was so bright the demon had to lower his head and cover it with his arm. After a few seconds of being blinded Lesthar stared regaining his senses and he saw a figure stand on top of the now broken altar, the figure looked like the dead Asmodeus, with the hole in its chest, gone.  The figure noticed Lesthar, it smiled and said, “Well thank you for releasing the Almighty Semyaza from his cage before disappearing from Lesthar’s site. At that moment both Ruby and Degriel arrived to Lesthar’s location and Ruby said sarcastically, “Now we have to deal with the worst, and back then I thought nothing could come out of me going with you, Les” and she started laughing.

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“It is quiet, too quiet…” said Degriel, and proceeded, “We should have a walk, see how bad the damage is.” The trio began searching for any signs of Watchers around in Hell’s almost countless chambers. After walking for a while, Ruby exhaled, “It’s a bit beat up, but nothing to worry about, right, Les?” and Lesthar answered untypically coldly, “I don’t care about this place, I quit a long time ago” Degriel chuckled and said, “A demon that doesn’t care for hell? Oh, come on, who are you fooling?” Lesthar replied, “Degriel, you know how for long " Three, maybe four hundred years, you should’ve figured out by now I am just an old soldier trying to live quietly”. Degriel put his hand on Lesthar’s shoulder and said, “Live quietly? You seem to have grown fond of humans, aren’t you?” Lesthar smiled and said, “Yeah, I guess, being able to live for so long makes you see things in a different life, appreciate things you can’t while you’re mortal”. Degriel put his hand down and said, “You and the girl are really alike, two soldiers gone rogue just to stop by the edge of the road and smell the roses” Lesthar sighed and said, “Something along the lines of this terrible poetry of yours”.

Ruby snapped her fingers while Degriel and Lesthar were talking and teleported the three of them back to the human world, much to the duo’s surprise, once there she noted the two men are talking too much and proceeded to say, “We should look around for the Watchers up here”. The three of them roamed the devastated city but there were no Watchers to be found. The only thing they found was millions of dying people that would just not pass on for some reason. Degriel found this extremely disturbing and decided to go to Heaven in order to find some answers regarding how to reseal the Watchers and the strange phenomenon of death not occurring. After the angel left Lesthar made a remark, “Ol’ man Death is making a grand entrance” and smiled at Ruby, who became confused, asked, “What do you mean?” and Lesthar answered, “Just wait and see, Oh and while we’re waiting, could you tell me, what is the difference between us and Lilin?” Ruby not understanding what the question Lesthar asked has to do with their current situation reluctantly answered, “Their constant need of sex?” Lesthar hissed and said, “No, not their sexual appetite, think deeper, Ruby”. After a moment of thinking Ruby’s eyes widened as if she received a revelation and she proclaimed, “They can absorb human life energy, and we can’t”. Lesthar smiled and said, “Close, but no, Lilin can only absorb life energy, twist and corrupt it and then upon will transplant it into another human being, we on the other hand, can absorb souls into ourselves and gain power from these souls. Look around you, we’re sitting on top of a soul gold mine here, were going to cheat Death, darling”.

Whilst the two demons were talking a black 1968 Shelby with the worlds “See Ya” written on the license plates of the car stopped by them. An old skinny rather tall man came out of the car, he was dressed in a neat black suit and carried a golden walking cane with a skull shaped handle on top of it, his hair was combed backwards and he wore a ring made of white gold on his left ring finger. The old man straightened up and placed his cane firmly against the concrete of the street, he then approached Lesthar and said, “Oh hello there, my child, it’s a been a while” and Lesthar said, “Yes it has been, World War one, good times good times.” Ruby’s mouth widened in fear at the sight, at first, she could not make any sound but after a moment she finally exhaled, “Is that Death?” The old horseman turned his attention to her and said, “Oh pardon my lack of manners, I am the apocalyptic horseman, Death, pleasure to meet… and you are, love?” Ruby quietly let out, “R…R…Ruby, sir”. The equestrian put his hand on her head, she tightly closed her eyes in fear of dying, and nothing happened much to her surprise, Death smiled and said, “You see? I don’t reap dead things, dear; you don’t have to worry as long as you don’t do something that angers me” and then took his hand off Ruby’s head. Lesthar then said, “I’m sorry to interrupt your lecture, but we should get to business. You see, Death, your attention was drawn by an event caused by the Watchers” Death started laughing and said, “I warned God about keeping these poisonous angels alive” Ruby curiously interrupted the horseman and asked, “You know God?” He looked at her, “Of course I do, darling, I’ve known him since the beginning of time, I’m probably older than him, but I don’t quite remember, neither is he " but, I can promise you this, one day I’ll come for his head too.” Ruby expressed shock at the horseman’s statement and asked, “God does not know something?” Death smiled at her and said, aren’t a curious little creature, nobody knows everything, I assure you that, even I learn new things from time to time”.

Lesthar than stretched his hand to Ruby and said, “Alright we should talk business now” to which Ruby nodded in approval and Death asked, “So what is it, do you want me to destroy the watchers, or it’s about the souls of these dying people”, Lesthar became surprised and asked “How did y”. Before he could finish his sentence, Death proclaimed, “I’m old, demon, not blind. I knew you would try to convince me I should let you have them since it is not a natural death for them, and you know what?! You can have them, as long as you make sure to restore the order here, up there” moving his eyes upwards indicating something’s wrong in heaven all the while proceeding to say “and down here as well,” pointing to hell’s location. The horseman continued, “I’m even willing to give you my ring, and call my brothers to assist you, if you want, so do we have a deal, Devil?”

Lesthar reluctantly agreed to the deal of taking down the watchers and becoming the new ruler of Hell, once he is done with his work in the human world. Death shook his hand, set back into his car, and drove off to the horizon. The two demons stood there speechless for a couple of minutes until Ruby said, “I think we just made a deal with Death” to which Lesthar just replied, “I guess we have but now we have a lot of work to do, let’s go.”

Lesthar and Ruby started walking around the broken city looking for dying people, whenever they came across one; Lesthar would place his hand on the person’s face and absorb said person’s soul in the form of a red glowing, which came out of the person’s eyes and mouth. Lesthar was absorbing souls for hours counting five million, six hundred and three thousand eight hundred and ninety souls, when he was about to take the last soul there is to be taken, Ruby suddenly asked, “Les, would you take mine too?” Lesthar turned around to Ruby and asked with an irritated voice, “What did you just say?” the young demon repeated herself, “Would you take my soul in too? Look, I’ve been nothing but trouble for you so far and I want to be useful for on…” Lesthar grabbed her by the neck and raised her above his head and as he did, her eyes filled with fear. The old demon started tightening his grip around Ruby’s neck and she started chocking and grasping onto his arm, seeing her pitiful state Lesthar remarked, “In this state, you’re useless, a whiny little b\*\*\*h who does nothing but get in my way, why should I take your pathetic essence in”. Lesthar tightened his grip until he seemingly chocked the life out of his protégé and then proceeded to throw her lifeless body aside. After having his way with Ruby, he approached the last man who witnessed the massacre the Watchers orchestrated and started absorbing his soul. Just as the red light faded beneath Lesthar’s hand he heard an angry feminine voice calling, “Why you”. He turned around to see cars flying in his direction, in order to avoid being hit, Lesthar teleported himself to the location of the scream only to find an angered Ruby standing with her eyes shining red like cold fresh blood and her hands clenched into tight fists.

Lesthar clapped his hands three times and said, “This is the demon that’s going to run hell along with me, and not some cowardly child. This is exactly the reason why I am not going to absorb you, Ruby, you’re a blood lusting berserk, a fine example of how a demon should behave, for goodness sake, and I applaud you, my child”. While Lesthar was talking Ruby started laughing uncontrollably claiming he is a mad man to whom Lesthar responded, “No, I’m just old fashioned, Hell has become a pathetic shell of what it used to be”.

Lesthar looked beyond Ruby and said, “Dear, I think you’ve hurt some people, by accident over there " you should go and clean up this mess, after all we have to keep the place tidy after we’ve used it” and Ruby just smiled and teleported herself to the pile of bodies she had created moments before. After stealing the souls of the people, she has injured Ruby teleported herself back to Lesthar and asked, “Well what’s next?” Lesthar smiled and teleported both of them to Heaven’s gate, once there he said, “We’re going to storm, Daddy’s castle”. Sensing something big is about to come, Ruby took a step back and Lesthar said, “Open Sesame” and the gates of Heaven blasted open. The demons stepped inside the wall of white light and once they passed it, Lesthar called out, “The heavy cavalry is here” only to find Heaven in ruins.

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“I wonder what happened here, Les”, said Ruby, to which Lesthar replied, “I guess a Watcher or two were here before us”, an unknown voice said from the distance, “Try one hundred and eighty watchers”, Lesthar pulled his index finger forward and an injured angel was pulled towards the two demons, “I’m Raziel”, said the angel . Lesthar touched the angel and his injuries were healed, much to the celestial’s surprise. “How can a demon heal someone but himself?” the angel asked, Ruby faked a cough, proceeding to answer quietly, “He can do pretty much anything now”, and faked a second cough, Lesthar then walked a bit further into the hall, snapped his fingers and everyone and everything in Heaven returned to their original state.

Metatron rose up and said, “Impossible, a demon with a power of an archangel, or possibly god… that’s just impossible!” To which Lesthar replied, “Here I am, body and all”, he proceeded to ask, “Where’s Degriel, Enoch?” Metatron looked at the large black door and pointed his finger at it, saying, “there, with the Watchers…” Ruby turned her head at the direction of the door and it snapped open, she then made her way into the room, pushing through the angels that stood in the hall and in her path, inside the room she found Degriel standing with twenty seemingly shocked figures surrounding him. Ruby turned around and whispered at Lesthar to come into the room, and the older demon simply teleported himself there.

Lesthar casually asked, “Hmm, so, what’s happening?” one of the figures turned around and shouted, “It’s the demon” after realizing Lesthar stands behind him. The figure who turned out to be a watcher then tried to punch Lesthar only to be throw into the wall across the room telepathically by Lesthar who then proceeded to say, “Let’s take this someplace else, shall we?” Ruby stomped the ground the whole group was teleported back to New York City. “Well now, that’s more like it” said Degriel and started pummeling at the watchers that surrounded him earlier, Ruby and Lesthar joined in quickly, and then Semyaza said out of nowhere, “Enough!” causing everyone to stop fighting. Ruby looked at Semyaza and said, “You’re the a\*\*\*\*\*e that was released by Asmodeus, aren’t you?” the Watcher answered with, “It is I, indeed, and you, demon, are going to be gone now” he proceeded to snap his fingers and suddenly a soft from afar called, “Ruby… Oh Ruby…” Ruby who recognized the voice smiled and shape shifted into a young man with a jeans outfit and a short blonde hair, the figure who was calling Ruby turned out to be her sister, Mesia.

Lesthar noticed Mesia from afar and asked, “Why aren’t you dead, Succubus?” to which the young woman replied with “It’s nice seeing you too, but I’m here for my sister, not you”. Once she was close enough to Ruby, the young demon turned around to reveal a badly bloodied frontal side, the young man had his throat slit and had numerous holes in his torso, Ruby, in her new appearance looked at her sister, smiled and said, “Hello Mesia” much to her sister’s disgust. Ruby proceeded to ask, “Aren’t I beautiful like this?” Mesia smiled and said, “Of course you are Ruby” before winking at her sister in order to bind her with a paralyzing magic. After paralyzing Ruby, Mesia touched her sister’s arm which made the latter return to her original form she then hugged her seemingly paralyzed sister proclaiming she had missed her indescribably only for Ruby to reveal a smile and stab her sister in the back with her silver blade.

Once Ruby pulled out her blade from Mesia’s back, Mesia asked, “How could you resist my mojo?”  To which Ruby bluntly answered, “I was always the stronger one, like I told you the previous time, I was only playing along with you, but now I have no reason to do that. You have stopped being my sister once you tried to kill me, months ago, they resurrect you believing I think like a human, and you try to commit the same crime again… Things just don’t work like that in this reality, Mesia. Well killing you a second time won’t work I guess, so I’m sending ya to Tartaros, for good.” Mesia’s eyes widened in fear after hearing her upcoming fate and tried begging her sister for forgiveness, however, Ruby just tapped her foot on the concrete and a fiery gate appeared beneath Mesia’s body, sucking her into Tartaros, the eternal resting place of the worst sinners. Whilst Mesia was scratching at the surface to stay on earth, Ruby smiled, waved her hand and said cheerfully, “Buh-bye”

While Ruby was fighting Mesia, Lesthar and Degriel blasted away the watchers to buy themselves some time in order to decide what should be done with the fallen angels. Lesthar asked, “Where are the Archangels?” to which Degriel answered reluctantly, “Honestly, I have no clue, the Watchers sent them away to different corners of the universe somehow”. Suddenly Rameel appeared behind Lesthar and Degriel and proclaimed, “Well thanks to you I’m the strongest being in existence, you may call me god”. Lesthar and Degriel turned around slowly and asked what is he talking about, the watcher decided it would be proper of him to explain to his enemies before he obliterates them on what he has become. He said, “Right after you blew us away, I just killed my brethren and took their mojo into myself, they don’t call me a rebel of god for nothing, you” He then snapped his fingers causing Lesthar’s molecules move so fast his body exploded. Before his mass could be dispersed in the surrounding space, it stopped in mid air and Lesthar’s voice could be heard saying, “No, that does not work like that” and then his body restored itself into its original shape. Degriel just stood there unable to do anything realizing he was in the presence of beings that are too powerful for him to deal with, so he started backing away slowly until he stumbled into an angry Michael, who blew at him and obliterated his body.

Rameel smiled at Lesthar for being able to match up to him and complimented his opponent on his capabilities, saying, “You’re a good one, demon, I am going to enjoy this”. Lesthar gave out a confused expression and asked, “Enjoy what exactly? You’re already trapped” before the watcher could even realize what Lesthar was talking about, Ruby decapitated him with the original blade which she went to fetch after sending her sister into the deepest pits of hell. Once Rameel’s head body fell to the ground Lesthar told Ruby, “Step aside, dear” Ruby then put the original blade over her shoulder, stepped to Lesthar’s side, and proceeded to say, “Now you can lock him away, Les”. Lesthar snapped his fingers and a shining blue seal consistent of a four-edged star within a rotating circle covered in various sigils appeared beneath Rameel’s decapitated body. While blue light rays were enveloping the seal’s perimeter Rameel’s decapitated head kept calling, “You can’t stop me, I will return, and destroy every single one of you, demo…” before he could finish his sentence he was sealed back into his cage, but not before a beam of white light has escaped through his eyes. The beat shot into the sky and once it had ascended back onto earth, it turned out to be Daniel, one of the twenty watchers who managed to escape Rameel’s body.

Daniel stood up in front of the two demons and proclaimed, “I alone am enough to conquer this planet and turn it into mine, but before I do that I have to get rid of you two”. Lesthar put the palm of his hand on his head and said, “They never learn do they” he then clapped his hands and said, “Come at me, angel”. Daniel tried to use telekinesis but it had no effect, he then tried biokinesis but it did not work either, after which he angrily asked, “What did you do to me, demon?” and Ruby calmly explained, “He took away your powers, Watcher” Daniel’s face gave a both surprised and terrified expression at the same time. Lesthar said, “It’s time to feed the pups” and whistled into the distance " after a moment a sound of a monstrous barking could be heard in the distance, and with every moment it became closer and closer, until three large black canines could be seen running towards the Watcher. Daniel who realized he was meant to be dog food for three hellhounds decided to try to make an escape, but before he could even make a single step forward, Ruby grabbed him by his collar. She then said, “You are not going anywhere, Watcher”.  Lesthar whistled again and the hellhounds stopped in their tracks, he turned to the watcher and said, “You know what, I’ll be a just devil and let you a chance at surviving, if you manage to run away from the dogs, you may live " you’ll stay powerless, but alive, and it’s better than being dead, don’t you think?” Daniel who was shaking badly at this point due to his immense fear simply nodded his head in agreement with everything the demons were saying, Lesthar then asked, “Ruby, you mind my proposal?” to which the young demon responded with “Not at all, my friend, not at all.” After saying that she let go of Daniel who ran about two hundred yards before Lesthar unleashed his hellhounds on him, within seconds the hounds were almost on top of the Watcher. Daniel glimpsed at a mere moment backwards and then the one of the hounds mauled him and the other two soon caught up tearing the Watcher into shreds splattering blood all over as his screams filled the void for a few moments but then subsided as nothing but blood stains remained of him.

“Well I guess it’s about time we get back to work”, said Lesthar, and Ruby responded with, “Don’t you think we’ve forgotten something, or someone” Lesthar’s eyes widened and he asked, “Where’s Degriel?” Ruby started calling the angel’s name but no response, Lesthar started calling after her, adding some various of his own, calling out, “Angel crap, get out, we’re done playing hide and seek”. Suddenly Michael appeared in front of the two, he looked like a young black haired man with green eyes dressed in a hoody and jeans, seeing Michael, Lesthar said, “Where were you Michael, we had to save the world, what are the children’s books going to say from now on? Demons are the good guys and Angels are the lazy guys? I don’t like this approach, Archangel”. Michael walked towards Lesthar without saying a word and stopped about three feet away from the demon, by then Ruby already asked, “Where’s Degriel, Michael?” to which the archangel replied with, “I killed him, he’s causing heaven too much problem, and as it’s viceroy I can’t let that happen” Lesthar started laughing and said, “You, heaven’s viceroy, on who’s accord?” Michael answered coldly, “On my accord, someone had to step up when Dad was gone on his endless journey around who knows where”. Once Michael finished talking Ruby came up to him and asked rhetorically, “How exactly are you better than Lucifer?” she proceeded saying, “You act just like your brother that’s stuck in the pit, doing whatever you want, whenever you want, however you wait it.” Michael angrily said, “Don’t you dare compare me to Lucifer, he defied our Father, I did not, I did as he wished me to do, always have and always will, I’ve had it with you two demons, be gone now!” Just as Michael was about to use his holy light to kill the demons and shining pillar of light broke from sky and within this pillar Degriel’s figure descended from the heavens blinding the demons and Michael, once he reached earth, the pillar of light dispersed and it could be seen that Degriel’s eyes are shining with a white light.

Michael, puzzled by the sight of Degriel asked in confusion, “How could it be, Degriel, how are you still alive?” The being answered, as its eyes stopped glowing , “First of all, Michael, my name is no longer Degriel, it’s Emanuel and second of all " Our father brought me back” Lesthar and Ruby smiled, noticing the demons smile, Emanuel smiled as well and proceeded to say, “I was brought back, remade into an Archangel, even more powerful than you, Michael… Dad was not happy with you, so he sent me to do your job, he said that while he is gone, I may rule as I see fit”. Michael was about to say something but Emanuel took his voice away with a hand gesture and continued saying, “You’ve neglected your mission Michael, you murdered an Angel for no reason at all and you are threatening to disrupt the natural balance of this existence. Now for all that I ought to lock you away, at least for the time being, now goodbye brother”. After hearing Emanuel’s words Michael tried to attack the Archangel  in front of him but was frozen in time by the latter, Emanuel proceeded to snap his fingers and leave behind only dust where Michael was once standing.

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“We’ve all seen today’s so called culture, haven’t we, Gay parades, shameless women, you can’t even figure out who’s a man and who’s a woman today, it’s all wrong, someone has to teach them the righteous path God wants us to walk upon, someone has to raise a voice, someone has to speak for God!” says Reverend Reeves.

At that moment Emanuel appearance in front of the reverend and his audience, he asks the reverend, “Who are you to speak for me or to raise a voice for me?” The people inside the church look at the archangel in awe and Reeves remarks, “and who might you be, friend?”  Emanuel then responds, “Your God, and honestly I don’t care what one’s sexual preferences are or what he does to himself as long as it’s not suicide. I do not tolerate hypocrites however, reverend, perhaps you should tell your audience what you’ve shoving your genitals into”. Before Reeves can make a comment Mesia appears before him and claims to be missing him, Emanuel turns his attention to reverend’s audience and notes, “This, my friends, is a succubus, a demon and as we all know, a righteous man would never come across one of these”. Reeves says, “I swear to go…” but he ends up chocking, falls on the floor and dies”. The audience begins to panic but Mesia who has turned into Ruby calms them down by saying, “He died because he swore a lie in God’s name” before setting the reverend’s body ablaze by snapping her fingers.

“Reverend Reeves, you’ve finally awaken”, says a voice that comes out of a man of middle height with black short messy hair and glowing red eyes that is dressed in a black buttoned shirt with its sleeves folded up to the elbow and dark blue jeans. The reverend asks, “What the? Where am I?” and the man with the red eyes smiles and answers, “You are in Hell” with a deep Irish accent.