44 Alliance

~Somewhere after Alice got kidnapped for the second time~

"I can't believe you let her get kidnapped." Azrael said to Felix who by the way was still a cat.

"Meow." Was all Azrael got as a response though. Too bad he couldn't understand cat lingo or could he?

"You idiot! If you never kidnapped her in the first place she wouldn't be in this situation." Felix said but all Azrael heard was...

"Meow"

"Hiss"

"What's that?" Azrael mocked. "I don't understand what you are saying." He said holding his hand to his ear and Felix being annoyed at his mocking tone was now hissing. "Oh, please do speak up." Azrael said continuing to mock Felix. "Cat got your tongue?" He laughed. "Oh, wait you are a cat."

"Meow"

"Stop mocking me! When I turn human I swear..."

"You'll what?" Azrael grinned raising an eyebrow at Felix.

"You just pretended you couldn't understand me, wow." Felix deadpanned. "Making fun of me isn't going to solve anything, you know? We still have to save Alice and this is just wasting more time." He sat up licking his paws and then rubbed one of them behind his ear as his tail swayed from left to right. His eyes were glowing bright green as he waited for a response from Azrael.

The smug look on Azrael's face disappeared at Felix's meows? I mean, at Felix's words. "Who said anything about "we"?" Azrael questioned. "There is no we, there is only me. I will be the one to rescue her. There is no room for you."

"Are you dense?" Felix meowed standing up on all four paws now, practically hissing. "Don't you see that we have to work together. Look, I know you and I aren't exactly "friends" correction we're enemies but we both want the same thing here. It only makes sense that we, as much as I hate saying this, should work together."

"Yeah, well what can you do? You're a cat."

"Because of your stupid barrier." Felix hissed.

"You do have a point." Azrael thought about it for a bit. "I guess," he paused reluctantly, "I do owe you this." It sounded as though he didn't want to admit it but nonetheless he did.

Azrael twirled his finger, a blue luminescent light shone and then "zap." Felix was human again and in his black hoodie and grey jeans.

"You can thank me later." Azrael said walking passed him, not bothering to look back. "Let's get Alice back and after this we can go our separate ways."

"Sounds like a plan." Felix replied.

....

...

~Meanwhile~

"Now come on." He said as he gripped my hand. "We have guests."

Guests?

***

I just wanted to get the hell out of Hell.

I was seated at a table with a bunch of strangers.

"And that's all I wanted to discuss." The Devil finished off his conversation with the strange people sitting around me. "You may leave." But they just got here? They just got here a few minutes ago. He had a quick discussion with them and he's already asking them to leave? All the guests got up to leave after his speech ended except for one.

"You not going to introduce us to your girlfriend?" The guest inquired. He had sandy blonde hair and ocean blue eyes, not the same can be said for Mr Devil though who I hadn't described properly, his eyes however, were hazel with speckles of red and amber in them. Back to the blonde guy now... He looked to be a bit younger than the Devil but he still looked to be above 20 years of age or so. His hair was cut short. If he had to have it long he would have sure looked like a surfer dude.

"Uh? I'm not his..." I was about to finish.

"She's not my uh..." He cut himself off.

"Girlfriend?" The blonde haired guy questioned making a strange face and furrowing his eyebrows as he stretched out the word.

"Yeah," the Devil paused, "that."

Wait, does the Devil have something against the word girlfriend?

"Then just who is she?" The blonde haired guy now asked with a quizzical expression on his face.

"She's a friend."

"Isn't that what you said the last time."

The last time? What on earth are they talking about. I thought.

"That was different."

"You said that the last time too."

"Well- wait, I did?"

"Yes, you did. I must say, for the Devil you sure are terrible at lying."

"That's because I sit most of the time." He answered back smartly with a devious grin.

"Ha, there he is." The blonde haired stranger laughed. "Always making puns. Don't sign a contract with this guy though." He said now looking towards me. "He takes punny to a whole new level. Always a catch, right?"

Sounds like your average business man to me. All businesses have a fine print after all. Some business men are no different. Then in that case the world is full of Devils however, instead of losing your soul to them, you lose your money.

"I can't help it if people don't specify." He deadpanned.

"Oh, like the time that one guy sold his soul for an ice-cream and you gave him the ice-cream but with no cone."

"He should have specified."

"Or how about the girl who said she wanted a bear and instead of the animal, a naked man appeared at her door." The Devil grinned to this amused.

"Again, she did not specify, how was I supposed to know she meant the animal."

"Or how about the time-" Mr Blonde Haired Stranger was cut off.

"Gabriel, that's enough!" The Devil raised his voice only for it to simmer down.

Gabriel?

"But I was just getting to the good part." He frowned and pouted his lips like a childish teen.

"I just called you here for business is all, no need to discuss everything with someone you just met."

"She is not someone I just met, she is your soon to be girlfriend."

"She is not."

"You're still a terrible liar."

"And you still The Blued Eyed Boy as usual, I see. The Creator's favourite as always."

"I can't help it if you lost your promotion. Demoted to being the ruler of Hell. That's what happens when you become too power hungry."

"And what are you, his apprentice still? Or are you his personal assistant now? At least over here I'm a leader."

"Of down under." Gabriel mocked.

"This isn't Australia." The Devil commented.

"Oh, I know." Gabriel paused. "Australia is much better than this dump." He joked.

"Well, this dump is my home so..." The Devil trailed off.

"You weren't always The Black Sheep, you know." Gabriel was no longer joking now, by his tone. "You know even though I hate you at times I still miss you, all of us do."

"Well, that's not up to me now, is it? You can thank your Creator for banishing me here."

"He was your teacher once upon a time too, don't be so blinded by the bad that you can no longer see the good."

"You do realise that I'm the Devil, right?"

"Yes, I do but... well I'm done with my motivational speech. I'll be seeing you." Gabriel looked at me for a bit, a slight glimmer in his eye as he turned to the exit doors of the dining room. "Bye Lucifer and girl whose name I still don't know." He shouted back as he walked off disappearing through the front doors. What an odd character he is.

"I'm sorry about him." The Devil? said. Wait, what do I call him? The Devil? Mr Devil? Satan? Saturn? Lucifer? 666? Because I don't know what to call him.

"I see you having a hard time naming me?" He questioned with a bit of uncertainty in his tone.

Great he can read my mind too! Note the sarcasm.

"I can how'd you know." He teased laughing?

"You said what I was thinking." I gave him a blank look.

"Indeed, I did but you can just call me Lucifer. It's what everybody calls me well, here anyway."

"You mean hell?" I gave him a questioning look.

"Actually it's not really Hell. It's more or less still earth but you could say that although if it were you'd be dead since you still haven't fully awakened."

"I don't understand what you just said so I'll just pretend that I do, okay Saturn?"

"I'm not a planet."

"Of course you're not Saturn, it's just a nickname."

"If you going to call me that you might as well call me Mr Devil."

"Okay then, Mr Devil. Why am I here?"

"Because I need to fix something I broke."

"And that would be?"

"Eden." He said lowly as my eyes went wide. I didn't expect that.

Is that why I'm here?

Is that why he needed me?

To be continued...

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