Crystal Ball

"Let's begin," His father pointed to a specific peculiar looking crystal ball. It was red and black with a dust coating. When they walked up to it, Satan sprang all the dust off with a powerful flick of the wrist. Johann wondered what other powers the dark king could conjure. Lilith stayed parked on the throne, waiting for her demon to come back.

"Sit, my son." Saying 'son' in a way like he owned Johann all the while tapping his long nails on one of the wooden chairs adjacent to the clothed table. Johann walked and looked at the chair, as if wondering whether or not he meant that specific one. "Yes, this chair." He made Johann feel stupid.

Satan smiled at him. He snapped his fingers and all light was off in the room except a dim one that shone through the crystal ball. A face showed up upon it, some random person's future. At least he thought it was someone random. He pondered if it was the future, or the present?

"This is Beelzebub. He's been creating chaos recently within this realm. I'm not okay with that, by the way. Chaos is fine to plague the earth, but here, in this domain, that's my jurisdiction." Beelzebub didn't entirely look like the 'King of Flies' you'd hear of. He had the fly wings, but wasn't a fly. He looked completely average and normal, besides his face with spiraling eyebrows, red eyes, and no teeth (no gums either). He was spitting on everything. Johann decided upon the fact that he probably deserved his name 'King of the Flies.'

"Disgusting, right?" Satan stared at Johann. He nodded. "I kind of want to prevent him from doing that anymore. He's such a goddamn idiot." He cursed the other lord's name with absolutely no shame about it because, he was the ruler of the realms as far as he was concerned.

"What am I supposed to do?"

"Oh yes. This was just an example. Beelzebub's one of my lords, but I'm going to send my head minion Bladford over to kick that guy's ass. He's an underling you've met, that's been doing all of the errands around here. He's the one that left you to find your own way here. Ahem. Anyhow, today, I'm merely trying to get you to touch the crystal ball to see IF you can ensorcel some kind of piece of my future." Satan snapped his fingers once more and the lights turned on again as the crystal ball faded out. He pushed the ball to Johann.

"Put your fingers on it and concentrate. It'll take awhile to make anything stick for any length of time." Johann spread his fingers across the smooth surface of the ball. It lit up just a bit on the tips of his fingers. The light was of stones of the finest amethyst. He concentrated, thinking about the charming man in front of him, his own father. Please, give me his future.

A picture appeared, Satan had a very nasty disgruntled look on his face within the crystal ball as if someone told him some very unpleasant news. He moved and his face morphed even more into a red smoking pile of anger.

The demon king had blood rushing to his face turning it completely scarlet, the evil transformation from the normal Satan and the real Satan blew Johann (Amon) right out of his chair. He tipped over backwards. Satan bellowed audibly, a great deep belly laugh, like he was really enjoying himself.

"Was that surprising?" He smiled complacently.

His 'normal' face was a far cry from the one shown within the ball. The features were exaggeratedly different compared to the face he saw in the ball. He had a nice face with a peaceful smile. His eyes were calm and determined, his eyebrows wise. The coloring was odd, shades of blood red and purple in his irises, short, wavy, dark black hair. His REAL appearance was frightening. This one in front of Johann right then, at that moment was angelic with a confident glow.

Johann sat up and messed with his own hair, ruffling his hand through it. Having amnesia really fucked with a guy. If he remembered everything, maybe he wouldn't be so scared.

"Yes, that was me." Satan laughed cheerfully. "Good job finding the future and not the past." Satan somehow knew it was the future, maybe he had the power of precognition without needing a tool like a crystal ball.

Johann managed to get up off the floor. His chair had fallen over, so he picked it up and placed it back where it was originally. He didn't really want to sit back down next to this demon, but he was convinced to come back, without knowing the reason. He just sat back down. He placed his fingers on the ball once more. It didn't show anything at all. There wasn't even a dim light.

"Right, as I said, a bit of time."

"Really?"

"Yes, that's just how this power works if you need to work with a crystal ball. Unfortunately, it takes a long time to hone the power to the point of it to occur on demand." His father clicked his fingers on the table.

"So that would be the end of the lesson then." Satan stands and waves Johann upwards, directing him to stand.

"What now then?" Johann asked.

"Just go back to your room, or go terrorize some humans in this hallway. I don't care, i'll send Bladford to get you when I think you'll be able to continue your lessons." Satan's back was to him his hand up in the air waving backwards. He picked up his woman, sat down on the throne and put her on his lap. She purred. Johann rolled his eyes at the public display of affection. He wondered if this beautiful demon actually loved the devil or just loved his power.

"Leave! It's my time with this lady now, so get out!" Satan boomed like the king he was.

Johann was blown away from them and ended up on the other side of the door. He decided on going back to his room, but wasn't sure how to. Upon thinking of that, he finally remembered something. Where Bladford was stationed in the red hallway. He determined he was going to give that minion a piece of his mind about leaving him to find his own way, and force him to show him the right way back to the hallway of royalty, maids and servants.