Chapter Six

A month has gone by since I married Zahara and she had me move in with her. She lived at the top of the mountain in a huge castle, there were tons of guards everywhere. You could see the city perfectly from where we were. Later, when I moved into the castle I found out Zahara bought out the apartment building I was staying at. Brad was given our old apartment and wasn't allowed to pay rent, he was to live there free for as long as he wished. On the other hand, Bradley wanted to stay near his brother sometimes so Zahara had a room ready for him when school was done for the summer.

Apparently, this castle belonged to Zahara's mother and it was very cold when I was left alone. Zahara's mother was the most famous demon other than Lucifer in the world. Her name was Lillith a Demon from the old testament and a very evil being. I learned much about my wife in the month we were married. Like, she was the fourth youngest of her siblings, In fact, once I met them without even knowing it.

Lillith didn't like the human side of me at all but she recognized my hidden power. She appeared one day in front of me when I was walking around. She hovered around me and said, "Just like my daughter to find a man like you, just to make my blood boil." Then as she came she vanished in thin air.

I brushed off what the strange woman said to me and headed downstairs to the front door. It was early morning and Bradley had left to start college. Zahara and Litta were waiting for me at the door for work. I smiled at Them when I brought out a cigar to smoke, Zahara pulled out a match and lit the cigar for me. "Do you need me to fly you to the office?" She asked me to try to look cute, I laughed and began to rise off the ground. "No my dear, I've mastered my wind magic so I can fly now."

We all headed to the office and I was enjoying the cool wind on my face as we flew down. As I smoked my cigar while flying, Litta asked why I love cigars so much? "More for the taste and I love the way it makes me feel fancy. " Litta laughed a bit as we landed I was given coffee that was made with what I liked. This new feeling of being waited on hand and foot was still unsettling for me. I am still used to being on my own and doing my own thing.

That morning when I was just sitting at my desk saw one of her assistants bring her a note. "My queen this came for you from your mother." The girl said as Zahara looked annoyed, "Mother has summoned me to her castle and she wants me to bring you." She said with an annoyed tone, I told her about Lillith being in the castle a few hours ago. "I would say that wasn't possible, but we know you don't lie," Zahara said to me as Litta came into the room and let me know who to treat Lillith. "She's like our goddess, She controls all of the succubi of the world including us here."

Everyone around us was concerned about me going with Zahara, I might learn the dark truth about the old days and the old Zahara. "If it was going to be anyone else I'd say worry about me, but with me being as capable as I am. I feel like I could take on Lucifer and finish him with this power. " I said as everyone just smiled at my comment.

Later that day we went by ourselves (Zahara and I) to the airport. We were heading to the Himalayas to Lillith's original home. I was dressed as I would normally be and Zahara was wearing her snow gear. Zahara looked at me and was weirded out by my ability to handle cold weather. "How can you handle this weather like it is nothing? Aren't you cold at all, it's like forty below absolute zero? " She asked me and I just smiled at her as we walked to the door, then I responded to her question she asked earlier. "With a sir name like Cold do you really think I'd be affected by a little bit of snow?" I had a cigar still in my mouth that I had forgotten about, I saw glowing eyes in the distance among the shadows. I had bet that they were Zahara's brothers and sisters, I let a bit of my energy Sep through and they left us alone for a moment.

"If they're anything like you my dear, they might be nice to me?" I said right as a snowball came flying by my face. I was angered about the attempt to hit me and I melt the next snowball and snow around us. I turned to see who threw it and found a young girl staring at me with one in her hand. She looked a lot like Zahara and had similar hair and eyes, "Hello Zoe, it's nice to see you came to greet us, dear sister." Zahara said to the girl, she looked at me again and more of Zahara's siblings came out of the woodwork.

There were three more of her siblings, two sisters, and a brother who came up to us and saw I was dressed in regular clothes and not like Zahara. "Let's go inside dear sister you both look cold." Said the brother offered to take Zahara's coat. As I brushed off the ice on my shoulders a warmed the air around me a bit. I introduced myself to Zahara's family, "It's a pleasure to meet Zahara's family, my name is Jacob Cold." I said to everyone shaking Zahara's brother's hand. Zoe walked right up to me and was going to challenge me to a fight.

Zahara stopped her before she could, "Don't little sister, he makes Litta and Vlad look like amateurs with the way he fights. " Everyone looked at me and I made my eyes glow for a second, which spooked Zoe a bit. "Zoe apologize to Jacob right now for being rude! " Yelled a woman walking up to the group. It was Lillith herself coming to greet us.

"Hello, mother, it's good to see you are still alive," Zahara said in a dark tone that scared me a bit. Lilith smiled a bit and greeted her back, "Yes daughter it's good to see you as well." She looked in my direction she glared for a moment and then I spoke to her. "Hello again, it's nice to meet you, Lilith, I'm guessing you don't have to know my name since you already know it? " Lilith laughed and Zahara smiled because I never called her my lady or Queen like the other did. Zahara's brother tried to grab me, but was stopped by me and brought to his knees. Everyone jumped around to get me to let him go.

I let the punk go and stood straight as I was about to fight for real. You could feel my power and energy rise as the moments went by. "You guys can not win if you fight him, he will kill you if you try," Zahara said trying to calm the situation. Right as she said that they all came at me and hit me with all they had. To everyone's surprise and mine, I wasn't even scuffed up or scratched. The attacks didn't feel like anything I just brushed them off like flies. They all backed off holding their arms and hands from hitting my rock-solid body.

All they did was just hurt themselves more than even harm me. They still looked like they wanted to fight so I unleashed a portion of my energy on the groundbreaking the stone floor. Zahara was getting mad that she released I was just playing now and not being serious. "Alright, Jacob you can stop now." She said to me as she placed her hand on my shoulder. Everyone saw how we, Zahara, and I looked at each other. They could tell I adored my wife and she felt the same for me, this made Zahara's brother happy for her finding me.

They saw her smile and no one has ever in her family has seen her smile since she was a child. I placed a cigar in my mouth and was going to light it when little Zoe came up to me. "You really love my big sis don't know!?" I smiled and then bent down a bit to her level, "I love her more than anything in the world. She's been kind to this human so has most of her people."

After a while we got over that fight, I found myself outside on the balcony watching the sun go down. As it went down I lit another cigar and puffed on it for a bit, the cool air was nice on my face. "This was a good moment to remember later," I said to myself as I heard someone breathing behind me. It was my lovely wife Zahara listening to me, talk to myself for a moment. I grabbed her and held her close as I warmed her a bit with my fire magic. She saw in my face that I was scared of something and she didn't know what it was.

We were always surrounded by her subjects at home so this one-on-one was special for us. "Jacob, what's the matter? What could you be sad about? " Zahara asked me after I put out the cigar, "I feel something is coming to disrupt my peace once more," I said to her as I heard a familiar voice from behind us. It was Lucifer and he was here for my wife and to take her away by a force.

Right before I could move she vanished from my side and into his arms. As fast as he showed is as fast as he vanished and I was left alone once more. I cried out in pain when I finally came to my senses. As I got off the ground and turned Zahara's whole family had come running to see what the yelling was about. The brother came up to me and he saw what my voice and words could not tell. But I spoke anyway.

Lucifer took my peace and my love now he's going to pay with his life, can you bring me to hell? " I asked them to see if they would. "Yes, my dear, I can send anyone, anywhere, just gives me a moment." Lilith said to me as I wondered if I should bring someone with me, "Here, take your brother, since he's the same as you he can help bring our Zahara back." Zoe and Lilith said with Bradley coming around the corner with his sword and my gloves.

Another moment went by and Lilith opened the portal to hell, I saw nothing but fire and lava everywhere. I turned to the group behind us then I jumped into the portal with Bradley. As we passed through the portal we could see hell on the ground. We unleashed our power to its fullest and then flew right to the castle that we saw.

We landed in the courtyard of the castle and saw something that made my mind go crazy. Lucifer had Zahara tied upright in the middle of everything. She was in pain and being brainwashed by the magic spell Lucifer was cast on her. Bradley looked over at me and saw me beginning to snap. I began to change and I turned to fire and rage as Bradley and I jumped at Lucifer. My body began to scale up and my movements got faster with every stick I laid out for him. He took them with regret, but he wasn't dying at all he was only gasping for air.

Lucifer was down and being held there while I went over to Zahara to free her from this pain. The magic that was being cast on her was a memory taker or some kind of suppressor. I cut her down and she gently fell to her feet. She looked tired and was confused about what was going on. "Who are you and what am I doing here?" She asked, I looked over at Bradley and he saw I was crying a bit.

Zahara grabbed onto my arm and she recognized it, "Zahara my love, You were kidnapped from your mothers by him." I pointed to Lucifer, " I came here to bring you home." I said to her as she looked into my eyes. "Do you want to go home, my dear? With me and my Brother? " I asked her, she gained a few her memories of us as we flew to Bradley. I gave her to Bradley since she couldn't fly just yet and I looked at Lucifer.

"You won't be able to stop me the way you are," Lucifer said when he began to recover. I smiled and in one move I used the sword I took from Bradley to cut off his head. I picked up his body and threw it in the lava and then threw his head in the portal next to me that was in the deep ocean. "Yeah, you may be right, but with this move, I can make sure we have peace till I can finish the job."

When I caught up with Bradley and Zahara I carried my wife back through the portal home. We watched the light in the portal go by and it looked very beautiful with all the colors.

When we got back to the castle, all of Zahara's siblings were waiting for us. Zahara was piggybacking on my back when we passed through the portal. She popped off my back and then she looked over at her mother. Lilith looked her over then asked what I did with Lucifer. I told her I cut him off, then tossed it into a random portal then pushed his body into the lava. Zahara's brother heard what I said, and he replied with, "Damn, you really messed up the King of demons like that." Zahara confirmed what I said and then he smiled at me. Then as we went inside with everyone, I finally met Zahara's father. He was sitting at the table waiting to hear good news. Then he saw us walk into the room, he ran to us and hugged Zahara tight. "Good thing you're safe, thank you for saving my daughter Jacob." The man said to Bradley, mistaking him for me. "Sir, I'm Bradley, his younger brother, the big guy over there is Jacob," Bradley said, pointing at me, I smiled then I walked up and shook his hand. "Sit, we did our job, my job as her husband and Bradley helped me a lot back there," I said to him getting to know Zahara's father a bit.

Later that night I was in the bedroom with Zahara. She was in a nightgown and I was sitting at her old desk looking out the window. I saw the moon was really bright and part of me wanted to run outside. I liked being this creator I had become but something about my family seemed very strange. Zahara saw I was in a curious mood about something. So, she asked me right out, "What's got you so curious now Jacob?" I turned to her and said, "I want to learn the true history of my family. I mean the whole thing about me and my brother is kind of weird. We are resistant to magic, and we could fight monsters. Another thing, I always believed the mystical and mythical were real. Being this different from normal humans is too weird. " I made some really good points; my brother and I were strong without our new powers and abilities. I thought for a bit and was released so maybe our parents died by someone instead of an accident.

Later, when I watched a couple of yetis playing in the distance, I started to fall asleep. So, Zahara helped me to bed, and then I fell asleep right away. As I slept, Zahara played with my hair. For some reason, I liked it and slept more deeply than I ever did before.

I started to dream of a nice, beautiful scene of my Brother and Zahara next to me overlooking the city. Then I turned and saw our parents smiling at us, my father came up to me. He looked older and he was a couple of scars, but it was him. Then he spoke to me as if he knew what was going on. "Jacob my boy, go to the Polish family history records. They have information on our family's past, but if it's the real history you want to go to the Library. " He said right as I woke up from the part of what to look up. Then I sat straight up and saw Zahara was sleeping right next to me.

"Just seven months ago I was almost hated by this woman. I'm glad I took that job; I would never meet her if I didn't. " I said quietly as Zahara's little sister Zoe came into the room. She looked at me as I got out of bed not waking up Zahara. "Jacob my Mother and Father are requesting your presence." She said to me in a stuck-up way. My temper started to build a second, my monster-like Aura spilled out a bit and Zoe changed her tone to me.

We walked a bit down the hall, passing paintings of Lilith and her past. It looked depressing and scary with all the fire. Lilith looked like a conquering beast with her sword in hand. Is the paintings had demons and monsters surrounding her, almost the same scene when I saved Brad from Lucifer. Zoe saw me looking at them all and laughed. "Are you scared of my mother or something?" She said trying to see if I was indeed scared. "No just looking at that one picture." Referencing the one I was just looking at. We stopped and went back to it; Zoe saw what I was looking at. I saw clearer that Zahara was in it, but she looked younger like Zoe now.

"I had a moment similar to this, my Brother was being used as a hostage to get me out of the building. I without thinking went right to where he was and confronted Lucifer. Right, when I was ready to throw down with him Zahara dropped to my side. Then her girls from all over the city came to her side to help. This right here reminds me of what it was like to have people around you like this. " I started to smile when Brad came around the corner. Bradley had stayed in a room of the castle to recover from yesterday. Zahara's other sister, the older one, was right behind him. "Let's go you two," She said to Zoe and me when we went into the throne room.

Lilith and Author the girl's father were waiting for Bradley and me. They watched and then Zahara's older sister cast a barrier around the room. Then Lilith spoke to us in a serious tone that scared us a bit. "You both are now making a huge scene with the monster world. Taking on Lucifer, gaining monster-like powers, and living with a known Ruler. What are your true intentions with my daughter and that city? Are you guys here to destroy us then break her heart? " Lilith said to us making me angry, with all I've done to save my love they didn't trust me. So, then I spoke to them while trying to remain cool.

"I love her, and I would never do anything to hurt her. True, we were once human; we don't know our past. We didn't want to fight Lucifer; I didn't start the conflict, I just wanted…" I was interrupted by the Author halfway through explaining myself. "WE don't hear your half-bit explanation. We want to know your truth. " When he stopped me, my anger started to fester then my Aura built out of my body. I felt I was disrespected as a person when I was cut off. Bradley, I was angry, then I watched him try to speak up. When he tried to talk Author stopped him too, right as Zahara walked into the room and through the barrier.

"What are you all doing? Pissing off my husband is a stupid thing to try. Then you all start disrespecting his brother? Jacob is the kindest person I've ever known with the years I've lived. You are stupid to fight these two because he has me and all my city in his corner. " Zahara said, getting in her Father's face, I was still in a fighting mood from my anger as I tried to calm down. Then Author raised his hand to Zahara, I snapped and then grabbed his hand. Everyone jumped at me crossing the room in a blink of an eye.

I looked right at Lilith when I said, "If he tried that again, I don't care if he's your husband or her father he will lose this hand. No one hits a woman or my family, pick up what I'm laying down? " Lilith laughed, then I let the man's hand go, "We just wanted to if you're the person I've heard about. Honest, fast, and scary to piss off. I don't think anyone here would be able to stop you from breaking the Author's hand. " Zahara got pissed then started to yell at everyone.

Telling them that was a horrible way to find out what his intentions were. All they had to do was ask me because humans are easy to read for lying. Humans tend to get wide-eyed and tend to shake a bit. This is why she was done, I had ways of telling the truth without being berated like that. I never lied about being who I am, but for the time why I came to the city.

I stood next to Zahara with my brother next to us, we looked like a squad of monsters or something. We settled down and they noticed we were calm now. Then Author took me aside while the others talked about the next events. The author talked to me as if he knew me. He was low to avoid having someone listen when he said. "Son, I liked you once I found out you were human. I was human once like you then I Married Lilith, please keep my daughter safe, will you? " He almost cried when I shook my head saying. "I would never stop protecting her, my friend, she's my world." Then the rest of the time all of staying at the castle was getting worried about home. So we left early and all headed home together on the plane instead of the portal.