‘So this is what death feels like? It's far painless than I thought’ Skyla thought to herself, her nerves relaxing as she felt herself getting drawn more in the warmth encompassing her but that began to fade as her temporal euphoria wore off bringing her back to reality.
Where am I? she thought opening her eyes sifting her surroundings, for several seconds she was lost but returned and her eyes widened at what she saw.
There before her were large nails dripping blood but the blood wasn't hers, she couldn't see her attacker due to the deterrent body afore her.
Rogue caughed up blood, rivulets of blood forming on the corners of his mouth as remainders of the dense liquid he coughed. “ Don't hurt her, she's not worth your time” Rogue articulated glaring at Lucifer who was dumbfounded by the fact she bayoneted her soul mate, and that triggered the link between them. Lucifer started to cough up blood a bit.
“ You idiot, why did you do that? Do you still love her even after she deliberately toyed with your emotions?” Lucifer asked through gnashed teeth. She knew the curse placed on her and how it worked, the same curse that led to her losing Escliffe in the first place.
Skyla released the breath she didn't know she held and smiled. “ Thank you Ro, without you I wouldve been dead but it's a shame she got to you first” Skyla said with a gentle tone that quickly shifted to a cynical one, her right hand rising up to pull the claws towards her to drive them deeper into Rogue and end his life.
“ STOP THAT, CAN'T YOU SEE YOU ARE HURTING HIM?” Lucifer clamored at Skyla, tears were clouding her vision and she couldn't breathe, her lungs were affected by the curse. If one of them feels pain the other does too, her heart pained as she heard those agony filled screams coming from Rogue.
“ I don't really care what happens to him. He was means to an end, I was tasked to find the reincarnation of the king of devils and take his power” Skyla responded, her face having a sadistic grin to it as she kept on pulling and pulling the claws also being nonchalant about Rogue's screams.
“ So you are one of them, the hunters sent after Escliffe disgusting” Lucifer replied, clicking her tongue and she attempted to use her supernatural strength to pull away her claws so that she can save the both of them from more pain but her nails couldn't budge an inch. I can't get my claws loose, Is she stronger than me? Skyla thought her eyes closing as she fell in state of despondency.
Skyla noticing this smirked. “ it's not that I'm stronger than you or him for that matter, As shown earlier us succubuses don't have the necessary strength to rival other supernaturals, but as how you are. Chronosis curse hinders your might when in pain...” Skyla articulated taking a short pause at the end, her attention solely focused on Lucifer having forgotten about Rogue.
“ I like seeing the hopeless look on your face. It's exhilarating, the banished queen of devils at the mercy of a Succubus” Skyla continued her mini speech sardonically grinning. Showing that she was enjoying herself.
Rogue's screams died down as the pain was too much for his brain, which shut down the body's responsiveness to affliction. He was drifting in a void, he couldn't see anything by reason of the circumambient darkness. ‘Where am I? What is this place? How did I get here? ’ Rogue thought weakly trying to make sense of what was going on.
“ You are in your mind, your brain couldn't take much of the pain and it automatically shut itself down.” A voice replied from the darkness, precipitating Rogue's attention to be more focused.
“ Who are you? What do you want?” Rogue asked, at this point nothing could shock him. He had seen devils, got his heart broken at this point he just wanted to get home, get a goodnight sleep and forget about the day.
The voice chuckled not answering the question Rogue asked, humongous extrimities manifested from the obsidian abyssals and clutched Rogue within them, forming a cocoon around him, repudiating his spiritual manifestation abode there. “ You'll have to protect our mate” those words were the last ones that registered on Rogue's mind.
Rogue's consciousness returned midway Skyla's speech. He could hear her clearly but what disturbed him even through hazy eyes were the tears of Lucifer and the pain she was feeling, realization returned to him and with it, came his ire.
The tears from Lucifer inaugurated a foreign power to Rogue's blood stream. A huge pillar of crimson luminescence erupted from him prompting Skyla to let go and Lucifer to go stumbling since she was pulling with all her might back.
“H-how could it be, you were supposed to be dead!!” Skyla frantically tried to reason to how come Rogue was still alive, and where did he get that much power in a short space of time. Lucifer on the otherhand smiled a small smile knowing that the balance of power began its shift.
Rogue turned around and glared at Skyla, His eyes being devoid of the pupils replaced by slits. His hair was wild like a lion's mane, on his chest a sigil appeared with a crown on it. “ Anyone who makes Lucifer cry is my enemy and they forfeit their lives” Rogue articulated in a demonic tone, his wings unfolded revealing their true glory.
Skyla felt true fear, She was in the presence of an entity feared by all. The mere mention of his name made the bravest of warriors turn tail and shake like children, she was doing the same in the presence of Escliffe's power even at its most impure state.
“Begone vermin. ” Rogue uttered in his menacing voice as his right manus digit was pointed at Skyla who was still frozen with fear. Faster than all could see, a purplish stream of light that was pernicious shot from his finger and lacerated Skyla's arm cleanly, blood flew out from that missing arm spraying the lithosphere, the arm itself was hurled to the heavens with the stream of light which tore the ground behind Skyla.
A loud caterwaul of agony escaped Skyla's mouth as she desperately attempted to clutch the place where her arm was, recollecting what Rogue said. Her body dissolved into shadows as she retreated.
Rogue after witnessing Skyla's retreat, turned his attention to Lucifer who was holding her fingers with her left hand. He began to walk towards her slowly, the beam of luminescence fading from him along with the sigil on his chest, halfway he staggered and collapsed forward.
Lucifer rushed to her feet and placed her body before Rogue's, allowing him to abut it. She smiled and used her ability given by the sixth Hieroglyph to read his mind gaining information on where he lived. Once attaining the necessary information, she firmly clutched on the unconscious Rogue and too vanished with into the shadows.
Lucifer manifested inside Rogue's room and placed him on his bed, gazing at his face softly. “ sleep well my king” she mummered and slid in bed with him. However as she was so focused on Rogue she missed one important detail, throughout the ordeal itself Ashlee was watching from the sidelines.
“ it seems Hiraizumi is going to be interesting this coming months” Ashlee chuckled blending in with the shadows his eyes being the ones glowing from within, their bluish silvery colour scaring away the nocturnal wild life. He stayed for a few seconds and then vanished heading back to report on what he had observed.
Rogue snapped his eyes open, he looked around his room trying to place yesterday's events together. Was it a dream? He thought to himself, but it couldn't be right? Afterall I remember everything to the latter. Rogue thought, his head began to get dizzy as he continued down the memory lane. “For your first question, no it wasn't a dream. Everything that had happened yesterday was real” Lucifer's voice interrupted his train of thoughts, she was wearing one of his buggy shirts and she was standing next to the door with a smile. Rogue's first thought in mind was his mother. “Moth..” He said turning his head only to see Lucifer instead of his mother, it took a few seconds for Rogue to realize who she was and upon doing so he quickly jumped out of the bed hiding behind it. “You... What do you want in my house? and where is my mother? ” Rogue asked still not appearing from his hiding place. Lucifer chuckled at his childi
Rogue and Lucifer stepped outside, the light from the sun blinding their eyes as they had been inside for more than 5 hours. “ Before we leave, what will we use to get there? It's not like we can just fly over there. It's broad daylight” Lucifer asked looking at Rogue in hopes he had an idea.Rogue smirked only and headed to the back leaving Lucifer there wondering what he was up to. Rogue once at the back, would open the garage door and there afore him was a modem convertible. An Audi A4, fishing out the keys from the pocket, Rogue opened the door and entered the car.He ignited the engine, the gears began to shift and the vehicle revved up. Shifting the cog once more, He applied force on the accelerator pedal prompting the car to move out the garage, exited the yard and circulated to the front of the house on the Mainroad“ So you are going to stand there?” Rogue aske
Rogue watched, awestruck by Lucifer's transformation. He could feel the power inside of him trying its, best to reach out and grab the tendrils of Lucifer's power. ‘So this is the true extent of a devil Queen, so frightening ’ Rogue thought moving back from Lucifer and the dragon.Lucifer, folded her hands into fists and she applied pressure to her feet, destroying the cobalt blue stones as she launched herself towards the Dragon's head, she was so fast the dragon did face a chance to react as she grabbed it by the face and slammed it on the cave with her strength destroying the back part of the cave.Lucifer was counting the minutes she had, from fifteen minutes she only had fourteen left. With a boisterously battle cry, she once more delivered a series of punches to the Dragon's abdomen, each punch releasing a massive shockwave as a byproduct and destroying the terrain.The cave shook as the dragon was sent outside, into t
Ashlee’s assaults were relentless. Blood oozed like a waterfall from Rogue’s face as the unconscious boy was trashed around like a ragdoll. “ Make this more interesting for me” Ashlee said, his voice holding traces of malevolence.He turned around and looked at Lucifer with an evil look savouring how her body looked. A chuckle escaped Ashlee’s lips as he turned on his heel smashing the other heel on Rogue’s face sending him tumbling over the crater.“Now that, the pest has been taken care off..” Ashlee to a short pause and grabbed Lucifer by her face, using his superior might to lift her to his eye level.“If I were you, I’d unhand that woman” A voice said causing Ashlee and his crew to look around trying to find the owner of the voice.Ho
Silence reigned Supreme as Rogue and Lucifer processed what Anemo had just said. “You are telling us you know where they are?.” Lucifer asked, making sure of what she had heard was true.“Yes, I saw them near the foot of the mountain” Anemo said playing around on Lucifer’s lap, enjoying the comfort he receives.Rogue decided to trust Anemo, as he had shown to be trust worthy when he saved both of their lives. Lucifer looked up at Rogue trying to get approval to trust Anemo.Rogue nodded and kneeled down before Anemo with a small smile on his face . “So Anemo, can you show us where they are? The full moon is upon us and we can’t miss them.” He inquired to Anemo, who nonchalantly played around.Anemo, glared up at Rogue and smiled. “Sure I can show you” He said, jumping from Lucifer’s lap and exiting the cavern like room calling Lucifer
The staffs collided while both Rogue and Vinshi parried one another backwards, a smile married Vinshi’s face as he decided to go on the offense from the beginning. With a momentary boost of speed, that his kind were known for, Vinshi closed the gap between him and Rogue. “Block this!” He said swinging his staff downward, hoping to smash Rogue to the ground and end the match. Rogue reacted in the nick of time as he stepped back getting out of the range of the staff, the outcome of the staff’s impact shocked Rogue as it tore through the terrain like nothing. “Extend Vinshu!” Vinshi yelled not letting the resonance of his earlier attack go to waste, the staff extended a good sixteen meters and impaled Rogue on the stomach with tremendous force hurling him into the sky. Vinshu followed up with a combo as he used his tail to flick himself above Rogue and twisted the Staff, smashing it into R
Noon approached, Rogue, Lucifer and their little friend Anemo made it to the Strife manor. The two males were quiet as they observed Lucifer make the elixir infusing devil incantations to it.“This is going to cure my mother?” Rogue asked, his eyes looking bored. Even though he had one percent of his past lives that didn’t affect his personality.Lucifer sighed a heavy sigh for the umpteenth time that day. “How many times to I have to tell you Hun? This is going to work, have faith” She uttered opening the frog and spilling the juice in the vial placed atop of the rune.She said a few incantations to complete the procedure and grabbed the final product placing it in front of Rogue. “We have to give this to her immediately.” Lucifer said, wiping away the sweat that formed on her forehead.They nodded and exited the house leaving Anemo inside, they were heading
Rogue laughed after hearing Seraphine’s loud exclamation, when she asked if Rogue and Lucifer had a child Anemo leapt onto Seraphine who just barely caught him.“No Mom, Lucifer and I don’t have a child” Rogue clarified, his face having a reddish hue traveling from cheek to cheek.Seraphine sighed in relief, her little Rogue could be a parent at such a young age. “If he’s not yours then who is he?” she catechized Rogue, her eyes focusing on him and Lucifer.“He’s a child we found lost” Lucifer said, half telling the truth and half lying about Anemo’s origins.Seraphine nodded and looked at the young boy in her hands, a smile graced her facial features and she made up her decision. “Call me Granny alright little Ane?” She said.Anemo grinned and clapped his hands. “Yes gran momma I will&rdquo