《The Devil Returns》6. Kill the Devil
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A 20-25 cm tall being, with burnt brown scaled skin. He had long clawed fingers and a jaw like a crocodile, with white horns protruding out of his head and a tail like a lizard. He was the very being believed to be just a myth; the reptilian-humanoid creature-'The Kobold'.
"So...um Mr Ubel...for God's sake can you please tell me why you are here?" Lucifer asked with a look of extreme frustration. The terrifying being he only heard in stories, the being known to be selfish and dreadful, the entity from whom he must be frightened but rather he was pissed. He was indeed terrified just a few minutes ago, he even thought he would get killed by the intruder but now he was serving cookies to that very being.
Crunch. Munch.
"Delicioush, Human food is indeed good" Ubel was munching on the cookies with twinkling bright eyes without a care in the world, he was like in a world of ecstasy far from listening to what Lucifer had to say.
"Haaaa..." Lucifer sighed heavily covering his face with both of his palms, "What sin did I commit to suffer like this?" now he was questioning the purpose of his life.
Burp.
"Shooo tashty! HeHe" Ubel laughed while licking the last bits of crumbs from his lips and fingers. If Lucifer could see the scene he indeed would have been terrified, after all a monstrous being licking his claws and sharp fangs were nothing you can see usually.
" Ahhh I'm shoo full" Ubel voiced while taking out a toothpick-like twig from his pouch and scratching his fangs.
Lucifer frowned while muttering, "Why won't you?..you finished 3 jars of cookies all by yourself"
"Hmm?"
"No..nothing" Lucifer ruffled his hair and asked again "Mr Ubel what's the reason y-"
But before he could even finish his question he heard screams from outside.
"Wh-What?" he stood up straight with widened eyes.
"Lucifer!" Judith called out to him.
"Judith! Lucifer! what's going on?" Marcus came running from the next room.
Crash.
The window glass shattered into pieces. A pebble came rolling down near their feet.
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"Wh-What's going on?...and Ubel?" Lucifer asked in fear.
I am invishible right now. I have removed my shleeping shpell so your parentsh woke up and don't worry only you can hear me. But...I guessh I wash late, I'm shorry . I-I should have come shooner..I'm sho shorry.
Lucifer looked confused with the sudden chaos but what was this Kobold suddenly talking about? Why was he sorry and on the verge of crying?
"Come out, you devils"
"Show yourself!"
"I knew something was wrong...but this?"
"If you don't come out we will break into, come out!"
The villagers screamed outside while Marcus had a horrified expression on his face.
"They found out! No! this can't be! no!" he shrieked.
Judith hold Lucifer in her embrace as she cried out "No! nooo!" while hugging him.
"M-Mom?" Lucifer was perplexed by the sudden turn of events. He knew something was definitely wrong but he couldn't figure out what.
"Ahhh!" a stone flew out from the broken window and hit Judith on her head.
"Judith!"
"Mom!"
Marcus and Lucifer cried out. Her head was bleeding but still, she kept on hugging Lucifer more like she was trying to protect him.
"Those bastards!" Marcus hissed.
Crash.
The wooden door broke into pieces. For the villagers like giants with well-built bodies and muscles, the shabby door was just a piece of cake.
In the middle of the villagers, a figure ever so familiar stood tall, none other than 'The Snoopy Lady'-Carol.
"Drag the devil out!...the red-haired devil!" Carol exclaimed.
"Nooo! " Judith screamed while tightly hugging her child.
The villagers with marshals and bars of wood came rushing in, each with a look of disgust and fury.
"How dare you stand in our way? Move aside Marcus...you know too that boy is a Devil-A Devil!" an elderly man known as the Village Chief roared.
"Over my dead body, he is my son. He is not a Devil! Just because of some old stories and beliefs you think my child is Devil? No! he isn't!" Marcus yelled.
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" He is Red-haired! Don't tell me you don't know the meaning of this? He has the Devil's bl-"
"Shut up! just stop it" Judith cried out, "I will kill you if you touch my child, I gave birth to him he is my child...a-and, not a D-devil"
The Village Chief had an expressionless face as he ordered, "Move away! or get beaten to death! The Devil needs to be annihilated."
Lucifer's P.O.V
W-What is happening? What are they talking about? D-Devil? I'm a Devil? In between the foreign words they were talking about what caught my attention was red hair. I-I have red hair, so what? what is going on?
The nightmare, the visit of an unknown stranger, and the sudden chaos at dawn, there were too many things to process. It felt like it was yet another weird dream, and when I will wake up, everything will return back to normal.
I-I have to wake up from this dream, I have to....but then I heard, my steel strong father's cry.
The sound of a hard object beating the flesh pierced my ears as the screams grew hoarse. My mind went blank. Who's scream is this? Father's? The person who stood tall no matter what the situation was, the person who didn't care that I was useless; a blind and did everything in his ability to cure me, the person whom I thought would never shed a tear was screaming in pain. No! it's just a dream, it has to be...or so I thought.
But whatever I did I couldn't wake up and the screams gradually stopped.
"D-dad?" I yelled but no one replied, "Huh?" and I felt my mother shiver even more.
"M-Mom? w-what is happening? Mom?" I shook her shoulders and wanted to break free of her embrace to go look for my dad, but instead, she squeezed me harder.
"Now next is that red-haired Devil!" I heard one villager, and the next moment before I knew someone yanked my hair.
"Hold Judith! I will take care of this Devil!"
My mother was not letting me go, she was holding onto me with all her strength but unfortunately, the villager was stronger.
Dragging me by my hair on the hard cold floor he threw me hard. I rolled a few times before coming to a stop. I couldn't see but I could feel the piercing gazes surrounding me.
What did I do wrong? What did my parents do wrong?
"L-let him goo! pl-please ..huff huff" .
I heard my father's voice as low as a whisper, I tried to raise my head but eventually couldn't, as someone stepped on my head to lay it low.
"Dad!"
"Who gave you the permission to raise your head?..thu!" the man howled as he spat on me.
"This boy has the devil's red hair! nobody in the past thousands of years had this treacherous colour...the reincarnation of the Devil, the traitor I say!" Carol cried out.
"Yes! the traitor's blood, the Devil, we have to annihilate him...sacrifice, kill him"
"Kill him!"
"Burn him to death!"
"The Devil needs to be killed!"
"Sacrifice! Kill him!"
From the shrieks of the villagers to kill me, the word 'Burn' hit me hard. Memories or more appropriately the feeling of being burnt alive as I felt in my dream was still vivid. My blood was boiling in anger. More than fear of my death what I was feeling was extreme fury.
Each and every fibre of my body was screaming What did I do wrong? why do I have to suffer like this? why do my parents have to go through all these?
At that moment all the shrieks and screams died down, only if I could see the faces of the villagers standing as if bewildered or more so frightened.
L-Lucifer? What did you do?
My body felt hot, my head ached as if splitting apart. And this is what I heard from Ubel just before I lost my consciousness.
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