"Don't fear fire, fear the one wielding it"

The midnight haired girl sat in her brother's study later that night. The talk she had with the future Queen has her deep in thoughts, not only was she in the presence of the greatest Queen of all time, but also the one her brother truly loves. She has seen how he has had many other women, yet never cared about them. The love in his eyes when he looks at Arabella is true love, that hopefully one day will be returned by her. Getting the stubborn girl to fall in love with him is not only frustrating for him but also for his sister to watch.

"Sister, what is it you need?" He asks his sister, as he sits in his chair, devouring a alcoholic drink, and has nearly finished a whole bottle of it. "Brother, I might suggest you spend the night with Arabella. She's getting lonely here and you indeed have a lot to explain to her" Luna speaks, she sees how he loves her, yet he avoids her, she doesn't know why her brother acts like this. "I believe she despises me. She doesn't wish to get close to me" Lucifer answer, he's been afraid of Arabella rejecting him since the moment he held her for the first time in his arms.

Luna's thoughts wander to the conversation that she shared with the girl, and the words she used to describe her brother. She had told her that she is attracted to him, without those exact words, Luna had to read between the lines to notice, unless she's reading into things that aren't there, which she doesn't believe she is. "Believe me brother, when I say that the young girl doesn't despise you. Go to her, spend time with her. If you leave her alone all this time, her feelings might change. She might even have one of the guards as her lover" Luna says, teasing.

Those words anger the King, and she knows it. "SHE IS MINE!!! SHE BELONGS TO ONLY ME!!!" He yells at his sister. The beast has awoken and it will do anything in its power to keep the sweet innocent girl has his, and his alone. Only he can love her and no one else. Luna doesn't feel the slightest fear, but she does let out a chuckle. "Then go to her, be with her. Make her feel safe and protected. Speak to her. Don't let her find comfort from someone else" She says.

He doesn't respond because he's already out the door, fuming with anger that Arabella has found a lover. The girl is the most beautiful girl he has laid his eyes upon, she's bound to have men (or demons in this case) fighting for her attention. His guards can betray him and take his future wife as their lover. He storms the hallway, the anger in him rising with each step. No guard in sight, if there were, he would have ripped them in half by now, or have them spend the rest of their miserable lives in Hellfire.

When he's standing in front of the door of their bed chamber, he hears something inside. Singing. Beautiful singing. Coming from his love. The beast inside him calms down to her beautiful singing voice. The songs she sings is foreign to him, yet he doesn't listen to the words, he listens to her voice as it is flawless on every note. Even when he watched over her, her entire life, he never once heard her sing. He often heard one of her brother's sing her a lullaby, but their voices were not as gifted as her's is.

Standing there in front of the closed door, with the beast clawing inside him, wanting to be with his love. He lets her finish the song before he lightly knocks on the door. He slightly opens it. The girl sits on her bed with a book in her hand, though the book is closed. She does look taken back that he's there, as he hasn't come to visit her or even talked to her for a few days, she didn't like not speaking to him. It's right to say that both were miserable without each other.

"Is there something you might need?" She asks, even her talking voice is the most beautiful thing he has ever heard. "I would like to offer you a ride in the carriage" He speaks, he had to make something up at the spot as he was so angry when he came that he forgot that he was going to murder anything if they were there with her. She smiles at him with a smile that turns the Devil to the good side. "I would like that very much" She answers, she would never reject this invitation, because she has gotten quite bored and she does miss him heavily.

Spending time with him is something she's looking forward to, and she finds it rather hard to not glow. "Good" He only answers, he walks towards them bed and reaches his hand out. Her eyes travel to his hand, and with a smile of happiness, she takes it. As soon as their hands touch, neither of them can deny the wonderful feeling each have. Lucifer helps her off the bed, and she straightens her dress when she's on the ground. She doesn't tell him that she isn't wearing high heels for obvious reasons, she figures that if he can't see them, then it doesn't matter.

Hand in hand, they walk out of the room. None can deny the fact that their hands fit together, almost as if they were made for each other. And, that statement might just be true. Arabella's gaze is on the ground, afraid to look up, because her cheeks have become the same color as the walls, from her blushing. She doesn't know why, but she does feel shy around him, and something else, that she can't put her finger on. "Is there anywhere special we're going?" She asks, after finding the courage to do so.

Talking to him is always nerve wrecking for the fire eyed girl, she doesn't know why she's so shy around him. She has been shy her whole life, but never on this level, something about him makes her feel differently and she doesn't understand it. "Yes, I wish to show you something that I believe you might like" He says, with a smile on his face. Her hand in his is making him feel like he's doing something right. Lucifer isn't the type of guy that understands how relationships are supposed to work, given the fact that he has had many failed marriages before.

But, with Arabella. He wants to do things right. He wants to be the man she wants him to, the one she needs him to be. Protecting and loving her is always his first priority, the girl is more important to him than anything else. "Will you tell me, or will you be mysterious?" She asks, feeling like she's growing somewhat comfortable to be around him, yet is still nervous. "Of course, you can't know until we get there. Where is the fun in that?" He asks, though he wasn't exactly asking a question that needed answering.

While he smirks and feels cocky about it, she can't help but smile a bit at his answer, she truly wasn't really expecting him to answer her question and tell her about where they will be going, she just asked, because she wanted to say something, something to him. "You are the most mysterious man I've ever had the fortune to meet" She says. The more they talk as they go through the castle, the more she relaxes. "Well, a bit of a mystery has never harmed anyone" He tells her.

"No, I suppose not" She says, just as they arrived at the stables and their carriage awaited them. It was the same on as they had gone into few days ago, as he wanted her to feel comfortable in there, because she knows that one. However, the royal carriage is much fancier and more comfortable. They sit down and the carriage takes off into the unknown, at least for her, he knows where they are going. "Will I meet your other siblings, soon?" Arabella asks, after a few minutes of silence, she has questions that now he will hopefully answer.

She got some of her questions answer by Luna, but somehow it leaves her with even more questions and she has a feeling that he has all the answers she's looking for. "My dear, my siblings and I, have a history together, most of us don't get alone very well. Poseidon is the only brother that I can tolerate, and Luna is well, Luna. I've always cared for her, because not only is she my little sister, but also because our father didn't treat us like the others" He tells her. Finally, she's getting to know him. She knows next to knowing about the man she's been staying with these past days.

"My three older brothers were always his favorite, as they weren't born with evil. When I was born, the world was given fire, as fire is my own creation. But, my father saw it as destruction on the world that he has created. Because of that, he made a kingdom of fire, in other words he made me Hell so I could be the furthest away from the beautiful world. Nothing alive grows here, no one is alive here. Poseidon has always pitied me, and we grew quite close after the immortal war" Lucifer tells her, finally telling the girl something about himself.

The information that he's telling her, sort of makes sense to her, yet she's still just as confused. She does know from Luna that their father didn't like her, but she had no idea that he treated Lucifer this way. He's a cruel parent, and shouldn't be a parent if he can't act like it. "The immortal war?" She asks. He had stopped himself from talking there, giving her the opportunity to ask. He looks deep into her fire eyes, noticing that she's listening and even if she may not understand, she's trying. She's trying for him.

"The immortal war, is the war between the elements. My brothers and I all have one element and there was a time when we fought all with each other. Those elements were at war and it lasted for a thousand years. My oldest brother has the element of nature, my other brother has the element of air, you know Poseidon has water and I have fire. When those four things are combined, that is when the destruction arrived. If the war between my brothers and I did not come to and end, there would not be any world for anyone to live in" He says.

His last sentence is stuck in her mind, she can't believe that he and his brothers almost destroyed the whole world. In her fifteen years of living, she has always believed the world beautiful, then again she hadn't seen the whole world, which she has recently just learned is a lot bigger than just earth and the village she lived by. "What about Luna, where was she in this war?" She asks, they had been looking into each other's eyes for quite some time.

She's started to see how beautiful his glowing crimson red eyes are, and how she never wants to look away. "Luna, wasn't born at the time. She's far younger than my brothers and I" He tells her. She has been trying to puzzle together how old the two siblings really are. She knows that Luna spent ten thousand years locked up, and she knows that Luna is more than one thousand years younger than Lucifer, but she can't figure out how old they really are. "How old are you?" She blurts out of her mouth before she has the time to stop herself from asking.

Learning about Lucifer has been her goal since she got there, she has been wanting to know all about him, but, now when she is learning something about him, she doesn't know if she's ready for it. "I'm older than you know, older than you can count, my age, however doesn't matter. You will soon find out my correct age, however that is not today. I believe you're getting more information for one day that your mind can't process it, believe me when I say, you shall know someday" He tells the girl, who only frowns.

And, she really believed that people were actually telling her everything, she wants to know everything. She's ready for the truth, well almost. She is still a bit nervous about finding out everything, however this fire haired Queen is capable of anything. "Can you tell me more about yourself?" Arabella asks, her eyes looking into his with a curious look, telling the King of the Underworld that his Queen will not stop asking questions until she gets the answers she's looking for. Smiling at his love. "If that is your wish, I shall have it fulfilled right away" He says to her.

Her cheeks start to heat up from blood rushing into them. Her eyes break their beautiful eye contact and travel to the ground. "My dear Arabella, I must warn you that I'm not the man you think I am. I have kidnapped, tortured, murdered hundreds of men, for only my own pleasure. The things that have done are horrible and cruel, yet it all tells a story" He says, not sure how the innocent girl that still hasn't gone running away from him is going to be able to hear the words he will speak to her.

Telling her of his horrible past is something he needs to get off his chest, it's longing to get out in the open. A wise person once told him that if the woman he loves doesn't accept his dark side or his past then she's not the one for him. "Everything tells a story, every scar has story, every object has a story. Every person has a story, and each one of those stories are worth it for the world to hear. No matter if it is good or evil, a story should always be told, no matter their origin" The girl speaks to him, after he hesitated and stopped talking.

She looks up from the ground to meet his eyes, and she sends a smile his way, confirming that she truly is kinder than anyone this world has ever known. "I will not care if you've done horrible things, I will not judge you for them and I will not laugh at them. My brother once told me that each person has their own demons to face, whether it are their past or other people. But, saying them to others will do them good" She speaks.

Lucifer takes a deep breath and looks at the face of his one true love, the girl he would do everything and anything for, he truly is lucky to have her as his own and only his. And, she is changing him, little by little. No one would notice it right away, but they will start to suspect that their King hasn't harmed anyone since she was with him. He hasn't done anything bad to anyone, all thanks to the kindness that his love has shown him, it makes him soft, and perhaps that's a good thing. The merciless King is at the mercy of his Queen, only she doesn't know it.

He opens his mouth to start telling his glorious story, but will however leave out a few big details, he can't tell her of every bad thing he has done. Tainting her is the last thing he wants, keeping her pure and good is everything. The carriage starts to pick up the speed, fast. The horses are running instead of galloping. With each second that passes, the carriage goes faster. The King and Queen inside the carriage don't notice it at first but when they do, Arabella starts to panic.

"What's happening?" She asks, holding on to everything that she can see that might hold her down, but nothing has a good enough grip. Lucifer notices how she's tying to hold on and doesn't waste any time to scoop her into his arms and hold her tightly to himself. Her head in his chest. The fear going through her body, makes her wrap her arms around him and hold tightly. "I don't know" He whispers, wishing that he didn't have to answer her, because he can tell she's afraid and that's the last thing he wants. Holding her tightly and secure, he attempts to keep her safe.

Without a warning, their carriage tips over to the right side with so much speed, that is goes upside down. Lucifer holds the girl as his life depends on it, holding her and keeping her safe is more important than his own life. He tries to take every hit for her, but he does miss one when her head hits the side of the carriage. The force was that great that she gets knocked out and goes limp in his arms. The anger coursing through his veins at the sight of his love harmed is overwhelming.

Sitting down at the ceiling of the carriage, that is now under his feet, he holds her bridal style in his arms. Her beautiful fire eyes closed. He checks her pulse and her breathing before he does anything else, to make sure that she's till alive. The feeling of relief when she's breathing and her heartbeat is normal washes over him, but the anger is still there. The beast is still there, waiting to harm every living creature for harming his love and his Queen. Hot liquid runs down the right side of her face, coming from a big cut on her forehead, where she got her head hit.

"No, no, no, no! Come on, my love. Wake up. I beg of you" The King mutters to her, holding her close him, begins her to wake up. Tears form in his eyes, as he looks down at his unconscious love. Her beautiful face has been tainted by the crimson red blood. The cut isn't large, yet it's enough to form a stream of blood. Ripping a piece of the curtains of the carriage, that are now hanging upside down, he gently presses against the cut on her head, just enough to stop the bleeding.

Demons have gathered around the carriage, knowing that their King and Queen are in there. He doesn't notice how there are so many of his subject, trying to get them out. His only focus is the girl in his arms. Not only is she hurt, but she was the only one who got hurt. Not a single scratch on his body, while she lies there unconscious. He failed to protect her, failed to put her life above his, failed to keep her out of harm, failed to comfort her when she needed it. He failed her.