A sound surged and echoed on the air. Energy overflowed and dispersed, amplifying to everything that was near. Roaring accompanied by the cries of attack were then the only things that could be heard.

One of the ten flying snake monsters that ambushed Lucifer after he left Pamy to go with Beel, was sent flying, clashing with two others who had not foreseen the collision.

He flew up high enough, above another one and concentrating as much energy as he could on his left hand he duked downwards. Purplish pink electric discharges expelled from the palm of his hand and ended in an explosion as soon as it met the beast's face.

The wail of pain that came out of its throat was deafening, even to himself. How could things turn out like this he wondered. How could he and the rest of the World be stuck in this mess. 

In his case, he was in a tight situation, no matter how many times he would land a blow on the snakes, as soon as the smoke cleared out, they showed no sign of injury. It didn't make sense. It was not the first time he had fought against these kinds of hellish creatures and came out victorious., but without any reasonable explanation, this time his attacks didn't work.

He cursed under his breath and for the first time in forever, he started to sweat.

Another snake flew towards him, jaw wide open, saliva covered sharp teeth showing. He back flipped and let it bite the other one in front of him.

How many time has passed? He didn't know but he could feel himself growing tired. He never fought so many flying Hell snakes before. One was good, two or five were enough, but TEN invincible ones was way too much.

Because of his mind being somewhere else at the moment, forgetting he still had ten monstrosities to deal with, one bit on his cloak and pulled him into another's mouth. He unbreeched it immediately, casting a bombarding spell so when it landed in the monster's mouth, it blew it up, but to his disdain, it was completely fine.

In annoyance,

"This is not normal..."

A voice behind him commented,

"Of course it isn't, come on your smarter than that Lucifer."'

Lucifer pulled back quickly and faced the undesired presence.

A white haired and black cloaked man looked awfully similar to Solomon, floated before him. Other than completely red eyes and his sinister aura, the man looked exavtly, like the sorcerer he left back at the House of Lamentation.

The Solomon look alike folded his arms in front of his chest and hummed.

"Oh now, don't look at me like that. Can't you do anything more than glaring at others. It's sickening."

Lucifer scoffed with a smirk.

"Well, you sure have a foul mouth."

Solomon look alike,

"Hmph. You know... I really don't care right now what you think."

With his hands raised up, a green hue emanated from him, hitting each of the flying snakes.

Suddenly, the snakes started to corner Lucifer.

Lucifer's heart palpitated in such an erratic manner that it annoyed him further than he already was. This was no time to be panicking. He, Lucifer, the Avatar of Pride, doesn't panic.

As if reading his mind the look a like Solomon gave out a wide grin.

"Lucy, Lucy, Lucy... It's a splendid sight to see a high ranked demon as yourself quiver like so. What would... Pamy say about it, huh?"

Lucifer gritted his teeth and having enough, he launched forward and attacked, but before his attack could take place, out of nowhere he found himself paralyzed in mid air.

The "BAD" Solomon was looking intently, into his eyes. No limbs moving; no sign of magic, but then why couldn't he move.

"Solomon" laughed as he took out from around his neck a red glowing jewel.

"That dumb expression is just fantastic! You see, if I have THIS, I don't need the assistance of my hands to cast any spell. I just need my mind and that's enough to wreak havoc. Isn't it AMAZING!"

Lucifer couldn't even move his lips to speak a thing or two to the scoundrel.  How dare he do this? How could he do this?!

"Now then, how about we play a little~?"

He snapped his fingers and one of the snakes hit him with its tail, making Lucifer bullet at high speed towards the rocky ground. The rock surface exploded into million of pieces, leaving a cloud of dust to hover over the area of impact.

Another snake, threw him up towards the sky, and got clawed by three of them, inflicting extreme damage to his already bloodied body. This continued until the "BAD" Solomon snapped again his fingers and hovered over the mangled figured that was now Lucifer.

"You know, I never once liked you. You and your brothers always making it difficult for me to get any closer to Pamy; always around her. That really pissed me off..."

He landed a kick on Lucifer, who even though the spell had lifted from him, his body was harmed enough to leave him unresponsive.

As he glared at the figure that balanced over him, Lucifer grabbed all the strength he could to force out of his throat,

"You'll...You'll...pay...for...this..."

The "Bad" Solomon went into a laughter frenzy. His expression and voice made him look psychotic and insane.

He kneeled in front of Lucifer and breathed out.

"Oh~ We'll see about that."

Then, for Lucifer, everything went black.

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Everyone was having breakfast on the dining room. It had been a long time since I had people accompany for breakfast, or any meal whatsoever. It felt pleasant.

Mammon exclaimed,

"So that's what happened to you, while we were here doing nothing?!"

Satan added,

"Honestly Lucifer, what did you gain from fighting those creatures all by yourself. Not to mention the fact that you almost got killed by "that" Solomon. Really, that pride of yours will get you in worse conditions if you don't think about yourself more."

I glanced over at Lucifer. His wounds seemed better than yesterday. It seemed the ability to heal quickly for demons was true. I could even say, no scars will be left.

Lucifer sighed, he returned my gaze which made me instantly blush and pay attention back to the food. Looking at him, made me remember all that had taken place yesterday, which I was trying so hard not to think about since the moment I woke up from his bed this morning.

Lucifer chuckled and after smirking for a moment, became serious again.

"Let's not talk about me for now. Have any of you gotten anything relevant to how we can deal with our present situation. Satan?"

Mammon complained.

"Oi! Why ask specifically Satan? We also are here to help!"

Lucifer smirked.

"Oh... Well then, Mammon what do you have that's useful and I can validate as a good strategy to deal with the enemy?"

Mammon cold sweated at the sudden demand for a plan. I tried to cover up my giggle as I saw him try to look for some answer but couldn't arrive to one.

Levi,

"Huhuhuhuhum~ He clearly doesn't have a plan."

Satan laughed as well, and after everyone relaxed and Mammon's yelling dispelled, I grabbed their attention.

"Well... Satan and I may have something that could be considered somehow as a plan..."

Satan nodded while smiling.

"Mhn. I could even say it is a perfect plan, but to be honest there is no other one, so it's the only thing we can try for now."

After telling them of our plan, Lucifer cupped his chin as he took in everything and evaluate it. That is, if it was too risky, or worthy enough of success.

Asmodeus,

"I really don't feel good about this plan..."

Mammon retorted.

"Asmo, you are just scared to be eaten by any monster that lurks outside this house!"

Asmo,

"I have my reasons to be scared! Have you seen all the THINGS trying to get into the house?! There are some I've never seen before! Have you seen their teeth?! THEIR CLAWS?! What would happen to the beautiful me if one of those gets their grasp on me?!"

Belphie rolled his eyes.

"I think it's fine. We don't have any more options so..."

Levi said excited,

"I like it! Sounds like that game I played once; "A girl and a group of brothers trapped in a haunted house to defeat the evil that wants to rule the World and get everyone killed". It was such an awesome game. Huhuhuhuhum~ Oh! Are we going to end up running? I hope we don't get to run... I really HATE running..."

Beel continued to munch on his breakfast, nodding repeatedly in agreement with the others.

Lucifer continued.

"It seems we are settled. We need to prepare ourselves as soon as possible."

Throwing him a worried look I commented,

"But... your injuries haven't..."

He dismissed the idea.

"They'll be healed by tomorrow. No need to worry about such trivial things."

I though that his wounds were not trivial things, but I knew nothing would come out from trying to convince Lucifer of something.

We all continued to discuss and laugh about other things nonrelated to the chaos we were going against. All except one felt out from the group, because guilt and regret hunted him.

Solomon looked up once from his food glancing towards my joy filled self. A small smile slightly formed on his lips. He stared for about ten seconds before his smile disappeared and went back to stare at his already empty plate.

He felt like the plate... Empty...