CHAPTER 16 : The Cursing Ritual
Italics = Past events
Trigger warning: Mild violence
"Wh-who are you?" Florina asked but her voice was so tiny that it came out as a few mumbles.
The devil however knew what she said and gave her a wide smirk making his gigantic face expand and his facial muscles stretch to lengths beyond normal.
"Didn't you hear me you imbecile Human?" he bellowed making the ground beneath the witch shake "I am your Overlord. That is how you are going to address me, am I clear?"
Florina wished she could stop her shaking body but she couldn't. In fact, the more she looked upon the gigantic face that held six horns on top of it, she felt her whole being shiver even more with fear. She tried to close her eyes but once again, she just couldn't. Her limbs were stiff as well as if they were glued to the ground by an invisible force.
The witch felt the pain of her broken limbs radiate through her entire body and she shed a few silent tears. She was being forced to face the gigantic creature without given the leisure to even blink no matter how hard she tried.
"Don't you know it is an offense to close your eyes when your Overlord is addressing you Human?!" Lucifer growled "Did your fairy teach you nothing? What a shame..."
The Devil's gigantic blood red eyes laid on the ghost, who was too terrified and frozen in place. Lucifer gave him his nasty enormous smirk "Well well well, what do we have here?"
He got closer to him with just one step towering massively on top of him, making the ghost appear extremely minute and puny in comparison.
"Still trying to be the undercover hero are we? Trying to act like I don't know what you do behind my back? Well... If you would like to stay and continue to be the hero, there is no one stopping you –"
"No, he won't!" Florina yelled finding her voice for the first time. She turned her head to Davies, her whole body still pinned to the ground "Please Davies. Please just go. I don't want you to go to hell because of me, please."
"But," Davies whispered "I-I promised Rose I won't leave you. I –"
"You got five seconds ghost or it will be a long straight way to one of my finest hotels," Lucifer smirked at him "The one your brother is currently rotting at. Five... four... three..."
"DAVIES!" Florina screamed at the ghost who was still making up his mind. Before Lucifer could finish his countdown, the ghost was up in the air. The devil stopped his countdown and turned to the witch his nasty smirk still plastered on his face.
"You are valueless. You don't mean anything to anyone and there is the proof," he pointed at the ghost who was still hovering in the air.
Davies gave the witch one final apologetic look and soared through the night sky without looking back. When he was gone, Lucifer looked down at Florina.
"Let us begin, shall we? Your Overlord is standing in front you human to give you the thirteen commandments. These commandments are the curse's rules and your duties to the Overlord. Are you going to accept your fate and willingly oblige or are you going to resist?"
Florina swallowed hard but tried her best to remain confident. She turned to him and shook her head, "I have no business taking orders from you Devil."
Lucifer nodded, smirking and turned to his two demons that were waiting patiently on either side of him. He nodded once to them. They instantly knew what they were supposed to do.
Without a warning, they both stood on either side of her and forcefully pulled her to her feet. Since both her legs were broken, her entire weight couldn't be held by the weaken limbs and she fell to the ground.
The demons laughed at her and did it to her again and again until there was no limbs to stand on. They were shattered beyond belief and every time they force her to stand on her legs, a new fresh pain radiates through her entire body.
She didn't want them to see her pain and tried her best to not show it. However, she was still human and that came with its limitations. After the third time, she screamed out in pain when a new bone was broken.
Florina didn't understand why was he doing all that, what was he trying to achieve from bringing extreme pain upon her? But she didn't want to give him the satisfaction of victory. She didn't want to seem weak and helpless in front of him.
"Not again," Florina thought as they forced her to stand again "I am not going to appear weak again, not after what happened to Patrick. He died because I was weak. I couldn't save him from my cowardice BUT NOT AGAIN!"
The witch stopped counting the number of times they forced her to stand on her weaken limbs. She didn't lower her head once through this entire encounter. There was nothing to be ashamed of so she kept looking straight into the devil's eyes. What she couldn't control however was her continuous wincing of pain.
She watched him smirk every time she screamed out from the unimaginable pain that radiated through her entire weakened body.
After what seemed like an eternity, Lucifer held his gigantic hand to them and they stopped immediately, her frail body falling to the ground once more with a giant thud.
He smirked, "Look at that boys, she is already giving up. I didn't know it was going to be that easy –"
"Never!" Florina yelled.
"What did you say?" Lucifer growled but didn't seem to be angry by what she said, rather... excited.
"It will take you more than breaking my legs to make me surrender to you devil," she said determination and hatred shimmering in her eyes.
"Ooh...how I hoped you would say that?" he smirked "How foolish and ignorant can the human race get?" He was addressing his demons and both of them laughed, the intensity of their combined laughter shaking the trees nearby.
"What are waiting for boys? She asked for it so let's give it to her," he slammed his foot on the ground and out came a silhouette of the back side of a human. Only they didn't look like any normal human.
In fact, their skin was grey and had a few tufts of hair on their bald head. They weren't wearing any clothes, making their back side completely nude and visible to the witch.
It was a corpse of a dead person. The witch tried to close her eyes but once again she couldn't. Lucifer smirked at that and slammed a gigantic hand on top of the corpse's head, smashing it. He turned the corpse to her.
Florina gasped screaming. At that moment, she wished she could stab her eyes shut to not see what was in front of her. "Pa-Patrick?" she whispered, her eyes swimming with tears.
But what stood in front of her wasn't her fiancée, it was just his corpse with his head smashed in, making his features barely recognizable. He was standing completely nude and slowly coming closer towards her.
She screamed and screamed and screamed but no one heard her. No one was coming to save her. No one was going to bury the zombie like corpse that emerged from the ground.
"This... this cannot be! What even is this?!" she yelled as the corpse inched closer to her, the smell of rotting flesh filling her nostrils and making her gag.
When the rotted corpse stood in front, it spoke in a hollow voice, "Miss me Love?"
She couldn't close her eyes and she couldn't look away from the corpse that had a nasty grin on its worm infested face. Hundreds of worms crawled out of the corpse's hollow eyes, ears and mouth.
Florina didn't respond, only silent tears fell down her cheeks. Lucifer stood behind the corpse controlling its every move. His smirk intensified when he felt the absolute horror coming from the witch.
He said again, "Have you given up yet human?"
The witch didn't want to give him the satisfaction of breaking her just yet. She slowly faced him absolute hatred itched on her face. She distributed her gaze between him and the rotting corpse in front of her.
Lucifer got his answer from Florina's daggers directed towards him.
The remaining ritual was DELETED BY ME, read A/N below to know why!
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She didn't know how long it took but the abuse was finally over leaving her entire body bruised and every inch of it bloody and aching from pain. It seemed to be an eternity when Lucifer began his torture. He changed her completely.
Every punishing and cruel thing he forced her to do chipped away from her innocence and left her a hollow shell with no feelings or emotions. Just anger and rage. She secretly wished she could bring down the same pain and misery on Lucifer but would he feel it?
He is the Devil after all.
She couldn't breathe, it felt as if someone was choking her. Her heart was racing and all she wanted to do was curl up into a ball and wait for someone to save her.
But no one would, no one was there.
Her fairy wasn't coming for her rescue either.
A choked cry for help forced itself up her throat, and she felt a stream running down her cheeks. It seemed as if this was the end of the road for her.
Lucifer asked her one final time confident of the witch's answer, "Have you given up yet human?"
Florina slowly turned to him, the cold air collided with her bare skin, making her shiver violently. She looked up at him and nodded. Lucifer nodded as well and her fiancée's corpse returned back to the ground... where it finally belonged.
Both Lucifer's demons laughed, rustling the nearby trees. "Was that so hard?" Lucifer taunted and snapped his fingers, causing a booming sound as his fingers collided with each other.
A long parchment appeared in front of the gigantic face as it hovered below his flaring nostrils.
He made it hover to Florina, who was still on the ground alternating between crying and shivering. "Read it carefully cursed human and once you are done, burn it to dust. No human should set eyes on that parchment, do I make myself clear?"
Florina nodded as she hugged her shoulders to protect her bare skin from the freezing cold. Once Florina was done reading what was on the parchment, she searched for her wand but couldn't find it.
Lucifer noticed that too and his smirk turned to a frown of anger. "Is there something wrong human? Come on... I want you to burn that parchment right now!"
"I-I am sorry my Overlord," Florina croaked "I-I-I will make sure it is-is burnt...I-I-promise no human will set their eyes on it... but ple-please do-don't hurt me again."
The Devil's laugh boomed across the forest, shaking the entire universe around them with it, making the witch protect her ears. "Now that!" he growled "That was what I was looking for! This fear RIGHT THERE! Oh, it feels good to be back again, descending misery on you puny humans."
He slammed his hand on top of her head, the weight of his colossal hand pushed her head to the ground painfully. The Devil took out a giant syringe and injected Florina's bare abdomen with it. It was a dirty black thick fluid. She screamed out of pain when it came into contact with her organs, was this the final act of pain?
Lucifer and his demon laughed for the final time, thriving off the witch's agonized scream. Once he was done, he violently pulled the syringe away, making some of the black fluid ooze out.
"Now witch," he growled. "Reborn as a member of the dark side. Reborn as the Overlord's servant."
A/N: Must read!
So in the deleted part, I was going to continue the cursing ritual and show what Lucifer will do next. I wanted to show how horrible and cruel the ritual was. But since my story is rated "for everyone" and not mature, I deleted the rest of it to not infringe Wattpad's guidelines for non-mature rated stories.
Brief:
So to please everyone, I will summarize the deleted part without revealing anything explicit for my younger readers.
At first, Lucifer tortured Florina (by doing things that Pomfrey said happened in the fifth chapter if anyone remembers) for a long time but she was very resilient.
When that didn't work, he began to physiologically drain her to the point where she agreed to do everything he asks from her. That's why we see her afraid of Lucifer and ready to do his bidding.
If any of my older readers saw the first episode of Season Seven from the walking dead, you will know what I am talking about. Negan's methods of physiological torture is very similar to Lucifer, dare I say even more.
I am sorry for not revealing anything else, I hope you understand why I did it though.
Anyways, have a great day and see you in the next one!
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