Narrator’s pov
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“Good girl” Cytheria smirked “Now where are we?”
“This my friend, is my father’s legacy” Luna said, their eyes glanced towards the building
For they weren’t anywhere close to the city anymore, it was far worse than anything to experience. It was all empty, and had a booming red energy piercing and shocking every few seconds. Almost like red lightening striking the air and grown. An almost metallic black figures rose from the ground like fallen ships on battle, left there to prick the skin of those who past by
It reminded Cytheria of a desert that was covered in rolling hills. Wind stirred up the wispy sand but there was no sun, just darkness and red lightening teasing your mind. Yet it was still burning hot, Salty sweat rolled off their noses and stungs their eyes. Their clothing were overwhelmingly hot and sticky. The stiff, dry desert breeze blew sand into their eyes and made their hair stiff with salt.
Sand. A pyramid of sand, tall to reach half way to the sky. The pyramid lay in a great line like the spine of the land. It was as if long ago it were a great beast, only to lie down one day and never get up.
Perhaps the beast fell into an enchanted sleep, perhaps its soul was still in there. The range was high to the west and low to the east, curling at the end like a tail. To cross it, the clouds must go high and meet the colder air up there, then they dump their rain on it, every drop.
“Come along, I’ll protect you” Luna chuckled as she intertwined her fingers with the girl, tugging her in the direction of the pyramid
The dark opening of the sand structure was drenched with cobweb, Luna’s hand reached up above, aiming at the material and it immediately started a flame on the webs, melting it and disappearing so the two girls could step through
“I’m so confused” Cytheria mumbled, Luna took a deep breath in before walking into the pyramid
“My father, when he was sent to hell. It was bare, just sand. It was unclaimed and unmarked land, an infinity worth of it actually. He landed right in the center of it all, cold, bleeding and broken. His heart was still beating but it was emotionally left with the woman he loved most back in heaven. So he laid flat on the ground, the heat wanting to rip apart his skin, slowly melting and breaking through his flesh. He had given up on everything at that point. He just wanted his soul to be taken away by the wind as he slowly turned to dust” Luna said
Cytheria felt something deep within her heart, pulling at her veins and stinging her throat. Her dingers gripped Luna’s tighter as she stared at the girl with such pity
“I’m so sorry Luna”
“Don’t be, it’s not your fault or anything” Luna chuckled softly, but the blonde could tell there was some hint of sadness in her voice
“Lucifer’s alive… What happened here?” Cytheria asked
The room was still pitch black, Luna continued to walk forward as she held Cytheria’s hands until she came to a stop
Her feet stomped onto the ground, but nothing happened. Luna furrowed her brows and let go of her girlfriend’s hand, only to stomp even harder on the ground
This time, a spark went off. Beneath Luna’s foot, a line appeared out of nowhere, it was a line dug into the ground that was slowly filling with gold that shined bright as the sun.
The line started to run to each end of the floor, connecting to other lines and filling it with gold. Cytheria gasped as the line ran under her feet, passing fast like running water and joining another line
It only took a few seconds before the entire room was lit up by the floor like that also ran to the walls, slowly lighting a flint on each corner of the wall and lighting up the room.
It was only in that moment did Cytheria realize the imagine on the floor being connected by lines were shaped like an eye inside a triangle.
Chills ran through her spine and the hair on her skin raised, imagine seeing some shit like that in hell
“He had given up, he spent months just laying flat on the sand where he landed, allowing the burning sun to bruise and melt his flesh away. But everything changed when I was delivered”
“What do you mean?” Cytheria asked as she stepped onto the imagine on the floor, following behind Luna that walked to the center of the room
“Medusa, she came to him after a few days”
“Why?”
“Because she wanted to leave him with something. She didn’t want him to throw his life away although she’s the reason he was attempting to in the first place” Luna hissed
“So she brought you to him and left you there in the middle of the desert with a dying angel?”
“Basically”
“What a fucking BITCH!” Cytheria hissed
“Hey! Don’t call my mother a bitch! That’s too small, you have to use words like a caniving piece of utter angelic trash needs to be slaugthered and fed to the souls of the underworld!”
“That… Wh-why did that turn me on?” Cytheria giggled
“Dumbass” Luna chuckled
She stood in the center of the room, her hands reached down to her side and her veins started to glow white
And for the first time ever, her eyes flickered silver.
“Luna” Cytheria whispered
“Yes my love?”
“Your eyes… They’re… They’re silver” She mumbled
Luna furrowed her brows and halted her own powers, the glowing veins had stopped and she clenched her fist
“They are?” she asked
“Are you sure you know what you’re doing?”
“Yes, I’ve done it before. But that was before I knew I was half angel”
“Do you want to try again?” Cytheria asked
“I didn’t come here, melting my ass off for nothing” Luna chuckled
Her fist clenched and Cytheria stepped back, pressing her back against the wall to keep away from anything Luna might be doing.
Her veins started to run white, glowing almost brighter than before. Her green eyes slowly turned white and her palm pressed flat to the ground
A small tremble in the ground started Cytheria, the tremble shook only a few pieces of rocks but then it started to get more intense.
The ground beneath Luna started to vibrate, pumping dust and small rocks into the air as a humming sound started to get louder
“When my father laid eyes on me, something changed. Almost like the reason he wanted to continue on” Luna said, the shaking starting to come more violently
Cytheria’s heart raced in her chest, scared of the girl hurting herself but Luna knew what she was doing
“He had lost everything, his rank, his love and the trust of God themself. But one look at that small child next to him, covered in sand and drool running down her lips, bright eyes and a giggle that filled his ear, something changed within him. It was only then did my father grab me and pulled me into his chest. Suddenly, the sand under him rose to the air like a wall. He used his powers to shoot a wall of sand into the air, it built a pyramid to protect us from the sun, the heat and the built a shelter for us. It was his first creation on hell” Luna said
Cytheria’s eyes went wide and her mouth left dry, for she was standing in the first ever creation of the devil himself. Something he created to protect his daughter and himself, a shelter of love. His first will to stay alive.
What seemed like dirt started to rise from the ground below, the trembling caused a split in the floor below Luna, it started to crack at a fast pace.
The crack then revealed a brown podium, slowly making its way out the newly found hole in the ground
The trembling halted the second the podium finished emerging from the ground. Luna’s glowing white hands pressed flat against the dirt structure
“Come on” She smiled at her girlfriend
Cytheria hesitated but went over nethertheless, her eyes flickered down to the dirt structure and saw a dirt filled stone
“Since he had nothing but me, my father had to use everything he had to built something for us, even if it was his saliva” Luna said
Cytheria furrowed her brows then glanced down at the stone, her fingers brushed over the dirt and felt what seemed like holes in the flat stone that looked like a book
“What is this?” She asked
“Lucifer created it, it started as sand but magnified with heat and water to melt into a flat stone after being baked by the heat of hell. He used his own finger to carve every word into the tablet” Luna said
It was only then did Cytheria realize it wasn’t just a stone, it was an ancient tablet, one of the world oldest forms of literature
“He really did make everything here from dust, blood, sweat and tears” Luna mumbled, her green eyes glancing at her girlfriend
“He’s an honourable man Luna, you should be proud to be his child” Cytheria smiled, burying into her girlfriend’s sides
“Oh I’m proud, I really am” She chuckled
Her palm pressed over the tablet on the podium and the dirt immediately washed off of it, falling to the ground and making the words visible
“What language is this?”
“German, it’s associated with the ancient Greek” Luna said as she held the stone gently, afraid to break it
The tablet was where Lucifer placed all of his spells he’d practice, for he was weak but he used his powers to build everything within hell.
After that, he’d continue using the tablets to mark his spells and recipe. Some might say it was a recipe a witch would use but Lucifer was a man of different tablets, there was so much people didn’t know about him nor the powers he possessed
“You have to trust me” Luna said as she glanced at her girlfriend
Cytheria furrowed her brows and shifted her body to mirror Luna, their chest just inches away from each other and their green eyes locked
“I trust you” Cytheria said
“Then don’t be scared about what I’m going to tell you” Luna mumbled
Cytheria’s jaw immediately locked seal, her brows stitched together again as she intertwined both of her fingers with the girl
“You’re making me worried Luna, what is it?” she asked
Luna let out a deep sigh as she glanced down at the stone tablet, her eyes scanned over the words
“The spell on that tablet… It… It could make you immortal”