WHO: Beelzebub, Abaddon and Nero (mentions of Ayperos, Metatron and V) then whoever else. WHAT: AWAKENING THE EVIL. WHEN: now. WHERE: their house. RATING: TBD.
Bel spent quite a long time talking with Metatron, a lot of that time was apologizing for what he had to ask of him. He knew letting Lilith go back to Lucifer would be like him allowing Abaddon to return to his brother’s service. The worst part, however, was that Lilith was Lucifer’s wife. She would not be returning as only a servant, but as his Queen, his wife and as anyone knew that meant she would have to be his wife not just act it.
It was an unfair thing to ask but it was also a necessary distraction and evil. Lucifer’s anger would be thwarted long enough to get things into motion. Even having the night to prepare, to get the girl to safety and awaken Nero…..that was what they needed as it looked, she was doing exactly that. But he knew it was hard on Metatron and the two had bonded as of late so there was a guilty feeling there. Bel swore no matter what he would help him get her back from whatever happened.
There was also sending his daughter away to her brother. While Metatron knew that it was necessary there was always that feeling of giving his child to a demon. Worse, her brother who had no real reason to care about her wellbeing other than his desire to use her power. But, given the current situation and their deal? Bel knew Ayperos, he knew that he was ambitious. Using her was enough cause to keep her safe. Besides, there was the promise of use of Nero and well once awakened Nero would be a powerful force. That was likely enough an incentive as well.
Once they finished speaking, Bel left Ronny to go help V pack and he went to his sons room. Nero hadn’t gotten home yet but he was left standing there regardless. Bel wasn’t an overly sentimental person, he just wasn’t. It wasn’t in his DNA. God had created him as a fearless creature of destruction. He was created to kill and destroy. When his father brought Levi and Lucifer into the picture, he’d bonded with Lucifer, the two having become close. It was strange to think that he was facing the brother he once stood beside at every battle. He couldn’t remember a time that he hadn’t been there with Lucifer. Throughout all the era, even after the fall, they had remained close.
Then Nero came and everything changed. As much as Bel wanted to give his brother what he wanted, he couldn’t. It wasn’t about his own redemption anymore. It wasn’t about God or Heaven, it was about Nero. He wasn’t handing over his son to anyone. He didn’t care if he died in the process. If that was his fate then that was his fate. He would accept it to ensure that Nero wasn’t used by anyone but instead would become his own powerful being. He was the Antichrist, but he was also Bel’s only child and he would be damned if his child served anyone.
He heard movement and stepped from Nero’s room only to pause in his tracks seeing Ronny on the stairs having stopped as well. Nero had come home, and V met him in the hallway. The two were locked in an emotional kiss and while he could see mixed emotions on Metatron’s face, even he knew the moment enough to not say a word. When they parted, V’s tears were already falling as she wrapped her arms around Nero. Slowly her lips moved to his ear and she whispered to him before she released him and walked passed him to meet the man that now stood in the downstairs hallway. Her brother.
What had she said? She reminded him of his promise and swore she would let him seduce her no matter WHERE he found her. School, the park, Ayperos’ home…wherever. He could have her if he just came back to her and didn’t let the evil part take over and hate her.
Bel looked at his son with a sigh and held out his hand, allowing his son to take the joint. Oh, he knew about it! He knew his son. “Smoke fast, your mother is on her way here with what we needed and we only have so much time to do it….and you’re going to need it.” He said looking over his son before pulling out his lighter to let him have it. While Nero offered him some, he shook his head, instead lighting a regular cigarette and drawing deep before releasing the smoke. “I’m only agreeing to this….to her going and to you being marked, to awakening you because I have to. Understand Nero, we’re out of time. No more running, no more hiding, no more pretending things aren’t as they are.”
He didn’t want to run?
Bel nodded and sighed. “Once we mark you, I’m going to have to cut you and begin the chant. It will draw that side of you out and Nero you need to listen because it will likely be much like your dream, but this will be VERY real.” What did he mean?
Bel moved to sit before Nero on a chair, his gaze moving over his sons. “What you saw in that ‘dream’ state I gave you was a half-truth. That could happen.” No? “It could.” He said in a soft voice. That is, you but it also isn’t. You speak of that power, that darkness within you as another you as if you’re another person, everyone does but in truth it’s not. That is, YOU Nero. That is what you were born to be. That darkness, that void….that’s who you are. Demons don’t love, demons don’t feel, and demons don’t care.”
Shaking his head he sighed, “that being said, you were right when you said you are human. That you were born human. This humanity in you Nero isn’t just humanity. I’m an angel. A fallen one, but so is your mother. We have divinity in us. That divinity in you makes you capable of being in control of that darkness. Not as a master and slave but joining the sides together and owning your darkness. Look at me son. You’ve seen my true form. The blood, the armor and the gore, and look at me before you. Do you see any true difference? No. I am the same man, I just wear the armor when I have to. You must wear your armor when you have to and embrace the rest of you as just you. Darkness doesn’t need to be feared son, it needs owned.”
What if he couldn’t? “Well…then what you saw, at least of yourself will shine through and your ‘good’ side will be caged inside of you, as I caged it. But that’s why I’m calling you and your darker side…sides. Because if you can reach deep son and pull yourself together, OWN your darkness and your light….you will be a power not even Ayperos and Lucifer combined could touch. But that is your will. You have to want to survive it. You have to choose to take control of the darkness and pull yourself together. I can’t do that for you.”
Finishing his cigarette, Bel sat with Nero until it was time. Once Abaddon arrived, he sliced himself and went to work on the symbols around the room with Abaddon. When they were ready, he moved with Nero and his wife to the center and laid Nero down. As with before, instead of the ‘father’ Nero knew, Bel took his true form, staring down at his son with his black eyes and yet despite the armor and darkness, he showed Nero the truth. Bel was in control. He was him, no matter what face he had, or ‘side’ he showed. He was his darkness, and his darkness was him.
“Ready?” Seeing Nero agree, Bel closed his eyes briefly before looking at his wife. “Do it, quickly.” He said as he grabbed Nero and held him down, allowing his son to tear into him as she branded him with the marking of what he was. Quickly then, before it was too late, Bel sliced his hand along with Nero’s and his wife’s and used their combined blood to draw the symbols on his skin, the soft chanting coming as he forced Nero to come face to face with himself.
“The fight is in his hands now,” he said as he sat back and looked at his wife, true fear on his face. “He had to win. If he doesn’t….all of this…I can’t save him from it.”