𝚂 𝚞 𝚙 𝚎 𝚛 𝚗 𝚊 𝚝 𝚞 𝚛 𝚊 𝚕 • 𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚔 12

{13.2} 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚘𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 1

"Why would I kill you two? Oh, that's right. 'Cause I'm evil. Yeah, let me tell you a couple of things, all right? You don't get to defy God and beat the Cage without having a modicum of intelligence, all right?
A game plan, i.e., I don't want you two dead because I need you both alive. All right, look, yeah, in a perfect world, I would probably kill you, little miss witch and your plodding sons. But life isn't fair.
Your sons have my boy. So I'm gonna exchange you two for my son." Lucifer Says

"You can't possibly care about raising a child." Mary Says

"Oh, you have no idea what I care about." Lucifer Says

Suddenly, a fireball seemingly targets at them. It lands and explodes not so far from where Mary and Elena were. There's smoke everywhere and Lucifer stares at the point where the fireball landed.

"What the hell?, Elena! Mary?!" Lucifer Says

HELL

Drexel enters the room, disheartened. While Asmodeus sits on the throne.

"No trace of Lucifer." Drexel Says

"Indeed." Asmodeus Says

"We scoured all of Hell. Even checked the Cage, Nothing." Drexel Says

"At this point, we must focus on the son." Asmodeus Says

"There's no sign of him either, sir. Maybe a Sudden Infant Death?" Drexel Says

"He is not an infant. New to this world, yes, but he is full of timeless knowledge and unschooled power.
He lives. I know it. With Lucifer gone, I want him found and trained to rule. With me as his humble advisor, of course." Asmodeus Says

"Okay." He starts writing a note. "Find son, but continue to search for Lucifer." Because if we didn't, he'd be upset, and I—I can assure you, from personal experience, that an upset Lucifer has a, uh, short fuse." Drexel Says

Asmodeus clenches his fist and Drexel suddenly starts choking, he telekinetically brings the demon close to him grabbing him by the collar.

"Are you equating your paltry acquaintance with our lord to mine?" Asmodeus Asks

"Uh..." Drexel Says

"Mine, which is born from eons of service and sacrifice?" Drexel doesn't reply, he stops choking him. "I know the perils of Lucifer's disappointment." Asmodeus Says, Drexel indicates the scars on his' face.

"He—he did that?" Drexel Asks

"Long ago. Eager to please, I freed the shedim." Asmodeus Says

"You... Oh, I've heard stories about—" Drexel Says

"Oh, I'm sure you have. Hell's most savage. Things so dark, and base, God himself would not allow them into the light. But I, in my pride, believed that I could train them. Use them. But Lucifer feared them, as well he should, so he forbade it, locked them up again. He was..."disappointed" in me." Asmodeus Says

"Mm. Mm." Drexel Says

"The pain, the, uh, the total humiliation... it forged an eternal bond between us. I am his to command, as you are mine. Write that down." Asmodeus Says