The Devil's Part Time Worker

Chapter 7

I followed Riah down to the main room. Then followed down a hall way into a small side room. The room was glowing red. It had a large circle in the middle of the floor. The walls were white, but appeared pink in the light. Besides a fireplace, it was bare.

"This is the warp pad. It'll speed up traveling to places. I don't feel like walking everywhere." Riah said stepping forward onto the pad. I looked around for Kaede or Dimichi. Neither was here with us.

"What about Kaede and Dimichi. Why aren't they warping with us?" I asked confused.

"Actually all of us except you know how to use warp magic. I have to use the warp pad, because I'm taking you along. Now enough talk let's go." Riah said grabbing my arm and pulling me onto the pad. I watched as Riah chanted a spell, and the pad grew an even darker red. My feet began to disintegrate into thin air. It followed up my body until I was completely gone.

When I opened my eyes, I was in front of an apartment building. The sounds of the city were in the background. Sirens, dogs barking, and the honking of angry drivers stuck in traffic. The street lights were just coming on. There was a dim light in one apartment.

"Is that our guy?" I asked Riah as she began walking toward the building. She turned to me and nodded.

"How do we get up there?" I asked looking up at the apartment on the third floor. I watched as wings sprouted from her back. Tearing holes in her school uniform in the process. She took one leap and her wings did the rest. She was on the balcony in just three flaps of her wings. I looked up in amazement. How am I going to do that?

"Um, how do I do that?" I yelled up to her. She retracted her wings and looked down at me.

"You have your own set. Try to open them!" She said sitting on the edge of the balcony.

"I'll try! Alright, I can do this." I try to sprout my wings by tightening my shoulder blades. I tried for thirty seconds, and nothing happened. I look at my back. Not even anything was poking from under my shirt.

"Just take the stairs." Said Riah now laying down. I cut my losses and went for the nearest stairwell. Riah knocked on the glass door and waited to be let in. When I arrived on the third floor I noticed something. I didn't know which apartment our client was in. I was able to know he had to be on the right.

As I walked through the hall, I waited for anything that might give it away. The apartments were dead silent. I heared an apartment door creak open. I looked in the direction it came from, and saw Riah. She waved at me. I walked over and entered the apartment.

The smell of incense hung heavy in the room. The room was dark, and the only source of light was candles lit around the room. A man in his forties sat in a chair in the living room nearby. Riah walked over and sat in one of the other seats. I took the other.

"Why have you summoned us?" Riah said crossing her legs. The man brushed his blonde hair out of his face, and began to light a cigarette. He took a puff before answering.

"I honestly wanted to see if this ritual actually worked, but since you're here now. Why don't you take that shirt of your's off?" He said looking at Riah's well rounded chest. I watched her slowly get up, and walked around the coffee table to his side.

"I could, but there wouldn't be much left of you to see it." She said raising her arm. He fell back in to the couch quivering in fear.

"No, no that's fine. Forget about the first one." He said trying to change the subject. Riah walked back over to her seat, and sat down. The man finally made up his mind and turned to us.

"Tell you what, I've already called you down here. Why don't you guys just have dinner with me and we'll call it a night?" He said sitting up. Riah looked over at me. I had completely forgot that I didn't get to eat at lunch. I was starving. I nodded in agreement.

"The boy would like that, but I ate before coming here." Riah said moving over to lean again a wall. The man got up and went to the kitchen. The sounds of cutting, clanging, and glass moving went on for awhile. Then ten minutes later, a plate was in front of me. The smell from the plate was amazing. The food looked even better. Shrimp and rice, steamed vegetables, and bacon wraps.

I took one tasting bite of each. Then just utterly destroyed the rest. The man laughed at me and offered a drink. I nodded with a full mouth.

"When you live alone you have to pick up cooking. I never guessed someone would enjoy it as much as you do." He said setting down a cup of tea.

"Thank you." I said between bites. After we finished our meal, Riah walked back over to her seat.

"As compensation for coming all the way out here and your sexual harassment, we would like to ask would you sign a pact? It means you have a constant way to summon us, and it helps us in the long run." Riah said laying a sheet of paper on the table. She formed a pen out of magic and laid it down. The man thought for awhile and grabbed the pen. As he wrote his name, the letters were written in flames. When he was done signing, the paper went up in flames.

"My table!" The man said reaching for the paper. Riah stopped him. The paper burnt to a crisp, and left no mark on the table. Riah looked up at the man.

"The pact has been sealed. We will be going." Riah said leading me to the balcony. The man waved goodbye as she shut the door.

"Wait Riah, you know I can't fly yet." I said as she stood up on the edge of the balcony. She nodded.

"Just try not to squirm to much. Don't look up my skirt either pervert." She said sprouting her wings. Before I could answer, she grabbed my shirt and jumped off the balcony.