Alfonzo shakes her head at David to warn him. David looks back at her, questioning her intentions. She reaches for David as he smiles back at her. David quickly spins his head towards Lucifer.
“Let’s do this. I want this.”
Alfonzo’s hand swiftly drops as a feeling of despair comes over her.
Chapter 57
“It was already written, broken soul, that you would return for a second time. You are too easily controlled by fate.”
The three ladies do not show themselves to Devan. He looks around to pinpoint their location.
“If you knew that I would be back, why not tell me the answer that I seek so this would not happen?”
“Because it is not up to us to write history. It is only up to us to make sure that it does happen.”
“Then answer my question. Who is this hybrid soul? What is their name? Where can I find them?”
“You should pick only one question to ask. Then ask only that question. Choose quickly before your time runs out.”
“Their name, what is their name?”
The ladies whisper in Devan’s ear as they stand behind him, “The one that you seek is named David Turner. David is the hybrid soul that will bring you to your knees crying begging for mercy. Now leave before your time runs out.”
Devan bows and leaves without looking back at the ladies.
He walks back through the portal knowing what he has to do next.
Chapter 58
“First the rules. First person to say no more loses. After that, the only thing that you are limited by is your imagination. That means if you can think of it you can do it.” Lucifer comes closer to David to stand toe to toe, “Fair enough?”
“My imagination, only my imagination…”
“Only your imagination.”
“Fair enough. When do we start?”
Lucifer smiles and punches David in the chest, knocking him back a couple of feet. David rubs his chest and gives Lucifer an okay you got me look. Lucifer smiles back at David and notice him charging at him. David welcomes Lucifer invite and runs full speed into Lucifer. A loud thud echoes throughout the great hall. David collides with Lucifer's body then hits the floor with all of the momentum that he used to hit Lucifer with.
“Now why didn’t you knock me over? Is it because I thought of myself as one of the hardest substances known to man? Maybe.”
Lucifer walks over to David and puts out a hand to help him up. David takes the hand and feels a little bit sheepish. Coming to his feet, David quickly realizes that this is a different kind of fight.
“Or maybe you’re not what I think that you are.”
“What do you think that I am?”
“I might be wrong, or I might be dead on. I think that you are one very rare individual, so rare that you could be a god or just a human posing as a god. In the end, it’s not what I think but what you believe. Your belief is what makes you; what molds you. It is the foundation of you. A mind is the most powerful weapon that an individual, an angel, or even a djinn can weld.”
Lucifer puts his hands on David’s shoulders, “I can show you the universe, but until you believe in yourself, I cannot help you.”
David nods his head.
“Lets start again shall we. This time I want you to hit me in my nose.”
Lucifer backs away from David as he makes both hands into a fist. Lucifer waves David on. Charging Lucifer with everything he’s got, David swings straight at Lucifer's chest. As Lucifer slides out of the way, he taps David on his nose. David immediately spins around to hit Lucifer again but this time in the head. Lucifer dodges and taps David’s nose again. This only makes David more frustrated. With every punch or kick that David throws, Lucifer dodges and continues to tap his nose.
“Quit treating me like a dog, damn it!”
“Stop thinking with your fist!”
“What the hell do you want me to do?” David waving his arms around like a flag thrashing in the wind.
“First, stop screaming at me. Second, I need you to quiet yourself before I can speak to you. Then I will help you to free your mind from your flesh.” Lucifer waits for David to calm down before proceeding to the next level.
“Are you ready to begin?”
“Yes,” David says after he takes a deep relaxing breath.
“I want you to let go of everything that has just happened in the last couple of minutes. Let go of frustration and hate that you were just feeling. I want you to picture anything in your mind and then tell me about it. Tell me what you see.”
David stands still as he lets his mind drift. After a couple of minutes, his hand twitches and makes a fist.
“When I was a little boy, it poured down rain so strong one afternoon that it looked as if God was trying to flood the world once more. On that day all I wanted was to go outside and play. My father told me no and then said good things come to these that wait. But I told him that I didn’t care. I didn’t want to wait. I told him that I wanted him to make it stop raining. He replied I am sorry David, but I cannot control the rain because I am not God or mother earth.”
A cloud begins to form over David’s head as he keeps his eyes shut. The cloud grows and gets darker as David continues to talk. Lucifer backs up and smiles, this is what Lucifer has been waiting for after thousands of years, waiting for someone to spar with. An individual with slumbering powers, lying dormant for centuries, hidden within a flesh body.
David’s eyes open and stare straight at Lucifer, “I control the weather now. I tell it what to do and how to do it.”
Stepping closer to Lucifer, David eyes glow gold with an angry look to his face.
“Come to daddy, hit me with everything you got, baby god.”
A thunderous cloud fills the room as flashes of lightning flicker across the sky. Stray strands of lightning bounce across the marble floor. Some of the strands pass inches from David’s face. The lightning only intensifies the evil look on David’s face.
Alfonzo is shocked at what lies hidden within David. In all of the training that David and her has done. Nothing of this magnitude has ever happened. She is in awe of the power that has awakened within David and is presenting itself to Lucifer.
“Bow down to your new god, djinn. Bow and surrender or your new god shall choose your punishment. Bow down to your new god standing before you,” David says as his power explodes throughout the room.
“Make me, O fallen, forgotten god of the past. I am nobody’s servant. I didn’t bow down to Adam when God commanded, and I will not bow down to you.”
Lucifer knows now the fight he has on his hands is the one that he has been waiting for.
David catches a bolt of lightning and holds it like a javelin. He takes aim at Lucifer's nose as he releases the bolt of lightning and grabs another with the opposite hand to repeat the process again. Lucifer dodges bolt after bolt. Each bolt gets closer every time David throws a new one at Lucifer’s head. With bolts of lightning flying around David and Lucifer, both find it hard not to be hit by a stray bolt.
David grabs two bolts out of the air. He uses one of the bolts as a bow and the other as an arrow. In a spilt second, he takes aim at Lucifer’s nose thinking about all of the times that he was tapped on the nose by Lucifer. A million possibilities race through David’s head as he closes his eyes. David lets his heart choose the direction of the arrow. As his hand releases the arrow, Lucifer pulses for a spilt second and gazes straight at the arrow of lightning pointed at him. The lightning hardens into a stronger, straighter arrow. David releases the arrow as Lucifer smiles back at David because they are only ten feet apart. The arrow that is meant for Lucifer glides through the air as if a string were drawing it along. Right before the arrow touches Lucifer’s nose, he disappears before David’s eyes. The arrow flies on to hit the wall leaving a burnt mark from floor to ceiling.
David stops to looks around to find where Lucifer disappeared to. The storm and lightning become still and David focuses on Lucifer’
s location. David’s breathing is the only sound in the room. A hand holding a coin appears in front of David’s face. The hand flips the coin around making it dance along its fingers. Then Lucifer’s voice speaks up out of the silence.
“This coin is unique. It is called the Coin of Sorrows, and it is a reminder of a time gone by. The Coin of Sorrows has an awful history that scares most people. There once was a set of women that were sailors’ wives that waited for their husbands to come home. They would sing in unison every night, hoping that their voices would carry out over the seas and bring their husbands back home. But their voices were not enough to bring their husbands home. I appeared one night to help change all of that. I offered a solution to their problem. I increased the volume of their voices a hundred fold. The only problem now was that each time they sung they would lure in any ship to their unforgiving shores. They only had one dock, and it was too small for all the large ships tricked by their song. Sharp rocks that shimmered at night covered the rest of the shore. Every ship that tried to land was lost, and no ship was that of their husbands. Their ships were lost long before they made the deal. Now each one of these women is damned to sing their song of sorrow whenever summoned by particular objects. I only made a couple coins, but nonetheless, they are a sight to be seen. Now let’s set the mood.”
With that remark, the room begins to change into a cave with stalagmites and stalactites all around.
“Is this just another one of your tricks, djinn?” David yells as he looks around for Lucifer, but he is nowhere to be found.
Off in the distance, a shadow appears out of the darkness. It begins to wave back and forth, inching closer to David. David looks around and sees more of these shadows starting to surround him.
Lucifer appears behind David and whisper in his ears, “Heads you hear the song forwards and tails you hear the song backwards. Either way you lose. Oh, and one last thing, their new name is the Sirens.”
Lucifer flips the coin into the air and waits for it to hit the ground. The sirens grow closer forming a circle around David. As the coin drops to the floor, the sirens are within fifteen feet of David. The coin lands on the floor of the cave and Lucifer shouts out.
“Heads!”
The Sirens start with a lower tone and quickly build into a deafening singing. David shields his ears and tries to concentrate on anything else. A fog forms throughout the cave. The sirens dance around and sing their song of sorrow. David’s body shakes due to the sound waves given off by the Sirens. His very bones shake with each note. David remembers what he was doing. A black cloud forms above David’s body and lightning flashing within it.
David screams, “Shut up!”
He makes himself a lighting rod to catch and direct all the lighting around himself then pushes it away from him and directs it straight at the Sirens. Each one of the Sirens is electrocuted and killed within seconds as the lightning consumes them.
Now, all is quite, and Lucifer is shocked by the outcome.
David collapses to the floor as he catches his breath.
Lucifer walks up to David, “Very good, my dear boy, but there is just one last test for you then you are free to go.”
“No, screw you, old man: I am done.”
David stands up and looks around for Alfonzo. But she is nowhere to be found.
“What did you do with her, Lucifer? I thought that you could never hurt one of your own?”
“She is safe, for now, but only if you can stop me!” Lucifer replies as he throws a cloak over David’s head as he runs by him.
Everything goes black, and David feels a cool wind at his feet. Whipping off the cloak, David finds himself transported to the base of Mayan temple with Lucifer and Alfonzo at the top. Lucifer stands behind an altar holding Alfonzo down with one hand and a knife in the other hand ready to sacrifice her. One hundred steps lay in front of David before he can reach Alfonzo.
Alfonzo is startled by her father’s actions and is frightened to what he may do next.
“David help me!”
David races up the steps with all of his strength. Each step becomes a struggle as his body wants to stop, but his heart and mind keeps going on. A flame begins to grow within his soul. All of the pain that he felt over the last couple of years quickly burns away as it fuels the fire within him. His body feels alive with each step taken. The flame becomes a raging fire that no man could ever put out. David leaps into the air and transforms into his demon armor with wings. Dark liquid, black diamond armor with golden blue demonic marking covers David’s body completely. He stands eight feet tall with wings spanning sixteen feet wide and in the size and shape of a young dragon’s. David’s hands and feet become ape-like with demonic razor sharp claws. His eyes glow crimson with hatred and love combined into one. Appearing instantly between Lucifer and Alfonzo, David lands on the altar and uses his clawed feet to dig into the altar. David puts himself within harms way. Grabbing Lucifer’s hand with the knife, he uses his other hand to grab Lucifer’s neck and slowly squeezes.
“Let. Her. Go.”
Lucifer sheaths the knife and backs up to let David come down off the altar. David drops down, standing between Lucifer and Alfonzo. Alfonzo slowly stands up and puts distance between her and her father unsure of what to expect next. David readies himself for anything.
“I now stand in front of a djinn that has been hidden for a very long time.”
Lucifer presents his arms to David for a big hug, “David, my boy, come to welcoming arms. You are one of the extremely few true Djinns left. You have nothing to fear from me anymore. The whole I’m going to hurt my only daughter was but a last attempt to bring out the djinn within your soul.”
Lucifer looks at his daughter.
“And I am truly sorry for that. I never wanted to do it, but I had to help David because you wanted it so badly.”
David looks back at Alfonzo to confirm that it is okay, and she gives a nod that it is. David transforms back into his human form and welcomes Lucifer’s hug. As David hugs Lucifer, he feels that Lucifer is hiding something from him.
“Are you forgetting something?” David asks.
“Like what?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well, I am. No more, I want no more.” Lucifer releases David, “Just this.”
Lucifer unsheathes the knife and cuts David across the chest. David staggers back against the altar and puts his hand to his chest to help stop the blood.
“Let this scar be the only scar that you ever receive from anyone ever again. Let this be a reminder to never let your guard down,” Lucifer says as Alfonzo rushes to David’s side.
David pulls his hand away to look at the blood and the bloody opening the knife created. He begins to laugh as he watches the knife wound healing rapidly. Looking up at Lucifer to see his reaction, David continues to laugh.
“What the hell are you? You’re not of the djinn race. Djinns cannot heal themselves like that.”
Lucifer backs away from David.
“I thought that you knew what I was. I thought that I could count on you, Lucifer the Almighty, to tell me what the hell I am, but now I am back to square one, again.”
David watches his blood absorb into his skin as he feels fearless and invincible now.
Chapter 59
Devan sits in his study knowing what he must do next but wonders how to accomplish it. Hundreds of thoughts race through his mind like a busy beehive.
“I must find out what I am up against. Only then I will know how to destroy it,” Devan talks to himself. He paces back and forth.
“I must test the waters and send out a welcoming party for the hybrid soul. But I cannot kill him too fast because then people will not have a hero to look up to that I can crush in the end.”
Stopping in mid step, Devan knows what to send after David. His indestructible little army that already welcomed many villages in the surrounding area to his stream of terror.
Chapter 60
“I am starve
d after a little fight or workout like that. I think we really need to relax after what just happened.”
Lucifer snaps his fingers and David, Alfonzo, and he is all transported to the dining room.
Alfonzo goes straight to her usual seat next to the head of the table. Lucifer strolls up to the seat at the head of the table and slides right into his spot. Alfonzo pats on the chair right next to her to signal to David to sit next to her. David looks to the seat next to Alfonzo and then the seat next to Lucifer that is across from Alfonzo. With that look, David sits next to Alfonzo, and thanks both Lucifer and Alfonzo for inviting him to dinner.
“What are we having?” David takes a sip of water from his goblet.
“You know, there is a funny thing, David, that you are overlooking at this moment.”
“What are you talking about?” David asks as he peers at Alfonzo, who is trying not to laugh.
“There’s ice water in hell! And you’re drinking it right now!” Lucifer almost falls out of his chair from laughing too hard. “I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist myself. It was just too funny. It’s always just too funny.”
Lucifer picks up a tiny bell off of the table and says, “Ladies and gentlemen, dinner is served.”
As the bell rings, the kitchen staff comes running carrying plates, silverware, and pitchers of water for the three to eat.
A feast fit for a king is placed in front of David. The selection of food overwhelms David, but his eyes see a piece of fruit he recognizes. David reaches for the fruit that he saw earlier in the kitchen. Next, he reaches for a rack of lamb cooked to perfection. Alfonzo digs right in, finally herself in her own home. Lucifer smiles at David as he eats seasoned steak, savoring every bite.
David stops eating to ask Lucifer a question.
“How long have you been in this castle?”
“Well,” Lucifer says with this mouth full with food and then his clears his throat to continue, “Ever since the Great War that God tried to cover up with the great flood of the earth. You know about Noah with his great ark and all. That was so long ago. There was lots of stuff going on back then. Stuff that would make your head spin or just explode, which I have actually saw. A cool and interesting sight I tell you. You can see lots of things if you stay down here long enough.”
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