Ch.2

It took Percy three days to return from his trip. In that time Luke had disappeared. I searched his room and found the map to the pearls of Persephone and the underworld he'd prepared for Percy and his journey.

Deciding I could use an outing and some danger, I left Sally Jackson there next to the tree just beyond the boundary. Chiron saw me heading out and caught up. "Where are you going?"

I shrugged. "Wherever I please. I'm feeling the need to stretch my legs. I'll be back in a month or two depending on the amount of monsters I run into."

He frowned but nodded. "Any place in particular?"

I shrugged. "I might find Pan or maybe head to Calypso's island for a bit. I'm not particularly in a hurry to find out."

He gave me a stunned look and I shrugged. "I've been in camp for a long time now and I figured it's time I go see this world."

He sighed. "Care to take anyone with you?"

I shook my head. "Not interested. Hey look, Percy's back, go question him."

It was the perfect timing as well. As soon as Chiron looked away I shadow walked and headed outside the camp. Finally I was free of that place. The first thing I did was grab Luke's cash stash so I was fine with a couple hundred human dollars and a handful of gold drachmas.

I caught a bus to the New Jersey where Aunty Em's Garden Gnome Emporium is. A forty minute bus ride later and I was standing in front of the gnome garden of all Medusa's toys.i closed my eyes and headed inside, using my other senses and the shadows to 'see'.

When I heard her speaking nearby, finishing off the poor woman she was turning to stone, I headed for her. The moment she smelled me, she came running. "I haven't smelled such a strong scent of demigod in a very long time. Not even Perseus, a son of Poseidon had such a strong scent. Which god is your parent demigod?"

I grabbed the handle of my sword saying. "Nyx is my mother."

She murmured. "A primordial Demigod, how rare-"

With a flourish, I drew my blade and ended her speech. I wrapped her head up in the dress she wore before and sighed as I put it in my inner world. "Such a nice body. If it wasn't so deadly to meet your gaze, I might've been tempted. Oh well, too late now."

I took the pearl she had on her wrist band and headed to the water fountain before taking all the drachma in it. It wasn't rich by any measure now, only a couple dozen more drachma.

I took the ladies purse that had been turned to stone and grabbed her cash before hot wiring the truck out front she's clearly come in with her husband. I turned on the radio and drove to Tennessee where the Parthenon replica was.

It took two days as I wasn't in any rush now. When I got there, I saw the janitors were still the hydra and realized they must be guarding the pearl as it's easy prey for them when a demigod comes to claim it.

I grinned and pulled out some paralysis poison and coated my blade in it. With a few cuts from their shadows, they were out. I shadow traveled to the top of the statue from behind before snatching the pearl and coming back out of the shadows of a pillar below.

With the pearl safely tucked away I told them. You can stop faking it now, I know the poison only takes seconds for monsters to overcome."

They weren't to happy about that but they reformed obediently and I drew both my blades grinning. Once the hydra was in it's full form, I chucked and dodged the flames and poison they spewed. I hacked off four heads while dodging the fire breathing one and making it burn the other's stumps.

It was rather entertaining in the 'oh god I might just die of laughter before it eats me' sort of way. With only the fire breathing head left, I tricked it into breathing at the base of the statue of Athena while I hid behind her ankles.

When it got close enough, I made a shadow hand and slammed it into the statue, tipping it over into the beast and crushing it. As the body turned to dust, I walked over to it's one remains head that stayed and dipped one of my dagger blades into it's blood.

With my task complete, I left the Parthenon and continued on my way to Nevada. Along the way I was stopped by a cop car while I was speeding. When said officer came to the window, she turned into an Empusa.

Cursing my luck, I stabbed her through the throat before using the mist on the truck's license plate and driving away at a very fast speed. I made it to Nevada only stopping for gas and running into a few Laestrygonians at the last one.

Dusting them, I made it to the Lotus motel and casino a couple hours later. As soon as I walked in, I was offered credit to spend against the house. Smirking, I took it. "Thanks."

The waitress offered a lotus flower and I took it while putting it inside my inner world and pretending to be inebriated. I had a blast for about a week, merely putting each of the lotuses inside my inner world. All along the way I'd occasionally feel out and take Demigods with my shadows.

They were deposited in my inner world until there was only the humans left along with the two children of Hades. I snatched the last of the pearls of Persephone before vanishing into the shadows as well.

I appeared in the Maserati on display. I quickly took the key and started it, startling the lotus eaters as I drove out at a speed they couldn't keep up with and crashing through the glass front doors. I drove for LA next while flooring it. Smiling I checked the glove compartment and saw the tags and pink slip inside.

I turned on the radio and listened to some ACDC's highway to hell. When I got to the Hollywood sign it was night so I put the car in my inner world after covering it in shadows. I read the sign and activated the entrance to hell. Smiling I went in and saw Charon waiting on his boat by the shore.

He looked to me before saying. "You are not the dead or dying. You should leave."

I chuckled. "I know, but then, where's the fun in that? Relax and take me to Thanatos."

I handed him two drachma and he replied. "Don't day I didn't warn you, death is not kind to any. Get on."

I smiled and got on while he pushed away from the shore and we began our trip. I listened to the screams of the dead as they burned. Humming I asked him. "Pleasant isn't it? Those who abused their chances and are burning for it."

He gave me a weird look before replying. "You've clearly seems worse fates."

I chuckled. "That I have, that I have. So, what's it like when you go on vacation? I take it there's a beach somewhere with your name on it? Or are you more of a mountain climber? Maybe a nature tour?"

My questions only confused him more and more. "What is a vacation?"

Sighing I told him. "When you take a break for a slightly extended time from work to just relax. Catch some sun or simply enjoy the world around you. Every god does it from what I understand. Hell, Hades himself gets out or he wouldn't have demigod children. They do let you take a break right? I mean, you've gotta be the most important worker next to Thanatos and Hades himself in the entire pantheon."

My words confounded him as he'd never heard of it or gotten a chance. Snorting I showed him an image of a vacation with some mist manipulation and shadows. When he saw what I meant, I could see the longing in his eyes.

Sighing I told him. "I'd demand a raise if you've been working for so long without a vacation and take one for the experience any way. No one would blame you, that's for damn sure."

He nodded as he pulled the boat up to a platform saying. "This is as far as I go."

I hopped off and handed him a few more drachma. "Keep the boat ready. I shouldn't be long. Next I'll be heading to Hades's palace."

He bowed lightly and all I could thing was. (Damn, poor guy is supposed to be one of the scariest mofo's in all of Greek history and theoretically super powerful and yet he's so humble.)

I went inside the bone palace and saw a black cloaked figure with huge wings on a throne of bones. I waved a hand. "Hey big brother, I stopped by to introduce myself. We share the same mom, FYI."

The god before me grunted. "What is it you want with death?"

I chuckled. "Lighten up. I'm only here to say hi and to let you know mom sends her love. I'm sure you speak to her more often though."

The figure shook it's cloaked head. "Nyx doesn't speak with any of the gods. She and Erebus do not speak to us. They haven't since the Great War."

I sighed sadly. "I'm sorry then brother. Other than a vague memory of what she said at my birth, I haven't heard from her either. I was hoping you had."

He shook head and lifted the hood. His white hair matched my own but he looked to have Erebus's features. "You're welcome to stay as long as you like within my castle here. Hypnos rarely visits every few millennia often you'd like to greet him as well."

I shook my head. "I'll pass. If I see him above or run across him I'll tell him you said hi and that he should visit you more often. You shouldn't be alone for so long. Heck, if I can, I'll stop by again before I leave the underworld."

He nodded emotionlessly. "Do as you wish. Here, a gift from one brother to another."

A small scythe appeared and floated to me. As soon as I gripped it I felt the connection it had with him as it grew in my hand into a full sized scythe. Smiling I willed it into a smaller size before hooking it to my necklace Nyx gave me.

I thought for a moment before walking to him. "Thank you brother, here, let me give you something that is even more unique."

I touched his cheek and channeled some of my law of death into him. It was how I strengthened my shadow abilities over the years. He looked confused and almost shocked or as shocked as he could be as the death energy around him gathered and his wings glowed.

I could tell it seriously strengthened him a great deal. When I released him I said. "Don't tell anyone please brother. I did it for you because of the love you shared, albeit coldly because of your nature."

He nodded. "You've my word brother. I swear on the River Styx I'll not divulge your secret."

Smiling I told him. "That's good then. I should be going now. Perhaps you could visit me in camp sometime to say hi. I've been rather bored only talking to a tree for five years."

He nodded as his hood lifted back up without him touching it. Chuckling I headed back outside where Charon was waiting. I handed him a few more drachmas saying. "Thanks for waiting. If you find yourself bored of being alone, could you do me a favor and stop by Thanatos's palace and say hi on occasion for me? He's my brother and while I don't care for the Olympian's, I still feel a connection to him."

Charon nodded. "Perhaps after this vacation you spoke of. I wish to try it."

Smiling I nodded. "Remember to get a raise as well. I'm not sure what gods pay other gods for services, but you deserve more than a few drachma for your work. I can't imagine Hades coming off his throne to do what you do."

When we pulled up to the castle in the center of the underworld, Charon got off the boat with me. Smiling, I told him. "Good luck, and remember, be assertive. You've done your job long enough to deserve a break and some rest for a few weeks at least. Heck, with the way time flows down here, they probably wouldn't even know you were gone for that long, so don't back down for anything less than a vacation and a raise."

He nodded and I headed inside while he disappeared to talk to Hades in person. When I came inside, two hell hounds came out of the shadows and growled at me. I sneered before growling back at them and exuding killing intent no mortal should have.

They backed down immediately and rolled into their stomach's whimpering. I chuckled and patted their stomachs while a woman appeared from the main hall. "That's quite a trick you've got there. I don't know how you did it but I can feel- why do I feel power like that from you? Are you a minor god?"

I shook my head. "Not even close. I'm just a Demigod. I came to see what passes for a goddess of nature. It seems I've found the reason for my visit Lady Persephone."

She smiled as I released the dogs and put away my killing intent. "So you've come for me have you? It's so rare that I have a visitor."

I shrugged and she pulled me into a back chamber where she pushed me to a bed. Frowning I sighed and thought all nature gods must be the same. When she hiked up her dress and made my clothes vanish, I was a bit surprised at how forward she was.

Without hesitating she impales herself on my length and started to ride me while gasping. Snorting I grabbed her thighs and rolled her over before entering her from behind while I bit down on her neck. She gasped and quivered around me while I sped up.

My hands roamed her body from her breasts down to the light gift of hair between her thighs that was getting ever more wet. I thrummed and rubbed her clit with one hand while the other rolled her left nipple between my fingers.

For a goddess she must not get a lot of pleasure because she reached three climaxes before I'd barely started. She was certainly getting more aggressive though as she practically bounced against me while I filled her.

When I finally felt myself reaching for my own climax, I released my mouth from her bleeding neck as light trickles of ichor, gods blood, trailed down. I gripped her hips and pounded into her vigorously before grunting and whispering the wive I'd envisioned being with at the time. "Faith"

I felt her grip me as I poured more and more of my seed into her sheath and she hit another orgasm. When I finally pulled out of her, she moaned. "That was certainly satisfying. I'd almost be willing to bare a child from it if Hades wouldn't hunt you and it down to the ends of the earth, the hypocrite."

I shrugged. "He's male, it's not in most of us to share no matter how many females we have. If I'd been actually interested in you, I might take the time to kick his ass to take you away."

She sighed. "I'm sure you'd try at least. So, whose Faith?"

I chuckled. "No one I'll be telling you about. But if you'd like to go again I'll be happy to oblige. I've more names of my own to think about after all."

She smiled and slid back on top of me, a bit of my seed spilled from her puffy stuffed lips as she went for another ride. Luckily Hades was busy with his own things elsewhere.

-Elsewhere-

Hades was having a bad week, hell, a bad century. First he had to make that damn pact with Zeus and Poseidon and then hide his already living children in with those damned lotus eaters. Then came the lightning bolt theft and his own helmet of darkness was missing! Zeus may have been up in arms before but at least he got his own symbol of power back!

And from a child of Poseidon no less! Both of them had broken the damned pact and that pissed him off to no end! Now while he was busy secretly trying to find the owner of his helmet of darkness, Charon came asking for a raise and a vacation of his own!

Hades didn't have time for his own vacation let alone for someone else to be taking time off! Hell, he hadn't been top side since he'd stashed his kids away. It really wasn't the right time for this but Charon was being persistent and if he pissed off this ferryman odds are Hades would stop running as smoothly as it is now.

He simply couldn't afford that and yet he also couldn't afford an immediate vacation for one of his necessary workers. Grumbling to himself he was forced to sit in his desk chair and work out an agreement with the man for two whole weeks!

Hell, it'd have been easier just to simply give the man those two weeks as his vacation! Frustrated and annoyed he sure hoped Persephone was in the mood to give him a massage before he caught fire a roasted some unfortunate souls.

When he found her in their bedroom, she was moaning and finding her own climax without him! Growling in annoyance he removed his clothes and joined her before her mood could change.

-Back to the MC-

I stretched and got out of bed feeling refreshed. Persephone had made sure I needn't eat or sleep while I was in her bed but damn could I use a burger about now. I watched her head bob below and sighed as I gave her what she so eagerly wanted.

When she drained me for the last time I told her. "My clothes darlin, it's time I said goodbye."

She sighed and waved a hand as I was dressed again in what I came in with. I felt the necklace and scythe hooked to it before smiling. "It's time for me to go now. Care to give me a show as I leave?"

She smiled and leaned back into the pillows while her hands grabbed her breast and played with her clit. I reached out with my shadows and had them enter her as whole and solid as I had and she moaned and bucked.

They'd last until I was far enough away so it was fine. She made a bowl of pearls appear before me saying. "Take them and visit any time. You've certainly earned them."

I smirked and made the bowl disappear after taking one and speeding up my shadows causing her head to lean back into the pillows and thrash about. I crushed one with a stomp and thought of my brother's palace. Just as I was disappearing I felt Hades coming to the room.

Chuckling I left amused now. I arrived in Thanatos's castle throne room. He was there of course, though his essence was spread thin as it was reaping souls elsewhere all over the world. I waved a hand. "Told you I'd come back if I could."

He glanced my way before replying. "You've been one Persephone's bed this entire time."

It wasn't an accusation or a question, but a simple statement of fact coldly said with an emotionless voice. I shrugged. "I originally wanted to see what passed for a goddess of nature without searching out for Demeter. She found it more interesting to see how I fared in bed. Either way, does it matter?"

He shook his head. "Just don't let Hades know and you won't be visited by me before your time is up. He tends to get jealous and curse those she's been with."

I shrugged. "I don't particularly care or even fear him. He's just a god after all."

My words had him tilting his head before turning back to his own concentration of work. I walked over to his throne and shadowed my way to the arm of it several dozen feet in the air. When I sat on the arm of it he turned to me once more and I shrugged. "If you're offended just say so. There's not a lot of places here to sit."

He turned away once more and I saw his gaze look outwards. "Hypnos is coming. I sent word to him when you said you might stop by again."

A blinding flash of light later and the god of sleep was there. With a single look at his tired demeanor, I felt sleep coming to me as well. I fortified my mind and shrugged off the effects before waving a hand. "Hey brother!"

That jolted him awake for a second before he looked from me to Thanatos before saying. "So it's true, mother cheated on father."

I shrugged. "Not without consent. They made a deal with another being and in exchange mother gave birth to me. The other being couldn't touch down in this reality but he did insist on possessing the guy long enough to well, you get the picture."

Both gods stilled as such knowledge was wiped from their minds as I heard Lucifer saying in my own. "You shouldn't give away such information even to those you feel relations with. They're petty beings these so called gods. I've wiped their memories of what you just said but I won't do it again so if they squash you like a bug for something you say, that's on you."

I snorted before sighing in frustration. If I had my powers back in full these gods would be no better than bugs beneath my own boots. Sighing again as they caught themselves I said. "Mom was feeling a bit in touch with the mortal world I guess and she found a mortal, a star gazer, that she found interesting. You know the rest I'm sure."

Hypnos nodded groggily before saying. "Still, I'm surprised Thanatos here lets you sit on his throne."

I shrugged. "It's just the arm of his seat and it's not like I've any interest in taking his place. Far to much work. I mean, look at him now, he looks strained as is. Constantly sending out parts of himself to collect souls. Ba, screw that hot mess, I'd rather relax on a beach somewhere with some females and drinks."

Thanatos gave me an odd look as if he knew I was lying but not about what while Hypnos nodded. "That I understand-yawn. Well, it's good meeting you little brother. I'm gonna go catch up on my beauty sleep. Here, a gift. It's called the sands of dreams. A simple pinch will put anyone to sleep, be it demigod or even a god."

A pouch floated to me and I happily took it with my shadows before shadow traveling to his shoulder and touching his face while shocking him as I passed some of the laws of dreams onto him. It was one of the many laws I'd taken away from the demon beasts and coincidentally in the hands of a nightmare type demon beast.

He nearly fell asleep from my gift right there as his aura grew beyond his old scope and he grew far stronger like Thanatos. I asked him. "Don't tell the other gods will you? It's a talent I got from my birth. Like your sleep and Thanatos's death."

I shadow traveled to my seat and Hypnos spoke up slowly and groggily. "I -ssware onnnn thhhee rivvver Styx that i wooont telllll anyone."

A boom of thunder signified the acceptance of the oath like Thanatos's. Hypnos gave me one more dreamily tired look before turning into a pile of sand and drifting away in the wind. (Huh, he really was mister sandman.)

Thanatos looked to me and asked. "What next?"

I shrugged. "Wanna see a bunch of demigods I took from the lotus eaters? I practically emptied out their lair."

He shrugged and I opened a shadow portal of sorts all for show and pulled all the people out of my inner world. Most were kids while a few were much older demigods. They all appeared on the throne room floor before Thanatos who eyed them.

He sent me a mental warning. (Some of them aren't Greek. I'll send them away to where they'll be safe with their own.)

He waved a hand and about half the demigods were gone. Sighing I caught their attention saying. "Everyone, listen up. This is Thanatos here, he's sent the others away as they weren't meant to be here. As for the rest of you, I'll give you the option of going to camp half-blood or staying here in the underworld and dying."

They weren't about ready to simply lay down and die so the oldest looking about twenty eight spoke up. "We'll go back to camp then."

I nodded. "I thought you might. Here, take one, think of camp half-blood and crush it under your foot."

They each did so and faded away as I had before. (Great, there went all my extra pearls. Twenty five in one go was a bit much. They even used one of my remaining two to get out, just great.)

I was left with one pearl left so I turned to Thanatos. "Any chance you could send me topside? I'd like to keep at least one pearl for safety and all that."

He sighed. "Fine, but I've no idea where you'll land. My essence goes where there's death."

I chuckled. "That's fine, be sure to tell Hades that Ares has his helmet of darkness."

He nodded before asking. "Are you ready?"

I nodded and he waved a hand as I disappeared in a blinding light and came to at the scene of what looked to be a drowning. The victim was clearly freshly murdered and just as I was about to leave I heard. "Freeze!"

I stilled and heard the female officer saying. "This is detective Decker, I've got a possible homicide and what looks to be a teenager. From the looks of it I need forensics on scene."

Growling I let her pull me aside before cuffing me and asking how and why I was there. I simply told her. "I got lost. I'm new to LA after all. I've only been in town a day."

She asked about my parents and I shrugged. "Orphan. Don't remember a mother but I stayed with a guy in new your until I was four, I thought he was my dad till he kicked me out saying I could find my own parents. Been living on the lamb ever since. Raised myself just fine, even taught myself to read and learned all I could to the college level. The rundown public library I stayed in had plenty of books so I simply read them all."

My story struck a cord with her as I could see the sadness in her eyes until she sighed. "Alright, stay here. Once I've secured the perimeter, I'll see about checking your statement and finding you a place to stay."

I shrugged. "I'll pass on the place to stay. I'm not a fan of foster homes. On the streets you hear stories and ain't none of them good. When you're done checking my statement, I'll disappear, quick as you like I swear."

She gave me an annoyed look but I just leaned against the patio door and waited. She came back very annoyed followed by a British man that felt so familiar I couldn't help but blurt our. "Lucifer!"

He frowned and detective Decker frowned. "Lucifer, you know this kid?"

I didn't give him a chance before I revealed the hidden part of myself that shared the same energy as him. He frowned deeply before saying shocked. "He's my son."

The detective was equally as shocked now until she asked. "You're the one that abandoned him when he was four?"

I chuckled. "Not hardly. No, that was Ralf Johansson."

I noticed the annoyance in Lucifer's eyes as he asked. "Abandoned?"

I shrugged. "Kicked me out when I was four, been living on the streets since. I came to LA to look for my last clue to my past, turns out it wasn't wrong, just happened to find a dead body before I found you."

He nodded slowly before turning to Decker. "Detective, mind if I take my son away from here, I'm sure if you have any more questions, you can ask them at LUX."

She gave him a dirty glare but sighed. "Yeah sure, just don't sneak off somewhere else with him."

She turned to me. "Turn around six I can take the handcuffs off."

I chuckled and pulled my hands out from behind my back, holding up the pair of handcuffs. "No need. I was out of them the moment you turned me to face you. I was just curious why you'd be working with the devil himself."

Lucifer looked proud but still confused while the detective was more irritated. She huffed. "He really is your son."

I shrugged and headed to the most obvious car there that the devil would ride in and hopped in. I heard them talking about why he'd never talked about me before and he'd honestly admitted he had no idea I existed. I put my hands behind my head and dozed off.

When I sensed him get in, I merely sighed. "Not here. You never know whose listening. I'd hate to have to run from some feathered dicks, or worse, kill them."

My words troubled him deeply but he only agreed as we drove off listening to Evil ways by Blue Saraceno. When we got to Lux, a demon was at the bar when we came in. I was still radiating my demonic side, a mixture of Lucifer and my demonic energies I'd assimilated from Maloker and his twin.

She was shocked herself to feel it and turned to Lucifer. "Since when did you have a kid Lucifer?"

I chuckled at his retort of not knowing either. "I'll tell you both upstairs, if theirs what you'd like because the rune work I'll be doing will mess up the decor down here. I can't have that angel watching us see or hear anything. I like my secrets and I'm hoping to keep them that way."

Lucifer shrugged. "We have come this far, what's a few feet for some answers."

Mazikeen followed as we headed to the penthouse saying. "Now this I gotta hear."

When we walked in, I sent shadows out like tendrils and carved the enochian wards into the walls, ceiling and floors. When they were completed, I sighed and looked to them both reading my handiwork. "I'm going to need vows from you both that you'll never tell another living soul what I say to you now. Not for me or even your own safety, but because they'll be brutally murdered the moment they find out. Their souls won't go to heaven or hell either, they'll be wiped from existence."

They both turned their attention to me fully now and Lucifer frowned. "I've heard about keeping secrets but that going a little to far down you think?"

I shrugged. "It's not me that'll be doing it. I don't have that kind of juice as it were, at least, not right now anyway."

Maze smirked. "Fine, I give you my word. Now, who are you kid?"

I looked to Lucifer and he sighed. "Fine, fine, I give you my word as well."

I chuckled. "I hope you're both serious. If you betray this, well, death and taxes are less of a sure thing. Alright, so, I'm the son of Lucifer."

I turned to the fallen angel. "Not you obviously, another you. The big head honcho so to speak."

His eyes went wide. "Him?"

I nodded solemnly and he sighed. "No wonder you're not willing to speak without a lot of precautions."

Maze looked confused. "Who?"

Lucifer sighed and told her. "All deity's and divine beings have a root or two in the cosmos beyond realities. We all get our names from somewhere, well not just our names, our abilities to a far lesser extent and or personality. My roots are a bit of like a pedigree of sorts. The original Lucifer, one of the three gods of destruction and only equal to the three gods of creation in terms of power, is mine. From what this child is telling us, he's the son of all that I am."

I snorted. "I'm over twenty thousand years old and I've wives and children of my own, don't call me a child again!"

The room quaked a bit and they looked at me with both fascination and understanding. I sighed. "Dear old dad is teaching me a lesson. So he had a pagan primordial goddess from this reality give birth to this body you see before you and stuffed me in it."

Lucifer frowned. "That doesn't sound like me at all."

I gave him a droll stare. "He possessed a human so that he didn't have to destroy this reality before it's time just so he could screw the goddess himself."

He smirked. "Now that does sound like me. I guess I have more layers than I thought."

I sighed. "He screwed the night sky. You'd think you would be a bit less impressed and more worried about the ozone of this pour planet."

Mazikeen smiled. "Probably the best lay that pagan ever had."

I rolled my eyes and sighed. "Anyway, tell anyone and it'll ruin the training he's having me do. Then he reaches through and wipes them from existence. He's not a fan of beings screwing with my life unless it's a more personal and literal sense."

Lucifer nodded before asking. "Just one thing, why didn't he use me to do the deed, not that I'm complaining but that's something I could get in on."

I shrugged and heard my Lucifer saying as I relayed it to them. "He says you were just sent back to hell and reaching so far in would've sped up this reality's destruction. Not that he cares much but you're his current favorite self not already at the deity level."

Lucifer smirked and I scowled at what he said next but didn't relay it as his connection went away. Lucifer must've gotten the hint though because his grin went wider before saying. "Got it, will do."

I narrowed my eyes and headed to the bar. Neither of them tried to stop me as I poured myself a drink of top shelf bourbon. While I down the first glass Maze asked. "So, you any good in bed like Lucifer is?"

I growled at her and she grinned. "A wild one huh, let me grab my collar and leash."

My demeanor changed now as I stared at her coldly for a minute. She returned the stare before walking off towards the bedroom. Lucifer turned to me. "Can you do anything about the etchings? I doubt I can leave it like this without Amenadiel asking questions. Besides, while it's a unique and interesting way to stay hidden, it's not powerful enough to hide from my father I'm afraid."

I shrugged and sent out my shadows. They smoothed most of it over as I used the laws of nature through them. It wasn't much and I didn't have access to the full strength of the laws, but it helped to do minor tasks like this.