A Disappointed Devil

As I step into the mansion, I am greeted with a marble staircase leading towards a 360-degree balcony above me. I step into the center of the room and look around. I see 20 armed men aiming their rifles at me. I sneer at their ignorance until I hear clapping coming from up the stairs. I turn to see an American man wearing a white suit walking down the stairs clapping his hands.

*Clap Clap Clap*

"A mutant who thinks he is the devil is sent to hunt me down, huh? What? Did the FBI send you? CIA?" A cocky grin spreads across his face.

I tilt my head a bit at his question, "Are you mentally impaired?"

He looks taken aback, and his face turns nasty. With a raise of his arm, he orders, "Disparen!"

Before they fire, I hold up a hand calmly. "Halt." The room becomes eerily still as I smile at the cartel leader.

The man looks panicked. "What are you doing? I SAID FIRE!" Spit spew from his mouth from his visceral yell. But none of the men on the balcony gave a response.

I glance at him before turning and looking around at the men on the balcony again. "Now shoot yourselves," I order, calmly closing my eyes as I face the skylight.

*BANG*

Twenty gunshots go off simultaneously, and blood rains down in the room, showing the man and me in red. The blood runs down my face as I turn to him, giving a devilish grin…

"I felt it," I whispered to myself... my smile grows even more sadistic as I stare at the man I'm about to punish.

He stumbles back a bit, and fire consumes his hands.

My eyebrows raise, "Pyrokinesis? Interesting… Come, see what your flames can do to the devil," The grin on my face still lingers.

He flings his hands at me, balls of fire are flung my body but sizzle out when they hit my chest. I look down at my case and see there is a slight charring on my suit.

'I shouldn't have let that hit me...' I think to myself.

"You are lucky I have more suits in my limo. I can see how you got your moniker, El Diablo… creative, I guess." I start walking towards him slowly.

"Wait! I can give you money; I have a lot! I swear I won't do anything bad ever again! I can atone!" His face twists, nearly breaking out in tears.

I walk in front of him. As he tries to scramble away from me, he trips and falls on the stairs. He turns to look at me with tears running down his face. "I can atone," he sobs.

I smile lightly, putting away the wicked one, and kneel on the step next to him. I offer out my hand, giving the kindest smile I can muster.

His eyes light up at this sliver of hope, "I swear I'll give all my money to charity the moment we leave," he says as he grabs my hand.

"Yes, you will atone…."

As he grabs my hand, hellfire consumes his body, and he begins to scream, and I smile at his cries.

"In hell," A wicked smile spreads on my face as I ponder at his charred corpse lying on the stairs.

I walk upstairs and see a maid cowering in the corner not too far from the staircase. I see her trembling as I walk up and kneel beside her.

I put my hand on her shoulder, and she shutters, "Are you the last one in here?" She shakes her head.

"Where are the others?" She points to the room at the end of the hall.

I tap on her shoulder. "Well, you should get out of here, won't be anything to clean in a few minutes," she nods and takes off, running, ignoring the corpse of her boss.

As I step into the giant room, I see four women entirely naked, trying to hide behind the bed. I slowly walk to the bed and stare at them till they notice me and let out a yell.

"Quiet down, tell me where the safe is and leave," I say, rolling my eyes.

"Por ahí," one says as she points to a large wardrobe across from the bed.

As I get in front of the wardrobe closet, the girls run past me, and I hear them scream again when they get to the bodies. When I open the wardrobe, I'm greeted by a large safe that fits the outline of the closet and extends back into the wall. I grab the front of the safe door and tear it open as if it were scratch paper.

Opening it, I see pallets of cocaine and gold, three pallets of cocaine, and six pallets of gold. I step up to the pallets, and one by one, I teleport them to my safe in New York. I step out of the safe, brushing off some coke from my nose… I had to try the product before I kept it. I wouldn't want the cheap stuff.

As I walk past the gate leaving the mansion, I see the naked girls and the maid standing at the side, talking in hushed voices. I ignore them and turn back to the estate, putting my hand out towards it. As I slowly close my hand, Hellfire rises around the mansion consuming it, and after a few seconds, the entire compound is reduced to ash.

I look at the terrified girls. "Do any of you speak English?"

The maid speaks up in a quivering voice, "I do." Another one from the bedroom speaks up, "Kind of?"

I shrug, "Good enough, translate to the other girls. You can either stay here and get captured by the cartel again or come with me to the states."

The maid begins translating what I said to the other girls. After talking a bit, she turns back to me, "They want to know what they would need to do and if we are allowed to take our families."

"I don't care if you bring your kids as for what you would be doing. That's up to you. You can either work for me as a stripper, a barmaid, or a personal maid. I am thinking of opening a few new locations anyway, and I have never had a maid before, sounds like it would be convenient," I say, calmly pondering the options for the women.

"We wouldn't need to sell our bodies?"

"Not unless you want to... " I put my hand on her cheek, "Although I would never decline an invitation."

Her face blushes as she backs away and starts telling the other girls what I said. When they finish talking, she turns back to me, "Why should we trust you?"

"You shouldn't. But if you let this opportunity slip by, you will never forgive yourself..." I put my wings and horns away as I walk towards the limo. After looking at each other and nodding, the girls follow me back to the limo.

Seeing me without the horns, Ray looks a bit relieved; he probably thinks he was hallucinating. He looks at the girls following me and shakes his head. When we get in the limo, Maria and the maid recognize each other and call out.

"Maria!" "Bianca!" They hug each other, but I ignore it.

I knock on the front window. "Ray, take us wherever these girls need to go, then take us to the jet. We are going home," I look back at the girls, "And get the girls some clothes."

I go back and lay on the long seat across from the girls, "Don't bother me; I'm going to take a nap." Candy moves over to me and lifts my head, putting it on her lap.

When I fall asleep, the weirdest thing happens. I open my eyes in a dream.