Control
Chapter II.
II.
I'm still staring at the fire, and my mind calmed down. I accepted the consequences of the decisions I was about to make. Furthermore, I feel calm and ready. I don’t know what is going on, I’m not even sure if I want to know. All I care about now is that here, and now I am in control. I have control over my emotions and my actions. It’s a foreign experience. Never done that before, and now I feel a bit lost. I guess that’s the price of having others make decisions over my life since I can remember. But at the same time, I’m excited. I wonder what kind of person I am. Having an image in my head of myself is one thing. But it all comes down to how I react to different situations. It could strengthen the picture or simply just set fire to it. I’m starting to wonder what have I missed in the past ten years. But what is the point? I can’t change the past. And even if I could, I’m sure it wouldn’t be for the better.
I closed my eyes and began to focus on my training earlier today. I was trying to feel anything improper around me. When someone comes through from another realm, they have to leave something behind. An energy signature of some sort. And because of the amount needed to travel between worlds, it should be traceable after a few days of happening. All I have to do is find it. I concentrate on anything out of the ordinary. Anything, I’m not familiar with.
Once I find it, I’ll be able to detect it from further away. Moreover, I am curious. Will I be able to recognize it? Or will it be something new? I keep concentrating on energy signatures around me. I found Lupa’s without an issue. I could track her now all over the place. Where she went and where she had been. But apart from that, I can’t sense anything else. That doesn’t make any sense. I focus even deeper. Can’t feel a thing. Maybe I’m too distracted. I get up and start to walk around. I might stumble up on something. Still in deep concentration, I wander around the cave. Nothing. I circle back to the fire. Moving away from the cave, I feel some signs of entry. But I can’t seem to figure it out. I get closer and the feeling is getting stronger. I’m finally able to track it. Nevertheless, I’m unable to figure it out. It’s a mixture of two different energy signatures. One of them I can’t recognize. The other I did.
Cold sweat ran down on the back of my neck. The signature I’m familiar with belongs in hell. To someone, I never had a good relationship with. His name is Beelzebub.
One of the princes of Hell. When I was in hell, he was the most hostile towards me. He was convinced that Micheal sent me there only to remind the fallen of the war they lost. He thought getting rid of me would prove to Heaven that they were not powerless. When Lucifer shut him up, he took matters into his own hands. That manifested itself at first to try to convince me to join them in the next war. When I said no because all the sides had lost enough already, he snapped. He tried to kill me himself at first, but I managed to escape. Then he tried to poison me, which ended up killing some stray hellhounds whom I shared my food with. And at last, he hired some assassins from another realm, but they failed miserably. Both of them are still locked up in Hell. When I brought them to Lucifer, they quickly admitted that Beelzebub hired them to kill me. That was the point when Lucifer lost his cool. And when he does it, everyone in all the realms feels it. He went personally to Beelzebub’s residence to confront him. Beelzebub admitted to everything, mostly out of fear. But when he said he did everything just to start another conflict with Heaven, Lucifer thought it arrogant and decided to make an example out of him. He gathered everyone from Hell, organized them in a queue, and gave them the order. Every single resident in hell had to strike Beelzebub with a whip. It took us three days and nights. And to top it all, I had to start and finish the whipping. Thereafter, Lucifer addressed the crowd and said: “The war is over! Anybody unable to accept that, step forward so I can help them accept!”
Everyone was scared shitless. Especially those who had no idea what he was talking about. But they weren’t the issue to begin with. And the fallen angels, the original settlers of Hell, got the message. As for Beelzebub, he couldn’t show himself in public after such a humiliation. He returned to his mansion and I didn’t see him after that. Word was, that he was so ashamed that he never went outside. But less than a year after that, I left the place.
Then why the hell did I detect his energy from this portal? Is he coming for me and trying to hide it, by mixing his power with someone else’s? It would’ve been easier to convince someone to join him in his agenda. But what is the point? I’m not in Hell anymore. Petty revenge? That’s not far from him, but come on! Out of all the angels and demons, and who knows what, he is the one who is coming after me? It’s so disappointing!
But why take animals? I never noticed that. Only a massive moron would continue to do it for ten years to get my attention! Beelzebub is anything but that! Why the hell would he do it then? He could’ve just sent somebody else to finish what he started. Or just come here himself. With backup, of course. But no, for some reason he decided to kidnap and kill animals, and never confronted me or let me know that was even happening. It doesn’t make any sense! Except…
Except he has no idea that I’m here. But if he has no idea, then something went terribly wrong in Hell. I can already tell that this portal wasn’t opened from there. Hell has an unmistakable energy, and it comes through every time a portal is opened. What is Beelzebub doing in another realm? Lucifer prohibited any physical form of travel between worlds. In which realm did Beelzebub gain influence? I won’t figure that out on my own. But I have a gut feeling he has no idea that I’m here and about to be involved. He is in for a surprise for sure.
