Path of Night

Aren't mothers wonderful...

"My Lord, My Queen, it appears Lilith had fled to Greendale and given birth under the protection of the witches there."
"WHAT!"
"Calm down, Persephone..."
"No, I will not calm down. Lilith is now under the protection of... I won't even say it."
"Asmodeus, Beelzebub, go to Greendale and bring them back..."
"Preferably dead, both of them."
"He is my son."
"IT, is nothing more than a tool that Lilith is going to use against us, especially you. As far as I am concern, that spawn is Blackwood's. And you have already secured the throne or am I mistaking."
"Hmm, fine, Asmodeus, Beelzebub, bring them here... dead or alive"

Those two left, hopefully, they will do something right.

"Why don't we take a walk around one of the pits?"
"That's not a question."
"No."
"Alright."
"I didn't expect you to last this long in here without losing your mind."
"Who says I didn't?"
"You don't look like it."
"I was losing the pieces of my mind since the moment my mother died and the Spellman's tried to kill me."

We were getting closer to one of the pits where hellfire was coming out of it. I got close and put my hand in it. I always liked to watch the fire and how it never burned my skin. I could keep my hand in it for hours and I wouldn't even get a small burn.

"Dorian was the last piece of sanity I had, but he is dead now. All thanks to Sabrina. The Spellman's were slowly killing me from the moment I landed on their doorstep."

Hellfire was now burning around my entire hand and it was making its way to my neck.

"I don't know when I lost the last piece. Maybe when I died and came back, or when I learned the truth, or maybe when I claimed the throne."

I pulled my hand out of the pit and watched as the flames were slowly disappearing not leaving any burns on my hand. I let a small chuckle escape my lips.

"I guess the only way to survive was to shut every emotion I had. No one can hurt you if you don't feel anything. I mean, that's why you can't be hurt. You don't have a weakness because you don't have feelings."

Lucifer P.O.V. (the only time in the entire story)

"...I mean, that's why you can't be hurt. You don't have a weakness because you don't have feelings." - she said

I was watching as Persephone was playing with fire. I did that as well. She is wrong though, I do have one weakness now. And once before I had another.

"Can I ask you something?"
"Yes."
"My mother. Why is she not here?"

To say that the question surprised me would have been a lie. What really surprised me was the tone of her voice, full of hate and malice, just like mine was when I defied the False God. I have no idea how she would react to the truth. I had hoped that this question would wait for a while, but I guess not.

"She was an angel send by the False God to destroy me."
"What?"
"Yes. But she spent too many years with the Coven that she forgot her original mission. One day, when she was praying for a child, she wasn't praying to the False God, she was praying to me. After she gave birth, she remembered why she was sent down here. But, she couldn't kill you. She couldn't kill a baby as they are a symbol of innocence. She waited until you started manifesting dark magic, so she tried killing you then. I stopped her, and she killed herself in order to escape my wrath."

She was silent. That was not an answer she was expecting. We made our way back to the Pandemonium just in time to see Beelzebub trying to climb the stairs.

Persephone P.O.V. (and it will stay like that till the end of the story)

I was in shock. My mother was an angel! She tried to kill me just because I was born. I was silent all the way to Pandemonium. I didn't even pay attention to the state Beelzebub was in.

"Beelzebub, where is Asmodeus?"
"He is dead. They ripped him apart with the pain of childbirth."
"How can that be..."
"They are worshipping Hecate. Sabrina said it a couple of times, but I didn't pay attention about it..." - I said after a long time of being quiet.
"So, we are to assume that they gave Lilith and her son sanctuary?"
"Yes, my Lord."
"Well isn't that marvelous..." - I said