Glass Hearts

35

As the portal to Hell opens Leann takes a knife and whispers a spell on it before sending it through. Once it goes through they each step through the portal.

Jeremy steps through and to the side. He whistles soundlessly at the amount of dead demons around them. "I didn't think the sex demons played the same power games the other demons played."

Lance gives him an amused look but it's Jim that answers him, "That's because we are the only sex demons you know and we prefer our life on Earth. Besides, Lance here got infected with a conscience and it's spreading to me. Watch out Jeremy, you'll be next."

"Hush, Jim," Verruca says softly. "Jeremy is just fine the way he is, but it might be smart if he stopped picking up stray slaves." Verruca gives Jeremy a smile to take the sting out of her words.

"Let's take a look at the extent of the damage shall we?" Lance says amused by his brother's words rather than angry. "We'd rather go out eating, but demons are demons Jeremy. Although the other demons don't always ask us to play with them. We're considered the runts of the litter as it were."

Lance leads the way through his home level of hell. He wants to stop by his house and it's quite a ways from where they teleported. The further away from the location of their portaling in, the death among the demons isn't nearly so bad.

"Lance, do you notice something strange about these deaths?" Leann says thoughtfully.

"You mean besides the fact that not all of these demons are sex demons, or that not all of the sex demons were killed by our weapons?" Lance replies thoughtfully looking at the demons around them. Many of them have been dead for more than just a few minutes.

"You leave your dead demons to rot?" Verruca asks sickened.

"No, the smell bothers us after awhile as well. We like to cause chaos, death and destruction, but not live with the dead afterwards."

"Yes, I mean besides that, I hadn't picked up on that actually." Leann says at first sarcastically but finishes soberly.

"What?" Lance says taking his eyes off his examination of the dead in front of him.

"There are no females. Don't all the demons delight in the chaos of being demons?"

Lance frowns and he starts losing control of his shape, "Yes. Something has happened to the succubi."

The sex demons are actually a bit protective over their pretty other halves. They will fight to protect them from others. It isn't unknown for some of the regular demons to come on raiding parties to steal the succubi for entertainment.

Jim also loses his shape and the two incubi walk down the demon street showing everyone that they are home.

When Jeremy started to allow his demon shape to emerge Lance stopped him. "For now your true character is hidden." Lance smiles a very predatory smile, "On this level no one knows that you are a demon as well. They will see a human, if there are any demons that we missed with that death spell Leann sent through, you will be our bait to lure them out."

Jeremy returns Lance's smile. If they come after the bait then Jeremy will get to play up close and personal as well.

They finally come to where there is a large group of people muttering angrily amongst themselves.

Lance smiles a smile so evil that it sends shivers down all their backs including Jim's.

"It would help to get in there if you had Lance's permission you know. He doesn't like people in his home without being polite enough to ask first."