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Chapter 1 - In which we meet the demons and their subjects

The demon Gostoique was born to a poor family of reincarnated pig spirit and a mercrystal 200BS ( 200 years before Smit , during the days of Stephioza's first pregnancy ) he worked as a plumber before Stephioza's downfall , and he was one of the first overloads with currently a total of 300 souls in his possesion .

one of the souls in his posession is that of Rafaél , a young newly incarnate soul , a child murdered during her pre-teens in the dungeon of king Kafisa I .

Rafael was now of age , 18 years old and it was her turn to rise to the earth and receive the human sacrifices the people had offered to her stingy patron , the lord Gostoique .

NARRATION - RAFAEL'S P.O.V

Oh my demonangel ! I can't believe that today i finally get to return to the human realm ... I've been waiting for this day since the day i spawned these ends. I can't wait to go...i hope the sacrifice is kafisa himself - that would be fun to watch ... or maybe that guard that always tortured us ... firstly i must get out of bed and dress up...

Getting out of my bed i realized that Janjare was watching me probably asking herself why i'm making all this noise , Janjare is my roomate and my mentor , she never talks much about her past life but she was either a tree spirit or an Orgonian . Whatever she was , it must have been greater than what she is today ...

( Janjare's physical description )

"Goodmorning Master " i greeted her as i bowed my head , she broke into laughter and said to me in an enthusiastic ton " Are you ready to come up with me to earth ? "

Heck yeah i was , i have been patiently waiting all these years for this day ... I don't even know why she bothered asking .I brushed my teeth and followed her out to meet Gostoique who was as always sitted on his throne made of skulls - rumour has it that one of those skulls belongs to his father and that he devoured the skull of his mother . 

Gostoique and i are not like other overload-minion relationships , he adopted me and put Janjare in charge of my life ; at times he acts fatherly and sometimes i just feel like i am being groomed by him , in fact he always calls me his favourate midget - whatever that means

" There she is , my little midget now a woman " he said as he ate a chicken - laughing with his mouth open yikes !

I smiled and approached his smelly throne " Did you forget to take a shower today , sire ? " i asked and he burst into laughter 

" Today is my favourate midget's birthday , how could i when i was panicking all morning anxious to see you at work ... i didn't even eat till third breakfast , that's how anxious i was " he said as he swung the chucken back and forth splashing blood all over the floor . This was very common in his nature being that he was clumsy and dirty .

He accidentally spilled blood on his tiny cloak nd the minion next to him failed to wash it off , Gostoique's short temper became evident , he hit the minion thus throwing him to the other end of the room " Minions these days are useless , their souls can't quench one's thirst and neither can their bodies be put to use !!! " he complained ; the minion begun to shapeshift into a chicken all by the simple act of Gostoique's eyes turning red 

That was Gostoique's favourate long distance trick , turning bad service into lunch and i could see why the earthlings believed that he was a god . I was personally more worried for my life when i return unsuccessful being that he always gets what he desires or believes is his than scared for the minion about to be devoured as an appetizer .

I looked at Gostoique and he calmed down , he sat up straight and begun to discuss the details of our visits : most of them were potential sellers that were either promised or had promised to sell their souls to Gostoique all in the name of a favour.

Basing on my current knowledge about earth , during these times the reigning power were the sons of man known as the humans ; a being with a balance between their nir and mer DNA and a descent from the titans that resulted in them having no special features except a huge brain and spiritual capacity . The sons of man came in all colours but the most common were the green sons of man , they were characterised with two legs , a huge head and a very short height of about six feet . They were jealous as according to rumour and this led them into exiling all the other beings ( other classes of humans without a balance in their nir and mer DNA => the nirlings , the ners , the mercrystals , the nircrystals , the nirgels and the merlings ) and any of these beings that were found would be beheaded or burnt at the stake . So most of these beings made deals with the overloads so as to get human disguises and others made deals with the tribe of the angels ( the only mercrystals and nirs that the humans tolerated ) so as to fight back and resist .the sons of man also made deals with both some angels and some demons so as to create two new types of power they called religion and science that helped them get rid of the other humans .

Turns out we had to make six stops to sign soul-contracts and three stops to collect souls from the departed and bring them back with us to meet their new master - Gostoique . I saw this as without challenge because i had heard the other minions talk about how simple it was . 

After a very long briefing that i was barely paying attention to , it was time to cross over . Time in the human realm was much quicker than ours being that a day in our realm was a week in theirs . i had no idea how we crossover and so i tagged alond with Janjare and we walked to the edge of our realm , a small baobab tree where all roads of the realm meet , we sat down and janjare narrated a story to keep us busy - it was a story about her life .

"You see , i do not look old but that's only because i was a tree spirit . Infact i am very old , nearly as old as the human realm , I was one of the first creatures made by his mighty Adehad and his wiseness Stephioza . I was a green lifeform , one of the few titans , the root of life . My sister was the first Orgonia and i the 15th tree spirit ... i was born after the 14 elders had chosen the new Queen of what we called ourselves - the spirits . We were given the earth and his wiseness gave us the duty to care for the trees and other flaura in general and that's how we got our name * the tree spirits * . Being the youngest i watched the elders split each other in 4 groups basing on the four specific types of trees and each group had three individuals plus the favourable three that took us the three children leaving the desert group without child . His wiseness then granted them a child and she was destined to be the second queen of the tree spirits . For long i served as a babysitter for my group's infants and i loved my life that way till the war came up and about between the two deities - Adehad and Stephioza , we lost our queen who so bravely fought for the cause of his wiseness for it was known that if Adehad won and a single species got to rule ; chaos woul unleash ... indeed he won and here we are " she said before i cut her speech

" Sorry it's hard to pay attention when i still have a question ... why do you refer to Stephioza as his wiseness and not her wiseness " i asked 

" I know that it sounds sexist , but power was masculine from the begining whereas magic was feminine . In refering to Stephioza as his wiseness ; i am placing her on a pedestal so that she can match the power accorded to Adehad ... anyway as i was saying , when the quuen passed on tragically , i was chosen as the new queen and then i met ..." she was saying then the barrier loosened and we slid into the human realm .

Everything was going fine until the fool moon vanished and ahead of us came a girl about my age just when i was about to slit my last victim's throat 

She was the prettiest girl i had ever seen , at this point it was clear why i had never met the right guy before , it was because i was searching in the wrong gender ... I L-I-K-E GIIIRRRLLLSSSSS!!!!!!

She stood there as i froze and my wings closed hiding my pale face - i knew that i had to put on makeup today, i felt like i wanted to skin myself , i was panicking and my nails were digging into my palms , i ...

" Hey , why are you killing these innocent humans , i have been watching you all night !!! " she yelled

That means she was stalking me ... am i blushing ... not the time ... that means she saw that time when i slipped and fell in dog shit ...

"Girl , we don't want any trouble , just let us do our job and get lost " Janjare responded 

Get lost ... what does she mean get lost ... doesn't she realize that this is the love of my life ... i'm gonna kill her ...

" Get lost !!!... Get lost !!!!!! i'll show you how to get lost when your family comes looking for you!!! " she yelled as her body lost it's margins and she begun to get larger and larger , her halo begun to transform into the moon and her wings rose water from all around everytime she flapped - soo hot 

Just then a guy who happened to be kissing his boyfriend ran toward us and begun yelling " Shiro get down here this instant or you don't want to know what i'll do to your beautiful soul !!!"

Wait a second i know that guy he's...

" Master Yanx , i can explain i'm really sorry " she said as she took back her original form . It turns out that she is a descendant of Smit and she sold her soul to the angel Yanx for the ability to stay hidden on earth - part of her lunar phases sold to have a physical body - kind of a loss in her favour if you ask me but i have to admit that body is damn fine ... wait , that means i'm in love with the full moon !

Just then Yanx's boyfriend , Valentino had caught up with us and he apparently had past ties with Janjare and now that leaves us with this uncomfortable situation - very awkward

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