Morningstar Of Sin

Father Time slams into the ground struggling to use his arms to hold him up. He looks up at me with anger on his face.

I look bored at him "You are to speak up to me while in my realm Old one."

He speaks through grit teeth "Do you think I won't get you back for this?"

I smile "Making threats, are we? I suggest you be quiet lest we want a repeat of what happened with Cronos."

I see a hint of fear go through his eyes but he quickly hides it "You wouldn't dare."

I roll my eyes "There is nothing I don't dare. Now leave. If not now than you shall never." as I finish my words I release him from Pride's restraint.

He glares at me as he stands and brushes himself off then vanishes. I look back at Asmodeus who is still kneeling with his head down ignoring the events.

I open my hand and a blue wisp ignites. Asmodeus looks up at it with teary eyes. I stand up and point my palm to the center of the room behind Asmodeus.

The blue wisp fly's to the center and begins to expand into the size of a normal soul. It appears to be an extremely thin woman maybe 6-foot tall floating there in stasis.

Asmodeus bows to me "Thank you, my King," he turns around and collects her soul. He lowers his head with her soul in his hands "I request my leave."

I sit back down and wave my hand "Granted, meet me on Earth when you are going to find your son."

He speaks with a low head "I will take time to rebuild her body, I am not as powerful as you, my King."

I nod in understanding "You may leave."

He keeps his head down as he vanishes from the room. I sigh at the trouble one soul brought. But since it is for my subordinate I shall overlook it.

I wave my hand again after a short rest. A 12-foot tall jackal skulled demon with a human torso, goat hooves, and scorpion tail appears in front of me.

I look down at him with cold eyes and he meets them without fear.

I smile at his arrogance "What gives you the confidence to meet my eyes after what you have done. A MERE ARCH DEMON." I yell the last sentence.

He flinches a bit but a grin appears on his skull "I have the power, of course, I don't fear you."

I raise my arm at him and a hand of stone appears and grabs him. The pain makes him yell as I just stare with cold eyes. "You dare speak of strength, in MY realm."

He struggles but calms down after a second and meets my gaze again. "Maybe you'll recognize this!"

A dark purple and red glow comes from his body as he breaks the stone hand and stares at me with a smug face.

I look at him with a plain face as I recognize the power. I struggle to hold back my laughter but seeing his smug face I can't.

"AHAHAHAHA! You conspire with an Old God to kill ME?! MY BROTHER AND I SEALED THOSE OVERSIZED SQUID IN THE FIRST PLACE! YOU FOOL!" I stand up as my wings spread, horns grow and crown sets ablaze.

He takes a step back no longer confident in his plan "That was the old you. You are nothing now."

"You are right, I am no longer as powerful as before. But have you ever wondered what is stronger, your skull or Hecatoncheires bones? My bet is on the bones, how about you?" I start walking to him slowly.

He glows brighter as he summons his great machete made of colossus teeth. "We shall see if you can even touch me."

As I stand a few feet away from him I look at him with a small grin "You know, I leave the contract open so you all may betray me if you wish for a reason. It is because with ambition brings growth, you would have been fine just making a pact with an Old God. Even if you challenged me after I would not mind. I actually encourage it."

My face turns sour "But you betrayed the contract, you committed atrocities. UNDER MY NAME. For these Sins, you shall be punished. I will tear out your soul and let Anubis reincarnate you over and over into fruitless lives that will be worse than any hell you can think of. At the end of each life, you will be given a year to remember every life and repent. Upon your 25th lifetime, you will be given a normal life."

"If you live it free of sin you may live on like a normal human. Never again will you rise to power, never again will you be anything other than ordinary. This is the curse I give to you."

His teeth grind as he listens to me speak. "That won't happen, you will be dead." He brings his machete over his head and swings down on me.

I glow red with wrath as I grab it with one hand and hold it there. I hold out another hand and an all-black Katana appears in my hands. I swipe at his gut as he tries to pull away in a panic. I hold his machete in place so he can't move but he manages to pull back enough to avoid spilling his guts.

I thin line of blood trickles down his stomach as he sends a kick my way. I let go and jump back as I stare at him with a cold grin.

"You may not be affected by the realm itself but a cursed blade should do enough. So, do you feel sleepy yet?" I c.a.r.e.s.s Muramasa's blade with a hand as I look at him fall to a knee.

I smile at his kneeling figure "You know Muramasa was a gift from Izanami when I defeated the Shinto pantheon. She was an outcast, much like you. The only difference was she never broke our pact."

He flashes in the purple light again as he rushes me still holding his wound with one arm. I smile at his struggle but still dodge and swing down on his arm holding the weapon. The arm comes flying clean off as I smile at his struggle.

He lays on the ground motionless in a puddle of his own blood. I put away Muramasa as I walk up to him. "One cut is supposed to kill even Gods, you indeed got a lot of power from the squid." I grab the back of his skull as I march up to the throne carrying him like a newborn kitten.

I lift him in the air above the throne with his head facing the arm of the chair. "Don't be upset it is over so quick, this is how it was meant to be." I bring his head down with tremendous force crushing his skull against the throne.

I smile as I throw his crippled and dead body back to the bottom of the throne stairs. I sit back down and sigh but something surprises me. His body begins glowing again, a tentacle replaces his arm and an octopus head grows from his neck…

"Ew."