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The Hell Games
By: RedLady (A normal human being)
Synopsis: When the current lord of hell Satan dies, a series of games and fighting matches are set up to determine who the new ruler of the underworld should be. Join Lucifer Morningstarr (accompanied by his wife Red, and their two kids Dread and Loco), as well as a bunch of other colorful opponents who all flock to the edge of the demon world in hopes of being the next king of hell.
Dedicated to all those who pretended to be Satan, or a demon, or just somebody evil who had hopes of taking over the world. This is for you and I by no means mean any disrespect to Christianity or those who pretended to be God, angels, or pure goodness who may have also wanted to take over the world and share the goodness with the masses...
Torment 1: Eating Incubus
The man walked into his manor with a woman thrown over his shoulder.
"Hey Dread! Loco! Where are you?" He growled out.
Immediately, two devilish looking boys with horns that looked to be about 14, ran into the living room and saw the woman over the man's shoulder.
"Who's that?" One asked wrinkling his face.
"Is she a sacrifice?" The other asked.
"No." He barked. "I brought you two home a new mother."
"Oh goody." One said sarcastically.
"What's a mother?" The other said scratching his head.
He set the woman down upon the ground. She wore a frilly pink dress and had golden wavy hair topped by a straw hat with a pink bow around it. She smiled sweetly and a twinkle appeared in her blue eyes.
"Hi kids!" She said over enthusiastically. "I'm to be your new mother!"
They both screamed while holding onto the other and ran behind their father.
"Are you sure she'll be a good mother?" One asked.
"She's scary." The other whimpered.
"She's perfect." The man smiled sadistically.
"You cheated!" Loco complained obnoxiously.
"Hah hah!" Anthrax pointed and laughed. "We didn't cheat! You just suck!"
"What are you talking about?" Dread said angrily. Loco fumed besides him.
"Who was that woman your dad had over his shoulder today?" Ecoli teased. "A baby-sitter?"
"No." Dread said confused. "She's our new mother."
"What happened to the old one? Couldn't take the stress of having two failures for sons?" Anthrax teased.
"Or were you hatched from eggs?" Ecoli added.
"Shut up! We were adopted!"
"Oooooh." Both Ecoli and Anthrax said together in glee. "Abandoned at birth, eh?"
"That's not it..." Dread started.
"Wanna fight?" Loco interrupted.
"Are you sure you wanna fight me?" Anthrax said showing off his arm muscle.
"We could beat you!" Loco said showing his fist.
"Yeah!" Dread agreed showing his fangs.
"Let's get em!" Ecoli barked as a slight red glow shown in his eyes.
"I tell you what..." Anthrax decided examining his nails as if Dread and Loco weren't important enough. "Let's make a little deal... if we win, we get to see your new mother." He said with a murderous smile.
"And if we win?" Loco asked.
"Eh... I'll let you have my game... and the Hex-Box... TV's included if you manage to knock me out..." He challenged.
"Prepare to get pulverized." Loco hissed.
"Hardly..."
Their new mom was setting the table with a nice motherly expression on her face. Their father, Lucifer was sitting at the head of the table growling both at Dread and Loco as well as their companions Anthrax and Ecoli. Red finally sat down at the other end of the table and brandished a pair of very sharp cooking knives.
"It's nice of you to have friends over, kids." Their new mom said sweetly. Lucifer slammed his fist on the table making all the plates shake.
"No sons of mine should ever have friends!" He sneered. "I don't understand why they are here!" He pointed at the two Incubus brothers. Dread gulped and Loco frowned indignantly. "Well?" Lucifer yelled at the incubi. "Why are you here?"
Anthrax and Ecoli shuddered. Finally, Anthrax worked up courage and said, "We won the bet."
"What bet?" Lucifer sneered.
"We bet on a fight." Ecoli explained. "If we won, we would get to come over for dinner and if they won, they could have our hex-box. But we won so here we are." He said smoothly.
"So that means my sons lost?" He said eyeing his sons. They cowered backwards.
"Yep, we beat their asses..." Anthrax bragged. Lucifer let out a yell of anger and everyone cowered except Red.
"You!" He yelled at his two sons. "I didn't raise two weak sons like you to lose to the prodigy of an incubus and succubus pairing!" He yelled. "Get ready for your daily torture!" He said standing up with an evil look in his eyes.
"Now dear..." Red said soothingly. "Be sure to eat. You don't want to be weak during the torture."
"Yeah, yeah..." He said sitting down while the four boys shuddered. He took a bite of his food while snarling.
"Um... what do you call this dish anyway, Miss Morningstarr?" Ecoli dared to ask politely.
"Oh, you're eating succubus!" She said delightfully. The two Incubus brother dropped their forks.
"I thought it would be an honor to eat one of your own kind. This nice Succubus and Incubus that live up the street were nice enough to provide the meal."
"But we live up the street!" Anthrax yelled.
"Oh really?" She said not stunned in the least. "Then you should be honored to eat the one who birthed you." She said giggling cutely. The two brothers stood up pushing the chairs back behind them.
"Mother?" Ecoli cried with tears in his eyes.
"Where's our dad?" Anthrax yelled trying to hide the tears in his eyes.
"Oh, I gave the incubus to my husband." She said nonchalantly.
The two brothers looked over at Lucifer who was chewing on a bone while snarling at them. He smashed a skull which had been on his plate. "I let those two live up the street. It seems my wife has made nice use of them. Would you like to be next?" He sneered leaning forward. Anthrax and Ecoli screamed in fear and ran out of the house.
"Did you really cook Anthrax and Ecoli's mom and dad?" Dread said chewing on some meat.
"Uh huh." Red smiled content.
"Whoa." He said taking another bite. "Is it really an honor to eat your parents?" He dared to ask looking at Red and Lucifer.
"In some cultures it is." Red explained cutting off a piece of meat. "But my family believed differently." She said and Dread could have sworn he saw a red glint twinkle in her eye.
"What did they believe?" He wondered in mid bite.
"Oh, where I come from mothers eat their children." She said. Dread and Loco dropped their forks.
"Does that mean you're gonna eat us!?" Loco asked.
"No, sillies." She said giggling. "You're not my real children." She said taking another bite. They sighed in relief. "Now hurry up and finish eating so your father can get to the torture."
Red ran to him and hugged him affectionately. "Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing the right thing when it comes to them." He said hugging her back and looking back towards the torture room.
"Oh, I think you're a wonderful father." She cooed.
"Well, I married you so you can be a mother to them."
"Of course, dear." She said wiping the sweat off his head with the edge of her shawl. "I'll do my best to be a wonderful mother to them."
They walked off to their room with their arms over each other shoulders.
She stood up quickly and whipped around. "Hi, mom." Loco said sitting at the table. "How about something to drink, eh?"
"What was that for?" Red said in a low voice.
"What?" Loco shrugged. "Anthrax and Ecoli hit their mom's butt all the time."
"Well, look what happened to them." Dread mentioned.
Red loomed over them. Dread looked scared but Loco didn't. "Look mom... or Red... or whoever you are. You're not really our real mom. And even if you were, anything you do can't even compare to what our father can do to us."
"Um... Loco? You might not want to make her mad..." Dread warned as Red's eyes seemed to change a million different colors as a vein popped out of her forehead.
"What's the worse she can do? Smile at us?" He said defiantly.
Red heard this and smiled. "My, what cute little boys." She said ruffling their hair. "Here have some cake." She said setting a white coconut cake before them.
"Wow, thanks mom." Dread said beginning to dig in, but saw the look in Red's eye. She shook her head and he slowly backed up.
"See? What did I tell you, Dread?" Loco said taking a bite of the cake. "Mmm... this is good cake though." He said eating a while slice in one bite and reaching for another.
"Uh..." Dread mumbled.
"Do you like it?" She said sweetly.
"Yeah." Loco shrugged and popped another slice in his mouth.
"Because it's poisoned." She said. Loco spit out the bite he had just taken.
"What'd you do that for? You said you wouldn't try to kill us cuz we're not your real sons!" He complained.
She shoved a bucket and a mop into his hands. She gave Dread a toothbrush and gloves. "Huh?" They both said at the same time.
"I didn't say anything about not trying to kill you." She corrected wagging a finger. "I said I wouldn't eat you." She continued. "If I am to be your mother there are certain things that you should and should not do." She lectured. "Now the slaughter house needs cleaning since I lasted used it." She pointed to a shed outside.
"Why should we clean anything?" Loco said dropping the mop and clutching his stomach in pain but still trying his best to look defiant.
"For one, it is punishment for being so mean to me." She pretended to be hurt. Then her voice got low again and her eyes seemed to change. "And two, I'll tell your father to increase the torture if you don't."
"But why do I have to do it too?" Dread asked and cowered when she looked over at him with eyes of a demon. "Mother..." He said to soothe her over.
"Brothers should always stick together." She said simply. "Now start cleaning!" She yelled, her voice resounding throughout the house. The two boys ran towards the shed.
Loco threw up on the side. "Man, why did she have to poison my food?" He said as Dread was cleaning up a spot on the floor with a toothbrush. Blood lay everywhere on the floor of the shed which Red used as a slaughter house. Bones of her latest victims lay in the corners.
"She said you were being mean to her." Dread said as he got up to get a broom and swept the bones outside. "I guess she's using this shed as a slaughter house now. Remember when dad just used to stuff his dead enemies in here?" Dread said leaning on the broom. "I guess her last victims were the Succubus and Incubus that had birthed the Anthrax and Ecoli." He said dreamily. "I like her." He said continuing to sweep.
"I guess eating the parents of those two assholes was kind of cool. I wonder if we'll even see those two incubus's again." Loco agreed in between vomiting. "Before dad just made us get our own food. I guess it's nice to have someone to cook for us." He said wiping his mouth and looking back at the kitchen where he could see Red cooking over the stove. "And she certainly seems to love cooking. But have you ever wondered, Dread, why dad never married either of our moms?"
Dread shrugged. "I don't even remember my mom."
"I only remember mine a little bit." Loco said hugging his stomach in pain. He lay on the blood stained floor. "She didn't seem to like me much." He said rolling around in pain. "This is worst than dad's torture!" He groaned.
"Yeah, I'd rather be chained down and cut up into pieces than have to clean." Dread agreed.
Meanwhile, Red came outside and yelled, "Kids! It's time for dinner!" They dropped their cleaning tools and ran towards the house.
"What is it dad?" Loco asked.
"Hmm... it's a will."
"A will?" Loco asked. "Who died?"
"Satan."
"Who?"
"The current ruler of hell." He said stroking his chin. He put the letter down. "You see, Satan used to live in the form of a cat when I was younger. He and I lived together and then he went back to rule hell."
"That's nice dear." Red said wiping her mouth with a napkin.
"So he died then?" Dread asked.
"Yep, and it says in order to choose the next ruler of hell, his servants Beelzabub and Chupacabra will hold a series of games to determine who is the strongest and most able ruler as stated in Satan's will."
"You should go father." Loco encouraged.
"Of course I'm going!" Lucifer said haughtily. "I already own the most stock in hell. It makes sense that I should be the next ruler."
"Oh good for you, dear!" Red clapped. "In celebration you should torture the kids tonight."
Dread and Loco froze. "What!?" The complained.
"You weren't very nice to me today." She pouted.
"You were mean to your mom!!!" Lucifer stood up angrily.
"You said you wouldn't tell if we cleaned up the shed!" Loco complained.
"Oh." Their new mom said innocently. "I guess I lied." She said picked up the dishes from the table.
"This tastes like the same stuff we had last night." Dread noticed taking a bite. "Are these leftovers." He wondered.
"Oh no, Your father decided to have your friends over for dinner again. Well in a way anyway... seeing as they are dinner."
Dread and Loco's eyes went big as they eyed their meal. Then they took another bite and shrugged.
Next time in the Hell Games: Lucifer moves the house to the edge of hell and Red holds a dinner party in commemoration of the deceased ruler of hell. But this is one party... that could end in death...
See more of Red's cooking, Lucifer's evilness, and Dread and Loco's troubles, next time.
Author's note: And please don't anybody lecture me on the truth or misconception of facts that I have presented in this story. I don't want anybody telling me stuff like "but I thought Satan and Lucifer were the same thing". Nor do I want a history or methodology on the whole demon heirachy. And above all, please don't tell me about mating habits of a succubus or incubus. This universe stems from my own imagination with names some information borrowed elsewhere. But since it's my own imagination, I can use it any way I want. Ok?
