#((so sorry if I'm not giving Selena justice in my writing! 😖))

[demon-love-story]

𝕿𝖍𝖊 ❝𝕾𝖔-𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖉-𝕻𝖆𝖟𝖚𝖟𝖚❞

A follow up to @truelovespyre 's 𝕊𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕊𝕪𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕪

Parenting isn't easy, never was, and never will be. Some aren't cut off to hold a tag "parent" but they wear it, whether they like it or not. And mortals are ungrateful of them all, at times. Not even the Unholy kin in Inferno didn't understand at times the "God's design", but some shouldn't brag either.

Instead of parents the offsprings had guardians whom saw to their perfect growth to be who they should be and act like it, no emotional strings attached. Selena rather connected to those who did things the "mortal way", and nursed their offsprings on their own.

Many of times Selena wondered if that had been Ashe's fate as well, many of times she asked the serpent girl when morphed into a child momentarily, and at those times her question hadn't been answered. So little was known of her dearest Ashe and her origin.

If the Higher beings ever answered her prayers when being silent in the last epilogue of past life, They had answered now, the one who had any knowledge of her adopted daughter is one of the Princes. The catch is: they doesn't speak, cannot speak. And for the spare hours Selena had this century were used to learn their sign language, when not caring for her mate's garden.

Selena looked at the peaking red moon behind the obsidian mountains over the spread of her majestic wings that ever so elegantly whipped, the dry wind carrying her to her destination. The domain of Prince of Gluttony, it laid below a three story hole by the Hell's gates, built like the Colloseum but more home-like with the round rooftop and a spilling waterfall of blood streaming inside the pit and drowned in crimson anything around the domain walls.

Landing with grace on the roof, she invited herself inside through the wide, balcony door of the top floor.

And as expected, the inside was messy just like last time she'd visited, and the rascal children had no mercy for the owner of this mansion. Selena stepped over books, pillows, and whatnot thought out her way over to the main room that served as a dining room, and bedroom, all three in one.

The giggling and tittering she would recognize any time of her time-less days. Selena opened the door and saw food fling to the other side from her profile view, hitting unceremoniously the demon girl in the head, noting it was a pear that was thrown.

Zurie squealed in displeasure, her big paws missed the fruit by an inch, and now she had the juices all over forehead. Ashe, in her demon-like body, laughed at her friend, no pity at all.

Beelzebub on their big and wide throne of pillows and blankets, sat at the top, a bowl of many fruits at their lap. They hummed, gently but Selena's ears could pick the sound and immediately knew that they were laughing.

Ashe pulled at Beelzebub's bare, giant digit of a toe, grinning from hear to hear and her sneak tongue flicked out a few times. "Pazu! Pazu! More fruit!" She demanded and indeed recieved before running off at unguarded Zurie. "Thank!"

Selena saw it safe to approach the biggest demon of all Inferno, and also the 5th Prince of Inferno. She bowed her jeweled, horned head and it was met with a beaming, spotty smile and a fruit offering. She took the purple grapes out of politeness.

Beelzebub moved to the side, same for their tail and offered up a big pillow Selena usually sat at when visiting, and she immediately got comfortable.

"I hope you have been well, Prince." She turned her head to watch the sight of a food battle, but only for a moment.

Beelzebub stuffed an orange into their mouth before meeting her gaze and finally lifted their big paws. « Food hadn't run out yet, so I'm doing fantastic! »

They said it with their hands so enthusiastically it made Selena smile big. She glanced at the grapes in her hands, then at girls, and lastly at the big bowl that reflected her little grin. "I do believe there will be a short supply of mortal nutriment if they will keeps this up."

Beelzebub beamed with hums, their tail at their thigh whipped up and down.

With this moment of nothing said, Selena remembered what she had picked up when entering this room and curiousity took over her mind. "If I may ask, why had Ashe addressed you as 'Pazu'? Do you go by another title that I don't know of?"

Beelzebub's golden gaze softened and Selena awed at the spotty freckles in their orbs that turned towards the serpent child.

« It's a nickname. Pazuzu, in full... »

Selena watched the slow and elegant motions of the clawed digits, big and gentle.

« ... I do not mean to steal another's title, but she calls me so because I am her guardian. In Mesopotamia, there was this demon that protected mothers and their children. » Beelzebub noticed her devoted attention and smiled bashfully at Selena who was filled with questions.

Selena leaned forward, not noticing the light squeeze of her claws on the fruit she held, something of a hope filled her eyes of blue with specks of gold that greedily desired the truth.

"Prince, is Ashe a Mesopotamian? Was she... Was Ashe a mortal?"

There was a long pause of silence while the Prince of Gluttony brought their paws up, thinking of an answer.

« Maybe. »