Reforming Hell by Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen

Author:Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy, urban fantasy, religion, god, christianity
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2014-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

The Reformation of Hell

Lucifer sat alone in his throne room, this grand hall where he had ruled Hell for countless centuries. He awaited Bael, Ashtoreth, Leianna and Quatama, having requested their attendance on a matter of supreme concern to that Alliance they proposed. And what he now proposed would put an end to it!

For the Creator would never lift his exile unless the conditions set upon him during his Fall were met.

While many might agree to rule Hell in lieu of him, none who could prove that mankind was absolved of Lucifer’s judgment would willingly take his job. As Hell’s ruler, he prepared to demonstrate this exercise in futility and end this charade of an Alliance once and for all.

That Bael had married Leianna in a legitimate, higher plane ceremony was irrelevant. Once the status quo returned to the Netherworld, Bael’s and Ashtoreth’s passports to the heavens would be revoked. All who fell with him must remain with him; so had God cursed them all. Leianna had also married her British musician, planning a polyandrous union with him and Bael. Well, Terence could comfort her, and she would soon accept Bael’s loss as in­evitable.

She was a feisty woman, that Leigh Ann, both as her mortal persona and her eternal self. He sympathized with Bael—and Ash­toreth’s—feelings for her. His eldest son seemed only destined for friendship with the girl, not that Ash hadn’t attractive women in his own harem, though smaller than Bael’s and Azmodeus’s.

He’d heard of Leianna’s astonishment upon learning that the princes of Hell had harems. She hadn’t been told of his own harem, and if he hadn’t known her almost as a daughter since the days of Eliom, he would have been tempted by her himself. But deep within his memories, Leianna was forever tied to the lost days of happiness among his friends and family in the Eliom that the original angels had known. She was tied to his cherished friendship with her eternal father Michael and her eternal mother Eve, remembered as their precious daughter, and as Bael’s betrothed before he and she were torn apart by the war in the heavens. Lucifer might have many faults, but he would not sully one who was pure before he was outcast nor disrespect Bael’s beloved, now his wife.

And so he waited, somewhat wearily, for them to appear, and to straighten them out, so that he, the Emperor of Hell, could go back to ruling his realm his way without Heaven’s well-meaning intrusion.

Before him a large swath of air shimmered and shapes within it began to congeal into four people. A few seconds later, Bael, Ash, Leianna and Quatama faced him on his throne.

A fifth figure shimmered to their left and became visible: a moderately tall man, fair of complexion with long blond hair and blue eyes. He wore a white tee-shirt with colorful lettering proclaiming BEATLES FOREVER, blue jeans and tan boots. “Hello,” he said to Lucifer. “I’m Terence. Nice of them to wait for me!”

The others seemed surprised to see him.

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