Since the beginning I was his most worthy item, as a son I was proud, as a Vareos traitor, as a student player. My life never truly had a meaning, I was changing sides like gloves, choosing the most suitable for me. Honor, loyalty, friendship these values never meant nothing to me, their all mask. I pretty looking mask, which hides anger, revenge or lust. Everyone always hides their true intentions.

I've been to many parties. Not as a Vareos, but a the son and successor of Demogorgon von Moriarty. Others always bow and smile, ask about the castle, plans and role. Everyone wants to know, everyone wants to get closer. They try entertaining me, hoping that I'll let them walk besides my father. People are truly foolish. 

One day I asked him what rule every animal and human must obey in every world. He answered me with a smile....

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What is evil?

"Survival of the fittest." Kazu's father smiled and looked at him "But there's a clear difference between the weak and strong. The term "Survival of the fittest." is just an illusion. The weak believe they can become predators, if they work hard. They don't get eaten because their weak , they get eaten because they're the minority."

"Then we can't understand others? ~dearu?"

"The worlds are simple my son" He said patting my head "Blood calls for blood, while hatred begets hatred. The energy that comes forth begins to take root in the world and engraves a crest of blood. No matter how many times the history is repeated, they never learn. Humans, elves, vampires, werewolfs and others are truly sorrowful creatures. They are....Oh....so foolish" Then he started laughing. Kazu was four maybe five back then. Things like that always entertained him. 

"All people are evil, my son. In order to make themselves believe they're good, they need to convince themselves that someone else is more evil. There's no such thing as pure, every living being has been in pain. There's a moment in their lives when they are filled with sadness, only fools never felt it, only morons believe that hell is an illusion. Listen, you can break every living being in every world. When one loses what's most dearest to their heart, they become weak. Hatred, revenge and desire, it's what makes me..no..us stronger, we feed on their sadness and pain, there more there is the stronger we become"

"But..."The little boy looked down for a moment confused "Mama said love makes you stronger. Mama never lies ~dearu" The mn sighted and kneeled placing his hand on the boy's shoulder. 

"Listen carefully now.  Love is for weak, who believe in foolish things. Out there there's no one similar to you, no one will ever accept who you really are, because when they see your true face, they'll fear you and abandon. Demons are hated by everyone, you must learn to live on your own, never trust anyone"

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A Sapphire Rose 

Kazu was five when it happened. He and his mother were on a party, run by one of her elven friends. She was smiling and dancing, while the little boy was looking around. This was his first time on a party with his mother. It looked different than the ones his father takes him to. This one's more brighter and enjoyable, while people here are nice and polite.  

When they returned home, to the mansion, Fumiko sat down in her room and took of her high heels. She got up and heard the sound of tearing clothes. She looked down in sadness.

"What a shame, this was my favourite ~livia" She said, looking at the torn dress.

"Mother! What happened ~dearu!?" Asked Kazu full of worry, while he ran into the room.

"It's nothing, darling. I was careless and tore the dress ~livia" She said with a smile, while the boy looked at the torn dress with sadness.

"I always liked you in this one ~dearu" He said looking down. His mother placed her hand on his cheek and kissed his forehead.

"Don't worry, we'll go and buy another one, together ~livia"

"No! ~dearu!" He said shaking his head "I'll fix it, I swear! You just don't worry, mother will definitely look beautiful as always ~dearu" 

Fumiko smiled, those words filled her heart with joy. She changed her clothes and gave the torn dress to her son. The little boy spend weeks trying to fix it. He tried as hard as he could so that the dress would be still pretty. When he finished he was proud of himself, he quickly ran to his mother, who immediately tried it.

The woman was happy, but Kazu got dissapointed. The long crystal-blue dress, didn't looks as good as he wanted. The blue material sewed at the end of the long dress, wasn't looking good enough for him. He promised her that he'll make a new one, a dress as pretty and gentle as his mother.

Kazu spend months on sewing. He carefully and precisely chose colors, the materials for the dress were expensive but he didn't mind. He chose sapphire as the main color, since blue always fit Fumiko. At the ends he painted blue flames, then covered the lower part with a dark blue shirt. He cut it at the front, so one could see the flames. Then wrapped a black ribbon around the waist and tied in a bow, placing a blue rose on it.

"It's perfect, mother! ~dearu!" He shouted with joy, when the woman tried it on. She looked at herself in the mirror and turned around. 

"It's beautiful dear. ~livia" She said with a smile "You did a splendid job ~livia"

"Hehe" He said shyly rubbing the back of his head "Now you can go on other parties, mother. You can even give it a name! It'll become more special and beautiful! ~dearu" She looked at him and giggled, then then placed her finger on chin.

"Hmmm.....A special name for a special dress ~livia" She looked once again at it in the mirror "Ah!"She shouted clapping her hands "Sapphire Rose. What do you think? ~livia?"

"Oh, yes! It suits it, but I think I forgot one more detail ~dearu" He said while jumping off the bed with joy.

"What is it, treasure? ~livia?" She asked curious. Kazu ran to the bouquet of blue roses and took one. He place it on the back of her dress, so that you could see the underneath flames ams smiled.

"You look beautiful, mother. ~dearu" He said with joy, while Fumiko kissed his forehead.

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The girl whom he first loved

It was over ten years ago. I was five, maybe six, also foolish. I lived in one of the elven worlds. Mother gave birth to a half-blood, in the Vareos world it was unacceptable. Children like that are monsters in their eyes, mixed with "dirt". So she had to run, hide in other worlds. Mother was always like that, she never....even once thought of herself. In her eyes I was the most precious, she was the only one who never abandoned me. When she noticed that I was becoming more and more similar to my father, she simply turned back clenched her teeth and tried harder. Nothing more. She didn't run, but did her best to change me.

There was a time when we both forget about the blood running in my veins. I met a girl my age, she was cute and kind. Mother was happy everytime she visited us, so was I. Her parents were travelers and I could spend whole days with her, simple listening to her stories. Sometimes I closed my eyes, imagining the places, the views she saw. We played a lot and often, she started visiting me everyday, bringing new toys and sweets to try.

From my fathers expression I could tell he never liked that. No wonder. The boy who's his son was becoming weaker and more foolish. He took it away, stole from me the feeling of having someone dear. 

"Riri-chan! " I ran to her with a smile "What happened? You were gone for a week, without even tel-" I stopped in front of her shocked.  Since today I remember her eyes, cold, surprised and hate. The warm feeling vanish as she stepped closer. 

"Hmp!  Now I know why you always seemed familiar" she passed me and turned back "Demon!  Liar!  You seduce your pray with sweet words, they don't even notice the demon's whisper.  You're the son of Demogorgon!  You're a pretender!" 

"You're wrong Riri-chan!  I never thought of you as a pray. Mama sai-"

"LIAR!!!" she shouted with anger "All you want is power! You bring destruction to every world!" She looked back and smiled "But this ends today"

Before I noticed five men appeared from the bushes and walked towards me. I was weak and pathetic back then, instead of fighting I tried to run, thus my father made me pay for that decision. I tripped over and fell on the ground, when I looked back the men were getting closer, but it was not them what I payed attention to. It was the snake, a black shadow creature with red glowing eyes, it wrapped its body around my legs and vanished when the men arrived. They caught me. They alleged linen bag on my head, hands tightly tied on the back of the torso. One of them grabbed me by the leg, the other for the body. At the same time something hit me in the head, and I saw how the image blurs before losing consciousness.

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Kazu woke up with a terrible pain in the jaw and metallic taste in his mouth. When he tried to raise, he felt terrible stinging in all limbs.
Suddenly regained his vision and noticed that his clothes were torn. All valuable accessories were ripped off. He wanted to say something, but then realized that arms and legs are stretched and tied with a rusty barbed wire, which was painfully stabbing into his skin.
He wanted to scream, but he could not open his mouth and only let out a muffled curmudgeon. It's hard to scream with sewn lips.

Someone approached the room where the boy was laying. Imprisoned boy knew it. He was dying with fear to hear measuring, heavy boots tapping at the door.

The Lord was getting closer, getting closer...

Kazu wanted to die, or at least pass out, which under the influence of adrenaline was impossible. He felt cold sweat on his forehead. Counting every horrible second and looking around nervously trying to remember every detail, every character, as if he knew that this is one of the last things that will be given to him to see in this world.
He wept quietly, because the last view turned out to be so awful. The room in which he was located may be used collective steam, but has now been transformed into some sick operating room. Everywhere there was the smell of rotten meat, and falling off, dirty tiles of a bygone era complemented nightmarish scenery.

That's how his last memory was supposed to look. Penultimate.

Steps in the hall ceased. 

The torturer arrived. 

Torturer went to the cabinet with tools standing next to the table of torture and took from it a hammer and chisel. Then stood next to the bed and bent over paralyzed with fear Kazuhiku, then put the chisel to its sewn paragraph, so that it touches the teeth. Kazu's terror reached its zenith. Here he realized that waiting for the pain did not turn out worse than itself. Torturer took the attack and hit with a hammer chisel tip. There was a dry crackling knockout teeth and other bones. From the Kazu's mouth burst blood. Chisel literally deformed him the whole jaw. Blow bounced off a dull echo in his head and made him untold physical hard labor.
Kazu he should pass out, but that did not happen. Pain beamed all over his body and possessed him mentally.

Kazu wanted now was death. This, however, did not come soon.

The boy didn't know how long were the tortures. A day? Week? Two? For him is was eternity, after every torture he was literally thrown to a cell and everytime he did nothing but lay day on the freezing stone floor. 

"How long will you accept this fate?" Kazu looked up at his father, who stepped from the dark into his cell with crossed arms. The boy didn't answer he looked down. Demogorgon turned around ready to leave "Weak and pathetic. To think that you were my son, I'll se-"

To the astonishment of Lord, his son grabbed his long black coat with all the strength left in him. Kazu looked at his father.

"I....." He looked down in pain and with the last amount of strength left, he painfully ripped of the sewn. He trembled from apin, holding back the scream, then spit blood on the floor and licked his lips "I...will kill you.."  He hardly said, looking more with anger than fear. The man smiled ironically. 

"Foolish boy" He pulled his coat making Kazu fall on the ground "Greater creatures seek my death, don't think I'll fear you, boy. Besides, I told you that love is a weakness, it blurs your mind, doesn't allow to think and look where it got you."

"Tch!" The boy knew he was right, that's what he hates every time. 

"You have a day to return, if not I'll be searching for a new successor." He said and disappeared in the dark, leaving the boy behind. 

Kazu pulled up his legs hiding his face in tears. Every part of his body hurted, more he was still young and never drank blood, so his vampire abilities never awake. Then he heard the sound of opening doors, it was one of the guards. But the step weren't so loud as always, someone lighter was coming.

"Here, bonehead. Fetch" The girl threw some food to him, so that he won't die too soon. Others still want to know more about him, before killing. She turned around, then Kazu grabbed her hand and pulled closer to bite her neck. At first she was in shock, since he shouldn't have strength to even get up. But after a while she woke up and tried to break free. The boy covered her mouth with on hand, while the other was wrapped around her. Slowly, but patiently he drank her blood, regaining strength, while all his wounds healed. He finished before she lost conscious then pushed her away, making her fall on her knees from exhaustion. 

His eyes turned red and his vision changed, he looked around and smiled "Interesting. So this is the awakening? ~dearu?" He raised his left leg, then kicked the bars and broke them pleased. He walked to the girl and grabbed her neck lifting with one hand.

"Ne Riri-chan" He started with sweetness in his voice. "They say you always remembers the one whom you first killed. I wanted to make it worth remembering ~dearu" He said, then ripped her left arm, while she screamed with all her might. Kazu loosen his grab, letting her fall on the ground in pain and tears. Surprisingly words appeared in his head, as if someone was talking to him. 

Blood calls for blood, while hatred begets hatred. The energy that comes forth begins to take root in the world and engraves a crest of blood. Their sorrow is your strength, their pain is your power. Show then true hell, my boy. 

In the meantime other guards arrived, aiming with arrows and blades at the boy. Kazu looked down, while slowly raising his hand. In one moment they were all pinned to the walls, not able to break free.

"It's not you who I want to kill first. ~dearu!" He shouted "Those who try interrupting, I'll reward with a slow and painful death ~dearu" They all were paralyzed by fear, when they looked into his eyes, while the boy walked Riri, who was desperately trying to escape.  

"No....don't...Don't come closer!!!" She shouted, making him smile.

"I'll tell you something, I don't hate you for betraying me. It made me a little disappointed but..." He grabbed her hair and pulled back making her fall on the ground. "I hate you for your existence, because thanks to you Father proved to me that he was right." He stabbed her belly with his left hand, tearing her skin apart and pulling out entrails. "I get furious, when he's right. Riri-chan ~dearu" He said with an emotionless eyes and anger in his voice.  

Kazu did it quickly but painfully, the girl was still alive, but slowly dying. Kazu looks at the part he pulled out then burned them in his hand.

"No...please..." She cried, while he stepped closer with red glowing eyes.

"Farewell, Riri-chan" He lift the girl, then her body got ripped in half, the blood splashed all over the place covering the little boy, who only looked at his bloody hands emotionless. 


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"Don't you think you over did it a little, Asmodeus? " Satan appeared behind Demogorgon and walked to him continuing "The boy is your son, not a fool. Elves would kill him at once, not bother with tortures. Unless someone whispered to them, unless someone controlled them" He said, looking down on the slowly burning village.

"Even if he knows, he'll never stand against me. Because he knows I'm right and only I can give him power." He said with an evil smile.

"Don't take advantages of your position as the Third Prince of Hell. You're very confident about the boy, First will slowly take interest in him, I don't know why you keep him. He's just a kid, more only half blood."

"Lucifer is a moron. He may be the first,  but is too proud and in love with himself to interrupt now. Besides, the boy is not a part of him. My blood runs in his veins, one day he'll become one of us."

"You and your sick believes, Asmodeus." He said sighting "What do you hope to achieve with him near your side?"

"I'm tired of hearing all the bullshit of us being one, Satan. I'm sick and tired of Lucifer." He looked back at him with anger "I considered the Sixth Prince smarter, since when my believes became sick?"

"The prophecy sa-"

"I know it's content! That's exactly why I raise this boy. I don't want my name to be associated with Lucifer, I don't want creatures to fear it, just because of him. I want them be tremble while saying it, I want them to know that Von Moriarty is their worse nightmare." He said with an evil grin.

"Do as you want, Asmodeus." Satan turned around "Do what you as please, but be careful what you do, Third." He said, then vanished in the dark.