Gift For Satan

Somewhere far through space there was a figure. He was handsome and young seeming, with eyes that burned red like embering coals. His flesh looked red in contrast to the dark blue sand around him. Shining ebon hair stood out against the pale, silvery tan sky and dark, greenish-red ocean. Eternity was too long to spend serving someone else. He hated Saturn… hated working at Hell… but most of all at that moment, he hated his boss.

“Lucifer,” he muttered under his breath. The word came out like venom. “Asshole…”

As manager of Hell it was his job to keep things running whenever Lucifer decided to go out, which was fairly often. That wasn’t the problem. He didn’t mind having all the power, even if it came with all the responsibility. He liked power just fine. No, it was what came along with working for Lucifer that made him so angry. His secondary job was to keep his employer entertained… Sometimes he did it himself and sometimes he went to Earth and the Devil only knows where else to find others.

This time Lucifer chose his own. Lucifer went around him… didn’t even ask before he grabbed up the girl… He had picked someone completely not his type to boot… young, female, and aligned with the powers of good. She wasn’t Human… at least, not all the way Human and stronger than most of the Demons working for him, but in the end she belonged to Lucifer. They all did… That’s what made him hate Lucifer. Everyone did as he commanded, eventually.

He put his face in his hands and let his black nails press into his skin. He was humiliated… He was unnecessary and unwanted. He had been replaced… at least; in the one place he took pride. Before he had been good enough to be Lucifer’s Love Slave, even if he didn’t like the job very much sometimes. Now he was little more than a secretary… an errand boy. It pissed him off… made his want revenge so much he could taste it in the blood he drew from his bottom lip.

He smirked as he shifted his hands. Two could play at that game, he supposed. He just needed a target… someone strong enough to get his Lord’s attention, but not powerful enough to fight back. With merely a thought he transported himself to his desk. A smile passed over his lips as he logged on…

“Hello, SATAN,” the computer spoke. Two Chibi characters with the letters HELL-O ran across the screen, stumbled, ran into each other, and then vanished off screen as Windows XP: Abyss Edition finished loading. “Whose Soul would you like to steal today?”

“No souls today,” Satan smirked, as he grabbed the black mouse. Without preamble he opened up a search window for the Hell Bound database. He typed in the name of Lucifer’s conquest, Victory Oak, and waited for results…

Her picture appeared on the screen… a brunette girl with neon orange eyes, dressed in a teal t-shirt, black cut off jeans, and black high top sneakers. She was far from right for Lucifer. Satan paused as he noticed there was a second image. He shrugged and clicked on it, in time to be shocked. The second picture was of a strange creature, only partially Humanoid. She still had brown hair and orange eyes, but her body was a mesh of several Dragon-like creatures.

She had long horns that seemed to secrete light green venom. Her mouth was filled with teeth similar to sharks… all razors sharp enough to tear through steel, let alone flesh. Her skin was dark orange, covered in shining scales like a reptile, but she had broad wings that were emerald green on the inside, between bones similar to those in bat wings. Her fingernails were sharp, black claws and she had a long tail with a yellow-orange flame on the end.

“How fascinating,” Satan mumbled, feeling a bit overwhelmed. He thought he knew everything, but this blew his mind… He knew Dragons existed, but the concept of one mating with a Human boggled him. “Where did you come from, Victory?”

His finger pressed the mouth button and opened a document explaining her origin. She was half Human and half something called a Pokemon. The word did not register, so Satan did a bit of research. They were Pocket Monster… in one universe they were fake… just a video game program. The concept the Gamefreak programmers sold to Nintendo was a gift from Lucifer, taken from another universe, where apparently the “game” was reality.

In that universe, an evil organization called Team Rocket planned to take over the world like an underground Mafia using Pokemon. Their leader, Giovanni, commissioned a scientist to manufacture the Hybrids for him. They were supposed to be loyal soldiers, but instead they turned against him and made their own path. Most prominent were the first three… Spawn made a deal with a Demon named Bowser for a sword that ate souls so he could extract revenge. Victory took up residence in a forest to protect Pokemon from Humans. Crash pretended to live as a Human, extracting some joy from an otherwise strange life as a Hybrid.

Satan grinned to himself. He could take one of her brothers in a heartbeat… a victory of cheap sex and spite for both Lucifer and the girl. The thought appealed, but he hesitated. One already belonged to another Demon and the other was so perfectly naïve it would be immoral… not that he had firm morals. He read some other information and suddenly felt his smile returning. Their creator was more than Human as well…