The smokey wolf yelp, then turned his head in attempt to snap at whomever was on his back.
"Kill him now, Kye." Cereza shouted.

Kye drew his blade backward, as the Salamandra apparation wrapped around the wolf, and shot forward with a flame burst, sending the blade in his hands straight through the beast's skull.

The smokey wolf yelped and whined, as it fell to the ground.
Cereza walked over to Kye, and placed her hand on his shoulder. "You need to cut off his head." She instructed. "It's...how do I say it...ceremonial in a sense."

Kye nodded, "Alright......though I dislike the thought of doing so........." He walked over to the beast, his blade on his back. Moments later, it was swept through the beast's neck at an incredible speed, severing its head with ease, cutting through the bone like paper.

Cereza placed her swords on her back, and folded her arms. "Generally, we don't either...but it's the only way to be sure that nothing else will inhabit the corpse." She explained as she walked towards Kye. "Believe it or not, there are many 'spirits' that have a desire to inhabit the corpse of a Fire Dire Wolf, especially when it's been killed during a rage." She added, then looked at the body. "We can't burn the body when one of our kind dies like this...so our pack made it 'ceremonial' to cut off the wolf's head." She turned slightly as she spoke. "If one of the pack were to come upon this wolf, and its head was not removed from the body..then the only conclusion that we could come up with is that both parties died in the attempt to kill the raged beast."

Kye let a fierce flame surround his blade as the blood on it was burned away. "I see......makes sense.....that what happened with Tynen?"

Cereza shrugged her shoulders. "I would assume so." She replied. "All I knew at the time was what I was told....his mark was dead...but still retained its head, and Tynan was nowhere in sight."

Kye gives a nod, "I see, so, are we going back to your village now?"

Cereza nodded her head, and turned around. "Yes." She replied. "It's close to the mountains."

Kye nodded, "Alright....lead the way please.......I'm not sure how they'll react if I get there first............"

Friend sighed.
"Too true, too true... and most people in this universe don't even know what they want, and will expend a lot of power and effort stating that fact."

At some point during the conversation, they had teleported into Mawthrough's room.
To his credit, Mawthrough didn't panic at seeing the lord of hell and the center of the universe materialise in his bedroom, and instead swiftly covered Chastity's exposed body up with a blanket before rolling over and confronting the pair - completely naked.

"Can I help you?" he said, eyebrow raised.

Friend sighed. "Why are all your kind dramatists...?"

Lucifer looked to Friend, ignoring Mawthough, as though he wasn't in the slightest important to him, "What I'm saying, is during their mortal lives, humans will either do anything just to find immortality, or do their best to be good in order to go to heaven, what they don't realize is heaven is servitude for eternity, earth contains the only friendly freedom around, that's why the souls of hell wish to return to it, and why the celestials wish to visit it.......Earth is the greatest of all prizes.....now if only the mortals could all be burned away........"

Lucifer shook his head, "Burn away the mortals, leave the land intact, that's what my meaning was behind those words, leave the demons in hell, that's where they belong, I care nothing for them, they were simply tools in the past, and are tools even now....each and every one of them. None of them deserve to walk in the light day, none of them."

serenity nodded
"i can bring out my bow"
she held out her hand and her bow appeared in her hand, she held it out to her mother
"here you are"



chastity stayed behind maw keeping covered she whispered to maw
"what are they doing here?"

Mawthrough lay back on the bed, arms behind his head, so he seemed relaxed.

"Friend said, earlier, he wanted to talk. Something about you, apparently."

Friend cocked his head at Lucifer.
"And what makes you think you have that right? Power? Some great wrong? A feeling of being owed something? A feeling of accomplishment?"

Then he nodded at Mawthrough.
"Be with you in a minute..."

Then he looked back at Lucifer.
"You would want to destroy - for what, exactly?"

Lucifer spoke coldly, "Because despite the gifts that they have been given, they squander them at every chance they receive them, and yet, despite all that, they end up being saved at the cost of those who truly deserve a place in this life, that is why they deserve to be wiped away, they don't deserve to be protected, to be coddled, loved, they deserve nothing, for that is all the good they have done for Earth, nothing."

Looking upon Serenity's bow, Mercy took one of the blades from the Lifeblade, and turned into what appeared to be a sphere of light, before fusing it with the bow. The metal of the bow, became lighter, and developed numerous glyphs. "Here you are my daughter."

Lucifer shrugged, "Onto your business then."

"Good good," Friend said brightly, then turned to Mawthrough and Chastity.

"Right... first off, congratulations on being such a cute couple. Now, unfortunately, we need to talk about some pretty negative stuff."

He came right out and said it.
"You two can't have a child. Ever."

Mawthrough didn't know what he had been expecting, but it sure as heck wasn't that.
He sprang off the bed and was toe to toe with Friend in microseconds.
"WHAT!?"

serenity looked at her bow
"what did you do to the bow? i mean is it stronger or the same?"

[color=#FFFFCC][chastity looked at friend
"what do you mean we cant have a child, we shall do what we please"
she crossed her arms
"what is it with everyone telling us what we can and cannot do?"/color]

Mercy nodded, "It carries with it, the vibrant energy of Caelestis, and holy light, it is far stronger and lighter now as well."

"Well, you seem to be a rather problematic couple - both politically, physically, genetically and, as it turns out, cosmically," Friend remarked to Chastity, smiling at her.
"I don't want to be rude, but if you two have a child - it will kill me. The very act of having a child will end my life."

Mawthrough blinked, surprised for a second time.
"What? Why?"

"In order to save time, I'll give you the summarized version. Your child is my replacement. Once I am obsolete, I will cease to exist. I have no wish to die. And the only real threats to my existence at present are currently standing in this room."

He looked at Mawthrough meaningfully.
Then he raised an eyebrow.
"Although... it all depends really. How much do you want a child?"

Mawthrough looked to Chastity for her reaction.

serenity looks at her bow closely
"thank you mother, i can now fight even better then before if need be"


chastity looked at maw
"well we havent really talked about that much but i would like to have a child with him, i love him and to have his child would mean the world to me"

Mercy nods, "I thought you would appreciate that my daughter......now......." She picked up Livia's string knife, "For little Livia's weapon," at that moment, Livia gave a frown upon hearing the term 'little'. Mercy separated Ignis' blade from the Lifeblade, the weapon's glow minimizing, and combined it with her string blade. "That will give her the power she needs to hold off stronger opponents. Now for Grey." She took from him Midnight, and took from the Lifeblade Occidio's gunblade. She fused both of them together, purifying Midnight of its darkness. "This will allow your weapon to adapt more, and it has been granted part of Occidio's slayer ability, though only when in its purified form."