6 Years Ago
A 12-Year old Job is alone, having slipped into the basement of an unoccupied house on his street to hide from his stepfather. His face is covered in bruises from the last time he had failed to avoid the man, and he wasn't going to let that happen again. He's drawing a pentagram in blood red chalk on the floor, looking back and forth to the book and the symbol before lighting several candles around it.
"Well. Here goes nothing" The 12 year old walked to outside of the pentagram before checking the book again "V-
Veni..., domina inferni? Wait...shit, Domini, not domina, domini!" Regardless of the flub of the latin there, the pentagram did start glowing...though, strangely it was far more...pinkish, then the brutal red our protagonist had expected when he made a plan to summon Literally Lucifer but, eh, at least something was happening.
And then the pink...became...sparkly. Blindingly sparkly and flashing colors of the rainbow as the silhouette of a young woman with horns appeared in a pillar of rainbow colored lights that faded to reveal...a normal seeming albeit pale young woman standing in the middle of the pentagram in a pink-red suit.
"...What the heck?" Job turns back to the book. "This was supposed to summon a demon not...some...Pixie thing!?"
Said Pixie thing had suddenly started...squealing as she examined her surroundings...
"...Oh great it also broke the pixie" He flipped through the book. "This is what I get for buying a grimoire off the internet..."
"Oh my god is this earth!?" The...Pixie? Spoke up still clearly excited by her surroundings. "...Your a human!?" The...probably not a pixie rushed over, grabbing the sides of Job's face excitedly...and letting go as soon as she noticed that it caused him to wince as soon as she did. "Oh, Sorry! Hi, I'm Charlie Magne, who are you?"
"...Job. And yes, I'm uh, a human" Why did Magne sound famili-HOLY SHIT. "...YOU ARE A DEMON!?!"
"...Yes? Wait...you were the one who summoned me, weren't you?!" Her excitement returns in droves.
"Right, Right, demon, summoned for reason, wasn't...actually expecting this to work much" Job coughed and straightened his shirt. "Alright, Citizen of Hell, I have summoned you here for a task!"
"Oooh! I'm happy to help with whatever you nee-"
"I want you to kill my stepfather!"
And Charlie stops, still smiling but seemingly more concerned than anything else. "...I don't think thats a good idea."
"...What?"
"I just, I mean it feels a bit like something you shouldn't be doing. Your a kid, should you be making a plan to kill a familymember? I mean that doesn't sound healthy for a kid. Maybe you and your stepdad just need to...work things out?"
"...You've got to be freaking kidding me. Its a really simple deal, Ms. Magne, you kill my stepdad, you get my so-"
"I just, I don't know I'd rather help you fix this relationship than murder somebody. Oh! I know. I'll just go get him over here and you two can talk things out and"
"What? NO! NO NO NO You can't bring him over here?! He'll kick my ass for the fun of it even if you don't tell him why I summoned you!"
"Relax, I'm sure your overreacting just a little. You'll feel better after patching things up with him" Charlie was already up the stairs, heading in the direction of Job's house...while Job, somewhat panicked, ran up to the top floor of this empty home, wanting to be hidden when his step father came over to this house...and then, as the boy watched through the window on the top floor, he saw charlie walk in...and watched a panicked man in a white wifebeater and sweatpants run out the front door while Charlie followed, trying to calm him down...until the man ran into the street. She seemed to shout a warning..,right as a semi sped into the man...Charlie closed the front door and ran quickly back to the house, and Job had already begun making his way down to the basement, meeting her in the entryway, a huge smile on his face while Charlie seemed horrified.
"I am...so sorry!"
"What? Why? Thats what I wanted to happen!...I mean the method is weird and the whole bit about trying to get me to reconcile with him was weird but...I guess, task finished. Stepdads dead and its all blue skys from now on!"
"But..."
"Hey, deals finished" Job excitedly shook Charlie's hand "You held up your end of the bargain and I'll hold up mine, you can go ahead and head out whenever you like, Ms Magne!"
"Your end of the...what do you" Charlie was fading from view, seemingly...unsummoning.
"...Oh, right! I guess I...never finished. uh, you get my soul! See you whenever I die I guess!" And with that Charlie was gone!
Job got anything but blue skys. He bounced from foster home to foster home for the next 6 years until his 18th birthday, where once forced out of his most recent home he was hit by a bus while walking around, waking up...in an oversized bedroom it seemed initially. His hands were covered in blue-grey fur, and everything seemed huge around him, trying to make out his surroundings...beyond the sound of snoring...from...is that...
"...Ms Magne?!" This is when it sunk in for the now 18 year old job. he was in Charlie's room, which meant he was in hell...and for some reason she was huge...and thankfully still asleep. He still wasn't sure what was going on, beyond the fact he was probably dead...
And then the alarm clock he hadn't noticed behind him went off, and Charlie sat up in bed, rubbing her eyes before looking towards the clock...and looking at the mouselike demon.
"L-look. Ms Magne I...I didn't mean to...its, I'm..."
"...Holy...Job? Is that you?...Your...a lot smaller than I was expecting"
"...How the fuck did you recognize me? I don't even recognize me-EEEEEEEEEEEH" Charlie grabbed Job and held him in front of her face.
"...Well. I...guess this could be worse. If your demon form is this small you must not of been very evil so I should pretty easily be able to redeem you." Charlie has started standing up. "So, what did you do to get into hell?"
"...I assume it has something to do you with you owning my soul, Ms Magne"
"...What?"
"I told you when you were leaving, you killed my stepdad so-"
"WHY THE HELL DID YOU SELL YOUR SOUL TO A DEMON!?"
This went back and fourth for a bit...
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