First Demonic Dragon

Chapter 1043: Tracked

Abaddon could still feel blood leaking out of his stomach. His skin and scales had begun to melt from the unholy flames to create an upsetting image.

The only upside was that the flames were starting to cauterize the sword injuries he’d sustained. But even then, he could still feel blood pooling in places it shouldn’t have been.

It was almost like he was mortal again.

He attempted to put himself out using his own power, but to no avail.

His final resort was to give up that body and create a new one from thin air.

But it didn’t go as expected.

Parts of his body still looked freshly burned, and the flesh on his stomach still felt tender.

It was agonizing. No wonder Lucifer lost his mind after the fall.

Holding his stomach, Abaddon lifted a hand up to the approaching ophanim.

“Listen to me, you fucking wind-up toys…! I am not your enemy..!”

It seemed that no matter what Abaddon said, the Ophanim didn’t hear him. They didn’t respond either.

It was simply in their nature to concern themselves with the praising of their lord and nothing else.

How could he have forgotten something so simple as that?

“Dad!”

“”Eldest!””

As if the bad situation couldn’t get any worse, Thea and Uriel rushed to Abaddon’s defense.

Thea wrapped her arms around him and held him close to her chest. Tears streamed down her face and washed away her father’s blood.

She draped one of her father’s arms over her shoulder so that she could support him as he got to his feet.

“I-I’m getting you out of here..!”

Abaddon started to open his mouth to tell his daughter to stop what she was doing and leave him.

However, he never got the chance.

Before Thea could successfully get him clear of the battlefield, another Ophanim broke away from Uriel and appeared behind him.

Abaddon had no time to warn Thea about the dangers of what she was doing before a sword stabbed him in the neck.

– Tehom…

Eris took a deep breath.

She looked to her side and found Lisa giving her a reassuring look that was shared by the rest of the wives.

Eris stood up after steeling herself.

After making sure she wouldn’t pass out from nerves, she dropped the veil over her appearance.

Shocked gasps ran rampant along the rooftop.

Well, except for one person.

“Yeah, she’s hot. So what?” Satan let out a deep, throaty burp.

Valerie appeared behind him like a poltergeist and pushed her fist through his back.

She started to pull out his spine like it was made of taffy.

“Watch it, you maniacal little twit. That doesn’t have anything to do with all that stuff she just said!”

“Well, obviously I wasn’t listening to anything she said, you cantankerous carpet-muncher!”

“My Eri-Pooh just told us she was one of those Egoless things that Abaddon is turning into, dick face!”

“Oh, word?”

Valerie raised her hand to strike Satan again. He cowered and relented. “Okay, okay… how’d that happen, I guess?”

“She was born that way. Kinda. It was also a little bit of an accident.”

Valerie was bad at explaining things.

“Cool, cool.” Satan nodded and went back to drinking from one of the kids juice pouches. No one knew that he had stolen it from Odie as soon as she put it down.

“That’s it?”

“Yeah.”

“You’re joking.” The goddess was stupefied.

“Not this time, four-eyes. Does Abaddon know?”

“Obviously.” Valerie ignored the four-eyes comment.

Satan shook his head while clicking his teeth. “That’s gotta sting.”

“What the fuck are you talking about, you demented cheeto?”

“The whole time we thought all you broads were out of his league, but it turns out Eris was out of all of yours!” Satan cackled.

“…”

Bashenga preemptively covered the eyes of his younger siblings.

Courtney covered the eyes of her human boyfriend.

These actions proved necessary when Valerie and Seras tag teamed to rip Satan’s spine out of his back and threaded it through his nostrils like a nosering.

If anyone was going to come to his defense, they certainly didn’t seem like they were in much of a rush to do so.

Eris looked down at her children and found several of them staring up at her without blinking.

“I presume that some of you have questions..?”

The kids nodded like a group of stunned mindless drones.

Eris felt a bead of sweat drip down her brow.

“I-I’ll answer what I can… but please understand that there are somethings I just can’t say abut-”

Suddenly, there was a loud splash of water and everyone looked towards the pool.

Their horror doubled when they saw the clear luster of the water dyed with blood they were all very familiar with.

Panicked shrieks filled the air as they laid eyes on Thea pulling her father out of the water. Abaddon was alert, but injured worse than anyone had seen in years.

Everyone was confused and they started to rush towards them. But Abaddon erected a wall between them and yelled into their minds.

’Stay back and get the kids out of here, now!!’

Abaddon started trying to separate himself from Thea, but his daugter, who was stubborn by birth, held onto him for dear life.

The air above the roof suddenly distorted.

One by one, marble sculptures made of stone appeared over Abaddon and Thea’s heads.

They had humanoid shapes, but their entire heads were single solitary eyes.

The angels had multiple sets of wings, each spanning over twelve feet in length. Above their head spun halos of immpossible luminosity.

Each of them held longswords made of shining gold. Some were already slick with Abaddon’s blood.

Abaddon opened his mouth so wide that he nearly unhinged his jaw.

A tornado of flame billowed into the air and turned the sky into a choking hellscape.

The Ophanim covered themselves with their wings to protect themselves from the flame.

What hurt Abaddon’s pride was the fact that they weren’t even scorched. Perhaps they would have been more inconvenienced if he swatted them on the head instead.

When Lailah saw what was happening, she was more horrified than the others. She knew that there was only one thing that could possibly save them.

“ASHERAHHH!!”

Lailah’s scream peirced the heavens above.

In the blink of an eye, the space in front of her warped and a familiar blue-veiled woman appeared out of thin air.

“Enough!”

Asherah’s voice was so loud and so powerful that it shook the foundation of the entire Tathamet house.

The Ophanim turned to her.

For a moment, they halted their advances and stared at Asherah directly.

Lailah exhaled a sigh of relief.

But then the Ophanim kept moving.

One wrested Abaddon away from Thea with miniscule effort and pointed the edge of his sword into Abaddon’s neck.

With a single slice, he prepared to cut off Abaddon’s head in front of everyone.

But before the statue could do so, Abaddon completely vanished from his grip.

The Ophanim looked around, but didn’t find him.

Soon, they too vanished- hot on the dragon’s trail.

In the wake of all that happened, the family was rightfully still in shock.

However, Lailah was the most troubled of all.

She walkked around to Asherah and grabbed her roughly by the shoulders. “Why are those thigs chasing my husband!? WHY COULDN’T YOU STOP THEM!?”

For the first time ever, everyone got to see what a shaken-up Asherah looked like.

The goddess’ hands trembled like branches in a hurricane.

Even through her veil, she couldn’t bear to look at Lailah’s face.

“I-I… this shouldn’t be happening, I don’t-”

“No shit it shouldn’t be happening! My husband has a god damned hole in his neck and he’s burned half to hell and I want to know why!!”

Seras pulled Lailah away from Asherah.

“Stop, it doesn’t matter right now! We have to get those things away from our husband!”

Asherah swallowed deeply. “Y-You can’t stop the Ophanim! They won’t even pay you any mind, they’ll just-”

“It doesn’t matter, we have to go!” Bekka cut her short.

She turned to the rest of the family without waiting for more delays.

“Aunt Lus, please take the kids downstairs. Everybody else, we’re all hands on deck!”

No one even needed Bekka to tell them that. It was just expected.

In the blink of an eye, the swim trunks and bathing suits were replaced with ominous armor.

They vanished almost as quickly as Abaddon had; following his tracks without waiting for another word.

After they left, Lusamine sprouted an extra set of arms underneath her original pair.

With all of her limbs, she lifted up Odessa, K’ael, Askari, and Reken.

All of whom were crying.

Lusamine tried her best to act as a nurturing figure- cooing the children into calmness ao that they wouldn’t be further traumatized by the day’s events.

She started to take them back into the house when she paused and looked back at Asherah.

“You gonna… come inside?”

Asherah opened her mouth to speak, and then closed it before shaking her head in denial.

“No, I… I have something that I still need to do.”