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Silliness from Darkness. ^^; Takes place post-everything, and contains characters mentioned in [livejournal.com profile] maderr's In Darkness Thrive, and elaborated upon in my two drabbles as well as From The Dark Realms With Love. ^.~ Aka, if you don't know who Azragael, Lurizal, and the vampire chica are, better go read those first. ^___^

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"I can handle this alone, Azragael. I don't need you looming over my shoulder, destroying my image."

Azragael sniffed and crossed his arms. "You're a prick, Vaz."

High Lord Vazirel, Lord of Darkness over the third circle of Hell, sighed in annoyance and mirrored the gesture. Being thinner and shorter than Azragael, the gesture wasn't quite as impressive as it could have been. Though he had almost managed to master Lurizal's Intimidating Glares, if the way Azragael flinched was any indication.

"You've obviously been messing with the timestream again as well," Vazirel noted dryly. "I'm going to assume that 'prick' is an insult?"

"Uh." Azragael considered. "Yes and no. Prick is colloquial slang for one's penis, which I suppose could be a compliment, but it's used as an insult..." He blinked. "I like my penis. Why would calling someone a penis be an insult?"

Vazirel sighed quietly and brushed a strand of dark red hair, eerily reminiscent of dried blood, behind one ear. "Why don't you go ask Lurizal and leave me to deal with my Realm in peace?" he suggested.

"Lurizal kicked me out and told me to go find something to do while he works," Azragael replied with a slight huff. "He works too much."

"Not all of us have your incredible ability to do practically nothing and still have our Realms run smoothly."

"I'm special."

Vazirel sighed again. "Apparently. Please go away? I need to go torture and maim some dissidents."

Azragael sighed as well, looking remarkably sulky for one of the seven six Lords of Darkness, and floated away. "Can't I just toast a few of them? I like toasting dissidents."

Giving permission was the last thing Vazirel wanted to do, but denying Azragael was asking for trouble. One did not simply say 'no' to one of the two most powerful beings alive, even if the being in question behaved more like a petulant child than an all powerful Lord of Darkness.

"Fine, whatever. Go toast a few, then leave me alone." Vazirel waved a hand, though Azragael was gone before the motion was complete. With any luck, the demon of flame would do exactly what he'd stated he was going to do, though Vazirel didn't have much hope of that. The last time Azragael had decided to incinerate a few dissidents, half the fifth and sixth realms had gone up in flames.

Far below, Azragael reappeared in the midst of angry demons, rebellious souls, and general chaos. He basked a moment in the sheer and absolute terror that followed his arrival, then calmly set about making the insolents burst into flames. One at a time, to draw it out longer. He was starting to run out of targets when there came a blood-curdling scream and sudden sounds of a struggle.

Intrigued, Azragael followed the sounds to where a group of demons appeared to be getting their collective asses kicked by a very angry, very familiar strawberry blond. He watched for a few moments, trying to place the pretty face that was doing an admirable job of holding her own until one of them thought to slip up behind her.

Azragael scowled and set the creature on fire, at which point the rest of them finally noticed him. Five seconds later he was alone with the beautifully flushed, panting, somewhat bedraggled strawberry blond. She looked up at him slowly, golden eyes widening as a light of recognition flickered through them, then she took a step forward. "Azragael..."

That was odd. Usually people ran away from him. This, then, was someone he liked? Or at least, hadn't tortured. The assortment of marbles, sparkly rocks, and bits of radioactive glitter that comprised his brain worked overtime trying to place the face. "I'm sorry," he said finally, "I know I know you, but you must understand that I've met an awful lot of people in my lifetime and sometimes it takes me a while to place them..."

The pretty lady laughed and grinned at him, exposing sharp fangs. "I'm not surprised," she said, somehow managing to appear the perfect, regal lady even dirty and with her clothing in tatters. "I never gave you my name. We were otherwise occupied with beer and dice, after all."

She winked, and suddenly Azragael remembered. The vampire chica with far too much luck over the dice and the twin vampire babies. What was she doing in the Dark Realms? If he recalled right, she'd won one of his rings of immortality off of him...

"So, are you going to give it now, or do I have to guess?" he asked, putting on his best 'make Lurizal less mad at me' grin.

She considered for a moment, then smiled. "Nesrin."

Azragael bowed courteously and extended his arm. "Well then, Lady Nesrin, I don't think Vaz will mind if I abscond with you back to my own Realm, and my palace is much nicer than this muck." He waved a hand dismissively at the squalid conditions around them.

Laughing, Nesrin accepted the proffered arm. A moment later both vanished, leaving behind only a few flickering flames.



Finding his old drinking buddy in the Dark Realms had been the highlight of Azragael's decade. Nesrin had taken to her new position as Azragael's chief of staff beautifully and in the course of two short weeks had the majority of his servants as terrified of her as they were of him. It made him so proud.

Yesterday, the obnoxious demon currently serving as his messenger had actually wet his pants when she glared at him. To celebrate properly, Azragael had hopped over to the mortal realm for a few cases of quality booze and had spent half the afternoon setting up the dining hall to resemble the earth tavern where they'd initially met, minus the piss stains. It didn't need to be completely authentic.

He was just setting the dice cup in its appropriate place when a brief swirl of power alerted him to an unexpected arrival. As he straightened and turned, Lurizal's familiar, disdainful voice carried through the air.

"Do I even want to ask what you're up to this time, Az?"

Azragael grinned, vanishing and reappearing right in front of Lurizal so he could use the opportunity of surprise to wrap his arms around the prickly demon and steal a searing kiss. "I'm celebrating."

Lurizal arched a pale brow. "Celebrating what?"

"Nesrin!" Azragael announced dramatically, flinging one arm out for added emphasis.

That pale brow slid up further. "Who or what is Nesrin?" Lurizal asked.

"Vampire chica," Azragael explained, putting the flung arm back where it belonged, somewhere in the vicinity of Lurizal's nicely firm ass. "Pretty thing. Beat me in a dice game once. I was drunk, so that may be why... Lots of fun. Baby vampires. I still want one. Though I guess they're not babies anymore..."

With an incredible amount of patience, Lurizal sighed. "Tell me you're not drunk already, Az."

Azragael sniffed indignantly. "Not yet, no. I just got done setting everything up. You want to stay and join us?" He considered. "Though, I don't know if I could handle both of you beating me..."

Lurizal rolled his eyes. "You manage to instinctively know things and events that won't occur for hundreds of years and you can't figure out how to predict the outcome of a simple dice game?"

Azragael blinked. "But if I knew all the answers already, what would be the fun in guessing?"

"To win?" Lurizal observed wryly.

"But..." Azragael's face scrunched up in thought. "But... then... but..."

"Try not to make him think too hard, Lord Lurizal," a warm, lilting voice interrupted with a soft laugh. "You might break his brain." A beautiful woman stood casually in the doorway, her long green and purple gown clinging to every generous curve of her voluptuous figure. A cascade of elaborate strawberry blond curls framed her face and spilled across her bare shoulders, bouncing as she walked toward them.

"To break it, he would first have to possess one," Lurizal commented, pale blue eyes watching the woman sharply. "I assume you are Nesrin?"

The woman curtsied. "That I am. I have heard much of you, my Lord."

Lurizal shot Azragael a look. "Do I want to know what he's told you?"

Nesrin laughed. "Well, he's successfully proven to me that it is indeed possible for Lords of Darkness to be absolutely and completely besotted with love." She shot Lurizal a sly smile. "I almost envy you, Lord Lurizal."

To his utter disgrace, a pale flush stained Lurizal's cheeks and he jerked his gaze away from those too-knowing eyes. "I don't envy me," he muttered. "It's annoying."

Both Nesrin and Azragael laughed, the latter choosing to thoroughly kiss away Lurizal's sullen pout until the blond demon was breathless and couldn't for the life of him remember what they'd been talking about. He allowed himself to be steered to a rather crude wooden chair, though he drew the line at actually sitting in it. Instead, he transformed it into a proper throne of black obsidian before seating himself.

Snickering quietly, Azragael pulled out another chair for the lady who completely ignored him and seated herself. They flashed matching grins at one another, and Azragael dropped into his seat. "Let the celebration begin!" he proclaimed, getting out a number of heavy mugs and filling them all with the booze he'd retrieved earlier.

Nesrin picked up a mug, klunked it with Azragael's, then promptly downed the entire thing. The flame-haired lord of darkness followed suit, then both looked expectantly to Lurizal.

"Let me guess," Lurizal sighed. "Being too drunk to think properly makes the game more fun." He shook his head and sipped his own glass, not about to guzzle it like the other two lunatics.

"Something like that," Nesrin agreed, scooping up the dice cup and shaking it as she shot Azragael a sharp-fanged grin. "Ready to lose again, demon?"

"In your dreams, vampire," Azragael shot back gleefully, refilling the tankards with a gesture.

In response, Nesrin slammed the cup down on the table and eyed him intently. Azragael leaned forward, matching her unblinkingly, then pronounced solemnly, "Five."

Nesrin's lips twisted up into a sly smile. "Nine."

As one, they turned to look pointedly at Lurizal. The blond demon wondered when and why he'd ever agreed to this, then sighed. "I don't know. Twelve?"

Azragael reached out and swept the cup up, revealing the two innocuous die beneath. Gold and flaming red-orange eyes stared for a moment, then those incredulous gazes turned to Lurizal, who scowled. "What?"

"Huh," Azragael muttered, poking at the matching sixes showing. "How'd he do that?"

"Beginner's luck," Nesrin announced cheerfully, scooping the die up and depositing them in the cup Azragael still held.

"Hmm..." Lurizal contemplated them both for a moment, then actually smiled ever so slightly. "So, if I win... what is my prize?"

Azragael and Nesrin shared a look, then Nesrin's crimson lips quirked into a positively devious smirk. "Oh, I think if your beginner's luck holds, Azragael should be on the bottom for once. Don't you agree, demon?" Her golden eyes never left Azragael's, though she laughed when the demon's eyes widened.

Lurizal considered thoughtfully, letting his gaze roam over the familiar form of his quirky lover, then matched Nesrin's smirk. "I think that sounds like a splendid prize, don't you, Az?"

Azragael looked from one to the other, then promptly took another guzzle of alcohol. "Fine," he agreed, "But if I win, you're not leaving my bed for a week. At least."

"Lady?" Lurizal looked to Nesrin with a new appreciation. "Choose your prize."

"My choice of Azragael's magical trinkets," she answered promptly, reaching out to take the cup of die from the demon in question.

Lurizal beat her to it, cupping his hand over the mouth and shaking it confidently. "Very well then," he murmured. "May be best man, or woman, win."

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Date: 2007-01-28 01:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maderr.livejournal.com

My love for this verse will never die, esp. with my heroes Az and Nes drinking it up in the netherrealms and harassing Riz 'til kingdom come. When I die, I wanna party down with demons just like Nesrin.

Much love for you and your verse, Kitty <<<3333

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Date: 2007-01-28 02:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mechante-fille.livejournal.com
Woot, Nesrin! I love that she is happy in the afterlife. And that she and Az being friends ties the rest of the characters together at yet another point.

I kinda would like to see her get some say over the fate of her bastard husband-type-person. Not very fluffy, but...

*huggles* I feel like I haven't 'talked' to you in forever! I haven't read your newest story yet... haven't had much time. Maybe tomorrow... Can't wait! *squish*

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Date: 2007-01-29 05:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tygati.livejournal.com
*grin* Oh, I'm sure that man is going to be rueing his fate for a very, very long time. Az can be very creative with his punishments, especially where his 'friends' are concerned. ^^;

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Date: 2007-01-28 05:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com
The cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute. ^_______^

Also, I love how Az calls them "twin baby vampires" and is all "I WANT ONE!" XD XD XD XD

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Date: 2007-01-28 06:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nikerymis.livejournal.com
::dies of giggles:: Az is insane and I love Nesrin and Lurizal's pride (and then he bottoms ::dead again::) And I'm sooo braindead but it amuses me and I love Az's babble to Riz and their bets. ^____^ Though I think that Az would somehow manage to keep Riz in bed for a week without the bet spurring him on. ^__~

::glomps on you:: Cute and funny. ^____^ You have my oh-so-important Stamp of Approval (C) ^______^

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Date: 2007-01-28 02:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skylark97.livejournal.com
XD!! Az and Nesrin FTW! *snickers* God, I love Az. I love what an oddball he his, and Vaz's resigned 'oh my god, make him go away before he creates chaos all over my realms' attitude toward him. XD And then in finding Nesrin, he finds the perfect person to aide him in creating chaos and managing it. *snickers* God, those two are hilarious.

Poor Riz, he's going to have his hands full. Although, it seems like Nesrin might be on his side from time to time too. XD

*tackle glomps* Oh man, I love this verse. *hearts* You rock the universe. *twirls you about*

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Date: 2007-01-29 12:27 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] hsavinien.livejournal.com
Too cute! Yay for Nesrin. Hard for me to believe that Lurizal never takes his turn on top, though...

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Date: 2007-01-29 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tygati.livejournal.com
Heh. Lurizal is strange. He likes to pretend that he just 'tolerates' Az, so he lets Az do whatever without really taking an active role because that would be beneath his pride or something. >.> But the lovely and devious Nesrin just gave him a way to top without breaking his "no, I don't really like Az, nope nope" BS, so he's happy. If a little bonkers. ^^;;

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Date: 2007-02-12 06:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sporkess.livejournal.com
Hehe. So much fun. My favourite line may just be "The assortment of marbles, sparkly rocks, and bits of radioactive glitter that comprised his brain worked overtime trying to place the face." Azragael's brain sounds fun. And it also sounds like the shiny things tray I keep on my windowsill.

And I feel rather worried that Nesrin ended up in hell. I thought she was a nice vampire? But at least she got rescued by Azragael. What a fun pair.

And I want to know who won the dice game. And if it was Lurizal, I want to see the aftermath.

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Date: 2007-02-12 06:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tygati.livejournal.com
^^; Nesrin ended up in 'hell' because there is no heaven. Souls in Darkness are reincarnated, and the Dark Realms are sort of a holding place in the interim. (My Darkness-verse theology is weird. Forgive.)

Riz won, of course. :) And maybe I'll write it later. ^^;

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Date: 2007-02-12 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sporkess.livejournal.com
Seems kind of sucky that there's no holding place that doesn't involve great torment and Azragael setting people on fire, but who am I to interfere with someone else's made up theology? I've seen far weirder, after all.

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Date: 2007-02-12 07:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tygati.livejournal.com
There's only great torment and fire-setting when the lesser demons decide to rebell and convince souls to go along with it. >.>; Which is disturbingly often. ^^;

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Date: 2007-02-12 07:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sporkess.livejournal.com
You'd think that the souls would figure out that it's a bad idea. Come to think of it, why don't the demons realise that it doesn't work? Even *parrots* have pattern recognition.

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Date: 2007-02-12 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tygati.livejournal.com
Souls, as Az pointed out once, can only take so much torture before they give up and auto-reincarnate. >.>; Maybe they do it on purpose... 9.9 As for Demons... ^^; There must be something giving them the idea that if they could just overpower one of the Seven they'd have a chance. 9.9 Wonder what it is... >.>

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Date: 2007-02-12 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sporkess.livejournal.com
Well... Maybe there's some kind of precedent? Like one demon managed to overpower his superior somehow, and inherited his position? -shrugs- That might keep them hopeful.

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Date: 2007-02-12 07:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tygati.livejournal.com
There's an idea... 9.9 Huh. >.> ... you are not good for my Darkness muses... x.x;; I declared that series FINISHED...

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Date: 2007-02-12 07:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sporkess.livejournal.com
I try. And anyway, you declared it finished after Lure of Darkness, too, and quite happily started up again!

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Date: 2007-02-12 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tygati.livejournal.com
¬ ¬ *mumble* That was a combination of Maderr and Nikerymksherea and bribery. Really pretty yummy bribery... -.-;; *is apparently a sucker for bribery*

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Date: 2007-02-12 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sporkess.livejournal.com
I'd be quite willing to bribe you, but I don't think I have anything you want. -wibbles for the sadness of this cruel, cruel world-

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Date: 2007-02-12 09:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tygati.livejournal.com
Mm... bribery... *grin* Write me a drabble? ^.~ I have this weird thing about seeing what my chars look like from other people's points of view. ^^;; *geek*

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Date: 2007-02-12 09:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sporkess.livejournal.com
Um. I. Um. Well, the reason I don't write fanfiction anymore is because I'm not that great at using characters that I don't have a long and bloody history with. I could try - but I don't know if I trust myself with the Darkness characters. What characters would you want drabbled?

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Date: 2007-02-12 09:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tygati.livejournal.com
Pick your favorites. Most of them are a little insane anyway, so it's not like anything would be all that out of character. ^.~

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Date: 2007-02-12 09:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sporkess.livejournal.com
That... requires thought. But I'm sure I shall think up something eventually. -wanders off bemusedly-

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Date: 2007-02-18 01:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marasmine.livejournal.com
That was so good! I'm so glad Az found Nesrin and she is enjoying terrifying his staff - hell is supposed to be terrifying isn't it?
*Refuses to belive that this is the end of it, and sends Sporkess positive drabble vibes to get us all the sequel!*

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Date: 2007-12-31 10:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jadelin.livejournal.com
O.M.G.

Thank you for writing this series. I think this shoots to among the top original slash/yaoi/shounen ai fics that I've read yet. Totally LOVE the sense of humor (which is rare) in fics of this subject. I love the little details and quirky style that you write in.

Please, if you ever get hit with a plot bunny again, please write more for this series. The time-manipulation bit is intriguing. This is such a lovely series to stumble onto on my birthday. :D) (Also, it seems like Azragael is stealing the show from the other characters with little effort.) :D

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Date: 2008-01-01 10:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tygati.livejournal.com
There are two Works-in-Progress (http://tygati.livejournal.com/214188.html) slated for this 'verse, and then I think I will finally declare it Finished.

Azragael, however, is not in either of them. :( Sorry...

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Date: 2008-08-13 03:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stoplightgodess.livejournal.com
Yay! I can't believe I never read this! Vampire chica gets a happy afterlife terrorizing Az's minions! Awesomesauce!

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Date: 2009-02-18 09:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damnedangelcry.livejournal.com
How come most powerful characters end up demented. Yep, totally demented.
^_^ poor Vazirel. He needs someone to chase Azragael away from his realm... ^_^

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Date: 2009-02-18 04:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tygati.livejournal.com
I have a thing for powerful, insane characters? ^^;

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Date: 2009-02-19 09:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damnedangelcry.livejournal.com
Im HAPPY you have a thing for powerful insane characters.
^_^

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Date: 2009-02-21 08:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saphirerose1986.livejournal.com
I love this series and have read and reread it many times. Sadly, I have only had a livejournal account for a couple of months and forgot to go back and comment. I love that Nesrin is happily causing fear and mass chaos; the perfect personal assistant. I know you wrote it first but now every time I read it I think Pepper from Iron Man.

In my mind she is going to eventually win a dice game, win a new ring of immortality and make Azragael give it to the twins for Alexis.

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Date: 2009-02-22 04:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tygati.livejournal.com
^__^ I'm glad you enjoy Darkness. It's kind of silly, but I love it dearly.

Heh. I think the twins will do just fine without mama's interference. :) M had an idea for that, but hasn't ever written it out.

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