dragonqueenjess

 The staircase led down to the bottom of the chasm, carved unevenly out of the natural stone. Halfway down, he paused as he heard the sound of a rock drop behind him, accompanied by a weak demonic aura. From the cliff above him, a chain of stones crawled out of the wall on innumerable stalactite-like legs and hissed at him from an arrangement of rocks and stone spikes vaguely resembling a fanged head. Vergil jumped back as three feet of stone centipede landed on the stairs where he had been, summoning and launching a spectral sword mid-leap. The blade hit its mark, only to shatter harmlessly on impact. The teenage warrior scowled and lashed

 It was surreal. The child had been born almost two months ago, yet Vergil still had difficulty thinking of himself as a father. Admittedly, part of that was his age. He was fourteen, barely more than a child himself. And even beyond that, he was a boy who had barely known his own father. The idea that he could be a parent was absurd. Yet absurd as it was, he knew it was the case. The black haired sixteen year old, barely starting to lose her extra weight from the pregnancy, was human, but the infant in her arms had a faint but unmistakable demonic aura. The woman in question frowned at Vergil, tilting her head in a way that could only be ta

 The Wonderland Bar was one of Jr.'s favorite places to go when he needed a break, to just sit down and forget about his problems for an evening. The mirror covering the entire wall behind the bar reflected the deceptively young looking face of the oldest URTV, leaning over the bar with a Frabjous Day—one of the bar's specialty drinks that was a colorful mix of rum, cinnamon Aftershock and several types of slushed fruit juices—in one hand. His tongue was burning so much from the cinnamon by now that he could barely taste the sweetness of the fruit juices and his face was warm and flushed from the alcohol, but he didn't plan on stopp