Seven Stupid Reasons to Summon a Demon
Reason #2: drunk and can’t get home
CW: implied alcohol use (MC is drunk)
You’re on an empty street.
You don’t know what time it is but last time you checked it was definitely after midnight.
You concentrate and think and wonder what it is that you're supposed to be thinking about. It was definitely something important… you pat your pockets to look for clues, there's gotta be a reason you were thinking so hard in the first place.
You pull out your phone from its secret safe spot and check it for messages. Nope, just blackness. No juice… Juice… Blame it on my juice… Your eyes wander from your dead phone to the myriad of stamps and fluorescent paper wristbands decorating your forearms. The neon clashes with your outfit but the colors make you happy. Blame it, blame it on my juice! The song continues playing in your head and you start to dance.
Your feet throb with pain and all you know is you have to sit down right now. Normally you wouldn't dare to sit on a dirty street curb but your legs almost give out from under you before you can even think twice about where you are planting your ass. Ah, that feels so much better… but the sudden change in altitude makes your head spin. You put your head between your knees to steady the world.
You take a deep breath and hold it…
1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6… 7…
Why are you counting again?
Your lungs burn and you remember to breathe. You start to giggle uncontrollably. What kind of idiot forgets how to breathe? You look back down at your phone and something sparkly catches your attention.
It's the Harrison Porter keychain Mammon gave you. It's too big to be a phone Keychain but it's something you like to keep on you at all times. You absent-mindedly spin the keychain and watch it dangle from your phone. Your favorite idiot probably doesn't forget how to breathe… Do demons even need to breathe? They're so fucking weird already it wouldn't surprise you.
You keep giggling, shoulders bouncing, when a warm gold light washes the floor beneath your feet. You would've noticed it if your eyes weren't closed with how hard you were laughing.
A startled noise interrupts your thoughts and you look up to find your favorite idiot, standing right in front of you, with a worried look hiding behind yellow tinted glass.
You gasp and clumsily shoot to your feet, ignoring the throbbing protest of pain, and throw your arms around the demon, "Mammoney!!" If you didn't have his neck in a vice grip, you might've noticed his face reddening at the silly nickname.
"M- MC… were you just crying?" He asks warily. You can hear the concern in his voice.
You loosen your arms - but don't remove them from around his neck - and look at him. When your eyes meet his searching ones, you cock your head to the side and blink a couple of times. The gesture reminds Mammon of a dog trying to understand English. You touch a hand to your face to feel if any stray tears were rolling down but you catch nothing.
You return your hand back around Mammon’s neck and shake your head slightly, "I don't think so?"
"B- but you were sitting on the curb… a- and you were shaking?"
You turn your head to look over your shoulder and back down to where you were sitting. You take a moment to think about what you were doing just a moment ago.
"Hmmm…" You think audibly.
"Well, if you weren't cryin’ then what did ya summon me for?"
You turn your head back around to look at Mammon… What did you summon him for?
"And why are you in the middle of a street all alone?? What time is it?!"
"Ugh, so many questions…" you close your eyes and plant your forehead against his chest.
Time… time… You can check the time on your… phone! You pop your head up and check your phone!
Oh right… it's dead.
You show Mammon your blank phone. He grabs your wrist and inspects the stamps and bands.
"Wha- MC… are you drunk??"
"Whaaat? Pshhh, noooo I'm having fuuun…" you slide your arms from behind his neck and down his arms. You grab his hands and start swinging them. "The night is still young! Now that you are here, the party is just getting started!"
You let go of him and spin out into the empty street, dancing to music only you can hear. If your inebriated mind were paying any attention, you might’ve heard mammon whisper, "That explains it…" under his breath.
"Okay,” he says, louder so you know he’s talking to you, “maybe you can answer this: shouldn't you be out with friends? Where are they?"
You stop dancing and squint at Mammon.
"Friends? Some friends! They ditched me!" You fold your arms and pout at the memory just now surfacing.
You're new at work and you really wanted to make new friends. You overheard some co-worker’s plans to go clubbing this weekend and were excited by how fun it sounded. You asked if you could come along and they agreed politely, though with the way they were acting all night you really wish they had just said no from the jump.
"I was basically a third wheel until I was a fifth wheel, then I lost them in the third club…"
You feel an angry warmth radiating off Mammon as he practically snarls, "Those jerks… What if something happened to you out here?" You calmly approach and wrap yourself around his tense arms.
"Don't worry about that, now I have you to protect me, Mammoney." You press your cheek against his bicep and you can feel him tense again before he relaxes. You look up to him and see that cute dusting of red across his cheeks before he looks pointedly away from you.
You entwine both of your hands with one of his and pull him, "C'mon… let's go have some fun!!"
Mammon looks back at you, redness fading, and searches your face for something. You tug harder, letting practically your full body weight fall to the earth, with Mammon being the only thing keeping you from hitting the ground. You try to take another step back when a sharp pain prevents you from going any further.
You cry out and Mammon quickly pulls you into him. He fully supports you with a hand against your lower back. You look down at your feet. Man, they hurt. You let out a small whine and Mammon sighs.
"As much as I would love to go out with you right now,” he says, reluctantly, “I think it's time for you to head home…"
"But I wanna partyyyy," you look up at him and whine again.
"You can't even stand up on your own."
"SO true bestie…" You slump against him, cheek pressing to his chest. You hear mammon softly chuckle and mutter, "I'm supposed to be the irresponsible one here." He lightly pushes you off him so he can shift around with his back facing you.
"Alright, let's go."
You sway on your feet and cross your arms in protest. "BUT I'm too heavy!" He looks back at you from over his shoulder, grinning wolfishly.
"Need I remind you, you are talkin’ to THE great Mammon, second -most POWERFUL Avatar of Sin in the Devildom! And you ain’t nothing but a puny human." He crouches down so you can climb on his back much easier. "Now, c'mon! We gotta get you to a bed… and some water probably. When's the last time you had water, huh?"
You drape your arms over his shoulders and wrap your legs around his waist. He stands up, lifting you with no effort at all. You tighten your arms around his neck and close your eyes. Comfy…
Mammon chuckles. Oops, did you say that out loud?
"Alright, human, where are we headin'?" He says with so much affection, your heart swells.
Until you process what he says and remember you have no idea where you are or where that is in relation to where you live. Your eyes shoot open.
"UHHHH…"
"Whaddaya mean 'UHHHH'??"
"WELL! I UBERPOOLED HERE! And My phone is dead!! You know how bad I am at directions!!"
Mammon sighs in frustration. "How the hell are we supposed to get you home…?" He asks, more to himself than you.
"Well! Can't you do some Devildom magic and just whoosh us right over there or something??" You reply indignantly.
"Ya know teleportation magic is kinda a big deal right? And even if I could right now, I don’t even know where ya live!"
You blow raspberries, deep in thought. You didn't even know your address that well because you had just recently moved. Curse your shoddy memory!
Mammon sighs again and starts walking, which startles you out of thought. "Woah, what-"
Before you can finish, Mammon interrupts, saying "Might as well pick a direction and start walking. Beats standing around doing nothing."
"Wait, wait, wait…" you bring a hand to your forehead and start rubbing, activating the memory juices. Maybe there's something Solomon taught that you could use?
"Oh! Let me try something!" You stick out the hand that wears the ring of light and concentrate on home.
"MC… what are you doing?" Mammon asks.
"Shut up, I need to concentrate. Trust me, I saw it in a movie once."
"Movies ain't very realistic, MC."
You close your eyes and ignore him and think think think: about home, where you're most comfortable, where you can be your true self and not have to hide any facets of yourself.
You open your eyes and are actually surprised when you see a red line shooting out of your ring… and pointed directly behind you!
You laugh triumphantly! "SEE! It worked!"
Mammon looks impressed for a second before rolling his eyes dramatically and turning around, "Well, ya got lucky this time but don't expect things to work out the way you want them to just because you want them to."
You pshh him dismissively before noticing that as he turns around, so too does the line pointing home.
"Uhh…" you move your hand around and notice that no matter where you move, it always points to where you're standing.
"Hold on, lemme down." You let go of Mammon as he crouches to let you off his back. You take a step back from him and realize what the line is pointing at.
You slowly circle Mammon and start grinning like a fool when you step out in front of him, holding out the hand with the ring. The thin red line points directly to the center of Mammon’s chest. His eyes widen as they trace the line to his chest and his eyebrows attempt to leave his face altogether. He looks back up at you and the red on his cheeks spreads all across his face, down his neck and to the tips of his ears.
“MC what-” he sputters.
You burst out laughing and quickly cover your mouth. “Oh that’s so cheesy, I love it!” You just can’t help the giggles that escape.
Mammon scoffs and looks to the side, attempting to hide his blushing face behind his hand. You run up to him and wrap your arms around his middle and rest your cheek on his chest.
You close your eyes.
You can hear his heart thumping.
“You’re my home, Mammon.”
“I mean- of course, I am. I’m THE-”
You shush him, “Nooo, nope, don’t say it- let me savor this moment before you ruin it.”
Mammon chuckles softly and wraps his arm around you. He clears his throat and says, “As cute as that was, it doesn’t get us any closer to getting you to your… apartment or whatever.”
Your eyes shoot open again.
“Oh yeah,” You pull out of his embrace just enough to look down at the ring on your hand. “Maybe home was too vague… I guess the ring in the movie also pointed to a person rather than a place.”
You think apartment? But the ring doesn’t point away from Mammon. Hmmm… bed? Still nothing.
“OH!” you say out loud, “what about my sweet little boy, my prince??”
Mammon looks at you incredulously. “Who???”
“My cat!!”
Right before you close your eyes to concentrate, you see the relief in Mammon’s face as he quietly says, “Oh…”
You picture his fuzzy face in your mind, his cute whiskers, his soft paws. “Hey, it’s workin’!” Mammon says as the line starts to twitch. As you get more excited about seeing your little bean, the thin red line gets stronger.
“Alright, let’s goooooo!” Mammon picks you up bridal style and takes off running. You shriek and laugh, holding onto his neck and shoulders for dear life, knowing he would never let you fall.
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once upon silvers dreams
sweet silver stuff, hopefuly i wrote him ok, I don't know his character very well.
Another assignment by professor crewel for the dream potion led to mc sitting next to a tree by the forest thinking over who would be ok going into their dream. They know sometimes their dreams were odd due to being from another world. And as an extra part of the assignment was to try and connect more to someone they are aquatinted with but not really friends with.
It was an interesting conundrum for Mc since they knew and had a lot of friends but didn’t have many people that they did know but weren’t friends with. They continued to sit for a while, their thoughts drifting here and there. Then they noticed a few animals around. even more strange were 2 birds carrying a dark jacket to the other side of the tree they were leaning against.
They watched the birds gently drape the jacket over a man with silvery hair, sleeping aginst the tree. The immage reminded them of an old movie they watched a long time ago. They smiled as they hummed a song from it and sat back down, mind wandering. in theri haze they reached for their water bottle but grabbed and drank their potion. They realised once they swallowed then sighed. Quickly writing a note to the man, remembering his name from one of the 2nd and first year mixed classes. Silver.
They quickly fell asleep as they set the note next to him along with the other potion bottle. Silver woke shortly after to his animal friends gently nudging him. Ne hoticed the note and potion.
"dear silver, sorry about the suddenness of this note, I need your help with a dream potion assignment. If you are ok with it, could you drink it and join me in my dreams? I'll owe you a favor. Hope to see you soon Mc"
He looked down at the potion and shrugged, he knew his master was fond of the kind, magicless human, and this potion was just to be a part of their dream. It couldn't hurt to help. So he quickly downed the pink potion and drifted off to sleep once more.
He woke up against a tree his dark coat and hat missing from his uniform. He had his batton out and it nseemed he was practicing against an old dead tree, if the grooves were anything to go by. He felt the need to look for his missing uniform pieces so he started to wander around, until he heard soft singing. Something that felt familiar yet alien to him.
"I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, the gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
Yet I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem"
He moved a bush out of the way and noticed Mc danging with some ghosts near the edge of the forest, the ghosts wearing his dorm outfit giggling as they danced around Mc as they sang that intriguing song.
"But if I know you, I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream"
they happily hummed as they continued to dance. The entire situation felt familiar yet not to silver as he watched. He suddenly felt the dram push him toward them as they spun toward him.
"But if I know you, I know what you do
You love me at once" They sang before Silver started to sing with them.
"The way you did once upon a dream" He finished alone sinc eth Mc stopped singing due to their surprise at a new and unfamiliar voice. They looked at the ghost with silver at their back and the ghosts just shrugged before disappearing, letting the clothes they borrowed fall to the ground.
"Oh!" They said now looking at silver and pulling away from him.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you." He said. Moving to grab his stuff.
"Well, it's not that. it's just that you're a... a" They stammered now embarrassed at being caught singing.
"A stranger?" he finished for them. They nodded and looked away back toward where ramshackle would be.
"But don't you remember? We've meet before." he said turning to them, now in his full uniform.
"we-we have?" they said now looking back at him, surprised.
"well of course, you said so yourself, once upon a dream." he finished with a small smile. they smiled back, before moving toward ramshackle. They were about to say something but he started to sing. He as a bit supprised himself but didn't fight as the dream led him along.
"I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, the gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam" he sang, catching up to them before leading them in a dance through a small field of wildflowers. they looked surprised before they joined his singing.
"And I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream" they finish together. They both snapped out of the strange memory/ scene the dream had them do. Silver quickly pulled away, sighing.
"I'm sorry about that, I don't really know what over came me. forgive me if I confused or startled you." he apologised.
"no, it's ok. I remember that scene. it's from a movie I haven't seen in a while. I think I was thinking about it as I fell asleep... So this is somewhat my fault you had to do that." They said. awkwardly patting his back. He chuckled before looking around at the familiar, yet slightly distorted dream world.
"I hope you got the data you needed for the assignment, I'm unsure how else I can help," he said now looking back at them. They smiled at his kind words and smile.
"All i really needed to know is that it can add someone to my dreams to interact with, so it worked perfectly. Thank you silver." the world started to fade around them both.
"it seems that our dream is ending. Thank you for the experience Mc. Ill try and remember ho we knew each other once upon a dream." he said before they both woke up.
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