Finding Daddy

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Grayson walked around the alleys, lost. A surprise visit to dad, that seemed nice! Walter would not mind, he loved his son with all of his heart. Besides, Grayson wanted to meet the woman that Walter seemed to be madly in love with. Or so mommy said.

It was night, the young boy had arrived later than expected. The demon blood in him was telling him to go onward through the alleys, his human blood was telling him to go home, it was not right here.

Of course the boy was stubborn, and went along. Sure, he was lost, but as soon as he got to the castle he would be fine. Ask them where his father was.

He had heard things on the way there. A group of travelers speaking of people taking over the castle, but being defeated. Grayson did not believe them, and carried on. Daddy was too tough to let that happen in the first place. He was the head of demons, Lucifer's son, practically! The thought made Grayson grin. Lucifer was similar to a grandfather, then. Though he had never met the devil.

Grayson jumped at the sound of something dropping in the alley. He might be the son of a great demon, but Grayson was just a child. A boy. And he was scared. He wanted his mom, or dad. Most of all, he wanted to go home. He was not strong enough to fight off a criminal, nowhere near that. He talked big, sure, but that was it.

The boy quickened his pace, and turned, hiding in a pitch black alley. It was a dead end, but the boy sat down as his heart pounded. Was he going to be kidnapped? Beaten? Mugged? Worse?

Blood rushed through his ears as he listened, hoping he would be okay.

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Delliks peeked out of the coat that was covering him, he was trying to stay warm as he slept. He was awoken by very annoying breathing right in his ear!
After finding it was a scared little boy he mumbled to himself, "Hey, you going to breath that loud all night?" he asked, if he was then he was moving.

He couldn't help but feel a little bad for him though, he looked lost and very scared.

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"Waa!" the boy practically screamed bloody murder, frightened to his wits end as he slipped back and stumbled to the ground. Wide eyed he shifted away from the man, and crawled backwards on the ground.

"W-Who are you?!" Grayson tried to speak tough, but of course he couldn't, as he looked the cloaked man over.

"Don't touch me, I- I'm a powerful demon!" he got up, but accidentally tripped on his own feet. He caught himself in time not to hit the wall behind him. He looked determined, but more scared. In truth he wasn't being very intimidating.

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Delliks moaned and groaned, "Yeah a horrible demon with strong powers to disturb the sleeping." he stopped using his jacket as a blanket and put it back on him as he stood.
"I am just a man trying to get some sleep but it seems even dead ends aren't as dead as some would wish them to be." he chuckles, "I won't touch you lad, here, take it it is all yours, I will find a new place to sleep."
He rubbed his ears, first the cold night, hard 'bed', and now his ears had to be ringing because of some noisy kid?! What a night.

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Grayson furrowed his eyebrows, pouting.
"I don't want your spot, I'm just trying...going home," in no way would he let a random stranger he was lost.
"Sorry for waking you up, but it is your fault. You could have gotten a place at the pub, or something," the boy spoke in a 'matter-of-fact' sort of tone.

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Delliks raised an eyebrow, "My fault? Now wait a second, we just established that you were a powerful demon, so how would getting a room at the pub save me in the slightest?" he smirked looking around. Another thing he found odd, "Say, I haven't lived in houses often, but I don't think they are normally in dead ends are they?"

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Grayson opened his mouth to speak, shut it grumpily, then opened it again.
"I'll have you know that it is perfectly acceptable to walk around the alleys to get a good look at them! I just wanted to see if there were any holes in the walls I could go through back here, is all," the boy defended himself, crossing his arms.

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Kids would be kids he supposed, "Well then don't let me get in your way. Now wait! Is that why you woke me up? So I would move and you could check for holes that may have been behind me? That is quite rude you know." Delliks of course was continuing to joke with this boy, it was fun. He was aware that the boy was either up to no good, or lost.

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An eye twitched, and Grayson clenched his teeth and fists.
"I didn't know you were there, dumb-ass!" he called out. Grayson to put it simply was a brat who would only behave around his father.
Rude, ill-tempered, and he could swear like a sailor. Great kid.

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Delliks shook his head trying not to laugh and encourage such behavior but it was hard not to, "So let us make sure we got all this together. You are going home by searching around the alleys looking for holes, and because you were looking very closely and carefully over the whole alleyway, making sure to get every detail, you didn't see me in the alleyway and woke me up on accident." he smiled a little.

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"I...I was only looking for holes, not people or anything else!" Grayson scowled.
"Grownups are so stupid!" he continued, running his hands through his hair repeatedly in frustration.
He had even forgot he was scared, now he was just frustrated by the man in front of him.

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Time to finalize his fun. He let his mouth slowly drop open, his eyes widen and he makes a small sort of surprised noise out of his mouth, he slowly raises a finger, "Ohhhhh gods be damned I thought I heard something early but...but I didn't think."

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Grayson, being the angry tempered boy that he was, placed two tiny balls of dark magic into his hands and threw them at Delliks. Being born half human, and being born not knowing how to use his abilities, they were as weak as thread. Maybe enough to bruise bare skin, but that was all.

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Being a former mercenary Delliks sort of acted on instinct, he ducked down and kicked at the boy where his face would be. The balls of dark magic felt like beestings and that was when he realized what the hell he had just done!
He just tried to kick a small boy! He certainly hoped by some stroke of luck he had missed.

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Luckily for him Grayson had moved back a little while throwing the balls of magic. But, he did manage to get knocked over by a slight kick in the forehead. It only hit a bit, enough to be sore a little and push Grayson backwards.
He landed on his behind, but sat up, rubbing at his forehead.
"I thought you said you wouldn't touch me! I'd watch it, my daddy's powerful!" Grayson believed Walter to be the most 'powerful demon ever', though his father was much too young and inexperienced to be that.
Besides, although Grayson would think his father would beat Delliks up because of that, when in fact Walter did believe the boy deserved a slap at the back of the head from what he heard his son would do when he wasn't looking.

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Delliks scoffed, "And I thought you said you were looking-going home but I guess we both lied then eh. Listen lad, wise up, your dad may be powerful, I get that but that doesn't matter much if your dead now does it?"
He turned and began to leave, ugh kids.

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At first Grayson clenched his teeth, annoyed. But then he realized a very important fact.
He was being left alone in a dark alley at midnight.
"H-Hey! You aren't just gonna leave me here, are ya?!" He yelled, stumbling to his feet and catching up to the man.

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Delliks shook his head and looked up toward the sky as he heard the tiny and clumsy footsteps coming after him. 'Why me?' he thought.

"I also remember you saying you were a very powerful demon. I was betting on it anyway..." he sighed.

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"I'm only half demon, but I could still kick your ass!" he waved his hands in the air, a scowl on his face.
"Besides, I'm, uhm, not allowed to use my powers! My father told me so!" he pulled that one out of his ass, his father had said no such thing. Still, the boy continued.
"So there, right now I can't do anything, so YOU have to protect me!" Grayson crossed his arms stubbornly.

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Delliks turned to the boy resting his hand on the hilt of his blade. His thick coat had been moved out of the way so he could see it, "What if I am the one that you should be protected from? Did you ever think about that?"