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"It's a boy!"
"And he looks very healthy!
"But look at his eyes! It looks like he has the eyes of a cat!
"It almost looks like snake eyes!"
"Sister Ann, Sister Fiona! How many time do I have to tell you not to treat the newborns like they are the antichrist!?"
"My baby! Let me see him!"
"Coming! Go se the children in the meantime time" the matron immediately took the newborn child and bringed it to his mother
"He looks like his father... Where is he?"
"There's only a man that says he's your father, Boidae Balsa is his name"
"Please, let him in"
The doctor nodded and went outside to get him while the mother though about what name she'll put to her baby
"Lorraine, my dear! And the little rascal! I'm really sorry for him..." Boidae and his son had a very strained relationship since the latter preferred work over his family, sure, Boidae wasn't a saint either (archeologist, had to travel a lot but he did send a letter every week, bring present and if he could, bring his son and wife to some places, he tried to do everything for them even when he worked to death) "what's his name?"
"I thought about it, Luca, like your grandfather, dad"
Boidae's grandfather was the person he aspired to be, an orphan that later because a paranormal investigator and later a detective after the phantom of the crystal palace case, he always inspired him to do what he wants without anyone's acceptance
"Luca... Well, he does have the face of a Luca"
The two laughed and they decided that that would be his name
"Eddie! Look what I have done!" The boy pressed the trigger, splashing all the water in Valden's painting
"Goddamn it Luca!" Balsa laughed as he run to the tree and climb it so Edgar wouldn't catch him
Sure enough, Edgar didn't attempt to climb it, instead he went inside the house, even tho it wasn't a tall tree, just a meter and a half tall tree
Luca laughed once again until he suddenly ended on the floor, a cricket ball was beside his head
"Who's laughing now?"
"Ok, what have you kids- sweet mother Mary! What the hell have you done this time!?"
"He splashed me with water!"
"Hehe.... Again!"
Boidae look at the sky, sure, he let Luca and Edgar sleep here before but they always done this, but soon enough they'll try to kill each other
"I wanted to stay with you"
"Next time, Luca, next time"
Both grandfather and grandson got out of the car and enter home, it was quiet, usually at this hour Lorraine and him would be fighting right now
"Wait here Luca, in the meantime time, tried to remember each bone of your favorite dinosaur"
"Yay!"
The elder man walked to the second floor of the house, to the parents room, he was happy he didn't bring Luca with him
Papers... Failed investments even a dummy could see it weren't good, all of them were signed by the man in the house
And Lorraine... Poor thing... A cup of alcohol stained the floor and a broken thermometer was near, she passed away hours ago a note was un the bed, addresed to him
She must have found them and then did it
The man took the papers and went down
"Luca, looks like your parents are still away, you'll hace to stay with me a little longer"
"Yay!
Everything ended, finally this nightmare ended
Luca was now living with his grandfather, cutting all ties with his father
Boidae changed his will, making Luca the only person who would get his inheritance
Everything seem well...
So why...
Why did that happen?
He just have turned 18, didn't drank too much but someone ran over him
That moment, when he was covered in his own blood and everyone was looking, he thought he was going to die
Then, he heard something
A voice... Or a hissing?
"so... Looks like you are in trouble little one"
Before he could even speak, look or though about the situation, the voice spoke again
"hm, shame, looks like the devil wants you, remember, I'm still watching and waiting"
He finally open his god damn eyes and believe he saw a man that looked like him but had white braided hair and another with a covered eye and a magma like hair and passes out
"What a beautiful place Luca!"
"Yeah, I know, I lived here... With gramps"
Tracy look at her friend, and her face saddened
Not long ago, Boidae passed away and Luca inheritance everything, he chose to go to university and study physics, however, he felt he needed someone to look after the house, so he asked Tracy, who at the same time begged her "older brother" to help her take care of the house
"Don't worry mister Balsa, I understand more than anyone the emotional value of things, it doesn't matter if it's a simple vase or a house, I'll take care of it"
"Thank you"
"Thanks Vicky!"
Victor was carrying the heavy stuff, now he wasn't wearing his priest (or whatever they were) clothes but a shirt and some black pants with a chain holding a very tiny and handy version of the Tome, his hair were now blond like his eyes
How they got it? Well, Joseph had some clothes, he was a little taller than Victor but it was better than nothing
"It's nothing, really"
"Thank goodness that we decided to ask Orpheus and Phobetor to look after Wick"
"I really don't understand the problem with him not staying"
"It probably will be a nuisance!"
"We still need to think about your last name!" Luca shouted, remembering what Joseph warned them about
"Definitely not our last names, that's for sure"
"I was looking at some, how about Grantz?"
"Grantz?"
"Yeah, it comes from Glanz I think, it means light, brilliance and or glory"
"It's a good name... Victor Grantz... I like it... Unless Edgar has something to say?"
"No, nothing to say" he had some other last names but Victor looked really happy about the last name Grantz so he won't say anything
Victor noticed so he went and hugged him, to which Edgar complained
Luca laughed while looking at this couple, they were so cute together and honestly, he hopes these two end up together
"Come on! We need to pack everything!"
"Alrighty" Victor carried Edgar way to the car while he screamed his head off, if he wasn't more of a psychopath, was carrying one of the heavy boxes
He laughed once again and look at the envelope
"I think... I'm going to accept it"
Antonio kicked the doors of the bar, and immediately saw his son drinking while his daughter was filling his cup
"I'm an idiot"
"I know, you said it for like the 1790th time in these 24 hours"
"But I really ruined everything! I am an idiot!"
"1791"
"What the hell happened to Andrew!?"
"Well, dad, both Luca and Edgar are alright, thank God!"
"Hey, don't mention him not in my house, territory or presence young lady!"
"The bad news is, they Fucking know about Andrew and his involvement in everything"
Antonio sighed and dragged away the sobbing mess that was his son
Right now, the violinist was about to destroy the door of the apartment, it was very loud that the other neighbors called Anne to resolve this
Thankfully for her, one of them, a boy named Ganji, came to help her
"What's happening here!?"
"Tell them to open that fucking door now"
"First of all, I can't force them to open up, second, you are invading my property, third, nobody lives there"
"What!?" The Italian man made it very clear he wasn't happy with that answer, Ganji noticed, so he put himself between Anne and Antonio
"They moved out today, what do you exactly want from them!?"
Antonio was extremely annoyed so he simply walked away, as he left, Anne collapsed as Ganji tried to help her get better
If only Luchino wasn't in his weekly reunion with his now fallen angel friends
Speaking of the devil's husband
He was now in a Chinese restaurant, for those unaware, that belonged to Hastur... That a yikes... Lucky us, there wasn't any bloodshed because they realized that these trio were a demon, a ghoul and a fallen angel nor that them realized that the person who owned the place was Hastur or, as like to call him, "that one octopus that is both a deity and has so many names and suffers from the Scottish play syndrome"
The thing is... There was so much tension in the air
"Well, I'm hopping or more like praying that nothing happens.... God ... What are we going to do!? He's definitely going to finish his plan! And we can't ask Aurelius' descendant because he probably already killed him or her" he smashed his head on the plate
"Thank goodness we paid for the VIP table"
Joker woke up but now he was different, his face was angry and had a pscho smile
"If that bastard dares to come to MY shop or MY girlfriend, I SWEAR I'll be eating boiled bat!
"Calm down, psycho... We still don't know what he'll do"
"That's easy to say for you, the demons are probably going to be alright! You slimy son of an archangel who fucked a octopus, goat? Whatever is Antonio" Shouted Joker while point at Luchino
"... He has a point"
"In which side are you, Orphy!?"
"I dunno... Maybe in the side in which we don't awaken a suicidal vampire!!!"
"Wha... Wait, wait, wait, wait! SO YOU HELPED VICTOR!? Mother fucking Victor!?"
"I did... But they forced us to help"
"No! You had a fucking choice my whore of a friend, you had it but you said "oh, no! These vampires are more powerful than us, even tho they have more weakness that power! They'll beat our arses so we have to oblige !" Well, FUCK that! If they disturb you, just take them out to get some sunlight, get some garlic perfume or bread. Smell to bad? Yes, but they won't want to be near you! Hell, even some are allergic to roses, helldamn roses that you could get ANYWHERE!!!"
Then the waiter came with the food to a screaming fight while Orpheus was already tired of this reunion
"Excuse me, do you have alcohol?"
"Yes, we do, why?"
"Bring me your strongest one, everything is on the guy with the braids"
"Ok sir" and she left
Then Orpheus texted Phobetor to warn him that he's going to get drunk and to pick him in one hour
If he's going to listen this two fight, he won't do it sober
And he'll add more fuel to the fire
"Joker, he called you Macbe-"
That was the breaking point
Joker began to punch Luchino and in retaliation, he used the cutlery and Joker used the condiments
Now this was amusing