The Devil's Lover: The Wish by Dahlia Lu Page A

brain dead for over twelve hours, and here he
was, a coma and a month later walking out of the hospital a healthy
man. Modern medicine had no explanation.
    “ I’m home,” Chevalier
said, pushing the door open and entering his apartment. He closed
the door behind him. When he didn’t hear her voice, he searched for
her in the bedroom and the bathroom. “Kali?”
    Oh right, she doesn’t live here
anymore. Chevalier mentally slapped himself. How could he forget a
thing like that?
     
     
    After dinner, he went to see Kali at
Lucien's home. He rang the bell for a while, losing his patience
when no one answered the door. He was about to force his way in
when he realized the door wasn’t locked. The place was completely
deserted. Judging from the layer of dust and the shreds of cobwebs
hanging everywhere, the place had been deserted for at least a
month. 
    He took the cell phone out of his
pocket and called Hana. She shrieked when she heard his voice. He
pulled the cell phone away to protect his ear.
    “ Hana? Hey, do you know
where Kali is?”
    “ Chevalier? But…but
you’re…”
    “ Yeah. Dead. Never mind
that, just tell me where Kali is.”
    “ You’re alive!”
    “ I just got released from
the hospital. You know modern medical nowadays, they can even bring
people back from the dead. Where’s Kali?”
    “ K-Kali?” Hana’s voice
stuttered. “After the doctors confirmed your death, Kali
disappeared with Lucien. No one has seen them in a
month.”
    “ Disappeared? What do you
mean ‘disappeared’?” Chevalier thought about the handsome young man
standing by his bed in the hospital room when he woke earlier.
“I’ve got to go.”
    “ Wait,
Chevalier!”
    He hung up the phone. Could it be that
what that guy said was true? Lucien… no, Lucifer had taken Kali to
Hell? How could that be? In a world of modern science, how could
something like that happen? But the guy he’d met had a pair of
black wings and had disappeared out the window twenty stories high.
Were there still things in this world even modern science couldn’t
explain?
    His name, what was it?
    Chevalier sighed. He suddenly felt
like a character in a science fiction movie.
    “ Soren! Soren! Show yourself !”
    He stepped back as a light appeared on
the floor next to him, slowly spreading to form a magic circle on
the ground. It shifted to a bright crimson red as Soren appeared in
his human form. “So, you have reconsidered.”
    “ Reconsidered
what?”
    “ Becoming a
demon.”
    “ Why would I want to do
that?” Chevalier asked.
    “ Then you summoned me
because-”
    “ Where is
Kali?”
    “ In Hell.”
    “ Okay. How do I get
there?”
    Soren chuckled. “And what will you do
once you get there?”
    “ Take her
back.”
    “ How?”
    “ What do you mean, how?
I’ll give Lucien a good beating and bring her back.”
    “ He is Lucifer,” Soren
reminded Chevalier, “the most powerful among the archangels. If you
want to take her back, you must become a demon
yourself.”
    “ Will I be powerful enough
to defeat Lucifer?”
    That was a foolish question, Soren
thought. “No, but you will be able to bring Kali back. That is what
you want, isn’t it?”
    “ Fine,” Chevalier said
without a moment hesitation, “make me into one of your
kind.”
    Soren threw a small vial of potion at
him. Chevalier caught it in his hand.
    “ Drink this,” Soren
instructed. “It will slowly kill you. You will die an excruciating
death - the mortal you, anyways. I will take care of the rest. When
you wake up, you will have powers beyond your
imagination.”
    “ Excruciating death, huh?”
Chevalier opened it and poured the liquid into his mouth. “I hope
she’ll appreciate what I’m going through for her. She can be quite
dense, you know.”
    “ Why? Why are you making
such a hasty and dangerous decision for a girl?” Soren asked
curiously. "I did not jest when I said this will be
excruciating.”
    “ Who knows?” Chevalier
said. He felt his