Chapter 27: His highness Severus
The dog was really here and it had just licked her foot!!!! Her eyes were not deceiving her, this was no hallucination. Even the voice in her mind belonged to the dog.
"How, What?" she struggled with the questions in her mind.
"How am I here?" the dog asked.
"Yes." she replied.
"I am your newly contracted soul pet. I am not your ordinary type of pet by the way, I am Severus, a thirty first descendant of the king of hell hounds. Since we are not on friendly terms yet, you can call me His highness Severus."
She was about to respond sarcastically when her door was kicked open very loudly and her brothers came rushing in.
Adler was wielding a two sided battle axe which looked different from the one he had before.
Just like then in the Blue forest, he was swinging at the air randomly.
"What, what is it?" he asked. His head was moving left and right at a rapid pace.
"Sister has a beast in her room." Gregor her youngest brother said loudly. His little fingers were pointing at Severus that was lying lazily on her bed without a care in the world.
Adler's axe swung down, aiming at the dog.
"Stop." Scarlet yelled. "It's no beast, it's a gift from my master."
At the last moment, the axe changed direction narrowly missing the dog and yet to the shock of those who were watching the dog did not flinch or move. It appeared to be completely unaware of the danger.
"How can a beast not have any self awareness?" Adler asked her.
She heard Severus's voice say, "Please!! As if that puny little weapon could break a single hair of this lord."
She wondered if she should relay Severus's words as he said to her but she would sound crazy so she chose to say something else.
"He is a harmless pet as you can see. My master tamed him and gave him to me as a prize. He has been sleeping for months and he opened his eyes today morning and licked my foot which scared me." Scarlet explained.
"Tame!!! Harmless!!! Are you insulting this great lord?" Severus asked her.
He was quite serious but all the others heard was a puny vigorous bark.
He is cute." Gregor said.
"What kind of beast is he?" Elroy asked from where he was standing in the doorway.
"A dog." she answered.
"A dog!!!! You low level grim reaper. For your information I am a hound of hell that hunts for high level soul eaters that transcend realms and drag them back to the darkest pits of hell. If you are going to speak for me, do justice to my name."
What Severus wanted her to say was absolutely impossible. She could not possibly tell them that he was a hound of hell which brutally dragged escaped soul eaters back to the underworld and that it had forcefully made a contract with her. Calling him a dog was easier for all of them.
"Does he bite?" Gregor asked.
She remembered a book which she read on earth that depicted what a hell hound looked like. It had the biggest and sharpest teeth she had ever seen.
She shook her head however and said, "Not unless he is forced to so take care not to mess around with him. He is a gentle being otherwise." she lied.
In her mind, she heard Severus say, "I have the strongest bite and sharpest teeth in the heavenly realm. I once tore a chimera to pieces with one bite."
She laughed nervously and pleaded with him to shut up.
"I need to shower, I will see you all in a few minutes." She pushed them all out of her room, closed the door and slid down while leaning against it.
A few beads of sweat were running down her back and her there was a significant increment in her heart beat.
Why was this hound of hell here and putting her on tenterhooks?
"Hey Severus, if you are so powerful why did you contract yourself to me? As a matter of fact, what exactly are you? You have said that you once tore a chimera to pieces with one bite but when I met you last night you were just a tiny puppy."
"I needed a gullible grim reaper to help me escape and you are the most gullible of them all. Best of all, you said that you said that I deserved god food and you lacked a soul pet. It's a win-win situation for us both." he responded with pride in his voice.
She almost foamed at the mouth in extreme shock because she was being despised by an animal.
"I am gullible!!!" she said in shock. "What makes you think that I am gullible?"
Severus laughed and replied, "You jumped into a gateway of your own volition first of all. Only an idiot does that."
Scarlet was reminded of her very embarrassing mistake which led her here.
"Your picture is everywhere on the forum, you are being used as a tteaching aid on how to get strong souls to accept the mantle of becoming grim reapers." He chuckled some more.
She had no idea that Severus could access the underworld forum.
"I was going to continue running from those idiot reapers who can't feed me the food i deserve and yet they keep expecting me to hunt for them when I saw you. An infant soul cultivator who captured a level one soul eater. My, my, my, you are quite something."
"So you contracted yourself to me because of that?" she asked him. She knew that many reapers were impressed by what she accomplished but she didn't think it was that big a deal. It could be a one time thing unless she figured out how to do it again.
Severus lifted his body off the bed and stretched. "I just thought that you are an odd ball. An interesting odd ball and being with you will be fun. Now give me some meat before I decide to hunt. Keep in mind that I am feeling lazy so if I do decide to hunt, I will start with the little birds you keep in those poorly constructed cages outside."
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone