Author's NOTE: Hullo! Before you read this, please note that (a) I do not intend to infringe on any copyrights (But I think at least 50% of the charactors are mine! Cool!) and (b) This is a little gothic or something…it's kinda freaky-weird...I have no clue what possessed me to write it! Mefipazzio is completely mine! hah! If you'd like to know what he looks like, e-meow me, and I'll send you a pic!
Part I: Lord of Darkness
Mefipazzio sat on his throne of skulls…Mefipazzio…Lord of the
Underworld…Lord of the Land of Cats who were not accepted in the
Heaviside Layer…Mefipazzio remembered how he came to be here…he
remembered all too well…
Pierro (his old name) had been just born…a tiny black and red kitten, with an odd white fur ruff around his little shoulders…it gave him a majestic appearance. He had just opened his eyes for the first time, only to be swept away during the night. He fought and fought, and was beaten cruelly into submission… and taken down through blackness…into and abyss of darkness…
"Pierro…no…You will be given a new name…Mefi…Mefipazzio! Yes…Mefipazzio you will be…"
The Master would lock him up in a cage during the day, and little Pierrro slept, then was awakened at night and taught by The Master of what he was to do for the rest of eternity…
"You will be Lord of the Underworld…Of Cats who were not chosen for the Heaviside Layer…who were not pleasing to Old Deuteronomy…"
"I don't understand…?"
"Cats are given nine lives…when the last one is lived, they go to the gates of the Heaviside Layer to be judged. If they have more good merits than bad, they are accepted into a lower part of the Heaviside Layer (Those specially chosen by Old Deuteronomy go to the higher part). However, if they have done more bad things in their lives, they are forced to live here… You will reign here…to keep order…I cannot keep track of this Underworld as well as my own…Do you agree to live like this forever? If not, you will die now…"
"No…I mean, Yes, Master…"
"Well then…Come here…" And The Master picked Mefipazzio up and put him in the cage, and then locked him in…
Oh yes! He remembered every detail…even when he became immortal…
"Mefipazzio…"
"Yes, Master?"
"It is Time"
"For what, Master?
"You are ready to fully take on your duties as Lord of This Underworld…I must make you immortal now…you are an adult…"
"Then I shall never die?"
"That is what 'Immortal' usually means…"
"Yes…of course, Master…"
"Are you ready?"
"Yes, Master…"
"Stand there…face away from me…yes, now understand you must stay here; you will not be allowed to go above…and you will never grow old or die…Do you undrstand and agree?"
"Yes, of course, Master"
"Very well"
Mefipazzio was thrown suddenly, and he arched his back, and then tried to find ground for his feet, but fell, and suddenly flew up into blinding light, then plunged down into darkness… He hit something hard, and it felt like he cracked his skull, plunging him into unconciousness…
He rememebered waking up, alone in the throne room… his back was to a door, and facing him was a huge throne made up of skulls…feline skulls…it frightened him for a moment, and then he remembered what The Master had said...He was Lord or the Underworld now...King of the feline dead...And he was, himself, immortal…
Mefipazzio shook his head to clear away those memories…that was a long time ago… A soul approached him…
"Lord," It said, in a hollow voice, "I bring a soul who attempted escape." He wrenched a soul from an iron box he held, "This…" he said.
"Well, what have you to say for yourself?" Mefipazzio asked, with such an oily and seductive voice, which made souls feel he wasn't going to punish them.
"I…ah...wanted my life back…"
"Too bad…I had hoped for a better answer…" he said…almost patronizing, and then continued in a harsher tone, "Take it away! Lock it up in The Pit!"
"No! Nooooooo! Not the-" but it was cut off by being shut back in the iron box.
"Be gone!"
"Yes Master." The guard soul said, and in great haste, left the room.
Mefipazzio had gained a very cynical and morbid mind since he was brought here…He was very cruel…and it was all because he had never known love.
End Part I