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Cielo the Magical Villain (complete)
🕑 Added 2021-09-09 19:00:04 +0000 UTC
Female Reader x Male Monster (both cis)
For the past few years you’ve worked as a mentor for up-and-coming magical girls. Having been one yourself in your youth, it’s really the only job you can get. Do you like it? Not really. Does it pay well? Not exactly. But you have a daughter to think about, and Honey takes precedence over your own ego. The girls are fine, but you really wish you could warn them about the pitfalls of life. You’ve been yelled at so many times for trying that you’ve learned to hold your tongue and guide the kids in a way that can help them make the right decisions. It nearly broke you when Honey insisted on joining her friends, even more so when she was granted the destiny once held by your best friend. Honey wouldn’t relent, even knowing all the stories.
Things were going smoothly until a giant ship crashed into the facility. The vessel was large, dark blue and black in color, and resembled a work of stained glass melded together into a sort of odd bubble. Luckily, no one had gotten hurt, and already preparations were being made to evacuate the staff. You, on the other hand, didn’t feel right leaving the children alone with whatever was coming out of that ship, so you stayed inside and headed for the crash site.
The ship had landed in the main hall, coming through the intricate skylight. It sat there still, sometimes hissing steam. Whatever was inside, you weren’t risking the kids getting abducted, or a bomb going off. “Stay back,” you warned some of the kids who had followed you. “I’ll approach first.”
The kids murmured and whispered behind you. Some were ready and eager to go, but even those were grateful to have you there. You had your old transformation brooch, which you hadn’t used in ages, but you knew you still could. Approaching the vessel, you could see the radiance shimmering around it. The blue color fell across your skin, causing a slight tingling sensation. You swallowed and stood as close as you possibly could. “Quite rude of you to crash into our school,” you announced as loudly as possible. “I request you to leave!” You pointed towards the door, although you weren’t sure why.
Light flashed through the blue parts of the ship, and the kids all gasped and hurried behind you. You flinched as well, taking a tiny step back. “If you need help, we are willing to provide it.”
One of the blue slates popped out, slowly pushing forward from within. It slid down into the shape of a ramp, and someone came out of the ship, standing upon the smooth surface.
“He’s tall,” one of the kids whispered behind you.
The figure that came out was indeed remarkably tall. Its head had two long prongs jutting from the temples, and a smooth blue plate over the face. From the back of the head down onto the shoulders and back, large gemstone-like protrusions jutted out. Along the jaw these gemstones formed a sort of jagged, tooth-like beard. “School?” The figure snarled. Eyes glowed white behind the blue plate as he spoke, and his voice was like a deep echo in a cave. “This is my house!”
You swallowed again as your heart pulsed in your throat. “But the Bevilacqua family donated their estate to…”
“Oh, I see,” the gemstone man laughed. “My father saw no hope in me, so he gave up everything upon his death. How very sad. But this is still all mine!”
Piero Bevilacqua was part of a long line of magical girl benefactors, and his family had made it their legacy to support the efforts. Piero’s daughter, Alida, was the first of the name to take up the magical girl mantle, but she died quite young, leading Piero to establish the school as you knew it. Alida had been your best friend, and you had been close to all of her family, including her brother. You had been the last person to see him before he vanished.
“Bevilacqua only had two children,” you said sternly. “Who the hell might you be, and what right do you think you have to this estate?”
The gemstone man jumped from his perch, landing before you and cracking the marble floor. You stumbled, nearly falling from the shockwaves of his landing, and the kids behind you all toppled and quickly scurried further back. You stood there, trying to take in the intruder. He leaned down, his eyes glowing through the blue mask. “I’m one of those children,” he growled.
Your brow pinched. “Cielo?”
He chuckled low and began to reach out, but his hand was knocked aside by a flashing attack. “Honey, no!” You turned to your daughter, who had stood up to defend you.
“Mama, look out!” Honey rushed to defend you again, but you guarded her from the swing of the gemstone behemoth. He struck your back, and your skin began to crackle as blue light formed a shell around you. It sealed you and Honey in together, knocking you both unconscious.
You came to sometime later, your skin still feeling rigid and crackly. Blue dust fell from you as you began to move. “Mama?” Honey called out.
You forced yourself to move, getting off the table you had been laid out on. Honey sat up, reaching out to you, and you took her into your arms. “I’m glad you’re alright,” you told her.
“I didn’t want you getting hurt either,” Honey whimpered. “Where are we?”
Everything was cast in a dull shade of blue. Light shone from outside and reflected around the room in strange patterns. You seemed to be in some sort of exam room. You searched your pockets for your brooch, but all your pockets had been emptied. You didn’t even have your gum. “No need to panic. I’ve seen worse,” you assured your child.
“What was that thing?” Honey asked.
You started looking around the room for any sort of exit. “A jewelry-store nightmare, by the looks of him.”
Honey slipped down from the table and came towards you. “I don’t have my brooch anymore.”
“Neither do I, so we have to play this smart. Remember what I’ve taught you.” You turned and gave her a reassuring smile. “We’re a team, right?”
Honey brightened and smiled. “Right. I’ll go to the other side and look for a door.”
“Good girl.” You sighed heavily once her back was turned. This was really your worst case scenario. You started searching for an exit, but all the facets of the blue glass didn’t seem to have a beginning or end.
“It’s like we’re trapped inside a huge sapphire,” Honey said.
Just before you had been captured, the monster said something that made you think he was actually someone else. But who? Just as you were about to step aside, part of the wall vanished and opened into a hallway, admitting a small crowd of what you could only describe as gemstone goblins. They made screeching guttural noises at you and grabbed at you, slapping your legs and forcing you towards the door.
“Mama!” Honey yelped.
“Stay calm!” you shouted back at her. “I’ll come back for you!” The door closed again, reappearing and sealing the room shut. The gemstone goblins ushered you down the hallway, cackling and jabbing at you to make you go. Another facet opened up and they pushed you inside, making you trip over a rug and fall to the floor.
“Motherfucker,” you growled as you tried to stand back up. You pushed yourself up off the floor and looked around the room. It was round inside, and a column in the center was filled with white flickering light. Surrounding it were jagged dark blue stones sculpted into the shape of chairs. Hanging from the ceiling were screens showing footage from outside, charts, and other readouts you weren’t sure of. You stood up and saw the gemstone monster on the other side.
“Fucker,” you repeated.
The monster chuckled. “You stand against me. You place yourself in front of what is mine, and dare to say what you think is right.”
“I didn’t say anything even close to that. I just wanted to know what was happening.” You stood glaring through the flickering white light. “I knew the family who owned that estate. That’s all.”
“Past tense?” he scoffed. “So they’re all gone.”
You clenched and unclenched your first. “Piero died several years ago.”
“And he just gave everything away,” the monster scoffed. “What a joke.”
“His children were gone. The school and the magical children were all he had,” you insisted. “What was he supposed to do? Let it rot while waiting for an heir?”
The monster held up the two brooches, yours and Honey’s, and your knuckles popped with a particularly hard squeeze. “And what exactly happened to his heirs?” he sneered.
“Alida died.” The words tasted bitter in your mouth. “And Cielo vanished. No one knew what happened to him.”
The monster started laughing. “Did anyone even try to find him?”
“I did.”
The monster stood from his seat. “Obviously you didn’t try hard enough.”
Your jaw hurt from tension. You’d had enough. “Something happened that caused some problems. I don’t owe you an explanation! So unless you actually are Cielo, I’m done discussing the matter! What the fuck is going on?” you screamed.
Cielo removed the blue visor from his face. His skin was blue like the sapphires, his eyes swallowed in a white glow. The sapphires grew along his skin, around his mouth, up the sides of his cheek and temples, into the horns jutting from his forehead. “Broken hearts mend in strange ways.”
You glared at him. “If I get my brooch back, I’m going to fucking kill you for that answer alone!”
“Which is why I kept it.” He waved the two brooches in his large palm. “Now who the hell thinks they can replace my sister? Did my father do this?”
“We’re not talking about that girl. We’re talking about you, Cielo! Where have you been? Why did you run away?”
Cielo tucked the brooches into a pocket, then put on the mask again. “I figured you would have found me. Then it could have just been the two of us.”
“I couldn’t look for you anymore. I told you, something happened, and I…”
Cielo threw his head back and laughed. “Excuses! You loved the comfort my family afforded. After Alida was gone, I bet my father just lavished you with affection. He ignored me!”
“Your father became a recluse! He let Molina handle everything after that. He never left his observatory!”
Cielo scoffed and lifted his huge hand. “And yet you remained.”
“I left, too! But I came back for a job. I’m a mentor to the new generation and I…” You stopped and held up your hands. “I don’t owe you an explanation. You abandoned me.”
“I wanted you to follow.”
“How the fuck was I supposed to get that, Cielo? Some stupid ring on the nightstand?”
“It wasn’t stupid. It was an engagement ring!”
“Stupid!” you yelled back.
Gemstones came up from the floor, capturing your ankles and legs and growing up along your sides until your arms were held back. Cielo came forward to stand over you. “I’m taking back what is mine, so you’d best find that stupid ring and give it back to me. This estate, and everything in it, will all be returned to me.”
You glared up at him. “You’ve been gone for thirteen years! You forfeited it. You have no right to come back in and expect it. I’ll fight you for it. All I ask is that you let the girl go.”
Cielo shook his head. “I don’t know who that girl is, or what makes her think she can replace Alida. But she’s staying here, because what she has is mine.”
“Let her go,” you insisted.
Cielo reached out, taking your face in his hands. “You used to be mine once,” he murmured. “Remember?”
“I owned you, and you know it,” you sneered.
He brushed the hair from your face, then pressed his sharp sapphire claws into your temple. “I’m not a weak little boy anymore.”
“Yes, you are. Go ahead, pull whatever magical trigger you’ve got under that hard shell. Underneath it you’re still nougat.”
The gems holding you broke apart and you fell back onto the floor. The gemstone goblins grabbed you by your ankles and pulled you to the door. “I’m not done with you!” you screamed at Cielo. “You’ll have to face me soon!”
You were taken back to the room where Honey was, and she jumped up from the table to meet you as the goblins dragged you in. You huffed as they dropped you, and she approached to help you up. “Are you okay? What happened?”
You sat up and rubbed your face down your hands. “A thirteen-year-old mistake.”
Honey pointed at herself. “Me?”
“No, not you! You’re not a mistake,” you huffed, then pulled her in for a hug. You rubbed her back and gave a tight squeeze. “My mistake.”
“So what happened?”
“That creature is Cielo Bevilacqua,” you grumbled. “He’s come back to take what he believes is his right.”
“So, the school,” Honey nodded. “Well, maybe he can have it back. Maybe if we talk to him, he’ll let us keep running the school too. I mean, he looks really big, but he doesn’t need that entire mansion, right?”
“It’s not that simple,” you huffed. “He doesn’t want to share. He’s going to take everything he believes is his. It doesn’t matter .”
Honey’s eyes widened and she nodded. “Oh, so he’s, like, really angry.”
You scratched hard at your scalp. “Yup.”
“Maybe I could talk to him then. I mean, after all, his sister and I are…”
You shook your head. “No, Honey. That’s part of the problem too. He thinks you’re a usurper or something. He’s probably more angry at you than anyone.”
“But his sister…”
The look you gave her stopped her. “I’m not sure what to do. But I do know he will not touch you. If I could just get my brooch back…”
Honey patted your back. “You knew Cielo, right? You don’t really talk much about him, but you do have lots of old pictures of him back home.”
Your brow pinched as you looked at her up and down. “Honey, how do you know about those pictures?”
“I like to snoop,” Honey said with no guilt. “But you did know him. I mean, you had to! You and Alida were best friends. You did everything together. What was Cielo like back then? Maybe you could still reach him.”
The screaming match you had moments earlier would say otherwise. “It’s been thirteen years since I last saw him. And obviously, we’ve both changed in that time. I don’t think I know him anymore.”
“You always told me that everyone has a version of the story, and their version is worth hearing just as much as the story most listened to. You should listen to his side to help you understand him. Like with Raya Vortex!”
“Raya Vortex was trying to save her people. I don’t think Cielo…: You stopped and sighed. “Maybe you’re right. If he wants the estate back, maybe there’s a reason. I just got mad.”
Honey squeezed your hand tight. “Try harder, Mama. If he left after Alida died, maybe that has something to do with it.”
You hugged her again. “You really are good at this.”
Sometime later, the goblins came and fetched you and Honey. They led you to a room with a bed and a column of that warm white light, and then you were separated from Honey and led to Cielo. He sat at the head of a long, narrow table. You took a seat near him, and a gemstone goblin served you a drink. “Have you calmed down?” he asked.
“Have you?” You took the drink and sipped. It was ice-cold water. “Because if even one of us is heated, we’re never going to be able to talk.”
Cielo shrugged. “I can keep my cool.”
“Then I will try, too.” You watched him toying with food on his plate. A plate was brought to you, but you also pushed the morsels around. “Why did you leave?”
“I was sad. Angry,” he murmured. “I didn’t know what to do. Alida was the glue that held my family together. Without her it fell apart.”
“That’s why you needed to stay. Your father needed you, and you leaving it was what broke him.”
“He had a funny way of showing it,” Cileo sneered.
You nodded. “Yeah, he did. But he was grieving too. I was grieving. We all were.” You laid your fork down. “Why not tell me though? Why make it so vague and strange?”
“What made you stop looking for me? What could be so important that you would just forget me?”
“I didn’t forget you,” you insisted. “I came down with something.”
Cielo scoffed. “A cold, really?”
You picked the fork up again to distract yourself. “Not a cold.”
Cielo snarled under his breath as he leaned back in his chair. He touched his hand to his face, slightly moving the mask aside. You could see the tight line of his mouth and the small mole that had always been in the corner. You used to plant kisses there, calling it his target. “My father should have known I was alive.”
“He did. But you were gone. What could he have done?” You frowned at Cielo, but let it fade away into a sympathetic look. “You didn’t know he was gone, did you?”
“Eat your food,” he grumbled.
“I can’t believe I didn’t get it. You reacted the same way when Alida died. You just raged and…” You reached over, touching his hand on the table, which he yanked back. “I’m so sorry, Cielo.”
Cielo pushed your hand away. “I don’t need your sympathy. There’s nothing here to mourn. Nothing to feel bad about. I worked so hard all these years and finally found a way to save her, and…”
You looked at him in consternation. “Alida?”
“But that girl…” he started to fume. “She ruined it! The brooch is bonded to another person now. It won’t work! I can’t bring Alida back! There’s not even anyone to bring her back for.” He slammed his fists down onto the table. “That girl is going to pay! I can’t bring Alida back anymore! The method won’t work if that brooch is bonded to another!”
“You will not touch that girl!” you snapped at him. “She has done nothing wrong, the brooch chose her!”
Cielo’s eyes glowed bright white under the mask. He raised his fists from the table and lifted them into the air. “If she didn’t exist, Alida could!”
“Then blame yourself!” you barked at him. “She exists because of you!”
Cielo scoffed and lowered his arms down. “What sort of hippie bullshit is that supposed to mean?”
You clenched your jaw, then swallowed hard and took a deep breath. “I couldn’t look for you because I became pregnant. The night you left was also the night you knocked me up.”
Cielo was very still and very quiet.
“I call her Honey, but her real name is Alida. You’re her father.” You looked at him, then quickly looked away. “So. If you’re looking to blame someone, blame your dick. Or the broken condom. I don’t know…” You held your face in your hands.
“That’s… weird,” Cielo muttered. “So… wait. Then why wasn’t the estate left to her, or even just you?”
“Because I turned it away. Your father gave me money, and left Honey a trust fund, but she won’t be able to access it until she’s twenty-one. But I didn’t want that house. It was too much for me.”
Cielo sank in his chair and took off the mask. “I don’t know what to do. This is a wrench. This is…” His face contorted. He set the mask upon the table, then glared at the state of his hand. “How can I face her like this?”
You stood from your chair and approached him. “Now, what the hell is that supposed to mean?”
“I turned myself into a monster so I could bring my sister back. I mean… look at me!” His eyes flashed bright white.
You placed your hand on his shoulder. “You always said you wished you could transform like me and Alida.”
“I can’t exactly turn back, though,” he grumbled.
You touched his face, remembering how he used to bemoan his facial hair and how fast it grew. Sapphires now replaced that dark hair, but his skin felt the same, if a bit colder. “What did you do, Cielo?”
Cielo refused to look at you. His eyes remained downcast, focused on his hand. He was still and lost in thought, trying to piece together the story in a way he could tell. “It doesn’t matter anymore what I did, or why I did it. The reason is gone now. My purpose is shattered. That…” His voice stuck in his throat. “That girl has taken Alida’s place. The brooch won’t work anymore. I made my trade for that power, and it’s with me forever.”
“At least you look pretty.”
His eyes moved towards you at last, and a sardonic glare set his brows and made his gaze sharp. You smirked at him. “I know there is a lot going on in your head right now. But could it be possible to move your ship out of the house?”
Cielo grumbled under his breath. “It is my home.”
“It’s home to a bunch of kids too, and you’re kind of ruining their day.” You stepped back and walked away from the table. “I’m going to go and check on Honey. I’ve been here for long enough.”
Cielo sighed. “Does she look like Alida?” he asked.
Standing in the doorway as it opened up, you shook your head at him. “No. She looks like you.” You went back down the hall, kicking at a few of the sapphire goblins who tried to grab your ankles.
