Prince of Darkness (Closed//Mature Stalkers Enabled)

"Mm…" Scipio was quiet for a moment, looking down at the frog in his hands. "Mind if I join you?"

Lucifer glanced at him during the moment of silence, then shrugged. "I guess you can. Dunno why you'd wanna though."

Scipio shrugged as well and stripped, getting into the hot spring with the frog still in his hands. He let it go once he was in so it could swim.

It swam around, chirruping and floating to Lucifer again, who accepted it gently into his hands. It crawled up his arm and back into his hair.

"So… a few days ago… what was that all about, if you don't mind my asking?" Scipio looked up at Lucifer, picking up another frog.

Lucifer shrugged and relaxed into the side of the springs. "I dunno." The frog that was lifted up made a weird rumbling noise.

"I mean, I'm not like, upset… just a bit surprised, you know?" Scipio looked down at the frog in his hands.

"Yeah, I caught on to that. Otherwise I think you would have tried to kill me or something," Lucifer commented.

"I make bad decisions, but I'm not stupid. I don't think attempted murder of the king of hell would end in my favor." Scipio watched the frogs swimming.

"It wouldn't, thanks for noticing." He chuckled softly, shaking his head slowly. "You seem to like these frogs a lot, huh?"

"They're interesting… since I was challenged to keep one alive, I became intrigued with them as I tried to figure out how to keep the damn things from dying."

"Mmm. It seems you enjoy challenges," Lucifer observed, smiling a little as he listened to Scipio's rantings about frogs.

"Yeah, I'm not a coward." Scipio grinned. "If someone challenges me to keep a frog alive, I will find a way to keep that damn frog from croaking." He was quiet for a moment. "I also like puns."

"Not a coward for wanting to take more frogs?" Lucifer asked with a slight snort. "I understand other challenges you might accept, but frogs for the sake of puns sounds absurd."

"Not just because of the frog thing. I'm generally just not a coward when it comes to challenges. Also, frogs are perfectly worthy of puns. They're just not worth decent humor." Scipio picked up another frog and examined it.

"I do not see how," Lucifer said with a slight raise of his eyebrows at the bright frog Scipio grabbed. "Puns are less than decent humor. I thought you'd understand."

"I do. I said frogs don't deserve decent humor; just puns." Scipio released the frog and let it swim.

Lucifer glanced down at the frog as it swooshed around, watching the water churn. "Hm. Alright, then. Decent humor, just puns." He rose a hand for the frog in the water and cupped it up.

"Are there other animals down here or just frogs?" Scipio asked, settling himself down in the water.

"Yeah, some Demons have cats and dogs. I've been thinking about getting a bigger animal but there's a lot of work and food that goes into it," He responded with a sigh.

Scipio nodded. "Do you have anything other than frogs? Like… any pets?"

"Nope, just these fuckers that come in through the stream." He sighed and let the frog down again.

"Mm…" Scipio was quiet for a few seconds. "I like them." He finally decided with a small nod, staring off into space.

"You do, huh? Well, you're free to take as many as you'd like," He decided with a nod in return, yawning faintly as the room fell into silence.

A frog jumped onto Scipio's head and he flinched, but quickly relaxed. He glanced up to see if he could see it.

Lucifer looked across the bath and moved, plucking the frog off of his head after drifting over. He opened Scipio's hands and set it back down into his hands.
"They like hair."

"Mm… I've been told my hair is soft as well, so maybe they like that." Scipio made eye contact with the frog, which whistled quietly.

"Mm." He turned his back and floated off to his spot again, settling back down and stretching out. He sunk down deeper into the water so only his shoulders and head was peeking out.

Scipio set the frog on his shoulder and picked up a couple more, putting them on his other shoulder and his head. "I am the frog king." He said with a grin.

Lucifer watched with a soft snicker at Scipio. He was such a dork. A few more frogs swam over to the latter, waving their little legs and trying to join their new king.