#Mallek's POV

[kaioken16]

A Test

MallekWeek 2022 Day 5 - SGRUBS/God Tier

Rating T

Word count: 1054

Character(s): Mallek Adalov

AO3 Link

Summary: The Rogue of Time, feeling a little bored decides to test some of his powers across his planet. (Mallek’s POV)

You sometimes wonder if this was all a dream, that any moment you were going to wake up and realize that none of this was real and you were still on Alternia when the worst thing you had to worry about was being shipped off–planet and not taking part in a universal game that shapes reality and gave you godly powers.

But here you were, the official Rogue of Time, doing nothing but playing with your new powers. You were bored and there was nothing to do but kill time, ironically enough as a time player that was something you found funny. So you decided to start messing around with things on your planet.

Your first test was on some of your robots who were performing their daily tasks around the area, you had positioned them all over the planet to assist the denizens and keep a look out for intruders. Your attention is drawn to one of the drones setting up one of your many apparatus, the machine like the other born of your likeness and your sign.

It wasn’t a narcissistic thing, you didn’t have an ego about it. It was more of your unique brand if nothing else, this was your way of distinguishing them as your drones and it made your denizens a little comfortable.

Keeping your distance, and hiding behind a boulder, peeking your head out you point your finger at the robot, it glows red and above the robot’s head, a gear symbol appears, slowly moving to slow the natural flow of time. You then open your hand before balling it into a fist.

“Suspend.”

As soon as you spoke that word the gear floating above the robot stops moving, and so does the robot as if you turned it off but it wasn’t natural, you froze its time as if you hit pause on a video. You then slowly open your hand again and make an opening gesture with your hand.

“Resume”

On your order, the gear starts moving again and the robot unaware of what happens continues moving. You then decided to let it be and continue with its duties.

You now find yourself before a large oak tree it looks like one of the trees for your friend’s world, you were just focusing your attention on a large tree positioned in front of you, raising your hand out, a large red gear icon materializes over the tree, your hand glows a similar red hue, and with the twirl of your fingers in a counter-clockwise direction.

“Rewind.”

At your command, the tree’s outline glows red and as if the image was on a screen, the tree was beginning to grow smaller, the large branches that stretched out were shrinking and retreating back, and the tree was becoming younger until it becomes a simple sprout that was no bigger than your thumb.

“Huh. Cool…”

You were genuinely amused by this action, it was very surreal how effective your powers were, but you also understood that they were stronger here on your planet, your dominion. You then start twirling your finger in the opposite direction, and the gear over the sprouts starts moving in the same direction.

“Flash Forward.”

Now the sprout was growing becoming taller, the branches begin to shoot forth, and the leaves begin to bloom, until it returns to its original majestic size, dwarfing you as you look up at the wonderful sight. You wave your hand away to deactivate your power over the tree, standing up, you extend your blue wings, letting them stretch out before you take flight.

You had already tested your quote-on-quote standard time abilities, but now you wanted to see your specific powers as a Rogue. This would be a little drastic but you could always reverse it afterward, you just wanted to see how and if it would work.

You make your way to another location on the other side of LORAS. Here you found those two creatures again, was a large reptile-like beast with rock-plated scales, it was eating boulders and minding its own business. On the other side was a large bird creature that was dressed in armour plating, its feathers were grey and it looked very old and tired, it was sleeping.

You keep a good distance away from these literal titans as from previous experiences, they weren’t very friendly when compared to other denizens that lived here. Staying high in the air, you extend both arms out, each one aimed at the creatures.

The symbol on your chest begins to glow bright, along with your whole body as two large red hourglasses materialize over the two creatures. This was dangerous but you were confident you knew what you were doing, and you could use your restore ability if anything goes wrong.

“Exchange: Give and Take.”

Your voice echoes as an energy current flow from the hourglasses creating an infinity shape, both creatures glow red and the reptiles become larger, their scales become more dominant over their body, their skin becoming more wrinkling, their claws becoming longer. On the other hand, the bird becomes newer, its grey feathers return a white hue, its armor that was worn out and cracked was becoming shiny and pristine, and the creases along its body disappeared as it spreads its wings being reborn again.

“Whoa… It works.”

You were amazed at the results, and even more, surprising neither of the creatures was harmed. They were the perfect test subjects for this ability due to their large lifespans, as you knew these two were hundreds of sweeps old. The reptile creature was in the adolescence of its life, and the bird creature was near its elderly stage.

Exchange, give, and take. This ability was your primary skill to steal the time for one and give it to another. You could use this ability on living and non-living things, you stole the reptile’s time and gave it to the bird restoring its youth. In combat, you can steal time from your enemies and give it to your teammates.

It was very powerful but also dangerous as you could potentially kill someone with this technique. But you already knew if it came down to your friends and the enemy you know you wouldn’t hesitate to do so.

“Alright, that’s enough testing for one day, time to go eat.”

#MallekWeek2022 #mallekweek #mallek week 2022 #Mallek Adalov #god tier #rogue of time #canon divergent au #fantasy au #fanfiction #fanfic #My writing #hiveswap #hiveswap fanfic #A short lore related piece based on some headcanons of mine #Mallek's POV

[chahutsimp]

Mallek Adalov

Might color later

#hs #hiveswap #mallek #mallek adalov #how the frick you draw povs?

[relaxxattack]

Do you have headcanon/ideas about cobalt/ceruleans as a class that you think hiveswap gets wrong?

you know, it may surprise you, but i actually don't have many.

i actually really like all the ceruleans in hiveswap. none of them are insanely interesting or anything, and obviously none of them cold even come close to holding a candle to vriska-- but who could, really? vriska is supposed to be a stand-out character. it makes total sense that other ceruleans would seem boring in comparison.

i like that most of them are just conniving bitches. that's about what i would expect from the blue-blooded caste. in fact, i wish more of the indigos were like that-- it's weird to me that the indigos seem so carefree and less cutthroat. maybe wealth will do that to you. but it's not as if they're seadwellers...

i think my one note would be that i hate this remark mallek makes in his route where he basically acts like a little pissbaby and tries to claim that ceruleans have it really hard compared to indigos.

yeah of course indigos have it better than ceruleans-- they are on the rung above them. but ceruleans are not "barely blue". ceruleans ARE blue. ceruleans are bluebloods. they are well off little fuckers and it's so strange that hiveswap acts like bluebloods need to scrounge to get by... because they don't.

i mean, casual reminder that vriska lived in a fucking castle. one that was nearly equal to her neighbor equius next because they're both... bluebloods.

however did you know there's a caste that IS on the edge of blueness? who has to work hard in their field to be respected and treated well? because, while they are technically blueish, they sit on the line of it and will get a side eye about it?

that's right, tealbloods. i mean teal is literally the fucking intersection between green and blue anyway so you'd think that would be more obvious.

as you can see in this quote terezi gets grouped in with bluebloods frequently because she counts as one (perhaps especially in the POV of rusts like aradia). aradia even has to clarify that she means no offense to terezi specifically when she calls bluebloods "hateful snobs".

you can also see here that terezi literally uses blueblood slang and is mocked somewhat for that. this is because she does, again, technically count as a blueblood.

so yeah that's my one issue with the hiveswap ceruleans. it's weird that they try to go with the "ceruleans have it really hard within the blueblood group" when there was already a setup for that with tealbloods in homestuck proper. it just sort of makes it sound like mallek is a whiny little bitch lol.

making the eye mutations thing common is also a little silly to me personally, (yet another case of using the personality traits of the betas to account for the entire caste), but it's cute so whatever.

other than that though i'm a big fan of them, they're a really fun amount of awful when they aren't boring.

#'i don't have any issue with the hiveswap ceruleans' (proceeds to write an essay) #this could have been like 1 sentence... sorry everyone i just love citing my sources too much when i make points :( #hsmeta #op #hiveswap #bluebloods #alternia

[nibblyjimbles]

Can you do POV thing where reader is pinned down by Mallek ?

Careful what you wish for anon!

#hiveswap #hiveswap mallek #mallek #mallek adalov #mallek friendsim #mallek x reader

[halloweensuittruffles]

Do you still take requests?

Can I requests Mallek x Me. Flushed confession but its Malleks pov? Thank you for the time to read!

YES I DO AAA HI IVAN!!! X3

It would be my pleasure ✨🐍💙💻💕💕

Mallek x Reader!!

This was the one thing this tech wiz couldn’t hack-

Mallek had been feeling overwhelmed about his own feelings recently, he just couldn’t understand it.

You and Mallek had known eachother for quite awhile, ever sense he first thought you were a robot.

He had considered you a great friend sense then, whenever you needed something electric fixed or needed help he’d be right there to help! Anything for a friend.

“A friend”.

But that wasn’t really what Mallek felt, He thought so much more of you.

He had started noticing how awkward he started to feel around you

Small things you always did he started to notice a bit more, and find adorable.

Not like a friend thinking their friend has an adorable fashion sense no-

Mallek could feel his ears burning blue whenever he would look at you, or whenever you’d message him

What happened?? Was his blood pumper acting up??

Course not,

He knew what it was.

And his Blood pumper knew he had to tell you what he felt.

Mallek had invited you over for lunch, He actually cleaned his apartment block for once and tried tidying up the kitchen.

His snake lusus noticed his worrying and teased him about it. Mallek shooed them off in annoyance as he made sandwiches for you both.

Soon you arrived at his block, Mallek was sweating..He was nervous,

He adjusted his glasses against his face some before turning to you with his usual grin

“Hey! You ready for some grub?” Mallek asked to which you smiled in reply

“I’m straving absolutely!”

You cheered skipping to the side table amd picking up your sandwich

Mallek sat across from you scooting his chair up to the table.

“So uh.” He spoke after eating a bit “there’s something I wanted to talk to you about” Mallek hummed not making much eye contact

You tilted your head in curiosity at it, Mallek was usually this unnerving about having a conversation

“What is it?” You asked in between eating

“Uh,”

He started, the blueblood gently took your hand in his cross the table

“I’ve been feeling, some stuff lately and uh,”

Mallek started to which your cheeks glowed a faint pink as you felt his hands in yours.

Troll skin was a bit thicker then human (alien lol) but his hands were, very soft

“I wanted to tell you before, I just never fucking do y’know?” He continued. You noticed he finally started looking at you through his glasses’ frames.

“Y/N, I’m real flushed for you, red, I’m all red for you” Mallek blurted basically, he quickly looked down after. (Almost expecting rejection?)

You felt your lips smile to both corners of your mouth, you couldn’t stop smiling.

“Mallek you, you took the words right outta my mouth..”

You basically leaped over that table into Mallek’s arms. You hugged onto him tightly to which he made a small noise of surprise

You nuzzled your nose into his shoulder, his hoodie was so soft.

The blueblood sniffled some, he was trying to stop himself from crying but the poor guy was already teary.

Mallek held you closely, his hands around you holding you in the tightest hug.

He was smiling so big.

Fin!💙

#hiveswap #hiveswap friendsim #fanfic #fic request #x reader #matesprits #mallek adalov #mallek x Reader #thank you for requesting! #love uuu ivannn #hope you enjoy your boy X33

[swarmishstrangers]

OMG OMG OMG!! The last update of Chitter Hijack made me feel sooo much, I just HAD to run here and say how much comfort it brought to me!! Thank you so much for sharing your work, I'm going crazy over it and looking forward to reading what's next :>

TY TYYY YIPPEE

That makes me feel like, super giddy teehee. I'm glad you're enjoying the fic so far! I've been absolutely buzzing and going crazy with the ideas I have planned for it. Mallek just makes me. SUPER unwell y'all have no idea

Next chapter is def going to be fun to getting to brainstorm and write for! Tiny spoilers erm. Looks from side to side and then leans in close, it's a chapter written from Mallek's pov >:]c

#Chittr Hijack #mallek adalov #swarms-asks

[crazyyyslots]

all of them look like they listen to mindless self indulgence lmao

#vriska serket #mallek adalov #elwurd #ardata carmia #remele namaaq #homestuck #hiveswap #persterquest #friendsim #humanstuck #my edit #they are all edgelords who commit crimes on the daily #pov vriska beats you up to the tune of lights out

[sylvianritual]

pov: you asked mallek how his day was going and he is now 40 minutes into a lengthy dissection of a grubbreadtubers political ideologies, specifically whether they are a dronie or not

#dronie = tankie work with me here

[ohheckstuff]

POV: You're Polypa, Mallek, or Chaut hiding inside your hive because I'm standing outside it like this

[olivebloodedassassin]

Could you write Mallek with a hacker! Fem human s/o? (Redrom or Blackrom or both)

ooohhhhh… wrote this from mallek’s pov

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Mallek was… he didn’t know. He was pissed. He was attracted. Maybe a little aroused?

An alien had waltzed onto Alternia and just thought that she could take his role as ultimate hacker. Well, maybe he wasn’t an ultimate hacker yet, but she seemed like she was, and Mallek wasn’t enjoying it.

He sent a message to her over chittr, inviting her to meet, and now he was slumming around a coffeeshop, flicking through his handheld husk and waiting for her to show up.

“You Mallek?”

Mallek looked up and felt himself flush. He was expecting something ugly, but instead, a troll-like creature stood in front of him. Her skin seemed softer than his and her sclera were white, she was thinner and less muscular than most trolls, and she was gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous. 

Mallek was going to lose it.

“yeah; you’re the hacker;” he asked, trying to keep a cool face, and she nodded. She sat down across from him, flashing a toothy grin, and Mallek wanted to kick himself as he felt his cheeks flush.

“Do you want some tips?” She pulled out her own handheld husk, grin turning into a devious smile, and he swallowed hard. He felt a bit called out by her assuming he needed help, but also, he wanted her stare at him as long as possible.

“no; i could figure it out myself;” he defended himself, sipping the coffee he got. “do you want me to order anything for you;”

“I can get my own drink,” she responded, matching his tone, and Mallek let out a nervous laugh and slid down in his chair.

He wasn’t sure if he liked or hated this girl, but oh man, he was already smitten.

#mallek #mallek adalov #hiveswap #friendsim #my writing #ficlet request

[kaioken16]

The Hunter

MallekWeek 2022 Day 6 - Genre (Horror, supernatural)

Rating M

Word count: 1073

Character(s): Mallek Adalov, background characters

Summary: The hungry and cunning blue Naga stalks hopeless prey that stumbles into its domain. (Naga!Mallek AU)

A/N: This piece was something a little different, inspired by several Naga-themed AUs, and the horror concept of Mallek being a monster. TW include: horror, mentions of death, minor death scenes, implied monster eating human etc. and written from Mallek’s POV

You were hungry…

And their scent filled the caverns changing the air, how could not resist when fresh prey comes so willingly into your den? Luckily, you knew every inch of this place, so there was nowhere they could hide from you.

Your name is Malek Adalov… You are the dreaded blue naga of the dark cavern.

And you are starving.

But as fortune would have, two naive humans have ventured into your den, perhaps explorers lost or curious fools trying to brave the rumours of the cavern, but it didn’t matter to you what brought them here, the fact was they were here.

You slither across the ground, quietly not making a single sound, your tongue flickers, collecting chemicals, tasting the air, and following the scent of the two humans.

Anticipation and excitement begin to surge throughout your body, this feeling was slowly rising to the surface… How you loved it so.

You begin to climb along the wall, your clawed hands gripping onto the rock formation around, peeking your head from the corner, using the perpetual darkness to your advantage as your brilliant scales would’ve been easy to spot in the light.

Judging by the worried expressions on their faces, one was holding a map and the other was pointing a torch all around the area. They appeared to be lost… How unfortunate for them.

“We got turned around? What part of the labyrinth are we in now?”

“I dunno, I feel we’re near the center… But I can’t figure it out.”

“Well figure it out?! Otherwise, we're gonna die in here!”

One of them was panicking, becoming agitated and constantly looking over his shoulder and all around, the slightest little noise sets him off. You coil the end of your tail against the wall, dragging your nails against a pillar, slowly so as not to make a noise to attract attention to yourself.

Now for the fun part, to divide and conquer.

You waited patiently as you knew what would happen eventually, the power source from one of the human’s torch started to dim, flickering on and off. Panic fills the agitated one again as he snatches the torch from his companion, violently shaking his device in an attempt to keep the light on.

“Fuck. f-fuck, fuck, fuck!”

In frustration, he throws the torch across the room, the sound of it breaking against the wall echoes throughout the cavern. You can’t help but grin a little, scared prey was always so entertaining to you…

“Spectacular. Just fucking great, now we’re in complete darkness. Did that make you feel better?”

“Shut up!”

Perfect, they begin to argue in the dark, raising their voices and just becoming more uneasy, completely unaware of you slowly closing in on them, not being able to hear the sound of your lower half dragging along the ground, scaling along the ceiling until you were directly above them.

Despite it being pitch-black, you could switch your eyes to an infrared view, seeing a clear image of two figures with body temperatures, filled with warm blood, both still arguing.

How would you pounce on them?

Would you just drop down and surprise them, coil yourself around one of them while grabbing the other with your claw?

You watch them and see one of them extend his hand out to his friend offering to hold his hand so they could stay close and walk through the cavern and not get separated.

The other immediately pushed his hand away, and there was your opening.

“I don’t need you to hold my fucking hand.”

This is when your moment, your heart is racing, beating out of your chest and slowly descending from the cavern ceiling.

The two humans are walking ahead of you, slowly you sneak up on the agitated one, and with a swift but silent movement, you grab his head, your hand immediately covering his mouth. He tries to scream and cry out but it’s useless, the sound of his struggles is brief, you just crush his windpipe with a sickening crunch!

“Huh? Are you okay?!”

The other human doesn’t even suspect what’s just happened to his friend, whose body goes limp in your grip. Then you decide to do something rather cruel, you extend your hand out, and grasp onto the unsuspecting human’s hand, aside from your sharp nails your hand feels almost similar to a human’s.

“What was that about not wanting to hold my hand?”

You grin and don’t say anything, gripping their hand tightly, squeezing it harder and harder.

“Whatever… Come on let’s go.”

He pulls you along and continues to walk, unaware of the imminent danger he was in, not knowing his friend was dead with his corpse wrapped around your long tail, as you gently drag him along with you.

“Hey? Is everything okay…?”

He calls out to you a few times but you still refuse to speak, you then look up ahead and notice the distant light, with your eyes you notice before the human does.

It wouldn’t be long now… With every step, you both inch closer to the light. He declares it loudly, a hint of relief in his voice. You decide your going to need all your strength and not have anything slow you down, so you decide to drop the dead weight right here on the floor, you knew where to find it later.

“This is really weird for you, you’ve been this… Quiet.”

There it is. The slow realization you were hoping for, now that he was paying attention to your features, he was holding your hand, now he’s paying attention to your cold touch…

The scaly indication on your palm.

The lack of footsteps and your dragging tail.

And your eyes, becoming clearer, the glowing blue slits instead of round pupils.

Your height, being several taller than his friend.

You delight in the slow terror that rises to his face, the fear as he tries to pull away from your grip, but it’s all in vain. The more he tries to pull away, the tighter your hold becomes. He attempts to use his other hand to break free and you respond with the sudden movement of your tail coiling around his legs.

You peer your face closer, coming into the light revealing your face to the terrified human, a wide sickening grin spreads across your face, as his frightened expression is reflected in your eyes.

“Hello, sweetheart.”

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[kaioken16]

[S]: Wake Up, Human

MallekWeek 2022 Day 2 - Alternate Universe (Demon AU)

Rating T

Word count: 2056

Character(s): Mallek Adalov, Original Character

AO3 Link

A/N: A modern day AU, in which Mallek is a demon that has become attached to my OC Zack.

Summary: Zack is awakened from his sleep by Mallek who is determined to bother him during his morning.

A young man was fast asleep in his bed, his hair was tied into a ponytail, underneath his blanket he was wearing a sleeveless orange top, and dark blue shorts as it was a little warm to be wearing thick clothing. His room was a simple one with a wardrobe, a small desk with his laptop shut down, a small cabinet where his phone was resting. The curtains were closed with the light shining through the fabric, allowing some rays of sunlight to slowly seep between the curtain. It hadn’t reached his eyes yet. There was nothing out of place in his room…

Well except for a large humanoid creature that just hovering midair at the end of the boy’s bed.

It’s skin from the waist up was a greyish blue, with scale like patterns running along each of his arms. His nails were long like claws and dark blue colour, he had unique horns on the side of his head, his eyes were a yellow with black pupils, and his hair was a mohawk that he had grown out. Dark coloured fur covered him from the waist down to his feet, and he had a long tail, a thing length like a snake with the tip being bushy like a dog’s. And on his back were a pair of bat-like wings closed.

His eyes were fixed on the sleeping human, watching him like a hawk about to swoop down on its prey with curiosity and anticipation. A quick glance over to the human’s phone the time read 07:29 and then finally it changed to 07:30 and then the phone starts vibrating, followed by a loud and obnoxious alarm starts ringing throughout the room.

(Zack’s POV)

The first you hear the ringing of your phone alarm, gradually becoming clearer, rousing you from your deep slumber. You turn over away from your phone but it doesn’t quieten the noise. Your eyes slowly open, for a nanosecond you’re vision was blurry before adjusting to the familiar setting of your room.

A grumble slips out of your mouth, huffing in frustration you reach behind you haphazardly, searching for your phone finding it, you squeeze the button on the side of your small device, placing the alarm on “snooze”.

Once again the room fills with silence, nice and peaceful. This is the part where you’d drift back into your dreams again, but then… You feel something, someone’s finger poking at your face.  Your senses alert to someone hovering you, and this presence gives you a sudden chill as your eyes open.

“Morning sleepyhead~” A deep voice, greets you from directly above you. A cocky, mischievous voice, that you unfortunately knew all too well.

(Mallek’s POV)

The night was a normal one for you. A few errands, some ritualistic rights, and the usual terrorising and chaos you cause on a daily basis. And then you returned to your home or rather the place you were staying for the moment early hours in the morning.

Luckily for you, he was in a deep slumber and humans didn’t tend to notice you. You decided to be nice and not to bother Zack in the middle of the night, and let him sleep and then when it was sunrise, he was fair game.

So you just stayed there in midair, hovering all the sleeping human, watching over him like a hawk or a loyal pet…

Of course you would never let anyone refer to you as a pet unless the circumstances were more intimate. After a few hours, you started to get bored of waiting, so you went through some of his books.

Finally as time passed, you felt the irritating itch of sunlight creeping through the closed curtains. You looked back to windows and then down at Zack, crossing your arms, smirking at him as you watched him wake up for a moment before turning off his alarm.

You feel a grin spreading across your face, hovering a few inches closer to Zack’s face, you reach out with your finger and like a small child seeking attention you start poking his face, annoying him until he feels you within his proximity.

Those beautiful golden eyes of his slowly open and meet your gaze, glaring at you while you smile.

“Morning sleepyhead~”

Zack’s expression in the morning a striking contradiction to his typical “sunny” demeanour, but he had a very long day yesterday and he was still a little exhausted. He didn’t like having his sleep disturbed but giving situation, he didn’t have much of a choice in the matter.

Most people would freak if they saw an inhuman being with wings and tail, floating over them with a menacing looking grin. But he was use to it…

There was no point in trying to go back to sleep as Mallek would simply further annoy him. But didn’t mean he wasn’t going to try, as he pulled the blanket over his head.

Almost immediately he feels something heavy on him. Mallek was now laying on top of Mallek, putting his full weight on the other. Even though he couldn’t see it, he knew full well the scowl that Zack was wearing, hearing an annoying groan.

“I’m just gonna stay like this until you are ready to get up… You had me waiting all night.” He stretches his arm getting more comfortable.

He hears another huff slip out from Zack under the blanket, he then slowly peeks his head out. Mallek turns around to meet his face, still grinning at him.

“I’ll say it again… Good morning.” He repeats the previous statement to Zack, who sighs slightly.

“Morning.” He answers which makes Mallek’s grin widen with glee, even his tail sways a little.

“Can you get off me now?” Zack asks as the extra weight from the demon was beginning to strain him.

“Hey, I’m not that heavy.” He teases, before getting off Zack.

Zack slowly sits, rubbing the back of head in slight discomfort. He didn’t get enough sleep, but like it or not he needed to get up and start his day. Mallek who still floating in the air, crosses his legs as if he was sitting on solid ground, carefully watching Zack climb out of bed, opening his curtains to let in the light, the glare makes Mallek turn away from the window.

Then he watches the young man leave his room, most likely heading to the bathroom. Mallek then descends to the ground, walking for a change and follows Zack, and of course Zack closes the bathroom door giving him some privacy as he, like most people, valued their personal space, something that Mallek appreciated even though he continuously violated Zack’s personal space on a regular basis. He uses the facilities, brushes his teeth and washes his face before opening the door to be greeted with Mallek just standing there.

It had been about six months since Zack encountered Mallek, or rather it had been six months since he had stuck with him. It all still seems like vivid dreams sometimes to him, but at the same time it has become the ‘norm’.

It was during a Halloween party with his friend, as a goof his friend coaxed into summoning a demon for quote ‘fun’. It was supposed to be a goof, a joke, but his friend got a little freaked out so asked Zack to finish the ritual. Of course Zack was skeptical about it all, so he made the blood pact according to the guidelines from the book.

And like he imagined, nothing happened, and he was left with a small cut on finger.

Nothing happened. At first…

It was later that night, when he went home all of a sudden while he was sleeping he was rudely awakened by the disturbing sign, a circle with several patterns and symbols appeared almost like pentagram.

And before he could react everything went black.

He had passed out…

When he regained consciousness, he was met with Mallek sitting at the end of his bed. In his true form of course, and unlike now in that moment he freaked out, having a small panic attack when a near 7ft demon with bat wings, glowing eyes and tail was just casually sitting a few feet away from him.

He didn’t know what to do at that moment but Mallek assured him that he wasn’t there to harm him. He then explained that the blood pact he performed as a joke was 100% real and now Zack had formed a permanent pact with Mallek. He stated that he would remain with Zack until the event of his death, but other than that he was now stuck with him…

He explained that their pact would be like master and servant to a degree. Mallek would serve Zack like a familiar and he would have free reign most days, and if Zack needed him he would have to call out for him, and he would manifest.

Mallek was very intrigued by Zack too, a human who summoned a demon not to form a pact but as a joke, and he didn’t desire any power, riches or anything in return. Most contracts would involve binding a demon to the summoner or a human’s soul being exchanged for the demon’s services. But because of the special (and accidental) consequences Mallek was just here with him, and Zack wouldn’t lose his soul when the pact ended, as Mallek accepted alternate forms of payment, because he curious about the human world, each month he demanded something random, from merchandise to food, to something of sentimental value to Zack.

He found it amusing too, teasing and messing with Zack on a regular basis, from his ‘harmless’ jokes, pranks, and flirting with him. And seeing that flustered or annoyed expression on the human’s face always brought a smile to Mallek’s face.

He liked him…

Zack was now sitting at a small table eating his breakfast, more alert now as he took spoonfuls of his cereal, with a cup of coffee and a cinnamon bun on a plate. Mallek was sitting opposite to him, he was playing on Zack’s Nintendo DS device, playing that colourful game with small red human and the mushrooms. Video games had become his most favourite thing from the human world and always pestered Zack for games.

Just then the quiet atmosphere is broken by the ringing of Zack’s intercom, he gets up from his seat and goes to answer it.

“Hey dude… Come on in.” He already knew it was his friend, green the button to grant him access to enter the apartment building. Going back to his seat, he resumes eating while waiting for his friend to make his way up. It’s then he slowly looks up at Mallek still focused on the game. 

“Mallek. Change…” Zack says as Mallek glanced at him before returning his eyes to his game.

His pupils flash a blue glow. The room darkens, followed by whispering voices fill the room, Mallek is enveloped in a dark mist as his shape changes and in a matter of moments he takes on a human appearance, tanned skin, some piercings, black nail polish, along with a casual outfit of a hoodie with jeans. One of his many abilities, he could shapeshift taking on many forms, and used this human form to blend in easily with humans as his true form made him stand out like a open wound.

He described it like wearing a jacket, and sometimes it was just a pain, as he felt comfortable in his own skin, and Zack only asked him to take his human form when others were around, or when he was outside during the day or well-lit areas where he could be spotted.

Mallek didn’t really care as he would either an illusion or wipe the mind of humans who encountered him, or silence them. But told him not to hurt any humans unless he was defending himself, so he often took this form or used his non-lethal methods to deal with humans.

Just then there’s a knock on the door, and Zack calls out to his friend to say it was open.

“Hey guys! Morning!” He greets the pair with a smile, and they return the gesture.

“So, what’s on the agenda for today?”

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