Chapter 2: The Mad Doctor The First Job
Three Days Later:
Early in the morning, Amara and her little brother Roy are fast asleep in the guest bedroom of Millie and Moxxie's apartment. Even though it's early, Amara is already beginning to wake up. The girl sits up as the blanket falls to reveal her button up long sleeve black pajama shirt. Her feather hair is a little spread out without her headband and without her hat, it reveals a gray stripe on her forehead and goes to the back of her head.
She lets out a yawn and looks at the alarm clock to see that it's seven a.m right now. She then turns to Roy who is still asleep.
She gently moves his shoulder, "Roy, it's time to wake up."
"Five more minutes…" Roy says, still sleeping.
"It's time to wake up Roy. Remember, we need to wake up and be at the office," Amara says.
Roy then yawns and says, "Okay. I'm waking up."
Roy then begins to wake and sit up as Amara heads to the restroom to get herself ready to work.
Sometime later, Amara and Roy put on their clothes and walk to the kitchen to see Moxxie and Mille are already dressed and Moxxie is making breakfast.
Amara is now wearing a long sleeve navy blue shirt with the sleeves rolled up, black vest with yellow buttons, blue jeans with a brown belt with her firearms, rope, and knife in the pockets, and black boots. She is also wearing a red ascot tie, and her favorite back hat. She makes sure to brush her feather hair and in a low short ponytail.
Roy, who is wearing a black shirt with blue jeans, and brown thick shoes, walks over to him.
"Morning guys, " Amara says.
"Mornin' Amara. Roy. You're just in time, Moxie has finished making some breakfast," Millie says.
"Okay," Roy happily says, and hops on the chair at the table.
"After breakfast, it's time for you to have your official first day at work, Amara," Millie happily says.
"Right…" Amara replies.
Then asks, "If you don't mind me asking, how did Blitz manage to get access to the human world? I'm curious."
Moxxie then places the breakfast on the table as he looks at Aamra. He is looking rather skeptic about the question.
"Well, it's just uh, you see… he well.. Manage to get a little help getting to the living world for our work and well…" Moxxie nervously explains.
Millie says, "To put it simple, Blitz was able to get a special book from Stolas. He managed to have a negotiation about getting it, and we'll leave it at that. No need to get into adult business and such."
"Okay…" Amara says, looking confused.
Sometime later, Amara, Roy, and the Imp couple are at work I.M.P. HQ waiting for work and doing what they can do here. Millie and Moxxie are in the meeting office with Blitz. Roy is reading a book. Amara is polishing her knife, and Loona is reading a magazine.
Amara turns to Loona, "So Loona, right?"
"Yeah. Last I check," Loona replies, bored.
"What are you reading?" Amara asks.
"A magazine. It's the latest Hellhound Monthly," Loona says.
"I see," Amara replies, awkwardly.
Loona then asks, "So is it true that you came from the Wrath Ring?"
"Yes," Amara says.
"Kind of strange that a demon like you came from there," Loona says.
"Okay," Amara replies.
Just then, they hear a knock on the door.
"I'll get it," Amara says and walks to the door.
She opens the door to reveal a demon at the door. The demon looks a lot like a Lamia. She's somewhat human, but with a red snake tail. Her hair is burgundy that has snakes at the end, with purple eyes, her upper body is also covered with scales, and has pointed ears. She is wearing a sleeveless pink dress with red laces, and is holding a handbag. From her appearance, she seems to be around Loona's age.
The demon girl asks, "Is this I.M.P?"
"Um yes. This is it. I'm Amara, I'm actually a new employee," Amara says.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Amara. My name is Suu, and I like to talk to your boss," The Lamia demon, Suu says.
"Um sure," Amara says,
Amara then walks to the meeting room, "Blitz, we got a client who just arrived."
Moments later, everyone is in the meeting room to speak with Suu.
"So Suu, was it?" Blitz asks.
"That's right. I'll just cut to the chase, I saw your ad and I need you to kill someone who wronged me of my life and got me sent to this place. And maybe others who were already victimized by this mad man," Suu says, sounding angry.
"I see. Who is he, an ex-boyfriend who you caught cheating with someone, or perhaps a stalker," Blitz remarks.
Then says, "Unless he's some dumbass who tried to harass you."
Irritated, Suu says, "Well, being stalked or harassed might have been better, considering that he experimented on me."
"Experimented? What happened?" Millie asks.
Suu says as she raises her tail, "Well, it started when I went to a party with my friends. We were having a wondrous time, especially when my friend, Stacy pulled an awesome prank on Jennifer. She's the mean girl of our school. We also party some, drink a bit, and the usual stuff. Then when I was walking home, I was grabbed from behind and woke up strapped to a metal table. And that's when I saw him, the man who ruined my life."
She then brings out a photo of the man. Moxxie takes the photo to reveal a man. The man is bald, but has a gray mustache and a goatee, and goggles on his head. He is wearing a lab coat and gloves.
"The man's name is Dr. Edger Creed. He was a scientist who lived in an old house in my neighborhood. There have been rumors about him experimenting on animals, plants, and people. However, he always acted like a good man, and many people liked him. He even guest speaks at my school. Everyone believed that he was a decent man," Suu explains.
Then grows angry, "But he told me that he needed me to be a test subject. He was trying to create a new breed of humans, by merging war with animals. I came to find out that I wasn't the only one because every few months a single person disappeared. He performed horrible experiments on me and put the snake's D.N.A in me. He then had me put in a tube for the final process, and turned me into some kind of snake creature. However… as you can see… I didn't survive the final part of the experiment, and ended up here."
Then sadly says, "Later on, I met two other sinners who have gone through the same thing that I did. And that's why I'm here."
Then looks at I.M.P, "I want you to take Dr. Edger Creed down and send him to the pits of hell where he belongs, and so he can't use his horrible experiments on anyone else!"
"So what you're saying, you wanted justice not only for you, but for the others who have fallen victim to him?" Amara asks.
Suu nods her head, "Exactly."
"And you do know that when he dies, he'll end up down here, and he'll be stuck here, forever…" Blitz adds.
Suu evilly grins, "Don't worry…"
Then begins to use her coils to circle around Amara, "I'm already well prepared for when he comes."
She then tights her coils around Amara, pinning her arms and legs together. She then pulls Amara to her and hugs her with a smile.
And asks, "You'll do it, won't you."
"Um sure. I'm sure we can do it," Amara says.
Then Blitz says, "Consider it done."
Suu looks at Amara with a smile, "Thank you."
Then continues to stare at her with glittering eyes.
"What is it?" Amara asks.
"I promise not to ask myself this, but are you actually a boy?" Suu asks, taking off Amara's hat and placing it on the table.
Stunned, Amara exclaims, "A boy?! N-no… I'm a girl!"
"Really?" Suu says, curious.
"Um yeah…" Amara says.
Suddenly, Suu's tail tucks itself under Aamra's chin as Suu says, "Well, you are certainly too cute to be a boy."
Then hugs Suu making Amara blush like crazy.
Amara panics, "Okay… I really appreciate it, but I like to have my personal space."
Blitz walks over, "Okay. This is getting too weird for my liking."
"Miss. Suu, we do like it if you release our employee. We'll need her to come on this assignment as well," Moxxie says.
Suu blushes and says, "Of course."
After the meeting with the client, Loona brings out a book that has a navy blue cover with gold reflective pages separated by a dark burgundy ribbon, and gold border with a red gem on the spine. It also has a gold emblazoned with a moon circling a seal and a few stars.
"So this is the book that is used to get to the human world?" Amara asks.
"The very same," Millie says.
"It looks very cool," Roy says.
Millie brings out the chalk, "And watch this."
Millie then draws a circle on the floor and draws a pentagram inside it. Soon, a portal opens, leading them to the human world. Amara and Roy are impressed to see it.
"That looks cool. Can you use the book for something else?" Roy asks.
"Actually, we only use it to get to the other side. We don't really use it for anything else," Moxxie says.
"It's probably for the best. You guys are borrowing the book from the Prince and all that," Amara says.
"That sounds about right," Blitz says.
Roy then asks, "Can I come too?"
"Sorry kid, but this is employees only. We don't need any kids to fuck up this mission," Blitz says.
Suddenly, he is smacked from the back of his head, and falls to the ground. Blitz quickly groans as he sits up and turns to see Amara holding her fist.
"What the fuck what that for?" Blitz shouts in anger.
"I do appreciate it that you don't say that to my little brother. No need to give him the harsh language. He's only a kid," Amara says.
Blitz stands up as he rubs his head, "You didn't have to smack my head. But I didn't expect you to throw that hard of a punch."
"I get plenty of strength for living at the farm," Amara says.
"With strength and appearance, I wonder if you just say you're a girl like our client thinks," Blitz says.
"Trust me, I'm one hundred percent, female," Amara says.
Roy says, "Yeah. Amara is a girl."
"I believe them," Millie says.
"I have to agree. Despite her personality and her well, appearance, it seems that she is a girl," Moxxie says.
Blitz rolls his eyes, "Okay, can we just drop it?"
Then turns to Amara, "Okay kid, remember this is your first day on the job and to show us what you can do. So you'll be the one to off this guy when we find him."
"Right," Amara says, and brings out her gun.
"Well then, let's get going," Blitz says and jumps into the portal.
Millie and Moxxie follow after him.
Amara turns to Roy, "Now just stay here and listen to what Loona says, okay?"
"Okay," Roy says.
Then turns to Loona, "And you keep a close eye on my brother."
"Whatever," Loona says, shrugging her shoulders.
Amara then jumps through the portal with Blitz and the others. Soon, the group find themselves in a neighborhood and it seems that it's bright in the afternoon.
"So this is the human world? This place looks a little different than Imp City," Amara says.
"Yeah. Except there aren't any Imps, Demons, Sinners, and Overlords," Millie says.
"I see. So where do we find Dr. Creed?" Amara questions.
"According to the client, Dr. Creed is supposed to live in an old house in the neighborhood," Moxxie says.
Blitz looks ahead and points his finger, "Yeah. And this one looks really old."
The group turns their heads to see the old house. The old house is rather old, and large and looks a bit abandoned. It has two stories, and a balcony, and the grass in front of the house is practically tall and yellow with a fence around the housing area.
"Do you think this could be his house?" Amara asks.
"It has to be, the client said it's the only one in the neighborhood. Let's just off this guy already," Blitz says and begins to walk towards the gate.
Millie, Moxxie, and Amara follow after him. The group soon reach the house and secretly look through the window to see the place is also old, and it doesn't look like many people live there.
"Wow. This place looks even more rundown than the outside," Millie says.
"Yeah. It looks like it hasn't been cleaned in a while," Moxxie says.
Blitz looks around, "I don't see the target anywhere. Maybe he's in a different part of the house."
He then opens the window and sneaks inside.
"Don't you think we should take this with precaution? You remember what Suu told us about him?" Amara asks.
"Yeah. I remember what the snake girl said. What's your point?" Blitz questions.
"I'm with Amara, sir. We should be discrete with handling this one, especially on the kind of experiments he does," Moxxie says.
"Don't worry, we're simply going to kill this guy before he does anything," Millie says.
"Listen to your hoe, Mox. Let's just go in and off this guy and get out," Blitz says, and walks inside.
Amara, Moxxie, and Millie also climb through the window and inside the old house. They soon look around the house to see that it's somewhat normal, but it's old and it looks like many of the objects aren't touched and covered in dust.
"This place looks kind of… rustic…" Millie says, reluctantly.
"And it looks like it hasn't been used in a while. Maybe the guy doesn't live here anymore," Moxxie suggests.
Amara looks in the kitchen and says, "Actually, he might still be around."
The three Imps look in the kitchen to see the place seems a little cleaner than the others and there are some leftover food on a plate on the counter.
"Seems through the guy is still around after all. Question is, where is he?" Blitz replies.
"He must be somewhere in this old house. Let's split up and search for this guy," Millie says.
"Well then, let's split up," Blitz says.
The three Imps and young Owl demon split up into different areas of the floor. Millie and Moxxie take the bottle floor and see if they can find the basement as well. Blitz and Amara take the stairs to go to the second floor.
Millie and Moxxie soon begin to look around the hall as they each look in different rooms.
"Wow. This place looks like it hasn't been used in years," Moxxie says.
Then runs his finger on the desk and lifts it to see dust, "You think someone who lived here would keep his furniture cleaned."
"And I doubt anyone ever comes here so no one bother cleans up," Millie says.
Moxxie then looks under the bed to see more dust and cobwebs. Then Millie looks in the closet to see nothing interesting in there.
Then Millie walks ahead, "Where could a mad scientist be…."
Suddenly, Millie's sentence is cut up with a scream, causing Moxxie to turn around, "Millie?"
When Moxxie turns around, he is shocked to see Millie isn't in the area anymore. She has disappeared into thin air.
"Millie? Millie?!" Moxxie calls out, but isn't hearing her voice.
Suddenly, Moxxie hears a strange sound coming from outside of the room. Moxie brings out his crossbow and walks outside and aims it at whatever it is. However, nothing is there. Moxxie looks around as he points his crossbow around the different directions of the hall. Moxxie eyes quickly turn to different directions to feel a strange presence. Suddenly, something grabs him from behind and pulls him up with a yelp.
Upstairs, Blitz and Amara look around the halls for the doctor himself. Amara opens one of the doors that leads to a room, but the room is empty. Blitz then opens another door and is able to find something.
Blitz turns to Amara, "Hey kid, I found something…"
Amara looks in to see a room. The room seems more clean than the other places in the house. There's also what seems like new blankets and clean furniture.
"I wonder if this is the doctor's room?" Amara replies.
"Well, it looks like I have been living here. Wonder why everything else look like fuckin clean in a long time," Blitz says.
"I wonder that too," Amara says.
Then looks around, "Still, we haven't even seen any signs of the doctor anywhere."
"Is that snake girl even sure he's here? We haven't seen any signs of the target in this fuckin…" Blitz asks.
Suddenly, something grabs Blitz from behind and makes him shouts, "Hey!"
Amara quickly turns around to see some strange robotic arms grab a hold of Blitz and lifts him up from the ceiling.
"What the fuck is this stupid thing?!" Blitz shouts in rage.
"Hold on, I'll get you out," Amara says.
Unaware that the closet door opens from behind her and is holding a sharp dagger.
Blitz sees this and shouts, "Behind you!"
Amara quickly turns behind her to see the man that is in the picture Suu has. Before she can do anything, Dr. Creed ends up stabbing her in her right arm. Amara screams to feel the pain of the sharp knife and falls to the ground.
Dr. Creed evilly laughs, "Well, this is quite fascinating, I got myself two more specimens. And one of them looks like the other two specimens I found in my home."
"Two more specimens?" Amara mutters to feel pain.
"I'll be taking you two as well," Dr. Creed says, and brings out a remote to press it.
Blitz is taken away through the ceiling, and the trap door opens from under Amara and falls through it. Dr. Creed chuckles evilly and goes through the secret door that is hidden in the closet.
Continuing to slide down the slide of the hidden trap door, Amara continues to slide down to who knows where, and suspects that it's under the house. Soon, Amara falls through the door and lands on the ground. Amara grunts in pain as she holds her right arm and sits up to find herself trapped in a jail cell.
"Fuck!" Amara mutters to feel the pain.
Amara soon looks up to see two teenagers who are shackled to the wall. They both look very weak and tired, and their clothes are worn and torn.
One of them is a teenage boy, he is wearing a baseball cap, but still shows his red hair, and light tan skin. He is also wearing what looks like a baseball uniform.
The one next to him is a teenage girl, The girl has blonde hair, blue eyes, fair skin. She is also wearing a blue, white, and gold color cheerleading uniform.
The boy looks up to see Amara, "Wh-who are you? Are you one of his victims?"
"Um… well… my name is Amara, and I also got stabbed by this mad doctor. Doctor. Edger Creed," Amara says.
"That's him. I'm Abigail, but my friends call me Abby. I'm part of the Cheerleading squad," Abby says.
"And I'm her brother, Tony," The boy says.
Amara walks over and uses her claw to make an enchanted feather. Then uses it to unlock the shackles that are holding the two teenagers. Soon, Amara is able to get the shackles off of the two teenagers from both their wrists and ankles.
"What happened to you two?" Amara asks.
"Our memories are a bit of a blur, but we were heading home after practice and some strange ball fell in front of us," Abby says.
"The ball somehow exploded and we were knocked out. When we woke up, we were trapped here and Dr. Creed said he was going to perform experiments on us. It's still hard to believe that the rumors were true," Tony says.
"Yes. Suu told me that she was also caught by him," Amara says.
Abby becomes surprised, "Wait, you know Suu?"
"Um yeah? Do you know her?" Amara asks.
"Yes. She and I are good friends, but she disappeared after a party we went to and couldn't find her. If she's been trapped here, does that mean she's still here," Abby says.
Amara slowly shakes her head with a frown, "I'm afraid not. Suu died during the final stage of the experiment."
Abby is on the verge of tears, "Oh no."
"It's okay. For now, you need to get out of here and go to the police and tell them what happened," Amara says.
"But how do we get out?" Tony asks.
Amara walks to the cell and uses her feather to trick the lock and unlocks it. Amara then helps Tony and Abby rundown the fall and hurry back up the stairs. They search around until they are able to reach the living room of the house and through the front door.
"Finally, we're out of that place," Tony says.
Abby turns to Amara, "Thank you Amara."
"It's no problem. I leave the police to you two," Amara says.
"What about you?" Abby asks.
"I need to find my friends. Dr. Creed captured them and I need to find them," Amara says.
"Okay. Thanks for helping us," Tony says.
"We'll bring the police as soon as we can," Abby says.
With that, the two siblings hurry off to get the police. Amara then hurries back into the house and down the stairs to the underground area. She suspects that this is where she'll find the Imps. he then brings out her gun and knows that he needs to be finished off.
Somewhere in the underground area, Blitz has been strapped to a metal table, but Moxxie and Millie are each tied to a chair back to back. They end up being trapped in a large room that looks like a lab. There are strange machines with lights, and contraptions. On the table, there are a lot of medical items like those for surgery, and other medical stuff. Even drugs and supplies that are used to seduce beings like drugs that are used to numb or make them sleep for hours. Either way, Dr. Creed has captured the three Imps and has plans for them.
Blitz struggles on the chair, "Fuck. I can't get out of these restraints."
"And these ropes are really tight. He's well with knots despite him being an old man," Millie says.
"But why go through the trouble of catching us?" Moxxie asks.
Just then, the Dr. Creed walks in with a sinister face, "To take part in my experiment."
Blitz, Millie, and Moxxie turn to see the mad doctor walking toward the metal table with a rolling table. The table has surgical instruments on the table with cleaning supplies for surgery.
"I must admit, it was surprising to find four unusual creatures. Of course, I plan on seeing what kind of creatures you," Creed says, sinister.
He then grabs Blitz's by his chin and turns his face from left and right, "I must admit, you are an interesting specimen."
Blitz growls in anger, "If you don't want to lose your goddamn hand, then you better put it away, bitch!"
"Don't worry, you don't need to worry about anything," Dr. Creed says and brings out a medical shot and scalpel.
Blitz continues to struggle to break free from the restraints. Unknown to them, Amara is able to reach the door and looks to see Dr. Creed with Blitz being strapped to the table. Despite her arm hurting, she is able to lift it up as she holds the fire arm in her arms. Dr. Creed puts the stuff on the table, and slightly removes Blitz's coat, unbuttons his shirt, sounds the collar and takes off the tie to reveal his neck. Then brings out the needle to punker it into Blitz that will knock him out.
Before Dr. Creed can put the needle with the drug into Blitz, the sound of a gun appears and soon fires. Blitz looks up to see Dr. Creed, having been shot from a head shot and falls to the floor and dies instantly. The three imps look to see the one who has made the shot is Amara holding her firearm with her bleeding arm.
"Amara, you're okay!" Millie happily says.
Taking a few deep breaths, Amara says, "Yeah. And it looks like I made it in time."
"Damn right! Talking about cutting it fuckin' close!" Blitz says, still strapped to the table.
"Sorry, but I had a rough time since I was shot in the arm," Amara says.
"Are you okay?" Moxxie asks.
"I'm fine, I've got hurt more than this," Amara answers.
"That's good to know. Now then, get us out of these things!" Blitz says as he shouts.
"Right," Amara says.
Amara then hurries to the group strapped to the metal tables. Then begins to unlock the straps. Blitz is able to jump off of the table once he is free. Then Amara hurries to Moxxie and Millie to untie them as well.
Moxxie panics to notice Amara's bleeding, "Oh crumbs! Amara, you're bleeding!"
"I'm okay. That creepy scientist stabbed me when he took Blitz and dropped me in that room. Besides, " Amara says.
"Anway, good job on your first day. Even though we almost became close to being lab specimens," Blitz says, glaring at the scientist.
"Yeah. We should get going before Tony and Abby come back with the police," Amara says.
"Tony and Abby? Who are they?" Millie asks.
"They're actually two other teenagers caught when I was searching for you. When they saw me, they assumed I'm a survivor of Dr. Creed's experiments. Still, we better get going before they find and see us," Amara says.
"Good idea," Blitz says, and brings out his phone.
Then calls Loona and says, "Loona…"
Sometime later, after returning to I.M.P. The Imps, owl demon, and Hellhound are in the meeting room, and having a small celebration for Amara's first mission accomplishment and assassinating the evil scientist. Even Suu also arrives at the party.
"Congratulations Amara for a first job well done," Millie happily says.
Then Suu leans to Amara with lovey dovey eyes, "Glad that you were able to take down that maniacal doctor for me. You must be really good with the gun."
"Um, thank you," Amara says.
Roy then says to Amara, "I bet you were great."
"Thanks Roy, but I did also get stabbed in the arm by that nut," Amara says, looking at her bandaged arm.
"You're right. That guy is a nut," Suu says.
Then happily says, "But it was worth it so he'll end up down here."
Then hugs Amara with her arms and has her coils wrapped around her lower half, "And so I can hang out with you too."
"Uh yeah. You do remember about my personal space," Amara says, and blushes.
"I know, but I really like to be close to girls. I think they're cute. And you are really cute, and I can tell how skillful and strong you are just by looking," Suu says, giving her a lustful expression.
"Thank you," Amara says, blushing.
Blitz groans, "God dammit, the client is a total girl lover."
"I think the term is lesbian, Blitz," Millie says.
"Like I give a fuck about it. Can someone tell her to stop trying to seduce my employee!" Blitz angrily shouts.
Suu continues to snuggle Amara as the Owl girl blushes by the odd affection she is having from the client. Either way, her work has been a success, but she knows there will be more to come.