Chapter 5: The Imp City Shopping District
One morning in the guest bedroom of Moxxie and Millie's apartment, Amara is looking over some of the clothes she had on the bed and is having a difficult time choosing one.
Amara says to herself, "Hmm, which one should I wear. It's a little hard to choose, but I still like to wear my favorite hat."
Just then, the door opens and Millie walks inside the room.
"Hey Amara, what are you doing?" Millie asks.
"Well, I'm about to get dressed, but can't decide what to wear?" Amara says.
Then turns to Millie, "So uh, which one do you think I should wear?"
Millie looks at the clothes that are set on the bed.
Millie says, "Hmm, well, I think the navy blue shirt, and maybe the black vest and dark blue jeans will go good. And I think a little red neck tie will go with it, to add a little color."
"Thanks," Amara says.
Amara then grabs the clothes and walks into the restroom. A few minutes later, Amara is in the clothes that Millie helped her choose, and has her favorite hat on.
"Wow! You look really nice. So what's the occasion?" Millie asks.
"Well, let's just say I have a little day out with a certain someone," Amara says.
She looks at her hellphone and says, "Well, I better be off."
She grabs her bag and leaves the room, "See you later."
"Bye," Millie says, waving goodbye.
Soon, Amara is no longer in the room.
Millie giggles, "A certain someone. I wonder if Amara has got herself a boyfriend. Maybe even a girlfriend."
"Who has what now?" Moxxie asks, walking into the room.
"And since when is Amara seeing someone?" Another voice says.
Millie and Moxxie turn to see Blitz staring at them through the window.
"Were you spying on us just now?!" Moxie exclaims in rage.
Blitz opens the window and comes into the room, "Yes. And I just happened to know that Amara has made a little arrangement to meet someone. I say we will check it out."
"Sir, I don't think Amara will like that," Moxxie says.
"Come on Mox, it sounds like fun. Besides, it will be a good idea to check on her and make sure no mistakes happen," Millie says.
"What kind of mistakes?" Moxxie says, confused.
Blitz says, "You can be so slow, Mox. She means that while dating someone, some sexual things are sure to happen."
"Amara is sixteen. I doubt it will be anything like that," Moxxie says, denying the idea.
"Maybe she won't, but the one she is going out with might be," Millie says.
"Exactly, I say we should follow Amara and see if we can watch over this fuckin' date of her," Blitz says.
Roy walks into the room and asks, "Hey guys, what are you doing?"
"We;re about to spy on your big sister and make sure what's going on with her date," Blitz says.
"I don't think Amara will like it," Roy says.
"I say we're going. Come on gang, we got a little spying to do," Blitz says.
Sometime later in the Imp City square, Amara is standing next to a fountain and is waiting for someone. In the bushes a short distance away, Blitz, Moxie, Millie, Roy, and Loona are spying on Amara to see who the date is and what might happened.
"Hmm, I wonder who Amara is going to meet?" Millie whispers.
"Maybe it's that snake girl that tried to seduce her last time," Blitz suggests.
"Sir, for all we know, Amara could just be meeting with some friends or acquaintances," Moxxie says.
"Since when does she have friends?" Blitz questions.
"Well, Amara probably had a few imps, and demons she knew from the Wrath Ring. One of them wants to hang out with her," Moxxie says.
"Really? I remember her sending some letters and text messages to her friends from home about where we are and how we're doing, but I don't remember them saying about them visiting," Roy says.
Blitz notices something and shushes them, "Shut your assholes! Someone's coming!"
The group then hides behind the bushes or other places. Soon, they see someone heading towards Amara's direction. To their surprise, they see a familiar Owl girl who is also a Goetia.
Amara turns to notice her, "Hey Octavia."
"Hi Amara. Kind of glad you want to hang out today," Octavia says.
"Yeah. There hasn't been much work, and the office is closed today," Amara says.
Then asks, "So what do you wanna do first?"
"I was thinking we can head to the shopping district that's close by, have some lunch and maybe do a little shopping," Octavia says.
"Sure," Amara says.
Octavia then notices the belt she's wearing that has guns and a knife.
"Um, are those really necessary to bring with you?" Octaiva asks, pointing to the weapons.
"They are. My pa always tells me to have weapons handy. Never know when someone is going to attack. After all, this is Hell," Amara says.
"That's true," Octavia says.
"Might as well have over there. I heard that sales at the district gets fuckin' insane," Amara says.
Soon, the two Owl girls begin to make their way to the shopping district. Blitz and the others peek from their hiding places to see what has taken place.
Disappointed Blitz says, "Wow! That is fuckin lame! It was just a stupid shitty shopping date with the perverted bird's kid!"
"I was sure she had gotten a boyfriend or a girl friend," Millie says.
"See. There isn't any reason to be here if she's just hanging out with Octavia," Moxxie says.
"Maybe so, but I say let's continue our fun and keep an eye on them," Blitz says, still eager to follow them for fun.
"I think you're missing the biggest issue, sir. Don't you think, Amara and Octavia will see if we go follow them. They're going to notice us," Moxxie says.
"I got that covered, Mox," Blitz says.
Loona sighs, "Remind me why we're doing this again?"
"Because Blitz wants us to," Roy replies.
"And this is so not going to end well," Loona says.
Sometime later, Amara and Octavia arrive at the shopping district. There are plenty of different stores with food stands. There are also mostly Imps in the shopping district. Of course, in some of the stores, because there are some sales, many of the Imps, especially females are being very brutal or ruthless to get lower price stuff. They even go so far to use weapons against each other.
Amara looks around and asks, "So where should we eat?"
"I think I know a good coffee shop where we can have some lunch," Octavia says.
"Sure," Amara says.
Then asks, "Want to link arms?"
"Why?" Octavia asks.
Amara points forward as they see a male muscular Imp trying to hit on a female Succubi.
"Come on babe, I can show you a good time," The Imp says, seductively.
The female Succubi slaps the Imp and angrily says, "I told you no, you dick!"
Then the Succubi walks away with a huff.
The Imp angrily turns away and mutters, "Fuckin bitch."
Amara and Octavia look at each other and decide to link their arm and walk past the Imp. The Imp notices the two and simply turns his head away. Hiding behind the trash can close by is an Imp that is holding a knife. The Imp then jumps on the can and plans to attack the two Owl girls.
Amara whispers to Octavia, "Better stay clear, there's someone who wants to give us problems."
Octavia nods her head in reply.
Amara turns her body and uses her claw to create a feather. Then throws it like a kunai, and it stabs the Imp on its forehead, causing it to collapse.
"Good shot. Have you always been able to do that?" Octavia asks.
"Yes. I have always been able to use magic like this," Amara says.
"Hmm, interesting," Octavia says.
The two girls then continue on their way to find the coffee shop Octavia is talking about. Close behind, Blitz and the others are wearing disguises, hoping they can spy on them without noticing.
"Well, looks like Amara managed to score one," Blitz says.
"I really think this is a bad idea. If the girls see us, we'll be so fucked," Moxxie says.
"Relax Moxxie, we're just keeping an eye on them. It's not like we're going to cause them any problems," Millie says.
"Listen to your hoe, Mox. Now let's follow them before we lose signs of them," Blitz says.
Blitz then begins to follow forward to stalk the two owl girls Soon in the coffee shop, the girls are having their lunch as they chat.
"So Amara, how are you doing with the assasining business?" Octavia asks.
"It's been doing well. Even though there have been crazy humans. You won't believe the kind of nasties that somes had. And many of them… not normal," Amara says.
"How 'not normal' are we talking about?" Octavia asks.
"Not normal enough to be sane. Humans can be kind of weird," Amara says.
"I wouldn't know. I don't really go to the human world that much," Octavia ays.
"Really? I kind of figure that you do because the Grimoire does belong to your dad," Amara says, curiously.
"I get where you're coming from. My dad does use it sometimes for family vacations and his duties," Octavia says.
"I see," Amara says.
The girls continue to have their conversation, unaware that Blitz and the others are hiding behind newspapers and still spying on them.
"This is fuckin boring," Loona mutters.
"I have to admit, it is boring, but I like to see how this is played out," Blitz says.
Moxie groans, annoyed.
"So how did you join I.M.P anyway?" Octavia asks.
"Well, when I first arrived at Imp City I was a street performer to earn some money so my brother and I could have food and clothes, and supplies to clean ourselves and such," Amara says.
"Really now? What about your parents? What do they think about it?" Octavia asks.
That's when Amara lets out a bit of a frown on her face, and Octavia notices.
"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?" Octavia asks.
"No. It's not that. You see, our parents were brutally murdered over three year ago," Amara says.
"Murdered?" Octavia asks.
"Yes. They barged into our home one night and attacked. We don't know who they are or why they decide to attack. Our parents were able to protect us and kept us safe in a secret room in our home. However, sometime later, we came out to find our parents dead," Amara says.
"That must have been hard for you," Octavia replies.
"It kind of was, but I was able to get through it for me and my little brother," Amara says.
"So other than those feathers, do you have other kinds of abilities?" Octavia asks.
"Yeah. I can levitate stuff, make wind, and other stuff. Of course, my ma and pa said that I should develop my own physical strength," Amara says.
"Amara!" A voice says, that sounds very family to her.
Suddenly, a pair of scaly arms wraps around Amara and she looks up to see the familiar Lamia sinner demon.
"S-Suu?!" Amara exclaims, surprised.
At the other tale, Blitz groans, "Oh shit, not that creepy Lesiban Lamia again."
"Hi Amara, I didn't know you were here! What a surprise?!" Suu says, happily and hugs Amara.
Amara struggles, "Uh… Suu… I didn't know you were here. However, I appreciate it if you let me go. You know, how I feel about my personal space."
"Sorry Amara, but I'm just glad to see you again. It's been rather long," Suu says, and wraps her tail around Amara's legs.
Amara blushes against to feel the snake coils around her legs.
"So, you wanna hang out. I know a cool place for us to grab a few drinks," Suu says.
Amara turns to Suu, "Sorry Suu, but I'm already hanging out with someone."
Suu looks confused until he notices Octavia is sitting at the same table.
Suu becomes surprised and asks, "Wow. Aren't you Octavia, the daughter of the Goetia family?"
"Yes. I'm Octavia," Octaiva says.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Suu," Suu happily says.
"Hello. So how did you know Amara?" Octavia asks.
"I was a client at I.M.P. Of course, I do have an eye for cute girls, and Amara is it. Of course, I did question if she was a boy," Suu says.
Octava chuckles with a smile, "Yeah. I have to agree."
"Okay, I get it. I'm a total Wrath Ring Tomboy. I get it," Amara says.
Blitz and the others chuckles softly and try not to laugh out loud.
"There's nothing wrong with that. I think it's cool," Suu says.
"So what brings you here?" Octavia asks.
"I was getting a drink and going to hang out with some friends until I noticed Amara here and decided to say hi," Suu says, and hugs Amara as her tails coils more and coils her arms together to her waist.
Amara panics, "Uh Suu, again, I appreciate the personal space."
"Sorry Amara," Suu says and lets go of Amara and uncoils her coils off her.
She then says, "I better get going. I gotta get my coffee and go and meet the others. See you around."
"Bye," Amara says and waves goodbye.
She then sighs, feeling a bit tense to what happened.
"Glad Amara was able to handle that well," Millie whispers.
"Is Suu… always like this?" Octaiva asks.
"Sort of. I barely know her and yet she decides to wrap her tail around me. It's a good thing she hasn't done something to meet yet. However, I don't want to take any chances," Amara says.
"Don't let it get to you. Let's finish having lunch and we'll go shopping," Octavia says.
"Sure," Amara says.
After having their lunch, Amara and Octavia have gone into a music store, unaware that they are being spied on by Imps who have weapons like knives, pitch forks, and ropes. Of course, Blitz and the others aren't far behind. In the music store, Amara and Octavia look around to see some of the instruments, tools and such.
"Hmm, this looks like a decent store. It's a little different from the store I go back to in the Wrath Ring, but I think it's good," Amara says.
"Well, I'm not much of an instrumentalist, but the store seems nice enough," Octavia says.
Amara then walks to the guitar section and is able to find the guitar strings.
Amara then picks two of them, "There we go. These will do nice."
Amara then purchases the guitar strings and the girls walk over to the Stylish Occult. In the store, there are plenty of gothic-style apparel.
"The place still looks interesting, but I'm not much into gothic styles," Amara says.
Octavia chuckles, "Even though you did buy some shirts and vests from here."
"That's true," Amara says.
As the girls are about to leave the store, a pair of imps are ready to ambush them. Suddenly, they both end up receiving head hits from bullets and they collapse on the ground. After that, the girls are in the Stylish Occult store. Amara then looks at some of the clothes section. Mainly at the shirts, vests, and pants, even some of the accessories: Belts, different types of neckties, hats, and a few jewelry.
"I must admit, despite them being a gothic style, some of them seem to be a bit my style. However, I think I'm more into a western style, but these are still good," Amara says.
"Glad you think so," Octavia says.
Then asks, "Do you plan on getting a dress?"
"No. To be honest, I haven't worn dresses since I was seven. Most of my life, I wear jeans, pants, and even shorts. Dresses aren't fully my style," Amara says.
"Make sense. But, maybe you could try wearing something more well, girl like. You always seem to look like a boy wearing stuff like this," Octavia says.
Amara turns away with a huff, "You're starting to sound like my friend, Madison. She thinks I should try to be more feminine as well."
The two girls then begin to laugh. It's easy to tell that the two girls are bonding together as good friends. Blitz and the others continue to keep an eye on them, even try to keep some weirdos from getting the jump on them.
Sometime later, Octavia and Amara are walking around the district.
"So, where do you wanna go next?" Amara asks.
"I'm not sure, but do you get the feeling we're being followed," Octavia says.
Amara whispers, "If you mean by Blitz and his crew, I know."
"How long have they been following us?" Octavia whispers.
"I'm not sure, but I'm going to have a serious talk with them when I get back," Amara whispers, and doesn't sound very pleased.
"I'm surprised you noticed it," Octavia says.
"From what Moxxie told me about Blitz, I'm not that surprised," Amara replies.
Suddenly, someone says, "Well well well."
Octavia and Amara look to find three different demon sinners standing in front of them. One is a dragonewt, covered in red scales with a long tail and wings, and wears a black bodysuit. The second one is a dark purple Imp like being, but is wearing a black shirt, and blue jeans. The last one has a frightening animal skull for a head, and wears a dark blue suit.
"It looks like we got ourselves since nice looking chicks," The dragonewt says.
The Dark Purple Imp then asks with an evil grin, "How about you ladies like to join us for a few drinks."
"Sorry, but we already have other plans," Amara says.
Then turns to Octavia, "Come on, let's go."
Before they can leave, the Dragonewt grabs Octavia by her arm, "Come on sweet beak, I'm sure you can spare some time."
"I rather not," Octavia answers.
Amara sternly says, "You heard her."
"Come on, I'm sure we can have a little fun," The demon with the animal skull says.
Amara says, "Why don't you guys fuck off, and leave us be."
Then takes Octavia away from the three demons and prepares to leave.
Suddenly, the dragonewt grabs Amara by her neck tie, "We're not following you around, birdy bitch. So I guess you play nice or I'll break your beak."
"You are being very immature," Octavia says.
"Who ask you, you gothic feather brain," the Imp demon says, and pushes Octavia into the ground.
Amara gasps, "Octavia!"
"Now then, little girl. Are you gonna play nice or am I going to play rough," the dragonewt says.
Suddenly, he feels a sharp pain on his side, and it turns out Amara has used her knife to stab him, and he begins to bleed. That causes him to let go of Amara. Then Amara lifts her foot and kicks the dragonewt away from her.
The skull Sinner is pissed off, "Hey, you got a problem pipsqueak!"
Amara doesn't say a word and instead, punches the Imp demon in the face. Then grabs the skull mask demon by his arm and flips him over. The sinners soon get up and are very furious. Close by and seeing what is happening, Blitz and the others are shocked to see what has happened.
"Oh crumbs, it looks like the girls are in trouble," Moxie says.
"I'm sure Amara can handle them on her own," Loona says.
"I know Amara can, especially when they make her mad," Roy replies.
In fact, Amara is actually pissed off because they hurt Octavia. Plus, they don't want to take no for an answer. Soon, Amara actually begins to fight against them on her own. She punches, kicks, and uses her knife to stab them to make them weaker. She kicks the imp in the stomach. Then punches the Skull demon in the face. Then pulls the dragonewt by his tail and throws him at his crew members. Then they end up crashing to the ground. Amara takes deep breaths as she is able to beat them. Suddenly, Amara ends up getting shot on her right shoulder and blood gets spread to the ground.
"Amara!" Octavia exclaims.
Amara grunts and screams in pain as she holds her right shoulder. She soon falls to her knees until the sinner responsible for the shop steps forward.
The demon behind it is a large purple color demon wearing a gray suit and has large fly wings, and creepy fly like eyes.
"Well, looks like I'm just in time to have a little fun," The Fly demon says.
He then grabs Amara by her shirt and pulls her up as her hat falls off.
"Must admit, you sure are tough for a little bird. It's too bad I had to damage you a little for beating the fuck out of my men," The fly demon says.
Amara struggles to break free from the demon's grasp, but her right shoulder hurts that it's hard to.
"Struggle all you like, but in shit loads of trouble for what you did," The fly demon says.
Then turns to Octavia, "However, it's fortunate for us that you're with the Goetia kid. I'm sure we can get the Prince's ransom for both of you."
Suddenly, a click of the gun appears and the fly demon is shot on his hand. He screams in agony as he drops Amara to the ground. Then viciously turns his head to see Blitz holding his gun out at him.
"Yeah. sorry to break your little party short, but I rather you not be shitty to one of my employees," Blitz says.
Suddenly, Amara stands up as she clutches her right shoulder, much to everyone's surprise.
Roy however, recognizes it, "Uh oh."
"What do you mean 'uh oh'?" Loona asks.
"Well, this is the first time in a while when Amara gets like this. It only happens when Amara has been pushed past her breaking point," Roy says.
"Breaking point? You mean, she is fuckin pissed off?" Millie asks.
"Why do I feel that it's a lot more than just expressing her rage," Moxxie suspects.
In a dangerous tone, Amara says to the four sinners, "So that's how you wanna do it. You try to attack two teenagers and mess with us. Then you hurt a defenseless girl, and also shot me in the arm. You can shoot me, punch me, kick me when I'm done. However, I'm not going to allow you to ransom Octavia's life, by the likes of you."
Amara then opens all four eyes and they begin to glow with pure anger, scaring the four sinners. Amara then lifts her arm and uses it to create a powerful wind and the feathers appear. Then uses her fingers to move around and create a feather like tornado around them. Then uses her powers to send flying to who knows where and away from the city. Once Amara is done using her powers and has finally calmed down, the young owl demon collapses on the ground. Everyone is practically dumbfounded and shocked to see what Amara has done and is now practically passed out.
Time has gone by, and the I.M.P employees, including Octavia are in the van. Octavia, Loona, and Roy have fallen asleep. Amara is still passed out from the injury and for using a lot of her abilities on the demon sinners. Millie is able to fix up the wound Amara has on her shoulder with Moxxie's help.
Blitz groans and says, "Talk about a fuckin mess that happened."
"I have to agree, sir. Amara may have gotten a bit carried away," Moxxie says.
"Carried away? Mox, Amara practically sent them to the next ring of Hell or something. I didn't even think she was this powerful when she gets mad," Blitz says.
"But anyway, Amara seems like any other demon," Millie says.
"Let's just hope it stays that way," Blitz says.
Soon enough, Blitz parks the van in front of the front gate of the mansion. At the same time, Octavia and Amara soon wake up.
Amara yawns and says, "Guys, wha… what happened?"
"Are you okay, Amara?" Millie asks.
"I think so. My shoulder still hurts," Amara says, holding her shoulder with her left hand.
"Are you sure? I mean. You kind of lost control back there," Octavia says.
Amara sadly sighs and says, "I'm sorry that you had to see that. The last thing I want you to see is my powers increase when I get angry."
"It's okay. You only did that to defend me," Octavia says.
"Yeah. But, I could have handled it better," Amara says.
"Thoses asses shot you in the arm. I think they ended up getting what they deserve," Blitz says.
"I suppose. I just hope I don't have to go through that again," Amara says.
"At least you showed them not to mess with you. And it's not that bad since they tried to kill you back," Millie says.
"I think what I did was over the top," Amara says.
Moxxie then opens the van, allowing Amara and Octavia to step out. Amara and Octavia then walk past the gate of the mansion and walk down the path to the front door.
"Thanks for inviting me, Octavia. Even though it didn't go as planned," Amara says.
"It's okay. I suspect things were going to get crazy there. And I did learn one thing about you," Octavia says.
"What's that?" Amara asks.
Octavia chuckles, "Never get on your bad side."
Amara groans as she covers her face, "I'm never going to live that down."
"Well then. See you next time," Octavia says.
"Bye," Amara says.
Octavia then opens the door to the mansion, goes inside, and closes the door. Amara then begins to make her way to the van, and is ready to head back to the apartment.
Unknown to the group, someone else has seen Amara go in the van with the Imps and Hellhound in the van, and has her confused. The demon is actually looking through a window that is in a higher view of the mansion and is rather curious about Amara as well.
The demon is a tall, white avian demon with curvaceous proportions. She has long, hair-like feathers that fade to grey at the tips and a large gray stripe on her head. She has a short pink beak, and long curved eyelashes. She has pink markings underneath her eyes, which themselves have red sclera with light pupils. She wears a white dress with puffed sleeves and feather trimming, along with black accents. She is seen wearing a crown, and has painted nails underneath her black gloves.
She places her claws under her chin and becomes curious and suspicious about Amara.