"I have a dream, I'm here to tell!"
A swing from Mikazuki's Ultra Large Mace quite literally tore straight through the torso of a single Sinner that was charging right at him. The Ace reckoned that it was a Lionfish based demon before he became half the demon he once was, though regardless, as his top half was still afloat, the Lupus Rex pilot grabbed onto his neck and used him as a makeshift projectile, with him throwing him at another Sinner that was charging at Akihiro.
"About a wonderful, fantastic new hotel!"
While the Sinner charging at Akihiro, a manta ray looking fucker, was smacked in the face by the upper body of his former cohort, the Full City's pilot busied himself with slashing into the chest of a demon, a catfish(?) that was in his clutches. Said demon was restrained by Akihiro's two arms, and one of his Sub-Arms made use of his Halberd to slash deep into their torso at an angle. Blood splashed against the guy's face, and by all means, Atland would've been just a bit… disturbed by how little he cared about killing someone in such a manner.
But then he remembered… they're all already dead! So it didn't technically matter! And with that in mind, the big guy grimaced and spun around on his heel and swung his arm out towards the demon that was running at him from behind. The disorientated demon didn't even notice that he was on his back until Akihiro stomped his boot down onto their face.
"Yes it's one of a kind, right here in Hell! Catering to a specific clientele!"
As Atland began scraping the blood and brain matter off the bottom of his boot, Shino found himself firing and batting away the tentacles of a pair of Octopus demons. As he did so, the pink loving pilot held Niffty in one hand as she laughed all the while.
"Niffty! You should be sitting down while I do my work!" protested Shino as a tentacle wrapped itself around his Shiden arm. In response to that comment, Niffty simply shrugged as she watched Norba yank his arm backwards, in turn pulling the octopus demon towards him, and headbutting them right in the face.
"But I want to see you fight!" protested Niffty with a smile, only for her to squeak in surprise when Shino abruptly tossed her into the air. Whilst she was still airborne, Norba reached under the countertop and pulled out his Assault Knife. With its curved edge, the pilot buried the weapon's blade into the top of the octopus demon's head, causing them quite a bit of pain as they staggered backwards.
"You can… from a distance!" rebutted Shino as he caught her in his hand, though before long, he unintentionally let her fall to the ground when the other octopus lunged forwards and wrapped all eight of its tentacles around his limbs. Norba groaned a little as he felt their slimy grip on him, though he mostly ignored it as he did his best to keep the octopus demon's beak from biting into his skull. "Oh jeez, this isn't like all that hentai I keep hearing about! It's much worse!"
Thankfully enough, however, before the pilot could have his skull crushed by the octopus demon's beak, Husk, of all demons, came to his aid by smashing the demon over the head with his beer bottle, disorientating them just long enough for Norba to get back up to his feet and slam their head into the countertop. The Flauros pilot repeated this process several times over until the countertop had gone red with blood, and once the octopus stopped moving, he threw their body off towards the side with a huff.
"Thanks for that!" thanked Shino with a wink as he picked Niffty up from the ground and set her back down onto her chair, and at that, Husk, whose face was splattered with octopus blood, simply offered his middle finger to Norba, who chuckled a little. "I may have overdone it a little…"
"Inside of every demon is a rainbow!"
"If you really want to thank me, turn that TV off! That song is grating what's left of my soul!" bellowed Husk, with him pointing to Charlie's on screen presence as she began singing. Shino, after glancing up at her, simply shrugged.
"Inside of every Sinner is a shiny smile!"
"Nah, I kinda like it," admitted Shino with a smirk as Husk facepalmed.
"Fuck you."
"Inside of every creepy hatchet wielding maniac is a jolly cupcake loving child!"
Swinging his Halberd upwards, Akihiro sliced the arm off a Hammerhead shark based Sinner, in turn causing the hatchet that they were once holding onto to fly into the air as Atland grabbed onto their shoulder and struck them in the cheek with enough force to make their head spin a full 360 degrees. Upon releasing them, Akihiro watched as the Sinner fell backwards, dead.
As they fell onto their back, Akihiro activated one of his Sub-Arms and caught the dead Sinner's hatchet and used it to deflect a hit from another Sinner that was trying to sneak up on him. Said Sinner, some sort of snake with arms(?!), hissed in anger as they stepped backwards, though as they recovered, Akihiro turned on a dime and grabbed onto their neck and forearm with both his hands.
Making use of the Halberd in his Sub-arm, Akihiro brought it down onto the Sinner's elbow, severing it, before he swung it up towards their chin, slicing it right in half thereafter.
"Oh come on! I thought the Calamari Gang would have this in the bag!" complained a random demon off to the side as Akihiro discarded the hatchet he was using and retrieved his Halberd. Thereafter, he glanced over at whoever was speaking and saw that it was an imp, one that appeared to be saddened by how the Tekkadan trio had so effortlessly taken out half of the demons that were causing a fuss.
The… Calamari Gang, huh? Akihiro would have to remember that for future reference, though before he could think much on it, the pilot was quick to turn on a dime and use his gauntleted Full City forearm to block a rocket that was fired at him. As the smoke cleared, Atland lowered his forearm and raised a brow when he saw an imp glaring at him as he reloaded his rocket launcher.
"Hey, fuck you! I'm not losing a hundred just because three kids don't know how to die properly!" protested the imp as he loaded another rocket into his launcher and fired it at Akihiro, who merely shifted himself to the side as he effortlessly evaded the attack, causing the missile to fly towards some of the demons that were watching by the side, killing them in the process. Thereafter, he simply raised his Full City arm up and fired off his own unguided missile at the imp, who wasn't fast enough to dodge the hit as he was pulverised by Atland's attack.
Snorting in amusement as all that happened, Akihiro shook his head and turned back to continue with getting rid of the remaining nuisances that had started this whole ordeal in the first place, though before he could do so, the Gusion pilot paused when he saw that… several other demons, mainly imps and various other Sinners, were now glaring daggers at him, and he didn't need to be a genius for him to realize their intentions.
"Oh for fu-"
"We can turn around! They'll be heaven-bound! With just a little time down at the Happy Hotel!"
Stepping to the side, Mikazuki avoided a blob of black ink being shot at him by a squid demon.
Thereafter, said demon made an attempt to grab him with their tentacles, and by all means, they did manage to snag onto Augus' Lupus Rex forearm, though they ended up severely underestimating his physical strength as the pilot simply yanked them towards him. Once the squid was close enough, the pilot pulled his other arm backwards and, with the Wire Claw he had equipped on his left arm, he stabbed the squid straight in the chest, causing them to puke out blood as the Ace scoffed and hoisted them up and over his head.
Without much effort, Mika threw the squid demon's body towards one of their cohorts, which just so happened to be some sort of rockfish demon. Surprisingly enough, the rockfish was able to dodge the body of their thrown cohort, though they were quick to realize that the Wire Claw on Mikazuki's arm was still attached to the squid demon's body, though by the time they did so, Augus had already yanked his Wire Claw equipped arm back towards himself, in turn yanking the body of the squid demon as well, and at that, the squid crashed straight into the back of the rockfish, causing them to stagger forwards as the Ace pilot lunged at them.
Making use of his Ultra Large Mace, Mika slammed its tip into the rockfish's chest and activated the weapon's Pile Bunker. The device tore straight through the chest of the Sinner and killed them right there and then, and thereafter, the Ace pilot kicked the dead body off his weapon's Pile Bunker before retracting both the bunker and his Wire Claw nonchalantly.
'That was easy,' thought the pilot offhandedly as he raised his brows a tiny bit higher up onto his face and glanced off to the side.
"We'll make you well, you'll feel so swell! Right here in Hell at the Happy Hotel!"
Huh… she was still singing, huh? Mika felt like he had missed a good portion of her song, but regardless… he had to admit, her singing voice was pretty good. Of course, he didn't understand half of what she was saying… but still, it was the thought that counted, he reckoned.
Of course, Mika's enjoyment of whatever the Princess of Hell was singing at the moment was quickly cut short when he instinctively leaned backwards to avoid having part of his face being bitten off by the shark demon, who thought that he could get the jump on Mika as his teeth clashed together mere millimeters away from his face. They clashed twice more as the shark made two more attempts at biting into Augus' flesh, though both times were equally unsuccessful, and before they could make a third attempt, Mika brought his Lupus Rex hand up and shoved the shark backwards a little before he jumped up and slammed into their chin with the top of his head.
As the shark staggered backwards, the pilot swung his Mace at their stomach, though before it could strike their abdomen, the Sinner managed to grab the weapon before it made contact, and surprisingly enough, they were able to stop the strike completely before making an attempt to sock Mika in the jaw. Before their fist could impact his jaw, however, Mikazuki raised his other arm up and made use of his Wire Claw to block the hit, surprising the shark quite a bit as they quirked their brows up in surprise.
"You're a quick one," grumbled the shark in irritation as they attempted to push Mika backwards, and by all means, they were able to force him back a few inches as the pilot frowned more intensely in irritation, though before he could get pushed back too far, the pilot activated his Heel Bunkers and rooted himself in place. "And by all means, it seems as though we are at an-"
"Raise your flaaaag!"
"... impasse?" concluded the shark demon as Mika raised a brow and, using the Sub-Arm in his Lupus Rex arm, the pilot reached into his pocket and fished out his Hellphone. Bringing it up to eye level, the pilot quirked his brows up a little when he saw that Barbatos, of all demons, was contacting him. A small part of him wished to hang up on the guy just to dunk on him, though he wasn't that rude, and as such, the Ace pilot just sighed and forcefully shoved the shark demon backwards, causing them to stagger backwards.
As they did so, the pilot slammed the head of his Mace into the ground before he used it to hoist himself up into the air and dropkick the shark demon in the chest, forcing them backwards and disorientating them just long enough for the pilot to pull the phone out of his Sub-Arm's grasp and answered the call. As he placed his phone against the side of his head, however, the shark demon recovered and charged at him, only for Augus to raise his hand up to tell him to hold the fuck up for now.
And surprisingly enough… the demon was polite enough to remain at bay just long enough for Mika to greet whoever was calling him as Augus answered his call.
"Moshi Moshi?" greeted Mika, prompting Barbatos to laugh on the other end of the line.
"Ah! I knew that you had a sense of humor, kid!" greeted Barbatos as Mika leaned against his Ultra Large Mace and listened to him speak. As he did so, the shark demon, having decided that they were done with being polite to Augus, lunged forwards at the pilot, who, in response to his attempt to attack him, ripped his Ultra Large Mace out of the ground with his Lupus Rex arm and swung it at them, swatting them out of the air with little issue as he kept the phone up to his ear. "I knew that those Exterminators couldn't bring you down!"
"Ah," replied Mikazuki as he leaned back to avoid the shark demon as they attempted to snap their jaws at him. The shark's teeth came just close enough to Mika's nose that he could feel some air pressure from them, though aside from that, he didn't feel much as he jumped forwards and tackled them backwards. Thereafter, the pilot stabbed the shark demon in the stomach with his Wire Claw before he uppercutted them up into the air with his Lupus Rex arm, and as soon as the shark reached the apex of their launch, the pilot yanked on the Wire Claw's… wire and forcefully brought the demon towards the ground, causing them to land with a rather unsavoury splat.
"There'll be no more fire and no more screams! Just puppy dog kisses and cotton candy dreams! And puffy-wuffy clouds, you're gonna be like, wow! Once you check in with me!"
Pulling the Wire Claw back towards himself, Mikazuki sighed as he stared at the mangled mess that was the shark demon's body, though before long, the pilot snapped out of his trance and leaned his head off to the side to avoid having it be shot by a high calibre sniper round. As he dodged the shot, the pilot turned towards the shooter and flung the shark demon's body towards them, with him retracting his Wire Claw thereafter.
"Jeez, you busy or something?" asked Barbatos, to which Mika snorted as he threw his phone up into the air and leaned backwards to avoid being cut in half by a chainsaw wielding Sinner with goat horns. Barbatos continued to speak as the pilot dodged two more swings from the chainsaw before he grabbed onto the blade of the weapon with his Lupus Rex hand and forcefully stopped it from spinning. Its wielder paled a little before Mika narrowed his eyes and ripped the chainsaw out of their hands.
Now with a broken chainsaw in his hands, the pilot raised it up over his head before he brought it down onto the goat Sinner's head, splitting it in half with very little issue. As the goat demon fell backwards, Mika held his hand out and caught his phone in it before bringing the device up to his ear.
"Yes. I'm busy," confirmed Mika, prompting Barbatos to wince over the line as the pilot raised his Mace up to defend against a barrage of small calibre gunfire. The gunfire died down after Akihiro threw his Halberd at the offenders, however, prompting Mika to offer him a thumbs up in return. "Bar fight."
"Sheesh. Never thought I'd see you in a bar fight, of all things, though granted, you've been in weirder situations at this point!" proclaimed Barbatos, though Mika only processed a quarter of what he was saying as an explosion suddenly appeared outside of Klub Kaiju alongside two Sinners who were fighting a legion of… Egg Bois? Huh, that must've been that turf war Katie Killjoy was talking about just now. Neat. "But regardless, you must be wondering why I'm calling you, right Mikazuki? I'm right, aren't I?"
At this point, Mika simply sighed and nodded, a gesture that Barbatos couldn't even see in the first place, though he took his silence as a yes and continued speaking, with him pausing briefly when Mikazuki gave a shocked "Ah!" as a missile hit his side, sending him flying backwards onto the bar countertop in the process.
"Alright, allow me to be brief!" began Barbatos as Mika's back impacted the edge of the bar counter, and seconds later, he recovered and raised his legs up to kick a Sinner, one that worked for Vox, if their mechanical augmentations were anything to go by, back before they could pin him down onto the countertop. With that done, the pilot leaned to the side to avoid a dagger that was thrown at him before he pressed his phone back up against his ear once more. Sure, he didn't care about what Barbatos had to say, but he wasn't a rude asshole! "Seeing as how you've survived an extermination and all that, I found it prudent to call you up and tell you: good job!"
"... that's it?" muttered Mikazuki as he pushed himself off the countertop and snatched a grenade out of the air before it could hit Husk on the back of his head. With a quick gesture, the pilot threw it back at whoever had thrown it, causing them to panic briefly before blowing up.
"Yep! I do this to those that actually survive, mind you… and you're among the… what? Twenty or so of my staff that actually make it? So congrats!" confirmed Barbatos, and Mika didn't even need to be face to face with that guy to know that he had winked at the end of that sentence, prompting him to sigh in irritation as he shook his head. For someone as 'wise' as he was… Barbatos certainly wasn't the best employer ever…
Mikazuki's irritation towards Barbatos was so great that he didn't even notice a demon, some sort of bear looking fucker, getting up close with him until they brought their metal bat down onto his head. On impact, the bat found itself bent into the shape of Mika's head as the pilot simply turned to glare at the Sinner, who held his bent bat up in the air as he gulped.
"I'm…. sorry?" apologised the bear, only to be uppercutted with enough force to bury his head in the ceiling. In the background, Niffty clapped in amazement at what she just saw while Husk… well, he was asleep as usual. Shino, on the other hand, simply smirked as he kept a demon pinned down on the countertop, with him stabbing them in the throat multiple times with a broken beer bottle all the while.
"Nice work there, Mika!" congratulated Shino cheerfully as he finally removed the long dead demon from the countertop, threw them towards a seemingly random direction, and promptly wiped the blood off the counter with a rag. The sight of all that amused Mika quite a bit, all things considered, though he was quick to shrug it off as he nodded and moved a finger to hang up on Barbatos.
Before he could do so, however…
"So, all your cartoon porn addictions, vegan rants, psychic predictions! Ancient Roman crucifixions end right here!"
"Hold on for a second… is that Charlie?!" demanded Barbatos rather abruptly as Mika winced a tad at his volume. Even when his ear wasn't up against his phone, he could hear the Duke loud and clear, and that was rather… impressive, all things considered.
"Charlie? Lucifer and Lilith's daughter?" clarified Mika as he held his phone back up to his ear. As he did so, the pilot dodged to the left to avoid an axe swing from behind, and as his attacker staggered forwards, Mika grabbed onto the back of their head and slammed it into the ground, cracking the concrete and shaking the building a little in the process.
"Yeah! Is she with you or something?" asked Barbatos curiously as Mika glanced over at the TV. On screen, the aforementioned Charlie Magne was still performing her encore as she did her best to advertise her Hotel, and in all fairness… she would've made for quite the saleswoman if this were not Hell.
"No. She's just on Channel Six-Six-Six," answered Mika as he leaned down a little as Shino pulled out his Flauros rifle and began gunning down the demons that were causing a ruckus. Akihiro did the same as well, though as soon as Norba was done, he got back up and swung his Halberd at an imp's arm, severing it. Said imp cried out in shock as they stared at their severed arm, though not long after Akihiro decapitated them with his weapon, saving them the trouble.
"Ah… she finally managed to advertise her hotel, huh?" muttered Barbatos in apparent shock as Mika snorted in amusement. From what he's gathered, Charlie's idea to rehabilitate Sinners was… to put it mildly, terrible. It was a nice thing to do, sure, but even so… this was Hell. and trying to rehabilitate the fucknuts who came down here would be like trying to fire a gun without using gunpowder.
Impossible.
Even so… the attempt was commendable, and at the very least… she had some spirit. Misplaced spirit… but still some good spirit nonetheless.
Ah… how Kudelia-esc… it was almost enough to make Mika smile a tiny bit as he leaned forwards to avoid having his head be taken off by a boar based Sinner.
As he leaned forwards, Mika launched his leg back and kicked the boar in the chest, causing them to stagger backwards before they backed up against something. Staring down in confusion, the boar was quick to widen their eyes when they realized that they had just backed up into the jaws of Akihiro's Scissor Shield, though before they could attempt an escape, Atland slammed the jaws of his weapons shut, slicing them in half thereafter.
"Ah. A… Happy Hotel?" muttered Mika as he recalled the name of the place. Barbatos snapped his fingers at that as he responded.
"Indeed! The Happy Hotel! She has pitched the idea to her dad on multiple occasions!" confirmed Barbatos, with Mika nodding a little as he crouched down to avoid a chair being thrown at him. Right as the chair passed the top of his head, Augus aimed and fired his Wire Claw at it, and as soon as the claw snagged onto the bottom of the thrown chair, Mika yanked it forwards and threw it back at his offender, bonking them right over the head in the process. "Didn't go well, honestly, but I can't say it's really surprising! Lucifer is the king of Hell, after all, the very first demon, the first to fall! It's honestly a miracle that he hasn't disowned her after she pitched the idea to him in the first place! Though then again, he's not like… a bad dad, so…"
"Ah," was all Mika could really respond with as he fired his Wire Claw once more, with the claw now attaching itself onto Husk's chair as he yanked his seat to the side. The cat demon's cheek slid across the countertop as several knives, clubs and axes were thrown in his general direction, though they were quickly stopped when Shino pulled an RPG out from below the counter and fired it at them. "Where…"
"Call it insurance! We keep a ton of things under the counter!" answered Shino swiftly as Akihiro winced at how much of the bar was being destroyed, though he quickly got over it as a demon attempted to crack him over the head with a chair. Said chair shattered as it made contact with Akihiro's head, leaving behind a terrified Sinner as he stared up at Atland.
"Three seconds," was all Akihiro bothered to say as the demon got the memo and skedaddled right on out of there, and with him gone… things suddenly became rather quiet as Akihiro dusted his hands off and walked up to Mikazuki and Shino with a satisfied look on his face. "Well, I suppose that ended just as well as it could've."
"That was definitely the best bar fight I've seen so far," commented Shino with a firm nod as he offered Akihiro a thumbs up, one that the big guy rolled his eyes as he mirrored the gesture, and at that, Mikazuki simply stared around the bar with a raised brow as he surveyed the damage.
Klub Kaiju looked more like a goddamn warzone at this point, with almost all the tables and chairs demolished and several fires spread out around the place. The only things that were relatively undamaged was the small spot where Husk and Niffty were both occupying, with the former still asleep in spite of all that had just happened while the latter was clapping her hands together in awe.
"Bravo! Bravo! That was a good show, all of you!" proclaimed Niffty with a wide smile as Shino smirked and offered her another glass of milk as thanks. Akihiro chuckled a little at her words as he shrugged and crossed his arms, and as for Mika…
Well, the pilot simply kept his phone up to his ear as he stared up at the TV above them, where Charlie had concluded her encore and was now posing rather dramatically for the camera.
"But yeah, long story short… her dream is a little unrealistic, to say the least. You don't exactly need future predicting powers to know that redeeming all of Hell is… an impossible task, you know?"
"Impossible, huh…?" echoed Mika as he rubbed his chin thoughtfully. His eyes narrowed quite a bit as he pondered that word for quite some time, and before long, he closed his eyes and exhaled sharply as he hung up on Barbatos, much to the Duke's dismay.
"Hmph… well, not everything's impossible…"
Hello there!
Did you… nevermind you probably didn't. But regardless, here's the next chapter to this… story that I just so happen to have up on my page.
I suck with outros so let's just get right to the review replies.
Fortress H: 666/10? Oh man we're getting into some cursed numbers!
coldblue2015: well as per usual, I'm glad you enjoyed the previous chapter! In regards to your suggestion, I'll keep it in mind for future chapters, and for your questions… well, for Mika, Aki and Shino questioning her, I think Mika's got his answers now. As for demonic duels, well… only time will tell for now. And Akatsuki… well, I do have something planned for him so…
Insert witty final words here.