Hello everyone and this chapter is going to be a wild and fun one because this is where Dante is going to help the Hotel. And now for some questions.
Boygoo500: I read it and I am going to add the other characters.
Alpha-Lonewolf: They did not meet but they will soon.
Jebest4781: I thought of this idea way before I thought about the other levels of hell, but now I will have some world building to do. And You will see that showdown later.
Cotia 110: How did you know?!
Anyway, let's get this party started!
Mission 5: An Interview In Hell
"So, wait a minute, you're actually a half-demon to a really powerful demon? And the King of Hell hired you to kill as many demons as you can?" Cherri Bomb asked as she was sitting in a booth as Dante was having a strawberry sundae.
"Yep." He said while chewing on a spoonful of his frozen treat. "Also, I'm helping the princess with her redemption idea."
"You believe in that bullshit? Redemption. Don't make me laugh." Cherri scoffs. "Once you die you are doomed to walk Hell for all eternity unless you're killed by a really powerful demon or an Executioner." She took a sip of the soda she ordered.
"Yeah, to an extent." He said as the cyclops did a spit take.
"Wait seriously?! You actually believe in the bull crap?" The Cyclops asked as if the Demon Hunter was kidding. "What have you been smoking?"
"I don't smoke actually, it's a nasty habit, makes your clothes smell like crap and just kills you faster," Dante said as he was finishing his strawberry sundae.
"Whatever, I appreciate you helping me, but I got some territory to keep under my control." Cherri finished her drink as she crushed the can, paid for her soda, and is about to walk out flipping the bird with two hands.
"Then, what's the deal with Freakshow?" Dante asked as the cyclops demon turned back around and faced the silver-haired hunter. "As you said, you think it's bullshit, but you mention that you two are close, so wouldn't that mean you would be against him being there?"
Cherri sat back down with him. "What are you getting at?"
"All I'm asking is why is he at the hotel if you think it's bullshit as you call it and not in your place or close to it?" Dante laid back, arms behind his head. "My guess is he either pissed off the landlord or he's hiding from someone."
Cherri grimaces as Dante says that, knowing exactly that Dante's guess was right and that Angel was trying to escape somebody vile, even for sinners and demons. "I thought you were a hunter, not some detective."
"Sometimes detective work involves demon-slaying. Helps to know what you're up against. And judging by how you reacted, if I am correct, it's the latter." Dante said looking her dead in the eye.
"No use in avoiding it. But you are right, he is hiding from someone." Cherri confessed. "As for who he is hiding from, you will have to ask him."
"Do you know who?" Dante asked to which the cyclops demon nodded. "Then this could all be avoided if you tell me who babe."
"Like I said, you have to ask Angie," Cherri told him. "I swore not to tell anyone who it is."
"Alright then, then mind giving me a lead?" He asked.
"Might as well." She sighed. "He's one of the Overlords. Messing with him is unwelcome news because he's allied with two other Overlords. Then again, I don't think they like him that much anyway."
"A three against one match, I like those odds," Dante smirked while Cherri gawked with a wide eye.
"Whoa, you are not thinking of taking him down, are you?" Cherri asked.
"Love to but don't have that information as of now. But like you said, I need to ask him, so you can tag along if you want and see where your friend lives now." Dante stands up, pays with whatever money he does have, ready to leave to go back to the hotel.
Cherri did not know what else to say, it would be nice to see Angel, but she had to sneak around the hotel to avoid meeting the moth demon and Lucifer's daughter since they say she's a bad influence. But can she really go up to the front door? She shook her head and took the risk; besides, Sir Pentious will not be back for quite some time. "Alright, just because Edgelord won't be back for quite some time." She stood up beside him as they both proceeded to leave.
Back at the Hotel
"I'm back!" Dante announced as he kicked open the door to the main lobby of the hotel.
"Did you really have to kick the door!?" Vaggie screamed at the silver-haired man. "We already have damage to the hotel as it is!"
"Whoa easy there, I didn't come empty-handed." Dante stepped to the side as the moth demon noticed the cyclops with the 1980's look.
This got Vaggie steaming mad right now. "What is she doing here!?"
"Good to see you too, bitch." Cherri waved as she stood next to Dante.
The female moth demon then darted her eye at the silver-haired man. "Out of all the people you brought to this hotel, you had to choose the one that had to be banned!?"
"You're banned?" Dante looked at the cyclops and raised a brow.
"More or less. But hey I had to take a risk." Cherri playfully waved.
"More or less!?" Vaggie growled as she ripped some of her hair off her head. "It was because of you that Angel got into that turf war and made the hotel look like a total joke!"
"Hey! That slimy snake was in my turf, so your little project may have gone a little better if he just stood back!" Cherri yelled at her as the two growled.
"Geez, what's all the commotion?! Can't a porn star get some privi- Cherri!?" Angel Dust said in surprise as he had his robe on with a mud mask covering his face.
"Isn't the point of those masks to make you more beautiful? Cause that just makes you uglier." Dante commented which gave a hardy laugh out of Husker from the bar.
"You won't be saying that for long when I'm looking drop-dead gorgeous in the morning." Angel teased.
"Nah, you still look like a freak." Dante quipped. The cyclops, the moth, and the winged cat all were holding in a chuckle as they heard him.
"Whatever. Your loss." Angel told him.
"What's going on here?" Charlie asked as she descended the stairs from her office. As she sees who is standing right next to Dante. "Oh no." She quickly runs down the stairs and drives a wedge in between Vaggie and Cherri. "Cherri, I know you don't want to be redeemed, but you're still, how should I put this…. banned?" She says with a sheepish smile.
Before the cyclops could say anything, the Demon Hunter spoke first. "I told her to come along, I didn't know she was banned."
"Yes indeed, I saw the whole thing up close." Everyone turned to see Alastor was in the doorway and he took a seat and faced the group. "And I must say that was quite the show you pulled off."
"You were spying on me? Why am I not surprised?" Dante said coolly.
"More like observing from a distance." The Radio Demon corrected. "I have to say my dear fellow, you are quite the entertainer."
"What is he talking about?" Vaggie asked. As if on cue, the tv on the bar started to play the news after Husker leaned on the remote.
"Good afternoon. I'm Katie Killjoy!"
"And I'm Tom Trench. Today's story involves the west side of Pentagram City as Kingpin Sir Pentious had unleashed a new prototype of machinery, but failed thanks to this guy!" The masked news reporter showed footage of Dante's fight with the robot as he shot his pistols and slashing his sword. "And many are asking the same question; Who is he?"
"Whoever he is, Tom, those clothes scream edgy. What does he think he is, some anime action hero?" Killjoy laughed.
"I see why she's on the scum list," Dante said to no one as he saw himself on the news shooting down Egg Bois. "Where is this news station?"
"Near the center of town," Cherri informed him.
"Thanks." Dante was ready to head out until something or someone was holding him down. He looked behind him to see that Charlie grabbed his arm with one hand and head down to see the lower part of her face. The silver-haired Demon Hunter knew where this was going and did his best to reason with her. "I know what you're thinking. We did agree that I will kill only in self-defense or those demons who are a real threat. When I spared that one snake demon guy, he happened to tell me a list of scum and she happens to be one of them," he explained as he pointed a thumb at the TV, which currently focused on a laughing Killjoy.
"But not a real threat," Charlie told him as she lifted her head to him, giving the Demon Hunter a strict look. "I agree that she is a bitch and says a lot of scummy things but seems kinda petty just going after someone who makes rude comments."
Dante wanted to argue with her but could not find the right words to prove she was right. "Alright, you got me. But I still want to go to that studio."
"What are you going to do?" Charlie asked, looking nervous.
"I want an interview. They want to know who I am and who knows, it could promote the hotel." Dante told her.
"If you do then it won't be with either of these two broads." Angel laughed. "I don't even think they are allowed to set foot in that news station ever again."
"Only because you and your friend here made us look bad on television!" Vaggie pointed to Cherri.
"Like I said, if Sir Edgelord didn't step into my turf, then your little project could have gone better," Cherri repeated herself.
"Only because you encouraged him to help, you 1980's reject cyclops!" Vaggie getting into Cherri's face.
"Who are you calling cyclops, you one-eyed Mexican moth!" Cherri mocked her.
Vaggie's boiling point now reached her limits. Mistaking her heritage was a bad mistake. "I'm Salvadorian!" She shouted as her fangs were now showing, and her eye now had a skull within the iris as she tackled Cherri and started to punch her in the face continuously. Cherri retaliated by kneeing the Latina in the gut and switching the roles as she punched her.
"Vaggie stop it, please!" Charlie begged her girlfriend as she tried to get close enough to separate them but couldn't as they kept up their fistfight. That is until a gunshot was heard that made the princess of hell jump and both women stop what they are doing.
Turns out that the shot was from Dante as he shot the ceiling. He quickly picked up the two and separated them. "As much as I love a catfight, this is just wasting our time."
Vaggie and Cherri looked at one another and faced the opposite way, pouting.
"Skank."
"Hoe."
"Enough!" Charlie shouted at both of them as her irises' were now slit, her sclera was red, and horns were growing from her head.
'Note to self: Don't piss off the Princess.' Dante told himself.
Charlie took a deep breath and exhaled slowly as her features were back to normal. She turned to the Demon Hunter and started to explain her plan. "Let me call the studio first before you barge right in and demand an interview." She tells him very calmly and picks up her Hellphone and dialed the number to the news station. She taps her foot and hums her tune waiting for someone to pick up the phone as it continues to ring. Finally, someone answers. "Hi, this is Charlie from the Hazbin Hotel- wait, wait I have the guy in red with me…. Un-huh… what time!?... can't it wait till tomorrow?... okay we will be right there, bye." She hung up and let loose a frustrated sigh. "They will do the interview, but only if we arrive in 10 minutes."
"That's a bunch of bullshit. That studio is double that amount. You won't make it in time!" Vaggie told her as the studio did that on purpose just to mess with them.
"Not to worry, my dear. I have this covered." Alastor told the demon princess as he made his cane appear in thin air and made a circle as a portal was made into thin air. "This will lead you right into the station." He said with a bow.
"Wow, this is a lot of help! Thanks, Al." She told him.
"Think nothing of it, my dear, though I am curious about what he will be saying so, let me accompany you." He asks her.
"You just want to see if she will get into another fistfight, don't you?" Vaggie asks the Radio Demon with a bored expression.
"Maybe." He simply replied with an honest smile.
"And you better not be doing anything stupid." Vaggie points to Dante.
"Relax, Chica, you're going to thank me when this is all over," Dante smirked. "But enough talk, let's get this party rolling." He jumped into the portal followed by Charlie, then Vaggie, then Alastor who closed it behind him with the sound effect of a radio being turned off. This left Cherri, Angel, and Husker alone in the hotel lobby.
"So, what now?" Angle asks them.
"I don't know about you, but I want to see what they say on the tube," Cherri told her bestie.
"I am kinda curious what the kid's got to say, who knows, it could be a sight to see," Husker said as he finished his drink. "How about we watch it while having a game of poker?"
"You're on, Huskey baby." Angle winked at the cat demon who just grumbles out of annoyance and got the cards ready.
At the studio
"I'm here!" Dante announced to everyone after going through the portal as other demons looked at him with nothing but dirty looks. "Tough crowd."
"Hi…" Charlie smiled as she waved awkwardly.
"Well, look who showed herself in. The Disney Princess wannabe." Katie Killjoy approached her as she was smoking a cigarette. "What in the seven circles are you doing here? Here to talk about your so-called shitty redemption plan more?" She asked as she let out a puff of smoke.
"Actually, she's with me," Dante spoke up as he walked towards the mantis demon. "She's my escort and she let me have this interview."
Killjoy looked between the two and noticed Alastor was behind them. "Alright. Just don't play cute with me, or I'll make your girlfriend here more of a laughingstock."
"Girlfriend!?" Charlie and Vaggie asked in unison. "I am/ She is not his girlfriend!"
"No promises." He stated.
"And we are going to live in a short moment!" A cameraman said to everyone as Killjoy rushed back to her seat. Dante was getting ready as he got into a chair, putting his feet on the desk. Killjoy wanted to swat at him but the lights on air were back on and she gave a forceful smile. "And we are back to give you a special guest, ladies, and gentleman. I give you, the man in red." Dante was silent as he gave the camera a two-finger salute. "So, how about you waste our time by telling us all about yourself?"
"Where to start? Okay, my name is Dante. My favorite food is pizza. I enjoy sleeping, playing pool, listening to rock & roll, and hunting demons." He announced to the camera.
"Oh no," Charlie whispered as he just announced to all of hell that he hunts down demons.
"Seriously? A Demon Hunter." Killjoy laughs as some members of the audience laughed with her. "So what? You're some kind of bounty hunter for demons?"
"Yes." Dante bluntly stated. "And I could care less what happens to you, after all, you are on a hit list."
"Eh, good luck trying to get me to go down." Killjoy brushes that comment off.
"Like how your career is going down?" Dante rhetorically asked, which got Katie to scratch her nails onto the desk and make Tom Trench chuckle.
This made the female reporter slap her co-host in the back of the head and painfully turn to the Demon Hunter. "I'd say the same about you, but you needed a career in the first place." Which made the other demons gawk.
Dante didn't say anything for a few seconds and decided to take his feet off the desk to sit up straight as he turned his head to face the mantis demon. "At least I gained my career while you slept with the producers to get this job. What does that make? The same number as the news station?" With that comment, everyone within the studio was getting a laugh. Even Charlie slipped out a small giggle.
"I did not sleep with anyone, you silver-haired piece of shit!" Killjoy screamed as eye sockets went from two to four, scratching the desk with her long nails.
"That explains why you're so irritable. Haven't had any fun in years? Husband probably divorced you for someone else. In fact, how many divorces have you gone through?" The Demon Hunter asks as many of the audience members and cameramen were now laughing.
Katie Killjoy was getting angrier by the second, she couldn't believe that someone was making her into some Saturday Night Live joke. "If you're here to kill demons, then how come you are staying with that so-called royal who thinks that all demons have good in them. Unless you think it's possible? Cause it seems hypocritical if you ask me."
"I made a deal with her; I only will kill demons who are really scummy or in self-defense. As for redemption, I think it's possible, I mean don't get me wrong some demons are not worth redeeming but on the other hand, some can be, I mean my dad was born here and when he died, he went straight to Heaven." He said. This got a lot of other demons talking some question that if such a thing was possible, others called bullshit including Killjoy.
"Seriously? Your Dad, a full-fledged demon going to Heaven? Don't make me fucking laugh. Oh, too late, I already am." She howls with laughter.
"You won't be laughing once you hear who he is. Or maybe he's laughing at you this very moment." Dante points upward.
"Okay, go ahead, who is your dad? I bet he was some crackhead or maybe it's a rapist serial killer." Killjoy continues to laugh.
"Sparda." He said simply as the news reporter stopped laughing as soon as she heard the name.
"Wait, the Hell Knight?" Tom Trench spoke for the first time since the interview started.
"The very same one," Dante said proudly as nearly everyone in the news station had their jaws dropped.
"Wait, you're Sparda's son? The same Sparda that beat Mundus over 2000 years ago." Killjoy asked as Dante nodded. "And once he died, he went up into Heaven?" Again, the Demon Hunter nodded.
It was at that moment, Katie Killjoy knew, she fucked up.
As she was processing everything that happened, Tom cough to continue the report. "Well, this is certainly a turn of events ladies and gentleman, the man in red is the Son of the famous Sparda. So, tell me, Dante, why are you in Hell in the first place."
"I'm glad you asked Tom. You see the King of Hell hired me to take down some demons to help with overpopulation. And I get paid for how many or who I kill." Dante said in his casual tone. "The Queen thought it would be best to go to the Hotel their daughter was running, so I introduced myself, told her my thoughts and the rest is history."
"I can't argue to the King and Queen about that." The demon with the gas mask said. "And did you spare Sir Pentious because you thought he was not worth killing?"
"His toy was worth breaking and a good workout, but Nah, he didn't deserve to die, or double die in this case." The Demon Hunter joked. "But in all seriousness, he did give me some demon names that were not worth being down here."
"Interesting. So, who are these so-called sinners that are not worthy?" The co-anchor asked.
"I can't give that information up, Tom. It wouldn't be fun if I gave off the names so that they can hide or hunt me down. They could be watching me for all I know. However, I can say that Killjoy here is one of them." He pointed to the mantis demon.
Killjoy reacted to this and started to show off her full demon form with the four eyes and two extra pairs of arms that resemble a praying mantis. "Like hell, you're going to kill me you son of a bitch! I don't care if you're the son of a famous demon or a Prince of Hell, I'll be sure you get to join Daddy in heaven!" She started to lunge at him, only for the Demon Hunter to take out Ebony and shoot her in the heart in less than a second. She stopped in an instant and stared at the demon hunter surprised, then slowly looked down at her chest to see a hole as blood splattered on the floor and desk. She then looked back up at the Demon Hunter like a dead fish as blood dripped off her mouth. "Shit…" Was all she could say as she collapsed and gagging as a pool of blood was surrounding her as whatever life she had left in her was faded.
Tom Trench was amazed yet frightened at what he just saw. But to be fair, she did attack first, and he did not want to be on this guy's bad side. "W-well, I think it's almost that time where we wrap things up, folks. Anything you want to say, Mister Dante?"
"Yeah, after what I said, if you think you could have a second chance going to Heaven, then give the Hazbin Hotel a try. If my dad could do it, then so can you. Unless you want to be killed by me, it's up to you. And remember kids; don't do drugs." He salutes the camera like how he introduced himself and walks to Charlie, Alastor, and Vaggie. "What did you think?"
"My deal fellow, that was quite the performance you did back there." Alastor clapped.
"I hate to admit it but, that was pretty awesome." Vaggie chuckled. "I thought you were going to blow it but after seeing Killjoy's face, I couldn't help but be impressed."
"Guess I grew on you, Vags." Dante playfully stated which made the moth demon roll her eye around. "What did you think, Charlie?" He asked the princess.
"Besides killing Katie Killjoy, you were surprisingly good out there." She said as a small smile was on her face. "I mean those comebacks were great and the look on her face when you mention Sparda was pretty hilarious. But more importantly, you advertised the hotel for me. I can't express how much this means to the hotel. I don't know how I can repay you."
"Don't mention it. I did say I would help out." He told her. "Though, if you really want to repay me, how about a large strawberry sundae?"
"For you, I'll order two." She told him.
"Now you're talking." He smiled eagerly. "What are we waiting for, let's get back and have those sundaes."
"Only if I get some." Charlie teased him as the four of them started to walk to the portal that Alastor made.
"I thought it was a reward?"
"It is, but now I'm in the mood for some."
"Maybe we can put it on the menu for the hotel."
"I don't get why you two are so obsessed with such dairy," Alastor asked them. "I'm not all that fond of sugary treats myself."
"Come on, Smiles. Everybody loves an ice cream flavor. Mine happens to be strawberry sundaes." Dante told the Radio Demon.
"Whatever you say my dear fellow, whatever you say," Alastor told him as everyone entered through the portal heading back into the hotel.