Striker, Seth, and Kore go to Loo Loo Land with Blitzo, Moxxie, and Millie to guard Stolas and Octavia and things do happen!

Vol 2: Loo Loo Land

Kore shot up, gasping awake, but managed to check her surroundings. Her husband awoke at her sudden outburst.

"Sweetheart, are you okay?" Striker asked sympathetically.

His wife continued panting. "It was…awful, dear. I dreamt that I lost you and Seth." Tears streamed down her face.

Striker placed an understanding hand on her cheek and wiped her tears. "It's okay, Doll. We're not going anywhere, but I'd check on Seth in the nursery just in case."

Kore pushed the bedsheets aside and her feet landed on her slippers. She slid her feet inside them and walked out of the room to find Seth.

Speaking of which…

He somehow managed to crawl out of his crib to find his mother out and about.

"Hey, little one," Kore said softly, "Were you worried about Mommy, so you can come out and find me?"

The infant rubbed his head against her soft, fuzzy slippers, gurgling cutely.

Kore smiled sweetly at her son and she carefully bent down to avoid hitting him. She scooped the child up from her slippers and carried him to her and her husband's bedroom.

Striker sat up on his bed to see his wife carrying their child and smiled at the sight.

"Hey, there, little buckaroo," Striker cooed at him.

"Seth was looking for me," Kore said as she sat down with her son on her lap.

Striker pet the baby's head. "Were you worried about your mommy, hmm? That way you can snuggle with us to make her feel better?"

"I think he was lonely, too."

"How about you join us, little man? How's that sound?"

Seth yawned and found himself lost in his mother's chest. Kore carefully positioned herself to lie on her back and her husband tucked in both his wife and son.

"Goodnight, son," Kore whispered gently as she smiled before closing her eyes.

Striker smiled warmly at them. "Goodnight, Sugar. Goodnight, kiddo." He shifted into a comfortable position and yawned as he'd done so.

…

"M n' M, KSS, get in here! We're goin' to Loo Loo Land!" Blitzo announced through his megaphone.

Striker groaned. It didn't surprise him one bit that his boss had just received a call from Stolas. He heard awful things about the place such as it being a rip-off of Lucifer's Lu Lu World.

"Bodyguards? Are you serious, Blitz?" Striker demanded.

"Come on, Strikes, Stolas is actually going to pay us for not only protecting him and his daughter, but also killing those who try to kill them. Hmm?"

"Exactly, we haven't been to a theme park in a while," said Kore.

"Yeah and I want to go there," Seth said.

"Kore. Seth…I…" Striker started to protest, only for his wife and son to give him "puppy eyes".

"Please?" his wife and son pleaded.

Striker sighed in defeat, "Oh, alright."

"Besides, you get to spend time with Kore and Seth, if you'd like," Millie suggested.

…

Striker, Kore, and Seth rode Bombproof to Loo Loo Land since they usually rode him everywhere they went, instead of in a cramped van.

Speaking of a cramped van, Blitzo, Moxxie, and Millie picked up the Goetia prince and his daughter.

Finally at Loo Loo Land, Striker's suspicions were confirmed upon seeing the games and run-down looking rides. But Striker wasn't the only one who felt this way. The ditzy blueblood's daughter clearly didn't want to be there, either, but her father couldn't be happier.

However, Seth and Kore looked at the rides, games, the petting zoo, and food. It was all amazing. So amazing, they couldn't find the words.

"Wooooow! I haven't been to this place since I was a tot!" Millie cried excitedly and to Kore, Seth, and Moxxie, she added, "It hasn't changed a bit. Ohhh! LOOK! It's Big Woobly!" She pointed at the malformed animatronic dinosaur that opened its mouth and let out a loud demonic shriek.

"That is... deeply upsetting," Moxxie said fearfully.

"I'll say," Striker agreed.

"Oh, come on! It's fun! You've never been here?"

"No. Theme parks always disturbed me," Moxxie replied, "Especially the mascots."

Out of the blue, an apple mascot approached the imps. "Well, hey there!" he said, which scared Moxxie, who jumped into his wife's arms. "I'm Loo Loo! Welcome to Loo Loo Land! If y'all get hurt here, just try and sue us!"

Before he could get close to Seth, his mother held him protectively in her arms and she glared at the mascot.

"I have a question," the teenage Goetia said.

"Well, ask away, little girlie!" Loo Loo said as he attempted to make a goofy laugh poorly.

"Is it true this park is just a really shameless spin-off of Lucifer's far more popular Lu Lu World?" Octavia returned with a sneer.

"No?"

"This place reeks of insecure corporate shame."

"You really like this place, huh?" Moxxie asked.

"I love this place!" his wife replied eagerly, "My parents would bring me and my siblings here when they could swing it. Money-wise."

The two imps approached the window, where novelty cups and stuffed apples were for sale. The cups appeared to cost at least 29 souls.

"Yeaaaah. The prices do seem rather criminal. I mean, that much for a novelty cup that you use one time?"

"'Cause it's Loo Loo Land!"

Blitzo walked up to the couple, stocked up with merch, sipping his novelty cup.

"Listen to your hoe, Mox," he said, bumping him and continued sipping his cup and to Kore, Seth, Moxxie, and Millie, he added, "How 'bout Strikes and I take the first watch while you four have a little fun?" He winked at them.

"Please, Dad?" Seth pleaded.

"Sure, son," Striker said, placing a hand on his son's shoulder, "Just as long as you stay with your mother, Mox, and Mildred."

"Got it." Seth and his mother followed the small imp couple.

…

Moxxie threw up in a trash can because his stomach did not sit well with the "The Lawsuit" ride.

"It's okay, Moxxie," Seth said, rubbing his back, "My mom didn't handle it well, either."

Kore, while she didn't throw up, she felt her legs were wobbly from the ride. Her arms and legs squirmed for each step she took making the feel of the ground feel as hard as bricks. Whenever she was about to fall to the ground, Millie was there to catch her. Luckily, it didn't take too long for Kore to recover from the roller coaster.

"Mom, look!" Seth's voice snapped her out of her daze.

"What is it, son?" Kore asked, looking in her son's direction.

"A dragon!" Seth pointed to the dragon from the petting zoo and he walked up to the creature. This was the creature he'd only seen in books, but never dreamed of seeing one up close.

"Go on, Seth," she encouraged gently and she made gestures, telling him to "go on".

Seth took a deep breath as he slowly raised his hand to let the dragon come to him.

Little did he know that his mother was filming the scene.

"Mom! I pet a dragon!" Seth cheered with his hands in the air.

"I caught it on video." His mother showed him a video he recorded on her phone.

"I'm sure your dad would be proud of you," Millie told Seth.

"Hello, hello! Step right up and win a thing!" a man called from a game booth, catching the four imps' attention.

"Oh, look Moxxie! A THING!" Millie gasped excitedly when she saw a "thing" in question being a purple stuffed animal penguin with imp horns with pink overalls. The tag on it said "THING?".

"Oh, you like that thing?" Moxxie asked.

"YEEEEESSS! I don't really know what that thing is but I want that thing!"

Moxxie wore a smug look of determination. "Ahhh... Finally, something I can handle."

He took out cash from his pocket and handed it to the carnie.

"Okay! One game, puh-lease!"

The carnie Imp rolled his eyes and used his tail to give Moxxie a pistol with a cork projectile in the muzzle. Moxxie looked at his wife as he effortlessly shot a target, but unseen by him, the target didn't go down.

"Ohhhh! Strike one, little man!" the carnie sneered.

"But I hit it!" Moxxie insisted.

"Hmmm, I don't know what to tell ya, buddy. The target, see? It didn't go down. So, yeah...! No go, bro."

Moxxie growled in anger, and fished out another bill from his pocket. He grabbed the pistol and fired another cork, hitting the target dead-center, but the target did not budge. Moxxie slapped the pistol in annoyance.

"The Heaven's wrong with this thing?!"

"Oh man, a real shame, I tell ya." The carnie made mocking crying gestures and smirked smugly at him.

Moxxie hissed with fury as he slapped another bill on the counter.

"Another!"

…

Inside the tent, Striker watched the animatronic musical with boredom and he looked at Octavia with sympathy, knowing she wasn't enjoying herself, while her father was having the time of his life. Striker, despite feeling disgusted with the show, secretly hoped his wife and son had more fun than him.

When the musical came to a close, Stolas applauded gleefully at Robo Fizz's performance, while Octavia just snapped and took off. Striker couldn't blame her, though.

Stolas went to follow her.

"Psst…" a voice hissed, catching Striker off guard.

"Blitz, I'll be back," Striker told Blitzo.

"Alrighty, Strikes," Blitzo replied with a wink, "I have something to take care of, anyway." He gestured at Robo Fizz.

Striker followed the voice that hissed at him out of the tent.

The creature that hissed at him in question was one of the tiny imps. He smirked at the cowboy imp as he led him somewhere, but Striker couldn't figure out where.

"Would you mind telling me where you're taking me?" Striker asked, raising an eyebrow.

"You'll find out."

They came to a parking lot, where Striker and his family and friends were about an hour or so ago.

"Hello, Striker," a snooty, posh female voice said unpleasantly.

Striker jumped slightly at the voice.

"How do you know my name, ma'am?"

"I've seen you with those fellow imps," the female posh and snooty voice returned and as she drew closer to him, he could see that the voice belonged to a white Goetia with a pink dress.

"Yeah, so?"

"And you've been helping them protect that cheating prick."

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't play stupid with me. I've seen you with that other imp."

"That other imp is my boss," Striker told her.

Stella looked at him strangely, then said, "Oh, I was hoping to hire an assassin after my cheating husband."

"Look, ma'am, if it's me you're referring to, then I'm not interested."

"Why not?"

"Because I have family and friends and I can't let them down."

"So I see. I'm sure your family and friends are more important than my offer to you, but maybe at the The Harvest Moon Festival, you'll change your mind."

Striker shot the tiny imp who lured him to this witch with his pistol.

Stella shrugged, unfazed by one of the tiny imps being killed as well as Striker's refusal to accept her offer. "Then again, maybe not." She walked away from the imp.

Now that he was alone, he thought, Oh, shit. What am I going to tell Kore, Seth, Blitz, Moxxie, and Mildred?

…

Back at the shooting gallery, the carnie imp held 600 soul bills from Moxxie in his hands, gleaming with pride with Moxxie seething as he glowered at him.

"Wow! Man, you're really starting to make this sad." He turned one of the dollar bills into a cigar before lighting it on fire with his thumb. "Y'know, if you suck, you suck! Guess you won't win your honey here a prize…"

"He's a good shot and you know it!" Seth called out the carnie as he crossed his arms.

"Shut up, little shit!"

"Don't talk to my son that way!" Kore snapped as she put both hands on her son's shoulders.

"Let me try!" Millie offered and she grabbed a gun similar to Moxxie's, he used for the game, but as she fired the cork out, it missed the target.

The carnie grinned mischievously as he pushed down the pedal in the booth with his foot, so the target went down.

The carnie smirked at Millie. "Ohhhh, look at that! Lucky shot, baby."

"Are you kidding me?!" Moxxie complained as he struggled to find the next right words, but all he got was, "You- you- you charlatan!"

"Hey, uh, get lost, pipsqueak," the carnie said, as he pushed Moxxie aside and leaned towards Millie, "I'm talkin' to the lady." He purred seductively as she recoiled in disgust until….

"OWW!" Someone landed on the carnie, crushing him with a hard thud.

"Sir?!" Moxxie and the gang turned to their boss, surprised to see him.

Blitzo was just recovering from his daze from the fall as he got up. "Ohhh, hey, guys! M 'N M, you should probably go, uh, make sure Stolas is okay. K 'N S, see if you can find Striker. I've... got some unfinished business to take care of."

But the imp he just mentioned already showed up.

"Dad!" Seth called.

"Striker!" Kore cried, "Where have you been?"

It was now or never. "Shooting other targets," Striker replied quickly. However, he was not ready to tell them the truth just yet.

"I pet a dragon!" Seth jumped up and down.

Striker looked surprised, but impressed. "You did? I'm so proud of you, son." He ruffled his son's hair.

"I caught it on video."

"Show me later. I left Blitzo alone, only to see this place in flames."

Seth glanced at the dragon, surrounded by fire, which gave him an idea.

"Dad! Mom! I've got an idea!" He showed his parents the dragon.

Kore and Striker exchanged glances, wondering if it was a good idea or not. Then, they looked back at their son.

"I hope it's not like 'The Lawsuit'," Kore complained.

"Maybe this will be different." Seth did not stop gesturing at the dragon.

"Let's do what the boy wants. I've never flown a flying creature before, but I'll give it a try." Striker whistled for the dragon, who obeyed the cowboy. "I've never flown a flying creature before, so bear with me." He found a rope and tied it into a lasso, roping it on the dragon's muzzle. He was the first to sit on the creature's back. Seth, being the second, and the third being Kore. "You guys hang on tight."

The dragon thrashed around and roared.

"Hey, easy on my dad!" Seth shouted through the deafening roars. "We're not going to hurt you."

The dragon stopped thrashing and glided into the sky as Striker let out a "yee-haw!". The said creature found a robot clown with Blitzo, Millie, and Moxxie shooting it without success. The trio enjoyed the ride as Seth laughed and cheered during it. Kore held her son and husband close to her to avoid falling off. She had to admit that it was fun, compared to "The Lawsuit".

The dragon landed down gracefully on the ground, finding the robot and flinging him into his mouth. Then the dragon swallowed it whole.

"Can I keep Bombproof, please?" Blitzo begged.

"No can do," was the insistent reply.

With the robot clown gone, Loo Loo Land was now completely engulfed in flames. They left the burned down theme park as soon as possibly with Stolas and Octavia at their heels.

…

Striker, Kore, and Seth landed on the couch, exhausted from their adventure.

"That…was…FUN!" Seth said in between pants.

"I'm glad you had fun, kid," Striker told him.

"I had fun, too," Kore told her husband.

"Oh, right."

Everyone was silent for a moment until their son broke the silence, "Mom? Dad?"

"Hmm?" Striker asked.

"Do you think we can go camping sometime?"

Striker thought for a moment and replied, "I think so. I'd like that very much."

Kore smiled at Seth. "Me, too. It's so relaxing." Despite her being somewhat of a city person, she enjoyed camping with her husband and son.

She stretched and yawned. "Well, are we ready to turn in for the night?" She took off her boots.

"I am," Striker said, also pulling off his boots.

Seth rubbed his eyes sleepily.

"Oh, it looks like someone's ready to turn in for the night, too," Kore said, noticing her sleepy son.

"Nah, I'm fine, Mom." But his yawns suggested otherwise.

"It's fine. We had a big day." Just as she suspected, he fell asleep. Kore hoisted him up and brought him to bed. She gently removed his boots and set them on the floor. Thankfully, Seth wasn't roused by this. She carefully put his head on the pillow and covered him with a blanket.

Striker came in with a stuffed animal dragon he managed to pull out of the fire and tucked it under Seth's arms. The cowboy smiled at his son, who was unaware he was sleeping with a toy dragon.

Both parents left the room, smiling at their boy and turned in for the night.