Chapter 9: Fizzarolli's Failure/New Scheme

Valentino opened Stolas Goetia's prison door to see his project being built by the downcast toymaker. "Ah, Mr. Goetia!" he said with an evil smile and laughed as he entered. He blocked the exit with his cape. "Allow me to present...your charming daughter and Blitzo's son!" He revealed the exit with his cape to display a robot imp with the Goetia's daughter and the imp's son, held captive.

Stolas stood up to see his daughter and his crush's son. "Octavia! Curly!"

"Father!" Octavia cried, but when Fizzarolli refused to let her and her boyfriend go, they stomped on his foot.

"Ow!" Fizzarolli yelped as he clutched onto his only foot, watching them flee. "My foot! My f***ing foot!" As he yelled the last three words, one word came out as a bleep.

"Father!" Octavia said, crying tears of joy as she threw herself into her father's arms. "I thought I'd never find you!"

"Oh, there, there, there, my special little starfire! I'm alright," Stolas assured her as he consoled his crying daughter, "I was just so worried about my little girl." He hugged his daughter some more and saw a little imp child. "But Curly, where's your father, Blitzy?"

"I don't know. Probably with my mother."

"I'm sure he'll save us all, young imp." Stolas let Curly join in the hug.

"Aww, how sweet!" Valentino said sarcastically as he grabbed onto his tissue and pretended to cry, "Aww, I just love tearful reunions!" He faked drying his eyes.

The father and daughter with her crush happily hugged, but their reunion was cut short when Valentino grabbed Octavia and Curly each by the hand. "Now, come along, my dears," Valentino said.

"Oh, please! Please!" Octavia pleaded as she and Curly ended up back with Fizzarolli, pulling them away from their father. Valentino covered Stolas's mouth and ignored both his and Octavia's and Curly's pleas. "Father!"

"Mr. Goetia!"

"Oh, please, my lord!" Stolas begged as Valentino held him by the cape, sending him back to his work chair.

"Now, now, now! Fizzarolli will take good care of them!" Valentino feigned sympathy and chuckled before frowning. "That is as long as we have no further delays!" He set the Goetia down.

"Yes, I'll finish it!" Stolas said, grabbing his wrench and other tools used to build the robot queen. "Please, don't hurt my daughter and her friend!"

"Remember," Valentino warned, before leaving him alone and sticking his head out the door. "It must be ready TONIGHT!" He slammed the door shut.

Octavia and Curly struggled to get out of Fizzarolli's grasp as he pulled them over to an empty cage as Fizzarolli hummed. They screamed, kicked, and pounded him. "Stop!" Octavia yelled fiercely as Fizzarolli picked them up. "Let us go, you ugly old thing!" Fizzarolli threw her in the cage and reached for the key.

"That ought to hold ya two!" Fizzarolli mocked, slamming the door and locking them up.

Once inside, Octavia and Curly were together, hugging each other. "Help! Let us out! Let us out!"

Fizzarolli jumped over to them. "See how you like that!" he snapped and immaturely blew a raspberry at them.

"Don't talk to us like that, you clown jerk!" Curly chided.

"Shuddup!"

Fizzarolli turned away from the two and haughtily stuck up with his head confidently as he walked away.

"Ah! Uniforms! Oh, Fizzarolli, I knew I could rely on you!" Valentino said, browsing through Fizzarolli's stolen items in a sack. When he saw Fizzarolli, he asked, stopping the latter, "You didn't forget anything?"

Fizzarolli laughed confidently. "No problem! I took care of everything! Everything on the list!" Just as Fizzarolli was about to get the list from his pocket to show Valentino his accomplishment, he found out it was gone. "Uh, oh!"

Valentino's bliss turned to annoyance. "What's wrong?" he demanded.

"The list! I know I had it! I-" Fizzarolli stuttered in disbelief his list disappeared.

"Where's the list?"

"The list, yeah, yeah, yeah," Fizzarolli began nervously, "Well, you see, it was uh, it was like this: I was in the toy store getting uniforms when I heard a NEIGH! NEIGH!" He neighed like a horse.

"You're not coming through," Valentino said impatiently, rubbing his eyebrow, dismissing this as trivial rubbish.

Fizzarolli panted. He pretended to run and he tied his hat strings around his chin, as if he was wearing a bonnet. "A horse came, I ran. I had baby bonnet, kids in bag, this lady imp attacked me, and Blitzo ch-ch-chased me!"

Hearing his enemy's name, Valentino asked, stunned and upset, "What? Blitzo's on the case? Why you gibbering little-"

Fizzarolli wrapped himself in his robotic arms, hiding as Valentino towered over him and Valentino clutched onto his chest, as if he was having a heart attack.

Valentino's face turned red and finally started to calm himself. He chuckled. Fizzarolli was back on his feet and shielded himself as Valentino feigned affection. "Oh, dear Fizzarolli," Valentino said lovingly and held him like a baby. "You've been hanging upside down too long." Valentino gently booped his nose, indicating that no harm would come to him.

"You mean, you're not mad?" Fizzarolli asked cheerfully and giggled as Valentino carried him to Hellvern's lair. "I'm glad you take it so well."

Valentino rang his bell to call Hellvern, making Fizzarolli scream.

"Not me, you idiot!" Fizzarolli shouted to the Hellvern who was about to eat him, but he was able to hop away. "No, stop! You stupid scale bag!"

Hellvern, having enough of him trying to escape, grabbed him and put him in his mouth.

"Open up! Open up!" Fizzarolli screamed, although his screams were muffled. "Aye-yie-yie! Ooo-ooo, Aye! You're hurting my wings!"

Valentino was rubbing his temples as he sat next to a cage. "How dare that idiot Blitzo poke his stupid nose into my wonderful scheme and foul up everything!"

Inside Hellvern's chubby cheeks, Fizzarolli flapped his wings struggling to get out. "Let me out! Let me out!" he shouted and pried his mouth wide enough with his foot, so he could fly out. "HEEELP!" But Hellvern poked him in the stomach to get him back in his mouth, making him say, "Ow."

Valentino glowered at his reflection on the wine bottle and continued to gripe about Blitzo, "Oh, I can just see that insufferable grin on his smug face!" He banged his forehead against the bars, making a bang and clutched onto his head because it ached. "Yes," he said and while this was happening, Fizzarolli cried out in pain. "Yes, I can just see it." Valentino snickered with glee and turned to Hellvern and sweetly said, "Hellvern, release him."

Hellvern looked stunned and displeased, hearing this. He wanted to eat Fizzarolli, but with no other option he frowned. Fizzarolli said, while in his mouth, "I'm too young to die!" He spat the robot imp out in distaste and he landed on the floor with a grunt. He was in poor shape because his body was twisted, his hat was filled with holes, and his tongue stuck out of his mouth. Valentino plucked him by the cheeks.

"Fizzarolli, you delightful little maniac," Valentino said, slightly jiggling Fizzarolli and Fizzarolli looked sad as his boss said, "You've presented me with a singular opportunity." Valentino dropped Fizzarolli, who plopped on the floor. "Poor Blitzo," Valentino said, feigning sympathy and with a venomous smile, he added, "Oh, he's in for a little surprise!"

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Suddenly, a hellhound in her 20's tiptoed into the studio to see any signs of Valentino and Fizzarolli. Luckily, she saw Fizzarolli alone, so she could confront him.

She grabbed him by the collar of his jester suit. "Where's my brother and her friend, you little clown shit?!"

"I'll never tell you, bitch!"

"I'll call for the fucking dragon!"

"No, don't!" Fizzarolli pleaded, now afraid of the hellhound girl.

"Fizzie, what's wrong?" a familiar voice asked.

"This girl, she was going to threaten me if I don't tell her where her brother and his friend are."

"Are you just going to lie there and let her take advantage of her or are you going to be a bigger man and bring her to her brother and his friend?"

Fizzarolli got up from the floor and picked Loona up in bridal style to reunite her with Curly and Octavia.