Welcome to my new story. I knew subject matter is a bit... unconventional, but don't worry. I know what I'm doing... Actually no I do not, but I'll try my best. BTW, certain characters by the time of writing this are only revealed through community posts from Viv and most likely will differ HEAVILY from their show counterparts as they make official appearance and certain characters I made up entirely. Time will tell if I did a good or bad job. For now. I'll just have fingers crossed anyone likes it. Have fun.


Chapter 1
"A birthday to forget"

In the palace of Stolas Goetia, great prince of Paimon's bloodline things were about as usual as they can get. Prince Stolas was for now getting very excited for another night with Blitz, in some capacity he started to hope something more meaningful may start to grow from this new night, especially after that episode with those strange humans who for some strange reason called themselves "Dorks". Whether it was appropriate title or not was only for Lucifer and God to decide, but Stolas was ready to guess. Other than that though he was mostly just watching those Soap Operas while eating all kinds of junk food. He didn't know exactly what he found so endearing in that, but he did found something. Some sense of peace.

With his prone to bursts of anger wife Stella it was like a lottery on Greed ring. No one knows what you will get, but by all means it will hurt. Every time they are near each other now she can explode in all manners, from usual screaming to sometimes throwing entirety of the room's equipment at him (thankfully Octavia is not in the room when the latter part happens, possibly made sure by Stella herself) or threatening him in a more serious manner, sometimes he even saw something akin to suicide contemplations from her which would-... Stolas believes is not very likely, for all her outbursts she is a bit too strong willed for that (to his... no no). She sometimes also remains very distant, with no outburst, but complete dismissal of Stolas's existence. Stolas could never tell what he will get on certain day. Although he noticed some new strange variations. She was recently in a few occasions screaming at the phone, but Stolas didn't want to ponder on the exact reason. He also noticed her getting strangely... calmer lately, but not in a good way. As if she... anticipated something. Thankfully now she was most likely talking outside with some of her "friends".

Then there is his sweet daughter Octavia who these days mostly either spends time in her room listening to her music or going out to the ring with her friends (obviously with protection from her own discrete entourage that is meant to protect her from all manners of dangers in Pride Ring, that episode at Loo Loo Land showed how important it truly is). At least she was making some friends, but Stolas was still very worried whenever she left... The brightest star on his night sky. He hopes he will never see the day when this starlight is from long gone star. He would rather perish on his own. He also thought about getting her to meet properly with Blitz and his friends. He hoped getting them closer would help with... this new situation. Right now though she seemed to... walking towards him?

As he walked down the crystal hallway hallway and pondered on everything Octavia came up to him in a quick walk. She seemed somewhat worried.

"Is something wrong Octavia?" Stolas was very willing to help

"It's nothing... I- I mean it is, but-"

"Calm down sweety..." Octavia seemed very stressed, Stolas knelt before her "Tell me what's wrong."

"Okay..." She took a deep breath before continuing "I was trying to think of a gift for mom and I have absolutely NO idea what to give her... I wanted to give her something very good to calm her down somewhat and I..."

"That's very sweet Octavia! I'll try to help, but I don't know if I'm the right person to ask about it now..." Stolas exclaimed, but to his surprise there was... confusion on Octavia's face "Did I say something wrong? Don't worry! I will help with it however I can, but-"

"Where are you going?" Octavia asked suddenly and Stolas was... not inclined to answer which made Octavia put her end over her eyes "I figured... Do you know what day is coming?"

"I... Hmm..." Stolas tried to find the right answer... There was definitely one year anniversary of his "cooperation" with Blitz... Also Octavia's birthday, but it was a month away and she wouldn't be asking about that... and...

"Dad. You forgot..." Octavia's tone became both baffled and worried "Mom's birthday dad..."

"Stella... Oh..." And then it dropped on him like that one bomb during second purge "Oh... Oh no..."

And it would be 100 times worse than that. Stolas completely forgot... mostly because usually he either helped young Octavia with whatever silly thing her younger self came up with or gave her something he didn't put that much thought into... And given current situation...

"Dad... I know you and mom are not in... good situation, but you are REALLY fucked if you wont give her anything... and so will I" Last part she said in a whisper

"Octavia! You shouldn't say things like tha-" He was quickly cut off by Octavia's stare that told very loudly (Are you serious right now?) and Stolas gave up on any lecturing "Eh... Yes... I am... fucked, but I highly doubt she would be very upset with you my sweet starlight"

"Well... at least we could... work on it together... Maybe?" There was a hopeful tone in Octavia's voice and Stolas like that idea, but...

"I... I would love to do that, but I think to make her actually content with this birthday present I need to make my own in this case..." Octavia on those words dropped her head a little "B-but I will help you however I can my Owlette! I promise you that!"

Octavia smiled a little and it as happy as it made Stolas now he couldn't help,, but worry about this new... problem. If he doesn't give her anything worthwhile he will for sure be dead in a matter of hours. He now had to think of something... something she likes... something that both him and her appreciate greatly... Maybe..."

*quietly very depressing punk music starts playing*

And with it Stolas was taken out of his thoughts. When he looked up he saw Octavia with headphones in her ears as she seems to try to concentrate... And then it hit him... Music.

"MUSIC!" Stolas quickly became extremely happy and screamed out the word very loudly, even making Octavia jump in surprise.

"OW... What?" Octavia asked as she rubbed one of her ears.

"MUSIC MY OWLETTE!" Stolas quickly grabbed her and raised her up. "Your mom loves music!"

"Oh..." Octavia seemed quite confused "So... Are you going to... write a song for her?"

"I... I..." Stolas then calmed down and put Octavia down as he thought this through a bit more... "I don't know. I know how to... write songs for you, but... I don't know if I can write one for her..."

"So... we are still in square one..." Octavia sounded kind of disappointed

"M-maybe..." Stolas still had hope... He tried to think again... How to write a song for her? For someone like Stella... He tried to think some song that would help "Hm...hm...hm... Oh what a thrill..."

Wait... That little tune... He remembers it from somewhere... Yes it was...

flashback

"~She's my queen... It's like a dream~" Moxxie sang as both him and love of his life swam through the lake not noticing in their moment of bliss not noticing another boat a bit further from them with familiar Ars Goetia prince who decided to try his hand at fishing

"Oh hey! You are that friend of Blitz! Hello!" Stolas tried to wave at them, but they didn't notice him at all, but Stolas caught more of the song as they swam away "Ah... young love... Can there be something more-"

*ZIP* *ZIP*

"OOH! Something is catching! Okay... so now I think I should reel it in and-"

*SPLASH*

As Stolas tried to reel in his soon to be prey he was quickly dragged underwater by a quite big fish which quickly tried to bite on him, but Stolas quickly petrified it. After a moment he dragged himself back on his small boat.

"AHH... Damn... That was something... Where is my-" Then he realized petrified fish went down to the bottom of this watery abyss along with his fishing rod. "Well... At least I tried..."

Flashback ends

"I should try fishing again someday..." Stolas said to himself

"What?" Octavia was quite confused

"Oh... I mean... I GOT IT!" Stolas quickly went back on track "Blitz has a great friend who can write a song for her!"

"Oh... Wait... Isn't asking an imp for help going to make her MORE angry?" Octavia pointed out

"I mean... it could, but... maybe it could get her to be more... lenient on idea of imps being closer to us..." Stolas tried to word it in the nicest way possible

"So... she is less angry about you sleeping with that other imp..." And Octavia had none of this BS...

Stolas nodded slightly... He wasn't going to lie to her...

"Eh... But you're still going to help me?" Octavia asked him

"Of course I will... I promised!" Stolas put her hand on her shoulder and Octavia smiled again which made Stolas smile as well.

Next day at Moxxie's house from Moxxie's POV

Another job was done. This time some poor mountain climber got on the bad side of some sinner. Apparently this climber cut him off as they were trying to win some kind of race to climb a mountain and they joined forces in cutting ropes of everyone else. Who could foresee that a psychotic cheater would cheat on their acquaintance... Well apparently not that dumbass. At least this job made Moxxie feel somewhat proud... what he didn't feel proud of was Blitzo telling him to go down the damn mountain to see if he is dead or not... as expected he was dead and then as he waited for an hour for Blitzo to rescue him from the terrible cold of that mountain he then realized that he just forgot about him. Thankfully Millie quickly came back for him when she came back from her job of stuffing some asshole surfer into jaws of a shark and Blitzo got a nice punch in the face from both him and Millie... How much he loved her... But this love didn't help him get over his horribly... HORRIBLY frozen blue skin and right now he was now curled up under a VERY hot shower . As Millie said. When it starts to hurt he can get out... It will probably take a while...

"Last... Time... I go... with... ACHOO" Sweet... and maybe he will also get cold... "Blitzo... alone..."

Some time has passed and there was still no pain... Moxxie started to get worried... What if he remains like this forever? What if this blue tinge never goes away? Will Millie like this new him? WHY IS HE STILL WORKING IN THIS SHITTY COMPANY!?

There was no answer... Only anticipation for pain to set in... Also bills for hot water... That... will be a problem as well. They should have used the one at I.M.P. but then again... Blitzo probably would peek and that's the last thing Moxxie needs.

*knock* *knock* *knock*

Then suddenly Moxxie heard knocking at the door...

"Stay there Moxxie! I'll open!" Millie quickly said from behind the doors.

A moment has passed and after he heard the familiar click of opening doors...

"OOH YOU MAJESTY! WELCOME!" Millie loudly exclaimed and proceeded to talk a bit more quietly with this...

"(Wait... Your majesty?! STOLAS!?)" It quickly hit Moxxie... as much as he hit Blitzo in his damn face... "(DAMN IT! MAYBE I OVERDID IT! I'M GONNA DIE NOW! Wait.. MILLIE!)" Thoughts of Moxxie quickly went to the fact that Millie also helped him in the punching "TAKE ME! LEAVE MILLIE ALONE! SHE DID NOTHING-"

"Excuse me?" Stolas asked calmly from behind the doors

"Don't worry Mox. He just asked to see you." Millie sounded healthy and happy as always so that was a relief...

"Oh..." Moxxie scratched his head a little... which he actually started to feel which means shower is working "I'm sorry Your Majesty... I'm kind of... unavailable right now..."

"Yes... I heard about your... predicament... I can help if you wish sir" Stolas said respectfully... strangely respectfully

"Oh no no no... You don't need to trouble yourself Your Majesty." Moxxie tried to be respectful as well... a person of his status shouldn't concern himself with someone like him

"Oh, but I insist!" Stolas said cheerfully as he suddenly came through the doors that were clearly too small for him and had to crouch in their house and then pulled out his... wait... it was... different grimoire. "Okay... on which page it would be?"

Stolas was searching the book as if he didn't know it, but after a minute he found something.

"Oh there it is! Animosi Travisi!" Stolas spoke in a more soft and yet stern voice and from his hand came out small bright lights that envelop Moxxie and came into his body and suddenly his body became as warm as it was before the mission if not more! Wait... It's far more... And then he remembered shower was still on (And ye, Pathfinder reference)

"AAAHHH" Moxxie quickly jumped out of the shower with a huge scream as his entire body was burning "YOU COULD HAVE WAITED UNTIL I CAME OUT!"

Moxxie blurted out at Stolas, but then he quickly remembered who he was talking to and became scared... and then horribly embarrassed when he remembered he was all naked and quickly covered himself as he sat down in the same position he was in the shower...

"I-I-I'M SO SORRY! I didn't mean to..." Stolas quickly averted his gaze although... a bit slowly as his gaze was on Moxxie's crotch for a moment before he turned away, after that though Moxxie heard some mumbling from him. "Well... It's... surprising... How does he..? ...Too bad he is married al-"

"Your Majesty?" Millie quickly made him come back to reality

"Ah! Yes... yes... Sorry... I... I'll wait in the living room... if that's okay..." Stolas said to Millie

"OF COURSE! Make yourself at home your majesty!" Millie was as kind as ever

"Th..thank you." Stolas quickly, but awkwardly came out of the bathroom

Millie then quickly washed Moxxie to his dismay... he was an adult, obviously he could do that by himself and she gave him fresh new clothes that looked pretty much the same as his other ones, except for the bowtie which had some white dots on it. After he was ready he came out of the bathroom and went into their living room where Goetia Prince Stolas was now sitting awkwardly on a clearly too small for him couch. Millie brought herself one of the chairs and sat down a bit farther away.

"Do you... want anything your majesty?" Moxxie asked the noble prince as he also brought a chair for himself.

"Oh no... thank you, I'm okay..." Stolas quickly denied... he was clearly very nervous

"Is everything okay lord Stolas?" Moxxie asked, but he couldn't tell what kind of problem would bring him to them specifically

"No- I mean YES- I mean no- I..." Stolas tried to say something, but only left Moxxie more confused.

"It's okay! Calm down. Deep Breaths." Millie on the other hand tried to calm him down... it seemed to be helping

"Hah... Okay..." He took a few deep breaths and continued "Not everything's okay to be perfectly honest and I... need your help sir Moxxie..."

Again with "sir". It made Moxxie uncomfortable to be called like that by royalty such as him

"You don't need to call me "sir" my lord... I'm just-"

"Someone that could help me..." Stolas interrupted while he touched the tips of his fingers "I hope"

"Uh? Wh-why do you need my help?" Moxxie got even more uncomfortable now

"Is it something dangerous?" Millie quickly asked with worry

"No! I mean... maybe? I... well... It's about my... wife..." Stolas said last part quietly. Both Moxxie and Millie were understandable lost and Stolas continued in a quiet whisper "Y-you see dear friends... h-her... birthday is coming and..."

"WAIT!" And Millie was exact opposite of quiet "YOU WANT TO GIVE MY HUSBAND TO YOUR WIFE AS A BIRTHDAY PRESENT!? OH YOU!"

Millie quickly pulled out an axe from somewhere and started walking towards Stolas with murderous intent

"MILLIE STOP! STOP!" Moxxie quickly tried to grab her, but she moved easily with his hands around her

"NONONONO! NOTHING OF THE SORT I SWEAR!" Stolas though instead of using some magic on her he instead tried to plea with her... this made Millie stop her advance for a moment. She just pointed the axe on him.

"Talk" Millie said in a surprisingly scary voice

"Millie please stop!" Moxxie was pleading with her as he was still holding her by her waist after being dragged by her

"*gulp* I... I wanted your husband to... help me..." Stolas said while watching out for any sudden moves of her axe "I... want him to... write a song for her..."

On those words Millie slowly pulled down her axe and Moxxie quickly stood up

"What?" Both of them said in unison

"I... I recognized your great talent as a musician and... I thought you would be perfect candidate for this!" Moxxie and Millie were not convinced "Aaand I thought if an imp made a song for her she would be... a tad bit more lenient about... meeting them."

"Sooo... You want me to write a song for her because... you want her to be less angry about you and Blitzo" Stolas just nodded and Moxxie felt something die inside him

"By the way... I believe the O is silent sir-"

"STOP CALLING ME SIR!" Moxxie really did not like hearing it "I... I'm sorry your majesty"

"I... well... Then stop calling me Your majesty or sir too... My name is Stolas." Stolas though answered politely with a smile "Okay Moxxie?"

"Umm... Okay your- I mean... Stolas." Moxxie bowed his head

"It's okay Stolas!" Millie seemed to like this

"By the way... Stolas... How would I even write a song about her?" Moxxie asked him after some thoughts "I don't even know her."

"Well... I've been thinking about it and I... have a suggestion." Stolas took a deep breath "I'll propose to Stella that you can accompany her for several days and based on that write a song... I'll tell her that this is my gift."

"Shouldn't a gift like that be a surprise?" Millie asked, clearly not thinking about the larger issue

"My daughter prepares a surprise for her... with my help, I think that would be good enough as a surprise." Stolas explained which made Millie smile warmly

"Well... There is a bigger issue... Why would she agree to my company? Or even me writing a song for her?" Moxxie was very worried about this plan

"While it is true that my wife has a problem with imps I think she would find this idea at least interesting enough to try and she can stand presence of few imps in our palace." Stolas tone was very unsure "But... it is true that this may not work, if that happens then I'm sorry for wasting your time and no matter what I shall compensate for causing you trouble."

"Umm... No. That wont be needed si- Stolas." Moxxie got more nervous

"Yeah, we don't need any reward. You are our friend Stolas!" Millie was more cheerful on the other hand

"No... I insist. It's the least I can do..." Stolas bowed his head now before them... "Especially given that this is a... dangerous endeavor."

"I... I don't care Stolas sir..." Moxxie bit his tongue a bit "I will help you and you don't need to give us anything."

"You will help!?" Moxxie and Millie nodded "YEEEA-"

*SLAM*

"Owww..." Stolas hit his head on the ceiling as he got up from happiness

*KNOCK* *KNOCK* *KNOCK*

"QUIET DOWN THERE YOU LITTLE SHITS!" It seems a neighbor got quite upset

"You know... I think I should give you something..." Stolas massaged his hurting head "Maybe a new house with... bigger everything..."

"There is no need really..." Moxxie tried to protest, but at this point it probably was a fool's errand... this entire job seemed to be one.

"Do you want ice on that." Millie asked as she pointed at his head

"Y-yes thank you Millie..." Stolas answered on which Millie quickly went to the kitchen and then turned to Moxxie "Your wife is very sweet Moxxie." There was a hint of sadness in his tone... Moxxie could only guess the reason

"One more thing..." Moxxie tried to change the subject "That Grimoire... It's... different from the one you gave us."

"Oh... this is Grimoire of my wife." He held it up to Moxxie's face, it was quite beautiful in colors of blue and gold with all kinds of ornamentations of the sun, planets and stars "Or rather, her family's... They never really use it."

"Is there a reason?" Moxxie asked as he studied the beautiful grimoire

"..." There was no answer

"Okay... I... GOT IT!" Millie came to the room with quite large sack full of ice, at least for her size "There you go."

"Thank you my dear..." Stolas smiled back at her.

But Moxxie was still fixated on this Grimoire. Why is it never used? Who is Stella's family? In fact... Who is Stella?

Next day in the Palace of Soon and Moon

Moxxie and Stolas thankfully did not meet Stella before they managed to enter, seems like she was talking again with one of her acquaintances. The first thing what caught Moxxie's eye was how freakishly huge the palace was. It was to put it mildly stunning. Moxxie did know that Stolas was son of one of the most powerful of Goetia Kings, but he still couldn't imagine even the fraction of the wealth and power that came with it. The beautiful hallways made of crystal, a beautiful scenery of the night sky that spread across unseen ceilings, among them stars and planets floated, some of them turning into supernovas at a whim and others slowly expanding into red giants and others just being born and creating new kinds of constellations from which some of them seemed to even taken life of their own. The expanse of the universe right above them made Moxxie feel nauseated. That is not mentioning some incredible tapestry on the walls of several rooms. Incredibly large dining table in the middle of this fantastical place. The entire palace felt as if it was from one of the fairy tales of the human world...

Ah those fairy tales... While Moxxie wasn't fond of some parts of human culture he was more than pleased with several others like obviously his favorite play Phantom of the Opera and those sweet fairy tales about Knights and fantastical lands. The knight stories specifically caught his interest... and made him feel even worse about his own demonic self... They reminded him of the tales about mighty Hellknight Furcas who was a hero of several tales among imp children, although strangely enough he is rarely if ever seen these days anywhere in public, then again he was said to always be an enigmatic figure. Moxxie should ask Stolas one day if he knows what happened to him... then again... there is really no reason.

"Finally... We are here... Make yourself at home. Feel free to look around... Maybe something will inspire you just a bit." Stolas said as went to put back Stella's Grimoire

Finally they arrived in the main bedchamber. It was just as expansive as every other room in this palace from dreams, especially the bed which looked like it could be larger than Moxxie and Millie's entire house. It was also extremely clean, it's hard to believe Stolas and Blitzo here... okay he doesn't want to go with that train of thought and quickly tears apart this ticket and throws it into the depths of his mind, never to be recovered. But the other thing that caught Moxxie's attention was the image underneath the Canopy of the bed. It seemed to not just be an illusion, but actual space... And right now he was looking at a beautiful image of two galaxies slowly combining with one another. This palace was a wonderous place.

As Moxxie looked more around the room he saw several pictures as well. One of Stolas with what he assumed was his wife and his daughter Octavia and he had to say... his wife was quite beautiful which was to be expected. Her feathers looked like moonlight, her eyes were like pools of blood which made Moxxie think of one of Millie's exploits and in two of them fell shining diamonds. Her figure as much of it as it could be seen with her enormous black and white dress was also very good. Her head was adorned with a beautiful golden tiara and her brows despite being so strangely huge had a certain appeal to how they were shaped. Lady Stella herself had a very serious look on her face. A look of someone who never lets anyone see her weakness and always is ready for her prey to make a mistake. There was great danger there and also irresistible appeal. Moxxie already felt a small bit of inspiration. Her character from this picture made him think of a moon among dying stars that despite their strength cannot harm it, stoic, beautiful, immovable and greatly dangerous. But it was only a first part. An image is one thing, another is the real person that holds hundreds upon hundreds of images in them.

The other painting was most likely of Stolas and his family. He immediately recognized great Paimon with his white mask and black like the night feathers and his black cloak with it's inside being in color of bright orange. Just looking at him made Moxxie uncomfortable. His mother though hold interesting resemblance to Stolas. In the looks it seemed like he inherited most of his looks from her aside from her eyes which were in color of bright blue and her appearance was obviously more feminine. Both of them seemed rather serious with only little Stolas smiling, a thing carried over in his family picture.

Now there is only one left...

"So... what do you think?" Stolas interrupted his analysis before he could focus on Stella's picture

"I... I think I'm starting to get something..." Moxxie said as he looked around the room again "And this is the most beautiful place I've ever seen in my life." Moxxie finished with a smile.

"I'm glad you like it Moxxie." Stolas bowed his head "My family funded most of it's construction. Even I am still amazed at this work of art after so many years of living here..."

"What about Lady Stella's family?" Moxxie was a bit confused

"I... Would rather not talk about them." Stolas seemed to get a bit more nervous "And please don't ask Stella about them unless she allows you."

This warning seemed serious and Moxxie would try his damnedest to adhere to it.

"So... what now?" Moxxie asked as he looked a bit more around the room and tried to get a better glimpse at the Stella's family photo that hid just behind the bed, but to no avail.

"Now... we have to work on your appearance." Before Moxxie could say anything more Stolas used some kind of magic and Moxxie's clothes started to transform. His tuxedo became more elegant with a dark blue color, it grew a bit longer which made it almost look like a cape, the inside of his tux started looking like a sky filled with stars, his hair became more clean and better put together, his pants also took a bit more dark blue color and became much more comfortable and his shirt gained additional tie much like when he worked as a bodyguard for Octavia. "The change is not that big, but it should make due"

"Umm... what's up with those stars?" Moxxie pointed at the inside of his tux.

"Oh... we have to add something unique... After all we need to sell Stella that you are a famous imp musician." Stolas answered nonchalantly "Oh that reminds me!"

With a small gesture Stolas made Moxxie's bowtie a bit more dark red and the white dots started looking more like shiny diamonds on it and from random places took the shape of letters on both sides of bowtie. G on left side and M on right one.

"G? M?" Moxxie was a bit confused... he can't mean...

"Gold Mox... I heard from your wife that was your alias." Stolas said with a smile while Moxxie wasn't very sure about this new look

"Well... that was a long time ago." Moxxie said as he looked down as he was reminded of that failure

"2 years is not that long dear." Stolas countered

"For us it kind of is..." Moxxie said as he thought about how easy it is for imps to die... especially in his kind of job.

"Hmm... Good point." Stolas had to concede

"So... when is the birthday exactly?" Moxxie kind of forgot to ask about this rather important piece of info

"Oh yeah! It's..." Stolas had to think for a moment apparently which made Moxxie think. How can a husband forget his own wife's birthday? He would never forgive himself if he forgot Millie's "About... 10 days..."

"10!?" That was... unexpected "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN 10 DAYS?!"

"I... I don't... I'm sure you can handle it. You told me yourself that you did start to feel something! I'm sure 10 days is enough time!" Stolas while he tried to reassure him he himself seemed to need reassurance the most here... from someone better than himself

"Ugh..." Moxxie at this point just gave up. He is going to die posing as a musician for a horny aristocrat who is desperate to appease the wife he doesn't seem to give two shits about... At least Millie will get a nice new house... maybe. "So... when we-"

*BANG*

"WHO IN 7 CIRCLES SCREAMS SO MUCH!?" Suddenly the doors opened... And as both of them looked, Lady Stella was there. Looking rather different from her portrait, a bit more... furious. "STOLAAAAAAS!" She quickly moved towards her husband and grabbed him by the throat "ANOTHER ONE!?"

"I... ghkk... I can..." Stolas tried his best to get away, but mostly he was just losing consciousness

"W-WAIT! Lady Stella! I swear we didn't do ANY sort of sexual intercourse here nor did we plan to!" Moxxie quickly said as he knelt in front of her and bowed his head to the floor "I AM HERE TO WRITE A SONG ABOUT YOU AS A GIFT FROM YOUR GREAT HUSBAND SO... PLEASE LET HIM GO MY LADY!"

"..." Stella did not say anything while Stolas was thrashing against her grip... Moxxie had to admit. This lady was very strong despite her appearance. Then after a few moments...

*DROP*

She finally dropped Stolas who on his knees was grasping for air...

"HAAAH... y-yeah. I... h-hired him to... write a song about you-" Stolas tried to get up

"Stay down." Stella's voice was loud, stern and cold. Stolas immediately came back down. That was more like her self from the picture. She slowly came up to Moxxie who could only look at her feet now "Raise your head." Moxxie complied "And speak."

"I... I was hired by your husband. To write a song for you My Lady." Moxxie tried to explain

"Did you?" Stella did not seemed humored

"N-no... Not yet my Lady. I was actually asked to..." Moxxie at this point was one the verge of hear attack "Asked to... accompany you, to write the most accurate song about your beautiful self..."

Moxxie had to be honest here. Even with half truths he had to keep lies to as great minimum as possible, but also had to paint the truth in a way that would be the most appeasing. One wrong word would mean death of both of them.

"Why would I want to have an imp... bard to accompany me? Especially someone like... you..." Stella asked a good question... one Moxxie had to answer

"M-my name my dear Lady is Moxxie, I'm also also known as... Gold Mox... A my works are works of passion. Works of great passion and for this work to be worthy of one such as you My Lady I need to know you as best as I can... I need to know you well to see the true beauty of your great self... and to make this song as great as it can possibly be My Lady..." Moxxie tried very hard to be as compelling as he can possibly be. He started to drop his head as her gaze started causing him pain.

"Do not drop your head!" She commanded and Moxxie listened "Now tell me... What do you see..."

"I...I see power and danger of supernova, a figure as indomitable as a tallest mountain, a mountain basking in beautiful moonlight and with presence as great as that of a moon on clear night sky, but with elegance of most beautiful peacock... That... is all for now My Lady..." Moxxie was shaking as he was looking at her... her face was like a stone statue. Unfeeling and unmoving.

"For now?" Stella repeated

"Yes My Lady..." Moxxie couldn't help, but drop his head again, but this time there was no command

"... Stand up... Both of you." Stolas who was as quiet as a grave the whole time slowly stood up while Moxxie was close to passing out when suddenly someone grabbed him by his arm... Lady Stella helped him stand up, but quickly let go as he was able to stand on his own "I hope this song will be worth it."

Moxxie just awkwardly touched his arm Lady Stella grabbed him by. Her strength was very unexpected.

"Once you are done having a heart attack imp meet me at the front gates." Stella said in a very cold tone

"Wh-what?" Moxxie was taken aback

"You shall accompany me are you not?" Stella asked sarcastically "Well... Your duty starts now."

As she said those words she turned around and left the room which closed behind her with a loud *THUMP*. As her footsteps went completely silent Stolas finally allowed himself a sigh of relief.

"Ohh... I'm very proud of your performance there Moxxie!" Stolas seemed like he was about to burst into laughter "And for saving our lives of course."

"Th-thank you..." Moxxie though was just about to heed to Lady Stella's advice and have a heart attack right there, but he decided before passing out to clear out one more thing before that. The picture of Stella's family.

As he walked up to it he saw 4 figures. Two children and two adults. He recognizes one of them as Stella from her white feathers, red eyes and rather humorless face, she seemed to wore back then a dress in color of gold. On her right side was another kid in color of turquoise and white who wore all white suit. His presence seemed to radiate off the picture. His left hand was behind Lady Stella's head and three fingers poked out from behind her head, thumb, small finger and middle finger and the radiant child had a rather mischievous smile on his beak.

"Eh... That's Andrealphus... My step brother... He isn't very fond of me and I return the feeling." Stolas said as he looked at the picture alongside him. "But I do like the suits he makes."

Moxxie did not mind Stolas's comment as he looked up at the figure holding Andrealphus's shoulder. It was the right hand of a tall, silver peacock, Moxxie could tell from her figure that this was a woman, most definitely the mother of this family, she was tall... possibly taller than Lady Stella was now. Her eyes were just like Stella's in color of bright red. She was also similar to Stella in terms of her figure although the Lady on the picture was a bit slimmer and wore a beautiful blue dress. Her face was adorned with a gentle smile... A smile that somehow made Moxxie's blood turn as cold as it was when he came back from that mountain if not worse... Whoever it was, she was most definitely very dangerous. Moxxie did not know how he knew it... Call it instinct if you must.

"I see you are looking over my family."

"AAAAAAHH!" Both Moxxie and Stolas jumped in surprise and Moxxie felt a heart attack approaching quicker and quicker.

"S-Stella! DON'T EVER DO THIS AGAIN!" Stolas pleaded

"Hmph. If you wish for it so bad then I'll make sure to do this far more often from now on" Stella said back, it actually almost made Moxxie chuckle "I just wanted to make sure you were definitely not deceiving me. And don't tell me I don't have a reason to... my dear."

Her gaze was now dead set on Stolas who quickly looked away. Moxxie definitely felt strange in this situation...

"I think you missed one more member in this picture imp." Stella said as she pointed to the last figure and as Moxxie looked at the person there he learned that the cold of any mountain is nothing compared to what he feels now.

The great owl in the picture was just like Andrealphus of white and turquoise color (although in his case white was more dominant), but his face was far more serious much like Stella's, the feathers on his face looked almost like a great white beard, his eyes were of turquoise color as well, but if Andrealphus was radiating, it was like looking at the sun when it comes to this man. His body (while only as tall as to Lady Stella's mother's bossom) looked extremely powerful. It looked like this monster of a demon could snap that one big Hellhound Vortex in half with minimal effort and his suit was adorned with symbols of the sun and planets around it and it was in colors of blue and gold, much like on Stella's Grimoire. But what picked Moxxie's greatest attention was his sheathed sword upon which Demon's left hand was placed on, or rather the hilt of it which was adorned from left side with a wing of a demon pointed downward on the hilt and on the other side with wing of an angel pointed upwards in the direction of the blade. Moxxie knew this sword... probably every imp of Hell knew it. Sword of Rise and Fall wielded by the Furcas himself... The only knight of Ars Goetia and possibly most skilled warrior in all of hell to which many archangels could attest. Stella's father was enigmatic Furcas... The Leviathan's Bane. The greatest Hellknight. And if his thoughts are correct... he may meet him... in 10 days. Now his heart was about to explode.

But before Moxxie passed out he took a glimpse on Lady Stella. When she looked at the picture her eyesight was only on her father and her eyes betrayed a strange feeling... A distant feeling which Moxxie couldn't possibly read for now. Now... It was time to pass out.

*SLAM*

"Oh poor Moxxie..." Stolas's voice said

"Tell him to meet me when he wakes up."

And the world became dark.

A small glimpse into the past

The scream she heard was strange. She was just about to finish writing a letter to the Great Governor (or rather attempt to finish her thoughts on one) and now she hears a distant screaming of her traitorous hopefully soon to be gone husband. And now... she was standing around the corner.

"Oh... I mean... I GOT IT! Blitz has a great friend who can write a song for her!"

"Oh... Wait... Isn't asking an imp for help going to make her MORE angry?"

"I mean... it could, but... maybe it could get her to be more... lenient on idea of imps being closer to us..."

"So... she is less angry about you sleeping with that other imp..."

...

"Eh... But you're still going to help me?" Octavia asked him

"Of course I will... I promised!"

Stella didn't know if she was disappointed... how could she be at this point? But she definitely felt... strange... But her feelings are not something that should matter... Her purpose is far more important. And she wont fail... She cannot be... a failure.


WHEW... That was a pretty long introduction, but I wanted to get out of the way the setup. I have many parts of this story planned already... There are some missing, but I'll try my best to fill them in. But at least I have a general idea of where it will go. It will definitely be longer than my other Helluva Boss fic. Hope you all enjoyed it.