The Next Morning

Burning Bull Gym, Greed Ring of Hell.

The sounds of a punching bag being hit echoed around the local gym in the Greed Ring. The cause of the noise? It was Eric Snow. While Eliza watched on with her dad's phone in her hand. And, with Three Days Grace's Animal I have Become playing in his ears through his wireless earbuds. Eric Snow liked to stay on top of his game with a carefully planned work-out that helped him to be able-bodied to protect his daughter if she was ever in trouble. And, if a situation like when she was abducted from Wacky World by a thug his ex-wife had hired should ever occur again.

Sitting alone, but sat somewhere her dad could see her in case a demon tried anything funny. Eliza was playing a game on her dad's phone when a message came up on the device. Looking to see who had sent the message while her dad was finishing up with the heavy bag filled with sand. Noticing it was Loona. She looked at the text and the image sent by the Hellhound her dad worked with. She soon regretted it with a blush when she saw Loona was stood in black lace underwear set in front of a mirror. While the message read this.

'Whatcha think, Snow?'

Quietly putting down the phone beside her while she still looked like a ripe tomato with the blush painted on her face. She didn't think her dad and Loona were THAT close with each other. Then again, her plan had been foiled when her dad told her the two didn't hook up last night at Vortex's party. But, she still held hope when he had told her that they'd made out in the closet. So, the plan was on hold at the moment.

"You okay, Eliza? You've been surprisingly quiet sweetie."

The girl's head snaps forward quickly to face her dad before trying to cover her tracks.

"It's nothing dad. Just got a little warm under the collar. That's all!"

Eric raised a questioning eyebrow towards his daughter. Had a demon made her blush like this? If they had, he was going to have some serious words with them. But, seeing his phone face down on the bench Eliza was sitting on. So, putting the pieces together by the power of deduction. He concluded that she'd seen something meant for his eyes only. So, deciding to give Eliza the benefit of the doubt this time. He was about to head over to the dumbbells when his phone decided to ring.

'Shot through the heart, And you're to blame. Darlin', you give love a bad name!'

This time, it was Eliza's turn to raise a questioning eyebrow towards her dad after looking at who the ringtone was for. Answering the phone after taking it from Eliza's grasp. Eric walked towards his bag that carried his water before speaking through the right earbud.

"Sup, Loona. Calling about last night's seven minutes in Hell?"

"SHUT UP, YOU IDIOT! Blitz is literally standing beside me!"

Eliza notes her dad chuckling to himself before picking up a dumbbell. As much as she wanted to pick her father's brain. And, tease him unmercifully about his escapade at the party. She had other pressing matters to contend with. Mainly, the shadow of a strange female at the far end of the room. Standing in plain view. And, watching Snow intently. How did the demons, imps and Hellhounds not see this woman standing there?! It just made no freaking sense to Eliza. So, using her gut instincts. She made sure her dad wasn't keeping an eye on her before slinking away with her mind thinking.

'Who are you?'

Corridor to the Changing Rooms

The first sign the changing room had been disturbed was when Eliza found the door to the men's locker room wide open. Making sure no one of the male gender was going to spot her walking into the male changing rooms, she walks in.

Male Changing Rooms

Keeping on her toes, and keeping her eyes locked onto anywhere that would give her some clue at who was stalking her dad. The sudden clang of a metal locker door made Eliza turn her attention behind her. Her eyes locked onto the open locker of her dad's, swinging haphazardly to itself before she approached it.

"What are you after?"

Eliza mutters quietly to herself. Reaching the open locker door. She finds it to be empty when she opens it fully. Well, it should've been empty. Laying on the metal inside of the container. Eliza spots a note with a name she didn't recognise on it.

'Lazarus. Who the hell is Lazarus?"

With that thought in mind. She reads the note left for this 'Lazarus' person in her dad's locker. But, her eyes shoot open in horror when she reads the words on the note. Deciding she needed to go warn her father of something going amiss. She wouldn't be walking through the door to safety.

SMACK… Thud.

Eliza's body crumpled to the floor in a heap from the shot to the head by a blunt object. The source of her attack soon showed herself from the shadows when she speaks.

"Oh, my sweet summer child. You were in the wrong place. At the wrong time."

Making sure the child was unconscious. The disguised demoness pulls out her holy rounded handgun from the holster on her belt. Making sure she had her sight set on aiming for the child's head. Only, she was soon disturbed the moment she heard a voice call out.

"ELIZA! WHERE ARE YOU, HONEY?!"

The door opening to reveal Snow walking through the door was enough for the woman to freeze in her tracks.

"What the fuck are you doing here?! This is the men's locker room!"

Despite his shout. The gun was soon pointed directly at Snow. That, and it didn't take him long to analyse his situation. His daughter was knocked out cold by the fire extinguisher laid someway away from the scene. And, he had the gun that was pointed at Eliza, now aimed between his eyes by the woman he should be, somehow, familiar with. He just couldn't place her face to a name. That was until she spoke.

"I was supposed to kill you later on. But, I suppose now will have to do."

"Who are you, bitch?!"

The woman laughs heartlessly at the male. Making him reel back in anger at the woman laughing off his question. She had a lot of nerve assaulting an innocent girl and, aiming a gun at her before he had made an appearance. Sensing Snow wasn't going to have a clue who she was. She continued while keeping the gun held between his eyes.

"You really don't remember me. Do you, Lazarus?"

A sharp pain shot through Snow's mind like a bullet through a paper target. But, why had this name she had called him, caused his head to ache? He would soon get his answers when she kept talking.

"The fabled wanderer. A being with a mixture of angel and demon blood running through his veins. A conqueror that can stare down a thousand armies of angels and demons without blinking. Here I find him. Not a clue of his glorious past whilst walking amongst shit like a common sewer rat!"

This made Snow madder by the second. But, before he could respond. The woman had, somehow, gotten behind him. When he did realise with wide eyes. He was knocked for a loop with a straight palm to the back of his neck. Collapsing to the ground in a heap beside his unconscious daughter. Eric looked back with a blurred vision towards the woman approaching him. But, if she'd noticed where Snow's phone was. She'd noticed a text had been sent out to a certain daughter of the imp he worked for. Simply reading.

'Need help. Get to the Burning Bull Gym on central and eighth!'

All Snow had to do now was stall for time so I.M.P. could get to him in time. But, he had to try and remain conscious long enough to stop this woman from attacking him further. Luckily, monologuing is a villain's greatest weakness.

"I thought I'd lost you when Zerachiel had you banished for the death of his father. We'd built something, you and I. It was a perfect life."

Trying to get his bearings, he replies.

"I've never met you before in my life, woman. What the fuck are you talking about? There is only one woman I've slept with. And, she and her toyboy are rotting in the lust ring of Hell right now!"

Instead of a bitter laugh. A punt to the ribs was all Snow got in response. Making him spit up blood from the rib that had punctured his right lung from the kick sent his way.

"Of course, you won't remember. You had your memories of when you were a legend wiped when you were sent to Earth as that pathetic, Eric Snow. To make it worse. You had a bastard child to a human woman!"

Now Snow's hearing must have been off. Because he did not just hear this woman. No, this bitch, call his beloved daughter a bastard. Trying to fight through the pain in his right lung. He tries to stand in vain. Because the minute he got to his knees. The woman's right knee came crashing full force into his face. Sending Snow back with blood coming from his lips, nose and right orbital bone. Leaving him bleeding fully from his face now and, at the mercy of this angel that had disguised herself as a demon. Unbeknownst to the disguised angel. She hadn't heard a van pull up outside of the gym she had Snow at her mercy inside of. Somehow, Snow had the hearing capable enough of hearing four distinct voices rushing inside the building to find him.

"I wanted to make you remember who you were, Lazarus. I wanted you to remember before I killed you. My higher-ups put a price on your head for killing angels during the extermination. Now, I'm here to collect."

Pulling the hammer back on the Glock in the grip of her right hand. Eric held Eliza close to him for the moment his new life would come to an end. He only had two regrets. One. He would never get to watch Eliza grow up. And, two. He would never get the chance to ask Loona on a REAL date.

"Any last words, Lazarus?"

"Yeah, I do have some words…"

Looking out of the corner of his eye. He saw Loona and the others rushing down the corridor towards the men's locker room. He should have known Loona's hearing would have picked up the sound of a hammer being pulled back on the woman's gun. Meaning, the angel would never get the chance to fire her gun. Allowing Snow to say with a pained smirk on his face.

"… I always wanted a puppy when I was with you."

This confused the woman long enough for Loona to lunge at the angel with her teeth bared. Sinking her teeth into the angel's arm to subdue her gun using her arm long enough for Millie to take Eliza into her arms. Whilst Moxxie and Blitzo tried to help Snow up to his feet. Once the guys and Millie had the Snows in their possession. Blitzo calls out to Loona.

"Come on, Looney. End that bitch so we can get these two to a medical facility!"

That slight distraction gave the woman the opening to pistol whip Loona around the cheek. Releasing the grip she had on her arm. Sending the hound staggering back from the shot to the face. Luckily, it was enough for the imps to get the father and daughter out of the locker room. When the angel realised her targets were getting away. She aimed her gun again. This time, managing to fire five shots off in succession. When she tried to fire her sixth shot. Loona, whilst growling, lunged in again with her teeth trying to get at the angel's throat. Even if she knew she couldn't win. She knew she could subdue the angel long enough for her dad and colleagues to escape to the hospital.

Outside

With an urgency to their actions while loading the father and daughter into the van. Once the two were inside of the van. The three imps jumped into the van before Blitzo tried starting the van. Only, he never got the chance to pull away in the vehicle.

CRASH, SMASH

"Looney!"

"Loona!"

The three imps shouted the moment Loona's body smashed into the windshield after being sent sailing by the angel who was now, in her pure angel form when she exited through the hole in the side of the building she'd smashed the hellhound through. This causes Blitzo and Millie to get out of the van to try and help Loona. Except they wouldn't get the chance the moment the angel dodged a wild axe swing from Millie.

During the five dodges to avoid the double-edged blade of the battle axe. She palmed the entirety of Millie's face and, almost drove her through the ground with the slam she hit Millie with. After dispatching Millie. Blitzo tried to shoot the angel with his flintlock pistol. But, he wasn't expecting his target's speed to increase tenfold whilst being in her pure form. He never saw her move by him when an elbow to the face sent the boss of I.M.P. into the side of his van. Leaving him imprinted into the sliding door that led to the passenger seats containing Snow and Eliza. This only left Moxxie and, an injured Loona to stare down the angel who had barely broken a sweat.

"Well, fatty. We're fucked."

Moxxie could only nod in fear. But, he had no time to speak again the moment The impact of the blur had knocked the breath out of him. Shaking his gun loose from his grip in the process. He only had seconds to avoid the next attack by ducking to the side of him when an angel spear nearly hit him in the head. This time, after catching her breath. Loona shouts angrily.

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT WITH SNOW!?"

Despite this. The voice of the being that attacked the imps, Loona and the Snows shouted angrily in reply as she approached Loona.

"Lazarus will pay for the lives he wrongfully took, mutt! DON'T GET IN MY WAY!"

Despite Loona's attempt to get ready for another attack. She could see how pissed off the angel of the lord was at the guy laid out in the van. But, she had to move quickly when she barely rolled out of the way of another holy spear towards her when she reached for Blitzo's flintlock. This leads to her shouting.

"WHO THE FUCK IS LAZARUS?! HIS NAME IS ERIC SNOW, YOU STUPID BITCH!"

The angel just growled in anger. During this distraction. Eric had regained consciousness in the back of the van whilst Loona and Moxxie were fighting for their lives. He was soon fully awake when, after she used scary strength, the angel threw the hound and imp against the van. Causing the door to start falling off. Loona soon knew the male she was protecting was about to be exposed to an attack from the angel when she calls.

"SNOW, LOOK OUT!"

Loona's shout was soon drowned out by the angel flying toward the demon she was after killing. While Snow was slowly getting his bearings with blood dripping. No, pouring down the left side of his face with one eye closed from the pain in his body. This was the last thing Snow could do before the angel charged at the male. Unfortunately, Moxxie took the brunt of the assault when he stepped between the angel and her target. Throwing him arm first into an exposed metal support beam from the destroyed wall of the gym.

"FUCK!"

Now holding his broken right arm while in the knelt position. The angel prepared another attack on the imp she stared down with her teeth bared. Snow could see it now from his spot in the van. He saw her jaw filled with stained white teeth as sharp as diamonds. Moxxie's blood was dripping down from the front of her mouth from where she had gotten him. Growling at the imp menacingly. The male, who at this point in his defence, can only try to anger the angel further while she slowly walks towards him. Stalking the demon and, sizing him up for the kill.

Despite this, Snow had somehow managed to weakly get out of the van. And, noticing Moxxie preparing for the worst. Moxxie noticed he had two slugs left in the chamber before cocking the shotgun behind his back. He can only hold the gun unsteadily and, shakily in his good hand while he is stood unsteadily before he shouts.

"COME ON THEN!"

That's all it took for the angel to lunge at Moxxie and Loona. As he weakly aimed the gun in his good hand to shoot the oncoming attack down that was sure to come. The impact of a spear embedded into his flesh never happened. Someone unexpected had stopped the attack from reaching the demon.

"GET AWAY FROM THEM, AZRAEL!"

Song Change: The Game by Drowning Pool. (Snow's Second Wind!)

"YOU!"

Moxxie and Loona lay against the van in shock at the sight before them after the angel shouted in fury.

Before them, in a form, he didn't know he had. And, standing in all of his deadly glory. Stood one, Eric Snow. More specifically, Eric's true self had revealed himself now. The wanderer, Lazarus Snow. Horns out, an evil look on his now determined face and dark purple eyes glaring a hole deep into the angel's pure soul while the angel spear was held tightly in his grasp by the handle.

Despite Azrael's best efforts, Snow held firm when he spoke.

"You tried to kill my friends, Azrael. For that, I can never forgive you!"

Azrael now held fear in her eyes. She had unknowingly, and unwillingly, awakened the wanderer within Snow. Right now? She knew she was fucked.

With a swift right jab. Lazarus sent the demon flying into the destroyed wall of the gym. Despite looking for a reprieve to collect her thoughts. Azrael found none when Snow had teleported above her. With a swift kick sent downwards. Lazarus sent the angel slamming down into the ground below them. Creating a crater in the road when Azrael caught the next attack. Kicks were dealt, and punches were thrown. And Snow, would not let up on his assault against the angel that dared attack his friends.

"I WILL NOT LET YOU KILL MY FRIENDS!"

One missed punch from Azrael led to Snow ducking and uppercutting the angel in the gut. It was quickly followed up by a knee strike to the chin to the doubled-over pure one. Sending the angel down to the ground once again.

Lazarus was relishing in the fight he was involved in now. Watching the angel beg for mercy while he stalked the holy one squirming on the ground with blood dripping from her mouth. And, her face is a mess. With a swift stamp on the being's leg. Azrael yelled in pain and, let out a pitiful whimper when Snow decided to let up and speak directly to the angel.

"Never, ever, show your face in Hell again! If you do, I'll kill you!"

The angel nods quickly. This allowed Snow to revert to his normal self. Allowing, Loona and Moxxie to run over to Snow to tend to his wounds. Seeing he was okay, however, Loona, not giving a damn if Moxxie was present, wrapped Snow up in a hug while Moxxie treated his wounds.

Their moment of peace was, soon, short-lived.

End Song

If only they were paying attention to their surroundings. They'd notice Azrael had no intention of honouring the mercy Lazarus had shown her. Grabbing her spear. She prepared her attack. Luckily for Snow and Loona. Moxxie calls out.

"SNOW, LOOK OUT!"

A spear connected with flesh. However, it was not the attacker's intended target. Snow and Moxxie looked on horrified whilst the aggressor looked on in anger.

The spear hadn't hit the angel killer like Azrael had intended to. Instead, Loona stood with her eyes wide in pain. The holy spear was going all the way through her chest. Muffled shouts for her from Moxxie and her new friend was all she could make out when she dropped to her knees from the poison of the holy water-dipped spear spreading quickly through her system.

Azrael, despite only being able to stand groggily on one leg, limped her way over to the demon she had hit. Once she reached Loona. The hurt hound, who would vanish soon from the divine spear through her heart, looked up defiantly at the angel staring down at her before indirectly speaking to Snow.

"Why must your people hurt themselves for someone like you, Lazarus? Do you enjoy watching the ones you care about suffer and die!?"

Even if she was looking at Loona when she had stated her words coldly. The words had the intended effect on Snow as tears left his eyes. Causing something in Snow to snap inside the male's psyche while he watched on. The look on Azrael's face, however, showed no remorse. With her knife drawn. She knelt at Loona's level and, placed the blade on the hound's throat. Snow could only scream with tears in his eyes when she calls out.

"NO, Loona!"

"Eric… I'm sorry."

Eric froze. No words were needed as she stared at the dying hellhound before him. With what should have been her last breath. She utters the one sentence that shattered Snow's whole world around him.

"… I love you."

The knife that should have brought off Loona's head from her shoulders. Was soon shot out of the angel's hand by a bullet from Blitzo's flintlock. Causing the angel to grow angry by the defiance of the imps and Snow when the boss of I.M.P. says.

"Keep… THE FUCK… AWAY… FROM MY DAUGHTER!"

Azrael just snarled angrily. Moving forward and, made her way slowly and, menacingly toward the imp that had saved his daughter while still in her pure form. She leapt for the imp that was now by his daughter and two employees against the wall. She was going to finish this. Once, and for all.

BANG! Reload, BANG!

No spoken words left the angel's mouth ever again. Snow looked in shock at the, now, headless angel before her. She soon turned his head to the side and, saw a sight she was glad to see.

"K TO THE I TO THE A, DUMB BITCH!"

Moxxie and Blitzo couldn't help but chuckle at the little girl holding her dad's smoking holy shotgun in her hands. just in time and, with quick thinking after remembering the two slugs her dad had left in the gun. She had fired off the holy shotgun twice. Once, in the chest and, once right between Azrael's eyes.

Now. The angel's destroyed heart and, her brain matter were splattered all over the two imps, Loona and Snow before the body slumped back and fell to the ground without a sound. Blood spurting from the neck where the head of the angel used to be.

The moment reality hit the heavily breathing demons at what had just happened to them. Eric knew to check on Loona. Feeling her cold hand. His heart shattered when he realised she was dead. Causing him to cry and shout.

"DAMN IT!"

Feeling a head hit his chest and, tears wetting his tank top from where he was now cradling a weeping Blitzo after what had just happened. Hell, Snow shed some tears at the cluster fuck that had just happened before him. But, if you look closely. You will remember that Snow was still bleeding. And, if you the viewers remember what happens when his blood gets into a dying demon or angel's mouth? Then, you'll know what happens next.

"I'm so sorry, Loona. I couldn't protect you."

Planting a gentle kiss onto Loona's lips with his bloody lips. He wasn't aware of what his bloody kiss was doing to the hound he kissed. He was unaware that, the poison that was infecting Loona, was fading quickly from her system. As he was about to pull away from the kiss. The sound of coughing was heard. Causing the three imps that were mourning, and Snow who had kissed her, to look in surprise and joy when Loona sat up with a start. With her eyes wide in panic. She soon clapped her eyes onto the demon who had saved her. His kiss of life had revived her. Something Blitzo was over the moon with when he called out.

"MY PRECIOUS BABY!"

Loona just rolls her eyes and blanches when her adoptive dad hugs her tightly. Soon followed by Millie and Moxxie joining in the group hug. Even Loona couldn't help but smile lowly. But, the moment her eyes clapped onto Snow knelt before Eliza. A look of love was held in her eyes when she hears them talking.

"You okay, sweetie?"

"I think so, daddy. I'm still shaking from the kick of your shotgun."

But, the little girl had to ask one thing when she remembered why she blew Azrael's brains and heart out to save I.M.P. and her dad.

"Did I save Miss Loona?"

This was where Loona called over kindly from the group hug she was in.

"What do you think, kiddo?"

Eliza couldn't help it. She ran over to the hellhound with tears of happiness in her eyes and, with surprising strength that sent the four skittling, she hugged Loona tightly. Almost like she was going to lose her all over again. This causes Snow to chuckle at his daughter being, well, just being Eliza.

His new life in Hell had hit a rocky start already. But, sparking a cigarette up from the smokes he had with him. Eric just stands with a smirk on his face at what had just transpired today. But, when he looks at the five in the group hug laughing with each other. He locks eyes with Loona for a split second. Even seeing her mouth the words, 'Thank you, Snow'. Causing Snow to smile gratefully at keeping someone safe.

Heaven

An angel, long thought to still be on a mission in purgatory, walked boldly through the golden doors to the throne room of God. with the stench of death firmly on him. He spoke directly to the almighty sitting on his throne.

"You called for me?"

"Yes, Black Wing. Genesis has resurfaced again. I need you to take care of this pest. And, deal with the daughter he reunited with. I trust I can count on you to get the job done, Balthazar?"

The archangel stood before God with a hint of bloodlust in his smile. With a low growl to his voice at the mention of the Genesis. Balthazar spoke as the camera fades to black.

"Thy will be done, father."