AN: Hey everyone, hope you all enjoy this story. This particular idea was partially inspired by MyAfterLifeIsBetter's story of IMP being hired to kill an innocent child, I realized not many stories are written like this (with many of them being about the characters becoming yandere) so I decided to write something based on the idea. Helluva Boss characters are not owned by me but owned by Vivziepop. Now, sit back, relax, grab a snack and enjoy the show.
Inside the planet Earth on the astral plane, stands Hell. In Hell, there are seven rings that exist, each housing a different variety of demons consisting of imps, hellhounds, and succubi alongside others. However, within the second ring of Hell stands Imp City, the largest city in all of the seven rings, and probably one of the few rings of Hell its citizens would want to exist in.
Imp City is filled with many buildings looking similar to its living world counterpart, however, out of all the buildings in Hell, one stood out, it was a large building but it had imp horns adorning it, other than that, most of the levels were filled with many other businesses, mainly office buildings of some kind. However, inside the boss's office on one floor, in particular, two imps were chatting. One was dressed in a black suit and had long black and white horns on his head. The other imp was dressed in regular clothing.
"Listen, I need ya to kill this no good motherfucking son of a bitch," The imp dressed in regular clothing said, to the imp sitting behind a desk, who had a bored expression plastered on his face. "This person is such a horrible human being, and yet I'm sent to this pit for trying to do some fucking justice." He was about to go on when the imp sitting behind the desk cut him off.
"I'm not here to listen to your fucking back story," The imp said. "I just wanna know who we gotta take out and how much your fuckin paying."
The imp gave a small sigh, "Alright, the person I need ya to kill is in his late 40's, around 6 ft tall, has dark black hair, and lives here." The imp placed a piece of paper on the desk which read the address of the person he was asking to be killed.
"How much?" The imp behind the desk asked, still looking unimpressed.
"I'll pay you 150k if you kill him successfully."
The imp's eyes widened, before he gave the other imp a small smirk, "Huh, you must really hate this bastard, huh?"
"Yeah, I do."
"Well, no worries, we'll make sure this son of a bitch is dead. I guarantee it."
The imp dressed in the regular clothes got up, "Alright, well here's my number to call when you kill him successfully," He placed the paper on the desk and stuck out his hand. "Good Luck, uh Mr. Blitzo, was it?"
The imp in the suit sighed, "The O is silent," he said before shaking the others hand. "And we'll be sure to call ya when we kill him."
"Thanks, Mr. Blitzø, and still good luck to you."
Blitzø gave another nod, and watched the imp leave, before getting up himself, and walking into the employee break room. Inside were two imps one dressed in a black suit, and the other dressed in a black dress were chatting about something.
"M&M grab your shit, cause we got a job and they are paying high for this!"
After grabbing their equipment and having Loona open the portal, the three jumped through. They were met with a small quaint home, and a small car parked out in the front.
"Alright, here we are," Blitzø said. "Let's kill this son of a bitch." Moxxie and Millie nodded in agreement with their boss and the three slowly approached the house. As they got closer, they could see signs that the house wasn't in the best condition. They paid no attention to it, as Blitzø peaked through one of the windows, giving him a grand sight of the kitchen, it was dirty, and there were cracks lining the wall, and in the center, their target was sitting at a table, a bottle of beer in his hand. On the table before him was a pile of cocaine. The man proceeded to take some from the pile, make a straight line of it, and proceeded to snort the whole thing in one go. Finally having found their target, Blitzø urged Moxxie over and nodded his head towards the human sitting at the table.
"That's him," Blitzø told him, his voice in a whisper so the human wouldn't hear them. "Let's try and make this as quick as possible." Moxxie gave a nod and took out his handgun.
"LUCAS!" The three imps jumped at the sound of how loud the shout was. "Get your fuckin ass down here and get me another beer!" The three imps then looked through the window and saw the man still sitting at the table, an annoyed look on his face. They soon heard the sound of rushing footsteps and a small blonde-haired boy, with pale skin and ragged clothes came running into the kitchen. The three imps were surprised to see a kid, as the client never said anything about their target having a kid.
"Sorry Daddy," The boy spoke, panting, going into the fridge to grab his father another beer. "I was just playing in my room and-" Lucas was cut off as he tripped on a loose floorboard in the kitchen, causing him to drop the bottle of beer, which shattered into hundreds of pieces across the floor.
"Goddammit, you little shit!" Their target screamed with rage, as he grabbed his son by his hair roughly. "I ask you to do one fucking thing and you can't even do it!" The imps watched on with surprise as the man threw his son back down onto the floor.
"Come on Moxx, take the shot and let's kill this bastard!" Blitzø said as Moxxie nodded in agreement with his boss and took out his gun, intending to shoot, turning to face the window he was greeted with the sight of the man standing over his son, with the bottle raised in his hand.
"You're such a useless fuck-up, and now you're going to take your fuckin medicine for it."
Moxxie raised the gun to the man's head as quickly as he could, hoping to kill the target before he could hurt the child.
"Smile you son of a-," He said to himself quietly, Just as he was about to pull the trigger, the man slammed the bottle down on his son's head, knocking him out. "BITCH!" Moxxie immediately pulled the trigger as soon as he had a clear shot, the handgun made a deafening loud 'BANG' and the man dropped dead, a bullet wound in his head. For a moment there was a deafening silence among the group, not knowing what to say, sure, they were glad and happy their target was dead, but the sight they just witnessed was shocking. Sure, they are imps from Hell and all that, but they knew that deep down, they would never do something like their target just did to their kid.
Finally, Blitzø spoke up, "Alright gang, let's make it seem like he killed himself." Blitzø said to the two imps, about to walk off, only to be interrupted by Moxxie asking him something.
"What are we going to do about the kid he hurt?"
Blitzø spun around, to face him, "I don't know how much we can do about him, I think the only thing we can do is take him to the hospital or something like that."
"I don't think that's a good idea, sir," Moxxie replied. "Remember, what happened with that one kid? They practically threw him out of the building because we had no 'insurance' or anything like that."
"Well then, what do you suggest we do, Moxx?"
"I think we should take him back with us, sir."
The taller imp's eyes widened in surprise, "Moxx are you fuckin crazy?"
"No sir, I am not," Moxxie matter of factly. "Besides, even if we did have insurance, he would have nowhere to go, and no family to contact. They'd place the poor kid in an orphanage and could end up going through the exact same shit, all over again."
"He's got a point, boss," Millie spoke up, giving Moxxie a small peck on the cheek. "If we don't do take him with us, we'd be no better than our target."
Blitzø thought it over for a moment, despite the fact he had a soft spot for children, he didn't know if this was a good idea. He could see Moxxie's point to a T, but he didn't think it would be a good idea, for an innocent kid of all things, to stay in Hell. But, then again, he couldn't just leave the kid there, and they technically had no insurance, hell, they didn't even know if the kid had any other family members. So, finally, he made his choice.
"Alright, we'll take the kid back to our headquarters after we make this guy's death seem like a suicide, okay?"
Moxxie nodded and gave both a small smirk. "Thank you, sir, for making this choice." Blitzø gave a small nod and grin, in response and the three imps went into the house. Blitzø immediately started making the man's death seem like a suicide, whilst Moxxie and Millie went to check on the child. The kid was in bad shape, his head had a large gash from the bottle being slammed on his head, the imps also saw that the kid had bruises on his back and chest, and also seemed to be malnourished. The three felt bad for the child and angry that someone, let alone a human, could do something like this to their own child. But, that man was dead now, and couldn't harm him anymore.
After Blitzø finished making the death seem like a suicide, he called Loona and told her to open up a portal. Once the portal opened, Moxxie picked Lucas up in his arms, and the three went through the portal and were back in their employee break room. Sitting at the table was Loona on her phone disinterested until she looked up at them, and noticed the kid in Moxxie's arms.
"You brought back a kid?" She asked, a little bit of curiosity lingering in her voice.
"We couldn't leave him there, Loonie," Blitzø said to his daughter, as Moxxie gently laid the kid on the floor. "Now could you go and get the first aid kit for us?" Loona sighed but got up to get said kit. Moxxie checked to see if the kid was breathing, and thankfully he was breathing, his chest rising up and down slowly. Loona came back quickly, the first aid kit in her paws. She handed it to Blitzø without hesitation, who in turn took it without hesitation, and kneeled down on the floor. Opening up the first aid kit, he took out a bottle of antiseptic and bandages, and with the assistance of Moxxie and Millie, managed to treat the kid's head. After checking the kid over and making sure that the kid had no more open wounds, Blitzø gently placed the child onto one of the couches they had in the break room.
"Well, I guess we should just stay here, and wait until the poor kid wakes up," Blitzø suggested as he looked at his other co-workers. Moxxie and Millie both nodded in agreement.
For a good half an hour, Lucas made no signs of awakening, he just let out small breaths as he continued to sleep. Finally, however, the kid let out a quiet mumble of words. Despite being on his phone, Moxxie heard it, and quietly and quickly went over to his boss, and his wife.
"He's waking up." He spoke quietly. The two immediately looked over to the kid and saw he was slowly starting to sit up. The three quietly approached the couch and knelt down next to it. Eventually, the child sat up, and gently rubbed his eyes with small fists, before finally opening up his eyes. He quietly looked around, before finally setting his eyes on the three imps before him, and surprisingly, he didn't scream, cry or look scared upon seeing them.
"W-who are you?" The kid asked in a nervous voice. "W-w-where am I, and wh-where's my Daddy?" The three imps looked at each other before finally turning back to the kid.
"Well, we are the people who treated the wound on your head," Moxxie began in a gentle voice, so as to not spook the clearly anxious as all hell child before him. "You are in a safe place, and as for your Dad...you won't be around him anymore."
"Wh-what do you mean by that?"
Millie spoke up, "Well hun, your father...was taken for what he did."
"What did he do?"
Blitzø placed a hand on the kid's shoulder, "Well, he was taken for what he did to you, buddy."
The kid gave a quiet hum in response, clearly unaware that what his father did was illegal.
"Wh-what are your names?"
Blitzø gave the child a soft grin, "I'm Blitzø, that's Moxxie, and this is Millie," The two imps gave the child a little wave. "What's your name?"
"Lucas...my name is Lucas." The three gave the kid a nod.
"Lucas, could I ask you something?" Moxxie asked, concerned.
The kid turned to him, "Yes."
"We saw what your father did...does he do that often?"
The kid looked down, and small tears formed in his eyes. "Yeah, he hurts me a lot, he doesn't give me food a lot sometimes too, says he does this because he loves me and so I can be a better child," He cried a little harder now. "I-I never u-understand what I do wrong, I-I-I try my best to be a good son for him, but he just hurts me no matter what." The kid was full-on sobbing now, a waterfall practically falling down his cheeks, as he let out heart-wrenching sobs. Gently, Moxxie moved closer to the child, before gently pulling him into a hug, the kid's head resting on his shoulder.
"It's okay, your safe now," Moxxie said to the child gently, as he gently rubbed his back. "That demon won't hurt you anymore." The child cried even more upon hearing that, glad that his father couldn't hurt him anymore, and embraced the demon. The imp continued to hold him tightly, still rubbing his back as Millie and Blitzø also came over and rubbed his back as well. Even Loona who was watching the scene unfold infront her came forward, rested a paw on the boy's head, and gently began stroking the child's head.
Eventually, the boy's sobs quieted down to sniffles, and gently the boy removed his head from Moxxie's shoulder but didn't let go yet. He looked up at the others, eyes redder than blood and cheeks soaked, a look of pure worry now replacing the previous expression on his face.
"I-I-I don't have any other family members to take care of me," The boy spoke softly, in a heart-shattering tone. "I don't have anybody, Daddy would always tell me that it was just me and him," He then looked up at the four imps again, a desperate look now plastering his face. "Am I gonna be sent to an orphanage?" The tone of the boy's voice tugged at the four demons' heartstrings. All four of them looked at each other for a moment, they knew they couldn't. No. Wouldn't bring this poor child to an orphanage back on Earth.
"No bud, your not going to an orphanage." Blitzø told Lucas, earning a sigh of pure relief from the child in question, who relaxed a bit in Moxxie's arms.
"Well...where will I go?" The boy asked, looking at the four demons with a questioning look on his face.
"Nowhere," Blitzø said before giving the child another grin. "Because you'll be staying with us from now on." The child's expression changed immediately to surprise, the cuteness of his expression brought a small smile to all four of the demons.
"R-really?" He asked his voice quivering, new tears sprung to his eyes. "I'll be really staying with you guys from now on?"
"Yep, you'll be with us from now on, hun." Millie spoke up, smiling down at Lucas.
The new tears in his eyes rolled down his cheeks as he shoved his face back into Moxxie's shoulder as he began to sob again, this time, out of happiness. Happy that he is now away from his father, happy that he met people that weren't monsters or cruel, but most importantly happy that he finally found a place to call home, and people to call family.
"Thank you," He whimpered. "Thank you, for giving me a new home, and a place where I will be safe, and never hurt again."
"It's not a problem, buddy," Blitzø said, as he, Millie, and Loona reached down to embrace the kid's in Moxxie's arms. "It's not a problem at all, Lucas."
Author's Note: And there you have it, I hope the story was good, and the characters weren't TOO out of character, and I hope the story wasn't too cheesy or anything. Anyways, thank you for reading this story, review if you want, and I'll see you all later.
