"Cheers!" Every one of the Hazbin Hotel chanted with almost everyone happily clanking their wine glasses together for the surprise win on the first day of Hell Race and Axel, Charlie, and Vaggie's lucky survival. Inside the hotel's dining restaurant on the ground floor, a large table has been set for everyone inside for Nifty to serve them a lot of exquisitely but Hellish-looking food and drinks that Axel for sure can tell that he'll die simply from tasting if he is still human. But seeing how happy and relieved Charlie is from how their surprising first race is successful, Axel can relent himself to try and enjoy tonight, for her sake. However, even though the slightly exciting dinner and party, Axel cannot help but noticed how Vaggie is both annoyed and saddened especially when she attempted to smile the best she can for Charlie before she frown her melancholy when Charlie looked away. Deep down, Axel felt his heart aching in sadness and sympathy. Vaggie must be agitated by everyone's forced role in this year's Hell Race but more to her and Charlie's as Navigators instead of Axel being a racer.

"Ooh, I'm proud of you, Axel, for getting yourself a place to be in the second race tomorrow! With your driving skills, you might as well win the Hell Race, as no one has ever seen on a newcomer!" Nifty congratulated with happiness after taking a bite of a pie with a small but living and black and red tentacle sticking out of the crusts, nearly making Axel choke and puke his lasagna, which Nifty dubbed Devi - Lasagna, by how the tentacle twitches a few times before Husk grumbled a burp when he shakes his hand and glass bottle off the table a few times. "Yeah. Whoo ooh...Good job, not dying."

'Aren't you a ray of sunshine, Husk?' Axel mused with a faintly mischievous smirk as he felt something big, fluffy, and slightly heavy gently rests on his head and hair while he notice a familiar pair of arms and pinkish-red gloves entwining around his neck from behind while another pair of lower arms and white gloves did the same but around his stomach and back, leaving his arms flailing around when he realised, in horror and the others' surprise or annoyance, that he's caught by Angel Dust with a seductive smile on his face.

"Hey, cutie. If you make it out alive until the end after tomorrow, just spend a night with me? That's all I'm asking." Angel Dust 'pleaded' with a chuckle after his upper left-hand grasps under Axel's chin and tilt it upwards for Axel to find himself blinded and muffling by Angel's 'breasts' suffocating him while frantically waving his arms to escape even when Axel accidentally grabs his captor's chest with his hands and unfortunately grope the now-pleased porn star, making Angel moan his amusement and pleasure while Charlie, Alastor, Vaggie, and Husk watched the scene in mixed reactions that are disgust, irritation, and distraught, with the former shielding Nifty's eye and ears with her hands again by the confused scowl on the 'young girl demon's face. "Oh, harder, daddy!~" Angel chuckled with a devilishly seductive smile.

"Angel! Get your hands off Axel! Can't you see you're suffocating and making him uncomfortable?!" Charlie demanded in horror while Vaggie almost grab her holy spear from her side and was about to aim it at Angel Dust...although something she thought off in her mind collected her attention to frown her sorrow and lower her weapon.

"Uh? I don't care if I make him uncomfortable. I just want to fuck with him." Angel Dust scoffed with a scowl while he continues to hold Axel in his grasp while he struggles to escape from the other's trap, until he managed to gather the strength to pull himself away from Angel, with a loud gasp and blushing cheeks that almost changed colour into blue from asphyxiation, prompting him to think that Angel although he managed to witness and catch Angel from almost falling onto the table from the surprising jerk and escape, also startling the spider demon when Axel twirl their back and away from the table, to almost's everyone's silent confusion of Axel quick reaction while he hastily dusts anything off Angel's clothed body with his hands and responds to the mocking offer for sex, despite knowing that he rather NOT accept it due to being teased by a sex demon.

"U-U-Uh, I'll think about that, Angel!" As he hastily turn around and about to walk back on his seat, Axel didn't notice Angel's face shifted from a disbelieved scowl into an amused and flirtatious grin, holding his chest and touching where Axel accidentally groped him with his upper gloved hands, when Axel spot Vaggie whispering closer to Charlie's ear after the latter remove her hands off Nifty's head to let her resume eating and conversing with Alastor, the sight of shock and worry on Charlie's face after Vaggie finished telling her attracted Axel's curiosity as he watch Vaggie assuring her girlfriend with a sad smile before she and Axel watch Vaggie leisurely turn around and walk towards the dining restaurant's doors with her holy spear in hand without the others noticing her leave, although Axel watch Charlie climbing off her seat and also follow after Vaggie but instead of doing so; Charlie's eyes drooped down and glance at the floor with sorrow, bringing the customer to slowly feel sadness weighing his heart by what could Vaggie could be feeling and thinking about.

'Maybe there's something I should do to help Vaggie.' Axel decided with a confident scowl trying to reclaim his determination and compassion when he hurriedly walk and stood beside Charlie, noticing his presence when he nervously asks her with a concerned glower. "Hey, Charlie? Is something wrong with Vaggie?"

"I don't know. She told me that she needed to go outside for some air, but said that she'll come back in a couple of minutes." Charlie answered sadly with a shake of her head, glancing back at the other and stood from her seat to grasp a hand on his shoulder and the chains of his holy spear. Luckily, Charlie already told him that not only that the chain is safe for any being including a Sinner Demon to hold and own the holy spear. "Axel, I know the party's for you, but do you think you can help check up on Vaggie for me?" Charlie asked with a curious frown before her mood rejuvenated when Axel smiled his compassion for the offer, knowing that he'll gladly accept before he could respond his acceptance.

"Sure. I'll try to talk with her and cheer her up. Just relax, and I'll bring her back in before you know it." Axel curtly nodded as Charlie happily sighed her relief and remove her hand off his shoulder before watching her kind guest quickly ran out to the same entrance and exit Vaggie took. After running past the lobby and slowly opening the glass doors before slipping through to now stood at the entrance of the Happy/ Hazbin Hotel, it didn't take long for Axel to find Vaggie standing on the pavement beside the empty road still bearing little damage from today's race, a sorrowful sneer painted her face when she looked down. At least none of the Hell cars isn't driving past the hotel for Axel to initially presume the worst of Vaggie attempting to commit suicide even in Hell.

"Hey, Vaggie? You're alright?" Axel softly asked after proceeding to walk towards Vaggie once he called her attention to whirl around and notice his arrival, the melancholy on her face quickly changed into a dismayed glower although Axel can see that seeing him instead of the others brought Vaggie to calm down with a sigh.

"Oh…Hey, Axel. I'm fine…" Vaggie responded quietly, with Axel aware that she is trying to keep her sadness within her even when she immediately ask him back with a sneer possibly showing her uncertainness. "Why aren't you at the party? You're not in the mood for Angel's flirting like just or did Alastor try something to creep you out again?"

"Nah….okay, maybe yeah about those two. Mostly how Angel wanted to seduce me. Don't worry, I'll make sure that I won't take up on his offer." Axel admitted with a faintly cheeky smile and rub the back of his head with a hand, bringing Vaggie to chortle both her disapproval and relief for both Angel's usual antics that she CAN'T stand and Axel's common sense before the latter lowered his hand and added with a concerned scowl matching the tone of his voice. "I'm just wanting to ask if you're feeling fine since…we almost died from the first race?"

"As I said, I'm fine, but…" Vaggie closed her eye and tiredly sigh her irritation as her response, bringing Axel to subtly nod his agreement just as Vaggie vaguely open her eye and glance away with a sad sneer. "Axel…Even though you said that you're a former street racer, you were a bit reckless earlier since this is your first and ONLY Hell Race, at least you risked your life again to save Charlie for the second time. Even if she is the Princess, everyone except the both of us doesn't care about her role and they even think and say outright that the hotel's a stupid idea. Those other heartless guys are idiots..."

"Well, you're right. I think that THEY'RE stupid for not giving this a chance, and even forced the three of us to join the Hell Race against our wills." Axel immediately agreed with an angry scoff only thinking about everyone's cruel mistreatment of Charlie, snapping Vaggie's depression to stare back at him with bewilderment after a faint gasp was released as her reaction before she glanced at Axel looking back at her with a kind and understanding smile. "Look, I know I can come across as trusting or even dumb by how kind I am, especially since I'm dead and all, but I believe that it's great then I'm me; someone who wants to help no matter how dangerous it will be. If Charlie's plan to help us get into Heaven might work, then I'll do whatever I can to help out until it works, no matter how long it takes and no matter what cruel comments I get from other demons."

Listening to the end of Axel's speech, Vaggie stared at the other in silence for she is baffled that a Sinner Demon who had only been in this Hellhole for a day and had proven to her that he is more than trustworthy…perfect to help her protect Charlie from those that can harm her inside and outside of their circle. Then, without realizing it, Vaggie found herself smiling her gratitude which caught Axel's surprise that shifted into wonder.

"Thank you, Axel. For your kind words and showing us that you're a better person here than Angel Dust and Alastor." Vaggie acknowledged with a kind smile, finally no longer being sad about her and her two friends' dilemma and being happy that Axel shares the same mindset as her and Charlie. That is the only good thing she's having right now.

"Welcome. Although I think that they're not all that bad." Axel nodded with a smile that tensed into hesitance when he made Vaggie raise her eyebrow with an annoyed smile about Angel and Alastor. "I mean, yeah Angel can get on my nerves by wanting to get into my pants, and Alastor still freaks me out even if he only smiled at me. But if Charlie can see that they have a shot, then I should put up with it...I guess?"

"Well, make sure that you DON'T get too trusting and comfortable with those two…, especially Alastor. He's powerful...even when he showed up in Hell decades ago." Vaggie warned with a cold sneer that shocked Axel and almost took a step back when he was frightened of Alastor's brief history. But instead of asking more about Alastor, even wanting to wonder aloud why would Charlie have a powerful and sadistic Overlord helping her with the hotel, Axel slowly calms down to express a determined scowl and nod his acceptance. Even with his questions still unanswered, he's supposed to cheer Vaggie up and not agitate her more.

"Okay. I promise. Why don't we go back inside? Maybe being close to Charlie instead of separating from her will cheer your mind until we'll be forced to get to the second race." Axel suggested with his mouth reclaiming his charmingly kind smile as Vaggie also calmed down and nodded her acceptance with a kind smile as well before the two proceed to walk back inside the hotel. Axel hoped that Charlie isn't too sad that she couldn't comfort Vaggie but maybe she'll be glad that he helped. But right as they were closer to the doors, the heavy sounds of a car engine strangely heading in their direction from behind and the side caught Axel and Vaggie's attention to stare at each other in dumbfounded suspicion...

...until Vaggie's eye widened in horror when she looked over Axel's back caught his alarms to hastily whirl around, also alarming him in fright, and both swiftly leapt away in such strength as if they almost fly away only to fall and land on their feet just as the heavy sounds of glass shattering and large knocking on concrete again attracted them to see, to their dismay, that a car that would've hit them from driving over the road instead slammed itself at the entrance, the debris of the damage it caused laid over and under the car gives the impression of a drunk car accident.

"What the Hell!?" Vaggie yelled in baffled rage at the car, holding her holy spear she is planning to stab the driver for creating that heavy mess and attempted killing at them, although she took only one step towards the vehicle when she heard Axel calling towards her and stopped her from advancing. "Vaggie, wait! Don't get too close!"

'What the hell was that? Why did that car try to hit and drive at us?' Axel wondered in disbelief for what just happened, as he and Vaggie watch the car slowly reverse with the little number of bricks that landed on top of them from the crash slowly falling off from the sides. Although, right as the car went into reverse and he could've sworn he noticed right before it crashed through the Happy/ Hazbin Hotel's entrance, Axel realized something peculiar about the car from looking at its appearance. 'That's a...Buick Riviera with machine guns?' Suddenly, from remembering something about that car, Axel froze in aghast.

"Vaggie, run! That's...!?" Axel is almost finished shouting when sudden large hands immediately grab him from behind with another holding a big white cloth grabbing him at the mouth, muffling his voice as he struggles to escape from another trap that is rougher than Angel's embrace although he can feel and even smell the strong smell of chloroform sipping through his nostrils from the cloth, making his mind dizzy and blurring his vision until it became black...the last thing he knows before losing consciousness was a faded sound of Vaggie shouting his name in worry.

"AXEL!"

"...Hey! Wake up, you little prick!" Right as he can feel the chloroform's effects beginning to dim until he can open his eyes with a few blinks, although he felt something to wonder his confusion of why is he sitting on a chair and his body feeling like he is being tied up, a harsh voice yelling and a strong slap smacking one side of his voice forced a gasp of agony out of his mouth as Axel is finally awake, albeit a rough wake, only to realize that he is no longer outside the Happy/ Hazbin Hotel but now inside what appears to be a basement with wooden walls and ceiling which holds a single lightbulb dangling above his head. Looking down, Axel noticed and tried to struggle from being forced and bounded on a chair by a long rope all over him and chair until his head is the only thing he can move until he hastily glance in front of him in dread to see his kidnappers and captors are Daiyamondo Bakku, Mad Max, Sawblade, Scythe, Helmut, El Diablo and Black Jack, with the latter holding the chain and body of Axel's Holy Spear and the men sneer their fury at him. Unlike earlier from the race, Daiyamondo wore a black double-breasted suit with peaked lapels over a white dress shirt, white patterned necktie, and black leather oxfords.

Axel was right, to his horror. That was El Diablo's car that tried to ram him and Vaggie over. 'I hope Vaggie and everyone's alright.' Axel prayed.

"What the…What are you guys doing to me!?" Axel begged only for Helmut to angrily swing his arm and smack the back of his hand at Axel's face, striking the same cheek that slapped him awake but also releasing a stream of blood out of his mouth. "SMACK!"

"Silence, you little Flegel!" Helmut threatened with repulsion in his sneer looking down at the bounded prisoner alongside the other racers for the second round. "For a little dummkopf, you are annoyingly tough for someone who didn't even waste a day of your new filthy life here."

"Watching you race your hardest and try to beat us to end up last but still get to the next round, even if we knew that you were forced to join in the first place, you make us sick!" Mad Max scoffed.

"We're not surprised that you're doing this to help your stupid friends at that deadass hotel. But you know that what you're doing is dumb." Scythe coldly remarked, as his words brought Axel to first react with a blink of his red eyes in shock before he snarled in anger, trying to be brave even when he knows he's going to get killed by these unfair Hell Racers.

"S-Shut up! What's wrong with helping people, even if I'm alive or dead!?" Axel angrily demanded only to receive another slap but in the different cheek by Scythe. "SMACK!"

"What's wrong is you acting like a human, even in Hell. No doubt that those two wenches forced to be our Navigators are head over heels on you, like the bitches they are. We also know that you have that puta of an actor in that hotel, while we're not even afraid of that so-called Overlord other people kept saying that will kill us with just a smile." El Diablo sneered with a scoff when mentioning Charlie, Vaggie, Alastor, and Angel Dust since it's no surprise that he's called a swear word in Spanish. But while the other Hell Racers agreed with him while muttering their awful comments, they also ignore Axel staring at them in disbelief at how they think about his friends including those that can actually kill them...he was so horrified, that for some reason...he felt something snapped inside him.

"DON'T EVER TALK SHIT ABOUT MY FRIENDS! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY THOSE WORDS IN FRONT OF ME!" Axel yelled with such wrath that surprised the others who noticed his eyes are burning red until it's nothing but glowing red with an iris and pupils, and his body is strangely starting to release mists of fire that immediately burn the rope all over his body. "EVEN IF YOU PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT HER, CHARLIE DEEPLY CARES ABOUT HER PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO SHE WANTS TO SAVE FROM GETTING KILLED IN THIS STUPID RACE! IF YOU ALL CAN'T SEE HOW HARD SHE TRIES TO HELP AND SAVE EVERYONE FROM THAT, AND EVEN HEAVEN AND THE KILLER ANGELS, THEN EVERYONE IN HELL, INCLUDING YOU GUYS, ARE BLIND AND STUPID!" As soon as he realised that he somehow got himself unbounded from seeing burned pieces of the rope now littered under his feet and the chair, Axel wasted no time swiftly kicking himself off the chair and screaming his ferocity when he try to swing his arms and hands now releasing his fire powers and throw his flames at either of the racers now trying to dodge from the mad man's fire, mostly Black Jack since he noticed that their 'prisoner' is trying to take his Holy Spear back from Black Jack… As he managed to slide away, one somehow found an opening the moment Axel angrily sprint towards him...

BAM!

Axel wheezed his agony when he received a swift punch that knock almost all the air out of him before he was roughly slammed onto the floor, more blood was coughed out with a choked scream when Axel felt that his strength immediately felt weaker to weakly struggle against Mad Max's hand holding him down by gripping against the back of his clothes.

"That's what you get when you deal with your superiors. Hey, boys…how about we'll deal with this loser until he'll forfeit the Race?" Mad Max suggested aloud towards his 'allies', shocking Axel to release a strangled gasp but what he received cannot help him struggle and squirm his escape from their future punishment. "It'll make it easier to know who the REAL winner for this year will be." Ignoring Axel's weakly gasps and clawing his hands on the ground but his escape attempts have proven to fail, Helmut, Daiyamondo Bakku, Sawblade, and Scythe looked at each with suspicion about the idea until Helmut walked closer to Mad Max and Axel, not without shooting a bullet of spit out of his mouth and hit the latter in the face.

"Very well, but don't give me any orders, Arschloch. I'm the Höher, out of all of you..." Helmut accepted. Axel can feel Mad Max removing his hand off his back but he was unable to scramble away when Helmut boldly kick his booted foot at Axel in the side before he immediately stomps his foot at his back and legs until the blood has been spilled out of Axel's weakened form and onto the floor. As soon after Helmut spent a long amount of time to finish tormenting Axel, the others did not hesitate to take their turns by either punching and kicking his face and body, and even flung his deadbeat and blood-stained body all over the basement like a rag doll, staining the walls with more of Axel's blood while he cannot feel his entire system to not even twitch a finger and only laid roughly on the floor. But unlike some like Helmut, El Diablo and Sawblade who ruthlessly continue until Axel can feel his bones are broken, Mad Max and Diayamondo Bakku appear to be holding on from beating him down. The one who has yet to torture their 'fellow rival' is Black Jack when he stared at Axel's Holy Spear before back to the owner who should be dead all this time. Perhaps this one can do the deed...

"What about we'll do more than deal, and simply end him, for the hell of it?" Black Jack suggested while gripping his hands on the body of the Holy Spear tighter and walked towards Axel's body lying chest against the blood-stained floor and his blood-caked face resting on his left cheek, his red eyes are squinted and too weak to even blink them wide open to notice the burly racer standing in front of him slowly dead body, holding his Holy Spear over his head, ready to swing it downwards and ready to quickly stab the holy blade through his heart from the back.

"N-No…!" Axel wanted to mutter just one last word and beg for everyone to stop their hellish tortures, but he felt his consciousness starting to grow heavy and fade into black, forced to listen to one last word from his last killer. "Say goodbye, Angel Killer…"

"…ey…Hey…Hey, kid!" Through the excruciating headache and feeling his body is still aching from the other racers' abuse, although he slowly realises that the pain is strangely reducing inside his system, Axel groaned his pain after hearing a familiar male voice calling to him with a strangely confident but reassuring tone in front of him...at the same time, he felt he is lying onto something unlike a floor and making him float up and down like a creature is holding him. Trying to fight the pain, Axel hurriedly pushes his sluggish off whatever is holding him with his hands although he can tell that he will fall immediately when he almost screams when his noodle arms give it away only to be held by a pair of human-skinned hands warmly grab his forearms, one of them is holding what Axel is surprised but glad to see again is his Holy Spear. Shakily, Axel raises his head and is about to thank his saviour when he looks at his face and confident smirks to realize who it is, which further surprised Axel to almost gasping his shock if not for his painful 'punishment'.

"…Riser? W-What are you doing?" Axel quietly asked, also wanting to question what the two are riding on but the pain forced him to release a soft gasp of agony. What he could see from peeking under him is a bright green and black skin.

"Do you really think Riser doesn't have the heart to help someone, even a lowly Sinner Demon about to be killed right before he was about to race through victory?" Riser teased with a laugh but hold himself from giving the other a misunderstanding that could ruin his image. "Well, I would have been like that…if not for a Dragon Emperor. But even Riser has a heart to help, just rarely. Anyway, Riser isn't the only one saving your ass." Axel watches Riser look over his shoulder, realising that he is sitting backwards instead of forward, with the other slowly leaning to the same side and seeing what also attracted Axel's disbelief of the person who also assisted Riser to save him from the other Hell Racers. Other than the other identity, Axel can see the back of the creature the three are riding on through the empty part of the Pentagram City.

"Jackson Kills, and Crikee!?"

" 'Ello, mate." Jackson waved a hand after swiftly turning his back around and now sitting on Crikee's neck without looking forward, with the giant Chameleon demon rumbling a deep noise after Axel mentioned its name. "Ya lucky that the fire chicken and Crikee spot ya getting your ass stolen away by those fucks. Sinning Demons or not, what fun do they think they have if the famous Angel Killer AND the lucky Hell Racer."

"Who the hell are you calling fire chicken!?" Riser yelled in anger, shocking Axel at how offended he has just shown himself. "I'm the powerful Phenex of my family! And Riser will not tolerate anyone who mocks me like that, even a Redemon like you!" 'What's a Redemon, by the way?' Axel wanted to ask after wondering about what Jackson is called. Could he be a different kind of demon?

"Yeah? You're like one of my human buddies back home. From the almost exact appearance with different colours, similar powers of hellfire, to the cowardly font until ya both get to the point of shitting ya pants if something terrifying bit ya in the ass!" Jackson sarcastically confessed with a laugh out of his non-existent mouth, with Axel silently gasping his dread of Riser growing more agitated until flames instantly burst out of his shoulders.

"That's it! I'll fucking kill you!" Riser yelled and almost crawl towards Jackson for a brawl only to be pulled back by Axel wrapping his arms around his stomach from behind. "Riser! Jackson! Stop! Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow! I'm still in pain from earlier!"

"Axel, don't stop me! Let Riser fry this Redemon alive!" Riser argued.

"Then try to make me into barbie, then!" Jackson remorselessly laughed his enjoyment out loud while, even in pain, Axel still try what was left of his energy to pull Riser back from the laughing humanoid demon. It took a long time especially since his body is suffering from the beatdown but Axel managed to calm Riser and Jackson before they could fight during Crikee's walk through the city until the four demons can look in front and see that they have arrived at the Happy/ Hazbin Hotel but, unlike earlier, the outside is filled with a group of people Axel can see and recognise them to be Charlie, Vaggie, Nifty, Husk, Alastor, Angel, and even Riser's girls Yubelluna, Siris, Isabela, Xuelan, and Tsubasa Yura conversing at each other with dread, suspicion, and/ or worry on almost all of their faces. As soon as Crikee walked toward them and roar a deep rumble to get their attention, Charlie and Yubelluna's group hastily look at their arrival which immediately got their horror of seeing one of them in a bad state, although Axel doesn't know if Alastor is still mocking him with that smile of his even when he followed the others running towards the giant chameleon demon who stopped at their destination.

"Axel! What happened to you!?" Charlie gasped, running towards Axel when Riser held him off Crikee's back and on his arms in a bridal pose before he leapt off the creature and landed on the ground, carefully lowering Axel to sit and be grouped by the others. "We looked everywhere for you and we thought you ran away!"

"We?" Axel muttered aloud, looking at Alastor, Angel, and Husk as if he couldn't believe that even THEY helped search for him. As if she also notice his expression, Vaggie shrug her shoulders with a disappointed glower still bearing worry for his condition.

"Okay, it was just me, Charlie, Nifty, and these ladies that looked for you. But seriously, what happened? Who kidnapped you?" Vaggie exclaimed.

"The other racers tried to kick 'is bucket and sabotage his chances of winning the Hell Race," Jackson revealed after sliding off Crikee's neck, with everyone watching the chameleon demon's body beginning to glow a bright glow of green light while immediately shrank to a smaller size until the light dims to show Crikee is now a size of a large cat. First seeing everyone staring at their new size with perplexity on their frowns, and smiling in Alastor's case, Crikee scurries towards Jackson and climbs around its owner until its tail is coiling around Jackson's stomach, leaning against his back, and both its mantis-like front legs are resting on both of Jackson's shoulders from behind. 'Woah...' Axel mentally gasped in amazement...at least there's no trouble for Crikee to go into buildings.

"As much as it's painfully understandable that they won't be punished by the Hell Racer workers and founders for their 'lack of elegance in their part', Riser finds it disgusting that they wished to kill this one for his luck. Don't worry, Riser will help heal him with my Phoenix Tears. Oh, and Your Majesty. Riser hopes that you don't mind if my peerage will like to book a room in your lovely hotel and stay until we'll see who'll win the Hell Race." Riser admitted with an irritated scowl at first before he calmed down to softly inform Charlie, startling her in fright of what she believed she heard from one of the Sabotagers of the Hell Race.

"Same for me, too. Even if we're Redemons, Crikee wanted to try staying in a hotel made for demons wanting to go to Heaven. I can help recommend this to some of my best mates back home, if the services' are cool. I can bloody guess and tell that my best friend will love to visit here." Jackson raised a hand for his proposition with Crikee also accepts by releasing another rumbling roar out of its opened mouth.

"O-Oh, of course. That alright. Thank you both for your cooperation!" Charlie hastily acknowledged, trying to hold the urge to be happy that more people are going to stay in her hotel when one of her customers, and now valued friends, is wounded. "I'll have one of my friends get your rooms ready in just a minute!"

"Take your time. Your friend needs his's to comfort him more than we do." Riser shook his head and nodded at Axel still sitting on the ground and bleeding from his wounds, weighing Charlie and Vaggie's hearts heavier for the two to kneel closer to his sides and the former apologised with tears streaming out of her eyes and flowing down her cheeks.

"Axel! Are you alright? Please tell me you're fine!" "...I'm sorry. I'm sorry! I think I'm the one to blame for you getting kidnapped and almost killed! And worse, Vaggie would've got in the same situation too..."

"Y-Yeah…Don't worry, I'm alright. And it's not your fault." Axel reassured with a sad tone but tried to make his plight go away with positivity by cracking a faintly happy smile and forcing a chuckle out of his throat. "Heh, at least I'm glad that I'm not dead again by those guys if it weren't for Riser, Jackson, and Crikee. And bonus; you guys are safe." As much as they know that he's trying his best to be happy for their sake, Charlie and Vaggie continue to feel saddened and horrified that he had to suffer a terrible fate just because of his luck ever since he got here.

"What you should also be glad about, my dear boy; is that you didn't deal with those weaklings Vox and Valentino. Because they won't live if they figure out that we don't take kindly to those who touch OUR stuff." Alastor said with a chuckle although everyone noticed that his voice turned slightly deep and hissing some malice when he mentioned Vox while Axel noticed Angel Dust looked away and gripped all four of his forearms with a painful sneer when he heard this Valentino's name. Although he still has enough energy to ask Alastor or Angel about those names and their possible relationship, what happened to him just now alerted Axel to faintly look down and away from the others still checking up on him and his state.

"Guys…I've made up my mind." Axel coughed as loud as he mustered, astonishing everyone by seeing the most anger and determination they have ever seen in Axel's face when he declared to everyone. "I'll win the Hell Race for us, and stop the other racers from doing everything they can force themselves to do their fun, including trying to kill us. Even if it means I must kill them in the second race."

A/N:

. I added the mention of my upcoming/ future animated project's title 'Redemons' (since that's where Jackson Kills and Crikee belong too).