Apollo was now nine years old. He was being tested on his infiltration skills by Uncle Ozzie, the Sin of Lust. A tall rooster demon with an enormous magic infused mane of fur with two additional heads of a ram and bull inside each with their own personalities. Though if you asked them Octavia and Apollo where their favorite niece and nephew as well. They where the only two who remembered they had their own personalities at all and gave them pats through Asmodeous' mane.
"Turn left." Came through Apollos com link in his ear as he crawled through a vent. The owl boy turned left.
"Oh balls, are you seeing this Via?" Apollo asked positioning his camera glasses on his beak.
"Yep, laser grid. Uncle Ozzie went all out for this course."
Bringing out a simple can of Aerosol spray Apollo shook the can and sprayed it ahead showing the laser grid zig zagging all over. There's no way he'd be able to blink through without tripping the lasers.
Except for one tool Apollo brought.
Apollo brought out a small caliber pistol with a scope. He aimed through the lasers and found his target at the end of the vent. "I've got you, bitch." He said spying the control panel on the other side.
PHWEW a dart embedded itself in the panel.
Fizzle fizzle
The lasers died.
"Too easy." Apollo said as he crawled forward. "Unless-" He looked around the corner and saw an extra wire than necessary to power the panel. "Shit shit shit!!!"
The lasers came back on and alarms blared.
Green on black aura rushed through the vents and burst through an opening.
"Hmmm, where did you go wrong?" Uncle Ozzie sat in a luxurious chair in the room he escaped into. His fingers in a pyramid. Rammy and Bully smirking playfully at the disappointed Apollo.
"I didn't anticipate a backup power supply." Apollo said sheepishly as the 9 year old rubbed his arm.
"And what would you be if this where a real hit job?" The rooster demon asked his favorite nephew.
"Dead." Apollo said blankly.
"Good effort though. A dart round wouldn't be loud enough to alert guards or goons." The Sin of Lust praised his assassin in training nephew. "However the security team would be alerted as soon as the lasers died and the generator kicked on."
"Ollie? Ollie?!" Came through Apollo's com link.
"Answer your sweet sister before she loses control again."
"Everything's fine Via." Apollo said through his com link in his ear. "Test over, I failed."
Via was his older sister by four years. She was 13 now attending a fine finishing school headed by an Overlord, Madame Rosie.
Apollo Goetia was the only son of the Great Prince Stolas and his wife Princess Stella. One day while taking a sabbatical from their marriage at their summer home in Lust, Lady Stella had discovered she was pregnant with another egg. After laying him with the help of her staff and a Lust Ring doctor she had brought him home as an 5 month old infant and presented him to his father Prince Stolas.
Growing up in the Goetia family was fascinating, to say the least. His parents had regular spats but always made up before going to bed normally. His mum, Stella, would read to him in her lap all day when she could. Books on Hells history, textbooks, his fathers herbological texts and medical journals had been her favorites to read to him. Because of her proactive approach to his education he was ahead of his peer group academics wise by considerable bounds.
However, to Stella's immense disappointment, Apollos passion was infiltration and assassination. At first she brushed this off as a mere hobby to be brushed aside when he got more serious about dedicating his life to the advancement of the Goetia line. Then he displayed hidden talents at getting around alarm grids and hacking security systems. Once he even disabled the palace alarms so he and Via could sneak out to go to a party in Gluttony with Auntie Beel. He had gotten an earful and a spanking for that but it had been worth the punishment and effort.
"Simple *SecurityCompanyPun* alarm system, child's play. A three year old could hack that alarm." Apollo had told the Head of Security for the palace guard. "Seriously how much does Grandfather Paimon pay you to protect us and this is the best you can do?"
It then became a game for Apollo. He would sneak around the guards, disabling as many alarms as he could before being caught. Every time the Security Staff installed different systems so Apollo got to study as many as he could growing up.
Apollo was watching TV in his room at two am. He couldn't sleep. He clicked through streaming apps like Voxflix, VoxBoxMax and for some odd reason Hell had access to this app, Disney Plus. After flicking through the Marvel movies Apollo sighed in boredom and decided to try regular tv. Flicking through gory show after gory show, Sex show after sex show, one featured a woman bouncing up and down on a pole with her boobies flopping about, he finally settled on some kind of shopping network.
"Are you a piece of shit who got yourself sent to Hell? Or are you an innocent soul who got FUCKED over by someone else?" A tall imp said as he moved about a room used for rituals.
"After lovingly killing my wife for fUCkiNG tHe DeLIvERy BoY you can imagine my surprise when I wound up here. After the state of Ohio killed me. I'd like to stick it to that YApPY JoGGeR who saw me hiding the body."
Apollo went "Oooo." And moved closer. There where plenty of assassination startups in Hell. But he kinda could see where this was going.
"Well thanks to our companies special access to the living world, we can finish your unfinished business for you and take out anyone who screwed you over when you where alive!" The imp said as he fell through a portal.
A catchy jingle played showcasing some of the groups more memorable moments.
Apollo took a picture of the address with his Hellphone and suddenly feeling relaxed, turned off the tv and went to bed. Ideas forming in his head .
In the middle of a staff meeting, a bird boy fell through the conference room ceiling.
"Where the Hell did you come from?" The imp from the commercial pulled out a flintlock on Apollo.
"Oooo is that a Fintlock? Very vintage!" Apollos praised. "By the way your security in this building is a dumpster fire."
"Wait a minute, how did you get in here? The building has a buzz in system." A white haired Greed Imp asked as he held a pistol on the boy. The female wrath imp next to him held a small axe ready to hack Apollo to bits and the Hellhound in the room growled furociously.
"Oh please all you gotta do is buzz all the buttons on the bottom floor and someone will let you in because they're expecting somebody everybody knows that." Apollo waved off the smaller imps question.
"I like this kid." The Imp with the flintlock put his weapon aaay. "What's your name squirt?"
"Apollo, Apollo Goetia." Apollo reached a feathery hand out and Blitzo pulled him to his feet.
"Wait aren't you Stolas' kid?" The imp asked. "The names Blitzo, the O is silent."
"One of them but yeah, you know my Dad?" Apollo asked. He then noticed something the imp shouldn't have. "Oh so that's how you get to the living world!" The young owl said. "My dads portal spell!"
"So, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in school?" The female imp asked.
"It's summer. Plus I'm home tutored. I saw your ad on tv last night, can I be your intern?" The owl boy asked excitedly. "I wanna be an assassin when I grow up!"
Blitzo looked at Apollo with wide eyes. That was what he needed! A student to pass his skill set onto! And a Goetia to boot?! He just hit the fucking jackpot!
"Sir shouldn't we tell Prince Stol-"
"Welcome to the IMP team grasshopper! Now refill my coffee!" Blitzo ordered.
"You got it boss!" Apollo saluted the older imp and took his mug. "Cream and sugar?"
"Iced, it's in the fridge in a pitcher." Blitz instructed.
"Can do!" Apollo left the conference room.
"Sir with all do respect shouldn't we really tell-"
"Moxx I'll tell Stolas tomorrow night when we have our Monthlies."
"Please don't call it that Blitz." The female imp said with a dead face.
"Besides Moxx having a securities expert on our team might come in handy upstairs."
"But all he did was get in the building and crawl through our vents!"
"I've been evading palace guards and disabling our alarm systems since I was 3." Apollo said as he brought in four mugs. "Grandpa Paimon is more impressed than pissed off at this point even though he pays for our security. I just got off being grounded for breaking Via and myself out after curfew to go party in Gluttony with aunt Beel." The 9 year old owl boy sat next to Loona, who had a look like Who is this little nerd bird and why should I care? On her face.
"Tell me again why this is a bad idea Moxx?" Blitz asked as Loona audibly gulped her iced coffee.
"Fine. As long as we tell his father." Moxxie said insistently.
"When you start going on jobs, you'll get a cut of the profits." Blitz said. Until then your spare labor."
"Yes sir." Apollo said eagerly.
"Now MUSH! Go reorganize the files in reception by name."
"You got it boss!"
"This is gonna be beautiful." Blitzo said as he wiped a tear from his eye.
And Apollo rushes to Reception to start his first official day as an IMP Intern.
To be continued...