This is the 16th chapter. I don't the series of Helluva Boss.
Warning: This story contains strong language, violence, blood and gore, horny demons...and yes, it's for mature audiences. Viewer discretion advised.
Seeing Stars
The scene opens with a shot of a galaxy, with Stolas narrating over it.
"In the great expanse of the nether there exists boundaries amounts of magnificent phenomenon the great brilliance of an exploding star, the nimble dance of space dust through a nebula, but once every one thousand years, our corner of reality is treated to an incredible sight from the deep eldritch recesses of the cosmos, the tears of a forgotten colossus begin to fall." Stolas said. "Tears made of the hopes and dreams of every living thing that never came to be. Condensed and sent shooting across the night sky in a dazzling final display. What appears to mortal beings as a meteor shower we can see for what it is: Azathoth's Tears."
"Daddy, can we go see it someday?" Octavia asks with a giggle.
"Yes, dear." Stolas replied with a smile, placing Octavia to her bed. "I promise, when the day comes nothing will be able to keep me from being there with you. Good night, my owlette."
"Good night!" Octavia said with a yawn as her father left her room.
She turns and wiggles, giggles in her bed.
Scene shifts to present Octavia, still looking happy; she's circling a drawing on a calendar of her face, Stolas' face, Antauri's face, and a meteor shower. The starfall is 'today' as she hops down a hallway, putting on her boot.
"Hey, dad!" Octavia greets with a smile when she began looking around at the kitchen and around the manor, he isn't there. "Dad? Dad?"
She sees an open foyer door, she hear Stolas' voice coming through it.
"Yes, I know!" The voice of Stolas shouts.
The scene jumps to Stolas out front of the phone with Stella, squeezing a servant in his other hand. Imps are loading items into a van.
"It will be there, shortly." Stolas shouts in annoyance. "Of course, they're being careful! What? No, I'm not telling Antauri where you're staying! If you had his phone number, then you'd ask him yourself!?"
"Dad, what's going on?" Octavia asks, wondering why Stolas is yelling and all of Stella's belongings are outside of the mansion.
"Apparently, your mother can't exist somewhere for two minutes without the entirety of her possessions-"
Stella is yelling something incomprehensibly in response through the phone as he speaks.
"What?" Stolas asks with a scowl. "No! I'm not turning her against you-Yes, Stella!"
"...never have to see your fucking face again!" Stella yelled through the phone.
"Dad?" Octavia called him when Stella continued yelling incomprehensibly. "This is going to be done before tonight, right?"
"What? Oh, I hardly think so. Knowing your mother, this will take all weekend." Stolas told her, turns to the imps loading the car. "Don't be gentle about it, now! Break whatever you have to to get it all in there."
"What?! What did you just tell them to do?!" Stella yelled through the phone.
"But, tonight was supposed to-"
"Darling, can we not talk about this now?" Stolas suggested. "Your mother's being a B-I-T-C-H.
"The fuck do you mean-"
More incomprehensible yelling is heard from Stella's end.
"Well, how was I supposed to know you can spell?! I've never seen you read!?" Stolas retorted.
"I'm going to take everything! Everything you own!" Stella yelled through the phone.
Out of frustration, Octavia slams the door and yells, she rips up the calendar page, angrily topples her telescope over, and grabs a bag with her things and leaves the mansion.
The scene zooms in on the circled date and then cuts to another calendar with a circled date of the 20th with the words 'Have The Talk' in the background where it's scribbled out on the 11th, 12th, 15th, 18th, and 19th.
The 13th has a drawing of a horse and is labeled 'Riding Lessons' and the 14th has a drawing of the moon, a squirting dick, and is labeled as 'Stolas?'. There's a sound of crashing and the calendar zooms out, showing that it is Verosika-themed, with a post-it note of a drawing of Blitzo's face slapped over hers. It zooms further out as knives fly past the screen and Blitzo looking nervous.
"Loona, honey, wait just a-shit!
He runs backwards as Loona runs forward, looking pissed.
"Loonie, please, can we talk-"
The office's empty water dispenser is thrown his way and hits him in the face.
"FUCK!" Blitzo grunts in pain. "Uh, I mean, wow! Good throw, honey! I-I'm so proud of youuuuu!"
Loona pounces and tackles him off camera.
Loona grabs a picture off the wall and begins beating Blitzo with it while Millie and Antauri walk past to the couch where Moxxie is sitting. She joins him, but Antauri heard a knock on a door as he head towards it, opening it and saw Felicia Foxhound.
"Oh, you again, what do you want?" Antauri asks with a glare.
"I just want to talk, and please, just hear me out." Felicia said when they heard a loud crashing sound.
"I don't think this is a good time, because..."
Antauri cringes, hearing another sound of crashing.
"Is there something going on?" Felicia asks, raising her eyebrow.
"Do you wanna know?" Antauri counters with a question.
It got Felicia curious, wondering what's he hiding. She then turns and noticed Loona beating Blitzo.
"Blitz is trying to reason with her, but as you see, she's pissed." Antauri told her. "I would have you come in, but..."
"I get it, but probably somewhere else and not here." Felicia said nervously.
"There's a conference room, it's open." Antauri told her.
Felicia then went inside of the room when she and Antauri tried to get to the conference room, which it got Millie and Moxxie's attention.
"Who's this, sweetie?" Millie asks.
"Oh, I'm Felicia Foxhound." Felicia introduces herself. "I'm Bee's adopted sister."
"Wait! As in Queen Bee?!" Moxxie exclaims shockingly, earned a nod from her. "But why are you here? You here for someone to kill?"
"What? No, I just want to talk with Antauri." Felicia told him, waving her hands. "But with Loona fighting that imp, guess I came at a bad time."
"No, you came at a good time." Moxxie said, recomposed himself while smirking. "Blitz is finally talking with Loona about her attitude with clients."
"Well, I love her, but she does scare out clients off often and not making it easy for us to know about our targets, information, or how much money." Antauri adds.
It got Felicia confused, wondering what he means when Blitzo grabs the couch they're sitting on and pulls it forward, jumping and hiding behind it.
"Antauri, please talk some sense into her!" Blitzo pleads. "You spend most of the days with her! She'll listen to you!"
"You've had this coming after that stunts you pulled. Especially after that shit you put us through." Antauri retorted. "And besides, why would I help you? It's my favorite show."
"I just think some small tweaks might help you be more uh, people person, you know?" Blitzo said nervously.
"I am a people person." Loona snarled, reaches forward and grabs Blitzo by the collar and pulls him close. "If I'm so terrible, how about you just grow a pair and replace me?!"
"Okay, well, maybe I-Maybe I might." Blitzo said with a serious glare.
"What?" Loona asks, confused and shocked.
"HA! Love to see you try." Antauri chuckled.
Blitzo glared at the white hellhound, but Moxxie gives him a thumbs up and he turns back to Loona.
"Maybe I will, little missy!" Blitzo remarked, causing Antauri to roll his eyes. "Yeah, that's right it's tough love time. So, now you can...go...to your desk!"
Loona growls and drops him before heading back to her desk. Antauri then walk towards the three imps.
"Wow, you sure showed her." Antauri said sarcastically.
"I don't want to hear it!" Blitzo retorted. "Especially since you have a lot more to-"
Antauri delivers an uppercut to the chin, knocking Blitzo down to the ground.
"Like you have room to talk!" Antauri growled. "You don't have the right criticize anyone's workplace behavior when you're the worst of us all! So, you better get your shit together and un-fuck yourself before you ever think about talking shit!"
Antauri then walk towards Loona, who's sitting on her desk, which it got the hellhounds attention.
"Hey, you don't have to worry about it. He doesn't have the guts to fire you." Antauri assures her as Loona smiled a little. "And even if he did, I'm sure Verosika has an opening."
"They may be freaks up there, but they're easy to make money off of." Loona states as she hugs the white hellhound.
However, as this was going on, Octavia opens the door and wraps her hair around her neck like a scarf disguise. No one notices her entering.
"Sir, if I may say so; you're doing the right thing." Moxxie states with a smile, massaging Blitzo's shoulders. "If we can't even hire a cheerful qualified receptionist, how can people trust us to massacre and mutilate their enemies from them? It's good for business."
It got Felicia shocked and Antauri angry as he walk towards Moxxie.
"What are trying to say, Mox?" Antauri asks with a threatening glare.
Octavia halts before Loona and Felicia spots her sneaking, but they didn't react to her. Octavia makes it into Blitzo's office and starts rummaging around in his desk to no avail. She turns behind her to a framed portrait of I.M.P. all together and moves it to reveal a wall safe covered in spider webs and labeled 'Blitzo's stuf Do Nut Steel!' with a drawing of two horses. She enters a code of 1-2-3-4 and the safe opens. She grabs her father's grimoire out of the safe while Antauri and Moxxie argues in the other room.
"Now, Antauri, I don't see what your problem is-"
"You're talking shit about Loona, and you're not even any better than Blitzo, fucko!" Antauri interrupts angrily. "What do you think?!"
Octavia flips through the pages of the grimoire.
"Take me to see the stars." Octavia muttered.
A pentagram swirls around her and black swirls of power stream towards the ceiling. The light show was coming from his office, catches Moxxie's attention.
"Um, sir?" Moxxie said.
"The fuck?" Blitzo adds when the zucchini slices fell off his eyes.
"That's not good." Antauri and Felicia said in unison.
The three imps squeezes through the door with weapons drawn, only for Antauri and Felicia to force their way in, causing Blitzo to fall flat on his face, just in time to see Octavia opening a portal.
"Octavia?!" Antauri and Felicia exclaims.
Octavia gives them a regretful look before disappearing through the portal.
"Looona!" Blitzo shouts, raising his voice.
"Oh, yeah. You have a visitor." Loona said non-chalantly.
Octavia slowly blinks her eyes open.
"Where am I?" Octavia questions herself.
The scene opens on a blank Hollywood star as a hobo offscreen vomits onto it, causing Octavia slides backwards and yelps. The dead body of Brennon Ragers with an eyeball coming of his head lies underneath her, who accidentally crushed him after falling on him from the portal. The grimoire sit next to him. Octavia looks up and the portal closes. She then runs off with the grimoire.
"Woah!" Octavia said.
"This is my territory, bitch! Take your shitty costume and get the fuck off my corner!"
Just as the clown pushes Octavia, she grabs her things and runs across a cross walk while cars swerve and almost hit her. She runs into a protest mob. They're holding signs that say, 'demons walk among us', 'God hates you personally', and '-To Hell'.
She dodges away from them and almost into a gleaming golden statue of a man smiling with his hand out. Octavia falls to the ground as the two ladies sees her and look shocked. Octavia looks frightened as she grabs the grimoire and scrambles into an alley way. She sits with her knees to her chest, breathing heavily like a panic attack.
The scene cuts to Blitzo also panicking. Antauri and Felicia couldn't make it in time before the portal closes and the white hellhound is mad.
"Shit, shit, shit, shit!" Blitzo said.
"Why would she do that?!" Antauri shouts. "Why didn't she say anything to me?!"
"What the fuck am I supposed to tell Stolas?!" Blitzo asks, grabs hold of Moxxie.
"Maybe, he seems to like you, sir." Moxxie states nervously. "Maybe he would understand if-"
"Did you forget about Ozzie's?" Antauri interrupts when Blitzo shoves him away.
"Okay, my dick is good, but is not that good, Moxxie." Blitzo said.
"Hm, Verosika would agree." Antauri said, earned a glare from Blizto when the white hellhound flips him off.
"Sir, I don't think we really have a choice." Moxxie points out.
"So, what? You just want me to call him up and be like, 'Hey, Stolas-'"
Jump to cut Blitzo actually on the phone.
"So, your daughter came by, took your book, and teleported off to who the fuck knows where, and we have no way of getting either of them back, okay?! Okay! Good talk, byeee!" Blitzo said, looks progressively more worried as he speaks and quickly puts the phone down when he done, backing away slightly. "Oh, that actually went better than I thought."
Both Antauri and Felicia doubts that when the door blows up and Stolas stands inside in his full demon form.
"BLITZO!" Stolas yelled furiously.
Cuts back to Octavia exploring. She's trying to talk to the people on the street, who are ignoring her.
"Hey, do y- Can you help- h-how do I get ah- I- excuse me, I just need to know where I can...see the stars." Octavia groans with a sigh and rubs at her eye, pulling her beanie over her face.
A pamphlet flies into Octavia's face it says 'bus tours' on the back and on the inside center panel 'Star Struck Tourz' and in the bottom left hand corner 'Stalk your fave celeb!'
"Yes!" Octavia said excitedly, crumples the flyer close in a hug.
She expands it back out and runs to hop a seat on the Starstruck Tourz bus.
Stolas paces in front of the three imps.
"How could this happen?! Do you just let anyone waltz into your office and grab infinitely powerful artifacts?!" Stolas demands with worry, clutches his hat. "Why would she do this? Where would she go?"
Loona and Antauri sniffs the air.
"Well, it reeks of urine and desperation, so...Ugh, L.A." Loona said in disgust.
"Surprise, surprise, California. My least favorite." Antauri adds, also in disgust.
Everyone goes from worried to turning and looking at the two Hellhounds, surprised.
"What?" Loona and Antauri asks, confused.
Cut to Antauri and Loona being shoved through the portal that the rest of I.M.P., Stolas, and Felicia walks through.
"Alright, Loona, Antauri, let's make it quick." Blitzo suggested. "In and out before anyone notices us here."
Sounds of gunfire and screaming as Blitzo looks around the alley way what they've portal into.
"This hasn't changed a bit and it's no different than Hell." Antauri states.
"Alright, let's get to work." Blitzo said with a smirk, brushes off his front. "Loonie, sniff!"
"How am I supposed to smell anything in this city?" Loona questions, removes an empty can from her hair.
"Can't you even do one thing right?" Moxxie asks in annoyance.
"She accomplished more in a few minutes than you've done all day, fatass." Antauri remarked in annoyance.
It got Felicia giggled as Loona puts her hands on her hips and gives Moxxie a smug look.
"He's got you there, Mox." Blitzo said with a smug look on his face. "Also, it won't hurt to put a salad in your body once in a while."
"What? But, I'm not fat." Moxxie protests.
"That's what she said." Antauri remarked with a smirk, making Loona, Stolas, and Felicia laughed of his remark.
Blitzo jumps on a dumpster and tapes a picture to the open lid. It has drawings of I.M.P. with Loona in her human disguise plus Stolas and a fake mustache.
"Now, first things first we're gonna do this the old-fashioned way." Blitzo suggested, points at his drawing. "We're gonna need disguises."
Loona, Stolas, Antauri, and Felicia get a quartet Sailor Moon-esque transformation sequence into human disguises.
Stolas' human disguise is much shorter than his regular form, while still relatively rather tall compared to other humans. He only has one set of eyes, which have white sclera with red irises, and a pair of pupils which he normally lacks in his demon form. He lacks any type of plumage so he instead has gray hair atop of his head. He wears a deep red vest with coat-tails reminiscent of his tail feathers, over a gray long-sleeve, high-collar shirt with a light gray puff tie. His pants are dark gray and he now has black shoes.
Like Loona, Felicia is similar to her fox demon form, takes on the appearance of a goth kid. Her eye colors are inverted, as she has white sclera with pink irises and has a visible belly button which she lacks in her fox demon form. She retains her outfit, but with the addition of white thigh-high socks, white sleeves, and high-top sneakers.
Millie claps in amazement while Moxxie looked unimpressed. Blitzo's eyes widen and blushes, seeing Stola's human disguise. In the background next to him is a poster that reads 'Public Health WARNING: New study finds LA water to be 2% sewer overflow and 98% literal acid. 'NO, OBVIOUSLY DON'T DRINK THAT SHIT!' Top Scientists Say'.
"No chance you can conjure us a couple of those, can ya?" Blitzo asks.
"Sadly, no." Stolas answered. "I'm afraid without my grimoire, my powers are just a tad limited in the human world."
"What, you can't memorize your fucking spells?" Blitzo asks, turned away with a glare.
"Oh, your memory's so great?!" Stolas remarked in annoyance, gestures to Moxxie. "What's his phone number?"
"Fuck you." Blitzo snarled in defeat.
"Exactly." Stolas said with a smug.
They walk out of the alleyway and Stolas grabs a pair of red-tinted sunglasses which he puts in his head were his second pair of eyes would be in his normal form. Moxxie runs face first into a human.
"Hey, little man. How about you check out this demo right here? This some premium Grade-A fire right here! Perfect for you to crank with the little lady."
He grabs Millie and pulls her close to her obvious displeasure, but Antauri throws the throwing knife right in the head, killing the music dude.
"How about you take that so-called music and shove it up your ass." Antauri said in annoyance.
"Antauri!" Moxxie whines. "These artists put their heart and soul into-"
"He's a worthless street hustler and a con artist, genius, and you almost fell for that obvious scam." Antauri told him.
"I don't expect you-"
Antauri then cuts him off by kicking him in the balls and breaks the plastic CD.
"Hey, Millie, could you take him home so he'll cool off?" Antauri suggests.
"Sure, sweetie." Millie replied, kissed him on the forehead. "Be careful and good luck."
Millie the drags Moxxie back to I.M.P. HQ, but Antauri turns and noticed Felicia is still in front of him.
"Now you know what I do for a living and why I live with them." Antauri told her. "I'm not perfect, that's why I pushed you away and I rejected you instead of telling you."
"Is that why you didn't tell me and you reject my love to you?" Felicia asks, earned a nod from him.
Felicia then began to understand why he snapped at her and why he rejected her, but apparently, she didn't care as the fox demon grabs hold of him and kissed him on the lips. It got Antauri off-guard, which Blitzo, Loona, and Stolas were surprised of the fox demon's bold move as they break the kiss.
"Even if you reject me, even you're a killer for I.M.P., I still like you." Felicia said with a smile. "I've tried to forget about you, after when we first met, but it's hard not to. I've always thought about you and there aren't any boys my age would accept me. You're the only one who-"
"Uh, much as we wanted to hear your love bullshit, but we came to find Octavia who took the book and came here?" Blitzo suggested in annoyance.
And with that, Antauri and Felicia catches up to them as they continue on searching for Octavia.
Switch back to Octavia. The bus stops and she groans.
"And to your left, you'll see the home of one of those influences who thinks they're hot shit cause now they do TV shows."
A woman and her kid hop into a limo while a man lays prostrated on the ground, crying and begging, the lime drives away and he stands up, begins kissing the man standing nearby wearing a pink bathrobe.
Octavia groans and turns away, pulling a beanie down over her eyes.
Scene cuts to a door opening at a store labeled 'Little costume shop of Horrors'. A torso animatronic with an eye falling out cackles. Blitzo walks through the door dressed in a pink shirt, blue jeans, and a wig. His horns have been covered with frankly gigantic ears. Stolas looks up at him as Blitzo gestures himself.
"So?" Blitzo asks.
"You look like an idiot with big ears." Antauri states as the woman screams excitedly.
"Look, everyone! It's Hollywood's star, Brennon Ragers!"
"The fuck is Brendon Rager-Oh." Blitzo was about to ask, but looks up and saw a billboard for 'Sweetie! I'm In The House! Guest Starring Brennon Ragers'. The man on the poster is the one Octavia accidentally killed by landing on earlier.
"Oh, dear." Stolas said with his eyes widen, looking up at the billboard.
"Uh oh!" Antauri and Felicia adds with their eyes widen.
A crowd immediately mobs Blitzo, taking pictures and begging for things while he tries to escape. A truck is seen with agents jumping out to break the commotion. A man is seen blowing his whistle with a diploma on his hands, and Blitzo is finally let go. A producer approaches him.
"Mr. Ragers, we've been looking for you everywhere. You were supposed to be on set an hour ago!"
"The fuck are you talking about?" Blitzo asks, confused when the two agents grab hold of him.
"Your guest spot on...'Sweetie! I'm in the House!"
An ad pops up, resembling the same design of the billboard, and briefly disappears.
"We're tapping tonight. Now, hurry up and get in the car!"
"Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no!" Blitzo protests, flips him off. "I'm not going anywhere with you, jizz-biscuit!"
"Very funny, Mr. Ragers. now, get in the car. Come on, boy, come on."
"Get your fucking hands off me!" Blitzo snarls in annoyance.
Blitzo breaks free from the guard as briefly as he is caught again.
"Loona! Stolas! Antauri! Bitch! A little help, here?!" Blitzo pleads.
Blitzo's fake ear fall out, as a man who drops his baby catches the fake ears. This leads the crowd to have an altercation, fighting over the ears. Stolas tries to get through.
"E-Excuse me, sir." Stolas said nervously, fixes his hair. "I'm...Mr. Rager's agent, and I don't believe you can just-"
An agent behind Stolas cracks his neck, and grabs him from behind.
"Oh! You are strong!" Stolas said with a smirk.
Blitzo and Stolas are thrown in the back of the car. Blitzo growls his way back out, but the doors close before he can escape.
"Blitzo, we don't have time for this. Via could be anywhere." Stolas informed him with worry. "She could be in danger."
"Don't worry, I'm on it." Blitzo told him.
Blitzo breaks the windows with his horns, and spot Loona punching the people in the crowd and both Antauri and Felicia knocking the people down.
"Loonie, Antauri, Bitch, go find Via! We'll catch up soon!" Blitzo shouts at them.
Loona, Antauri, and Felicia flips him off.
"Yeah! Way to be team players, you three!" Blitzo said proudly, then turns to Stolas. "She's in great hands."
"Is he always like that?" Felicia asks, turns to Antauri.
"You have no idea." Antauri told her. "Come on, let's go find Octavia."
Cut to the bus, people walking out of it. The camera pans up to annoyed Octavia ripping the pamphlet in half. She proceeds to walk away from the group, not noticing a crime scene, walking above the corpse. She then stops when she comes across a sign titled, 'Star Owl: Souvenir Shop'.
She takes pictures of the sign, proceeds to walk but slowly stops when she takes a look at what's inside of the shop itself, zooming into a box that says 'Starstruck' on it.
Cut to a building entitled 'Starstruck Studios'. One Agent has Stolas sling over his shoulder while other agents are seen carrying a resisting Blitzo, doing everything in his power to try and escape, but to no avail. With the paparazzi around him, he is then thrown to a chair in a makeup room.
"Let's get him ready! He's on in five!"
"What?" Blitzo said, confused. "'Five' what? I-I can't be on sitcom!"
Blitzo is then smacked in the face with a powder pad, as the smoke transitions to backstage, with Stolas beside him holding water bottles.
"Should've had an ego crisis before signing the contract."
"I-I-I...Whoa, I don't even know the fucking lines, idiot!" Blitzo points out with a glare, tried to reason with the producer.
"Well, that's why God invented teleprompters!"
The scene shifts to an actress smoking a cigarette, a child actress snorting cocaine, and a guy on a teleprompter that says 'GOD KILL ME PLS', before breaking down and electrocuting the guy on top of it.
"Shouldn't we rehearse, or something?" Stolas questioned the producer.
"No can do, we're live on 10, 9,-"
As the producer walks out of the stage, Blitzo begins to hyperventilate.
"Oh, shit! Oh, shit! Oh, shit! Oh, shit! I-I...I can't do this. Not again." Blitzo said, panicked. "I-I haven't performed since-"
"Blitzo, if your performance on stage is half as good as it is in bed, you'll leave them breathless." Stolas cuts in with assuring words, approaches him.
Stolas strokes Blitzo's face as he gulps to the sound of that.
"Now, hurry up and wow them, so we can get back to finding Vio." Stolas told him with a smile.
Stolas pushes Blitzo onto the set where the lights have yet to be turned on.
"Break a leg, darling!" Stolas cheered for him.
Stolas quickly closes the door, and the lights go on faster than Blitzo can respond. He then looks towards the studio audience.
"Action!"
The scene zooms out to the studio audience observing, as theme music plays. Zooming back in towards an actor on the couch.
"Well, if it isn't our neighbor, Ronnie. You feel like earthquake earlier?"
Blitzo looks towards the stage crew, looking just distressed as he is.
"Say something..." Stolas whispered.
The teleprompter appears with Blitzo's lines, with the latter sweating profusely attempting to play along.
"Oh, yea? Yeah." Blitzo said nervously. "'That was just my wife rolling out bed.'"
Stolas looks nervously to the audience, unresponsive at first, but laughing instantly. Blitzo then smiles to their reaction, not noticing the signs indicating people to laugh with a bit of static.
"Yeah, yeah!" Blitzo said, more enthusiastically. "Yeah, and then that bitch hit her head on the down and shattered her skull!"
The signs do not change, as they still say 'Laugh', but no one is laughing, except for Stolas, finding this humorous.
"There's blood everywhere...peed in her pants..." Blitzo continued.
Stolas continued to laugh in hoots, the audience looks up at the signs, which say, 'Srsly, laugh anyway', and the audience proceeds to laugh to this as well. Blitzo becoming less nervous, winks at Stolas, who blushes immensely and chugs a bottle of acid water.
Transition to Loona, Antauri, and Felicia.
"Where could she be?" Antauri asks with worry. "Out of every places we've been, she's never been to the human world before. Worst part I can't even track her!"
"Antauri! Calm down, it's alright, we're going to find her." Loona assures him, embraces the white hellhound.
"Thanks, Loona." Antauri thanked her with a smile.
"Guys, I got something!" Felicia called them, earned their attention when she's showing the 'Sinstagram' to them. "She posted it recently, and it has some kind of an owl behind her."
Loona and Antauri were taken aback by this, turns and saw a 'Star Owl: Souvenir Shop' sign on the wall.
"Whoa, I see why Octavia, she really digs that sign." Antauri said, admiring the sign.
Loona and Felicia then checks Octavia's profile and sees pictures taken from all over the city. One post shows a castle she's nearby, with the caption reading 'Found a cool looking castle, reminds me of home...' which was shown to have been posted two minutes ago when Loona, Antauri, and Felicia first saw it. As Loona, Antauri, and Felicia observes, that same castle from the post is right behind them. Looking at the castle, the ran towards it.
Loona, Antauri, and Felicia looks around trying to find Octavia, but their phone goes off again, revealing another post from Octavia depicting where she's at, but no sign of her in real life. Another post, where she's seen in front of Hollywood's sign, Loona, Antauri, and Felicia were right in front of it, and when they believe she found her, they mistake her for a human that looks like her from behind.
The montage continues as they scroll through their phone to multiple places that Octavia has been in, with the background changing to its exact location, but every attempt proves futile with Octavia nowhere to be found. Loona, Antauri, and Felicia sweats for a while, but still keeps searching. They approached the observatory in front of them.
The scene transitions to the same observatory seen in a newspaper from an audience member. Back at Starstruck Studios, the audience is seen looking either visibly bored, or mentally scared. Stolas is also looking troubled.
"Oh, Uggie!" Blitzo said with a grin. "You've gone and done it again."
Cut to a pug who seems to have urinated on the set's couch.
"That's the fifth couch this year!" Blitzo continued enthusiastically.
The scene pans up to the screens, still advising the audience to laugh, who struggle to do so. One audience member laughs out of insanity, and then passes out while foaming at the mouth.
"You know, maybe it's about time I found you a new home, one that could put up with your attitude." Blitzo suggested, boops Uggie on the nose.
As Blitzo takes out a leash, the other actors appear on set.
"I could take him, Mr. Ronnie! I'd be happy to adopt old Uggie and give him the attention he needs!"
As the family comes together, the spotlight centers only them, with cute animals surrounding them. The crowd responds with an 'Awww', as Blitzo faces away from them.
"Yeah...yeah, m-maybe, you should adopt..." Blitzo said.
Looking at Uggie, the scene pans to a flashback from several years prior. Blitzo looking in a cell with a bunch of hounds, the one in the center resembling Uggie.
"Aww, they're all so cute. And they're...sad." Blitzo points out, looking at the hellhounds.
Blitzo is seen at a Hellhound adoption center.
"Maybe you could adopt this one here. Quite a strong lad, he'll be perfect for whatever work you want to use him for."
Blitzo sets his sight on the hellhound he's recommended, but his look of excitement turns into disgust after seeing the hound's face.
"Ugh! No, I'm not looking for no ugly wonker." Blitzo told the adoption center lady, backs away. "I need something that's more family-friendly."
"A gift for a wife, huh? No problem. We have a nice selection for other hounds."
As the two continued to walk, Blitzo stops for a moment at the cell in front of him.
"Who's that?" Blitzo asks, points at the hellhound.
The scene pans to an angry teenage Loona texting on her phone with a younger vicious hellhound holding a bat full of bloody nails, wanting her phone.
"Oh, her? That's just Loona. What a nightmare."
The younger hellhound is thrown against the cell bars. Loona pants furiously then crawls back in her space.
"Serious attitude problem."
Blitzo observes Loona, as her angry face turns slowly into sadness.
"She'll be out of our hair next month when she ages out."
Loona scoots back over in her bench, holding herself and shedding tears.
"Good riddance, if you ask me. She'll never amount to anything much."
The scene flashes between a sad Loona, and a sympathetic Blitzo, until flashing back to the present on set.
Blitzo takes the pug to himself and hugs it close.
"No." Blitzo said. "No, no, no, you can't have her! She's mine, and I love her!"
The sign says 'Laugh' change to 'Awww?', as this moves the audience, but confuses Stolas.
"But, Mr. Ronnie, you gotta let me have the puppy. You just gotta!"
Blitzo hisses at her, preventing her from touching Uggie.
"Don't touch her, you little anal fissure!" Blitzo snarled.
The child actor steps away from the scene as the audience laughs, which offends Blitzo.
"Oh, you think this is funny, assholes?!" Blitzo yelled angrily, points to the child actor, who's trying to walk away from his outburst. "She's not fit to be a mother! I saw her doing lines of coke in her dressing room!"
Seeing him breaks character, the producer sends his agents to try and deal with Blitzo.
"Now, uh...Ronnie. I think maybe you should-"
She tries to take Uggie from Blitzo, but he smacks her off of him, as well as the wig on her head.
"No! You can't have my baby, bitch!" Blitzo snarled.
As the agents corner Blitzo, he pulls out his pistol against them, with the signs above exclaimed, 'Oh Shit!'
"I'LL NEVER GET RID OF HER!" Blitzo yelled.
As more people pile on top of Blitzo, he shoots several of them in the head, but is still trapped within the crowd. Stolas tries to approach.
"I'm coming, Bliiiitz!" Stolas said, trips as he quickly stands up while straighten his sunglasses. "Excuse me! Would you mind?!"
As Stolas tries to move through the crowd to save Blitzo, he's pushed back. Fed up with this, he grabs a water bottle, and pathetically throws it across. It hits the producer, but as the acid water spills over him, it burns his skin severely. This causes him to knock down the teleprompter, which that reads 'Let It Burn' in red, lighting the stage on fire, and puts the lights out for a moment.
Stolas gets accidentally pushed back by the crowd, almost falling into one of the raging fires in the studio before Blitzo catches him by the arm.
"Now, let's go find our daughters." Blitzo said in determination.
Blitzo still has his gun in hand, and his pink shirt is ripped in half. An explosion burst behind him, highlighting his toned figure as Stolas blushes in response once again, before being dragged to the exit.
Cut to the scene, burning down as the scene pans up to the smoke coming from the fire. The smoke fades as the transitions and pans down to the observatory. Loona, Antauri, and Felicia are still looking around, until they halted at the staircase seeing a crying Octavia by herself. She sees a blue hue next to her, which is seen by Loona, Antauri, and Felicia reverting back into their normal form.
"Hey." Loona greets softly as Octavia wipes her tears.
"Hey." Octavia greets back. "How did you find me?"
"Your Sinstagram. Nice pics by the way." Felicia replied, pulls out her phone and showing pics that Octavia posted.
"Oh, thanks." Octavia thanked the fox demon, sniffles a bit.
"You okay?" Loona asks, turns to her.
"Can't believe I was so stupid. I spent all day looking for a place where I could see some dumb meteor shower." Octavia cries, gesturing to the smoggy sky. "And all I get is...this!"
"Yeah, smog's a bitch." Loona states.
Loona attempts to light up a cigarette, but no flames comes out. As she tries, Octavia snaps a flame for Loona's cigarette. Loona takes a smoke, as some of it gets in Octavia's face.
"You know, your dad's really worried about you." Loona told her, sits next to Octavia.
"Right! That's why you're here instead of him." Octavia scoffs. "He couldn't be bothered to keep his promise, and now he can't be bothered to come and get me himself. He'd rather spend his time just screaming at my mum. Why does he hate her more than he loves me?"
A long silence between them until Loona extracts her cigarette and exhales.
"Octavia...your father really cares about you, he really does. But look at his perspective, he had to divorce your mom and it's not easy to shrug it off." Antauri told her, earned her attention. He's a good man with flaws, but genuinely."
"What do you mean?" Octavia asks curiously.
"I've had a little talk with Stolas before this happened." Antauri explains, sighed. "Back in Loo Loo Land, he had trouble explaining things to you, but since he told me about what really happened. Their marriage isn't out of love, because of their royal status back then."
"You mean...that Mum and Dad weren't actually in love?" Octavia asks.
Loona and Felicia then began to understand why Stolas and Stella were arguing at each other while getting a divorce, it's because of the arranged marriage.
"I'm afraid so, Via." Antauri replied sadly. "Back then, their families made a deal and had them married. It wasn't out of love, but positions in power. They weren't really given a choice, it was forced, and things were pretty rocky from the start. They tried to make it work out and it worked, with a little help from my late parents. But that changed after Stolas slept with Blitz, and...my parents died from the hunter in Georgia..."
Felicia then turns to Antauri, which Loona gave her a nod and the fox demon gave him sympathy.
"Then, Stella even told me everything before this. Besides Stolas cheating on her, she hired Striker to kill him and given him a blessed weapon, but that changed when those sinners found me and about to kill me. Striker saved us from them." Antauri continued, leaving Octavia, Loona, and Felicia shocked. "And now, I'm beginning to understand why you're in deep depression is because...it's both your parents fault."
"What do you mean?" Octavia asks.
"I'm not gonna beat around the bush here, you weren't in the right place because of Stella's action against him, and Stolas neglecting his wife, has caused a rift in this family. And you were caught in the middle." Antauri explains.
Octavia then began to understand what Antauri is telling him, which he made a valid point.
"Is there something you want to get it out of your system?" Felicia inquires as Octavia then decided to say it as she exhales with a deep breath.
"I-I...I couldn't take it anymore! Those two always bickering and arguing while I'm always stuck in the crossfire, dealing with their bullshit! I wanted to live normally with my parents! I wanted to be at peace at home! B-But it's not home anymore!" Octavia bellowed, starts breaking down as she let out her tears and sobbed.
Seeing the state of her, it really got Antauri, Loona, and Felicia feeling sorry for her.
"A-And now...M-Mum wants to kill Dad...We were all happy before...B-But they ruined it...It's no longer home..." Octavia continued.
She cried more and Antauri gently embraces her as she hugged the white hellhound while Felicia joins in, hugging her.
"I-I wanted it to feel like home...I wanted it to be like how it was all those years ago when I was a little girl...But it can't...They both ruined it..." Octavia said.
"They'll realize their mistake, eventually. But I'm afraid their marriage is beyond saving for how far gone they both went." Felicia points out. "But that doesn't mean there's still a chance to ease things up a bit. You need them, even if they don't see eye to eye anymore, they still have you to look after."
"Really?" Octavia asks.
"Yeah, they need to be there for you, stop this silly fighting and support. Because all they've been done is hurting you." Felicia said.
Octavia then smiled as she hugs her and Antauri, which Loona recorded everything on her cellphone. Loona then stops recording as she then speaks.
"And sometimes...sometimes it's not as simple as that." Loona said. "This kind of shit gets messy, and everybody's got issues, especially dads. And sometimes they fuck up...well, all the time. But, that doesn't mean they don't care."
"If he cares, where is he?" Octavia asks.
"He's somewhere done there." Felicia answered simply as she points at the city.
"He's here?" Octavia asks again.
"Looking for you. I mean...try to cut him some slack." Loona suggests as she smokes her cigarette once more, continues to light up her lighter, and a flame finally lights up. "He may not always get it right, but...he's trying."
Loona looks at the lighter and sees the sticker with the I.M.P. logo on it, and gives a smile as she look towards Octavia.
"That's more important than you think." Loona told her.
Octavia looks at them by surprise, until she noticed a light shining on her face, which is seen to be coming from the moon as the smog clears up. As the four stare at the moon, Loona turns off her lighter, and throws away her cigarette. She stands up for a few stretches.
"You ready to head home?" Antauri asks with a smile, which Octavia holds the grimoire.
"Yeah." Octavia replied with a smile as she then hugs the white hellhound.
Cut to a far perspective of the Starstruck Studios building still burning, while police cars are heard, Blitzo and Stolas are seen walking away. Zooming up to Blitzo's phone on the map apps with a location titled 'Not Topic'.
"Now, if we could just find where..."
A red portal appears in front of them, where Loona exits.
"Loona!" Blitzo exclaims.
With her hand still in the portal, Loona removes herself from it with Octavia, Antauri, and Felicia all holding hands together.
"Oh, Loona, my sweet baby girl! I'm so sorry, I'll never replace you no matter what you-"
Before he could finish his sentence, Loona furiously kicks him in the groin as he winces in pain.
"You're good." Loona said with a smirk.
"Ooh, that look like it hurt." Felicia said with a cringe.
"Yeah, but he deserves it in the end." Antauri states with a smirk.
Stolas painfully looks at Blitzo, until he faces Octavia.
"Dad...I'm so sorry." Octavia apologized sadly as Stolas runs up to hug her, as he reverts back to his demon form.
"I'm just relieved you're okay!" Stolas said with a smile. "But, what would possess you to do such a thing? You know I haven't taught you spells like this yet."
"I just wanted to see the stars you promised." Octavia told him.
"The stars?" Stolas repeats, but gasp. "Azathoth's tears! Oh, no. Oh, my dear sweet Via. I am so-"
Octavia stops him as she hugs him.
"I know, dad. It's okay, you're here now." Octavia said with a smile.
Stolas returns the hug to his daughter. Loona, Antauri, and Felicia watches happily, until she notices Blitzo trying to hug her, and responds with smacking him with the book with a smug face. They then noticed a faint glow in the sky. The scene pans out to show several fireworks exploding in the sky. Loona and Felicia records this on their phone.
"What the fuck is that?" Loona inquires.
"Fireworks." Antauri answered simply.
"My acting career." Blitzo grunts, stands up as he crosses his arms.
As the fireworks take off, Stolas and Octavia look up in awe.
"Look at that one! Did you see that one?" Octavia said, gasps happily.
Meanwhile at I.M.P. HQ, Millie is reading a magazine with a hellhound men and a poll listing their favorite kinks positions when Moxxie wakes up with a splitting headache.
"What happened?" Moxxie groans.
"You for some reason thought it's a good idea to play a game of 'fucking around and find out' with Antauri." Millie told her husband in annoyance.
Unknown to Moxxie, a portal opens and everyone steps through.
"I'm really gonna let Antauri have it this-"
Antauri sneaks up behind Moxxie and pours a bucket of iced water in the head, making him shiver while wraps his arms around himself as Blitzo, Loona, Stolas, Octavia, Millie, and Felicia burst with a laughter. Loona and Felicia takes pictures.
"Maybe this will cool you done." Antauri said with a chuckle as Blitzo laughs even harder.
Later at the Stolas' mansion, Antauri, Loona, Felicia, Octavia, and Stolas were waiting for Stella to arrive after the white hellhound gives an owl demon an explanation of why his daughter was in deep depression and why did she uses the grimoire to see the stars, which it got her in the human world by accident, in the first place. Stolas even admits his own mistakes, even his past mistakes during his time of marrying Stella and having a daughter.
But once Stella arrives, she then noticed Stolas with a scowl.
"This better be a good reason if you're wasting my time." Stella said angrily.
"There is a good reason for this, Stella." Antauri told her. "Because I ask Stolas to have you come here and to have this mess straighten out, right here and now."
"What? You ask him?" Stella asks surprisingly, earned a nod from him.
"Now, I've been noticing for a while and judging by how this marriage goes, it's a mess." Antauri states. "While hearing both your sides of the story, putting two and two together, and reaching conclusions besides the arrange marriage when both of your families made a deal, out of royal status and forcing both of you to marry while having a precautionary heir, which is Octavia."
Both Stella and Stolas were shocked and surprised that Antauri was able to figure out after hearing their story.
"But it changed when Stolas cheated on Stella, by doing the deed with Blitz, which he only does it for getting the grimoire, and here you both are, arguing." Antauri continues, as he sighed. "And not to sugarcoat it or anything, but both of you were to blame."
"Excuse me/What did you say?!" Stella and Stolas exclaims, feeling offended.
Antauri turns to Loona, given him a nod as she turns on the phone and shows the recording to the two owl demons. Both Stella and Stolas were watching as they watch carefully to the recording that's happened recently at the human world.
15 minutes later
After Stella and Stolas finished watching the recording, it got them devastated and hurt when they finally realized what they did to Octavia when they see her having a break down which it got the royal owl demons hurt. They were so caught up in tearing each other's throats that they ended up hurting what mattered to them.
'What have we done?' Stella and Stolas mentally thought.
"Now do you realize what happen?" Antauri questions seriously. "Like I said, your marriage is beyond saving for how far gone you both went."
Stolas and Stella looked down in defeat and shame as their chances of reconciling went down.
"But...that doesn't mean there's still a chance to ease things up with your daughter. She needs you both." Antauri points out. "Even if you two don't see each anymore, you have a daughter to look after. You both love Octavia, don't you?"
"Of course I do." Stolas replied. "She's my little starfire and I'll be damned if something ever happened to her."
"She's my flesh and blood, I can't abandoned her." Stella adds. "She's precious to her."
"Then be there for her." Felicia suggested. "Stop this pointless fighting and support your daughter. Because all you've been doing is hurting her."
"What will you two do now?" Octavia asks sadly. "Are you going to leave me again?"
"No, no, no. I'm not leaving you again for a third time." Stolas answered quickly. "The first time in Loo Loo Land is fault, same goes for the second time after having a fight with your mother. I'm not going to abandon you again."
"I'm calling off the hit on you, Stolas." Stella told him, earned his attention. "If what Antauri said about our marriage is true..."
"Yes...I suppose we have to spilt up, it's for the best." Stolas suggests. "But...we will still be there for Via when she needs it."
"Agreed." Stella nods with an agreement.
Octavia sniffled and cried once more as she was embraced by her parents. Though, they may not be together anymore, but they'll still be there for one another when she needs it. The fighting has stopped and tension finally went down.
"Thank you, for giving us a chance." Stolas thanked the white hellhound.
"Don't let it go to waste. Take this deep into your heart." Antauri said with a smile.
"We will." Stella nods.
Antauri, Loona, and Felicia nods as they finally straighten things out. Loona and Felicia went out as Antauri was last to go. But before he leaves, he was stopped by Octavia who gently held his shoulder.
"Octavia?" Antauri said, turns to her.
"I don't know if I'll sleep right after this, it's been too much." Octavia told him. "Can you...sleep with me for tonight?"
Antauri was surprised when he turns to Loona, who smiled and nods. Antauri turns back to Octavia as he replied with a nod.
Octavia smiled softly as she gently carries him, making their way to her room. After Octavia and Antauri had their shower and changing into their pajamas, they went to bed, holding each other with an embrace as she kissed him on the forehead with a warm smile.
That's it for the 16th chapter.