"Look at this one." Charlie showed the picture to Loona while Moxxie was taking a moment to check his own hellphone for some voxtagram posts and possibly distract himself while Vaggie brought with her a cup of coffee for them both to enjoy.
"You really outdid yourself Moxxie," Vaggie admitted as she looked proudly at the imp who had her smile naturally and spontaneously at that moment.
"It was hard, but with the help I had, this photo album could probably be one of the most valuable items I ever gave to Mom," Moxxie admitted as he took a few pictures of both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law enjoying their time together while showing feelings of laughter, shock, and even surprise.
"Well, at least we know where to get the next family album once we create more memories." Charlie seemed genuinely excited as she looked through every photo she could find, from funny pictures to even embarrassing moments between the two of them. She had really loved the gift she had gotten.
Both mother and son enjoyed their cup of coffee until Charlie looked at one of the pictures. At the same time, Moxxie was a simple child, and she had loved having the pleasant experience of taking care of him, even with the difficulties, but a curious question came into her head.
"Moxxie, my darling. Have you ever planned to have children?" That damn question that all parents will always ask their children at some point in their lives, which always at the most unexpected time would be answered with a shocked reaction.
*pshhhhh*
Moxxie spat out the coffee he was drinking, while Loona almost knocked over her hellphone, hiding the laugh she had on her face. And Vaggie who seemed to know the situation started to tremble and turned her face away so the little imp wouldn't notice anything.
"Mom, did you have to ask while I was having my coffee?" Moxxie looked at the whole wet floor while being happy that he hadn't splashed coffee on the album, which would have been a bad time to do that. However after looking at his mother's sincere face, and her curiosity. Moxxie decided to recline in his chair. He sighed as he looked at her beloved hellhound. "Well, I've been planning on it yes."
"Really?" Not only Charlie who had asked excitedly, but also Vaggie and Loona who had asked in great surprise about it.
"Yes, it would be a long journey and a repetitive process, but I don't think I'll stop until it's enough for the family," Moxxie admitted but the way he had quoted that sentence meant that something strange could be concluded from that conclusion.
"How so? You say like you won't settle for just one or two children." Vaggie commented as Loona frowned her eyes daring the imp to say something she shouldn't.
"Oh, sure... One or two wouldn't be enough, we need more." Moxxie said as he placed his cup of coffee on the table, and while Charlie looked excited, Loona seemed to be sensing a bad omen. Noting that Vaggie had brought her lemon water for her couldn't fix it, she was feeling very thirsty at the moment.
"Really? How many children do you aim to have Moxxie?" Charlie asked as she was smiling at her son, and was really wishing she had more mini Moxxies roaming around the hotel so she could take care of them and ask them to help her take care of the hotel in case she needs to go somewhere.
"7."
*Pffffffff*
And this time the hellhound had spat with all her might as she had choked on her own water the next moment.
"WHAT THE FUCK? OH HELL NO." Loona screamed as she felt disgruntled for many reasons, the fact of the absurd number her little husband had randomly made, and the fact that she didn't fucking know about it.
"Oh, come on, Loony. Why not? We don't know if by the time you had the birth, it would only be one or two kids, or if it would be a bunch like canines usually have." Moxxie argued as he walked around her wife. "And imagine how much fun we'll have while we try to reach that number."
Loona though tempted by the little imp's offer, reason had spoken louder at that moment.
"Moxxie, you don't know what you're asking for. Do you have any idea of the chaos it will create trying to look after 7 brats at once? We would be overwhelmed many times over." Loona argued as she pointed out from the facts that they are only 2 and would have to take care of more than double that.
"Ha, Loona, the love of my life. You don't have to worry about that. If there's one thing we, the Morningstar family, know how to live with and how to love, it's the chaos in our daily lives." Moxxie proudly declared about the fact that his family is always related to chaos.
"Well, that's true," Charlie said happily, as she looked ecstatic at the thought of having 7 beautiful grandchildren running and playing around her. Apart from the terrible empty nest feeling she had hated since the day her little baby left home. "Well, but I'd still love to hear why you want 7 of them."
"Yeah, now I'm curious as to why the number 7," Vaggie replied as she brought the cloth to clean the entire floor that was wet. "Isn't 7 the number of perfection and heavenly like your cousin Charlie?"
"Oh, you mean Seth? Well, there is some cultural controversy, some cultures tend to like him more than my cousin Abel, saying he is the perfect child, like the number itself, some cultures would call him the perfect child. While in other cultures his name does not relate to the number, so they ignore him and pretend he is just fulfilling the role of my cousin who died. This is what is half loved and half hated." Charlie said while showing a picture of the family tree, which was also inside the album, and Vaggie listened to it while understanding the meaning.
"But it also means the number of sins." Moxxie also explained, which caught the couple's attention. Which caused Moxxie to smile mischievously as he rubbed her own hand. "I want all my children to grow up and learn all about each of the sins since we are planning to take their places and control all the rings. And then, when they are old enough, we are going to start the Apocalypse and raise Armageddon to the entire human world and conquer the WHOLE WORLD. BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA."
Moxxie started cackling until he started laughing maniacally, which caused the trio of girls to look at each other, until Charlie approached her adorable son and, like a good mother who raises her children well, slapped him on the back of his head.
"OUCH!" Moxxie yelped as he looked at his own mother's disapproving face.
"Moxxie Moxximilian Magne Morningstar. That is by far the craziest plan you have ever made, and the consequences of such plans would create terrible problems for the whole family. What do you think your grandfather Lucifer would say?" Charlie was scolding Moxxie until she noticed her hellphone was vibrating. "Look at this, speaking of the devil, he's going to show up. Hello, Daddy."
"Hello my little apple, happy birthday." The voice of the king of hell and pride could be heard as the princess pressed the speakers to make sure everyone would be listening at that moment. "I bet you must be all awake and unkempt after your dear father woke you from your sleep."
Charlie looked at the group around her, and she couldn't help but giggle.
"Actually Dad, Moxxie went beyond you and he was waiting outside the hotel while he called me in the middle of the night." Charlie though she is happy to find out that her father remembered to call her in the middle of the night, she couldn't help but tell her son will always have a special place in her heart.
"...oh cheeky bas..."
"Dad, remember who his foster mom is now." Charlie decided to use her menacing tone, causing the pride king's voice to go silent on the other side of the hellphone.
"Sooooooo... how's Moxxie?" The king deciding to change the subject asked curiously about his beloved grandson. "Is he creating chaos and discord in the way I was so proud of him?"
Charlie rolled her eyes, knowing that her father had always been one to be very excited to be around his grandson, as had her mother. Her father, however, tended to be a bit excessive with his forms of amusement.
"He's fine. This little pest just told me something intriguing. Did you know that he wants to have 7 children with sweet Loona? The poor girl had no idea what a crazy plan her lovely husband had made." Charlie, knowing that her son sometimes had a vivid imagination, was in the mood to make her father laugh at the absurdities her son came up with.
"Ah, speaking of which Moxxie. How are your plans for world domination going?" Lucifer suddenly decided to interrupt the conversation as he seemed to say animatedly, causing Princess Charlie to close her mouth as her eyes twitched in annoyance.
"They are still in progress Grandpa. I'm trying to convince my wife that 7 kids would be a good idea." Moxxie shrugged as he realized that not only was his mother in shock, but his wife was looking at him and Charlie's hellphone in disbelief. "I'm sure if everything works out and everyone does their part, the plans for global domination will be possible."
"Ah yes, 7 children for 7 sins, I hope your firstborn is the one to take over Pride Ring because I'm looking forward to retiring from this job and living in the human world until the end of time. I was thinking of setting up a bar in Los Angeles." The voice of the first fallen king that sounded so solemn and so cheerful made the facepalm sound loud enough for the king to notice. "Charlie, please be more courteous. If you stay all the time doing facepalm you will end up with a bruised head."
"..." Charlie remained quiet, while Moxxie seemed to be smiling in a carefree manner.
"Don't worry Grandpa, as soon as we have our first son or daughter, they will take care of Pride Ring while you will get to witness our world conquest. MWAHAHAHAAHAHAH." Moxxie once again started to give his evil laugh. But instead of being interrupted.
"MWAHAHAHAAHAHAH." The voice of the king of pride and the serpent father was accompanied as the two demons were laughing about their future projects and plans for the conquest of mankind and the end of the world.
The girls around the kitchen couldn't help but look at each other and see that they really did seem to be of the same family lineage. The sound of palm slapping on her own face could be heard as Charlie gave an exasperated sigh.
"Dad, I think you're spending too much time with Moxxie," Charlie said as her suspicious look said that her father was really being a bad influence on her sweet and innocent son.
"Oh come on Charlie, you know Moxxie has the power of the chaos at the moment you presented him to me. I still remember how it was the day I first met him." Lucifer commented as he spoke in a nostalgic tone, sounding like he treasured those memories personally.
"Well, looks like we have a picture of you two around here," Charlie said as she flipped through the pages until she managed to find a picture of her father who seemed to be hugging his grandson Moxxie with all the love in the world, while the little imp was staring at the camera completely horrified and traumatized by something that happened. "I seem to have found the photo... can you tell me why Moxxie seems to be traumatized at that moment?"
"Ah yes, you need to look at the back of the same picture to understand." The snake king commented as his voice seemed to be containing his urge to laugh.
And the moment the princess of hell decided to follow her father's instructions, the moment she turned the picture over, her eyes widened in shock as she stared at that picture in horror.
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? WHY IS THERE ALL THIS DESTRUCTION?" Charlie squealed as her father couldn't help but laugh on the other side of the hellphone.
"HAHAHAHAHA, Well my dear sweet little apple. Let me tell you about one of the days I never thought I'd see something so beautiful in my life. However, it would be better if I explained it myself. I will be there in a few hours, possibly 10 hours. It depends on how long my breakfast will be, or if you want I can stop by and eat with all of you." Lucifer decided to build suspense about the story of his meeting with Moxxie.
"Hey Grandpa, why don't we go to a fancy hotel and have our famous get in to eat and get out?" Moxxie suggested as the trio of women looked at him in disbelief, while the king's voice sounded like a powerful laugh.
"Oh yes, we should do that again. That was the most fun adventure we've ever had doing so little." The king of pride replied as he had a good nostalgia for doing it himself. "All for free food."
"Dad, you're the king, why would you do something like that?" Charlie, trying not to get a migraine, decided to ask in the most polite way to figure out what the hell her father was doing with her own son.
"Oh, simple, my dear. Because it's fun. You could do the most boring thing to get Moxxie and me into the food section and eat the free breakfasts. Or... OR... I could make use of my title of Father of Lies and try to use every creative way to get me and my little devil grandson into the places while Moxxie learned how to manipulate the demons to get his own favors." Charlie expected a lot of things from her father, but an explanation like that hadn't entered her head in a million years. It was such a crazy thing to do, but it was exactly what he would do. "Like the last time Moxxie and I did it. Take a look at page 355 and picture number 8. There's a picture of me standing next to Moxxie while he had his hand up. That was Moxxie's first creation and one of my favorite lies ever."
"What?" Charlie asked, deciding to look through the pages until she found a picture of her father and her own son, who looked to be 12 years old. And who looked exactly like her father's description. "What did you two do?"
"It's my favorite scam of all time. There were actually two cons that day." Lucifer explained while still remembering one of his proudest days.
"So we have to do that tomorrow too? Why Grandpa?" Moxxie was trying to figure it out, eating what would be a small pudding, and his own grandfather, who seemed to be wearing a devilish disguise, was also enjoying a good omelet for the morning.
"Because I want you to practice one of the concepts of royalty. Manipulating others to your advantage." Lucifer explained as he sipped his own orange juice.
"But Grandpa, I don't want to do that, if mom and grandma hear about this, we'll be in trouble," Moxxie said, already feeling guilty and worried that his mother would be disappointed in him for doing a silly and cruel thing like that.
"Come on, Moxxie, don't worry about it. I'm not the father of lies for nothing. Don't worry, I've got your back. I have lies underneath lies, so if they question me, let me handle it. Lucifer knows the gentle nature of his own grandson because he raised Charlie, so he knew how to handle a gentle person since he had experience caring for and teaching his own daughter. "It would be like you making an employee sign a million-dollar contract for him, while you can get a billion-dollar contract by using him. The secret is just not letting them do it. The secret is simply not letting them know the truth. Ignorance is always bliss, and they will always be happier if they don't know."
The little imp remained silent. Until a knock on the door opened, revealing a sinful black spider wearing what would be a black suit and smoking a cigarette.
"I'm looking for a pair of half-siblings with different parents from Finland." asked the sinful black spider, as the king and prince duo remained silent until a pair of sinful otters appeared wearing a simplistic sweater.
"Hallo." One of them greeted his half-brother with the exact accent for their current born place and decided to raise their hands to greet the spider sinner.
The sinner, who remained stoic, suddenly pulled out of his inside pocket what would be a heavenly weapon and fired twice at the duo who had made themselves the sinner's target. Who a few seconds later pulled from his pocket a hellphone.
"It's done." The black spider said as he smashed the hellphone on the floor, and walked out of the hall with dozens of sinners looking on in shock and horror at the sight of it.
"That's why Sweden Moxxie, never Finland," Lucifer replied as he brought with him a donut to eat.
"I'll never doubt you again Grandpa," Moxxie said as he nodded and decided to savor the rest of his breakfast, trying her best not to look at the corpses of sinners who can never regenerate.
"Good. Now, Moxxie, I want you to do your best tomorrow. Sometimes a simple lie is the best way to make a perfect cover. Sometimes half-truths are the best lies. Lucifer decided to help his own grandson brainstorm a way to get him to decide to give the two of them a try.
"I think I have an idea, Grandpa. Here it is." Moxxie thought about it and suddenly an idea popped into his mind.
"Moxxie, I have to say I never thought anything would work like this. And I hope it works because if it does, it'll be the funniest shit I've ever done that worked." Lucifer said as he and his grandson waited for the next day to put his little devil's plan into action. The fancy hotel that seemed to be filled with the best food in the Pride Ring was something the king had always wanted to experience when he had the chance.
"Okay grandpa, let's go do the Hello." Moxxie said as he tried to take a deep breath with every step she took.
"Good morning." A sinful ferret woman who appeared to be a proud hotel receptionist greeted the prince and king duo who remained undercover. "How may I help you?
"Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." Moxxie raised his hand and, with a smile on his face, said the first word while letting out a long sigh.
"Good morning, I'm here with my grandson, the winner of the Guinness record for the longest hello..." Lucifer took the opportunity to explain himself as the little imp was still using all his breath to continue the one word to remain as truthful as possible. "We're just asking where your breakfast buffet is?"
The receptionist was watching the two little devils with amazement as she looked at the little devil who kept saying the word.
"Just go through those doors." The ferret girl said while pointing at the doors, which made the Pride King smile and be polite to her.
"Thank you. Lucifer then decided to keep walking as Moxxie was following him.
"ooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." Moxxie remains with his hand raised as he looks at the receptionist before leaving once and for all.
The sinful ferret stood watching the duo, until a sinful mouse addressed her, who seemed to be the happiest girl in the whole ring.
"What the hell is wrong with you now? The rat-man asked rudely as he looked at his coworker who had suddenly snapped out of her thoughts.
"Nothing, it's just that I realized this job is muuuch cool." The ferret said she was going to tell all her friends about the time she met a Guinness record holder, which would make her dinner conversations even more interesting.
"Ever since that day. When I remember that day, I can't stop laughing. I can't believe she fell for it, but it was so simple that I almost fell for my own lies myself. Moxxie and I ate like kings, which we deserved for that spectacular trick." Lucifer said proudly as he noticed the sudden silence in the kitchen. "What happened? Why is everyone silent?
"Well... Your Majesty... Charlie is teary-eyed, and not in a good way. So I think she's going to exchange a few words with her son and then when you come here, she'll try to vent your motherly wrath." Vaggie said as she saw that her girlfriend had been staring at the picture for so long that it wouldn't be surprising if she got burned just looking at it.
"Well, she'll be fine. It was a long time ago. And while it was fun while it lasted. We can't do that anymore since Moxxie is now stuck with something we call marriage. So anything he's going to do, he has to tell it to his wife, the same way I did." Lucifer said proudly, seeing the silence that reigned in the kitchen. "It's going to be alright. Loona, if you want my advice. Moxxie's a big devil, you're extremely lucky, and if you're not a feline kitten, you should be in heat and ride him until you have all the hybrid puppies you can give us. Because Charlie wants grandchildren, and I want great-grandchildren too."
"GRANDPA/DADDY" . Moxxie and Charlie shouted in unison, which made hellphone's voice laugh again.
"Well, my surprise call was a flop, but at least I got the final joke. See you in a couple of hours. Happy birthday, my dear apple." And with that, the king of hellphone hung up which caused the little imp to once again stare at the photo album and with that picture the nostalgia of how the breakfast buffet options were a good example of what he could do to spend time with his grandfather.
"You will never do that again," Loona said firmly, as she could see her husband's thoughts "And there is nothing you can say..."
"They have a hellhound buffet with 10 kinds of piles and lots of sauces on top." Moxxie simply gave a fact that made the hellhound stop mid-sentence.
"To change my mind to refuse to go with you next time you try to do something crazy like that. I'm in." Loona said as she felt the stare of her own mother-in-law."What? It's grandfather and grandson time, and I'm his wife, and I want to spend time getting to know my father-in-law.
"...This bitch." Charlie decides to mutter as she tries to drink the first thing she finds on the counter... she doesn't know the name of the label, but whatever it is it could be cathartic or a problem for Charlie's future... it doesn't matter to her at that moment.
