WARNING: The following contains graphic violence, strong language, sexual themes, gaslighting, mentions of rape, as well as rampant demon horniness… so yes, it's intended for mature audiences.
VIEWER/READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED!
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Ally's POV
It's my birthday… but Mum's not here…
'What the…?'
A present on my desk?
'Your dad left this for ya' said the note on it.
A.. necklace?
*BVVVV!*
Text from… Taylor…
Let's go!
'Hahahahaha!'
So much fun with her…
Ice cream…
Birthday wishes…
*Click*
Picture taken.
'That's a keeper!'
'Ya say that 'bout ev'ry photo ya take of us.'
'Cause it's true!'
'Oof!' Shoved to the ground.
*KRCK!*
Shattered lens…
'Watch it bitch!'
Stop it…
'Leave her alone Bree!'
Stop it.
'Why don't you make me loser?'
'Ah!'
Stop it!
*FWWOOSH!*
So much fire and smoke…
She's reaching out…
No… don't come closer!
'NO! TAYLOR!'
'ALLYYYY!' A hand reaching out to me as it was consumed by flames…
Fire's gone…
Nothing left…
Of either of them…
Mum…?
'What have you done…?'
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New city… new… home…?
Four walls… locked door… locked windows…
More like a prison…
So many days pass… too many…
Another bruise from trying to leave…
Why does she call me a monster…?
Because I accidentally killed two people…?
I didn't mean to…
Or did I…?
Drawing circles on the bare floor…
Light… A portal…? Footsteps! Escape!
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Out of one prison into another…
Small cage…
Heavy chains…
Sharp poking…
Why won't they stop…?
'Let's open'er up, see what makes'er tick…'
Stop it…
Strapped down…
Stop it.
Needle coming closer!
Stop it!
*RAAAAHH!*
More fire!
Escape again!
New portal…
Is that… a new place…?
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Wandering…
All alone…
Mean streets… meaner… people…?
Not people… demons… like me…?
'~Hey there lil' kitten…~' A voice beckons me toward four of them…
'~You're safe here…~'
Then why do I feel so helpless…?
So much pain when it goes dark…
Sprayed when I fight back…
Feel weak as she takes me outside…
No… too far…
So much pain…
So much blood from… me…?
Left alone…
What happens if I die here…?
Two approach…
One small with glowing pink eyes and spots snuffling my face…
One tall with four arms as she? picks me up…
'We got'er Nuggsie…'
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Feels safer here…
He does it too, but not to me…
Playing and play fighting…
He calls me 'piccola rubina'…
*REEEE!*
*MROW!*
*CRASH!* *KRSH!*
Things thrown…
Crying…
What's wrong…?
Bad boss is getting too close…
Too dangerous to stay…
Have to go NOW!
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"Haa-AH!" I bolted up from the clash o' nightmares, smackin' my head 'gainst the pipe I'm sleepin' in outside o' Chicago.
"Haaaah…" I sighed as mah paws slid from the bump on mah forehead to cover mah eyes as I remembered,
'It's b'n 2 years al'eady since… Happy bir'hday number 15 ta me I g'ss…'
I thought to mahself as I pressed my eyes hard before mah stomach growled at me and I thought,
'Let's go see what I c'n scrounge up…'
Gettin' out from the pipe to open a portal to Hell b'fore shiftin' ta hellcat form to climb onto and walk 'round the roofs o' the sketchy neighbo'hood.
Admittedly this wa'n't the best way to go 'bout survivin' but, hey, sometimes ya got no choice...
After lookin' down to see two closed dumpsters and a couple of trash cans against the wall of a abandoned lookin' buildin', I hopped down the wall vent boxes ta get ta them before shiftin' into my demon form to unlock the lids with mah one good claw while rewrapping the chain still attached to mah wrist cuff back round and shaking mah long, messy hair outta mah face.
'C'mooooon… there's gotta be somethin' good in 'ere…' I thought to mahself as I hopped in to find something, anything, to eat when I saw a take-out box in a tied-up bag.
"J'ckpot!"
I fished it out, untied the bag's knot, and quickly open'd the box to find it was empty o' food wi'h only a pair of chopsticks, one of them snapped in half, and an empty sauce cup.
"Oh fuck me dead!" I tossed the box at the dumpster lid makin' it slam down on mah head.
"RAAAAHHH!" I flailed mah arms and legs around before fallin' still just to lay there, starin' at the lid and the cuff and long chain still wound and attached ta mah wrist thinkin',
'What'm I even doin' here…? …Maybe I shoul' jus' go back ta Ha-'
*SKKRRRR!*
*DONG!*
Right b'fore I heard a car o' somethin' b'fore the trash cans fell over b'fore I heard some voices,
"The targets should be inside with no witnesses around according to our source."
"Perfect, a hit so fucking easy even you could handle it, Mox."
"He should take this one."
"What?!"
"Come on MoxMox, it'll build up your bravado, ~especially for toniiight~"
"Wh-Millie not in front of our boss!"
"No no please continue, it's just getting ~good~"
Quietly, pushing up the dumpster lid, I peeked into the alleyway to see three imps, two men and a woman, outside the door leadin' into the building with guns and an axe in hands.
"Shouldn't we check for traps?"
*CRASH!*
The taller imp with a ragged coat and fancy gold gun busted through the door and rushed in.
"I guess not…" The shorter one with pointy white hair followed'im and the girl with messy bob hair leaped up to climb up the wall with her axe.
Once they we'e all outta sight, I climbed outta the trash, shifted into hellcat fo'm, and followed them inside through a broken window.
3rd Person POV
Inside a crate-filled warehouse, two imps, both wearing flat top hats and brown trench coats but one of their hats was red while the other was blue, who were the targets of Blitzø, Millie, and Moxxie of the Immediate Murder Professionals, aka I.M.P..
The targets were at a table with a stack of stolen goods such as weed, drugs, money sacks, boxes of jewelry, and even some items from the living world looking over a table-sized map of Imp City with X's over places they've hit and O's over following targets.
"Aye Bizman?" The one in the red hat asked his partner from his place by a whiteboard of potential sellers for their stolen goods.
"Yeah Jasper?"
"Think we should hit up Argyle for this next pickup?"
"Not til that piece of shit pays up for the last load we had'im move that he jacked fro- would you stop screwing with that thing?!"
Bizman yelled the last part as Jasper was messing around with a laser pointer pen that had been in the box of items from the Living World and was using it to point to sellers on the whiteboard.
Jasper waved a hand and argued,
"Oh fuck off, I'm enjoying thinking about what those dumbasses upstairs use it for."
"Yeah that thing looks reeeaaal fun." A new voice interjected into the conversation that Bizman noticed but Jasper just added,
"See?"
Before noticing the new voice as well so they both pulled out revolvers from beneath their trench coats but Jasper kept the laser pen in his free hand as they searched for the source of the voice.
*KRSH!*
*BANG!*
Bizman fired a shot at a rustling sound behind some crates exposing Moxxie just as he was about to take a shot.
"Christ on a stick Moxxie, can't you get even one shot in?!" Blitzø questioned as he suddenly appeared on the side opposite to him with his percussion pistol in his hand, Moxxie managed to get up from almost being shot at, and Millie dropped down with a maniacal smile on her face and her axe ready to swing leaving the targets surrounded.
"Oh no Jasper, we've been boxed in!" Bizman exclaimed in faux fear while Jasper put his hands on his cheeks in mocking as he added,
"What'll we eva do?"
"Maybe this!" Bizman rapidly pulled a remote with a red button on the top from his pocket and pushed it to activate several traps; a magnet above their heads drew their weapons up to it before Moxxie was trapped in a cage that popped up from the ground, Millie was snared by several barbed bolas that tightened every time she struggled, and Blitzø was shot with several tranqs making him woozy enough to drop to the floor, his pistol falling from his grasp, without fully passing out.
"Aww didn't you shitheads think to check for traps?" Bizman mocked with a whiny baby voice.
"I had suggested it but-"
"F-For fuck's sake Mox why di'n't you say s'mething b-fore?!"
"WHAT?!" Moxxie yelled back in frustration.
"Enough! We're haulin' our load and then we'll deal with you lot." Bizman yelled, cutting off their arguing, before going over to their loot and yelling to Jasper, "Will ya quit fucking with that already and give me a hand?"
Referring to how Jasper was trying to open up the laser pen since it hadn't been turning on the whole time Blitzø and Moxxie were arguing while from the rafters, two bright pinkish red eyes were seen glowing looking down at the pen with interest.
"Think it needs more batteri-Got it!" Jasper cheered when the bright red light flashed a dot onto his chest.
*MRROW!*
A yowl sounded before a reddish blur shot down in a cloud of dust landing squarely on Jasper's chest, forcing him to the ground as his revolver fell out of his hand.
"AAAGHU-ughlck!" Jasper's yells died down as his neck and chest were torn open and dug into by the snarling humanoid being on his chest.
"The fuck is that?!" Bizman yelled before the laser pen landed at his feet, flickering on and off from the throw, and the figure stopped clawing at an unmoving Jasper to snap their head his way with large black eyes through the hanging cloud of dirt.
"Woah woah hey!" Bizman held his revolver up as the being slowly stalked in his direction, focusing on the glowing dot on his shoes as he yelled, "Stay where you are you little frea-AGH!"
With a hiss, the being darted forward and practically rammed into his feet, knocking him onto his back before mauling him in a flurry of claw slashes that sprayed more blood on them as they yowled murderously.
During the attacks, Moxxie had managed to pick the lock to his cage so he could free his wife before they both went to help their boss as he started to regain feeling in his muscles from the tranq darts.
"AAGGGGGHHhhhhhhklck…" Bizman's screams eventually died down as he choked on his own inky blood and the laser pen finally flickered off as the being's eyes went back to glowing a pinkish red.
The imps finally managed to get a good look at their unknowing savior only to see a young adult-looking demon cat with super long, nearly floor-reaching, unkempt red-tipped hair, a torn red shirt with equally ripped-up black shorts, no shoes, and various pieces of jewelry from multiple piercings in each of her cat ears to a punky looking choker to a chain anklet.
The things that surprised them the most however were some white scars on her thinly furred brown skin and a metal shackle around her left wrist with a length of fairly thick chain still dragging from it, having been unwound from her attack on the targets.
As if suddenly noticing they were there, she suddenly looked skittish as she ducked down with her ears folded and quickly surveyed the area looking for an escape, the only one being a hole in the wall right behind the three imps.
"Hey kid!" Blitzø yelled, making her even more frantic to get out and she made a mad dash in between them, but just as she was about to reach the hole in the wall-
*MROW!*
She was yanked to a stop as Blitzø stomped down on the dragging chain with his boot.
Reacting defensively with a snarl, the cat turned to their paws and feet, preparing to pounce on the one keeping her pinned when Moxxie leaped onto her back, keeping the snared wrist held to the ground under a hoofed foot and her other paw held between her body and the ground.
When her bifurcated prehensile tail came up to snare his neck in a chokehold, Moxxie choked for a second before reaching down as he gasped out,
"Pl-ease w-ork."
And used his free hand to pinch her neck, making her freeze suddenly with only minor shaking and squirming as her tail unwound from his neck.
As Moxxie took deep breaths while he kept her pinned to the floor, Blitzø kept the chain taunt from where he stood, rolling his eyes and he snarked to her as she still struggled,
"Would you fucking relax?"
"~Yeeaah,~" Millie walked over with her large axe in hand, raising it above her head as she added with a wide-eyed and smiling expression, "This'll be over in a jiffy."
Thinking it was coming down on her head, the demon cat winced her eyes shut to await her doom before-
*CLINK!*
A metallic snapping made her open her eyes to see the axe mere inches from her wrist where it cut off the chain from the cuff.
"There ya go, sweetie." Millie smiled down at her as she twirled her axe to rest on her shoulder and Moxxie finally got off of her so she could scoot herself away while holding her newly untethered shackled paw.
After a few seconds marveling at the feeling of lightness around her paw where the chain used to weigh heavier than the cuff still on it, she looked at the imps in front of her before hissing slightly with her fur raising up and spit flying through her fangs.
"You're welcome you bitchy little ingrate now how's about you beat it before we change our minds?" Blitzø snapped somewhat impatiently.
Happy to oblige, the demon cat got on her paws and feet to jog on all fours toward the hole in the wall while shifting into her hellcat form before Millie yelled,
"That was mighty fine maulin' ya did back there!"
Making the hellcat freeze and look back at them for a few seconds before leaping into the hole and disappearing while the three imps left the warehouse the way they came, pausing to take some of the loot with them.
Just before exiting though, Blitzø paused for a second at the doorway to dig through his coat pocket for his keys, dropping some trash and a business card on the floor in the process, and slamming the door shut behind him with a loud bang before the sound of a van revving up and driving off into the distance was heard.
Once she was sure they were gone, the hellcat came back into the warehouse and approached the little paper business card on the floor, batting it a bit with a paw to get it away from the trash, one of which, much to her disgust, was a used condom, before shifting into her demon cat form as she kneeled to pick it up and read it aloud in her slightly Australian-accented voice,
"'I.M.P. Immediate Mu'der Professionals.'" The fancy-ish headline read but the rest was scribbled on with ideas for company mottos and offers in Blitzø's bad writing and spelling,
"'Locaton: brokin as fuck bilding with whorns in Imp City Flor 6?'" She read again before noticing a little line that read, "Find somone hoo can sneek?"
Standing up with the card still in her paws, she looked over to where the chain that was formerly attached to her wrist was still lying on the floor.
Going over, she picked it back up in her paw before spotting a crate the imps missed of weapon heads that was hastily tied together with bungee cords with large metal clasps that opened and closed with a little button.
'That was mighty fine maulin' ya did back there!' She remembered Millie saying before she thought to herself,
'They don' think killin' is bad…?'
"Hmmm…" She tapped a claw to her chin in thought before smirking.
A Few Hours Later
Showing up right across the street from the condemned building with horns where I.M.P. was located, a familiar demon cat was adjusting the cross-body satchel she'd snatched from the warehouse that was now loaded with different weapon heads for her chain on her back and the chain that was cut off from her cuff, now including a clasp at each side, wound and clipped onto the belt of her shorts like a lasso.
"'Ight then, jus' need ta prove I got what it takes to be on their team, but how?"
As she surveyed the building and the floor the company was supposed to be on, she saw a vent shaft along the side of the building leading up there and grinned mischievously as she thought,
'Pe'fect…'
A few minutes later, a small hellcat was working her way up and through the vents until she made it to the 6th floor and began looking for the group from before.
Just as she wandered up to a vent looking into a room that looked like a waiting room with a couch occupied by the imp couple from before reading a magazine, a desk with a telephone on top, and a filing cabinet in a corner she was about to get out and survey the room when the vent grate opened suddenly and a hand reached in to drag her out by the scruff of her neck with a,
"Gotcha!"
Before she was brought in front of the face of a growling hellhound with side-swept half-shaved hair wearing a goth-style tank top with matching shorts.
"Ugh it's just a dumb cat." Loona dropped the hellcat and she landed on her feet before shifting to her demon cat form as she got in her face and hissed but Loona just rolled her eyes and muttered,
"Whatever…"
She was dusting herself off when Millie and Moxxie recognized her and commented,
"Oh it's you."
"The little kitten who saved our hides."
*SLAM!*
The door to the other room was thrown open revealing Blitzø with his pistol in hand ready to shoot the intruder when he saw the familiar demon cat and questioned as he put his pistol back in his inner coat pocket,
"The fuck kid, what're you doing here?!"
She brandished the business card before flicking it back to Blitzø as she practically demanded,
"Yer business, I want in."
"So she speaks!" Blitzø mildly commented as he looked back over the business card he lost and crumpled it up before tossing it behind him as he questioned, "Well what makes you think you've got what it takes?"
"Saved your arses ea'lier and snuck in here from right under yer noses, di'n't I?" She questioned cockily with a tilted head as she walked aimlessly around the office looking around at all the furniture and random weapons around.
"Oh please I sniffed you out from halfway down the hall, you smell like garbage…" Loona snarked as she crossed her arms to glare at her to which she responded with another hiss that was met with a small growl before Millie cut in to acknowledge,
"But she's gotta point in how she saved us earlier."
"I'd say she's got some raw potential that could use some refinement with our assistance." Moxxie added in a matter-of-fact tone.
Making Blitzø hum in thought while stroking his chin before bargaining,
"Right so if you can make it back outside with something of ours, the job's yours."
"Ya mean somethin' like these." She smirked as she slunk over to the entrance before she held up Blitzø's van keys in one hand, Millie and Loona's chokers in another, and Moxxie's bowtie in her tail's grip.
"The fuck?!" Blitzø patted himself down trying to figure out how she did that with Millie and Moxxie doing the same and Loona just kept scrolling on her phone, either not noticing or not caring.
"Oh it's oooon you pickpocketing pussy cat!"
At that nickname, she growled as she stowed her loot in her satchel and jumped over, narrowly dodging their attempts to attack and stop her as she made it back out to the hallway, tackling down and knocking out a gorilla-looking sinner who looked to be on their way into the office to the floor before looking around to see what her options were in terms of escape back to the street.
*PEW!*
A shot in the wall closest to her made her duck as she saw Blitzø with his pistol targeted at her with Millie and Moxxie at his sides also with their weapons ready to surround her.
"Ready to throw in the towel?" Moxxie asked her as Millie announced confidently,
"Cause we're just gettin' started."
"Yeh? Well, so 'm I." The demon cat smirked as she pulled out a spiked flail head on a chain and attached the end to the cuff on her wrist as she whirled and swung it around to build up enough power to smash into a wall nearby, showering Millie with debris and shrapnel that she barely managed to dodge.
Rapidly, but still kinda clumsily, she managed to change the flail to a sharpened scythe head in the span of a few seconds, she swung it toward Moxxie who managed to bob away from the blow but his rifle wasn't as lucky as it was sliced clean in half.
"Oh crumbs…" Moxxie gaped at the precise slicing before Blitzø trampled him to ready his pistol at the demon cat but she just smirked down the length of the gun before lunging forward causing Blitzø to fire.
*PEW!*
*FWOOSH!*
In a split second, she ducked down as the bullet hit the wall leading to the street outside as the demon cat made a hairpin turn on the ground and made a move to leap out of the hole in the wall to the street down below when-
"OW!"
Blitzø managed to grab the demon cat by her hair and it left her dangling over the edge.
"I'll admit, you almost had us there but looks like it's game over kitty."
"That's what ya think!" She took the scythe head and swiftly sliced it through her hair leaving a large chunk of it still in Blitzø's hand as she continued falling toward the street before dragging the scythe head along the side of the building to slow her fall before she pushed herself off the side of the building going into a backflip to land in a crouch on all fours on the sidewalk outside of the building.
"...Well ya gotta admire the kid's spunk." Blitzø commented, very mildly impressed, as Millie and Moxxie walked over to join him at the hole in the wall and looked down to see the demon cat looking up at them to wave and smirk triumphantly.
Once Blitzø, Millie, and Moxxie made it to the street, Blitzø started to say,
"Well pussycat-"
"Don't call me that!" She cut him off to get in his face to growl before asserting boldly, "The name's.. Ayden."
But Blitzø just shrugged it off with a,
"Whatever, welcome to the Immediate Murder Professionals."
Holding out his hand to shake hers and she took it with a prideful smile before he commented nonchalantly,
"Here's your hair back by the way."
Holding up the bunch of hair in his other hand from before but Ayden just waved a paw saying,
"Don't need it, I kinda like it like this."
Fluffing up her now short hair as the ends suddenly color shifted to add in the red tips she'd had before while the hair in Blitzø's hand completely disintegrated into ashes that blew off into the wind.
"Well that was a tad unsettling and dramatic…?" Moxxie commented, waving and spitting a bit of the ashes away from where they blew into his face and mouth.
"Had no idea it'd do that, cool." Ayden admitted, going with it.
"Well Ayden I'm Blitzø the 'o' is silent."
"Wh't 'o'?"
"Correct!"
But that answer only made Ayden more confused until Millie and Moxxie introduced themselves as they each shook her paw.
"Nice ta meetcha all." Ayden smirked before putting her paws on her hips to question eagerly, "How soon c'n I get killin'?"
"I like your style." Blitzø stated before going on a rant about big plans to expand the company while above their heads, Loona looked down at them all from the 6th-floor hole in the wall as she deadpanned,
"You gotta be fucking kidding me…"
Before Ayden noticed her and discretely stuck her tongue out while double flipping her off, making Loona growl in retaliation.
Back in the Present
"So yeh…" Ayden finished speaking from where she was sitting at the head of the table in the meeting room with the whiteboard behind her with a bunch of arrows pointing at her and 'Whut is gong on with Aiden?' written with a bunch of question marks in Blitzø's handwriting with little doodles of the others making confused faces and shrugging.
"We already know how we met you." Moxxie pointed out as if it wasn't already obvious.
"Well yeh but now ev'ryone else is 'lmost caught up now." Ayden looked to the fourth wall and gave a small wink and finger gun point to you all, causing Moxxie to give an 'alrighty then' shrug.
"'Almost'?" Millie questioned with slight worry, referring to her previous statement.
"What else are ya hiding Kid?" Blitzø came up to poke at her with his pointer stick making her bat it away indignantly as she argued,
"The'e's jus' some stuff I still don't wanna talk 'bout… but I will… when I'm ready…"
"Sir you can't just expect her to tell us everything right off the bat." Moxxie tried to reason but Blitzø just fake-thought for a few seconds before insisting,
"Mmmhmmm yeah I think I can."
Just as it seemed like Moxxie was about to start another pointless argument with him, Ayden bargained,
"Fine, you all get one mo'e question answered."
She held up one digit to emphasize her point to Blitzø and he only thought a second before asking,
"What's the deal with your portal?"
"I can make'em usin' my necklace," Ayden tapped a claw to the locket on her choker, and the gemstone on it, as she continued explaining, "and they go whe'ever I can think of, 's long as I've b'n the'e b'fore o' anyplace new 's long as I got a picture of whe'e 'm goin'."
Blitzø looked like he was about to ask another question when Ayden cut him off with,
"Don't fo'get, only I can use it."
"Oh you wanna bet?!"
"'Ight then, don' say I didn' wa'n ya." Ayden stepped over to an empty wall and drew a pentagram with her digit on the wall, red light being traced in its wake, before drawing a circle around the whole thing and making a spreading motion with her paw that opened it into a 4-foot tall portal that led to a garbage-filled alleyway.
"Go for it." Ayden invited and Blitzø cracked his knuckles and neck before yelling and running for it,
"YAAAAA-!"
*BZZZRT!*
*PEW!*
"-OOF!"
But right before he could make it through the portal, the pentagram solidified into a barrier that electrocuted him and repelled him back with enough force to slam him into the wall on the opposite side of the room, everyone giving a wince as he slid down the wall slowly, albeit comedically.
"Told ya." Ayden couldn't help but smirk a bit before hooking a thumb to the portal and offering to the others,
"'Nyone else wanna try?"
"Nah.."
"Nope."
"We believe you."
Loona, Millie, and Moxxie answered respectively so Ayden closed the portal with a closing paw motion and went back to sitting before reminding the others,
"You each have one more question."
"Were you always on your own before meeting us?" Millie questioned with a concerned expression and tone.
"Weeeelll…" Ayden crossed her arms and tilted back in her seat as she leaned back in her chair before she answered hesitantly, "No, there we'e a coupla o'her people I stayed wi'h b'fore meetin' you all but uhh.. not all o' them were places I really stuck with for awhile…"
Millie wanted to ask more but respected the 'last question' condition from Ayden so Moxxie asked,
"Were these 'other places' where you got your scars?"
"Most o' 'em yeh…" Ayden trailed off before they all looked to Loona since she was the last one to get a question asked.
Looking up from her phone, she looked over at Ayden where she'd brought her tail up to covertly smoothen it back down and grip it tightly, something she had noticed she'd do whenever she really didn't wanna talk or hear about something anymore so she just asked,
"You regret joining this crazy-ass circus after all of that?"
While Blitzø, Millie, and Moxxie looked conflicted on whether to be offended or not at being referred to as a circus, Ayden just smiled and let her tail go to answer genuinely,
"No…"
AN- What up my fellow Helluva Boss Bitches! Season 2 is here!
Thanks to help_me_make_constellations over on AO3 for all the kind comments and questions that motivated me to keep writing this story and I'm glad you liked the mini bonding story with Ayden and Moxxie you requested asweriseup ^^
A few things to announce:
Because of a schedule change at my part-time job, I'll still be posting on Sundays, but I won't be posting till the afternoon
I decided to change the placement of the original 2 part episode to be after this one and before "Seeing Stars" so get ready for Part 1 of some more Ayden backstory angst next week!
I'm already a third of the way done on "Seeing Stars" after the 2 parter, so hopefully another steady update streak should still be attainable before the year ends and while I get more time to work on chapters over Thanksgiving Break in between trying to work some extra hours
I've posted some new Helluva Boss fanart including Remi and Alex looks over on my Deviant Art account and I'm working on a bonding mini story requested by help_me_make_constellations with both of them and Ayden that I hope to post soon too
For those of you wondering in those flashbacks, yes that was Angel Dust who took Ayden in after being left for dead after a too-hard uhh y'know… from Hannah…
Back when I started this fanfic, I'd been looking into how I could do a potential crossover with the two shows and was looking at Angel Dust's trivia fact on his Fandom Wiki page when it said he's thought to have a soft spot for children because he values innocence. So after Ayden's innocence had been ruined at a low point in her life, I thought having him find her would make for an interesting dynamic between the two of them before she left without warning because she feared Valentino finding out about her. Plus with Angel being described as the "friendly irresponsible" type, I thought that might set up a potentially interesting side reunion story for the two of them in the future ^^
Other than that, hope you're ready for more backstory angst next week and, til then, Bye!