The package to his long-distance friend was sent through the mailbox and Lincoln was about to go with Loona for a dougnut when he suddenly remembered something. "Wait!" He blurted. "I promised Katie I would meet her after school to do a little job for her."
"She's not going to make you kill someone, is she?" Clyde looked worried
"No! Of course not." Lincoln said. "She said there will be no killing whatsoever. It's some kind of job she wants me to do for some extra money to help her out." Loona was thinking this is some... shady business going on between Katie and her human friend.
"I am not trying to be a buzzkill, but," Loona began speaking. "What if she is lying to you or tricking you? Many demons have been known to... trick and lie to mortals. Been like that since ancient times according to the Bible."
"Even if most of it is just religious propaganda?"
"Oh yeah, a large chunk of that 'holy-than-thouh shit' just propaganda, but one thing it got right is: many demons can be tricky."
"Like genies?" Clyde couldn't help but ask.
"Oh ho, even more powerful than some weird creature trapped in a lamp." Loona pointed.
"What are you saying?" Asked Lincoln
"I'm saying that Katie is probably lying to you."
"Well Verosika paid me to do a prank on Blitzo? And no one got killed."
"True. But still, I want to make sure you're not being scammed."
"But Katie likes me and she promised i will not kill anyone"
Silent for a moment, Loona finally said: "well ok, but I'm coming with you just in case."
"You're a fan of her music, aren't you?" Clyde asked
"Oh yeah. I am a fucking die-hard fan of Katie Mayday. But I am a little concerned about this job, that's all."
she recalculated the grimwoir's coordinates to Katie's place, and there she was, waiting for the white-haired boy. "Ah, Lincoln. There you are, sweetie." She smiled
"I almost forgot about the kind of job you were going to give me." Lincoln looked sheepish."
"Aw don't worry about it, honey. So are you ready for the job?"
"As long as no killing is involved, yes." The boy nodded his head. "Can Loona and Clyde come with me?"
"Of course. The more the merrier." The three followed Katie into her badass mansion and stopped in her recording booth with a couple of hellhound security guards. "So Lincoln, i want to record a song with you."
"Oh... that's it?"
"Yep. I think your voice is worthy enough to sing in a duet with my own voice." Katie smiled. "And I already came up with the title. It will be called "Unstoppable."
"Ooh. I like the sound of that." said Lincoln with excitement.
"I knew you would. And meet my technical wizard, Kyle Kickass."
"A pleasure." Said the demon in a Brooklyn voice, shaking Lincoln's hand. This demon smelled a little bit like booze and cigarettes combined. Not a very pleasant smell.
"So here are the lyrics, and don't worry, you don't have to do the cuss parts so your parents won't kill you or have a heart attack. Meantime, can I offer you three anything like a drink?"
"Sire I'll take a bourbon." Loona said
"I can't drink alcohol." Clyde said. "I'm still a kid."
"Riiiiiight." The succubus realized. "I have some soda you can drink instead, honey."
Over the course of ten minutes, Lincoln was studying the lyrics and memorizing the parts he was supposed to sing in this duet.
The song sounded a like a mix between Black Label Society's "Fire it Up" and AC/DC's "Highway to Hell."
When the music was blaring, Katie sang the first part of the song. "Go ahead and give me Hell! What can you even do, prey tell?" She pointed at Lincoln
"You're all going to die, because what you've been told is nothing but a lie!" Lincoln said.
Both of them singing this time, they sang: "You angels are weak! Even through you are armed to the teeth, we are unstoppable! The forces of Evil may never die? But we will survive because we're unstoppable!"
This song was rather a working progress, but it took about five minutes in length and Lincoln never felt so alive in his entire life.
"That was fucking awesome." Kyle pointed. "Katie was right about you, kiddo. You have that beautiful voice in ya."
"I'm starting to imagine the look on my slutty sisters' face when she sees this. Probably shit or jizz her pants." Katie chuckled. "But amazing job, Lincoln." The rock succubus hugged him, which Loona couldn't help but take a photo of just for kicks.
"thanks, Katie. That was fun."
"I know you would love it."
"So when is the song going to be released?"
"About three days. Need to get it approved by the record company."
"just curious, what if they don't like it?"
"Don't worry about that, Lincoln. I have a way of "talking people around."
"That was so amazing Lincoln!" Clyde congratulated his best friend. "Can you be any more lucky?"
"Well I can't say." Lincoln admitted
"Everyone's luck runs out some time."
"Hey, that's not very encouraging." Lincoln pouted.
"I'm not saying you'll fail, I think you will have an awesome future ahead of you, Lincoln. What I mean is: nothing lasts forever."
"True." Lincoln admitted.
"And of course, here is your cut for it, Linky." She gently gave him a wad of cash on his right hand. "Enjoy your grand."
"One thousand dollars?" said Clyde in surprise.
"Don't spend it all in one place, though." Katie added with a smirk. "Never know when the next best thing will look like up."
"I'll keep that in mind, Katie." Lincoln smiled. "So wanna hit those doughnuts?" He turned to Clyde and Loona.
"Ooh, Doughnuts. Can I come along? I can buy them for you. I am rich after all."
"The more the merrier." Loona said. "And I am your biggest fan."
"Of course. How do you like your coffee?"
"Well, uh... I don't care." The female hellhound chuckled sheepishly. "Surprise me."
In the coffee shop, the four were accompanied by the muscular hellhounds before to make sure that no crazy fans can... "have their way" with the Succubus rocker."
"So what are you going to use that cash on?" Asked Clyde before taking a bite of his doughnut.
"I don't really know." The white-haired boy shrugged his shoulders. "Should I put it in my college fund?"
"heh. College." Loona scoffed. "College is a place full of boring conformists with no real future or motivation in life. College is nothing but a fucking waste of time." She took a sip of her cappuccino. "If you ask me, Lincoln, all college will do is stress you out until your mind snaps and make you go fucking crazy."
"Have you been to College, Loona?" Asked Lincoln
"Pfft, fuck no. Never have, never will. Besides, degrees don't actually give people a shit ton of money anyway. But hey, that's just my opinion. I'm not trying to dictate your life. I'm just saying."
"So I can still go to college when I want?" Asked Lincoln.
"Your life, Lincoln." Loona replied. "It's your life, be my guest."
The boy smiled. "Thanks Loona."
"So Loona," said Katie, "how's your dad doing?"
"Blitzo? Oh he's not my dad. He just adopted me? Nothing else. He is the bane of my existence."
"Whoa, ok ok. Just asking."
Loona let out a small sigh, realizing she was going too far. "Sorry." She breathed. "That guy just drives me crazy and he's always a mess. But all in all, he's fine... in his definition."
"OK."
"Sorry about snapping at you like that. Really, I never meant to do that."
"Don't worry about it, Loona. I've dealt with screams from my whiny sister growing up."