Orderly: Hello one and all to a brand new year I hope you all had a wonderful chirstmas and an amazing New Year's Eve. Lot's been going on lately but that's neither here or there so let's get this new year started.
Disclaimer: I own nothing used in the making of this story excluding my OC's.
Hell. . . the eternal home of demons and sinners alike, was going through one of the most hellish days of the year. In all of hell there was one city that got the wrost of it this time of year. . .
Imp City
In Imp City there was nothing but death and carnage, no matter where looked you could only see corspes littering the streets. The reason behind this complete and utter chaos can only be answered with two words. . . Extermination Day.
This day was feared by the many of the lower inhabitants of hell as it marked the day of hell's cleansing wherein Exorcists from Heaven are sent down to Hell to assist in taking care of its overpopulation by eliminating any Demon that is in plain sight.
Running down one of the corpse fill streets of Imp City was a small group of three demon consisting of a hellhound, an imp and an owl demon.
The hellhound stood at 6'4 and was covered in black fur with long silver spikey hair reaching his knees and a white patch on his chest and the tip of his tail and peirced ears. He wore white ripped jeans and a red hooded sleeveless vest with gray fur around the hood.
The imp was a very lanky jester-like imp with a pointed tail who conversely has wide-proportioned hands, pointed feet with a boot-like heel, and a narrow head with curved horns. His eyes have black lines running down the eyelids and his sclera is yellow with a red iris.
He has crimson skin with trace white blotches that cover his right eye, forearms, chest and the tip of his tail, black-and-white striped horns with black spines between them running to his tail, and black stripes around his tail.
A heart-shaped skull symbol rests on his forehead. He wears a torn black collared coat with red buttons, black boots, and large black gloves with yellow eyes on them.
The last member of the group anthropomorphic owl demon. He is tall, with an owlish beak and two pairs of narrow red eyes with no visible irises or pupils.
He has blue and dark blue feathers with white and gray accents. He has a tail of blue feathers with darker blue tips that reach his feet, and a lighter gray-blue puff of fur on his chest.
From the neck up, his feathers fade from blue to darker blue, and his face stands out in a white heart shape.
He wears a red tunic with six golden buttons, gray trousers, and a plush burgundy surcoat with a white fur collar and puffed striped sleeves.
As the trio ran they hear could a group of exorcists flying overhead and quickly searched for cover and find in the form of an overturned semi-truck and was quick to take cover as the exorcists passed them by.
The hellhound slowly peek his head around their makeshift shelter before turning towards he two companions. Okay you two I.M.P should be five blocks from here, you still able to run?"
The imp was first to reply. "Yeah Eclipse, me and Stolas still have enough steam to keep going whenever you're ready." He answer while slightly panting before Eclipse turned to the owl demon.
"As Blitz said Eclipse, whenever you're ready we may continue." The hellhound nodded and was about to speak but stopped before grabbing Blitz by his jacket and Stolas by his hand and jumping away from their cover.
And just in time to seeing as their makeshift shelter was just brutally sliced in half by an exorcist weilding a spear with a butcherknife like blade.
Growling Eclipse saw that Stolas and Blitz was about to help him but stopped them with a shake of his head.
"Listen you two, right now Blitz is tired and while you are a prince Stolas, I highly doubt your magic can actually hurt this thing and as far as I can see I'm the only one of us that can take this thing on physically."
Eclispe explained while keeping his gaze on the exorcist as it's LED mask lit up showing a manic grin with it's right eye a blinding white pool and it's left replaced with an 'X'.
Eclipse reached inside his vest and quickly withdrew a sickle attached to a chain that was wrapped around his wasit the ended in a fang shaped spike.
Stolas and Blitz didn't want to leave him to fight this monster by himself but they knew he was right about them. Nodding their heads they made their way to a nearby crumbling building for shelter.
Seeing that Blitz and Stolas was out of the way Eclipse unwarpped the rest of the chain from his waist and started to spin it and threw the spike towards the exorcist looking to impale it.
The exorcist just stood there not reacting in the the slightest. As the spike drew closer the exorcists finally reacted by grabbing the spike right as it was about to pierce it's chest.
Eclipse growled trying to pull back his chain but couldn't as the exorcist had a suprisingly strong grip on the spike.
The exorcist still looking at the hellhound struggling to pull back his chain let out a demented giggle before spearding it's wings and flew into Hell's sky still holding the spike dragging Eclispe with it.
When it reached a high enough point it looked down and saw that Eclispe still held onto the handle of the chained sickle. Giggling it started to spin the chain around with each rotation getting faster and faster.
After the twelvth rotation the exorcist let go of the spiked end of the chain sending Eclipse soaring through the air and crashing into a crumbling building that then proceeded to collapse on the hellhound.
Seeing that Eclipse was no longer an issue, the exorcist turned towards the makeshfit shelter of Blitz and Stolas and slowly made it's way to them. The duo saw this but they both knew that they couldn't hurt this thing.
They saw that the exorcist was about to reach their only means of cover when they heard howling coming from building that collapsed on Eclipse. The next thing the duo knew was Eclipse's chain shot from the collapsed rubble and wrap around the exorcist neck.
Eclipse crawled out the rubble holding his sickle and pulled on the chain dragging the exorcist towards him. "If you think chunking me into a building is enough to kill me, then that means you've earned what's about to happen."
With each word spoken Eclipse pulled the struggling exorcist closer and closer until it was standing right in front of him. Grinning Eclipse sent a kick to the back of the exorcist's knees forcing it into a kneeling position.
Dropping the chain Eclipse quickly grabbed the base of the exorcist wings before pulling with his full strengh before the sound of flesh tearing assaulted his ears. Dropping the wings Eclipse grabbed the chain once more and gave it a strong tug causing it to jerk inlicting a loud snap from the exorcist's neck before it fell forward limp.
Eclipse panting slightlty grabbed his sickle and let out a whistle which the chain reacted to by unwrapping from the exorcist's neck and rewrap itself Eclipse's waist. Walking pass the downed exorcist Eclipse called out to Blitz and Stolas who watched the whole fight.
"Okay you two, it' safe to come out now." Hearing the hellhound's voice filled Stolas and Blitz with releif as they left the crumbling that they took shelter in.
As the duo made their way towards him, Eclipse who saw them gain looks of shock did the smell of copper hit his nose and a warm feeling grew on his chest. Looking down he saw that the exorcist's spear was protruding from his chest. Looking behind him he saw the exorcist was still alive albeit with a broken neck.
Blitz's look of shock turned to one of rage before he ran full speed and crashed into the exorcist causing them to fall onto the ground and the spear to be pulled from the hellhound as the exorcist still held onto.
Eclipse fell to his knees and would've fell onto the ground if Stolas hadn't cought him before picking him up in a brides carry. Through blurry eyes Eclipse could just barely make out Blitz sitting on top of the exorcist beating it's head in with a large piece of rubble before his vision went black.
As Blitz finished beating in the exorcist's head he quickly pulled out an oldschool flintlock pistol and shot the corpse five time in the chest. Panting heavily he put away the now empty gun and turned to face Stolas to see him carrying Eclipse.
With tears streaming down his face the imp gave Stolas a stiff nod before two made a mad dash the rest of the way to I.M.P.'
I.M.P HQ
Within the break room of a an office building we find another trio of demons doing their own thing consisting of of two imps and a hellhound.
One of the imps had red skin and white freckles on his cheeks. His white pointy hair leads up to his curvy black and white striped horns.
He also has yellow sclera with black slit has a long red thin tail with a quadrilateral barb at the end, as well as lanky digitigrade legs ending in what appears to be cloven red hooves, reminiscent of artiodactyls.
His outfit consists of a navy-black coat with red buttons and white cuffs, black pants a white shirt that has a black turtleneck, a large red bow-tie, and fingerless gloves.
He was pacing back and forth stopping to take qucik glances at a wall mounted clock before continuing to pace. After a while a female's voice with a southern accent spoke to him.
"Moxxie will you relax already, you keep pacing like that you're gonna burn a hole in the floor sooner or later."
Turning to the owner of the voice Moxxie saw another imp sitting down in a chair reaptingly tossing a knife into air and catching it.
She had a long demonic tail and white markings. She has red skin, eyes with yellow scleras and black pupils, and long black eyelashes that extend beyond the sides of her hair.
She has two black horns with three thin white stripes and greyish-black hair worn in a messy bob style and bangs that cover half of her right horn. She has a beauty mark on her left cheek and a gap between her front teeth.
Her usual attire consists of black lipstick, a simple black choker, a cold-shoulder black crop top with gold buttons where the straps at the top meet the torso piece, torn black pants, fingerless black gloves, and black footwear that does not cover her hoof-like toes.
"Well I'm sorry Millie, it's that I'm just worried about them being out there with those monsters." Moxxie replied with worry in his voice.
"You worry too much Mox, you seem to forgotten that Blitz is a trained assasin and that Loona's brother is an overlord in the making and let's not forget that prince Stolas is with them so they'll be fine."
Moxxie was about to speak again but was quickly interrupted by another female voice. "Will you shut the fuck up and listen to your wife already?"
Turning towards the voice Moxxie saw the hellhound was tying away on her hellphone.
She had white fur with grey patches on her shoulders, a big white and greay bushy tail and voluminous white hair swept to the side to reveal her ear.
Her outfit features a black choker that has white spikes. Her grey crop top has strings shaped like a star to resemble an inverted pentagram to hold it up. She wears fingerless gloves and shorts with a crescent moon on the right side and both are top and shorts are slightly torn at the edges.
She also wears black toeless stockings and is barefoot, due to her digitigrade stance. She has a piercing on her right eyebrow and two piercings in her left ear.
"You need to give them some credit, Blitz and my brother can handle themselves and like she said, Stolas is with them." she finished not looking away from her phone.
Moxxie sighed knowing that he was worrying for nothing. "You two are right Loona, I'm just overthinking things, they'll be fine." As he finished speaking the doors to the office brust open and shut with a loud slam.
The trio glanced at each other before they all got up and made their way to lobby. As they reached the lobby they saw Blitz locking the door with Stolas standig a few feet away with his back to them.
As Blitz turned to face them the trio could see that their boss eyes were red and puffy and his face had dry tear marks. Seeing their boss like this caused Millie, Moxxie and Loona to grow a bit concerned.
Moxxie being more concerned was the to break the silence. "Sir, are you guys alright, . . . did anything happen. . ." He paused looking around before turning back to his boss. ". . . Where's Eclipse?"
As soon as the question left the shorter imp tears started to flow from Blitz's eyes before he fell to his knees hunched over releasing muffled sobs.
The trio soon gained looks of worry before kneeled and placed his hands on Blitz's shoulders before asking with his voice full of concern. "Sir. . . where's Eclipse?"
Blitz still hunched over point to Stolas who still had his back to them while casting the group an over the shoulder glance. Stolas stared at Blitz with his eyes filled with sadness before he spoke.
"Biltz. . . are you sure?" His voice was soft and barely audible but was loud enough for all of them to hear. Blitz without saying a word nodded his head.
Stolas nodded and went to the couch in sitting against the far wall of the lobby and bent down and placed something on it. Standing back up Stoals sighed and moved out of the way showing what he placed on the couch.
The trio of demons was not at prepared for what they saw, as there laying on the couch was the bloodied form of Eclipse.
His once white pants was covered in dirt with the left pants leg being torn off at the knee and his vest reduced to tatter's with the hood ripped off completely.
His body was riddled with various small gashes with a small cut above his right eyebrow.
But thing that caused them to gain faces of terror was the large stab wound on his chest staining the white patch on his chest a deep vermillion red.
Unable to look at the bloodied hellhound Millie threw are arms around Moxxie and buried her face into his chest. Moxxie instictively hugged Millie while he tightly closed his eyes.
Loona went completely still, her eyes going wide with tears quickly forming and streaming down her face. On shakey legs should made her way over to older hellhound.
As she reached Eclipse's prone from she got on her knees. Once on her knees she reached out a hand gently placed it on side of his face which caused the bang that framed the left of his face to drop and cover his eyes.
Loona continued stare for a few seconds before speaking. "Eclispe. . . . you can get up now. . . . I know . . . that this is a fucked up joke. . . so stop with the BS and get up. . ."
Before long Loona had broken down into a sobbing mess begging her brother to 'get up' while hugging his head to her chest. After a while Loona's sobs desolved into silent sniffling before going quiet all togher.
Letting go of Eclispe's head Loona went to stand up but stopped as she heard a raspy, faint voice whispering 'N-not n-now, c-can't die n-now. . .' before repeating the words over again.
Loona looked around and saw that Millie and Moxxie was still holding each other while Blitz was still on the floor with Stolas kneeling beside him. But she realized that none of them was saying anything.
As she was about to stop looking for the source of the voice chalking it up to her imagination she felt something tug gently on her tail. Looking to see if it was caught on something she turned to see what it was.
She froze completely, so much to the point the she stopped breathing. She couldn't process what she saw. . . it was Eclipes's hand gripping her tail. . . the hand that was once resting arcoss his stomach.
Loona slowly trailed her gaze up his arm till she was reached his face and the she saw it. The bang that felled over his eyes was moved just enough to reveal his left unfocused eye staring at her and heard the voice from earlier only slightly louder.
"N-not now, I-I can't die n-now. . ." It only took Loona a couple seconds to realize that the voice she heard earlier was Eclipse.
She quickly placed a hand on the base of his neck while chanting to herself 'Please be there. Please be there.'
After a few seconds she was able to feel what she was looking for. . . a pulse, an extremely faint one but it was there She yelled getting everyones attenton.
"GUYS, HE'S GOT A PULSE. HE'S STILL ALIVE."
They all looked between each other before Blitz went to speak before he and everyone besides Loona, froze as they saw Eclipse cough up a wad of blood causing his head to turn and show how his visible eye was unfocused and jumping all around the room.
Blitz seeing this was quick to act. "Millie, Moxxie, go to the infirmary and get it preped, Loona I need you to carry him there and Stolas, I need you to see if that book of yours has anything that can help."
They all nodded there heads quickly set out to do their tasks. Loona gently picked up Eclipse and ran to the infirmary with Millie and Moxxie right behind her.
As soon as the trio reached there destination the two imps rushed around the room getting everything that they needed. As they did that, Loona raced over to one of the empty beds and gently placed Eclipse down.
Not soon after Blitz and Stolas entered the room. "Okay you two, how long do you think it'll be before he's in stable condition?" Blitz asked the two rushing imps.
Moxxie was the one to answer. "Well sir, if Millie and I work through the night he could be stabilized by tomorrow night."
Blitz nodded at this but was still able to hear Moxxie mutter under his breath "Hopefully"
Turning to Loona, he saw her standing by Eclipse bed holding his hand. He called out to her to get her attention.
"Come on Loona, lets get out their way so they ca-" Blitz was cut off by Loona.
"No, I'm have to stay, I just can't leave him why he's like this." She would've continued her rant but stop as she felt her hand being squeezed. Looking at Eclipse she saw that he was muttering again but this time they all heard him.
"N-not n-now. . . I w-won't die n-now. . ."
After hearing this everyone was shocked, none more than Loona because she knew for a fact that he wasn't saying that earlier. She belived that Eclipse was somehow able to hear her and was trying reassure her that everything will be alright.
Sighing she reluctantly released his hand and made her way to leave the room before stopped and cast one more glance at her brother. "You better not." She said before leaving the room with Stolas and Blitz behind her.
After leaving the infirmary Loona, Blitz and Stolas went their separate ways with Stolas and Blitz going to the latter's office and Loona going to the breakroom. Reaching the breakroom she sat down and laid her head down on the table and closed her eyes.
"You better not die Eclipse." She muttered before falling asleep. As she let sleep take her she could've sworn she heard her brother's voice.
'I won't die now.'
Orderly: Well here it is, my new story. I really hope that all of you enjoy it. Believe it or not I wrote this one chapter three different times. This was the last I wrote that thought was the better choice. . . . for reasons. But that's besides the point!
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