This is the 10th chapter. I don't own Helluva Boss.
mezentsevmichael: Yes and no. Stella does want him dead because of Stolas cheated on her. And she doesn't because with Striker keeping an eye on the white hellhound, also she's taking the liking of him.
animecollector: What's full name of that foz?
A Little Learning and Trouble
Antauri was eating some breakfast at the Lounge Room and started watching some cartoons that aren't as horrible in Hell. Loona finally got up from her sleep and puts her robe on, poured some cereal and sat next to Antauri on the couch.
"Morning, Loona." Antauri greets.
"Morning, Antauri." Loona greets back, rubbing his hair.
Just then, Millie, Moxxie, Keenie, and Collin walked in and getting ready for work. After breakfast, Antauri was getting dressed and brushed his teeth for a new day, tried to a random book but he can't read anything. Antauri then just sits down and tried to read, but couldn't. Both Millie and Keenie came out of the conference room and saw Antauri in the lounge trying to read a book. Antauri sighed and puts it back on the shelf, lays on the couch to listen to his music on the phone. Millie and Keenie were concerned a little since they noticed that he isn't getting education at all. They remembered one time that Antauri can't read and accidentally went into the wrong bathroom once. And another time, he was helping Blitzo and having trouble counting some rounds in the inventory. And remembers while they ordered some takeouts from a drive-in, he can't read the menu at all.
Millie and Keenie glanced at each other, nods with an agreement as they went back to the others.
"Guys, we think we should do something for Antauri." Millie points out.
"Like what? He has a roof over his head, a full stomach and clothes. What else would he need? I think he's fine." Blitzo told her with a shrug, smoking his cigarette.
"Blitz, he needs to go to school." Keenie told him.
"Why? He's fine and doesn't need to waste his time to go there." Blitzo states. "Besides, he'll get vulnerable to danger if we take him to a school in Hell."
"Antauri won't be a kid forever, you know." Millie warned him seriously.
"He's only 6." Blitzo argued.
"But he's still a child and needs an education." Keenie points out.
Apparently, Loona, Moxxie, and Collin agreed as well, causing Blitzo to sigh and decided to call Stolas real quick.
Scene cuts where Stolas was reading in his study and noticed it was Blitzo calling him from his cellphone. He smiled and answers with a glee.
"Why hello, my sweet Blitzey! I was wondering about you." Stolas said.
"Hey Stolas, look, I was wondering if you can help me out with Antauri." Blitzo told him.
"Oh sure, if you want me to babysit him or something, my doors are always open for him." Stolas said.
"Yeah, thanks, but I want to see if you can find a private tutor for him since he needs some education and shit." Blitzo suggested.
"I'll be happy to, bring him to my home at noon." Stolas suggests.
"We'll be there." Blitzo said as he hangs up.
Stolas then calls someone that he knows that is a teacher in Hell, that gone be the name of Mrs. Mayberry.
Scene cuts to a rundown apartment in the poor side in Hell, Mrs. Mayberry was asleep, drunk in her bed with a random imp. When her phone rang, Mrs. Mayberry moaned and grabs her it, but barely.
"Mmmmh...what?" Mrs. Mayberry groans.
"Sorry to bother you, it's me, Stolas. I have a special job for you." Stolas told her.
"God...what is it now?" Mrs. Mayberry asked.
"I have a special job for you of being a private tutor for a child that I know and I'll pay you well if you accept." Stolas informed her.
"Fine, what time?" Mrs. Mayberry asked, groaned in frustration.
"Some time at 12:00 today." Stolas answered.
"Ok, I'll be there." Mrs. Mayberry said as she hangs up the phone.
Stolas hangs up the phone, noticing Stella left home for a day and sees Octavia sitting down, listening to her music.
"Hello, my owlet." Stolas greets with a smile.
"Hey, dad." Octavia greets back while looking at her phone.
"Listen, um, Via, Antauri is coming over today." Stolas told her which it got her smiled.
"Great, I do want to see him today." Octavia said.
"Good. Since he does need some help with his education and you can help Mrs. Mayberry teach him if you like." Stolas said to his daughter.
"Sure, I'll do anything to help him." Octavia said with a smile.
Scene cuts to Blitzo drove Antauri to Stolas mansion which it got the white hellhound curious.
"So, is Stolas going to teach me?" Antauri questions.
"Not really, but he knows a private teacher to only teach you." Blitzo answered. "So, here's some rules for you. Monday through Friday. You'll get up early at 8:00 after you do come workout and shit, I take you to Stolas house for you to learn school and education. And please don't embarrass me."
"Got it." Antauri replied.
Later, Blitzo dropped him off at the front door and drove off without any care. Antauri then went up the huge steps, rang the doorbell. Octavia went to the door and answers it, looked down and saw him.
"Hi Octavia!" Antauri greets happily.
"Hello Antauri!" Octavia greets back with happiness as she hugs him, carries him inside of the mansion. "You hungry or something?"
"You have water?" Antauri inquires.
"Sure, I'll get you some." Octavia replied as she set him on the recliner and sees Stolas coming.
"Hello again, Antauri. You are wondering why you are here?" Stolas inquires.
"Um...learning how to read?" Antauri guessed.
"That's right, but in more ways than one." Stolas replied. "And I have a special teacher for you."
"Who?" Antauri asks curiously.
"You'll see." Stolas told him as he sits down.
Octavia then came back with a glass of water with some ice and extends it to the white hellhound.
"Here you go, little brother." Octavia said as she sat next to him.
"Thanks." Antauri thanked her, drank down the fresh cold water.
Later, Mrs. Mayberry then knocked on the front door and an imp butler answers, letting her in.
"Stolas! I'm here!" Mrs. Mayberry shouted when Stolas approached in front of her.
"Welcome, welcome, right this way." Stolas said as he escorted her to the living room.
"Ok, so who is the demon child that you want me to teach privately?" Mrs. Mayberry asks, felt like she had enough of perverted demon children.
"Oh! About that, he's not any of the demon child. He's the same hellhound you're quite familiar with." Stolas informed her.
"What do you mean?" Mrs. Mayberry asks again, confused.
"You are going to teach Antauri." Stolas answered simply which it got Mrs. Mayberry shocked and saw Antauri in the living room.
"Wait! That's the child whom I'm going to teach?!" Mrs. Mayberry exclaimed in disbelief.
"You have a problem with that?" Stolas asks, turned to her with a serious expression on his face.
"Oh, no! No I don't! I'm just surprised." Mrs. Mayberry replied.
"Well, get started. I'll be in my study if you need anything and my daughter happy help you during your task." Stolas told her as he left the living room.
Mrs. Mayberry then sat down with them and noticed Antauri surprised that she's the same client who hired the I.M.P. for killing Martha and her family.
"So, it's been some time when we first met and hired them to kill that whore. And...hearing that you killed them on your own." Mrs. Mayberry said with an awkward smile, but regained her composure. "The reason why I'm here because of Stolas, I'm here to teach you something."
Mrs. Mayberry started unpacking her stuff of paper, pencils, and some children books on the coffee table.
"Do you know the alphabet?" Mrs. Mayberry asked, turns to the white hellhound.
"I wish, but I didn't." Antauri said sadly which it got both Mrs. Mayberry and Octavia shocked.
"Um, how old are you?" Mrs. Mayberry asks.
"6." Antauri answered.
"Hmm, well let's get started then." Mrs. Mayberry said as they start on their first lesson.
After a few minutes of his first lesson, Antauri was doing very well, but still has trouble learning to read and write. Mrs. Mayberry did her best to be patient with him, given him a children's book that is kindergarten level and she guided him of what phonics words to say.
"Okay now, read this sentence." Mrs. Mayberry said. "'Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.'"
"Jack...and...Jill...went u...p the hill to fetch a p...pail of water..." Antauri repeats, still struggling while reading the book.
"Good. Good. You just need to learn a little more of the phonics. Now, let's do some word flashcards." Mrs. Mayberry suggested, pulls the flashcards out. "Say the word on the card."
As Mrs. Mayberry pulled the first word up, Antauri struggled a little but Octavia whisper the phonic sound in his ear.
"Blue." Antauri answered.
"Good." Mrs. Mayberry said, then pulls another word. "What is this word?"
"Um...Fi...sh." Antauri answered.
Antauri struggled as he kept going, but Octavia helped him with a few words. After an hour, they took a break real quick when Mrs. Mayberry walked out for a smoke while Octavia sets Antauri on her lap and lets him rest on her.
"You'll get better soon." Octavia told him. "But I have a question, why did you foster dad from the living world never taught you to read or write?"
"I tried to talk to him about going to school, but he didn't even care about that or me. I even go there years ago at pre-k and those kids my age picked on me because of the way I looked." Antauri explains sadly.
"Sounds like your foster dad is nothing but a heartless monster." Octavia states.
"Honestly, yes. He doesn't even want to play with me or even talk to me. All I ever got was yelling and getting beaten by him." Antauri said.
Octavia was shocked and almost dropped some tears, felt really bad for him.
"And to be honest, I'm just glad my foster dad got what he deserves which is why Blitzo, Millie, and Moxxie killed him and came to my life." Antauri continued.
Just then, Octavia saw her mother coming back from her shopping spree and sees Antauri on her lap.
"What is he doing here?" Stella asks.
"That Imp brought him over since Dad hired someone to teach Antauri how to read and write, learning school stuff." Octavia replies.
Stella then understood, thought that Stolas would try to teach him something that's too much for him handle, but noticed that the white hellhound is lacking education which it makes sense. But she noticed of his appearance.
"When's the last time they give him a haircut and his fur trimmed?" Stella asks. "And why is he wearing those clothes that look a little run down?"
Antauri touched his hair, noticed it was getting thicker. His fur was also getting shaggier along with his tail and his claws.
"Mom, he's fine." Octavia protests.
"Not from my eyes. He needs to look respectful and formal if he's going to be in my house." Stella points out. After he's done from his schooling, bring him to my room and I'll be needing your help on trimming those claws along with his fur."
Later on, Mrs. Mayberry continued teaching her reading lesson to him. Antauri began to understand on reading the book a little when he started to read clearly a little, but still need improvement.
"Good job for today. But tomorrow, I'll be bringing some different books for you to read, and please study on the words I gave you on your assignment." Mrs. Mayberry explains.
"I will." Antauri replied with a nod.
Mrs. Mayberry smiled and went home. Then, Octavia carried Antauri to her mother's room, knocked on the door. Stella opens the door as she and Octavia takes the white hellhound inside of the room. Stella took all of the clothes off of him, except the underwear, placed him into the vanity chair and made him face the mirror. He was a little nervous when Stella and Octavia pulled out some hair scissors and hair products. He closed his eyes as Octavia and Stella began snipping and brushing his hair and fur. He felt a few hidden knots being pulled out a little.
It's been going on for long 30 minutes when the three Imps, Loona, and two Cherubs arrived at Stolas mansion. Both Keenie and Collin gave Stolas an explanation of their situation, telling him that they've got nowhere else to go and decided to live in Hell to work for the I.M.P. while help keeping the money flowing. Stolas understood their explanation.
"Ugh, what is taking him so fuckin' long?!" Blitzo shouts impatiently.
"Now Blitzey, it will only take a while since Stella and Via are grooming him real quick." Stolas told him. "But apparently, it's taking longer than I thought it would."
Meanwhile, Antauri felt lighter and noticed that Stella started spraying the hair spray and brushing his hair a little bit more.
"There, all done." Stella said.
Antauri opened his eyes and noticed he looked very different. His hair, his fur, and his tail was shortened a bit and was nicely brushed and trimmed, and his claws are well-trimmed and shortened. Stella carried him to the bed, started to dress him up with some old formal clothes for his size. Stella then stood him up, fixed his collar and puts a red bowtie on his neck.
"Ok, now you look the way I wanted you to be." Stella said as she showed him the mirror.
Antauri couldn't help but smiled of his new look, turns to her as he embraced her. Stella smiles back at the white hellhound while hugs him in return. Octavia then carries him out of the room and heading toward the living room. The three Imps, the two Cherubs, and Loona jumped in shock of what Stella did to him and Stolas was surprised and amazed which gotten the white hellhound blushed a little. They decided to stay for dinner and Stella wanted to teach Antauri some table manners while they wait.
However, what they didn't know is that Martha and her family were watching them since she got suspicious of seeing Mrs. Mayberry coming here earlier.
"Tomorrow, my family and I are gonna have a little fun with you, little puppy." Martha said with a sinister laugh which she and her family are now demons.
Martha and her family were keeping watch of looking through the dining room window of the mansion, sees Loona and Octavia playing on their phones while Keenie and Millie clings to him with a squeal, much to white hellhounds annoyance. Blitzo and Stolas looks at him in amusement, watching Antauri helpless being sandwiched between the two. Moxxie and Collin tried to pull the two girls away from Antauri for him to have some space. Stella began teaching Antauri some table manners and being a gentlemen. Antauri learned very easily since he's afraid of making her mad, and she tested him on a few tasks. Like making him sit up straight, no elbows and puts a napkin on his lap. The Imp butlers came in and served them dinner. Stella sets Antauri up a plate of some beef steak, some green beans, and mashed potatoes with gravy.
They started eating and Stella kept close on Antauri to make sure he does his table manners. He did so and uses a knife and a fork on his steak, cutting a small pieces. He's doing well that Sella decided to stop look at him and eats.
Two Weeks Later
Antauri was beginning to get better of reading and writing that he made a letter to Mrs. Mayberry. After she read it, she never had a loving happy feeling in a long time after her suicidal death. She kept teaching him Monday through Friday at Stolas' home and teach him different school subjects, with Keenie and Collin given her a helping hand. Antauri is having some struggles between math, history, science, and grammar. After the lesson was over, Antauri hugged Mrs. Mayberry for the first time it made her hug back with a smile.
Later on, Loona picked them up and headed back to the I.M.P. HQ. Blitzo was smoking some weed in his room which kinda made a huge burning smell. Antauri, Loona, Keenie, and Collin started coughing and she opened a few windows to get the smoke out. Just then, Moxxie and Millie came in from their date and started coughing by the smoke and the smell of weed.
"Oh god! What the fuck?!" Moxxie shouted as he started coughing.
Then, Blitzo came out of his room, very high and smoking another weed.
"Oh hi...everyone. If you want to relax, be my guest since I'm going to enjoy more of this mind-numbing medicine to smoke with." Blitzo said, which he's very high.
Moxxie, Millie, Keenie, and Collin decided to head home for the day while Loona decides to take Antauri to go do some shopping at the clothing store. Loona carried the white hellhound in her arms while they walk in the city of Hell. There were a few demons that gave him a scary smiles and scary glasses which Antauri growls at them, given them a warning. Loona did the same by growling at them which it's enough for them to get the message as they headed inside a store. There were many women demons looking at the bras and hot dresses, which Antauri didn't think it's a good idea when he noticed them changing in the open instead of the fitting room. Loona then covered his eyes until they've reached a secluded area of where she likes to get her heavy metal clothing. She told Antauri to sit down and stay close to her while she browses through the racks.
Meanwhile, Martha came in the store to find Loona and Antauri since she and her family followed them here. Apparently, her husband and her kids stayed behind while she acted natural and sees them. Antauri flicked his ears while picking up the scent, but just as when he caught it, he knew that something was wrong until a bra accidentally fell on his head, making him yelp. Loona noticed and laughed a little.
"Relax, kid, it's only a bra." Loona said as she takes it off his head.
Just then, the few girl demons came close to where they are, one of them was a Dragon demon and the other was a Succubus. Antuari kept his guard when the succubus gave him a smirk and a kissing sound, much to his disgust. Martha then kept watch and to see Antauri can be alone. After an hour, Loona got what she wanted and headed to checkout, paid for the clothes. They left the store and walked back to the I.M.P. HQ, but Martha ran when Antauri noticed it.
"Look out!" Antauri shouts when Loona shoves to the side and about to draw his knife, but Raphie knocks him out from behind.
Loona noticed as she growls angrily, about to tackle him when Martha swings her bat right in the face, sent him flying towards the wall. Martha and her family then ran off.
After a good couple of minutes, Loona moaned in pain as she got up.
"Fuck that hurt...Antauri? Antauri?!" Loona shouts.
Loona began to panic and try to find his scent, but it's a little far. Loona grabbed her clothes and called the Imps, Octavia, and the Cherubs for some help.
Meanwhile, Martha took Antauri to a small farmhouse from the city and tied his legs and arms to the bed. Antauri grunts as he opened his eyes.
"So, you finally woke up." Martha said with a smirk.
"You!?" Antauri snarled, growls angrily. "I thought I killed you!?"
"Technically, you did, but there's another thing you should know in Hell. We always wanted revenge, and it's you." Ralphie told him, approaches from the room. "But, we have different ideas, and it'll be...our daughter..."
Antauri isn't going to like what they're going to tell him.
"You see, we've been watching you. Day in and day out, murdering people in the living world, making money, living with them, you made yourself a fine killer." Martha told him. "While we're impressed of your killing spree, we decided to use a different approach. And our daughter is beginning to take a liking of you."
"You may be familiar about us and how we do it, but our daughter wants you and no one else." Ralphie adds when his daughter walk towards her parents. "You kids have fun."
Just as Martha and Ralphie left the room, the demon girl turns to Antauri with a sinister smirk.
"I'm going to enjoy this." The girl said when Antauri tries to get out of the binds.
"You and your family won't get away with this!" Antauri grunts, glaring at her.
"Hmm, let's see...my parents followed you and your friends, then we kidnap you and letting me have you all to myself...I think we can get away with it." The girl said, given him a grin. "And it got me wonder, what it was like to be fucked by a hellhound?!"
It got Antauri very mad, snarled in pure anger when she slowly approaches him as he began pulling his arm. One of the binds snap as he use his claw to free himself, causing the girl to flinch with fright when he got out of the bed.
"You wanna know what's like to be fucked by a hellhound...you're in for a treat..." Antauri said angrily as he charges after the girl with a snarl.
Meanwhile, Loona, the three Imps, the two Cherubs, and Octavia went to go find Antauri, and the hellhound noticed the familiar scent a long time ago, remembers that the white hellhound killed Martha and her family on his own.
"Oh, shit! I know who kidnapped him." Loona grunts with a scowl.
"Who?" Keenie asked.
"That psychopath bitch Martha." Loona replied, leaving the Cherubs shocked.
"Oh shit! I was hoping we never ran into her again." Moxxie muttered in annoyance.
"Well, let's save our hellhound!" Millie shouted as they followed Loona to save Antauri.
Apparently, they're too late because Antauri have already killed Martha and her family out of anger. They noticed the boys head was flung out of the farmhouse and saw Antauri covered in blood, carrying Martha's head. Loona and the others approaches the white hellhound, who's panting heavily and a bloody mess.
"What kept you?" Antauri rhetorically asks.
"Shit! You took these cock-suckers and not leaving us any?!" Blitzo shouts in annoyance. "Gah! Dammit!"
"Did they try anything to you?" Octavia asks with worry.
"They're trying to have their bitchy daughter of theirs to rape me." Antauri told her. "But...it didn't go the way they want."
"I'll say!" Blitzo agrees, impressed of the bloodbath. "Love what you did to the farmhouse, though. Pretty harcore if you ask me."
However, both Keenie and Collin felt sick to their stomach when they saw the blood and gore around the farmhouse. Loona and Millie gives Antauri an embrace.
"Let's get you home." Loona suggested, not caring that her clothes or her fur are soaked in blood.
After they returned to the I.M.P. HQ that night, Loona gave Antauri a bath to clean the blood off of his fur. Blitzo, Moxxie, and Millie gives Keenie and Collin an explanation about Martha and her family, told the Cherubs that they're cannibals who murdered many innocents from the living world while using the dead carcass as their food. They also told them that their previous client, Mrs. Mayberry, hired them to kill Martha and her family because she witnessed her late husband cheating on her and killed him while commit suicide.
It got Keenie and Collin deeply shocked, and it got them wondering if sending people to Heaven is right without considering about gathering information of their crimes, and sins. But none of it matters because they're right now in Hell, and it got to the point that they're gonna have to kill people who have commit a crime and have sinned.
Now, Loona and Antauri are sleeping in her room, embracing to each other. Antauri is trying to forget the moment where the demon girl was about to rape him, but he knows Loona was there for him and they cared about him.
That's it for the 10th chapter.