This is the 15th chapter. I don't own the series of Helluva Boss.
Warning: This story contains strong language, violence, blood and gore, horny demons...and yes, it's for mature audiences. Viewer discretion advised.
Protecting Stella
The scene opens on Loona at her desk, drinking beer with a bored expression while reading a magazine due to I.M.P. being on a mission. Of course, both Keenie and Collin are out in the human world, again, looking for some odd jobs to earn money while try to keep it flowing since Blitzo is still doing a horrible job at business management. The phone on her desk suddenly rings as she answers with a disinterest tone.
"Hello, I.M.P." Loona said, drinks her beer. "Who do you need killed and give me details?"
"This is Stella..."
Loona spits the consent of beer out of her mouth.
"...I would like to hire a bodyguard." Stella informed her when Loona catches her breath.
"Uh, of course your Highness." Loona said nervously.
"Former, actually, I'm getting a divorce by a certain imp sucking asshole." Stella corrects her, leaving Loona confused. "But that's not important right now, is Antauri available? I will accept no one else."
It got Loona concerned since Antauri is with the three imps for a mission, but she got a text as she pulls her cellphone out of her pocket.
'Just got done. Could you open the portal, Loonie?' -Blitzo.
"One second, he just walked in." Loona replied nervously while swallowing a lump on her throat, quickly uses the grimoire to open the portal when the three imps walks through it.
"Woo!" Blitzo cheered. "Not that's how we roll!"
"The Headmaster and the order lies of that foster home were MESSED UP!" Moxxie shouts.
Antauri walk through the portal with the severed head on his hand, which he throws the head towards the portal.
"The kids are safe from that pedophile after I ripped his head off." Antauri said. "But now, they're going to need a new foster home."
"Just like you, that needed a new home and a loving parent, sweetie." Millie points out with a sweet smile, kissed him in the forehead.
"Uh, Antauri." Loona called him, earned his attention. "You should take this. It's important."
Loona was about to hand the phone to Antauri, only to be intercepted by Blitzo.
"Hey! I'm the boss here." Blitzo told her. "I'll talk to them."
Before he can say anything else, Loona just knocked him out by punch him in the face and sent him flying towards the wall. Loona then passes the phone to the white hellhound, causing him to grab the phone and answers it.
"Hello?" Antauri said.
"Ah, Antauri. It's Stella." Stella told him.
"Oh, Stella, is there something you need?" Antauri questions.
"I need you and only you to be my bodyguard tomorrow. I have to meet up with the other nobles for official business." Stella explains. "Seeing as my imp cock obsessed ex-husband is too much of a fool, so I'll be taking care of it on his behalf. We'll be meeting in the afternoon, spend some time together. Does that sound reasonable?"
"Yeah, I'll be there early." Antauri replied.
"Excellent. And of course, you'll be paid handsomely." Stella said. "That's one thing I've liked about you, you're courteous and professional ever since you worked with them, despite your early age. I'll see you tomorrow to pick you up."
"Alright, see you then." Antauri replied, hangs up the phone.
"What is it, Antauri?" Millie asks, concerned.
"It's Stella, she wants me to be her bodyguard by tomorrow." Antauri explains.
Moxxie, Millie, and Loona looked at each other with worry, but remembered that they bodyguarded Stolas and Octavia back in Loo Loo Land. Though, they did a terrible job, mostly because of Blitzo causes a big racket after fighting against Robo-Fizzarolli and both Octavia and Stolas made amends.
"Alright! Pay day for us!" Blitzo cheered.
"She only wants Antauri." Loona told him.
"What kinda bullshit is that?!" Blitzo demands with anger.
"Why don't you ask her yourself?" Antauri asks with a smirk, crossed his arms.
"Uh, so like I said, good luck tomorrow, kid." Blitzo said nervously, having second thoughts while quickly leaves the room.
"You're not taking this job, are you?" Loona asks, feeling worried.
"I already told her I was." Antauri told her. "But, she did say 'ex-husband'. Something tells me things have gotten heat up between these two. I mean, sure they argue all the time."
"I don't think that's our business to figure it out. It's a couple thing." Millie points out. "And we have a pretty good idea why they're about to get a divorce."
"Blitz?" Antauri guessed in a deadpan look, earned a nod from Millie, Loona, and Moxxie. "But still, I know it's not like Loo Loo Land and we did a terrible job for being Stolas' bodyguard. I'm aware of the dangers involved, but I'm still taking that job."
Millie and Loona can tell that Antauri is taking that risk which it got them worried.
"We know, sweetie." Millie said.
"It's just everyone will be gunning for her and we don't wanna lose you, Antauri." Loona adds.
"Look, I know things are getting ugly, but you know I have to take the job." Antauri points out with a sigh. "Stella can pay, and I'm not turning it away."
"We know." Loona said with a smile. "We don't like it, but we know."
"Just...please come back to us." Millie suggests.
"I will." Antauri replied with a nod.
The three of them hugged before they kissed the white hellhounds forehead.
A few minutes later, Antauri was about to leave when Verosika walk towards him.
"Antauri, I heard you and Felicia got into a fight a few days ago back in Gluttony Ring." Verosika said. "What happen?"
"She ask of me to go out with her because of her having a huge crush on me. Though, I reject, and she didn't take it very well. She tried to get me to answer, I snapped at her, and end up leaving with a certain imp and Loona heading back home. And here I am." Antauri explains, but decided to change the subject. "Anyway, I have to bodyguard Stella tomorrow, and before you say anything, I'm aware of the danger and I'm not turning back."
"I know, there's no stopping you." Verosika said. "Just come back in one piece."
Antauri nods.
"And Antauri, I know you've had bad experience, but you should at least give her a chance. And besides, maybe she turns out not as bad as you think." Verosika told him with a smile. "Could you at least think about it?"
Antauri didn't like the idea about what Verosika told him about Felicia Foxhound after learning about her, but he reluctantly complies by given her a nod. As he heads to the elevator, it got Verosika worried.
The scene cuts to Millie and Moxxie's apartment since it's their turn to care of the white hellhound. But just as Antauri was about to head to bed to get some sleep while getting everything ready for tomorrow, he overheard their conversation between the two.
"But Mox, I'm worried!" Millie protests. "I know she only asks for Antauri for becoming her bodyguard, but he'll be killed!"
"What am I supposed to do? I know you're worried, so am I and Loona, but we all know he can take care of himself." Moxxie argued. "I don't want him get killed, either!"
"And if he gets killed, we won't hear the end of it. And I won't forgive myself if anything happens to him!" Millie argues back.
The argument continued which Antauri knows what Millie and Moxxie are talking about. He knows that they mean well, but he can take care of himself and he knows how to fight thanks to them. He also knows that they won't like it, but he doesn't have a choice.
The scene cuts to the next day, Antauri arrived at the I.M.P. HQ, dressed in a black shirt, black leather trench coat, black leather pants, combat boots, and black sunglasses, making him look like Neo from the movie of 'The Matrix'.
He had a pair of Baretta 92FS, pair of Heckler & Koch MP5K, Sa vs 61 Skorpion (custom), Franchi SPAS-12, Micro Uzi, and a pair of Kukri Knives hidden in his coat, and M60 on his briefcase along with magazines in his bag.
When the limo arrives, Stella opens the door which she's wearing a black dress with two bracelets on her right wrist, black feathered sleeves on her arms, two chokers around her neck, teardrop earrings, a jeweled hairclip on her head.
"Ah, Antauri, glad you came." Stella said with a smile. "And you look rather dashing."
"Thanks, you look beautiful." Antauri compliments which Stella giggled a bit.
"Why thank you." Stella thanked him. "Now, shall we?"
Antauri replied with a nod as he went inside of the limo and an imp butler drives off. They've been acting quiet for the past few minutes since they left I.M.P. HQ, and the white hellhound wanted to know how did she and Stolas end up divorced.
"I know that look, you wanted to know how me, and Stolas end up divorced?" Stella inquires, leaving Antauri surprised. "It take long to figure out, I suppose I'll tell you. Ever since Stolas and I were married is because his father and mine have made an arrangement for marriage. Of course, we weren't happy about it at first...mostly because he kept looking at the walls, not wanted to do anything with me and I used every method to get him to..."
Stella then stops herself since the white hellhound is in front of her.
"Sorry, I'm sure you get the idea of what I meant." Stella apologizes, then clears her throat. "So, anyway, at the time, we finally had a daughter which is Octavia. But apparently, Stolas went ahead cheated on me behind my back. And you know the rest and the reason why we constantly argued."
"Because of Blitz did it and took his grimoire for going to the living world." Antauri guessed, earned a nod from her.
"He and that imp done it so many times, it really gets to the point that I'm tormenting him for the reminder of what he did. Thus, he never told me of where he's gone whenever he gets a chance to leave before me." Stella adds. "It comes to the point that we're at our wits end, after Stolas explains that his Goetia family only needs a precautionary heir."
"Wow, that sounded like his family didn't care much about you or him." Antauri states.
"Well, mostly me because I was cruel to him, and his father being neglectful to his own son." Stella points out. "But Antauri, there's something you should know...I've hired Striker to kill Stolas..."
It got Antauri shocked that Stella was the one who hired Striker.
"But that changed after he informed me of those demons coming after you, I believe it's your former foster father and a big game hunter." Stella continued. "So, I have him watch over you."
"But Stella, if you really don't like Stolas, why hire Striker to kill him?" Antauri asks.
"I told you, he cheated on me." Stella told him. "But there's been a change of plans after learning about those demons coming after you."
"Like Martha and her family?" Antauri inquires, leaving her confused. "They're psychopathic cannibals who tries to rape me...but I was able to kill them since they pick the wrong place at the wrong time to mess with me."
Stella was surprised that Antauri told her about the four cannibals, but glad that he's able to kill them.
"For now, we should be focusing on business." Stella said, changing the subject. "I have to meet the other royals and a couple overlords, then we're attending the opera, and finally a lavish dinner. However, to inform you, the Goetia family has made a lot of enemies, and one of them might be hiring some assassins to kill me."
"And if that happens, that's where I'm playing my part by killing them." Antauri states.
"Precisely." Stella agrees with a smile.
The scene cuts to the two of them entering the Opera House with Stella, the nobles, and few overlords are meeting for a show and dinner afterwards. Antauri paid no mind what they were talking about because he's only here to work, not mingle. Sometimes, he would hear derogatory comment about how a 'Lowly Hellhound' was standing amongst their kind, which he either responded to rolling his eyes or flips them off. Throughout his life, he had become used to being look down on because of his appearance. Plus, he has no idea who most of these demons were, so their insults meant nothing to him.
However, what got his spine shivered is the two radio demons known as Vox, Valentino, and Velvette.
Vox is a slim, tech-themed demon, standing approximately 7 feet with a flat-screen TV for a head. The monitor projects two eyes with red sclera and light blue pupils, the outline and wrinkles on his left eye being cyan, and a mouth with sharp teeth that glows light blue. His skin is dark grey and his fingers are light blue from the second knuckle. He wears a dark blue tuxedo with lighter stripes and a black and red striped shirt. He has a red bow tie and a light blue undershirt with an upside-down broadcast symbol. On his head, he wears a black top hat with red and blue designs reminiscent of a broadcast symbol and radio wave symbol, respectively. His TV antennae stick out the top of his hat, the right one bent into a zigzag.
Velvette is a slim demon with slightly grey-brown skin. she has long, curly hair tied into large pigtails which are velvet on the tips and pale blue at the ends, with white swirls streaks on her pigtails and on her bangs and with black hair ties holding her hair up. Her eyes have white irises and red sclera, and she seems to be wearing a white clown eyeliner with burgundy eyeshadow and black lipstick with a strip across the center of her mouth. She wears a black shirt with two hearts on it, and a gray vest with a fur collar that has red hearts. She wears velvet-blue striped pants with a heart-shaped buckle belt, and maroon shoes with white pom poms on top. She also wears two skull earrings on each side of her head and fingerless black striped evening gloves, with the alternate colors of the right and left being white and velvet, respectively.
Valentino is a tall, slender moth demon with greyish-lavender skin and cerise-pink eyes, over which he is always depicted wearing gold-rimmed heart-shaped sunglasses with cerise-pink lenses. He has a wide mouth full of sharp, red colored, pointed teeth, possesses a single golden fang that sits to his far left of center. His stature is tall, estimated to be around 10 feet, which he emphasizes with long black heeled boots. He wears a foot-length velvet-red coat, which features a white fur trim at the wrists, as well as black and white striped fur trim down the coat center-front of the bottom hem. A large fluffy white collar decorated with small red love-hearts is wrapped around his neck, this plumes up from his coats break-line, although it is unclear whether this collar is attached to his body or the coat. His coat is pinned with gold chain and gold love-heart shaped broach fastens at the breast. He accessorizes with a matching vivid-red top hat, that has a wide, asymmetrical zebra-printed hat-band. Two appendages sprout from the band of the hat; on his left, one black spiked antennae, and on his right, what appears to be a large black and white striped feather. He also wears fishnets under his coat and is bald.
"Uh, Stella, who exactly are those three?" Antauri questions, tried to keep it together which Stella noticed his expression.
"That moth demon is Valentino, he's an Overlord and the owner of Porn Studios. His associates are Vox and Velvette, them two are Overlords and they're clearly bad news." Stella explains. "You best stay close and not to interact with them."
Antauri replied with a nod, but they heard a radio static and are approached by a demon named Alastor.
Alastor is a slim, dapper demon with beige-colored skin, and usually his broad smile full of sharp, yellow teeth. He's around the same height as Vox, with two standing at approximately 7 feet. He sports a pinkish-red cropped, angled bob-cut with black tips at the end and two large, black tipped tufts on his hair extending from the top of his head, evoking the ears of a deer. The style has an undercut at the back, and two small black antlers protruding from the crown, which can grow in size in his full demon form. His eyes have dark-red sclera, bright-red irises and thin black pupils. His forearms and lower legs fade to dark grey, and he has hoofed toes and red fingers. He wears a red pinstriped coat with dark-red lapels piped with white, which is ragged along with the bottom. Underneath he wears a bright red dress-shirt with a black cross on his chest, and long black dress pants with matching bright red cuffs. He also wears a dark-red oval-shaped monocle, rimmed with black, over his red eye. He accessorizes with black knotted bowtie with a bright red center, black gloves with red at the fingertips, and black pointed-toe boots with red deer hoofprints emblazoned on the soles. He also carries a thin cane with a sentient vintage style microphone attached to it, which he uses to play sound effects and broadcast his voice.
"Lady Stella, a pleasure to meet you!" Alastor greets her, then saw Antauri. "I see you brought your hellhound."
"What you say?!" Antauri snarled angrily, but Stella restrains him by raising her arm.
"He's my bodyguard." Stella corrects him.
"Really? He's a bit too young for working as your bodyguard." Alastor states, rubbing his chin.
"Oh, don't let his age fool you, he's deadly with any weaponry he gets hold of." Stella told him.
"Is that so?" Alastor said surprisingly, turns to Antarui. "My apologies. Smile, young one! You're never fully dressed without one."
Antauri can only respond with a growl, showing his teeth.
"Hmm, a feisty one, I like him." Alastor said with a smile.
Then, the three of them are approached by another Overlord named Rosie.
Rosie is a slender demon with pale white skin, sharp white teeth and a really long neck. She sports a short white hair, although it could be tied up under her hat and, similar to Alastor, she's always smiling. She wears a red dress with grey shoulder pads, a black belt, and black wrists. Her red sun hat has two skulls and three black flowers on the front side, with a large red and black plume on the top side.
"You aren't bothering these two, are you Alastor?" Rosie questions.
"Oh, my apologies, Lady Rosie. I was greeting Lady Stella and her hellhound, Antauri." Alastor told her when Rosie turns to the white hellhound.
"So, your name is Antauri?" Roise asks.
"Yes, I am." Antauri replied. "And you're Roise, right?"
"That's right." Roise said with a giggle. "I must say, you seem too young for being Stella's bodyguard."
"I'm pretty sure I get that a lot." Antauri said with a shrug, causing Stella, Alastor, and Rosie to chuckle a bit.
"Now on to business." Rosie suggests, turns to Stella and Alastor. "Lady Stella, Alastor, and I would like to speak with you."
Soon as Stella, Alastor, and Rosie step away for a private conversation, Antauri leans against the wall with his arms crossed when he was approached by Angel Dust.
Angel Dust has a slender build and is the tallest demon, estimated to stand 8 feet with his heels on. His fur is white and he has a mop of fluffy white hair that extends from both the front and back of his head, with splotches of light-pink across it. He also has a distinctive and focal light-pink heart pattern on the back of his head. The light-pink outline of a heart also encircles his chest, the bottom point of which extends past of his waistband and down to his crotch area. His eyelids are light pink and the color extends up to his eyebrows, giving the effect of eyeshadow, and his eyelashes are dark and think. His irises are cerise pink. His right eye has a light yellow sclera, his left eye has a dark sclera. He has a wide mouth full of sharp, pointed teeth and possesses a golden fang that sits slightly to his right of center. He has three cerise-pink dots under each eyes, which are intended to evoke freckles, although they're actually another set of smaller eyes. His chest is actually composed entirely of fluffy fur, which he intentionally pushes up into a breast-like formation with his tightly pinned jacket. He wore a long light pink suit-blazer with horizontal white stripes down the length, reddish-grey miniskirt, and long reddish-grey thigh-high heeled boots, accessorized with a reddish-grey bowtie with a cerise pink center and a black choker. On his top set of arms he wears a long cerise pink long gloves with white detailing at the cuffs, on his bottom set of arms he wears long white gloves.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here? A hellhound in a...wait, you wouldn't happen to be Antauri, would you?" Angel Dust asks, looking at the white hellhound.
"And if I am?" Antauri questions, raised his eyebrow.
"Dude, you went viral all over the social media; I mean, you with that hellhound and singing at Ozzie's!" Angel Dust said. "Man, you became a big deal around here. I mean...I'm your biggest fan."
Antauri was about to say something, but Valentino approaches the two.
"Now what do we have here? Did you make a 'new friend'?" Valentino asks with a sinister smirk, places his hand on the white hellhounds face as he examine him. "Oh yes, he'll make a fine addition. In fact, I already have the perfect film for this little one."
Antauri then swats his away, much to Valentino's dismay.
"Beat it, bug breath, I'm on a job. Unless you want your balls getting shot." Antauri said with a snarl. "Don't think I won't, because I will!"
"What did you say, you little..."
"Now, I know you aren't planning to raise your hand against my bodyguard." The voice of Stella said.
Valentino pales upon seeing Stella and Rosie glaring at him while Alastor's smile became more malicious.
"Uh, of course not, your highness." Valentio said nervously. "I was just..."
"Keep away from him, NOW!" Stella shouts.
"Of course." Valentino replied, quickly walks away followed by Angel Dust.
"Are you right?" Stella asks, turns to Antauri with worry.
"I'm fine, just didn't like that bug breath anyway." Antauri answered. "And you're not kidding he's bad news."
"We notice Valentino had his sights on you. And apparently, he would try to have you work with him at the Porn Studios and have you done something vulgar." Rosie told him. "You can rest assured, we won't let anything happen to you."
"I concur." Stella agrees as Antauri gives them a thankful smile. "We'll discuss our plans at a later date. Come along, Antauri, the show is about to start."
During the show, Antauri killed off the demon who tried to kidnap/assassinate Stella with his kukri knives while not wasting any bullets. Later at dinner, the nobles are all sitting around a table and ordering food with their respective bodyguards close by. Quite a few of the nobles comment on how effective and efficient when Stella brags about the white hellhound.
"Velvette, what are you doing?" Vox asks, turns to her.
"Just getting this little puppy's name out." Velvette answered, tapping her phone.
Antauri notice a waiter heading towards Stella and his nose twitches as he smells suspicious. He pulls out his Baretta 92 FS and fires at the waiter, killing him which gotten the nobles attention.
"Your food is spiked, Stella. Someone has poisoned your food." Antauri told her with a serious glare.
Then, two dozens of assassins consisting of Imps, Hellhounds, Sex Demons, and a few Sinners armed with angelic weaponry steps out of the shadows and aim them at Stella and the other Overlords and Nobles.
"Get down!" Antauri shouts, tackles her to the ground. "You okay?"
"Yes." Stella replied with a nod.
Antauri pops out while pulling out his pair of Heckler & Koch MP5K, and effortlessly shoot three of assassins dead. You run across the floor to hide behind the pillar and draw their fire, killing a few more of them as he go. One of the Succubus was about to kill him when a shot to the head was heard, killed her as Striker revealed himself.
"Striker!?" Antauri exclaims.
"Thought you could use a hand." Striker told him with a smirk. "Seems the party is started without me."
Both Striker and Antauri are now working together as they gun down the other five assassins. One in particular is an Imp, who's shot with enough force to launch him through the window. A Hellhound tackles you over the bar and a blessed-tipped pencil falls out of his pocket. Antauri picks it up and stab him multiple times in the throat, before standing up while he chokes on his blood. Antauri then put a pencil against the wall, and shove an imp into it, the tip punctured through his brain.
A female sinner swings knife at Striker, before he dodge and slam her head against the wall while stabs her in the head with his tail.
One of the demons was about to fire his blessed-tipped gun when Antauri throws his kukri knife into its skull which the blade was impaled through the back of his head. He walks over to retrieve it and see that the remaining assassins have run out of ammo.
"Let's dance." Antauri said with a smirk.
Two imps rushed at you and the white hellhound effortlessly decapitated their head. A husband/wife Hellhound team rush to double team you, but Angel Dust gunned them down with the Heckler & Koch MP5K, killing the hellhounds. Striker snaps the female Imp in the neck and Antauri blocks the Incubus' blade while cleave him open from the groin to the bust.
"Thanks." Antauri thanked them, panting.
"No problem. Can't have you getting killed." Angel Dust said with a smirk.
"It's the least I can do, I owe them for helping me." Striker adds with a smirk. "They helped me out many times, and it's only right that I return the favor."
Antauri nods with an understanding when Stella approaches him.
"You okay?" Antauri inquires.
"I am now, thanks to you, Striker, and Angel Dust." Stella replied with a nod. "You three come with me."
The scene cuts to the private room as Stella stands with a briefcase full of money, showing Antauri, Striker, and Angel Dust.
"You successfully guarded me and protected Antauri, now I have to uphold my end." Stella told them. "Your payment. And you will find a significant bonus for your efforts."
"Much oblige, ma'am." Striker thanked her, tipped his hat as he grabs some cash and then left. "Pleasure doin' business with you."
Angel Dust then grabs the cash, then quickly left with a grin.
"Your generosity is appreciated, Stella." Antauri said with a smile.
"Think nothing of it." Stella said, places her hands on his shoulders and kneels down to his level. "You perform your duties perfectly."
"Thank you." Antauri thanked her as he hugs her, which she hugs him in return with a warm smile.
That's it for the 15th chapter.