After watching the first season of Hazbin Hotel on Prime Video, I immediately became a big fan of the show. Which is why I decided, after a good friend of mine suggested it, to make a fanfic of it, with this time adding a couple of OC's into the story.
This is not a way to replace the main characters and their roles, but mere a way to add a few more heroes. This is my way of how the series would go during and after season 1.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the songs nor Hazbin Hotel or any of its characters. All rights go to A24 and the creator Vivienne Medrano. I only own my own characters.
Checking into Hazbin Hotel
CHAPTER 1
Abandon all despair, ye who enter the hotel
They say… that when you die… you see a bright light… reaching out for it… entering the Kingdom of Heaven.
I saw that light… and I entered it… reached out for it… until I was thrown out in a matter of seconds!
That was my fate… An angel figure read a piece of paper, possibly my file to see what sins I committed and if I was worthy enough to enter Heaven… Just a few seconds he looked and coldly said, "The girl can stay. Throw the father into Hell, I don't care."
It went so fast. Her face… her horrifying face and teary eyes… was the last thing I saw of her… My daughter… my sweet little daughter… taken away from me… while I was thrown out of the heavens.
"DAAADYYYYY!"
The man gasped in horror as his eyes opened wide. To his great shock, he saw that he was falling down very deep. "Wha…? NO! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
He yelled his lungs out as he fell deeper and deeper into the darkness, until he saw flashing lights or something before seeing the ground level!"
He closed his eyes tight, waiting for the inevitable hard crash that would've killed any human being in an instant!
But as he falls hard on the ground… he felt nothing. No pain, no blood or that all of his bones were broken.
He groaned while trying to get up, rubbing his face "Uuugh…! What…?" he looked around, finding himself in the middle of some kind of large unknown city, with the skies burning red and a large pentagram hovering above it. The people looked far different, with most of them looking demon-like "Whe… where am I?! What is this place?!"
Two flashing lights then appeared, getting brighter and brighter as it raced towards him with speed, making him yelp and quickly jumped out of the way while the car blew its horn!
"Asshole!" the female lizard-demon called who was driving the fast sportscar while going further with speed.
The man panted and quickly ran off the street, bumping onto a guy who had big goat-horn, groaning at him "Watch where you going, you… fucking drunk!" he yelled before taking a big sip of his alcoholic drink.
He ran through the crowd, bypassing several people or keeping distance from them as he was in total shock, but called to his little daughter "Lucy? Lucy?! Where are you?!"
He accidentally bumped onto another demon and fall backwards. The demon, being a grey skinned female with black eyes and razor-sharp teeth and was wearing an 1800's Victorian dress, looked down at the man, forming an insane large smirk.
"Well, well, what have we here? A little snack." She said, showing she was a cannibal.
"AAAH!" the man screamed as the woman was about to attack her but kicked her hard away from him before quickly standing up and making a run for it!
He kept running like crazy, bypassing a lot of demons and imps, stores having the worst things on sale imaginable that were totally illegal to sell to any normal humans during the day.
As he ran into an abandoned alleyway, the man collapsed on the ground as he was out of breath. He shook his head heavily, not wanting to belief where he was "No… no, it can't be! This can't be happening! This can't be happening!" he then looked at his own reflection at a small pool of rainwater, seeing to his shock that his skin was now grey, and his dark-blond hair was now raven-black.
So many emotions ran his mind: Fear, confusion, frustration and sadness.
He remembered what happened before landing in this 'place', seeing flashbacks of him losing control over his car while looking at his frightened daughter… before he crashed hard against a tree, going to… heaven, before he was cast out within a few seconds by an angel looking figure while his daughter was left behind.
With his back against the wall, he held his legs close to his chest and buried his face in his hands "No, no, no…! This can't be…! It can't be!"
He heard another man walking into the street. He looked, seeing he was 7 feet tall, wearing a pinkish-red suit with a black knotted bowtie, black long pants and red/black shining shoes. In his hand he was holding a thin cane with on the top of it a vintage microphone like those radio broadcasters used a century ago.
The fancy looking man stopped, turning himself as he looked down at the disoriented man.
He looked for a moment in fear as the fancy demon had a broad smile showing his yellow razor-sharp teeth.
However, the inanely smiling demon chuckled as he said with a radio-voice, "My, my. Another discarded soul for Hell itself, it seems." But stared at him with some curiosity "Interesting. You're not like any of the usual souls that fall down here."
The guy blinked for a moment in shock, hearing to his confirmation where he is "So… this is…?"
"Why, yes, my good sir. You've just fallen down into Hell. Final stop before you'll probably ruthlessly be exterminated by the Exorcists. If you're unlucky and not use your brain, of course."
The guy was now even more confused "Exterminated? Exorcists? What are you talking about?!"
The fancy-looking demon chuckled, "Ah, yes. On earth, you people aren't known with the real deal that happens in the afterlife, hm?" he then took out something from his pocket, revealing to be an old pocket-watch "Though I would love to give you the full details, my good sir, but unfortunately I have a schedule to keep." He then pointed with his cane to the end of the street "There's a place around the corner called 'Needy Rooms' where you can stay for the time being. You may survive in there for a little while," he then stared at him very sinisterly, growing a bit larger while deer horns grew on his head "unless they rip out your organs and sell it on the street."
The guy gasped in shock and held his back against the wall.
The fancy-looking demon then transformed back, stating while still broadly smiling, "Oh, don't worry. If I wanted to rip out your organs, I would've done that by now. But, alas, that's not my style." He then turned, leaving for his 'appointment' "Best of luck, not that you'll need it," he said in in a humorous way.
The guy slowly got up, but called back to him "But… who are you?"
He stopped, seemingly glitching a bit like he was annoyed that he didn't knew who he was, but turned back to him and said with politeness as he'd just arrived in Hell and was then delighted to introduce himself to him, "Oh, excuse me, where are my matters? Alastor is my name, better known as: The Radio Demon." He then asked, "And what would your name be, sir?"
The guy rubbed his left arm and answered, "It's… John. My name is John Randell."
Alastor gave a shrug "Hm. Probably not a name I'll remember in the long shot," he then turned and left "Well, best be on my way. Cheerio, Mr. Randell."
John sighed "Yeah. Thanks." He turned and headed to the other end of the alleyway, going to find the place called 'Needy Rooms.'
But unknown to John, Alastor peeked around the corner, watching John leaving. Alastor narrowed his eyes at him with interest as he sensed something in John's soul "Curious, indeed, Mr. Randell," but then shrugged and left "Ah, well. We'll see if he can survive Hell long enough. If not, he'll just be another good meal for those in Cannibal Town."
That I encountered The Radio Demon on my first day in Hell is something that only a few would believe, while most of 'em won't as they would probably think that I made that story up just to get more attention. I didn't care, as I more or less had to think about myself to survive in this place of never ending suffering.
The 'Needy Rooms' did indeed provided me shelter for a few days, until they said I had to pay if I wished to stay. I decided to move on and find a different place, as 'Needy Rooms' was crawled with all sorts of bad people, with many of these costumers intending to kill others and harvest their organs to be sold to dealers while their corpses are thrown on the street like garbage, or as food for cannibals.
As time went on, I began to know more about Hell itself and how it's exactly run, which surprisingly was nothing like what I had read in the Bible or what the priests taught us in church during Sunday service. Hell is ruled by Lucifer and his wife Lilith, while each section of Pentagram City was run by an Overlord who's in charge over millions of souls who all made a deal with one of them them for all kinds of reasons.
Me? I stayed out of it by selling my soul to an Overlord just to make my 'afterlife' a bit easier, as I decided to earn my money the hard way as I did when I was still alive.
But just to survive Hell by avoiding being killed by punk or working hard to earn a little bit of money to buy food or pay my rent was one thing. No. It was the annual Extermination that worried me even more.
As Hell's numbers grew, an army of angels, known as Exorcists, would come down to Hell every year in order to wipe out a big portion of Hell's population to prevent their numbers would grow too large that they would rise up against Heaven. It was sickening, that these angels could be so… heartless, as is if they even have any hearts.
Witnessing the first Extermination during my time in Hell, I was shocked to the core, seeing these Exorcists kill any Hell inhabitant they could find. They would even kill children given the chance. I was lucky to be alive.
As the years passed, I managed to at least adapt myself to Hell's mostly hostile environment, having learned to defend myself if the time came. The gun I bought wasn't cheap, nor were the bullets, but at least it gave me a chance to fight back if anyone in Hell ever tried to hurt or kill me. And I managed to keep myself out of trouble, and being able to avoid being slaughtered by those Exorcist-Angels when the annual Extermination began.
It's hard to make friends in Hell, considering how bad most of the people are here than back on earth. A few years ago, I had a friendly couple living next to me whose husband was working in the same arms factory as I do. Sadly, they were killed in that year's Extermination.
But thankfully, there was one person in Hell who wasn't as bad as the others and was actually a nice person, close to what I am. It's funny to hear that this person… is in fact a stripper. But that comes later.
As I come home late after a hard day of work, I sometimes look out the window, watching the skyline of this damned city, with most of the people being rotten to the core, with the good people being the first to fall. But as I feel like I can easily lose hope, one thing always keeps me afloat, as I watch the very shining white dot in the sky, being Heaven itself, hoping… that my baby girl is looking down on me. I pray… that we will see each other again… anyhow.
But who or what could possibly help me escape this place… and reunite me with my daughter?
9 YEARS LATER
The alarm clock goes off on the nightstand. John presses the button, switching it off, showing it was 07:00 AM.
He rubbed his eyes before sitting straight and stretched his arms. He sighed while rubbing his back, still feeling hurt after doing a double shift and hasn't come home until 01:00 AM.
John's home was practically a motel room, with the wallpaper in bad shape, a small desk at the window, a closet that had a few clothes including John's factory uniform, and a small bathroom with a shower and toilet. Sadly, he had no kitchen or at least a small stove to cook, only a microwave to warm up some of that food in a plastic bowl you warm up.
John slowly rose up from his bed, only wearing his underwear and walked over to the window, peeking through the curtains for a moment, seeing several people already in the partly ruined courtyard of the motel, being either drug dealers or ordinary demons going out for work or whatever they were busy with.
John sighed as he closed the curtain, walking to the bathroom to take a quick shower before warming up a quick breakfast in the microwave, being 2 sandwiches with lamb meat. While the bread tasted a bit weird, the meat was at least tasting better.
Once he'd finished his breakfast, he started dressing up. But as he did, he could hear next door 2 people making loudly passionate sex.
"AAHHHH! FUCK! FUCK! AHHHH FUCK, YEAH! FUCK ME HARD IN THE ASS, BABY! AHHH! FUUUCK YEAH!" The hooker next door moaned out loud.
John groaned annoyed "Ugh! Fucking early birds," he mentioned those who wanted to have a quick fuck with a hooker in the morning, or those who paid hookers well enough to spend the entire night with them.
Once John had put his clothes on, consisting of a normal red/white t-shirt, dirty jeans with a few holes in it and sneakers, trying hard to ignore the fucking next door, he took his 9 mm pistol from his nightstand and looked at it for a moment.
As he inspects his gun and the number of bullets it had left, John noticed that the moaning next door had stopped.
John sighs with some relief as he puts his gun in his back pocket "Pfff. Finally."
Suddenly, there was a heavy knock on the door!
"RANDELL! Open the goddamn door NOW!"
John recognized that voice, giving an annoying groan "Oh for fuck's sake." But trying to stay calm, he walked up to the door and unlocked it "I'm coming."
But as soon as he opened his front door, an angry eagle-demon pushed inside, holding a big axe while angrily staring at John while he quickly took some steps backwards.
"Where's my rent, you little dipshit?!" The eagle-demon demanded "You were supposed to pay me 2 months' worth of rent yesterday!"
John immediately held his hands up as he didn't want to escalate things "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Mr. Boxer! Relax! I got your money."
"You do, huh?! THEN WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU FUCKING PAID ME YESTERDAY AS YOU PROMISED?!"
John, being more or less haven gotten used to being threatened in the years he's been in Hell, calmly stated, "Look, Mr. Boxer, I had a double shift yesterday and when I finally got home, I was exhausted and your office wasn't open, so-"
"So, you thought you could screw me over?!" The eagle-demon Boxer, being John's landlord and owner of the motel.
John shook his head "No! I was going downstairs right bow and pay you before going to work."
Glaring at him with a threatening face, demanded as he held out his hand, wanting his money now, "Give it here." He clearly wasn't going to let John go easily as he'd years of experience with demons and sinners spending 1 or more nights at his motel without paying.
John sighed as he nodded, going through his dirty backpack, taking out his wallet and took out several Hell-Dollar bills and handed it over to Mr. Boxer "Here you go. 2 months' worth of rent, as promised."
Boxer counted the Hell-Dollar bills "50… 100… 200… 250… 350… 400… 500… 600… 650… 750… 800." He nodded and put the money in his pocket and warned John "Next time, you pay me on time, or you can pack your things and leave before I tear you apart and sell your body on the market in Cannibal Town. Got it?!"
John nodded, trying to stay on Boxer's good side, "Sure, Mr. Boxer. It won't happen again. I promise."
Boxer glared at him 1 more time "You better." And left, going back to his small office downstairs.
John sighs deep as he counted the money he'd left, being close to 500 Hell-Dollars. He shrugs while putting his wallet in his pocket "Well, at least I have enough to survive for the rest of the month."
John puts his brown jacket on, puts his work uniform in his backpack and went out with his backpack over his shoulders.
As John closed the door and locked it with his key, the door of the neighbor opened, revealing to be a crocodile-demon drug dealer, giving a lustful tongue kiss to the female white fox-demon wearing a very revealing short sexy black dress that showed a lot of cleavage that you could almost see her nipples and wasn't wearing any panties.
"See ya next time, honey." The wolf-demon hooker lustfully said to her costumer.
The demon-drugdealer chuckled while he gave her a big tip, possibly for allowing him to climax in her anus.
"Ohhh, how kindly of you." she said with a smile as she took her big tip, being at least 300 Hell-Dollars.
"Till next time, sugar." The drugdealer said before leaving.
The fox-demon then turned to John, saying kindly to him "Morning, John," she then asked him with some sympathy, having heard the motel landlord yelling to him "Is Boxer giving you a hard time again?"
John shrugged "Trust me, Cynth, he always gives me a hard time given the chance," but then shook his head, telling the hooker named Cynth "I was a bit late with paying rent. But I paid him now, so… guess I'm off the hook. For now."
"That's good," Cynth said, before leaning against her doorway and asked in a very tempting way while moving her finger from her belly to her chest "You know… I don't have any other appointments for some hours. Why don't ya…" she slowly snakes her hand in her dress, massaging her right breast "… spend an hour or so with me and I'll make you…" she formed a lustful smile "… feel good?"
John had to admit that Cynth was a very hot hooker, if you looked beyond her demon-form, and her offer was very tempting, but reminding himself he had to go to work and hated to show up late.
So, John told her as he shook his head "Sorry, Cynth, but…" he tried to tell her as friendly as possible "I need to go to work now. And it's not you or anything, but… I need to be careful with my money."
Cynth, though disappointed, shrugged while twirling her hair "Your loss, sweety."
John gave a nod and said his goodbyes "Well… see ya."
But as John was going to the stairs, Cynth teased him as she chuckled, knowing already why John was 'saving money' "You really prefer to spend your money on your expensive stripper-girlfriend than having an hour with me? I don't ask for much after all."
John stopped and looked at her, correcting her, "She's not my girlfriend, Cynth. She's just a good friend… and a good listener."
Cynth laughed "Hahahaha. C'mon now, Romeo. I don't have to be intelligent to see that you like her more than a friend."
John ignored her and called while going down the stairs "Goodbye, Cynth!"
John walked through the courtyard of the motel, bypassing some demons that were high on drugs before avoiding a knife that flew in the air as 2 dealers were fighting over a disagreement over the pay for the drugs. John gave a single glance at Mr. Boxer who was reading a newspaper from his desk before he headed into a street, bypassing more demons as he went to work.
It was like normal daily routine as I had back on Earth before I died: Go to work, work my ass for a minimum wage and hope I won't get fired, get back home, eat and go back to sleep for some well-deserved rest before morning came and I had to work through another shitty day.
Yep. Another 'shitty day' here in Hell.
A few streets away from John, 2 women were handing out flyers about 'The Happy Hotel'.
The first woman, the pragmatic and cautious one is named, Vaggie. She has grey skin, long knee-length grayish-white hair with on the back of her head a red hair bow with small tears on each side and two long tails. Her left eye has been replaced with an eyepatch with a red 'X' on it, possibly from losing that eye some time ago. Vaggie's outfit consists of a red blouse with 2 gay buttons down the front, a choker around her neck and a dark grey miniskirt with a thick pale pink waistband around her waist, fingerless gray opera gloves and matching thigh-high stockings which includes white scallops at the cuff and toes.
The other woman, who was Vaggie's cheerful and sunny optimistic girlfriend, is named Charlie Morningstar, daughter of Lucifer and Lillith and heir-princess of Hell. Though Charlie has white skin and looks like a normal human, she does have a few animal-like traits such as fangs and red-toed hooves. Her lips are black and has rosy/red cheeks. She has long blond hair tied into a twice-banded low ponytail. Charlie's outfit consists of a red tuxedo jacket with dark-red lapels with underneath a white long-sleeved dress-shirt with suspenders and wearing a small black bowtie, wearing also a pair of red fitted pants and black/white saddle shoes.
Charlie was always looked down and not taken serious by the other demons and Hellborn in Hell for being such a naïve and sunny cheerful person, not using her power or influence as a princess demand authority and respect from the people, seeing her positive attitude as a negative thing because things are always shitty in Hell. But despite all the hardships of being looked as a 'failure' in Hell, Vaggie supports and comforts her girlfriend through thick and thin and Charlie always remained friendly and kind. But despite being sweet and somewhat lacking 'street-smarts', it doesn't make Charlie a pushover or stupid as she doesn't hesitate to stand up for herself or even physically fight back when people insult her or openly mock her ideas and plans, or when people are being mean towards those she cares for the most.
"Come to the Happy Hotel! The path to redemption and happiness!" Charlie called out with her cheery smile, handing over a flyer to a Bird-like demon "Get redeemed and enter Heaven by coming to the Happy Hotel!"
The bird-demon annoyingly took the flyer, before he shred it into dozens pieces.
Charlie was a bit sad that he did that "Oh…" but then got back to her cheery mood "You know where to find us!" and went on to give more flyers to another pair of demons "Come to the Happy Hotel! Opening officially tomorrow morning!"
Vaggie, being less enthusiastic, tried to hand over a few flyers "Happy Hotel. Come to the Happy Hotel for your search of redemption." Many ignored her, while 1 guy gave her the middle finger, which made Vaggie angry "Why you-!"
Charlie saw it and quickly went over to her girlfriend, holding her shoulders and looked into her eyes "Vaggie, no! We're trying to convince them with love and not anger."
Vaggie sighed, trying to calm herself.
Charlie could see on Vaggie's face that this idea of getting people to notice what they're trying to do for them wasn't working, making her sad "You… don't think that this is gonna work, do you?"
Vaggie saw that Charlie was on the verge of tears and quickly calmed her down "No, no, no, Charlie, it's not that. I totally believe and support your dream to rehabilitate sinners. It's just…" she sighed "It's just so hard to try to convince these people."
Charlie formed a small smile "C'mon, Vaggie. We've only just gotten started. Besides, Angel Dust has been with us for 2 weeks now, so that's at least a start. And who knows? The right person in search for salvation, wanting to get away from this place of eternal damnation might be right around the corner!" she said with a hopeful smile.
At that moment, John walked into that same street. He sighed, clearly not paying attention where he was going as he'd walked the same route to work over and over again, going on autopilot.
For a short moment, he looked up at the sky, to the shining white dot where Heaven is supposed to be, making John thinking of his daughter, thinking back on that horrible moment she was taken from him.
That flashback ran through his eyes, seeing his daughter for the last time before he was dragged into Hell, hearing his daughter's cry echoing in his mind.
"DAAADYYYYY!"
"Come to the Happy Hotel!" Charlie said with a smile as she held a flyer in John's face.
"WHAAAAH!" John startled and fell backwards as the girl 'slammed' the flyer in his face without him even noticing her.
Charlie gasped in shock while John rubbed the back of his head as he slowly sat straight.
"Oh, I'm so, so, so, so, so sorry!" Charlie quickly apologized and grabbed him by the arms "I didn't mean to startle you."
John shook his head as he allowed Charlie to help him back up "No, it's fine. It's fine. I didn't looked where I was going." But as he looked at her, John was surprised to see who it was after seeing several humiliating pictures or videos of her when gossiping was being spread on 666 News "Wait… are you… Charlie Morningstar?"
Charlie smiled bright and nodded "I sure am!" she handed him over a new flyer "You should totally come to the hotel I'm opening."
John raised an eyebrow as he took the flyer, reading about the 'Happy Hotel'.
"You're… opening an hotel?" John asked her, not believing that the 'princess of Hell' decides to open an hotel.
"The first of its kind!" Charlie stated with a big smile "A place to rehabilitate sinners!"
John was a bit confused about this "You want to rehabilitate sinners?"
Charlie nodded "I believe there is some good in every single one of us. Even in you!" she pointed to John.
John was a bit surprised by that enthusiastic response "Ooo…kay."
"I believe there is a far more humane way than waiting every year before lots of us are being killed by Exorcists," she finished with a bit of sad look on her face as it was hurtful as the annual Extermination kills more and more people in Hell "which is why I'm opening a hotel where sinners can redeem themselves so they can go to Heaven."
This caught John's attention "You're saying… you're attempting to open a hotel, where sinners in Hell can come," Charlie heavily nods "so they can be redeemed and can be allowed to go to Heaven?" Charlie heavily nods again, almost squeezing with excitement.
John however wasn't so sure about this, but asked, feeling somehow intrigued by this idea "And… you're guaranteeing that this 'project' of yours is working?"
Charlie was this close to heavily nod again, but then her smile fades and says with a bit of uncertainty "Well… I, uhmm… it's never been done before… so…"
"So, you mean you want to try out and see 'if' this'll work?" John asked.
Charlie sighs and looks at him with a sad face "Look, mister…?" she asked his name.
"John Randell."
"Mister Randell… Don't you ever wish for a better place than going through all this suffering day in and day out?" Charlie asked him.
John wanted to say that he does wishes to be delivered from these daily tortures, but instead looks away and gives a shrug.
Charlie tells, wanting to have John to look at the people "Just look at them, Mr. Randell,"
John looks, seeing only the demons who have done nothing but bad shit in their lives and haven taken life for granted. That thought made him somehow sad, as if… despite he believes he has done nothing to deserve eternal punishment in Hell… that maybe he does deserve to be denied from Heaven.
"Despite they have done bad things in the past, doesn't make them all bad people," Charlie says from the bottom of her heart, seeing somehow the good in people "Everyone makes mistakes and… all it takes is for them to just open their eyes and see the flaws of their ways… so they can see the light… of their rainbow… of happiness…" she says as a tear fell from her eye.
John raises an eyebrow at Charlie, seeing her being so one with her emotions. He looks at her as she walks to the middle of the street, and started to sing…
At the end of the rainbow there's happiness
And to find it, how often I tried
But my life is a race
Just a wild goose chase
And my dreams have all been denied
Why have I always been a failure
What can the reason be
I wonder if the world's to blame
I wonder if it could be me
I'm always chasing rainbows
Watching clouds drifting by
My schemes are just like all my dreams
Ending in the sky
Some fellows look and find the sunshine
I always look and find the rain
Some fellows make a winning sometime
I never even make a gain, believe me
I'm always chasing rainbows
Waiting to find a little bluebird
In vain
John was in awe, not believing his ears that Charlie, the daughter of 'the devil' Lucifer and princess of Hell… had the voice of an angel.
"Wow…" was all that John could say.
Vaggie sighed, walking over to Charlie and hugs her, comforting her as tears fell from Charlie's eyes.
A few guys in the street called out to Charlie, being annoyed by her singing "Shut the fuck up, bitch!"
"Yeah, go chase rainbows in motherfucking fairyland!"
Hearing those sinners being so heartless to Charlie made John's anger boil. But it seemed that Vaggie already got that covered and rushed in anger to the two heartless sinners and beats the shit out of them!
Charlie ran to her girlfriend to try to stop her.
John walked over to them while Charlie calmed down Vaggie as the two now totally bruised sinners ran away in fear.
Charlie and Veggie looked at John, waiting for him to say something.
John formed a small smile, telling Charlie, "I gotta say… you have an amazing voice, Charlie."
Charlie felt modest "Oh… well… thank you," she then looked a bit sad "Not everyone seems to agree."
Vaggie glared at John, thinking he was hitting on her girlfriend.
John however raised his hands to her, letting Veggie know he has no intention in stealing Charlie from her.
John then told Charlie "You shouldn't bother yourself with what others think of your singing," he shrugged "as a matter of fact, it… gives some comfort, regardless what other people may think or say that it's it."
Charlie was touched by that "Awww, thank you. No one else, except for my girlfriend Vaggie, has ever been that been kind to me before."
John then thought and asked as he shrugged "Then I suppose you don't know that many nice people."
"No… that's right." Charlie said before she became sad again, thinking back of all the people in Hell who haven't been nice to her in the past and thinking of her father who barely had any time for her now.
Vaggie warned him "Look, if you want to hurt Charlie's feeling," he grabbed him by the collar "then you got another thing comin', ¿Comprendido?!"
Charlie quickly tried to deescalate things, fearing that Vaggie might scare John away "Vaggie, Vaggie, relax," she holds her arms gently "I'm sure that Mr. Randell didn't meant to hurt my feelings. He was probably just… being polite, that's all."
Charlie glanced at John as he readjusted his shirt and nodded "Yeah, that's right," he even told Vaggie and apologized "Listen, I'm sorry with the misunderstanding, Vaggie. I never meant to hurt your girlfriends' feelings. Heck, I've never been the kind of person that does those heartless things. I may don't seem like it, but… I'm not like the other sinners around here."
Vaggie raised an eyebrow at him "And what makes you so different than the other sinners in Hell?" she asked while folding her arms.
John sighs and states with an emphasizing voice "Because I know how it feels to be seen as a laughing stock or not taking serious despite my good intentions."
Hearing this, surprised both Charlie and Vaggie, not having met any other sinner that hasn't been consumed by the darkness of Hell, which makes Charlie smile bright, as if she'd finally found someone who's interested and hands him over a new flyer "Soooo… does that mean you'll come over to the Happy Hotel?!"
John took the flyer and looked at it before looking back at Charlie who still brightly smiled, then at Vaggie who was looking at him with suspicion.
"Well…" John said "I-" but as he looked at a clock in a nearby store for a short moment, he gasped in shock to see it was already 7:34 AM "DAMN! I'M GONNA BE LATE FOR WORK!"
Charlie and Vaggie looked at him surprised.
"I'm sorry, but I gotta go!" John said as he ran towards his work.
Charlie waved at him "That's okay! We'll see you at the Happy Hotel, right?"
"I'll think about it! Good luck with everything, Miss Charlie!" John called back without stopping and sprinted into the other street.
Charlie gasped with happiness as he held Vaggie's shoulders "Vaggie! Did you see that?! Someone was… actually… INTERESTED!"
Vaggie however was a bit less enthusiastic "Babe, calm down. Just because he was nice towards us, doesn't mean he'll actually come to the hotel."
However, Charlie was still very enthusiastic, feeling like she'd just received a boost of confidence after John was so nice to her and even complimented her singing "But if he's interested, who knows who else would come!" she rushed to a new sinner bypassing the street while her 2 small goat-dragons, Razzle and Dazzle accompanied her while carrying a few new flyers in their mouths "Come to the Happy Hotel!" and gave the guy a flyer before going over to a female hooker "Redemption at the Happy Hotel!" and she kept going handing out flyers of her new hotel, with Vaggie trying to keep up with her.
Meanwhile...
"Pack your shit and get the fuck out of my building!" the owner of a package company, who was a crocodile-demon and John's boss, angrily told him at the front door of his warehouse called: BLOODY PACKAGES
John apologized to him "Please, boss, I'm sorry that I'm late, but I'm only just-"
"You were supposed to start shift 10 minutes ago!" the owner yelled at him and pointed to a half-emptied truck "Now my staff is behind schedule because you were too lazy to show up for work!" then the second truck arrived, crashing against the first one, making the 2 drivers yell at each other before getting into a fist fight.
John tried to convince him to have him keep his job "Please, just… let me make it up to you!"
However, his boss was having none of it this time "You can make it up by packing your things and leave! YOU'RE FIRED!" and slammed the door in front of John's face.
John cursed himself in his head while clenching his fists "Fuck!" he walked away, ignoring all the commotions of the truck driver fight and a few employees tried to put off the fire that the first truck caught cause of the crash, only to explode shortly after, setting the whole truck entrance and several people ablaze!
John paid no attention to it as he'd seen this kind of shit happening in Hell before.
A while later, John was sitting on a bench in the middle of downtown, not having moved from his spot nearly all day while looking depressed, having lost yet another job despite he did his best.
Behind John, a wolf-like demon slowly approached him from a narrow alleyway while holding a knife. He saw John as an easy mark to rob him and kill him.
But as the wolf-thief raised his blade, John quickly turned and points his gun in his face, warning him "You better think twice before planning to stab me in the back, asshole! I have a very, very shitty day and I am not in the mood for your bullshit either! So go now BEFORE I BLOW YOUR FUCKING HEAD OFF!" he yelled while fire came from his eyes!
The thief was shocked to find out that John wasn't an easy prey after all and cowardly ran away.
John sighed before putting his gun back in his back pocket and sat back on the bench while resting his head on his elbow "Fucking hell!"
A young lady then appeared, walking over to him "John?"
John recognized that voice, making his anger go away. He looked, seeing to his confirmation who it was.
She is a Succubi-demon in her early 20's, having red/pinkish skin, black tipped horns, a devil tail, Double-D size breasts, a smooth but also a bit muscled hour-glass size body and having small black bat-like wings on her back. Her outfit consists of a red tank top, black leather pants and black combat boots. This was the only friend in Hell that John had, who was a stripper named Liz Simmons
John formed a small smile at her "Hey, Liz."
"What are you doing out here?" the Succubi-demon named Liz asked as she sat next to him "I thought you were at work by now or something?"
John shook his head "No. I was late for work and Croc fired me."
Liz felt bad for him "Aww. I'm sorry for you, John."
John shrugged "That's okay. I'll find a new job. Sooner or later. And besides, I received a decent bonus after having worked a lot of double shifts this month, so… I don't have to worry about that now."
Liz nodded at him "Good for you, John." She then sighed, feeling a bit sad as she'd 'missed' him but glad to be around again to talk to, with her teasing him a bit "Planning to spend some of that cash on me in the club again sometime?"
John blushed, giving a shrug "Uhh… maybe."
Liz shoved a bit closer to him, telling him with honesty "I really missed you coming by when I'm at work. It's been rather… quiet and I felt a bit lonely of not having my 'most favorite costumer' around to… talk to."
John chuckled "Well… we're both here now."
"That we are…" Liz plant a soft kiss on his cheek.
John blushed even redder after Liz gave him that kiss.
Liz gave a small giggle. She sighed as she rested her head on his shoulder as both looked at the sky of Hell.
These are moments… were the ones that gave me some comfort whenever I felt bad.
I met Liz when I just… was curious to one of the strip clubs of Hell.
When I saw Liz for the first time performing on stage… it was as if my world stopped spinning as our eyes met.
Unlike all the other Succubi-demons in Hell, only focusing on receiving sexual desires and be paid a lot of money for being either a stripper or a hooker, Liz was… different. She wasn't as cold and heartless as all the other Succubi that tried in the past to seduce me, instead… Liz was caring, warm and even supportive. It was a kind of personality that was very rare in Hell.
The night we met; Liz didn't even charge me a lot when giving me a little private dance. Truth be told, we mostly talked and found some common ground, like we both felt that we don't belong in this hellhole, feeling we've been judged wrongfully to suffer for all eternity.
So, whenever I got the chance, I visit her when she's working. We had to be careful when I wanted to visit her at work though, as Liz would be in trouble with her boss, the moth-demon, Valentino, one of the powerful Overlords in Hell and a bigshot pimp. Sometimes… during these rare moments… we would meet when we're not working and could talk for hours about almost anything, with each other finding comfort whenever we felt troubled.
I wouldn't say that she's my girlfriend or anything, but more of a very close friend. But deep down… I wished we could've been… so much more than that, if circumstances had been different.
Breaking the silence, Liz asked him out of the blue "Do you like me, John?"
John gave a small gasp before he blushed deep "You mean… like… how much I like you as a friend, or…?"
Liz sighed and climbed on top of him, sitting on his lap "You know what I mean, John," she placed her arms around his neck, with her face very close at John's face "Do you like me?"
"I…"
All I wanted… was to tell her what I felt about her…
But unfortunately, things disturbed this special moment…
Suddenly, the air sirens went off, shocking John and Liz.
"What the hell?" Liz asked.
Both quickly got off the bench while more people ran away in panic, looking for shelter.
The bell of the clocktower on the Heaven's Embassy suddenly rang while the number of days on the hourglass suddenly changed into 0!
"Oh no…!" John said in shock before staring the sky, seeing a portal was about to open "It looks like those angel bastards decided to start the Extermination a few days earlier!" he frowned as he knew they weren't safe and grabbed Liz's arm, dragging her with him as they ran away into the city "Let's get out of here!"
Liz nodded while running away as fast as she could with John.
From the portal that enlarges, hundreds of Exorcist-Angels flew down with speed into Hell, hunting for prey!
With all of Pentagram City in chaos, and everyone running in panic for their afterlives, John and Liz were trying to find a shelter to hide in while seeing many sinners and demons being slaughtered.
John looked around while still running, feeling that time had slowed down. John saw several Exorcist-Angels killed a couple while begging for mercy before 2 Exorcists stabbed them to death with their spears. Then John saw a teen sinner, crying before he was beheaded by an Exorcist while she formed an insane smirk as if she liked killing innocent sinners.
John hated to watch and see how these angels, beings from divine light, are the ones that commit pure evil 'How… how can they be so heartless to suffer those who're already judged for all eternity? They think that dying once and getting sent to the worst place in all creation isn't good enough for them?! Goddamn, motherfucking hypocrites!' he screamed in his head, to see that the angels were far more evil than most sinners and demons in Hell.
He was put out of his trance, and time came back to normal as Liz grabbed his shoulders and yelled "John, snap out of it! We got to go!"
Both ran into an alleyway while behind them another sinner was grabbed by an Exorcist and tossed into the air before he was cut in half by an angelic sword and his blood and organs splattered everywhere!
They saw a big dumpster halfway. John and Liz opened it, only to see 3 Bird-Demons, an adult male, an adult female and their 10-year-old son, were hiding in there already.
The husband pushed the back and angrily said as he grabbed the cover "Get outta here! Find your own hiding place!" and slammed the cover of the big dumpster shut.
John and Liz had no time to argue, as both somehow understood that the Bird-Demon was trying to protect his family. Both quickly ran further.
John then suddenly spotted an old building.
"In there!" he said, and both ran to the entrance and opened it, only to find nothing in it, like it was plundered empty already for decades.
Liz shook her head "This place is not good. We got to go-" but as she was about to exit, she suddenly heard people screaming from the alleyway where the family was hiding in a dumpster.
"Gotcha, you filthy abominations!" one of the Exorcists said before they mercilessly killed the whole Bird-Demon family, with the parents and child screaming in agony while being butchered.
Liz held her hands on her mouth, shocked to the core to hear the family's screaming.
John heard it too, but quickly looked around, trying to find something to hide in "C'mon. C'mon!"
Tears fell from Liz's eyes, knowing that those angels are going to find them.
That's when John noticed a small button behind a broken bookshelf. As he pressed it, a desk moved out of the way, revealing a secret iron ladder going down with flickering lights going on down in there.
John and Liz checked, seeing it was like one of those old bomb shelters from the Cold War.
Hearing the Exorcists approaching fast, John grabbed Liz's hand, and both ran down the stairs, finding to their confirmation that it was indeed an old bomb shelter. John spots another button and pressed it, closing the entrance.
2 Exorcists kicked the door open! They looked around but didn't see anything or anyone.
In the basement bomb shelter, John and Liz, backed to a corner, were very quiet. Both of them didn't dare to speak or make any noise, fearing the Exorcists would find them. They heard slow and cracking footsteps above.
After a minute, 1 of the Exorcists said, "Nah. There's nobody in here. Let's go!" and both flew out of the building.
John and Liz gave a deep relieving sigh.
"Fucking Jesus." John said while wiping away the sweat from his forehead "That was fucking close."
But Liz began crying, still feeling that this was truly the end. "John… I'm scared. I'm so scared."
John embraced her close as he whispered, "I know… I'm scared too. But it's gonna be alright, Liz. I won't leave your side, ever," he then vowed to her "And if any of those fucking angels break in here… I don't give a shit if they can't be hurt or killed, I'll fight them off to my very last afterbreath."
Liz, though feeling touched by John's determination and courage, shook her head while giving a sob, knowing deep down it's pointless to fight back an angel "I don't know if you're either very foolish… or very brave." She formed a small smile.
John gave a shrug "Maybe… I'm a bit of both."
Liz rolled her eyes.
As the minutes go by, they heard more destruction and death screams outside, making Liz sob again.
"You promise?" Liz asked softly "That you won't… leave me?"
John held her close, softly rubbing her back "I promise…"
While the Extermination outside continued, John and Liz remained in embrace. John looked around, wandering why nobody ever thought that there was a secret bomb shelter in this old building. He theorized that it could be possibly belonging to an Overlord or a former Overlord and nobody in Hell ever knew of the bomb shelter's existence.
After an hour, the sounds of chaos outside slowly died out.
John slowly broke his embrace with Liz and wandered, "I think it's over." He stood up and wanted to press the button to open the bomb shelter.
Liz held his hand, heavily shook his head "No, please don't…! What if…!"
John held his other hand up, only want to check for sure if the coast was clear. He pressed the button, opening the entrance.
John slowly climbed up the stairs, not hearing any destruction or death screams, neither spotting any Exorcists. As he slowly got out of the shelter, he went to the front door of the building that had broken in half. He looked outside… seeing the Exorcists flying up to the big portal before they vanished.
John sighed "Another Extermination survived." He told himself, thanking God that he managed to survive the annual genocide again. He called to Liz who still was hiding in the bomb shelter "Come on out, Liz! It's over!"
Liz peeked out of the bomb shelter, joining John and looked outside, seeing that there were no Exorcist-Angels anymore in Hell. She sadly sighed before embracing John, which he returned.
After John sealed away the bomb shelter, he and Liz walked hand in hand out of the building, sadly bypassing the corpses of the Bird-Demon family.
When John and Liz walked together into the main street, they saw many cars wrecked or destroyed, windows shattered or a few buildings on fire. But the most painful sight… was the hundreds of demon and sinner corpses lying on the street. They saw 3 cannibals already feasting on a few corpses, much to their dismay.
On top of one of the high buildings, Charlie walked up to the balcony while tears fell from her eyes. Watching her people being slaughtered in the annual Extermination always broke her heart. She pointed her finger up, firing beautiful fireworks in the sky as a signal to Pentagram City that the Extermination was over.
As soon as people saw the fireworks, many came out of hiding or from their homes and… resumed their daily afterlives, with some not minding what had happened, being relieved to have survived or some seeing this as an opportunity to expand their influence as some landlords are dead.
One of those demons being happy for someone who died in the Extermination, was the Overlord named Rosie, as her business partner named Franklin had been killed by Exorcists, giving her full control over Cannibal Town and their emporium. She even used paint to cross out Franklin's name on the board.
Only a very small number of demons or sinners wept over the loss of their loved ones, before some demons cleaned up the corpses on the streets, to either cremate them or sell on the market for anyone who's interested in some 'fresh meat'.
While tears kept falling from her eyes, Charlie looked at the clocktower, with the numbers going back to 365, showing the next annual Extermination will go ahead next year again.
I'm always chasing rainbows…
Waiting to find a little bluebird…
In… vain…
Back with John and Liz, both shared one last hug in another street, with John telling her, "You take it easy, okay?" he sighed while narrowing his eyes "Believe me, even with the Extermination over, there's gonna be chaos on the streets for some time as everyone-"
Liz held her hands on his cheeks, interrupting him with a small smile "I know, John. Lots of gangsters or criminals are now gonna try to take over as much new territory as possible. Believe me, I've been longer here in Hell than you have, so I know what's gonna happen next," she ensures him "I'll be fine. Trust me. I can handle a few assholes and shitbag demons trying to kill me."
John formed a small smile, knowing that despite Liz is scared of being killed in the Extermination, she's not scared to fight off some demons or sinners as she's also a tough fighter and knows how to handle a gun.
Liz then told him "Thank you… for saving my afterlife and staying by my side the whole time. If it wasn't for you, I would've died a second time for sure this time."
John shrugged "No problem, Liz."
Liz then gave him a kiss on his cheek and said before going "See you around, cutie."
John watched her going, peaking at her swaying butt, making him blush as she sure had a great ass.
Liz looked back at him for a moment, noticing he was blushing while having a little smirk on his face. She gave a small giggle, knowing that he was clearly watching her ass. Teasing him, she gave a little spank on her butt, making John yelp while blushing deep red and looked away. Liz chuckled while she shook her head.
Liz gave a dreamy sigh while she mentally asked herself as she went into another street, heading to her home, 'Seriously. When will he finally just tell me that he likes more than a friend just… makes his move?' she wandered, before she formed little smile 'Ah well. Good things comes to those who wait, I suppose.'
Back with John, as he walked into the street where his motel was located, he heard several explosions behind him, spotting the big and heavily armed blimp of Sir Pentious that was shooting on anything and anyone.
John narrowed his eyes "Ugh. Of course," he rolled his eyes "That rattlesnake is once again on the loose for more power after every Extermination. Seriously, when will that excuse of kingpin realize his ridiculous attempts to become an Overlord isn't working?" he shrugged it off while the female bomb-expert Cherry Bomb, who's probably Pentious' archnemesis got into the blimp and started wrecking things while many of Pentious' Egg-minions were killed and crushed into scramble eggs.
As John made it to the motel, he finds there isn't much damage to the courtyard or the buildings themselves.
"Humph. Thank goodness the motel survived the Extermination." John told himself as he went up the stairs, just wanting to go to bed and do nothing for the rest of the day, wanting to recover after having survived another Extermination.
But as he bypassed the room of his neighbor, Cynth appeared.
John smiled at her "Cynth! You're alive."
Cynth nodded by formed an unsure face "Yeah, I did… but John… your room is now actually…" she pointed to his room.
"What?" John wandered and went to his door, seeing the locks has changed "What the hell?" he tried to use his key, but it didn't work "Hey! What the fuck, man?!" he banged on the door.
An owl-demon, being high on drugs, opened the door and asked with a sneer on his face "Yeah, what the fuck you want? Wanna buy some good old Angel Dust or something?" he held out a freshly made powder-drug, known as Angel Dust in Hell, named after the famous gay porn star.
"What? No!" John said angrily and demanded, "What the fuck are you doing in my room?!"
"Your room?" the Owl-Demon said while he glared "You mean MY room, dickhead," he held out his machine gun, while behind him 4 of his gang members appeared with machine guns.
John stepped backwards while Cynth yelped and quickly shut herself in her room out of fear.
"Unless you want to buy drugs or want me to blow another asshole in your face," the Owl-Demon said as he pointed his gun at John's face, "you fuck off!"
John held his hands up and slowly walked backwards.
The dealers then closed the door.
Angrily, John marched down the stairs, going straight to Boxer's office and banged on the door "Hey! Mr. Boxer! Why the fuck did you kicked me out of my room?! I paid you the fucking money!" but there was no answer "HEY! I'M TALKING TO YOU!"
A very muscled, red-skinned demon came out "You want a piece of me, punk?!"
John was shocked to see this demon towering over him, but also was confused and asked "Uhh… where is Mr. Boxer?"
The muscled demon smirked before holding out the severed head of the former owner of the Motel, making John's eyes wide before looking angry at the muscled demon.
"He's out of the picture," the muscled demon stated, "I own this shit now." He threw away Boxer's head into the trash "Now what the fuck you want?"
"I want my room back! That's what I want?" John angrily stated, "I already paid for it!"
"Did you pay to me?" the muscled demon asked with a smirk.
"Uhh… no." John answered.
"Then you're not getting any room, dipshit!" he said and pushed him hard, making John fall hard on the ground "Now get out of my face, you little shrimp. Hahahahaha!" he laughed while going back to his office and slammed door behind him.
John couldn't believe it. First, he lost his job for showing up late, and now, just after he and Liz survived a very early Extermination, he was now homeless!
"Shit…!" John cursed himself "Can't this day get any worse?" he asked before turning himself, spotting most of his stuff from his stolen room being largely destroyed in the trash "Ohhh, FUCK!"
He knew it was pointless to stay at this place. John sighed while putting his hands in his pockets and began leaving.
Cynth watched from her window as John walked away, feeling bad for him. Though she was allowed to keep her room after paying the 'new owner' some extra cash from her escort service job, she still wished the best for John as he was such a nice neighbor "Awww. He's too sweet to deserve something as that. I hope you'll find something better soon, John. Good luck." And closed the window, waiting for a new costumer to arrive.
The next day…
John spends some time in downtown Pentagram City, eating some black-colored noodles while thinking what to do as he's now out of a job and where to stay as he's technically homeless now.
Thankfully, he spend the night in the old bomb shelter that he and Liz had been hiding in yesterday during the early Extermination.
After finishing his food and paid for it, he walked through a couple of streets with stores that sold almost anything, bypassing a tv-store called Radio Hacks, with the tv's showing that 666 News was about to start.
John, as he didn't have a tv anymore to use, decided to stick around and watch tv from behind the glass.
"Good afternoon, I'm Katie Killjoy." The head anchorwoman of 666 News said.
"And I'm Tom Trench!" Katie's male coworker and co-anchor said, who, unlike Katie's big arrogant smirk, was wearing a gas mask "Chaos out at Pentagram City as a turf war is raging on the west side!" Tom said while the images of Sir Pentious (who was trying to look hip) and Cherri Bomb (while flipping the bird) were shown "Between notable kingpin, Sir Pentious and self-proclaimed spunky powerhouse, Cherri Bomb!"
"That's right, Tom!" Katie Killjoy said "After the recent and unexpected early Extermination, many areas are now up for grasps as this Extermination has been the deadliest since the the 1930! Demons all over Hell are already duking it out to gain new territory!"
A live clip of Cherri Bomb and Sir Pentious clash is then shown on screen.
"Those two seem to be really going at it, huh?" Tom asked.
"Looks like they're fighting tooth and nail for that hot spot!" Katie said while fishing out a tooth and a nail from her mug of coffee before swallowing it.
Tom tried to add a joke as he said while a smug, "And I'd sure like to nail her a hot spot! Hahahaha."
Katie gave a small chuckle "Haha, you are a limp-dick jackass, Tom," she pours the hot coffee onto his crotch, hurting him "Or should I say no dick?"
While Tom screamed in pain, a picture showed on screen with Charlie on it.
"Coming up next, we have an exclusive interview with the daughter of Hell's own head honcho who's here to discuss her brand new passion project! All that and more, after the break!" she then crushes her mug and turns angrily at Tom who was still in pain "Suck it up, you little bi-!" the news was then cut off and went on a commercial break.
Hearing that Charlie was coming on the news for an exclusive interview, surprised John "Charlie?" he remembered he encountered her and her girlfriend Vaggie yesterday and they mentioned their new hotel. John took the flyer he'd kept in his pocket, with lots of happy smiles and rainbows on it, saying: COME TO THE HAPPY HOTEL!
Curious to how this interview would go, and remembering how sweet and kind Charlie was while trying to show him a 'different side of Hell', John decided to stick around and keep watching the news, while behind him a small crowd of sinners and demons were gathering who were somehow also curious to this upcoming interview with Charlie Morningstar.
Meanwhile, backstage at 666 News, Vaggie was fixing Charlie's bow, asking her after she sighed "Okay. you remember what to say?"
Charlie took a deep breath before she smiled bright, trying to show some confidence "Yes! Let's do this!"
Vaggie however remained a bit serious and told her "Just, look at me and I'll mouth it to you."
Though it killed almost the mood, Charlie ensured her girlfriend "Come on, Vaggie. I know what to say! I just feel like we need to… I don't know, make things more… exiting." She gasped as she had an idea which made her smile bright again "Hooo! What if I si-"
"Sing a song about it?" Vaggie finished her line, already guessing what she was going to say.
Charlie formed a sweet smile "You knew I was gonna say that." and sweetly poked Vaggie on the nose softly.
"Because I know you," Vaggie said with a smile and fixes Charlie's bow again, before she begs her, knowing how things would go if Charlie starts singing despite she means well "But, please don't sing! This is serious!"
Confidently, Charlie said, "Well, you know, I'm better at expressing myself and my goals through song!"
Vaggie sighs "I know that, hon. But, life isn't a musical."
Charlie rolls her eyes "Fine," before she smiles bright "But, I have these other ideas of what to say!" she starts showing Vaggie a piece of paper while she squeezes with excitement "The highlighted bits are the best part!"
Vaggie took a look at the paper, but said with a small serious tone "Uh, it's ALL highlighted," then she looks at it again, making her raise an eyebrow "Is this a drawing?"
"Yes!" Charlie yelled in excitement while pointing to the drawing of happy sinners entering Heaven with lots of rainbows in the background "That's the happy ending, see?! Everyone smiling and happy in Heaven!" she dreamily fantasizes about it.
Vaggie pinches the bridge of her nose before begging Charlie again "I don't think it's that simple. Just please follow the talking points we went over," she then grabs Charlie's shoulders and face her "And do not sing!"
Charlie sighs deep while rolling her eyes "Okay, fine. I'll just have to resort to my impeccable improv skills." She salutes Vaggie and walks over to Katie Killjoy who was smoking a cigarette.
Charlie was a bit nervous when approaching the head anchorwoman "Hiii! I'm Charlie," she tries to give her an handshake, which Katie didn't give and looks at her with an unimpressed look.
Katie blows out the smoke of her cigarette "Katie Killjoy. I'd say it's a pleasure to meet you, but that would be a lie," she throws away her cigarette "And you can put that away," she gestures to Charlie's hand "I don't touch the gays. I have standards." She says with her arrogant and selfish voice.
"Yeah? How's uh…" she turns around nervously "how's that working out for ya?"
Katie got annoyed and stated, "Look, my time is money. So, I'll keep this short," she pokes Charlie's chest "You're not here because we WANTED you here. You're here because Jeffrey got killed in the Extermination so he couldn't make it for his cannibal cooking segment," she stated, letting her know that she only got her chance to have an interview because the number 1 cannibal cook died yesterday. Katie Killjoy then turns back to her arrogant and selfish-self "You might be some royal big shot, but that doesn't mean SHIT to me. I'm too rich and too influential to give a flying FUCK about what some tux-wearing demon princess wants to advertise."
Tom, who was sitting at his seat, shook his head in disapproval cause of Katie's constant bragging of how famous and rich she is and treats other people like shit, like him. He loved his job as an anchorman and bring the real news, but Katie Killjoy was always there to mess up things with her spreading lies, gossip and other shit just to get more viewers.
"So, don't get cute with me, honey, or I will fucking BURY you!" Katie threatens Charlie.
"And we're live!" 1 of the news staff called.
Katie rushes back to her desk, saying while cracking her neck "Welcome back!" she said as the news started again before she turns to Charlie, now sitting next to her "So, Charlotte!"
"It's… Charlie." she nervously smiling while trying to correct Katie Killjoy her name.
"Whatever," Katie didn't care less and got to the point "Tell us about this new passion project you've been insistently pestering our news station about!"
"Well…" Charlie looks around, seeing Vaggie motions her to go on.
Back with John, still standing in front of the Radio Hacks store, formed a small smile while quietly saying, trying to encourage her though he isn't there with her, "C'mon, Charlie. Don't give up."
Charlie cleared her throat and started with what she wants to share, "As… most of you know, I was born here in Hell and growing up, I always tried to see the good in everyone around me." Katie Killjoy then crushes a Hell-bug on the desk, with some of the blood splattering against Charlie's cheek, which she wipes off "Hell is my home and you are my people. We… we just went through another Extermination," she gave a nervously laugh "A… prematurely… early Extermination this time…"
John turns around, watching the other sinners who were also watching, before John turns back watching Charlie.
While Katie Killjoy lost interest and rested her head on her elbow as she seems to have fallen asleep out of boredom, Charlie recollected herself and told with all her heart, "We lost so many souls, and it breaks my heart to see my people being slaughtered every year. No one is given a chance!" Charlie slams her fist on the table, waking Killjoy up and Charlie walks up from the desk, telling all the audience "I can't stand idly by while the place I live is subjected to such violence!" she then formed a smile "So… I've been thinking: Isn't there a more human way to hinder overpopulation here in Hell? Perhaps we can create an alternative way to change souls through… redemption? Well, I think yes!" she turns back to Killjoy's desk, showing a more confident and enthusiastic smile "So that's what this project aims to achieve! Ladies and gentlemen, I'm opening the first of its kind! A hotel that rehabilitates sinners!"
However… her enthusiastic and passionate project for her alternative way to solve the overpopulation crisis in Hell and save as many souls as possible… was met with silence.
John raises an eyebrow why nobody was saying anything. He heard a few demons laughing while walking away, with 1 of them saying "Can you believe that shit?! Does she actually think we can…? Bwahahahaha! Redeem ourselves?! Seriously?! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" both laughed out loud.
John glared at them before returning to watch Charlie, who was now smiling very nervously.
Between the crowd behind John, the Radio-Demon, Alastor, joined watching Charlie, while forming a big insane smirk while his eyes glow red.
John could hear in the crowd at the news some demons were snickering.
Charlie looks around, saddened that nobody was interested "Look, every single one of you has something good, deep down inside. I know you do!" she then formed a mischievous smile, thinking she could sing in order to convince them "Maybe I'm not getting through to you."
Razzle and Dazzle, who had come with Charlie and Vaggie, were alerted that she was about to sing and that she may need their back-up vocals.
Charlie snaps her fingers as the room turns dark and a spotlight shines over a piano with Charlie sitting on it as Razzle and Dazzle start performing…
I have a dream, I'm here to tell
About a wonderful fantastic new hotel!
Yes, it's one of a kind, right here in Hell
(Razzle and Dazzle: Ooooh)
While everyone looks skeptical and confused, John began to smile to watch Charlie performing her musical song, liking it.
Inside of every demon is a rainbow
Inside every sinner is a shiny smile
Inside of every creepy hatchet-wielding maniac
Is a jolly, happy, cupcake-loving child
We can turn around, they'll be heaven bound
With just a little time down at the Happy Hotel
Charlie then increased the speed of her singing
So, all you junkies, freaks and weirdos, creepers, fuck-ups, crooks and zeroes
And downfallen superheroes, help is here
All of you cretins, sluts and losers, sexual deviants and boozers
And prescription drug abusers, need not fear
Forever again, we'll cure your sin
We'll make you well, you'll feel so swell
Right here in Hell at the Happy Hotel
Charlie then slows down her singing
There'll be no more fire and no more screams
Just puppy dog kisses and cotton candy dreams
And puffy-wuffy clouds, you're gonna be like, wow!
Once you check in with me
Charlie then finished with increasing the speed of her singing again
So, all your cartoon porn addictions, vegan rants, psychic predictions
Ancient Roman crucifixions end right here
All you monsters, thieves and crazies, cannibals and crying babies
Frothing mouth is full of rabies, filled with cheer
You'll be complete, it'll be so neat
Our service can't be beat, you'll be on easy street, yes
Life will be sweet at the Happy Hotel
Yeah
John could only smile while he shook his head. If he was in the audience in that studio, he wouldn't stop himself from clapping and cheer for her.
But… instead of receiving cheering and enthusiasm of other sinners to join her Happy Hotel, a demon said "Wow! That was shit!"
Everyone in the audience including Katie Killjoy and Tom Trench began laugh at Charlie, making her look crushed and devastated and slumps back down to her seat.
While the crowd behind John began to walk away while snickering and laughing of Charlie's ridiculous attempt to save sinners, he himself felt bad for her and kept watching.
While Katie and Tom thought it all sounded like a pathetic attempt and nobody would ever be interested to be saved and there is no evidence that her project would work, Charlie said they have a patron already, being to everyone's surprise the famous porn actor, Angel Dust.
But then the news suddenly showed a live image of Angel Dust, now armed with 4 Tommy Guns, had joined Cherri Bomb in the turf war against Sir Pentious, much to Charlie's shock and stare in defeat, even attempting to block the live image but failed to do so.
While Katie Killjoy kept mocking and make fun of Charlie, she tried to get with a comeback and called Killjoy in her face a 'bitch', making her very angry and turning her into her full demonic form, which escalated into a full on fight, almost like a sort of WWE match while a fire alarm goes off in the background and Tom Trench was set ablaze, screaming why nobody was helping him.
All the screens in the store then turn black, showing an image of 'Suffering Technical Issues' and would return as soon as possible.
John sighs and began to leave, while Alastor, unknowingly to John or anyone else, had a sinister idea in mind after watching this display on tv, morphing into a shadow and disappeared.
As evening began to set, John was leaning against the wall in some street where 2 dealers were busy selling cocaine or crack.
John had no interested at all in buying drugs, though this part of the east side of the Pentagram was a quiet place, which helped him to think.
Then, someone tapped his shoulder, making John to look, seeing it was a demon suffering from the effects of using too much drugs.
"H-hey, man!" he said while scratching his arms "You uh… think you can help me out, man?" he asked with a smile.
John instantly got angry as this drughead thought he was selling drugs as well "Do I look like a dealer to you?! Get out of here!" he turned and left, leaving the crackhead who just went to another dealer, hoping to score some good drugs.
John sat around the corner, groaning with annoyance.
"Ugh! For fuck's sake. Me? Selling drugs? Who does he think he is?! I'm maybe without income, but… selling drugs? That's the last thing I would ever do, or try any of that stuff!"
John then sighs deep, watching the sky, looking at the shining dot again, being Heaven, thinking about his daughter, making him sad, thinking what his own daughter would think if she saw her own father becoming a dealer or addicted to drugs. It would devastate him.
"Oh, Lucy…" he said, asking his daughter named Lucy "If only I was there with you now…"
That was when John began looking at the flyer of Charlie's hotel again.
He looked at Heaven, then again at the flyer.
"Is it… possible for me to… get there through… this hotel?" he asked himself.
Though not a single soul in Hell has ever been able to escape this place or even redeemed themselves… John wandered if maybe… maybe it is possible. And after seeing Charlie being so passionate and confident that her project would really work despite everyone disagrees with him… perhaps… it would be worth a shot.
John looked back at Heaven, clutching his fist. He sighed as he looked confident at the sky before leaving the over drugged area, heading to the 1 place that could be his way to Heaven and be reunited with his daughter, Lucy.
It didn't took long for John to find where the 'Happy Hotel' was located, as the exact location was shown on the flyer.
As he approached the large, old, bit of strange looking and out of touch hotel, John heard some kind of 1920's music being played inside.
"Hupf. Sounds like they like music from a century back it seems," John wandered. But then, he heard a large flying object approaching, making him look back in surprise, spotting it was Sir Pentious' blimp. John narrowed his eyes "Oh for fuck's sake." And hide somewhere while taking out his gun, in case he needed it.
The blimp fired a beam at the hotel entrance, blowing a hole in the wall!
Charlie looked out of the hole in surprise, while Vaggie narrowed her eyes while grabbing her spear and Alastor, who'd arrived sooner at the hotel to offer his help to make the place better, also looked out of curiosity.
Though knowing Alastor by his reputation of making deals and how dangerous he is, Vaggie tried to convince Charlie not letting him in the hotel. But seeing they needed all the help they could get, especially after the fiasco interview at 666 news, Charlie allowed Alastor to stay and help around, but not making a deal, which Alastor answered with a shrug and would do what he could, by making a few changes already in the lobby and adding 2 new staff members: A tiny little one-eyed and hyperactive and possible bit insane maid named, Nifty and a bartender who was a drunk, gambling and uninterested Cat-Demon named, Husker.
Pentious appeared out of the blimp with a smirk on his face "Hah! Well, well, well. look who it is harboring the stripped freak! We meet yet again, Alastor!"
"Do I know you?" the Radio-Demon asked, seemingly not remembering Sir Pentious.
Pentious, feeling insulted and his ego deflates, said "Oh, yes you do!" and got back inside, pulling a lever which showed his Death Ray gun, ready to fire "And this time, I have the element of SURPRISE! Ahaha! I'm so evil!"
Alastor, with his glowing manicingly smirk, snaps his fingers, opening an otherworldly dimensional portal where large tentacles and shadow demons emerged from it, grabbing Sir Pentious' ship while he was inside, showing the ego-minded snake-demon how powerful he really is.
As the tentacles and shadow demons fully had the blimp in their grasps, Alastor then clenches his glowing fist, destroying Pentious' ship in a big explosion!
Seeing all this, surprised John, though he was also horrified of what kind of power the Radio Demon possessed "Holy shit!"
While the other Hotel members were shocked an horrified, with Alastor still showing his big grin, he broke the tension by saying "Well, I'm starved! Who wants some Jambalaya?"
Nifty was the only 1 who raised her hand
But just as Alastor was going back inside with the others, he stopped, while his head glitches for a moment.
Charlie raised an eyebrow at Alastor "What's wrong, Alastor?"
Alastor slowly turns his head, looking behind them, saying with his demonic radio-voice "We're not alone." he snaps his fingers, creating another portal where another pair of tentacles emerged from it, grabbing the seemingly trespasser, raising him up in the air while struggling to get out of the tentacles' grasps.
Charlie, Vaggie and Angel looked surprised, with Angel wandering, "Huh? Who the hell is that?"
Husker simply shrugged "Who the fuck cares." And took another big sip of his cheap booze.
Nifty however became a bit hyper exited and said with a big smile, "Ooooh, a bad boy wants to sneak into the hotel! I like when getting some punishment. Hihihihihi!" she finished with a manically smirk.
The tentacles, holding John now tight their grasps, tried to explain, "Uugh! Wait, wait! It's not what you think! I didn't come here to mess with you guys! I mean you no harm, I swear!" the tentacles began to get tighter, almost breaking his rips "Stooop!"
Charlie gasped, recognizing the man "Wait, that's… that's Mr. Randell!" she hurried to Alastor, who was beginning to tighten his glowing hand, ready to squeeze John to death "Alastor, stop! He's okay! He doesn't mean any harm. Let him go!"
Alastor took a short glance at Charlie, before he gave a shrug "Fine." and released John.
John fell on the ground while the tentacles were pulled back into the portal before it disappeared.
John coughed as he grasped for air "Ohhh, fuck… I could almost feel my… rips cracking."
Charlie ran over to him "Oh, my gosh! I'm so, so, so, so sorry, Mr. Randell."
John ensured Charlie while he slowly stood up "It's okay… at least you stopped him," John glared at Alastor for nearly crushing him to death, before looking back at Charlie "before he could break every bone in my body."
Vaggie walked over to him and asked with some suspicion "Then what are you doing here? And why were you trying to sneak into the hotel?"
John explained, "I wasn't trying to sneak in. I just…" he scratched the back of his head while taking out the flyer Charlie gave him yesterday "I've been thinking about your offer, Miss Charlie, and…" Charlie gave a small gasp, realizing why he really had come to see them. John then said with a small smile "I, uhm… was hoping if I could sign into your hotel… wanting to give it a shot to find redemption so I can go to Heaven."
Charlie's smile grew bright while stars flickered in her eyes, before she squealed out of excitement "Aaaaaaah!" and held his hands "Of course you can! Come on in, Mr. randell." she lead him inside, with the others following.
"Please, call me John." He said.
Charlie didn't seemed to mind. "Okay, John. Welcome to the Happy Hotel!" Charlie showed John the lobby.
"Hazbin Hotel." Alastor corrected her.
Charlie was unsure "But… I wanted to call it-"
"Trust me, my dear," Alastor insisted while putting his arm over her shoulder "Changing the name is the first step to finally get more people inside."
"Well…" Charlie doubted for a moment. But trusting Alastor on this, she shrugged "Okay. Hazbin Hotel it is," she then returned to John and showed him around "So… this is the lobby," she then showed the bar "And here's the new bar that has just moved in after Alastor arranged it."
Husker bypassed them, going back to the bar and took another sip from his drink "Which I hate every single moment."
John raised an eyebrow at how negative this Cat-Demon is, with Charlie happily introducing him to John "And this is Husker. Our new bartender and front desk clerk."
Still trying to polite to him, he wanted to shake Husker's hand "Pleasure to meet you."
"Fuck off. I'm not here to make any friends, so spare me the politeness." He said while flipping him off and went back to his drink.
John narrowed his eyes at him for being so rude 'Geez. Somebody has got up on the wrong side of bed.' He mentally thought as how grumpy Husker is. But shrugged, seeing it takes time for this bartender to get used to him or Charlie's project, and then asked Charlie "Why don't you introduce me to the others?"
Charlie smiled and introduced the little Nifty to him "Oh, of course. This is Nifty. She's our new maid."
Nifty, being exited to see a new face, approached John "Oooooh. The intruder comes to live with us. Which is far better, as almost everyone here are women, which is fine by me," she then saw another bug crawling on the floor, making her smile manically as she drew a blade, trying to stab the insect to death "Come here, you! Hahahahaha!"
John was feeling a bit uneasy with this tiny female maid, feeling she was a bit crazy.
Charlie then introduced the other ones "Well, Vaggie you already met," Vaggie gave a simple nod "And this is Angel Dust."
Angel formed a flirtatious smile, leaning against John "Well, hello there," he said with his sexy voice.
John wasn't feeling comfortable as the gay porn star was flirting with him, and took a step backwards from him "Uhh… hi."
Angel chuckled, leaning close to him "I bet you were dying to have a piece of the famous, Angel Dust, don't ya?"
John however shook his head "Uhh… not really."
Angel shrugged "Your loss, sweetheart," and sat back at the bar, taking a new drink while attempting to flirt with Husker, but he too wasn't interested.
Charlie then introduced Alastor to him "And here we have Alastor. The one who agreed to help the hotel around."
John glared at Alastor while crossing his arms after what he almost did to him "Charmed." He said coldly.
Alastor chuckled as he approached him "Oh. Still mad after nearly crushing you to death? That was a simple misunderstanding," he said as he shrugged "If I had known you wanted to stay at the hotel for your pathetic little attempt to redeem yourself, only to miserably fail, you could've just said so and not hiding behind some filthy dumpsters."
John asked him, still having his arms crossed, "Well, if you had recognized me sooner, maybe I wouldn't be hurt that bad."
This made Alastor a bit confused, though it was hard to tell as he didn't stopped with his usual smirk, making him curious "Have we met before?"
"As a matter of fact, we have, Radio-Demon."
Charlie and Vaggie looked a bit surprised, same as the others while Nifty stabbed the bug she was chasing to death.
"You 2 know each other?" Charlie asked.
However, Alastor didn't seem to have a clue, though not showing it while waiting for John to say.
"Yeah. We met 9 years ago." John stated.
Alastor raised an eyebrow.
John annoyingly stated, "John Randell? Ringing any bells?"
Alastor shrugged.
John rolled his eyes "Ugh! It was my first day in Hell! You found me in that abandoned alleyway, told me that I was in Hell and showed me where 'Needy Rooms' was located where I could spend the night!"
Alastor's eyes went wide for a bit, as he finally remembered that moment. He leaned closer at John, like he was scanning him or something. He then widely smiled "Ah! Yes, of course! The one unfortunate soul, feeling he like he didn't belong here in Hell," he then smirked even wider his eyes were glowing red while his face glitched and all kinds of demonic symbols floated around him "I definitely remember you now."
John was a bit scared of how the Radio-Demon was looking at him.
Alastor then suddenly got back to his polite-mode, shaking John's hand "Ah, well, that's all in the past! Welcome aboard, my good sir!" He then turned to Nifty, telling heras he gave her a paper with a recipe "Nifty. Would you be so kind and make us all some nice Jambalaya? My mother's recipe would make it the finest."
Nifty heavily nodded before racing into the hotel's kitchen while taking a lot of ingredients and other stuff to make Jambalaya.
Alastor stated to the others, "Did I also mention that Nifty is a great cook?"
"Uh-" Charlie was about to say, but Alastor quickly interrupted her.
"No, I suppose I did not. Well, that's at least a good bonus for this establishment," the Radio-Demon said with his gentleman's charm. He took a look at his pocket watch "I calculate that Nifty will be done in like… 15 minutes," he then suggested to Charlie "Why don't you give our newest member a little tour, my princess? After all, it's your hotel."
Alastor then began walking up the stairs.
"Then where are you going?" Vaggie demanded.
Alastor paused as he was halfway up the stairs and said as he turned himself, "I'm going to make my little home upstairs, which is perfect to restart my little radio broadcasts. I'll be downstairs once dinner is served," but then warned them "And 1 other thing," his eyes and smirk glowed "I do not wish to be disturbed while setting up my radio studio." He then turned back to normal and walked up the stairs further, going to a nearby place in the hotel to set up his new radio studio.
Charlie, while at first a bit disturbed by Alastor's little warning for some privacy, she got back into her enthusiastic smile and held John's hands "You know, he's right! I'll be glad to let you show everything, John!"
But before Charlie was about to take him up the stairs to show everything what her hotel had to offer, John stopped and said, "Now, wait, hold on there, Charlie. Before I officially sign into the hotel, I need to discuss some things first."
"Oh." Charlie said with a bit surprise, but gave a shrug and sat on the couch.
John sat across on the other couch and stated, feeling a bit embarrassed "I uhm… don't know exactly how long I'll be able to stay here."
Hearing him saying that, got Charlie a bit curious and asked, "What do you mean?" Vaggie sat next to her, also wandering why John suddenly was doubting if he could be staying at the hotel.
John sighed and began to tell her, "Well, you see… yesterday, after we met when you were handing out flyers about your hotel… I got fired from my job for showing up late."
Charlie gasped to hear that John lost his job yesterday, fearing that it was her fault for 'distracting him' for too long "Oh no. I'm so sorry that I held you back for so long, I-"
But John interrupted her while he shook his head "No, no, it's not your fault, but mine," he then told further "What I'm trying to say is… well… I'm kinda short on cash when it comes to stay at an expensive hotel such as this," Charlie and Vaggie shared a glance "And the other thing is… after the Extermination, I got thrown out of the motel I was living before after the new owner kicked me out and turned my home into a drug lab. So…" he felt even more embarrassed by the fact that he has no income and now basically lives on the streets.
Charlie however understood his situation, with Vaggie guessing "So, you're saying you have no job and you're now homeless."
John sighs "Yes. That's right."
Charlie felt bad for him "Oh my… that's horrible." That was when she got a brilliant idea and almost jumped out of the cough, "I- I mean, we can take care of that!"
"What?" John asked.
Charlie tried to calm herself, though she was still overly excited to have John joining the hotel, suggesting "You can work and help around here, helping us with the Hazbin Hotel! I'll pay you enough money for any job you do and in exchange you can stay here rent free!"
John was even more surprised, not believing that Charlie was offering him such kindness "Whoa… really?"
Charlie nodded heavily.
But Vaggie wasn't so sure and told Charlie, "Babe, are you sure? I mean, we only just recently started and we cannot just let every new guest stay rent free."
John felt his heart began to sink, feeling where this was going, making him look sad.
However, Charlie didn't wanted just to throw out John like that and told Vaggie, "But Vaggie… We can't do that. This poor man lost everything and has no place to go, and now he's here, in need of help to be redeemed. And besides, you saw how interested he was yesterday and he's even more now, and he's willing to do all kinds of work for a good pay," John nodded, willing to help around.
Charlie then looked at Vaggie with her cute puppy eyes, hoping her girlfriend would change her mind.
Vaggie sighed "Well, okay. I… guess he can stay as long as he helps around."
Charlie immediately hugged her "Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!"
John rose up, feeling so grateful for what Charlie did for him "Charlie, I…" he almost got teary "I don't know what to say." He then promised her and Vaggie "You won't regret this. I'll do my very best around here, I promise!"
Charlie formed a very sweet smile and took his hands "Come on then. Let me show you around." And gave him a little tour around the hotel, with Vaggie following.
An hour later, after having a delicious meal, with John surprisingly liking the Jambalaya and ate even 2 plates full, Husker took out a key from the big keyholder and placed it on the counter for John to take.
"Here you go. Room 405," he said with his moody voice.
John took the key and gave the Cat bartender a nod "Thanks."
Husker simply brushed it off and went to take another bottle of alcohol.
Vaggie walked over to John, telling him, "Nifty has placed some new clothes and other stuff for you to use."
John nodded "Thank you." he then said before walking up the stairs "Well… I'm gonna go and catch some rest. See you tomorrow, Vaggie."
"Alright. Good night, John."
"Night night, John!" Charlie waved at him at the back enthusiastic.
John waved her back and went up the stairs, going to his new room.
As he made it to the fourth floor, he bypassed the many rooms that were empty, all except room 429, which was Charlie and Veggie's room.
When he made it to room 405, John used the key to open it. As he entered, he was surprised to see it was a big bedroom, with a king size bed, a balcony. John checked the fancy bathroom, seeing there was an expensive shower cabin. John could only smile as this was the best room he could've imagined since he fell into Hell.
After taking a nice long shower and dry himself with 1 of the 'Hazbin Hotel' towels, he took a look at the pile of new clothes that were placed on a desk, seeing there was a note on it, saying:
SOME FRESH NEW CLOTHES, PYJAMAS, TOOTHBRUSH, ANYTHING YOU NEED, JOHN. I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF STYLE YOU LIKE, SO I JUST ARRANGED SOME BITS OF ALMOST EVERYTHING, IF THAT'S OKAY?
I'M REALLY HAPPY THAT YOU HAVE DECIDED TO BECOME PART OF THE HAZBIN FAMILY.
LOVE,
CHARLIE MORNINGSTAR
John smiled after reading the note.
He puts the new set of clothes, consisting of a few jeans, several t-shirts, sweaters socks, some pair of shoes and underwear in the closet and then puts his new toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving cream and razor in the bathroom.
After he had brushed his teeth and puts on a new boxer while putting his old clothes in the laundry bag, John let himself fall on his new big soft bed, finding it already to his liking. But before call it a day and go to sleep, John went to the balcony and looked up the sky, watching the shining dot being Heaven.
John closed his eyes and prayed "Lucy… I still don't know if you can hear me. But if you do… I want to tell you that I'm okay. I'm now at this Hazbin Hotel and… the princess of Hell, Charlie is so kind and sweet, helping me to settle here and… I hope… that she's able to help me so I can escape this godforsaken place… and be with you… in Heaven. I promise you my dear baby girl… we will meet each other again… Whatever it takes… we will meet again, Lucy," a tear fell from his eye as he opened his eyes, looking back up to Heaven "Good night, Lucy…"
He then walked back inside, closing the door to the balcony and closed all the curtains, going to sleep in his big new bed.
Unknown to him, a shadowing figure with a wide yellow smirk was watching him. The shadow vanished, reappearing outside John's room. The shadow appeared to be Alastor as he reformed.
"So, it seems John Randell is so desperate to get out of Hell and just want to go to Heaven to see his little girl again. Interesting," Alastor said to himself while he sinisterly smiled. As Alastor walked away, his eyes and smile glowed and deer horns grow on his head "Oh yes, Mr. Randell… Your time here with us is going to be very interesting indeed. Hahahahahahaha."
A/N: I didn't wanted to put everything from the pilot episode into the first chapter, as I feared it would make it too long.
Anyway, I sure hope you like it so far? Trust me, more will come soon, which will surprise you.
Like and review, and I'll see you in the next chapter.
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