Hello and welcome to Chapter 3 of the fallen lute.
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Lute and the others are walking through pentagram city. Charlie is looking around like a tourist as she has only ever been out of the palace four times and never for more than an hour or two. "wow I missed the city. so many people to see and meet. Wonder who I should start with first? preferably someone easy to redeem so maybe a thief?" Charlie says to herself. "A thief is just a greedy asshole and doesn't deserve redeeming." Lute says with a bit of venom in her voice as she glares at all the sinners. "Oh phewy people steal for lots of reasons like to eat or to get money for a place to sleep." Charlie says dismissively with a wave of her hand used to Lute's views. "Whatever, try to save one of these sinners so that when they stab you in the back I can laugh and say I told you so." Lute huffs not liking that her opinion was so easily dismissed though why it angered her so much she doesn't know probably just hell itself pissing her off.
The group sees a rat like sinner steal from a snake like sinner and run down an alley. "That one chase him!" Charlie yells excited as the group chases him. Lute is by far the fastest and decided to cut him off by parkouring up the fire escape and running on the roof. Lute manages to drop on him as he ducks into a different alley pining him to the ground. "Quit squirming or I'll take your head." Lute growls out. The rat sinner freezing in fear.
Charlie and her goats make it a few seconds later as Lute slams the rat sinner against a wall with his arms behind his back. "Lute stop being so rough we are trying to save him, not imprison him." Charlie says worriedly. Lute huffs then throws him in front of Charlie and steps on his back to make him kneel. "Name now sinner." Lute says, staring at him as if he was the worst filth she had ever laid eyes on. "Relta, my name is Relta. Please don't kill me, I'm just a thief!" He screams in fear. Charlie smiles at Relta "hey its ok Lutes just a bit overprotective we aren't here to hurt you I actually have a proposal for you." Charlie says gently, trying to calm him down. Lute steps back a bit but her hand is on her sword ready for a fight. "W-what proposal?" Relta asks as he slowly stands up looking at Lute as if she was fear itself. "Well I know it may sound strange but I want to help you redeem your soul so you can move on to heaven." Charlie says with a nervous smile. "Wait huh? Redeem my soul i-is that actually possible?" Relta says confused. "Of course it is… I think but the um program has perks as I will pay for your lodging, food, and clothing as long as you agree to try to change to become a good person." Charlie says with a disarming smile.* "So I just stop stealing and all my needs are taken care of?" Relta asks. "No filth you must not sin at all so no sex, no drugs, and no lying." Lute lists off with a glare making Relta flich as he forgot the scary one was behind him. "O-ok I'll do it." Relta says with a gulp.
Charlie breaks out into a smile as she pounces on the smaller rat boy and hugs him so hard he can't breathe as she spins him around. "Thank you thank you oh you won't regret this Relta I promise as princess of hell I will do everything I can to help towards your redemption!" Charlie cheerfully says. Lute just glares at him. "Behave sinner or else." Lute threatens. "Oh don't worry about her, she's a big softy haha." Charlie giggles out as she backs away from Relta. "Oh shoot, we need to introduce ourselves. I'm Charlie. The glaring one is Lute my friend and these two are Razzle and Dazzle my bodyguards." Charlie says with a happy smile. "Um hi so about this redemption thing? Where do I go?" Relta asks. Charlie gets a terrified look as she totally forgot about having a place to sleep. "Shit! Lute what do we do? I totally forgot to buy a place!" Charlie asks, panicking. "Calm down, we can just rent a hotel room or something." Lute says dismissively. Charlie smiles and pounces on Lute enthusiastically, nearly knocking her over. "You're the best Lute! I owe you one." Charlie gleefully says. Lute is so not comfortable with a demon hugging her as she tries to pry Charlie off. "Ok I get it, get off you stupid goat!" Lute yells failing to pry Charlie off her. Charlie reluctantly gets off Lute. Charlie doesn't get why her friend hates physical contact. It's great. "Why do you hate my hugs?" Charlie asks with fake hurt. "I'm just not big on touching ok so drop it." Lute growls out. Lute hates this act Charlie puts on. it made her feel almost happy like she had a real friend but of course lute knows it's all an act. Charlie was probably gonna torture this demon for fun after she lured him to a private spot. "You two must be close huh?" Relta asks. Lute goes to deny the claim but Charlie speaks first. "Duh she's my best friend." Charlie gleefully states. Lute rolls her eyes.
The next day Charlie is bouncing with excitement as Relta walks over to her and Lute. "So boss, what's the first um step to redeeming my soul?" Relta asks. Charlie smiles "glad you asked Relta the first step to being a better person is knowing when you were wrong so we are going to find someone you stole from and apologize." Charlie says with glee. Relta looks terrified. "W-what no way dude I'll be killed!" Relta yells only for Lute to point her flaming blade at him. "If you don't I'll kill you." Lute says with a glare only for Charlie to smile gently as she slowly lowers Lute's arm and says. "Now Lute I appreciate the enthusiasm but we don't threaten our clients dear." Lute lets Charlie lower her arm but blanches at being called dear. Relta takes a few steps back. "L-look I get that I'm supposed to do this to be better but this is hell if I'm caught I'll die." Relta says with a slight quiver in his voice. Charlie waves him off with a smile. "No no you'll be fine i am the princess of hell I'm sure they won't attack and if they do then Lute can stop em… gently." Charlie says while looking at Lute. Lute had put her sword away and cracked her knuckles with a vicious smirk. "Sure I'll stop them haha it's been a while since I got to let loose." Lute says happy to get the ok to fight sinners again even if it was to protect this well… rat. "Gently Lute we are here to help not kill so no sword." Charlie says carefully but each word just makes Lute's smirk grow into a smile. "Even better, a slow painful death is what they deserve anyway haha." Lute says gleefully. Relta is terrified at the blood lust. Charlie smiles worried that Lute will take it too far.
Relta nervously leads them to a big tall ox demon. "H-hey Deran." Relta squeaks out. The ox demon turns around and looks down at them. "Well well if it isn't Relta the slimy bastard that stole 40 bucks from me." Deran says dangerously, making Lute smile as she glares up at him she cracked her knuckles. "Try it, meathead make my day." Lute says, making Deran flinch at how bloodthirsty her eyes were. "Go on Relta just like we practiced." Charlie, oblivious to the dangerous air around her, encourages Relta. Relta gulps and says "look dude I-I know I stole from ya but Im s-sorry I was in a bad place and I promise to pay ya back I swear." Relta says nervous. "Pfft as if I'd believe that you little rat!" Deran says, pissed. Lute smiles a deranged bloodthirsty smile as she walks up to Deran. "Accept this scum's apology or I'm gonna break your legs boy." Lute says with glee clearly wanting him to refuse. Charlie, panicking, grabs Lute and drags her back to her side. "Lute we can't get involved, this is for Relta to grow as a person!" Charlie chastises Lute a little worried at how bloodthirsty her best friend is. Relta gulps "l-look man I will get your money I just need a bit of time." Relta says nervous. Deran looking at Lute scared as she mimics slitting her throat with a smile makes Deran gulp and back away. "L-look man it's cool you know it's whatever j-just um keep the creepy one away from me and consider us square dude." Deran says backing away.
Charlie smiles and hugs Relta. "See I told you as long as you apologize it makes everything better!" Charlie gleefully says as she laughs. "Though that's the first time someone has looked scared by an apology." Charlie mumbles to herself. Lute smirks at the fear the hell spawn gave off. "He was a coward like all demons." Lute says as she walks up and prys Charlie off of a blue Relta as Charlie was holding him far too tight , cutting off his oxygen. Relta smirks after he catches his breath as he just learned a new way to get out of trouble: use Lute as a bodyguard and to do that all he needs to do is be nice to Charlie. It's the perfect scam. "Y-yeah i never knew it was that easy haha maybe being good is easier than i thought it was gonna be." Relta says already planning on how to use this to his advantage.
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thats the end of chapter 3 I know its been I while and I know the ending is a bit rushed but I have had this mostly finished for what feels like weeks and I couldn't figure out how to end it. but I will try to get these out a bit faster as I do like writing them I just want to try and make them perfect even though I know I won't be able to.
THANKS FOR READING.
