A Little Hazbin 2: Freezing Over Ch. 04
Clara sits on a bed in one of the Hotel's rooms with the Queen standing in front of her.
"Is, is there any way to help my sister?" the Carmine looks up with hopefulness in her eyes. "To bring her back?"
Lilith looks down. "Usually, Sinning Demons can regenerate from any injury not dealt by Angelic Weapons. Even then, minor wounds could still heal. But this is different," the Queen at Odette's frozen head still in Clara's lap. "Not only is she frozen all the way through, but there's also no remnants of a soul left. Without a soul then all you have is an empty husk."
Clara's eyes tightened in order to prevent herself from crying once again. "M… may I …" she finds it hard to get the words out.
"I'll leave you so you can rest," Lilith guesses before exiting the room.
Clara just sat there for a while, still unsure what to do next. She then gets the usual urge and heads to the balcony just outside the room. The Carmine sets Odette's head on the railing while she lights a cigarette.
After a few false starts with her lighter, Clara finally got her cigarette lit and started inhaling. She then sighs while letting out smoke as the puffy-haired Carmine felt some stress being relieved. She then looks over at her sister and couldn't help but feel like she's getting the judgmental look.
"What?" Clara asks as if expecting an answer. "Don't give me that!" she takes another drag. "Even now you're still judging me for my choice of habits. If it was the other way around I wouldn't have given a second thought about what you were doing," the Carmine then turns Odette's head away from her and goes for the cigarette again but stops once noticing her sister's head tilting away.
Clara drops her smoke, "No!" and makes a grab for the head, pulling it and herself back over the railing and soon dropped to the floor of the balcony. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," she starts crying. "I didn't mean to. I'm so sorry," the Carmine cradles the head. "Even though you didn't like the fact that I smoke, you never shunned me for it, Odette. And even though we were both our mother's daughters, after Mom caught me smoking you were my sister first. You never want to go against Mom, but you were always on my side," she caresses her sister's face. "I'll never have moments like that again, will I? Not with you. Not with Mom," Clara then presses her forehead against Odette's. "I wish that I was there. That way I'd at least still be with you," then, she presses her lips against her sister's forehead. "I love you, Odette. I'll miss you."
The Carmine then glances to the side and sees that her cigarette on the balcony floor and still lit. "Yeah, I know," she picks up the smoke. "Not only is it a bad habit it's also unsanitary thinking about finishing it after dropping it on the floor," Clara goes to put it in her mouth. "Well, why let it go to waste?" and just as her mouth is opened, she notices her breath is visible and the puffy-haired woman's eyes widen as her cigarette is dropped again. "He's here!"
.oOo.
Lilith knew something was wrong once the temperature started dropping. Even though it would mean trouble, she went to investigate it. The further away from her room she got, the colder it became.
The Queen rounded the corner and was shocked at what was before her. "Lucifer!?" Lilith rushes to the large block of ice containing her husband. She becomes relieved once his eyes turn towards her, signaling that he's alive.
"Been waiting for you," a voice comes from behind.
Mr. E exits a nearby room carrying a passed-out Husk by the wing and Angel Dust by his right middle arm. Both appendages had been iced over. He then crushes the limbs causing both Sinning Demons to let out a shout of pain as they drop.
He looks down at them. "Don't mistake this as mercy. Velvette merely wishes to handle you herself," Mr. E then turns his gaze to the Queen. "You on the other hand," and starts walking towards her. "She's afraid to go near you. So, I am allowed to do as I please."
"Stop!" Lilith commands and Mr. E freezes in his tracks. "Now, I want you to take one of your claws and rip out your…" the Queen felt a sudden chill and looks down to find her feet frozen to the floor.
Mr. E bursts out laughing. "Your Commands only work on beings lesser than you," he continues his trek. "I am not a lesser being. For no one's above me," he reaches for her neck but finds a shadow tendril wrapping around his wrist and pulls him away.
"I do not believe that's anyway to treat a lady," Alastor smirks while melting out of the shadows.
"So, you're the Radio Demon?"
To Alastor's surprise, the shadow tendril ends up freezing before shattering.
"You think that your Shadow Magic is strong since shadows are one of the oldest things in existence."
The Sinning Demon tries to make a retreat through the shadows but as soon as his way opened, ice emerged from them, encasing Alastor's legs within ice.
"Shadows only exist because of light," Mr. E approaches Alastor while forming a large sickle in his hand. "But before there was light, there was only the cold endless abyss. Making me far more primal than your shadows," the sickle is then jabbed into the Radio Demon's abdomen and ice starts spreading from the wound.
"Alastor!" a shout is heard from behind Mr. E. Turning he finds Emily there with a frightened look and behind her is Cherri Bomb holding one of her explosives and Sir Pentious with a ray gun along with the Egg Bois.
"Now that's interesting," Mr. E says to himself as a wall is formed, separating the angel from the others. He then approaches the young Seraphim. "Never thought I'd sense an angel like you given their rules. Who might you be?"
"I, I-I'm Emily," she tries to maintain a calm look but her shaking gives it away. "The Seraphim of Joy."
Mr. E stares at her for a moment before smirking, then chuckling, and eventually booms in laughter. "I knew every Seraphim and all the Archangels. You were not among them, Miracle Born!"
Emily's brows furrow as she repeats, "Miracle Born?" A large fist then slammed into her forcing her across the hallway.
"I'll end you later," Mr. E starts thinking. "Now where was I?" he then looks over where the Queen was struggling to release her feet. "Ah, yes! The Morningstar's beloved," Mr. E goes over to her, grips her by the neck and lifts her up while breaking the ice from her feet. All before slamming her face first into Lucifer's ice block.
"I'll allow you one last look at your wife as I slowly freeze her," he taunts the King and Lilith can feel a chill as it starts spreading over her head. "You and your kind imprisoned me just for fulfilling my purpose. I'll take pleasure in your misery as you helplessly watch as the Queen's life come to and end."
A small voice then cries out. "Grandma!"
Mr. E smirks as he knows it must be the child that started all this. But as soon as he turns around, the smirk drops as his eyes widen. "The Nephilim!?" Mr. E lets go of the Queen as he turns to a mist and retreats.
Celest was confused at first but then became worried at the sight of her grandmother. "Grandma!" she runs up to the woman and falls to her knees beside her.
Even though a part of her head is still frosted over, Lilith looks up at her granddaughter, "Celest?" and ran her fingers though the child's hair. "So, it's true then," the woman then blacks out.
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Between Velvette and these Rythes, Vaggie and Charlie were doing their best. But the task is rather difficult given the Rythes' numbers and the Vee seemingly dancing around the two. Things became even more difficult when the Rythes showed the ability to form ice weapons around their arms. From blades to blunt weaponry.
At one point, the former Exorcist starts noticing something. Every once in a while, Velvette leaves an opening as she glances somewhere else. Soon, Vaggie realizes that the Overlord turns her attention to a nearby clock.
"Charlie!" she turns to her girlfriend. "This is a distraction!"
"A distraction?" the Princess shatters one of the Rythes. "From what?"
The Fallen Angel turns her gaze to the influencer before sprouting her wings and rushing towards Velvette, making sure to shatter any enemy in her way. Vaggie then points the tip of her spear at the Vee's neck.
"Where's your friend?"
Velvette only grins in response as the spear touches her neck.
"I said where's—" she is distracted by a phone ringing. Her phone.
The Overlord's grin becomes smug as her brows raised as if asking if she was going to answer that.
Vaggie cautiously reaches into her pocket to take out he phone and hits the answer.
"Mama!" an all too familiar voice cries.
"Celest!?" the grey woman's eye widens. "What's wrong, Honey?"
"He was here! He hurt grandma and the others!"
The former Exorcist's eye narrows as she turns to Velvette. "What did you—" she gets cut off as her spear is kicked out of her hands and Velvette jumps away.
The Influencer then blows a kiss before running off as the Rythes vanish into the snow.
"Vaggie!" Charlie runs up to her girlfriend. "We gotta get home."
"I know!" the Fallen Angel picks up the Princess bridal style before using all her might for takeoff.