Author's Note: Chapter twenty is out! I hope you are enjoying the story so far, please leave your comments and suggestions!
Here is the key for this chapter;
Y/N:Your name
(Y/C/P): Your color pick.
Chapter 20: Coronation Night... Part 1
The car ride was to Hellfire Design was quicker than you anticipated, but a horrible gut feeling, despite the added addition of the royal guards was starting to creep in... one filled with dread and golden eyes that would appear every time you closed your eyes. Was it just your nerves? Or... was he somehow looking at you? How and from where?...
As you entered Hellfire Design, you noticed how busy it was from the last time... many different demons of all shapes and sizes roamed the aisle of dresses and suits. The sight of all of them made your eyes bug out a little. You thought you would be used to seeing so many different demons already... but...
You shook your head quickly... they were all Sinners so they would not share a common race, though some of them looked very similar to one another. They all looked unique regardless. And that was okay, you determined to yourself. You'd just have to get used to it.
Though your stomach did do a flip flop... thinking about that... man... was he hidden among so many demons... just watching you? Or where you just being paranoid? Despite trying to talk yourself out of your paranoia, you desperately look around at your surroundings, trying and failing to find him amongst the crowds of sinners.
You where taken from your paranoia as you and your group saw the shadow demon know as Tom Kindle make his appearance. He smiled broadly, clapping his hands together. Getting everyone's full attention.
"I see things have changed since I last saw you! Don't worry Alex told me all about it! Come along, this way!" Tom said, sounding and looking nervous at the sight of all the royal guards, standing so near to you and your family.
You and your group followed close behind him to the back rooms. They were dressing rooms from what you could tell, though more gilded and ornate than the other rooms you remember seeing from last time you were there.
The floors were a dark gray slate tile. And the walls were a rich cream with ornate crown moldings and baseboards in a stark white contrast. White ornate cushioned chairs lined the middle of the room in front of a two step platform with a tall full length mirror on the wall.
Another room was attached to the one you where in, that you assumed was for you to get dressed in. Tom brought you into said room. A female attendant and a female royal guard followed close behind you, entering the room with you. There against the wall to the right was your two dresses, more gorgeous than you remember them being.
You were suddenly nervous at the prospect of the dresses not fitting even though you knew you had changed physically, of course they would need to be altered. But would they be in time? You mentally shook your head in annoyance. It could be done... no need to worry...
The female attendant was the same one from last time you were here with Alastor. Isabella? She turned towards you and bowed deeply "Your Isabella, from last time, right?" you asked, smiling down at her and then looking towards your dresses.
"Yes, that's me, darling. Tom thought it would be good for you to see a familiar face, with all that's been going on." Isabella said, heading towards your first dress you picked. Holding it up, for you to examine.
"Are you ready to get this on ya, sweetie?" She asked walking towards you. You nodded, striping your cloths and boots from your body. Letting her help you get in to your first pick.
The first dress somewhat fit, it needed to be let out around the shoulders, chest and hips. Also made to be longer due to your change in height. Trying the second one on was the same result. You felt panicked, though. Changes to both dresses could take forever to get done... but maybe they had a way to fix them quickly? They made these dresses so fast that it was mindbogglingly to you.
Isabella sighed, but smiled brightly up at you "Don't worry to much, hun we know the circumstances of your situation are a bit hard. We can have them done by sometime tonight and sent to the Pride castle by then, we can then have you try them on again to see if they work out at that point." Isabella said while helping you out of your second dress, continuing "We have a bit of magick ourselves, so it can be done!"
You sighed in relief, knowing they had you covered. Isabella produced a measuring tool and retook your measurements, jotted the information down on a pad she produced out thin air. Which made you give her a double take, she must be able to do something similar to what Alastor could do and now you.
You quickly dressed back into your cloths, deciding to show your mother, sister, Vaggie and Niffty the dresses on the rack, since it would impossible otherwise. You walked out with both dresses in each arm "They need to be refitted, but it's doable and they should have them done by sometime tonight and then I will need to retry them on at that point." you said, walking out of the room with both Isabella and the royal guard trailing you.
"So do you want to see them, everyone?" you said, smiling at everyone present in the room. Niffty jumped up and down, like she was on a sugar high. With pleading eyes she shouted "Yes! Yes! Yes!" followed by your sister and mother.
You laughed and held the first dress up for examination, earning oohs and aahs. Nifty was fingering the fabrick, her eyes wide with wonder, soon letting out a squeal of excitement. Then you pulled out the second dress to show them, getting more gasps than anything else.
They all seemed to like your dresses, which made you happy. You let them touch and feel the fabrick of both dresses. But soon Isabella took them away from you with a smile, handing them to another female attendant, a blue flamed demon. The demon left with them quickly, along with the addition of the measurements in her black smoky hand.
"Now, everyone, I want this (Your style Bridesmaid dress) dress style and in this (Y/C/P) color. I think it would go well with my style of dresses that I picked out." you stated for everyone. They all gave you a smile and left with Isabella to the dresses.
And now it was your turn to sit and watch your sister, Vaggie, Niffty and your mother try on dresses. You hoped they liked your style pick and color theme, wondering what type of picks in that style they would come up with.
Isabella led your family to the dress racks while you stayed and waited with Alastor and some of the royal guards. Soon enough they came back, Isabella carrying some of their picks along with Tom.
They had brought out three type of dresses in the style you picked and in the color you wanted. They all tried the same set of dresses at the same time. Then followed by the next two. You decided on the third dress, it fit with your two dresses and looked very good for all their different body types. (This is just to give you an idea of what it would look like, but whatever works) A full body sweetheart lace dress with loose off the shoulder sleeves. A trail of roses along the bodice and skirt in a half X pattern.
Then it was Niffty's turn. She came out in a beautiful (Y/C/P) sweetheart dress. Lacy and flowy like the rest. But with roses scattered all along the skirt and the beaded bodice. You smiled at how cute she looked in her dress, knowing it was the one. (Or again, whatever works)
Your group left the dressing rooms, following Tom to pay for the dresses and additional alterations to your own dresses. You where happy that didn't take to long with the feeling of being watched only increasing. Causing an involuntary shiver to run up your spine. You hoped it wasn't starting to show outwardly. You wanted to look like you were keeping your cool. You didn't want to alarm anyone, incase you were overreacting.
Alastor wrapped his arm around your shoulders 'Your okay, I sense him to, well just go back to the castle, It's safer there anyway. Just don't fret.' he looked tense himself, holding you tighter to his chest. You rested your head against his shoulder, trying to calm yourself down for his sake.
You looked towards the crowd of Hell born demons and sinners as you and your group left, seeing to many tall beings with black/indigo chin length hair and white wings... you had to be seeing things... right? Despite wanting to remain calm, fear raced up your spine, causing you quickened your pace, wanting to leave Hellfire Design behind you altogether.
As you exited the doors, you practically ran to the limousine, getting inside as quickly as you could manage, followed by Alastor and the rest of your group "I know we are cutting it short, but let's just go to the castle for now, how about you and Vaggie come back with us Charlie?" Alastor asked, looking towards your sister on the opposite side of the limousine.
Charlie looked a little disappointed at the prospect "We have to check up on the hotel and see if everything's okay, as well as getting Husk, Angel and Baxter for Y/N's coronation..." He looked like he was about to protest her decisions before Vaggie cut him short.
"Charlie's right, I really do think we should go back to the hotel. And well all make it back in time for tonight's coronation!" Vaggie said, turning her gaze onto Alastor for the last part. Charlie nodded vigorously in agreement, looking towards you and Alastor with pleading eyes.
You nodded your head, looking at your sister dead in the eyes "Just be careful! With the threat of the angels... I don't want to hear that anything bad happened to you or anyone else at the hotel!" you said vehemently, with worry now clearly evident in your eyes.
What gave you pause was the weird glazed look in Vaggie's eye. Was her eye always like that? Maybe she was tired... or... well you hoped it wasn't anything else. Though as the car ride progressed back to the hotel. She just would not stop staring at you with her one unnerving eye.
Soon the Limousine stopped at the hotel, Niffty looked ready to get out with Charlie and Vaggie, but was stopped by Alastor "Niffty, you should come with us. We have some things to talk about with you, both me and Y/N." he said looking down at Niffty and then to you.
"Okay! Sure would love to see the Palace!" Niffty said in a hyper voice, her one eye wide, looking up at her father figure and then giving you a curious look. You smiled back at her with a gentle nod and a smile.
"Well, we will be back by 5pm or sooner, if we don't call you by then... well..." Charlie trailed off, giving you a worried look before hopping out of the car "Well take some of the royal guards with you!" Lilith said looking just as worried as you were for Charlie's and Vaggie's safety.
"I will, mom!" your sister said poking her head back into the limousine just as Vaggie got out. Vaggie turned her head at an unnatural angle and gave you a unnerving grin. You thought her eye flashed a vivid bright gold, but that had to be the trick of the light... right? "We will be just fine, don't worry..." Vaggie said with a slightly distorted voice.
Just as promised, you heard Charlie's muffled voice ask for some of the royal guard to follow her inside the hotel. You sighed in relief, just like your mother did "Well, she has Vaggie and the royal guard, she should be fine..." Lilith said with a reassuring smile, patting your arm gently. Though you didn't feel the same, something was telling you that Vaggie wasn't herself right now...
꧁•─────•°•Pride Castle•°•─────•꧂
The car ride back to the castle was uneventful, thankfully. As you got out, you were greeted by Bastian, who bowed and took the dresses from Alastor and then disappeared back into the castle. They somehow finished the dresses quickly or maybe they were bought from the rack... you didn't know and right now it was on the bottom of your list of mysteries to solve.
You, Alastor, Niffty and your mother all entered the castle after Bastian. You were glad to be back. The tension that knotted themselves into your shoulders melting away as the feeling of dread and of being watched soon vanished.
You guessed that this Lucien character could not penetrate these walls. Which made you sigh in bliss. Though that didn't last long, thinking about your sister and the others being at the hotel, practically out in the open... and was Vaggie possessed? Or were you just overthinking things? Maybe she was just tired and stressed... yeah that had to be it...
You looked down at Niffty, she oohed and aahed, twirling around in front of you and Alastor with her small arms raised above her head. Alastor bent down to her height, patting her on the head and picking her up in his arms, making her only seem smaller.
"Well, Niffty. Do you like it here?" he cooed at her, smiling gently. She smiled wide at Alastor, nodding her head quickly "Dad... why couldn't I stay at the hotel? I was going to play with Husk again and help him make dinner with Angel? Angel really likes to cook!" Niffty asked quickly, with her small arms raised up in the air.
"Well my dear, we wanted you to be here with me and Y/N, we needed to tell you some things that will change all of our lives for the better and ask you some things to!" Alastor said with a boop to her nose. She giggled and covered up her nose with her small hands "Okay, daddy!"
Gothall greeted you by the stairs, bowing and smiling "Greetings, my lady! How was your outing?" You smiled back at her and gave a little waive "It was okay! Thanks for asking!" you said, though your smile wavered a little thinking of the odd events, you couldn't quite get out of your head...
"We need to get you ready for the Coronation! Come this way, my lady." Gothall said, gesturing towards the stairs that would lead to your room. You nodded and left to go her towards her with your mother following behind.
A large hand was placed on your shoulder suddenly "I'll be meeting with your father, to go over some things as well as helping Niffty here get ready. Just come and find me when your done getting ready, yourself." Alastor said with his signature grin.
You tried to bring back your smile as you turned your attention towards Alastor "Okay, I'll have Gothall lead me back to you, after we are done and oh, have fun Niffty!" you said with a waive of your hand, heading towards Gothall and your mother. You left quickly, following them to your bedroom through the twisting passages of the castle.
꧁•─────•°•Hazbin Hotel•°•─────•꧂
(Charlie's POV)
I thought it was okay to leave my new found sister, mother, Niffty and Alastor behind... but something didn't feel right... Vaggie kept reassuring me like usual. Husk was grumpy as ever when we opened the doors to the hotel, glaring up from that blasted bar along with Angel. Grumbling about being bored. Though they were both surprised by the royal guard that came trailing behind me and Vaggie.
No one had come to the hotel... Angel had said their had been murmurs about some people wanting to give it a try at least. Though right now, I was not to hopeful that anyone would come by. It was hard sometimes to keep this hopeful mindset up and right now... it was starting to wear on me...
There was a loud noise coming from the basement of the hotel, causing me to rush to the door near the entrance of the lobby. It was a bolted steel door that was halfway opened, smoke coming out in a heavy rush.
"Baxter!? Are you okay? Did you start another experiment? Or... set off a... bomb?" I shouted down the now fully opened door, all I heard was loud coughing and rushed down the winding stone steps, hand sliding against the ruff stone wall.
Baxter was grasping onto a metal table, breathing heavily. The mess he had made now covered the walls and floors with the green ooze along with scattered lab equipment and clutter spread all around him.
Anyone who saw him now would think he was a messy person in general, but it was quite the opposite. The well lit room was usually very well organized, with everything labeled and in it's rightful place.
He had come to my hotel wanting a place to work and my dad had promised him that my hotel would be perfect. I assumed my dad had hired him for the development of new technology and medicine.
So after a confirming call to my dad, I had let him stay. Though I didn't really let most people know about him, he was very antisocial and reclusive and quite hard to be around sometimes.
He looked up at me, seeming exasperated. He was a short Angler fish humanoid demon/sinner with gray-blue skin. He had wide and somewhat long fins on each side of his head resembling ears, his slick back hair was a dark navy blue with streaks of grayish blue. Coming out of the top of his head was a somewhat long tentacle with a bulbous glowing light at the end. His eyes were a bright red with reptilian pupils, the sclera's a light blue.
He wore a dark gray lab suit with golden buttons running all the way from the top to the bottom along with black boots. On his head he wore a small gray top hat with a band of golden studs. Along with wide yellow glasses that covered most of his upper face. His hands adorned with thick black set of silicone gloves.
"Sorry, princess I was trying to complete a cleaning solution for Niffty. She was complaining about not being able to get out some of the blood stains in some of the hotel bedrooms and would not stop asking me. I told her to use peroxide, but she said she had tried that already..." Baxter said with a annoyed expression, looking up at me.
"It's okay, she was complaining to me as well about that... so I told her to ask you about it. There also another thing I like to bring up... My sister, you may have heard her upstairs a couple of days ago along with Alastor. Well she is having her coronation tonight and I would like you to come with me, along with Husk and Angel and of course Vaggie. So would you like to?" I asked nervously.
Baxter smiled and despite being reclusive, nodding his head "I will go. I need to get some fresh air, anyway." he paused, brushing his lab coat off "I didn't know you had a sister... how did you find out?" he asked looking up at me, curiosity shining from his eyes behind his glasses. I told him everything as he started to clean the room. He only nodded and told me to come and get him when I was ready to leave.
The odd feeling I felt before only intensified as the hours ticked by. Vaggie was acting weird. Her eye would flash a vivid bright gold in odd lighting... she was not acting like herself. And I felt like there was someone else with us in the hotel... It was starting to irk me...
We'll I guess we didn't really have to come back to the hotel today. Oh well, it was better to be safe than sorry. And I did need to come and get the others and take them to the coronation tonight, anyway. 'You never know when something could change for the better... like someone coming to their senses and wanting to be redeemed...' I thought, staring out my office window and sighing.
I finished up as quickly as I could with the extra work that piled up over yesterday. Not that it was to much. Niffty had kept the hotel very clean while we were gone. So nothing was out of sort. I was worrying to much again.
Now I was wanting to get back to my old home. It was comforting to have been back at the castle last night. I felt very safe there within it's stone walls, despite the recent incident and my dad not agreeing with my saving the sinners idea.
I almost didn't want to bring Vaggie back to the castle. Something was telling me not to, though it would look weird if I was not seen with her, since we were an item. I knew us being an item was frowned upon by the other nobles of hell, since she was not a noble herself, nor an overlord... well who cares! They can stick it where the sun don't shine!
With that thought, I wondered if I would find a nice dress in my room at the castle? Probable so and with the bad feeling I had only getting worse I felt safer going to the castle to get ready for my sister's Coronation. I called for the limousine and alerted them that I had royal guards with me and was bringing some people with me from the hotel as well.
(Lucien's POV)
I had not wanted to risk it quite yet coming here... to this disgusting place... to Hell... not physically yet anyway. So I astral projected myself here. Though it was tiring to say the least and I didn't know if it was sustainable in the long run...
When they had exited the wedding... store... if you could call it that... I had managed to latch onto Vaggie's damned soul, riding along side her energy, so I could get close to them without their notice.
I was so close to my beloved that I almost couldn't control myself in that car! And that fiend Alastor! I had to resist my urge to rip him to shreds! It was in my rights to! He had touched what was deemed mine, by God himself!
I had to get to my Y/N somehow and my key had to be Vaggie. She was weak... though virtuous for a sinner. I almost had respect for her... almost. But to get to my goal and secure what is mine... I'd do anything... will do anything...
So I tried to be Vaggie to the best of my capabilities, trying to blend in around Charlie until I could get back into the castle once again. Though I don't think I'm fooling this sister of my Y/N. She seems unsure of Vaggie now.
This Charlie... She seems so pure, so righteous and the love Vaggie has for her in so intense I feel as if I am slipping... from control I had over her over these past few hours...
Now's my chance... Charlie wants to go home. Yes! Now I'll see if I can get back inside that retched castle that was once Alabastien's... and take her away right under their very noses!
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