Sloth Ring,
Blitz moved through the bushes at the edge of the Rehab facility, sticking his head out he looked around the corner for any signs of security. Once the coast was clear he moved out of the bushes and headed for a gutter pipe, he climbed up the pipe and then edged along the third floor until he got to a set of windows.
"Come on, come on, come on, come on," he muttered as he opened one of the windows. Trying to crawl through Blitz struggled to get his large horns through, he eventually succeeded but lost his balance and fell to the floor.
As Blitz tried to get up, he suddenly heard a crackling noise and was then given several volts to the ass with a Taser. Collapsing to the floor with his still smoking ass sticking in the air, he was looked down upon by an Imp/Baphomet nurse holding the offending Taser.
"Well, if it isn't the deadbeat," she said annoyance clear in her voice.
"Well, if it isn't Nurse Pussyface," Blitz replied smirking as he dusted himself off.
"You ain't gettin in here, how many times do I have to sodomize you with a taser before you take a hint?" she asked, crossing her arms in frustration.
"As many as it takes to get me off, enough foreplay Where's Barb?" Blitz asked as he continued to dust off his suit.
"She checked out months ago, but that ain't none of your business," the nurse said sternly.
"Wait, what, h-how, this is, w-where the fuck did, she go?" Blitz asked, pissed that his sister had left the facility and he had not been informed.
"Yeah, like I'm gonna tell you assclown," the nurse replied to his question brandishing her taser and giving it a little juice.
"You know I kill people for a living right bitch?" Blitz asked threateningly not phased in the slightest by the taser.
"Ohh I'm so fuckin scared," the nurse said sarcastically, Blitz sighed in frustration.
"Fine," Blitz replied realizing that he wasn't going to get his way and headed for the window. As he was climbing out his attention was brought back to the nurse.
"Blitz, she's got a job now, a life, don't fuck it up by finding her," she warned sternly.
"Oh, why don't you take that advice and shove it right between your pussy liiipppsss!" he shouted the last part as he lost his footing and fell from the third-story window to the ground below.
Pride Ring, IMP office,
Millie, Moxxie, and Dante all sat and or stood around Loona's desk, the company receptionist was sick, and Blitz was out of the office at the moment so the three were huddled around the Hellhounds desk listening to their latest client. They were a tall humanoid demon with gray skin webbed fingers, a glowing blue stomach, and long wet-looking matted hair, in all honesty, he looked like a swamp monster from a crappy horror movie. Suddenly the door to the main office flew open and in walked Blitz who was dirty and bruised and clearly in a foul mood.
Jesu, what happened to him? Dante thought to himself as he took in Blitz's messy state. Moxxie either did not notice his boss's bad mood or not caring tried to talk to him.
"Sir there's a client here who wants to," he was cut off when Blitz stormed into his office and slammed the door, hard.
"I'm sorry you were sayin?" Millie said to the client trying to cover for her boss's shitty behavior.
"Well, it's just that I'm sure one of the other camp counselors, killed me, I'm just not sure which one," the sinner explained.
"How could you not know?" Moxxie asked confused at how they couldn't know who killed them, especially since they needed that info to do their job.
"I was out on the lake when my boat started to sink, someone had drilled holes in it, councilors are the only ones with keys to the boathouse and they are the only ones who knew I couldn't swim, it had to be them," the demon explained, Dante listened carefully but the only thing he could think of was.
Why the hell was this kid at a lakeside camp if they couldn't swim, and did they seriously go out on a boat without a life vest?
"Hm, we don't typically do investigations, I'll have to check with the boss," Moxxie explained gesturing to Blitz's office.
"Pardon Moi sir-," Moxxie said as he opened the door to Blitz's office only to be cut off by his boss.
"Not now Moxx," Blitz said sternly looking through a Rolodex.
"There's a client who needs us to investigate, his death, and we don't usually," Moxxie went on unperturbed by Blitz's rude outburst.
"No time," Blitz replied annoyed, still flipping through the pages of his Rolodex.
"But sir we really need the cash flow, I was thinking maybe-" Moxxie was once again cut off by his boss.
"What part of no fucking time do you not understand?" Blitz asked frustrated that Moxxie was still talking.
"Just handle it yourself," Blitz finished, continuing to search for whatever he was looking for.
"You want me to lead… on a hit?" Moxxie asked, not sure he was hearing Blitz right. The larger Imp gripped his head in frustration not believing that Moxxie wasn't getting the hint to leave him alone.
"I swear on all that is evil if you are not out of my office in negative three seconds!" he shouted at the end of his rope.
"You got it, sir!" Moxxie replied shutting the door with a big smile on his face.
"We'll take the case, and I'll be handling this investigation personally," Moxxie said with pride.
"Honey, are you sure, what about Blitz?" Millie asked, surprised by this development.
"Honey, honey please, Blitz put me in charge this time," Moxxie explained a proud smile spreading across his features.
"He did?" both Dante and Millie asked in surprise, Moxxie sent both of them a glare.
"Oh, I mean, he did!" Millie replied trying to cover her screw up, Dante on the other hand still looked unconvinced
"Right! And this is going to be the cleanest, most well-prepped, most surgical hit we've ever had, don't worry sir, we'll find your killer and give him what's coming to him… and/or her… or they," Moxxie explained Millie smiled at her husband's antics while Dante just rolled his eyes. Once the client left Dante immediately turned his attention to his male coworker.
"Look Moxx I know Blitz put you in charge of this case, anche se non riesco a capire perché, but I think it might be better if I take the lead on this one," Dante said in a gentle tone, but despite this Moxxie sent him a glare.
"And why pray tell is that?" Moxxie asked crossing his arms an offended look on his face.
"Well as you said earlier, we've never done an investigation before and I happen to have some experience in solving crimes," Dante explained.
"Really?" Moxxie asked looking skeptical.
"Yeah, I worked as a private eye for a couple of years before coming here," Dante explained, Moxxie didn't believe him, he found it hard that a guy who was barely out of his twenties had had experience solving crimes.
"Yeah, sure you did, a kid barely out of his twenties worked as a private eye," Moxxie said sarcastically rolling his eyes. Moxxie's disrespectful tone did nothing but annoy Dante whose hands began tightening into fists.
"I'm not a child asshole," Dante replied angrily.
"I'm aware but you can't seriously expect me to believe that you have the experience of a veteran detective when you're only like what twenty-two years old?" Moxxie asked crossing his arms, Dante was about to reply but stopped looking uncertain. Moxxie believed that it was because he was right and that Dante was making stuff up but in reality, it was because of Moxxie's comment about Dante's age.
Wait how old am I actually? Dante thought to himself honest to god not sure what his true age was.
"Thanks for the offer to help but I think I can handle this," Moxxie replied sternly heading to a nearby bulletin board and began making a clue board. Unbeknownst to any of them Blitz had overheard Dante's statement and took a keen interest in what he had said.
Suddenly Blitz's phone rang pulling it out of his pocket, he answered.
"Hellooo, oh good, where'd you find… really where… thanks and I promise if we ever get a contract on your children, we'll make it quick and painless, byeee!" finishing the call Blitz hung up then headed out of the office as he did, he grabbed Dante by the arm and dragged him out with him.
"Whoa Blitz, what the fuck is going on?" Dante asked, confused, as to what Blitz was doing.
"Shut up Dante look were you serious about that Private Eye stuff?" Blitz stopped and asked his employee looking at him in both an annoyed and pleading way.
"Why? What's up?" Dante asked, not sure why Blitz would be interested in that little tidbit of his life.
"Just answer the Satan damned question!" Blitz yelled frustration seeping into his voice.
"Yeah, I was indeed a private detective for about six years give or take, and not to brag but I was pretty good," Dante said smugly, Blitz rolled his eyes.
"Fine you'll due," Blitz said begrudgingly.
"Due for what?" Dante asked as Blitz grabbed his arm and began dragging him towards the elevator, but before Blitz could even get within ten feet of the doors Dante stopped in his tracks.
"Blitz tell me what the fuck is going on you can't just drag me away from the office especially when we have a fucking job to do, especially when you left M&M in charge of it," Dante said firmly. Now it wasn't that he felt Millie and Moxxie were incompetent, far from it but they were going to a summer camp full of kids and he knew those two weren't the best when it came to friendly fire.
The last thing I want is them murdering a bunch of kids to catch this asshole, Dante thought with a shudder.
"I'm the boss and I'll do what I want now come on!" Blitz stated, attempting to drag Dante into the elevator but he wouldn't budge. Blitz tried for another ten minutes but when he saw that it wasn't gonna work, he gave up.
"Alright look I need your help finding someone alright," Blitz said frustrated, Dante listened his eyes going wide.
"Wait are you talking about Striker or Ritz?" Dante asked leaning in closer hoping that Blitz had finally found where those assholes were hiding.
"What no not them it's… look this is really personal and really, really important to me so can you please just help me with this, I have no one else to turn to right now," Blitz explained sounding frustrated and desperate.
Look Dante and Blitz didn't get along, Dante found Blitz to be an idiot, and Blitz found Dante to be an insubordinate prick, so the fact that Blitz was coming to him for help must have been important.
"Alright fine I'll help you with this," Dante stated begrudgingly, upon hearing that Blitz smiled, grabbed Dante's arm, and dragged him into the elevator.
The two demons made their way to the IMP van getting in Blitz floored it driving through the streets like a man maniac which wasn't all that different from how he normally drove. After about thirty minutes of reckless driving Blitz stopped the van right in front of his apartment building.
"What are we doing at your place?" Dante asked as he got out of the van.
"I need to talk with Loona and grab some stuff before we head out," Blitz said quickly heading up the steps to his place. Dante trailed behind making their way to Blitz's floor. Dante followed his boss into the apartment and saw Loona sitting on the couch watching TV, and eating ice cream.
Upon hearing the door open Loona turned her attention to the door and saw both Dante and Blitz.
"Hey Blitz, you're home early, what's up?" Loona asked sounding congested, she was surprised to see him home so early.
"Hey Loonie, I know this is sudden, but Daddy needs to go on a little business trip, do you think you'll be alright on your own?" Blitz asked Loona in his usual baby voice and as usual, Loona looked annoyed.
"Yes, Blitz I'll be fine it's just a cold just leave money for food, and I'll be good," Loona said rolling her eyes, Blitz smiled and began digging through his closet for supplies. Watching him for a few seconds Dante quickly got bored and made his way over to the Hellhound planting a kiss on the top of the head.
"How ya feeling gorgeous?" Dante asked, putting his hands on Loona's shoulders and squeezing them.
"Better now that you're here," she replied grabbing a tissue and blowing her nose into it then crumpled it into a ball and tossed it onto the floor.
"So why are you here shouldn't you be helping fatty, and the hillbilly kill people?" she asked confused as to why her boyfriend was here with Blitz.
"Millie and Moxxie can handle themselves… I hope," he muttered the last part.
"I'm here because Blitz needs my help with this mission of his," Dante explained gesturing to Blitz who was still rooting through the closet.
"Why does he need you?" Loona asked as she began shoveling more ice cream into her mouth.
"He's tracking someone, and he wants my help since I worked as a private detective for a while," Dante explained suddenly Loona started choking, she pounded on her chest clearing her throat.
"You were a detective," Loona asked surprised by this revelation.
"Yeah for a few years," he said, shrugging his shoulders.
"So, what else did you do before coming to IMP?" Loona asked, from her tone Dante could tell that she wasn't asking, she was demanding to know.
Christ more of this crap, he thought to himself annoyed.
"I was a private eye, I was a construction worker, I worked at a vineyard, a whaler, and I served in a variety of armies," Dante listed off, Loona just looked at him confused, she was about to ask him something when Blitz suddenly got their attention.
"Dante move your ass we got to go!" Blitz shouted gesturing to the door, Dante knelt and kissed Loona on the head before following his boss out of the apartment.
Loona sat on the couch pondering what Dante had told her.
"Wait he never left the Pride Ring how the fuck could he do all those jobs, and what the fuck is this about serving in an army?" she muttered to herself, going back to her ice cream.
Twenty minutes later, main Hellway,
The IMP van drove quickly down Hellway 666 toward the Sloth Ring apparently whoever Blitz was looking for was spotted near some pharmacy in Sloth and that was all Dante knew.
"So are you going to tell me who we're looking for," Dante asked for the twelfth time.
"Look Dante, I told you just someone I need to see alright so stop fucking asking!" Blitz yelled, turning his attention back on the road. Dante rolled his eyes he didn't like not knowing things but decided not to push it.
They kept driving for another hour before eventually reaching the Sloth Ring, Dante looked around at the softy pink sky and the large floating islands that floated dreamily by. Dante yawned the soft warm colors combined with the dream-like atmosphere had a way of putting people to sleep.
Eventually, they entered the city of Dreamsville and stopped outside a small chain pharmacy. Entering the pharmacy Dante and Blitz saw a board Incubi-Imp hybrid sitting behind the counter scrolling through his phone.
"Hi, I'm looking for one of your employees her name is Barbie does she work here?" Blitz asked the guy leaning against the counter and holding up his phone for the guy to see.
Barbie? We're looking for a lady named Barbie? Dante thought to himself glad to have gotten some clue as to what was going on.
Huh, wait why does that sound familiar? Dante considered it momentarily but was taken out of his thoughts when Blitz grabbed the pharmacist and slapped him around.
"Where is she fucknut I know you know and it just gets worse from here asshole," Blitz threatened slapping the guy with his tale.
"Well, that escalated quickly," Dante muttered upon seeing the display.
"Ok, ok, she's out on a pick-up!" the guy yelled in fear.
"Where?" Blitz asked pulling the guy in close.
"Look I don't know all I know is that she drops off the stuff at the main processing plant, now can you please let me go?" he asked scared.
"Where's this plant we need an address," Dante asked.
"It's the big building on Fentanyl Street can't miss it," he explained Blitz dropped the guy and headed for the van Dante moved fast behind him but as he did Dante discreetly grabbed a bottle of pills off a shelf with his tail and stuffed them into his pocket.
Jumping in the van, Blitz drove through the streets like a freaking maniac, smashing aside cars and narrowly and not so narrowly hitting pedestrians.
"Jesu Cristo Blitz, slow the fuck down I know you want to find this Barbie bitch, but we can't find her if we fucking crash!" Dante shouted, gripping the seat, his talons digging into the upholstery. Unfortunately, Blitz didn't listen and continued to drive crazy.
Finally, they arrived at the processing plant, getting out of the van Dante stumbled trying to regain his composure. Taking a few deep breaths Dante calmed down from the crazy ride and then stopped to take in his surroundings. The processing plant was massive about three city blocks, with about three floors and three chimneys pumping smoke. On the front of the plant was a large sign that read Belle's Royal Pharmaceuticals. Making their way to the front entrance they were stopped by a sleepy-looking Hellhound.
"Stop, employees only," the Hellhound said through a yawn. Blitz scowled at the guard reaching into his coat for his pistol before Blitz stopped him.
"Hello sir, we are representatives of Alighieri Pharmaceuticals," Dante said in a professional tone, both Blitz and the Hellhound looked at him confused.
"Who?" the hound asked.
"We are an upstart pharmaceutical company in the Pride Ring looking to do business with this fine company we have an appointment with this plant's manager to discuss the delivery of drugs to our pharmacies in Pride," Dante explained.
"What the fuck are you doing?" Blitz whispered to his employee.
"Just play along trust me," Dante whispered back.
"Uhh I'll have to check with the manager about that no one said anything about visitors," the guard stated reaching for his walkie-talkie. Before he could turn it on Dante stepped forward, grabbed his hand, and poured a small number of pills into his palm.
"Look you've been working hard why don't you take a break?" Dante said with a wink, the hound looked down at the pills in his hand and then proceeded to walk away. With that obstacle out of the way, Dante and Blitz entered the facility and saw another Hellhound a woman sitting at a check-in desk flipping through a magazine.
"Uh we have an appointment with the plant manager," Dante said to the woman wondering if he would have to do the same trick with the guard.
"Whatever her office is upstairs third floor on the right," she said in a bored tone not even looking up from her magazine. With a quiet sigh, Dante and Blitz headed up a nearby flight of stairs to the plant's upper level and found the manager's office after some searching.
Blitz attempted to kick the door in, but Dante stopped him, then proceeded to knock on the door after a moment a woman's voice told them to come in. Entering the office Dante saw a very well-endowed middle-aged Baphomet woman with pink fur and a half-melted candle sitting at a large desk. The nameplate on her desk stated that her name was Margo Dopamine.
"Can I help you gentlemen?" she asked, raising an eyebrow at the two Imps entering her office.
"Yes, Hello my name is Anthony, and this is… Michael, we represent the new start-up Alighieri Pharmaceuticals and we are hoping to do business with Princess Belphegor and her company," Dante explained, Blitz was about to speak up about the fake name but Dante subtly kicked him in the leg to shut him up, then sat down in a chair across from Margo.
"Alighieri Pharmaceuticals I'm sorry I've never heard of them," Margo said looking inquisitively at the two Imps.
"That's because it's new, we are a new start-up in the Pride Ring hoping to sell high-class narcotics to both the sinners and the Hellborns of our great King's Ring," Dante said playing up the part involving Lucifer hoping to play up her loyalty to her king if she had any, unfortunately she didn't.
"Hm alright, but why have you come to meet me without a scheduled meeting might I add, when there are cheaper suppliers closer to your Ring?" she questioned, her voice cold and business-like.
"Yes, there are but, none that provide such high-class drugs like the ruler of the Sloth Ring and her fine employees of course," Dante said sending Margo a smirk.
"Oh well that is true we do provide the best medication in Hell," She stated proudly.
"I am well aware, and I'm well aware of you," Dante stated.
"R-really?" Margo asked, surprised.
"of course, that's why we came to this plant, you have a reputation supposedly you took a bunch of morons and slackers and turned them into efficient and hard-working force, I have to say I am quite impressed," Dante explained sending her a sly smile.
"Ohh well thank you," she said with a smile, Blitz looked at Dante not sure what he was doing.
"I have to ask how someone can work as hard as you and still be so gorgeous?" Dante said leaning in and putting on the charm. Margo giggled her face turning red.
"Ohh you're too kind," she said not so discreetly unbuttoning the top button on her blouse, Dante sent her a smoldering look. Blitz saw this and started getting annoyed.
"Ok, what the fuck are you- ow!" Blitz was cut off when Dante's tail struck him on the arm.
"Mike why don't you go wait for me outside," Dante ordered, sending Blitz a fierce look, Blitz huffed but did what he told him.
"Sorry about that Margo," Dante said turning back to the Baphomet who was giving him a saucy look.
"It's fine so what were we talking about?" She asked, biting her lip, Dante smiled and put a hand on hers.
"I was wondering how are you able to make such fine narcotics?" Dante asked.
"Sorry handsome but I can't divulge company secrets," she replied giving an apologetic look.
"Come on pretty lady you can tell me I won't tell anyone?" Dante asked squeezing her hand.
"You promise not to tell anyone?" Margo asked.
"I promise," Dante replied placing a hand on her cheek.
"Well unlike most companies here in Hell we don't get our ingredients from producers here in Hell we have agents who smuggle drugs like Pot, Heroin, and Meth from Earth," she explained proudly.
"Really?" Dante asked genuinely surprised, Dante always knew that the Heroin he got from Earth was better than the stuff he got in Hell, but he always assumed it was because he bought the cheap stuff from Imp dealers.
"Huh, I had no idea you smuggled stuff from Earth," Dante stated.
"Yep, most don't know that so don't tell anyone," she said making a quiet gesture.
"How about we take a break from talking business and have a little fun?" she asked unbuttoning the rest of her blouse.
Dante smiled, got up from his seat, and made his way to Baphomet. Leaning in Margo closed her eyes expecting a kiss but suddenly Dante put his hand on her shoulder and gave it a tight squeeze. Suddenly the Baphomet seized up and went limp in her chair. Seeing she was out, Dante made his way to the door and motioned for Blitz to come in.
"Finally, couldn't we have just shot her?" Blitz asked frustrated and angry.
"And get the attention of everyone in this factory no way now shut up and look through her files for anything labeled deliveries," he stated Blitz began going through her filing cabinet while Dante went for her computer.
"Dammit password locked," Dante muttered looking around her found a sticky note with Margo's password written on it.
"Password123, really?" Dante said to himself, typing in the password, he looked through the computer and found a file called deliveries. Dante quickly skimmed through the files until he found something important.
"Hey Blitz check this out," he said, Blitz came over and looked over Dante's shoulder to see the computer.
"It looks like the acquisition of narcotics from Earth is handled by four teams, and while this document doesn't say who is on every team it does give their team leaders," he said gesturing to the four names.
"Do you see the name Barbie Wire on there?" he asked, Dante skimmed through again but didn't see it.
"No, but if we ask after these team leaders, we should probably find which team she's on and where she was sent," Dante explained.
"Then what the fuck are we waiting for let's find these fuckers and make them tell me where Barbie Wire is!" Blitz said his anger and frustration prevalent in his voice. Dante quickly memorized the addresses and names of the team leaders. Once that was done, he and Dante headed out of the office and the plant.
As he headed toward the Van Dante, he suddenly realized where he had seen the name Barbie Wire before. On a poster in the IMP conference room, the one that said Meet the amazing Imp twins.
Wait that's who we're looking for the woman from Blitz's poster… wait, Imp twins, so this Barbie Wire lady is Blitz's sister! No wonder Blitz is so obsessed with finding her, Dante thought to himself as he got in the van. Before Blitz could start the car Dante put his hand on his shoulder.
"Look Blitz it's getting late how about we find a hotel and get some rest?" Dante said to his boss.
"Dante are you a fucking nut we got to find these fuckers and find out where Barbie is!" Blitz shouted looking at Dante like he was crazy.
"They'll still be there tomorrow let's rest and regain our strength and then we can find these guys," Dante explained Blitz wanted to argue but a large yawn made that difficult.
"Alright fine if you need your beauty sleep then I will find us a hotel," Blitz said begrudgingly, starting the car and heading down the road.
Later that night
After driving around for twenty minutes the two found a cheap little motel with a vacancy and got a room. The room wasn't too large, but it had two beds so that worked for them both, Dante sat on the bed as Blitz was busy taking a shower. Dante laid back in bed looking up at his phone as he face-timed Loona.
"So, wait you guys are staying in Sloth for the night?" Loona asked surprised that the little errand was gonna longer than she thought.
"Afraid so," Dante replied, Loona rolled her eyes not happy about this any more than Dante was.
"What are you guys doing down there anyway?" Loona asked wondering what could be such a big priority to drag Dante and her dad away for so long.
"We're looking for some lady named Barbie Wire, does that name ring a bell?" Dante asked his girlfriend, hoping she would be able to confirm his suspicions and she did not disappoint.
"Barbie Wire, as in Blitz's sister the one from his posters?" Loona replied looking at him in disbelief.
"Yep, that one we've been all over Sloth looking for her… so Blitz has a sister?" Dante said to his girlfriend.
"Yep, from what I've heard during his drunken rants, well the ones not about Stolas or Verosika he talks about how close they used to be and how much he missed her," Loona explained, Dante looked away from his phone an introspective look on his face. He felt sympathy for Blitz, he knew better than anyone what it's like to be close to someone and then lose touch with them.
Dante unfortunately was pulled out of his thoughts by the sound of the bathroom door opening and Blitz stepped out of the shower wearing a cheap robe and a towel around his head. Heading towards his bed Blitz plopped down and curled up under the covers.
"Alright, Dante get off the phone it's time to sleep we need to get up early so we can find those assclowns and find out where Barbie wire is," Blitz stated snuggling deeper into the covers. Normally Dante would be fine with that, but he decided that he wanted the full story of what was going on and why they were tracking down Blitz's supposed sister.
"Before you do there's something I need to ask you first," Dante said to his boss.
"Can it wait?" Blitz asked annoyed at his coworker trying to talk to him while all he wanted was to sleep.
"No it can't, Blitz why are we tracking down your sister?" at that question, Blitz shot up out of bed and turned to face his younger employee. The look on his face was that of both shock and anger.
"H-how do you know that?" Blitz asked his voice sounding more shocked than angry at the moment.
"You mentioned that this person we're looking for is named Barbie Wire, and Barbie Wire is the name on that poster in the conference room that features you and calls you and the other Imp the Amazing Imp Twins, it's not that hard to figure out boss," Dante explained Blitz looked at him and realized that Dante had a point.
"Ok that makes sense," Blitz said embarrassed.
"Ok now that we know that I know who your sister is why don't you finally tell me why we are going to such lengths to find her?" Dante asked sternly.
"Ohh come on Dante can't you just let this go!?" Blitz asked his voice made but also desperate, but Dante stood his ground.
"No, I can't I want to know what's up or you can find her without me and unless you've forgotten I'm the only one who knows where her managers live, so tell me what the fuck are we doing here," Dante threatened, Blitz glared at him gritting his teeth in anger and for a moment Dante thought that he was gonna pounce on him and braced himself. But after a moment Blitz calmed and let out an exacerbated sigh.
"Alright, alright fine, fucking hell fine I'll tell you," Blitz said in defeat.
"Good," Dante said crossing his arms. Positioning himself so that he was seated directly across from Dante, Blitz took a deep breath and then began.
As you've figured out Barbie Wire is my sister, back when we were kids me and her performed in a circus, I was a clown, and she was an acrobat," Blitz explained.
"I'm guessing that's where the silent O came from?" Dante asked blitz glared at Dante for a moment then continued.
"Anyway back in the day we used to be super close we spent a lot of time together we were like two peas in a pod," Blitz explained a nostalgic smile spreading across his face, but suddenly that happy look was replaced by one of sadness.
"But… but then there… there was a fire, a massive fire, and well it was my fault," Blitz said the way he talked Dante could tell this was painful for him.
"How was it your fault?" Dante asked curiosity piqued as well as his sympathy for his boss.
"It was an accident I wasn't being careful and well we both lost someone we loved in that fire," Blitz said choking back tears.
"Damn," Dante muttered to himself.
"After that Barbie started using drugs heavy drugs after a while it got really bad and she had to go to rehab," Blitz explained, Dante was taken aback as an addict himself he knew the damage using could cause.
"Ohh shit man that's horrible… but wait if she's in working for this pharmaceutical company then that means,"
"Yep, she's out," Blitz stated, his voice strained.
"And did she tell you she left rehab?" Dante asked, Blitz looked down at the floor confirming Dante's suspicions.
Dante looked at his boss when he did, he didn't see the loud, obnoxious, and abrasive douche who was always insulting people or trying to invade other people's personal lives. Right now, he saw a sad man, a man eaten up with guilt and shame, a man aching for a family and connections.
"I'm sorry Blitz I know what you're going through man," Dante said in an empathetic voice, Blitz looked up at him in surprise.
"You do?" he asked skeptically but also a little hopeful.
"Yeah I have a brother a nice guy named Francesco, me and him used to be the best of friends always hanging out and spending time together, he was the best brother any guy could ask for," Dante smiled as he recalled memories of his brother and the adventures they shared.
"What happened?" Blitz asked curiously, suddenly Dante's smile faded.
"Well for starters I should add that my brother has always been religious ever since we were kids, he's wanted to be a priest, but me well I've never been much of a believer, and that caused some friction between us as we got older," Dante explained recalling all the fights they had over the topic of faith and religion.
"It all came to a head when Rose a woman we both cared deeply for and loved died we were both devastated and heartbroken Francesco delved deeper into religion while I turned to violence," Dante stated Blitz nodded his head.
"Francesco didn't like that he was always a pacifist never enjoying violence or murder hell he once broke down into tears after he saw a chicken get its head cut off and he was like seventeen," Dante explained eliciting a laugh from Blitz.
"So, what went down?" Blitz asked after he got his laughter under control.
"Well after Rose died, he tried to get me to become a priest like him I told him where he could shove that idea up his ass, we fought, and well I… punched him in the face, broke his nose," Dante admitted shame and regret filling his voice.
"Oh shit," Blitz replied.
"Yep, and after that, we didn't speak to each other in years, and I mean years, it wasn't until recently we came back into contact, and even then, things are still tense we only communicate when there's an emergency," Dante finished getting up he made his way over to Blitz's bed and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Look Blitz I may not know much about your family but from one person with an estranged sibling to another I am going to help you find her and hopefully make amends," Dante said sternly a smile on his face Blitz returned that smile and pulled Dante into a hug much to Dante's discomfort.
Six days later,
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE STILL ON THIS FUCKING JOB!" Loona shouted through the phone into Dante's ear, who held the phone at arm's length so as not to go deaf.
It had been about a week since he and Blitz had gone on this mission to find Blitz's estranged sister Barbie Wire. On the first day, they found where she worked and some of her coworkers and decided to question them on where to find her. Unfortunately, that turned out to be much harder than they thought, two of the four team leaders had no idea where she was and the third was so high they couldn't even tell they were being slapped around. They were currently on the fourth team leader who unfortunately was kicked out of his girlfriend's place, it took them two days to find him, and Blitz was busy "questioning" him now.
"You've been gone for a full fucking week when are you guys gonna finish up and get your asses back here?" Loona asked her boyfriend extremely annoyed by the long time they were taking.
"Look I know we're taking a while, but we should be finishing up soon, we're getting close to finding this bitch," Dante explained hoping to calm Loona down.
"Well can you hurry it the fuck up, I'm bored and there's no food left at my place," she explained Dante rolled his eyes and then suddenly thought of something.
"Hey, Loona how have Millie and Moxxie been doing since we've been gone?" Dante asked, M&M must have done with the summer camp hit by now. He just hoped they were handling the rest of the jobs they were probably getting.
"I have no idea, I went to work the day after you guys went to Sloth and they weren't there, I went the next and they still weren't there, so I just went home and haven't gone to the office since," Loona explained casually.
Dante's eye twitched, so not only was M&M still on the summer camp job, but Loona hadn't been in the office for like five days meaning no one had been answering the phone or taking contracts. Taking a deep breath Dante put his phone down, walked over to the nearest wall, and punched it again, and again, and again, until his right hand was broken in five places and the wall was covered in a large splatter of his jet black blood. Once he was calm, he went back to the phone and picked it back up.
"OK Loonie, I need you to go to the office and man the phones, I know it's not fun and I know you hate it but you need to answer the phone and schedule clients," Dante explained trying to sound stern but also nice not wanting to tick Loona off by bossing her around.
"What ohh come on why, I'm in the middle of my favorite show!?" Loona asked annoyed Dante pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration.
"Loonie honey, we need you to answer the phone, if you don't answer the phone then we don't get clients, if we don't get clients then IMP can't make money, if IMP doesn't make money, we all go broke!" Dante explained, annoyed at Loona's laziness.
"Ohh come on they'll just call back," Loona replied, Dante took another deep breath.
"Ok, look Loona if you go back to the office and answer the phone I'll do that little tongue trick I know," Dante promised sounding defeated.
"Wait you serious?" Loona asked sounding more motivated than she was before.
"Yes, as many times as you want just, please do your fucking job please," Dante practically begged his girlfriend.
"Deal!" she shouted enthusiastically hanging up the phone, as she did Blitz came out of the other room wiping blood off of his knife.
"So, you find out where she is?" Dante asked desperate to get this task over with already.
"Yep, she's on Earth, the supplier who gets her drugs works at a summer camp," Blitz explained tucking the knife back into its sheaf.
"Wait a summer camp?" Dante asked anger welling up inside him knowing that some creep was smuggling drugs around innocent children.
If I see that bastard I'm going to rip his head off, Dante thought to himself.
"Alright, what now call M&M and have them bring us the book?" Dante asked hoping that Millie and Moxxie would be available to bring them the book.
Who takes a week to complete a simple assassination? Dante thought to himself annoyed, then stopped himself.
Wait, wait, M&M are great assassins and very professional this job must be harder than I thought or maybe they've been picking up the slack since we've been gone, Dante told himself trying to explain his coworker's behavior.
"No time best thing to do is to get to Lust, find a succubus with an Asmodean Crystal, and make them open a portal," Blitz explained.
"Gotcha… wait what's an Asmodean Crystal?" Dante asked confused, never hearing of such a thing before.
"Seriously how the fuck have you never heard of an Asmodean Crystal before?" Blitz asked, not sure how Dante doesn't know something that is common knowledge to all Hellborn. Dante just shrugged his shoulders, Blitz sighed in annoyance.
"Alright look an Asmodean Crystal is a type of crystal that allows demons to open up portals to the living world so they can do their jobs," he explained in a patronizing way much to Dante's annoyance.
"Wait why doesn't IMP have one of those that sounds more convenient than Feathers's book?" Dante asked, confused, as to why they were going through all this trouble with Stolas when it seemed like there was an easier way to get to Earth.
"Because you can't just get one from Asmodeus himself, you tell him what your job is, and if he approves, he gives you the crystal," Blitz explained to Dante.
"Ahh gotcha," Dante stated understanding, seeing that Dante finally understood what was going on he turned to leave when he saw the large blood splatter on the wall.
"What the fuck happened here?" Blitz asked, surprised.
"Nothing you need to worry about come on let's get this over with already!" Dante yelled heading for the door, gesturing to Blitz to follow along with his right hand which was perfectly fine no blood no breaks.
Lust Ring, Fellatio City,
After about two and a half hours, the two demons finally arrived in the Lust Ring, specifically its main city of Fellatio getting out of the van Dante looked around. Dante had only seen the Lust Ring in passing, this was his first time really seeing it. It was dark and raining a perpetual midnight drizzle, the sky was a hazy dark blue so deep it was almost black, the city itself was covered in neon lights mostly in bright blues and pinks. Every neon sign was advertising sex of course, from strip clubs to sex shops but what do you expect from the kingdom of Asmodeus?
"So, Blitz what's our next move?" Dante asked his boss who's head was darting around like a confused squirrel.
"We find some skank and make them give us their crystal," Blitz said annoyed suddenly he spotted a middle-aged succubus prostitute.
"Hey handsome looking for some-" she was cut off when Blitz slammed her against a wall and put his pistol to her head.
"Alright, slut hand it over!" Blitz yelled; the prostitute looked at him eyes filled with terror.
"Blitz!" Dante shouted horrified by what his boss was doing.
"Ok, ok, take my purse all my cash is in there!" she said terrified, handing Blitz her purse which he snatched from her and began digging through it. After digging around for a few seconds, he realized that there was no crystal in it, angry he turned back to the hooker and put his pistol back to her head.
"Where's the crystal whore?!" Blitz asked angrily, putting the pistol right under her chin.
"What, what the fuck are you talking about?!" she asked, terror filling her voice as a tear ran down her cheek.
Suddenly someone grabbed the arm holding the pistol and yanked it away, looking over he saw Dante giving him a cold look.
"That's enough!" Dante shouted, tossing Blitz aside, the Imp flew through the air and smashed into a nearby car. Once Blitz was out of the way Dante immediately went to work helping the succubi, helping her back to her feet he retrieved her purse and ensured everything was still inside.
"Are you ok miss?" Dante asked as he handed the bag back to the woman.
"A little battered but ok, thank you," she replied, returning her bag and sending Dante a smile.
"It's fine I'm really sorry about that," Dante said gesturing to Blitz who was still dazed.
"What the fuck was his problem anyway?" she asked angrily shooting daggers at the Imp in question.
"He's got some family issues and needs an Asmodean Crystal you wouldn't happen to have one, would you?" Dante asked half hopeful, half apologetic.
"If I had one, do you really think I'd be working the corners," she replied sarcastically, Dante admitted that she had a good point something that important wasn't going to wind up in the hands of some low-level sex worker.
"Then do you happen to know someone who does?" he asked it was a shot in the dark but maybe one of her clients has one they could use.
"No sorry honey but you might want to try that club across the street. A alot of high rollers go there maybe they got one," she said pointing across the street following her finger Dante saw the club in question.
It was a fancy strip club with a big red neon sign that read The Night Life, the place had a long line all of whom were dressed in fancy suits and dresses.
"Worth a shot thank you miss and sorry about my associate," Dante once again apologized as he handed her a small wad of cash.
"Hey, no harm no foul," she said snatching up the money and began counting it, as she did, she saw a small business card tucked into it examining it she saw it said La Rossa in fancy black cursive and underneath it in smaller font it said, high-class bar and brothel.
Making his way over to Blitz he saw that his boss had recovered from his injury and was looking at him with murder in his eyes.
"Dante what the fuck was that about…" Blitz stopped when Dante pressed his middle and index finger against his forehead.
"Huh wait what's happening again?" Blitz asked confused rubbing his head, trying to shake off the fog.
"The hooker didn't have a crystal, but she said someone in that club might have one," Dante explained casually pointing over to the club, Blitz took one look at the club and frowned.
"We'll never get in there," Blitz said dejectedly.
"Don't worry we'll just sneak in through the back, as a pair of Imps they'll never even notice us," Dante explained hoping to use Hell's prejudice against Imps in their favor.
"That'll never work," Blitz groaned.
Inside The Night Life,
"Holy shit I can't believe that actually worked!" Blitz exclaimed as they made their way through the club, they simply found the back door, picked the lock, and walked right in when an employee saw them, they told him they were new staff and he instantly believed them.
The two quickly left the back area and entered the main floor, the main room was massive with several tables in the center and large booths near the walls. There were several stages around the room with various succubi and incubi dancing on poles and more walking around the floor, interacting with various people wearing little to nothing as they did. As they moved through the main floor Dante and Blitz looked around, everyone here was rich any one of them could have an Asmodean Crystal. It seemed like they would have to search them all one by one but luckily Dante had another idea. Walking over to a fat shark demon he reached into his pocket and pulled out a large wad of cash, he then walked over to a black-haired succubus in a micro bikini.
"Hey gorgeous how much for a private dance," he asked the succubus giving her his best smile.
"Three hundred souls," she replied sending him a smirk, Dante immediately pulled out the wad of cash he swiped peeled off three hundred, and handed it to her. She tucked the money into her thong and proceeded to lead Dante to one of the private rooms. Dante was about to follow but Blitz grabbed him by the arm and yanked him down so they would be face to face.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" Blitz asked his employee with an angry look on his face.
"I'm doing what I did in Sloth I'm gonna talk with this lady and see if she or someone she knows has an Asmodean Crystal," Dante explained but Blitz still looked annoyed.
"What's your problem?" he asked, unsure of his boss's issue.
"I just don't like my daughter's boyfriend flirting with random sluts," he stated tightening his grip on Dante's arm.
"Look Blitz I'm not flirting alright I'm just trying to help you find your sister I'm not going to do anything with this woman like how I did nothing with that pharmacy woman, so relax I'm just trying to gain their trust so I can ask them questions," Dante explained pulling his arm free of Blitz's grip.
"Hey what's the hold-up?" the stripper called out noticing that Dante wasn't following.
"Uhh my friend was just wondering if he could watch," Dante said, pointing to Blitz.
"It'll cost you extra," she replied Dante pulled out another two hundred and handed it to her.
Inside the Private Room,
Dante sat back on a padded couch as he watched the succubus who he learned was named Lily Dance before him. He watched as she moved and gyrated to the beat of the music playing in the private room. As she moved Dante grabbed hold of her tail and began to rub it between his fingers.
"H-hey no touching," she stated but didn't pull her tail away, taking that as a good sign Dante coiled her tail around his finger, Lily let out a small moan of pleasure as he did. With a quick tug, Lily fell forward and landed on his lap.
"Ohh wow someone's excited," Lily stated positioning herself on Dante's lap.
"What can I say you put on a damn good show," Dante said in a sultry tone.
"Ohh for Satan's sake can we just get this over with already!?" Blitz yelled from the other end of the room. Dante and Lily were startled by his outburst, both forgetting he was even there.
"Uhh right, right, look I have a question for you," Dante said turning his attention back to the stripper.
"If it's if I'm down to bone the answer is yes but we have to wait till my shift's over," Lily explained.
"Good to know but what I want to know is do you happen to know someone who's got an Asmodean Crystal?" Dante asked cautiously not wanting to freak her out.
"Why do you want to know something like that?" she asked, confused, giving both Dante and Blitz a suspicious glance.
"Well, you see me and my friend here need to get to Earth it's an important family matter and we were just wondering if you know someone who might lend us theirs for a little bit?" Dante asked gently patting her on the thigh. Lily looked at Dante and Blitz then sat in thought for a moment before a lightbulb went off.
"Actually, yeah there's this one guy called Mark short little dude with glasses he just got a Crystal and he was bragging about it earlier today," she explained, this got Dante's attention.
"Is he still here?" he asked leaning in closer, Lily blushed at how close he was.
"Uhh yeah, last time I checked he was at the bar chatting it up with some of the other dancers," Lily explained Blitz immediately bolted out of the room followed by Dante.
Main lounge area,
Blitz stormed his way through the club pushing past dancers, servers, and clients as he approached the bar, he scanned the clients and found who Lily had described. He was a very short succubus in a black shirt and blue sweatpants. He had a thick head of black hair and glasses and right now he was chatting up a scantily clad succubus and an incubus. Marching up to the bar Dante moved in next to Mark and slammed his hand down on the bar top drawing his and his "friends" attention.
"Uhh, can I help you?" Mark asked, annoyed, looking up at Blitz with an annoyed expression.
"Alright, short stack hand it over," Blitz demanded holding out his hand.
"Hand what over?" Mark asked, confused.
"Your Asmodean Crystal you stupid little shit!" Blitz yelled, grabbing the smaller Incubus by the collar and pulling him in close.
"Just give him what he wants pal before this gets ugly," Dante stated trying to keep the situation from escalating, suddenly one of the Incubus that Mark was talking to stepped in.
"Hey, look buddy how about you fuck off before-," he didn't finish his question as Blitz pulled out his pistol and shot him in the leg. The Incubi fell to the floor clutching his ankle in pain, the entire bar turned to watch the commotion.
"Blitz what the fuck!" Dante yelled at his boss pissed at his recklessness.
"What he was harassing me?" Blitz asked, not sure why Dante was mad, at that moment Mark grabbed a drink off the bar and threw it in Blitz's face.
"Ahh fuck!" Blitz shouted, dropping Mark to rub his eyes, using his wings Mark immediately took off towards the exit.
"Quick stop him!" Blitz shouted seeing their ticket to Earth get away.
The two raced after him, Blitz attempted to grab the Incubus's tail but just when he was about to get a hold of the barbed tip Blitz bumped into a serving girl causing him to fall face-first onto the floor. Jumping over his boss Dante continued to chase after Mark but was stopped by a tall muscular Incubus.
"Hey, handsome come here often?" he asked in a flirty tone, leaning close to Dante's discomfort.
"Look man I'm busy so piss off," Dante stated pushing past him only for the guy to step back into his way.
"Come on handsome whatever it is you're busy with it can wait," the stripper said pulling his hand on Dante's face, Dante replied by kicking the incubus in the nuts. The demon fell to the floor in pain with him down Dante continued to chase the target.
Mark had made it to the front entrance but just as he was about to fly through the door he slammed head-first into a big burly Dinosaur demon.
"You got a problem twerp?" the Dino asked glaring down at the tiny Incubus, gulping Mark immediately lifted off and flew in the opposite direction. Seeing him flying towards the back area of the club Dante realized he was heading for an emergency exit.
"Blitz he's heading for the back alley, stay on him I'll try to cut him off!" Dante shouted heading for the front entrance while Blitz chased after the Incubus through the emergency exit.
Coming into the back-alley Mark immediately took off towards the alley's exit to the main street but stopped when he saw Dante standing in the entryway. Mark decided to fly straight upwards but just as he was about to take flight Blitz grabbed the Incubi and threw him against the wall. Regaining his baring Mark suddenly found himself pinned to the wall by Blitz's left arm with his pistol pointed at his head.
"Look fucker you're going to open up a portal to a certain location on Earth or I am going to blow your brains out understand?" Blitz explained in an intimidating tone of voice.
"Ok, ok where do you want me to open a portal too?" Mark asked his voice trembling with terror; Blitz told him the location where Barbie's supervisor said she was getting her drugs.
Hey, that's the same summer camp that one guy said he died at, Dante thought to himself then he remembered what Loona told him how Millie and Moxxie never returned from said job.
No, no that's not fair maybe they did come back, and they've just been at home or doing jobs while Loona was MIA, Dante thought to himself trying to give his coworkers the benefit of the doubt. He was quickly pulled out of his contemplation when he saw Mark reach behind himself and pull the Asmodean Crystal from his.
"Dio Mio," Dante exclaimed in revulsion using the crystal Mark opened a portal to the location. Tossing the Incubus aside Blitz jumped through the portal. Dante was about to follow as well but stopped for a moment, he considered swiping Mark's crystal but decided against it.
"Yeah, I'm not touching that," he muttered before jumping through the portal.
As Dante went through the portal, he found himself landing right on top of Blitz and also… Moxxie.
"The fuck Moxxie why are you still here and why are you dressed like jailbait?" Dante asked confused at his coworker's presence.
"I'm trying to finish the job you two left me," Moxxie stated looking annoyed and somewhat hurt and Dante's comment about his disguise.
"Christ on a stick you're still working on that it's been like a fucking week?" Blitz asked his employee exacerbated, and Dante shared the same sentiment. Looking around Dante didn't see any armed guards, no cartel men, not cops, or anything all he saw were some kids playing and their counselors watching them.
There's no way this job should have taken this long a day or two maybe but not a whole week, Dante thought annoyed.
"This is why I don't trust you with dick Moxx," Blitz stated angrily heading out of the bushes towards a small boat house, Dante and Moxxie quickly followed.
"And what exactly are you two doing here?" Moxxie asked, wondering why his boss and coworker decided to show up after leaving the job to him.
"Apparently helping finish your botched job," Blitz said sarcastically.
"But mostly I'm looking for my sister," Blitz explained before kicking in the boathouse door.
"BARBIE!" Blitz shouted looking at a woman with ponytails, a red and white striped dress, and a black vest. Taking one look it was obvious to all the demons in attendance that she was an Imp in disguise.
"BLITZ!?" Barbie Wire shouted in a mix of surprise and horror.
"You know her?" Moxxie asked in confusion.
"Do I know her, that's my sister's fuck face," Blitz said gesturing to the woman.
"He literally said that a moment ago," Dante chimed in rolling his eyes.
"What the fuck are you doing here shithead?" Barbie asked annoyed, putting her hands on her hips.
"I should be asking you the same thing! You check yourself out of rehab no call no note and I have to track you down to this shithole with… who the fuck is this?" Blitz gestured to some scrawny guy with glasses in a councilor's uniform. Barbie quickly pushed him behind her.
"No one, he works for me," she replied, before turning her attention to the two demons by Blitz.
"Who's the twink and the dude with the freaky eyes?" she asked pointing at Moxxie and then to Dante.
"No one they work for me," Blitz returned, Dante smirked at the similarities between them, yep, they were definitely twins.
"Sir that guy's the target," Moxxie explained glaring at Barbie.
"If he's the target, why haven't you fucking killed him yet?" Dante muttered under his breath just loud enough for Moxxie to hear.
"Oh, shit Barb, looks like your little boy toy got himself into some trouble," Blitz stated with a smirk.
"What the fuck are you talking about?" Barbie asked confused.
"He killed our client, now our client wants to kill him back," Moxxie explained both Dante and Blitz confirming with a shake of their heads.
"Fucking what!?" Barbie asked the guy an angry look on her face.
"He found out about your drugs," the guy explained, before being cut off by Barbie.
"I don't want to fucking hear it, kid," she said with a wave of her hand.
"Look you're not killing my supplier," Barb said pointing at Blitz.
"Oh fuck, supplier of what you're not back on that H8 are you?" Blitz demanded, pointing at his sister.
"Fuck no it's just Heroin," Dante perked up at the mention of Heroin.
"Oh, thank Satan," Blitz said relieved.
"Uhh got any to spare?" Dante asked Barbie, both Blitz and Moxxie looked at him incredulously.
"Kidding, kidding," Dante followed quickly hoping the others believed him, they didn't but had more pressing concerns.
"So now you're peddling Heroin, what's the point that shit barely gets rid of a headache?" Blitz asked his sister, moving in closer.
Ohh, it does more than that Blitz, you've clearly never had it before, Dante thought to himself suddenly Moxxie pulled out a knife and started making his way closer to the target only to be stopped by Blitz.
"It's honest work ok, and I thought it would keep me as far away from you as possible," Barbie Wire stated angrily.
"And you teamed up with "genius" here because?" Moxxie asked gesturing at the guy with his knife.
"You have any idea how easy teenage humans are to manipulate," Barbie stated with a smug look.
"Hey no I'm not," the kid said, angrily crossing his arms.
"Aw, Jimmy Wimmy can you pwease woading up these druggy wuggies for me?" Barbie asked in a baby voice bending over to give him a good view of her panties.
"Sure, Barb whatever you say," the target now revealed to be Jimmy said dreamily, Dante shook his head in disappointment.
God that's pathetic… although at his age I was the same way all Rose had to do was bend over in front of me or bat her eyelashes and I was putty in her hands, Dante thought to himself with a laugh
"Sir I've spent a week on this I'm finishing it, one way or another," Moxxie stated brandishing his knife clearly at his wit's end and ready to go back home.
"Don't you dare," Barbie said closing in on Moxxie.
"Hey back off bitch," Dante said getting between her and Moxxie.
Now Dante was conflicted yes Jimmy was the target, but he was also a teenager probably no older than sixteen he was so young it seemed wrong to kill him when he was just some dumb brat. Then again, this kid was smuggling drugs in a summer camp surrounded by young children he also murdered another counselor to keep this all under wraps, for what so a pretty girl would show him her undies. This kid was scum maybe killing him would be a mercy, and the world would be a safer place without him.
Besides it's not the first time you've murdered children, remember Russia, remember France, remember Germany, the voice in Dante's head said, Dante shuddered at the memories of those events.
Suddenly everyone's attention was drawn to a large bang and thundering cheers. Looking out the window they saw what looked like fireworks shooting off. Taking advantage of the distraction Moxxie lunged forward with his knife to stab Jimmy but was grabbed by the arm by Barbie's tail. The woman then threw Moxxie across the boat house sending him into the water.
"Come on Blitzo haven't you fuck my life up enough already?" Barbie asked her brother angrily dropping her human disguise in a shower of sparkles, not the flames accompanying Dante and Loona's transformations.
"Now hold on how about we just talk this-" Dante was interrupted by Moxxie who climbed out of the water and headed for Jimmy.
Once again Barbie Wire grabbed Moxxie with her tail and pulled him in close, leading to a wrestling match between the two. Blitz quickly intervened, attempting to break up the fight Dante was about to assist but saw Jimmy trying to flee. Deciding that holding her supplier's life in his hands might force Barbie to negotiate. Running towards him Dante grabbed the teenager by the arm and pulled him back just as a knife buried itself into the wall. Looking over he saw Moxxie slip from Barbie's grasp and reach the target.
"Wait Moxx don't," Dante said as he began beating up the young man. Then, Barbie started up the boat's motor only for Moxxie to push her away lift the motor and attempt to shove Jimmy's head into the propeller.
Just as Moxxie was getting close Barbie punched him in the face, Blitz grabbed her and held her back. Free from the smaller Imp's grasp Jimmy attempted to run only to be caught and pinned down by Dante. Seeing this Barbie tackled Dante and proceeded to pelt him with punches. This fight continued for several more minutes before suddenly a rocket from some nearby fireworks smashed through the boat house window. The rocket struck Jimmy right in the head blowing it to smithereens splattering all four demons with gore.
"SATAN FUCKING DAMMIT!" Barbie shouted in rage at the sight before her.
"Thanks, alot Blitzo now I'm out of a job, FUCK!" Barbie said to her brother seething with rage as once again her brother's actions had messed up her life.
"Barb, wait I want to help you, let me help you please," Blitz said in an uncharacteristically kind and gentle voice.
"You're clean now let's grab dinner we'll catch up and we'll talk about-" Blitz stopped when Barb started laughing.
"You don't fucking get it, just because I'm out of rehab doesn't mean I want to see you, I never want to see you ever," she stated coldly much to Blitz's chagrin. Dante wanted to speak up to say something but stopped himself after what happened today, nothing he or Blitz could say could change how she felt.
"Next time you want to find me Blitzo don't," she stated with finality before opening a portal to Hell with her Crystal and walking through.
Blitz stood there devastated with a sad forlorn expression on his face, Dante knew what he felt he knew how much it hurt when your sibling decides they want nothing to do with you for that close bond to turn to hatred and resentment. Walking up to his boss Dante placed a hand on his shoulder and sent him a comforting look.
"Hey Blitz if you need someone to talk to, I'm," Dante couldn't finish his statement Blitz slapped his hand away and sent Dante a glare.
"Shut up Dante, let's just… let's just get the fuck out of here," Blitz said sounding exhausted, Dante decided not to push it and pulled out his phone to call Loona.
Epilogue
Later that night, Dante's apartment.
Dante and Loona lie in bed basking in the afterglow of a passionate lovemaking session. Dante lit two cigarettes, handing one to Loona. The two demons each took a long drag and blew out a thick cloud of smoke. The two laid back watching as the smoke dissipated, Loona reached out and pulled Dante close to her.
"I'm glad you're back," Loona said sweetly, taking another hit from her cigarette, smiling Dante gave her a peck on the cheek.
The two lay in silence for another couple minutes or so, suddenly the pleased smile on Dante's face shifted into a mournful frown. Dante let out a sigh Loona's ears perked up and she turned her attention to her boyfriend.
"What's wrong?" Loona asked recognizing the sigh.
"Huh ohh sorry just. Thinking about what went down with Blitz and his sister," Dante explained looking up at the ceiling, Loona frowned and pulled Dante into a hug.
"I'm sorry things didn't work out with him and Barbie," Loona said gently nuzzling Dante.
"How's Blitz doing I know he seemed upset when we returned to Hell?" Dante asked, Loona sucked in her breath.
"He seemed pretty upset I asked if he wanted to talk but he just brushed it off and said he was all good and that it was no big deal then left to go get hammered, typical Blitz," Loona explained trying to sound annoyed, but he could tell Loona was worried about her dad.
"I know it must hurt he clearly loves his sister he cares about her and to hear her say she wants nothing to do with him, I mean I know what that's like," Dante explained remembering the fight he had with Francesco.
He remembered the yelling, the screaming, the shouting, and he and his brother cursing each other. Finally, he remembered the punch, he remembered his brother on the floor holding his broken nose, blood gushing from between his fingers. The worst part was the look he gave him the look of hurt and betrayal in his eyes. The sudden ringing of a phone brought Dante out of his flashback. Getting out of bed Loona picked up her shorts and pulled out her phone.
"What's up, Blitz?" Loona asked as she answered the phone, the bored expression on her face quickly turned to one of surprise.
"Seriously is he ok?" she asked, sounding concerned.
"Alright I'm on my way," Loona stated before hanging up, letting out a groan of frustration Loona quickly started getting dressed.
"What's up?" Dante asked.
"Blitz the idiot that he is got wasted and trashed a bar now the owner just called from his phone asking me to come pick him up," Loona explained sounding aggravated.
"Want me to come with?" Dante asked, getting out of bed and getting dressed himself.
"Sure, if you want," Loona replied before heading out the door followed by Dante.
Getting in the IMP van Loona used to get to Dante's place, they drove to the bar where Blitz caused so much trouble. After about twenty minutes they arrived at the Bloody Lip a tough-looking bar frequented by gangsters and thugs. Standing outside the bar was an Imp woman covered in tattoos and piercings and standing beside her was a very drunk, very battered Blitz. Stopping the van in front of the bar, Dante and Loona stepped out and approached the woman.
"This yours?" she said pointing at Blitz.
"Yep, that's ours, sorry about that," Loona said scooping up Blitz and throwing him over her shoulder.
"Whatever just get that bastard out of here, oh yeah when he sobers up tell him he's banned," she barked, Dante nodded before following Loona back to the van. Tossing Blitz into the backseat Loona and Dante climbed into the front and drove off.
Blitz's apartment,
Walking through the front door, Loona carried Blitz to his couch, gently put him down, and draped his blanket over him.
"B-Barb I'm… I'm so sorry," Blitz muttered before passing out. Pulling the blanket up Dante tucked Blitz in and gently patted him on the shoulder.
"Want to crash here tonight?" Loona asked Dante who nodded then followed Loona to her room.
END
Another chapter done! I'm sorry that this chapter took so long to post but alot of stuff has been going on in my life lately and I haven't had time or motivation to write. I will try to be more consistent with my writing, but I do want to take more time to edit as I have been noticing some mistakes and errors in grammar and punctuation and I want to work on getting them all.
Thanks again for reading, I really appreciate your support!