NEW STORY ALERT! NEW STORY ALERT! NEW STORY- BACRACK!... fuckin alarm wouldn't shut off, had to shoot it. yeah yeah, I know I have a bunch of unfinished stories, but this one won't leave me alone. I have to at least write this chapter and see what you all think.
A NEW DRINK! A ROUND OF 'OVERLORD OF WAR', LET'S GO!
"hello"- regular speech
'hello'- regular thoughts
"hello"- phone/ radio calls
'hello'- internal discussion
"Hello" – Translated Demonic language
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*Note: minor fudging of the timelines here. 'Dad beat dad', and 'Scrambled eggs' AKA episodes 5 and 3, respectively, swap places. Charlie and Lucifer have already had their heart-to-heart chat and song, and now its time for a meeting. Also, suspend your disbelief further into the story, there's some shit if you know about that might upset you, but it the only way to include it without it becoming all-consuming.*
(At Carmilla's Overlord meeting)
"We have not the information if it was even a denizen of Hell that made the kill, and yet you would have us commit to a halfwit plan to attack the heavenly host on the next extermination day." Observed Zestial, looking at the youngest overlord in Hell, even among the three newest overlords she was a mere child compared to them. Including their mortal lives, Valentino was almost 50 years old, and Vox was a bit over 80. Velvette, by comparison, was a mere 26 years old. All the more impressive that she was the Vee's backbone, in his opinion. A driven young woman like her were a rarity, even in the modern age. Still… "I've seen better betrayal attempts and traps in children than this one my dear."
"What's it matter if it was a sinner or not who made the kill?! They can fuckin die, that's all that matters! We don't need to fear the winged fucks anymore!" Proclaimed Velvette, gesturing with an open hand to the decapitated head she had thrown onto the table. Inwardly, she was seething over his calling her out on their hastily concocted plan to entice most overlords to commit to a doomed assault on the exterminators. The more of them who were eliminated, the less they had to fight to take over their territories and souls. Still, maybe she could salvage this and dirty his rep. "What's the matter old timer? Heart giving out, balls shrinking at the thought of dirtying your hands in angel blood? Are you that much of a coward?"
Carmilla looked fit to spit fire, and Zestial was opening his mouth to respond, before his face froze. Quietly he stood and lowered his head. Carmilla looked at her friend and saw his eyes were closed. "Zestial?"
"He approaches." He intoned, getting a look of understanding from Carmilla before she stood and lowered her head as well. Several of the older Overlords quickly realized what was going on and followed their lead, while Alastor, despite not knowing, was quick to follow. He may not have a clue what was going on, but some of the most powerful Overlords in hell were standing and bowing their heads. Every Overlord had their pride, so for them to bow their heads wasn't a good sign. Best to follow the group in this case. Hopefully, it would put him on the good side of whoever was responsible for this.
Velvette was about to pipe up and mock the fossils for their fear and deference, before the door behind her were smoothly opened. A thick red fog billowed out from the door, covering the floor in it. At first Velvette thought Valentino had shown up, until she caught a whiff on the smoke. Val's was designed to make one smell their most comfortable memories, as well as their most arousing ones. A really effective aphrodisiac, one that blended comfort and arousal, while also being addictive as anything could be. This smoke didn't smell like any of that.
It smelled of iron and death.
It smelled of blood.
Turning, she saw a tall figure, a bit taller than Vox, wearing what looked like a cloak of purest shadows, flowing down from his shoulders. A hood covered his head from her view at the angle he was at. The black shadows turned into the red smoke as it reached the floor. Aside from that she could see the blackened steel plate on his chest and Gauntlets of similar steel on his hands, the fingers ending in wicked points, resembling the claws so many sinner had. His legs were coated in a set of Greaves and Cuisse of the same steel, covering him from neck to toe in darkened plate armor and cloaking shadows. On his back rested a long and large sword, the blade hidden in a sheath made of what looked like a single large hellhound.
Velvette watched as he moved to the head of the table, armor clanking lightly as he did. When he reached Carmilla, he stopped and gave the woman a formal bow, before taking her hand and kissing the back of her hand.
"Dearest Carmilla, it has been decades. How have you been my dear?" asked the figure, his voice a powerful and controlled masculine tone. He sounded as if he was speaking softly, as if in fear if he spoke to loudly, he would hurt people.
"Fine my dear, now would you please lower your hood? There are many new faces among our number, and they will need to know your face." She replied, getting a half- bow in turn, before he turned to face the table. When he did, he pulled back his hood, baring his face to them all. His face was what many would call handsome, being a deep red color on his skin, while his eyes were a vibrant blue on yellowed sclera with black pupils. His hair was a strong blond color, rivaled only by the Morningstar's in hell, with two prominent horns on the top of his head. He looked quite a bit like them, if she we're honest. But that was impossible, because Lucifer and Lilith only had one child in Hell, and that was that 'Charlie' bitch… right?
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, Overlord of War. It's a pleasure to see some old friends and meet some new acquaintances. In particular, it's good to see you Zestial, after the decades I've been away." He proclaimed before reaching over to shake the taller Overlord's hand, getting a returned shake in reward for his reaching, before he spotted another old friend. "Rosie, my dear, how is Cannibal Town these days? As blood soaked as I remember?"
"It's actually quite clean these days, my darling, it's so much nicer that way." She replied with a grin, before glancing at the rest and seeing some impatience on their faces. "Let's save the reunion for later and get back to the matter at hand, hmm?"
"Agreed, now, who killed this exorcist?" he asked, glancing at the head on the table. When he did, one of his hands shifted to one side of his cloak.
"Unknown, we don't even know if it was a sinner who killed them, or if this was a traitor being put down by the heavenly host." Replied Zestial, getting a shaken head in return.
"So, we don't know who killed this one then…" he trailed off, before a bloodthirsty grin overtook his face. "Well then, your all in luck."
His arm lashed out from beneath his cloak, flinging a collection of similar items to the one on the table. Landing by the one head Velvette threw, were 5 more Exorcist heads.
All eyes were turned to him then, only to catch sight of his grin. "I know exactly who killed these 5, and spoilers, he's in the room with you." Naruto proclaimed, standing tall and crossing his arms across his chest.
"You killed these five, my boy? Your power has surely grown in your time away." Commented Zestial, his glowing yellow eyes locked on to his oldest ally. They both rose to prominence among the Overlords around the same time, though his friend was still a young man at the time, so he had taken the younger man under his wing, at least partially, and shown him some of the finer points of leading and ruling his territory. He continued to call him his boy in the meantime, partially because Naruto let him, the other part because it was true. The slightly younger overlord was the closest he had ever come to a son, and so he continued to refer to him as such.
"It has but that's not the way I killed them." Naruto replied, before reaching to his back and removing the massive sword from its belt around his chest, taking the sheath with it. now that they could see it, it was definitely a hellhound holding the sword in its mouth. The handle and cross guard were massive, equal to the huge sword he wielded. With one hand, he pulled the sheath away from the blade, revealing the absolutely gargantuan blade within. By all rights, it shouldn't be possible for him to wield a sword that big, but he wielded it with one hand with ease. Looking at the blade, they could see that it appeared to be made of the same darkened metal that the armor he wore was.
"This is how I killed them. For the past 50 years, I've been scouring the outer reaches of the pride ring for the secrets that the Sins and Ars Goetia buried when the exterminations began. Secrets that let the sinners and Hell-born of the old days, before even my and Zestial's time, stand against the Angels with impunity and defiance. After half a century of digging through ruins and buried remains, I finally found it. The methods our predecessors used to fight back. Ladies, Gentlemen, and indiscriminate others, I give to you the weapons that will lets us fight back and protect our servants. Corrupted Angelic Steel. The answer to Heavens Angelic Steel." He declared, as a shadowy Aura took over the blade and caused a feeling of fear and death to fill the room, causing a few of the weaker Overlords to shift in their seats at the feeling the sword put off.
"Pfft, and you just expect us to buy that?" came the disbelieving voice of the youngest in the room, prompting a look towards her. She looked decidedly unimpressed, staring at him with the most bored look she seemed able to muster. "Sorry, ya fossil, but I ain't buying it till I see proof of it working like you say it does."
"If anyone in this room had said anything less, I'd have taken their heads and watched you all fight over the scraps." He declared, shocking most at his blunt declaration of his willingness to kill anyone in the room. Carmilla's head dropped into her hands, Zestial merely sipped his tea, Rosie quickly snagged one of the heads for a quick snack, and Alastor's grin widened a bit more. "No, young lady, I came prepared. Helbretch, Sigismund, bring in the examples!"
The door slammed open, a pair of large figures blocking the door. When the figures stepped through, they were looking at a pair of large sinners in Black armor with White pauldrons, a black cloak over their left arms. Between them, however, was what drew the attention of most of the room. A pair of struggling Exorcists, stripped of weapons, armor, and apparently clothes. Both were bound and gagged, with bruises and lacerations covering their bodies. The only thing left on them were their undergarments, skimpy though they were, and the chains that kept them bound to the large sinners who held them.
"Well well, A live show! How entertaining!" Enthused Alastor, eyes locked on the two soldiers holding the two angles. They were dangerous, he could feel it. It felt like two more Overlords had walked into the room. If these were Overlord level sinners, then how powerful was their master?...
"Now then ladies, I hope you've enjoyed your stay with my men. For now though, I bid you farewell, and better fortune in the next life." He declared, before taking the head off of the first one in a single swing. Seeing her fellow exorcist actually die from the sinners hand froze the second angel, before she collapsed to her knees while staring at her fellow angels corpse, which was leaking golden blood all over the floor.
"And now I have to pay to have blood cleaned off of the floor. It's not cheap to get blood off marble, Naruto!" said Carmilla, raising her voice at her longtime ally. She wasn't upset, just slightly annoyed about the blood in her favorite meeting room, and that he killed one before asking her. It was common courtesy, ask before you murder in another's house. Even Alastor followed that unwritten rule, and he was insufferable half the time!
"Send me the bill, you know I'm good for it. I'll pay in full; you know I will." He retorted, getting a nod of her head in turn. As he turned back to face the second angel, he saw something amusing and highly intriguing. Her wings, a former soft white after washing the black dye out, were now bleeding a crimson red. "Well well well, what do we have here?"
"That's new…" muttered Carmilla, walking up to stand by him. They both watched as her wings finished bleeding red, before she turned to face the Overlord of war and the Arms dealing Overlord. To the shock of everyone in the room, she bowed down to her knees in front of him, muffled words being heard from behind her cloth gag. Naruto, surprising the rest further, reached down to remove it, allowing them to finally hear her murmuring.
"Blood for the lord of blood, blessed be his name, and may he grant me the mercy I ask for." She was whispering, before repeating it like a mantra, quiet enough that most couldn't hear her. Naruto's eyes narrowed, however, at the name. Nobody but his most loyal knew that name, so how did this random angel?
"How intriguing… Helbretch, Sigismund, take her back to the Phalanx, have her contained in a high priority cell, nobody but me is allowed to see her. Call in the first and second companies to assist you. If anyone gives you shit or tries to stop you, kill them. I want her safe when I return. And… Get her some clothes, food and water." Ordered the blond, his two soldiers snapping into motion. In a matter of moments, a black bag was over her head, and a black cloak was covering her form and new wings from sight. Within moments of clothing her, they were back out of the door with her between them, making quickly for the elevator.
With the entertainment over, Carmilla and Naruto shared a look, before Carmilla turned back to the table. "This meeting is over. Have a good day everyone. Naruto, Zestial, come with me, please."
With that the three Overlords, along with Carmilla's two daughters, retreated further into the building, the door slamming shut behind them. Velvette left quickly, realizing she had to share these revelations with Vox and Valentino quickly, and they needed to get their hands on some Corrupted Angelic Steel as soon as possible. If they could get it before the rest of these losers, the future of Hell's pride ring was theirs. Alastor quickly shadow traveled out, taking the Egg boy with him by pure chance of it holding onto him. As he exited the building, the two soldiers were nowhere in sight. Cursing internally, he shadow traveled back to the front door of the hotel, having to hurry back to his current residence, taking the Egg boys when he did as frank had waved the rest over. He had to be alone and think. These revelations needed his immediate attention.
"Alastor, failed to get rid of the eggs I see." Came the voice of Vaggie, Exactly what he didn't need right now!
"Yes, well, the little monsters proved rather tolerable, and at least mildly useful. Apologies, but it's been a rather long day. I need some rest. Don't disturb me, please." He replied, his voice rather clipped but still polite. He vanished with that, leaving a confused lobby.
"Well, dat was weird. What weird thing has him up in a bunch?" Asked Angel dust, having never seen the Radio Demon even mildly bothered by anything. For him to dip out like that? Something weird had happened.
"Oh oh! At the Overlord meeting, a blond guy killed an Exorcist with a weird sword, showed off the heads of five more and Weird Steel, and even took another one with him, one with red wings! It was really weird!" Exclaimed Frank, waving his hand in the air as he did.
"What?! A blond guy, Killed an exorcist? Did he look like her but shorter?" asked Vaggie, pointing at Charlie when she did. Having seen pictures of Lucifer that Charlie had, they were near perfect copies of each other, but Charlie definitely got her height from her mother. The term 'Short King' fit Lucifer like no other.
"Uhm, yeah! He had red skin though and he was really tall! Taller than mister Alastor even!" Replied Frank, having taken a minute to think about it.
Vaggie turned to her girlfriend, looking her in the eye. "Don't suppose you have a brother you didn't tell me about?"
Charlie had a contemplative look on her face. "Maybe… look, I don't know everything, but I'm not the first kid mom and dad tried for. According to mom, Heaven cursed them, making it so they couldn't have healthy children, or even have them. She told me that she had a lot of stillborn babies, one night when she was insanely drunk. Apparently, Heaven placed that curse on them after their firstborn was born and then vanished three days later. Dad searched all of hell with the fury a thousand suns but couldn't find him. maybe that's him?" she finished, a sad look on her face. All those family members, all those brothers and sisters, gone because Heaven was scared of the children her mom and dad had and their potential. It was almost enough to make her stop some days.
"Maybe, anyway, what was his name egg?" Asked Vaggie, holding her girlfriends hand when she turned back to the egg boy. She'd need her hugs later, that was for sure.
"He said his name is Naruto Uzumaki, ma'am! He went away with Miss Carmine when she ended the meeting." Reported the Egg, saluting the boss lady.
"Sir Pentious, think you could arrange a meeting between us and them?" Asked Vaggie, turning to face the Egg boiz boss.
"Probably, but Carmilla will need a good reassson for the meeting. Ssshe will not meet usss lightly." He replied, knowing miss Carmilla was always looking for another connection to Hell's upper crust. Even if Charlie was the odd duck out, Lucifer obviously still loved her, and there were few with more money or power in hell then the King. Money? Maybe Mammon, greedy fucker that he was. Power? Satan, the Sin of wrath, was the only contender. He was always cajoling with Lucifer for first place on the power totem pole. He didn't even want to be king, he just wanted to be the strongest. Said being King would stop him from fighting like he liked too.
"Call her, tell her it for weapons to arm and protect the hotel against attacks of angelic variety. If she says its expensive, tell her Lucifer is footing the bill. And see if that Naruto guy is there too, ask him to come if you can." Said Vaggie, getting a nod from Pentious, before he pulled out a steampunk themed cellphone to call her. Even he could acknowledge the benefit of mobile communications.
Vaggie meanwhile, turned back to her girlfriend "You should probably call your dad, sweetie, he'll want to know."
"Right…" Charlie replied, trailing off at the end, before pulling out her phone, and staring at her father's number, before shaking her head, determination setting in to, hopefully, find some family. With renewed passion, she hit the button.
(Just as the meeting ended)
Pulling the door shut behind him, he turned around to face the room, only for two bodies to impact him, sending him back half a step.
"PAPA!" Came the twin squeals of his girls, prompting a chuckle from the blond Overlord. Hugging them back, he turned back to their mother at the same time.
"I see their healthy, hmm? My strong little girls!" he cheered, picking them up on his shoulders in the process, getting childish squeals from Clara and Odette in the process. Carmilla smiled at the sight, her girls were only like this with their father these days, so it brought her no shortage of joy to see their childish sides emerging from their serious personas they crafted for their work. It reminded her of less stressful times. Before the Vee's and their schemes, before Alastor and his chaos. Back when things were a bit more organized.
"They are. And how about you? Are you eating enough food? Getting enough sleep?" she pestered, getting a chuckle from Zestial and Naruto in the process.
"Your smothering him, dearest Carmilla. He's obviously healthy, relax." Assured Zestial, sitting on one of the lounge chairs and sipping his tea, enjoying the levity this family brought him. It wasn't often he indulged in it, so when he did, he enjoyed it.
"I'm fine, dear. Really! In fact I've never been healthier!" Proclaimed Naruto, getting his other half to roll her eyes. The smile slipped off his face however, and the girls were taken down from his shoulders softly. When he next spoke, his voice was soft and quiet. "It was you wasn't it? you killed that other Exorcist."
"… I did. We were out dealing with a minor problem, and the time got away from us. When we realized what was happening, we made a break for the nearest safe house, but before we made it, we were surrounded. I sent the girls ahead to run while I held them off, and managed to kill one before I started running. That's when the 5 guards you had watching us caught up and decimated the rest. They caught up and secured us for the rest of the extermination." She revealed, glaring at him for the hidden guard, only for an unrepentant stare to meet her own.
"And if I didn't have them watching you, there's every chance you'd be dead. I'm not risking it, either you or our children, Carmilla. I won't have it." He stated, getting a tired sigh and nod in return. "Besides, they only interfere when your security isn't enough. They've only had to interfere twice in the fifty years I've been away, before the extermination."
"you'll be explaining those two times later, you do realize that right?"
"I'm well aware of my impending interrogation, yes. Relax, I'll send you the reports later tonight." He countered, before assuring her of his plans for the future.
"Very well, now then, will you be needing your regular weapons shipment? She asked, getting a nod from Naruto in return.
"Yeah, the forge master and his subordinates still need angelic steel to make Corrupted angelic Steel. In fact, I might need to double the next shipment, maybe even triple it. We'll need a lot of angelic steel to arm all of my subordinates with corrupted weapons. And that's not including the ammo makers." He said, getting a shaken head in the process.
"Can't get that without a serious price hike sweetheart, you know that."
"And if I promised 25% of the Corrupted Steel Weapons made from every shipment are yours, along with exclusive selling rights indefinitely on Corrupted Steel Weapons?" he bartered, getting a smile back in return.
"I think that can be arranged. Deal." They sealed it with a handshake, as was tradition in hell. The room glowed an ominous red from their combined power, before a contract popped out from between their hands with ample writing already on it, as a few words changed, and more popped up on the bottom. The paper then rolled back up and vanished in a puff of smoke. As it did, Carmilla's phone rang. Quickly she reached over and grabbed it, answering it on speaker for her trusted people to hear. "This is Carmilla, what weapon can I get for you?"
"Missss Carmine, a Pleasure. I call on behalf of the Hazbin hotel, and princess Morningstar in particular." Came the hissing voice of one of her better customers, Sir Pentious, getting a raised brow in turn. He was always polite and paid well for his goods, so she rather liked the snake sinner. It was why he had her number instead of the standard dealers. He was a good, loyal customer. She liked to deal with those personally.
"And what does the princess of Hell want with my weapons, Sir Pentious? As far as Hell can tell, she's a pacifist. Why does she want weapons?" questioned Carmilla, smelling something was up.
"Sshe not looking for weaponss of a Hellissh variety, but an angelic one. Perhapsss even oness meant sspecifically for dealing with angelss." He replied, getting a collection of shared stares from the room. That information shouldn't have leaked yet, it was too quick.
"And where did you hear this from? Can she even afford that?" questioned Carmilla, doing a little fishing for information.
"Alastor had a ssubordinate of mine at your meeting today by accident, and he told me and the princess of the proceedings, or at least the broad span of events. As for the money, Lord lucifer iss footing the bill. We would like to sit down and have a proper discussion on the deal with yourself and the blond gentleman, is he available?" he revealed, getting a pinched bridge of her nose in return. She looked at her partner, getting a silent nod in return. She nodded herself, before leaning back over the phone.
"He is, where will this meeting be taking place?" she asked, getting a pleased hiss in return.
"The Hazbin Hotel would be best; Lord Lucifer will be present to oversee the deal. Meet us there in, say… three hours? We need some time to set up and all." He proposed, getting a satisfied nod in turn.
"Three hours' time at the Hazbin hotel. We'll be there. See you then Sir Pentious" she nodded before ending the call and glancing up at her Partner. "Well? What do you think?"
"I think, there's enough time for me to take us to the Phalanx and get the chefs to cook us all up a meal. We haven't eaten as a family together in so long. Time for that to change. Girls, go grab a change of clothes for formal attire, we'll need it." he declared, before ushering his girls from the room. Turning to his mentor, he decided to offer him a meal as well. "Will you be joining us Zestial? There's always room at my table for you."
"I think not, I need to get back to my territories. The Vees are ever ambitious, and I have to hold the line on their intrusions for now." He replied, disappearing into himself as he vanished. Naruto turned to his other half, before offering her a hand. "Shall we my dear?"
"We shall, do you still have that cook who does the fresh made waffle fries with his steaks and burgers? I'm in the mood for Barbeque." She declared, getting a grin in return.
"I believe so, yes. He expanded to a proper smoker 5 years ago and has been experimenting with different woods and meats ever since. I believe he was working on Briskets and Ribs last I checked." He replied, getting an excited shiver at his words.
"Then let's get our girls and go, I'm not missing this."
"Of course dear."
(back at the hotel, around half an hour after the phone call ended)
"I spoke with miss Carmilla, she and the blond man will be here in two and a half hours." Sir Pentious reported, slithering up behind Vaggie to quietly whisper it to her.
"Good, Charlie and her father should have this all sorted out by then…" said Vaggie, trailing off when indistinct shouting echoed out of the locked room they had barred themselves in. It wasn't in any language she spoke or recognized, meaning it must have been one of the old demon languages the higher nobility spoke. "…Hopefully."
"Fingers crossed. They sound… irritated." Spoke Pentious, genuinely hoping they could. Charlie was nice to him, the first person in hell to be nice to him in fact, and he wished her nothing but happy tidings and good fortune. Helping find her brother, one way or another, with her father would be a good place to start.
(In the Room)
"How could you call me here with this, Charlie?! And off the word of a homunculus no less!" Roared Lucifer, his hair flowing like fire on top of his head. He was angry that his daughter, his little girl, would call him and tell him that his son might be alive. his son, his baby boy, his little man… "Your brother is dead, Charlie! I searched EVERY ring, EVERY crack and crevice in hell! HE'S GONE!"
"AND IF HE ISN'T?! What will you do if he is still alive, and you missed the chance to see?!" Returned Charlie, her own hair behaving like fire in the face of her father's anger. She knew that the wound of their son's disappearance was still painful for her father, her mother claimed it hurt him even worse than it did her, but to react like this? It was rawer then she could have guessed. "Isn't it worth still trying? Even if he is gone, we can't just give up until we know for certain! Otherwise, he could still be out there!"
"HE ISN'T!"Roared Lucifer, holding his cane hard enough to warp the shaft under his strength with one hand, while the other hand hid half of his face, trying to hide the tears building in his eyes.
"And if he is?" Asked Charlie, seeing her father was about to break down. He needed to let this out, now, before he snapped. Her hair fell back down to its normal look, albeit without her hairbands to keep it organized.
"THEN I FAILED HIM! THEN I FAILED TO FIND MY SON! AND LEFT HIM DOWN HERE, ALONE, FOR 10,000 YEARS! I FAILED MY WIFE TO FIND HER BABY BOY AND I FAILED MY DAUGHTER TO FIND HER OLDER BROTHER! I FAILED EVERYONE I CARE ABOUT! And if I did, Then why in hell would he even want to know me?" finished Lucifer, swiping his arm out towards her to point between her eyes, before he stumbled backwards and fell against the wall sliding down and pulling his knees to his chest, slipping back into English as he did, his hair falling around his face in a shaggy mess, his hat falling off beside him.
Charlie walked right up to him, crouched down in front of him, and grabbed him by the shoulders. "Because he's family, because he's your son, and because if I can forgive you, I'm sure he can. Dad, there's a chance! Isn't that enough of a reason to try?"
Lucifer opened his eyes again, and all he saw were the hopeful eyes of his daughter. Eyes that looked so much like his own, but that sparkle of love in them? That innate kindness and glimpse at her heart? That was all Lilith. She loved deeply and purely, and her heart overflowed with love for all of hell, something Charlie seems to have inherited stronger than even her mother. The sight of such pure love in one of his bloodline, it reminded him of the day both his children were born, of the love he felt when he first saw his children. That love hadn't changed, even after one disappeared for 10,000 years, and Charlie… They were working on it. Point was, he had to try, even if it was only to lead to more heartbreak. He wouldn't give up on either of his kids.
"Alright, I'll try Charlie." he said, pulling her into a soft hug, burying his eyes into her shoulder. "I won't give up on him if you don't."
"Then let's get ready for their arrival, they'll be here in a couple hours." She said, grabbing his hat and pulling him to his feet. When he stood up and wiped his eyes of the remainders of his tears, he took his offered hat back and returned it to its rightful place on top of his head.
"Right, I'll clean up the lobby and get it fit for an appropriate meeting location." He told her, getting a slightly nervous look in turn. He merely smiled at that. "Relax, I'm just going to tidy up and put in a sufficient table for a meeting like this to take place on. If it's anything less, They won't take it seriously. Get your bar tender on standby, tell him to get a list of drinks he needs stock of, and I'll conjure it up for him. And get Angel dust to stay in his room, the last thing we need is him interfering or insulting your guests. They're likely to kill him if he does."
(Two hours later)
An acceptably large table had been set up in the entry hall, one that covered a good chunk of the floor space. Standing around waiting, were Lucifer, Charlie, Vaggie and Alastor. Sir Pentious was by the door, waiting to greet their guests and introduce everyone, seeing as he was the only one both sides knew. Husker was behind the bar, organizing his new supply of booze, courtesy of Lucifer, a slightly happy gleam in his eye as he did. He had ample supply of fine liquor and wine, strong and well aged casks of whiskey and scotch, and select brews of both big brand beers and craft beers. He was a happy camper with this selection available to him. No more cheap shit!
"They should be here soon. Is everyone ready?" Asked Lucifer, getting nods from Charlie and Vaggie, while Alastor only continued to smile. Smiling, unoriginal Prick!
As he was about to start a verbal sparring match with the radio dickhead, there was a firm knocking on the door. Glancing amongst themselves, they squared their shoulders as they heard Sir Pentious greet their guests before inviting them in.
That's when they saw them.
Carmilla and her daughters had exchanged their normal attire for a higher class of clothing, Carmilla and Odette wearing formal business suits and skirts in their preferred colors, while Clara was dressed in a long, ankle length dark red dress. The man at the forefront however drew their attention the most. He remained in his armor from earlier, only now he had exchanged his Shadowy cloak for a deep crimson cape, one that rippled like water and flowed from his shoulders like a river of blood, with a bright white collar of fur around the sides and back of his neck. He walked right up to the four of them, and bowed formally at the waist to Lucifer, before he kneeled and kissed both Charlie and Vaggie on the knuckles of their offered hands. Rising, he offered his hand to Alastor, getting a shaken hand in return. With a kind smile for all of the residents, he turned to face the King and Princess of Hell.
"Your Grace, princess, thank you for the opportunity to meet and discuss a business proposal." He opened, getting a smile from Lucifer for his respect, the same thing that got an embarrassed blush and chuckle from Charlie.
"Respect out the gate? I'm going to enjoy working with you, I do believe!" Commented Lucifer, getting an amused chuckle and a smile from the armored demon in front of him, one that stiffened the spine of Lucifer, even if he gave no visual clues to it.
Why wouldn't it?
He saw the exact same smile on his own face for ten thousand years in the mirror.
"Shall we sit then, Overlord Uzumaki? We have much to discuss." Offered Lucifer, getting another smile and a nod from the powerful Overlord. Both groups moved to sit at the table, with Lucifer and Naruto each sitting at the head of either side of the table.
"How shall we open this then? Oh, wait I got it! Drinks and introductions first, then we can proceed to the actual negotiations. Husker!" Called Lucifer, getting a look from Carmilla before she saw the former overlord approaching to take drink requests.
"Husker is that you?! I've been looking all over the Pride Ring for you! Your winnings from the yearly poker game are still being held for you, you foolish tom cat!" ranted Carmilla, getting Husker to cower behind his note pad from his fear of Carmilla's wrath.
"I'll be by to get them later this week, I promise!" he swore, getting a satisfied nod from the 'Black Swan' of Hell. Seeing her nod, he straightened himself up before asking for orders. Lucifer had a simple margarita, Charlie asked for a Frappuccino, Alastor ordered a cup of Irish coffee, while Vaggie had a glass of water. Naruto, on the other hand, ordered a bottle of Whiskey and a glass for it, saying he would pour for himself. Carmilla asked for a glass of red wine and to leave the bottle, while Clara and Odette declined a drink, claiming to not be thirsty.
"I guess it was my idea, so I'll start. You all know me, I'm the big boss of hell itself, Lucifer Morningstar himself." Opened Lucifer, with a smile on his face.
"Hi, I'm Charlie Morningstar, and I'm the princess of hell and founder of the Hazbin Hotel." Spoke Charlie, greeting her guests with her own awkward charm that had Lucifer, Naruto and Carmilla smiling at her.
"uhm, I'm Vaggie, Charlie's girlfriend and the manager of the Hazbin Hotel." Spoke Vaggie, seeing as she was the next in the line of people to introduce themselves on their side of the table.
"The name is Alastor, I'm the radio demon, and head of security and facility manager here at the Hazbin hotel. Charmed to meet you." Came the radio filtered voice of the overlord that Charlie chose to work with. He was smiling extra tightly right now, seeing as the sword that killed that angel was still on Naruto's back. The sheath, however, did ease his smile a bit to make it look more natural.
"Guess I'll start for our side then, the name is Naruto Uzumaki, I'm known as the Overlord of War, and the master of the Dark Company. Pleasure to meet you." Naruto began, before half filling his glass and taking a healthy sip from it.
"The Dark Company? Sorry but I've never heard of it." Asked Charlie, only for her to explain on the glance she got from the armored demon across the table, getting a shrug and an explanation for her trouble.
"Not a problem, we haven't exactly been active in the past couple hundred years. We're primarily a mercenary company, the premier one in all seven rings of Hell at that. When you want the best and aren't afraid to shell out the cash to pay it, we're the company you call. We have taken contracts from all seven rings, and even for most of the Sin's, baring Mammon and Satan." Explained Naruto, getting looks at denying service too two of the Sin's, to which he explained. "Satan was denied because we're technically Competitors, his own servants being, technically, his mercenaries. Mammon was denied after his first contract ever again because he failed to uphold his end and never delivered the agreed upon amount. When we pressed the issue, he threatened to use his status as a Sin and have us destroyed. AKA, he's a cheap son of a bitch and didn't pay what he owed, so now he's banned. Now, I believe the lovely lady beside me has yet to introduce herself."
"My name is Carmilla Carmine, Overlord Arms dealer, and one of the only people in Hell with the ability to reshape Heavenly Arms. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance." Introduced Carmilla, as she smoothly stood up and gave a proper bow, before waving to her two daughters beside her.
"This is Clara and Odette Carmine, my twin daughters." Introduced Carmilla, her daughters standing and properly bowing, just as she had taught them too.
"I thought sinners couldn't have children?" Asked Vaggie, getting a shrug from the two Overlords across the table.
"Didn't stop us from having them, obviously." Answered Naruto, all but securing Lucifers suspicions. True, sinners couldn't have kids together, but they could have them with Hell born Demons. The two types of demons just didn't get to interact much because of the division he had put in with confining sinners to the pride ring and therefore, keeping the Exterminations to the pride ring, which made normal Hell born stay away from it like it was one of… His plagues.
"whoa, whoa, whoa, their your Kids?!" Questioned Charlie, getting an odd look from the armored overlord.
"I mean, yeah? Neither Carmilla nor I exactly tried to hide our marriage, we just didn't proclaim it from the roof top's. We just kept our territories separate because that way money stays moving between her territory and my own. Besides, this way neither of us is bored." Responded Naruto, raising his left hand and vanishing his gauntlet to reveal his hand and the golden wedding band on his ring finger. Eyes shifted to Carmilla, who lifted her own left hand too reveal a matching wedding band.
"huh, not many who value the oaths of marriage in Hell." Commented Lucifer, getting shrugs in return once again.
"In our respective businesses, our word is our bond. Our product and services are only worth as much as our reputation and given word. We have to keep our word, and as such we understand the value of oaths and given vows." Explained Carmilla, getting nod and looks of understanding from the rest of the crowd.
"Anyway, onto business. You have the weapons and forces to keep this place safe and kill any exorcists that seek to attack it, as I understand it?" asked Lucifer, getting a nod from the blond.
"Yes to both questions. I have the numbers to hold this place, and I have the weapons in production to kill Angels. I have one here with me, if you'd like to see it." offered Naruto, getting a nod from the Hazbin group.
With their approval given, Naruto stood up and pulled his sword from its sheath, the same aura of fear and death once again filling the room. It made Charlie and Vaggie distinctly uncomfortable, while Alastor seemed completely unbothered.
Lucifer however, sharply stood from his chair, sending it back onto the floor.
"Where did you find that sword? Where did you find the Warmaker?" his words were soft, cold and dangerous. If he wasn't told now, and with full honesty, someone was about to die.
"A shattered ruin, far on the outskirts of the Pride ring. Almost treading into wild territory." Naruto replied, getting a stone-faced stare from Lucifer. "If it helps, the entity that was guarding it is gone now."
"How? I know what was guarding that, so how did you kill it?"
"… he tried to possess me. Evidently, he failed, and I remain." Replied Naruto, a grim frown on his face, the frown a mirror match for the frown on Lucifers face.
"You… absorbed Khorne? Impossible. Even my father couldn't accomplish such a feet." Denied Lucifer, shaking his head at the thought.
"It is after 10,000 years of lacking proper worship and yours and the sins actions, and no exterminations don't count. It's not real blood after all, just a magical recreation, which he despised." Explained Naruto, getting a shrug and 'so-so' gesture from Lucifer, before they both saw Charlie raise her hand.
"Sorry for interrupting, but who or what is Khorne?" She asked, which apart from the two in front of her, nobody seemed to know.
The ancient demon and the fallen angel glanced at each other out of the corner of their eyes, before Lucifer sighed and waved Naruto on, conjuring up a new chair and sitting down as he did. Naruto sheathed his sword, before sitting down himself.
"Khorne was one of the 4 gods of the Warp, the realm of existence that eventually became Hell after the angels interference and Lucifer giving humanity free will. Used to be the galaxy was full of life, violent life at that, and it wiped itself out. Khorne was one of the aspects of life in that time. The God of murder, blood and carnage, he who once sat on a brass throne atop a mountain of worthy skulls, and arguably, was the strongest of the 4 at the time of their downfall. When the Warp was forcibly shifted into the planes of Hell, over 10 million years since the last sentient species was active, and your father and the sins who sided with him were banished here, the seven of them were responsible for wiping their influence from the majority of hell, baring the very outer reaches. The first to fall was Slaanesh, the prince of pleasure and lord of unspeakable excess, the youngest and arguably the one with the most potential, but overall the weakest. The second to fall was Tzeentch, the lord of magic and the god of fate. Third was the god of death, plagues, and destruction, Nurgle. Khorne was the last to fall, the lord of murder and God of war holding out the longest of the 4 of them. All but the most far reaches of the realm of Hell were taken from them, and their shrines were ruined and burned. I found what was likely the last shrine in hell to Khorne, where I assume your father had locked him away with his sword and entered the shrine. The remaining essence of Khorne, what little was left, tried to take control of my body, in an effort to have a physical form to begin regaining his own strength. Barely, only just barely, but I managed to resist him and consume what was left of his soul. In doing so, I learned many things, including the secret to Corrupted Angelic Steel." Came the long, long explanation of how Naruto found and took in the last of Khorne's essence.
"Which still doesn't make sense. Khorne was a different kind of monster all together. Even my father wouldn't have challenged him at the height of his power, so how did a demon like you survive his attempt?" Asked Lucifer, getting a shrug of the shoulders from Naruto.
"Beats me, but I'm here ain't I? that's all that matters, in the end." Said Naruto, before he clapped his hands together, getting Charlie and Vaggie to give a startled jump. "Anyway, onto the deal making! Now, you said you wanted a security force and the weapons to arm them, would you each like the added benefit of customized weapons for each of you? I'll throw that in for a 5% increase on the first payment, which will then be reduced to the standard rate."
"I've no need of it but feel free for the rest of them." Replied lucifer, getting a nod from the armored Overlord before he turned to face the last, notebook in hand.
"I'm fine as well, my good fellow. I've no need for it, I'm better suited to my own powers and abilities then weapon to weapon combat." Replied Alastor, getting a nod and an X next to his name on the list.
"Don't suppose you have a lighter spear available for grabs do you?" Asked Vaggie, getting a shaken head in response.
"Not right now, but I'll take you to the forge master later. We'll get your measurements and opinions later on, then make one custom for you. It will suit you better that way." Naruto explained, getting a nod and a thank you from Vaggie in the process, to which he turned to the princess. "And you, young lady?"
"I don't want to hurt anyone though…" She muttered, getting a sad smile before he stood up and walked around the table, kneeling beside her and taking one of her hands into his own. She looked at him as he did, while everyone on the hotel side of the table watched him like a group of hawks.
"Look around the table. What do you see?" he prompted, getting her to observe the table and the people around it. She quickly came to a thought she liked. "Friends, family, and people I would like to be friends with."
Naruto's smile grew three sizes at that.
"The strongest soldiers I have ever known, have always had the same reason. They are there to protect the loved ones and friends behind them, not because they hate the enemy in front of them. Love, real and true love, will always triumph against irrational hate. Your heart is strong, so I'd bet money your stronger then you know yet." He declared, before standing beside her once more. "Now, lets try again. Is there any weapon you have some proficiency wielding?"
"I suppose I'm okay at wielding a pitchfork?" she replied, unsure of her skill level with it more than anything.
"Then a pitchfork we will make you, and I'll even throw in free lessons in the meantime, see if we can't get that confidence up. An unsure fighter is even worse then an unskilled one."
"if possible, could I have a shield as well? I can do better then normal with something to protect me while I use my own magic." She asked, getting a nod at her questioning.
"Of course, part of the job of protecting you is making sure your as secure as you want to feel." He said, before he reached over to Lucifer. "we can work out the pay later, for now, do we have a deal?"
BOOOM!
The front door was blown open rather violently, sending shards of wood and metal flying towards the table. Carmilla grabbed her daughters and pulled them to her, putting herself between the danger and her girls. Lucifer grabbed Charlie and Vaggie, before his wings flared out and wrapped around them, hiding the three of them within his feathers. Husker ducked down behind the bar, Alastor merely tapped his mic on the floor, conjuring up a Shadow shield in front of him. Naruto threw himself to the other side of the table, his armored form blanketing Carmilla, hiding the most important women in his existence from any damage.
"Angel! Where the fuck are you, You miserable fucking twink!" Came the shout from outside the door, a vaguely accented voice filled with anger.
"Who the fuck is that?" Asked Naruto, glaring at the direction of the voice that was still ranting about the mentioned 'Angel' and how he was going to fuck everyone in the building to death if he didn't show up soon.
"That would be Valentino, my well armored friend, A fellow overlord of not insignificant standing. He's one of the Vee's, the group young miss Velvette represented at the meeting lady Carmine here hosted." Answered Alastor, brushing a minor amount of dust off of his shoulder as he walked up along side him. "He's also the owner of young Anthony's soul, Anthony being Angel dust, our first occupant of the hotel."
Naruto was still glaring out the door, before a downright evil grin broke over his face. "Is that so…? Then perhaps a demonstration is in order."
He raised his hand to his sword, which had been sent flying in the blast. "To me, Warmaker. We have blood to spill."
The sword rose into the air, taking it's sheath with it, before it flew to his waiting hand. He grabbed in by the sheath out of the air, before turning to face his wife and children. "Stay here and keep safe. I'll handle this." He said, before turning to the blown open door just as Sinners wearing Valentino's mark started pouring through.
Angry red energy covered Naruto's form, before a helmet of the same metal as his armor formed over his head, the helmet taking the form of a snarling fox with eyes of fire and teeth dripping blood. The cape on his back took on a more solid form, looking more like leather then blood now, and the white fur on his neck took a black color. His right hand gripped the handle of the blade, and he quickly pulled the blade out.
"Murder these fools, Warmaker!"
The blade was covered in black flames with those words, before he leapt headlong into the pile of bodies pushing into the hole in the wall. In a single swing he cut a dozen demons in half, their bodies turning to ash as he did, before he punched the largest one there in the chest. The shockwave of his punch not only turned him to a fine red mist, but also pushed the dozens of other demons back out and into the road outside. He strode out through, only to see hundreds of guns pointed at him. In the back was a tall moth-like demon, screaming and shouting about the incompetence of the fuckers he brought with him.
Looking back in the hotel, he smirked at seeing a jukebox in the corner behind the bar. He kicked up a piece of rubble, before he lightly kicked it over at the jukebox. It hit it lightly and prompted the musical machine to play one of his favorite songs.
(I recommend seven nation army by The White Stripes, the original not the remix.)
As the strumming started he calmly turned around and started walking towards them. One of the fodder tried to intimidate him. Adorable.
"Your surrounded! Give up and Die!"
As the drums started, he brought up his blade and gave the last words they would ever hear.
"All I am surrounded by, is fear and dead sinners." Naruto retorted, before he launched himself at them.
It was an utter massacre. The blade passed through sinner flesh as if they weren't even there, while the bullets they fired at him were either dodged of outright blocked with the flat of his blade, all while he continued to slaughter them in dozens per second. Very quickly, the only one left was Valentino, who was shaking as if having a fit. If it was fear or fury, Naruto couldn't tell.
"Who the fuck are you? How dare you fuck with me!" Valentino Screamed, hand scrambling underneath his robe for a weapon, but his hand seemed to be shaking too much to properly grab it.
As he finally got his hand around his weapon, he pulled out a long, overly gaudy revolver and made to point it at the man who just slaughtered his army. As his hand finally pointed the weapon at the demon, Naruto moved. He closed distance in half a second, before his no longer on fire blade came down, taking Valentinos hand off at the halfway point of his forearm. Valentino began to scream, but before he could properly start, his jaw was crushed with a swift left cross, damn near ripping it off his face and reducing his scream to a pained whimper.
The beating didn't stop there, as Naruto continued to beat the bastard, landing blow after blow. By the time he was done, his ribcage was a pulpy mess, his arms were mangled bent wrecks that vaguely resembled arms, his legs were reduced to powdered bone and mulched meat, and his head looked like a rotten tomato that someone had crushed.
Miraculously enough, even as he watched, his body was stitching itself back together, rather then expire and reform elsewhere. He would give him this, the moth freak could take a beating. But it was past time for this pest to be dealt with.
"Die now and release the soul's under your control." Declared Naruto, Warmaker reigniting as he did, before he picked up Valentino by the front of his bloody robe and throwing him above him. When Valentino hit the apex of his toss and began to fall, Naruto leapt after him, running him through with his sword when they met, which disintegrated everything except a clean white skull, which he caught before it hit the ground just as the song ended. A burst of golden energy floated off of the skull, sharding off into millions of scraps of power, all but one floating back into pentagram city, the sole remainder floating into the hotel.
Holding up the skull to just stare at it for a second, he began chuckling, before he slipped some steel wire he had in the back of his waist through the eye sockets and under the jaw. Letting it hang from his hand, he walked back into the hole in the wall, spotting the Hotel representatives starring at him as he did. Vanishing his helmet, he grinned and held up the wired skull.
"The skull of the Aggressor, Valentino. He will never bother any of you again." He declared, before shifting his eyes to stare down Lucifer. "You've seen what I can do, and now you know my words aren't just for show. I ask again, do we have a deal?"
A strange smile bloomed on Lucifers face, before he tilted his head down and began to chuckle. "We have a deal friend."
Walking to meet each other in the middle, their hands clasped the other, firmly shaking each others hand. A golden smoke rose from their hands, forming into a golden parchment that glowed a soft golden color, and red words detailing their agreement scrawled themselves across the parchment, before at the bottom were two blank lines. Lucifer bit his thumb and swiped it across one of them, the blood reforming into his name, before he handed it to Naruto, who repeated the process on the other empty line. As they finished sealing the deal and the contract turned into light and split equally between them, Naruto heard Lucifer whisper.
"… I'm sorry…"
With those words, Lucifer grabbed him by the shoulders and flared his magic. Naruto flared his own in response, near matching Lucifer in power output, before he felt it. His magic was resonating with Lucifer's, in a way he had never encountered before. The dual magics, a smooth and wispy golden energy merging and mixing with a red liquid-like energy, producing a brilliant orange flare of magic.
Lucifer quickly stopped, releasing him and stumbling backwards and away, hands covering his face. He was quickly reeled back in however, when Naruto grabbed him by the collar of his suit and pulled him close.
"What did you just do?!" Questioned Naruto, fury wrote into his features. He wasn't pleased, not in the slightest. The king of Hell just used his magic on him without his permission, he had killed Ars Geotia for less!
"Dad… What happened to you?" questioned Clara, getting him to turn and face her, only for him to spot what had caused her question. Red feathers were floating in the air, to which he glanced over his shoulder and saw what was there.
Red wings, angelic wings were resting on his back. From his count, there were four on his right and four on his left, totaling to 8 wings on his back. He was caught up in staring at them so when his wife took his hand and had him hold a handheld mirror, it was to complete shock that he saw that, while his skin hadn't changed from its blood red color, his hair was now moving like fire and his eyes, once a sky blue, were now a vivid, Hellish red.
"Son…"Whispered Lucifer, making Naruto's head snap to him, only to recoil when he found himself staring into the exact same pair of eyes, and spot the same type of hair on his head. Charlie walked up beside Lucifer, her own eyes and hair matching as well.
"How…? I'm a sinner demon, how am I your son…?" Asked Naruto, leaning on his wife. She was holding him up, her eyes darting back and forth between him and Lucifer repeatedly. His daughters were behind him, hiding in the shadows of his new wings.
"You… You were taken. You were 3 days old, and you were ripped from your cradle while your mother slept. I was stuck in meetings with Paimon and Mammon all day, settling a dispute between them. When I came back from dealing with them, your mother was ripping apart the castle. When she told me, I immediately called everyone, every Sin, every Goetia family, I had Bee bring every hellhound here, gave them all a chance to memorize your scent, and we flew and ran out. We searched every ring dozens of time's over. I must have checked every crack and crevice in Hell ten times over. You were gone… and now I find you were hidden under my nose in Pentagram city this whole time. Heh, it'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic." Said Lucifer, his voice strong and full of fire, only to trail off into a sad tone towards the end, finishing with a sad laugh at his own perceived failure.
"Heh, to be fair, it is a bit funny, eh?" Chuckled out Naruto, getting a smile from Charlie and a watery smile from their father. Standing upright and on his own two feet, he reassured his beloved with a long loving look, before walking over to stand in front of Lucifer. "you know, never got to have a dad. Don't remember most of my younger years now, been too long, but I do remember I didn't have a dad. Might be nice to mix that up for a change, hmm?"
He ingulfed Lucifer in a hug at that, getting his father to start letting tears fall and hug him back. He could feel the power Lucifer was holding him with, but it wasn't anything extreme to him. Turning to look at the princess, he gave her a small smile as well.
"Never got to be an older brother either, ya know? Always wanted to be though. Think we can try, Charlie?" he tried out his little sisters name, it felt weird, but he liked it.
"YESSS!" She squealed out, launching herself at him and their father. Naruto opened his arm and pulled her in, hugging his father and sister for the first time in their lives. The crowd was smiling at the scene, even Alastor was grinning with a softer smile then his normal one. Husker had a happy little smirk, and Vaggie was smiling with tears in her eyes at how happy Charlie was. Meanwhile, Carmilla was smiling and holding her children close, choosing to enjoy the happy energy the reunion of family had provided.
(we're just going to ignore Sir Pentious bawling his eyes out in that corner over there.)
It was then that the formerly two royal members realized a very important fact.
"you said those girls were yours right?" Asked Lucifer, getting Charlie to peel her face of her brothers armored chest to stare up at him. A small, mischievous smile took over his face when Lucifer asked that, one that was mirrored by the other members of his blood soon enough.
"Why yes, they just so happen to be!" He said, releasing his hold on them, only for Lucifer to vanish and immediately hear twin squeals from his girls. Turning around, he saw that his father had them by the waists, lifting them as high as he could. Which, to be fair, wasn't very far.
"I'm a grandfather! This is fabulous! I MUST TELL EVERYONE!" Proclaimed Lucifer, spinning in place with an absolutely ecstatic look on his face. Carmilla had taken a step back, only for a hand to land on her shoulder. Turning around to see Charlie, who had a smile as well.
"I guess I'm the first to welcome you to the Morningstar family, huh?" Charlie said, getting a smile from her new Sister-in-law.
"You are, apparently. Pleasure to meet you, princess Charlie." She replied, only to spot the frown before Charlie shook her head.
"Just Charlie. Your family now, that means no formalities between us, in public or otherwise." Charlie insisted, getting a small soft frown that quickly broke into a soft smile.
"no promises, it's going to take me some time to get used to that." Carmilla replied, getting a smile in return for it.
"I think getting to know each other might fix that, how about you?" she proposed, getting a smile from Carmilla as they walked over to the lounge couches with Vaggie joining them.
Alastor quietly slipped into the shadows, while husker mixed up a few drinks for himself and the celebrating Family, and Pentious continued to bawl his eyes out.
Meanwhile, as the now much expanded family bonded and grew closer, the clock in the angelic embassy continued to tick ever closer to the next extermination day, and the movements in the background continued ever onward.
AND SCENE!
Wow… 10K words in one chapter. Don't expect that often, this one kind of demanded it. I couldn't find a point to leave it off at, so I forced one here. Sorry, but I want to put this out there and see how you all feel about it.
And before people getting mad at me about my use of the word 'twink'. It's in the damn show. Episode 2, when Val is ranting to Vox about Angel moving into the hotel. He specifically calls Angel a 'Slippery twink', before saying he'll 'fuck everyone in that shithole'. You got a problem with the language, take it up with Vivienne and Amazon before you come after me. Fuck off, I got less then zero patience for that 'proper language' bullshit in this story. IT LITTERALLY TAKES PLACE IN HELL, THERE ARE FAR WORSE THING TO BE SAID YET!
Now, before a Warhammer fan gets on my ass for killing the chaos gods, unless you want them to be overarching antagonists, which I ain't doing because they will just sweep the story completely, then understand how I killed them first.
The imperium never got off the ground. It died before it even reached infancy. And so life in the galaxy wiped itself out in the pursuit of domination. It was a dead universe for over 10 million years. Then, Along came God and the Angels. And when Lucifer and the other Sin's were banished to what was the warp and is now hell, Lucifer and the Sin's Systematically destroyed the drastically weakened gods and took over Hell, setting up the rings of hell as we know them now. Khorne had the tiniest sliver of his presence, which mostly comprised of his more desirable traits like martial prowess, strength, and courage left in the very farthest reaches of the outskirts of Hell, which was resting with and guarding his sword against anyone and thing that might try and take it. When Naruto found it, Khorne recognized his potential as lucifer's son, even if Naruto himself didn't know that, and tried to take possession of his body. Naruto unconsciously tapped into his heritage and destroyed what was left of Khorne's cognizance (can't use soul because I don't know if the chaos gods even have one), before absorbing his memories and what power was left, which even then was more then enough to grant Naruto a significant power boost.
And who knows, maybe there are other souls in the background who found shards of the other three Chaos Gods. We'll see how I feel.
So, if you liked the story, leave a comment! It always helps me to read some positive reviews and constructive criticisms are always helpful. Any flamers will be used to cook well-done steaks for the hunters of Bherna village, the Soaratorium, Astera, Seliana, Kamura village and Elgado outpost. Keep your stamina up folks!