A Little Hazbin 3: Rise of the Nephilim Ch. 13

"Ow!" Celest says as she crawls out of a crater. The Not-so-Little Hazbin then looks up to the sky only to see that the portal has opened, letting all the Exorcists through. "That's not good," she sprouts her wings and just when she was about to take off, a sharp pain goes through her wing. "Ah!" bringing the limb over she sees an arrow sticking through.

A shout then someone shouts. "There she is!" a tiny shark demon shouts as an imp next to them reloads a crossbow. There were many other demons around them.

"Oh, no!" she then flashes out just as a series of weapons are thrown at her. Celest finds herself in the middle of the street and lets out a sigh only to yelp when a hand grabs her to pull her into an alley.

Angel Dust had two arms holding her in place, another covering the grown girl's mouth, and in his two free hands are machine guns. Down the same alley, is also Husk, Cherri Bomb, Sir Pentious, and even the Egg Bois. "How's it looking, Husk?"

Right after several demons pass by the Cat Demon peeks around the corner. "We're in clear."

Angel then lets go of Celest. "How ya doing, Squirt?"

"I'm fine, Mr. Angel. But what's going on?"

That's when Cherri Bomb speaks up. "What do ya, think? Right after that broadcast all of Hell's gone to sh(bleep)t!"

Husk nods. "It wasn't long before our current residents started tearing the whole place apart looking for you. Not to mention the angry mob," he turns to Celest. "Everyone and their mother wants you dead."

At that, Celest says, "Can you blame them?"

At that, Sir Pentious slithers up to her. "Young Celest. Surely you're not justifying their actions?" he then works on removing the arrow from her wing.

"Think of it this way. Ow!" she flinches from the pain before putting away her wings. "I know that you guys weren't always the kind people that I know so be honest with me. If none of you knew me and were told that that the only way to save yourselves and the ones you love was to kill me. What would you do?"

The demons looked away, deciding to remain in silence.

"Yes! What they are doing is bad but they're only scared. Just as you are."

"Sh(bleep)!" Cherri shouts. "She's right. But what are we going to do? We not only have demons but also the—Look out!" she suddenly shoves the Not-so-Little Hazbin out of the way. "Ah!" and clutches her shoulder.

Pentious is soon by her side. "Cherri!" he examines the shoulder and finds it frosting over.

Standing at the end of the alley is Commander Lute with her mechanical arm extended holding onto a broken horn.

Celest's eyes widen, recognizing what the Exorcist is holding. "That's, that's…"

"What remains of the Primordial End," the Exorcist glares as magic gathers around the horn.

The now grown child was quick to get in front of her friends and put up a barrier just as a blast of freezing cold was released.

"Hey, uh, Squirt," the Spider Demon calls out. "Now's a great time to use that special magic like last time!"

"I-I can't," the barrier remains up, but ice forms over it. "I'm not even sure how I did any of that last time! It just happened!"

At that, the demons just eye one another as no one knows how they'll get out of this situation.

.oOo.

Emily watches in horror as angels descend from Heaven and start attacking demons. It didn't matter whether or not they were armed or even if they were elderly and children.

The young seraphim tries to go help but is still being held back by her mother.

"Let me go, Sera!"

"I can't, Emily," the elder seraphim looks away. "I have to protect you."

The assistant manager finally managed to pull away. "What about them!?" and gestures outside. "Yes, they lived sinfully in life. But do they deserve to be slaughtered? You once taught me that all souls matter. Mortal, immortal, demon or not! Where's that now? You've let fear guide you into approving the Extermination, and now it has left Adam in charge. For once in your life actually do what feels right!" she turns away and prepares to take off but is stopped by Sera's voice.

"It's dangerous to go out there alone."

"It's better than staying and do…" she turns to snap at her mother but freezes.

The former High Seraphim has gold magic forming in her hands and it soon manifests into a sword. "Please take this."

The young seraphim eyes the blade before accepting it. "Thank you, Mom," and finally flies past Adam.

"Hey, you little—" the first man reaches out to stop Emily, but a blast of light throws him away. Adam is now hunched over with his back turned to Sera. "You've done it now. Your brat will not get any mercy."

Sera with all of her eyes open glares at the first man. "My daughter can take care of herself," she takes a step towards him but stops once she kicks something. Looking down at her feet, the elder seraphim finds Adam's helmet and strangely his halo being tied to it by some wires.

Adam starts laughing as his head raises up and horns become visible. "Guess the secrets out," and turns around to reveal a dark blue scaled face with red eyes and a fanged smile. "It's getting stuffy in here. Time for a change," he rips off his white and golden robes to reveal a matching black and red set. Even the wings fell off with the old robes to make way for a black leathery set. "Man!" he stretches. "As much as I hate this new look, it feels nice. I must have lost quite a bit of weight wearing two sets of robes."

Sera blinks in disbelief. "You're a Sinner?"

"That's right and it's all because of Lucifer's brat!"

The former High Seraphim closes her eyes. "The fault is of your own."

"What?"

"I'll admit that I still have no idea what the deciding factor is as the whether one ends up in Heaven or Hell. But all I know is that it's dependent on how you live before death," Sera then glares at the First Man. "It's now clear that before you died you were living sinfully. And if I'm to be honest, we all knew that but simply turned a blind eye as none of us wanted to admit that we could have been wrong. When Lucifer fell, he was named the King of Pride, but the truth is that we are just as prideful. That's our own fault for not seeing it."

Adam seems to be shaking in anger and is suddenly holding a spiked black guitar and rushes towards the seraphim who was quick to move out of the way and blasts him with eye lasers.

"Demon or angel, Adam. Did you really think you'd stand a chance against a seraphim?" Sera glares. "I will not stand by as you try to kill the Nephilim."

The first man starts cackling. "Kill her? No. That's not the endgame, b(bleep)ch," he smirks at her. "We actually need her to see the worst that Hell has to offer!" he swings the guitar and a wave of magic rushes towards Sera.

.oOo.

Charlie continues to dodge her wife's flurry of attacks. "Fight it, Vaggie! You don't have to do what he says."

"I c-can't, Charlie!" Vaggie goes to jab the spare at the acting Queen but is luckily blocked by the shield. "This is your mother's magic. I can feel it. Once someone makes a command, you can't ignore it unless they tell you to stop!" the former Exorcist then kicks Charlie down to the ground.

The blond looks up just in time to see the spear tip coming towards her and raises her shield. But the force is still coming down.

"You can stop this, Charlie," Vaggie looks down at her wife with a tear dropping from her eye. "You are far stronger than me. We both know that. Just promise me that you'll take care of our little girl. And make sure she gets on one of the big rides."

Charlie closes her eyes just before looking up at her wife with a sad smile. "You take care of her," and pushes her back before dropping her only defense and lets the spear pierce through her chest.

A horrified Vaggie screams. "Charlie!"

.oOo.

Celest leans forward grabbing her chest. As that happened, Lute halts the frost magic just as the barrier drops.

"My job is finished," with that, the commander retreats.

The Not-so-Little Hazbin turns to the direction where she can feel her parents and shouts. "Mom!?" before taking off.