In the past, recalling a young memory when she was just a young owlet, Octavia is shown to be in the arms of her father, Stolas, as they look up at the starry sky of space, looking at what appears to be a shot of a galaxy, with Octavia seeing all sorts of interesting sights, Octavia looking in awe, as Stolas spoke out.
"In the great expanse of the nether there exists boundless amounts of magnificent phenomenon the great brilliance of an exploding star, the nimble dance of space dust through a nebula but once every one thousand years our corner of reality is treated to an incredible sight from the deep eldritch recesses of the cosmos the tears of a forgotten colossus begin to fall. Tears made of the hopes and dreams of every living thing that never came to be. Condensed and sent shooting across the night sky in a dazzling final display. What appears to mortal beings as a meteor shower we can see for what it is: Azathoth's Tears."
In space, an Astroid was suddenly hit by another object, and ignited onto a blue ball of fire, which in turn, hits other asteroids, and they are the same, both of them purple, but one of them was black on the inside. Octavia looks with wide eyes, as she sees what seems to be a trio of beautiful purple comets firing across the sky, and Octavia, with literal stars in her eyes, spoke out, giggling happily at her father.
"Hehehehehehe! Daddy, can we go see it someday?"
Stolas looks down at Octavia and nodded with a smile, as he spoke out to her.
"Yes, dear. I promise, when the day comes nothing will be able to keep me from being there with you. Good night, my Owlette."
Octavia nodded, and yawns a little bit, as she spoke out to her father.
"Good night!"
She turns and wiggles and giggles in her bed, as she thoughts of seeing Azathoth's Tears, wanting to see the beauty of the shooting stars in person herself. She cannot help but wait for such a sight before her eyes, a sight that she would see with her father. The passing years, she waited as patiently as she could, waiting for the time that Azathoth's Tears arrive, so she can see it in the night sky. But unfortunately...a promise can never be kept...by the fault of her own parent.
In present time, Octavia wakes up with a smile on her face, still looking happy. This was it, the day that she gets to see the stars that her father promised. She had waited for so long for this moment, and now...it seems that her patience finally became worth it, or at least, she hopes that it is worth it in her eyes, she's circling a drawing on a calendar of her face, Stolas' face, and a meteor shower. The starfall is "today". She hops down a hallway putting on her clothes. She just hopes that her father remembers and would keep his promise too her that long ago.
Getting out of her room, she began to look around and went inside of the kitchen, as she calls out to her father, who she is eager for.
"Hey, dad!"
But...oddly...he is not inside of the kitchen. In fact, she looked around some of the rooms of the manor, and for some reason, she cannot find him, as she calls out to him a couple of times, confusion that he is not present inside of where he is meant to be, where she'd usually meet him
"Dad? Dad?"
She continues to look around for a little bit, with no luck still, until she then sees an open foyer door. She goes to it and after she got a little bit closer, she than began to hear Stolas' voice coming through it.
"Yes, I know!"
At the other side of the van, it is none other than Stolas that is out front on the phone with Stella, and he is shown to be squeezing an imp servant in his other hand, the squeezing seems to be insanely painful for the Imp, as he is shown to be trying all that he can to not scream with all of his lights. Imps are also shown to be loading items into a van of some sort. Octavia began to go to her father, as Stolas continues to speak on the phone.
"It will be there, shortly. Of course they're being careful!"
Of course, he is lying about this, as he has other ideas inside of his head and began to think of something all just to spite her former wife. As that happened, Octavia walks up to her father and spoke out to him in confusion.
"Dad, what's going on?"
Stolas looks down at Octavia, as a little bit ago, Stolas has decided that he has had enough of Stella. He is tired of her abuse and tiered of her cruelty. So...in the end, he decided to divorce her and send her away. But while in the process of that, he decides to make Stella's leave as miserable as she can and irritate her to make it a bad day for her, as he began to speak out in what seems to be a giddy voice of some sort.
"Apparently, your mother can't exist somewhere for two minutes without the entirety of her possessions-"
But as he tried to speak out everything to Octavia, Stella is heard and is yelling something incomprehensibly in response through the phone as he speaks back to Stella in order to mock her again.
"What? No! I'm not turning her against you...Yes, Stella!"
Stella, getting more and more angrier by the very second of him continuously mocking her, shrieked back at Stolas.
"...never have to see your fucking face again! Everyone-"
Octavia, looking and starting to get a bit frustrated at her expectations starting to be slowly drawn away, spoke out to Stolas.
"Dad? This is going to be done before tonight, right?"
Stella began to yell out in incoherent sounds, as Stolas than spoke out to Octavia, almost having a satisfying grin on his face.
"What? Oh. I hardly think so. Knowing your mother, this will take all weekend."
Stolas then turns to the imps that are carrying the objects that Stella owns, as he then spoke out to them, in an act to spite Stella more.
"Don't be gentle about it, now! Break whatever you have to get it all in there."
The Imps did as they were told and literally began to break everything that Stella has, and Stella, in sheer frustration at this and confusion, spoke out to Stolas.
"What?! What did you just tell them to do?!"
Octavia, hoping that her father would still remember the promise that he has made for her, spoke out, in hopes that he would listen.
"But, tonight was supposed to-"
But Stolas, so consumed by her desire to spite Stella as much as he can and so eager to make her day miserable, shushed her and spoke out to Octavia.
"Darling, can we not talk about this now? Your mother's being a real B-I-T-C-H
Stella, hearing this, got confused and even more agitated than she ever thought possible, as she spoke out.
"The fuck do you mean-"
More incomprehensible yelling is heard from Stella's end, and Stolas decided to rub more salt into the emotional stress that he is now giving her.
"Well, how was I supposed to know you can spell?! I've never seen you read!"
As that happened, a male voice is heard on the other side of the phone, laughing, and Stella, realizing what Stolas meant by that, finally went into her usual childish tantrums yet again, screeching out a meaningless threat to him.
"I'm going to take everything! Everything you own!"
Octavia now has had enough. Her father had clearly forgotten the promise that she had made to her as a young child, and now cares more about spiting Stella than out of care for what Octavia wants to speak ojt and remind Atolas about. Out of frustration, she goes back to her room and slams the door and yells she rips up the calendar page, angrily topples her telescope over, and grabs a bag with her things and leaves the mansion. If Stolas is not going to fulfill the promise that he made for her, then perhaps it is time that she takes matters into her one hands and see Azathoth's tears, which she had always wanted to see. And perhaps...she can bring an crush of her's in order to see it, just to make it...so what better. But will she ever be better when this happens?
"Oh for fuck's sake."
Dean said, as he smacked himself in the face, as sounds of a scuffle was heard, and Loki spoke out.
"Blizø just had to open his shit-eating mouth, huh? Especially to his daughter of all people."
He shook his head, hand still on his face, as Astarte, in smoke form, looks at the sight and spoke out.
"Is your Imp Boss, Blitzø, always like this?"
Dean looks at Astarte and spoke out to her.
"Unfortunately. And admittedly, he has done a bit worse than that. I honestly have no idea how his thought process works. Like seriously, what the hell is wrong with him?"
Astarte has no response, although if she was in physical form, she'd shrug her shoulders, and Loki smacked his face himself, his tail flicked and whipped from side-to-side, as he spoke out.
"Apparently, not even Loona is from his constant idiocy."
A phone threw next to Dean's head, as it crashed and broke onto a wall. It has been...a week since Astarte has decided to visit and live with Dean, although she mainly stays out of sight so that Loona does not notice or see her. In fact, she always stays out of sight whenever any IMP are near him. Of course, she does not join in with the missions, and prefers to stay inside of the IMP Building, which is empty whenever all of them are on a mission of some sort. And whenever she does, she always entertains herself whenever inside of the IMP Building, but always returns to smoke form whenever she senses that the IMP people are back, although she did leave some messes behind that IMP can't explain.
Although Dean is sort of confused why she won't show herself when the IMP people are around, especially when around Loona, Dean does not complain and just lets her do it. And oddly, whenever Loona and anyone else is not present with him and Dean is alone, Astarte will manifest in her normal form, even when Dean is sleeping. And will even sleep with him on occasion, which includes hugging his head into her breasts. It's embarrassing yet oddly comfortable, due to how extremely soft they when he feels them. In spite of it all, he does get use to her presence even in spite of her strange and embarrassing habits to him. So, in a way, he got used to her real quick.
But Blitzø...today, he decided to do something that, well intentioned as it may be, the way he did it made it become exceedingly stupid. Which is talking about her sour behavior and how it is affecting how their clients see and interact with IMP. Why he is doing this is, again, understandable. But the way he did it is another thing, which lead to the mess Loona is making, and Dean sort of feels bad for her right now, especially with how Blitzø is handling the situation. Honestly, he has no idea why Blitzø developed such an immature and pathetic mind in the first place. Moxxie, however, looks smug at the sight, even enjoying seeing Loona get exceedingly peeved at what Blitzø spoke to her on.
Suddenly, knives began to fly all over the place and try to hit Blitzø, who barely avoided them, courtesy of Loona, and Blitzø began to speak out to Loona, whine also having a black right eye due to an earlier hit.
"Loona, honey- wait just a-- shit!"
He began to run backwards as soon as he sees Loona charging at him, and he began to try and speak out to her.
"Loonie, please, can we talk-"
But Loona was not in the mood for talk, as she than grabbed onto a water dispenser and threw it at Blitzø, and this time, Blitzø could not avoid it, as he got hit in the face with it, and it hurts a lot for Blitzø, as he then spoke out.
"FUCK! Uh, I mean, wow! Good throw, honey! I-I'm so proud of youuuuu!"
But Loona did not calm down in the slightest, as she then tackles him painfully, rolling briefly past Millie, as Loona snarled like an actual wolf, as she then grabs a picture off the wall and begins beating Blitzo with it while Millie walks past to the couch where Moxxie is sitting. She joins him on it and they drink coffee together from their matching mugs. Dean spoke out to Loki at the sight that is before his eyes.
"Geez, talk about being framed."
Loki nodded his head a bit, as Astarte spoke out to him.
"He really should have remained silent."
Then, Millie began to intimidate a conversation with her husband.
"What's this all about, honey?"
Moxxie, seeing Loona angry and satisfied by this sight, spoke out to her.
"Ah, oh! Blitzo finally talked to her about her attitude with clients."
But before Millie and Moxxie knew it, Blitzo, after falling face first to the ground, then runs up and grabs the couch they're sitting on and pulls it forwards, jumping and hiding behind it, with Moxxie and Millie now being used as meat shields. Dean looked at the both of them, as Loona stomped towards him.
"I just think some small tweaks might help you be more of a uh, people person, you know?"
Loona, however, was not amused at this, as she snarled back at Blitzø, literally like a wolf at the same time, as she grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and pulled him up to her face.
"I am a people person! If I'm so terrible, how about you just grow a pair and replace me?"
Blitzø, deciding that it would be a good idea to double down in this situation that he has made, spoke back to Loona, almost like agreeing her in a way that Loona never thought possible.
"Okay, well, maybe I- Maybe I might."
Loona and Dean looked stunned and confused at this, as they both spoke out at what Blitzø.
"What?"
Blitzo looks back at Moxxie, and Moxxie in return, gives him a thumbs up, before he turns back to Loona and spoke out to Loona.
"Maybe I will, little missy! Yeah, that's right it's tough love time. So, now you can... go... to your desk!"
Loona, hearing this not too happy that Blitzø actually threatened her in this way, growls and drops him before stomping back to her desk, as Moxxie than took the time to speak to Blitzø on the choice that he made, while also massaging his shoulders.
"Sir, if I may say so; you're doing the right thing. If we can't even hire a cheerful qualified receptionist, how can people trust us to massacre and mutilate their enemies for them? It's good for business."
Dean, not impressed with Moxxie now doubling down himself, lifted the mug above his lap and poured it onto his pelvis, which made him hiss and double in pain, before he goes to Loona and grabs her by the hand, and spoke out.
"Geez, what a dick move he put up, doubling down like that. Well...if it makes you feel better, I'll quit myself if he dares to fucking replace you like that."
Loona looks at him and smiled a bit, a little bit touched that he'll quit to simply stay with her, as she spoke out to him.
"Heh...always fucking loyal to me. That's what I love you for."
Loona than goes up to him and kisses him directly, as she wagged her tail at a fast pace, with Dean accepting it, before Loona let's go and smile, before she sat into the desk again, and luckily Blitzø did not notice this at all. Loki appeared beside Dean and smiled a bit, as he spoke out.
"Well, glad that she knows you'll be with her all the time."
Dean nodded his head. However, unbeknownst to the others, Octavia walked inside of IMP, having her hair wrapped around her neck like a scarf disguise, as makes her way into Blitzo's office and starts rummaging around in his desk to no avail. She turns behind her to a framed portrait of IMP all together and moves it to reveal a wall safe covered in spider webs and labeled "Blitzo's stuf Do Nut Steel!!" with a drawing of two horses. She enters a code of 1-2-3-4 and the safe opens. She grabs her father's grimoire out of the safe and flips through the pages. After a little bit, she spoke out simply 5 words.
"Take me to see the stars."
As if by command, a pentagram swirls around her and black swirls of power stream towards the ceiling. The light show coming from his boss' office, and Moxxie noticed this, while also recovering from what Dean had done.
"Um, sir?"
Blitzo, after cucumber slices fall off his eyes, which are on them for some reason, looks at the sight and spoke out.
"The fuck?"
Hearing the commotion, Dean, Blitzo, Moxxie, and Millie barge into the office just in time to see Octavia disappearing through the portal, and Dean can only shout out.
"What-Octavia? What are you-"
Before he knew it, Octavia grabbed his arm and pulled him, and not giving him the time to react, Dean and Octavia went inside of the portal, and Astarte, still in smoke form, went into the portal as well, which closed before anyone can do anything. Blitzø, flabbergasted at the sight, spoke out.
"...Loona!"
Loona, speaking in a nonchalant and uncaring manner, spoke back.
"Oh, yeah. You have a visitor."
Moxxie, deciding to rub a salt into some wounds, spoke out to Loona.
"Who also took Dean!"
Loona, hearing this, slammed the door and broke it, as she spoke out.
"Wait! Are you fuck serious?!"
"...Dean...open your eyes."
Astarte's voice spoke out, as Dean's eyes slowly opened, but then snapped open fast, as Loki's voice spoke out.
"DEAN, OPEN THE FUCK UP!!!"
Dean then quickly looked around, as he touched himself all over the place. Seeing that he is not dreaming, he looks and sees Octavia, who is up, and spoke out.
"Oh, Hodr, you're awake. And...where are we?"
Dean blinked, and realized that, he forgot to tell Octavia that his real name. Only Stolas heard it, back involving the DHORK's Agency. He facepalmed a bit, as he spoke out.
"Octavia, what in the-"
But Dean looked, and saw a black star of some sort, as a homeless man vomits onto it, causing Octavia to slip and fall, but Dean caught her quickly, as he pulled her away fast. Dean looked, and both he and Octavia sees a dead man's body, with an eyeball coming out of his head lies underneath Octavia, who accidentally crushed him after falling on him from the portal. The grimoire sits next to him. Octavia looks up and the portal closes. She then runs off with the grimoire, and Dean was dragged by her, as Dean spoke out.
"Octavia, what are you-"
But than, a clown came out of nowhere, earring a blue Afro-like wig, white and red greasepaint and a red honking nose, as well as a blue and red suit, shouted out to the duo out of nowhere!"
"This is my territory, bitches! Take your shitty costume and get the fuck off my corner!"
He attempted to shove them, but Dean punched him in the nose, which also honked, as Octavia dragged Dean, and Dean, looking at the sight, realized what place he is in.
"Oh no. This place again?!"
Octavia and Dean runs across a cross walk, while cars swerve and almost hit her, and instead hit each other. She runs into a protest mob. They're holding signs that say, "demons walk among us", "God hates you personally", and "-- To Hell". Dean rolled his eyes, as he spoke out at the sight that is before his eyes
"Of course, this shithole is even worse than ever.
After a bit, Dean and Octavia runs past silver painted sidewalk performer before scurrying around a corner, with Octavia on the verge of a panic attack. Dean grabbed her shoulders and spoke out.
"Hey, you alright, Octavia."
Octavia, hearing this, calms down and spoke out.
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine."
Dean nodded, and spoke out.
"And great, we're now on Los Angeles. Can't believe I have to come back here in this self-decaying waste. Octavia, mind telling me what you were doing, taking your father's book like that?"
Octavia looked down for a bit, and spoke out.
"Well, it's a little something that...is important to me, and I...I want you to see it."
Dean, tilting his head a bit, spoke out.
"Oh? And what is that?"
Loki app are next to Dean, as Astarte, in smoke form, is also present, but Octavia only noticed Loki, as Octavia began to explain to Dean.
Blitzø, back at IMP, is also having a panic attack to an extent, as he held himself and became frantic, and later grabbed Moxxie and shouted at him.
"Shit, shit, shit, shit! What the fuck am I supposed to tell Stolas?!"
Moxxie, deciding that it is best to inform of the current owner of the Grimoire, spoke out.
"Well, he seems to like you, sir. Maybe he would understand if -"
Blitzø, thinking that it is an awful idea, shoves away Moxxie, as he then spoke back, holding his head in a stressful way.
"Okay, my dick is good, but it is not that good, Moxxie."
Moxxie, however, thinking that this is the only option left, spoke out to Blitzø.
"Sir, I don't think we really have a choice."
Blitzø, deciding to mock him for a bit, does a call imitation of sorts and spoke back.
"So, what? You just want me to call him up and be like, "Hey, Stolas-"
Loona, now getting spikier the moment that Dean is away, grabs Blitzø by the neck and roared at him, which scared Blitzø a lot at how dangerously pissed that she is now.
"JUST FUCKING DO IT, BLITZØ, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!"
A moment later, Blitzø is shown to be on the phone, and spoke out to Stolas in voicemail.
"Hey, Stolas. So, your daughter came by, took your book, and teleported off to who the fuck knows where, and we have no way of getting either of them back, okay?! Okay! Good talk, byeee!"
Blitzø, a little scared of how Stolas will react, quickly puts the phone down and backed away slightly, and after a little bit, thinking that he will be fine, spoke out to the others.
"Oh, that actually went better than I thought."
Unfortunately, Blitzø spoke way too soon, and the moment that happened, the entrance door blows up and Stolas stands inside in his full demon form, as he roared out to his IMP that called him.
"BLITØ!!!!!"
"So...let me get this straight."
Dean said, as he is walking with Octavia, Loki and Astarte floating beside the duo, as he spoke out in order to do a recap of what Octavia said to him.
"Your father, when you were a young kid, promised to show you, the Stars, shooting across space when that time comes, but he is too caught up in his spat with your mother to remember that promise, right?"
Octavia nodded her head, as he spoke out.
"Yeah, which I am fucking upset in, even though he swore to me that we'd do it together!"
Dean nodded his head, as he spoke out.
"And you want me to see it in his place. Well...I guess it would be interesting to see them, since I've never seen what other demons see. How will we see them, though? By just looking at the night sky or something?"
Octavia nodded her head, as he grabbed his wrist and spoke out to him.
"Exactly. And I was hoping to teleport to where I can see them but..."
Dean shook his head and spoke out.
"But the Grimoire mistook it for Los Angeles. Ugh. I can't believe we have to go there. I was hoping not to visit this place again, due to how fucking terrible it is."
Octavia nodded in agreement, while also noticing Dean's change in personality, but she decided not to talk of that, as Loki spoke out.
"Ugh, and it is even worse the last time we were here with Melissa. God I hate this place."
Octavia then spoke out.
"You...both seem to be familiar with this place. Have you been here before?"
Dean nodded along with Loki, as he spoke out.
"Yeah, a couple years ago. And it is just horrible. Constant riots, deaths, fatal water that is like acid when drinking, this place is just actual Hell on Earth, which is really saying something, considering what humans are like."
Octavia nodded and shuddered a bit, as she spoke out.
"Ugh, you said it. I know you told me that your kind lost your mind out of nowhere, but I never thought it would be this shitty."
Dean nodded, before he then caught something that is flying in front of him, and he looked, and spoke out.
"Huh...now I seem to remember my way around this place more."
He showed it to Octavia, who took it, and saw that it is a map around Los Angeles, especially with this bus tours and all of that sort of stuff. Octavia smiled, as she spoke out.
"Yes! Come on, let's go, Hodr!"
She grabbed grabbed Dean by the wrist and began to pull him, before Dean spoke out.
"Hold it, Octavia. Before we do so..."
He than tapped Octavia by the forehead, and all of a sudden, blue flames surround Octavia. Before she knew it, the flames were gone...and she is now in what seems to be a sort of human disguise. She has a human face that replaces her Goetia face, and it is cute, in which she also has pink irises and black pupils, her eyes are white like the other humans, with her chin being the same shape as the tip of her beak. She looked at herself, and saw her human hands, as Dean spoke out.
"Gave you a human disguise, should help you blend in with the crowd."
Octavia blinked, as she spoke out.
"Wow."
Then, a voice spoke out.
"Well, he is not the only one that wants to see the stars."
Then, Astarte, still in smoke form, appeared and Octavia looked confused, as she spoke out.
"Who are you?"
Astarte then took the time to introduce herself.
"I am Astarte, a queen Goetia. I see you have history with Dean here?"
This made Octavia confused, and spoke out to Dean.
"What? Why did she call you, Dean?"
Dean facepalmed and spoke out.
"I forgot to tell you that's my real name. I only chose Hodr because...well...let's just say it is with a sort of painful history I dealt with."
Octavia blinked a bit at Dean, as she spoke out to him.
"Huh...that name suits you more than Hodr.
Dean looked embarrassed and spoke out.
"Ugh, thanks Octavia."
Octavia smiled with a blush on her face, as Astarte then looks at her, her green eyes shown in smoke form, and she spoke out.
"Hmhmhmhmhmhmhm...let's say, I am rather intrigued by your story involving the stars. Do you mind for a fourth to join in, if it is not a problem for you?"
Octavia blinked her eyes, as she spoke out.
"Wait, you...you want to join in as well?"
Astarte spoke out.
"Of course. Even I sound intrigue by them, if you are okay with it."
Octavia looked at Astarte for a little bit, after a little, she nodded and spoke out.
"I guess it won't hurt."
Astarte smiled a bit, and she then responds back happily.
"That's great, Octavia. And...if you can excuse me, I need a make a proper human disguise of my own."
Then, before all of them knew it, the red smoke began to turn into a twister, and both Octavia and Dean held their faces a bit, as Loki crossed his arms at the sight, wondering what Astarte's form will look like. After a little bit, with newspapers and all of that sort of stuff flying all over the place, the red smoke was gone, and in the place of the smoke was Astarte in a human disguise. She still wears the same outfit and keeps her blue hair, is still as tall as her disguised form, but now she only has one set of eyes, which have white sclera with green irises, and a pair of pupils which she normally lacks in his regular form. In the place of the second pair of eyes are green glasses. She is also very beautiful, her human form is oddly much more beautiful than Verosika's own. Dean and Octavia blinked, as Loki spoke out.
"Wow."
Astarte than looks at Octavia, and spoke out to her.
"Well, lead the way, either of you."
Octavia smiled and nodded, as she grabbed Dean by the hand and ran, as Astarte ran as well, chasing after the both of them, with Loki flying behind.
Back at IMP, Stolas is shown to be pacing back and forth in front of the 3 imps, distressed that his daughter would do such a thing, as he then spoke out at this incident, while also clutching his hat in a worried gesture.
"How could this happen?! Do you just let anyone waltz into your office and grab infinitely powerful artifacts?! Why would she do this, and even take Dean? How are we supposed to find her? Where would she go?"
Loona, however, began to sniff into the air, as she smelled a familiar place that she herself knows of, somehow.
"Well, it reeks of urine and desperation so...Ugh. L.A. "
Everyone looked at Loona, and Loona, confused and having a rather bad feeling at the expression they have on her, spoke out.
"What?"
A portal opened up, and Loona was tossed through the portal. The Imps and Stolas stepped out of the portal, as Blitzø spoke out at Loona.
"Alright, Loona, let's make this quick. In and out before anyone notices us here."
As Blitzø spoke, the sounds of gunfire and screaming as Blitzo looks around the alley way that they've portaled into, as though a war is happening inside of the city itself in various territories. Blitzø brushed the front of his suit, as he then commands Loona on something.
"Oh. This doesn't look much different from Hell. Alright, now let's get to work. Loonie, sniff!"
Loona then removes an empty can from her hair after she fell down, as she then spoke back to Blitzø
"How am I supposed to smell anything in this city?"
Moxxie, acting a little bit annoyed and wanting to make Loona feel a bit more bad than before, spoke back.
"Can't you even do one thing right?"
Loona, deciding to smugly insult Moxxie again, retorts back at him, most likely as payback for agreeing and encouraging Blitzø to replace her.
"Can't you finally do something about how fat you are?"
Moxxie, a little bit shaken up by this, spoke back to Loona.
"I'm not -"
Blitzø, deciding to act a bit more of a dick than before, spoke out as well.
"You know, it wouldn't kill you to put a salad in your body every now and then."
Moxxie, a little distressed at this, spoke back to Blitzø, unhappy that he is joining in with messing with him.
"What? But, I'm not fat!"
Blitzo then jumps up on a dumpster and tapes a picture to the open lid. It has drawings of IMP with Loona in her human disguise plus stolas and a fake mustache, as Blitzø then speaks out a plan of sorts.
"Now, first things first we're gonna do this the old-fashioned way. We're gonna need disguises."
As he said that, a green flash of light appeared behind the group, as he spoke out.
"Perhaps I can join in?"
This made the others look and they see that it is other than Naberius, who has his arms crossed, and Stolas, surprised to see another Goetia that he has never seen before, spoke out.
"Oh, and who are you?"
Naberius then spoke out to Stolas.
"Hello, I am Naberius, a Grand Marquis of the Goetia and an...old friend of Dean."
This made Stolas surprised, as Loona spoke out.
"Wait, I've heard of you. Dean mentioned you before."
Naberius nodded, as he spoke out.
"Of course. And with Octavia taking Dean, I think I want to join in so that it makes it easier to find them both."
Stolas, although a little bit surprised, nodded his head in agreement, at least a little bit happy that someone is here to join in.
"Well, that would make thing a little bit easier. So yes, come and join along."
Naberius nodded, and spoke out.
"Of course, Stolas."
After he said that, Loona, Naberius, and Stolas began to initiate a transformation sequence of some sort, and after they were finished, they are not in human form, with Stolas's human disguise now making him much shorter than his regular form, while still relatively rather tall compared to other humans. He only has one set of eyes, which have white sclera with red irises, and a pair of pupils which he normally lacks in his regular form. He lacks any type of plumage so he instead has gray hair atop his head. His outfit changes drastically, now wearing a deep red vest with coat-tails reminiscent of his tail feathers, over a gray long-sleeve, high-collar shirt with a light gray puff tie. His pants are dark gray and he now has black shoes. Naberius is the same, being much shorter and having only a single head, now wearing a green coat with black pants and grey boots. He has black hair and green eyes, and the images of a crow and a Raven are on the coat itself.
Millie claps in amazement while Moxxie look unimpressed. Blitzo eyes widen and blushes seeing Stolas's human disguise, and even he cannot deny just how handsome that Stolas is. Loona looks a bit, as well as looking past a poster that reads "Public Health WARNING: New study finds LA water to be 2% sewer overflow and 98% literal acid. 'NO, OBVIOUSLY DON'T DRINK THAT SHIT!!' Top Scientists Say." Loona rolled her eyes a bit, clearly not impressed by how fucked up LA is. Blitzø then turns to Stolas, as he then spoke out to him.
"No chance you can conjure us a couple of those, can ya?"
Stolas shook his head, as he responds back to Blitzø.
"Sadly, no. I'm afraid without my grimoire, my powers are just a tad limited in the human world."
Blitzø, almost a tiny bit flabbergasted at this, spoke back in shock.
"What, you can't memorize your fucking spells?"
Stolas, a little bit annoyed, fired back at Stolas and points at Moxxie, with an almost daring tone present.
"Oh, your memory's so great? What's his phone number?"
Blitzø struggled to think of an answer, but he cannot get something out of his mouth. He looked down with an expression of defeat, as he simply spoke out.
"Fuck you."
Stolas responds back smugly at Blitzø for his inability to answer such a simple question.*
"Exactly."
Naberius shook his head and spoke out.
"We're getting nowhere by firing back and forth. Can we please just get on with it?"
Everyone nodded, as they walk out of the alleyway and Stolas grabs a pair of red-tinted sunglasses which he puts on his head where his second pair of eyes would be in his normal form. Moxxie runs face first into a human, who then spoke out to him.
"Hey, little man. How about you check out this demo right here? This is some premium Grade-A fire right here! Perfect for you to crank with the little lady.
The human pulls CD out of jacket, and Moxxie grabs Millie and pulls her close to her obvious displeasure.
"Oh, wow! You made this? Thank you."
He and Millie walk away as the dude follows and stops them, as though Moxxie forgot something.
"Oh, hey, hey, hey. Hold up a sec, you just gonna grab it and go?"
Millie looked annoyed at this, as she spoke out to him.
"He said, 'thank you'."
Music Dude puts a hand in her face, as he responds back to Moxxie.
"Twenty bucks, man."
Moxxie was about to say something, until a green flash appeared in his pocket. Moxxie looks down and pulls out something, and it a 20-Dollar bill. He looks surprised, before he gave it to the man, and took the CD with him.
"Thanks man."
Hidden behind a wall was Naberius, who he has hands glow green for a bit, as he smiled a bit at what he had done. He closed his eyes and teleports back to Stolas and Blitzø, as he continues on to help search for Octavia and Dean.
Back with Octavia, Dean, Loki, and Astarte, all of them are now onto a bus, with a tour guide that Dean had frozen back when IMP were given the job to assassinate Lyle. Dean has no idea what he is doing here or how he still acts like his usual self, but he is not complaining, as he is just mere annoyed that he has to see this idiot again. Octavia is the same in this regard, as Astarte shook her head a bit.
"And to your left, you'll see the home of one of those influencers who thinks they're hot shit cause now they do TV shows."
A woman and her kid hop into a limo while a man lays prostrated on the ground crying and begging, the limo drives away and he stands up and begins kissing the man standing nearby wearing a pink bathrobe.Octavia groans and turns away pulling her beanie down over her eyes. Dean covers his eyes and Astarte facepalms a bit, as Dean spoke out at the sight before his eyes after uncovering them.
"Still honestly surprising that LA is still stand for this long. Kind of expected for it to crumble down years ago. Like, why hasn't it?"
Octavia looked and shrugged, as she then spoke out.
"Still kind of weird. Need to get used to this human disguise, since it's the first fucking time I'm using it."
Dean sighed and closed his eyes, as he shook his head, but decides to talk to Loki in private, as his arms crossed a bit, and he goes inside of his mind for a little bit. Astarte looks, and interested to see what he'll be dreaming about, or at least, what he'll be doing inside of his sleep, began to think of something that she wanted to try.
Dean appeared inside of his own mindscape, the star-like paths and the black background are all over, as Loki appeared before him, with Dean crossing his arms a bit and spoke out.
"Okay, i change my mind about what I said about LA. It's not getting worse by the passing year. It's getting worse by the passing second. Like seriously, who in the ever-loving shit is keeping it standing?"
Loki shrugged a bit, as he spoke out.
"Don't ask me, especially since I know what you know of."
Dean shook his head, as then, Astarte's voice spoke out.
"Well, isn't this an amusing sight."
This made both Dean and Loki stop, as they look to see that a seal forming inside of the mental world that Dean has, and the seal has Astarte's name. Oddly, the image inside the circle bears some resemblance to that of Asmodeus' own seal that Dean saw back at Ozzie's, but with 4 extra imp tails, making a total of 5. The seal began to glow blue, as Astarte appeared, as her demon self, as she looks at him, her eyes glowed beautifully, as she spoke out.
"So...this is what you have, Dean. It's impressive."
Dean blinked his eyes, as he spoke out.
"What the, how did you get in here?"
Astarte smiled, as she spoke out to Dean.
"Well, let's just say that it is a new trick that I had been developing for a while. I just figured that it is the best time to show it off."
She walked past him, before she turned her eyes 180 degrees to look at him from behind, as she spoke out.
"Neat, isn't it?"
Dean looked at this, and spoke out.
"Uhh...yeah. I guess it is."
Astarte smiled, as she turned her body around in the opposite direction the head turned, completing a 360 degrees for the head, as she made snapped her fingers and made a bluish-purple fire appear in the palm of her hand, as she spoke out.
"Well, I just say, it is a pretty beautiful place, even in something so dark and desolate. How often do you visit this kind place of yours?"
Loki then decided to step in and spoke out.
"Not often, we only sometimes visit this place when we need to discuss something private."
Astarte looked and nodded a bit, but still smiled, as her 4 eyes looked down at Dean, as she spoke out.
"Well, perhaps I can visit this place more often whenever you are asleep. After all...I would like to spend much more time with you than I ever thought possible."
She lowered herself a bit, as her cleavage showed in front of Dean. Dean looked embarrassed, but Astarte, she began to manipulate his feelings and emotions, making him feel much more calmer than before. He held his head, as he blinked at what Astarte was doing, and she giggled a bit at this, before speaking out...her voice now somehow changing that into Verosika's own voice.
"Do not worry. I won't do anything bad. In fact...I will make our time inside of your dreams...pleasant~."
Dean slowly look down and held his face, clearly embarrassed at what Astarte plans to do, but realizes that her voice changes that to sound almost like Verosika's. He looks at her and she then spoke out to Dean.
"Anyway...best you wake up now. I think Octavia wants to travel elsewhere."
Dean blinked his eyes, before he then nodded, and exits back into the real world, and Astarte goes onto her seal that is still on the floor of the mental world, and she vanished back into the real world, giggling all the way. As she disappeared, Loki shook his head and held his face, as he spoke out to himself at the sight of this.
"Welp, this place is now gonna get ruined. Astarte...I swear, you're gonna be the death of both me and Dean."
Loki then vanished, as he manifests into the outside world, in order to see what Octavia will be taking Dean to this time.
With Blitzø, Loona, and the 2 other Goetia, Blitzø is shown to be coming out of the store of some sort that is titled 'Little costume shop of horrors', and is shown to be wearing a pink shirt, blue jeans, and wig. His horns have been covered with frankly gigantic ears. Honestly, if Dean was here, he'd laugh at Blitzø for using such a stupid disguise of choice in the first place. Stolas looks up at him as Blitzo gestures to himself.
"So?"
As Blitzø spoke out the single word, clearly wanting Stolas' opinion on his disguise of choice, a random woman wearing a white tank top and red shorts of some sorts screams excitedly to the other nearby humans.
"Look, everyone! It's Holly's Wood star, Brennon Ragers!"
Blitzø looked confused, as he then spoke out to himself.
"The fuck is a Brendon Rager - Oh."
He then turned around for a bit and he looks up and sees a billboard for "Sweetie! I'm In the House!! Guest Starring Brennon Ragers,' with the picture showing that of the man that Octavia had accidentally killed by landing on him earlier. Stolas also looks at this as well, and even he could tell that this is not good for Blitzø at all.
"Oh, dear.
A crowd immediately mobs Blitzo, taking pictures and begging for things while Blitzo tries to escape, and Blitzø, in a panicked way, shouted out for help.
"Millie, where are you and your whore bag husband?!"
But unfortunately, they were not here, and in fact, they were someplace else, much to Blitzø's annoyance, as he still struggles in vain to escape.
0I'm taking this out of their pay!"
As Blitzø said that, truck is seen with agents jumping out to break the commotion. A man is seen blowing his whistle with a diploma in his hands, and Blitzo is finally let go. A producer approaches him, the producer has blond hair, glasses, and has a black shirt that is covered by a yellow vest, who is holding out a paper bag of fruit snacks in front of him.
"Mr. Ragers, we've been looking for you everywhere. You were supposed to be on set an hour ago!"
Blitzø, looking confused, spoke out
"The fuck are you talking about?l
The Producer responds back and eats a fruit snack, as if being this forgetful is Ragers' most common trait of him.
"Your guest spot on...Sweetie! I'm in the House!!' We're taping tonight. Now, hurry up and get in the car!
An ad pops up, resembling the same design of the billboard, and briefly disappears.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no! I'm not going anywhere with you, jizz-biscuit!
Blitzø flips him off, but the Producer was not one to back down, as if the man had done this many times before, and then tries to lure him with a fruit snack.
"Very funny, Mr. Ragers. Now, get in the car. Come on, boy, come on."
The guard grabs him and tries to pull him away, but Blitzø breaks free from the guard as briefly as he is caught again a second later, much to his ire.
"Get your fucking hands off me! Loona! Stolas! A little help, here?!"
Blitzo's fake ears fall out, as a man who drops his baby catches the fake ears. This leads the crowd to have an altercation, fighting over the ears. Stolas tries to get through, as he spoke out to the guard and fixes his hair to look nice.
"E-excuse me, sir. I'm… Mr. Ragers' agent, and I don't believe you can just-"
As he spoke out, an agent behind Stolas cracks his neck, and grabs him from behind, as Stolas responds back to the strong grip he has.
"Oh! You are strong!"
Naberius looks at the sight, and spoke out.
"Oh boy, this is not good at all. What's next? Am I-"
Before he knew it, another guard grabbed Naberius from behind, and him, Blitzø and Stolas are thrown in the back of the car. Blitzo growls his way back out, but the doors close before he can escape. Naberius looked annoyed, as he spoke out at this.
"I just had to ask, didn't I? Goddamnit."
Stolas turns to look at Blitzø, and spoke out to him.
"Blitzø, we don't have time for this. Via could be anywhere. She could be in danger."
Blitzø nodded his head, as he then spoke back to Stolas, having just one person in mind to help with this.
"Don't worry, I'm on it."
Blitzo breaks one of the windows with his horns, and spots Loona punching the people in the crowd. He then looks and shouts out to her for this one single favor.
"Loonie, go find Via! We'll catch up soon!"
Loona snarled a bit at him, not forgetting of what he had said to her before about possibly replacing her, as she flips him off, before disappearing into the crowd. Stolas looks a little bit concerned at this, as Blitzø spoke out to Stolas.
"Yeah! Way to be a team player, sweetie! She's in great hands."
Naberius turns to the side for a bit and spoke out.
"Yeah, right."
He sighed and shook his head, as he spoke out.
"Why am I getting dragged into this mess?"
Back with the quartette, all 4 of them began to walk out of it along with other people, as Dean held his head and spoke out.
"Thank fucking god. I can't stand being inside of that place any longer. I'm almost about to lose my mind."
Octavia nodded, as she rips the pamphlet in half, as they both walked away from a crime scene and walked above a corpse. But as they did, Dean sensed something underneath the corpse. It made him stop, as he looked down and saw something shiny. Dean bent down and threw the corpse off, and picked it up. It looked like a cross of some sort, but it is a couple of feet longer than a cleaver and has markings all over it, that seems to be of divine origin. Green and blue gems are present on the arms and the 'head' of the crucifix, and a yellow circular touches all 4 beginning parts of the cross, almost resembling a halo of some sort. And the divine power inside of the cross...for such a single and simple object...it feels...powerful, to the point that it makes the CHERUBS feel like mere fleas in comparison. He looked at it, and decided to take it with him, as he walks with Octavia, who then stops when she comes across a sign titled, 'Star Owl: Souvenir Shop.' She takes pictures of the sign, proceeds to walk but slowly stops when she takes a look at what's inside the shop itself, looking at a box that says "Starstruck" on it. But Dean grabbed her arm and spoke out.
"Best not see what's in there. Even I don't wanna find out."
Octavia looks at Dean, and after a bit, nodded her head, as she grabs Dean by the hand and drags him, and Astarte walks alongside them, her hands behind her back, as she spoke out.
"Well, isn't this touching?"
As they continued to walk, they ended up wandering into another form of territory, as Dean gripped Octavia's hand tightly, as if assuring to her on how he is with her. Dean looks around, as Loki flies next to Dean, crossing his arms a little bit, as he whispers to Dean.
"Dean...about that cross you took out from the ground...what was that?"
Dean looks down at the pocket that has it, as it stuck out a little bit, and he then spoke out.
"I don't know. I've seen many crosses before that have some holy powers, but they are far, far weaker than the one that was under that corpse. What type of cross, or crucifix, or whatever it is, is that?"
Loki did not answer, as Dean looked into his pocket, but decides to not pay any mind for that now. As they continued to move forward, Astarte began to walk next to Octavia, and when she did, Astarte looked around for a little bit, before she then spoke out.
"Hm, it seems we are now going to have some unwanted visitors right now."
This made Dean and Octavia stop, as Loki vanished. All of a sudden, a throwing knife came out of nowhere and tried to stab Astarte. But Astarte looked at the knife and raised her finger. All of a sudden, the knife began to glow red-hot, as it then melted. Octavia looked a bit frightened, as some humans appeared into the scene, and they look downright murderous, ready to kill then. Dean looks at this, and he felt...strange, as the mark glowed on his head. He feels like...he wants to murder and kill someone, but he does not know why. That feeling is not even his own.
"Well, seems we got some new people to kill in our territory!! This will be so much fun!"
Dean narrowed his eyes, as his eyes turned black. He then spoke out.
"Octavia, I'll take care of this. And close your eyes. It's about to get bloody."
Octavia nodded her head, as she closed her eyes and hugged the Grimoire in her hands, as Dean stepped forward, taking out a sword from his hands, as he felt the murderous rage get worse, but now he's embracing that, as the man spoke out.
"Well, look who's about to fucking lose his life!! Get him boys!!"
Dean narrowed his eyes, as he then telekinetically launched them backwards, before he ran forward, and made the sword 8 feet long, as he swung it and cleaved 3 guys in half, before he shrunk it back down, and stabbed another one in the chest, but he continued to stab him unnecessarily a couple more times, as someone took their gun out and fired bullets at him. But the bullets dented when they hit Dean, and he simply looked annoyed, as he then took out his Naginata, and swung it at the other man, as highly pressured air struck him and cleaved him in half. Dean felt mad, as he unleashed a shockwave that drove everyone back. He then snapped his fingers, a small yellow spark formed into his hand, and launched it at a trio of the group, which then exploded violently, turning the other guys into red puddles on gore. He turned around and sees more of them are coming, as he got ready to kill some more, for some reason wanting to do so, as they swung their machetes at him, and he took his sword out. Dean blocks the sword constantly, and the sword began to glow red, like it is absorbing the kinetic force of the strikes. He jumps back and grabs one of the guys' weapons, the machete, but then, it glowed dark purple, and began to crack and wear down, before it crumbled to dust, before he swung it, as a red slash cut another guy in half, as well as make a couple of other guys get killed as well from that. But before he can continue killing more, Astarte grabbed him by the shoulders and spoke out to him.
"I think I should be the one to finish this, cutie~."
Astarte stepped forward, with Dean looking confused at what she is doing. The leader of the group looks at her, and feeling eager, with Astarte sensing his feelings of lust within him, as well as seeing what he desires in his soul, and a desire that she despises, as the man spoke out.
"Well, seems a bitch joins in! Hmmm...I've got a better idea, let's have some fun with her~!!"
Astarte, amused at the slightest at how pathetic he must be, spoke out.
"Hmhmhmhmhmhmhmhm...you don't even have what it takes to bring me down."
One of the guys attempted to attack her, but Astarte looks at the man, who suddenly began to be frozen solid, as he became an ice statue. She punched the frozen man, who shattered to bits, another tried to attack her from behind, but Astarte made vines appear out from the ground and wrap around the one that has attempted to attack from behind, before throwing him into a trash can. Another one, holding what seems to be a knife, attempted to charge in and stab her, but Astarte's eyes glowed green and widened, as if she is glaring, the glasses also moved as if they are eyes still, and before the man knew it, he suddenly detonated and exploded violently into bluish-purple flames, which his blood and flesh also scattering all over the place. The other men were scared of her, but they tried to charge in, only for Astarte to wave her hand, and when she did, the guys charging at her began to grip their throat, the sounds of bones breaking were heard. A snap was heard, as they fell to the ground. And Astarte did not even move an inch. The leader looked irritated, as he spoke out at the sight, clearly ignoring that Astarte did something unusual in his eyes.
"Why the fuck are all of you so useless and pathetic?! I'll take care of it myself then!!"
He attempted to strike at her with what seems to be a chainsaw, but all of a sudden, it got sliced in half...and felt hot at the part where it got sliced. This made the man surprised, and he looks to see Astarte having swung her hand...which is now covered by an elongated double-ended blade constructed of bluish-purple fire, that is covering the base of the right elbow. She walks over to him, grabbed him by the neck with her left hand, and slammed him into a wall, making a crater onto it. She spoke out to the man, feeling a little bit annoyed that he is ruining her time with Dean.
"You and your buddies are getting in my way. Well..."
She then threw him to the ground, and spoke out.
"I have a much better idea."
She then stuck her hand out, and all of a sudden, the man began to smoke, as Astarte looks down at the man, with a smile on her face, and all of a sudden, the leader ignited into bluish-purple flames, while he screamed in agony. After a little bit, the flames died down, and the man was nothing, but ash. Dean looked shocked at how Astarte was able to take down the man. He knew Astarte was powerful, due to being of a king ranking, or queen, as she prefers to call it, but this...this was a whole new level that makes some of the usual King Goetias look tame for even trying to be powerful. Dean has no idea how powerful she truly is, because that is beyond what a normal king is capable of. Astarte then turns her head around and looks at Dean and Octavia, who is covering her eyes still. Astarte smiled, turned her body in the same direction as her head, the blade on her right arm dispersed, as she looks at Dean.
"Impressed by what you see?"
She lowered herself in order to show her cleavage towards Dean, who shook his head, the red blush formed onto his face, and spoke out.
"Ugh, anyway. Let's move elsewhere. Octavia, the battle's over, but let's move out of the way, alright?"
Octavia nodded, as she spoke out.
"Alright, just as long as I don't see any more fuck-ups like this."
Dean nodded, as he grabbed Octavia's hand and walked away, as Astarte followed behind, smiling at Dean's caring attitude, as she walked next to him, her normal human eyes blinking, as she held Dean's hand. Octavia then opened her eyes a bit, as they got far enough away from the corpses that are littered all over the ground. Dean sighed, and spoke out.
"We need to find some tall place, like say, a tower, that can get us a clear view of the stars...if the view in LA can even be clear at all."
Octavia looks at Dean and smiled at the idea, as she spoke out.
"Heh, good idea. Besides, gonna take a few more pics before we can find one."
Octavia than gripped Dean's hand and ran for a bit, as Astarte followed behind. Dean looks and smiled a bit, as he hopes to enjoy this time with Octavia.
Back with Loona, she is now in elsewhere on LA, shown to be sipping coffee, which she seems to be enjoying a lot and opening up her phone to "Sinstagram". As she walks around the city with "I Like It" playing on her phone, she stops when she spots the Star Owl: Souvenir Shop sign on the wall. She admires this, and takes a selfie with it to post on her Sinstagram. After posting the photo and scrolling down her feed, she notices a post from Octavia at the same location. Taken aback by this, she spits out her coffee, and then looks at Octavia's profile, with some of her recent posts being pictures she took throughout the city.
One post shows a castle she was nearby, with the caption reading "Found a cool looking castle, reminds me of home..." which was shown to have been posted two minutes ago when Loona first saw it. As Loona observes, that same castle from the post is right behind her. Looking at the castle, and the coffee, she is beginning to think of whether to go after her or not, but remembers that Dean is with Octavia, who she is also trying to find. Wanting to find her if it at least means finding Dean, she crushes the coffee with her bear hands and runs towards the castle. The coffee spills and gets stepped on, as the scene transitions to the castle from the post. Loona looks around trying to find Octavia, but her phone goes off again, revealing another post from Octavia depicting where she is at, but no sign of her in real life. Another post, where she's seen in front of the Holly's Wood sign, Loona is right in front of it, and when she believes she found Octavia, she mistakes her for a human that looks like her from behind, who also sort of looks a little bit ugly, much to Loona's ire.
The montage continues as Loona scrolls through her phone to multiple places that Octavia has been in, with the background changing to its exact location, but every attempt proves futile with Octavia nowhere to be found. Loona sweats for a while, but still keeps searching. There was only one more sight to go to that most likely has Dean and Octavia's location...the Observatory.
Dean, Astarte, and Octavia are moving up as much as they can, as they see the sky about to turn to night, with Dean's hair looking messy and all over the place...mainly because of the fact that Dean had to get Octavia out of a bunch of messes involving turf wars and having ti protect both the Grimoire and the book, although Astarte made protecting both easier. Dean breathed a bit, as Loki appeared next to Dean and spoke out.
"Geez, man, you look like crap."
Dean looked at Loki, and spoke out to him.
"Thanks Loki, I can count on you to state the obvious."
Loki shrugged, as Dean ran up as fast as he can, with Octavia also running up, and Astarte also running up herself, before they are in the location that they want to be. There is a somewhat of a clear sky, and Dean spoke out to her.
"So uh...this is it, right? Where you want to see...the stars."
Octavia nodded her head, as Astarte spoke out.
"Well, hopefully we'll be able to see it, because even I want to see what they look like."
Octavia smiled, as she sees Dean and...her new friend Astarte, are both wanting to see it as well, as Dean spoke out.
"Also, won't be needing this anymore."
He tapped onto Octavia's forehead, as blue fire swirled around her and she changed back to her true demon form, as Astarte did the same, going back to her usual demon appearance, as Octavia spoke out.
"Hopefully nothing can ruin this. After all, I didn't wait for years until I get...see...it."
Octavia and the others looked and see that the clouds were beginning to form, and Dean, seeing this, spoke out.
"Oh come on!!! Why not?!"
Dean then blew wind with his power, in an attempt to blow the clouds out of the way, but he was too far away to do it. This made Dean panic, as he continues to blow as much as he can, but he can't, as Dean spoke out.
"I can't blow the clouds away!!! No!!!"
Dean was panicking, as Astarte spoke out.
"I don't have anything that can blow this shit out of the way myself!!"
Octavia, now in a panic, began to speak out in a rapid pace.
"No no no no no no no no no!!! This can't be happening?! Why does this shit now suddenly get on the way?!!"
Dean tried to do all that he can, but he can't, as he held his head, and not sure how to look at this, as Astarte felt frustrated...but then...the clouds stopped, which made Dean look and spoke out, confused.
"Wait...what?"
Octavia looked, and she saw that the clouds have stopped, as she spoke out.
"The clouds they...Dean, you did it!!!"
Octavia felt excited, meaning she'll get to see the stars still, a smile present on her face. But Dean spoke out.
"No...I did not do this."
Octavia looks at him, and he looked stunned, and Octavia stood up, before she spoke out.
"What?"
Dean spoke out, as he looks at another sight that is on the ground.
"I did not do this at all. Besides...I can't even do that."
He points down, as Astarte and Octavia look down, and they saw that...everyone was frozen in places. The people stopped moving, almost like they became statues. But the birds flying in the air as also suspended in place, yet are still in the same position. It's like time had stopped somehow. Loki looked surprised, as he spoke out.
"Okay, that is beyond what we can do."
Astarte looked down, as she spoke out.
"I...I don't have the power to do this either. Even I'm not that strong."
Octavia looks down, as someone spoke out.
"Well...is this not delightful."
Dean and Loki turned around, Astarte and the others did the same, as they see what seems to be a human man of sorts in a red ankle length trench coat with a hood over his head, his eyes and nose hidden in the shadows. Despite this, the eyes are glowing red, like there was fire literally in the place of his eyeballs, with a red buttoned shirt and black pants. Dean and the others looked, as Astarte spoke out.
"Who...who are you?"
Octavia looked at the individual, and she felt...scared. The man that is before him, he feels...wrong, like bloodshed incarnate or something. Astarte felt the same way, and for once...she felt scared, because his power...is far beyond what she is able to do. Dean walked up to see the man, and he saw something behind his back...and it looked like some sort of red sword on it. Dean narrowed his eyes...and he realizes who this is, before he spoke out.
"Astarte, behind mine. I know who this guy is."
Astarte, hearing Dean's tone, looked confused, but she obliged, and just simply stepped aside and got behind him, as Dean spoke out, his voice filled with frustration and anger at the person that he sees.
"You...What the hell are you doing here?! I thought you'd be back in...you know..."
The red-coated individual spoke out to him.
"Heh...no, I would not be in that middle place here where 'he' is at for long after he sent me back for a bit. Besides, I am just taking advantage of all the turf wars happening all over the place. You know what I am like, enjoying all of that sort of event happening all over the place, which I often thrive upon. Plus, I sensed you appearing. I figured that I can just see how you are. And so far...you seem better than usual."
The red-coated entity looks and notices Loki, as he spoke out to him.
"It is a pleasure to meet you again, Loki. It has been a while since I had seen you."
Loki frowned a bit, as he spoke out.
"I was kind of hoping not to see you again, asshole. Dean hopes so as well, after you merely drove him nuts into attacking others a couple years back."
The Red-Coated individual shrugged his shoulders, as he spoke out.
"You know what I am like, all battles and violence is what I draw upon. It is in my nature, after all. So I play by what I represent."
Dean narrowed his eyes a bit, as he stepped back, clearly not trusting him at all, and the red-coated individual spoke out.
"And you do not have to worry about me ruining your friend's time, Dean. In fact, I have no intention of ruining it."
Dean raised his right eyebrow, as he spoke out.
"What do you mean? Isn't that you here for, since you make people fight all the time whenever you are present?"
The individual shrugged, as he spoke out.
"For the normal humans below, I would. But it for this case...how about I just help with this?"
He then raised his hand, and wiped his hand at the sky. In something that looks straight up impossible...the clouds were gone from the sky entirely. Dean blinked his eyes, as he spoke out.
"You...helping Octavia. But...but why? You were never that much of the...helping type. More of the blood and massacre type."
The red-hooded entity looks at him with a smile, as he simply spoke out 3 words to Dean.
"Because I can."
Dean looked perplexed and suspicious, but he decides not to question onto him further. The Red-coated being then turned his back and began to walk away, before he then spoke out.
"Enjoy your time out there, Dean. For bloodshed and battles will always be among us."
He then vanished into a twister of flames, as time began to move again. As this happened, Octavia looked, and she saw something above.
"The Stars!"
Dean and Astarte looked up, and they get to see it, Azathoth's Tears. And they were a stunning sight. Comets of blue, purple, black with purple outlines, etc. moving across the sky, and Octavia, wanting to see the sight before her eyes for the rest of time, took out her phone and began to record it. Dean and Astarte looked up at the sky, and even cannot help but feel I awe at the sight before their eyes, as they see the beautiful shooting stars present, firing across the night sky. And when they saw it, they felt...strange, like they can have all the hopes and dreams in their lives, as Octavia smiled in awe at the sight, like her own hopes and dreams are able to come true whenever she wanted to. The entire sight went on for a full 4 minute...until it finally ended. Octavia smiled, because she got to see what she wanted to witness for a long time...but...she felt sad. Astarte sensed this, and spoke out.
"Octavia...are you alright?"
Dean looks at her, and Octavia spoke out.
"I...I don't...I got what I wanted...I got to...to see the stars and yet...I feel...unhappy. W-Without dad."
Octavia began to sniffle and tear up. Even though this she got what she wanted...her father never being there to see this sight next to her made her distressed. Dean looks down and hugged her from behind, as Astarte looked a little unhappy at the sight. But then, she sensed someone else coming, as she vanished and became blue smoke. Dean also sensed it as well, and he turned to see...
"Loona?"
Dean was surprised. Loona was walking up the steps to see Octavia, as Loona spoke out.
"Babe. You're okay...and..."
She looks at Octavia, as she spoke out.
"Hey..."
Octavia looks at Loona, and while a little surprised to see her, spoke out to her while wiping her tears away.
"Hey. How did you find me?"
Dean stepped away, so that Loona can have some time to talk to Octavia, as Loona spoke out.
"Your Sinstagram. Nice pics by the way."
Loona pulls out her phone, showing pics that Octavia posted. Octavia looked, and smiled a tiny bit, as she spoke out while sniffling a bit.
"Oh, thanks."
Loona looks at the state Octavia is in, and spoke out to her in concern.
"You okay?"
Octavia looked down, feeling distressed at this, as she spoke out.
"Can't believe I was so stupid. I spent all day looking for a place where I could see some dumb meteor shower. I got what I wanted, I got to see it, and I loved it but..."
Loona looks and shrugged a bit, as she spoke out.
"Eh, smog's a bitch."
Loona attempts to light up a cigarette, but no flames come out. As she tries, Octavia made a purple flame appear on her finger for Loona's cigarette. Loona takes a smoke, with Dean blowing it away before it hits Octavia in the face, as she sat down next to her.
"You know, your dad's really worried about you."
Octavia scoffed at this, as she then rants to Loona, the frustration bottling up inside of her, as she finally relived it onto Loona.
"Right! That's why you're here instead of him. He couldn't be bothered to keep his promise, and now he can't be bothered to come and get me himself. He'd rather spend his time just screaming at my mum. Why does he hate her more than he loves me?"
Dean looked and flinched at this...as he looked down and closed his eyes...a memory of what he once said to his parents...something that he thinks he can never take back.
"I'm not here to listen to what you both want to say!!"
Dean shouted at his parents, a young child at the time, as he walked out of the door, a day before the fire came, as his dad and mom spoke out.
"Young man, what sort of tone are you using onto us?"
"Why don't you even want to hear us out?!"
Dean turned to them, frustration shown in his eyes, as he spoke out.
"What do you mean, hear you both out?! All that I have to constantly hear from the both of you is how much you want to yell at each other! That's all I have to hear from you both!"
Dean's dad then shouted back, as he spoke out!
"Dean, don't you see?! We are trying to be better for you, for your brothers, for you!!"
The mother then shouted back at Dean, but more in how she is trying to reason with him and get him to listen then to reprimand for his behavior.
"We are trying to act as parents for all 3 of you!"
Dean, finally having enough, exploded as tears of frustration and rage leaked out from his face.
"YOU MEAN THE PARENTS YOU NEVER WERE FOR THEM, THE PARENTS THAT MADE MY BROTHERS CRY?!!"
Dean then laid down how frustrated his is and how much he feels about his parents, having enough of them for how much he had to act in the parent role himself.
"EVERYTIME I HAD TO HEAR YOU BOTH SCREAM, MY OWN BROTHERS WOULD CRY, AND I HAD TO BE THE ONE TO COMFORT THEM WHILE I HAD TO CRY MYSELF!! I HAD TO BE THE ONE TO FEED THEM, READ THEM STORIES, AND TAKE THEM TO OTHER PLACES AWAY FROM YOU BOTH, SO THAT THEY CAN BE HAPPY FOR WHAT YOU BOTH PUT THEM THROUGH!! YOU NEVER CARED FOR MY BROTHERS, NOR ME!!! YOU CARED ONLY ABOUT YOUR STUPID ARGUMENTS AND IGNORING BOTH US AND OUR DISTRESS!! YOU ARE BOTH THE WORST PARENTS THAT I'VE EVER HAD!!! I HATE YOU BOTH!!!"
The parents looked stunned, as Dean finally shouted out his last words.
"I HATE YOU BOTH SO MUCH, I WISH THAT I CAN HATE YOU BOTH TO DEATH!!!!"
He turned take and ran out of the door, not bothering to wear shoes, as the father spoke out.
"Dean, wait!!!"
But a Dean did not look back, and to an extent...he felt like he can hear the sobs of his mother from behind, as Dean kept going and did not look back.
Dean opened his eyes, as he felt sad at what he had said. His last words to his parents, a day before they died. He could not forgive himself for what he said, because he never knew how much his parents cared for them, until they died for his life. Everyday...he wished that he can take it all back. He looks at Loona, who then spoke out to Octavia, now in a much more gentle tone.
"Haaa...Sometimes... sometimes it's not as simple as that. This kind of shit gets messy, and everybody's got issues, especially dads. And sometimes they fuck up -- well, all the time. But, that doesn't mean they don't care."
Octavia, somewhat not believing her, spoke out to Loona.
"If he cares, where is he?"
Loona then spoke out just a simple answer.
"He's somewhere down there."
Octavia, now being a liters bit surprised, spoke out to Loona.
"He's here?"
Loona nodded, as she blows a smoke.
"Looking for you. I mean...try to cut your dad some slack.
Loona continues to light up her lighter, and a flame finally lights up from the lighter.
"He may not always get it right, but... he's trying."
She looks at the lighter and sees the sticker with the I.M.P logo on it, and gives a smile as she look towards Octavia, a gentle smile that even Dean never thought she'd be able to do.
"That's more important than you think."
Octavia looks at her by surprise, and then looks down a bit to contemplate on what she said, until she notices a light shining on her face, which is seen to be coming from the moon, which suddenly appeared in the air, with all three staring at the moon, Loona turns off her lighter, and throws away her cigarette. She stands up for a few stretches, before holding her hand out to Octavia.
"You ready to go?
She extends her hand to Octavia, but instead, she gives her the grimoire to Loona, as Octavia spoke out.
"Yeah."
Loona gives her hand to Octavia once more, and this time, she is greeted with a hug, which Loona returns the favor. Dean smiled, as both Loona and Octavia held Dean's hands, and they walked away, down from the Observatory, and too where Stolas and Blitzø are at.
Elsewhere, the Starstruck Studios building is now burning. Stolas had ended up doing something that caused the building to burn, mainly with the acid water and the wiring, which caused a short circuit of some sort, while police cars are heard, Naberius, Blitzø, and Stolas are seen walking away, as Naberius spoke out.
"I am not going into a place like this again."
Blitzø looks at his phone which has a map that has a title that says 'No Topic' as he then spoke out.
"Now, if we could just find where..."
A red portal suddenly appeared appears in front of them, where Loona exits.
"Loona!"
With her hand still in the portal, Loona removes herself from it with Dean and Octavia still holding one another's hands hand, as the portal closes and all 3 let go of each other, with Blitzø running to her.
"Oh, Loona, my sweet baby girl! I'm so sorry, I'll never replace you no matter what you-"
Before he can finish his sentence, Loona furiously kicks him in the groin as he winces in pain, although Looks does smile a bit, as she spoke out.
"You're good."
Loona smiles at Dean, as she hugged and licks his cheeks. Stolas painfully looks at Blitzo, until he faces Octavia, who looked ashamed at what she did.
"Dad... I'm so sorry."
Stolas runs up to hug her, as he reverts back to his demon form, and spoke out.
"I'm just relieved you're okay! But, what would possess you to do such a thing? You know I haven't taught you spells like this yet."
Octavia then looks up at her father, and spoke out.
"I just wanted to see the stars you promised."
Stolas looked confused at what she said at firsts
"The stars?"
Stolas gasped, as he realizes the promise that he had broken, and felt ashamed that he had turned his back on the promise, all for the sake of a grudge against Stella.
"Azathoth's tears! Oh, no. Oh, my dear sweet Via. I am so-"
Octavia stops him as she hugs him, and spoke out.
"I know, dad. It's okay, you're here now. Besides...I was able to see them."
Stolas blinked, as he spoke out.
"You...you did?"
Dean stepped forward, and Stolas looked at him, as he spoke out.
"An...old acquaintance of mine helped out in that, even though I don't like him. Still...that was nice for Octavia, huh?"
Stolas blinked a bit, but he smiled and nodded, as Naberius spoke out.
"Heh, so you finally appeared, Dean."
Dean looks and nodded at him, and spoke out to Naberius.
"Hey, Naberius. Were you looking for me?"
Naberius nodded, as he spoke out.
"Only because Octavia was missing and she took you, so I figured why not join in to help out."
Stolas returns the hug to his daughter. Loona watches happily, until she notices Blitzo trying to hug her, and responds with smacking him with the book with a smug but loving face. She then notices a faint glow in the sky. The scene pans out to show several fireworks exploding in the sky. Loona records this on her phone.
"What the fuck is that?"
Blitzø smiled in a smug way, as he spoke of his accomplishment.
"My acting career."
Loona gives a loving smile at Blitzo's quip. As the fireworks take off, Stolas and Octavia look up in awe, with Octavia gasping happily, having never seen fireworks before herself.
"Look at that one! Did you see that one?"
Blitzø smiled, before he spoke out.
"Now, where the fuck are M n' M?"
Dean looked and spoke out.
"Eh, let's not pay attention to that now. For now, let's enjoy the moment."
Astarte, in smoke form, looked at Dean and smiled, as she wrapped floated next to Dean. Octavia smiled at Dean and spoke out.
"Hey, Dean. Thank you...for...being there for me."
Dean looks and smiled, as he spoke out to her.
"Hey, it no prob-"
Before he knew it, Octavia kissed him on the cheek, and made him red in the face, as he spoke out
"Oh, come on!!!"
He puts the hood over his head, feeling red in the face, as Stolas smiled at the sight.
"Oh, he's who you like Via?"
Octavia smiled, as hearts danced around her head for a bit, almost like she intentionally made her feelings to Dean know to even her own father on purpose. Loona also looked a bit surprised at this, but she smiled a little, as she spoke out.
"Heh...same guy for us huh?"
But Loona, in this case, she won't mind it. In fact, she might enjoy Octavia being able to share Dean with her.
With Millie, she is on her phone texting Blitzo. Around the alley that she came from, the portal back to I.M.P Headquarters appears in front of her. Moxxie is then seen carrying a heavy bag full of art paraphernalia.
"Art is heavy!"
Millie enters the portal, and before Moxxie can enter, he is stopped by another music salesman wanting to sell his CD's. Moxxie approaches to pay him for the demo, but Millie throws a knife and kills the salesman before Moxxie can pay him, then grabs the demo and throws it into the street.
"March, mister!"
Moxxie sadly walks to the portal, but for a short while after, Millie carries him effortlessly into the portal, leaving the trophy bag behind.