Original Posted On Sept. 17, 2024
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22jward: Here you go.
Jebest4781: OOOOOH, so close.
Kreiger Techpreist: *Evil Cackle*
Thegrinninsalesman: Very true on all fronts.
Bednarczykmiki: We all want him too.
MEATBICYCLE: Charlie with Sass in that Loli Ass. No, Walter was just using that as an example. He will use some abilities Dracula used in that story (Climbing walls, turning into a wolf, Etc.). Well, I hope this is a good end to the arc.
Gamelover41592: Very much so.
Ravage88atlas: Yes, that is KIND of the plan. Not a berserker, but a loyal minion. He is brainwashing Naruto then going to lobotomize him, making Naruto completely subservient.
Dragon Blaze-X: Kill the gerbil! Kill the gerbil!
DaftMerc39: Yep… on everything. Oh, come on, it's a Goetia we already know.
Freedomringer: LOL, who wants roasted Gerbil meat?
ShadowBloodedge9396: Yep. Yep. Yep.
Fenris Silverblood: Lilith's mistrust doesn't discriminate. No, Lilith never met Naruto until Charlie brought him home.
MichaelTheFox: LOL!
Legend of the Kyubi: Ah, right, I forgot. I made an alteration to the dialogue to be canonically accurate. Thank you.
Rio Skyron: Yeah, he pretty much is.
Exia Zero: Who?
Kigen No KitsuneOokami: I don't know what that is.
OKAY, LETS READ THIS SHIT! I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR HAZBIN HOTEL!
"Hey" = Speaking
'Hey' = Thinking
'Hey' = Memory
"Hey" = To be Determined
Chapter 9: Doctor's Physical
Meanwhile…
Mirko, having ended her technique ran down the corridor that the demons had come from.
"~It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World~"
"SHUT UP!" Mirko screamed, jumping up and kicking a speaker.
"My, my…" the speakers suddenly stopped playing the music to be replaced with the Cajun accent of Dr. Gerbil. "You sure are a feisty one. I can see where my current test subject gets it from."
"WHERE ARE YOU, COWARD! WHERE IS NARUTO!" Mirko demanded, turning every way she could to yell.
"Tsk, tsk, trade secret my dear. I am currently busy with my test subject, so please continue to play with my… minions." Dr. Gerbil said before cutting the audio as the song returned.
"~It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World~"
Mirko let out an enraged roar that echoed through out the cavern.
She felt like she was going mad.
And like a Mad Lad, Mirko took off, running down the corridor.
'Hang on, Naruto, I'll save you!' Mirko thought as she began to worry that she might be too late.
Meanwhile…
Naruto was jostled awake by Gerbil.
"Time for your lessons, my test subject." Gerbil told Naruto as he slipped a device on his head, which forced his eyes open. "Now, listen closely, for class is in session."
He stepped aside and hit a button on his computer, ignoring the screen that showed Mirko running through corridors and one of Walter still fighting the cyborg attackers.
The screen before Naruto turned on, and on it was atrocious acts of violence, gore, rape, and all things detestable.
Naruto let out screams of horror, but Gerbil didn't relent.
He put a tiny pair of headphones on the fox, and turned the volume to its highest level.
"~It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World
It's Doc Gerbil's World,
It's Doc Gerbil's World~"
Gerbil's cackles of evil were drowned out by Naruto's screams.
Meanwhile…
Mirko's ears tingled.
"NARUTO!" She shouted, pivoting on her feet and turning the opposite direction, correcting her course.
She knew his voice better than anyone, so the very faint scream she heard was Naruto's.
Mirko desperately ran, tripping several times as she rushed to find him.
Coming to another fork, Mirko stopped.
She put her hands to her ears, closing them.
They twitched as they heard screaming from the left.
Without hesitation, Mirko leaped toward the left.
'Please, don't let me be to late…' She mentally hoped as her heart pounded.
The thought of losing Naruto was crushing.
Especially adding the thought that she was there and couldn't save him.
Her breathing became uneven.
Another pain filled cry filled the corridor.
"NARUTO!" Mirko yelled, electricity spreading across her body, enhancing her already impressive speed.
The dim lighting of the corridors started to become brighter as Mirko reached the end of the tunnel.
Meanwhile…
Lilith was in her study, her hand through a baby book.
Specifically, Charlie's.
Lilith felt a sense of nostalgia as she looked at the photos of her pregnancy.
The first several dozen pages were pictures of her, topless with her belly exposed, from her first week to her fortieth week.
Then a picture of her, all exhausted, breast feeding Charlie with Lucifer in the back, tears in his eyes.
The next was of Lucifer gushing over Charlie's hoof feet, with Lilith showing an entertained, slightly annoyed face.
Next was of Lilith and Lucifer bringing Charlie home for the first time.
Next was Lucifer gifting Razzle and Dazzle to Charlie.
Her first bath.
Her first story, read to Charlie by Lilith.
Her first diaper change, via Lucifer, his face covered in urine and disgust as Charlie laughed.
Lilith smiled as she continued looking through the photo album.
Charlie's first birthday, surrounded by her parents and the Sins.
Charlie's Second Birthday.
Third Birthday.
Fourth.
Fifth… sixth…
Lilith looked away from the book and up at the most recent family portrait.
Charlie was standing with her parents, smiling happily.
'My baby girl…' Lilith thought as she felt her heart ache.
Flashback…
Lilith gently placed her hands on Charlie's face, her face visibly softening.
"I… I just… I don't want you to make a mistake that could cost you so much…" Lilith concluded; her voice so gentle it could have been a whisper.
"I understand, Mom." Charlie said as she put her hands on her mother's hands. "But…"
Lilith's heart sank as Charlie removed her hands from her face.
"I am not a child. I'm an adult. I don't need you to worry so much." Charlie very calmly told her mom, leaving her sarcastic anger behind.
Flashback End…
'My little girl has grown up… so very fast…' Lilith thought as she walked out of her study.
She walked in silence to her husband's study, knocking before opening the door.
"Lily?" Lucifer said in surprise, having not expected his wife to visit.
"Luci, I have a proposal for Charlie that I want to run by you." Lilith said as she approached her husband, sitting in his lap, leaning into his shoulder.
"What is it, dear?" Lucifer asked, putting his work aside to focus on his beloved.
"I want to give Charlie a house of her own."
Meanwhile…
Charlie sneezed, hard, causing her to swerve, nearly hitting an oncoming driver.
"YOU FUCKING BITCH!"
Charlie ignored them.
'Mom…' Charlie thought as she corrected the swerve, getting back into her lane.
Yes, Hell's Princess was still bothered by the conversation she had earlier that day.
Not ignorant to her mother's worry, Charlie was bothered that Lilith didn't think she could… or… SHOULD be allowed to just live her life, mistakes and all.
AND…
Charlie felt embarrassed.
She had stood tall against Seviathan, and felt like she betrayed herself by acting tough.
She faced off against Lilith… and felt embarrassment and shame.
Lilith was her mother.
And as Princess, Charlie should have been more proper and respectful.
Yet…
Charlie gripped the steering wheel.
'It felt… right.' She thought, slowing down to stop at the red light.
The feeling of being on the correct path of adulthood was starting to become clear.
And it would not be achievable if she stayed at her parents' mansion.
Meanwhile…
Gerbil continued to hum 'Tiptoe through the Tulips' as he prepared his lobotomy tools.
'Honestly, it's my favorite part of this process.' Gerbil thought to himself with a giddy smile.
The look on the person's face just before their personality is wiped completely.
The fear of losing themselves forever.
It was such a rush to the tiny demon.
It lit a fire in his loins.
'It's probably why my Master tormented me and the others the way she did.' Gerbil thought just before his happiness was ruined by the thought of his former master.
His right hand touched his eye, pulling down slightly, pulling his eyelid down to expose the flesh under it as his face contorted into an enraged snarl.
'That BITCH…' He thought, his left hand shaking as it balled up into a fist. 'You… you buy me… strip me of my name… my individuality… and…'
His mind went blank as his tiny body shook violently with rage. Staring at the wall for several minutes before he blinked.
'Oops…' he thought, wiping the sweat that formed off of his brow. 'Did it again.'
Just as he was about to take his medical tools, the door in the other room was kicked off of its hinges.
"NARUTO!"
Gerbil's hands dropped the tools, spinning around and pressing his back against the wall as Mirko entered the room, the electricity that covered her body vanishing.
"YOU!"
Gerbil was grabbed by his jacket and hoisted into the air with one hand, his tiny hands grabbing Mirko's, trying to break her grip.
"WHERE IS HE!" Mirko bellows, electricity sparking in her eyes, promising a painful end if Gerbil did not tell her.
"Wh-Who?" He asked, trying to play innocent. "You… attack… no reason…"
Mirko's hand released his jacket, allowing him to slip far enough for her to grab him by the throat.
With a firm grip, Gerbil began to be choked.
"Naruto! Where!"
Mirko squeezed.
*Squeak*
"…"
"…"
"…"
"Did you just…"
Mirko was interrupted when one of Gerbil's feet hit her in the eye.
"YOU LITTLE BASTARD!" Mirko screamed, reeling back to grab her eye, dropping the demon.
Gerbil scrambled away into another room.
'What was I thinking? Making her one of my minions? What stupidity!' Gerbil mentally berated.
He had allowed Mirko this far thinking he could have subdued her with ease…
Look where it got him.
Gasping, he crawled across the room as Mirko recovered from the assault on her eye.
No matter how strong you are, a strike to the eye still fucking hurts.
"I'm going to skin you and make you into my combat attire!" Mirko promised as she was able to see again.
She turned around to see Gerbil at an open chest, rummaging through it.
"THERE YOU ARE!"
Gerbil gasped in fear, having been caught.
"Stop!" he turned, holding what looked like a scientific gun type weapon. "I-I'M WARNIN…"
Gerbil let out a high-pitched squeal when Mirko's foot made itself at home in his face in a straight kick, his back hitting the wall, creating a crater.
The surprise made Gerbil pull the trigger.
Pain shot through Mirko's shoulder as a bullet penetrated her skin… and a bonsai tree sprouted out of her back.
'A gun that shoots tree bullets?' Mirko thought as she staggered back.
Her eyes widened as she felt her magic beginning to drain.
'No… it's…'
"Magic Feasting Tree." Gerbil explained as he got off of the floor, tossing the weapon away due to it being damaged. "They grow in bodies, and use the magic inside the host as a growth accelerant. I originally used this to capture people, but separating the trees from the bodies was a hassle, so I scrapped it."
Mirko grunted as her arm slowly began to emaciate from the magic being drained, the tree on her back starting to grow bigger and heavier.
Biting her lip, Mirko reached over her shoulder with both hands, and gripping the tree, pulled as hard as she could.
"WHAT!" Gerbil screamed as Mirko's flesh began to tear open.
"THE PAIN I'M GOING THROUGH…" Mirko screamed, the tree being pulled further, the roots being exposed through the tears in her bloodied flesh. "IS NOTHING LIKE NARUTO IS GOING THROUGH!"
Gerbil watched in utter horror as Mirko ripped it out, roots and all, and tossed it away, blood and flesh chunks exposing parts of her ribs and shoulder blades.
Mirko nearly passed out.
The exposed nerves were screaming in agony, it was like a cold knife teasing them with its sharp edge.
Gerbil ran into the other room, Mirko sluggishly stumbling after him.
"HEY…" Mirko gasped as Dr. Gerbil grabbed something off of the table. "NARUTO!"
Indeed, Naruto, wearing the eye-opening device, was stuffed into a small cage before Gerbil ran out into the same hallway Mirko came in.
'This bitch is fucking crazy!' He thought, having his hands full with the cage. 'I need to get out of here, but first…'
He put the cage under his arm before reaching into his pocket, grabbing a remote.
He hit the button on it before dropping it.
"GET BACK HERE, YOU FURRY-SHIT!" Mirko hollered, ignoring her pain as she chased him.
Another shrill scream came from the Gerbil as he ran through the halls.
Mirko began closing the gap, arms reaching out… only for a door to open and she ran right into it.
"MOTHER FUCKER!" She screamed as she was sent backwards, her ass on the ground.
She felt the ground shake a few times before she looked up, seeing a giant sinner class demon.
'Oh, fuck.' Mirko thought, not in fear, but in mild sadness as this being was another victim of the demented doctor.
The sinner was tall enough to hit the ceiling.
It was like a patchwork corpse, made of many different kinds of animal sinners.
Gorilla arm.
An arm that was basically a snake body with a hand on it.
Elephant legs.
Crocodile head.
Mirko acted with no hesitation.
She ducked, wove through, and avoided the sinner's attempts to stop her, but it's limited mental capacity (thanks to the Good Doctor) didn't allow it to defend itself properly, and was promptly murdered when Mirko kicked it's head off, the patchwork stitching coming undone.
Mirko landed on her feet before swearing.
'Shit, he made an escape.' She thought in a mild panic before she slapped her cheeks.
She took a deep breath, and focused on her ears once again.
They twitched, trying to find Gerbil's footsteps.
Meanwhile…
'This is what I get for being over-confident.' Gerbil thought as he threw Naruto's cage in the back of a golfcart.
He was in a small garage on the surface, and was currently running around it.
He had the two important things right now.
His life and Naruto.
Gerbil knew he could easily relocate, but he didn't… no, he couldn't leave a trace of his activities at the park, so he was setting up the explosive charges he had placed around the park years prior.
'Alright, that should…' Gerbil jumped when the door was hit, the seem splitting open enough for Mirko to look through.
"Found…" She said in a very creepy, very angry, very tired tone. "You…"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Gerbil screamed out.
It was utterly blood curdling.
He reached into a box and pulled out another gun.
This one was a green-teal blue color with red rings along the barrel.
Very scientific in design, down to the yellow sphere at the tip of the barrel.
Gerbil fired it four times.
Mirko kicked the door, grimacing in pain from her back, but pushed through it enough to grab the door and use it to shield herself from the gun's attack.
The door began to heat up each time it was hit, making Mirko drop it.
'A laser gun?' Mirko thought as she jumped, then rolled across the floor, hissing when her back touched the floor as she took cover behind a nearby trash can. 'How the fuck does this shithead have a laser gun? WHERE did he get one? Star Wars?'
"I'm warning ya…" Gerbil said shakily as he neared his golf cart. "Let me leave…"
"Or else what?" Mirko interrupted, reaching the end of her rope due to the blood going down her back and the strain on her mind to keep herself awake/moving through the pain.
"He dies."
Gerbil pointed the gun at Naruto's cage.
Gerbil was ready to sacrifice even the prize he wanted if it would give him the time to escape.
He didn't want to.
But from how butt-fuck insane Mirko has been trying to get Naruto back, gerbil weighed his options.
Mirko heard the laser gun charge.
She really couldn't tell if Gerbil was bluffing.
"…"
"…"
"… okay…" Mirko announced, reluctance in her tone. "Okay… you can…" She leaned against the trashcan, audibly hissing. "You can leave…"
Gerbil's arm lowered…
Mirko was above him, electricity covering her body.
"AS IF YOU LITTLE SHIT!" She screamed as she grabbed Gerbil's shoulders, her foot forcing the gun into the ground, breaking upon contact as her knee connected with Gerbil's head.
Gerbil screamed… but it glitched out as his head was ripped off.
"What?" Mirko said in confusion, ending her technique again, feeling woozy from using it too much.
Gerbil's neck stump wasn't coated in blood and viscera.
Instead, it was metal, oil, cables, and sparks of electricity from the cables.
"Heh, heh…heh…. Heh…" Gerbil's severed head chuckled. "Too bad…"
A whirring sound faded as it stopped speaking, the light in its eyes vanishing as the body collapsed.
Mirko gasped several times, wobbling to the golf cart.
She collapsed to her knees as she reached out for Naruto.
"Naruto…"
She reached in and pulled him out.
Disturbed by the eye-opening device, Mirko carefully removed it, allowing Naruto's eyes to close.
'He must have… must have…' Mirko's body became heavy as the room began to spin. 'Must… have…'
Mirko, clutching Naruto to her chest, collapsed… right into Walter's arms.
The vampire's arms and legs were covered in blood as he held the two teens.
"You did good, Mirko." Walter said as he carefully held her, using his wires to thread her back shut, using a mix of magic and vampiric blood healing to lightly heal her back.
The flesh grew back, but it wasn't a permanent solution.
'Alright,' Walter said as he carried Mirko bridal style as she held Naruto in her hands. 'Let's go home you two…'
He took two steps, only to stop and look down when his foot touched something.
'What is this?' Walter thought as he picked up the device.
Feeling like he should leave the park before messing with it, Walter exited the park, standing one hundred feet away from the park's entrance before pressing the button.
Over a dozen explosions went off simultaneously, making Walter quirk an eyebrow.
'So, this was the little shit's final plan. Blow it up.' Walter thought, tossing the remote into the flames before he used his magic to teleport back to his home.
Specifically, in Naruto's bedroom.
He put Mirko in the bed, pulling the covers up, and over the two teens.
'I'll let them sleep this off for now.' Walter thought as he left the room. 'I need another smoke.'
Walter walked outside, pulling out his lighter just as Charlie arrived.
'Well… fuck.' He thought as Charlie, Razzle, and Dazzle got out.
?...
"Well, it seems like it was a good idea to use the robot." The familiar voice od Dr Gerbil said with bits of disappointment. "I really wanted the fox. But I'll let it go. He is too much trouble."
Dr. Gerbil turned to his computer, revealing his left eye was pure white, with faint scarring above and below it.
"I can always try someone else." He cackled.
Chapter 9, DONE!
Welp, that's fucking ominous.
I had a lot of fun. I hope it shows.
For those who expected Naruto to be brainwashed and fight Mirko… yeah, that would probably have been a better option, but with how little time had passed since Naruto started to be brainwashed to the moment he is saved wasn't very long.
Naruto didn't do much this chapter, but that is fine. I wanted to focus on Mirko. Also, her Lightning Armor technique: It amplifies her speed and strength, but currently isn't mastered, so having turned it off and on… 3-4 times in one day left her very tired.
Lilith and Lucifer talking about Charlie and what is a good course of action, with Lilith suggesting giving Charlie her own place to live.
And now it is revealed the Dr. Gerbil they had been fighting was a robot, while the REAL Gerbil is elsewhere.
Don't worry, He is not coming back anytime soon. I had a lot of fun writing Gerbil, so I wanted a way to bring him back should I get an idea for him. Sorry if you hated this chapter.
If you enjoyed the chapter, leave a review, even if you hated it because it helps me become a better author.
