Dean is shown to be in front of a door of some sort, in his demonic appearance, with flowers in his hands, as he sees the name, Stolas, hung on the patient room door. Dean is now inside of St. An's Hospital again, and this time, he is here to check on how Stolas. For some odd reason, Blitzø refuses to come and see how he is, and right now, Dean is going to be there to see how Stolas is holding up. He took a deep breath, before he then goes and knocks onto the door, and after a bit, a voice spoke out from the other side.
"Come in."
Dean then grabs on the door handle and goes inside of the room, and he looks to see Stolas on the bed, bandages all over his torso and shoulders. Dean looks at him and spoke out.
"Hey, Stolas. You doing good?"
Stolas looked surprised that Dean is here, but is nonetheless happy that he has arrived to see him, mainly because of how he has made his own daughter happy, especially involving Azathoth's Tears. He nodded his head as he spoke out to Dean.
"Oh, Dean. I am good for now, although it is still painful everywhere. But...I should be okay by next day to be able to leave. I did not expect for you to arrive in my room."
Dean looks and spoke out to Stolas.
"Octavia's been worried sick of what happened to you. I can't even tell you how freaked out she was when I mentioned you were at the hospital. So she wanted me to come to you and check on you."
Stolas sighed happily, knowing that his own daughter is worried so sick about him, as he spoke out to him.
"Is...is Octavia also alright?"
Dean nodded his head, as he replaces the death flowers with the ones that he held in his hand, as he spoke out.
"Yeah, she's okay. She's currently worried for you back home. Of course...uh...she also knows of Striker because of me, admittedly. Has Blitzø visit you at all?"
Stolas looked down and deflated a bit, as he spoke out to him.
"No...he hasn't visit me since yesterday. I do not know why he won't visit me."
Dean looked sad at him for a bit, as he spoke out to him.
"Oh. Sorry about that, shouldn't have brought it up."
But Stolas waved this off, as he spoke out to .
"No, it is fine. Besides, I am just glad that someone cares enough to see me."
Dean nodded his head, as he then spoke out to Stolas.
"If you don't me asking and you...don't have to answer...why'd Striker even try to kill you, anyway?"
Stolas sighed, as he spoke out to Dean.
"Stella, that witch was the one who sent Striker in the first place."
This made Dean blink his eyes, as he spoke out to Stolas.
"Your now ex-wife? Yikes. And Octavia she...oh nuts...how will she even handle that?"
Stolas looks at Dean with a sad look in his eyes, as he spoke out.
"It is probably...best she does not know. And...Dean...there is something you should know."
Dean looks at Stolas, a curious look in his eyes, as he then spoke out to him.
"Dean I...I have met Cain, the first murderer."
This made Dean blink his eyes, as he can only utter one word out of his mouth.
"What?"
Stolas nodded his head, as he then began to explain to Dean what had happened that allowed him to meet Cain.
"He...Cain had somehow came out of nowhere and to rescue me. He went to Striker and broke his body badly, in ways that I never thought was possible. But...he only saved me because he needed me for something...and even mention you having use as well."
Dean blinked his eyes, as he did not expect for Cain to know who he is. Dean then spoke out to Stolas with curiosity in his voice.
"How'd you even know that it is Cain?"
Stolas then looks up at Dean, as he spoke out an answer to him.
"He...he had a mark on his head, the same one you have."
This made Dean blink in surprise. The same mark on his forehead? He touched it...and he looked down, as he then realized that...the cloaked figure from the night before.
"Wait...I think I may have met him, nights ago. He...he gave me the same mark while he was wearing a cloak of some sort. He...he gave this to me because he thought it would be useful for me in the future."
Stolas looks surprised that Dean had also met him, but Dean decided to change the subject back to the conversation that Stolas had with Cain.
"Anyway...what did...what did Cain want from you, if he has told you?"
Stolas shook his head when he said that, as he spoke out to him.
"He...he did not mention why. He just needed me for something else. I do not know what else to say."
Dean looks down to the ground, and he spoke out.
"Oh..."
Dean then crossed his arms at what Stolas said, as he then took a deep breath and spoke out to him.
"Stolas...I...I also wanted to say that I..I'm sorry, for not being there to help you. Should have went to you sooner instead of staying behind."
Stolas looks at Dean and shook his head, as he then spoke out to him.
"No, Dean. You should not apologize to me, since you were only looking out for someone, like Blitzy was."
Dean shook his head, as he then spoke out to him.
"Stolas, what I did should not be an excuse. Loona was not in danger...you were. It is never an excuse when another's life is in danger."
Stolas looked down at his own lap, as he spoke out to him.
"Perhaps...even so, I do not blame you for what happened, nor do I consider you responsible."
Dean closed his eyes, as he breathed a little bit to himself, as he is a little bit happy that he got this out of his chest, and Stolas closed his eyes, as he recalled one moment when Striker attacked him, and he remembered...what Striker said, about Octavia. He could not bear to lose her. He refuses to let Striker kill her. He needs someone too...Stolas looks up at Dean and spoke out to him with an expression of begging in his eyes.
"Dean...can...can you do...me a favor?"
Dean looks at Stolas and nodded his head, as he spoke out to him.
"Yeah...what is the favor?"
Stopas closed his eyes, and spoke out to him.
"If...if anything were to happen to me...can...can you make sure that my daughter is protected? Make sure that she is safe and not in danger?"
Dean blinked his eyes, unsure if he can do this...but...he obliged and nodded his head, as he spoke out to him.
"I'll do whatever I can, Stolas. I'm a man that does what he can to keep his word."
Stolas looks at Dean and smiled a bit at him, relived at what Dean said, as he spoke out.
"Thank you...it means a lot to me."
Dean nodded his head, as he then looks at his phone, and saw that he is needed back by Loona. He sighed, as he spoke out to him.
"Ah great. Hey, Stolas...I'm needed back for something at I.M.P. Do you mind if I leave?"
Stolas blinked at this, and nodded his head, as he spoke out in an understanding tone.
"Of course, go ahead, and...Dean..."
Dean stopped, just as he was about to walk out of the door, as he turns to Stolas, who then spoke out to him.
"Please...do not have Octavia see me like this, okay?"
Dean blinked his eyes, and sighed unhappily, as he spoke out.
"Alright. Just hopes she does not get too worried. Bye Stolas."
Dean waved goodbye, as Stolas waved goodbye, and Dean closed the door, Stolas sighed, as he lays back down onto the bed, before he closed his eyes and thought for Octavia. He dares not know what will Striker do if he gets his hands on his daughter. But he knows that he will not forgive himself if Octavia is possibly killed by an imp that hates Goetia so much. But now...he will not let this happen. He will do whatever it takes, to protect her, and will even entrust Dean for this act. He knows that Dean...he will not fail this. He has faith in him.
Dean sighed, as he then waved his hand and makes a portal in front of him and went through it, as Dean is now at the IMP main building, and he sees Moxxie and Millie, who has a torn white shirt that exposes his midriff, but for some reason the midriff is glowing a light blue color and has what seems to be water inside of it, has webbed hands, jeans that has a torn hole on the left leg, seaweed-like hair, and green eyes, and finally grey skin, although it turns back at the elbow and hands. At the same time that Dean had appeared, Blitzø also appeared as he bursts open the door, now covered in bush leaves, bruises, and dirt all over his clothes and body, walks pass the three of them in a dejected manner. Moxxie calls to him to get his attention.]
"Sir! There's a client here who wants to-"
Blitzø, however, doesn't listen and interrupts Moxxie as he opens the door to his office and slams it shut. Moxxie and Millie stare in confusion before turning back to the client, and chuckled nervously, as he spoke out.
"Hehehehehehehe...I'm sorry, you were saying?"
The demon client, looking like a counselors in a way, due to the outfit that he is wearing, shrugged his shoulders as he spoke out in confusion towards the 2 imps.
"Well, it's just that I'm sure one of the other camp counselors killed me, I'm just not sure which one..."
Moxxie, looking at the sinner demon before his eyes, spoke out to him.
"How could you not know?"
The demon then began to make some gestures with his hands, first pointing down with both hands, before he did a twirl with his 2 fingers before he did a stop gesture, as he explained himself.
"I was out on the lake when my boat started to sink. Someone had drilled holes in it. The counselors are the only ones with keys to the boathouse, and they're the only ones who knew I couldn't swim. It had to be them."
While Millie was delightfully smiling, Moxxie had a questionable look on his face about that work, as he places a finger below his chin, before he gesture his thumb at where Blitzø is at.
"Hmm, we don't typically do investigations. I'll have to check with the boss."
Moxxie goes into Blitzø's office in order to talk to him, and while that happened, Dean made a piece of paper, an address to the Hazbin Hotel, as he then slipped it into the pocket of the counselor's jeans without him noticing, as he teleports away, and luckily Millie did not notice. Dean, as he teleported away from the sinner demon, felt a pair of arms wrapped around Dean's body, and he looks to see that Loona is behind him, nuzzling her head against Dean's own head. Of course, Blitzø became aware of the relationship and even tried to step in, but Loona always kicks and pushes Blitzø away before he even had a chance to step in, and clearly doesn't approve. But Dean and Loona don't care, and just do what they do best. Of course, Moxxie and Millie also noticed due to them seeing the both of them going inside of the van, but Moxxie said nothing while Millie, she looks like she is cheering for them both to do this. So...their relationship ain't secret anymore.
"Hey babe, you doing good?"
Dean nodded his head, as he spoke out.
"Yeah, I'm good. Just had to visit Stolas because Octavia had gotten insanely worried sick for him due to what I explained to her."
Loona nodded her head, as she spoke out to him.
"Oh, well...you told Octavia that he's still alright?"
Dean shook his head, as he spoke out to Loona.
"No, not yet. I plan to soon. After all, that guy's the only parent Octavia cared about."
Loona nodded her head, as she continues to lick Dean's face. As that happened, Moxxie quickly blitzed out of the office, as he then spoke out, his expression of both fear, due to whatever it is that happened inside of Blitzø's office, and excitement due to something else, as he spoke out and jabs his thumb at himself.
"We'll take the case! And I'll be handling this investigation, personally."
Millie looks on at Moxxie with concern and hesitation of her husband, as she spoke out to him while gesturing at Blitzø's office.
"Honey, are you sure? What about Blitzø?"
Moxxie looks at Millie and postures himself, as he spoke out to his wife.
"Honey, honey, please. Blitzø put me in charge this time."
Millie looked in disbelief, as she spoke out to him in shock at this.
"He did?!"
Moxxie heard the disbelief coming from his wife and narrows his eyes as he looked back to her skeptically. Millie realized her mistake and then corrects her attitude to make her husband feel better, as she points on a face tone of excitement to hide her disbelief.
"Oh! I mean, He... he did!"
Moxxie, feeling satisfied for this, then swipes his hand across, then puts his fist down, before pointing at the demon client.
"Right! And this is going to be the cleanest, most well-prepped, most surgical hit we've ever had! Don't worry, sir! We'll find your killer and give him what's coming to him. And/or her...Or they... "
Moxxie had second thoughts of who the targeted killer might be and thinks for a while before he corrects himself, while he oints back at the client, as Dean chuckled a bit, as he shook his head and spoke out to him.
"Wait to go at failing drama, Moxxie. Hehehehehehehe."
Moxxie looked a bit embarrassed at this, as Loona also chuckled a bit at this, before she simply whispered to herself.
"Fatso."
As she said that, blue smoke entered the building, as the blue smoke looks at Dean with its 2 pairs of green eyes, and Dean realizes that Astarte's back, as Loona spoke out to him.
"Also...babe...too be honest, I didn't come here just simply so I can do all of this. Too be honest...some weird demon just appeared and requested that he sees you."
Dean blinked his eyes for a little bit, as he then looked up a little bit and began to think of the only demon that knows of him.
'Cain.'
Dean thought, as Loki appeared and spoke out to him.
"Guess we are gonna finally meet him, huh?"
Dean closed his eyes, and spoke out.
"Where is he?"
Loona gestures her hand outside, as she spoke out to him.
"He's outside. C'mon."
She took Dean by the hand and dragged him to wherever the demon is at. As that happened, Astarte began to follow the couple, as Dean sighed and looks onward, realizing that Astarte is going to follow them, as Dean and Loona continue to go outside in order to meet whoever it is, although Dean has an idea on who it will be."
Loona and Dean stepped outside, as Loona and Dean turn to the side of the building, with Dean a little bit nervous, with Loki looking a bit uneasy, as they looked at the demon that is here. Sure enough, Cain is there, present, having his arms crossed and waiting patiently, as he leaned his back against the wall. Noticing the both of them, Cain steps forward and stands up straight, as he spoke out to him.
"I have been waiting for, Dean."
Dean looks at him and narrowed his eyes, as he spoke out.
"So...you must be Cain. Stolas told me it was you when I was that hospital."
Loona blinked her eyes, as Cain spoke out to him.
"Guilty as charged, Dean. I see that the mark I gave you proved useful for you in the situations you were in."
Dean narrowed his eyes, as Loona spoke out.
"Wait, babe, you know this guy?"
Dean nodded his head, as he spoke out to Loona.
"Yeah, I do. I read about his stories. This guy's the very first murderer to exist, as well as the firstborn son of the first man himself. And somehow, he took an interest in me and gave me a mark like the one he has."
Loona blinked a bit, as Cain spoke out.
"Only for a much important business that I feel is important...and I can see Loki is with you."
Loki blinked, not expecting such a powerful demon like himself to be able to see him...but then remembered the first time that they have met Striker and fought against him. Dean, deciding to get to the point, spoke out to him, wanting to know why he had decided to call him right now.
"Well, aside from that. So...uh, mind telling me why you decided to find me and talk to me right now?"
Cain looks at Dean on the eyes, as he spoke out to him.
"It is a small favor that I want from you, and it is something that can be of use for you."
Dean looks at Cain, a little unsure if he can be trusted, but he decided to simply just go along with it, as he then spoke out to him.
"What is this...favor you want from me?"
Cain looks at Dean in the eyes, and spoke out just a single answer.
"It is to make more of the other demons, into more like what you are right now."
This made Dean confused, which made him tilt his head at the side, as Loona looks at Cain and spoke out to him.
"Woah, hold up. What do you mean make my babe have him turn other demons into whatever he has become right now?"
Cain looks at Loona and then at Dean, who looks confused, as he spoke out to him.
"Well...it is simple. Dean is now no longer just your usual run of the kill Demons that you see everyday. He's a special class of a demons, called a Hell Knight."
Dean tilt his head to the side, as he spoke out to him.
"Hell Knight?"
Cain, almost instantly, began to speak out and explain to Dean.
"A class of demons that I made. You know of the exorcists from Heaven? Well, these are my answers to the Exorcists in order to fight them. They are special, due to the fact that they are the only demons that are capable of killing the angels, and as such, are useful when the exorcists go too far. Which is why, I want you to make some more knights of my own."
This made Dean confused, as he then spoke out.
"Wait a minute...can't you do that yourself? I mean, you transferred the mark to me, why should I do that, if you don't mind me asking?"
Dean felt confused at Cain, because Cain, he is able to give him the mark, and he should be able to do the same to the other types of demons. So why give it to him to take the responsibility to make more demons into other Hell Knights? Well, Cain then decides to take the chance to answer to him.
"Well, one of the reasons is admittedly...complicated, and it is not the right time to talk about it. But the other reason why, I can mention. You see...you know an Overlord is capable of growing in power by gathering souls?"
Dean, having read about this, nodded his head, as Cain then continued to explain.
"Well, the Hell Knights are capable of doing the same. They are able to increase their own power by the amount of people they turned into Hell Knights like us. So, in the case of knights like you and like me, they are able to make themselves stronger, but to a more greeter extent then the Overlords themselves. Although...even that will not be enough to say...make a person strong enough to challenge a sin, no matter what souls you gather. And at the same time, you cannot turn one of the 7 sins into a Hell Knight. They are already too strong for that."
This made Dean surprised, as he then spoke out.
"Wow...I...I did not know that I can do that. But...why tell me this now?"
Cain closed his eyes, as he spoke out.
"Let us say...I have something that is very important that I must do. And there is great need involving that. Of course, you are not going to be targeting demons randomly. No...I will be giving you some demons that have nothing else to do, that have lost a lot of what they had and are on their own. They are demons that have no other purpose left, with only a slight purpose of their own that does not help with the life that they have. It is time that they are given such a purpose of their own."
Dean looked a bit uneasy, not sure what Cain meant by that, and Loona did not as well. Loki and Astarte, who is in her smoke form, looks at one another, and as Astarte looks at Cain, Cain suddenly turned...and is looking at her. This made Astarte shocked, because she is using her power to hide her presence. But she can tell, Cain is able to sense her, as Dean then spoke out.
"So...where do I start?"
Cain looks at Dean, as he spoke out.
"You'll start when I show you where the location of the specific type of demons I want you to turn are at. Of course, you will need to convince some of the demons to come along with you and go with it. So, be prepared for when they become aggressive. But do not attack then or even fight back, just defend and subdue them in a non-painful manner. Attack them, and you will lose a chance to gain a knight, as well as lose a chance at gaining power."
Dean looked surprised at this, and looked a little bit unsure of it, but...he decided to oblige, as he then spoke out.
"Fine. And...what do I do with the Knights? I can't train them even if I want to, and I'm not even sure that I.M.P will even accept more of what we have."
Cain, however, responds back to Dean, still as calm as ever.
"You will not need to. I can take them in to train them and give them a home. After all, I am the only one that knows all of the capabilities of the Mark itself. So do not worry. I will be there to ensure they the Knights are with me."
Dean looked at Cain for a little bit, before he nodded his head, understanding where Cain is coming from, as he spoke out.
"Alright. So...when do I start?"
Cain then opens a portal, and spoke out to him.
"Give me a few moments. I will search for your first demon to turn. This will go on for what I say...a week at best. By the way...you might want to talk to Octavia, to inform of the condition that her father is in right now."
This made Dean blink a little bit, as Cain then vanished into the portal, which closed behind him. Dean and Loona look at each other, as he spoke out.
"Well...that just happened."
Loona nodded her head, as she then spoke out to him.
"So...guess this means you'll go and take in demons Overlord style, huh babe?"
Dean nodded his head, as he puts his hands on his face, before he then spoke out to her.
"Yeah, I guess. Man this never gets old for me, huh?"
He then looks and swung his sword, as he then spoke out.
"Welp, guess I'll go to Octavia. See ya, Loona."
Loona then licked Dean, as she spoke out to him.
"Good luck out there, babe. Also, tell Octavia I said hello."
Dean nodded his head, as he went inside of the portal, and as that happened, Astarte went into the portal as well and it closed, leaving Loona by herself outside.
The portal opens up inside of Stolas' mansion, as Dean steps inside of it. The portal closes, as Astarte also appeared with him in smoke form still. As that happened, the sounds of running was heard, and Dean, before he knew it, was hugged by a pair of arms that came out of complete nowhere. This made Dean surprised, as he looks to see that it is none other then Octavia herself, who is shaking a bit and spoke out.
"Dean, there you are. You had me fucking worried."
This made Dean sigh a little bit as he hugged Octavia, and spoke out to her.
"Sorry about that. Didn't mean to worry you this much."
She looks down at Dean, as she then spoke out.
"Also, is...is my dad okay?"
Dean nodded his head at Octavia, as he spoke out to her.
"Yeah, he'll be fine. He's still rather hurt from the attack that happened, but, he said he should be okay by the time tomorrow comes."
Octavia nodded her head at Dean as she sighed in relief. She felt worried about what was going to happen to her own father in hospital. In fact, she will have no idea what she would do without her own father, especially on how she will live. As that happened, the blue smoke began to form into a miniature twister, as Astarte has now finally appeared yet again in her normal appearance, and this time, both Dean and Octavia took notice of her enough to look at her, as Dean spoke out to Astarte.
"Astarte. There you are. Where were you?"
Astarte sighed a bit and held her face a little bit, as she then spoke out to him.
"Let's just say that I had to deal with something on my end and it...admittedly got a little bit annoying for me. But thankfully, I dealt with it so, no harm done. So...what happened while I was gone, Dean."
Dean looks at Octavia, and she nodded his head, as he then spoke out.
"A whole lot of crazy stuff. Mainly with Stolas having gotten attacked."
This caught a reaction from Astarte, as she then spoke out to him.
"Wait, what? Stolas got attacked?"
Dean nodded his head, as Dean, Octavia, and Astarte then sat on a couch, as Dean spoke out to her.
"Yeah, he got attacked by an imp named Striker, who used holy weapons to subdue him and prevent him from using his powers and tried to kill him. Only reason he got lucky was because someone saved him. Because of this, he is now in hospital trying to recover."
Astarte looked shocked, and for once, she is no longer using her usual flirty tone. In fact, she looks upset at herself, as she then spoke out to Octavia.
"Shit...sorry Dean, Octavia, should not have left. Should have been there to save Stolas from whatever that this Striker bastard was trying to do."
Dean then spoke out to Astarte about this, as he spoke out on how he feels about it.
"Yeah, well I'm not exactly innocent from this either on my own. So, kind of had some fault in this myself, especially since I knew what I was doing."
Astarte looks a little surprised at Dean, but she looks at him a bit sadly, as Octavia did the same, but she then moved and hugged Dean by the arm and leaned her head against his shoulders and closed her eyes, as she does not want to dare think about her father's possibly frightening experience, as Octavia spoke out.
"I am just...happy that he will come out of this alive. Dean, am...am I able to see him?"
Dean looks at Octavia, and spoke out to him.
"No...he said he does not want to be seen like this to anyone, and I guess he just does not want to make you distressed at what state that he is in right low. But, don't worry, you'll see him again by tomorrow. I promise."
Octavia sighed sadly, as she spoke out to him.
"I hope so. I just...can't bear being without him."
Dean nodded his head in understanding, as he hugs her in return, with Octavia rubbing her head into Dean's chest, clearly worried for her father a lot, as Dean strokes the back of her head to try and ease her worries as much as he can. Although he is still not happy about this happening, at least Octavia is not freaking out by a lot when she heard of what Stolas' condition is right now, as Dean did all that he could to comfort her. After doing all that he can to comfort her, Octavia finally calms down, as she looked up at Dean and spoke out.
"Dean...you...you'll there for me when I fucking need it, will you?"
Dean looks at her and nodded his head, as he spoke out.
"I will."
Octavia smiled a bit in a sad manner, as Dean sighed and spoke out.
"And...you will be okay without him for today, will you?"
Octavia looks down a bit in an unhappy way, as she then spoke out to him.
"I hope I can. This day is just shitty."
Dean sighed and chuckled a bit dryly at this, as he spoke out.
"Yeah, short notice Octavia."
Octavia smiled a bit at this, as Octavia then goes to him and pecked him on the cheek, as she spoke out.
"Just glad someone shares how I see shit like this."
Dean shrugged a bit, as he then made a portal again, as he then spoke out.
"Welp, I should probably get going. Don't want to keep someone on the other side worried. Take good care, Octavia. Oh, and by the way...Loona says hello."
Octavia looks at Dean and nodded her head, as she spoke out.
"You too, Dean. And...tell Loona I said hello back to her."
Dean nodded his head, as Astarte turned into smoke form, and spoke out to her.
"Guess this is goodbye for now, Octavia. And next time around, I'm going to make sure that your father is not about to get killed."
Octavia nodded her head, as Astarte goes into the portal at the same time as Dean, as the portal closed, but not before Dean and Octavia waved at one another to ensure that they still care for one another. No matter how far away they are to one another, Dean is always there to make sure that Octavia still has someone that cares a great deal about her."
Dean and Astarte went out of the portal, which closed behind the both of them, as Dean looks around and sees Loona nowhere in sight. Guess she decided to come back inside of the building when he had left, as Dean then spoke out.
"You know, I kind of find it a rather convenient time for you to come back, Astarte, especially since you had left since yesterday."
Astarte changed back to her normal form, as she shrugged her shoulders for a little bit, as she then spoke out.
"Well, I can't argue with that. Besides, it ain't often that I had to do this type of thing unless it's somewhat of an important thing for me to do."
Dean shrugged a bit at what she said, as he then spoke out.
"Well, can't argue with that."
As Dean spoke out, Astarte then goes to him and hugs Dean by the arm, as she spoke out.
"Still, shouldn't have left, Dean, especially with how much of bad timing it was for me to do so. One of your buddies was in danger and I was not there to help out. Next time, I am not leaving like this again, unless your buddy is safe and out of harm's way. The last thing that I want is for you to have someone you care for killed."
Dean looks down and nodded his head, as he then spoke out.
"Well, least someone has my back in a way."
Astarte nodded and smiled a bit at Dean, as she then hugged Dean close to herself as much as she can, and Astarte closed her eyes in content, clearly a little bit happy that she gets to be in Dean's presence yet again, which must have been a lot of hell for her to not be with him, almost like she had never once wanted to leave him like that, only deciding to do so because of the fact that she had something important to do, whatever it is that she saw as important. Her tails waved a little bit, as she cannot keep herself contained in how much that she wants him. However, all of a sudden, a portal had opened out of complete nowhere, and Astarte, not entirely sure who it is, changed into a mass of blue smoke, as she flies around for a little bit, before she looked and realized that it is none other than Cain himself who has come back and now is deciding to talk to Dean about the knights that he can now find.
"Hello, Dean. I got your first batch of demons that you are now ready to find."
Dean, looking a little bit surprised at this, spoke out to him.
"Oh, that was fast. So...what am I finding?"
Cain then looks at Dean and spoke out to him.
"You are finding an Imp, a Hellhound, and a Baphomet that is somewhere in the Pride Ring. And all of them are somewhere in different parts of Imp City. Will you be able to find them?"
Dean looks at Cain and spoke out to him.
"Well...what do they look like?"
Cain looks at Dean in the eyes, as he held his hand out and touched his forehead, in order to show him an image of what his targets will look like. One of them was a tall Imp with long white hair, the other was a Hellhound that resembles a Golden Retriever, and the other was a Baphomet that has red fur and orange eyes, as well as possessing an orange candle flame on his candle-horn. Cain retracts his hand as soon as he is done with this, as Dean held his head, as he then spoke out to himself at this, clearly not expecting that.
"Woah, not what I thought was possible but...whatever. I guess I should be able to find them. Just hope I am able to sense them, if I can."
Cain nodded his head, as he spoke out to him.
"Well, best not waste any time, then. I suggest you get moving. After all, this is power that you will need when the time arrives. And you do not want to stay down like this forever. And after these, there is some more that I will show you. I just hope that you are able to do this."
Dean looks at Cain and nodded his head, as he then spreads his wings and took off, flying into the air, as Astarte then flies up as well in order to chase out after Dean, if it at least gives her a way to hang out with him more. He flies in as fast as he can, in order to search around the city so that he can find them, give them the mark, and finally be done with it. He just hopes that he can finally rest for a bit before he can have the chance to hang out with either Loona or Astarte, or even hang out with Octavia, if he even has a chance. As he continues to fly, he then looks down and notices something, or rather...senses something in the way that he can say it. After sensing that, Dean went down and goes to the ground, as he spreads his wings gently and softly landed, not wanting to crash down and give himself unwanted attention. As that happened, Dean looked around and began to search for the first target, as he looks around to find where they are, which ever that one is. As he looked around, Astarte goes next to Dean and spoke out to him.
"Dean, that guy...whoever that is..."
Dean looks at her and spoke out to Astarte.
"That guy's name is Cain..."
Astarte looks at Dean and spoke out to him.
"That guy...Cain...this guy just seems too fucking mysterious. He's holding back a lot of info, for whatever reason it is. Like, how do we know that he is not gonna make you fall into a fucking trap?"
Dean shrugged his shoulders, and even he has no idea if he can be believed as such or not. But he is going to play long for now, at least. He continued moving inside of the alleyway, and as he did so, he then sensed something. He looked behind him and saw a red blur about to jump onto him. But Dean turned around and used telekinesis to hold whatever the red blur is in place, so that it does not try and attack him. He looked and saw that it is one of the targets that he is looking for, an imp with long white hair, and is wearing some hobo-clothing, wearing a trenchcoat and pants with holes on both of the clothing, but no shirt, and has a pair of red bat-like wings. He also seems to be barefoot, and his foot almost looks like it is covered in scratches. Dean, seeing this, stepped back, as the imp spoke out.
"You fucking imbecile, what the hell do you think you are doing?! Put me the fuck down!"
Dean looks at the imp, and spoke out.
"Why should I? You were going to attack me. Do you think I am just going to let you do this too me like that? Not a chance."
The imp looks at him, as Dean narrowed his eyes, as his eyes began to 'glow' darkness from them. The imp looks in fear, as he sees that he is facing a being of magnitude that is far beyond his own strength. After seeing this, and seeing that he could get killed, he stopped struggling and stops, as he spoke out.
"Alright, I'll stop. Just...just put me down, okay?"
Dean looks with narrowed eyes, but he obliged, as he then lowered his hand and the imp was lowered down as well. Dean stepped back, as Dean then spoke out to the imp.
"Straight up unnecessary to straight up attack someone like that out of the blue, especially since you have no idea what they'll do to you."
This made the imp look down a bit at the ground, as he spoke out.
"Ugh, shit, how right you can be. Sorry about that. Life involving me was just shit. Now I'm all by myself homeless and being forced to attack and fight back against a lot of stuff, can't even tell if there is even a friendly face here."
Dean simoly shrugged his shoulders, as he then responds back to the Imp, as he then spoke out.
"Well, Hell is not exactly a place for friendly faces, you know."
The imp shrugged his shoulders, and simply spoke out to him.
"Touche..."
Dean nodded his head, as he spoke out.
"But...you know...you do have something that someone I know of wants from you."
This made the imp confused, as he looked up at Dean and spoke out.
"Watch ya mean, pal?"
Dean looks down at the imp, as he spoke out.
"Well, I have something that might help with what you have, might even gain a new home in the process, and you'' have something that won't make you hurt the way you are again. And that is...of course, if you are willing to take it."
Dean holds out his hand at the imp, and the imp looked confused at Dean, as he spoke out to him.
"How d I know this ain't a trick to fucking kill me?"
Dean shrugged his shoulders, as he spoke out to him.
"Don't really know how to trick people. Plus, I'm just ordered by somebody to do so. He seems to want me to help you with something even though he has no reason to. So...will you take it?"
The imp looks down at the hand at first, a little bit conflicted a little bit of whether to trust Dean or not. After a little bit, he then spoke out.
"You know what, why the fuck not?"
The imp grabbed Dean's hand, and then, all of a sudden, red veins began to appear on Dean's arm, as it began to travel to the imp's arm, before it then goes up to the forehead, which made the same marking on Dean's head appear. The marking glowed for a tiny bit, before it then stopped doing so, now having appeared on the imp's head. As that happened, Dean felt his power increase just a tiny bit, as the imp then glowed red and is teleported elsewhere, and Cain's spoke out inside of Dean's mind.
"Perfect, that's the first one. Now for the second one, the Hellhound. This one is a bit friendlier than the imp, and well...she would probably be swayed to your side by snacks. Tell me, can you conjure snacks?"
Dea looks at his hand and snapped his fingers, and a chocolate bar appeared into his hand. Cain, noticing this, hummed a little bit, as he spoke out.
"Hm, that would work. Now go and find the Hellhound."
Dean, after hearing that, then flies up into the air and goes around to another part of Imp City, where he is drawn to something, before he then fell down to the ground and landed gently yet again. Dean then looks around, as he goes in to find the Hellhound that Cain wants from him. It is sort of confusing for Dean as to why Cain wants him to use the demons from the bottom part of the hierarchy as starters, although this is probably to be used as an easy way for him to act as a bit of a tutorial for him to get used to this type of power. As he continues to look around for the Hellhound, he then heard the sounds of whimpering and licking. This made Dean look up, and he cannot see anything in the dark part of the dead end that he sees before his eyes. He then held the chocolate bar up, and...he does not know if the chocolate bar even possesses a smell of some sort, he hopes it does, otherwise getting her out would be difficult for him, if he wants to turn the Hellhound into a Hell Knight. But as he held the chocolate bar in his hand, all of a sudden, he hears the sound of sniffing, and he looks to see that it is the one that it is the one that he is looking for, inside of the dark part of the dead-end. It is that Golden Retriever-like Hellhound, the Hellhound was almost as beautiful as Loona and wears a red shirt that is torn all over, a pink coat covers over the shirt and she wears blue pants that have holes in the knees. And oddly, the Hellhound looks like a 12-year old. She continued to sniff in the air, and she notices Dean holding a chocolate bar in his hand. The Hellhound looks at it, and spoke out.
"C-Can I...I have it?"
Dean nodded his head, as he spoke out.
"Umm...sure...and I think I can give you something alongside it, if you want it."
The Hellhound did not need to have another say twice, as it took the chocolate out of the hands of Dean, but a second before it did, the same red vein markings glowed and appeared on Dean's hand, as it passed onto the Hellhound's hand, due to one of her fingers touching Dean's hand, and she took the chocolate and ate it as she gained the Mark of Cain onto her forehead. Just like with the Imp, the Hellhound glowed a little bit and vanished, as Dean looks to see that the Hellhound was gone. Dean blinked a little bit, at the sight, as he saw this case is a lot easier than expected, but he does not complain, especially since the Hellhound is just a young kid. So...basically the kid fell for the bait much more easily then expected. Dean also felt his power increase again, slightly greater compared to the Imp, but it is still a small increase in powee still. Cain, when he took notice of this, also took note of how easy it was that Dean had done it, as he then spoke out to him.
"Huh, not in the way that I expected to be so easy, but I guess that will work as well. Now the last one, the Baphomet. This one is different from the rest of his kin, being much smarter than the usual ones you met at the Sloth Ring and is not that lazy and terrible with his memories, although he is also somewhat naive in a way, being way too trusting to an extent, and even possesses a mild form of kelptomania. But this is also why you should be able to sway him to your side. So go out there and take him."
Dean heard this and nodded his head, as he flies up into the air once again in order to try and find the Baphomet, as he goes around to another part of the City. After a little bit of flying, he then sensed the Baphomet, which he has no idea how he is able to do this, although he thinks Cain may have had something to do with that, as he then flies down and lands to the ground, in which he looks to see and look around where he is at. It is a little bit confusing for Dean, because this time, he is now in an open part of the city, which looks mostly empty to an extent, although Dean can tell that he is not alone, as he can sense the Baphomet somewhere inside of this place, he just needs to know how to lure him out. However, as he began to walk around, he accidentally kicked a can, which made a loud clattering sound of some sort. When he did this, it caught the attention of the Baphomet, who then spoke out.
"Huh, a new friend?"
This made Dean stop and looked around, and sure enough, he sees the Baphomet, that is red with orange eyes, fingers, and hooves, as well as having orange fire on the candle horn on the head and seems to be wearing a black coat of some sort with grey pants, as well as having wing on the back, as Dean spoke out to him.
"Oh...uh, hello?"
The Baphomet seems to be at a similar age compared to Dean, being 19 years old, as he goes to Dean's face with what seems to be an excited expression on his face and spoke out.
"A new friend? This is nice! Oh, do you have something shiny?"
Dean looked and blinked a bit in surprise, as he made a shiny pearl appear in his hand, as he spoke out.
"Well, I do, and I think I have something else for you to have, if you can take it."
This made the Baphomet curious about what it is that Dean has, as he spoke out.
"Well, you know what, sure! I'll gladly take it!"
The Baphomet took Dean's hand and grabbed the pearl, but as he did, the Mark of Cain's powers had activated once again, as the Mark began to travel in the 2 arms again, coming from Dean's arm first, and then to the Baphomet's arm, as it then goes onto the Baphomet's forehead, which then caused the Mark of Cain to appear on the forehead of the demon itself. As it gripped onto the pearl as tightly as it could, the Baphomet soon began to glow red, which made Dean cover his eyes a little bit, as it soon vanished to wherever else it went. After a little bit, Dean opened his eyes, and he looks around to see the Baphomet is gone, as Astarte looks at the sight before her eyes, as she then spoke out to herself.
"Where did the demons even go to?"
As soon as she said that, Cain then spoke inside of Dean's mind yet again.
"Do not worry, I simply brought them to my place. And I can already feel it, your power growing from the 3 demons that you have turn from what you used with my mark. I shall now give them what they want, and now they will work for me in return from this."
Dean looked and felt a bit unsure of the demons that he has given to Cain will be fine, but he honestly hopes that they will be fine in this, as Cain then spoke out one more thing to Dean.
"Now that we are done with the beginning demons for you, it is time to move on to the other ones for the rest of the week, and this time, it will be more than what I have given to you. And I can promise you, Dean, the amount of power that you will gain will be worth it. For now, best go back to I.M.P and rest there."
Dean looks and nods his head, as he then decided to walk away, as Astarte changed back to her normal form. Astarte now has a worried look on her face, as she spoke out to Dean.
"Will you be alright now, Dean?"
Dean nodded his head, as he then spoke out.
"Yeah, at least, I hope so. Man, this sucks that I will have to do this for the rest of the week. Don't even want to keep Loona waiting like this for too long for me."
Astarte looks at Dean and a small smile appeared onto her face, as she then spoke out to him.
"Well, you won't have to worry. I can help you deal with that by making her emotions feel calm. After all, we would not want your girlfriend to start getting rowdy in the end, would we?"
Dean looks at her, and Astarte has a flirtatious smile present onto her face, as she then poked his nose and spoke out to him.
"And besides, the last thing that I want is for someone to ruin that cute face of yours. I would prefer it to still be cute before my own eyes."
Dean looked embarrassed at this, as he puts his hands onto his face due to what it was that Astarte had said to him. As that happened, Astarte then began to drag Dean by the hood, as she grabbed onto it, pulling Dean to the direction of I.M.P. As that happened, many of the demons now took notice of her, and all of them are now attracted to her in such a way, some of the demons even began to drool like dogs at wanting to get into her skirt. One of the demons even attempted to pounce onto her from behind. However, Astarte sensed them and made a dome of indigo fire that surrounded both herself and Dean, burning the demon to a crisp and knocking him back, as well as making him double over in pain. Although Astarte knows that she will be dragging Dean to I.M.P and that she will have to be hidden once again from everyone, this time she now just simply wants to enjoy this single walk with Dean in her presence, who she is attracted to immensely, and she cannot help but like him in, and as for Dean, he just hopes that Loona will be able to hold out for long enough to be able to bear with how long Dean will be busy in. Loki then appeared beside Dean, as he spoke out to him.
"This is gonna be a long time for us, huh?"
Dean looks at Loki and nodded his head, as he spoke out in a grumbled and frustrated way.
"Yeah, definitely. Don't even like having to be separated from Loona in a way such as that. This better be worth it."
Welp...a week has passed since both Moxxie, Millie, and Blitzø are gone. Somehow the hit is taking far longer than expected. Dean kind of expected for the hit to last sometime in a day, but for them to be gone for about a week is just...strange. Still, Dean does not mind this a single bit and simply goes with what Cain wants from Dean in this sort of thing, although he is certainly still unhappy with the fact that he will have to be away from Loona multiple times during the week, and even Loona is a bit upset with that on her own. even though she gets to enjoy doing all of her usual stuff on phone and even sleep elsewhere whenever she wants. Luckily, Astarte is able to make Loona calmer with her powers and get her to not wreck any stuff and not throw a tantrum of some sorts while Dean does what Cain wants him to do.
Luckily, on another thing, Stolas was able to recover completely on the second day, and is now back at his home with Octavia, who has happy to see him. OCtavia had been worried sick and even today, she is now exceedingly of her father being attacked and killed again. Nonetheless, he is now gonna try all that he can to be careful from now on, especially since Stella is now going to use Striker to come after him, and Andrealphus is to. He has no idea what they will do, but even so, he is going to try all that he can to be there for his daughter.
And with Dean himself, he is now getting more and more demons to become Hell Knights by the passing week, and now he is getting stronger through every demon he gets for Cain. He later goes to find 15 or 20 demons a week, and this time, he is not just doing the low-class demons and is now doing some of the higher-class demons in the hierarchy, such as incubus and sinners, with sinners able to give him a greater increase in power than the other demons below them. And of course, Astarte is constantly being with him on this one, watching over him and making sure that Dean is okay and had nothing bad happen to him on the fly while he is getting more and more demons for Cain. Most of the demons were tough customers and some of them were easier to deal with. And right now, Dean is on the last demon of the week, a sinner that is humanoid in face and appearance, but has pale skin, blue eyes with green sclera and has jaguar traits, such as feet, tail, and ears. As Dean finished with the last demon, the demon glowed red and vanished, as he is sent to wherever Cain is. Dean wiped his forehead a little bit, relieved that he finally got the last demon, and he thinks he got over a hundred of them in just a week, with Astarte, in smoke form, taking notice of this now, as Cain spoke out to Dean.
"Alright, that should be all of them...for now. You will do this again some other time, but that should be enough for you, Dean. Good job on getting this much."
Dean nodded his head, but he closes his eyes still at this entire week of getting this many demons in a single week, as Cain spoke out to him.
"Look, Dean...I know you do not like this and admittedly, I do not as well. I would have preferred to stay out of your life. But right now, you need this for what is yet to come. It may not be pleasant to try and find demons for yourself to gain for me, but it is vital to you in the challenges ahead. Plus, I can already feel that your power has increased greatly, and even some new powers that you have gained. This will be enough for you, Dean. For now...enjoy your break."
Dean closed his eyes and sighed a bit, as he then used his powers to teleport back to I.M.P, with Astarte following suit, and as that happened, Loona looks at Dean, who then went back to his usual human appearance, as he then spoke out loud.
"Alright, I'm finally done."
Loona, hearing this, grabbed Dean by the hood and pulled him, as he spoke out to him.
"About fucking time, babe. I was almost about to fucking lose my mind because you are constantly gone all because of that asshole needing you busy with some shit."
Dean nodded his head, as he spoke out to her.
"You said it. Now I can get the time to enjoy my moments with you for once."
Loona nodded her head, as she pinned Dean to the counter and began to lick and kiss and make love bites onto Dean's face, as her tail wagged into a blur of some sort, with Loona smiling that she can now have some enjoyable moments with Dean. Loki looks at this, appearing next to Dean and smiling at the sight of what is going on with him as he chuckled a little bit at this, as he spoke out.
"Seems like you have a lot of love time to make up for Loona, Dean."
Dean looked annoyed at what Loki said, but he did not shout out at him, obviously not wanting to distress Loona badly, and instead just remains silent. As that happened, Dean and Loona hear the Grimoire portal open up, and they looked at the location of the portal, which is now beside them. As that happened, Moxxie, Millie, and Blitzø came out...with Moxxie oddly wearing female clothing right now, which is very weird in the way that Dean sees it. As that happened, Blitzø just straight up ignored everyone else and just went straight into the office, while also being covered in human blood. Guess I.M.P was finally able to get their target after all. Dean looks at Moxxie and Millie, with Loona hugging him. Astarte took notice of the couple and saw that they were walking in a somewhat funny way, and Astarte could also smell something...passionate. Astarte did not need to put two-and-two together, as he then spoke out.
"Oh my, seems a certain couple seems to have such a fun and passionate sex up above."
Dean looked at Astarte, as Loki appeared next to her and facepalmed a little bit at her and spoke out.
"Really, did you have to say that Astarte?"
Astarte shrugged a bit and Dean shook his head, and luckily Loona did not notice him doing that, as Dean then spoke out to the Imp couple.
"Heya you 2, how'd it go with the hit?"
Moxxie then rubbed the back of his head nervously, as he spoke out to Dean.
"Well, did not go as planned, but...we finally manage to kill the target."
Dean looks and nods his head, as Millie spoke out with an excited tone present.
"Yeah, and we finally had some fun at the camp that our client worked in! Was fun showin' off the young kids there and setting off some fireworks into it!"
Dean looks at Millie with an expression of shock present, but he decided not to go down there, as he spoke out.
"Geez, hopefully the kids are fine. And...what is going on with Blitzø here?"
This made Moxxie look at Dean for a bit, and then gestures him with his finger to lower his head. Dean does, and Moxxie whispered into Dean's ear of what happened.
"Uh...Blitzø may have gotten himself into a type of family feud of some sort...which involved his sister. And well, I ended up getting caught in the crossfire, because our target is with his sister also."
This made Dean surprised, as he then sighed and raised himself back up, before he pinched his nose for a bit, while Loona took the chance to simply lick Dean again, as he then thought to himself.
'I wonder how bad the mess that Moxxie and Millie was at the location that they hunted the target in."
Welp, Dean got his answer alright, and it is in the form of a what they are watching on TV. All members of I.M.P, Dean included at the tables and is holding Loona against his body, who is also hugging him. They at the TV that shows an anchorwoman of some sort that has blond hair and has blue eyes and shirt, as she began to speak about what happened at the camp...as well as images and even a video of Moxxie and Millie having sex on stage in front of many humans, as the anchorwoman then began to speak out at this to the camera, as well as to those that are watching the channel.
"Internet sensation and local celebrity Millerd Realboy caught incesting tonight! Showcasing a sickening display onlookers deemed: Too disturbing to look away… and we won't."
Dean facepalmed a bit, as he spoke out to Millie whine looking at her.
"Geez, Millie. You did that in front of a live audience, where your disguises were taken off and could have revealed your demon status to the world...which my former kind are too dumb at noticing. Man, I knew they lost their minds, but this a whole other level."
Millie shrugged a little bit at Dean, as even though Millie's popularity now ruined and her reputation tarnished, that doesn't seem to matter for Blitzo as he turns off the TV. He was having his morning coffee as he was in the morning meeting with Moxxie and Millie, who still doesn't mind about her popularity crashing, and Blitzø began to speak out in a false positive manner.
"Blitzo: Gonna be honest, Moxxie, not too bad for your first solo mission."
Of course, Dean could tell that Blitzø doesn't genuinely mean it. But Moxxie, apparently unaware of this, then gasps deeply before Moxxie gets all glittery and then very happy that his eyes widened with cuteness, dimples smiling, and stars sparkling around him.
"Reeeeeally, siiiir?"
Blitzø, as soon as Moxxie said that, then lose the smile to reveal that he is grouchy and still disappointed that the job lasted a week and that his sister still hates him, so he becomes truthful of Moxxie.
"Nooo, no, not really. You're a fucking disgrace."
And with that, Blitzø silently drinks his coffee while Moxxie loses all shine, completely depressed with sad puppy dog eyes. He looks over the table while Millie glares at her boss for being a completely asshole. Dean, deciding to give Blitzø his just desserts, use telekinesis to flip the coffee mug and it poured onto his pelvis. This made Blitzø scream in agony and he fell out of his chair, as he held it, while Dean looks at Blitzø and spoke out to him coldly.
"Blitzø, don't think you are innocent yourself, considering you are the one that gave Moxxie that position in the first place. If anything...you are the disgrace here. Quit blaming your actions onto other people, you ass."
Blitzø could not respond to this, as he simply laid down onto the floor, facing upward, as Moxxie felt better at Dean standing up for him in this case. Still...there is one thing bothering him that he does not quite understand that he really hopes to know.
'What does Cain want from me...and why is he interested in me in such a way that he gave his mark to me?'
