"They're here?! How? I thought that Vinea resided in Pride?" Mat said as he looked to the night sky, more helicopters bearing the same crimson V letter began to appear out of nowhere. The Lust demon grew furious as he starred at the flying vehicles as he clenched his fist. "Did you just say.. Vinea? As in that rapist piece of shit who tortured my favorite Owl boy?! Oh he better wish that he isn't here cause I've got a bone to pick with him!" Asmodeus screamed as he noticed Mat was rummaging in his pockets as he hear the dragon say, "Where is it.. where is it?.." "Mat, what's going on?" Lily said as she started to walk towards the window as she saw the growing numbers of helicopters. Sila and Trinity followed suit as the succubus mother gasped loudly as she took a step back. Trinity looked confused as she saw the helicopters surrounding the tower. "Boss.. What's going on?" She asked as Asmodeus' mane started to grow a bright blue in fiery anger as he started to grow in size. "IF THAT STUPID LION THINKS HE CAN SHOW UP UNANNOUNCED WITH HIS PATHETIC CREW AND INVADE MY HOME! THAT BASTARD GOT ANOTHER THING COMING!" He screamed loudly as he was about to walk towards his personal elevator when the doors opened and revealed a crew of four identical hellhounds of pure brown while wearing sunglasses charged in and took shots at the Demon lord using holy assault rifles. Bullets flew past the demon lord as he ran towards the demons as he started to beat them down while the others took cover. Asmodeus was holding two of the Hellhounds in his hands as he squeezed them both popping their heads apart.
The others moved backwards as they continued to shoot at the demon lord as he used the dead bodies as shields from the holy bullets they were firing at him with. Mat continued to ruffle his pockets for the Reliquary as he took it out immediately. Lily saw and said, "MAT NO!" "I gotta help Asmodeus! You and Al get your family out of here! I got these assholes!" He said as he used the bladed edge of the demonic item to slice his hands, smothered the demonic skull of the item with his golden blood as its eyes glowed a bright crimson red as he screamed loudly, "RISE!" Slapping the Reliquary on his chest, a red bolt of lightning broke through the ceiling and changed Mat instantly into Hell Riser Shuten, he charged towards the assailing hellhounds as they started to focus their barrage of bullets at the speeding warrior. Bullets flew off his white armor as he ran through them, some of which flatten completely, others ricocheted elsewhere and breaking on contact. As the Hell Riser arrived at the assailing demons, he landed a punch on the nearest hellhound as the other backed away and took out an electric baton out as he tried to hit Shuten with it. Dodging with precise timing, Shuten moved to the left as he kicked one of the hellhounds with a sidekick and sent him flying through the elevator as he heard him screaming. The other hellhound looked to Shuten with fear as he decidedly jumped out the elevator, confusing the Hell Riser. "What the hell was that about?" He asked in his cyberized voice. Asmodeus looked at the white armor warrior as he appeared to be very confused by his appearance as he slammed the dead bodies onto the ground. "What the hell is this?! Alistair Crowley is this your doing?!" Asmodeus asked as he started to pant from anger at the Goetia. Alistair shyly hid behind Trinity as she looked to the Goetia in confusion, moving to the side next to her sister, Alistair appeared to be crouching down sheepishly.
"As much as I want to berate you now Alistair, we have much bigger concerns. I need to get these bastards out of my airspace! I can't have my factory all torn up," Asmodeus said as he stared out the window and saw the helicopters flying. Shuten walked up to the window as he starred at the gathering helicopters as he looked all around the city hoping to find an opening. He saw that the back entrance was being guarded by Vinea's men as well as the front. He did noticed the lacking numbers at the back entrance as he said, "If I go the back way, maybe I can grab their attention. Lord Asmodeus, do you have a car or a motorcycle I can borrow?" "You want to ride my personal limo? I don't think that will be a good idea. Not to mention that's my favorite ride," Asmodeus said. Shuten looked onto the hellhounds slowly gathering their forces as he looked to the front entrance as they prepared their weapons for a frontal assault. Shuten looked to the back entrance and saw that they were ready for any stragglers. "No choice, do you at least have a motorcycle?" Shuten asked. Trinity slowly raised her hand as she said out loud, "I got one but you're not riding without me mister Angel." Both Sila and Lily looked at the Imp with confusion as she looked back to them as she said, "What? We just met. Don't act surprised guys." "Perfect, I'll take you with me. We can ride away from here and hopefully they'll take notice," Shuten said as Alistair summoned the portal back to Pride with his Hell Gem. "Now just one minutes Alistair! You ain't leaving this ring without cleaning up your mess!" Asmodeus said to the Goetia as he turned to the Lust Demon.
"I'll stay behind but Lily and Sila must leave. Thaddy's place is the perfect hiding place from Vinea's men. I'll explain soon my lord but please trust me," Alistair said as Asmodeus gave Alistair a look of disapproval as he starred at him. "I don't even want to know how you got that Hell Gem in the first place mister... Just get those girls to safety.. and YOU! If anything happens to my favorite technician.. Your dragon horns will go great above my fire place," Asmodeus said as he turned his focus onto Shuten as he heard the white armor warrior having a slight chuckle. He turned to Asmodeus as he said with a gurgle in his cyberized voice, "Just try it old man, or does Dad have you by your balls again?" "Excuse me?" Asmodeus said with a shock in his voice as he starred at the armored warrior. Shuten immediately shook his head as he said without the gurgle in his cyber voice, "I.. I don't know where that came from." "Just... Just keep Tech safe or its your ass... Mat," Asmodeus said as he looked at Shuten with a warrant look of concern. He started to walk towards the lobby phone as he picked it up and dialed for security. Lily walked towards Shuten as he grabbed one of the hellhounds weapons and watched as it changed forms instantly into a corrupted hellish version. He checked the weapon to be sure that it is filled with ammo as Lily looked at him with concern as she held her arm to her side and said to him, "Mat.. are you ok? That didn't seem like you at all.." "I'll be fine Lily, you and Sila get back to Thaddy's. I'll take care of Trinity," Shuten said as he was restraining the bit of anger he was feeling. Lily tried reaching her hand to Shuten but instantly moved it back as she felt a strange fear building up within her as she walked towards Sila and the golden portal Alistair created.
Lily looked back to Shuten as he was walking towards the elevator and saw Trinity walking towards him. She reached out to grab her hand as Trinity looked surprised as Lily said to her, "Please... Watch out for him.. I'm scared that he might.. He might-" "Might what?" Trinity said to her as she was confused by Lily's concern. Lily looked to her and said, "Just keep an eye on him.. please.." She looked at the Imp's hand and slowly retracted and walked to Sila. The mother looked to her daughter as she jumped into the portal and back into Thaddy's Joint. Sila looked to Trinity and said, "Be home soon sweetie.." She jumped into the portal and Alistair closed it as he walked towards the Imp. "So other than my need to watch my bike, why else do you guys need me?" She asked the Goetia while watching the Hell Riser prepare his next move. Alistair looked to the Esiheth and said, "The Esiheth family has a unique fragrance that allures any who are intrigued by your presence. Most likely, Count Vinea's men may be using that fragrance to their advantage. Not to mention that they have been tracking you for a while." "Ok.. Who is this Vinea guy? I barely heard of him till now," Trinity asked as she starred at the Goetia with her gorgeous sky blue and black eyes. Alistair immediately blushed as he looked to the sides as he made small owl noises while attempting to cover his face with his hat. "Umm.. per.. perhaps I can tell you about it when you and Mat have cleared away Vinea's men," Alistair said to the Esiheth Imp as she looked perturbed by his answer. Asmodeus hung up the phone as he took a huge sigh, "They took out half of the guards before they even arrived.. the other half are at lunch and will arrive soon.. You better be ready to ride out of here like the wind kid," Asmodeus said. As the Hell Riser readied his weapon, he looked to the demonic lord of lust as he said with a cocky tone, "Then watch me ride, it'll be a blast." Asmodeus looked perturbed by the Hell Riser's words as he turned to Alistair and said, "Its probably best that you attend them Alistair.. I'll talk to you when this nonsense is dealt with.." He walked to his couch and grabbed his phone to look for messages from Fizzarolli. Alistair looked to Asmodeus with a pain in his heart as he was about to speak, the lust lord said to him, "And note.. I ain't mad at you, but I am disappointed.. I just hope that your pet project doesn't end up being more destructive than you thought.."
Alistair nodded his head as he walked towards Shuten and Trinity as they started to walk into the elevator. As Trinity hit the basement level, the doors closed on them, it was moving at a quicken pace. Trinity was standing in-between both Shuten and Alistair as she felt slightly uncomfortable about her situation. "So.. Is this a normal occurrence for you guys? Just dealing with this Vinea guy or not?" Trinity asked as she stood between the duo. Both Shuten and Alistair looked at Trinity then back to each other as the Goetia spoke, "Well.. Not really no, in fact this is our second encounter with his men. Hasn't really been an issue since the last Extermination right Mat?" "I mean, you weren't there when I killed those knock off Exterminators and embarrassed the shit outta that stupid Seraphim. What a fucking shit head he was," Shuten said with a slight vicious chuckle in his tone. While Trinity gave off a bizarre look of confusion from Shuten's statement, Alistair noticed the Riser's tone and felt slightly concern. "True.. But it only revved up rather recently too.. Almost out of the blue.." Alistair said as he kept looking at him. "Don't matter, all we gotta do now is ride outta here and grab those idiots attention. And if they try to kill us, I got a friend or two waiting to meet 'em," Shuten said as he looked at his corrupted rifle eyeing the white skull at the end of it. Both Alistair and Trinity looked at him with concern as the Goetia said to him, "Mat.. Are you sure you're alright? This doesn't seem like you at all.."
"I'm fine Al, all I wanna do now is rip them a new one," Shuten said as he looked out through the elevator and watched how the helicopters kept surveying Asmodeus's tower. "Mat.. you don't have to use this power you know. We can find the original user I intended it-" "NO AL! I said I'm fine. I don't want to give this power up! I can actually do something with it!" Shuten yelled as he turned his attention to Alistair, making Trinity shrink slightly. "What if you don't need this power Mat! There are other ways to protect the people you care about, I feel like you using the Reliquary has been... a mistake," Alistair said. Shuten looked Alistair rather coldly as he turned towards him. "A mistake? Oh you wanna talk about mistakes? Ok let's talk about mistakes," Shuten said angrily at the Goetia as he started to move back slightly. "Was it a mistake that brought me here in the first place? Was it a mistake that forced me from Heaven, stuck in this Sinner form that I have been for some time now!" Shuten yelled as his visor glowed a crimson tone. The Goetia felt himself shrinking in Shuten's anger as he looked at the demonic glow from his visor. "Was it a mistake that I can't remember anything from my past! Oh I got plenty to say about mistakes Al! But at least with this power I can actually do something with myself while I'm here! So yeah, maybe it was a mistake that I took the Reliquary. But at least I'm doing something with it!" Shuten said as he saw the Goetia shrunk in fear from his anger. As he was breathing, the Esiheth Imp stood by the Goetia as she starred coldly at him as she said, "DUDE! You gotta chill, he's worried about you and you look like you're gonna pop off any minute! Can you please use that shit not at us?" As Shuten looked at the Imp, he noticed a strange change in his attitude as he looked into the window and saw the glow in his visor. As he slowly calmed down, the crimson color died down to the a blank black as he looked away from the two demons. "I'm sorry.. I don't know what's going on, I.. I feel like I can't control this power for some reason," Shuten said. Alistair looked at him with a solemn heart as he tried to reach for the Riser, only for him to shrug his shoulder away in shame. Alistair pulled his hand back and looked calmly at the Riser and said, "It could be because your.. Angelic physiology is countermanding with the demonic nature of the Reliquary. Once we get back, I want you to give me the Reliquary. Please," Alistair said. Seeing his friend turning towards him, he watched as the Riser looked at him with a calm feeling as he nodded his head. As they reached the lower floor hitting the basement level, the doors slowly opened as it revealed to have twenty of the same hellhounds all pointing their angelic weapons to the trio.
Immediately, Shuten pulled his corrupted assault rifle and begun to fire his electric bullets against the hellhounds as five of them were taken down within a blink of an eye. The other hellhounds pulled back as Shuten jumped forward towards them, leaving a trail of red lightning from his path. He grabbed one of the nearest assailants by their head as he flung them forward to a group of gunners. As the body of the hellhound collapsed with the others, the remaining men started to fire their bullets at Shuten. Bullets once more either bounced off the warrior's armor or became flatten on impact. He charged towards the gunners as he flung a fury of fists and kicks against them. Some attempted to fight back as they clawed on his armor, breaking their nails on impact. Others had broken their bones as they tried to hit his chest plate with their fists. Shuten committed a full on roundhouse kick on several of the gunners as they slowly collapsed one by one, Shuten then uses his red lightning to wipe out the remaining soldiers as Alistair screamed to Trinity, "GET DOWN!" The lightning spewed across the room as it decimated the remaining hellhounds as they all fell to the floor, disintegrating into dust. "Jesus Christ! What the fuck are you?!" Trinity said as she witnessed the dust of the dead hellhounds flying in the air. Shuten slowly moved back up as he looked to the demonic duo in the elevator. He tilted his head towards the vehicle garage as he said, "Come on, we gotta go if we want them away from here." He started to move quickly as both Alistair and Trinity moved slowly upwards in fear. The Esiheth Imp looked towards the Goetia as she asked, "Are you sure that it's a good idea for him to be like this?"
"For now.. Yes but he'll be giving me back the Reliquary once we are back in Thaddy's. You'll ironically be safer there than here," Alistair said as he moved up while offering his hand to Trinity. She met his offer by grabbing it as she was pulled up by the Goetia. "Never met a nice Goetia before. Most wouldn't be to keen to be this kind," She said as she starred at him with her eyes. As he starred back he immediately became flustered as he chuckled with an owl like noise. "Well.. I'm not like the others.. While I do still control souls, I only take those that truly have no repentance in their hearts," Alistair said as he noticed Shuten tapping his foot on the floor while starring at the two demons. Both of them look to him as he said, "Yo! We ain't got all day, lets go!" Both Alistair and Trinity started to move towards the Riser and as they reached him, as they moved forward to the garage where Trinity took the lead. "I'll show you where my bike is at, but you ain't driving it pal." "Probably for the best, but what is Al gonna- DUCK!" Shuten said as he pulled back Trinity. Bullets flew by where she was at, two more Hellhounds armed with the angelic assault rifles kept their assault as Shuten flung his rifle towards the assailing duo. Blocking the rifle instantly, they witnessed the Riser coming towards them in with a hellish fury of kicks and punches. He grabbed one of the arms of the hellhound and ripped it off instantly only to whack the assailing demon to the wall, knocking him out. He then delivered a heavy punch through the guts of the other hellhound, killing the demon.
As he pulled his fist out, a hole was left as the demon fell to the floor. Shuten nudged his head to the others indicating that it is clear to move forward as both Trinity and Alistair moved towards Shuten. "Thanks.. really not used to this nonsense," Trinity said as she took the lead once more. As they reach the garage, they saw a multitude of cars all filling the entire floor. Trinity scanned for her bike as she looked at all the vehicles in the area. "Where is it.." She said as she kept scanning and moving through the cars. Even noticed that in one of them were a succubus and a Baphomet kissing in one of the vehicles. Alistair and Shuten both stopped to watch the demons kissing in the car as Shuten said in confusion, "You think that with the gun fire and noises they would noticed by now." "I mean... His lips must be delicious if she's continuing on like that," Alistair commented as he was observing the make out session as he noticed the succubus' breast were started to be fondled by the baphomet's hands as Trinity slapped both Alistair and Shuten at their heads saying, "NOW'S NOT THE TIME!" Shocking Alistair and Shuten as the kissing couple remain unfazed. They moved along towards the back of the garage as Trinity pointed to the left and said, "There it is! My ride!" They jogged hard as they observed the Vespa style motorbike, with a bright red paint job. Both Alistair and Shuten whistled at the same time as they said, "NICEEE!" Trinity had a slight smug as she said, "Thanks, but I'm riding my bike. Someone else can take that one." She pointed to the pure jet black Honda like motorcycle, as Shuten walked slowly towards it as he put his hand on the bike and said out loud, "Dibs!"
