Hey there everybody, here is Chapter 19! Hope you enjoy this one, might have taken ispiration from the newest episode of Helluva Boss.
Anyways, next Chapter I'm thinking about making Emily and Vel meet for the first time properly (both are concious), but I'm not sure about that one yet.
Lucifer's Estate
5 days before Extermination Day
After his visit at the Heaven embassy, Lucifer was dead set on stopping this Extermination Day. Not only because of his daughter and to keep Emily safe, he had enough of the higher ups abusing their power to make others miserable. That is why he did something that he swore to himself he would never do: asking for help.
This was always his greatest flaw, and the sole reason he was the king of the Pride ring; Lucifer was just prideful for anything. Be it asking others for help, or not denying that he created something, he always felt the need stand above the others. But it was not only the need to be better than everybody around him; Lucifer also feels that he could always do better, or could've done better in the past.
For the longest time since their fall, he gave himself the fault that the other Angels fell with him. It didn't matter that Satan for example tried to murder one of the Bastions (and was succeeding until Michael intervened), Mammon trying to buy his way out, he still felt that it was his fault that they fell. Not even Asmodeus or Beelzebub could convince him otherwise.
So now he was sitting in his throne waiting for everyone else to arrive. The first to actually arrive was actually surprising, as it was Mammon, Sin of Greed as well as the worst con-man to possibly exist. The jester in green had a panicked expression when he entered, and as soon as he saw Lucifer, his face changed to one of happiness.
"Hello, Sir Lucifer, nice day we're having today, don't we?" He asked in an overly sick tone, immediately giving Lucifer a headache. "Mammon, what did you do?" He asked, not wanting to put up with the bullshit Mammon could come up with.
As Mammon was about to answer, the door exploded open, splinters going everywhere. Lucifer shielded himself, while Mammon hid behind the king of hell, clearly scared. In the entryway, the "weakest" of the Seven Sins was standing, clearly pissed off; Asmodeus, Sin of Lust. He looked around the room, his red flaming head looking for his victim until he spotted it behind Lucifer.
"MAMMON, YOU FAT, GREEDY, MOTHERFUCKING WASTE OF SPACE GET OVER HERE NOW!" Asmodeus screamed as he charged at the throne. Mammon just smiled, as he knew that Lucifer would stop the charge, but to his dismay, Lucifer flew into the air, well above the Mam and Ozzie.
Lucifer just looked bored as Asmodeus started to punch Mammon into a bloody pulp, when he asked, "What did Mammon do this time, Beelzebub?" Clearly annoyed that he sensed her coming, Beelzebub, Sin of Gluttony, flew up right beside him. "First of all, it is Bee, and you damn well know that, as that was my nickname back in heaven." Lucifer chuckled at that, as he has and will always call her by her real name. "And second, Mam made some snide remarks on how the robots he made of Ozzie's boytoy are still selling well, despite his fall for the 'flaming chicken cock'. His words, not mine."
While Lucifer was a recluse because of his depression, he was not deaf to what happened to the world around him. So he of course knew about the falling out of Mammon and his most famous Jester, the one and only Fizzarolli. It was also no secret that none other than the sin of Lust openly declared his love for the aforementioned Jester and is rather protective of the little imp nowadays.
It took 5 minutes, in which Bee and Lucifer ate some popcorn the former summoned, before Asmodeus finally regained his senses, and backed away to sit at the meeting table, pointedly ignoring Mammon's broken body. Latter pulled himself up and limped to the seat furthest away from Asmodeus, moaning all the way this silence was broken almost immediately by the next person that entered.
"LUCIFER! HOW DARE YOU SUMM-" Satan, the Sin of Wrath was screaming, when suddenly a small imp flew to his side. "Sir, you really have to relax, find your inner Zen, just slowly breathe in and then out." The imp said, guiding Satan through this breathing exercise. "Well, thank you. Anyways, why did you summon me, Lucifer, I'm rather tied up with my anger therapy lately, I really don't have any time to spare."
"I will tell you once Belphegor and Leviathan have arrived. And if I'm hearing correctly, here they are!" Lucifer pointed to the still blasted open door, where Leviathan, Sin of Envy was currently talking with her other head. Despite many beliefs, she rarely argued with her other self, seeing it as a useless endeavor, since they are always stuck with each other. Behind her trotted the ever so sleepy Sin of Sloth, Belphegor, trying to not sleepwalk, failing miserably.
The both of them sat down, and while Belphegor took out some pills to keep her awake (or so Lucifer assumed), Leviathan started to talk. "Ohh Lucifer, it has been so long since you've showed your face in hell." Her other head started to talk. "Is it because there is a new partner in town? Or are we not sufficient company anymore?"
"No, you are all my closest friends here. You all stuck with me when I was cast out from heaven, even when I told you to shut up and leave me to fall, so you won't have to suffer" He said, as all the Sins took a somber tone, even the always raging Satan. Yeah, they might be Fallen Angels, but they at least stuck together like family.
"Anyways, I called this meeting because I finally had enough." Everyone looked at him strangely. "Enough of what exactly?" asked a clearly puzzled Mammon. "Enough of everything! Since our banishment, I sulked because I thought 'How could I have let this happen?' And I never realized how much heaven started to overstep their boundaries since the last few weeks!" Lucifer explained.
"Are you talking about the Extermination? Yeah, I never really knew why you condoned such a thing" Bee said, while Ozzie just nodded in agreement. "I don't know why I agreed to this either, but this is stopping now! I don't know how aware you are to the stuff that is happening in my domain, but heaven recently casted out 2 new Angels." Everyone gasped, while Satan roared in anger, which was quickly alleviated by his Imp. All the present people knew that you had to commit grand treachery against heaven to be casted out.
"What exactly did these 2 Angels do, because it had to be something really horrible." Belphegor asked, suddenly very awake. Lucifer looked at her, pain clearly written in them. "The first one was Vagatha, she was with the Exterminators. She was cast out for refusing to kill a child, a single demon in their eyes. A fellow Exterminator ripped off her wings and cut out her eye, before leaving her to die. It was pure luck that my daughter found her before she died."
All the Sins were in uproar. It was one thing to completely go against the big man's plan up there, but to be cast out for simply letting one individual live? It was outrageous. Asmodeus asked "And the second one?" Lucifer blinked tears away, before he started to speak again.
"Her name is Emily. She was one of the Seraphim, younger sister to Sera herself. She escaped an even worse fate by choosing to fall" Everyone was shocked, as there was only one fate worse than banishment. Death. An execution of an Angel was an amoral act, but against an Angel of the upper Echelon, it was pure madness. In fact, such an fate can only be ordered by God himself. "What did the poor thing do that she was to be put to death" Leviathan asked, for once her other head shutting up.
"That's just it, she wants to abolish the Extermination. She saw what Charlie was trying to do and thought that the reformation of Sinners was a goal worth trying. Apparently, for speaking up, she opposed the will of the big man himself, and was ordered to be executed by none other than Adam himself" Lucifer finished.
Pandemonium broke out in the conference hall. Satan was in a fury, not even his imp being able to stop him. Bee and Ozzie shifted into their more demonic form, clearly struggling to keep their temper in check. Mammon was whispering to Belphegor, while Leviathan sobbed, not being able to handle such news.
"This is not even the worst part." Lucifer added gravely. "WHAT CAN BE EVEN WORSE THAN THAT!" Satan roared. Lucifer looked over to him, "As I was told, Adam will try to go against the contract we made, and will personally kill everyone that is currently residing at the Hazbin Hotel."
Silence. A loud, oppressing Silence filled the room. Everyone knew that Lucifer's daughter, and by extension their niece, Charlie Morningstar, always had the dream to reform sinners so the senseless killing could stop. And to hear now that she was in danger for trying to make her dream come true, made each of them sick. Especially it made them sick to carry the same blood as the people up above.
"So I assume that this Emily is currently staying with Charlie, and Charlie herself is on the hitlist for Adam's next Extermination?" Lucifer nodded once Bee summed up everything. "Oh that's it, I will tear this little piece of shit apart, he will wish that he never started this whole thing!" Bee said, a glimmer of murder in her eyes.
Ozzie stood up next to her and also started to speak. "If the life of my niece is in danger, you sure as hell can bet that I'll defend her to my last breath." Next to speak was Satan, "If they even dare to kill anyone near the hotel, I'll personally kill everyone!"
Belphegor then stood up "I might not be able to help you in fighting, but I'll see what I can find on combat drugs to get everyone through this." Surprisingly Mammon and Leviathan stood up at the same time "I think that I speak for the three of us when I say that we will get everyone who is willing to fight for their home" Leviathan said, motioning to Mammon.
Lucifer was touched by this grand gesture and smiled his perhaps first genuine smile since his banishment. "Heaven will rue the day that they tried to fuck with the Seven Deadly Sins!" He shouted, getting cheers from everyone else in the room.
It seems something will change in hell pretty soon.