Chapter 10
As the members of I.M.P wait for the client to arrive for their package they couldn't help but stare with contempt at the things they had dragged down here to face whatever the figure wished to do with them.
Blitzo was surprised how truly accurate the clients description of the figures had been, a human walrus, a human baby hippo, and a human horse and giraffe hybrid.
Honestly who lets these things procreate up their in the human world it was down right revolting and made Blitzo's job easier when more suckers came to hell with a grudge to bare.
Just as Blitzo was about to break up the argument between Mooxie and Luna a shadow erupted out from under the table and silenced the entire room with its aura of pure malice.
A sharp hissing sound arose in the room and it set every one else on edge, Luna growled at the strange figure while Mooxie, Milley, and Blitzo aimed guns at it.
The figure turned to Blitzo and produced a chest from the shadows of his cloak before turning back to his prey.
"Ahh right guys this is the client...so let's not try to kill them okay?"
With a note of stress and worry in his voice Blitzo tries to hide that he was previously pointing his gun at the figure and failing while trying to break the tension in the room.
It failed miserably but at least no one was pointing weapons directly at the figure, even if it was a client with the aura this fucker was putting out ain't no way any of them was going to let their guards down until it left.
"You do good work, you can look forward to more work from me in the future if you can continue to provide results like this." Said the figure with pure contempt for the beings in the room.
A large portal with tendrils of shadow sprout out and drag the human zoo rejects through it the cloaked figure walking in after them the portal closing shortly after. The group breaths a sigh of relief and relaxes a soon as it finishes closing taking that thing with it.
"Sir next time cloud you please not make us work for such a being that whole incident was...straining."
Blitzo just ignores Mooxie and digs through the chest seeing if this one will have a crown in it since the last one didn't.
Back at the hotel
Harry, Alastor, and Angel sat at the kitchen table discussing a very important matter to the future of the hotels very existence.
"I'm tellin' ya babe it makes more sense to make the hotel more inviting by putting a play room with free access for everybody." Angel smugly proclaims while looking down his nose at Alastor.
"And as I keep telling you darling it would be better to play music through out the entire hotel with different style at different floors much more pleasant and cheap."
Harry was nodding his head in agreement with his father while Alastor placed his arm around Harry gesturing to his son before saying.
"See even the lad knows it's a better idea then your play room nonsense." Alastor scoffs, angel scowls towards Alastor but then turns a hurt look toward his son.
"Come on champ don't you think mommas idea is a good one, you don't really think my idea is nonsense right?"
With a slight tremble of his lips and tears cresting at his eyes Harry's resolve begins to crumble but he tries to fight his mothers argument and guilt tripping.
"Sorry momma but dads right it's cheaper to just play music throughout the hotel with some speakers and I know you wouldn't let me do anything in the play room other than possibly watch and maybe not even that."
Angel drops the pout and looks over to the corner in a huff while Alastor chuckles and ruffles Harry's hair messing it up and causing his ears to go flat.
Harry hated when his dad did that, ever since he changed he finally could get his hair to listen to him and he hated having it messed up on purpose. Especially since he had the ears and antlers to take care of as well it lead to him spending at least ten minutes on his hair alone when getting ready in the morning.
Ever since he changed he had been trying to take better care of his appearance since he would represent his parents with his looks.
Even if his mom said that he missed his unruly hair since it made him look like he had bed head and that girls would fall all over themselves when he was older with a look like that.
"Not that I would let any random hussy have my baby boy with out going through me first and that's if Al didn't kill them first." His mom had told him one night when talking about him growing up.
At that moment Charlie walked in with Vaggie right behind her staring at Alastor and giving Harry a small smile and wave.
Charlie walked up to Harry and gave him a big hug and squishing their cheeks together. "Good morning Harry beary how is our little man this morning." She said in a voice filled with joy and cheer.
Harry returns the hug. "I'm doing good auntie Charlie morning auntie Vaggie." He waves quickly to his other aunt and gets released from his hug.
At that moment Nifty rushed in the room carrying trays filled with food and began to set them all over the table. Each one filled with steaming meats and vegetables whose aroma wafted through the entire bottom floor of the hotel.
Stumbling through the door into the dining room came Husker who quickly found a chair and collapsed into it and started piling a plate while groaning the whole time. Everyone but Alastor looked at Husker in disapproval which the cat ignored and began to eat his mountain of food he had made.
A bottle of booze appeared next to him courtesy of his tail which he began to chug down with gusto to wash down his meal.
Harry shrugs at this used to Huskers quirks while Alastor was the one who knew the reason for Huskers drinking in the first place and didn't care to fix it.
The others however didn't like this and where still angry about him being blacked out drunk while they were attacked and he was left alone merely because of his obsession with alcohol.
Since none of them seem to have any affect on Husker they begrudgingly began to eat as well but still sent looks at him every so often just to make their displeasure known. Soon enough they had finished breakfast and started to disperse to attend to their duties with Husker manning the desk and Nifty scurrying around the hotel cleaning.
Alastor and Angel walked off talking about where to place speakers in the hallways and what type of music should be played with a lot of arm movement on both parties parts.
Charlie and Vaggie went about messing with paper work and looking into the hotels finances so they left for the office behind the front desk leaving Harry and Vanna to their own devices.
So with nothing to do and no plans for the day Harry decided to call up some one he hadn't seen in a while due to helping his parents with this venture and the insanity that was hell. He pulled out a device that looked like a flip phone but when opened had a mob with two buttons over it one green the other red.
Once Harry pressed the green button the screen flashed on and filled with static which was good meant it still worked.
He then began to turn the dial and the static started to change and become clearer slowly starting to show a picture that after a moment became crystal clear.
It showed a small room that looked simple if not a bit cramped, filled with cabinets and draws, it opened up into a living room that had a stair case next to it. Sitting on a chair facing away from Harry was a figure that couldn't be seen except for a shockingly bright head of red hair that stuck up over it.
"Hey H'earring it's me Harry can you hear me?" The figure in the chair stirred and began to move, shortly after a short creature appeared moving towards the device that Harry was staring through.
The creature was short in stature, even shorter then Harry, with bright green skin and bright red hair stylized into a Mohawk. On top of his head and more on his chest and forearms, it's hands had three finger tipped with claws and its feet had two large toes tipped with claws as well.
But most prominent was the large ears that protruded from the top of its head and dropped down to its waist with a dark green splotch near at its ear tips.
Bright blue eyes stared out at Harry as a mouth with sharp teeth spread into a wide smile upon seeing Harry.
"Harry!" A high pitched voice like a cat that had just had its tail pulled on shouted out in glee from the strange device in Harry's hand. "It's so good to see you buddy, look at you, you finally got that rat nest of a mane in check and look like a decent denizen of the underworld now."
Harry chuckles at H'earrings words, in all honesty he missed the little guy even if his voice needed to go up a few octaves he was still a good and loyal friend to have down here.
Plus he knew everyone some way or some how so that always helped to. "Good to see you as well, mind if I come down their and hangout for a bit I haven't seen you in a while and I really need some time away from this place."
The smile on H'earrings face grew even more and pure joy could be heard in the creatures voice. "Sure come on down its always a blast to have you around plus there's a new fight tonight in the arena that's going to be even bigger then the last one you saw."
Harry is surprised at that since the last time he was there the fight he saw made underworld history, he wasn't missing this.
"I'm going to portal down to you mind waiting for me at our usual spot." The creature gave a thumbs up and seemingly pressed a button making Harry's device fill with static again.
Harry presses the red button on the device making the screen go dark and puts it away and begins to reach for a pocket before he feels another device pressing into his hand. He looks over the see a small dragons head holding a device with a large screen on the top half and a set of directional pads with a singular button in the middle.
He grabs the device from the dragons head and pets it while turning on the device and thumbing through pictures.
"Thanks Vanna makes getting there easier if I'm not trying to find it, you ready to go to the underworld girl?"
The dragons head gives a small roar with flames leaving its mouth as Harry turns back to the device with a picture of a large Colosseum with crowds of creatures filling its stands. "Underworld Colosseum here we come."
After pushing the button in the middle a blinding flash of blue light appears around him and once it's vanish Harry is no longer standing where he was.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter and sorry about the wait but tis the season as they say, anyway please leave a comment and review and have a good day or night.