Via ran downstairs as fast as she could to warn the others of Balin's capture through the mysterious closet portal.
"Blitzø! Loona!" she screamed out for them. "OLD MAN!"
DHORKS HEADQUARTERS...
Balin was tossed into an interrogation room of the DHORKS building by two agents in hazmat suits, where his limbs were then hooked up to a bunch of bungee cords.
As the hazmat agents left, the boy tried jumping his way out of the cords, bouncing up and down like a puppet, but they wouldn't budge. This happened for a long time, until...
"I wouldn't advise doing this, child." said one of the Cherubs, Keenie, through the intercom. "Those may be blessed rope, but even Heaven takes desperate measures."
The wall in front of Balin then opened to reveal the two DHORK leaders and the Cherubs in a control room.
"Keep on struggling, then screw freedom. All yours hands will get is lost circulation." the yellow angel sheep finished.
"What the heck does that mean?!" said Balin, getting scared already.
"We're the one asking questions here." exclaimed Agent One. "You ain't."
"Not even who are you...?" asked the boy. "I can just call you One and Two?"
"H-H-How did he know their names?" Collin stuttered, as Cletus then slapped the back of his head.
"Don't tell him that, Collin!" the baby angel seethed quietly through his teeth.
"Ugh... Yeah. None of our parents were creative." sighed Agent One in annoyance.
AT THE GOETIA MANSION...
Via then made it to the living room where the I.M.P gang, including Tex, were drinking coffee and bear.
"Guys, guys!" she panicked. "We have a huge problem!"
"Whoa, girl, calm down." Loona soothed her. "What happened...? ...And where's Balin?"
"He's been taken!" Via then exclaimed.
"WHAT?!"
"I was taking him to the bathroom to be freshened up, but there was this mysterious portal in a closet next to it, next thing I know, something just grabs...!"
"Via! VIA!" Blitzø grabbed her hands firmly but gently. "Just pull your shit together and tell us where this portal leads to."
"I don't know! I didn't even see it open."
"Here, let the pro handle this." said Loona, as she started sniffing out for Balin, before growling in anger at what she soon picked up.
"What you got, Loonie?" asked Blitzø in anticipation.
"Fucking Japanese pieces of shit!" she roared.
"Japanese pieces of sh... *gasp* Japanese weapons?" Millie then face-palmed herself nervously. "Shit! Not those DHORKS again!"
"Follow me! I'm tearing that portal open for us to walk through." Loona then started stomping upstairs.
"I... guess we're doing this, huh?" said Moxxie, as he grabbed his valet bag and followed his wife and hellhound.
"You four stay and guard this place." Blitzø told Via, Tex, Nep, and Mari. "This fight's ours. And if Stolas comes back, tell him Stella's back too."
The boss then grabbed his two shotguns and slithered upstairs like a lizard.
"Who're these DHORKS?" asked Neptune and Marijiana.
"All I know? My dad calls 'em kooks." replied Via.
Despite being scared of what he was witnessing, Balin still had his fur bracelet on his arm, hidden underneath the bungees.
"P-Please! What is this?!" he begged.
Agent Two then walked out of the control room and into the interrogation compound.
"Two! What the hell are you doing?" Cletus exclaimed. "You could get Hell-19!"
Going on her tippy-toes, the female agent gently soothed him without looking at him and with just her nail so she possibly wouldn't get infected.
"Shhhhh." she went.
"What or who we are ain't important here." Agent One walked up to him as well in a strict tone. "All you need to know we're government officials. Demon hunters from Earth, angels from Heaven, and you? One helluva human child."
Balin soon looked down at the Cherubs, in shock that they were... "Angels?" he mumbled to himself.
"You see, we've all had our eye on you for some time, along with the rest of your 'LITTLE' friends." One continued, pulling out a film-strip of the demons during the Truth Seekers massacre.
Blitzø posed for an unintentional selfie as his 'Big Dick!' bazooka blew up one of the agents while Moxxie did a confusing peace-sign. Millie soaked in the blood of another agent she sliced open with her axe. Loona swung a third in her mouth like a chew toy as blood spewed from his neck where her teeth was, and Stolas crawled out of Agent Two's mouth with feathers falling out.
She actually looked away from that one in embarrassment, as One continued his speech.
"For months on end since then, we've been trying to talk again with the POS demon scum that's been killing a quarter of this great country's populace." With an evil glare, One did a salute of honour mentioning the USA.
"Talk? Why would you want to talk to them?" asked Balin. "You've been trying to kill them. I don't believe you!"
"Wow, for a kid your age, you must've really gotten possessed with knowledge. Haven't you?" said Keenie with an eye-roll, before realising him and making him bang his head on the ceiling.
One of the hazmats managed to catch a DNA sample after Balin accidentally spat from getting bashed by the strings.
"Now, what we want to know is how those demons come to our country, why they're killing humans, and how you ended up with that big, angry, and fucked-up WEREWOLF of theirs!"
"Werewolf? How do you know about Loo...?" the boy then quivered, worried he'd say too much saying her name.
"Y-You have been everywhere with her, little man. Quite a lot actually." Collin stuttered again, as Keenie handed the Agents two pictures of his moments in the Aussie Coast and Montana with Loona.
"Get it?" Cletus slightly giggled, knowing that was the line of a popular Australian anthem. "Dammit, I thought he'd get that one."
"Be-Be-Because she, she saved me." Balin weakly replied. "Loona's my friend. All those demons are!"
The agents then dropped the pictures in shock, and the Cherubs gasped hearing such a thing from the kid.
"You can't be serious!" exclaimed Cletus.
"Sweetie, what's your name?" asked Keenie more softly.
"My name's... Wait..." Balin then cried. "You don't deserve to know my name!"
"OK, listen here, Balin." Keenie then said with a pissed-off tone anyway, surprising the boy. "Those demons you know and 'love' are nothing but cold-blooded, BLOODthirsty killing machines, who kill humans and even curse in the name of the Lord 24/7!"
"Granted, they are nuts." Balin then snapped more. "But they only kill BAD humans! AND Loona is a hellhound! Get your facts straight."
"HEY! Let out that bad rude one more time, rad dude! I dare you." snarled Agent Two with a fanged sneer.
"Sorry." Balin whimpered, softening up and listening back to himself saying that, like he didn't even mean it.
"Just tell us." said Cletus. "The hell kinda heroism is that?"
"The kind where they were trying to be kind to ME." the boy said.
"WRONG! That's so WRONG, kiddo!" Agent One shouted.
"Or, what if that's wrong?" Collin interrupted softly.
"Collin! SHUT UP!" Keenie and Cletus shouted to the purple lamb.
"The only thing demons are, are monsters!" Agent One continued. "They kill, lie, steal, AND 'what if...' worse of all, they couldn't care less about you."
"Aww, I'm a monster too then?" a familiar voice stepped into the light. It was Stella. "And I thought we'd make better co-workers than those pathetic Stolas-sucking imps."
"No, no, no." the two agents said together sheepishly. "We'd never see that about you, Ms. Goetia."
"Ms. ARS Goetia." corrected Stella, staring into their eyes. "You think Ars is just a middle name?"
Saying that, Collin snickered a little. He would've used the word 'bottom', but they preferred these new words better after being exiled on Earth after a missionary fuck-up a while back.
"You!" Balin was shell-shocked to see Stella again. "...For the first time!"
"Ohh. Don't you mean, so nice to see you again?" she cooed, slightly towering over Balin.
Balin then widened his eyes, realising she did sense him back at the mansion.
"D-D-Do I really know you?" he quivered.
"Birds-eye vision." she sharply pointed to her red eyes, staring right into his soul like a normal bird. "As racist as I believe 'tis from most humans, I find it an effective tool."
"W-Who are you?" he then asked her.
"Dear, dear... Asking's quite a rude way of talking to a royal family member." cackled Stella. "I mean, haven't you figured it out yet?"
Balin then shook his head frantically.
"I am Stella Ars Goetia. The rightful heir to the Goetia family." she continued. "And may I introduce my associates. Keenie, Collin, Cletus, and my fellow agents of DHORKS headquarters."
"DHORKS?" Balin's eyes widened again, like he was about to let out a raspberry.
"Don't! You! Dare! You little SHIT!" bellowed Agent Two.
"Wait... You're Mr. Stolas' mean evil wife!" Balin then said softly out loud.
"Exactly."
Stella then started tracing her talons across the bungee strings, making sparks fly around the containment cell.
"My husband, a traitorous embarrassment, is about to learn the price he must pay for the mistake of forgetting his place, along with that impish play-thing of his." she continued in her monstrous tone. "Me and these associates will show them all we mean our glorious purposes. And when we do, the rest of the Hell spawn will be under my command for their experimentation AND my pleasure."
"Like, the first female Satan?" asked Balin.
"First, we can't have someone like you in the middle of this business." Stella continued again. "We need to know if your sample is cleaned or cursed, before we send you home. OR to your death, but all in all, one has to be with no memory whatsoever. And with these pictures, you are going to tell us where that of yours is."
"I-I-I don't know where." stuttered the boy.
"Meh, spritz him." the owl clapped her hands twice, for the DHORKS to open the cell door and let her out before closing it again.
Soon, with a push of a button, a truth-telling serum was released, making the boy cough out of his mind.
"If you won't tell us, this will." Agent One said. "The same chemicals used to kill inmates on death row, this serum will make you tell us the information we need on those Satanic gods of yours, before it kills you."
"ONLY with a strong overdose!" added Keenie. "Still hate the idea of it being done that way."
"Who cares?" Agent Two shrugged. "This is America!"
As the boy's coughing got worse, he soon felt drowsy and fell asleep.
...
BAD TRIP:
Only to the point where he woke up again and found himself on a gravelly road in the middle of nowhere. He looked around to see where he was, until he saw a glimmer of light from afar.
"Loona?" the boy called out. "Is that you?"
CARMILLA: "You really are insecure, aren't you?"
The kid gasped at that Latino voice.
CARMILLA: "Thinking you could last with that dog of theirs. You were always gonna let them down anyway."
...
Speaking of them, a bunch of ninja-like security guards wandered the halls outside with guns and swords, when the I.M.P gang appeared from the room they entered the portal through, kicking down the door and posing in front of them.
With the security prepping for battle, the demons ran through the hallway fighting their way through.
Blitzø grabbed one of his guns and shot six people in a straight line with one bullet in their skulls. Moxxie threw Millie into a bunch where she proceeded to gut their stomachs while Moxxie just shot their feet off. Loona however, staying in her hound form, kicked the hearts out of their chests with her paw-pads and beat the shit out of them with her bare hands.
Still, no claws or wolf attack instincts were used for this battle. She was hesitant to call the ones who took her little friend lucky.
This course of action went on until Millie reached a familiar control pad, pressing 'One' with her axe until the doors unlocked.
"Figures." she shrugged to the readers.
...
MEANWHILE...
Balin was still being circled by Carmilla Carmine in his truth-serum overdose.
CARMILLA: "You humans think demons are what we you have, but for one to think he has them at an age like yours? Why do you try to prove you have the imagination AND the balls to even prove that? You don't! You can only be what you are. A kid, who has no idea who he is. You would've accepted whatever fate you had in that orphanage if you hadn't escaped it in the first place, but no. You had to let those demons into your heart for help! If your world backstabbed you, this one could do the same to you! Backstab to backstab! It's happened with millions, just as it will continue to, and not even you can avoid it. If you even believe you can, you might... as well... DIE, with the rest of them!"
Carmilla then dragged him by his brown hair to a Italian restaurant table, where Loona sat with a bib and a hungry foam at the mouth.
Just as he was about to run, Carmilla kicked him to the table, where the hellhound dug her claws into him and started taking bites of him.
BAD TRIP ENDS
...
Balin then woke up back into the real world, with the bungee cords slightly loosening.
"So! Where are your villainous heroes now?" Stella asked, hoping the serum worked.
"I..." Balin almost felt compelled to tell the truth, but only until the cords fully loosened, making him break free as he caught his breath again. "No! I WON'T LET YOU HURT THEM!"
The entire villain group gasped at his response, making the two agents pissed-as-fuck.
"ARRGGHHH!" screamed Agent One.
"You're dead!" Agent Two growled.
The two were about to lunge at him, when Stella stopped them with her arms and picked up Balin herself.
"That hound really did teach you every trick she knows." she sneered. "But she's still a fleabag, who raised not only a liability! You're a danger, to your family, to them! And that's all BOTH OF YOU will ever be!"
Stella then unsheathed her razor-sharp talons and scratched all the way down his chest, sending little traces of blood and screams oozing out of him.
"Loona!" cried Balin in his screams. "MOMMY! HELP ME!"
Then... a miracle.
The villain troupe heard more screaming outside the containment cell, along with a boom. One of the Cherubs in particular heard Loona's normal-voiced roars, never forgetting the last time he encountered her.
"Oh no! She's h-h-here!" he whimpered. "She f-f-found me!"
"Jesus H Christ, Collin!" Keenie exclaimed in disgust, before Cletus added: "What's with this hellhound fetish?"
With the group caught off-guard, Balin saw his escape.
In his blind anger, he bit Stella's arm, sharper than any 7-year-old's bite force, making her drop him in pain.
Agent One tried to grab Balin first, but the boy made him fall on his back and hold his privates before he could grab him, before Agent Two tried to grab him next.
"You ain't going nowhere, traitorous shi... ahh!"
She was then cut off by him doing a barrel roll in between her legs, kicking her knee, and running out of the cell.
"Don't let him get away!" Two then ordered to the Cherubs.
As the three angels flew after the boy, Stella disappeared from the scene before the imps arrived through the vents and surrounded the agents.
"Let's make this nice and quick you two." said Blitzø. "Like last time!"
"Hand over the boy..." added Moxxie.
"And no motherfucker gets hurt!" finished Millie.
"We don't know where he is!" the two agents said at the same time.
"Okay, that's fine. Guess I'll just..." Blitzø then dog-whistled.
Soon, Loona lunged through the doors and at the agents, who quickly tucked-and-rolled from her before she could even bite down.
Grabbing their katanas, the two began warding off the hellhound with their karate skills, but she just continued swiping her claws at them while the three imps watched, like a lion with a stool at the circus.
"FUCK YEAH!" cheered Blitzø. "That's my Loonie!"
...
Balin still ran far away from the Cherubs, until he got closer into the dark and found a room with doors that said: 'Do Not Enter!' and 'Carnage!' on yellow police tape.
"Not in there, kid!" Cletus warned him. "What's in that room is how bloody they can be."
"If they had or still have their way, they could kill you!" added Keenie. "And that hellhound who must've mauled one guy's bones out of his corpse, she could eat you too! Kill you AND eat you!"
"Kid, you've got to believe us." Collin pleaded compassionately. "Take it from me!"
Balin then slapped his hand away.
"No! I'm sure what they did was self-defence!" he then said angrily, his upset said now taking over. "Now I have a question for you. Where were you, when I needed you?!"
"Huh?" the Cherubs went.
"All my life, 7 years, I always believed angels were a symbol of love, and all I see now is this?!" he explained, pointing at the door. "You and those other gosh-darn angels are supposed to be the light humans believe in! Everything 'I' believe in! You're lucky I still do, but this is not the way! And when I needed you to deliver me from my troubles, you just continued watching all this happen!"
"Kid, you don't understand." Keenie explained calmly. "We couldn't just interfere. We've been busy with work of our own."
"Don't tell him that!" Cletus shushed her.
"Busy?" Balin said again, tears coming out of his eyes. "Busy enough to bring me home to my mommy and daddy? Who I missed for days after escaping from a foster home the judge who called me a risk put me in?!"
"What...? Is that what happened?" Keenie asked. "We're so sorry, sweetie." As she tried to hug him, Balin pushed her away, making the other two gasp.
"It's okay!" he seethed with kindness underneath his hurt. "But I'm glad now you didn't help me. Because I'm thankful Loona did! She IS a demon, one I look up to! She's like my GUARDIAN DEMON! She did scare me at first, but she loved me and saw me for the kid I truly was inside! And now I will do the same for her, for all of them! I'll protect them! Even from Stolas' mean wife, those agents, and you three! The little miracles that never came!"
"B-B-B-Balin?" Collin went.
"STOP!" Balin started crying and sobbing. "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOU TALK TO ME ABOUT WHO I AM OR WHAT I CAN BE ANYMORE! TODAY, A MEAN LADY CALLED ME INSECURE, BUT I WON'T LISTEN TO HER! I WON'T LISTEN TO YOU! SO WHATEVER IT TAKES, JUST LEAVE US ALONE! LEAVE, ME, ALONE! Waaaaaahhhhhhhh!"
The angels watched as the boy ran again, weeping as loud as he ever had, while they started feeling more bad for him than ever.
...
Meanwhile, again, a growling Loona pinned the agents under her in between her hands as they wrapped their arms around each other.
"Where is she?!" panted Blitzø. "WHERE IS STELLA?"
"And WHERE THE FUCK IS OUR SWEET LITTLE HUMAN KID?!" roared Millie.
"Guys! GUYS!" Balin cried as he ran up to them.
Loona's ears perked up hearing his voice as she stepped back from the agents, still lying down in each other's arms.
Balin, still crying his eyes out, planted his face into Moxxie's chest as he wrapped his arms tightly around him in pain.
"HOLY SHIT!" he exclaimed at the scratch, before he started soothing him. "It's gonna be okay now, kid. Don't cry."
Loona then growled again at the agents, who crawled backwards to the corner of the wall with her paws following them.
"Oh, hey, hey. Good puppy! Stay..." Agent One chuckled nervously.
"Who's a good girl?" added Agent Two.
"Yes, you are. Who's a nice doggy. Who's a nice... bitch." finished Agent One.
Loona then unsheathed her claws at the last bit, making the agents gasp, until she scoffed with her angry expression.
"No. You two can live. For now! But only because if my friend can't convince you Hell has its limits, then I WILL!" she said. "But if you ever follow us again, you're lucky I'll only beat the shit out of you! And if you ever try to capture, hurt, or bother my little friend again, I WILL RIP YOU BOTH TO SHREDS, LIMB FROM LIMB, THEN KILL YOU WHILE YOU'RE STILL SCREAMING! And that's the last thing I want the kid to see, but it will be the last thing you ever feel! UNDERSTAND?!"
The agents nodded in absolute fear.
"GOOD!" Loona barked again, as she stood up and flung her hair. "Until next time..." she then let out a monstrous bark, making the agents shiver again as she turned her back and walked away.
Blitzø then rubbed the crystal and opened a portal back to Hell as Moxxie carried a loudly-crying Balin and Loona carried the weapons bag.
"You'll never get away with this one!" Agent One screamed. "We WILL meet again, mangy mutt! You and that little boy too! YOU CAN BE HIS MOM FOR ALL I CARE! HE'S BETRAYING US ALL! YOU HEAR ME, KIDDO?!"
The screaming continued until the portal shut, and the battle was over.
A/N: See y'all in the next chapter.