The Moringstars and Sera sat in the archangel meeting room.
"How many exorcists are in limbo?" Charlie asked.
"A few thousand." Sera said, "We can offer them early probation if they agree to help guard heaven. How many are banished to hell?"
"Last count was around thirteen thousand, they've spread out throughout the rings taking odd jobs." Charlie said, "The sins keep me updated. If I give the word, they could gather them by the end of the day."
"Good." Sera said with her hands intertwined. "This truly is the worst case scenario."
"Can someone tell me who exactly this "Eve" woman is? I thought she was just the second wife of Adam, not some world ending super freak." Lucy said.
"She was the first sinner." Sera said, looking at Lucy, "Eating the forbidden fruit changed her in ways we never imagined. With every evil act humans do, the stronger she gets."
"Then that means with every sinner that was sent to Hell, unjustly or not, Eve's power grew stronger and stronger." Emily said.
"Yes." Sera said with a nod, gazing at Charlie. "Meaning if we accepted the idea of redemption sooner, we could've weakened Roo before she escaped."
"No, we couldn't." Charlie said, shaking her head. "Even if we did, Sir Pentious was the first sinner to do so, and even then it took another seven years before we figured out how to actually do it."
"And we don't know if she broke out before or during that time." Vaggie said with a frown.
"I should've known she escaped." Sera said, "I should've known the sigil was broken, it's a task the Lord entrusted to me... I failed him again."
"You did your best, Sera. Even I couldn't have learned Roo had escaped until it was too late." Michael said.
"We need to call in the exiled exorcists, they're the only ones that are trained for something like this." Charlie said, standing up, "I don't want to leave hell with that… thing… out there. I'll have the sins get all the exorcist in hell together."
"I'll try to double the time to get the other exorcists out of limbo." Sera said.
"There's a long road ahead of us, and there's no telling where it leads." Charlie said before a portal back to Hell was made for her and her family.
"So much for getting sleep." Emily mumbled, as she went through the portal.
'I'm not going to be able to sleep well for a while after this.' Emily thought with a frown.
Once back, Charlie immediately got a call from the sins.
'… oh shit, what happened?' She thought as her worry grew.
Charlie brought out her phone and answered it on speaker.
"Hello, uncle Satan." She said.
"It's not just me, all of us have called an emergency meeting." Satan said.
"Well, I guess that cuts out the middle man, because I was about to call one." Charlie said, "I just got back from heaven... we're in trouble... has dad ever talked about a person named Roo?"
The silence on the other end was deafening, but Charlie could hear ever sins face drop.
"I'll be right there." Charlie said, before looking at Emily, "Go to sleep, you need it."
Emily nodded and left as Charlie hugged her wife and daughter.
"Same to you both, I'll handle this." Charlie said.
Seeing she was serious, Vaggie and Emily nodded as Charlie then opened a portal and walked through.
-The Seven Deadly Sins Meeting Room-
Arriving at the meeting room, Charlie took her seat in the Chair of Pride.
"Alright, what's happening?" Charlie asked, tightly gripping her staff from stress.
"We... we found out, someone is going around the ring killing demons." Asmodeus said, fidgiting nervously in the Chair of Lust.
Normally, Charlie would be concerned, but right now, she didn't have time to worry about a trivial matter of a serial killer in hell.
"Okay, it's hell, I'm willing to bet that it's just a hellborn trying to rise the ranks and-"
"It's not a hellborn." Mammon said, looking like he lost the lottery in the Chair of Greed.
"Then it's probably one of the banished Exorcists, which I do need to speak to you all about-"
"It's not an exorcist either." Belphegor said, wide awake and alert in the Chair of Sloth.
That's when Charlie went stiff (Not like that) and paler than ever befofe.
"... What?" She asked, hollow.
"Charlie... as you know, Angels have gold blood." Bee said in the Chair of Gluttony, cutting her finger to show her gold blood to Charlie, "And Hellborns have black blood... This person... they were shot in the heart and never died... and their blood was red."
"But... but that would mean they're-"
"A sinner." Levithan said, the purple eel head specifically, in the Chair of Envy. "One that somehow got out of the Pride Ring."
Charlie took her crown off and ran a hand through her hair.
"Great... just fucking great, just what I need after learning that Roo escaped!" Charlie yelled loudly.
"WHAT!?" The sins yelled as Satan nearly leap out of his Chair of Wrath.
(Line break)
A group of demons with a certain symbol tattooed onto their wrists were in a warehouse in Greed.
"The Root of All Evil has been freed, soon it shall make heaven fall and cleanse the world in fire!" The imp said, raising his hands in the air! "My brothers in arms, our time has come!"
"YEAAAAAAAAAH!" They cheered in pure elation and joy.
Above them in the rafters, a person in all black, except for their left eye, which was blood red and glowing compared to the dark. In her left hand was a katana in a black sheath, which was stolen from Carmilla and designed to permanently kill demons. She put her thumb under the hilt and lifted it out of the sheath a small bit, making the holy metal shine bright as it would be the last thing these bastards would see.