More time passed and quickly, the princess of Gluttony grew into her powers.
While Charlie may not have been respected in her home ring of Pride, in Gluttony? Izumi was so beloved by the denizens that to mock her was held in the same rage as mocking Mr. Rogers.
The Cherubs had also grown accustomed to serving the Gluttony princess; Izumi was apparently much kinder and understanding than their previous boss
SIN
Currently, Izumi was sleeping in her bedroom, snug as a bug in a rug before she heard the blinds open and stirred awake to see Cletus, Keenie, and Collin there.
"Hello Izumi, how was your sleep?" Keenie asked.
Izumi yawned, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. "It was nice. What's going on today?"
"Well, your mom wants to talk with you. Apparently, there's gonna be something special for you that all the Kings are setting up." Collin explained.
"She seemed mighty excited for it." Celtus noted.
Izumi nodded and headed downstairs to get breakfast first, seeing Beelzebub there enjoying a banana coconut milkshake.
"Hey, jelly bean."
"Hey, Mom. What's this I hear about something special you and the other Kings are planning?"
Beelzebub chuckled. "It's a secret until we get to the council."
After breakfast was finished, Izumi and Beelzebub went to the Pride Ring to meet up with the rest of the Kings of Hell. Lucifer happily bonded out of his throne when the two arrived and hugged her.
"Glad to see you, 'Zumi!"
"Hey, Uncle Lucifer. What's going on?"
"Now that you have all seven of our pacts as well as finally awakened your Quirk, you need to undergo a trial," Satan said gruffly. "It'll test everything we have given you. And the reward at the end might prove a boon for when your time to return to Earth is ready."
"What do I have to do?" Izumi asked.
"Well, to give things straight, some uppity-bitch naming herself after Ol' Lu is running a racket. You gotta go through the trials she has set up and deal with her loyal followers." Mammon explained.
"It shouldn't be too hard. It does involve puzzles and we know you're a whizz at those." Ozzie added.
Izumi nodded firmly as Lucifer opened a door leading to the gauntlet in question.
"Knock 'em dead, kiddo. We're rooting for ya!"
Izumi smiled and returned the nod before heading through the door as it closed behind her. Beelzebub hoped her daughter could stand the trials while Ozzie chuckled.
"I bet you all a hundred bucks that she's gonna seduce each and every one of 'em."
"YOU'RE ON!"
SIN
The first room of the gauntlet looked like some kind of office room. Izumi was confused as she made her way through before finding a woman sitting at a desk.
The woman had pale skin, red irises, a black arrow-tipped tail, and silvery-white hair. Her hair was wavy and fashioned in 3 large curls resting on her forehead, with the middle curl being larger than the two on either side. It reached down both sides of her head, tucked behind her ears, with both ends curling inwards at the bottom of her head close to her chin. Additionally, she had a ponytail on the back of her head with two more large, distinctive curls. Poking out of her hair were two small black horns that were rounded at the tips. She has white eyebrows and visible dark circles under her rounded eyes, which were covered by round-framed glasses.
She wore a red button-up long-sleeve shirt with a large folded collar underneath a black long-sleeved blazer, as well as a black pencil skirt, black gloves, and a pair of black knee-high boots. She also wore an ID on a black lanyard and was holding a red clipboard.
"Name's Pandemonica, Hell's Customer Service. How may I serve you?"
Izumi looked around awkwardly, wondering if this was some kind of joke. However, she remembered something Uncle Ozzie told her about making someone feel good.
"How about I serve you instead?" The Kitsune Girl offered with a sweet smile.
Pandemonica sighed. "Sweet of you to offer. I could really use some coffee. I'm not myself without it."
"Okay!" Izumi smiled, whipping up a cup of joe that Pandemonica took and savored; smiling euphorically at both the smell and taste. "So...what now?"
"Well, you've completed the first trial. I'll come with you to the next one." Pandemonica said as she stood up from her desk and opened a door for Izumi to go through.
Nodding, Izumi headed through to find herself in a place that wouldn't be out of place in the Lust Ring. She blushed brightly but steeled her nerves as she walked through the trial room. Pandemonica, for her part, seemed completely nonplussed by all this.
"How are you okay with this?"
"I've been through here many times...and let me just warn you the 'champion' of this trial room is a bit much."
"Can't be any worse than what I've seen at Ozzie's..."
Soon, they reached the end and found another girl waiting for them. She had the same eyes, hair, tail, and horns as Pandemonica but her hair was wavy and unruly, with several notable cowlicks dispersed in no particular pattern. She had a left-swept fringe that stopped at the eyebrow's height, as well as two long segments of hair in front of either ear that dropped down to chest height, ending in a zigzag shape. While her irises were still red, rather than black pupils she had luminescent white pupils in the shape of hearts and she seemed to be blushing.
Izumi blushed as she noticed the girl had a very curvy figure commonly associated with models or adult actresses, with a large bust, small waist, and wider hips. In her idle state, she appears with her hands resting on her chest, wearing a black blazer with a red turtleneck sweater underneath, a black pencil dress split on both sides and red leggings.
"You and me. Now."
"E-Eh?!" Izumi squeaked out, her tails straightening out and fluffing up.
Pandemonica sighed. "Please, forgive Modeus. Lust for sin is in our blood, hard to keep it in check."
"So...she's from Ozzie's?" Izumi asked.
"You know Papa?" Modeus asked in excitement. "That means you're the prodigal disciple I've been hearing about! You poor fool, I have to see where you go from here!"
"Oh...Okay!" Izumi said, both awkward yet relieved that things went well.
"Let me get the door for you, Mistress." Modeus said as she opened the door to the next trial room.
"U-Um, please refrain from calling me that..." Izumi helplessly asked.
The next trial room was some kind of gauntlet filled with spikes and other death traps. Izumi looked around and rubbed her chin, deep in thought, before smiling as she haressedDreamer's Cloudto create a cloudy bridgeway for everyone to walk across.
"Try not to fall asleep, please?"
Pandemonica and Modeus nodded, though they were definitely tempted as they walked over. Soon, Izumi found herself pounced on by three individuals, all identical triplets.
They had white canine ears that emerged from under their hair on the top of their heads; They also all had canine teeth and their eyes were very large, rounded, and wide, invoking an enthusiastic expression. They had parted fringes and their hair stretched all the way down their back, where at the end it was tied via hair tie into a short "tail".
The triplets donned more form-fitting apparel, wearing red button-up long-sleeve shirts underneath black-striped suit vests, and black slim-fit suit pants. They wore black cuffs over their red shirts just below the shoulder, as well as black gloves and black ties tucked underneath their vests. Their tails seem to emerge from underneath their vests and over their pants.
"It's you! You're the adopted child of the Great Queen!" The three said in unison. "Please, take us with you!"
"O-Oh! Okay!" Izumi giggled as she awkwardly petted the three. "What are your names?"
"We're Cerberus! We are a single soul inhabiting three bodies! We are the Guardian of the Gluttony Ring!" They all proclaimed proudly. "At long last, it's time to corrupt the mortal realm!"
"Let's not go that far..." Izumi begged. "Can you lead us to the next trial room?"
"Yup!" Cerberus chirped as they led the growing group to the next door.
The fourth trial room was some kind of gamer pad, the sound of a turn-based strategy game playing being heard as Izumi made her way through the discarded junk food, alcohol bottles, and other substances.
"Geez, whoever lives here really needs to clean up."
Cerberus sniffed the air. "Hey, do you smell that? Orange, berries, and...vodka?"
"That's definitely Malina you're smelling." Pandemonica sighed. "Just a heads up, she acts hard to get, but maybe your charm can open her up."
"Okay..." Izumi said as she wadded through all the trash before seeing a girl playing what appeared to be Civilization V on a game console.
Her hair was styled in a messy bob and she wore a red button-up shirt with sleeves folded just below her elbows, with a black, buttoned, sleeveless vest over it. Covering her lower half, she wore a black pencil skirt over a set of black pantyhose and a set of 3 thin black bangles on each wrist.
"Great, another braindead idiot..." The girl, apparently Malina, groaned as she paused her game. "What are you playing a-"
Malina lost her words as she took in the sight of Izumi; a healthy, growing figure, jade eyes you could drown in, luscious tails….and a smile that could warm even the hardest of hearts.
"U…Um…uh….I….I…I..I…." Malina tried to speak, then coughed to compose herself. "What can I do to you? FOR! I meant for you…Unless you want…No, no! forget that, pretty and foxy.:
She then turned around and started talking to herself.
" 'Pretty and foxy' What in the Heaven is that?! Get it together Malina!
'….She reminds me of Loona.' Izumi noted with a smile, then making a note to check when she, Loona and Via-chan where hanging out next before continuing on her way.
"I'll just let you sort yourself out."
Malina was so engrossed with first berating herself and then drinking in the sight of Izumi walking away to respond.
The next room was covered in a thick cloud of cigarette smoke. Izumi, thankfully, had developed a bit of immunity thanks to all the times spent in the Greed Ring. It seemed her newfound companions were also used to it, as none of them seemed all that bothered.
"Zdrada must be close by." Cerberus said.
"Oh no...PLEASE no..." Malina begged in a frustrated tone.
"What's wrong?" Izumi asked.
"Zdrada is Malina's sister. They...don't get along." Pandemonica said.
Izumi was starting to get a bit worried now as they headed through the smoke, usingSerpent's Eyeto telekinetically move the smoke away before finding the source of it.
It was a girl with short hair, most of it covering her left eye. She had black eye shadow along with piercings on her mouth, ears, and nose. She wore an arm brace on her right hand and a wrist cuff on her left hand. In addition to a white cross necklace, she also wore a black choker. Her base attire consisted of a red short-sleeved dress shirt, black leather pants held up with a belt, and black, knee-length heeled boots.
"Yo. You're the new bitch that's been getting everyone in Hell all hot and bothered." She greeted with a smirk, a cigarette in her hand. "Whatever Big Scratch sent you to do, I'm in."
"Uh...I have a feeling I'll regret this." Izumi muttered.
"YOU WILL!" Malina barked.
Zdrada laughed. "Too bad, I'm coming anyway. Go ahead, try to stop me."
"I can't believe this..." Malina growled out.
"Ah, Malinka! Seems you're hooked on this chick's style!" Zdrada chuckled as she recognized her sister. "Glad to see she finally got you to haul your ass out of your stank-ass room!"
"Kill one of us. Me or her. Please. Fast." Malina begged Izumi.
"No."
"Just leave them be. You get used to it, eventually." Pandemonica said.
"Also, just a heads up, the next trial room isn't really much of a trial room," Zdrada said casually. "It's just a place where Lucy keeps this one angel who left Heaven because she wanted to study Hell and hopefully make peace between the realms or some schlock like that."
Izumi brightened up. If this was true, then perhaps she could help this angel with her goal. After all, they had similar plans in mind for changing the hierarchy of Heaven.
Heading inside, Izumi saw it was a pretty mundane apartment room, no doubt to accommodate a person living there. She heard scribbling and looked to see a girl writing on a notepad with a focused expression.
"Um, hey?"
The girl perked up and looked at Izumi, giving the daughter of Beelzebub a good idea what she looked like.
She wore a white, almost militaristic uniform, with yellow lining on her collar, sleeves, gloves, and down the middle of her shirt. She also wore a necklace under the collar of her uniform, which meets to hold a square cross with leaves protruding from under it. She also wore pants with a belt, and white boots with straps on the top, with typical silver lining on the straps.
"Oh my heavens!" She gasped. "You must be the new Hell Princess I've been hearing so much about from Zdrada! What would you be doing here? Most unusual."
"I was sent by Lucifer to go through these trials," Izumi explained. "I heard that you want to try and make peace between Heaven and Hell. I can agree with that, since I'm helping Lucifer's daughter with proving redemption in Hell is possible!"
"Oh, really?" The girl asked excitedly. "My name is Azazel, let's join forces!"
"Let me get the door since nobody bothered to give her a key." Zdrada said, fishing a key out of her shirt and using it to open the next trial door.
What Izumi saw next was a veritable gauntlet that challenged reflexes and speed above all else. It also had an underlying puzzle element to it, leaving the kitsune girl to rub her chin in thought as she figured out how to pull this off.
"This one looks tricky. Might require some testing to find the perfect path." Azazel noted. "Please, take your time, your majesty!"
"Just call me Izumi, please."
Izumi managed to use her newly enhanced kitsune reflexes to bypass the puzzle gauntlet.
The girl waiting at the end had a short ponytail on the back of her head, tightened with a red bandana, and had sunglasses. She wore a black tie with two silver clips attaching it to her red shirt, a black unbuttoned suit jacket around her shoulders, red fingerless gloves with metal tags on the wrists, labeled "HPJ", and black pants with a belt and boots.
"Yo, did you just solve that puzzle? That's awesome!" She said. "Name's Justice, one of the former High Prosecutors of the Ring of Wrath. How's Old Satan doing?"
"Uncle Satan is doing fine. I think I heard about you from him once or twice." Izumi said. "He said you were, and I quote, unbearably optimistic and friendly yet you were damn good at your job."
"Yup, sure sounds like him, alright." Justice laughed. "So, he must have sent you here because Lucy finally bit off more than she could chew with the Big L, huh? Count me in!"
As Justice led everyone to the door leading to the final trial room, she gave a quick look to Izumi.
"By the way, please be gentle with Lucy. I know she acts like she's the real 'Lucifer', but...yeah."
Izumi nodded as Justice opened the door for her and the group headed through, finding themselves in what looked like the room of a big corporate CEO. Sitting at the far end in a lavish chair at a desk was a woman with long hair tied at the end, with bangs kept in place by a black, spiked tiara. Her horns were white and jagged and she had narrow eyes, underneath the left one was a mole.
She wore a black suit with a red collared shirt underneath, complete with white gloves, a black tie, and a sigil on her lapel. She was currently swishing around a champagne flute full of blood-red wine while backed by two burly skeleton demons.
"So...the original sends the champion after me, huh?" She sighed as she downed her flute before standing up and marching her way down until she was right in Izumi's face.
"After all I've done and all my schemes to take his throne? Lucifer sends the 'golden' child of Beelezbub to end my reign. Well, at least I'll have the satisfaction of knowing a truly worthy demon bested me."
Lucy then unbuttoned her shirt, making Izumi blush.
"Just get it over with. I will not defend myself."
Composing herself, Izumi took Lucy's hands and cupped them.
"I'm not doing that." The earth born demon said.
"….What?"
"I'm not doing that." Izumi repeated. "I came here to help, not fight. Besides? You're way too cool to just up and get rid of. Why don't we become friends? Allies?"
Not expecting this, Lucy's eyes widened.
"Y-you'd accept me? And the others? As your followers?" She asked, not sure whether or not she could believe this.
"I'd prefer friends." Izumi smiled. "But if…"
Suddenly, ethereal white chains shot out of nowhere, causing Izumi to quickly jump out of the way as a figure slammed in front of Lucifer.
"YOU TRULY THINK YOU CAN TAKE THE QUEEN'S HEAD?!"
The attacker rose up to reveal themselves as a woman with charcoal grey skin and wearing a suit jacket ripped to expose her stomach, and a bra that doesn't connect at the front, exposing her breasts to a degree. She wore a thick belt with a pentagram medallion on a chain attached to it, with only underwear rather than pants. She also had an armband with the Roman number 20, thigh-high socks covered by metal armor on her calves, and belts around her thighs.
"I-I wasn't planning on it at all-!" Izumi tried to say but the woman lunged with her clawed gauntlets.
"DON'T FEED ME YOUR LIES! I SHALL SEND YOUR HEAD BACK TO THE ARROGANT KINGS IN A BOX!"
"Judgement! Stand down!" Lucy snapped, but her ally paid her mind, swinging a weapon at Izumi…only for that weapon to Shine and become heavier, falling to the ground and revealing it to be gold.
"Whoa, whoa! Calm down!" Izumi said. "Can't we talk?"
"TALKING IS FOR WEAKLINGS!" Judgement roared, instead moving to attack Izumi with hand to hand combat. Izumi lit her fists and feet aflame and deflected the attacks, leaping out of the way of others before she created a goop that caught Judgement's blows.
Izumi then forced some honey down Judgement's mouth and blew a cloud into her face, trying to see what had driven her to this. Sadly, she was pushed back and sent flying.
"Need to practice…" Izumi mused, narrowly dodging a kick from Judgement.
"You're NOT good enough! You seek to end this? Well, I'll say the same thing I said to Lucifer's daughter: Better to die pursuing my goals…than being the pup of a lazy bitch of a mutt!" Judgement snapped.
The air went silent and CRACKED.
"….Okay." Izumi growled, her face suddenly cold as steel. "That. DOES! IT!"
NO ONE! INSULTED HER MAMA OR HER FRIENDS!
With a mighty roar, the princess of Gluttony transformed into a her full demon self; a 10 foot Kitsune, with seven tails baring the Pacts of her uncles, aunts and her moth on the eight tail. The 9th tail, a jaded green, crackled and smoked with green flame and lightning.
Judgement simply raced to face her foe, who jumoed upwards and landed righty smack dab on her before getting her in an arm bar.
"Say 'Auntie!' Say 'Auntie!" Izumi demanded.
Judgement roared and flung Izumi off her, but the kistune grabbed her in her jaws and spun her around until they were both dizzy.
"D-did I win?" Izumi asked when the world finally stopped spinning and she saw Judgement trying and failing to get back on her feet again.
"Well done, 'Zumi!" Lucifer praised, suddenly appearing along with the other Sins. "I knew you'd finally get Lucy to stop hiding away thinking I was going to take her head off!"
"The Great Queen!" Cerberus exclaimed, the triplets bowing before Beelzebub, who nuzzled her pup's face in pride…while shooting a Judgement a look alongside Lucifer that clearly said:
'You only live because my daughter sees merit in you. Do not waste this chance.'
"Papa!" Modeus said as she ran up to Ozzie and hugged him.
"Modey~!"
SIN
And so it came to be, that the so called 'Helltaker Girls' formally joined the Cherubs as Izumi's followers.
Oh yeah, that was a sight to behold when the two crews met.
"…You're friends with Cherubs?" Judgment asked, blinded by Izumi's smile.
"Pay up, assholes." Ozzie smirked at the rest of the Kings, who all grumbled as they tossed him several hundreds.
Knightmare Lord A/N:
Izumi gains the ladies of Helltaker as part of her group of servants...and by that, I mean HAREM.
Hope the action scenes weren't too much, Mrotrax!
Mrotrax A/N:
Took a while but here it is! Sorry for the wait folks, hope it was worth the wait!