Prince Stolas looked around the calming meadow of greenery in front of him, his back facing the tall grey walls of the capital city of Melromarc, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, not feeling any suspicious or mysterious person spying on him, those spies must have learned that he was better not to be watched after he turned a few of them into broken granite. He picked out a phone from his inventory and dialed it from muscle memory a number of his favorite imp in the whole of hell, but not to do a booty call this time
"Hello, Blitzy?" Stolas asked over the phone awaiting a response from his beloved imp, what he got where a few angry swears and gunshots
"Kind of busy right now Stolas. Like, real fucking busy!" Blitzø voice came shouting from the phone as a loud amount of gunshots, explosions and screams came in from the other end, forcing Stolas to place the phone more away from his head in fear of damaging his ears
"It's just... I was wondering if I could hire you and your employees to assist me in this wave, from what I got from little Raphtalia it would be best to have a team bigger than four" Stolas said as he wanted reinforcements for the ensuing wave, he was in doubt if it would be wise to put his dear Blitz and his employees in danger by getting them to come to assist him, if Raphtalia description was accurate then it could be highly dangerous, but he was also vulnerable now with this world's access to holy magic and not to mention the fact that interdimensional two headed dog actually hurt him like a holy weapon could, it meant that the weapon could mean his end if he wasn't careful and prepared
"And when is that fucking Wave by the way?" Blitzø asked Stolas as he quickly checked the timer in his status magic
"In about two hours" Stolas replied and heard another explosion from the phone, along with laughter that he assumed was from one of blitzø employees, that crazy black haired country girl if he had to guess
"Oh for Satan's sake, look if we kill all these Mexican cartel fuckers in time I'll frickin call you, otherwise you will have to manage with the brat and those pets of yours" blitzø said annoyed as more gunshots and slurs in Spanish came from the phone. Stolas nodded in agreement, he had brought Raphtalia and those two other monsters exactly for the reason of not having Blitz help when needed, after all his beloved imp had a life of his own to live and he couldn't expect him to throw away his business just so he could defend his royal ass twenty four seven
"That's understandable, good luck Blitz" Stolas bid goodbye as he ended the call, sighing as he stood to watch the skies. When a gun shot was fired and went through his hat, making it fall to ground as Stolas turned his head backwards to see who fired, seeing the raccoon slave he brought in the process of doing a flashy pose with a gun in hand and knife in her mouth
"Raphtalia! Watch it with that thing! You could shoot someone's eyes out!" Stolas reprimanded as the raccoon girl shrank in fear from his red glowing eyes, she knew he wouldn't do anything physically abusing towards her but she was still a bit scared of him from time to time as he was still a demon with terrifying abilities
"Sorry, I was practicing those trick shots miss Millie taught me..." Raphtalia explained as she was practicing the art of gun fighting to make her knife combat more deadly but she never used a gun in her life and they were trickier than she expected
"Sigh... Where are Ferdinand and Isabella?" Stolas asked as the fillolian and dragon were nowhere to be seen, which was a worrying prospect as they were quite aggressive and prone to fighting if left unsupervised, last thing he needs is to see a massive explosion of ice and flames in the near distance
"I think they went to the forest to kill stuff, they were really excited to get to fight in the wave" Raphtalia explained as Stolas facepalm, of course those two were out there killing, he shouldn't have expected more from a Ars Goetia in the making and a hellish affected dragon would want to splash a bit of blood on the ground before a big fight, he really should have kept them away from blitz and his employees, as much as he loved that imp he might have been a bad influence for those animals
"I'll get them before they can cause unrepairable damage to the wild life" Stolas said as he walked towards the forest, eyes changing to purple as his vision was altered to be able to better track the faint essence of his blood that was present in the cursed seals in both creatures. Though he might have not needed, seeing as he was hearing loud squawking and roaring close by
Walking into a recently made clearing made in the woods, he saw them, a white dragon with blue eyes and spikes like emerging from its back, the other was a ostrich-like bird with wine colored feathers and yellow eyes with a strange pattern of feather in its back, both were atop of piles of dead animals they had most certainly killed, Stolas just sighed
"Let me guess? You two entered a bet to see who could make the biggest pile?" Stolas said as the fillolian and dragon realized his presence and recognized that the tone of voice he was using meant trouble, they quickly came down from the piles and started to point claws and wings at the other, passing the blame to the other but the royal bird was not having their excuses
"I told you two that hunting down too many living beings from a habit is bad for the environment. No treats for the rest of the week" Stolas said and immediately more squawking and growling came his way, some that definitely sounded like swears, but he was unamused by it as he simply grabbed both by the snot and beak and started dragging them back "No buts! Now let's go back"