{ Chapter 21: Seeing Stars Pt. 2 }

Before she knew it, Loona was being shoved through a portal that the rest of IMP and Danika and Stolas walks through.

"Alright, Loona, let's make this quick. In and out before anyone notices us here." Blitz said.

Sounds of gunfire and screaming as Blitz looks around the alley way that they've portaled into.

"Oh. This doesn't look much different from Hell." he commented, brushing off his front. "Alright, now let's get to work. Loonie, sniff!"

Loona removes an empty can from her hair.

"How am I supposed to smell anything in this city?" she questioned.

"Can't you even do one thing right?" Moxxie glared.

"Can't you finally do something about how fat you are?" Loona asked smugly, pointing at his body.

Moxxie looks offended and starts to defend.

"I'm not --"

"You know, it wouldn't kill you to put a salad in your body every now and then." Blitz suggested also smugly.

"What? But, I'm not fat!" Moxxie said.

"Guys! Focus! Octavia is in danger!" Danika glared, scaring Blitz a bit.

Blitz immediately jumps up on a dumpster and tapes a picture to the open lid. It has drawings of IMP with Loona and Danika in their human disguise plus Stolas and a fake mustache.

"Now, first things first we're gonna do this the old-fashioned way. We're gonna need disguises." Blitz said, pointing at his drawing.

Loona, Danika, and Stolas get a trio transformation sequence into human disguises.

Millie claps in amazement while Moxxie look unimpressed. Blitz's eyes widen and blushes seeing Stolas's human disguise. In the background next to him is a poster that reads "Public Health WARNING: New study finds LA water to be 2% sewer overflow and 98% literal acid. 'NO, OBVIOUSLY DON'T DRINK THAT SHIT!!' Top Scientists Say."

"No chance you can conjure us a couple of those, can ya?" Blitz asked, snapping out of his blush.

"Sadly, no. I'm afraid without my grimoire, my powers are just a tad limited in the human world." Stolas smiled sheepishly.

"What, you can't memorize your fucking spells?" Blitz asked.

Stolas gets annoyed.

"Oh, your memory's so great? What's his phone number?" he asked, gesturing to Moxxie.

"Fuck you." Blitz glared defeatedly.

"Exactly." Stolas smiled smugly, making Danika giggle.

They walk out of the alleyway and Stolas grabs a pair of red-tinted sunglasses which he puts on his head where his second pair of eyes would be in his normal form.

Danika looks around cautiously feeling weird to be back on Earth. She's getting used to living in Hell and prefer the Hellborn kind than her own kind since they're just... worst just like her own parents. She glances around the place for any sight of Octavia. Blitz suggested he needed to get into human disguise as they head to the store labeled "Little costume shop of horrors". A torso animatronic with an eye falling out cackles. Blitz walks through the door dressed in a pink shirt, blue jeans, and wig after getting inside. His horns have been covered with frankly gigantic ears. Stolas looks up at him as Blitz gestures to himself.

"So?" he asked.

"You look ridiculous. As if anyone that stupid would fall for that." Danika commented, making Blitz deflate.

Suddenly, a woman screams excitedly.

"Look, everyone! It's Holly's Wood star, Brennon Ragers!"

"The fuck is a Brendon Rager - Oh."

Blitz looks up and sees a billboard for "Sweetie! I'm In the House!! Guest Starring Brennon Ragers". The man on the poster is the one Octavia accidentally killed by landing on earlier. Stolas looking up at the billboard, eyes widen in realization and horror.

"Oh, dear."

"Are you serious? What about the big ears?" Danika deadpanned in disbelief.

A crowd immediately mobs Blitz, taking pictures and begging for things while Blitz tries to escape.

"Millie, where are you and your whore bag husband?!" he shouted.

But there was no sign of them as they were too busy singing and buying other things that Moxxie wanted to get. Danika and Loona fought off the people nearby that are in their way.

"I'm taking this out of their pay!" Blitz shouted angrily.

A truck is seen with agents jumping out to break the commotion. A man is seen blowing his whistle with a diploma in his hands, and Blitz is finally let go. A producer approaches him, holding a bag of fruit snacks.

"Mr. Ragers, we've been looking for you everywhere. You were supposed to be on set an hour ago!"

"The fuck are you talking about?" Blitz asked.

"Your guest spot on... "Sweetie! I'm in the House!!"" Producer said, eating a fruit snack.

An ad pops up, resembling the same design of the billboard, and briefly disappears.

"We're taping tonight. Now, hurry up and get in the car!"

"Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no! I'm not going anywhere with you, jizz-biscuit!" Blitz shook his head, flipping him off.

"Very funny, Mr. Ragers. Now, get in the car." Producer said, trying to lure him with a fruit snack. "Come on, boy, come on."

"Get your fucking hands off me!"

Blitz breaks free from the guard as briefly as he is caught again.

"Loona! Danika! Stolas! A little help, here?!"

Blitz's fake ears fall out, as a man who drops his baby catches the fake ears. This leads the crowd to have an altercation, fighting over the ears. Stolas tries to get through.

"E-excuse me, sir. I'm..." Stolas started, fixing his hair nervously. "Mr. Ragers' agent, and I don't believe you can just--"

An agent behind Stolas cracks his neck, and grabs him from behind.

"Oh! You are strong!" Stolas said.

Blitz and Stolas are thrown in the back of the car. Blitz growls his way back out, but the doors close before he can escape.

"Blitz, we don't have time for this. Via could be anywhere. She could be in danger." Stolas said with worry.

"Don't worry, I'm on it."

Blitz breaks the windows with his horns, and spots Loona punching the people in the crowd with Danika tossing people away.

"Loonie, Dan, go find Via! We'll catch up soon!" he shouted.

Loona flips him off angrily.

"Yeah! Way to be a team player, sweetie!" Blitz gave her thumbs up with a proud look.

"Where's dad?!" Danika shouted.

"Don't worry! He's with me! Just go find your sister!"

Danika hesitated and then nodded, trusting him with Stolas. Blitz smiled and turned to Stolas.

"She's in great hands."

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Danika keeps on searching and notices Loona is looking at the coffee restaurant.

"Loona, focus. We need to find her." she scolded.

"Relax, Dan. I just need to get a coffee and we go find her. You might need some too. Can't go searching without an empty stomach." Loona said before heading inside.

Danika sighed and could go for some drink or maybe a quick snack. She reluctantly followed after Loona as she went inside. After that, Loona walks out, sipping coffee and Danika comes out after her eating cake pops. Loona opens up her phone to "Sinstagram". As they walk around the city with "I Like It" playing on Loona's phone, Loona stops when she spots the Star Owl: Souvenir Shop sign on the wall. She admires this, and takes a selfie with it to post on her Sinstagram. Danika sees that sign and takes a picture of it.

After posting the photo and scrolling down her feed, Loona notices a post from Octavia at the same location. Taken aback by this, she spits out her coffee, and then looks at Octavia's profile, with some of her recent posts being pictures she took throughout the city. Danika flinches to hear Loona spitting out her coffee.

"Loona? You okay?"

Without saying anything, Loona showed her a picture of Danika, shocking her. One post shows a castle she was nearby, with the caption reading "Found a cool looking castle, reminds me of home..." which was shown to have been posted two minutes ago when Loona first saw it. As Loona observes, that same castle from the post is right behind her. Looking at the castle, and the coffee, she crushes the latter and runs towards the castle. Danika follows after her after finishing her cake pops in one go. The coffee spills and gets stepped on, as the scene transitions to the castle from the post.

Loona and Danika looks around trying to find Octavia, but Loona's phone goes off again, revealing another post from Octavia depicting where she is at, but no sign of her in real life. Another post, where she's seen in front of the Holly's Wood sign, Loona and Danika are right in front of it, and when Danika believes she found Octavia, she mistakes her for a human that looks like her from behind. Danika smiles apologetically at her before going back to searching.

The montage continues as Loona scrolls through her phone to multiple places that Octavia has been in, with the background changing to its exact location, but every attempt proves futile with Octavia nowhere to be found. Loona and Danika sweats for a while, but still keeps searching. They later approach the observatory in front of them.

"Man, for someone to be sightseeing around the place, she's pretty fast..." Danika panted.

"No kidding." Loona agreed, wiping off her sweat.

They eventually stop at a staircase seeing a crying Octavia by herself. She sees a blue hue next to her, which is seen by Loona reverting back into her normal form with human Danika standing next to her. Danika immediately hugged Octavia, surprising her.

"Oh, you're okay! You're okay! Are you hurt? No one touched you, right?" she asked worriedly, checking her face and her body.

"I-I'm okay, Danika! Really!" Octavia assured her.

"You sure?"

"Yes!"

Danika looks relieved as she cups Octavia's face.

"Oh, good..."

Then she gets mad at Octavia and pinches her cheeks, causing Octavia to yelp in pain.

"Ow!! The hell?!"

"Why the fuck are you out there?! Don't you know how careful it is to be in this human world?! You're lucky nobody even acknowledged you that you're a demon! Why did you take the book and then just leave without telling me or dad?!! You were supposed to ask!" Danika ranted, scaring Loona a bit.

Octavia struggled to get Danika to stop pinching her cheeks too hard the more mad she gets, but Danika wouldn't budge.

"Octavia! Do you understand? Do you want to be taken away??" Danika continued. "Where I can't find you?!"

"No..." Octavia whimpered, tearing up. "I'm sorry for worrying you."

Softening her expression, Danika releases Octavia's cheeks and hugs her again.

"It's okay. You're my sister. I don't want to lose you."

Octavia nods and hugs her back.

"Hey." Loona greeted.

Octavia looks up to notice Loona and pulls away from Danika's hug and wipes her tears.

"Hey." she greeted back before asking. "How did you two find me?"

"Your Sinstagram. Nice pics by the way."

Loona pulls out her phone, showing pics that Octavia posted.

"Oh, thanks." Octavia said, sniffling.

Danika notices she's still sad.

"You okay?" she asked her sister.

"Can't believe I was so stupid. I spent all day looking for a place where I could see some dumb meteor shower. And all I get is... this!" Octavia said, crying while gesturing to the smoggy sky.

"Yeah, smog's a bitch." Loona agreed, looking up.

Loona attempts to light up a cigarette, but no flames comes out. As she tries, Octavia snaps a flame for Loona's cigarette. Loona takes a smoke, as some of it gets in Octavia's face. Danika waves it out of Octavia's face.

"You know, your dad's really worried about you." Loona mentioned, sitting next to Octavia on the ledge as Danika sat next to Octavia on the other side of the ledge.

Gearing that made Octavia scoff.

"Right! That's why you two're here instead of him. He couldn't be bothered to keep his promise, and now he can't be bothered to come and get me himself. He'd rather spend his time just screaming at my mum. Why does he hate her more than he loves me?" she asked, sniffling.

A long silence between them until Loona extracts her cigarette and exhales. Danika wants to tell Octavia about Stolas and Stella's confrontation along with Stella's true colors, but she couldn't. She's not sure if Octavia even cares about her mom and doesn't want to hurt her. Luckily, Loona beats her to it as she sighs.

"Sometimes... sometimes it's not as simple as that. This kind of shit gets messy, and everybody's got issues, especially dads. And sometimes they fuck up -- well, all the time. But, that doesn't mean they don't care."

"If he cares, where is he?" Octavia asked.

"He's somewhere down there." Danika pointed to the city.

"He's here?" Octavia questioned in surprise.

"Looking for you. I mean..." Loona said, smoking her cigarette once more. "...try to cut your dad some slack."

Loona continues to light up her lighter, and a flame finally lights up.

"He may not always get it right, but... he's trying."

She looks at the lighter and sees the sticker with the I.M.P logo on it, and gives a smile as she look towards Octavia.

"That's more important than you think."

"She's right. Stolas may be bad at parenting, but he really does care about you just as much as he cares about me. I owe him everything." Danika said, touching her key necklace fondly.

Octavia looks at them by surprise, until she notices a light shining on her face, which is seen to be coming from the moon as the smog clears up. As the trio stare at the moon, Loona turns off her lighter, and throws away her cigarette. She stands up for a few stretches.

"You ready to go?"

Loona extends her hand to Octavia, but instead, she gives her the grimoire.

"Yeah." Octavia nodded.

Danika smiled and stood up.

"Great."

Loona gives her hand to Octavia once more, and this time, she is greeted with a hug, which Loona returns the favor. Octavia turns to Danika and gestures her over to join in. Danika happily joins the hug. They pull away after and hold each other's hands.

"By the way, shouldn't you be out of disguise by now?" Loona questioned, pointing to Danika's (true) human form.

Danika freezes and smiles sheepishly.

"Yeah, about that..."

Loona gets confused on what she mean and looks at Octavia who smiles sheepishly too, giving her a shrug. Her eyes widened in shock.

"No way..."

"Yeah, I know. This is the real me. I'm a human, adopted by dad. My selfish parents on Earth sold me for money. Please don't tell the others yet. I just... need time until they learn to trust me." Danika explained.

Loona kept staring at her for a moment before smiling.

"Yeah, whatever. Didn't expect that, but... you're okay."

This made Danika smile in relief and happiness.

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Meanwhile, the Starstruck Studios building is burning, while police cars are heard, Blitz and Stolas are seen walking away. Blitz's phone on the maps app with a location titled "Not Topic" as Blitz was searching.

"Now, if we could just find where..."

A red portal appears in front of them, where Loona exits.

"Loona!" Blitz called in relief.

With her hand still in the portal, Loona removes herself from it with Octavia still holding her hand with Danika, who's in her owl demon form now, coming out next while holding Octavia's other hand.

"Oh, Loona, my sweet baby girl! I'm so sorry, I'll never replace you no matter what you--"

Before Blitz can finish his sentence and hug her, Loona furiously kicks him in the groin as he winces in pain. This made Danika wince for her boss.

"You're good." Loona said.

Stolas painfully looks at Blitz, until he faces Octavia, who looks down shamefully.

"Dad... I'm so sorry."

Stolas runs up to hug her, as he reverts back to his demon form.

"I'm just relieved you're okay! But, what would possess you to do such a thing? You know I haven't taught you spells like this yet." he said.

"I just wanted to see the stars you promised." Octavia answered.

Stolas looks confused.

"The stars?" he questioned before gasping in realization and regret. "Azathoth's tears! Oh, no. Oh, my dear sweet Via. I am so--"

Octavia stops him as she hugs him.

"I know, dad. It's okay, you're here now. Both of you." she said, looking at Danika.

Stolas returns the hug to his daughter. He looks up and holds out his hand for Danika, which she takes it before he pulls her into a group hug. Loona watches happily, until she notices Blitz trying to hug her, and responds with smacking him with the book with a smug but loving face. She then notices a faint glow in the sky. They look up to see several fireworks exploding in the sky. Loona records this on her phone.

"What the fuck is that?" she asked.

"My acting career." Blitz answered, deadpanning.

Loona gives a loving smile at Blitzo's quip.

"Those are fireworks. The best thing ever." Danika said in recognition.

"Fireworks, huh?" Loona repeated, liking the name.

As the fireworks take off, Stolas, Danika, and Octavia look up in awe.

"Look at that one! Did you see that one?" Octavia gasped happily, pointing at the fireworks.

"Now, where the fuck are M n' M?" Blitz wondered.

Danika felt a vibration from her pocket and pulled out her phone to see a text message from Asmodeus and Fizzarolli.

You found her? Everything okay?

Smiling at their concern, Danika responded back to them as she typed her phone.

Found her alright and safe. Just watching fireworks with my family.

She then send them a video of the fireworks show from the building. Danika waited for their response as she saw three dots to show that they're texting before it was sent back to her.

Nice~~ We're glad that you found her.

Danika keeps on typing.

I never got to say it earlier, but thanks for our date. I had a great time with you two 💕

...

We're glad that you did and we felt the same. Talk to ya later 🤗

See ya ☺️

Blushing, Danika put her phone away and notice Loona and Octavia are looking at her with a knowing smile as if asking who she's texting to. She immediately look away from them, trying to play it cool.

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