Chapter 30: Dad Beats Dad Part 2

Shortly after...

Zelda is shocked and confused by the sudden abduction from an unknown source. By the time she opens her eyes, she finds herself in a room, and it's a familiar one.

"I'm so sorry I have to drag out so ungentlemanlike, but I need to have a talk with you," Alastor's voice appears and the hands remove her mouth and around her wait.

Zelda quickly moves away and turns to see Alastor, "Alastor! Don't grab me like that! You scared me!"

"I apologize, but I wanted to talk to you, just the two of us," Alastor says.

"And what's that?" Zelda asks, frowning and not pleased by Alaastor's actions.

Alastor leans to Zelda and asks, "How much did you hear?"

"What?" Zelda questions, confused.

"How much did you hear, in the hallway?" Alastor questions. Then his eyes glow, "And I know you know, so don't try to lie."

Zelda grows uneasy to see the look Alastor is giving her.

She takes a deep breath and answers, "I heard everything. I wanted to see where you went because you disappeared, but I didn't expect to hear what I heard," She then sighs, "But yes, I heard about what you and Husk talk about."

"Hmm, I see," Alastor says.

Then Zelda asks, "But Alastor, is what Husk said is true? Did you really have a leash on you? Is your soul really... owned by someone?"

Alastor sighs, "Regretfully yes."

"I'm just surprised. I didn't think anyone can actually own your soul," Zelda says.

"Yes, the world is full of surprises," Alastor says.

"Yes. The world, Hell and Earth are full of surprises," Zelda says.

Curious, Zelda asks, "If you don't mind me asking, who does have you on their leash? If you don't mind me asking?"

"That is for me to know, my dear," Alastor says. Then leans to Zelda, "However, it will be best if I keep this little information to myself. I do hope you understand."

"Um, what do you mean by that?" Zelda asks, nervously.

Alastor laughs, "Do not worry, Zelda. I won't hurt you. However, I really like to keep this secret out of your ears and your mind," And then pulls Zelda close to him by his hand and wraps his arm around her waist.

He then cuffs Zelda by her chin and looks at her straight in her eyes.

"Uh, Alastor... wha-what are you doing?" Zelda asks, worried.

"Don't worry, you won't be harmed. However, it will be best for you to forget everything you heard," Alastor says as his eyes begin to glow red.

Zelda becomes nervous and unable to struggle to break free. Soon, her blue eyes glow red and begin to fall into a daze.

"Now then, it's best that you don't remember the conversation you just heard," Alastor says, as his eyes glow brighter, "Though I trust you to keep this a secret, but I believe that it's best for you to forget all that has transpired," and Alastor snaps his fingers, causing Zelda to fall back into sleep.

Suddenly, Husk bursts through the door, "ALASTOR!"

"Right on time, I need you to take dear Zelda. She'll wake up soon," Alastor says.

"Wake up..." Husk questions and growls in anger, "What the fuckin hell did you do to her?"

Husk rushes over and takes Zelda in his arms.

"Oh I didn't harm her or made any deals with her, I simply have the memories of what she has heard suppressed out of her mind. The less people know the better," Alastor says.

"You fuckin..." Husk angrily says.

"Now Husk, erasing her memory is more practical than killing her, or giving her the same treatment like I've done with other demons," Alastor says.

"Listen you fucker, you may own my soul, and you may want to tear my souls to shred, but I'm not going to let you to allow you to hurt her," Husk says.

"My Husk, you seem to really care for the girl. You seem to look after the dear like she's your child," Alastor says.

"Maybe, but you just want to have her with the palm of your hand," Husk says.

"Now now Husk, try not to make assumptions," Alastor says.

"Like hell you don't have plans to use her, you shameless lair. Both Zelda and Charlie. And not just you who wants to use her, but also the Vees. To you, they're nothing but your pawns for your entertainment. So don't even think of pretending otherwise," Husk says angrily,

"Hmm..." Alastor responds.

Suddenly, they both hear Zelda moan and groan as she wakes up from her sleep.

Zelda wakes up, "Wha-what happened."

"Oh nothing my dear, you just got tired so I took you to my quarters for you to rest, and Husk was here to assist," Alastor says.

"Um thank you," Zelda says, a bit confused.

Husk helps Zelda back on her feet, "Come on, I'll take you to the bar," and mutters, "And get you away from this bastard."

Husk then takes Zelda out of Alastor's room and heads back to the bar down in the lobby.

Back to the tour...

Vaggie explains, "And we've almost been able to find all of Angel Dust's drug stashes... almost."

"How so?" Lilo asks, curious.

"Because he keeps finding new places to hide his drugs. I remember one time, Zelda gave Angel quite the scolding after trying to hide his drugs in Kai's terrarium. He almost ate them," Vaggie says.

"Bad move on his part," Alexander says.

"So, once that's out of the way, it should be much smoother sailing!" Charlie says.

"Well that certainly is, uhh... is-is something," Lucifer says, sounding unsure.

Then Charlie asks, "So, what do you think?"

"About what?" Lucifer questions.

"The hotel," Charlie says.

"Oh! Yes! It does- it does look much better now, doesn't it?" Lucifer says and chuckles, "You know, but I'm thinking this railing needs work, one good push and you'd just go right over the edge! Whoopie! Bye bye!" And let out a chuckle.

"What? No, no, the plan, Dad! What do you think about using the hotel to help sinners?" Charlie quickly says.

Lucifer exhales and lets out his honest opinion, "Alright, I mean, look, I love that you want to see the best in people, but these sinners, you know, they're just the worst. I, I don't know how much you can realistically expect from them, and Heaven?" He adjusts his collar, "Hohooo boy, Heaven, is not exactly as carefree as you might think. Yeah, they have rules, lots of rules, and they aren't very open minded as you'd hope."

"These are our people, Dad, I... I have to try!" Charlie says.

"Our 'people'" Charlie, are awful!" Lucifer says, "They got gifted free will and look what they did with it! Everything's terrible!" And wheeze,

"Well, not everything. There is a lot of danger, crime, and all that, but there is more than just that," Alexander says.

But Lucifer says, "I just don't want you to put yourself on the line for people like—" but is interrupted when a loud thud shakes the hotel, rocking the three of them on the balcony.

"Geez! What now?!" Vaggie exclaims.

"What in the world was that?" Lilo asks.

Lucifer looks down and points at the situation, "Well, like that."

The group looks down to see dozens of loan shark demon mafia on the ground holding a battering ram. The loan shark mafia were armed to the teeth with guns, melee weapons, and a battering ram as they ram the front door open.

The leader of the loan shark mafia looks up at the balcony and shouts, "Mimzy! We know you're in there you lousy bitch!"

Inside the lobby, Mimzy realizes that the loan shark mafia found her, "Oh shit," and cartoonishly goes down in a sheepish wince, now already busted.

A portal opens up by Lucifer and all three of them return to the lobby as the loan shark mafia continues to ram the front door.

Vaggie exclaims, "Que Carajo?!" (What the fuck?!)

"What's going on?!" Charlie asks.

"I maaaaaay be in trouble with some loan sharks. I may or may not have borrowed 50 grand from—" Mimzy sheepishly confesses. And a loud thud causes her to yelp, "Eep!" And cowards behind the bar counter to hide.

With one of the lone sharks shouting in the background, "You better come out!

Mimzy then confesses, "And I may have also stolen a car... and crashed it... into the loan shark's girlfriend, but that bitch had it coming!"

Zelda glares at Mimzy and angrily says, "E hoʻomāʻewaʻewa ana ʻoe iaʻu? (Are you fuckin kidding me?)

"Uh what?" Mimzy says, confused, not understanding what Zelda says.

Before Charlie and Vaggie could even respond, the windows and the walls were barraged with fireballs from the outside. The windows crashed and the floors are meteored with the fireballs. Charlie and Vaggie screamed as more fireballs came raining on them.

Niffty cries out in horror, "My windows!"

"Au sesange!" (Oh my gosh!) Usagi cries out

Angel Dust scoots back to his seat after a fireball nearly hits him. Manny quickly dodges and has Lola wrapped in his arms.

Realizing what is happening and holding the tray of baked cookies, Pentious cries out, "Ah! We're under siege!" and dodges a fireball, "Ah! Take cover!"

Everyone in the hotel scrambles in panic and defense as more fireballs fall down on them. Charlie dodges one of the fireballs close to her. Niffty was nearly crushed by one fireball before Angel picked her up, shocked.

"Look out!" Lilo cries out.

"What the fuck?!" Angel cries out.

Angel throws Niffty out of the way, but she scurries around all over the lobby while Lucifer remains composed, oblivious to their dire situation. The lobby was on fire from the fireballs. Husk tries to put out the fire close to his bar, stomping on it in anger while Mimzy hides behind the counter. Angel runs for cover, and Pentious can be heard screaming as fireballs meteor through the windows. Everyone dodges the attack, Alexander pulls Lilo close to protect her. Zelda acts fast and sprays water at the fire, putting them out.

"Water power, huh. Impressive," Alexander says with a smile.

Zelda smiles, "Thanks dad, something I picked up while being here."

And soon, Lucifer begins to lecture Charlie, "You see? This is exactly what I'm talking about Charlie. You build something nice, you invite people in and offer them everything and they just bring violence and chaos to your doorstep. It doesn't matter how well intentioned you are, they're always going to disappoint you," this causes Charlie to get angry and her eye twitches.

"Save the lecture for later, Lucifer!" Alexander shouts.

Niffty was on the floor recovering the windows that were shattered, unaware that falling debris was about to crush her.

"Niffty! Come along!" Pentrious says, grabbing Niffty and pulls her away before the debris crushes her.

Vaggie appears with her spear ready at arms, "All of you! Get a safe distance, I'll take care of this."

But Alastor appears out of nowhere and places a hand on Vaggie's spear to lower it, "No, my dear, leave it to me. It's time I remind everyone why I am here," Upon saying those sentences, Alastor turns demonic with his eyes turning to a radio dial.

Mimzy pops up from the counter, "Oh, finally! Took you long enough!"

Alastor goes into his demonic form as a green aura lights up from the outside as he says, "A reminder to all..."

The mafia outside were just about to reload theri catapult when they notices the eerie greenish glow before Alastor turned to his sinister demon form.

And Alastor begins to turn into his sinister demon form, "Not to mess with the radio demon!"

With Alastor now in his demon form, he expands his tentacle tendrils outside where one smashes the catapult, the other killing several of the mafia gangsters. The remaining gangsters panic at the sight of the radio demon's magic.

Seeing the event, Mimzy cheers, "Yeah!"

"I will devour each and every one of you!" Alastor says as his body grows larger and limbs become longer before exiting the front door with a sinister unmoving grin.

Alastor heads out to massacre the mafia for attacking the hotel. As he exits the front door, Mimzy, Charlie, Zelda, Alexander, Lilo, and Lucifer come out to watch the bloodbath. Charlie was totally appalled that Alastor is truly terrifying and maliciously monstrous. Zelda is shocked because he has never seen Alastor acting like this before as Alastor devours and kills the mafia outside. Body parts spread all over the front door.

"Woah! I never seen Alastor act like this before," Zelda says, surprised.

"Haku maikai," (Good lord.) Lilo responds.

Lucifer nods, "Mhm, you see? What'd I tell you? Charlie, sinners are violent psychopaths, hell bent on causing as much pain and destruction as they can. There's really no point in trying."

This has Charlie angrily saying to him, "Dad! Stop! He's defending this hotel!" turning to see Alastor eating a mafia loan shark, "It may be a bit more sadistic than I'd hoped, but he's doing it for me! How come he can have faith in me but my own father can't?"

Nearby, behind the turned table, Angel, Pentious, and Husk saw the melodrama that was occurring between Lucifer and Charlie. Usaig, Manny, and Lola soon grow concerned.

"Ooh, drama." Angel says, and begins to eat some popcorn.

Husk also picks up a handful of popcorn to eat.

Outside, Alastor nas finished massacring the mafia as he shrinks back down to his usual self, now satisfied that he's killed a lot of demons today.

"Oh, I missed getting to let off steam!" Alastor says.

Mimzy checks outside if the coast is clear before approaching Alastor, "Oh, Alastor! What a fantastic show! Bravo! As always. Thanks for helping lil' old me out of a tougher spot, you're always such a pal!" A railroad debris falls close to Mimzy, making her back away in surprise, "Oops. Heheh... sorry about the mess, but I'm sure the little bug can take care of it for you."

Just then, Alastor says to Mimzy, "I think you should go Mimzy, now."

"Oh pff, Alastor, you're such a kidder you!" Mimzy says with laughter, "Haha, you are so funny!"

However, Alastor says, "I mean it. You deliberately brought danger to this place just to have me clean up your mess. I can't have that here."

"But you love taking care of me! What, you don't actually give a shit about this tacky place, do ya? Come on, I know you, "Mimzy pokes his chest with every word in the sentence. "You... heartless... son... of... a...bitch..."

Alastor casually moves her finger away. He moves around Mimzy before standing in front of her with his microphone stick placed in front, "You are welcome if you actually want to give redemption a shot, but I think we both know that's not really your style, so you need to leave."

"Fine! Who needs you? Have fun with your little princess and your little hotel! See if I care!" Mimzy says, insulted and offended.

She then turns around and flips Alastor off before walking away.

Husk was rather amused before turning back to the melodrama between Charlie and Lucifer, now with a bucket of popcorn of his own. Angel has his, but he also has a drink to go along with it. Pentious was holding a TV guide by Vox. Usaig, Manny, and Lola also watch the event as well.

"This is really getting good," Angel says.

"Really Angel?" Manny questions, annoyed.

Lucifer retreats to the lobby while Charlie follows him behind. Zelda, Lilo, and Alexander follow after.

Charlie begs her dad, "Dad, just... help me."

"I... I can't," Lucifer says, reluctant.

"Why can't you?" Charlie asks.

Lucifer then approaches Charlie, "Charlie! You don't understand. Heaven never listens! They didn't listen to me, they won't listen to you!"

"You don't know that!" Charlie says.

"I do!" Lucifer says with tears filling his eyes.

Lucifer:

You, didn't know that when

I tried this all before, my dreams were too hard to defend.

And in the end,

I won't lose it all again. Now you're the only thing worth fighting for.

While he is singing, silhouettes of higher angels appear, surrounding Lucifer with spears. Next shot shows Charlie being surrounded by spears that slowly come towards her, with Lucifer noticing them in horror, and pulls Charlie away on the other side to defend her.

Lucifer:

More than anything, more than anything.

I'll shelter and adore you more than anything.

Charlie then says, "Dad, I don't need you to protect me from this."

"I just don't want you to be crushed by them like... like I was," Lucifer says in sadness.

"Dad..." Charlie says.

And then she begins to sing.

Flashback:

Charlie:

When I was young, I didn't really know you at all.

I always felt so small.

But I heard your stories and I was enthralled.

A young Charlie saw her father by his workshop who looked all sad and moopy. He notices her and takes her into his lap.

Charlie:

The tales about your lofty dreams.

I listened breathlessly.

Imagining it could be me.

He presses the button on a crystal box, revealing a magical swan in the center and swimming around. Lucifer talks to little Charlie as he shows her his magic and it becomes a magnetic six wing swan that little Charlie is fascinated in.

Charlie:

So in the end, it's the view I had of you, that showed me dreams can be worth fighting for.

A silhouette of Lilith appears before taking Charlie away. Charlie looks at her father sadly while Lucifer gazes at her with sadness too.

Flashback ends:

Charlie:

More than anything, more than anything.

I need to save my people more than anything.

Lucifer:

I've been dying to find out who you are.

Charlie:

I've been waiting,

wanting the same thing.

Lucifer:

Looks like the apple doesn't fall far.

Charlie:

Took you a while.

Lucifer:

I've missed that smile.

Charlie and Lucifer:

All that I'm hoping,

Now that my eyes are open, is that we can start again.

not be pulled apart again. Cause in the end, you are part of who I am.

Lucifer:

I'll support your dream whatever lies in store.

Charlie:

And who could ask for more?

Lucifer:

More than anything,

Charlie:

More than anything,

Lucifer:

More than anything.

Charlie:

More than anything.

Charlie and Lucifer:

I'm grateful you're my

(Charlie:

father)

/

(Lucifer:

daughter)

Charlie and Lucifer:

More than anything. More than anything.

Lucifer and Charlie return to the lobby after traveling across the dimension to a mystical place. Pentious was teary after seeing the sweet tender moment between Lucifer and Charlie.

Pentious then speaks out, "Aww, that was ssssweet."

Usagi nods with a smile on her face.

Lucifer then says to Charlie, "Ok, I can get you the meeting but once you're in Heaven, I won't be able to go with you. Will you be ok?"

"I'll be fine," Charlie says.

"That's my girl," Lucifer says. He lets out a sigh and says, "Good luck kiddo."

And with that, Lucifer turns into a violet red mist before disappearing away from the lobby.

Alexander says, "Well, I think it will be time for Lilo and myself to get going. We both have some important things to discuss back home."

"Yes. We certainly do," Lilo says with a smile.

"Really?" Zelda asks, curious.

"Yes. Besides, we also need to let everyone know you're okay, and have some arrangements to discuss," Alexander says.

"Okay," Zelda says with a nod.

She then asks, "Mom. Dad. Is it alright if I go to Heaven with Charlie? I feel that she can use some help."

"Well I don't know," Alexander says, unsure.

"Please dad, I promise that I'll be on my best behavior over there," Zelda says.

Lilo turns to Alexander, "I think it will be nice for her to go. She can see what Heaven is like, and I think it will be nice to see another world, and your home place."

"Well..." Alexander thinks for a minute. He then says, "Alright Zelda, you can go with Charlie to Heaven, but remember to be on your best behavior and stay out of trouble."

"Yes dad," Zelda says with a nod.

Alexander turns to Charlie, "And Charlie, make sure you take good care of Zelda."

"You got it, Uncle Alexander," Charlie says.

Alexander then brings out his staff and opens it back to Hawaii.

"Goodbye everyone, we'll be back in a little while," Alexander says.

"Have a good day," Lilo says.

Everyone says their goodbyes as the couple walk through the portal back to Earth, to their island home."

Vaggie comes over to talk to Charlie with uncertainty, "This next part is going to be scary. You ready?"

"I'm ready," Charlie says and hugs Vaggie, "Cuz you and Zelda will be with me."

Vaggie looks reluctant, and asks, "In spirit, right?" hoping she does not mean 'physically being in heaven'

"In Heaven!" Charlie says happily.

"Yay..." Vaggie says as her face winces at the thought of going to Heaven and tells that it was not going to be a very good thing, especially when her face says, Shit...

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