That's Entertainment! (Part 1)
•••
Somewhere in Pentagram City, a new Sinner Demon falls into Hell and faceplants onto the street. He groans and stands, confused for a bit before he celebrates about not being dead... before he's ran over a speeding car.
The car parks in the middle of the road and out of it walks Angel Dust, running his hand through his hair as the demon inside the car snickers to himself.
Travis: "Heh. Thanks for the fun time, hot stuff!"
Angel Dust: *as he fixes his hair* "Yeah, yeah, listen. Keep this discreet, you hear me? I can't let out I'm offerin' my services to randos on the street! It was a quick cash grab." *snaps his fingers at him, smiling* "Ya got it?"
Travis: "Pfft! Whatever you say, slut! Muhehehehehehe!"
Angel looks offended, however it's just him pretending to be.
"Ouch! Ooh! Such an insult! Heheheh! Let me know when you've come up with something creative to call me, you sack of poorly packaged horse shit! Tell the missus I said "Hi", Shnuckums!"
He kisses Travis on the nose as he says the last part, leaving Travis speechless as he tries to think of a comeback. However, he fails and drives off angrily before crashing and his car explodes.
Angel walks off without a care in Hell before seeing a drug vending machine and walks up to it. He, ironically, got some angel dust and smiled at the bag of powder before it gets snatched away by some random demon.
Angel Dust: "Hey!"
Random Demon: "Up yours, dragshow!"
The demon laughs a bit before he gets crushed by a random boulder coming from nowhere. Angel gasps in shock and runs over to... get his bag of drugs.
Angel Dust: "MY DRUGS! Damn it!"
Angel looks up in anger to see a warship flying by, destroying everything around it.
Inside that very same warship, a Snake Demon by the name of Sir Pentious and his henchmen, the Egg Bois, is seen operating his creation.
Sir Pentious: "Ahahahahahahahahahahah! Those other cowardly ssssinners dare not hinder my territorial take-over! A wise decision! The power of my machines are unmatched!" *proceeds to push two levers as his hood flares open* "No other demon can compare to the likesss of I!"
Egg Boi #23: "Yeah!"
Egg Boi #666: "Gee! That sure was swell, Boss!"
Random Egg Boi: "You really showed them what for! I liked when you shot them with your ray gun!"
Pentious smacks the Egg Boi away and one of the other Egg Bois look sad.
Egg Boi #23: "I wish he'd shoot me with his ray gun."
Pentious' hood flares open as he laughs a bit.
Sir Pentious: "At this rate, I will seize control of the entire west side of The Pentagram by day's end! And nothing, not a single beast in this inferno of suffering will be able to take back this empire from my constrictive grasp!"
"Oh boy!"
An Egg Boi suddenly pops up next to his boss when he suddenly gets smacked away.
Sir Pentious: "Hell will be mine! And everybody will know the name of Sir Pen--"
"EGGLORD!"
Sir Pentious looks around, offended by the sudden name-calling.
Sir Pentious: "PARDON?! Who said that?!" *looks at Egg Bois* "What did you just say to me, you fried chicken fetuses?! Speak up!"
Egg Boi #23 and #666: "Wasn't us, Mister Bossman."
Suddenly, a pinkish-red orb is flung through the window of Pentious' warship and it rolls over to him and his Egg Bois. They all look at it, seeing that it had a lit fuse and a white skull on it, seeing that it was a bomb.
"Oh..."
It suddenly explodes and makes a large smokescreen, making everyone choke and cough from the smoke and gas the explosive made. Soon, the smoke clears to reveal a tall Cyclops Demon wearing a red shirt that showed her stomach and black ripped leggings with a single red and white stripped boot. She had long, redish-pink and yellow hair as she tosses a bomb up and down in her hand.
This was Cherri Bomb, a close friend to Angel Dust and Y/n Ketsueki.
Cherri Bomb: "You lookin' for a fight, old man?! Why don't you get that tinker toy bullshit off my turf before I smash it?!" *part of the warship drops down behind her, broken* "... more!"
Sir Pentious: "Oh! You wanna go, missy?! Well then, I'm happy to oblige!"
And with that, and backed up by his Egg Bois, Sir Pentious went out to attack Cherri in his own warship.
•••
At 666 News, the anchorman and woman are seen.
This is Katie Killjoy and Tom Trench. They tell the news from... well... 666 News.
Katie Killjoy: "Good afternoon, I'm Katie Killjoy."
Tom Trench: "And I'm Tom Trench! Chaos out at Pentagram City today as a turf war is raging on the west side between notable kingpin, Sir Pentious, and self-proclaimed spunky powerhouse, Cherri Bomb!"
Katie Killjoy: "That's right, Tom! After the recent Extermination, many areas are now up for grabs! Demons all over Hell are already duking it out to gain new territory!"
Tom Trench: "Those two are really going at it, huh?"
Katie Killjoy: "Looks like they're fighting tooth and nail..." *as she fishes out a tooth and a nail respectively from her mug of coffee* "... for that hot spot!"
Tom Trench: *wiggling his eyebrows* "And I'd sure like to nail her hot spot! Hoohoo!"
Katie Killjoy: "Haha! Oh, you're such a limp dick, Tom. Or should I say... no dick!"
Katie smirks evilly as she pours her scolding on Tom's... trench. He groans in pain and every male seems to feel that very same and flinch at it.
Katie Killjoy: "Coming up next, we have an exclusive interview with the daughter of Hell's own head honcho who's here to discuss her brand new passion project! All that and more, after the break!" *turns to Tom* "Suck it up, you little bi--!"
The connection suddenly cuts out and the news goes to a commercial break.
The scene switches to show Vaggie and Charlie in the studio. Vaggie was fixing Charlie's crooked bowtie as they talked.
Vaggie: "Okay! You remember what to say?"
Charlie Magne: "Yes! Let's do this!"
Vaggie: "Just look at me and I'll mouth it to you." *looks around* "Ugh! Where is Y/n? They said they were gonna be here."
Charlie Magne: "Don't worry, they'll be here. When have they not kept a promise?"
Vaggie goes to try something to agrue... but realized she couldn't. Her girlfriend was right: Y/n hasn't really broken a promise since Vaggie and Charlie has known them.
Vaggie: "I... cannot argue with that. But they're still late!"
Charlie Magne: "Don't worry! They'll be here. But until they are, let's go over some of my plans!"
Charlie takes out a piece of paper and gives it to Vaggie who looks at it.
Charlie Magne: "The highlighted bits are the best part!"
Vaggie: "... none of this is highlighted."
Charlie is confused and looks at the list to see that her girlfriend was right.
Charlie Magne: "Huh. You're right."
Vaggie: "Why isn't anything highlighted?"
Charlie pauses as she recalls when she was making the list.
~Flashback~
Charlie was in the lobby as she was writing her list of plans for the interview she was having at 666 News after The Cleansing. She had soon finished and smiled at her work.
Charlie Magne: "Okay! Now I just gotta highlight the best parts!"
Charlie went to grab her highlighter, but stopped when she saw Y/n walk by... without their jacket on. She saw that their F/C shirt clinged a bit to their muscles, especially considering that they're sweating a bit since they've been moving stuff around the hotel to make it look nicer. She remembered when they first entered the hotel and they would've screamed in terror when they saw how messy it was based on how their face looked.
Y/n passed by Charlie as they carried a couch over their head, placing it down in the same area of the lobby Charlie was in and letting out a breath of relief of making the lobby look nicer than before. They stood and dusted off their hands, wiping off their sweat from their brow and turning to see Charlie staring at them. They smile at her and spoke to her in Sign Language.
Y/n Ketsueki: Hello, Princess. How are you?
Charlie didn't respond as she only stared at Y/n. They began to get a bit confused and uncomfortable, unsure why Charlie wasn't responding to them. Charlie realized this and immediately scrambled to grab her stuff.
Charlie Magne: "I gotta go to my room! Have a nice day, Charm--Y/n!"
She then ran her fastest to her room, leaving Y/n in confusion. They see Angel walk by and talks to their brother.
What was that about?
Angel Dust just shrugs and takes out his phone when he gets a notification and goes to look into it.
~End of Flashback~
Vaggie: "Seriously? You got distracted by the Blood Demon?"
Charlie Magne: *blushes* "Sh-shut up! You can't be one to t-talk! I see you sneaking glances at them as well."
Vaggie: *blushes* "Q-quiet, you! You don't speak of that!" *looks back at that list* "Is that a drawing?"
Accepting the change of subject, Charlie smiled.
Charlie Magne: "Yep! That's everyone happy and in Heaven! Our happy ending!"
Vaggie sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose.
Vaggie: "I don't think it's that simple. Just please follow the talking points we went over. And do not sing! Knowing you, you were thinking about it."
Charlie Magne: "Okay, fiiine!" *in a British accent* "I'll just resort to my impeccable improv skills!"
She playfully salutes Vaggie and walks off, making her way to Katie Killjoy to talk to her.
Charlie Magne: "Hiii. I'm Charlie!"
She offers a hand for a handshake, but Katie just ignores it.
Katie Killjoy: "Katie Killjoy. I'd say it's a pleasure to meet you, but that would be a lie. And you can put that away." *gestures to Charlie's hand* "I don't touch the gays. I have standards!"
•••
Somewhere nearby, Y/n creates an axe from their hand and cuts through a Demon with ease. The Demon's blood spills everywhere and stains the ground and Y/n themself. Suddenly, their nose twitches a bit and they look into the distance.
'Why do I have the feeling to suddenly kill a bitch?'
•••
Charlie immediately became nervous, then and there.
Charlie Magne: "Yeah? How's uh... how's that working out for ya?"
Katie Killjoy: "Look, my time is money, so I'll keep this short."
Katie says as she pokes Charlie's breasts.
Katie Killjoy: "You're not here because we wanted you here. You're here because Angel-Boy Rowan couldn't make it for his crazy interviews."
Katie motions her hand to show a billboard in the studio to show a pink-colored Angel that looked like an Overlord Charlie couldn't quite remember. His hair and wings were pink and so was his clothing, a monocle in the shape of a heart on one of his eyes as the billboard showed lots of images of this "Angel-Boy Rowan".
Katie Killjoy: "He really likes to take tons of pictures of himself... Anyways! You might be some royal big shot, but that doesn't mean shit to me. I'm too rich and too influential to give a flying fuck about what some tux-wearing demon "princess" wants to advertise."
"But I--"
Katie Killjoy: *still poking Charlie* "So don't get cute with me, honey, or I will fucking bury you!"
News Staff: "And... we're live!"
Katie immediately rushes back to her seat, going so fast that her neck snaps open.
However, she quickly fixes it as Charlie takes her own seat next to Killjoy.
Katie Killjoy: "Welcome back! So, Charlotte!"
Charlie Magne: "It's... Charlie."
Katie Killjoy: "Whatever. Tell us about this new passion project you've been insistently pestering our news station about!"
Katie tells Charlie as she aggressively holds her pen, surprisingly not crushing it in her grasp.
Charlie looks around and sees Vaggie motioning to go on. She then breathes in and out before speaking.
"Well, as most of you know, I was born here in Hell and growing up, I always tried to see the good in everyone around me."
Killjoy spots a slug crawling across the desk and stabs it with her pen, making its blood splatter all over and even gets on Charlie's cheek. She wipes her cheek and continues.
"Hell is my home and you are my people. We... we just went through another Extermination."
Vaggie gives Charlie a thumbs up as Killjoy starts to quickly immediately lose interest.
Charlie Magne: "We lost so many souls, and it breaks my heart to see my people being slaughtered every year. No one is even given a chance!"
Charlie slams her hand onto the desk, snapping Killjoy awake from her sudden nap.
Charlie Magne: "I can't stand idly by while the place I live is subjected to such violence! So, I've been thinking: Isn't there a more humane way to hinder overpopulation here in Hell?"
She stands from her seat and begins to walk amongst the crowd.
Charlie Magne: "Perhaps we can create an alternative way to change souls through... redemption? Well, I think yes! So that's what this project aims to achieve! *returns to the desk* Ladies and gentlemen, I'm opening the first of its kind! A hotel that rehabilitates sinners!"
The entire studio was quiet, making Charlie become nervous as her confidence starts to dwindle.
Charlie Magne: "Y'know? 'Cause hotels are for people passin' through... temporarily..."
She laughs nervously, but nothing. Not even a cough.
Charlie Magne: "I think it'll serve a purpose... a place to work toward redemption... yay...!"
Still nothing.
Cameraman: *snickers* "Stupid bitch."
Vaggie was gonna punch the cameraman straight in the face, but a blood red tendril wrapped itself around his neck before she could and dragged the Demon into the crowd. His screams were muffled and Vaggie watches as a familiar Demon walks up next to her, giving her smile.
Charlie was still super nervous and didn't think she could go on like this much longer. Then she looked into the crowd and widened her eyes when she saw...
Charlie Magne: *softly* "Y/n..."
Y/n looks at Charlie and smiles at her.
You can do this. Just breathe. You got this.
Charlie smiles and nods at this, taking Y/n's advice and taking a deep breathe. Smiling and ready to go, she speaks once more.
"Look, every single one of you has something good, deep down inside. I know you do! ...Maybe I'm not getting through to you."
Vaggie: "Oh no..."
Y/n looks at Vaggie and raises a brow in confusion, wondering why she said that.
Vaggie: "I didn't want her to do this,, but... just watch."
Y/n, wanting to know what Vaggie was talking about, turns back to Charlie to see her stand on the desk, making everyone else tilt their heads in confusion when Charlie snaps her fingers... and the lights go off.
Bạn đang đọc truyện trên: AzTruyen.Top