WARNING: The following contains graphic violence and gore, strong language, sexual themes, trauma triggers, partial nudity, as well as rampant demon horniness... so yes, it's intended for mature audiences.

VIEWER/READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED!

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3rd Person POV

*FWOOOSH!*

From across the I.M.P. waiting room, a concentrated blast of hellfire hit a metal dummy and melted its head off in a smelting of hot semi-solid sludge.

"Yes!" Ayden cheered before going over to handle the sludge and reshape it into the dummy's head while drawing the heat back into her paws to cool it faster, something she discovered she could do during her last power lesson with Stolas.

As she did that, Moxxie was seen watching from the doorway before he asked,

"Do you really think it's a good idea to do target practice in here?"

"Re-lax I've got the bucket right ove' the'e." Ayden hooked a thumb to a bucket of water by Loona's desk without turning back as she finished up giving the dummy its lumpy head back and shook her paws to wave off the residual heat.

"Can't you do this on the roof?"

"Not 'fter what happ'ned last time..." Ayden shuddered with a sheepish grimace.

A quick flashback revealed Ayden on the roof about to fire on the dummy from before close to the edge but a shootout on the street below made her lose her concentration and the fireball ended up getting fired off into the distance.

"Oh shite!" Ayden rushed back inside, not wanting to get caught for wherever the fireball landed.

As it turned out, the fireball managed to make it all the way to Pentagram City, hitting the side of the Clock Tower making it malfunction to where it struck 000 and chimed loudly, causing everyone to start panicking.

Back to the present, Moxxie exclaimed,

"Wait?! You caused that?!"

"Which is why I practice eithe' in he'e o' at Stolas' but he's busy wi'h something o' o'her."

Ayden, back in her position from before, lit a fireball in her paw and reeled back about to throw it-

"Hoo-oww about we take a break?" Moxxie stuttered out as he put a hand on Ayden's non-flaming paw to stop her from firing.

"Eh I could eat." Ayden shrugged as the fireball was extinguished before they both went to the kitchen so Moxxie could fill his signature mug with coffee and Ayden could grab something to eat.

After filling his mug, Moxxie peeked over in his peripheral vision to see Ayden reaching for the tupperware filled with the human hearts from the last hit but she hesitated before settling to grab Loona's leftover hellfish sandwich instead.

Raising an eyebrow at the odd behavior on Ayden's part but deciding not to question it for now, they both went to the meeting room where Loona was scrolling through her phone per the norm and both sat down on the other side of her.

Loona looked up to see Ayden with her sandwich in her paws and mouth and scrunched up her face in annoyance but Ayden shrugged and kept eating making Loona shrug as well and back down.

Looking around at the slightly awkward silence that fell over the room, Moxxie softly clapped twice before telling Loona proudly,

"You know, I checked the scale today." He inhaled loudly before declaring while holding up two fingers, "And it said I lost two pounds this week."

Loona looked Moxxie up and down before rolling her eyes and going back to her phone, annoying Moxxie to where he exclaimed,

"I. Am not. FAT!"

*SLAM!*

Abruptly, the front door was kicked open by a furious Millie, knocking over a stone bust of Blitzø, as she stomped around the office while hissing angrily,

"Ooh!Suchafuckingasshole!Thatlittlemotherfucker."

After kicking the bucket of water from before to the wall, with it narrowly missing Ayden's head, and slamming her coffee cup on the table by Loona, Millie went to hit a button on the wall labeled "Nut button!!" to make a cardboard cutout of a human man saying, 'Hi! I'm a Hooman!' pop up from the floor,

"Ijustwannatakemyfingerupandshoveituphisfuckin'littlething!"

She threw her knife at it, hitting it right on the bullseye on its crotch before full-on lunging and mauling the cutout with vicious ferocity and the occasional angry chittering noise.

Exchanging a worried look with Ayden, Moxxie asked in a disturbed tone,

"Millie, honey. Is everything okay?"

"HAAAAH!!!"

Millie hissed back with the same wild look in her eyes, disturbing Moxxie even more and making Ayden grimace with worry before she managed to calm down a bit more as she expressed with annoyance with her tail spade rattling a bit,

"Yeah. Just...bumped into an ex."

"Oh! Oh..." Moxxie spoke but then added with a bit more realization in his voice.

As she slid down from the cutout to retrieve her knife from the cutout, Millie ranted to Moxxie as he walked up to her,

"He just kept going on about how he has money now, 'a bright future,' and 'a bigger cock.'"

"Wait, what?"

"Ugh!"

Moxxie and Ayden both spoke in disbelief and disgust at the same time before Millie raised her voice to exclaim,

"Every time I see his stupid face, I can't help it! I just need to-RAH!"

Before she punched a filing cabinet that had been right next to her, spilling papers all over the floor just as Blitzø entered the room on his phone as he yelled at them all,

"What the fuck is all this noise? I got a client!"

"Sorry, sir. I'll get this all cleaned-" Moxxie started to say as he and Ayden started to pick up some of the papers... only to reveal they were actually photos with the one in Moxxie's hand being of two imps making out while wearing horse suits as he questioned, "What is this?"

"Uh, research! For science!" Blitzø pulled the photo out of Moxxie's hand before he told him as he headed back into his office, "Just put it back correctly, okay? Alphabetize them."

"Well that was..." Moxxie went back to picking up photos when he noticed Ayden stuck in a frozen look of petrified revulsion staring at the photo in her paws making him go up to her to question, "What's wr-oh my Satan why would he have this?!"

He grabbed the photo out of Ayden's paws, snapping her out of her horrified daze as he crumpled it up and stomped on it multiple times for good measure.

"You doin' ok sweetie?" Millie asked in concern only for it to turn to awkwardness when they both answered in unison,

"Yeah I'm good."

"Yeh 'm good."

The two of them looked at each other in surprised awkwardness before Millie noted,

"We're probably gonna need to sort out nicknames later..."

"Definitely..."

"Def'nitely..."

They both chorused again before Ayden's ear twitched as she heard something approaching and they all looked to see some kinda shark-esque helicopter move to hover right outside of the meeting room window.

"What the fuck is that?" Blitzø questioned as he joined the others right before the helicopter shot out a grappling hook to embed itself into the wall underneath the window before retracting to take it out.

"Satan's ass crack! Enough with the walls shit, we have a door!" Blitzø yelled, emphasizing his point by throwing his arms in the direction of the front door.

A gust of wind suddenly blew into the room, sending all of the photos out onto the street below as Blitzø shouted dramatically,

"My research!"

Some children's cries made Ayden wince in sympathy as she thought to herself,

'Welp the'e goes thei' childhoods...'

Right before the helicopter extended out a ramp to the hole's edge as the shark-like demon pilot stepped out to announce,

"I.M.P.? Right this way, please!"

"Uh, sir?" Moxxie started to question before he, Millie, and Ayden pulled out their weapons in unison as he finished his question, "What's going on?"

"Now, don't worry! It's just some fancy schmuck from Greed wanting to do business with us." Blitzø answered indifferently as he waved his hand around in emphasis before stepping onto the ramp to walk toward the copter with the others following behind.

"Uh, sir? I don't think this is a good idea." Moxxie expressed with worry as he and Ayden stayed back a bit, more so with fear on her part as she nearly froze in seeing how high they were and how rickety the copter looked as she practically squeaked out,

"I've neva flown b'fore!"

"It'll be fine. Now, get your asses moving." Blitzø waved off Moxxie's concern as he pushed the two of them into the copter.

As they straightened themselves out in their seats after being pushed into them, Millie noticed her seatbelt was broken when she tried to strap in causing her to ask the pilots,

"Is this thing safe?"

"Don't worry, we are professionals!" The lead pilot "assured" her before ramming the copter through the wall to fly off.

"MMRROOOWW!" Ayden screeched in terror as a sharp turn toward the Ring Elevator Hangar almost sent her flying through the copter's window if Millie hadn't grabbed her tail to pull her back in.

As soon as she was brought back, she shifted to hellcat form and curled up cowering in right next to Millie with her paws over her head as she trembled in place.

"It's ok we gotcha..."

Millie did her best to comfort Ayden as she reluctantly let her pet her head to calm her down as the copter landed in the elevator hangar.

*KLCK!* *KLCK!* *KLCK!* *HLP!*

Ayden's "motion sickness" kicked in right on time as the elevator started to go down and she leaped down to the floor to hack up the lava-like hairball out of the copter with a mushy,

*BLEH!*

Melting a small hole in the floor of the copter that luckily didn't make it all the way to the outside before going back over to tiredly settle next to Moxxie this time as Blitzø commented from next to him,

"And you think my research is disgusting?"

"Grrr..." Ayden growled before turning around to face away from him as the hangar opened back up to let the copter fly out into the Greed Ring.

Passing overhead the remains of under-construction Loo Loo Land, the copter headed in the direction of Notamafia Town with the sign "welcoming" them in; "Welcome to Notamafia Town; No mafia here! We're Mafia-free!"

"Ugh I hate this place." Moxxie groaned in disdain as he gripped a bit tightly into Ayden's fur making her look at him with annoyance and curiosity before Blitzø questioned,

"Oh, yeah. This is your old stomping ground, isn't it, Mox?"

"I thought you we'e from Wrath?" Ayden spoke up to ask with her head tilted in confusion.

"I may've been born there, but I spent most of my life growing up just over there," He pointed off into the distance through the glass before continuing, "swore I'd never come back, and-uh uh-what-what, where are we going? What-"

Moxxie started stuttering when the copter turned to head right in the direction of where he'd been pointing, making him more and more anxious the further they traveled.

"Blitzø, who did you say this meeting was with?" Moxxie asked nervously and he answered,

"I'm not sure, just some rich somebody or other who wants to do biz at his place."

"And that di'n't scream s'spicious to ya?!" Ayden jumped up as her fur and tail prickled up in irritation before she let out a squeak when Moxxie clung to her tightly.

"Oh, no, no! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO!" Moxxie started to panic even more when the copter landed in front of a huge mansion with smoke billowing out from the two chimneys.

After the pilots, Millie, and Blitzø disembarked from the copter, Moxxie was shivering in place still partially inside with hellcat Ayden still in his arms before Blitzø rolled his eyes and shoved him out and forward with hellcat Ayden tucked under one arm and holding Millie's hand with his other.

"There he is!" Someone called out before they all looked to see an imp who looked like an older version of Moxxie wearing a fedora, a fancy coat, striped pants, and heeled dress shoes who greeted him with open arms as he announced, "There's my boy! Get over here and give your daddy a hug!"

"'Daddy?'" Blitzø, Millie, and Ayden all exclaimed in unison making the imp correct them,

"I only let Moxxie call me that unless you pay me! HAHAHAHA!"

"Guys, um," Moxxie struggled to say before he put Ayden down on the ground and cleared his throat to introduce them, "This is my father, Crimson. Sir, this is my boss, Blitzø. My-"

"-Millie! I'm his wife!" Millie jumped in as she held her hand out to Crimson

"And what a beautiful wife you are." Crimson took her hand to kiss it before asking his son, "Mox, where have you been hiding this pretty little thang?"

"Oh, I'm sure he would've introduced us eventually." Millie tried to reason nonchalantly.

"Oh, I'm sure." Crimson agreed before looking down at hellcat Ayden as he questioned with a raised eyebrow, "And the small fry's.. what? Your pet?"

"'Pet?!'" Ayden snapped before shifting back to demon cat form to come face-to-face with Crimson as she mildly threatened with a growl, "I da'e ya ta call me that 'gain..."

Before Moxxie hurriedly pulled her away to explain,

"This is Ayden, she's a co-worker of ours."

"And a shapeshifter at that... Must come in reeeaal handy on jobs." Crimson noted, looking her up and down before moving on even as she glared after him despite Moxxie holding her back.

"You got to be Blitzø, with the silent 'o', right? I've heard a lot of good things about you and your work." Crimson went up to Blitzø last and shook his hand before slinging an arm around his shoulders to walk with him towards the mansion.

"Really?" Blitzø questioned before turning to yell at Moxxie, "What kind of shit has Moxxie been spreading about me? I'll fucking kill you Moxxie, don't you fucking test me!"

"No, no!" Crimson assured him as he put a hand on his shoulder to make face forward again as he told him, "From all over. Looks like you're building a name for yourself here, kid."

"Really?" Blitzø chuckled as he declared with his hands on his hips and pride in his voice, "Well, I guess it's about time folks recognized my talent."

"HAHAHAHA! I like your attitude." Crimson laughed again, giving Blitzø a solid punch on the shoulder before he directed to them all, "Well, I hope you're all hungry. We put together a fabulous dinner for you."

Crimson walked toward the mansion with Blitzø slightly behind him while Ayden and Millie stayed behind with Moxxie as she asked her husband,

"Hey, baby. Why haven't I met your Pa before?"

"O' even hea'd of'im?" Ayden added with her arms crossed giving him a raised eyebrow look.

"Well uh, y'know, i-it's just, never been a-" Moxxie struggled to answer as he fidgeted with his bowtie before Crimson shouted at them with a smile on his face,

"Hey! You three, move it before it gets cold."

"Look, look, Millie, w-we can talk about it later and Ayden retract your claws please."

Directing the last part to Ayden as she continued glaring at Crimson before she made a cat-like noise of annoyance following them inside as she muttered,

"But I jus' got'em sha'pen'd..."

Once they were all inside and seated, Crimson set to make Blitzø a drink at the personal bar set up inside as he asked him,

"So, Blitzø, ya always been a hitman?"

"No, no, not always. Yeah, I was in the circus for a long time." Blitzø answered as he was handed his drink.

"Show business!" Crimson commented while pointing double finger guns at him as he sat down in his chair to note, "Good money in that."

There was a few moments of awkward silence with the only sound being Blitzø's drink ice cubes clinking before Moxxie questioned with some tension in his voice,

"What are we doing here... sir?"

"Mooooxxiiiee, I raised you better than that." Crimson drawled out while rolling his eyes, the way he spoke and acted giving Ayden a weird sense of déjà vu from where she was standing closer to Blitzø by the fireplace, before he told him while lighting his cigar, "Ya know there's no business before dinner. Besides, we're still waitin' on one more."

Right on cue, the door was kicked open by another shark-like demon with a fedora on his head as well as fingerless gloves and a jacket and pants decorated with some bone patterns as he announced while wriggle-dancing in place,

"Woo-hoo-hoo, what is up, party people?!"

"Chaz?!" Millie and Moxxie shouted in disbelief at the same time before realizing, "Wait, what?"

"You know him?" Moxxie asked incredulously and Millie groaned before slapping her forehead to recall,

"You remember that 'ex' I was talking about?"

Chaz walked over to grab both Millie and Moxxie in a hug that had Ayden reflexively growling in defensive fury as he greeted them,

"Looks like I got two big sex reunions today. ~How lucky am I?~"

"Did you date him, too?" Millie asked from where she was squished up against her husband.

"Ha, yeah. No big deal, but I usually bone half the people in any room I'm in-" Chaz started to explain in a bragging tone before Blitzø cut him off to angrily shout,

"Are you fucking kidding me?! There's someone who's fucked both of you?!"

"'At's what yer focusin' on?!" Ayden shouted at him before Blitzø planted a hand to her face to push her away as he scolded,

"Pipe down Kid, the grown-ups are talking right now."

Making Ayden growl with the hand on her face before Moxxie grumped bitterly as he pushed Chaz's arms off of himself and Millie,

"It was a long time ago."

"But, I still remember it like it was yesterday. You, a fledgling mafioso! Me, the dashing and extremely sexy muscle!" Chaz flexed his muscles before saying fondly, "It was like it was written in the stars."

"Ha!" Blitzø laughed out loud, not buying the story as evident by how he spoke, "Moxxie in the mafia, that's fucking ri-ich."

Before he and the others started to notice all the items around the mansion: a photo of Crimson and a mob boss shaking hands, the many trophies of hell beasts hanging on the wall, and a framed family painting of a wickedly grinning Crimson with his hand on a younger Moxxie's head as he fearfully held his tail in his hands while Moxxie's mother was slightly shadowed in the background holding a small bouquet hanging over the fireplace.

A few rough knocks on the door made them all look in time for some of Crimson's goons to come in carrying a body bag

"Oh... shit."

"Ya think?!" Ayden snapped slightly muffled before finally smacking Blitzø's hand off her face as Millie mentioned to Moxxie concernedly,

"You've never told me this before."

"I-I don't really like to talk about this part of my life. But...," Moxxie started to recount dramatically, "I first saw Chaz at my induction in the family."

In a flashback to Moxxie's time in the mob, he gets a handshake and a kiss from Crimson, welcoming him into the business before he looked around the room and stops upon seeing Chaz grinning and applauding at him, making him blush.

*Our eyes met from across the room. And there was just something about him. Something that was magnetic!*

Moxxie finds himself hiding behind a car in the middle of a mob turf war. He throws away the Tommy gun and pulls out a grenade, but it slips out of his hands before he can pull the pin. Moxxie runs after it and catches it the same moment that Chaz grabs it, touching his hand. Both share a smile before Moxxie picks up the grenade, pulls the pin, and throws it away. Chaz and Moxxie stare fondly at each other as the grenade explodes in the distance, the smoke forming the shape of a heart.

The scene switches over to Moxxie greeting Chaz at the door. Chaz is holding signs that he lets fall from his hands. The signs say 'TELL YOUR DAD IT'S A SALESMAN' 'I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT YOU' and 'MOKSIE, WILL YOU BONE WITH ME?' Moxxie blushes fondly and lets Chaz in.

Another scene has Moxxie polishing a rifle when Chaz comes up from behind and assists. Moxxie grows aroused by the interaction.

In another scene, Moxxie poses nude, except for a necklace and his socks, on the couch while Chaz paints him before the flashback fades back to the present.

"It's been 84 years..." He finished in a tone that sounded like an elderly person before Blitzø asked confused,

"Isn't that from that boat movie?"

"Ya mean the one that's like a cliché love story on ste'oids?" Ayden questioned as she tilted her head in thought.

"Did any of that stuff actually happen?" Millie doubted.

"Oh, yeah! But, he skipped over the jizz-covered parts." Chaz disclosed while licking his lips.

"Thank Satan for that..." Ayden grumbled under her breath as she face-palmed.

"Anyway. Things changed when we went on a heist together."

Flashback to the heist, Moxxie, carrying a bag of money, is running with Chaz to the exit as the security gate begins to drop. Moxxie throws the money out of the bank and catches the gate with his shoulders to give Chaz time to slide under. Moxxie tries to escape but his leg and tail are caught under the gate when it drops to the floor.

After struggling to get out he turns to Chaz for help. Chaz suddenly hears the police sirens and grabs the money, giving Moxxie a final look before running off, leaving a betrayed Moxxie devastated and in tears. Moxxie is thrown inside a jail cell.

He sadly climbed into the bottom bunk of the bed when a familiar voice questioned,

"So, what're you in for?"

Moxxie quietly pulls his tail closer to him as his cellmate, revealed to be Blitzø, is lying on the top bunk when he started rambling after he hopped down to shake Moxxie's hand,

"Okay, not much of a talker, are you? I'm Blitzø, the 'o' is silent. I'm sure we're going to get along just fine. So, what's your deal? What'd you do? Who'd you diddle? You look like someone good with a gun. You look like someone who could shoot up an office-"

Moxxie attempted to speak but didn't get a chance to as Blitzø continued devising,

"-and I hope you are 'cuz I got a plan to get us out of this dump but I'm going to need some help, you think you can give me a hand? I need to get out to my daughter. The babysitter will kill me if I don't get back soon. Do you like kids? 'Cause lemme tell 'ya. They're a-fucking-dorable. I really think you'd like'em if you have any in the future..."

Moxxie tearfully smiles as Blitzø continues talking about his escape plan.

"Once I got out, I never looked back." Moxxie finished up his backstory with a moment of silence before Ayden broke it while looking over at him and Blitzø as she noted,

"Why 'm I not su'prised ya both met in prison...?"

Before she noticed how Millie was glaring and growling viciously toward Chaz as he suddenly looked extremely nervous as he tried to reason with an anxious chuckle,

"Well, heh, like you said, it was a long time ago."

But that didn't matter to Millie as she screeched while foaming at the mouth with a literal death glare,

"I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!"

She lunged for him but missed as her knife tore its way into the couch fabric.

"Whoa, the fuck- Crazy bitch!" Chaz panicked as he narrowly avoided the attack to cower behind Crimson's chair.

When she tried to lunge for him again, Moxxie and Blitzø intervened by holding her back even as she kept yelling and growling while pointing her knife in his direction,

"You're going to die, bitch!"

"Little help here Kid?!" Blitzø shouted to Ayden as she watched them struggle with an emotionless expression on her face.

"Ok." Ayden shrugged before her eyes blanked out to match the green of the flames in the fireplace behind her and her short hair flickered with flames as it flew around her head before she held up her paws to draw power from the fire with her death gaze on Chaz as he exclaimed,

"Woahwoahwoah what'd I do to you?!"

"It's wh't ya did ta them..." Her voice went deeper and a bit more warped as she readied to toss the fireball even as Crimson tried to get her to back down,

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, HEY! Hold on!"

*Ahem...*

Abruptly the flames in her paws went out and everyone froze when a maid announced in a French accent,

"Dinner is served."

"Yer lucky 'm jus' hangry..." Ayden hissed as she let her power fully fade and crossed her arms to head for the dining room with the others behind her, Crimson narrowed his eyes and he watched her leave, making eye contact with Alessio to give him a subtle nod before he eventually joined them.

Once they were all seated and served, another dense tension settled over the room before Blitzø broke it with a blunt,

"So, this is aggressively uncomfortable."

Making Crimson question as more of a statement,

"I suppose you want to know why you're here."

"Yeah, so what gives? I mean y'know we kill people on Earth, right? We don't usually do contracts for locals. So, if you want to do business with us, you gotta-"

"I don't want to do business with I-M-P..." Crimson cut Blitzø off to correct, "I want to do business with Moxxie."

"ME?!" Moxxie exclaimed in surprise before his father explained,

"Yeah, kid. I only summoned I.M.P. to be sure you'd show. Because, well, we're bringin' Chaz into the family."

Chaz smirks while raising his eyebrows cockily before Moxxie questioned,

"What? Since when can just anyone join the family?"

"Come on, Mox. You had responsibilities here that I had to pick up once you left. Now Chaz is going to lighten the load." Crimson answered in a bitter tone before Moxxie argued,

"Wait, I thought you always hated his guts."

"Well, I didn't exactly 'hated' him." Crimson tried to hide when Chaz looked at him confused before Moxxie stated,

"You called him a 'friendless horse-fucker' and said he lived a 'sissy lifestyle'."

"He does look like th' type..." Ayden commented slightly muffled after she shoved a forkful of food into her mouth to quiet her rumbling stomach.

"Yeah, well, I was wrong. You've been gone a long time, Mox. A man can change... And so has Chaz." Crimson reasoned before Chaz agreed,

"Yeah. I've grown, matured, and, recently, came into millions! But, y'know, mostly the 'mature' thing."

His shifty eyes when he mentioned the millions thing made Ayden suspicious as she raised an eyebrow before Blitzø spoke up,

"Oh, okay, okay. So the 'horseless friend-fucker' over here gets a little moolah and suddenly, it's worth wasting our time over?"

"Well, I'm the whole 'package' if you know what I mean." Chaz explained gesturing to his body... or more specifically...

'Don'sayitdon'sayitdon'sayit...' Ayden thought to herself.

"I got a big dick." Chaz announced confidently.

'Ugh!'

"But, what does any of this hafta do with Moxxie?" Millie questioned, her tone edging on annoyed.

"There's going to be a ceremony tomorrow. Moxxie here is going to officially release his holdings in the organization." Crimson explained as he put his utensils down to stop eating making Ayden question,

"And he can't jus' give'em up an' skip the whole speech 'n spectacle beeecaaauuuse...?"

"That's not the way we do things here..." Crimson glared her way before turning back to Moxxie to say, "Once that's over with, then you can get back to ignoring your family to your heart's content."

"Maybe he wouldn't 'ignore his family' if they didn't force him to rub elbows with a no-good, shark-toothed FUCK FACE!" Millie tried to defend her husband while bolting to a stand to glare at Chaz even though he tried to look at her suggestively, making her point her knife at his neck threateningly.

"Ey, look. Everybody, relax." Crimson tried to get Millie to stand down before he suggested, "I know tensions have been high tonight. Say, why don't you stay here and get some rest? We'll have the ceremony tomorrow and then you will be free to leave. I have your rooms all prepared."

"Yes, sir." Moxxie spoke up just as Millie looked like she was about to say something.

"Mox?" Millie looked at him unsure as Blitzø and Ayden were already starting to leave the room behind Chaz.

"A moment, Moxxie." Crimson held Moxxie up before he could leave the room with Millie as he assured her,

"Just give me a minute, Millie. I'll be there."

The doors to the dining room were closed behind them as Millie started to look more worried for Moxxie and growled at Chaz when he tried to lean into her.

Once they made it back to the living room area, Ayden's tail started swishing around before she went up to one of the goons asking,

"The'e a dunny 'round he'e?"

But he just looked at her in confusion making her deadpan in a forced accent-less tone,

"A bathroom..."

Before the goon wordlessly pointed to a room down a hall and Ayden gave him a two-finger salute before heading that way,

"Don't go as a cat!" Millie called out after her and she gave a thumbs up without looking back as the bathroom door closed behind her.

"I'm sorry what?" Blitzø questioned Millie and she explained,

"Oh the first couple'a weeks she lived with us, Ayden would go to the bathroom in the dark with the door slightly open uuuuntil the night Moxxie walked in on her dropping a deuce in the toilet as a cat."

"HAHAHA! Oooohhh that must've been embarrassing for them both!"

Out of nowhere, a bunch of dildos of different shapes, sizes, and colors on plaques flipped out to reveal themselves from the walls as they bounced in and out and waved around obscenely.

After a few moments to process what they were seeing, Blitzø exclaimed,

"Hah! There're dicks on the walls! Oh, that is fucking hilarious!"

"AAHHHH!!!" Ayden's scream sounded from the bathroom making Millie worry,

"Uh oh..."

"WHY THE FUCK'S THE'E A DILDO IN THE DUNNY?!"

A crashing sound came shortly after and when the goon went to open the door to see what had happened, hellcat Ayden bolted out drenched in water and leaving a dripping trail behind her.

"Woahwoahwoah! Hold on!" Millie got in front of her to stop her from going on a Zoomies-like runaround so she just cowered to the ground shivering and dripping wet with her tail wrapped around her body.

"Shit Fuzzball... ~didja get pegged?~" Blitzø kneeled starting to say like he was concerned before switching to a taunting tone as he prodded Ayden's face while he poked fun at her making her hiss,

"HAAAH!"

"~I'll take that as a yes.~"

"C'mon.. let's ge-etcha cleaned up..." Millie managed to pry Ayden off the wooden floor leaving some deep scratches in the boards, making her cling to Millie instead as their I.M.P. group was led to the guest rooms upstairs.

Shortly after, Moxxie was heading up the stairs to join them when another goon gestured for him to stay in another room at the other end of the hall from Millie's, making her question as she walked up to her husband with Ayden still in her arms,

"Wait? How come we aren't in-"

"Crimson wants you all to stay in separate rooms." The goon, known as Alessio, stated before he grabbed Ayden by the scruff of her neck from Millie's arms as he added, "Same goes for this one."

"Hey!" Millie started to protest before Alessio tossed Ayden into the room opposite of Moxxie's and closed the door behind her, muffling the rest of the conversation from the outside.

Ayden stayed cowering on the ground, trembling and damp, for an indiscernible amount of time before she finally uncurled from herself and shifted back to demon cat form while sitting to reveal her shorts were still slightly unbuckled with the zipper halfway down.

Looking down at the edge skin towards the lining of her panties just under the pudge of her stomach, Ayden's eyes welled up and her teeth gritted when she saw the three scratch scar lines peeking out and leading downwards...

After taking a sharp, slightly shaky, inhale through her nose she remembered the mantra Moxxie taught her after the events of L.A. to say when she started to feel herself about to have an emotional breakdown like now,

"'Mnotmytrauma'mnotmytrauma'mnotmytrauma'm... not.. my... trauma..."

As she buckled her shorts back up and let the memories of all the times with Hannah and her crew fade back into the back of her mind her breathing evened back out and her eyes stopped stinging signaling breakdown had been averted... this time...

Sighing, she stood back up to go over to the vanity that was next to the bed and searched through the drawers for a towel, eventually finding one she used to dry her hair before going on all fours to shake the rest of her dry.

When she was done, there was a knock on the door and she perked up thinking it was one of the others, only to be disappointed when she was met with Chaz as he questioned seductively,

"This pussy ready to be pounded?"

But she just gave an unamused blank expression as she muttered loudly,

"Ok at this point 't's not ev'n funny 'nymo'e..."

"I thought third time was supposed to be the chaaaarm." Chaz complained before Ayden practically yelled at him,

"I'm sixteen ya pe've't!"

"Ugh shoulda led with that!" Chaz immediately pulled away, brushing his coat off as he spoke snootily with his nose in the air, "Even I have standards."

"How shocking..." Ayden bluntly deadpanned before slamming the door in his face.

"'Ight I've wasted 'nuff time cryin' when somethin's iffy 'ere..." Ayden shook her head as she flicked her paws to the ground to make an "enough" emphasis before remembering how Crimson and Moxxie interacted; controlling and manipulative on Crimson's part and submissive on Moxxie's.

"Why call on Mox now when that dickwad gets rich?" Ayden paced the room as she thought before deciding she needed to go and find out more, but she couldn't do so with goons around the house.

When she paced by one of the windows overlooking the parking lot, she searched the rows before her sight landed on one that was shark-themed and whose license plate read "HGECOK."

"'At's his 'ight..." She noted with an eye roll before remembering how people can be told a lot from things in their car and the car itself so maybe there'd be some clues in there.

So looked around her room for anything that could help her sneak out when she noticed the air vent in the corner.

"Gotcha..." She pulled the chair from the vanity to reach up to it and pull on it, but it was bolted shut and she had left her weapons back at the office and her claws were too small for the big screws.

"Hmmm..." She thought for a second before looking at her paws and smirking as she set them against the vent grille.

Taking a deep breath, she focused on what Stolas taught her,

'When summoning the heat of a fire without the flames themselves, imagine as if you're bringing the energy just below the surface of your hands erhh paws without letting it fully break through...'

"C'moooon..." Ayden muttered as she felt her paws heat up before the metal eventually got pliable enough to let a hole be molded, making her cheer as she shifted to hellcat form and crawled into the vents, "Yes!"

After navigating around the vent shafts for a couple of minutes, Ayden managed to sniff her way to the parking lot where she shifted again, albeit a bit cramped, to do the same metal annealing to get out.

After sniffing and listening around for any goons to see and finding none, she carefully stalked over to Chaz's car on the driver's side to start picking the lock with her claw.

*Clink!*

She internally cheered before-

*BEEP!* *BEEP!*

The car's beep alarm went off making her fur stand on end in surprise as she shifted to hellcat form to hide underneath.

*BEEP!* *BEEP!*

The car beeped a second time before she saw some heeled boot-like imp feet approaching and shifted to demon cat form to hiss defensively from the driver's seat when she saw it was just Blitzø as he quietly shouted,

"Christ on a stick Kid! The fuck are you doing here?!"

"Same 's you, lookin' fer answe's. 'Bout time ya showed up." Ayden spoke impatiently before she noticed Blitzø wearing nothing but his horse–patterned boxers and Chaz's jacket and questioned with exasperation and a paw to her face, "Please tell me ya di'n't..."

"How else are we supposed to figure out the friend-fucker's deal?"

"I 'lready picked the lock..." Ayden popped the door open with her free paw to emphasize her point making Blitzø grunt,

"Well there's half an hour of my life I'll never get back."

Before shoving past her to open the driver's door to start rummaging through the center console and glove compartment while Ayden combed through the back seat.

"Bleh! Smells like the fucker ha'n't cleaned up in 'ere for ages!" Ayden gagged and nearly retched when she found a ratty blanket and pillow stained with Satan-knows-what and smelling even worse than death.

"Makes sense since he's most likely living in here..." Blitzø told her as he tossed a paper back to her and she caught it to see it was an eviction notice.

"That sleazy slagge'..." Ayden crumpled the paper in her paws before igniting it while Blitzø went to check the trunk as she started to realize, "He's not 'ctually rich, he's ju' tryin' ta fake it ta get Crimson's money but still... why bring Moxxie into this?"

"He's trying to marry him to get into the family." Blitzø reported from where he found "Chaz's Mastur Plan" scribbled on a sticky note in a bag in the trunk.

"Wh't?!" Ayden hiss-exclaimed while Blitzø asserted,

"Yeah, fuck that! No one fucks with M&M's marriage but me! AH! Aaaahhh..."

*SLAM!*

Blitzø's pained grunt and moan along with the trunk slamming closed made Ayden jolt before shifting to hellcat form to dive and hide under the only place she saw could conceal her; under the stained blanket.

"Hlp...!" She retched as got a huge whiff of the fabric but held her breath and tried to keep quiet as she heard Chaz fake apologize,

"Sorry, babe! You're not the only junk in my trunk!" Before he criticized himself, "Damn it, that was not a good one!"

He came up front to slam the doors closed again and Ayden waited until she heard his footsteps fade before bolting out from under the blanket and viciously shaking herself off while making a noise of disgust,

"Bl-l-l-egh!"

Propping herself up on the window sill, she looked out to make sure there was no one around again before she squeezed herself through a duct taped-over hole in one of the rear windows to land quietly on the ground outside.

Shifting to demon cat form, she went over to the trunk where she knew Blitzø was locked in and brought her claw out again to try to pick the lock as she muttered,

"C'moon let's getcha outta there...-GAH!"

Right before a hand grabbed onto the back of her top and lifted her into the air.

"~Nice tryyy Pussycat.~" The annoyingly suggestive voice alerted Ayden that it was Chaz and she felt her blood boil as she hissed,

"Don' call me that!"

Her reddish-orange flames were summoned from her body to burn him and make him let go with a squeal,

"AH! You little bitch!"

Only to back away when he saw her on all fours looking ready to charge at him with flames blazing from all over her body and her eyes blanked out again.

"AHHHH!" Chaz tried to run away while flailing his arms around just before Ayden chased him until-

*PSH!*

*TSSSS!*

"AAHH-urgh...!" Ayden skidded and slumped to the ground on her stomach when a bucket of ice-cold water hit her, sending shockwaves of stinging pain all over her body, extinguishing her flames and draining her strength from the cold.

"What's going on out here...?" Alessio came out with two more goons with him.

"I uhh have no idea!" Chaz stammered before playing victim, "I came out here for some fresh air after a rugged good time and this little kitty cunt just attacked me!"

"Is that so...?"

"Hrrrr... ugh!" Ayden struggled to get up and defend herself but dropped back down as her consciousness started to waver from the pain but was aware enough to hear Alessio's phone vibrate and he looked down at it before saying,

"Crimson's contact'll be here in the morning to pick up the hellspawn." Before looking down at Ayden as he told the other two, "Put'er with the others til then..."

Her eyelids started drooping once the two other goons picked her up by her arms and started taking her back to the house before she finally fell unconscious.

...

...

...

When she came to, she found herself shivering and tied at the wrists, with her tail bound to them too, and ankles with rope and gagged curled up inside some kinda small enclosed box with an inch-deep layer of ice cubes below her.

She was still fairly groggy when her ears twitched as she heard the muffled voices outside,

"Do you, Chazwick Thurman, take Moxxie Knolastname to be your lawfully wedded husband?"

Her eyes fully snapped open as she realized what was going on and started struggling to get free as she heard Chaz sneer,

"Oh, yeah."

Making her rock back and forth in the space even more while, seen from the outside, a stack of presents was seen by the end of the aisle way leading up to the altar with a particularly large present seen rocking back and forth in place while the priest, Elder Jaws, started to recite to a tied up and gagged Moxxie in a wedding dress being held hostage by his father,

"And do you, Moxxie... whatever, take Chazwick Thurman to be your lawfully wedded- Uh..."

Trailing off when he saw Moxxie try to pull away from Crimson before he forced him to face Elder Jaws and forcibly nodded his head, brushing it off as,

"Look at that! He's just so fucking happy to be here!"

Back with Ayden, she was starting to get tired from struggling with the freezing cold starting to get to her when she heard Elder Jaws start to recite,

"Then by the power vested in me by the Ring of Greed, I now pronounce you-"

And that motivated her to struggle even harder to get out just as music was heard in the near distance.

"MPH!" Ayden's muffled shout sounded as she shoved herself as hard as she could against the space, finally tipping it over to let her fall out of the present pile with the ice cubes scattering around.

She was still tied up and gagged, but one look at Chaz and Moxxie about to kiss against the latter's will made her blood boil to where the ropes started to burn off and the ice cubes started to evaporate from the heat building-

*CRASH!*

Just as Chaz's car, being driven by Blitzø with Millie in the passenger seat, crashed through the brick wall for Blitzø to groggily yell,

"I object!"

Before he face-planted to the ground and Millie leaped out of the car to announce determinedly with her eyes glowing threateningly,

"You want my husband and child? You're going to have to fucking kill me!"

Hearing that, Ayden's bonds fully combusted and she emerged from the smoke as her Hellcat form from her last encounter with her father to stand a little ways from Millie, just as furious and ready to fight as her.

Unimpressed, Crimson just groaned and snapped his fingers before pointing at the two of them to order his goons to kill them as they all stood up from their seat and cackled with their weapons ready but that didn't faze Millie or Ayden.

Millie lunged toward a goon to peel the skin off his skull before pulling it back to break his jaw while Hellcat Ayden spun-dashed into another good, skidding his skin off like a tire before he combusted in an explosion of blood and charred bits.

The carnage went on between the two of them and, at one point, Millie ripped out a goon's, still beating, heart and had spit it in Ayden's direction but she ignored it in favor of chomping down on a goon's head before spitting it out as a flaming projectile at another group coming her way.

When Millie was easily fighting off four goons who tried to gang up on her Crimson started yelling furiously,

"What the FUCK? She's a dame!"

A goon is tossed back hanging from the altar arch in a noose made from another goon's intestines and Crimson wrenches him down to throw him toward the two women as he yells,

"The kid's a PET! Kill them!"

But the goon got chopped to sushi by Millie and his rib cage came flying back barbecued courtesy of Ayden.

While Millie started using the dildos to fight back, Ayden was using her trio of flaming tails to grab and toss several goons into the air where she swiped at the air and sent an arc of flames at them that sent them and their fried guts exploding all over the aisles of seats as Crimson continued to yell,

"You frigging goons! What the fuck is the matter with you? Why do I pay you!? Get'em! You stupid idiots! Go get'em!"

*KRCK!*

Ayden's sight snapped to where she saw Millie get thrown back into Chaz's car on the windshield and she growled before roaring and sending shockwaves of fiery energy to send goons flying back from trying to surround her again.

One managed to get past the blast only to be faced by Blitzø, still out of it from the tranq, wielding a pipe but he missed when he tried to swing it at the goon.

Millie managed to recover and threw a gas can at the goon sending him stumbling back as another tried to rush her but she swung Blitzø around to use him as a sword to slice his neck before Ayden pounced on him and sunk her claws into his chest to cave it completely before spitting another fireball at the goon that had the gas can in his hands to blow him up.

Seeing all Hell breaking loose, Elder Jaws closed his book and purposely dropped it to casually flip everyone off as he walked away without another word but an accidental fireball in his direction forced him to run faster.

As Ayden was batting one of the shorter goons in between her paws like a cat playing with its food, Millie elbow-dropped on a goon to make him chomp down on another who was in his mouth before using the lights to noose his neck and attaching it to Chaz's car.

With a kick from Blitzø, Millie drove the car all over the venue to destroy all the seats while dragging the goon behind the car as it also left trails of oil that caught on fire when Ayden ignited them following the car trying to catch the goon like a cat trying to catch a toy on a line.

Just as it looked like Millie was about to ram right onto the altar, she brought the car to a halt to get out and walk up the altar, stopping to sucker-punch one last goon and Ayden followed slightly behind her with the strung-up goon in her mouth, still partially alive.

Tail whipping behind her, Millie kept eye contact with Crimson as she picked up Moxxie and hoisted him over her shoulder and Ayden glared as well when she bit down on the goon's neck with a sickening crack, finally killing him as a mode of threat.

Begrudgingly waving a hand, Crimson rolled his eyes to "allow" Millie to take her husband and walked back down the aisle as Ayden spit out the goon to shift back to demon cat form with her clothes and skin drenched in blood and oil just before Chaz shouted after them,

"Hey! What about my-GLH?!"

But a spear throw from Ayden using one of the dildo stands shut him up as Millie hissed,

"This ass is MINE!" Before she slapped Moxxie's behind making him blush underneath the duct tape as Ayden snarled with her eyes blanking out red,

"HAAH!"

Shifting to hellcat form to bound after Millie as she picked up Blitzø over her shoulder too as he yelled out to Crimson,

"By the way, y'all should probably know, Chaz isn't even rich, okay? Check his car, he just played you like a fucking rube!"

"Later, losers!" Blitzø flipped the bird at them as Millie hopped them over the destroyed wall to get them to the helicopter and fly them away with the banner being quickly revised to say "WE'RE Married BITCH" using blood and extra taped fabric with the ends slightly on fire.

After a speedy flight back to the office, Millie piloted the copter to hover outside of the hole in the wall, where they saw that Loona hadn't moved an inch from her seat but was looking annoyed at the wind blowing in, to let the four of them disembark.

Just as the unpiloted copter crashed to the street outside, Moxxie hugged Millie as he thanked her,

"Millie, thank you for saving me. You're amazing."

Before gently ruffling Ayden's hair, since she had shifted back to demon cat form on the ride over, as he added,

"You too Ayden."

"Next time, just tell me if your dad is a psychopath, I can handle it." Millie told him with a smile and Ayden grinned as well while saying,

"Ditto."

"Well, I'm glad everything ended up okay." Blitzø announced as he went to put his arms around the three of them, ruffling Moxxie's hair as he told him, "Good to know there's one more in the Daddy Issues Club, Mox."

Before he pulled them all closer as he announced, "Also, I got to plow your ex-boyfriend; isn't that great? Now we ALL fucked the same guy."

He hugged them all tightly towards the end of his statement before Ayden managed to say from her squished position,

"Not me."

"Shush, don't ruin the moment." Blitzø "scolded" her, making her roll her eyes unseriously before hugging back.

After a minute or two, Blitzø finally let them all go to announce,

"Now if you'll excuse me I need to go wash that shark fucker's stench off. Let's go Loonie!"

Calling to Loona, she rolled her eyes and followed him while still on her phone leaving the couple alone with Ayden as she looked at them with her arms crossed and her head tilted playfully as she spoke to Millie in particular,

"So? 'Husb'nd and child?'"

"Well yeah..." Millie emphasized as if it weren't already obvious before saying, "When Blitzø told me you weren't with him and what that asshole was plottin', I got worried sick about you!"

Hearing the protective desperation in her voice, Ayden decided to drop the joking tone to admit,

"Me too..." Looking down at her feet where her tail was curling around her upper thigh as she told them, "I thought they we'e gonna kill you all and I jus' got taken out so easy 'gain and-!"

"Hey hey... " Millie cut into Ayden's self-berating before suggesting, "Why don't we worry about all that later? It's been a looong day or two-"

*Grrrr...*

Ayden's face flushed a bit when her stomach growled loudly but Millie just chuckled good-heartedly as she continued,

"-so why don't we go get something to eat?"

"I'm in." Moxxie agreed before turning to ask, "Ayden?"

His and Millie's face turned to ones of worry when they saw the greenish pallor on her face before she started hacking,

*KLCK!* *KLCK!* *KLCK!*

"BLEH!"

She coughed up a goon's fedora into her paws, covered in saliva and slightly singed around the edges, but more or less in good condition.

"Huh? 'At's new." Before shaking it dry to place it on her head to joke, "How's it look?"

"Like you're gonna need to change the color scheme if you want it to match." Moxxie answered matter-of-factly, noting the color clashing between the hat and the rest of her outfit.

"Hehe..." Ayden laughed softly and she shrugged in a "good point" manner before her vision started going blurry and she added slightly groggy while wavering in place, "Right 'fter.. a quick.. nap..."

Just as she was about to fall forward, Millie rushed toward her to catch her and Ayden managed to shift to hellcat form fast enough so she could be caught that way.

Now with hellcat Ayden fast asleep in her arms, Millie sighed and started stroking her head making her start purring lightly.

"Isn't she just the cutest?" Millie gushed quietly while tapping Ayden's cat nose making it wriggle a bit.

"Yeah... guess all that carnage really drained her..." Moxxie spoke wistfully while placing a hand on her face before asking Millie as he picked up the fallen fedora, "Hey honey?"

"Hmm?" She looked up at him as he told her,

"I think we can start prepping our surprise now."

The two shared a grin before walking out of the office to head back home.

Back at Crimson's mansion later that day, he goes into the living room where his trophy wall is located and places the torn-out jaw of Chaz, now on a mount with his name on it, on a hook among the other trophies.

Growling angrily, he threw a dagger at his family portrait with it landing right in the middle of young Moxxie's forehead.

Just as he turned to walk away though-

*FWOOSH!*

"Yeesh! Listen I know kids can be a handful, trust me I do but sometimes ya gotta give'em a little space to-" A voice spoke from behind him in a joking tone after the fire crackled loudly before Crimson interrupted bluntly,

"I assume you didn't come here to give me a parenting lecture, Ayden?"

Turning to see Den leaning against the fireplace, from where he no doubt pyroported in, he shrugged and told him.

"No, I came to get my daughter back, but it looks like you let her slip right through your claws."

Crimson looked like he was about to argue back when Den held up a paw and assured him nonchalantly,

"Don't worry, I'm not mad about that. In fact, I came to see if you'd like to make a deal, old friend..."

"What sort of deal...?" Crimson questioned with an interested expression.

"Let's just say Hell's about to have a real shake-up in power for us 'little guys' so I'm gonna need some help to make it happen... and, while it's easier to have demons willing to do so, I also like playing the long game with.. difficult players..."

His dark chuckle echoed as the scene cuts to later that night, a glow came from the drawer set next to the couch where Ayden was fast asleep before it faded while Millie and Moxxie were seen quietly and sneakily taking boxes out of the apartment.

AN- Cliffhanger! The simultaneous best friend and arch enemy of anybody!

Now that it's been a week... AGGGHH! That music video for "Just Look My Way" was freaking phenomenal! The singing from Bryce Pinkham, those amazing effects, the symbolism, the fact PARANOiD DJ's fan song, like Addict, has now been canonized, I still have no adequate words for just how gorgeous it was! But BOO to having to wait til April for the Full Moon episode D'X Hopefully the hype for Hazbin Hotel is enough to last us all til then which, based on the recent sneak peek pics, should be :D

Next week's chapter/episode will be Western Energy, still trying to get the rest of Season 2 done before the end of the year so that I can start the new year off with some more mini bonding stories between Ayden and other characters ^^

Until then, Bye!