WARNING: The following contains graphic violence, strong language, sexual themes, moments of intense depression, 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

"Hmmmm..." Ayden stirred awake in her own bed, looking over to the cat bed that was still attached to the window.

"Hmm... mornin'..." She greeted the seemingly empty space as she went up to her space-themed calendar and crossed another day off revealing it had been a little over three weeks since the whole.. second Den incident.

So much had changed yet nothing much changed in terms of daily routine; Ayden still hadn't returned to work and had mostly spent the last few weeks going between hanging out with Via and Alex and Remi, spending time catching up with Angel at the hotel, getting to know everyone there outside of her family drama, and moping around in her room spending hours staring into now-empty space that used to be filled with a comforting presence.

She had even managed to return to her power lessons with Stolas two weeks before, after learning her powers had gotten even stronger with her siblings' and Den's power adding to her own.

In addition, Den's and ALL 27 of her siblings' memories were now in her mind, not always accessible, she liked to think of it as her mind was now a library with no librarian to help her navigate it so whenever she decided to check out a book, it was a random memory from someone she couldn't always recognize at first.

And on top of all that, some demon-specific abilities started to reveal themselves, most likely from how all of Ayden's siblings were all different demons, and one angel, types, including being able to shift back to mini hellcat form, avoiding trying it out again after accidentally shifting to it the first time...

Unfortunately, the last two lessons had been cut short with Stolas's latest habit of overindulging in alcohol to the point of nearly passing out... so Ayden had had little success practicing and controlling her new abilities with the drawbacks each new set seemed to have, not that she could really bring herself to use them outside of lessons when each new ability reminded her of one of her now-gone siblings.

After going to the bathroom to change really quick into some knee-length legging shorts, a light pink oversized sweater Angel had given her with a glittery stars symbol on the front, and her Aroace heart bracelet, she was about to fix her hair in the mirror when she caught the shine of her crystal now in her chest and lowered the neckline of her sweater just enough to look at it with an empty expression.

Looking over to the side of the sink, she saw Jin's tail ring, which was now threaded onto a gold chain, gifted to her from Alex and Remi after she told them both what had happened, to make it into a necklace, and gently picked it up before clipping it around her neck as she also lifted her sweater collar back up to cover her chest crystal.

"Still not used to it..." Ayden muttered as she also looked at her shimmering scars before shaking her head, quickly grabbing a rag to soak under the water while ignoring the stinging pains as she wrung it out, and rubbing it over her hair to damp clean it.

After she shook her hair semi-dry, it was seen reverting to its natural semi-curly state before Ayden opened a container of hair goop and, after warming some between her paws, used it to style her hair into her normal pointed, straightened locks style.

She was in the process of wiping her paws of the goop on the damp towel when she heard a knock before Millie spoke through her bedroom door,

'You awake in there?'

"Yeh, I'll be out in a bit Mum." Ayden answered before her ears twitched as she faintly heard Millie semi-quietly squealing in delight.

With a rueful smile, she went about grabbing her weapons from the racks around the room, stowing them in her satchel, and slinging it on before she headed out to the living room where Millie was seen grabbing some spare change and a few bills from a bowl by the door.

"Are ya comin' back to work?!" She questioned animatedly when she saw her with her stuff.

"Yeh I think 'm ready ta come back." Ayden tried to answer in a sure tone but couldn't help the little droop in her tone as she added, "B'n mopin' around 'nuff..."

Either Millie didn't catch onto her down tone or she was ignoring it in favor of excitement for her return as she hugged Ayden's side while praising,

"That's the spirit! I was gonna go 'n get some coffee for everyone before I got to the office if ya wanna come with."

"Yeh I could go fer a Nitro Col' Brew." Ayden shrugged as they left the apartment before noticing it was just the two of them and asked, "Whe'e's Dad?"

"I think he mighta worked a little extra late last night." Millie shrugged with a little hand wave, not thinking too much of it as they started heading for the Pentabux closest to the office.

A little while later, while they were waiting in line, Ayden felt her phone vibrate in her leggings pocket before the twinkling text tone alerted her it was Via texting as she opened it up to reveal two new messages,

*Hey, did you end up

going back to work?*

*If not, we could hang out

at Stylish Occult again*

Ayden texted back as Millie started ordering the drinks for everyone,

*Yeh came bac today*

*But I cn hang

out l8r aftr*

And Ayden didn't have to wait long before three messages came in rapid succession,

*No it's fine*

*just remembered something

I had to do today anyway*

*have fun*

Ayden raised an eyebrow at the wording, making Millie finally catch onto her discomfort as she asked while leaning against the wall next to her while they waited for their orders,

"You doin' alright Sweetie?"

"I don' know..." Ayden admitted, her ears drooping down a bit and tail curling up at the end, "Via's b'n actin' a lil'... wei'd lately..."

"Weird how?" Millie asked while tilting her head in curiosity.

"We hung out a coupla times since the whole... thing..."

Millie's expression darkened at what was being referenced before urging her to continue with,

"Yeah I remember... Go on."

"An' remembe' how I said I was gonna tell'er how I really feel 'bout he' but didn't get ta...?"

"Yep."

"Well I still didn' get ta tell'er but.. we've been doin' new stuff.."

"Orders for Mollie and Arden!" The barista announced with a tray of drinks for Millie and the single cup of Nitro Cold Brew for Ayden as the former thanked cheerfully while the latter just hissed at the mispronunciation,

"Thanks!"

"Hsss!"

"Aww like what?" Millie asked, getting back to the conversation as they walked toward the office, and Ayden smiled a little shyly as she recounted while the memories being told were shown,

'Like holdin' hands...'

She remembered when she and Via held hands as they walked out of Stylish Occult the previous time the two of them had gone while scrolling through the selfies of clothes they had tried on, Ayden's face in the pictures eventually going from disheartened to semi-joyful especially after Via had used her magic to levitate her up so they could be side by side in the pictures.

'Sharin' boba...'

She remembered her and Via had gotten Hell's versions of Taro and Matcha milk teas with boba respectively and were seen sharing each other's drinks while subtly holding hands again.

'We ev'n took some o' those dumb pe'sonali'y quizzes togethe' an' I got most likely to play the drums! Somethin' Via jus' had ta prove.'

She remembered laying on the floor on her stomach next to Via as they were in her room at the mansion taking the aforementioned quizzes on Via's phone before the result led to her dragging Ayden to the mansion's music room where Ayden was sat down behind a regal-looking drum set.

After experimentally tapping on the drums with two sticks in her paws for a bit with an unsure expression, she gained a little more confidence and started beating out a loud beat that seemed to raise her spirit.

'I mean I guess it helps that I've basically got a thi'd a'm...'

It was revealed she had a third drumstick in her tail that she used to hit the cymbal to finish her mini test piece that had Via applauding while Ayden mockingly took a formal bow.

"Aww sounds like you're both gettin' close, so what's the problem?" Millie enthused before switching to confusion when she asked.

Ayden's ears folded down a bit more as she recounted,

"But e'erytime somethin' bad o' unexpected came up..."

During the Stylish Occult outing, Ayden ended up having to fight off some creepo trying to take pictures of them, and after inadvertently using her souped-up powers to almost completely annihilate him, her mood turned dour afterward, making Via's downcast as well.

During the boba outing, Ayden had reached into her pocket for her phone and her scratched-up photo of her and Taylor had fallen out, Via seeing it before her expression turned down even as Ayden had hurried to stash it back into her pocket before trying to continue their conversation from before.

Finally, during the music session, Ayden had pantomimed either punching or stabbing someone with the stick in her tail, most likely recounting or planning ahead for some I.M.P. mission and her expression turned wistful as she most likely expressed her wish to return to work, and Via's expression turned sour.

'She'd jus' get... distant...' Ayden's voice was heard as the view focused in on Via's expression matching Ayden's current one as they were practically right outside the I.M.P. office building.

"Well look at it this way," Millie tried to make her cheer up by saying in a chipper tone as they got into the elevator, "you're back at work, havin' a healthy distraction,"

She stopped mid-convo to greet some of Verosika's crew members who were milling around the same floor as the I.M.P. office,

"Howdy, Mister! Fine mornin'!"

Ayden's look of discomfort around them all was a little less pronounced than it was before as Millie finished up her encouragement with,

"And back to livin' it up in paradise!

Kicking the door open before they realized what a mess it was inside; boxes, opened and unopened, were filling up the space, and Loona was looking tired and miserable, practically sleeping while standing, as she held a stuffed owl over a fire barrel.

Loona heard the door open, but didn't open her eyes as she responded to their entrance while she dropped the owl into the fire barrel,

"Oh shit, it's morning..."

"Uh, yeah. Have you been here all night?" Millie questioned as she closed the door behind her and Ayden added while tilting her head in confusion,

"And what're ya doin'?"

Loona answered groggily as she took the tray of coffees from Millie, harshly whispering the last part stressfully,

"Blitzø brought two hundred taxidermy owls, then said I couldn't go home until I burned all of them..."

Loona dumped all the drinks into her mouth before tossing the tray away, but still looked dead on her feet so Ayden took one sip of her drink before holding it out to her in offering, Loona taking it without hesitation to down the drink and lid just like the others, only the cup remaining in her hand.

*TCH!*

Almost immediately after, there was a knock on the door and Millie opened it to reveal Wally Wackford, now working as a delivery imp, with more boxes as he announced,

"Hey! I got an order here for a hundred more waaacky owls!"

Wally handed over the clipboard with the order slip, making Loona groan out in tiredness and distress as she crushed Ayden's cup in her other hand before letting it drop to the floor,

"Fuuuuuuck...!"

"Hey, I haven't seen you guys in a while, heh!" Wally noted semi-awkwardly before asking, "Do you like wanna hang out some-?"

Right before Millie slammed the door right in his face and he was heard commenting,

'Okay! That answers that, I say, I say.'

"Is no one else se'iously bothe'ed by how of'en we see that guy 'round?" Ayden questioned with a digit hooked behind her while Millie took the clipboard from Loona to look it over before criticizing,

"Blitzø is still sulking? It's been over a month." Tossing the clipboard away before asking in worry, "And where is Moxxie? He didn't come home last night."

"AHHHHH!"

Moxxie's scream was heard from the other room where Millie barreled through a bunch more boxes, about to go feral on whoever might be attacking her husband with Ayden close behind, paws raised and claws out, before they both saw Moxxie frantically rummaging through papers and questioned in near unison,

"Daaad...?"

"Honey...? You okaaay?"

Before the office room was shown to be in worse shape than the waiting room with piles and pile and piles of papers all around the room with Moxxie in a frenzy as multiple papers on a nearby whiteboard had notices like "Paid overdue", "Unpaid" and "Final Notice" stamped in red on them as he screeched while waving crushed papers in his hands,

"I'M STUCK IN A MATH NIGHTMARE!!!"

Climbing onto the desk while on the verge of a panic attack from the way he was hyperventilating before ranting as he double-checked his work on the whiteboard,

"The numbers, the numbers, I can't make them add up! We're FUCKED!"

He buried his crying face in the papers he clutched as Millie came over to try and calm him down with a hand on his shoulder,

"Come on, baby. It can't be that bad."

But Moxxie pulled away to pull Millie close by her top as he shrieked, pulling away to grab a box,

"He drained our pensions, and used them to buy THESE!"

He opened the box, revealing a stack of plates with real-life horse photos on them and making Ayden cringe and comment from where she was seen opening another box with the same product nearby,

"I don' think we've eve' seen him in this bad a shape..."

Before Moxxie grabbed her face against his to continue panicking,

"Bad? Bad?! This isn't bad! This is just a-" He smacked a pile of papers into the air to emphasize, "FINANCIAL APOCALYPSE!"

Before zoning out while still sitting on top of the desk to where Ayden couldn't snap him out of it by waving her paw in his face while Millie noted from the side,

"I usually just give him space to work his shit out, but... you think I should talk to him?"

Before Moxxie continued his freak out after climbing down from the table,

"We're gonna get audited, we're gonna be evicted, we're going BANKRUPT! Our lives are over Millie, Ayden," Moxxie went into a fetal position on the floor as he cried into a sheet of paper, "all my hard work gone in a flash! Ohhh I should've been a theater critic, I have objectively correct opinions."

Millie and Ayden exchanged a look in agreement to let his panic attack play through since, knowing him, it was gonna take a while.

As they started navigating back through the boxes, they heard Blitzø's voice coming from his office,

'Loona! I need my piss bucket NOW!'

Ayden grimaced again before she noted,

"Y'know, I think he needs that talk now."

Millie nodded before going ahead as Ayden stayed behind a bit to hear Moxxie ranting, going from tearful to angry,

"We-we're gonna default. We're gonna default. And you know what, it's not my fault that we're gonna default. IT'S HIS FAULT! We're gonna lose everything! Our new place! Our new life! AND IT'S ALL HIS FAULT!"

Ayden's expression looked worried for a second before she decided to catch up with Millie as she heard Blitzø and the TV through the door,

*Oh, ooh, okay. I am getting a real sexy energy from this rooooom! Oh, there is definitely a fuckable spirit here.*

'Yeah, get that spooky ghoul cock, bitch.'

Ayden made a disgusted face as she quickly thought,

'She sounds familia'...'

Before they both called through the door,

"Blitzø?"

"Boss?"

Before he called out from inside,

'Go away!'

"We're comin' in." Millie stated making him yell back,

'Read the chains!'

"What chai-Oh...?" Ayden questioned before Millie pulled open the door to reveal some chains crisscrossing over the door and a paper sign that read 'FUK OF' and would've stopped it if it was a push door.

Inside, Blitzø was seen lounging on a large pile of blankets and pillows as he watched TV from between his legs while stuffing his face with spray can cheese and Cryers brand Carolina Reaper ice cream.

After switching off the TV and the "Ghostfuckers" porn he was watching, Millie started trying to reason with Blitzø,

"Blitzø, what are you doing? You've been in here watchin' this Earth trash forever."

"I'M COPING!" He yelled while pointing his spoon at Millie before she and Ayden made their way over to him as the former noted,

"Yeaaah well... You've 'coped' away every dollar we had."

"An' on cheapo plates?" Ayden questioned in disbelief as she held one up, only for Blitzø to snatch it out of her grasp as he retorted,

"Hey! Those plates are collectibles, Kid."

Before carelessly tossing it backward toward another box of plates before returning to his ice cream as he bent his spoon back to ready it for flicking while explaining, his tone turning more discouraged toward the end,

"I'm gonna sell 'em next year for three times as much and then I'll have something to show for it when the things I care about vanish."

Ayden narrowed her eyes at the possible subtle dig at her before Millie tried changing the subject with,

"Mmmkay. You know, my mama always said the best way to deal with being sad is the sweat and blood of hard work. Washes the tears right off."

But Blitzø didn't look like he was paying attention as he maneuvered the remote back over to him with a foot before using his tail to turn the TV back on while arguing,

"I don't need any of your 'folksy-doksy' fucking country wisdom, Millie." Before disagreeing as he sprayed the rest of his spray cheese onto his ice cream in a big gooey pile, "I need to watch the Ghost Fuckers get dicked down by a disembodied spirit and eat my feelings til I die from a heart attack or diabetes, whichever pops my heart open first."

Blitzø stuffed the carton to his face making Ayden deadpan,

"OK yeh nope..."

Grabbing and pulling the carton away, only to come away empty as it all stayed stuck in Blitzø's mouth, making her look between it and him in shocked disbelief,

"How the-?!"

Before Millie questioned as he swallowed it all down,

"I don't get it, Blitzø.. All this over a breakup..?"

And he exclaimed, making sure to emphasize,

"IT WAS NOT A BREAKUP! You need a relationship for one of those and we never had that..." He looked down and away as he added in a disheartened tone, "And we never will..."

"You we'e doin' fine fer a bit afte'wa'ds." Ayden noted with slight confusion before asking, "What happ'ned?"

Blitzø gave Ayden a once-over look before looking away, making Ayden look down and away with some guilt in her expression.

"Ohhh, Blitzø..." Millie sighed, noticing the obvious discord still going on between the two of them before the office phone rang and Blitzø managed to answer with an annoyed yell,

"WHAT?!"

Loona answering from the receptionist's desk, still sounding dead tired,

*We have a client...*

"Tell them to FUCK OFF!"

But Millie was quick to intervene and tell her,

"Don't! We'll be right there."

Millie left the office first, but Ayden hesitated a bit when she saw him go back to watching his show while deflating in place miserably.

She looked like she was about to say something when she changed her mind and left, closing the door behind her.

When she made it back to the waiting room behind Millie, they both saw Loona barely listening to the client, a Sinner lady named Rita who had fluffy bright teal hair and feathery tail, large violet glasses, long talon-like nails, and her severed head floating above her body, as she was ranting in a drawn-out accent,

"You know, my psychic told me I'd be going somewhere bad on Wednesday. I just thought she meant Baaltimoore, I didn't think it was..." She slammed a hand on a nearby desk to emphasize, "HEEELL!"

But Loona couldn't look any more disinterested as she spoke dismissively,

"Mhm, mhm, interesting...!" Before noticing Millie behind her and pushing her to the front to push the client's attention to her instead as she spoke hastily, "Oh look! Someone whose job it is to listen to you."

"What's going on?" Millie asked after flashing a quick annoyed expression to Loona.

"Okayyy! From the top." Rita sat atop a box to start recounting, "I went for my usual tarot reading last week, and-"

Before Loona interrupted her with,

"No no no. Fast forward to who killed you."

"Ohhh, m'okay." Rita fixed her glasses before skipping ahead in her story to answer, "Yesterday I was killed by... the evil ghost haunting a spooky hotel."

Ayden raised an eyebrow in suspicion before looking to Loona and Millie, the former gesturing 'you tell her' and the latter tried to explain delicately,

"Umm.... Ma'am. I don't know how to tell you this, but when humans die they either end up here..." Millie looked down to refer to Hell before looking up at the ceiling to refer to Heaven, "or up there..."

"Ohhhh, okaaay." Rita nodded her head before tilting it to the side as she questioned, "I don't understaand..."

"She's saying ghosts aren't real, lady!" Loona asserted right before she was cut off by a strobe light breaking through Blitzø's office door window before the whole thing was crashed through by Blitzø as he questioned excitedly,

"'Ghost?!' I heard ghost. Where's the ghost I can fuck-erh hunt?"

"Blitzø, calm down! Someone killed this lady, but it wasn't-" Millie tried to explain, but Blitzø cut her off while climbing on top of the desk overzealously to get right in her face,

"Millie! Let me have this."

"But-"

Blitzø cut her off again by holding up a homemade punch card that had "Uncondituinal Support" written at the top half while the bottom half had a series of 7 punch slots where the last star-shaped punch was redeemable for "BLITZ has to LEAVE M & M ALONE FOR ONE DATE."

Millie took a deep breath in before sighing as she took the punch card and used her knife to punch the last hole in the card and toss it back to Blitzø, who ignored it in favor of questioning Rita as he led her out to the hallway to talk more,

"Alright so tell me what it looked like, starting with its hotness and tightness. How many-how many abs would you say you witnessed?"

"Well.." Millie noted with an unsure smile as she looked at Ayden and Loona, who had fallen asleep standing up, "At least he's out of his office!"

"'At's a sta't I guess..." Ayden commented as she reached up to pop Loona's snot bubble with a claw, waking her up from the sound it made.

A short while later, outside of the office building, Ayden was seen hauling a box full of stuff that had "GOST FOKRZ! SHIT" written in marker on the side grimacing at some of the items inside as she put it down on the ground with Millie by her side was Loona leaned against the doorway to the building as she expressed concerned,

"I don't know if this is a good idea..."

"He'll be fine." Millie tried to dismiss her worries before devising, "We'll check the place out, see what passes on Earth for creepy, and Blitzø will get all this out of his system."

"Hopefully..." Ayden muttered as she was also looking unsure about the plan, especially since she was told to leave her weapons behind for this mission, while looking at some of the stars on her right paw, before Millie added for Loona,

"You just need to keep an eye on Moxxie, he's a little...-"

A quick look at the office window above them showed Moxxie still in complete freak-out mode as he smacked his head against the glass, cracking it, with each yell before ripping his shirt off at the last yell,

"BANKRUPTCY! BANKRUPTCY!! BANKRUPTCYYYY!!!"

Millie cringed at the sight of his current state,

"Upsetti."

"I don't take orders from you, Grandma." Loona tried to wave her off but Millie started to beg as she got closer to Loona, whispering a bit towards the middle,

"Look.. I can't keep both of them, plus Ayden if we're bein' real honest here.., out of trouble at the same time. I need your help..."

Loona spared a glance over to Ayden, where she was still looking at her scars underneath her sweater sleeve with a lost look, before looking away in an unsure manner at what was being asked of her even as Millie kept imploring,

"Please?"

Right as Blitzø pulled up in the I.M.P. van with the company logo replaced with a decal of the "Ghost Fuckers" logo as he leaned out of the driver's window to quip,

"Get in losers, we're going ghost fuckin'!"

Ayden had put the box of supplies on the floor of the second row where she climbed in to sit behind the passenger seat and Millie slowly climbed in to look back at Loona with a pleading expression, making Loona finally relent with,

"Ugh. Fine! I'll watch the nerd. But you're the ones cleaning off the van."

"Thanks..." Millie thanked before acknowledging her as she fully climbed in, "Loona."

"Don't get used to it!" Loona shouted before the door fully closed and Ayden smiled at Loona, waving to her as she headed back inside, catching a short glimpse of a smile.

Millie had hopped to the front passenger seat and buckled up just as Blitzø activated his Asmodean Crystal with a rub to open the portal to Earth before declaring,

"Let's gape this hole wide open!"

Flooring it to where the van peeled right through the portal... only to crash into a headstone in a graveyard with a loud crash,

*ERRRR!* *KRSH!*

"We're here..." Blitzø announced weakly.

"HLEH!" Ayden was heard retching as she dangled out of the backseat window with glowing puke seen on the ground below.

After getting out of the crash, Millie and Ayden rubbed their heads from the crash impact before Blitzø looked around, seemingly unaffected by the crash, wondering if they were in the right place from the way he asked,

"Huh, interesting. Aren't we supposed to be at a haunted hotel?"

Before they stood in front of the hotel that Rita had described; covered top to bottom in cobwebs, windows yellowed and cracked with age, and in bright neon lights was "ONE STAR WONDER" with two stars by the name but only one was lit, as well-timed lighting struck at either sides of the hotel to illuminate its creepiness,

*KRSH!* *KRSH!*

"The'e it is." Ayden spoke plainly before Blitzø chuckled excitedly while rubbing his hands together,

"Oh-ho, yeah! this place is gonna be ripe with fuckable spirits. I gotta get a reading."

After opening the broken van door, Blitzø started rummaging through the box of equipment while Ayden was seen kicking aside some bones that were dug up in the crash, and Millie still looked concerned as she tried bringing him back to his senses,

"Blitzø, look. I know this is fun and all but, come back to reality. You do know ghosts aren't real, right?"

"But they are." Blitzø stated while shining a flashlight to his face making Millie groan while facepalming at his increasingly tiring antics,

"Oh my fucking Satan..."

Blitzø started flaunting a Ghostfucker dildo detector and a backpack vacuum with a funnel nozzle, making Ayden question with disgust and disbelief,

"What the fuck 's that?"

"You like it?"

"No." Ayden deadpanned but Blitzø kept talking despite her answer,

"It's Bethany Ghost-Fucker's Ghost Sucker 9000. Sure to get you a ghost after a ghost gets you... off. Only set me back a couple thousand!"

Outraging both Millie and Ayden as the former yelled,

"A couple what?!" Picking up a bone and throwing it at Blitzø as she exclaimed angrily, "You haven't paid me in a month!"

"Ya haven't paid me in two!" Ayden added indignantly with her arms crossed but Blitzø didn't take them seriously as he used the vacuum to suck up the bone that Millie threw at him.

"Uh oh! Looks like it sucked all the fun outta both of you." He teased while making the vacuum hose suck on Millie's cheek before handing her a pile of clothes and tossing Ayden a name tag and fake glasses as he ordered unseriously, "Now hurry up and put these on, those ghosts aren't gonna fuck themselves."

"*TSSFF!* *HAH!*" Millie took a deep breath to calm down as she seethed in a strained tone with her disguise in her hands, "He needs this. He needs this. He needs this..."

Ayden frowned as she put the fake glasses on and pinned on the name tag that had "INTERN" on it before shifting to her human form, still wearing the pink sweater, knee-length leggings, and ring necklace but was now wearing dark reddish flats with ankle straps on her feet and her scars looked more like gradient tattoos on her skin-

"Ah! Pft!"

But also having to spit some of her hair out of her mouth from how it was still insanely long, reaching down to her calves untied with some natural curls and waves.

"Ugh.. I fo'got I still need ta chop my hai' in this fo'm from last time..." She groaned while pinching some of her long hair between her now-human fingers,

"Woah woah no need ta chop it." Millie assured her after putting on her disguise of a black tank top with "STAFF" in white letters on the front, a purple and yellow lined beanie with a ghost face on the front, and jeans that matched the color scheme of her beanie.

She patted the mound of bulldozed dirt close to her to gesture for Ayden to sit down, which she did with a questioning expression.

After pulling her hair back, she tied it with some string and used another piece of string to use as a headband to keep most of the shorter wavy bang curls out of her face.

"There we go!" She stood back to tilt the driver's side rear view mirror to show Ayden her reflection before putting her hands on her hips to admire her work, "It looks nice natural like that."

Ayden marveled at how good her disguise looked before thanking her,

"Thanks Mum."

"No prob!" Millie beamed before adding with a hinting tone, "I used ta do this kinda stuff with your Titi Sallie when we were younger."

"'Titi?'" Ayden questioned with a confused head tilt and expression, making Millie look worried for a split second before switching to a smile as she waved a hand to say,

"Or Auntie, whichever you prefer."

"OK...?" Ayden responded, still weirded out by how Millie seemed to be covering something up before Blitzø called for them to hurry up so she went on ahead.

Millie sighed, wondering how it was she didn't seem to remember her past family member before settling to wonder about it later, grabbing a video camera from the box before following behind Ayden as they caught up to Blitzø, who had changed into a Bethany Ghostfucker outfit, as he opened the door to the hotel with more well-timed lighting flashing dramatically behind them,

*KRSH!*

Blitzø waved to Millie and Ayden in his disguise before pulling out the dildo detector to wave it around before pointing it right in the face of the hotel manager, a man in a uniform of a red vest over a gray long sleeve dress shirt and black pants, a combover, a tiny black mustache, a unibrow, wearing large yellow-tinted glasses, and had a small toothpick poking out of his mouth and Ayden was seen wrinkling her nose a bit as she thought she smelled warm sweaty fish coming from the man.

The manager, whose name tag said "Rolando", grabbed the top of the dildo to redirect it from his face as he greeted them, tilting his head toward the end to make his combover flop over,

"Welcome to the One Star Wonder, where it's a wonder we still have that star. How may I help you today?"

Before Blitzø started talking in an exaggerated valley girl accent while waving a crudely-made ID card with a doodle of the real Bethany Ghostfucker, "BATHINEE GOZTFUKR," "iM FAMOS," (tHiS IS A REAL I.D.), and a dick doodle on it,

"We're filming a very special episode of my hit show and we're gonna need access to every room in this dump."

"Christ, you Hollywood assholes are pushy little pricks." Rolando griped as he adjusted his glasses while examining the card comparing it against Blitzø, who started sweating a bit, as he kept complaining, "I can't just give you keys to every ba-"

Trailing off before realizing,

"Well snap me in half!" Rolando snapped his fingers as he "recognized" the person before him, making Blitzø smile smugly while Millie and Ayden wore twin deadpan expressions behind him, before he kept talking, "You're Bethany Ghost-Fucker from that one show..."

"It's called 'Ghost Fuckers,' idiot." Blitzø told him passive aggressively.

"No, but you're getting close." Rolando dismissed his statement, making Blitzø's eye twitch in irritation and Ayden facepalm at the idiocy, before he continued as he pocketed the fake ID before using a hand to rummage through a desk drawer,

"Anyway, I am glad to see you folks. We've been having more... disturbances than usual lately."

"What kind?" Blitzø kept up the act as he pushed up his chest while waving his hips around, "~Se-sexy disturbances?~"

"The kind that are killing my guests!" Rolando answered loudly while slamming three photos on the desk revealing them to be three previous victims; one woman being levitated, another man cut in half mid-crawl with his guts strewn across the carpeted floor, and the last one being Rita, their client, as she was shown to have been beheaded.

"Well there definitely ain't no such thing as ghosts. But we'll get to the bottom of what's killing your guests." Millie told him while pushing the photos away with a polite smile before Blitzø insisted, still in his fake accent,

"Uh yeah, except ghosts are real, cameraman."

"They're a conspiracy, Bethany."

"Uh, then what do I plan on fucking tonight, cameraman?" Blitzø argued while raising his butt in the air towards Millie's face.

"At this rate, yerself..." Ayden muttered loudly while rolling her eyes a bit making Blitzø retort, still in his fake accent while booping her nose, his butt still in the air,

"You're not not getting paid to sass, intern."

*BZZrrrt...!*

The lights in the room started to flicker spookily, startling Blitzø as he stood back up to fumble while questioning urgently,

"Ah! Where's my lube?"

Rolando dragged a hand down his face at the display before asserting,

"Look, real or not, this shit needs to stop."

"Uh, then we'll need those keys, cocksucker. Every last one of them, keys and condoms, ~hand 'em over!~"

Rolando pulled out a keyring out of his pocket along with, much to Ayden's disgust, two unopened condoms and two used condoms, the last things being brushed off onto the desk as the first two were handed to Blitzø with an ecstatic,

"Oh, I just can't tell you how glad I'll be to be rid of them!" Before adding as he requested while brushing the used condoms off the desk with a wet squelch, "Just do me a flavor and clean up any fluids left behind. They already killed my last cleaning lady, now I'm stuck with this."

He gestured to something beside him so the three of them peeked over the edge to see a short, hunchback, Igor-like, drooling bellhop man with deformed eye named Toledo standing there behind the counter.

"Eugh..." Blitzø, Millie, and Ayden grimaced in unison before Toledo tried to speak with drool flying everywhere,

"Buh-buh-bitch-bitch!"

"'Scuse you?!" Ayden snapped as she saw how he was looking at her directly while saying that before Rolando stopped her from flying off the handle with,

"Poor thing can't even blink."

"No promises! Heh." Blitzø chuckled as he twirled the keys around a finger before catching them as he started to walk away while calling to them, "Come along Mil-ton and Ay-dria..."

Blitzø and Millie walked ahead before Ayden stopped a second as Rolando asked her with interest in his tone,

"Intern huh...?"

"Yeh...?" Ayden half-turned back to answer with an eyebrow raise.

"Rough industry isn't it...?" Rolando's eyes narrowed as his smirk grew wider, thoroughly creeping Ayden out but she attempted to hide it by grumbling,

"You have no idea..."

Before she continued walking to catch back up with Blitzø and Millie through the hallways, inspecting around for any signs of ghosts.

When they passed by a painting of Rolando holding a rose, the eyes followed the trio's movements before returning to the same position from before when Ayden went back to further inspect it, eyes narrowing in suspicion before continuing forward as she shivered unsettlingly, the eyes following her again.

"Blitzø, we have a job to do." Millie tried reminding Blitzø as they walked past a red telephone that was ringing despite the cord being cut, "Someone killed that lady and it wasn't no phantom."

"Yeh so shoul'n't we be trackin'-?" Ayden's question was cut off by Blitzø scolding Millie while poking her with the dildo,

"Woah! Mils, just 'cause you're a hick does not mean you can drop that f-bomb all willy-nilly. They hate that word."

"I-what? What 'F?'" Millie questioned incredulously before Blitzø put a finger over her lips to shut her up, even putting the finger in her mouth to her disgust as he announced,

"Sh-shh-sh, shut your bigot mouth, I'm gettin' a reading."

Turning the dildo scanner to a hotel room before getting the key ring out to unlock the door before Millie protested while throwing her body against the door to block his way,

"Hold on, there might be someone in there!"

"Yeah you bet your ass there's someone in there!" Blitzø argued loudly before stammering and yelling again, "A ghost, about to get.. a mouthful of si... si... I don't know, SOMETHING SEXUAL!"

Kicking the door open as he shouted while holding the vacuum nozzle,

"LOOK ALIVE, YOU UNDEAD COCK SLEEVE!"

But there was only an elderly couple in bed reading their own books until Blitzø sucked up the books and blanket making them cry out in fear with nothing but their underwear and socks on,

"AHH!"

"Prepare to get sucked off to the astral plane BITCH!" Blitzø declared in his fake accent while flicking his wig's bangs sassily and propping a foot on the bed to get in their faces while flipping them off.

"Oh my, Dolores!" The husband cried out as he and his wife clutched at each other.

"Damn it, Blitzø, they aren't ghosts!" Millie got right behind him to try and stop him while gesturing to the elderly couple, "These are just shriveled humans!"

"No offense o' anythin'." Ayden added semi-apologetically, but the husband took it offensively as he stood up from the bed with his fists ready to fight as he challenged,

"Think you're pretty slick, huh? You looking for a fight? I'll give you a fight!"

"Haah...! Let's leave these two-OOF!"

Before Millie can even finish her sentence, a fist comes right into her face and punches her so hard that she flies back and crashes through the wall, leaving a hole of her figure behind, shocking both Blitzø and Ayden.

"Crikey!" Ayden cried out as she backed away from the not-so-helpless-man as he began to rant,

"I fuckin' beat the Nazis, and I'll beat you too, bitch!" The man shouted determinedly before noticing Blitzø behind him on the bed as he warned Millie and Ayden,

"Look out Millie, he's a patriot!"

"Wrong fight man!" Ayden cried out as she pressed herself against the wall, not wanting to fight an elderly man, no matter how pissed she was at him for punching her mom.

"Get'em Harold!" Dolores encouraged her husband as he tried to left hook punch Blitzø but he managed to dodge and punch him back, knocking him to the floor unconscious.

Afterward, he grabbed Ayden by the wrist to drag her behind him as he crashed through the wall next to Millie's imprint, where she was on the other side on the ground, still recovering from the hit before she too was dragged along by Blitzø.

"Get back here you red and pink little shits! Get back here!" Dolores shouted while she exited the room with a pink blanket wrapped around her body before grabbing her walking cane to raise as she screamed in fury, "AHHHHH!"

The trio kept running until they saw a utilities cart and hid behind it as Delores kept yelling out while a song started playing the background,

"How dare you hurt my Hermie, I mean Humie I mean... fuck!"

♫ I've got longing and desire

My heart burns with forbidden fire

For a spooky

A spooky kind of love ♫

The three only came out once she was gone and Blitzø quickly pushed the cart with Millie and Ayden sitting on top, both looking bored at the ongoing shenanigans down the hall past Dolores as she was still yelling,

"Why am I chasing you again, I don't know, but I'm fucking angry!"

Blitzø kept pushing the cart despite the yelling and eventually they made it to the dining room where he skidded the cart to a stop, just to use his "ghostsucker" to suck up people's spaghetti right off their plates.

Outraged, more people started chasing after them and Millie ended up having to be the one pushing the cart with Blitzø on top while Ayden ran behind them with her arms outstretched and body leaning forward Scooby-Doo style.

A silhouette shot showed Millie having to push Blitzø and the cart up a few flights of stairs and Ayden having to go on all fours to keep up behind them while still in her human form.

♫ (Ooh, la-la, ooh) Nobody tries to understand it

(Ooh, la-la, ooh) But I can feel my soul demand it

(Ooh, la-la, ooh-ooh) A spooky

A spooky kind of love (Love, la-la-la-la) ♫

In a tri-split scene, Blitzø on the top was seen scanning a room for ghosts, Millie was seen accidentally walking in on two people about to sleep together with the camera in her hand, and Ayden was seen bumping into a table, dropping her glasses on the floor and fumbling around for them before remembering she didn't really need them and scooping them up to keep running.

After rejoining back-to-back-back up, the trio were faced with all the growing angry mob and Blitzø was seen challenging them to come for them before Millie grabbed ahold of his dress to pull him away with a surprised yell while Ayden followed suit.

♫ And I don't care (I don't care)

What they say about me

I don't care (I don't care)

I just gotta be free ♫

In the background of the trio being chased by the angry human mob, some other hijinks they went through showed: Blitzø choking out a human with a rope, Millie was looking around with her camera, Ayden scarfing down a plate of spaghetti Shaggy-style, Blitzø's wig about to be sucked by his vacuum, Blitzø using his dildo to shove it right into a man, Ayden dramatically sneaking away only to get dragged back by the back of her sweater, Millie gets smacked in the head with a walking cane, Ayden running in place before bolting off with a cloud of dust kicking up behind her, and Blitzø making a sexy Bethany wink, which attracts Toledo.

♫ To run, run, run, run, run

Free to run, run, run, run, run

Free to run, run, run, run, run

Free to run, run, run, run into the arms of ♫

In a classic Scooby-Doo moment, a hallway was shown with three doors on each side and everyone running through them only to end up in different rooms while engaging in even more tomfoolery as they did so before the trio ended up bumping back into each other while the humans looked ready to pounce.

♫ A spooky

A spooky kind of love (A spooky; to run, run, run, run, run) ♫

Luckily Millie managed to grab both Ayden's and Blitzø's hands before the humans tried to dogpile them and proceeded to drag them both into the pool room.

♫ A spooky kind of love (A spooky; to run, run, run, run, run) ♫

Just as it seemed like the angry mob was about to catch up with them, Blitzø made the decision to chuck his ghostsucker at Delores, making the others halt as Millie pulled the grate off a vent and practically shoving Ayden in first after being boosted up by Blitzø before the two of them joined her in there to crawl away from the mob.

♫ A spooky kind of love... ♫

The three of them crawled through the vents for a bit, Ayden in front, Millie second, and Blitzø last as he told Millie, completely oblivious to her increasingly miffed expression, while he looked at his dildo scanner,

"Wow, nice one, Mils. I think I found the problem though! The readings were coming from above us, so let's get up there and-oh, ass!"

Stopping and fumbling with the scanner when he bumped into Millie's backside from when she stopped abruptly to snap,

"Enough!"

Blitzø managed to catch the dildo but lost his hat to look at and question Millie in disbelief,

"What?"

"Mum...?" Ayden looked nervous as she sensed Millie's anger ready to snap, evident from the way she started telling Blitzø,

"I'm done. I don't wanna play ghost hunter with you, and I-"

"Uh, It's ghost-fuckers." Blitzø cut her off to correct her, about to put his Bethany hat back on when Millie snatched it to snap back angrily,

"I wasn't done!"

Getting right in Blitzø's face as he looked at her not expecting that reaction as she ranted angrily,

"You know, I always love to have fun with you, and I ain't said boo to you moping around like a sad sack for weeks. But we have bills to pay and homes to keep."

Millie shoved the hat back to Blitzø to continue crawling ahead as she finished her rant with,

"So look, you can go be pathetic and play sex ghosts, if that's what you need to do, but I gotta get this job done! C'mon Ayden!"

"Wh-aye!" Ayden yelped as Millie's tail looped around her waist, dragging her after her, as Blitzø yelled angrily after the two of them,

"Fine! Who needs you both anyway!?" Putting the hat back on and yelling in the fake accent, "Bethany Ghost-Fucker works ALONE!"

As he crawled out of sight going the opposite way, Millie continued dragging Ayden behind her.

"We can't jus' leave'im-Hey!" Ayden tried to protest and stop, but was just yanked along by Millie's tail with her face sliding along the metal of the vent as she kept crawling forward determinedly, the metal screeching a bit from the dragging,

*ERRRRR!*

"Owowowowowow-OW!" Ayden whined before she was dragged out of the vent and the edge of the metal seam nicked her cheek on her way down, knocking down the mini table that Millie had hopped down from.

*TCH!*

The fall was enough to wrench her away, making Millie finally stop and whirl around with an annoyed expression on her face, but it melted away when she saw Ayden sitting on the ground with a hand to her scarlet bleeding cheek.

"Ayden? I-" Millie reached down to her and was saddened when she flinched away with her eyes shut like she was expecting to be yelled at or hit from the way she also trembled slightly.

"I-I'm sorry..." Millie put a hand to Ayden's face opposite to the cut to gently rub it with her thumb, calming her down from the way she untensed and opened her eyes to look at her.

With her free hand, Millie pulled out a handkerchief from her pocket to gently dab at the cut until it stopped bleeding as she harshly sighed after pulling away from Ayden to keep from accidentally hurting her again, "I'm sorry, I just-argh I just don't get how he could be so-so-AGHH!"

She plopped down next to her with her face in her hands after groaning loudly in frustration.

Ayden looked at her worriedly before shifting to sit next to her criss cross with her hands in her lap as she spoke softly,

"I know how ya feel..."

"Ya do...?" Millie looked over at her hopefully and Ayden nodded before admitting,

"I told'im this b'fo'e, during the Clown Pageant.. that sometime's I feel like I gotta prove myself to show I was wo'th takin' on cause o' ev'rythin' I got outta this job..." She smiled as he remembered, "He told me that I don' owe anyone anythin' cause o' what I gave to the team but I still feel like..."

"Like ya owe'im for all the good he gave us..." Millie finished up her thought with a look of realization that she did have something in common with Ayden, contrary to what she had thought before.

"Yeh..." Ayden nodded with an empathetic smile before it switched to fear as she heard Blitzø screaming,

'NO! NO, NO, NO MOM I'M SORRY! MOM PLEASE I'M SORRY!'

And she bolted to her feet while instinctually shifting back to demon cat form-

*EEEEEEEE!*

"AGH!"

A high-pitched screech rang in her ears after shifting.

*ALWAYS HURTING US!!!*

After a split-second macabre mental image of herself screaming while bent backwards with Striker's Blessed Knife lodged in her chest and bleeding profusely while stitched up in various dislocated and bent-out-of-place places appearing in her mind, before she shook it off to quickly sniff the air, her eyes lighting up dark reddish pink, and ran off in the direction of Blitzø's screams with Millie following close behind.

Turning around a corner, Ayden saw Blitzø's skull charm on the floor and her pupils narrowed to slits when she didn't see Blitzø nearby.

"Blitzø? Blitzø!" Millie called out as Ayden picked the charm up off the floor before they heard sobs coming from the hotel room that was slightly open behind them.

Millie threw open the door to reveal that Blitzø was huddled up in a corner, hugging himself almost painfully tight, and crying loudly, making them hurry over to him as Millie tried to ask while moving to grab his shoulders to make him face her while Ayden kneeled down nearby,

"Are you okay?! What happened?"

But as soon as she touched him, he pushed her away as he panicked while his crying ruined his makeup and was experiencing a full-on emotional breakdown, exclaiming in a frantic tone,

"No, no, don't touch me!" Millie and Ayden backed away to give him some space even as he continued to self-deprecate while frantically scrambling away from them, "I destroy everything, everyo-I-I make everyone's lives worse."

"Not mine!"

"Or mine!"

Ayden and Millie both protested as Blitzø tried to curl up and hide behind the bed in the room as Millie spoke softly while kneeling nearby,

"Blitzø... Remember how we met...?"

Blitzø glanced slightly at Millie as he questioned confused,

"What...?"

...

In a flashback to a couple of years ago, a younger Millie wearing Wrathian style clothing and having longer hair was seen drinking some beer in a bar in Wrath when the door opened to reveal a silhouette of a younger Blitzø.

After taking a seat next to her, there were a few moments of tense silence before Blitzø spoke, asking with a hint of accusation in his tone,

"Soooo... You the bitch that took our hit..?"

"You lookin' for payback...?" Millie growled out as her tail was seen discreetly winding around the hilt of her knife on her belt before whipping it over to her hand to stab into the bartop while threatening with a crazed look in her eyes, "If so, you came to the wrong fucking BAR!"

Launching herself out of her barstool, Millie swiftly threw her knife at Blitzø, who was ready for the shot as he spun out of his chair and used the back of it to take the hit as he complimented impressed,

"Wo-hoh! Ni-ice shot!"

He removed the knife with his tail, examining the blade as he noted while Millie was seen having landed in the splits before sliding back up,

"I can see why Moxxie was so impressed with you."

After he threw her knife away, Millie snorted like an angry bull before charging forward to start attacking Blitzø with powerful punches but he used his chair to block the hits as each one broke away a chunk of the chair as each broken piece hit nearby demons.

"Hup-oh! Impressive!"

Blitzø kept praising her skills even before she shouted,

"Who's that? Your boss? Hah!"

As she delivered a mighty roundhouse kick that sent Blitzø back onto the table of two onlooker demons with only two of the chair legs in his hands before he tossed them away to laugh and pointed at himself with a thumb as he asserted,

"HA he fucking wishes. No, I work for myself, lady."

Millie jumping up to attack him again with a kick before he used his tail to throw the table he'd been backed into at her but she just kicked right through it, almost hitting Blitzø if he hadn't dodge out of the way, continuing to applaud her skills,

"Nice one!"

Before he grabbed one of the bystanders that tried to get away to slow her down but she just punched him unconscious and continued to chase Blitzø as she demanded,

"Bullshit! Who sent you?"

The two of them continuing their fight on the bar countertop as Millie almost stomped on Blitzø's crotch with her spiked boots as she demanded again,

"Who are you working for?!"

Blitzø backflipping off the counter to the floor as he questioned,

"What? You don't believe me?"

Infuriating Millie as she reached into her ponytail for another dagger while shouting,

"Imps don't work for themselves, asshole!"

Before pouncing to try and stab Blitzø if he hadn't grabbed her stabbing hand to whirl her around and pin her against the wall with her dagger disarmed and used his shoulder to keep her pinned as he pitched,

"Well this one does, and he's very interested in having you join his team."

But Millie still didn't believe him as she pushed him back enough to run up the wall over his head and kick off to free herself, punching Blitzø right in the face, hard enough to make his nose bleed as she shouted,

"You think you have anything to offer me?"

Blitzø wiped the blood from his nose with a challenging smirk as Millie was seen grinning madly too, the both of them enjoying the fight at this point as she charged forward to keep punching away at Blitzø while he continued pitching,

"Double whatever you're getting paid now! HAHA!"

Using his tail to grab Millie by the leg to fling her toward a wall where a target board was set up so she grab all the darts on her rebound to the ground to throw them at Blitzø as she hissed,

"I'm between jobs. HAH!"

Blitzø jumping to the side to avoid the darts as they hit the bartender just after he had recovered from being hit before as Blitzø handspring off the floor to land on the pool table as he chuckled,

"Ha! This powerhouse?" Blitzø gestured to all of Millie as he questioned, "How'd that happen?

"Not exactly a shortage of imp assassins in Wrath." Millie admitted with a gruff expression before adding, "Reputation is everything."

"And what's your reputation, hmm?" Blitzø questioned with an entertained hum and a sassy headshake, seemingly insulting Millie from the way she got onto the pool table with a cue stick in her hand to swing at him before he flipped up over the hit before trying to knee her in the face only to get blocked by the cue stick, breaking it in half.

Dual wielding the broken pieces, Millie tried to stab at Blitzø but he just dodged her attacks and tried to kick her only for her to duck back giving him an opening to leap over her to try and hit her until she flipped over to try and kick him and ending with the two of them facing each other again.

Grabbing a hold of the pool table, Blitzø flips it to the side causing them to fall out of balance, but they both expertly flip over and stand back up facing each other tensely.

"Who the fuck are you?" Millie questioned and Blitzø continued bargaining,

"Someone with an eye for potential. Now you wanna keep working for peanuts," He held out his hand to her, "or do you want to shake things up?"

Millie started to reach her hand out before it whipped to her side to pull one more dagger out and throw it right by Blitzø's face as it embedded itself in the wall behind him, but he remained unfazed, even as a cut opened up on his cheek and started dripping dark blood onto the ground.

Seeing how serious he was, Millie grinned impressed as she walked over to him to accept his offer,

"You're fucking weird. I'm in."

The two of them firmly shaking hands to settle the deal before they started walking out of the bar with Millie asking,

"So who's that Moxxie guy you mentioned?"

"Oh, your new coworker." Blitzø started to explain as he hooked an arm around her shoulders while they walked out, leaving the bar a complete mess, "Yeah, you-you'll fucking hate him."

A year later, another flashback scene cuts to when Millie meets the whole gang; hopping and flipping on a rooftop to greet Loona, who had pink and gray highlights back then, while Moxxie was completely flustered seeing Millie for the first time, sweating nervously as he shook her hand before fainting from the intense emotions as Blitzø was seen giving her her signature axe as present-day Millie voiced,

*That year I spent getting to know your rag-tag team and making our mark in the assassin game. It was fun.*

Before it cuts to when Blitzø starts expanding the company, leading the others to their new/current office as he introduced,

"Welcome to I.M.P.!"

Opening the door, revealing the office to be still in the works with boxes not opened yet, wallpapers still in need of remodeling, and water dripping into a bucket from a hole in the ceiling that needed to get patched, but the others were still amazed at having their own office now,

"Holy shit!" Millie gasped before Moxxie questioned with his eyes practically sparkling in excitement,

"Sir, what is this?"

Blitzø revealing Stolas's Grimoire in his hands as he explained to them all,

"This baby right here is our future, 'kay? So I figured we deserve an upgrade, right? New office, new clients, new Ring. Go on, check it out!"

Moxxie and Loona were seen eagerly exploring the new office but Millie hung back, hugging herself out of hesitation making Blitzø question defensively,

"What, not nice enough for you? I did the fucking best I could."

"We... heh... We don't deserve this..." Millie sadly chuckled making Blitzø question goofily,

"Huh?"

Millie protesting downheartedly,

"We're just Wrathians, Blitzø. Muscle. It's all we're good for, all I'm good for. It's why you hired me. Any demon good at making a buck is welcome in Lust or Greed, but here?" She gestured out to the Pride Ring as she continued objecting, "Demons like us ain't cut out for this."

"Ummm, fuck you." Blitzø stated plainly, confusing Millie,

"What?"

Before he went off on a passionate tirade,

"Millie, I have spent too much of my time, energy, and holes into setting this up for us to entertain your bullshit. I brought you into this company for a reason, okay? You're tougher, smarter, and frankly more capable than anyone I've ever met in any Ring." He placed a hand on her shoulder before gesturing to himself and everyone he refers to as he continues speaking, "And I'm more fuckable and business savvy than any succu-bitch alive, Loonie's perfect, and Moxxie's..."

He paused to see that Moxxie was enthusiastically staring at the eels in the tank as he continued with,

"...Probably got some good traits too and I'm sure we'll figure them out eventually." Before turning back to Millie to keep insisting, "The point is, if we can't make it here then- then no one deserves to, right? 'Kay, so stop killing my buzz, and come on, I wanna show you my office!"

Blitzø hooked an arm around Millie's shoulders to guide her to his office before the phone rang and Blitzø called out to Loona in a childish voice,

"~Looney!~ Can you get that?"

"Fine..." Loona picked up the phone before deadpanning, "I.M.P. what the fuck do you want...?" Listening for a bit before groaning as she told Blitzø, "Some douche wants two other douches called Bizman and Jasper killed here..."

"Should we tell them we don't do kills down here anymore?" Moxxie questioned unsure.

"Ehh fuck it!" Blitzø shrugged before announcing confidently, "One last mission down here won't change our lives!"

"Oh fuck yeah!" Millie exclaimed as got her axe out and swung it around excitedly,

*FWWW!*

*CLINK!*

The swinging motion transitioned to when the same axe was used to cut Ayden's chain the first time they all met before fading to when Ayden had shaken Blitzø's hand, finalizing her acceptance to the team, before Millie and Moxxie were seen introducing themselves to her as well while present day Millie started speaking again,

*Most of my life I bought into the idea that all I could ever be was a simple farm girl.*

Before the scene cut to Millie in her and Moxxie's old apartment gazing up at the office building with an admiring gleam in her eyes,

*Or best an underpaid goon. Until I met some knucklehead who never gave a fuck about what anyone else said he could or couldn't be.*

As a mini montage plays of some of I.M.P.'s exploits: Blitzø pulling out a grenade and attacking someone on a roof before an explosion killed their target, and splattered blood all over him and Millie and Moxxie, the former looking excited while the latter facepalmed in exasperation, another time Blitzø and Millie scaled the side of a skyscraper on a rope, hunting a client in an alley as Millie pointed Blitzø in the direction of their target, another time when Blitzø drove the van with Millie riding on top wielding her axe before jumping up and decapitating a human target.

*He made me believe he could be anything. And that made me feel like I could be anything, too...*

Millie smiled over at the team before Blitzø shoved Moxxie and Loona aside to hug her as she laughed joyfully.

Back in the present, Millie and Ayden were seen sitting on the hotel bed while Blitzø was still semi-curled up on the floor, his crying having stopped but still looking a little despondent even as Millie expressed,

"He gave me so much... A career, a husband, kids, a future. And now... he's my best friend..."

"You... you don't hate me...?" Blitzø questioned, still a little unsure.

"Naw, never..." Millie answered honestly and Ayden added softly,

"Ditto..."

After Blitzø moved to sit on the bed, Ayden presented his charm back to him with both paws, in a position similar to Mini A a while back, and Blitzø's eyes went teary as he took it back and gave it a little kiss before pinning it back to his collar as Millie spoke, the two of them leaning on each other comfortingly while holding hands,

"Look.. What I said earlier.. you've just always been so unbothered by everything... Almost bulletproof and, I guess I never realized how much I depended on that. I didn't know how to react to you being reduced to... Bethany..." Millie gestured to Blitzø's appearance and he started trying to get the wig and hat off as Millie apologized,

"But I should've respected you like you always do for me.. I'm sorry..."

Blitzø managed to get the wig and hat off before asking Millie,

"Better?"

To which she responded with a sincere,

"Much."

"Good." Blitzø stated softly and Ayden was seen smiling at the two of them before facing forward again as she spoke up,

"Did I eve' tell eithe' o' ya why I decided ta follow you all back then...?"

"No..." Blitzø replied with a bit of curiosity in his voice to nudge her to keep going.

Ayden looked down at her paws as she explained,

"My whole life I'd always b'n told I woul'n't amount ta much eithe'.. Even wo'se when I lost ev'rthin' that day..."

Blitzø and Millie both looked down as they realized what she was talking about before she continued,

"An', when I was really questionin' if I was bette' off jus' goin' back to a place that hu't me but I was at least useful fer somethin', you all appea'ed..."

Ayden smiled softly as she recounted,

"And when you all saw what I coul' do, you didn't fea' o' hate me for it, you actually seemed impressed.. you mo'e than the othe's Blitzø..."

She looked up at Blitzø with a genuine smile that he returned as she continued,

"Late' on when ya gave me that chance ta join the team and I lea'ned mo'e 'bout ya, I realized somethin'; you were someone else who'd been through a shite-ton o' crap in thei' life but you were wo'kin' ta change things, givin' us hope an' pushin' us to be bette' than we thought we coul' be... somethin' that real family does fer each othe'..." Her gaze hardened with determination as she stood up to stand in front of Blitzø as she boldly asserted with her fists raised, "Cause that's what you a'e ta me, ta us, Blitzø, family."

Millie joined her side as she declared as well,

"You've always been there for us, now let us be there for you. You ready to finish this thing?"

"Yeah!" Blitzø got off the bed, pumped up, before he paused and reminded them, "But we still don't even know what this thing is!"

All of them leaving the room while Millie was seen rolling her eyes in faux annoyance before she urged as they all walked back out into the hallway,

"Come on, Blitzø. What's the only thing you know that comes to Earth and fucks with people's minds that badly?"

"I don't know, it's something that like an Infestor demon would do-ohhh." Blitzø theorized before realizing.

"'Xactly!" Ayden confirmed with a finger gun point before they froze upon hearing a spooky voice echoing in the hall,

"So-ho. Figured it out, ~have you?~"

The trio turned to the source, while getting into fight stances, as Rolando was seen at the end of the hallway, grinning evilly as the lights flickered to make him disappear before he reappeared to taunt,

"A bit out of your depth, aren't you ~little ones?~"

After retreating back into the shadows with more of his true demon form revealing itself before disappearing, the lightbulbs going towards them started to shatter as his shadowy form was seen drawing closer, making them start running away.

*EEEEEEEE!*

"AGH!" Ayden yelped as she heard the screeching sound again and cupped her paws over her ears in an attempt to block it out to no avail as Rolando's demonic laughter resonated,

"HAHAHAHAHA!"

"Damn our tiny fucking legs!" Blitzø hissed out annoyed as, with each burst light bulb, the shadows drew closer and with them Rolando, evident from the way he commanded his umbra ectoplasm to grab onto Blitzø's ankle to trip him up.

"You know my secret, I guess you gotta die like all the reeest!"

When Millie and Ayden went back to try and help him, an invisible force lifted Millie off the ground by her neck to toss her away and Ayden was punched in the chest to land on top of Blitzø before the two of them were whirled around and tossed through multiple walls to wind up back in the pool area.

"Ow! *KOFF!* *KOFF!* *KOFF!*" Blitzø coughed and grunted in pain as he sat up before looking over to see Ayden a little ways away as she was face down on the ground facing the walls they just went through as she winced while clutching a paw over her chest where her crystal was,

"Mmmm...!"

A snarl made them both look back over at the hole in the wall as Rolando crawled through in his full, true demon form; a tall, lanky eel-like demon with fin-like hair and ears, blank glowing eyes, a mouth full of large sharp teeth, scaly skin, and wearing the same outfit as before in a darker color scheme.

"Oh, this is fun!" Rolando exclaimed in an amused tone as he flapped a hand out from under his chin in a sassy manner, making both Blitzø and Ayden roll their eyes-

*TCH!*

Until Rolando stomped on Blitzø's face, pinning him to the ground under his foot and making Ayden bolt up to try and fight him off before he backhanded her harshly and sent her sprawling back to the ground with a pained yelp and also making her fake glasses fly off her face as he viciously chuckled,

"HAHAHA-HUH?"

Before the sound of rapidly approaching footsteps made him stop laughing as Millie appeared out of nowhere to kick him back through the wall with a powerful blow.

"Atta girl, Mils!" Blitzø cheered before Ayden was seen wincing and clutching her ears again just as claws were seen emerging from the pool as Rolando shouted,

"No thatta, bitch!"

Launching right out of the pool and narrowly missing Blitzø and Millie if they hadn't leaned out of the way.

After landing and twisting around to face them again, Rolando was shown to easily be able to overpower the three against one odds as he rapidly kneed and kicked Blitzø away before kicking down on Millie as she tried to rush in before reverse turn kicking Ayden away when she tried to get the jump on him after.

When Millie and Blitzø both recovered and tried to charge him at once, Rolando just grabbed both of them and tossed them into the pool, Ayden soon followed after when she tried to headbutt him but he just grabbed her by the hair to toss her in.

In the water, Blitzø and Millie had sunk into the water while Ayden was seen thrashing around for a bit at the overwhelming stinging sensations before stopping as she instinctively shifted to hellcat form so the water wouldn't hurt her as much but left her at a big disadvantage as far as fight leverage.

Even more with Rolando using his natural form and abilities to zip through the water and attack Millie first, pinning her against the pool wall before swinging her to the floor and dragging her back in Blitzø's direction where he was seen swimming over to grab hellcat Ayden with his tail in an attempt to protect her but he was caught by the leg and dragged out of the water so Rolando could whip them all down against the ground outside of the pool.

Blitzø and Millie had gotten to their feet with Ayden struggling to do so as she remained soaked even after shifting back to her demon cat form while Rolando walked away, laughing at how pathetic they looked,

"HAHAHAHA! You call yourselves assassins!"

A burst of energy expelled from his body, shattering all the lights and sending the trio flying back as they struggled to recover from the hit.

Rolando grinned maliciously before he started hovering off the ground and chanting eerily,

"Eenie, meenie, miny..." Looking right at Blitzø as he decided, "mo...!"

Zipping right over to him and entering his mind, sending his body unconscious to the ground from the electric shock his entrance gave off.

"Blitzø!" Millie exclaimed as she and Ayden rushed over to check on him, Millie propping him up as she kept calling out for him, "Blitzø! Blitzø!"

"C'mon! Wake up! HAAH!" Ayden tried to shake him with both paws before gasping as her head was thrown back, eyes blanking out with a reddish pink glow.

With a blink, Ayden found herself inside some kind of morbid theater room where the floor was flooding with more black goo from before and fog was surging out in large billows.

"*KOFF!* *KOFF!*" Ayden got off the stage with an arm in front of her face to keep from breathing the fog in before looking around and seeing a silhouette that was Blitzø-shaped in one of the seats.

"Blitzø!" Ayden shouted as she ran up the stairs to get to him-

"YAH!" Before she was grabbed by the back of her sweater and tossed onto the seats, falling off the edges before landing on the ground only to get picked up by the back of her sweater again as she was held before Rolando by one hand as he drew out in amusement,

"~Weeeell isn't this a surprise...!~ HAHAHAHAHA!"

"AGH!" Ayden cried out as she was tossed against the screen and blinked again to see she was partially back in her body on the outside but could also partially still see the theater setting from the way one eye flickered between normal and glowing blanked out.

Blitzø's body was seen waking up so Millie questioned worriedly,

"Are you oka-AHH!"

Before she was punched in the face, away from Blitzø, who then proceeded to do the same thing to Ayden making her scream,

"AHH!"

Both of them landed on the ground a little ways away as Millie was thrown against a pillar and Ayden skidded on the ground, struggling to maintain the mental connection with Blitzø even as Rolando started puppeting his body, propping it up morbidly with audible bone cracks as he spoke in a twisted version of Blitzø voice with his eyes glowing bright yellow,

"Oh the filthy little Wrathian and useless stray want to help!"

Millie ducked away quickly when Rolando-possessed Blitzø tried to headbutt her and hit the pillar instead as Millie jumped to the side close to Ayden who told her quickly,

"I c'n see in the'e...!"

Millie nodded as she understood what she was trying to say.

"Keep fightin'im in there, I'll handle it out here..." Millie uttered to Ayden as her eyes fully blanked out again, signalling she had fully tuned back into Blitzø's mindscape while Millie fought Rolando-possessed Blitzø, keeping him away from Ayden's body no matter what.

Inside Blitzø's mind, the theater cleared up of the fog from before, allowing Ayden to see Blitzø chained to one of the theater seats

"Blitzø!" Ayden was about to run up the stairs to him again when Rolando manifested in her way on the stairs.

"~In-terestinggg...~" Rolando drew out creepily as he blocked Ayden from reaching Blitzø before remarking, "I sense a fellow Infestor's power within you... but still.. too weak to do anything about it..."

"Hrrr...!" Ayden growled as she got in a fight ready stance before a goo tendril threw her off balance so Rolando could swing-throw her into the projection booth window at the very back, a cracking sound heard on impact.

*KRCK!*

The projection flickering on to show all of Blitzø's bad memories of fights with Ayden: the under the pier moment during the Spring Break mission, being hurt in the first encounters with Striker, Den, and D.H.O.R.K.S., looking down at her locket when they thought she died after Striker's kidnapping, their talk in the aftermath of Ozzie's, hurt moments during Crim's kidnapping and the Clown Pageant, Ayden yelling "FUCK YOU" in the aftermath of the Full Moon, and her "Need a break" talk on Halloween.

Blitzø's tears started back up again as he was forced to watch them all before-

"RAH!"

*KRCK!*

Ayden broke off and swiftly speared a piece of coral at the window, changing the montage back to the view on the outside as Millie kept fighting Rolando in Blitzø's body, not much of a better view but better than before.

"I am SO OVER mindscape fights! Been the'e, done that!" Ayden yelled in an irritated tone as she charged at Rolando, furious at him for using Blitzø's memories against him, but he easily avoided her hits as he mocked before shoving her back down the seats again,

"What kind of 'family' is so willing to toss you aside when you're not useful anymore.. Hurts you that easily?"

"Only the kind who give up easily!" She asserted as she picked herself up from the fall and perched in a crouch on the edge of the seats to argue before she ran across the tops of them toward Blitzø, "Which we don't!"

Just as it seemed like Ayden was about to reach Blitzø though, she was beaten down with a hard punch to the back of her neck in an action that mirrored what had happened with Millie on the outside, Ayden falling to the ground, nearly out of it from the way her eyes flickered as she struggled to keep the connection going, just a few feet away from Blitzø's seat.

"No! STOP!" Blitzø cried out beggingly as he watched Millie and Ayden being beaten down, both by his own hand and getting hurt trying to save him before Rolando appeared before him again to taunt sadistically,

"Your level of insecurity is intoxicating. I can't wait to see how you taste when you drive away the only people left who put up with your bullshit."

"HRCK!" Ayden choked out a yelp as she was grabbed by the throat and brought close to Rolando's face, despite her trying to weakly pull away with both paws on the hand holding her up while panting through her gritted teeth, as he sneered close to her face, tracing a claw over her side scar,

"And ~who knows..~ maybe the kid'll make a nice dessert..."

"Ugh!" Ayden recoiled in disgust as Rolando licked her cheek before tossing her back onto the stage.

As Blitzø's body on the outside was seen diving into the pool before resurfacing in front of Millie, his warped voice was heard on the inside, Ayden had managed to land on her feet, coughing slightly from the throat grab, before Rolando reappeared from his goo form to attack her again, matching the moves he was making on the outside,

"He thinks you're a brute!"

Outside, Rolando-possessed Blitzø slammed Millie into a support beam while inside Rolando backhanded Ayden again, knocking her off balance to grab her arm and whirl-slam her back into the screen,

"Too stupid to do anything but kill!"

Outside, Rolando made Blitzø's body swing on the pillar to double kick Millie, who blocked it with her arms while inside Ayden managed to block a kick to her midsection by bending down with her arms in a block position but she was just grabbed by her hair again and shoved to the side,

"You never should've left the farm!"

Ayden managed to regain her footing just like Millie on the outside as both Blitzø's body and Rolando tried punching them both only for them to block them with their forearms even as he kept insulting,

"You're nothing but a backwards. Filthy. Inbred. Lowborn fucking hick!"

Millie caught a punch with her hand while Ayden blocked it with her arms up and crossed in front of her in an X before Millie was heard on the outside, chuckling in amusement,

"Heh... Ya done?"

"Excuse me?"

Outside, Millie kicked Blitzø's leg out from under him to pin him to the ground while holding his arms backwards while inside Ayden broke the X to push back enough to headbutt Rolando while her tail lassoed his knees to make them bend so she could grab him from behind in a choking headlock even as he kept puppeting Blitzø to tell Millie,

"Nobody cares about you or what you want, they're too caught up in their own misery to even remember you exist."

"Now look here, combover. You may think you know everything, but you missed three." She hissed each point in his face, "One: your words don't mean shit to me, Two: you messed with my kid, and Three: Blitzø can handle this!"

On the last mark, Millie punched Blitzø's face while inside Rolando was seen flinching as the punch seemed to affect him on the inside before Millie yelled in his face,

"So buckle up, buttercup!"

As Millie beat up Blitzø's possessed body on the outside, inside, Ayden kept a hold of Rolando's body to keep his influence on the outside to a minimum, both of them wearing out Rolando's control slowly but surely until it was fully broken by Millie delivering a powerful upper kick that sent Blitzø's body flying backwards.

His head partially hung off the edge of the pool to dip in where Rolando's goo form was seen vomiting out of Blitzø's mouth to go into the water.

Meanwhile, Ayden was seen in the distance shaking her head a bit as the light dimmed from her eyes to return to normal just like Blitzø's before wiping the blood dripping from her nose and using her powers to make small fiery "steps" in midair to rejoin the others on the other side of the pool.

"Ugh, good work both of yo...-AGH!" Blitzø praised as he pulled himself upright, but Millie didn't seem to hear him from the way he punched him right in the face, ready to dish out some more payback, until he yelled in pain,

"OH-HO! AH FUCK, IT'S ME!"

Making Millie realize it really was Blitzø as she put her hands to her mouth in embarrassment as she chuckled apologetically,

"Oh! Shit, sorry! Heheh... Good to have you back, boss."

"Ditto..." Ayden beamed at him before their expressions turned down as Rolando was seen crawling back up to the poolside, still looking beaten up, as he snapped,

"You little ass plugs are done for." Before directing to Blitzø, "You're dead, Bethany!"

Blitzø stood up and strode over to him as he grabbed the vacuum from before to announce determinedly,

"Well that's where you're wrong. I ain't Bethany Ghost-Fucker. Tonight I'm Blitzø DEMON-DICKER!"

Blitzø swung the vacuum to hit Rolando back into the pool, only for him to resurface a few seconds later unharmed and making a "what the fuck?" gesture to them before Blitzø dropped the vacuum on the ground and kicked it into the pool.

*BZZZZZT!*

The vacuum's short-circuiting electrified the pool to where he got shocked so painfully he screamed in agony as his exploding eyeballs burst his glasses before melting out of his skull,

"AGGGGHHH!"

*BZZZRT!*

The electricity abruptly turned pinkish red before intensifying as his scream warped,

"AAAAaaahhhglck!"

Before the whole pool burst into flames that made the water evaporate in a rush of scalding steam.

*FWOOSH!*

*TSSSSSS....!*

When the steam cleared out, Rolando was revealed to now be nothing more than a singed mark on the bottom of the pool, all the water having evaporated into thin air from the flames.

Blitzø and Millie slowly turned to face Ayden as she looked down at her fading-sparking paws in awe while her hair was seen steaming a bit from drying off in the heat and returning to its natural state,

"Woah...! I di'n't think that would wo'k...!" Before she double fist pumped into the air while whooping, "WOO!"

"Yeah!" Blitzø slung an arm around her neck to bring her in with a proud smirk as he cheered with a finger point and fist pump of his own, "THAT'S how you get GHOST-FUCKED!!"

"Let's go home." Millie joined in the hug on Blitzø's other side as they walked to the doors and he kicked them open while flipping off,

"Yeah, fuck hotels."

"Except one." Ayden winked at the fourth wall from over Blitzø's arm before her eyelids started to droop from the exhaustion that hit her all at once as she leaned on Blitzø more.

A short while later, Blitzø and Millie were seen trying to push the van, despite a skeletal arm jamming the rear wheel, while Ayden was seen passed out in the second row inside the van from the overexertion of using her new electrokinesis power for the first time.

"So I'm your best friend, huh?" Blitzø asked Millie to which she responded with,

"What do you think?"

"I think..." Blitzø looked down to admit, "I-I've never had a real friend that I didn't wanna fuck."

"That mean you're not gonna try to be our third anymore?" Millie tried to joke but Blitzø answered with an honest and downcast,

"No..."

Climbing up to the top of the van and sitting as he looked down,

"Not anymore..."

Millie jumped up to join him with a worried look on her face as she asked,

"The bird got to you that bad, huh?"

"I guess..." Blitzø admitted while looking off to the side before adding regretfully as he looked down to where a bit of Ayden was seen still sleeping in her seat, "And I never should've made her feel like she had to pick sides... I just missed having her around..."

A quick peek at Ayden revealed her smiling minutely as her eyes were cracked open a bit and Millie smiled in proud understanding before asking semi-jokingly,

"Sooo, you gonna keep stalking us all the time?"

"Well you know, your husband is still a little fuckable." Blitzø answered with a slight shrug as Millie confirmed,

"Yeah, he is. "

"Eww that's my dad yer talkin' 'bout..." Ayden whined jokingly from below them as she barely "woke up" from her mini nap, feeling a little less drained than before, and clambered out of the window to make her way up top.

"How're you doin' Furball?" Blitzø asked as she plopped herself down next to him.

"Honestly?" Ayden shrugged a little before beaming, "Glad ta be back..."

"Really?" Blitzø questioned with a little disbelief as he took the Intern pin off her sweater, "Even after all that?"

Ayden looked down as she smiled sadly,

"Yeeeeh gettin' tossed 'round like a rag doll wa'n't all that fun.. but wi'h all the shite I went through in othe' places... I faced those alone..."

Before looking at the two of them with hope in her eyes,

"But he'e, wi'h this team, wi'h this family.. Jin included..." She clutched a paw over her gemstone while the other paw held her scars on the first paw, "I feel like we've b'n able ta handle anythin' that gets thrown ou' way togethe'.."

Ayden directed to him before smirking with a mixture of rue and confidence as she playfully bumped his shoulder with hers, "I missed that feelin' so yeh 'm glad ta be back fer that, Zio..."

"'Zio?'" Blitzø repeated narrowing his eyes before Ayden explained with a soft smile,

"It means 'uncle' in Italian..."

Blitzø's pupils dilated a bit at that realization before he pulled Ayden into a hug that she immediately returned while Millie watched with a warm smile on her face before joking, goofily mimicking Blitzø's voice towards the end,

"Whatever happened to 'don't expect this sappy shit every day ya hear me Fuzzball?'"

"Just shut up and get in here." Blitzø "threatened" as he pulled Millie into the hug as well.

"The dads always get left out of the group hug." Ayden noted with a slight joking tone after a little bit, making Blitzø add with a slight shrug,

"We can just imagine he's here."

"Speakin' of, I hope he's doing alright..." Millie spoke up before Blitzø broke up the hug to say with a hand wave,

"He's fiiiine! Loonie's with him." Before clapping his hands to say, "I don't know about you both, but I'm in the mood for somethin' iced!"

"Yeh we neve' did get ta have that coffee." Ayden remembered as they all got off the top of the van to get in, Ayden pausing to rip the bones out of the wheel with ease and tossing them away, before shrugging and adding as she buckled herself into the backseat behind Blitzø, "I coul' go fer 'nothe' Nitro Col' Brew."

"Why do you like that stuff so much?" Blitzø asked as he fixed the rearview mirror to look at her and she shrugged while answering,

"I don' know, makes me feel good I guess?"

"I bet!" Blitzø chuckled and the two started playfully arguing while Millie discretely looked at Ayden with a worried expression that didn't waver even as they headed back to Hell.

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A short while later, Via was seen lying on her bed and scrolling through Sinstagram in her room when she saw Ayden's profile picture light up at the top with a red outline, signaling she posted or reposted something.

Smiling while sitting up, Via prepared to see some funny video or snarky life update when she tapped the icon, only for her smile to fall when she saw it was a repost of Blitzø's latest status update of their trip to Pentabux.

Blitzø was seen smirking while sipping his coffee while, in the background, Ayden was seen wrestling with a barista on the floor, both of them yelling at each other, most likely for mispronouncing her name again, while Millie was seen cheering Ayden on.

Three small captions around the photo read "Jest anuther day in Hell", "This hellcat's got klaws", and "Were heer for the drawma."

Narrowing her eyes at smug Blitzø in the picture, Via swiped the update away before dropping her phone on her bed and grabbing a pillow to hug while turning to face away from her phone, even as a message notification popped up on her screen...

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AN- Do I enjoy writing angst and mild torture? Nope... Do I enjoy writing the fluff and comfort that come after doling out a whole crap ton of it? Yep! : D

Also hey new cover! (I never realized how blurry the old one was ^^; hopefully the new one looks better)

As of right now, Mastermind is only partially done and, with the additional Ayden-centered scenes that are going to be written in, it might be a little bit until that chapter is posted ^^;

Some notes and references for this chapter:

Pentabux is a spoof of StarbucksAyden's moments in the "A Spooky Kind of Love" montage were references to Velma's glasses falling off, the Mystery Gang's dramatic sneaking, and Scooby and Shaggy's running and snacking running gags from Scooby DooTwo digital drawings of Ayden's Intern disguise and Blitzø's nightmare hallucination of her will be posted to my Deviant Art account and I'm considering drawing one of Blitzø's trauma memories with Ayden in the show's style, if anyone has a specific one they'd like to see moreThe "One last mission down here won't change our lives!" line was inspired by the similar moment from The Lion King 1 ½The burning of the pool was mildly inspired by when Ruby did the same thing in Steven UniverseThe "dads always get left out of the group hugs" line was based on the similar line from Amphibia

I'm also really considering starting up paid digital art commissions in a collab with help_me_make_constellations for amazing beadwork she does and was wondering how many of you would be interested in me starting up something like that. Most of my digital artwork is on Deviant Art but they'd most likely get posted to Instagram, Bluesky, Patreon, or Ko-Fi if I start taking on commissions.

Until the next one, Bye!