The New Target

In an office of sorts, a male Imp wearing a suit with a red skull choker is seen sitting behind a desk. In front of him was a Sinner, who had recently died and came to the Imp, named Blitzo (with a silent "o"), to get someone killed.

Blitzo: "Alright, pal. Can you explain one more time why you're here?"

Sinner: "What?! I just told you!"

Blitzo: "Yeah, you kinda went on this big rant, pal. I stopped listening after it hit the two minute mark."

The Sinner, who was a demon with a giant eyeball for a head, groaned but obliged.

Eyeball Demon: "Fine! I was a hired hitman who was supposed to take out a politician on Earth."

Blitzo: "And you want us to finish your job?"

Eyeball Demon: "No, I don't care about that fucking politician anymore. I need the guy who killed me dead. His bodyguard."

The Sinner takes a picture out from his coat and throws it onto Blitzo's desk. The Imp, a bit curious, leans forward in his chair and takes the picture to look at it. The picture showed human male with (P/C) hair, fair skin, and icy blue eyes with greyish-white glasses circling them. He also had a noticeable scar going down across the left end of his mouth. He wore a (F/C) t-shirt with jean shorts and (favorite brand) shoes.

Blitzo: "Oh, well ain't he a looker, huh?"

Eyeball Demon: "He's the one that killed me. I want him dead!"

Blitzo: "Yeah, yeah, I get it. Everyone says that. Now, are ya gonna pay us or not?"

The eyeball demon grumbled but nodded.
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In a boardroom, Blitzo stood at the end of the table and in front of a white board covered in drawings and writing. Sitting at the table were his employees, Moxxie and Millie, and his adopted daughter/receptionist, Loona.

Blitzo: "Alright, fam, we got ourselves a new target!"

Blitzo says as he slaps the picture of IMP's new target onto the whiteboard.

Blitzo: "And he's apparently a high-priority target because of how urgent our new client wanted him dead and how much money he payed for it to happen."

Moxxie: "What makes this specific target so high-priority, sir?"

Blitzo: "Well, if you'd let me speak, you'd know, Mox."

Moxxie simply rolled his eyes as leaned back in his chair, crossing his arms as Blitzo goes on.

Blitzo: "Now, our client didn't give me much intel, so we'll have to work with what we got. Basically, he's a bodyguard for some politician on Earth at the moment and killed our client who was supposed to assassinate him, so now he wants revenge and him dead. Any questions?"

Millie: "Ah do, actually."

Blitzo: "Hit me, Mills!"

Millie: "If you're going back to the Living World for this target, shouldn't we try a different approach than we usually do? He might be more difficult than anyone else we've killed, Blitz."

Blitzo: "Correct! Which means we have to play this smart. Loona!"

Loona, who was the Hellhound that was on her phone and half-paying attention, looks up from her phone when she hears her name.

Loona: "Yeah?"

Blitzo: "Loona, you're going to be helping us with this mission!"

Loona: "Wait, really?"

Loona asks in excited surprise as she sits up in her chair. Moxxie, however, was very confused.

Moxxie: "Wait, really?"

Blitzo: "Yep. We'll need her human disguise for this one."

Loona: "Yes!"

Loona said excitedly as she fist-pumped the air, only to freeze when she sees everyone looking at her.

Loona: "I-I mean... cool. Whatever. Sure."

Loona said as she went back to her nonchalant-and-"whatever"-self. Moxxie rolled his eyes at this as Millie does the same, only more playfully than her husband, while Blitzo was smiling.

Blitzo: "Alright, gang, let's do this!"
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At a city on Earth, a portal opens in an alleyway with a fiery glow. Out of it comes all of IMP, with Moxxie and Millie running forward to check if anyone was looking into the alley. When they saw that the coast was clear, they gave Blitzo and Loona a thumbs-up which makes Blitzo give Loona one as well. The Hellhound nods at this and a blue light engulfs her before vanishing to reveal her human disguise.

Blitzo: "Looking great, Loonie. Now, do you got the picture?"

Loona: "Yeah, I got it."

Loona said as she took the picture of the target from her pocket. She brought it up to her nose and sniffed it, making her eyes flash red momentarily which means she was now tracking the IMP's new target.

Loona: "Alright, I'm tracking him. Now just make you keep yourselves hidden, dumbasses."

Blitzo: "Got it, sweetie!"

Blitzo gives his adopted daughter a thumbs-up as she begins to walk away. Then Blitzo, Moxxie, and Millie run off as they clamber up the side of a building to follow Loona where they couldn't be spotted.

Loona walks through the sidewalk, passing through the groups of people on it. There weren't many, probably due to the small size of the city, so she wasn't really bumping into people. The small size also helped since it would make it easier for the Hellhound-in-disguise to look for her target.

Loona: "Come on, where can you be?"

Loona asks as she looks around, only for someone to bump into her from the left which makes both stumble back a bit.

??? & Loona: "Hey, think you can watch where you're--"

Both Loona and the person who bumped into her stopped when they looked at each other, realizing that they were going to say the same thing. However, Loona's eyes went a bit wide as she gains a small blush on her face, but before anything else can be said the (P/C)-haired stranger talked into the phone he had in his hand. 

???: "Give me a sec, boss."

He then turned to Loona and cleared his throat as he moves his phone away.

???: "I apologize. I wasn't paying too much attention to where I was going. Job and all that."

Loona: "Y-yeah! Of course, yeah, I get ya. Jobs can be... distracting."

???: "Yeah, and speaking of jobs, I must get back to mine. Be safe out there, miss."

The stranger said as he tipped a nonexistant hat to her before walking off as he goes back to his call.

???: "Yeah, boss, I'm here. I'll be right there."

Loona watched as the stranger walked off with shock on her face. Then she takes out the picture of the target, realizing that it was him and pulled out her phone to call Blitzo.

Loona: "Blitz, I think I found him."

Blitzo(Over Call): "Wonderful! Track him down, and we'll be right behind you."

Loona: "You got it."

Loona said before hanging up and following the target. She made sure to stay back far enough away from him so he wouldn't see her and get suspicious, but close enough to keep an eye on him. She followed the target to his first stop, which was a coffee shop. Loona looked around before spotting Moxxie on a rooftop and nodding her head to motion for him to do his job. He nods back and sneaks into the coffee shop with a vial of poison in hand. When he spots a coffee cup, he assumes it to be the target's and secretly pours the poison into it. He then scurries away and hides as a barista comes by and takes the coffee to bring it to the counter.

Seeing as he did well, Moxxie scurried away and got out of the coffee shop without noticing that the barista was looking for the person who ordered. However, she just shrugged and started to drink the coffee herself since it was already paid for. However, after a few moments of drinking, she stops for a second before falling to the ground.

Outside, Moxxie goes to the alleyway where he sees Loona and whistles to her. He smiles and gives a thumbs up, only for Loona to point behind her with her thumb. The Imp looks in the direction Loona pointed at to see an ambulance and EMTs pulling the barista out on a stretcher, who was twitching and foaming at the mouth. This makes Moxxie gulp as Blitzo just shook his head in disappointment.

Later, Loona follows the target to a home of sorts that looked like a small mansion. She decided to not attempt sneaking in and let Blitzo handle it with his sniper rifle. Up in a tree was where the said Imp was, positioned with his sniper in hand. He was moving the optic around to find the target before landing on the kitchen window and spotting the (P/C)-haired man right in front of it.

Blitzo: "Gotcha, bitch!"

He clicked the rifle from full auto to single fire and aimed at the target's head with a laser sight. Blitzo smirked as he pulled the trigger, firing a bullet right at the target. However, the target stretched before the bullet reached him and went through the window, not hitting anything except another window before striking a random squirrel in another tree. Blitzo lowers his gun in complete shock, having no idea how he missed such a clean shot.

Back down on the ground, Loona sighed as she shook her head in disappointment.

Loona: "Dumbass..."

Even later, late in the afternoon, the target was staying back on a stage as his politician employer was giving a speech about... politics. What else did you expect? Loona was watching from the crowd gathered for the speech as Millie was backstage looking for a way to kill the target. Then she spotted some tied ropes that connect to sandbags up above and even some stage lights. So she smirked, getting a plan as she ran up to them. She untied one rope and watched as a sandbag fell from above, going directly for the target's head. However, he took one step back and avoided the sandbag as it hit the ground.

Millie growled in annoyance before untying more sandbags to let them fall on tbe target. However, the human just avoided them by stepping every single time. He ends up coming out alive and standing in the middle of a bunch of fallen sandbags and even a stage light or two, and all he did was brush some dirt off his shoulder. This made Millie absolutely feral as steam literally shot from her ears, and she let out an angry yell.

Security Guard: "Hey! Who's there?!"

Millie: "Oh, shit!"

Millie immediately took off running so she wouldn't get caught by a human security guard that heard her yell.
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Loona was now walking out from the speech with a furious look on her face. She couldn't believe that Moxxie, Blitzo, or even Millie wasn't able to kill the target they were given. It infuriated the Hellhound-in-disguise that her adoptive father and coworkers were so incompetent and unable to kill a human, which is supposed to be their whole job.

Loona: "Guess it's up to me, now. Stupid dumbass morons..."

Loona said as she was walking away, only to spot a head of (P/C) hair in the crowd. She smirks as she begins to follow the target, loosely following behind him. The Hellhound-in-disguise walks behind the human, ignoring the duffel bag that he had with him. She follows him into the city and down a sidewalk before coming across a massive crowd taking up the walkway. Loona gets pushed around by them, getting stuck and ended up lagging behind the target.

Loona: "Ugh! Move out of the way! Assholes!"

When Loona was able to shove her way through, she looked around for the target. She nearly panicked when she realized she couldn't find him, but quickly spotted his head of (P/C) hair entering an alleyway. Loona quickly ran to catch up to him as she pulls out a pistol from her back pocket and skidded to turn into the alleyway, pointing her pistol at where she thought the target would be. However, she lowered her gun as she looked around in confusion. The target was gone.

Loona: "Where'd he go?"

Loona asked before spotting the target's duffel bag on the ground. She makes her way up to it and crouches down to open it. However, when she does, her eyes go wide when she sees what's inside.

Loona: "Oh, shit!"

She backs away as a bunch of smoke grenades go off after four fire crackers blow. The alleyway is filled with thick smoke, and Loona stumbled out of the smoke cloud coughing as she waved her hand in front of her face to fan away the smoke in her face. When she opened her eyes again, a voice spoke up from behind her.

???: "Well, well, well. You and your pals sure are some stubborn dogs, I'll give ya that."

Loona immediately spun around and looked up as some of the smoke clears to reveal her target smirking up above her in the fire escape.

Loona: "The fuck you call me?!"

???: "Ah, calm your knickers, Sheila."

Loona: "My name isn't Sheila!"

The human man simply rolled his eyes with a smirk.

???: "Whatever. So, why're you and ya mates acting like such drongos tryin' to kill me?"

Loona: "Who says we're not trying to kill your employer? The politician?"

???: "You know, just because you don't know his name strengthens the fact that you're here to kill me and not him."

Loona: "I don't know your name, either, so fuck you."

???: "Ah, well, yes, but if I thought my employer was in danger, I wouldn't be out here, would I? Instead, if you were trying to kill him, we'd be at his place with you bleeding out on the floor."

To say Loona was shocked at this statement was an understatement. She was completely caught off-guard by what she assumed to be a threat. Then she growled.

Loona: "That a threat?!"

???: "Ah, tomato, potato. Look, if you're trying to kill me through boredom, it's working."

Loona: "Motherfucker!"

Loona growled as she aimed her gun at the target. She fires at him, only to miss as he dodges to the side.

???: "Come on, then! If you're gonna kill me, might as well make it fun!"

The target said before running up the fire escape, making Loona growl again as she gives chase. She jumps up onto the fire escape and begins climbing up before getting onto the stairs and running up them. She makes it to the rooftop where the target was waiting for her, leaning against a vent shaft.

???: "Well, ain't you a speedy one, aren't ya, Sheila?"

Loona: "Stop fucking calling me that!"

The target could only laugh as he pushed off of the vent and ran off. Loona follows, chasing after him before they come across the gap between buildings. However, instead of stopping like she assumed he would, the bodyguard simply leapt over the alley and landed on the other rooftop. And expertly, if she might add.

Loona: "Whoa..."

???: "What're you waiting for? An invite? Come on!"

Loona quickly shook off her surprise and followed after the target, expertly flipping through the air and landing on the other rooftop as well. She then looked up when she heard clapping, only to find her target on another rooftop now.

Loona: "What...?"

???: "Ten outta ten, mate! Expertly done!"

Loona: "How did you...?"

???: "Come on, then! Let's see if you can keep up!"

The target said before turning around and running. Loona growls as she gets up and follows, leaping from rooftop to rooftop as she chases after the target. However, the human didn't seem all too concerned with the impending threat om his life, but actually seemed to be enjoying the chase. Hell, he was laughing the entire time!

Loona: "Stop laughing, asshole!"

???: "Oh, I haven't had this much fun in ages! Let me have this!"

Loona scoffed as she chased after her target. However, after one jump, she missed the ledge and began falling. However, she quickly transformed back into a Hellhound as she grabbed onto a windowsill with her claws. She sighed as she began lifting herself and climbing up.

Loona: "That was close."

She pulled herself up onto the rooftop, and a whistle makes her look up. The target was looking down on her from the top of a greenhouse with a smirk.

???: "Well, well, well! A Hellhound! What're you doing up here?"

Loona: "You know what I am?"

The target only chuckled as he stood up on the greenhouse and started running the other direction. Loona groaned in annoyance and frustration before taking chase.

???: "So what's a lovely Sheila like you doin' all the way up here in the Human World, eh?"

Loona: "So you know I'm a demon?"

The target doesn't answer as he simply laughs and jumps onto another rooftop. Loona growls again as she continues to chase him before taking out her gun again. She carefully aimed before firing at the ground where the target would step on. The bullet makes the target stumble a bit before falling off the building.

Loona: "Oh, shit!"

Loona quickly ran over to the ledge and looked down to see where he fell. However, she didn't see the body at all. The target wasn't down there, which left her confused.

Loona: "What? Where'd he go?"

A weird sound, almost like something tearing, catches Loona's attention. She stands up and looks forward to see a greenish-blue portal open up and a figure falls from it, landing on the building in front of her. The figure stands back up and stretches before turning to Loona, smirking at her with his fangs.

It reveals that the future was actually a Hellhound with (P/C) fur. His sclera was an icy blue with white irises and greyish-white spots around his eyes. He had a noticeable scar on his shorter and rounder snout than a normal Hellhound would have. He wore what the target was wearing before, with a (F/C) t-shirt with jean shorts but no shoes. Loona was caught off-guard by the Hellhound's looks, recognizing them from somewhere in her childhood.

Loona: "Y/n...?"

The Hellhound couldn't help but smirk a little more at the name.

Y/n: "Loona."

Loona: "What... what're you--?"

Loona got cut-off when her phone started ringing. She didn't answer it at first as she just stared at Y/n in shock.

Y/n: "You might wanna answer that."

Loona finally shook herself from her shock and took her phone from her shorts. She answered the call, which was from Blitzo.

Loona: "Blitz, we have a problem. We--"

Loona looked back over at Y/n, only to stop when she saw that he was gone. All that was left was a small greenish-blue portal that slowly began closing in front of her.

Blitzo(Over Call): "Loona? What problem? What's the problem?"

Loona didn't answer. She just watched as the portal closed, leaving her alone on the rooftops. The wind blew through her fur, the only sound that she could hear other than her adoptive father trying to get her attention.

Blitzo(Over Call): "Loona? Loona, answer me, sweetie! Are you alright?"

Loona: "I'm... he's... gone..."

Blitzo(Over Call): "What? Who's gone? The target dead?"

Loona: "I... he's..."

Blitzo(Over Call): "Goddammit! Nevermind! I'm opening a portal and getting you. We're leaving!"

Blitzo said, swearing about how annoyed he was at the job and that the client wasn't getting his money back. Loona didn't respond as she just stared forward at where she last saw Y/n, completely shocked. She couldn't believe it. After all this time...

Loona: "I found you... You're here. You're alive..."

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