The Guitar Retrieval

The pink limo pulled up next to a large building that looked like an office building, until you looked closer to see that the building itself had horns on its roof.

"Is this the place, Charlie?" Nate asked her, looking a bit concerned as he looked out the window.

"Yep, this is where Stolas said the Imp should be." She answered gleefully, slooking down at the piece of paper that Stolas handed her.

"I don't like this, we're in the middle of Imp City." Vaggie said as she held out her spear.

"I've done a couple of tags around here. I wonder if Mike's is still around." Nate said as he looked around and soon spotted what he was looking for, "There it is, Mike Stacks Pizza, I knew the owner, offered him a free advertisement for a couple of free pizzas." He said while Charlie took a deep breath.

"Come on, let's get this done." She stated as she entered the building followed by Nate and Vaggie who was ready with her spear. Upon entering they were greeted with the sounds of their footsteps scraping against the ugly, icky carpet.

"Man there's not a soul here." Nate stated as they reached the elevators that were nearby, however as they got closer to them they heard yelling up on the upper level.

"Well that doesn't sound good." Charlie stated as they entered the elevator pressing a floor number.

"You can say that again, that means that whatever or whoever's having an argument are the only people in this entire building, who the hell has the money to keep on the light in this building?" Nate asked As the elevator reached its destination and opened its doors revealing that the entire hallway wasn't even lit.

"I think this answers your question." Vaggie gestured out to the non lit hallway as they could hear the yelling, which was a lot more louder, and was coming from a room that had a piece of paper taped to it that reads:

I.M.P Headgwarters

"Someone's a really bad speller." Charlie commented as she knocked on the door, to which the arguing seemed to have cesed.

"Oh God fucking dammit it better not be that electrian guy." A angry voice could be heard as the door was thrown open, "We aren't paying... you." He yelled but realized it was wasn't who he thought it was, "Oh your not the electric company?" He asked rather nervously.

"Uh... no we're not from the electric company." Charlie stated as the Imp just laughed, opening the door to reveal himself to be Bliztø (For those who know them you know if not his description is in the spinoff)

"I'm very sorry, Moxxie over there was complaining about bathroom lights." Blitzø explained as he fixed his trench coat, "Names Blitzø the 'O' is silent, come in." He introduced himself and opened the door gesturing to his office. as Charlie and Vaggie entered with Nate following behind them, looking around at the office.

"Nice place ya got here, very old-school."

"Ah thank you, I take my killing business very seriously." He stated which Charlie and Vaggie looked at each other in confusion.

"Your killing business?" Charlie asked.

"Have you not seen my commercial?" Blitzø asked while Nate glanced around as he noticed that the building wasn't really in the best well condition however he did noticed three other creatures in the building as well, two of them were Imps (Millie and Moxxie) were looking over what looked like plans, and a Hellhound (Loona) was on her phone typing and swiping away.

"Haven't had any time to watch any TV, especially since I've been busy with my uh... project."

"Eh, we all have something." He said and led them to his office door, "Come on in, I'll get ya set up for you three's spat about fuckin revenge and bullshit." He said and opened his door.

"Nate, you stay out here, we'll deal with him." Vaggie said which Nate stopped in his tracks.

"Oh uh, okay?"

"Trust me... from how this guys acting, it's gonna get real ugly in there." She said before following Charlie into the office before the door slammed in Nate's face.

"Rude." Nate said in a low voice, before looking over to see that Millie started to bounce excitedly.

"MOXXIE! DID YOU SEE WHO WALKED IN?!" Millie asked her husband, shaking him violently.

"Yes Millie I saw who walked in." Moxxie answered her while trying to calm her down.

"Wonder if she saw me, do you think she saw me?! Oh I knew I should've worn my better black shirt." Millie said gesturing to her shirt, to which Nate chuckled to himself.

"I'm pretty sure she would've wanted to say hi, but uh, unfortunately we're kinda in a hurry."

"How unfortunate." Loona commented sarcastically.

"Anyway, I'm Millie, this is my husband Moxxie." Millie introduced herself while gesturing to her busy husband.

"Nice to meet ya you two." Nate said before looking over to Loona who just so happened to look up from her phone.

"What?! You don't deserve my name." She stated before going back to her phone.

"That's Loona, our receptionist." Millie answered for Loona.

"Sounds like the most fun job ever huh?" Nate asked Loona sarcastically.

"Oh yeah, so much fun." She answered.

"So... what do you... what do you guys do?" He asked getting everyone to look at him.

"Have you not seen our obnoxious commercial?" Moxxie asked him.

"Nope, don't have the time to watch stupid annoying commercials."

"Well... our job is to help those who used to live in the living world get their revenge." Millie explains.

"Oh... that sounds like fun." He said before looking down at they were looking over, "So uh, what you looking over here?" He asked them.

"Oh nothing much, just our plans." She stated with a smile.

"Huh, looks to me like a hit."

"Good eye." She stated, "By the way, what y'all doin' here?"

"Well we need to use the Grimoire to retrieve something of mine in the living world."

"Wait hold up, you need the Grimoire?" Moxxie asked him, to which he nodded his head.

"Ooof, well it might be a little bit difficult for y'all, Blitzø had to go through a lot just to get it." Millie explained.

"Yeah, fuckin' some bird dude." Loona commented.

"Loona!" Moxxie yelled out.

"Oh go sit on a dick." She fired back, to which Moxxie wanted to say but he groaned in anger.

"I can see y'all get along just fine." He commented to which Loona looked over to him with an angry look.

"You got a fucking problem with how I get along with people?" She asked him, burrowing her eyes at him.

"Now Loona, take it easy on him He hasn't done anything to you." Millie jumped up defending Nate.

"Yeah well, his comment rubbed me wrong." She stated with a small growl.

"Don't you have anything better to do Loona?" Moxxie asked.

"Besides taking calls then no." She looked back down to her phone.

"Ugh I swear." He stated.

"Hey take it easy Moxxie, it's not like you guys are busy." Nate said as Moxie looked over.

"I... guess your right, sorry."

"Nah I should apologize, I mean my boss is trying to help me." He stated as he went back into listening into the conversation, "Just hope we can use the Grimoire."

{MEANWHILE}
"Sit yourself down ma'am, need anything to drink?" He asked trying to get into business.

"No, no thank you." Charlie answered while Blitzø was in the middle of pouring some drinks.

"Not thirsty? That's okay, I wasn't thirsty myself." He said and swiped the drinks onto the floor, smashing the glass in the process, running to his seat and jumped into it, "Now then, lets talk about business, whats got your tits all twisted?" He asked spinning in his chair before propping his feet up on his desk, putting his claws together, "Fuckin' husband eating another twats ass? a boss you've fucked to get a higher position gave you the cold shoulder? The mail man gave you the wrong mail?"

"Well... technically we're not here for revenge." She answered, to which Blitzø simply blinked in confusion.

"E-excuse me?"

"Yeah, we're actually for something more important, you see... we're here for..."

"You know what's you look familiar." Blitzø interrupted her while scratching his chin, "Where have I seen you before?"

"Oh uh, well I was uh, recently on the..."

"I got it! You were in that shitty music video that had some desperate rapper to pay for some fondleness."

"Why can't I ever get people to forget about that?!" Charlie with a groan as she looked completely embarrassed.

"Why do everyone bring up this..."

"WE ARE..." Charlie shouted loudly, wanting desperatley to change the subject, "We are here on Stolas behalf to kinda ask to borrow and use the Grimoire for a simple business trip we have with our friend out in your lobby." She explains.

"Hmmmmmm... yeah nope not gonna happen missy."

"What do you mean not gonna happen?!" Vaggie asked irritated.

"Please sir, we need to use it in order to help out friend with retrieving something important to him." Charlie explains trying to get Blitzø to understand the simple usage... unfortunately... this is Blitzø we're talking to.

"Listen Princess, I don't think you quite understand why I need this fancy book more than you do, it's part of my business." He said.

"And your business is going up and killing people?!" Charlie asked.

"Hey we get fucking paid for it!" He fired back.

"This is ridiculous!" Vaggie said angrily.

"Look, Princess Goody Good, I have enough problems with that feathered fuck trying to wet my holes, I don't need the King of Hells, Rainbow Shmucker fucker breathing down my neck!"

"Hey watch your tone around Charlie!"

"Oh yeah I completely forget your Hispanic Slut over here." He smirked at Vaggie who seemed to be at her breaking point, "What, was sucking men's dick not good enough for you, you just had to go after the princess's ass too? No wonder that Hotel isn't gonna run for long." He stated to which Vaggie almosted pounced but Charlie held her back, though judging by how angry Charlie is, she could have just let her go.

"You are such a disgrace." Vaggie fired back.

"Thanks I've been called worse by my therapist and I'm trying to run a FUCKING business! So why don't you do me a favor and just fuck off!" Blitzø yelled as he took a sip of his coffee.

"Alright... you know what... I'll make you a deal." Charlie said to which Blitzø rasied an eyebrow, while Vaggie looked over in shock.

"Alright now your speaking my language, keep talking." He said with a large shit eating grin, twiddling his thumbs.

"I can see that you might need some... uh leverage so, in exchange for the Grimoire, I will uh... donate some money into your company." Charlie explained.

"Hmmmm..." He pondered spinning in his chair before turning back to them, "It's not good enough."

"Well what the fuck do you want you shitless fuck?!" Vaggie growled, to which Charlie waved her down.

"You seem to have plenty of cash on your, and that may help us, but I need... let's a say a favor from you." He smirked.

"And what is it?"

"I... uh." He pondered, "I don't really know but I'll think of something, and when I do I'll call you up."

"So in exchange for the Grimoire, we give you a loan, and a favor?"

"Hmmmm that sounds like a deal to me." He stretched out his hand to which Charlie sheeply shook it, suddenly Blitzø pulls out a megaphone, "MOXXIE GET THE FUCK IN HERE!" He yells out of the megaphone, and right on cue entered Moxxie.

"Yes Sir?" He asked with clear annoyance.

"I need you to give these fine ladies." He patted his eyes at Charlie and Vaggie, who both groan in disgust, "Our fancy book they are using it for a day."

"Wait What?!" Moxie eyes widen, "B-but Sir, don't we need the book?"

"Relax Mox, in exchange there giving us a loan, and a favor down the line." He smiled to which Moxxie sighed in defeat.

"Alright I'll go and get it."

"Attaboy Mox. Ladies... kindly follow my dear employee, he will lead you straight to our fancy book." He said with a toothy grin, but as soon as Vaggie and Charlie left his office his smile disappeared, "Fuckers." He mumbled under his breath.

"So, I guess it went well huh?" Nate asked them to which they have a look of disgust.

"What do you think?" Vaggie asked crossing her arms.

"Didn't go well huh?" Moxxie asked as he lead them to a closet that had a large safe in it.

"How can you stand him, he is downright..." Vaggie stated.

"An asshole, selfish prick, a greedy fuckstain in a carpet?"

"Yeah, how did you know?"

"I deal with him all the time, but hey, if he makes a deal with anyone, that deal will never break." Moxxie stated as he crouched down hitting the number pad until hearing a beep sound followed by a large click sound. He then opened the safe, revealing the Grimoire and grabbing it and holding it up to Charlie and Vaggie, "Here it is."

"Alright, thanks now we have what we need let's get out of here." Charlie stated as she and Vaggie started to leave but Nate slowly followed behind.

"Well I guess this goodbye, but if anyone wanted a chance to come up to the hotel just drop by." He smiled as he held the front door, "Bye Moxxie, bye Millie." He waved to them.

"Seeya around Nate." Millie smiled as Moxie waved to him, as soon as the door closed Millie sighed, "What a sweet kid." She said to Moxxie who simply shrugged.

{BACK AT THE HOTEL}
"So... is this safe?" Nate ask as they followed the instructions on how to make the portal.

"I'm pretty sure it's safe."

"O-ok I just wanna make sure that I don't have my ass in the front."

"Oh stop being such baby and finish the portal." Vaggie stated as Charlie read more of the instruction.

"Wait hang on, since you're the daughter of Lucifer... couldn't you just make a portal?"

"I... don't know how to do that yet, and besides that would be useful to only me and not for a group."

"A group?" Nate asked, raising an eyebrow.

"If you're going up to the mortal realm then someone's gotta watch your back." Vaggie stated twirling her spear.

"Why do I need protection, I know what I'm doing."

"Things may have changed Nate, what if someone spotted you?"

"That definitely won't be a problem, I can blend in, I mean look at mean, I look like a normal living human."

"He does have a point Vaggie." Charlie pointed out, "And I could blend in as well do to how I look." She added getting both Vaggie and Nate to look over.

"I'm sorry what?" Nate asked her.

"I'm coming with you." Charlie answered.

"Oh absolutely not. You are not going up to the mortal realm just to help this kid retrieving his guitar." Vaggie immediately responded to her like a protective girlfriend would.

"Vag, no Sinner can go back up to the mortal realm, only Hellborns have the ability to, and I was born in Hell."

"And how come I get a pass?"

"It's out mission, so I give you my blessing that your with me, I'm sure it will be fine."

"I don't see how that explains anything..." Nate retorted.

"Yeah but..." Vaggie immediately responded but was having difficulty trying to conjure up a rebuttal.

"Vaggie, if you worried about us getting into trouble, then remember what I taught you." Charlie said grabbing a hold of Vaggie's shoulders. The warmth of Charlie's hand got Vaggie to slightly blush at her touch.

"Take a breather for those we should trust."

"Exactly. You need to trust me, and besides I can handle myself in a fight, I taught Katie a thing or two." She said while flexing proudly, to which Vaggie rolled her eye at her statement.

"I just... just don't want you getting hurt that's all." She said reaching up to cup Charlie's cheek to which Charlie smiled and placed a hand over hers.

"I know Vaggie."

"Alright I think that just about doses it." Nate said when suddenly Alastor appeared out of nowhere.

"AhHa! splendid work my good man." He said with excitement, causing Nate to jump from his sudden appearance.

"Oh Al... wasn't expecting you to be here." Nate said while Angel, Husk, and Niffty entered the room.

"oOoOO is that Grimoire?!" Niffty asked, her eye dilating in awe at the Grimoire but was snatched by Alastor before she could touch it.

"Now now, Niffty, you know the rules, you are not allowed to touch any powerful artifacts."

"I couldn't help myself sir, I can feel how powerful it is." Niffty said as she looked at her hands with evil intentions.

"Uh, why isn't she allowed to have any powerful artifacts?" Nate asked him to which Alastor reflected back on when Niffty had power.

{FLASHBACK}
Imps and Sinners alike were shown screaming as a giant Niffty (now wearing a magical tiara on her head) stomped through the street screaching at the terrified civilians.

"Come out, come out wherever you badboys are hiding." She cackled before lowering herself to a lone Sinner who was cornered and grabbed him. Hoisting him up, she brought him closer to her eye and stared at him lustfully, the blood vessels in her eye can be seen pulsating as she stared at the Sinner, "You are definitely a bad boy." She said and went to stuff the poor Sinner in a little fanny pack that she had on which revealed other Sinners and Imps that she has captured. Once she zipped up the fanny pack, she laughed historically, with lighting striking behind her.

{END OF FLASHBACK}
"Ah, good times." Alastor chuckled to which everyone looked down at Niffty in horror while she smiled widely.

"I had so many bad boys, I felt like a princess of evil." She said while laughing to herself.

"Keep that thing away from me." Nate whispered to Charlie before Alastor turned back to the Grimoire, "Now then... in order to finish the ritual, we must need... a SAcriFice." He said the last part in his glitchy tone as he tried to grab Vaggie who simply kicked his hand away from her, however he simply laughed, going back to normal,"Oh my, slipped didn't I?" He laughed with glee.

"Tu mierda." She stated as she looked over to the bright light coming from the portal that has been activated, "See... we didn't no sacrifice." She said gesturing towards the portal.

"Hardly the point my dear, Goitia's could simply activate a portal just by simply mentioning where they want to go." He said as the portal suddenly started to form an opening and revealed a street.

"Hey! That look like a my street!"

"Does it? Then we must've done it right then." Charlie said happily, "So, are you ready to..." Before she could finish asking, Nate immediately jumped through the portal, "Nate WAIT!" She yelled, but it was already too late. He already went through the portal and stood on the street. With Nate, he could feel the arua and atmosphere changed drastically from the everyday threat and heat, to a more calming and peaceful heat that he surely missed. Once he opened his eyes he looked around to see that he was thankfully still in one piece.

"Nate! Are you alright alright?!" He heard behind him. Turning around, he sees that Charlie and everyone else were watching him very carefully, to which he smiles.

"Come on Charlie what are ya waiting for, the waters fine." He said edging Charlie on to join him. Carefully she stepped over and exited through the portal where she was immediately hit with new smells and immediately was in awe at the sight.

"Woah..." She stammered in awe as she looked up to see the blue sky, "I've heard stories of Earth, I was always told that it was filled with creeps digging dumpsters."

"Oh you're thinking of the big major cities, like Detroit." Nate corrected her before looking around, "No no, this is the suburban area, where the only crime that happens is people with loud music and once in a blue moon arguing between neighbors." He stated as the portal finally closed behind her, leaving the two to look around.

"So... where is your house?" She asked to which Nate frantically looked around before spotting a house he recognized.

"There! That's my house!" He said in excitement, him was nothing out of the ordinary when it comes to the other houses, in the suburbs, however they had the University of Alabama flag hanging from the porch (out of all places in Georgia), "I can see my dad's Alabama flag."

"That's your home?" Charlie asked unsuringly, to which Nate smiled and nodded, "Looks... homey." She complimented as the two raced for the front door but soon Nate screeched to a halt.

"NO WAIT!" He yelled out and grabbed her by the arm, stopping her in her tracks, "I can't just go walk through the front door, I'm dead!"

"Well, is there a backdoor?" She asked, to which Nate pondered before his eyes widened.

"There is, follow me." He said and the two hurried over to a small gate that entered into the backyard where the back porch was shown with a grill on one side along with a swinging bench on the other side, "Here it is." He said and the two snuck onto the porch and tried the door only to find it lock, "Argh, of course it's fuckin' locked."

"Should we pick the lock?" Charlie asked as Nate pondered, before he was fully committed to picking the lock he suddenly realized something.

"Wait, hang on." He said and jumped over the porch railing, landing in a rock patch and started looked ng through the rocks.

"What are you doing?!" She asked leaning over the railing.

"If I know my mom, she would always have a spare key hidden in the rocks, she bought a rock safe that hides a key in it in case of emergencies." He explains, to which Charlie walked down the stairs to help, "Where it is, where would she put it?"

"Do you remember what the rock looks like?"

"It looks like a normal rock but on the bottom it's plastic." He explains to which Charlie got down to her knees and helped out with the search. After a out a couple of minutes of searching, Charlie picked up a random rock but immediately realized it was a lot lighter than the other rocks. Turning it around, she could see that it was indeed plastic on the other side which means this must be the secret rock.

"Uh Nate?" She asked, "Is this it?" She held up the rock which Nate immediately smiled with excitement.

"That's the one! Mom you never let me down." He said and opened up the small compartment revealing a key to the backdoor. Upon retrieving the key, Nate and Charlie snuck back to the back door and inserted the key into the lock which was a perfect fit naturally, twisting it to unlock the door and twisted the door knob.

Pushing the door in, it immediately made a very loud squeak nose, which both Nate and Charlie cringe at the sudden sound before standing in place for a brief moment. Realizing that no one had come to investigate, it would appear that they were safe... for now.

"Alright Charlie, I need you to wait out here in case someone comes home."

"Gotcha."

"I'll be lighting fast, I promise." He said and slipped in, leaving the backdoor opened for Charlie to see the front door in front of her.

As Nate carefully traversed through the house, memories of this place started to flood back into his head, he remembers all the Christmas that he spent, all those Thanksgiving he spent, the Halloweens... so many memories flocking back to him as he reached the stairs that led up to his room.

"Man... how one year could make it feel like an eternity, guessing that's how it feels for people who just got out." He said to himself and carefully climbed the stairs, each step he took made the floors creeked as he ascended. Once he reached the top floor more memories flew in as he could remember running through the hallway where pictures of his entire family were shown hanged up neatly on the walls.

Suddenly he stopped in front of a large handmade painting that was done by a professional artist which had himself when he was 12, his mother, and his father all looking very nice and clean, he stared at the painting for a long while before shaking his head at the painting, so much time has passed even though it's only been a year.

"Focus Nate, focus." He said to himself and walked to the a door he recognized, which had a note on the front that reads: Gaming right now, Enter at your own risk.

Nate shook his head with a smirk as he twisted the door knob slightly which he was surprised to see that it was unlocked and he pushed the door opened... revealing his old room. Tears started to form as he slowly walked into the room. He could smell the old carpeting and sense his childhood as he looked at the walls that were plastered with posters ranging from video games to movies even a calendar of his favorite football team.

Over by a flat screen tv was a small shelf that held all of his gaming consoles that he used to play. Crouching down in front of one, he carefully picked up one of the controller and felt its content, pressing the buttons carefully hearing the satisfying click sound that the buttons made when they were pushed down. The memories... they were too much to handle, but Nate needed to stay focused. Putting down the controller down he went to look for his guitar.

"So... if I were my mom where would I put..." Before he could finish asking, he walked passed his dresser when one of the smaller drawers started to glow, catching him off guard and stopped him in his tracks, "My guitar?" He asked himself, staring at the glowing dresser drawer. His curiosity finally got the best of him, so he slowly walked over to the dresser and carefully pulled the drawer opened to reveal a bunch of junk. It was mostly just stuff he would collect that would never see the light of day until he started to dig through the junk, finding whatever it was that was glowing and hoist it up by its chain...

Revealing a ring.

It looked like a normal stern silver ring that was attached to a small steel chain.

"Huh... Mom kept this stupid ring?" He asked himself as he inspected the ring. He remembered this ring very well, apparently from what his parents told him, his mother bought it for him as a birthday present when he was first born, but he never liked it when he got older, so he just threw it into this drawer and completely forgot about it. However... it's now glowing, "I don't think I ever seen it glow before." He said and gently held the ring trying to get a closer look at it.

The ring started to glow more and more brighter as he tried to take his hand off of the ring but red electricity started to flow from the ring and through his hand. Nate screamed in absolute pain as something started to flow through his blood vessels, like someone was shocking him in the hand which traveled through his body. His eyes started to glow red before a shockwave went out from his room, causing his vision to go blank as he stared at nothing but whiteness.

"It's for his own good."

"You can't be serious darling..." Voices started to be heard when flashes of demonic scribbles started to fly by and flash by Nate's eyes, mostly about Heaven, Hell, bodies, the princes of each ring... Lucifer, Satan, Mammon, Beelzebub... and many other scary images that involve Hell, almost as if things have been unlocked for Nate to see, kinda like that digital art book everyone gets when they buy deluxe edition game that you would only look at once in a blue moon.

But it soon ended with a bright blinding light in front of a floating Nate.

"Dis but a warning to you... Nate." The voice said which caught Nate off guard as he stared at the light.

"Y-you know my name?"

"I assure you, do not be alarm, for I have gifted you something whenever you retrieve the Ring of Pride." The voice said as the ring floated to Nate. Upon closer inspection he could see that there was a thorn like design on the inside, almost like the thorn crown that Jesus Christ wore when he was crucified. But he also noticed within the thorns were apple like patterns, representing the Apple of Eden.

"A-a gift?" Nate asked automatically.

"Your powers... that have been locked away from you ever since you were born."

"B-born? What are you talking about?" Nate asked clearly confused.

"Not all is what you seek my son... you are a gift to your father... you are... The One... the one that will protect Hell from a bigger threat... a threat that only those closest to you knows is coming." The voice stated.

"Threat? The One? What are you talking about?!" Nate asked again but the light started to dim, "Wait!! Don't Leave!" He yelled out as he wanted to run after the light.

"Your time will come soon my son... but remember... you... are the key to the ultimate power inside you." The voice said stopping Nate from trying to my move before his vision went back to normal.

Tears were shown flowing down his cheek as he looked around in confusion.

"W-wha... what just... happened?" He asked before looking down to the ring which revealed to have stopped glowing and had disappeared, "Did I... did I just blacked out and image that?!" He asked himself when he started to hear something hit against the window, getting his attention. Soon more things started to hit the window, to which he hurried over to see that Charlie was trying to get a hold of him.

{MEANWHILE}
Charlie was seen pacing back and forth as she waited patiently before pulling out her phone to see that she received a text message from Vaggie.

[V: Hey hon, has Nate got his stuff?]

[C: not yet, he's still looking :)]

[V: Well tell him to hurry up, love you]

Charlie smiled at the last bit when suddenly her vision started to get blurry for unknown reason. A sudden sharp pain shot through her arm which caused her to seeth in pain.

"What is this?!" She asked herself before the pain completely shot through her arm and went to her head as she tried her best to keep her screams to herself before she suddenly fell to her knees and completely blacked out with only flashes of her earliest memories.

Mostly of her mother and father, but it suddenly started to see some memories that she wishes she forgot, more importantly... her prom night. Now normally the prom is very important to a high schooler and would be something that most would want to remember, but for Charlie... that's the opposite it also reminded her of her siblings that she had lost. Two boys... the oldest wanting to control all of Hell while the youngest was cast off in fear of following in his brother's footsteps.

She could hear the screams of her fellow classmates when the attack happened as her prom date (boyfriend at the time) Seviathan von Eldritch tried to protect her only to get blasted by her brother.

"You are nothing dear sister!" She could hear her brother say as her vision suddenly shifted to her point of view getting checked out on the floor, looking up at her said brother.

He looked exactly like Charlie with the facial features and height, but his hair was short and black, along with instead of his eyes glowing red they were glowing green (almost as if he was possessed) he outfit was similar to Charlie with an tucked long-sleeved dress-shirt and black suspenders, but instead of a fitted red tuxedo jacket with dark-red lapels, a pair of red fitted pants, they were all black with red trims he was also wearing black and red saddle shoes.

Suddenly her brother was stabbed in the back which suddenly he began to glow green and shouted in pain before Charlie's vision was completely taken over by the green light. Once her vision cleared up she could see through her sudden tears that she was staring at the grass, breathing heavily.

"W-what... what was that?!" She asked breathing heavily she wiped her tears from her eyes. However her thoughts were suddenly cut short when she started to hear barking coming from the other side of the house. Her eyes widened in a panic as she could see that the front door was opening, so she quickly shut and locked the back door, "Shit, Nate's still in there." She whispered in a state of panic as she looked around for a bit, she needs to get his attention. Finally she spotted smaller rocks on the ground and quickly scooped up several before she started pelting the window where she thinks Nate was, to which the window opened to reveal Nate, who opened the window.

"What?!" He called down to her which she started pointing to the door.

"I think your mother's home, I heard dog barking." She said which Nate looked back at the door to which he realized he left opened.

"Shit shit shit!" He whispered to himself and went to hurry over to the door but was met with a row of barring teeth followed by a growl. He looked passed the sharp teeth to see a dog growling at him, "E-easy there... easy..." He said as he stuck his hand out and started to walk back. The dog however, wasn't backing down and continued to bare its fang at the unknown intruder, "Easy boy..." He said before suddenly tripped over something and fell on his butt, now he was in eye level to this dog and it's teeth.

However, when Nate threw his hand up into the air, the dog suddenly stopped and looked confused before sniffing his hand. Once the dog finished sniffing his hand the jump suddenly jumped onto him and began licking his face, "Wha... hey Hah! Alright!" He laughed as he was continued being licked.

"Buster?!" A voice could be heard before the sounds of footsteps were followed. Nate quickly stood up and frantically looked around to find a hiding spot, to which he spotted that his small walk-in closet door was opened and he dove in, just in time too, for an older lady walked in looking down at the dog, "Buster! How the hell ya get in 'ere?" She asked the dog who had a happy face with its tounge out before it began to whimper and started gesturing to the closet, "Must've didn't close the door." She said before gently grabbing the dog by its collar, "Come on boy, let's go give ya medicine." She said and took out of Nates old room.

Before she closed the door, she looked back into the room. Nate watched and squinted at her to see her face better. No... that can't be her. She was only in her 40's when he died, now it looks likes she's in her 60's, she had gray hairs than before and had bags under her eyes. Did dying cause her to go gray this fast? To Nate, he didn't know and seemed more confused on why she didn't seem herself. She finally left, closing the door behind her, leaving him to sigh in relief.

"Thank god..." He said and looked down, "Well hello." He picked up his guitar, "Haven't seen you in..." He said but while he picked it up his vision started to suddenly get brighter, "What the..." He said and rubbed his eyes before reopening them to see that nothing changed, "The fucks going on with eyes?" He asked as he looked down at his guitar that he gripped when suddenly...

"Nate! Nate!" He heard his name as he quickly excited the closet and hurried over to the window, "Did you get it?!" She asked to which Nate held his guitar out the window in accerance, "Alright! Now get down here safely and then we can leave." She said which Nate nodded and was about to crawl out the window, but suddenly stopped... and looked back at the room mostly focusing on his door.

Staring at the door for quite awhile, while memories started to flood back into his brain as a single tear rolled down his face. But he soon wiped his face and crawled out of the window now standing the back porch roof.

"Alright, now just carefully climb down..." She tried to say while pointing to the drainage that was to the side of Nate, but Nate thought about something and immediately backed up to the wall and ran to the edge, jumping off and performed a back flip in mid-air, landing softly in front of Charlie whose eyes widened with shock, "Uh... you uh, wasn't supposed to jump off like that."

"S-sorry... don't know what got into me but I just... just felt like doing a backflip." He said as he held his guitar.

"Woah, that's your guitar?!"

"It is, now let's get the fuck outta here before we get spotted."

"Got it let's see if I can contact Vaggie." She said and pulled out her phone to dial up Vaggie.

{MEANWHILE IN HELL}
After sending the last message to Charlie, Vaggie was pacing back and forth waiting ationly for Charlie to either call or send a text.

"Girl you really need to chill." Husk said, getting her to stop pacing.

"How can I chill when Charlie is out there doing god knows what and alone!?" She asked sort of worried.

"Look we know that sugar donut means a lot to ya, but could not be this worried about her." Angel Dust said, only to receive a nasty look from Vaggie.

"Naturally you would be worried Vaggie my dear." Alastor spoke up appearing out of nowhere while Niffty was chasing a bug, "But never fear, If I know Charlie, she can handle going up to the mortal realm for an hour or two."

"How the fuck did you... y-you weren't..." Before she could finish her phone rang which she immediately picked up to see who was calling her, upon seeing that it was Charlie, she answered the call, "Charlie?! Hello?!"

"Hey Vaggie, mission accomplished, we can come home now."

"Say no more..." Vaggie said and immediately hanged up, "Alastor, ready the portal."

"As you wish." He said and opened up the Grimoire with his demon magic, turning the pages before landing on the pages they needed. Once he got to the right page, he immediately opened a portal for Nate and Charlie who immediately hoped out and landed on the carpet.

"We're home!" Nate joked as Vaggie was the first to run up to them.

"Charlie, Nate, anything happen?" She asked them sort of worriedly, mostly to Charlie.

"We're fine Vaggie, just a quick grab of his things." Charlie answered, gesturing over to Nate.

"Well come on, lets see what was worth all this trouble for." Angel encouraged, to which Nate showed off what they were after. It was a Yamaha PAC012 Pacifica Electric Guitar that was colored Metallic Red, an absolute classic when it comes to one who thinks of an electric guitar. Everyone (except Alastor) oohed and awed at the guitar.

"oOoOO! That's a bad guitar." Niffty said as she climbed over Nate to get a better look.

"Uh, thanks?"

"Niffty right, it's a beautiful guitar you have there Nate." Charlie complimented him to which he smiled.

"You should play something." Angel stated.

"Oh no no, I really couldn't, not in front of you guys." He said trying to back down.

"Aww come on Nate, please?" Charlie begged.

"Go on man, play something." Husk coasted on, which Angel, Niffty and of course Charlie joined in.

"Play something, play something! Play Something!" They chanted on while Nate tried to wave them down.

"Might as well play my good man, otherwise they ain't gonna stop." Alastor mentioned, to which Nate sighed in defeat.

"Alright! Alright, I'll play you a song." He said receiving a cheer of anticipation from everyone, "But uh, I need a stage."

"One stage coming up my good man." Alastor said and snapped his fingers, getting his hands to suddenly glow and a stage suddenly appeared besides Husk's bar. Although like Husk's bar, it appears that Alastor had plucked it from a random location and placed it down in the hotel.

"Oh... great." He said and walked up to the stage while everyone else sat, or stood in front of. At first, Nate looked on nervously knowing he's about to perform in front of the princess of Hell. As the silence grew with anticipation he glanced over to Charlie who could immediately see that he gotten stage fright.

"I believe in you Nate, you got this." She said while giving Nate two thumbs up in support all while next to her Vaggie rolled her eyes and rest her head into her hand. Now with the confidence given to him by Charlie, he took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and began to play. Just by the rhythm Vaggie, even lifted her head  up and leaned in as did mostly everyone else who knew the song he was playing.

As he strung his guitar the top of his guitar started to glow weirdly and red electricity started flowing through the strings and to the top.

"Uhh... Charlie?" Vaggie asked uncertaintly but Charlie put a hand on her shoulder without looking away from Nate when he hit the right note which sent out a strange blast of energy, it wasn't harmful to the crew but appearing next to Nate was a holographic version of himself who was shown rocking out with a different guitar, as another version of himself appeared behind them playing on drums.


(Enter Sandman by Metallica)
'Say your prayers, little one
Don't forget, my son
To include everyone

I tuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
'Til the Sandman, he comes

Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We're off to never-never land'

While Nate rocked out, Charlie was shown tapping her foot to the beat as did Vaggie.

"He's good." She said to Vaggie who shockingly nodded her head in agreement.

'Yeah, yeah

Something's wrong, shut the light
Heavy thoughts tonight
And they aren't of Snow White

Dreams of war, dreams of liars
Dreams of dragon's fire
And of things that will bite, yeah

Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
(come on)
Enter night
Take my hand
We're off to never-never land

Oh yeah'

Now Nate was really rocking out as a spotlight shined down on him shredding his guitar with skills, which even impressive Angel.

Now I lay me down to sleep (now I lay me down to sleep)
Pray the Lord my soul to keep (pray the Lord my soul to keep)
If I die before I wake (if I die before I wake)
Pray the Lord my soul to take

Hush little baby, don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
It's just the beasts under your bed
In your closet, in your head

Exit light (Come on)
Enter night
Grain of sand

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never-never land

Yeah, yeah, yeah
We're off to never-never land

Take my hand
We're off to never-never land
Take my hand
We're off to never-never land'

Standing in front of the group he finally opened his eyes to see that most of the crew had their mouths agapped at his sudden awesome performance.

"Uh, you guys okay?" He asked, when he suddenly got tremendous clapping from Charlie who immediately shot up from her seat with a wide smile.

"Nate! Where were you hiding this?!" She asked as Vaggie, Niffty, Angel, and Husk joined in on the cheering.

"Didn't know you had it in ya kid." Angel said as Husk raised his bottle to Nate.

"A bad boy that can sing?!" Niffty asked completely flustered as she waved a hand in front of her face, fanning it, "I must be dreaming."

"I must say my boy." Alastor appeared next to Nate placing a hand on his shoulder, "You really know how to perform. Not my cup of tea though, but a spectacular performance nonetheless." He commented, which seems to bring Nate down a small bit.

"Oh, don't listen to him, you... did incredibly well." Vaggie said sort of giving Nate some good feelings but he still felt like he impressed everyone, though it could be from his raunchy young adult attitude for getting an approval from everyone.

"Why with that kind of talent, we could have our own rockstar!" Charlie said.

"Hey! Wait a minute, I'm a star." Angel said in protest.

"For porn Angel, you're a porn star." Vaggie corrected him.

"So? It's still a star nonetheless."

"Still, we could have a new rising star within our facility." Charlie stated with joy, "Between him and Alastor's radio, we could have free advertisement and get people to listen and come to the hotel." She said which most of the crew (Mostly Vaggie) nodded in agreement.

However, Nate didn't seemed rather pleased of not appeasing everyone as he looked over to Alastor, who albeit still had his smile on his face, he could sense that he rather wasn't impressed by Nate's choice of music. Of course, he wouldn't like the music of today due to being from 20s and 30s, so anything post that would be deem... distasteful to him. But it's not like he can change his taste.

"Well, after that, it uh, did kinda leave me a little." Nate said which got Alastors attention.

"Well now, how about it? Shall I wipe up some delicious gumbo?" Alastor asked, getting everyone's attention.

"Well I can't say no to your cooking Alastor." Nate said rubbing his hands together in excitement.

"A proper meal sounds like an excellent idea for some small talk." Charlie added which Husk rolled his eyes behind her as he continued drinking his bottle.

"Sounds delightful, I'll shall get started." He said and teleported away from everyone.

While everyone went back to what they were doing, Nate quickly scratched his neck when he suddenly felt something metallic on his neck. Curiously he gently grabbed whatever it was and pulled it to eye view. Funny, it looked like a chain for a necklace... his eyes widened as he followed the chain to... the ring that he found in the drawer. It must've found it's way around his neck when he had those visions. But what were those visions about? What did it mean about him being, 'the one'? A gift to his father? Not all is what it seems? What did the voice mean by that?

"Come and get it!" Alastor could be heard calling out to the crew, getting Nate out of his train of thought. No point in concentration on an empty stomach and he ran behind the group to eat.

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