Belle's POV:

Ugh I hate alarm clocks!!

I peek from under my pillow seeing my alarm clock going up and down on my nightstand. I groan a bit standing up and stretching.

I walked down my stairs to the kitchen where my moms were standing talking to each other with coffee mugs in their hands. Margo noticed my groggy face waving at me sweetly if I wasn't so tired I would have waved back "Good Morning pumpkin"

"Morning." I groan, blinking my tired eyes sitting at the table resting my hand on my cheek, my mom Beth sighs, placing a plate of waffles and bacon in front of me I sigh heavily gently pushing the food away.

Not to be rude to my mom but I didn't really have an appetite at the moment

"Aww don't worry sweetie it'll be okay." I rub my eyes running my fingers through my long brown hair to the side looking at my mom with guilt in my eyes "No it won't! I-I just feel so guilty mom. I-I yelled at him, I told him off, I kicked him in his nuts! And then a few hours later he literally dropped dead!" I put my head in my arms burying my face not wanting to look at them "I..I killed Reggie mom."

"No! No baby, you did not kill him." Margo sets her coffee down pointing a finger at me with a mix of concern and seriousness on her face, she puts her hands on my shoulders lifting my face up to see my teary eyed face wiping my tears from my eyes "We don't know what happened in his life but Reggie.. he was a troubled boy you did everything you could to be nice to him.. you didn't do anything wrong." She takes her hand brushing a strain of my hair behind my ear gently looking at me. She pulls me into a hug that I gladly took, My mom Beth joins into the hug kissing my forehead.

That did make me feel a little better.

Just a bit.

She breaks out of the hug grabbing her phone and dialing a number Margo raises an eyebrow at her confused "Beth what are you doing?" My mom smirks, putting the phone to her ear, letting it ring, putting a finger up to her lips, giving a wink, making Margo roll her eyes, making me laugh a bit quietly. "Hi this is Beth Dunphy I'm calling in regards to my daughter Belle Dunphy unfortunately will not be attending school today... Thank you for being so understanding take care."

My mom hangs up the phone to see Margo looking at her with wide eyes and a dropped jaw. "I know I probably say this all the time but Beth are you crazy!! She can't take a day off of school!!"

"She can and she will, our daughter's a smart cookie she can make up for all of her missed assignments in half an hour. But what she does need is a mental health day." My mom points the phone at Margo with a cocked eyebrow like a cowboy giving me a ruff of my hair making me a smile a bit with a blush "She needs to recharge her batteries don't you think?"

I look up at Margo who looks at me brushing my cheek a bit with her thumb sighs deeply looking a little annoyed at my mom pointing a finger at her squinting an eye. "Alright fine but don't make this a habitat missy."

My mom's response to that is giving Margo a kiss on the lip making her turn red as a tomato while my mom smirked at her, Margo looks my mom up and down with a smitten smile "You're lucky you're cute." She slaps my moms butt making her jump up with a squeak giving her a wink before going to her lab

Ugh guys seriously why in front of me!!

My mom Beth turns to me with a smile "Tell ya what since I'm off today why don't we have a mom and daughter day at the mall. It'll be fun!" I hum to myself thinking.

Well it would help me get my mind off of this whole thing

And maybe I could get some new clothes and stuff it could be like wiping my slate clean and starting over now that Reggie can't bother me anymore

I give my mom a small smile nodding with approval "Sure mom why not." My mom smiles and brings me into a hug nuzzling my head "Yay mommy and daughter day Oo this is gonna be so fun!!" I couldn't help snort hugging her back

She's such a dork like me

And that's why I love her.

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Reggie's POV:

... Ugh...

...Agh... Ugh... Grrh...

Uh... My head. What happened? Where am I?

I strain and blink out my eyes after seemingly eternity of just staring at a blackness when I was knocked out. I blink a bit my eyes swirling around the colors and strained at the sudden light beaming on me making me growl annoyed and in pain?

No soreness I think.

Everything I feel now is sore, really really sore.

Ow! I cringe with my face twist around as I sit up... in a bed? Wait I don't remember being in no bed, last thing I remember was being shot up with energy from the devil himself or... itself? Whatever, that's what I remember so....

Was it just a dream? No, it couldn't have been, it felt too real.

I groaned, ignoring my soreness best I could. I sat up on the bed pushing the white covers on my knees as I rubbed my face a bit in dizzy, exhausted confusion. Oh yeah, I was dead tired too. What was in th-Wha?

I glanced down at my hands and jerked back with a gasp staring at a big red mist like clawed hands! Like demonic looking claws with black claws like nails taking up a finger and stuff.

Reeling back a bit, I started to breathe in and out in slight panic as I dug my hand into my chest and covered nearly ripping both flesh and blanket in sheer panic.

What was happening to me I... Agh!!

What now?!?

In my frantic state my eyes shot open wide with my mouth clenched tightly as I quickly turned and grabbed the blanket pulling it open revealing...

"A TAIL!!!" I shouted in shock, staring at a clearly devil-like tail. Skinny, red and had a pointy arrowhead on it totally a devil tail in the shock of seeing it and pretty sure my hair standing on end wildly I moved from the bed and wham!

Floor city

Population

Me.

"Agh! God damn it." I groan in pain sitting up holding my head in pain. I take a glimpse of myself in the mirror making my eyes wide as I stand up admiring myself in the mirror. My skin was red and my hair was as white as a ghost, I looked down at my buff puffed out chest barely seeing my toes.

Did my chest get bigger?

Did I get bigger?

I look at yellow demon eyes lowering my eyelid looking closely at my pupils. Huh kinda looks like a cat a little bit. I widen my mouth looking at my now sharp demon fangs hanging off of my gums.

Not gonna lie I do look pretty scary

Which is awesome!!

I look terrifying! Heheh Ah yeah when people look at me now they're gonna piss themselves! The door opens making me turn around with my guard up, it was a dude who looked like he was my age maybe a year or two younger with a blue hoodie and black pants on wearing dorky converse

Oh almost forgot to mention one teeny tiny detail

He's a skeleton!

"Oh look who's finally up! Sup dude names Chuck! Chuck Bonetiren." He raises a fist for me to pump but I just glare at him snarling my new demon fangs at him. He chuckles to himself fist pumping himself as if that's gonna make up for it.

What a dork!

But not as much of a dork like Dunphy.

"Yeah I ain't really a people person." I huffed at him bumping his shoulder walking past him. I walk down the stairs to see a living room with a flat screen tv with a big brown couch and coffee table.

Huh this actually not that bad of a place honestly.

Sweet tv.

Couch looks fluffy.

"Hey dude wait up!!" Chuck calls from upside down stairs rushing down, he trips on top of the stairs making him yell spreading his hands out falling down the stairs breaking apart into pieces before finally landing at the bottom in a pile of bones. I roll my eyes scoffing

What a clumsy idiot

And I thought Dorkphy for a clumsy klutz.

His body parts start to move putting himself back together "Whew man I hate when that happens! So this is my pad. I know sweet, right?" He hops over the couch landing on the soft brown couch gesturing to the area with his legs crossed with a smirk trying to look cool. I grump at him running my fingers through my hair sitting down on the couch "why am I here?"

"Soooo when the guards that work for ya know the big guy dropped you off saying ya just went through a demonize procedure when they got here they threw you on the bed you were knocked out for hours." Chuck shrugs his shoulders looking at me scratching his head, I raised an eyebrow at him looking him up and down "So what you're like my roommate now?"

"Yes sir I've always wanted a roommate! Dude this is gonna be awesome we can throw parties and holler at some babes! We're gonna be great friends!" Chuck wraps his arm around my shoulder lightly shaking me with a big dorky smile. I growl grabbing his collar standing up lifting him off the ground making him look me in my now yellow demon eyes snarling my fangs at him shaking him a bit in my tight grip

"Listen here Chucky boy we are not buddies, we are not friends, and we are not amigos!! We're just roommates nothing more nothing less and if you ever touch me like that again I'll rip you apart!! Got it?!!" I could feel my eyes glowing angrily while Chuck shrinks a bit, smiling nervously nodding quickly "Y-Yep you got it!"

I huff dropping him on his butt on the floor stomping away to what I guess is my new room. I gotta find a way to get back up topside so I can make that little nerd Belle suffer.

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Belle POV:

I look at myself in a mirror wearing some high rise light blue jeans. "Hmmm well this doesn't look too bad." I look at my figure mainly at my butt. These jeans really make my booty pop. Honestly I couldn't help but smile, wiggling my hips a bit until my mom pops out of nowhere with a pair of jeans on her arm "Hey honey I got some more jeans- Wow look at you! Those make your booty look so good!!"

"Agh! Mom stooooop!!" I cover myself like I was naked with a red face embarrassed, my mom rolls her eyes shooing a hand at me "Oh no need to be embarrassed sweetie you should feel positive about your body you're gorgeous with those big blue eyes and cute freckles, chubby cheeks your a beautiful girl." She smiles moving my hair that was on the side off of my shoulder putting a hand on my chin making me look in the mirror smiling. "Beside you've got it honest your mama's got back too." My mom smirks, turning around, slapping her butt making me laugh with a snort, making her smirk at me teasingly giving me a kiss on the cheek "Uh I saw a smile come on let's go pay for these clothes before the sales clerk thinks we're stealing."

I smile at her going back into the changing room

My mom is always near when I'm feeling insecure.

I swear it's like a sixth sense that she has. It's actually kinda creepy.

I walked out wearing my black leggings grabbing the bags from the other stores that we went to, I walked to the front where my mom was waiting for me "Okay let's go to the food court I'm starving! Oo let's go try that new pizza spot that they just opened up!" My mom locks arms with me to the food court

Suddenly my phone starts to vibrate in my pocket making me cock an eyebrow a bit. Who could be calling me around this time? I take my phone out of my pocket seeing a phone number I didn't recognize

Ugh stupid telemarketers. I probably shouldn't answer this.

But it's probably something important.

I answered my phone, putting it close to my ear, squinting an eye "Hello?"

"Ummm hello!! Where exactly are you? Why aren't you at school? Did you honestly forget about today?!!" The voice screams in my ear making me cringe a bit at the high pitched voice echoing in my ear.

.......

"Um, who is this?" I blinked, confused, not recognizing the voice.

"It's Megan you stupid four eyes goober!!"

I grumble a bit not finally knowing who I'm talking to and let's just say I was not really happy.

Ooh right

Megan Cromwell

Third head cheerleader of the school and the second meanest girl in school, we don't talk or anything but she has passed by laughing at me after Reggie wedgied me or hung me up on the flag pole

And on the lockers

And... in the locker

Thankfully she snapped me out of my train of embarrassment "You are supposed to be tutoring me for the civil war midterm in our history class after school!! You better be here and help me cause if I fail this test and get kicked off the cheerleading squad because of you I will personally get the entire football team to hang you on the football field goal by your nerdy dorky undies next game!!" She screams at me angrily, making me gulp nervously, shaking the phone a bit in my hand while she threatens me "So unless you want the whole school to know what color underwear you wear you better be here or else!!"

Not gonna lie she is pretty scary and it's an accurate threat, Reggie is dead but that doesn't mean there aren't other bullies who could rip me apart.

"U-Um yeah Megan s-sure I'll be there promise." I give a smile glad that she couldn't see me shaking a bit she would have definitely gotten a kick out of that. I end the call looking back at my mom who looked at me concerned "Hey you okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine I just forgot I was supposed to tutor Megan Cromwell today.. for our midterm coming up." I run my fingers through my hair cringing a bit sheepishly. My mom rolls her eyes putting a hand on her hip. "Hmph if you ask me that girl should be using her own brain which probably isn't that big."

"Mom."

"Okay okay let's go grab some food and I'll drop you off." My mom rolls her eyes smiling at me ruffling my hair placing a hand on my shoulder walking with me towards the food court.

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Reggie's POV:

Ugh. This is torture! Even by Hell's standards!

"Okay now we need to go over subsection E under where to put the dirty laundry and dead bodies paragraph. It saying responsibility goes to whom ever got gets blood stains, poop stains or other fluids on articles of clothing or leak from the bodies by offend is the guy who does the laundry that week." Chuck yammered on pointing at very small, barely unreadable words on a phone book thick stacks of bright yellow colored paper stapled together on a big wooden table.

That thing is a 'roommate agreement contract' he wanted to go over with me after looking around my new digs. Ugh, I roll my eyes slumping on a wooden chair in the dining room throwing my head up groaning dramatically.

It's nice, this place. My room was pretty good, big, had a lotta space, black wallpaper wall to wall, a small bed with blood red covers on it, a build in closet with skeletons of the damned in them, a window overlooking a firey torment of bad souls and red shag carpeting. Pretty good stuff that could be improved on with my great taste in style, chains, spikes and a whole lot of heavy metal posters everywhere, yeaaah nice.

Plus on top of a nice room with creature comforts that I'm not gonna think too hard on for obvious reason of being a demon then human now, I've got to see this big old house/room/thingie place has a big kitchen with stocked up food in cabinets and fridge, a arcade like room full of good retro style games, upstiars fancy like bathroom, a attic/mini observatory, a basement with a build in dungeon labyrinth, music room with DJ tables, self already explained big dinning room, cozy living room and a garage filled with a ton of demonic muscle cars. This place is... well you know..me.

Only blights where Chuck's room next to mine and him as a roommate with his dumb contract! Ugh!! When will it end!!

"Ugh are you done flapping ya boney gums!! I don't got time for your stupid house rules I gotta find a way to topside and take care of some business with that stupid wimp Dorkphy!!" I throw my head back with an annoyed groan standing up from the chair.

Chuck looks at me weird tilting his head like a stupid confused puppy "Dude didn't you just die? You just got here and you wanna go back up with the humans? And who's Dorkphy?"

I shoot a glare at him squinting an eye making him quickly throw his hands up in defense or getting prepared for me to pound him, I scoff a bit turning around pointing a finger at him "Well since you wanna be noisy! I'll tell you I gotta a score to settle with a little dorky wimp I use to encounter with name Belle, she's real short and pudge like a squishy klutz baby with dorky nerd glass and a stupid annoying squeaking voice!! She use to fear the very ground I walked on until out of nowhere she grew a backbone! She had the balls and the Audacity to steal something very valuable of mine, so I need to find a way to get up there and show her and those stuck up assholes who still runs that fucking town! Just cause I'm dead don't mean I won't wedgie her until her fucking eyes start bleeding red while she begs me for mercy!!" I grind my fangs grabbing the soda that Chuck had on the table crushing it into a tiny ball with my bare hands slamming it down on the counter in front of Chuck who gulps nervously looking at me.

"Whoa! Um that's a lot dude you're obviously determined hehe."

I huff at him walking a few feet away with a giant frown on my face "Tch not like a bonehead like you would have a solution."

"Actually there is one way to get up there."

I swear I got whiplash from how fast my head turned. I quickly rushed over to him with wide eyes invading his personal space but at the moment I didn't care

"Wait, you seriously do?! Well tell me how to out with it bone boy!!" I grab him by his collar, shaking him violently making his bone start making a rattling sound

"Okay Okay! I'll tell you just stop shaking me!!" He yells out dizzily, I roll my eyes dropping him to the floor crossing my arms, he stands up dusting himself off walking towards the basement he gestures me to follow him. "Okay follow me, the bossman would kill my afterlife for doing this but... eh, I'm feeling risky today and you seem like an... unstable guy that needs to work shit out. Don't wanna have ghost stuff happening. Yeah, ghost stuff man." Chuck said as he walked down the hall and kneeling down and grabbing the two iron door handles connected to a wooden shutters on the ground leading to the basement, sighing and huffing as he slowly struggled to pull them up as I cock an eyebrow at him in confusion.

Ghost stuff?

I'm... a demon now right? Not a ghost.

Also Ghosts exist too now?

"Agh! Yeah, that'll be sucky to go through on a spiritual level or something. Oof! Ooo boy, got it open. Yup, ghost stuff is all sad edgelord crap, total purgatory loser causes." Chuck added as he stumblelly swung open the doors nearly falling over as his arms pop off a bit, tossed up the air before he quickly popped them back in place with a sigh as he waved my chuckling self down into the basement going down into the stairs. "Ack! Woah, geez... Hate when that happens. Anyway follow me. Anyway the bossman is writing and sorting paper work on your topside going up stuff. But that'll take time and..." He said as I growl at him as we move down the stairs into the darken, grey cobblestone, dirt brown ground as we step off the creaking wooden stairs. "And I wanna go topside now. So what's the quickest way up Chrome dome." I growled at him, showing him my fist as flames flicker around it.

Cool.

Chuck blinks nodding dumbly and nervous as we walk down the long corridor as firey torches hung on the walls lighting a bit of the small space. "That, yeah. Then we'll give a one way ticket topside quickest through... It'll be illegal and get ya into some dodgy trouble that'll cost ya your soul maybe." He said with an uneasy shrug at me as I frowned at him a bit as he coughs into his bone-y hand muttering to himself. "Ah, your choice of course."

"Whatever just get me up there!!" I growl pointing to the ceiling determined, Chuck shrugs his shoulders leading me to the end of the hallway with a giant grey stone wall with candles hanging around it I grump a bit gesturing to the wall annoyed grabbing his collar threateningly "This is it? It's just a big dumb stupid wall!! If you're messing with me Chuck I swear!!"

Chuck casually grabs my hands off his hoodie shaking his head with a smile "Nah my guy I'm not messing with ya ya just gotta put a portal on the wall and uhhhh ya can't use paint ya gotta use your blood." Chuck smiles sheepishly I back away from him on edge he snorts shooing a hand at me "Relax we're not gonna slit your throat or anything just gonna prick your finger scouts honor." He holds up two fingers putting a hand on his chest pulling out a small sharp needle from his pocket Hindi g it out in front of my face,

I look at it unsure but ya know what fuck it!

Determination is a bitch

I hold out my finger for him to take he grabs my wrist pricking my finger with the needle making me flinch a bit. It didn't hurt just wasn't expecting to feel anything. He guides my finger to the wall drawing a giant circle and then a pentagram symbol in the middle with my blood. I snatch my hand from him sucking on my finger to stop the bleeding "Alright now what?"

"Wait for it." Chuck smiles like an idiot at me making me roll my eyes at him. Suddenly the candles around the wall burst with a flame now glowing the bloody circle starting glowing bright making me squint my eyes a bit, then in the middle a giant purple eye appears with a big yellow sharp demonic pupil staring at us before peeling back opening itself revealing a red colored swirling vortex portal

Ooookay that's freaking as hell.

"Now just to let you know dude you can only stay top side for a couple of hours so dont stay up there too long ya gotta quickly come back or we're both dead.. again" Chuck instructs me with a concern look on his face, I flash a smirk cracking my knuckles walking towards the vortex "A few hours is all I need." I step towards the portal before everything goes black.

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Ugh my head is pounding, I go to lift up my hand to touch my forehead and it hits something hard "Ow!" I grunt in pain a bit I go to stand up and I hit my head on that same hard surface "Agh! What the-!"

Wait a minute

I place my hands on the hard area on the sides of me knocking on it like a door. Hey... this is hollow.. like wood... like a coffin!! I take my fist and start punching the top of it hard enough a couple of times until I finally make a hole, I use my other hand to split it apart before bending my knees to crawl out. Luckily I'm already dead cause I would definitely be suffocating right now from the amount of dirt in my face. What felt like forever I punch a fist to the surface crawling out all the way.

I take a deep breath smelling the fresh air feeling the breeze through my hair I look behind to see a grave and a tombstone with my name on it

Reginald Theodore Barnaby. O'Riordan the third

Died too young too soon

He will be missed

Tch Yeah right like any of these assholes would ever miss me.

Wait!

This is my grave!

Which means

I look around to see the old boring old town that I use to call home, it worked it? It seriously worked I'm back baby!!

I stand up looking down at my rotten corpse hands seeing my bones of my fingers wiggling them a bit admiring them.

So I'm like a zombie now?

Sweet!

I look out in the far distance seeing the high school, I couldn't help but smile thinking about all the ways I was gonna make that clumsy know it all dork Belle Dunphy suffer. I could hear the sound of Thunder echoing above me as I smiled devilishly with an evil look in my eye teasingly saying to myself while standing on my own grave.

"I'm Baaaaaaaack."