Redemption lies within - grocamol (2024)

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The door to the hotel is opened with Vaggie entering through first while Angel Dust entered second with Charlie being the one to enter last and shut the door behind her, the three of them are greet to the ever present sight and sound of a nigh empty hotel with creaking wood; the only one however that was inside the hotel at the time to greet them at all was mummified man with burnt skin beneath his wrappings, that being Joshua Graham, the first 'sinner' that Charlie had search for to get his council for help.

Sitting on a lone chair beside a table of M1911's and a duffle bag, Joshua idly leafed through a book with the title 'Seven Sins', his eyes were that of before he glanced up from his book that he managed to acquire through his own means while in hell; Joshua's eyes trailed after the first two as Vaggie plopped down onto a couch while Angel headed towards the beat up fridge to get himself a Popsie.

While the two were doing their own thing, Charlie continued to walk in while holding her arm and looking down in shame; the spawn of Lucifer and Lilith looked up and glanced in Joshua's direction, of the two that spoke first was Charlie. "Did…did you manage to catch that broadcast?" she asked while looking a bit ashamed of losing her cool while on tv.

Joshua, who held his book in one hand while leaning his other elbow on his knee, shut his book and placed it aside on the table beside him, "That depends on what council you'd like first, Charlie." he started to say as she walked over to stand beside the room to speak with the burned man more clearly, he look up at her from his seat, "I can quote from the scriptures I still remember, or I can speak my mind from experience."

Charlie shrugged as she leaned against the table Joshua stashed his M1911's on top of, "Both probably, I am trying to redeem these sinners afterall." she replied lamely with a downcast look.

Letting an exhale of thought out, Joshua spoke while remembering off the top of his head of a bible verse, "One such verse might help you better, and it is Ecclesiastes Chapter seven verse nine, 'Do not be quick to take offense, for the taking of offenses lodges in the bosom of fools'." he spoke, before adding, "Though, that just one iteration of the verse in how it has been interpreted, there's also 'Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools'." Joshua idly commented.

"Hmm…" Charlie rubbed her arm in uncomfortableness at how spot on her situation was on the mark with how easy she was provoked at having her attempt be called a failure, "That newscaster, she…" she began to say, only for Joshua to cut her off as he stared at her through his eye holes of his wraps.

"Yes, she called you a failure after telling you your project was dead on arrival." Joshua regaled what he had seen on the available small television that Charlie had in the hotel, "A simple jeer from a sinner about your attempt at redeeming a profligate." He pointed out with a plain look in his eyes as he idly placed the book he had shut onto the table beside him.

From across the room, Angel Dust lifted a brow while licking from his popsie, and questioned, "A what now?" he asked while looking confused at what he was called. It wasn't hard for him to eavesdrop, and he has yet to ever be called a profligate. "You mean p*rn star, right?" Angel Dust asked with a flat look.

Joshua slowly looked in Angel's direction and answered, "That is what a p*rn star is, a profligate, a shameless immoral and degenerate person." he further explained, before looking back at Charlie.

While Joshua went back to speaking with Charlie, Angel Dust smirked while shrugging as he walked around to look for some place to sit, "Eh, I"ve been called worse."

Back with the conversation Between Charlie and Joshua, Charlie then questioned Joshua to speak what he thought from experience, "Many a time while I was alive on Earth." he began to explained as he sat forward in his chair and steepled his fingers together, "I've faced plenty of foul and atrocious characters, it's easy to be cross with someone when they open their mouths and bark, but just as so is it easy to walk away as well when all they do is bark."

"Huh…" Charlied mused as she stopped rubbing her arm and relaxed herself from the stress she built up from the day, "And if someone bites with their bark?..." she asked with an amused grin of hers.

"That is up to you to decide, but never let it be unsaid that the bible does not prohibit defending yourself." Joshua explained to Charlie with a soft tone, before reaching out to pick up one of his pistols, and retracted the top of it to check the chamber, "Nor I, in my case, as many a time in my life as a born again Christian of the Morman faith, more than once I had to place a bullet into the head of an enemy." After checking everything was good, Joshua placed his pistol onto his lap to look directly back at Charlie, "Violence is a tool, but never let that tool control you." he warned.

Charlie laughed softly, and leaned off from the table to head back over to Vaggie, "Thanks, Joshua, it feels good to hear that sort of advice." she commented with a soft smile.

"Hm." Joshua let out sound of agreement while reaching over the table to pick his book back and open it to where he left off from, "So as the faith teaches, Wisdom is worth more than silver, it makes you much richer than gold." he said softly as he leafed through the pages and found his spot.

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Angel Dust watched Charlie exit the building while leaving the bandage sinner to his own devices after requesting his council on a matter from earlier, Angel idly licked from his popsie before munching down on it to clean the stick of the treat that was frozen on it before tossing the wooden popsicle aside without a care.

The p*rn star walked over to speak with the sinner out of sheer curiosity, his appearance underneath all the bandages unknown as of yet, and it vexed Angel with curiosity of what appearance the man underneath his wrapping took on as a sinner like all others that had fallen to hell.

While Angel walked up to Joshua, the man himself was still idly reading from his book, while momentarily turning a page to continue reading through the textbook; the eyes within the opening of his mummified head would gently go from side to side as he read, not bothering to look up and address the p*rnstar as of yet.

"So…" Angel Dust began to say as he leaned over on the table filled with pistols and a duffel bag, "What's your story? With all that wrapping you got going on." Angel twirled his index finger while pointing it down, "You must be hiding some freakish looks of your sinner appearance." he noted with a smirk.

Joshua didn't reply to the p*rnstar immediately, but after a few seconds, he lowered the book down and slowly looked over back at Angel with an even stare, "What you see before you is what I wore after being lit aflame while I was alive on Earth, and continued to wearing up to my death." he spoke back with a measure tone of indifference towards Angel Dust.

"Upon my death and descent into hell, it is what I found myself still wearing even including the pain of the burns, so no, I do not know what my sinner appearance looks like underneath these wrappings." Joshua continued to explain while leaving Angel Dust to his own thoughts.

"Huh." Angel mused with a curious look on his face, before making a sly look as he reached out to pull the bandages off, "Oh come on then! I bet you look-" he was cut off from saying more by the sharp look from Joshua, and the quick grab of his wrist by the mummified sinner. While not feeling threatened one bit by the action, Angel simply smirked as he commented on his situation.

"What, feeling shy about could lie beneath those wrappings?" Angel tried to tease the man, only to get a flat look from him.

"I care not how I look as a sinner." Joshua began to say as he released Angel from his vice-grip like hold, "But the only reason I keep these wrapping on is to remind me of why I am down here, in hell. This is my penance for the atrocities I have committed, a heavy reminder of my sins." he explained with a harsh look in his eyes.

"Heh." Angel Dust chuckled a bit as he leaned off from the table and massaged his wrist a bit, "You make it sound like you killed scores of people in your life, innocent lives and all." he jested while still trying to get a rise out of the mummified man.

The man that still sat across from him gave him a simple stare back while not speaking on the matter, and before Angel could speak, Joshua beat him to it, "Make no mistake, the Judgement of the lord comes to all upon death, and I was no exception, regardless of my dedication to the teachings of the bible."

At that, Angel Dust smirked at the bandaged man that peered back at him through his wrappings, "And that ain't the reason to drop your faith? God discarded you like last week's trash." he derided Joshua with an amused look.

Unbothered by the jeer towards him, Joshua finally shut his book after bookmarking his place, and put it aside on the table once more, "Quite the opposite in fact," he started, while earning a surprise look from Angel Dust, "I have been baptized twice, once in water, once in flame. I had carried the fire of the holy spirit inside me, even to my death and stood before the lord for my judgment."

At the mention of being judged by God himself, Angel lifted a brow of astonishment, "Wait wait wait." he said while making the gesture of halting motions with his palms, and made a rewind motion with his finger, "Back that up….no innuendo intended…" he smirked at that, before continuing on, "You." he pointed at Joshua, "Were Judged by god, and not just immediately sent to hell?" Angel asked with a confused look on his face.

Leaning forward to rest his elbows on his knees, Joshua gave Angel Dust a flat look, "I won't bore you with the details, but the lord god saw fit to judge me personally, and was with deep regret in his tone that he sent me to hell, to pay for my sins until he saw fit I was worthy of the golden kingdom of heaven."

"Heh, you're quite a character, you know that right?" Angel commented with an amused look on his face and soft chuckle, while walking off to finally mind his own, "Never would have thought I'd run into a devout follower in hell." he said while heading back to the fridge to grab himself another popsie.

Joshua Graham, now able to resume his own past time of reading up a bit of literature, was about to reach over and grab his book on the subject matter of sins, but before he could grab it, Charlie finally walked back in through the front hotel doors, leaned against the shut doors before sliding down a bit; The Demon spawn of Lucifer let out a dejected sigh as she looked like she was dealing with her own inner issues.

While not one to pry into other business, Joshua could see Charlie had quite the baggage of emotions welling within her; he had seen the look before many a time in his life, of dejection, of indecisiveness, of a young adult not sure what to do with the decisions they have made in their early years of life. Deciding not to press the issue unless she actually needed it, as it looked more like a personal issue, Joshua opted not to weigh in on giving some helpful advice unless Charlie wanted the advice and came to him for it. He was here to help her figure out ways to help redeem sinners, not pry into her personal business.

Though if she came asking, he didn't mind parting with any advice he might have that would help her personal matters that seem to plague her mind.

Before he could once more reach for his book once more, the front doors were knocked on, followed by a few more, and before he knew it, Joshua watched as Charlie quickly opened the left door to reveal the sight of a broad smiling demon looking sinner; right before the sinner could finish his 'hello', Charlie was just as quick to shut the door on the visitor.

Charlie opened the door once again to confirm who it was, before shutting it once again and turned to look over at where Vaggie was, sitting atop the couch she had plopped herself down on. "Hey, Vaggie?!" she said, while earning a 'what' from her.

"The Radio Demon is at the door." Charlie nervously explained while making a forced smiley expression with her fingers, then used them to point at the front doors.

"What!?" Vaggie asked while leaning off from the couch.

Angel Dust, while sitting at a lone circular table and chair and slurping on a popsie, pulled his ice treat from his mouth and also asked, "Uh, who?"

Meanwhile, from Joshua's perspective, he was curious as to who the Radio Demon was.

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Once Vaggie was able to approach Charlie, while Alastor looked around at family photos and all manner of decor around the hotel, Vaggie grabbed Charlie by the shoulder with a worried expression. “Charlie, listen to me. You can't believe this creep!” She exclaimed while making a side glance with Charlie at Alastor in the distance.

“He isn't just a happy face! He's a deal-maker!” Vaggie protested as she looked back at Charlie, who in turn stared back at her to give her attention, as Vaggie stared up at her with her lone eye, “Pure evil! He can't be redeemed!” she remarked, before making a momentary glance to the side, before looking back at Charlie to continue her train of dialogue.

“...And is most likely looking for a way to destroy everything we're trying to do!” Vaggie finished speaking her mind on the matter for the moment.

“I…” Charlie looked off to the side with an unsure look on her face, “we don't know that!” she said, before shaking her head and looked back at Vaggie, “Look, I know he's bad, and I know he probably doesn't wanna change.” she presumed while making a passing glance at the topic of their discussion, “but the whole point of this is to give people a chance!”

“To have faith things will be better! How can I turn someone away?” Charlie asked more to herself than Vaggie, and looked down a bit with a bit of a downcast look, before shrugging a little, “I can't. It goes against everything I'm trying to do.” she said as she looked back up at Vaggie and reached out to place her hands on her friends shoulders, who looked back at her with an unsure look on her own.

“Everything I believe in. Just... trust me. I can take care of myself!” Charlie tried to reason with her friend with a smile.

Vaggie only frowned back, “Charlie, whatever you do, do not make a deal with him!” she reasoned back.

“Don’t worry!” Charlie tried to placate her friend and gestured to Vaggie and Joshua in the distance, who was leaning idly against his table of guns and literature with his arms crossed, while making a momentarily glance back at them, “And besides, I got you two to help me!”

Vaggie let out a discomforting sigh, before gesturing at Joshua, “If so, then why don’t you ask him ? You’re the one that brought him here for council and guidance after all. Maybe he’ll talk you out of accepting help from that demon!”

Charlie smiled back with her fists at her sides, “Fine! I will!” she answered back, before marching herself over to the man in question

While still leaning back against the table with his arms crossed, Joshua glanced between Charlie and Vaggie, before looking directly at Charlie with a pointed look, “So you wish me to weigh in on the matter? Hmm.” he presumed as Charlie stood in front of him with her hands clasped while Vaggie stood to the side of her with her arms crossed and a dour look.

“Yeah!” Charlie rolled her eyes a bit a in a playful manner before looking directly back at Joshua, “I don’t want to turn away someone in need, or one wishing to help in any way,”

“Oh please!” Vaggie threw her hands up in exasperation and wedged herself between Charlie and Joshua to look up at the man and gestured at Charle with a pointed look, “Tell her why it’s a bad idea to trust that Demon! I just told you the story about the Radio Demon!”

“Curious…” Joshua noted as Charlie reigned Vaggie in by pulling her to her side so that she wasn’t in Joshua’s face, he stared back at the two with a firm look in his eyes, “While I can quote a few verses from the bible on the matter, I’ve also come from many experiences in dealing with untrustworthy people, be they from whatever backgrounds they are.”

“Feh…” Vaggie glowered a bit as she glanced to the side while muttering to herself, “I’ve read enough of the drivel to last me a lifetime.” she unknowingly said a bit loud at the end.

Joshua slowly glanced at Vaggie, before speaking his mind on the matter of her choice of words, “Drivel you say?” he said while Charlie looked smiled in hopes the two weren’t about to be at each other’s throats, “That's quite an observation if all you did was read the text and not study it to the full extent of what it teaches.”

“Calling it drivel, now that’s a word I’ve heard many call it during my life on Earth, but for many others it has provided comfort and so much more.” Joshua expression with a soft tone, all the while staring back at Vaggie who didn’t want to look back at him.

“Well, that’s beside the point!” Charlie waved her hands in front of the two and stood between Vaggie and Joshua, before collapsing her hands behind her back, “We just came over here for you to weigh in on your thoughts on the matter!”

Joshua looked into the hopeful eyes of Charlie with his own as he mulled over the words of the hellspawn, before choosing to speak back after settling his thoughts, “If you truly seek my counsel on the matter, then know this…” Joshua said as he breathed in a bit before speaking once more, “I bare no guile in my words, Charlie, so hear me well. I know not the type of man that sinner is, nor his character as of yet, but know this. Keep an open ear in your wits about you."

After a few seconds of silence between the three, Vaggie was the one to break and speak aloud, “That’s it?!” She threw her arms up in her temper, before she walked around Charlie once more to stand beside and looked back at Joshua with her fist clenched at her sides, “We can’t trust him, he isn’t even here to be redeemed, he doesn’t even believe in it!” she protested.

Charlie glanced between the two while thumbing her chin, before palming her fist, “This is what Happy Hotel is all about! Giving someone a chance, and as many times as it takes! And I can’t turn away help either from someone that is willing to help!” she declared, before giving her thanks to Joshua and excusing herself from the two to speak with Alastor.

While Charlie left the two, Vaggie looked back up at Joshua with annoyed look, “What was that about, you could’ve help steer her away from that dangerous demon.”

Joshua simply stared back with a simple look in his eyes, “Make no mistake young nephilim, I’ll see to it that the demon does not bring harm to Charlie, on that I promise.”

At the mention of being called a certain type of being, Vaggie lone eye shrunk in fear at being called out, “Wha-how-”

“What? Did you believe yourself to be seen to all in hell as a common sinner?” Joshua remarked with a dry tone why his arms were still crossed.

“Just…just don’t tell Charlie…” Vaggie sigh with a downcast look, “I-I don’t know how to break it to her just yet.” she pleaded.

“Then heed my advice.” Joshua instructed with a firm look in his eyes, to which Vaggie looked back up at him, “The longer you wait, the more chances someone else will. I’ll abstain from speaking on the matter anymore than this, but know that the truth will come out sooner than later. So it’s best if you break the news yourself..”

Vaggie let out a sigh of discomfort, “That’s what I’m afraid of.”

“There will always be a time when we must do things we are not comfortable with, such is the harshness of life, as it is in hell, so to speak.” Joshua remarked back with a soft tone.

Crossing her arms with a pout, “Doesn’t mean I have to like that notion either!” Vaggie spoke back with an annoyed grunt. Before excusing herself to exit out of the conversation she had with Joshua.

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“Okay….” Charlie started her conversation back up with Alastor, as she slipped in on over to stand across from him. She gestured at him with her palms clasp while smiling nervously at him, “Al. You're sketchy as f*ck and you clearly see what I'm trying to do here as a joke.” Charlie said while gesturing around a bit of the hotel they were in.

While Charlie turned away for a bit during her talk with him, glowing red symbols started to appear beside Alastor which quickly disappeared after Charlie turned back to Alastor.

“But I don’t.” Charlie expressed with a kind look, “I think everyone deserves a chance to prove they can be better.” she said, before crossing her arms as she spoke with a firm tone, “So, I'm taking your offer to help. On the condition that there be no... “ Charlie made a few gestures with her fingers as she made an effort to visualize her sentiment, “tricks or voodoo strings attached.” she finished saying.

In response, Alastor spun his mic on a cane in his hands as he said, “So, it's a deal, then?” he asked while holding his cane to his side and reached out with his other hand to shake hands with Charlie. A bright green glow exploded between them, before Charlie denied the hand shake.

“Nope.” Charlie began with as she held her palms up in her stance against the deal, “No shaking! No deals! I... hmm…” Charlie mumbled a bit at the end as she walked a few steps away from the demon while holding her arm, before releasing her hold to turn around and face Alastor with her index finger raised.

“As princess of Hell and heir to the throne…” Charlie said while switching to her other index finger raised, she then pointed at Alastor with an unsure attitude, “I, uh, hereby order that you help with this hotel. For as long as you desire.” she finished saying with a broad smile, before making a flat look and glance to the side when a stray wolf howl echoed outside.

Charlie looked back at Alastor with an expectant look, “Sound fair? “ she asked.

Alastor rubbed his chin, “hmmm…” he mused, before retracting his staff for it to disappear, “Fair enough.” he answered, before walking off.

Charlie silently sighed before saying, “Cool beans.” with a double thumbs up and nervous smile.

“Hmm hm hmm hmm…” Alastor hummed as he walked around, and stopped by Vaggie, “Smile my dear!” he said while reaching to tickle her chin, which earned an infuriated look from the fallen one, before retracting his arm and finger to stand away from her as Vaggie withheld herself from snapping at him. “You know you're never fully dressed without one!” he commented, before walking off elsewhere.

“So where is your hotel staff?” Alastor asked as he walked back over to Charlie.

“Uh…” Charlie looked around nervously before answering with her hands clasped, “Well…”

Alastor stood away from leaning to glance all that was available on hand while adjusting his monocle; Vaggie who he had just interacted with, the local resident that was Angel Dust in the distance sitting on a lone chair, and off in the corner of the room was a mummified sinner that was looking directly at him while leaned against a table with his arms crossed.

“Ohohoho, you're going to need more than that.” Alastor said as he turned back around to face Charlie with an amused look on his face before walking off towards Angel.

Once Alastor approached Angel Dust, he gestured at the p*rn star, “And what can you do, my effeminate fellow?” he asked, before retracting his arm while leaning a bit forward.

With an amused smirk of his own, Angel answered while giving Alastor a once over, “I can suck your dick!” he said.

In response to the answer given, Mic feedback can be heard in the background as Alastor tried to process what he was just offered. “Haha!” Alastor leaned his head in to say, “No.”

Angel Dust scoffed as he leaned his against a count and rested his elbow on it while resting his cheek into his palm, “Your loss.” he commented as Alastor walked off towards Joshua Graham.

“And you!” Alastor said as he stood across from the burnt man, who looked back at him with an unwavering gaze, “What can you do, my good fellow?”

Not answering immediately, Alastor was expecting something at the very least, and before he could drop his smile and express his disappointment that the man didn’t want to speak with him, Joshua spoke with a measured tone. “I’ll say this only once.” he began with, while earning a raised eyebrow from Alastor.

“Do not think for one second that I do not see through your guile. your wanton selfish ruse. many a time have dealt with your type during my time on earth, and you will not be the first nor last that has suffered my wrath.” Joshua warned Alastor with a steadfast gaze directed at the radio demon. “So this is your only warning, If I ever catch you betraying Charlie’s trust, the barrel of my gun will be the last thing you’ll ever see.” he stated with a resolute look in his eyes and tone.

While his talk with Alastor earned an amused grin from Angel Dust in the background, Vaggie seemed on the verge of panic while Charlie slapped her face at Joshua’s blunt statement. Alastor on the other hand was grinning a tight smile, before chortling a bit. “Well now!” Alastor said as he walked away, “At least you have a good attack dog on you!” he remarked while making a passing glance at a relieved Charlie.

“But…” Alastor said as he whipped out his mic staff once more, “The rest of this just won’t do!” he commented as he turned to face all of the residents of the hotel, “I suppose I can cash in a few favors to liven things up.” he finished saying, before snapping his fingers.

A new fireplace has replaced the hotel's worn down one after a swirl of fire consumed its place and dissipated to show the new fireplace. Alastor was soon walking over to it and picked up a mysterious figure covered in soot, which then opened its eye and stared at the trio behind him.

“This is my Darling Niffty!” Alastor introduced as the figure covered in soot poofed it off herself to show a one eyed sinner demon, before dropping said sinner demon to the floor.

Unaffected by being unceremoniously dropped to the floor in such a manner, Nifty sprung back up to stand on her two feet and waved at the fellow occupants of the hotel, “Hi, I'm Niffty! It's nice to meet you! It's been a while since I've made new friends!” she greeted while her lone single eye swiveled all around to glance at everyone in the room while making a stretched toothy smile.

“Oooh, man! This place is filthy! It really needs a lady's touch!” She remarks as she looks around to see all the filthy dust settling in, before whipping out a feather dust to begin dusting the place down. As fast as her hyperactive energy allowed, Niffty zipped and zoomed all over the place to dust off every collection of dust settled, while saying, “Nope! Nope! Nope! Nope!|” she said, before at the end of it all she takes out and stabs a random co*ckroach with a needle that was skittering along a tope. “Nope!”

Niffty looked up to see a pile of guns on the table that she stabbed the co*ckroach on, “ooh! Pretty guns!” she remarked, before her single eye swiveled up to glance at Joshua Graham who was eyeing her back with an unreadable gaze.

“Hi!” She waved cheerfully, only to earn a quiet stare back at her, before pointing at the guns with a bashful grin, “Are all those yours! ?” she asked with a cheeky grin.

“Yes…” Joshua replied back with an inscrutable tone.

“Can I have one?” Niffty asked giddily as she steadily reached out, only to have her wrist grabbed gently before being held up by the burnt man in bandages, she was then at eye level as Joshua held her up by her wrist.

“No.” Joshua answered succinctly, before dropping her back down to land back down onto the floor with her feet.

“Aww. Why not!?” Niffty asked as she looked up at Joshua with a pout, who simply looked back down at her with an unwavering look in his eyes.

“I haven’t finished cleaning them up and checking the interenals.” Joshua answered back without missing a beat, before adding, “And besides, I am hardly pressed to someone a gun, when the hotel isn’t even under attack yet.” he informed her.

“I can clean them!” Niffty said with an eager expression, before being held back with a palm on her head as she eagerly tried to reach out and clean the pistols.

Holding the sinner demon in place with ease, Joshua stared down at Niffty with a simple gaze, “I’d prefer if I did it myself, sinner.” he said, and earned a pout from said sinner demon.

“Oh fine!” Niffty remarked with a pouting face, before quickly zooming off to feather dust a couch off, “Ooh! Messy, messy!”

“Hmm.” Joshua mused as he softly sighed to himself, and crossed his arms and leaned once more against his table of guns and duffle bag, “Very hyper active, that one is.” he observed, before taking his attention back to the tale end of Alastor offering Husk cheap booze, who accepted the offer and walked off with a bottle of booze to drink it down.

“Hey, hey! Hey, hey, hey!” Vaggie cried out in protest, and stomped her foot, “No! No bar, no alcohol! This is supposed to be a place that discourages sin! Not some kind of mouth…brothel…man cave!” she asserted while gesturing at the bar.

Angel Dust ended up vaulting over to tackle Vaggie and shush her, “SHUT UP! SHUT! UP! We-” he said as he shook her a bit by the shoulder with a mean look on his face, and then gestured at the booze bar, “Are Keeping this!”

With his peace said, Angel Dust ditched Vaggie to zoom over and lean on the counter of the booze bar, “Hey-” he began to try and flirty with Husk, only to get interrupted just as quick.

“Go f*ck yourself.” Husk remarked as he held his booze bottle up, ready to drink from it, only to get grabbed by the face by Angel Dust.

“Only if you watch me!” Angel Dust replied back with, before getting out of the way as Charlie marched over to greet Husk.

“Oh, my gosh! Welcome to The Happy Hotel! You are going to love it here!” Charlie Remarked with a starfilled look in her eyes and eager expression as she leaned over the counter. Husk had to lean a bit back away from Charlie’s overeager attitude in greeting him.

Still holding his booze to the side, “I lost the ability to love years ago.” Husk said, before turning his head to gulp from the bottle.

“So, whaddaya think?” Alastor asked as he slid over to stand behind Charlie, who turned to face him.

With a very happy expression, Charlie expressed with bubbling eagerness, “This is amazing!” she expressed, and then rubbed her cheeks in excitement.

Vaggie, who stood with her back turned towards them and her arms crossed, she said, “It's... okay.”

Alastor reeled the two in with his arms around their shoulders, “Hahaha! This is going to be very entertaining!” he remarked, before Vaggie had the chance to wedge herself out from the sinner’s grasp and get away from him, leaving Alastor to remove his arm from Charlie.

Meanwhile as Alastor took Charlie with him to do a bit of a music number, Husk on the other hand glanced over at the mummified and burnt sinner as he took a swig from his bottle of booze.

“So…” he began as he finished his swig, and gestured at the man with his booze bottle. “What’s your story?” Husk asked in an attempt to idle some time away, the man seemed like he'd be more tolerable than most other sinners.

“Eh.” Angel Dust waved off Husk’s question as he walked back over to reach over to grab himself a bottle of beer, “Don’t bother with him, he’s probably a wet blanket when it comes to partying it up!” he remarked, before pulling up a bottle for himself and twisted the top off.

Joshua, who glanced their way, made his opinion known on Angel’s comment against him, “I find myself amused, for a bit, that you are in the belief that I do not partake in alcohol.”

“Well duh!” Angel said as he leaned up against the bar, before taking a quick sip from his bottle of beer, then used the half drunk bottle to point it at Joshua, “Isn’t that lame book you read all about abstaining from this stuff?” he smirked in jest.

At the remark about the presumption, Joshua couldn’t help making a soft chuckle, which earned a raised eyebrow from Angel Dust. Joshua shifted as he leaned off from his table and uncrossed his arms as he walked over, “Only a fool with no knowledge of the texts, would one presume such nonsense.”

“Huh?” Angel Dust remarked with a confused look.

Once Joshua approached the bar, he reached out to grab a bottle of red wine and examined its contents, “It only warns to drink in moderation, to not become a slave to the act itself, for that path leads to self destruction.” he remarks, before eying the bottle a bit more, then placed it back down.

“Huh…” Angel mused with a raised brow, “And here I thought all bible thumpers chastised the act of drinking alcohol, always going on about calling it a sin.” he rolled his eyes.

“Hmph.” Joshua shook his head, and turned a bit to lean against the bar with his arms crossed once more, “Alcohol clouds the mind, which leads to acts that more than often ends with regret. The bible speaks of precaution, not of total abstinence from alcohol.”

“He’s got you there.” Husk remarked as he took another swig from his booze bottle, “But then again, we’re all in hell, so it really doesn’t matter anymore.” he said with a dour look, before taking another swig from his bottle.

Chapter 7: Chapter 7 | Pilot episode part 6

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A sudden abrupt explosion that rocked the hotel, that sent the front door flying, caught everyone’s attention; Niffty being in the path of the flying door, got slammed into by it and was taken along with the door further into the hotel while everyone else was focused on what caused the explosion outside the hotel.

While the rest peaked out through the new hole to see a blimp war ship, Joshua on the other hand steadily walked over to the new pile of rubble to pull a pair of spindly legs out; without any effort on his part, Joshua pried out Niffty as he held her upside down how was smiled broadly at him.

“I wanna do that again!” Niffty screamed in excitement, before squirming a bit in Joshua’s hold, prompting the burnt man to drop her unceremoniously back down with a flat look in his eyes while she landed back onto her feet; sprinting in place, Niffty zoomed off without another word.

Meanwhile, Joshua took it upon himself to get himself equipped should the need arise with the looming threat from outside, a rifle with a well aimed bullet might do the trick…

On the other hand with the rest, who now stood outside the hotel to attend to the intruder and cause of the explosion, looked up and watched as from out the blimp’s window, Sir Pentious leaned out to address the sinners and etc below.

“Hah! Well, well, well. Look who it is harboring the striped freak! We meet yet again, Alastor!” Sir Pentious said while leaning his chin on his palms, before reaching out with his arm to grasp at the air for a dramatic flair.

With obliviousness on his part, Alastor answered with a cheeky smile, “Do I know you?” he asked.

With his ego somewhat deflated from Alastor’s answer, Sir Pentious retracted from his mood being killed to angry as he grasped at the window edges, “Oh, yes you do!” the snake esque sinner replied back in anger with his hood flaring open.

Slithering back into his blimp to sit in his chair, Sir Pentious sat and reach out at a lever while speaking, “And this time, I have the element of-'' he trailed off a bit as he pulled the lever, “SURPRISE! Ahaha! I'm so evil!” Sir Pentious laughed maniacally as a giant laser cannon lowered down and leveled its aim at the sinners and demons.

Right as Alastor was about to raise his arm up to snap his fingers and summon his familiars, a loud bang a crack of a bullet rang out that thrummed throughout the charging laser cannon; not a second later, the laser cannon ceased powering up.

“Hmm.” Alastor remarked as he glanced a bit at the hotel, and saw a bit of a shine from a scope atop the roof of the hotel. “Well now, it seems little miss’s attack dog isn’t all bark.” He observed with a sly smirk, before another crack of an echoing bang went off in the air.

“Hey wait!” Sir Pentious’s voice rang out from his war ship, “What’s going on!? Why isn’t my weapon working!?” his voice carried out through the air.

Moments later, the mechanism holding the cannon broke off from another echoing shot, leaving the laser cannon to fall to the ground, leaving the warp ship blimp with one less giant laser cannon. “ Who the hell is shooting at my ship! Who dares-”

In the next moment, a rocket propelled grenade went flying through the air from the rooftop of the hotel, to the flying war ship of Sir Pentious and exploded into the front. The impact only caused the blimp to somewhat jostle and move a bit in the air.

“ HAh!” Sir Pentious bellowed out in laughter, “Is that all?” his voice echoed out in triumph

At the top roof of the hotel, Joshua Graham tossed down his spent rocket propellant launcher to the wayside, and bent down to pick up a remote of sorts with a red button at the top. With his thumb, Joshua pressed down on said button, and in quick succession, a row of S.A.M’s raised up and ignited from one side to the other.

A shower of missiles rained through the air toward the warship, to which Sir Pentious’s voice broke through the sounds of incoming missiles, “ oh, I suppose that’ll do the trick-” BOOM

“You haven't seen the last of me!” Sir Pentious’s voice echoed out as his blimp went spiraling out of control from busted part, before shortly afterwards exploded off in the distance.

Meanwhile, with the others outside at ground level, Alastor chose to break the silence. “...Well, I'm starving!” he remarked, before taking off to head into the hotel, “Who wants some Jambalaya?” Alastor suggested while the others followed suit with only Charlie still staying to look up where Joshua had defended the Hotel from, and resolved to speak and thank the man as soon as she could.

“M y mother once showed me a wonderful recipe for Jambalaya.” Alastor’s voice trailed off in the distance white Charlie remained rooted in the spot for a bit, leaving Vaggie to look at her questioningly , “ In fact, it nearly killed her! Hahaha! You could say the kick was right out of Hell! Ohoho, I'm on a roll! Yes, sir! This is the start of some real changes down here! The game is set! Now..”

“Sorry.” Charlie professed as she placated Vaggie as she marched herself off to follow after the rest of the group, “Was a bit lost in…hey!” she exclaimed as she watched the Happy switch to Hazbin atop her Hotel, “I didn’t agree to that!” Charlie said, while earning an eye roll from Vaggie, before both headed inside the hotel.

Joshua Graham

Having headed inside before the ‘Happy’ was changed to ‘Hazbin’, Joshua busied himself with checking his surplus of armament; Standing in the doorway of his room that Charlie had given him as his place of residence in the hotel, several dozen crates were stacked atop each other to one side of the room, while all else was a simply bed atop a metal frame.

His eyes swiveled to the leftover ballistics, and noted he had run himself short after that attempt of defending the hotel, thus he was left with no more surface to air missiles that allowed him to take out that blimp. “Hmph.” Joshua mumbled to himself as he closed his door and headed off to head back downstairs with his hands in his pant pockets.

“Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the Lord delivers them in times of trouble.” Joshua softly murmurs to himself as he walks down the hallway of the Hotel.

Chapter 8: Chapter 8 | A day in hell for Joshua part 1

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It was another of that same dream, one that plays out every now and then ever since he had arrived in hell. Ever since he willingly chose to go to hell, to atone for the sins he had committed, all he ever needed was the knowledge that his lord, god and father in heaven loved him so.

And the love was there, as bright and warm as when his family welcomed him back like a prodigal son returning.

His eyes would open to a bright and blurry image of a burning fire as he picked himself up, his eyes would drift down to look at his hands to note all his afflictions were gone, but his attention was always brought back to an ever increasing flame of fire that threatened to engulf him in the midst of a cloudy room.

At once, the colorless flamed bloomed blue and gray, before exploding to encompass the entire area along with him, but he felt no pain.

What he felt most prominently, was love. None of the flames that licked around his bare body burned him. His eyes honed in on the center of the area as the flame that exploded and ecompasses him and the area swirled back in on itself and became a pillar of white fire. It gently burned upwards, all the while he couldn’t feel a muscle to push himself to walk forward.

Then, from within the flame, a voice of his and every human being spoke to him.

“Joshua…”

He wanted to reach out and touch the flame, as he felt an overwhelming sense of love in the words that called out his name, he knew who was calling out to him. He felt the words of his name spoken aloud in his soul, and knew….

An unnatural guttural caw of whatever hellspawn echoed into his room, prompting Joshua to open his burnt eyelids; blinking a few times, he let out a groan of discomfort as he moved to pick himself up from laying on his bare cot. With his ‘condition’, it really wouldn’t matter if his choice of bedding was soft or not, the pain of his body was always present but his faith always powered him through the ever constant battle of his new body.

New being a rather apt descriptor, as now he had another reason to always replace his bandages every day.

As Joshua sat on the side of his cot hunched over to steady his breathing, he lifted his hand to look at his bandaged hand and arm; he had to go out of his way to buy specialized bandages to cover his sinner body to prevent what it does. Joshua’s eyes wandered over to the nearby bedside table and noted he was running out of the bandages he had to buy with soul currency…a peculiar form of currency that was like the dollar bills he heard about of the old world before the bombs fell and caused fallout across the states.

A curious thing it was, a convenient way to trade goods with bank notes compared to using bottle caps…

Random thought aside, Joshua inspected his hand once more and reached with his other hand to begin unraveling himself to replace the bandages once more with his last bit of gauze; he’d more than likely needed to visit his arms dealer.

Charlie,whilst wearing her satin red and black pajamas, stretched her arms up above her head as she walked through the hotel hallways, her destination being the kitchen to rummage up something for her to snack on before the day officially began; Bringing her arms back down while lifting one back up to cover her mouth as she briefly yawned, she idly smacked her lips a bit as she continued to walk.

Her attention was soon brought to the nearby door she was about to pass by, and if memory served her correctly, it was the room that Joshua was staying in for the foreseeable future. Charlie’s awareness was now full on as her eyes wandered down when she saw a bright glow of red emit from beneath the crevice of the door, making her raise an eyebrow of curiosity while she reached up to scratch her head in bewilderment.

Shaking her head of the oddity, Charlie dispensed with her unease and forgoed to knock and check in on Joshua right as the red hot glow disappeared; just as she reached up to knock on the door however, the doorknob turned before the door was opened with Joshua on the other side having opened it himself.

Both shared direct eye contact, before Charlie retracted her arm from her near attempt to knock on Joshua’s door, and went with clasping her hands nervously together with a smile, “Hey…uh…” she then unclasped her hands to reach up with one of her hands to rub the back of her head with a shy smile, “Uh…you doing alight?” she asked, while making passing curious glances into Joshua’s room and noted that nothing was actually burnt by whatever anomaly she witnessed when the door was shut.

Having noticed Charlie's wandering eyes that led into his room, Joshua connected the dots and resolved to speak of the matter. “I was replacing the gauze over my body.” he began to explain as he walked out while shutting his door behind him. Charlie backed away a bit to give the man some room as he walked out into the hallway

Lifting his arm up to show his hand, Joshua turned it a bit before clenching his hand into a fist as he looked at his wrapped appendages. “this…sinner’s body of mine has a propensity to catch aflame.” He explained, before relaxing his arm back down.

Charlie perked up a bit as she understood now, “Oh! Wow…uh…” She began to say as she inspected Joshua from head to toe a bit, “Uh, does it-” Charlie began to ask with a sympathetic gaze, only for Joshua to cut her off with a safe gaze of his own.

“It indeed, does hurt, The flames burn my body, it also takes great willpower to keep the flames from burning everything around me up in flames.” Joshua said to Charlie with a firm gaze in his eyes.

Before Charlie could comment on the burnt man’s situation, he shook his head and held his palm of to cease her from worry over his state of being, “The pain is only temporary from time to time mind you, but it is nothing compared to the love and faith that I have in the lord above.” he said, before excusing himself, “Now I must be off, I have a few errands to run, and I need to stock up on a few things.”

Charlie shook herself from her reverie, and followed after the man to catch up with him. “Do you need any help at all?” she asked in a simple manner as she walked beside the man that towered over her a bit.

Keeping his gaze forward, Joshua let out a hum of thought, before speaking his mind on the matter, “I believe I’ll be fine on my own, it’ll be a busy day for me to visit all my suppliers, as well as schedule a meeting with one of my more prominent suppliers.”

“Besides.” Joshua said with a sideways look at Charlie as the two walked side by side towards the foyer of the hotel, “You should get ready for the day ahead, much work is to be done if you truly believe in this endeavor of yours.” He recommended as he approached the front doors, while Charlie stopped midway.

“Well…” Charlie fidgeted in place as she waved off at Joshua, “Good luck and safe travels, I guess…” she bid Joshua a good day as he opened the doors and headed out.

As he held the door open to look back at Charlie, Joshua nodded at her, “I appreciate the concern, but you should worry about the sinners that cross paths with me. A follower of the bible I am, but a pacifist I am not.” he said with a firm gaze in his eyes, before fully exiting out and shutting the door behind him, leaving Charlie to her own thoughts and self.

After a few silent seconds passed, and Charlie was about to form a full thought in her mind, she reached up to touch her lip in thought, “...” before shaking her head and turned to head to the kitchen. If the man was confident enough in his own skills to survive hell on his own, Charlie resolved to respect the man’s wishes and get working on her own endeavor to get the hotel working in earnest.

Afterall, it’s not like Joshua was the type to create some trouble on his own, right?

Chapter 9: Chapter 9 | A day in hell for Joshua part 2

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Walking along the sidewalk in what felt like an early morning of Pride Ring, Joshua kept to himself and his thoughts as he walked past various denizens of the hell that he was casted down into, many of which seemed eager to either size him for an easy mark or left him alone to go about their day of living in hell.

His destination in mind was to stop by the closest ammo store in the early hours of the day,, before the rush of customers swarm in to resupply themselves for another day of killing and murdering each other. A curious thing is that when one dies, one is simply reconstituted back into their sinner form, but god above help them if an angelic weapon kills a sinner or hellspawn.

There’s no coming back from that death…

Dreary thoughts aside, Joshua’s eyes beneath his wrapped head swiveled up to see the nearby sign of the ammo store, his internal thoughts could continue later, as he had arrived at his location.

Inside the store as seen through the barred window, the ammo store workers were shelving boxes of ammo behind the counter, some were even using ladders and boxes to transport the many goods they had received to sell for the day.

No surprise there when the store was sold out the first time he had visited the place, Joshua was in hell, getting killed was just not an occupational hazard, it was an expected occurrence when you literally live in a place that doesn’t exactly punish you for killing another the same way as on earth.

…sure, you’d get some revenge mixed in by getting killed by the same person you killed the previous day, but that’s beside the point…

Joshua rid himself of his reverie and walked forward, pulled the door out to let himself. After walking in, he caught a few passing glances from the imp employees, but returned to their work in satiating their passing curiosity to see who it was that had come so early to the store.

At the front counter was a barred glass counter with ammo boxes on display to show what was on sale, a pair of horns were seen peeking out from the top before the sound of something scraping was heard in Joshua’s ears as he approached the counter.

The pair of horns belonged to the imp as said hellspawn used whatever he dragged over to aid him to stand over his own counter, the imp was a bit rotund but was gleeful at seemingly getting an early client to sell to so early in the morning.

The imp manager threw his arms out in a welcoming manner as he greeted Joshua, “‘Ay, welcome tah Nix's ammo shop, what can I do fo’ yah?” He asks in a bit of an accent, an accent that Joshua felt he heard before but couldn’t put a pin on what sort of human would speak in such an accent of the English language.

The imp though, blinked a few times before widening his eyes when he realized who he was talking to, “Well I’ll be!” he said with a brimming smile, “Joshy boy! My favorite bullet connoisseur! Here again tah select some fine led!?”

Joshua stared back at the imp before letting his eyes wander down to scan the various ammo boxes in the barred glass counter as he leaned onto the counter with his hands on the edge, “I’m out of the rocket propellent misiles you sold to me, I’d like to procure some more for the future days ahead…along with several cases of your five five six bullets.” he listed out as his eyes continued to roam at the available bullets that were shown in the glass counter for viewing pleasure.

The manager, Nix, frowned a bit as he tapped his lip before ducking down and coming back up just as quick to pull out a ledger book and opening it up, “Huh…let’s…see here…yup.” he said as he look up with a smirk, “You’re just in luck my friend, I just got a supply of those missiles in last night.” Nix said as he bought out a notepad and pen

“I can also sell you those five five sixes at a bundle of ten for a fixed price.” The manager Nix said as he began writing into his notepad of the cost.

Joshua looked back up at Nix as he stood up straight to slide his hand into his vest pocket and pull out a wallet, “That is agreeable, I’ll need three salvos of your rockets and thirty cases of your five five sixes.” he spoke calmly as he pulled out a wad of soul bills.

Nix smirked as he wrote down the appropriate price, and ripped the page out from his notepad to give to Joshua, “Pleasure doing business, Joshy-boy! Makes me wonder who’s your benefactor that pays this well.”

Joshua let out a soft breath as he exchanged the pseudo receipt with the appropriate sum of money that he owed Nix the imp ammo seller. “My former employer paid well, and she still does when she commissions various gun repairs,” he explained.

“Huh.” Nix mused as he leafed through the bills, before nodding to himself and putting them aside to speak a little more with Joshua, “There’s only one reputable gun seller in Pride Ring I know of that pays well enough for a man such as you to buy such bulk amount of ammo…” he then smirked as he leaned on his own counter to give Joshua an amused look.

Joshua simply retracted the rest of his bill back into his wallet and pocketed it back into his vest that clung over his shirt, “Miss Carmine was not a bad employer when I had first found myself in hell, she needed a good gun repairmen, and I sought the means to provide for myself in hell.”

Joshua then closed his eyes in thought, before quickly opening them back up as he crossed his arms as he chatted more with Nix the ammo shop manager, “But a new venue popped up, and while I still do somewhat work for her, we still keep a cordial relationship.”

“Hm.” Nix mused as he made a curious look, before shooing Joshua off once he noticed his clock was showing that it was near time for the morning rush of ammo buyers for the day, “You’s better get’tah going Joshy-boy, usual delivery location?” he asked.

Joshua shook his head, “Not quite, I moved to that new hotel.” he answered before taking his leave. “Have the boxes and crates left outside the front door, would you?” he followed up with a sideways look, before leaving out through the front door.

As Joshua left through the door, Nix hollered back at him while cupping his mouth, “Figures a bible man like you’s would shack up there, good luck on dat front Joshy-boy, ahaha!” he cackled a bit in amusem*nt.

Chapter 10: Chapter 10 | A day in hell for Joshua part 3

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Chapter 11: Chapter 11 | A day in hell for Joshua part 4

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While Hell's Pride Ring became more active as the day…or whatever sufficed to get a sense of feeling a day going by…Joshua having left the premises of Carmilla Carmine's building, was now walking the sidewalks of hell with his hands in his pant's pockets with his thumbs out hooked on the hem of the pocket liner.

The 'burnt' man reflected on his thoughts, while paying some attention to his front and surrounded for possible random attacks or thievery from some random sinner; it wasn't an accusation, he was in hell, and in hell it was evident sinners preyed on each other.

The best Joshua could do would look imposing while giving off an air of danger, and if all else fails, he would have to deal with any would-be assailant. He learned early on that most would bother giving him a second thought and attempt to assail him, and the select few were sinners that were at the bottom rung hoping to carve out a means to survive in hell.

Soon, however, Joshua's thoughts were abruptly halted as he came up to an intersection, his eyes beneath his wrapped head idly glanced to the left and saw all that was Pentagram city where all the glamor of sin was, while in the opposite direction was the Hazbin hotel.

Idly looking over back to his left where an electronics store was situated at the corner of the street he stood at, Joshua walked over to stand in front of the window while passing by several sinners minding their own business, each with an odd gadget in their hands with their eyes glued to some small screen.

One sinner walked out of the building he stood in front of, prompting him to look over to see that the sinner had the same device in hand, and began using his thumbs to do whatever he was doing with it, before using it to talk into it and walked opposite from Joshua, not paying the 'burnt' man any attention.

Joshua looked back to the front window and saw various different devices with small screens on them, all advertised as digital phones along with prepaid plans for soul bucks.

With his eyes focused on the gadgets so intently from curiosity, he was left unaware of an additional onlooker that stood beside him; that Being, an amused Alastor, who had walked over to amused himself a bit in idle chatter with the 'burnt' man, only to find said man's curiosity with the phones.

With his cane tucked under his arm, Alastor adjusted his monocle over his eye while Joshua eventually unfocused his curiosity from the phones and glanced over at the other sinner that stood to his left, "...Alastor…" he acknowledged the other man, to which said man acknowledged back.

"Joshua." Alastor said with a smirk as they both glanced back at the items displayed in the front window, "Thinking of getting a phone yourself, are you?" he questioned the burnt man.

"No." Joshua said simply as stepped back and began heading back to the intersection of the street, "My curiosity simply had taken the better of me, and led me to see what the buzz is all about with those small screen devices."

His curiosity a bit peaked at getting a gauge on the sinner that still claimed to be a follower of the bible, Alastor smirked ever more as he followed after the man and deftly slid in step with him, "What…" he began to say as he took his cane from out of the corner of his arm and twirled it around a bit, "You don't seem to me the sort of man that existed before the introduction of the smartphone…" before souring a bit at a different thought, "Besides Television …" he muttered.

As the two came up to the intersection of the street, Joshua halted first as several vehicles went zooming by, some were even in the midst of a shootout between each other.

Joshua spoke up as both sinners seemed to wait on traffic to slow down, as odd as it was, there were traffic lights…go figure. "Believe me Alastor, I come from a time beyond an apocalyptic event, you might even find it ironic that radio replaced television as the means of entertainment."

Once the signal for pedestrians to walk was clear and visible, Joshua crossed the road first, leaving Alastor with a shocked look, before returning his mouth to an ever present smirking grin.

"Oh really now?" Alastor asked as he caught up with Joshua while the two headed back to the Hotel, his attitude matched that of vindication against another type of devil. "What's that part you say about television?"

"In my time, you'd be hard pressed to find an actual working television, but with radio, the means to make and fix one are abundant, and so, humanity was stuck with Radio." Joshua answered with a dry tone, before glancing quickly at Alastor beside him as the two sinners finished crossing the street. "While we are at it, I believe we should set some things straight, while we are alone." Joshua said as the two of them stood apart from one other.

"Oh? And what's that?" Alastor asked Joshua as he and Joshua turned to face each other, while in the distance, Hazbin Hotel was just down the road. Alastor's grin still prominent as he looked directly back at Joshua, both men's height were almost equal, if not more in Joshua's favor.

"I don't know what your intentions are with the Hotel, but know that Charlie means well. Don't ever betray her trust." Joshua warned Alastor with narrowed eyes at the other sinner.

"Hmm…." Alastor mused with a widening grin that would have many a lesser sinner run with their tales or whatever they had between their legs running, "Is that. A. threat?" he asked with his demonic sinner powers being willed into power from the depths of himself.

"No. Alastor." Joshua said back to him as he stepped up nose to nose with the other man, his eyes became engulfed in his flames from beneath his bandages, while the air around him visibly bent from whatever heat was beneath his bandaged body, "It's a promise. A dog can bark and bite, but a man of faith is a man of his word." Joshua retorted back, alluding to what Alastor had called him the other day.

While other onlooking sinners steered clear from what looked like two adept powerful sinners, between the two men on the other hand, Alastor ceased his show of force with a simple chuckle and twirled his cane a bit, "Oh do take a joke, my good chum." he jested, while Joshua himself eased himself back from letting the flames of his sinner's body engulf his form fully.

He really didn't want to buy more special gauze than necessary.

"As long as we are in agreement, Alastor." Joshua spoke back with a narrowed look from his eyes at the other man.

"What." Alastor retorted back with an amused look and raised eyebrow, "No nickname like the one you gave to Angel Dust." he jested with an eye roll.

Joshua simply looked squarely back at Alastor, "Perhaps, I'd got so far as to call you a silvered tongue…but…"

Alastor smirked at Joshua, "But I have yet to lie to any of you, yes?" he remarked.

Sensing that the conversation was simply dragging on, Joshua chose to exit out and head back to the hotel, but not before leaving with a few more works, "Yet, Alastor, Yet."

While Joshua was far away, Alastor adjusted his monocle once more as he stewed over his thoughts on the sinner, "Little miss Charming Demon Belle certainly reeled in quite the character of a man, I'll say that much…" he mused.

Hazbin Hotel

Charlie rubbed her forehead as she felt an onset of a headache coming on. She stood outside a witness to quite a few supplies of ammunition, while Vaggie seemingly did her best to chew out Joshua…but to know avail.

"What are you expecting!? The entirety of Hell to come crashing in on us guns blazing!" Vaggie yelled a bit up at Joshua with her arms thrown up in exacerbation.

With his arms crossed as he stared back down at her, "Would you rather the hotel lay defenseless?" Joshua questioned back at Vaggie with an even tone of voice.

Vaggie smacked her own face, and dragged her hand down to glower up, "I-you…you can't just…" She tried to reason while gesturing at the crates of ammo and missiles, before dropping her arms down and leaned forward with a defeated look. "Just…just put that stuff somewhere then! This is a place of redemption, not some wild west!" She pointed furiously up where Joshua's room was.

Joshua simply shrugged at her order, nodded over at Charlie before excusing himself to find himself a dolly cart to begin hauling the supplies in.

Once Joshua had gone inside, Vaggie marched over to Charlie and looked up at her with an annoyed look, "Can you believe that guy!?" she gestured where Joshua headed through the front doors of the hotel.

Charlie simply clasped her hands a bit, "I'm sure he means well, Vaggie!" she tried to soothe her girlfriend, and put her hands on her shoulders to soothe her more, "look at it this way," she began to reason while lifting a palm up, "The worst thing that can happen is a gun club, right?"

"Hey, what's this kind of gun?"Niffty's voice rang out, before a gun was heard fired off.

Both Vaggie and Charlie shared a look, before Joshua's voice rang quietly out, "The safety was on for a reason, little one."

"....hehe, I got a hole in my foot!"Nifty's voice spoke back.

"...remove your shoe, that foot will need some gauze on it."Joshua spoke up once more with a dry tone.

Charlie meanwhile gave Vaggie a nervous look, while Vaggie simply rolled her eyes at the nonsense of whatever happened inside the hotel.

Chapter 12: Chapter 12 | Episode 1 part 1

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Once upon a time, there was a glowing city protected by golden gates known as Heaven and ruled by beings of Pure light, Angels that worshiped good and shielded all from evil.

Lucifer was one of these angels. He was a dreamer with fantastical ideas for All of creation. However, they see him as a troublemaker by the elders of Heaven. For they felt his way of thinking was dangerous to the order of their world. So, he watched as the angels began expanding the universe in their ways. From the dust of Earth, they created Adam and Lilith, equals to the first of Mankind.

But, despite this, Adam demanded control, and Lilith refused to submit to his will. She fled the Garden. Drawn in by her fierce independence, Lucifer found her, and the two rebellious dreamers fell deeply in love.

Together, they wished to share the magic of free will with humanity, offering the Fruit of Knowledge to Adam's new bride, Eve, who gladly accepted.

They came to Adam's new bride, Eve, to offer her an apple from a tree to bring free will to humanity.

But this gift came with a curse. And with this single act of disobedience, evil finally found its way to Earth. With it, a new realm of darkness and sin. And the order Heaven worked to maintain was shattered. As punishment for their reckless act, Heaven cast Lucifer and his love into the dark pit he had created, never allowing him to see the good that came from humanity, only the cruel and the wicked. Ashamed, Lucifer lost his will to dream.

While Lucifer stagnated, Lilith thrived and brought Hell to new heights, leading the angels to start the yearly Extermination as population control for the overpopulated Demons and Sinners.

But Lilith thrived, empowering demonkind with her voice and songs. And as the numbers of Hell grew, so did its power. Threatened by this, Heaven made a truly heartless decision. Every year, they would send down an army, an Extermination, to ensure Hell and its sinners could never rise against them. But Lilith's hope remained. And her dream passed down to their precious daughter, the Princess of Hell.

“So!” Charlie finished with saying with some perkiness in her tone, while closing up the book of Hell and Heaven’s origins she had in hand and placed it on her lap, “How different was that, compared to this bible of yours from your life?” she asked Joshua as she sat on a wide crimson and pink couch.

It was after lunch time, and after some thinking on her part, Charlie wanted to get to know Joshua more on what he meant about the teachings of the faith, as well as what he’s always alluded to about the lord, the son, and the holy spirit.

Sitting atop a simple cushioned chair that was available in the room, Joshua made a humming sound of thought as his eyes drifted to the side as he mulled over how different the hell he found himself in truly was. “It’s…quite drastically different, Charlie, compared to how my denomination of the bible portrays the beginning of the world…though…” he then looks back at an eager looking Charlie.

“From what I do understand, all interpretations of my world’s bible all state that there was only Adam and Eve…” Joshua stated as he stewed over his thoughts for a bit, before continuing on, “Though a lot of other literature has portrayed Lilith as Adam’s first wife, before being replaced by Eve for one reason or another…”

“Huh…” Charlie began to muse with a thoughtful expression as she shifted a bit on her couch, and rested her hands onto her lap in idleness, “Do you think this bible from your life is any different from what one that the Angels gave to humans to live by?” she asked.

Joshua looked directly back into Charlie’s eyes as he sat on his chair while hunched over a bit and his elbows resting on his knees, “One thing to keep in mind, Charlie, is that the world I come from, the bible has been passed down through many denominations of faith, but all if not most, all say the the world and everything in it was created by one god.”

“Oh, well, that is a bit different for here from what I know. you humans seem to have trouble getting split on many denominations of faith.” Charlie remarked as she reached up to tap her lip in thought, before pointing it out through the air, “What about the Angels?” She began to ask, “Did your god create them, or do they even exist?”

Sitting up a bit more straight with his hands now resting on his knees, Joshua spoke back to Charlie, “They exist, of course.” he replied back, and crossed his arms, “Though, from what I remember, they were agents of the Lord’s word and acts, most particularly in the old testament.” he shrugged a bit at that, “A time when God was more heavy handed in his punishments against sinners.”

“Wait.” Vaggie spoke up, who had remained silent the entire time whilst sitting off the side of Charlie with her arms crossed as well; she unfolded her arms though as she sat up and placed her hands on the edge of the couch to sit forward and stare directly at Joshua with a scrutinizing gaze, “Are you saying on your would, your angels and god punished humans on Earth?” she asked with some surprise written on her face.

Joshua focused his eyes over at Vaggie, and pinned her with an even stare as he sat forward in his chair once more, “From raining brimstone and fire at one point and time, to flooding the world, to causing plagues against a nation to release his chosen people from slavery, I can say for a fact that the lord was very heavy handed in the old testament.”

“Huh…” Vaggie looked to the side with a downcast look, “And here I thought the angels were heavy handed against sinners…” she said, while alluding to the yearly extermination of hell dwellers.

In response to that, Joshua spoke back to Vaggie, “I highly doubt the lord above of my world would have wanted his arbitrators of his word to commit genocide against sinners in hell, when the whole purpose of hell is to punish the sinner. Throughout the bible I’ve read, the lord loved humanity, but would also look down on them in disappointment for any sins they transgressed.”

“Though…” Joshua began to add on to say with a thoughtful look in his eyes as he began to stand up from his chair, “And from what the bible preached of how Hell punishes a sinner, your own is light punishment against sinners compared to the Hell I know of.”

At the mention of how different Hell could be, Charlie spoke up with curiosity, “Oh, how different is the hell in your bible?” she asked.

Joshua’s eyes focused back on Charlie as he stood straight up and working some of the stiffness out his left shoulder, his ‘burnt’ body was always sore and it always felt like his burnt skin was being stretched thin, “Believe me Charlie, the hell I know of from my world, is far severe on a sinner compare to this hell you live in. Just try and imagine every sinner being burnt alive while being tortured by every demon and devil under Satan’s rule.”

“....”

“....”

“....”

After a moment of silence passed between the three occupants of the room, it was Charlie that spoke with some effort to lighten the mood.

“...So, what denomination is your faith from again? Heh heh.” Charlie laughed nervously while silently glad her hell wasn’t the same as what hell was depicted in Joshua’s bible. She rubbed the back of her head nervously.

As he stood, Joshua relaxed his shoulders once more while crossing his arms once more, “The Mormon faith.”

At the mention of the Mormon Faith, Vaggie raised her brow as looked over at Joshua weird, “Don’t you mean the Normon faith?” she asked, thinking she misheard the burnt man.

After being questioned by Vaggie, Joshua addressed her as he focused attention back over to her, “...As I said, the faith has many denominations, and apparently your Earth has just as many…” he remarked with a dry tone.

“By the way.” Charlie started to say as she sat up with more attentiveness now that the awkward sense of feeling passed, she smiled over at Joshua to ask, “What’s your bible say about my dad, Lucifer?”

Joshua looked back at Charlie, and let out a heavy breath, “I believe that’s a story for another time, I still have a few more crates of ammo to haul back up to my room.” he excused himself as he headed towards to the door, “You can asked me later if you still wish to know, but for now, I believe this discussion on theology can continue for another time.”

While Joshua opened the door to the room to let himself out, Vaggie stood up to holler over to the burnt man with her hands cupped over her mouth, “And don’t forget to carry in those crates of missiles, for f*cks sake, you’d think you were starting up a military complex!” she hollered at the man as he closed the door behind him

Once the door was closed, Vaggie rolled her eyes and looked down over at her partner Charlie who still sat on the couch with a thoughtful look present on her face; Vaggie thumbed in the direction that Joshua had left, while her other palm was on her hip, “Can you believe that guy? Here we are trying to redeem sinners, but then he goes and buys up all manner of ammo and firepower!”

“Hmm?” Charlie mumbled out, before perking up and smiled up at Vaggie, “Oh, sorry, my mind was elsewhere at the moment.”

Vaggie raised an eyebrow at Charlie, and placed both of her palms on her hips as she turned to face her partner fully, “What? Like how it seems he wanted to avoid speaking about how different Lucifer is in his world?” she asked, and shrugged it off, “I mean, it couldn’t be that bad, right?”

With that said, Vaggie gestured for Charlie to get up and follow her, “Alright, come on, enough of this weird talk. Alastor says he has something to show us.” she says, before walking out of the room to head to the foyer of the hotel.

As Vaggie exited through the door, leaving Charlie to herself for a bit, a loud bell rings throughout the city outside the Hotel’s perimeter. Charlie turned to look out the window behind the couch she sat on to see the Bell Tower at the Heaven Embassy.

Looking on with sadness, Charlie inwardly reminded herself that it'll be another year before the Extermination comes again.

Later

After showing what effort he put into making an advertisem*nt for the Hotel, Alastor shut the Television off with a turn of a dial, the tv itself no doubt an antiquated form of television that alastor bothered to conjure up and tolerate compared to the modern Television that were sold in Pentagon City.

“So, what do you think?” Alastor asked Charlie and Vaggie with a broad smile, while the two of them sat on a loveseat couch.

While Charlie seemed to have a neutral expression with her hands on her lap, Vaggie however had an angered look with her hands on the cushions she sat on, “I'm sorry. What the f*ck was that?” Vaggie asked.

Charlie tilted her head a bit as she tried to voice her own opinion in a less crass manner, “Uh, Yeah. One note, Alastor.” she began to say while lifting her arm up with her index finger raised

“I mean, first off, thank you so much for making this seriously amazing.” she tried to compliment the Radio Demon, and clasped her hands before fidgeting with her fingers a bit.

“but um, maybe the tone is a bit off. We want people to want to come here. This makes it look, um…” Charlie tried to voice the best choice of words without being too harsh on the sinner, but Vaggie interrupted with bluntness.

“Bad. The word you're looking for is bad.” Vaggie spoke with her arms crossed and her head turned towards Charlie to speak to her partner directly.

“Funny…” Alastor started with saying while placing his palm on his chest, “I was going for hilarious.” he made a flippant gesture with his hand while tilting his head back and looking upwards in amusem*nt.

Vaggie however didn’t think so, as she leaned forward to rest her right elbow on her knee, while lifting her other arm up to hold her head in exasperation towards the Radio Demon, “It didn't explain anything about how we're trying to save demons from extermination, which is the whole f*cking point.” she said while sitting back up straight and throwing her arms out in annoyance towards the sinner and situation at hand.

“Vaggie is right, Alastor.” Charlie started to say, before smiling as she tried to lighten the mood, “the commercial was to let sinners know we are trying to help them.”

“Well, my dear,” Alastor said back to Charlie as he began to pace over to a nearby fireplace, “I haven't been active in Hell for some time and everyone remembers me from my radio show, the proper medium to express oneself.”

Alastor then paced back to the old television to tap it with his mic cane, “But, you insisted on this noisy picture box advertisem*nt.” the radio demon then retracted his cane to toss it to his other hand to look on with an amused expression, “So, I had a little fun with it.” he admitted.

With a harsh and annoyed look of her own, Vaggie voice her opinion on the matter, “Oh, fun? You had a little fun with it?” she began to question the sinner, before standing up on the couch, and pointed at Alastor.

“Well, this is not what we want to represent us. When you showed up here a week ago, you told us you would help run this hotel. Instead, you're mocking us. Nobody's gonna wanna come to a place that a powerful overlord like you thinks is a waste of time.” Vaggie ranted at the sinner, before sitting back down with an ever present annoyed look on her face.

From over on another couch, Angel Dust raised his hand as he lazed on the sofa he laid on, catching Vaggie’s attention, “What?” She asked the p*rn star with an annoyed tone towards the sinner.

As Angel Dust laid on the couch with his head resting on his palm, he sat back up while speaking his mind on the matter while speaking in a sensual tone, “If'n you're filming a commercial, can I suggest you take better advantage of the talented celebrity you have right here?” Angel Dust suggested with a wink at the end and three of his index fingers pointed at himself.

With a deadpan look on her face, Vaggie spoke back to the sinner, “Angel, you're a p*rn star.” she bluntly pointed out.

Leaning forward a bit, “A famous p*rn star. I'll have the hornie*st sinners knocking these walls down to get in.” Angel explained while making a few gestures with his body, before relaxing back down into the couch.

Vaggie protested against the notion with a glare, “We are not filming a p*rn as a commercial.”

“Why not?” Angel asked with his hands out in a questioning manner, before using one of them to make a gesture of rubbing coins together while winking. “Sex sells, don't it?” he followed up with asking.

Angel Dust then continued speaking his mind on the matter, “I swear if you film me goin' at it with mister fancy talk-creepy voice here,” Angel gestured to Alastor as the Radio Demon appeared next to the couch that Angel laid on, “ you'd be rollin' in participants willing to stay at this tacky hotel.”

“Haha! Never going to happen!” Alastor denied the idea with a sharp smile.

Out of the corner of Angel’s eye, he caught Joshua hauling in a few crates with a dolly, “What about you, toilet paper man?” he asked as he sat up and sensually leaned his back over the armrest of the couch to look at the burnt man upside down while puffing his floofed chest out, “Bet under all that gauze, you got some sexual frustration all pent up! You’re in hell now, a perfect opportunity to indulge yourself.”

Just as Joshua approached the stairs while Angel asked him such a question, Joshua stopped turning the dolly around so that he could begin pulling the dolly up backwards up the stairs; Joshua stepped around the dolly with crates to look directly over at Angel Dust, “I believe you are missing the point of the Hotel, promiscuous one.” he noted with a dry tone, while giving Angel dust a deadpan look with his eyes.

“And besides…” Joshua said as he resumed transporting the crates on the dolly, via up the stairs with the occasional bump of the small tires against each step, “Even if I did partake in anything close to such a thing, it’d with the opposite sex.” his voice trailed off as he carried the ammo supplies up the stairs.

“Eh.” Angel Dust smirked as he leaned off from the couch armrest to sit back up straight, “His loss, I guess.”

Vaggie however rolled her eyes at Angel, “I think it also has to do with his body’s situation as a sinner, guy looks like he’s forever burnt to a crisp beneath all that stuff.” she noted.

Angel looked back over at Vaggie with an amused look on his face, “tomato tomato, I’ve f*cked with worse, guy probably just needs some loosening up.”

At that, Vaggie gave Angel her own deadpan look, “Yeah,...good luck with that.”

“Toots” Angel Dust smirked as he palmed his floofed chest, “Luck ain’t got nothing to do with this sensual body!” he said while making shaking suggestion gestures with his chest.

“Alright!” Charlie spoke out loud to try and cut the crass behavior, she waved her palms out to catch everyone's attention, looked straight over at Angel Dust, “Angel, I appreciate you wanting to use your special skills to, um, attract folks to the hotel, but I really don't want to exploit you in that way.” she said with a kind smile.

Visibility smirking, Angel retorted back as he went back to making suggestive gestures with his body, “Oh, please, baby. This body was made to be exploited. I got the arms, I got the stamina, I got the legs. I got the lung capacity. Oh, I got the legs. The gag reflex, the holes, the chest fluff everyone thinks are tit*.”

While Charlie withheld the urge to slap her face in dismay in trying to reign in Angel’s promiscuous behavior, her phone suddenly went off, prompting her to take it out to see who was calling her.

Charlie raised her finger up to halt the conversation at the moment, “Hold that thought! I'll be right back.” she urged, before getting up and leaving to head to a secluded spot to talk with her dad.

As Charlie left the room, Angel Dust hollered back at her leaving form, “I could keep going all night, baby.”

Chapter 13: Chapter 13 | Episode 1 part 2

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While the general occupants of the hotel conversed amongst themselves in the main room, Charlie was beside herself as she spoke over the phone with her father in a not too distant hallway; after talking with a bit with her dad, and him asking her of something, Charlie’s expression shifted to that of excitement as she held her phone up to her ear.

“Yeah, I can totally, yeah!” She spoke while leaning forward a bit, before standing up straight in excitement, “I'll head over there right away. Okay!” Charlie said, before ending the call with her dad with an ever present giddy expression.

After gasping in excitement, Charlie couldn’t help but shout, “Yes... YES!” she cheered while throwing her arms up in celebration, before bringing them back down.

Putting her phone away into her pocket, Charlie rushed back from where she came to poke her head out to wave over at Vaggie who was still in the main room and at Joshua who was on his way back down the stairs minus the dolly he was using to transport his ammo crates up the stairs with.

“VAGGIEJOSHUAHOLYsh*t!” She said all at once in an excitable and exuberant way, and earned the attention of both.

Surprised by the sudden and abrupt way Charlie called out for her, Vaggie responded with a surprised tone, “Ah! What!?” she asked.

Joshua on the other hand, as he finished walking down the stairs, focused his attention on the Princess of Hell as he set both his feet down and turned fully face to Charlie, “hmm, yes?” he answered softly.

With an excited attitude while biting her lower lip with a smile, Charlie urged the two of them to come over into the hallway with her before dipping back into the hallway away from the others to converse in private with Vaggie and Joshua.

Vaggie glanced at Joshua and gave the man a shrug at his glance sent her way, before both of them headed into the hallway to see what was so urgent for Charlie to speak with them in such a way.

Vaggie was the first to speak as she and Joshua entered the hallway with Joshua trailing behind her a bit, “What's going on?” she asked

Bouncing up and down in unbridled excitement, before taking a deep breath to explain the situation she had on her hands, Charlie spoke in a very rushed manner, “My dad just called.” She began by saying, before pacing around, “he said that the leader of the Angel Army wants to meet.” she followed up with, before turning to grab Vaggie by her shoulders, “He asked if I could go instead.” she finished explaining, before releasing Vaggie from her hold.

With a confused look on her face, Vaggie tried to make sense of the situation, while Charlie breathed in and out to calm her hyperventilation.

Joshua decided to voice his thoughts on the matter, “Curious, indeed, this matter is. a most fortuitous chance on a silver platter for your endeavor for the Hotel to show any meaning, if I may say so…” he surmised as he crossed his arms while lifting one hand up to cup his chin in thought.

Charlie shook her fists in excitement as she glanced between the two of her fellow workers of the hotel, one of the first two to be more exact, “I know, right~! With this, perhaps I can try and reason with them or even heaven that I want to make a change in the system!” she reasoned.

“I don’t know about this…” Vaggie remarked as she crossed her own arms and expression and unsure look on her face, “The extermination just happened. What could they want this soon?” she asked while expressing with her arms out at her sides

“Who cares!?” Charlie expressed with a shining smile, she clenched one hand beside herself while using her other hand to lift her index finger to the air, “This is my chance to try and get heaven to stop their exterminations on hell!” she reasoned with a bright eyed look.

Vaggie, however, glanced over at Joshua and lifted an eyebrow at him, “Well, what do you think?” she asked.

Joshua lowered his hand back away from his chin back into his crossed arms, and shrugged with his shoulders, before glancing in Vaggie’s direction, “I can think of one good passage that brings to mind on this situation, and it is this” he began with saying, before focusing his sights in on Charlie who focused her attention back on him.

“‘But there are some things that you cannot be sure of. You must take a chance. If you wait for perfect weather, you will never plant your seeds. If you are afraid that every cloud will bring rain, you will never harvest your crops’.” Joshua finished saying with a brief exhale of breath.

Vaggie however, was a bit more critical of the matter, as she looked at Joshua, “Yeah, but this has nothing to with some simple crops!” she threw her hands up in exasperation, “We are dealing with exorcists here, angels that make it their job to kill sinners. There’s a lot at stake here.” she professed.

“Hmph.” Joshua exhaled an amused breath, before speaking back to Vaggie as he glanced back at her, “Would you rather I go by the old adage of looking a gifted horse in the mouth?” he jested a bit dryly, before speaking more seriously on the matter as he focused his attention back at Charlie.

“In any case, what would you have us do, with this information of your father giving you this opportunity?” Joshua asked with a raised eyebrow from under his wrapped head.

“Yeah.” Vaggie remarked as she gestured back to the main room where everyone else was, “If you haven’t realized, we still need to fix Alastor’s f*ck up on the commercial for the hotel!” she reasoned.

“Right…” Charlie noted with a nod, and gestured at Vaggie with her hands, “That’s why I figured you can help matters here while Joshua comes with me for moral support!”

At the mention of calling Joshua a moral support, Vaggie raised her brow at Charlie with an expectant look directed at her, “And what am I, chopped liver?” she quipped.

Charlie walked over to Vaggie and placed her palm on her partner’s shoulder with a placating smile, “Oh relax, Vaggie, I said moral support, you are my emotional support and partner after all, right?” she smiled afterwards.

Vaggie smirked back up at Charlie, knowing both of them were just jesting each other, “I’ll see what I can do.” before she frowned a bit at Charlie, “Just don’t sing to-”

Before Vaggie could finish her sentence, Charlie began twirling in place and stepped out from the hallway to begin singing a tune, “~ I can do this! Somehow, I know it! ~”

“-Them…” Vaggie finished saying with a deadpan while Charlie sang to herself and danced and twirled off into the distance.

Vaggie glanced from her place up over at Joshua who had turned around to follow after Charlie as the princess of hell exited out through the front doors while still singing, “Hey, bible reader.” she called his attention over, to which Joshua stopped momentarily to glance back at her.

“Yes?” Joshua asked as he looked towards Vaggie while momentarily turning sideways to look in her direction.

With a plain look and arms crossed, she lifted out her arm to point at Joshua, “Just a fair warning, since you and Charlie will be speaking with the leader of the exorcists. There’s something you should know.” she explained with a bit of a distasteful look on her face.

“And what would that be?” he questioned the fallen angel with some interest laced in his tone of voice.

“You’ll meeting with Adam.” Vaggie said bluntly.

“The first man, Adam?” Joshua asked with a raised eyebrow.

With a flat look from Vaggie, “Yeah, and he’s a major dick, so don’t expect some holy messiah-esque man that comes off as a pure soul or whatever.” she remarked with an eyeroll.

Making a thought hum, Joshua responded back to Vaggie while glancing at her, “Speaking truthfully, the scriptures describe Adam as just that, the first man of mankind that had died after living a long life, never going into detail of his personality. So I wouldn’t put it past the first man to have a crass behavior as well as an ego to match it.” he remarked, before taking his leave to catch up with Charlie.

“Huh…” Vaggie mused with a scoff as she watched Joshua head out of the hotel past the other occupants of the hotel that had watched Charlie head out through the front doors whilst singing, “Figure’s that book wouldn’t bother to paint that dick waffle in a dark light.” she muttered to herself.

Heaven Embassy

“Hello!?” Charlie greeted an empty building as she entered halfway in through the front doors, before opening them up to let herself in; as she walked through the embassy, Joshua soon let himself in through doors as well a moment later.

While Charlie hollered out another ‘hello’ to greet anyone that may be present in the building, Joshua massaged his wrists as several times he had to get past a few chaotic fights between sinners.

In the whole time Charlie had sung her way through the streets towards her destination, sinners of all types were indulging themselves to every sin imaginable; from cannibalistic sinners to lustful creatures that peered through a sex shop, Joshua had to push his way past several fights and annoyances that dared cross his path.

There was already some crimson blood on his knuckles that was not his from the aftermath of catching up with Charlie, there was only so much sin that he tolerated, but when confronted too far, he was within his rights to push back.

Joshua's eyes glanced at his bare forearm that was missing the gauze he used to cover up his burnt body. Just as he had reached the embassy after Charlie entered through the front doors, a cannibal had lunged at him and wrapped their jagged teeth onto his forearm.

The sinner would think next time not to eat something that was capable of catching aflame in their mouth.

“He~llo~” Charlie hollered once more while cupping her mouth to make her voice carry off more, before commenting on the situation, “Creepy…” she remarked.

“While concerning…” Joshua began to comment as well as he caught up with Charlie with strides strides to walk up beside her, “I highly doubt heaven would bother to station an angel in hell when needed.” he said, before pulling out a roll of gauze to re-wrap his arm up, so that his focus wasn’t stuck on keeping his arm from catching aflame.

“I…suppose you might be right.” Charlie replied back to him as the both of them approached a front desk with a single bell atop it, and tapped it to see if anyone would arrive to greet them. “You gonna be alright?” She asked him with a pointed look at the man’s bare forearm that Joshua was in the process of re-wrapping up to cover his burns.

As Joshua spoke, a golden scroll and feather ink pen floated from above down over to her, to which Charlie couldn’t but mutter ‘also creepy’, “I’ll be fine Charlie, nothing I haven’t dealt with before in my time I’ve been in hell.” he placated her worries as he finished re-wrapping his arm with a fresh set of gauze.

“Okay?” Charlie guessed in her worries over Joshua’s state of being, before reaching out to grab the ink pen to sign her name. After finishing, the set floated over to Joshua next for him to sign onto the guest list.

After signing his own name into the guest list, the scroll and feather flew back up before disappearing. Right then, the twin doors off to the side slid open to show the two of them the meeting room.

“Well…here goes nothing, right?” Charlie asked without expecting an answer, before leading the way into a dark room with seemingly none inside. “Hello?~” she hollered out a bit.

As the two of them enter, the doors slide closed while the lights suddenly switch on, revealing two angels at the end of the room. with one being an exorcist lieutenant, Lute and the big boss leader of the Angel Army, Adam, who is eating a rib in his hand.

“Sup.” Adam greeted the two nonchalantly, while causing Charlie to stumble back a bit at the abrupt greeting.

“Holy sh*t!” Charlie exclaimed while nearly falling over herself if it weren’t for Joshua catching her by the arm, and helping her back onto her feet. After muttering her thanks to Joshua, to which the man nodded silently at her, Charlie addressed Adam with a chipper attitude.

“Hi, I'm Charlie. My dad asked me if I could meet you.” Charlie explained herself.

With a spare rib in his hand, Adam responded back with a plain look and bored attitude, “Yeah, I know.” before eating his spare rib through his teeth like a buzzsaw,

“Okay, well.” Charlie said as she reached out to shake hands with Adam, “It's nice to meet you.” She greeted him.

After finishing his spare rib, Adam spoke back while leaning forward to shake Charlie’s hand, “Totally. It's nice to meet you, too.” he said back to her with a sharp toothy grin.

Just as Charlie reached over to shake hands with the man, her hand phased through Adam’s hand to which he guffawed in laughter.

“Augh!?” Charlie shirked her hand back in surprise, while Joshua looked on with some confusion of his own for personal reasons.

“Ha! I f*cking got you.” Adam poked fun at Charlie while leaning over the table, before sitting back to turn to Lute, “Did you see that?” in response, Lute who stood next to him nodded once.

“Ha. Good sh*t.” Adam finished with saying before looking back at Charlie.

“Uh…” Charlie began with, “so wait,” She said while pointing down at the floor, “You aren’t here?” Charlie asked.

With a look of disgust on his own facemask, Adam answered, “No, you think I'd come down there?” he pointed down with his finger, before laughing a bit at the idea, “No, I mean, I love the vibe, totally, I love your tunes.” He gestured with his hand, before making a downcast look, “But! It's such a bummer! man. Everything down there's just so "eugh", ya know?” Chuckling a bit, Adam finished off with saying, “Ew.”

Glancing in Joshua’s direction, Adam took note of his appearance and knew a sinner when he saw one. “That tag-along of yours knows what I am saying, right buddy?” he smirked at Joshua. “Betcha wished ya didn’t become a sinner.” Adam taunted.

While he stood off to the side behind Charlie, Joshua responded with his arms crossed as he stared back at Adam with an even look from his eyes, “Speaking from experience, I’d say hell is humanity’s sins unleashed.” he spoke dryly, while not rising to Adam’s taunt.

“...Sheesh, way to sour the mood…” Adam commented blandly with a frown, having hoped to get a rise out of the sinner, only to receive a comment from Joshua in his observance of his time in hell.

Realizing she had more on her plate to work with, with how abrasive Adam’s personality was, she cleared her throat to grab Adam’s attention back to her, “Right. So, I'm happy we've got this opportunity to meet.” she said as she clasped her hands into a pleading manner, “There's a project that I've been working on that I really want to talk to you about-”

Before Charlie could continue and further however, Adam reached over to put his hologram finger on her lips to shush her for a moment while his finger flickered for a bit from him almost phasing his finger through Charlie’s face, “Hey, hey, hey, hey, slow down. We've got time. How about we get to know each other a little. Mmm. How about lunch? You hungry? I got you.” he said while pointing his fingers at Charlie, before reaching down to hold up a platter of ribs.

“Here's my personal favorite. You'll love it.” Adam offered with a smirk on his lips.

As Charlie was designing the thought of partaking some of the meal, Joshua spoke up as he realized something, “Pardon the question, but why would she be able to partake in your offering, if everything that you are is merely some hollow facsimile?” he asked with a narrowed eye look directed at Adam.

“...hey, wait!” Charlie said with a look of realization, and glared at Adam.

Adam meanwhile gave Joshua a deadpan look as he sat back into his chair while setting his ribs aside, “Man dude, you really are a buzzkill, you know that?” he slid a bit off from his chair in an off put manner.

Without skipping a beat, Joshua responded back with a firm tone of voice, “Charlie is not here for your entertainment, nor am I.” he said with his arms still crossed, while Charlie smiled warmly at the help that Joshua was giving her.

Adam looked back from Joshua to Charlie, and rolled his eyes at her, “Whatever.” before standing up to introduce himself properly, “But yeah, I’m Adam.” he thumbed at himself, “The Original dick master!” he smirked.

As Charlie moved to sit, she leaned forward with her hands on the table, “Wait, your name is Adam? Like the first man Adam, that means you…Oh….”

“...What?” Adam asked with a prideful smirk, “Finally realized who you’re talking to?”

With a wince, Charlie muttered a bit while still being heard, “That explains so much..” she commented.

Adam raised a curious eyebrow at whatever Charlie was referring to, but in Charlie’s mind, she realized why her mother left Adam. His Attitude was crappy as sin.

“Hm…interesting, so that’d make Charlie the stepdaughter of you…correct?” Joshua noted with a ponderous look in his eyes as he stood behind the chair that Charlie sat on.

“....What the f*ck!?” Adam spoke with an aghast look on his face while reeling at the actual thought of being semi-related to the hellspawn.

Chapter 14: Chapter 14 | Episode 1 part 3

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After recovering from the initial shock of being asked of the assumption of him ever being related to Charlie, Adam glared over at Joshua while leaning forward on his chair, “What on holy green earth makes you think I’d be related to that-” Adam made a flippant gesture at Charlie, “Hellspawn?” he asked.

Meanwhile Charlie crooked her finger over her mouth in thought while making a thought look of her own as she used her other index finger to connect a few imaginary lines in her head.

Joshua on the other hand kept a simple calm look in his eyes as he stared back at Adam, “While I am unsure of the whole story, your first wife was Lilith before Eve, correct?” he questioned Adam.

Adam leaned back from the table to sit back on his chair to respond back to Joshua, “Yeah.” He shrugged with a dirty look of anger, “Stupid bitch left me after a heated argument…” Adam then scoffed with a shrug, “She was like ‘we were created to be equals’.” He mocked while making gestures with his hand.

Standing up with his fists on his hips, Adam smirked, “And I was like, ‘Bitch, We ain’t equals if I can punch you into next week.” he proclaimed proudly.

“Your attitude makes it obvious that the lord had to correct some errors after you.” Joshua retorted back in a simple tone of indifference.

“What’s that?” Adam deadpanned at Joshua with a confused look afterwards.

With a fierce look in his eyes, Joshua stared defiantly back at Adam, “First Peter, Chapter three, verse seven; in the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.” He announced with conviction in his voice.

“Psh…” Adam waved off Joshua’s words, “That old thing? Dude!” He thumbed at himself with a proud smirk, “You’re looking at the guy that predates that stupid crap! So it didn’t apply to me. hah!”

While Adam smirked in his attitude towards his old wife, Joshua simply tapped his arm while his arms were crossed, “It’s obvious you were a failure in the eyes of the Lord.” Was all Joshua could manage to get out while keeping his temper under control.

“f*cker!” Adam slammed his palms into the table, seemingly creating noise for a hologram, no doubt caused from the audio from the other side of the meeting, Adam glared at Joshua while flicking his finger out to point at Joshua while keeping his other palm on the table, “I don’t know where you get your news from, but newsflash! The angels created me and Lilith, not that retired god!”

“Obviously.” Joshua spoke back dryly, unblinking in the face of such news, “Otherwise you’d have turned out better…besides losing two sons…” he added that last part after a bit of thinking.

Adam slammed his palm back down with his other hand, and chewed his bottom lip before speaking in a heated tone, “You shut your sh*t, mummy man!” He retorted, “It was Cain’s fault! I told him I wasn’t into that vegan sh*t, it’s why I favored Abel more cause he brought the bacon home!”

Seeing that the conversation was getting a bit off track, Charlie chose to voice her findings on the matter as she snapped her fingers, “Oh yeah.” she said while earning the attention of everyone, and pointed at Adam, “My mom was your wife, before she married my dad…sooo.” she dragged the last word out, as Adam came to the realization. “That’d mean I am a bit related to you through my mom, since both of you were created together.”

In an offhand question, Joshua asked with a cursory glance down at her as he stood beside the chair Charlie sat in, “So presumably, that’d make you the first daughter of mankind through your mother, correct.” All Charlie could offer in response was a glance Joshua’s way and shrugged, before answering back.

“I don’t know, I think it’s more technical than that. I do have a demon form afterall…” Charlie said with an unsure expression.

“Whatever!” He threw his hands up into the air, as he wanted to be rid of the current conversation, “Enough of this talk of old news, gah!” He grumpily spat and crossed his arms in annoyance, before reaching out with his arm to point at Charlie, “If you came for Child support, kid, I ain’t payin.”

Charlie glanced over up at Joshua, who shared a look with her, before she looked back at Adam, “No? um…I’m here for something else, actually…” she began to smile with a hopeful look on her face. “I was hoping we could talk about redeeming sinners to heaven.” Charlie announced with her fingers laced and a smile on her face.

All she received in return was a ‘are you for real’ look from both Adam and Lute, Before Adam decided to voice his opinion as he sat up to lean forward and point at Charlie, “Ya’ kiddin, right?” he asked.

“No!” Charlie stood up from her chair to propose her idea, “You see, I was hoping-”

Only to get interrupted by Adam as he guffawed in laughter, before quickly shutting up to give Charlie a flat look, “Those sinners had their chance in life, now they have to live with their lot in hell.” he denied Charlie.

“So that is your stance on sinners, to cast them away forever?” Joshua challenged back at Adam, while giving the man a withering look.

Adam simply flipped Joshua off, “f*ck yeah, I do! What are you gonna do about it? Cry?!

In response, Joshua continued to voice his opinion on the matter while earning Charlie’s attention as while, “It is evident whatever schism has happened in heaven, the teachings the lord had provided were lost to the angels.”

“Hey!” Adam shouted in protest as he stood up from his chair, “I don’t know what version of the bible you read, sinner, but newsflash! The Angels run the show, and I don’t see the ‘G’ man showing up anytime soon.”

Adam then slammed the bottom of his fist into the table as he ranted more, “He hadn’t shown up then, and he ain’t showing up now. He’s an absentee father of the angels, an absent god to me, and he sure as sh*t an absent god to you human sinners! Get over yourself you f*cking windbag! The angels run the show now, and there’s nothing you can do but cry about it!” Adam finished saying with a heavy breath of ranting his annoyance out.

While Charlie glanced with an unsure look on her face between Adam and Joshua, the conversation having gone off the tracks and down the chutes, Joshua stared back at Adam with a resolute look in his eyes, “It is obvious, Charlie, that the situation is more dire than you might believe.” he spoke in a calm tone.

“Hm?” Charlie said as she glanced back over at Joshua who kept an even stare back at Adam, “What makes you say that?” she asked with a quirk of her eyebrow.

“Oh?” Inquired Adam with a rather smug look on his face as he stood up straight with his fists planted on his hips, “Finally realized there’s nothing you can do about facing your complete and utter annihilation?” he boasted.

“No.” Joshua denied the threat, and instead voiced his thoughts, “and while I don’t have the full picture just yet, I can’t help but feel like Lucifer wasn’t the only one to betray heaven, much less god himself…erm, outside the other angels that fell with him of course.” He added the last part after some quick thinking.

Having had enough of the sinner’s accusation, Lute stepped forward with a sneer of her own, “Sir, I think this meeting should end, this sinner has been spouting nothing but heresy of the highest order!” she said as she stood at attention beside her superior.

“No wait!” Charlie waved her hands around in a halting manner, “but what about my idea! I want to try and help the sinners! Don’t they at least deserve a second chance!?” she asked pleadingly towards Adam.

“Pth.” Adam blew a raspberry and gave Charlie a thumbs down, “Nope.” he made emphasis on the ‘p’ part. “Get over it bitch!” he smirked, “And besides, never before a sinner has been redeemed, and I don’t see it happening anytime soon!” he guffawed in laughter at the end while holding his gut.

Charlie hurriedly looked Joshua’s way, only for him to shake his head, “I do not believe we’ll be getting anywhere with this crass fool, Charlie.”

“Grr…you know what!” Adam announced with an annoyed tone, having had enough of Joshua’s nonsense, slammed his palms back into the table, he grinned nastily, “Just because of this little meeting, I’m feeling vindictive! Consider the next extermination within Six months now!” Adam announced with a gleeful look on his face, while Lute allowed herself some gratification of the idea as well.

“Wait, no! I-” Charlie tried to cease the deadline from being finalized, only for both Adam’s and Lute hologram forms to dissipate from the room, leaving Charlie and Joshua to themselves. Charlie felt her world and idea of the hotel crashing down on her all once in her failed attempt to reason with Adam.

While Adam’s behavior was indeed crass, and Charlie felt like she wouldn’t have gotten a good word in even without Joshua’s presence, it didn’t help matters that both men were at odds…and that was putting it lightly.

After a bit of silence from both of them, it was Joshua that spoke in a soft tone, “Apologies, Charlie, but I believe I was out of step in helping you on this matter…” he sighed afterwards.

“No…” Charlie shook her head as she stepped out from between the chair and table, and looked directly back up Joshua as they stood apart from each other, “I don’t know why, but I have a feeling this meeting would have been a failure even if you were not here…I…” She began to lace her fingers together with an unsure sideways glance, “I mean…”

Letting out a frustrated sigh, “Can you believe that guy!” Charlie wanted to pull her hair out, but settled for clenching her fists while looking down in anger, “Now I just feel sorry for my mom for having to deal with that guy before leaving him!”

“Hm.” Joshua let out a sound of agreement, his eyes glanced to the spot where Adam and Lute once were on the opposite side of the table, “But now, we have a short deadline…” Joshua mused while glancing off to the side.

“Crap…” Charlie winced at the realization as it dawned on her, “What am I gonna tell the others?” she asked.

“The Truth.” Joshua simply answered with a small shrug.

“Easy for you to say.” Charlie replied back with a dour look, before shooting Joshua a childish pout, “But you’re helping, you caused it after all.” she accused him.

Joshua stared back at Charlie with a flat look, “Do you take me as a coward and a liar, Charlie?” he questioned her.

“What!? No-I-” Charlie caught herself and waved her arms around, “What I meant was-” she tried to defend herself, or to earn a soft good hearted chuckle from Joshua, which made her give the burnt man a dirty look, “Hey!” she began to accuse him of playing a trick on her.

“Apologies. It was a poor part on my end to lighten the dour mood.” Joshua apologized lightheartedly.

Charlie smiled back a bit, “Right…well…thanks.” She replied back to him, before taking the lead to the exit.

Hazbin Hotel

As the twin doors opened inward from the outside, Charlie was in mid conversation with Joshua as she was talking animatedly about something, “And then, dad said-” she said while turned around to walk backwards while lowering her voice baritone, and wagged her finger through the air, “Michael was just a pompous brat that dad liked to spoil.” she then turned back around to continue walking forward, “I mean, dad can be a bit…uh…” she tried to find the right words to describe her dad

“Childish?” Joshua supplied in a dry tone, it was quite baffling to listen from an eyewitness account of this hell’s ruler as a family man.

“Eh…kinda?” Charlie shrugged while glancing behind her with a shrug of her shoulders, “But get’s a bit…” she pinched her fingers together a bit, “upset when confronted about his past as an angel.”

As the two of them continued talking, Vaggie ran over as she heard them coming in, “Charlie!” she greeted as the fallen angel rushed over to hug her partner, which Charlie reciprocated. “How did it go, did they listen?” she asked with a hopeful look on her face.

Charlie glanced over her shoulder at Joshua, who gave a stiff nod to her, before she looked back at the fallen angel with a nervous smile, “Well…the thing is…” she began to say.

“To put it simply, Adam was more of a crass man than you let on…” Joshua crossed his arms while looking to the side with a narrow eyed look, “Very heavily biased on sinners, the meeting turned into an argument, which led to the extermination date to be pushed up by six months.”

At the reveal of what the meeting had devolved into, and the end result, Vaggie slapped her face while muttering ‘Why am I not surprised?’

“What was that?” Charlie asked, unable to hear fully of what Vaggie said.

“Nothing!” Vaggie shook her head, and looked straight into the eyes of Charlie, “So…what now?” she asked with a dour look now on her face.

“I’ll think of something!” Charlie sighed afterwards while palming her head.

Heaven

Adam guffawed in triumph as he sat across from Sera in her office, “Hehe, and then, and then this stupid mummified dumb f*ck that came with that hell brat, thought he could come at me with some bible verse that doesn’t even exist! It was hilarious!” he laughed afterwards, while Sera narrowed her eyes while lacing her fingers together.

“Hm…and his name? What was this sinner’s name?” She asked after a bit of thinking, and after Adam calmed down from his boorish laughter.

“Pheh. f*ck if I know, didn’t asked the losers name.” Adam said with a flat look, “All I know is that the loser thought God still ran the show, hah! What an idiot, hahaha.” he slapped his knee in humor towards the burnt sinner.

“...” Sera tapped her index fingers as she tried to make sense of the situation. Turning in her chair, Sera sent Adam away to leave her to her thoughts.

“It’s only one sinner…it’s not gonna make a difference…” She told herself with a dark and resolute look.

Chapter 15: Chapter 15 | Another day in Hell part 1

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His name was spoken to him softly in such a way that felt like a father welcoming his child home, Joshua couldn’t help but feel a rapturous emotion as the flame before him slowly danced in the air as it hovered in place of the voice that spoke through it.

“I…” Joshua tried to find the words he wanted to say to his lord, “I stand before you and await my judgment…” he said as he collapsed to his knees as he presented himself before his lord. “I come before you as a sinner…I have been humbled through flames…I have done my best to live a better life…and yet….” he announced with no ounce of bothering to tell a lie to the lord.

The flame the lord’s voice spoke through climbed upwards very slowly as the lord spoke calmly to Joshua, “I have seen that world crumble to man’s arrogance and greed…were it not for the promise I gave to Noah, I would have drowned the world a second time!” God’s voice rang out in anger in the end while the flames grew wild, before calming down.

“But know it makes me proud to see my people have kept the faith through the worst of times…” The flame gently curved through the air while the hue of the flames became blue, “I have watched you, like many so many others, turn their back from my covenant with man, turn their backs to me.”

Joshua wanted to stand up and protest, but chastised himself as he was speaking to the lord creator. “I…I do not excuse my actions, nor do I expect your-”

“Joshua.” The lord spoke through the flames, Joshua in turn quieted in respect and beholden to the lord, “You were humbled through flames, and returned, you did your best afterwards, that is all I ask for all man, woman, and child, for the faith I hold with man is Pure and Just.”

“I-the White Legs.” Joshua couldn’t help but cringe at the animosity he held for what they did towards Zion and his people, “Even Salt-” he tried to say more, only for the lord to silence him.

“You forget whom you spoke to, my once lost lamb.” The lord interrupted Joshua with a brief burst of the flame of fire, before calming down. “That is why I will say this…”

“Joshua, I am about to make a very important covenant with you, but you must choose willingly, for if you choose yes, I must send you to hell that will reflect your sins upon your body.” The voice of the lord spoke through the flame with a heavy tone, “But know you will feel the love of my will when you act in truth through my will.”

Joshua, if he wasn’t already on his knees, he would have fell to them at the mere thought of forming such a thing with his Lord, but the caveat was he’d be sent to hell that’d reflect his sins…but he was conversing with the lord, and what god was asking of him, was no doubt something of a great task that was greater than himself.

“I-I kneel before you lord…what is this task you will set forth for me?” Joshua asked with deep reverence.

Hazbin Hotel

Joshua’s eyes opened as he awoke to another day in hell, there was that dream again. Remembering he had a promise to keep with the Almighty, Joshua blinked his weariness away before letting out a groan of discomfort as he pulled himself up from his bed to sit on the side of it. His palms resting on the edge of his mattress, Joshua took note of the state of his bandages over his fingers and arm.

He had replaced his bandage just the other night, and already they were showing signs of wear and burns from his sinner’s body catching aflame from within from time to time; sure, he can control his flames to a very good extent, but there were always those times when his body would simply combust through his gauze, leaving him to replace the bandages with new ones even if he had replaced them the same day.

Joshua’s eyes trailed over to his lone nightstand table where a few rolls of gauze were available, before glancing over to the nearby window of his room where the red sky of Hell was ever present. After a bit of ruminating, Joshua realized it has been a month since the announcement; the announcement of heaven shortening the timeframe of the extermination by half.

Rolling his shoulders for a bit, Joshua let out a groan of discomfort as he stood up to get himself ready for the day. He walked over to his simple dresser to pull out a new shirt to wear, while not far off in the corner of his room was a wooden chair where he hung his vest over on; While pulling out a fresh shirt from his dresser from the top, Joshua turned his head to glance out through his window.

Not far into the distance was Pentagram City, the place was nothing short of the worldliness of humanity. The tall skyscrapers with showtime light shows and all manner of enticing adverts to lure in sinners to indulge in acts of sin, and everything in between.

Joshua flapped his shirt through the air to get some creases out, before looping his arm through one sleeve, then pulling the rest of the shirt over his head and torso.

He had a bit of a busy schedule ahead of him today, and the priority of which relied on him getting one of those…smartphone things…he wasn’t sure what was so smart about the blasted things.

Prior night.

Entering through the front doors of the hotel, Joshua had come back after delivering a newly commissioned customized gun to Carmilla. The visit was a polite one between the both of them, though the Overlord had lamented Joshua wouldn’t accept her offer of recruitment, he insisted that he was already under the full employ of Charlie Morningstar.

While the doors shut behind Joshua, Vaggie was already storming over to him with an upset expression, “Where were you?” she asked while throwing her hands up in exasperation.

“Hm?” Joshua began to question as he halted in his steps and looked down at her as they stood apart from each other, “I was not aware my presence was needed today.” he noted.

“Well duh!” Vaggie rolled her eyes at Joshua, and crossed her arms while staring angrily up at Joshua, “You don’t have a phone on you! Charlie all of sudden wanted to try a new exercise of helping sinners, and you were nowhere in sight to try and help her!”

“I see.” Joshua responded, some understanding in his eyes were shone, before he glanced off to the side, “Though, it doesn’t help she didn’t speak about wanting to try something early on before I left, otherwise, I’d have returned at a specified time she wanted to try whatever she had in mind with everyone present.” he explained, before looking back down at Vaggie to stare back.

Vaggie sighed, and palmed her face, “That’s…” She sighed before calming down fully, and relaxed her arms to her sides, “A good point, she kinda has a bad habit though with being spontaneous.” she remarked with a sideways look as she reminisced of the many times Charlie liked to come up with new ideas and begin right away.

Present

Sitting in his wooden chair, Joshua finished tying his shoelaces of his boots while finishing on remembering what had happened last night. While he had some reservations on getting a smartphone, he had agreed with Vaggie that having him on speed dial for the times he’d be out in case something happened while he was gone.

Charlie spontaneous ideas and activities notwithstanding, there were many other reasons for Joshua to acquire a smartphone.

Vaggie even volunteered to help him get acquainted in how to figure out how to work a smart phone was also on the table, since he wasn’t that savvy with tech of such nature.

With a tight pull of making a knot into his shoelaces, Joshua stood up and straightened his vest before heading out from his living quarters.

Hopefully the one phone shop that was at the edge of Pentagram city was open, and he didn’t have to go further into that city than he needed to to buy a phone.

Chapter 16: Chapter 16 | Another day in Hell part 2

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Patting himself down as he checked his pockets, Joshua made sure he had his essentials ready as he made his way down the main stairway of the hotel, his boots making a soft thump with each step he took down the way. Once his boots reached the bottom floor of the foyer, Joshua reached into the inside of his vest and took out his relatively new M1911 pistol.

Relatively new being that it was not his pistol from his life on earth, he had to remake the gun from scratch with what he could find on hand, and from there he had perfected the barrel and grip; while he couldn’t recreate the automatic aspec, it didn’t mean he couldn’t almost match the speed with a fast trigger finger.

Pulling out his pistol from his vest, Joshua ejected the magazine out and caught it in his other hand to check the ammo; seeing that the mag was full, Joshua flipped the gun so that he could hold it by the barrel and check the innards for any discrepancies of the rifling or anything else.

Seeing that everything was in order, Joshua flipped his M1911 pistol back around so that he held it by its grip, and inserted the magazine back into its place; with the mag now in its slot, Joshua pulled the slide back to chamber a bullet and made sure the safety was on before putting his gun back inside his vest.

“That was sooo coool!” Niffty said as her single eye and face filled Joshua’s vision, the little gremlin sinner smiled excitedly as she dangled her body over Joshua’s head to talk with him.

Joshua eyes focused back into Niffty’s own eye, leveling her with a deadpan look, both neither trading a blink; after a few moment’s passed between Joshua’s even stare and Niffty’s frozen look of hanging over Joshua’s head to stare back at him with her single eye upside down and ever present sharp smile, Joshua was the first to move as he reach up and pulled Niffty by the scruff of her shirt.

As he pulled the little gremlin off from standing on his shoulder and around to hold her out in front of him to stare back at him right side up, Niffty giggled as she tried to reach out towards Joshua. “Let me try, let me try! I wanna try that!” she said while her fingers clawed through the air.

Joshua simply dropped Niffty to the floor before responding while she landed onto her rear end, “Some other time…with an unloaded gun.” He spoke simply in an even tone, before turning towards the front twin doors to take his leave, “I have errands to run today however, but perhaps later today if there is still time.” Joshua added with a calm tone as he walked towards the front doors.

“Wait!” Niffty yelled in giddiness as she bounded up from the floor to stand on her two feet, and zoomed off to a nearby closet, “The hotel is out of cleaning supplies!” she said as she made a ruckus while digging through the closet to grab whatever she needed. “Just hang on a minute!” Niffty’s voice was muffled as she hopped into the closet before the door shut her inside of it.

“...” Joshua halted as he reached out for the doorknob, and turned around to glance over his shoulder to witness the closet door bend and buckle as Niffty was…well, being herself evidently. Sure, he could have denied her to come with him, but if the hotel needed supplies, it was best he’d allow the little sinner to join along to save some time.

That, and it was better than letting the little gremlin go alone into the city, and not for the sole reason of Niffty being the one in danger…

Joshua’s eyes drifted to the side in thought, if anything, he had the distinct feeling the other sinners would be the ones in danger around Niffty than herself surrounded by the sinners of the city.

“Hehe, there you are my precious needle! Now where’d my best scissors go?” Niffty’s voice echoed through the closet door, “Ah, oh wait, I’m holding it! Hahaha!” Niffty giggled some more, before the closet door fell down to the floor, presenting Niffty back to the world outside.

“I’m ready!” she cheered while holding a spiked parasol and resting it on her shoulder, while on her other shoulder was a small handbag. Niffty’s eye zeroed over on Joshua, and noted he had waited on her, and skittered over to him.

“So how long are we going out?” she asked in an anxious tone, while bouncing on the toes of her feet and craning her head to look straight up at Joshua as she stood before him, “Cause, I got this list-” She drawled out while reaching into her small handbag, and pulled out a piece of paper that rolled down to reach the floor.

As Niffty began mumbling out cleaning products from her list and other things she wanted to get, Joshua spoke aloud while grabbing her attention and making her pause, “I was simply heading out to buy a new phone.” He began with saying while his eyes leveled downwards to stare back at Niffty’s own eye, “But know that if you require cleaning products, I expect that to be the only thing on that list of yours.” he warned.

Niffty’s eye trailed from Joshua’s eyes, and slowly down to her long list, and noted she had written daggers, knives, and everything else that counted as small and sharp “uh...okay!” She then quickly stuffed the list into her hand bag, making some of it dangle out of the handbag in the process.

With a quick smile and giggle, she looked back up at Joshua’s wrapped face to grin sharply and reply, “Ready!” she cheered while standing at attention for the burnt man.

“..hmph.” Joshua exhaled and opened the door, allowing Niffty out first before exiting out next and shutting the door behind him, leaving the Foyer silent save for the sound of Niffty’s voice as it trailed off.

“First, I’ll need to stop at Dynomite Cleaners for the oxymint air freshers, then…” Nifty’s voice echoed animatedly from outside and off into the distance.

After several moments passed in the main foyer, Angel slowly picked himself from lying on the sofa, and hung over the backrest with a bottle of booze in hand, “...did…uh…what the sh*t just happened?” he asked drowsily, it was evident he was experiencing a hangover judging by the wincing of his eyes and him reaching up to massage his scalp.

From behind the bar, Husk was in the process of making something with gin, raw egg yolks, some hot sauce and pepper. “Eh, beats me.” he replied back, not bothering to get worked up over it, “Niff went with bible man to run some errands, pretty sure everything will be fine.” Husk explained nonchalantly as he made a mix of the ingredients together with a shaker.

Angel plopped back around to sit correctly on the sofa, and responded back to Husk as he pointed at the other sinner with his empty bottle of booze, “Whatcha making there?” he asked with some curiosity laced in his tone.

“Eh.” Husk shrugged as he poured the mix into two glasses, “Some old recipe I remembered, supposed to help hangovers.” he explained while shoving one of the glasses aside for Angel to grab, “Drink up.”

Angel lifted a brow and asked, “What’s it called?”

Husk simply answered, “Prairie oyster.” Before downing his glass in one go, before using his arm to wipe his mouth dry from any residue of the drink.

Pentagram City

As unfortunate as the circ*mstances were, the nearest phone store outside the limits of the city was not in fact intact from the last time he stopped by to look through the windows. From what Joshua could gather after speaking with a few…willing and pleasant sinners, with…some help from Niffty…

After trying a few times in asking a few passing sinners, only to be ignored or be on the receiving end of an attempted murder…

…he was in Hell, he really wasn’t sure what he was expecting from some random strangers to gain any info from, other than violence or anything else shy of hate or annoyance.

After a few more attempts, Niffty had seen fit to try and ‘help’ by tackling the next sinner, and dragged him over screaming after she bludgeoned him over the head in response to the sinner pulling a gun on her after being tackled.

Never let it be said he hadn’t thought of attempting the same thing…save for the bludgeoning part. He’d have forcefully pulled the next sinner aside and demanded answers, but he supposed Niffty’s help was far enough.

After a bit of asking some questions, the sinner was released from his captivity and went screaming his lungs off into the distance.

While Niffty excitedly waved bye to the sinner as he did his best to escape the two of them, Joshua glanced back at the ruined phone store. From what was said from the sinner, a Crime Mob Family of Imps had come and demanded protection money that was owed from the owners.

Joshua’s eyes glanced further into the broken window of the store, from what he could gather, the Imp Mob took everything of value.

Exhaling an annoyed breath, Joshua turned to face the inner parts of the city while Niffty walked back and around to stand in front of him to point off into the direction of a tall building with a bomb billboard, “Ooh, look, there’s Dynamite Cleaners!” she urged while hopping on her toes, before blitzing off, leaving him alone to his thoughts.

After a bit of quick reflection, Joshua erred on keeping his wits about him, and followed after Niffty.

Hopefully, he’d find another phone store. Preferably one that had models with ease of use and were sturdy. If memory serves him right, he saw an ad for a store that sold a phone called Nokia. It’d boasted the brand as a nigh indestructible phone, and could be attached to a handle if one wanted to use it as a bludgeoning tool as well.

He wasn’t sure of the veracity of needing a phone that could survive being used in such a way, but so long as it could weather a beating, Joshua wouldn’t mind such a durable phone.

Dynamite Cleaners

Joshua kept his arms at his sides as he walked in through the sliding doors of what seemed like a bomb-esque store, Niffty already having gone in ahead of him and gotten a cart from the outside before zooming in with as much energy as…

He really wasn’t sure what to compare Niffty to…she was just Niffty being herself, Joshua supposed.

As he stood just outside one of the aisles with shelves of what looked like bottles of liquid on one side, and all manner of bombs on the other side, Joshua turned to look around as a soft drone music tone filled the store while various sinners and hellborn shopped through the…odd store.

Joshua couldn’t fathom a reason for a store to sell two different types of objects that were as far removed from each other for various reasons, then again, he remembered from his old life that people would scrounge up chemicals together to create their own bombs from scratch…

“Hey bud, ya looking for something?” An Imp asked as said hellborn creature walked up to him. The Imp smirked up at him as he stood apart from Joshua, “Let me guess, first time at my ‘fine’ establishment?” the Imp asked while putting his hands on his hips in pride.

Joshua glanced down at the Imp momentarily, “You would be right.” he started with saying, before looking up to watch as a blur of Niffty zoomed past an aisle with a cart full of bottle sprayers. “Though, I came in here with someone as company, but now she’s off…buying whatever she needs…”

The Imp manager smirked at Joshua, “Well, just so you know, we got a clearance on pipe bomb ingredients, fifty percent off for the first ten packages you buy!” he offered.

Joshua slowly looked back down at the Imp with some interest written in his eyes, “...I’m listening, do you have any more deals in this store?” he asked.

“Buddy!” the Imp introduced himself, “The Name’s Kipster, and so long as you buy bulk from this store, I treat you right like I do with my other good customers.” Kipster motioned for Joshua to follow him, “Come on, let me show ya my other deals like my D.I.Y. kits for mines!”

Joshua glanced once more over his shoulder to see another sight of Niffty zooming through the store with a more filled cart, before focusing back on Kipster and following the Imp to other deals. “Do you have any kits for proximity mines?” Joshua asked Kipster as he followed the manager deeper into the store.

“Haha. buddy, I think I likes ya already! Here, let me show you our deals on molotov kits too!” Kipsters said as the two of them traveled deeper into the store.

Chapter 17: Chapter 17 | Another day in Hell part 3

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AN; That was my attempt at Millie's southern accent. Hope it wasn't too jarring.

Chapter 18: Chapter 18 | Another day in Hell part 4

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Chapter 19: Chapter 19 | Interlude, Matters in Heaven

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Chapter 20: Chapter 20 | A Revelation for an Angel

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Chapter 21: Chapter 21 | A Revelation for an Angel part 2

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Chapter 22: Chapter 22 | Returning home

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AN: I am entirely unsure about this chapter...

Chapter 23: Chapter 23 | Episode 2 part 1

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While it was an early new day for the denizens of hell, and Pentagram City, over at the Hazbin Hotel was a different story altogether. Within the foyer of the hotel where most of the occupants lounge within, Charlie had finally succumbed to worrying over the fact that she had less time before the extermination day arrived.

Pacing back and forth while her pet Keekee walked past her feet, Charlie outwardly panicked as she spoke her mind on the matter. “Okay. So the extermination is coming in less than six months instead of a year.” She said to herself while pacing.

Angel Dust in the meanwhile was barely minding the Princess of hell while he scrolled through his phone as he lounged on a couch, Vaggie on the other hand sat aside on a chair with a frown on her face as she watched her partner fret over everything.

As Charlie turned to continue pacing, she fretted more, “No big deal. Just a little setback. Nothing we can't handle. Just angels cutting our timetable in half. But who needs a whole year to save souls? Am I right?!” She asked rhetorically, before palming her face in more worry and panic, “and next time when they cut the time in half again, and again, we'll just handle it, right?!”

Resolving to calm Charlie down, Vaggie quickly got up from her chair and walked over to calmly grab Charlie by the shoulders, “Yes, we will.” She tried comforting Charlie.

“Oh please.” Angel remarked with some doubt in his tone of voice as he looked up from his phone at the two, “ya had less than half a chance when you started all this salvation bullsh*t. And now…” Angel trailed off at the end for a bit to see messages stream to him from his boss, before he resumed speaking to the to with a direct look, “Ain't no silver lining this time toots.”

“Sure there is!” Charlie tried to express with a chipper look on her face as she faced Angel Dust, “We just…” she looked off to the side to find the right words, before she looked back at Angel to finish her train of thought on the matter, “have to look a little harder for it!” Charlie finished saying with some ray of hope in her eyes as she expressed her optimism on the subject matter.

Before Angel Dust could refute back on the matter to the state of the populace in hell, and how everyone was under great duress, the sound of heavy boots stepping down the stairway prompted the attention of the three as Joshua was walking down the stairs.

Charlie chose to greet Joshua with a warm welcoming smile while briefly waving, “Oh Hey, Joshua, um…” She bit her lip at trying to think of something to say, but with the thought of the looming short timespan of the extermination day cut by half now, her thoughts were jumbled trying to process the words of greeting the burnt sinner, “Um…good morning.” She finally greeted him with a small smile.

While Joshua reached the bottom of the stairway, he was in the midst of fixing the bandages over his wrist to check that it was secure. The burnt sinner glanced over at Charlie with a pointed look, “And to you too, though…” He finished fixing his bandages and relaxed his arms at his sides, “From what I was hearing on the way down, it does not in fact sound like quite the good morning, quite the opposite in fact…though…it is good you are trying to look at the bright side of things…” He remarked with a kind look in his eyes directed at Charlie, which she reciprocated with a perky smile.

“Thanks!” Charlie remarked with some pep in her tone, and clapped her hands together to show her pleasure of earning at least two positive comments besides the negative one from Angel Dust. “It helps hearing that!” she added while Joshua gave a nod back at her in acknowledgment before he walked off towards the nearby broom closet.

Angel Dust on the other hand sat up from the couch he lounged on to converse with the man straightly, “I’m actually surprised, Imhotep of Guns.” He started saying in a sardonic tone while Joshua opened the broom closet and peered into it, “What, no quote from your little book of prayers or some sh*t to help little miss princess?” he smirked at the burnt man as he seemed to be searching for something in the closet.

Joshua stood back away from the closet to stare back over at Angel with an even look, “I could…but would you take any of it to heart?” he asked back without a hint of hostility to his tone while giving Angel Dust a pointed look at the end.

At the thought of hearing some more bits of whatever theological book that Joshua had read from, Charlie was eager to hear whatever it might help on the matter “Good idea!” Charlie remarked as she walked over a bit to Joshua, “I’m sure that faith of yours has some good passages right?” she asked while standing apart from Joshua.

Angel Dust however deadpanned at Charlie as he stared at her back while she faced Joshua, “I was being sarcastic, princess.” he remarked, while earning a glare from Vaggie as she rolled her eyes at him.

Joshua on the other hand kept his hand on the closet door as he stared back at Charlie who was expressing a hopeful look on her face as she clasped her hands together, “I suppose I know a few…” He answered while glancing off to the side in thought, before remembering a passage or two.

“There was one passage that helped me during my darkest hour…” Joshua began with saying as he looked back at Charlie, “I sought the LORD, and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.” Joshua finished preaching a verse, one that had brought him comfort during his darkest moments in life.

“Hm!” Charlie mused with a nod of some acknowledgement she held towards the verse, “Is that your favorite one?!” she asked.

Joshua looked back at Charlie who was eager for his response, before settling on answering her, “It was a verse that got me through the worst of times, a time where I was at rock bottom…in quite literal terms as well.” he answered, before leaning back into the broom closet to search for something of his inside the storage of cleaning supplies.

At the mention of the literal part, Charlie frowned a bit while Joshua was heard rummaging through the broom closet, some metal clanging was heard as the burnt sinner seemed intent on searching for something, “Uh…I don’t mean to..pry…but…” she began to poke her index fingers together, “Um…how-”

Cutting her off before she could dig any further into his past than needed be, “A story for another time, I assure you.” Joshua said as he leaned back out from the closet while pulling out with him an M202 Missile Launcher that he hefted back onto his shoulder as he shut the closet door and turned towards a bewildered Charlie, an annoyed Vaggie, and an amused Angel Dust.

“Hey hey hey!” Vaggie stomped over to try and halt Joshua from doing anything rash, “What’s with that?” she gestured at the weapon Joshua had hefted onto his shoulders, “And what was it doing in the broom closet, in fact, why was it in the broom closet!?” She pressed upon Joshua while poking up at his chest, before she realized the man might have more hidden around the place, “How many more weapons do you have stashed around the hotel?!” she asked in a bewildered tone.

Joshua simply looked back down at Vaggie as she stood apart from him, “...enough…” He simply supplied her with a vague tone, causing Vaggie to slap her own face at the burnt sinner’s answer and drag her hand off from her face to glare up at Joshua.

Deciding to try and quell a potential argument between the two, Charlie walked over to placate Vaggie first with a kind smile, “Look, I’m sure Joshua means well, I mean, it’s not like he’s stashing the weapons around the place to attack the residents of the hotel…right?” She asked with a pointed look at Joshua.

Joshua on the other hand simply glanced her way while shifting the weight of the M202 on his shoulder a bit, “...That remains to be seen…but for now, the serpent one was on his way to the hotel last I saw from my window. His blimp was visible for miles away, flying in this direction.” Joshua explained to the present company.

After realizing why Joshua had pulled out what was practically a portable missile launcher from the closet, Charlie mouthed the words, “Oh…” she remarked with a look of understanding written on her face.

Vaggie on the other hand bemoaned the situation as she rolled her lone eye up, “Augh, Him again? Doesn’t he ever give up?” she questioned.

Before any more words could be said on the matter, the sound of missiles going off echoed from the rooftop of the hotel, shortly before the sound of explosions rocked the air outside. All three present company gave pointed looks at Joshua, who was already on his way out, “I upgraded the SAM launcher to an automatic heat seeking one, courtesy of my chief Patron.”

Angel Dust was the first to question the brevity of Joshua having such a thing“...You have a patron?” he asked the burnt sinner before he exited out from the hotel, an ongoing barrage of missiles were heard launching from the roof of the hotel in the meanwhile.

Joshua paused as he opened the front door of the hotel to look back at Angel momentarily, “How else do you think I can afford buying weapons and ammo?” he shot back at the p*rn star, before exiting out through the doorway.

After Joshua shut the door behind him, leaving the three occupants of the foyer to their thoughts, the sounds of more missiles and explosions sounded off from the outside, followed by a large explosion and boom. After a few moments of calming silence, a familiar voice shouted from the outside.

“Curssse you nefariousss armament armsss architect, I ssshall not let thisss go unavenged!” Sir Pentious’s voice echoed.

“Vengeance is one thing, serpent one, but if you insist on dragging any of the residents into battle, I will enact my duty as the shepherd and protect the flock.” Joshua's voice rang back from outside the hotel.

“Hmhmhm, does that include me?” Alastor’s voice chimed in, from what sounded like it came from the upper balcony of the hotel.

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While a busted up blimp styled aircraft was burning after crashing to the ground from sustaining too much firepower from the air defense that were employed against it, Sir Pentious was currently sprawled on the ground glaring up at Joshua, who was staring back down at him with a stoic look in his eyes as he held over his shoulder a spent M202 over his shoulder, smoking from out its barrels.

Alastor on the other hand finished sipping from whatever he was drinking from his tea cup, before dissolving into fog and descended to the ground to materialize outside the entrance of the hotel while Joshua held a stared down with the serpent sinner.

Joshua stopped staring down at Sir Pentious, and glanced over his shoulder to spare Alastor a glance, “That remains to be seen.” he replied back in a cordial manner, “I was under the impression you are an overlord, and are in no need of any protection.” Joshua shot back at Alastor with a flat look in his eyes.

Alastor simply chuckled with mirth as he idly examined his mic staff, “Oh deary me, I suppose I am, I’m just flattered you might be including me into your list of sheep.” he remarked with a sharp smile.

“Enough chatter!” Sir Pentious yelled as he struggled to pick himself up from the ground, his body sore from the crash landing, “Face me Gunsssmith of Carmine, for I ssshall dissspensssse of you!” he demanded while shaking his fist at Joshua after finally propping himself up from the ground.

“Hm?” Alastor made a remarking sound as he lifted his brow at Joshua, “A side gig of yours, I presume?” he probed for answers from the burnt sinner.

Joshua simply brushed the question off with a simple answer as he steadily walked towards Sir Pentious, who was squaring up for a potential fist fight. “Something of the sort.” He supplied back as his answer as he confronted Sir Pentious.

Once Joshua was within enough distance for Sir Pentious however, the serpent sinner smirked in triumph as he quickly reached into one of his pockets to pulled out weapon, and just as he pulled one out to fire it at Joshua, “Ha, got you where I-” He said in quick fashion, only to be rebuffed as Joshua swiftly used his spent missile launch to slam the weapon out from Sir Pentious’s hand, “Ah!” the serpent sinner cried out in pain as he held his palm.

“You will leave the premises.” Joshua ordered with a strict tone in his voice, before he grabbed Sir Pentious by scruff of his shirt, and began dragging the serpent sinner from the front yard of the hotel.

While Sir Pentious struggled to pry the hand off from his person, he yelled back at the burnt sinner with a miffed look and tone, “Unhand me gunsssmith, and face me properly!” his voice trailed off as he and Joshua disappeared into the distance from the vantage point of the front of the Hazbin Hotel.

In the meanwhile, from out of the front doorway of said Hotel, Charlie, Vaggie, and Angel Dust exited out from the doors to see the tail end of seeing Joshua drag Sir Pentious off from the property; Niffty on the other hand appeared from behind Alastor’s head to stand on his shoulders with an excited look on his face, “Who was that?” She asked with an eager look on her face, before Alastor picked her up from his shoulder and placed her down beside him. “Another Bad Boy?” she smiled in anticipation of getting to know another male sinner.

With an amused smile of his own, Alastor replied back to Niffty as he heard the tale end of Sir Pentious’s shouts of telling the resident gunsmith to unhand him once more, “Oh, no one of significance.” he chortled a bit at the end of his answer.

“Great!” Vaggie began to comment as she gestured to the crashed blimp on the front lawn, “How are we gonna clean that up? Did Joshua have to shoot the damn thing when it was hovering over the hotel’s front yard?” she rolled her eyes in exasperation.

“Worry not, my dear!” Alastor answered her as he lifted his arm up to snap his fingers, “I can’t in good fortune leave this fine establishment in disarray!” he remarked, and shortly afterwards dark shadows from the ground beneath the crashed blimp, pulled the vehicle into the dark abyss before disappearing from sight, “There, good as new!” he said while gesturing with his mic staff towards the empty front yard.

Chapter 24: Chapter 24 | Episode 2 part 2

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Edited by Firestorm808