《 Chapter 2: Down Below 》

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Damari can only see darkness and hear the wind blowing. As she slowly begins to awaken, Damari stands up and opens her eyes to discover herself in the middle of a forest full of dark, dead trees. She looks up and sees the sky is blood red, with a pentagram shining above her like the sun.

"What is this place?" she wondered.

Damari glances around and gasps as she sees her Coraline doll on the ground. She scoops the doll up and promptly sweeps out whatever that is on her. She gives herself a self-check to make sure she's okay and that her bag is still fastened to her. When she discovers a certain cat is missing, she panics.

"KeeKee? KeeKee! Where are you?" Damari called out.

She makes the decision to exit the woodland out of worry. She locates a light in the distance and begins to move in that direction while holding her doll close to her. Then, when Damari spots an open music box on the ground, she takes it up, shuts it, and puts it back inside her bag. Knowing that she is nearby, the light was growing stronger. After making it out of the forest, she is immobilized with fright. A Pentagram City with a large "WELCOME TO HELL" sign was there in front of her.

There are numerous diverse points of interest, including casinos, nightclubs, adult film studios, brothels, restaurants, television stations, and hotels. The area is divided into many areas. Damari didn't notice it because it was far away and she could only assume it was a clock, but the city also has a clock tower that counts down the 365 days until the Exorcists return.

"I'm... in... HELL?!!! No, no way! I didn't do anything wrong! This is too soon! How am I not dead?!" Damari exclaimed, checking herself to make sure she's alive and that she's still a human. "Oh, no... This is bad. This is totally bad. How... How am I going to get back home now?!"

She pauses as she turns to face the city again. She isn't sure if she should go there or not, but she needs to find a way to return to her home. On the other hand, given that this is Hell, one may assume that it is quite hazardous and that there are plenty of demons here. Darn it, Damari is a Christian! She cannot be present. Damari closes her eyes, inhales deeply, and turns to face her Coraline doll once more.

"Well... No turning back now."

She takes a stride in the direction of the city.

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As she had anticipated, hell is filled with roving demons and other nasty creatures, so she took sure to keep her distance as she passed through. She shivers when she sees some of the extremely... nasty stores and eateries that she'd prefer not to visit. Damari always keeps her doll near to her while avoiding any demons that may approach her. Before leaving, she had to hide in every nook and cranny she could find while maintaining a low profile so that no one would notice that she was a human. She then heads into the alley where there's small space between two buildings that's perfect for her to hide.

She suddenly heard a shout and gazed up into the sky and saw a sinner who had entered Hell and been changed into a demon. He stumbles forward into the pavement and is startled to discover that he is still "alive." As she watches the man transform into a four-armed demon, Damari wonders what a dead human will become when they go to Hell, seeing how different he looked.

"Ugh. Huh?"

The four-armed demon checks himself, looking surprised and happy.

"I'm alive! I'm alive—"

Damari screams in fear and covers her mouth as he is then struck by a taxi. That man did not deserve that. She looks at the taxi driver to see a demon of the avian variety, with owl-like "ears", facial disc and short, pointy beak. He has dark gray feathers all over his body with black claws for fingers. His torso has a resemblance to a trench coat.

His face appears to be a lighter shade of gray, with his left eye having a black sclera with a red iris in the shape of a heart. Lastly, he is seen wearing a black trilby with a gray stripe. His name is Travis as he appears to be snickering. Then the car door opens, which walks out to reveal a slender build spider demon.

His fur is white and he has a mop of fluffy white hair that extends from both the front and back of his head, with splotches of light-pink across it. He also has a distinctive and focal light-pink heart pattern on the back of his head. The light-pink outline of a heart also encircles his chest, the bottom point of which extends past his waistband and down to his crotch area.

His eyelids are light pink and the color extends up to his eyebrows, giving the effect of eyeshadow, and his lashes are dark and thick. His irises are cerise pink. His right eye has a light yellow sclera, his left eye has a dark sclera. He has a wide mouth full of sharp, pointed teeth and possesses a single golden fang that sits slightly to his right of center. He has three cerise-pink dots under each of his eyes, which are intended to evoke freckles, although they are actually another set of smaller eyes. His chest has fluffy fur, to which she could see.

His attire though consists of a long light pink suit-blazer with horizontal white stripes down the length, reddish-grey miniskirt, and long reddish-grey thigh-high heeled boots, accessorized with a reddish-grey bowtie with a cerise pink center and a black choker. On his top set of arms he wears long cerise pink gloves with white detailing at the cuffs, on his bottom set of arms he wears long white gloves. Damari couldn't help but admire his outfit and was shocked to see he's wearing black high heel boots.

"Heh. Thanks for the fun time, hot stuff!" Travis said, smirking.

The spider demon pushes his hand through his hair and looks at Travis unamused.

"Yeah, yeah, listen."

He fixes his hair once more before facing Travis.

"Keep this discreet, you hear me? I can't let it get out I'm offerin' my services to randos on the street! It was a quick cash grab."

He makes a gesture with his fingers and snaps his fingers at him, smiling.

"Ya got it?"

"Pfft! Whatever you say, slut! Muhehehehehehe!" Travis laughed.

This made Damari glare daggers at that rude, pervert taxi driver. But the spider demon was unfazed and pretended to be offended as he cups his cheeks.

"Ouch! Ooh!"

He turns back to face him with a smirk.

"Such an insult! Let me know when you've come up with something creative to call me,"

He looms over Travis and points at him with all his index fingers.

"You sack of poorly packaged horse shit! Tell the missus I said "hi","

He then kisses Travis and winks.

"Shnuckums!"

"Pack a - puh..." Travis said defeatedly, knowing he had no words to say.

As Travis angrily drives off, the spider demon looks behind him to see a vending machine for his namesake drugs. He goes for the angel dust and just as he gets a hold of it, a random demon runs by and steals his drugs.

"Yoink!"

"Hey!" he called out, annoyed.

"Up yours, drag show!"

A boulder proceeds to fall out of the sky, crushing the feathered demon alongside the drugs. The spider demon gasps.

"Oh my GOD!"

He leans in to pick up what's left of his pack of drugs with a devastated look on his face.

"MY DRUGS!"

He clenches the cloth angrily and looks up.

"Damn it!"

A war ship can be seen passing by, destroying its surroundings. He was about to go until his eyes caught a certain human who was looking his way. Damari gasps to find out that she's been spotted and quickly runs out of the alley.

"Whoa! Hey! Wait!" he called out, running after her.

Damari keeps running while looking back to make sure that spider demon isn't following her. She does not realize that she's heading to where the war ship is until it's too late when she hears a loud boom. It caused the road below her to shake, making her stumble for a bit. Damari looks up at the war ship and her eyes widens that she's too close to it. She notices the whole place is damaged and pants heavily, feeling her heart racing.

A pair of running heels was heard as they zoom past her, making her gasp and turn around. She finds nothing and goes to leave when four pairs of arms grabs her and places her behind the boulder. It was the spider demon from earlier as he pins her against the boulder and covers her mouth.

"Shh! You're going to get yourself killed."

Damari struggled to get out of his grasp while muffling through his hand.

"Hey, hey. Calm down. I'm not going to hurt you." he said, staring at her gently.

She looks at him for anything that he's lying. But after finding none, she calms down and relaxes in his grasp.

"Alright. I'm going to remove my hand. But if you yell, we're done for, got it?"

She nodded before he released her as she takes a deep breath.

"What's your name, sweet cheeks?" he asked.

"M-My name is Damari." Damari stuttered, holding the doll tightly.

He nods.

"Nice name. I'm Angel Dust. Call me Angel." Angel said. "What's a cute human like you doing here in Hell?"

She's not sure rather to feel flattered or embarrassed that he's calling her 'cute', but she answers him anyways.

"Honestly, I don't know. One minute I was home and then the next thing I know, I got teleported here. I... I'm scared." Damari said, hugging her doll tight.

Angel frowns to see her so lost and confused, and terrified. It's clear she doesn't belong here. He gently pats her head.

"Don't worry. Everything's going to be okay."

Damari looks at him in surprise that a demon is comforting her. She feels like she could trust him.

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In the war ship, the one who's piloting is a slender snake-like demon, Sir Pentious, whose body color is predominantly a charcoal grey. His eyes have cerise sclera with narrow black pupils, and he has a wide mouth with sharp yellow teeth; two of which being long snake-like fangs.

His neck is long and his tail is black with thick yellow stripes featuring numerous cerise eyes running down the length of it. He has a black cobra hood with its front colored yellow with black corners and four cerise eye patterns spread across the center.

He wears a jacket in a matching charcoal grey to his skin, pinstriped with yellow, and a black bow-tie with a single cerise eye in the center. beneath the jacket is a long sleeved yellow undershirt. He also wears black fingerless gloves with yellow dots on each knuckle and has sharp cerise claws.

He accessorizes with a large top hat in charcoal grey which has a large cerise eye in the center of it, as well as many sharp yellow teeth and a pair of goggles. The top hat appears to be sentient, as it blinks and changes expressions in unison with him.

Beside him are his henchmen, the Egg Bois. They are sentient eggs that have small skinny black limbs. It seems that their yellow eyes are actually inside the large crack in their shells and their mouths are an additional crack on the outside of their shells.

Just like Sir Pentious, they wear a yellow shirt under a grey coat with yellow vertical stripes on it and a black tie. They also wear a black top hat with a pink or magenta stripe atop their shells.

"Ahahahahahahahahahahah! Those other cowardly ssssinners dare not hinder my territorial take over! A wise decision! The power of my machines are unmatched!"

Sir Pentious proceeds to push two levers as his hood flares open*

"No other demon can compare to the likesss of I!"

"Gee! That was pretty swell, boss!" Egg Boi #23 said.

"Yeah!" Egg Boi #666 agreed.

"You really showed them what for! I liked when you,"

Other Egg Boi's hand mimics the action of a shooting ray gun.

"shot them with your ray gun!"

He then gets slapped away by Sir Pentious.

"I wish he'd shoot me with his ray gun!" Egg Boi #23 frowned.

Other Egg Boi pats him.

Ignoring them, Sir Pentious' hood flares open before grinning.

"At this rate, I will seize control of the entire west side of The Pentagram by day's end!"

He pushes a few buttons.

"And nothing,"

He then pulls levers towards him.

"not a single beast in this inferno of suffering will be able to take back this empire from my constrictive grasp!" he said, squeezing an Egg Boi with his tail.

An Egg Boi suddenly pops up and pops open a bottle of whiskey onto Sir Pent's face. Sir Pent proceeds to swat said Egg Boi aside.

"Oh, boy!" Random Egg Boi cheered.

"Hell will be mine! And everybody will know the name of Sir Pen-"

"EDGELORD!" a female voice called out.

Sir Pentious is interrupted by a scream coming from nowhere. Sir Pent and two Egg Bois become surprised. He gets offended and looks around angrily.

"Pardon?! Who said that?!"

He eyes the two Egg Bois behind him and hisses at them, who're petrified.

"What did you just say to me, you fried chicken fetuses?! SSSpeak up!"

"That wasn't us, Mr. Bossman." they said.

A small bomb with a print of a skull on it breaks through Sir Pent's ship. It then lands right between Sir Pent and the two Egg Bois. The bomb proceeds to blow up, leaving red smoke behind. This causes Sir Pentious to cough and hack.

As the smoke clears up, the owner of the scream is revealed to be a cyclops demon. She has long pink hair with blonde and white accents contained in a large ponytail, and wears a large amount of mascara. Her eye has a bloodshot pink sclera and a pale yellow x-shaped pupil. Her skin is mostly white, with pink freckles on her face and right shoulder. She also has a tattoo along her right arm that changes with different artists' interpretations.

She wears a gray, fingerless satin glove on her left arm and appears to have a tattoo sleeve on her right arm. She also wears a red off-shoulder crop top, a black bra, a reddish, torn-up miniskirt with two buttons on the front with one loose suspender, and ripped black leggings underneath. She appears to wear a red and white boot on her left foot, while on the right, a pointed red shoe. That demon is Cherri Bomb as she prepares another bomb in hand.

"You lookin' for a fight, old man?!"

Cherri begins to juggle around her cherry bomb.

"Why don't you get that tinker toy bullshit off my turf before I smash it?!" she ordered, proceeding to throw and catch the bomb.

A large pipe falls on top of an already dead Egg Boi, crushing him as Sir Pentious and Cherri momentarily look at the carnage. Cherri grins sadistically at Sir Pentious.

"....More!"

Sir Pentious' hood flares open and he glares at her mockingly.

"Oh! You wanna go, missy?! Well, I'm happy to oblige! Ahahah!"

Sir Pentious is then backed up by his henchmen of Egg Bois.

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The logo for 666 News is shown on a black background, which is followed by the day's newscast. Sitting in front is a tall, slim, pale-skinned demon. She has short, light-blonde hair that flairs out into an almost fan-like shape, with swept to the side bangs. She has rose-red eyes with small, white pupils. Her neck is long, mirroring her thin torso, and she has a large, round head.

She wears a short, rose-red dress with a low-cut sweetheart neckline, long-sleeves, and shoulder pads.

"Good afternoon, I'm Katie Killjoy." she greeted.

Sitting beside her is a man whose head is an expressive gas mask, which is his entire face and neck, that has a sweep of ashy blonde hair. He wears a grey suit with a white collared shirt, what appears to be black gloves, a red tie, and a red pocket square.

"And I'm Tom Trench! Chaos out at Pentagram City today as a turf war is raging on the west side!" he said.

An image of Sir Pentious trying to be hip, followed by a drawing of Cherri flipping the bird is shown.

"Between notable kingpin, Sir Pentious, and self-proclaimed spunky powerhouse, Cherri Bomb!" Tom continued.

"That's right, Tom! After the recent extermination, many areas are now up for grabs! Demons all over Hell are already duking it out to gain new territory!" Katie explained.

A live clip of Cherri and Sir Pentious's clash is shown.

"Those two seem to be really going at it, huh?" he said.

"Looks like they're fighting tooth and nail..."

Katie fishes out a tooth and a nail respectively from her mug of coffee.

"...for that hot spot!"

And she proceeds to swallow said tooth and nail. Tom is looking over at the live broadcast focusing on Cherri.

"And I'd sure like to nail her hot spot! Hoohoo!" he said, wiggling his eyebrows.

"Haha, you are a limp-dick jackass Tom! Or should I say —"

Katie pours scalding hot coffee onto his crotch.

"No dick?"

Tom curls over in pain, holding his crotch.

"Ugh...not again!"

Screen shows a picture of a woman with a happy smile with the words "PRINCESS OF HELL" as Tom can still be heard whimpering in pain in the background.

"Coming up next, we have an exclusive interview with the daughter of Hell's own head honcho who's here to discuss her brand new passion project! All that and more, after the break!" Katie finished and then crushed her mug in her hand and turns to Trench who's still in pain. "Suck it up, you little bi-!"

The news cast cuts off and goes on a commercial break.

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After that, there stood a tall, slender hellborn demon, standing at around 6 feet tall or over. She has long, blonde hair, with lighter blonde and pink highlights, which is tied into a twice-banded low ponytail. Her blonde bangs flip to her left with a curl.

Her lips are black and she has rosy red cheeks. She wears grey eyeliners, her eyes are red, her sclera is light yellow, and she has thick black eyelashes, both top and bottom.

She accessorizes with a small black bowtie and black suspenders, with an untucked white, long-sleeved dress-shirt. Over this she usually wears a fitted red tuxedo jacket with dark-red lapels and a pair of red fitted pants. She wears black and white saddle shoes.

Her name is Charlie and standing in front of her is her girlfriend Vaggie, who is a slim demon with muted gray-lavender colored skin. Her hair is white and has a jagged, moth-like shape to the cut, with gray-lavender stripes at the ends. She wears a large, ragged dark reddish-pink bow with two long tails on the back of her head, which reacts along with her moods.

Her right eye has an ivory white iris and her sclera is light pink. Her left eye is missing and is replaced by a dark reddish-pink X on a slate-gray eyepatch, which glows when she is angry or irritated. She wears a dark pink blouse with a dark slate-gray peter-pan style collar, scalloped trim to the sleeves, and two buttons down the front. Her choker and skirt are the same dark slate-gray. She accessorizes with long slate-gray fingerless gloves and long thigh-high stockings, which are scalloped with white at the tops and the tips of the toes.

Vaggie is just fixing Charlie's bow before exhaling.

"Okay! You remember what to say?" Vaggie asked

Charlie inhales before smiling.

"Yes! Let's do this!"

"Just, look at me and I'll mouth it to you." Vaggie said in a serious tone.

"Come on, Vaggie!" Charlie groaned, bending backward. "I know what to say! I just feel like we need to...I don't know..."

She grabs and throws a doughnut away.

"...make things sound more exciting!" she said before gasping. "Hooo! What if I si-"

"-Sing a song about it?" Vaggie guessed, cutting her girlfriend off.

"You knew I was gonna say that!" Charlie smiled, booping Vaggie on the nose.

"Because I know you."

Vaggie smiles and fixes her bow again.

"But, please don't sing! This is serious!" she said, shaking Charlie.

"Well, you know, I'm better at expressing myself and my goals through song!"

Charlie stands on the table where Razzle and Dazzle are happily munching on doughnuts, watching her.

"But, life isn't a musical, hon." Vaggie said, placing her hands on her hips.

"Fine. But, I have these other ideas of what to say!"

Charlie starts bouncing a bit as she shows Vaggie a piece of paper.

"The highlighted bits are the best part!"

Vaggie takes the paper and squints at it.

"Uh, it's all highlighted. Is this a drawing...?"

"Yes! That's the happy ending, see?!"

Charlie begins to fantasize, pointing at the paper.

"Everyone smiling and happy in Heaven!"

Vaggie pinches the bridge of her nose.

"I don't think it's that simple. Just please follow the talking points we went over. And do not sing!" she said firmly, making Charlie face her.

"Okay, fiiiine." Charlie said before speaking in a man accent. "I'll just have to resort to my impeccable improv skills!"

She salutes Vaggie as she walks over to Katie Killjoy.


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