《 Chapter 3: Chaos 》

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"Hiii! I'm Charlie." Charlie greeted nervously, trying to go for a handshake.

"Katie Killjoy." Katie greeted back nonchalantly, blowing out the smoke of her cigarette. "I'd say it's a pleasure to meet you, but that would be a lie."

She throws away her cigarette and gestures to Charlie's hand.

"And you can put that away. I don't touch the gays. I have standards!"

"Yeah? How's uh... how's that working out for ya?"

Charlie turns to look around nervously.

"Look, my time is money. So, I'll keep this short."

Katie proceeds to poke Charlie on the chest.

"You're not here because we wanted you here. You're here because Jeffrey couldn't make it for his cannibal cooking segment."

A billboard of Jeffrey's cannibalism cooking show titled "It's Dahm Good!" can be seen in the background.

"You might be some royal big shot,"

Katie fluffs her hair sassily.

"But that doesn't mean shit to me. I'm too rich and too influential to give a flying fuck about what some tux-wearing demon 'princess' wants to advertise." she said, air quoting the word 'princess' with her finger.

Tom can be seen shaking his head in disapproval as Katie boasts about her wealth and influence to Charlie.

"But, I-"

Katie cuts Charlie off and continues to poke her chest.

"So, don't get cute with me, honey, or I will fucking bury you!" she said threatening, clenching her fist with a crack noise in the process.

"And we're live!" News Staff announced.

Katie rushes back to her desk, holding papers while cracking her neck before tilting it back in place.

"Welcome back! So, Charlotte!"

"It's... Charlie." Charlie corrected, smiling nervously as a spotlight flashes her way.

"Whatever. Tell us about this new passion project you've been insistently pestering our news station about!" Katie fake smiled, trying to hold in her outburst by clenching her pen.

Charlie looks around as Vaggie motions her to go on.

"Well..." she started, clearing throat and exhaling. "...as most of you know, I was born here in Hell and growing up, I always tried to see the good in everyone around me."

Katie spots a slug and stabs it with her pen, the slug's blood bursts all over.

"Hell is my home and—"

She stops and gets slug blood splattered across her cheek which she then wipes off.

"You are my people. We... We just went through another extermination."

Vaggie is seen giving Charlie two thumbs up as Katie quickly starts to lose interest.

"We lost so many souls, and it breaks my heart to see my people being slaughtered every year. No one is even given a chance!" she said, slamming her fist on the table, waking Katie up.

Charlie then walks up from Katie's desk.

"I can't stand idly by while the place I live is subjected to such violence! So, I've been thinking: Isn't there a more humane way to hinder overpopulation here in Hell?"

Charlie walks around the audience.

"Perhaps we can create an alternative way to change souls through... redemption?"

She then throws her arm around one of the News Cast's staff members.

"Well, I think yes! So, that's what this project aims to achieve!"

She later returns to Killjoy's desk and faces everyone.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm opening the first of its kind! A hotel that rehabilitates sinners!"

Her broadcast is being shown at The Radio Shack, which many other demons are also watching by the streets and everywhere else in Hell. Seeing everyone saying nothing and just staring at her, Charlie starts to lose her confidence.

"Y'know? 'Cause hotels are for people passin' through... temporarily..."

Lizard Demon sees this on TV and starts laughing as he turns to his friends.

"Ahahaha! IS this girl for real?! She thinks—"

He tries to hold in his laughter.

"You hear what she thinks?! She thi- HAHA! Ah, she's nuts."

He later walks out of The Kaiju Klub with his friends.

"I think it'll serve a purpose... a place to work toward redemption... yay...!" Charlie continued, smiling nervously.

Back to the demons watching her broadcast from The Radio Shack, a mysterious figure walks up to see her broadcast alongside a bunch of other demons watching such as Crymini and a handful of others.

"Stupid bitch." Cameraman Demon snickered.

Vaggie immediately punches the cameraman square in the face.

Charlie looks around, saddened that no one is interested in her hotel.

"Look, every single one of you has something good, deep down inside. I know you do!"

She thinks for a moment until her eyes widens. Charlie smiles and turns to them.

"...Maybe I'm not getting through to you."

Razzle and Dazzle are then alerted that Charlie's about to sing and that she may need their back-up vocals. Vaggie facepalms, knowing where this is going.

"Oh no..."

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Meanwhile, Damari and Angel are still hiding behind the boulder.

"So, were you a human? Because I just saw that guy fell from the sky and turned into a... demon. Is that supposed to happen?" Damari asked curiously.

"Overall, yes. Sinners are a sizable category of demons, and because of the various components of their human selves that their demonic forms correspond to, they have a wide range of appearances and skills. However, as a Sinner's appearance is mostly determined by the soul in issue, there is no real extent to it. Usually, a human's soul, sins, or crimes have an impact on their demon form. Sometimes the death of the human has an impact on the form. As an example, I once participated in the mafia and committed a serious offense. And I suppose you could say that my "web" of crimes is what transformed me into this. Hahahah!" Angel explained before laughing at his joke at the end.

This made Damari smile uncomfortably, nodding that she understood and doesn't like his joke. Angel stops laughing and clears his throat.

"That's how it all goes." he said.

"I see..." Damari said, taking this information in mind.

"Hey, I may be bad and all, but not entirely. I'm not that heartless."

Damari wonders that there's more to Angel Dust than meets the eyes.

"Don't worry. I trust you." she said.

This made Angel surprised for a moment before smiling. Just then, a loud boom was heard, making Damari jump and yelp. Angel grinned, getting excited.

"Hey, Angie! You finally came!"

Walking through the smoke is Cherri and Damari was surprised at her new look and outfit. Cherri noticed her and looked surprised.

"Whoa! Who's she? Am I getting high already?" Cherri asked with a dumbfounded look.

Damari awkwardly waved at her.

"Nope, you're not on high. That's Damari. A human. Don't know where she came from, but she doesn't know how either." Angel explained with a nonchalant look.

"No way!" Cherri gasped.

But as Damari was about to speak, another loud boom was heard and a familiar hiss spoke out.

"Don't think I'll let you get away, missy!"

Damari turned and froze to see Sir Pentious and his Egg Bois with their weapons ready. She gulped at this and turned to Angel. Angel grabs her and hides her into another alley.

"Stay here and don't come out unless I say so. Got it?" he said.

Damari nodded and sat down against the alley wall, gripping onto the straps of her backpack and holding her doll close to her chest. Angel smiled before turning to the battlefield with glee.

"Let's get this fucking party started!" Angel yelled, bringing out his gun.

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Back to the news as everyone in the audience including Killjoy and Trench begin to laugh at Charlie after her singing about "Inside of Every Demon is a Rainbow". Charlie looks crushed and devastated and slumps back down to her seat. There was a boo section in the news and the demons look uninterested

"Booooo!" Blue Flame Demon said with a deadpan look.

"What in the Nine Circles makes you think a single denizen of Hell would give two shits about becoming a better person?! You have no proof that this little experiment even works! You want people to be good?! Just... because?!" Katie exclaimed and continued to laugh.

"Well, we have a patron already, who believes in our cause and he's shown incredible progress!" Charlie said, glaring at Katie.

Katie feigns shock.

"Oh? And who might that be?" she asked.

Charlie tries to look smug and confident as she looks at her nails before looking at Katie.

"Oh, just someone named... Angel Dust!"

"The porn star?" Tom asked in surprise.

Katie turns to him menacingly, scratching the desk and making Tom turn away nervously.

"You fucking would, Tom!" she said and turned back to Charlie. "In any case, that's not even an accomplishment. I'm sure you could get that hooker to do anything with enough booger sugar and lube."

Katie motions doing a handjob with some disgusting noise in the background with a man whistling.

"Oh, I beg to differ!"

Charlie begins to count on her fingers.

"He's been behaved, clean, and out of trouble for two weeks now."

"Breaking News!" News Staff called from Katie's earring.

Katie grins and shoves Charlie off her desk, turning back to the viewers.

"We are receiving word that a new player has entered the ongoing turf war! Let's go to the live feed."

The live feed shows Angel Dust stepping on an Egg Boi and throwing a grenade over at Sir Pentious with visible laughter in the background as Charlie stares at the screen in defeat.

"Oh...shit."

"I'm a bad person!" Angel yelled in the background.

"'Oh, shit' indeed! It looks like the one who just joined the battle is none other than..."

Katie feigns a gasp.

"Porn actor, Angel Dust!"

She turns to Charlie as she shakes her fist.

"What a juicy coincidence! You must feel really stupid, right now."

Katie and Tom proceed to laugh at Charlie and does Jazz hands.

"Ratings!!"

Charlie stares at the live feed in distress and attempts to block it from the audience's view.

"Don't look at this!"

"Well, it sure looks like your little project is dead on arrival." Katie smirked, looming over Charlie. "Tell us, how does it feel to be a total failure?"

Everyone in room start bursting into laughter. Charlie tries to think of a comeback and looks around.

"Yeah, well... How does it feel that I got your pen, huh?!"

She grabs Killjoy's ballpen and glares at Katie.

"...Bitch!"

Everybody instantly stops laughing while Katie Killjoy and Tom Trench give her the death stare.

"Ehehe... Oops." Charlie laughed nervously, placing the pen down.

Tom Trench runs off and Katie's demonic form reveals itself as she looms over Charlie from the shadows. She appears to have extra pair of eyes, which, alongside her original pair of eyes, glow bright red. She can also summon two extra pairs of arms that resemble the front legs of a praying mantis, right below her usual pair of arms. She also gains sharper teeth as she screeches at Charlie, ready to claw her.

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Damari watches as purplish red smoke transitions into Angel Dust and Cherri Bomb fighting Egg Bois.

"Heyyy, thanks for the back up, Angie!" Cherri said.

"Hahaha!" Angel laughed as Cherri fired rocket launcher. "You kiddin'? This is the best action I've seen in ages!" he said, putting his hands behind his head

Cherri launches another cherry bomb.

"Where've you been, anyway? I thought you up and died or some shit."

Angel lights a bomb and hands it to her.

"Oh, I wish! I've been staying at this crappy hotel on the other side of town. Some broads are lettin' me stay rent-free if I play nice."

They both cover their heads as the explosion sets off behind them, then grin at each other as they jump into the field.

Angel continues to shoot down Egg Bois with what seems to be a drum mag M1928 Thompson.

"Y'know, no fights, no pranks, no 'problematic language'... Her words, not mine."

He steps on a broken tile, launching an Egg Boi airborne and shoots him from behind as he sighs again.

"These crazy bitches are no fun! I've been clean for two weeks!"

Cherri in disbelief, smiling.

"Ho-ly shit!"

Angel looks at the leftover smudge on his finger.

"Well, sorta clean."

He then destroys an incoming Egg Boi.

"Just clean as you can get from a shitload of Bolivian marching powder!"

Even if they are capable of handling themselves, Damari couldn't help but want to assist them. After all, who knows how many Egg Bois they will encounter, especially the snake demon. She takes her backpack off and searches inside it for anything. She feels something metallic and digs until she discovers what she's seeking for. A CSGO R8 revolver, or "Punisher" as she likes to call it, is being pulled out.

Her father trained her how to shoot as well in order to prepare her for self-defense. The rounds are put inside, and it shuts with a click. She puts her doll gently inside her bag, closes it, and fastens it again before turning to face the battlefield. She runs over to a boulder in a hurry and raises her gun. Damari turns to watch Sir Pentious chain Angel Dust and throw him aside.

"Ohh~ Harder, daddy!" Angel moaned, raising his left eyebrow.

Damari immediately turns disgusted that he just said that, but Sir Pentious takes it seriously as he gasps.

"Son?!"

Angel lowers eyebrow, and Damari immediately readies her aim and then shoots Sir Pentious right on the shoulder, making him yell in pain. Angel turns and was shocked to see Damari with a gun as Cherri kicks Sir Pentious to the side after.

"Nice shot, gurl!" Cherri said, giving her thumbs up.

Smiling shyly, Damari nods and quickly kills more Egg Bois that are coming her way with just one shot on each. Sir Pentious gets up as his hood flares open angrily as he looks around.

"Who shot me?!" he demanded, holding his wounded shoulder.

Sir Pentious eventually sets his eyes on Damari, who freezes.

"Oh, no..."

Sir Pentious takes a good look at her up and down and realizes.

"A human?!" he exclaimed in shock before getting angry. "Was that you that shoot me?! That hurt, you know!!"

Damari laughs nervously and hides the revolver behind her back.

"Oops."

"Grr! You whores have no classss! In war, the side remembered is the side with the most ssstyle!" he said, adjusting his tie.

"Or the side that ain't dead!" Cherri added, decapitating an Egg Boi.

Angel stands up and removes the chains restricting him.

"Speakin' a style, is your hat like, alive or something?"

"Oh! Well, that's none of your GOD DAMN BUSSSSINESS! Now, is it?" Sir Pentious stated, crossing his arms.

"Hah, would that make your hat the top and you the bottom?" Angel smirked.

Damari immediately covered her mouth to keep herself from laughing. A sign that says "Loser" can be seen in the background pointing at Sir Pentious as an Egg Boi acknowledges the roast and cups hands.

"Oooooh!"

In the process, Egg Boi gets pebble thrown at him by Sir Pentious. Damari had to admit that roast Angel did on that snake demon was good.

"I'm going to blow you to bitssss!" Sir Pentious enraged.

Angel eyes him up and down.

"Hm, kinky!"

"Seriously?!!" Damari exclaimed in disgust.

Even Sir Pentious is disgusted.

"Oh, not like that!"

His hood flares open as a sign that says "Pussy" can be seen pointing at him in the background.

"Pervert!" he said, knocking over an Egg Boi.

Angel notices an Egg Boi with a tentacle launcher which causes him to push Cherri and Damari to the side out of fear. He gets tangled up in all the tentacles as Sir Pentious approaches him with a smirk.

"Not so cocky now, are we?!"

Angel looks unamused.

"Y'know, you really gotta watch what comes outta ya mouth. I've been making these sex jokes the whole—"

His limbs gets pulled on as Sir Pentious reveals a drill which jump starts.

"TIME!"

Angel then reveals his third pair of arms carrying a gun.

"And it's obvious ya ain't catchin' on. I mean, it's just—"

He pulls out M1928 as he finishes his word.

"—sad!"

Then he shoots it at Sir Pentious. Cherri approaches him.

"So, think you're gonna get in a lotta trouble for this?" she asked.

"Eh, what's one little brawl gonna cause?" Angel shrugged, retracting his third set of arms.

Damari couldn't help but feel that he just jinxed himself.

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In the news, Charlie and Katie can be seen trying to duking it out on each other like it's some sort of WWE match while a fire alarm goes off in the background with Trench entering the scene, covered in flames.

"WHY WON'T ANYONE HELP ME?!" he yelled in pain.

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Damari was suddenly grabbed by Sir Pentious as he trapped her with his tail and started squeezing her, causing her to drop her revolver.

"GAAHH!!" she screamed, struggling to get out.

"I'm going to squeeze the living life out of you!" Sir Pentious grinned maliciously.

"Hey, let her go!" Angel growled.

Ignoring him, he started squeezing her tighter as Damari struggled to get air. Remembering something, she bites onto his tail as hard as she can, creating blood in the process.

"OWW!!" Sir Pentious yelled, loosening his grip.

Damari grabs Sir Pentious' tail and unwraps it before using the technique she learnt in martial arts to strike Sir Pentious in various bodily parts. She then threw him out of the way and grabbed her revolver from the ground. Angel whistled in admiration of her fortitude.

"Whoo! I like her already! Up high!" Cherri grinned, giving her a high-five.

Damari was surprised and high-fives Cherri. Angel gives Damari an encouraging nudge on her arm.

"Glad you haven't changed!" Cherri said and slugged him on the arm. "You know you're my favorite guy to party with! 

"You know it, sugar tits!" Angel grinned.

Cherri takes out one last bomb.

"You ready to finish this?"

Angel takes out Thompson gun.

"Born ready, baby! You in, Damari?"

Damari gulps and nods, holding up her revolver. She knew she can't get out of this without a fight. Her, Angel and Cherri pounce onto Sir Pentious and his army as they prepare to clash, Charlie and Killjoy are still at each other's throats screaming, Trench is still on fire, screaming in agony. It shows all the characters present, screaming with Damari war crying with her eyes closed.

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The royal family limousine can be seen driving back to the hotel. Charlie can be seen hugging her knees and looking out the window when her jacket is ruined after Katie Killjoy attacked her, while Vaggie sits next to her, glaring furiously at Angel Dust. Damari is sitting next to Angel, gripping onto her backpack and her doll nervously as she stares at the two female demons. Charlie sighs in sadness and looks at Damari, shocked to see a human here.

"Who are you? How did you get here?" Charlie asked.

"I'm not exactly sure how. All I know is that I was in my room and helping this one eyed cat and the next thing I knew, I was teleported here. Oh, and I'm Damari, by the way." Damari explained.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Charlie. Princess of Hell." Charlie smiled.

"P-Princess?"

Damari immediately gets up from her seat and curtsied, surprising Charlie and Vaggie, who's secretly listening to their conversation.

"Um, what are you doing?" Charlie asked.

Looking up, Damari sees them confused.

"Um, I'm curtsying? You are a princess, are you not? Shouldn't I show respect?"

Vaggie and Charlie look at each other as if thinking the same thing.

"This girl is so modest!"

"Well, no one cares about her being a princess nor show respect since they never take her seriously. They think she's a joke." Vaggie exclaimed, looking mad the way people in Hell treated her girlfriend.

"Oh, I'm sorry. But you are still a princes, so I'll still show respect." Damari said.

Charlie couldn't help but squeal at how cute and kind she is.

"That's nice of you, but you don't need to show me respect. Just call me Charlie."

"Okay."

Vaggie and Charlie smiled at her until they were cut off by the sound of the window rolling again. Vaggie's eye twitches as her eye set back to Angel Dust, who can be seen amusing himself by playing with the car window roller repeatedly. Vaggie scrunches her face and Angel then takes notice.

"...What?" he asked.

"'What?', 'WHAT?!' What were you DOING?!" Vaggie yelled, ripping off her hair much to Damari's concern.

Angel sighs at this.

"I owed my girl buddy a solid! Isn't that a 'redeeming quality'?"he said, air quoting. "Helping friends with stuff?" he said, rolling his eyes.

"Not with turf wars that result in territorial genocide!" Vaggie shouted.

"Eh, you win some, you lose a few hundred. Ehahahahahah!" Angel laughed and inhaled after. "It wasn't that bad, anyway."

He proceeds to play with the button of the car window roller until Vaggie throws a folded pocket knife at the window roller.

"Aw, come on! I had to!" Angel groaned, brushing his back hair. "My credibility was on the line! I mean, what kind of reputation would I have if people found out I was tryna go clean? It just throws out my entire persona!"

He then suggestively pushes up chest floof, making Damari scoot away from him. Vaggie couldn't believe what she was just hearing

"Your credibility? What about the hotel's?!" she said, gesturing at a defeated Charlie. "Your little stunt made us look like a fucking joke!"

She then combusts as her hair poofs up to show how very angry she is. Angel scoffs and attempts to explain.

"No, no, no, babe. Jokes are funny! I made you look... uh, sad! And pathetic! Like an orphan... with no arms... or legs... Oh! With progeria!"

Every word made Charlie scared and uncomfortable as she hides herself in her hair.

"Great! Now I'm bummed thinkin' about it!" Angel frowned and started looking around the limousine. "This thing have any liquor?"

"Can you please just try to take this seriously?" Vaggie asked.

Angel flicks off a dust bunny.

"Fine, I'll try. Just don't get your taco in a twist, baby!"

He then snaps finger at her while smiling. Vaggie gets offended and stands up from her seat.

"Was that you trying to be sexist or racist?!"

"Whatever pisses you off more. Is there seriously no liquor in here?!" Angel groaned.

Vaggie returns to sit next to Charlie as she crosses her arms.

"I'm gonna kill 'im."

"Too late, toots. Wait! Would that make me double dead? Hah, and where exactly do I go? To Double Hell? Hahahahahahahaha! Sorry, you're stuck with me, bitch. Get used to it." Angel grinned, folding his arms confidently.

Vaggie angrily grits her teeth as she speaks Spanish.

"¡Con una mierda, malparido hijo de-! (For fuck's sake, you bastard son of-!)"

"Listen, who cares if some jack-offs got hurt? Most of 'em are ugly freaks. Look around!"

Angel looks out the limousine window, smirking.

"You got a bunch a fuckin' Harlequin babies down here!" he said and started laughing.

"You're one to talk." Vaggie said and smiled smugly, seeing Angel offended.

"Hey!"

He then motions to his body.

"This body is flawless! Everyone wants summa me,"

And pushes up chest fluff and takes out a letter.

"And I've got the creepy fan letters to prove it!"

Takes letter from in between his chest floof and reveals it to Vaggie that features a small picture of a dirty naked old man, who ironically has a "No Angel Dust" tattoo, smothering his mouth on an Angel Dust body pillow and a message at the bottom saying "Show me your feet!! -Bryrin, #1 Fan/Critic".

"Grrr..." Vaggie growled.

"Gross, man..." Damari grimaced.

"That was really uncool, y'know, Angel." Charlie frowned.

"'Uncool'? After that train-wreck, there is no way anyone is gonna wanna stay at the hotel!" Vaggie exclaimed and looked toward Angel Dust. "All thanks to you and your selfish bullshit!"

"Does that mean I don't have a free room anymore?" Angel asked.

Vaggie motions "What do you think?"

"Ah, well shucks." Angel said, snapping his fingers.

"Hey, come on." Charlie said, trying to calm them down while taking off her ruined jacket. "We don't know if things are over yet! Try to relax, Vaggie."

She puts a hand on Vaggie's left shoulder.

"I-it'll be okay!" she continued.

Vaggie smiles at Charlie, calming down.

"Um, excuse me?"

They turned to see Damari raising a hand.

"Forgive me if it sounds rude, but what hotel are you talking about?"

"Oh, well, I'm working on a hotel that rehabilitate sinners." Charlie said.

This surprised Damari at such new information. Rehabilitating demons? That's new. Upon seeing her expression, Charlie thought that it was stupid.

"Sorry, I know. Shocking and stupid, right?"

"No, no. I think it's a big responsibility and an amazing idea. But why?" Damari said.

"Every Cleansing Day, the exorcists come down here and... slaughter the people." Vaggie explained.

"Wait, what? Why would God allow that? Isn't punishment of them being in Hell enough?" Damari asked.

"Apparently, it's not enough, but that's just what I think." Vaggie said.

This made her question about God. Looking up, Damari feels determined.

"What if I help you with the hotel?"

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