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My brother in Christ we shall have a spring wedding

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I swear I will update on the HTTYD au in the near future everyone

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Damn it’s really been over three months since I released another chapter

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~HTTTYD AU MASTERPOST~

Note: this art is mine

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Art/Scenes

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Casino Cups/Lil Lucifer HTTYD Au (Fallen Mike Scenario)

Casino Cups/Lil Lucifer belongs to @camodiel (can also be found on @camodielsart)

Ch. 5

The bars were forced apart by a pair of clawed scaly hands before the cell door was even completely open.

A horned creature with a long serpents tail and fire in its eyes slithered out, hissing and sputtering and rattling it’s tail. It was like a centaur but the bottom half was a huge snake tail instead of a horse body. It’s entire body was covered in woody brown scales, and it’s horns, claws, and belly were the color of slate.

It’s unimaginably long tail began to cover most of the ground around them, threatening to entangle all therein

Some darted off in a random direction, as long as that direction was getting the hell out of dodge, some’s legs failed them and they stumbled to the ground. Before Cuphead could formulate his own reaction he was met with the force of his brother crashing into him and knocking him to the ground.

He opened his eyes, his head resting against the cold stone floor, to find his brother knelt over him, shaking him by the shoulders, and yelling hysterically. Cuphead however, could barely make out what he was saying as he felt a ringing in his ears. That ringing quickly faded out with the sound of the screeches of the serpentine demon.

He jolted to sitting upright, nearly head-butting his brother in the process, and they both glanced to Cuphead’s right. At the monster weaving around the arena and whipping it’s tail around with wild abandon, at their coworkers scurrying around with their new weapons seemingly trying to regain their wits and come up with a plan, and then to their left, at their horned boss standing on the sidelines.

He only stared back with a stern expression. When his eyes met Cuphead’s, he just looked away, refusing to even acknowledge him.

The brothers looked back at each other in disbelief, but we’re quickly interrupted.

‘I- I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to knock you ove- NO!!!’ Mugman cried as he grabbed onto Cuphead, pulled him close to his chest and did a sort of backwards lunge to avoid the end of a scaly tail crashing down on them both. It wasn’t done with them yet though…

Mugman grabbed Cuphead by the arm and practically dragged him across the arena sprinting full speed ahead as the tail swung back in their direction. Cuphead was still trying to come to his senses, his head must have hit the ground a bit harder than he thought.

As he looked around he could see Wheezy out to the left putting his own flaming head on the creature’s tail, but only getting it wrapped around his neck. To the right he saw Mangosteen managing to avoid being constricted due to his slipperiness and round shape, but not doing much in terms of fighting back. In the center he saw Pirouletta who was skillfully dodging the whip-like tail with ballerina-like grace, but clearly not great with a knife. How to put this gently?

It was a shitstorm

‘Welp, not a great start.’ He thought to himself, still half delirious. He’d always thought of his coworkers as capable fighters, he had seen and felt what they could do first hand, but maybe even they had not seen what Hell was really all about. Cuphead’s attention was then grabbed by the sound of the previously silent duke’s voice ranging out

‘UM- I- OK LETS ASSESS THE SITUATION! OUR OBJECTIVE HERE WOULD BE TO DOWN IT BY AIMING FOR ITS WEAKEST POINT! NOW HOW WOULD WE GO ABOUT ACHIEVING THAT?!’ Before she had exuded all the poise and authority of a general commanding her soldiers, now her tone had shifted to more resemble a kindergarten teacher desperately trying to mitigate a chaotic classroom. This really wasn’t a good start. And he had never even went to kindergarten.

Everyone seemed too preoccupied with not getting crushed or strangled or both to care for what the Duke had to say, but then, to his surprise, Cuphead heard a response to her question, from very close by.

‘Um- uh- AIM FOR THE VITAL ORGANS?!’

It was Mugman who had spoken up. The others had even stopped what they were doing to do a double take of what they’d just heard come out of the mouth of the sweet bashful mug who could scarcely be found speaking up in groups at all, let alone saying something so gruesome.

They didn’t have to time to address it however, as the Duke did not know better than to question his behavior and carried on with the ‘lesson’

‘Yes! That’s an actual answer! Now what you’ll need is to find or create an opening to strike! What obstacles are in the way?’ She asked

The responses were mixed

‘HRK- THE TAIL?!’ Wheezy replied, still being strangled

‘The hard scales?’ Phear responded

‘Hic- thAt fUcKiNG thiiiiiNG???’ Ethan gurgled pointing at the rattle at the end of the snake’s tail

Rumulus retorted him ‘Ethan, it hasn’t done anything but make noise…’

‘It fUCKing freEEAAaks mE oUt MAn hic-’ Ethan attempted to convey through his slurring tongue

The Duke paused for a moment as if to be attempting to process this, and then spoke again

‘Ok! Ignoring whatever that last one was, yes! Very good! The long constricting tail and the scaly armor are both strengths it possesses!’ She was somewhat rushing through her sentences given the circumstances, but seemed to be attempting to regain her composure.

‘You will need to find a way to weave past the it’s tail and strike the head and torso in the middle. Those sabers you’ve been given, they have a dual use against this creature.’

As the Duke paused, Cuphead’s attention briefly turned back to the frantic shouts of the others. In the direction he happened to be looking in, he could see Chips holding Mangs under his arm as he desperately tried to fight back with the copper knife he had recieved. Chips had a look that Cuphead had never seen on his face before, one that encompassed true fear for his life and doubt in his abilities. He felt a pang of concern for his favorite coworkers pierce his gut. But he was promptly called back into the moment as his brother’s voice and gained his focus once again

‘W-where’d mine go…’

‘Wh-what?!’ Cuphead just realized he hadn’t said a word since they got there, unusual for him

‘MY KNIFE! I THINK I DROPPED IT!’ Mugs exclaimed, panicked

Upon processing that sentence, Cuphead’s eyes began darting all over the floor for some sign of a silver glint. He need not search for long however, he caught sight of it in the very spot where they’d both originally hit the ground. The end of the demon’s tail was still roughly in that same spot, pounding itself against the ground, right where the silver-blue blade lay.

‘THERE’ he shouted pointing

‘IM GONNA- I…’ Mugman hesitated as he too caught a glimpse of the hazard that waited for him if he was to attempt to retrieve his weapon.

He hesitated. Frozen in place.

But then… it was replaced by something else… some kind of spark in his eyes…

Mugman inhaled sharply and shut his eyes tight

‘Mugman…?’ Cupehad peeped

‘AAAAAAAAAAAA’

Mugman left Cuphead’s side and took off towards his knife, eyes shut, arms flailing, yelling at the top of his lungs.

Just narrowly dodging the massive snake’s tail his legs fell under him and he dove for it, and by some miracle it found its way into the grip of his hand. He seemed to breathe a small sigh of relief upon seeing this, but was promptly made aware of the sound of a nearby rattle, and a long shadow growing over him. As he turned around, eyes widening, it seemed to be already too late.

Cuphead felt a second pang of worry for another’s safety

This time it clenched his gut like an iron grip crushing a paper cup

‘LOOK OUT- MUGMAAAN!!!’ He desperately cried, he could feel a small fleck of moisture forming in the corner of his eye

Others caught sight of this too, as similar shouts for Mugman came from other voices. One of them… he could’ve sworn was the voice of the devil…

Cuphead could feel not just him, but the entire arena floor collectively brace themselves for the sound of ceramic being crunched

But that is not what they heard

They instead heard the sound of metal striking, something hard cracking, and a pained scream not from Mugman, but from the reptilian beast. Mugman was now firmly fixing his blade into the tail that had been set on course to crush him. Where his blow had landed, a handful of scales crumbled off the snake’s tail.

They all went silent, but the Duke spoke, with unexpected levity in her voice

‘Well… someone’s ahead of me already!’

Mugman’s expression went from fearful to awed ‘You… you can’t stab or slash it… you- YOU HAVE TO HIT IT DIAGONALLY! TO GET UNDER THE SCALES!’

The dukes expression shifted to something never before seen until now, pride.

A second metallic clang followed by a shriek from the demonic adversary came, followed by the voice of Chips, who Cuphead could now see was proudly wedging his copper into its skin

‘Well! You heard him! GO TO TOWN!’.

‘Horray!!!’ yelled Mangs still under Chips’s arm

A frenzy broke out, the reptilian demon found itself being relentlessly stripped of its scales by the staff of Inkwell Hell Casino. Cuphead had since fallen back on the ground from the terror that had taken hold of him just moments prior. He looked up to see Chips approaching him, with his signature confident grin back on his face, bent down and extended his hand to him ‘Cmon partner! Don’t tell me you’re gonna just stay parked there?!’

Cuphead felt his previous fear wash away as he felt the kind gazes of both Chips and Mangs, and was quickly overtaken by adrenaline as he joined them in charging at the beast knives out. They climbed over the entanglement of a scaly tail which had now gone considerably more still, and as a group they were inching closer to their target

This high however, would be short lived.

The others, including Mugman, we’re making quick work of loosing if the demons scales, but Cuphead was struggling with it a bit. Precision was never his forte and he was beginning to become frustrated with himself. And not just that. While weakened, the demon still possessed an immense amount of strength. Pain seemed to only enrage it

It writhed in some sort of outburst and pushed most of them off of itself like insects. Most of them landed on their feet just fine and continued fighting, but wouldn’t you know it, Cuphead was the only one that lost his balance, landing on his side. The serpent took notice, and it lunged forward head first.

Right towards Cupehead

In a short moment he found himself back on the floor being held down by his shoulders

‘Haha… I gotta stop getting myself in this situation…’ he thought to himself, attempting to provide himself a little comic relief.

The snake’s jaws opened wide over Cuphead’s awaiting face, but all the noise was cut through by a familiar voice

‘ALRIGHT’

It was their boss’s voice…

‘I THINK…

I think that’s enough for today…’

Link to Ch 4

Note: this is probably the longest chapter I’ve ever done I’ve never written a battle scene before. But HERE IT IS. AT LAST.

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CASINO CUPS/LIL LUCIFER HTTYD AU FIC UPDATE:

Ummm hey! Sorry it’s taking so long for the next chapter to come out. I’ve been very preoccupied with my first semester of college but I promised myself I’d push it out before the end of this year so you have that to look forward to!

EDIT: well it’s New Year’s Eve and I know I said I’d get this done within 2022 but it’ll have to be 2023 early January. Now if you’ll excuse me I have Covid and I need to make a sleepy times

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Casino Cups/ Lil Lucifer HTTYD Au (fallen Mike)

Casino Cups/Lil Lucifer belongs to @camodiel (can also be found on @camodielsart)

Ch. 4

The duke’s beady eyes glanced around the crowd, but began to look confused and disoriented.

‘Um- ok this is too many at once. Mind forming a line?’ She commanded in the form of a request

Everyone shuffled around into a single file line, confused as to where she was going with this.

One by one she examined each of them closely.

Pacing up and down the line they’d formed, getting up in their faces a little bit which Cuphead wasn’t liking. Once she had finished she returned to the case and began passing out the blades.

As she did so

Cuphead began to sense a pattern.

He couldn’t really explain it but, the size, length, and colors of each dagger seemed to correlate with their size, strength, and demeanor. Wheezy got the widest one with a rough stone hilt, while Pachinko got the small slim one that he had had his eyes on yesterday (though Cuphead hadn’t noticed that he was with them until now)

and Cuphead’s blade…

It had a hilt appearing to be made of bronze, with a reddish pink gem at the bottom. The blade was easily twice the size of his own hand, and curved into a sort of C shape.

He glanced over at Mugman next to him, who’s face was lighting up upon seeing his. It was long, straight, sword-like, and of course; silver and blue.

Everyone seemed fascinated with their new weapons. Chips was expertly twirling his between his fingers with a smirk on his face, the Tipsy Troop were hapily comparing theirs with one another, and Hokus Pokus seemed… ‘happy’ to have a brand new knife… Cuphead liked his too

The tone of this field trip was starting feel… more friendly… in a way that felt special… for a moment…

But… Cuphead looked up at the Duke standing in front of them, and the expression on her face, it did not match that friendly tone. She looked out at them, and then at the ground, clearly in some sort of deep contemplation.

She looked back up at them, seeming to steal her resolve… but from what?

The Duke commanded their attention once again

‘Now, we’ll take this day by day but, there are about… four… main adversaries you’ll be at risk of facing. We can’t bring in the real thing but we have gathered some demons with very similar forms and abilities’

She was walking towards four large barred gates on the other side of the arena. Which Cuphead hadn’t really noticed up until this point, appearing to be just as grey and abandoned as the rest of the arena.

She knocked on one of the bars of the left most gate

A low growl erupted from its dark interior.

A spark of terror shot up Cuphead’s spine.

She strolled over to the next cage, performing the same knock followed by another roar

Cuphead frantically glanced around at the others, their line formation was breaking apart as most of them were beginning to back away as their limbs seemed to turn to jelly.

The Duke continued down the cages arousing a new agitated noise with each knock, until they layered on top of each other like a chorus of snarls

Cuphead knew the shit most of his coworkers had seen, and now even Phear and Hokus were beginning to look skittish.

She stopped and stood still on the right side of the cages,

paused for a moment,

and placed her hand on a nearby lever.

She spoke

‘Alright! For this first one; just stay on your feet, don’t let the tail manage to wrap itself around you, and watch out for the fangs. On three!

One…’

‘WAIT- WHAT?!?!’ Mugman cried

‘Two…’ the Duke continued despite the outbreak of protest

‘WHA- THATS IT?!?’ Chips exclaimed

Cuphead could feel his gut drop like a stone

‘THREE!!!’

She threw the lever

Here’s a little art I made of Cuphead’s knife

Ch 1, Ch 2, Ch 3

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Casino Cups/Lil Lucifer HTTYD Au (Fallen Mike Scenario)

Ch. 3

The next morning had arrived, and everyone had showed up about an hour earlier than usual per the devil’s request. So they could start whatever he had planned for them before the casino opened. Cuphead arrived at the casino with his brother, feeling pretty ready despite the early start (and getting attacked by a monster less than 24 hours ago), with Mugman being slightly worse for wear.

They looked around the casino to find no one else there at first, until they found everyone crowded tightly in the Devil’s office. The room was abuzz with whisperes. Everyone just looked around confused… until the devil appeared in front of them… next to the lift into hell.

Leaning against it, he flipped the lever to hoist it up and simply said

‘After you guys’ with a toothy grin

He seemed to be back to his old menacing self again

After managing to pile everyone into the lift in the space of three trips (as well as helping some of the workers get over their hesitation about stepping into hell) they had all been lifted down

Lifted down into… what appeared to be an arena of some sort.

It was pretty dark, seemed almost abandoned. Cuphead looked out one of the few windows and saw a very bleak landscape outside, fairly devoid of anything living. They were all lead to a larger and much more lighted area in the center, surrounded by high and vacant bleachers.

Almost immediately after they entered, a figure emerged from the dark in front of them and commanded their attention.

Tall but significantly shorter than the devil, sporting leather from head to toe and a mauve complexion. They had a pointy beak-like face with a set of large horns coming from the top of their head, and a confident expression.

The devil spoke

‘Alright… Everyone! Meet Duke Abigor!’

The ‘duke’ responded indignantly to his introduction

‘Ahem, Great Duke Abigor of Jinnestan…’

They quickly regained composure however

The devil gave a nervous cough and continued

‘S-she’s going to be teaching you some of the-‘

She interrupted him

‘I’ll take it from here my lord’

‘basics…’ he weakly finished his sentence

‘I’m going to go… stand over there now’ the devil said and quickly shuffled off to the doorway where Dice was standing

‘Greetings mortals. You already know my name, his highness has asked me to give you a rudimentary instructional course on how to fight agianst fallen ang-‘

The devil angrily butted in. Grabbing her arm and pulling her off to the side.

She resisted saying ‘HEY WHAT ARE YOU- JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE THE KING DOESN’T MEAN I’M JUST GOING TO LET YOU MANHANDLE-‘

He whispered something to her in a harsh tone

She responded in a more audible voice ‘You never said I couldn’t tell them that!-‘

He hushed her again, but she resisted once more

Once again speaking perfectly loud she said ‘Well how am I supposed to?!-‘

The devil only gave her a stern glare, this time she seemed to cave in

‘Fine… I’ll just- ugh…’ she said and turned back towards the crowd

Attempting to perk back up into a more enthusiastic demeanor, she stood up tall and exclaimed

‘Well! Welcome to monster training!’

For those of you who don’t know who Abigor is

Ch 1, Ch 2

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Casino Cups/Lil Lucifer HTTYD Au (Fallen Mike Scenario)

Casino Cups/Lil Lucifer belongs to @camodiel (can also be found on @camodielsart)

Ch. 2

Even though he was done with work, Cuphead still had to go back to the casino to reconvene with Mugman if he wanted to go home. If he tried to head home by himself Mugs would have no idea where he went and he would just worry his levitating head off all night. But god he would give anything to not have to make eye contact with either of his bosses for at least a week now.

‘Siiiiigh. Hey brother, sorry I was gone for so long… ’ he greeted Mugman exhausted and confused after his experience in the forest

‘Well… it was only like half an hour. And honestly I would never want to show my mug here again if I had disturbed a secret meeting of the ringleaders of hell. Haha…’ Mugman tried to joke having calmed down

‘Let’s just get outta here before anything else can-‘

‘Um, hey guys?’

Cuphead had spoken too soon, as Chips interrupted him

‘Um, hey. What is it?’ Mugman answered

‘Well, the boss wants to see Cuphead in his office’ Chips told them

‘Ooooohhhh…’ Mugs said while awkwardly side-eying Cuphead

‘O…ok…’ Cuphead said dejectedly

‘Good luck partner…’ chips said through gritted teeth while playfully paying him on the back

Cuphead walked down the hall and into the devils office stiff as a board. The devil’s face was covered by a newspaper that he did not even look up from once he’d entered. He stood there for a few seconds and considered just leaving now while he was distracted, but just as he was about to turn around he spoke

‘Cuphead…’

‘Um hey boss…’ Cuphead greeted him in return

He wondered if he should tell him what he saw

‘I think I need to… talk to you…’ he added

‘I need to talk to you too. That’s why you’re here’ said the devil gesturing for him to sit down at the chair across from him

‘Look… I understand you’re little… interruption resulted in a little… a little tiff between you and Dice earlier…’ he said holding two of his fingers to his forehead, this conversation clearly wasn’t coming easily for him

‘Um, well yeah I- I’m so-‘ Cuphead stumbled over an apology but was interrupted by the devil

‘Look, up until now you have been very good about listening to our instructions despite the sudden change of pace that… we haven’t really explained to you’ he said

Cuphead was surprised by where this conversation seemed to be going

‘Seeing as it’s now um negatively impacting the work environment… I think it’s time we gave everyone a well owed explanation…’ the devil said still seeming to be struggling to get these sentences out

Dice entered, he looked a little surprised to see Cuphead sitting right there. And he avoided eye contact when he saw him.

‘Welp! Dice! You two can hash it out in here for a sec! I’ll go get everyone together in the break room! Bye!’ the devil said as quickly as he could and bolted out of the room

King Dice and Cuphead stared awkwardly for a second, until Dice finally spoke up.

‘Listen I- I- didn’t mean to- I- siiiigh- I didn’t mean to get so short with you ok?’ He said

Cuphead still had no idea what was going on

‘A-am I getting pranked???’ he said

‘I’m TRYING to APOLOGIZE! OK?’ Dice snapped

Cuphead didn’t really know what to say

‘Look, I don’t care that you didn’t listen. It’s ok. Alright?’ Dice said putting his hand on Cuphead’s shoulder

‘Um… ok thanks…’ Cuphead said awkwardly

‘Personally, I don’t like how the boss has been acting lately either. I didn’t think it was right for him to be so secretive with everyone but I know this stuff is really personal for him and, I just wanted to respect his privacy.’

Cuphead still said nothing, waiting to see where he was going with this, but then Chips entered.

‘Um, hey Cuphead. Mr Dice. Now boss is calling everyone to the break room’ he said

‘Well, here we go’ Dice said turning to Cuphead and gesturing for him to follow him out

The devil had gotten everyone gathered in the break room. He stood in the center, with a very stern expression on his face. Mugman was there too, and Cuphead sat down next to him.

‘Hey, what did he want?’ Mugs whispered to him

‘I think we’re about to find out’ Cuphead replied

Mugman expressed confusion, but the devil commanded everyone’s attention before he could inquire further.

‘Ok everyone listen up!’

Any whispering in the room was immediately silenced

The devil nervously glanced back at dice who was standing behind him, and he returned with a concerned look and an encouraging nod. The devil took a deep breath and began

‘Now, surely you’ve noticed some… unusual things going on around the casino…’

He paused for just a moment, some of the workers nodded.

‘Well, since this technically affects you too I- felt that I owe everyone an explanation for the recent changes…’

He looked back at dice again, who nodded again in his direction

‘I’m sure you’ve noticed the type of… guests we’ve been having over lately… some of hell’s… military personnel…’ he continued

‘Well, hell has an… old enemy… that seems to have re-emerged. And believe me when I say they’re a HEAVY HITTER, for all demonkind. And… I’ve just been, throwing EVERYTHING into preparing for a confrontation with them…’

‘And I guess… I should be preparing the rest of you too…’

Confused muttering emerged throughout the small room. The devil pulled out a large wooden case and positioned it on the floor in the center of the room for everyone to see.

Ever you one crowded around curiously. The devil opened it to reveal inside at least a dozen ornate shiny knives, with golden hilts and blades that were slightly curved, all varying in size.

‘Wha- What the hell are these?!’ Mr Wheezy exclaimed

‘Immortal blades. Enough for everyone, but we won’t be using them today so- HEY HANDS OFF! WHAT DID I JUST SAY?!’

At the devils scolding, Pachinko immediately yanked his hands away from the smallest knife

‘We’ll start training tomorrow’ the devil said and then turned to exit the break room

‘Training? GASP ARE WE GONNA LEARN TO FIGHT WITH THESE THINGS?!’ Mangs asked enthusiastically

‘I just want you all to know some basics, in case you run into into someone… unfriendly’ the devil answered

‘No… way…’ mugs said excited but flabbergasted

‘What do you mean ‘unfriendly’?’ asked Phear who up until now had been silent

‘I think you’ll know them when you see them… ’ the devil answered

As he passed through the door and made the case snap shut, levitate, and follow him out… he whispered something else. Under the impression that no one could hear, but Cuphead certainly did.

‘Because I know he’s close… ’

Everyone began talking amongst themselves, some were concerned, some were intrigued, and some just confused as to who this mysterious ‘enemy’ was

Cuphead had a feeling he knew who he was talking about

Link to Ch 1 and Ch 3

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Casino Cups/Lil Lucifer HTTYD Au (Fallen Michael Scenario)

Casino cups and Lil Lucifer belong to @camodiel (you can also find him at @camodielsart)

Ch. 1

‘WHY CANT YOU FOLLOW THE SIMPLEST ORDERS?’

King Dice’s words had stung Cuphead’s ears and now rang in his head, allowing the feelings of resentment to stew as as he bitterly stomped down the overgrown pathway. Sure he had gone in the room he had specifically told him stay out of because the boss was having an ‘import call’ with a few of the members of Hell’s royal court, but he’d only interrupted them for a second and he’d left as soon as he realized what was going on.

His employers had seemed more… on edge… this past week or so. The shift in behavior was so sudden. Boss was always shut in his office and in the rare moments when he wasn’t he was noticeably anxious, seemingly constantly on the verge of panicking, in a way that almost seemed unnatural for him. King Dice on the other hand was just plain irritable, but had an air of somberness and seriousness that was also unlike him. And he was obviously worried about his boss. ‘Guess it all just came to a head today’ he thought, whatever ‘it’ was.

It was really beginning to bother him that they wouldn’t tell anyone what in literal hell was going on with them. He’d even tried asking the devil why he’d become such a hermit lately, he only responded by getting fiery eyed and defensive and then vanishing in a flare of smoke that left him coughing for a solid minute after he had disappeared.

His brother was obviously even more curious than him, but showed a surprising level of restraint in not prying. Mugman was always wary about getting involved in whatever shenanigans the devil got up to as the king of the underworld. But he seemed to want to know for dices sake, perhaps he thought if he knew he could help ease his anxiety

And it wasn’t the first time the devil had had one of these ‘private meetings’. He had been having demons that he’d never even seen before over to meet with him at the casino almost on a daily basis. Most of them seemed to be military of some kind. He had heard and heard of bits and pieces of what they were discussing, something about a ‘hunt’ and ‘preparations’. He had only been able to overhear one full sentence out of the devil (because he shouted it)

‘HE’S PRACTICALLY FALLING RIGHT INTO OUR HANDS AT THIS POINT. I DONT NEED TO KNOW AND I DONT CARE. WHATEVER OR WHOEVER YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH. BRING. HIM. IN.’

Cuphead let out a sigh and decided to worry about it later

‘I think God hates me…’ he said out loud to no one

He didn’t know there was a small pine forest on isle 3 around the easternmost train tunnel. Mugs had tried to tell him not to go off by himself just because he was pissed off but they were off the clock now anyways so he didn’t see any reason he had to stay. A branch obstructed his path and he frustratedly smacked it out of his way, only for it to come and smack him back.

But then as he was swatting at the branch… he looked up…

This tree’s entire trunk was bent on its side… as if someone had tried to tear it in half…

He looked to his right… and saw an entire row of trees that had been marred in a similar way… forming some sort of path way to a large crater in the distance…

Curious but cautious, he carefully shimmied down the steep incline and came to the edge of the crater. He could not see into it as there was a large upward slope of dirt blocking his view, so he got on his hands and knees and climbed above to see-

He let out a loud gasp but quick clapped his hand over his mouth and ducked back behind the dirt, hoping whatever that was hadn’t seen or heard him. He hadn’t quite been able to make out what he saw, some sort of large goat-like winged creature with large curvy horns and nearly pitch black fur. It- honestly kinda looked like the devil…

He took another peek, it… looked kinda dead. And upon even closer inspection he could see it was bound in some sort of snare. He came to the conclusion that weather it was alive or not it wouldn’t be able to hurt him, and stepped into the crater for a closer look. But still grabbed a large pointy stick he found nearby, not even sure what he’d do with it if that thing woke up but it made him feel safer

‘H-holy shit this is… this is the scariest and the coolest thing that’s happened to me in like months…’ and scary and cool things happened to him surprisingly often, usually because he touched something he wasn’t supposed to. He slowly nudged its arm with the stick he was holding ‘A-re you a demo- AAHH’ the creatures arm suddenly moved and slammed him against a rock, clearly annoyed at his disturbance

He regained his footing and poised the stick at it, hoping to appear somewhat intimidating. A luminous bright blue eye blinked open, staring at him with contempt. But remembering it was still tied up he calmed down a bit. He stepped closer and the blue eyes narrowed as it let out a low growl as if to say ‘DON’T YOU DARE’ It’s eyes seemed to be fixed on his casino uniform, as if it knew what it stood for… and it didn’t like it. But when it tried moving as if to swat him away again it winced in pain and its body to went limp as a rag doll.

It let out a doglike despaired whimper as its head it the ground. Cuphead looked closer and saw that the ropes around it were partially coated in red crust and digging into its skin. He found himself feeling… sympathy for it. But it clearly didn’t want him anywhere near it. The same way… he hadn’t wanted it anywhere near him…

He was starting to get the feeling the devil might have something to do with this. It clearly wasn’t a fan of the fact that he worked for him. Why was it so close to the casino? Was it some sort of threat? He contemplated just leaving it there and running off to forget the whole thing… but then it whimpered again.

He looked into its eyes but it closed them and turned its head away. Those ropes could’ve been the only thing keeping it from pouncing on him and tearing into him with its claws. and what’s more, could he potentially get in even more trouble with the devil if he interfered? Every rational thought in his head was telling him to just turn and run but-

Without thinking, he got to work cutting the ropes with the sharp end of the stick as fast as humanly (cuply???) possible. The demon’s eyes opened again and darted to his moving hands as they snapped the ropes apart. In a panic Cuphead wheeled around to make his escape, only to feel a huge claw close around his non existent neck and slam him against the nearby rock.

He was starting to regret showing mercy when it was now clear that it wouldn’t be returned as his breathing quickened underneath the demon’s grasp. It stared intently into his eyes and growled deeply. He stared back, as if to silently plead for his life. They stayed there in this position for what felt like forever to Cuphead, even though it couldn’t have been more than ten or fifteen seconds.

But then it’s menacing gaze began to falter, and became slightly more sympathetic. Cuphead’s expression changed too, sort of went from ‘PLEASE NO’ to ‘wait, really?!’ The demon slammed its hand against Cuphead’s stomach knocking him to the ground. It leaned in close to his face and SCREECHED as loud as it could before throwing him aside and tearing off into the woods, and out of sight.

Cuphead caught his deathly terrified breath and attempted to rise to his feet, but only managed to take about two steps before stumbling back to the ground face first with a loud moan

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My main fics rn are my Casino Cups/Lil Lucifer HTTYD Au (a few may be familiar with that one) and another Cuphead DLC fic that I’ll be releasing soon based on the captured Cuphead ending. There’ll probably be more after that though!

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