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toothedsmile · 5 years ago

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The new demon: Chapter six

Chapter six: Eyes that hide

You opened your mouth to speak but Angel Dust was faster.

“Ah. So uh, what’s the deal with Smiles over there?”

You pursed your lips at being interrupted even though you weren’t speaking yet, while it was the same question you wanted to ask (though worded differently) you still would have liked to contribute to the conversation.

You knew you didn’t speak much to people you saw as just strangers, only with your tiny bits of somehow existing confidence and will to speak. And just as you actually wanted to speak someone else did before you!

With a small and unnoticeable sigh you guided your thoughts back to what was happening right in front of your nose.

It seemed that Vaggie (after a bit of banter with Angel) finally decided to explain who the so called ‘Radio Demon’ or as you better know him as, Alastor, actually was.

“Ugh. Decades ago, Alastor manifested in Hell, seemingly overnight. He began to topple overlords who had been dominant for centuries. That kind of raw power had never been harnessed by a mortal soul before, then he broadcast his carnage all throughout Hell, just so everyone could witness his ability. Sinners started calling him, ‘The Radio Demon’, As lazy as that is. Many have speculated what unimaginable force enabled him to rival our world’s most ancient and destructive evils. But one things for sure, he’s an unpredictable source of evil, a wicked spirit of mystery and a violent monster of chaos, the likes of which we can’t risk getting involved with unless we want to end up erased!”

Vaggies small speech was indeed quite a bit to take in, it seemed as if she had rehearsed the whole thing just to tell it to someone when the right moment arrived. Though her story didn’t surprise you much as you already had a few speculations about the Radio Demon, it wasn’t that hard to see when you just looked hard enough at the bunch of people who avoided him when he was walking on the street. And that smile, you knew something wasn’t right about him almost the moment you saw him.

And yet, after such an intense speech, filled with hateful passion! Angel Dust interrupted. (he seems to like doing that, maybe it was the attention? You really didn’t get it…)

“Ya done? He looks like a strawberry pimp!”

Perhaps he had some use after all, you thought as you snorted at the comparison. And as if on cue, Alastor somehow, in a twirl of something black (like the shadow you had seen him use when he appeared and disappeared) made his microphone appear. You could see that the eye was open, as you squinted your eyes at it, it moved to make direct eye contact with you, it’s slit pupil digging into your own. Out of surprise you jolted up a bit, slightly catching the attention of the two others sitting next to you before they once again started to banter with each other.

“Well I don’t trust him!” You hummed in agreement with Vaggie. “I have to say that I as well don’t really trust him much. He seems to be hiding something…”

Vaggie looked at you with a slightly grateful look in her eyes. Angel Dust merely rolled his eyes as he looked at his nails with complete disinterest about the possible danger the Radio Demon could possibly become.

“To be fair, do you trust any man? Any men? Men?” He joked dryly while Vaggie seemed just about as done as anyone could possibly be. His eyes glanced at you from the side, urging you to at least show some sort of reaction but you just remained there, sitting quietly as you knew you didn’t really have anything to say here. (That and you didn’t want Vaggie to get angry at you, she seemed pretty trustworthy and useful)

Vaggie slinked away from the horrible attempt of a joke, slightly patting you on your shoulder as if saying ‘don’t die again’ and went to Charlie.

“That was a horrible joke Angel. 2/10 for the attempt at the very least.”

Angels head turned directly to you, his eyes were narrowed into slits and trying to burn through your very being. It did not work as you just kept a neutral expression, only your eyes were the only indicator of mischief.

“You can’t say much, you haven’t spoken a word since ya sat your ass down.”

Deciding to ignore the very existence of Angel your eyes went to Charlie and Vaggie the latter seemingly pleading something at Charlie as she held her arms. As you looked at them you noticed that there was someone else that wasn’t with them, Alastor.

After looking side to side you saw that he was looking at a painting which had Charlie and two other people on it that seemed very similar to her, you assumed that they were more than likely her parents.

It seemed that Alastor had sensed your distrusting stare as he turned around not even seconds after to look you right in the eyes, his smile and as well as his horns grew but when you narrowed your eyes at him he backed down with a teasing glint in his eyes, as if he was testing to see what your reaction would be to him when he did something that you would more than likely deem as out of line.

Suddenly Charlie walked confidently up to him, or at least until she actually got close to him.

“Okay so, you’re sketchy as fuck and you clearly see what I’m trying to do here as a joke.”

As Charlie turned her back on Alastor you could see that he had once again a bunch of symbols floating around him as he menacingly smiled at her, right on the moment that she turned around he went back to smiling politely, as if he wasn’t doing anything wrong. Charlie clearly noticed that he had done something and narrowed her eyes at him with a slightly funny expression.

With a soft smile she continued her explanation and slightly small speech to Alastor, it was more than obvious to you that she was very invested in the lives of her (more than likely) future subjects and was hoping to help them improve themselves.

“But I don’t, I think everyone deserves a chance to prove they can be better. So I’m taking your offer to help! On the condition that there be no tricks or voodoo strings attached.”

As if she were a puppeteer she moved her fingers when she talked about the strings, with an eyeroll from Alastor in return of course.

Out of nowhere his microphone returned, you hadn’t even noticed that it was gone, he spun it around in the air only to hold it in his other hand to make sure that the previous one was free to open and hold out for a handshake with Charlie.

A green light appeared and wind wove around, slightly pushing everyone back. Angel, Vaggie and you held your arms up to avoid any sort of dust to come into your eyes. There was also an earie sound that pierced your ears, getting higher as the intensity of the light increased.

As you peaked through your fingers you saw that Charlie almost took hold of his hand to seal the deal, you tried to take a step forward to stop her but luckily enough Charlie eventually slapped his hand away and crossed her arms in front of herself. Alastor’s previously closed eyes opened up wide in surprise before he shut them and smiled.

“Nope! No shaking! No deal!”

She stepped away and held her elbow in comfort while Alastor once again went back to his wide smile with sharp teeth whilst holding his microphone.

“I-hm. As princess of Hell and heir to the throne, I uh hereby order that you help with this hotel, for as long as you desire.”

She smiled sheepishly up at Alastor before looking away and dropping her smile, Vaggie looked away too as her shoulders slightly drooped down.

With your eyes closed your head slowly and subtly shook side to side with some form of compassion for the decision Charlie had made at the moment.

‘She should have just made him go away, his presence will not bring any good to this hotel nor anyone involved.’ You decided to sit back down on the couch with Vaggie while Angel sat himself on the armrest, leaning on the backrest in a weird way.

When Alastor didn’t immediately reply to her question/demand she looked back and asked for verbal confirmation.

“Uh, sound fair?”

Alastor hummed and stroked his chin before shrugging. “Fair enough!”

With a relieved sigh Charlie leaned forward as Alastor walked away, she stuck up her two thumbs with a very small smile.

“Cool beans.”

Suddenly Alastor walked by the three of you humming some sort of song, hurriedly all of you went off the couch to avoid Alastor. Angel walked away to the chair that was in front of the Welcome banner while Vaggie looked at Alastor’s back with distrust before averting her eyes only to look back when he stopped with walking and humming, she quickly looked back down to avoid his eyes and took a step closer to you.

Yet it seemed that her attempt at avoiding any confrontation with Alastor was in vain as he quickly turned around and curled a finger under her chin.

“Smile my dear!” With absolute disgust she looked down at the offending finger while you tried to keep your smile back at the admittedly funny scene. Alastor stepped back and continued his sentence.

“You know you’re never fully dressed without one!”

Vaggie and Alastor looked into each other’s eyes, one with pure hatred and the other filled to the brim with mischief and bad intentions.

You thought that he would be done and focus his attention to some one else but it seemed that he still had something to say to you.

“And you as well darling! Try not to be so sour and smile a bit wouldn’t you dear?”

There he stood in all his smug glory, towering slightly over you and looking at you with a smile. He put a finger on each side of your mouth and dragged the flat line into a smile.

“There we go! Do keep it that way please.”

And as soon as he turned his back to you and walked away while humming, you let the fake smile fall and looked at him with a glare. You rubbed your hands over where he touched you, not wanting to have even the smallest trace of him on your face. Looking around you tried to search for another place to sit down.

Alastor had gone back to Charlie, probably looking for some more things to mess with. He leaned slightly over and put his hands behind his back.

“So, where is your hotel staff?”

Charlie rubbed her neck embarrassedly before folding her hands together in front of her and looked in the direction of Vaggie.

“Well..”

Alastor followed her line of sight and saw Vaggie standing there with her hands on her hips and looking straight at him with a frown and furrowed brows. He adjusted his monocle and laughed a mocking recreation of Santa’s laugh.

“You’re going to need more than that.”

He hadn’t even completely finished his sentence before he already walked away to where Angel was seated.

“And what can you do my effeminate fellow?”

With a smirk filled with nasty intentions Angel answered the question.

“I can suck yer dick.”

Alastor smiled into nothingness with a big smile before leaning back down to Angel and replying with a big “HA! No.”

Angel shrugged and leaned onto his elbow, holding his face in his hand. “Your loss.” The more than likely disgusted radio demon walked away from Angel at a bit faster pace than he normally walked and went to you.

“So, what is it that you excel in Darling?”

Leaning on the wall you looked at him with a neutral face and shrugged.

“Nothing much that would be of interest nor of use for the hotel. Besides, I’d rather speak to Charlie about these things.” You mockingly smiled up at him, knowing that that was not the answer that he wanted to hear.

“You might say that now darling but I can see that those blinkers are hiding something.”

He leaned in closer as he held you in place by putting his hands on your shoulders and looked you right in the eyes as he continued speaking, he spoke lower and softer so that the others couldn’t hear what he was saying to you.

“And I’ll make you show me what it is kitten.”

A/N: sorry about the long leave Angels! Some things happened and I’m pretty sure that you all know about the covid-19 thing. As I live in Europe, I had to deal with the quarantine around begin to middle February so I had to work for school. But as it is vacation at the moment I’ve got more time to write! I hope you guys at least enjoyed this little chapter as it is a hundred words (and 600 less than chapter 4) less than the previous chapter.

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