Corrupted (Male Reader x Charlie) (BOOK 1)

The Calm Before the Storm

          Beep. Beep. Beep. That's all he heard. Y/N's eyes fluttered open at the repeated sound coming from his left. He leaned over, twisting in his sheets and grabbing his phone. He opened it and saw in red, bold big letters: 1 DAY. Y/N freaked out, knowing that the only person who knows who he is on his phone is Charlie, but this couldn't be real, just some kind of scam in Hell, right? He got up and put some fresh clothes on. He checked the time real quick and saw it was nine twenty, everyone should be up by now, except for maybe Angel if he had a long night at work. He exited his room and headed to the lobby, finally deciding to tell the owners of the place he was living in the prank, or possible problem at hand.

          He stepped out into the lobby and saw everybody in their own little areas. Alastor, Husk, Nifty, and Angel at the bar. Then Charlie and Vaggie checking how well the hotel was doing health and maintenance type stuff.

"Hey Charlie, I need to tell you something real quick" Y/N, rubbing his arm nervously. Charlie looked up and smiled, turned to give the clipboard to Vaggie who continued to check the building while Charlie rushed over.

"What is it?" she asked, and he just put his phone in her hands with the one day countdown link. "When did you get this?" she asked grimly, her eyes glued to the screen.

"Uh, two days ago" he said, his mind rushing to the worst outcomes from what this means. Charlie turns around and waves Alastor over. Alastor gladly gets up and wipes off the germs from Angel and comes over to them.

"What is it my dear, is Y/N's powers on the fritz?" he asked, turning his head to look at Y/N.

  "No, please tell me this isn't real" she said, showing Alastor the phone. His face turned grim, and his smile shrunk to a straight expression.

"Oh it's real..." he said darkly, red symbols appearing in the area, static filling everyone's ears.

"Alastor! I told you to stop that shi-, Charlie what's wrong?" she said as she saw Charlie's face, full of fear. Vaggie saw the phone and had a slight gasp, then noticed it was Y/N's phone. She grabbed her spear from what appeared to be nowhere and put the tip against his neck. "What's your game asshole?" she said, her eyes squinting trying to determine Y/N's motives.

"Vaggie it's fine. He wouldn't know anything about It" Charlie said, easing her best friend. Her shoulders slouched and she put the spear back by a pole.

"It? What's It?" Y/N, rubbing the sore spot on his neck where Vaggie's spear had laid.

"A long time ago, a powerful overlord who's identity nobody knows, he destroyed a third of Pentagram City and stormed Lucifer's Palace. They fought and in the end they made a deal. The overlord would be exiled from Pentagram City, but in return he asked for Lucifer's blood. He agreed and they both went their separate ways. During his revolt, he sliced many people with his scythe, and that's why the fellow is called the Reaper" Alastor said, reflecting on his early years in Hell.

"And how does that relate?" Y/N said, scared but had an odd sensation of déjà vu.

"He alerted the entire city three days before it's partial destruction by phone" Charlie said, and the room got quiet.

      "So, is Reaper dude comin back or?" Angel asked, clearly half paying attention to the conversation that would determine their fates.

"Were you fucking sleeping through that. Yes! Right?" Vaggie yelled at Angel, before questioning Alastor.

"It would seem so. But this time he isn't going for Lucifer" he said and everyone looked at him.

'Oh no' Y/N thought, already finishing Alastor's sentence in his mind.

"He's going for Y/N" he said, pointing his long finger at the hybrid and everyone looked, and Y/N sighed in disappointment. Of course with someone with good intentions in Hell, he has to come and wreck them. Just like..... No, history is repeating itself. He had to get out of here.

"So, I have a solution" Y/N said, and everyone snapped their confused faces into more confused faces.

"How? Gonna shoot some frozen water at him and he'll fuck off?" Husk said, groaning at the end of his sentence.

"I'll just leave. I'll go back to the Plains and he'll get me there and no damage done to the city or the hotel. Easy" he said confidently, leaving everyone's mouth open except Alastor, who was confused knowing that he could possibly rival Reaper with his original powers, but then remembering it was supposed to be secret.

"What? No!" Charlie said stepping towards Y/N. "Why would you even suggest that?" she asked, worry quickly flooding her eyes and she stared at Y/N.

"Listen, my earth life is basically gone. I've turned part demon. I've been a burden everywhere I went," he looked at Alastor, who understood what he was mentioning. Sinville. "So I don't care about making the sacrifice play. I would rather die and let the hotel succeed than let it crush before me" Y/N said, looking around at the concerned group, and then Charlie let one tear out before hugging Y/N, tight.

  "No you're not, everyone has had a memorable moment here with you. Don't let yourself tell you otherwise. Everyone's happy you came, so don't let those dark thoughts change your mind, ok?" she said, looking at Y/N, squeezing his arms to get the point across.

"Ok, but with Alastor's smile going away when learning about the Reaper, and when Alastor isn't smiling, something bad is brewing, so how do we stop this guy?" he asked, getting out of the middle of the group to get a drink.

"We stand our ground, and fight him" Alastor said.

  "Are you crazy? We can't stop him" Vaggie said, thinking everyone's lost their minds.

"We can try" Charlie said. "Alright, get the Cleanse stuff the board the windows and such. Vaggie get the weapons out of the locker. Just pretend it's the Cleanse except they are trying to come in" she said, and Vaggie responded. "If you're sure about this..." she said, going up the stairs. Then everyone got to work on protecting the Hazbin Hotel.

          After a few hours of preparations, they were ready. Y/N checked his phone and saw there was twelve hours left until Reaper came.

"Alright, so we just waitin' right?" Angel said, making sure his tommy and cocked and loaded, just in case.

  "Yes, we still have twelve hours. Just, try to ease up for the time being" Y/N said, leaning against the wall and closing his eyes, taking in a long, deep breath before opening his eyes. He saw the two girls come up and sit beside him.

"Hey, we were wondering if we could see more of your ice powers since you barely used them when you got them" Vaggie said, sitting down next to Charlie as they looked at Y/N.

"Uh sure" he said, and he extended his hand out, palm to the sky. He slowly closed his fist and a small snow flurry appeared above them, covering their hair and clothes in snow. Then, an ice prism sprouted from Y/N's hand and it disassembled itself and spread out like an unconnected chandelier, with the shards of ice dancing around the center, tall ice prism like an art exhibit.

"Wow" Charlie breathed out and Vaggie just looked in awe.

"You learned to do that in a little over a day?" Vaggie asked, as you made the ice and snow flurry slowly dissipate in the air.

"I've practiced a little bit" he said, as he rubbed his hand against his pants, left palm now cold.

  "I'd say. That was pretty cool, heh, pun NOT intended" Charlie said, giggling a little bit at the coincidence.

"Alright, well I'm gonna take a nap, or try to. Wake me up if were about to die" Y/N said jokingly, as he laid in a comfortable position and rested, with him on the inside terrified of the coming hours.