Artemisia was not that surprised to see Alastor at the door.
She had a hunch that he mostly came to create his own entertainment. Being an overlord in Hell with the same thing going on does tend to get boring. Demons like Alastor tend to try to spice things up to avoid boredom.
Charlie turns her head, "Hey, Vaggie?"
"Whaaaat?" Vaggie asks with an irritated expression.
"The Radio Demon is at the door!" Charlie nervously answers, imitating the man's smile. Then points to the door.
Vaggie quickly sits up in shock, "What?!"
"Uh who?" Angel Dust asks.
"Now this is unexpected..." Artemisia said, pretending she doesn't know him at all.
"What should I do?!" Charlie panics.
"Uh, well, don't let him in!" Vaggie says.
Charlie is nervous and turns her head to the door. And sure enough, she opens the door again.
The demon calls the Radio Demon, asks, "May I speak now?"
Charlie calmly says to the demon, "You may."
The demon reaches his hand out to Charlie as he talks with his radio voice, "Alastor! Pleasure to be meeting you, sweetheart!"
He then grabs Charlie's hand and pulls her to him, "Quite a pleasure!"
Alastor lets himself in and past the princess, "Excuse my sudden visit, but I saw your fiasco on a picture show, and I just couldn't resist! What a performance! Why, I haven't been that entertained since the stock market crash of 1929! Hahahahaha."
He then walks further in as he says, "Sooo many orphans..."
Suddenly, Vaggie holds a harpoon towards Alastor's face making him stop, "Stop right there!"
Vaggie mutters, "Cabrón hijo de perra." Artemisia chuckled to herself as she heard that.
She continues to have the harpoon toward his throat and says, "I know your game and I'm not gonna let you hurt anyone here, you pompous cheesy talk show shitlord!"
Alastor chuckles as he approaches the group as he turned the harpoon away from himself with a grin, "Dear trust me. If I wanted to cause harm...I would've done it already." Alastor said in his creepy static voice.
Charlie and Vaggie stare in fear.
"That's right! I'm here because I want to help!" The Radio Demon stated in glee.
The girls stare at him with confused expressions.
Charlie asks, dumbfounded, "Say what now?"
"Help!" Alastor repeats himself.
"Hahaha, hello? Is this thing on?" Alastor questions.
He taps his mic and says, "Testing, testing!"
Suddenly, the microphone talks, "Well I heard you loud and clear!"
"Um, you want to help? With...?" Charlie asks.
Alastor teleports himself from the shadow between the girls, "This ridiculous thing you're trying to do! This hotel! I want to help you run it."
"Buuut... why?" Charlie asks.
"Hahaha, why does anyone do anything? Sheer, absolute boredom! I've lacked inspiration for decades," Alastor says.
Then leans his elbow on Vaggie's head, "My work became mundane, lacking focus..."
Then shoves her away, but Angel catches Vaggie before she could fall to the floor. "Aimless! I've come to crave a new form of entertainment! Hahaha!"
"A new form of entertainment? Does this mean you're getting tired of me? I'm crushed..." Artemisia spoke up getting Alastor's attention with a fake pout looking to another part of the room.
"Hahahahaha! Oh, I could never get tired of you or your actions, my dear! You have been making Hell more lively after all!" Alastor said.
"Does getting into a fistfight with a reporter count as entertainment...?" Charlie nervously asks.
"Hahaha! It's the purest kind, my dear: Reality! True passion! After all, the world is a stage and the stage is a world of entertainment," Alastor, showing his big sharp toothed smile.
"So does this mean you think it's possible to rehabilitate a demon like Artemisia?" Charlie asks.
Alastor shakes his hand in front of her as he laughs, "Of course not! That's wacky nonsense!"
That makes Charlie deflate.
Alastor shakes his head back and forth as he says, "Redemption, oh the non-existent humanity!"
He then shakes his head again, "No no no no, I don't think there's anything left that could save such loathsome sinners!"
He then looks over to Vaggie who is offended and Angel Dust who just shrugged. Artemisia glanced at her with an apologetic smile, which Vaggie shrugged at.
"The chance given was the life they lived before, the punishment is this! There is no undoing what is done!" Alastor adds.
Charlie steps forward and asks, So then, why do you wanna help me if you don't believe in my cause?"
Alastor turns to see Charlie and looks at her with a large grin with his eyes glowing.
Alastor walks up to Charlie "Consider it an investment in ongoing entertainment for myself!" Then pulls her close to him.
He twirls her around a little as he says, "I want to watch the scum of the world struggle to climb up the hill of betterment only to repeatedly trip and tumble down to the fiery pit of failure!"
"Riiiight," Charlie says, feeling uncomfortable and removes his hand from her shoulder.
"Yes, indeedy!" Alastor says.
Then he grabbed Charlie by her waist and drags her away, "I see big things coming your way and who better to help you than I?"
Artemisia shook her head as she stood near Angel Dust and Vaggie.
The rest was a blur with Alastor's singing, Pentious interrupting him, getting destroyed, etc.
Though she got a laugh when Angel Dust called him a strawberry pimp.
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Hell's Witch
RomanceArtemisia Daphine Potter thought she would have a peaceful afterlife after being a Golden Girl for the Wizarding World, ready to walk willingly to Death's arms. Apparently, not even Death or the Hallows are going to make it easy for her. Now she f...