Flames

Threat

Alastor and Angel had been technically going out for three months now, they never officially asked eachother out, but had been on many many dates and would both refer to eachother in loving ways (when they were on there own.)

They were really comfortable with eachother now and trusted eachother much much more. Even Alastor had started opening up about his human life to Angel, the two were quite close.

It had also been three months since there was any sign of Valentino. He obviously still did his things at the studio, but he had just completely stopped trying to contact Angel. He also took down all posters of Angel and rarely talked about him, trying to make it seem as if he had never even set foot in the porn studio.

This unsettled Angel, he was sure Valentino was planning him, Alastor would always comfort him though, wouldn't he have done something by now anyway? Still, even Alastor wasn't completely sure if the overlord would ever return, if it did happen though, bad things would happen. But if that ever happened, Alastor reassured Angel that he would protect him till his death, and he ment it.

Sadly, as you may assume, things won't stay the same forever. And things were about to happen that would destroy the afterlives of the Hazbin staff, and most importantly Angel Dust.

But you all need to remember that when you've lost anything, and no one is willing to help you. You can't just stay at rock bottom, you need to rebuild your life with your bare hands, brick by brick, no matter how long it takes.

So it happened on a day, that was obviously, like any other. The pentagram shone down on pentagram city, brightening the day, clearing the clouds and not showing signs of leaving. Alastor was in the lobby, just reading, watching demons come in and out of the hotel. They had gained a few members over these few months, and we're slowly but steadily growing, finding demons who truly want to be redeemed, which helped.

Husk greeted demons grumpily, he was tired but had had all of his alcohol taken of him by Charlie for a drink incident that had happened a couple of days ago. So he just had his head in his arms, slouching on his stool, grunting at the demons who walked through the front door, what a welcome.

Alastor's P.O.V:

I read my book, but I'm not really paying attention to the word's I'm reading. I'm waiting for Angel to come home, we agreed to go out for coffee and it's a really nice day that I do not want to waste. He's been gone for a good amount of time, he just stopped by at the store not to far from here, to get some sleeping pills as his sleeping schedule is terrible. It shouldn't have took this long though, but I shouldn't panic, he probably got caught up with something, like he saw something interesting, yeah, that sounds like him.

I look up from my book to see Husk looking like he's in a terrible mood at the bar, obviously, he didn't have any boo's. I chuckle slightly, he didn't hear, I'm glad, I'm not sure what it'll take for him to snap today.

Maybe I should go see what Charlie, Nifty and Vagatha are up to? It'll take my mind of my boredom, and slight paranoia over Angel. They were upstairs on the second floor, making renovations to some of the rooms, it was the most run down floor, so they decided to work on it for new tenants in the future. Yeah, maybe that's what I should do, I have nothing better to do, I place my book down and-

Third person P.O.V:

Alastor's thoughts were interrupted by a loud crash, as Angel had basically slammed himself into the door. Husk shot his head up from the counter, looking confused and shocked at Angel. Alastor's eyes widened and he ran to his boyfriend, who was on his knees on the ground, breathing heavily.

He looked up and saw Alastor, he had tears in his eyes and a purple mark on his cheek. Alastor quickly wrapped himself around Angel,
"Darling! What the hell? Darling what's happened?!" He said, cupping Angels cheeks in his hands, inspecting his bruise mark. Angel whimpered,
"H-hes... Va-V-Valent-tino... He's h-here..." Angel stuttered heavily, bearly able to complete a sentence out of his fear of the demon.

Alastor stopped, he was here. Alastor's smile dropped completely,
"Husk, go get the girls." Alastor said, showing no signs of any emotion besides the flame in his pupils. Husk nodded quickly and rushed up the stairs to go get Charlie Vaggie and Nifty. Alastor comforted Angel, rubbing his back,
"It's going to be okay... I'll protect you, you'll be fine..." Alastor whispered into Angels ear. Angel sniffed and looked up at Alastor, his eyes just showed pure child-like fear, it made Alastor want to cry to see him like that. Alastor wiped the tears from his eyes, hugging Angel tight.

Vaggie and Charlie were downstairs in just a couple of seconds really after they heard the news. They quickly took Angel and stood him up, Charlie looked at him and gasped in shock,
"Angel! Oh my god!" She quickly checked his face and other body parts for other bruises, other than grab marks on his wrists, he wasn't to harmed.
"What are we going to do?" Vaggie asked, her voice was tense and she helped Charlie take Angel upstairs,
"Take care of Angel, I'm going to 'talk' to Valentino." Vaggie was about to say something but Charlie stopped her, Charlie sighed, she already knew there was no reasoning with Alastor, so she just nodded.

Alastor opened the door, actually, he almost pulled it off its hinges. Vaggie Charlie and Nifty took Angel upstairs where they had a medical kit, just incase there was more wrong with Angel then they saw. Husk stayed Infront of the lobby, he grabbed Vaggies spear and held it, incase Valentino had come with backup.

Alastor walked outside, but saw no one, he didn't know where Valentino had found Angel or if he had followed him, but Angel had definitely been running for a while when he arrived at the hotel. But he had a strong feeling that Valentino hadn't bumped into Angel on accident, which ment he had probably followed Angel.

His instincts were correct. It didn't take much walking to spot the pimp himself, a large evil grin on his face. He was smoking a cigarette and puffy red smoke surrounded him, demons ran away from both overlord's, so the streets were practically empty. Then the two made eye contact, Valentino stopped, his smile only growing larger, he hadn't noticed that for once, the radio demon himself was t smiling.

"Ahh I guess he called his night in shining armour then." Valentino said, stopping face to face with Alastor, and placing a hand on his hip.
"Why are you here? Do you want to die?" Alastor asked, summoning his staff and clinging on to it. Valentino laughed even harder, Alastor's eyes turned into dials,
"Ha! Your a bit cocky for a virgin~" Alastor stopped at the sexual comment, this demon was really a terrible person,
"Leave. Angel. Alone." Alastor grabbed Valentino by the throat, Valentino started choking and he clawed at Alastor's hand's. Valentino then kicked Alastor in the stomach, so that Alastor fell down to the ground, hitting his head on the concrete,
"It's his fault, he should've never tried leaving daddy."

Alastor quickly stood himself up and punched Valentino in the face. Valentino's grin was gone,
"You mother fucker!" He lunged at Alastor, Alastor used his shadows to hold Valentino back, he started scratching him and beating him up, using a lot of his powers as he was fighting another overlord. Valentino dodged a couple of attacks, his smoke confused the shadows and using the strange abilities of his smoke, he confused them enough to get out of their grasp.

Alastor couldn't get his shadows of him in time, his eyes widened as Valentino went straight for his face. Valentino clawed Alastor's eye, with his extremely sharp nails. Alastor shouted, he kicked Valentino off of him, putting his hand to his right eye. He could only see out of one eye, and felt extreme pain in his right eye and jaw. He removed his hand and only saw blood, his head snapped towards Valentino.

Valentino laughed at this, but not for long though, Alastor snapped his fingers and summoned tenticals to wrap around Valentino. Valentino struggled against the tenticals, Alastor liked to see this. He sued all of his energy, not even thinking about what it could cause to his powers, just focusing on the man Infront of him.

Valentino eventually was able to move his arm towards his leg, where he kept a hidden knife strapped onto his thigh, just incase someone tried to attack him, like one of his whores. He cut the tenticals and Alastor screeched in pain, recoiling. Valentino took this opportunity and ran towards the hotel.