The Human Hearted Imp

Chapter 95: Mammon's Magnificent Musical Ft. Fizzarolli Part 3

Back with Fizzarolli...

The jester Imp enters his dressing room in a rush, hyperventilating and slams the door behind him. He heads over to his makeup desk and looks at his reflection in the mirror.

Fizzarolli breathes heavily, "O-Okay, Fizz. You can do this. You can do this. You can do this," He then wipes sweat off his forehead, "It's okay, it's fine. You have a show to do soon, it's fine."

He soon looks at his hand that has white makeup on it causing him to gasp in horror, "Oh- oh no, oh- no, no, no, no." strained, "No, no," and begins to hyperventilate.

Fizzarolli gets a makeup brush and tries to apply it to the scratch, but his hands are shaking rapidly. He then gets up a heart-shaped makeup kit with Ozzie's name on it.

He opens it up to reveal a heart shaped mirror, "It's okay, you're fine. You need to be fine."

Outside of the dressing room, Blitz rushes to Fizz's dressing room and begins knocking on it.

Blitz knocks on the door and calls out, "Fizzarolli, are you okay?! Fizz!"

"I'm fine! I'm okay! You shouldn't worry!" Fizzarolli calls out from the room.

"But Fizzarolli..." Blitz says, worried.

Before Blitz can knock on the door again, a large hand gently grabs it.

Blitz turns to see, "Ozzie..."

Asmodues simply ignores Blitz and gestures to him to move. Blitz decides to move out of the way.

Stolas appears behind Blitz and places his hands on Blitz's shoulder.

"Are you okay, Blitz?" Stolas asks.

"I'm okay, but I'm worried about Fizz," Blitz says.

Stolas then says, "I understand. However..." and looks to see Asmodeus, "I think it's best we let Ozzie talk to Blitz, alone.

"Okay," Blitz says, still concerned.

Still in the dressing room, Fizzarolli is still trying to calm himself.

Then Asmodeus appears through the dressing room door, "Fizz! Are you okay?"

Fizz turns to see Ozzie, "Why does everyone keep asking me that?" and sits back down to do his makeup, "You shouldn't be here, Asmodeus. I'm fine, please!"

Asmodeus tries to enter the room, but due to his tremendous size, it made him halfway stuck in the door. So, with a snap of his fingers, he shrank down to a smaller size, allowing him to enter the room and up to Fizzarolli.

Asmoduesn walks up to him from behind, "Froggie..."

"I'm fine! I'm fine! Just needed a minute!" Fizzarolli cries out.

But Asmodeus knows the truth, "You aren't okay, you're shaking."

"Ozz, I'm about to go on for the finale, I need some time to mentally prepare," Fizzarolli says, trying to calm down, but isn't calm at all.

"Fizz, come on! I'm trying to talk to you, you can't force yourself to-" Asmodues says.

But Fizzarolli says, "Ozz, I have to do this. This could be my last chance to prove that I'm still good at this. That it's not over! That I'm still good enough! It's not just Mammon." and looks at the poster of himself with Mammon above him, "I'm fine. I just... need to be better," And then he walks back towards the mirror.

"You think you need to be this perfect, model performer, but that's because Mammon is always forcing that image onto you!" Asmodeus says, upset.

But Fizzarolli says, But, everything I have is because of Mammon. I have this life. I have security. I have you. Without Mammon I wouldn't be... I wouldn't have... I just... I have to win this."