A match made in the heavens: a hazbin hotel rewrite / part two of Shining Star

Lute pov: chapter 15

(kind of angst, lore and sry if this is progressing too fast)

(Timeskip: about two years later)

It's been two years since Melody left Heaven. I miss her a lot and i feel a wrench inside me whenever anyone brings her up, but for the most part i've frozen it over. But that's not the point. Today is extermination day. I don't know how to feel. The fact that i can see her today, possibly and also the fact that i'm there to do something she absolutely hates is mixing me up. I don't know what's up with her lately, but she isn't responding to my texts nor calls, which makes me a little sad, but i understand. A week ago she said she would be busy with work and stuff and also whenever it's near the extermination she  gets a little nervous but  she recovers once it's over. Today Adam has some weird a** meeting with Sera so it's me leading the army. Once we enter the portal, i immediately notice something off. Melody's ad posters are all gone, unlike last year where her face was plastered all over the city. I don't ponder it much but it is a little strange how they've disappeared. I begin targeting sinners and killing them, but i don't put much force into it. Ever since Melody found out i have been loosening my brutality on the sinners but i still manage to get a hundred plus kills per year. Doesn't matter. I fly around and casually stab a few sinners to look like im doing my job. Im not that motivated this time since Adam isn't here to watch me, and by the last hour ive gathered a little more than a hundred and twenty something kills. I land in the last part of the pentagram, to kill a few more before i go back so as to not look pathetic. I chose to land on top of some rubble that seems to be a fallen building. There i kill several creepy looking sinners and as im about to call it a day, something shiny catches my eye. I walk over to that part of the building, and bend down to pick it up. It's a necklace. But not just any necklace. A star-shaped one. The one me and Melody had matching. I would recognise it anywhere. Both our initials were carved on both sides on the gold six-pointed star. I look around me and i see blood. But it's not red. It's golden. Angel's blood. There's something in the small puddle of blood, and i pick it up. It's....a photo. A photo of me, Melody and Adam, all smiling. Then the words come to my mind.  "The only way anyone is getting to this is over my dead body." That's what she said. Those were the exact words Melody said before she left to come here. I look at the necklace again. The fine gold chain is intact, and not snapped. As though someone took it off. Which means... I look at everything around me. The photo, the necklace, the blood, the unanswered calls and texts, even the missing posters is starting to link up to the only available conclusion. That Melody, the serafim, my former boss, the unrivaled idol, my girlfriend, is......dead. And someone killed her. It definitely wasn't an exorcist, we all know what she looks like in disguise and are under strict orders not to go near her in exterminations. Which means....which means...that a sinner did it. I know they somehow have access to angelic weapons, so it's definitely the answer. It hits me harder than a brick, and i feel like i'm being ripped open from the inside out. The angelic clock chimes, marking the end of the extermination, and i fly back, with a hollow, emptying sadness and anger boiling inside me. '

(later that night)

Adam pov: 

"Lute, how was the extermination today?" She seems very.....out of character ever since she came back. She's unusually quiet and i can tell something is up with her today. "What's wrong?' She may be tough but im genuinely concerned for her mental health.

"Adam...." she says my name like never before. "I think.....I think Melody is dead."

I spit out the water i was drinking and look at her. 

"what." She proceeds to tell me all about how she found the necklace Melody promised not to take off, and how she found golden blood somewhere in hell during the extermination today, and at first im skeptical, but as she keeps talking i find myself believing her more and more, and by the time she's finished i stare at her in absolute horror. My best friend, my favorite idol, the best serafim, my therapist, confidante, whatever.. is dead. I feel this weird grief inside of me that i never felt before, not even when Eve left me for that scumbag Lucifer. It's just so shocking. But at the same time i feel this burning rage inside me that makes me want to kill each and every sinner alive, because they're part of the people that killed my best friend. I glance and Lute and i can tell she's feeling the same. 

"Are you going to tell Sera or am i?' i ask after a while of silence. 

"Hell no we're not telling f*cking Sera. She's gonna have a field day! You know how terrified of Melody's power she is. For all she knows she's still alive and well, and im not planning on changing her mindset on that, got it?" Lute says with a surge of rage i never seen her have before.

"ok then..."

(A week later)

I must admit, Melody's death must have triggered Lute pretty badly. She's even more unhinged with her emotions now, but she somehow bottles all of them up except her rage when she's at training. She doesn't seem bothered at all, just very angry and she's really strict with me for no reason. I'm going through this with her and every time i try to comfort her, she just pushes me away like i'm a roach or something, I'm honestly super concerned for her. Melody....why did you have to leave?

(ok yall whooo! that was tough i finished in 15 mins. Anyway just to reassure, Melody is not actually dead i will explain in the next few chaps just telling yall that:))