Moneybath: From A Blessing To A Sin!

Deadend

Upon what felt like an hour of driving away, listening to many songs that were being played on the radio, it seemed like a never ending trip. Freezy just looking at the window, Pesky playing on Freezy's phone, Judas looking up to the car roof while its back was laid on the seat, and Laddicus driving the car while moving his shoulders a bit to the song. Eventually, from all this time that passed by, Laddicus seemed to see some sort of house in the distance. It was actually his old house, from all this time after he got to work as a hitman to kill other people. " Oh, look! Sweet lil' home! ", he says as he continued to drive until he made a stop right about this old house. Pesky was so hyper fixated in the game that he didn't even mind the stop, while Freezy and Judas noticed the sudden stop and immediately went to question it. While the imp was looking around, Judas looked at Laddicus, then back at the window and said " W-Wait, w-w-what's going on? ". " We are just making a lil' stop right about this house. It's where I used to live! Oh, good ol' memories... ", Laddicus happily said, right before opening the car door and leaving the car while he says " You guys can stay here all you want! ". Judas just stared into the distance while Freezy thought to himself for a bit and decided to get out of the car and visit this old house in the middle of nowhere. In the car, just Judas and Pesky were sitting there while both of the other imps go to search that old house, leaving for Judas to think to himself while Pesky just plays the game about pancakes every time. The house wasn't owned, it was actually abandoned, so Freezy and Laddicus didn't see a problem searching inside of it. Walking up to the door, they both stared at each other for a moment, Laddicus asking " Can I chop it? ", while Freezy answers " It was your house, so there's no issue! ", leaving for the big guy to hold his axe firmly in the air before swinging it on the door, with such strength almost chopping the door in half. It didn't take much for Laddicus to use his own bare hands to split the door open, revealing the inside of the house, which was extremely rancid and filled with cobwebs. While Laddicus was entering the house, Freezy then asked " Why didn't you get your keys to open the house in the first place? ", which was then met with Laddicus's answer " Oh well, I remember when I first managed to move out of this house when I got my first paycheck, and I ate the key... the other day I took a dump and I never saw the key again. ", leaving Freezy a bit too surprised to find out the loss of the key was quite disgusting. As Freezy entered the house, he said " Well, this answer is a bit too rancid like this house... let's change subject when we get back to the car, actually. ", then starting to look around the house and explore the rooms just like Laddicus was doing. For Freezy, this rancid place was basically just an abandoned house which seemed like nobody wanted to change or remove from its place, but for Laddicus, it was like unlocking an old memory. He was just so happy to meet every single thing that was forgotten, touching every item that he could and even trying to put some inside his pockets to, of course, keep it at his actual home that was miles away from this location in the Wrath ring. Freezy was just checking the bedroom and trying to be as cautious as possible to not attract any of the spiders in the cobwebs, even getting up the bed once he reached the middle of the bedroom to not get any cockroaches on his legs. Eventually, noticing and then looking through a night desk beside the bed, he suddenly found a magical book with demon magic, and looking through it, he just found out about something that he really needed to travel to other places, and it was the magic to travel through rings. He quickly ran from the bedroom he was, feeling so much happiness, trying to find Laddicus while yelling " Laddi! Look at what I just found! ". It immediately called for Laddi's attention as it seemed like another memory unlocked, so following the voice he was hearing through the house, he managed to find himself with Freezy again. Noticing how Freezy was extremely happy while holding a book, it seemed like a new discovery or something that was extremely rare to have there. " What's this? ", he asked, while grabbing the book that was given to him, until he realized that it was the spellbook he forgot years ago in the house. Looking through it while feeling extremely happy just like Freezy, he started to check every page by its figures and images drawn to represent what each spell would do, he managed to, as well like his friendly imp, find the spell that would help with travelling through the other sin rings from Hell. " N-No way! Should we go to one of them? ", he asked, which was then met with the answer from Freezy " Sure, just let's ask the other ones if they wish to go as well. ". And not thinking twice, they decided that going through one of the rings from Hell was a great idea, running back to the car as they left the old house they were visiting. The two guys who were inside the car, Judas and Pesky, they were met with some quick footsteps from outside, before the two imps opened the car doors and entered the car. They both watched as the imps seemed extremely happy to find something. " Wait, why are you guys so happy? ", Judas asked, looking at the two imps each time. " We found a spellbook!-- Uhm, do you guys wish to travel through the rings of Hell? ", Laddi answered and then asked, which immediately called the attention of both Judas and Pesky. The pesky imp immediately drove the attention from the phone to Laddicus, showing a really big smile as he was extremely excited to travel to the other rings of Hell, after all, being in the Wrath ring is kind of boring sometimes as there's not much to do, since he has been living almost all of his entire life in the Wrath ring. However, to Judas, he saw it as a problem, because for a human hearing about the "Nine Rings of Hell" is quite terrifying. He just looked around, sweating a bit and then just said " Uh-Uhm... I-I mean, it depends. ", which wasn't a 'yes' at all, but was taken as affirmative. " Great! Then we are off! ", Laddicus happily said, before getting out of the car and making some gestures in the distance. It didn't seem like it was doing something, but Judas just trusted it was going to do something in the front of the car, since he knew that Laddicus was someone that had a massive knowledge on demonic and dark magic, seen previously from the many dark axes he managed to summon in order to threat their lives with it. Eventually, a large portal was open in front of the car, making an orange ring in front of them which lead to a place that was similar to the famous Imp City they were many hours ago, except the buildings were much darker and the sky was had a dark red tint. Judas was terrified, or Judy at least, since it seemed like she was getting much farther from her home. The imps didn't even care for her worries, and once Laddicus went back to the car, he closed the door and then said " Alright, into the Pride Ring we go! ", accelerating the car once Freezy closed the other car door. It was such an impulse to the car that it was quite terrifying for Pesky and Judas, being thrown a bit back into the seats once the car was driven in a high speed towards the portal. Eventually, they managed to get into the most feared place in Hell: the Pride Ring. Arriving to the location, the imps were a bit familiarized with the place as it was many years of living in Hell, whether they liked it or not, so the place was known as the Pentagram City, because, of course, the sky was dark red and the sun/moon was a literal pentagram floating in the sky. Once the car stopped, Judas and Pesky decided to look around and both had reactions that by their origins, were self explanatory. Pesky was so happy to look at the sky and see the dark red tint, with some few stars sparkling in the sky while the sound of raves were around, while Judas was terrified that by his side, there was the moon, or sun, that was a literal pentagram floating in the sky. It was like some sort of devil was invading Earth and the Sun or Moon was taken over. " W-WHAT THE ACTUAL... WHAT IS THIS? ", he screamed, pointing at the pentagram in the sky. While Pesky tried to get around Judas and look over to his window, Laddicus who was opening the door and leaving the car looked at the sky and said " Oh, it's just the pentagram. Don't worry, it won't hurt you! ", and by the time the sentence was finished, Pesky was fascinated by the random pentagram in the sky. It was like a miracle to him, seeing such a demonic but incredible thing being seen in the sky normally. While the imps were leaving the car and appreciating the atmosphere, Judas was trying to lock himself inside the car in order to not presence the devil's grace that he was seeing upon the sky. Eventually, Pesky who was leaving the car saw that Judas wasn't wanting to leave the car, so he said " Don't be a baby! " before grabbing Judas's sleeveless jacket and pulling him outside the car, dragging him out and exposing him to the atmosphere from the Pride Ring. While Judaws was shivering a bit, Pesky by his side and Freezy just taking a look around the place, Laddicus looked over to the other side and said " Wait, is that the Hazbin Hotel Blitzø talked about? It looks... a bit funky. ", pointing to a massive building that not only had the strangest architecture from the other buildings, it literally had a ship sticking out on its right. " The Hazbin what? ", Pesky said, before the four people in the middle of the road were jumpscared by the sound of a loud honk. followed by an obese imp sticking its head outside the window and yelling " Can you guys move the hell out of the road?! ", before driving to the side and going on with its life. The roads were a bit empty, but it didn't mean that they could just park in the middle of the streets, so the four looked at each other before going back to the car, and Laddicus driving up to the parking lot that was beside the hotel. Upon arriving and the three leaving the car, also Pesky pulling Judas out of it, they were met again with the atmosphere from Hell. Suddenly, as if it was meant to be, Laddicus saw a familiar figure, an imp with massive horns and an outfit that was quite calling, it was no other than Blitzø! He seemed to be leaving the car while holding out his gun, clearing some dust from his outfit before walking off, but then looking to his side and seeing Laddicus with the other few imps from the trip. " Oh, look who's over here! What's up? Bringing the family inside the hotel? ", Blitzø started saying while coming closer to the group of imps, making fun of Laddicus over the fact that he was bringing other three imps to the place. " Actually, ehm... ", Laddicus said, then looking at Judas remembering that he was told to not reveal his identity, however, it was already enough for the fact that he looked over to his friend a bit nervous to make the dealer a bit suspicious. Blitzø just raised an eyebrow and looked over to the imp the lumberjack looked at, and then said " Who's the nice guy over here? ", getting closer to them and looking at their face. It seemed like that they started to know that Judas wasn't an imp as he took a closer look at his face and noticed how the beard wasn't real, it was purely drawn on his face. What seemed to be the end of the journey at the moment was simply someone misunderstanding the meaning behind the drawn beard and instead, thought about something more ridiculous. " Look, I know there are better ways to implant a beard on you, this thing looks cheap as hell. ", Blitzø said, before spinning the gun and then turning over to the other guy, Laddicus, and continuing their conversation. Laddicus was more relieved than ever knowing that Blitzø fell for it and thought that Judas was a real imp, and just followed with their conversation once it was no longer mentioned the presence of Judas at the moment. As the imps were a bit calmer and Judas was thinking to himself, in his mind saying " Should I just... give him money and expect he accepts me? ", looking at Blitzø as he chatted with Laddicus. While they were both chatting, Laddicus then said " So... there's the target... I think they might be stuck in the normal world. Ehmm... do you mind opening a gate to there? ", which was then met with the answer " You managed to let it escape to the normal world? Ugh... fine. ", then going back to his car and opening the door with his car keys. Laddicus followed him, watching him go inside his car to grab a spellbook and with that, going to be able to create a portal to the human world. Judas was just slowly approaching them as he started seeing the light of the outside Hell. Almost like it was becoming way too easy for him to simply get out of this place. Once Blitzø opened the portal for Laddicus to leave Hell, with his boss as well, Laddicus then turned around to Judas and yelled " Okay, go! GO, GO, GO! ", leaving for Judas to sprint towards the portal and finally manage to leave Hell. Or so he thought. The moment where he stepped into the normal world, suddenly he was dragged by a hand that magically appeared, dragging him back into a different portal behind him, tearing the cloth of time-space, dragging him back to the building where he originally was when the Wheel of Fate game started. " Oh, silly... did you even read the contract? ", the same figure that haunted Judas from all this trip was back at it again: Lux, the main CEO of this whole scheme. Judas who was left confused and scared was looking around, later saying " W-Wait, w-w-what's going on? ". " The contract specifically said that once the deal was made, there's no way, and I mean NO WAY, to go back to your human pathetic world. ", Lux said, later magically summoning the contract if front of Judas and highlighting this same rule in red. Judas immediately got up and grabbed the contract, looking and reading at what it said that caused this to happen. Judas, or Judy, was speechless, knowing that there was no way for her to get back home since the soul was sold and now was Lux's property. Judas just stared off into the distance as he couldn't do anything but stay in Hell, forever, living the dangers of being hunted down by other imps as they refuse to live with the human race in a place full of criminality.

After some time, Judas was finally met at Daemonium's house, with his friends Freezy and Pesky, trying to have dinner knowing that there was no way for Judas to get out of this place. Having to live with imps and fake an identity in order to live in Hell, also knowing that Daemonium knew that Judas was a human all along, even living with a hitman chasing him in order to get his body, was a lot to know that Judas, or Judy, wouldn't live much longer in this place. She only smiled in terror as there was no possibility of leaving this place.

End of Chapter 1

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