Helluva Boss: ''Helluva Human Kid''

Ch.26 - Being Babysat by Via

THE NEXT MORNING...

As the pentagram sun rose through the window, Balin was still asleep in his bed cuddling his teddy bear, when he felt something smooth and wet tickling his face.

He then opened his tired eyes giggling to see it was the little doggy figurine from his alarm clock, licking his face from cheek to cheek as it barked like Goddard from 'Jimmy Neutron'.

Sensing his movement and laughter, the dog stopped licking and ran back to the clock, which read 7:30am, where it froze once again.

Balin then used his personal towel on his other bedside table to wipe the artificially real slobber off his face before getting out of bed for the day.

A couple of minutes later, he then walked out into the kitchen to get some bread from the pantry, while Loona soon came out of her room yawning like a lion as she bared her fangs. This caught Balin's eyes as she even sounded like one too.

"Good morning, Loona." said the boy. "How did you yawn like that?"

"Just one of the perks of being a hellhound, kiddo." chuckled Loona with a groggy grin. "Wanna see what else I can do?"

Balin then walked from the kitchen and over to her in curiosity.

"I can bark. *WOOF! WOOF!* I can howl. *AWOOOOO!* I can... growl. *Grrrrr...*" Very quietly, Loona did all those sounds like the wolf she was. "And... I can even roar, too."

"Roar?" scoffed Balin. "Nah, doggies can't do that."

"Oh yeah, and they can't purr like those piece of... work, cats when you scratch behind their ears?" teased Loona sarcastically, as she twitched one of her pointy hound ears.

"Okay. Prove it." Balin crossed his arms with a cheeky smile.

So with a beat of her chest, Loona took a deep breath, and... the street outside was starting to fill with demons, ...

"RAAAWWWWRRRR!" Loona roared super loud, like a tiger.

The roar caused a little rumble, or a 'hell-shake', causing those demons to run away from the street. It even caused Blitzø to fall from the fire escape, landing on his video camera.

"What the hell?!" he exclaimed out loud to himself, before running off to I.M.P to start work for the day. "All I wanted to do is say good morning to my Loonie!"

Meanwhile, Loona laughed seeing the shocked look on Balin's face, his mouth wide open hearing that roar from his caretaker.

"So, what'd you think?"

"That... was... AWESOME!" exclaimed Balin happily. "I take all of that back."

"Thanks, kiddo." Loona then ruffled his hair, before looking at the pantry with the light on. "Wanna make some breakfast to start the day?"

Balin nodded and followed Loona to the pantry holding her paw, before she picked him up with both paws to grab some bread two shelves up. And soon, four slices of toast popped out of the toaster.

As Loona laid out the bread on the chopping board, she stood behind Balin and helped him with the spreading as she's been doing for the last couple of days together, with her warm tummy fur rubbing against his back.

For the boy's toast, he scooped a small dollop of Nutella with the knife, then with her gently holding his arms, he slowly spread the hazelnut butter onto his first slice of toast.

"Alright Balin, think you can try the second one now?" she softly asked him.

With a small nod, Loona let go of his arms as Balin began spreading the other slice by himself, in exactly the gentle and careful way she taught him. She then took a picture of this sweet moment, once again feeling like a mother, having helped him with something he never did before.