Death at the Hazbin Hotel

Chapter Seven

Dee glanced around Vox's office curiously. He was busy talking to some reporters in the lobby. He'd promised to take her around the city today and show her around and possibly help her find Lucifer. Though that seemed like it wasn't going to be an easy task. Everyone said Lucifer was absent. A sigh escaped her lips as she dropped onto the sleek black chaise lounge looking out a massive window to the cityscape.

"Where are you, Lucifer?" She asked mournfully as she gazed out the window.

"So the rumor was true after all, you've returned?" A familiar voice she hadn't heard in ages sounded from behind her.

Dee turned to see Famine sitting in Vox's office chair. Despite the chair being made for someone larger, like Vox, Famine was still spilling out of it. His long gangly limbs resembled spiders as he spilled from the chair.

"Why are you here?" Dee asked, uncertain.

"Checking on my dear sister." Famine shrugged. "You'd sequestered yourself away for quite some time, I wasn't sure if you'd ever return. What happened to make you lock yourself away for so long?"

Before Dee could respond, Vox appeared in the center of the room leaping from a monitor with an annoyed groan, he really seemed to hate dealing with the press. He reached for a bottle of liquor from his liquor cabinet but froze as he spotted Famine in his chair. "Who the fuck are you?"

"Quiet now, souled one." Famine waved a dismissive hand at Vox and the mouth on his screen disappeared entirely.

His eyes grew wide and he reached up in a panic tapping at his screen. Dee threw a fierce glare at her brother, "Undo it, now." She hissed.

Famine threw her a curious look, "it's not hurting him, he can have it back once we're finished talking."

"Don't mess with my friends." Dee snarled. Shadows began to snake and writhe away from her, the lights began to flicker and Thanatos appeared with a loud enraged snort in a puff of smoke and hellfire.

Famine sighed and waved a hand at Vox. "Why are you so attached to the souled one?"

Vox's mouth returned and he looked warily from Dee to the terrifying gangly man currently taking up his office chair. "What is a souled one?" He asked quietly, receiving an annoyed scowl from Famine.

"A being who has or at one point had a soul." Famine sighed and threw a withering look at Dee, "make him quiet or I will, permanently. I grow tired of his questions."

Vox looked curiously at Dee, did the horsemen not have souls? Did that make them true immortals? He'd have to take that into consideration, once her usefulness had run its course he couldn't exactly dispose of her.

Dee clenched her fists, "you can try, if you think you can best me."

Vox stared at her in awe, when had she grown a backbone?

Famine smirked at this, "if you hadn't been locked away for centuries that threat would be much more menacing, dear sister. As it stands, you're not at your full strength."

Dee grimaced at this. He was right, but she didn't want him to know he was right.

Famine held up a hand with long spindly fingers, "very well, I won't do anything to your souled one. May we continue?"

Dee nodded.

Famine stretched to his feet and ran a hand through his scraggly pale hair, his pale amethyst eyes sweeping over his older sister carefully. "Why did you disappear for hundreds of years?"

Vox turned to the petite girl, curious about the same thing.

"I didn't want the tea to get cold, I wasn't sure how long it would take Lucifer to come to my tea party." Dee replied quietly.

Famine looked thoughtful.

Thanatos huffed angrily at the mention of Lucifer.

"That's all?" Famine asked.

Dee nodded.

"Very well. Don't vanish again, please." He disappeared in a puff of white smoke. His voice drifted in the air before the smoke had fully dissipated, "War is furious by the way, expect a visit soon." The smoke dissipated and Famine was gone.

Dee frowned at this, she definitely didn't want a visit from War, especially here. Too many of her friends could get hurt. "I need to return home for a bit." Dee said softly, reaching a hand to Thanatos.

"There's no need to rush off, War doesn't frighten me." Vox lied.

Dee frowned, "he should."

Thanatos raised his front leg giving the petite girl a foothold to climb onto his back.

"Dee?" Vox asked unsure as she climbed onto the terrifying steeds back. Was she leaving?

Dee paused and turned to him. She held her hand out and an iron coin with a scythe stamped on one side and a lily stamped on the other appeared in her hand. She tossed it to Vox. "If you need me, you can summon me with that." Thanatos stomped his foot and the pair vanished in a puff of black smoke leaving Vox staring at the empty space in awe.