Helluva Boss

Mastermind

Snow was gently falling around the magnificent ice palace of Marquis Andrealphus. The palace was structured like a three-layer cake with sharp snowflake structures off to the sides with diamond designs inside. The clouds swirled above it in the red-black sky.

Inside the palace, an imp butler with white hair, small striped horns and wearing an ice-colored suit was pouring hot tea into a white cylinder cup. Andrealphus took the cup and gracefully sipped, his pinky in the air. He was a white peacock demon with glowing teal eyes, a white snowflake on his furry teal feathers, and a teal and white crown on his head. He wore a long dress-like robe colored teal at the bottom, then white, then light purple. Ice encased a nearby window and an ice light fixture off to the side glowed teal.

"You seem in good spirits, today," Andrealphus remarked to his sister and lover Stella.

The butler placed another cup of tea on a snowflake plate in front of Stella.

"Oh yes!" Stella exclaimed, lowering a pink lid onto the table that had a small gold crown with "bitch" on it. The swan demoness wore her gold crown and light pink dress. "Stolas has had his heart shat on by that little imp cretin he was seeing!" She giggled.

"Oh?" Andrealphus wiggled an eyebrow, leaning in to hear more.

Stella continued as the imp poured her tea. "Yes, I believe he finally learnt that that filthy little beast was only using him to gain access to his grimoire!"

Andrealphus sipped then froze.

Stella cackled and Andrealphus coughed and spat out his coffee on the imp. The poor imp butler was frozen in ice on the spot, him slowly sliding to the side in his block of ice.

"Fucking moron!" Stella added.

"Gain...gain access to..." Andrealphus coughed some more. "...to his what?!"

Stella waved her hand. "That fancy book thing."

Andrealphus pushed out his hands. "D-d-d-n-no, no, wait, wait, wait, wait! Stolas was letting an imp use his Goetia given grimoire, and you didn't tell me?"

"Why do you care?" she droned.

Andrealphus put a hand to his face. "Because! We have been trying to figure out a means to usurp your horny ex-husband's power, and this whole time..."

Ice crept along the walls...

"...you knew about the incredibly illegal thing he was doing..."

Blocks of ice covered the walls and the chair Andrealphus had been sitting on...

"...and you didn't think..."

Andrealphus angrily crawled onto the table, ice forming below...

"...it might be a good idea..."

White feathers and two plumes with white and teal snowflake designs sprang out behind him as he angrily morphed into his more demonic form. His top feathers had five teal diamonds on them and more plumes with the snowflake shapes on the ends.

He spread out all his white peacock feathers and white veins bulged in his teal eyes.

"...TO LET ME KNOW?!"

Stella leaned in, firing back. "WELL DON'T YELL AT ME!"

Andrealphus glared as Stella calmly slurped her tea.

She glanced at him. "Now you fucking know."

Andrealphus lifted his head and scowled. "You...are...so lucky you are hot, Stella!"

With his nose in the air, the peacock strutted away as Stella slurped again.

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Loona tossed and turned in her bed. She couldn't sleep. Ever since Blitzo and Millie's last mission at the haunted hotel, some of her worries were beginning to resurface.