Hazbin Hotel x Reader

Part 1 - Cherri x Sir Pentious' Shy Younger Brother!Reader

A small price to pay.

Requested by  @Riseninjaturtles2018.  , thank you for the request and preference of the plot. Much appreciated, hope this is to your taste.

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A knock rapped the surface of Sir Pentious' door, causing an audible noise loud enough for Sir Pentious to temporarily abandon his frantic planning and face the source.

'Come in.'

He stirred from his seat in the disorganised mess his office was succumbed to. Papers and numerous hastily scrawled out notes were strewn across the walls, most of which were connected with pins and bits of string to indicate a loose plan. Rubbish and debris littered the floor, making the true colour of the floorboards barely visible. Only a desk light dimly lit up the room, the windows being covered with blinds to stop any natural light from flooding the area. A suspicious cabinet was to the left of his workplace, the glass that housed the thing inside of it was dirtied with dust and the like, to the extent that the object couldn't be discerned properly, though it did appear to carry a knife like outline.

Sir Pentious himself was sat down at his desk, multiple mugs of coffee surrounding him, along with scrunched up pieces of paper, most likely discarded plans and ideas. Dark circles already developed around his eyes as his mouth was slightly agape, a fang grazing his lip slightly. A pen was resting in his claws, his other hand on his forehead, he was slumped down in his chair, it was unclear how long he had been there. Just sitting and planning.

The door revealed a similarly clad individual, Y/N - Sir Pentious younger brother. They had a rather rocky relationship, Sir Pentious being more involved in his plans to take over Hell and destroy Cherri than spending time with his own brother. It took a turn for the worst recently, Sir Pentious devoting most of his days obsessing over Cherri, it was getting frightening to Y/N now, his brother who was once a egotistical idiot turn into some shrivelled fanatic. It hurt to say the least. He couldn't bear it.

'I need to talk to you. This, this whole thing,' he gestured to the status of the room, 'is getting out of hand.' He looked almost pleadingly to Pentious but was met with his back facing him.

Without even giving him a glance, the older brother began, 'you don't understand, Y/N. I nearly have the answer in my grasp. Just a little more-'

'No.'

Sir Pentious froze up slightly as Y/N continued, 'I need to tell you something, something more important than your line of "work".'

He sighed, fumbling with his claws from the heavy atmosphere of the room, it was suffocating, making the required words stick to his throat.

Y/N cleared his somehow parched throat,

'I am engaged to Cherri.'

'What?'

Y/N grew increasingly worried from the harsh tone of voice Sir Pentious had.

'I am enga-'

'Oh, don't worry, I heard you loud and clear, brother.' He let his pen drop on his desk, rolling across his latest discovery in paper.

His neck snapped at an almost impossible angle to face his Y/N as he got up from his desk to approach the snake.

'Y/N, you are here for a reason.'

Sir Pentious mulled over his next clause carefully as he slithered about the room, his hands behind his back in a strict manner while he glared at Y/N.

'You are here as a punishment, Hell is cruel and unforgiving, you are not here to find love.'

He said the word as if it was poison, a formulation of letters that hung from his clause like toxic waste.

Sir Pentious formed his claws into a fist, raising his head slightly to look down on Y/N as he significantly shrunk down.

'You are here to find power, strength.. yet you have time for such frivolous things.' He threw his head back in heinous laughter, the ghastly sound reverberating throughout the room. Y/N looked on, unnerved with the sudden change of demeanour as he backed away.

'It's laughable really.. how I share blood with someone so, how do I say it? Pathetic.'

'Hey-'

'No relative of mine will be succumbed to the vicious disease of love. You are of my bloodline, don't soil my name, Y/N.' Sir Pentious growled, an unfamiliar thing hitched in the back of his voice.

'Listen-'

'I will not listen. I'm nearly there, I can feel it. I've got a weapon; something to make her cower in fear, like it was meant to be.' He gestured to notes and papers hung sloppily on the wall, it seemed like a list to Y/N.

The supposed 'list' detailed..

'Cherri's most prized possessions. I've tried so so many times to destroy a thing she cannot afford to lose.'

Sir Pentious grasped the air as if he was infuriated with his current predicament, 'I've been looking for a specific thing, there's a key to all of this. And now I feel like I found the key.'

'What? Think straight, Pentious.. please!' Y/N cried out, reaching out to briefly touch his shoulder.

'STOP TRYING TO HINDER MY PROGRESS!' Pentious lashed out, towering over Y/N as he stumbled back from the sudden contact.

'Don't you see?' He was approaching slowly, his lips curled into an insane smirk, a wild, unexplainable thing in his dilated eyes, 'you're the key, Y/N.'

His smile grew impossibly wider as Y/N was now shivering from the sudden gust of cold wind that entered the room as Sir Pentious turned to the wall of papers again.

'As much as I want to just erase her, for her to never exist again.. that is simply too easy.' A low laughter rose in his voice.

'You understand don't you? I want to break her. I want to destroy her. I want her to suffer.'

Without warning, Pentious lurched forwards, moving his hands so he had Y/N in his firm grasp. He used his thumb to tip Y/N's trembling chin up to face him.

'And that my dear brother is what I intend to do.'

Y/N fell to the floor, unconscious, a venomous bite mark prominent on his neck.