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“We will be Gods!” Vox says looking at his companions with anger as they glare at the t.v. demon.

”Now it’s We,” Velvette sarcastically replies, crossing her arms. “Because it seem to me that you are leaving us behind Vee.”

”Yeah I don’t appreciate this direction you are going,” Valentino growls at Vox.

”You two!” Vox snaps, holding the chair where Lucifer sat tightly in his grip causing it to jerk the king. Lucifer lets out a grunt but Vox didn’t care, why should he care about a weak king like him? “We are so close to getting everything and you are questioning me NOW!”

”Ohh it does seem like your team is not doing so well,” Alastor’s annoying voice grabs the demons attention making electricity start to spike.

”YOU STAY OUT IF THIS!” Vox yells at the radio demon. “THIS DOES NOT CONCERN YOU!”

”I think it does,” Alastor says, moving the damn swivel chair around with glee. “After all what leader can’t keep their men in line?”

”I CAN KEEP EVERYONE IN LINE!” Vox shouts his eyes beginning to glow as black and red lines start to form. He glares at Alastor one last time before he turns towards Velvette and Valentino who were both glaring at him. “AND YOU TWO WILL FALL IN LINE!”

”Again with this bullshit!” Velvette screams in anger.

”Are you fucking kidding me!” Valentino asks, crossing his arms and tilting his hips in annoyance which just pissed Vox off more. “You are still listening to him. This is your problem Vox, you are so obsessed with him that you forget about the people who have helped you rise to the top!”

”I Don’t Need Anyone’s Help!” Vox snaps.

”Well if you don’t need our help then why are we here then?!” Velvette screeches.

”You impossible pedazo de mierda!” The Latino screams as he throws his gun on the ground. “You know what, once this is over I am done with you!”

”Oh really Val you are done with me?” Vox asks condescendingly. “And uh are you really willing to loose your chance to become gods?”

”If it means no more dealing with you, then maybe I am,” Valentino responds, placing his hands on his hips.

”I quite agree Val,” Velvette responds with her own furry.

”Ha ha You two know you won’t be leaving anytime soon,” Vox says with the same condescending business voice he always had. “Just get back to what you were doing and we can finish this discussion later.” The two roll their eyes and leave the room to presumably do the oh so important job he gave them. “Or maybe never.”

How dare they! He gave them a chance to be the top and yet they complain complain complain. Seriously how much more do they need, they are so close to victory and yet they want to turn around and cower now!

Never

”That was quite an interesting way to deal with your subordinates, I must say,” Alastor says with a laugh.

Vox growls and snaps his fingers putting the technological muzzle back on that stupid dear.

“DO YOU EVER SHUT UP!?”

The Vees were so close to destroying Heaven but thanks to Charlie and her friends they were able to stop them from doing anything to bad though the question remains what are they going to do about everyone that participated in this war.

They couldn’t do exterminations anymore, after all that was the whole reason they were in this mess in the first place.

But they couldn’t do nothing either.

So this was how Lucifer, Sera, Emily, and Charlie found themselves in a board room trying to figure out what happens next.

Sera looks at Lucifer, the two haven’t really spoken in forever, they have seen each other sometime and yeah they made the deal but typically Sera didn’t have it in her to talk to him, mainly because she did miss him but she couldn’t let herself mourn the angel she thought of as her little brother.

”If heaven takes all the demons into custody then we will have more issues like this where demons want to rise up and destroy all of Heaven again,” Sera says, sounding so unsure about everything.

How could she not be?

After all the bloodshed; the photos Vox showed were horrific and what’s worse is the fact that so many exorcist enjoyed the blood and fear they left in their wake.

She did what she thought she had to but she never actually enjoyed knowing that slaughter was happening under her command but to see Adam and his troops laughing as they cut down children, scared demons, and those just trying to stay with their families will haunt her.

She can’t understand how it doesn’t haunt Lute. She doesn’t get anything anymore.

”Can you blame them?” Emily asks Sera. “You saw the pictures.”

”Vox didn’t care about the exterminations,” Charlie jumps in, Sera didn’t understand why after all Charlie should hate her just as much as the sinners.

It was after all Sera that helped escalate things until they couldn’t stop war from coming.

”All he cared about was giving himself more power.”

”Yeah but the rest of them only joined because they were afraid what it would mean with the deal broken,” Emily shakes her head, Sera knew she was trying to paint a clear picture of everything that happened.

Sera glances at Lucifer who didn’t react much to anything, he seemed to be taking what happened to him hard.

He barely showed any acknowledgment to Sera or Emily the whole time they were in the meeting room, which worried her.

”The question is, how do we punish everyone?” Sera sighs, running a hand down her tired face. “So many sinners only fought because they were scared of us coming down and doing worse.”

”First we figure out the important figures at play,” Lucifer finally spoke up, not even glancing at the group. “Carmine built the weapon-“

”But she was doing it to protect her family,” Charlie argues almost pleadingly. “She has two daughters who she was afraid of losing considering she provided us with weapons at the hotels most needed hour.”

Lucifer doesn’t even look at Charlie as he shakes his head, “it doesn’t matter, she was still involved. So was almost every single overlord who happily marched down the street to join the army. That of course leads the Vee’s and most importantly Vox. I think the only one not involved was good old Zestial”

”Okay so we know the leading men and now what?” Emily asks, sounding a little afraid of the answer.

”They committed many acts against Heaven,” Lucifer continues, glancing at Emily almost timidly. “But Sera is right, if Heaven takes them into custody then their men and every demon that follows them without a second thought will be angry at Heaven and at us.” He said the last part glancing at Charlie.

Charlie shifts uncomfortably in her seat.

”That’s not fair, won’t they understand Vox did something bad?” Emily asks, sounding desperate for something to go her way. Sera could only give her little sister a sad look. The seraphim knew these things were never easy, they weren’t easy when- Sera glanced at Lucifer, sadness filled her eyes- and it’s not easy now.

Lucifer shakes his head, “followers for demons, men, anyone really, like these don’t like to see that their leader was wrong until they are forced to see their leaders are wrong.”

Sera nods knowing that this happens all the time on earth, “and sometimes they never learn while other times they just pretend they do.”

The group fell silent at the information sink in.

Sera knew Heaven was going to want proper punishment after everything that happened but there was just no way they could do that, not a single way that doesn’t end with more blood.

”So what do we do?” Charlie asks

”Can we even do anything?” Sera asks to no one in particular.

”Well Vox didn’t just commit crimes against heaven,” Lucifer spoke up softly, finally fully turning to face the whole room.

”What do you mean?” Emily asks, looking so lost at where the king was going.

Sera in the other hand an inkling of an idea of where the king was going with all of this.

”He started a war despite him not having the authority to do that, he spied on my daughter and hurt his princess in many ways, kid-“ Lucifer turned away not wanting to admit how he was used against his will but despite the king’s pride he pushed through with what he was saying. “Kidnapped me, the king, and done so much damages which could have caused the hellborns to be killed or hurt in the process.”

Sera sees Emily glancing at Charlie, it was clear she was trying to understand if the princess understood what her dad was saying. From the looks of it, she did.

”Do you think they will help?” Charlie asks, almost sounding small. “We haven’t spoken to them in forever.”

”They still send me things so I think they will, I don’t think they will be too pleased with anything that happened in Pride,” Lucifer replied, looking very dejected from everything.

”Who?” Emily asks looking at the other three for answers.

”My own court,” Lucifer replies almost forcefully. “They… they can take on deciding the punishments for the demons that done this.”

”Wha-“ Emily trails off probably not expecting Lucifer’s suggestion. To Sera’s surprise she shook her confusion off just fine. “Oh the other seven deadly sins right?” Emily asks.

Lucifer nods, “and the Ars Goetias, and so if demons handle the punishment hopefully the anger towards Heaven won’t continue to rise.”

”But what about their anger towards you?” Emily asks, sounding so afraid.

Sera couldn’t blame her, a part of her was also afraid for the father/daughter duo. They saw how Vox and his supporters responded to Lucifer’s threat, it was clear that the sinners don’t like him and they only want to follow Vox. If he tries to punish them then there is a chance that there will be revolts from the sinners in the streets and there is a chance that they will be just as bad as the rebellion Vox lead.

Lucifer sighs, “my court needs to take this on,” he says with determination though Sera can hear how shaky his breaths were.

”Dad…” Charlie tries to reach for her father’s arm but he pulls away making Charlie look hurt but resigned.

Sera knew from Emily that Charlie blamed herself for what happened to her dad and though Sera didn’t believe it was her fault she can see that Charlie was hurting from it.

She wonders if she should talk to Lucifer about the action he just took, she knew the fallen angel and knew he didn’t mean any harm but it caused harm and Sera believed the two needed each other more than ever right now.

Sera shook her head out of her thoughts as Lucifer continued his train of thoughts.

”After everything that happened, my people are going to think I am weak and… if we don’t punish the overlords, they will try to find a way to knock me and Charlie off our thrones again… plus after all the crap they were saying about Charlie… I think my court will be the best bet.”

Sera nods, “it leaves them being punished after all, I know Satan never leaves anyone without their rightful due.”

”That’s why he is my first man,” Lucifer says with a soft smile.

”And we don’t need to add anything more to the conflict between Heaven and Hell,” Sera finishes.

Emily and Charlie both nod, understanding that this was the best way which Sera was glad. The sooner they get over with this the better.

They all needed to time away from all this crazy.

“I won’t offer this again but…” Lucifer starts to say but cuts himself off. He looks so pained, a part of Sera wanted nothing more than to comfort him. He just looked so much like the angel she knew before- well before everything went to shit.

”If you and Emily want… you can come to the court proceedings to see if you are satisfied with everything,” Lucifer offers. “Since- well since this whole thing has to do with Heaven and I know the other elders would- would-“

Sera puts a hand on Lucifer’s shoulder to calm his racing head, so much hasn’t changed with him.

”We will but… we will be wearing some kind of disguise so Vox can’t spin the narrative again,” Sera says with certainty.

It was almost scary how good that demon was at it.

“It would be for the better that he can’t speak at all,” Charlie grumbles.

”I mean that can be arranged but none of my court will listen to the bullshit he sprouts anyways and the media in the court room is controlled by us so this time- This time we have the advantage,” Lucifer says swallowing hard before giving the group a determined look.

”Then it is decided, what needs to be done?” Sera asks, looking at the group who all nod.

”The court date will be in a week and until then all the sinners involved are locked up,” Lucifer tells Sera.

”Is that a good idea,” Charlie asks, looking concerned.

”Vox can spin a lot of things but him and his supporters are locked away, they can’t do much in their especially since the latest technology they are allowed to have in there is a radio courtesy of our deer radio demon,” Lucifer smirks for the first time this whole meeting actually looking smug about what they discussed.

Sera noticed Charlie nod before giving her dad a pleading look, “can I…” she stopped almost afraid to ask and once again Sera felt bad, it was so clear Charlie was afraid of being rejected by her dad.

”Can you what?” Lucifer asks, looking concerned and confused.

”I believe she wants to join the hearing,” Sera supplies when she noticed Charlie wasn’t going to answer.

Lucifer looked shocked, “oh you never wanted to do- uh yeah you can sweetheart,” he awkwardly replies with a big smile that Sera can tell was forced. “I mean this directly affected you just as much me.”

Charlie nods looking relived but still scared.

”I will just have to call Satan and then I will message Heaven when everything is set in hopefully a week but if I don’t message you by the end of tomorrow just connect me,” Lucifer tells Sera with a new found determination though he still looked upset and out of it.

Sera can only hope that Satan will take over, she didn’t want any more strain on Lucifer, he looked like he was going to fall apart any minute.

Sera nods before she makes a portal back to heaven.

”That sounds good,” Sera smiles slightly as she begins to walk towards the portal. She sees Emily and Charlie give each other a hug and that makes the seraphim smile, glancing at Lucifer, she saw that he was doing the same.

”Bye Charlie! See you next week,” Emily says before waving bye as she follows Sera through the portal. Once it closed Sera let out a shaky breath.

In one week it will all be over, just one week.

“Sera…” she feels Emily fly up to her level and place a hand on her shoulder. “It’s going to be okay.”

Sera glanced at Emily before tuning away quickly.

”I am going to inform every one of what is decided,” Sera says before she hurriedly flew off. She didn’t want Emily to see her break down.

Satan was busy working on his core today. He was in a relatively good mood all things considered.

There was a great harvest in the wrath ring this year, he was able to work out in peace, and not many annoying demons came to him demanding things.

He also didn’t have much going on today so his plan after he works out was that he was going to make a protein shake and then watch t.v. for basically the rest of the day.

There was this great western show that Satan had heard so much about and he was excited to start watching it.

Not anything can make break his mood.

For 30 seconds because right after he got ready for his next set of workouts he heard his phone ring.

”If this is Leviathan complaining about some stupi-“ Satan froze when he realized whose number was calling him.

It was Fucking Lucifer Morningstar! The king of Hell and Satan’s adopted older brother.

He quickly answered the phone, there was no telling if Lucifer will call again if he didn’t answer.

”LUCIFER!” Satan screamed into the phone before wincing. And he thought not answering was going to scare the smaller but more powerful demon away.

”S- Satan, hey it’s been awhile,” Lucifer says very clearly trying to sound like he isn’t falling apart. The active ruler of hell rolls his eyes. Lucifer was always bad at doing that.

“Yeah 7 fucking years!” Satan says, trying to lower his voice and calm himself the same way Yogirt taught him too. He really wishes he wasn’t off for the day because right now Satan really needed him. “And then you come out for like 5 minutes just to hide again! What is going on?!”

For a minute there was no reply and Satan was worried he scared the devil off. It wasn’t uncommon for that to happen especially over phone but he was just so frustrated with everything at the moment.

”That’s kind of why I am calling,” Lucifer forcefully chuckles. The devil’s anxiety can almost be felt through the phone. “Do you know about anything going on in Pride?” Lucifer asks.

Satan’s eyebrows creased, truthfully he didn’t know much, he mainly kept to his rings business unless his siblings needed him for something but with Lucifer not talking to him in seven years, out of anger he decided not to look at anything happening in the pride ring.

If Lucifer didn’t care to tell him then he didn’t see the point in looking, truthfully he made that decision out of anger but he stood by it for seven years.

”What is going on?” Satan asks, trying not to let worry seep into his voice. “Are you and Charlie okay?”

”We will be but-“

”What do you mean will be!?” Satan demands over the phone.

”Satan I swear we are fine I just… just… I… can you prepare the court for me,” Lucifer stutters.

That actually shocked Satan, after seven almost 8 years the asshole just call to get Satan to prepare his court?

What in the seven rings?

”Why?” Satan asks, skeptically.

”There is an issue in my ring and I need the court to come together,” Lucifer explains, being as cryptic as he use to always be before he shut himself off.

”Lucifer, what happened?” Satan demands, clutching the phone hard.

”I… not over phone Satan… please just… set up my court and… be prepared if you have to lead proceedings for me,” Lucifer says with a shaky breath.

Satan at this point wished he could jump through the phone to hug and strangle Lucifer, he had missed the devil so much since he disappeared but everything was so frustrating.

He tried everything to get him to come out; threats, lies, taking control, everything he could think of but it never worked but then Lucifer came buck and in Satan’s excitement and desperation he thought Lucifer was going to come see him juts for that to never happen so instead he sent him a gift.

A cowboy hat.

A piece of wardrobe Satan is known to love.

He sent him the hat in hopes that Lucifer comes to thank him personally but that never happened.

He found out the others had the same idea but none of them ever got any indication he got everything and Satan lost hope.

Well he lost hope until today.

Because now Lucifer was speaking to him except Lucifer wants really speaking to him, he was doing the proper procedure and Satan can tell he was trying to end the call as soon as he can.

Maybe he should see what went on in the pride ring so he was prepared for whatever issues was causing Lucifer so many problems.

Because whatever it was, Satan was going to destroy it.

”Okay,” Satan says and he can hear Lucifer sigh in relief. “I will get court all set up at 9:00 A.M. next Thursday.”

”Thank you Satan, I… thank you,” Lucifer says softly sounding so relieved.

”You will be there?” Satan felt like he needed to ask.

”Yeah, I will be there,” Lucifer responds with a forceful but determined voice.

”I will let the others know too,” Satan offers. “Thank you Satan, you’re a life saver.”

”Don’t mention it.”

“Bye,” Lucifer says before hanging up the phone. Satan didn’t even get the chance to say bye himself.

Out of frustration and anger, Satan grabbed a dumbbell sitting on the rack near him and flung it into the wall with all his might.

Whatever is happening in the pride ring wasn’t good and Satan will be damned if he let whatever happen hurt hell.

“Ahh you two have returned at last,” Alastor says with a wide smile. Charlie sent Alastor a forced one in return.

”Charlie!” Vaggie shouts flying down to scoop the devil’s daughter into a hug. “How did it go?” Vaggie ask, “where’s your dad?”

”He just brought me to the front door and went back to his room to make a phone call,” Charlie says, trying to keep her forced smile. “How is everything here?”

”More sinners are coming to stay!” Vaggie says with a smile. “But still, Charlie are you okay?”

”We figured out what we are going to be doing with everyone now,” Charlie tells her girlfriend as she moves to sit at the bar where Husk gets her a drink. “Thanks Husk.”

”No problem,” Husk waves her off.

”What do you mean, you know what you are going to do to everyone?” Angel asks as he and Cherri joined the couple at the bar.

Alastor also teleported himself into the conversation looking intrigued.

”Everyone that joined in the war against Heaven, they will be going to court,” Charlie explains. “Court like where you went in Heaven to convince the angels of the hotel?” Cherri asks.

When everyone looked at her Cherri rolled her eyes, “what? Angel told me what happened.”

“No not heaven’s court, hell’s court,” Charlie tells the group. “My dad’s court.”

”Wait really?” Vaggie asks looking shocked.

Charlie nods, taking a few deep breaths.

Behind the bar the princess can see Nifty trying to kill as many bugs as she can. A sense of normalcy filled her. Things will be okay, they have to be.

”Yeah, after everything that happened my dad is going to summon the court to decide the punishment for everyone involved,” Charlie explains.

”Now that sounds most entertaining,” Alastor says sounding delighted at the news. “Vox and all his lackeys will be getting what they deserve.”

”Yeah, at it will finally be over,” Charlie smiles, trying not to show the others her anxiety but it didn’t work.

”But…” Vaggie says, knowing how her girlfriend is.

”It goes against what I believe in,” Charlie says, giving her girlfriend a lost look. “I believe anyone can be redeemed but I am going to be letting Vox be punished. Does that make me the dictator that he claims I am?”

”You know what,” Husk says slamming the glass he was holding on the table. “Fuck that!” Charlie looked at Husk with shock, she wasn’t expecting him to have an outburst. “He did everything he can to defame and humiliate you, he tried to take over heaven, he started a war which only led to more bloodshed! Honestly he is getting what he deserved”.

Charlie blinked in surprised not knowing how to respond.

”Whiskers is right,” Angel says leaning on Charlie’s shoulders. “Not everyone can be redeemed and that’s fine, you have people here that want to try so forget about Vox, forget about Valentino, and just focus on you and your hotel.”

”That’s what I have been trying to tell her this whole time,” Vaggie chuckles giving Charlie a kiss in the cheek making the hellborn blush.

”Yeah fuck those guys, they made their bed and now they can lie in it,” Cherri says before snorting. “Besides it will be nice not having voxtech watching everywhere anymore.”

Charlie nods, “thanks guys,” she says before she finishes her glass. “I think I’m going to go lie down.”

”Hey Charlie?” She turns towards Angel giving him a confused but encouraging look. “You said everyone involved- does that mean Val is also going on trial?”

”Yeah,” Charlie didn’t miss the sigh of relief coming from Angel which just reminded the girl of how much she hurt him in the past. “Everyone involved including Carmilla Carmine.”

Vaggie looked down, she liked carmine but Charlie knew that Vaggie understood why she had to go on trial.

When no one said anything else she went to go upstairs to hopefully clear her head.

When she made it to her room she couldn’t help but glance at the way towards her father’s room.

He has barely spoken to her since she snapped at him. Since she pushed him away, and Charlie didn’t know what to do.

In her conquest to succeed she demanded that those closes to her just leave her alone. She isolated herself from those that care about her and then her dad got hurt really badly.

She wouldn’t be surprised if dad hated her and was keeping a distance because of how much she hurt him. She did a lot to hurt him.

”Hey hun,” she jumps when she heard Vaggie behind her. “You can just talk to him.”

Charlie shakes her head, “he hasn’t looked at me since before all of this….” Charlie opening her arms wide.

”He probably doesn’t want to upset you anymore than you already are,” Vaggie tries to reassure her but it wasn’t working. Charlie mind was still in overdrive.

“He was just doing what you asked him and was only trying to help and I yelled at him and made him leave… if he didn’t leave then Vox wouldn’t have been able to get to him,” Charlie whispers, tears gathering in her eyes.

”You don’t know that,” Vaggie places a hand on her cheek.

”It’s true though,” Charlie shakes it off. “Vox told me that all he had to do was pretend to be me and my dad came running, he… I drove him away and he got so hurt because of me,” Charlie sniffs, tears now falling from her eyes. “All because I couldn’t listen to you and I’m an awful daughter- he he he,” Charlie’s tears began to form a waterfall as she cried.

What kind of princess was she if she couldn’t even protect her loved ones.

Vaggie grabbed Charlie’s hand and pulled her into their room.

”I know it’s hard and you blame yourself but your dad is probably more upset with himself than anything and that’s why he is avoiding everything,” Vaggie says placing her forehead to Charlie’s. “He doesn’t hate you for anything that happened”.

Charlie felt her tears begin to subside, as she fell into her girlfriend’s embrace.

”Everything will be okay,” Vaggie tells Charlie and though she doesn’t believe it, she felt calm in the first time since forever.

1 Week Later

Asmodeus was pacing back and forth. The last time court was called together everything went to shit and the Prince of lust didn’t really know if he was ready for something like that again but-

It was Lucifer that called the court together this time.

Ozzie hadn’t seen Lucifer in seven years and now he is coming back and the sin was worried.

Something bad had to have happened that made Lucifer call the court together and the sin was so worried to find out what it was.

Truthfully all the sins were in the dark about what happened, they each tried to look up anything- news, post, rumors, just anything to help put a light on the situation- from the pride ring but it was all propaganda and some demon going “trust me with your safety”, whatever the hell that means.

So basically they were all going into this trial blind but Ozzie knew that Lucifer wouldn’t call everyone together if it wasn’t important.

He wishes that Fizz was here to help soothe his nerves, all day yesterday the two spend the night in because Fizz knew Ozzie was worried and that helped calm him down, he just needed something like that today.

”You look so worried,” Ozzie turns to see Beelzebub giving him a hard look, crossing her arms.

”Do I taste that bad?” Ozzie jokingly asks the sin of gluttony.

”Yeah bitch, you taste like a sad burrito left out in the rain,” Bee responds, sticking her tongue out to emphasize how disgusting his emotions were.

Ozzie just laughs in response before he started to walk towards his seat.

”Were you able to figure out who we will be trying today?” Ozzie asks Bee, hoping that she might be able to add light to the whole situation.

”If I had to guess it’s that T.V. guy but anything about what happened is no longer in public domain,” Bee tells him. Ozzie gulps, Lucifer didn’t really understand or care for technology so if something was broadcasted to all of hell he would usually just let if be so for him to have specifically had something be taken from the internet to stop anyone from viewing it, well it can’t be good.

Dread started to grow in Asmodeus.

When the two made it to the court room they saw everyone else was already there and preparing, even Mammon looked to be ready and dreading what is happening.

”I didn’t think he had the ability to care for anyone but himself,” Ozzie whispers to Bee.

”He’s probably upset he can’t roll around in his money,” Bee whispers back and the two begin to start giggling.

Ozzie glances around the room to see most of the Ars Goetia were also arriving. Ozzie felt like shit when he didn’t see Stolas, the disgraced Goetia who can’t return for 100 years.

Maybe with Lucifer back they can redo that ruling.

Ozzie shook his head, right now was about whatever issue was going on in the Pride ring not Stolas.

Ozzie could see Paimon looking around the room, clearly trying to find Lucifer which Ozzie can’t blame him. Paimon is Lucifer’s top Goetia and his most loyal. Ever since Lucifer shut himself in, Paimon became desperate and spent the last 7 years waiting for any sign of him.

After a while he stopped showing up to court, not wanting to be there unless Lucifer was there.

He must have heard it was Lucifer calling the court, if Ozzie had to guess, he was the first one here.

”Will this be broadcasted all over Hell?” Leviathan’s meaner head asks, pointing at the camera in the corner.

“Yes,” Rumbles Satan, has he sat with his head in his hands.

”I don’t know what happened in Pride mate,” Mammon suddenly says, shaking his head. “But I felt so much more greed than normal up there.”

”Really?” Belphegor asks, looking very much awake for everything. She must be worried to.

”Yeah, it felt good because you know- it gives me more power but the amount of greed coming from Pride isn’t good,” Mammon says, shaking his head. To Ozzie’s surprise, he looked worried.

”So who are we trying?” Leviathan’s nicer head asks.

”Overlords from my ring,” a familiar voice made all the sins freeze.

Asmodeus knew that voice, it was the same one that use to reassure him everything was going to be okay. Yeah he sounded more defeated than normal but it was the same voice.

Ozzie quickly turned around to see the Devil standing next to his throne, cleaning the spider web and duck of his seat.

”Lord Lucifer,” he heard Paimon loudly exclaim as the Ars Goetia began to mutter to themselves in excitement for their king’s return.

Lucifer glances at Paimon, giving him a small wave and a forced smile before he turns back to his seat, burning the ‘back in five minutes’ sign.

“Luci!” Bee exclaims, shooting up from her seat to give the devil a hug. He didn’t seem to expect that because he grunts in surprise before slowly patting Bee’s back.

”Good to see you too Bee,” Lucifer says, awkwardly.

”Where have you been, what’s been going on? Are you okay? What happened? Why did you call court? Why have you never called us-?”

Lucifer pushed himself away from the rambling Bee and makes a T with his hands, “time out Bee, can I answer those later I need to get everything ready for the trial.”

Lucifer looks at all the sins but before he can say anything else he was once again tackled into a hug but this time by Ozzie. Soon enough all the sins (including Mammon and Satan) followed suit.

Satan once he let go grabbed Lucifer’s shoulders and growled “never disappear like that again.”

”I… I will try,” Lucifer gave Satan a big fake smile.

”So this trial is about sinners?” Leviathan’s nicer head asks. Her meaner head snarls before saying, “those invasive species? What did they do?”

”What didn’t they do?” Lucifer shudders making Ozzie frown. Okay so whatever they did was bad.

”Care to fill us in?” Bel asks, crossing her arms.

Lucifer lets out a forced chuckle but before he can respond a portal opens up and out steps two angels and Charlie.

In one swift motion all the sins except Lucifer pulls out their weapons, ready to attack them making the smaller one gasp in fear.

The bigger one quickly hides the younger one while Charlie moves in between the sins and angels.

”Stand down,” Lucifer tells the group, pushing Leviathan’s spear away from the angels. “I invited them to this hearing.”

The made Ozzie’s head stop commuting, what does he mean he invited her?

”What?” Satan asks, looking taken aback for a second before angry. “What do you mean you invited two angels?”” He growls.

“Because the trial concerns them as much as in concerns us,” Lucifer replies, pulling his coat in a way to show that he is in charge. “This was the best way we could- all that matters is that Heaven and Hell have common issues and I’m letting them sit in our court room while we charge the overlords for everything that happened.”

”What happened?” Ozzie asks, quietly.

”Overlords are just sinners who think they have power,” scoff Leviathan’s meaner head. “What could heaven possibly care about other than killing as many sinners as they can.”

The angels both flinch while Charlie gave the sin of envy a pointed look.

”Aunt Leviathan!” Charlie nearly screeches.

”Levi,” Lucifer sighs, “they started a war with Heaven.”

That made Ozzie freeze, they what?

“And because what happened directly affects Heaven,” Lucifer continues, rubbing his hands together awkwardly. “I am allowing them to watch the trial but they will stay back and not make any commentary.”

”Of course, we don’t need any more bloodshed,” the taller angel says with certainty. “It’s best they don’t know we are here.”

”Holy Shit,” Mammon mouths as Lucifer directs the two angels away from the sins and into their own spot to sit. The seats were kind of behind Lucifer’s throne but Asmodeus noticed that they were out of the line of sight for the overlords that will be appearing in front of them today.

”A fucking war?” Satan growls. “What gives sinners the right to call for war?” He demands.

Ozzie watches Lucifer hand the taller Angel a paper and quill, it looks like she gets to be privy to the conversations the sins have during the trial.

The paper was a communication device used by the sins so they can talk to each other fast because during the trial, they are all sitting on different levels but they all need to be able to let the others know what they are thinking.

Because talking will basically let the defendant know which way the sins are leaning, Lucifer made a paper that allowed them all to communicate. Basically there are seven (well 8 now) papers that are all connected, each sin was given a color pen and they would right on the paper. What was written will then appear on everyone else’s paper so that everyone can see. After a few minutes what was written will disappear, allowing the sins to keep using the sheet.

“Was he trying to destroy all of hell?” Leviathan’s nicer head asks, while she crosses her arms.

”And what about the agreement Lucifer made with Heaven?” Belphegor asks.

”The agreement was broken,” Lucifer came back to the group with Charlie in toe. Charlie looked really out of it which worried the sun of lust.

”Hey Charlie, how are you doing sweetie,” Bee asks, moving to give their niece a hug.

”Well, uh I’m… I’m doing great,” Charlie says with a forced smile that looked so much like her dad’s.

”Are you-“

”M’lord,” a cloaked guard says, holding his watch. “It is time.”

Lucifer nods and directs Charlie to sit next to him while the sins reluctantly moved to their seats.

They still had so many questions for Lucifer.

”Bring in the prisoners but make sure they can’t talk unless they are in the stand,” Lucifer says, putting on his best kingly act. The sin of lust can see how much Lucifer is forcing himself to stay together.

Ozzie frowned, what happened that made Lucifer so out of it.

The cloaked guard nods before turning to get the prisoners.

It didn’t take long when he saw a lot of different demons being pulled in by chains and forced to wait on a platform while the t.v. headed demon was forced to the front.

”Oh I see you guys pulled out everything, Lu,” the t.v. demon says sounding condescendingly impressed.

Ozzie clenches his fist, what have the sinner the right to use a nickname for Lucifer.

”SILENCE!” Satan slams his hand on his throne, Ozzie can only guess that he was glaring at the demon in front of them.

”Oh wow another being to act like they are above us,” the t.v. guy says, was he trying to make himself look pitiful or annoy just Satan?

”Vox,” Lucifer says, Ozzie frowns with how shaky his voice was but he didn’t say anything. “Or should I say Vincent?” The t.v. glared at Lucifer like he was t the one on trial here. “The charges against you are; starting a war of sinners vs. Heaven, public defamation of the princess of Hell, spying on the princess of hell and myself, instigating violence, the kidnapping of myself-“ that made Ozzie gasp. He looks ones around the room panic to see if he heard that right and what he saw was the shocked and angry faces of the other sins and the Ars Goetia. So he did hear that right.

How did- suddenly Ozzie’s shock turned to anger as he looked at the unapologetic demon in front of him. How dare he!

Angry whispers were heard around the court room as Lucifer continued.

”Using me- the king- as a tool to charge your weapon. And quite frankly being a nuisance to everyone. How do you plead?” Lucifer finishes stating all the charges.

Ozzie clenches his fist in anger. He wasn’t a violent demon but right now all he wanted was to see this demon get what is coming to him.

Vox laughs darkly as his voice becomes darker. “I was simply trying to help sinners after seven years of torment that heaven and you put us through.”

Ozzie saw Bee writing on the paper and a second later it appeared in front of him. ‘I can taste this guys bullshit’.

”You were trying to help yourself,” Lucifer calmly replies though Ozzie frowns at Lucifer’s shaky voice once more.

”I must remind you Vox that you are no longer in front of your own peers and instead the court of hell.” Lucifer taps his seat, “so I would suggest that you tread lightly. After all it will be Satan giving you the punishment if found guilty and Satan isn’t one to play nice with punishments.”

”Throwing around your power once more your highness,” Vox replies with a chuckle. “Only proving why you and your daughter are dictators who want those under you to suffer while you stay at top.”

’Is he serious right now?’ Leviathan writes while Vox is talking. ‘He is talking to the king about throwing his power around while he is on trial for crimes against the king?’

A new color, grey, joins and Ozzie felt irritation that the angel was adding her own opinions before he realized what she wrote, ‘Vox is good at mixing around words and stuff to insight anger’.

‘Except all he is doing right now is pissing me off’ Satan replies.

Ozzie growls when Vox finished talking and he heard Bee do the same.

Satan wings spread out fast as he leans forward violently, putting his face into Vox’s face.

”You dare to disrespect the king and the princess!” Satan demands, fire coming out of his mouth.

Vox didn’t even flinch which would be impressive if Asmodeus didn’t hate the man already.

”I see you need to hide behind other demons,” Vox points out, looking unimpressed.

”I do- I do not need to hide behind other demons,” Lucifer says, Ozzie turns to see the king glaring down at Vox. “Unlike your supporters who you lied and hypnotized into helping you Vox, the sins and Goetia are loyal to me. I don’t need to force anyone to do my bidding.”

”I didn’t force anyone, we sinners are sick of being hunted down and treated like animals by angels and I am the one that finally decided to do something,” Vox calmly states.

”By discrediting the person who was first trying to do something to help your ‘people’,” Lucifer replies, gesturing towards Charlie. Ozzie watched the exchange like a tennis match.

Angry at the demon for daring to disrespect the two most important demons in Hell.

”What she wanted was to befriend and send those poor sinners to the place that was trying to kill them, everyone saw how excited the exorcist army was to kill us and yet her grand plan was to send us to them so we are easier to kill,” Vox laughs, looking at the camera in the corner with a smile.

“You truly are the people’s voice,” Lucifer says, sounding so condescending for the first time since he came here. “Except Vox, what you did only caused more bloodshed of the sinners you claim to be the voice of and put in danger the hellborns.”

”I was doing something, remember it was your daughter that broke the agreement with heaven in the first place,” Vox says, crossing his arms.

”She is a hellborn so as it stands, she in fact didn’t break the deal since she and her girlfriend were in their right to protect themselves and the sinners she recruited were protecting the princess,” Lucifer calmly explains.

”Oh really? That’s how you are justifying being the first to spilling the angel’s blood?” Vox began to laugh making Ozzie narrow his eyes.

”Need I remind you,” Asmodeus cuts in. “You are the one on trial and so starting a fight with the king doesn’t help your case.”

“I am simply trying to elevate the sinners who were forcefully killed for seven years while he sits back and lets it all happen,” Vox calmly replies, looking right at Ozzie.

”I would take a look around sinner,” Leviathan’s meaner head sneers. “Everyone in this room is above you so saying you were only trying to elevate your status doesn’t help your case.”

”Once again you are throwing around your status, us sinners are nothing compared to you right?” Vox asks, once again trying to make himself look pitiful. “We are nothing to you and so you let us suffer while you all get to live peacefully.”

“You are good,” Leviathan’s nicer head smiles. “But I would like to remind you that this trial is broadcasted to all of Hell, that includes sinners yes but also hellborns who have nothing to do with any of this, hellborns that you would have put in harms way for your own game.”

”Are you their voices now too Vox?” Lucifer asks behind Ozzie. “Because I would like to remind you that despite what sinners’ opinions are on me and my daughter, we are very much liked by the rest of demon kind and you have went out of your way to try and use and destroy our family.”

“Honestly I don’t know why we have to hear any more of this,” Mammon says, picking his ear but he was glaring at the demon in front of him. “He admits what he did so why are we still here?”

”I agree with Mammon,” Bel says, from where she sat next to Bee.

”I never thought I hear anyone say that,” Bee jokingly whispers to Ozzie. The two giggled for a second before writing on the paper drew his attention.

’Will you two stop’ Lucifer has written down.

“I mean he never even said not guilty he is just claiming he did what he had to,” Bel continues with a yawn.

”The sinners needed someone to care for them since none you you do,” Vox says with a glare, his facade beginning to crack, he is probably realizing that there was just no way he could talk himself out of this.

The thing is none of the sins care what he thinks he was doing was right, they don’t care what he has to say and he cant seem to grasp that.

Ozzie seen demons like him before, so smart and yet so stupid. They are able to talk circles around others and get by by using others feelings to their advantage but once they are placed in front of people who will never care about the bullshit they are spewing, it’s all over.

And it looks like for the first time, Vox is in front of an audience he can’t spin the story for.

Though Ozzie could only scoff at the attempts Vox had made so far, all he did was say it was for the good of sinners to demon’s whose people are very much not sinners. Like why would Ozzie worry about the sinners safety when he had his own ring to protect? On top of that he insulted Charlie and Lucifer multiple times and yet he still thinks he can spin this to his favor while in front of demons that are very loyal to Lucifer and Lucifer alone.

Honestly this t.v. is good but he isn’t the brightest.

”And what about you princess, you said you believe anyone can be redeemed and yet here you are just watching everyone throw their power around, ready to punish me a moments notice. I believe that’s a very hypocritical move considering you are just mad how I showed sinners the truth about you,” Vox says, looking at Charlie.

Ozzie felt his flames beginning to grow. How dare he try to use his niece’s heart to worm his way out of this.

”I am not in the council,” Charlie replies sounding really calm. Ozzie felt so proud of his niece for being able to hold her own. “My voice in this doesn’t… doesn’t matter for I don’t have the right to decide- the punishment for any of you. I am simply here to observe.”

”So you are hiding behind other demons too,” Vox laughs once again looking at the camera. “All of Hell is being shown how much of a hypocrite and coward you are.”

”She is simply too young to be apart of this,” Lucifer replies coolly. “Besides as I said before, the punishment will be decided by Satan should you be found guilty so that it is fair.”

Vox scoffs at that.

”But seeing as you don’t have any defense that would help you I move that we make our vote,” Lucifer says, Ozzie looks behind him to see Lucifer looking at all the sins with almost pleading eyes to get this over with.

Ozzie only nods in response.

Satan huffs as he looks around the room, “all those that believe that Vox is innocent,” not a single light went up.

”I don’t think he realizes that his actually can vote in this,” Ozzie heard Bee whisper to Bel who sleepily chuckles.

”It makes it easier,” yawns Bel.

Ozzie smiles in agreement, they really are so stupid to not even try this. Hell hellborns try to vote all the time in these things, they never win of course.

”All those that believe he is guilty?” Satan asks and all the sin’s hands and Ars Goetias’ go up with lights appearing above their heads.

“Guilty,” Satan says and Ozzie can hear the smile in his voice.

Vox only glares at everyone in the room, “once again you are all showing how you don’t care about us.”

”Okay this is a load of crap!” Bee suddenly shouts at the demon in front of them. “Your pride is simply outstanding! I mean you instigated a war for your own benefits, put all of hell at risk including our own people despite the issue being with the sinners and the sinners alone which yes it sucks that you guys were killed but sadly it was done and yet instead of looking for ways to protect yourselves you decided to make the problem worse!” You accuse Lucifer of hiding behind us and yet you hid behind him and used his power for your own personal gain. Everyone in this room knows that you weren’t in it for ‘the people’ as you said!”

Before Vox responds Lucifer coughs into his hands. “I believe it’s time for the sentencing”.

On the paper Lucifer wrote ‘make sure to take his power away and strip him of his status’.

”Vox you are found guilty,” Satan says as the room began to shake and the fire began to blast. Rings, the same golden as the ones that took Stolas’ powers start to rise as Satan holds his hands in the air.

”And what are those going to do?” Vox asks, raising an eyebrow. “You can’t hurt me your highness.”

That made Ozzie freeze, how the hell did the sinner know that? That is a tightly kept secret so that the sinners don’t try anything against Lucifer.

”I’m not the one doing that, and Satan has no issue with hurting other demons, including sinners.” Ozzie turns to look at Lucifer who was crossing his arms and leaning back in his chair.

”ENOUGH!” suddenly chains shoot up and wrap around Vox’s face. “You have gotten everything you need to say out and it’s time for the punishment. For your crimes against the Morningstar family, starting a war against Heaven, causing more death and bloodshed, and being the main conspirator behind everything, you will be stripped of your power, everything that is yours will be confiscated and you will have nothing. You will also be imprisoned for a long- long time and once you are out you will have no ability to rise the ranks. You will be forced to serve under us for the rest of your days and since Sinners can’t die without angelic weapons, this will be a long time.”

Vox stares at the group, eyes twitching. “You can’t take away everything I built!”

Behind him Ozzie saw two demons try to yell behind their chains but Ozzie payed no mind to them. If they had a problem with it well they can argue against it during their turn.

“We can,” Satan replies, fire coming out of his mouth. “You have caused enough problems.”

With a snap of his fingers the golden rings began to glow, black and red magic began to surround the demon as his power was being taken away.

Man when this happened to Stolas he thought it was to harsh but seeing it happen to this demon, Ozzie felt delighted.

”Once out of prison you are to remain under constant supervision,” Satan says with finality and Vox floats in the air for a second before falling.

Before Vox can fight or anything, he is pulled to the side by a cloaked guards to his own separate platform.

Vox was trying to fight the chains but it was no use, it seemed that without his power and his ability to talk, he was nothing.

”Up next… Valentino,” Lucifer says as the guard pulls a moth demon to the stand.

Ozzie knew this was going to be awhile.

Back at the hotel Angel was watching the trial with Cherri, Husk, Vaggie, and Alastor. Nifty was somewhere cleaning the hotel excessively, Baxter was downstairs in his lab, and all the other guest sat around watching with interest.

Alastor was surprising to Angel, he thought the demon would listen on the radio or something considering how much he hates technology but with how joyed he was when Vox was punished Angel knew he just wanted to see the T.V. get what’s coming to him.

Sitting on Angel’s lap was fat nugget who was curled up and looking so cute.

”I can’t believe he tried to blame Charlie for all of this,” Vaggie crosses her arms and shakes her head.

”At least he got convicted,” Angel reassures the fallen angel. “I mean with how convincing he was during his trial, I would have let him walk free,” Angel says.

”Yeah he is good at what he does, how none of them sins faltered is surprising but badass,” Cherri says, punching her hand.

”I must say I’m proud of Charlie for being able to keep her calm during this,” Husk comments with a smile.

”Well why would the sins care for the lives of us sinners?” Alastor says with a shrug. “He was sprouting out the same arguments that he would use on sinners and tried to make us feel for him when our words have no effect on what is going to happen to him,” Alastor laughs. “Vox really shows how uncreative he is.”

”What do you mean?” Angel asks the radio demon.

”What care do the top of demon kind have for sinners, why if my knowledge serves me correctly. During a trial it is Lilith’s people that are sinners while the other sin’s people are hellborns,” Alastor laughs, “and so his arguments might have been convincing to us sinners, it would not move any of them.”

Husk lets out a huff of laughter, “he really tried to convince them by making them feel bad and angry about what happened to a group of people they won’t have any care for.”

Vaggie smirks, “what’s worse, Charlie told me how much the other sins care about her and her dad. They are family. And yet he insulted them the whole time and he still thought he can weasel his way out of this by claiming he was helping ‘the people’.”

”Yes and now Vox seems to have none of his power while I still have mine,” Alastor laughs in delight making Angel shiver. “It seems that I have won our little quarrel.”

”So does this mean everyone under his contracts are now out of them?” Angel asks, more like whispers to himself. No one responded and it was clear to Angel, they didn’t know.

The group continued to watch the trial when Angel felt his heart skip a beat when Lucifer says who was going next.

”Up next… Valentino,” Lucifer says while the moth demon is being dragged to the middle of the court room. The chains around his face came off while the sins look at him.

”Oh boy,” Angel whispers to himself, holding Fat Nugget closer to himself. He felt two hands on his shoulder, glancing both ways he sees Husk and Cherri giving him a concerned look.

”Hey, he is Vox’s partner and though the Vee’s fell apart at the end, he still helped out with everything,” Husk reassures Angel.

”Yeah mate,” Cherri shakes Angel’s shoulder in support. “There is no way he can walk away from this.”

Angel nods as he watches Val pull himself together.

”The charges against you are,” Lucifer continues. “Aiding in starting a war between sinners and Heaven, aiding in defaming the Princess of Hell, spying on the princess of hell and myself, instigating violence, kidnapping me, and using me for a weapon,” Lucifer list. “How do you plead.”

”Not guilty,” Val says and behind him Angel can see Velvette slap herself.

”Is he seriously going to go that route?” Husk asks sounding shocked. “Lucifer was literally kidnapped by Vox and he knew Valentino was involved. how would he think he can get away with this?”

“He has to have something planned,” Angel said, fear gripping at him. Val is going to find his way out of this and then Angel was still going to have to go to work and with everything that happened, work is going to be a worse hell than he has ever experienced before.

Maybe he was going to blame Angel? A part of the porn star couldn’t help but wonder why he wasn’t there. After all he aided in spying on Charlie but Charlie said he did nothing wrong and Angel took her at her word but if he tells the court that it was him, would they listen to what he has to say?

”Not guilty?” The sheep looking demon asks, looking shocked. “You kidnapped the king and you say not guilty.”

”I have no ability to kidnap the king nor do I have the ability to attack heaven,” Val says with certainty. “It was Vox that called Lucifer and tricked him before jumping him and using him.”

Vox on the side seemed to start screaming under his gag but Val payed no mind to it. “On top of that it was Vox that did the spying.”

”It was you that supplied the victim to be hypnotized for him to be able to spy,” Lucifer replies with a glare. Probably because it was Angel that is the reason Vox found out Lucifer didn’t have the power to kill sinners.

And Angel works for Val.

”He made me give up Angel for that,” Val argues.

”Oh I love it when they start to turn on each other,” a blue fish looking demon with two heads but only the white head starts to speak with a smile.

“It always happens and it’s so pathetic how they try to weasel their way out of punishment,” the purple replies with a disappointed head shake.

”It’s true, it was all Vox’s idea and then he started becoming obsessed,” Val continued. “He wouldn’t listen to me or Velvette at all towards the end, you saw that didn’t you, your highness? And he just threw around his weight and power.”

”Interesting and yet he claims that he was only helping the people,” the flying fox/dog/whatever demon she was, says with an annoyed look. “Very hypocritical.”

”The point still stands, I didn’t even understand what was happening and Vox was calling all the shots. So taking away his assets are fine but some of those are mine,” Val argues with confidence.

Angel was now shaking as he watched his boss defend himself. It wasn’t a bad argument and with how angry the sins were at Vox there was a chance he can go free. There is a chance he can come back.

Next to him Cherri scoffs, “that asshole literally helped with everything until his own ego was bruised badly and yet he is seriously trying to say he did nothing.”

”Even so,” Lucifer’s voice cuts in. “You still helped with everything that happened. You still joined in to fight against Heaven and help keep the violence going. On top of that it was your employee that Vox used to spy in my daughter and me.”

”Then why isn’t he on trial? If you believe it was my employee that did it?” Val asks, crossing his arms and tilting his hips.

Angel shivers at the reindeer of what he was forced to do.

He already talked to Lucifer and Charlie about this but- oh they were going to come after him weren’t they.

”Hey kid,” Husk says, drawing Angel away from his thoughts. “Charlie and Lucifer both know that you did nothing wrong and you were hypnotized.”

”But still- the other sins…” Angel trails off as he glances at the screen.

”Are fucking stupid if they blame you,” Cherri reassures him.

”Besides Charlie won’t let them do anything to you,” Vaggie reassures Angel. The sinner nods but he wasn’t convinced.

This was going to end badly for him, he just knows it.

”Angel was not in his right mind when he was spying on us, he was hypnotized and forced to give you sensitive information!” Charlie snaps her demonic form begging to materialize. “You allowed Vox to use him and forced him to help you and your cause!”

”Oh the princess has claws,” Cherri says rubbing her hands together.

Angel saw Vaggie smiles and she he leaned past Cherri to whisper to Vaggie, “do you wish that she is in that form while in bed?”

Vaggie shoots him a glare and slaps him in the shoulder before turning back towards the screen. Angel just laughs at Vaggie’s response.

”I still want the one that put him up to it princesa,” Val argues, leaning forward. “Vox was the one that did all of this.”

”And yet you still aided in kidnapping and spying. Still helped instigate a war and still did you part to destroy everything,” a rooster demon with what looked like one big head and two smaller heads says with a glare.

”Is that Asmodeus? The sin of lust.” Angel couldn’t help but asks as he watched Val’s eyes widen once he realized who he was talking to.

”Yeah,” Vaggie nods. “I never met him but Charlie shown me pictures. Apparently her and Asmodeus are really close.”

”Charlie has to introduce me to him!” Angel says almost in a whiny voice. “It’s a crime that she hasn’t yet.”

Vaggie chuckles, “I will be sure to tell her you said that.”

”Good” Angel says with a huge smile before he turns back towards the screen.

”I don’t know about you but to me that’s pretty guilty,” Asmodeus says with a glare.

”It’s… I… Vox was the master mind behind everything. He is the one that wanted to become a god!” Val yells towards everyone.

Angel rolls his eyes at the argument, “oh so you didn’t want to become a god?”

”Seriously how he became in overlord is surprising, he is so dense,” Husk rolls his eyes.

”He became an overlord because he is good looking not because he has a brain,” Angel tells the cat demon making him laugh.

”I can see that,” Husk replies while Vaggie rolls her eyes.

”He doesn’t look that good in my opinion,” Vaggie says.

”That’s because you are a lesbian,” Angel waves her off. “You wouldn’t know a hot man even if they had all the right parts.”

”But you still joined, you still plotted against me and help kidnap me. There is nothing you can say that will change the fact that-“ with a snap of his figures a screen began to rise as and footage began to play. Though no sound came out. In the footage it was Vox’s rally where he claimed he was the voice of the people and Lucifer was on screen being basically trapped by both Velvette and Valentino.

Angel was shocked to see all the demons that surrounded the overlords glare at the screen and the three overlords that were in the footage. The sins were also glaring with Satan actually huffing fire.

”Woah, none of them look happy,” Husk says, Angel glances at him to see his eyes were wide.

”Why that’s not surprising at all,” Alastor laughs with glee. “After all, Lucifer said that everyone in the room is loyal to him and that footage shows the king being humiliated on stage in front of a bunch of lowly sinners. These are the top demons of hell after all.”

Vaggie nods in agreement, “Al is right. The footage shows that Valentino was happily apart of what is happening which means that there is no way he is getting out of this. Not with Lucifer’s supporters around him.”

Angel nods, a weight starting to feel like it’s being lifted off his chest.

”It looks like you were happy to join here,” sneers the fox looking sin.

”Yeah- I- but-“

”We will do the vote now!” Satan says with a hard glare. “All those in favor of the accused” once again no one raised their hand for a second before a light suddenly began to shine on Val while he tried to raise his hand in what looks like hopes to get the demons watching to join in.

”Wait what the fuck?” Cherri suddenly shoots up to the surprise of Angel who had to move quickly so he doesn’t get elbowed. “Why is the voting light thing on him.”

”This whole trial thing just gotten more interesting,” Alastor says with a chuckle. “T.V. might not be so bad if I can see things like this.”

”What the fuck,” Val says once he realized the light was on him. Suddenly the light flicked off as Satan continued.

”Those that find him guilty,” the lights around the room flickered on at a fast rate as everyone sin and demon surrounding the overlords raise their hands.

“I still don’t get why the light flashed on him,” Cherri says, looking confused.

Angel could see so did everyone else except tall and creepy who seemed to be considering something. But if Angel knew anything about the demon, he won’t say anything.

With a snap of Satan’s fingers the golden rings that surround Vox appeared again.

”For your crimes against the Morningstar family, starting a war against Heaven on your own accords and causing violence everywhere, you will also suffer loosing your powers and imprisonment. Everything you have will be taken and you will be in prison and upon release you will be under watch and not able to rise the ranks like you have done previously. You will not be getting your power back either.”

Angel watches as Val’s power is taken from him and suddenly he felt something weird. He felt his leash snap and his soul returning to him.

”Holy Shit,” Angel whispers to himself, the placing his hands on his head. “Holy shit “ he grips at his hair in shock. “Holy shit.”

”Angel!” He hears husk say as a hand is on his shoulder once more. “Are you okay?”

”My deal with Val is broken,” Angel whispers making Vaggie, Cherri, and Husk stare at him in shock. “I felt it- but how?”

”Well if he doesn’t have is power anymore and his assets are taken, then it means that he doesn’t have to ability to keep any of the souls he owns,” Alastor says like he knew these facts all along long.

”But… I… sold my soul… and now I…” Angel didn’t know what to say. Was he dreaming? Did he really not have to go back to work ever again or listen to anything Val says?

”You’re free now Angel,” Husk says, shaking him a little. “Congratulations,” husk gives him a smile making Angel blush.

”Free…” Angel whispers, he has belonged to Val for so long, he never thought he would be free ever again.

”Yeah Let’s Go!!” Cheri cheers in excitement as she shoves Angel around a little bit. “That means you don’t have to listen to that asshole anymore!”

”Yeah… ha ha, I don’t.” Angel says, still the shock wasn’t leaving him.

”Are you okay Angel?” Vaggie asks, looking concerned.

”I’m just shocked that after so long, my deal is broken,” Angel says quietly as he watched Val get chains put around his mouth to stop him from talking and he was dragged away to be next to Vox. “I am really free?”

”You are,” Vaggie tells him, placing a hand on his shoulder.

Suddenly Angel began to laugh uncontrollably. He was free! He was actually free! He could do whatever he wants and not have to worry about Val! He cannot destroy himself anymore than usual so that Val hates working with him! He can do whatever he wants to and nog have to worry about Val getting mad at him!

He was actually free!

”I can’t believe it,” Angel says with a happy laugh as tears of joy began to fill up his eyes.

”Believe it legs,” Husk happily tells him as he hands Angel a drink. “Because this is happening.”

Angel laughs as he gladly takes his first drink as a free demon.

”Next up to the stand,” Emily heard Lucifer say with more confidence than when he started. “Velvette.”

“So far this is going pretty good,” Emily tells Sera as they watched the trial from behind Lucifer’s seat.

”Yeah,” Sera replies, looking at the paper that Lucifer had provided them.

There was green writing that appeared, ‘if they all done the same thing then why do we have to do one at a time’

’Cant wait for lunch?’ A purple sentence was written out. Right after ‘sorry that was mean and I am trying to get her to be nicer’.

Emily looked at the paper confused, “what does that mean?”

”That must be Leviathan, she has two heads and they probably have different ways of looking at everything,” Sera explains.

Emily nods glancing down at the paper to see red ink being spelled out.

‘Because not everyone has the same crimes and if we allow all them to speak they will be talking all over each other and give me a headache.’

”That has to be Lucifer right?” Emily asks as she watches Velvette now being brought up to and her chain around her mouth being taken off.

”I believe so,” Sera tells Emily. “If I had to guess, Red is Lucifer, Orange is Satan, Yellow is Beelzebub, Green is Mammon, Blue is Asmodeus, Purple is Leviathan, and Pink is Belphagor. And we are grey.”

Emily nods as she watches words appear on the paper while Lucifer speaks.

”You are accused of, aiding in starting a war between sinners and Heaven, defaming the Princess of Hell, aiding in spying on the princess of hell and myself, instigating violence, kidnapping me, and using me for a weapon,” Lucifer list. “How do you plead.”

“Repeating yourself there aren’t we?” Velvette says with a sneer.

”These guys really like digging their own graves,” Sera shakes her head next to Emily.

Sera wrote something down on the paper and Emily saw it read ‘they don’t want to be seen as not guilty do they?’

Almost immediately there was a yellow laughing face, a blue ‘haha’ and a pink ‘clearly’.

“So you plead as guilty then?” Lucifer asks and though Emily can’t see his face due to the fact that she was behind him, she can almost guarantee Lucifer was smirking. “Because that will make this so much easier for us.”

”I believe it’s more complicated than this, all I wanted to do was be able to make more outfits for my shows,” Velvette says with certainty. “But if I say guilty how does my sentencing look?”

”Less time in prison but your power and any assets are still to be taken and you will still loose the ability to rise in ranks as you have to serve and be under watch just like them since you are just as dangerous as the others.”

”So basically I either get the same lame punishment as those two no matter what or I make a convincing argument that I don’t deserve to be imprisoned,” Velvette summarizes.

Emily looks at Sera who is rolling her eyes.

”She is clearly saying she is guilty without using the words ‘guilty’,” Sera mumbles as she rubs her face in exhaustion.

Emily glanced at the paper and saw that the sins agree too.

She saw an orange, ‘is she fucking kidding me right now?’

’Just replay the video of her and Valentino ganging up on Lucifer as evidence at this point and call it done’ was written in Purple.

Then in red, ‘I would rather not see that video again’.

Emily looked back up to see Velvette looked to be considering something before she responds “alright then, not guilty.”

Emily saw the way Charlie looked tense the whole time and she honestly wishes she could her support by standing next to her but she can’t. Staying back was the best way to make sure no more fighting takes place.

’Okay I deal with fashion all the time’ purple writing appears on the page. ‘And how does starting a war and trying to take over heaven correlate to a dress’.

Emily was confused about that too and Sera just sighed before writing ‘that’s not important right now.’

’Are you telling me you aren’t the least bit curious?’

’I really am not.’

’Prude’

Emily saw Sera’s eye twitch before she took a deep breath, trying to calm herself.

’Enough, we are trying to do a trial here.’

’Thank you.’

”Did you help Vox film the video, lying to everyone about how the Hazbin Hotel is ran!” Lucifer asks Velvette.

”I didn’t lie, it was how I saw it,” Velvette responds. “And besides what does that have to do with ‘starting a war’?”

”It’s because of that lie that led to sinners not trusting Charlie as she tried to keep peace between heaven and hell so there was no more bloodshed.” Emily flinched a little at the words. She wished she could have helped Charlie more because it was clear how much she was falling apart with everything and yet she didn’t do enough to help her, she let her suffer.

”But like I said I didn’t lie, her ruddy hotel wasn’t going to help anyone,” Velvette says with a smile.

”Oh well let’s see,” Lucifer says and Emily saw the screen begin to play with a commercial of sorts that Emily could already tell was going to be bad.

“Who Charlie Morningstar is and can we trust her?” Vox’s voice echoed through the chamber.

Emily huffs in irritation, yes you can trust Charlie. She is the most trusting being that Emily has ever met.

”I” Charlie says before the scene glitches and what is clearly another conversation with Charlie she says, “lied”, edits again “I’m” and a fourth time with Charlie in a completely different outfit and a different area she says, “I’m dirty do bad.”

Emily growls at the screen, all of this is shitty and very clearly out of context.” Emily says while crossing her arms in irritation.

”It may be but this helped Vox gain followers,” Sera tells Emily before glancing at the screen. “Somehow.”

The scene continues as figure with a distorted voice and covered in shadows starts to speak.

Emily rolls her, literally just looking at the silhouette tells her that this is Velvette in the ‘interview’.

”When we arrived at the hotel the vibe was definitely off. I remember walking in and Charlie coming at me with an open fist.” The scene shows Charlie extending her hand to shake someone else’s.

”Do you not know what a handshake is because that’s concerning if you are in the business of doing business with others,” she hears Leviathan say mockingly. “That’s actually kind of pathetic that you don’t. And many sinners really think they are so great but if they are anything like this bitch then clearly heaven doesn’t have to worry about them and their stupidity.”

Emily could see Velvette growl in anger at the sins words but impressively held her tongue.

”The vibe was off just as I said it was,” Velvette argues, crossing her arms.

On the paper she sees that Leviathan wrote, ‘the only thing off is her face’.

”Next thing I knew, she struck me.” Velvette leans on her chair dramatically as the video doesn’t even show her being struck but instead dramatically shows Charlie’s extended hand for the handshake.

For a second no one said anything and Emily was seething with anger. How dare Velvette say such an awful lie! Charlie would never hit anyone! Maybe unless they deserved it.

Emily wanted to get up and scream at the overlord but before she could she was held down by Sera who was giving her a warning look. Emily was about to argue when suddenly the court room was filled with laughs.

”Sinners actually bought this crap! Man I should be opening up more markets to those idiots!” She heard Mammon loudly exclaim.

”Charl- Char- I’m sorry I can’t- Charlie will never hit anyone even when we tell her to hit someone,” Beelzebub’s loud laugh can be heard.

Emily saw Velvette look around the room confused at the response she was getting.

”Wha-“ Velvette starts to say but it was clear she was lost.

For a second no one said anything as the trial continued to be halted as everyone laughs. Huh maybe these demons know Charlie so well that they knew she wasn’t a violent demon at all.

”Or- ORDER!” Lucifer shouts through his own fit of giggles. The room finally started to calm down. “You didn’t tell me how stupidly funny that smear campaign was.”

”Wha- dad they were ruining the hotel’s reputation and making it look bad,” Charlie says, looking at her father. Emily might not be able to see Lucifer’s face but she can see Charlie’s and she looked just as shocked as Emily feels.

”Charlie,” Belphagor’s sleepy voice rang through the room. “Any actually important demon knows that, that isn’t a true statement and honestly any idiot that falls for that clearly awful editing campaign might not deserve to be helped by you.”

”But-“ Charlie says, looking down towards where Emily can only assume is were the sin of sloth was sitting.

“I agree with her,” Asmodeus says, still trying to stop himself from laughing. “Though, she is the social media demon?”

”I believe so, I never actually cared to look since quite honestly all the technology stuff is stupid in my opinion,” Lucifer replies. “Just cowards hiding behind screens. Now actual brave demons would make their displeasure known in person.”

Emily sees the way Velvette is glaring at the sins, it won’t take long for her cool demeanor to break down.

”I don’t know, technology has its uses but clearly these technology based demons aren’t as bright as they thought, just using shitty editing and the pea size brains of sinners,” Leviathan says.

”You would think the social media demon knows how to edit better. Is it that bad because you are actually awful at editing or you know your audience is so dumb they would fall for anything?” Asmodeus asks, with a smirk.

”FUCK YOU!” Velvette suddenly shouts at the sins, her glare ten times harder than Emily has seen before. “MY EDITING IS AMAZING AND BY THE WAY WHAT KIND IF DUMB SYSTEM ALLOWS THE ACCUSED TO BE ABLE TO VOTE THAT THEY AREN’T GUILTY. YEAH YOU SAY I AM DUMB BUT I FIGURED OUT YOUR DUMB SYSTEM ASSHOLES!”

“And so she admits that she did something wrong,” Lucifer says with a happy chirp in his voice.

”Wha-“ Velvette looks around confused before Emily saw her smirk.

”What’s going on?” Emily asked Sera looking confused.

”It looks like the sins were just trying to anger her in hopes that she admits to what she did wrong,” Sera responds with a frown. “And Velvette just realized that.”

”Well maybe she wasn’t going to hit me but to me that’s what it seemed like and I’m sorry to say but you can’t accuse me of lying if I thought she was going to hit me,” Velvette calmly says, reigning in her composure.

Emily bit her lip, that was a good argument.

The paper now has something new written on it and Emily reads, ‘do they think they have a chance to not be convinced?’

’It looks like it Oz, how stupid are they!’

”Thats true and I wished not to have to show it again but need I remind you,” the screen flashes again and once more the rally were Valentino and Velvette basically trapping Lucifer again plays. “That you were there for this too!”

Velvette looks at the screen, her eyes widen as she realized that she can’t win this. She sighs in defeat as she shakes her head.

Around the room angry mutters can be heard as Emily heard Satan cough into his hands.

”All who believe she is innocent,” Satan says and the only light in the room appearing being Velvette’s. “All opposed.” All the sins and Ars Goetia’s lights began to shine.

”Huh looks like you lost,” Leviathan says with what Emily can only assume is a smirk on her face. “Tell us again how you being able to vote too is a stupid system?”

Velvette glares but doesn’t say as Satan began his spiel.

”For your crimes against the Morningstar family, starting a war against heaven, causing more bloodshed and violence, you will also loose your powers, all your assets and be imprisoned. Once you are released, you will be under watch and will be seeing under someone’s command.”

”Once again, really original,” Velvette mockingly says before chains wrap around Velvette’s face. Once she lost her powers she is dragged away to be with her fellow Vees.

”They definitely don’t play here,” Emily says, tilting her head.

On the paper she saw someone written, ‘a few more cases and then I am calling lunch because I am hungry.’

’Lunch sounds good!’

’Mammon if I am calling lunch then I am making you sit in another room to eat. I can’t watch that again’.

Emily gave Sera a confused look to which she just shrugged. It was clear she had no idea what Lucifer meant by that at all.

Okay so a few more trials and then a break. This won’t be so bad. Once they eat and prepare they can do the rest.

This was going to be fine.

These trials were taking way too fucking long! All she wanted was to go home and cuddle Vortex on her couch and eating whatever crap she can find in her fridge.

They just finished sentencing the 6th overlord. Seriously how idiotic are all these guys to think they would actually be able to win. And what did they even want in heaven that was worth risking all their assets and power.

So far once they were done with the Vee’s who by the way Bee was going to make sure suffers, things were kind of better.

How dare they use Lucifer like that! And make Charlie look like a fool!

After that the trials went a little more smoothly considering the other overlords helped and basically tried to take oven heaven for their own game but they didn’t participate in anything against the Morningstar family other than joining Vox.

So far they done Zeezi, Maestro, and Prick. Now they were doing Hatchet and so far nothing of importance was really happening.

”So you joined this foolish crusade to help with your gang fights?” Satan asks, looking at the rest of the sins with confusion.

”When you say it like that it sounds stupid but Vox said that once we make it to heaven, we can have angelic weapons which will make the fighting better and that we can bring rage to Heaven,” Hatchet explains, rather stupidly.

On the paper she saw the seraphim wrote. ‘The only ones with those weapons are the exorcist. They would not find that stuff anywhere else.’

’Clearly these overlords aren’t very smart’ Ozzie responds and Bee can feel his eye roll through the paper.

”It is stupid,” Leviathan’s nicer head says surprisingly, shaking her head. The meaner head leans a bit forwards and continues the thought process by saying, “What could heaven possible provide that you don’t have down here? More territory to die over? Hard pass.”

“Well yeah,” the overlord was rubbing the back of his head.

”Seriously none of you actually thought through why you were fighting for,” Lucifer says, sounding so confused. Bee felt the same way. “If Maestro got his tranquil realm that would mean that none of you guys would be able to follow because you would turn it into anything but. Vox told Zeezi that they have sick places to party in heaven but how would Vox know that, I don’t even know that and I lived up there 10,000 years ago while Vox has never been. With you and Prick, there are already angelic weapons in Hell that the exorcist lazily left behind for the past seven years, yes getting it would be pricey but still you are overlords and on top of that what kind of fighting will take place in heaven that just can’t happen down here?”

”It really sounds like the song made you guys think that all of this would be a better deal than it actually is,” Bee says, shaking her head.

”Yeah but Vox tricked me!” Hatchet argues, with a glare.

”What an argument that was so easy to question?” Bel asks, all her eyes open as she stares at the overlord. “How would Vox know any of this stuff that is promised will be within your reach?”

”I…” it seemed he has no argument.

”Just face it, you heard the most barebones arguments, wanted to be apart of it because it was cool and now that it’s biting you on the butt you are trying to shift the blame,” Ozzie loudly says. “Without any idea of what it would mean for you. Not Hell, not your ‘people’, not anyone. And now that plan failed you are trying to jump off the train, well that’s not how this works.

”I quite agree, your choice to make these choices are your own fault. And are now a coward hiding behind and blaming others for your dumb decisions,” Leviathan’s meaner head says with a growl. “I mean seriously? When we have issues and fail at the things we set off to do we don’t sit around and blame the guy in charge.”

”Which I thank you for,” Lucifer chuckles, Bee turns to see a small smile on his face.

”We accept responsibility, I mean if this was the group Vox chose to work with, it almost makes me feel bad for him with how pathetic all this is. All of you were in his side and down to help but the moment it fails it all becomes the blame game,” Bee says with a head shake. “Not cool you guys”.

“FUCK YOU!” Hatchet suddenly screams at all the sins. “All of this!” He points at all the Goetia and sins in anger. “This isn’t even a trial so why are we doing this?”

”It is technically a trial,” Lucifer replies almost lazily. “The thing is, the evidence is so stacked against you that it’s impossible for you to win. Don’t forget you put yourself in this position.”

“And you put yourself in the position to be kidnapped! Was that your fault!” Hatchet yells at the king, Bee turned to see him freeze.

”Oh is that how you Want to PLAY CUPCAKE!” Bee says as she turned into her demon form, growing to the size of the room and her magic turning her eyes a different color. “BECAUSE TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THAT THERE ARE PUNISHMENTS WORSE THAN LOOSING YOUR MAGIC AND ASSETS LITTLE MAN!!!”

“Aunt Bee!!!” Charlie screams loudly getting her aunts attention.

She was still in her demon form when she turned to see what her niece had to say.

“You don’t have to threaten him,” Charlie says while Lucifer next to her is fixing himself up.

Bee sighs, going back to her regular form but still glaring at the demon in front of them.

”I think she does,” Satan grunts before he claps his hands. “But I also believe it’s time for the vote. All day that he is innocent.” Just like for the other three overlords, only him and the overlords that also believe that they were tricked by Vox raised their hands. “All that think guilty?” Of course Bee, the sins, and all the Goetia raised their hands.”

”No! This is rigged at so stupid!” Hatchet screams in protest as Satan snapped his figures and the golden rings appear once more and Hatchet’s power is taken from him.

”For the crimes of starting and aiding in a war against heaven and causing more more unnecessary bloodshed, you are stripped of your power and are never to be able to rise in ranks again,” Satan says with a glare. “As well as all your assets being taken.”

”This is unfair!! You aren’t even giving us a chance.” Hatchet thrashes around as the chains movie to wrap around the mouth of the overlord. Good riddance, no one was going to miss him talking.

”Of course it’s unfair, you could have caused the destruction of all the rings but in your egoistical little brains all you guys thought of was yourselves,” Leviathan’s meaner head sneers. “You sinners are nothing more than invasive animals that take and take for yourselves with no care about the actual beings that live in this world. There are so many hellborns that want nothing to do with this conflict who are in danger but even now none of you care, you just care that you are loosing your magic and your power. Pathetic! And besides you are Lilith’s people not ours, if you wanted fair then she would be here too.”

“The only reason none of you are being killed,” Satan growls in irritation. “Is because the whole mess started because angels were killing sinners and a group of sinners decided to fight back. If I had it my way, I would kill all of you lowlife demons who quite frankly don’t deserve the title without a trial but you already caused enough problems and this way all of hell and your shitty kind can know not to mess with us.”

The cloaked guards began to pull hatchet away to the others and grab all the chains of the convicted as Lucifer coughs into his hands and then claps them.

”I- I believe we should go to lunch and then come back to finish the trials,” Lucifer says as the cloaked guards drag the prisoners away. The convicted to their own cells and the not yet convicted to the ones the came from.

”FUCK YEAH LUNCH TIME!” Mammon shouts before he bolts to the conference room.

”I never seen him run that fast,” Ozzie says with an annoyed look.

”I don’t know he knew how to do that,” Bee responds with a raised eyebrow. The two gave each other a look before they broke down in a fit of giggles.

Still laughing with each other, they made their way to the meeting room.

”Mammon, I told you that if you were going to eat, please do it in another room,” Lucifer says, covering his eyes from the ungodly sight of Mammon eating.

”Why?” Mammon asks, looking confused as he shoved a whole meatloaf in his mouth.

”Because I’m the sin of gluttony and even I know how to use silverware,” Bee tells him as she moves to sit in her seat, Ozzie doing the same.

Everyone else was already there and sitting with three extra chairs for Charlie and the two angels.

”Why didn’t you call us when you guys were having ISSUES! Or WhEN YOU WERE KIDNAPPED!! AND HOW ARE WE JUST FINDING OUT ABOUT THIS NOW!” Satan seethes as he looks at Lucifer with glare.

”T-There was no time,” Charlie says looking upset. “With Vox everything was moving so fast and then he took dad and right after he attacked Heaven and we just… tears began to form him Charlie’s eyes as Lucifer quickly got up to comfort her.

”Hey hey hey, it’s fine, everything is fine now,” Lucifer comforts his daughter. Bee on the other hand felt a pang of sorrow for the father and daughter. She can taste their emotion and none of it was good. She doesn’t know why but Charlie’s strongest emotion was guilt which worried Bee.

”No it’s not, because of me you got hurt and Vox found out you can’t hurt the sinners,” Charlie says, wiping tears out of her eyes.

”Well that was bound to happen with Vox, I mean once he found out angels can be killed he would have gone after me,” Lucifer reassures the girl but before she could respond Bel slams her hands on the table.

“You got hurt and didn’t call me this whole WEEK!” Bel loudly says before she moved to Lucifer’s side and started to check him over forcefully.

”Bel I am fine,” Lucifer says, trying to push her away. “Like hell you are!” She snaps as she glances at Charlie with a glare, “you aren’t getting out of this either,” Bel says as she lifts Lucifer’s shirt up to look at his chest.”

”O-of course not Aunt Bel,” Charlie chuckles awkwardly as her dad continues to be checked over. Bel was muttering something under her breath probably about stupid sin of pride not getting medical attention.

“So,” Lucifer says glancing behind him towards the angels in the room. “Are you satisfied Sera?” Lucifer asks, tilting his head in curiosity.”

”I believe I am somewhat satisfied. Though I must ask, prison?” The angel, Sera, says looking confused.

”We have prisons in Hell,” Lucifer rolls his eyes. “But this is a personal prison we sins send those that wrong us personally,” Lucifer tells her.

”I see,” Sera says with a nod while the younger Angel still looks so confused.

“So basically,” Bee takes over, “there are a lot of demons and a lot that try to hurt us sins since we are the top, and while we can’t keep them locked away forever, even we won’t be that cruel-“

”Well,” Satan says, tilting his head.

”Some of us aren’t that cruel, the prison keeps you away for a long time and by the time the Vee’s are released, no one will remember them,” Bee finishes explaining and when the young angel nodded she turned back towards Satan. “Isn’t your therapist supposed to come to court cases with you Satan?” Be suddenly says giving the dragon an irritated look.

”He and I thought it was best he didn’t come today since most of these demons were going to be guilty anyway,” Satan stiffly says.

”Sounds like the exact reason he should be here,” Bee sarcastically replies.

”Wait, you have a therapist now?” Lucifer asks, looking confused.

”If you didn’t disappear for 7 nearly 8 years you would know that,” Satan snarks while Lucifer rolls his eyes before turning back towards the angels.

”Does that answer your question now Emily?” Lucifer asks.

Emily nods before she turns towards Charlie and begins to whisper to her about something that Bee couldn’t hear.

”Are you done now Bel so that I can eat,” Lucifer asks, looking down at the sheep demon.

”Like you know how to do that, I used to force you to eat all the time because you were just ‘not hungry’ and I can’t image that got any better in the seven years you have been gone,” Bel rudely snaps at the king as she continues to check him over. “When these trials are done you two are coming to sloth.”

”I will have to call Vaggie if I do go to sloth,” Charlie cuts it.

”When not if,” Bel snaps at her niece. “You two are not getting out of this.”

Charlie nods, looking a tad bit scared of her aunt.

”Why sloth?” Emily asks, looking confused.

Charlie turns to her shrugging, “it’s where all the medical facilities are.”

”Wait really,” Emily asks, looking interested.

”You put medical in Sloth?” Sera asks, looking at Lucifer like he was crazy.

”He didn’t, I did,” huffs Bel. “I am the doctor out of all of us sins so of course my work is in my ring.”

”Right the sloth demon is the doctor, how can I forget,” Sera mumbles to herself.

”Listen here you asshole, you are welcomed to join us but this is still our realm, not yours so we don’t want to here any criticism for how we run things because it has worked for thousands of years,” Leviathan’s meaner head growls in irritation.

“I wasn’t trying to be rude,” Sera says as more eyes began to open on Sera’s body. “I was simply shocked.”

”Will you two stop!” Lucifer steps, glaring at both of them.

”Sometimes patients need a nice place they can relax and sloth is perfect for that,” Bel explains as she now examines Lucifer’s leg.

”You don’t have to be so thorough,” Lucifer grumbles as he leans toward the table and grabs an apple that was just waiting for him to eat it.

”I didn’t even think about that,” Sera says looking stunned at the revelation. Honestly Bee could just roll her eyes, that should have been obvious but leave it to an angel to judge them without any knowledge or critical thinking skills.

”Yes I do,” Bel tells Lucifer before turning back towards Sera. “Yeah and because the other rings are filled with a lot of violence, parties, and quite honestly some of the worse demons you will ever see, my ring basically bans all those behaviors so that my patients have a place they can heal without worrying themselves.”

”That sounds lovely,” Sera says with a smile.

”We might not be heaven but we do try,” Bel tells her sleepily, finally finishing up looking at Lucifer and moving towards Charlie.

”So who is all that we still have to do? Because we can’t punish every sinner involved because that would mean we punish literally everyone,” Ozzie says shaking his head.

”I wouldn’t be opposed to that,” Lucifer mutters as he crosses his arms.

”Dad…” Charlie softly reprimands though it’s clear her heart isn’t in it.

”But you are right we can’t, it’s just the rest of the overlords, the ones that help lead their people into wars minus of course Zestial, Alastor and Rosie because they didn’t get involved or they helped us,” Lucifer says with a shrug.

”So all the overlords, are there any if note that we should be worried about?” Bel asks, she was now examining Charlie’s arms.

”Well most will be like the other four overlords that we done but there is Carmel Carmin- mine, uh the weapons dealer,” Lucifer tells the sins.

”And here goes Lucifer never being able to remember anyone’s names,” chuckles Levi’s nicer head.

”I don’t interact with overlords other than Zestial that often so sue me, I can’t remember everyone’s names,” Lucifer argues.

”You can’t even remember Vaggie’s name,” Charlie points out making Lucifer blush and pout before muttering ‘whatever’.

”So who is this Vaggie, you said you had to call her?” Bee asks, curious about her niece’s life.

”We are literally talking about something important right now,” Satan groans but is ignored.

”Vaggie is my girlfriend!” Charlie happily says. “She is helping me with the hotel and is a life saver.”

“Girlfriend! This is how I find out, girl I need to meet her A-S-A-P, I just have too,” Bee squeals.

”Wait really,” Ozzie says to Charlie. “If you need anything to help lighten the mood Charlie…” Ozzie tells the girl who is now blushing so much she looks like a tomato.

”Uncle Ozzie,” Charlie groans while Ozzie just laughs while Lucifer gave Ozzie a distasteful look.

”So anyway, this weapons dealer is the one that provided the weapon for the Vees to use that they used me to power,” Lucifer tells Satan, clearly trying to get off the topic of his daughter’s sex life. Glancing at the angel’s Bee can tell they were thankful for the distraction too.

”Make sure she treats you right,” Leviathan’s nice head says with a smile while her meaner one sneers, “unlike your last boyfriend.”

”I know aunt Leviathan,” Charlie smiles before they both turn back towards the conversation.

”So she made the weapon?” Satan asks, looking angry. “Which means she should be punished like the Vee’s.”

”I would typically say yes but it becomes more complicated once you realize a few things,” Lucifer says while shifting uncomfortably.

”What?” Mammon asks, looking confused.

Charlie cleared her throat, glancing nervously at the two angels in the room before looking at all the sins.

”She was the one that first discovered how to kill an angel but she wanted to keep that information with only her,” Charlie explains.

”Wait seriously?” Ozzie asks, looking shocked.

Charlie nods and takes a deep breath, “she is also the one that told me and my friends and gave us weapons to defend ourselves.”

Behind her Bee could see that Sera was thinking, “I understand that you think that means you need to help her since she helped you out during Adam’s attack on you,” Sera tells Charlie but Charlie shakes her head.

”It’s not just that- remember, the reason she even killed the angel in the first place was because she was afraid her daughters were going to get killed by the exorcist, that was the whole reason anyone knows how to kill angels,” Charlie defends the overlord. “She helped us out so much and I know she only joined Vox because she was afraid of loosing her daughters once the angels realized that it was her that gave us the weapons that killed Adam.”

Emily gasp in shock, “she was a mother that was desperate to save her daughters from dying brutally and for the enjoyment of others.” 

”That doesn’t change anything,” Satan grunts. “Yes she was a desperate mother, we all know the feeling of willing to do to protect the ones we love but the point is that she still did something wrong.”

”But-“

Charlie was cut off as Levi’s nicer head sighs.

”Charlie, love I get that you feel you owe her a great debt and maybe you do but that doesn’t change the fact that she still made the weapon that used your dad’s powers,” Levi tells Charlie with a sad look. “A weapon that would have only caused more devastation. A weapon that specifically used your dad as a power source.”

”I honestly understand why she did what she did,” Lucifer tells Charlie with a sad look. “Maybe I would have done the same if I had too but we need to punish everyone involved because if we let one free then that could cause more issues down the line.”

”But punishing everyone could do that too,” Charlie argues.

”Maybe, but the difference is that this way they know that we are serious about what is happening and that this, what happened can never happen again,” Lucifer tells his daughter. “Charlie not only does she provide a means that can kill me but it was found out that I can’t fight back, honestly it’s for the best that she gets punished so that other demons know not to mess with this stuff.”

Charlie looks around and Bee could tell she was confused and upset. The sin of gluttony places a hand on Charlie’s shoulder and she lays her head on it.

”We should probably get back to the trial,” Lucifer says as he gets up.

The other follow, not really not to far behind, so did Emily and Sera. Ozzie moved to give Charlie a hug which she happily accepted while Bee gave her a shoulder squeeze before the three of them went to join the others.

Be couldn’t help but feel bad for the weapons dealer.

Carmilla Carmine let herself be dragged by the cloaked guards because she knew that there was no point in fighting it. Unlike all the other overlords she knew it was time to quit.

She did everything to protect her girls and yet it was t enough, it was never enough.

She made a lot of mistakes but now as she is forced to stand in front of the council of seven deadly sins she realized just how bad her mistakes have gotten.

Her first mistake was killing the angel and then it just kept snow balling form there until she found herself now on trial about to loose everything she built for her family.

She should have listened to Zestial when she had the chance.

Glancing at everyone in front of her, she saw the princess herself looking at her with big apologetic eyes almost pleading for the weapons dealer to forgive her.

Carmilla honestly didn’t hate nor blame Charlie for what is happenings if she had to guess, Heaven is the ones that wanted to all to pay and the sins are the ones to just make it be done.

Either way it doesn’t matter because what does matter right now is the fact that she is on the stand, and she was the one that built the weapon that pissed off each of the deadly sins.

The only solace she has right now is that Zestial will take care of her girls.

”Carmilla Carmine,” Lucifer’s voice took Carmilla out of her thoughts as she looked up to see him looking down at her. Glancing around she also saw the glares from the other sins.

She knew it, they weren’t happy with what she done.

”You are charged with aiding in starting a war between sinners and heaven, and building the weapon that was using me as its power source, how do you plead?” Lucifer asks, looking at her with eyes that Carmilla thought looked like they were pitting her.

Wait no, they were remorseful.

Why were they remorseful? After everything Carmilla helped with? He should hate her.

”I plead guilty,” Carmilla says with certainty in her voice, trying not to show any fear.

”Guilty?” The demon, Beelzebub looks at her confused. “You aren’t going to try and argue your case like all the other overlords?”

Carmilla shook her head ‘no’, before answering, “everything I done was to protect my girls because they are my whole world. Back on earth and in Hell and I made a lot of bad calls that only lead me in deeper trouble and so I accept whatever punishment you have for me, I only ask- my daughters, Clara and Odette are spared from anything you might do to my stuff. Those two don’t deserve to loose everything.”

Carmilla looked at the sins, for the first time since she realized she had to do whatever it takes to protect her girls, she let her weakness shine through in hopes that the sins take pity on her daughters.

She saw Lucifer giving her an understanding look while the others had mixed looks of understanding and not caring.

“You don’t have any magic yes,” Lucifer asks, when Carmilla shakes her head, he nods.

”Then I believe Satan can start to-“

”I beg thee to wait for a second!” An old voice that Carmilla has loved for a long time suddenly speaks up from behind her.

”Zestial?” Lucifer asks looking confused at the old overlord.

”I know that you are going to convict her but- I must ask for you to let me say my peace first,” Zestial says, looking at Carmilla with such loving eyes.

Carmilla gives him guilty ones in return.

”If you believe it can change Satan’s mind about conviction.

”I do not defend thee choices thy made by Carmilla when she aligned herself with the foolish crusades of the Vees. I myself had warned her against it,” Zestial says as he places a hand on his chest and looks at each of the sins.

”And how does this help in any way?” The white head of Leviathan asks, tilting in confusion. Carmilla knew better though, she knew Zestial had a point and she knew that he was getting to it, if those sins would just be patient.

”I know that you send those most deserving of your ire to the prison built specifically for your enemies but I don’t belive Carmilla deserves that,” Zestial tells the sins.

”Listen, it doesn’t matter what you believe because she is going,” Mammon says, rolling his eyes.

”Please, she has done wrong and I won’t argue that she didn’t but everything she did was to protect her kids, lord Lucifer you must understand that as a parent the need to protect thy’s children?” Zestial’s hand flew up towards Lucifer.

Lucifer didn’t say anything, he just leaned forward unstressed before he picked up a pen and wrote something down.

”I request that she can stay with me for the time being, her business and whatever thy needs to take for you to feel safe can be taken but I beg thee, not to send her to them same place those three are going,” Zestial says, taking off his hat.

”She built the machine that caused the king a lot of pain,” Satan says, folding his arms over his chest.

Truthfully Carmilla didn’t know the weapon was going to be used on him like that, when she told Vox she needed a power source she thought the T.V. demon with all the freaking power in the city at his control was going to use that, not the king of hell.

If she knew that then she would have made the weapon use a different kind of power source.

”I did not know he was planning on using Lucifer- Lord Lucifer as a power source,” Carmilla says, looking down. “I also told Vox it needed one and I thought he would have used something more technological. I wasn’t expecting it to be the king and for that oversight, I am sorry.

“You really didn’t know he was going to target me?” Lucifer asks, the weapons dealer, looking at her, no what fault like looking through her. He was trying to find any crack in her.

”If I had known I would have not helped, I wished not for my girls to suffer and by you being the power source, it would have led to more issues for me down the line. But as it is, I still accept I made the weapon,” Carmilla says, refusing to look at any of the sins.

”Do you lie now Carmilla?” She heard Belohagor asks though Carmilla still refuses to look up.

”I have no need to lie at this moment, I know what my fate is,” Carmilla replies, fighting with the cuffs one her hands.

She could hear them all writing down on something before she heard Lucifer cough, “Zestial, do you have more to say?”

”I wish to take her into my custody, I understand though my lord if you can’t allow that,” Zestial responds, Carmilla though refuses to look at him because she knows that she done him wrong.

If she just listened to him then he wouldn’t be here pleading for her.

“Carmilla Carmine, we find you guilty of aiding in starting a war between sinners and heaven and building the weapon that used Lord Lucifer,” Satan say’s loudly for the room to hear. “Due to earlier testimonies by the Princess and Zestial testimony now plus your new information, we won’t be sending you to the same prison that the Vee’s are going to.”

Carmilla’s head snaps up in confusion.

”Wha…”

”You will be released into the custody of Zestial since the king trust his judgment but you are not to leave his property and since you have no magic, we won’t be taking that away from you.”

Carmilla felt herself begin to smile, she was being released into Zestial custody. The two won’t be separated.

”But your factories will be shut down and we will take all your assets. The weapons you built will no longer belong to you or your daughters and everything is to be taken from you. Your overlord status is revoked and you are to never make angelic weapons again,” Satan tells the weapons dealer making her stare in shock.

Two parts of her were fighting right now, on one hand she and her daughters lost everything but on the other hand, she gets to stay with Zestial and her daughters.

She- she didn’t know what to do. After all being an overlord is what protect her girls.

”Don’t worry Carmilla, I will make sure the girls are safe,” Zestial places a reassuring hand on the ex-overlord’s shoulder.

”And that is the end of the trial!” Satan says as all the overlords are forced out of the room.

Carmilla could only lean into Zestial as she thinks about everything she lost and everything she was able to keep.

Before the ex-overlords where taken away Charlie grabbed all their attention, ”To all of you overlords, at any point if you wish for a second change, and to be able to redeem yourself, my hotel’s doors are open. I want to help you all.”

Lucifer can see the ex-overlords all having a range of emotions: Some were glaring while others just looked defeated. Honestly it was kind of amusing to see after everything that happened.

He, Charlie, Emily, Sera, and the sins all rallied up again in the board room of the court room.

Lucifer ran a hand over his face, he was just so tired of everything. At least the trials were over and the Vee’s are going to be locked away for a while because Lucifer didn’t know how much longer he can stand being near those three.

He glanced towards Charlie to see her giving Satan a hug for going easy on Carmine. Truthfully Lucifer wanted to go easy on her the whole time, he can understand wanting to protect your child but without and plausible reason, he just couldn’t.

But with the fact that she wasn’t planning on having him as the power source meant that the weapon wasn’t made to use him and Vox was just being the worst.

Honestly how anyone fell for his tricks, Lucifer didn’t know. Hearing and seeing it all during the trial just showed Lucifer how pointless humanity has become and honestly reminded Lucifer as to why he never bothered with them.

“You two are coming back to my ring, don’t think I forgot about that,” Bel says, walking towards Lucifer.

”Of course not,” Lucifer says before he glances at Sera and Emily who were both whispering to each other.

He slowly made his way to the two as Emily went off towards Charlie.

”Didn’t want to see me I presume,” Lucifer jokingly says.

”She wants to say bye to Charlie before we head back to Heaven,” Sera tells Lucifer as she watches Emily tackle Charlie into a hug. “Emily really likes her.”

”Emily is a sweet kid,” Lucifer says as he leans on his apple cane.

”Yeah she is,” Sera whispers to herself, rubbing her arms as if comforting herself.

”I gotta say I am surprised you were the one to suggest that Carmine can be given a lighter sentence,” Lucifer tells Sera.

Sera didn’t respond for a second and Lucifer thought he said the wrong thing when suddenly she gives Lucifer a sad look.

”How she sounded when it came to her daughters,” Sera whispers, “it reminded me of how I felt when I commanded the exterminations. She was looking out for the people she cherished the most and in the end it screwed her over.”

”Finding common ground with a demon, seraphim?” Lucifer asks with a chuckle, looking at Sera with a worried expression.

”She reminded me with how I feel towards Emily, I never wanted to loose her and Adam- Adam made me feel like I would have if I didn’t agree to exterminations.”

”Well Adam had always been a convincing ass,” Lucifer says with a shrug. At one point when Lucifer was young, a shameful point mind you, Lucifer actually found Adam to be fascinating and he wanted to learn all he can about him but once he got to know Adam he realized how much of an asshole he actually is and yet Lucifer still tried to do things with him for a long time until of course the apple incident.

“I’m sorry for forcing your hand to sign the contract,” Sera says, looking at Lucifer.

”Truthfully the only reason I was annoyed about signing anything for exterminations were because Lilith actually likes the sinners for some reason and your first draft had nothing to protect the hellborns which I cared for. I don’t have the ability to kill sinners so it meant the obnoxious one might die and I didn’t have to deal with them anymore.“ Lucifer says, looking up at Sera who didn’t make any sign of hearing him so he continued. “Then we negotiated and I got what I wanted, Adam can satisfy his weird murder boner, you feel safe and it’s a win for all of us except Lily who actually was so mad at me that she disappeared.”

”I’m going to talk to them about giving you the ability to hurt sinners,” Sera suddenly says.

”Wha- where did this- what?” Lucifer jumps up, looking at sera so confused.

”The whole reason Vox was able to get to the point where he felt like he could do anything and get a weapon that was strong enough to destroy heaven is because you didn’t have the ability to protect yourself,” Sera says, turning to look Lucifer in the eyes.

Lucifer could only tilt his head in confusion, but his punishment was that he was stuck here unable to hurt the beings he despised so much? Why would she want to give him that ability now?

”Don’t look at me like that,” Sera huffs in irritation. “You got hurt really badly because you don’t have the power to defend yourself, and this led to bigger issues where you were turned into a weapon against heaven,” Sera tells Lucifer. “This wasn’t something any one of us thought possible but it is and as long people like Vox find out you can’t hurt them, well it will be dangerous especially with angelic weapons lying around.”

”Why do you care?” Lucifer asks, her sounding small. He don’t want to sound weak he just never thought anyone in heaven would actually care about his wellbeing.

“Because after everything, you deserve to feel safe too Lucifer,” Sera tells him before she places a hand on his shoulder for a second.

She lets go and makes a portal back to heaven, “I will tell them everything that happened and I will tell you if they agree with my decisions,” Sera tells Lucifer before she turns towards Emily who seemed to be talking with Charlie and one one (probably Maggie? no, Vagthena? No, Vaglociraptor? Okay he is so bad at names).

”Emily it’s time to go home,” Sera says getting Emily’s attention. She nods and turns to give Charlie one last hug before she flew into the portal that soon closed behind her.

”So hopefully this is the last huge thing to happen,” Satan says to Lucifer as the devil moves to sit next to dragon.

”Hopefully…” Lucifer mumbles to himself. “I should message Stolas and see if he had any prophecies that I should be concerned about.” Lucifer saw Satan freeze but he decided to ignore it for now. He was just too tired to ask.

Lucifer shrugs, “I will call Paimon about that tomorrow.”

”Uh yeah that- sounds good.” Lucifer decided for his own sanity, he was going to ignore Satan’s stuttering.

”Sera said she was going to try and give me the ability to hurt sinners,” Lucifer tells Satan.

”You should have always had that ability,” Satan growls in response, all Lucifer could do was shrug.

He looked at everyone and wished he had the energy to stay longer and catch up but he really didn’t, he might just sneak away and go home so he can do to bed-

“Lucifer, Charlie,” Bel calls out as she made her own portal to the sloth ring. “C’mon.”

Lucifer groans, he was hoping he could find a good way to slip out but it looks like Bel was just going to be on his ass.

”Fine, I’m coming,” Lucifer groans while Charlie follows, behind.

”Don’t forget to call us soon so we can meet your girlfriend!” Bee calls out to Charlie. Lucifer saw his daughter blush and nod in agreement.

”Oh and tell Angel I would like to meet him too,” Ozzie calls out to the two.

”I see the porn star found out Ozzie is your uncle,” Lucifer says as he gives a hug to Leviathan who wasn’t letting him leave without one.

”Yeah,” Charlie chuckles though Lucifer noticed that her smile didn’t reach her eyes. Once Leviathan let go, Lucifer placed a hand on his daughter’s shoulder.

”You two better call us at one point this week,” Satan gives them both a glare, “because I will hunt both of you down if you don’t.”

”Noted,” Lucifer says as he and Charlie walk into the sloth ring.

What a perfect place to rest after the bullshit of his court room.