Harmonia’s in her room. Apollo walks in. "How're you doing, girlie?"
"I'm fine.”
He sits down on her bed. "Glad to hear. I'm fuckin' bored. You wanna do anything?"
"Sure I guess. Does it have to be murder?"
"Nah, it can be whatever. You got video games or anything?"
"Not really. I mean I got movies?" Harmonia offers.
"Okay, I'll tell you if they're shit or not. Tell me what you have."
"Wow. Wow. Normally I just use Netflix.” Harmonia admits.
"Then I'll judge you based on your favorites." Apollo smiles.
"I like Disney movies..."
His eyes light up. "Which ones?"
"Uh... Tangled, Encanto, Lion King, Aladdin, Hercules, Frozen 2.”
"I fucking love The Lion King."
"Same.”
"You wanna watch it?" Apollo asks.
"Yeah sure.”
"Bet."
"Bet.”
As they watch the movie Harmonia is looking at her phone and seems to get a mix of frustrated and worried. After a bit, it turns into sadness then full-on sobbing as she watches Spider talk to DATTRS.
Apollo looks over to Harmonia, scooting over to her. "Heyheyhey, the fuck's wrong?"
"N-november... Spiders... talking to him or something on DATTRS and... god…. I want him back..."
"...I see. And what are you gonna do about it?" Apollo asks. "Are you gonna sit idly by and fucking wallow or are you gonna do something?"
"Do what? He's fucking dead. I’ve. I've been trying to be okay. trying not to be depressed and let myself give up. I just. I…”
"Nonono, you fucking listen to me." Apollo grabs her by the collar. "You're gonna let yourself be depressed. Let all that fuckin' anger and sadness out. You're gonna take those emotions and put them into something greater. You fucking understand?"
"I understand." Harmonia looks him in the eyes.
"Good." He hugs her. "Now, you're gonna tell me every little thing that's wrong. Right fucking now." Harmonia hugs back, surprised that he seemed to care this much.
"Um... where do I start…”
"Start from the beginning. I've got time."
"Well... before I was born, my parents were a happy couple and had a baby daughter named Calliope. While my mom was pregnant with me my dad got in a car accident that my sister died in. After that, he left and my mom moved in with my grandma. She stayed for like a year after I was born before losing herself to addiction and abandoning me more or less. I grew up with my grandma and she was... amazing. I rarely saw my mom. She only came by to see my grandma and could barely stand to look at me. I struggled with mental health stuff in school and got a job early. A couple of months after my 18th birthday my grandma died suddenly. I was left with the house and health insurance money stuff but was mostly alone.... a couple months after she died I was so gone I almost um... offed myself but had a moment of clarity and went to a hospital instead. By October I was more or less okay and had a stable job. I joined a chatroom where I met Claire, Spider, and some others. Then on October 28, the world ended. I ended up meeting up with the people from the chatroom and we started fighting back against Abaddon. Then the torment started. Abaddon first, Dolos second, and King third. After a bit, I ended up meeting all my friends including November and most of us ended up living here, at my house. November... back then I really tried to see the best in people... maybe I still do. He was suffering from a severe loonism episode. I ended up bandaging him up after he was hurt and it helped break him out of it. We grew closer after that... he was... kind and gentle. He just wanted to help even if he didn't know how. On January 29th, Abaddon killed me for the first time. Tendril through the chest. My friend split his soul in half, giving me half to bring me back to life and turning me into a demon of gluttony. A while later I killed a man and ate his soul and I got wings and this antenna... Then later I ate a deer soul pizza and got my teeth and claws. That's it so far I think... Basic rundown of my traumatic backstory."
Apollo tightens his hold on his vessel. "Well, that shit's not gonna happen again, understand? I'll get that blue boy to go help you and you'll get better."
"Okay,,," She lays her head on his shoulder, letting herself be held. "Thank you..."
"Don't you go fucking thanking me. I don't deserve your thanks. Just consider it a friendly gesture."
"Alright.." Harmonia just hugs him close, resting against him.
"Now you tell me when you're feeling better. Until then, we're gonna stay like this."
"Okay..."
"Or, even better yet, we can go visit that blue thing. Would you like that?"
"Sure,,," Harmonia puts the ring on. Apollo gets up, holding her hand as he teleports them to the forest.
---
Apollo and Harmonia appear near Alastor in a flash of green distortion. Harmonia looks around, wiping her eyes.
Alastor looks over to the two. "Oh! Harmonia! And-" He sees Apollo, his mood instantly dropping. "Apollo."
"Hi,,," Harmonia walks over to him.
Alastor holds Harmonia tightly. "Did he hurt you? Are you okay?"
"For fuck's sake, pull that stick out of your ass. We're friends. I brought her here to see you." Apollo says.
"...Oh!" Alastor says, feigning surprise. "Well, I have something to show the two of you! I spoke to Harmonia only minimally about it. I have two people to introduce you to!"
"Oh, the people you mentioned? Lilith and Loki I think you said?"
Apollo’s face turns completely expressionless. "...W h o ?"
"Do you know them??” Harmonia asks.
Apollo’s entire body starts to shiver. "Uhm... Yeah. Lilith's... I don't wanna talk about it-"
"Well, about that- Lilith will be here in a few weeks, she has some business to attend to first. But Loki is waiting for a portal to Earth right now!" Alastor explains.
Apollo sighs in relief, sitting down and leaning against a tree.
Harmonia looks concerned. "She's that bad that she scares even you?"
"She's known for some questionable deeds alright. Though I didn't expect him of all people to be afraid of her." Alastor says.
"Will she be safe to be around?" Harmonia asks.
"I would assume so. She does not have all the power she once had. Even more so on Earth." Alastor explains.
A green portal appears next to Alastor and a tall, pale man exited it. He's dressed in an angelic outfit with multiple sets of wings protruding from his head and back. He wears spherical glasses and has very messy, white hair along with white eyes.
"Hello everyone!" Loki waves with a kind smile.
"Woah... hi,," Harmonia waves back, amazed.
Unexpectedly, another portal opens above the three, and Lilith falls from the sky, landing in a sitting position. "Fucking ow?"
Loki started laughing his ass off.
Apollo gets up and just started fucking booking it away from the group.
"Apollo??" Harmonia looks behind her in concern.
Motherfucker is long gone.
"Well then... um... hi..." Harmonia greets the newcomers.
"Hello!" Greets Loki.
"Hey." Says Lilith.
"Lady Lovarian? You weren't expected for another 2 weeks!" Alastor says.
"I just paid someone to do my work for me. Y'know, like people do." Lilith is a pale, 5'11 woman with white hair, green eyes, a white shirt, and a gray jacket over it. She's wearing a set of black leggings and black combat boots as well. Harmonia blushes a tad. Pretty woman. She just stands there awkwardly. Lilith walks over to Harmonia. "What's got you all messed up? Here, let me help." She takes her hands, squishing Harmonia's face. "Blap!"
“I um... I-“ Harmonia blushes before flinching away when she's touched.
Lilith laughs, letting go of her. "What's your name, shortstack?"
“Um- Harmonia-“ Harmonia watches her carefully. If Apollo was afraid of her then she needed to be careful.
Loki walks up to Harmonia, offering a hand out to her. "I'm sorry about her, it's nice to meet you, Harmonia."
"Loki! I was gonna say that!"
"When? After you finished calling her short and touching her face?"
"You know what? That's it. You're not gonna get invited to family get-togethers anymore!"
“Um… nice to meet you too-“ Harmonia awkwardly shook his hand, making sure to look neither of them in the eyes.
"Please, last time you said that you only got yourself in trouble with mom." Loki shakes her hand, laughing a bit.
"You wanna bet? I'll make you look awful in front of dad!" Lilith threatens.
"Go ahead. Try. All I need to do is say you cheated off of my homework in 7th grade and all that bravado goes out the window."
”Imagine having parents.” Harmonia thinks to herself, watching them awkwardly.
"I... Apologize, Harmonia. They do this often." Alastor says, as Loki and Lilith can be heard bickering in the background.
“How did you meet them?” Harmonia asks him, fiddling with the ring.
"I met them through a friend of mine. His name is Dave, though he's no demon."
“Huh. Interesting….” The ring accidentally comes off, revealing Harmonias neck void to the siblings.
"And that's why mom doesn't fucking love y- DID HER HEAD JUST FUCKING COME OFF?" Lilith yells.
Harmonia flinches at the noise, touching her neck nervously. “N-no it's still there-“
Lilith touches her neck, absolutely flabbergasted by what she has just seen. "No way! I thought Loki was the only one who did that shit!"
Harmonia moves away, putting the ring back on. “M-my necks still there it's just the skin is completely black-“
"Check this shit out." Lilith flicks Loki's halo with her hand, revealing his neck is also completely black for a split second.
“Woah- How… is he also a gluttony demon??” Harmonia asks.
"No, it's just a thing demons from our Hell do when they're revived," Lilith explains.
“It happens every time I die… the area turns black.” Harmonia explains.
"Loki here got his neck snapped by one of his clients he was supposed to meet with. A shame. But Alastor here got his shit all kinds of fixer-uppered!" Lilith says, pointing to her brother.
“Ay, I also got my neck snapped.”
"Ayyyy," Loki says unenthusiastically. "That shit hurted."
“Yeah my friend did it with no warning because I was high and being annoying I guess,” Harmonia says.
"My client lured me out to a back alley and did it for money. Joke's on him, I bought out his entire family." Loki explains.
“Yeah get fucked!” Harmonia exclaims.
"Guess it's what I get for being an incubus though. Sometimes it's dangerous work." Loki says.
“Yeah fair. I don’t have a job anymore. World’s kinda ending.” Harmonia sighs.
"Believe it or not, our Hell's just fine. It's just Earth that's getting fucked." Loki says.
“I mean my hells not ending? Some layers need help but like mostly it’s good.”
"Damn. Y'all got layers? We just got one fuckin' floating island.” Lilith says.
“Yeah. 9 layers and purgatory. I'm a gluttony demon, hence the wings and shit.” Harmonia explains.
"We have like, four nations split up into quadrants with Big Lady Lucy's castle right in the fuckin' middle of it." Lilith says.
“Interesting. My prince is a total bitch and committed genocide to try and kill my friend because he's a threat to his power or something so I’m pretty sure I’m one of the only gluttony demons at the moment. Unless Lim fixed it…”
"Lucifer's pretty chill not gonna lie. Just can get a bit pissy when you do her wrong." Lilith says, putting her hands in her pockets. "I worked pretty closely with her, so I'm like, a little biased."
“Our Lucifer is missing.” Harmonia shrugs. “So… um. Why’s Apollo scared of you?”
"Oh, y'know. Just God things." Lilith laughs, projecting a little flashback of her destroying buildings with lightning strikes as Apollo tries to fight her in the air between the two.
“Oh… well,” Harmonia says.
"Yeeaahhh. But it was all in a simulation though! So it's okay!"
“I mean… not really if people lived in it?” Harmonia says.
"I'm sure it's fine! It's not like they actually died or anything. Well, they did, but they got brought back!" Lilith exclaims.
“It's still traumatic….” Harmonia scratched her neck.
"Ah, I'm sure most got over it. You wanna see something funny?" She says, before projecting an unfunny Bollywood meme into the air.
“Oh.” Harmonia watches it, laughing politely but not really finding it funny. Lilith starts fucking dying at her own joke.
"Nobody finds your Bollywood references funny, Lilith." Loki comments.
"Mom does!"
"MOM LAUGHS AT ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING."
“You guys have living parents?” Harmonia asks.
"Yeah. Do you?" Lilith asks.
“No.”
"Damn. Sucks to suck I guess." Says Lilith.
"LILY!" Screams Loki
"WHAT? IT WAS FUNNY!"
"NO THE FUCK IT WASN'T!"
Harmonia laughs.
"I'm so sorry about her, if you want I can get you something to make up for it." Loki offers.
"Oh, come on, I'm not that bad!"
"You once scammed every parent in the whole elementary school out of $5."
"...Pfft!" Lilith starts laughing.
“Nice.” Harmonia says. “And unless you can bring someone back from the dead then you probably don’t have anything I want. But thank you,,,”
"No, I have something greater than that." Loki pulls out a $25 Taco Bell gift card.
"...I GAVE YOU THAT!" Lilith yells.
“I’ve never had Taco Bell.” Harmonia says.
"Then how about the four of us go and get some?" Loki offers.
“Bet.” Harmonia smiles.
"FUCK YEAH! LOVE TACO BELL!" Lilith yells.
"I'd be interested. I haven't had it in quite a long time." Alastor smiles as he opens a portal to Taco Bell. Loki tries to walk through it, but is tripped by Lilith and falls into it. Lilith cries laughing as she goes through the portal and Harmonia follows unceremoniously.
---
Loki holds the door open for everyone else as they walk up to the Taco Bell.
The smell of grease hits Lilith's nose as she entered. "SPONGE BOY ME BOB I'M FEEIIIGNIIINNGG" She says, in a really bad Mr. Krabs impression. Alastor just sighs and walked in.
“What the fuck?” Harmonia follows, staying close to Alastor. Lilith waddles up to the counter, ordering a breakfast crunchwrap at like 6 PM. Loki orders a cheesy chalupa. Alastor just asks for a crunch cravings box. Harmonia stares at the menu. “I don't know what to get…”
"I recommend the cheesy chalupa. It's so fucking good." Loki says.
"Okay!" Harm orders it as the three stooges sit down at one of the tables. Harmonia joins them, poking her fingers together anxiously.
"So... How is everyone?" Loki asks.
"Oh, just fantastic now that I'm here." Lilith does a little jig in her seat. "AAAAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGA." She says in her Mr. Krabs impression.
"...I would be oh so much better if she was not doing that." Alastor says.
"Um I’m okay I guess... okay enough.”
Lilith squints her eyes at Harmonia. "You mean to tell me you're not doing good?"
"Not really?"
"Well, expect that to change when the food gets here, this shit is gonna BLOW YOUR MIND! The last time I ate it I went from crying over the death of my pet lizard Gary to partying with some friends in some random old geezer's backyard." Lilith says.
"Was it drugged?!??!" Harmonia asks.
"Believe it or not, no! It was just so fucking good!"
"Huh.. okay..." Harmonia shifts nervously. "So.. where are you guys gonna stay?"
"We… don't really know yet. We had wanted to stay at a hotel, but the hotels around here are kinda... nonexistent." Loki says.
"Heh yeah... I mean.. you could crash in an abandoned house? I'm sure Alastor could fix one up.” Harmonia says.
"I'm sure he could too, but I don't think it'd match the Lovarian Estate. Unless..." Loki looks over to Alastor. "You said you had a pocket dimension, right?"
"...Nooo..?" Alastor says.
Loki makes puppy eyes at Alastor. "Can you pweeeaaasseee make a copy of the Lovarian Estate in your dimension?"
"...Fine." Alastor sighs. Loki claps happily, squealing in his seat.
"Lol nice.” Harmonia says.
"Loki, you surprise me more every day." Lilith comments.
"What can I say? I'm irresistible." Loki says, running a hand through his hair.
"Gross." Lilith says.
“What the hell?” Harmonia adds.
"Don't worry, he's like that a lot. He thinks he's hot shit just because he's one of the only incubi who also has a completely normal job." Lilith explains.
"Nice. I'm hot shit because I escaped getting eaten by Beezlebub.” Harmonia says with a grin.
"Oh, shit? We know a Beelzebub too! He's our butler!" Lilith says.
"Mine is a large glob of gluttony who literally no one likes. He’s committed way too many counts of genocide.”
"O h . I was gonna say I wanted to meet him. Nevermind!" Lilith said as their food was ready. Loki gets up, getting the food and bringing it back to the table.
"Yeah no he's garbage.” Harmonia stares at the food, eyes glowing redder.
Alastor rests a hand on Harmonia's shoulder. "Are you alright? Your eyes seem to be redder than usual."
"Yeah, just hungry.” Harmonia grabs her food and eats it in one bite. Lilith tries to eat it in one bite as well but fails miserably. Loki just shakes his head and starts eating slowly. Alastor eats at a moderate pace, still being more polite than Lilith and Harmonia.
".... can I have more" Harmonia asks.
"Of course! Go order whatever you want, I have like, $3,000,000 on my card." Loki says.
"What the fuck?” Harmonia looks at him in amazement.
"What? I'm an accountant." Loki explains.
"Damn go off.” Harmonia orders a fuck ton of food. "Sorry I’m a gluttony demon.” Loki laughs, watching Alastor eat intently. Lilith just sips her soda and watches Loki with a suspicious eye.
Harmonia watches them all with confusion. "What's going on?”
"I have a sneaking suspicion Loki's being a homo again." Lilith comments.
"Lol gayass.” Harmonia comments. "Alastor are you gay?”
"I do not feel attraction. Though I am very happy!" Alastor says.
"Get fucked Loki.” Harmonia laughs.
"Damn. Well, if you ever change your mind..." Loki shoots finger guns at Alastor.
"..." Alastor pulls out an ACTUAL GUN.