(Warning—Smut Chapter)
Charlie and Vaggie were entering the realm of Lucifer's power, through the portal cast temporarily for so few to enter during this critical time for Noctis. The warmth of this place touched their skin whilst Nifty was denied entry by a persistent Pentious that felt it was not good for her to be disruptive.
"Come along Nifty."
"But I wanna see Noctis!" She yelled before the portal closed, her voice a dying echo as both girls walked through.
"Calm down Max." Vaggie rocked the whimpering hellhound pup subconsciously and followed Charlie through the golden realm as they heard Lucifer talking to someone.
In the short distance of their journey they entered a magically crafted tent and had come to find the king sharing another deep and powerful lesson with Noctis as they sat on the floor, sharing their hands under a golden ember that crackled and burned in the air between them.
Noctis was looking entirely better after two weeks of recovering from his fatigue, but that was due to his body needing to recharge from the energy release after the mobster attack. Now he was energetic, calculating, even intent on learning his powers not just for himself but for the sake of his lovers that were watching in silence.
"Good." Lucifer praised before he removed his hands from Noctis, allowing him to take control.
The ember fell a little but Noctis was ready this time after a week of training. Consciously he watched as the responsibility of its burning continue just above his hands, his brow coated in sweat as the king watched with a bit of pride.
The ember started to burn brighter though and it was obvious from the frustration Noctis was giving off from how hard this simple was.
"Remember to be calm." Lucifer advised without taking his eyes off the man. "The more intense your emotions are the more powerful it will burn, but I just want you to be as calm as that ember."
"Right." Noctis nodded and took a breath, exhaling slowly his emotions and focusing more on the flame.
In time it receded back to a small ember and that gave some relief to the king when it was the first bit of seeing Noctis get himself under control.
The girls, especially Charlie for her bubbly nature from time to time, swelled with excitement at seeing their lover show promise to the smirking king of hell with his arms crossed. She felt like she could run up and hug Noctis for his progress but had Vaggie holding her hand to keep her back.
"So what's the difference between your power and mine?" Noctis asked curiously yet maintaining his control of the flame.
Lucifer chuckled at that innocence before answering.
"There really is no difference except it's a harmonious energy built between angelic and demonic."
He paused long enough to cast similar embers in his hands, one of gold in the left and the other a black in his right.
"What you were given in your previous life was not a separation of both but a culmination of the two. The big man upstairs created the divine beasts so that they were neutral parties meant to safeguard both realms from ever attacking eachother."
"So…" Noctis almost lost his concentration but gathered himself before the ember became chaotic. "Why did I die in my...previous life if I so powerful ?"
He was still uncertain of himself about that, and it showed in the grimace on his face as Lucifer answered him.
Said demon stared at the ember with regretful thinking as the memory replayed in his head like a horror movie.
"So when you transformed you were still untrained and not ready. During the battle, and much like what you did to the hotel, your body was releasing too much because you didn't know how to control it."
Lucifer suddenly had a thought hit him like a train, and he puzzled his chin after dissipating the flames he made.
"Makes me wonder if whoever manipulated Sera wanted the realms to be at war."
"Think so?" Noctis asked and looked to the king with a curious eye.
As soon as he did though he lost his concentration and the ember suddenly erupted into a small explosion that consumed them both in a flash and had the girls jump while Max was startled to yelps from the sound that boomed.
Smoke flourished where the two men sat until the now very unamused king cast it away with a flap of his wings and appeared to share the same flat expression as Noctis.
Both were covered in black and staring at eachother in knowing exactly what happened.
Lucifer only pointed a lazy finger and said flatly, "You uh….you gotta work on that concentration."
He licked his fingers and pinched a small flame off the corner of his left shoulder.
"Yeah…." Noctis quipped dryly, holding his expression. "Yeah... to quote a movie. My focus…..needs more focus."
"Good movie?"
"Decent."
Once the startling was over there was a duo of laughter from Charlie and Vaggie that echoed in the realm and the attention of both boys as they approached.
Noctis went from annoyed to nervous at their presence and reacted in a way none of them expected.
"Girls!?" He yelped and shot up to his feet, but instead just standing up the emotion of embarrassment carried his power to teleport him from sitting on his butt and onto his feet in a flash of gold.
That took the girls by surprise as he stumbled a little from disorientation, but Lucifer on the other hand was filled with more pride that the results were dripping in little by little.
"Woah….." Noctis felt his sense of balance almost be his downfall until the girls caught his hands. "How did I….."
Their amusement only grew when they pulled him close and dusted his face.
"I remember a handsome man under all this soot." Charlie said with a teasing smile as she wiped his cheeks.
"Yeah, where is he?" Vaggie added with her usual smugness while dusting his half burnt shirt.
In the midst of cleaning his face Noctis felt the same fluttering of his heart come again as he stared at them with mesmerizing thoughts of his luck to have them, knowing it was these two that got him to wake up and see that beneath the new truth of his life he mattered more than just what he was.
"Girls…."
"Hmm?" Charlie hummed melodiously, sharing the same feeling with Vaggie.
"Cat got your tongue?" Vaggie joked.
"No." Noctis shook his head, blank with the obvious understanding of himself. "I....i think I finally hit that point in my life."
Charlie and Vaggie tilted their heads at his cryptic answer before the rest came out.
"I'm in love with you both."
"Idiot. Don't say that so stupidly!"
Noctis mentally kicked himself for openly admitting that when it wasn't even the least corny. Such admission though stunned Charlie to tears while Vaggie just shrugged and slapped him on the behind.
"We already know, dumbass."
"HEY!"
"Uh...you okay pumpkin?" Lucifer asked with a raised eyebrow at his swelling daughter.
"Charlie?" Noctis breathed her name worriedly as the tears she held back became more and more to where she couldn't handle it.
What they didn't know is Charlie was holding in so much ever since the attack on the hotel for Noctis' sake because she knew it was the wrong time to let herself go. But that need, that want, that burning jealousy of Vaggie having personal time alone with Noctis on the morning she called her dad for help had grown and sweltered to where she was emotionally and physically distraught with arousing desires.
But now it was too much with hearing the man say he was in love with them.
Charlie couldn't hold it in anymore, she couldn't chain her needs. These ten days of envying the fun Vaggie had with him and getting no time to have her turn caught up at this very moment, taking her strength away from her legs and just gushing streams of tears.
"WAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
Noctis' eyes widened in shock like Lucifer while Vaggie just flinched and stepped back with Max feeding on the emotion and howling to her cries. He didn't understand what just happened nor understood what he said to make the princess produce a flowing river of tears.
"Oh shit." Vaggie muttered with a sheepish grin, knowing she was part of the reason behind this as the king stood there and blinked repeatedly.
"Charlie?" Noctis kneeled to meet the princess at eye level, but her head hung with the hair bands snapping as her hair started to whip.
He flinched before raising an eyebrow, his hand moving slowly to her as the tears stopped.
What came next though was a growl that threw off his thinking as she looked up with her right eye fixed on him through her hair.
"Sweetheart?"
Suddenly the princess shot her hand out and grabbed his wrist with a powerful squeeze while Vaggie put on a brave face for everyone and kneeled with them.
"Charlie you need to calm down." She advised, hoping the woman they love was still in some control stil.
"Calm?" Charlie questioned weakly, then growled deeper as her horns and tail sprouted. "I don't want to be calm right now."
"Then what do you want pumpkin?" Lucifer squeaked nervously with hard remembrance from this moment how his own wife would get.
He knew what was coming and could only pray for Noctis.
Noctis wasn't sure how to respond except with a hard flinch when the princess looked up and snarled with red determination in her watery eyes.
"Him!"
"Oh shit." Lucifer said dryly and facepalmed . "Just like her mother."
"Dad!" She snapped, making him squeal like a girl while her grip on Noctis tightened. "Open a portal to our room now!"
"Our room?" Noctis questioned.
"Right away!" The king of hell panicked with nostalgic fear, saluting and waving his hand as Charlie stood up.
In an instant there was nothing but the sound of her stomps and Noctis stumbling as Vaggie followed from a safe distance when the portal to their bedroom showed.
She walked past her still saluting father.
"Don't bother us for today." She ordered coldly.
He only nodded vigourously as they disappeared from his realm.
"What's going on?" Noctis began to worry as the princess said nothing and felt a rush of thoughts to this darker side of her.
Was he in trouble?
Did he do something?
Was it wrong to say he was in love with them?
"Charlie?" He spoke her name aoftly and was met with most unrelenting glare as the portal closed behind the three of them.
Once it was gone it was time for Lucifer to relax and exhale to the fact that his daughter didn't just try to maim him for taking to slow.
"That was close." He laughed nervously and looked back to where the portal with a more collected demeanor as he fixed his suit and hat.
A thought occurred to him as he imagined what might be happening.
"If Charlie is anything like her mother, then he's in for a very rough time."
He shuddered and said to himself, "Poor kid…."
Meanwhile in the bedroom, Noctis spun in front of the bed and grabbed by his shirt as Vaggie locked the door.
"Vaggie what's going on!?" He shouted worriedly as the one eyed woman took Max to his crib and and draped a blanket over it.
"We are happening!" Charlie snarled dangerously, flicking her tail around his leg possessively.
"We?" He questioned.
As soon as he did he widened his eyes at the demoness licking her lips hungrily as the need clouded her sense of subtlety. It was happening one way or another and Charlie was determined to get what she had been wanting for days even if it meant taking control.
"Vaggie told me what she did with you in the bedroom. Well now it's my turn."
His face paled as her hands softened from their grip to sliding down and under his shirt, her claws dragging tentatively on his skin. It didn't take a scientist to understand what Charlie was talking about but the same lingering fear of his inexperience hit him again.
Charlie noticed his gulp and giggled darkly, her eyes burning with desire. "You've never done it either. Well now we will figure it out together."
Noctis batted his gaze from Charlie to the nervous Vaggie that was putting on the best straight face she could.
"Vaggie?"
He had no chance even with her sitting on the bed and explaining it bluntly.
"She's mad because we left her out and is horny, or has been for days but couldn't do anything with everything going on."
"That's right." Charlie purred into his ear, turning his gaze back to her with a pinch of his chin. "I've been very patient with you, baby. But now I want my turn."
Noctis felt the arousal fill him and become a little giddy from the way her tongue moved in and slid tentatively up his neck. He shivered but it didn't deter him however as he kept his thoughts in check, taking a step back that invoked a lustful snarl from her.
"Charlie you need—"
He found his lips closed by hers with a fiery kiss after losing the battle to her hands holding his wrists in place.
"Oh crap….."
The princess of hell smiled readily against his lips and took the hem of his pants into her hand, fully cupping her prize that throbbed painfully.
"I can feel it." She whispered with a graze of her fangs on his lower lip. "But I'm done being nervous to....I'm ready."
Noctis was about to retort when he was suddenly hit with more physical demand from Vaggie having enough of watching and joining in from behind him, sandwiching his form to their bodies that raised his temperature.
"Just go with it baby." Vaggie purred longingly with Charlie giggling to her participation.
"That's right my love." The princess stroked his cheek lovingly as her tail tightened. "This is going to happen now. I'm done waiting."
Noctis went to protest for various reasons but found himself unable to start as his senses went on high with the intensity of both girls taking him from both directions. Every moral fiber without his knowing was succumbing to a deeper meaning of his own person as Charlie grazed his neck with his fangs while Vaggie took the real desire of her own from behind.
Reaching from behind she unbuttoned his buttons and took her motions from the first time and reached inside as his entrapment worsened with Charlie giving into her demonic instincts.
"This is what it means to be owned by us." The princess panted heavily with her hands reaching around and grabbing his rear. "Nobody can have you but us."
Noctis tried to shake off this tirade of sensations and mixed up thoughts but fell victim to his male urges, unknown to the depth of his true self being more beast than man.
But they would find out.
"Are we yours?" Vaggie asked with a sultry tune to her voice as she and Charlie started to unbotton eachother, holding him in the middle.
Noctis only nodded with an otherworldly growl and found himself tortured between their bodies.
"Are you ours?" Charlie growled, her eyes flashing with possession.
"Yes." He snarled, twitching at their hands undressing him after they revealed their bodies once more.
The excitement, the arousal for the girls, it ignited spectacularly when their needy minds sparked to the realization that Noctis wasn't just surrendering to them. He was having a reaction to what he really was.
He was having animalistic instincts flare during their intimate teasing of his body.
"You're not human anyway." Charlie giggled darkly as her hand slid up his bare chest. "It's only natural that you have.....uncontrolled hormones."
"This will be fun." Vaggie added to his release with one of his hands reaching back to grab her thigh while Charlie took advantage of having the other hold her rear.
They wanted to break him.
"Girls..." Noctis breathed helplessly, panting and sweating as the urges clouded his mind.
Charlie reached up to grab his throat and make it know she was done waiting to have her man.
"Noctis." She breathed needily.
To her dismay she was stopped by his hand that left her bare-ass and grabbed her wrist, causing her to look up and see that the man had snapped somehow.
Confidently he gave Charlie fanged grin while his other hand on Vaggie moved off her thigh and onto her wrist.
"Baby?"
Without warning the girls were taken by their wrists and thrown onto the bed, yelling in surprise of the sudden dominance from Noctis as he stood there panting and sweating like he ran a mile.
Vaggie looked up and gulped with a surprised grin of anticipation, but Charlie was the one breathing desperately for this connection to finally happen.
"Alright girls." He chuckled darkly, standing bare in just his boxers. "You wanna play, then let's play."
"Finally." Charlie whispered with a manic smile as the atmosphere darkened with fast music of seduction sounding out of nowhere.
Of course it was just another illusion from Charlie using her magic to set the mood before she finally got her prize.
"Here's a little secret." He started to sway his form with promise as they sat on their knees and watched. "Carmilla teaching me to dance did more than expected during those weeks."
"Wait?" Vaggie shook her head with excited disbelief as his motions intensified. "Are you about to—"
"~You think you two are in control just because I am figuring this out~"
Their faces lit up through the arousal as they finally succeeded in cracking him, hearing a rough voice of fast paced singing as the man danced his body to his own rhythm of seduction.
"~Well guess what, this is no longer one sided with you both touching me whenever you want~"
"Holy shit!" Charlie laugued excitedly as she felt herself getting wet.
Noctis continued to give his strut to the bed and went by with figuring things out in the spot.
"~You two are are double trouble but I'm not here to play games so I won't stumble~" He tore off his boxers in one swift motion and fell to his knees onto the bed, embracing this sudden fire in his body as he sat on his knees with flexed. "~Take a good long look, see it, memorize it, because today we are going by our own book~"
"Holy shit." Vaggie gasped, looking to Charlie in disblief that their lover was finally making a move.
Charlie couldn't find words to speak of this change in Noctis, not when her loins burned with so much need to seeing him so confident and provocative.
Whoever this man in front of them was, they were both enjoying the show.
Most importantly they were ecstatic to him finally making a move.
"~You want it, you need it, you can't go another minute without it~"
The music in the atmosphere continued to intensify as the girls lost themselves to their desires, Vaggie sitting there on her knees and fueling her self-touch to his display while Charlie flared her demonic side even more.
She spread her legs invitingly... but he chuckled.
"~No, Charlie. We won't playing by your rules right now. So lay down and watch the show ~"
"What!?" She exclaimed before whimpering needily. "But baby….."
"Oh shit." Vaggie moaned whilst the scene of Noctis crawling to Charlie with such predatory glare made her touch herself even harder.
"~I see you want this release—" He leaned down to the quivering demoness with shaky legs and licked her nethers a few times, making her squeal with need.
She squirmed and moved uncontrollably with her legs clamping his head shut.
"Right there." She gasped, repeating it like a mantra.
Until he stopped at the tip of her release and crawled back without taking his eyes off her.
"~But you two have tortured me with your touches before we got together so now it's my turn to tease~"
"Noctis please!" Charlie pleaded and reached for him.
She wasn't sure how much more torture she could handle after that one moment sent her body almost to the edge.
His intention clearly wasn't just for a day to never forget, it was his own sick method of revenge by coming a bit out of his shell and showing that he could be just as bad as them behind closed doors.
Especially to Vaggie who now was victim to his predatory gaze.
"Baby?" She stopped touching herself whilst Noctis crawled on all fours like a hungry animal ready to lunge.
"You caught me off guard in my sleep, but I'm not complaining. I'm just gonna make sure you girls understand I'm gonna finally take that leap."
Vaggie wanted this so bad but felt so out of control of the situation that it scared her a little underneath the lust that had her soaking. She looked to Charlie for help but found her laying there still in a state of desperate bliss and watching the man snarl that animalistic sound from his throat.
Be sure could react she was grabbed by her ankles and pinned beneath with Noctis between her legs.
"~You want release but I'm not giving it to you yet. No…..—" He leaned down and crooned in her ear. "Now it's my turn to be the tease so here we go."
Vaggie didn't know what to do or how to handle this side of Noctis, but one thing was for certain when she saw that lust in his eyes.
She was about to get paid back in full from her teasing.
Slowly he rubbed his shaft against her entrance.
Overwhelmed just by his purposeful torture, Vaggie went stiff with her legs locking around his waist as she bit down on his shoulder and moaned.
She drew blood.
"Baby!" She cried, moaning and looking down to his shaft rubbing over her clit while Charlie lost herself.
Vaggie wasn't sure how much buildup she could take with her escape impossible.
"Oh fuck…." Charlie moaned as she rubbed herself at the sight of their man playing with the spear user so evilly.
"~Yeah you two thought you could overpower me by being a double but this is my moment so you're both in trouble."
He suddenly pulled away just before Vaggie could reach her edge and left her whining like Charlie when she reached for him but was denied.
"You asshole!" The one eyed woman cried angrily as he got off the bed and danced provocatively again.
At this point the two were at their limits of patience and nodded to one another with determination as he finished up with his crescendo, sharing the same idea to make him understand where he stood in their relationship.
"This isn't your game anymore because I'm out of my cage~"
"We jump him together." Vaggir whispered, receiving Charlie's nod of approval as he came to his finish.
"~The stage is set, I can guarantee there's no more of me being unsure. So get ready because we're about to make the bed wet~"
He finished with a spin and saw just in time of the girls leaping off the bed in unison, their eyes raging with lust and denial from his teasing
"COME HERE ASSHOLE!"
Before he could even respond in shock Noctis was tackled harshly to the floor. A crash followed with his whole body falling back as the torture he ensued became his downfall.
Painfully he fell back with a thud and winced before the tables turned with Vaggie taking the oppurtunity to use his own hair to tie his wrists above his ahead while Charlie took her chance of straddling his naked form.
"He's not going anywhere Charlie!"
"You think you're in control?" The princess laughed manically, lust overcoming her sense of reason whilst Noctis looked up with dinner-size wide eyes.
He went to speak but found himself gagged when Vaggie had taken a hair ribbon from the dresser after binding his wrists and stuffed it in his mouth.
"MMPH!?"
They laughed sadistically and pressed their hands to his chest and bound hands, smirking as he struggled to break free and get control again. His efforts only fueled their bodies to follow his movements, stopping when he did and leaning down together with small kisses to his face.
"You thought you could do a little song and dance while torturing us?" Charlie giggled and leaned up, trailing her hand down his his chest and up to her wetness in a seductive manner.
"Oh honey," Vaggie chuckled, watching the results of his actions bring forth the answer that came to him. "Here's the thing about being claimed, we are the ones in control."
"Oh shit..."
Charlie nodded in agreement and got in position to hover over his shaft that she firmly grasped in her hand.
"But since you want to be a jerk and make us suffer, we aren't going to be gentle. We wanted to take this slow, but now you get to lay here—" she leaned down and declared with her demon side flaring. "AND TAKE IT!!"
"MMMM…..MMH…..MMPH!?"
"Now be a good boy," Vaggie purred sultrily and pecked his head. "And give your girls what they want."
Noctis batted his gaze between them, pleading in his gaze to be gentle as the room darkened under Charlie's magic.
"Now I'm getting my turn!" Charlie declared and descended eagerly.
"MMMMMMMPH!?"
Meanwhile in the Tower
"What are you fucking watching now?" Velvette asked, bitter with her tone yet dismissive by playing in her phone as she sat in her chair.
Vox, ever so persistent and bound to his greed for power, watched his one drone in the hotel with a starving smile as it caught the interaction of Carmilla and Lucifer having a private conversation far away from the others in the hotel.
His screen went static with emotion after emotion of hearing Velvette but ignoring her when the most important discovery of his career as an overlord became the highlight on screen.
"Lucifer, just how much can you train Noctis?"
"Train?" Vox licked his lips, his eyes locked on the screen but his mind still focused on the one thing that mattered to his goals.
Noctis.
"Not much. I can only teach him some of his powers since his kind had to learn from growth. The rest he will have to figure out on his own."
"What's that?" Velvette perked up and even stepped out of her seat.
She stopped behind the tv demon and leaned in to listen with him.
"Did she say the human has powers?"
"Now we are getting somewhere." Vox quietly laughed as the flick of his wrist commanded the hidden drone to zoom in and raise the volume.
"But that's not what worries me." Lucifer began to pace on screen with Carmilla watching.
"And what could have the ever-so powerful king of hell worried?" Carmilla asked, her tone laced with a bit of mockery that earned her a glare.
"Yeah bitch—" Vox gripped his desk so tightly his claws dug in and cracked the wood. "What has you worried!?"
Velvette rolled her eyes at her colleague for his lack of self control and continued to watch.
"It's what he is." Lucifer stopped to face the weapons overlord with a grim look. "He's going to be experiencing changes, especially hormonal."
"Hormonal?" Carmilla tightened her glare.
"Yeah, being a divine beast does come with some problems. He will be territorial and protective as his power returns."
"A FUCKING WHAT!?" Vox snapped excitedly with the widest grin he could make, leaning in with a now shocked Velvette that had only one thing to say.
"No fucking way….."
"So what you're saying is since this hotel is his home—
"He will become dangerously territorial if anyone threatens it. And that could be bad if he can't learn to control himself." Lucifer finished for her.
The recording continued to play with Carmilla pacing frantically now.
"So he will have animal instincts—" she paused long enough to glare at the king. "Especially if backed into a corner or someone threatens his loved ones"
"Big time." Lucifer nodded before adding, "But I think he can control it since he spent his new life on earth and learned to be human."
"So what will you do then?"
Lucifer sighed to that question before answering with a strong tone.
"Hope for the best. His self control is up to him."
Vox clicked off the screen, sharing the same shock as Velvette after they wrapped their minds around what they just heard.
"He's not human." The fashionista breathed, her phone shaking in her hands as Vox smiled wickedly.
"No, he's a fucking source of power.."
Back to the hotel….
"Come in!" Charlie sang sweetly to whoever was knocking on the door whilst Vaggie pulled the covers up to cover their naked forms.
The door swung open slowly to a disheveled Angel Dust knowing damn good and well what the smell in the room was, and walked inside as they rested on Noctis' shoulders.
The moment he entered there was an expectancy of his perverted attitude to permeate the room when he saw Noctis disheveled with his skin a canvas of bite marks and bruises. He did stare and processed that the man finally gave the girls what they wanted, seeing as how their satisfied looks were content smiles.
But no smile crept his face, not even a quip to their intimacy or the musk of sex.
No, Angel Dust was actually...sad.
"Can I…." He rubbed his own arm nervously when his eyes Noctis, and found the same cold stare when the dooe was shut on him. "Can I talk to you guys?"
"Now?" Vaggie asked bitterly, losing her smile and replacing it with a frown before Charlie acted her usually concerned self.
"Of course. What's up?" The princess spoke softly.
Eventually the spider demon approached the bed and sat at the edge with a strong thought as the three lovers stared at him in skepticism of his uncharacteristic demeanor.
"I uh...I need to hear the plan again when we were all downstairs."
"The plan?" Charlie was a little surprised but cleared her throat while Noctis held her and Vaggie. "The plan is when we go up to heaven we are going to give our piece about your rehabilitation and use Noctis as a witness."
"Right." He chuckled half-heartedly and sniffled to their surprise. "Well can I ask something of you?"
"Angel, you can always ask." Charlie reassured and went to sit up and hold his hand until she realized their situation.
Slowly he turned to the three with the most unusual sorrow in his gaze that was meant for the princess, and said almost pleadingly, "Please don't take Noctis up there with you."
"What?" She, Vaggie, even Noctis, said in unison.
It was the first real response Angel Dust got from the man in weeks, but just that one word from him gave the pervy demon some semblance of hope that they could connect again.
He took that chance to, sitting with his legs crossed on the bed now as Noctis sat up and glared at him like before.
"You don't tell me—"
"No I don't but I am saying no!" Angel interrupted firmly, meeting his gaze with his perspective. "For fuck sake Noctis, arent you scared!?"
"Scared?" He tilted his head.
His innocence to the situation was nothing but an infuriating annoyance to Angel as they deadlocked in the argument about his position in going to heaven.
"Yes you fucking idiot." Angel Dust raised his voice after Noctis flinched at the insult. "You're the son of the High Seraphim, the same bitch who killed you when you were another person. And now you're just gonna go in blindly all because you had this crazy idea of helping Charlie!"
"Hey it's my choice!" Noctis raised his voice back at the teeth clenching spider demon.
"It's a stupid choice!"
"What makes you think you can tell me what to do!?"
"Guys, stop it!" Charlie tried to intervene as Noctis leaned in with the comforter covering only his lower half.
Sadly she was ignored by the two still going at it as Vaggie facepalmed and groaned, "Can't have just one normal day."
Noctis narrowed his eyes and let allowed his anger to blatantly show as he looked at Angel Dust on opposing thoughts. Said demon flinched at this and regarded him with worry and hurt.
"Why won't you listen to me?" He asked concernedly.
"Listen to you…..to you…..why would I listen to the asshole who punched me at Valentino's studio and called me Charlie's loser handyman fuckboy?" Noctis asked sharply.
Angel's eyes widened in rememberance as he heard this. He quickly remembered the reason behind Noctis being so cold and distant and slowly broke down in front of them.
"Noct I'm really sorry for that day. Truly I am, but I did that to protect you and Charlie and right now you're—"
"Why are you harping my ass about going to heaven with Charlie and Vaggie?" Noctis interrupted, he was completely beside himself with defiance and in no mood to listen to the cracking spider demon.
"BECAUSE I AM SCARED FOR YOU!" Angel Dust screamed desperately, refusing to let this distance between them grow any more.
Noctis watched with Vaggie and Charlie as Angel Dust began to furiously wipe his eyes with clenched teeth. He tried so needily to maintain his facade but laughed bitterly with the tears falling faster than he could stop them.
"Yeah, you heard me. This spider slut, as you called me before, is fucking scared that you'll go up there and not come back. I'm scared that those fuckers will find out who you are and kill you again or even keep you locked up"
"Angel…." Charlie breathed his name with pity as the realization hit them all that he was still carrying himself so lowly from that insult that day.
He didn't just see Noctis as a friend, he valued his perspective so deeply it was breaking his heart to know the man would risk the idea of going to heaven for their sake.
Noctis' eyes widened in understanding finally as the spider demon hopped off the bed and paced in front of them, stomping and grunting his frustrations out.
"I thought I finally found someone who just cared about me, but then you called me that and slammed the door in my face. And—and NOW you're some divine thing brought back to life and already thinking you need to step up and risk your own life!"
"Angel calm down." Vaggie said firmly, receiving his snap.
"How can I be calm Vaggie when he's risking his fucking life for this stupid project!?" Angel screamed in his tear stricken anger. "How can I be calm when there's a chance that the High Seraphim will figure out her own son is back from the dead and possibly kill him again or take him away!?"
Vaggie wasn't one to back down from an argument but the truth in Angel's words were so set in stone she had nothing to counter as he stood there waiting to hear what they had to say.
"Because you know I'm right!"
"Yeah you are right." Noctis intervened in a raised voice, hopping out of bed and dressing his shorts. "You're damn right that I am being stupid going up to heaven to meet the woman who killed me the first time, the same woman who apparently is my mother."
Angel'a eyes widened at this confession before he found was met with Noctis coming so close as to hug him tightly, already feeling poisoned with fear and doubts.
"Nobody in this hotel is more scared than me but I'm not gonna change my mind."
"Why?" Angel asked brokenly, wrapping his arms around the man before anchoring as the girls remained in bed.
He pressed his forehead in Noctis' shoulder and cried silently. "Why would you risk yourself for us?"
Noctis inhaled a shaky breath with his own glistening in his eyes before saying, "Because you're my family and I love you guys. I don't want to lose any of you."
Those words hit the demon harder than anything he ever felt or heard in his life, and it brought him to sobs as Noctis explained it to him in a whisper while the girls remained in bed and watched.
"I didn't mean what I said either. I was angry and I'm sorry. You're not a spider slut. You're part of my family and it's why I'm going up there with them. I don't want to see any of you die during extermination day."
He stepped back with a sad smile but was still clutched by Angel while wiping his tears away.
"I'm not doing this because I'm some divine beast reincarnated or whatever crap. I'm doing this to protect my family."
"Don't!" Angel choked on his swelling emotions. "Don't you fucking say that... Don't lie to me."
"It's not a lie." Noctis said genuinely. "You. Are. My. Family. And now it's my turn to protect all of you."
Angel finally released him and pulled away, wiping his eyes with a bitter understanding that Noctis wasn't going to take no for an answer no matter who it was. He was determined to give his best shot with Charlie in proving about redemption.
"Yeah well you better come back in one piece." Angel exclaimed with a jab of his finger to Noctis' chest. "Because if you don't , we will be coming for you. Ya hear me?"
"I hear you." Noctis answered softly before crawling back into bed.
Angel only nodded and didn't bother with talking anymore when he felt he made his point get across. Reluctantly he walked of the bed of the bedroom with a smile hiding on his lips as he locked the door.
"You better come back."
As soon as the door clicked shut Noctis crawled back under the covers and fell back with a dramatic exhale and opened his arms to the girls.
Which they eagerly accepted with snuggling up to him.
"I feel like my head is full." Noctis stared up at the ceiling blankly and was tenderly massaged by their hands on his chest.
That was understandable with everything going on around them. But still there ess plenty of reason to smile while waiting for the day of the meeting.
"We got this." Charlie said determination and kissed his cheek.
"Yeah." Vaggie nodded but her tone carried a little uncertainty as she thought about going up to heaven.
Eventually she cast her thoughts away and gave both him and Charlie a mischievous look before her hand started trailing down. The princess seemed to realize this and grinned evilly before her horns rose again
"More?" Vaggie asked the devilish princess, whilst Noctis' eyes widened with true fear of knowing what they were wanting.
"More." Charlie growled before they grabbed his shorts together.
He gulped before his scream of his impending doom echoed the hotel.