Somewhere in Heaven->
We start this chapter with Adam and Lute, discussing their plan of attack on the Hazbin Hotel happening in a month.
"I'm telling you Lute, if we just storm them with hundreds of our girls, they would get scared and run like the pus*ies they are! They can't do sh*t to us!" Adam said out loud.
"But sir! What happens if they find the demon that killed one of us? We need a proper plan of attack if we're to hope for a clean wipe!" Lute also said.
"Hehe… Clean Wipe~" Adam thought of something rude.
"Sir! Please take this seriously! If you want to do this, break the contract we made with Lucifer's brat, we need a proper plan!" Lute suggested.
Adam was now bus eating a Steak, "hmm?" Adam waved his hands in dismissal, "yeah, yeah, plan thing." He swallowed his bite, "look, they're just a few demons, we have an army!! Why do we need a plan? You know what-huh?" Adam paused when he saw something.
"What is it…. Sir? What is that?" Lute pointed at the White Door standing near them.
"That… wasn't there before." Adam walked up, before Lute grabbed his hands.
"Sir, what if it's a trap? This "door" wasn't here just now, and now it is! We should just destroy it and continue our discussion!" Lute said, readying her sword.
"Chill Lute, it's probably a door that leads to Sera or something. I mean, there aren't any sinners in heaven~ of course except Lilith, but she's restricted and can't do sh*t. So…" Adam grabbed the door handle and opened it. "Let's see where it… woah." Woah indeed. Lute and Adam see the Snow-Like Forest on the Otherside.
"Sir…" Lute pointed her sword towards the door, "this isn't normal-SIR!" Lute saw Adam walking inside, and she followed, hoping to grab her General back…
"Woah…" Adam continued to enter, while Lute was trying to drag him back.
"SIR!! THIS ISN'T NORMAL AT ALL!! WE SHOULD NOT GO IN AND REPORT THIS TO THE SERAPHIM!!" Lute tried to drag Adam, but because of his weight, she couldn't… and they both entered. And behind them… the door shuts.
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In Canterlot Castle->
We see Twilight Sparkle and Luna having a chat over tea and cookies. Twilight was discussing more about how the school of friendship was going.
"I see, well, it seems you have some plans for your school. And from the way you praise them all, it seems this could be a new achievement to add to your list?" Luna said while taking a sip of tea.
"It sure is Princess Luna! In fact, I am currently working on a School Field Trip to the Changling Kingdom! Thorax has already agreed and we plan to go next week! If you would like, would you like to come with?" Twilight offered
"Hmm, that does sound enticing, and it would be good to strengthen our relation…ship, huh?" Luna saw behind Twilight a White Door.
"Twilight? Did you teleport a door to us? Is it a portal for faster travel back to Ponyville or something?" Luna asked, which made Twilight confused until she turned around and saw it.
"Uhh, I didn't put that there." Twilight pointed out.
"Then, if you didn't put it, maybe Discord placed it there as a prank?" Luna said.
"No, he said he went on a short trip with Fluttershy to a different dimension where everything being there are cute animals, so it couldn't have been him." Twilight answered, which made Luna more confused, and a hint of fear was shown.
"Maybe… we should tell my sister about this Twilight-Twilight?" Luna saw Twilight about to open said door. "Twilight? What are you doing?"
"I'm just going to take a peak, nothing serious." But like the saying says, "Curiosity Killed The Cat," and Twilight is the Cat.
When she opened the door… she saw the Snowy-Like forest. She was entranced and started to enter, while saying, "wow… fascinating~" she started to walk in.
"Uh, Twilight!" Luna got up from her seat and tried to pull Twilight back, but she was too weak to do so. She tried to use magic and force Twilight away, but for some reason… she couldn't. Luna kept trying to pull Twilight in, not knowing she was being pulled in by Twilight….
When the duo entered, the door slammed shut. Never to be opened again… and the door disappears into dust…
…..
We see Noir, getting up and ready to start his day. He groans and quickly heads outside, the cold never bothered him anyway. He heads towards where he trains or where he shines his sword and starts to use water magic to wash himself up. Later, he used fire magic to dry himself off.
Once he was inside, he grabbed his sword, and headed outside, but not before closing his door and locking it.
*Lock!*
Noir nodded and smiled a bit, "hehe, gotta remember to do that…" He turned around and headed out, needing to gather more herbs and spices for lunch… but he stumbled upon others instead…
….
We see Adam and Lute together, Adam finally snapped out of the trance and looked around, mildly panicking.
"WHERE THE FU*K ARE WE!! LUTE!! WHERE ARE WE!!!" He grabbed Lute, hoping she had answers.
"Sir… I-I don't know where we are, AND WHY DID YOU JUST WALKED IN HERE LIKE THAT?!" Lute scolded Adam.
"HEY! I COULDN'T EVEN THINK PROPERLY ONCE I OPENED THAT DOOR, AND WHERE THE HELL IS IT!!" He looked around, seeing no White-Door in sight.
"No, no no no, NO NO NO! LUTE! Contact Sera, NOW!" Adam demanded.
"I'm trying!" She took out her phone to call Sera… but she couldn't. "Sir, I don't know what this place is, but I can't call Sera or any Angel I know." Lute was already a bit scared.
*GROANS!!!!*
"So you're telling me… that random fu*king white door.. took us to this goddam forest… and we can't fu*king leave?" Adam said, very stern with his voice.
"I-I guess so.." Lute calmly said.
*Inhales*
*Exhales*
*Inhales!*
"FFFFUUUUU******KKKKK!!!!!" Adam shouted at the top of his lungs, knowing him and Lute are somewhat screwed…
Adam and Lute began to venture into the forest, not knowing they were about to stumble upon some Equine Creatures.
...
We see Luna and Twilight Sparkle, together, discussing what was going on.
"Ok, time for a recap: I opened that strange door, got into a trance and couldn't move away, you tried to push me away but I couldn't move, you got here with me, the door vanished from our eyes, and now we're stuck in this Snowy-Forest?" Twilight summed it up.
"That's… pretty much it… I don't know how to really feel about this place… this weird aura… it's not right Twilight!" Luna shivered a bit.
"Ok, let's calm down, I'm sure our friends would notice we're gone and would come save us!" Twilight said.
"Wait! Maybe I could teleport us away, maybe that door took us somewhere far, but still in Equestria, or on Equus…" Luna suggested.
"Hmm, that could work, let's give it a go!" Twilight and Luna focused their energy together and tried to teleport home but… it failed.
"Ugh, it's not working! Why isn't it working! We should be on Equus, so we should be able to teleport back to Canterlot!" Twilight tried to home an explanation to all this, but Luna said something that made Twilight fall onto her flank.
"Twilight… that spell should've worked, unless…. We're not on Equus anymore…" both the girls were immediately confused, frightened, scared, all at once…
"Oh no! What do we do?! How are we getting home?!?!" Twilight was panicking.
"Ca-calm down Twilight, maybe if we venture through this… odd forest, we could find a path out!" Luna hoped she was right.
"Oh… that's brilliant! Let's go!" Twilight needed hope, and ventured forward, Luna followed behind…
…..
While the two parties were moving, Noir was seen cutting down another Mimic.
*SCREECH!!!*
*Slash!*
"Oh, shut up you noisy bast*rd." Noir looked all around him, multiple dead Mimics. He held his sword tight and said, "Strengthen and Heal me." The sword glowed and the souls within entered his body, healing his wounds and making hims stronger.
"Hmm," Noir was satisfied with the results, "welp, time to head home." Noir went over a nearby bush and picked up his findings, and was about to head home when…
"LUTE! KILL IT!" Noir heard a shout in the distance.
"WAIT! WE'RE NOT DEMONS!!!" He heard another voice.
'Huh, new voices, so it's new visitors… and they sound… threatened…"
*Sighs*
Noir made his way towards the sound…
Meanwhile->
We see Adam and Lute, hitting a barrier with their weapons.
"DIE SINNER FILTH!!" Lute shouted as she hit the barrier once more.
"WAIT PLEASE! WE'RE NOT DEMONS!! PLEASE STOP ATTACKING US!" Twilight begged the unknown beings to stop attacking them.
"NICE TRY! DEMONS! HOLY LIGHT!" Adam shot a beam of Holy Light, cracking the barrier.
"Ugh, we can't… keep this up for long Twilight…" Luna was getting tired.
"I know… but what can we do? If we teleport away, they'll chase us via wings, and we don't know where to run! This forest is like an endless maze!!" Twilight's and Luna's barrier deflected another attack.
"ALRIGHT! ONE MORE FOR THE GOAL!" Adam shot a condensed beam of Holy Light, destroying the barrier and pushing Luna and Twilight towards the nearby trees…
"It… looks like our story ends here Twilight… it was nice… knowing you…" Luna was about to close her eyes when..
"Huh?" Twilight saw the mysterious figure deflect a sword and axe strike.
"ALRIGHT! WHO THE FU*K ARE YOU!" Adam shouted.
"You all should stop shouting, and trying to kill each other… unless you want to draw them in…" the mysterious person said.
"Wait a minute SIR THAT'S A DEMON!!" Lute shouted, charging forward with her sword.
Noir just grabbed it and shattered it with his bare hands, "enough little Angel…" the mysterious person threatens Lute…
"BY THE NAME OF THE HOLY FATHER! I SHALL EXTERMINATE YOU ALL!!" Adam charged up a large ball of destructive light energy and threw it at the demon, who took his sword and cut it in half, engulfing the destroyed Holy Attack with a Darkness Sphere.
"What the-" Adam was cut off.
"Alright! Everybody shut up! Stop fighting now, or else you will all draw those fu*kers in!" The demon said.
"AND WHY SHOULD WE LISTEN TO YOU-" Lute was cut off by a screech.
*SCREECH!!!!*
"Ah shit…." They all turned towards the noise.
"What-what was that??" Twilight asked, now more scared now.
"A Mimic… or a Crawler little pony…" The Demon said.
"Th-thank you for saving us… may we know your name?" Luna asked.
"Noir, Noir Void, and if you don't listen to what I say, all of you are dead. Do you understand?"
The ponies shocked their heads immediately, but the angels weren't buying it.
"AND WHY SHOULD WE EVEN BOTHER TO LISTEN TO YOU, AND WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Adam demanded Noir.
*Sighs*
"Fine, listen or don't, it's up to you, but…" Noir saw the group of monsters coming their way, "if you can kill them, do whatever you want." Noir pointed at the monsters coming at them.
"SCREECHSS!!!*
Adam saw the monsters and immediately fired a beam of light, thinking they were dead… but he was wrong…
"Tip One: everything here is resistant to magic, so use physical attacks instead." Noir said as he aimed his sword.
"WHAT THE-WHAT OF HELL BEASTS ARE THEY?!?" Lute asked very rudely.
"Oh," Noir laughed a bit before continuing, "we aren't in hell visitors… no. Hell is a paradise compared to this place…" Noir rushed towards the monsters, and with one swift movement, he sliced a few of their heads off. The other monsters screeched at Noir before running away…
They all turned to him, while he wiped the blood of his sword. He placed it on his shoulder and asked again, "now, are you all going to listen? Or would you like to fu*k off?" Noir said, his voice stern…
….
"Ok, WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!! HOW DID YOU MOVE THAT FAST!! WHAT WEAPON IS THAT?!" Lute demanded answers, "AND HOW DID YOU SHATTER MY SWORD?!?' IT'S MADE OF ANGELIC STEEL??"
"First, stop shouting, second, I just moved and killed those things, and third, really? Angelic Steel? If you keep using that, you won't last a week here." Noir answered.
"And where is "here" exactly Mr Noir." Luna asked, Twilight still stunned at what she saw.
"Where we are… have you all heard of the tale?" Everyone was confused at what he said.
"What tale Demon?" Adam's question was filled with venom.
"The tale.. of The Forgotten Forest?" Noir said.
A pause for everyone before…
"BABAHAAAHAA!!"
The angels laughed at him, calling him retarded and dumb, while the Ponies started at him, filled with confusion and fear..
"The… Forgotten Forest? But… it's but a fairy tale, to tell young foals not to wander off alone… you're saying… it's real??" Twilight asked.
Noir nodded, then he spread his arms around, "welcome… to actual hell everyone…" Noir said bluntly, before heading where he dropped his herbs and spices, placing them near where he keeps his sword before walking away.
"Wa-wait! If what you say is true, then how did you survive here?" Luna chased after him.
He stopped. He turned towards her and answered, "Simple: I killed to survive." Noir said bluntly again.
The angels and Twilight caught up, not being near each other. Adam pointed his axe at Noir, "ok, listen demon fu*k! You're going to tell us how to leave, and I'll make your death painless~" Adam
Threatens Noir.
Noir raised his eyebrow before replying, "leave? You think? I know how to leave? If I did, I wouldn't be here stupid." Noir continued his path, not even looking at Adam.
….
They travelled, the angels kept demanding answers, the ponies kept asking questions… and Noir was sick of hearing them argue loudly.
*Groans…*
He turned to them all, "SHUT THE FU*K!! THE LOT OF YOU!! STOP ASKING ME QUESTIONS AND FOLLOW QUIETLY OR BUZZ OFF!!" Noir shouted, panting while leaning on a nearby tree. He took out some dried meat and began to eat.
The Angels and Ponies were dumbfounded at Noir's loss of temper. Luna and Twilight came over, and sat near him, but didn't speak a word. Lute, for once, listened to a demon, and sat down, still looking at her now broken sword. Adam, well he didn't listen.
He walked up and pointed at Noir, "don't you dare tell me what to do, Demon Filth~ Or else I'll-" Noir cuts him off.
"You'll what? Kill me?" Noir looked at Adam, "then please, by all means," Noir glanced at Adam's axe, "…do it…" Noir said.
"Daf*k? Why are you so calm? I said I will kill you if you don't answer my questions?!" Adam was more than confused, why would a demon willingly die to him? Even asking for it?
"Hmm… if you don't know the horrors I have seen… then you don't know anything… Angel." Noir took out another piece of dried meat and chewed it. Adam was dumbfounded and went to where Lute was sitting. He sat next to her, staring at Noir, trying to study him like an open book…
Meanwhile, Noir kept eating his food, while noticing the ponies staring at him.
*Groans*
"What is it? Are you gonna keep staring at me or ask a damn question?" Noir asked the two Alicorns.
"Oh! Well we just wondered… since you said we were in this forest… I needed to ask, how long have you been here? From how you handled the situation, how you dealt with those…" Luna stopped, to which Noir answered, "Crawlers, they're called Crawlers…" Noir answered.
"Right, so like I was saying, how you dealt with those Crawlers, you must have been here for a while now? Could-could you care to tell me how long?" Luna asked, looking saddened at Noir.
"…." Noir said nothing before…
"Over 100 Years… I have been trapped here… for a hundred years…." Noir said, before continuing his snack.
Everyone there was shocked at his answer. To Twilight and Luna, it sort of answered their questions on Noir's stay and experience of the area, while the Angels were just shocked.
Lute knew Noir was far more powerful than Adam, as even he couldn't destroy Angelic steel without using all his power, while Noir Simple smashed it with his bare hands. Meanwhile, Adam just looked at Noir's face, still seeing emptiness in his eyes when he said his time here…
The Angels got up, shortly after sitting down near Noir.
"Ok, I still don't trust any of you… but you know more about this place than we do, so tell us, what the hell is this place?" Adam asked, his voice not filled with venom this time.
"…." Noir looked at Lute, Adam, Luna and Twilight before asking, "before I answer anything, care to tell me all your names? I told you mine, it's common courtesy to return the gesture." Noir said at the group.
"Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship"
"Lune, Princess of the Night"
"Lute, Lieutenant of the Exorcists"
Then Adam was last. They all stared at him to answer, which he tried not to but gave in.
*Sighs*
"Adam, Leader of the Exorcists… now answer my question!" He said quickly.
"Hmm," he glanced at Luna, "Luna, correct?" He asked.
"Ye-yes! It is." Luna stutters a bit.
"Hmm… I knew a Luna once… thank you for telling me your name Princess." Noir bowed slightly at Luna, to which she blushed slightly before saying it was alright and that there was no need to bow towards her.
"Hmm, I see. Alright then," Noir got up, "if you want to know more, follow me, and be quiet while you're at it. Sound attracts monsters, and loud ones tend to die early." Noir said before making his way through the woods. They followed him, not saying a word…
…..
As they followed Noir, he began to tell his past.
"Before I arrived here, I was but a newly sinner-Demon in hell-" Adam shouted from the back "I KNEW IT!" Getting glares from everyone before Noir continued, "and I was very full of energy. I wandered the streets, seeing crimes that would normally put you in jail, happening on the streets."
Noir continued, "I wandered a while before seeing a news ad, about a Hotel that redeems sinners. It was run by the Princess of Hell: Charles Morningstar. Many laughed at her project, but I saw an escape. Maybe, just maybe… I could prove I was a good person, and go to heaven, to meet all my loved ones and wait for others to be at the gates…" Noir paused his tale.
"Ok, then what?" Lute asked.
"I… I never made it to the Hotel…" Noir said. Everyone paused what they wanted to say before Noir continued, "as I made my way towards the hotel, also known as the "Happy Hotel", I was thinking of ways to introduce myself, always thinking one weird one liners, as when I was alive, I didn't meet much people, and My Friends would often drag me out of my house, making me go out with them, and I never complained."
Noir took in some air before continuing, "as I made it to the front doors, I was about to knock to enter when… I saw it." Noir paused as someone else said it before him.
"The White Door…" Luna answered.
"Correct." Noir gave a smile at her before continuing, "and I was very curious about why it was there, was it always just there and I never noticed? I walked towards it… which was my greatest mistake I have ever made…"
"You opened it, saw the forest and… something pulled you in." Adam said.
"Yes, I was entranced by the forest that… I never noticed I entered it. Before I opened the door, I remembered the tale my Uncle once told me… granted I never believed him, nor did my friends… oh how foolish I was…" Noir said, his tone saddened a bit before continuing.
"When I tried to leave… The door was gone. I tried, for so long, to find an exit… but instead… I found fear, pain, loneliness, anything you can think of, add on Despair, and this forest," he gestured towards the open forest, "will be mentioned…" Noir stopped, ending his back story.
They all went silent before Noir stopped, Luna accidentally bumping into him. "Oh, sorry Mr Noir." Luna apologised.
"Please, no formalities," he said before he walked towards his cabin.
They followed behind him, which made Twilight ask, "is this your home?"
"Yes. I made it when I finally realised this… place became my new home." Noir placed his sword on his desk, before opening his journal and writing his new entry…" Noir answered Twilight while he wrote his journal entry…
They started to look around his home, some noticed a few extra beds, "hey? Why are there extra beds? Isn't this your home?" Lute asked, sounding less rude than before.
Noir glanced at her and Adam, seeing them point at the extra beds, "yes, those beds are for those who stumble upon me and need a place to rest. And they are now your beds, pick whichever you like, but if there isn't enough, I can sleep on the chair." Noir turned back to his book, continuing his writing.
Twilight and Luna sat near the fireplace, still processing this unfamiliar land.
"Luna, I know you trust him but," Twilight glanced at Noir, "but we don't know for sure if he has good intentions."
"Twilight! He saved all our lives! He could've left us for dead, but he saved us, he even gave us shelter and a tale of his past. I don't think a bad creature would do all that." Luna replied, but angry at Twilight's assumption.
Twilight looked down in shame, "I know, but we don't know anything about this place, and I'm just being careful." She looked at Luna before looking at Noir once more.
Twilight then started at the angels, who were talking, "and what about them? They literally wanted to kill us a few minutes ago! Can we trust them?" She asked.
Luna thought for a moment before replying back, "I don't know, they also seemed angry at Noir, but after what happened, they calmed down a bit and are somewhat approachable."
The ponies were in thought, and the angels kept on talking until…
*Thump*
Noir slammed his book shut, and went through his bag, taking out the herbs and spices he collected. He took said plants and placed them on a nearby shelf. He then looked at everyone, "what?"
Lute answered first. "If I may, how did you know those… things are resistant to magic?"
"Oh right! If you know about that, then you should know some magic, right?" Twilight was already thinking up a whole essay of questions to ask Noir…
He glanced at them all and sighed. "Yes, I have magic, happy?"
"Not quite." They all turned to Adam. He pointed at Noir's sword, "where did you get that? You said it yourself, you arrived here, but never mentioned a sword, so where did you find it?"
Noir looked at his sword before replying, "I found it, stuck inside some large boulder. I thought my attempts to pull it out would be in vain, but…I managed to pull the sword out. I did some quick tests on it, on trees, stones, monsters, apparently," he took the sword and held it near them, "this thing can absorb souls of the fallen, to either strengthen the user or heal him. It is also near-weightless and extremely sharp, so I tend to only use it when I need to." He placed the sword back where it belonged.
Everyone kept asking Noir questions, to which he tried to the best of his abilities to answer…
….
It was nighttime, and everyone was getting ready for bed. Noir sat in his, holding the photo of his old friends.
Lune came over, seeing him smile while looking at the picture.
"Are those your old friends?" She asked. Noir saw Luna and answered, "yeah… that one right there is me… before I died, that one is Jack, and this one is Luna." He said.
"Ohh, so that's why you seemed happy to hear my name." Luna connected the dots.
"Hehe, yeah… your name reminds me of her smile, her laugh, her stubbornness~" Noir and Luna laughed softly, but it didn't work as they drew the attention of the others.
"What'cha two talking about?" Adam asked, a bit of teasing in his voice.
"I was asking Noir about the people in this photo." Luna gestures towards the picture in Noir's hands.
They all soon came near him, seeing the photo and asking questions. Some laughed at Noir's tales, and they even shared a few with him.
"Haha! Then, as Able swallowed his beef on accident.. he… he shot them out through his nose!" Adam said.
*Laughs*
Most of them laughed, while Noir just smiled while hearing their stories.
"Ohoho! And that wasn't the worst part!" Adam inclined the others.
"What was it then?" Twilight asked.
With a straight face, Adam said, "he still ate the bloody thing!" They all laughed, a bit louder, but quieted down when they heard snores.
*Snoring*
They all saw Noir snoring, sleeping like a baby, with a smile on his face.
"Heh, guess my bedtime stores do work! In your face Lute!" He pointed at Lute, doing a rock pose and sticking his tongue out, but no one could see it as his helmet covered his head…
They all got to bed, Adam and Lute removing their armour and helmets to sleep, while Luna and Twilight were already comfortable.
Before they slept, Luna asked a question they all had in mind, "I know this might be wrong… but should we ask him if we could read his journal? It could have the info we need about this place, or his perspective of things."
"Hmm, yeah you're right about that pony." Adam said, to which Luna corrected him by saying she was Luna, while the Purple one was Twilight Sparkle.
"Heh, are they your actual names?" Adam tested again.
"Yes they are!" Luna argued back, pouting before Lute closed them off, telling them to go to sleep. They murmured agreements and went to bed…
….
Everyone but Twilight was sleeping, she couldn't, how could she? She was in a castle, having tea with Luna, and now she's stuck inside a forest with Luna, Two Angels and a Demon with a Hundred Years of Experience.
"Hmm…" Twilight tried to sleep, but was restless… she got up, making a glance at Noir's journal. She thought of something:
'Maybe if I take a quick read, it could calm me down…' she left the bed, making sure not to wake anyone and headed to the desk.
She took the Journal, sat on the chair near the fireplace and flipped to the first page to read it.
"Ok… what secrets do you hold.. Noir Void's Journal!" She started reading the book…
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Chapter 4: A Morning of Hunting!