This is an absolute sleep deprived OS I wrote. I needed someone who looked after Alstor, after fighting against Adam. So why not someone from his past? (Note: I’m not an expert of the Fandom nor its rules)
Darcy was none of them. She did own as many souls as the Vees together, but her interest lay somewhere else. She made deals with demons and sinners who had no other way out. While she gave them a save place to live, they promised their loyalty to her and a favor, if ever needed. She and her “customers” lived at the border of the Pentagram, far away off enough to be unbothered by other overlords and she kept to herself, not bothering them. It was a loophole that made her quite unpopular among the others but no one dared a fight at her border of the city.
It was quite in her huge studio, there were no other demons and she sat on her couch, a big bottle of booze in her hand. Her black dress was draped over the soft cushions. Her window offered a view which was wide enough to see up to the “Hazbin Hotel” This huge building outside the city that was build up there a few months ago by the little spawn of the devil herself. Darcy had… followed this little project for quite some time now and one question was especially interesting to her:
Why the fuck Alastor let this shit happen?
Darcy and Alastor went back as long as he was down here in hell. When he came to hell, a poor sinners soul with no way to go, she picked his sad being up from the street and propped him up. The two formed a deep bond that kept them together, until Alastor made… a questionable decision. He sold his soul to the queen of hell. Lilith herself.
It took Darcy weeks to figure out, what he had to do in return and what he got out of it. He told her one evening, when they sat together in front of a sweet little fireplace with some cheap booze bottles. Back then, Alastor was different. He was more open with her and she could see easily behind his smile. That was all before Lilith.
He told her about his plan. Using the power that Lilith gave him, to defeat the other Overlords and getting himself the position in hell, he deserved. According to him. She tried to stop him, to come back to his mind and realize that this was not the price he should be paying for it.
Alastor was not a sinner that listened.
When Alastor took down the first overlord their bond start to break. He started to isolate himself from her and suddenly, there was no bond at all.
In the sky over the hotel, the first exorcist appeared and they started their attack. Silently she opened the bottle and poured her first Glas full of alcohol. Her black lips nipped from the cold liquid, while she leaned further back. “Good luck” she sighed under her breath and took another big gulp.
Before he left her home for the final time, she gave him one last present:
The cane, that made him to who he was. The Radio demon.
She gave him a tool, that gave him the power to concentrate his power and use it far more controlled. She gave him the power to be who he wanted to be and to broadcast his voice out to hell.
It was her last will for him. She never agreed with his plans but she knew better than to try and stop him. It was far more in her will to give him a tool to made sure he’d survive.
She watched as the black sphere, clearly Alastors Magic, built up around the hotel, killing a bunch of exorcists at this magic border. “You’re fighting back…” her voice said in a low tone while she got up to walk up to her window, so she’d fell closer to the scene. It was strange, seeing angels dying on hells ground but it was very well true and real.
Before Alastor disappeared seven years ago, he came to her place one last time. This time, he was totally different. Proudly he stood in front of her, his wide grin seemed genuinely this time, his fingers tapping on the canes head. He told her, he’d be gone for some time but he was thankful for her help in the past. “I never meant to harm you.” He had told her honestly. “But I had to do something that was bigger than you” This time, he gave her a charm, shaped like a moon. Something to keep her safe. Till this day, she didn’t know if it had any effect or if it was something nice to look at. “This broadcast will end now”, then he disappeared for a good seven years.
Years went by and his influence in the city was diminished. The Vees took over the mainstream medias with their TVs and Alastors name became nothing more than just a name on a list. Till he returned. For Lilith daughter. That’s when Darcy made the connection herself. That was Lilith part of the deal. Her little spawn would be kept safe, by Alastor.
Her long, slim fingers gripped the glass harder as she watched Adam, the first man, destroying Alastors Shield with just a few moments. For the next few minutes, Darcy was doomed to watch the beams of light and shadow fly from the hotel through the red sky. She knew that Alastor had no chance. He was still a sinner. And Adam he was… different.
Darcy never saw Alastors full power and if she was honest, she was sure Lilith had a plan for this as well. Maybe she limited his power, as long as her spawn wasn’t endangered? Maybe he simply didn’t knew how to use it? Darcy never had the chance to ask. Her white iris followed every single of the beams piercing the sky.
She had turned around to pour herself another glass, the bottle already in hand, when it suddenly happened. A sharp, piercing pain shooting through her body. Making her cry out in pain, while her grey skin became even paler. Her knees gave in and hit the floor hard, her black dress laying around her like a puddle of pure darkness. Her body was hunched forward, while she gasped for air. She heard the bottle break next to her on the ground and she felt the cool liquid running through her fingers.
It took her some minutes to get back to her senses. This kind of pain… it could only mean. “Alastor…”, without thinking any further she knew he had lost this battle, without his cane… she fought herself back on her feet, the pain slowly disappearing again. With a simple snap of her fingers, her slim figure became the shadows themselves and allowed her to travel way faster through the city.
Just a few seconds and she appeared in her full persona again, behind the huge hotel. The bodies of angel lay on the floor, while others were still flying around, screaming commands to each other. But Darcy didn’t care. “Alastor!”, she yelled out before she started to run around. There were huge holes in the grounds, clearly a fight was happening around her. Every other moment there was the sound of cracking wood and stone, the foundation of the hotel was shaking.
She followed her gut. She was connected to the cane, it was a part of her. Minutes went by. Minutes in which she was running around, sometimes disappearing in the shadows to flee from some fucked up exorcist demon. The hotel, by now quite some distance away from her, collapsed in itself. The dream hotel of hells spawn was not more than ruins. Darcy watched the scene from her stand on a hill made of dead bodies and destroyed parts of the hotel. The pressure reached even her and the dust took her sight for a second, forcing her to shield her eyes with her hand. Parts of the former hotel flew through the air and past behind her position. They landed with a loud crash and between it all, the rests of an „on air“ sign flickered between the wood and stones.
“Shit… Alastor!”, she finally saw him. He was walking away from the hotel and up to the ruins of his radio tower. She saw the blood dripping from his body, forming a trail behind his steps. „Al!“ Darcy climbed from the hill down to him, finally being close enough to him, to speak in a normal voice, without screaming.
Alastor finally heard his name being called and he stopped in his motion. His head turned to her, his body still facing away. A silence set between the two, while the noises of a final fight were audible in the distance.
„What are you doing here?“, Alastors voice had lost his radio tune, instead she heard his real voice. He pronounced the „you“ unusually hard, nearly with a tone of disgust. „What are you doing, Al? Fighting Adam? Are you trying to die? You knew you had no chance with the deal you made. You… heavens you’re hurt“, Darcy didn’t wait for an answer, instead she stepped closer to see his wounds better. Alastor let out a choked chuckle and his smile seemed even more forced than normally, while his body turned towards her. For a second he closed his eyes „I don’t need your aid, darling“, he finally brought out these couple words, while looking at her face.
She shook her head softly „you don’t need it but I’m offering to help you Alastor.“, she said more stern and looked into his eyes, she seemed genuinely worried. „your deal… this was no part of it. Fighting Adam is not in your power as long as the spawn of hell is not actively endangered and you know that. You have to step back from them Alastor. Step back from the deal as much as you can.“, another chuckle from the hurt demon followed her words. It was a low chuckle, one that announced a dangerous decision.
„Step back? Darcy I’m so close! They think I sacrificed myself, for them! Can you imagine? I can control this Darcy!“, Alastors lay his hands on her shoulders and just kept on talking, while blood was pouring from in between his grinning teeth. His eyes turning to the dark red color that never meant something good. “I can control everything! I just… I need to find a back door! I need to get out of this contract and take control! I can take control!”, the sentence we’re interrupted by his maniac laughter and his sharp fingers basically buried into her skin.
Darcy looked into his eyes and let out a heavy sigh. “Alastor. This thinking got you into this mess in the first place!”, she tried to reason with him, even though it was useless and she knew it already and yet she felt the need to try. “Then help me, Darcy! Stay with me this time! We can do it! The two of us, we can control it all.”, she saw the horns on his head growing, his eyes nearly blood red and he leaned over her. She bit her lip hard. The demon of night and the Radio demon? They were capable of more than she’d like to admit.
“Alastor. If I help you. We do this together, do you understand?”, it was her only reason for agreeing. She was scared for Alastor, her former friend. It was her only motivation: keep him safe just like she did years ago. His grin widened even further. “Oh this will be so much fun! So we have a deal?”, he leaned in further into her.
“We have a deal.”, she simply answered. And they shook hands.
She was blinded by him. Just like the last time. She had no idea, what this deal meant. And his cane, just like nothing ever happened, was back in one piece. His voice thick again with the tune of the radio voice, she had given him. The next word were full of promises for Darcy. And it scared her.