Chapter 29

Love?

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"Miss Karma no longer serves under the Royal Family." Lucifer announces as everyone turns to him. Charlie quietly gasps,

"D-Does that mean she won't be here anymore..?" She asks, holding her blonde hair as she hoped she wouldn't. Lucifer shrugs,

"That's up to her decision, cupcake." He replies, "I'll be taking my leave now, goodbye." He smiles as he turns and walks out from the hotel doors. Charlie watch as her father leave and the doors closes behind him, she turns back to her side to look at Melody who seem to have a bit dust of pink around her face; she seemed more humane.

  Everything feels warm in just an instant, it makes her wanna sneeze from the sudden change of temperature. She opens her eyes to still see the same darkness of the place she's in but Karma is sitting in front of her, legs crossed as she braids with her long hair.

"Oh hey you're awake." Karma notices as she lets go of her strands of hair and letting her sharp claws rest on her lap. Melody suddenly can move as she lifts herself up from the ground and stretches.

"You're back so soon, did..?" Melody asks the demon in front of her, Karma leans backwards with her hands on the ground and shrugs. Looking up at the ceiling, making Melody does the same only to realize the 'ceiling' is actually a dark sky of the night with stars shining brightly.

"She saved you." Karma says as she sighs, Melody thought for a second.

"Who?" Her eyebrows creases in question, the demon slides her hand down as she lies down on the floor.

"Marcy." Karma replies, Melody's rich red eyes widens in surprise. "Lucifer told her about your deal when you were passed out, she went back to heaven then back down to ask anyone to help her. Surprisingly, guess who volunteered?" Karma giggles, Melody raises her eyebrows. "Angel Dust." She replies making Melody blink,

"Are you serious?" Melody asks, not believing her. Sure Angel is such a dick but Melody do know he's actually really nice. He doesn't show it as much because he's afraid of being vulnerable. But she didn't know he'd go that far of a length to help her. Karma nods as she inhales and exhales.

"Yep." Her reply short, "Now that you got back what were once yours.." Karma starts as the whole dark room suddenly turns into a whole grassy room. There's trees here and there but what caught her eyes the most were there's flowers everywhere around the two. "This place is finally beautiful again." She finishes as she turns her head to the side and pokes a bud of flower, a sparkly dust flies around the flower as it blooms into a blue lilac.

Melody stands up as she fixes her clothes, stumbling a little bit when she stood up and noticing she's wearing an oversized T-shirt and shorts. Karma watch the girl while still lying on the grass full of flowers.

"Go out there, you're free." Karma smiles at the girl, Melody looks up to see a door appeared out of nowhere. Its a red wooden door with flowers and vines decorating it. The black haired girl walks up to the door as she twists and open the door, revealing nothing but bright light. "Oh and also, one more thing." Karma says, Melody turns to her,

"He's waiting for you." Karma smiles at the girl, Melody is confused but she didn't have time to ask when something pulls her from inside the door and forcing her in.

The brightness blinds her vision as she covers her face with her arms.

"A-Achoo!" A quiet kitten-like sneeze fills the lobby as Melody sits up and covers her nose. Everyone turns to her, "Ah geez this lobby is colder than my heart." She blurts out and hugs herself,

"K.." She hears, "Kana!" Marcy shouts as she jumps and tackles the girl with a big hug, making her jump in surprise. She feels warm, her face, her body and even the warmth from Marcy's embrace. That's when she looks around from over her best friend's shoulder, everyone is there. The lobby of the Happy/Hazbin Hotel.

Emotions took over her like a big ocean wave as her eyes starts to sting, tears flows out as Melody hugs Marcy back and start crying into her best friend's shoulder.

Sin runs up as she hugs the two, Charlie smiles as she joins in the group hug, followed by Angel too. Meanwhile Vaggie, Akira, Slither, Husk and Niffty smiles.

They all pull from the hug as Melody tries to wipe away her tears, Angel looks at her and gasps;

"Dang Sin was right about you looking so innocent." He says, she have tears in the corner of her eyes, her cheeks are flushed red and her eyes are rich red and bright unlike how she used to look like.

"Shut the hell up.." She mumbles as she wipes the tears away with her wrists, that's when she remembers something. She scrambles up to her feet and walks to a more spaced part of the lobby in such a hurry,

"What's wrong?" Sin asks and Melody only raises up her hand, her scythe appearing as she swings it and brings it down to the ground; opening up a hole. She drops her scythe on the ground as she drops down to her knees, reaching her hand down into the hole. She waves it around until she feels a familiar hand grab into hers,

"Hold on!" She says as she pulls the person up, they're a little bit heavy as she pulls the person even harder. When she finally pulls the person, she falls on her back with the person falling on her.

Charlie gasps and so did Marcy and Sin. There's Alastor, in all of his glory and.. uh.. on Melody. The girl had hit her elbows as she hisses in pain, she opens her eyes to see Alastor's face right up in hers.

Due to her soul back in her body, her emotions are there as her face turns deep shade of red. She panics as she accidentally headbutt the deer demon on his forehead and screeching in embarrassment. The demon falls to the side and holds his forehead in pain,

"Dear... that was a good headbutt." Alastor manage to chuckle out as he holds his forehead, Melody blinks as she kneels down beside him.

"I'm so sorry!" She squeaks, "Are you okay?" She asks, Alastor then blinks; her voice sounded more 'lively' and not so monotone and dull. The demon looks up at the girl to see the same person that looks completely different. Her eyes shines even more as her face a bit pink from blushing.

"I think you hit his head and broke him, Mel." Sin jokes as she chuckles, Melody looks at Sin and glares at her.

Alastor fixes his posture as he stands up, helping Melody in the process. The red demon couldn't do much but laugh a little as he looks at Melody who have a look of confusion plastered on her face.

"Dear, I'm glad those demons down there were a bunch of entertainers!" He says, Melody blinks for a moment. Oh yeah, he was down there for quite some time. She's glad that those demons are actually fun to be with, they're good at board games, card games and even dancing and singing.

"Um, Al.." She whispers, making the demon hum. "Excuse me for a moment.." She says but Alastor raises his eyebrows, without warning; she jumps and hugs him so tightly as the demon freezes in shock.

Marcy gasps as she closes her mouth in surprise, Alastor hesitates but slowly hugs her back in return. The two pulls away and Melody is looking to the side in embarrassment.

"Also.." She mumbles, the male raises his eyebrows before quietly hissing in pain when Melody's hand pinch his cheek and tug on it. "That's for hurting everyone. I would honestly rip your arm off, but.." She trails off as she lets go, the demon only rubs his cheek in pain; not knowing how to react.

"I don't think anyone want to see that right now." Melody backs up as she smiles at Alastor, bright and genuine. Her smile looks like flowers blooming.

"Oh no I would love to see—" Sin is cut off short when Melody's lace umbrella opens on its own and yanks both Sin and Angel making the two spin. The two widens their eyes in confusion as Sin turns around with the umbrella in her hand as the metal is on her shoulder, looking like how Melody does when she holds her umbrella.

"Dear, I'm sorry for what I've done. What I did really can't be taken back with just a simple apology, but please forgive me?" Alastor smiles as he holds his hand out, Melody holds her hands behind her back; eyeing his hand. She only smiles,

"I know damn well to never shake a sinner's hand." She giggles, Alastor immediately start to laugh.

"I have been caught!" Everyone in the room smiles and chuckles, the air in the lobby is really light and peaceful unlike how it always used to be. Marcy walks up as she hugs Melody's arm,

"Soo~" She sing sang, making the black haired girl glance at her angel friend. "Mind introducing me to your friends?" She smiles, teasing Melody who immediately blush in a second.

"Oh, sure." She replies, totally dodging Marcy's teasings which the girl pout a little bit.

"Marcy, this is Alastor," Melody introduces, "Alastor, this is Marcy." She smiles as Marcy curtsies gracefully,

"Nice to meet you, Alastor! My name is Marcy White, nice to meet you." She smiles up at him and he smiles back, bowing down to her.

"The pleasure's all mine, dear!" He greets, Melody smiles as she brings Marcy to Charlie and Vaggie.

"This is Charlie and Vaggie, if you ever need help on anything just call these two." She introduces the two, Marcy waves at them.

"Nice to meet you, Marcy! You're really pretty!" Charlie smiles and Marcy smiles back,

"You're the pretty one here!~" The angel compliments back and Vaggie only smile at the angel which Marcy returns.

"Okay, here we have Husk, Niffty, Angel and Sin." Melody introduces, Husk only nod in their way.

"Hello! I'm Niffty, it's nice to meet you!" Her overly excited and fast tone of voice greets, Marcy squeals at her cuteness.

"Nice to meet you too, Niffty!" She smiles and so did the Cyclops demon.

"You already meet me, doll." Angel winks at the blue purple ombre haired girl, she nods and smiles. Marcy turns to Sin, which the girl is still confused with the lace umbrella in her hand.

"Oh, no. Your clothes don't fit with that umbrella." Melody says as she takes the umbrella from the girl and closes it, Sin only blinks in confusion.

"Hey, don't say that to me. Look at yourself." Sin says, crossing her arms. Melody looks at herself to see she's only wearing a oversized T-shirt and shorts that is hidden under the shirt, bandages are all over her body and patches on her face.

"No wonder why this lobby is colder than usual." She shrugs, Marcy giggles.

"Hello, Ava." Marcy smiles, Melody looks up and Sin smiles back.

"Hey Alaiyo." She greets,

"I guess you two already met each other, alright." Melody says and Marcy only nods. "Well, two more people left." She says as Marcy follows her towards the blue spider and someone familiar.

"This is Slither and I'm sure you know who that is." Marcy smiles at Slither which he waves in return,

"Is that Akira?" Marcy asks, the male only nods awkwardly as he scratches his head; accidentally exposing his cursed mark.

"Oh, I almost forgot." Melody says as she walks up to Akira, the male tenses up of how close she is. The long black haired girl reaches up as she softly grabs onto Akira's face, pulling him down towards her. Everyone watches in silence as Melody softly leaves a kiss right on the cursed symbol and she backs up a little bit.

The symbol swirls as it disappears, Akira's eyes widens as he blinks. He looks around with confusion in his eyes and turns to look at Melody,

"Where.." He starts, "Where am I?" He asks, Charlie closes her mouth in shock as everyone stays quiet. Melody only smile as she holds her bandaged arms.

"You're on your way to heaven, Akira." She says, "May your soul rest in peace." She smiles, she turns to Marcy. "He's ready to go." She suddenly says, it's Marcy's turn to be confused but she only blinks.

"Yes, of course." She says with a polite smile, "Follow me." She walks over to the lobby doors and Angel follows them too.

"Wait!" Sin says as she grabs Angel's arm. The male stopped and so did the other two, "L-Let me.." She trails off ss she turns to look at Melody who's smiling, she only smiles at Sin as she nods. "Let me come with you." She says as she walks up to the girl.

"Of course!" Marcy smiles, she then turns to Charlie and the others. "Thank you for rehabilitating people and giving them second chances." She says as she bows down, making Charlie panic a little.

"We shall take our leave." Marcy announces as she bows one last time, smiling at Melody which the girl returns the smile. With that, four of them walks out of the hotel doors. The silence takes over the whole hotel but Melody breaks it by stretching her arms forward and clapping her hands.

Red smoke covers her and when it disappears, her clothes are changed into a different dress. A red black vintage Gothic Lolita dress, the sleeves are puffy and laced up as it shows her collarbone. Her boots are a different kind of ones as it matches her dress, she turns around to everyone with a smile on her face.

"Hazbin Hotel is back in business!"