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“What are you still doing here, you lazy imp sucker?! Come on, get up!”
The owl jumped with a hoot of surprise, that got strangled at the end as pain flared back to life in all his wounds.
He rolled on his back to see Stella had burst in his bedroom with the three hellhounds, and his eyes widened.
He had dozed off without realizing it. Now, suddenly they were here, and…
Shit, he was naked.
The painkillers had wore off.
He hadn’t practiced the healing spells on his wounds, nor checked them up.
Shit shit shit.
He barely had time to sit up by leaning on the headboard, slowed down by his injuries and the fact they caught him so off guard, he was still trying to compose himself. Before he could, the watchdog had walked around the bed and had already grabbed his wrists to cuff them behind his back as usual as he groaned in pain from the rough treatment.
Seconds later, not even the bed sheets were covering any part of his body as the hellhound dragged him out of bed by his injured arm to make him stand up, and Stolas was suddenly awfully aware of his nudity. Not that his usual clothes were protecting him much better than bare skin and feathers, but mentally, it only added to his vulnerable state as he was still failing to put up a blank expression as Stella advanced on him, smirking.
“Still having sex with your plaything, I see? Guess you want to be payed back for protecting his ass!”
“What?! No, we didn’t…”
“Oh, you’re talking back now? Are you sure you want to do that?” She smiled threateningly, tapping her finger against her phone.
She didn’t even need to unlock it to show her screen. Stolas got the message and shut his beak despite the growing dread in his guts.
“Better. It would be a shame if anything was to happen to him after all your efforts, right? Especially since the only outcome for him would be death! So, answer truthfully: did he sleep here, yes or no?”
“He slept here, yes…”
She sent him a warning glare, and he stopped here despite the urge to be more precise, knowing exactly where she was going.
“Did you tell him anything?”
“No, nothing!”
“Are you sure?”
“I swear on Octavia, I didn’t!”
Stella didn’t care all that much about their daughter, but she knew he did. She raised a brow and tilted her head.
“Oh, really? But he did find out about your injuries, then? Hard not to, obviously.”
His broken leg was better but not fully healed, and the stab wound close to it was sending such waves of pain, he couldn’t put weight on it anyway. His other wounds weren’t much better, especially since, of course, the hellhound had grabbed onto the injury on his arm to pull him up. Even if he wasn’t naked, he knew his state wasn’t really very well hidden at the moment, it was already a miracle he didn’t need to go to the hospital. Also, it made the idea of fornicating with Blitz even more stupid, and Stella had to know this, but she probably didn’t mind.
“Yes, he did, but I made sure he didn’t know where they come from.”
“Good, that’s good. But then, how should I trust you didn’t do your silly lesson as initially planned?”
Stolas blinked.
“I’m… Not really in the state for such things.”
“That you are”, she agreed grudgingly. “Still, you don’t want to stay too close to that imp, understood? It seems like he came on his own, again, but I trust you to avoid this in the future, or it may give bad impressions, you see? But ah, well, I’ll be generous again and take it all on you, despite it being partly your fault. I won’t be so merciful next time, since you have been warned. Got it?”
“Yes, thanks”, he answered reluctantly.
“You should really work on your attitude”, she added while shaking her head. “Is that a way to show gratitude? At least I know what to expect from you, so I’ll take my thanks in other ways.”
She turned to the three hellhounds with a sick grin on her face and a suggestive tone.
“Now, go ahead and have fun. He’s already naked, take full advantage of it!”
Stolas froze, face contorted in horror as the words sank in, hoping she didn’t mean what he feared she meant.
“What?” He asked, voice barely above a whisper.
“You heard me.”
"STOP RIGHT THERE, YOU SWAN WHORE!!!"
Everyone turned to who shouted that, and were shocked to see the door break down, and in came robed demons. Before they knew, they restrained Stella and the hellhounds with handcuffs and muzzles, whereas they released Stolas from the blessed cuffs with a angelic resistor and gave him his red robe to put on for decency.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!?! WHO ARE YOU ALL, AND WHY ARE YOU STOPPING US FROM DOING WHAT WE NEED TO DO?!?!" Stella screamed as she tried to resist arrest.
"Quiet, bitch! You four are under arrest and will be taken to court for your crimes!"
Before they knew it, the group were then taken to a court. This is the same court that was seen in the Mastermind episode. There residing was the deadly sin Satan from Wrath, as well as the other deadly sins. Not only that, they also found Striker was restrained.
"Oh shit, they got you too, Striker?!" the Shar Pei muttered under his muzzle.
"Damn right they did! I'm innocent, and I'm not going to say anything!" Striker scoffed.
"SILENCE!" Satan screamed. "This is a trial for Stolas V. Stella. Stella and her associates are being accused of the assault and even attempted rape of Stolas!"
"ATTEMPTED RAPE?!?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL?!?!" Asmodeus screamed, on the verge of going full feral.
"Rape? Seriously? Why would we do such a thing?" Stella asked, trying to deny it.
"Well why was Prince Stolas restrained in blessed cuffs, then?" one of the arresting officers asked as he pulled out said cuffs.
"That's cause Stolas was about to be kidnapped by angels! We were trying to save him!" the chihuahua lied.
"Oh okay... well then explain this!"
A large TV was then shown, and it began to play footage of the tortures. Somehow, they were able to obtain footage that Stella recorded of the sessions from her camcorder. All the deadly sins gasped upon what they were seeing, and Stolas shivered in terror as he was reliving the intense moments. Stella and the hellhounds, however, were still trying to deny it.
"Um... that's not us..." the watchdog nervously said.
"Who else is in the footage, you bloody cunts?!" Mammon exclaimed.
"Those are our evil twins! They did this!" Stella yelled.
"Evil twins? Are you fucking serious right now?" Beelzebub groaned. Then, more footage was shown of the chihuahua attacking Stolas with the knife. "Are you sure you didn't do that?"
"That's not me, bro!" the chihuahua whined. "I would never stab a Goetian!"
"YOU LITERALLY BROKE MY FUCKING ARM THAT DAY, YOU STUPID MUTT!!!" Stolas screamed.
"YOU DESERVED IT!!!" the chihuahua retorted, not realizing he just gave himself away. Then, for good measure, they showed footage of Striker torturing Stolas with his angelic knives.
"Ooooooh, that imp's in trouble!" Striker mocked, acting like it wasn't him in the footage.
"MORE LIKE YOU'RE IN TROUBLE!" Leviathan screamed.
"I've seen enough!" Satan said as the TV went away. "Stella, Marcos, Shay, Dess, and Striker, you all are found guilty of all charges! Marcos, Shay, Dess, and Striker, you all will be executed on the spot! And as for you, Stella, you will be stripped of all power, status and wealth, and banished to live among the lower classes for a century, starting now. On top of that, you will lose custody of Octavia and Stolas will take full custody of her, and you will not even get the chance to see her until she's of age. Court adjourned."
"NO NO NO!!! YOU CAN'T DO-"
The watchdog was suddenly interrupted when a large axe decapitated them all, killing them instantly. Stella also screamed and cried as she was taken away.
"NO NO NO!!! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!!! STOLAS, I'M SORRY, OKAY?!?! I'M SO SORRY FOR HURTING YOU!!! DON'T LET THEM TAKE ME AWAY!!!"
"NO, STELLA!!! YOU DESERVE TO BE PUNISHED FOR ALL THE SHIT YOU'VE DONE TO ME, AND YOU BEST BE LUCKY SATAN ISN'T HAVING YOU KILLED AS WELL!!! BYE BITCH!!! ENJOY LIVING ALONGSIDE THE COMMONERS!!!"
That was the last thing Stella heard before she was thrown out the courtroom, forced to live the next 100 years as a plebian. Stolas then turned to the Wrath sin.
"Thank you, Lord Satan, for bringing them justice, especially before they, um... did something terrible... but how did you found out?"
"Me and my group had been investigating Stella for a while now," Satan explained. "I am absolutely shocked at what I've found, and I hope that Stella learns her lesson for being an abusive idiot!"
"I agree! If it was up to me, she would've spent that 100 years as a sex slave in my ring!" Asmodeus exclaimed.
"And she would've spent that century getting fat from my honey!" Beelzebub added.
"Alright, gang, we get it now. Take care, Prince Stolas, and remember that we have your back!"
Stolas was then portalled out of the court and into the palace. There, Octavia was there, and she cried as she hugged him.
"Dad... I saw the whole trial... I can't believe mom hurt you like that..." Octavia cried as Stolas hugged her back.
"I know, Via, and I'm sorry you had to witness such a terrible sight... but she's not going to hurt us anymore... that's all that matters..." Stolas assured, hoping that going forward, things will get better.