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Blitz examines his glove with the orange crystal closely, eyeing it above and underneath.
“Uhm-sir, are we going to go do the hit?” Asks Moxxie as they all sit at the meeting table.
“f*ckin’ shut up for one sec Mox. I’m just-”
“He doesn’t know how it works”, Millie giggles.
“I know how it works! It’s in my glove isn’t it!” he protests.
Loona groans, “I’m gonna go get coffee anyone want anything” she asks. Blitz waves his hand without looking at her, “Iced”.
Millie smiles and hands her some extra money and asks for a mocha. Moxxie goes to start- “I’ll have a double shot ristretto lukewarm wit-”
“K I’m gone” Loona says as Moxxie growls under his breath.
“You really gotta get a shorter coffee order baby”, Millie tells him and kisses him on the cheek.
He groans and grabs the crystal glove from Blitz and he looks at him offended.
“What the f*ck Moxxie”, he demands.
“Just let me look at it”, he says. He also looks it up and down. He presses on it. It does nothing.
“It’s not a f*cking button” Blitz rolls his eyes and pulls it back.
“It was worth a try, SIR! Since you don’t seem to know how to work it” he’s standing on the table now, pointing at his boss.
“And because you don’t know how to use it, now we’re going to be late on this hit for the client!” he says as he sits back down, “So thanks a lot sir”.
“Moxxie will you just be f*cking patient for one f*cking day! I swear to all that is heaven, you cannot just f*cking CHILL. I f*cking dare you to!”.
Millie fiddles with her fingers and sits with a bored expression, the boys were fighting again.
“Blitz, why don’ you just go ask Stolas how to use it?” she suggests. The boys stop fighting and both blink at her like salamanders.
“Well-maybe I will!” he says like it was his idea and puts the glove on,“Tell Loona to put my coffee in the mini-fridge” he asks Millie and she nods.
Moxxie crosses his arms and rolls his eyes, “K we’ll be here!”.
Blitz likes the bliss that comes over him when he goes to Stolas’s palace now. There was no anxiety. No obligation, no tension. They could just be themselves with one another and not care what the rest of the world thought.
He rings the doorbell and found the large doors unlocked and walks in. The palace is much emptier now that all traces of Stella are out of it. Surprisingly, Stolas has little material possessions he cares about. Besides his whole library of books, that is.
Maybe he could move in soon… He pushes the thought from his mind for now, realizing that they’re still only boyfriends.
He of course finds Stolas in his study, leaning over piles of papers.
“Darling! I didn’t even hear the doorbell, I’m sorry I didn’t come to greet you” he says as Blitz enters and gets up from his desk and saunters over to him, hugging him tightly.
Blitz hugs him back and gives him a peck on the cheek.
“S’alright, door was unlocked. Shouldn’t have been by the way.” He gives Stolas a concerning look.
“Oh, Via must have forgotten to lock it when she went to her friends’ house. I will make sure the staff check it next time. Why are you here at this hour of the day? Not that I don’t love seeing you”. He says as he smiles down at his imp.
“It’s this crystal. It’s embarrassing but I can’t figure out how to use it” he explains and holds his arm out to Stolas.
“Mhm, well, I can certainly look in my Asmodeus book about it, but I recall it only talking about where to get one. Not necessarily how to use one”. Stolas eyes the crystal and levitates it out of Blitz’s glove and into his talons.
“sh*t, did I need to talk to the big sin himself for this?” he asks.
“I’m sure we can figure it out together” Stolas gives him a hopeful smile. Blitz smiles back.
“Okay what does your book say?”, he tries looking at it but the desk is just barely as tall as him.
Stolas reads quickly then has a disappointed expression.
“Hmmm. It says-nothing”. He puts the crystal on the desk.
“Well f*ck”, replies Blitz, “Guess we experiment?”
Stolas smiles and claps, doing a little jump up and down. “Ooh I do love experiments. Come!” he takes Blitz hand and the crystal and pulls him out the double doors of the study to the open garden.
Blitz’s cheeks are redder than usual from how excited Stolas is.
He gives Blitz the crystal again.
“If I know anything about magic, it is based not only on spells, but with artifacts like this one, it is based upon intention. Hold it out in front of you and think about where you want to go” he tells him.
“Wh-where I want to go? I don’t f*cking know. I don’t really care for earth much. And doing hits there doesn’t really give us time to travel” he explains.
Stolas giggles “Okay well, why don’t we go to America, it’s the one on the globe that looks kind of like a blanket”
Blitz closes his eyes, “Okay” he starts thinking.
“Wait! We need to specif-” Stolas starts to say when the portal opens, and practically sucks them both through, Stolas grabbing onto Blitz.
“Aahhhh!” They both yell as they’re thrust through the crystal’s portal.
Blitz blinks and blocks his arm from the bright sun, the ground he’s on was hard like cement. His arm had the same jacket but it was...bigger now? He stands up and looks around for Stolas.
“Stols?!” he yells. He also felt...taller. Did earth always feel like this?
Blitz looks in the nearby trash bin, under a bench, he would be able to see the lanky bird a mile away, right? Then he looks into a cafe window and sees himself. f*ck. Who was that?!
His horns are replaced with slicked dark brown hair with a large white highlight through it. He has red piercings throughout his face. Also his FACE. While his skin is a shade of light brown that he particularly likes, his scar is a blaring red and somehow more obvious than it is in his imp form.
His hands were the same, he groaned and stuck them in his pockets.
“Stolas!” he yells again. Now a little nervous about drawing attention to himself. He ducks into the cafe and there he did find Stolas, coming out of the Men’s restroom and asking the barista for a paper towel to dry off his hands. He was also in his human form, looking as ‘gothic prince’ as ever.
“Could I just have one I don’t like the air dryers in there”, he starts then sees Blitz and stops, “Nevermind!” he runs over the Blitz and hugs him, practically pulling him off his feet.
“Oh my darling! Look at you!” he let go and stood back to take in his now-human boyfriend. Blitz’s blush was much more obvious in this form and he tried to hide himself with his jacket.
“Stoolls, I’m not that different. Were you even gonna look for me?!” he questions the gothic prince.
Stolas co*cks his head and that was somehow even more adorable in this form.
“I landed in the bathroom, I apologize. I didn’t know you were looking for me. Where is the crystal?” he asks.
Blitz’s eyes go wide. He hadn’t even looked for the crystal he was so busy making sure he found Stolas. Stolas takes in his expression and pinches his temple between his two eyes.
“You do know where it is…?” he asks again.
“Uh well-no. I was trying to find you” he rubs his arm.
Stolas sighs and kisses his head.
“Alright lets go look for it” he says with resolve and grabs blitz’s hand. It was so different, being able to entwine their fingers. They aren’t fuzzy from feathers or sharp from claws. They’re just...long nubs. Which sure is weird but also feels nice. As they walk down the sidewalk, Stolas notices Blitz staring at their hands. He giggles.
“Enamored with your human form are we?” he asks.
“I-what-no I just-it feels different. But good” he admits.
They stop and stolas starts using his hands like a protractor in the air, this time Blitz co*cks his head.
“Uh-whatcha doin?” he asks.
“Trying to triangulate where the crystal landed. If you landed over there, and I landed in the cafe, then it should be...over here somewhere” he takes his hand again and pulls him into a field behind the shops. Satan-damnit he’s so smart. Blitz swooned a little at the prince’s face again then shook his head as he realized he is being no help whatsoever and is basically just being pulled along for the ride.
“Sooooo where is it?” Blitz asks as they look around. Okay, maybe he wasn’t that smart.
“I thought it would be here. Well damn. Keep looking around here” he says and they split for a second, looking under everything they can at the back of the shops. One of the shopkeepers comes out of a back door to take some trash out and Blitz goes over to her.
“Hey uh, have you seen a big, orange crystal somewhere around here?” he asks her. The girl didn’t look more than a teen. She stares at Blitz’s face for a little bit then blinks.
“Uh no. But there’s a crystal shop down the street” she tells him, looking him up and down.
Blitz, confused why she’s sizing him up, just thanked her and walks over to Stolas.
“What’s wrong dear?” Stolas asks.
“That human girl just kept staring at me. I don’t have something in my teeth or something right?” he bared his teeth that used to be sharp and yellow, now were straight and white.
Stolas shakes his head, “I don’t see anything. Darling could she be looking at your scar?” he asks him with caution.
Blitz is taken aback and touches his face. It’s a little more sensitive than the scarring in his imp form but everyone in Imp City has scars or birthmarks, no one really questions it.
“Damn are they really that sensitive about looks?” he asks generally out loud.
“It’s a different world dear”, Stolas explains and kisses his scarred cheek. Blitz, feeling the warm lips on his face grabs the prince’s face and kisses his lips, using his new lips as well.
“Well-these bodies aren’t so bad” he says with a sh*t-eating grin as he watches the prince’s whole face flush red.
Stolas coughs, “Well, uhm, we should keep looking for the crystal”. He grabs his hand but Blitz chimes in.
“Yeah we can check out this crystal shop the human was talking about in the morning. It’s getting late” he says as they watch the sun start to go down.
“Do you have any human money?” he asks the prince.
“Uhm, no, but I can put the motel manager in a trance!” he says delightfully.
Blitz snorts, “That’ll work”.
