Welcome to the final chapter of King and Queen of Hell. I hope you enjoyed the journey. I have gone back and forth a few times on how I want to wrap this thing up, but I have made a few changes to earlier chapters to tie in with how I want things to go, and now I'm happy with what I've got, so without further ado, the final chapter.

Lux, One Minute Later

Azrael touched down on the penthouse balcony and let Ella go, and began pulling her inside, "Come on, we've got to find Lucifer and warn him!" Ella, still unsure on why Azrael was acting so strange, followed along, bemused and slightly worried.

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Azrael actually looked near tears when she finally gave up and defeatedly led Ella back to the elevator. "It's no use, he's not here, hasn't been for a while, I can tell."

"What gave it away, the lack of female garments everywhere?" Both women jumped at the sardonic voice that answered from inside the penthouse.

Azrael, startled, pushed Ella behind her and drew a spear from… somewhere. Ella busied herself trying to figure out where she had been keeping it, recognizing the voice and knowing she wouldn't hurt them.

"Who are you? Show yourself!" Azrael demanded, scanning the penthouse. "Calm down, angel girl, I'm not here to hurt you, I was actually looking for Lucifer myself, why were you?"

Azrael said nothing, but continued to scan the room, prompting a huff, and the speaker moved into the light. "There, happy?" Maze asked as she leaned against the piano. Azrael pointed her spear at Maze, "Why were you looking for Lucifer, Mazikeen?" Maze sighed, and shrugged, "Fine, I was hoping he would be able to help me track down a missing person." Azrael raised an eyebrow, "A demon looking to help someone, really?" Maze flushed, "Hey, just because I'm a demon doesn't mean I can't be a good person, sometimes." Azrael rolled her eyes, "This, coming from Hell's top and most loyal torturer. Who were you looking for that Lucifer would help you with, anyway?" Maze looked intently at Azrael for a moment, before slowly saying, "A friend's daughter has gone missing, Lucifer likes her, so I was hoping he'd be willing to help."

Ella gasped and strode forward, "Trixie's missing?" Maze started slightly, then nodded, "Ella, is that you?" Ella started, she hadn't meant to do anything, but the news had shocked her, before she stopped short, "Wait, you can hear me? You can see me?" Maze looked quizzically at her, "Yes, why wouldn't I be able to see you…" She trailed off and looked at Azrael again, before gasping and looking back at Ella. Almost hesitantly, she asked, "Ella… are you… dead?" Ella nodded, "I made the best of a very bad situation." Maze looked shocked, "What situation would make dying the best option." Ella looked down, and Azrael stepped in, "She was being kept as a plaything by a few of your uncles," Maze paled, and Azrael nodded, "Now you see why we need to find Lucifer." Maze shakily nodded, before asking the question she didn't think she really wanted the answer to, "How long?" Ella still wouldn't look at her, so Azrael answered, "About a month." Maze staggered back, "This isn't good at all, you realize what they're likely doing, and that in that time frame, they're almost done?" Azrael nodded, "I know. They're going to wake your mother.

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After that, they frantically searched the penthouse for any clues as to Lucifer's whereabouts. It was Ella who found the blade, but Maze who found the words of the ritual scrawled in Lucifer's handwriting. Quickly reading through it, she gasped as what Lucifer had done sunk in, "I can't believe it," Maze muttered. "What is it," Ella asked her. Maze shook her head and showed Ella the paper. Ella looked at it, and then looked at Maze, "What does it mean?" Azrael grabbed the paper and furiously read it over, she too gasped when she had finished, looking to Maze, she simply asked, "Who?" Maze glanced at Ella, "Decker, it has to be." Ella butted in, "Chloe? What's she got to do with this? Oh god, what must she be thinking with Trixie missing?" Maze put her hand on Ella's shoulder, "If I'm right, and I'm almost positive that I am, given what I now know, Decker doesn't even know Trixie is missing, mostly because she's been with her for about the last 60 years." Ella gave her a look that clearly stated she thought Maze had gone insane.

Maze gestured to the paper that Azrael still held in her hands. "The words written there are the incantation for an ancient marital binding ritual, and a blood bonding ceremony," Maze paused and smirked as Ella didn't seem to grasp what she was saying, "Decker is now Mrs. Morningstar." Ella gasped and looked to Azrael for confirmation. She shrugged, "Mazikeen is correct on what these words are for, Lucifer's chosen, I can't tell you from this alone, but Mazikeen would have a better insight into whom that might be." Maze picked up after this, "Lucifer knows how important Trixie is to Decker, he likely would have taken her there after they bonded, and he knows enough esoteric rituals that he would be able to blood adopt her if she chose to accompany them to Hell…" Maze looked at Azrael, we have to get there and warn him." Azrael nodded.

"Without Lucifer, I can't move between the planes, not without some bloody rituals, at least, very bloody ones, so I can't warn him."

Azrael sighed, "He's going to be so mad when he figures out I could have visited him, and didn't, the problem is, I need to be transporting a soul to Hell to get there, and I usually let one of the others transport the evil ones."

"Take me." Maze and Azrael snapped there heads around to Ella, who had quietly spoken, "What?" They both asked. "I said, take me." Azrael shook her head, "Ella, you've always been good, and faithful to boot, you've earned a spot in the Silver City, would you really give that up for eternal damnation?"

Ella set her jaw, "To help the world? Yes." She started walking away, but was stopped suddenly by Maze grabbing her in a fierce hug. Ella hugged her back, before holding her at arm's length, "What was that for? I'll ask Lucifer to bring you back to Hell, and we can hang out there for all of my damnation." Maze shook her head, her eyes suspiciously wet, "That was for being my friend, even when I was a bitch." Ella grabbed her in another hug, before walking with Azrael to the balcony. Maze watched them leave, the single word Ella had whispered in her ear echoing in her head, "Always."

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Hell, 10 Minutes Later

The royal family were gathered in the throne room, going about their daily activities. Trixie was training with one of her teachers, Achilles, with her blades, while Lucifer was talking quietly with Paris, and occasionally calling out critiques to Trixie. Chloe was talking with some of her own confidants, and they would occasionally break into laughter as they discussed their business.

The scene was shattered by the doors crashing open and two women running into the room. The guards moved to stop them, but were flung away by the leading woman. Lucifer waved them off, and gestured for Achilles to take Trixie behind him.

He was about to speak before he properly saw the second woman, and he scowled, "You go to far, Azrael." His cold tone brought both up short, and he continued, "Not only do you barge into my throne room as if you own it, thus proving to me that you simply were ignoring me all these years, You have brought a close friend to Hell, when she clearly deserves to spend her eternity in the Silver City. What do you have to say for yourself? Well? Speak!"

"Lu…" He shook his head angrily, "Don't call me that, just tell me why you not only finally decided to visit me, millennia after father banished me here, but you also show up with a dear friend who has no right to be here, rather than the Silver City?"

Azrael looked saddened, but nodded, "I thought you would want to hear about this right away, and the only way I can get to Hell is if I'm transporting a soul, but the evil ones always made my skin crawl, so I left them to some of the others," seeing Lucifer's impatient look, she hurried on, "And Ella volunteered, I didn't want to do it, but there was no time to find another one."

Lucifer was not pleased his question had gone unanswered thus far, "And what was so important that Ms. Lopez had to sacrifice her afterlife for it."

Azrael looked him dead in the eyes, "Mephistopheles and the others escaped, they're about to wake her up."

Lucifer swore, "How the Hell did that happen, are you sure, did you see them?" Azrael cleared her throat, "I didn't see them myself, but Ella did, up close and personal." Lucifer's eyes flashed red, his face turning into an ugly scowl, "They didn't?" Azrael just nodded her head. "How long?" Azrael didn't answer him at first, "How long!?" He thundered, Azrael flinched and stepped back, "A month. They had her for a month." All the anger seemed to suddenly flow out of Lucifer, he stepped up and enveloped Ella into a tight hug, "Ms. Lopez…Ella, I cannot express enough how sorry I am that this happened to you, and I promise that it will never happen again, but right now, as callous as it sounds, we have much more pressing matters to attend to."

A clearing throat brought the room's attention to the other occupants of the room. From his position Lucifer could hear Ella murmur, "So Maze was right, huh."

"Lucifer?" He turned, keeping an arm wrapped around Ella's shoulders, "Yes?" A raised eyebrow accompanied the next question, "Care to enlighten us as to what got you so angry?" He sighed, "Ms. Lopez was kept as the plaything of demons for the past month on Earth, and unlike Mazikeen, these demons were neither friendly, nor were they female. They raped her, near constantly I would imagine." Ella's nod confirmed his statement. "What!?" Chloe shrieked, transforming into her devil form, "I'll kill them!" Lucifer shook his head, "Much as I agree with the sentiment, these particular demons are all Archdemons, far more powerful than your typical demon, and even one of Maze's caliber would be thrown about like a ragdoll rather easily, if she were to go head to head with one. Our demon forms grant us additional speed and strength, not to mention fortitude, but even I would fail were I to take on all of them without help." Chloe's outrage was stemmed both by Lucifer's statement, and Ella's impressed whistle and, "Damn, Decker, you look good for a demon. And your wings are awesome!" Chloe choked out a laugh and ran over to grab Ella in a hug.

She looked up and beckoned to the others standing where she had been. As they made their way over, Chloe pulled away from Ella and indicated the approaching group, "Ella, there's a few people I'd like you to meet."

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Ella had been shocked when she was introduced to the likes of Paris and Achilles, but was speechless when she was introduced to a girl who looked to be about sixteen years old, and then Chloe told her it was Trixie. "What? That's impossible, Trixie is twelve, and I was only gone for a month!" Chloe smiled, "On Earth, yes. In Hell, it's been sixty years."

Lucifer had cleared his throat after they had finished introductions, "I hate to break this up, but we have to prepare to stop these demons, or, at worst, stop them and Lilith herself from destroying the Earth.

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Earth, 6 Hours Later

It had taken 6 long months to prepare a fighting force that Lucifer felt was adequately prepared for a worst-case scenario. They had to use only deceased souls, in case Lilith had woken and was able to sway her kin and children to her side.

When they got to where Azrael had told them to go, they found Maze waiting for them. "It's too late, she's awake, I can feel her calling to me." Lucifer swore, "Right, we'll attack right now, while they're still in the house, hopefully that will allow us an advantage."

"And I'll take my mother." Maze said, before walking towards the front door, ignoring Lucifer's attempts to get her to stop and wait for them.

Maze kicked in the door, causing everyone in the house to turn and look at her in silence for a moment, before a voice purred from the shadows, "Ah, my little Mazikeen, have you come to join your mother in destroying this pathetic plane of existence?" Maze said nothing, but merely looked at the assembled group of demons, "Hello mother, uncles," she said as she began to walk forward, "Long time no see. And to answer your question, mother, I thought about it, and I was interested," she subtly gripped her knives as she had almost reached her mother, "Except my uncles here did horrible things to a friend of mine, and that can't go" she whipped out her knives and made to attack as she said the last word, "Unpunished!" Her mother shrieked as her knives bit into her skin, "You ungrateful Brat!" and the two demonesses began fighting in earnest.

Lucifer chose that moment of confusion to make his move and he and his men attacked the house.

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The fight was going well, about a third of the demons fell in the initial attack, and with Maze keeping Lilith busy, Chloe allowed herself to think that they might just get out of this unscathed, when she felt the claws of one of the demons rake her side, she screamed and fell, clutching her wound. She saw the demon that had wounded her lose his head to Maze's knives, and smiled at her, only for her smile to turn to a look of horror as the point of a blade emerged from Maze's chest. Maze looked at her with shock, looked down and then whimpered. "Ah, my poor Mazikeen, if only you had joined your mother, instead of fighting her, this whole mess would have been avoided." The blade was removed, and Maze had enough time to whisper Chloe's name, before, with a single swipe, her head was parted from the rest of her body.

"No!" Chloe screamed, horrified at what had happened to her friend. The demoness, Lilith, smirked nastily at her, "Oh, I'm sorry, were you another one of her so called, 'friends'?" Chloe felt white hot rage course through her body. Unnoticed by her, but very visible to anyone else, her demon form changed, her eyes changed into blazing infernos, she became sleeker, more deadly looking, and her wounds closed.

Picking up Maze's knives, she stood and glared at Lilith, "Not only that, bitch, I'm the Queen of Hell." Lilith had just enough time to try and stop her before Chloe attacked her like a woman possessed.

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After Maze fell, Chloe quickly defeated Lilith, and the rest of the Archdemons didn't last long under the combined strength of Lucifer, Chloe and their soldiers.

Maze was honored for her part in stopping the rise of Lilith, and also for saving Chloe.

Ella was quickly given a place in the castle, and was soon treated as another princess by the inhabitants of Hell.

And as for Lucifer and Chloe? Well, a year to the day, they were undergoing a momentous occasion, their first child was being born.

Lucifer smiled as Chloe held their daughter, and Chloe whispered to her, "Welcome to the world, Mazikeen Morningstar."

And fin. I think that last sentence fought me more than the rest of the chapter combined, and I'm still not sure about it, but I'm going to leave it as is. I'll be honest, this is nowhere near the ending I had originally planned. The original ending was heavily inspired by Vlad 'The Impaler' Tepes, but as I kept writing, I realized that for the characters I had written, this would have been extremely out of character, so I had to change some things around. I'm not displeased by how it ended, but, at the same time, I pretty much came up with that ending as I wrote this chapter. No matter, The story's done, and I'm more or less happy with it, so I hope you enjoyed it, and if you didn't or have some ideas on how it could be better, constructive criticism would be much appreciated. The music for this chapter was Aicha by Cheb Khaled.

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