The Hellhound, Lincoln Loud (Helluva Boss AU)

Chapter 30: Meeting Velvet

No One POV

After Lincoln found the Sweet Spot, he enter the shop and enjoys his dessert inside there with peace only to found 3 arrogant imps barge into the shop to meet their demise by yours truly. Lincoln easily took down all 3 of them without breaking a sweat and burn their corpse into ashes. Right now, he's about to walk away from the shop to enjoy his day in the Pride Ring before he stop walking out of sudden and look around him.

Lincoln: You can come out now. You been watching me for awhile, you know?

???: Oh... What gave it away?

Lincoln: I'm a hellhound and our sense of smell is greater than any other demon. The moment I enter the shop, I immediately smell your scent and found out you been watching me from the start. 

???: I like you. Straight to business. Now, riddle me this one. Who am I?

Lincoln: *smirk* You are an Overlord and a member of the VVV Overlords, host and owner of the Circus of Hell, owner of the Sweet Spot, leader of the Simp and social media sensation. The Doll Demon, Velvet.

Velvet: Correct.

With that, Velvet reveal herself from the shadow. Velvet is a young, slim demon with slightly grey-brown skin. She has large, velvet, burgundy, and white hair tied into pigtails with lace hair ties holding her hair up. She seems to be wearing white eyeliner with crimson eyeshadow. She has white irises and red sclera. She has razor-sharp teeth, and her nails are sharpened at a point. She wears a black, velvet, and white tea-length dress with short, puffed sleeves that include various designs and velvet lace at the bottom. She wears white and velvet striped fingerless evening gloves, and black stockings. Her shoes are velvet flats with white puff balls on the top.

Lincoln: It's a pleasure to meet one of the VVV Overlords. How can I help you, Miss Velvet?

Velvet: I'm interested in you. You're a very powerful demon and I can't believe someone like you aren't an Overlord.

Lincoln: Miss Velvet, I arrives in Hell about 3 or 4 months ago. I don't think that kind of status is perfect for me.

Velvet: Let see about that.

Velvet hop towards Lincoln within second and use her claws to slash Lincoln's face which Lincoln dodge it and try to bind her hands but Velvet dodge it thanks to her superhuman reflexes. Lincoln jump backwards and land on the ground before both of them sprint towards each other and swing their fist. The moment their fist connected, air exploded. The resulting shockwave sent all object went flying. As the two demon struggled against each other, the glass windows around them begin to shattered cause of the shockwave. Velvet then use her Weapon Manifestation power to spawns a knife from her body to stab Lincoln. Lincoln effortlessly catch the knife with 2 of his claws and break the knife's blade.

Velvet: What? You...

Velvet spawns a pair of butcher knife to her hands and try to slash Lincoln by crossing the knife as if they were a pair of scissors while Lincoln doesn't even budge from its place as the knife heading towards his face. Lincoln then duck at the last moment before use his Incinerate Snap to melts the butcher knife making Velvet to throw it away.

Lincoln: Now, it's my turn, Miss Velvet.

Lincoln summon a Flame Orb to his left hand while a Thunder Orb to his right hand as he combine those two orbs creating a fusion attack before he blast it towards Velvet within a blink of an eye. The orb was too fast for Velvet to dodge it as she got hit by the fusion orb head-on and creates an explosion around her. Velvet walks out from the explosion thanks to her Nigh-Invulnerability but she still can feel the pain on her chest from the orb. She grows angry about this since no one manage to injured her like this as she stomp on the ground leaving a crack and sprint towards Lincoln with her agility while spawns a gun to her hand at the same time. Once she is close to Lincoln, she fires the gun 6 times towards Lincoln. Lincoln just closes his eyes and use his other sense to catch the bullet without even looking.