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Barbie was absentmindedly running her claws through Sallie May’s hair, watching a movie they rented as the Wrathian imp looked at her crystal. Sometimes the former circus imp would catch her girlfriend glance at her crystal occasionally. Mostly from curiosity but sometimes she saw some…longing on her face.
“What’s up, babe?” Barbie wondered, catching her attention.
“Huh? Oh nothin’ just…I was curious about that thing,” Sallie May replied, tapping Barbie’s wrist.
“This? Helps with my job sometimes,” Barbie replied. “Belphegor sometimes needs the drugs humans use on Earth for her medicines in Hell so I sometimes go up to get them.”
This made Sallie sit up right, her eyes shining from excitement. “Wait a sec…you can go to Earth. Whenever ya want?” she gasped in awe.
“Well I usually go whenever I get a call for a shipment of new shit she senses,” the older girl shrugged. “It’s only bein’ a delivery imp for me these days. The hardest shit I use is the occasional cigarette.”
“What’s it like up there?” the Wrathian imp wondered.
This caught Barbie off-guard; she would just go up there to collect the drugs she needed and head back, not really paying attention to whatever or whoever was up there. “Well…it smells nicer than Hell,” Barbie joked, looking a bit sheepish. “Truth? I don’t really go up there to see the sights so…I wouldn’t know what to tell ya about it. Sorry…”
“That’s okay,” Sallie assured her. “The closest I get is seein’ the Harvest Moon whenever Prince Stolas or anyone from the Goetia family opens up a portal for the moon to curse our crops.” She then shut her eyes, a wistful tone in her voice. “I wonder what it’s like seein’ it from Earth?”
Barbie looked over at her calendar, seeing a small mark that signified a full moon would be happening on Earth. No doubt her brother and Prince Stolas would have a date that night which amused her to no end. After all the bullshit they went through and working on their relationship, they decided to reclaim the monthly Full Moon as a special date night for the both of them where they’d spend genuine quality time together. It was pretty sweet seeing her brother so happy now after all the bullshit they’d been through.
Especially knowing they could be as dorky in love as Millie and Moxxie were.
“Would you…wanna see it for yourself?” the former performer offered, surprising her partner.
“You’d take me up there?” she blinked, a soft blush on her face.
Barbie smiled as she took her hand, rubbing a thumb on the top of her hand. “Yeah. Maybe that can be our next date,” she decided, already getting excited at where she wanted to take her.
“Will I be okay?” Sallie asked, suddenly feeling nervous. “I don’t have a human disguise like you.”
“Hey look at me,” Barbie requested, cupping her girlfriend’s face. “I won’t let any bozos hassle you while we’re up there. And you won’t need to worry about a disguise where I’m taking you.”
(...)
Barbie opened a portal to Wrath, allowing Sallie May to step through dressed in leggings, a red skirt, and a plaid top. Barbie, in turn, had on a leather jacket, red shirt, and black pants. Both blushed at seeing how nice the other looked. Sallie wasn’t sure what to wear for her first trip to Earth but she figured that just a nice date outfit would be good enough.
“H-Hey!” Sallie waved. “Ya look great!”
“Thanks,” Barbie giggled, her tail swishing behind her. “So do you. Ya ready to go?”
“Yeah but…it’s a bit early to see the moon, isn’t it?” the shorter girl mused, looking at her phone’s clock. “What’re we gonna do until then?”
“Well,” the young demon grinned as she rubbed her crystal, turning into her human form. “Let’s find out together, shall we?”
Sallie’s jaw dropped seeing Barbie’s human disguise. She was already really pretty as an imp but in her human form? Her pigtails looked so fucking adorable! “Y-Yeah! L-Let’s!” she nodded, letting Barbie take her hand through the portal.
The girls soon found themselves on the outskirts of a quaint human Autumn carnival where the smell of cider and pumpkin filled the air. Humans of all ages were running around and having fun, enjoying the season together. There were rides, games, activities, and plenty of food to enjoy which made Sallie May relax a bit more.
“I figured we could see how the human dorks enjoy the beginning of Autumn before we see the moon up close,” Barbie told her, looking at her with concerned eyes. “This is okay, right? Not too tacky or cheap?”
“Are you kiddin’? I love this!” Sallie cheered, hugging her before taking her hand. “Let’s go!”
She was about to hide her tail up her skirt when Barbie stopped her. “Don’t worry. This is a Halloween carnival so you can go as you are,” Barbie assured her. “I just wanted to show off my disguise to you.”
“Well ya look damned fine,” Sellie grinned.
They soon began to walk around the fair, taking in all the activities they could do together. They made a mental note of which food and drink stalls to try while keeping an eye on what goofy activities humans did. The haunted house was bound to be cheesy fun and the mini-golf would be cute if either of them didn’t throw their clubs into the middle of the cornfield. But right now all they could think about was whatever that really delicious smell was.
“Pumpkin…vanilla…chocolate…this way!” Barbie called, dragging her girlfriend over to a booth selling something called a ‘Pumpkin Bomb’. “Excuse me. What’s this?”
“That’s a pumpkin bomb, little lady,” the clerk explained. “Two slices of pumpkin pie sandwiching vanilla ice cream and dunked in chocolate.”
“We’ll take two!” the girls declared, Barbie pulling out her wallet of human money.
‘Huh human money has different pictures on it?’ Sallie thought as Barbie grabbed their treats from the human. They went to a nearby picnic table and sat to try their snack. One bite in and they were already hooked. “Holy shit this is genius!”
“I bet Beelzebub would LOVE something like this!” Barbie grinned, neither girl noticing the tall girl with a blue and pink mohawk and a tall buff black man with one eye and tattoos buying a Pumpkin Bomb for themselves. The girl’s mohawk seemed to shift in color from delight after biting into one. “Ya know, I grew up around fairs and shit but something about Autumn carnivals makes food taste better, ya know?” she went on.
“Oh I know exactly what ya mean,” the shorter girl nodded, licking some ice cream off her face. “When we throw our little Halloween carnival at the ranch, our food stalls get real crowded. Nothin’ beats fresh roasted corn on the cob.”
Barbie took another bite of her pie before something came to her mind. “Hey I’ve always wondered. Can you make popcorn from corn on the cob?” she wondered.
“That depends on the corn ya use,” the farmer imp explained. “Sweet corn is a bit too soft so you’d end up burnin’ it if ya tried. Popcorn works best from dried corn on the cob.”
Once they finished their treats, they decided to get both a corn dog (because a fair wasn’t complete without one) and roasted corn since talking about it sounded good. Plus they needed something salty to counteract all the sweetness. They soon were walking by the petting zoo, Barbie giggling uncontrollably at the goats she saw, one in particular with large curved horns.
“T-That one looks like my dad!” she snickered, pointing to a grumpy goat with a beard and droopy eyes.
Sallie turned, covering her mouth to keep from snorting out loud; even from the few times she saw Mr. Buckzo, she could definitely see the resemblance. “Don’t let him hear ya say that,” she joked.
“Oh I’ve gotten plenty of warnings about that,” Barbie reassured her with a wry smile, thinking of all those teasing noogie attacks from when she was a kid. Just thinking about that gave her head the tingles.
The haunted house was about as cheesy as they thought; living in Hell definitely skewed their thoughts on what was actually scary. Though Barbie did jump in Sallie May’s arms when she saw a fake spider get dropped down from some cobwebs. Even as an adult, creepy-crawly bugs just made her feel all the ick. Thankfully Sallie was there to calm her down and didn’t make fun of her.
“Everyone’s got a fear of theirs that might seem silly,” Sallie reasoned as they left the haunted house.
“Oh yeah? What’s yours?” Barbie wondered with a sneaky smile.
“Nuh-uh! Not tellin’ you~!” she teased, sticking her tongue out.
The girls soon went to get some candied apples–Barbie getting caramel while Sallie May got chocolate. They went to play a round of mini-golf which they both were grateful that it was actually on flat ground instead of on a hill or something. The young farm imp recalled a trip to LooLoo Land where they spent some time at Mammon’s mini-golf course and were pissed that the stupid thing was built into a hill where you couldn’t score anything below six.
“Who the fuck builds each hole on a damned incline?!” Sallie ranted, taking a bite out of her apple as she scored in two strokes. “And I swear he blocked the final hole with some crumpled up newspaper or somethin’ because it’s a total ripoff!”
“Ya couldn’t even lie saying you got a decent score?” Barbie wondered, licking her apple before taking a bite.
“Nah. That bloated bastard’s got cameras everywhere to make sure ya didn’t cheat. So unless you were really good at mini-golf, you were fucked with the lame prizes,” the farm imp huffed.
“I hear ya. We got banned from a local course when we were little,” the older girl recalled. “Turns out they don’t like it when you spear a windmill with your club. But I still say they cheat!”
The sun was just starting to set as they reached the hay ride which would be the perfect way to end their date. A nice leisurely ride as the evening melted into nighttime. It was apparently perfect timing for the ride operator since they needed another couple to ride with the only other couple on the ride. It was the girl with the rainbow mohawk and the muscular gentleman with one eye.
They looked friendly enough but something about them seemed vaguely familiar to Barbie.
“Phew! That was a blast!” Sallie laughed, flopping back on some hay.
“Maybe Earth weirdos do have more to offer,” Barbie grinned, flopping next to her. “So…did you have a good time?”
Sallie May took her girl’s hand and kissed it, smiling warmly at her. “I’m really glad ya did this. I don’t get out too much so this…this was the real adventure I’ve been lookin’ for.”
“Well if you want adventure I’m sure we can find something more dangerous,” the acrobat imp offered.
Sallie laughed appreciatively before running a hand through her disguised hair. “I’d like that but…I like stuff like this too,” she cooed, kissing her nose.
“Aww cute!”
The two girls turned, seeing the couple waving at them with knowing smiles. The girl’s hair seemed to have turned pink the second they had looked away while the guy was just bemused by their cuteness. “S-Sorry. Were we being too goofy?” Sallie blushed, Barbie’s face burning a deep red in her disguise.
“Not at all,” the guy assured them. “It’s nice seein’ a cute couple like yourselves gettin’ along.”
“And appreciating good food,” the girl added, looking at her boyfriend excitedly. “Remind me to make some of these foods for my next bash at home, Tex.”
“You got it, Bee,” he nodded.
Barbie blinked before snapping her fingers. “THAT’S why you look familiar!” she gasped, realizing who they were sharing a ride with.
Bee chuckled as she let her human disguise melt away, Vortex doing the same. “Hey you two! Been a while!” Bee waved.
“Fancy seeing you here,” Vortex commented.
“What’re you two doin’ up here?” Sallie wondered, letting her tail uncurl as she kept her voice low. “Ain’t it dangerous for a Sin to be up here?”
“Pssh! Nah!” Bee laughed goodnaturedly. “I sneak up here all the time for meal ideas and just to screw around. Humans might be weird but they’ve got some good ideas for snacks. Like that pumpkin bomb? Mmm! I definitely wanna serve that shit at my next party.”
Barbie released her disguise, leaning against her girlfriend. “Small world we’d both be here. But it’s nice seeing you again,” she told them. “Thanks for helping me out at your party. Crowds can get a bit overwhelming sometimes.”
“No worries, little lady,” Vortex winked as he looked up. “Take a look up there.”
The girls looked up, seeing the moon and stars beginning to shine over the country sky. It was so funny…the young farm imp would see the Harvest Moon every year but seeing it in person like this? It really made their night special. And Barbie, for all the times she’s come to Earth for work, never took the time to appreciate what it had to offer. Maybe she could slow down a bit to really take it all in sometime.
Now that she had someone to share it with.
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