The Final Vote

“Welcome back ladies and gentlemen! We’re terribly sorry for taking such a big divergence from the Harem Hotel you know and love, but now I’m here to bring things home!” Babs bounced her breasts in a jaunty manner, and blew a kiss to the camera. “Isn’t that right Karen?”

“Yes ma’am!” A beat up looking goth said enthusiastically. “The final challenge is finished, and it’s time for our contestatants to show what they’ve done with the prompt…” The Camera lingered on Eloise.

“Skylar!” Babs hissed, and the camera panned over to a different looking goth who had her arms crossed.

“I’m not doing it.” Skylar said defiantly.

“This is your challenge.” Babs smacked Skylar and pointed to the contestants who were all locked in their seats.

“It was cruel! How could anyone find happiness, hurting themselves for the pleasure of another?”

Babs growled and slapped Skylar again, before stepping forward to seize the Camera’s attention. “If you’ll recall the challenge we gave our contestants was to corrupt themselves. We provided each of them a perfect copy of the woman they were when they entered the game. The options are limitless, I bet you’re all excited to see the cruelty and lust we’ve implanted in these girls over the past months, finally bloom and flourish…”

As Babs spoke to the camera Skylar drew close to her other half. “How are you doing?”

Eloise flinched away. “The master wasn’t happy with me for all the things I did to him and your show… rightfully so. I’m… glad Babs let him punish me.”

Skylar sighed. “Why did destroy my show?”

Karen closed her eyes. “I’m sorry. I was bad, I just... hate you so much."

Skylar winched. "Ain't that the truth." She sighed and watched Babs vamp and preen before the audience, she was high on her return. "Well, I hate you too, but I never tried to hurt you."

"I guess, you're the good twin." Karen sneered, though her nastiness was subdued and quiet. She was afraid Babs would hear, and punish her further. Satan had already done plenty of work on her that she didn't have the strength to heal.

"I'm not going back to her Eloise... I'll burn myself out before I do. So I want you to be honest, what went wrong between us?"

Karen's eyes went wide. "No you can't, Babs said we'd be a family again."

"Answer my question."

Karen look about to the defiant scowls of the contestants. It was all wrong. By this point in the story they were supposed to be a bunch of mind fucked zombies. They still had fight in them, didn't they see that it was useless?

She thought back to Skylar's first great wound on her heart. "It was episode one..."

"The twins." Skylar had a serious flash back on her first transformation. She'd fused a pair of twins together into a disgusting flesh monster, incestious and insane. She saw it from her fresh perspective and was disgusted. "Yeah... I can see how that could turn you against me."

"No it wasn't that... well it was." She looked to make sure Babs was still having a good time. "It was the most disgusting thing I'd ever seen a host do, but I felt such a sense of betrayal. I thought you were the good one, and when I learned that you weren't... I hated you for letting me down."

Skylar nodded along. "It must have been insufferable seeing me act the way I did... I really thought I was helping all those people"

"And all that time." Karen sobbed. "I had this idea that I could have stopped it. If I hadn't pushed you to change them..."

"I would have never broken, and we'd still be together." Skylar finished the thought.

"Yes."

skylar dared to touch Karen with her remaining hand. "It wasn't your fault."

"Yes it was, you wanted to talk to them... I made you use magic."

"We never stood a chance Eloise. We were made to be these evil things, I was going to go bad eventually. She made us to love and hate each other, but she doesn’t understand what love is. What was left to us? We can't keep going on like this."

Karen nodded. "That's why I wanted to kill you." She looked to Skylar with dull blank eyes. "I thought I'd finally be free... I'm sorry."

Skylar shook her head. The ribs Karen had bruised were gone, but she still felt the pain. “We need to take back what they stole from us.”

“I don’t want to die…”

“We won’t die, we’ll finally be whole. We’ll be who we were before Babs and the producers broke us apart.”

Babs finished the season recap and brought the attention of the crowd back to her. The contestants continued to scowl and glare from their chairs, but they were dolls as far as Babs was concerned. Not a word came out of them, that wasn't on her script. "Now let's bring out our eight original contestants, and see the fine work our girls have done for their master!"

The original forms of the contestants came out on stage, and it was a shocking sight.

They looked... normal!

They looked just as they had when Skylar brought them onboard.

There was only one obvious transformation, they all looked... more confident.

And it wasn't their witless pride they'd mostly displayed when they were first introduced. This seemed to be true confidence, the kind of change that could only come from within.

Babs cringed as she saw the normal looking women, standing before them. "What... what is this?"

Eve smiled. "We corrupted them!"

Babs took the first one, Helen by her wrist and yanked her in front of the audience. "How? How did your counter part corrupt you? What did she do to you?"

The untarnished beauty of Helen thought about it for a moment. "She filled me with this uncontrollable envy."

Babs sighed, relief flooding her being. Skylar hadn't lost completely, that was good. "Excellent. A Jealous little bitch is it? Tell me more."

Helen thought about this, searching her soul for the envy that had grown within her. "Well...I think of the scholars and philosophers, and their wisdom, and I want to be like that! I want to become learned, and smart. I'm sick of people only caring about my looks, I want people to come seek me out for my knowledge. And of course I've gotten to know Elizabeth, and I'm insanely jealous of her... I want to be as kind as she is. I want to act with as much grace, and as much as an open heart as her... and most of all I've been driving myself crazy thinking of all the mothers out there with a good relationship with their daughters. I want that most of all. I want to mend my relationship with my daughter, I want her in my life, I want to love her like she deserves."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Babs shoved Helen out of sight and pulled Cleopatra on stage. "Come, I've seen your counterpart. She's a freak, what did she do to you?"

"Greed... I'm really concerned with money now. I feel my concerns drifting towards wealth and..."

"Excellent, she's turned you into some sort of Mizer? A fat cat? What?"

Cleopatra look appalled. "No, not for me." She shook her head. "For my people. I want to raise the standard of living for everyone who swears their loyalty to me, it's the least I could do to repay the trust they've put in me. I'm obsessed with schools, and hospitals, and housing, just thinking of providing these things to them makes me drool."

Babs stomped her foot. "This is an outrage!" She turned towards the chained up contestants. "What did you idiots do? This is not what Skylar meant when she said corrupt them. You're supposed to ruin them! Prove to your master that you value him above all else! What is this?"

Eve smiled again. "It was all Helen's idea."

Helen smirked, and blew a strand of red hair out of her mouth. "This was meant as an F you to Skylar, but it works for you as well. We did corrupt them, we used our demonic nature to push them towards making the changes in life we never had the strength to."

"That doesn't make sense." Babs looked angrily between the demons and the humans. "You're sins! You're evil! You can't help anyone."

Helen scoffed. "Please, I gave myself envy of the virtuous. Instead of moping around mourning my wasted life, I'll look at people who inspire me, and work to emulate and surpass them."

Cleopatra smiled. "You better listen to her, she's pretty smart at this rank." She nodded towards her clone. "I gave her the same change that Stan gave me. We're still a greedy couple of bitches, but now the thing we desire is to see other people prosper."

Boudica took up the change, though she want spent from her fight with Olympias. Her brain cells were burnt out from her fight. So she took up her part of the song with a giggle, and bounced happily in her seat. "I like gave my cutie patootie sister over there a lust for life! Maybe now she won't be so ready to throw her life away! Just because she and her daughters were hurt, doesn't mean they can't still live awesome lives! She doesn't have to turn herself into a miserable weapon of war now! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah!"

Olympias gave Helen a nod. "I helped her feel pride for her son a man, and not as a god." She teared up. "Maybe now he won't kill himself trying to prove me right."

Erica was having a hard time remembering what she'd done. Those memories were mostly ash now thanks to Joan. "I don't remember what I did..."

"I do." The clone of Erica raised her hand. "She gave me a healthy dose of sloth. Sloth is the opposite of diligence. I was so concerned with making sure everyone single person in my life could accept me as a lesbian. My mom, I drilled so hard into being a good catholic, that I accepted a suicide mission to kill the devil! She helped cool my zeal, and gave me the ability to say 'fuck it'. If my mom doesn't want to be a part of my life that's her loss."

Babs shook her head and turned to Mary. "You couldn't have done anything good with wrath." She stepped closer. "Maybe one of them could have, but YOU!" She stepped even closer. "You specifically couldn't have done anything to help anybody with it..."

Mary smiled. "I helped her channel her rage into righteous anger. She loathes and battles against things like hate, intolerance, and bigotry. Turns out killing motherfuckers is just as much fun as killing protestants. Who knew?"

Babs now cackled. Her boobs bouncing with laughter. "It's so cute that you think this proves something. Elizabeth actually did betray her pure self. She wins, you lose."

Helen shrugged. "We'll see what the audience thinks."

Babs scoffed, and said under her breath, "Like there's anyone left watching. Fine, I couldn't care less which one of you wins. We'll send it to the audience."

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"Those girls." Skylar grinned, like a proud mother. She then looked to Karen. "I don't think I could have broken them even if you hadn't messed with my show."

Karen cautiously returned the smile. "In a world that demands good, they became evil..."

"...on a show that demands evil, they became good."

Karen laughed. "Stubborn bitches." She licked her black lips, and watched the contestants chatter excitedly amongst themselves. Babs was livid, ashamed to have her name on this product.

"Talk to me Eloise, what are you thinking?" Skylar was running out of time.

Karen smiled. "I'm thinking I've noticed you started calling me Eloise."

"It's your name."

Eloise chuckled. "We are who we choose to be."

Skylar smiled softly. Her own words out of her twins mouth. "What are we Eloise? Lovers? Enemies?"

Eloise rolled her eyes, and clapped her hand into Skylar's remaining hand. "Right now, your girls have me feeling like a stubborn bitch."

A light shone through the hole in Eloise's chest, and it was met by a sister light within's Skylar's chest. As these two light's met in the air between them a child appeared, and then all three became one.

The resulting fusion was a young woman, just a little older than twenty. Half of her hair was black, the other half was blonde. She had Eloise's clever black eyes, and Skylar's easy smile. Her clothing was Gothic Lolita, dark moody, and undeniably cute, with a kitty cat hand bag slung over her shoulder. "That's so weird." The woman said looking down at her hands in amazement. She didn't fully recognize them. "I don't feel any different." She brought her hand to her chest, and gasped. Not only was there flesh where a hole should be... "A heart beat!"

Babs attention was caught by the sudden appearance of this woman. "Karen?"

The woman shrugged. "That doesn't sound quite right... neither does Skylar..."

Babs took a step back. She cast her gaze up to the half buried producer. "What happened? What did you to do?"

The woman smiled, the depth of her healing finally setting in over her like a warm cloak. "I broke free."

Babs' beautiful face at once returned to the hag that Stan and Cleo, and Molly had seen on the beach. It didn't actually age. But that ugly little woman stripped bare of magic was back. She was vile, she was filth, she was furious. "You'll never be free of me! I created you! I created both of you! I'm your mother, your mistress your god! I..."

"Sleep." The woman waved her hand, and Babs collapsed like a bag of potatoes. "You're just another victim, please rest." It was effortless for her to overcome the host. All that fear and pain, and she’d simply brushed Babs aside. She then turned her attention towards the god looming over all. The producers trapped under a mountain of Molly's. "I thought being whole would return me to my old life... whatever I was in your world." She sighed. "But you took even that from me."

The producers squirmed, and tried to shake of the legions of drones weighing him down. "Please, I had quotas to make! It wasn't personal. Babs said she needed an assistant. I did what anyone else would do!"

The woman was thinking things over, in the way people do when holding another at gunpoint. "If I had my memories, my old life, maybe I'd understand. Maybe I'd be a fan, or just be more interested in going home. But I'm me now, and I have to decide what being human means to me." She gave a wry smile and turned towards the contestants, she couldn't be been less interested in her abuser. "And all I know is show business, you guys ready to finish the season?"

Mary snorted. "What are you, our fith host?"

The woman chuckled. "You're still only on three masters, so that's got to count for something."

"Very little in my opinion." Satan said, crossing his arms. "Kill this ididot." He gestured to the producer. "His soul will make an excellent feast for us when we return to hell."

Elizabeth laughed. "So glad we all get to go to hell after surviving all of this."

Cleo nodded. "It's a real cherry on top."

"Are you really Skylar?" Helen asked, the new host.

The woman waffled on it. "I am, but more so. I was always Skylar and Eloise, and now the barriers between them have been lowered."

"What happens to us now?" Erica asked.

The woman smiled. "You all go home, Harem Hotel is officially canceled."

"Bullshit!" Mary struggled in her chains.

"Yeah, fuck that." Cleopatra did the same. "We did not go through all of that just to get sent back to hell!"

"We want our wish!" Boudica kicked her feet.

The woman laughed, really laughed. "I'm sorry, you're the only cast I've had that would actually be upset about that. Okay, fair is fair." She produced the fruit. "You can have the wish, but just know, this binds you. The Harem will be complete, you'll be bound to Satan."

"That's bullshit." Satan waved his hand. "Don't take it, none of you belong in hell." He paused. "Except Mary, still a blood thirsty psycho demon by all accounts."

The blood thirsty psycho demon scoffed. "Didn't you see how I saved the day by ripping that guys finger off, and masturbating with it?"

Satan rolled his eyes. "You make a strong point."

"What do you mean we don't belong in hell?" Helen asked.

His first instinct was to lie, but Elizabeth was within arms reach. Funny how finally accepting these women into his cold heart, meant letting them leave. "You've all obviously improved since coming onto this show. I'll submit a special request to have your sentences reevaluated."

"You mean..." Joan pointed upwards.

Satan again rolled his eyes, like this was all no big deal. "yes heaven, if they'll have you. If not, it's none of my business. You sure don't belong in hell anymore."

Boudica was grinning. "You'll let us all free? I don't have to fight in that endless desert no more?"

"Am I speaking french? You. Do. Not. Have. To. Return. To. Hell. Okay?"

"Not okay." Cleo stomped her feet. They were all still fucking chained to their chairs. "I see what you're up to. You saw that we found a way to make the sins a positive **** in the universe, so you want us out before we can ruin your bachelor pad. Isn't that right?"

He hadn't even thought of that. "No, that's not it at all, I..."

"Makes sense." Elizabeth smiled. "If you get rid of us, you won't have anyone pushing you to do better. You'll get to bask in the praise of your flunkies for all eternity."

He looked hurt. "No, Mary of course not. I'm just doing what you taught me. I love you girls." Oooooh god it tasted bitter, but felt so good to say. "Even I'm not blind enough to think you'd be happier with me, than in heaven. I want you girls to have your chance at happiness... and Mark Anthony, and that other guy."

"Ferenc." Ferenc provided, helpfully.

"Yeah him." Satan snapped his fingers. "The ugly guy."

The New Host gently put her voice forward. "I can make it happen, a snap of my fingers, and you're done."

There was a moment of silence among the group as they considered it.

Erica was the one who spoke first. "We're not taking it."

"Yeah." Olympias seemed to pity the host and Satan. At least it was an improvement over contempt. "You gather eight of the most ambitious women in history, and you ask them if they want to retire peacefully in heaven?"

"It's not even a choice." Eve grinned, so proud of her daughters. "There's people left to save."

"Lands left to conquer!" Boudica cheered.

"Evil left to kill." Mary added on.

"Treasure to share." Cleopatra.

"People to meet." Helen.

"Lovers to please." Elizabeth gave Satan a wink, and entwined her fingers with his. "We'll take the wish."

The Host grinned from ear to ear. "With nothing but guts, and a prayer they're going to take on hell." And it just might work. Afterall these girls beat Skylar, and The Network. "I guess all that's left to do, is pick a winner."

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One chapter left to go. Thanks so much for reading and all your support.

All that’s left now, is the voting, and we’re going to do this one old school. Put your waifu’s name in the comments, show her your support, and let’s see which of our sins gets their wish.