RE: DEATHGAME 9000 [S!3] Round Two: Interplanetary Circus
03-16-2015, 02:31 AM
"You know, this kind of reminds me of home..."
After some deliberation, Vigil and Lynette had decided to investigate Fervour Mour High. While they didn't have a lot of information on Ella, given her wounds in the previous bout, it was unlikely that she would attack again so soon. Vigil's experience with powerful magical enemies suggested that she was probably licking her wounds and biding her time, she would appear when it was time to strike, and not a moment before.
"There can't be that many places she can hide," Vigil had said, before Lynette reminded him of the various nooks and crannies that her hometown hid. That was the thing about these sorts of small towns, there's always somewhere to hide. However, that didn't mean that they were just giving up on finding her.
"From her actions in the last round, I could guess that she would first try to act through an agent. Find someone desperate and manipulate them to do her bidding," Vigil further mused as he and Lynette saw people start to come out to the streets of the town. Fervour Mour High didn't have a dress code, or a real amount of security, so walking around and investigating the grounds didn't even require any of Vigil's powers.
Unfortunately, as of late, Fervour Mour High wasn't the sort of school where normal was easy to define. The mid-to-late teen years aren't fun ones, even without the added reflection upon ones mortality that a high-profile murder brings. Lynette and Vigil quickly picked up on Patsy Oscuro's death, seeing her name spread across banners and posters, many oddly obscured. All that the pair could really tell was that the school had taken a turn for the dramatic, with the various students each individually deciding to strike out and make a name for themselves, each in their own unique and strange way, and only a surprisingly few of which happened to overlap.
However, even among all of the rapidly changing trends and fads, the various individual struggles for the spotlight, and the increasingly worrying cries for attention, every so often something still managed to overshadow everything else, spreading across the school and taking center stage. The whispers on the vines that Lynette and Vigil heard while walking around the halls told them of a new student, one who just had the most charming personality. Already there had been fights over who was going to ask her out, people had crafted magnificent tributes, but... no one could remember when she arrived, or how long she'd been around.
"Don't you think this is a bit too overt? You said she'd be hiding and biding, not making a scene like this." The pair were getting close to the supposed source of things, now dubbed the Helen of Fervour Mour, and were discussing what to do.
"Maybe, but either way we need to make sure, she shouldn't notice who you are while you aren't transformed and we can see what she's planning."
"I suppose... just... keep yourself more hidden than usual."
Vigil laughed a bit, "So just like old times then?"
Lynette smiled. They had made it to the door, it was the one with a crowd of boys scuttling around, some avoiding the why they got here, some already getting into confrontations before even properly seeing the Fair Lady. Being somewhat of an expert in moving along through school crowds, Lynette just passed on through the chaos and entered the classroom.
Right after entering, Lynette suddenly felt her eyes wander, almost flowing to the center, where a few desks had been arranged in their own little square. Sitting on top of them, the wood and metal almost forming a throne, was a girl with golden hair, flowing like silk. Her skin was peachy and perfect, looking soft to the touch. Her lips had burning red lipstick and moved with elegance, even as they rejected some nobody boys. The air around her radiated with a brilliant light, and before she really thought about it, Lynette's heart started to beat.
Before it really started pumping, Lynette shook her head and took a harder look at the siren in the classroom. Slowly the various perfections gave way in favor of... oddities. For one thing, she had wings, small ones on her back, she also had a crown floating above her head, and on that note, she wasn't actually sitting on the desks, but floating above them.
"Wait... Eris?"
Lynette wasn't really thinking when she let out the battlers name, which prompted the girl to turn and look directly at her, followed by everyone who was enamored with her. Lynette gulped as the entire classroom laid eyes on her, her heart beating again our of nervousness.
After a moment of awkward silence, the girl who seemed to be Eris only older, floated off of the desk throne, and in a single moment, dashed through the crowd, grabbed Lynette, and flew out of the classroom.
"You are Eris, what are you doing? What happened?" Lynette was helpless as the two dashed through the halls of the school.
"I was having fuuuuun! There were... so many empty hearts and I figured, well, why not fill them for a bit, it'll be a riot! And while one hasn't broken out yet..."
"Look Eris, I don't know where you've been, but a lot has happened. Even if this place is just a book, you cant just go and do whatever you want!"
"What do you mean this place is a book, it doesn't feel like one."
"Book, comic, does it really make a difference."
"Well, I think it would? Maybe? But the point is that this isn't like when we were in the Gamexus, it doesn't feel like the circus either, but it's closer to that than here. Then again, nothing's really felt like home... so..."
"Okay, okay, okay. The point though, is that we've got bigger fish to fry."
"Like who? Ah! Here we go!" Eris dragged Lynette into an empty classroom and closed the door behind her. "Perfect! Some privacy, always easy for me. Now what's this about fishing fries?"
Lynette sighed and relayed the tale of Ella to Eris, explaining her basic abilities and atrocities, along with the rest of the Bickering Buddies.
Eris was displeased. "She sounds like she's encroaching in on MY TURF!!! Who does this Ella think she is, with her fancy light chaos show magic, I'll show her who's the real smithy of nonsense AND that I can laugh in a cooler color."
"Eris."
"Whaaaaaaaaat? You don't think I can take her? Listen, I know that I'm rusty, but not only am I getting the hang of it, this schools like... the perfect place for me to get back up to par! Chaos is as thick as the air is breathable."
"Eris."
Eris looked at Lynette's stern face and replied with a bored frown. "Okay, whatever, what do you want?"
"Well, first of all, I need to know what's true and what isn't, people have been saying that you've been around for days, but I just got here a few hours ago! And there's this... Patsy Oscuro, and all of the weird people going around... just what did you do this school!"
"I didn't do anything! Well... like, not to the whole school... well like, not to whole school in the way that you think! All I did when i got here the other day was give myself this body, get some boys to like me, and swim in the chaos for a bit! Honest!!! I've heard a few things here and there about Patsy, but no one really wants to talk about her so I dunno what her deal is other than she's dead and people are like, messed up about it for some reason."
Lynette tapped her foot and scratched her chin, would Eris lie to her about what she did and didn't do? Maybe, but in this case, it wasn't like she could check. Surely Eris couldn't change the whole town, and it all did fit what she knew about the place, but still she had doubts... "So you don't have anything to do with Patsy? Then why are all of her pictures messed up?"
"Do you truly seek the truth? Maybe you can help me then."
A soft but firm voice rang out, causing Lynette's pour heart to flutter again. She turned to find the source, and out from just to the side of the entrance of the room was a tall girl, a bit younger than Lynette, with slightly ruddy golden-brown skin, dark brown eyes with a tired look, and thick waist length black hair. While the uniform she was wearing was a bit baggy, they still betrayed her slim, solid, and flat build. As she walked into the light, Lynette and Eris couldn't help but notice the odd, ringed scar on the bottom left side of her face.
"My name is Bell Nuon. I'm the head of the Fervour Mour High Mystery Club. And while I came here to investigate one of you, it seems I'm in for quite the Mystery."
Lynette was sweating and breathing and gulping and doing all sorts of things. As she was trying to calm herself down, think about how to respond, Eris took matters into her own hands.
"I'm not some problem for you to solve! And neither is my friend! Now, listen up here, I-MHPHHH!"
Lynette, grabbed Eris by the mouth and spun her around, staring the chaosling in the eyes who then rebelled by licking at Lynette's hand. However, as an older and younger sibling, such tactics were ineffective, and Lynette continued her 'shut up' stare.
With a whisper, Lynette pleaded, "Eris, this might be our best shot at figuring out whats going on here. You need to calm down, and follow my lead."
Eris squinted and nodded, prompting Lynette to release Eris' mouth from her grip. The sprite then smiled with an evil glee, and whispered back, "So, this doesn't have anything to do with ~~~yyyyyyyyyyyyoooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuur cruuuuuuuush~~~???"
Lynette attempted to drop Eris to the floor, failing due to the fact that the chaosling was floating. She took a deep breath, wiped the saliva off of her hand, and then turned to Bell. "My name is Lynette Spettro. I guess I should start things off by saying that, whatever you overheard me say, I want to help with whatever is going wrong here." She extended the clean, never assaulted by chaos spit hand, out and continued, "You don't have to trust me obviously, but if you're willing to listen I've got... quite the story to tell about how I got here."
Bell gave a cute half-giggle before taking Lynette's hand and shaking, "Alright then, let's hear it."
Eris floated horizontally, rolling her eyes at this co-operative endeavor that was forming ninety degrees above her. First Lynette ruined her fun with the school, and now she was ignoring her for this new person! Not cool! But... on the other hand, if Lynette was busy with her crush... then that meant...
Eris eyed the distance from the side of the room she was in and got... Serious. Slowly, she swam towards the door, checking every once in a while to make sure that her drifting hadn't gone noticed by the two chattering, blah blah ghosts, blah blah magic, who cared? She waded and waded, each movement bringing her closer to her goal. Finally, she reached the knob and twisted it, as silently as Bell had when she entered the room.
"He he he he," she quietly schemed, her face contorting into the smile of victory, when she heard a deep voice under her say, "There you are, I've been looking all over for you two."
Bell and Lynette paused their conversation to see Vigil, standing in front of the doorway, under the floating pseudo-teenage plank that was Eris.
"Huh, a talking rabbit."
"Uhhhh..." Vigil froze for a moment, as it had been quite some time since he's blown his cover, since, it had been a while since he had to take any.
"Oh, that's Vigil! He's why I can do magical stuff."
"Ah! Hello there Vigil! I'm Bell Nuon."
The confused rabbit scuttled along forward to Bell and Lynette, along with the exposed and saddened Eris, who had now gone from stiff as a board, to wigglin like a worm.
"So uh... what's going on exactly?" Asked the confused rabbit.
"I was just telling Bell here about our adventure so far. She's the head of the school's Mystery Club, she's going to help us, she's taken everything really well so far and stuff."
"A mystery club? Well, the Housewife did mention a few mystery solving factions..."
"Yeah, yeah, I was just getting to her!"
As Lynette got into the story of the second round, the bell rung, causing Vigil to wonder, "Uh, not to interrupt or anything, but doesn't Bell need to get to class or something?"
"In light of our recent achievements being recognized by Agent Dancer, senior members of the Mystery Club can skip class if it's for the betterment of the town. I would say that, listening and helping otherworldly visitors would fit that description."
"I see... carry on then I suppose..."
Vigil, not as interested in revisiting recent events, leaped up to Eris who was now lying near the window, and laid down on her. "You don't mind, do you?"
"I guess not, just until they finish over there though, don't get too comfy!"
Vigil let out a giggle, and then curled up against the sun, relaxing while he had the chance and trying to avoid letting his mind wander towards his mistakes. Already there had been more questions than answers, and while Eris seemed to have been behind the first of them, and Bell could hep with others, he knew that there would only be more on the way.
"It's going to be a long day..."
After some deliberation, Vigil and Lynette had decided to investigate Fervour Mour High. While they didn't have a lot of information on Ella, given her wounds in the previous bout, it was unlikely that she would attack again so soon. Vigil's experience with powerful magical enemies suggested that she was probably licking her wounds and biding her time, she would appear when it was time to strike, and not a moment before.
"There can't be that many places she can hide," Vigil had said, before Lynette reminded him of the various nooks and crannies that her hometown hid. That was the thing about these sorts of small towns, there's always somewhere to hide. However, that didn't mean that they were just giving up on finding her.
"From her actions in the last round, I could guess that she would first try to act through an agent. Find someone desperate and manipulate them to do her bidding," Vigil further mused as he and Lynette saw people start to come out to the streets of the town. Fervour Mour High didn't have a dress code, or a real amount of security, so walking around and investigating the grounds didn't even require any of Vigil's powers.
Unfortunately, as of late, Fervour Mour High wasn't the sort of school where normal was easy to define. The mid-to-late teen years aren't fun ones, even without the added reflection upon ones mortality that a high-profile murder brings. Lynette and Vigil quickly picked up on Patsy Oscuro's death, seeing her name spread across banners and posters, many oddly obscured. All that the pair could really tell was that the school had taken a turn for the dramatic, with the various students each individually deciding to strike out and make a name for themselves, each in their own unique and strange way, and only a surprisingly few of which happened to overlap.
However, even among all of the rapidly changing trends and fads, the various individual struggles for the spotlight, and the increasingly worrying cries for attention, every so often something still managed to overshadow everything else, spreading across the school and taking center stage. The whispers on the vines that Lynette and Vigil heard while walking around the halls told them of a new student, one who just had the most charming personality. Already there had been fights over who was going to ask her out, people had crafted magnificent tributes, but... no one could remember when she arrived, or how long she'd been around.
"Don't you think this is a bit too overt? You said she'd be hiding and biding, not making a scene like this." The pair were getting close to the supposed source of things, now dubbed the Helen of Fervour Mour, and were discussing what to do.
"Maybe, but either way we need to make sure, she shouldn't notice who you are while you aren't transformed and we can see what she's planning."
"I suppose... just... keep yourself more hidden than usual."
Vigil laughed a bit, "So just like old times then?"
Lynette smiled. They had made it to the door, it was the one with a crowd of boys scuttling around, some avoiding the why they got here, some already getting into confrontations before even properly seeing the Fair Lady. Being somewhat of an expert in moving along through school crowds, Lynette just passed on through the chaos and entered the classroom.
Right after entering, Lynette suddenly felt her eyes wander, almost flowing to the center, where a few desks had been arranged in their own little square. Sitting on top of them, the wood and metal almost forming a throne, was a girl with golden hair, flowing like silk. Her skin was peachy and perfect, looking soft to the touch. Her lips had burning red lipstick and moved with elegance, even as they rejected some nobody boys. The air around her radiated with a brilliant light, and before she really thought about it, Lynette's heart started to beat.
Before it really started pumping, Lynette shook her head and took a harder look at the siren in the classroom. Slowly the various perfections gave way in favor of... oddities. For one thing, she had wings, small ones on her back, she also had a crown floating above her head, and on that note, she wasn't actually sitting on the desks, but floating above them.
"Wait... Eris?"
Lynette wasn't really thinking when she let out the battlers name, which prompted the girl to turn and look directly at her, followed by everyone who was enamored with her. Lynette gulped as the entire classroom laid eyes on her, her heart beating again our of nervousness.
After a moment of awkward silence, the girl who seemed to be Eris only older, floated off of the desk throne, and in a single moment, dashed through the crowd, grabbed Lynette, and flew out of the classroom.
"You are Eris, what are you doing? What happened?" Lynette was helpless as the two dashed through the halls of the school.
"I was having fuuuuun! There were... so many empty hearts and I figured, well, why not fill them for a bit, it'll be a riot! And while one hasn't broken out yet..."
"Look Eris, I don't know where you've been, but a lot has happened. Even if this place is just a book, you cant just go and do whatever you want!"
"What do you mean this place is a book, it doesn't feel like one."
"Book, comic, does it really make a difference."
"Well, I think it would? Maybe? But the point is that this isn't like when we were in the Gamexus, it doesn't feel like the circus either, but it's closer to that than here. Then again, nothing's really felt like home... so..."
"Okay, okay, okay. The point though, is that we've got bigger fish to fry."
"Like who? Ah! Here we go!" Eris dragged Lynette into an empty classroom and closed the door behind her. "Perfect! Some privacy, always easy for me. Now what's this about fishing fries?"
Lynette sighed and relayed the tale of Ella to Eris, explaining her basic abilities and atrocities, along with the rest of the Bickering Buddies.
Eris was displeased. "She sounds like she's encroaching in on MY TURF!!! Who does this Ella think she is, with her fancy light chaos show magic, I'll show her who's the real smithy of nonsense AND that I can laugh in a cooler color."
"Eris."
"Whaaaaaaaaat? You don't think I can take her? Listen, I know that I'm rusty, but not only am I getting the hang of it, this schools like... the perfect place for me to get back up to par! Chaos is as thick as the air is breathable."
"Eris."
Eris looked at Lynette's stern face and replied with a bored frown. "Okay, whatever, what do you want?"
"Well, first of all, I need to know what's true and what isn't, people have been saying that you've been around for days, but I just got here a few hours ago! And there's this... Patsy Oscuro, and all of the weird people going around... just what did you do this school!"
"I didn't do anything! Well... like, not to the whole school... well like, not to whole school in the way that you think! All I did when i got here the other day was give myself this body, get some boys to like me, and swim in the chaos for a bit! Honest!!! I've heard a few things here and there about Patsy, but no one really wants to talk about her so I dunno what her deal is other than she's dead and people are like, messed up about it for some reason."
Lynette tapped her foot and scratched her chin, would Eris lie to her about what she did and didn't do? Maybe, but in this case, it wasn't like she could check. Surely Eris couldn't change the whole town, and it all did fit what she knew about the place, but still she had doubts... "So you don't have anything to do with Patsy? Then why are all of her pictures messed up?"
"Do you truly seek the truth? Maybe you can help me then."
A soft but firm voice rang out, causing Lynette's pour heart to flutter again. She turned to find the source, and out from just to the side of the entrance of the room was a tall girl, a bit younger than Lynette, with slightly ruddy golden-brown skin, dark brown eyes with a tired look, and thick waist length black hair. While the uniform she was wearing was a bit baggy, they still betrayed her slim, solid, and flat build. As she walked into the light, Lynette and Eris couldn't help but notice the odd, ringed scar on the bottom left side of her face.
"My name is Bell Nuon. I'm the head of the Fervour Mour High Mystery Club. And while I came here to investigate one of you, it seems I'm in for quite the Mystery."
Lynette was sweating and breathing and gulping and doing all sorts of things. As she was trying to calm herself down, think about how to respond, Eris took matters into her own hands.
"I'm not some problem for you to solve! And neither is my friend! Now, listen up here, I-MHPHHH!"
Lynette, grabbed Eris by the mouth and spun her around, staring the chaosling in the eyes who then rebelled by licking at Lynette's hand. However, as an older and younger sibling, such tactics were ineffective, and Lynette continued her 'shut up' stare.
With a whisper, Lynette pleaded, "Eris, this might be our best shot at figuring out whats going on here. You need to calm down, and follow my lead."
Eris squinted and nodded, prompting Lynette to release Eris' mouth from her grip. The sprite then smiled with an evil glee, and whispered back, "So, this doesn't have anything to do with ~~~yyyyyyyyyyyyoooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuur cruuuuuuuush~~~???"
Lynette attempted to drop Eris to the floor, failing due to the fact that the chaosling was floating. She took a deep breath, wiped the saliva off of her hand, and then turned to Bell. "My name is Lynette Spettro. I guess I should start things off by saying that, whatever you overheard me say, I want to help with whatever is going wrong here." She extended the clean, never assaulted by chaos spit hand, out and continued, "You don't have to trust me obviously, but if you're willing to listen I've got... quite the story to tell about how I got here."
Bell gave a cute half-giggle before taking Lynette's hand and shaking, "Alright then, let's hear it."
Eris floated horizontally, rolling her eyes at this co-operative endeavor that was forming ninety degrees above her. First Lynette ruined her fun with the school, and now she was ignoring her for this new person! Not cool! But... on the other hand, if Lynette was busy with her crush... then that meant...
Eris eyed the distance from the side of the room she was in and got... Serious. Slowly, she swam towards the door, checking every once in a while to make sure that her drifting hadn't gone noticed by the two chattering, blah blah ghosts, blah blah magic, who cared? She waded and waded, each movement bringing her closer to her goal. Finally, she reached the knob and twisted it, as silently as Bell had when she entered the room.
"He he he he," she quietly schemed, her face contorting into the smile of victory, when she heard a deep voice under her say, "There you are, I've been looking all over for you two."
Bell and Lynette paused their conversation to see Vigil, standing in front of the doorway, under the floating pseudo-teenage plank that was Eris.
"Huh, a talking rabbit."
"Uhhhh..." Vigil froze for a moment, as it had been quite some time since he's blown his cover, since, it had been a while since he had to take any.
"Oh, that's Vigil! He's why I can do magical stuff."
"Ah! Hello there Vigil! I'm Bell Nuon."
The confused rabbit scuttled along forward to Bell and Lynette, along with the exposed and saddened Eris, who had now gone from stiff as a board, to wigglin like a worm.
"So uh... what's going on exactly?" Asked the confused rabbit.
"I was just telling Bell here about our adventure so far. She's the head of the school's Mystery Club, she's going to help us, she's taken everything really well so far and stuff."
"A mystery club? Well, the Housewife did mention a few mystery solving factions..."
"Yeah, yeah, I was just getting to her!"
As Lynette got into the story of the second round, the bell rung, causing Vigil to wonder, "Uh, not to interrupt or anything, but doesn't Bell need to get to class or something?"
"In light of our recent achievements being recognized by Agent Dancer, senior members of the Mystery Club can skip class if it's for the betterment of the town. I would say that, listening and helping otherworldly visitors would fit that description."
"I see... carry on then I suppose..."
Vigil, not as interested in revisiting recent events, leaped up to Eris who was now lying near the window, and laid down on her. "You don't mind, do you?"
"I guess not, just until they finish over there though, don't get too comfy!"
Vigil let out a giggle, and then curled up against the sun, relaxing while he had the chance and trying to avoid letting his mind wander towards his mistakes. Already there had been more questions than answers, and while Eris seemed to have been behind the first of them, and Bell could hep with others, he knew that there would only be more on the way.
"It's going to be a long day..."