October 28, 2022

Knight wakes up. “why does my mouth taste like I drank a bag of sugar?”

"BunBun," Cole sighs.

“Ah. Makes sense.”

"She called you a twink by the way"

“This is like the 13th time she has.” Knight says, “She also insulted my choices in middle school so I wouldn’t take what she says seriously.”

"...what did you do in middle school"

“Mix a tween with youtube, tumblr, deviantart, and a bit of a horror series fanatic then see what you get.”

Cole sighs in relief

“….What did you think I did?”

"I thought you were a fucking nerd or something," Cole chuckles

“I kinda was if you don’t include me doing two sports, Soccer and Track.”

Sparrow is looking down in thought.

"Of course you played fucking soccer"

Sparrow looks like shes realized something as she looks over at Cole, "Cole."

“Well Dad is from somewhere in Europe- wait since when the fuck do I call him…” Knight stops before thinking.

Cole looks over at Sparrow, "What is it, Sparrow?"

"Do you know how to summon Nyx?"

"Yeah? why?"

"I need to speak to her. Immediately." Sparrow gets up

"Why? Why would you need to speak with her?"

"I'm dromen right?"

"Yeah" Cole nods

"And Nyx is a divulgar"

Cole nods

"Just summon her." Sparrow says quickly as she goes to step outside. Cole sighs and follows Sparrow.

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Sparrow quickly steps out to the yard

"Sparrow? What's... up?" Luna asks from the porch steps.

Cole walks out to the grass, "Are you sure you want me to do this, Sparrow?"

"Do it now" Sparrow commands.

Luna watches the two of them silently.

Cole sighs and claps twice. "Nyx, I need you!"

Nyx steps out the trees with a sigh "What now?" Sparrow walks up to Nyx without hesitation and puts a hand to her throat and pushes her against a tree. Sparrow has a serious look on her face. Nyx sounds only mildly amused "Look who decided to grow a pair"

Cole sighs and watches as her jacket quietly rips. She hides her hands behind her back as a smoke orb forms in each one.

"Nyx. Look me in the eye." Sparrow grumbles

"You'll just chicken out if you look and have nightmares for a week or two, you know that right?" Nyx laughs some. What look like snakes start wrapping Sparrow’s arm holding Nyx's neck.

Cole watches carefully, ready to attack.

Nyx pulls a sword out from the dark.

Sparrow scoffs "You underestimate me."

"Get em Sparrow!" She cheers before returning to silence.

A couple metal strips form and float next to Cole.

Nyx goes to slash at Sparrow's side before their swing is caught on some wires. 3 screens flicker on from behind the tree. The stone horse skull with moon designs sling out from the woods by its hair before latching onto sparrows face as she cracks her neck. The eyes flicker on with 3 lights.

Cole and Luna continue to watch in silence.

The snakes around Sparrow’s arm go to bite her, but the hair from the horse skull stretch along her skin and wrap the arm to protect it. Sparrow uses her other arm reach for Nyx's eye. The slasher wraps more wires around Nyx's arm. Nyx snarls, "You think I'm just gonna let this happen???" Nyx opens her eye and stares at Sparrow as Sparrow is startled and lets go as she backs up. Nyx lets go of Sparrow and pulls at the arm wrapped with wires.

Cole waits as black smoke tendrils form from the two orbs and stay hidden behind her back.

Luna blinks and her ichor claymore appears equipped to her. She continues to watch in silence though.

Nyx pulls her arm free as the wires snap and spark while melting. Nyx's arm ignites in white flames as it spreads to the sword revealing another white opal sword with slightly different designs. She lunges at Sparrow and cuts her arm. Sparrow stumbles back as she shakes slightly.

"What's wrong? Someone scared?" Nyx laughs some

Cole takes a deep breath and sighs as her eyes flicker to purple as a combination of the black smoke tendrils and metal strips fly at Nyx's limbs and try to pin her to the tree. "Don't touch my daughter, asshole!"

Snakes start trying to wrap the strips as Nyx snarls. Sparrow looks down at her own hands shaking. Nyx scoffs, "She has no family."

Spider walks out, and Cole argues, "she has me, and that's quite enough family." His eyes flicker to white and glow black, the metal strips are wrapped by the snakes as the metal strips form spikes.

"Incorrect Nyx. We're her family!" Luna shouts.

"Are you going to murder them in cold blood like you did the other one? Like you did to yourself?" Nyx sounds like she's smiling. Sparrow is still not looking up at Nyx

"Seriously?" Spider scoffs though her ears are pricked up in annoyance.

"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth,” Cole mutters as she stares Nyx down and the metal strips heat up to 600F.

Nyx ignites in white flames as the tree catches on fire aswell. She seems unphased as more snakes begin wrapping the metal strips, now longer and larger. Sparrow clenches her fists as she's slowly trying to look up again. The spikes pierce the snakes as she brings the smoke orbs forward. They levitate out of her hands and move next to her head as she mutters, "such an arrogant bitch."

"Unfortunately." Luna sighs.

She takes a deep breath glancing away from the flames as a wave of green distortion flies at Nyx, it would feel like she's just been slammed into by a truck if it hits her.

Luna continues to watch silently.

Sparrow is shaking more as her breathing has picked up enough they can hear it under the skull. She looks up at Nyx and looks her in the eye.

"What now you look in me in the eye? You're pathetic." Nyx continues as she glares back. The fur on Sparrow raises.

"I mean Sparrow is less pathetic then you, considering you’re strapped to a tree that's on fire right now soooo," Cole shrugs.

A snake lunges off of her at Cole’s neck to bite down.

A lighting bolt cracks and hits the snake, cole looks unamused

"And you say she's pathetic, you can't even fight your own battles." Spider adds.

"The only pathetic person here is YOU Nyx!" Luna unsheathes her claymore just in case.

Nyx is getting a tickle in her throat as she stifles a cough, "-y-you all don't know how many nights she’s spent moping around doing nothing, it’s sad."

"How ironic Nyx. How many times have you moped around here doing nothing? It's sad." She glares at Nyx but nowhere close to the eyes. Fuck that.

Cole just glares at Nyx and crosses her arms.

Nyx goes to speak again but its interrupted by coughing

"Something wrong?" Cole chuckles with a wide smile

Spider chuckles.

"Look Nyxxie, I don't want to hate you, I refuse to. But you cannot tell me you don't see the irony in caling my friend here WEAK!" Luna says.

Nyx eventually stops coughing as she catches her breath. Sparrow quickly takes the horse skull off and looks frightened as she throws it to the ground and backs away.

"Cause that can only be good," Spider mutters sarcastically to herself before taking a couple steps towards Sparrow. She's still avoiding looking at the flames though.

"Be careful Spider!" Luna shouts.

Cole and Luna are still glaring at Nyx.

"So just how bad is it?" Spider asks Sparrow.

Above Nyx a halo starts to fade into view. The halo depicts the cycles of the moon. Slowly, the dark cloak of shadows dissipate from Nyx. Her form can be seen clearly. She wears intricate clothing like a long hooded dress. The bronze wings form only the primary feathers for a larger set of white wings that comes from over her shoulders like a cape. Her face is mostly obscured by a tangling mess of snakes. Along the sides of all of the snakes in the area are mouths with an eye in each and lipstick.

Cole blinks and stares in slight confusion

Luna cannot believe what she's seeing right now. She's staring in total confusion.

Nyx sighs as she looks up at her own halo. "Great."

Sparrow is still shaking

She takes a bunch of deep breaths to regain focus then says, "The Goddess of the Night. This is your true form?"

Spider takes Sparrow’s hand in an attempt to comfort her murmuring. "Mate it's ok" She then glances quickly up at Nyx. "Well that's underwhelming."

"How is that underwhelming?" Cole looks over at Spider.

"You cannot be serious Spider. Do you not see the halo with the bloody moon phases on it???" Luna adds.

"I just imagined more than a bunch of snakes in a dress" She shrugs

"I'm not a snake." Nyx grumbles.

"You sure? Cause it looks that way to me." Spider teases.

"Ohhhh right! I know what you are!" Cole snickers.

Luna turns to Cole. "I know she's a divulgar, but what else?"

"Oh really? What is it you think hm??" Nyx challenges Cole.

"You’re Medusa if she was a whore and all of Greek mythology ran a train on her!" Cole bursts out cackling and holds her sides.

Nyx rolls her eye, "You know these were only here for protection right?"

Cole cackles harder as she falls on her knees and pounds the ground with her fist.

Snakes move away from her face and hide in the shadows of her clothing. She looks to be a rabbit nonferal with a thick furred neck mixed with feathers and spots. Both eyes can now be seen. "Are you going to release me or what?"

"Whoa. Nyx, I never knew you were so pretty." Luna says

"Yeah now that's certainly not what I expected" Spider chuckles lightly

Cole's laughing slows as she slowly stands up and clears her throat, "gimme one second, my fuckin sides hurt." She snickers.

Nyx sighs and rolls her eyes.

"Oh I'm sorry my majesty" Cole cackles as she winces, "ahhh fuck god damn it, it's not that funny.” The smoke orbs levitate back down to her open palms as the orbs and the tendrils dissipate into black smoke; the metal strips cool and retract back into Cole's jacket as the rip heals

"Yeah I’m out." She sighs as she steps around the tree into the shade. As she disappears her whole body is covered in the black snakes as their mouths close and hide their eyes before vanishing. Sparrow is still shaking.

Luna sighs.

"Thank Christ." Spider says then steps in front of Sparrow facing her. "Mate?"

Sparrow backs up again "-uhh hm?"

"Sparrow, are you okay?" Luna asks with worry

"Hey, it's me. There's no need to back up." Spider sighs sounding concerned.

Sparrow shakes her head and looks to be holding back tears "I-I uh I need a minute, don't get near me" She back up some more

"Ok, when you're ready come find me yeah?" Her ears flatten against her skull.

"...nno" Sparrow says a bit quieter

Luna nods. "We understand Sparrow. Take as long as you need." She returns inside and blinks her ichor claymore back to the closet. Spider and Cole follow shortly after.