A clearing in the woods is decorated with various Halloween decorations, including a 12-foot-tall skeleton and various others. It's lit up by those porch lights people have and has a very homey, Halloween vibe. On one side of the clearing, there are tables and tables of various kinds of food and a few boar gluttony demons snacking. On another end of the clearing, there is a makeshift dance area with Halloween music playing and some disco-type lights. The rest of the clearing is just open for talking or whatever the group would want to do! Looks like a fun time!
Harmonia is walking around, setting up final preparations, and waiting for people to arrive.
The ground quakes.
Harmonia watches the ground quake, mentioning it to a gluttony demon.
A dirt bike is rapidly approaching.
Cerberus arrives!
The main head is wearing clown makeup, the left head has devil horns and fake fangs. The right head is wearing an Among Us costume.
They all wear a giant fucking cape/cloak. He is also wearing a maid-themed corset. Tits are especially obvious this evening.
Cole arrives on her dirt bike, wearing an orange and black suit and tie and nothing else this bitch really isn't wearing a costume
Luna calmly walks in wearing her newest MG form cosplay.
It's like a decently elaborate gothic lolita dress themed around orange and black, leggings, and a giant fuckin witch hat, kinda like Marisa's. On the broom that seems to float a little bit off the ground, she's got a couple of jack-o-lanterns just hanging from a rope.
Harmonia waves!! "Hi, welcome,"
"Hiiiii!" Luna just sorta sits on the broomstick handle as it floats towards Harmonia.
"You look super cute!!" Harmonia exclaims.
"Haha thank you!" Luna blushes.
Harmonia is dressed like Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas and is in human form.
"Cute costume Harmonia, I love that movie," Luna says.
Cole snickers and points to Harmonia as her mouth moves like she's saying something but there's a censored beep.
"Thank you," Harmonia smiles. "Claire is Jack,"
"Cute, anyway, food." Luna floats on her broomstick and into the food area. Shoutouts to rideable telekinesis
Spider appears in the clearing, she's wearing her usual outfit with the goth vamp shirt plus dark green fingerless fishnet gloves and oddly enough a black spiked choker, she also has dark eye makeup and black lips.
Harmonia waves. "Hey, Spi! Is Sparrow coming?"
Spider shrugs, her ears flattening against her skull.
"Oh. Anyways you look hot as hell, dude!" Harmonia says with a smile.
"..ta, though I might as well dress up a bit, may take this off soon though.” Spider shrugs, bringing a finger up to touch the choker. "Anyways, you look good as well.”
Harmonia smiles. "Thank you,"
"So.." Spider chuckles glancing around the clearing. “This place looks good.”
Harmonia smiles. "You think so? I tried my best,"
"Yeah, from what I've saw last year, you've nailed it.”
Harmonia grins. "Thank you!!"
“So, when’s Claire getting here?" Spider asks.
"In a little bit, just waiting for a couple more people to arrive!" Harmonia replies.
Luna enters the clearing and finds a place to sit and take notes, because of course she's gotta be a goddamn nerd archivist even at a party. Shoutouts to introversion.
“Hm well...I'm sure she'll love it.” Spider’s ears prick back up as she glances around the clearing again
Luna vibes on her broomstick feeling like an actual witch instead of some weird black mage. Cole vibes while leaning on her dirt bike as she takes some white gloves out from the blazer and puts them on.
After a moment, Luna falls asleep at the party.
Harmonia grins and looks at Cole. "Hey, hey wanna draw on Luna's face?”
Cole nods and smirks as she snaps a sharpie into her hand and walks over to Luna. She whispers over to Harmonia, “What should I draw?"
Spider sighs, her ears going back again as she goes to sit down on one of the chairs.
"Penis penis penis-” Harmonia chants quietly.
Luna wakes up upon hearing penis. "The fuck?"
Cole drops the sharpie and sprints back to her dirt bike.
Luna grins. "I know better than to defocus completely at a party." She also pockets the sharpie for potential shenanigans later on...
“Bitchass.” Cole mutters as she crosses her arms.
"I swear, you lot are children.” Spider chuckles lightly but it sounds off.
Harmonia falls to her knees. "NOOOO OUR MASTER PRANK... FOILED..." She exclaims.
Spider winces.
Cole chuckles. “Sensitive hearing moment.”
Violet flies in and lands as she has her wings back and is wearing some steampunk outfit.
Cole is struggling to avoid death glaring at Violet and it is very obvious.
Harmonia looks over. "Oh uh... hi…”
"Erm.... hi Violet.." Luna looks nervous as all hell.
Cole adjusts her white gloves as her sneakers swap out for combat boots, she's wearing an orange and black suit and leaning on her dirt bike.
Harmonia’s holding back from asking who invited Violet because she doesn't want to be rude.
Luna flies over to Violet. "Long time no see Violet. Um, just be careful okay?"
“Well, that's just brilliant.” Spider mutters, glancing over at Violet.
“Of course. I’m just here to have a good time.” Violet says to Luna.
Luna drops her voice to a whisper, "I mean like stay away from certain people. Like Cole. And if you feel threatened, run."
"Who uh, told you about this?" Harmonia asks casually.
Violet whispers back, “I know I know. Not here to start fights.”
Luna turns around, "I erm, may have invited her."
And back to a whisper so that only Harmonia and potentially Spider can hear, "Didn't think she would actually come though."
Harmonia facepalms.
"Luna, you know what she's like.” Spider murmurs.
“Well, glad to see you guys are doing well.” Violet stays a respectful ten feet away from everyone unless they make an effort to come to her.
"I'm aware Spider. But at the same time, I felt bad that she didn't have anything to do for Halloween." Luna says.
"Yeah well, it wasn't your party to invite her to." Harmonia huffs. "Whatever, I'm getting a drink." She heads to the snack area.
“So how are you doing Luna?” Violet asks.
"Um. I'm okay." Luna says, looking really uncomfortable.
“Glad to hear.” Violet notices her uncomfortableness. “Well, I’m gonna go find a snack or a drink or um… something.” She heads to the food area.
Luna just flies around the clearing to release her nerves.
Hmm... the amount of gluttony demons has shortened.. just a little. No one would notice.
Harmonia pours herself a bottle of wine. An entire bottle.
Violet sits down at a table without getting any food as she just looks around, eventually getting bored and pulls out her journal and phone and starts writing and grabs herself a glass of wine in the meantime.
Spider walks over to Harmonia before saying jokingly and gesturing at the glass/bottle, her ears are still flattened. "So, where's mine?"
"What flavor of wine do you want?" Harmonia asks.
"Flavor? Isn't it all just fermented grapes?" Spider asks.
"Not Gluttony wine. Mine is pumpkin flavored. For the holiday." Harmonia explains.
Spider shrugs. "Sure, I'll try that then."
Harmonia hands her another bottle of wine. It tastes like raw pumpkin. "Oh, you should meet my friend from Gluttony! His name is Ferdinand-" Harmonia looks around. "Weird... I don't see him…"
Spider takes a sip before making a face. "Christ, I see you've adopted someone else.”
"Not really, they're just a friend I talk to." Harmonia shrugs then spots Cerberus. "I think Cerb ate them.”
Luna enters the food area and just gets a few things here or there to eat. Thank the Many Gods of unlimited snacks for Gluttony Demons.
"I can't say I'm surprised, but how have you been?" Spider asks.
"Okay enough. Just hoping to have one good night, y’know?" Harmonia says.
“God do I know.” Spider sighs.
"I just..." Harmonia sighs. "I hope Claire enjoys it... she's always in the basement, I know she's doing the project or whatever but it's not healthy..."
‘Yeah, I mean hopefully she will, though I'm surprised to hear she spends all her time down there." Spider replies.
"Yeah..." Harmonia drums her fingers on her bottle. "I don't even know what the project is doing or the point of it..."
"I have an idea, it's weird though."
"What is it?"
Luna walks over and listens in.
“Well I say I have an idea. A while ago I was in Ramiels domain and there was a picture of Sorath there except they looked different, had antlers, four arms, and Roxy's necklace oddly enough.” Spider shrugs, reaching down to their belt and pulling the key knife out they then start to fiddle with it.
"The hell? So Sorath is an amalgamate?" Luna asks.
"Hm... she didn't look like that when I met her..." Harmonia replies.
“Exactly, to the both of you.” Spider says.
"Antlers, four arms, and Roxy's necklace..." Luna pauses. "Who was in the R053 project again?"
“Cause like, Claire wanted blood right? And the torso and arms reminded me of Claire's as well.” Spider says. "Now that I'm thinking about it, the head kinda looked Nammu.”
"So it's everyone in The R053 project." Luna says. "Nammu, Claire, Roxy, assuming Violet for antlers."
"Hmm... I see…” Harmonia says.
Violet is listening as she pipes in. “What about this picture of Sorath?”
"I found a picture of her, that's all.” Spider says.
“Did they look like a sunflower or a culmination of people?” Violet asks.
“Why do you wanna know?" Spider asks, growling lightly.
“Just curious, you don’t need to answer.” Violet replies.
Spider sighs. "The latter.”
“Alright. Thank you.” Violet writes that down with her notes in her journal.
"As I said, I know y'all don't like her, reasonable after what happened in May, but she has a right to know about Sorath's form." Luna sighs.
Harmonia just drinks more. "Okay.”
Spider turns to Harmonia. "So I'm surprised Roxy isn't here causing chaos.” She's still fiddling with her knife key thing
"Surprised both Roxy and Claire aren't here honestly." Luna admits.
"They're coming in a bit.” Harmonia replies.
“Right, that'll be fun.” Spider sighs.
"It will be," Harmonia smiles.
Luna shrugs. "I like their brand of chaos. Hell, anything is better than Dolos," She laughs.
"I enjoy it.” Harmonia says.
"I do as well, it's just today.." Spider trails off, shrugging.
"I mean it's Claire's party and Roxy’s her friend??? Of course they're invited?" Harmonia says, confused.
“God that's not what I'm.." Spider shakes her head. "Nevermind.” She heads back to the clearing.
"I wonder what's going on with them. They've been like super super out of it the past two weeks now. I thought it was New Moon related, but that was last week." Luna says.
{- Maybe something with the upcoming Eclipse? -} Krystal offers.
"I guess." Harmonia sighs. "Maybe this was a bad idea..." She says quietly.
Cole walks in from the clearing and walks over to Harmonia and Luna. “Sup, whatcha guys doin?"
Harmonia shrugs. "Nothing much besides questioning my choices," She says, drinking some wine.
“Why? Nothing bad has happened.” Cole looks confused.
"I dunno just Spider’s upset about something and I..." Harmonia stops. "Sorry, I shouldn't get venty-”
"I'm sure Spider’s gonna get over it when the party starts.” Cole sighs. “Look, if you wanna tell me what's wrong, go for it.” She shrugs.
"It's fine I just... I dunno. I'm just hoping everyone has fun.." Harmonia says.
"I’m sure they will, I wouldn't worry about it too much Harmonia.” Cole smiles slightly at her.
"It's been a good time Harmonia. Really!" Luna smiles at them as well.
Harmonia smiles back. "Thank you,"
“Not a problem, let's try to have some fun tonight alright?" Cole smiles more.
Harmonia nods and smiles back.
“Good, I'm assuming we are waiting for more people to arrive?" Cole asks.
Harmonia nods.
“Cool, well I'm gonna go back to being mentally ill in the corner.” Cole chuckles with a wide smile and walks back to the clearing.
"And I'm gonna go back to the clearing. I got my laptop in the bag and I kinda wanna play some video games." Luna goes back, just floating away casually.
Ari shows up, fashionably late as always. He's dressed as a sexy nurse, a very skimpy outfit and all, especially so because it's clear the outfit was not made for a large naga snake whore. He looks around curiously, seeing who was there.
Cole is leaning on her dirt bike in an orange and black suit with white gloves on and orange and black sneakers.
Harmonia, dressed as Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas, walks over to Ari and hugs her. "Hey!!! So good to see you. You look amazing!!"
Ari hugs Harmonia back, pretty much picking her up. "Good to see you too, it's been way too fucking long you whore." It snickers and sets her down, giving a slight pose, "Do I? Decided to embrace the true meaning of Halloween."
Harmonia laughs. "Yeah, you do!! Claire and Roxy are almost here. Me and Claire are Jack and Sally. Have you seen Nightmare Before Christmas?"
Violet pops in and gives a wave.
Roxy appears and looks at the scene. "Oh. Oh my god." She starts to break down into laughter. "There's going to be a mass shooting today in 5 minutes at [the exact coordinates of the venue]"
"I've heard of it, yeah, but never seen it. I'm not one to watch movies on my own." Ari just STARES at Roxy.
Harmonia looks over. "What?? Why???"
Cole glares at Roxy.
“Um, what?” Violet asks.
Luna floats in while straddling a broomstick.
Spider’s just sitting on one of the chairs fiddling with her knife
"Because this looks just like a Deity meeting omg... Claire is gonna fuckin murk you guys..." Roxy chuckles, dressed in a Rena from Higurashi When They Cry cosplay.
"Deity??" Harmonias face pales. "Like the traumatic cult??"
"Yeah lol hang on lemme climb on one of the tables and start preaching shit so I can relive some of it," Roxy chuckles.
Luna is silent.
“Oohhhh yeaaaaa-” Violet pulls up the Deity website.
Ari raises an eyebrow. "The what huh??"
"Deity in Death, some shit with Lucille I think?" Luna explains.
Harmonia facepalms and groans. "Fuck... of course.."
“Yea it's a whole origin story of R053 and stuff… interesting stuff.” Violet explains.
"Should I text her and tell her not to come???" Harmonia asks, panicking a tad.
"Probably a good idea lest we all die." Luna says.
"Nah she'll be fiiiiine," Roxy says, climbing onto a table. "Hopefully."
"I need more wine..." Harmonia mumbles, walking back to the food area.
"I am so tempted to body slam you into the table, Roxy.” Cole snickers.
"Okay Max Mad," Roxy says, adjusting her dress as she makes it onto the table. "Hem hem we are gathered here today to fuckin I don't remember its been a few years-”
Luna facepalms.
"This place could do with some entertainment, so I say do it.” Spider jokes, looking over at Cole.
Cole adjusts her gloves and starts walking over to Roxy.
"Stand down or I’ll sic Autumn on you, liberal!!!" Roxy jumps off the table, pouncing in Cole's direction.
Cole dashes to the side with a groan. “Try not to get grass stains on my suit, whore."
Right before Roxy hits the ground, she teleports 3 feet away, standing.
Cole walks back over to her dirt bike and leans on it again. “Back in my day, we had to face plant the ground.”
"Back in my day you drove a cherry red Miata but you don't hear me whining." Roxy chuckles.
“What?" Cole says.
"Whhat?" Roxy echoes.
"A cherry red Miata???" Luna asks.
"Roxy why the fuck would I drive a cherry red Miata?” Cole asks.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Megan.” Roxy says.
Spider sighs, going back to her phone.
Cole groans, fidgets with her gloves, and says nothing else.
Luna's just floating above the group and playing on her phone.
Roxy pulls out her phone to work on her Zynth farm.
Harmonia comes back with two bottles of wine. One for her and one for Claire.
Violet pulls up a chair as she takes her journal and writes stuff down.
Ari moves over to Harmonia. "Can I have some of that? Not sure I can keep doing this party sober."
Harmonia nods. "Yeah, there's a lot of flavored wines at the wine table. I'm holding these for me and Claire though.”
Ari nods. "Thanks, bestie." She pats Harmonia on the HEAD before moving over to the wine table.
Harmonia purrs.
Ari looks the wines over, before grabbing a slightly mint-flavored bottle of wine. "I'm sure it's not a crime for me to just... nab this."
Violet is just chilling and fiddling with Clox’s pocket watch.
Ari returns with a full bottle of wine with a mint green label. He slides up against a wall, watching Roxy slightly amused while she drinks.
Claire appears in a flash of static, the Moon in the woods next to her for maybe a second before disappearing.
"Sorry I'm late I got lost-" She pauses looking at the setup. "You are all lucky I am medicated." She's wearing a pretty good-looking Jack Skellington cosplay
“Hi Claire!” Violet waves with one hand from her chair as plays with the pocket watch with the other.
"Sorry I didn’t know-" Harmonia says, getting up and walking over to Claire, extending a bottle of her favorite wine.
"Why is Violet here." Claire asks with disdain.
"Luna invited her." Harmonia whispers.
Claire takes the wine and chugs it in one fell swoop. "I'm going to need a lot more of these.”
Ari gives a brief wave. "Hey, birthday girl."
"Lucky for you, Gluttony demons love their wine!" Harmonia chuckles, putting one arm around Claire.
"Birthday??" Claire thinks a moment. "That was eight months ago." She pauses. "Wait, no that's in 2 months… Wait no it's today.” She seems to think. "Hang on."
"Hey, Claire!" Luna says while swooping down from the sky.
Harmonia chuckles and kisses her cheek. "It's today, love."
Spider sighs and just looks down at her lap.
"Hi, Luna why did you invite the thing," Claire points at Violet and notices the watch. "And why does she have that????"
"........because." Luna has no words.
"Amazing reasoning, you're one of my favorites," Claire says.
Luna raises an eyebrow. "Yeah, uhh happy birthday Claire."
Violet sighs. “I got the pocket watch from Tamiel.”
Harmonia sips her wine. "Uh, anyways- you guys wanna go to the dance floor? Get this party partying?"
"..I'm alright ta.” Spider sighs and looks back up.
Luna shrugs, "Sure."
Cole shrugs. “I'm not great at dancing but I can try."
Ari grins. "Hell yeah."
Harmonia smiles and drags Claire to the dance floor.
"I can hit the griddy I'm gonn-" Roxy teleports to the dance area.
Luna follows.
"Oh my fucking god-” Cole chuckles and shakes her head as she follows.
Violet and Cerberus follow as well.
On the dance floor, Roxy hits the cleanest fucking griddy imaginable.
Luna tries to hit a griddy but trips instead. "Ow."
Violet pulls up a chair to the side as she just watches.
Harmonia grins. "Get it Roxy!" She then picks Claire up and swings her around
Violet looks at the dancing as she joins along as she dances by herself.
Roxy griddies into the woods and she's never seen again.
Cole starts break dancing like the cat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLkfz10Srxw
Harmonia looks at Claire. "Have you ever slow danced before?” She asks softly.
Ari is moving fucking amazingly as a snake, almost entrancingly but in a not magically hypnotic way.
"I haven't danced before, period.” Claire says.
Cerberus is Watching.
"Can I teach you?" Harmonia asks.
Luna is just moving to the beat.
"Hang on I've got it.” Claire’s eyes begin to flash colors.
She releases from Harmonia's grip and does the same dance the Plant Island Epic Wubbox does.
Harmonia BURSTS OUT LAUGHING AND SHE TRIES TO MIMIC IT.
Cole does a backflip and stares at Claire in shock.
Violet gives a giggle as she does some sort of jazz square.
Harmonia dances horribly. She tries to twerk. She's horrible at it.
KADE IS FUCKING CACKLING.
Cole starts cackling at Harmonia.
"YOU'RE JUST MAD I'M HOT!” Harmonia yells.
"YOU'RE DOING IT FUCKING WRONG-” Kade says.
"You're not even shaking your ass!" Luna exclaims.
"HOW???" Harmonia asks.
Violet is laughing along.
“Do not look at me, I'm not shaking my ass.” Cole crosses her arms.
Ari looks at Cole. "Shake your ass."
Cole is debating it visibly.
"DO IT, JOIN ME!” Harmonia yells.
{- Lunes? May I show them? -} Krystal asks.
{"Sure, take over."} Luna agrees and her eyes turn purple.
“I'm not joining you in the white bitch back wiggle.” Cole snickers and starts throwing her ass back, far better than whatever the fuck Harmonia is doing.
"Lemme show you how to do this right Harms." Krystal says before popping, dropping, and locking it with a really good looking twerk, The Jane Special.
CERBERUS IS WATCHING?!?!
HARMONIA STARTS SOBBING!! "Teach me your ways... PLEASE-”
“Happily. First, you do this." She does a thing. "Then you do this." Another thing (pretend I know how to twerk). "And then you do this and really make sure your ass is shaking."
Harmonia follows and shakes her ass.
"GET IT HARMS!!" Krystal exclaims.
SHE’s GETTING IT!!!
"This is horrifying." Kade says.
{"Krystal please this is humiliating..."}
{- Maybe you should do this more often. -}
{"Bruh what?"}
{- I'm teasing you! Here you can have control back. -}
Before transferring control, Krystal gets into an ass shake and then swaps back to her.
"....huh. This ain't so bad." Luna says.
Cole stops twerking and throws a single twenty-dollar bill at Cerberus. “Throw it back whore."
Violet is giggling as she watches from the sidelines.
Cerberus stares at the 20 bucks. "๐ถ๐ฌ๐ฒ'๊ญ๐ ะ๊ญ๐๐๐ฎ ๐ด'm ๐ ๐๐๐m๐๐ ๐๐ฉเน๐ฏ๐ ๐ฌ๏ฝ ๐พ๐น๐ฌโฎ ๏ผฉ'๐ ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ต๏ผฆ๐ธ๐ดโ ๐๐ฃ." He fucking throws it back. The ground is SHAKING.
"Good.” Cole starts cackling.
Harmonia screams and cries, cheering Cerberus on.
Claire falls as one of the plates on her arms falls off
"You ok Claire?" Violet picks up the plate as she holds it out for Claire.
"Daaaaaaaaayum Cerb!" Luna exclaims.
Claire is genuinely surprised at the fact that Violet isn't screaming over the fact that half of her arm just fell off, but she takes the piece of her arm back and secures it in place.
Violet gives a smile and a thumbs up.
Harmonia blinks. "C-Claire. How. how did. how." She's in shock.
"That's new. Are you okay Claire?" Luna asks.
"Yeah, I'm good.” Claire replies.
Cole glances over, shrugs, and returns to vibing.
Harmonia is just shaking and staring at Claire. "What just- happened-"
"I've learned not to question a lot of things and nod and help but now that I have time to process what just happened; are you good?" Violet asks.
"I'm surprised you didn't notice honestly? I mean my skin is more pale at parts and I have some scars that look like the segments on the Sister Location animatronics." Claire is entirely unfazed.
"But your gonna be ok... right?" Violet asks.
"Yeah I have plenty of spares if anything goes wrong anyways," Claire smiles.
"Alright!" Violet gives a smile back.
"Oh.." Harmonia steps aside and goes to the food table, returning with hard vodka. She sips it.
"Glad to hear it, Claire." Luna goes to sit in a chair and drink some water. "Who knew getting possessed by your twerking girlfriend could be so tiring."
Violet goes back to her chair as she chills. "Who knew I guess.”
"Can I request a song?" Ari asks.
"No." Claire says.
"Yeah go ahead-" Harmonia replies.
Ari goes and tries to play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68RvXF8b8qI
"What the fuck is this??" Harmonia asks Ari.
“Sounds awful." Luna sighs.
Ari grins. "It's California girls."
"Why does it sound like a microwave..." Harmonia asks.
Ari in turn shakes HIS ass with the beat, it's glorious. "You're being microwaved."
"WHAT??" Harmonia exclaims.
"You heard me." Ari replies.
The ground rumbles slightly.
Harmonia looks to Cerberus to check if he's twerking again.
Claire looks to Ari, "This must be a hit in Europe."
Violet looks around at the rumbling, curious about its origin.
"Wha? What's with the rumbling? Is Ari's ass that fat!?" Luna asks.
Harmonia giggles. "I think it is.”
A flock of birds is scared out of the trees as something large rises over them.
Violet flys up to examine the situation with the birds
"Oh fuck-" Harmonia grumbles, dropping the bottle and walking over to Claire.
Spider tilts her head at the birds her stuff disappearing as she gets up.
Luna gets up to look at the birds and whatnot.
Cole stops vibing and looks around as she tucks her hands into her jacket.
Along the mass, it lights up with screens of eyes along its body. It's a mesh of wires and fan blades to create a badger-shaped monster. Its entire mouth sparks with live wires and crackles like lightning.
“Again?" Spider mutters as she watches it.
“Oh, are you fucking kidding me?” Cole groans.
"What the absolute FUCK is that." Harmonia grumbles, grabbing a bottle of wine and chucking it at the mass.
Claire blinks.
“It's a divulgar, probably gonna attack us in a second.” Cole replies.
"Seems to be Thrasher?" Luna says.
“Why does it look like Claire’s basement grew alive?” Violet asks.
Harmonia groans and shifts, her body turning to her demon form as she stands in front of Claire. "Of course. Can't have one fucking night, can we?"
The bottle dinks off the side of a screen as it takes a step toward the group. There's cackling laughter coming from on top of the beast's head. A cloaked figure rests on top of a screen like a throne. The cackling is familiar and goat-like.
Cole cracks her neck as she draws her revolver and cocks the hammer as she keeps it at her side. “Is that part of the music or?"
“You're kidding me.” Spider says.
"Wait, that sounds familiar. Spider, are you thinking what I am?" Luna asks.
Claire's eyes glow white. In a flash of white light, an automatic assault rifle appears in Claire's hands. Her eyes return to normal.
Violet summons some vines at the ready for she does not have a normal weapon to use
"Yeah I am, what the actual fuck is she thinking?" Spider asks.
"No idea." Luna readies her Marked Broadsword for battle.
Sparrow grabs a wire and slides down it to the ground as she walks up to the group. "Heeeyyyy, am I late?"
Harmonia blinks. "Yeah kind of?"
“Please tell me that was just transport.” Spider sighs.
"...huh, no you're just in time Sparrow. Sick entrance!" Luna smiles and resheathes her sword.
Cole tightens her grip on the revolver as she says nothing.
"That's cute and all but no, it's not just transport." Sparrow smiles sweetly.
"Is it my birthday gift, I need more equipment.” Claire asks hopefully.
“What do you mean…” Violet asks.
“We're back to this, are we?" Spider asks.
Cole groans and mutters something under her breath.
Harmonia just looks tired. She walks over to a door she'd brought out into the woods and puts in her Gluttony key, ushering the remaining Gluttony demons home. Then she closes the door and walks back.
"Oh back to this? No, we never left this deary." Sparrow goes to put an arm around Spider.
"So... you're gonna attack us? With divulgars?" Harmonia asks.
Spider lets her, watching Sparrow while taking a deep breath.
Luna tilts her head and watches Sparrow carefully.
"Well yeah," Sparrow replies.
"Literally why?" Harmonia asks, running a hand through her hair.
“That's my question as well.” Spider says.
"How about you don't?" Luna asks.
Claire has seemingly zoned out as her eyes are flashing colors, mainly green.
Cole grumbles and mutters quietly. “You never changed."
"Well ya know beheading someone when they're scared and confused, shooting them in the head, or even death threats, it kinda has consequences.” Sparrow says.
“Oh my Christ.” Spider mutters. "Sparrow, seriously? You've undone everything because of that?"
"It's reasonable honestly." Claire says.
Harmonia just sighs and picks up her vodka bottle, downing it before shattering it against her chair.
"Is it?" Luna asks.
“Kinda.” Cole shrugs.
"I mean... yeah..???" Claire says. "She has the right to be angry considering the amount of times you guys have killed her. Like not to take sides but." She sits down on a chair.
"I guess getting shot in the head 18 times and then beheaded twice will do that." Luna says.
"Twice?!?!?!?" Harmonia asks, confused.
“To be fair, I put her head back on.” Cole says.
Various bottles of wine/alcoholic drinks have gone missing.
“So I think that makes up for the 18 times.” Cole says.
"I was referring to when the skull mask went berserk." Luna says.
Sparrow smiles as she watches. She tightens the side hug with Spider and rests her head on her shoulder.
Harmonia’s eyes look far away if anyone glances at her.
“And what do you think I'm referring to?" Cole asks.
“So if you're that angry then what's with this?" Spider gestures between herself and Sparrow her tone neutral.
"Kismesis," Harmonia says.
"I can hate and love ya at the same time. plenty of American families do it.” Sparrow says.
"Just like Homestuck..." Harmonia mumbles.
“Damn, really just called out everyone here who's American.” Cole says.
Luna facepalms.
“Yeah cause that makes for a great relationship.” Spider says, pulling away.
"Any last words before I do the whole attacking thing?" Sparrow asks.
Spider doesn't say anything.
“Do last info dumps about warships count?" Cole asks.
Claire starts singing, "Bom... bom BOM! Bom... bom..."
Luna just takes a minute to prepare herself and get on her broomstick. "Ready."
Sparrow snickers as she sees the broom "Yeah I'm definitely throwing you off that thing.”
Violet is just preparing to attack.
"Claire do you just wanna go home??" Harmonia asks.
"This wouldn't have happened if someone didn't invite Violet.” Claire says.
Luna floats a little bit above Sparrow, just out of her reach. "Come and get me then."
Harmonia sighs.
A wire from the beast cracks at Luna like a whip and yanks on the back of the broom.
Luna lets it happen and jumps down the ground. "Good. Now I can focus my mana on you."
Harmonia stands and waits to fight.
The beast sparks and crackles as it takes another step. There's a growing clicking coming from its throat. "You guys might want to step back some.”
Harmonia grabs Claire and steps back some.
"Hmm. Okay." Luna does so and prepares to blip out of the way.
Violet moves to the side.
Cole's bone armor triggers as the skull instantly forms around Cole's head with the orange outer glow and the red inner glow. She breathes heavily as frost covers the skull as the frost moves like fire but with no smoke or sound. Cole steps two feet to the right with a groan.
Spider growls and moves over to the others her attention flicking between Sparrow and the divulgar.
The beast's mouth is lit up more with hundreds of small pilot lights for flamethrowers
Ari watches the chaos and rolls his eyes. "Was wondering when we were gonna get back to the apocalypse stuff." She tosses the empty wine bottle toward the beast's mouth.
"This is some mad max shit and I love it." Luna watches, looking for an opening.
“Oh, son of a bitch.” Cole groans, her voice crackling like an old PA system.
"Babe can I have your gun," Harmonia says.
Claire hands it to her.
Luna sets fire to her sword.
Harmonia takes it and fiddles with it, trying to cock it. "Really hoping not to die again so if it gets too bad, we're teleporting home, okay?" Harmonia says to her quietly.
The lights are sprayed with fluid inside the mouth of the beast as they all turn a bright red. The beast then shoots a beam of flames from its mouth in the group's general direction. With it comes a strong scent of Chile peppers. Sparrow is watching with a smile
Spider sighs and dodges out of the way.
Harmonia shields Claire, getting a bit melty as she turns back and unloads a magazine at the beast.
Luna blips out of the way of the flame beam and launches a fireball from her sword and targets its neck. "Flame burst!"
Cole just stares at the beast and lets the flames hit her, she raises her revolver and aims at it's neck as she shoots.
The bullets only crack a few of the hundreds of screens. The fire burst melts small patches of wires together. Luna gets a glimpse of the fireproof tag that comes on Christmas lights for trees. The smell is growing stronger as anyone who can be affected by drugs starts seeing small hallucinations of fuzzy static in the corner of their eyes.
Ari coils away from the flames before stretching, growing in size, groaning with the newfound fuzziness in the corners of their vision. "Yknow, as fun as this is, I feel like we both have some pretty good points on either side, so let's not kill eachother?" Ari's eyes shift to large spirals, its tail beginning to light up with bright green, glowing patterns of pulsing spirals, drawing eye's towards it. Along with this, its choker starts glowing
Claire gets up and walks into the woods.
"Oh for fucks sake. Fireproof. Okay, lemme see here." Luna swaps to lightning and launches another couple of shocks toward its neck. "Thunder strike!" The hallucinations are slightly affecting her accuracy.
Cole shoots at it's screens again.
Spider stopped breathing a while ago, a throwing knife appears in her other hand as she launches it at the nearest wire.
The screens near the lightning strike only glow brighter as it absorbs the energy. Two screens near the right leg turn green as they focus on Ari. The beasts blasts a larger beam of fire thanks to the extra power. The smell is getting stronger as any affected starts hearing clicking in random locations. Sparrow is still standing with them and smiling. The knife spider throws sticks into a wire and sits there.
Harmonia stops firing and heads over to Ari to try and protect them.
Luna is struggling to stay composed as the clicking and visual hallucinations are distracting her and removing her focus. She tries to sneak over to Ari and Harmonia to protect them.
Ari waves the two green screens closer as he slowly begins to approach them, "I said let's not kill them, and my plan seems to be working so I think we should go with this." Ari takes a deep breath before the pulsing of her tail increases in brightness.
Cole readies her smoke chain to protect Ari at a moment's notice as the revolver reloads by itself.
Harmonia looks away from Ari, focusing on the beast instead.
Luna isn't looking at Ari.
Cole watches the beast
Spider’s focused on the divulgar though she flicks an ear in acknowledgment at Ari.
A few more screens turn green on the beast's right leg as the screens separate from the being to move closer to Ari. The beast stumbles some to balance itself on three legs. 5 wires lunge at Ari. Sparrow draws a pistol and goes to shoot directly at Cole's head.
"Ari be careful!" Harmonia yells.
Cole takes the hit as a chunk of the skull shatters and breaks off as part of a computer component flies out of Cole's head as she collapses, a little bit of blood dripping from the skull.
"Ohhhhh shit-" Ari attempts to try and weave through the wires, if one catches xem, xeir tail shrinks to try and shimmy out. His tail dims just a bit from the added stress and movement.
Luna tries to shake off the effects.
The effects can not be shaken. Ari is able to avoid most of the wires and was able to shimmy out of the last one. A group of wires slithers out towards Cole's arm. Sparrow fires for Luna's neck but misses. The beast sends another blast of red flames ta them. A faint ringing is growing in the ears of those affected.
Cole's eyes snap open as she snaps her knife into her hand and grabs the wires and slashes at the wires.
Ari breathes a sigh of relief and turns their eyes towards Sparrow. "Pspsppspsp, not killing goes for you too."
"I didn't die, bitchass motherfucker!" Cole's voice crackles and distorts slightly more as she looks over at Ari.
Spider grumbles, another throwing knife appearing in her hand, she throws it at one of the screens this time.
Luna closes her eyes to refocus herself a bit and then launches a throwing knife at the screen. The effects are making her sick.
"Okay, Ari, I got an idea." Harmonia runs to the table, dumping alcohol all over herself and throwing a bottle at Cerberus. "LIGHT ME ON FIRE!”
The knives as caught by wires and slung back to the throwers. Cole is able to cut some wires but others start wrapping his leg. the screens flicker slightly before Sparrow lowers the hood over her own face and fires blindly at Ari
The knife launched at Luna sticks in her chest. She falls over from complete lack of focus and mana.
Cerberus has been downing drink after drink and not paying attention.
The left head raises an eyebrow "whhg wh-"
"๏ผงเฌ ๐ฅ๐ะ ๐ ๐๐๐ โฟ."
The right head leans over and spits fire on Harmonia.
Cole groans and cuts the wires away from her leg as she jumps to her feet.
Harmonia lights ablaze and runs towards Ari. "ARI, GET TALLER THAN ME." She tries to stand behind Ari. "HEY BIG BEASTIE, HEY LOOK OVER HERE!!!!" Harmonia yells at it.
The beast turns its attention to Harmonia as she runs.
Ari raises her eyebrows. "Harm?!?!?-" He's cut off by a bullet hitting his tail but nods, growing larger than Harmonia. His tail flickers for just a moment before becoming stable again.
Spider dodges and before pausing for a second then attempts to teleport Sparrow's cloak away as she fires.
Sparrow's cloak is gone. She's wearing t-shirt and shorts as she glances around for the cloak. All of the lights on the beast flicker as its mouth opens preparing to do another blast of light. Before it can fire all of the screens turn green and freezes in place
"HEY SPARROW!!! SPARROW!!!" Harmonia yells, throwing a glass bottle at her so she'd have to look to catch it.
Ari winces with the bullet wound but gives a smile. "G-good one Harm... c’mere big guy... you want some pets?" He offers his palm.
Spider has the cloak and she ties it around her waist while keeping an eye on Sparrow.
The beast closes it's mouth and lowers it's head to Ari. Sparrow is just it in the arm by the bottle, "OW?!?" Sparrow grabs her arm.
"SPARROW LOOK AT ME OR ILL THROW ANOTHER ONE BITCH-” Harmonia yells.
"I KNOW BETTER, FUCK YOU LAMP WATCHER!" Sparrow screams back.
Cole is standing frozen like a windows 95 computer told to divide by 0.
Ari begins scratching the beast's head with a smile, "Hey can we just... fucking talk?? I pacified your giant beast and you already shot a few of us... so are you done?"
Violet focuses again as she looks around at the situation.
Harmonia sighs and looks at Cerberus. "CERBERUS- GRAB SPARROW AND MAKE HER LOOK AT ARI-"
Sparrow's eyes widen slightly as she starts sprinting away, though shes never had a gym class in her life it's kinda sad.
Cerberus watches. "Chase????"
"CHASE BUT DONT KILL-" Harmonia yells.
“You mind if I handle this one?" Spider growls lightly.
"Oh my Lucille, can this bitch not have a conversation." Ari huffs.
Luna is still knocked unconscious with a knife in her chest.
That phrase alone knocks Cole out of being frozen as she rushes over to Luna, removes the knife, and heals her.
Luna is healed but if the effects are still in play, she's not waking up.
Cerberus is preparing to chase.
Sparrow is sprinting for the trees.
Ari has now resigned to finally living out its dream of petting a divulgar.
Cerberus RUNS.
It takes like 2 steps to get to her.
Cerberus grabs.
Sparrow flails but has the muscle mass of a toothpick. "AHHH!!”
"Okay now make her look at Ari so we don't kill each other." Harmonia says, sighing. She's like. very goopy right now.
Cerberus suddenly gets confused.
"What did Harmonia say..."
"๐๐ถ ๐จ ๐พ๐ฐ ๐๐ฉ๐ เปื๐ ๐๐ฐแโ๊ฐโณ ๐ญ๐ฟ๐๐๏ฝm๊ฌฒ๐ทฦ"
"nnooooo- THATG. yes thabt. yeah. Ari........." He looks for Ari.
Spider glances over at Harmonia and sighs, a bucket of water appears above her, dumping its contents over her, the bucket disappears before it can hit her though.
Sparrow shuts her own eyes and grumbles as she flails more.
Ari sighs. "We don't need to hypnotize you if we just fucking talk... This is one dysfunctional family.. fuck me."
Luna finally opens her eyes and begins to get up.
"Okay yeah, that works better. Lets just. sit and talk." Harmonia says.
Cerberus looks at Sparrow "๐ข๏ฝ ๐๐บ๐๐ป๐ป๐ฌ๐ :D" He lays on the ground and like. Has Sparrow in front of Ari. Still held. "๐๐ช๐๐."
"Please, let's just talk," Luna says, slowly joining the rest of the group.
"I was gonna say I'm not dysfunctional but that would be a lie.” Cole mutters as she strolls over to everyone.
"Okay. So, Sparrow, please air your grievances.” Harmonia says.
"FUCK YOU ALL!” Sparrow yells.
Spider just watches, wincing at the shouting.
"แ๐ธ๐โฎ๐ธ๐๐ ๐๐๐จ๐๐๐........" Cerberus says.
“Rude.” Cole mutters and crosses her arms, the chunk of the skull is still missing.
"Ow." Luna winces from the volume.
Ari grabs Cole with its tail with a wince and shoves Cole in front of Sparrow. "They're your kid, aren't they? Talk to them."
Harmonia notices Ari's wound, concern in her eyes. "Can someone heal them-"
Cole sighs. “Adoptive but yeah, so uh... Sparrow, what's up? Why are you doin this?"
Sparrow looks over at Cole and glares, "You remember when one of the first times we met? I was in pain and dying. You chose to shoot me and leave me to die."
"I remember and you wanna know why? because you had been an asshole to the group and I thought by shooting you it would end our suffering, another villain down.” Cole sighs as she crosses her arms.
"Not like you thought of me ever changed either, not like how any of you thought of me changed." Sparrow says.
“Cause you didn't, you just attacked us. I bet all that research was just building up to this moment, I hope it was worth it.” Cole says with a sneer.
Sparrow tears up some as she yells. "And here I thought I had finally found someone to accept me but no! You're just like the rest of them!"
"๐๐ฌ๐ธ๐ ั ๐โ ๐ธ๐พ ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ีธ๏ฝ แฏโ ๊๐ฏ๐ก ๐ฉ๐ะ๐ฅ." The left head shakes its head "Hey, hey, settle down both of you."
Harmonia shakes her head. "Cole. Just... wait." She takes a deep breath. "Sparrow, I know you've been hurt a lot. And I know you've changed. You're strong as hell and a good friend. I'm sorry we've treated you otherwise."
Cole breathes slightly heavily as she holds her tongue.
"Oh yeah? And how do you think your little inspirational quotes are ganna fix anything? The second I become anything unknown or scary is straight to threats and-" Sparrow makes a motion of cutting her own throat.
“Really? So why are we doing this if that's the case?" Spider sighs.
"โ ๐๐ธ๐ฃ'๐ ๐๏ฝ๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐-" Kade's head snaps its jaws at Cerberus. "Shut."
"แด๐ค๐ส๐๏ฟจ๐แปฟ, โ ๐ฝ ๏ฝα๐ค ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฒ'ั ๊ญต๏ฝฯฑ๐ฎ ๐เญฆ ๐ญ๏ฝ๐ก๐ฌ๐ ๐ธ~"
Harmonia looks at Cole and Sparrow. "This is why it happened in the fucking first place! Because whenever you guys do something wrong, you don't apologize, you don't try and make things better, you just let it fucking fester! This is why I left. God forbid I want to actually help Sparrow instead of othering her???"
"Same here. Sparrow's been cool to live with for the past almost year now! But if we can't get past our issues together, it's never gonna work!" Luna says.
"DON’T SAME HERE LIL MISS- YOU TOOK OFF MY HEAD WITH HER HELP!” Sparrow says to Luna, gesturing at Spider.
"Excuse me? My mistake was not stopping her." Luna replies.
Ari has wrapped its gun wound with part of its slutty nurse costume.
"Maybe a round of apologies would help. At least a little, despite it being late-" Kade offers.
"What and you think I don't regret that? You think I'm happy that it happened?" Spider growls.
"I've apologized to you so much for that. I SHOULD HAVE STOPPED HER FROM DOING THAT!" Luna yells.
"I've apologized before! I've said sorry and made things up as best as I can! just because I bottle shit up the majority of the time doesn't mean that I don't say sorry! Fucking christ!" Cole exclaims, her empty eye sockets glowing bright pink as she glares at Harmonia.
"But it's like apologies aren't useful for that ya know?" Luna says. "Again, if you need another one, I apologize for not stopping her, I apologize for treating you like a therapy patient and not an actual friend. You mean a fucking lot to me and [the kiss] and I'm sorry if that's not enough."
"Sorry isn't enough I WANT REVENGE" Sparrow flails more.
"Revenge isn't gonna solve anything Sparrow." Luna says.
"Deviantart oc..." Ari mutters under his breath as he pets.
"TRY IT, I FUCKING DARE YOU!” The smoke chain forms spikes as she snaps to look at Sparrow.
"๐ด๐νโฏ๐ซ๏ฝ๐ข ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฟส๐ ๐ญ๐๐ณiาฝ๏ฝ ๊ญ๏ฝ ๐ช๐๐ญ๐เญฆีผ..." Cerberus says.
“What Luna said.” Spider glares at Cole. "Seriously?"
"Revenge is a lot nicer than you think.” Sparrow says.
Cole snaps to look at Spider. “Don't you fucking start, I had to stop your drunk ass from ripping her head off a second goddamn time!"
"Do we need a goddamn talking stick this isn't being helpful at all." Ari says with a sigh.
"How about a talking pillow?" Luna grins.
Cerb grins just a bit "๐ฐ๏ฝ ๐๐ฌ!"
Kade nudges the middle head like a dog
"FUCK YOU VIOLIN STRINGS!” Sparrow screams at Luna.
Luna reaches into her bag and pulls out a pillow she uses for naps. "Shall we therapy pillow?"
"๏บ๐ ๐๐ฐ๐'๐ ๐๐โฒ ๐ค." Says Cerberus.
"It won't work." Repeats Kade.
"I will kill that fucking pillow I swear to god!" Cole exclaims.
"Hold on, Orpheus is coming I think." Harmonia says, looking at her phone.
"Orpheus? Ok." Luna replies.
The door on the tree is kicked open and Orpheus just walks over to the chaos. He's wearing a Mario Kart shirt and pajama pants, drinking from a bottle of sprite.
He looks around at everyone, trying to assess the situation.
Harmonia is standing in demon form.
Cerberus is holding Sparrow to the group in a fist. His tail is wagging gently, and the left head looks just a bit annoyed but perks up upon seeing Orpheus.
Ari is wearing a slutty nurse outfit and petting a divulgar.
Cole's bone armor has been triggered with the skull around Cole's head missing a good chunk with an orange outer glow and a bright pink inner glow she's breathing somewhat heavily as frost covers the skull. The frost moves like fire but with no smoke or sound, she's holding a black smoke chain with spikes on it.
Spider’s just wearing her usual outfit with some gothy makeup and Sparrow’s cloak tied around their waist, their ears are also flattened against their skull.
Luna's got a frilly Halloween themed witch dress and a goofy hat on top. Her broomstick is in tatters.
Sparrow looks pissed.
Orpheus stares directly at Cole. "Jesus fucking Coldsteel Christ." He sighs, looking at Sparrow. "What happened?"
"I would kill you right now but Ari would have a hissy fit.” Cole glares at Orpheus.
"And I'd fucking eat you." Kade says.
"No killing, I swear to god." Harmonia groans.
"Yknow what, maybe I understand what Sparrow was saying…” Kade says.
"13 tungsten rods would like to say otherwise.” Cole glares at Kade.
"Save it for when I actually say something worth killing over, goddamn????" Orpheus responds.
"You want a repeat of last time, big boy?” Kade asks.
"Can you stop fucking threatening people Cole!?!?” Luna exclaims.
“Kade.” Harmonia scolds him.
"I'm DRUNK. AT LEAST I HAVE COMPOSURE." Kade replies.
Cole forcibly holds her jaw shut as she rolls her eyes.
Orpheus rolls his eyes. "Anyway, Sparrow?"
"I wish I was drunk..." Harmonia grumbles.
"Get drink then.." Kade replies.
"They beheaded me, made death threats, shot me, and I'm trying to get even." Sparrow replies.
"By killing them?" Orpheus points at Cole."Shut up."
Cole's coolant pump gets audibly louder as she rolls her eyes.
"YES." Sparrow replies.
"You know what." Orpheus crosses his arms. "Reasonable! Perfectly fuckin reasonable! But on Claire's BIRTHDAY??? C'mon!!! You fucking neet roach!!! Don't do THAT! If you're gonna do a fuckin... villain arc thing, at least be NICE about it! Like, Claire has probably done the least to you??? Come on. You could've waited 11 more days and done this on COLE'S BIRTHDAY!!! Flawed planning, Sparrow. Shame." He tsks her.
"FUCK YOU!” Sparrow growls.
Cole's coolant pump ramps up even more as her jaw cracks slightly from how tight she's holding it.
Harmonia puts her head in her hands. "Jesus. Okay, I get why you want revenge, it makes sense. But have you ever just. considered. leaving a toxic situation? Just leaving instead of revenge?? You'll be much fucking happier."
"All these bitches mentally ill.” Kade says.
"Not necessarily?" Orpheus turns to Harmonia. "You know who we're talking about, right?"
"Sparrow? Yes?" Harmonia replies.
"๐ณโ ๐๏ฝ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จีผ'๐ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๊ญต๐ด๐ฃγiีธ๐จ, สα๐ง๐แ๐ท๐ฆα." Cerberus says.
"Are you kidding? I have nothing left, My entire life wasted away just for it to happen with the next group I stumble across.” Sparrow says.
Harmonia shakes her head. "That's not true. I know I haven't been there for you and I'm sorry. That was wrong. But you have me, Claire, Kade, and Orpheus. I want to be your friend, I want to help you, I always have. I should've been there more but I was trying to take care of my own shit and maybe that's selfish, but I can't change it. You do have options, Sparrow."
"Sparrow, you're like 20?? You've got a lot more time ahead of you, come on." Orpheus says. "But also, like. Harmonia. This isn't a toxic relationship. This isn't some boyfriend manipulation going on, these people killed her. Repeatedly. Believe it or not, you're fucking WEIRD! The fact you haven't snapped at these people at least once??? That's WEIRD!!"
Harmonia flinches a bit at Orpheus's words, looking down.
Sparrow zones back in after ignoring what was just said. "You guys done bickering yet? This happens with every person you guys fight.”
Orpheus looks at her. "Elaborate."
Cole looks seconds away from snapping.
"Every time you guys think you can talk away the issue and make some big promises that never really happens.” Sparrow says.
"โฒฆ๐ฉ๐ผ๐ก ๐๏ฝ ๐ญ๐ง๐๐... ๐ ๐แด๐ง'๐ าฝ๐ง๐๐ท ๐ฝ๐๐๐ฃ๐ฌ ๐โ๐ฐ๐ ๐ช๐แฏ๐ ๐โ ฐ๐๐๐๐น ะก๐ผฦโ ๊ฌต๐r ๏ฝ๐๐ ๐ฎ๏ฝ๐ีธ แฏ๊ญแ๐๐๐ก๐ ส๐ฉ ษ๐๐๊ญต๐." Cerberus says.
Harmonia looks up blinking back tears. "Sorry for trying to have a good night. Sorry for trying to help. Fuck me for caring." She laughs bitterly, taking a step back.
"I don't even remember why Kade killed Cole in the first place, now that I think about it." Luna says.
"I'll just go back to Claires and you won't have to see me again." Harmonia says, taking another step back
"I'm not doing that, Jackass. I'm saying you have a point. "I'm not trying to talk your issues away, there are very real issues I have with these people too! Because, believe it or not, none of us don't hold grudges. Whoever says that is a bigger liar than the goddamn sun."
"Look. Just." Orpheus sighs. "Harmonia, if you're going to leave, don't be dramatic and make it a finale. You know this isn't the last time you'll be talking to these people. Sparrow, I want to talk with you. I'm not gonna try to fix you, I just want to hear you out, if you'd be alright?]
"๐๐๊ฎ ๐ส๐๐๐๐๐ค ีฝ๐ ๐๐r๏ฝ'๐ ๐๐m." Cerberus says.
"No, you're fine, Harm. Your heart's in the right place, just I don't think this can be fixed in the way you think." Kade says.
"I think we've reached the point where words aren't the answer. We need to take actual action to fix these things." Luna says.
Harmonia walks over to Kade, hiding behind him a bit but not leaving.
Cerberus just releases his grasp at this point.
Sparrow runs away.
Orpheus sighs. "Of course." He runs after her. "NIGHT EVERYONE!"
"Night Orpheus!" Luna yells.
"๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ด๐..! Οโ ๐๐ ..!" Cerberus says. "๐๐ฏ๏ฝ๐๐ฒ๐ช๐ด แถ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐."
Harmonia whispers in Kade's ear, "Can we go home..."
Cole's jaw snaps as she mutters despite her jaw being broken. "I'm just gonna fucking go.” She stands up and walks away as the chain dissipates.
Kade nods, nudging Harmonia. "Yes."
"Do you guys want a teleport to your house?" Luna asks Harmonia and Kade.
The sound of Cole's dirt bike loudly taking off is heard.
"No, I got it." Kade, Ari, and Harmonia disappear.
Spider sighs and disappears.
Luna sighs. "What a fucking mess." She disappears.
---
Sparrow is running in the forest.
Orpheus is surprisingly really fucking fast. Not catching up to her but it's hard to lose him.
"SPARROW, I LITERALLY JUST WANT TO HEAR YOU OUT!! I'M NOT TRYING TO BRING YOU BACK BECAUSE THAT'D BE FUCKING STUPID."
Sparrow is running rather slow. She quickly runs out of breath and stops with a hand on a tree
Orpheus stops near her and takes a deep breath. "So."
"I don't wanna talk about anything-" Sparrow says between breaths.
"And why is that???" Orpheus asks.
"I already said. They find someone they hate, they talk to them and make all these promises until they give up and I'm not giving up!" Sparrow exclaims.
"I'm not trying to make promises, Sparrow. Come on. I don't make promises, I'm realistic. Like, what promise am I supposed to make??? 'I won't let them kill you!' That's like trying to make Cole be faithful!!! Come on, I just want to hear you out."
"And I already said my opinion on it all.” She huffs.
"I wasn't.. There." Orpheus sighs. "I didn't hear it, I tuned in LATE! I only caught like the later part of it."
"I pretty much summed it up already.”
Orpheus sighs. "Ok… Just… Ok." He takes a breath. “You want revenge. You don't take apologies. That's..." He sighs and leans against a different tree than Sparrow's. "Yeah. I mean... I was like. Two seconds from wringing Luna's neck back when you first came back around, being fully honest. I slapped her across the face, and disappeared because I couldn't handle with her fucking..." He trails off. "You know. Luna being Luna."
"Yeah yeah." Sparrow nods.
"I understood Cole deserved forgiveness after the original... thing. that happened. Because it was like, an accident? Slightly? But... just." Orpheus sighs. "He doesn't really anymore. It felt like he was trying to get better, and now it doesn't feel like that at all, and it bothers me. It's not even a thing where he keeps making mistakes. He's just..." He growls. "You know???"
"God I wanna strangle him..." Sparrow mumbles a bit seriously.
"Honestly, yeah. I hate them specifically because of how they act with these things. Because they never genuinely admit their faults, there's always some layer of protection that makes it just feel like a means to an end. Which is why I'm not surprised the group is falling apart!!!" Orpheus exclaims. "I just wish it didn't have to go like this. Like, I was.. never really a member of the Kiss, I just was there. But still being there for the tail end of it kinda.. Sucks." He sighs, facepalming. "I dunno." He huffs and walks over to Sparrow, holding out a key. "I don't care if you keep this or throw it out or whatever, just take it. At least give me some peace of mind, even if you drop it in the woods as soon as I walk away. You aren't hated, they're just… Dense. I'm willing to feed you or... i guess just let you sleep over if you ever need to drop by."
"...do you have a shower?" Sparrow asks, taking the key.
"2." Orpheus says.
"Can I use one?" Sparrow asks.
"Yeah?? Obviously."
"Im good to go when you are.” Sparrow says, excited to shower again
"We have to go back and use that door in the clearing though." Orpheus explains.
"Alright.”
Orpheus starts running back.
Sparrow follows and they go to his house to shower.
---
Cole walks into the factory under her house. She looks around and sighs, her eyes are a dim hazel as she removes the pipes and cables from the floor. “Fuck it, all my work has gone to waste....they hate me."
She clambers up to the throne and disassembles it. “No use for a throne if the king that sits in it isn't worthy of ruling."
Cole takes the dismantled parts and sets them in the middle of the room and snaps a match box into her hand and ignites the pieces. “And to think I was getting better…”
She sits down in front of the fire. “To think I was trying my best…”
Cole grabs a steel rod from one of the nearby parts bins
"To think I finally had control again.”
She stares at the rod. “To think I cared about them.”
Cole snaps it in half and tucks her head into her knees.
“Orpheus was right, that should have happened on my birthday. I deserve it after everything I’ve put them through.”
---
Kade, Harmonia, and Ari appear outside Claire’s house.
Harmonia breaks down into sobs.
Ari lays back, shrinking as her tail and eyes shut off. "Dang.."
"๐ฑ๐๐ฌ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ฐ๐พ๏ฝ๐น๐พ." Cerberus’s left head leans on Harmonia.
Harmonia curls up under him a bit. "I’m so fucking stupid why did I ever think that party would go well..."
"It was! Your effort was good and appreciated." Kade says.
Meanwhile Claire and Roxy are in the basement eating hot cheetos and working on The Machine.
Ari smells the hot cheetos and wants them....
The basement door is CLOSED and LOCKED.
Ari is thinking about the cheetos and broadcasting her want for cheetos through the airwaves…
"No it wasn’t. Not even Claire enjoyed it." Harmonia curls up. "I just. I can’t do anything right. I’m done trying."
"I'm sure Claire had. Dancing must mean there had been some kind of enjoyment. You've done all you could." Kade comforts her.
"And it is never enough." She sighs. "I feel empty and alone almost all the time and nothing can fix me. I just..." She stares at the ground.
"๐ซฯฑแดฆ๐๐ฌ๐๐บ๐ฉ๐น๐, ๐จ'๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐๊ญโฒ ๐ซ ๐ฎ๐๐ค ๐๐๐ผ๐ก ๐ผ๐โฒแบ ว๐ฌโบ๐๐ฉ๏ฝ๐ทโ ๐๐ท๐ฉ๐ธ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๏ฝ๐..." Kade holds Cerberus's snout shut.
Harmonia just hugs herself. "Sometimes I wish Azzie would’ve killed me for good."
"Imma go inside and do something." Ari is ignoring the pain and wanders inside.
"No, don't. You have an entire life ahead of you." Kade says.
The right head tilts. "๐ฐ๐๐'๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐. ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐. ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐. ๐ป๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐."
Harmonia nods. "It is... I just. I feels like no matter what I do or what I try, nothing is ever okay and everything comes crashing down. I don’t even... I don’t know what to do anymore..."
Claire comes out of the basement looking like a trainwreck, hair messy, wearing a t shirt that says "SORRY PRINCESS, I ONLY DATE CRACK WHORES" and a pair of black boxers. She grabs 3 monsters from the fridge and heads back downstairs, closing the door.
There was fog coming out of the basement as the door was open.
"๐ฏ๐๐๐ ๐๐. ๐ฏ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐. ๐ฏ๐๐๐-.. " All three heads look out the window and blink. They go quiet.
"Maybe just. Taking a break and spending time here more will help." Kade says.
Ari curiously looks at the door and presses an ear up against it. The Poland song is playing.
"I spend all my time here and most day I just feel alone and like theres a void in my chest. I don’t even... I don’t even know Claire... I love her but most days I feel like I barely know her... how can I marry someone I dont understand?"
Ari begins KNOCKING LOUDLY on the basement door. Nobody answers.
"Gluttony is also open to you.. And i'm sure talking to her will help. We are also open anytime, heh." Kade says.
Harmonia headbutts Kade. "I just... I want to..." She shakes her head. "I shouldn’t say that..."
Harmonia gets hugged into big Cerberus pecs.
Harmonia hugs them and sobsinto them.
Dink!!! Cerb gets a message!!!!
Cerb checks message
Orpheus says: "Don't tell anyone else but I'm singlehandedly winningโ
Cerberus replies: โNobody does it like you :]โ
The music from the basement turns up louder in an effort to drown out Ariโs knocking.
"CLAIRE YOU BITCH WHERE'S FIRST AID SHIT?โ Ari yells.
A note is slid under the door "bathroom"
"Why're you so secretive down there bimbestie..." Ari sighs, takes the note and goes to the bathroom, before realizing he doesn't know how to remove bullets.
"I just... I didn’t even know that Claire’s arm was replaced?? How much more?? She doesn’t tell me anything I..." Harmonia shakes her head.
"...Ask about it maybe?" Kade replies.
"What if she doesn’t even fucking tell me?" Harmonia asks.
"Divorce." Kade replies.
"And who will I have then?" Harmonia asks.
Orpheus: "Cerberus Iโm the best ever. Cmon. That person who was just trying to murder everyone??? Taking a SHOWER in MY SHOWER. I'm gonna celebrate by playing ape escape"
"Ari is open..." Kade says before texting back.
Cerberus: "FUCK YEAHHHHHH! I KNEW YOU GOT THIS HEHEHEHEHH. KICK ASS"
"No I mean..." Harmonia shakes her head. "I... then I’d have to go back to the house or live in Gluttony but wouldn't I be alone there?”
"Thrall's there and there's an entire population you can get to know!" Kade says.
Harmonia nods. "Yeah... you're right.."
Kade pets Harmonia's head
She nuzzles back.
—
Later that night, Spider appears next to Ari.
Ari has unwrapped his wound, a bullet hole in his tail. "Hey whore-"
"Do you want my help or not?" Spider attempts to joke but just ends up sounding kinda sad.
Ari sighs and nods. "Yeah, yeah. Sorry about your wacky ex..."
“That's the thing, she's not even my ex...at least I don't think so, fucks knows anymore.” Spider sighs and examines the wound a pair of medical tweezers appearing in her hand. "Anyways, this is gonna hurt.” She then uses the tweezers to remove the bullet.
Ari gives a pained hiss. "FuCK- Then.. what are they?"
Dressing appears in Spider’s free hand as she uses it to well...dress the wound, she then sighs. "Well we are..were, again I dunno at this point, dating again"
Ari nods along, occasionally flinching as the bandage is wrapped. "Interesting... was this whole thing out of nowhere or?"
Theres a screech in the distance.
Spider ignores it. “Not really, do you know who Nyx is?"
Ari shakes its head, looking towards the screeching. "Never heard of 'em."
“To cut a long story short, Sparrow tried to servantize her for only god knows why, and from I can tell Nyx made her relive her....deaths or something like that.” Spider pauses, taking a deep breath. "I tried to talk to her afterwards but she just got mad at me, then I didn't see her again until the party.” She goes to lean against the wall.
"Ah... so it's like old trauma made fresh then? Makes more sense then. I mean I can't say she isn't justified, well maybe not murder everyone in the kiss with a giant monster justified but, definitely shoot those who were responsible a few times justified."
“Yeah..." Spider sighs.
Ari moves his tail a bit to feel out the wound. "Thanks for this, you rug."
Spider yawns. "No problem handbag.”
"Anything new with you?" Ari asks.
“Asides from both my girlfriend and my mental health going off the rails, not much.” Spider chuckles lightly.
"You have anything you want to talk about?" Ari asks.
“Yeah actually, how do you find it just sorta living away from everyone?"
"It's definitely healthier, less chaos, you can get your own bearings on things, definitely stuff I miss and why I'm visiting for a bit, but healthier, definitely." Ari says.
“Certainly sounds it, so how was Lust? Aside from all the, well lust stuff.” Spider shakes her head.
Ari snickers a bit. "It's nice! It's really good to get the feel for a city life, despite all the stuff happening in the living world."
“And what are you snickering for handbag?" Spider jokes. "Though I'm glad you're enjoying yourself.”
Ari makes air quotes. "Asides from the Lust stuff, but yeah, you should try and visit at least one of the hells sometimes, I’ve heard Sloth is nice."
“Sorry I'm not in the mood to hear about your various conquests.” Spider chuckles. "Though… Sloth I'd rather not.”
They tilt their head. "Hm? Why so?”
“It's where Luna was sent while...I was in.. 9, and it's stupid but I can't help but feel a bit... y'know?" Spider sighs.
Ari nods along. "Ah, yeah that makes sense, then. Gluttony should be nice, then? With Thrall running it now n all, because lust doesn't seem like your cup of tea." Another small snicker.
“Just because I don't shag everyone in sight doesn't mean I don't enjoy that kinda stuff occasionally.” Spider laughs.
Ari raises an eyebrow. "Well I wouldn't get that from how you talk whenever it's brought up." She says, genuine surprise in her voice.
“Fair enough, though yeah, lust could be fun.” Spider shrugs.
Ari nods along, grinning madly. "So have you and Sparrow..." Its shit eating grin makes it clear it knows its pushing limits.
Spider groans. "Is this all I'm gonna get out of you now? And no.”
"Damn... and yes this is all you're getting from me now, you're not living this down."
“Why am I friends with you again?" Spider chuckles.
"The real question is why wouldn't you be friends with me? I have so much to offer." Ari gives a joking pose.
“Like what?" Spider asks with a grin.
"I can give uh... the closest thing to therapy you've had." Ari rolls his eyes.
“That is true.” Spider laughs.