How bad can I be is blasting outside of the house.... something is coming.....
Luna continues Krystal's work from last night and continues sharpening her swords. Ichor blade time. But then the fucking Onceler song grabs her attention. "Who the fuck is playing that one song from fucking what's it called???"
Kade enters from the fuckin hallway "Is it 2016 Tumblr again."
Cole is staring at the front door
Orpheus stares out the window.
There’s a lone boom box in the front yard.
Luna is staring at the front door as well, preparing for the worst and also the best.
Kade looks at Cole, expectantly.
Orpheus gets up and goes outside. He walks over to the boombox and goes to punt it into the fucking stratosphere (across the street).
The street is covered in red fog and someone walks out of it, catching the boombox as they do.
They're about 6 feet tall with paper white skin, big red eyes, and short black hair. On their head sits two large red horns with jewelry adorning them and they wear... the Oncelers outfit but in red??? The fuck???
They grin, staring at Orpheus as they walk out. "HELLLOOOO THE KISS!" They say, their voice booming as if coming from speakers.
Luna walks out, headbanging to something.
Kade steps outside and fucking stares. "Who the fuck."
"RED FEMALE APOLLO????" Orpheus exclaims.
Cole walks outside with his cane and M1 Thompson. “I agree with that, Orpheus.”
Lock steps out.
Knight walks out and immediately runs at the new person, attempting to punch them.
Luna stands there with her sword out in front of her. "Sup bitch."
Dakota is outside. No thoughts in his head.
Catherine yawns, turning down the boombox's volume and setting it on the ground. She looks down at her outfit.
"Eugh let's change that." She snaps and it disappears, revealing she's wearing a red bikini top and a red leather harness with black jeans. She wears a silver arm cuff with silver chains on her pants. She also has fluffy black and red ears!
"How are we feeling tonight!" She asks, voice still sounding like it's coming from a speaker.
She grins at Knight, grabbing his arm and twisting it.
Luna is just jamming to her own music. "I think you got the wrong house, the leather club is two blocks down."
"Is she only partly clothed?" Lock mumbles.
“ACK-“ Knight is in pain.
Orpheus hollers. "KNIGHT'S HOUSE IS ALSO TWO BLOCKS DOWN!! HAHA!”
“Cover them up...uh...who are you?" Lock asks the newbie.
"People live around here???" Kade asks.
Cole nods. "Yeah.”
"What the fuck." Kade says.
Luna groans that her vague reference was ruined. "Yeah."
The new person throws Knight at Cole, yawning. "Names Catherine! Call me Cat or Erine or whatever. Don't really care." She looks to Lock. "Wowww didn't know you had a prude nun living here!"
“AH-“ Knight yells as he’s thrown.
"What is that?" Lock asks.
"SHE'S 16! DON'T CATCH A CASE!" Orpheus yells.
Kade is looking Catherine up and down. "Cath urine...."
"How about Cathy? You look like a slutty midwestern housewife." Luna says.
"What is going on...." Dakota is so clueless. "Are we at a brothel?"
Cole drops his cane and catches Knight by the scruff as he glares at him.
"I think she thinks those are clothes.” Lock mumbles to Dakota.
“GET ME DOWN I WANT TO KILL” Knight is wriggling and wraggling.
Catherine rolls her eyes. "Google it sunshine!" She says to Lock, looking at Luna. "Girl that's not even a good insult?? Like objectively I don't look like a housewife." She chuckles. "TWO SLUTSHAMERS??? DAKOTA I THOUGHT YOU WERE BETTER THAN THAT...." Catherine puts a hand to her chest, acting hurt.
"HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME?!" Dakota COWERS IN FEAR.
Kade covers his face with both of his hands.
Lock squints. "I looked it up but all I'm seeing are a lot of images o-" Her face turns red.
“You are a small idiotic little guy.” Cole says to Knight as he looks at Catherine. “Also wrong century clothing whore, go back to Vegas!”
"Okay Cath, how can we help you, or would you rather skip to the part where we kick your ass?" Luna asks.
“I WANT TO COMMIT A VIOLENCE!!!” Knight is trying to get loose.
Orpheus is looking at the kiss and shaking his head.
Catherine CACKLES. "Sure! Why not. Sounds like a good time!" She grins, thorned red vines coming out of the ground and rushing at the Kiss, attempting to wrap about each of their torsos.
Lock is wrapped and startled.
Luna teleports out of the vines quickly.
Orpheus jumps back away from the vines, his own loyal fleshy tendrils bursting out of the grass and tangling together with the vines Catherine sent his way.
Cole drops Knight and teleports out of the way of the vines.
Dakota gets wrapped.
Kade doesn't appear as phased by it, huffing some flames at the vine meant for him and moving out of the way.
Luna rushes into Catherine and goes in for a diagonal slash.
Knight gets wrapped up, he tries to flail out of them.
Catherine uses a vine to block, letting the vine get cut as she wraps another one around Luna's ankle and attempts to throw her at a tree.
Luna is thrown but teleports back to the ground before hitting the tree.
The captured Kiss members are thrown at some trees!
Orpheus looks at Cole, not sure what to do exactly.
"AHHH-" Lock hits a tree.
"RATTLE EM!” Cole opens fire at Catherine with the Thompson
“FUCK-“ Knight is put THROUGH A FUCKING TREE head first.
Luna lands on the ground. "Okay, this is gonna be slightly more difficult." A bright light engulfs Luna as she transforms into her MG form. Fire time baby!
Orpheus goes to tackle Catherine by the waist.
Dakota gets dented a little from being thrown at the tree. Nothing too bad, but it's noticeable. Ouchie.
Kade watches for a moment, before he sort of just.. squats to the ground, a summoning circle under his hand on the ground as he summons the fucking OVERSIZED HAMMER from it.
Lock is laying upside down by a tree "Uuueghh…”
Large dragon wings extend from Catherine's back and she jumps up, hovering in the air as Orpheus runs into the space she used to be in. The bullets hit Catherine but clink off. Under her skin appears to be red... crystal? The skin heals soon after.
Kade tries to throw his HAMMER at her.
Orpheus skids comedically across the ground after missing the tackle, like a goon in a cartoon.
"AGRGG-”
Luna launches 5 decently sized fireballs at Catherine, targetting the wings! "Take this! FIRAGA!"
“She's immune to being rattled..." Cole stops firing and puts the Thompson back as he flicks his cane back into his hand.
Knight wiggles out of the tree before taking out his trusty flare gun and shooting at her. “EAT FLARE GUN WHORE!”
Lock gets up, taking her sweet time straightening her hoodie and picking off leaves.
The hammer is thrown but Catherine moves out of its way, letting it go into the street.
She drops to the ground to dodge the fireballs but takes the flaregun, her skin reforming where it's destroyed.
Catherine yawns. "Keep it up! I might get bored soon." She says, flying back up.
The hammer fades into smoke. "Well, I tried. Have fun!" Kade exclaims.
Knight fires another flare.
Orpheus gets up, staring at Catherine. "Fuck, dude. Uhhh!!!!" He pulls out a brick and throws it at high speeds.
Cole's eyes flicker to pink as his overcoat falls away revealing his bone wings at their full wing span. "I'm not finished.” Cole's bone wings flap as he is brought to the same height as Catherine.
Luna snaps her fingers and her broomstick appears. She floats up to Catherine's height.
Catherine cocks her eyebrow, dodging the flare and catching the brick, chucking it at Lock.
Then she looks at Cole and Luna. "Yes?"
Lock catches the brick and falls on her back as she’s winded by it. "OOMPH.”
Luna simply summons another fireball and launches it at Catherine's wing. This fireball has a bit of purple glow to it. Hmm...
“You'll be hearing from my assistant about the overcoat cleaning costs." Cole's body is covered in arcs as he feigns a punch at her, a lightning bolt shoots from the metal knuckles of the gloves.
Kade watches the festivities.
Knight hits a tree, turning part of it into sand.
The fireball hits, the skin melting from Catherine's wing to reveal the bones in it are made of a red crystal. She retracts her wings and lands on the ground, dodging Cole's attack by proxy.
Orpheus pulls out a can of hairspray and a vintage cigarette lighter. You can assume what happens next.
Lock pushes the brick off and gets up.
Cole feigns another punch at her as another lighting bolt flies from the metal knuckles. "FUCK YOU I BET YOU’RE FROM BALTIMORE!”
Luna floats down still on her broomstick. Another fireball, another wing, LET'S GO! Purple glow too! Psychic Purple Fire Attack!
Knight turns the tree sand into a functional glass Barrett M82 and starts taking shots at her.
Kade looks around then tries to throw the FUCKING HAMMER again.
As their attacks land, everything stops.
Each person finds themself alone in a void before they hear a voice. The voice of someone they resent, they love, whoever would hurt the most.
"You disgust me." They say, repeating the victim's insecurities, yelling at them about how stupid and horrible they are.
They feel like they're trapped in this hell for a half hour.
---
Luna is in a dark room with only one light. No bed, no mirrors, no windows. [REDACTED] looks over Luna with disgust. Hatred. Reminding her of every single insecurity she has, the fact that she murdered innocent people. She is nothing but a tool. A worthless husk of a body only designed for destruction. Such is the life of a LUNA, nothing more than a miniboss. Designed to stand in the way of the Heroes. [REDACTED]'s words force her to hyperventilate and stare at THE FULL MOON until everything clicks into place.
Luna is locked down. And there's nothing she or Krystal can do about it.
---
Dakota is so fucking confused. He can see his mother standing in front of him, her long black hair almost blending into the void around them. She looks hurt, emotionally. She's yelling at him, but he can't understand why.
"I can't believe you would do this to me!" She cries, falling to her knees, hands clasped together in front of Dakota. "After your father left as well... How could you do this to me? You were all I had left." She starts to sputter off into a different language. She's crying now, her sadness turning more into anger. "You are a horrible son! I should've fed you to the wolves when I had gotten the chance!" This isn't like her. She wouldn't say these things to him even if he had tried to kill her!
"Mama, please..." He stutters to her, reaching his hand out.
She turns away. "I'm glad you are gone, you pathetic excuse for a child. Don't try to come back, nobody else wants you here either!" Fuck, she's right. He moved away, rarely visited, and didn't even have time to say goodbye. Nobody will want to see him. They won't accept him with open arms, they won't love him the same as before. FUCK.
"Mama, mama, I'm sorry! It isn't my fault, it.. it isn't-" His words are cut off by more of his mother's insults and harsh words.
“I don't want excuses." A different language again. She's clearly angry. Dakota covers his ears, tears swelling in his eyes, his system heating up. He closes his eyes, but when he opens them again, it's over. He blinks, looking around frantically at the yard, ears still covered.
---
Cole stands in front of a mirror and see's a damaged, bleeding, in pain version of him with crimson eyes staring back.
"Cole you should know by now that no one in that team likes you.” His voice sounds like several people, Luna, Orpheus, Sparrow, and Spider. Cole sighs and glances away, trying to ignore it.
It bangs against the mirror, it's fist is made up of metal bones held together by wires. “You were stronger alone and you fucking know it, those fucking idiots are weighing you down.” Cole snaps to look at the mirror.
"Maybe you’re right but you know what? Every hot air balloon needs its sandbags."
It rolls it's eyes as they click and whir. “Oh please. You’re not a fucking hot air balloon, metaphors only get you so far Cole."
Cole sighs heavily as he looks away from the mirror. “Look, I know metaphors are useless but these people have taught me love and compassion."
It bangs against the mirror again, the mirror shaking. “Oh please you've hurt them more than you've loved them, Orpheus said it himself.”
Cole snaps to look at the mirror. "Maybe that's true! maybe you’re right! but goddamn it, I have a job to protect these people and at the end of the day if I leave them they will fall apart!"
It smiles. “Oh, how I know you would love to see them crumble and struggle! You love to watch things crumble and fall apart at the seams!"
Cole clenches his fists as he huffs and breathes heavily. "I DO BUT NOT WHEN IT'S GOOD PEOPLE!”
It cackles in his face. "Getting mad, are we? Didn't one of these “good people” tell you that anger is the source of your problems?"
Cole glares at it as he shifts his stance to be defensive. “Anger is a tool and it is a tool that I can harness and use to protect the people around me."
It smirks as it chuckles.”And how goes harnessing it?"
Cole huffs as he stares it in the eye. “It's going fine.”
It laughs one last time before it fades into dust, leaving Cole to stare at his reflection.
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All Knight sees is a void, before the voices of the Kiss start to berate him.
“Pathetic,” says Cole.
“Useless,” says Luna.
“Who?” says Harmonia.
“Failure,” says Eris. This repeats as the other members of the Kiss and the people he knows start to join in.
Knight starts shooting his glass rifle in the general area of the voices, trying to make them go away and disappear. It only drowns them out for a moment as the voices start to grow in volume and intensity. Then, the voices suddenly go quiet as Knight runs out of ammo.
“I should’ve just let you die you disgrace.” His Father whispers to him. Then, someone cackles.
“𝙽𝚘 𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝙳𝚊𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞!” Cheshire says with a smile. “𝙻𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞! 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢, 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚗𝚓𝚘𝚢 𝚔𝚒𝚋𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚜, 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗’𝚝 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚜! 𝚂𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚕𝚢, 𝙷𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍’𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚖𝚎. 𝙸 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗, 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚊 𝚞𝚗𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙𝚏𝚞𝚕, 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜, 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜, 𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚘𝚍 𝚍𝚊𝚖𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚓𝚘𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚎." It then ends with Knight sobbing his eyes out.
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Lock's hallucination is wack. Once it ends, she stays where she’s standing and is quiet.
Orpheus has an explosive incident.
Knight is just shooting randomly while sobbing angrily as his hallucination goes on.
Luna is face down on the ground. When she eventually comes to her eyes are glowing red. Quiet. Krystal is locked out.
Cole is calmly breathing while staring forward as his eyes glow pink, he's still hovering in place casually.
Orpheus is splayed out on the ground, silently bawling his fucking eyes out, missing his right arm and half of his skull. Thankfully, there's not much blood! Or any gore at all. Wrath demon moment!!! Oh, also he's on fire.
When they all resurface it's only been a few minutes. Catherine is gone but there's one thing left behind.
The word "Killers" is spray painted on the roof.
Lock glances at the roof. She then looks around at everyone but stays in place. Her hair is back over her face again, shes dried off by now.
Luna's eyes continue to glow red and her breathing is calm. Krystal continues trying to break through to Luna, but nothing works.
Knight is sobbing while clicking the trigger of his empty rifle.
Kade just blinks for a moment. He doesn't seem to be crying, or particularly upset in general, but his breathing is quick and he seems to be sweating and. physically hot in general.
He huffs, looking away for a moment, before ruffling his hair, his tail doing a fast-paced wag behind him. He walks up to Orpheus and takes up a hose to douse him in.
Orpheus is extinguished. He's breathing, just sucks at doing so without half his face!
Kade looks around, lowering down to Orpheus's side as he summons another sigil under his hand, grabbing a jar of refrigerated blood and pouring it on Orpheus.
Orpheus' clothes are now SOAKED in blood. All of his wounds heal and his damage regrows. He gets onto his knees, hand covering his mouth, crying. Not a second later, he vomits. There's not too much, but there's a lot of blood in there.
Kade gives him a light hug, keeping him a bit close. "It's alright. Take your time."
Orpheus pushes Kade away from him, getting up and running into the house.
Kade watches.
Lock watches.
Krystal continues trying to break through. It's almost as if there's a massive wall blocking the way to Luna's psyche. Just need to take a sledgehammer to it. But no matter how much Krystal fights, it's never-ending.
The wall begins to crumble.
Cole slowly lowers to the ground and stares into the forest, his bone wings limply resting at his sides.
Knight is now sobbing on the ground. Pathetic.
Luna looks to be in pain, holding her head and grunting, her claws digging in.
Lock suddenly briskly walks into the house. She walks back out with a handful of tissues. She ignores what anyone is actually doing and sets a few tissues in front of each person.