March 14

Cole stumbles upon Chris and Legion, the Prince of Greed, having a chat while looking through a bookshelf full of Vinyl Discs. “Hello dear, How have you been?” Cole asks Chris while walking up to him with a smile. Chris turns to look at him, his eyebrows raised.

“Hello dear.”

“How have you been?”

“Fine?” Chris replies.

“That’s good dear, That’s good.” Cole says before Legion tilts his head to look at him.

He jumps back in shock, tripping on his own tail in the process. He falls on his ass before saying "...𝔀𝓱𝔀𝓪𝓽? 𝓗𝓸𝔀 𝓭𝓲𝓭 𝓪 𝔀𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓱 𝓭𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓷 𝓰𝓮𝓽 𝓲𝓷????.. 𝓦𝓐𝓘𝓣. 𝓗𝓞𝓦 𝓓𝓘𝓓 𝓒𝓞𝓛𝓔 𝓖𝓐𝓡𝓝𝓔𝓣 𝓖𝓔𝓣 𝓘𝓝?????"

“Are you quite alright, mate?” Chris asks Legion with concern in his voice.

Cole giggles before joyously exclaiming “Ohhhh I haven’t felt this powerful in a while!”.

“Cole, Please.” Chris asks, “I feel like I should make introductions, but with the recognition, It’s quite unnecessary now.”

“Honey, I’m not going to kill him.” Cole says before turning his gaze to Legion.

"..𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽???" Cole walks towards him as he quickly gets up and starts walking backwards.

“Why so scared? It’s just little old me.”

“Ok, Cole, Stand Down.” Chris exclaims as Cole continues walking towards Legion.

“I’m just talking to him,” Cole says before asking Legion, “So why is Chris down here?”

Legion continues to back up. "𝓑𝓮𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝓷𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴 𝓽𝓸 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓮𝓮𝓽 𝓱𝓲𝓶! 𝓘 𝓭𝓲𝓭𝓷'𝓽 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝔂 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓽!"

“You better not have had any cause. If I find one god damn bruise on him I will mount your head on a pike.” “Cole!” Chris exclaims. “You are not to threaten him.” Legion continues to back up.

"𝓘'𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓫𝓻𝓾𝓲𝓼𝓮𝓼! 𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 𝓱𝓪𝓼𝓷'𝓽 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝓸𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓱𝓮 𝓰𝓸𝓽 𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮!"

Cole sighs before taking a deep breath. He looks towards Chris, “I’m just a little upset dear.”

“Doesn’t excuse you trying to hurt him OK? Or should we reintroduce the pencil?” Chris says before Cole looks back at Legion.

“You’re gonna tell me if he is going to any other circles.”

"𝓘 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭𝓷'𝓽 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷??? 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽'𝓼 𝓪 𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓛1𝓜𝓑0!" Legion responds with a slightly panicked tone of voice.

“The Pencil is not needed and I will go ask L1mb0, But if he fucking disappears I am gonna go fucking apeshit!” Cole exclaims angrily.

“We’re gonna have a talk about this, you and I.” Chris says before Cole takes a long deep breath.

He looks at chris. “I’m just a little bit upset is all, Don’t worry about it.”

Legion is beyond terrified at this moment. Cole looks at Legion before smiling, “Why are you so scared of me? I haven’t done Anything yet.”

"𝓨𝓞𝓤'𝓡𝓔 𝓐 𝓦𝓡𝓐𝓣𝓗 𝓓𝓔𝓜𝓞𝓝! 𝓦𝓘𝓣𝓗 𝓐 𝓑𝓞𝓝𝓔 𝓟𝓘𝓒𝓚𝓐𝓧𝓔! 𝓣𝓗𝓐𝓣'𝓢 𝓣𝓔𝓡𝓡𝓘𝓕𝓨𝓘𝓝𝓖! 𝓨𝓞𝓤 𝓣𝓡𝓐𝓒𝓚𝓔𝓓 𝓤𝓢 𝓓𝓞𝓦𝓝 𝓣𝓗𝓡𝓞𝓤𝓖𝓗 𝓣𝓗𝓔 𝓛𝓐𝓑𝓨𝓡𝓘𝓝𝓣𝓗 𝓦𝓘𝓣𝓗𝓞𝓤𝓣 𝓖𝓞𝓘𝓝𝓖 𝓘𝓝𝓢𝓐𝓝𝓔!! 𝓣𝓗𝓐𝓣'𝓢 𝓣𝓔𝓡𝓡𝓘𝓕𝓨𝓘𝓝𝓖!!!! 𝓘'𝓜 𝓐 𝓓𝓔𝓜𝓞𝓝, 𝓝𝓞𝓣 𝓐𝓝 𝓘𝓝𝓢𝓐𝓝𝓔 𝓜𝓐𝓝!" Legion yells Cole, still very fucking terrified of him.

“I’m already insane! It wouldn’t change anything about me and the bone pickaxe was just in case you did fight me.” Cole exclaims before Chris interjects.

“He’s not the fighter type Cole.”

Legion starts breathing heavily while looking around for a way out. He keeps his left hand out of sight by keeping it in his pocket. “I can see that now. He fucking fell over just by me walking over to him.” Cole says with a sigh.

“I know you’re in here, but he didn’t. So while I’m surprised, I’m not startled.” Chris says before turning towards Legion. “I am sorry for my husband’s behavior, sir.”

“Well I didn’t mean to scare him that badly. Here,” Cole offers a paw to Legion. “Let me help you up man.” He accepts Cole’s paw with his right hand as he pulls him up to his feet. “If only I had a beer bottle, I could have done my favorite bit.”

“We’re not drinking in the Library.”

“No, I mean I could have broken it over his head as I pulled him up.”

“Ah, that prank. Still no, of course, because hitting a man as he’s standing up is not fun.” Chris says while looking at Legion. “Also, sir, your left hand.” Legion immediately takes a few steps back.

"..𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓲𝓽.?𝓒𝓞𝓛𝓔 𝓦𝓗𝓐𝓣."

“It’s funny to me and Relax, I don’t have a beer bottle.” Cole says before Chris asks,

“Well, Why aren’t you leaving it outside? Why hide it?”

Legion is silent for a moment before sighing and pulling out his left hand. It's completely different than the rest of his body. Fully furred without a scale in sight, colored and patterned like your average deer. The fingers are clumsy looking black hooves. 3 fingers instead of the 4 on his other hand. The broken piece of his antler is pierced through the back of his hand and out the other side. It is bleeding what appears to be liquid gold, but it's definitely just normal blood aside from appearance.

“Huh, That’s fucking Badass!” Cole comments with a smile.

“...I think we need your healing powers, mate. And definitely need the piece removed, so that it won’t be infected later.” Chris says concerned.

".𝓘'𝓵𝓵 𝓫𝓮. 𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓮".

“You are not, sir. Let us go back there and we can treat you there.”

“It’s a demon honey, I don’t think that I can affect them.”

“The same way a pencil cannot affect you, dear?”

“If you put a pencil through my skull and I run out of charges, I’m gonna be a pissed ghost.”

“I mean, fair enough, you already have a ghost form, But the man’s in pain and needs medical attention.”

“I don’t think it’s gonna work.”

“Well, try first, ask later.”

With a sigh, Cole goes to heal Legion. The wound just closes around the piece of antler. “...oh great.”

“Oops.”

“Should have pulled out the piece first.”

“Yeah, Probably.” Chris sighs. “Again, we’re gonna have to go to the room to at least get it removed, wouldn’t want this part of the library to be just flickers of blood.”

“Naaahhh I can remove it.”

“You sure?”

“Yeah, I’m sure I can remove it.”

“I know I’m fretting here, but again, get that removed and healed. And no undue pain for our man here.”

Cole turns to Legion. “Hey Greed, Do you have something to bite on?”

"𝓘'𝓵𝓵 𝓫𝓮 𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓮, 𝓘 𝓭𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓷𝓮𝓮𝓭 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓸𝓷." He says as he holds his left hand out for Cole. Cole grips the antler piece and rips it out. The wound immediately starts bleeding profusely onto the ground. Legion, regretting his earlier statement, bites down on his tongue to keep quiet, nearly falling forward onto Cole. Cole holds him up to keep him standing as he heals him. Before it fully heals, the liquid gold blood that drips out of it becomes something akin to green tree sap.

“Is that tree sap?” Cole asks.

"...𝓶𝓪𝔂𝓫𝓮? 𝓲 𝓭𝓸𝓷𝓽.. 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀."

“Probably not, but… I don’t think there’s green blood.”

“Yeah, I doubt that it’s blood. Also, You look cute under this light Chris.” Chris blushes a bit.

“Really?”

“Yeah you do.” Legion starts getting heavy so Cole gently puts Legion so he’s leaning on a bookshelf. Legion closes his eyes as he goes limp, Passing out and hitting the ground with a heavy thud.

“Ah.” Chris says.

“Out like a light.” Cole quips.

“OK, you’re carrying him dear, ‘cause I ain’t got muscles for carrying.”

“I’m not carrying him, that fucker is so heavy.”

“Well, not like, carry carry, but like, the ol’... what is it, like, you hold one arm, I hold one, and then we pull him like that?”

“Fine. We can try but if I blow out my muscles you can’t be mad at me.” Cole says with a sigh before lifting Legion up with all of his strength. “There we go. Alright just follow me honey and ignore the books.” Cole looks around for a path back but can’t find one. Chris leads the way back by following Legion’s very long tail. Cole follows behind. Along the way, Legion’s form shifts slightly.

They end up in front of a door, the same door Chris entered earlier when he first ended up in the layer of Greed. The tip of Legion’s tail seems to be stuck under the door, so Chris decides to open the door. It’s a pitch black hexagonal room with two comfy armchairs, three big windows, and a chandelier hanging from the ceiling. There’s a small fire as the room's only source of light. Chris and Cole walk into the room with a passed out Legion. The Door slams shut behind them.

Legion’s tail returns to its normal long state as Cole sets him down in one of the chairs. Legion looks a bit different but it’s hard to tell with the room being so dark.

“Is it just me, or is he slightly different from when we met up in the labyrinthian library?” Chris asks while sitting down in front of the fire.

“He does but I’m too tired to care.” Cole says as he walks over to Chris.

He points at Chris’s lap. “Is that seat taken dear?”

“No?”

“Good” Cole curls up in Chris’s lap and falls asleep while Chris absentmindedly pets him.

After a while, Cole wakes up. The room is still as dark as it was when he first entered it. “Still fucking dark what the hell.” Cole says before sighing. “Guess I’m stuck in hell again. Eh, At Least I’m spending it with Chris.”

“Ah, you’re awake.”

“Hello dear, I have been awake for a little while.” Chris starts scratching Cole behind his ears, He smiles as his tails wags fast enough to become a blur.

Legion stirs in his chair. The blank void that the middle window peered into starts to creep into the room. “ₛₜₒₚ.ₛₜₒₚ.ₙₒₜₙₒw.ₜₕₑᵣₑₐᵣₑₚₑₒₚₗₑₕₑᵣₑ.” He mutters under his breath. Chris tries to move away from him but, since Cole is still on his lap, he doesn’t get far.

“Dear?” Chris asks Cole.

“Yes?”

“I am… concerned.”

“About what?”

“Our host.”

“Greed? What about him?”

Legion stirs some more as he grips the arm of the chair he’s sitting on uncomfortably. "..ₑᵥᵢₗ.yₒᵤᵣₑₑᵥᵢₗ.yₒᵤcₐₙₜdₒₜₕᵢₛ." The white void creeps further into the room.

“Well, there’s him, and then there’s the fact that the room just feels slightly whiter than before.”

“That’s true. Do you want me to move?”

“That’d be nice, yeah. At least off my lap.” Cole gets off of Chris’s lap as the void creeps closer. They both get up and stand, Cole walks over to “Legion” as Chris stretches.