April 14, 2022

Spider stops fiddling with her blade and looks over at Orpheus.

He's looking at the passed out Knight.

Knight got knocked the fuck out, he’s probably gonna wake up soon though.

"Hey, Orpheus?" Spider gets up and walks over to him.

"What?" Orpheus asks.

“Can I talk to you, in private? ..it's important.” She gives the unconscious Knight a worried look.

"…Sure??"

“Back garden'll do.” Spider snaps her fingers and the two teleport there.

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The two appear in the backyard.

“Huh?" Luna asks.

“Didn't realize you were here, shit.” Spider sighs. "Do me a favor and just ignore what's about to happen.”

Orpheus stumbles with the teleport. "Ewhgh okay, that's something that I didn't expect. Hi."

"Hi." Spider grins and grabs him by the neck attempting to plunge her other hand into his chest and remove his soul.

Her hand goes right into Orpheus’s chest, quickly finding the weirdly shaped soul. "WHG???" His eyes go wide.

Spider pulls it out as soon as she finds it, not giving him a chance to react.

She practically tears his chest open, hand covered in blood. In her hand is a soul with half of another tacked onto it. The soul has a ton of vines and roots and flowers embedded into it, woven throughout the soul. Everything seems various amounts of dead. He is frozen in a mix of fear and being unable to react.

Spider lets him go as she attempts to de-weed his soul, basically grabbing what she can and pulling.

Orpheus crumbles to the ground, limp.

It works! The soul bleeds sap as she does so. There's uh.. a lot.

Spider ignores it and continues not stopping until every last weed is removed.

The pale green light of the soul begins to flicker out. There are so many holes and cracks in it. Very dire state. There are some things seemingly implanted entirely within it.

She then takes the part of the soul that's tacked on and attempts to rip it off the rest of the soul.

It's firmly attached as if it's meant to be on there, but it begins to tear off.

She continues.

It tears off and both halves of the soul go dark. There's a big seed within the main chunk of soul.

Spider places the tacked-on piece onto the floor and attempts to pluck out the seed.

It works but the seed is the side of a peach pit and thus the soul bleeds a fuckton from having it taken out.

Spider sighs and drops the seed before picking up the other half of the soul and attempting to put it back together.

They're definitely being pressed together.

Cole walks outside and stares at Spider. "What are you doing?"

Spider growls softly. "Trying to fix this damn thing.”

"It's not fuckin rocket science,” Cole responds.

Orpheus is limp on the ground, chest torn open, bleeding a lot of sap onto the ground.

“Just do me a solid and keep Knight away if he wakes up.”

Cole walks over to Spider and heals the soul while staring at them. “Sure."

The pieces of the soul fit back together and all of the holes in it heal back up. It's still like... not glowing or colored at all.

"Now put it back.” Cole says.

Spider does so.

It's in! The torso begins to heal up as the soul starts to glow monochromatic.

She watches before turning to Cole. "Ta.”

"Not a problem.” Cole stares at the door to the backyard.

Orpheus begins to hack up a profuse amount of sap from their mouth, still limp on the ground.

"And he's not dead, good.” Spider says.

“Turn him on his left side so he doesn't choke on it,” Cole says.

"I know first aid Cole.” Spider sighs and does so.

“Then why did I have to say it, why didn't you do it automatically?" Cole is still staring at the backyard door.

“Same goes for you,” Spider says.

"I'm watching the backyard door to make sure Knight doesn't freak the fuck out.”

It's like... a lot of sap. Like it's a bunch of something trying to exit his system as quickly as possible.

Spider picks up the seed and disappears.

Luna's just vibing and watching a deer man vomit sap.

Orpheus falls back onto his back, help him.

Luna goes over there and props him up on his side. "Here ya go, get it all out and preferably not on me."

Orpheus finishes up the vomiting of sap and coughs up some proper blood before stopping. He's breathing quite heavily.

Cole stares at Orpheus. "Ya good?"

Orpheus weakly shakes his head no, seeming to be like... completely fuckin limp. It's worth mentioning that both of his eyes are like... completely black.

Cole kneels down next to Orpheus and heals him.

Literally nothing changes :D

"Do you feel lightheaded?"

"Y-y ea h ???" Orpheus’s soul is vibing, funny as hell. It's like... Empty. Like it's there and function but it's empty and lacking in… Some t hi n g.

There's a flash of sanguine red light from the front yard.

“Oh goddamnit.” Cole turns to Orpheus. “Orpheus give me 2 seconds.” Cole then disappears.

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Satan claws his way out of the ground in the front yard and it quickly seals up after him.

Cole appears next to Satan and looks at him with puppy dog eyes. “Pleeeb help my friend has a soul issue and I don't know how to fiiiix it!”

"What. Son?" Satan gets down to his knees and looks at Cole.

"Orpheus needs help, his soul needs something but I can't tell whaaat-”

"...Hm." Cole is picked up by Satan as he stands and begins to make his way over to the backyard.

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In the backyard, Orpheus groans and goes limp on the ground.

Satan walks into the backyard.

Orpheus and Satan make eye contact.

Orpheus is picked up in his other paw.

"This young man needs some Sin in His diet."

There's a flash of green distortion as Spider appears.

"Okay, Dad. Also, Cerberus told me to call you sugar horns.” Cole says.

Satan drops Orpheus and Cole suddenly but catches them before they hit the ground.

"Cerberus. also needs to watch his mouth."

"Oop-" Cole says.

Spider chuckles. “You were right Cole.”

“Right about what?"

“That being funny, you nitwit.”

“I’m not a nitwit, I’m Cole." Cole crosses his arms.

“Ain't those things one and the same?" Spider jokes.

Satan stares at Spider.

Cole chuckles. “Eh probably.”

Spider’s middle finger just fucking ignites as she flips off Satan.

“Dad can you just fix the soul, I don't want you fighting Spider.” Cole asks.

Satan punts Spider across the backyard and disappears with Cole and Orpheus.

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