Harmonia runs into the forest, her stomach growling loudly as she walks through the woods, crying quietly.
A tall man slinks out from a set of trees, looking down at Harmonia.
Harmonia doesn't notice him for she is too busy sobbing on the ground.
Alastor shrinks down his form considerably and sits down beside Harmonia, resting a hand on her shoulder.
She flinches, not realizing who it was at first but relaxes. Her neck is now completely shadowed. In the right lighting, it would look like her head floats.
He gently felt her neck, perplexed by the visual of it. His hands feel very soft, especially for a creature who lives in the woods.
Harmonia freezes at the touch, "W-when I die the skin around the wound turns black...."
It nods, pulling her into a light embrace as the aura of the wooded area around the two starts to feel less dreary. The sun shines through, the sky clearing and a rabbit can be seen hopping along over to them. Harmonia hugs the tall figure, sobbing into its shoulder, letting herself be pulled onto its lap like a child. It tightens its hug, patting her back to try and cheer Harmonia up. As it does this, the rabbit squeaks with a stick in its mouth. It climbs into Harmonia's lap and starts gnawing on the twig.
Harmonia pets it, sniffling as she stops crying. "Alastor, right?" Alastor nods, also stroking the rabbit's fur. She relaxes against him before lifting her shirt a bit to show the shadow area on her stomach.
"This is where Abaddon killed me..." She explains. He inspects it, running its hands through her hair before nodding. She puts her shirt back down and places her head on his shoulder. Alastor pats her head, using one of his arms to slowly manifest a ring in its hand. It slides the ring onto Harmonia's finger, the voids on her body slowly becoming less and less visible.
"Woah..." She watches them disappear in amazement. "How... how did you?"
Alastor shrugs jokingly, returning his free arm around her. Harmonia looks at the ring and takes it off to test it.
The voids return rather quickly. Alastor silently guides the ring back onto her finger. She watches.
"I see..." Harmonia relaxes, wiping away the remnants of tears as she pets the bunny. Alastor helps her wipe away the tears, eventually picking a small sunflower and handing it to her. She takes it with a smile, "How did it grow? It's March..." Harmonia laughs.
Alastor moves as if he is laughing, yet no sound comes out.
Harmonia smiles softly. "This is nice...."
Alastor nods. He wants to show her something, but he can't speak to her in this form. He thinks for a moment and then decides it would be a good time to access his secondary form. He isn't able to hold it for very long, but it's arguably the most human-looking form he has. Harmonia vibes, laying against him and petting the bunny.
"I wanted a bunny when I was little…" Harmonia says.
---
Amos Sayword pulls up to the entrance of the forest, hesitating before going through. He lights another cigarette, walking until he hears something.
---
Alastor begins to glow brightly, sending a beacon of light into the sky before it all disappears, revealing his new form, his ascended form.
He's still tall, wearing a black turtleneck and black pants. His skin is a dark blue, and his hair is a slightly lighter shade of it. Two black horns protrude from his head along with two bat-like wings coming from his back. His eyes are black with white irises and yellow pupils. His ears are large and elf-like.
Harmonia watches. "Woah..."
"Oh, hey, Harm." Amos waves as he walks towards the pair.
"Oh hi-"
"Oh, hello. Who are you?" Alastor said. His voice was deep and accompanied by a crisp British accent.
Amos smiles. "A fellow European. I'm Amos Sayword."
Harmonia sets the bunny on the ground and gets up. Alastor smiled, his teeth are pointier than one would expect, "Wonderful meeting you, Amos! I am Alastor."
"I like the fit change, Harm. Very... spooky." He smiles at Alastor. "You're new."
"Fit change?? It's just- um." Harmonia tucks her wings behind her back anxiously.
"New to you perhaps, but I have been here for very long." Alastor explains, "Perhaps even longer than you."
Amos glares at Alastor. "Huh." Alastor’s still hugging Harmonia and she relaxes in the hug. Amos brows furrow. "I thought you had a girlfriend."
"I do- This isn't. um. Weird he's just a friend-"
"Uh-huh." Amos takes a puff of his cigarette.
"I'm literally a lesbian.”
"Oh, no need to worry, I have no ill-intent. I was merely here to comfort a friend is all," Alastor stood up, revealing his full height of 7'3.
Amos' eyes widen, "Hello."
"I thought you had a boyfriend, Amos.” Harmonia smirks.
"Oh, please, I don't mean anything to him."
"Huh?? Didn't he literally get a new body for you?” Harmonia asks.
"Why, if you mean nothing to him then maybe he isn't a great choice as a partner." Alastor comments.
"He literally just wants my house and my money. And my Wii, for some reason." Amos takes another puff.
"Then break up with him dude.” Harmonia sighs.
"He has nowhere else to go."
"If need be, I may provide him residence with my child Nicholas in my realm," Alastor offers.
"That's very kind. Though he cannot stand a day without me. He'd rather die." Amos explains.
"So then clearly you must mean something to him," Alastor responds. Harmonia fiddles with her shirt nervously.
"Yeah. He doesn't feel the way I do, though."
"Anyways um... what're you doin here?" Harmonia asks.
"I needed to get out. I've been playing Minesweeper for hours and I wanted to leave."
"Ah.” Harmonia nods.
"Minesweeper? I was never too good at it." Alastor comments.
He sighs. "It's very... Compact."
Harmonia shifts a bit, not sure what to say. "Um, so what's new with you guys?"
"I kidnapped a kid and now it's my child," Amos said.
"What???" Harmonia asks.
"I created a realm of my own a little while ago. Would the two of you like to see it?" Alastor asks.
Amos looks at him. "Yes. That sounds badass."
"Sure??!?!" Harmonia takes a deep breath. "What’s new with me is that I'm letting a malicious entity possess my body so it can kill innocents."
"O h ." Alastor says.
"Yeah."
"First time?" Amos asks.
"...sorry Alastor..." Harmonia looks down. Amos examines Harmonia's mood, shrugging. Harmonia seems a tad bit uncomfortable around Amos.
"It's alright. Just don't get yourself hurt." Alastor responds.
"I'll try not to…”
"Oh, Harmonia's getting herself in danger?" Amos asks.
"...Well, I know how we can solve this depressing moment." A red, demonic-looking portal opens beside Alastor. "Follow me to..." A dramatic piano stinger plays. "BEAR, DELAWARE."
"I'm in danger all the time. Also what the fuck??”
"What the fuck is Delaware?" Amos asks.
"You will see! I have modified the town of Bear, Delaware to be the new hub of happiness." Alastor explains. Harmonia looks nervous but walks into the portal. Amos follows, feeling extremely stupid.
---
Alastor walks into The Restaurant™ as it shifted into a Wendy's before their eyes. Harmonia watches in disappointment.
"Damnit Wendy’s sucks.”
"That's alright!" Alastor walks out of the Wendy's and goes back inside. It's now a Pizza Hut.
"Win,” Harmonia orders a large pepperoni pizza with stuffed crust. Alastor orders a personal pan pepperoni pizza.
"God now I want a deer soul pizza...."
A deer soul pizza appears in front of Harmonia. "There you go!" Alastor says.
“YOOO!! WINNNN!” Harmonia starts fucking devouring it. Alastor started calmly and politely eating his pizza, smiling as Harmonia ate hers. Amos sits quietly.
Alastor offers a slice of his pizza to Amos. "Here."
"Uh, no, thank you. I'm... not hungry."
"Hm. Very well." Alastor took the slice back, eating it. Amos taps his fingers on the table, his legs bouncing slightly.
"Thank you, Alastor,” Harmonia says.
"You're very welcome, Harmonia!" Harmonia boops Alastors nose and he chuckles a bit, booping her nose in return. She smiles. It's nice with Alastor. She feels like she can be childish and not worry about the horrible things that happen to her.
Alastor finished his pizza, closing the box and setting it aside. "How are the two of you enjoying Bear, Delaware?"
"It's nice so far!” Harmonia says.
"Wonderful! I'm so glad."
"What's your favorite color?" She asks.
"Mine? Mine is yellow." Alastor says.
"That's a good color.”
"What's yours?"
"Orange,” Harmonia responds.
"Green." Says Amos.
Apollo kicks down the door of the Pizza Hut, the sky behind him being red for just a split second. It changes abruptly to loud static, then back to blue.
"Hello, fellow Hutsmen."
Harmonia flinches at the noise. "Hi, Apollo.”
Apollo walked over to Harmonia, sitting down beside her. "What happened to your... Y'know... Spots? Holes? Voids?"
"...Do you know this man?" Alastor asks.
"Oh uh." Harmonia takes the ring off, showing that her neck is completely shadowed now. “Alastor gave me a funny tool to cover them up! And yeah this is the malicious entity possessing me.”
Alastor and Apollo look at each other with malice.
Harmonia looks awkward. "Um... anyways.." She puts the ring back on.
"...As long as you're having fun I suppose!" Alastor says passive-aggressively, staring down Apollo.
Apollo laughs awkwardly, grabbing onto Harmonia's arm. "Hey, we should probably get going-"
"Oh- okay-" Apollo pulls her awkwardly out of the Pizza Hut.
"You. Take that stupid fucking ring off and look at me." Harmonia takes it off and puts it in her pocket, looking at Apollo, her neck turning all shadowed. He put his hand on her neck, accidentally lightly choking her as he examined it. "Who the fuck did this to you?" Harmonia squeaks and tries to back away.
“C-cole-" Apollo let go of her, starting to pace back and forth before leaning over her.
"And why did he do that, huh? To fuckin' test me? See what all he can get away with?!"
"N-no I don't know- He just. Did he said he didn't know why-"
He growls lowly, placing a hand on her face and caressing her cheek with his thumb. "Well he's not gonna get to do it again, you understand? He won't have fucking hands to do it with by the time I'm done with him..."
Harm freezes. "O-okay.. You don't have to do that I'm fine-"
Apollo smiles, patting her shoulder. "Now, we're gonna get out of this fuckin' stage show and go fuck up Cole. Understand?"
She shakes her head. "We don't have to hurt him-"
"ĦɆ FᵾȻꝀƗNǤ ĦᵾɌŦ MɎ VɆSSɆŁ, Ɨ ǤɆŦ ŦØ ĦᵾɌŦ ĦƗS!" Harmonia freezes, flinching. Apollo paces back and forth, trying to compose himself before suddenly punching a hole in the window of the Pizza Hut. The window repairs itself immediately after.
"SŦᵾⱣƗĐ FᵾȻꝀƗNǤ FȺꝀɆ WØɌŁĐ!" Apollo walks into the Pizza Hut with anger, picking up Alastor by the collar and manifesting a hatchet to press against his neck.
"ɎØᵾ. ɃŁᵾɆ ɃØɎ. ǤɆŦ MɆ ȺNĐ MɎ VɆSSɆŁ ŦĦɆ FᵾȻꝀ ØᵾŦ ØF ĦɆɌɆ." Harmonia looks afraid, shaking slightly.
Alastor shivers, putting his hands up. "O-Okay! Okay! I'll let you go-" He opens a portal to Earth behind Apollo. Apollo grins, dropping Alastor onto his seat and grabbing onto Harmonia, dragging her to the portal and entering Earth.
---
Apollo kicks the door open to Harmonias house, Harmonia and hatchet in hand.
"ȻØŁɆ FᵾȻꝀƗNǤ ǤɆNɆSØNɆ." Cole looks at Apollo.
"Apollo fucking no last name."
"What." Says Luna.
"Wait... who's this?" Chris asks. Harmonia looks genuinely terrified.
"Why's he here?" Luna asks. "Sup Polly."
"Polly?" Chris and Cole ask in unison.
"Apollo." Luna explains. "Whatever his name is, I don’t know."
"Polly wants a cracker?" Says Chris.
Apollo lets go of Harmonia, pinning Cole against the wall.
"ɎØᵾ'ɌɆ ǤØNNȺ FᵾȻꝀƗNǤ ŦɆŁŁ MɆ WĦȺŦ ɎØᵾ ĐƗĐ ŦØ ĦɆɌ."
"Messieurs, please fight outside." Chris pleads.
Cole giggles and blushes under the mask he’s wearing. "Oooo calm down I'm married~"
Harmonia steps back. "He wanted to know about my neck-"
Apollo slams the hatchet into the wall next to Cole’s head.
"Hello, can y'all fight outside and not fuck up Harmonia's house?" Luna asks.
"That doesn't scare the mother fucking Cole Garnet." Cole says.
Apollo growls, pointing at Harmonia's neck.
"ɎØᵾ. ɆXⱣŁȺƗN. N Ø W ."
"Okay cave man headass. I snapped her neck, what are you gonna do about it twink?" Apollo rips Cole's mask off, tossing it aside. It miraculously didn't break. Cole is blushing and quickly covers his face as Harmonia keeps her distance. Chris and Luna watch.
Apollo growls, picking up Cole by the throat and choke slamming him yet again. He then takes his hatchet and starts hacking away at Cole's limbs.
Harmonia flinches. "Goddamnit-" Luna teleports away.
"OK," Chris says as he closes his eyes.
Cole hits the ground with a slight crunch and his jacket rips as metal strips come out and wrap around Apollo's limbs and lift him away into the air and away from him.
"You know we could have talked this over.” Cole says.
Apollo tries to cut himself free, eventually having an idea. He opened a portal, throwing his hatchet into it. Another portal opens above Cole, causing the hatchet to fall right on his face.
Cole rolls out of the way and stands up as Harmonia leads Chris out of the room, “C’mon it's not safe here.”
"You know I'm not that stupid." Cole says to Apollo.
"ȺɌɆ ɎØᵾ SᵾɌɆ? ɎØᵾ SɆɆM ⱣɌɆŦŦɎ FᵾȻꝀƗNǤ SŦᵾⱣƗĐ ŦØ MɆ!" Apollo opens 5 portals around Cole, each launching out different assorted weapons.
The weapons phase through Cole. “You seem to not know who I am.”
Harmonia runs in. “Okay okay please stop-"
"Why?" Cole asks.
Apollo gets up, looking at Harmonia and then at Cole.
"Ɨ ĦȺVɆ ȺN ƗĐɆȺ. ĦØW ȺɃØᵾŦ WɆ ǤØ WƗŦĦ SØMɆŦĦƗNǤ MØɌɆ FȺƗɌ? ȺN ɆɎɆ FØɌ ȺN ɆɎɆ? ɎØᵾ SNȺⱣⱣɆĐ ĦɆɌ NɆȻꝀ. ŁɆŦ MɆ SNȺⱣ ɎØᵾɌ'S."
"Mmmm… No. I like my neck unsnapped thank you very much."
"C-Cole just do it please-” Harmonia asks.
"ɆƗŦĦɆɌ ɎØᵾ ŁɆŦ MɆ SNȺⱣ ɎØᵾɌ NɆȻꝀ, ØɌ Ɨ ĐØ ƗŦ ɃɎ FØɌȻɆ."
"Mmmm I prefer you don't do either considering what might happen."
Apollo smirks, looking over at Harmonia.
"ĦȺɌMØNƗȺ."
"What?" She looks back. Both of their eyes glow green as he enters her body. Apollo laughs.
"WØɌꝀS ɆVɆɌɎ ŦƗMɆ."
"God damn it.” Cole sighs. “We really need to work on that Harmonia.”
Apollo starts slowly walking towards Cole.
"ɎØᵾ ꝀNØW WĦȺŦ'S FᵾNNɎ? WĦȺŦɆVɆɌ ɎØᵾ ĐØ ŦØ MɆ, ɎØᵾ'ŁŁ ɃɆ ĐØƗNǤ ŦØ ĦɆɌ. SĦɆ FɆɆŁS ɆVɆɌɎ ƗNȻĦ ØF ŦĦƗS. ɎØᵾ ĐØN'Ŧ WȺNŦ ɎØᵾɌ FɌƗɆNĐ ŦØ ɃɆ ƗN ⱣȺƗN, ĐØ ɎØᵾ? NØ. ØF ȻØᵾɌSɆ NØŦ. Ɨ'ŁŁ SNȺⱣ ɎØᵾɌ NɆȻꝀ, ȺNĐ Ɨ'ŁŁ ɃɆ ØN MɎ WȺɎ. ƗŦ'ŁŁ ɃɆ ꝖᵾƗȻꝀ ȺNĐ ɆȺSɎ."
“You know what?" Cole asks. "I may not have manic thoughts anymore however I can still remember what they were and I think I can hear music." Cole smiles as the speaker from earlier kicks on and starts playing Funkytown at max volume.
Apollo stands completely still, waiting for Cole to attack.
Cole grooves over to Harmonia and does finger guns.
This sucks, Harmonia thinks. Apollo just stands there, unimpressed.
“Hey, Apollo?"
"WĦȺŦ?"
“Tell me how wax tastes.” Cole snaps and a lit candle appears.
Apollo fucking joins in the dancing. Cole is grooving.
Are you fucking kidding me? Harmonia thinks.
“You gonna attack?" Cole asks.
"NØⱣɆ. WȺNNȺ ȻØNǤȺ?" Apollo asks him.
“Sure. You first.”
This is hell.
"NØ, NØ, Ɨ ƗNSƗSŦ. Ɨ'M ØVɆɌ ŦĦɆ WĦØŁɆ ŦĦƗNǤ NØW. ɎØᵾ FƗɌSŦ."
“I don't trust that.” Cole responds.
"WĦɎ NØŦ? Ɨ ɌɆSⱣɆȻŦ Ⱥ MȺN WƗŦĦ ǤØØĐ ŦȺSŦɆ."
"Mhm sure, go first." Apollo sighs, getting in front of Cole.
What the fuck is happening?
Cole sets the candle down and congas with Apollo.
Apollo suddenly turns around, walking backward and doing the conga. Cole smiles and snaps as he congas.
This is my personal hell.
Apollo suddenly lunged forward, snapping Cole's neck.
"Wow.” Cole is taken by surprise and his neck snaps as black smoke pours off of him and fills Harmonia's lungs. Apollo starts coughing immensely hard with Funkytown in the background. Cole is dead on the floor as his neck slowly reforms and all his limbs regrow and any wounds close. Apollo just teleports out of the house.
"Ɨ ĐƗĐ ƗŦ, Ɨ'M ĦȺⱣⱣɎ." Cole is dead on the floor with Funkytown playing.
---
Apollo appears back in the woods, exiting Harmonia's body. "Fucking took long enough." Harmonia keels over, coughing up a lung.
He pats Harmonia's back. "Oh, you'll get over it. You gotta admit though, those were some sick moves back there. I didn't know I had that in me!"
Harmonia lays down, groaning, breathing in, and coughing. “F-fuck it hurts-”
Apollo lays down next to Harmonia. "Oh? Are you ookaaayyy?" He said mockingly.
Harmonia glares at him. “It hurts to breathe, you asshole.”
"Alright, alright, let me see what I can do." He rolls her over, doing CPR. "...This probably won't do anything. I'm a lot better at hurting people than I am helping."
"FUCKER-" Harmonia coughs more.
Apollo stops as he hears a crunch.
"FUCK, FUCK-" Harmonia screams in pain.
He snaps the two of them back to Harmonia's house, leaving Harmonia on the doorstep with a note.
ACCIDENTALLY HURT HER BECAUSE OF YOUR STUPID FUCKING GAS. HEAL HER. ALSO, I KISSED YOUR FRIEND ARI. BYE!
After a bit, Cole comes out and finds Harmonia. He sighs and heals her, picking her up and carrying her inside.