Spider appears in the woods and starts to walk in a random direction. There's a scream in the distance. She looks towards the noise and starts walking in its direction. There's a considerable amount of owls in the trees the closer she gets, they all seem more focused on the sound than her.
"Sparrow.." she mutters as she picks up the pace and sniffs the air, looking around for him. There's a smell of white cheddar popcorn as she gets closer, she can see some bushes rustling and what sounds like Sparrow panicking.
"AHHH"
"And that's how you get killed, mate," Spider walks up to the bushes eyes scanning the area around her.
There's no one else around as Sparrow falls out of the bush, and Spider can barely see him past a flock of various owls and birds swarming him. He hits the ground with a considerable thud while flailing around.
"So what's the screaming about?"
The birds are attacking him, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Spider sighs and a wave of green distortion covers the birds causing them immense, debilitating pain. The birds screech and flee to the trees as Spider can now see Sparrow in his cloak, but he's on the ground trying to fight off a horse skull that has its hair wrapped around his neck. He has his arms out holding the skull's mouth open to keep it from biting him. Spider growls as she gets closer to him, the air around her heats up as she attempts to grab the hair and burn through it.
The hair makes anything it touches feel numb as it doesn't burn, but turns a bright red as it conducts the heat. Sparrow's shaking, trying to keep from losing his grip as the hair tightens. He looks scared.
Spider quickly pulls her hand off and shakes it, wrapping them around the muzzle instead of helping Sparrow. A wave of green distortion covers the skull as she attempts to weaken it.
Spider can hear the skull make a cracking sound as Sparrow is struggling to keep a grip and trying to stay conscious. A piece of pyrite appears in Spider's hand and she attempts to shove it in the skull. The pyrite bursts into purple flames as a chunk of the front jaw snaps off and Sparrow loses grip. Both parts of the skull latch onto sparrow like a mask as the hairs wrap his entire head and face. Sparrow is muffled as he claws at the skull. Sparrow's body shifts some, only getting slightly larger as it flickers some.
"Bollocks," Spider growls and discards the pyrite piece, the jade knife appears in her hand and she strikes at the mask attempting to cut the hair.
All of the hair is on the inside as the mask cracks where she tries to cut. The hairs shift more as it seems to be pulling all of the mask tightly inwards to Sparrow. She carefully attempts to slice the hairs wrapping around his neck. They dont seem to want to cut as Sparrow slowly goes limp and passes out.
"Fuck," Spider lets go of him and takes a step back, observing the skull. After a moment the hairs loosen a tad as Spider faintly hears Sparrow start breathing again. "Sparrow, you with us, mate?"
She watches him, getting ready to strike if needed. He doesnt respond and remains limp. She bends down slightly and looks at the skull, looking for any weak points or ways to get it off. It has several cracks, but doesn't seem to be any easy way to get it off. The bead in one of the eyes turns as she moves.
"Yes yes, I know you're watching me," she jabs the knife into one of the cracks and twists it. That part of it cracks more as it caves in slightly and Sparrow twitches. There's a slight smell of blood. Spider attempts to carefully use the knife to pry a piece of the skull away. It instantly starts sinking inwards as the hair pulls it in closer. Spider snarls and the knife disappears as she snaps her fingers, teleporting them both to Harm's living room.
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Sparrow appears on the floor, he's slightly bigger, wearing the cloak, and the horse skull around his head. It has several cracks and there's a smell of white cheddar popcorn. He's limp. There's a loud crack as another part of the skull starts to cave in and Sparrow twitches.
Cole walks in and cracks his knuckles, "Alright, come here you bite of '87 lookin ass bitch."
Cole tries to plunge his hand into the skull and remove the soul. The hair tightens more as the mask cracks more and Sparrow tenses up. The soul is just out of reach. Cole takes his hand out and growls.
"Out of fucking reach," Cole tries to pull the mask off with half of his strength.
"You're joking," Spider sighs.
"I wish I fucking was, Spider," Sparrow stays mostly limp as the skull is on tight, any amount of pulling tugs directly on Sparrow's head. There's a small pool of blood where his head was laying. "God damn it," Cole stops and looks to be thinking. More of the mask cracks as it caves in more. Spider snarls and heads outside. Cole grips the jaws and tries to split the skull in half by pushing them apart. The lower jaw starts to crack as it's refusing to move. Cole shoves down harder on the lower jaw. It breaks with a loud crack as the jaw is pulled violently into the mask. There's a loud crunch.
Cole winces slightly, "That did not sound good." The lights flicker as the computer head summons around Sparrow's head....issue is, there's a horse skull in the way, so the items are clipping through each other and shaking violently. There's sparks and the screen busts with a burst of light.
Cole backs away, "What the fuck is happening?"
Sparrow starts convulsing on the ground as his cloak flickers black like a lighting glitch.
Harmonia stirs, "Keep it down.." she mutters. Cole is so fucking confused and is just watching this happen. Luna enters and sees what the fuck. :luna_distress:
"I told you," Cole says. The hair from the mask reaches out across Sparrow, wrapping around him tightly as he starts screaming in pain.
"Uh oh," Cole unsheathes his combat knife and tries to cut the hair away from Sparrow. The hair doesn't want to cut as some of it tries to wrap around Cole's wrist. Cole swats at the hair, "Bad hair, bad hair"
"Maybe my ichor claymore could help?" Luna tries to cut some of the hair wrapping around Cole's wrist with her ichor claymore. Like a really light slash, weak. It cuts like a hot knife through butter. "Bingo."
Harmonia stirs and rubs her eyes, looking at them. "Uhhhhhhhh"
"Okay, so this might be tricky, but I think I should be able to break the mask with this. Issue is, I'm not sure if Sparrow will be able to handle it." Luna says.
"I can revive him, it's fine," Cole says. Luna nods. She attempts to break the mask with her ichor claymore. Basically, gently tap the sword to the mask. She's really trying not to harm Sparrow. It's shaking violently and it's really difficult to tell what Luna's going to hit. Luna just takes a deep breath and taps the sword wherever it lands.
"This is a fucking nightmare." Luna says, "Come on RNGesus, I don't pray to you often, but please give me the perfect hit."
It bursts in a purple flame that turns pink at the end as the broken computer is shot across the room, barely missing them and slamming into the wall. It looks crumbled like a tin can. Sparrow goes limp again as there is a tangled mess of hair bone shards and parts of Sparrow's head left where his head should be.
"Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck. Cole please, I tried," Luna says. Harmonia screams in terror.
"God damn, also I'll be right back," Cole says, disappearing.
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Cole appears and tackles Death, "GIVE SOUL FOR MA BOY!"
Death is tackled and just stares at him, "Just fucking keep it this time," Death holds out Sparrow's soul to Cole.
The soul is a light with 3 tangled mobius strips around it, one is a thin white paper, one is a strand of black hairs, the other is a black stem with long straight thorns. Cole is staring at the soul in fucking confusion and Death just sighs. Death tucks it in Cole's jacket and pats him on the head, saying, "Off you go, Soul Ferrier."
Cole rolls his eyes at Death and disappears
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Luna begins shaking hard trying everything to not scream. "I'm so sorry. i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry"
Harmonia is freaking out, hysterical. Knight wakes up dazed. “Heh?? What the fuck did I miss?!”
Luna falls the floor. She curls up into a ball tears streaming down her face, repeating "im sorry" over and over. Shaky as all hell.
Cole appears, "I have the soul and it hurts," Cole walks over to the body and takes Sparrow's soul out of his jacket.
"...imsorry"
"It horts to hold so I'm just gonna," Cole heals Sparrow's body and then puts the soul in. Harmonia is shaking and staring in disbelief
"...what." Luna gets up and notes the soul, "What the fuck is that? Terminal's soul was just the paper mobius strip."
“What in the fuck just happened?” Knight asks.
When Sparrow is healed, the hairs fall apart as instead of Sparrow's head, it reconstructs a smaller, better fitting horse skull with no cracks, no beads in the eyes, and no hair attached. The cloak stays a pitch black. Sparrow remains limp.
"...what the fuck happened to Sparrow?" Luna asks.
Cole snaps his fingers in front of Sparrow's face, "Get up, bitch"
Luna gets up and backs up.
They hear Sparrow's familiar grumble as a light, like a screen, cuts on in the horse skull's eyes. A long line of orange for a pupil.
"Welcome back," Cole smiles.
"Orange eyes." Luna notes. Sparrow sits up as a pair of feathered black wings stick out from the cloak. Luna asks, "...what was that soul?"
"Terminal's soul? I mean I read the label, maybe," Cole says.
"Huh?" Sparrow asks. The skull moves when he talks.
"Um... welcome back, Sparrow."
Luna, {"Cole, I am so sorry for the ichor hit."}
Harmonia is shaking and rocking back and forth, clearly fucked up a lil by what she saw.
Luna, {"I just wanted to break the mask. I didn't mean to kill him.."}
Cole, ("your fiiine he is back now and that is what matters")
"Don't worry about it, you want some mac and cheese?" Cole asks.
Luna, {"Right... Thank you Cole."}
"Oh right, there's still mac and cheese on the stove." Luna says.
"Mac and cheese?" Sparrow looks over at Cole.
"Do you want normal mac and cheese or buffalo mac and cheese?" Cole asks.
"Mac and cheese," Sparrow replies.
"Okay, I have Buffalo on the stove, sorry Sparrow." Luna looks down in sadness.
Cole snaps and a bowl of mac and cheese with no buffalo appears in front of Sparrow.
Spider walks in, "What the actual fuck happened?" Harmonia's shaking and she's crying, rocking back and forth. Sparrow picks up the mac n cheese and starts eating it, the skull acting as a normal head.
"Sparrow died and I revived them again and now they look like this," Cole explains. Spider mutters something and walks over to Harm, she crouches down and pulls her into a comforting hug. Harmonia hugs her back, still shaking and crying.
"Hey hey hey it's alright," she speaks quietly tightening the hug.
Lock is in the corner with deer in the headlights look.
"...I uhhh... um. might have killed Sparrow accidentally, Spider." Luna whispers as Sparrow finishes the mac and cheese.
"I see..."
"His head was going haywire, the computer head and mask clipping in and out of each other and shaking violently. I tried using my ichor broadsword to tap the mask but it missed. And erm... his head exploded."
Sparrow gets up and brushes off the loose hair.
Spider sighs, "I seriously can't leave you lot alone can I?"