Harmonia takes a shower, letting herself cry for the duration of it. While Harmonia showers, music can be faintly heard coming from the attic. She hears it, groaning as she turns the water off and gets dressed, heading to check it out.
Harmonia walks into the guest bedroom and gets in the closet, using a preplaced ladder to get to the attic hatch. As Harmonia got closer to the source, she could tell it was a Hollywood Undead song. "Another Way Out" to be exact.
Harmonia opens the hatch and pops her head inside.
“Hello?”
Nobody was inside except for a lone, green iPod nano.
“What the fuck-” Harmonia grabs it with a sigh and climbs back down. She looks at the iPod to see if there was anything interesting on it. On the iPod were a few video files, a playlist with a binary code name, and a few pictures. Harmonia checks out the gallery to see that most of the videos and photos consist of a tall man hurting people, or just straight-up gore.
The features of the man are different in each video, but they each act the same. Harmonia stops looking at them and goes to the playlist.
“Christ thank the gods The Moon favors Claire…”
She turns the music off.
“Thanks for the iPod I guess.”
"You're welcome!" Apollo says into Harmonia's ear. Harmonia screams in fear and surprise, stumbling back. He starts laughing his fucking ass off, having to sit down on the bed to avoid falling.
“JESUS CHRIST WHEN DID YOU GET HERE-“ Harmonia moves back so she's covering the door protectively.
"I've been here since you got here! I wanted to see what your little friends thought of that slaughterfest you had."
“I didn't do that- That was you-“ She says, her voice shaking.
"You sure? Sure looked like you." He says, laughing.
“Shut up.” Harmonia growls, covering the door.
"How rude! I come to you to apologize and this is how I'm treated?"
“Apologize??” Harmonia asks. Knight knocks on the door. Harmonia jumps at the noise.
"Oop, looks like we've got guests!"
“I’M FINE DON’T COME IN-”
"Nonsense, come in, come in! Make yourself at home! I know I have!" Apollo calls.
“….”
“I’m gonna go with what Harmonia said.” Knight says from behind the door.
"Awwww, but that's no fun!" Harmonia is trying not to panic.
“S-stay away from them-“ She says to Apollo.
"Relax, horror protag. I've had my share of bloodshed for the day." He says, getting up and walking over to the door. "The worst I'd do is call them some dumb insult. Or break a few bones."
She growls, staying in front of the door. “No.”
"Hm... Alright, do what you want." He walks back to the bed, sitting back down. "Looks like I'll have to see them separately. Anyways, you hungry?" The two McDonald's bags reappeared. "I wanted to say that I'm sorry for killing you. Not for the other three though."
“Um.. sure…” Harmonia stays in front of the door and grabs a McDonalds bag. “Thanks…” She scratches the wound where he killed her absentmindedly.
"No problem. I suppose I should also tell you the reason why I killed you. I just saw your name in the tournament and how fucking good you did. Felt like testing my luck a bit."
“Cool. Was thinking about going back. Being a gladiator or whatever. At least the killing there is consensual.” She’s eating McDonalds to try and forget the taste of human flesh.
"I thought about that too at some point. Decided against it though. Doesn't have the same thrill to it." He says, eating a few fries.
“Hm. So… you friends with the big guy or something?”
"Depends which one you're talking about. Most of them? No."
“The Moon. Slenderman.” Harmonia gestures to the iPod.
"Nah. Don't like those two all that much. They don't quite get me."
“They're the same.” Harmonia smirks.
"Oh, really? That explains a lot, then. Never met it in person. We've only talked through Ouija Board bullshit." He says. Harmonia pauses before sighing.
"Guessing your favorite color is green.”
Apollo does a fake gasp. "No way! How'd you guess?!"
"So what's your damage? You gonna join the band of merry murderers who enjoy torturing us?"
"Probably not. I work best when I'm alone. And I've never really liked taking one side and sticking to it. Say, can you pass me my iPod? I wanna get some tunes going."
"Okay technically they don't work together." Harmonia hands the iPod to Apollo. "Abaddon has been quiet besides the wedding and Dolos hasn't been around too much. Now that November’s gone.... I don't expect as much from King."
Apollo presses a few buttons on the iPod before setting it down.
ℕ𝕆𝕎 ℙ𝕃𝔸𝕐𝕀ℕ𝔾: 𝘉𝘙𝘜𝘐𝘚𝘌𝘚 & 𝘉𝘐𝘛𝘌𝘔𝘈𝘙𝘒𝘚 - 𝘎𝘖𝘖𝘋 𝘞𝘐𝘛𝘏 𝘎𝘙𝘌𝘕𝘈𝘋𝘌𝘚
"Right. Well, still. I'll probably end up being a bit more flexible than that."
"That's good I guess." Harmonia looks at her hands. They won't stop shaking.
He notices her hands, taking a bite out of his sandwich. "What's got you all shaken up? Thought you'd be used to a little blood by now given the whole apocalypse."
"...I've only killed because I had too... you..." She clenches her fists so they stop shaking and takes a bite out of her food. "They were defenseless."
"What? What're you gonna say? I'm a 'monster?' Monsters kill those who they think deserve it. Devils kill for the thrill of it." Harmonia doesn’t respond, quietly eating despite not being hungry. He laughs, finishing his food. "Anything else you wanna talk about? Or are you just completely floored after that?"
ℕ𝕆𝕎 ℙ𝕃𝔸𝕐𝕀ℕ𝔾: 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘚𝘛𝘙𝘈𝘕𝘎𝘌𝘚𝘛 𝘚𝘛𝘙𝘈𝘕𝘎𝘌𝘙 - 𝘎𝘌𝘛 𝘚𝘊𝘈𝘙𝘌𝘋
"What do you want to talk about?" Harmonia asks as if nothing happened. Apollo is smacked upside the head by a fat 5'4" long lean-filled worm off of the string.
"OW!" He pulls out a pocket knife, shivving the lean worm in the neck. Harmonia bursts out laughing. It pops like a water balloon and lean spills everywhere, hundreds of souls spawn out of it like the chicken cramming machine prank in minecraft and begin to bounce around the room like bouncy balls. "...This is fine."
ℕ𝕆𝕎 ℙ𝕃𝔸𝕐𝕀ℕ𝔾: 𝘏𝘖𝘓𝘠 𝘖𝘙𝘋𝘌𝘙𝘚 ~𝘉𝘌 𝘑𝘜𝘚𝘛 𝘖𝘙 𝘉𝘌 𝘋𝘌𝘈𝘋~ - 𝘈𝘙𝘊 𝘚𝘖𝘍𝘛𝘞𝘖𝘙𝘒𝘚
Harmonia is fucking losing it laughing as a pile of living bungers appear above Apollo and then falls on Apollo. Somewhere, a god-like entity is losing their shit.
"WHOEVER IS DOING THIS SHIT, YOU'RE NEXT!" He yells as he attempts to kill all the bungers. Harmonia is still laughing her ass off. They're literally just living burgers. Stabbing them just makes them not living burgers. A pair of worms with wings appear on the floor, unmoving. Apollo starts fucking eating the burgers. Harmonia looks at the worms.
"Yo wings??? Banger" Apollo just yells and starts stomping on the worms one by one. They pop and the room is filled to entity cramming limit with the souls. They begin to clip into the walls and disappear.
"Do you like the worms and bungers?" Harmonia grabs a soul and fucking eats it, "This is amazing, Limbo," She says out loud, hoping they can hear.
"Thanks for telling me the fucker's name so I can SKIN THEM ALIVE!" Apollo yells.
"Many have tried." Harmonia grins.
Apollo sits down, huffing and puffing.
ℕ𝕆𝕎 ℙ𝕃𝔸𝕐𝕀ℕ𝔾: 𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘚 𝘌𝘕𝘋𝘓𝘌𝘚𝘚 𝘌𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘈𝘝𝘖𝘙 - 𝘚𝘛𝘈𝘙𝘚𝘌𝘛
"I don't think you could kill a prince of hell," The iPod's screen glitches out to static and begins to play loud circus music. Harmonia starts laughing uncontrollably again.
Apollo sees this, gritting his teeth. "You wanna see me try, little girl?"
"Oh, definitely."
The iPod says, "Yes actually!"
"One time they made a snake demon look human cause they threatened me.”
"Give me a time and a place, right now. I'll fucking break every individual bone in your body and leave you to die from internal bleeding you fucker!" He screams at his iPod.
"Limbo, do you even have bones?"
"Sure. I'm on break," L1MB0 replies.
The static disappears from the screen and the wall next to Apollo turns to static instead. Apollo manifests his machete, getting up and turning to face the wall. Apollo is grabbed by a massive hand made from solid flames. Blinding white, burning hot flames. He is then snatched, pulled into the wall and everything returns to normal.
---
L1MB0 yanks Apollo out of the ground and throws him directly against a tree.
The sky is static, raining harmless yet bright flames. Loud bells ring in the sky. They're basically standing on a black void. In the distance there are mountains and villages and forests.
L1MB0 themself currently stands at around 15' tall, hunched over slightly. Their arms are currently made up of blinding white holy flames. Their left, the hand that grabbed Apollo, has a wolf paw big enough to crush him instantly lol. Their right arm is formless. Otherwise, standard L1MB0 design but bigger and bulkier and more monstrous!
"Change your mind yet?"
Apollo’s just laughing his ass off as he starts dissolving into green 1's and 0's. "You fucking idiot! I'm not from this hell, you don't know ANYTHING about what I'm capable of!"
They give a deep, distorted chuckle. The sky begins to rain fire harder, chunks of stone the size of buildings falling around them.
"You're cute. I'm a 3 year old child and you're the barbie doll I got for my birthday. You're incapable and inadequate. I could literally eat you like a cheeze-it right now. Try me."
A large, humanoid figure consisting of green and black flashing pixels forms in the place of Apollo as part of the sky turns to green binary code above him. "What was that again?"
"Ooh, a show of power? It's been a while." L1MB0's screen flashes to a large grin. "Just a moment."
The rapture bell rings. The sky returns to the static and burning hot, holy fire rains down from above.
L1MB0 chuckles.
"It took the Lord seven days to create the earth. I would only need 3 if I wished to try."
The void beneath them becomes static. The scenery in the distance bursts into flames. L1MB0's body begins to be consumed by flames.
The figure picks up one of the building-sized stones, preparing to chuck it at L1MB0. "Creation needs the balance of destruction. I could destroy it in 4 if I attain my full power again on Earth!"
"Really? Really, Apollo?"
L1MB0 gives a laugh. It sounds like a bell being slammed with a goddam sledgehammer.
".ɘᴎo bɘɘᴎ ʏ|ᴎo b|uow I"
Their head bursts apart, revealing what appears to be 6 gold rings spinning around a flaming eye as if it were a gyroscope. 6 wings are connected to said spinning rings. Their body burns away, being replaced by the flames as they reach 20' tall and continue to grow. Apollo's ears are filled with the sound of static. Static so loud he cannot even hear his own thoughts.
Apollo- The Glitch grows larger in size, a loud distortion crackling through the area as it tries to throw the stone at L1MB0 with all of it's force. At this point, its voice is just dial-up noises.
The stone bursts into flames in the middle of the air as Apollo's vision flashes static. When it returns to normal, he's being pinned to the ground by a 40' tall beast made from flames, head trapped between two claws that could rend the earth in two lmao.
Apollo feels like he's burning up. This heat is incomprehensible. His body is on fire, as is his mind.
"𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕠𝕦𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕕. 𝕴 𝖆𝖒 𝖆 𝖌𝖔𝖉 𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖔 𝖞𝖔𝖚. ˙ʇuɐʇsuı puɐ uı noʎ ʎoɹʇsǝp plnoɔ I Ｉ Ｗｉｌｌ Ｉｆ Ｙｏｕ Ｓｏ Ｔｅｓｔ Ｍｅ．"
The voice is loud. Clear. It rings in his mind above everything else he's feeling.
The Glitch attempts to wiggle free of L1MB0's grasp, eventually giving up.
"WĦȺŦ? ȺɌɆ ɎØᵾ ǤØƗNǤ ŦØ ꝀƗŁŁ MɆ? ĐØ ƗŦ! ɎØᵾ ĐØN'Ŧ ꝀNØW WĦȺŦ ȺŁŁ Ɨ'VɆ ĐØNɆ ŦØ ĐɆSɆɌVɆ ŦĦƗS. ƗF Ɨ ĐƗɆ, ȺŦŁɆȺSŦ ƗŦ'ŁŁ ɃɆ SⱣƗŦŦƗNǤ ƗN ŦĦɆ ⱣɌƗNȻɆ ØF ĦɆŁŁ'S FȺȻɆ!"
"𝓚𝓲𝓵𝓵? 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖐 𝕴 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝖐𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝖞𝖔𝖚?
Ⓗ𝓪. нαＨ𝐀𝕙𝓪. 𝐇𝐚卄αĦⒶ𝓱άђαℍⒶ
ℕ𝕠. Ｙｏｕ ｗｉｌｌ ｇｅｔ ｔｈｅ ｗｏｒｓｔ．˙ʎɐʍɐ noʎ uɹnq llıʍ I ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴍɪɴᴅ ᴡɪʟʟ ʙᴇ ᴇʀᴏᴅᴇᴅ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ᴘᴇʙʙʟᴇ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏᴄᴇᴀɴ. ץ๏ยг ๒๏๔ץ ฬเɭɭ ๒єς๏๓є ภ๏Շђเภﻮ ๒ยՇ ครђ. ʏօʊ աɨʟʟ ռօȶ ɖɨɛ. YӨЦ ЩIᄂᄂ BΣ ЯΣBӨЯП. 𝙰𝚜 𝚊 𝚌𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚛𝚘𝚊𝚌𝚑. 卂尺乇 ㄚㄖㄩ 丂ㄩ尺卩尺丨丂乇ᗪ? Ⓞⓕⓕⓔⓝⓓⓔⓓ ? Į𝓣 Ｉ𝓈 Ｗħ𝓐𝕥 𝓨𝔬𝓤 ᗪᵉⓢ𝔼яѶ𝑒.
🄾🅁, 🅆🄾🅄🄻🄳 🄱🄴. 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕖𝕗𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕥."
“WĦȺŦ Ⱥ ⱣȺŦĦɆŦƗȻ ɆXȻᵾSɆ FØɌ Ⱥ ⱣɌƗNȻɆ. ƗN ŦĦȺŦ ȻȺSɆ, Ɨ ȺM ŁɆȺVƗNǤ.”
Apollo pouts like an angry child and then dissolves back into 1's and 0's, this time disappearing from Hell and returning to Harmonia’s house.
---
The guest bedroom is clean and Harmonia lays on the ground, playing on her phone.
Apollo manifests back inside of the room, looking mostly unscathed. Harmonia looks up.
"How’d it go?"
"Fucker didn't even kill me. He just pinned me to the ground and gave me a lecture like a concerned parent who caught their kid doing weed."
"Lol."
"I was expecting the sweet release of death, dammit!" Apollo punches a hole in the wall.
"Damn now I have to get the spackle." She sighs, still laying down.
"Oh, boo fucking hoo, cry me a river, miss murderer.” Harmonia didn't let it get to her too much. Not now.
"I ate your McDonalds sorry not sorry"
"Bitch!" He exclaims, sitting down on the bed with his arms crossed. There’s a flash of green distortion as Spider appears. Spider is 5'5 with fair skin and neck length wavy black hair, she has orange eyes, a black wolf tail and is currently wearing a plain black tee shirt and trousers, her arms have scars from various different injuries and there's a quiet noticeable scar that circles her neck, she looks over at Apollo and raises an eyebrow.
The demon looked at Spider. "And who're you supposed to be?"
"Oh hey Spi,” Harmonia looks at her.
"Depends, who's asking?” Spider looks over at Harm. "Hey-" Harmonia’s just laying on the floor.
"God, this whole place's filled with characters, huh?"
"Wait I thought you watched the tournament?"
"I fucking left early after my guy got molly whopped!"
"You bet on the runts. You bet. on the runts. Idiot." Harmonia comments.
"I see, Harm, who is this clown?" Spider asks.
"It was more or less out of pity but go off."
"The one Limbo was fucking with-” Harmonia gets up and goes to Spiders side, concerned for her but not wanting to say anything with Apollo here. Spider chuckles but it sounds off.
"So how badly did he get his arse kicked?"
"I dunno Limbo didn't let me watch"
"I put up an okay fight. Threw a boulder at the fucker, that was pretty cool."
"That's debatable.” Spider says.
“Hey Apollo, give me your arm.” Harmonia says.
"The fuck do you need my arm for?"
“I'm curious if I can eat you,” Harmonia smiles.
"I mean, go ahead and try I guess." Apollo extends his arm out to Harmonia. Harmonia bites. Apollo's arm tastes like metal, but it tears like flesh. After a few seconds, the bite mark is healed by a swarm of green binary code stretching over it and turning into skin. She spits out the chunk and watches it regrow.
“Interesting.”
"Sometimes I just take bites out of myself when I'm hungry since my skin can do that." Apollo says.
“Are you mentally okay?”
"I just murdered 3 people, made you eat one of them, killed you, and then fought the Prince of Hell by myself. Of fucking course not, Harmonia."
“Yeah.” Harmonia sighs.
"That just sounds like a regular Friday to me." Spider comments.
"It is a regular Friday, but she's all shaken up over it for no reason! I thought she'd be used to stuff like that by now!"
“Let's change the subject!” Harmonia says, overly happy. “Spider, what's your music taste?”
"Don't really listen to music, are you ok?"
"Ah, don't worry about her, she's fine, I just gave her a little scare a while ago." Apollo says.
"Butt out you-” Spider comments. Harmonia glares at Apollo.
“Shut up.”
"Hmph!" Apollo pouted, crossing his arms and looking away like a child.
“Anyways I'm fine-”
"How mature, I can tell you're gonna be fun, and Harm don't lie to me." She snarks looking over at Apollo.
“Well obviously I'm not fine but I can’t.” She stops herself. “Nevermind.”
"Can't what?"
“I can’t… bring him back.” Harm says quietly. Spider doesn't say anything as green distortion flickers over her. Harmonia goes quiet but offers a hand to Spider. She ignores the offer shaking her head, the distortion flickers a final time and dies quickly being replaced by black fur on her arms and hands. Harmonia takes her arm back and just kinda waits for Apollo to comment.
"...You know, I'm a little hungry, let me go see what you guys have in the fridge," Apollo says.
“Right, have fun.” Harmonia responds.
Apollo disappears, reappearing in the Kitchen.
---
“We can try to get rid of the Hadal Blood effects if you want.” Knight says to Orpheus, who had recently become addicted to the blood.
"It will be painless.” Cole says.
"...are you sure???" Orpheus asks.
"Do you want me to make it painful?" Cole asks.
"..nno??" Orpheus says.
"Good, well actually I was kinda hoping.....never mind let's just fix this.” Cole comments.
"...OK WELL NOW YOU HAVE ME CURIOUS?? You can make it painful I guess??? I’m GONNA regret this but...." He whimpers "..curiosity.."
"Alright bet.” Cole snaps and Orpheus disappears and in the short time Orpheus is gone he can feel his body being ripped apart and reconstructed over and over again, atom by atom and then Orpheus reappears. Cole's manic smile is a little wider and he no longer feels the hadal blood effects.
A green portal opens in the kitchen and Apollo peeks through it.
"...Is this a bad time?"
“Yeah.” Knight says. Cole is maniacally smiling.
"Nope!” Cole says. Orpheus is on the ground.
"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK COLE GENESONE HOLY FUCKING SHIT YOU CAN JUST DO THAT???" Orpheus yells.
Cole is a 6’1 man with brown hair, wearing a charcoal gray jacket with a black undershirt, black jeans with black and white sneakers. A horizontal scar is on both sides of his neck and a small incision scar is on his left temple.
Apollo steps through the portal fully, a bit of his coat stained with blood. He looks at the stain. "Shit, gonna have to wash that out later."
Orpheus gets up, leaning on the table for support. "hholyfuckignshitjjessuschristowwwwthatwas..fuckingHOLYshitOW"
"Yeah I can just do that.” Cole says.
“Are you okay?” Knight asks Orpheus.
“You said to make it painful." Cole says.
"Oh my, are you okay???" Apollo asks in a mocking tone, opening the fridge and grabbing the carton of milk, drinking from it.
"So uh what is your name?" Cole asks, looking over to Apollo.
“I will eat you.” Knight says.
"Not if I do it first." Apollo bites into his own hand.
“Oh.” Knight watches in astonishment.
Cole giggles maniacally. “Nice."
"Anyways my name's Apollo. Yours?"
"Cole, Cole Garnet or Genesone I don't care.”
“He and Spider were the winners of the tournament.” Knight comments. Orpheus takes off his gas mask, putting it on the table to get good and big breaths.
"Hhollyyshit.” Orpheus’ is face is very different! Same black eyes with glowing green pupils as always, but the left side of his face seems to have been fixed. Oh, and his face is furry like a deer! He has like... the makings of a snout growing in. It's not fully there but y’know. Definitely getting there. Boopable deer nose. He takes a deep breath and stands up, looking at Apollo. "Aren’t you the fucker I offered to let possess me?"
"Nice to eat y- meat- meet you, Cole. And yeah, yeah I am that fucker you offered to let possess you." Apollo says.
"Bet!" Orpheus exclaims.
“Of course you are.” Knight sighs. “Wait no!”
"I know what you did there and I like it.” Cole smiles. “He said meat and meet."
"Awww... C'monnn Alicee! I'm not tasty, he can't do shit to me!" Orpheus says.
“It’s the stuff he’ll make you do that worries me.” Knight responds.
"Nothing worse than I've done before! I don't think!" Orpheus says. "Also Cole what??? How, what.. What. I. How do you tell those two apart??"
"Do you not have subtitles?" Cole asks.
"What???" Orpheus is so confused.
“We don’t have a hud like you do.” Knight sighs.
"I'm very fucking deaf so I have subtitles and enhanced hearing so I can actually fucking hear things.” Cole reveals.
"HE HAS A- ..sorry. HUD???" Orpheus asks.
"Mhm."
"Ok, Master Chief."
"I have Master Chief armor.”
"What."
Luna walks in to grab something to drink. “Yo."
"You heard me." Cole says.
".Dude. Thats.." Orpheus pauses. "...Can I see it? I like... 100 percent'd Halo 3 on the 360."
“Daaaang-” Knight comments.
Luna notices the new... person? "Uh hey, are you that Apollo person that joined the kiss server?"
"Sure you can." Cole responds. Cole taps his left temple 3 times and, Halo CE armor appears with a Halo Infinite helmet in front of Cole.
"I 100%'d Halo 2 like 13 years ago." Apollo says, chugging milk and looking at Luna. "Yep."
Orpheus goes wide eye'd. "Woooaaa!!!hw hhw.." He walks over to and tries to poke the helmet!
The helmet gets poked as Cole giggles maniacally, "I have to put it on for it to move silly." Orpheus picks up the helmet as it detaches from the armor and it feels decently heavy.
"..can I put it on?” Orpheus asks.
"No you can't, it wouldn't fit.” Cole responds. “It’s form-fit to my head.”
"Alrrightt fine..." Orpheus puts the helmet on Cole as Cole giggles.
"You laugh very suspiciously." Orpheus comments.
"Well I'm just feeling extra happy today!”
"You know what makes me happy?" Apollo says.
"Hmm, Taco Bell?" Luna guesses.
"Killing innocent people?" Cole guesses.
“ȻØNSᵾMƗNǤ ŦĦɆ SØᵾŁS ØF ŦĦɆ ƗNNØȻɆNŦ.” Apollo responds.
"God you're edgy." Luna sighs.
“Edgelord.” Knight agrees.
"I know!" Apollo smiles.
"Same bestie.” Cole says. Luna rolls her eyes and grabs a monster, then returns to the living room.
"You remind me of try hard tumblr stans from the mid 2010s." Orpheus says. "I bet you liked that fake sherlock ship. Anyway..." He pokes the armor.
"Okay but they never actually do anything. You wanna see me do something to change your mind?" Apollo asks.
"Bet." Orpheus looks at Apollo.
"I wanna kill something.” Cole takes his helmet off and puts it back on the armor.
“Please don’t.” Knight asks.
Apollo's eyes glow green, as do Orpheus' eyes. Apollo then disappears in a green flash of static and enters Orpheus' body.
“…” Knight is left speechless.
"Pogger.” Cole comments as Apollo inspects Orpheus' body, taking in all of the unnatural parts of it. "Odd. But I'll get used to it."
𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖋𝖚𝖈𝖐, thinks Leviathan, who is in Orpheus' body as well.
what the fuck? Orpheus thinks.
“Soooooo I wanna go kill something so if someone wants to come with me say it now.” Coles tone turns more manic as he waits for an answer.
“Just go, I need to make sure this dude doesn’t do something to harm Orpheus.” Knight says.
"I'll go too!" Apollo exclaims, still possessing Orpheus’ body.
“No.” Knight protests.
“Alright take my hand gayass bitch.” Cole extends his hand to Apollo.
Apollo grabs onto Cole's hand, manifesting a machete in his free hand. "You go first."
Knight just sighs as Cole and Apollo disappear.
---
Apollo smirks a bit as the duo appear in the forest, searching around. "You know where some survivors are? We could catch 'em off-guard."
"I can smell the fear they have.” Cole comments.
"Hhehhhehhehee this is very interesting I feel like I'm in VR-” Orpheus comments from inside his head.
Cole enters the camp and cracks his neck. "This is gonna be funny.”
"Watch this." Apollo runs into the camp, screaming for help as he pretends to be chased by a monster. Cole giggles maniacally and screams with Apollo, running next to him.
"Lol hold on I'm gonna jumpscare this fuckin idiot," A survivor mutters before someone jumps out of the tent and tackles Apollo, emitting the human equivalent of the FNAF Foxy jumpscare sound. Apollo rolls over on top of the guy, pulling out his machete and shoving it down his throat. Cole draws his combat knife and holds it behind his back and knocks on a tent.
"Excuse me I have a quick question-" Cole says as a survivor stumbles out of the tent. It's like a clown car, there are 4 in there. Cole asks, "Do you like the taste of metal, my good person?"
“...no??" They respond.
"Mmmmm too bad!" Cole stabs them under the ribs and then reaches his hand into the cut and grips their ribs and yanks their rib cage out.
Apollo goes to the next tent, knocking on it as well. "Hello? Are you okay? I have some supplies for you!"
The survivors are piling out of their tents like sheep spawning from a spawner in Minecraft. Cole is continuing to rip their rib cages out and sometimes he even gets the whole skeleton!
Apollo keeps ripping and tearing, the DOOM ETERNAL OST in the back of his head as he does so. After a while Cole stops, blood splattered on his clothes.
"I think I'm done." Then he disappears.
Apollo exited Orpheus' body, giving him a wink before disappearing as well. Orpheus falls to the ground, covered in blood.
"hhell, ththtatw as..s ...𝕬 𝖗𝖎𝖉𝖊." He stands up and slaps himself in the face not so gently. "NO 𝖄𝖊𝖘. No!" Orpheus growls, "𝕱𝖎𝖓𝖊." Orpheus takes a deep breath, "God, that man is hot." He swallows a seed from his bag and disappears.
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Later that night Cole walks out into the forest with no expression on his face and looks for a bear. After a bit he finds a bear and snaps, a bucket of fish appearing and he offers it to the bear, taming it as he sits down with it.
"I'm gonna name you Terminal, so I can have a son again."
Apollo appears beside Cole. "What the fuck are you doing?"
"Just hanging out with my son.”
"...You helped birth that thing?"
"Well no it's more of a..........." Cole trails off, looking at the ground.
"More of a what?"
"Adopted son…" Tears well up in Cole's eyes as he quickly wipes them away. "So uh how have you been?"
"I've been... alright." Apollo sits down next to Cole. "You know, you're one of the few people who have my respect in this place. This is your opportunity to speak to me. Open up about yourself. Say what you need to."
"Well my adopted son died a couple days ago and I’d say I'm handling it pretty well I’m also Death’s son and well ex son because I kinda ate him and absorbed him into my very being and not to mention I'm a cyborg so that's another thing."
"Is your adopted son not right there?"
"Nope he fuckin died and I'm coping with it the best I can." Cole's smile is fake and it's pretty obvious.
"Hmm. Is there any way I can help?"
"Uhmmmmm… not really." After a bit, Cole disappears.