September 21, 2022

Cole and Spider appear in the lighthouse again as they head up the staircase.

"Round two, let's hope we find it this time rather than more tat" Spider says as they see the sun is fully out and the sky is only partly cloudy.

Once again Spider jumps off the side of the lighthouse her from glitching, she then leans against the wall of the lighthouse waiting for Cole.

Cole vaults the railing and lands next to Spider "So is this where we split so you can go search the manor?"

"fuck it sure, message me if you find anything"

"Alright" Cole nods and heads towards the town. Spider heads towards the manor.

Spider reaches the manor. The lights are on and the building looks rather large and complex. She shrugs and walks up to the door before knocking on it.

A nonferal silver fox, one of the family members, opens the door and greets her with a friendly smile "Hello there"

"Hi, I heard that visitation was on today?"

They furrow their brow "No it's not, we're closed today for maintenance. There's a very quiet shuffle in a bush around the corner of the building

"Oh? Well when will you be open?" Her ear twitches.

"Probably in a couple days"

"Right, well thanks for your time" She turns and starts walking away.

"Alright, good-bye" they close the door.

Spider doubles back once the door is shut and walks over to investigate the bushes for the source of the sound. The entity from yesterday pops her head out of the bush and smiles "It’s Wensday"

"Hey Entity, so you gonna help me out then?"

Entity nods as she slumps out of the bush and waddles over to a side door to the manor. Spider follows her. There's a thin window to what looks like the basement of the manor that has no glass on it. Entity lays down and rolls into the basement and Spider can hear the thud from Entity landing on a concrete floor. Spider sighs and lays down attempting to roll through the window, her form glitching as she does so. She rolls in and drops onto a concrete floor. It's a room with one door and Entity standing in the corner with a smile. in the other corner is a pile of about anything with a blade you can think of that takes up half the room. Most of them have a black blade of some kind.

Spider gets up while looking at the pile "...Jesus Christ, Entity I don't suppose you saw a sword made of gemstone?"

Entity tilts her head to the side

"hang on I think I've got it on me" She goes through the few knife sheaths on her belt pulling out the jade knife showing it to the entity "Have you seen anything that looks like this but is the same color as all of them?" She gestures back to the pile.

Entity holds out a pair of stiff and petrified looking mummified paws.

"you want to hold it?" Spider doesn't sound too keen on the idea. 

"Yes, Entity careful"

"..fine, if you damage it though" Spider sighs and hands the knife over to her.

Entity takes it, wraps her distorting face around it with a big sniff and then holds it out to spider again "Not see any like this one before!"

Spider takes it and puts it back into its sheath "Ta, so what's with the pile then?"

"Moore people search very"

"Do you know what they're looking for?"

"Not know"

"If they find it, could you bring it to me?"

"Can try"

"Ta entity, it's a reach but I don't suppose there's anything here that could tell me where this weapon is?"

"Not know" Entity shrugs

"Could you find out? It's important"

"Can try"

"Cheers, I'm gonna go catch up with Cole now yeah?"

Entity nods as Spider leaves and tries to track down Cole again.

Cole walks into town. It’s rather busy now with cars and nonferals all over the place. Cole walks back to the abandoned house with the half skinned body and moves to the house next closest to the coordinates from the cereal box hunt. The house is two stories, there's a decorative blade like the one before sitting on a bookshelf. no one seems to be home. Cole tries to look closer at it, trying to see if it's opal but it’s in a sheath as well.

Cole sighs and opens the unlocked window quietly and steps in carefully. He hears the low growl of a pet feral rottweiler that slowly stands up from sitting in a hall that was just out of view of the window. Cole slowly turns to the rottweiler and growls back as he grabs the blade and starts unsheathing it. The blade feels flimsy like it was aluminum and painted black. It has identical designs to the one in the other house. The rottweiler raises its snarls and curls its lips. Cole sheathes the blade and puts it back as he leaps back through the window. The dog barks at him as he leaps. Cole shuts the window and sprints to the house next closest to the coordinates.

The curtains are closed and the window is locked as Cole sighs. Cole tries to score the glass in a circle big enough for his arm but finds It’s needlessly strong, seemingly bullet proof. Cole groans and punches it with inhuman force as it breaks. Cole peers through the curtains. He sees a blank white room too large to logically fit the exterior of the house and he gets a slight headache. Cole pulls his head out of the window and groans. The house suddenly disappears and he's standing in an empty plot of land.

"Wha" Cole looks around as he looks confused. He suddenly appears at the next house, the previous house is back and his headache is gone. He doesn't remember the blank house anymore.

"What" Cole shakes his head and looks through the window. He sees a smaller livingroom with no one home and an anime body pillow on the sofa. Cole moves on to the next closest house. He sees the same decorative blade sitting on the window seal. Cole opens the unlocked window and unsheathes the blade. It’s flimsy just like the other ones. Cole sheathes it and closes the window as he walks to the next house.

He recognizes that it's Lock's house and shrugs "better safe than sorry" Cole peers in a window as he looks for any weapons that are on display. He sees Kaz opening a side table drawer. 

"better check all the windows" Cole walks around the house looking for more windows. He can only see more up on the second floor.

Spider catches up with Cole and walks up to him "So any luck?"

Cole clambers up the siding of the house and peers in the closest window

"Apparently not" Spider mutters to herself.

Cole sees into Lock's room. No one is there and the place is still cluttered with paper. The small pile of pebbles is slightly bigger. Cole fuckin crawls on the wall over to the next window and peers into it. He sees Kaz's room with the 2 duffle bags up on the edge of the bed. Cole climbs down and goes to the front of the house and clambers up to a window and peers into it. A few nonferlas stop walking on the sidewalk and stare. he sees the upstairs room he would always climb into. Cole clambers onto the roof and looks into the backyard. The backyard is a well kept garden with a white fence. Cole climbs down and looks for Kaz through the windows again. Kaz has what looks like something in his hands as he starts heading up the stairs. Cole climbs over to the window that he normally enters from and waits for Kaz to reach the top. Kaz walks up the steps and pauses at seeing Cole staring at him through the window. Cole waves and smiles before he kicks through the window and shatters it. Cole then lunges to tackle Kaz as Kaz drops a watch. Spider enters through the window and sighs. 

Cole starts pummeling Kaz's face while growling. Kaz is trying to cover his face while yelling

"Fucks sake Cole" Spider’s ears flatten against her skull as she attempts the grab one of Coles wrists "Leave him"

Cole's wrist is grabbed as he quickly rips it out of Spider's grasp as he grabs Kaz by the neck. Cole slams him into a wall as he stares him down "WHAT WAS THE FUCKING CONTRACT LOCK SIGNED YOU FUCKING CUNT"

"If you kill him you won't get your answers" She rolls her eyes now just watching.

Kaz looks scared and shakes some but doesnt reply. Cole slaps Kaz with decent force "ANSWER ME"

Kaz is stunned a moment and shakily responds "I-It's not anything bad I swear"

"then you have fucking nothing to be afraid of! just tell me what it was that Lock fucking signed!"

"I-its a therapy camp- a program in town"

"And tell me why the fucking hell you would do that without Blaire's permission?"

"I didn't want her interfering. She wouldn't want her going to anything like that"

"probably for good fucking reason you brain dead bitch" Cole growls as he sighs and feigns a punch at kaz's face. Kaz winces in anticipation.

"fucking pussy, now tell me something, have you seen a black opal weapon around here?" Cole snickers

"A what?"

"a black gem lookin weapon i kinda fucking need it for something"

"It's most likely either a sword or a knife," Spider adds with a sigh.

"No I haven't" Kaz shakes his head

Cole Garnet — Yesterday at 10:42 PM

Cole eyes kaz suspiciously. Kaz looks terrified.

"i have a lil mission for you" Cole lets go of kaz's neck "go ask Lock if they have seen a black opal weapon thing"

"Uhm...ok"

"now run along" Cole makes a shooing motion with his hands

Lock steps out from the bathroom and is wearing a dark green buffalo plaid hoodie "Hey Kaz have you seen my fur oil-" she pauses at seeing everyone.

"Speak of the devil" SPider mutters.

Cole looks over at lock with a slight manic smile "just the person i wanted to see"

Lock turns around and heads back towards the bathroom "I'll go check the sink again"

"ah just wait one moment there, I have a question for you" Cole's trying his best to push down his manic tone but it is not working "have you seen a weapon made of black opal around here?"

Lock pauses in the doorway "You can make things out of palls?"

Kaz rolls his eyes

Spider adds "Lock this is important, have you seen a sword or a knife made of black gemstone anywhere?"

Cole takes a deep breaths

"Oh you mean this one?" Lock pulls out a black hatchet that was on a strap on her back

"Pass it here." Spider holds out a hand. Cole is struggling to stop himself from snatching it.

"mmmmm...I cant" Lock says quietly. Kaz grumbles.

"Lock I wasn't joking when I said this is important, do you want someone to die?" Spider takes a deep breath.

"I GET TO KILL SOMEONE?" Cole realizes he is yelling and covers his mouth "sorry"

"Jesus, no I'm talking about sparrow you moron" Spider looks at Cole.

"Ohhhhh" Cole nods.

Lock cowers some as her tail puffs up "You're going to kill me?!?"

Cole snaps to lock with a manic smile "No, well......no I still have morals" Cole extends a paw

"Now give me the funny little weapon or I will break Kaz's nose so he can't smell the morning dew"

"not helping Cole" Spider rolls her eyes "What he meant is if we don't get that hatchet then someone very important to us is going to die"

"Oh no, what ever will I do. If only i had a weapon to defend myself- EAT WOODSMAN" Lock throws the hatchet as hard as she can at Cole’s face but it catches some and it hits the floor with the handle with a thunk.

"...Bleep"

Cole walks over to the hatchet and while staring at Lock grabs it.

"Lock i swear to God.." Kaz mumbles.

"Here Cole pass it" Spider moves over to Cole. Cole twirls it in his hand as he watches Lock "lets get home first, i'm pretty sure the sky is only gonna tell me if i'm holding it" After a twirl the hatchet phases through his hand and ripple effects slowly over to near lock and falls on the floor in front of her.

Cole stares at it "What" 

"You're having a laugh" Spider sighs.

"Like i said, can't" Lock repeats.

"Well then I'll just take you with me" Cole shrugs.

"Wait-no that would be perfect actually..." Kaz mumbles.

"Excuse me??? No. Im happy here." Lock argues.

"You’re saying that like you have a fuckin choice, I came here for this weapon and I'm not leaving without it" Cole growls. Locks eyes widen some as she books it to her room and slams the door shut.

"Did you have to scare her?" Spider growls lightly.

"You think I have a fucking choice?" Cole groans as he walks over to Lock's door "Watch Kaz while I fucking handle this"

Spider rolls her eyes and waits, keeping an eye on Kaz. There's loud noises coming from inside Lock’s room. Cole clears his throat and swings the door open. The room is rearranged with the bed and wardrobe blocking the window and Lock is gone.

“God fucking damn it" Cole walks in and checks the closet. The closet has no clothes and two empty hangers with a blanket on the ground. Cole kicks the blanket before he walks over to the bed and dresser and moves them out of the way. After he moves it out of the way the hatchet vanishes into a ripple effect. After a moment Cole hears a thud sound in a tree near the window and hears lock yelp from getting hit on the head by the hatchet as the hatchet falls from the tree.

Cole leaps out of the window and onto the tree Lock is in. Lock screeches from in the tree and runs across a weak branch as far from him as she can with good balance.

Cole gets up on the branch and puts a foot behind him as he chuckles "You won't be able to run far, just surrender now and you won't get hurt"

Suddenly there's a police siren that goes off and a voice over an intercom "Please step out with your hands above your head. We have the place surrounded"

Kaz books it for his room

"SHIT" Cole is debating his options

"Fuck" Spider groans as she lets Kaz run before thinking for a minute. She heads into locks room and looks out of the window into the backyard.

Lock clings to the branch "Blair is going to kill us..."

Cole freezes up, unsure of what to do

Spider sees two cops headed to around behind the white fence that lines the backyard

"When she hears about this, all of us are toast. More toast than toast, we're becoming French toast, maybe even peanut butter toast"

Spider drops down into the yard as she shapeshifts into a feral wolf that lands on all fours and jumps the fence to walk over to the cops. The cops back up some at seeing the wolf.

Cole is still frozen, standing there and thinking of a plan.

Spider growls at them as she wuffs and lunges at one of the cops, shapeshifting back into her nonferal disguise. Before she can reach one they shoot her with a powerful taser and step back to the side to dodge. Cole stares at the cops and puts his paws in his pockets as he looks between Spider and Lock. Spider yelps her form starting to glitch crazily as she takes a second to recover, she then attempts to use a form of distortion against them but nothing happens. Spider growls and disappears. Cole springs off his back leg and grabs Lock and they both disappear.

Cole and Lock appear in a simple small living room. Luna looks to have missed some needed sleep in favor of sitting on the sofa and playing a video game on the television. Lock is being held tightly to Cole's chest. Lock squirms trying to get free as the hatchet appears above Cole and drops on his head.

It donks Cole on the head as he groans and stumbles slightly as he keeps his bear hug on Lock. "listen, I just need the hatchet until tomorrow and then I'll put you back just calm down, please you don't understand how much I need that hatchet"

"Um. What." Luna says from the sofa "Cole? Is that who I think it is?'

Cole shrugs "...maybe, I didn't think you were awake"

Luna blinks some "Yeah, definitely not asleep. I got addicted to this game."

"Lock if i let go are you gonna run away?" Cole kneels as he brings Lock close to the ground.

Bringing her closer to the ground she starts moving her legs at the speed of light like that of a dog swimming while being held above water.

Luna waves to Lock "Hey Whatsit."

"please don't run off, i kinda really need that hatchet" Cole groans as the front door locks and he lets Lock go.

"I’m fast as fuck bo-" she sprints and slames face first into the front door hard enough that the picture frame on the wall rattles.

Cole sighs and walks over to Lock "are you alright?"

"I don't like politics" Lock gets up as she stumbles back some and shakes her head.

"i don't like it either?" Cole says.

"I don't either honestly. Starting to think y'all got into some shit in Greywood. Call it a hunch."

Cole shrugs "eh, anyways Lock why don't you take a nap and in the afternoon of tomorrow we can get this over with and I can send you back home"

"Why would I be tired? I just got kidnapped and my kidnapper is torturing me by talking politics. I don't know what alt right even means"

Luna just tilts her head and goes back to her game.

"i'm not talking to you about politics i'm asking if you are okay" Cole sighs

"No?! I didn't want to be here. I want to be at home"

"Here let me put this into terms you can understand." Cole kneels in front of Lock "A person here is split like....a sandwich when you cut it into triangles and we need your hatchet to rejoin them and if we don't then the person will....." Cole tears up as he sniffles and turns his head away from Lock and clears his throat as he continues "no longer have a sandwich and that would be upsetting"

“I can make a mean grilled cheese with an over-easy egg inside of it. I call it the greasey globber"

"That's great Lock, that's great" Cole hangs his head as he nods

"That sounds honestly good." Luna nods

Lock gestures to Luna "Yeah? See? Already got another gobbler im the house"

Cole sighs "that's great, i'm uh really glad that your sandwich is getting around"

Luna pauses her game again "So uh lemme try to understand. You brought her home to... um. Okay, so she has the black opal?"

Cole nods "yeah she does"

Lock suddenly collapses and snores.

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