October 29, 2022

Lock walks in the living room and sits down. She’s sipping from a half empty cup of tea.

"Hope whatever you're drinking tastes good Lock," Luna comments.

"Yeah it's alright. If you want some there should be enough left in the kitchen." Lock sounds alot more calm than usual.

"Oooh okay, thank you Lock." Luna nods and then heads into the kitchen. She finds an entire pot of tea left on the stove. She grabs a mug from the cupboard and pours herself a cup, taking in all of the scents. It smells...yeah it just smells.

"...what in the name of the many gods of consumable drinks is this? Why does it smell....erm." Luna cannot figure out the scent to save her life. But in any case, and she's probably stupid for doing this, she takes a sip. It tastes like water but worse, maybe like stale medicine.

"....this was a mistake fuckign gheggwghkehwh.." she spits it right out and takes a bunch of sips of water to try and wash the taste out. With the taste of... stale water and medicine out of her mouth, she goes over to the fridge for a monster and chugs it down. "Ack." Luna burps. Then after that and getting some snacks, she heads back to the living room.

Luna walks back in with a sandwich and sits on the floor once more, "I've had a lot of tea in my life, but that was... I don't even know how to explain it."

"Made it myself with Blair's help," Lock nods.

"Ah that's cool. What's in it? Had a very..." Luna pauses for a second trying to find words to describe the flavor, but when she fails, she just, "...flavor."

"Handful of things in Blair's tea cabinet, I don't know the name of it all" Lock's eyes are half open as she leans her head back on the wall.

"....oh. That's.... interesting. Explains the mediciney taste but off." She tilts her head, "Um can I get you a pillow for your head?"

"No it's fine"

Luna nods and returns to her work while being worried as hell for Lock's safety, "But you're not at Blair's right now, so where'd you get the stuff to make it?"

"I keep a few on me all the time" She pats her hoodie pocket.

"Ah that's cool. Can I see it? Maybe I could make you some another time." She asks with a little concern in her voice.

"Yeah sure, here" She gets out a small tea bag and toss it to Luna. It looks more like a fine powder of dull colors.

"Hm, that's interesting. Definitely colorful." She hands it back to Lock. "Alright, thank you for showing me this."

"Yeah of course" Locktakes it and puts it away in her own pocket again, "Why are you purple?"

Luna just blinks... a lot on hearing that question. Kinda just came out of left field. "Erm, it's a long story, but I was in a different Hell a few months ago and accidentally fell asleep in it. Apparently that caused my entire body to go from human with purple hair and cat ears to purple striped cat demon... thing. Who knew indulging in Sloth while in Metamorphosis Sloth would cause the metamorphosis."

"Why not lime?"

Luna shrugs, "Eh, Green's not my color. I guess my soul really wanted me to be purple. Why do you ask?" She smiles.

Lock stares a moment "What about red?"

"I mean I don't mind red that much? And in my human form, I can change my hair color at will. Just not something I do very often." Luna sighs. "Mmmm do you not like purple?" She asks and tilts her head in confusion.

"What about orange?"

Luna raises an eyebrow. "I mean I'm not Garfield?"

"What about cashews?"

"Erm... cashews? They're good."

"You better think they're good"

"...it's not just think but rather know? Like legit, they're good..."

"You better."

"Or what?" She stares at Lock. "Like say I don't like cashews."

Lock stares back "Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to"

"No you're-- you're fine Lock." She releases the stare immediately. "I'm sorry for staring at you. And um, for reference, I really don't like nuts. Like peanuts are the only ones I like, and only for peanut butter."

"bleep"

Luna sighs, "I wish you could swear. But stupid parental whatever the hell that is."

"I'm going to say so many curse words"

"Follow your dreams Lock!"

"I dream of bleep"

"I dream of my girlfriend a lot."

Wires suddenly burst through the window.

“FUCK!" Luna blips backwards.

Lock jolts from almost falling asleep "heh!?!?"

“The computers are attacking!” Knight just rolls away from the window.

Oleander walks in, brandishing a sword. "What's happening??"

Luna snaps her Marked Broadsword to her side. "Not computers."

Lock gets up "I-I don't know"

They can all hear hair brushing the upper parts of the walls outside all around. The wires slither closer to Luna. There's a loud forceful knocking on the door.

"Divulgars." Luna slashes at the wires on the ground with her Marked Broadsword. "Bring it."

Oleander goes to the door, opening it with his gauntlet raised.

"D-divulgars??? Here?!?!" Lock backs away more. 

The wires are cut but just continue to peruse. On opening the door Oleander is face to face with a tall dark being that drools lime blood. Its long hair drags from its face of 4 mouths and no eyes. The being reaches out at him with stretched fingers for Oleander's throat.

Oleander backs up and raises his sword. "What do you want??"

Luna continues to back up from the wires. The being gurgles at Oleander as it reaches out at him again. Another standing behind it tries to walk into the room aswell. The wires turn from Luna and head towards Lock. Lock's eyes widen some as she gets out her hatchet from her back. Oleander slashes diagonally, attempting to slice the being in half. The sword has a bit of difficulty getting through the tough skin as it only leaves a leaking cut. The being reaches out at him again. The other being walking up beside the other and reaching aswell. Lock backs up into a corner as she throws the hatchet at some wires. The wires are stuck into the ground by the blade as the remaining wires move closer to Lock. "Ok...throwing my only weapon might not have been my brightest moment"

Oleander looks towards Lock, seeing her predicament and turning and makes a goalie jump, grabbing 2 or 3 wires and hugging them to his chest as he shoots one more wire. He lands on the floor with a thump, his sword a foot or two away. Luna tries to slash at the creatures' arms reaching for Oleander. The protecting wrapping of the wire Oleander shoots is vaporized leaving just live wires that wrap Lock's Leg as she flinches. The wires Oleander is holding attempt to shock him a few times. The two beings' arms are only barely cut due to their tough skin and turn their attention to Luna. Luna continues to slash away at the creatures' arms, trying to whittle down their tough skin and looking for a weakness. Oleander grits his teeth and groans in pain. They reach over and grab the live wires, trying to pull them off Lock and onto themself. Lock's legs buckle as she breathes heavily. The exposed live wire is much harder to grab as the current going through it is continuous. A being tries to reach for Luna's throat. Oleander holds back a scream, trying to shoot the wires as well. The being goes to hold Luna to a wall by the throat. The live wire is destroyed as Lock is unaffected. Lock blinks some and shakes her head.

"Are you okay?" Oleander asks, panting as he tries to shoot some of the live wires, rather than the insulation. Luna is stuck and gasping for air. She is struggling to get free by any means necessary, such as kicking and punching. All of the wires are destroyed as they slowly retreat out of the window. The being tightens its grip.

"I-Im uhh-Luna" Lock looks over to see Luna in trouble. Oleander gets off the ground and grabs the figure by the neck, firing into it. Luna is slowly becoming limp and useless, she can't breathe at all. The beings body falls over and the head falls separately onto the floor. The other being turns to face Oleander as it hisses. Luna falls on the floor unconscious. Oleander raises his gauntlet and tries to shoot the other beings face off. The beings head is gone as it falls over. Both of them slowly turn to a puddle of lime blood. Oleander pants and picks Luna up, slinging her over his shoulder as he looks outside to see if there's more. Oleander gets a glimpse of three screens sliding behind the trees and out of view

"AND STAY AWAY YOU FUCKING BITCH-" Oleander screams, watching it leave. A clump of hair resting by the door slides up the wall out of sight. Oleander enters the living room agan and slams the door, gently placing Luna on the couch and checking her over for injuries. She's got no injuries, just a very very red mark on her neck from being squeezed. That said, she is asleep and breathing. Lock sits down where she is while catching her breath. Oleander stumbles over to Lock and sits next to her. "You okay?" He asks, catching his breath as well.

Lock doesn't respond as she holds out her right arm and pushes up her sleeve. She has a wrapping around her arm that she moves to the side to reveal a rather tight watch. On the watch is the time, date, and a red flashing bar. She puts the wrapping back over the watch. Oleander looks at it then looks at her leg, checking for injuries. Her fur looks a hint singed but otherwise fine. She leans her head back on the wall. Oleander just sits with her, extending a hand for her to hold.

After a few minutes of just recovering from being unconscious and drained of mana, Luna slowly opens her eyes, "Wha-- what happened?"

Lock goes to reach a trembling hand before it drops and her eyes close.

Luna asks, "...did I do that?"

Oleander holds it gently and shakes his head. "I don't think so. I killed the figures when they attacked and then this big guy left..." They explain in between deep breathes. "They're gone now."

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