December 30, 2022

Rapid knocking. Kade sits on the couch but looks at the door. It speeds up more. "Come in!" The door swings open and Nyx walks in.

Kade blinks "Oh, hello."

"You wouldn't happen to know where Cole is would you?"

"No, I do not know where a gay man is. Why?"

"Good!" Nyx walks up and attempts to grab Kade by the throat.

"GAHK." It works, he's off guard by it.

"Would you consider yourself a Risen?"

"DEPENDS??? THAT, MEANING?"

"Are you here to help them or help me?" She squints at him.

"Well not you, for sure." he tries to growl a bit. A black snake of stone slithers out from her shadow and runs up her arm. It wraps Kades throat and tightens. Nyx lets go and puts her hands to her hips.

"You're a Risen, then... typical." She sighs.

Kade chokes when the snake tightens, starting to try and grab a hold of it and pry it off, "Not hard to be one then, I think!"

Nyx scoffs, "So who even are you? I've never heard you on DATRRS or anywhere else yet you showed up at that Zinger fight?" The stone snake barely moves.

"I was.. invited! And had a fuckin' uh... mythical dream, related to it I guess." He keeps prying adamantly.

"A gander I take it? Weird dog with a sloppy smile?"

"My, the most accurate description of it I've heard yet!"

"...great, not even the divulgars are on my side anymore," Nyx snarls some as she thinks. The snake is starting to come loose.

He starts trying to pull it more as it loosens. "A shame!" Nyx is thinking as the snake lets go. Kade throws it at a wall as Nyx's ears perk up, she's startled a moment. Kade dusts off his hands "Sorry the demons won."

"Twerp," more snakes slither out from Nyx's shadow. She punches Kade in the area code.

Kade had lacked this experience in his life. He had the luxury and bragging rights to have never had to experience his gongas being obliterated. When he witnessed much the same with Uriel, he laughed as he had no experience with such and believed he would never have such experience in his life. That belief had been cut short within one minute. His plans for the future, ruined. His bragging rights ruined, he has now joined the other half of the male population.

He fucking SCREAMS "GOD- FUC K" and FALLS OVER, KNEES PRESSED TOGETHER. "BITCH!!!!!"

Knight, who is now awake due to the scream, just rolls out of the room. Luna watches from the doorframe, terrified. Nyx kicks him in the face

"The rare Nyx losing her damned cool, what the fuck." Luna says. Kade tries to bite her foot he's GROWLING. Nyx shakes her foot, trying to get it free,

"LET GO!"

Kade keeps trying to bite more, and tug it towards him, there's a muffled "FUKC YOU!!!" Nyx falls over and tries to repeatedly kick him in the face with her free foot. It works! He's probably bleeding a lot and wincing but he's trying to bite harder and get up shakily gets up, his legs remain stiff though. Luna is watching from the sidelines, but is ready to jump in if Kade's unable to handle it. Nyx continues trying to get her foot out, by now there is a lot of red blood. He eventually gets kicked off and manages to sit up. Nyx snarls and summons her opal sword.

Luna jumps in on seeing the Opal. She summons her ichor. "Nyx, nobody wants you here." Luna glares and unsheathes her ichor claymore. Kae backs up a bit, wiping some blood from his face.

"I'm WELL aware of that, bitch!" Nyx growls.

"Then please, skedaddle, whore." Luna points the ichor claymore right at her, glaring and growling. For once, Luna is completely focused. Nyx runs to Kade, trying to slash at him diagonally. Luna quickly parries Nyx's attack with her sword. "Hell no."

He's startled with that, starting to stand "Thanks, Luna."

Luna nods. Nyx scoffs, "Now you're helping th-" the door swings open and Flummox takes a wide step into the room.

"Face it Nyx. You're all alone in the many worlds. Risen don't want your help, Divulgars help Risen. Hell even Sparrow wants absolutely nothing to do with you, opting to instead use you." It's cold, but it's true.

"WHO THE FUCK???" Kade's pointing at Flummox.

Nyx grumbles at Luna. Nyx then snaps a finger at Kade, "Language"

Flummox snickers some, "SO what's going on here huh?"

"Oh hey Flummox. Nyx just casually attacking Kade because Cole's not here." Her focus is still dead locked on Nyx.

Nyx looks between everyone and lowers her sword, "Pfff no?"

Flummox raises an eyebrow at Nyx, "Nyyyyxxxx????" Nyx looks down and frowns some. Luna grins and watches, lowering her sword. Kade looks so confused.

"That's good, Nyxtwix" Flummox pats Nyx on the head. Nyx grumbles. Okay remember that grin Luna had? It's gone and is now replaced with pure confusion. Oh and envy too!

"Nyxtwix???" Luna asks.

"Like I said, we're close." Flummox grins in asymmetrical.

"Huh. That explains a lot, definitely." Luna takes a couple moments to pause, thinking some things over, "so uhhh Flummox, you wouldn't happen to be 'Erik' would you?" Going off the PieWrites banner here.

"HA I wish. That guy hates my guts," Flummox rolls his eyes "Anyways, I better get Twixer out of your hair before there's more damage!"

"Yeah, I think that might be good Flummox." she cringes at the chaos that just erupted here. "Thank you."

"Say bye, Nyxy!" Flummox heads out of the door. On Nyx's way out she gives a death glare while making the motion of cutting her throat.

Luna smugly grins. "Anytime Nyxxie!" She turns to Kade as soon as Nyx is gone. "Kade, do you need first aid?"

Kade blinks a few times "Ice pack for sure. Maybe two, but otherwise I think I'm fine."

Luna smiles, "Be right back." She heads into the kitchen. As Luna walks back in, she catches the four items and hands three of them to Kade. "Two ice packs and a bottle of water." And one for her too. Yippee There's a lot of Nyx blood on the ground. "Um, so lemme just clean this room before we have more issues." She snaps a mop and a bucket of water to the living room as she cleans. Anywhere the blood was, the wooden floors look brand new like the day they entered the house.

"Thank you!" He puts one ice pack between his lets and the other on his face as he lays back.

As Luna mops, she notices the fact that Nyx's blood has wood polish in it "Jeez, that's different. Is this what Harmonia's grandma's house looked like way back when?"

Harmonia's taking a nice scenic walk in the woods. Something moves between the trees, a blade in hand. Harmonia is in human form and looks towards where the movement is. "Hello??"

Nyx steps out. She holds a sword and wears her fancy robes.

"Uh... can I help you?"

Nyx's eyelashes are golden and she steps closer, "You are part of the Risen, correct?"

"Uh... yeah?"

"You're Harmonia Iris Reeds...right?" She steps even closer.

"Uh... yeah..." She takes a step back, narrowing her eyes.

Nyx smiles and looks at her. Her eyes are golden, "Good to see you homebrew."

Harmonia's a bit stupid and looks into Nyx's eyes, immedietly turning around and trying to RUN. Nyx stabs the white opal sword into Harmonia's leg. It glows and hums slightly. It feels freezing cold.

Harmonia screams in pain and fear, falling on her face. She tries to grab the sword and pull it out. Nyx stomps down on Harmonia's hand and leg as she rips the sword out. Harmonia screams once again in pain. "WHO ARE YOU??" She yells, trying to get up, shaking badly.

"I raised Rose as one of my own. I nagged in her ear about you, I wanted the hate to brew," Nyx kicks her in the face.

Harmonia moves to the side so Nyx's foot only grazes it, lessening the damage. She attempts to grab her and push her away. "OH SO THATS WHY SHE'S FUCKED UP."

Nyx stumbles back some, "Every shallow bitch has a source and that source is me-" Nyx cuts off her words with a grunt as she puts as much force as she can into a stomp at her gut.

It works and Harmonia screams in pain before disappearing, reappearing standing up in front of Nyx. Harmonia punches Nyx in the face. Her face rips off and reveals a golden rabbit skull with rubies for eyes. She screeches at Harmonia. Nightjars and owls flood the trees around them. Harmonia screams as well and tries to run away. Nyx steps out from a tree's shadow in front of her and slowly raises the blade towards her. Harmonia puts her hands in front of her face, panicking, "FUCK OFF-"

There's a sickening feeling of bad luck, the moon is lighting the woods in an eerie glow as she continues to approach. Harmonia backs up, opening her mouth and grabbing her whip. She cracks it at Nyx's hands, trying to make her drop her blade. Nyx's arm is moved some from the force but she keeps a strong grip. The grass around them moves as stone snakes begin slithering out from the shadows. Harmonia notices them and panics, sending her whip to try and wrap around Nyx's sword. It wraps and Nyx pulls on the blade.

Harmonia pulls the blade out of Nyx's hands as she stumbles forwards towards Harmonia. Harmonia grabs the sword by the hilt, pointing it at Nyx.

On bringing the blade up she realizes her surroundings have changed. They stand in an empty large building. Moon light filters through the skylight with a large blood moon. The room is filled with grandfather clocks that tick. Nyx taps her shoulder from behind

Harmonia looks behind her, terror in her eyes. Nyx's face prys open as a stone snake rises out of her mouth and hisses, ready to strike. It's able to, Harmonia is too surprised to dodge. "FUCK-"

The snake strikes her neck and injects a venom. She grabs her neck and backs up, panicking. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT-" Her vision starts blurring and she feels a bit drunk. The snake retreats back into Nyx's mouth. Harmonia stumbles back, trying to run in the opposite direction from Nyx. After a bit of running she falls to the ground, soon passing out.

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She wakes up in a cell with a single mattress and a durable one way glass window, television, speaker, a panel with different buttons, a locked small trash shoot, and a locked food slot on the bottom of a reinforced door.

Harmonia looks around, groaning. "hng... youre fucking kidding me..." She mutters, forcing herself to sit up. The door opens as a researcher steps in, a human male sits down in one of two metal chairs in the room and holds a clipboard.

Harmonia sneers. "What do you want..." She says, holding her head.

"Can you confirm your name?"

Harmonia flips him off.

He sets the clipboard down in his lap, "I understand you might not be happy about this situation. I ask that you cooperate to make this processes as smooth as possible."

"Do you let me out if I do?"

"That has yet to be decided."

She narrows her eyes. "Whatever."

"Are you not wanting to take how you are treated seriously?"

"I'll answer the questions..." She mumbles, annoyed.

"Confirm your name for me please"

"Harmonia Iris Reeds."

"How would you describe what you are so we can better understand you?"

"A gluttony demon." She says, huffing.

"Can you describe what makes you a gluttony demon and what other names gluttony demons could go by?"

Harmonia shifts to her demon form. She becomes around 7 feet tall, wearing a black anime t-shirt and basketball shorts. Where her skin would be is black carapace and theres red fluff on her lower arms and calves, similar to leg warmers. She also has black fluff on her torso that is poking out the collar of her shirt and bottom of her shorts. Her face has 4 glowing red eyes and a mostly human-like mouth with sharp red teeth and black mandibles on the top lip. Her "hair", which is really just very long fluff, is red at the bang area and black overall. She also has fluffy moth antennae atop her head. "This for example. The make up of my soul I guess. Not sure if there's any other names."

"Does your demon form allow for any other abilities or weaknesses that your other form does not have?"

"My carapace is harder than skin and I'm physically bigger. Other than that it carries to my human form as my human form is mostly just for looks, doesn't change much."

"What abilities or weaknesses do you possess in your human form?"

"In both my demon and human form?"

"I can take out and eat souls, teleport under certain conditions, enhanced strength and durability, stuff like that." Harmonia shrugs. "I'm not telling you my weaknesses for obvious reasons."

"Have you always been a demon? If not, how did you become one?"

"No. I became one because I was killed and a friend gave me half his soul. He was a gluttony demon and I became half demon for a while until I died again and became a full demon."

"Does this make you different from other gluttony demons?"

"Yeah. Me and my friend are different from other gluttony demons as we're part of an old generation."

"What is your daily routine for meals or similar materials necessary for survival or comfort?"

Harmonia grins. "Five meals a day, each with one soul, good human food and general human comfort stuff like a bed and blankets and entertainment and stuff."

"What do you consider your average sleep schedule?"

"Uh... whenever I get tired?"

"Around when would that be and around when would you wake up?"

"I dunno... maybe like 1 am? Wake up at like 11?"

"Will you need anything other than what is already provided to aid in your sleep?"

"Guess not." She shifts back to human form.

"Sleep well. I will return in the morning" He gets up and heads out. The lights turn off and there's a glow in the dark strip of tape on the edge of the bed and the legs of the chairs. Harmonia huffs, getting into the bed and trying to get comfy. My as well.

In the morning red lights flash and an alarm goes off. Harmonia wakes up and looks around. "h...huh???"

There's no one there. She can faintly hear people walking outside. She goes to the door to see if she can open it. It doesn't want to budge. She looks around the room again to see if there's anything else in it. It’s all the same items as yesterday, a durable one way glass window, television, speaker, a panel with different buttons, locked small trash shoot, and a locked food slot on the bottom of a reinforced door.

She starts trying to break the glass. Anything she does doesn't seem to work as the red lights and alarms stop. The door opens and the man from before enters, "Good morning."

She stops and backs up, "Morning??? What was that???"

"Just an average drill, nothing to worry about," He sits down in a chair, "How well did you sleep?"

She shrugs. "Okay I guess?"

"We would like to perform a series of tests," a compartment on the wall opens, "If you will grab the items in the compartment and place them on the floor for us."

She sighs and goes to see what the items are. It's a kids toy set of the stick and the different sized rings.

She stares at the man. "You’re fucking with me."

"I am not. I would like you to complete the puzzle provided."

She makes a face, "Fine." She then puts them on the ground and put the rings on the stick, largest on the bottom.

He nods "Very good" He begins writing. Something else drops in the compartment "Then next test is in the compartment."

She goes to the compartment to see what's inside. Its a few building blocks with letters on each side.

The man repeats, "Please complete the puzzle provided."

She stacks the blocks in alphabetical order.

"...interesting," The man writes for a concerning amount of time. Harmonia leans in to try and see what hes writing. All she gets a glimpse of is the abbreviation W.A.C. before he turns to a new page, "Please confirm your identity again."

Harmonia sighs and sits on the bed, "Harmonia Iris Reeds."

"Would you eat one of them?"

"Eat one of what?"

He pauses writing and glances up at her, "What do you mean?"

"...you asked if I would eat one of them?"

"I did not ask that, I asked if you were ready for lunch. Did it sound like my own voice?"

Harmonia nods. "Yeah-" She looks around the room suspiciously.

The researcher gets a walkie talkie out of his lab coat and holds it to his face, "This is a curiosity of CSZ to CMZ. Please check the rafters again," another voice responds, "Roger."

"Uh.... whats cmz?" Harmonia asks, tilting her head.

"A different area of the facility." he puts the walkie talkie away, "If you hear me or anyone else saying to eat someone or something I recommend you do. It tends to affect what people hear. So go ahead, eat my soul."

Harmonia blinks. "Uh- no thanks- I don't want to eat your soul-" She says nervously, unsure if what she's hearing is being changed.

"No I ask of you to, it would be an honor. Besides you said you wanted a soul for each meal."

"Wait no- I was kidding actually-" She says nervously, looking around, "Who’s in the walls?"

"No one is in the walls, are you well? Maybe if you ate my soul you would feel better."

Harmonia covers her ears, "No- NO- I Won't be tricked into eating someone else-"

"It's not a trick, Im asking you to," he gets up and walks closer to her.

She shakes her head, covering her ears, "No!!"

"Theres no need to be scared. I've already done everything I want in life. I would be losing nothing," He reaches up to put a hand on her shoulder.

She smacks the hand away. "No! I said no!" She yells, panicking.

"Harmonia please calm down, maybe a bite will help?" He takes a step back.

"STOP- I'M NOT EATING YOU!" She yells, looking around for any way to escape.

"Harmonia you need to calm down," He takes a syringe out from his lab coat.

"NO YOU NEED TO!" She tries to grab his arm to stop him.

Hes arm is grabbed as he freezes in place, "Harmonia, eat my soul now."

"WHY???"

"Do I need to say it twice?" He tries to pull his hand free.

"I'm not doing it," She sneers, pushing him away. He lunges at her, trying to get her with the needle. She tries to catch his hand but gets pierced with the needle. She's injected with something as the man lets go and steps back.

"WHY DID YOU DO THAT???" She yells and sounds pissed off.

He backs up more, "I asked you to eat my soul and you didn't-"

"SO WHY'D YOU DRUG ME?? WHAT'S IN IT??"

"Does it matter? Your time is limited unless you eat"

"ILL BE FINE- WHAT DID YOU GIVE ME???” She's shaking in anger and absolutely pissed.

The man quickly heads out of the room. His walkie talkie had fallen onto the floor during the struggle. Harmonia snatches it, hugging it to her and trying not to panic. She needed to figure out what to do. The room is quiet, she doesn't feel any effects. She stares at the walkie talkie, hoping it says something. It's dead quiet. She makes sure it's powered on. On closer look most of the buttons are stickers. there's only one real button. She presses it. After a long pause, a voice on it says, "Roger."

"What rhe fuck..." She peels off some of the stickers. The door slowly creaks open. She gets up, moving to the door slowly. It remains open. She can’t even hear people walking like before. On heading through the door, she finds a large corridor with no one in it. Its eerie how quiet it is. She takes a deep breath, heading further in and looking for what could be an exit. She heads through another door at the end of the hall. She finds one last hall, another door is wide open. She gets the glimpse of something that heads in the door and a distant jingle of bells. She runs towards it curiously.

She sees Flummox enter the smaller hall with a dead end door and Vivian’s lab. Flummox turns to face her, "EAT MY SOUL!"

Harmonia jumps. "H-HUH??? WHY DO YOU WANT ME TOO???"

"Im kidding! IM kidding!" Flummox chuckles "They call me a Flummox, I take it you're Harmonia?"

Harmonia nods. "Y-yeah- do you know what's going on here?? I was fighting Nyx but she poisoned me and I passed out and woke up here-"

"Yeah welcome to Nyx's lil burrow of oddities," he does jazz hands, "Dead end door around the corner and you'll be home scott free," he nods towards the dead end door.

"Did you come and get me?'She asks curiously.

"More of you were on my route so I might as well had pulled a few strimblystroogles for ya."

Harmonia smiles. "Thank you- It's nice to meet you.”

"Nice to see ya too! Oh! and one more thing, tell the others I said hello and toodaloo" He makes a weird hand salute before walking past her and down the other hall.

"Okay!" Harmonia heads out the dead end door and around the corner. She disappears.

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