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 Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:12 pm
Each week brought her more opportunities to get out and drain, what at first was a pain was starting to become a routine for her. Every few nights she would go out to the alleys and drain a few of the passed out drunkards, pilfering their pockets for money so she wouldn’t have to pick up shifts for work. The faster she got this done with, the faster she could strengthen her magic. There was a war or something going on but that was just background to her, not something she really put much thought into. No, her goals were selfish, she wanted to put on her own show. It felt good to have something to look forward to even if she was still learning all the stuff that lead up to that.
He methods were crude to say the least, much like a vulture picking on the carcasses left beside the road at night. She knew she could at least escape or somewhat fight if she came into contact with someone else but she had been playing things safe lately. That is, until she started getting a bit ballsier and following people who had concert tickets she wanted. She wouldn’t wait for them to pass out, she would use her magic when she could to engulf them in fog so she could focus and drain them before collecting her real prize.
Tonight was one of those nights, as she carefully followed her mark from one of the late night bars in town. It was closer to the university than she liked but she really couldn’t afford these tickets otherwise and she knew the person got them from their insta post. They posted all the time so it made it easier for her to keep tabs on him. Even now she watched as he took his phone out to take a selfie in front of one of the signs. It made her a bit sick that they were so full of themselves. If she knew better she would have been able to sense that she wasn’t the only one out and draining in the area.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:14 pm
Normally Liam didn’t drain energy from around campus, he liked to keep away from places he spent a good deal of time, so he didn’t risk anyone figuring him out, but he didn’t really have distinguishing markings like tattoos or piercings or anything. He figured with that in mind he was safe to drain around campus tonight, as he’d been asked to come in late to help a classmate study as they were having a hard time. He was doing his professor a favor and he’d been planning to go out energy gathering tonight, something he didn’t want to skip out on, so he’d decided to power up as soon as he’d left the building so he could get on with it.
He’d gotten just outside of campus, into the surrounding college area, when he’d felt someone in the area as well. They weren’t order, thankfully, but they weren’t of his own court either. Some sort of chaos, a corrupt senshi perhaps? That was where he was headed now as he sent a quick message to Aloysius, on his cell phone, to let the other know he was done with tutoring and was just going to drain some energy in the area. He might as well let the other know what was going on, so he didn’t worry, and as soon as that was done his cell phone went into subspace for the rest of the night.
He saw a good amount of fog up in the distance, it seemed rather odd and out of place. “Interesting…” He whispered to himself as he moved from a tree onto a building roof so he could get closer.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:15 pm
Using the fog as cover, she drained the influencer almost dry. They slumped down to the ground and she started searching his coat pockets, cursing as her prize wasn’t on him. She dragged him towards the dumpster and laid him in the pile of garbage that was accumulating next to the large metal box. Kicking him for good measure she stepped back out of the fog, noticing for the first time tonight she was being watched. “******** me…” She quickly ran for cover in the shadow of the building they were standing on top of, cursing a bit more knowing she couldn’t easily make her way up there. Getting a closer look would be ideal since she wasn’t sure exactly what side they were on from up there.
The fog had dissipated at this point revealing the slumped husk of a man in the grabage so if they were in fact order there would be hell to pay if she wasn’t prepared. She had two more shots of magic this time to help get out of this situation so she started to think of a plan as she tied some of her hair together to keep it out of the way.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:16 pm
She was lucky, even if she didn’t know it, as Melpomene was not in fact an order senshi. He wasn’t the same sort of chaos but he was chaos nonetheless. He was however not pleased to see someone tossed into a dumpster, though where else they could have gone was also beyond him. Making his way down from the rooftop he headed towards the dumpster, which meant passing the corrupt senshi as well.
“Nice trick with the fog. But a dumpster…really.” Shaking his head. No one was likely to find them in a dumpster, not if some idiot threw garbage on top of them in the meantime. “Just leave them on the sidewalk.” They wouldn’t be missed that way and someone would be called to help them.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:16 pm
As he got closer she didn’t even wait for him to speak before she used her magic again. He was close enough just long enough for that icy cold hand to swipe out at him. She followed up with a kick before what he said really got to her. They weren’t order but they didn’t have the same long hair she had seen on every other corrupt senshi she had met so far. “s**t man like I don’t know who you are but I really need you to not crash my vibe. I’m trying to find some concert tickets and this dude is scum anyway.” The fog still flowed around her with the ever present figure that she called her monster lurking within. Staying at the ready for whatever happened next, she listened to see if she hadn’t pissed off someone who could have potentially helped her with her goals tonight.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:17 pm
He wanted to laugh, he really did, but the cold as hell hand on him had him freezing. Well, that wasn’t good. Actually whatever he saw looming in the fog likely wasn’t good either. “Crash your vibe…I’m just thinking about the murder that could have happened.” He didn’t know the person, and didn’t care if they were good or not, but he didn’t think murder was a good thing. Maybe it was a good thing he wasn’t in the Negaverse, he couldn’t get into the s**t they did.
“And what exactly is in the fog…?” Since she seemed to still be close to him…so something else was out there, and he really wasn’t into this. Though he knew it was all just magic and not exactly real. “Your way works nice…but why carry concert tickets on you when your out drinking? A bit stupid really.”
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:18 pm
“It’s the thing that lurks beyond the grave man, one day it’ll be all there and maybe I can finally see what it looks like.” She spoke about her magic like it was it’s own person and in truth that’s how she felt about it. It grabbed at things on its own without her telling it what to do so it had to be thinking of some sort and the fog had to be her connection to bring it forth. Getting stronger was the only way she saw forward to bring her monster into this world even more.
“He woulda been fine, trash day isn’t for like 5 days and he woulda woken up and stumbled out of there or one of his fans would have looked for him cuz it’s not like he didn’t just take a picture of his dumb face in front of that bar behind us. One of his fangirls would hop on a high horse if they saved his a**.” Frustration seeped through her young sounding voice she really was cutting it close to see this rock show she wanted. That scummy man had no place being at the concert, he didn’t understand the meaning behind the music or even really know the band. They were all sellouts just trying to fill seats.
“He freaking took a photo with them two hours ago they haveeeee to be somewhere!” With two stamps of her foot, the fog faded. Not that she could make it disappear but rather she knew how long she had that it would work. Her small frame stood as menacingly as she could manage as she looked up at the other. They at least looked kinda ok in terms of aesthetics, kinda had a killer queen vibe she could get behind but that wasn’t the point.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:19 pm
Listening to how she spoke about her magic, and whatever was lurking in her fog, he shook his head. She was a bit into her own magic it seemed…interesting. But he did know it was something related to death now, thanks to what she was saying, so at least he had some sort of a hint about it. He also knew it wasn’t something he wanted to run into - thank you very much.
“He could have left them in his car or at home. Sadly he’s unconscious and you can’t find out since he’s not about to answer. If he were awake I could try and find out.” Much as he didn’t care to help her he knew he could…if the person were conscious. He was certain his magic could help her out…and in a less violent manner as well. “Not sure he’ll actually remember either…considering the way magic works.” He’d never tried it out to see if people remembered what they did when under its influence.
“I have emotional magic…” Not something he enjoyed really, he did not like all the attention on himself, but he’d learned to deal with it since it was useful as hell.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:19 pm
She groaned and started pulling the dude out of the trash, flopping him down on the ground like a dead fish. The other senshi was right in a way, her method was luck based and not everyone was stupid enough to walk around with hundred dollar tickets just on them until it was the night of the event. “What are your opinions on kidnapping Killer Queen?” She didn’t know his name yet and knew that it probably wouldn’t come up yet given how she had literally just attacked him. Slapping the drained man a few times left some incoherent grumbles and groans. “If you can make him talk that would be hella metal. I found his keys if not and we can play the click the button and find the beep game. Otherwise I think I have a few marks listed on my insta that we can track down. I have like two days to get one of these tickets and I really can’t miss this show.”
She held up the guy’s keys and clicked them, listening for the telltale beep of a car being locked. Unfortunately she heard nothing from the area around and decided to whip out her shattered and cracked android phone to look online for clues. There were two other guys in this dude’s posse that had tickets so they had to be at a bar nearby.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:20 pm
“Killer Queen?” He questioned before shaking his head, he’d have to tell Aloysius that later. “I don’t like it but if we can get him conscious I’ll help.” He didn’t like stealing, he really didn’t, but it was going to happen one way or another he was certain of that. He might as well make this easier for the civilian. It was, he felt, the best option for all three of them…he’d just have to avoid telling Aloysius about this, he was certain the other would be disappointed in him.
“I think I can do this.” He really did think he could, since he was able to influence those under his magic. As the civilian seemed to start coming around, even just a bit, he blew a kiss the guys way. “True Loves Kiss” Time to see just what his magic could do when not in a battle, he’d get to learn tonight how his magic might just help him.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:20 pm
It took more than a moment for her to realize what was going on, the guy laying on the ground next to her stirred and ground. He was still out of it but he looked at Bea with lovey eyes. “Oh piss I uh mean hey there handsome?” She didn’t really know what to do other than hide her phone and his keys in her boobs and act all innocent. “How ya feeling, you took kind of a nasty fall there.” It hurt to be nice to this person bus she reeeeeeally wanted to go to this show.
“Oh you saved me didn’t you, darling~” He couldn’t quite sit up but he leaned in a way to get a better look at her, she really was gorgeous. Kinda goth or manic pixie dream girl vibes but nice either way. There was a guy over there too with a similarly weird outfit but they were probably just on their way to something. He was kinda cute too so the guy waved slightly towards them. “I’m fine now that you’re here, anything I can help you with in return for saving me?”
The guy was really just oblivious and this was some really weird s**t. Looking over towards the other senshi she shrugged and then smiled and acted like she wasn’t about to puke from how gross it was that this dude was coming on to her. “I seem to have lost my ticket for the show coming up so do you know anyone that might have one available? Mine got swiped by a mugger when I was on my way home from work.” She gave him those doe eyes she used when she would get caught being late to work or out drinking underage.
Concert…. It flooded to him sort of vaguely because he had a lot of appearances lined up and he really didn’t care for music at all. “Oh you mean that death metal one this weekend? I can take you both if you’d like~ I have four tickets for it since I have to show up for a photo shoot.” He patted his pockets for a moment before remembering something. Pausing and then reaching for his hat that was clipped through one of the loops on his jeans, he flipped it inside out and unzipped a stash pocket. There were some illicit cigs in there as well as the tickets and a few hundred dollar bills. “I can give you three of them if you have any other cute friends to come along, I need some good arm candy for this shoot if I want to get my following up again.” He reached out with three of the tickets to her while staring directly at her chest.
Bea’s jaw dropped, that was so freaking cool. She had heard of stash items before but never thought of it being a hat. Sure the tickets smelled like skunk but that would be awesome. She could go and scalp the tickets or maybe if the other senshi had anyone to go with then she could offer them as thanks. “Oh you’re such a cutie, I would love to go and bring one of my gal pals along! We can take these three and meet you there right? Let us just help you get up and back to where you were going ok?” She motioned for Liam to assist with this as she stood up, nearly flashing the guy from all the stuff she had tucked in the tattered top of her uniform. While her face was out of their site she kinda looked towards the other for what to do next. This really wasn’t her normal M.O and she didn’t know what to do next or if the dude would remember her.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:21 pm
So it seemed his magic would work in the way he thought it might, though he was surprised it made the guy attach more to the corrupt senshi than himself. He’d expected it to go a little different but he wasn’t all that displeased with it really. When he was offered a ticket as well he stared for a moment, ok so it was working for them both, interesting. It was something to keep in mind for next time he used his magic.
“I’ll be sure to show up though I don’t know if I’d be arm candy worthy.” Liam was just looking to test something, to see if his magic really had the guy interested in him as well. Or was he just included in things because he was here with the corrupt senshi. “But I’ll be sure to be there and escort the ladies there to meet you.” Since the guy would be going as well still it seemed, even though he didn’t seem to like the music he was planning to go see…so why was he going? Did he have fans that were into that sort of music yet he wasn’t? Odd really.
Moving to help the guy up, as the corrupt was motioning him to do so, it was easier for him since he was larger than the female and had a bit more strength as well since he was ranked up higher than she was. “Why don’t we help you to your car, if you want to tell us where you’re parked. I think you hit your head on something and should maybe take a lay down in the backseat till you feel safe to drive.” That was all he could come up with on the spot, and he was on the spot if the look he was getting was any indication, so he figured they could go with it. It would get the guy somewhere safe and away from them..and they’d be the good guys in this - right?
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:22 pm
Beatrix smiled a bit as they got the guy up, she slipped the keys carefully out through the bottom her top and down through one of the holes in her skirt. Offering them to the guy. “Yea you dropped these too so we can help ya get back and you can rest until you feel good enough to drive. Muggers these days suck total a**.” She almost laughed a bit at how this was turning.
After being helped up and starting to make their way out of the alley as a group, the guy leaned his head on Liam’s shoulder and whispered. “To be honest I prefer guys like you~ Girls are just better for the gram yanno? Just an aesthetic thing is all.” He clicked his keys as they made their way down the alley back to the main road, finally hearing the beep of his car. He didn’t mind leaning on this tall dark and handsome mister as they made their way, and it was very apparent on his face that he’d rather go home with them tonight.
Bea hadn’t heard exactly what had been said, the face that he made was pricelessly sleazy. With the sound of the beep she rushed along, she knew her magic only lasted a little bit and wasn’t sure how long the other senshi’ s did so she motioned for them to throw him in the car once they got close enough to see its blinking tail lights.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:24 pm
“I see, perhaps you should find yourself someone.” Damn, this guy was hiding in the closet just for fans and such. He wasn’t all that surprised though really. It seemed being transgender, or in some way gender nonconforming, was more accepted than being gay or even bisexual. He felt for the guy if that was the reason he didn’t come out and risk the followers. Not when this was his job and how he made a living. “Even if you gotta keep it hidden, it might do you some good.” He kept his voice low, not wanting to blow this poor guys cover.
His own magic he knew would be wearing off soon so decided to risk it and blew another kiss at him, activating his magic one more time on the guy. Hurrying up as they found his car, thanks to the guy clicking the alarm, he made to get him into the car as soon as they got there. “Get some rest before you go home, you look like you really need it. That hit to the head wasn’t good for you.” And he made sure he sounded worried, more than he really was when it came to the guys head anyway. He did feel for the guy being in the closet and likely single because of it.
“Get comfortable in the back and rest.” Stepping back once the guy was in the car's back seat he motioned for the corrupt to close the door, and toss the keys to their owner. “I’m Melpomene by the way.” He said, offering the female his hand.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2023 4:24 pm
The dude nodded and laid back in the seat blowing a kiss back at Melpomene. “See ya then~” He felt all cozy and thought of how nice they both were for helping him. That blonde guy really had a heart to hear with him, he might take that advice after his tour.
Beatrix tossed his hoodie over him and then the keys before shutting the door. Thoroughly grossed out. “That’s some kinda weird juju love beam you got goin on there, Melp? Yea Melp Melp I like that. Name’s Beatrix but you can call me Bea.” She took his hand with a wink. “Thanks a bunch for the help, you can have these two other tickets I only need the one. Not sure if it’s something you’d vibe with but eh you can sell em as a scalper for a few hundo if you know how to. But I gotta run now, if you ever wanna chill again just look for me and my monster in the fog~” With that, she booked it down the alley to somewhere she could power down and make it to her late night shift at the 7/11.
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