Beatrix jingled the batch of starseeds in her hand after tossing the most recent drunk into the dumpster. She’d hit paydirt with the rich assholes and had even gotten wind of some rich French playboy who had been burning through people left and right for cheap thrills. Those were the types that needed to disappear, the ones who treated people like objects with no consideration for anyone else.
Following along as the man left the bar, she watched as they had left a few hundred dollar bills on the table to pay. They were loaded and she’d seen over a grand get tossed out at people that he had brought to the back here and there over the night. How many people had it been, she’d been both disgusted and shocked by the sheer balls this guy had.
Sending the starseeds away, she teleported to keep up high as she followed them through the city to a small unassuming shop area. When it looked like they were alone, she made her way down to the street level and followed them towards a descending stairwell that went beneath the sidewalk down somewhere. A nice easy corner to box them into. She might not even need her creature for this with how quiet this area was.
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René spent the night out at one of the bars he had seen on the app he had been using for hookups. It had been a while since Alexandre had come to his shop and he was trying to fill the void but it all felt so superficial… Drinking a bit of the local beer instead of his usual wine, the faces blurred together as he freed bills from his wallet onto the counter and into the pockets of the people he brought to the back. After the last one, he turned to leave. He felt like s**t, too tired to make it up to his apartment where he’d have to sober up enough to make it to his store the next morning. Just cutting the corners, he made his way to his shop instead. At least he could curl up in that bed they’d shared often in the backroom.
It had been a few months now that they’d had an arrangement but he’d gotten attached and started looking forward to them gracing him with their presence. He’d seen the little prickmarks on them that he had as well, to check that the risks they were taking hadn’t been causing any problems. It made him feel sick in a way that something he was doing could maybe affect them and he didn’t even know much more about them outside of what they’d been doing at his shop. He had their name and a few ideas of what else lay behind that angelic face of theirs.
Walking down the little stairwell to his shop, he fumbled with the keys as they doubled in his vision. Dropping them on the ground, he leaned over to pick them up and noticed a shadow behind him. “s**t.” Jumping up, he pressed against the door to his shop. “Hey hey hey, I don’t want any trouble.” Holding his hands up to show he was giving up, he wouldn't care if they took his money. There was plenty of it to go around.
“Oh boo, you shouldn’t have turned around.” Slamming her knee into their chest, she downed them and started kicking at them a bit. Crushing their face against the concrete stoop with her heel as she reached down to grab at their starseed. It’d be harder for them to scream with their face smashed to the ground. “I’ll be taking this thank ya. No more playboy days for you shithead.”
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All he could think of was Alexandre as the crazed woman started beating the crap out of him. He saw stars as his face connected with the ground and he tried to shout for help, for anyone to help but mostly he hoped that Alexandre would come to his rescue again as they had every time since he’d come to this city.
It hurt, how could she reach into his chest like that? Everything started to fade as he kept hoping this was just some sort of annoying magic and everything would be fine. They said most magic wouldn’t kill him and he’d stuck around because of that and them, even if they’d left him behind after New Year’s Eve.
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Alexandre had been avoiding Rene he supposed…he could sense it, he was certain he wasn’t paranoid, but he was certain he’d caught looks from the other that just went too deep - spoke too much. They were gaining feelings and he’d been wanting to avoid it, and he’d been managing so well, but he was like a moth to a flame and he really didn’t want to find someone else to take to bed. This had been working, so well, he didn’t need to bring someone home and he wasn’t lowering himself to some back room or a hotel or anything.
That want had been there for a few days now and he’d decided to feed his wants tonight, to visit and spend the evening with Rene. Maybe, just maybe, he was gaining a touch of the feels as well but he wasn’t about to acknowledge that even to himself.
As he came towards the shop he heard noise - a lot of noise. As he got closer he saw what was going on…and it left him pale and shaking but not with fear. He was angry and he felt it sweep through him cold and vicious like a storm. Making his way towards them he powered up just as he reached the two.
“That man is mine.” Snarling as he plunged his own hand into her chest from behind and grabbed. “You will let him go or I will crush you.” Cold and forceful as he gave a vicious squeeze to her starseed. “Do not tempt me…I will enjoy ending you right here.” Because he would, he would very much enjoy it. She might be a corrupt but right now she was intending to kill someone he needed and cared about. Katya, who had been not all that far from him, keeping an eye on her owner without him knowing, had rushed in to find out what was going on and perhaps reign her general in.
Katya knew he was going out and meeting someone, she’d heard it and she had seen the proof of it on several occasions, tonight she’d gone out to follow him and see just who he was spending his time on…and who he’d been pining for. She knew he had feelings for the person even if he was going to deny it over and over to himself, as she was sure he’d been doing. He was a human and he’d been hurt a lot - he was an idiot.
The walk, at least most of it, had been peaceful though long. He had walked rather than take his car like some normal person! At least it was easier for her to keep up with him when he was on foot, he’d be impossible to find if he drove anywhere, why though could he have not picked a closer place to seek such company?
Complaining inside her head, because this was taking precious time away from her, Katya was mid rant when she finally noticed the signature of a corrupt senshi and she heard the sounds of fighting. Ears perking up she had to run out of her hiding place to catch up to her general as he’d powered up at some point. Oh no, this was not going to be good - not at all. He was going to make a bloody mess and all over some civilian.
“Benitoite!”
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:37 am
It hurt but she couldn’t help but laugh as she held the starseed up for them to see. “A little help my friend?” Fog rolled out and filled the area as she reached into her chest and tried to pull their fingers off of her starseed. It hurt, just like the first time but she’d gotten used to that feeling in a way. She heard that voice, that ancient whispering warning as she knew her creature would wrap around the General that had her starseed. “Weak little men, scrambling around and burning the world to the ground. Don’t ya think something should be done about them or are you a womanizer too?” She spat and hissed as she tried to pull away, kicking backward at them as she felt one of their fingers give from her pulling.
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:37 am
Oh, he was not pleased to see that starseed. That just made it worse…for her, it wasn’t worse for him. Squeezing with enough force to near crack and damage he whispered into her ear just as he felt her magic and took note of the fog. “I will crush you and make you my puppet. I’ve made a youma before - I will do it again.” He would, for Rene he’d sink so low and feel a human body warp and contort, twist and reform, around his hand once more. He’d be a monster one more time for the other if need be.
Shivering from the cold and the whisper in his ear. He held tighter, pulling on her starseed as a warning of just what he could do. He could shatter it or pull it, he had really no issue in doing either. “If only a female interested me…but I’m afraid I find your gender disgusting and vulgar. Horrifically so…I could only find attraction in you if you were dead at my feet.” He could feel arms about him, tight and binding, at least he already had his hand in her chest otherwise he wouldn’t be able to manage it right now. He was held too firmly in place. Turning his head, twisting a bit, he could see a headless figure. Of course this one had creepy Halloween type magic…like that old Disney Halloween movie…Sleepy Hollow wasn’t it?
And he yanked on that starseed and pulled it, though it only just left her chest because he didn’t have enough range of motion, it pressed to her back but did not reenter. He was really not in the mood for this tonight, or at all really, she was ignoring his orders and tinkering with someone she should not be - she would learn.
Snarling as he held it in his gloved hand. “Now then…what to do with you.” Tilting his head. He still felt her magic, still saw the headless beast because her magic was still there around them all. He wasn’t scared though…cold and perhaps feeling a thrill which had every nerve in his body going on overdrive. It was like a high…a surge in energy and a want and need to hurt someone. He was stuck in place still though, her magic was not one he enjoyed, it kept him a bit too still for his liking.
When her magically finally did end he pushed the senshi out of the way and went to take what she had taken. “This one…this one here.” Showing her what he’d plucked from her fingers. “Is not yours. This one, this one is yours…” He was now shaking her starseed about. “And I can be nice and return it…or I can crush it. Maybe I’ll gift it to him as a nightlight…” Rene might not like it but Rene didn’t need to know what it actually was.
Katya, who could sense things her General could not was quick to dart in and grab the starseed which had been plucked from the human. “That is mine.” She snapped while moving to use her paws, and her mouth, to push it back into the downed man who was apparently her generals paramore. She really didn’t see the appeal, at least not yet, but they had better thank her properly for this. It was with the starseed in her mouth that she felt it. It wasn’t so bright and powerful as others, he was older, but it was still there and she could feel it for what it was. As she pushed it back into his chest she turned her focus onto her General, she needed to get him to act and fast.
“He has potential. We need to corrupt him.” Because if they didn’t then some other cat would find him on another night, it was just a matter of when, and if her general was intent on keeping this one then they had better play for the right team.
“Give him to me and to yourself. Corrupt him and do it now!”
He might have toyed with her more, he really did want to, but Katya’s words snapped him out of his rage just enough to focus on what she was saying next. Corrupt him? Claim him? “You can’t be serious?” He shouted back at her, and how in the hell had Katya turned up here? That he would ask her after this, he did want to know what his mauvian was doing here.
Time to focus though, he needed to, as the rage slipped away from his grasp he pressed the females starseed back into her before turning to Rene. “This is going to hurt…but Katya is right.” He couldn’t do it himself but neither could that little corrupt. Snarling at her he pulled out his communication set and placed a quick call out for a general king, or general queen, that he and Katya had found a potential senshi who needed awakening..anyone available would be appreciated. He did give his location as well.
“Almost killing one of our own…how disgusting. Were you jealous of what he could get that you couldn’t? Was that it?” He growled out as he narrowed his eyes on her.
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Oh, how she hated men, even though this one was on the same side she wanted to kill them, wondering how many starseeds it would take her to overpower him. Her body felt like lead though as he taunted her with her starseed, eyes filled with hate glared up at him.
But as she heard the words about them being a potential corrupt, she realized that she’d ******** up. She had their name though and she’d have to avoid them and make sure they didn’t learn her name to bring up what she did as something that could be punishable. “s**t, you disgusting a*****e. If only you knew where he’s been.” Creeping back up and away from the trio as she was able to move again with the return of her starseed, she teleported away to try and figure out an alibi or way to cover her own a** if it came to it. She needed to get far enough away to power down before one of the sovereigns arrived, she needed to be on their good side just like she was with Chrys and the dreadlocked corrupt from the clinic fire.
Everything was hazy, more than just the cheap beer would make it. He heard shouting, and vaguely felt something on his chest. His body felt like lead as some awareness started to float back enough to recognize one of the voices. “Alexandre…” It was a whisper as he pulled a hand up to his chest, over where the woman had shoved her hand in. Someone had picked him up and he couldn’t really hold his head up anymore, starting to fade back out as he heard more speaking. It was Alexandre’s voice and some other people, a woman and maybe a man. Other than that the words muddled against the haze as he fell limp again. Everything hurt, deep into his core but it all faded back into the abyss that was calling to him.
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:40 am
Looking to Katya he let the cat climb up onto his shoulders ,and drape herself there. “You're going to have to cancel out the energy signatures when we get home.” He was not about to have someone sense him when he arrived home and decide to pay him a late night visit. He had enough on his plate right now, and in his arms, as he adjusted the weight he was holding.
“Let’s go Katya.” A nod to the one who had helped him before he decided to teleport out, aiming for home, he would take care of Rene tonight and explain things in the morning to them. He was certain there was a lot he’d need to explain the morning, more than he wanted to.
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:45 am
Finally! Not only was she finally helping to make a corrupt senshi but also her general was finally claiming what he wanted - and needed. She would let Lorcan know, he was as concerned for her general as she was, and he was family as well. She would indeed tell him tonight, once her general and the other were tucked into bed. Once the house was able to fall into a peaceful silence, something which had not happened in a month, Katya was pleased with this.
"Of course, it is time to retire for the evening." A lot had happened in a short span of time. Jumping up and climbing onto his shoulder Katya was able to finally look at the human who had somehow managed to capture her generals attention. He had better do well by him...or she would let Lorcan know. That man might be a doctor but she was certain he could lose a body just as well as he healed people.
If this one cared as much as he seemed to, from what she'd heard on that voice recording, than perhaps her general would finally find what he needed so much. But she would watch...just incase.
