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 Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 9:48 pm
Things went back to normal, the strange way they always did at Amityville. Everyone was joyous about Red's return, welcoming her back with welcome arms.
Well not everyone. Danny was upset by the event, suspicious even. She'd watched Red die. Fought her insanity form not once, but twice now. Even Arel had said she was already dead. How could she just come back and say everything was fine? How did she know with one hundred percent certainty that something wouldn't go wrong? Wasn't she putting them all in danger like this?
Her thoughts were normally lull, stalled, but now they were in turmoil. Thinking of Red as a monster made her feel horrible, but it was true. They weren't safe. She couldn't trust it.
Danny plucked the strings of her guitar listlessly, sitting her beanbag chair in the Fright Music Club room. It was a strange sort of song that didn't make sense, it was just plucking. She wanted to talk to someone about all this, but it was hard. You didn't just say "Hey I think our teacher's going to kill us!" in daily conversation.
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:54 am
If there was one thing Bul came back with from the series of events following Fright Night it was a whole lot of doubt. Doubt in himself? Maybe. Doubt in the hunters and his relationship he'd just briefly made with them? Certainly. Doubt that this was the REAL Red that was back with them? Absolutely.
From the night they returned to the true campus, home, the half beast had found himself completely on edge. The only person he trusted enough to wind down around was obviously Mei... but even then the constant worry that they may be pulled apart again would run him ragged at night. Today he was interrupted from his nap by the creeping feeling of guilt. In a half-awake state he removed himself from his dorm and threw on a hoodie then proceeded to prowl around campus.
Faces here and there, people wandering off to class, some lazily laying beneath the gnarled trees scattered around the school. Oh how he envied them. The eased minds who were free of inner turmoil. The couples who sloppily engaged in what may or may not be unrequited 'love.' As long as they used protection charms what in this world did they have to worry about?
While not usually the jealous type, Bul had now walked with regrets. Regretting that perhaps the vicious red-head Rep would do the same to him as he had Bix. After all, the snake creature had been part of his own team right?! Gale would be a threat to his livelihood if he had any sense in that human brain. Cael? Well that was one target down. Perhaps that was a victory that he could savor... but the death lead had spared his life. Probably the only Halloween life he would ever let frolic free. All debts Bul would never have imagined were repaid in reference to the black haired bishi.
There I go again... he thought to himself as he clenched his fists in his jacket's pockets. The lizard boil felt he'd toiled enough already over this, losing plenty of sleep but nooooOoo-
The sound of humble instruments hummed through his pointed ears the closer he walked towards the Fright Music Club doors. Oh man, here comes that guilt again. Fitness Club had offered him work at their Fright Night booth... and he'd absolutely spaced on the Music Club he'd once joined. But curiously enough, the boil poked his head around the corner to find it was only Danny idly prodding at her axe. "Oh- hey-" he quietly intruded.
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:44 pm
Danny looked up from her guitar playing at the monster who'd just walked in. She frowned, and tilted her head, "Hey Bul."
She was going to go back to playing the guitar, but Bul's appearance nagged at her. He looked a little tired, somewhat worn down. Maybe he was sick? Then again, Danny had been a bit under the weather herself. Annoyed paranoia as she walked down the hallways, staying up just a little too late thinking about the insanity.
"You okay? You look kinda tired," she commented. Maybe it was nothing?
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:15 pm
Come to think of it, right around this time last year Bul had caught an awful fear!cold. Snot was everywhere but under his control. "Heh, yea I uh.. that whole house business." It was NICE though... not having to be taboo about anything. Mentioning the house now wasn't tied to the immediate sting of having someone removed from them- instead it was best to consider it a victory over anything else. That helped to talk about it even with a broken Red back.
"Just stuff from it all man it was pretty intense. I uh.. I was actually hanging out with hunters the whole time heh so it was pretty nerve wrecking-" Hanging out could infer ANYTHING. He wasn't too worried to mention it vaguely. "
The beanbag chairs looked impeccably comfortable and the lizard hunched his way over to one falling face first into its fluff. "Whaboutuu?" he asked muffled.
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:41 pm
Danny scooted her bean bang closer to Bul, since the face in the beanbag mumbled his last sentence. "Yeah that was uh ... well scary. Not the good kind," she said, frown on her face, nodding to Bul.
Her eyes widened a bit as Bul said he'd been with hunters. Although he probably wanted to drop the subject, Danny didn't pick up his subtle message. "Are you okay? Did they hurt you?" she asked immediately. What if Bul had a tracker on him? Danny knew Amphi and Yin had one, it wouldn't be unfeasible.
So it seemed not everyone was okay with what happened. At least she wasn't alone. The battle at the end had been so convoluted that she didn't know WHO was involved. She just knew she was glad it was over.
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:51 pm
Bul would've stayed muffled in the beanbag but it would be a means for showing he was hiding something, so he lifted his head out and flopped around onto his back. "Nah they didn't. They threatened but.. they were legit as scared as us about the fog," he sighed. "To be frank I found myself where they were all recovering so they were all hobbling around like injured scarelings. I think I was looking for thei- a way to help Mei.."
There was a pouty look that played across his face but the whimsical squirm he did after would imply that she was fine by now. "I was so scared I didn't know how to help her hnnnghh... I'm so glad she's back to normal now hngnnghh..."
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:35 pm
Danny wiggled in her seat with discomfort on the subject of hunters, but hearing they were scared of the fog too was somewhat surprising. She still didn't trust them- any of them, but it was certainly interesting to learn they shared some of the same fears.
"Awww Bul," Danny said, flicking her tail back and forth, "That's really swee-" Wait. Wait wait wait. "You mean Mei? Mei's back to normal?"
She looked at Bul expectantly. If Mei was okay now, maybe Amphi was better, and Yin, and ... well everyone!
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:06 pm
"Well yea she's doing great uh-" Bul rolled his shoulders into an uneasy shrug. "I think? I mean.. she's not grey and talking about home and all crazy eyed. We kind erm... stood by during the battle..." Suddenly the monster scowled at her in a don't judge me fashion.
"Sp- uh... speaking of which.." he stuck his tongue out and touched his nose with it. Idk some sort of lizard thing. "Ya think it was kinda.. weird those hunters turned into creatures? It was... I dunno kinda ******** cool but the whole ******** thing... no..." he shook his head and closed his eyes. He wished he hadn't thought about the other side of that: Tro.
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:10 pm
Danny shook her head. "No, standing by is okay. I only threw a few shots at Red- ... err, the evil Red before talking with Arel. I thought ... I dunno, maybe he could fix it?"
She let out a blustery sigh riddled with the annoyance and paranoia she felt at the whole situation. "I don't know ... that grey fog stuff does weird things." Weird, dangerous things. Like turn her friends into killing machines.
The room was completely empty. Nobody would be coming in for a long time- club meetings were twice a month after all, and today was not one of those times. "Hey Bul, can you keep a secret?" she asked.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:11 am
"Yea like Arel can do much.. that guys super weird... and super cold." Inside though, Bul did trust Arel over 99% of the staff. It was reliability that remained another story.
Naturally the half beast curled his tail up into the seat with him, careful of course not to poke holes in the beanbag cover. "Uh... yea what's up?" he asked in all seriousness. Better secrets kept with him than say Pepin...
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:00 pm
Danny had the same instinctual shrug away from cold that Bul did, and nodded when he said so. The only real good thing about Arel was that he showed up towards the end and sometimes resolved things. Either way, Danny had thought Arel to be a figure of power- an adult- so she depended on him.
She leaned a little bit closer, looking around in a paranoid way. "I think uh ... I mean ..."
A hand went up to her neck, and she said, "I know Red is nice and all, but she like ... she killed some people. No, she killed a lot of people. I'm kind of ... kind of scared of her." She looked down in shame. It wasn't a very nice thing to say about their teacher, but it was said nonetheless.
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 2:16 pm
Nah, it wasn't nice but in this era of Amityville, niceness wasn't a thing anymore. It was hardly a resume trait and when faced with a race of mortal fleshsacks that wanted to turn you into a tool it did nothing diplomatically.
"...that's pretty normal, I think," Bul reasoned towards the demon. "To feel scared of that. You're right, she killed things." There was a visible shiver in the half beast which triggered a couple of scales to surface. "I gotta admit to you I was.. uhm.. a little grossed out when she was tearing up Ca- er the hunter guy..." he frowned sadly. It was a strange sadness, not for the death lead but for the fact that as a monster he was turned off by the imagery and sounds of the gutting of the human. Bul always wanted to try human meat... but now he was increasingly wary of it. "It was the sound of it I think.. I dunno. I used to think they'd be a little bit more uh.. crunchy... than that."
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Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 12:19 pm
Danny let out a long sigh of relief. It felt good to finally get it off her chest and let someone know her worries. It was even better that Bul was agreeing with her.
She nodded as he talked about the ... viscosity of hunters. "Yeah, and I didn't think they had so much liquid." Her nose scrunched up as she said the word. As a fire demon, she already hated the stuff, but seeing it come out of a body was just ... too much.
"I just don't get why everyone's like ... 'hey let's welcome Red back!' Like I know she was a cool teacher, but what if she goes all insanity monster again?" Danny didn't know how to phrase it correctly there was just something that was off about this Red. She didn't like it. "I mean ..." Her voice lowered a bit. "We killed her last year. Like really dead. Like I put a pin on her corpse."
Danny looked down, somewhat ashamed to admit that. She never did feel very good about killing off their teacher, but at the time it had been kill or be killed. Maybe that was how Red felt these past few days? "It just doesn't feel right."
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