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 Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:39 am
It had been quite some time since Hel last checked on Riyo…and they were probably due for another milkshake or maybe a hot chocolate? Since it was cold, anyways. Hel pushed her way through the door of the demon dorms and climbed up the stairs until she stopped in front of a very familiar and highly polished door. The reaper paused, her brows furrowing. Huh…the last time she saw the cat demoness…she had long hair and split skin still….oh.
What was she gonna say, Hel wondered.
The ghoul knocked then, and waited.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:49 am
What kind of shenanigans was Riyo up to this time?
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
The ghoul had been half-dressed, laying on her bed with the window open listening to the commotion outside of the dorms for awhile. Old Riyo had rarely known boredom with all of the things she aimed to accomplish on a daily basis. The new poor, jobless, homeless Riyo had become well-acquainted with this obnoxious stranger.
Speaking of obnoxious strangers. The ghoul's ears immediately perked as a rapping came from the other side of the door. A visitor? A visitor. Oh, who could it be this time? Someone else apologizing? A poor schmuck that had the wrong room?
Riyo took a moment to adjust the simple red tank top and pants before pattering over to the door. There were no sounds of locks being undone, just a simple turn of the knob and a familiar set of red eyes.
Who... Was that? "Uh." Was all she could muster, examining the figure for any hints of who this might be. Well, it sorta looked like a certain valkyrie. Sorta.
"Are you... One of Hel's sisters or something?" Why would one of her sisters be here? Unless... Hel wasn't able to be there herself.
"Did something happen to her?"
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 12:25 pm
Hel was a bit surprised when Riyo entered the door. The ghoul looked so…so…
Dare she say…
Relaxed? Not as tense?
Right down to her clothes to her body posture and attitude.
The reaper blinked as she took her in, and then made a face when Riyo didn’t seem to recognize her. “No, you daft demoness!” The ghoul pipped up, puffing up her chest as she rested her hands on her hips. “I did not change that much, did I?”
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 4:44 pm
It was clear that Riyo was taken aback when this stranger's voice matched Hel's to a T.
"Sweet unholy Jack and Sally!" The feline's jaw dropped. "Well I dunno. Would you be surprised if I came to you with a different skin color and haircut?" Riyo matched the valkyrie's stance, giving her a couple more looks over before finally moving aside. "I suppose we have a lot to talk about, then." Indeed. The demoness seemed... A great deal more laid back than she had ever been. As if someone had injected her with liquid neutrality.
It also looked like she'd been robbed. Where had most of her furniture gone?
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:45 pm
“Well maybe, but I would not confuse you for anyone else other than Riyo! I know who my friends are! Besides!” Hel carried on, reaching up to grab her own breasts and lift them up. “Who else do you know with a rack this awesome?” She grinned then, and nodded her head, letting her bosom fall and bounce as she then marched into the demoness’ room. “Another thing as well—“
Though the ghoul immediately stopped as she got a good look at Riyo’s room.
Hel squinted at the rather bare room, and then back at Riyo. “….Whaaaaaaaaat?”
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 7:09 pm
Yes, it was most definitely Hel. And it seemed no matter what the situation, she could still get under Riyo's skin by shaking her titties at the demoness. The ghoul's eyes narrowed as she huffed at the sight, but said nothing about it.
When the valkyrie turned around in confusion, it took Riyo a moment to realize why. "Huh?" The cat ghoul's eyes started to dart around the room to see what was amiss, but quickly remembered that it had been awhile since she saw her friend. "Oh. OH. Uh... I was sort of robbed. But I guess I deserved it." She was so nonchalant about it. You would've figured someone had broken a pencil instead of stealing her things. "They left the bed and the kitchen table... And most of my underwear." What, she was being optimistic now? Had someone replaced her?
"It's... A long story, actually. A very long, very tiring story." The feline scratched behind her ear and slumped over, trotting back to her bed to have a seat. "So many things have happened, Hel. To both of us, I assume. I dunno where to begin."
Wait. Yes she did. "Oh. I have a tramp stamp now." Riyo lifted up her shirt and pointed to the small of her back where the damned blue spiral was from the horsemen. She remembered the valkyrie had been there, but the bakeneko couldn't recall seeing her afterwards.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 7:45 pm
“WHAT!?” Hel boomed, exploding. “You were ROBBED!? BY WHO!?” Hel didn’t even notice Riyo’s optimistic outlook, because she was now blinded by fury over the fact that someone had robbed her friend. “Just tell me who they are, and I will go use their intestines as jump rope and a lift set to get your furniture back into your room!”
As the demoness went to sit on her bed, Hel looked flabbergasted. “Why are you so calm about this!? We need to acquire your belongings!” She paused though, as Riyo showed her the horseman mark, and she snorted. “Ugh…that stupid thing…it is on the bottom of my right foot…” She muttered.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:01 pm
Yes, Hel had the mark too. The useless, stupid mark that wouldn't go away. If she'd wanted a tattoo, it certainly wouldn't have been of some dumb blue spiral.
But, that was only mentioned as an ice breaker. "Don't worry about my furniture. What I wanna know is what happened to you." For once, the feline didn't imply the change as something bad, nor was she accusatory. It was just a simple question. Perhaps whatever Hel went through was for the better.
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 1:53 pm
Riyo just seemed so…nonchalant about the whole thing. Hel deflated, looking lost as she dismissed the subject of her stolen furniture. It was true though…if she didn’t know who exactly did it…then there wasn’t much that could be done…aside from bullying the nearest demon student for information, which did sound appealing, if not terrible unproductive. Violence was always fun though… “… Oh? Me?” Hel echoed, snapping out of it and coming over, where she then flopped on the floor and stretched her legs out. “ Eh…I was cursed when I was born, nothing major I think though, as it only affects my appearance…well, I just woke up one morning and it started spreading!” Hel shrugged a bit then. “ Not much I can do though, yanno? Aside from hope it does not kill me.” She laughed. “ Then I went with Mac and got my hair cut!” Hel nodded her head a bit. “ So what about you? You seem ah…” Her brows furrowed. “It is like someone removed the stick from your a**.”
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:52 am
"... Oh."
What else did you say to that? The curse made sense, thinking back to Hel's split body, but the strange fact was she never really thought about it. The valkyrie's feisty personality had always kept Riyo's curiosity in check, so it seemed like the only time she truly noticed was when it had changed significantly.
"That's... Something else. Huh. Yeah, I guess about the only thing you could do is sit back and let it happen. Some people pay for body modifications like that." Had that just been... An optimistic comment?
The mention of Mac made her eye twitch... A couple of times. Instead of focusing on him though, she focused more on the hair cut. "Looks good." The feline didn't really know of any other compliments to give. She was no hair expert, and certainly no flowery word speaker like Mot had been.
Then the conversation came full circle back to her. That was fast. "Oh. Well..." Instead of sitting up on the bed, Riyo decided to join her friend on the hard wood floor. "Yeah, I guess you could say that." The ghoul's brow furrowed as she pondered where to start. She needed to make this short and sweet. "Lets see. I left for awhile to visit my mother... In the asylum." Might as well admit that one. The cat was out of the bag, as they say. "Handed over her custody so I never have to see her again, because she's the same manipulative old b***h that she always was." Riyo held up her hand and started counting the events on her finger. "Had to walk most of the way back to Amity because the taxi left... With all my money. A hobo's life is not near as glorious as you might think. Then I guess I came to terms with how unhappy I was in my situation, so I trashed the company I owned, tore it limb from limb and sold the parts, then I burned down my house. So now I'm poor and homeless." She regaled the fact with such a straight and uncaring face one would think the cat ghoul was on drugs.
Riyo took a moment to catch her breath, then continued. "I got the senses knocked out of me by a certain reaper with a certain bird, acted like a child for about a week. I guess that was pretty humbling." She neglected to mention the fact that she planned on kicking the s**t out of Mac as soon as she saw him again. "And I've been taking care of this guy with insanity, trying to keep it a secret from everyone else so he didn't get locked up or some s**t. The only reason I tell you now, and you probably noticed, is because a big old s**t storm happened at the haunted house. He turned into one of those insanity monsters, killed me, then I turned into one of those insanity monsters, then we woke up inside the house. He was naked. I was freaking out, and to make a long story short I walked around in a jacket and underwear that whole time we were escaping so he could wear my pants."
The demoness tapped her fingers together, lips forming a line the more she thought about it.
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:32 am
At Riyo’s pretty optimistic comment, Hel just laughed, good naturedly. It was just amusing to her, that people would pay for that…but the comment put her in an even better mood as well. “ Well thank you, friend.” The ghoul replied in regards to her hair, brushing a hand through it before leaving it alone. She listened to the cat demoness as she spoke now, rocking her feet back and forth and nodding as her story went on. Her brows furrowed at certain parts here and there, but to her credit, she was silent until the end. A certain reaper with a bird? She wasn’t…talking about Mac, was she? Hrm. Hel didn’t know any other reapers with a bird they were fond of though… At the end of the tale, Hel was silent for a moment, and then her shoulders shook. After another moment, she chuckled, and then she was laughing. “ Ah…ya know, I can not help but feel like, right now…that you have started your own journey…just like the ghoul in that stupid book you read to me! I am not mocking you though, friend…I just think…it is amazing, the experiences you are going through that are helping to shape you as you are now.” The ghoul grinned a bit. “ How is your friend now? I hope he did not turn into stone.”
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 5:00 pm
Riyo seemed confused about Hel's laughing at first, but the explanation quickly unfolded the lines in her forehead.
She might've even smiled a little.
"Hah. I suppose one could see it that way. I only wish my journey was as full of food as the story was." Riyo admitted, rubbing her stomach as if to give emphasis that she was less than satisfied with her eating habits as they were now. Still, compared to how things had been... Compared to how miserable she once was, this was nothing.
When the question of how Deacon was came up, the feline tried to keep the optimism train rolling, but it was quickly losing speed. Her sigh was like the sound of the brakes as it lost momentum. "Physically I'm sure he's fine. When we woke up in the house, there was not a speck of corruption on him..." Nope. Not a speck on those washboard abs or muscly arms or- Okay no more of that now. Her face did no favors to hide where her thought process went, what with the blushing cheeks and all.
"But... Mentally I can't say. I haven't talked to him in a couple of days... All I know is that everybody who had insanity remembered what they did when they reached the last stage." The ruthless slaughter of their peers.
Riyo remained silent for a moment, tracing the lines in the wood floor with her claw. "I did a stupid thing, Hel. I couldn't hit him. I couldn't defend myself and keep him from the burden of sending me to the same fate." It was such a skewed way of thinking. She knew it, too. The fact that she was blaming herself for her murder sounded stupid out loud, but considering she had to go through the same thing, it was easier to see it from that perspective.
"... Hel, has anyone ever said they trusted you so much that they knew you wouldn't hurt them?" The ghoul's voice was soft and unsure, as if she fought with herself just to get the question out.
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:31 pm
“Agreed!” Hel cried out as she pumped a fist into the air. “Good food…” She hummed for a moment as she thought about this. Food…she was suddenly hungry now…and judging by how thin Riyo was, she obviously was too! Hrm…
Hel tilted her head as Riyo spoke about her friend. Well good, no insanity…though the blush had her curious. Since when did she blush? She was about to ask about it until she moved on from the topic. “…Ah….I see.” Hel thought about that for a moment. Could she strike down someone she cared about if she thought it was the only way? The answer was…yes, she could. Maybe she should be worried with how easily she was certain she could make that decision…but she was. At Riyo’s question though, Hel gave a bit of a laugh, though it was not mocking.
It was amusement, at herself.
“No, they have not and they never will…because everyone who trusts me, Riyo…knows me, and they know at some point that I will hurt them…whether it is intentional or not. That is just who I am.” She paused. “Why…did someone say that to you?”
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:21 pm
Hel would've been a mind reader, because there was no doubt about it. Riyo was hungry, and if anymore fat was eaten from her body, she'd probably be downgraded to an A cup.
Just a few weeks ago, Riyo would've been on the same page as the valkyrie. ******** everyone else, if this was going to kill her she was going to try and kill it first. The laugh once again caught her off guard, but instead of getting angry, the feline simply looked disconcerted. The ghoul couldn't say she didn't expect such an answer. Really, she'd never expected herself to ask such a question.
"Yeah." She started out simply, curling a side of her hair back behind one of her ears. "It makes no sense, either. I'm not a nurturing soul. I break things. I destroy. I devour, and then I walk away. But the simple fact that someone trusted me so much to say that with such idiotic blind faith... I suppose it really caught me off guard." And shook her. Unsettled her. Riyo became quiet for a few moments before looking to Hel with narrowed eyes.
"Next person that says such a thing to me is getting punched in the mouth." Then they'd see just how trustworthy she was. The demoness nodded with satisfaction at her decision, then stood. "So what now? I'm sure you don't want to just sit around and get cat fur all over your clothes." Or maybe she did. In which case, Riyo's cats would be more than happy to oblige.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:48 am
The ghoul nodded her head. “Understandable. I would feel the same way, friend.” At Riyo’s statement though, Hel busted out laughing obnoxiously. “Ah, that is truly wonderful, ya! Mouth punches for everyone!” She cackled some more, almost falling over onto her back from laughing before she caught herself, and hummed a bit thoughtfully at Riyo’s question. “OH I KNOW!” She suddenly exclaimed, leaning forward now with wide, bright eyes. “LET US GO TO A BUFFET!” Hel’s stomach rumbled loudly then. “My treat!”
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