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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:10 pm
First Word?
"You know what I have noticed?" This coming from Yoko of all people didn't mean that it was going to be the best thing to hear about ever. Everyone in fact that was eating on their breakfast lifted their gazes to look over at the hellhound as if expecting to hear the worst announcement ever, "You know that kid talks about as much as Tsukiko doesn't during the day." Which meant not at all. Vishal growled, grummbled, roared, hissed, and yowled but never once had he said anything that could be seen as a real word. Everyone's gazes then went over to look at Vishal. The boy was sitting on a stack of phone books and was tied to the chair with a belt, he paused in stuffing various bits of food into his mouth to gaze over at the family... Then growled. Why were they starring at him? What had he done?
"Well he still is rather young, some kids develop faster then others and some slower." Shin said, then went back to eating his soup.
Yoko looked over at Vishal for a long moment, "Maybe hes dumb." He said.
Keiji gave a growl, rising to his feet to slam his hands down on the table wings opening up wide, "Say that again!" He challenged the hell hound puppy.
The silver haired boy was up on his feet in an instant, "You think I won't?!" He snapped, ears laying back.
Shin gave a groan and pulled his soup bowl off the table and into his lap so it, the two of them arguing it would seem was nothing that he wasn't used too. In fact he just continued eating while Tsukiko seemed only to fret over them fighting, them fighting was just going to make everything worse! They were going to make Vishal be mean by fighting in front of them wouldn't they? Vishal was in fact watching the fighting and banging his hands against the table in an amused sort of way. Hurray for the infighting! There was nothing more amusing if you asked him.
"You two really shouldn't yell, you should eat before I eat your food too." Shin said.
Keiji and Yoko both turned their gazes at him as if they didn't understand why he was acting so casual over their arguement. Tsu on the other hand had gone back to his food and feeding Vishal off of his own plate. At that Yoko flopped back in his seat, "I still think hes an idiot." He muttered.
The angel gave him a dark look before he sat back in his seat, reaching over to ruffle Vishal's hair, "Ignore him Vishal if anyone is an idiot its Yoko."
The redhaired Godling looked up at Keiji, nipping at the fingers of the hand that was petting on him in a way that was seen as a warning. He wasn't to be petted! Bah! He wasn't a kitty he was a Vishal which was far better! He gave an indignant sort of sound then went back to wolfing down his food when Keiji stopped petting on him. He didn't get the point of all the snuggling it was far to hands on for his tastes, well at least when everyone was watching. Now if it were fewer people he liked it more.
"I am NOT an idiot! Stupid angel." Yoko growled grabbing his fork and used it to catapult some of the vegetables from his soup at the angel. They arced up and then came back down landing perfectly in Keiji's blond hair. The angel was almost frozen in place then gave a shriek rising to his feet again.
"Damn you Yoko!"
Vishal gave a squealing sound, banging his hands on the table again. Yes! The fight was back on! Tsu rolled his eyes and shook his head, he would tell Vishy not to encourage them if he could as he couldn't he could only giving his own twin a dark glare hoping that Yoko would see it and behave. No such luck as the hell hound was up on his feet again on his chair and lunged over the table to tackle the angel to the floor.
Shin reached forward to pick up his cup from the table to take a sip from it and then looked over at Keiji, "You setting a horrible example you know." He told the pair making no move to stop them, with as often as he had spilt it up when they had first come now a days it was easier to just let them fight it out. They didn't like each other, would never like each other so this was the best way to go about it... and be lazy at the same time.
Vishal was cheering them on with loud yowling sounds, "Kyaaa! Mum!" He yelled, his mother could SO beat up Yoko! Because if he didn't then he would so beat him up later for being mean to his mother!
Everyone froze, gazes going to Vishal in a shocked sort of way and the fight was instantly over as Yoko was rolling in peels of laughter and Keiji's face was burning red. Damn it... now even Vishal was calling him Mom. He was never, ever gonna leave it down was he?
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:12 pm
Animal Crackers
Vishal hadn't stopped since he both figured out the word and figured out the reaction that the word got from the one that was labled with it, his little feet were swinging, his tail was swishing, and the wings were fluttering as he said it, "Mum, Mum, Mum." Over and over again as they headed down the aisles of the shopping mart.
Keiji was flushed red as the ladies that were shopping as well seemed all to be looking his way and then giggling as they realized that 'Mum' was in fact a young man. The angel's wings lifted up for a moment to hide himself behind them then looked over at Vishal, "Thats good Vishal, call me Keiji ok?"
Vishal looked up at him with big red eyes a cute smile on his face and then said happily and loudly, "MUM!" While throwing his hands into the air, yes this time it was completely on purpose even more so then his sing song repeated 'Mums' as the louder 'MUM' gathered the attention of far more people, got more giggles, and made Keiji get that much redder. He liked his angel but teasing him was a lot of fun as well, as much fun as getting to watch the fights that always broke out at home.
The angel gave a grummbling sound as he hurried to a shelf to grab a few things off of it and tossed them into the cart before hurrying on out of the aisle and into a new one, away from those that were enjoying his torment so much, "This is all Yoko's fault." The pup had said something about Vishal being unable to talk and that seemed to prompt talking from the Monster Godling, and instead of something good coming out of his mouth it was 'Mum'. How embaressing!
The next aisle was empty and almost as if he knew that there was nobody here to hear him, Vishal set to just looking around his tail and wings moving a mile a minute, while both the wings and the tail were still quite and small and unable to be used for their intended purpose it didn't mean that now that he had them the little one didn't use them. It was almost scary to think that soon Vishal would be walking, talking, flying... he was so little not that long ago and he was growing up so quickly. The thought made Keiji lean over to give the boy a kiss on the top of his head.
Vishal blinked a couple times then smiled, "Mum!" He told him, this time because he was happy with the affection since nobody was watching.
"Its Keiji, for real." He told him. He doubted that the boy was going to listen to him and actually call him that but it was really worth a try. He wanted for the boy to understand that he wasn't a Mum since he didn't even have the needed parts to be a Mum. If anything Vishal should call him Dad... though Dad was more Shin's title wasn't it? He walked along, taking things off the shelves from here and there, things that were on the list he'd written out. It lasted the first part of the trip before Vishal got hold of it and ate it... poor list.
Luckily he knew most of what was on it.
"I wonder... what is it that you want for me to get you?" He asked of Vishal. Everyone got to add one thing to the list that was what was especially meant for them. Yoko had his beef jerky, Tsukiko had his popcicles, for Shin is was kiwi, and for Keiji himself it was honey but what should be get special for Vishal?
Vishal looked up at the angel for a long while before he started to look around, he seemed to understand that there was something he got to pick out. What did he want? He watched quietly, studiously as they went up and down the aisle before he spotted it. The perfect item that he HAD TO HAVE! He started wave his arms wildly and pointed, that! That! He ahd to have it!
"Hrm? Animal Crackers?" He asked of the boy, getting a box of them and held them out to Vishal. The boy grabbed the box and looked it over before grinning widely showing off lots of pointy teeth. Yes! He got to have animal crackers! Something he could bite the heads off of! Wonderful!
Keiji shook his head, "Your an odd one." He murmured as if he had read the boy's mind and knew exactly what it was about the cookies that made Vishal so happy...
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:13 pm
Vishal, Punished
Vishal was finally being quiet for the first time in a long time though for what it was worth everyone save for Keiji almost wished he would abandon what he was currently doing and return to his babbling. They would take growls and grummbles over the decapitating of the poo animal crackers anyday. As per Usual Keiji was both oblivious and refused to believe that there was anything about what Vishal was doing that could in anyway be seen as malicious. Even if there was a good dozen animal crackers sitting in front of him minus their little heads, in fact he worried more over the fact that he was eating the treats off of the floor...
"Its morbid if you ask me." Yoko said, crossing his arms over his chest and gave a dark look to the Monster Godling.
Vishal lifted his gaze from his snack to look up at Yoko for a long moment before he reached out to pick up a dog shaped animal cracker and proceeded to snap off its head with his many sharp teeth... then he gave a brilliant smile.
"You... How dare you threaten me like that! You little brat I'm gonna..." The boy's ears laid back, tail lifting up in an angry sort of way, "You do that again and I'm gonna..."
Vishal popped the rest of it into his mouth and started to chomp down on it then set to chewing on it loudly. The boy was threatening him wasn't he? This was the little brat trying to get back at him for the times he picked on him and called him names. Well he wasn't going to get away with it! He was going to... to do something! The hell hound stepped closer and stomped a foot down crushing the crackers in front of the boy under it several times until it was cracker dust. The Monster Godling let out a shreiking sound as he watched his treats get demolished, then lunged at Yoko teeth snapping closed. Yoko stummbled back just out of the reach of the boy's teeth then gave a hissing sound.
"Your a little brat!" He said, reaching out to snag hold of the back of the little kids shirt and picked him up off the the floor watching across the room...
*****
Keiji looked around the room, Yoko was sitting on the couch with Tsu in a lounging sort of way and looking a bit to proud of himself for his own good. And Vishal... was no longer where he had been left, in fact all that was there was a large mess of crushed crackers, "Where did Vishal go?" He asked of the twins.
Tsu looked up at the angel for a moment then down at his lap, he'd been bullied into not saying what had happened... though he did for a moment lift his gaze up and over before he lowered it again. Keiji blinked a couple times then turned to look in the direction that Tsu had glanced before he hurried over that way and opened up the front door of the house. Vishal looked up at the angel then gave a grummbling sound, glaring as if to say that he had taken long enough in coming out here to get him.
Keiji gave a sound of shock scooping the boy up then went back inside, slamming the door close, "YOKO!" He cried, stalking across the room towards where he sat, "What in the Nine Hells were you thinking throwing Vishal outside?!"
"That animals belong outside? He tried to bite me!" He growled getting up to his feet, "And he threatened me! I swear to all that is holy and unholy that I am gonna..." His mouth kept moving but nothing came out. Yoko eyes went wide and he flailed his arms in anger. No! No! Not now! Damn it all this curse was the worst at some points! He gave a dark look to Vishal. Tsu stepped between Keiji and Yoko, lifting up his hands in front of himself.
"S-Sorry Keiji... I couldn't make him stop but..." He hadn't wanted to try either this time, not since Vishal had started it. He felt a little guilty for that but Yoko was his twin and he couldn't stand against him when Vishal was starting the fights.
The angel's wings fluttered then he lifted a hand to rub at his temples, "You both should have come to me about this. He won't learn by you tossing him outside he needs to be punished in a way he will understand hes still young." Keiji said, it hurt to say the words though. He couldn't punish a God! He wasn't nearly that daring...
"Sorry." Tsu said, ears laying back against his head.
Keiji reached out to pet his golden hair before turning to walk away from them, putting Vishal into his pen, "You can play here for a while and think about what you did. Your not supposed to bite Vishal you know that." He told the Godling.
Vishal sat back in his pen, eyes wide in shock as he found himself in the pen put here not by Yoko or Shin but by his Mum! He gave an angry sound and turned away from Keiji, refusing to look at the one that had betrayed him. Keiji flinched then walked away from the boy to leave him with his punishment before he let him out or something equally as foolish.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:14 pm
Gel Arrives: Part 1
There was nothing in the world that Shin hated more then being called out to some place only to find out that the call was a complete and total waste of his time. Honestly he was a harding working business man and he was called out because someone decided that their kids imaginary friend was a big, bad monster? He gave a groan as he walked a long. It wasn't that he didn't get paid mind you he had still of course done his job as well as it could be done when there was no monster to be fought with but despite that it was annoying. He could have been out on another job, a better job, a REAL job where he could take down something dangerous and make the world a safer place. Instead he was chasing after a child's foolish day dream. If you asked him that little brat should get some real friends, get out of his house, and stop spending as much time as he did with his crazy mother, "Women." He muttered. They were nothing but trouble every last one of them hence why he was so glad that his family, as mixed up and messed up as it was, had no female members they only ever caused problems.
Shin pushed the door to the small house open and looked around inside, was dark inside and he could hear the even sounds of people breathing. They must all be asleep already, it was late and the walk home was a very long one... He gave a sigh, well he would get himself a nice hot shower and head to bed he was more then ready for a nap. He took off the long, heavy coat he was wearing and tossed it onto a chair before heading into his room, door closing shut after him.
Silence reigned over the small house, everyone was either resting or getting ready for rest so nobody saw the blotch on the back of Shin's coat shift, shimmy, then fall off of the back of it. It shifted again then rose up into a odd form that seemed to sway back and forth much the way that Jell-o did when it was sat on a plate. Then there two eyes yellow in color opened up and around, new place! New place! Where, where! The very, very simple minded and formless creature looked about before it started to move along forward its movements sort of oozing. It went under the table before slithering its way up one of the chair's legs and sat for a while up the the seat. Tall, tall... it looked around a moment... then slid forward and fell off the edge of the chair and landed with a sort of splat... then shifted back into its form before it moved along forward. Small, small. Small house it was in but there were others, small people to play with. One of them in particular it found itself interested in, it wasn't sure why but the one in the pen seemed to tug upon the small minded creature, almost as if asking it to come closer.
What, what? What was it? The thing slithered and oozed forward, stretching out some to peek between the bars of the pen before tendrils came from its body to wrap around two bars to pull itself up and then oozed between the ones he held to watch the sleeping toddler. What, what? Who, who? Who was this sleeping here? The ink colored creature shifted closer, closer to try to get a better look at Vishal... then froze in place when a pair of red eyes snapped open to stare at the thing that was sitting there before him. Then Vishal was sitting up quickly, eyes wide in disbelief, "Kya?" He lifted a hand to poke at the ink colored thing with a dark colored finger. It was the same color as him Vishal realized then set to poking at it more. Weird... what was it? Felt odd, like jelly. Jelly was good maybe it was to eat? He grabbed hold of it, dragging it up and opened as if he meant to try to take a bite out of the thing. He tried to biting down on it as hard as he could but the rubbermaid creature it would seem was able to stand up against even the sharpest of monster teeth.
Vishal gave a growling sound, shaking his head from side to side violently shaking the hell out of the little thing... and nothing. His teeth couldn't even seem to pierce it... so he spat it out. The thing seemed to for a moment bounce, shift and ooze, then its eyes opened up again starring up at Vishal oddly. What, what? Why was the little child trying to eat him? Why, why? The thing wondered if it would taste good... not by the look on the little child's face... then it was geeting kicked out from between the bars and bounced away into the darkness of the room.
It hit the walk, splattered, oozed back into its formess shape and then slithered off and under the cabinet to hide from the one that wanted to make it into a snack. Odd, odd. Odd little child that one was. Maybe he should play with someone else? Something else? Maybe tomorrow... right not all it wanted to do was sleep. The journey here from where it had been was a long one clinging to the coat of the man that had been looking for a 'scary monster'. The ink colored oozeling wanted no part of scary monsters, it didn't want to be eaten.
The creature was far, far to simple minded to know that the 'scary monster' that even was referring to was it...
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:16 pm
Gel Arrives: Part 2
Vishal knew that it was there watching him... knew that it was no doubt plotting against him! He wouldn't let it lead to his downfall! Ok maybe he was being a bit overly dramtic but that wasn't the point! He knew that it was there and it had crawled into his bed last night to bother him. So it had to be evil! He looked over to where he knew that it was watching him from he could almost see the yellow eyes peeking out at him from under the cabinet deep within the shadows. Well he wasn't about to let some gel get the best of him! He reached over to get the weapon closest to him, a fork! It had four prongs on it so you would think that it would work out well enough even if his teeth didn't seem to want to break through the things skin... then he drew his arm back and sent the fork flying! It hit the floor and clattered its way under the partially under the cabinet.
The Monster Godling was silent as he watched it, waiting for a sign of whether or not he had hit his intended target or not... then some black tendrils slid forward, around the fork and drew it under the cabinet. Oh no, now it was armed! It was gonna get back at him with the very fork he'd given to it! He started to bang his hands on the table to get the attention of his angel, when that didn't work he did what he knew would always work, "MUM!" He yelled, flailing his arms.
"Vishal?" Keiji looked over to the Godling who seemed rather up in arms about something or anything, tilting his head to the side. The angel then dried his hands of to abandon the dishes that he was currently working on to walk over to him, "What is it? Did you need something?" He watched the way that the boy was flailing, pointing at the cabinet, "Huh?" He looked around for a moment more then it seemed to click, his fork was missing?
"Did you throw your fork?" He asked, giving a little groan.
He shook his head then walked over to kneel down in front of the cabinet, "Its not at all nice to be throwing things around like that Vishal, I will get it for you this time but if you throw it again I will take it away." He told him. He then reached under the cabinet, groping around until his hand wrapped around the metal that was the fork and drew it out... along with some long oddly colored tedrils of black that were attached to the fork and to something under the cabinet, "What the..." He gave a couple tugs at it... and the inky tendrils tugged back. He gave a little gasping sound, what the...
He yanked on it again and then there was another yank back, "What... Hey? Vishal?" He looked over at the Godling as if the boy knew what was stuck to the fork then froze in place as he felt something moving over his arm. He gave a little whimpering sound as he turned to look back at the black that had released the fork to instead grab hold of him. He started to shake as he dropped the fork and set to trying to get it to release him, yanking at it hard enough that the little creature was yanked out from under the cabinet.
Keiji starred at the creature.
The creature starred at Keiji.
And Keiji screamed...
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:17 pm
Gel Arrives: Part 3
Keiji's scream was loud enough that it could wake the dead. And as it could wake the dead waking up someone like Shin who for the most part was a very light sleeper wasn't all the difficult to do... In fact the man came lunging forward out of his room looking rather scary as he was minus shirt, hair a giant mess, knife in hand, and eyes searching for Keiji and the thing that was making him scream as if he were about to be killed. The angel turned terrified eyes to Shin and held his hand out to him, "Get it off me!" He cried, near tears.
Shin looked down at the thing that was holding onto Keiji's arm and then reached out to smack it off of him, the ink colored thing hit the floor with a splat then shivered before reforming itself, turning its yellow eyes on Shin, watching him. What, what was going on? It thought to itself. This family was a confusing a violent one wasn't it? It didn't even move though even when the knife was suddenly swung down at it. It was either to dumb to realize what was going or to dumb to realize that it was in danger... either way the knife hit its form with much force... the knife squished into its form until it was almost pressed it half, then sprung back to its normal form sending the knife flying to stick into the far wall.
The creature blinked a couple times.
The hunter stood frozen, Keiji did the same... and Vishal was cheering and slid out of his chair crawling over to the inky critter to poke at it a few times, then bounced a hand up and down on it before he picked it up and set to chewing on it. It was as if he forgot his earlier fear that the thing was after him to instead play with it, anything that could get stabbed and not only not be hurt but throw the knife across the room was cool in his eyes.
The creature sort of hung there not protesting the chewing since it didn't hurt and the teeth couldn't cut into him. That and better to have a little kid loving on it then to have a big person trying to stab it... not that it really made the connection. Not to bright...
"No... Shin! Shin... get that thing out of his mouth." Keiji whimpered, watching the hunter as he moved over to pull his knife from the wall.
"Its not going to do any harm." He said, looking the thing over. He was pretty sure it was harmless. After all it had just sat there and allowed itself to be stabbed then allowed itself to be picked up and chewed on, "It will get sick up this place soon enough." After all why would any creature stay around allow such abuse without leaving after a while right? Shin wiped the knife off on his pants then looked over at the angel, "Get me some coffee please?"
Screaming was NOT the way that he liked to wake up and now that he knew everything was fine he felt himself growing all sleepy again... he walked over to plop down in one of the seats at the table, stretching out and yawning. Now that he was awake no real reason in going back to sleep. He had a few jobs to do today after all, hopefully they would be real jobs... not that it would seem as if what he had done last night wasn't real. He would guess that the thing that had been bothering those people was the same thing that had been brought here, the thing that Vishal was chewing on. Oh well, either way they were free of the monster and he had been paid.
Though how they could find that thing to be a monster scary enough that it needed to be taken care of by someone like Shin was beyond his comprehension... some people were way to weak minded and easily scared. He glanced over at Keiji as he thought that, he was far to easily scared by the oddest things and yet the angel would stand up against him and argue... so odd... He shook his head and gave Keiji a smile as he got his coffee handed to him, inhalig the aroma deeply before he drank a long sip of it. He let his eyes close as it set to work with waking him up.
"Your sure hes ok with it..." Keiji asked again, glancing over at the boy who was happily chewing upon his new found toy.
"Yeah, I am sure of it." Shin said, eyes opening again to sip on his drink once again, "It will get bored soon enough and leave."
Keiji nodded, hoping that he was right.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:18 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:19 pm
Dreaming...
He was dreaming, he had to be. After all Vishal... or was it Deveous? The God was standing before him in all of his shining, monsterous glory but his red eyes weren't watching Shin, no they were cast towards the darkness. He turned for a moment his many legs shifting before he turned to look over at Shin, there was a long drawn out moment before he walked towards Shin, lifting up a claws hand... then struck out. There was a moment of pain and the hunter felt for a moment as if his heart had been ripped out, dropping down to his knees panting. A smirk spread over the lips of the God of Monsters as he then turned walking towards the darkness, as he moved forward the darkness started to part and he saw what Deveous had been watching the whole time, "Keiji..."
The angel was... sleeping? Dead? He couldn't tell as he looked him over hanging amongst the blue strands of the Monster God's massive web. He got up to his feet then stummbled, looking down at the ground. It felt as if it were starting to grow watery, his feet starting to sink into it, "Vishal! Get back here!" He yelled after him, stummbling against his he tried to move forward. He was stuck... damn it the ground was sucking him under, "Vishal get away from Keiji!"
The God looked over his shoulder again, a smirk spreading over his lips and he reached a hand out to run the sharp nails on his fingertips over the angel's cheek, "Mine." He said simply.
The word sent something like ice through Shin's veins, pain into his chest, and fear into his mind and heart, "Vishal..." He tried to drag himself forward against but the stuff around him was getting thicker, deeper... was hard to move, hard to catch up... He had to get to Keiji, had to stop Vishal from... from... what was it that he was doing? He wasn't quite sure that he liked the possessiveness that the God was showing, then again angels were servents to Gods weren't they? Maybe he was feeling that for Keiji and was trying to steal him away? He struggled again, harder this time but seemed to be making no progress, instead Vishal reached up to pluck the angel out of the web and slung Keiji's unconscious form across his shoulder. He glanced back over his shoulder, smirked again then srated to walk off again.
The word mine echoed in Shin's mind even as the pair vanished into the darkness leaving him alone.
Or was he alone? Behind him was a shadow with purple eyes, it was wathing him closely and taking in the situation at hand...
*****
Shin came awake with a jolt, his body coverd in a cold sweat, his body shaking violently and in an instant he was up on his feet and rushing to the bed where Keiji was sleeping. The angel was still, his blue streaked wings wrapped around himself looking so peaceful, far to much so for Shin's liking... He reached his hands out to catch hold of his arms and gave the angel as shake as if he somehow expected him to not wake up after that dream... he did though with a squeak as he felt something shaking him and flailed in Shin's grasp before he realized who had hold of him and he relaxed back against the bed, "Huh? Shin?" He murmured, sound rather confused as to why the hunter was shaking him away in the middle of the night.
Shin then plopped down on the edge of the bed with a sighing sound of relief, "Good... Good... it was just a dream." He said, his voice sounding as relieved as he felt shaking his head. He didn't know why the dream had bothered him so much but it did... As if the idea that Vishal would one day carrying Keiji off in the darkness frightened the hunter for some reason.
Keiji sat up, wings giving a flutter before he leaned against the hunter, yawning, "What was just a dream?" He asked, now that he was awake he couldn't so easily fall back to sleep, especially when Shin was looking rather worse for wear, "Did you have a nightmare? Do you want to talk to me about it?" He knew that sometimes talking about things with people helped, not that he often shared things with anyone that bothered him... but this wasn't about him it was about Shin.
"Yes. It was..." He didn't know how to say it, it was hard when the one that he was dreaming of was the one that Keiji was so overly protective of... He was also having a hard time figuring it out in his mind, why was he so angry over the idea of Vishal taking Keiji away? Had he become so used to having the angel around that the idea of him leaving wasn't one that sat well with Shin? He shook his head, "Hmm... a nightmare yes but not something I want to talk about." It was best this way, he didn't want to go into the deep thought of why the dream bothered him or anything like that. Keiji was here and he was whole, Vishal hadn't stolen him away into the darkness so things were fine right?
He laid back on the bed and the angel starred down at him, confused. He then gave a flutter of his wings, "Hrm... six in the morning." The sun would be up soon, he wondered if since he was already awake he should get up and set to work on breakfast, some light cleaning, and other various chores that would be more easily done while everyone slept. He nodded and was about to get up to do just that when Shin's arms reached out to wrap around Keiji's waist and drew the angel back down to laying with him, "Get some more sleep." He was told by the hunter and trapped as he was he could only comply.
"Ok, but only if you get up and help out today. We have some shopping to do." He told Shin.
Shin gave a grummbling sound, half tempted to try to find a way to get out of that, he hated shopping... it was such an ordeal when it came to dragging around all of these little monsters. He supposed though he couldn't complain to much, "Fine, fine... I will go... shopping with the lot of you."
Keiji smiled, "Sounds good." He said, happily then snuggled back to wings wrapping around them as he dozed back off.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:21 pm
Oh No... Not Again...
Vishal leaned against the door listening to it, glared, listened again. He knew that they were in there... so he started to bang on the door in a rather pathetic sort of way, "Mum! Mum! Kya... Ah!" He yelled, though there was no answer. Blast... he knew he could figure this out, this door thing. He looked up at the knob to make a grabby motion at it. Nope... he pushed, pulled, and grunted as he got himself up onto his feet and leaned against the door itself. He then grabbed hold of the knob to yank on it, twisting, turning, and struggling until it finally turned and popped open. He fell into the room and looked around to try to figure out where it was that his idiot of a father and his Mum had gone too... and he glared as he saw Shin laying there with the angel.
Hey! That was his angel! He fell forward after he took a step and realized that he couldn't yet do the walking thing... oh well that wasn't what was important right now. He made his way over to the foot of the bed. He grabbed hold of the blankets at the foot of the bed and drug his way up onto it and sat at the foot of the bed to look them over. They didn't look to cuddly he didn't thing, Keiji was on his side with his wings wrapped around himself while Shin was laying facing the other way snoring. Ok... he supposed that this could be ok... he crawled forward to Keiji and squirmed his way under the angels wings and into his arms. There we go, this was better. He could stay here and rest up warm in his Mum's arms and keep his idiot father away from him!
He lifted up just a little bit so that he could eye Shin before he lowered back down to curl up against the angel's chest, eyes fluttering a moment before they were closed and sleep took him again.
As the three drifted off, just like in Shin's dream where he had first gotten the baby Vishal, they floated from their bodies. But this time they floated much farther before the three were allowed to realize it. Now standing beside Keiji in a sort of clinging manor was Deveous-though he seemed to have been shrunk to halfway between his age as Vishal and his age as Deveous. But he had his spider body and horns here.
Now that they were in this spirit world, one could see a strange glow that emminated between him and Shin. The glow of the bond between their souls. But strangely, the way he held Keiji, there seemed to be another glow forming. As if he was bonding to both of their souls instead of just Shin's.
However this small family moment was to be short lived. A female deity, whose soul had long been residing here, darted close to them. She was going to bond with Shin when Vishal's soul did. She had backed off so he could get a home and now here he was again rebonding. She should grab these three and get a home too! This goddess-black jaguar feet running fast-ran over and latched onto Keiji, Vishal, and Shin-completely startling them.
Shin wasn't as confused by this floating feeling the as he had been the first two times, instead he looked around into the darkness trying to figure out what was going on. He did find himself a little confused as to why Keiji was there almost as confused as the angel himself who was looking down at Vishal/Deveous before reaching a hand out to touch him as if trying to figure out if he were real or not, "Huh...?"
The glowing Shin rather understood to as being the bond between himself and the Monster God, why it seemed to be spreading to Keiji though... that was rather confusing. Was it because the boy was so convinced that Keiji was his mother? Was the thing spreading because both the angel and Shin himself were his parents, "Vishal?" He murmured. He hoped that was it, he hoped that it was due to familial bonds and not like in his dream where the Monster God meant to steal off with Keiji and make a meal of him... or whatever it was that he Monster God would do with a helpless angel, no ideas that came to mind ones Keiji wanted to consider.
Shin was concentrating so much on them though that he was completely caught of guard when the three of them were almost tackled off their feet by a smaller form. He stummbled, reaching to his side for his blade before he realized it wasn't there... maybe a good thing as he looked down and found instead of something frightening, dangerous, or out to kill them a small girl with the most adorable purple eyes. He starred into them and he gave him this sort of 'LOVE ME' vibe off through those eyes and the way she clung to his legs.
And even mighty Shin, Monster Hunter extrodinare couldn't resist...
The glow continued to spread throughout the four, linking them all as a family now. Then there was a blur. But when Shin woke up, there was Vishal, snuggled in Keiji's arms. And around Shin's neck was a strange dark purple relic that seemed like an odd honeycomb or a shadowy twist.
And with that Keiji had been bonded into Vishal's life more completely and Kris had joined the family-at least as a relic.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:22 pm
God is Displeased!
Vishal wasn't quite sure what to think about what was going on around him. He wasn't a dense child and he knew what that necklace that was dangling around Shin's neck meant even if he didn't know who it was exactly. He gave it a glare from where he was sitting, there was some new kid attempting to invade his home! This wasn't something that he was going to take lying down damn it... he wanted... wanted... for it to go away! Why couldn't that thing pick another home? He sat down in front of the couch to glare that much more, someone was going to be trying to take away his family, take away his parents, his brothers... his eyes went wide before his gaze flew over to look at Keiji who was going about the process of making the night's meal. They were going to take away his angel! Vishal knew from experiance that Keiji liked small children, took good care of them. Did that mean now that he wasn't a baby that Keiji would move onto to taking care of the new comer since they would be smaller, cuter?
The Monster God's mind was seething and the one that got the brunt of his anger was poor, stupid Gel who was sitting next to him despite the mood the boy was in. Vishal lifted his hands up and brought them down in anger on Gel though they did nothing but bounce off. It wasn't fair! Why did some new baby to come here! Why couldn't they just go away! He gave a growling sound before grabbing Gel and crawled from where he was sitting to instead go under the diningroom table and sat there. He looked at Gel for a long moment then dropped the inky creature. It hit the ground with a splat before reforming and the blob gazed up at Vishal awaiting the next move of his God. The boy seemed unsure though as he watched out from under the table to where Shin was sitting. The only thing that made the Monster God happy was that Shin had been in a rotten mood as well, he didn't think that his idiot liked the idea of a new kid anymore then Vishal himself liked the idea. In fact he might even like it less... if that were possible.
Now... how to get rid of that necklace before it became a child that stole the attention of everyone in his life? He didn't want to suddenly disapear, he didn't want to lose what he had and be all alone. He wasn't sure why but the idea of being alone was something that frightened him, that caused his heart to clench and his mind to scream. He didn't want to be alone in darkness again! Again...? He shook his head, a little confused by that thought but as it made no sense to him he let it pass. He crawled forward to glare at Shin before he started to make his way over to him, Gel following along. He wondered what game they were playing!
Vishal scrammbled his way up onto the couch and over onto Shin's lap. He sat himself down facing the man and stared at him, hard. It took a moment but Shin opened his eyes to look over at the boy, "Its your fault you know. You can here first and apparently you opened the door for anyone else that wanted to follow." The hunter told him, sheesh he didn't need another kid! One would think that the Gods would see that the house was already full to capacity and then some! You would think that the one inside of the purple necklace he wore would understand that he already had four sons... apparently they didn't though.
The Monster God gave Shin a dark look and a grunt of dislike as if to say that he had nothing to do with the appearance of this new Godling or that it was his fault, in fact he sounded quite indignant at even the thought! He then reached forward to grab hold of the purple honeycomb necklace and yanked at it, "No!" He spat at first then the moment he touch it he felt a jolt go through his entire body and his head for a moment ached, there was a flash that felt like a memory but not one of his, not something he'd ever seen before. A young girl with bright eyes, catlike feet, and a bright smile from the darkness... He dropped the necklace as if it had burned him and moved to get away from it suceeding only in falling off of Shin's lap to land on his backside on the ground, on his tail. The tail wasn't hurt as much as his pride though when he looked up at Shin and saw the way the hunter was laughing.
"Nice retreat there Vishal, very dignified." He said.
The Godling gave a hissing sound and lunged, snapping at the leg in front of him but Shin jerked it out of the way in time so that all Vishal got to bite onto was the side of the couch.
"I suppose we are going to both have to get used to this huh?" He said, getting to his feet and stretched out, "Odd... something we have in common." He ruffled Vishal's hair then moved away from him, pacing. Vishal snarled and gnawed on the couch cushion a moment before he retreated to his safe haven under the table to think. Once again Gel followed all thinking it part of a grand game that the Godling was playing.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:23 pm
Not all monsters were unintelligent, some of them thought and felt, some of them even knew concepts such as vengence which were the ones that Shin saw as the most dangerous, the ones that could think were the ones that he felt needed to be dealt with the most. He felt no guilt over the killing of the monsters even now when he was homing the God of Monsters. They were still a threat, they were still his job, they still needed to be dealt with. So he felt nothing even now... well he felt sore all over from the fight he supposed but nothing emotional. Keiji was going to have a fit when he saw the wounds that the hunter had on his body but he supposed he could deal with the complaints of the angel if it meant getting himself patched up. The problem was that this monster he'd fought were among those that would be seen as intelligent and the biggest problem with taking it down was that it hadn't been alone, the creature had a mate... Vishal's Child Quest
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:24 pm
Blood...
The beast was laying out among the shadows watching the house closely with narrowed, yellow eyes. He was within, he who had slain her mate... she wouldn't just stand by and allow such a thing to go unpunished. Oh no, she was going to show him what happened when one dared to mess with her kind. The female rose to her feet, stretching out all over before prowling forward body moving in a rather graceful sort of way. Her tail writhed as she moved forward as if it had a mind of its own which it very well could have since it seemed to be a snake attached to her body instead of a true tail. She moved to the window that looked into the front room, pushing up on her hind legs to look inside of the house, watching those inside for a while. It was dark inside, they were sleeping which made them the perfect targets. She would make a meal of that hunter's children and then she would tear him limb from limb, make him suffer before she allowed him to die.
She backed up a ways before lunging forward, there was a crash of glass as she broke through it then lunged towards the couch where the first of her prey lay sleeping, her claws slashed out and it was by only pure luck that Yoko was able to move fast enough. He didn't move to save his own hide though, instead he threw himself forward into harms way to protect Tsukiko who was waking slower then him, he gave a soundless cry of pain as the claws cut into him... Tsu echoed it, loudly though as he looked up at his twin and saw blood, "No! Yoko!" He cried then looked at the beast in front of them, standing there eyeing them with cold, dark eyes that made Tsu whimper, ears laying back, "SHIN!!"
The sound of glass had woken him, a scream have him moving, then the panicked voice of Tsukiko had spurred Shin into violent action, grabbing up his blades and burst from the room. He looked around to find his enemy then spotted her, "Oh fuc..." He didn't get to finish the sentence as the tail of the nue snapped towards him of its of volation, its teeth snapping at his arm and sank in deeply... he gave a choked sound as he felt the venom enter his system, burning into him. He brought down the arm that was bite free and cut the head of the snake tail off before he yanked it off of his arm. The nue gave a yowling sound, rounding on him as her tail bled out. Her ears laid back, her teeth barred, and she gave a nasty sound as she stalked towards him. Her venom was running through the hunter's system, it would slow him down make all of his movements sluggish, his vision it would become blurred, and he would lose his coordination... he would be unable to slay her and she would be able to do as she pleased to him... and to his cubs.
Firstly though... her gaze looked passed Shin to where Keiji stood, standing there wide eyed. She followed the gaze of the angel to where Vishal was standing, trapped in his pen then back again. Her mind put two and two together, so the blonde with the wings was the mate of the Hunter and they had a cub together? She barred her teeth in what could almost be an animalistic smirk. Which one, which one? Which one of the two did she want to kill first? Should she murder the Hunter's mate first? Kill the blond as Shin had killed her mate? Or should she go over and snap the neck of his cub, allow both the hunter and his mate to see the demise of their child, let them both suffer with that death and then she would take down the angel.
Keiji made the decision for her as he moved forward trying to get to Vishal, the movement brought out the predator in the Nue and she lunged, her large form slammed into Keiji's and the two of them landed within the shadows of the bedroom unable to be seen by the others in the main room.
Vishal was frozen stock still as he saw his Mum get tackled by the creature that had invaded their home, he looked to the twins watching as Tsu used his shirt to try to stop the bleeding from Yoko's wounds and then finally to Shin, the hunter who he didn't particularly love but didn't dislike either... they were all hurt... that thing... that thing had hurt his family! Vishal's red eyes flooded with tears and he started to bang against he bars of his cage, "Mum... Mum! MUM!!!"
It had to...
He had to...
I have too...
"LET ME OUT!" He screamed, there was a flash of red, an angry wave of power and the pen seemed to be shredded around the Monster Godling... Vishal stood there wrapped in red, his clothing in tatters as his body had suddenly grown in a flash... his eyes were glowing, his pupils seemed gone as did the whites of his eyes instead all was red, "I. Will. Kill. You." He hissed out, his voice cold and lacked emotion. It wasn't a threat it wasn't a promise, it was a cold hard fact... the Nue was going to die...
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:25 pm
Winnowen, Servant of God
Keiji felt the weight of the monster hit him and land on top of him, found himself look into in the maw of the creature and he gave a gasping sound, no... no. He had to get to Vishal! The thing would go after the baby next, it would hurt his baby! He watched the way the Nue drew back, mouth full of pointy teeth opening up and he could almost feel them sinking into his throat. Blue eyes sank closed, "No!" Then the nue was giving off the oddest sort of sound, something between a growl and a gag. Keiji dared to open his eyes again and he could see... Gel?
"Gel!" He cried, watching the thing as it logged itself in the open mouth of the creature, its tendrils wrapping around her snout and lower jaw to hold on tightly in its attempts not to get thrown free of where it was holding onto. Gel wasn't sure why but... he felt he HAD to protect Keiji, as if he knew that Vishal would never be the same were the nue to eat the angel that he referred to as 'Mum' and Gel couldn't allow that. Gel had to protect the angel! It couldn't know that it was Vishal's will, his desire to save his mum that affected the thought process of Gel, made the critter do something it normally wouldn't. Vishal couldn't know this though, couldn't know that his mere desire to save his mother from nue could spur Gel forward as it had so instead he tried to escape from his pen, then did escape from it. He stepped forward bare feet padding across the floor a couple of steps then he glare at the nue.
"Mum..." He murmured, unable to see anything passed the nue and could only hear something like... chewing? The thing was chewing his mother, it was eating his mother... he was going to... He had to kill it! He had to kill it for hurting his family! He took another step foward the energies around him an angry red started to shift to a dark color, something like a mix between blood and darkness... He paused as he reached Shin, reaching a hand out to lay it on the arm of the hunter over the bite wounds and he could almost feel the venom as it worked its way though Shin's system. He wouldn't be able to fight now would he? Wouldn't be able to help, he couldn't rely forever upon his father it would seem which meant that he was in fact going to have to do this, was going to have to find help elsewhere...
Who... who could he get to help him? Everyone he knew was righ there in front of him, his family and... the few people he had met on ventures out with Shin and Mum... none of them could help him now but someone. There had to be someone that could. His powers reached out, grasping desperately at straws, at anything or anyone that could help him out with the nue, anyone that could help him to save his family from the monster, "Please... Help me!"
Eyes opened far away, something was waking, stirring, a form shifting in what was supposed to be almost eternal sleep now that her God was dead, 'Deveous..?' Her voice echoed through the darkness, spoke outloud but unable to be heard, her body was still sleeping even if her soul was suddenly awakened from its long sleep. Deveous was calling for her but how... why? Was her God not dead? Murdered? Then why... she couldn't just wait here when her God was calling, she had to go to him and do his bidding as she always had. Her loyalty was unending, everlasting, and nothing could keep her from obeying the will of her master, 'I'm coming Deveous.'
There was a flickering in front of him, what looked like a doorway was opening up in front of Vishal and from within this door there was a figure that stepped forth, a tall and most beautiful femminine form. Winnowen stepped out of the red and black swirling fog to look around herself, her web like wings fluttering around her. The woman was unsure of where she had been called, this was like no place on Tison that she had ever seen before and it made no sense to her why Deveous would be here, had she been called to the wrong place?
"Deveous? Are you here My Lord?" She sounded so very hopeful, turning to looked around... then down at Vishal, "Wha?!" Her voice was somewhere between a squwak and a gasp. What in the Nine Hells was going on!
Deveous had... shrunk!
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:26 pm
Judgement
Vishal looked up at Winnowen for a long moment then pointed, "Please, get rid of it." He didn't know who this was, couldn't recall her name or her face but something inside told him that he could trust her, that she would do for him what needed to be done, that he had only to ask. He knew somehow that she would follow his orders. She did too, turning to look over a nue and walked towards it, her webbing wings fluttering a moment before she reached up to them, wrapping the frayed edges of them around her hands and stretched the material out and away from his back. It stretched, grew, and was manipulated by her hands easily as she walked forward, then she made a motion with her hands causing it to snap forward, wrapping around the nue's throat, legs, and middle, tightening and wrapping around the beast, suffocating it and crushing it even as it drug the creature back and off of the angel it had pinned.
Gel chose that moment to jump, landing on the chest of the angel watching as nue was pulled away. Gel gave a sighing sound and seemed almost to deflate, oozing over Keiji's chest as it gave into the fear it felt now that it realized what it had done exactly. Almost got swallowed by a nue... ack...
Winnowen turned to look over at Vishal, "What shall I do with it My Lord Deveous?" She asked of him.
"I want..." He looked around to Keiji first, to Shin, to the twins, to Gel and back to Winnowen, "Kill it."
Winnowen's eyes went a little wide, the tone of voice was more what she knew to be Deveous even if the size and look of the boy wasn't exactly as she remembered her God to be, "Yes My Lord, Nue! Judgement has been passed and your sentence told to me by My Lord, your crimes are punishable by death! Let it be known that Deveous, God of Monsters has spoken." The wing webbing twisted, squeezed, and jerked all at the same time and there was the sound of many bones breaking and the nue was dead in a flash. Her wings then released him and fluttered back around her, swaying as if caught by an unseen breeze. She then turned to look back at Vishal, "It is done My Lord."
Vishal moved then, rushing forward passed Winnowen to Keiji, dropping ot his knees in front of the angel to look him over desperate as he looked for wounds. When he found him to be ok he threw his arms around him and clung. Winnowen looked him over, a little in shock. When had Deveous gotten so... cuddly? She could remember him as being so very standoffish, unable to deal with and unwilling to deal with people that were overly clingy and yet here he was holding onto the blonde angel. So very odd... The web winged woman walked over to Shin first, kneeling down in front of him to look him over closely, "You should be ok, the venom will pass." It was made to stun prey to make it easy to kill not to kill the prey outright on its own.
Shin nodded, "I know that." He muttered, sounding indignant. He tried to do his best to draw up to his feet but wasn't quite able to as he collapsed back onto his backside, grunting.
Winnowen's eyes narrowed a little bit, "I know that you know." She murmured, this close she could smell what he was and her hands itched to break him in the same manner she had broken the nue... she refrained though as she felt something there between the hunter and Deveous, something she couldn't describe or understand. She wasn't given the word though to take care of the hunter so she wouldn't act. She moved away from him over to the twins to look over the one with silver hair, the one whos' face was wrapped in a shirt. She carefully unwrapped it before looking the wound over carefully, "Ahh... poor little puppy." She murmured, reaching back to take hold of her wing again, drawing a piece forward and it snapped free. She used the shirt to wipe up the wound then wrapped it with the webbing, "There you go, this will keep infection out."
Yoko nodded, "Thanks Chickie." He said, giving her a smile. She was a hottie wasn't she? Damn but he wanted to hug her!
Winnowen seemed almost to read his mind as she took a couple steps back and out of the reach of the little puppy, just in case so as not to get attacked and loved on by some random dog demon. They were just... not her thing, "My Lord?" Winnowen said, looking over to the Monster Godling, "Is there... anything else I can do for you?" She was feeling rather sleepy again... she was going to have to return back to her sleep. It would be better sleep though as now she knew, knew that Deveous was alive and well if a little different then she remembered, she could rest well now.
Vishal looked over to her then shook his head, "I'm... ok." He murmured.
She gave a smile, "I... want to see you again Deveous." She said, her form starting to grow transparent, "I want... you to hug me too." She knew it was a little rude of her to say but she did, she wanted to be lucky like the angel and wanted for her Lord to show her the same affection that the angel got... she let her eyes close and she was gone, returning to her body and to her eternal slumber.
Vishal nodded, were he to see her again he would give her the hug she wanted.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:27 pm
~Reserved For: Aftermath~
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