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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Jan 22, 2019 18:34:46 GMT -5
Hi there, this is a thread for Feathertalon and I. You’re free to read along if you want, I guess. It’s just space stuff though, we’ve got a sentient immortal dorito named Bob, so that’s something. Anyways, maybe we’ll do something to this post and make it all fancy, maybe not, we’ll see.
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Jan 22, 2019 18:35:04 GMT -5
Niwikiniwok “Niko” Iniwikiniwoki Mikamon Walvelon The Bawltic-Bik Prince
Words here
Idk, stuff about Niko, I guess
Kaiyo Kimikimo Walvelon King of the Bik Empire
words here
Taizi “Ty” Walvelon The Lohatux-Bik Prince
Words here
Stuff about Ty
Norman Wynn Walvelon The Human-Bik Prince
Words here
Stuff about the trash gremlin
Stuff about auto
Spacechwok grumpy andalian
words here Stuff about Spacechwok
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Lesbian
#ECF7F7
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Feathertalon
Bird Overlord
unofficial chicken whisperer
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Post by Feathertalon on Jan 22, 2019 18:44:18 GMT -5
/pees here
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Lesbian
#ECF7F7
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Feathertalon
Bird Overlord
unofficial chicken whisperer
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Post by Feathertalon on Jan 22, 2019 20:11:55 GMT -5
just a casual save post with ~layouts~
ERIN Idnasi owner of a small galactic empire
aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Sams Crotalus typo ambassador
hissssssssss
Bob an obnoxious dorito
words here
Discord Miseyi bad dad cult leader
how did he become a cult leader
Whiteout Miseyi a nuisance
please stop her
Goodi Nepeta lohatux
don't take what she gives you
Gifti Nepeta lohatux
don't take things from him either
Sanura Negasi paracosm queen
space just got gayer
Cowboy Bronco an abomination
rainbow boy
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Jan 29, 2019 0:29:58 GMT -5
Kaiyo Kimikimo Walvelon King of the Bik Empire
Today was a big day. After plenty of legal shenanigans it had come to light that the Giann System had a new ruler. It had been...a surprise to say the least when Kai had heard the news. After all, he had only been king for a little over a year when this came into light. This wasn’t something that he could prepare for years in advance. It seemed life was throwing curveballs at both him and the rest of the empire, and today those curveballs came in the form of their new ruler.
ERIN Idnasi.
Looking in the crystallized mirror, Kai adjusted the cuffs to his shirt. Inviting ERIN to Parna Sibro was a big deal, everything had to be perfect and if he could help it, he was going to make sure things were. The Bik king took a deep breath, exhaling slowly. ”You can do this, Kai, stop worrying,” he muttered to himself with a soft shake of his head.
His outfit was the only thing fit for a king. Dressed in blue and silver robes and a crown placed upon his head he couldn’t help but think he looked more like a doll than a real person. Kai huffed slightly, running a hand through his hair as it shifted colors, fading from a blue-ish black to a much more obviously blue color, the spots spread out across his body switching to match the color of his hair.
Kai spent another few moments studying his appearance in the mirror, a small frown slipping onto his face.
He likely would’ve stayed like that for awhile longer if it wasn’t for a knock on his door.
”Come in,” Kai spoke up, casting a glance towards the door to see his brother standing just outside. Instantly a smile found it’s way on his face at the sight of Norman waiting for him.
”Hey, are you ready? She should be arriving soon,” Norman spoke up, leaning in the doorway as he looked his brother over.
Kai knew that look rather well. Norman had a tendency to over analyze everything. He was looking for something off with Kai. It was a thoughtful gesture but one not needed. ”Right, of course, let’s head down,” Kai agreed with a curt nod of his head as he stepped outside his room, pausing outside as he took a moment to look at the long, windy staircase waiting for both him and his brother.
Everything would change after this. There was no saying what the new ruler would say or do. Technically he couldn’t even call himself a king anymore, now could he? This elicited a few, quiet chuckles from the ex-king. Maybe now he could devote his time to other things, like hobbies or pets...or jogging, he had never really been a fan of jogging before, but maybe he could pick it up now that he wasn’t exactly king.
Though this was all relying on the hopeful news that their new ruler wouldn’t kick them to the curve and they’d become homeless. Or even worst, system-less. What if the new ruler packed them on the nearest spaceship and banished them? It was a possibility, maybe she would be worried that they’d come back and try to take over, or maybe they’d cause a riot among the people and get them to fight against her. Those were valid fears, even if Kai currently had no plans of overthrowing this girl despite her basically overthrowing him...sort of, kind of, honestly he should probably look into the legal situation a little more. It was always a good idea to stay well informed on one’s possible demise.
”Kai?” Asked a soft voice. ”Are you okay?”
Norman’s familiar voice was enough to drag Kai out of his thoughts. The Bik King - ex king? - jolted in surprise, spots flashing a bright purple before they settled back down ad returned to the typical blue they were usually. He glanced quickly over at his younger brother, looking him over. ”Hmm? Oh, I’m fine,” he reassured with ease, giving the small, short boy a smile in hopes of reassuring him.
Norman didn’t seem entirely convinced but slowly began to nod. ”Right, well come on then, Ty and Niko are waiting for us in the entrance, the ambassadors haven’t shown up yet,” Norman told him before starting down the stairs. As a human, Norman looked rather plain if Kai had to admit. Not Norman himself, because there was absolutely nothing plain about his younger brother. However humans as a species simply didn’t have a lot going for them. They looked a lot like biks actually, however lacking certain attributes that biks had. It was like the universe had taken biks as a species and stripped them of everything that made them unique and called it a human.
Could be worse of course. The humans were still superior to the Elm. Those were easily the second most annoying beings in the universe - second only to Bob - though that might just be because Kai personally couldn’t stand them. Elm had a tendency to believe themselves something great. Entirely unique to every other race out there.
When in reality they were practically the same as humans, only with shiny skin, soft white hair, and had the ability to lay eggs instead of giving birth. Which honestly, the egg laying thing might be the only thing truly interesting about the Elm and even then it wasn’t something to go crazy over. Lots of species laid eggs, that didn’t make the Elm special.
No, all it did was make them think they were special, which in turn obviously gave them bragging rights. Oh the Elm certainly thought of themselves as special, that was for sure. That combined with their tendency to talk on and on about their race like some sort of research paper was one of the reasons Kai personally found the Elm to be extremely annoying. Almost as annoying as Bob and that was incredibly hard to beat.
Honestly if Kai never dealt with another Elm in his entire life it would be too soon.
Though of course, he couldn’t say that out loud. Of course not, he was supposed to be diplomatic. Thoughts like that were instead kept mostly to himself and his brothers. Though, if he was no longer king, did he really have to be diplomatic? This might work out for him, he could start speaking his mind with zero consequences unlike before. Wouldn’t that be something?
Of course, he wasn’t sure if that was the situation yet. He wouldn’t be sure of anything until after today and even then...only so much could be covered in a day and there was a lot to cover.
Shaking his head, Kai descended down the stairs. There was a lot to cover, but if they were to go over anything he needed to make it down these stairs. He couldn’t see Norman anymore, his brother’s soft curly hair had disappeared from sight. He must’ve already gone down to join Niko and Ty. That was fine, it gave Kai a little bit longer to think. Not that he hadn’t already been doing that for the majority of the day or anything, but it was nice to take a few moments to himself and think.
Or at least it would be if it wasn’t for a different brother appearing from the ceiling, hanging upside down with his shaggy black hair dropping to the ground. ”Hey Kai,” Ty greeted as he appeared out of practically nowhere.
Kai screamed, clutching his chest with his hand as he began to calm himself down. Really he should be used to this by now. Ty had a tendency to startle him from time to time, Kai was certain that his brother got a kick out of it by now. There was no way he kept “accidentally” startling him. ”What’s the matter with you? I could’ve jumped and fell down all of these stairs and broken every bone in my body,” Kai began to lecture, finally calming down enough to send his brother a glare.
”Sweet,” Ty replied casually, causing Kai’s glare to worsen as he looked at the Loha-Tux while Ty detached himself from the ceiling, landing on the ground with catlike balance, keeping his pose for a moment as if to silently rub in Kai’s face that he had fallen from the ceiling and landed on a couple stairs with ease before finally getting up. ”Listen, I didn’t mean to startle you, but Niko and Norman were wondering what’s taking you so long, you’ve been on these stairs for like...seven minutes, and it only took Norman two minutes to get all the way down,” Ty explained and tipped his head to the side as he looked Kai over. ”You okay?”
Kai frowned, pushing passed Ty as he made his way further down the stairs. ”Why does everyone keep asking me that? I’m fine, I must’ve just gotten lost in thought...” Kai muttered under his breath, picking up pace as he walked down the stairs, Ty following after him.
His brother put his padded hands in the air in mock surrender as he followed Kai. ”Hey, didn’t mean to hit a nerve or something, you were just taking forever and I know today’s kind of...” he trailed off, never finishing his sentence, his green eyes burning into the back of Kai’s head.
Kai didn’t need to turn around to know that Ty was giving him that worried look of his. By now Kai was certain if he turned around he’d see Ty with his head tilted slightly to the left, his green catlike eyes would be large and wide, concern hidden within them, his large black and white ears would be tipped to the side with his head, a slight twitch to his nose as he waited for an answer from his brother.
That alone was enough to make Kai stop in place, hand hovering inches above the railing of the stairs.
Okay.
Was he okay?
After spending his entire life preparing for the day he would be king, followed by only a little over a year of actually being king, all of that was very likely about to come to an end. At this point it all depended on their new ruler and what she had in store for the Giann system. His fate was quite literally in her hands by now.
So in a way, he wouldn’t honestly say that he was ”okay”, even if being king hadn’t always been something Kai had wanted to do. In fact he had spent a majority of his early years avoiding his royal duties in favor of reading books or investing his time in various scientific studies. At a younger age, being king had felt more like a position thrown upon him than a choice.
However he had gone through with it and it hadn’t been...well it hadn’t been as dreadful as he was expecting. Of course there was still plenty of stress and certain expectations had to be met. However he didn’t hate it.
Was he really ready to give it up so soon?
Perhaps he shouldn’t think too much about it. After all, nothing was set in stone yet. This was new territory for everyone involved and the possibilities for how this might end were limitless.
Yes, perhaps it truly would be better if he stopped allowing his thoughts to get the best of him. It never lead to anything good after all.
So, patting the railing a couple of time, Kai tipped his head up and took a deep breath. ”I’m fine Ty,” he promised, shooting a glance back towards his brother with a small smile gracing his visage. ”Thanks for the concern,” he added, turning back around to face the stairs. ”Now, let’s go find our brothers before they send someone else up here to track us down,” Kai suggested as he continued down the stairs, Ty following close behind him.
After another minute or so Kai reached the bottom of the stairs and walked into the large, round opening where his last two brothers were waiting for him.
Norman was the first to spot him and instantly he turned those sharp green eyes upon Kai. He remained silent for a moment or so, arms folded before quirking an eyebrow up. ”You took your sweet time, I thought you were right behind me until I got down here,” he teased lightly, a hint of something else glinting in his eyes for only a mere moment before it was gone.
Kai let out a small chuckle in response, walking over to him and Niko to join the two. ”You should’ve checked behind me, I fell through a portal and ended up fighting a giant, man eating, monster nekcihc,” he jokes in hopes of getting any leftover concern from any of his brothers off him. He didn’t need to make them worry.
Ty seemed to get the idea and lunged forward, clinging to Kai as he wrapped an arm over his shoulder and clung to his back, using his free hand to ruffle his hair. ”Yeah, I had to dive in and save him before the nekcihc gobbled him up,” he joked happily, letting out a quick, sharp laugh to accompany it.
Norman looked down, giggling softly under his breath. ”I see, we should contact the staff, let them know that there’s random portals in our staircase,” he joked along before his eyes drifted to the much taller man standing next to him here. ”Meanwhile I’ve been down here trying to convince someone to tuck in the extra arms,” Norman added, gesturing his head up towards Niko.
Kai took the chance to actually look at his third brother and as soon as he did his eyes went wide. Standing before him was certainly his brother, however at least twice as large as he typically was, his skin an obsidian black color with vibrant stripes shooting all over his body, a pair of extra arms sticking out underneath the first set, large ram shaped horns spouting from his head like some sort of demonic crown as they spiraled down below his ears and pointed outwards. His ears flapped back and forth, larger and more animalistic in appearance than they typically were, eyes a shiny yellow color and slit in the middle like the eyes of a reptilian creature and lastly a large, thin tail sprouted from his rear, splitting into two at the very end as it flicked back and forth, a shadow like appearance blanketing his entire body as if he had been born in a black hole and spit back out.
Of course Kai had seen this form before, that wasn’t what surprised him. No instead he was mostly concerned over the fact that his large, monstrous looking brother thought it appropriate to “beast out” before such an important meeting.
”Niko,” Kai started, waiting until those glowing yellow eyes had turned to him, a few smaller, darker colored eyes blinking underneath the two larger ones. ”Niko...we talked about this,” he continued, an exasperated sigh escaping him. ”I need you to change back, okay Niko? You need to change back before the ambassadors get here,” Kai told him, sending a hopeful, tired look up at his brother, hoping he would get the message across.
Niko remained silent for a few moments and then...”No,” he said, voice gruff and low as he folded all four of his arms defiantly, not elaborating on that no in the slightest.
Kai blinked, staring at Niko for a few more moments of tired silence before he caved and sighed. ”No..why not?” He questioned, lowering his head as he rubbed his forehead, doing his best to ignore the headache that was already creeping its way into his mind like a thorn digging deeper into his skull as the day kept dragging on. It wasn’t even mid-day yet and already Kai was done with the day.
Niko remained silent for a few more moments that seemed to drag on agonizingly long before finally he spoke, shifting his position a little as if unsure of explaining his reasons. Luckily that didn’t stop him from opening his mouth. ”...I had a dream,” he explained sheepishly, looking down at the ground as he avoided looking any of his brothers in the eyes. Which was something Kai could only imagine was hard to do since he has so many eyes in this form to begin with.
As soon as the words left Niko’s mouth, Kai let out another long and drawn out sigh, this one accompanied by a matching sigh coming from Ty as well. ”Niko, you had a dream?” He questioned without looking up at his brother. Instead he shot a glance at Ty as if silently asking the prince if he knew anything about this.
In which case, Ty shook his head in response, giving a shrug as if to show he was just as confused as Kai seemed to be.
Niko shuffled his large feet again, avoiding eye contact as he cleared his throat and nodded. ”...It’s more than just a dream though,” he objected quietly. ”I’ve had a...feeling about toda-,” before he could say anything else, Ty cut him off as the feline like prince made his way over to Nika and patted him on the arm.
”A feeling, buddy?” Ty questioned, pausing for a moment as he kept a steady gaze on Niko before finally sighing and shaking his head slightly. ”Listen, usually I’m down to listen to anything you have to say, but right now, Kai needs us all on our best behavior, kay big guy? Think you can shrink for us for a bit? Just for today?” He asked, sending a look up at Niko as if silently pleading with him to behave.
Niko frowned, a low growl like noise coming from him as he quietly objected. However Ty did seem to get to him and slowly Niko began to shift back. The dark obsidian skin changing into a pale color with the stripes getting smaller and smaller though remaining black. The extra eyes disappeared while the two big ones grew to normal size and faded from vibrant, reptilian like yellow to a simple dark brown. The double tail vanished from sights, leaving behind only one small, thin tail while the two extra arms were sucked in, quickly disappearing from view. Even his horns grew smaller in size, even if they were still there.
Eventually, Niko changed from a large and intimating monster to a still somewhat tall and intimidating fairly normal looking Bawltic with brown hair instead of black and a normal tongue instead of a split one. His teeth remained sharper than normal, and that shadow like tint that had been there before stayed as well, even if it was far less visible now. ”There,” Niko said, frowning at the ground as he shot both Ty and Kai a look. ”Is this better?” He questioned gruffly, clearly none to happy about having to shift back.
Ty grinned brightly at him, showing off his own sharp teeth. ”You look great buddy,” he said, patting Niko’s chest. ”Way less likely to scare everyone else away.” After another pat, Ty turned his attention back to Kai while Niko muttered something to Norman in the background. ”So, please tell me you’ve at least done some research and we know who’s about to come in here and steal all our jobs,” he said, tone light but Kai knew there was some truth hidden within his words. He was just as worried about this entire situation as he was.
Kai nodded curtly, clearing his throat as made his way to a small table pressed up against the wall and picked up a tablet resting comfortably on the table’s surface. ”Right, of course I do,” he replied with a small roll of his eyes. As if he wouldn’t have acquired as much information on this person as he possibly could’ve as soon as he got the news. What did Ty take him for? A commoner?
Okay that was a little uncalled for. Commoners could be very intelligent and on top of things as well, it was just the first word to come to mind.
Come to think about it, maybe this was a good thing. Kai could use a lesson or two on being nice to people of all social classes. Sure he wasn’t terrible, but there was always room for improvement. Maybe being a street rat floating through the endless abyss of space in nothing but the clothes on his back for many light years to come would be good for him.
That’s right Kai, look on the bright side.
He gave a small shake of his head, once again reminding himself that that was definite. Today would determine everything. Floating endlessly through space like a homeless person was only one of the possibilities today could lead to. He really ought to be less negative about things like this. Sure his entire future was on the line, but if he continued to look at things like the glass was half empty, he’d never get anywhere in life after he was thrown out of the solar system and forced to survive on his own with only the company of his brothers and space tendors to soothe him.
”Right, anyways, I have a file on her right here,” he explained, clearing his throat one more time as he pressed a button on the screen, opening her file. ”A Viscosi Cate from Cavositas-“ Kai paused for a moment to glance over at his brothers, a smile on his face. ”I guess we should count ourselves lucky, hmm? At least she’s from Giann and not some other system like...the Qui-bac system, or heaven forbid, the Cibus system,” he joked with a small laugh.
This was what he meant when he said there were certain comments he could only share when in the company of his brothers and only his brothers. There were some things that just couldn’t be shared with everyone. Especially not when he had a reputation to keep and people to appease. He was a king, and not just a king of some sad little kingdom in the middle or nowhere, or even the king of one single planet. Up until this point he had been the king of the entire Giann empire. Now...well what he was now was up for debate...quite literally in his situation, but that wasn’t the point here, now was it?
Giving his head another shake Kai turned his attention back to the folder, clearing his throat as he read from the screen. ”She’s had no title until this point or even any claim to a title, the only thing intriguing about her is that her great, great, great, great grandfather was actually a human from long before mankind explored the outer regions of space,” Kai continued, pausing for a moment or so before he looked up to his brothers. ”He is the reason we’re in this mess in the first place, he bought our star centuries ago as some sort of gift on Earth, and now, hundreds of years later, him buying our sun has given his great, great, great, great granddaughter power over the entire system,” he explained with a soft, irritated hum escaping him afterwards.
It still made no sense, though from what Kai had heard there had already been enough legal shenanigans to either confirm or deny the fact that the entire Giann system now belonged to one, random Viscosi Cate that up until this point, hadn’t been of much importance to anyone outside of whoever actually knew and was close to her.
Ty seemed to finally get tired of listening to him drone on and made his way over to him, peering his head over Kai’s shoulder to get a look at the screen, Niko and Norman following close behind. ”Yeah, yeah, enough of that, what else do we know about her? What’s her name? Do we have a picture? Is she cute?” He asked as he struggled to get a better look at the screen.
Kai rolled his eyes and tried to push Ty away. ”Hold on, I can pull up a name and a picture in just a second if you’d please get off me,” he instructed and luckily, Ty agreed and stepped aside. Which worked out just fine for Kai as it gave him the chance to focus and click on a different button, opening up a profile of the girl, including her name and a picture of her. ”There you go Ty, a picture, you can judge how attractive she is for yourself,” he told him and quickly scanned over the list for the name he had already read over hundreds of times since finding out about everything. ”As for her name, that’s Erin Idnasi-“ Kai was cut off by Ty as his brother jabbed a finger at the name glowing a bright blue color on the screen in front of them.
”Hold on there Kai, see how her first name is spelled? It’s capitalized,” he told him, making the other three stop as they looked over the name. Ty was right, Erin wasn’t spelled “Erin” it was spelled “ERIN” and though it could be a mistake, the chances of it being a mistake were very low. With a small frown his head tilted to the side, completely synchronized with his brothers as their head tipped to the side as well.
”Huh, you’re right...” Kai paused for a moment as he looked over the name for a few more moments, confusion glinting in his light brown eyes. ”What do you think that means?” He questioned, a puzzled frown crossing upon his visage as he studied the name. How odd...
This time it was Norman that responded with an all too casual shrug. ”Well, typically, if something is capitalized like that, it means it’s supposed to be yelled,” he explained simply. ”Maybe we’re supposed to yell her first name.” The thought was ludicrous, names weren’t shouted unless there was a reason for the shouting, and yet Kai couldn’t quite dismiss it that easily. Perhaps it was because he trusted his brother’s judgement, no matter how crazy it sounded. Or maybe it was how casual Norman seemed about it, as if nothing else would even make sense to begin with. Or maybe it was because a small part of him was amused by the idea of shouting out someone’s name in average, everyday greeting.
If anything else, it was worth a try.
However before Kai could even think about trying, Ty beat him to it and all of a sudden a loud and shrill scream came from his feline-esque brother as he quite literally, screamed in Kai’s ears. ”ERIN!” Ty shouted, causing Kai to flinch.
He took a step away from Ty, sending him a look. ”Ty, what ar-“ at that point Kai was once again cut off by another screech however this time the scream came from none other than Norman as the human let out the highest pitch, squeaky scream that Kai had ever heard.
”ERINNNNNN!” Norman shouted, dragging the name out as he let out a gasped out gagging noise afterwards, as if he was purposely trying to make the name sound as ridiculous as possible.
Kai would’ve questioned what he was doing as well if it wasn’t for yet another scream interrupting him before he could even get started. This one coming from the most surprising brother of all. Niko.
”EEEEERRRRRRIIIIINNNNN!” Niko shouted in a loud, booming, deep voice with a slightly ghastly hint to it as he spread his arms outward, shaking them about like some sort of tree branches during a storm.
At this point it seemed easier to simply stand there and watch as his brothers yelled at each other, each attempt at shouting out the name slowly getting worse and worse as they tried out different - yet equally ridiculous - voices. It was almost disturbing yet at the same time too memorizing to look away. It was like some sort of exotic mating dance-screech, like a flock of nekcihcs in the wild. Kai couldn’t quite decide if he wanted to look away or keep watching.
After well into this odd screaming of the name ERIN, Ty turned his attention back to Kai, a goading look in his green, catlike eyes that Kai knew he wouldn’t be able to ignore. ”You should try it, come on Kai, scream,” he encouraged, that glint never once leaving his eyes.
Now, typically, Kai would never join something like this. After all he had a reputation to keep up. However...part of him just couldn’t resist. So, with a slight roll of his eyes, Kai cleared his throat, thought of an equally ridiculous voice as his brothers and then...”EEEERIIIIIINNNNN!” Kai shouted out in a bird like screech, lowering his voice only to raise it again half way through. It was pretty good if he said so himself, and yet... ”I can do better,” Kai claimed, turning to face his three brothers as he opened his mouth again, voice as low for a scream as he could go. ”ERINNNNN!” He shouted in his best attempt at a growl.
However, that one somehow sounded worse than his last attempt. He could do better. So with another slight cough, Kai continued on with his attempts at shouting out the name, his brothers watching him, falling quiet as he yelled out the same name over and over again. His voice ranging from raspy and kind of creepy to shrill and high pitched to almost song like as he tried again and again to outdo himself. ”EEEEERRRRIIIII-“ As Kai began to yell out his fifth attempt - this time in a loud, hiss like noise - he noticed the looks on his brothers faces changing. Ty’s eyes were wide, Niko was face palming and Norman was frantically pointing to something behind Kai.
So, with a confused look - and still shouting - Kai turned around to come face to face with a group of the ambassadors from all around the solar system. ”Innnnnnnnnnn....” Kai trailed off, face flushing a bright red and hands shooting up to cup his face as he finally registered what was happening. He was standing there, screaming out their new empress’s name in an absolutely ridiculous voice right in front of the Giann ambassadors. ”...Hello ambassadors,” he squeaked out quietly, face vibrant and red as he looked at the group of ambassadors.
”Your Majesty...” Replied Melamorn Ainumo, the ambassador for Parna Sibro, an unimpressed look on his face.
Cheeks flushing with warmth, Kai reached a hand up to his hair and ran his fingers through it, hoping to prevent any flash of colors from rippling throughout the naturally black locks of hair on top of his head. This was why he didn’t allow himself to do things like this. What would the ambassadors think of him now? Nothing respectable, that was for sure.
An awkward silence filled the air between them as Kai tried to force the redness down despite the stares of all four Bik ambassadors on him.
That silence likely would’ve kept going on as well if it wasn’t for Ty clearing his throat and waltzing over, stepping between Kai and the ambassadors. ”You lot are here on time, nice and punctual, I like that in an ambassador,” he told them, winking at them as he made a clicking noise in his mouth and stuck his fingers out like little laser blasters.
Kai was both mortified and relieved to have the attention off of him for at least a moment.
Completely in control of the situation, Ty continued on. ”Anyways, we should probably head outside soon, isn’t our new overlord-“ he said the word with such sarcasm, Kai was honestly surprised he got away with it. ”Supposed to be here soon? We wouldn’t wanna be late to greet dear ERIN-“ Good lord he actually shouted the name. ”Idnasi, now would we?” Ty practically purred out, a smirk resting on his face, completely casual as he spoke, not even a little fazed by yelling out one word in that sentence like it was one hundred percent normal for someone to do that.
His words were followed by silence, as if the ambassadors weren’t quite sure how to react to that. Kai didn’t blame him, Ty was his brother and there were times where even he wasn’t sure exactly how to respond to the Loha-tux. However he’d be lying if he claimed he wasn’t thankful for his brother right now, not only had he taken the attention off Kai but his ease and confidence had a way of getting to even the most serious of souls.
Which even seemed to get through to the Bik ambassadors.
The first to react was Flumori Inribel, the ambassador of Sutcelbis. The blue haired, amphibious Bik let out a soft giggle, which might’ve been inappropriate for an ambassador if it wasn’t exactly what Ty was trying to get out of them. ”No, I don’t think we would,” she agreed softly, smiling at Ty and then at the other three ambassadors with her to see what they thought.
Flumori was easily the youngest ambassador out of the group, and it shone through her bubbly personality and tendency to giggle. Out of all the ambassadors, she was probably the nicest one in Kai’s opinion. No interaction with the girl had gone without making everyone around her smile.
The other three however were a little bit...rough around the edges. At least compared to the friendly Sutcelbis ambassador they were.
Sinani hailed from Adira, which might explain why the girl was a little more...tough than the other female ambassador. Adira hadn’t always been a place safe for biks to call home, however after years spent terraforming it they had managed to make it livable at least. Kai hadn’t been to Adira very often, unable to handle the hot temperatures that accompanied the planet. However the few times that he had been there, the first thing he had noticed was how harsh the environment was.
It wasn’t fit for a carefree life, not like Sutcelbis was. Sutcelbis was almost entirely made out of water, with a majority of cities being held underneath the surface of their many oceans. The temperatures were typically quite nice, though certain places could get cold. However for the most part, Sutcelbis was a relaxing planet to live on, and a place Kai would often visit for holiday with his brothers.
Maybe if he didn’t get kicked out of the entire system after today, he could try to convince his brothers to go there, despite him being the only one that seemed to enjoy the serenity of the watery blue planet in the Giann system.
But back to Sinani.
The girl was tall with sharp facial features and dark red hair always kept in a neat bun on top of her head. Not a hair out of place. She was...polite yet stern, always carrying with her a sort of harsh aura that made it clear that despite her being an ambassador of peace, she was not someone to mess with.
She was mildly terrifying and a lot intimidating. However despite that, out of all the Bik ambassadors Kai had never had quite as deep conversations with any of them like he had with Sinani. When she spoke, she did it with purpose and not just to hear the sound of her own voice. Whatever Sinani had to say was something worth listening to.
Which is why it came as no surprise to Kai that the ambassador didn’t quite respond to Ty with words. Instead she raised her brow at him, gave all four of them a pointed stare and then nodded in agreement about heading outside to wait for the arrival ERIN Idnasi. No words were spoken but everyone seemed to get what she meant all the same.
Malu Muitix was a different story.
The tall, lean man seemed to love hearing his own voice, in fact he liked it so much that it was rare for him to stop talking as it seemed like Malu always had something to say, even if he was temporarily rendered speechless after Ty’s little display right there. Even still, that didn’t last long and soon enough the Dakk ambassador had to add in his two cents as well, even if they probably weren’t needed. ”We’ve got a few minutes to spare, don’t you think? I’m personally more interested to know why our king was shouting out her name like his last dying words,” he spoke up, gesturing his head towards Kai, shaggy brown hair bouncing with ever nod of his head.
Kai gulped, the color draining from his face. He had hoped after Ty’s display that no one would even remember about Kai’s attempts at shouting the name ERIN, or even if they remembered, Ty had distracted them enough for them not to care. However, sadly, that did not seem to be the case in this situation and Kai was quickly reminded as to why Malu was probably his least favorite ambassador and that wasn’t just out of the Bik ambassadors, he meant all of them in total.
At least from this system. He wasn’t going to add in every ambassador he had ever met in his entire life, that would take too long and they didn’t have all day.
Luckily, Sinani came to his rescue this time. ”Perhaps it’s best not to question the king, Muitix, after all, I’d much rather listen to his screeching than your words...screamed out or otherwise,” she remarked, voice as cold as ice as she gave the shorter ambassador a side glance, frosted blue eyes pale enough to look white making him stop in his tracks.
That seemed to get Malu to quiet up very quickly as he instantly closed his mouth and nodded in response, shuffling his feet for a moment or so as he waited for something else to happen, no longer inclined to hear the sound of his own voice.
Melamorn spoke up after that, his glistening black hair combed back neatly as he stepped forward, hands clasped behind his back. ”Well then, I see no reason for us to remain in here any longer, especially not when Ms Idnasi and her companions should be arriving soon, I suggest we head out,” he said, clapping his hands together to usher the others outside.
Being the ambassador of Parna Sibro, Kai had the most interactions with Melamorn. He was alright when you got to know him, even if his prim and proper attitude had a way of getting on nerves after so long. Either way, he was easily the most level headed person Kai had spoken to and truly knew what he was doing. There was a good chance that Kai would not have managed his first year as the true king as well as he had without the help of Melamorn at his side.
So when he suggested taking this meeting outside at least for now, Kai couldn’t help but agree and so with a soft nod of his head, he gestured for his brothers to follow him and started outside with the others, pausing for just a moment to send a grateful nod towards Sinani, a silent thank you for stepping in earlier and saving him some embarrassment that would’ve been hard to explain if Malu kept pressing for answers.
Sinani glanced over in his direction, the slightest of smiles shown on her face as her lips curved barely upwards, hardly a difference from the usual neutral expression on her face. However it was enough for Kai to know that she accepted his gratitude and had his back as well.
It was a comforting feeling at the very least and Kai soon found himself smiling back before falling in place with his brothers, taking a deep breath as the doors opened to reveal the light coming from outside, blinding him for only a moment until his eyes adjusted and he was able to blink away any remaining blurriness, walking out onto the long, tall, stone clearing outside, the sides crowded with as many biks and other species from the Giann system crowding around as they tried to get pictures or cheered, the only things keeping the citizens back being the long rods dividing them and the security guards keeping them at bay.
Kai closed his eyes, blocking out the crowds as his ears tuned in to the pitter patter of his feet as they hit the ground, the noise echoing in his ears like a drum.
With an exhale, Kai opened his eyes again, looking forward with a a false confidence the only thing that pushed him forward, step by step. Heart pounding in his chest from the sudden excitement exploding around him like fireworks.
After all this was unknown territory. Nothing like this had happened before, it was momentous. A time that would surely go down in the history books across the solar system.
They were making history with each step they took.
This was it.
The calm before the storm was officially over, and all he could do now was pray that he survived the storm to come.
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Post by Feathertalon on Jan 29, 2019 22:01:10 GMT -5
ERIN Idnasi owner of a small galactic empire
All of this mess had started thanks to her idiotic great, great, great, great grandfather. She didn’t know a whole lot about him other than the basics really, and honestly even the basics she knew about him made her cringe. What she had heard about him he was as pale as pale could be, as white as snow really, with these sharp blue eyes that only some weird creeper who thought he was drop dead gorgeous would have. And then with all of that, just to top it all off, his name had been Zane. What even kind of basic name was that? Seriously, there were so many better names out there that started with a Z. Like Zachariah. That was a cool name, or at least it felt like it had more thought put into it than a name like Zane. Why he had bought an entire star in the first place was even beyond her. What was some human even going to do with a star? Go outside and night, look up at the sky, and point at the nearest random ball of light and be like, “Yeah, that right there is my star. I bought it for the small price of my entire life savings just so I can look at it and have bragging rights. I may be broke now but at least I’ll always have this star”. What did her great, great, great, great grandfather even do with his star other than look at it? There probably hadn’t been much he could have done with it, which was a true waste of time and money on his part. Maybe he had pretended that the star was with him whenever he needed comfort. Maybe he had tucked in the star at night and kissed it on its starry little forehead. Maybe he had even went so far as to get into the bed with the star and whisper sweet nothings into its little star ear while he stroked its cheeks like they were in some sort of really crappy romance novel where two lovers were forbidden. Oh, and he also played the saxophone to his star. Every. Single. Night. Then he would get in bed with it.
Man, that was disgusting.
To be fair, she could go on with her family history at this rate. Zane wasn’t the worst one in her family history by far. Oh no, the one that surpassed him was the last pure-blooded human in her family line - Becca. Just thinking that name sent a shiver down her spine. After her family had finally made it to space there had been that one human that found frog creatures to be incredibly sexy and just had to tap it with her weird human fingers. She had probably grabbed the frog guy by his shoulder, winked at him all ~charming~ like, stuck out her leg, and seduced him with some weird human mating ritual that probably involved touching his chest or something like he was about to be sacrificed to a heart-craving god when in reality touching the chest meant he was about to get the chance to reproduce.
Disgusting.
Why was her family so disgusting?
Though, she supposed without all that disgusting human meddling she wouldn’t be here right now. Oh wait, right, now that was funny. Was she actually trying to convince herself that she wanted to exist? Oh, that was funny. That was really funny because existing was just as disgusting as her bloodline. To be fair her bloodline wasn’t as exhausting as existing was. Had to give her bloodline a point there she supposed. No, she was going to take that point away from her bloodline because due to her bloodline, as she had just remembered, she was now some hideous mess of human and Viscosi Cate, some weird hybrid of the sorts. Humans mingling with alien species weren’t all that rare, not anymore at least, but it was still odd. It was like putting those big cats together in captivity and making them breed to create some weird hybrid. Like a leopard and a lion together to make a leopon. Weird creatures they were, something that didn’t happen out in nature but happened in captivity and bred for the amusement of sick minded individuals. Yup, she was the product of a human and a Viscosi Cate that had been stuck together for far too long and had been warped into thinking they were the only ones available for breeding. Also disgusting.
The more ERIN thought about it, though, the more she had to admit that, for being a hybrid heathen, she actually didn’t look that messed up. She was humanoid in appearance, bipedal and all that with that sort of primate-like stature that usually caused more problems than it did anything else. Being humanoid wasn’t a surprise, though, since humans - obviously - were upright creatures, and the Viscosi Cate species were upright, bipedal creatures as well. Some could live their lives as quadrupeds if they so wished, but ERIN had unfortunately been cursed with the very boring ability of only functioning on two legs rather than four. Sometimes she wondered what it would be like to get down on the ground and walk around on four (4) whole legs like some kind of bullfrog-ish monster spawn from the deepest points of a marsh, but alas, she was stuck with only standing on two. When it came to other parts of her appearance she wasn’t really anything to look at, just sort of a normal creature. If she had to be honest she looked reminiscent to a mossy log that had fallen into some really hot water on a humid day. And the log was dead and its sole purpose was used for flies to come and spawn and then hatch out their maggot babies. She had rounded facial features that somehow fit into this dead log aesthetic she had going on and rounded green eyes that, instead of “normal” human pupils, were slit in a horizontal direction. Speaking of her eyes, they sucked. Like, she would probably be so much better off if she just stuck a fork in them and pulled them out. Maybe even help somebody out and let them eat her eyes for nutrients, if they were even good enough for that. Seriously, without her glasses she would be so lost in this world. Viscosi Cate weren’t known for having great eyesight in the first place, but whenever ERIN had been in the womb some high and mighty deity must have thought about her gross little fetus self and thought, “Yeah, I’m gonna mess with that particular fetus right there and make sure it can’t see any more than two inches away from its face, have fun, sucker”. Then she also had hair, which she kept rather short - she never let it go beyond her shoulders - and that was a dark brown color, sort of like that rotten bark she had been thinking about. Hair was relatively common for this species, though it also wasn’t uncommon for some to not have hair at all. Skinwise she looked just like that log covered in moss what with mottled browns and dappled greens. These colors shifted into a dull yellow from her throat down to her chest and stomach and then the underside of her tail as well. Which, her tail wasn’t really anything spectacular, just something that resembled the tail of a thick lizard or something. Then of course she had the webbed hands and feet and the small, sharp teeth. Oh, and she wasn’t one of the lucky tall Viscosi Cates, either. She wasn’t the shortest out there, but she only reached a measly 5’2. Could be worse, she supposed. She could have ended up staying at four feet like her cousin. She felt sorry for that guy, but then again he was a jerk so maybe she didn’t feel that sorry for him.
Anyway, she really needed to get back on track here. She still had a lot to explain, like why today was going to be complete and utter garbage and why her great, great, great, whatever grandfather was an absolute idiot and should have left the stars unbought. Today was going to be garbage because today was the day she was going to be officially announced as the lord - though overlord sounded a lot more fun in her opinion so she might keep referring to it as that - of the Giann System in front of all the ambassadors and even the Giann System king. ...If he could still even be a king after today.
But yeah, that’s why today was going to be worse than any sort of trash fire that could be dragged up. ERIN was totally excited about it. Oh yes, very, very excited. So excited she could scream.
Scream from sheer boredom and hatred about all of this, that was.
There was literally no world in where ERIN wanted to be a ruler, especially not the ruler of an entire solar system. All she wanted to do was get away with the least amount of activity possible, watch her shows, play her games, eat unhealthy snack foods, and repeat. She didn’t want to have to worry about social outings and public speeches. She didn’t want to have to worry about the concerns of the galaxy’s people or be diplomatic. Why couldn’t somebody else have that job? Could she just become the ruler for a day and then hand the king his rightful role and power back? If she was the overlord then she should totally have the power to hand her power over to somebody else who would actually have a better grip on all of this power stuff. Then she could go back to binging shows. Though if on the odd chance they made her stay the overlord then maybe she could find a soda to choke on and effectively die. If she was dead then they couldn’t make her lead then. Unless they put her corpse on display and had her corpse lead the system, which was honestly just idiotic and a terrible idea. She didn’t trust her live self with a whole galaxy let alone her corpse. Eh, actually, come to think of it she felt like her corpse would do a much better job at leading the Giann System. Her corpse would surely be a lot more active than she was in her current state. Probably a lot more charismatic as well.
Thoughts of her corpse as a reigning galactic overlord aside, ERIN had to come and face the fact that she probably only had a minute or two before she was supposed to go out and meet the world that was now apparently all hers. Now that was something to think about. She owned not only the entire planet that she was from, but she owned the entire solar system. How had her life even come to this? Oh right, it was thanks to dear ol’ great however many times granddad. If she ever got the chance to go back in time and meet him she would probably stab him. Maybe. Depending on how she felt, stabbing a person could take a lot of effort, effort she probably didn’t want to afford. She could maybe get somebody to do it for her. If she continued on in life as the ruler of this solar system then she could totally get somebody to do it. If she wanted to she could appoint an official person to be the one to stab her great, great, great, great grandfather. Would stabbing her great grandfather - at this point she was tired of adding all the other “greats” and was just going to refer to him as a great grandfather since surely the point was made that he wasn’t just one great - erase her existence then? ERIN supposed it would depend at which point he was stabbed in his life. If he was stabbed before he could procreate and have the spawn that would eventually lead to her then she would probably be wiped from existence, but if he was stabbed after that child had been created then ERIN would probably still be around.
Well, that settled it. She was going to go back in time and have somebody stab her great grandfather at the ripe age of three. Nobody would have time to spawn at that age. Then she wouldn’t have to worry about existing and none of this solar system overlord stuff would be happening. Maybe the world would “right” itself and appoint some other poor kid as the Giann System ruler. Heh, poor sap. Then again, did ERIN really feel pity for that theoretical kid? Not really. She couldn’t even afford the time to pity her short cousin - mostly because he was a jerk, but still.
Eventually she was pulled away from all of this internal monologuing by an incredibly loud, ear-splitting screech that would have made just about anybody else jump if not for the fact that she was very used to this screech and, quite frankly, done with the entire existence of the creature that had made the screech.
Just as expected a slimy, mostly pink blob crashed into the room with a resounding screech that even a deaf creature would be able to hear. The creature was rather small, perhaps two feet when actually standing on its back legs, and right now it had its jaw unhinged and was just screaming as loud as it could. ”He called me annoying! He called me annoying, and I’m not annoying! If I was annoying then I wouldn’t be cute, and I’m very cute, and because I’m cute I need attention, that is basic common knowledge! Cute things need attention and are not annoying, so I’m not annoying! I’m not annoying, I’m not annoying, I’m not annoying!”
”It would be a blessing if something happened to you right now, like a meteor crushing you to death. Maybe it’ll burn you to a crisp so we can take your ash and flush it,” ERIN muttered, her voice a soft whisper compared to the loudness of the pink Andalian’s screeches.
A gasp of shock came from the creature. They looked at ERIN with wide mismatched eyes, a low hiss coming from them until the hiss turned into even more of that ear-splitting, obnoxious screaming. ”That’s rude, that is very rude! The whole galaxy would be so boring without me! Nobody would get to see my cute self anymore, and who else would eat all those things you throw out? You would all die without me!”
Why ERIN had to deal with Glitch was beyond her, but life did like to throw her things like this. It was like life knew she was completely and totally 100% done but still wanted to test her to see if she would give any kind of reaction. So far she had pretty much stared life right back in the face, gave it the middle finger, and then walked off to continue her pathetic existence.
Taking a deep breath, ERIN stopped herself from saying anything more to Glitch that would suggest she wanted the weird gecko-bunny thing to be incinerated by a meteor, but this did give her the time to reevaluate what Glitch had just said. Something about how “he” had called Glitch annoying. That brought back the fact that an ambassador was supposed to be coming to get her. Now that she was apparently some sort of important galactic overlord she wasn’t allowed to go out on her own, especially when it came to something as big and important as this. Which, come to think of it, she would probably get her own supervisor or something because of her newfound status so she was never going to get to be alone ever again.
Ughhhh, life just kept trying to mess with her.
Those thoughts aside for now, ERIN placed her attention back on Glitch who was now seeing just how far they could stick their back leg into their mouth before they were technically considered some sort of pink Ouroboros. ”So who even called you annoying?”
The annoying pink creature blinked, looking up over at ERIN before making a terrible hacking noise as they pulled their foot out of their mouth. Which, considering how easily they were able to just pull that off told ERIN that this pink scream machine did this quite often and was very familiar with sticking their foot into their mouth. Which, honestly, didn’t surprise her one bit. ”Oh! This weird snake guy. You would think with as many eyes as he had - I’m sure he had, like, right of them! - he would see just how cute I am. You think I’m cute, right?” The little creature asked, head tipping to the side as if that would make them “cute”.
Yeah, ERIN wasn’t having any of it. ”I think you’re a plague upon the entire planet system, but get back to the point. Did this snake guy say who he was or why he was here?” Not that she particularly cared about any of that, but she was willing to put in enough effort for just today so that maybe she wasn’t hated by everyone right off the bat.
Glitch looked like they were about to shoot back a sharp retort, but something finally made them shut up. They did huff, thick tail flicking to the side as they got up on their back legs and crossed their arms across their clothed chest. ”Something about that big meeting-gathering thing you got today. I didn’t ask for details after I was called annoying.” Glitch rolled their eyes at that, goopy tongue sticking out of their mouth as if that would help prove their point.
So she had been right. This was about this whole “becoming a galactic overlord” thing. With a groan ERIN pulled herself up from where she had been sitting and glanced toward Glitch. ”Well, you coming?” She asked. Not like she had to ask to get the answer, she already knew the screaming creature was going to come along whether she liked it or not.
With a hmph, Glitch ran forward and jumped upward, landing like some sort of heavy rock atop ERIN’s shoulder. The gooey creature let out something of a soft purr as they situated themselves on her shoulder. With everything put together and not needing to get anything for this, ERIN left the confines of her room and out to see who had come to greet her.
Soon enough she came upon the entrance way and there, standing rather tall and regal, was a sandy colored reptilian creature. He was dappled mostly in light browns and tans, yet around his mouth and around his eyes were flashes of desert red that resembled blood if one thought about it for a while. Before she knew it eight eyes were pointed right at her, a low, deep hum coming from what was obviously a Siob Eldoon, and a rather large one at that. ERIN knew Siob Eldoons could get rather large, but she was sure she hadn’t met one that was as large as this one. Despite all the eyes and the many horns protruding from his skull his presence seemed...friendly enough. Not that it mattered to ERIN whether or not he was friendly, all that mattered to her was getting this day over with and ending the day with throwing Glitch across a room after their annoying spell from earlier and whatever annoying spells were to come.
After a moment of looking at one another, the large snake-esque creature finally hummed out an actual question. ”Are we ready, then?” ERIN noticed him taking a glance toward Glitch where his demeanor seemed to change ever so slightly, and she couldn’t help but snicker to herself under her breath.
Glitch seemed to have caught on to this little exchange as ERIN felt them puff up as they let out a sharp hiss. ”I’ll skewer all eight of your eyes! I’m adorable!”
This got a reaction out of the noodly ambassador, his lips drawing back ever so slightly to reveal a row of sharp fangs. ”Yes, you’d make an adorable snack for somebody of my size, now can we finally get a move on? Showing up late to such an important event would look terrible on us all.”
ERIN heard Glitch take a breath of air, about to screech something dumb, but she actually reacted faster for once and reached up, grabbing the Andalian by the snout. Glitch let out muffled screeches as they tried to pull away from the new overlord’s grasp, but despite their struggling ERIN managed to keep a hold on them. That actually put a faint smile on her face, especially when the pink creature finally gave up and just fell limp there on her shoulder. ”We’re ready now,” stated the Viscosi Cate now that she had successfully shut Glitch up for now. If she was lucky the pink scream machine would be quiet for a good five minutes. Had that ever happened before? She didn’t think so. Glitch shutting up for five whole minutes would be a miracle and would maybe, maybe make this day okay.
With an approving hum, the Siob Eldoon turned and began to slither his way on out. Hand still clutched over Glitch’s muzzle, ERIN took in a deep breath and followed the ambassador outside. Well, this was it, this was the last time she would ever leave the confines of her own place without being hailed as some sort of overlord. Fun.
Once outside she had to stop for a moment so that her eyes could adjust to the light. Anything brighter than just a dim light always stopped her for a moment, but luckily she was able to get over that pretty soon. The next thing that she had to stop and take a moment to adjust to was all the noise that was going on. She shook her head, needing a bit longer to adjust to that than she needed with the light outside. Until now ERIN had been something of a hermit, not really getting out a lot. She had never had the need to go out and about considering she had never really had any friends to go out with and she much preferred to hole up in her room, binge shows, and eat snack food all day. … Wait. She was going to have to give that all up now, wasn’t she? She didn’t think a galactic overlord could sit around and binge shows and play video games all day and all night without their being any consequences. Okay, actually, never mind. She didn’t need to get all worked up over that. No, she had already been over this once before with herself. See, she was going to be the overlord for like a few hours or the whole day, then with her overlord powers destroy Glitch, and right after getting rid of the screaming pink nuisance she was going to step down as overlord and hand all the power back to the Bik king. It would be as simple as that. That’s all she had to do, was get through these next few hours or the rest of the day, and then she could go back to doing what she enjoyed by tomorrow. It was the perfect plan, and maybe there were a few flaws to it, but ERIN could make it work. She knew she could make it work because, luckily for her, she didn’t really care what anybody else thought of her so long as she got to go back to her usual habits. Call her a bit selfish, but it was the truth, and she wouldn’t deny that much.
Alright, she could do this. Finish out this ceremony or whatever it was, destroy the irritating creature that was Glitch, give away her power, and resume her daily activities as per scheduled. There was no way none of that could go wrong. No way at all.
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Mar 17, 2019 3:45:28 GMT -5
Kaiyo Kimikimo Walvelon King of the Bik Empire
Inhale.
Kai closed his eyes, counting to himself until he reached the number ten, and exhaled. It was time to focus. Taking one last deep breath, Kai gave a slight shake of his head and began to walk towards the ship that had just arrived, his long blue and silver robes and silk dragging along the crystallized ground beneath him. Each movement bringing him one step closer to the end of his reign, and more than that, to the end of the Wavelon dynasty. After this it all came to an end, and in a way, it already had.
After all, despite no crowning ceremony being preformed, no official exchange of power, the entire system now belonged to ERIN Idnasi, and there was no coming back from it now.
Time seemed to slow around him, his footsteps becoming as rhythmically slow as the world around him as the chants and shouts from the crowds faded into a vaguely muffled static in the background and for a few fleeting moments it was as if time came to a still, giving Kai just enough clarity within those moments to push the remainder of his lingering thoughts aside.
There was a lot of unknown, but if he kept focusing on it he would simply keep circling back to the same things he had already covered before.
This was the start to a great and tremendous change, not just for him and for his brothers but for the entire system. He wasn’t the only one likely turning in internal turmoil over the events about to play out before him like a flower blooming at dawn.
More than that though, he had been raised to handle pressure and stress perfectly...well, almost perfectly. Try as his father did, he couldn’t quite train Kai to deal with stress perfectly, there were still a few...hiccups that occurred, and of course when they had happened, he would be lying if he claimed he handled like a king should.
Still, he could deal with this fine. He hadn’t welcomed too many sleepless nights into his life yet, he hadn’t grown bags underneath his eyes so large they couldn’t be covered up, he hadn’t stopped eating or plucked out his hair or lost it in the slightest. He was...fine, or at least as fine as he could hope to be.
After all, he highly doubted anyone would be able to keep their cool completely in a situation such as this.
A situation that was quickly losing its slow, rhythmic stillness in replace for the excitement clinging to the air and the loud, boisterous shouts from the gathering crowds around them.
His footsteps began to speed up again, his breath sharp and haste as he inched ever closer to the docking port to the ship.
Caught unprepared for the sudden change of pace, Kai’s foot got caught behind one of the long, silky robes he had donned on that morning, creating a tangled mess of leg and cloths until he couldn’t keep his balance and his stomach dropped as he realized what was happening.
He was falling.
Feet too wobbly to stand up straight and tangled into his lengthy clothes, Kai couldn’t keep himself standing for a moment longer, no matter how hard he tried and quickly the ground began to grow closer as he dove down to greet it’s crystallized surface, arms flailing in the air like a newly hatched bird attempting - and failing - to fly for the first time.
Then just like that, his face became uncomfortably familiar with the recently cleaned ground directly beneath him as it made impact with the floor, nose smushed in between his face and the crystallized floor. Luckily, nothing seemed to be broken.
...Well, except for his pride anyways.
That was most definitely broken by now.
Kai had never really considered himself a clumsy before, sure he had a few stumbles just as anyone would, but was he actually clumsy? No, of course not, he held the grace of a cat, sort of like a Lohatux did, like Ty. Sure Ty was a little more balanced than he was, but Kai had always liked to think of himself as a close second.
So of course, falling quite literally on his face in front of thousands and being videoed life in front of countless others was...well, it was not exactly his best moment. He’d have to do something truly brilliant to make up for this, something else that people would focus on after this was all done and over with than him falling and landing on his face, nose and mouth smushed onto the ground like the beginning to one of those abstract paintings he could never understand.
After all, what was so great and deep about a smushed face run across a canvas in various colors? What was it supposed to represent? Perhaps if Kai thought about it a little more, it might mean something more to him. Perhaps it was supposed to represent someone caged in the metaphorical sense, as if they were trying their hardest to escape yet there never was one, and instead they simply ended with their face smushed against a surface like a clown, unable to escape the singular, caged horror they had found themselves trapped in, confined to live a life they had never wanted, forced down by society to accept a role they were never meant to play.
Or perhaps it was supposed to represent a mime - something that transcended all worlds, a social enigma that brought its existence to every world Kai had ever visited - showing something without telling, not a single word spoken yet a thousand emotions shared. Mimes were of course, very emotional after all, they brought forth a depth and wonder that simply couldn’t come from words, a way to express oneself in such a way that moved even the most stubborn of people out there, touching them with their imagination and vow of silence, no words spoken, yet a million things said.
Perhaps this was like that.
Or maybe it was just supposed to represent someone with their face smushed into the ground, looking like an idiot in front of thousands, nay: billions of people when they were supposed to be giving a welcome speech to the empire’s new empress.
If that was the case, then maybe Kai did understand abstract art after all.
”Hey uh, Kai...psst, Kai,” a hissed out whisper brought Kai back to the present as the familiar voice of his brother echoed within his ears.
Kai let out a soft sigh, breath fogging the clear, crystallized ground underneath him. ”Yes, Ty?”
His brother fell silent for a moment before shifting positions, feet sliding against the ground with ease as he moved closer to Kai. ”You’ve been lying on the ground for awhile now, like two whole minutes, I managed to convince everyone else that it’s a special type of kingly bow, but I don’t know how much longer they’re gonna buy it...” Ty expressed lightly, tail flicking passed Kai’s back. ”You uh...you okay there? Do you need any help?”
Huh.
Had it really been that long?
Kai hadn’t noticed.
Time really did fly when you were thinking about abstract art and mimes, and what the connection might be to those two things and your current predicament.
”I’m...fine, Ty,” Kai reassured, blinking as he stared at the ground, from this angle his nose had even become a little visible, only adding to the pressed up, smushed tingling igniting from his face. ”Sorry, I got a little distracted.”
At that, Ty grabbed him by the shoulder and pulled him back up, whispering in his ear as he lifted Kai back up to his feet. ”I know this is hard for you, Buddy, but you gotta focus, we cant have you drifting off all day, okay?” He asked, keeping hold of Kai as he steamed himself on his feet.
Kai nodded, mind still a little discombobulated from the fall.
Right, right. He had to focus. This was no time to lie there on the floor like some sort of sad, pathetic thrown away rag doll. He could do that later, within the comforts of his own room...assuming he was still allowed to sleep in it after all of this transcended.
Forgetting to actually, verbally reply to Ty, his brother breathed in a hiss. ”Just, follow after me,” he ordered in a hushed whisper before finally turning his attention to the others. ”Now that your king has bestowed upon this ship and all that reside inside it the proper royal bow of welcome, I encourage everyone else to do the same,” he said and just like that, the Lohatux prince swerved around on his feet, winking at Kai with a smirk on his face as he flailed his arms helplessly in the air and fell face first onto the ground.
Kai stood there, eyes unblinking as he watched his brother fall to the floor in a dramatic display of flailing limbs and muscle release. It was a situation impossible to react to, and even if he could’ve reacted to it in a proper amount of time, he was hit with another surprise far before he could.
With a dramatic huff of breath, Norman also fell the ground behind him, causing Kai to look back to his other two brothers and the Bik ambassadors just in time to see the human prince effortlessly let go of all control of his body and fall to the ground in a similar fashion to Ty. This of course wasn’t too unusual, especially since Norman did things like this all the time.
No, what really surprised him was that Niko fell right after him.
His tall, monstrosity of a brother quickly caught onto what the other two had done and just...fell, causing a loud thump to echo throughout the path as he hit the floor, face first into the ground.
Were they...were they actually doing this? Were they actually trying to make Kai’s stumble look like some sort of official bow? Surely someone would catch on, the ambassadors would of course, right?
Right?
Sinani glanced over at him, her brow raised ever so slightly as she looked him over, a knowing glint sparkling in her honey golden eyes.
Of course she would catch on, she’d never participate in something so foolish, they’d surely get called out now.
Then just like that, Sinani too fell to the ground with her arms flailing into the air before her face hit the ground, not a single word said as she fell.
Soon after her, Flumori fell as well, letting out a light giggle as she let her body fall limp onto the floor just as others had before her.
Melamorn paused for a moment, sending Kai a look of his own. Out of all the ambassadors he dealt with Kai and his brothers the most, it came as no surprise to Kai that he would’ve caught on to their act. However, instead of calling him out on it, he simply gave one of those small, Melamorn smiles and let go of the control, letting his body flail around for a moment or so before finally he hit the ground as well.
Kai blinked, watching as people all around him began to fall over on a whim, looks of confusion flittering across the faces of the crowds before they were soon replaced with a sort of...acceptance and just like that, they fell too.
Crowds upon crowds fell to the ground before his very eyes, willingly going along with this whole thing.
Even Malu fell to the ground alongside the other Bik ambassadors after a few moments of standing there with an absolutely flabbergasted look on his face before he also allowed himself to hit the ground like some sort of lifeless noodle.
It was in that exact moment as Kai watched his people willingly fall to the ground with little to no questioning that he came to the conclusion that his people were either all idiots, or Ty was far more intelligent than he gave him credit.
After about two minutes, Ty jumped back to his feet and with that, slowly everyone else did as well. Now on his feet, he turned his attention to Kai, grinning brightly at him. ”I knew that would work,” he told him, patting Kai on the shoulder as he began to walk back to the others, shooting a look back to Kai as he did so. ”It’s all you now, Kai,” he whispered to him before turning away, joining Niko and Norman as they got back up to their feet.
Right.
He had a speech to give.
Clearing his throat, Kai turned his attention to the crowds as he brought a hand up to press down on the speaking device within his ear, turning it on to begin his speech. ”I am so honored to see this many faces today, being here with all of us for this momentous occasion,” he started, voice loud and clear as a calm took over him, washing over him from his head to his toes as the worlds began to flow from his mouth. ”As you all should know, due to discovering some hidden legal issues, I will be stepping down as king,” Kai paused for a moment or so, faltering ever so slightly.
King.
As a child when Kai had been told that he would one day be king, he had fought it at every turn. Ignoring his royal tutors and neglecting any princely duties he was given. It had never been the life he had wanted, the life he would’ve picked out for himself.
Growing up, he had to deal with pressure and stress from a horrifyingly young age, and had to know how to handle the eyes of millions watching his every move. It had been a life that Kai had grown to hate as a child.
Honestly, the more he thought about it, the less he could remember when exactly he had gone from hating and avoiding his duties to resentfully accepting them, to doing them simply because he knew no other way of living.
It must’ve happened at some point, he just couldn’t quite pinpoint when.
Though that alone brought up another question, one that not even Kai himself quite knew the answer to.
If he had detested this role so much, if he had truly yearned for a different life, why had it become so hard to say goodbye? Why was it so painfully hard to force the rest of his speech out of his mouth and move on?
Was it the the unknown or a cage that scared him?
Or was it simply the chance of losing all that he knew how to do?
After all, what happened to the boy raised to be a king from birth, after he lost his crown?
Shaking his head, Kai pushed through the thoughts, forcing the rest of the speech out. ”I have enjoyed serving you for the last year and a half, and although I would’ve liked to continue to serve you all for the rest of my life, sometimes we don’t get to do what we had planned or hoped for, and this is one of those times,” he continued, hands beginning to shake at his sides. ”Sometimes we must come to a hard and difficult road as we are given a task that we’d rather not face, and when that happens it is up to us on how we choose to handle it,” pausing for another moment, Kai glanced towards his brothers, finding comfort in the sight of them. ”I have chosen to face the journey ahead of me with dignity and honor, and although I cannot continue to serve you as your king, I hope to find new ways to better the Giann System, or wherever my path may lead me,” he continued, stopping to look back to the ship looming before him.
”Here goes nothing,” he thought to himself.
”With that, I would like to welcome the Giann System’s new ruler: ERIN Idnasi!” He continued, voice raising as he lifted a hand out to the ship expectantly as he awaited for the Viscoti Cate in question to greet them.
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Post by Feathertalon on Mar 18, 2019 0:23:14 GMT -5
ERIN Idnasi owner of a small galactic empire
Ya know, just by some stupid turn of events and because of some stupid ancestor of hers she was completely destroying the natural order of things.
Well, her family had a history of that what with her stupid grandfather - she was tired of adding all the greats to the front of that - buying an entire planet system and then there had been the whole Becca and frog guy ordeal that completely ruined the natural order of this solar system, so ERIN supposed now it was only right for it to be her turn to do so as well. Not that she had any interest in any of this if she was being frank about it. The only way she had wanted to break the natural order of things was by watching some extremely long anime, like the ones with over six hundred episodes and had no signs of stopping anytime soon, and finishing it completely within an inhumanly amount of time. She was talking, like, watching an entire anime along with any movies, shorts, and OVAs within a three day period. Now that would be a feat even ERIN could be proud of. It would disrupt the natural flow of things because, in theory, doing something like that in that amount of time would be impossible, but the Viscosi Cate was sure she could do something like that. It was something she was working on, but right now, unfortunately, she had to pay attention to this whole event that was going on like it was important or something.
Ugh, this wasn’t how she wanted to break reality and twist it into something that had once been thought of as impossible. She didn’t want to be put down in history books as the gross frog woman that completely destroyed a dynasty that had been going on for...how long now? Probably since the beginning of this society for as far as she knew - ERIN had never really paid attention to much history. But she knew the Walvelon dynasty had been going on for quite some time now, and today, right now, she was causing its collapse without even so much as raising a hand or breaking a sweat. This probably meant she was going to be haunted by generations of dead Walvelon guys until she died or something like that, but the thought of being haunted by some dead royal dudes didn’t bother her all that much. She couldn’t be scared of a haunting when she was already being haunted by all the deceased cares she had never even given. Though, perhaps, she did feel a bit bad about this. She was, without warning, taking a guy off his throne. She was pushing a family out of their role in life without any reason other than her grandfather having bought this planet system some long time ago. She could only imagine how the royal family felt. Probably that disappointment she felt when she realized she was all out of chips and had to actually go out in public to buy more. That sort of disappointment ate at a person until they were nothing more than a hollow shell of somebody who had once been blessed with a full bag of chips and graced with the ability to stay locked up in their room. A shiver ran down the Viscosi Cate’s spine at the thought. Not even ERIN wished that sort of terrible disappointment upon somebody. Dang, she was taking away somebody’s bag of chips, waving it in their face, and then not letting them have it back. What kind of cruel creature was she? Come to think of it, she didn’t exactly want these chips and they had been handed to her by somebody else, so if she wanted to she could actually just give them back whenever she wanted. She planned on doing that actually. ERIN just needed to use her overlord powers for a few hours to make sure Glitch was destroyed first and then she would hand the chip bag back to the true ruler of this planet system and things would all go back to normal after that. Everything would be totally fine and ERIN could go back to living life as she pleased.
Should that be something she needed to tell everybody once she was officially announced as some weird galactic overlord? Should she just walk out there, give some kind of awkward wave, and be all “yeah so, here’s the deal, I need a group of skilled assassins to take down this pink scream machine within twenty-four hours and then I’m stepping down”. Imagine what the history books would say about her. ERIN Idnasi, galactic overlord for a day, destroyer of a weird screaming creature. That would be it. That would be everything her biography in the history books would say. Seemed about right. She’d be the person that people just sort of skimmed over because there wasn’t anything actually interesting about her, which suited her just fine. She didn’t need or want to be made into some big deal. It just wasn’t something she wanted to deal with because being a big deal sounded exhausting and merely just living a life where nobody really knew her was exhausting enough as it was.
”Hey look, there he is! There’s the king!” Unsurprisingly it was Glitch’s high-pitched voice that cut into ERIN’s thoughts and brought her back to reality. ”There he is, there he is, there he is!” And here Glitch was about to go on some sort of tangent more than likely. Ugh. She heard the Andalian take in a deep breath of air and that’s when she knew she was about to have to listen to something dumb for at least five minutes.
”Do you think he would notice me first? It’s because I’m cute! I’m very cute, so of course he would notice me. But I should get everybody to notice me. How can I do that? Oh! Oh!” The creature gave a few excited bounces as an idea apparently came to them. ”I kill the king, take his place, and then everybody will have to see how cute I am!”
Well. ERIN hadn’t expected murder to come from this, but what could she expect from Glitch?
She was about to add her own thoughts into the matter when something else entirely happened. Not with her or with Glitch or even the giant snake creature that was nearby, but with the king’s march to where he needed to stand and address the crowd.
Just like that, the king fell and was soon face planted right onto the crystallized surface below.
Was that...was that part of this whole thing? ERIN wasn’t an expert at events like this, but something told her that the king falling onto his face was not something that happened out of tradition. Then again, maybe, just maybe, it was.
Or the poor sap had just fallen and wasn’t planning on getting up by the looks of it.
Mood, king dude, what a mood. If she could get away with face planting into the ground as if she had given up on life itself in front of an entire crowd then she would totally do that as well. This made her feel a bit bad for pretty much dethroning him. He was a mood™ and that automatically made ERIN like him. She’d rather the mood dude be king than herself being an overlord any day.
It wasn’t long until her attention turned to something, or rather, somebody else. Even if she wasn’t outside yet and was still hidden from all prying eyes, everything that was happening outside was still visible to her. Everything being done and said was as obvious as daylight to her. Actually, not as visible as daylight. Daylight was actually somewhat hard to see in. Anytime of day was hard for her to see in if she was being honest, but it was always easiest to see during dusk and dawn. So everything that was happening was as clear as dusk to her right now. Apparently this fall was some sort of kingly bow that was done, but that didn’t settle quite right with her. No, this had to be some sort of thinly veiled aggression from King Kaiyo. This had to be some sort of metaphor for the fall of his dynasty. This was him throwing some kind of “kingly bow” shade at her, and if ERIN could be honest here she was living for it. The Viscosi Cate wasn’t one to normally go out of her way to say she liked other people, but she had to admit she was liking this shade throwing, passive aggressive, mood king. If only he could have stayed king for longer. He would have done amazing things. He could still go on to do amazing things once he got his king title back, ERIN just needed to get somebody to destroy Glitch first.
And then, just like that, everybody else started to fall. Oh, this was great. This was amusing. Seriously, she wasn’t being sarcastic here for once. She watched as the crowd dropped like flies, one by one, some going down in large crowds, some going down after looking around in what had to be confusion. ERIN couldn’t help but snort in amusement at all of this. King Kaiyo had gone from just him being passive aggressive toward her about how she was pushing down his dynasty to getting the entire crowd to fall and, in turn, be passive aggressive toward her as well even if they weren’t aware of that at all. Technically the king hadn’t made the crowd fall to the ground himself, but it still counted in ERIN’s mind.
But all things aside, if everybody else was going to fall and return this “kingly bow” to the master of passive aggression then she might as well do just that as well. It was a good excuse to just lay on the floor anyway. It would be the first time she just fell to the floor and wouldn’t have to worry about getting the question of “are you okay” from somebody. And if you were curious, her response was either a muffled grunt or something along the lines of, “yeah, I’m fine, just gonna lay here until I decompose or something”. Both were solid answers if she had any input on that matter yet people still wanted to be concerned with her responses. Now this was her chance to do something she did more often than not and wouldn’t have to worry about getting asked some dumb question about her current state of mind or body.
Without a second thought ERIN allowed herself to become a victim of gravity and down she went, falling to the ground with a faint huff! of air escaping her lungs. She lay there face on the ground, finding this to actually be enjoyable. Here she thought nothing about this day was going to be enjoyable, but here she was, enjoying quite a lot about all of this right now. She was casually getting to face plant to the ground without any consequences whatsoever, and that was something she had never thought she would be able to get away with. It was always a good day whenever she got to get away with some of her stupid shenanigans.
After a few moments of laying there on the ground, she could hear King Kaiyo’s voice now being projected across the crowd as he began to give what was his last speech as king. For now. This wouldn’t be his complete and final speech as king for good, he’d be king again before long, but back to the point. ERIN listened, still on the floor, as the Bik King went on to give his speech, going over the stereotypical things that any king would. Had to tell the crowd he appreciated them coming out, had to tell them he was sorry he couldn’t continue serving the people as their king for the rest of his life, and all that jazz. Basic stuff pretty much, but not even ERIN could deny that his speech was pretty good. Had she been more into actually listening then she probably would have become enraptured in what he had to say or something like that, but the only part of his speech that truly caught her attention was when her name was called out.
This was the part she was going to hate.
A slimy paw tapping her on the shoulder caused her to briefly glance up. Glitch stood there beside her, an excited look gleaming in their mix-matched eyes. ”Come on, we gotta go! They’re gonna all see how cute I am now!” Glitch prodded ERIN’s shoulder again, obviously eager to get out there and show themself to the massive crowd that was gathered out there to watch this entire event. Logically she knew she should get up and try to make some sort of first good impression to these people she was apparently supposed to lead starting today, but the floor was too comfortable to leave and ERIN honestly couldn’t find any cares to give about this whole first impression thing.
Putting her head back down on the floor, the Viscosi Cate muttered, ”I’m not getting up.” That was final. She was staying on the floor until somebody forcefully put her back on her feet. Maybe right now wasn’t the best time to give up on life and lay on the floor like some limp carcass, but she honestly didn’t have enough care to even try and get up to her feet. This was it. This was how she was going to greet the people she was going to rule over for at most a day.
A hum of thought came from Glitch. ERIN could hear the little creature scurrying around near her, the gloopy pitter patter of their feet echoing against the floor. Eventually the sound of their feet stopped and ERIN could feel slimy little hands grab ahold of her arm and start to pull on her. Even now she stayed committed to the ground, not budging until somehow Glitch managed to pull just hard enough to actually start moving ERIN along the floor like the limp sack of flour she was.
By some kind of godly strength Glitch was able to effortlessly drag ERIN along, not even so much as grunting in effort while doing so. ”We gotta go! They gotta see just how cute I am, okay? And you come too so they can compare me to something not cute just so I look even cuter!” That should have made ERIN take offense, but she knew she wasn’t cute. She looked like some kind of dead tree with arms and legs, that wasn’t cute at all. Anybody standing near her would look like some angelic goddess come to life in all honesty.
Still not looking up, ERIN wasn’t entirely sure what all was going on now or where she was, but she could tell that Glitch had dragged her out by now as she could better hear the hushed whisperings of the crowd and people nearby. It wasn’t long until she heard Glitch speak up again, this time the pink creature addressing the crowd rather than ERIN herself. ”Hi, hello! I’m Glitch! I’m cute so pay attention to me!” ERIN still wasn’t looking up to see what was happening, but just by the way Glitch was shouting to the crowd she could tell that the pink nuisance was using one hand to wave at anybody and everybody who had their eyes turned to this particular display.
If anything watching a screaming Andalian drag out the body of the system’s new empress was certainly something that wouldn’t be forgotten for a while. This was certainly a way to first show herself to the people she was going to have to lead.
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Mar 18, 2019 19:01:13 GMT -5
Kaiyo Kimikimo Walvelon King of the Bik Empire
After finishing his speech, Kai held his breath, waiting for the newly announced empress to reveal herself to everyone else. Then the moments dragged on with no sign of ERIN Idnasi making herself known.
Immediately his mind spiraled to the worst possible conclusion. She had been killed on the way over. Everyone that had come with her was slaughtered as well, the only person alive that remained in the ship was the murderous villain, bent in destroying any authority figure. First it was ERIN, next up would be the rest of them. Pretty soon this monster of a person would drag its long, bone thin arms out though the docking bay door and leap at Kai, killing him effortlessly before moving on to his brothers, killing literally every single person here that held a position of power - or used to - right in from of thousands of people and millions of others over video.
It would be a dark and gruesome day indeed.
Kai shook his head, that was ridiculous.
They would’ve got a distress call if that was the case, they would know what to expect if something had actually happened, if not from the people inside the ship than from the ship itself.
Now, there couldn’t possibly be any murderer hidden without that dark ship entrance, right?
...Perhaps they should check it out anyways, just in case.
Pausing for a moment or so, Kai glanced back towards his brothers, gesturing for them to follow him as he began to move towards the looming ship, all three of his brothers slowly beginning after him.
He might not technically be king right now, but he still had a duty to uphold, and part of that meant being the first to investigate. So with a shaky breath, Kai took a few more steps towards the ship, eyes trained on the entrance, never leaving it for a second as he continued.
Almost there...
That’s when something actually came out of the entrance and Kai jolted back in surprise.
Out from the ship came a small, pink Andalian dragging with them...the limp body of who Kai presumed to be ERIN Idnasi herself.
”Oh my stars, someone really did murder her,” Kai thought to himself rather quickly, giving him no time to properly process what was happening.
It was at that point that instinct took over and Kai jumped what he liked to imagine to be five feet in the air at the sight, a loud, high pitched shriek emitting from him like a nekcihc in mating season as his hair burst with a startled purple hue, the freckles covering his body flashing different colors, a rather primitive way of setting off an alarm to any other Biks in the area. Which there were plenty.
Forcing himself to calm down, Kai took a few more steps back from the murderer and their kill, eyes wide and hand pressed upon his chest as he heart raced within his rib cage. He had to focus, he needed to remain calm, even if the Andalian had just dragged the entire empire’s new ruler’s lifeless corpse out into the open for all to see like some sort of prized trophy from their most recent hunt.
Maybe that was what was going on, maybe this was a bounty hunter...or one of those space hunters he had heard about as a child, someone that sought joy in hunting other species for sport, hanging their heads upon it’s walls at home like some sort of demented freak.
No wait, ERIN was breathing, the closer attention Kai paid to the girl, the more he could see the fall and rise of her body, a clear sign that she was still alive, just...lying down.
Perhaps he had been a bit quick to jump to conclusions.
Forcing himself to calm down, Kai offered a sheepish smile to no one in particular, colors calming back down just enough for him to focus on what the little Andalian was saying.
Cute. They were saying that they were cute.
Glitch. That was their name.
Though that was all the Andalian had to say, waving at the crowd with their hand...paw...thing. They didn’t seem overly aggressive, and they were awfully cute, even Kai could admit that. Some Andalians were not quite so lucky. Not that he could really judge, any species was bound to have some with lumps and bumps all over their body. Why, he had even seen a couple Biks like that.
Casting an unsure glance back to his brothers, Kai waited before getting some sort of approval from them before moving closer to the creature until he was standing in front of them, kneeling down to be at eye level with Glitch. ”Hello there,” he greeted, smiling down at them. ”You said your name was Glitch, correct?” Kai questioned, maintaining eye contact with the Andalian for a few moments. ”I’m Kai-“ Though he was sure most everyone in the system new his name. That wasn’t him being arrogant either, he was their king - ex king? - and previous crown prince, his name had been in the history books ever since he was born. If you were in the Giann system, you most likely knew who he was.
That wasn’t the point though, nor was it the time for such thoughts anyways.
Gulping slightly, Kai cast a glance down to ERIN Idnasi, there was a chance that this wasn’t the girl in question, but Kai couldn’t help but doubt that. He had seen her pictures, that had to be her. ”Is...is your friend...” Kai paused, looking back to Glitch from the corners of his eyes. “Friend” might be stretching it a bit, after all, Kai had never met either of the two before, he didn’t know what kind of relationship they had with one another.
Besides, he still wasn’t completely convinced that ERIN wasn’t in some kind of danger at the hands of this little pink Andalian. What if she was unconscious and this was all just a ploy for Glitch to kill the rest of them? He couldn’t be sure, though...Glitch didn’t appear all that threatening right now.
Though Kai knew better to judge a book by it’s cover, no matter how adorable that cover was.
”Is she alright?” Kai questioned, nodding his head down to ERIN Idnasi while keeping eye contact with the Andalian. Perhaps he should check to see if the new ruler was conscious for starters, then he could begin to address her himself.
So, shifting slightly, Kai turned his attention down towards the Viscosi Cate. ”Do you need help? Are you hurt?” He asked quietly, ignoring the mumbled whispers of the crowds behind him.
He could worry about the crowds later, right now the people that really required his attention were the Andalian and Viscosi Cate before him. Once he made sure they were alright, then he could worry about everyone else.
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Post by Feathertalon on Mar 18, 2019 22:09:09 GMT -5
Glitch andalian
Not even once did the thought of dragging ERIN out like a dead body could be seen as something threatening and frightening go through the gooey creature’s mind. They were currently too busy thinking about all the attention they were getting, how the crowd seemed to all turn their eyes on Glitch as the pink creature puffed out their chest and continued on with their grand waving of cuteness overload. ”Hi, I’m Glitch,” the Andalian called out again, making sure that everybody in the crowd could hear their name and commit it to memory. Their name was going to be in history books for generations to come, always referred to as the cutest little creature that had ever existed in any galaxy. They were the cutest thing in all the universe, and most definitely the cutest thing to have ever existed. Nothing had been cuter than Glitch, and nothing would ever be as cute.
With one hand still grabbed tightly around ERIN’s arm, Glitch continued to drag the Viscosi Cate onward, all the while waving as they did so. ”Hi, I’m Glitch!” They repeated once more. People had to know who they were without a doubt. Until now the pink goo creature had never really been in front of a crowd of this size, especially not one that was putting all of their attention onto Glitch themself. Glitch had heard people talk about how being in front of any kind of crowd was nerve-wracking and that it was one of the scariest things to exist, but the Andalian didn’t feel even a smidgen of nervous energy build up inside of them. If anything being in front of a large crowd felt right, like this was where they belonged. Why had it taken them so long to get into a position of such power that they could stand out and address large crowds like this one? This was something they should have been doing since they were born. It shouldn’t have taken them this long to get here, to get in front of all these people to announce who they were. If anything it was happening now, Glitch was just surprised it took this long for them to do this.
”Hi, I’m Glitch, and I’m cute!” A third time calling out what needed to be said. This time, though, Glitch did have to stop and wonder why the crowd continued to stay so quiet. Was it out of respect for Glitch? Was it because they were so enraptured by their adorable self that everybody was simply speechless? No, that couldn’t be it. Glitch could easily pick up soft murmurs coming from within the crowd here and there. That obviously meant people still had the ability to speak if they so wanted to. If this whispering meant that they could talk then why were they being so hushed? By now all the people gathered should be down on their knees, bowing to Glitch and going on about how adorable they were. Then after bowing the crowd needed to continue showing their love, support, and dedication to Glitch by tossing anything and everything edible out to them so that they could feast on what all these people had to offer. Then, to conclude this display of “Glitch is the most adorable creature that has ever graced this universe” the people would need to all individually line up to personally meet Glitch where they would tell the Andalian that they were absolutely adorable. It would probably take that whole ordeal a good fifteen hours or so, but it would be beyond worth it just so long as Glitch was treated like some sort of god of cuteness.
Before Glitch could ponder on all of this even more, a high-pitched shriek split through the air, naturally grabbing the pink creature’s attention. Their ears gave a little twitch and they quickly turned to the source of the scream. ”Hi!” They automatically started, paw-hand-thing turning to wave over at who had screamed - that person apparently being King Kaiyo himself. This got a laugh at the Andalian, amusement lighting up their gaze as they continued waving toward the king. ”I’m Glitch, and I’m cute!” They chirped, excitement buzzing through them as the king walked toward them. Was he about to bestow upon Glitch the official title of Universe’s Most Adorable Creature? That had to be it. This was going to be his last thing as king other than stepping down - even if, technically, he had already done that, but still.
Curiously Glitch watched as the Bik stepped ever closer. They watched as he then leaned forward, getting eye level to Glitch. This was when Glitch finally let go of ERIN and, with both paw hands, reached out until they had a hold of the king’s face, and then slowly inched their face closer until they were no more than an inch away. ”Hi,” Glitch whispered, which actually wasn’t a whisper considering the Andalian was always loud, but their voice was quieter than usual for once. ”I’m Glitch, you’re right,” they answered Kai right before sticking out their tongue and slathering it right across his cheek as slowly as they could, hands still holding on to his face all the while licking him. After what felt like a decently good enough time for a proper lick, Glitch pulled their tongue away yet kept their hands where they were placed. ”I’m cute.”
Glitch could have stayed there for even longer had Kai not gone and asked about ERIN’s current state. Finally pulling away from the king, the Andalian hopped over to ERIN, jumping right on her back. ”She’s fine! She wouldn’t get up but we had to get out here so everybody could see how cute I am! I couldn’t leave her in the ship, either, not when compared to her I’m even more adorable!” They were already the most adorable thing in the entire universe, but compared to their companion, Glitch was stunning.
Noticing that the king was now turning his attention on ERIN, Glitch let out a huff and narrowed their eyes ever so slightly. ”You just asked me if she was okay and I said she is. You’re not looking at me anymore. You gotta look at me! You gotta look at me! You! Gotta! Look! At! Me!” With each word being forced out of their mouth their voice grew louder and higher in pitch until it was as high as it could go. ”Look at me, I’m cute!” In their annoyance at being looked over for ERIN of all people, Glitch got down on all fours and arched their back like some sort of frightened cat, hopping up and down frantically to try and grab the Bik’s attention once more. ”Look at me! I told you the answer already!” They kept jumping up and down, speeding up with each hop before, eventually, they stumbled and fell over, rolling a few inches away from where they had started their little tantrum. With a frustrated scream, Glitch grabbed a hold of their tail and, unhinging their jaw, maneuvered their body in such a way that they could slide a good portion of their tail straight down into their throat. Oh, and while they were doing this they kept screaming, so Glitch’s screams went from loud, piercing shrieks to somewhat quieter, but now muffled high-pitched shrieking. This went on for a few more moments before another idea popped into the pink Andalian’s mind. Spitting out their tail, Glitch rolled back up to their feet and shot after Kai, grabbing what they could of part of his robe and just hacking like some wild heathen. It wasn’t long until a good portion of what Glitch had last eaten came right back up and landed on the part of the robes they had in their hands, a shock of triumph running through them at the sight of their thrown back up meal. ”Give me attention!” Yeah, give them attention or they’ll flat out throw up on you.
Despite still being full of annoyed rage at Kai, throwing up did make the Andalian tired enough to not jump right back into being a nuisance all over again. Instead, they clung to the king’s - or ex-king or whatever he was - robes and stood there, for once just listening to what was now going on. They heard Kai’s question directed toward ERIN and then watched as the Viscosi Cate casually just lifted up a hand and gave a thumbs up all the while not taking her face off the ground. ”I’ll be fine once that scream machine shuts up, but other than that I’m just dandy. Floor’s pretty comfortable, you should try it out sometime.” See, that wasn’t cute. Not cute at all and Glitch still couldn’t understand why the Bik had chosen to turn his attention on ERIN when Glitch was right there all cute and adorable like.
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Jun 24, 2019 18:26:49 GMT -5
Kaiyo Kimikimo Walvelon King of the Bik Empire
Honestly, Kai hadn’t known what to expect when he had gone up to the Andalian to talk. Andalians were well known for being unpredictable, and this one seemed a little...off their rocker, if he was being completely honest here.
So when Glitch brought their tongue right up to Kai’s face and slobbered all over him, Kai was simultaneously caught unprepared and almost expecting something like this. Simply because it was unexpected, and the unexpected was expected from an unpredictable creature like an Andalian, which...was sort of counterproductive to what he had just said, but it did make sense...in the kind of way that didn’t make sense.
If that made any sense anyways.
Blinking in surprise, Kai brought a hand up to wipe away at some of the slobber that had been so unceremoniously licked onto him by the creature before him. He smiled a little uncomfortable at Glitch, flicking the saliva from his finger tips. ”Ha...is that an Andalian greeting? Here we just...introduce ourselves.” At least to strangers they did, more personal greetings were saved for after Biks became closer to one another. Once you got to that point there were numerous different ways to greet someone you were close to, with just enough subtext to tell just from a greeting how two people felt about each other.
There was even a more unfriendly greeting for when you just didn’t like a person...Would Glitch know any Bik greetings? What could Kai get away with here?
He shouldn’t be too disgusted, after all, for all he knew maybe this was a way all Andalian’s greeted each other, and if that was the case he should feel honored that Glitch decided to bestow upon him the greeting of their people...even if it was truly and utterly disgusting and if it weren’t for the crowds watching his every movement he might not have been quite as courteous as he was currently being.
Though of course, it grew to be even harder when Glitch put on a display that Kai could only describe as a temper tantrum merely because he had addressed ERIN for a few brief moments...which was sort of the whole point about all of this. After all, it was ERIN that was taking over the Giann system, not this little, gooey, pink gremlin.
Still, perhaps they just had to get it out of their system and once they worked through whatever clear neglect issues they had going on, they’d calm down and everyone else could finally focus on the actual matter at hand.
That’s when Glitch decided it was a good idea to take Kai’s expensive, royal robes and throw up all over them.
That was the final straw for Kai.
As the stench of fresh vomit grew the longer it had been upchucked by the Andalian, Kai’s nose crinkled in disgust as the stink finally reached his nostrils, forcing him to inhale the fresh stench of vomit in the morning.
That alone was almost enough for him to hack up his breakfast from earlier over his robes as well. However luckily, Kai had enough control to keep that down, swallowing back any last attempts at only adding to the puddle of vomit soaking into his robes. Instead he stared down at the silky soft robes he had on, the light blue, shimmering color they were supposed to be dulling into a darker, brown tinted color as the vomit sunk further into the attire, his robes soaking it up like a sponge.
He blinked, turning his attention back to Glitch, brow raised. ”Was that really necessary?” He asked, next to no emotion wavering in his voice as he spoke. There came a point where Kai couldn’t find a nice thing to say in certain situations, and this was one of those situations.
He kept his gaze on the Andalian for a few moments longer, giving them a long, tired, dry look.
Then he turned his attention back to ERIN, eyes closed for a moment or so as he forced himself to remember that he had been raised better than this, he had been raised specifically not to pick fights with the nearest Andalian that threw up on him...not that anyone had prepared him for this situation in particular, but still.
Besides, at the end of the day, Glitch really wasn’t worth his time.
He shouldn’t think that way, but after everything they had done, he couldn’t consider the Andalian to be in his good graces, nor would they be for awhile at this rate.
Opening his eyes again, Kai kept his gaze on ERIN as he knelt down beside her, letting out a small chuckle at her comments. ”You’re not wrong, the ground is rather comfortable,” he agreed in a soft whisper, smiling down at her. He hadn’t exactly known what to expect when he met the person that had practically usurped him from his throne, but this wasn’t it.
When he had imagined ERIN at first, he had always pictured her being this...this arrogant, cocky, rebellious woman, someone that laughed as she took the only life he had ever known away from him and flaunted it around like a trophy as she probably sent the entire empire into ruin.
However that...that wasn’t the case here.
Instead of a towering, obnoxious brute, ERIN was...well she was lying on the floor, not quite ready or willing to get up and deal with reality or all the people around her, and there was something about that, that Kai couldn’t help but find entirely too relatable, even endearing to a point. ERIN had proven to be someone he connected to right off the bat, which...honestly wasn’t something he had expected from the woman that took over his empire, but he wasn’t necessarily complaining either...even if this did make it a lot harder to hate her for taking over the entire empire without giving him any sort of warning beforehand.
Leaning down a little, Kai lowered his voice again. ”I know the floor is comfortable, but is there anyway I could convince you to join me, my brothers, and all the other ambassadors inside to talk? It might be a good idea to get out of the crowds,” he asked, shifting slightly in his spot again as he cast a glance towards his robes. ”Of course, before I can join any of you, I will have to change, but I’d still like to sit down and talk with you,” he continued, finally standing back up to his feet as he sent one more smile down at ERIN. ”Come in when you’re ready, we’ll be waiting inside,” he told her, turning around to head back inside.
Now that he had spoken to Glitch, ERIN, and the crowds, he no longer had to focus on the crowds of people surrounding him, now it was time to focus, to work on a plan with the new found situation they were in, but before he could do the...he really needed to get out of the vomit covered robes.
Speaking of which...
As he started off, Kai grabbed part of his robes and with a toss back, he flicked the vomit off his robes - or at least as much as he could - right towards the pink little gremlin that had hacked up on him in the first place. He didn’t look back, unsure if any of it actually got on Glitch or not but at this point he didn’t care.
Besides...when making an effort to be passive aggressive, you weren’t supposed to look back, unless it was to give a smug look to the target in question, and while Kai wasn’t above flinging throw up at the Andalian it came from, he was above sending said Andalian a smug look back to let them know that Kai had completely meant what he had done.
He had to draw the line somewhere, he was a king after all.
Continuing down, he soon made it back to his brothers and gave them a small nod. ”I’m going to go change, please get everyone back to the meeting room so that we can get this all figured out,” he instructed softly, waiting until Ty and Norman gave him nods in response before he continued on, pausing again at the ambassadors to explain what was happening.
”I’m heading in to change, we should start the meeting soon,” he explained quickly, about to continue inside when Melamorn stopped him, placing a familiar had on his shoulder.
”I’ll go with you, we can’t have you get sidetracked again,” he pointed out, brow raised and a knowing look flickering within his dark violet eyes.
Kai nodded in response, though he said nothing, instead he only continued on, stopping at the doors to pull a guard of to the side, discreetly gesturing back over towards Glitch. ”Keep the Andalian outside, entertain them somehow,” he requested, pausing for a moment before tentatively adding to his order. ”...Er, use the Norman leash if you have too, just to keep Glitch outside, okay?” He asked and the guard nodded in response, casting a glance of his own back towards the pink Andalian.
With that taken care of, Kai preceded inside, Melamorn following after him, remaining quiet until the two of them had entered the quiet of inside. ”Kaiyo,” Melamorn started, looking over to Kai as he shuffled his feet ever so slightly. ”You’re handling this all awfully well...doesn’t it frighten you?” He asked hesitantly, maintaining eye contact with the ex king of the Giann system.
Kai froze, an offbeat silence wafting in.
Frighten him.
Did it frighten Melamorn? For as long as Kai had known the ambassador, he had never seen him truly frightened by the unknown before. Honestly, he had become somewhat of a second father to Kai over the years, someone that Kai had confided in many of times before. Seeing him, a man that Kai had always thought of as strong in the face of danger and fearless towards the unknown, afraid of what was to come shined a whole new light on Kai.
He sighed, a small, tired smile inching at the corners of his lips. ”It terrifies me,” he admitted quietly, eyes trailing across the marbled floors. ”This is entirely unknown territory for me, for everyone really, I’m not quite sure what to expect,” he continued, starting towards the long spiral staircase, framed pictures and paintings lining the walls. Kai paused for a moment, hand hovering above the wall as he looked up at the closest picture to the bottom of the stairs, eyes meeting the blue gaze of the man in the picture. ”Father wouldn’t be happy,” he mused softly. ”He he always told me that one day, I’d make a great king, one that would go down in the history books...I don’t think this is what he had in mind,” Kai continued, tearing his gaze away from the framed picture.
Melamorn chuffed under his breath, placing a hand on Kai’s shoulder as he gently guided Kai up the stairs, gesturing to all the other pictures hung up along the staircase. ”You’re far from the worst king, Kai, you had no control over this situation,” he told him, voice firm and fatherly.
Kai shook his head in response, head bowed down. ”Well, even still, none of the previous monarchs ever lost a seventy three thousand year old dynasty to a complete stranger,” Kai objected, continuing up the stairs. Seventy-three thousand years of Walvelon monarchs and two years into his reign brought it all to an end.
The weight of that knowledge was astronomical, something Melamorn simply wouldn’t understand.
”...Perhaps you could talk to them, they might have an answer for this,” Melamorn’s tentative voice broke through Kai’s thoughts as he swerved his head back to look at the ambassador.
”Talk to them?” Kai inquired with his brow raised. ”Melamorn, I don’t even know what’ll happen after this meeting, there will be no time to talk to my ancestors,” he stated, continuing up the stairs until he reached the top floor and paused just outside his door. ”Besides, I sincerely doubt they’d want to talk to me anyways...” Without turning back, Kai pushed his door open and walked in, not looking back to see if Melamorn had responded.
He was trying to help, Kai knew that. Melamorn had always wanted to help him through the years, more often or not being there for him when his father was not, but he just would never quite understand the burden it was on Kai to know that he had essentially ruined his entire family’s legacy within two years of being king.
It was a weight he alone would bear.
Shaking his head softly, Kai focused on changing out of the ralphed upon robes and into something far cleaner. He had to be quick about it though, knowing there were people downstairs waiting for him, he might not exactly be king anymore but he still played an important part in figuring out the aftermath of this whole star situation.
Changing into a different set of sky blue, silky silver robes, Kai began to head back down, nodding to Melamorn outside his room. Together, the two of them hurriedly made their way back down the long, spiral staircase and towards the meeting hall.
Already at the bottom of the stairs, Kai could hear loud, argumentative voices coming from inside they hall. He inhaled sharply, glancing over at Melamorn for a moment as his hand hovered in front of the door. ”Here we go,” he stated and pushed the doors open, walking inside to the rowdy meeting hall where a conversation had already started up on what exactly they should do about all this.
”I hope this doesn’t mean you started without me,” he joked calmly as he moved towards his chair in the front, sitting down and resting his elbows on the table, hands curled together with his chin resting on top of them as he looked everyone sitting at the table over. ”I’d hate to miss anything.”
Niko huffed from his own seat, gesturing angrily over towards Malu. ”He was the one trying to start without you, I was just telling him that he should be careful what he says in the presence of a bawltic...” He growled out softly, glaring over at the Dakk ambassador.
Malu looked offended as he placed a hand over his chest, mouth agape as he looked between Niko, to Kai, to the other ambassadors. ”All I said was that we cant wait all day for you, he’s the one that got all defensive!” He argued, sending a glare towards Niko right back. ”Makes sense for a bawlric after all...they’re all brawn and no brain anyways,” he muttered out more quietly.
Unfortunately for Malu, Bawltics also have extraordinary hearing.
Standing up from his chair in anger, Niko angrily slammed his large hands down on the table, and if it wasn’t for Ty gently placing his tail over Niko’s hands, Kai feared a fight might’ve broken out right then and there...well, not quite a fight, Niko could snap Malu like a toothpick if he wanted to, if it was a fight it would’ve been an incredibly short one.
”Niko...” Ty whispered to him, sending his brother a quick, quiet look that seemed to be enough for Niko to stand down and sit back in his seat. Not letting anyone dwindle on the near-fight moments ago, Ty cleared his throat and inched his chair forward. ”Anyways, now that you’re here Kai, lets get stared, shall we?” He asked, looking around the table to make sure everyone else had settled down before he continued, gesturing over towards Flumori. ”Flumori, you had something you wanted to say, I believe?”
Flumori nodded eagerly, her fluffy blue hair bouncing along with her. ”Yes I did, just let me get my notes ready...” She explained, putting a pile of notes down on the table as she began to trifle through them. Kai smiled as he watched. He had always felt a connection to the water Bik as they both came from the same world.
Well, at least Flumori shared a world with his mother. She had made sure to take him to Sutcelbis as often as she possibly could before she passed. It had left Kai with an indescribable connection to the water planet and the water bik side of him that was so often ignored everywhere else, as most biks had always considered their underwater cousins to be the lesser of the two subspecies of Bik.
An opinion Kai did not share with the previous monarchs.
Finally finding her notes, Flumori smiled at everyone, clearing her throat. ”So we know that due to some very complicated legal reasons that I tried to understand, ERIN is the new monarch of the Giann system, but I just don’t see everyone accepting that very well, do you?” She asked, looking around for a moment before pausing to look back at ERIN. ”No offense, I’m sure you’re a wonderful person, its just that, well at least on Sutcelbis, I know everyone wasn’t exactly thrilled at the change in leadership, and I cant imagine other planets are much different,” she continued, pausing to check with her other ambassadors, who all nodded along.
”Yes, Adira is quite unsettled by it, I cant promise that they’ll listen to someone that isn’t a Walvelon,” Sinani added, sending a cool, steady look over at ERIN. She had never been one to sugar coat her words, this situation was clearly no different for the Adira ambassador.
Flumori nodded along, smiling at Sinani for proving her point. ”Exactly, jumping into this with no plans and no idea of how things will go would be crazy and leave the people of Giann unhappy and perhaps even rebellious,” Flumori paused for a moment as a robot came in with drinks to pass around. ”Thank you,” she told the machine before looking back to everyone else, taking a sip out of her drink. ”So that’s why I think you two should get married,” she told ERIN and Kai, looking right at them as she took a sip out of her drink and placed the cup down.
Kai had just grabbed his own cup from the server robot and was about to take a drink from it when he registered Flumori’s words. ”...Wait, what?” He asked, startled, putting the cup down. ”Married?” He continued unable to hide the surprise from leaking out of his voice.
Flumori nodded, placing her now empty cup down. ”That’s right, married, I think it could solve all of our problems, you two get married and you get to remain king while ERIN’s legal issues are all taken care of and it would make her a Walvelon, which might get people to listen to her, it fixes everything.”
Thats when the room irrupted in another argument.
”Listen Flumori, usually I like your ideas but this one makes no sense,” Ty argued, taking a gulp from his drink and standing up from his seat. ”We need real answers here, like is ERIN even really in any place to take the throne, does she even want it, isn’t there a way to cover it up like none of it every happened? Not marriage!” He shouted.
Malu stood up as well after he finished off his own drink, nodding in agreement. ”Yeah, lets not get hasty here, I say we just kick the Walvelons to the curb and let Giann adjust, it’s adjusted to change before,” he suggested, which in turn got Niko all riled up again.
Soon everyone had stood up and were talking over each other with their own ideas. Some people seemed to like Flumori’s idea, Melamorn especially seemed to think it was a great idea, while others - mostly his own brothers - were against it.
Honestly, after what a long day it had been recently, and how loud everyone was being, Kai found himself sinking back into his chair, head beginning to ache as everyone argued and fought with each other. It would be impossible to get a word in edgewise for awhile, he might as well not even try.
Sighing, he reached for his drink, about to take a sip out of it when suddenly a loud thunk echoed throughout the meeting hall, silencing everyone.
Kai lowered the cup back down, looking around the table to see where the noise had come from when he spotted it.
Or rather, her.
Flumori’s head was face first on the table, her skin taking on a grayish hue and a foaming white substance spilling out of the corners of her mouth.
Everyone was silent, sharing unsure looks until finally Norman got up and walked over to the ambassador, placing two fingers firmly against her neck.
There was a pause, no one making a sound or a movement as they watched Norman check for a pulse.
The seconds seem to drag by and then...
Norman looked up, face grim as he softly shook his head, muttering out the words Kai had never wanted to hear.
”She’s dead.”
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Post by Feathertalon on Jun 26, 2019 21:59:46 GMT -5
ERIN Idnasi owner of a small galactic empire
If she could actually find it in her to give enough energy to care about what Glitch was up to at the moment, she would probably have gotten up off the ground by now to stop the Andalian from doing whatever they were going. To be fair, though, more likely than not ERIN wouldn’t be able to stop Glitch. After knowing the pink creature for so long she knew there really wasn’t any way to stop Glitch unless drastic measures were taken. While she had yet to really do anything too drastic, there had been that time when she had threatened to staple Glitch’s mouth shut if the creature didn’t stop screaming at eight in the morning because that was the time a wild nekcihc would strut around in the yard and, according to Glitch, the nekcihc was a competitor in the department of being cute. ERIN never had to staple the Andalian’s mouth shut, but she had come awfully close. Luckily Glitch had stopped after some threats, but that never did stop them from being the annoying nuisance that they were.
At this point ERIN couldn’t really care less about what Glitch was up to. Maybe she should get up and try to stop them from doing anything too stupid, but the ground was honestly very comfortable. The ground probably shouldn’t be as comfortable as it was to her, but it felt cool to the touch and was solid and stable, something she honestly needed to feel right now. For the most part she didn’t really have any erratic emotions about everything she had just been thrown into, but there was a very small part of her, an exceedingly small part, that did want to scream and freak out about all of this. Just out of nowhere she was supposed to be some sort of ruler, a monarch all thanks to some stupid law and technicality. She was supposed to just take the role of some galactic overlord without even given that much time or warning to prepare herself. That had an incredible power behind it, knowing that she was just casually strolling in and taking power away from a family that had been on the throne for...for a really, really long time. Even if this was all done legally there would still be more people that hated her for something she had no control over than people who would support and like her as the new ruler. It wasn’t that she actually cared if people liked her or not, but she would much rather be somebody that nobody knew about than be somebody everybody knew about and they hated. ERIN had never asked for much in life, but now she was hoping that if she asked to say none of this had ever happened and allow Kai to go about his reign as if nothing happened then some higher force up there would comply and let all of this just be put behind them and never be brought back up again. If she could just crawl away and never be seen again that would be great. She could go back to drinking unhealthy amounts of coffee, writing those cat stories she was going to eventually try and get published, continued with her terrible sleeping schedule, and watch whatever she wanted whenever she wanted. As a crowned monarch she probably couldn’t do all that despite being in charge of an entire solar system. Well, she could do that, but neglecting to do any queenly duties would probably get her assassinated faster than she could down a shot of espresso.
The more she thought about that the more she realized that being assassinated would actually be something she wanted. It would be fun and then she wouldn’t have to worry about being some galactic ruler anymore. And the possibilities of how she could be assassinated were endless; somebody could sic an angry deer on her or she could be stripped into little pieces and eaten like a snack by some kind of murderous bug. Or maybe her assassination would be something even dumber, like having her head bashed in by some poor fool that had been off their medicine cold turkey and snapped. If that happened maybe she would have enough time to ask the guy to bash her in the left side of her head. There wasn’t much about her that deserved to be preserved in the case of her death, but it was the right side of her brain that ERIN would say had some semblance of importance. Without that side of her brain she wouldn’t be as creative as she did like to think she was. The other side of her brain was important, sure, but ERIN would rather be creative and able to think up cool ideas instead of be all analytical and boring. Though, she supposed being analytical was also important since she did like to analyze things from time to time, but it was the creativity that she really wanted to keep. All that aside, by the end of her reign, which would hopefully be very, very short, she would have enough experience on assassination that she could make her own WikiHow.com page on “How to Get Assassinated Within 24 Hours (with Pictures)”, and she’d gladly provide the pictures as well. It would certainly be an experience to draw a picture of herself being killed and then being dead, but she could pull it off. She was even sure of herself that she could perfectly replicate that iconic WikiHow™ art style. She wouldn’t say she had that many talents, but she could actually draw whenever she got the urge to do so. ERIN did a lot more writing than she did drawing, but every now and then she would get the urge to doodle here and there.
Hobbies aside, as right now probably wasn’t the best time to really think about such things, ERIN finally decided to tune back into everything that was going on around her. She was able to block out the irritating screechings of Glitch - blocking out that thing’s screeching was probably considered a hard earned skill at this point - and focus on the voice that was actually important right now.
Before all of this “your so many greats grandfather bought a star and now you’re the legal ruler of this entire solar system” happened, ERIN had never thought about meeting the now ex-king. It had never once crossed her mind considering she would never have any business with him to tend to. On the off chance that she would ever meet the guy she would expect meeting him under different circumstances. She wouldn’t be laying down on the ground completely and utterly ready to be assassinated, that was for sure. There wouldn’t be any truly dignified way that she would have met anybody in the royal family, but she could have pulled something better than this off. At this point it didn’t matter though, and she honestly didn’t care that this was how she was meeting the guy she was stealing the throne from. Her first impression to him and the solar system had to loudly say “hey, I really don’t wanna do this, can somebody just go ahead and eviscerate me, I’ll even give you all the money I have right now, which is thirty dollars but, hey, it’s better than nothing”, and if being dragged out like a limp corpse by an Andalian didn’t say that then ERIN had no idea what did.
Deciding she could at least be somewhat respectful and actually show that she was listening to Kai, ERIN slowly pushed herself up until she was in a sitting position rather than just laying down there on the ground. She inclined her head ever so slightly, stopping once she was looking right up at the former king with half lidded green eyes.
Though he wasn’t technically king anymore, there was still something about him that didn’t quite fully scream “I’m the king” even if he was still the current monarch. He had on some very royal clothing, but clothes didn’t make a king. What somebody wore didn’t give them some kind of kingly power that helped them rule. That would be interesting if that were the case. It would be very interesting if, on the day of their coronation, somebody brought the king or queen to-be into a back closet somewhere and told them, “Hey, Korndog” - that was a placeholder name, though who knew, maybe there was or would be a monarch with that name - “put on this royal pair of suspenders and all the secrets to being royal will come to you”. Clothing aside, Kai didn’t have the sort of vibe that ERIN thought a king would. In her mind a king was some all powerful being that knew what he was doing, whether it be for good or for bad. Power would radiate from a king, power enough that would make anybody want to bow down to them and listen to what they had to say.
Another thing that stood out to ERIN was the fact that Kai didn’t seem to be an ounce bitter or angry toward her. Wouldn’t a king be furious that some former nobody was taking his throne? At the very least ERIN expected the king she was taking the throne from to not give her much of his time, but that didn’t seem to be the case here. Sure, there had been that falling down thing moments before that she was still sure had been some sort of passive aggressive move towards her, but that had been amusing. It hadn’t made her feel anything beyond amusement when passive aggressive moves should make her feel annoyed, angry, or perhaps even frightened. A king that wanted nothing to do with her save for snide remarks would surely be angry and bitter towards her, but that..that wasn’t Kai. There was a gentleness about him, not that a king couldn’t be gentle, but he didn’t seem like the type to be that bitter and angry toward her, at least not from what the Viscosi Cate had seen so far. It was...it was interesting to say the least. If anything the Kai that she was seeing right now seemed like the type of person she could go out and meet at some cafe to sit down and talk about the latest shows they had watched or discuss a big plot twist at the end of a book they had read. None of that was a bitter king vibe.
Honestly, ERIN didn’t know what she wanted more. An angry, bitter king that would try to reclaim his throne or this gentle, soft former king that seemed to be taking all of this way too well. One scenario would leave her closer to her goal of no longer being ruler, while the other scenario left her with the possibility of feeling guilty and terrible that she had taken the throne. Maybe bitter king was the better option, she didn’t want to feel sympathetic for somebody she barely even knew. That was too much energy to exert, but that’s where all of this seemed to be going.
Enough of that, she needed to focus on what was going on here. She had to actually respond to what Kai had been saying seconds before.
Even if the floor was comfortable, she needed to get up now. It would have been easy for her to stay there all day, but she supposed there were some things she couldn’t avoid now. ”Yeah, yeah,” she started, a bit more to herself than to Kai at the moment. If there was one thing about getting up it was that she could finally leave the large crowd that had gathered for all of this. ”I’ll be there.” Maybe it would be during the conversation there that something could be arranged to where the title of king was given back to Kai and all of this could simply be put behind them.
Before heading off inside, ERIN was able to witness what had to be the single most amusing thing this day would more than likely have to offer.
Kai flicking Glitch’s throw up right back onto them.
That actually got a snorted laugh from the Viscosi Cate. He obnoxious screaming that came from Glitch following that didn’t even ruin the amusement she got from that, and ERIN mentally told herself to remember that, no matter what happened by the end of today, she was going to have to give Kai something like a high five for that. No matter what there was no way she could hate the guy after he did something like that.
After that little scene, ERIN made sure to keep on track here. Perhaps after this meeting with the ambassadors, Kai, and his brothers she could finally take it easy for the rest of the day, or as easy as she could considering everything that was currently going on. As she made her way and entered into the room, she quickly cast a glance around at the others that had already made it and offered a very short wave with a webbed hand to those who were already inside. Unsure of if there was anything she needed to do or say after that, she simply went over and took an open seat, hoping that maybe she hadn’t broken too many rules or something already. Eh, did she really care about that? Not really. Honesty, the more rules she broke or the more times she stepped out of line or something the more likely she was to be kicked out of power and that was one of her biggest goals right now.
For the most part ERIN simply sat there. She minded her own business for the most part, catching herself staring off into the distance from time to time and needing to remind herself that maybe she needed to be somewhat there for whatever this meeting would entail. Her interest was piqued somewhat when it seemed like one of the ambassadors was getting impatient with waiting for Kai. Sure, they could start the meeting now, but what was the point in starting the meeting without the former king? Wouldn’t he be an important part in all of this? Maybe he wasn’t king anymore, but ERIN was sure his words and opinions in all of this still mattered.
As things continued to grow all the rowdier, ERIN sat there, growing somewhat awkward and wishing she could just get up and walk away and pretend like none of this had ever happened. Or she could pretend she had never woken up this morning and was now dead. That would be nice. Being dead right now sounded really good. Maybe she was supposed to practice her new ~royal powers~ here and try to deescalate what was going on here, but she had no idea how to do that. She barely knew these people, barely knew them by their names despite their status as either royalty or ambassadors. She had no idea what these people were like save for what she had seen in the last few minutes of sitting in this room with them as they chatted on and started to get hostile. If she couldn’t get somebody to overthrow her or assassinate her how was she going to be able to settle people down? She would be expected to solve disputes and help people out, but how could she do that when she couldn’t even make decisions for herself? How was she supposed to sit there and dictate what people did when they came to her for help? Something needed to happen to her soon or else everybody was going to have to deal with an incompetent ruler that was for sure going to bring this planet into ruin.
Luckily it wasn’t long before the door to the room opened and in came in the former king and the ambassador that had gone with him. A wave of relief washed over ERIN. Surely Kai would be able to deal with this. He had more experience, or surely he did, with this kind of stuff, and he would be able to take care of everything and calm everything down.
It wasn’t too much longer before things started to settle down and the meeting was allowed to finally start. ERIN shook any lingering thoughts away that had tried to make a home in her mind so that she could properly pay attention to what all was being said now. No matter how bad she wanted out of this position she knew she had to at least pay attention to what was going on. Maybe there would be something in this meeting that she could use to weasel her way out of this.
Those thoughts aside, the Viscosi Cate turned her attention to the young woman that had just been addressed to speak. Flumori was her name. It wasn’t that hard of a name to remember, and ERIN was sure she’d be able to memorize the name before long. Looking the water Bik over, she seemed friendly enough upon first inspection. She was clearly young and seemed to give off a friendly, happy vibe that seemed to work for her. ERIN could never be that cheery or as approachable as Flumori seemed to be, that required too much work and too much effort. And while Flumori seemed like she was a great person and all, ERIN wouldn’t be able to spend a lot of time with her, either, not if she was as cheerful as she seemed to be. There was just only so much cheeriness that ERIN could handle in one go. Nothing against Flumori, but the water Bik would have to be somebody ERIN could only deal with in small doses. Then again, that was practically everybody for her. She could only handle so much social interaction at a time, and today was already putting her at her limit and no telling what else she would have to deal with before she could even maybe crawl back away from prying eyes and hunker down to do what she wanted.
All of what Flumori had to say so far made sense. It was pretty much what she expected; there would be some people out there that rejoiced in the fall of the Walvelon empire, but there would be those that were completely against it and would do anything in their power to keep Kai on the throne. ”To be honest with you all,” she started, gaze mostly drawn over to Flumori and the other female ambassador that she had yet to learn the name of, ”I’m not all that thrilled about this, either, and I really don’t blame people if they didn’t want to listen to me. I barely listen to myself.” There was no sense in trying to hide that fact. If everybody was being honest here then so was she. She wasn’t thrilled about any of this at all, and getting that across was better than trying to muster up enough energy to even pretend that all of this unsettled her or made her upset. She would have said more but it was at that time when the robot passing around drinks made its way over to her. She gave a small nod to the robot in thanks before glancing down at the drink, looking it over for a second. As Flumori continued to speak, ERIN took a sip from her drink, which was probably not the right thing to do in that moment considering as soon as she did so Flumori came out with her grand idea of, surprise, ~marriage~.
If she could just casually yeet out of existence at that moment then that would be great. Heck, she’d even take astral projecting into an entirely different plane over being consciously aware of everything going on right now.
In her shocked surprise, ERIN inhaled at the wrong moment. The sip of drink she had just took went right down the wrong pipe and instantly she was turned into a choking, spluttering mess. She did give just a smidgen of effort in trying to make herself come off as a bit more dignified in her moment of unceremonious choking, but that really wasn’t the case here and before she knew it her coughing fit had her hunched over on the table like some sort of lifeless corpse that was trying to come back to life but couldn’t just yet because part of the reanimation spell had messed up.
She continued spluttering, gasping as she tried to catch a breath of air but nothing was working. Eventually she was no longer on the table and had slid right into the floor like some disgusting frog that was on the line between life and death where she continued to try and catch her breath.
Marriage.
Flumori was suggesting marriage.
Marriage to a guy she knew little to nothing about.
Marriage had never really been something ERIN had put much thought into. She had accepted her fate as somebody who would live and die alone a long time ago, and that honestly had never bothered her. Promising to be another person’s “other half” or something cheesy like that had never been all that appealing to the Giann system’s current ruler. Living alone for her entire life appealed to her much more than living with another person. She wasn’t completely opposed to the idea of marriage if she ever managed to get out and find somebody she could connect to and get them to understand all her boundaries and whatnot, but finding a person that would be understanding and accommodating would take too much time and effort, plus it would probably be impossible to find anybody willing to put up with her. It would just be easier for her to live her life as some lonely frog woman with a bunch of cats or maybe even a bunch of Andalians if she could find any that weren’t annoying and loud like the one she unfortunately had to deal with now.
Hearing that marriage was being suggested right now was something she had not expected from this day. ERIN had expected a lot of terrible things that would test her already small will to live, but this was certainly something not even she had expected from any of this. From the little she had interacted with him Kai seemed like a great guy, but ERIN was positive that there was some other guy or girl out there for him that was his perfect match. He didn’t deserve to be forced into a marriage with somebody like her, not when there was bound to be countless other people out there that would make him a much better wife or husband.
As she lay there in the floor, slowly recuperating and getting her breath back after lowkey dying there, a familiar and raspy voice rumbled through the room between the other voices piping up. ”If I may, I do believe Flumori is on to something here. The circumstances here are still rather unusual, nobody can deny that, but a marriage might be one of the better options we have at the moment. As Flumori pointed out, a marriage would make ERIN a Walvelon and would keep Kai here in a position of power not far from his original status. I can’t say I’m truly a fan of arranged marriages, but in our current positions this may be our best option for the sake of the Giann system and those who live here.” Sams, ERIN actually remembered his name from earlier when the large snake creature had come to get her and Glitch, paused for a moment. By now ERIN had gotten over her choking spell, but she still needed time on the floor to fully recover. ”As for worrying if ERIN here is fit for the throne, who better to stay at her side and teach her how to take control than Kai himself? I suspect we all would offer help in this situation, but true help comes from those who have already experienced what another needs help with.”
It wasn’t long after Sams finished his little speech that ERIN found it in her to try and live again. Not that she wanted to live for much longer, but now that she was done choking she could manage going through life for another hour or two. As she pushed herself back to her feet and to her seat, she breathed out a few of her own comments on the matter. ”You want...you want me to get married? Not only would I be the system’s worst wife to have ever lived, but I’m also positive that Kai could find somebody much better. I know I wouldn’t want to be married to myself if I had any say in the matter.” Kai seemed like a nice person, and given different circumstances and time, ERIN was sure she could make it to friendly terms with the former king, but marrying him? She didn’t want to do that, and she most certainly didn’t want Kai to have to be forced into taking her hand. Living with and being married to her would almost be as bad as being married to Bob. Almost.
There were a lot of things that ERIN could add to what she had just said, but before anything more could be said there was a loud thud that silenced the entire room.
It took her a moment to figure out where the sound had come from, but as soon as she did she knew that this wasn’t something that typically happened at these meetings.
Flumori’s head was down face first on the table, foam spilling from her mouth as if she were some rabid animal. Her skin was already starting to turn gray and there didn’t seem to be any movement in her once lively body. Unless this was some sort of cruel trick that was being played, ERIN could really only think of one thing that could be wrong with the water Bik.
And the confirmation of what was wrong came only minutes after.
She was dead. Flumori was dead.
The appropriate response to such a turn in events would be to either remain silent in mournful shock or step forward and become something of a leader, but ERIN did neither of those things. Instead she probably went down the absolute worst path with her reaction. ”Rather rude of you to not take me with you.” Seriously, Flumori, could have at least asked if ERIN wanted to go as well because she did. Dying was certainly appealing after all of this.
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Jan 25, 2020 3:23:59 GMT -5
Norman Wynn Walvelon The Human-Bik Prince
”She’s dead.”
The statement was simple and to the point, no emotion wavering in his voice as he straightened up to look over the table of ambassadors and royalty, in which he was met with shocked faces and dread growing from them.
The silence after his words didn’t drag on for long, however the only thing to break it was ERIN’s rather insensitive remark on not taking her with her to the grave...which, Norman would admit, was kind of relatable but also really insensitive and at least he knew to keep his sarcastic and dry comments about his inevitable doom to himself in a crisis.
Honestly, among the surprised faces of his colleagues, Norman could honestly say he wasn’t one of them. Perhaps he should be more surprised that Flumori had literally just died, but to him it made a sickeningly terrible amount of sense.
However to explain any of that in any sort of way that didn’t paint him as the disgusting creature that did it, he had to go back to before today, all the way back to the time he and his brothers had first heard the news that life as they knew it would be changing shortly.
~ ~ ~ It had been a relatively normal day with nothing overly exiting happening. Niko was still out on his away mission with the Royal Bik Task Force - RBTF for short...the initialism could use a little work, but the RBTF had made it abundantly clear that Norman’s help in renaming them was neither needed or wanted, especially since they weren’t currently looking for a new name - while the other three were staying at the castle for the time being, waiting for Niko’s return.
The time it had happened was precisely midday one week before this very meeting, Norman was doing what he did best: ruining the lives of poor unsuspecting fools that had no idea what was coming, and its something he intended to do no matter what happened after everything else.
Norman leaned back in his chair, eyeing the gardener with a glint in his dark green eyes.
The gardener was a short and stout man - yet still taller than Norman was but that really wasn’t the point here - with a round face and a double chin covered in bright green stubble that most definitely did not match his long crimson red hair that he often kept pulled back into a hideously large man bun that stuck out of his hat like a carrot top thanks to the hole he had cut into his hat specifically to let his hair stick out of it.
Honestly this man’s first crime was his sense of style.
What of his second crime though? After all there had to be more when someone willingly wore neon pink socks underneath bright blue croc shoes with green stripes.
Absolutely disgusting.
Anyways, back to the point.
His second crime was murder...which should’ve probably been what he led with, but listen, if someone was going to go around looking like that, they were a murdering thousands of people’s eyes so really, which was the bigger crime here to begin with?
Clearing his throat, Norman leaned forward, resting his arms across his lap. ”Excuse me, gardener, penny for your thoughts?” He questioned, head tilted innocently to the side as he watched Wralfupp - that was the gardener’s name which was equally as gross as he was - look over at him, eyes glistening with hesitance for the briefest of seconds before he quietly began to make his way over.
”Yes, Prince Norman?” He asked in his gruff, croaky voice.
Norman winced slightly, rubbing his ears. The way Wralfupp spoke had a way of reminding Norman on someone about to throw up and holding back their vomit with barely contained swallowing.
It was horrible.
But that wasn’t why Norman was here.
So he pushed past the gurgle of vomit hidden within Wralfupp’s throat and the foul taste of garbage his breath left lingering in the air and focused on the man in question, lifting up a glass of lemonade to swish the sweet and sour contents inside the glass.
”I’ve been working on a riddle in my spare time, and I’m wondering if you could help me with it,” Norman explained with ease as he took a sip out of his lemonade and looked the Bik gardener over. ”So this is how it goes, you start with a simple farmer selling his produce to friends, family, and anyone that wants some fresh vegetables, however...” Norman paused to take another sip out of his drink, casting a glance up at Wralfupp to see if he was catching on yet and sure enough his eyes were beginning to darken with understanding.
”The farmer isn’t selling just any old fruits and vegetables, he’s selling - and you’re gonna get a kick out of this - kumquats, which is funny because kumquats are illegal in the Giann System, isn’t that funny?” Norman questioned with a laugh, giving his glass of lemonade one more swish as he kept his eyes locked on the gardener. ”Now this is where it gets really interesting, so I need you to listen, alright Wralfupp? You listening?” Norman questioned for a moment or so before continued with a casual exhale of breath. ”Good, so you see, eventually, someone finds out about the farmer’s kumquat garden and threatens to tell the System Wide Protection Agency-“ Another one of those departments with a terrible initialism: SWPA. ”Now the farmer doesn’t want that because he’s been using kumquats to poison his neighbors so he can take their land, so what does he do? He decides to kill not only the friend that found him out, but also his neighbors and his entire family, cant get caught if you kill everyone that knows, right Wralfupp?” Norman asked, finishing off his drink as he stood up just as the gardener began to back away.
”Now, at least this farmer of ours here realizes that he left his kumquat farm in a bloody mess of a crime scene, so what does he do? He burns the entire place to the ground and runs away, he changes his name, gets a whole new identity and a whole new life and eventually he finds a safe and secure job as one of the royal gardeners, after all, how does that saying go again? Keep your friends close but your enemies closer? Must be easy when you killed all your friends,” Norman continued, stepping closer to the gardener as he backed up even more ”and you wanna know the worst part about this entire story? Out of all the names he could’ve possible chosen when he started his whole life over again, he chose Wralfupp, which is a terrible name,” Norman explained and placed a hand on his hip. ”So, my question for you is, what do you think happens to our farmer once he’s found out? Because I think...Well I think you’re going to jail for a really, really long time,” he finished with a smirk.
Now naturally, Wralfupp - real name Jerrold - did not appreciate being outed like this in front of the entire garden staff and took a run for it, one last feeble escape before he was inevitably caught.
However, Norman had predicted this - which wasn’t very hard to do - and had already called in some backup.
Who would be arriving in three, two, one.
Just like that Biks - and other creatures - burst out of hiding and surrounded Wralfupp-Jerrold, leaving him with no room to escape.
Smiling to himself, Norman strutted on over to the gardener, only stopping once he stood directly in front of him. ”Now Jerrold, you never even answered my question, where are your manners?” He questioned with his hands on his hips. ”You honestly thought you’d get away with it all, didn’t you? You’re a fool, no one gets passed me, especially not when they’re living so carelessly right under my nose like an idiot-“ Honestly he probably deserved what happened next.
His taunting must’ve been too much for Jerrold-Wralfupp to handle because before Norman could even finish all of his taunts, his face made impact with the gardener’s fist as he was punched squarely in the face, tumbling backwards until he was on the grass in shock.
Realizing he had just punched a prince, Jerrold tried to make a break for it, running towards the exit only to get grabbed immediately by the royal guards Norman had called for backup.
Wind knocked out of him, Norman didn’t even attempt to get off the ground, instead he just raised a hand up to give the team a thumbs up as his jaw ached from the impact. ”Good job guys, that was a real team effort,” he sputtered out as his chest heaved up and down against the grass.
That...that had hurt, he just...he just needed a minute, he’d be better in no time.
Sadly he didn’t have a minute for this.
Just as he was recovering from getting punched in the face for the fifth time that month, one of the guards walked over to him, looking down at him with a raised brow. ”Sir, your brothers are requesting your immediate attention in the throne room,” he explained, offering a hand to help Norman up.
Norman furrowed his brow in response, swiping the offered hand away - he could get up by himself, thank you very much Mr. Handsome Guard Guy - as he slowly got up. ”Now? Fine, I’ll head inside, which uh, maybe later we can go over the files on the garden-“ apparently Mr. Handsome Guard Guy was not interesting in Norman’s very sly and smooth attempts at flirting.
”You should go now sir, before they get impatient,” he responded and Norman sighed.
”Right, I’m going,” he told the guard, already starting towards the castle, casting one last look back to the guard as he walked off to join the others.
Goodbye Mr. Handsome Guard Guy - Norman should really learn his name - you will be missed....Maybe Norman could catch up with him later, or at least find out if he was single.
Anyways.
Pushing the doors open to the castle, Norman entered through a small hallway that led to the gardens, it was a pretty secluded area of the castle, not many people knew about it and even less used it, which meant it was Norman’s favorite place to come and go from, no one really asked him where he was going when he used that door or asked if he needed an escort and it made it all the better for Norman.
Adjusting the cuffs of his sleeves, Norman did his best to appear at least vaguely presentable before he entered the throne room, glancing down at his watch as he entered. ”Alright guys, what is it? I just arrested one of our gardeners for multiple accounts of murder and kumquat farming, so needless to say: I am famished and I wanna sneak into the kitchens before the cooks get there so I can make some Mac and cheese-“ Norman cut himself off as he finally looked up to see the distressed faces of his brothers.
It didn’t take a genius to realize something was terribly wrong.
Looking from Ty to Kai, Norman furrowed his brow. ”...What...what’s going on? Why do you two look like that?” He questioned, fear prickling at his skin. ”Did something happen to Niko?” Norman gulped back his own quickly arising panic at the thought of something happening to his brother.
Ty and Kai shared a look - something that only further pushed the pit down his stomach - and then finally, after what seemed like forever, Ty spoke up.
”Norman how much do you know about the old human trend where they’d buy stars?” He asked.
Okay, kind of a weird way to start but Norman needed something to focus on, so if it happened to be an age old trend of humanity, then so be it. ”It was really big in the early 2000s, humans would ‘purchase’ a star and name it, not a whole lot of people did it though, basically just a bunch of nerds, it didn’t make it long and died out on its own before humanity even reached the borders of their solar system,” Norman explained, quickly walking over to his brothers.
Studying Ty and Kai carefully, Norman continued. ”No one really took it seriously, even when it was big, why are you asking about this?’ He questioned, watching as his brothers once again shared a look.
Silence fell over the throne room for what seemed like forever before finally, Kai pulled forth a small disk and flung it towards Norman.
The disk stopped before it got to him, hovering a good three feet in the air as a hologram shot out from it, a legal document painted across the hologram.
Norman pushed his glasses further up his nose as he squinted at the hologram, reading it over.
Blah blah blah, some old human from centuries ago bought a star....blah blah blah his descendant seduced a frog - technically a Viscotti Cate but Norman wasn’t getting caught up in all the details - blah blah blah owns the Giann star...blah blah blah...wait.
Norman swerved on the heels of his feet until he was facing Ty and Kai again. ”He what?” He questioned abruptly. I’m sorry did I just read that right or am I going crazy, someone owns our star?” He asked, gesturing with his arms as he shuffled his feet.
This...this didn’t make any sense and Norman needed answers.
Kai inhaled sharply, his signature stressed out but trying desperately not to show it move. ”Ive been trying to understand this myself but I’m still...confused,” Kai explained lightly, eyes straying back to the hologram. ”From what I understand though, back in the earth year 2016, a man buy the name of Zane Leon bought our star, and now, generations later, the Giann system belongs to his descendant, a Viscotti Cate-Human hybrid by the name of Erin Idnasi,” Kai explained with a wave of his hand as he leaned back into the throne. ”I don’t understand it,” he confessed, voice quiet and defeated.
Norman paused for a moment, looking over his brothers.
No.
This was not how they went out, not by some random frog girl’s grandfather buying a star he had no right to buy in the first place - seriously, what a selfish jerk - no, this was not how it ended.
Grabbing the disk, the hologram disappeared instantly.
Norman looked over to Kai and Ty, determination igniting in his eyes as he waved the disk in front of them. ”I’m going to look over every inch of this thing until I find what’s really going on and how to stop it from happening, I promise you Kai, you’re not gonna lose your empire because of something as dumb as this,” Norman promised, leaning back with a small smirk and a huff of breath. ”Besides, how legal could this really be? I’ll crack this open like an egg over a frying pan, it’ll be a singe for someone of my expertise, this’ll blow over in no time at all,” he continued cockily.
After all, it was entirely based off of a silly, long dead human tradition, it would be easy to break apart.
Kai looked down at Norman, hesitating for a moment before he nodded in agreement. ”I believe in you Norman,” he said though the pause that lingered after his words led Norman to believe there was something else.
Norman raised his brow at his older brother, a silent sign to make him continue.
Kai nodded, taking a breath. ”You should hurry though, we only have a few days to prove this is false before they reach out to Ms. Erin Idnasi, at most we have a week before she’s here for her system,” Kai explained, fidgeting slightly in his throne. He was nervous.
Norman smiled at him, folding his arms. ”Well then its a good thing I work best under pressure, I’ll get started on this right away,” he promised abruptly, looking between Kai and Ty.
None of them were sure of what this meant, or what they could do about it, but Norman was determined to fix this for his brothers and nothing would stop him.
After all, he was the smartest person this entire system had ever seen, how hard could this be? He wouldn’t even need the whole week, he’d have this figured out by tomorrow morning.
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The universe hated him.
Norman banged his had against the desk in his room, letting out a loud, dragged out groan.
It had been two days since he had gotten the news about this whole star buying fiasco and ever since he had heard about it, he had spent every single moment - with small breaks for hygiene purposes and food because he wasn’t about to starve himself over this or forget to shower - focused on reading over the documents, trying to understand it and find any loop holes possible.
He hadn’t even slept...not that that was a big deal, Norman had gone far longer than two days without sleep before.
However no matter how many times he went over everything, he couldn’t find a loop hole.
It. Was. Flawless.
By now Norman understood what was going on at least, which was a step up from where he started.
It was complicated and confusing, but to break it down to make it easier to understand, basically: Zane Leon had bought the Giann star back in the earth year 2016 and he was the only one to take this incredibly seriously, he forced his son into all this nerd stuff the same way most fathers would push their sons into sports like feetball or whatever its called, this led Zeke Leon - the son - to resent his father and throw away the paper that told him he owned a star, this later caused a lot of problems between them but this is where our story leaves Zane and Zeke and follows the paper instead.
Anyways, so it ended up in a dump but since Zane loved it enough to laminate it of all things, it didn’t do its paper duty and decompose like it should’ve, and instead it was eventually found by Zilikons - the race to bring humanity to the stars - and they took it as a legally binding contract, so they sought out Zane who was long dead by now and instead found Becca, his descendant.
So from there the Zilikons took Becca with them to the Giann system so she could rule, however she got distracted by a Viscotti Cate and long - and gross - story short, they fell in love and Becca high key left the Zilikons.
Distraught, they decided not to tell her about the whole “owning the Giann star” thing and took off, leaving her with her gross frog lover.
Anyways, the paper stayed with the Zilikons for awhile until a young and scrappy treasure hunter found it and was going to come claim the Giann system for themselves by claiming to be Zane’s descendant, however before they could do that, they got stuck in the crossfire of an all out war between the Quacasters and the Zalacorns and so this paper floated in the endless abyss of space until it was found just recently by another Zilikon, and as they are all about their rules, they contacted the Zilikon homeland and it all checked out as a law abiding actual contract, and from there they contacted Earth to see if it was still valid, and then Earth got involved thinking they’d have power over the Giann system and made it completely valid, however too bad for them, after Zeke was brutally murdered by his own father - yeah things got intense once the whole star thing came into light - all the only other known descendants of Zane Leon lived in the Giann System already.
In fact, the only one person that the star could belong to after all that is Zane’s great, great, great, great granddaughter: Erin - spelled ERIN - Idnasi, who is now the sovereign ruler of the entire Giann system despite the star never actually being for sale and the most frustrating part about all of this is that thanks to a law one of the previous Bik kings made - the law that if you pay for it, you own it even if it isn't for sale, the law didn’t last long as he was the only one greedy enough to do it, but any purchases bought without his reign as king count and sadly, Earth year 2016 was happening during the middle of King Kath’s rule - this whole star buying thing checks out on all accounts.
There are no loop holes.
There’s no “aha” moment.
There’s no winning this legal battle.
Norman hated - truly, truly hated - to say this, but he was beat.
The Giann System now belonged to ERIN Idnasi and there was absolutely nothing he could do about it.
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Norman slammed the disk onto the breakfast table as he dragged his sleep deprived body into the dining room. ”I hate your ancestors, I hate the Zilikons, I hate everything and everyone,” he groaned as he walked inside, plopping himself down on one of the chairs as he rubbed at his face, pulling on the black bags that hung so far down his eyes it looked as if they might just roll off...or thats what it felt like at the very least.
Kai looked up from his breakfast - a plate of various fruit from across the system, accompanied by two fried nekcihc eggs - and over towards Norman, gently padding at his mouth with a napkin. ”...I’m guessing you hit a wall?” He asked, his voice was soft yet steady with only the faintest hint of worry lacing his words.
He was trying to hide how anxious he was for Norman’s progress report.
Sadly, Norman could read everyone in - and out of - the castle like a book, especially his brothers; he knew how Kai really felt, and that made what he was about to say so much worse.
Norman inhaled sharply, slowly lifting his head from the cool surface of the marbled over blue and silver - with black accents - table, desperately looking around the room for something to distract himself with before he went into the bad news.
”...Coffee, I need coffee, or at least one of those Andalian energy boost packets-“ Norman’s request was cut off by Ty as his other brother walked into the room to join them.
”No offense Norman, but I never want to see you on an Andalian energy booster, those things are chalked full of alien caffeine, your body would either reject it horribly or you would literally break the walls down with your newfound energy, there’s no way I’m taking that risk,” Ty explained with ease as he slumped down into the chair across from Norman, hair a mess as he gestured the butler over. ”Tell the cooks to prepare some fried meat, I don’t care what animals its from,” he ordered quietly and with a nod the butler headed off towards the kitchen.
Realizing this was his last chance to sneak in his own request, Norman leaned forward, his abdomen sinking into the table as he shouted out towards the departing butler. ”Get me some coffee too!...With an Andalian energy booster!” Ty could suck it, Norman had just been up straight for the last couple days, maybe what he needed was to break down some walls, maybe then he could finally see something he hadn’t seen before, something to save his brothers and his home before everything changed within a blink of his eyes.
Once the butler had disappeared from sights, Ty sent a dirty look towards Norman. ”You are a heathen and you’re gonna suffer for it,” he told him, though Norman could tell he wasn’t actually mad. A little irritated? Oh definitely, but that was his whole job as a younger brother, he had to annoy his brothers from time to time or else he had failed as the youngest and his title would have to be taken away.
Norman smirked, leaning back in his chair as he kicked his feet up to rest on top of the table. ”I prefer the term gremlin,” he joked right back.
Which honestly, gremlin was awfully fitting, or at least he had thought it was since thats what his dear old dad always used to call him. “What are you still doing up this late, gremlin?” “I found you in the trash like a gremlin” I love all my sons: Kai, Niko, Ty, and...uh, Gremlin.”
Norman was convinced that he had never actually learned his name, why would he? He hadn’t even given Norman the time of day to name him in the first place, that had been all Niko, Kai, and Ty. Which made sense though, why would King Keith want anything to do with the orphan his older sons found in the garbage one day?
Thrown away.
No one had wanted him.
He hadn’t been a complete baby when it had happened, but he had been young, only two, maybe three, he didn’t remember much from that time and by now he had completely blocked out who had been the one to decide after two years that they no longer wanted him. Norman still wasn’t entirely sure how he had ended up in the trash that day, but one thing was clear: whoever had him before that had not wanted him and threw him away like a used wrapper.
Why would a king want anything to do with that?
Ah well, it didn’t matter anymore.
He had three wonderful brothers that loved him and a mother that...well that relationship was complicated, but the point was, Norman had nothing to complain about by now. None of the people that truly mattered had thrown him out.
A cough brought him out of his thoughts.
Norman looked up to see the butler hovering over him with his requested drink and the booster packet imported straight from Andalia. Norman blinked, pausing for a moment before his thoughts caught back up to him and he grinned. ”Thank you Torvic, you can uh, you can go now, I guess,” he responded quickly as he took the coffee and placed it in front of him, reaching for the booster packet and as soon as he got it he dumped the entire thing into his coffee.
Ty raised his brow at him, watching from across the table with an assortment of different fried meat on his plate. ”You are a madman,” he retorted dryly and Norman gestured with his head towards Ty’s plate of meat.
”So are you, geez Ty, eat a vegetable every now and then, why don’t you?” He teased right back with an impish smirk crossing his visage as he began to stir the pink flakes from the packet into his coffee.
Kai cleared his throat, reminding the two of them of his presence. ”So uh, I hate to be the sour sport that ruins breakfast, but Norman, how’s the disk work going?” He questioned, fingers tapping softly against the table. It was a small detail, but it was enough to alert Norman of just how stressed Kai really was about all this.
Norman gulped in response, looking down at his drink. ”...I um, I’ve got some bad news,” he confessed without looking back up at his brothers. ”Despite spending the last couple days on it, I um...I haven’t been able to find any ways around it, this whole star buying thing covers all the essentials, both Earth and Zilith recognize it as a law abiding contract and it just so happens that the earth year the star was purchased in is smack dab in the middle of King Kath’s rule so uh...yeah, it’s airtight...there’s no way out of this,” he explained in a hushed voice, staring into the brown beverage in front of him, the colors spiraling in and out of a bright pink from the packet.
Slouching even further down, Norman tried to make himself appear even smaller than he already was - which was a challenge in itself since he was already pretty small - as he continued on. ”The worst part about the whole thing is that now, legally, Giann is named Zane Leon Jr...” Their star really didn’t deserve that kind of unfair treatment.
Hearing a chair drag across the floor, Norman looked up to see Kai standing at the front of the table, hands tightly clutching the napkins hanging off the table.
Norman gulped back his guilt, looking over at his brother. ”Kai I’m...I’m so sorry, I should’ve been able to find something to help, but instead I’m just the bearer of bad news,” he apologized hastily, biting the edge of his tongue as he watched his hybrid bik brother take a step back from the table.
Oh he had really disappointed Kai now, hadn’t he? This was worse than that time he accidentally started a rebellion against his own family.
Kai inhaled sharply, running a hand through his hair. ”I...I have to tell my ancestors, maybe they’ll know what to do,” he explained sharply, already heading off towards the door, leaving so fast Norman couldn’t even try to stop him.
Once Kai was gone, Norman slouched even further in his chair, chin resting on the cool surface of the table as he let out a high pitched whine, burying his head in his arms in a feeble attempt to hide himself. ”I messed everything up...”
Ty sighed from across the table, getting up as well as he walked over to Norman and placed a comforting hand on his back. ”You didn’t mess anything up Norman, this isn’t your fault, Kai understands that, he’s just really stressed right now,” he explained, pausing for a moment or so, which Norman assumed meant he was either looking towards the exit Kai had left from, or was sneakily trying to take Norman’s death by beverage experiment away from him.
Peaking out from his makeshift fort of human limbs, Norman let out a small, amused smirk as he saw Ty.
Turns out it was both.
Now with Norman’s drink in hand, Ty looked back down at Norman and offered him a smile. ”Go talk to him, Kai would really appreciate that,” he explained and took a step back, glancing towards the drink. ”...Also I’m gonna dump this out, I still don’t trust you with it,” he explained, eyeing the Andalian boosted coffee suspiciously, like it was about to leap out of the mug and form a liquid monster on the table, ready to attack them.
...Which was entirely plausible with the use of Andalian chemicals being involved.
Norman nodded, getting out of his chair. ”I’ll go talk to him, but I don’t know if he’ll listen,” Norman warned, looking Ty over for a moment or so.
Ty smiled back at him. ”He will, trust me.”
Hmm.
Trust him.
Now that was something Norman could honestly say he did, with all his heart and soul.
Giving his brother a small, tentative smile, Norman nodded in response and started off towards the dining room door, only pausing for a moment or so once he stood outside the doorframe, turning back on his heels to smirk over at Ty. ”You know, since you wont let me drink it, you should at least give my concoction a try, who knows, you might like it,” he teased lightly before heading back out the door and towards the stairs that led up to the king’s quarters, stopping for a moment to grin when he heard a rather excitable mroww come from the dining room.
Norman smirked to himself, letting out a small, bemused huff under his breath. ”He did try it,” he whispered quietly, the smile never leaving his lips.
Norman would have to ask him what it was like later, and maybe try to sneak himself another Andalian boosted coffee from the kitchen later on.
But for now, he had to check on Kai. This was stressful for everyone involved, Norman could only imagine how bad it was for Kai.
-
As Norman proceeded to walk up the long, spiral staircase he ran over every possible thing he could say to Kai, maybe another promise to work harder, do better, find something...no, he had already broken enough promises as it was recently, he didn’t want to risk breaking another.
Maybe he just...maybe he shouldn’t talk to Kai, yeah, he probably didn’t even want to be disturbed right now...
Norman was about to swivel around on his feet and turn back the way he came when he heard Kai’s voice drifting from the room at the top of the stairs.
”Alright Kai, its okay, you can do this,” his brother reassured himself, voice growing softer, almost too soft for Norman to hear as he let out the word of his ancestors and just like that, blue smoke burst from the door, completely blinding Norman for a moment or so.
Now, Norman had never been there to watch Kai talk to his ancestors before, nor had he ever witnessed his father preform the act either, which meant that while the blue smoke might’ve been completely normal, Norman didn’t want to take any chances, especially when his brother was involved.
Rushing up the stairs, Norman knocked on the door. ”Kai? Kai! Are you okay?” He asked, calling towards his brother but to no avail, Kai couldn’t hear him.
Norman waited a moment or so, letting the silence creep back into the air, fist slowly lowering away from the door.
Maybe he should go, he technically wasn’t allowed to be around for stuff like this anyways, Kai knew what he was doing.
Just as he turned to head back down the stairs, there was a tug at his thoughts, the sign of someone reaching out for him, reaching out for comfort, reaching for the kind of intimacy only shared between those you were closest too: family, friends, significant others.
Someone was reaching for a mind meld.
Before Norman could do anything to stop it, his thoughts took off after the tug, a swirl of bright blue, silver, and black flashing before his eyes as he was pulled into the mind of his brother.
Mind melding was one of those experiences that couldn’t properly be described, it took you through an out of body - or rather, in mind - trip, the surroundings of your physical body became nothing to you as your mind and soul entered a realm that simply couldn’t be reached by the physical world.
Norman would’ve attempted to close his eyes to block out the sensation if he could.
Usually, mind melding was relaxing in its own way, it was a show of trust and with trust came comfort and security, however this time: this time he was being pulled it out of distress and fear and rather unintentionally as well.
Needless to say, it made the ride a bit more bumpy than usual.
A ringing filled his ears as the swirling colors finally came to a stop.
Norman cringed, reaching to feel his head, only for his transparent hand to go right through it.
He frowned, glaring at his hand for a moment or so.
If he couldn’t touch his head, he should’ve been spared the headache as well, however that was not how this worked apparently.
Shaking his head slightly, Norman stood up, looking around at his surroundings.
This...this was unlike any other melding realm that he had ever seen.
It was in the distinct shape of a large, round sphere, with a translucent marble type substance to the walls, floor, and ceiling, all of it a dark blue hue with various patches of lighter shades of blue swirled across the surface and within this room stood thousands upon thousands of glowing blue spirits, a simple silhouette of their previous selves.
The old kings and queens of the Giann System.
Kai’s ancestors.
That’s when it clicked.
Norman wasn’t just mind melding with Kai, he had been unintentionally dragged into Kai’s meeting with his ancestors and this...this place was the inside of the Ancestral Orb, a glowing, ancient blue orb that had been in the family for centuries.
It was said to have been carved by the gods of old, made from a material unknown to the modern universe, magic coursing through its cracks like blood, with the souls of every ruler that had ever graced the Bik empire trapped inside after pledging their spirit to it on the day of their coronation.
Norman had seen Kai do that very thing just two years ago, he had just been crowned as king and had placed both hands on the orb, inciting an age old phrase in a tongue spoken only by the royal family...though their father had never found it necessary to teach Niko, Ty, or Norman this language, claiming it was only to be spoken by a bik of the purest royal blood.
Apparently the rest of them didn’t qualify, which only served as another reminder of the wall that his father had put between him and his three adopted children.
Shrugging off the familiar twinge of hurt that came with those friendly reminders, Norman slowly began to walk through the crowds, waving to a couple of them just to see if they could see him.
Turns out, they couldn’t.
He was a ghost.
Pausing for a second to make a face at one of the old kings, Norman’s ears perked up when Kai’s voice drifted over to him.
Hurrying towards him, Norman stopped once Kai finally came into sight.
He looked a lot like Norman did, slightly transparent but not lacking the colors that everyone else here was and he was in the middle of a conversation with an elderly looking spirit with the only notable features being the wrinkles that hadn’t vanished and the long beard sprouting from his chin.
Norman crinkled his nose in disgust.
He recognized that certain king from many years ago, back when he had been small.
King Kyn the 3rd: Kai’s grandfather.
He had been ancient by the time he died, having passed away only a month or so after Norman had been adopted into the family.
He hardly knew him, really.
However those few months he had known the elderly king had been enough to make an impression.
King Kyn was a vile old man that had always been extremely, vocally against the idea of adopting anyone into the royal family, especially children that weren’t even bik to begin with.
He had almost made a law against it after his youngest - and last - son had done it, and had he succeeded, Norman, Niko, and Ty would’ve had to have been given up.
The only thing that had stopped him had been his extremely timely demise.
Beyond that, Kyn had never been a fan of Kai either.
After all, it was Kyn that had wiped out a good majority of the water biks back in his youth.
He called them vermin, pests, a disease that needed to be destroyed.
Having a grandson - one that shared his blood - that was part water bik must’ve been just about the worst possible thing to him.
If Norman could punch a spirit, he’d punch Kyn.
...Though Kath was a close second, since it was his fault they were in this mess in the first place.
Thoughts of punching aside, Norman walked a little closer, hiding among the other ancestral spirits to listen in on their conversation.
”Grandfather, I need to speak to the elders, its important,” Kai explained, looking up at the old blue spirit with pleading brown eyes. ”I didn’t come here for idle chat, I need everyone’s attention,” he continued and paused for a moment to gesture around. ”I need your help to get them all to listen to me,” he explained.
Kyn looked Kai over with beady eyes, letting out a scoff. ”Humph, a real bik would’ve gotten them all to listen on their on,” he snarled down towards Kai, his breath visible as it smacked Kai in the face in the form of blue smoke similar to the smoke from earlier.
Norman’s brows furrowed into a glare.
Oh yeah, as soon as he died, he was going to track that guy down and beat the crap out of his old ghost body.
For some reason, he had decided to stay in the elderly form of his dying days instead of going back to how he would’ve looked in his prime - though Norman doubted he had ever truly had a prime - which made him one of the very few people that Norman probably would actually have a chance if he chose to fight.
So yeah, watch out Kyn.
Kai coughed away the blue smoke, gaze hardening as he looked the elderly man over, he opened his mouth, about to say something when he seemed to think better of it and closed his mouth again, letting the tension drip from his shoulders, a defeated sigh escaping his lips. ”You’re right, any of the previous monarchs would be able to get everyone to listen to them, but I am not one of the old monarchs and I will never be able to match your natural authority, in a lot of ways, you command a lot more respect than many of the others do as well, that’s why I need your help to get them to listen to me, no one else is better suited for the job than you are, Grandfather,” he complimented, bowing his head respectfully to him.
Kyn seemed to ease slightly at the evident sucking up being done for him as he slowly began to nod along in agreement. ”Hmm, well you’re right, its not entirely your fault no one here will listen to you, it takes a certain kind of superiority to get a crowd as large as this to heed your words, I’ll do this for you boy, but don’t except me to do anything else, the only thing this proves is that you’ll never measure up to what a real bik is capable of,” he stated and though it was subtle, Norman could tell Kai had just gone rigid at his words, though he remained silent until he had relaxed his figure again.
”Thank you, Grandfather,” he mumbled out softly, taking a step back to let King Kyn get to work.
Kyn pushed Kai aside with a cough as he walked over to the center of the large, spacious room where a pedestal stood and on top of it stood the Ancestral Orb, shimmering in the blue light.
He placed a hand upon it and cleared his throat before he began to speak out in ancient Bikish, voice loud and booming, echoing throughout the entire sphere.
Norman didn’t understand what he was saying, however all the spirits in the room seemed to understand and instantly began zipping around, the inside of the orb changing ever so slightly as the walls began to stick out, forming blue smoke chairs circling the orb until finally, everyone had taken a seat, the orb turning into some sort of ancient looking stadium, with only Norman, Kai, and Kyn left standing.
Kyn lifted his hand from the orb, looking at Kai through the corner of his beady blue eyes. ”There, now please...” his voice dripped with distaste as he sat down in the front row in one of the blue chairs, gesturing lightly to Kai. ”Enlighten us on what could possibly be so important as to call such a large gathering,” he requested, leaning back in his seat, eyes glinting with annoyance.
Kai cleared his throat, hands shaking slightly as he approached the orb and placed his hands upon it, the wispy like substance they had become going right through the orb, which caused Kai to stumble forward.
This earned a couple snickers and scoffs from the watching crowd and Norman narrowed his eyes at them all.
Flushing slightly, Kai straightened up and this time, much more gently, placed his hand on the orb. ”Kings, queens, and other old rulers, I wouldn’t usually call for such a large gathering of you, however I fear I am faced with a...challenge unique to the empire, and I have come seeking advice,” he started, voice slowly getting stronger as he went.
”Well get on with it then!” Shouted someone from the crowd.
Kai hesitated for a moment, scanning the crowd for who had spoken.
”Shush Koncord, let him speak,” came another voice.
Relaxing at the second comment, Kai sent an appreciative nod towards Queen Kavali, who was sitting in one of the first rows with her hair held up in a large bun that sat neatly upon her head.
Norman watched as Kai gulped back the last of his nerves and jumped into it.
”Recently I was informed that someone was making a claim for the throne, they hold no royal blood, in fact they are not a Bik at all, they’re a Viscoti Cat-“ Before he continued, another king from further up interjected with a roar of anger.
”Ha! A Viscoti Cate has no claim to the throne, they’re nothing more than bugs compared to us, this gathering was useless!”
Kai quickly lifted a hand up, shaking his head. ”No, it’s not-“
He was interrupted again by queen in the back, her strong northern Dakk accent coming through. ”Squash the bug! Let all those that attempt to take our empire away from us burn! Teach those frogs a lesson they will ne’r forget! Destroy them all!” She hollered from her seat, fist in the air as she shouted her anger.
Judging by her quick temper, hatred for the Viscoti Cates, and strong accent, Norman quickly deduced that this was Queen Kille, the first monarch to make contact with the natives to the planet Cavositas, she had...never been fond of them.
Norman folded his arms, letting out a small “hmm” of vague amusement. Looks like all those boring history lessons were paying off.
Following her suggestion came a chant rising up from the crowd as more and more bloodthirsty monarchs spoke up.
”Squash the bug!”
”Destroy them!”
”Kill them all!”
By now Kai was getting nervous, anyone could tell that much as he wiggled and squirmed, desperately trying to stop the chants.
”No, that’s not! No-wait...” At his helpless pleas to stop them, something seemed to switch in his behavior as a determined look crossed his visage and he clutched the inside of the orb in front of him, causing a loud ringing to scream throughout the stadium.
Norman quickly covered his ears, watching as the crowd of deceased monarchs did the same.
”That’s enough!” Kai yelled through the ringing, waiting for it to stop before he continued, a flame igniting in his eyes. ”This is serious, and I need everyone to shut up for once in your afterlives and listen to me!” He declared loudly, hair a mess as he looked the crowd over, as if daring any of them to speak up.
However, for once, they were quiet.
Kai breathed heavily for a few moments before calming down once he realized they were actually listening to him; he straightened up, fixed the collar of his shirt, and took a deep breath.
”She isn’t full Viscoti Cate, she has a human ancestor, and before any of you ask what that has to do with any of this, let me explain,” he continued. ”Her human ancestor was a man by the name of Zane Leon, who bought a star a long time ago back when that was something you could do on Earth, that star just so happened to be our star, Giann,” Kai explained, looking the crowd over. ”The star was purchased on Earth while Kath ruled over the empire, which means...” he paused for a minute, gulping back his nerves again. ”Which means he owns it...or since he is long dead by now, his only living descendant owns it, and she has made a claim for the throne,” he finished and paused for a second to judge the reactions of the other monarchs.
Almost simultaneously they all turned to look at one of the rulers in the crowd who suddenly seemed very aware of all eyes on him.
Norman guessed it was King Kath, otherwise known as Number Two on his punching list.
King Kath tried to shrink in his seat, folding his arms and letting out a loud huff. ”It seemed like a good rule at the time and I stand by it, and I’m not about to stop haunting people who disobey my rule now, even if our entire empire is at stake,” he declared defiantly, which - rightfully - earned him some very hard whacks from the spirits around him.
Clearing his throat, Kai tried to get the others to fall quiet.
”So as you can see, I’m in a bit of a predicament here, and I have come to all of you for advice,” Kai said, taking a step back to let everyone else speak.
Silence flooded through the sphere so thick Norman was sure that if he reached out he could touch it.
No one spoke for a long time, and then...
”So, after everything we have done, after all of us that have lived and died, it all comes down to you, the first ever hybrid to rule,” everyone moved out of the way as an old, dark blue spirit floated forward, deep, light blue scars lines almost every inch of his ghostly body, his head completely shaved and covered in intricate tattoos.
The old king continued on, gaze steady as he stopped just in front of Kai, large, beefy arms placed behind his back as he looked down at Kai with an unreadable expression on his face.
Kai looked up at him, trembling ever so slightly. ”...King Kumquat, I-“ Kai stopped himself, swallowing back whatever it was he had been about to say. ”I...I didn’t think you would be here,” he finally admitted.
King Kumquat.
Norman recognized that name.
He was the very first Walveon ruler.
Kumquat studied Kai for a moment or so, his gaze slowly hardening as he looked down at his descendant and Norman couldn’t help but feel a shiver run down his spine at the sight of him.
”You have done the one thing that no one else ever has, not even some of our worst rulers,” he started and Kai shrunk under his gaze. ”You have ended the reign of the Walveon empire.” His words were harsh and cold, sending a freezing silence across the sphere.
No one moved an inch.
Kumquat leaned down to become eye level with Kai, his faded blue eyes flashing with rage. ”You will receive no help from me, Suselkie,” he snarled out and a gasp filled the orb.
Suselkies were what the water biks had been known as before the Walveon empire had taken over their planet.
Since then the name had existed only in history books.
Using it...using it was like ostracizing Kai out of the family, and more than that it was like disowning him as a bik in general.
Norman risked a glance over at his brother.
Kai’s face went pale at the word, any color draining out of his face.
Suddenly, Kumquat had turned away, already beginning to fade away.
Kai’s eyes went wide as he reached out towards his ancestor. ”Wa-wait, what does-what does this mean?” he sputtered out, voice weak.
King Kumquat froze for a moment, a chill washing over him before finally he turned around to glare at Kai. ”I think you know what it means,” he told him, voice laced with pure, unadulterated hatred.
Just like that, King Kumquat transformed into a small blue wisp and disappeared into nothing, each and every monarch following until finally all that was left was Kai, Norman, Kyn, and...
Norman froze at the sight of King Keith.
His adopted father.
They had...never had a great relationship, but this wasn’t about him.
He watched as father and grandfather walked over to Kai.
”Hmm, its about time someone did that, I’ve wanted to disown plenty of my ancestors before, but this was the first time it actually happened,” Kyn spoke up smugly, looking down at Kai. ”I told you you’d never make it as one of us,” he said, getting in one last word before disappearing in a wisp of blue smoke just like everyone else had before him.
That just left...Keith.
Norman watched as Kai looked up at his father with tears building up in the corner of his eyes. ”I-“ he chocked out, unable to speak.
Keith remained quiet for a moment or so before gently reaching out to touch Kai’s face, wiping away a few tears that had escaped and rolled down his cheeks. He looked down at his son with a look of pity and perhaps even regret and for a moment, Norman thought he might’ve even seen his stone cold exterior soften.
However it was gone within a second as he tightened his grip on Kai’s face, gaze hardening. ”You’ve disappointed me, Kai,” he said, voice hauntingly quiet, his words sending a rush of chills across Norman.
Kai’s eyes widened, unable to hold back the rush of tears any longer, his emotions radiating off of him so fiercely that Norman could’ve gotten knocked over by them. Father, I-...I’m so sorry, I-I-“ Kai couldn’t continue, as a sob took over him and he reached out in an attempt to embrace his father, clearly seeking a form of comfort from him.
However just as he reached out, Keith disappeared in a puff of blue smoke, causing Kai to stumble forward and fall on the ground, hands and knees rubbing against the marble ground, entire body quivering as he let out one chocked sob after another.
Norman had never seen him this upset before.
Kai had always tried to keep a good control over his emotions, especially as he had been raised to be proper and in control at all times.
This...this was the furthest thing from in control. Unable to stand there and watch, Norman hesitantly cleared his throat, not even sure if Kai could see or hear him. ”Kai?” He called out, voice nothing more than a whisper as he stepped closer to his brother.
Kai froze, body stiffening. ”...Norman?” He got out, voice breaking.
Norman looked down, a wave of guilt crashing over him.
If he had been able to find something, anything, he could’ve prevented this, he could’ve saved Kai’s empire and saved his brother from this heartache. ”I...I’m sorry,” he apologized, eyes trailing down. ”If I had just...” Despite his best efforts, Norman soon found himself lost for words.
However whatever he said must’ve been enough for Kai, for almost immediately after his words had left his mouth, Kai had reached up for Norman and pulled him down onto the ground with him, hugging him so tightly Norman wouldn’t have been able to squeeze out even if he wanted to.
Kai buried his face in the crook of Norman’s neck, still sobbing.
He didn’t say anything, but he didn’t have to.
Norman responded but wrapping his arms around his brother in return, comforting him until the sobbing began to ease up.
This was part of what being a brother meant.
Being there for each other at the worst of times, when nothing seemed to be going your way, when everything around you was crashing down and burning, when there was nothing and no one left.
A brother would still be there.
Kai needed comfort right now, he needed his brother, especially since right now, Kai’s brothers were the only family he had left.
Norman couldn’t do much, he couldn’t fix everything, he couldn’t even find a loophole to work with; but he could do this.
He could sit there on the cold, marbled floor of the Ancestral Orb, holding his brother close and silently letting him know that even though nothing was okay right now - and he wasn’t sure if they’d ever be okay again, at least not the kind of okay they were hoping for - that he was there, and he wasn’t going anywhere.
Sometimes...sometimes that’s all you could do in situations like this, sometimes you could only offer your support and your presence, and sometimes that’s all they needed as well.
Slowly, Kai’s sobs began to stop and his body trembled a little less.
Kai brought a hand up to wipe at his eyes, sniffling slightly. ”I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to pull you into all this...” He managed to get out softly.
Norman smiled gently, even though he knew Kai couldn’t see. ”Don’t apologize for that, I came up to check on you, and...I’m glad I was here to see all of that,” he explained, looking around at his surroundings.
It gave him a better understanding of what Kai dealt with every time he consulted his ancestors, and just how truly terrible those ancestors had been.
”Besides...” Norman continued. ”If anyone should apologize, it should be me, I’m the one that promised to fix this and wasn’t able to,” he explained, guilt eating away at him again. ”...I could...I could keep looking, maybe I’ve overlooked something,” Norman suggested.
Kai shook his head. ”No, Norman, I know you’ve done everything you could, and you don’t have to apologize, this isn’t your fault, none of it is,” he reassured, never pulling away from the embrace.
However Norman did, pulling back just enough to look Kai in the eyes. ”It’s not your fault either, Kai, there is no part of this that’s your fault, I’m just sorry I’m the only one in this...orb thing that sees that,” he told him fiercely.
Norman loved his brother too much to let him pin the blame for this on himself.
None of this was Kai’s fault, and Norman was going to fight every single stupid ancestor that said it was.
Kai looked at him for a moment or so in silence before he pulled Norman back into a hug, sniffling again.
He never said anything, but that was okay, he didn’t need to.
Norman was content to stay here and hug him for as long as he needed.
After all, sometimes the only thing that helped was a hug from your brother.
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It wasn’t until a day or so later that Niko finally came home.
He had arrived on a completely different ship than the one he had left on, it was round and beetle like, with glowing purple lines stretched out across it like vibrant markings as if to warn predators to leave it alone, that eating it would be poisonous.
It was unlike any other ship Norman had seen before, it wasn’t any standard galaxy ship, that was for sure.
Wherever the ship had come from, it wasn’t a place that was well known.
As for Niko himself...
His usually tough and serious brother had come out of the ship rattled, his yellow eyes wide, his muscles tense, his breath jagged, and he never quite settled down, even after he had entered the castle.
Which was why Norman was currently looking his brother over from across the dining table.
He had been home for a day by now and had already been filled in on everything that was going to happen in just a few more days.
By now, Niko had begun to return to normal, he promised Kai that he’d fight anyone that tried to take his empire away and had almost grown twice his size when he heard about what Kai’s ancestors had done, however...
Norman’s gaze flickered across to him.
Something was off.
He avoided meeting anyone eye to eye, he barely spoke - even less than he had before, as Niko had never exactly been that talkative to begin with - and he seemed to fidget ever so slightly when he thought no one was looking.
”So, you still haven’t told us how you found that ship,” Norman spoke up, breaking the silence as he looked over at Niko.
Kai and Ty shot him a warning look, Norman knew it well and maybe they were right, maybe he should give Niko more time before he started questioning him, however something was wrong and Norman couldn’t fix the other problem they were dealing with, the least he could do was try and fix this one.
Niko shrugged off his comment almost too casually. ”It doesn’t matter,” he explained without meeting his gaze.
Norman frowned.
”I think it does, I did some research about it and turns out that ship is from an ancient, extinct race known as the Otanidroni, or at least...I think it is, no one’s seen anything from the Otanidroni in centuries,” Norman explained and studied Niko curiously.
After looking the ship over earlier, Norman had been too curious to leave it be, he had searched up every known ship in the galaxy and there had been nothing that looked like that at all, the only thing that came close was a drawing of an old, ancient ship from a dead planet: Otanaria.
Dead planets were planets that had no dominant race, that hardly had any life at all, however there were traces that the planet had once been inhabited.
Only one person had ever been there since its downfall.
Sabine “Scout” McGilt.
An adventurer that specifically sought out worlds like Otanaria.
She had discovered the planet and in her text books, she had described it as a barren wasteland, any life there was minimal, though the air remained breathable, it was eerily quiet, as if the entire life that had been on the planet had been silenced all at once.
She had described it as if the entire planet had become nothing more than a graveyard.
McGilt had discovered ancient artifacts and skeletons from the natives from the planet.
Thats how Norman had found out about the Otanidroni in the first place.
The knowledge of them was limited, no one even knew what they looked like other than the fact that they were humanoid, however something that McGilt had been able to find out were some old texts that must’ve belonged to them, explaining what they were called - hopefully, as translating them was a little tricky - and a few things about them.
Apparently the Otanidroni had been extremely religious, believing in the ancient demons and gods of old that had created the universe with their own two hands, carving and sculpting every planet and every race.
It was said they could even dictate who lived and who died, going as far as to bring someone back from the dead.
No one knew what had happened to the Otanidroni and unless they could speak to one in person, no one ever would.
Half expecting Niko to call him crazy, or ask what the Otanidroni even were, Norman was caught by surprise when instead, Niko asked: ”What do you know of the Otanidroni?”
Blinking, Norman fell quiet for a moment or so before finally he spoke up. ”Just what I’ve researched, there’s not much out there on them after all,” he explained calmly.
Niko stayed quiet after that, studying his plate for a moment or so before he stood up, pushing his food away. ”I’m finished,” he announced and began to make his leave.
Unable to leave things there, Norman hurried to his feet as well and took off after his brother, stopping him just outside the dining room.
”Niko, wait-“ He called out and Niko froze, flicking his tail to signal that Norman could speak. ”What...What happened out there?” Norman questioned hesitantly, looking up at him.
Niko didn’t move at first, then slowly he turned around to look at Norman, something flashing in his eyes that Norman couldn’t quite place. ”I...I do not know, but...but ever since...ever since I came home, something has been...off,” he admitted quietly, looking down.
Norman furrowed his brow, head tilting to the side. ”Off? Off how?” He asked, trying to read Niko however this time, he was unreadable.
Niko hesitated for a moment before sighing and looking away. ”I had a dream...but, it was not like normal dreams, it...it was about this upcoming meeting with the new empress,” he started.
”Yeah, it’s been on all our minds a lot recently-“
”No-“ Niko paused, shifting his gaze before finally, he inhaled and closed his eyes, exhaling slowly as his eyes opened again and he looked down at Norman with large, worried yellow eyes. ”I had this dream before I came back, before I knew about any of this, it...it was as if...as if I already knew yet no one had told me, almost as if...” he trailed off, not finishing his sentence as he looked away from Norman again.
Norman frowned thoughtfully.
This...this changed everything.
Now, Norman wasn’t exactly a superstitious person, he believed in what he could learn and experience for himself, however...he trusted his brothers and if Niko thought something was off, then he was going to believe him.
He looked back up at Niko, watching how...skittish his brother seemed to be, and skittish was not a word he had ever thought he would use to describe Niko, in fact...he was...he looked as if he was afraid.
Sensing that that’s exactly what his brother was, Norman reached out and gently placed a hand on his arm, offering him a comforting, reassuring smile. ”Hey look, I’m not sure what happened or what your dream means, but we’ll figure it out together, okay?” He asked, smiling up at him.
Niko paused, hesitating for a moment or so before he nodded in agreement, gaze steadying as he looked down at Norman. ”Together.”
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After that, Norman had begun to suspect that something was off about this whole thing.
However as the coming day approached when ERIN Idnasi would arrive, he had to push those concerns to the side, he needed to focus on the event and make sure nothing happened to ruin it, hopefully they would be able to work something out and things and things could maybe go back to normal.
It was unlikely, but one could hope, couldn’t they?
Staring at his computer screen, Norman rubbed under his eyes.
Today.
Today everything changed.
Norman had been up all night trying to find something that could help them, save them just in the nick of time.
Anything to get them out of this mess.
However he had come back empty handed and tired.
Sighing, Norman exited out of his tabs on his computer and reached for the cup of coffee sitting next to him.
It was cold by now, but that didn’t matter, he needed this.
Downing the cup, Norman put it back down just as someone knocked on his door.
Getting up, Norman walked over to his door and opened it to find a guard standing outside. ”Prince Norman, I was told to come get you,” the guard explained and Norman waved him off absentmindedly.
”Right, I’ll be out in a minute,” he promised and closed the door again.
Well, this was it.
Quickly, Norman got dressed into something a bit more appropriate for the occasion: a long green tunic with golden engravings, silver pants, and a pair of silver and gold gloves that matches his shoes.
Brushing his teeth and washing his face and attempting to come through some of the mess of his curly ginger hair, Norman walked over to his window and stared outside as he watched as crowds began to gather outside.
Shaking his head, he turned away and walked back to his door, taking a deep breath.
The end of an empire was upon them, and if he didn’t hurry, he’d be late.
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”She’s dead.”
After everything that had happened, after everything Norman had learned, he couldn’t afford himself the surprise that someone at this gathering had ended up dead.
Flumori was a bit of a surprise, he’d admit that.
She was a joy, everyone seemed to genuinely enjoy her company, he couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to kill her-unless...
Norman’s eyes trailed down to her drink.
”She’s dead?” Repeated Malu in clear shock. ”How?” He questioned, looking wildly around at the people around him, as if none of them had been the one to deliver the killing blow.
”Poisoned, I’m guessing,” Norman remarked with ease, leaning over to pick up her cup and with one quick gulp, he drank the rest of it.
Niko, Kai, and Ty shouted out in shock and worry as he did so.
”Norman!” They yelled in unison.
He ignored them, placing the cup back down and taking a moment to study the taste in his mouth before he moved on to the next drink and gulped that one down as well, waiting a moment to get a taste for it before he moved on to the next, and then the next, then the next, until he had drank every single drink that was on the table except for...
Norman’s eyes landed on Kai’s drink.
He made a move for it when he was stopped by his three brothers making a barricade in front of him.
”Norman, what are you doing?” Kai asked, voice quiet though his eyes spoke of murder.
Which was fair, as far as his brothers were concerned, Norman might’ve just poisoned himself over ten times.
He’d have to explain later.
Still ignoring Kai, Norman ducked down and swerved out of the way, making a b-line for the drink, reaching it.
He looked down at the liquid for a moment or so, studying it before bringing it up to his face and sniffing it.
Instantly a very specific smell drifted up through his nostrils and he couldn’t help but smirk. ”Bingo,” he muttered and just like that, he drank Kai’s beverage as well, fully aware of all the eyes on him.
He continued until the cup was completely empty before putting it down with a clatter and turning to face the room full of diplomats, royalty, and ambassadors. ”Flumori was poisoned, however she wasn’t the target in question, rather a mere casualty at the expense of the real target,” he paused to look a Kai. ”You.”
Kai’s eyes went wide and his face went pale though he said nothing.
Instead Ty pushed forward and looked Norman over. ”Are you sure?” He asked, moving to stand protectively in front of Kai.
Norman nodded in response, grabbing Kai’s cup. ”Vanilla,” he said plainly, pausing for a moment before he offered any sort of explanation. ”Every drink was the exact same,” he told Kai, though his voice was loud enough for everyone to hear. ”They shared a common element that was hardly noticeable: vanilla,” he explained and a hush fell over the crowd.
Vanilla was a rather sweet flavor that came from Earth.
However, it was poison for water biks.
Someone would’ve had to go an awfully far way to not only acquire it but to bring it all the way to the Giann system as well.
Whoever it was that had killed Flumori had gone out of their way to make sure the poison they used could only harm the two with suselkie blood running through their veins.
”I had first noticed it when I had my own drink,” Norman explained and pointed towards his cup - which was also empty - before looking back to the crowd. ”There wasn’t a lot in there, the flavor was subtle, however after Flumori died, I began to get suspicious and as it turns out, my suspicions were right,” he explained.
Whoever it was must’ve known they couldn’t guarantee which drink Kai had gotten, so the only solution was to poison them all, after all, the only other person that would die would be a Sutcelbis ambassador and water biks had never exactly been the favorite among the others in the Giann system.
”But...why would anyone want Kai dead? He isn’t even king anymore,” Ty spoke up, obvious confusion spread across his visage.
Norman kept his gaze steady. ”Maybe they wanted to keep it that way.”
Instantly the ambassadors and his brothers turned their attention to the Viscosi Cate that was with them.
ERIN Idnasi.
The new ruler of the Giann system and the biggest suspect for the murder of Flumori and attempted assassination of the ex king.
Getting the sense that this wan’t going to end well, Norman glanced over at Niko just as brother grew double the size he normally was, skin going from a shadowed pale to a darkened black as large ram like horns sprouted from his head and a second tail grew from behind, a third eye poking out from his head as smaller eyes popped out underneath the others.
Soon he was unrecognizable to anyone that wasn’t accustomed to his monster form.
Letting out an angry growl, Niko charged at ERIN, picking her up with ease by the collar of her shirt as he held her up and pushed her body into the wall, holding her at eye level as he glared at her, grip tightening. ”You,” he growled out, his voice deeper and darker, harder to understand as he lifted a fist up, about to very likely kill the Giann’s newest monarch.
Calmly walking over to him, Norman looked up. ”Niko stop, it wasn’t her,” he told him and Niko froze, looking from Norman to ERIN. ”Look at her Niko, she doesn’t even want to be here, much less rule an empire,” Norman told him and looked up at ERIN, his green gaze hardening as he looked at her. ”She probably wants to go back to whatever basement she crawled out of,” he proclaimed dryly.
Norman hadn’t known ERIN that long, however within the time he had met her, it was already clear to him that she was the furthest thing from a threat.
”But...If not her, then who?” He asked, evidently confused.
Norman waited until he had put ERIN back down to respond.
”I don’t know, but whoever it is, something tells me they’re still here.”
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Post by Feathertalon on Mar 2, 2020 2:45:05 GMT -5
ERIN Idnasi owner of a small galactic empire
Today was certainly not how ERIN thought it would go. She knew it wasn’t going to go in any way she wanted, because she didn’t even want any of this to happen in the first place, but she didn’t think today would end in a murder.
Which, speaking of the murder, ERIN knew she should actually feel something about that. There should be a feeling of sorrow for the fact that a young woman that had so much left to live for had just lost her life right in front of everybody here. She should feel bad for Flumori’s family and the fact that they were going to have to live with the knowledge that she was never coming back. She had gone out to do her job, and because of her job she had lost her life. That should have sparked some sort of feeling even within the deepest pits of ERIN’s stomach or heart or some other random organ inside her, but it didn’t. She didn’t know anything about Flumori and had no attachments to the Water Bik. There was nothing there, and that definitely made her sound heartless, but why should she exert the energy it took to care into somebody she had only known existed for up to fifteen minutes? It would be like getting worked up over the death of some random Andalian that she had only seen a glimpse of in a grocery store for a few minutes while checking out. There was no point in it. Besides, death was death, it happened. Some species were immortal, or essentially immortal, but beyond that everybody eventually died, some just earlier than others, so why get sad or worked up about that? If anything, afterlife or not, Flumori was in a much better place. Now she wouldn’t have to deal with all the crap that was going on here with the change in monarchy and whatnot.
Seriously, why couldn’t ERIN have been the one to die? She didn’t want to deal with any of this mess, especially since she was the center of attention save for Kai and probably his brothers. If she died then she wouldn’t have to worry about this stuff and then things could all go back to normal. Kai would have his kingdom back. It was as simple as that. Nobody would have to worry about anything at all and they could just write off this little part in history as some fluke, a mess up. Flumori would be memorized as some kind of martyr or something, and that would be that. Everything would go back to being normal.
Honestly, as much as the Viscosi Cate wanted to die throughout her life, she had never made a serious move to do anything, but right now, right in this moment, the temptation was strong. If nobody else was going to be kind enough to take her out, then she’d gladly do it herself. The only thing about that, though, was if she took herself out then wouldn’t she be hailed as some hero or something? Probably. And ERIN didn’t want to be hailed as a hero. She didn’t want to be hailed as anything. She didn’t want to be in any history books or really remembered by anybody because that meant she’d have to live up to some kind of standards, and living up to standards had been something she gave up a long time ago. She knew she would never meet them seeing as she never had, so she had finally gotten to a point where she just simply stopped trying. It had been a process, but once she realized she didn’t have to work to meet anybody’s expectations her life had gotten a lot better. Now she only had her expectations to live up to, and that wasn’t a lot considering all she wanted to do was play her video games, watch her shows, and write her books. Doing that wasn’t exactly hard to live up to.
It wasn’t until she heard an in unison “Norman” being called out that she was snapped out of whatever reverie she had fallen into. She must have missed a good portion of whatever had been said seeing as she had no idea why Norman was taking the last few drinks of what had been left in Flumori’s cup which then had his brothers yelling at him like it was a crime to finish the drink off. Nobody else was going to finish it, why let it go to waste? Flumori obviously wasn’t going to drink it all.
Whatever was going on it didn’t involve ERIN, at least not yet. She remained silent while Norman went on to drink out of all the other cups around the table. She wasn’t going to stop him from doing whatever he wanted. Either he was just really thirsty or he was trying to figure something out. ERIN had read enough murder mystery novels to realize that there was always somebody, mostly the protagonist, that would go to some pretty extreme measures to get some clues that would solve the murder. It was starting to come together for her now, and her thoughts on all of this was only solidified when Norman went on to explain what he had been doing with the drinks.
Vanilla. There was no way that just accidentally got into the drinks considering there were two Water Biks in attendance. Well, one and a half, and now only a half considering the full Water Bik had just high key kicked the bucket. Either way, the vanilla in the beverages had been no mistake regardless of how many whole and how many half Water Biks there was and had been in the room. Something was certainly going on, and whatever it was was clearly malicious.
Of course, after everything had been explained it came down to the most important question.
Who had done this.
And, of course, it took not even a second for all eyes to fall on ERIN.
This was usually when somebody would offer a sheepish smile and then wave before getting the heck out of there, but all ERIN did was give a rather uninterested blink as she stayed seated where she was.
Listen, she understood exactly why she was the number one suspect here, but she did find it somewhat amusing that everybody seemed to think she was capable enough and smart enough to pull something like an attempted murder. She didn’t even look like somebody who could pull anything like that off. Seriously, she could barely even get herself out of bed every day. What made them think she was capable of murder?
Honestly though, if they wanted to do something about her because of this she’d let them. If they threw her into some sort of high security prison then at least she still had a place to sleep at night and would get scheduled meal times. That was honestly better than what she had now. She was lucky to even remember to eat a meal a day, so maybe if she had an actual scheduled day then she’d get some semblance of a healthily scheduled lifestyle. Unfortunately it didn’t seem like throwing her into prison was on the agenda. Nope, what they had in mind was even better.
Death.
She’d take that over prison any day. It would be a quick way to get her out of whatever pathetic existence she had going for her, and Kai could have his kingdom back. Or maybe she should ask about writing a will first. She didn’t really have much to give or anybody to really give her stuff over to, but she could at least put down that she wanted Kai to take everything back that belonged to him. It would stop the legal system from pulling a fast one and handing the kingdom over to somebody like her cousin. That would be a terrible mess.
At some point or another something should have fazed her. She should have been fazed by everything that had happened today so far. Flumori’s death should have shaken her to her very core. The attempted assinsation of Kai should have caused her a sense of panic. The transformation of one of Kai’s brothers into a giant, obsidian monster should have made her tremble in fear, but yet, there was nothing. If the Bawltic wanted to smash her face in or something along those lines then she would gladly let him. She wasn’t afraid of some gruesome death or anything like that. If they wanted to take her out then by all means they could. Not even being charged and then picked up by the collar of her shirt by the Bawltic was enough to get her to really experience a sense of fear or panic for her life. Even when the growled out “you” came the most she did was look up at him with an expression that read “come on, do it, please, I’m begging you”.
At this point the universe was just mocking her. Anything that could come and kill her wasn’t being allowed to come and kill her, and she was having some serious issues with that. Rather than be slaughtered right then and there, she was put back on the ground as if nothing had happened. Apparently she was no longer a suspect and no longer a threat, but couldn’t they have still just let Niko end her? Rather rude of them to not let fate play out as it should have.
ERIN let everything settle down for a moment, or not really settle, but more like let everybody get in their last words for a while, before she even attempted to add her own input. ”So, should I just leave or something? I mean, there’s nothing I can really do to help with all this. You can have the kingdom back.” She looked over to Kai as she made that statement. ”We can all go back to doing what we want. Everything can be normal again, or as close to normal as it can get,” she muttered, green eyes giving one quick look to where Flumori’s corpse still sat.
At this point somebody should really do something about her just kinda lifelessly chilling there. ERIN didn’t know what happened to people who died in random places, but surely they’d be packed up and sent back to their closest family members or something like that. Her family would have more use for her than anybody in this room would at this point.
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Mar 9, 2020 15:38:24 GMT -5
Kaiyo Kimikimo Walvelon King of the Bik Empire
Honestly, Kai was still trying to comprehend everything that was happening. His head was spinning, thoughts racing a mile a minute as he tried to keep up.
Flumori was dead. Murdered by someone that had specifically smuggled vanilla into the Giann system and poisoned everyone’s drinks. Someone had wanted him dead and they didn’t care who died in the process to make that happen. First Flumori, then who? How far would this person go to see Kai dead?
Kai cast a glance towards Flumori, quietly gesturing for some of the guards to take care of her body. Flumori had been his friend, someone he could always talk to when he needed it and more than that, she had been the only one able to really understand the issues that the water Biks faced. Together they had made major strides in improving the lives of the residents of Sutcelbis and had been well on their way to the rest of the system realizing them as equals.
It wasn’t ever something that should’ve happened, the treatment of the suselkie had been a long going problem ever since the first Bik King had ever gone to the planet, and Kai had been determined to fix it.
He still was, perhaps even more now.
Flumori deserved better.
They all did.
Though no matter how much Kai wanted to stay there and grief over his lost friend, everything else was moving too fast for him to dwell. He’d make sure they had a funeral for her though, something worthy of the Sutcelbis ambassador.
Making sure the guards were being careful with her, Kai turned his focus back to everyone else and everything else that was going on.
From Norman explaining what had happened to Niko attacking ERIN, to Norman ruling her out as a potential suspect to ERIN suggesting they just try to make everything go back to normal.
Kai was about to agree with her, however before he could even open his mouth, Melamorn beat him to it as the ambassador cleared his throat and stepped forward, gently adjusting his tunic.
”I’m afraid that won’t do much good, Ms Idnasi, with everything that has come into light recently, I think it’s clear that there is more at play right now than we can see,” he spoke up, voice level as he looked at ERIN. ”Whether you like it or not, you’re involved in this now, all of it,” he explained in that blunt manner of his that Kai had become accustomed to.
Sinani nodded in agreement, rising from her seat. ”Even though you didn’t kill Flumori, someone out there wants to keep you on the throne, or at least they want to keep Kai off it,” she explained, looking back towards Kai for a moment and he could feel her hardened honey yellow gaze burning into his skull.
Sighing, Sinani looked back to ERIN. ”Leaving now could put you, Kai, and the rest of us in even more danger,” she said, bowing her head slightly as she sat back down, rubbing at the bridge of her nose.
Melamorn took over again from there. ”Sinani is right, the best thing we can do right now is carry on as normal, we don’t want to cause the public to panic and we certainly don’t want any of this getting out, not until we know what to do,” he said and paused, his posture stiffening as he looked from Kai to ERIN for a moment before he continued. ”I think our best course of action is to continue with the wedding and not let the public know about any of this, we can lift morale while we prepare for the union and while the public is distracted by the wedding, we can investigate this assassination attempt more thoroughly,” Melamorn decided, leaving little room for argument. ”With any luck, this wedding will draw out our adversary into the open and we’ll be able to put a stop to this before it gets any worse.”
If Melamorn or the others continued to say anything after that, Kai wasn’t paying attention.
His mind was reeling as he realized what was happening.
Somehow, amongst all the confusion, everyone had decided for him that the best thing to do was for him to get married and there didn’t seem to be anything Kai could do about it.
Warily, Kai shot a glance towards ERIN and silently wondered if she was as alarmed by all of this as he was.
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Post by Feathertalon on Mar 9, 2020 20:43:51 GMT -5
ERIN Idnasi owner of a small galactic empire
You know in shows where something terrible happened to the main character and they became so exasperated that when they groaned about it the noise was so loud that the scene had to pan out to the the outside world and then possibly even to outer space where the noise could still be heard? That’s how ERIN felt right now. She felt like she was stuck into some kind of show where she somehow managed to become a main character and this was her comedic groan scene where everybody in the galaxy could hear just how done she was. She had already been done with this day to start with, but with each transpiring event she had just grown more and more done until eventually she was sitting in a room with a bunch of ambassadors, a current king, and a dead body.
Oh, and let’s not forget the fact that there was apparently no way out of this. She was stuck with this. She was stuck with being some dumb monarch and she was stuck with having to get married to the monarch she had just dethroned and everything sucked and nothing was okay and she just wanted to turn back time and find a way to keep this all from happening.
While on the outside she had that blank expression as usual, she was a screaming mess on the inside. The Viscosi Cate was done with this and she just wished there was a way to change this, or at least change the ambassadors’ minds. Deep down she knew what they said made sense, but that didn’t mean she had to agree with it.
After Sinani and Melamorn had put in their input, ERIN was about to pipe up and give one of her snarky, done comments. She knew exactly what she was going to say, but before the words could even come out the rumbling voice of Sams entered the air and cut the frog off before she could even start speaking.
”I know none of this is what we expected coming here today, but I believe this is our best option at this point as Sinani has pointed out.” Sams nodded toward Sinani and then to Melamorn before he turned his gaze on to ERIN and then Kai as if sizing the two up but looking closely it was apparent there was concern in his gaze. ”Now if either of you need anything I’m always more than happy to assist. Even in difficult times we must be there for one another.”
There it was, the big “I’ll be there for you” speech. ERIN didn’t have anything against it, and she didn’t really have a reason to be against Sams, but all of this just seemed so unnecessary. Her becoming queen, Kai being forced to step down, Flumori’s death, the wedding. This all could have just been avoided if they had listened to her from the start and allowed Kai to continue being the Giann system’s king. But now too much had happened for things to just go the way ERIN had wanted and now she was forced into even more stuff she hadn’t wanted to happen.
Feeling eyes on her, she turned to see Kai looking over at her. She merely gave a shrug toward the ex-king, who she supposed was her fiancé now and let out a slow sigh to let him know she wasn’t thrilled about this either since she was sure there was no way he was excited for everything that had, and was going to happen, happened.
This day had gone amazing. Absolutely great, and she just couldn’t wait to see what the future held.
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Mar 13, 2020 20:00:47 GMT -5
Spacechwok grumpy andalian
Meanwhile, standing on a trashcan in Dakk, a tiny orange Andalian braved the unknown.
Or rather, they braved the sickeningly familiar that was Tiorte, one of the slummiest cities on the whole planet and where they had made their home.
Frowning, Spacechwok picked up the newspaper and placed it back in their mouth, jumping off the trashcan and landing on the ground. They paused for a moment to scratch at their ear before scurrying off through the city streets.
Tiorte wasn’t big enough for many officials to pay it too much attention, despite the massive amounts of Biks and other creatures that lived here. It was the cesspool out of the already cesspool crowded planet, but hey, it was home.
Dodging out of the way of a fight going down between two Biks, Spacechwok ducked behind a dumpster, twitching their nose as they climbed up to stand on top of the dumpster to watch.
The two Biks really seemed to be going at it, throwing punches and shoving each other places.
Sticking their tongue out, Spacechwok took the newspaper out of their mouth and placed it on the side, throwing their fists into the air in excitement. ”Hit ‘em! Hit ‘em!” They encouraged, cheering for either of them really, but they’d claim they were claiming for the victory the whole time if asked.
Getting down on all fours, Spacechwok wagged their long orange tail back and forth in excitement as they watched, letting out a few small whoops of encouragement throughout the fight.
However then the two fighting Biks ran right into the dumpster and made Spacechwok fall into it, hitting the floor kind of hard.
Okay, excitement was officially over now.
Grumbling, they got back up to their feet and climbed out of the dumpster, going to stand right at the edge as they waved their fist angrily at the two fighting Biks. ”Hey, idiots! Watch where you’re going next time!” They shouted, which was enough to earn the attention of the two fighters.
Instantly stopping, the larger of the Biks turned to stare down at the Andalian, brow quirked towards in both confusion and amusement. ”What was that, pipsqueak?” He questioned, his spit landing on Spacechwok’s face as it flew out of his mouth.
Spacechwok glared and wiped the spit of their face, keeping their fists up and ready to fight if need be. ”I said you better watch where you’re going or I'm gonna bite your head off,” they snarled out, jumping back and forth on the dumpster lid as if daring the Bik to try anything.
He seemed to consider it for a minute and right before either of them could do anything, Spacechwok felt themselves being lifted up.
Struggling slightly, Spacechwok looked up to see who had dared take them out of the heat of a battle, however once they saw who it was, they dropped the act and let out a sigh, falling limp in her arms.
Hamartia Miseyi was someone Spacechwok couldn’t stay mad at.
”I’m sorry about them, they’re just cranky because they haven’t had their breakfast yet,” Hamartia explained as she looked up at the two Biks, offering them a smile.
Spacechwok huffed in response and patted her arms to object. ”I’m not hangry, I’m just hungry and angry, there’s a difference,” they objected quietly and Hamartia responded by gently patting their head.
The Bik didn’t seem entirely convinced and stood a little closer, towering over Hamartia by at least two feet. ”Well little girl, you better keep your pet out of my way next time,” he snarled at her, spit landing on her face.
Oi this guy seriously had a saliva problem, he should get that checked out.
Looking from Hamartia to the Bik, Spacechwok watched as Hamartia’s apologetic smile flickered away for a moment and was replaced by a rather sinister looking glare, grinned and snuggled up in Hamartia’s arms just as the smile returned to her face.
Things were about to get good.
Hamartia held Spacechwok up to her chest. ”Mister, I’d appreciate it if you didn’t spit on me, it’s very unbecoming, and Spacechwok isn’t a pet, they’re part of the family,” she explained, gently placing Spacechwok back down on the dumpster as the man leered even closer.
”Oh yeah? What’s a girl like you gonna do about it, huh?” He asked, and if to further prove himself to be the jerk that he was, he got up a wad of saliva and spit it out right onto Hamartia’s cheek.
Spacechwok let out a laugh, ”Shouldn’t have done that,” they got out and grinned at the Bik.
Hamartia inhaled sharply and flipped the blob of spit off her face, keeping her gaze level as she looked up at the tall man, paused, and then smiled. ”Has anyone ever tell you that you have beautiful eyes?” She questioned.
The man’s gaze flickered with confusion and Spacechwok continued to laugh as Hamartia stepped closer to him.
This was going to be fun.
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Letting out a rather cheerful hum, Hamartia and Spacechwok made their way back home, a skip in both their steps as they neared the small, dingy looking house. The front window was broken and the welcome mat was stained with blood but quite frankly, Spacechwok couldn’t think of anything better.
Scurrying through the doggy door, Spacechwok hurried inside, newspaper still in their mouth.
”Mom! Dad! I’m home!” Hamartia called out as she entered the house after them.
There was no answer. Autocorrect and Discord must be in the back.
Hamartia shook her head lightly and took off her jacket, pulling out two bloody eyeballs from her pocket. She looked at them for a minute before lowering them down into Spacechwok’s food bowl, offering them a wink. ”Think of it as a treat,” she told the Andalian with a smile, petting them one more time on the head before moving to go sit down on the couch and turn on the tv.
Spacechwok glanced over at the eyeballs, tongue lolling out of their mouth. The eyes were blue, which meant they were gonna taste like cotton candy later and they were definitely excited for that, but...they did have a message to deliver, so cotton candy flavored eyeballs would have to wait for a later time.
Scurrying past the food bowl, Spacechwok stopped to watch the news on the tv.
Blah blah blah, royal wedding, blah blah blah.
Eh, Hamartia would give them the full scoop of everything later.
So with a small shake of their head, Spacechwok continued further into the house, entering the dining room to see Autocorrect sitting cross legged on the table, her eyes wide open and covered from pupil to iris to everything else in an inky black.
Now, technically, Spacechwok knew better to disturb her while she was communicating with the demon, but they knew that she’d want to look at the message they had for her.
So, climbing up onto the table, Spacechwok casually dropped the wet newspaper right on her lap.
The black instantly faded from her eyes as they went back to the normal glowing green that they usually were.
Autocorrect glanced down at Spacechwok, brow raised. ”What are you doing?” She questioned and Spacechwok shrugged in response, pointing a finger at the newspaper.
”You’ve got a message from Fulcrum, thought you might like to know,” they explained casually, sitting back on the table to scratch at their ears.
Autocorrect’s eyes lit with excitement at their words. ”Fulcrum? I hope they have some good news for me,” she said and got off the table, unwrapping the newspaper and pulling out the small, gray, hologram chip from inside.
Studying it for a moment, Auto grinned and turned around, placing her hands around her mouth. ”Discord! Get in here! We got a message from Fulcrum!” She hollered for her husband.
Spaceships didn’t try to move. It had taken a lot to get that message to Auto and quite frankly, they wanted to see what was on it. Must be something important if Fulcrum had made them do all that work for the stupid thing.
At least they had eyeballs waiting for them, if anything else.
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Post by Feathertalon on Mar 14, 2020 0:05:52 GMT -5
Discord Miseyi cult leader
Old, run down houses were nice. They had a sense of beauty about them that fancy houses didn’t. They had more personality, more history to them than something pristine and completely made. But the best thing about a house that wasn’t completely finished was the fact that there was still a lot of work that could be done on it. There was the chance to make an actual home out of a house that needed work. It could be customizable and things could be changed to fit how the family living there wanted it to be. There was room to improve the overall look of the home, and there was the chance to make fun memories out of it all. And, as an added bonus, it gave Discord a chance to do something a bit more domestic. Not that he was tired or anything of how his life was now - he wouldn’t change anything about how his life was for any reason - but with everything that was going on right now it was hard to find time to sit down and do something like working on the house he and his family called home right now. It was a nice home, but it could definitely use some work, and Discord was more than willing to put in the work needed. He wanted to make sure his family had a home they enjoyed coming back to after a long day or after leaving for a few hours to get some fresh air. He wanted to make sure his kids got everything they wanted from the house, and just as importantly, he wanted to make sure his wife could call their house a home as well. Despite everything he did and everything he had done, he was very much so capable of love and affection and everything that went with that, and he loved his family more than anything. He still couldn’t believe he had been lucky enough to have such an amazing family, especially considering his species. Semperdracos were not known to be the family type. They were a monogamous species, mating for life if they ever chose to settle down with one, but they weren’t exactly full of love and affection and everything that made having a family fun.
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Post by Feathertalon on Mar 14, 2020 0:06:12 GMT -5
Instead they would become a mated pair if only for the benefit of having an extra set of eyes to watch out for danger. Semperdracos were a highly aggressive species, fighting for dominance and just fighting for bloodshed all the time. More often than not members of the species were fighting each other, ripping one another to shreds and flaunting their victory around for days or even weeks.
That was where Discord was different. He wasn’t exactly aggressive, and he wasn’t a very violent guy despite everything he had going for him. He had always been the outlier, the weakling, the one that nobody thought would get very far because of the way he was. Nobody would challenge him only under the pretense that if they did, the win would be too easy, and while Semperdracos loved victories, they also loved the aspect of getting to show off the scars of a hard won battle, to show off that they had been the one to come out on top, that they were the toughest.
Yet now, here he was, a formidable Semperdraco that was pretty well known and gaining a following unlike any his species had ever seen. Despite everything “wrong” about him when it came to his deposition compared to the rest of his species, he had certainly come out on top in a lot of ways.
He was Discord Miseyi, somebody that shouldn’t be messed with, somebody that was to be feared.
He was Discord Miseyi, and he was currently trying to delicately put up curtains in his and his wife’s bedroom.
For the majority of the day, Discord had been working around the house, cleaning things up, making it a little more homey than it was. He had a whole vision for how he wanted the house to look when it was done, but he was still pretty far from completing that goal. He was taking baby steps here and wasn’t going to beat himself up over not being able to finish improving the house all at once.
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Post by Feathertalon on Mar 14, 2020 0:06:34 GMT -5
He was aware he had bigger things to worry about at the current moment, but any time he got the chance he was more likely than not doing something around the house.
Humming softly to himself, the Semperdraco finished hanging up the curtains, taking a moment to look them over with a smile. They were a soft purple color, nothing too fancy, but he had picked them out thinking Auto would really like them. If anything Discord really liked them, the color reminded him of his wife.
As if thinking about his wife made her think about him in return, it wasn’t long after he had hung up the curtains that he heard Auto calling out from him from the dining room.
This instantly got his attention, and in an excited hurry to see what Auto was summoning him for, his tail whacked the curtains straight on as he turned. Now, this wouldn’t be a problem if his tail had just hit the curtains and that was that. But that wasn’t what had happened; instead, one of the spikey points protruding off his tail caught in the curtain and, when Discord tried to pull the appendage free, things only got worse.
The force from the pull sent a shudder up the curtains, and before Discord could do anything about it, he watched as all his hard work fell right down, falling into a messy pile with his tail stuck right in the middle of it all. But things were only getting worse from there.
In his attempt to free himself of the curtains once and for all, he managed to somehow trip on said curtains and fall right into the floor. Discord tried to catch himself, but of course, that only made it worse, and in his movements he had ended up getting himself, wings and all, caught in the fabric of the curtains.
This was...not really working out for him at all.
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Post by Feathertalon on Mar 14, 2020 0:07:26 GMT -5
He tried giving a few flaps of his wings, hoping that would work out for him, but all it did was tear the fabric even more and get it even more tangled around him. Discord let out a frustrated groan, realizing he wasn’t going to be able to get himself out of his mess alone.
Tangled up from head to tail at this point, Discord started worm wiggling his way to the dining room - which was a complete disaster in and of itself, and he was sure it took him ten minutes to get there and he was going to be left with a lot of bruises.
But eventually he made it, and when he did all he could do was look up at his wife with a lopsided grin on his face as if that would hide the fact he was currently wrapped up in a tangled mess of curtains. ”You called?”
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Mar 30, 2020 18:44:04 GMT -5
Autocorrect Miseyi Space Cultist
Completely engulfed in a heavy darkness, Autocorrect couldn’t help but feel more at home there than anywhere else. The darkness that encased her essence was cold, empty, even eerie in a lot of ways, and yet it came with a sense of peace. The peace in knowing that this was it. That despite all the clutter in the world and even the universe, that in the end it was nothing. Nothing but a blissful darkness that seeped into your very soul and made it’s home there.
Auto felt herself take a breath, not that it was needed. There was no oxygen in the darkness, but there was no need for it either. In the darkness, nothing existed, not even Autocorrect herself. When she let the darkness take her over she became part of it, giving in to the sheer emptiness of the universe, the only company was the voice of an all too familiar friend whispering in the back of her mind.
”Give into their darkness and I will show you all that it has to offer.”
It was the voice of the demon that had made itself home inside her mind. Auto didn’t mind. She had invited it there with open arms and together they had become unstoppable.
She could’ve stayed there in the darkness forever if not for the fact that something wet and heavy had just been dropped on her lap, pulling her attention back to the physical realm.
As the oily, inky black seeped out of her eyes, Auto fluttered her eyes open and closed a couple times as she got used to the lighting again before she looked down to see the newspaper that Spacechwok had dropped in her lap. She quirked her brow. ”What are you doing?” She questioned the Andalian as she looked down at them.
Spacechwok gave a casual shrug and sat down on the ground, and scratched at their ears like one of those earthly pets. ”You’ve got a message from Fulcrum, thought you might like to know,” they explained without a card in the world.
Auto’s eyes lit up in excitement.
”Fulcrum? I hope they have some good news for me,” she stated as she got off the table and unwrapped the newspaper, eyes locked down on the holographic chip from inside.
Fulcrum.
It was just a code name of course, used to hide the identity of their little spy within the castle walls, but a message was a message and with...everything that was going on right now, Auto would quite like to know what exactly it was Fulcrum had to say.
Studying the chip for a moment or so, Auto placed it back down on the table and shifted to looked down the hallway towards the bedrooms. ”Discord! Get in here! We got a message from Fulcrum!” She hollered for her husband, figuring that he would want to be here for this.
Autocorrect wasn’t actually sure what he was doing back there, but she hadn’t bothered to ask either, she was sure when she went back there later, she’d see whatever it was and probably like it. Discord always found ways of doing things she liked. He was thoughtful that way.
Waiting for her husband to arrive, Auto turned back to the chip and moved over to the counter, grabbing hold of one of the drawers and opening it.
She rifled though the contents for a minute until she found what she wax looking for and pulled out a round communicator and brought it back over to the table, turning it on and placing the chip inside.
There, now they just had to wait for Discord and they could get started.
Which...he sure was taking awhile.
Auto tapped her fingers against the table as she waited, glancing around.
”He probably fell asleep and choked on his tongue, want me to go eat his body so it’s not just lying around back there?” Spacechwok asked as they gave their ear one more scratch, a sort of lopsided smile on their place at the thought of Discord’s dead body just sort of hanging out in the back.
Auto sent them an unamused glare. ”He’ll be out in a minute, and you can’t eat him,” she scolded the Andalian lightly.
Spacechwok let out an annoyed chuff and rolled over onto their back. ”Bah, you’re way less fun ever since you married him, I’m gonna go eat my eyeballs, tell me what Fulcrum says,” they ordered as they crawled off and out of the kitchen with a grumble.
Auto shook her head slightly as she watched them leave. Spacechwok hadn’t ever been much of a fan of Discord, despite them knowing him for...well a really long time by now. Auto figured they just needed to bond over a good activity like blowing something up or something, maybe she could set that up for them after this whole Fulcrum thing.
Yeah, she’d make sure to do that.
Luckily, it was then that Discord finally came into the kitchen and Auto smiled, turning to face her husband and ready to explain everything to him when she paused, taking in the sight before her.
There Discord was, on the floor, crawling into the kitchen while completely tangled up in light purple curtains.
So thats what he had been doing back there.
Good to know.
Auto raised her brow as she looked down at him. ”...Do I even want to ask?” She questioned and let out a fond sigh as she knelt down and instantly started helping him out of the curtains. ”Can’t leave your alone for a second, now can I?” She asked him softly, waiting until he was completely free from the curtains before she kicked them far away from her husband and stood back up, gesturing for Discord to follow her to the table. ”Now come on, we got a message from Fulcrum and I’d like to figure out what it says,” Auto explained as she made her way back to the table and looked over at Discord, patiently waiting for him to join her.
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Post by Feathertalon on Mar 31, 2020 1:38:07 GMT -5
Discord Miseyi cult leader
Whatever Auto needed him for was bound to be important. He could be wrong, but he had a feeling this wasn't just his wife calling for him just because she could. If that was the case then Discord didn't mind, but as he had already pointed out, he was sure this was something important.
...And he was wrapped up in light purple curtains. That wasn't a very good way to show up when something important was happening. Though it wasn't like he was finding it easy to get out of the curtains.
Discord gave one more attempt to get out of the curtains. With a dramatic flop and lash of his tail, all he managed was to beat himself up against the floor even more than he already had.
Yeah, there was no way he was getting out of this by himself. At least he could count on his wife to help him.
Once he had made it into the kitchen, he waited for Auto's response to his appearance. He got into a lot of different antics and situations, but getting trapped inside curtains was new for him. If anything this wasn't a new low for him, so that had to count for something. Getting trapped in curtains was a low, but it wasn't the lowest of the lows, especially not for Discord. He could think about it this way - he was just like a little present wrapped up for his wife to open. Surely he was a present Auto would really appreciate.
Looking up at his wife with that lopsided smile still on his face, he attempted a shrug - it didn't really work out what with him being stuck in the curtains, but he tried. "Let's just say we won't have curtains in the bedroom just yet." It wasn't a big deal, they could wait a while longer before there were any put up, but it would be nice to have some sooner than later. Maybe he could even still use these curtains instead of buying new ones; though, that was a pretty big hope. There was no way these curtains weren't torn at this point.
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Post by Feathertalon on Mar 31, 2020 1:38:42 GMT -5
It wasn’t long until Auto knelt down to help him get out of the mess he had put himself in. While he knew he shouldn’t even be in this mess in the first place, he was beyond grateful that Auto was so willing to help him, especially since she didn’t really have to. She could have just left him there in the floor wrapped up in soft purple curtains, but she wasn’t, and that meant a lot to Discord. For as much havoc and terror his wife could so easily cause she was caring toward him. While he had certainly fallen for her because of her powerful, bloodthirsty ways, he had fallen in love with her all the more when he realized that he could still just be himself when around her. He didn’t have to act like some kind of tough killing machine around her constantly. If he wanted to he could put down his guard and be who he wanted to be. If he wanted to spend the day making their house look nice then he could do that and she wouldn’t judge him. With Auto he wasn’t constantly on edge, feeling like he was being judged for not meeting specific standards. He could do what he wanted, be what he wanted, without being self conscious about it with Auto, and for that he loved her more than anything. Auto didn’t judge him for his quirks and habits, and even if she did at times she never made him feel bad about it. Even now she wasn’t making some snide comment about how he failed to even put up curtains or anything of the sorts, no, she was helping him get out instead and being supportive.
It was moments like this when he had to stop and wonder just how in the universe he had gotten so lucky to have a wife like her.
As soon as he was freed, he stretched out his wings as best he could before folding them back down, getting back up to his feet as well. Watching as Auto kicked the curtains away he let out a hiss as if to warn the torn curtains to not mess with him ever again because clearly hissing at them would scare them away.
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Post by Feathertalon on Mar 31, 2020 1:39:03 GMT -5
Freed from the curtains at last, Discord followed after Auto as she gestured for him to take a spot at the table. On his way over he took a moment to acknowledge how appreciative he was that Auto had helped him out there. "Thanks for the help. I mean, I totally could have-" He stopped himself there. He was going to say he could have gotten out on his own, but he knew that was a lie. There was no way he would have gotten out by himself. Maybe in a few hours he could have freed himself, but with Auto there it had only taken a few minutes of being tangled up. "No," he corrected himself. "I'd still be stuck in that thing for hours without you." He then gave Auto an affectionate look, his features softening, even his tongue blepping out just a bit while his tail curled up happily. He really couldn't have a better person to spend his life with.
While he could stand there and affectionately gaze at his wife like a love struck dork for hours, there were more important matters to tend to. Not that showing his affection wasn't important, it just wasn't the time for that. Plus, he was curious to hear what Fulcrum had sent to them. With everything that was happening they needed news now more than ever, especially from their spy that was right inside the castle's walls. That easily made Fulcrum their most important spy. Anything coming from Fulcrum was bound to be important and full of information that they could use in their plan to take down the monarchy. "Fulcrum, hmm?" He asked with a tip of his head as he made his way to the table, joining his wife. "This ought to be pretty interesting then."
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Apr 8, 2020 17:28:53 GMT -5
Autocorrect Miseyi Space Cultist
Ah, curtains, that explained it. Auto had been wondering what exactly Discord was up to back there, though she should’ve assumed it would’ve been something sickeningly domestic like hanging up curtains, and under normal circumstances, Auto would grimace at something so...so...homely, but Discord was no normal circumstance; Discord was different, he was special, he was...well he was Discord and though Auto didn’t hold soft spots for many, especially since rarely did anyone deserve that kind of tenderness from her, but Discord, Space, and her three children...four if you counted Warp, were the select few that Auto had deemed worthy of her softer side.
Smiling slightly, Auto kneeled down and helped untangle Discord from the mess he had gotten himself into, taking special care to note that the curtains he had chosen were purple...like Auto was.
Auto was rather unique compared to the other races out there, although that could be summed down to the fact that she was the only full Otanidroni left...at least that she was aware of, and therefore there just weren’t many people to compare her to, with her lightly muted purple skin, striking green catlike eyes, and fluffy half purple and half grayish purple hair sprouting from her head in an almost cat ear like shape, ending at the tips with two large, green, glowing circles, lightly tinted with small green hairs thrown into the mix. Then of course you added on her purple and green tail that usually hung below her and out of the way unless she wanted to make a bold statement.
However the most unique part about Auto - in her opinion at least - was that about a third of her skin was covered in a hardened, stone line, purple material that used to be much, much softer, like the rest of her skin was. However after eons of summoning the strength and power of an ancient, cosmic demon to her aid, her body had begun to...well, harden in places. The demon had warned her that if she continued like this, one day her entire body would be cased in the rock like substance and eventually crumble to dust, but quite frankly, Auto knew she had time.
She had survived this long - and that was a very, very long time - so she was quite sure she could survive plenty longer going on just as she was.
Once Discord was free from the curtains, Auto sent him a toothy smile, patting his cheek. ”That’s okay, I happen to like the gloom seeping through our window in the morning,” she reassured him and got back up, dusting off her hands as she approached the counter, pausing for a second when Discord mentioned he could’ve gotten out on his own.
She raised a brow at him, waiting for him to correct himself, and once he did, Auto nodded in approval. ”Mmhmm, that’s what I thought,” she informed him, waiting until Discord has joined her before she looked down at the table.
”Alright Fulcrum, lets see what you have for us this time,” Auto said, pressing down on the button to let the message play.
Instantly a cloaked figure appeared as a hologram, blue silhouette making it impossible to tell who it was. ”I have bad news,” came the mechanic voice of Fulcrum and Auto frowned. ”I’m afraid that the assassination attempt...failed.”
Auto rolled her eyes.
Of course it did.
”Idiot can’t even assassinate right,” Auto grumbled under breath.
”However, the ex king is not to be returned to power...at least, not in the same way, instead he and the new empress are supposed to get married,” the voice continued and Auto nodded along with a flick of her hand.
Yes, yes, this was all important and whatever but it didn’t really help their situation, now did it?
”Got anything useful to add there, Fulcrum?” Auto muttered under her breath, even though she knew that the hologram was an old message and couldn’t answer.
”I’m afraid that if you wish to continue with your plan, you’ll have to figure something else out-“ Fulcrum kept talking after that, but Auto was done listening and instantly turned it off, letting out a growl as she threw the chip against the wall, watching as it broke and fell to the floor with an annoyed shake of her head. ”Useless, absolutely useless,” Auto sword under her breath, shaking her head as she placed her hands on the counter, gripping the edge of the cold surface tightly.
This was just great, first the assassination attempt failed and now there was going to be what? Some sort of fancy wedding? Then what? Everything went back to normal? That was the opposite of what she wanted.
Honestly, Auto swore that if she wanted something done right, she really just ought to do it by herself at this point.
Clearly leaving tasks such as important as this to others was s stupid move on her part.
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Post by Feathertalon on Apr 9, 2020 4:01:54 GMT -5
Discord Miseyi cult leader
Discord should have been able to put up curtains without them beating him up in the process. It should have been an easy enough task to accomplish, yet that hadn’t happened and instead he had just been trapped inside them. It wasn’t his best moment, but it was something he had come to expect. He wasn’t all that upset about getting caught up in the curtains, and instead he was more upset over the fact that he hadn’t gotten them up yet. It wasn’t like they were something that was absolutely needed, but he liked the idea of having them up to make the house feel a little bit more like a home. It was all just things he wanted and not needed, but he wanted to make the place feel homey and comfortable. A few little domestic touches here and there never hurt. Yeah, he had other things to worry about, but he didn’t have to constantly go around and cause havoc. If he did that he would become too predictable, and being predictable kind of defeated the purpose of anarchy.
Even if he had failed at getting the curtains up, he was glad to hear that Auto had no hard feelings about it. It was always good to know that even if he messed up his wife was going to be there to support him and give him a reason to not be too upset about his failures. ”Would you rather there not be curtains then?” He asked after Auto had mentioned liking the gloom that they typically woke up to in the morning. It made sense that she would, and honestly, Discord didn’t mind it either. If his wife would rather keep it like that then he had no problem not putting up curtains. He wouldn’t have to worry about going out and buying any new ones then, either. Maybe their room would be better off without curtains, but Discord was going to let Auto make the final say there since this was her home just as much as it was his.
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Post by Feathertalon on Apr 9, 2020 4:02:17 GMT -5
Now with the question about the curtains having been asked, Discord made his way over to the table, intrigued to hear what Fulcrum had to tell them. He watched as the hologram appeared, showing a bipedal figure covered in a cloak. Usually these sort of messages proved to be fruitful, or at least interesting to hear, but this time around the message did not seem to be a good one.
Then the bad news was delivered.
Discord narrowed his eyes, his tail swishing back and forth once he heard that the assassination had failed. It wasn’t like Fulcrum had proved to be an idiot all that often; if the spy had then they very much wouldn’t be working with Auto and Discord anymore. They’d make for a fine display of what would happen to those who failed one too many times. A warning that there wasn’t room for any errors in this game Auto and Discord were playing at. It wouldn’t take but a slash of his claws and Fulcrum would see the end of their days, but maybe Fulcrum had something else to say in their message. Maybe there was something that would lighten the bad news, something that would keep Fulcrum in the good graces of the cult’s higher ups.
A low hiss came from Discord when it was noticeable that Fulcrum didn’t have anything of importance to note. Well, knowing the assassination had failed was important, but the fact that it was the exact opposite of what they wanted made it a mood killer. Discord had been hoping for something good, yet what he got was more disappointing than the pile of shredded up curtains he had left behind. This was certainly a lesson in the saying “if you want something done right, do it yourself”. Perhaps that’s what they needed to do. If Fulcrum was going to be useless and just tell them the obvious then they just needed to take matters into their own hands. It would feel good to get back into the fray of things rather than sit in the shadows and let others do all the dirty work.
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Post by Feathertalon on Apr 9, 2020 4:02:48 GMT -5
Though ultimately Discord was the leader here, he still looked to Auto for a lot of advice and even answers on things. He turned to her for a lot, to the point that she was probably more of a leader than the Semperdraco was. It wasn’t like he never took the lead, but he also never really did anything until he got his wife’s approval. This was a team effort between the two of them. If he was going to do something, especially if it was going to be something big and important, he wanted to let Auto know and wanted to get her opinion weighed in on the matter before anything was done.
Right now was no exception to that. It was clear that Auto was a lot more frustrated with this than Discord was, but that wasn’t to say he wasn’t annoyed with the lack of advancement in plans. Even still he walked to stand beside his wife, placing a comforting hand on her shoulder. ”You know, I’d say this is our chance to take over and show everybody how things are really done,” he suggested, a sly smirk pulling at the corner of his lips as he looked at his wife, curious to see how she’d react to both his touch and his suggestion. He felt like she was more than willing to get out there and take matters into their own hands, especially after the failure that Fulcrum had told them about. Perhaps it had been a good idea for the two of them to lay low for a little while and let spies do some work for them, but it was only a matter of time before they needed to show the galaxy what they were capable of and that not even a set back could stop them from achieving their goals.
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Apr 28, 2020 22:17:19 GMT -5
Autocorrect Miseyi Space Cultist
It wasn’t all that unusual for Fulcrum to report back with bad news. Though this was especially disappointing considering just how big it was. Auto had had a plan, a very intricate plan that required Emperor Kaiyo Walvelon dead and now that plan was unraveling before her very eyes.
It was completely ridiculous actually, here she was, Autocorrect Ikamustat Miseyi, the last of her kind and sole survivor to ever have a demon living in her brain for more than five minutes. She had seen civilizations rise and fall, had witnessed the birth of a new empire and enacted in wiping out the rest of the Otanidroni from the face of the universe.
She was someone to be feared, and yet here she was, living in some dump, in a small, yet nonetheless important galactic empire, being bested by its young king...of ex king by now.
How had she fallen so far?
Bowing her head down, Auto reached up to pull her springy, dual colored hair down, tugging at it in her frustration.
Even Discord’s physical and verbal comfort did very little to calm her down. She needed to get out, she needed to do something big, all this sitting around and playing housewife was going to drive her insane.
She loved her family, she really did, and she would do anything for them, however she was a being of chaos, and as much as she adored her family, Auto wasn’t exactly the domestic type, and she had been cooped up in here far, far too long for comfort.
Inhaling sharply, Auto let go of her hair, it instantly springing back to life like two large, purple cat ears. ”It’s okay, we’ve got this handled, though I might kill Fulcrum myself the next time we see them in person,” she hissed our under her breath, vibrant green eyes going dark for a moment or so.
Fulcrum hadn’t been a terrible spy, but they weren’t a particularly good one either, and Auto hadn’t killed someone in 32 days, she was getting kinda antsy about that, so basically, Fulcrum was on very thin ice and Auto wouldn’t hesitate to brutally tear out their intestines the next time they met.
Shaking her head a little, Auto began to pace, already forming a new plan, one that would require a lot more of a hands on experience than this last one had.
However that was when she heard the TV from the other room.
Ears perking up, Auto poked her head out of the kitchen. ”Hamartia, what are you watching?” She questioned quickly.
Hamartia shrugged in response and gestured over towards the tv. ”Giann News, they’re giving out details for the upcoming wedding,” she explained simply and Auto instantly scurried out to watch.
On the tv was some sort of dolled up Bik news reporter, a picture of Kai stuck in the corner as the reporter went on to talk.
”-And with this new knowledge coming into light, it’s safe to assume that the wedding will be happening within the next couple months, already the castle has reached out for the best wedding planners in the galaxy, and with the promise of a new royal wedding all abuzz, it’s gotten everyone in wedding fever-“ the lady went on to explain as she gestured vaguely to the excited crowds behind her.
”What’s even more exciting is that the wedding itself is going to be a public event, allowing for a large, extensive amount of people to be there, if I were you, I’d be getting started on an outfit fit for a royal wedding-“ she laughed lightly at her own joke and continued talking, but by then, Auto really wasn’t listening.
A small, devious smirk had slowly begun to creep up the edge of her mouth. ”Discord, I think you’re right, it’s time we got our own hands dirty in this,” she said in a cool, calculated voice, her eyes fixed on the picture of Kai on the screen.
”I’ve always wanted to plan a wedding.”
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