Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

A skeletal hand, coated in lava, erupts from the pool. It seizes your arm.

 

"Darkness. If he wasn't a shadow, he'd be dead by it."
"More like Rineth would possess him." Riihs adds.

"Wait, this feels... Rineth, didn't you say something like this happened before?"
He nods yes.

 

"Hahah! Of course not!" This time I can't help but laugh.

"NOPE!" I jump out of the way right as it grabs me. I scream from the heat.
The teapot makes a hissing sound, and pour it into a cup. However, there are no visible burn marks on me.

I run over to Ihra with the cup of tea. "Ihra, here. Have this cu-elixir. It will help soothe your soul." I then blow on the tea to make sure it's not hot. I look at Rineth. "Don't worry, it's just tea."

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"Ah."

 

"Sounds delicious."

 

"A what? Why is it steaming?"

Ihra takes the cup and tries it before downing it.
"Tastes like flower water."

 

My arm twitches a little, I seem to have regained most of my strength; the wound is mostly closed.

Abigail's head pokes out from the pool of lava. Half of it is skeletal.

"If you're going to be making tea in my pool, at least offer me some." She says. Lava drips from her empty eye socket.

 

I don't seem surprised at all.
"I doubt he has extra."

 

"You can stop. He's moving."

Ihra pokes you repeatedly with her staff.

"There's more flower water? Where?!"
Riihs rolls his eyes.

 

"Rude..." She says, sinking back into the lava. She gives a skeletal thumbs up as her hand sinks into the lava.

"Ughhh...no...I don't want to go to school...the cats ate my desk..." I mumble, disturbed by the poking.

I suddenly realise I'm in fact a shadow, who doesn't go to school. I open my eyes and lift myself off the ground into a sitting position.

"What...happened?" I say, clumps of earth falling from my face.

 

"I think you died. Artemis... don't you remember stabbing her?"
"Ihra! Don't be so blunt!"

 

"Wh-what?" I say, "I stabbed Artemis...?"

I try my best to think back to recent memories. After a short moment, tears begin to stream down my face; I put my head in my hands.

"I...I stabbed her. I had to harm her...to...to snap her out of it...and I stabbed her..." I say through tears, "Why did you make me remember that!?" I say, looking up at Ihra.

 

Her eyes are red.
"Nobody's exempt."

Riihs bashes her in the back of the head with the blunt end of his lance.
"Forgive her, seems she had something she needed to snap out of as well."

Rineth watches Ihra from a short distance.
"She's asleep. Nice shot."

 

"Do you need skele-hugs?" Abigail says from her pool of lava. Her head seems to be formed.

I walk over to Abigail's lava pool, she holds her skeletal arms out. Abigail gives me a hug, rising out of the pool a little; revealing a skeletal body.

"Thanks, Abigail." I say, wiping my tears.

Abigail smiles, sinking back into the pool so only her head is visible.

 

"Glad she's not awake to see that..."
"You've seen worse, Riihs. Massacre at Generator 2?"
"That was hell."

 

I momentarily zap Aj with the full force of the sun by lifting the darkness around his face (I've been bending direct sunlight away from him so he doesn't melt), then resume bending it away. Hopefully the shock works like a slap in the face.
"Have you snapped out of being melancholy now?"

OOC: Heh, reminds me of castle crashers.

 

"She might still have a chance to." Abigail says, "Unlike Little Ms. Genocide over there, I'm going to take a lot longer to heal. She sucked most of the life out of me and ruined most of my organs. My powers kicked in and started replacing things; though lava isn't exactly known for healing."

"Massacre at generator 2?" I ask, curious.

The shock of the sunlight burns away at my essence rather quickly; having not been in it for so long.

"Do that again, and you can have a special date with a skeleton in her pool of lava," Abigail says, glaring at Luphyx, "Try it, I dare you."

 

"I want a skele-hug."
I say, intrigued.
"But something tells me you won't give me one."

 

"All but four Chronos were slaughtered along with the entire Tsunami Council for their attempts to evacuate the other four."
Riihs glares at Rineth.
"He was there; the Storm Council was lucky to avoid fire from the event."
"Trips down memory lane for everyone, eh? Need I remind you when you were exiled?"
"Nope, I still remember that."

 

Abigail holds her skeletal arms out, "You can have a Skele-Hug if you want one!" She says happily.

I listen intently, "Sounds rather brutal," I say, "How many were in the Tsunami Council?"

Abigail shivers at the thought of tsunamis.

 

OOC: What is it, AJ? Is skele-hug capitalized or not?

I go over to the skeletal Abigail and gently hug her.
For the main reason to get to touch real bone.
And for the secondary reason of boosting how I feel.
Because that's how psychology works.