The Black Enigma

He let his posture drop a little, embarrassed. He let his ears drop down and averted his gaze to the ground. Of course Prince knew he was small, he was the smallest of his brothers and sisters in his litter. But he could keep up! It would probably look a little funny with him running beside him to keep up, but Prince could do it!

Being picked up again, however, was not something that he was expecting. And being put on the other’s shoulder that was even more unexpected. He couldn’t complain though. The view from up higher was definitely better than his spot on the ground.

Once he was positioned so he wouldn’t fall off, he yipped happily and licked the boy on his cheek.

What had Vanitas gotten himself into with allowing this creature to accompany him? Of course this all could have been so much worse than it was at the present time and he hoped to all hell it stayed that way. If some goody-good saw him and actually thought he was good or some stupid shit like that then he would not be very happy.

۵ "Hey."

Vanitas grumbled the word as lips twisted into a scowl from the sudden feeling of wet tongue to his face. Animals were weird creatures and did things he'd rather them not do; speaking of them like that made them sound just like those retarded goody-goods he hated so much. He took it back as it would be an insult to the animals.

۵ "You have to have a name or something right? Normally the owner names their... Pet."

As soon as the word passed his lips his teeth grit together in agitation of the memory of receiving his own name. All he'd been to that old man was a half of a tortured whole birthed merely to create a weapon. Negative feelings began to well up within Vanitas and in his shadow a single Flood Unversed poked its head out before emerging completely and without the enigma noticing.

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{ ✾ } Tch! Did he really just give her that attitude? Teeth grit against each other, her lips moving slightly in a motion that was meant to bare her teeth, but she had restrained it enough to not fully have gone through with that action. There was no use fighting fire with fire, but she was close to simmering.

"I suggest you watch your tongue. I didn’t exactly bump into you now did I? What need for pity do I have? Nor did I say anything insulting. Unless ‘interesting’ is somehow not meant to be a good thing?" Oh no, she knew very well it could go either way, but she was sure with the tone she used earlier it could very well have been a compliment.

"Then don’t. Walk away and cool down for a spell." What happened to not picking a fight with this one? Oh right, seems in her own irritation she completely forgot about that. This wouldn’t end well, no doubt.

۵ "Oh? Did I strike a nerve?"

In his amusement Vanitas purred much like that of a feline. The noise matched the pair of amber eyes which followed the girl with the fierce yet gentle shimmer of a hunting predator. With every word that fell from her mouth the Cheshire grin upon the enigma's face only grew wider. Perhaps he would have some fun with this idiot after all.

۵ "Cool down for a spell, hm? That gives me an idea."

In a swirl of darkness the Void Gear appeared in his hand, it was then raised very slightly to point at the girl's feet. With the soft utter of the word freeze the spell was cast; though whether it actually hit the mark or not was of no real concern to him. Making this moron dance a bit would be just as amusing, if not more.

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Prince kicked his legs weakly when he was picked up, not really minding but not exactly comfortable without the ground beneath him. He kept his eyes wandering the male’s face, he looked really tired. Maybe he didn’t get enough sleep.

He took a minute to think about the question, but eventually nodded. He had been told that a broken pokeball meant his trainer didn’t want him anymore. So yes, he was on his own.

When he was set back down, he stood next to Vanitas, trying his hardest to stand as tall as he could. If he wasn’t strong enough for his trainer to keep him, he sure as heck was going to try better to make this human keep him around.

۵ "What are you doing now?"

Was it attempting to mock him in some way? Vanitas doubted it, but that never meant that it wasn't happening. The enigma simply decided to ignore it even if it happened to be true since this small creature was essentially like him in a way. However that was probably just his inner workings desperately searching for something to cling to in his absence.

۵ "You'll never keep up with me, you're too small."

Amber irises shifted left and right prior to his bending to scoop the animal up with an arm. As his body straightened Vanitas shifted the creature to rest atop his shoulder as he thought it the best way to travel with it. In his arms would be too inconvenient as he needed them himself so it could sit there.

۵ "I suppose you can see further this way as well."

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{ ✾ } A few times in the past, she had come across someone who radiated and had their entire being flow with darkness. Most other times it was either neutral, happy-go-lucky or neutral but leaning more towards one side than the other.

She found herself facing someone that was out of the norm. Not odd, but now she was on her guard. Gemiya just found herself in front of this guy but, hm. It was all sudden. She was walking one minute but had abruptly just halted in front of something, but it turned out to be someone instead.

"Interesting choice of attire." It did look a tad familiar, though at the moment she couldn’t recall why. "Anyway, sorry about that." Of course she stepped out of the way, gut instinct hinted her off to not pick a fight with this one.

۵ "What the hell did you just say to me?"

For once in his miserable excuse for a life Vanitas was doing something other than tormenting the next weakling that crossed his path. To be on the receiving end of someone else's ignorance was not something that he found to be too pleasant.

۵ "Get your shit together idiot not everyone is going to take pity on a stupid airhead like you."

The feeling he'd been so desperately trying to follow through the worlds was gone once again and caused the downward spiral of his temper into oblivion. Amber eyes focused on the offending party and narrowed in his disgust. As far as he knew, this one here was another of those goody-goods.

۵ "Seeing as you made me lose track of who I was following maybe I shouldn't show pity after all."

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Prince deduced that this human was probably sick or something. Not that he didn’t mind that he was petting him gently, it was nice to even be in contact with a human that didn’t attack him with another pokemon for once! But he had met many tiny humans that petted him much harder, and humans as big as he was petted him harder too.

Being sick was obviously the only answer.

The pokemon turned his snout up and licked his fingers. Sure, it had taken him a little while to understand that he wasn’t lost, but wild, but completely understanding now, he just shook his head. It wasn’t even sadly, even if it was a little sad to him.

#۵ adaptablepower #۵ Vanitas has no idea why he got himself involved.

Did this thing just shake its head at him as if understanding his question? Vanitas stared in confusion for a good few moments before he simply plucked the creature from the ground, thumbs beneath either front leg, and stood up. Amber eyes took in every part of the fluffy thing in his hands as he turned it to better look at it.

۵ "You got left on your own too or what?"

Imagining some idiot leaving a tiny thing to fend for itself was like when the Master left him with his negativity. Even now, without the Master or him Vanitas was just like this creature... Minus the more than obvious fact that he was much stronger than this thing and could easily crunch it beneath his boot. Again, this one was merely lucky.

۵ "Fine you can follow me or whatever I don't care."

Brows knitted into a deep frown as he tried to think of a better solution to his sudden problem. Why had he said that to it? Now it was going to follow him around like he did with those stupid goody-goods. No better idea was thought of so the enigma settled the animal back on the ground. How the hell was he supposed to travel with this thing anyways?

Prince stopped for a second, taking a step back when the human yelled. Yelling was never something that sat well with the evolution pokemon. He sat down in front of the male, licking his previously injured paw and making sure there was nothing left.

He was delighted beyond comprehension when the male ruffled his fur. Prince didn’t even care that it was getting all messed up and stuff. That could be fixed! But the opportunity to make a new friend was a hit or miss kind of thing.

A very soft “vee~" escaped the pokemon as he leaned into the male’s hand, tail wagging back and forth slowly.

#۵ adaptablepower #۵ Vanitas.exe has stopped functioning.

۵ "Great."

What in the worlds was he going to do now? This cat-dog-fox-rabbit-- Thing!- was really, really soft. It was very rare for the enigma to feel anything but the cold and negative emotions he'd been accustomed to living with and this stupid creature was bringing back the feelings from just after his so called birth. The feelings themselves were irritating to say the least and Vanitas had little to no real want to feel them.

۵ "Yea, yea. What do idiots say when they help someone, you're welcome or some stupid shit?"

Vanitas was not very comfortable at the present moment but he continued to stroke the fluff up the creature's fur. Twas an odd sort of feeling to have something so delicate and pure beneath his hand and for him not to immediately crush it to death. This particular one was lucky he supposed.

۵ "I'm no expert with this shit but don't you have someone to go back to or something? Friendly little shits usually have an owner. Why the hell aren't they looking after you?"

Oh goodness, abort abort. Why didn’t he run away when he got the chance? A small whine emanated from the evolution pokemon as the person reached forward. He had seen other pokemon bite humans that did stuff like that, but he didn’t particularly feel like doing that.

He did try to pull away, and obviously failed miserably. Another whine almost left him, but instead a surprised yelp did when the thorn was removed from his paw.

Surprised and delighted, he barked happily. Prince stood and shook himself out before trotting forward and pressing his face against the male’s knee.

۵ "Hey-- Don't go getting all friendly on me and shedding your stupid fur!"

This thing had looked like a cat of all creatures but it most definitely was not one. Perhaps his eyesight was going bad due to hanging around an old fart for so long? Amber eyes widened in more than obvious shock yet Vanitas dare not move. What the hell did he think he was doing helping some wild creature he knew little to nothing about?! What sort of idiot was he going to turn out to be for this stupid slip up?

۵ "Okay I get it you're happy!"

For a moment it almost seemed as if Vanitas was going to finally shove the creature away from him yet he did not. Instead his right hand rose to ruffle the creature's fur rather gently. Yup, he was most definitely going to bash his skull into a hard surface later on for this.

The male’s actions don’t sit well with Prince, and in return to his sudden movements, he flinches and pins his ears against his head. He doesn’t know what this guy is going to do!

۵ "Hold still you--"

For once from tainted lips fall nothing but a sigh of absolute defeat. This was an animal and animals held no real sense of darkness or light so his insults would be wasted on it. The possibility of kicking it was always present but in this moment he merely grasped the tiny thing's foot and removed the offending thorn.

۵ "There. Better?"

#۵ General P O S T #۵ Tossing Vanitas out there for whomever.

۵ "The fuck are you staring at? This isn't some sort of gawk show retard. Keep walking."

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“I’m not afraid of you. I prefer to keep space between myself and the likes of you. I don’t need you anywhere close to me.”

If he really proved afraid, frame would be cowering away with the emotion swirling rampant inside striking blue eyes rather than the irritation and fury that settled unevenly on his mind. As a Nobody without a heart these emotions couldn’t wither away into the darkness like someone who possessed a true heart of light flowing with the warmth and delight shared between friendship and happiness. Raised hand slipped back down to his own side as stance evened out than resting continuously at an angle.

Lips curled back away from clenched teeth as if wolf about ready to strike down its prey drizzled its way over his features as shoulders tensed up. Sure, this guy was purposely pushing his buttons as Roxas knew well enough, but the more he talked about him, it really rubbed at the blond the wrong way. It was getting exhausted out the more he brought it up like a broken record constantly played the same lines again and again as it spun around on its turntable.

“Shut up!”

Hand crossed upward in front of his chest before swiftly snapping back downward with the exclamation. Venom spit out with each word flicking out between white teeth. It was like this guy had some type of sick obsession he simply couldn’t just let go of. Drums pounded in the back of his mind sending vibrations hitting against the sides with each ache. It was highly exhausting just to speak with him.

“I’m not a part of anything you’re in! I have nothing to do with you! Him, him, him, if you’re so hooked on him then why the hell don’t you just go find him and leave me the hell alone, huh?! I am not the idiot; you’re the one talking absolutely nonsense! If you care less on who I am, then you shouldn’t have asked me in the first place!”

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Curved lips gave way to a toothy grin of sorts which split his face seemingly in half. Yes, that anger and frustration lashing towards him threw shudders of delight down the enigma's spine. Even if it wasn't him it felt so similar it was pleasing to every fibre of his being. That look of fury and the movements of his body reminded him so of him; actually it was sort of disgusting.

۵ "Worm."

Vanitas spat the word at the blond haired copycat with his own breed of distaste. The amusement from before was erased from his face only to be replaced with a more neutral expression. This idiot wouldn't listen to reason or truth, he was in his own little world of delusions and fairytale happiness. Just like him.

۵ "You're disgusting. You think you're in this perfect little world with your perfect little friends. Wake up and smell the roses, idiot. Not everything is as it seems."

The negativity swelled within his body; darkness seemed to fall from his body and swirl around his feet. It had been so long since this had happened, the darkness which fell soon gave shape to two or three of the disgusting blue creatures so fondly named Unversed.

۵ "You don't deserve to even look like him."

The noir ignored the twitching filth at his feet and instead stepped towards the source of his negative feeling. If he wasn't certain that this figment of darkness and light had some piece of him hidden away somewhere within him then the enigma would have slain him where he stood. This mindset however deterred him not from looming over this, as far as he was concerned, boy.

۵ "Tell me what you are before I crush you beneath my foot like the insect you appear to be."

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"If that’s the best insult you can carry, then I’ll be on my way, sir."