My take on the Lost in Translation AU
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As they go through the twisting corridors, more armour stands - that appear to be patrolling - pass them with gentle clinking from the metal and the armoured glove resting on the sword’s pommel of the hilt. None of them looked over, but some moved around Crowley and the teen.
They keep wandering the halls, following the headmaster, taking a ten minute walk, only to leave through a side entrance onto some neatly trimmed green space. On the far side of a garden, a gate is being pulled up, leading onto a bridge made out of the same pale stone as the school walls - even if there is moss inhabiting the majority of it.
They continue across the bridge into a slightly overgrown field with a large Manor House in the centre. The windows had been boarded up and the ones that weren’t were mostly smashed. There were obvious cracks in the paint covering the wooden walls.
‘Called it. A shit-tip’ they thought to themself, knowing that their intuition to not fully trust Crowley’s word was correct.
“Is't not most delightful? Aye, prithee, hie thee within. There thou art.”
“It definitely has some character” they say, agreeing with the headteacher’s words in the library, making him flash an exited smile at their not-so-subtle criticism of the outside state of the building as if they had told him he won the national lotto.
They continue to the front to the manor and pass the foyer to the lounge, which has a thick layer of dust on all possible surfaces, and no doors separating the rooms.
Crowley gestures to the living room like it was a revolutionary invention being presented to a queen and declared “This shall keep the elements at bay for the nonce. Now must I return unto mine own research. Prithee, find some means to busy thyself. But let me not catch thee wandering the campus! Fare thee well! Ta-ta!”
Once the overdramatic Head of the school left them in the room with mostly settled dust, they hear a light pitter patter against the windows and boards, rapidly tapping harder. A squawk that sounded suspiciously like a certain figurehead could be heard in the slight distance. Yuu smiled at the noise, until they realised that there were drips coming from both the ceiling and the walls when one landed right on their forehead. “Oh, for crying out loud,”they sigh in frustration at the poor condition of the dorm, “I’m gonna have to get some cash to fix this if I’m gonna be staying here for a bit.”. They take a deep breath and think ‘Just until Crowley figures out how to get me back home.’
Just as they try to take another deep breath, a familiar squeaky voice calls throughout the broken building “GWAH! 'Tis a deluge without!”
The weasel was back. And without a collar too, meaning the red head’s magic has a time limit, or a range that once broken isn’t reapplied unless cast again. Yuu took a mental note of that as the creature came into the living room.
“How did you get in here you blue bugger? Weren’t you chucked off campus by some people?” They ask genuinely curious since they saw the amount of guards passing through the corridors.
The weasel responded with a sharp laugh, “Ha! Thy countenance is beyond price! Like a bat that hath been drenched by a water's shot. As if I would not steal back to the college grounds the very moment I escaped prying eyes. Ye have no notion of what I am capable! I shall not forsake my purpose to attend this place for that I was but once and meanly cast out. And if thou think'st otherwise, thou know'st not Grim!”
Yuu looks at the fire bending weasel, now dubbed Grim, wondering ‘who actually wants to go to school? I just got out of the worst stage of it, and the outcome isn’t even that big a deal, only deciding what college I’m meant to be going to, but now im stuck here instead of there! Anyways…. I did see some guards - well, medieval looking armour - earlier that were patrolling the area in the school. What if I just…’
They cup their hands around their mouth to act as a megaphone and in a mostly serious, partly joking way, yell “Guards! Guaaaaaaaards!”
The panicked look on Grim’s face almost made them laugh as he quickly responds with his front two paws waving at them to stop shouting “Hark! Nay! Base mortal! VILE CREATURE! Dost thou not intend to inquire what purpose brings me hither? Is't not your wont, to speak of passions and such humors? Pray, what manner of man art thou? 'Twould not be thy bane to lend thine ear to my discourse! Is't not so?”
Yuu raises an eyebrow and says after a moment “okay, go for it. I’ll listen to your backstory.”
They sit down on one of the dust drowned couches as Grim starts to speak “'Twas my very birthright! I am a prodigy of magic, possessed of the makings to become among the greatest mages e'er to draw breath! Thus have I waited, and waited still, for that black carriage to come for me. And yet... Hrmph! That Dark Mirror hath no eye for true talent!”
They nod along to his story as he keeps going “Thus did I take the matter in mine own hands and hither came myself. Ye mortals comprehend not what error ye commit! To bar mine entry is a grievous loss unto the world! Mrrao! Prithee, make way! The rain doth fall upon me here!”
Yuu notices Grim is still in the way of the open window, allowing rain to coat him and moves over to the window to close it - just because they had a scuffle with the cat doesn’t mean they want him to get cat hypothermia in the cold outdoors, even if the only difference inside the dorm is that it doesn’t have as much wind or rain as outside, still about 2 degrees C though.
When Yuu shuts the real window, a part of the ceiling falls, creating a nice window to the next floor up and an even better way for the rain to creep itself onto the ground floor.
“Fie! Yet another breach in the roof! These fiery ears are as my very crest, thou knowest? I must not suffer them to be quench'd!”
As the weasel complains about his ears being almost put out ,while standing on his hind legs, Yuu is coughing their lungs out from the disrupted dust and the extra dust from the collapsing infrastructure
“Bloody hell,” they cough, “I’m gonna have to find some buckets and pots to catch the drips, aren’t I?” They ask rhetorically once their lungs are decent enough to be able to talk
“I know not why thou dost not simply conjure those holes away. Thou couldst have them mended in half a trice. Ah, verily. Thou canst not use magic at all. Pfft, thou art useless, man.”, Grim mocks the already exasperated Yuu, to which they reply with: “Just help me get them fixed up, Charizard.”
After that comment, Grimm crosses arms over his chest with a humph “What? Thou wouldst have ME aid THEE? Ha! Thou dost mistake my purpose. I am but a stranger seeking shelter from the storm. Thou art not my master.”
Grabbing the argumentative cat by the scruff, Yuu refuses to let Grim run away without helping fix the mess they would both have to deal with- at least until the rain stopped. “Shut up and help patch these holes or I’ll tell Birdbrain that you’re back here being a right pest.”
“Hadst thou some tins of tuna to barter, why, that were a different tale. But I labor not for naught.”
“Help me find some pots or you’ll be the next flash attachment on my mop.” Yuu tries to get him to co-operate, but with the threat of becoming a mop attachment being ineffective, they try again. “Or I could call the Headmaster and he’ll kick you out personally and make sure you don’t return.”
“EEP! “ he squeals with widened eyes then grumbles “...'tis well, but thou owest me a can of tuna.”
Was threatening to call the headteacher to throw out the cat a low blow? Yes. Yes, it was. Was it effective? Also yes. Yes, it was. And after a few hours of finding and placing pots, pans, bowls and even some bins under the larger leaks, Yuu and the weasel decided to make a truce and explore the wreck of a manor that Crowley called a ‘dorm’
“This place is kinda freaking me out. Looks worse than my Nan’s attic after Christmas.” Yuu muttered to themselves. A faint, airy voice passes behind them both making Yuu pause in their walking up the slightly rotted wooden stairs before asking Grim, who was a few steps below them, “Did you hear tha- AHHHHH!” They got cut off by a possessed snowman appearing in front of them suddenly, forcing them to scramble for the remains of the banister to not become like that legend teachers tell you about to scare you into not rocking on your chairs.
“Yee hee hee... Bwa ha ha ha ha ha.We have not had visitors in many a long year!Oh, I am sorely athirst for new companions! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!”
“AHHHH!” Yuu continues to scream while frozen in place and widened eyes
“Hark! Peace, I prithee-AHHHH! SPECTRES! SPECTRES!” Grim screams with Yuu as he scurries up to their shoulders to use them as a meat shield. After Yuu’s mind catches up to them, they stop screaming when they realise that the ghosts were just floating and not attacking, their heartbeat still rushing.
The second ghost that appeared speaks up first “All the souls that erst did dwell within these walls took fright at our dread visage and did flee.”
With Yuu still in slight shock and their mouth open, the last ghost took an opertunity to speak “We seek but a new spirit for our revels! What say'st thou, friend?”
“I’m gonna get murdered if I stay the night here, aren’t I?” They mutter, finally releasing the banister of their - now paler - hands.
They feel Grim shiver slightly on their shoulders before saying to the ghosts with confidence “I am a master sorcerer! I fear no foolish spectres! Mya-ha!”
The ghosts start floating through walls, furniture and the floors, even passing through Yuu and Grim a few times, making them feel slightly ill. “Nay. Not e'en nigh.” The ghost that appeared first says, getting a taunting reply from the third ghost that appeared, “Hither! Hither! Ha ha ha!”
Grim almost falls off Yuu’s shoulders as he exclaims his observation “Argh! They vanish and appear anew!”.
The flaming cat scrambled back up to their shoulders and starts shooting fire, the same from the culty ceremony that they got led to a few hours ago, only to get the annoyed response from the teen-now climbing frame- “Oi, Weasel! Stop shooting fire around or you’ll make more holes I’ll make you find- no, make more pots for”
The cat continues to shoot fireballs at the ghosts-And missing most shots- “Peace! I require no discourse from thee, mortal!”
‘I don’t have any money to get him any food right now to convince him to stop. What did he say he wanted? Oh yeah! He wanted to be in the school…’ Yuu thinks, trying to find a way to get grim to chill out, then finally settles on saying, “Get rid of these ghosts and The Head might give you a place in return” they bribe him, not using definite wordings to not make a promise they might not be able to keep.
Grim ignores the offer, pausing slightly with the flamethrower act, confused “Myah...?! Hmph... I am Grim, Master Sorcerer! How cometh it that I cannot strike e'en one of these puny-“
“Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!” The trio of ghosts laugh at his attempts of fighting them. Making Grim pout slightly, “Grim: Hrmph! Ye gang up on us... Ye are a pack of craven cowards!”
“Maybe I can help you?” Yuu offers, not letting their previous annoyance get in the way of their temporary alliance again the common enemy.
“Myaaaah... Hark, mortal! Prithee, tell me whither the spectres do fare!” Grim commands.
Yuu nods and confirms verbally, locking in to where the ghosts randomly popped up. “Go it. To your left!” They shout, Grim blasting the ghost in the side with his blue fire.
“Alack, it doth scorch!” The ghost cried in a mix of pain and shock as if it has never been harmed in this form before.
Grim celebrated quickly before Yuu reminded them of the current danger at hand “Ha, I have struck one! Persevere, e'en so... And let us purge this foul multitude entire!”
While Grim - still perched on Yuu’s shoulders - continued to strike the ghosts with varying accuracy, they direct him to where the next ghost is trying to sneak attack the odd duo. All the while thanking Shakespeare for writing plays in an annoying way, otherwise they wouldn’t have a clue about what they were saying.
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Sorry for the long wait, guys, gals and worldly beings. It is a longer chapter, but I hope you enjoy it!
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