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"I do hope you traveled safely, dear friend. It's quite dangerous here at times."
The second-born son of the Underworld's Royal Family, and current holder of the Spirit Master power. Most who don't know the two siblings mistake him for the elder one. Seen as calm and collected, but many are still wary of him. How odd, considering how harmless he is...
Colin Thanata
Hello, Players and Viewers!
It's been quite a while since a Game, so why not introduce the Player Roster of our upcoming Tournament? The Theme will be introduced next week~
Returning Champions!
– The Hacker, Amaranth Adams; @dusk2-dawn (Human)
– Teacher of Eternity, Venenum Herba (Spirit)
– Demigod of the Arena, Xeqrulz (Origin)
New Players!
– The Undying Artist, Mystic Merixa @merixa-the-artist (Fae-Origin Hybrid)
– The Spirits' Prince, Colin Thanata @portals-and-spirits (Xealruq-Fae hybrid)
– The Bloodstained General, Blood Moon / Xealryu Ruinam @the-fallen-trio (Draconic)
– The Spirit of Pain, Genesis Ventus @guides-of-vengeance (Draconic)
– The Spring Fox, Anthos Dolos @seasons-of-the-tricks (Fae)
– The Most Powerful Parasite, Sidera Noctis / Finem Saecula @the-fox-and-the-shadow (Origin)
– The Fragment of Death, Cyre Lunz (Xekolu-human hybrid)
– The Spirit of Eternal Health, Demetrius Ulsa (Kitsune-Kimera hybrid)
– The Escape Artist, Paimon ... I can't find his true name, hm. (Human-Vampyre hybrid)
– The Strategist of War, Xalque Ixelix (Draconic)
– The Lucky Gambler, Ferakaz Nexura (Draconic)
– The Vengeful Rogue, Zelanu (Draconic)
– The God of Gold, Midas Elpis (Kimera)
– The Hateful Follower, Miseo Anastasia (Xealruq-Human hybrid)
–The Curious Mortal, Timere Cordelia (Draconic)
–The Eternal Hunter, Zenaer Voru (Draconic)
–The Deceitful Magician, Cyri Acacius (Human)
I hope everyone looks forward to this as much as I do, as we have such an exciting cast planned!
If you bring me back into your death games, I'm tackling you out of a fucking tree again and making sure you stay dead, fucker
I'm guessing this game is nothing good, then. I'm opting out.
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
yeah vanish is a thing that happens here
the squad chillin? for now. more or less. no current chaos minus Argyros still suffering but eh.
"Can I go home while Colin explains to the Valkyries? I'm tiiired." Argyros complains.
”are you sure you should be trying to get all the way across the megaverse to your home right now? stay here, I’ll try to take care of you, I mean, I have no medical license and you shouldn’t trust me, but you do get used to dealing with injuries after a couple years in the tournament.” Caspian tries to convince Argyros to stay, careful to not act too different. He wants to see her personally try to explain to the Valkyries how she got herself into this disaster.
"Colin can portal me," Argyros says, waving a hand.
Colin on the other hand may have caught onto Caspian's plot, and sighs, "I can't be your main mode of transportation, you do realize? You already had me portal you places multiple times today. Overusing magic can be dangerous, and we're quite far from home..."
”Yeah, just stay here for now. Try not to make things worse. Don’t die.” Caspian tells her.
He won’t have to stall for much longer, the Valkyries will show up in at most a few minutes to clean things up.
"Maybe I should take my heart out just to weird them out... I can survive it," Argyros muses.
Colin looks genuinely concerned and slowly reaches over to hold Argyros's hands in his own, resting them on the table.
Caspian overhears and is just. confused. really at this point he’s more confused by how Argyros is not dead than concerned. he’s genuinely not very concerned and just pretending to be because he’s so conditioned to. “You can- what? Are you sure? Well, please don’t make a bigger mess…”
Also Jiro’s “presence” hasn’t ever truly vanished, he’s left shadow clones hiding around as backups and is probably watching them now because bored.
"Xekolus n' Xealruqs can survive almost anything as long as our brain's intact n' connected to the rest of us. Got Themis to tear her heart out usin' Martyr's Crown when she snuck into the Judge's Palace," Argyros grins lopsidedly.
Colin can tell he's being watched, and is occasionally glancing around, a bit wary.
Three Valkyries show up, and they magic over the cleaning supplies to clean up the blood all over the room. Two focus on “resetting” the realm-shard, cleaning up the mess and restoring the contents of the kitchen cupboards, while one goes to asks the guests how this happened because the blood has been identified as coming from one of them. (The Valkyries can basically identify DNA so they can recognize if the blood was from one of the legends if say Argyros was placed there as a decoy to cover up the real reason there was blood everywhere.)
"Jiro happened," Argyros 'explains' vaguely.
"Argyros was being dramatically sad and I believe Jiro got bored of it. She didn't die, at least. I apologize for the mess," Colin tries to give an actually helpful response.
“It appears this is not your fault.” The Valkyries do not follow up with any more questions- they are satisfied with this answer. The one that came to question them checks up Argyros’s wounds. “How are you feeling? We can fix it for you.” The Valkyries talk in an almost preprogrammed way, although this one is trying to be caring when it asks Argyros for consent to magically heal her since she’s not a legend or other registered being, its clear that it does not truly feel.
Caspian suddenly turns and runs downstairs and likely out of the house, with no explanation, a few moments after processing the Valkyries telling Colin “it’s not your fault”. To him, the Valkyries are addressing Colin and Argyros as the same right now- visiting spectators, since Argyros isn’t a currently registered event guest- and he thinks the Valkyries are going to punish Jiro for attacking a spectator.
Kaya is starting to worry and panic again because Caspian’s leaving for “no reason” which means something must be even more wrong somewhere else. Of the other two Valkyries, the one cleaning the floor is still doing that, the one checking the kitchen rushes to her. “How are you feeling? Is there anything you need? Anything you feel we should know?”
She simply freezes, holding back tears, not immediately saying anything, not trusting the mood stabilizers they’ve tried to give her before, and knowing that if she confirms that Jiro attacked Argyros for being overdramatic- which he did- he’s just going to get punished worse- while if she tries to defend him no one is going to believe her and they might swap her to a different group because “he’s evil and a bad influence for her”, and she wants to be grouped with Caspian for now because he’s fun (Jiro’s tolerable).
"Alright..." Colin is concerned about Caspian leaving and Kaya panicking.
"I'm... woozy. Healing would be good," Argyros nods, "wow, it actually hurts... huh. Impressive actually."
The Valkyries give Argyros a shot that completely numbs the pain, and rebandage her wounds with the bandages they brought- one layer of their bandages against the wounds and damaged places, and then a harder cast-like layer over top to stop the bandages from being shifted. “The bandages should be checked in half an hour. They may need to be replaced, but these heal most wounds rather quickly.”
The Valkyries can’t get away with doing anything to Kaya that she doesn’t tell them to, so they leave her alone, finish cleaning up and are now packing their supplies and getting ready to leave.
"Thank youu! Goodbyyee!! Valkyries are so cool. I like the Valkyries." Argyros grins, folding her arms on the table and resting her chin on her arms.
Colin waves goodbye to the Valkyries, chuckling.
The Valkyries leave, while they are not able to react to Argyros’s comments, she will get positive feedback for it.
Now it’s just Kaya with the two of them. “Well… that all happened…”
"Are you alright, Kaya?" Colin asks.
”I’m- fine- I mean- it happened. Can’t change anything now.” Kaya replies uncaringly.
literally all the joy and whimsy got sucked out of here because Argyros started being annoying and Jiro started violently overreacting. that’s what she’s upset about.
Colin is concerned.
Argyros hums.
Kaya glances around, then looks back at their half-finished meal. Yeah things got awkward fast because who knows when Caspian’s coming back.
Colin stays quiet for now.
Argyros sighs softly.
(Felicity: any idea what to do here? sorry im kinda out of ideas. Kaya’s probably just going to awkwardly finish her food then leave the site of the chaos.)
(Not sure either 😓)
(Felicity: lowkey I want to do a different thread where it’s like. Caspian and Jiro join the fallen pantheon because of a realm mishap and they’re stuck there forever. Basically they chaos with the fallens for a while and maybe Jiro gets a bit murdery.)
(also should that b before or after LS's death ? Cuz both could be fun
Before LS's death has more opportunities for Plot / Actually Doing Things since LS could try to convince Jiro to be an assassin for her *or* Vizerxa & Menda could try to get the two to help kill Light Song
(Felicity: I’ll think about that. I also lowkey am kinda busy with other things ive been procrastinating on and im sick irl so it’s a bit hard to catch up to everything i’ve missed while it was really bad so yeah)
(understandable understandable. hope you feel better soon)
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
yeah vanish is a thing that happens here
the squad chillin? for now. more or less. no current chaos minus Argyros still suffering but eh.
"Can I go home while Colin explains to the Valkyries? I'm tiiired." Argyros complains.
”are you sure you should be trying to get all the way across the megaverse to your home right now? stay here, I’ll try to take care of you, I mean, I have no medical license and you shouldn’t trust me, but you do get used to dealing with injuries after a couple years in the tournament.” Caspian tries to convince Argyros to stay, careful to not act too different. He wants to see her personally try to explain to the Valkyries how she got herself into this disaster.
"Colin can portal me," Argyros says, waving a hand.
Colin on the other hand may have caught onto Caspian's plot, and sighs, "I can't be your main mode of transportation, you do realize? You already had me portal you places multiple times today. Overusing magic can be dangerous, and we're quite far from home..."
”Yeah, just stay here for now. Try not to make things worse. Don’t die.” Caspian tells her.
He won’t have to stall for much longer, the Valkyries will show up in at most a few minutes to clean things up.
"Maybe I should take my heart out just to weird them out... I can survive it," Argyros muses.
Colin looks genuinely concerned and slowly reaches over to hold Argyros's hands in his own, resting them on the table.
Caspian overhears and is just. confused. really at this point he’s more confused by how Argyros is not dead than concerned. he’s genuinely not very concerned and just pretending to be because he’s so conditioned to. “You can- what? Are you sure? Well, please don’t make a bigger mess…”
Also Jiro’s “presence” hasn’t ever truly vanished, he’s left shadow clones hiding around as backups and is probably watching them now because bored.
"Xekolus n' Xealruqs can survive almost anything as long as our brain's intact n' connected to the rest of us. Got Themis to tear her heart out usin' Martyr's Crown when she snuck into the Judge's Palace," Argyros grins lopsidedly.
Colin can tell he's being watched, and is occasionally glancing around, a bit wary.
Three Valkyries show up, and they magic over the cleaning supplies to clean up the blood all over the room. Two focus on “resetting” the realm-shard, cleaning up the mess and restoring the contents of the kitchen cupboards, while one goes to asks the guests how this happened because the blood has been identified as coming from one of them. (The Valkyries can basically identify DNA so they can recognize if the blood was from one of the legends if say Argyros was placed there as a decoy to cover up the real reason there was blood everywhere.)
"Jiro happened," Argyros 'explains' vaguely.
"Argyros was being dramatically sad and I believe Jiro got bored of it. She didn't die, at least. I apologize for the mess," Colin tries to give an actually helpful response.
“It appears this is not your fault.” The Valkyries do not follow up with any more questions- they are satisfied with this answer. The one that came to question them checks up Argyros’s wounds. “How are you feeling? We can fix it for you.” The Valkyries talk in an almost preprogrammed way, although this one is trying to be caring when it asks Argyros for consent to magically heal her since she’s not a legend or other registered being, its clear that it does not truly feel.
Caspian suddenly turns and runs downstairs and likely out of the house, with no explanation, a few moments after processing the Valkyries telling Colin “it’s not your fault”. To him, the Valkyries are addressing Colin and Argyros as the same right now- visiting spectators, since Argyros isn’t a currently registered event guest- and he thinks the Valkyries are going to punish Jiro for attacking a spectator.
Kaya is starting to worry and panic again because Caspian’s leaving for “no reason” which means something must be even more wrong somewhere else. Of the other two Valkyries, the one cleaning the floor is still doing that, the one checking the kitchen rushes to her. “How are you feeling? Is there anything you need? Anything you feel we should know?”
She simply freezes, holding back tears, not immediately saying anything, not trusting the mood stabilizers they’ve tried to give her before, and knowing that if she confirms that Jiro attacked Argyros for being overdramatic- which he did- he’s just going to get punished worse- while if she tries to defend him no one is going to believe her and they might swap her to a different group because “he’s evil and a bad influence for her”, and she wants to be grouped with Caspian for now because he’s fun (Jiro’s tolerable).
"Alright..." Colin is concerned about Caspian leaving and Kaya panicking.
"I'm... woozy. Healing would be good," Argyros nods, "wow, it actually hurts... huh. Impressive actually."
The Valkyries give Argyros a shot that completely numbs the pain, and rebandage her wounds with the bandages they brought- one layer of their bandages against the wounds and damaged places, and then a harder cast-like layer over top to stop the bandages from being shifted. “The bandages should be checked in half an hour. They may need to be replaced, but these heal most wounds rather quickly.”
The Valkyries can’t get away with doing anything to Kaya that she doesn’t tell them to, so they leave her alone, finish cleaning up and are now packing their supplies and getting ready to leave.
"Thank youu! Goodbyyee!! Valkyries are so cool. I like the Valkyries." Argyros grins, folding her arms on the table and resting her chin on her arms.
Colin waves goodbye to the Valkyries, chuckling.
The Valkyries leave, while they are not able to react to Argyros’s comments, she will get positive feedback for it.
Now it’s just Kaya with the two of them. “Well… that all happened…”
"Are you alright, Kaya?" Colin asks.
”I’m- fine- I mean- it happened. Can’t change anything now.” Kaya replies uncaringly.
literally all the joy and whimsy got sucked out of here because Argyros started being annoying and Jiro started violently overreacting. that’s what she’s upset about.
Colin is concerned.
Argyros hums.
Kaya glances around, then looks back at their half-finished meal. Yeah things got awkward fast because who knows when Caspian’s coming back.
Colin stays quiet for now.
Argyros sighs softly.
(Felicity: any idea what to do here? sorry im kinda out of ideas. Kaya’s probably just going to awkwardly finish her food then leave the site of the chaos.)
(Not sure either 😓)
(Felicity: lowkey I want to do a different thread where it’s like. Caspian and Jiro join the fallen pantheon because of a realm mishap and they’re stuck there forever. Basically they chaos with the fallens for a while and maybe Jiro gets a bit murdery.)
(also should that b before or after LS's death ? Cuz both could be fun
Before LS's death has more opportunities for Plot / Actually Doing Things since LS could try to convince Jiro to be an assassin for her *or* Vizerxa & Menda could try to get the two to help kill Light Song
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
yeah vanish is a thing that happens here
the squad chillin? for now. more or less. no current chaos minus Argyros still suffering but eh.
"Can I go home while Colin explains to the Valkyries? I'm tiiired." Argyros complains.
”are you sure you should be trying to get all the way across the megaverse to your home right now? stay here, I’ll try to take care of you, I mean, I have no medical license and you shouldn’t trust me, but you do get used to dealing with injuries after a couple years in the tournament.” Caspian tries to convince Argyros to stay, careful to not act too different. He wants to see her personally try to explain to the Valkyries how she got herself into this disaster.
"Colin can portal me," Argyros says, waving a hand.
Colin on the other hand may have caught onto Caspian's plot, and sighs, "I can't be your main mode of transportation, you do realize? You already had me portal you places multiple times today. Overusing magic can be dangerous, and we're quite far from home..."
”Yeah, just stay here for now. Try not to make things worse. Don’t die.” Caspian tells her.
He won’t have to stall for much longer, the Valkyries will show up in at most a few minutes to clean things up.
"Maybe I should take my heart out just to weird them out... I can survive it," Argyros muses.
Colin looks genuinely concerned and slowly reaches over to hold Argyros's hands in his own, resting them on the table.
Caspian overhears and is just. confused. really at this point he’s more confused by how Argyros is not dead than concerned. he’s genuinely not very concerned and just pretending to be because he’s so conditioned to. “You can- what? Are you sure? Well, please don’t make a bigger mess…”
Also Jiro’s “presence” hasn’t ever truly vanished, he’s left shadow clones hiding around as backups and is probably watching them now because bored.
"Xekolus n' Xealruqs can survive almost anything as long as our brain's intact n' connected to the rest of us. Got Themis to tear her heart out usin' Martyr's Crown when she snuck into the Judge's Palace," Argyros grins lopsidedly.
Colin can tell he's being watched, and is occasionally glancing around, a bit wary.
Three Valkyries show up, and they magic over the cleaning supplies to clean up the blood all over the room. Two focus on “resetting” the realm-shard, cleaning up the mess and restoring the contents of the kitchen cupboards, while one goes to asks the guests how this happened because the blood has been identified as coming from one of them. (The Valkyries can basically identify DNA so they can recognize if the blood was from one of the legends if say Argyros was placed there as a decoy to cover up the real reason there was blood everywhere.)
"Jiro happened," Argyros 'explains' vaguely.
"Argyros was being dramatically sad and I believe Jiro got bored of it. She didn't die, at least. I apologize for the mess," Colin tries to give an actually helpful response.
“It appears this is not your fault.” The Valkyries do not follow up with any more questions- they are satisfied with this answer. The one that came to question them checks up Argyros’s wounds. “How are you feeling? We can fix it for you.” The Valkyries talk in an almost preprogrammed way, although this one is trying to be caring when it asks Argyros for consent to magically heal her since she’s not a legend or other registered being, its clear that it does not truly feel.
Caspian suddenly turns and runs downstairs and likely out of the house, with no explanation, a few moments after processing the Valkyries telling Colin “it’s not your fault”. To him, the Valkyries are addressing Colin and Argyros as the same right now- visiting spectators, since Argyros isn’t a currently registered event guest- and he thinks the Valkyries are going to punish Jiro for attacking a spectator.
Kaya is starting to worry and panic again because Caspian’s leaving for “no reason” which means something must be even more wrong somewhere else. Of the other two Valkyries, the one cleaning the floor is still doing that, the one checking the kitchen rushes to her. “How are you feeling? Is there anything you need? Anything you feel we should know?”
She simply freezes, holding back tears, not immediately saying anything, not trusting the mood stabilizers they’ve tried to give her before, and knowing that if she confirms that Jiro attacked Argyros for being overdramatic- which he did- he’s just going to get punished worse- while if she tries to defend him no one is going to believe her and they might swap her to a different group because “he’s evil and a bad influence for her”, and she wants to be grouped with Caspian for now because he’s fun (Jiro’s tolerable).
"Alright..." Colin is concerned about Caspian leaving and Kaya panicking.
"I'm... woozy. Healing would be good," Argyros nods, "wow, it actually hurts... huh. Impressive actually."
The Valkyries give Argyros a shot that completely numbs the pain, and rebandage her wounds with the bandages they brought- one layer of their bandages against the wounds and damaged places, and then a harder cast-like layer over top to stop the bandages from being shifted. “The bandages should be checked in half an hour. They may need to be replaced, but these heal most wounds rather quickly.”
The Valkyries can’t get away with doing anything to Kaya that she doesn’t tell them to, so they leave her alone, finish cleaning up and are now packing their supplies and getting ready to leave.
"Thank youu! Goodbyyee!! Valkyries are so cool. I like the Valkyries." Argyros grins, folding her arms on the table and resting her chin on her arms.
Colin waves goodbye to the Valkyries, chuckling.
The Valkyries leave, while they are not able to react to Argyros’s comments, she will get positive feedback for it.
Now it’s just Kaya with the two of them. “Well… that all happened…”
"Are you alright, Kaya?" Colin asks.
”I’m- fine- I mean- it happened. Can’t change anything now.” Kaya replies uncaringly.
literally all the joy and whimsy got sucked out of here because Argyros started being annoying and Jiro started violently overreacting. that’s what she’s upset about.
Colin is concerned.
Argyros hums.
Kaya glances around, then looks back at their half-finished meal. Yeah things got awkward fast because who knows when Caspian’s coming back.
Colin stays quiet for now.
Argyros sighs softly.
(Felicity: any idea what to do here? sorry im kinda out of ideas. Kaya’s probably just going to awkwardly finish her food then leave the site of the chaos.)
(Not sure either 😓)
(Felicity: lowkey I want to do a different thread where it’s like. Caspian and Jiro join the fallen pantheon because of a realm mishap and they’re stuck there forever. Basically they chaos with the fallens for a while and maybe Jiro gets a bit murdery.)
(oooh that'd be fun :>
if you wanna send a thread to my Events blog in the morning we can do it :> I don't have a blog for the Whole Fallen Pantheon so Events would b easiest)
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
yeah vanish is a thing that happens here
the squad chillin? for now. more or less. no current chaos minus Argyros still suffering but eh.
"Can I go home while Colin explains to the Valkyries? I'm tiiired." Argyros complains.
”are you sure you should be trying to get all the way across the megaverse to your home right now? stay here, I’ll try to take care of you, I mean, I have no medical license and you shouldn’t trust me, but you do get used to dealing with injuries after a couple years in the tournament.” Caspian tries to convince Argyros to stay, careful to not act too different. He wants to see her personally try to explain to the Valkyries how she got herself into this disaster.
"Colin can portal me," Argyros says, waving a hand.
Colin on the other hand may have caught onto Caspian's plot, and sighs, "I can't be your main mode of transportation, you do realize? You already had me portal you places multiple times today. Overusing magic can be dangerous, and we're quite far from home..."
”Yeah, just stay here for now. Try not to make things worse. Don’t die.” Caspian tells her.
He won’t have to stall for much longer, the Valkyries will show up in at most a few minutes to clean things up.
"Maybe I should take my heart out just to weird them out... I can survive it," Argyros muses.
Colin looks genuinely concerned and slowly reaches over to hold Argyros's hands in his own, resting them on the table.
Caspian overhears and is just. confused. really at this point he’s more confused by how Argyros is not dead than concerned. he’s genuinely not very concerned and just pretending to be because he’s so conditioned to. “You can- what? Are you sure? Well, please don’t make a bigger mess…”
Also Jiro’s “presence” hasn’t ever truly vanished, he’s left shadow clones hiding around as backups and is probably watching them now because bored.
"Xekolus n' Xealruqs can survive almost anything as long as our brain's intact n' connected to the rest of us. Got Themis to tear her heart out usin' Martyr's Crown when she snuck into the Judge's Palace," Argyros grins lopsidedly.
Colin can tell he's being watched, and is occasionally glancing around, a bit wary.
Three Valkyries show up, and they magic over the cleaning supplies to clean up the blood all over the room. Two focus on “resetting” the realm-shard, cleaning up the mess and restoring the contents of the kitchen cupboards, while one goes to asks the guests how this happened because the blood has been identified as coming from one of them. (The Valkyries can basically identify DNA so they can recognize if the blood was from one of the legends if say Argyros was placed there as a decoy to cover up the real reason there was blood everywhere.)
"Jiro happened," Argyros 'explains' vaguely.
"Argyros was being dramatically sad and I believe Jiro got bored of it. She didn't die, at least. I apologize for the mess," Colin tries to give an actually helpful response.
“It appears this is not your fault.” The Valkyries do not follow up with any more questions- they are satisfied with this answer. The one that came to question them checks up Argyros’s wounds. “How are you feeling? We can fix it for you.” The Valkyries talk in an almost preprogrammed way, although this one is trying to be caring when it asks Argyros for consent to magically heal her since she’s not a legend or other registered being, its clear that it does not truly feel.
Caspian suddenly turns and runs downstairs and likely out of the house, with no explanation, a few moments after processing the Valkyries telling Colin “it’s not your fault”. To him, the Valkyries are addressing Colin and Argyros as the same right now- visiting spectators, since Argyros isn’t a currently registered event guest- and he thinks the Valkyries are going to punish Jiro for attacking a spectator.
Kaya is starting to worry and panic again because Caspian’s leaving for “no reason” which means something must be even more wrong somewhere else. Of the other two Valkyries, the one cleaning the floor is still doing that, the one checking the kitchen rushes to her. “How are you feeling? Is there anything you need? Anything you feel we should know?”
She simply freezes, holding back tears, not immediately saying anything, not trusting the mood stabilizers they’ve tried to give her before, and knowing that if she confirms that Jiro attacked Argyros for being overdramatic- which he did- he’s just going to get punished worse- while if she tries to defend him no one is going to believe her and they might swap her to a different group because “he’s evil and a bad influence for her”, and she wants to be grouped with Caspian for now because he’s fun (Jiro’s tolerable).
"Alright..." Colin is concerned about Caspian leaving and Kaya panicking.
"I'm... woozy. Healing would be good," Argyros nods, "wow, it actually hurts... huh. Impressive actually."
The Valkyries give Argyros a shot that completely numbs the pain, and rebandage her wounds with the bandages they brought- one layer of their bandages against the wounds and damaged places, and then a harder cast-like layer over top to stop the bandages from being shifted. “The bandages should be checked in half an hour. They may need to be replaced, but these heal most wounds rather quickly.”
The Valkyries can’t get away with doing anything to Kaya that she doesn’t tell them to, so they leave her alone, finish cleaning up and are now packing their supplies and getting ready to leave.
"Thank youu! Goodbyyee!! Valkyries are so cool. I like the Valkyries." Argyros grins, folding her arms on the table and resting her chin on her arms.
Colin waves goodbye to the Valkyries, chuckling.
The Valkyries leave, while they are not able to react to Argyros’s comments, she will get positive feedback for it.
Now it’s just Kaya with the two of them. “Well… that all happened…”
"Are you alright, Kaya?" Colin asks.
”I’m- fine- I mean- it happened. Can’t change anything now.” Kaya replies uncaringly.
literally all the joy and whimsy got sucked out of here because Argyros started being annoying and Jiro started violently overreacting. that’s what she’s upset about.
Colin is concerned.
Argyros hums.
Kaya glances around, then looks back at their half-finished meal. Yeah things got awkward fast because who knows when Caspian’s coming back.
Colin stays quiet for now.
Argyros sighs softly.
(Felicity: any idea what to do here? sorry im kinda out of ideas. Kaya’s probably just going to awkwardly finish her food then leave the site of the chaos.)
(Not sure either 😓)
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
yeah vanish is a thing that happens here
the squad chillin? for now. more or less. no current chaos minus Argyros still suffering but eh.
"Can I go home while Colin explains to the Valkyries? I'm tiiired." Argyros complains.
”are you sure you should be trying to get all the way across the megaverse to your home right now? stay here, I’ll try to take care of you, I mean, I have no medical license and you shouldn’t trust me, but you do get used to dealing with injuries after a couple years in the tournament.” Caspian tries to convince Argyros to stay, careful to not act too different. He wants to see her personally try to explain to the Valkyries how she got herself into this disaster.
"Colin can portal me," Argyros says, waving a hand.
Colin on the other hand may have caught onto Caspian's plot, and sighs, "I can't be your main mode of transportation, you do realize? You already had me portal you places multiple times today. Overusing magic can be dangerous, and we're quite far from home..."
”Yeah, just stay here for now. Try not to make things worse. Don’t die.” Caspian tells her.
He won’t have to stall for much longer, the Valkyries will show up in at most a few minutes to clean things up.
"Maybe I should take my heart out just to weird them out... I can survive it," Argyros muses.
Colin looks genuinely concerned and slowly reaches over to hold Argyros's hands in his own, resting them on the table.
Caspian overhears and is just. confused. really at this point he’s more confused by how Argyros is not dead than concerned. he’s genuinely not very concerned and just pretending to be because he’s so conditioned to. “You can- what? Are you sure? Well, please don’t make a bigger mess…”
Also Jiro’s “presence” hasn’t ever truly vanished, he’s left shadow clones hiding around as backups and is probably watching them now because bored.
"Xekolus n' Xealruqs can survive almost anything as long as our brain's intact n' connected to the rest of us. Got Themis to tear her heart out usin' Martyr's Crown when she snuck into the Judge's Palace," Argyros grins lopsidedly.
Colin can tell he's being watched, and is occasionally glancing around, a bit wary.
Three Valkyries show up, and they magic over the cleaning supplies to clean up the blood all over the room. Two focus on “resetting” the realm-shard, cleaning up the mess and restoring the contents of the kitchen cupboards, while one goes to asks the guests how this happened because the blood has been identified as coming from one of them. (The Valkyries can basically identify DNA so they can recognize if the blood was from one of the legends if say Argyros was placed there as a decoy to cover up the real reason there was blood everywhere.)
"Jiro happened," Argyros 'explains' vaguely.
"Argyros was being dramatically sad and I believe Jiro got bored of it. She didn't die, at least. I apologize for the mess," Colin tries to give an actually helpful response.
“It appears this is not your fault.” The Valkyries do not follow up with any more questions- they are satisfied with this answer. The one that came to question them checks up Argyros’s wounds. “How are you feeling? We can fix it for you.” The Valkyries talk in an almost preprogrammed way, although this one is trying to be caring when it asks Argyros for consent to magically heal her since she’s not a legend or other registered being, its clear that it does not truly feel.
Caspian suddenly turns and runs downstairs and likely out of the house, with no explanation, a few moments after processing the Valkyries telling Colin “it’s not your fault”. To him, the Valkyries are addressing Colin and Argyros as the same right now- visiting spectators, since Argyros isn’t a currently registered event guest- and he thinks the Valkyries are going to punish Jiro for attacking a spectator.
Kaya is starting to worry and panic again because Caspian’s leaving for “no reason” which means something must be even more wrong somewhere else. Of the other two Valkyries, the one cleaning the floor is still doing that, the one checking the kitchen rushes to her. “How are you feeling? Is there anything you need? Anything you feel we should know?”
She simply freezes, holding back tears, not immediately saying anything, not trusting the mood stabilizers they’ve tried to give her before, and knowing that if she confirms that Jiro attacked Argyros for being overdramatic- which he did- he’s just going to get punished worse- while if she tries to defend him no one is going to believe her and they might swap her to a different group because “he’s evil and a bad influence for her”, and she wants to be grouped with Caspian for now because he’s fun (Jiro’s tolerable).
"Alright..." Colin is concerned about Caspian leaving and Kaya panicking.
"I'm... woozy. Healing would be good," Argyros nods, "wow, it actually hurts... huh. Impressive actually."
The Valkyries give Argyros a shot that completely numbs the pain, and rebandage her wounds with the bandages they brought- one layer of their bandages against the wounds and damaged places, and then a harder cast-like layer over top to stop the bandages from being shifted. “The bandages should be checked in half an hour. They may need to be replaced, but these heal most wounds rather quickly.”
The Valkyries can’t get away with doing anything to Kaya that she doesn’t tell them to, so they leave her alone, finish cleaning up and are now packing their supplies and getting ready to leave.
"Thank youu! Goodbyyee!! Valkyries are so cool. I like the Valkyries." Argyros grins, folding her arms on the table and resting her chin on her arms.
Colin waves goodbye to the Valkyries, chuckling.
The Valkyries leave, while they are not able to react to Argyros’s comments, she will get positive feedback for it.
Now it’s just Kaya with the two of them. “Well… that all happened…”
"Are you alright, Kaya?" Colin asks.
”I’m- fine- I mean- it happened. Can’t change anything now.” Kaya replies uncaringly.
literally all the joy and whimsy got sucked out of here because Argyros started being annoying and Jiro started violently overreacting. that’s what she’s upset about.
Colin is concerned.
Argyros hums.
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
yeah vanish is a thing that happens here
the squad chillin? for now. more or less. no current chaos minus Argyros still suffering but eh.
"Can I go home while Colin explains to the Valkyries? I'm tiiired." Argyros complains.
”are you sure you should be trying to get all the way across the megaverse to your home right now? stay here, I’ll try to take care of you, I mean, I have no medical license and you shouldn’t trust me, but you do get used to dealing with injuries after a couple years in the tournament.” Caspian tries to convince Argyros to stay, careful to not act too different. He wants to see her personally try to explain to the Valkyries how she got herself into this disaster.
"Colin can portal me," Argyros says, waving a hand.
Colin on the other hand may have caught onto Caspian's plot, and sighs, "I can't be your main mode of transportation, you do realize? You already had me portal you places multiple times today. Overusing magic can be dangerous, and we're quite far from home..."
”Yeah, just stay here for now. Try not to make things worse. Don’t die.” Caspian tells her.
He won’t have to stall for much longer, the Valkyries will show up in at most a few minutes to clean things up.
"Maybe I should take my heart out just to weird them out... I can survive it," Argyros muses.
Colin looks genuinely concerned and slowly reaches over to hold Argyros's hands in his own, resting them on the table.
Caspian overhears and is just. confused. really at this point he’s more confused by how Argyros is not dead than concerned. he’s genuinely not very concerned and just pretending to be because he’s so conditioned to. “You can- what? Are you sure? Well, please don’t make a bigger mess…”
Also Jiro’s “presence” hasn’t ever truly vanished, he’s left shadow clones hiding around as backups and is probably watching them now because bored.
"Xekolus n' Xealruqs can survive almost anything as long as our brain's intact n' connected to the rest of us. Got Themis to tear her heart out usin' Martyr's Crown when she snuck into the Judge's Palace," Argyros grins lopsidedly.
Colin can tell he's being watched, and is occasionally glancing around, a bit wary.
Three Valkyries show up, and they magic over the cleaning supplies to clean up the blood all over the room. Two focus on “resetting” the realm-shard, cleaning up the mess and restoring the contents of the kitchen cupboards, while one goes to asks the guests how this happened because the blood has been identified as coming from one of them. (The Valkyries can basically identify DNA so they can recognize if the blood was from one of the legends if say Argyros was placed there as a decoy to cover up the real reason there was blood everywhere.)
"Jiro happened," Argyros 'explains' vaguely.
"Argyros was being dramatically sad and I believe Jiro got bored of it. She didn't die, at least. I apologize for the mess," Colin tries to give an actually helpful response.
“It appears this is not your fault.” The Valkyries do not follow up with any more questions- they are satisfied with this answer. The one that came to question them checks up Argyros’s wounds. “How are you feeling? We can fix it for you.” The Valkyries talk in an almost preprogrammed way, although this one is trying to be caring when it asks Argyros for consent to magically heal her since she’s not a legend or other registered being, its clear that it does not truly feel.
Caspian suddenly turns and runs downstairs and likely out of the house, with no explanation, a few moments after processing the Valkyries telling Colin “it’s not your fault”. To him, the Valkyries are addressing Colin and Argyros as the same right now- visiting spectators, since Argyros isn’t a currently registered event guest- and he thinks the Valkyries are going to punish Jiro for attacking a spectator.
Kaya is starting to worry and panic again because Caspian’s leaving for “no reason” which means something must be even more wrong somewhere else. Of the other two Valkyries, the one cleaning the floor is still doing that, the one checking the kitchen rushes to her. “How are you feeling? Is there anything you need? Anything you feel we should know?”
She simply freezes, holding back tears, not immediately saying anything, not trusting the mood stabilizers they’ve tried to give her before, and knowing that if she confirms that Jiro attacked Argyros for being overdramatic- which he did- he’s just going to get punished worse- while if she tries to defend him no one is going to believe her and they might swap her to a different group because “he’s evil and a bad influence for her”, and she wants to be grouped with Caspian for now because he’s fun (Jiro’s tolerable).
"Alright..." Colin is concerned about Caspian leaving and Kaya panicking.
"I'm... woozy. Healing would be good," Argyros nods, "wow, it actually hurts... huh. Impressive actually."
The Valkyries give Argyros a shot that completely numbs the pain, and rebandage her wounds with the bandages they brought- one layer of their bandages against the wounds and damaged places, and then a harder cast-like layer over top to stop the bandages from being shifted. “The bandages should be checked in half an hour. They may need to be replaced, but these heal most wounds rather quickly.”
The Valkyries can’t get away with doing anything to Kaya that she doesn’t tell them to, so they leave her alone, finish cleaning up and are now packing their supplies and getting ready to leave.
"Thank youu! Goodbyyee!! Valkyries are so cool. I like the Valkyries." Argyros grins, folding her arms on the table and resting her chin on her arms.
Colin waves goodbye to the Valkyries, chuckling.
The Valkyries leave, while they are not able to react to Argyros’s comments, she will get positive feedback for it.
Now it’s just Kaya with the two of them. “Well… that all happened…”
"Are you alright, Kaya?" Colin asks.
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
yeah vanish is a thing that happens here
the squad chillin? for now. more or less. no current chaos minus Argyros still suffering but eh.
"Can I go home while Colin explains to the Valkyries? I'm tiiired." Argyros complains.
”are you sure you should be trying to get all the way across the megaverse to your home right now? stay here, I’ll try to take care of you, I mean, I have no medical license and you shouldn’t trust me, but you do get used to dealing with injuries after a couple years in the tournament.” Caspian tries to convince Argyros to stay, careful to not act too different. He wants to see her personally try to explain to the Valkyries how she got herself into this disaster.
"Colin can portal me," Argyros says, waving a hand.
Colin on the other hand may have caught onto Caspian's plot, and sighs, "I can't be your main mode of transportation, you do realize? You already had me portal you places multiple times today. Overusing magic can be dangerous, and we're quite far from home..."
”Yeah, just stay here for now. Try not to make things worse. Don’t die.” Caspian tells her.
He won’t have to stall for much longer, the Valkyries will show up in at most a few minutes to clean things up.
"Maybe I should take my heart out just to weird them out... I can survive it," Argyros muses.
Colin looks genuinely concerned and slowly reaches over to hold Argyros's hands in his own, resting them on the table.
Caspian overhears and is just. confused. really at this point he’s more confused by how Argyros is not dead than concerned. he’s genuinely not very concerned and just pretending to be because he’s so conditioned to. “You can- what? Are you sure? Well, please don’t make a bigger mess…”
Also Jiro’s “presence” hasn’t ever truly vanished, he’s left shadow clones hiding around as backups and is probably watching them now because bored.
"Xekolus n' Xealruqs can survive almost anything as long as our brain's intact n' connected to the rest of us. Got Themis to tear her heart out usin' Martyr's Crown when she snuck into the Judge's Palace," Argyros grins lopsidedly.
Colin can tell he's being watched, and is occasionally glancing around, a bit wary.
Three Valkyries show up, and they magic over the cleaning supplies to clean up the blood all over the room. Two focus on “resetting” the realm-shard, cleaning up the mess and restoring the contents of the kitchen cupboards, while one goes to asks the guests how this happened because the blood has been identified as coming from one of them. (The Valkyries can basically identify DNA so they can recognize if the blood was from one of the legends if say Argyros was placed there as a decoy to cover up the real reason there was blood everywhere.)
"Jiro happened," Argyros 'explains' vaguely.
"Argyros was being dramatically sad and I believe Jiro got bored of it. She didn't die, at least. I apologize for the mess," Colin tries to give an actually helpful response.
“It appears this is not your fault.” The Valkyries do not follow up with any more questions- they are satisfied with this answer. The one that came to question them checks up Argyros’s wounds. “How are you feeling? We can fix it for you.” The Valkyries talk in an almost preprogrammed way, although this one is trying to be caring when it asks Argyros for consent to magically heal her since she’s not a legend or other registered being, its clear that it does not truly feel.
Caspian suddenly turns and runs downstairs and likely out of the house, with no explanation, a few moments after processing the Valkyries telling Colin “it’s not your fault”. To him, the Valkyries are addressing Colin and Argyros as the same right now- visiting spectators, since Argyros isn’t a currently registered event guest- and he thinks the Valkyries are going to punish Jiro for attacking a spectator.
Kaya is starting to worry and panic again because Caspian’s leaving for “no reason” which means something must be even more wrong somewhere else. Of the other two Valkyries, the one cleaning the floor is still doing that, the one checking the kitchen rushes to her. “How are you feeling? Is there anything you need? Anything you feel we should know?”
She simply freezes, holding back tears, not immediately saying anything, not trusting the mood stabilizers they’ve tried to give her before, and knowing that if she confirms that Jiro attacked Argyros for being overdramatic- which he did- he’s just going to get punished worse- while if she tries to defend him no one is going to believe her and they might swap her to a different group because “he’s evil and a bad influence for her”, and she wants to be grouped with Caspian for now because he’s fun (Jiro’s tolerable).
"Alright..." Colin is concerned about Caspian leaving and Kaya panicking.
"I'm... woozy. Healing would be good," Argyros nods, "wow, it actually hurts... huh. Impressive actually."
The Valkyries give Argyros a shot that completely numbs the pain, and rebandage her wounds with the bandages they brought- one layer of their bandages against the wounds and damaged places, and then a harder cast-like layer over top to stop the bandages from being shifted. “The bandages should be checked in half an hour. They may need to be replaced, but these heal most wounds rather quickly.”
The Valkyries can’t get away with doing anything to Kaya that she doesn’t tell them to, so they leave her alone, finish cleaning up and are now packing their supplies and getting ready to leave.
"Thank youu! Goodbyyee!! Valkyries are so cool. I like the Valkyries." Argyros grins, folding her arms on the table and resting her chin on her arms.
Colin waves goodbye to the Valkyries, chuckling.
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
yeah vanish is a thing that happens here
the squad chillin? for now. more or less. no current chaos minus Argyros still suffering but eh.
"Can I go home while Colin explains to the Valkyries? I'm tiiired." Argyros complains.
”are you sure you should be trying to get all the way across the megaverse to your home right now? stay here, I’ll try to take care of you, I mean, I have no medical license and you shouldn’t trust me, but you do get used to dealing with injuries after a couple years in the tournament.” Caspian tries to convince Argyros to stay, careful to not act too different. He wants to see her personally try to explain to the Valkyries how she got herself into this disaster.
"Colin can portal me," Argyros says, waving a hand.
Colin on the other hand may have caught onto Caspian's plot, and sighs, "I can't be your main mode of transportation, you do realize? You already had me portal you places multiple times today. Overusing magic can be dangerous, and we're quite far from home..."
”Yeah, just stay here for now. Try not to make things worse. Don’t die.” Caspian tells her.
He won’t have to stall for much longer, the Valkyries will show up in at most a few minutes to clean things up.
"Maybe I should take my heart out just to weird them out... I can survive it," Argyros muses.
Colin looks genuinely concerned and slowly reaches over to hold Argyros's hands in his own, resting them on the table.
Caspian overhears and is just. confused. really at this point he’s more confused by how Argyros is not dead than concerned. he’s genuinely not very concerned and just pretending to be because he’s so conditioned to. “You can- what? Are you sure? Well, please don’t make a bigger mess…”
Also Jiro’s “presence” hasn’t ever truly vanished, he’s left shadow clones hiding around as backups and is probably watching them now because bored.
"Xekolus n' Xealruqs can survive almost anything as long as our brain's intact n' connected to the rest of us. Got Themis to tear her heart out usin' Martyr's Crown when she snuck into the Judge's Palace," Argyros grins lopsidedly.
Colin can tell he's being watched, and is occasionally glancing around, a bit wary.
Three Valkyries show up, and they magic over the cleaning supplies to clean up the blood all over the room. Two focus on “resetting” the realm-shard, cleaning up the mess and restoring the contents of the kitchen cupboards, while one goes to asks the guests how this happened because the blood has been identified as coming from one of them. (The Valkyries can basically identify DNA so they can recognize if the blood was from one of the legends if say Argyros was placed there as a decoy to cover up the real reason there was blood everywhere.)
"Jiro happened," Argyros 'explains' vaguely.
"Argyros was being dramatically sad and I believe Jiro got bored of it. She didn't die, at least. I apologize for the mess," Colin tries to give an actually helpful response.
“It appears this is not your fault.” The Valkyries do not follow up with any more questions- they are satisfied with this answer. The one that came to question them checks up Argyros’s wounds. “How are you feeling? We can fix it for you.” The Valkyries talk in an almost preprogrammed way, although this one is trying to be caring when it asks Argyros for consent to magically heal her since she’s not a legend or other registered being, its clear that it does not truly feel.
Caspian suddenly turns and runs downstairs and likely out of the house, with no explanation, a few moments after processing the Valkyries telling Colin “it’s not your fault”. To him, the Valkyries are addressing Colin and Argyros as the same right now- visiting spectators, since Argyros isn’t a currently registered event guest- and he thinks the Valkyries are going to punish Jiro for attacking a spectator.
Kaya is starting to worry and panic again because Caspian’s leaving for “no reason” which means something must be even more wrong somewhere else. Of the other two Valkyries, the one cleaning the floor is still doing that, the one checking the kitchen rushes to her. “How are you feeling? Is there anything you need? Anything you feel we should know?”
She simply freezes, holding back tears, not immediately saying anything, not trusting the mood stabilizers they’ve tried to give her before, and knowing that if she confirms that Jiro attacked Argyros for being overdramatic- which he did- he’s just going to get punished worse- while if she tries to defend him no one is going to believe her and they might swap her to a different group because “he’s evil and a bad influence for her”, and she wants to be grouped with Caspian for now because he’s fun (Jiro’s tolerable).
"Alright..." Colin is concerned about Caspian leaving and Kaya panicking.
"I'm... woozy. Healing would be good," Argyros nods, "wow, it actually hurts... huh. Impressive actually."
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
yeah vanish is a thing that happens here
the squad chillin? for now. more or less. no current chaos minus Argyros still suffering but eh.
"Can I go home while Colin explains to the Valkyries? I'm tiiired." Argyros complains.
”are you sure you should be trying to get all the way across the megaverse to your home right now? stay here, I’ll try to take care of you, I mean, I have no medical license and you shouldn’t trust me, but you do get used to dealing with injuries after a couple years in the tournament.” Caspian tries to convince Argyros to stay, careful to not act too different. He wants to see her personally try to explain to the Valkyries how she got herself into this disaster.
"Colin can portal me," Argyros says, waving a hand.
Colin on the other hand may have caught onto Caspian's plot, and sighs, "I can't be your main mode of transportation, you do realize? You already had me portal you places multiple times today. Overusing magic can be dangerous, and we're quite far from home..."
”Yeah, just stay here for now. Try not to make things worse. Don’t die.” Caspian tells her.
He won’t have to stall for much longer, the Valkyries will show up in at most a few minutes to clean things up.
"Maybe I should take my heart out just to weird them out... I can survive it," Argyros muses.
Colin looks genuinely concerned and slowly reaches over to hold Argyros's hands in his own, resting them on the table.
Caspian overhears and is just. confused. really at this point he’s more confused by how Argyros is not dead than concerned. he’s genuinely not very concerned and just pretending to be because he’s so conditioned to. “You can- what? Are you sure? Well, please don’t make a bigger mess…”
Also Jiro’s “presence” hasn’t ever truly vanished, he’s left shadow clones hiding around as backups and is probably watching them now because bored.
"Xekolus n' Xealruqs can survive almost anything as long as our brain's intact n' connected to the rest of us. Got Themis to tear her heart out usin' Martyr's Crown when she snuck into the Judge's Palace," Argyros grins lopsidedly.
Colin can tell he's being watched, and is occasionally glancing around, a bit wary.
Three Valkyries show up, and they magic over the cleaning supplies to clean up the blood all over the room. Two focus on “resetting” the realm-shard, cleaning up the mess and restoring the contents of the kitchen cupboards, while one goes to asks the guests how this happened because the blood has been identified as coming from one of them. (The Valkyries can basically identify DNA so they can recognize if the blood was from one of the legends if say Argyros was placed there as a decoy to cover up the real reason there was blood everywhere.)
"Jiro happened," Argyros 'explains' vaguely.
"Argyros was being dramatically sad and I believe Jiro got bored of it. She didn't die, at least. I apologize for the mess," Colin tries to give an actually helpful response.
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
yeah vanish is a thing that happens here
the squad chillin? for now. more or less. no current chaos minus Argyros still suffering but eh.
"Can I go home while Colin explains to the Valkyries? I'm tiiired." Argyros complains.
”are you sure you should be trying to get all the way across the megaverse to your home right now? stay here, I’ll try to take care of you, I mean, I have no medical license and you shouldn’t trust me, but you do get used to dealing with injuries after a couple years in the tournament.” Caspian tries to convince Argyros to stay, careful to not act too different. He wants to see her personally try to explain to the Valkyries how she got herself into this disaster.
"Colin can portal me," Argyros says, waving a hand.
Colin on the other hand may have caught onto Caspian's plot, and sighs, "I can't be your main mode of transportation, you do realize? You already had me portal you places multiple times today. Overusing magic can be dangerous, and we're quite far from home..."
”Yeah, just stay here for now. Try not to make things worse. Don’t die.” Caspian tells her.
He won’t have to stall for much longer, the Valkyries will show up in at most a few minutes to clean things up.
"Maybe I should take my heart out just to weird them out... I can survive it," Argyros muses.
Colin looks genuinely concerned and slowly reaches over to hold Argyros's hands in his own, resting them on the table.
Caspian overhears and is just. confused. really at this point he’s more confused by how Argyros is not dead than concerned. he’s genuinely not very concerned and just pretending to be because he’s so conditioned to. “You can- what? Are you sure? Well, please don’t make a bigger mess…”
Also Jiro’s “presence” hasn’t ever truly vanished, he’s left shadow clones hiding around as backups and is probably watching them now because bored.
"Xekolus n' Xealruqs can survive almost anything as long as our brain's intact n' connected to the rest of us. Got Themis to tear her heart out usin' Martyr's Crown when she snuck into the Judge's Palace," Argyros grins lopsidedly.
Colin can tell he's being watched, and is occasionally glancing around, a bit wary.
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
yeah vanish is a thing that happens here
the squad chillin? for now. more or less. no current chaos minus Argyros still suffering but eh.
"Can I go home while Colin explains to the Valkyries? I'm tiiired." Argyros complains.
”are you sure you should be trying to get all the way across the megaverse to your home right now? stay here, I’ll try to take care of you, I mean, I have no medical license and you shouldn’t trust me, but you do get used to dealing with injuries after a couple years in the tournament.” Caspian tries to convince Argyros to stay, careful to not act too different. He wants to see her personally try to explain to the Valkyries how she got herself into this disaster.
"Colin can portal me," Argyros says, waving a hand.
Colin on the other hand may have caught onto Caspian's plot, and sighs, "I can't be your main mode of transportation, you do realize? You already had me portal you places multiple times today. Overusing magic can be dangerous, and we're quite far from home..."
”Yeah, just stay here for now. Try not to make things worse. Don’t die.” Caspian tells her.
He won’t have to stall for much longer, the Valkyries will show up in at most a few minutes to clean things up.
"Maybe I should take my heart out just to weird them out... I can survive it," Argyros muses.
Colin looks genuinely concerned and slowly reaches over to hold Argyros's hands in his own, resting them on the table.
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
yeah vanish is a thing that happens here
the squad chillin? for now. more or less. no current chaos minus Argyros still suffering but eh.
"Can I go home while Colin explains to the Valkyries? I'm tiiired." Argyros complains.
”are you sure you should be trying to get all the way across the megaverse to your home right now? stay here, I’ll try to take care of you, I mean, I have no medical license and you shouldn’t trust me, but you do get used to dealing with injuries after a couple years in the tournament.” Caspian tries to convince Argyros to stay, careful to not act too different. He wants to see her personally try to explain to the Valkyries how she got herself into this disaster.
"Colin can portal me," Argyros says, waving a hand.
Colin on the other hand may have caught onto Caspian's plot, and sighs, "I can't be your main mode of transportation, you do realize? You already had me portal you places multiple times today. Overusing magic can be dangerous, and we're quite far from home..."
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
yeah vanish is a thing that happens here
the squad chillin? for now. more or less. no current chaos minus Argyros still suffering but eh.
"Can I go home while Colin explains to the Valkyries? I'm tiiired." Argyros complains.
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
Caspian takes the bag, and then when he sits back down with the bag, things seem to shift slightly and then he’s sitting there without the bag of tiny ducks…
he stashed it somewhere then unwound time so Colin can’t notice him going to put it away.
Colin tilts his head, but doesn't question this.
(Felicette: my last reply which you didn’t reply to I think or if you did reply it did not get to me)
”Yay!” Kaya is distracted and goes around to the back of the house to get some shovels, buckets, snow molds, and other things.
“Who knows. But like I’ve also never been to the actual realms so like I can’t tell if the Twilight Realm realm shard is the way it is because Jiro wants to kill someone almost all the time.” Caspian brushes it off.
there really is no correlation lmao yes the Land of Lights just naturally has a “normal” blizzard rate while the Twilight Realm was created to be an inhospitable hell to keep the demons too busy with trying to survive to invade the human realm (even though it arguably failed at that since they eventually evolved extreme cold resistance and night vision)
Argyros grins, clapping her hands.
"Fair," Colin nodd in understanding.
Fair enough fair enough.
”So I think we can make the pile maybe a bit taller, but it definitely doesn’t need to be wider, and then we pick one side for the slide and one side for the steps.” Kaya suggests.
"Awesome! That sounds good!" Argyros nods, grinning.
it’s now moving snow time…
Argyros happily hums while helping to move the snow.
it’s soon apparent that the problem with why they can’t get the hill higher without making it woder as well is because it keeps deflating every time Kaya tries to pack the snow to make it firmer.
"odd.." Argyros tilts her head.
”yeah it’s so annoying!” Kaya huffs as she slips off the hill.
(Felicity: lowkey do we want to keep it at this or switch to something more chaotic like find a reason to get Jiro back in and make all of them try to cook dinner together or something.)
"hmmm...." Argyros tilts her head.
(that'd be funny :>> letz do that : >)
(Felicette: ok we time skipping a few hours to when they have to dinner.)
“Okay, Argyros, you and Colin may want to leave because it’s approaching the time where we have to start trying to cook something and we’re pretty bad at that.” Caspian warns after a fun but tiring afternoon of fixing Kaya’s snow slide.
"I'm good at cooking, I can help," Colin offers.
Argyros just grins. she's definitely planning on causing chaos
”okay you know what Colin please don’t leave then we need a lot of help.” Caspian switches up. “I’ll go try to find Jiro because even though he hates cooking and doesn’t know how to, he at least is smart enough to give us a few quick saves.”
Colin chuckles, "makes sense. I'll do my best."
”Alright, you and Kaya can go to my place and figure out what we’re making, I’ll go talk to Jiro, I’m hoping he’s calmed down but the truth is, he does not forgive or forget.” Caspian tells them before leaving.
“Yeah Caspian usually lets us use his kitchen since it’s easier to clean up than if we make a mess in my house, and Jiro’s not going to risk letting us make a mess in his place.” Kaya explains.
"Alright. That's understandable," Colin nods, "Fair enough. Let's go then," He says before walking away towards Caspian's home.
Argyros follows, skipping along.
They head through the portals, and Kaya takes them upstairs to the second floor which has the workroom Argyros had previously explored on one side and a kitchen/dining room area on the other. “Oh yeah the fridge is broken by the way, we use a different one we salvaged that’s in the basement.” Kaya remembers. “But let’s get some ideas for what to make first and then search the realm shards to see if we have the ingredients.”
"Makes sense. Maybe something simple to make? like spaghetti. We'd need noodles, tomato paste, ground beef, and herbs..." Colin suggests, "the sauce having meat provides protein."
"True," Argyros nods, thinking.
”think we have all of those things here… herbs I have in my realm-shard, I’ll get them, I don’t know if we have noodles here or if we have to hope there’s some in Jiro’s realm shard… the Valkyries restock supplies for us somehow, we can’t figure out how they do it, however much Jiro tries to, they just won’t come if you wait for them so I have no idea how often he even lets them restock the cellar in his realm-shard. Also generally no one asks him for stuff because you never know if he’s going to give you something poisoned.” Kaya replies. “We could really just go to the basement right now because I don’t think Jiro’s going to stop hiding just because we want him to help with something, he doesn’t like listening to others.”
"Fair, hm... let's go look" Colin says.
Kaya leads them down to the basement where there’s a larger fridge that’s stocked with ample supplies for 3 people for 5-7 days, there’s good variety and most of the ingredients are of quite good quality, the Valkyries are making sure to give the legends plenty of material comforts. There’s no organization system and it’s a little bit messy but there’s everything they’ll need.
Colin hums, looking around for spaghetti noodles.
There are no noodle noodles but there is pasta. and tomatoes, but no tomato sauce. and a variety of meats and vegetables. and there were seasonings in the kitchen cupboards and Kaya has drying herbs in her house.
Colin gets the pasta, tomatoes, and ground beef, as we as some seasonings. Argyros also grabs some spinach for a side.
Kaya helps Argyros pick out some other stuff because she has decided she wants to make a side salad because 1 why not 2 no way they can mess this up so she’ll still have something decent to eat. They head back to the kitchen and Caspian’s still not back.
Colin lets Argyros and Kaya focus on the salad, and starts boiling some water on the stove for the pasta.
Kaya knows basic kitchen safety about stuff like fire and knives but she’s also not trained to be a cook so she’s trying to “common sense” everything. She’ll help do whatever she’s told and asks Colin for what to do because she feels he knows better.
Colin gives Kaya tips and instructions when asked, being patient and calm, and also stops Argyros from adding unholy amounts of salt to everything while whe works on the pasta and making the sauce. Argyros pouts about not being able to over-salt.
Kaya is very helpful but also concerned about Argyros trying to put unholy amounts of salt into everything. “Okay, okay- uhm Argyros don’t put too much salt in stuff. Please don’t.”
Kaya is internally questioning if Argyros is trying to poison them via too much salt or something (she’s pretty sure too much salt will do bad things to you)
"But it's fun-" Argyros protests.
"Argyros, you are bad at chaos," Colin says flatly, "I will ask you to leave the kitchen if you continue."
Argyros huffs, leaving to sulk in the corner. Colin goes back to cooking.
She's not trying to poison, just cause mischief.
”…I… don’t… think… ruining food… is… fun…” Kaya replied while trying to minimize damage and be helpful.
look Kaya doesn’t know that, and keep in mind she’s been regularly dealing with Jiro who does try to poison.
(Felicity: surprised Colin hasn’t pranked them yet.)
"even my friend betrays me.." Argyros sulks more.
"That is because Kaya is sane, unlike you," Colin chuckles.
Fair.
(he isn't likely to prank them in the first day he knows them. Argyros is not immune like they are, however... Argyros may or may not suffer at dinner time)
”WAAHHHHH IM NOT TRYING TO BETRYA YOU. I I I JUST DONT LIKE SUPER SALTY FOOD OK? THAT’S LIKE UHM KINDA OBVIOUSLY TOO MUCH SALT SOOOOO” Kaya panics because she does not want to be accused of betrayal
(oh dear)
"Betrayal. I am wounded. suffering. left t-"
Argyros's dramatic suffering is cut short by Colin smacking her with the pot after he drained the pasta out. Argyros just slumps on the floor whining pitifully despite not really hurting bc Very Durable Xealruq.
”b-but you said your friend betrayed you- AM I NOT YOUR FRIEND?” Kaya is just increasingly more horrified. “oh dear- uhm- please be okay- Colin, was that necessary?”
at this point Caspian and Jiro get here. “So… what happened?” Caspian is not surprised they’ve already managed to chaos. It’s always chaos here.
Jiro just is disappointed and also wants to leave. Or at least vanish.
"You are her friend, and you didn't betray her. she'll live." He pats Kaya's head.
"Argyros tried to over-salt the food by an unholy amount and got dramatic about Kaya saying no, so I hit Argyros with the pot," Colin explains to Caspian, "don't let her deceive you, she's fine."
Argyros whines pathetically, curled up on the floor.
Kaya calms down a bit but is still trying not to cry and scream. (The tournament kinda made her more immature and spoiled when she learned that people are more likely to give her what she wants if she cries and gets sad.)
“Not the worst that’s happened.” Caspian decides.
Jiro is watching Argyros, but with no sympathy whatsoever and probably wants to hurt her more just to see how she’ll react.
Colin pats Kaya's head comfortingly.
"You're all cruel, evil traitorsss-"
Argyros's dramatic whining gets cut off by Colin full-on throwing the empty pot at her. She yelps (though she isn't really hurt) and the pot clatters to the ground.
Kaya is calming down. Caspian takes over the cooking thing, making sure there’s nothing actively cooking that needs to be taken off the stove or other dangerous or likely to cause problem situations.
Jiro laughs slightly at Argyros’s remark and is now even more tempted to hurt her when given the opportunity. “I already know, already know, already…”
"I hope she didn't cause any trouble like this when she was with you for a week?" Colin asks Caspian and Jiro, sighing softly. He wouldn't stop Jiro from causing chaos at Argyros.
Argyros is just. lying on the floor whining pathetically.
”Actually, not really, she wasn’t like this during Halloween. She even had a mission to cook something for us during the event7 and she didn’t oversalt that.” Caspian is somewhat confused as he finished checking for anything that needs to be immediately dealt with.
Jiro decides to chaos and summons one of his twin swords and stabs Argyros through the torso because desire to chaos.
"Huh. that's a bit surprising. How chaotic was the event for her to not even want start her own problems?" Colin blinks.
"OW- heyy!!" Argyros attempts to squirm away. Her blood is an incredibly dark red, almost black.
"Careful, her blood might stain the floors," Colin warns, not really seeming concerned.
”very, that’s the nature of events.” Caspian is just chilling because chaos and Jiro trying to murder people on a whim is kinda normal here.
Jiro is just trying to kill Argyros and/or make her suffer if she refuses to die now.
“Honestly, if the Valkyries somehow can’t deal with it, we are well used to a solution called change the flooring. Fights break out all the time here, the Vallyries know how to undo just about anything.” Caspian replies to Colin’s “warning”.
Kaya seems a bit shocked but not concerned by this, she didn’t expect Jiro to try to murder Argyros Right Now but she knows it’ll happen inevitably.
"ah, fair," Colin nods. he's genuinely debating telling Jiro how to kill a Xealruq. Colin decides to just put the food onto plates since everything's done, he will not take part in the drama.
"Jirooo I thought we were friendsss!! we chaosed together!!!" Argyros whines.
Jiro ignores Argyros, aims one more attack at her throat and then intends to vanish.
Caspian helps Colin finish up with making dinner. Kaya leaves the kitchen area and helps set the dining table at the other side of the room. Argyros will be dealt with one way or another.
Colin just sighs softly while plating up the food.
honestly as long as argyros's spine is intact and/or her head isn't severed she'll live. just hurting and pouting.
Jiro vanishes, and Caspian and Kaya continue with life as normal.
While Jiro could probably sever her head if he really wanted to, I don’t think he will just now because he isn’t trying that hard and just bored and wanting to chaos.
"Dinner is ready," Colin announces, putting the plates at the table. Argyros drags herself up and walks to the table, pouting. She sits beside Colin.
(Felicity: is Argyros just… magically fine? Jiro’s still going to give her deep cuts even if he doesn’t sever any body parts.)
(She's still injured, she just. doesnt really process pain much? outside of bloodloss it just kinda stings & is Uncomfortable & kinda difficult to walk, and she's able to deal with nausea & lightheadedness. Xealruqs are DURABLE. also i mentioned i have a Plan for the dinner and im gonna go through with it even if it makes no sense bc it's just something i Want to do)
”Shouldn’t you go rest?” Kaya is concerned.
Caspian is having difficulty processing how Argyros is functioning.
"I'll live," Argyros shrugs, propping her cheek on her palm, elbow on the table.
"Well, I hope you all enjoy your food, thank you for having us," Colin smiles. he also made a plate for jiro but left it in the kitchen since it seems like Jiro won't be eating with everyone.
”Please at least patch up the wounds so you don’t make them worse.” Kaya has no idea how Argyros hasn’t passed out from blood loss or something. Kaya also doesn’t really want to deal with explaining to the Valkyries why they have to clean up so much blood. Also she’s starting to get uncomfortable with Argyros just making a mess and dying-not-dying all over the place. She’s used to gore but that doesn’t mean she likes it.
”Are you going? Is Argyros going?” Caspian’s also not looking forward to the massive amount of explaining the chaos to the Valkyries that he and Kaya will have to do because Jiro simply won’t.
Jiro is once again probably not going to come back for hours unless he wants to chaos more, and is also probably not going to touch the food due to insane levels of paranoia.
Argyros sighs. Colin portals a roll of bandages to himself and starts bandaging argyros's injuries. Argyros is not happy about this.
"Going?" Argyros blinks, wanting more elaboration.
Once Colin's at least bandaged the wounds he starts eating, not really caring that there's blood on his hands.
”I was worried Colin was going to leave when he said thanks for having you after all that went down, but looks like things are…” Caspian has the feeling things will get worse if he says ok because Kaya’s here so he just stops.
"I'll stay long enough to explain," Colin shrugs.
Argyros starts eating slowly. After one bite she just paused and looks at Colin with absolute betrayal.
"What? you wanted extra salt, I gave you the juice of a whole lemon and some extra citric acid. Seems fair," Colin shrugs.
"evil...." Argyros whispers.
Kaya had been reaching for a bite of her food but immediately stops just before she puts it in her mouth and returns her fork of spaghetti to the plate, now concern once again.
Caspian is struggling with not laughing about Colin’s prank. “Oh dear- actually, that’s genius and lowkey deserved.”
Colin just smiles while eating. He will not elaborate on if the whole lemon went into the food in general, or just argyros's plate. (it was just argyros's, everyone else is safe. argyros's food tastes very, very Sour.)
well now Kaya does not want to eat her food. “When did you do that? How? Is it just Argyros somehow or all of us… it has to be just Argyros right? I was watching you make it while it was still all mixed together in the pot…”
also Colin you’re giving Caspian ideas for how to torture the other legends (not Kaya and Jiro because they live with him, if he annoys them they’ll be unbearable, but the others).
"I have my ways." Colin smiles softly.
Argyros pouts. "this is worse than the tiny ducks.."
The poor legends lol
Caspian decides to take the risk and try the food.
“…what tiny ducks?” Kaya is equal parts curious and concerned.
Caspian's food is perfectly fine and edible. Colin cooks well.
"A few months ago Colin hid over a thousand tiny resin ducks around the Palace. He numbered them all. We're still finding them, and there's still a bunch missing," Argyros sighs.
Colin chuckles, "I think it was quite fun."
Caspian is happy that their food is fine. “It’s okay Kaya, looks like it’s just Argyros who got the lemon treatment. And that’s crazy. I kind of wanted to do something like that a couple times but I never have enough similar tiny things to hide.”
Argyros groans, dismayed.
"I have another set I got. You can have them if you want," Colin smiles.
”yesyesyesyesyes” Caspian is very excited to cause chaos.
Kaya just chills and eats her food because she knows it probably won’t affect her.
Colin chuckles and opens a small portal, putting his hand in and retrieving a sealed bag of tiny resin ducks. He slides it across the table to Caspian.
