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Dark Aftermath (Part 1)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14HN9eM3k3HxbjVD3aNqaw6tUro2Pg9GXuv1CunGVz38/edit?usp=sharing

Next part in the dark trio roleplay stuff but on google docs because fuck tumblr formatting |D

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The above screenshots are the intro screen and two more to the Anibase, a database of sorts for trivia about all the animorphs books. If you’ve read the trivia for each book on hiracdelest.com the info won’t be new to you, but it is still cool to see the original source. 

The official place to download it is here on the scholastic site (amazingly this link still works without being an archive.org link). I was able to download the .exe file and get it to work on a PC, but I was never able to get it to work on my mac, because the original file was designed for Classic aka OS8/9 (eek!). I have now found out that someone uploaded a version of the Anibase that can be converted to swf format. I followed the instructions at the source here, and it worked for me! Scroll down to where the commenter mentions the file anibase.swf.txt, download the .txt file, change the name to make it a .swf file and as long as you have an application that will read .swf files you will be able to view it. Based on what the commenter said it seems like the Anibase was probably designed in flash originally.

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The Broken Ones

Another Dark Trio Roleplay by the meme trio to grace your eyes!

Read it here

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Dark Aftermath Part 2

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Second part! This one gets weird

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Fetch Quests (Part 1)

(More dark side rps with TeFA and @jurassicraptorcat)

TeFA’s body shoots awake, but finds her mind is not hers. Instead her body lets out a slow laugh, and Anibase finds herself in control. As she rises, struggling with her new body mass and height, a bruise forms all around her neck.

“Ha… ha… Hahaha!!! It's been TOO long!!” Her voice comes out pained and harsh, as if she had a terrible chest and throat cold. She feels along her neck and finds the pendant, lying ever so slightly below her collarbone. With a wicked grin she stumbles out of Juri’s room and finds a bathroom.

She looks into a mirror and sees herself in a dark gray t-shirt v-neck saying “Sleep More, Dream More,” to which makes Anibase chuckle. “Just gives me more time host…” She sees her wearing black, loose leggings and finally looks up at her face. And then the bang.

The stupid bang.

She takes a hairband on her right wrist and puts her bangs back behind her into a tiny ponytail, and watches as her right eye becomes familiar to her: the black sclera and purple-silver iris. She laughs again and stumbles out, then managing to control herself, finds her way to Ouros’ room. Crossing her arms and leaning against the side of the doorway, she beams, “Heyoooo~!”

Unreal is sitting on the floor of Juri’s room, absentmindedly playing with her ink and making shapes with them in the air a few inches off the ground. She turns and regards Anibase with a bored look.

“Well you sure took your time,” She yawns and leans back. “Then again, Lauren is too easy to influence some nights.” She grins wickedly.

Ouros sits over in the corner at a desk writing quickly onto her clipboard. She mutters calculations under her breath while ignoring the two in her room.

With a curse Ouros rips the paper off and tosses it behind her to hit Unreal in the head. She starts her calculations over with quick jerks of her pen.

Anibase rolls her eyes. “To be fair the last time I fully managed to take over was what… A year ago…? Although due to your stupid hosts she’s been able to be more happy enough and cling on longer.” She kicks the doorwall in frustration. “The stupid being who thinks she can get what she wants.” She then takes a seat on the floor next to Unreal, her arms still crossed, avoiding the now thrown balled-up piece of paper.

“You doing okay over there Amber?”

Unreal growls quietly under her breath after the paper ball skips across her head. She grabs a little bit of ink from the pile she’s playing with and lets it stretch across her finger. She flings the ink like a rubber band to the back of ouros’s neck with a snicker.

“Yo Hissy, we’re trying to talk to ya!”

Ouros pauses when the band of ink hits her neck before continuing to scribble furiously on her clipboard. “129 kilograms,” Ouros mutters while jotting it down. Finished with her calculations Ouros sets her pen and swiftly turns in her chair to glare at the two sitting on her floor.

“What,” She asks while crossing her arms.

Anibase shakes her head. “Nevermind on the ‘are you ok’ question. You said you can make us a body, but that's it. How exactly are you gonna be able to do that, and how much help do you need?”

“Do we have to kill somebody? Cuz that’ll be fun…” Unreal giggles madly.

Ouros stares at Unreal for a few seconds before slowly saying, “No. Really I need you to get me ingredients.”

She taps the list she wrote on her clipboard, “Very specific ingredients needed to create a human body from scratch.”

Anibase lies down on the floor and rubs at the swelling bruise on her neck. “Aw man, if we have to go shopping for this at like a grocery store or something I'm gonna hang myself.” Anibase groans like the child she is and then forces herself back up to a sitting position. “Alrighty, what do we need.”

Unreal scoffs and crosses her arms, “I don’t want to be some kind of errand girl! Besides… if anibase is right and we need to go out and collect stuff I’m kinda stuck. I’ll draw attention wherever I go,” she points to her dripping eyes and glitchy ink with a raised eyebrow.

“Unless you can find me 2.34 kilograms of Sulfur, 0.42 kilograms of Sodium, and 0.42 kilograms of Chlorine at your local grocery store you’ll likely have to end up stealing these items,” Ouros explains, “I have most of the simple ingredients besides pure oxygen.”

Ouros throws the list at Anibase with a flick of her wrist, “This is all that I need to make us bodies.”

Anibase catches the paper in the air and takes a look at it, crossing her legs. She mutters them to herself under her breath and then looks back up. “I am literally 9 or 10 years old how the heck am I supposed to know what this is.” She holds it out to Unreal if she wants to look at it. “Could we like, I dunno, extract this from food or something?”

Unreal squints at the paper and holds it close to her face, “what the fuck….”

She looks up at Ouros, “Where the hell would you even find this crap?! And it’s so precise like fuck man!”

Ouros rolls her eyes in exasperation, “Unreal I think you can go find a few of those items at any drugstore in their pill aisle. The rest I’ll have to steal from the local hospital,” Ouros looks pointedly at Anibase, “With some help.”  

Anibase’s eyes perk up, then she smiles. “Hey you aren't looking at my host so no fear of sicknesses here.” She then claps her hands in excitement. “Ooh this'll be exciting! Sneaking around is too much fun.”

“Um hello??? Do you have your snakes stuffed up your ears?? How am I supposed to go get this shit from a drugstore when I look like this?!” Unreal points again at her face, “sure stealing fine but if anyone sees me all hell is gonna break loose!”

“Just say it’s part of a costume you’re wearing or something. I don’t care as long as you get the ingredients,” Ouros says.

Ouros tries to smile at Anibase and instead looks like she’s grimacing, “Hospitals you will find are quite easy to sneak through.”

Anibase puts her hand up firstly and says, “Ouros if smiling causes you pain you can stop.” She ends with a slight giggle then puts her hand down. “And hopefully they shall if I can still…” She tries to phase her one arm out of existence but finds it troubling. “Come on…” She grits her teeth and tries again, and it finally works, but it only lasts for a couple of seconds. “I'll… Get this working by the time we get there.”

Unreal crosses her arms and growls to herself, clearly not up for this little fetch mission. She groans and plops down on the ground, still crossing her arms.

“The subject appears reluctant,” Ouros mutters. She stands abruptly and disappears into a side door emerging a minute later with….something that may have once been human. It dangles from her hand looking like it’s either been flayed or dipped in acid multiple times. The thing moans until a shake from Ouros shuts it up.

“If you get all my ingredients on the list I offer up my least favorite experiment as a punching bag for you to do whatever you want with,” Ouros offers up. She’s read somewhere that offering treats helps to overcome reluctance. She may have read that on a puppy training website.

Anibase stares at the… experiment and finds herself grateful she isn't one of those… things. She stands up and stretches, looking down at Unreal awaiting her reaction.

Unreal recoils backwards and sits up quickly scooting backwards from whatever is dripping off that thing.

“Ouros,” she breathes, “what the actual fuck?!” She gives the other dark ego a wide eyed look of confusion, “I mean I like beating stuff up as much as the next guy but…. what the fuck….”

Ouros cocks her head, “Is this one not suitable? I have other failed experiments you could choose from if that is what you want.”

Ouros tosses the….thing back through the side door. There’s a low moan until Ouros whips her head to glare into the doorway. There’s a cracking sound, a shriek and then silence. Ouros nods, “I believe it better if you choose a different failure, this one is now broken.”

Anibase then lets out a suppressed laugh, followed by a snort, just due to how Ouros alone worded her phrase. She quickly recomposes herself and crosses her arms. “Well, are we gonna be here all night with you showing off your experiments or are we actually gonna grab this stuff tonight?”

“Hissy, I am perfectly okay with no experiments,” Unreal stands and shifts her jacket to let her ink breathe before cracking her neck loudly. “Guess I gotta drugstore to raid. Which ones are there???”

Ouros shrugs and closes the side door, “My host works at a Dollar general down the street. Try there first.” She grabs her medical coat from the corner to pull over her dark outfit. “If you can’t get precise amounts, which I hold no hope for you being able to do that, then just grab as much as you can and I’ll measure it out.”

Anibase starts tapping her foot impatiently. “Come on…! I don't know the area well you're gonna have to help me get to this hospital!” Anibase whines and starts kicking the floor with her exposed heel.

“Which ones do I get snake fuck???” Unreal growls, “stop freaking ignoring me!”

Ouros walks over and grabs the list, she circles Calcium, Potassium, and Magnesium on the list. “There you go...,” Ouros remembers from a “How to make Friends with your Coworkers” pamphlet that nicknames can help improve relationships, “...dear.”

She grabs a heavy bag off the ground and throws it at Anibase to catch. “Plan B is in that bag if your powers don’t work properly,” Ouros explains.

Anibase catches it and cocks her head at the bag, but then shrugs and puts it on. She fiddles with the butterfly hanging by its chain. “Alright, but question: where is it??? You have a map or something?”

Unreal gives Ouros another confused look then grunts in some sort of thankful way and pockets the list into her hoodie. She flips her hood over her head and wipes excess ink off her face with a wince.

“Alright you girls have fun,” Unreal says with a sarcastic finger wave and opens up the bedroom window and slips out into the night (YEET)

Ouros nodded as she adjusted her wrist cuffs. “The hospital is close by come along.” She leads Anibase down to the garage where there’s a silver car.

“Just hop in,” Ouros says as she clambers into the driver's seat and turns the car on.

Anibase looks over the car and nods to herself, impressed. “Nice ride!” She then opens up the door and slides in, closing it. She takes off the bag and sets it at her feet with a thud and buckles in. She rubs her neck where the bruise has seemed to get worse and lets out a hoarse cough into her elbow. “Ugh, sorry.” She mutters. “Now let's just hope that Inky knows what she's doing.”

Unreal pulls out Huffle’s phone and types in the drug store into the gps and starts walking that way. She grumbles about stupid air travel sadly missing her host’s beat up car back in Texas. She tilts her head at her phone and feels a slight glitch of power. She grins and hovers her hand over the phone and closes her eyes. In her head is a spark of light and see can see a small screen on inside the window of a store near the drug store in question. She looks up and sees the wires of the telephone poles above and grins more. She touches one of the wires and closes her eyes and disappears up the wire as red blue and green sparks.

“Buckle up,” Ouros reminds Anibase before she puts the car in reverse and peels out going 70 mph with a blank face. She hits the brakes right at the end of the driveway to spin out into the street while jerking the car into drive. The tires screech as she hits the gas before rocketing forward.

Ouros doesn’t even glance at the speedometer as it quickly climbs up. When she reaches a turn she barely slows down before taking a hard left that leaves the car on two wheels briefly. “Only a minute away,” Ouros informs Anibase.

“But I am buckled iN-” is all Anibase can say before the car zooms to life, and suddenly Anibase is gripping the sides of her chair to stabilize herself. Then she's grinning and pumping her hands up in excitement. “WOOO!!!” She yells in glee, before her hands hit the roof and she immediately retracts them.

When Ouros mentions how quickly they'll be arriving, Anibase nods. She tries testing phasing in and out again which manages to work now more quickly, but she’s still struggling. “Ugh, phasing physical matter is so much more difficult…”

The static on the tv in the store window suddenly fizzes into a burst of red green and blue sparks. A hand pops out of the tv before Unreal bursts out and splats against the glass window with a groan. She growls then lets her form dissolve into ink and squeezes out of the cracks of the window until she appears back on the sidewalk. She cracks her neck and looks over at the store eyeing the building to see if anyone is inside or not.

Ouros pulls into the back hospital parking lot with a screech and rolls into a parking with a jerk, going from 40 mph to 0 in a second. She steps out of the car and stretches. “That was my first time driving, what a leisurely experiment,” Ouros comments.

She looks over at Anibase and gestures, “Can you phase yet?”

Anibase steps out of the car and slams the door shut. “Lemme check.” She then focuses again on her one arm and tries one more time, which phases out perfectly. She beams and completely disappears and reappears right in front of Ouros. “Ding ding!” She giggles at her own joke and smiles. “Now… what do we get?”

Unreal pushes her face against the door into the darkened store and smirks slightly at the sight. It’s empty. She shifts back into ink and goes through the slit of the door and gathers back into her full form once she’s inside. The ink demon huddles her hands in her pockets and casually strolls around the store. She pauses when she sees a blinking red light in the ceiling. A security camera.

Unreal grins wolfishly and lets her eyes glow bright as she concentrates her glitchy energy and sees reflected in the glass a hint of her sparking energy and the red light dims. Satisfied Unreal finds the pills easily and scoops as much as she can fit in her hoodie. Once done she ventures to the back of the store and finds the office, A computer that’s fighting sleep mode has a typical screensaver playing and Unreal touches the screen before she’s sucked in and she heads back to Juris house.

“Oh good,” Ouros comments, “It was this or stuffing you into a Nurse’s uniform. Come along now, we just need pure oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen.” Ouros strides away towards the hospital and approaches a side entrance. She pulls a stolen I.D. out and swipes it through the keylock and opens the door.

“We have around 6 minutes before they realize something is up so we’ll have to move fast,” Ouros begins walking quickly down the hallway until they reach a door.

She pauses, “This is where you come in. I can’t open the door and what we need is inside.”

Anibase nods and understands right away. She quietly cracks her knuckles and phases completely out. Then all of a sudden the door swings open from the other side, and she reappears. She waves a little “hello” and smiles. “After you Ms. Amber.”

Ouros strides in and makes for the locked cabinets in the back. She grabs the padlock and pulls while increasing gravity on it until it rips itself and the hinge off the cabinet. Inside is a couple hydrogen tanks. Ouros grabs two and decreases the weight on them before handing them to Anibase. A couple cabinets over they found the pure oxygen tanks. Ouros only grabbed one of them.

In the back was a freezer with a padlock. Ouros only glanced at it this time to rip it off. The door opened with a hiss and Ouros reached into the bag Anibase was still carrying to grab some heavy duty gloves.

“Liquid nitrogen,” Ouros whispered, “Is not something to mess with. Open the bag.”

Ouros grabbed a can of the liquid nitrogen and turned towards Anibase.

Anibase nodded and opened the bag. As curious as she was and wanting to ask why, she kept quiet and let Ouros do her thing. They couldn't afford to waste any time.

Ouros quickly settles the nitrogen into special blankets in the bag with care. “Our 6 minutes is up it’s time to go,” Ouros remarks even ask footsteps stomp down the hallway. Ouros’s eyes glow a brighter orange and things begin floating around them. Someone screams from down the hallway.

“Time to go.”

Anibase quickly zips the bag up and grabs Ouros’ arm. “Not needed.” She barely mutters as she phases out, including Ouros. Now there is no traces of them visually.

“As soon as I let go you’ll have to focus on keeping yourself invisible alright?” Anibase’s voice echoes in Ouros’ ears.

“Can do,” Ouros says. She keeps a corner of her mind set to thinking about staying invisible while they hurry out of the hospital.

The car is still in the parking spot and Ouros slides into the driver's seat with ease.

Anibase gets in and buckles herself right back in, gently putting the bag in the back. She phases back into reality and smiles all giddily, proud of herself, but also Ouros for managing to keep herself hidden. She hadn't tested making someone else invisible for a while. “Now let's get out of here!”

Ouros peels out of the parking lot doing 70 and hits the gas once they're heading towards Juri’s house. “You can phase other people,” Ouros mutters. She makes the mental note to add that to Anibase's chart. They pull into the driveway going 50 as Ouros hits the breaks.

Anibase shrugs. “Only if I choose to, it's not like I allow it to anybody.” Anibase steps out of the car and grabs the bag. She slams the door shut and walks back inside.

“Oh Inky~! We're home!!!” Anibase shouts in a sing-songy voice.

Unreal looks up from where she’s huddled on the floor watching videos on Huffle’s phone, the numerous pill bottles she stole littered on the ground.

“Well it’s about time! I was just thinking about falling asleep and leaving you guys with a very confused Lauren,” the ink demon pushes herself off the ground and eyes their spoils, “so I’m guessing you got all the shit then?”

“Now the fun begins,” Ouros takes the bag from Anibase and grabs the pill bottles off the floor. She kicks open the side door and enters.

Anibase sits back down next to the ink demon and smiles, “Yep! And it was super fun. Didn't get caught at all.” She rubs her neck again where the bruise seems to be getting worse. “Ugh, Amber better know what she's doing-” she's interrupted by a hoarse cough into her elbow, and her whole body shudders.

“You doing alright there kid?” Unreal asks, raising her eyebrow. She shifts and finally lowers her hood, easing herself by her elbows, “not that y’all will care but I didn’t get caught either. And learned some new tricks,” she grins wickedly.

“Don’t care at all,” Ouros called from the side room. She arranged everything before pulling out measuring instruments and a mortar and pestle to mash the pills. Before she began Ouros paused.

“Reward them when they do good,” Ouros whispered thinking back to the puppy training. Nodding she kicked her foot on the ground and Hyenas burst off her skin to rush out and swarm Anibase. With that done Ouros began measuring out the ingredients carefully.

Anibase slowly shakes her head no. Her voice comes out like jagged glass, sharp and rough, sounding incredibly sick. Her breathing becomes erratic, struggling against… something, she can't quite tell. She holds a hand to her chest. “I… I don't know what’s d3JvbmcuLi4=” The bruise swells even more with each word and she wants to collapse over.

But then the hyenas come over and her mind completely shuffles it’s attention to the puppos, and she curls her arms around them in quick hugs and starts petting them. “HehE… hA… h A h… R29vZCBkb2dnaWVzLi4u”

Unreal’s eye widen and she bends over Anibase and push the mutts out of the way. She actually looks concerned for once, instead of angry and detached.

“Shit, what’s wrong?!” She blinks as she notices the bruise on her neck, “Your neck…” She turns and calls over her shoulder, “Uh Ouros? Something is wrong with the kid!”

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Fetch Quest (Part 2)

One of the hyenas goes running to Ouros whining and she stands abruptly from her workstation. She makes her way out to where the hyenas are circling around the two in agitation. Kneeling next to Anibase Ouros asks, “What appears to be the problem?”

Anibase snaps and yells at the two dark sides, “I DOTidU KNOW!” Tears of liquid silver burn down her cheeks in pain and it drives her to insanity. The pendant suddenly burns brightly as if being heated, and she grabs at it to take it off, but her hand retracts with a yelp of pain as a burn is left in her palm. Her mind is swimming with one phrase over and over again.

“You don't deserve it, you don't deserve it, you don't deserve it, you don't deserve it, you don't deserve it.”

Anibase’s right eye flickers in and out between reality as she realizes what's wrong. “My aCBPIHMgVC4uLg==. She's t R y I n G dG8= gain back cOnTrOl… Using what SSdN made of…”

Unreal quickly gives a sorted of freightened look to Ouros before she bends back down over Anibase, “Well shit-! What do we do?” A twinge in the back of Unreal’s head signals Huffle waking up slightly, seeing anibase in pain being too similar to seeing TeFA in pain. She winces slightly and pushes back, “Do we need to break her inside your head or something?!”

“I hope you can get us inside her head dear, that’s outside my powers,” Ouros comments while observing Anibase’s flickering eye. She motioned to one of the hyenas and it snuggled up next to Anibase.

Anibase hugs the hyena close like a stuffed animal; not too hard that it strangles the poor thing but just enough. She's sobbing by this point, her body shivering as if it was cold as the thoughts in her head finally make her way out of her mouth.

“I don't deserve this. SQ== don't deserve this. SSBkb24ndA== deserve this. SSBkb24ndCBkZXNlcnZl this. SSBkb24ndCBkZXNlcnZlIHRoaXMu”

She's completely unresponsive now to the others, just focusing on trying to get her form back in shape. She can't concentrate on her host trying to fight her down, not like this.

Unreal panics at the sight and she slaps her hand against Anibase’s face. Her eyes glow bright as she cries desperately,”Ş̰̰̩̉̉̊̀l̩͇̪͓̈́̿͛͠ȩ͓͈̳́̽̊͠e̢̞̗̖̋͑́̚p̗͇̞̾̂̃͘ͅ!̢͔̱̳̓̓͆̑”

Unreal grabs Ouros’s hand in a death grip as she mumbles quickly, “We can’t let her host wake up or we’ll lose what little time we have!” The room they’re in starts to shift in color and out of focus as inky darkness starts to surround them, Unreal’s power ready to send them into Anibase’s head once she falls asleep.

Ouros stares blankly into the inky darkness and whispers, “You people will be the death of me.” She closes her eyes before the ink meets her face and opens them in Anibase’s mind. A few of the hyenas had followed their master and Ouros gestured for them to track down TeFA.

Anibase is knocked out and her body collapses onto the floor. She is nowhere to be found in the dreamscape.

TeFA however, is quietly hiding for time behind a black column her mind had conjured up, blending in within the rest of the area around her and the others. Her hands are to the ground, her face contorted in pain.

‘Come onnnn!!!’ TeFA screams mentally. ‘You're finally knocked out!!! What's taking so long for me to return to my own body???’ Then she realizes why.

‘I'm not alone here. I gotta get them out.’

Unreal and Ouros drop into the mindscape like droplets of ink before Unreal lets go of Ouros’s hand and looks around.

“We gotta find that little bratty host…” She mumbles letting her ink spread across the ground and through the air like tendrils, searching around for any sign of TeFA in the darkness. But suddenly she stops and looks back at Ouros as she draws her ink back , “Wait… i think i have an idea…..” She grins wolfishly and winks at Ouros, signally for her to follow her lead.

Unreal clears her throat and closes her eyes for second. When she opens them, they’re clear and green, Huffle’s eyes. But they still drip with ink, signally who’s really in control. She opens her mouth and calls out into the open space in Huffle’s voice, “TeFA!! TeFA where are you?!” forcing her voice to sound desperate and scared.

Ouros looks over at Unreal with her blank face and monotone voice. “I hate this,” She tells Unreal before clearing her throat, “TeFA! It’s safe now please come out!” Ouros sounded remarkably like her higher pitched host and she grimaced angrily the entire time.

TeFA’s eyes bolt open. “Oh God if they're here, Ouros and Unreal are too. They couldn't have gotten in on their own.” TeFA mutters. She silently curses under her breath and wonders if she should risk her progress to go out to her friends.

Screw it.

TeFA appears out of nowhere from Unreal and Ouros’ point of view and sees Huffle and Juri. “Oh my God…” TeFA bolts over to both of them and hugs them both. “Are you both alright?!”

Unreal forces herself to relax in TeFA’s arms to not give herself away and she uses her other hand to wipe away the ink on her face with a laugh,”Yeah, yeah, we’re fine. Stupid dark sides didn’t think we’d get out as soon as we got here!” There’s another twinge of pain in the back of her head at Huffle screaming at her in rage for her lies but Unreal shoves the thought away as she holds TeFA out in her arms, cocking her head in false concern, “Are you alright? Where’s Anibase?”

Ouros turns her face away briefly to arrange it into something vaguely concerned. She put a hand on TeFA’s shoulder, “We’re ok TeFA, are you?”

TeFA nods, a smile growing across her face. “Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Stupid Anibase forgot if she possesses me, I'm stitched back together.” TeFA looks back to Huffle to answer her question with a relieved, but borderline menacing, grin. “Gone, she isn't gonna be back for a while. That's what happens when you're made of terrible memories, karma comes back and bites you, HARD.”

Huffle’s face scrunches into a glare, one so unlike her. She bares her teeth into a menacing snarl and quickly grabs TeFA by the neck, lifting her up into the air with incredible strength. An unstable terrifying laugh bursts from her lips as she squeezes.

“Let’s find a way to speed up her return, S̭̟̓̋͜͝ḥ̘̊̒̚͜ä͕̙̯́̈́̋l͈͈̳̔͑̽l͕̜̖͌̄̕ ̱̤͓̒͌̂w̢̛̼̤͗͛e̡͔̩̍̿̇?͇͉͓͗̔͠ ̺̣̯͐͘͠” Unreal giggles madly but she still looks like Huffle, just to make things worse.

“Oh good we’re dropping the act,” Ouros commented as she ‘grinned’ at TeFA, “How do you think we should start.”

She walked to Unreal’s side and stared up at TeFA, “It would be in your best interest to stop fighting.”

TeFA didn't look shocked or even concerned. She just vaguely pointed to Unreal’s hand strangling her and let's out a single laugh. “You're not even being original. Something tells me that you're hanging around Anibase too much.”

TeFA then takes her left hand and grabs Unreal’s arm, twisting it while digging in her too long nails to scratch and impale them. While doing so, she aims a quick kick with her right foot straight to Ouros’ temple.

Unreal cries out at the nails digging into her skin and pulls away letting TeFA stop to the ground. The cuts in her arm drip black and glitch with color as she growls dangerously. She gathers in ink and lets it wash over the other girls body, trapping her limbs against the ground. She strides over and leans close in front of TeFA face as she snarls, “we’re not here to play games, so I suggest you drop that false confidence and just give in.”

Ouros blinks as she carefully tilts her head from side to side judging the damage TeFA did to her. It didn’t hurt but she felt a bit...out of it.

“We should hurry this up dear just in case,” Ouros tells Unreal.

TeFA merely laughs again. “False confidence?! You do realize where we are right?” TeFA snaps with a loose hand and suddenly the ink turns into soft feathers, and TeFA leaps out and towers over the two. “This is MY dreamscape! I can control how I'm perceived or the area around us.” She glares down and smiles, then all of a sudden chains burst up and lock up their visible limbs, with added spikes in to boot. “Just because Anibase consists of my regrets and worse memories in life doesn't mean that I have the capacity to be bad either. Heck, really I can be bad just as you guys if I wanted to, I wouldn't care who got hurt in the end.”

TeFA yawns and takes a step back to look at her handy work. “Now what I suggest is that you two leave or I seriously might kill you here and now. Sure, it might hurt my friends, but I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get them back.”

Unreal struggles and pulls against the chain, yelling out in anger. She wonders why her influence in here isn’t working as well as it should, did she use up too much power pulling her stunts earlier?

“You’re bluffing, kiddo. You wouldn’t hurt your friends…” she grins slightly and tilts her head mischievously, “you’re not that cruel.”

Unreal blinks and lets her eyes fade back to Huffle’s again but something’s different this time. Her scared terrified expression seems genuine as she stumbles back and tugs on the chains, her ink tears washing away from her pure clean ones.

“T-TeFA…. dont hurt us, please!” Huffle sobs at her friend.

Ouros tugs at Juri in her mind but her host in stubborn in not coming out for reasons Ouros doesn’t know. It doesn’t matter now besides putting Ouros in a bit of a predicament.

“Quiet your blubbering,” Ouros tells Huffle as she examines her chains and ignores TeFA. Niy and Gary writhe on her skin aching to get out and bite but Ouros doesn’t have the advantage of surprise and this is TeFA’s mind.

TeFA’s eyes go deadpan and all she does is shrug and snap again. Then two sharp large object forms out of nowhere and slice off Unreal’s arms at the elbows, and the chains readjust themselves to be now suffocating her shoulders.

“Try me Inky.” TeFA spits at the ink demon and then turns to Ouros. “Don't you dare try any funny business or you’ll get the same.” Then TeFA smirks and laughs a bit to herself. “Yet again, your theme song is ‘Body.’ ‘My arms and legs, they get in the way’ and all that.”

Huffle screams bloody murder, one eye her own, the other Unreal’s. Her whole form glitches red as she howls, her blood leaking and dripping black.

Huffle bends her head down, her shoulders shaking from her fear and her tears, “T-TeFA!” She chokes, sounding heartbroken. Then the blood bubbles and pops with electricity and are drawn up to her in swirling shapes, “Y̪̹͚̓̐͠ő͚͔̯̾̃ų̙̦͛͑͆’͍͕̗́̾͐r̢̬̞͗̍̒ẹ̱͇̀̔̑ ̘̬̺̈͑̽f͇̰̝̍̄̏u̢͚̥̓̃̕c̖̩̗̄̒͝k̤͔̦͊̓͠ỉ͎̫̺̄̉n͕̺̫͌͊́g̣͉̖̑̀̒ ̢̹̪́͆͝D͈̖͈̏͊̎E͕̣̝͂̾͐A̛̻̥̟̐͗D̛͚͓͊͜͝!̨̼̗̓͗͝!̦͉͗̌͜͝ ͕̞̲͒́̓”

The ink shapes harden into jagged sharp points and all fire at TeFA at terrifying speeds and from several different directions as Unreal’s eyes burn in rage.

Ouros blinks at the savage display but merely goes back to inspecting the chain and making sure the spikes weren’t damaging her wrist cuffs. Unreal would either kill TeFA or keep her distracted while Ouros got everyone into position.

TeFA claps and all of the sharp ink freezes in time. “This trick I like, Dr. Strange inspired!” TeFA then waves them over with her hand and studies them. “Actually, thank you for these.”

TeFA walks over to Ouros and rolls up her sleeves. Then with a blink, all line up along her arms and rip up the snake tattoos by burying themselves into her skin. Once the deed is finished, they disappear into thin air. She simply looks up at Ouros and mutters, “I don't trust you.”

TeFA walks back to her original spot and sighs. “Are we done yet? Honestly you're both worse than my youngest brother right now and that takes a lot.”

Unreal shouts in rage until her voice cracks. Finally she hangs her head and grits her teeth in anger but the fight seems drawn out of her.

“We...we only wanted our friend back. We’re only doing this so we can get out of all your heads. Isn’t that what you want??! Do you think we like being shoved full of our hosts pathetic overwhelming emotions?!”

She chuckles bitterly as the glow in her eyes dim and her skin seems to dull, “you’re only opening yourselves up to further pain the longer you halt our progress, little one.” As she finishes her eyes roll up in the back of her head, making her eyes turn fully back before she crashes to the ground, slowly dissolving back into ink.

Ouros almost rolled her eyes but she refrained. “Both of you talk to much,” She commented while flicking blood off her arm, “and TeFA. I’m sorry you went and destroyed the weakest tattoos but didn’t go for the rest.” In the distance cackling starts up as the hyenas receive their commands.

“Also they explode, bye,” Ouros says as she leaves TeFA’s mind. She doesn’t want to stay to see how that will go down.

TeFA’s eyes widen, but then she sighs. “Another dream, another death. What all is new.” As the hyenas run up as close as they can, TeFA laughs a bit as they prepare to explode.

“At least it's something different this time around.”

And then blood splatters the black landscape.

[huffle-dork]

Control (Part 1)

(Warning! This story will get darkkk, we got a little carried away, so read at your own risk! Warnings for gore, anxiety attacks and a general bad time)

Rolepay with TeFA and @jurassicraptorcat

Juri fought back tears as she hurried to find medical cream in her bathroom cupboard. Things had gone from ok to nightmarish last night and now Huffle was hurt. Juri didn’t know what had happened last night but from the destroyed bedroom to Huffle’s wounds she could only imagine.

Find the medical cream Juri grabbed it and hurried out of the bathroom. She refused to even glance at the destroyed bedroom as she passed by it. Entering Huffle’s room Juri spoke, “So I guess we should talk about last night.”

TeFA rubbed her skin where she swore she could still feel the rope entangled in her skin, her muscles, her bones… She shuddered at the thought of it. “This is my fault. I know I have anger issues, especially when it comes to protection, but that went too far. Heck she even betrayed my trust and took full control of me! She used her illusions and made her fully appear, and I just sat back and watched, unable to help. … Why am I like this…” TeFA sat and hugged her legs, and hid her face from the other two, unable to look at them without feeling terrible guilt.

Huffle groaned and bit back a pained whine. Her skin was covered in thick scabbed burns and she gritted her teeth. And she thought sunburns were bad, this wasn’t even close.

“Please TeFA,” Huffy croaked, “we all know who’s fault this is… I mean just look at me.” She laughs somewhat bitterly but mostly cuz she just laughs when things get uncomfortable. “Unreal has too much power over me and ya’ll almost got hurt…” She bites her lips to keep herself from crying but she feels the wetness behind her eyes.

“I’m just glad it’s me who has to suffer…not you guys.”

Juri hurries over when she hears Huffle groan and checks the scabs she can see. “Calm down guys, “Juri says, “guilt over the past isn’t gonna help us figure out what happened last night.” Unsure if Huffle needed help or not Juri set the cream down near her hand.

“I don’t know much about my ego anymore,” Juri admitted while pulling a blanket over TeFA, “She’s not-she’s not as aggressive as yours are.”

TeFA looks back up and feels tears well up in the back of her eyes, but then she remembers Anibase and shuts them back down. She then clutches the stupid butterfly that's been resting in her hand and slams it down into the ground. “I wish this couldn't have to happen to us.” TeFA mutters wetly. She looks up at Huffle especially. “First things first is that we need to heal you and quick.” She feels her heart beat quicker and she lets out a rushed sigh. “What more could we do to heal you?”

Huffle coughs slightly and sits up before stiffly reaching for the cream and applying it to her burning shoulders.

“You’re right Juri… guilt won’t help.” She takes a deep breath as she rubs, trying not to visibly wince.

“I don’t know how else. I mean we might have dark sides but we’re not super humans…. might just have to let these things heal on their own?” Huffle sighs and shifts so she can reach the hard to reach places, “maybe they’re just like giant sunburned patches and they’ll go away within a couple days,” she giggles nervously.

Filled with nervous, restless energy Juri begins to tidy up the room and fiddle with little knick knacks before setting them down just so. She glances around the room for something more to do with her hands and spots the few unused towels she had given Huffle and begins to fold them.

“You said Unreal and Anibase teamed up together right?” Juri asked, “What if they convinced mine to join them.”

TeFA looks back down at the floor and starts to visibly shake a little. “I guess I'm the only one that remembers the damages…” TeFA looks back up Juri. “They have, and- and-” TeFA suddenly felt her stomach churn and she stopped, her eyes bulging as she felt a longing to gag arise in her throat.

‘UmVtZW1iZXIgd2hhdCBJIHNhaWQgYWJvdXQgdGFsa2luZyBhYm91dCBtZSBpbiByIEUgYSBMIGxpZmUuLi4/IE9yIGRvIEkgbmVlZCB0byByZW1pbmQgeW91IGEgRyBhIEkgbi4uLj8h ((Remember what I said about talking about me in r E a L life...? Or do I need to remind you a G a I n...?!))’ TeFA heard Anibase’s voice in her head, and she quickly wrapped herself deeper in the blanket, trying to calm her panic attack. She felt so sick, and she struggled against the feeling.

‘Not now!!!’ was all TeFA thought as she curled herself even more, hiding herself more to the best of her ability. ‘They can't see you, don't make them worry.’

“TeFA?” Huffle asks as she sees her younger friend hide deeper, “you okay dear?” She doesn’t push her though and can tell this might be an attack so she bite her lip and addresses Juri, “I mean I’d be surprised if they all teamed up. Last time I remember unreal wanted to kill ouros. Well… unreal wants to kill a lot of things.” Huffle shrugs and leans back on the bed, “I dunno where she gets all that anger from but it’s certainly not from me!”

“That’s true,” Juri agrees, “And they both hold grudges…” Juri winces at that reminder. She sets down the towels she was folding to go and grab another blanket from the pile in the corner. Setting it on top of TeFA as the only form of comfort she knew how to provide.

“Do you need anything TeFA?” Juri asks while looking around for one specific object she knew was in there.

TeFA starts breathing in and out too loudly, and a bit quickly for that matter. She bursts out of her blanket and her arms start shaking and flailing themselves about. She almost screams.

“EARBUDS, HEADPHONES, ANYTHING!” TeFA wants to just knock herself out, end the pain she feels in her lower organs. It drives her insane: she so desperately wants to throw up, but she's insanely scared of that, so her mind and body are in a fight against one another right now. She needs to distract herself, listen to something, just get her mind off of it.

Huffle startles back then quickly grabs her backpack from the ground and digs through the contents. Sketchbooks, computer gadgets, markers, ah! Headphones! She quickly kneels down by TeFA and hands them to her, before lightly touching her hand.

“Hey sweetie, just breathe with me okay? Breathe in and out slowly… in for 8, hold for 4, out for 7… okay?” Huffle then demonstrates for TeFA to follow and moves her hand to follow the motion.

Juri scrambles to the other side of the room and grabs the object before slowly approaching TeFA and setting the stuffed dog lightly in her lap. She wasn’t good at dealing with these types of situations.

TeFA follows along with Huffle, and starts to feel the pounding in her chest subside little by little. She quickly plugs in the headphones into her phone (which was in her pocket) and turns on her SoundCloud app, looking for one of her Lofi Hip Hop Mixes. She clicks on volume 1 and lets her brain do a complete shutdown, and she closes her eyes and droops her head, almost to her lap, and lets the sound swirl in her head of gentle clinking and soft EDM. She slowly reaches for the dog and holds it close to her, and lets out a deep sigh. She was fine, for now, she just needed more time.

Huffle smiles and squeezes TeFA’s hand lightly. “There you go!” The older girl digs into her backpack again and pulls out a green bear with a big red neck scar and offers it to TeFA. “Anti bear isn’t so good with hugs but he is soft!” She grins then waves over to Juri go join them on the floor for their own little floor party.

“I also know what’ll make you feel better! Tell Anibase to fuck off,” Huffle laughs.

Juri quickly grabs all the blankets and drags them over sitting next to Huffle and TeFA. She raises an eyebrow at Huffle. “Are we really gonna tempt fate right now?” Juri asks with a pointed look down to Huffle’s burns.

TeFA laughs a bit as she hears Anibase let out a small growl. “She didn't really like that, haha.” She pulls off the headphones and grabs Antibear as well. “Oh!” she then reaches out behind her and grabs her own bag full of objects, and pulls out Nini, and brings all three of them together.

“Three stuffed animals and three friends!” TeFA giggles at her comment and smiles as she realizes she's calmed down, and no longer feels sick. She lets out a sigh and looks back up at her friends. “I love you both, I'm sorry that I had a little thing there.”

“Hey friends stick together no matter what!” Huffle grins and gives them both each a half hug, Then she leans back and sticks her tongue out slightly at Juri, “these little pests don’t scare me. I got you guys!”

Juri snorts and knocks her shoulder into theirs lightly. “And who here is supposed to be the adult?” She teases lightly, “And don’t worry TeFA. After what we woke up to from last night I think we all freaked out a little.”

TeFA laughs again and smiles. “Now let's just hope that we don't experience any more of these problems.” She hugs all three of the stuffed animals together, and then looks at the others. “So… we got any plans for today?” She ends with a sheepish chuckle.

“Mmmm” Huffle hums aloud, “I dunno! I’m up for anything. As long as there’s not a lot of arm moving,” she laughs with shimmying her shoulders slightly, giving a big grin. She then turns to Juri, “you’re the resident expert here, what’s there to do?”

Juri grinned, “Well we have hiking,exploring abandoned hotels and skating. Take your pick.” She pulls out her phone to check the weather just in case.

“Oh God, last time I went skating I nearly died, so I'm down for the first two.” TeFA recalls as she remembers she fell down the one time and her head slammed against the ground. That, was not fun.

“Am I the only one concerned that exploring abandoned hotels is an option?” Huffle laughs nervously, “but hm I hate hiking and I’m bad at skating…”

“How dare you be concerned about exploring abandoned hotels. I'll have you know that they are perfectly haunted thank you very much,” Juri teased. “Abandoned hotel it is.”

After stretching and standing Juri declared, “Hope you guys brought a good pair of shoes.”

TeFA pumped her hands into the air. “WHOO! This is gonna be so exciting!!!” She then looked into her bag to see if she grabbed her sneakers. “C’mon…” TeFA muttered as she put her entire arm in to reach the bottom. Then she felt her fingers grace her brown, rope-y laces and she pulled both her sneakers out! “There you are!” She then returned to her bag to find her socks.

“Please Juri,” Huffle teased, grabbing her blue pair of sneakers, “all my shoes are good!” She begins to tie them and get ready, hiding any wincing she may be doing by moving her arms too much. “Just to let ya’ll know I’m brave watching let’s plays but I’m a huge scaredy cat irl so don’t be mad if I cling to you when ghosts come get us…”

“It’s not that bad Huffy. Just some old buildings that nature’s taking back,” Juri reassured, “Although Briarwood…”

Juri tugged on her shoes and quickly shooed the others out the front door. “To adventure!” She yelled.

~~~

TeFA collapsed onto the floor as soon as she sat her sneakers aside. “As much as I look fit, according to people, and for how much I go to Disney World, I cannot handle walking and running out of worry something is there for that long.” She pushed herself up onto her elbows. “There are reasons why I'm an artist.” TeFA laughed.

Huffle collapsed on the bed as soon as she was near and groaned into the covers, “you said it Tef. I was not made for walking and now I crave deathhh” Huffle sprawled out on the covers and stared at the ceiling.

“There was a suspicious lack of ghosts though…”

Juri rolled her eyes playfully at the both of them. She was perfectly fine having done that walk a hundred times. “You guys...if this makes you tired I guess I can cross visiting the Erie canal off the list of things to do,” Juri commented

She toed off her shoes and sank to the floor next to TeFA feeling a bit sleepy. “Can always visit the Lockport caves though. Or the Locks,” Juri muttered.

“I'm sorry that I don't believe in a thing called ‘physical activity.’” TeFA said with a slight sarcastic tone. She patted Juri’s shoulder and with a grunt, sat up, crossing her legs. “Welp, I'm lacking a bed, but I do have a spare blanket in my bag. Should I just crash on the couch or something?”

Huffle laughed and rolled over on her stomach so she could flick Juri’s head playfully. “I’m pretty small I could fit in a couch easier if you want this bed TeFA!” She tries to get up but then flops back onto the mattress and buried her face in the covers, “orrrr on second thought. My body is failing me.” Huffle slowly reaches for anti bear without lifting her head and cuddles him to her chest.

Juri was already cocooning herself in the nest of blankets left on the floor from earlier with a huge yawn. “You can take my bed TeFA. It’s across the hall. Bed’s under the ‘blanket fort and the switch above the pillow turns on the purple twinkle lights for a night light’,” Juri said sleepily. She made grabby hands at InuYasha, the stuffed dog, who was just out of her reach.

As soon as TeFA hears purple she's pretty much out of the room, before quickly giving Juri InuYasha and grabbing her bag. “Night all!” she yells as she quickly dives into Juri’s room. Anytime she hears “purple,” she knows she’s gonna LOVE it.

TeFA enters her room and immediately falls in love. This screamed her aesthetic. She dived under the blanket fort without ruining its structural integrity and huddles in. She flicks the light on and immediately feels cozy. It reminded her of her stars that hung from the framework of her bed back home. Grabbing Nini, she prepared to fall asleep.

Huffle opens one eye to see Juri cuddle on the floor and puffs out a small laugh. She then curls up to the side of the bed and cuddles Anti closer, hoping and praying for a restful sleep so they could all continue having fun.

Unreal, of course, had other plans. It wasn’t long until Huffle was shoved into the back of her mind and Unreal took the stage. She staggered upwards and cracked her neck, letting her ink settle and fall. She then groans and sends a slightly soft kick to Juri’s shoulder.

“Hey, wake up Ouros! Got stuff to do.”

Ouros takes over Juri with little resistance but frowns at the blankets trapping her. Using a wiggling maneuver Ouros clambered out while trying to ignore Unreal groaning behind her.

“What's with the infernal groaning Unreal,” Ouros asked.

TeFA fell back into her dreamscape, face to face with a very, and unusually, happy Anibase. She looked down onto the child-like version of herself and glared. “You betrayed my trust and took full control of me! You conjured up such a large illusion to make it look like it was you there, but you weren't! And now you, you, you're teaming up with THEM?!” TeFA realized she had been shouting at the dream demon and quickly covered her mouth. “N-No, please don't-” but Anibase wagged her finger and giggled.

“T2ggZG9uJ3Qgd29ycnkuLi4gSSdtIGdvbm5hIG5lZWQgeW91IGEgTCBpIFYgZSB0b25pZ2h0LCB0byB0ZWFjaCBhIHZlcnkgc3BlY2lhbCBsZXNzb24gdG8gc29tZSBuZXcgZnJpZW5kcyBvZiBvdXJzLi4uIg== ((Oh don't worry... I'm gonna need you a L i V e tonight, to teach a very special lesson to some new friends of ours…))” Anibase teased, and crossed her arms. “SG9wZWZ1bGx5IHRoZXkgc2hvdWxkIGpvaW4gdXMgaW4gbyBVIHIgd29uZGVyZnVsIGRyZWFtc2NhcGUgc29vbi4uLg== ((Hopefully they should join us in o U r wonderful dreamscape soon…))”

Unreal adjusted the shirt Huffle was wearing to let her ink breathe before dropping her feet heavily to the floor.

“What’s with your whining?” Unreal teased back to Ouros as she stretched and let herself wake up to her body. “We gotta go meet the brat, so get up.”

Without waiting for Unreal, Ouros stood straight up and walked out of the room. TeFA was curled up on Juri’s bed frowning in her sleep. Kneeling next to her Ouros heaved a sigh and reached for TeFA’s mind.

She appeared next to Anibase with a groaning Juri collapsing next to her. “I made it,” She informed Anibase with a blank face.

Anibase jumped up and down with excitement. “WWF5IQ== ((Yay!))” Anibase then cocked her head. “V2hlcmUgaW4gSW5reSB0aG91Z2guLi4/IFdlIG5lZWQgaGVyIGhlcmUuLi4= ((Where is Inky though…? We need her here…”

TeFA’s eyes widened upon seeing Juri. “Oh no, no no no! You better not lay a finger on her Anibase!” Anibase just giggled in response.

“Tm8gcHJvbWlzZXMuLi4= ((No promises…))”

Unreal dropped her way in holding the form of Huffle up by her hoodie. She then tossed her next to Juri and dusted off her hands.

“Jeez you don’t wait for anyone do you?” She said, giving a pointed look to Ouros before lightly kicking Huffle’s arm. “Had a hard time getting this one to cooperate and show up here, so apologies or whatever.” She crosses her arms and glanced at Anibase.

“So what’s the plan pipsqueak?”

Ouros looked down at Juri and Huffle who were starting to get up and crossed her arms. Juri looked up and began scooting back straight into Huffle.

“Oh my god,” Juri whispered tugging desperately at Huffle’s arms, “Huffy what is going on?”

[huffle-dork]

The Dark Trio Meets (Part 2)

Anibase watched outside of the cage, still completely invisible, sitting on the floor nearby. She loved this, it was just like watching cartoons! She held Nini, who was also invisible under her touch, cleaning off the ink and trying her best to stitch her back together.

The hyenas shake off Unreal’s influence but all turn to look at her. Two of them rush at her aggressively. They aren't made of actual ink like Niy and Gary are. Ouros had learned her lesson.

A few break off to sniff around the room and circle the area Anibase is in while the rest go to Ouros to bite the ink trapping her.

“F̙͕̟̃̇̇u̢͇͈̽̆̉c̬̜̟͛͗̃k̢̜̺̊̄͛!̳͇͗͗̚ͅ ̡̬̘̆͛͘”Unreal cries as she made a shield of ink in front of her, stealing some the ink from Anibase’s empty cage.

“What the fuck are these mongrels made of?!”

Unreal hears the hyenas chomping on her and can feel the unpleasant sensation. She growls and has the ink extend out, covering their mouths with sticky ink.

Anibase finishes with Nini and hovers her above the pendant. “WW91J2xsIGJlIHNhZmUgaW4gaGVyZS4uLg== ((You’ll be safe in here…))” And with that, Nini vanishes inside. Anibase then looks up and see the hyenas and gasps, the softly squeals in delight.

“UFVQUElFUyEhIQ== ((PUPPIES!!!))” And her eyes filled with childish glee as she phased back into the material plane.

The hyenas snarl at the sticky ink and devolve into a dark liquid that looks disturbingly like blood before reforming healthy and whole. They attack the ink holding Ouros with renewed vigor. The ones attacking Unreal circled her while laughing unable to get past the shield.

Ouros was taking deep breaths in the ink trapping her. She glared over at Anibase, “My hyenas are not puppies.”

The hyenas near Anibase growled in agreement and backed away from her wearily.

Panic seized Unreals’s heart but she tried not to show it as the laughter of the hyenas increased. She made the ink shield surround her completely like a dome and huddled down trying to think. She heard something buzz in her jeans and took out Huffle’s phone from her pocket. Ah annoying pop up for the game she played. Unreal studied the device before her hand glitched in front of her again. Hmm… she might be able to use this.

Anibase frowns as the hyenas pad away. She then looks at Ouros again and observes her more closely. “SGF2aW5nIG90aGVycyBkbyB5b3VyIGZpZ2h0aW5nLCBodWguLi4/ ((Having others do your fighting, huh…?))” Anibase asked. She looks at the ink-shield-bubble. “U28gaG93IHdvdWxkIHlvdSBmaXggdGhpcyB0aGVuIEFtYmVyLi4uPw== ((So how would you fix this then Amber…?))”

Ouros snorts, “My ink creations are familiars and should be considered mere extensions of myself.”

With one last snarl the hyenas tore through the ink holding Ouros and she stepped out with a shake. The hyenas padded to Ouros and brushed up against her.

Ouros looked over at the ink shield and pointed up at the ceiling where there were a few sprinklers. “How good are you at starting fires?” Ouros asked.

Unreal stares at the phone then quickly starts typing, knowing exactly where to go. She touched the screen and her frantic glitchy pixels seemed to be sucked into the screen, as if drawn into it.

Then she heard Ouros’s plan and cursed slightly. But an idea struck her. She held the phone close to her chest and waited to see what their next moves would be.

Anibase grins. “T29oLCBJIGhhdmVu4oCZdCBzZXQgVGVGQSBvbiBmaXJlIHlldCwgdGhhdOKAmXMgYSBnb29kIGlkZWHigKYh ((Ooh, I haven’t set TeFA on fire yet, that’s a good idea…!))” Anibase stores the idea for later and rubs her hands quickly together. She then spreads them apart and fire dances between her hands. She then quickly brings her hands to the ground, letting the sparks light up the room around them. She raises her arm over one of the flames and her arm phases out. She laughs as if being tickled. “VGhhdCBnb29kIGVub3VnaCBmb3IgeWEgQSBtIEIgZSBS4oCmPw== ((That good enough for ya A m B e R…?))”

Ouros nodded while ignoring the flames creeping toward her, “This is good enough.” As she said it the sprinklers above Ouros burst into life and began spitting out water.

The hyenas growled and melted back into Ouros’s skin as she stood with her arms crossed waiting for the ink bubble to melt away.

The instant the water touched the ink it almost seemed to screech and sizzle slightly. Sparks like wet electronics started to erupt from the bubble as it started to dissolve. Unreal winced in pain at the sounds and felt the ink of her skin start to spark slightly too. She had to hurry to escape this!

She opens the messenger app Huffle uses to talk to her friends and shoves her hand into the screen. Immediately she’s sucked into the screen leaving it covered in ink and it hits the floor with a dull thud.

A ping goes off on both TeFA’s and Juri’s phones.

Anibase hears Juri’s phone goes off and bursts into immediate laughter. “T2ggbXkgZ29vZG5lc3MgY2FuIHlvdSBwbGF5IHRoYXQgYWdhaW4gcCBMIGUgQSBzIEU/IQ== ((Oh my goodness can you play that again p L e A s E?!))” Anibase continues to laugh, unable to control her childish nature.

Ouros’s eye twitched as the ringtone faded out. “Juri,” Ouros seethed. She reached back to pull out her phone and turn the annoying thing off.

As soon as Ouros unlocked the screen Unreal came bursting out as colorful pixels, sending a hand right to Ouros’s face. The full weight of her body pushed Ouros to the ground as Unreal settled back into her body. Acting fast she shot another wave of ink at Anibase but already the water from the sprinklers was burning her skin. It started sparking and smoking and Unreal held back a scream of pain.

Anibase, caught slightly off guard, quickly dodged, but looked again seeing that her arm got slightly hit. She growled and quickly wiped it off. She looked back, her right eye starting to faintly glow. An idea suddenly struck her and with a lot of her strength, wrapped the two of them up with her noose, and hung them above the ground. She stared up at them with furious eyes.

“V2UgYXJlIGdvbm5hIGdldCBub3doZXJlIHdpdGggdGhpcy4uLg== ((We are gonna get nowhere with this…))” Anibase admitted through strained teeth, trying to keep the two of them together. Holding up something that weighed a lot more than you, let alone two, was a struggle. She then eyed Unreal with a glare. “RXNwZWNpYWxseSB3aXRoIHlvdSBhIEMgdCBJIG4gRyBsaWtlIGEgY2hpbGQsIGFuZCB0aGF04oCZcyBjb21pbmcgZnJvbSBtZS4uLiE= ((Especially with you a C t I n G like a child, and that’s coming from me...!))”

Ouros lay limply in the noose staring deadpan down at Anibase. “Why am I strung up here with Anger Management issues,” She asked Anibase while pointing at Unreal.

There was a pain building up in Ouros’s head signaling Juri trying to wake up. Ouros grit her teeth as a new stab of pain hit her. Juri usually didn’t try to fight Ouros for control so Ouros struggled to force Juri back to sleep.

Unreal growled and struggled against the ropes but couldn’t budge. She was starting to smoke more and spark more and finally let out a pained cry. Her skin was burning and she was close to passing out.

“I͖̤͒͊-͕̝̉̎ḭ̗̀͒f̲̱̓̂ ̢̹̾͗ỵ̩͌̕o̝͕̾̈́u͔̭̔̋ ̢̻̈̕ẘ̨͔͒à̩͓̉n̨͎̾̑t͓̞̿̕ ̯͎̌̑t̨̟́͘o̫̪̎̌ ̺̝̈̎ṣ̛̯͐ă̹̩̈y̜̗͛͝ ͇͓͆͝š̘̞̉o͉̗̐͒m̥͇̽͝ę̳̈̈́t̗̘́̅ẖ̐͘͜i̛͂͜ͅn̬͔̂̀g̤̮̈̋.̞̭͛̚.͈̘̐͝.͎͔̈́͝t͈̲̄͝-̫̗̽̇ẗ̳̙̉u͚̇̽ͅr͕͚̆̽n̗̣̔̅ ̦̲͑͘ò͇̜͠f̮̞̌̈́f̞̱́̂ ͍̂̕ͅṭ̡̐̌h͍̬͌̀ḙ̛̥͌ ̖͕͌̾s͔̘̈́̋p̡̜̉͝r̝̝̈̅í̙̼͑ǹ̢͇̒k͔͖̿̌l̼̪̓̚ē̮̲̚r̻̟͛͘s̟̰̆̓!̧͖̕͠ ̺͐̇ͅÌ̺̼̋.̧̛̟̂.̗̰͑̋.̯̱̄͝Ì̼̤͒’̨̙̆̚m̝̹̃́ ̧̬͑͗n̻̖̂͂o̢͖̒͝t͔̣͑̈́ ̝͕̆̋g̲̬͐̀o͍͙͂͌n̻͍͂̚ň̝͙̈́ạ̘̀̂ ̻͖̓̈́l̜̖̓̎a̻̹͗͘ś̩̱̕ṯ͉̓̏ ̺͍͝͠m͕̐̔ͅu͉̜̇͘ç̑̀͜h̘͈̏̅ ̱͉͑͝l̞͇̆͘ó̫̥̐n̹̝͆̄ḡ̜̫͆é̢͖̈́r̳̞͑̍.͈͖̚̕.̖̞̆̄.̫̦̃͝”Unreal gasped, more ink running down her face as if she was crying from the pain.

Anibase crossed her arms and evilly smiled. “RiBJIE4gYSBMIGwgWSEgWW91IGxlYXJuZWQgd2hlbiBlbm91Z2ggd2FzIGVub3VnaC4uLiE= ((F I N a L l Y! You learned when enough was enough...!))” She built up a jump and leaped up high, and broke the sprinklers. She then landed back down and started panting. “V2h5IGRvIHlvdXIgaG9zdHMgaGF2ZSB0byBoYXZlIG1hdGVyaWFsIG1hc3MuLi4/IQ== ((Why do your hosts have to have material mass…?!)) She rolled her hands into fists to focus.

“SXQncyBvYnZpb3VzIHRoYXQgd2Ugd29uJ3QgZ2V0IGFueXdoZXJlIGZpZ2h0aW5nIGVhY2ggb3RoZXIgbGlrZSB0aGlzLi4uIFdlIGFsbCBoYXZlIGdvYWxzIHdlIHdhbnQgdG8gYWNjb21wbGlzaC4uLiBBbmQgd2Ugd2lsbCBkbyBhIE4geSBUIGggSSBuIEcgdG8gZ2V0IHRoZW0uLi4= ((It's obvious that we won't get anywhere fighting each other like this... We all have goals we want to accomplish... And we will do a N y T h I n G to get them…))” Anibase then looked at Ouros. “V2hhdCBpcyB5b3VyIGdvYWwsIGh1aC4uLj8gQ2VydGFpbmx5IGl0IGRvZXNuJ3QgaW52b2x2ZSBtZSBvciBJbmt5LCByaWdodC4uLj8= ((What is your goal, huh...? Certainly it doesn't involve me or Inky, right...?))”

Ouros glared at them both. “My only goal is to get a body. That in no way involves either of you.”

Her head was really pounding now and dangling in the air wasn't helping. Ouros glanced over at the hurt Unreal and huffed.

“Put me down,” Ouros demanded, “I have no more reason to fight.”

Unreal whimpered quietly, ink falling off her face in big watery drips. Under the ink you could see red blotched burned skin. Unreal weakly tried to use her ink to cut them down but all her ink was rendered useless from the water. It was gonna take her a long time to rebuild her reserves….

“What makes you think…” Unreal rasped, glaring at Ouros, “You’re the only one that wants a b̬̮͇̊̾̓o͖͕̙͂̉͐d̜͎͈͂͒͝ŷ̢̱̱̽̉?”

She shuddered at the sting of her ink slithering over her burns then muttered through gritted teeth, “Maybe… we could help each other? Since our hosts are close or whatever…”

Anibase smiles, but this time truly happy. “SC1IZWgsIGxvb2tzIGxpa2Ugd2UncmUgYWxsIGZpbmRpbmcgb3VyIHBsYWNlLi4u ((H-Heh, looks like we're all finding our place…)) And with that she drops them both and collapses to the ground, her body unable to keep itself from staying materialized. She pushes herself up so she's sitting in front of them. She holds both of her hands out to be shaken.

“SSBjYW4gaCBFLQ== ((I can h E-))” Anibase starts her bargain, but stops. She sighs. “V2UsIGNhbiBoIEUgbCBQIGVhY2ggb3RoZXIuLi4= ((We, can h E l P each other…))” Anibase repeats, with an added look to the two darksonas to get their reassurance.

Ouros had landed on her feet with a slight stumble and listened to Anibase’s proposal. Without glancing back Ouros turned and strode out of the room to enter her room she used for experiments. She grabbed a tiny cauldron and walked back into the other room.

“The proposal sounds interesting to me but I know that Unreal and I have bad blood so I have a peace offering as humans do,” Ouros said. She set the cauldron on the ground and used one foot to shove it and let it slide over to Unreal.

Unreal’s ink bubbled in it. “I went back after our fight and collected all the ink that dripped off you to experiment on,” Ouros explained with a shrug, “it should be safe for you.”

Unreal stared at the cauldron with a wary glance. “You’re a fucking weirdo…” she mumbles. She peers in before plunging her hands in, letting the ink settle into her skin. She sighs in relief as her ink reforms on places outside of her burns. She leans back and cracks her neck loudly, wincing at the burns still but she looks better.

“This seems like it could backfire easily. Cuz you both are assholes and I’m the worst. But…” she sighs and shrugs, “Not many other dark sides go work with.”

Unreal sticks out her hand and tenderly shakes Anibase’s hand with a scowl. “Let’s see if we avoid killing each other...unless y̭̻̥͆̀̚ö̼̝̞̊̌ȕ̡̲̊͛͜ ̫̞̬̈̽́p̛͚̫̲̃͝í̮̠̱̐͝s̖̘͚̑̌̃ś̢̳̱̏͠ ̢̱̃̄̉͜m̲̲͙͆̏̌e͚̦̖͂͋̐ ̼̻̗͑͛̂ơ̱̝̣̓̎f̨̘̞́̽͆f̱̜̰͌͊̚.̖̲̻̉̇͝”

Anibase shrugs and returns the handshake. “U2FtZS4uLg== ((Same…))” She then returns to Ouros, her hand still slightly outstretched. “V2VsbCBBbWJlci4uLj8gSSBrbm93IHdlIGp1c3QgbWV0LCBidXQgeW91IGhhdmVuJ3QgZ2l2ZW4gbWUgYSBmdWxsIHJlYXNvbiB0byBrIEkgbCBMIHlvdSwgeWV0Li4u ((Well Amber...? I know we just met, but you haven't given me a full reason to k I l L you, yet…))”

“My name is Ouros,” Ouros announced as she shook Anibase's hand. She took a step back after peered around the destroyed room.

With a grimace Ouros spoke, “I would take you to a new room but my host is fighting me right now when she never has before and I don't have much time left.”

“Since when were you one for hospitality, Medusa?” Unreal taunted with a smirk. She winced and held one of her burnt arms with a grimace. “I...I might be close to gone too. Lauren’s still asleep but her body…” She curses and glares at her arms with disdain.

“If we’re gonna work together. We need to keep our hosts together…”

Anibase thinks. “VHJ1ZS4uLg== ((True…))” The dream demon then thinks and crosses her arms. “QnV0IHRoYXQgc2hvdWxkbid0IGJlIG11Y2ggb2YgYSBwcm9ibGVtLi4u ((But that shouldn't be much of a problem…))” Anibase smirks. “TGV0J3MgcmVzdCB1cCwgYW5kIHRoZW4gd2lsbCBnbyB0YWNrbGUgb3VyIGZpcnN0IHByb2JsZW0uLi4= ((Let's rest up, and then will go tackle our first problem...))”

“TG9uZ2VyIGNvbnRyb2wgb3ZlciBvdXIgaG9zdHMuLi4= ((Longer control over our hosts…))”