Heroes VS Villains RP: Season Zero

"...T-Then... t-turn it off, maybe?" Lydia suggested. "I- I need to-...

I need to decide what to do now... and..." She paused, her breath catching in her throat for a moment. "... and... and..."

"... My... my brother's there." Lydia said.

She stood up. "... So... I think I want to, but I don't know how.

We... we should find Samui, right? She's... been gone for a while now." Lydia then asked, completely changing the subject.

"... P-Probaly not, but, we should look anyway, right?" Lydia guessed.

Lydia turned back, unable to not look at the three bodies.

She stared, almost transfixed. Letting out a loud sigh as she could only wonder

'Why aren't I crying right now?'

...

"... Thanks."

In a house of some sort, an accomodation- by the looks of it. Samui had seated herself on the remains of a couch in a crowded mess of a living area, half stabbed to pieces by a series of spikes that had shot all the way up to the roof above them, with a cup of juice in her hand and a katana occupying the small amount of floor that remained.

"You're not half bad for... whatever you are." She sighed, casting a look towards a destroyed wall, the view of a series of bloodstains with no visible bodies nearby in the hallway. She frowned, unable to hide her emotions.

"I live to serve. It's the least I can do." The creature in front of her, the goat-headed demon butler told her.

Samui kept frowning. In the distance, one of her paper pinwheels was jammed into the ground, the fan of it had been ripped to shreds, stomped to pieces, destroyed. "... Did you mean it, that..."

"Of course. My master has many associates. We can easily find someone to grant your request." The butler told her. It's tail swaying behind it. "More juice?"

"N-No." Samui said, having not drank any of hers. She didn't look at it. "... I'm fine.

I- I don't want to do any weird, creepy, sell your soul shit, alright? I've heard the stories, so if they want something like that then I'm not having it." Samui said.

"And there's no need for that. We don't deal in souls." The butler told her. "Really, it's more of a backup.

We already have a plan anyway, but the least I can do is help a maiden in distress"

"Maiden?" Samui asked, blankly.

"You're not married, are you?" The butler asked her.

"... I'm not old enough to marry. Wouldn't if I was, either." Samui explained, looking unsettled. "What's that matter?"

A brief silence.

"It doesn't." The butler said. "All that does matter is we won't take anything from you. There's just... something we would want you to do in return, if it did ever come to it..."

"Samui!" They both heard Lydia's voice calling out.

The Butler immediately jolted, a piece of paper appearing in Samui's lap. "Think it over, read the details, if the terms sound agreeable then all you need to do is say you agree, talk to you soon!" It exclaimed, speaking as quickly as possible before disappearing before anybody else could see it.

"U-Uh." Samui blinked, processing.

"... You mean 'suicide?" Samui asked. "I'm fine- I'm just...

drinking... juice... in this... murder house." Samui commented, looking through the hole in the wall towards the corridor where somebody definitely got killed and re-animated.

"Oh? That's good then!" Lydia said, "Where are you?"

"I-... Forget it, I'll head over to you guys, okay?" Samui told them, shoving the paper into her kimono as she stood up. Holding the cup with one hand and her sword with the other as she stepped through the hole in the wall and then over the blood stains- out of another hole and into the streets.

"I..." Samui paused for a second. "... Seriously!?

You go out of your way to look for me and that's what you say!? I could've been actually committing whatever-the-fuck like you thought I was!" She exclaimed, stomping on over to him.

Lydia remained standing near Kokyu, making the tactical decision not to say anything or even react.

"Yes, actually! Yes!" Samui yelled back.

After she yelled, what Kokyu actually said seemed to dawn on her. "... He did what?" She asked. Eyes going wide, for a moment.

Lydia nodded her head. "I-It's true..."

"... Fuck." Samui could only swear. "Shit. I-...

... I'll see if I can contact the emperor." She said.

And the kingdom had no response.

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At the commune, it was still dark. Isa had pushed Mirai off the dragonflies, letting him fall towards the water.

In the sky above him was a black horse.

"... Everyone's angry anyway." Isa said, her voice was cold. But her face was a whole mix of feelings: sadness, anger, the works. "I'm not getting anywhere anyway.

If I don't save this planet, why am I even here." She asked.

From her side, a blast of negation was quickly approaching. Isa barely managed to notice in time before she let the dragonflies part beneath her so she could drop out of the way of the attack.

Chastity had taken the opportunity to get back to the roof and go behind the cover of the earth pillar she had created earlier, the finger-gun she had pointed at Isa to fire the blast quickly moving behind cover as well. Both Magna and Hannah had yet to appear, still inside the maidens building.

Dawntree almost jumped into the water to catch Mirai, but stopped himself at the last second, remembering his bandages.

A blast of sound struck the water beneath Isa, sending her flying back into the air, she sent another soundwave to rocket herself on top of the building Mirai used to sleep in.

"If you think this is a mistake, just rewind everything again." She muttered, quietly. "But this is the only way I'll actually get anything done."