~*~ Kaaaaaaay~ Time to actually do the Hunt! X3 dunno if it'll be as great as I made it out to be considering I have no idea where it'll lead XD (I should stop saying that, cuz isn't it like that every post? XD;;) Oh wellz, I'll just wing it as I go X3 ~*~
In this post: Aberius, Cheruu, Chii, Kiki, Zaishi, Lupe, Estelle, Tanner, Nyarth, Rikku, Moyasu
Mentioned: Xio, Raine
Time: Starting midday, Until early evening
Aberius
Well, first thing I need is a lead... I walked through the hallways and saw Moyasu yet again. I exhaled and stopped walking and leaned against a wall. Moyasu continued to walk yet again, but I wasn't for that crap...
"Gonna ignore me again, huh?" I said, and he stopped in his tracks and turned around. "Fine way to treat someone who helped you out..."
"H-Huh?!" he said looking surprised and confused, then his eyes widened more as if he remembered, "O-Oh! Aberius, I'm sorry! I-It was just... I was angry and..."
"What? Angry? At me? What did I do...?" I thought back to the last time I was with him. I left him to Zaishi to treat his wounds... "Dude... Are you upset that I left you alone with that Zangoose? Did he do anything weird to you...?" My face twitched... Maybe it was better if I don't ask for my shirt back, then...
"WHAT...? N-NO!" Moyasu shook his head furiously. "Zaishi didn't do anything... Xio..." I saw him clench his fist.
Urgh... I thought as I remembered the other Luxray. I don't like him at all... "That bastard? I don't blame you, then... I had a annoying encounter with him too." I walked over and patted him on the shoulder. "Don't worry, then. We all get worked up from time to time. So long as you didn't take it out on anyone."
Moyasu's ears dropped and he nodded. Then he was silent, but his face went red and his eyes got wide.
"... Did something happen...?" I looked at him weird. What is up with this guy...?
"N-Nothing!!" Moyasu answered as he wiped some blood from his nose. ... Something tells me there's an angry woman somewhere... I shuddered.
"Right..." I said, "on another note, do you know where Zaishi went?"
“Um… I haven’t seen him since he healed my injury… Maybe he went back to his room?”
“Maybe… I did see him with Rikku earlier and that’s probably when he took it with him…”
“Rikku?” Moyasu cocked his head to one side slowly.
“Some Pikachu girl I met earlier… Nice rack, too…”
Suddenly Moyasu’s face exploded tomato red and he got another nosebleed, “R-Really…? U-Um, hey, I j-just remembered I-I have to, um, go… feed my carrots! Later!” And with that, he ran off. Tch… He’s really weird…
But I decided to take him up on his suggestion and check Zaishi’s room, first. I headed back towards the boys’ dormitories and looked from left to right at the name plaques on the walls. I eventually came upon his room and knocked on the door. The door creaked open from the small movement and I peeked inside. It didn’t look like he was in. I glanced around the room and noticed it was surprisingly organized. He looked more like a jock who’d have his room in a total pigsty than someone neat and trim. Maybe it was because he was a doctor. I decided to see if my shirt was in here as I stepped inside. With everything straight, I’d be able to tell if my shirt was out in the open, but that didn’t seem to be the case. Something on the desk caught my attention. I’m not usually one to pry, but maybe I’d get a lead. It looked like a schedule book and some documents. I looked at the schedule for today, but nothing interesting seemed to be written. Blah blah, heal gijinka, blah blah, find someone to fix things… I noticed a piece of paper right underneath the book. It looked like a birth certificate. … What..? After seeing the birth year, it became clear that Zaishi was younger than I was. I slapped my forehead. Argh… why the hell are all these kids so much bigger and developed… Well, at least I can be proud of a few things on myself, but still… I should just wear freakin’ stilts…
I put the book back in its original position and decided to grab a small cloth which would have his scent on it. I could just track him down, since that was pretty much how I found my way around, anyway. I left the room and boys’ dorms and sniffed the air as I walked. I began to pick up something and I picked up speed when all of a sudden someone popped up in front of me from the adjacent hallway. We crashed into each other… hard.
“Ouch…!” I groaned. “Watch where you’re going…”
“Same to you, you…” said a voice in front of me, “YOU! YOU BASTARD!!!”
“What?” I looked up and noticed who I’d crashed into. It was the Cherubi that I’d left Raine with earlier.
“Don’t act like you can’t hear me you wimp-ass! You got some nerve…”
This guy was getting on my nerves… and fast, “So do you, punk! What did you do to Raine?!”
“Rain…? I don’t know damn Rain and I don’t control the weather! You got some nerve, though, leaving that heavy chick with me! I don’t even know you!”
“That was Raine! It was an emergency, jerkass! What, you can’t be bothered to help someone in need?”
“Don’t put words in my mouth. You don’t have any right when you’re not man enough to take care of the problem yourself!”
I was really starting to lose my cool and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, “Look you peon, just tell me what you did to that girl I left with you. She was crying earlier…”
“I didn’t DO anything! I just stuck around and then she woke up, so I left!”
“You didn’t even bother to check if she was okay?! She could’ve been dying for all you know!”
“I don’t KNOW her! And I don’t know you, either, but even if I did, I’m not gonna let you manhandle me!” the Cherubi pushed me away. “I didn’t do anything to her! If anyone made her cry, it was probably you!”
“What kind of nonsense…? I didn’t even do anything to her! I barely know her myself!”
“Then why the hell go through the trouble?!”
I didn’t have an answer to that. I wasn’t sure why, but for some reason, I felt like I had to help her…
“Look, just being around you makes me sick, so I’d like to just leave, unless you’re going to attack me some more…”
“Tch, get out of here, Cherry ASS Boy, I got my own problems…”
“Grow some b@lls, Shorty.”
That’s when I snapped. I turned around, pulled him back and punched him dead in the face. He fell back a few steps and looked at me like I was crazy. Maybe I was, but I’ve had enough of that… He wiped some blood from his lip and clenched his teeth as he came running at me. He threw a punch at me, but I dodged, but then he put me in a chokehold and fell to the floor taking me with him. Before he could get a good enough hold on my windpipe, I grabbed hold of his arms, rolled over so that I was on the bottom, rose to my knee, and in one swift movement, Jumped into the air and body-slammed him into the floor. The Cherubi coughed and loosened his grip just enough so I could break free. Trying to catch his breath, he swept his leg to the back of my knee before I could regain my footing and I fell to the ground. He jumped on top of me and was about to land a punch when we heard someone call out.
“HONEY!!! My for the love of Arceus, what are you doing?! D8” A Chinchou gijinka was coming toward us. The Cherubi clenched his teeth at the other boy’s calls. Were these two dating or something…? I thought as I became unfortunately more aware of our current position. Oh just fantastic… >_>;
“I’m beating the crap out of this snotty kid!” the Cherubi said. “Go away Chii so I can finish!” He was about to wind up for another punch.
“No!!” the boy named Chii ran over and put Cheruu in a full nelson. “Cheruu Honey, that’s a bad thing to do! Dear Lupe has enough trouble to deal with!” So this piss-ant’s name is Cheruu? Pfft…
“Lemme go! Dammit, Chii, let me go!” Cheruu struggled in Chii’s grip, but Chii held on.
“I’m sorry, sir…? I’m sorry what’s your name?” the Chinchou asked.
“Aberius,” I answered, straightening myself out.
“Aberius, could you- ack!” Chii was having a hard time holding onto the raging Cherry Boy, “C-could you… oy, Honey, cut it out! Y’know, it’d be better if you just left and let him cool down a bit.”
“Uh, right…” I scratched my chin. I wasn’t afraid of this kid, but Chii apparently didn’t want any fighting to go on… For Lupe’s sake? They must be friends or something… “Before I go, do you know where I can find Zaishi?”
“Zaishi, you say? I believe I saw him go that way earlier…” He nodded his head and was jostled around some more.
That way…? Well, that’s a better lead than nothing. “Thanks,” I said and took off, hear Cheruu’s yelling fading off down the hallways. I wondered if I should feel guilty since I threw the first punch, but I decided not to think about it too much. That Cherry Boy was unsociable and I probably wouldn’t get along with him ever in my life. What did it matter? I would leave as soon as I’ve gotten enough food, rest, and a lead. For the time being, I was following the small lead I had already. Sniffing the halls for Zaishi’s scent I continued to run, when I caught the scent of another gijinka. I couldn’t see her, so it must’ve been in another adjacent hallway. I slowed my pace so I wouldn’t run into another gijinka, but as I saw them come into view, they were in a rush themselves and plowed right into me. We went crashing to the floor, along with some shopping bags.
“Ouchie…” said a female voice. Well, at least it’s not another hot-headed male… She looked up at me. “Oh-Oh gods, I’m so sorry!” From looking at her, she was a Kirlia gijinka. Seeing that, however, brought my thoughts back to Raine. If Cheruu truly didn’t do anything to her, then what happened…? “U-Um… sir…? Could you…?” the girl spoke again.
“Hm?” I responded, coming out of my thoughts. I just then noticed that I was still leaning over her on the floor and she was blushing like crazy. “Oh, sorry…” I climbed off her and sat on the floor for a moment.
“No, it was my fault since I was running…” she said.
“Can you help me, then?”
“Um, with what?”
“I’m looking for a Zangoose named Zaishi, do you know him or where he is?”
“Um, no, I’m sorry. I’m pretty new here, so I haven’t met him, yet…”
“I see…”
“But if you’re going around searching for him, be careful you don’t run into Lupe… She’s sending everyone she can find on a cleaning spree and we won’t be done until moonrise…”
Crap, I don’t want that… “Thanks for the advice. I’ll keep it in mind, Miss…?”
“Um, I’m Kiki…” her face reddened a little.
“Right, I think I saw you at that meeting… I’m Aberius. Thanks for the tip. I’ll get going and you should too…”
“Ah, but she already caught me… I’m just trying to get these shopping bags back to my room before she yells at me for being too slow…”
I looked at the contents that spilled all over the floor. It looked like she bought some new clothes. She must have a date. I couldn’t just leave her there to carry everything herself. I picked up a couple bags and offered my hand to Kiki, “Here, I’ll help. It’ll get done faster if there’s two of us, right?”
Kiki took my hand, “Thank you,” she said and I lifted her up. She lost her balance slightly and fell forward onto my chest. “U-Um…” she quickly backed up and grabbed her bags, “ok, then let’s hurry.” She smiled slightly and briskly jogged in the direction of the girls’ dorms and I followed along behind. We reached her room quickly and I set them down on an empty table.
“Thank you again, Mister Aberius, for helping me,” she did a small curtsy.
I grinned slightly as a bead of sweat dripped down my cheek, “Mister? Please, I’m not that old. Just Aberius will do. Or Abbie, whatever…”
Kiki snickered, “Abbie? Isn’t that a girl’s name?” She laughed into her hand.
I growled lightly, “Whatever… Or you could just call me Abs…”
I noticed her glance downward letting hers eyes wander a bit, “Hmm… Ah, but well, I think I’ll stick with Aberius, then.”
“Alright, then I’ll be on my way, then,” I made a small wave, and left the room and Kiki behind. Once again, I took up the search, deciding to take a shortcut rather than walking through the hallways. I found the nearest window, opened it, stepped onto the sill and jumped onto the roof. I headed along the roof a little ways when I heard a familiar voice yelling from behind me.
“WHO THE HELL LEFT THIS WINDOW OPEN?! WHAT DO WE LIVE IN, A SWINUB STY?!?!” Lupe’s voice rang.
Oh crap, I had the right idea not going through the hallways… I would’ve run right into her… I went a bit further and decided to jump down to the ground and take a door inside. Once I did, what happened? I bumped into yet another person. However, I couldn’t see where they were until I heard a voice from somewhere around my chest.
“Amazing, nya!” I looked down to see a Meowth boy looking up at me with large eyes. Oh no… Not the eyes… “I haven’t seen an Absol since Asol left!” I guess there was an Absol here before me… This place seems to attract gijinka, doesn’t it…?
“Um…” I wasn’t very comfortable with kids… Especially kid boys… I decided to ask him if he knew anything, though, “Do you know where Zaishi is…?”
“Zai-niichan…? I think I saw him heading toward the laundry room, nya,” the kid said and tilted his head to one side. Instinctively, it made me tilt my own head, too. Damn cat-like instincts… Well at least he didn’t have a stick, otherwise the dog in me’d wanna play fetch… My tail twitched a little thinking about it.
“Really? Do you know the way?” I asked.
“Sure, Mister!” he grabbed my arm and led me through the hallways. “I’m Nyarth, by the way! What your name, niichan?”
“… A-Aberius,” I answered… This kid was just too… what was the word for it? Fluffy…? It made the hairs on my skin want to stand up…
“Aberius-niichan! Okay, got it!” Nyarth smiled widely. I could almost swear for a second I saw sparkles appear around him. … I am at a complete and total loss for words about this kid… He’s too cutesy… It’s making me feel itchy… I resisted the urge to scratch behind my ears. “Here we are!” Nyarth said as we entered the laundry room.
“Nyarth? What brings you here? Oh you have someone with you,” said the Espeon standing near the washer. I remembered seeing her when I first got here. She even talked to me a little, then. “Oh?” she said as she looked at me more, “It’s you Aberius-san. Ogenki desu ka?”
“Hai, genki desu. I’m feeling better than when I got here,” I rubbed the back of my head.
“Aberius-oniichan is looking for Zai-niichan…!” Nyarth piped up.
“Is he around?” I asked.
“Are you hurt?” Estelle asked, a bit worried by the looks of it.
“No, he just has something of mine.”
“Ah, sou desu ka? Gomen, you just missed him. He left here with a shirt…”
“That’s what I’m looking for! Thanks!” I said and dashed out of the room and down the hallway. I pulled out the cloth from Zaishi’s room to refresh the scent and followed the identical scent which wasn’t too far away. I was closing in on him, when all of a sudden, a blonde head appeared in front of me and, once again, I was sent tumbling to the floor with my next victim. When I looked down, I saw that I ran into the last gijinka I wanted to…
“OUCH! WHAT THE F***?!?!? DID SOMEONE PUT A HIT OUT ON ME?!?! I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF I CAN WALK DOWN MY OWN DAMN HALLWAYS WITHOUT BEING ASSAULTED!!!” Lupe screamed beneath me.
Beneath… I felt something pleasantly soft in my left hand. I looked and noticed I’d had just the right handful worth of Loopy’s right boob. … I’ve found the oasis in the harsh desert… Instinctively, my hand squeezed a little.
“?!?!$@?@%&#$$?!?!?!” Lupe yelled out a string of creative words in response. Whoops, I should get a better handle on my instincts… In that instant, I took a boot to the gut and flew backwards. “Don’t you know you’re supposed to at least take a girl to dinner before you start FONDLING her?! Bastard… And I’m not available anyway! AND YOU..” she pointed dramatically, “What the hell are you doing running people over in MY MANSION?!?! If you’ve got enough free time to accost women, you can help out! You and your horny self are just what I need anyway. We’re out of wood and we need some more chopped! You and your horn can do that, right?!”
Before waiting for my answer, Lupe grabbed me by my horn, which sent the same sensation of pain/pleasure through my body.
“A-Ah…!” I cried out, covering my mouth in the process. “Don’t be so rough with it! Ah! Don’t squeeze the base like that! A-Ahn…!” I could feel my face heating up along with the rest of me.
Lupe promptly let go, “Boy, don’t make sounds like you’re in a low-budget X-rated film… This mansion is rated PG-13!” She grabbed me again, but instead, grabbed the collar of my jacket and dragged me along outside to a wooded area. She commanded me to chop down a few trees and make planks out of them. I sighed. I suppose this is my punishment for getting caught… I thought as I removed my jacket, set it aside and walked to the nearest tree. I swung my head in a downward motion and sliced the tree close to the bottom. The tree slid and fell over, crashing loudly as it did. Lupe said cut down 9 more, so I grumbled to myself and did so. Then I sliced off the extra branches of each of the trees. Turning them into planks was a bit trickier. I grabbed my scratch attack gloves out of my jacket and put them on. I turned the wood cylinders so that they stood up on their own, jumped on top of the roof, then jumped into the air and performed quick attack and scratch attack simultaneously. The trunks turned into planks easily, but Lupe said they were too long and needed to be cut in half. I put my hand to my forehead and exhaled. I had to head butt all the planks so they were the right size. When I was finally done, I sat on the ground. If my horn could turn red from all the beatings, it might have. However, Master had me cutting boulders as training, so this wasn’t as bad. At least wood gave better.
“Hm… Not bad, Horn Boy… Ok!” she clapped her hands twice. “I need you to carry half these planks in. The other half will stay out here as spares. We’ll cover the rest with a tarp. Come on, Chop-chop!”
I think I’ve had enough chopping for today… I carried them inside, then Lupe had me helping with the repair work. This wasn’t as bad, since I didn’t have to use my horn as much. Any wood that needed to be cut smaller was cut by saw. I would’ve said to cut it by saw in the first place, but I guess it would’ve taken longer. I should probably work out my horn a bit… I’ve gotten a bit soft, so I guess I’ll have to harden it up some more… Absols have very hard horns that can cut through anything, but mine was different because of my old man. He was a shiny Absol and on top of that, he came from a clan where the Absols had trace amounts of diamonds in their horns. I wasn’t sure how Absols got minerals in their horns, but it’s been that way for ages. The drawback of the increased cutting strength of the diamond was that it also made it easier for vibrations to travel through our horns, making them sensitive to things like high frequencies and touch. However, if someone handled it the right way… well, it would far from hurt…
“So Lupe got you, too, huh…?” said a voice next to me. It was a Tangrowth and his hair was moving independently of the rest of him. Weird… but handy.
“Yeah…” I answered, “she got to me before I could find what I was looking for…”
“What was that?”
“My shirt.”
“Huh…” he said going back to hammering a nail in the wall. “Well, my name’s Tanner, by the way. Seems we’re captive together for a while.” He held out his hand.
I took it and we shook, “Aberius’ my name. We’ve certainly wandered into the demon’s lair…” Tanner chuckled lightly and we set back to work.
We worked all afternoon until dark, the whole time Lupe grumbling about some gijinka she couldn’t find. She also grumbled something about a maid that never showed up. Finally, she put down her own tools and clapped the dust off her hands.
“Alright ladies!” she said. Urgh… “We’re all done for the night. We got almost everything repaired that needs to be, so if we get back to it tomorrow, everything should be in order. Get some sleep and I’d BETTER not see any more damage to this mansion!”
With that, she left us behind. Tanner and I put our tools away, said our goodnights, and headed in our own directions. I was so tired that I didn’t even care about my shirt anymore. I just wanted to head to bed. I got back to my room and didn’t bother to flick on the lights. However, that’s when the smell hit me… Blood. I walked over to my bed where the smell was coming from and removed the covers. There, in my bed… wearing my shirt that I’d been looking for… was Rikku. She had cuts and bruises all over. However, As I looked, it appeared as if a few of the smaller ones were slowly disappearing. I leaned over her slightly.
“Rikku… Hey Rikku…!” I said to her. She looked to be in bad shape. I heard cracking noises as if her bones were repairing themselves. Who the hell did this to you…? The smell of blood was stinging in my nose and was beginning to drive me crazy. I started to draw closer, fighting myself the whole way. That’s when I noticed there was the tiniest drop of blood nestled right in the middle of her chest. Come on… another voice in the back of my mind whispered to me Just one little drop won’t hurt, right…? Just go on… You won’t be hurting her, since it’s already on the outside… I climbed on top of her, still fighting myself. Slowly, my head inched closer to her chest. Unable to hold back any longer, I let my tongue slide along her skin, licking up the drop of blood as I did. It tasted unlike any blood I’d ever tasted before… So sweet, yet so spicy… I wanted more of it. I licked my lips and edged closer again. Suddenly, my throat began to burn. I clutched at it and cried out in pain.
“Augh…!” I fell forward onto my hands, sweat dripping from my forehead onto Rikku as I fought this urge. How could one little drop trigger…? I breathed heavily, feeling my fangs start to become sharper. I could feel the blood rushing to my eyes. Right when I was starting to lose myself, I felt hands on my face.
“Aberius…” Rikku said. She looked as though she were half asleep. She began to pull my face closer to hers. No! What are you doing…?! Don’t you know what’ll happen if I lose control…?! Despite my effort to pull away, she pulled me in, and my lips were then pressed against hers. Out of the blue, I began to feel the urge that was building melt away. I felt myself ease and meld into her as she continued to kiss me. Then her hold on my face lightened, and I pulled away slightly. I looked at her, but she had fallen asleep again.
“…” I climbed off the bed and sat down next to it. Any more, and I’d be taking advantage of her as she’s passed out. That would just be pathetic… I leaned my head on my arm, which was resting on my knee and exhaled. What was that all about, even…? I glanced at Rikku, fast asleep. I reached over and brushed a strand of hair away from her face. Are you… cursed like me…? Or is your curse different from mine…?
~*~Whoo! It’s done! About 13 pages, that is X3 Sorry it took so long, I got stuck in places and had to figure out what would go where X3;; I think I included almost every active member in the mansion except for Arc. XD;; Sorry Arkkie-boy =^_^;= But they shall meet at another point =3 Anyway, at that point, Arc wasn’t in the mansion XD lol So anyone who was involved in this, let me know if this is okay with you X3 Or if there are any facts I got wrong X3;; But yay~ It’s finally done!! *dances and throws confetti* And you can see, Abbie has some dog and cat-like qualities about him. X3 Also, be careful with his horn lol X3 So now I think almost everyone has a little something to follow up on =3 Woot! ~*~
