Moving in

Mayari · Jan 4, 2016

@"Butterscotch" @"Derlampman"

The Azcona twins just arrived in the island a week ago. After unsuccessfully searching for their "ate", they decided to look for a home. They hated the dorms. How can they live with such small space and live among many people? Well, did not actually have a problem living with people, they’re just not used to living with people who aren’t their servants. Also submitting themselves to a dorm parent is like restricting their movements. Freedom was one of their most cherished powers. After exploring the island, oddly, they decided to live in the woods. It was perfect. For three days, they ate fresh berries and fruits and slept unoccupied cabins. They only need to stay away from other supernatural creatures and from the ranger.
The Azcona twins were in their fox forms when they spotted a house in the woods. Suki ran towards the house in excitement. Pink wasn’t her favorite color, but she thought it looked great on the Victorian, three story house. The house design captured her heart. “Look, kuya, A Barbie doll house!” Haruto slowly followed her tracks. “Hurry, look. Look. Look”. Suki jumped up and down while waiting for her brother. Haru stared at the house and then at his sister.Her ears went down in disappointment. “What? It’s cute.” Haru’s head turned toward the house “I think it’s weird. It’s a large pink house in the middle of graveyard. ” Suki chuckled “What the hell are you talki-. Oh.” She gaped at the scene. Surrounding the house were creepy, dark, leathery trees and old, cracked tombstones. The grass was unkempt, already reaching a person’s knees. There were few large angel statues that seem to stare back at them. Haruto felt Suki’s fear, disappointment and confusion. “But the house is really lovely, I want to live there.” She quickly turned around to face her brother, her heart filled with thrill. “I dare you to go into the house.” Her eyes sparkled and her tail wagged.
Haru’s eyes matched the twinkle of his sister’s eyes. “Oh, sure.” He started to run. “Race you” he said.

Few miles from the house, the twins stopped running. They observed that the house was quiet. It seemed to be abandoned. The foxes looked at each other then approached the house quietly. Despite the creepy appearance of the graveyard, the atmosphere seems to be calm and peaceful. They were almost through the graveyard when they saw a blue entity move inside the house. Haruto growled and his ears rose while Suki whelped in surprise and hid behind a tombstone. "Kuyaaaaaaaa" Suki took a step forward and softly bit Haruto's tail. "Let's go back." Suki never believed in ghosts, she has never seen one. She also didn’t believe in mermaids, mages, and dragons before going to Manta Carlos. She then considered that ghosts may be true. Haruto swayed his tail and stood his ground. “Didn’t you want to go inside?” His eyes were fixed on the two huge doors ahead. “Besides, whatever that was, it doesn’t seem to be…malevolent.” Suki took a deep breath. “Dare you to knock on the door?” she asked. Haru sprinted “Race you”. The two scampered towards the house. The foxes tapped the door with their paws at the same time. The knocking did not create an audible noise. The twins looked at each other and simultaneously shifted to their human form. A pair of tall kids was then standing in front of the house. Suki’s jet black hair flowed atop of her shoulders. She wore a light gray kimono embroidered with intricate yellow patterns. Haru’s hair was as black as her sister’s. A sunset orange kimono patterned with red dragons was wrapped around his body. Suki looked at her clothes and sighed in disappointment. “I just hate this default human clothing.” Her left hand held her kimono’s right tamoto while her right hand tapped the door.

Der Lampman · Jan 5, 2016

I'm assuming it's night because you didn't mention any time of day here

The night was blue, unfittingly blue. Clouds and all that jazz strewn about the sky, giving the graveyard a rather sinister atmosphere. A possibility of rain loomed over the horizon, as did the possibility of stalking.

A light blue glow followed the two foxes through the trees, silent and unnatural. It had a humanoid shape, and yet as it flitted between trunk to trunk and root to root it made not a single sound, as if its footfalls never found any sort of purchase on the ground. When the branches of the forest's trees swayed in the light breeze and what few leaves they had fell, they simply passed through the light, untouched.

The glow lowered and lowered, sinking into the ground and disappearing entirely, some distance away from the out of place pink house in the graveyard.

Two foxes knocked on the door. It was an unusual sight to be sure, just like the barely visible blue face on one of the tombstones, watching with a smile. When the foxes suddenly changed shape, the smile grew wider and faded into the stone.

Elsewhere, on a post near the doorstep, the smile appeared again.

"You realize that there isn't anyone to respond to your knocks as nothing but silence has greeted them. You knock again, and more silence responds. The lights are off, and every piece of evidence points to the residents being out. But why?"

Teddy strode out of the post, clad in translucent blue. It was hard to tell which part of him was skin and which part was clothing, as they were the same hue and in fact, the same material. "You hear someone step out behind you without a sound save for his incessant narration of the scene. He stretches out his hands and takes both of yours in a firm handshake, and without further ado he steps through both of you, and through the locked door."

He did all of those things as he narrated them, all the while still keeping that sinister grin on his face. As he phased through the door, for the briefest moment before he disappeared entirely, one could swear his head twisted around to smile one last time.

A short, awkward bit of exaggerated clanging issued forth from behind the door, followed by silence, and then a poor impression of crickets. Which was then followed by a very realistic impression of crickets.

The pink door creaked open, and a Teddy in a more comely apron and actually visible clothing greeted the two with a less sinister smile and a tray with two glasses of probably water. "You must be... no, I actually have no idea who you are. Come in anyway. Azza! We have guests!"

Teddy set the tray down on a table and pointed to the couches in the opposite direction. "Feel free to sit anywhere you like, like the couch, or the couch, or the couch. Don't touch that cabinet, my bones are in there, and the basement has some undesirable stuff. Mostly mine."

There was no indication what cabinet he referred to.

Butterscotch · Jan 5, 2016

Azza was getting ready to bed, suddenly, he felt a disturbance- it was Teddy- in the air. There were two intruders inside Azza's oversized lawn filled with tombstones, all unmentioned by the realtor when he bought the cheap house. "It seems we have visitors." Azza let out a grin, a mischievous one. "Teddy! Let's give them a warm welcome, shall we?" Azza's intentions could all be seen from her eyes through her thick glasses.

Azza opened the window of her room and flew at high speeds into town, back and forth, back and forth, his presence above was undetected from below the clouds at the graveyard. However, from below, it could be heard clearly as nothing else but bad news.

The preparations were complete, the kitchen was flooded by ingredients of various delicacies waiting to be cooked. The longer Azza stared at the food, the greater the excitement traversed all through out her body. The more her grin looked more ominous. "Oh they wouldn't expect what's coming to them..."

Azza flew out to see how much time she had left. He flew atop the roof right above the door. The blur of his wings was somehow more visible as shadow with the moon striking him with light from behind, he sat and let his trench coat make a really good impression of that bat guy from Gotham.

"Oh no..." He said anxiously. "I don''t think I would make it in time!" The "intruders" were already in front of his house. Teddy was just acting as the middle man to skip housework... probably. However, it would've been worse if Teddy didn't come to greet them- Azza wouldn't have been a good neighbor for not opening a door for exhausted travelers, or animals. Anyway, he thinks that Teddy was buying him time.

Azza shifted back to human form, and wore her nice, comfy, apron. She started cooking with all she had. Right upon finishing her strawberry jam sandwiches with some agile but untidy handwork, Teddy called her, "Azza! We have guests!"

Azza quickly went out of the kitchen and headed straight to the entrance, she completely forgot her messy hair and her face and apron filthy red from strawberry jam which looked like bloodstains if you don't pay enough attention.

"Welcome to my humble abo- a- a... ah... house young ones. You seem lost? Would you like some tea?" Azza tried to pull off her most welcoming aura which might have been ruined by her current looks. But she gave her warmest of smiles.

Mayari · Jan 7, 2016

Suki smiled. It seemed that there was no one living in the house. "Dibs!" she sang. "Since no one is home, I guess we can secretly live in thi-". The twins suddenly felt a presence near them.

"You hear someone step out behind you without a sound save for his incessant narration of the scene." Their bodies momentarily froze in fear. They slowly moved their head to look for the source of the sound. Suki and Haru saw a blue translucent being in front of them. It seemed to wear trench coat over a vest and collared shirt. The most disturbing about the entity however, were his eyes, or rather the lack of it. The two empty sockets seemed to see through their souls. Suki quickly clung on to his brother while his brother started to summon fire from his lungs. Haru realized that he moved too slow when the blue entity reached out for them and held their hand. They felt an upward tug on their throat, their bodies were readying for screams, thinking that this thing will drag them into the horrors and creeps of the pink house. Instead of pulling them, the man slightly lifted their hand up then down. "He stretches out his hands and takes both of yours in a firm handshake," they saw the lips of the man mouth those words.

"That... that.. that was handshake?" Haru and Suki thought. Before they could react The blue ghost passed through them and disappeared to the house's door.
"and without further ado he steps through both of you, and through the locked door."

Bewilderment took over fear. They stared at the door. "What.the. fuck?" Haru finally had the courage to speak. His sister was still tightly holding on to him. Suki opened her mouth to say something. But closed it after when she heard a bad imitation of a cricket chirp. The twins looked at each other, their expression of perplexity imitating one another. They again heard a cricket chirp, a realistic one. The confusion intensified.

The heard the creak of the door. Their head turned to see the door open. The ghost they saw earlier were smiling at them. "You must be... no, I actually have no idea who you are. Come in anyway. Azza! We have guests!" The eyeless man was holding a tray with two glasses of what seemed to be a clear liquid, maybe water. Despite the invitation, the twins just stood there.

"Feel free to sit anywhere you like, like the couch, or the couch, or the couch. Don't touch that cabinet, my bones are in there, and the basement has some undesirable stuff. Mostly mine." Nope, nope, nope. There is no way the twins are going to be in the same room with that thing. They kept standing, staring at the bizarre man. "Bones", the words dug into their head. The man kept his bones around the house. There are bones inside the house. There might be some dead people in the house. Fright once again ensued.

A pale woman walked into the scene. Her brunette wavy hair was tied in a messy ponytail. She faced the twins and smiled at them. She was wearing a red stained apron over her pink sweater and jeans. The woman spoke, but the noise were muffled for the twins' ears. They stared at the red liquid. Blood.

Suki screamed, her pitch 2 octaves higher than usual. Haru opened his mouth at the same time, but instead of a sound, a ball of fire was released. He aimed it directly at the ghost. His heart sank when he saw the fire disappear as soon as it made contact He quickly stepped back and looked around for a weapon. He saw a short metal, which was probably once a part of a frame of a window, nearby and quickly picked it up. He infused the object with fire and jumped in front of her sister. "Don't come near us!" he warned. "I. uh... I have a...dangerous... deadly...all powerful...cursed...short sword that will definitely send you beyond oblivion." He carefully took a step backward. "I am not afraid of you!" Haru declared while his knees were obviously trembling.

Der Lampman · Jan 7, 2016

"Please don't scream, it might rattle my bones if you accidentally hit the right frequency," the "ghost" said. He'd moved from the table to one of the cupboards, and couldn't properly reach it. To reach, he stepped back into the table, and dashed. When he drew near he jumped, sending his head and his arms into the cupboards, with the rest of his body hanging out.

Teddy perked up upon hearing the words "short sword." While he couldn't turn around properly yet as he was busy digging through the cupboards for... things, being made of physics and biology-defying mana lent itself to such situations. He turned his head with force, and with a little timing in conjunction with some good old mass manipulation, he found that his head was now on a hundred and eighty degrees off. Teddy leaned back and put his face back out of the wood.

"I heard talk of... a sword." While he rummaged through the closed cupboard, his head turned and faced the trembling guests. His fingers found what he was looking for, and from inside he pushed the cupboard open, allowing him to freely bring out the better plates and knives. There wasn't much need for the knives though.

Teddy jumped off, landing in the table with four plates in his hands and his head on backwards. Once he set the tableware on the table, he twisted around, orienting his body in the proper way it should be, with everything aligned. Mostly.

"I heard a sword. I - oh, I... something interesting you have there, boy..." He drew closer, and closer, and closer, until he was next to them. He put his hands on Haru's wrists, and stabbed the metal into himself. It set him aflame, and yet he felt no pain, much to his disdain.

Now there was a blue man, ablaze, and yet still grinning widely. "Don't you know your manners? When you are a guest, the host is to go to every length to accommodate you, and you are expected to at the very least not threaten violence. Put it out, put it down, and sit down or I will forget that you are guests."

He pushed Haru's hands to the side through his chest, and walked to the door. It was a pointless gesture, since he was already outside... but that never really stopped Teddy. "I'm just going to put myself out outside, okay? Azza, you take care of our..."

The door creaked open, and before it shut a flaming grin flashed for a brief second. "...guests."

The flame sank into the ground, and Teddy disappeared into the earth.

Butterscotch · Jan 7, 2016

Azza's eyes widened as her two guests screamed and started to pick a fight against Teddy. She saw a fireball come out of one of the two fox-person. She loved the outfit, it reminds her of her old days in Japan, but the act of the siblings didn't quite make her as happy. "My word!" She screamed to show her upset reaction.

His blue ethereal friend didn't bother about the fire thrown at him, still managing to set the plates on the table. "Teddy. You forgot the teacups." She said, unfazed by the blazing familiar piece of steel. If she remembers it correctly, it was supporting something but she couldn't remember what. She just paid it no mind. However, Teddy was more interested by, being set aflame.

"I'm just going to put myself out outside, okay? Azza, you take care of our...guests." Now, Teddy went outside still burning with a piece of metal stuck in his body. "Teddy wait!" Azza said she had an idea that's about to be innovative, but Teddy was already out of the house. "We could've burned marshmallows." She finished her sentence with a breath of disappointment.

"Well... let bygones be bygones..." Licking the excess jam of her fingers as how a sweet finger-food should be licked. Slightly suggestive, but completely innocent. Azza went inside to bring out a two layered cake with an arc design saying "WELCOME". She walked pass by the two with their fear still visible from their faces.

"Didn't your parents ever told you to not play with fire indoors? Well, unless you didn't have any but- please be calm dearies okay? We're not gonna hurt you." Azza cleaned herself and removed her apron. She pulled two chairs away from the table inviting the two. "Why don't we start by calming down and sit here?" She put out four teacups went to get some tea. "So... Why were you two in front of my house?" She asked.

Mayari · Jan 8, 2016

"Teddy, you forgot the teacups." Azza said. They're preparing tea cups? Haru still held on to his flaming metal rod, still frightened and confused. They were not sure if the two were welcoming them. What if the word "teacup" was a code for something else. Are they going harvest their blood using that "teacup"? They saw the blue man jump onto a cupboard. The upper part of the body seemed to enter the cupboard itself, while his hips and legs were dangling from it. Haru took a step backward. "Let's get out of here." he turned his head to his sister to whisper. He saw Suki's gaping mouth open further. She raised her arm to point at something inside the house. Haru looked He once again saw the blue ghost, but this time, his body was facing the cupboard while the head was looking at them. He held knives and plates in his hand. Haru tried to gulp back his fear. "Kuya, I.. I don't want to be eaten alive" Suki mumbled. They saw Teddy lay the plates on the table and turn his head back into a normal position.

"I heard a sword. I - oh, I... something interesting you have there, boy..." Teddy moved towards them. The twins did not feel their feet, thus were unable to move. Their hearts were beating wildly as he drew closer. Haru felt the grip of Teddy's hands on his wrist. After a second, he saw a blue translucent man set ablaze. Teddy grinned at them. "Don't you know your manners? When you are a guest, the host is to go to every length to accommodate you, and you are expected to at the very least not threaten violence. Put it out, put it down, and sit down or I will forget that you are guests." Horrified by the eyeless, blue, burning ghost, the twins weren't able to instantly process Teddy's message. With the metal rod out of his hand, Haru grabbed his sister and held her tight. He pulled her away from Teddy, unfortunately he also placed themselves deeper into the room.

. "I'm just going to put myself out outside, okay? Azza, you take care of our..guests." After flashing a smile, the door shut. The twins turned their attention to Azza '"We could've burned marshmallows. Well... let bygones be bygones..." They saw Azza licked a red liquid off her hand. If the fluid wasn't red, and if he wasn't scared out of his wits, Haru might have been turned on. "Kuya." Suki whispered while Azza was removing her apron. "I'm not going to let her eat you, Suki. We're not going to die yet" Haru replied. They saw Azza rush to the kitchen. "I think the red stain is strawberry jam." Suki sniffed the air once more. The twins heard Suki's stomach rumble. Azza reappeared with a big cake. A welcome sign was designed on top of it. "Didn't your parents ever told you to not play with fire indoors? Well, unless you didn't have any but- please be calm dearies okay? We're not gonna hurt you." Haru now smelled the strawberry jam off her apron. The previous scenes rewinded in their minds. It took time before they realized that they overreacted and misinterpreted everything.

Azza offered them a seat and tea. "So... Why were you two in front of my house?" She asked.

"Sweet mother of Kyros" Suki gasped in relief. They weren't going to die yet. Both were mentally and emotionally tired. The trouble is out of the way( or never really existed in the first place). The chair and the cup of tea were really inviting. So they slowly moved towards the table. They both sat down. Suki put her elbow on the table,letting her hand support her head. Haru's shoulder was hunched forward. His head turned slightly to the left, staring at nothing. Their deep quick breaths slowly returned to shallow paced ones. Azza was patiently waiting for them to speak.

Finally, Haru spoke. "I have never been so emotionally stressed, frightened and confused." A long silence followed after. Suki folder her arms beneath her lap and started to cry. "I'm.so.sorry, kuya. I'm.sorry..uhm.." Suki looked at their host, remembering the name Teddy called her "Miss Azza. I want to say sorry to the eyeless... eyeless. whatever.he.is." The stress earlier catched up on her. Her tears continuously poured. "I never wanted to... to.. I never wanted for things to turn out like this." Haru moved his chair closer to his sister and hugged her. "Oh Miss Azza, we just saw your house from up the hill and I thought it was beautiful. I thought no one was living here so we decided to check your house.We saw the blue... blue.. something move and I thought he was just a harmless ghost." Suki's voice trembled. "I'm sorry, we thought that you guys were monsters and that you wanted to eat us alive." The image knife and the strawberry jam flashed in her mind. "The eyeless man was just so...sooo....scary." Haru hugged her sister closer. Seeing her sister cry, Haru pulled himself together. "I'm sorry for the fire incident. It won't happen again Miss Azza." His voice was solemn. "I didn't mean to attack anyone." Well, attack anyone except Teddy, that man looked like he do bloody, merciless tortures for a living. "What Suki said was true, we were just wandering when we saw your house. We didn't plan to attack anyone or anything" Haru said. "We are just two kids exploring the area, nothing more."

Der Lampman · Jan 8, 2016

"Well, why didn't you say so? I told you, as long as you're considered guests and are in the premises, I won't lift a finger to hurt you. If you guys have read Gaiman's Sandman - the chapter with the negotiations for Hell? Sort of like that." Teddy said, springing up from somewhere in the living room. He'd stopped being on fire now, but he caught that last bit about marshmallows and walked to the stove, setting his hand back ablaze. "Okay, you got marshmallows?"

Using the hand that still wasn't on fire, Teddy drew up a chair and sat down. Normally, he would've provoked some sort of alternate reaction when he saw people crying. However, he didn't bring any of his quick gags nor did it seem appropriate to make the situation worse, and every now and then he still held had a sense of appropriateness.

Instead, he just held his torch hand aloft, whistling and wishing that he remembered to bring out his actual torch.

Once he felt he'd waited an appropriate amount of time - enough to roast a few batches of mallows at least - he spoke, in his best estimation of a gentle voice with unnecessary British. "No one ever ends up here without a reason. A graveyard is a dead end... a resting place for the lost and the damned. But you seem to be neither."

He coughed. "So, why are you two kids here in the first place. That's the question."

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