It seemed easy to Vriska Serket, at first that is. Vriska Serket, being a massive participator of role playing games, online and offline, thought this was a cinch. Go inside The Vortex, with a party of your choice, collect treasure, beat monsters, you know:
The usual things.
Then she learned of the consequences for this little game.
H~
Vriska Serket was a problem child. Just like most of her friends; they did most of the stupid shit with her. Not to mention her best friend, Terezi Pyrope, who was the side kick in most of her schemes.
Just like this one in fact...
Pulling the scarf over her mouth, Vriska pulled out the spray paint and wielded it like a gun, "So, Terezi, any plans with what you're doing? Or is it the same old dragon shit you always do?"
Terezi put a finger on her chin in mock thought, but just as quickly pulled out a piece of chalk and said in her shrill voice, "Yeah, just dragons!"
Vriska rolled her eyes and then began her work, she had long since given up on questioning Terezi's love of dragons; or the fact that she used chalk for graffiti. Or, especially, the fact that she can draw really good for a blind girl. She was just too strange to figure out alone.
It was more of a group project.
The dark alley way did a lot to conceal their work, and also helped to set a bit of a mood. Two sixteen-year old delinquents in the mid of night, defacing town structures. It was as if all they needed now was an ominous soundtrack following them.
This kind of work came easy to Vriska, being able to do it in a flash. It wasn't something that took up too much attention. But, by no means, did she do a bad job. In a minute there were tons of small spiders, each their own different race; combining her extensive knowledge of spiders with art.
Soon they circled around much larger ones, until they reached the apex. A huge black widow in the middle with bright red eyes that she had to use some special materials to accomplish.
Vriska glanced over and looked at Terezi's handy work, it was impressive in design, but the chalk made it look like a four-year old did it. A blind four year-old obsessed with drawing dragons.
"Jesus Terezi...seriously?" Vriska rubbed her gloved hands together, anxious to get her gear off.
The red headed girl giggled and licked the unused side of the chalk, "Dude, I already told you it would be dragons. You never believe me when I talk about dragons." She laughed again when Vriska made a face at her peculiar eating habits, "I could say the same thing about your spiders."
"No. Just no, man. Don't joke about spiders." She was, of course, only half serious. Vriska had been raised by her mother to have an odd obsession with arachnids. She had guessed it was the same with Terezi and her love for dragons. Except she wasn't very sure about Terezi's living situation at all.
Wow. There were only rare times when Vriska felt like a horrible friend. Oh well, Vriska had decided, it was Terezi's fault for not telling her more.
Terezi took a moment to survey her handy work, "You know? This is why they call us those stupid names." She was referring to how they heard kids at school calling the unknown artists of the graffiti names like: 'Drider Bros' or 'Spin Fire Gang'.
Vriska untied her red scarf and threw it on her, "I thought you liked those stupid names?"
Terezi took the scarf and threw it on the ground, red might have been her weak spot, but she had no use for scarves, "Only Scourge Sisters. That's the coolest. If we were ever a gang, that would be our name."
"Sure, but why do you get to choose-" Then the sirens started.
They looked to each other, the cop car sounded close: only around the corner and the lights were shining bright down the street.
"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit..." Terezi repeated, her breathing got heavier and she braced herself against the wall.
"Terezi shut up!" Vriska grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her a bit, "Just because you're afraid of getting caught doesn't mean it should get us both get thrown in jail." She didn't actually know what happened when you get caught for something small like this, but she also didn't want to find out.
This didn't make Terezi feel better, but she quieted down, slowing her breath to a slight pant and running her hands through her hair nervously.
The car was close and the alternating red and blue lights shown down the street and into their alleyway. Vriska had to think fast. What could they do in this time? Her equipment was already off, so if she did hide, they would find it. Making it easier to find them the next time they decided to vandalize the town.
"Hey!" The officer's shouting snapped her out of it, he was at the end of the alley while they where farther away from him.
"Dammit..." Vriska muttered, taking Terezi's hand she forcefully pulled her further down the alley, near a fire escape she had seen earlier.
"Thop right there!" The officer shouted and made his way down, albeit slower than the two teenagers.
Reaching for it in the dark she found the rough metal of the ladder, heart sinking in disappointment when she found it being too high to climb to. Grabbing the lever next to it, she began pulling it down in desperation; the cops heavy footsteps getting closer.
'Come on you stupid lever, work!' She pulled harder but apparently luck wasn't on her side tonight. 'This is why my family invests on buttons instead of levers. Levers are useless'
"Pleathe...stop!" The cop was panting now. Of course it'd be an out of shape cop. Wasn't that always the procedure in those stupid comedies Terezi was always making her watch?
Then the lever moved forward slightly, making all the years of rust from being unused come loose. She pulled again, making it budge more and more until, 'Yessssssss.' It had come all the way down, sending the gate with it.
Shoving Terezi onto it first, Vriska got on and pushed her up, climbing quickly. It really felt like a much harder job having to simultaneously push the terrified girl up with her.
"Thop or I'll call...back-up..." His threat didn't really hold any bite, mainly because he sounded like he was about to pass out on the ground.
Helping Terezi get up on the stone roof of the small building, Vriska turned around, still hanging onto the rickety ladder, and gave him a one fingered salute. She could give less of a fuck about any kind of 'back-up'.
Sitting down on the ground next to the equally exhausted Terezi she laughed. She laughed like she never had before. The adrenaline left over from the little chase made her laughs come out forced and almost frightening.
Terezi was just sitting next to her, nervously pushing her red glasses up. She was the palest she'd ever been, her whole body was shaking. She brought her knees up to her chest, letting the other girl calm down before saying anything.
"What the hell was that? Seriously, Vriska..."
Vriska only yawned and shrugged her blond hair behind her shoulders, "Only the worst chase in the history of chases. But didn't it make you feel amazing?"
"No. No it didn't. It was horrifying. You almost got me in the backseat of a cop car. That's not 'amazing' at all..."
Vriska pulled at her shirt collar and turned to look Terezi in the eyes, "That's the very definition of amazing. Infact, I would go so far to say it stretches over into the categories of spectacular!"
The shorter girl forcefully took Vriska by the shoulders, "Stop. Being. Insane."
"Vrithka? TZ? What the fuck are you two doing here? I wath literally running for like, miles trying to catch you two..." A young man dressed in a cop uniform panted. He was grasping the ladder, trying to catch his breath.
"Sollux!" The girls gasped. So Vriska was right about the whole 'out of shape' thing. But not the fat cop assumption. It would probably be impossible for Sollux to be over weight, or even gain more than ten pounds.
"What're you doing here Sollux?" Terezi asked, he was more her friend than Vriska's.
He climbed up and tumbled onto the stone infront of them, "I was...driving my dad's cop car around for fun. You know, thcaring children and teenagerth? Then I thaw two teens spray painting. How could I path that up?"
"You are the worst person." Terezi said and pushed him back a little, "You scared the shit out of us."
"How the hell was I suppothed to know it wath you?" He gestured wildly around him, "It's fucking dark!"
"Well we know that shit for brains." Vriska snapped, always the one to pick on friends.
"Taketh one to know one, Vrithka." Sollux gave a toothy smirk.
"Okay, my name is 'Vriska' get it right. Say it with me: Vri-ska."
"Your bad comeback remindth of thomething: KK's in the backseat of the car and I think he's getting fed up with waiting. You wanna come with uth?"
Terezi was going to answer 'yes' but Vriska stopped her, "So, what's in it for us, Thollux?"
Sollux put on a thinking face behind his red and blue glasses, "Oh I don't know, thomething called friendthip. I don't think you've heard of it."
"Oh screw off!" Vriska flipped him the bird again and crawled to the ladder.
"Vriska where are you going?" Terezi called after her.
She called back, already halfway down the ladder, "To get in the car, duh. I'm not passing up an opportunity to mess with shorty!"
H~
Looking back, she still would've gotten in that car.
After all, she was full of luck. Practically swimming in it.
What could have gone wrong?
