Vivi skipped down the hallway, humming a tune to herself when she stopped when she heard someone inside of the bathroom mumbling.
'It will start using my secrets as black mail that this rate, I can't let him get to me.' She heard Arthur say from inside the room, when she poked her head in she found him doing his hair.
'I mean come on, he probably didn't even get all the facts straight. He said so himself that he only sees snippets, yea it will be fine.' Arthur said confidently, standing up straight.
'Is Ruthra giving you troubles?' Vivi asked and slipped into the room, Arthur almost touched the roof when he leapt in the air in fright.
'Vivi!?' Arthur cried and turned to face her. 'How long have you been standing there?' He asked.
'Long enough to know about who you are talking about.' She said with a smile. 'What did he do?' She asked.
'Nothing much, just annoyed me really.' Arthur said as he turned back to the mirror to finish his hair, Vivi stepped closer.
'Oh really? He tried to annoy me to get rid of me, so maybe he was just trying to get rid of you.' Vivi tried.
'No, that was not it. I think that I am just his favourite.' Arthur sighed as he ran his hands through his hair one last time before turning on the tap to clean up his hands.
There was an explosion that came from outside and Vivi looked at Arthur before the two of them ran out of the room and out of the house, Lewis and Mystery where already standing looking down at Ruthra where he was on the ground next to a small crater.
'The hell did you do?' Lewis was yelling at him. Ruthra looked dazed and it kept blinking and then rubbed his eyes, it then looked over at them. They watched as he clicked his fingers next to his ears and frowned as he stood up, Vivi walked towards him as he headed to a side bag that was hanging over his bike. Arthur also made his way down the stairs to join Vivi to figure out what he had been doing, there was a lighter laying where they had found him.
'Ruthra, what happened?' Vivi asked walking out in front of him, he blinked at her and seemed to be watching her lips. Vivi repeated herself slower and Ruthra watched her before answering a little loudly.
'What if I told you that I had a hand-grenade in my bag and I thought that it would be a good idea to set it off?' Ruthra said with a smile. 'I was a little too close, my ears are ringing like hell.'
'Why the hell did you think that it would be a good idea?' Arthur yelled and Ruthra had managed to hear what he had said and he turned to face him.
'I was bored and I was on a brake.' He said with a shrug before turning back to his bike. Arthur turned back to the house with Vivi, they found that Lewis and Mystery had already walked into the house.
'You asked if he was going to give me troubles, I think that he will just be giving all of us trouble.' He said as he entered the house.
'We are leaving tonight, I hope that we are already packed.' Vivi announced at breakfast the next morning. She turned her head to the hallway that she knew where Ruthra sat and ate in. 'Ruthra, is your bike ready?' She asked before she saw him enter the room with an empty plate and walked right by the four of them at the table, he placed them in the sink.
'Yes, it should work long enough to get me there.' Ruthra said before he left the room again.
'It seems to be walking around very well, are you sure we can't just lock it in its room and leave it here?' Lewis asked putting down his book.
'That would still mean that Mystery would have to stay here.' Vivi said standing up and pointing her fork at Lewis. 'And was are not leaving him behind. Agreed?'
'Agreed. But…' Lewis tried, but Vivi shot him down.
'Lewis I know that you worry for us and you hate the idea of Ruthra being around, but he can't hurt us. Not while he is bonded.' Vivi stated and she watched as Lewis' human face turned into a frown. 'You don't have to like him or even trust him, but you can trust us right. We trust you to keep him under control if we are not around.'
'I guess that I can do that.' Lewis said with a sigh.
'I am fine as long as he isn't in the van with us, but what happens at night. Are we sleeping in the van? In a motel? Where does he sleep?' Arthur asked as he finished up his plate.
'Well I did think about that.' Vivi started. 'I was thinking a motel and he sleeps in the bathroom or on the couch or even just in the corner of the room. That also means however that we are sharing a room.'
'Well it's not like we haven't done it before.'
'But it's going to get tight, with the five of us in a room.' Vivi sighed. 'There is no avoiding it.' She then perked up. 'Alright then let's get packing.' She said before shoving the rest of her food in her mouth and running out of the room.
'This is going to be trouble I just know it.' Lewis mumbled.
'Do you mean the job or Ruthra?' Arthur asked as he took a sip of coffee.
'Both, I think she got a cult job again and it just leaves me with a bad feeling. We are bringing a demon to a possible summoning of a demon.' Lewis said as he put his book that he had been reading away.
'About that.' Mystery said licking his lips. 'I don't think that it is a demon, I have been watching the way it acts and the simplest way that I can explain why not, is that demons don't have memories of their lives. If they have had one at all.' Mystery explained.
'So he could just be a messed up ghost.'
'Could be, don't quote me on it. Ruthra just acts off to what I have known a demon to be.' Arthur stood up and gathered up his mug and plate, and took it to the sink and dropped them in before turning and leaning on the counter.
'Well those memory's felt real enough, maybe he just in that cave for too long.' Arthur said with a shrug and then he made his way to leave the room. Once he had left Lewis turned to Mystery.
'Can't you just order it to tell, I would make this easier.' Lewis asked.
'Lewis you saw how it snapped and caused Arthur to go into that fit, do you want that to happen again?' Mystery said narrowing his eyes at Lewis.
'No of course not.' Lewis said with a frown. 'Just ask it if it's a demon or not.'
'What would it matter, pasts can't be undone.' Came Ruthra's voice from the doorway, Lewis and Mystery turned to meet him. 'Do you have a first aid kit?' He asked. Mystery jumped down from his seat and went over to a low cupboard, that Ruthra followed him to it and opened it to find it sitting right there. He took out several rolls of bandages and put the box back in before walking right back out.
'That didn't explain anything.' Lewis yelled after him and unseen to the two of them was the smirk that spread on his face as it left.
Ruthra made its way to the only bathroom that it had been shown, it may as well clean it's self before going for the trip. It or was he a he? It/he looked in the mirror and for a brief moment it saw someone else, it jumped back if fright as the figure disappeared just as quickly as it had appeared. Ruthra started to undo the bandages on his arm and it kept checking to see if that face would come back. It had decided long ago that the boy's soul that the body had original belong to had been giving it weird side effects as it had tried to absorbed him as energy, human feelings that it had abandoned long ago had come back. The fit from the other day was one such examples, if it hadn't tried to understand what Arthur had been talking about then it would have never would have had the sudden flood of memory's and emotions. Of course it had completely forgotten the memories, but the emotions had stayed with it and it really didn't like it. There was a reason that it had pushed away all that, just so there were no emotions there to get in the way. In the way of what exactly, it didn't remember the reason, but whenever it is left it's thought, emotions started to come back to the surface and it would push them away just as soon as it could. It scared itself just thinking about it and it was becoming harder not to think or feel those emotions, it hated the control that it was losing.
Then there was the next thing that it hated. Ruthra threw itself at the toilet bowl and heaved, there went breakfast. Ruthra looked down at the mess, it then sat back and breathed. The taste of the bile made it want to chuck again, but it managed to crawl its way to the sink and drink some water. It knew without having to check that the lovely present in the bowl had what was the first sign that the body was shutting down, blood would be present and it knew that it was only going to get worse. The pain in its chest was starting to hit home as it knew that the pain medicine that it had taken hours before where wearing off, it went through a cabinet when it found the nearly empty packet. There were four left as with the help of some water they were soon swallowed, it was startled when a knock came from the door.
'Hey, Vivi asked me to bring you some clothes. You're not undressed already are you?' Arthur asked from the other side of the door, Ruthra panicked as it crawled towards the toilet and flushed it as Ruthra spoke.
'No not yet.' It said as Arthur opened the door, and the first thing that Arthur did was frown as he found it sitting next the toilet. He looked at the toilet before looking at Ruthra, then he froze as his gaze fell onto his old left arm. Ruthra quickly hid the half unwrapped arm and even as it held it behind, the bandages where coming undone even more.
'If you want it back so badly, I am sure that I can make it happen.' Ruthra said taking the clothes that where held in Arthur's right hand with its right hand, Arthur fell out of his daze and looked over to the empty package of painkillers. Arthur grabed in in confusion before he looked over at Ruthra who only stared back.
'Are you still in pain?' Arthur asked as Ruthra closed the toilet and placed the clothes in that spot.
'What would it matter to you?' Ruthra asked as it turned back around, it placed his arm in his pants pocket. Arthur thought for a moment before looking back at Ruthra.
'Well I think that you where human once.' Arthur said as Ruthra frowned.
'Based on what? My memories that I don't want? Listen kid, I don't think so. Why would I be human if I could have more fun as a demon?'
'There are plenty of good things to being a human.' Arthur stated and crossed his arms.
'What like sex?' Ruthra asked and when Arthur went red as Ruthra laughed. 'It's not that great, at least I didn't think so. The women I was with however, seemed to enjoy herself.' Ruthra said with a shrug. Arthur calmed a bit and struggled to keep his voice even.
'There are other, smaller things that are enjoyable.'
'I agree, alcohol is pretty good at least the good stuff is. Speaking of which, you got any in this place. I am close to drinking the rubbing alcohol in the counter there.' Ruthra said with a smirk, Arthur was already shaking his head as he headed for the door.
'Don't even think about it, Vivi will rip your head off if you end up drunk before we go for to the job.' Arthur warned before exiting the room. Ruthra sighed before pulling his arm from behind him, the bandages where just barley holding on. Ruthra just pulled the rest of it off and dumped them in the bin. It faced the palm towards itself and it closed the body's eyes before opening the eye in the palm. There was a moment as the vision was fuzzy and once it focused it was surprise, it had been a while since it had used its arm in such a way. It took a while to be able to move around and just look around using its eye, then it tried opening its left eye and looked around the room once again. It sighed as it closed its palm eye and then opened both of its body's eyes. It had wasted enough time, it should take a shower already.
