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Tavros and Summoner (with the others following. From chapter 3 TAVROS): FINISHED
Ah, how is everyone liking the () spacing I'm forced to use? I hope you do like it. Because that's what we're all stuck with. _ Sorryyy.
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LAST TIME ON -MEE THE ANCESTORS 9: SPIDER8ITE!-
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"Things will only get harder fr0m n0w 0n... the pr0cess will be l0ng and it will weigh 0n y0ur s0ul. But y0u can't break. Y0u have t0 be str0ng... Are you listening t0 me?" Aradia stepped closer out of the shadows and stared at him. He was asleep. She rolled her eyes a little bit, but covered Eridan up a little bit with the large cape. Then she noticed that his eyes were a little wet, ready to cry right before he went to sleep... Aradia frowned and stroked his hair a little.
"I'm s0rry this is s0 hard f0r y0u... I h0pe that with time... y0u will heal." She backs off into the shadows and disappears leaving Eridan to sleep.
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A bright and well lit room. Pretty nice decorations for a hive. Normally you'd have to be of rather high importance in society to get stuff like this in your hive. Some fine red lining on white walls, clear sheers on a giant bay window that led to a fantastic sea side view. A comfortable looking white couch is in the center of the room with a robust mahogany table, drawers included, and a vase of striking purple flowers native only to this area of the planet. Many rooms were in this hive, all of them beautiful. However even with all this space and all the rooms, only one troll lived in it. She wasn't a picky woman; she just craved things that were appealing to the eyes. . .
There was no one to impress or to show off to, but it was nice. Silence was something she'd always longed for. (Maybe not the silence of death, but it'd have to do.) The only thing this woman wanted to do in her death was relax and enjoy being dead in peace and quiet...
But she was not in her hive at this time. Although she liked peace and quiet, she could never pass up an adventure to test her skills and wits. It was something she loved doing. Mock trials were also something she enjoyed doing in her spare time, setting up convincing stories to prove to herself that she still had it in her. Naturally it was no problem. The only hard part was convincing his honorable tyranny. No matter how much evidence she had, no matter how painfully obvious it was that the defendant was guilty or innocent he was a hard guy to please.
This was beside the point however. Hunting for dinner was something she'd do every week or so. Everything she caught was big enough to last her far longer, but she enjoyed having enough to last for an apocalypse... As the tall woman stalked through the forest, she spotted a strange animal drinking at the pond. It was orange with black stripes, piercing yellow and green eyes. Two long tails curled and uncurled behind it. The troll snuck forward, quiet as could be, ready with her dagger. She was ready to take it down... when suddenly she heard a noise coming from shore. A visitor? Who on Earth? Who could be on her shore at a time like this? The animal looks up quickly, ears pointing upwards. It quickly runs off and the pointy horned woman groaned with irritation. Damn. Who would DARE ruin her hunt?
She returns to her hive to change out of the green skin tight one piece suit into a long sleeved black shirt and pants, then swings on a short teal jacket with long sleeves. Peeking out the window she spots a rather large ship... All she can do is be shocked, her white eyes growing wide.
"What?... There's no way." She said aloud to herself. Squinting a little she spotted for sure that a person was on the side of the boat. She hated this guy soooo much.
"Damn Dualscar that must be him... How did he even know where I was?" Wait a second, that wasn't Dualscar. It was like a kid version of him. Jegus did he get into some magic or something? Because magic was real after all. Everyone knew that. And she was sure that he'd meddled into it... For whatever reason. Not that she'd ever actually met him in person or anything. She did however know what he looked like from records of his rap sheet in her files... Piracy, noise complaints, drunk in public, soliciting prostitution... Murder was on the list too of course, but that was normal. It still surprised her that he'd actually gotten arrested for anything, considering his rank... He probably paid to get out with some of his gaudy jewelry or something. Jerk. Either way, she figured she might as well go see what fishbrain wanted...
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"Redglare!" Dualscar calls out once the ship is safely wedged in the sand. He spots Redglare walking down, her hips swinging irritated with every step down the loose sandy slope.
"Redglare dear I havve some interestin' knewws for ya!"
"Who says I'm Redglare?" She said seriously. Dualscar looked confused and held a hand to her.
"Wwell clearly it's you, you were the best attorney anyone could have had. Unless they were guilty of course. I also heard whispers that You've had a run in or two with a certain woman..."
"Dualscar can wwe just get on wwith it?" Redglare looked up at Eridan. Ah, that boy from earlier that she spotted.
"Cod damn, keep your scarf on Eridan."
"Eridan?" Redglare looked up at the young troll who stood on the edge hanging onto a rope.
"Ah yes, my pride and joy second only to me ship, Eridan Ampora. Pretty spiffy aint he?" Eridan face palmed like an embarrassed boy whose baby pictures just got shown to a girlfriend... haha.
"Spiffy?... Eh well he sure is your spitting image. I just hope he's nothing like you. What do you want Dualscar?" The elder Ampora straightened up and cleared his throat.
"Ahem. All I need to say is this." Redglare waited, clearly bored.
"Marquise Spinneret Mindfang." Now this got Redglare's attention quickly. She smirks a little bit and folds her arms, popping her hip out amused.
"Do tell."
"She's quite angry wwith me. Wwe met up about a wweek ago and now she's chasin' me wwith a similar little wwriggler." Dualscar explained the situation of how Eridan got here and how there was a little Mindfang with the original. He continued by telling her of the little scuffing he and Mindfang had out at sea.
"Two Mindfang's..." She puts a finger up to her chin in thought.
"Indeed. I heard you twwo had a little bout back in the day and I wwas wwonderin' if maybe you could help me out." Dualscar never really knew what their relationship was, since he was killed long before they met... But he did hear from whispers under the water...
"Well help you out how exactly? You may not have started the battle, but you certainly didn't surrender."
"Redglare. Do you HONESTLY THINK that I wwould surrender? TO MINDFANG?"
"Oh yeah, I forgot, your personality on record was 'head pretty far up ass' and 'arrogant egotistical prick.'"
"Wwho the fuck wwrote that?"
"Dualscar wwe sorta don't have fuckin' time for this."
"Jegus he's just like you."
"Shut up. Are ya gonna help me or wwhat?"
"Well now why would I help you after you've been soooo rude to me?~ Telling a lady to shut up!"
"We both know you don't givve a damn about that."
"True."
"I just need you to maybe get Fangy off my back for a wwhile. Besides do you really wwant to miss a chance to see her again?"
"Actually I'd like to avoid EVERYONE at all costs. But it seems fate has a different plan for me. I'm in." Her teeth gleam in the sun as she grins. She takes out her glasses and slips them on her ears.
"I'll need a boat though."
"Ehhh about that, wwe only havve one escape boat."
"I'll use that then." Dualscar looked at her oddly.
"You're joking right? If she comes up on you wwith her fuckin ship she'll just run you right over!"
"She wouldn't do that to me.~ Where is she coming from?"
"Uh... About five hundred miles south east from here I'd wwager."
"Good. I'll pack for a day or so on the water."
"Only a day? You'll never make it to her in a day."
"Dualscar. Shut up." She walks right by him and jumps all the way up on the boat, landing by Eridan.
"Shit Terez- uh..."
"Huh? You're a weird little squirt. Outta the way." Who the hell was trzzz whatever the hell he said? Whatever.
"Wriggler, show me the escape boat. Quickly I haven't got all day!" Normally Eridan wouldn't take orders from anyone really, but this woman had a strange aura of authority about her. So he did as she said and walks over to portside and points at the boat.
"There it is." Redglare peeks over and nods.
"That will do. Thanks twerp." She walks back over to the front of the boat and jumps back down onto the beach.
"Don't leave without me, I'll be right back." Dualscar groaned a little as she ran off quickly back to her hive.
"So what, she look like another of your friends?"
"She isn't my friend. But yes. She's even a real attorney?"
"Oh hell yeah she is. Terrifyin' one at that. She dealt wwith his honorable tyranny almost every single day for trials. It was her life."
"I see... I hope this isn't a pattern, because it's getting a little annoying."
"Huh? How so?"
"Back before I came to you wwe'd already met a couple of older trolls, some Summoner character and some other Psiioniic person."
"Shit Psiioniic?"
"You fuckin' knoww him, see wwhat I mean? It's getting old already. Although Tavros is literally nothing like Summoner. Sollux I guess is more annoying from wwhat I've seen, but still they're the same. And then you and I are similar and then Vriska and now Terezi! And not to mention the only fuckin' reason wwe're here is because of Gamzee's crazy monster ancestor. I'm bored wwith evveryone being the cod damn same!"
"Well shit didn't you say someone said that you were basically all us? Eggo...bio logical something or other?"
"Ectobiologically. Yeah. But still, it's fuckin' annoyin'. I don't wwant evveryone to just be the exact same as their Ectobiological counterpart, it's old..."
"Wwhy do you care?" Eridan looked at Dualscar a little surprised... Why DID he care?...
"I don't, I'm just sayin'..." Dualscar could sense something about how Eridan said things... he'd wait and see what it was... Maybe he was second guessing doing this... He hoped not.
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Redglare returned to her hive to grab a couple things. The first thing she grabbed was her dragon head cane. The second was a necklace... she stared at it and smiled a little bit... then she swings it around her finger and throws it in the air. She catches it and puts it around her neck.
"Time to go." Redglare runs back to the boat and jumps right on it.
"Alright lower this baby into the water!"
"Wwhen the fuck did you get back?" Dualscar was flabbergasted at her sudden arrival. He could have sworn she just left a few minutes ago... whatever.
"Doesn't matter, lower me down!"
"She's sure in a hurry." Dualscar climbs back up into the ship and goes over.
"Of course she is, Mindfang's out there, they hate each other."
"Another assumption based on your—"
"Holy shit never mind." Eridan folded his arms and Dualscar just held up his hands in fake surrender to him and walked over to the lever that would lower the boat down.
"Have fun..."
"Oh I will!"
"By the wway. That's a shitty necklace you got there. You should really polish it up or soemthin'. "
"You're lucky I'm in this boat down here Dualscar." Redglare loved this necklace... It got her through a lot of stuff... She quickly grabs the oars for the boat and starts swinging them like crazy through the water.
"Later!" She waves as Dualscar and Eridan both stand there gawking at how fast she's going... She's practically splitting the water in half...
"Is that... evven possible?" Eridan couldn't even blink. Dualscar shrugged a little in the same state.
"G-guess so."...
"Wwell noww wwhat do wwe do? Do we just keep running?"
"I wwas thinking maybe wwe could stay here on this island for a wwhile. Stock up on supplies and shit."
"Huh. Wwhy not I guess."
"Alright everyone! We're gonna stay here for a while! Bring our little prisoners with us!" Some of the older larger male trolls went down into the cells of the cabin and went right to their cell.
"Hey, get up." Said one of the trolls. Karkat was up instantly, grabbing the bars and shaking them, screaming at the top of his lungs of course.
"YOU STUPID FUCKING NOOK CHAFING PIECE OF DIRT SHIT! WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? YOU DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" Gamzee stood up and brushed his rear off, a big dumb smile on his face.
"Yo, ArE wE gEtTiNg OuT yEt BrO?"
"GAMZEE I SERIOUSLY DOUBT THAT YOU ARE ASKING THAT AS A SERIOUS QUESTION."
"We're heading to shore to get supplies. We wouldn't leave your prisoners alone to escape." He smirks and nods to the other guard. The slightly shorter troll grabs out the keys from his belt and hands them to the larger one. He takes them and undoes the cell, grabbing both boys by the arms and quickly tying them up.
"GAMZEE DID WE HONESTLY JUST GET RECAPTURED WHEN WE HAD A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO KICK THEIR ASSES AND BOOK?"
"I gUeSs So BrO."
"WOW YOU'RE REALLY FUCKIN HELPFUL GAMZEE." The guards lead them out and topside.
"WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE?... HEY DON'T IGNORE ME YOU IGNORAMUS!" The guard just pushes them along and up the loose sand into the forest. Karkat spots Eridan and can't keep his mouth shut. He's really angry with him... How could he do this?
"HEY YOU STUPID HIPSTER SHIT BRAIN YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA GET AWAY WITH THIS CRAP? LET ME TELL YOU WHAT, YOU AREN'T, SO BE READY! BECAUSE WHEN I GET OUTTA THIS I'M GONNA BEAT YOU TO DEATH!" Eridan can hear him even though he's all the way in front with Dualscar. He grimaces and looks down a little.
"Just ignore him kiddo. He's just a punk kid anyhoww." Dualscar pats his shoulder and smiles. Eridan can only continue to be confused about how he feels about all this...
"He AiNt GoNnA lIsTeN tO yOu BrO."
"I DON'T CARE, IF I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY HE'S GONNA HEAR IT!"
"Do you want me to kill you punk? _ You're too loud, shut up."
"ARE YOU STILL TRYING TO TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK TO DO?"
"I will MAKE you be quiet if you don't stop of your own volition."
"BrO, jUsT lIsTeN tO tHe AsShOlE." This comment got Gamzee a good whoop over the head. He grumbled a little. Gamzee did NOT like people doing that to him.
"SHOOOOSH." Karkat was quick. He wanted to murder that guard, but Gamzee came first. He calmed down and they were pushed out of the cell and then carried as the guard jumped down onto the sand. Suddenly one guard took Gamzee and the two were seperated.
"WHAT THE FUCK? DUDE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A BAD IDEA THAT IS. IF I'M NOT THERE TO SHOOSH PAP HIS FUCKING CRAZY SELF HE'LL FLIP HIS EVERLOVIN' SHIT."
"I said be quiet urchin."
"DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU BUDDY." Karkat rolls his eyes and walks.
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Redglare rowed quickly in the ocean and thought hard about what she'd do with Mindfang. How would she really deal with her?... She's gone and attacked Dualscar and she could be going around attacking other ships randomly too! And now there's a little Mindfang too and that CAN'T be good.
"I wonder what you'd say to her." Redglare grabs at her necklace a little and thinks... but she shakes her head and keeps rowing.
It takes Redglare all day and most of the night to get anywhere, and the waves were starting to get crazy.
"Dammit!" She did her best to hold onto the boat, and thought hard about how she reeeeally should have thought about the weather before she left. At LEAST the weather. Too late now though... Ah wait what's that? Redglare spots a ship coming off from the side... The sails are all too familiar. Did she really just stumble upon the one ship she was looking for in the entire world? No one on board seemed to see her or her little stupid life boat, so once it came close, she jumped from her boat onto the side of the ship, clinging to a window, stabbing her cane into the side, holding tightly. Just in time. A rather large wave topples the life boat and cracks it in half from the pressure.
"Ugh... That was just a little close for my tastes." She jumps up and stabs the side again, pulls herself up and jumps on board.
"What is thiiiiiiiis?" Called another voice. Redglare smirked a little and looks up.
"Neophyte Redglare. I didn't think I'd see you so soon. Funny how you came right to me as I was coming to you."
"You were coming to me ey?"
"Indeed I was. I need your help."
"Is that so? Because it seemed like Dualscar needed my help too."
"Oh my god did you actually go to help him?"
"Well not really. I can't do a very good investigation without both sides."
"No kidding. Dualscar has two wrigglers that he kidnapped for no reason but to make others angry." Redglare narrowed her gaze a little.
"What?"
"Yeah, two people who you'd probably..." Mindfang gets out her sword and brings up the necklace from her chest with its tip. "Recognize." The shorter woman looks down at her necklace and then up at Mindfang again.
"No way. You can't be serious."
"I am. I'm actually not lying to you. It was his descendant and the Grand High8lood's, tied to the mast of his ship."
"I didn't see them."
"Right as Dualscar was running away they started taking them down, pro8a8ly to the cells. Dualscar is a terrible pirate, we 8oth know that. He's lower than I am. He hid them away and then groveled to your feet. My shipmate just wants to get them 8ack."
"Ah yes, Dualscar mentioned a 'little Mindfang' before he asked for help."
"Ah well he 8e right. Vriska! Come tell Redglare a8out your friends." Vriska walks over from the front of the ship and folds her arms.
"They're not really my friends. 8ut they—"
"She's just like you. And the younger Dualscar."
"...So Eridan was with them."
"That's what Dualscar called him yes."
"Dammit... why could Eridan possibly want to kidnap those two, I don't understand."
"Well... even though he was a little bothered with being on MY island, he seemed to have an aura about him that showed that he looked up to him in a... strange way."
"Looked up to him?" Mindfang sneered and cringed at the same time.
"Good lord I certainly hope that isn't the case. Either way Redglare I must ask for you help to 8ring that kidnapping troll to Justice."
"There is hardly any JUSTICE with PIRATES... No justice at all in fact. But he did take them against their will and he could be hurting them. I guess... we have to work together then." Redglare stood straight up and looked down her nose at Mindfang.
"It would seem that way. Truce then." Mindfang held out her hand to Redglare and smiled, although with a usual grin. They shook hands and nodded at each other.
"Truce." Vriska watched them and wondered how on earth they had such a strong kismesitude if... if they could just make a truce so easily. But she guessed... maybe she could team up with Terezi if they REALLY had to...
"Well let's stop talking and get to it!"
"Right. Off we go then. Back to my island where that idiot is probably ransacking my beautiful home as we speak."
"You should invite us over."
"One pirate on my island by itself is bad enough. Two would kill me."
"Aw, so cruel." Mindfang smirked and patted Redglare on the back as she went back to the wheel.
"CONTINUE EN ROUTE!" Other trolls working the ropes pulled at them and got the sails open more, rocketing them forward.
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Flesh was ripped and torn, shoved into a mouth starving for protein. It was all the troll could find on this part of the island, but if it could go in her stomach and give her energy then that was all that mattered. It was quiet as usual, save for the giant birds that soared over head.
"Today is a purfect day.~" The female troll said. All was well in the world. Until new scents filled her nose...
"What on earth? Time to check it out! Maybe its foooooooooooood." She said hungrily and began to run. Her pelts clung to her waist and shoulders and she swished her tail around to balance herself. Noises from all around were caught in her ears and she was careful to be wary of her surroundings. She could feel the warm soil beneath her feet as they thumped with every step. It was not more than a few minutes that she reached the source of all the new smells. Weird twin trolls. "Father" and wriggler perhaps? Uh oh, it looks like two other wrigglers aren't having too good a day.
"Oh...Oh?..." She trained her eyes on them... One was small and going off to the left... disappearing into the brush with the troll who held him. The other... was coming right her way and he was ... terrifying... Face paint haunted her memories and there was another face now that she was sure would haunt her... No she had to get out of here... But what about the other small one. She couldn't see any horns. Could they really have been so small-... No. She wasn't supposed to be here.
"Yo, I gOtTa TaKe A pIsS mAn. CaN't A tRoLl GeT sOmE pRiVaCy"
"If you MUST. But I'm not leaving your side."
"SuRe ThInG bRo." Gamzee made sure the other troll turned around and was ready to undo his pants when he looked up and spotted bright white eyes staring at him. He stared at her in wonder and awe... then mouthed "HeLp?" Shit. What was she going to do... She couldn't help him right? But he looked like he might need it... what... should she do?
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