Damara awoke to find herself back in her hive, having no clue as to how she had ended up back here. She felt unusually restless, realizing that she hadn't been doing a whole lot on her own planet. Even Lord English had been relaxed his grip on her. She wanted to enjoy this moment of freedom, but she was smart enough to know that it surely wouldn't last long. Perhaps he was waiting for something, she thought. But what would a Lord of Time have to wait for?
She got up from her recuperacoon, tired of being tired and sleeping and doing her Lord's jobs. She capthalogued the Blade of Bitterness and went out of her hive. But she had not taken two steps out when she heard her Master's voice:
WITCH. STAY WHERE YOU ARE. IT IS NOT TIME FOR YOU TO VENTURE OUT YET. YOU MUST LOOK INTO YOUR PAST BEFORE YOU CAN CORRUPT THE PRESENT.
Damara went back inside, infuriated. Sure, she could technically leave, but there was no telling what Lord English would do to her. He could do nothing, or he could obliterate her.
No, he wouldn't, Damara suddenly realized. He would never do such a thing to her, at least not yet. As much as she hated admitting it, she was his pawn, and a good chessmaster never deliberately destroys their own pawns. They may sacrifice them, but they wouldn't punish them with death.
She checked her computer and noticed that someone had been trolling her.
Cetaceous Catastrophe (CC) began trolling Armegido Associate (AA)
CC: whazzup huge BITC)-(
you know i know aspout what happened with the Quest Bed
and yo buoyfrond
he's probably clammin with the metal hoof fella right now all over the hive
and they're doin' all those things you wanted to do with him but were too afraid to ask
he's having a whale of time without ya, happy as a clam that you're out of his life
sides you never did much with him anyway i bet
aside from just watching dum-bass cartoons and livin' alone and talkin' about nerd shit
you gettin' my drift? (subtle pun FTW!)
and i ain't lyin gurl
got a look at you man a whale ago. dam fine thang (not!)
and he's tryin' to save his new matesprit (not you) from danger
and you know what the best part is?
i made the danger happen!
coulda made Rufioh get hurt, but i don't see why
he wouldn't stand a chance against me anywave
you wanna stop the kissing they gonna get on when the danger goes away, you gotta go to Porrim
or me if you want, but i don't think you lowbloods can swim
just remember that you brought this on yourself for tryin' to kill me
BYTE! (man that was terrible)
Damara stepped outside once again after reading the message, rasing her head to the black sky above her in anger.
"(I'm going out, whether you like it or not!)" she cried defiantly into the air. "(I have some personal issues to handle, and I know that you won't kill me.)"
YOU HAVE RESTED FOR LONG ENOUGH. GO WHERE YOU PLEASE. BUT KEEP OBEYING MY COMMANDS.
Damara went to LOWAC, quickly finding Rufioh's hive sheltered among the trees. She went inside, observing the various memorabilia he stil had, most of it symbolizing a happy time in their relationship. Before it all faded away.
Having extensive time powers even before the Session had begun, she would remember her birth through her dreams, the memory provided to her by the HorrorTerrors. A helpless and sobbing crimson mess of a grub, her lusus had been a particuarly unlucky rat with eyes that matched her own. It was an apathetic creature, and neither of them had taken the time to learn each other's names.
Interaction with other trolls was difficult. Whereas others could join together to at least fill a bucket and have a good time, she failed at this. No one wanted to be with a troll who always "messed things up." Whether it was barging on some bucket-fillers or ruining a surprise party or just being a jerk on a bad day, anyone that could possibly have been "friend" was drawn away from her.
Seeking a new life elsewhere, she went across the ocean and tried to settle with other trolls in a new region, where hardly anyone could understand her. The dialect barrier was impossible to cross, until she arrived in a forest filled with trees and people unfamiliar to her. It was the very physical differences that marked her as an outsider that drew them toward her, particularly a friendly young man named Rufioh.
She interrupted her memories to say his name out loud, as if it would somehow bring him back to her. Had that actually happened, she would have abandoned what she had planned to do to him here, and instead do what she had wanted to do with hiim so many sweeps ago.
There were a few DVDs of various troll animes they had watched together. These were what they had brought them together. To her, they were just cartoons, but to Rufioh they were windows into another world that seemed to make more sense to him. Damara sometimes thought that Rufioh had only liked because she was from the same world as these animes, an avatar of an enviable world made real.
"h*ll no, doll! 1 l1ke because you're you," he had told her. The substance of this declaration of love was minute, but it was all that she needed to confirm their matespritship.
But now, she thought, as the troll anime she had been watching in an attempt to let the nostalgia course through her ears, all of that was gone. He would leave at the end of the night, sometimes to do weird and crazy things with his "weabros", other times to see how HIGH and how far he could fly. But every time he headed west of the forest to the plains, she knew that something was wrong. It didn't take long for her to get suspicious of him.
But she never confronted him about it. She didn't want to shatter what had taken her so long to build up with accusations of red infidelity that could be false.
So she remained silent, until her Lord came to break it.
She and English conversed regularly when she was suffering from a fit of depression and suspicion, which usually began when Rufioh left and ended when he came back. At first he had been benevolent, telling her that he understood, and that she would get her lover back and more if she obeyed him.
So she did. While Rufioh met with Horuss, she went to sleep and traveled in time. Each slumber was a new era, and sometimes even an alternate timeline. There she would get to work starting riots, slaughtering temporally savvy trolls, and even occassionally murdering empresses who seemed to be on the verge of introducing reform. But whatever the reform was, it had already been passed.
Damara soon realized that she was not traveling into various points on the Beforan timeline, but the Alternian. By the time she came to this conclusion, however, her work became a labor, and her employer a harsh demon. Rufioh was almost never mentioned; her new motive to obey her Lord was that she would be allowed to live.
And now, Damara realized as she lay down in Rufioh's wide recuperacoon (to accomodate his horns), her motive would change once more. She knew that Lord English would no longer promise her safety from death. The terms of her eternal contract had changed once more, but she did not know what the knew promise was. Whatever it was, though, she knew that it would be lesser offer.
Like Squeal or No Squeal back home, each offer grew lower and lower the farther you progressed as your options became limited.
Brandishing the Blade of Bitterness, she waited.
"(When you return, Rufioh, I will no longer love you. But until then...")
. . . . .
Rufioh himself, meanwhile, under Sawbuck's direction, was led to where the two blacklovers where love-fighting.
Fly as fast as you can, lad! Egad, they're starting to take clothing damage! Just a half-mile left!
Rufioh wasn't sure how long a mile was, but the sound of clothing damage didn't sound too good. He had never really had an extensive kissmesis before, but he had seen enough troll black hentai to know how badly one could get.
Was he cut out to be an auspicetice? he thought. Certainly not. There was only one option left that could oust this bad romance once and for all...
"stop, you trashy b*tch!" Rufioh cried. Porrim stopped fumbling with a Horuss' helmet, her dress torn to expose most of her legs and he with his armor sporadically lying on the ground.
"8==========D Rufioh! You are just in time to join in! Alternatively, you could also save me from this pleasurable nightmare!" Horuss cried before Porrim knocked him to the metal ground. His helmet fell off, and his long, previously trapped hair mane was dirtied by the cruel metal ground.
"you s1ck jade sl*t! what are you do1ng to h1m?!" Rufioh cried. Porrim leaped up to reach Rufioh, pinning him down to the ground.
"What do+es it matter to+ yo+u? This is a black ro+mp, no+ a red o+ne. Go+ be effeminate so+mewhere else."
"oh, hell no! d1d you just call a dude w1th a rad mohawk and a bangarag1n' bod effem1nate?! now you've gone too far!" Rufioh cried.
"I'm just info+rming yo+u o+f the truth abo+ut yo+ur girly crap. O+n seco+nd tho+ught, perhaps andro+geno+us wo+uld be mo+re appro+priate."
"oh, 1t's on l1ke f1duspawn!" Rufioh cried, whipping out his Fiduspawn cards from his sylladex.
"I do+n't have any o+f tho+se. Ho+w's this go+ing to+ wo+rk?" Porrim demanded.
"Yo+u'll see, Tsundere-b1tch," Rufioh said. Before Porrim could learn the weird anime vocabulary, an epic battle had begun!
RUFIOH WOULD LIKE TO BATTLE!
RUFIOH SENT OUT WOOD IMP! (LVL. 45, 125/125 HP)
WHAT WILL PORRIM DO?
NO! THERE'S NO RUNNING FROM A TRAINER BATTLE! (TOUGH LUCK, TSUNDERE-B*TCH!)
PORRIM USED SWEET KISS!
RUFIOH'S WOOD IMP BECAME CONFUSED!
THE WOOD IMP IS CONFUSED!
IT HURT ITSELF IN ITS CONFUSION! (117/125)
PORRIM USED WAKE-UP SLAP!
WOOD IMP TOOK 45 DAMAGE! (72/125)
WOOD IMP SNAPPED OUT OF ITS CONFUSION!
WOOD IMP USED SUBSTITUTE! (41/125)
PORRIM USED MEGA KICK!
PORRIM'S STILLETTO HEEL MUTLIPLIES ATTACK BY 1.5!
PORRIM'S ATTACK BROKE THE SUBSTITUTE!
RUFIOH USED ONE SUPER POTION!
THE WOOD IMP WAS HEALED! (125/125)
PORRIM USED MEGA KICK!
WOOD IMP TOOK 105 DAMAGE! (20/125)
WOOD IMP USED WOOD HAMMER!
PORRIM TOOK 78 DAMAGE! (111/189)
THE WOOD IMP IS HIT WITH RECOIL!
THE WOOD IMP FAINTED!
PORRIM GAINED 1234 EXP. POINTS!
RUFIOH SENT OUT STONE BASILISK! (LVL. 60, 172/172 HP)
STONE BASILISK'S SPEED DEMON LETS IT ATTACK FIRST WHEN IT IS SENT OUT!
STONE BASILISK FLEW UP HIGH!
PORRIM USED STITCH UP!
PORRIM WAS FULLY HEALED! (189/189)
PORRIM'S DEFENSE ROSE BY 1!
PORRIM USED STITCH UP!
PORRIM GAINED 0 HP!
PORRIM'S DEFENSE ROSE BY 1!
STONE BASILISK USED FLY!
PORRIM TOOK 29 DAMAGE! (160/189)
PORRIM USED PENGUIN'S BANE!
STONE BASILISK TOOK 145 DAMAGE (27/172)
RUFIOH USED ONE SUPER POTION!
STONE BASILISK WAS HEALED 70 HP! (97/172)
PORRIM USED MEGA KICK!
STONE BASILISK TOOK 98 DAMAGE! (HOW UNFORTUNATE!)
A CRITICAL HIT!
STONE BASILISK FAINTED!
PORRIM GAINED 5678 EXP. POINTS!
RUFIOH SENT OUT EMERALD OGRE! (LVL. 75, 250/250)
PORRIM USED PENGUIN'S BANE!
IT'S NOT VERY EFFECTIVE...
EMERALD OGRE TOOK 17 DAMAGE! (233/250)
EMERALD OGRE USED HAMMER ARM!
PORRIM TOOK 139 DAMAGE! (21/189)
EMERALD OGRE'S SPEED FELL BY 1!
PORRIM USED STITCH UP!
PORRIM WAS HEALED 80 HP! (101/189)
PORRIM'S DEFENSE ROSE BY 1!
PORRIM USED SWEET KISS!
THE EMERALD OGRE BECAME CONFUSED!
THE EMERALD OGRE IS CONFUSED!
IT HURT ITSELF IN ITS CONFUSION! (224/250)
PORRIM USED WAKE-UP SLAP!
IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!
EMERALD OGRE TOOK 118 DAMAGE! (106/250)
EMERALD OGRE IS CONFUSED!
IT HURT ITSELF IN IT'S CONFUSION! (97/250)
PORRIM USED WAKE-UP SLAP!
IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!
EMERALD OGRE TOOK 117 DAMAGE!
EMERALD OGRE FAINTED!
PORRIM GAINED 9012 EXP. POINTS!
PORRIM GREW TO LEVEL 60!
HP: + 4 (NOW 193)
ATTACK: + 3 (NOW 134)
DEFENSE: +4 (NOW 127)
SPECIAL ATTACK: + 1 (NOW 72)
SPECIAL DEFENSE: +4 (NOW 167)
SPEED: +5 (NOW 178)
RUFIOH IS OUT OF USEABLE GAME CONSTRUCTS!
PORRIM IS THE WINNER!
RUFIOH GREW ANGRY!
As the text above states, Rufioh was mad. How could Porrim defeat his Pokemon minions so easily?
"screw the f1ght! 1'm not leav1ng Horuss alone w1th you! You'll k1ll h1m!" Rufioh cried. Porrim stood her ground, only seeing Horuss as a valueable treasure that she couldn't depart without.
"He's in my custo+dy no+w. Unless yo+u can so+meho+w gain the co+urage needed to+ get him back."
"what are you talk1n' about? 1'm st1ll bangarang, and you're wounded from battl1ng my all1es. th1s'll be a p1ece of 12th per1gree cake. Horuss, get up!"
"8==D Rufioh, I am not sure if a battle is-"
"Get over here 1f you wanna l1ve, man!" Rufioh ordered with tremendous self-confidence. Horuss got up and stood at his side, trying to piece his armor back on. Porrim was unafraid.
"It sho+uldn't be to+o+ hard, fighting bo+h o+f yo+u at o+nce," she said. "I'ts really just o+ne o+n o+ne, anyway. Ho+ry's helpless as lo+ng as I have the effigy," she said, captchaloging it. "But I do+n't think I'll need it."
"whatever," Rufioh said, glancing at her and Horuss.
"8===D All set, everyone?" Horuss asked. They both nodded. But before they could begin, they saw a ship hovering the sky, landing between the combatants. Kankri stepped out and briefly gave a salute to PM before it took off for Prospit.
"6ef9re we all 6reak 9ut int9 vi9lence, may I suggest an alternative?" Kankri said 69ldy. "I am willing to c9nduct as an auspictice in this scenari9."
"you can do whatever you want, after her learns a lesson about blackrap1n' another troll's bro," Rufioh said.
"Very well," Kankri said, hiking his pants up in response. "I have n9 ch9ice 6ut t9 sh9w thr9ugh vi9lence-th9ugh triggering as it may 6e-that its 9pp9site is the pr9per s9luti9n t9 this 6izarre r9mantic skirmish," he declared.
"Kanny, sweetie, thanks fo+r the help, but yo+u sho+uld really stay o+ut o+f this," Porrim suggested. "I wo+uldn't want yo+u to+ get hurt."
"no, let h1m come aga1nst us," Rufioh said. "a fa1r f1ght's cool by me. 1f you guys w1n, we settle 1t your way. 1f we w1n, we settle 1t my way."
Horuss, my boy, are you sure you should let this go on? Sawbuck asked.
"8=D Yes. I trust that the fight will go e%ceptionally well in whichever direction it needs to acheive peace," Horuss replied.
okaycomeonletsgetthisshitoverwith!
"Itchy, this is a very delicate affair. In this scenari9, pandering t9 the enemies wishes may all9w me t9 instigate a m9re effective auspicetism later 9n," Kankri replied, hiking up his pants again.
Usch the effigy only when abscholutely nescheschschery, Porrim.
"I kno+w."
eggs doesn't have to tell you what to do next, does he?
"naw, man, 1 got th1s!"
And so Round 2 began.
YOU ARE CHALLENGED BY RUFIOH NITRAM AND HORUSS ZAHHAK!
RUFIOH NITRAM (LVL. 65, 230 HP)
HORUSS ZAHHAK (LVL. 67, 285 HP)
PORRIM MARYAM (LVL. 60, 189 HP)
KANKRI VANTAS (LVL. 63, 269 HP)
KANKRI USED REFLECT! (DON'T ASK)
PHYSICAL MOVES ARE CUT IN HALF!
PORRIM USED SWEET KISS ON HORUSS!
HORUSS BECAME CONFUSED!
HORUSS IS CONFUSED!
IT HE HURT ITSELF HIMSELF IN ITS HIS CONFUSION (274/285)
RUFIOH USED DEFOG!
THE FOE'S REFLECT EFFECT FADED!
KANKRI USED X DEFEND! HIS DEFENSE INCREASED!
PORRIM USED WAKE-UP SLAP ON HORUSS!
IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE! (189/285)
HORUSS SNAPPED OUT OF ITS HIS CONFUSION!
HORUSS USED IRON DEFENSE!
HORUSS' DEFENSE SHARPLY ROSE!
RUFIOH USED AGILITY!
RUFIOH'S SPEED SHARPLY ROSE!
RUFIOH USED HORN CHARGE ON KANKRI!
A CRITICAL HIT! (172/269)
RUFIOH IS HIT WITH RECOIL! (205/230)
HORUSS USED IRON HEAD ON PORRIM!
PORRIM TOOK 58 DAMAGE! (131/189)
KANKRI USED YAWN ON RUFIOH!
RUFIOH BECAME DROWSY!
PORRIM USED PENGUIN'S BANE ON RUFIOH!
RUFIOH TOOK 65 DAMAGE! (140/230)
RUFIOH USED ONE FULL RESTORE!
RUFIOH WAS FULLY HEALED!
RUFIOH FELL ASLEEP!
RUFIOH IS FAST ASLEEP.
HORUSS USED CLOSE COMBAT ON KANKRI!
ITS SUPER EFFECTIVE!
KANKRI TOOK 96 DAMAGE! (76/269)
PORRIM USED MEGA KICK ON HORUSS!
A CRITICAL HIT! HORUSS TOOK 88 DAMAGE! (101/285)
RUFIOH IS FAST ASLEEP.
HORUSS USED ONE AWAKENING!
RUFIOH WOKE UP.
PORRIM USED ONE HYPER POTION!
KANKRI WAS FULLY HEALED!
RUFIOH USED AERIAL ACE ON PORRIM!
PORRIM TOOK 78 DAMAGE! (53/189)
KANKRI USED SCALD ON RUFIOH!
RUFIOH TOOK 49 DAMAGE! (181/230)
RUFIOH SUSTAINED A BURN!
RUFIOH WAS HURT BY HIS BURN! (166/230)
RUFIOH USED EGGS' JUJU!
RUFIOH'S EVASIVENESS DRASTICALLY ROSE! +3
HORUSS USED CLOSE COMBAT ON KANKRI!
IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!
KANKRI TOOK 117 DAMAGE! (152/269)
KANKRI USED HELPING HAND!
PORRIM'S ATTACK SHARPLY ROSE! +2
PORRIM USED PENGUIN'S BANE ON RUFIOH!
RUFIOH TOOK 115 DAMAGE! (51/230)
RUFIOH WAS HURT BY HIS BURN! (36/230)
RUFIOH USED HORN CHARGE!
A CRITICAL HIT!
RUFIOH IS HIT WITH RECOIL! (18/230)
PORRIM FAINTED!
KANKRI'S SOCIAL JUSTICE ABILITY BOOSTS HIS ATTACK AND SPECIAL ATTACK BY 3 WHEN A COMERADE HAS FAINTED!
HORUSS USED CLOSE COMBAT!
HORUSS' ATTACK MISSED!
KANKRI USED YAWN!
HORUSS BECAME DROWSY!
RUFIOH IS HURT BY HIS BURN!
RUFIOH FAINTED!
HORUSS FELL ASLEEP!
HORUSS IS FAST ASLEEP.
KANKRI USED SCALD!
HORUSS TOOK 45 DAMAGE! (56/285)
HORUSS IS FAST ASLEEP.
KANKRI USED EX. SPECIAL!
HIS SPECIAL ATTACK INCREASED BY 1.5!
HORUSS IS FAST ASLEEP.
KANKRI USED SCALD!
A CRICITICAL HIT ON ALL THE EXTRA RUFIOHS!
HORUSS TOOK 68 DAMAGE!
HORUSS FAINTED!
RUFIOH AND HORUSS CAN NO LONGER BATTLE!
KANKRI AND PORRIM ARE THE WINNERS!
KANKRI GAINED 0 EXP. POINTS!
RUFIOH GAVE HIS MOST VALUEABLE FIDUSPAWN CARD AS PAYMENT.
HORUSS GAVE HIS MOST E%OTIC MUSCLEBEAST PAINTING AS PAYMENT.
RUFIOH WHITED OUT!
HORUSS BLACKED OUT!
PORRIM JADED OUT!
KANKRI DIDN'T DO ANYTHING OUT, BECAUSE THAT MIGHT BE TRIGGERING TO SOMEONE!
"Well, are we stil adhering t9 the terms 9f the agreement?" Kanrki asked.