Canon World!
Reborn and Viper's child.
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"You're... not very good at this, are you?" Renato said, looking over Viper's shoulder.
The pot -a heavy metal cauldron that Viper had pulled out of nowhere- was looking out of place on the stove. It had simmered and boiled earlier but now with the fire turned off, the air was clearing of the odd smell that had wafted off of it with Renato opening the windows.
The fact that what should've been a soup with how much water Viper had poured into it was now a pink, gloppy, solid blob, might not be such an improvement though.
There wasn't anything pink in the ingredients.
"...you think." Viper snarled, a hint of red peeking from under their cowl, "I told you I can't cook."
Indeed they had, but Skull had just accused them of being lazy and everyone else just agreed that they must just want to be paid and shirk from dinner duty.
Renato didn't even attempt to hide the curve of his lips. He could feel their glare burning on the side of his face.
"Well, since I'm nice, I'll get rid of this." and with a snap of his fingers, he shot a lick of his Sun Flames to the... thing.
Out of all the Flames, Sun Flames were actually the only Flames that could light something. Storm was too intense it just outright disintegrated things, Lightning zapped things, Rain shouldn't even be counted as Flames as it was more water, and Mist and Cloud had zero burning properties unless in the Mist's case, it was purposefully constructed as such.
Renato's Flames didn't burn the result of Viper's version of cooking.
Instead, the pair's eyes widened and they watched as it jerked. And then wiggled. And rolled over on its... other side, plopping on the blackened bottom of the cauldron.
"... I'm really starting to wonder about you Viper. Are you sure you're human?"
"...relatively?"
"That doesn't comfort me."
Glug!
They reeled back when the... thing, split open and what must be its mouth produced the gurgling sound.
"...Holy shit Viper! Holy shit! We created the anti-christ!"
"What-?! No! Shut up! Don't say it! It'll come true!"
Stubs for arms and legs sprouted and it heaved itself up the lip of the pot and they finally decided that they couldn't let it go further. Viper grabbed the closest thing -one of Luce's dinner plates- and threw it. They almost hit -better than what Renato expected of the only person he never saw participate in a single thing that could've been classified as an exercise- and it broke against the wall behind the now dubbed 'anti-christ'.
It ate the shattered remains and they saw it melt inside AC. Then AC grew spikes on its back.
"...It is the anti-christ." Renato had just mostly been joking.
Viper snorted uneasily, "There are weirder things out there. It can't be the anti-christ."
Otherwise, Viper might be accused of being the cause of the end of the world and the money that would cost them...
It tripped trying to get out of its cradle and then accidentally shoved the pot to the floor and fell straight on the stove. One of its arms hit the switch and fire turned on.
It didn't burn.
"I'll go call Feng!" Viper yelped, turning around.
"No! You're not going to leave me here!" Renato screamed, grabbing them by the collar.
Then he ran to it, ripped the stove from the counter while carefully avoiding the AC and tossed it out of the window -into the running river a few meters away- with a loud splash.
"What's happening here? We heard something fall- is that a cauldron?! And where is the stove?!"
Verde barged in, Lightning Flames running up and down his coat. Behind him the others trailed after and not a second later Feng appeared in a blur from the other side of the property.
"...we're going out for dinner. My treat." Viper said flatly.
The latter was a pointed bribe for Renato to not say a word. Not that he was planning to, of course.
This was something that would stay between them.
The child of the devil personified and the 'maybe-actually-a-devil-because-you-can't-really-tell-under-that-hood'.