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Session 83

Ashes to Ashes

"I'm home!"

It felt odd for Olrumon to be saying those two words. In a way, to say that such a place existed for him seem counter to his all travels with Aaron.

But as he said that, the pile of rubble began to shift about and repair itself. In a matter of seconds, the house was back in its proper state. Though, the rabbit idol doubted it would last long. Never did seem too in this wretched place. This has been his first home, which he had bought with all the money he had saved up from the past couple years of doing odd jobs.

Olrumon took one more deep breath and headed towards the door, wiping his feet at the door mat when he got there.

"Bring it, Blade and Lily." Olrumon whispered as he watched a chopper slowly approach. A boy and girl pair sat upon it.

"This is the place." the boy announced as he got off, attempting to make it look like two people. "We should take this as a chance to rest."

He made their way towards the door, only to notice Olrumon.

'Would you mind if we spent an hour or two resting at your house?" the boy remarked as Olrumon began to lightly hum.

Boulder Song!

A large rock came forth, knocking the boy back towards his bike.

"Why did you just do that?" the person announced as he pulled a pair of shinkens out. He then chose to charge towards the rabbit idol, possibly hoping that Olrumon would sidestep away and let him head inside.

Boulder Song!

Once more, a large rock appeared above Olrumon, which he sent at the target once again. Only to watch the rock get torn to pieces against the metal blades.

"Crap." Olrumon mumbled and charged towards the boy, slamming his head into the chest area. "Lily's gone! It's just you and me now, fighting over something long forgotten and meaningless."

The boy didn't answer and chose to kick the rabbit out of the way and followed it up with a fireball.

Cleansing Melody!

Olrumon began to hum a different tune, feeling any potential wounds fade away as the fireball passed over him and into his house. He made a quick glance towards his former abode, taking a deep breath afterwards. He wanted to facepalm in response to this, but a gunshot dashed that idea.

"I found you." a voice called out as a man dressed in a black suit with a pair of csi miami glasses. Outside of his ghostly pale skin, the only other thing of note was his head of short reddish orange hair and the. "This is where your journey ends, you two."

"That's what you think!" the boy announced and ran into the slowly burning home as Olrumon reluctantly followed right behind.

Inside, the house was slightly bigger than portrayed outside. Not only did it somehow contain three bedrooms, someone had thrown in a kitchen, two bathrooms, a living room and a basement as well. Somehow, the fire hadn't even reached the inside yet.

"Uh… Thanks?" Olrumon remarked and watched the boy pick a note off the couch. While he had been fairly certain that things were in their best mostly clean condition, time hadn't been factored into his quick and sudden departure back then. "Please leave."

"Why?"

Olrumon took a step forward, slamming his right paw down into the floor.

"Because this is my house." he started and focused his gaze on the opponent. "And you're currently trespassing."

The boy took a deep breath, pointing his blades towards Olrumon. But just as quickly as they were raised, they fell to his sides.

"Can I have a hug?" he finally whispered and knelt down at Olrumon's level.

"Sure." Olrumon answered and wrapped his arms around the boy. "I've gotten ahead of myself. I'm Olrumon, the owner of the ever-destroyed house we're currently sitting in."

"Blade." the boy whispered as the two let go. "It's been too long since someone not tied to this place."

He made a glance down at the ground as tears began to fall down.

"I'm guessing your Lily is gone?"

Blade gave a nod, giving Olrumon a interested glance afterwards.

"Wait. How do you know of my friend?" Blade inquired as he watched the rabbit idol give a sigh.

"I met a version of her in my travels."

"Oh." Blade whispered. "How is she doing?"

"Quite well, if the last time I saw her is anything to go by." Olrumon answered as the two made their way towards the kitchen. "If you don't mind me asking, how exactly did you find my house along with the rest of the village?"

Silence fell upon both of them, letting the gunshots outside fade away with the winds. Their gazes met, one of pity, one of sorrow. Occasionally, the expression would slightly change but the meaning stayed the same. They stayed like this for a couple of minutes, refusing to break away from each other as the house continued its slow burn.

"I understand now." Olrumon whispered as he took a deep breath. "That wasn't your intention. I wish I knew that then."

Blade placed his hand on Olrumon's back, giving it a pat.

"Let's finish this." Blade whispered and stood back up. "Do you think you can help me in place of EMT?"

Olrumon gave a nod as the two made their way towards the door, where their opponent still stood.

"It's good to see that you're both not cowards." the opponent announced, only to find a boulder hurling right towards him. "Hey!"

He got no answer to that question, taking a fireball to the chest instead.

"That does it."

Their opponent then pulled out a bigger gun and proceeded to fire around the area.

"Does he usually get like this?" Olrumon whispered as his gaze focused back on Blade, only to catch a quick glimpse of a pair of cloaked figures.

"Yeah." Blade answered and took a deep breath. "It possibly stress from being on the same day for what seemed like forever."

The two then charged forth, making an effort not to get hit with gunfire from what appeared to be a modified uzi.

Boulder Song!

Olrumon began to hum a short tune and launched forth a boulder at the target as Blade made a foolhardy charge at the guy. At best it was a stalemate, with neither party seeming to gain the upper hand.

"Need some help, honcho?" a voice called out as Hera and Death landed, cocky smiles plastered on their faces.

"Not from you assfucks, I don't." 'Honcho' answered as he made an attempt at spraying the two former assistants with bullets and failed. "Crap. Where's that stupid troll when you need him?"

"In that case, I can show you a new party trick I learned." Death announced and pulled her scythe out. She muttered something under her breath as everyone watched shift into two handed sword. Which, I don't remember giving to her at all.

"Here's something that we don't remember telling you to do." Hera snarled and proceeded to flip the sky off. "You getting to live."
For that, she got silence as a response. There really wasn't much use in fuelling either girl's hate of him at the moment.

"Whatever, fuckface." Death muttered and charge towards Honcho, only to find herself locking blades with Blade. "I hope you fall down a pit for that stupid pun!"

As that happened, Honcho was flinging grenades at Hera. One would think this was the way to go when dealing with former assistants like these two, but it wasn't in this case.

"That tickles!" Hera announced and kicked the grenade back towards the thrower, watching it blow up mid-roll. "Crap. Way to kill the mood!"

Boulder Song!

A large rock then slammed into her, forcing the former assistant back a couple feet.

"Leave." Olrumon shouted as the fire behind him seemed to increase in intensity. "That's your one and only warning."

The rabbit idol hadn't quite realized what he had just said, slightly scaring himself in the process.

"Oopsy."

Blade was then flung at Olrumon, now sporting a large hole through his chest.

"Oh the irony." Death mocked and charged towards Olrumon. "Run along, little bunny. Alice is right behind you!"

Olrumon launched off one more boulder and headed off, not at all noticing it smash into Honcho's skull and kill him. No, he gave his burning home one last goodbye as a portal swallowed him up…

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Elena was stuck.

And not in the whole, 'stuck in a endless tunnel dream' sort of way, though she would've slightly prefered it at that particular moment.

No, she found herself in stuck in an oversized birdcage with some kind of mouse creature wearing what appeared to be an idol costume.

"It'll be alright." she whispered and took a deep breath…

Notes:

A bit of a shorter chapter this time, especially as I get ready for Tri Abridged.

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Next Time: Letters through the gilded cage...