There's... A Voice Inside My Head?
Chapter Two
"I AM NOT A FRIGGIN PSYCHO, GODDAMMIT!!!" Rath screeched as a few men in white uniforms (you know, those big guys at the nice place with the padded walls who bring you your medication and restrain you when you have an "episode" tee hee hee) ganged up in an attempt to restrain him. Still a hyperactive child at heart, Rath had plenty of energy to spare. He brushed them all off with a few swings of his fists. He noticed the girl nervously preparing a syringe of sedatives in the corner, but he decided he didn't want to knock out a woman. Thankfully, there was no need for that. Kai-stern had returned and Lykouleon was with him. Ruwalk was there too but he wasn't important to stopping the madness - in fact, he served to add to it.
"Ruwalk... Ruwalk... Ruwalk? Ru? Ru-chan? Ru-kun? RU-SAN!!!!!"
"I know you're up there you annoying little twit so stop bugging me!" Ruwalk blurted out. Kai-stern stared and his glasses fell crooked. Lykouleon was keeping an eye on Rath, but he was also staring at Ruwalk. "Sorry."
"Aha! See? I'm not crazy! You all thought I was crazy but I'm not! Ruwalk hears her too! Don't you Ruwalk?!" Rath had clearly been frazzled by all he had had to put up with.
"Rath, calm down," Lykouleon insisted. "I don't think you're crazy but you really need to calm down."
"If I calm down, can I hunt demons?" Rath asked hopefully.
"He's fine," Kai-stern sighed. "Yep, this is definitely 'normal Rath'."
"Hey!" Rath fumed. "Who said you could open your big mouth?!"
"Oh, come now, you don't think anyone would mistake the normal you for the psychotic you, do you?" Kai-stern looked at him crossly. Rath agreed in his mind but he'd never say it. He just randomly glomped the blue dragon officer in order to change the subject.
"Rath, can we have a little talk?" Ruwalk asked as he motioned toward the room where he had been with the psychologist earlier, for it was currently empty.
"Sure," Rath nodded as he released Kai-stern and followed the yellow officer into the room. Lykouleon was about to enter as well but Ruwalk shook his head.
"Sorry, Lord. Only me Rath and the girl in our minds," he said.
"You make it sound like you're having sick sexual fantasies," Lykouleon pointed out the flaw in Ruwalk's phrasing. Ruwalk cringed disgustedly as he closed the door.
"So, girl, you got a name?" Rath asked aloud.
"Hm... nope... I don't have a name."
"Shall we name you?" Ruwalk asked.
"Yeah sure. Why not? I am a figment of your imaginations."
"How about Ruwalk Illuser?" Rath grinned wildly.
"Gee. How creative." Rath could sense that she had also rolled her eyes. He wasn't sure how he sensed it but he did.
"At least it's obvious enough that no one will forget it," Ruwalk offered.
"True... true... ok Ruwalk Illuser it is but if anyone calls me a 'he' because of it, I'll take over both your bodies and beat the living snot outta them."
"Cheery, ain't she?" Rath laughed nervously.
"Wait a second, you can take over our bodies!?" Ruwalk shrieked. "That isn't fair!"
"Of course it isn't fair but of course I can do it. Watch. I'll make Rath skip across the room and then walk back while swinging his hips. Haha!"
"Oh no you do--," Rath was cut short when the maniacal girl began to pull the philosophical puppet strings in his mind. Rath skipped across the room, singing with a little girl's voice as he skipped, "Lalalalalalalalalalalalalaaaa." He suddenly turned and came walking across the room while swinging his hips, just as Ruwalk Illuser had promised to make him do. "Wow, Rath would make a pretty girl. His figure is very girly and he moves flawlessly."
Ruwalk gaped, "Rath... that voice that came out of your mouth... that wasn't you... that was her, right?"
Rath regained his control and shook his head rapidly, hoping that rattling his brain would rattle little Miss Illuser. "That was definitely not me."
"Now your turn Ru-chan!" Ruwalk Illuser took control of the yellow dragon officer's body before he could argue.
"Come on Rath! Dance with me! I'll let you lead," Rath was mortified beyond belief to hear come from Ruwalk's mouth. It clearly wasn't Ruwalk but all the same it horrified him.
"No way in hell," Rath responded harshly.
"Come on," Ruwalk Illuser whined as she had Ruwalk clasp Rath's hands in his own.
"I said no!"
"What, afraid you'll like it?" she teased.
"No..."
"Chicken! Bok bok bok!" she moved Ruwalk's arms like chicken wings to further taunt Rath.
"I am not a chicken and I will not give in to your childish whimsy!"
"Oh I get it, you're a homophobe and you're horrified of the possibility that I could make a pass at you while using Ruwalk's body."
"I'm not a homophobe!"
"Oh yeah? Prove it! Dance with me, hun!" Ruwalk Illuser giggled. Rath was nauseated. He nervously took lead as she had previously commanded of him and danced awkwardly around the room with the yellow dragon officer. "Yay! Spin me, Rath! Spin me!" Rath did so and, the instant he finished, Ruwalk was given back the control of his own mind.
"What did we just do?" Ruwalk asked apprehensively.
"Waltzed around the room like two gay girly-girl men," Rath admitted disgustedly.
"Let's agree to never tell the others about that."
"Agreed."
However, it was too late to keep this dark secret to themselves. A fit of giggles erupted from the doorway and the two men jolted around to see the door ajar with Alfeegi, Lykouleon, and Kai-stern on the other side, all laughing. Yes, even Alfeegi was laughing.