As they were about to enter a clothing store Buttercup stopped and looked over to a store on their left. "Be right back!" she said. She was there and back in three minuets. She returned with a disposable camera and quickly took a picture of Him. "It's just too good an opportunity to pass up, you look so different as a human." Him rolled his eyes and they walked into the store. Blossom went over to look at some shirts and dragged Bubbles with her, so she could be a judge on her clothing.
Him walked over to a shelf that had al sorts of useless little trinkets on it such as plastic crowns and boa's. Him picked up a black boa and a tiara, he placed the little tiara on his head and wrapped the boa around the neck. "What do you think? Am I a princess or what?"
"More like a queen." Buttercup said snapping a picture. They both laughed. He replaced the crown with some fake horns and placed them atop his head. "That's certainly appropriate." She laughed, Him spent ten minutes buy the shelf trying on almost everything and posing for Buttercups camera. Finally he took the pink flowered wreath from his head and began looking for clothes for Buttercup.
Unfortunately on the way he got distracted but the makeup rack, he just couldn't resist the samples and after waving his hand over them to remove any germs he started trying them on, Buttercup was rolling her eyes but snickering. "I don't know why you bother with that stuff." Him ignored her and tried on some blush that was a little bit darker then his normal shade. The lady at the counter wasn't sure exactly what to do. It wasn't against the rules and that's what the sample was there for. She walked over to the pair and cleared her throat.
"Yes?" Him said without even glancing at her. Buttercup hit him he glared at her and looked up at the girl. She fidgeted and seamed nervous. First day. Him thought after glancing through her thoughts.
"Um… Sir? We don't really allow people to use those unless they are planning to buy makeup. It keeps the sample cleaner and we don't have to replace them-" She was however interrupted by Buttercup laughing.
"Don't worry, lady. I am sure he plans on buying and using most of that make up anyway." Him suppressed a smirk, he knew how could use this to his advantage. Him simply stared at the woman, whose name according to her tag was Joan, he didn't blink thus unnerving her further. The girl stood her ground but kept glancing around the room, hoping to be saved by one of her co-workers, no such luck.
"Well!" Him yelled suddenly, attracting the attention of the store manager who was supposed to be supervising Joan on her first day. "I thought to escape this kind of prejudice by having a nice relaxing day at the mall, but no, day after day it's the same thing! I am thoroughly offended." He wiped a tear from his eye as the manager came over.
"Is something the matter sir? Anything I can help you with?" He glared at Joan who looked to be on the verge of a breakdown.
"No, no. I am just fine, fine and dandy. I thought to try on some of this lovely product but apparently your company has something against my type of people. I will take my business elsewhere!" Him stomped his foot dramatically and started to turn around, by this time a few customers had stopped to watch the commotion and Blossom and Bubbles started to walk over to them.
"NO!" The manager said taking Him's arm quickly. "No she's new here, I swear, she's just nervous and hasn't been properly trained in customer service yet. We don't have a problem at all, shop for what ever you want…Please" Him looked doubtful, Buttercup hid a smirk, and she knew what he was doing. Blossom looked positively horrified and Bubbles just looked on, curious to see what would happen. The manager continued "In fact anything you buy today sir is free of charge!"
"Anything?" The manager nodded. "Hmmm," The demon mused making the manager sweat, "Anything and every thing?" The manager nodded again. "Well ok, on one condition, you can't fire the girl, after all she is new. Deal?" Him asked holding out a hand which the manager took. Buttercup couldn't help but notice Him's eyes were slightly red. The manager left with Joan, crisis averted.
Blossom was loosing her temper but Buttercup went over to her to calm her down. "What was that?" Blossom hissed angrily.
"I got us free clothes today." Him said looking pleased.
"What? I can't believe you. You can't do that I am going to report you right now!" The pink puff was none too pleased with the demon's little performance. However before she could do anything a red aura surrounded her, almost completely unnoticeable. Buttercup saw it and looked at Him questionably.
"Really Blossom?" He said. "I implore you take advantage of this, for once in your life let yourself live a little, it doesn't do good to keep all that energy pent up inside of you." Blossom actually stopped and thought it over. She sighed, nodded and left to go try on clothes. Him proceeded to walk over a rack of clothes that seamed good for clubbing. Buttercup walked over to him questions rising in her mind.
"What was that red aura thing about?"
Him blinked at her in surprise. "You saw that?" She nodded. "Most mortals don't. That red aura was her inner passions; she doesn't let them out so I helped." When Buttercup still looked confused he continued. "Look you're the most, what would be the best word, free? Yes you're the freest out of you three. You must of noticed how much darker your eyes have gotten compared to your sisters." Buttercup nodded, her eyes were no longer the lime green of her childhood but more of a jade color, while Blossoms remained the same bright pink and Bubbles eyes darkened a little over the years, noticeable only if you compared her to an old picture.
"Well your energy is freer, you tend to be more impulsive then your sisters, although you do stop to think about what you do. You the most true to yourself. Blossom leads herself by the rules and standards of humanity, and thus compresses her livelier side."
"Okay, that makes since but I know lots of impulsive people and their eyes aren't any darker for it." She pointed out.
"Yes, you know lots of impulsive humans, while you yourself are not human." He held up his hand to stop the impending denial. "You look and act and feel as a human, but by the laws of the energy world, and what humans perceive as the afterlife, heaven hell, fate, call it what you will, you are not human. Your energies are different and thus affect you in different ways then normal humans. For example, the professor was doused with chemical X and he did not obtain super powers. The only thing that happened to him was a lengthened lifespan and a better immune system."
"But Mojo-"
"Isn't human," He stated and began looking through the clothing on the rack. "There for the rules are different for him. I actually did your sister a favor by letting out some of that energy. Had she kept it in it would have exploded out of her. Not blown her up mind you," He said noticing her horrified look. "It's like bottling up a soda and shaking it, it all comes out at once and for a brief time she would have been dangerously impulsive and could of hurt herself. Your other sister gives off a regular amount of the energy and will never have such a problem should she continue to do so."
He pulled out a couple of tops and handed them to her. "Here try these on" He said gesturing to the changing room. She walked over and into a booth thinking over what she had just learned. I wonder how many…mortals know what I now know. She thought as she pulled off her shirt.
"Not many!" Said Him's tell tale high pitched voice right behind her causing her to jump and turn. To her horror the demon or rather the boy stood there in the reflection of the mirror leering at her. "Here, these too." He said handing her a pair of pants through the mirror, before she could retort his figure disappeared from the mirror and only her reflection stared back at her. Jade eyes searched the room for any sign of him, finally satisfied she continued to change, fuming the whole time and muttering curses under her breath.
She opened the door to see Him grinning, in her opinion like an idiot. She crossed her arms and glared at him. "You could have just knocked!" He shook his head and pointed to the sign on her door, 'Only 3 items per person, please.'
"It's more fun if we break the rules." He said leering at her, she rolled her eyes. "Now spin, let's have a little fashion show!" Buttercup groaned but obeyed. "Goodie!" That looks great on you! Now try the others lets try lots of combinations!" Buttercup returned to the stall.
"You had better stay out there this time!" She yelled, Him chuckled and went to look at some clothes at a nearby rack while he waited. They spent a grand total of an hour in the store. The longest Buttercup had spent in a single clothing store ever. Finally after picking 6 or seven different outfits not to mention a small makeup kit for the green puff (and one for Him as well) they left.
"Townsville is really quiet today." Blossom noted as they were eating at the food court.
"Naturally, I'm not there to stir things up." Him said sipping an orange Julius.
"Just what exactly does that mean?" Blossom said suspiciously, giving Him a glare. Him grinned at her and continued sipping his drink. He was going to continue ignoring her until she sent an eye laser his way. He jumped and held his burning hand in his mouth then he turned to the offending puff.
"Well," He said. "You didn't have to do that!" The redhead simply kept glaring at him waiting for an answer. He sighed and gave in. "You might say it's my…job…to…encourage that kind of behavior in people. It helps some," He said looking pointedly at Blossom, Buttercup suppressed a grin; she was interested in what he had to say. "I guess I wouldn't call it a job, I mean it's just so much fun, a career maybe but not a job."
"What exactly are you, Him?" Bubbles said trying to figure the riddle-some demon out.
"I am what I am and that's all you need to know."
All three puffs rolled there eyes. They shopped around for a while and bought mostly useless trinkets and books. Around four thirty, Him waved his hand and they appeared in the Utonium household. "Him, how come you're still a human?" Buttercup asked as she started the pick up the bags to bring them upstairs. Blossom and Bubbles had gone to finish their homework.
"It's hard to do make-up with claws." He replied looking through some of the other bags for said make-up. "Speaking of which, where is the make-up?" He noticed out of the corner of his eye Buttercup quickly stuffing a small bag in one of the clothing bags. "What have you got there girly?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing…? Nothing? Nothing tra la la?" He said getting closer to the green-eyed girl who was failing miserably at hiding the make-up. "You forget who you dealing with missy. If I care to, I can have you covered irremovable, very noticeable, horribly colored make-up in less then a second. I think its best you let me put on a little bit of the removable stuff that will actually look good on you, don't you?"
Buttercup stared at him wide-eyed before handing him the bag. She had no doubt in her mind that the demon would follow through with his threat; after all he was the evilest of evil. "There's a good girl." Him said smiling evilly. Buttercup glared at him but said nothing, still aware of the impending threat of make-up doom.
"Alright first we will pick out tonight's outfit, and then we'll do your make-up, and don't give me that face." Buttercup stopped grimacing, but her lack of enthusiasm was all too obvious. "You know I just realized, what are we going to tell the professor?"
The professor had founded Townsville Labs, that way he could have a steady paycheck to raise the girls on. Thus far it had been very successful and had inspired many a new generation of scientist in the fair little city. Even Mojo helped every once in a while, when he needed money, usually after a battle with the girls, when hiss equipment got destroyed.
"I don't know, maybe the truth, it has to come out to him sometime, ya know?" She said shrugging.
"We are going to tell him, that one your gay…very gay, and going to a gay bar in Citysville with the evilest of evil?" She gave him a blank look and he continued. "That's what I thought. If you want to go out tonight you will tell him at some other time. I have an idea, wait right here." With that the demon faded in a swirl of pink smoke.
"Always with the dramatics that one." Buttercup noted.
"You shouldn't talk about people when they can here you buttercup." The Demon leered from behind her, still in human form.
"What did you do?" She asked curiously, but just then the phone rang. She picked up the receiver. "Hello?"
"Buttercup? Listen we just had a major breakthrough at the lab so I am going to be home late, tell your sisters, ok?"
"Yeah, alright. See you some time later then?"
"Yes, yes of-……Simmons?...Simmons?! SIMMONS! WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT MIXTURE!.............No you do NOT put in there……..because it will explode…….YES IT IS A BAD THING!!!!!.....Mojo! Will you please help Simmons? Thank you….Bye Buttercup…" Buttercup clearly heard the monkey complaining about incompetent humans before the click that signaled the end of the call.
"It seams to me they made a chemical form of water that's breathable for humans and fish. It was just a matter of dropping the labs goldfish and a lab rat into the mixture."
"You didn't just drop it in with out knowing what it did, did you?" Buttercup asked horrified.
"No, don't be daft, girl. I knew what it was, and they had, I just made sure the theories were correct. Its also can't be polluted ever, think about that I just helped the environment a great deal you know." The jade puff just sighed and helped to pick out clothes thinking all the while that the sooner they got started the sooner it would be over.
"Don't count on it." The pink haired boy-demon trilled.
(A/N): Woot!!! Thank you guys so much for your reviews and helpful…ness.. I can't think of the word right now…lol.. I tried to go over my work even more this time…but my mind tends to forget what I am doing so lol…I may or may not have less or more spelling and grammar mistakes.. lol Also BIG NEWS!!!!! I got those pics of Him looking human and what the girls look like up so here is the link
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Just remove the spaces or you could just go to greatest journal dot com and do a username search for j752572 …lol I love Ya! I have been working on this chapter for a while.. I even deleted a whole half of page I had written, it drifted from the story so it was useless…lol
In the future I will look over my work even more…and I will try to keep my mind from wandering…..lol
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Disclamer: I do not own the PPG's nor do i make any money from this story.. I also don't own Labyrinth.....I do however love David Bowie...Le Swoon...