The Dark Among Us Episode 1 Jade Prologue
A Typical Disturbance call
Once Upon a Time in Station Square there lived a community of fictional characters known as Fictiontown. The Fictions who lived there arrived hundreds of years ago, after they were exiled from their Homelands.
Through the use of a magic spell called Glamour, they have protected their secret community from the mundane world.
Sheriff Mephiles The Dark protects them from each other.
It was a warm evening in June, the highest record according to the radio DJ on the radio in the Taxi that Mephiles was riding in. The black hedgehog with light blue highlights in his quills and emerald, green serpent like eye and also the lack of a visible mouth sat in the back of a taxi.
He was on a way to a call in regards to a disturbance to one of the apartment complexes run by a fiction in regards to one of there tenants, he lacked his own car and teleporting was out of the question in public areas.
He rubbed his head and looks at the streets pass by, this job was tough, mainly for the fact very few fictions actually trust him given in the old days Mephiles was a villainous character who terrorized and killed a lot of people, through he had his own personal reasons for why he did those things
Mephiles however didn't mind, he was named by Mayor Optimus Prime to be the Sheriff mainly due to his investigative mind and superior fighting skill and strength
Soon the Taxi reaches it's destination, Mephiles got out and puts a cigarette in his mouth and lights it, Solaris Brand, widely considered a lousy brand but Mephiles liked it so he didn't mind he looked at the building known as The Tenement Building and approaches it. He looks at the note this was also known as Bowser's who was the owner.
Opening the door he sees the owner looking up the stairs, a large turtle dragon creature with a spikey shell, horns and red hair, this was Bowser former king of the Koopa's before the Exodus from the homelands but Mephiles just sighs internally mainly for a different reason, mainly on Bowser's appearance while in a public area.
Mephiles said with a sigh "Bowser…"
"Dammit…" Bowser said under hid breath realizing he was in trouble "Mephiles! Listen, old friend I know I don't look human or at least mobion. It's a problem, I get it, I just stepped out the apartment just for a second to see what kind of damage that drunk idiot was doing. Just please cut me a break, okay? I'll get my glamour first thing in the morning. Cross my heart."
This was a reoccurring problem but Mephiles was tired and this wasn't really why he was here so he said "Look, no harm done…I'll give you a pass, but listen…If you can't afford to look human or mobion and are not a humanoid robot or robion, you're going to The Farm, it's as simple as that."
The Farm was a tough decision Optimus made, it was a place outside of the city where all the non-human and mobions were forced to live if they couldn't afford a glamour, naturally a lot of Fictions who fit this requirement didn't like the idea of being a shipped to this place.
Mephiles had to enforce it but he never actually been, his prior life terrified a lot of beings there so he was banned from ever setting foot on The Farm.
"You can't send me up to live with those animals…" Bowser said a bit scared but sees Mephiles giving a 'Really?' look given Bowser looks like a turtle which was an animal "You know what I mean."
"Go see a magic user. Get a glamour" Mephiles told him
"Mephiles, they are bleeding me dry, pal. The quality of the spell goes down, but the rates keep climbing up. Do you have any idea how much it costs to have an entire family in glamour?" Bowser said to him. They then hear a smashing sound upstairs
"I don't make the rules. Sorry." Mephiles said sighing, in truth he sympathised with Bowser, his normal for is more demonic thanks to being one half of Solaris who in turn was a son of Kossuth god of fire. Course thanks to being able to change his appearance and thanks to a Mobion blade he was able to shift at will between forms
But despite that he also didn't like forcing others to go, but he was the sheriff and had to follow the rules eventually, there were ways he can bide time for a fiction to get the glamour before he had to enforce it, of course he has got in trouble before for it and now he had little sway on the matters. He then said to Bowser "I can't give you a free pass on this, Bowser, my hands are tied."
"Right, right" Bowser said sighing and looking down, he didn't like it but he understood the difficult situation Mephiles was in.
"There's too much at stake, whatever it costs it's worth it. You don't want me catching you out of glamour again" Mephiles warned him
There was another smash and a TV comes down landing outside behind Mephiles into the street.
"Sweet goombas." Bowser said in shock "See? This is what I called you about sheriff. So, are you just going to stand there? Do something Mephiles. Before he tears up the place, especially if he's not wearing that Semblance cancelling charm"
Mephiles sighs, he was given the gyst of the situation, Qrow Branwen was causing a disturbance, he and him have a very, complicated history in that mostly they were enemies. He tosses his cigarette away and said "Yeah, I should probably go and handle this" He begins to head upstairs
"Yes, please. Thank you" Bowser said and waves smiling, but once Mephiles was out of earshot he said under his breath "Lousy Demo Demi-god…. tell me how to spend my money…" He then spits
"Papa? The lights are shaking again." A soft voice called out as a small koopaling with a bib with a mouth on it peers out from the door, this was Bowser Jr., Bowser's son
"What did I say? Do you want the Dark Solarian to take you away?" Bowser said in a scolding tone
"No." Bowser Jr. said scared
"Then dammit get back inside" Bowser told him; it was bad that Mephiles saw him out without glamour but the semi-free pass might be taken if Mephiles saw his son out without it too.
