Writers block + descent ending + fairly close to 1000 words = let's just move on to the next chapters *sighs* 😅
I need to see if Vanessa found it
"Alright, now that you three are taken care of, Grey and I are going back to the kitchen," Finral said scratching the dog looking beast behind the ear. "I need to see if Vanessa found the alcohol again. Or if Yami actually found a good hiding place this time. He'd be better off hiding it in the floor boards. There's so many of those it would take her awhile to find the right one."
Finral took a step away from the beast's head but that little distance didn't stop it from running it's long tongue up the front of the spacial mage, covering him in saliva.
"Ugh! You're breath stinks! I thought I asked you to stop that!" His said trying to whip the drool off his face but his wet sleeves only made it worse. "Now I have to get another bath!"
The beast made a sound that was somewhere between a growl and a...
"Are you laughing at me?!"
"Kind of sounds like it," Grey chuckled.
Finral sighed and opened a portal.
Grey stepped through it before Finral.
"Welcome back, Finral and" Vanessa said looking over her shoulder as she stood on a counter and rooting through a cupboard. "Er... Finral?"
"The one who's Grimoire is not currently in use is Grey. He apparently uses transformation magic," Finral replied. "And it's freakishly accurate."
"I can see that." Vanessa said returning her attention back to her searching. She side stepped across the counter and rummaged through the next cupboard. "AH HA! I KNEW HE WAS TO DUMB TO TAKE IT OUT IF THE KITCHEN!" She declared, grabbing two bottles of alcohol and hopping down from the counter.
"You really should just wait to drink that until you're twenty. I'm never touching that stuff again. Yami's really going to kill you if he catches you again. Then he'll kill me for not stopping you."
"You're such a wuss, Finral. Yami's not actually going to kill any of us just because he says he will. He's especially not going to kill you... he's to lazy to do that," Vanessa said opening one of the bottles. "Speaking of to lazy. Would you mind opening a portal to the living room?"
Finral sighed but opened the portal anyway.
They all stepped through and Vanessa walked over to the couch and plopped down. She had the open bottle up to her mouth ready to drink when it was grabbed out of her hand. She looked up to find Yami glaring at her.
"How many times do I have to tell you, no drinking until you're twenty! Give me that other one!"
"I tried to warn you, Vanessa," Finral said.
"And why the hell didn't you stop her?!" Yami asked turning to Finral.
"How am I supposed to do that?!"
"You're her superior, figure it out!"
"Am I really, though? I mean I know I joined first... but we did join around the same time..."
Yami walked over to Finral and picked him up by the head, who let out a squeak like sound.
"Why don't you make up your mind kid? This entire time you've had this strange obsession with being the superior of practically everyone here, and now you're saying you're not Vanessa or Gordon's superior but their equal?"
"I-I mean... i-it makes sense... A-and this way I don't have to listen to you yell at me for not making them stop doing something... p-particularly Vanessa..."
"Tch," Yami said dropping Finral. "Whatever, if that's the way you want it... Care to explain why there are two of you anyway?"
"Don't you mean how?"
"Yeah, yeah. Just answer the damn question."
"It's Grey... Didn't you ask him what kind of magic he used before inviting him to join the squad?"
"I invited him to join because I thought he was funny, not because of his magic."
"This was his literal reaction when we met," Grey said before transforming into Yami again. She pointed at no-one and stated laughing, "You're hilarious! Come join my squad!" She then transformed back into Finral.
"You weren't kidding! His transformations are freakishly accurate!" Vanessa laughed.
Yami walked over to Grey and grabbed her by the head, "transform into me again and I'll kill you!"
Grey held her hands up defensively, "b-but that's exactly what you did!"
"I don't care. You do it again and you're dead. Got it?!"
"Y-yes Captain Yami!" She whined in a very similar way to Finral, which only made Vanessa laugh harder.
"See, now that's funny. You can transform into Finral all you want," Yami laughed.
"That's mean Captain!" The real Finral whined.