Prince of Heart- Y'all mind if I literally marry Pepsi Max Vanilla as I continue this story? It honestly might be an addiction.
Eridan hit the ground lightly as he rolled upon impact with the ground, stopping on his hands and knees and looking directly at the ground to gain his bearing after his fairly large plummet into the fiery filled abyss. The ground beneath him was a solid yet lighter shade of red, cracked and broken as through it was hundreds, perhaps thousands of years of existence. He pushed himself up, looking ahead at the Thief of Light forging ahead towards a far off symbol he recognised as the Light symbol from Vriska and Rose's God Tier outfits, a yellow sun symbol. Around them flames arose, spouting fire and giving off a sparking heat that made Eridan begin to sweat, drops of distilled violet water drooping down his face and arms, as well as clinging to the inside of his FLARPing outfit. Meenah had already landed before him, and Aranea, John, and Aradia landed soon after Eridan stood up. Aranea took to beside Eridan, wrapping her arm around one of Eridan's and giving him a kind smile. Eridan's permanent scowl faltered, and he let out a content sigh and gave a nervous smile back, and she led him up ahead in Vriska's footsteps.
John jogged up beside the tow, slightly out of breath and sweating profusely. "man, it's a little steamy in here! its really hot, are you guys hot?" He pointed to Aranea across the path from him. "why aren't you sweating ghost past lawful good vriska?"
"That is… certainly a term I've never been called!" Aranea chuckled. "Please just call me Aranea. 8ut to answer your question, I'm a ghost John. Why would I sweat?"
"you guys pee though! and i don't understand how ghosts work! why is this all so darn confusing!"
"hey blue sock," Meenah shouted from ahead, "clam it up down there and get yo dorky and cute jawline up here."
"what, why would i do that? all you do is bully me?"
"UGH FIN-E ill fuckin come back there but i hope you know everyones gon know the secrets we got goin on." The Thief began to slow down to match their pace, throwing her arms down in frustration as she let out a loud groan.
"we have secrets going on?" John asked, as Meenah kept a steady pace beside him and wrapped her arm around the Heir, pulling him in close.
"course we do buoy. listfen. we," She gestured between the two of them, "have a problem."
"what?"
"now we both know some day ima be the one to swindle you out of that life ring."
"we do?"
"yeah shit is inevibubble and we all know it."
John lifted a hand and opened his mouth as though to say something, but stopped himself and rethought. "mmm, ok."
"i like priceless treasure. you GOT priceless treasure. bling hipster ampora boy over there is too cool and angry of a guy to steal shit from. my fuckin hero title deal all but guarantees ill steal it from you some day. and ill come back to life so i can rip shit up in the real world and get all the gold and make all yall my slaves and rule everything forev."
John pursed his lips. "i see."
"just one problem though."
"whats that?"
Meenah shrugged her shoulders and sighed, "i dunno if i wanna?"
John's eyes widened with relief. "hmm. alright. then i guess that settles that."
"no but you dont understand." She replied, waving her free hand. "if i ganked your ring and put it on and became not a ghost anemonemore and had to hit the road and conquer stuff," She frowned sadly, "i would miss my friends."
"then, uh… don't?" John suggested.
"no blue boy you arent listening," She explained, hitting him in the chest, "i cant even handle it. thinkin aboat ditching my fronds. they meant so much to me since i been dead. ya feel me blue dweeb?"
"yes," John replied. "my friends mean a lot to me too."
"the serket twins," She began to explain, thumbing in the direction of Aranea. they just…bleugh look at em. so disgustinly adorbs together." Aranea let out a high pitched 'aww', clasping her arms tighter around Eridan's arm as she listened. "all likin each other and BEING like each other and junk. i dont think i could take it. i aint ready to say fareshell. araneas all like learnin to be unscrupulous never thought the girl had it in her. makes me so glubbin proud!"
Eridan let out a grunt as Aranea's grip tightened to far, feeling his arm produce a sharp pain due to crushing from the girls surprisingly hard pressed arms.
"i legit love vriskas stories as well they are punchy and hammy as fuck. girl think she in the movies or somefin lmao. we had our difs at first but really shes so badass i wish my old pals could a been half the give no fucks boss she is. all i ever wanted from my posse was somemoby i could thug it with. i mean w/o bein a psycho batshit skank. wont name names you know who i mean."
John shook his head. "uh, no?"
"as for soft core megido…" She glanced behind them at Aradia, who took a break from glancing around her at the chaos surrounding, and gave a solid kind yet unsettling smile. "yeah. um…" Meenah turned back around. "this bitch i could take or leave? iunno shes aight i guess." She stopped John in his tracks, causing Aranea to stop out of concern and pulling Eridan along with her, and grabbed the Heir by his clothes and bringing him close to her face. "but the point is blue chump im happy now. more than i was on my moon with my sweet gold statues an shit and more than i think ill be if i gotta be alive again and have to go knocking over galaxies or whatever to make a bomb new fishqueen empire but its killin me blue schmuck. its killin me to know you got that ring and knowin ill have to take it from ya some day!"
"wwhat the fuck is evven happenin i thought she was a mmph-" Eridan felt Aranea's hand shoved over his mouth.
"Shh! This is some delightful personal realisations!" Aranea whispered back to him.
"augh why!" Meenah shouted to a terrified John. "why you have to swim in here and present me with this codawful dilemma.! why do you have to be so lame and chumpy and such an obvious mark! your dork ass face just screams waaaah gimme a fuckin wedgie and take my ring! but i dont wanna but i think i gotta cause i mean come on OBVIOUSLY its mine, just why! W)(Y W)(Y W)(Y W)(Y W)(Y W)(Y W)(Y!"
John rolled his eyes and shoved the Thief away, wiping his outfit down and exclaiming, "ok, jeez! i promise no matter what, i won't let you have the ring! i'll hide it or something. or better yet, i'll just give it to someone else before you get the chance to steal it. how does that sound?"
Meenah stared at the boy for a moment, her lip beginning to quiver and jumping to John, wrapping her arms around him. "T)(ANK YOU!"
John looked over at Aranea and Eridan, a look of confusion and shock on his face, but only getting a glare from Eridan and looks of proudness from Aranea, though the latter's was aimed more towards Meenah than him. He looked back at Aradia, though as expected all he got was her creepy and unflinching smile.
"Will you guys hurry up?" Vriska yelled from ahead, standing on the large yellow Light symbol. "This is seriously some of the most half assed treasure hunting I've ever seen."
John took the opportunity, gasping, "hang on, i'm coming!" and pushing Meenah away. He ran ahead of them, the platform beginning to descend as his boots hit the edge. Aranea looked to Eridan, gasping, and pulled Eridan along to the platform, narrowly catching the platform before it got too far along with Meenah and Aradia.