It was time to get the game on a roll. I jumped off of my bed and looked from the side of my vision to see my newly revived, full of life cat mother sprite trailing behind me as I moved into the bathroom to clean up a bit first. I turned on the hot water tap for a moment to let it heat up while I ran my old brush through my matted, blood stained hair. Well shit, I was a mess. I took a strand of hair and rustled it by both of my ears, to make sure I was really deaf. And I was. No sound came from it.
As I washed my hands and got the olive blood out of my hair in the sink, I wondered how Kurloz was doing. He was probably doing better than I am, because he's always been a bit stronger than me. He's a tough one.
"He'll be fine Meulin. It's you, who you should be worrying about." I said to myself in the mirror. I couldn't hear it, but seeing myself say it and hearing the voice in my head fill in the sound was comforting. Maybe, maybe at least my inner consciousness could give me some form of sound. That would be good enough for me.
I finally finished up and stepped downstairs, to see the god awful mess Cronus had and was currently making. The now empty kruxtruder was in the middle of the living room, my coffee table thrown out the window and sitting on a bush nearby. The totem lathe was sitting in between my kitchen and the hallway to the front door, so if I planned on leaving I'd have to get tricky with my maneuvering. There was a strange machine also on the wall near my parlor room, with a weird keyboard and some slot for a captcha card? I had no clue. I guessed I should grab my laptop and question Cronus about all the meow-fuckery he'd left in my hive.
AC: (^・o・^)ノ CRONUS WHAT IS ALL OF THIS AND HOW DO I USE IT.
CA: don't vworry babe, I got it all figured out. Just listen, er read my instructions.
CA: the thing in the livwing room is your standard kruxtruder. It's from wvhere your lusus sprite came.
CA: the thing in that cavwe ovwer wvherevwer is an alchemiter. That's where you guessed it; you alchemize stuff. That means, if you didn't knowv, that you can make vwhatevwer you wvant so long as vwe got enough grist.
CA: That thing sittin in betwveen your kitchen and hallway is a totem lathe. It's for alchemizing too.
CA: you punch codes in the thing in that room on the other side of your kitchen and then boom! You'vwe got some sick codes to put on totems and then to put on the alchemiter and then you can alchemize, all ya want.
CA: honestly it's pretty damn complicated but you'll figure it out.
CA: and I knowv all of this because I asked Aranea.
CA: Fuckin broad knows evwerything there is to knowv and then some.
AC: (^・x・^) OKAY. BUT PURRIOUSLY WHAT AM I SUPURRS TO DO NOW?
CA: vwell, I'd recommend getting that cruxite dowvel from downstairs and putting it on the alchemiter.
CA: according to Aranea, there's a clock on the crux thing in your livwing room and it's about ten minutes till lift off.
CA: Wvell, not lift off but a huge ass meteor crushes your hivwe to smithereens.
AC: (^-x-^) WELL SHIT! WHY THE FURK DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT SOONER!
I could feel the computer vibrate, but I had already ran off to carry out my crux business before that meteor hit.
I pounced my way down the stairs and into the living room, grabbing the large olive colored dowel from the cruxtruder. I then ran right back up the stairs and stepped down the hallway to my shipping room.
I entered about halfway into the cave when I paused. Cronus had seen my shipping room.
Cronus had seen my shipping room.
CRONUS. CRONUS AMPURRA HAD SEEN MY SHIPPING ROOM.
Oh god, oh god! That was beyond embarrassing. This was my special room, where only I… and Kurloz… had been. But that wasn't important now! My life aswell as my lusus sprite's life was in danger.
I put the dowel on the pedestal where I assumed it went, and then a large green ball of yarn appeared. I studied it for a minute, before doing what any sensible cat lover should do.
And that was, to scratch the absolute shit out of it.
I tried at first with just my claws, but when that wasn't enough, I took out my strife specebi and aimed to strike. I felt my laptop vibrate from the other room.
I decided to run in and check it, and Cronus was telling me to wait. Wait for what, I had asked. He simply said to wait until- oh sweet cat gibblets.
The ground was violently shaking. Even in my new veil of silence, I could feel it. I could feel my whole hive trembling with the force of something huge coming. I burst downstairs and out the door to see what it was. When I arrived into the later night, I was confused at first. Until I saw the red aura emitting from the sky. Instinctively, I looked up.
And my pupils dilated immensely as I saw the massive meteorite heading straight for me.
I darted back inside and slammed the door shut, jumping over my slumbering lusus lying at the feet of the stairs. I had barely made it when I viciously attacked the large ball of yarn. A huge white flash engulfed me and my home as the shaking of the earth subsided. I collapsed from the sheer stress and intensity of it all.