Oh my gosh you guys! So last tuesday I got home and got online to order some pizza and my fucking computer BLUE SCREENS! I get it to come back on and set it up to run virus scan while I go get my pizza, I come back and it's FROZEN in the virus scan, i tried again, it did it again. So I get my computer checked out and well... It fried. I fried my motherboard. So my plan of updating last tuesday for you obviously did NOT come to fruition! and thats why you guys didn't get an update last week! My new computer just arrived yesterday and I've spent all my time off attempting to learn how to use it (it's a windows 8. My old computer was Windows XP!) and so here I am!
Lets get this shit started!
The winning chapter?
Feferi: Teach Dave about the Underworld
Dave stares down at his bright orange reflection in the rippling water. "This... is a lake."
Feferi grins from her spot treading in the water. "Of course it is silly! This is the entrance to my hive!"
Dave raises a brow. "I'm not a fish."
"Whats the matter little bird? Afraid of a bath?" Eridan sneers at Dave before diving into the water, surfacing next to Feferi with a smug grin.
"I don't think birds can breathe under water. And I don't look like a duck. So my feathers are probably not water proof."
Feferi giggles and swims closer, with one swift swipe she splashes Dave with a sheet of water. Dave squalks his feathers puffing up completely undisturbed by the water. "See! You're fin! Now get in here so we can swim on! My hive has air in it SILLY!"
Dave sighs and flops into the water, sinking down under neith. Using his wings to push himself through the water he follows Eridan and Feferi as they swim through the water towards a dark cave below. A flurry of white fish swim around him as he propels himself forward. He watches Feferi and Dave disappear into the darkness of the cave, pushing himself harder to catch up and hopefully reach the air soon.
A bright white figure jerks in front of him blocking his path with a violent glare. A bubbled squalk escapes his lips as he gasps and fights to choke on the water invading his lungs. He barely regains his composure as his orange eyes glare at the solid white of the elongated face in front of him. The seahorse snorts and continues floating in front of the cave. Dave gulps, a thick fuzziness starting to fill his head as he begins to run out of breath. He looks up at the distance from the surface, and back at the darkness of the cave, trying to judge which is the best route to get breath in his lungs.
"Dad! This our friend let him through this instant!" Feferi reappears from the darkness, hands on hips as she glares down the seahorse. The seahorse looks at her with wide eyes before sending one final glare to Dave and swimming off. Dave pushes forward using all his strength to get through the entrance and into the cave. He breaks through the water gasping and coughing. His lungs greedily taking in air.
"Had to have a girl save you. What a wimp." Eridan smirks, standing on the bright coral surface of the cave floor. Dave snarled and looked around. The cave is brightly lit by openings in the ceiling. The floor and wall were a sparkling multitude of coral color looking almost like a giant shell.
"Eridan don't be mean!" Feferi climbs out of the water bopping him on the head before trudging down a pathway.
Dave scrambles out of the water moving over next to Eridan before shaking his body and wings to send water flying all over the scowling god. With a smirk he floated on after Feferi. "So why did I have to go through the water when there are so many openings in the top of this place?"
"Because swimming is fin!" Feferi bounces down the hall in excitement coming into a large opening of a room. The room was sparkling with coral just like the rest of the cave, a giant plush pink couch spread across one wall with two matching chairs against the other. A pink and purple rug took up the center of the room and framed pictures of various types of fish cluttered the walls. Curled up between the two chairs was a giant white ball of fur. Upon further inspection Dave saw a twitching tail and ears and quickly realized he was looking at a 6 foot tall cat.
His feathers fluff up and he starts backing up the way he came. Eridan pushes against his back. "You're going the wrong way little bird."
"Oh no I am not going in there. There is a GIANT cat in there. I am a bird and that is a cat that is plenty big enough to eat me. No fucking way. I draw the line at becoming cat food." Dave shoves Eridan intent on leaving the way he came.
"Dave fluff wont hurt you! She's too sweet!" Feferi bounces over grabbing Dave's hand and dragging him through the room towards the cat. A giant white head moves up, opening solid bright green eyes to stare at Dave. two pink tongues dart out to lick along two feline mouths. One above the other. Dave's eyes widen and he tries to pull out of Feferi's tight grip. The cat pushes itself up and walks closer staring down at the two.
Dave gulps as Feferi yanks his hand up to wave the claws in front of the cat. "Please don't eat me cat."
"She can't hear you." Eridan supplies as he flops down sideways in one of the sideways chairs, legs flopped over the arm as he pulls his gun out and starts cleaning it.
"What?" Dave jerks his head to look at Eridan but instantly regrets it when his fingers connect with soft fur. He jerks his head back and barely resists the urge to yank away as his claws sink into the fur on the cat's chest.
"Fluff is deaf! She can't hear anyfin." Feferi supplies moving her hand off Dave's wrist and stepping back. A loud rumble sounds out from the cat causing Dave to flinch before he realizes it's a purr and not a growl. With a sigh of relief he pets the cat. It flops down next to him and nudges at his other hand with it's nose.
Scratching the giant cat behind it's twitching ears Dave looks at Feferi. "So, tell me about the underworld."
"It's simple!" she grins moving to sit delicately on the couch. "This is where souls go when they're stuck and their body is not dead. This area is run by the God of Souls, Lord English, and his two rebirths the god of confusion and the goddess of patience. Lord English is very strict and VERY loyal to the Queen so we avoid him at ALL COSTS! He doesn't actually know we're here! His son, Caliborn is a god who follows his own rules and does whatever he sees fit to do. Calliope, his daughter is kind and caring and helped us escape the world of the gods to this cave where we can hide from the Queen."
"Why are you hiding from the queen?" Dave keeps scratching at the cat as he watches Feferi chew on her lip.
"She's the next queen." Eridan supplies from his chair.
"I'm not the only one Eridan!" Feferi puffs her cheeks out at the other god.
"Could the bird boy possibly get an explanation here?"
Feferi sighs and looks down at her feet, kicking them in the air as she bites at her lip. "I am a goddess of power. The goddess of power is always the leader of Gods. But only takes the place of the leader when it kills the previous one."
"What makes you the goddess of power, or the future queen?"
Eridan snorts from his chair. "The goddess of power gains the powers of every god or goddess they come into contact with. So Feferi has a lot of power under those horns."
Feferi glares daggers over at Eridan. "I'm not as powerful as Meenah!"
"Meenah? The girl with the too long pigtails that hangs out with Latula? She's a goddess of power?" Dave stops petting the now sleeping cat.
"Yes, but she came into contact with the goddess of hiding before her unfortunate death so she's able to hide her power away from the Condesce. Everyone just thinks she's the goddess of tricks."
"Wait. So you and Meenah have the ability to kill the Condesce? And you're letting everyone suffer?" Dave's feathers fluffed up with annoyance.
"No, only a god of Death can kill another god. And neither of us have come into contact with the only god of death there was. Karkat Vantas."
Daves eyes light up and he shoots over practically nose to nose with Feferi. "I KNOW WHERE HE IS!"
Eridan jumps toppling from his chair with a curse. "You WHAT?"
Feferi blinks. "You know where Karkat is?"
"Yes! He's in my world! Hell he's my best friend's movie buddy! We just have to go there an-"
"We can't." Feferi cuts in before he can finish.
"What?"
"We can't go there. Only five people have the power to come and go from the underworld. Lord English, Calliope, Caliborn, the Condesce, and Karkat." Feferi scoots away from Dave looking down at her hands. "We can't leave."
The next Chapter?
Karkat: Have a Visitor
Rose: Go get John.