~NRK~
Annie swallowed with a grin, laying on a medical gurney buck-naked save for a sheet to cover her modesty.
It should be said, she didn't really care either way if she was naked or not, she just hoped this could all be fixed.
Dr. Avian, after being told about Annie's situation, blinked as he went to the large telescope in the observation deck above.
Standing with him were Obito, Marie, Hive, a bee Feral, and Squigly & Leviathan.
"Hmm," the scientist turned on several screens, each one of them showing a specific 'view' of Annie's internals.
Temperature, body signals, biometrics, magic, spirituals, and just a body diagram showed on several of them.
"Hmm?" Dr. Avian blinked as he looked from Annie's monitors to Obito, Marie, and Squigly. "... I wonder."
"?" Obito raised a brow. "... Ah," he understood as the gremlin-faced man nodded.
"I wonder if we won't find a similar 'energy structure' between Annie, Marie, and Squigly," the doctor said as the females in question blinked.
-Huh, didn't think about that- Annie said through a speaker from down below. -You gals alright with just getting monitored?-
They watched all three females' monitors in unison, Obito's Sharingan flicking between them with interest.
"You were right," Hive said with a curious look. "Honestly, though, will this help?"
"It should give us some kind of new input," Avian said as he flipped a small switch.
There was a flash on each of the 'readings' monitors before they went back to normal.
On a giant screen to the side of the observation deck, each of the specific readings were matched up before being meshed together.
"... There's a pattern," Hive said with a raised brow, going to the screen before putting two fingers on a touch-screen and spreading them apart.
The screen zoomed in on the magic sight readings.
"It always meets at the center of the chest and back," Obito observed. "It's odd because, through numerous studies, it's been noted that the core of all esoteric powers are from the stomach as a center and it spreads out into veins."
"The energy of the Skull Heart is a lot less precise," Avian added. "Squigly's body is the one with the most vague channels with Marie having the most fine-tuned. Annie's in between."
"I guess because Squigs is a zombie," Hive said. "And Annie's what happens to someone wished on by the Skull Heart and wisher. Obviously, Marie used to be a damn Skullgirl, no offense."
"None taken," Obito said as he observed the different pathways. 'I can manipulate it, somewhat,' the soul he could affect and revitalize, allowing the body to follow suit. 'Could Squigly be given normal body function?' He'd have to attempt it. "Alright, I'm going to go and try my method."
He left the deck before going down the hall to the lower floor, finding Peacock, Umbrella, Big Band, and Leduc there.
"How's it looking?" The 'big saxophone' said, rubbing his head with a cymbal. "I'd be nice if this could affect even me."
"If this is doable, I could probably attempt it using them as a base," Obito said. "The thing is, your main body still exists, doesn't it? You used Theonite Resonance to sort of meld your parts together into the theonite-enhanced metals and equipment."
"That's how the doc puts it. I can feel things through these instruments, it wouldn't make sense unless my senses were still alive for the most part."
Obito nodded at that as Peacock fiddled with her fingers. "... We'll see if we can't find something to work with you, Patricia, I'm sure… in fact," Obito cupped his chin as she perked up.
"I-In fact, what?" She asked, looking anxious. "I thought you said because of the… level of damage, I wasn't… put-together-able?"
"Yes, that'd be true," Obito said. "My powers aren't composed of what composes Big Band's. His energy mixes in his human elements… but Marie's powers are a mix of human elements as well."
Big Band's eyes widened in disbelief. "If… If that little lady can control her powers?"
"I and she could attempt to fix you, all of you, but it's only a possibility, I can't make a perfect promise."
"That's fine!" Peacock said, looking a bit more happy than usual. "I-If I can get back to lookin' normal, it'd be nice. Any idea is better than none."
Obito nodded to that before typing in a keypad and opening the door. "Umbrella, you might wish to hold off on telling your sister about this, just in case."
"Huh?" Umbrella blinked. "I mean, I get ya, I guess."
Obito smirked. "Wouldn't want to ruin a fan's dreams," he chuckled before going in, leaving her gobsmacked.
"Excuse me?!"
Back with Obito, the man walked in and got a blushing Squigly for his troubles. "I really didn't think you could blush, no offense," he said to the shy zombie resting beneath a sheet.
"I-It's not a pretty sight beneath here," she admitted with a look of disgust. "It's more than embarrassment."
"I understand. Now, feeling any modesty are we, Annie?"
"Not yet," the Eternal Girl answered without remorse, leaving him sweatdropping. "Dude, come on, nearly a thousand years old, I ain't embarrassed about crap."
"I suppose that helps," Obito said, standing by Marie's swimsuit-covered form. "Here's the situation."
He explained everything they could see from above, the readings, and their oddities.
"Huh, never saw that before," Annie said. "If that's the case, what, you want to refine it?"
"Maybe that'd be it. I think we need to refine yours but use Squigly's readings as a base for her body. Well, I have to. I did it for Marie, I can spread and enhance her soul throughout her body to try and enhance the 'life' element. Hopefully, I'd turn her back into a 'normal human'," he twitched his fingers. "Following that, maybe hers will even out."
"Well, time for you to do what a Medici does best-"
"Don't you dare, God, why are you like this?"
"Hey, I might get some fixin'! It's time for jokes!"
Obito rolled his eyes as a series of flying cameras came out of the walls. "I'll start with Annie, I suppose," he said while rolling his eyes again at the warrior of the stars' waggling eyebrows. "Hush, you, I'm taken."
"Oh man! Well, there goes that attempt."
"... That was a joke, right?"
"..."
"Annie."
"You're thinking too much," she said with a slightly red face. "What? You're crazy."
"... I'm just going to fix you and leave that be."
"You're gonna-"
"No jokes."
Ignoring his daughter and Squigly's looks of disbelief, Obito felt like his future was full of embarrassing questions.
"T-The world of adults is so odd," Marie whispered in awe.
"It is," Squigly said with bright blue cheeks.
"Hehehe~" Annie snickered.
"I'm sure the tail I'll give you will be defective."
"Wait, I was just playing!"
"Can you give her a tail, Mr. Uchiha?" Dr. Avian asked the shrugging Obito.
"Not like I've tried," the man admitted as Annie began to sweat. "Calm down, I was joking this time."
He placed his hand on her head and allowed his Mangekyo Sharingan to blaze alive.
He saw those odd 'Skull Heart Power', SHP, pathways with more specificity, now knowing what they looked like and being able to single them out.
A flash of white shot throughout his body, covering him in white skin & scales while turning his hair white.
"Curious," Doctor Avian's voice came from above as Leviathan's head popped up in interest. "His readings say he isn't human anymore."
The Theon and co. were surprised while Obito ignored them.
'I figured as much,' his cells were essentially being changed, he wasn't an idiot. 'Now, those pathways…'
His yang chakra filled Annie's body, the Eternal Girl's form shivering as she felt pinpricks cover his skin.
Obito noted how the SHP pathways shifted in response, the thickness of it lessening.
'It's melding with my yang chakra,' it likely thought his power was part of it and tried to meld in the parts he put in. 'Still, it needs to follow the conformity, it needs to be refined.'
He 'tightened' the yang chakra's influence and was right in his assumption of what the SHP would do.
Then he got an idea.
He expanded the yang chakra once more, covering the entirety of Annie's body before filling her with yin chakra.
The powers filled the same space before he melded them on command with his soul.
Yin-Yang chakra made at his whim.
He then noted the energy's differences from his own and Marie's, an extra bit of influence that filled his mind.
"I want her to stay forever young! Never leave your mother's side!"
His eyes snapped open as Annie grimaced. "I see… That's the wish," he told her and she stared at him in disbelief.
"You can… see it?" She asked him in disbelief.
"I can hear it, it's filling my mind the more I touch my soul to this power within you."
"..."
"Annie don't."
"Eh," she grinned at him.
Obito rolled his eyes before focusing back on the 'wish'. 'What can I do about this?' He frowned as he delved back in.
He heard the woman's words again before focusing on them.
Each repetition of the wish made his blood hum before he considered something.
He mixed yin and fire chakra before grinning a bit.
'Right, mixing the ephemeral power with an elemental chakra would make it more abstract. So, something abstract like a wish would be burned by abstract flames.
As he melded these things and pushed them into Annie, she blushed, the heat moving from her head down to her toes. "Whoa… Oh, that's kinda nice," she said as he chuckled. "Damn, dude, this shit kinda…" Annie blinked as she touched her mouth in disbelief. "N-No, fu-freaking!" She changed it as Marie looked at her. "O-Oh! YES! I CAN CURSE AGAIN!"
"Wait, again?" Obito asked as she grinned.
"Duh, I'd say all kinds of shi-crap when I was a kid," Annie said, looking radiant.
Obito sweatdropped. "Marie, please, don't become a loose-lipped sailor like Annie," he said as the woman laughed while his daughter blinked.
"Um, very well, dad," Marie said, confused.
"How, Obito? I don't… you can burn wishes?" Dr. Avian asked in disbelief. "Ah, well, you did say that your soul could interact with another's. With the Skull Heart Power's make-up, it actually makes more sense."
"Essentially," no need to talk about nature transformation, it wasn't necessary. "Still, there's a lot of 'wish' in here, I'll have to see how long this takes."
The next 20 minutes had been spent with Annie's body slowly being overtaken by orange flaming energy that, when Obito finished, covered her from head to toe before disappearing.
"There… done," he said, wiping his brow as he felt a spasm of pain ram about his body. 'This is a lot simpler but that much exposure is a killer,' Obito thought as his cheek twitched.
"... Dad?" Marie said in concern as he grinned painfully at her.
"I'll be out for a bit after this, Marie. Still, it should be fine, we're in a safe place. Now, Mrs. Contiello."
Squigly's single eye shined with hope as Obito walked towards her.
"You're going to be similar to what I did with Marie. You're essentially a 'skeletal corpse' strung up by SHP energy," Obito said as she nodded rapidly, Leviathan blinking in thought. "I can tell what you're thinking, Leviathan, I'll separate you both when she's almost done."
"You can do even that?" Leviathan hummed. "Thank the Goddesses, you were a good person. I don't wish to consider such abilities in Lorenzo's hands."
"I understand."
In detail, what Obito had done for Marie was meld and use Yin-Yang Release on Marie's soul to construct and fill in spots of her body at the time to give her flesh. He could remove the Skull Heart thanks to the manipulation allowing him to isolate its influence and just pull it out.
He couldn't do this for Annie because the 'wish' aspect of her SHP pathways was too intrinsically intertwined. The Skull Heart was always a separate entity that would jump from host to host.
One was 'detachable' while the other wasn't.
That's why, when he performed 'surgery' on Squigly, he was both confused and not.
Leviathan blinked from around Obito's arm while he and the man stared at Squigly.
She'd regained her other eye, the body part visible as she lifted her bangs. Her skeletal hand had become a normal fleshy one, the young girl rolling up a bit of her sheet to reveal that, yes, it was all bone and flesh.
The holes in her head had disappeared, thankfully, and left her whole.
Now, if only that wasn't all that changed.
"I… I-I can speak," Squigly said with a big smile, blinking both eyes in excitement and double fist-pumping. "Thank you, sir!" She thanked him brightly, wrapping the sheet tightly around her body and bowing to the former shinobi who shot her a shaky grin as Leviathan did the same.
"S-Squigly," she looked up with a smile. "Well… You may wish to look at your flesh."
"I know it's purple," she told him with an understanding nod, the Theon looking embarrassed. "I understand that it might not be perfect. Marie isn't fully human, she still had some of the Skull Heart in her, I was sure something might not go back to normal," Squigly said as Marie got up and looked at her in surprise. "So, I expected to be whole somehow but this is fine!" She grinned. "It's more than I could have asked for."
She breathed in a big breath, chest expanding more than a normal human's should before letting it out with a nod.
"My body likely retained some qualities of me being a zombie."
"... Madam, you truly are worthy of the Contiello name," Leviathan said with a bow as Squigly blushed red but grinned. "I am also curious how we were both affected. I resided with Lady Squigly for all of her unlife, a Theon is not one who just dies."
"You'll have to learn together," Obito said with a small smile as the snake Theon nodded, unfurling from his arm and slithering out to Siquigly's raised one. "You're still welcome in my home, I'm sure there's going to be some interest in a purple girl."
Squigly grinned while Annie sat up with a small moan, sheet clenched tightly to her form.
"... I guess I'll have to grow normally," she said with a shrug, rolling her shoulders to hear a crack. 'Ah, fucking good,' she grinned. "Yes, this is gonna be a previous chapter of my life."
Then the man of the hour collapsed, getting a scrambling Marie for his troubles.
"D-Dad!"
~NRK~
Obito awoke hours later, groaning with a hand to his head and sunlight coming through a window.
"M-Mmm?" He blinked away his slumber, slowly sitting up from a bed of sheets. "..." Obito's eyes softened, hand reaching out and brushing against Marie's head of hair. "I guess you've been watching me all through the night," he whispered to the sleeping girl. "Hmph."
"Hmm?" Another voice in the room gained his attention, his eyes going towards a corner of the room where an awakening Annie sat. "... Oh, you're awake," she smiled, getting up with a stretch.
Unbraided dark green hair fell past her shoulders in long tresses, two long bangs coming down by her face. Wearing a white shirt and some red shorts, the former-Eternal Girl grinned some more.
"I see you're enjoying your hair," Obito said, confusing the star girl before she gasped and pulled at her locks. "Oh, I guess it happened overnight."
"... H-Hehehehe," she giggled, holding her hair to her cheeks. "I haven't seen these locks in a long time. I guess your abstract fire might have affected my hair dye," Annie said. "Fuck it is so nice to curse again."
"I'm noticing."
Adjusting Marie comfortably into the bed someone had put him in, covering her with the quilt on it, Obito stretched in his yukata from the night before.
Annie's eyes went to his very nice broad chest. "God, are you sure you're taken?" She asked, blushing a bit.
"Pretty sure," Obito said, shooting her a look. "We'll have to ensure you can grow up but, surely, you've found some people attractive."
Annie blushed again, rubbing the back of her head. "I-I mean, well, considering my situation before all of this… no?" She shrugged as he nodded. "It's not like I went out of my way to look at… Okay, yeah, I know, it's bullshit," Annie grinned shakily, happy at her ability to curse but also burning up at being shot a look of 'you're full of shit' from Obito.
"Glad you're so aware. I'm sure my sister-in-law would love to play matchmaker for you, she's already done it for a Black Egret," he smirked as she grumbled. "And with that topic done, what time is it?"
"..." Annie checked a watch that appeared out of nowhere. "7?"
~NRK~
Annie grinned, eating along with everyone else in Anti-Skullgirls Lab 8.
"Hmm!" Umbrella grinned as she ate pancakes without remorse. "Oh my Goddess! How do you beat the cooks at home?!" She threw one pancake into the air and Hungern's tip snapped open into a mouth before chomping down, chewing before swallowing and going back to normal. "And Hungern's in love."
"Let's keep that platonic," Obito said at the stove, wearing a pink apron that said 'The Cook Knows Kung-Fu' on it. "Is everyone else alright?"
Big Band nodded while Peacock and her gaggle of minions ate like no tomorrow.
Leduc looked fascinated. "Whoa, dude, your cooking rocks," he said with a chuckle as Hive ate honey-covered pancakes with a look of euphoria. "... Are you sure you're allowed to eat that?"
"Yes? O-Okay, maybe I get a bit carried away but I'm fine! What's the worst that can happen?" Hive 'countered' as she ate some more. "Sweet Goddess, I don't think I'll look at normal food the same way again."
The children of ASG Lab 8 ate with wonder as one last member made her own enjoy clear.
"Thank you," she said to Obito who nodded to her. "It's usually me, Leduc, and Hive cooking."
She was a tall, female, human-shaped being with long dark brown hair that parted around her hockey mask. Wearing a long two-sided white apron, white gloves, and black slip-ons, the woman's most unfortunate, horrifying, and, no offense to her, disgusting feature was her skin.
Apparently, she'd been in a bad accident in the Great War and had been disfigured, only capable of being mobile and able due to the help of an intestine-looking suit Synthetic Parasite, Salamander Shell.
It looked as painful as it did disgusting.
Ileum was her name, a kind, motherly, figure for the odd less, but no less important, disfigured children taken in by Lab 8.
"Do I… No offense meant, ma'am, but are you in need of healing?" Obito asked her with a worried look and she blinked.
"W-What?" Ileum flinched as Big Band perked up.
"If ya could, she'd deserve it," he said with a nod as Ileum mechanically turned to him.
"B-Ben, surely, that's not true."
"But it is," Peacock said with a grin as the disfigured woman looked hesitant. "Then he can do old Big B! It'd be easy!"
"It should be," Obito said with a smile as Marie ate her food quietly but with no lack of enjoyment. "We can try in a couple hours, I would like to be awake for a bit more."
The woman folded her hands in her lap but nodded.
"A-Alright."
~NRK~
"Oh, he's got some extravagant tastes," Eliza said as she and that child enforcer of the Medicis looked at Obito's home from afar. "Honestly, had he been royalty, some might think him a god."
Wearing an open-chest, backless, dark blue dress with gold trim on the built-in corset, a pale cloth skirt with a long breechcloth, a golden 'floating' bow around her waist that formed a large loop over her head, a golden snake headdress, and some black high-heels, the charity drive singer tilted her head as she looked through a telescope.
"Honestly, it's quite impressive. Did you know he had clones, Cerebella? I didn't. And do you think he's contracting? I'd like a home with his touch."
The teen next to her grimaced, putting down her own telescope. "..." Big black eyes grew a bit dim as Eliza raised a brow.
"Honestly, are you that broken-up about him leaving?" Eliza said, a golden weapon 'standing' behind the two in a gravity-defying act of balance.
"N-No! That has nothing to do with this… it's just…" The shorter woman grimaced, fists clenched. "I… I need to know why," light-brown skin crinkled as she frowned.
Wearing a puffy orange hat with a skull emblem on it, she had mint-colored hair with two chin-length bangs, purple eyeshadow, mint-green lipstick, and a small purple diamond on her left cheek.
Wearing a bright orange strapless low-cut mini dress, a band of black and orange triangles around her biceps and chest, cream-colored detachable sleeves with large metallic plates on the wrist, and thigh-high black boots with orange triangles running up them that ended in pointed tips with skulls on the front.
Cerebella just stared out at the numerous streets of Maplecrest before re-focusing back on the lot that Obito had built his Empire-style home.
'Dude, why?' She felt her heart break a bit. 'Why did you leave?'
~NRK~
Ten hours later, Obito, Marie, Annie, Squigly, Leviathan, Patricia, and Umbrella returned to the Uchiha home in their personal clothes.
Obito groaned a bit, adjusted his yukata, and led the way.
"I built around ten rooms for guests and family. You can take your picks from them," he told the four as he rubbed his noggin. "Never used Altered State that often. I might be out for a bit more," Obito groaned once more. "My head is killing me."
"R-Really?" Marie looked nervous and concerned.
Seconds later, the others laughed as Obito groaned in his daughter's arms, Marie running off with the man to a room he pointed to.
Obito didn't even look like he cared. "This one, Marie," he rubbed his noggin before using his arm to open his door. "Alright, alright, down," Obito told her, being let up. "I'd have liked to give you a bigger welcome but this is our new home. I'll try better when I'm awake to show you everything, alright?"
Marie nodded and blushed once he ruffled her hair before walking into his quarters and flopping face-first onto his bed.
"D-Dad seems to have used up a lot of energy," Marie said, the man's unmoving form very telling that he might not be able for a bit. "Um, well… I've never been here yet but here's my family's house," she declared, arms up and out as if to gesture to everything.
Annie smirked. "Come on, I'm sure we can find which rooms are the 'guest' rooms and your room," she told the former-Skullgirl.
Moving about the nice and large home, they did find the rooms in question.
Obviously, because they'd been given names.
Family rooms for five of them, Obito's included, with names underneath those which could be occupied.
Marie found hers not even that far from her father's before Squigly pointed out the guest rooms across the open area containing a garden full of different food items in the middle of the home.
"Oh man, he works hard," Annie said with a big whistle. "Damn! I gotta visit often!" She said with, ironically, stars in her eye, Sagan hopping about before being at peace.
"It is nice," Squigly smiled as Leviathan nodded with one of his own. "We have to do our best, Leviathan!" She said with determination.
"Let's check out everything!" Umbrella shouted in excitement. "Look at all the veggies, ugh, you might like them, Hungern, I don't," she made a disgusted face as her Living Weapon wiggled.
"I believe dad wouldn't mind," Marie said with a smile as Patricia snickered.
"Let's pick some veggies!" She declared.
~NRK~
"Huh?" Cerebella blinked as she and Eliza stood up from a building closer to Obito's home. "They're back."
They watched with interest as the man showed around a rather 'colorful' parade of gals… wait?
'Is that… a snake? W-Why's that girl purple?! ISN'T THAT ANNIE OF THE STARS?!' Cerebella's jaw dropped in disbelief.
She was a bit amused when she saw Marie carry Obito to his room but that didn't mean that things weren't still weird.
Now, they were just 'funny' weird.
"Well, it seems this might be simple. Though, this won't get us closer to the Life Gem," Eliza said but she didn't care about that trinket right now. 'He's helpless,' this would be the perfect time to kidnap the man and keep him around for her needs.
She grinned hungrily in every way that mattered.
'We will take him from under their noses,' she thought.
"Let's go down, I'm sure he won't mind us visiting, I hope," Cerebella said, taking off her Living Weapon to smooth out some of her hair. "Alright, time to play it cool."
Eliza shot the younger female a look.
"I-I gotta look my best!"
"Yes, yes, I believe you," the older woman said, grabbing her golden tool.
They descended the side of the building, eyes minding those around before Cerebella's hat 'pompfed'.
It expanded in size to that of a small car, the young woman grabbing onto Eliza's hand as they floated down into the far part of the park in Maplecrest.
Once they landed, they were already moving towards Obito's home.
~NRK~
Leviathan blinked as they heard a knock at the front door, Marie perking up.
"Oh, it's Filia and Carol," she said to the group, getting up and hurrying up to the door. "C-Coming!" Marie called out, reaching the door in record time before opening it to find the girls in question with Samson.
Wearing their school uniforms with familiar wooden weapons on their backs, they came on in while Dog panted as Marie smiled.
"Sup," Samson greeted as she welcomed them in before closing the door. "So, where's the main man? He called and said we could come over but the 'rents said they'd be busy back at the house," he said with as straight a face as possible. 'Be the man, Samson! You know how to let your boys get laid!'
"Dad's asleep," Marie said as Carol and Filia looked surprised.
"Huh, unc's usually a lot more awake during the day," she said as they walked to the middle of the home. "And gol-lee-gee, uncle does some WORK!" Filia said in awe as Carol grinned at Obito's self-built home. "This cray-a-zee!"
"Yeah, Obito's got that wooden touch," Samson said as Dog pushed his nose to the wooden panels before his tail wagged rapidly. "Even Dog's lovin' the floor!"
Carol giggled before they hurried into the garden. "Hi!" She said to everyone there.
"Sup!" Umbrella greeted back, pajamas a bit dirty from the garden but Hungern wiggled like a fanatic. "You're his nephews, right?"
"Nope, just Filia. I'm a friend of hers and Mr. Uchiha's student!"
"Wait, are you Carol?"
"Yep!"
"Nice!" Umbrella grinned. "Then me, you, Mars, and Filia are sister students," she said with a sly smirk. "Your uncle buttered up my sis enough to let me join in, somehow!"
"Hmm, unc does seem like the type to make the ladies weak," Filia considered with a cupped chin. "Well, we did bring our practice weapons and stuff… might as well train!"
"Let's do this!" Umbrella grinned as Marie came over with a tilt of the head at Hungern.
"U-Um, you may wish to use something less… effective," the former-Skullgirl said as Umbrella blinked. "Hungern isn't fair to use against normal wooden weapons."
"O-Oh, well, sorry, Hungie, maybe we can spar with sifu next time," Umbrella said to her wilting Living Weapon. "I-I'm sure! I still love you!" She hugged it with a look of concern. "He's going to need so much food after today," she groaned. "Alright, well, what do I use?"
Marie considered her question before getting an idea, holding out her hands in front of her. 'Father could do this,' and she still remembered the feeling of using this power with the Skull Heart. "First, reinforcement," she told herself as the others blinked.
Then she glowed a powerful blue that she strained to reign in before letting out a breath, blinking as she looked down at her hands.
"... Alright and then…" She held out her hands once more.
Blue energy formed in front of them before she expanded it, the sound of crackling ringing out before she breathed out with a bit of a wheeze, dropping the creation soon after.
"O-Ow," she whined as Peacock hurried over with a look of concern. "I-I'm fine," she told her childhood friend who frowned before looking at what was made. "Umbrella can use this."
Leviathan raised a brow at the rather cumbersome-looking club. "Well, I suppose some power stayed. If she is capable of using the energy of a Skullgirl lacking most of its effect, perhaps she could also do other things," he said, confusing Marie.
"Other things?"
Umbrella hurried over before looking at the club with interest. "Mmm," she reached out and picked it up with one hand. "W-Whoa!" She quickly put Hungern across her back before lifting the her-sized club. "... I can use this," Umbrella nodded with a grin as Filia grinned nervously.
"You've got Obi's weapons, they should be strong enough," Samson said as Dog barked. "His wood powers are pretty good, they're likely sturdy enough to fight that big ol' club."
"Even my swords?" Filia asked, removing the items from her back. "I'm not so sure, katanas aren't like in Empire animations… but uncle's got the power to do a lot of crazy things," she nodded, flaring out the weapons before pointing one at the grinning Umbrella. "Alright! Let's do this-!"
There was a knock on the door, stopping the group cold before they blinked at it.
Marie felt her eyebrow twitch oddly, rubbing at it with her palm. "Odd…" She walked over to the door with Peacock in tow.
"I wonder who it is," the half-built girl considered. "I don't think Big B would knock though he can be stupid sometimes," Marie sweatdropped.
"S-Stupid?"
"He could just fly on in!"
"Patty, that'd be rude," Marie said before turning to the door. "Hello?"
"H-Hey!" Came a feminine voice from the other side. "Um, Obito wouldn't be in, would he?"
Marie blinked before opening the door with a smile-
No.
Annie's eyebrows shot into her hairline. 'No fucking way,' Obito had told them, hadn't he?
About the Parasite in the blood charity singer.
Eliza smiled for every one of the children within Obito's home. 'Insects,' her eyes opened slowly to stare at them all, finding Marie's smile ignorant. 'She probably doesn't even know.'
'T-This is bad!' Marie had barely been able to stop her face from giving them away. 'Sekhmet?!' What kind of luck did they have?!
Her father was down and not able to fully use his powers! And now this one decided to show up?!
"A-Aren't you that dame who sings?!" Peacock asked with a big grin as Eliza tilted her head with a grin. "Man, no way! This is crazy, Mars!"
Marie swallowed before smiling nervously. "P-Patty, I haven't exactly… lived that long to know who she is," think! Think!
What could she do?!
Squigly's eyes locked with Leviathan's before the Theon slunk into the ground without being seen, the second-oldest awake person in the home jumping out of the garden area to land on wooden floors before going up to Eliza and Cerebella with a smile.
"U-Um, like, no offense," Cerebella began, getting a blink out of Squigly. "It's just… you're purple so, not trying to be racist or anything…"
"Oh, please, it's a skin condition," Squigly half-lied. "I'm recently-hired help for Mr. Uchiha who assisted me, recently," the former-zombie smiled.
Eliza's eyelids lowered halfway. 'Odd, I don't remember such a thing,' but Eliza hadn't truly cared about the medical field too much to know, otherwise. "Hmm, good afternoon," she greeted like the kind woman she wasn't.
"Okay, so, I know how this sounds," Cerebella began with a hand rubbing the back of her head. "But is Obito in?"
"Well, father is currently resting," Marie said. 'Can I divert them long enough for him to rest?' Would Obito not notice if things got 'loud'? 'I don't know. Father may very well be in a deep sleep.'
'Uh oh,' Filia thought with a wince. 'Please do not tell me Uncle Vitale is trying to bring unc back,' she'd have to do something. "Hey, Eliza, right?" She walked forward with a fake smile.
"Yes, and you are Filia Medici," Eliza said with a bit of a bow. 'Foolish child.'
'God, she's gonna be difficult,' Filia had always been good at reading people, she feels.
Eliza seemed like the type who didn't take 'no' for an answer and the girl worried about what she might have to do to get her out. Much less how that might reflect on Obito's reputation.
'Hmm, still,' Eliza frowned on the inside.
The former-Skullgirl, who was being trained and seemed to still hold some of her former power.
This odd-armed/-eyed child before her who wore top hats with her pajamas. Ugh, how tacky.
This purple girl… she bothered her on a significant level for some reason.
"So, you're the charity singer," came Annie's voice, the former Eternal Girl coming over with a smirk and a plan.
Eliza was still rather surprised by the actor's presence. "I'm surprised, Annie of the Stars, I didn't think Obito Uchiha had such an acquaintance," how odd.
How powerful of him to have such a connection.
Eliza's pleased, and smug, expression didn't deter Annie in the slightest. "So, what's this I hear about you needing to meet my pal?"
"Well, really, I do," Cerebella said, surprising Annie. "I… Look, it's kinda personal stuff, can we wait until he's up?" She asked, looking a bit shy.
'... Man, this guy gets around,' geez, who charmed like half the female population and didn't even try? "With all due respect, I'm not the owner of the house, he's asleep. You can leave a message with Mars here. If you're familiar with him, I'm sure he's fine with making some time."
Cerebella looked a little put-out and Annie felt for the girl.
She was in for a bit of heartbreak.
"W-Well… alright, I guess," Cerebella really had wanted to speak with him but, being fair, she had a mission to do. "Then, can you tell him 'Cerebella wanted to talk by the old circus tent'? I'm sure he'll remember, he always was good at that," she said with an embarrassed grin.
And Eliza's eyes widened in delight at a horrible opportunity if this one didn't work out.
Annie caught it in an instant. 'Time for another stakeout,' well, it'd be the least she could do, honestly.
Obito had even said she could visit! With a pad like this and company like him, how could she not want to help out a bit more?
Dog wore a look of caution, slowly moving by Carol while looking at-the-ready.
Finally, Umbrella… well.
She walked over with a huff and crossed arms, staring Eliza down.
"This home isn't to be intruded on!" She declared with a pout as Eliza smiled knowingly. "Your princess demands you come back at a later date!"
"Princess?" Cerebella frowned at that, shooting Umbrella a look before wincing at the fact she was glaring at a child. "Look, I just wanna speak with him, I'll leave a message."
"That's fine!" Now, Cerebella was just confused. "You can, too," the youngest princess said, pointing at the eyebrow-twitching Eliza. "But the owner of the house is occupied."
"... Alright. Eliza, seriously, we have to be places-"
"No, you see, Cerebella, there are quite a few things I need here," the charity singer said without hesitation, getting a frown out of her 'comrade'. "Yes, it'd be quite important for me-"
There were two explosions in the middle of the home.
"To get what I WANT."
"What?!" Filia flinched as the woman's eyes landed on her-
Dog trotted up to the woman, Eliza's eyes going flat at the sight of the pup.
Then they widened as it turned around and she saw a familiar face.
"You put a single CELL on one of these kids," Samson growled as Dog began to grow in height. "I'm gonna kill you."
The giant hair-made werewolf that had formed opened his monster jaws in the woman's face, Cerebella jumping back in horror.
"W-What the fuck is that?!" She nearly shrieked, scrambling to her feet and dragging away the teens and children by the front. "You need to get outta-!"
"Outta where?" Came a voice from within the garden area where two large hulking figures stepped out of their craters. "You'll listen to the missus if you don't wanna be missing a face."
The two figures were animalistic in face and human in body.
The one who'd spoken had been a jackal with dark blue skin, yellow eyes, and white dreads that came down over his shoulders. Wearing a dark red shirt, black tie, and white suit with black dress shoes, he looked like the more physically fit of the two extra intruders.
The other one, the taller and seemingly more rotund one, was a bird of prey of some sort. Wearing a black tuxedo with a light blue dress shirt beneath and a white tie, he had on black dress shoes, a fez, and glasses.
"It'd be to your advantage to do as they say," he said, this one's voice more refined but no less aggressive than his compatriot's own.
Peacock blinked in confusion while Annie and Squigly's eyes narrowed.
Carol quickly hurried to stand by Filia, the former-Medici girl looking nervous.
Cerebella frowned at it all. "Eliza, this isn't our business! Leave them out of it!"
"You're right, you're right," Eliza said with a grin, white sclera slowly being replaced by blood-red hues. "I should make sure to leave them dead," she said as she tapped her weapon against the ground.
It was a double-bladed golden scythe with a microphone on one end and a blue eye at the center of the blade.
Samson's eyes narrowed.
"Samson! W-What's going on?!" Filia asked the Theon who frowned.
"Old Blood that doesn't die, Filia," Samson growled as the two newcomers' eyes narrowed. "And she came with old pets."
"Life in this modern day and age doesn't suit you, Samson,"Eliza's voice became gravelly and rough, her hand coming up to the side of the growling Theon's face as half her skin peeled off to reveal an ominous skeleton. "WE can be GODS among these humans."
"Tried it, it ain't for me."
"So, you'd remain a dog?!"
"Samson's family, you old coot!" Filia shouted at Eliza as Squigly smiled, Cerebella balked, and Samson smirked. "Dog's the dog!"
Carol smiled shakily. "I mean, she's not wrong."
"Heh, she ain't," Samson declared.
An arc of flames shot out from Eliza's arching weapon.
It became locked with a bone club, Annie's form struggling in front of Samson.
"We… Can talk later!" The 'Star Girl' got out before spinning her grip and slicing out with her free hand. "STAR POWER!"
Eliza's eyes widened before she jumped back from energy stars released from a pink trail of power.
"BOSS!" The two henchmen declared before growling at the assembled group. "You made a BIG mistake!"
"You're a mistake!" Umbrella shouted at them before yelping as their gazes turned her way, the princess hiding behind Squigly. "Yikes!"
"Leave this home or we'll force you out," the purple girl growled, voice deeper, gravelly, and full of the 'dead'.
The bird man removed a pair of gloves from his blazer pocket while the jackal grunt dropped his blazer
"Sagan! I need a spotlight!" Annie shouted as her Remote Parasite jumped up and down before opening his sharp teeth-filled mouth to reveal her other eye.
It glowed before shooting a pink, white, and yellow beam filled with stars into the sky.
The two henchmen grimaced while Annie smirked, gaze still on Eliza's currently hidden-in-the-shadows-of-a-building form.
"It might work for your face to not get plastered on the news, ya old bitch."
"Hmm, you seem a bit more seasoned than I expected of a child," Eliza had said, confusing Annie who frowned.
'She's up to something-' She'd thought before Samson lifted her up and hurried towards Cerebella. "H-Huh?! Samson-!"
"She's calling on her plagues!" He said with a grimace as Annie's eyes widened, the sound of buzzing reaching her ears. "We can't lose track of them!"
Cerebella looked nervous while the henchmen broke apart, one rushing them, the bird, and the other…
"Get away from there!" Marie growled as she slipped out of Cerebella's grip and rushed the large Feral, hands alight with a powerful blue glow.
Her hand swung out and the man jumped back from an extending energy claw, his eyes narrowing as his hackles raised.
"Do not mess with me, kid," he warned.
"Stay the HELL away from my father!" Marie threatened back as she raised her hands, the appendages slowly covering themselves in bones. "Or you'll die here!"
The jackal growled again before rushing her.
Meanwhile, the bird man swung out and barely missed Umbrella by a hair's length, the girl yelping before running away as Squigly punched at the man's face.
Her fist covered itself with purple flames as the henchmen grimaced before sliding out of the way.
"LEVIATHAN!" She called out.
The floor beneath the bird man's feet rumbled before he yelped as a bony tail wrapped around his midsection.
It lifted him up and then smashed him down, the garden being ruined by the large crater beneath him.
"I'll apologize later," she said before raising her hand and closing her eyes. 'Burn him!'
The command sunk into the dirt before resonating with the glowing purple bone tail.
The bird man grimaced before his gloves burned with a golden light.
"Off of me!" He punched at the appendage.
Gold fought off purple before he was released, Squigly shivering as she held her left eye.
'The pain passed?' She grimaced as her opponent prepared to rush her-
She was taken off her feet by hair before Samson slid to a stop next to Marie, the former Skullgirl just barely knocking the jackal man back before he could get too close.
"Girlie! Stick close!" The gruff Theon shouted as he unfurled his curls before covering everyone on their side. "Here it comes!"
There was a rumble before a cage of bones formed around them as well, Marie grimacing.
"What about father?!" She shouted.
And then the buzzing of locusts, the shouts of people, and the cackles of a horrid Parasite reached their ears.
Their dual barriers rocked heavily as Marie fought to get out.
"FATHER?!" She shouted again as the ground kept rumbling before it all stopped. "Father!"
Their cages of battered bone and end-splitting hair began to unravel, Leviathan's upper-half sprouting from the ground beneath the group's feet.
His head fell. "I'm… I'm sorry, there was nothing we could do," he admitted fully as Marie froze before rushing out into the dust and smoke to see…
"No…" She hit her knees as the others hurried over… before choking at the damage.
At the loss of… Everything.
"W-What the hell?!" Annie balked, looking at nothing but dust around them.
No home, no wood, no pond, nothing.
Nothing was left in the wake of whatever calamity Eliza had just brought onto them.
"M-Marie?!" Peacock hurried over to her pale friend.
"D-Dad…" The former Skullgirl trembled.
Samson grimaced while Dog sniffed. "If you're angry, come on, take it out on me," he said as Leviathan shot him a look of disbelief.
"Samson…" The serpent Theon frowned as Marie began to glow.
"Y-You…" Her head turned and the others flinched at the sight of skull-shaped pupils. "WHY!?" Marie shouted at the Theon who didn't flinch.
"I didn't know what else to do and I had to pull everyone together," Samson said, not an excuse in sight. "But you're right, I caused your pops to get captured, that's all me."
"W-Wait! Hold on!" Cerebella stepped forward as Umbrella rushed towards Marie.
"W-Wait, Mars, seriously! We can still get your pops back!" The princess pleaded with the seemingly angered Skullgirl as bones began to form around her.
Her face, chest, and skirt all seemed to become encased in bone as long energy brooms formed in her hands, a ring of bone at her back.
"Samson."
The words hit the air and sent a tremble through them as the sight of nearby buildings came into view, dilapidated and/or rusted over, it was like a scene made in hell.
Of a pissed Bloody Marie and her damage.
"L-Lady Marie, please, listen to reason!" Leviathan shouted as the aura around Marie grew more and more. 'Of course, rage would enhance her powers!' If what Obito had informed them of was true, Marie's original 'wish' was for an anger-fueled revenge that would have turned her into the biggest threat if she'd been allowed to mature.
And now he was seeing it.
Annie frowned before walking over to Marie with Squigly… and Filia.
When the three finally stood in front of the former… of the pseudo-Skullgirl, they spoke.
"Hey, come on," Annie began with a small grin. "People make mistakes, it happens. You can't just kill someone because they did."
"She's right," Squigly smiled as Marie's hands trembled. "I… I didn't follow-through on my own promise," her smile turned sad as Leviathan sighed.
"I as well, Lady Marie," he admitted. "Samson may have been in a hurry but that doesn't stop us from being responsible as well. We pledged to your father that we'd be his family's guards and we've failed most thoroughly."
"F-Father is…" Marie wheezed out as Patricia frowned sadly behind her, coming up to the Skullgirl's back.
"M-Marie," she began as the glow began to fall away. "H-Hey, I… Your pops did me, my friends, and a whole lot of us a real big solid, ya know?" Patricia said, hand on her friend's shoulder, Marie's head down.
The former-Skullgirl's mask leaked tears as her arms went limp.
"I couldn't protect him," she said as she hit her knees. "What kind of daughter am I?"
"The best kind," Filia said as she stood in front of the sobbing girl, eyes narrowed before she kneeled down. "And those kinds get their family back," she told her, hand on Marie's other shoulder. "Obito ain't no slouch, even weakened, he's a real tough bastard no matter what any crazy charity singer might want with him. So, come on," she held out that shoulder-holding hand with a grin.
"I want to go and help our family, too."
Marie's head tilted up before a trembling hand reached out and grabbed Filia's outstretched one.
"We gotta get sis!" Umbrella declared as she held up a small walkie-talkie. "Sister Beacon is a-go!" She pressed the button.
Almost instantly, a large siren erupted into the air before there was the sound of helicopters, police vans, and military vehicles.
"... O-Oh, I guess she probably heard it all, duh."
"Umbrella?!" Came the familiar call of none other than Parasoul, herself, the woman dressed in… a disguise.
Near wielding yellowish-orange hair, glasses, a sleeveless black sweater with yellow stripes, black fingerless gloves, and brown pantyhose that led into her favored black slip-on slippers, the leader of the Black Egrets balked at their surroundings.
"W-What in the world?" She wheezed as her run slowed to a crawl, the van she'd come in releasing the other members of her personal strike team. "... Where's Obito?" Parasoul realized only too late.
"M-Ma'am," Carol blinked before hurrying over. "S-Sifu was kidnapped!"
"WHAT!?"
~NRK~
Eliza smirked as their limousine kept going to… That oddly large scent of blood near that one church.
"Honestly," she mindlessly caressed the grimacing Obito's face, the man's sweat flicked away with a swipe of one of her long fingernails. "You're playing a long game of 'hard to get', sir. One might think you didn't like me."
"A-And I thought I'd seen it all," Obito said with a shaky grin. 'My luck is officially horrible,' this had to be karma. "So, what would someone like you, who attacked my family and friends, want with me?" What could her answer be-?
"Oh, I just found you quite fetching."
"..." No… He would not accept that he just brought a psycho stalker into his life! "I'd expect a bit more than that, Eliza the Charity Singer."
Eliza smiled beautifully at him. "Oh, honey, there's quite little more to explain."
Obito began to sweat horribly.
'Fuck.'
~NRK~
Double's 'form' slunk into personally-made sewer drains, eyes filled with rage and body 'taut'.
"I will kill you!" She roared as she blurred down pathways and drains. 'And Marie has officially defected,' troublesome.
Far too troublesome! She wielded powers not hers! Those meant only for a select one.
She'd need to remove her… but not until after she dealt with that man.
'He's nothing but a pest getting in the way of 'their fun',' she thought as she felt that filthy Parasite's presence the closer she got. 'Too strong, his influence can't be stemmed and they're unsure of how to deal with him.'
It was ludicrous to think godly power couldn't fathom a single man! What was he?
That 'form' of his, it was… They had informed her that it wasn't normal for this rendition, that his powers bordered on being not unlike their own.
'A roaming male god against the Trinity,' it made her sick to think there'd be someone from the 'neighborhood' here, interrupting Their game. "I…" They'd said to hold her anger and await further instructions but Double couldn't.
This 'man', that troublemaking god, needed to be removed from the 'Game'.
~NRK~
Parasoul frowned, still in her disguise, as she, the girls, and the Theon sat in the Black Egrets debriefing office.
"Dammit," she grit her teeth as all cameras searched the streets for the quartet. "Why?" Parasoul asked the frowning Cerebella.
The performing grimaced, crossing her arms. "Why would you care?" She bit back as Adam rubbed the back of his head and Parasoul blushed a bit before huffing. "What?"
"Yo, uh, Cerebella?" Annie said while patting her shoulder, confusing her- "The princess is dating Obito."
"... WHAT?!"
"Ahem," Parasoul cleared her throat, bright red, as Umbrella snickered with Hungern in her grip. "T-The point is, I do have an interest in Obito being safe and sound."
Cerebella looked comatose.
Filia smiled shakily at that. "Yeah, ignoring my uncle's love life, what's the situation with his magic signature?" She asked as Annie smirked and Squigly smiled.
Yes, ignoring what her favorite uncle got up to with so many females in his house was probably for the best.
"Well, thankfully, we have his readings from some time back," Molly smiled before a beep came from her monitor, a camera locking onto a moving limo. "Got it!" She announced, gaining the room's attention.
"Put it on the big monitor," Parasoul said as Molly did as told, the group watching as the limousine had an x-ray applied to it. "There he is… Along with the Parasite, Sekhmet."
"Huh?" Carol blinked, concerned. "A-Another one like Samson?"
"Yeah," said Theon spoke up, Dog taking him up to the screen. "She's the one who basically caused an all-out war and ruined our rep with the rest of the world. She's the reason we're basically called Parasites."
Cerebella wheezed. "W-Wait, what? W-What Parasite?! Is it her weapon?!"
"... No, this one's far more disgusting than that."
"Indeed," Leviathan said with a frown as Cerebella jumped at his presence. "Ah, apologies, Leviathan, charmed. I and My Lady recently came under Mr. Uchiha's care and employ as his night guards."
"What?" Parasoul blinked owlishly, looking confused.
Squigly smiled. "I… Erm, to put this," she considered.
"She used to be a zombie," Annie explained, confusing those not in the know. "But thanks to Levi's influence, she was able to retain herself. She used to only be 'awake' when the Skull Heart was active in a host but now, we hope, she isn't. She's just a 'normal'," her twitching fingers were given emphasis. "Gal… Though, I'm pretty sure she's supposed to be 28."
"It's the wonders of unlife," Squigly grinned brightly as the former Eternal Girl snorted.
"Yeah, that."
"W-What's up with my uncle?!" Filia gawked.
"Y-Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on either," Cerebella said, jaw dropped.
"... I kinda get it," Carol sweatdropped. "Doesn't make it any less weird but he did it for Mars," she reminded them.
"... Oh."
"Yep," Filia nodded along with Cerebella even as Parasoul tilted her head.
"Yeah!" Patricia grinned. "He even did it for Big B and Ileum!"
"Who?"
Parasoul's eyes widened before they softened. "Oh goodness, he… He fixed them?" She asked softly as Patricia nodded, the woman's question on her face.
"Um, no, he can't really super-fix me up," Peacock admitted with a sheepish grin while Marie blinked before nodding. "B-But there's a chance Marie could, maybe!"
"Yeah!" Marie said with narrowed eyes on the screen. "I'll get better at my powers," she uttered, body still covered by her skeletal armor. "I can help people with dad."
'He's been an amazing influence on her,' and only after a little time.
Yes, Obito would be good with kids, wouldn't he?
"Huh… They're going to a church?" Roxy blinked as the group looked at the big screen again.
Marie gasped. "Double… She's the one who works at that church."
"Yes, that monster," Parasoul frowned. "I know where that church is, will this 'Double' attack her?"
"Yeah… A-And maybe even DAD!" Marie wheezed. "We have to go!"
"I want all available officers at the ready," Parasoul said into a walkie-talkie, eyes narrowed on the sight of Eliza's grinning visage on camera. "We're surrounding the Church of the Trinity! All forces, MOVE OUT!"
~NRK~
"It's as drab as I'd expect of these three," Eliza huffed at the church, her henchmen opening the doors for her and Obito, the man's form covered by a binding of blood from a blood bag.
"You speak of them like they're real," Obito said. 'I'm too weak right now,' he was still reeling.
What sleep he had gotten had done him some favors, half an hour's rest wasn't much but it helped him stay awake now.
His body throbbed even now but his cells didn't feel like they were on fire.
He'd likely have a couple minutes of action if he pushed it at this moment.
'Still, why did we come here?' This was the church Marie spoke of, the one where the one named 'Double' would be at.
"Oh, yes, these times of today aren't that knowledgeable," Eliza said with a tilt of the head. "Well, for your extended stay, let me elaborate. These three 'wenches' are nothing but goddesses I've killed," she told him, rounding on the man and cupping his chin.
Yellow sclera with black pupils observed him and his glare, the woman chuckling a bit.
"Honestly, you're quite strong even now," Eliza said, voice returning to normal and a smile on her face. "A consort like you, that will be an amazing coupling," she giggled as Obito began to sweat for a different reason.
"That'd be odd since I've recently attained a girlfriend," he said simply and confidently.
Eliza's giggling stopped as she turne+d on him again. "Hmm?"
"You might know her," Obito smirked a bit as she blinked. "Parasoul Renoir? I'm sure you'd know, it'd be hard, she's famous after all."
'What?' Her mind twitched at his words and confidence. "You jest, the next world over would know about it… Or are you as conniving as I'm now believing?" Eliza asked with pure red eyes.
"It's not really something I need to validate for you but I can say this, you act on the boyfriend of the princess, well, I'd say you should polish those wrists of yours."
Her eyes narrowed before tapping her weapon's tip against the floor twice. "Horace, Albus, pick him up, we're hurrying," Eliza declared, eyes back to normal as her henchmen did as directed. 'I didn't expect this,' the man wasn't lying, none of his body language said otherwise. 'The princess will be here soon.'
No wonder the sirens had gone off, she'd expected them to be happy just having the little princess back but if they'd come for Obito…
"Come," she ordered as they stomped towards the scent of blood inside the church, making it towards a seemingly unattractive wall. "Annoying."
She hefted her scythe before rearing back.
A single harsh cut carved and burned into the hidden doorway, chopping the door in half before she walked down a long set of stairs.
'What?' The more they walked, the more Obito's eyes flickered, Sharingan blazing. 'I'm resonating with it,' he realized as he looked at the odd blue veins and skeletal imagery that began to increase in frequency the further they went. "What is this place?"
"A tomb-to-be if all works well," Eliza smiled pleasantly for him. "And our chambers if the decor isn't in need of too much work," she said.
'Oh no,' don't take it the wrong way.
Obito hadn't died a virgin in his previous life, not when he needed enough coping mechanisms to raise a triplet of psychiatrists' salaries.
So, he wasn't a virgin, mentally but this mortal coil wasn't 'christened' yet.
And call him a sap but he wanted Parasoul to be this body's first and, possibly last, lover.
'Still, this place…' If this was a sort of chamber for cultivating SHP that meant two things.
Fuck, this place was bad.
Two, he'd destroy it.
"Ugh," Eliza looked annoyed. "How drole, look at all of this, it's an utter eyesore!"
"We can probably build over it," Horace offered.
"Or we just tear it down," Albus counter-offered. "Or, you could just drain it," he shrugged as Eliza hummed.
"Hmm," she closed her eyes in thought. "Ah, there's something here, I just can't figure it out-"
Obito had bumped into her and Eliza blinked at her tilting form, eyes widening as she saw something slither up from the depths of the floor.
Something fleshy and thin, a needle of disgusting meat that aimed for the space between her eyes.
"Ma'am!" Her henchmen called out too late.
Eliza's eyes narrowed.
Obito blinked as he was lifted up into the air within his cocoon of blood, latched onto Eliza's back as blood wings sprouted from her arms.
'What?' Wait, right, the blood manipulation! "What in the world-?" Obito tried to say only for blood to wrap around his mouth, muffling him.
It was disgusting on a level he wasn't comfortable with!
"Hmm, she's here," Eliza said with narrowed eyes as her henchmen jumped back with raised fists, Eliza returning to the ground as grotesque flesh slithered up from the ground to form a being of 'meat'.
Of odd-numbered eyes, a seemingly 'half of a woman' with an open spot in her skull for another face to peek through, and more 'sickly' feminine features.
All in al-Obito felt like he was being tortured for some reason.
That had to be the case.
"You witch!" It, she, roared at Eliza as the Parasite Host's eyes burned red.
"Oh, how sad of you, you have an issue with me?" She asked with a smug smile.
"You KILLED THEM! YOU KILLED ALL OF THEM!" Double roared out, malformed state exacerbated.
"Ah, those pathetic goddesses."
'Goddesses? So, were there gods on earth before? Like with the shinobi world?' Obito was both floored and concerned. 'And there's an avatar of their will here, that doesn't bode well,' he frowned.
He flexed his hand with narrowed eyes.
'What do I do… These monsters are going to fight and I want both of them DEAD by the end of it.'
His Sharingan flickered.
He had to kill these two before the others got caught in the crossfire.
~NRK Out~