Inside a shop in Megapolis.
"What do you mean you don't have any?" Asked BQ in surprise as she put her hands on the counter of a shop.
"They're just not popular so we don't restock them that much. The last one was taken by someone a minute ago." Replied the clerk calmly, causing BQ to groan. "I don't know where the next batch will arrive either."
BQ sighed before walking out of the store in defeat, grumbling under her breath. "Ugh, why did I have to throw that dang thing away?" She asked herself with a deep frown. The stone bear crossed her arms as she thought about the situation. "I'll just ask Sandy for more tea."
But before she could take one step forwards, a familiar figure stood in her way. It was "The Mayor". As if his appearance and voice wasn't convincing enough The smell of LBD's chilling chi stung her nose in his presence.
"I'm sorry, young lady. Were you looking to buy this?" Asked the Mayor cheerfully as he held a stuffed moon bear in his hand.
BQ easily recognized the servant of LBD and paused. "No. You can keep it." She said not wanting a battle, but still being ready for one as she turned around to leave.
But the Mayor didn't give up. He suddenly appeared in front of BQ as she walked away, causing her to grab him by the neck and open her mouth to eat his chi before taking the stuffed bear and throwing the Mayor away across the pavement.
"That was your warning." Said BQ with a deep frown. "Doesn't matter whatever you want from me. Stay. Away."
Instead of feeling threatened, the mayor laughed causing BQ to feel uneasy. "My lady was right." He said calmly.
BQ frowned. Getting involved with LBD was not on her wish list. But before she could leave she smelled something. The chi of spider robots. They were under her.
BQ tried to jump away in a panic, but it was too late as the ground under her crumbled into a hole for her to fall through before the hole was quickly closed by the spider robots.
And now, BQ was in the spider's lair or more accurately...The Lady Bone Demon's.
xxXxx
"Ugh, seriously?" Muttered BQ angrily as she dusted her clothes as well as the stuffed moon bear before putting it inside her hooded jacket. "Damn plot. Why did I have to get involved in this."
The stone bear looked all around her inside the cave system with a frown. It was the same dingy place she remembered. She needed to find a way out while conserving chi for a potential fight.
Especially against one of the robot spiders she met in the celestial realm.
She sniffed the air to find a way out that avoided her enemies, but that seemed impossible as both Huntsman Spider and Strong Spider entered the scene leaping at her.
Strong Spider was kicked away nonchalantly for simply being the bigger target while Huntsman tried to go for the eyes with one of his legs. BQ barely caught his attack with a frown.
"Just to be clear, that would've just made it sting for a short while." Said BQ calmly before punching Huntsman away with ease.
Now that the two spiders were knocked out, BQ decided to leave quickly. But then she was met with HER. The Lady Bone Demon.
BQ could clearly feel her chilling chi prickling her skin as the demon eyed her intently. She was calm and solemn as she stayed silent. BQ didn't speak either, keeping track of any movements from LBD.
After what felt like an eternity, LBD finally spoke. "Now that I've seen it for myself, your invincibility is more complex than I thought." She said with a smile. "You've crafted a whole intricate system to automatically funnel power from attacks to that void inside you to keep energy overload to the absolute minimum."
"Should I feel flattered or scared?" Asked BQ raising a brow with a frown. She didn't want to let how much she was panicking show.
The Lady Bone Demon KNEW how she absorbed chi and that meant she KNEW about her condition. This was bad. VERY bad. BQ was as tense as she could ever be.
LBD smiled. "Such a shame the consequences of such power." She said calmly. "Always looking for prey to satiate your starving body."
"Can you stop the dramatic monologue?" Asked BQ in a serious tone. "What do you want from me?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Asked LBD before she teleported to in front of BQ, making the latter very uncomfortable. "I wish to help you. I can cure your illness. No longer will you worry about finding demons to stay alive. And all of that for just a-"
"Little favor, right?" Asked BQ as she backed away instinctively.
LBD smiled at BQ's words causing the latter to frown. If BQ didn't remember her past life, she might've considered it. Even served LBD for it. But she knew better than to make a deal with the devil.
"Sorry, lady. But I don't like owing anything." Said BQ clenching her fists. "Especially to someone working with Spider Queen."
BQ threw a punch towards LBD only for her to disappear from her sight, but that was what BQ was expecting. LBD was too fast for her to beat. So fast she leaves the way open very easily.
BQ immediately dashed forwards through where LBD was just standing, trying to escape. But a certain spider robot jumped into her way causing her to stop abruptly.
It was visibly smaller, but it was the same type. The one from the celestial realm. Her breathing quickened as she instinctively panicked. The scene from the celestial realm flashing in her mind. Luckily, Macaque's training kicked in and she stayed awake.
She could beat it and win. LBD herself couldn't hurt her. That's what she thought...until the others arrived.
A dozen spider robots surrounded her from all sides ready to trap her in webs. BQ's body was shaking like crazy as her breaths became rapid.
"I see you remember this little thing." Said LBD standing right next to BQ, causing the later spring back in fear. "It turned you into quite the mess the last time you've met."
BQ was already terrified enough, but LBD wasn't done. Blue chains of energy locked around BQ's neck and limbs.
"Of course, they're no match for this." Said LBD with a sinister smile before the chains began to sap away BQ's chi rapidly.
BQ screamed in agony as petrification overtook her body at immense speeds, even faster than the spider robot. Tears filled her eyes before LBD stopped her absorption and even gave BQ some of her chi back easing BQ's pain.
"My offer still stands. I can heal you." Whispered LBD into BQ's ear. "Is refusing one favor really worth all this suffering?"
BQ didn't answer as her eyes glowed purple, causing LBD to raise a brow before an orb that sucked all that's around it engulfed BQ and broke all the chains and robots.
LBD was able to teleport away, but the same couldn't be said about the spider henchmen that were just waking up. Strong Spider, who woke up first, threw huntsman away towards safety before a ball of energy flew out of his body and towards BQ.
Soon, the orb disappeared to reveal BQ with bear ears atop her head, a new nose, canines that poked out of her mouth, face markings, and fur. But the most visible change was her hands that no longer looked like normal Lego pieces. It looked like a bear's hand with deadly claws.
She had gone feral.
"What is-" LBD couldn't finish her sentence before she felt a force pulling her towards BQ who's eyes were glowing a deep purple.
LBD tried to teleport away, but failed as every warp sent her to the same spot. She tried attacking BQ, but all attacks were shredded to nothingness before they were absorbed by BQ. She couldn't even run away as the cave as the pull was too strong. She could even feel herself being torn away from her host, but that she didn't let happen. No matter what, she couldn't.
Without anything else to do, LBD was pulled by the neck straight into BQ's paws. To crush that neck by applying a little more force was easy, to divorce LBD's head from her body with one swipe of her claws was easy. There were so many easy ways to end her.
And even though she was very tempted to, she stopped. "W-wait! Killing me now means killing my host!" Said LBD in a panic as she realized how powerless she was. "Are you willing to kill a child just to end me?"
BQ didn't reply and instead carefully placed LBD on the ground before growling into LBD's face and dashing away angrily.
Leaving LBD with something she hadn't felt so clearly before. Fear.
xxXxx
Inside BQ's apartment.
Macaque sat in BQ's living room waiting for his student to arrive with a cheerful smile.
Perhaps he could mess with her a bit. Say some stuff about the posters, maybe scare her a little by talking about their next training session and so on.
But when BQ arrived shaking and crying, Macaque couldn't even talk properly. If something did that to her, it's serious.
"Kid? What happened?" He asked worriedly.
In hindsight, that was a stupid thing to ask. He and BQ were both hush hush about their problems. There was no way she would tell him anything.
BQ didn't answer and instead hugged Macaque tightly as she cried on his shoulder as her body continued shaking.
She was scared. It didn't matter if it were Legos or a cartoon in her previous life, it was real now and she was scared. She didn't want to see LBD again. She was terrified of her. She didn't want to feel that horrifying pain again.
But whenever she tried to say anything, she felt a lump in her throat blocking everything from leaving. Macaque felt this. He knew BQ had a lot to say, but her instincts always said no.
"Heh, you're one messed up kid." He said as he patted BQ on the back to comfort the kid. "C'mon. I'll order us some noodles from your brother's place."
And with that, the two spent the day together and BQ was two things richer after that day. She had a new plushie and a new power.
xxXxx
So the jist of the relationship between BQ and LBD is mutual fear of each other.
And if anyone is wondering, BQ was trying to buy a stuffed moon bear to have as a sleeping buddy to help her sleep.
Also, duo name is Moonbeam. Moonbeam duo.
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Toodles.
