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Elizabeth flinched at Tia's sudden switch in tone. She glanced at the girl through her overgrown fringe, looking from the ground to the girl flick-flick-flick. She held her hands behind her back. "I-I-I didn't want to!" She spluttered, thinking things up on the spot. "P-people think I'm some disowned delinquent wh-when they hear I don't have parents! I-I-I didn't think you'd care if, if, if I told you the truth!" She lied, acting still flawless. She lifted her hands and started to cry into them. When she risked another look at Tia, she saw a tiny pointed tooth peering just over the girls lip.
Elizabeth stumbled back, though still kept her eyes hidden behind her fringe. "What...what's that, in your mouth?" She spluttered, pointing at the tooth with a shaking hand. This girl wasn't a girl. Things pieced together in her head; when she was thrown against the wall, the maraca sounds, the fang, and the growing feeling of uneasiness that kept growing and growing in her gut...
She stumbled backwards a few steps. Frantic, she started to beam thoughts into Tia's head. 'She deserves to know the truth!' 'Just tell her, I'm sure she'll understand.' 'As long as you don't hurt her, she can't be angry at you!' 'If you hurt her now she'll go to the police. Do you want to go to jail?'
Ms. Julianna Marsh - the headmaster of Lerror Academy. A Manananggal. (romamaro)
Elizabeth - A twelve year old girl. Was stabbed to death after being kidnapped and starved for multiple days and then became a black-eyed child. A thief and a murderer. (romamaro)
Tia - A possessed girl that is being tracked by Ms. Marsh. Can transform into a leapord-rattlesnake demon. (jannistory19)
Kimiko - A fifteen year old Jorōgumo. Dresses in a geisha fashion. (romamaro)
Clement - A living, life-size Voodoo Doll looking around the age of fourteen. Has a bag full of small voodoo dolls. His soul is that of a young teenager who died in 1668 from the Black Plague. (romamaro)
Eva - A seventeen year old cannibalistic mermaid who can separate her legs and retract her sharp teeth to look like a normal girl. (romamaro)
Connor - A teenage boy that can make people see their worst fear through eye contact. (jannistory19)
Leah - A teenage girl that can shapeshift through her shadow. (jannistory19)
Victoria, Diana, Shyanna and Myrtle - Eva's four younger sisters. (both)
Hannah - Leah's younger sister.
Elizabeth - A twelve year old girl. Was stabbed to death after being kidnapped and starved for multiple days and then became a black-eyed child. A thief and a murderer. (romamaro)
Tia - A possessed girl that is being tracked by Ms. Marsh. Can transform into a leapord-rattlesnake demon. (jannistory19)
Kimiko - A fifteen year old Jorōgumo. Dresses in a geisha fashion. (romamaro)
Clement - A living, life-size Voodoo Doll looking around the age of fourteen. Has a bag full of small voodoo dolls. His soul is that of a young teenager who died in 1668 from the Black Plague. (romamaro)
Eva - A seventeen year old cannibalistic mermaid who can separate her legs and retract her sharp teeth to look like a normal girl. (romamaro)
Connor - A teenage boy that can make people see their worst fear through eye contact. (jannistory19)
Leah - A teenage girl that can shapeshift through her shadow. (jannistory19)
Victoria, Diana, Shyanna and Myrtle - Eva's four younger sisters. (both)
Hannah - Leah's younger sister.
Tia was semi asleep when she sensed something in the forest. With a small hiss, the creature flicked her tail a little harder, her tail sounding like a slowly shaken maraca. The demon in her dispersed a shockwave of energy to make Tia more alert, which made Tia hiss loudly and in irritation as she flipped to her belly.
"Must you do that?" Tia asked annoyingly. With a stuck out tongue, Tia lifted her head in the warm air, slightly picking up the scent of an intruder.... And they were in her territory... If there was anything that Tia was aggressive for it was for the things that she claimed to be hers. Whether it was her territory, her hood, or more especially, her cave. She'd fought off wolves for this land, and anything else that thought they could come at her was going to get another thing coming.
She jumped off her cave outer-cropping to land on her feet, opening her mouth to flex her sharp hypodermic fangs. After a few seconds, she figured it would be better to be a human in the case it was a human coming her way, and backed away into her cave to change back to her human form. With a low growl, the half-demon stepped to the mouth of the cave, only to sense the intruder to be closer than she thought. Tia sniffed the air as she growled lower, muttering demonic phrases as she searched for the intruder.
Elizabeth was just beginning to drift off when she began to hear scuffling sounds. She faded in and out of sleep for a few moments, having missed the maraca sounds. She heard what the girl said to her demon, but mistook it for her malfunctioning telepathy voices (such a thing happened a lot; when she was alone, and hadn't used her telepathy for a while, her own thoughts fired themselves back at her). She only moved when she heard a slight streeeeetch...
She opened her eyes, and despite her cold skin, her fight or flight pulsed manically through her veins. She shuffled slightly to free up her hands, which she had been sitting on. She heard sniffing, but she could see the person's silhouette. She covered her eyes and forced herself to cry. "P-p-please, l-leave me alone..." she sobbed. Just as always, her acting was immaculate.
Tia growled when she heard crying, and quickly turned her gaze to her right; her eyes- which had quickly grew accustomed to the darkness- spotted a little girl immediately, which startled her at first. Where did she come from? How was she able to come here? Tia stopped her growling and slowly walked up to the crying girl, immediately feeling bad for how frightened she sounded.
"Aww don't cry little one.... Are you hurt? Are you lost?" Tia asked softly. She sat down in front of Elizabeth and crossed her legs as well, her face the most friendly she'd done since she left her old home. However, an other another shockwave of demonic energy pulsed through Tia's body, making her grunt a little as she closed her eyes. She hated it when the demon did that; she never knew what it wanted when it did that. She honestly thought it was a way to cause more discomfort, but she couldn't tell.
Elizabeth heard a growl. She cowered into herself. If it was an animal, it would be easy for her to make eye contact and force it up on top of the cave and then right back down, wrong side down. But instead of hearing four paws, she heard two feet. She glanced up slightly, caught sight of a human pair of feet, and then looked right back down at her hands. Shoot. This would be more difficult. Human deaths were always more difficult for her to pull off, and normally she didn't even do them...she just robbed them blind, but if they snapped out of her hold, that was then things accelerated.
She moved her hands away but kept her head down, hiding her eyes behind her fringe. She listened carefully to the voice; it was definitely female. She didn't have to worry about getting angry. She wiped her eyes. "S-s-some boys from my town chased me out here..." she blubbered, pulling her cardigan tighter around her. "C-can you help me?" She asked, not yet using her telepathy, seeing if the other girl, whom she judged to be around her age, would take the bait.
Tia huffed when she was told that the little girl was being chased by a couple of boys. She remembered when she was chased by boys as well, so she could relate rather easily. She looked down and tapped her fingers on her lap, wondering what she could do to cheer the little girl up. "Of course I'll help you. I've been chased by wolves before, so I can tell how much it sucks," Tia said with a small smile.
When Tia tapped the girl's head and asked her for her name, she felt another wave of energy pulse through her body- making her eyes slit a bit. The teenager cleared her throat and turned her head, breathing as slowly and as quietly as possible. What was going on? Why was her demon all of a sudden acting strange? These pulses weren't pulses of murderous intent thank God, but they still made her chest tighten and her teeth clench. This last one made her eyes change a little.... Was there something wrong? Something that her demon side could sense that Tia couldn't? Tia narrowed her eyes and shook it off once more, but kept her eyes out for any danger- having no idea that the danger was right in front of her.
Elizabeth muffled a smile by biting the corners of her lips. She played naïve, and lifted her head ever so slightly, still hiding her eyes. "W...wolves?" She asked slowly, voice pitch heightening in fear. "There are...wolves here?" She began to sniffle again. She went through what her thoughts should be for the character she had taken on: 'What was going on here? Who is this girl? Why is she here? Why did the boys chase me out here? Does she actually want to help me?' The thoughts were very alien to her - unbeknownst to her, when she was alive, she would have never thought thoughts like that, because she never would have ran away from anyone, and would have never not trusted anyone. However, when she thought thoughts that she thought to be unrealistic - 'Thank God this girl is here. I hope she'll help me home. Maybe my parents will invite her in for dinner.' - they seemed perfect to her.
She flinched at the touch and pulled into herself. "E-Elizabeth." She squeaked, voice still trembling. Out of the corner of her eye and through her hair, she noticed the girl tense. Shoot. Things needed to move, and quick. "I don't know my way back." She squeaked, very slowly getting to her feet. Here, she messed up. She flicked her fringe away from her eyes for a second, revealing the darkness for a moment before her fringe moved back and recovered them. She didn't realise her mistake. She held her hands behind her back and kept her eyes staring down at her feet, still behind her faint, faded gold fringe.
Tia didn't realize her mistake when she mentioned wolves until the girl mentioned it herself. She widened her eyes and cleared her throat, waving her hand dismissively and chuckled sheepishly. "D-did I say 'wolves'? I mean older guys.... Hehe... It's just a word I use to describe older men," Tia said with a nervous chuckle. She never meant to mention wolves toward this girl.... Nobody normal gets chased by wolves on a daily basis. She needed to be careful about this stuff.
The girl's voice made Tia feel sorry for her, for she didn't like it when little kids got scared and lost in the woods. Tia looked up when the girl got on her feet, and noticed the blackened eyes that she bore. Upon seeing that, Tia widened her eyes with an inward gasp, the rattling sounds in her head going off like fireworks. What was that? Were this girl's eyes pitch black? Even in the darkness of her cave she was able to tell the white from a normal person's eyes, and this girl had none.
Another pulse of demonic energy forced itself throughout her body, making Tia clench her teeth harder. Venom from her fangs began to flow out of her mouth, dripping onto her pants in little drops. Something was definitely not right, and the problem was that girl. Tia couldn't help but growl a little as she stood up herself, wondering how to deal with this inhuman intruder. "Well, let's go outside then. The sun can help you stay warm rather than staying in the cold cave," Tia said with a friendly voice.
Elizabeth noticed how the girl very quickly began to change what she said. She bit her lip. She didn't have to worry about the wolves, since they couldn't hurt her, but if wolves attacked them, the other girl would notice how the wolves would either be afraid of the black-eyed child, or would just entirely ignore them, and that would blow her cover, which she didn't even know had already been blown. However, she heard a slight dripping noise. Her eyes were drawn to the floor, where a drop of something that she guessed to be water fell down and hit against the floor with a resounding plop. She mistook it for a leak in the cave. She smiled and wiped her eyes again. "Yeah..." she said, moving outside, still keeping her eyes behind her fringe.
Tia narrowed her eyes when the girl walked past her, flexing her hands in her pockets as she watched the girl get closer to the sunlight. What did this intruder want? Was it an accident that she came here? No matter.... She had always treated intruders with the same behavior: with aggression and physical behavior. Why should this time be any different?
The demon in her spirit whispered things to her, somewhat ideas of how to get rid of her.... Killing her was the first thing that was suggested of course.... And Tia had actually considered it. This female sort of reminded of the winged lady that she encountered last night.... Not by behavior, but because of her supernatural nature. If this was true, then Tia wanted no part of it... So it was decided....
See what she was doing here, then kill her...
Tia let a bit of her tongue flicker like a snake as she slowly approached Elizabeth, her tail snaking out from behind her as she stalked the little girl. Her eye pupils narrowed as she got closer, her tail rattling and Tia saying something in a raspy hissing voice just before she launched herself at the girl to pin her down among the dry leaves. She gave a wide-mouthed hiss-roar before she spoke to her.
"Who are you?! Why are you here?" Tia demanded with a hissing voice.
Elizabeth thought that things were going so well...
But as soon as she heard that same, soft maraca sound, followed by a hiss, she realised that she had messed up somewhere. She felt herself thrown to the ground, and squeezed her eyes tightly shut. What could she do? 'What do you mean?' Could be something she could say. Or she could reveal herself; she was pretty sure she could take on an average girl. However, she began to put things together.
She eventually came to this: maraca, plus hiss, equals rattlesnake. She bit her lip at the roar, eyes still tightly shut. She needed to save herself now. She forced herself to start crying again. "What are you talking about? I told you..." she sobbed, rubbing her eyes yet keeping them shut.
Tia slammed her tail at the girl's response- she knew that she wasn't normal. "Be quiet! You aren't a normal little girl.... I've seen your eyes in te cave... You're a demon aren't you? No never mind.... It doesn't matter. You're aren't welcome here! Child or not, you're an intruder here! Now leave before I'll kill you right here and now!" Tia snarled as she wrapped her tail around Elizabeth's leg. She lifted her up and threw her to the side of her cave, slamming the girl's back against the rocky wall. The fact that the girl was an intruder here made Tia angry, and the fact that she wasn't a human made her demon angry- together, they both were a single pissed organism, which made Tia start doing defensive behavior that was from the strange demonic species her spirit was. She sld her tail on the ground repeatedly, snarling and flashing her fangs at Elizabeth, getting ready to strike her down at any given moment.
Elizabeth flinched at the demon girl's shouting. She felt something snake around her legs and moved her hands away a half second too late, as she went flying through the air. She crumbled into a ball on the cave floor, still sobbing quietly. Tia would start to hear her own voice in her head: "Come on, you don't actually think she's a demon, do you?" She would think she thought. "She's just a kid, and you just flung her against a wall! Just help her home, come on now."
Tia hissed when the girl curled up into a ball, her tail rattling loudly as she continued her territorial behavior, taking a couple of steps towards Elizabeth. Suddenly, Tia 'thought' of something concerning the girl, making her pause in her tracks. Flinging a girl against the wall? And she claimed to like kids! Tia gasped and blinked a few times, panting as she watched the 'poor' girl sob in her cave.
With these thoughts, Tia reeled in her tail and made herself calm down, much to the disapproval of her demon spirit. It sent a wave of murderous urges throughout Tia's body, making her eye pupils narrow and her body shiver. Tia didn't want to go through with what the demon made her feel, and closed her eyes as she shook her head with a straining hiss.
'No! She's just a little girl who's lost in the woods... If there's anyone that I won't kill it will be a small child,' Tia thought with concern. Tia wouldn't be able to deal with herself if she killed a little girl younger than her; if she did, then she'd be a more vicious monster than she already was.... Tia shook herself and did her hardest to suppress the urges she was experiencing, and continued once she was able to suppress herself enough.
The half-demon walked over to Elizabeth and couched down next to her, looking at the back of her neck as she tried to comfort her. "I'm so sorry Elizabeth... I don't know what came over me. I know the way back to the town, and if you'd like, I can help you keep the boys away... How about that?" Tia asked in a friendly way.
Elizabeth pulled herself into her tighter when she heard the rattling get louder as the demon got closer. She needed her telepathy to work - she didn't like her chances being faced to face with some sort of rattlesnake shifter, because she had never tried to control a snake. Likely because she had never even seen one in a picture since her death. She hid a gasp of relief as she finally heard the shaking sound slow and eventually, stop. She remained on guard for a single moment, listening very carefully. When Tia spoke to her, she shuffled away slightly, though found the cave wall on her left side. She turned her head ever so slightly to Tia, hiding her eyes. She began to take the girl in, then sniffed harshly.
She held back a gag. Slowly, she rolled back up onto her knees and forced herself to give a little smile. "...thank you," she whispered, holding tightly onto her hands in her lap. She sniffed again and bit her lip. "S-sorry, but..." she hesitated, taking a deep breath. "When was the last time you showered?"
Tia lowered her ears when the girl asked her about her smell. She was incredibly embarrassed, as she never really had any humans tell her about her scent, mainly since those that were ever this close to her were several seconds from death.... Nobody asks about someone's smell when they're dying right? Tia forced her smile to keep where it was, but on the inside, she was several seconds from caving in embarrassment, forcing out a chuckle as she backed away a bit. "Its been a couple of hours since I've been outside.... Tell me, how clean would you expect to be after being in the forest for half the day?" Tia asked with a small tilt in her head. "Once I get back to my place after taking you back to yours, I'll surely take a bath then."
The serpentine spirit in Tia began to get a bit irritated, as it noticed that Tia was pushing its influences back. And it was for some human girl?.... No... Not a human girl: it was a demon girl... It knew the difference, but it couldn't tell Tia otherwise.... She must've tricked her somehow...
How dare she?
It sent another wave of urges that were a bit stronger than what it had been doing initially, making a small 'urk' sound escape Tia's mouth. Tia closed her eyes and began to make stifled breaths, trying her hardest to not let her bodily reactions come forward. She wanted to help Elizabeth, but if she was going to do that, she needed to keep it together before she ended up slaughtering the poor girl. 'Keep calm.... Stop it! You won't let me do it ... Not to a little girl,' Tia thought with determination.
Elizabeth bit her tongue, feeling bad. Despite being dead, she still felt feelings, if you will. She just couldn't quite remember how to show them, unless she was just mimicking what she had seen. All of her actions, so far, were perfect replicas of something someone else had done. She had once gotten unlucky, as someone recognised how their child clasped their hands in front of their chest. She gave a tiny laugh through her guilt, which didn't sound right, just sounding melancholic. She waited a few moments, before seeming to get afraid. "Wait...what just happened before?" She asked, staring at the ground with wide eyes.
Normally, she would ignore anything creepy a target would do, because she just needed money. But she was genuinely afraid of what had happened. Something had wrapped around her leg...and then she was thrown. She had never, ever, ever felt something like it.
Tia opened an eye and looked to Elizabeth with a huff. She needed to get them both out of the cave and back to her home before she wouldn't be able to suppress her urges anymore, and they were getting harder and harder each time it hit her. Her eye pupil was still narrow and thin, but after a few more moments, it widened out to normal, which was a great relief to Tia. She heard something come out of Elizabeth- was it a song? Or a laugh? It sounded strange, but Tia didn't figure it her place to judge a little girl.
She was surprised to hear Elizabeth ask her question, about what had happened earlier.... She didn't know what happened? How is that so? Then Holly had a sudden thought in her head. 'Oh no! Did she get amnesia? No, she would've forgotten about me already.... Ooooh that's it! I'm taking her home,' Tia thought with a worried sigh. She got up and figured it best to not bring up something that might be harmful to her goal.... That meant she wasn't going to tell Elizabeth about her throwing her in the air... That wouldn't be good at all. "Nothing happened.... Now let's go before your parents begin to worry... It would be bad if they thought you were hurt in any way," Tia said as she walked out of her cave once more.
Elizabeth frowned when the strange teenager didn't repeat what had happened to her, rather, just flat out ignored her. "But..." she tried to protest, but decided that if something did happen, she certainly wasn't going to be told about it. She remembered something - the attack had followed the sound of a snake rattle. She then decided that if she even heard a rattle, the girl was dead. Or, robbed blind, at least. Maybe a mixture of both.
She slowly stood up and followed the teenager. She cleared her throat, head still tilted down. "What's your name?" She asked, holding her hands behind her back. Her voice had now become eerily calm and monotone. The same voice in Tia's head would begin to feed her thoughts about the girl; about how cute she was, about how she should help extra for what she did, and things along those lines.
Tia paused when Elizabeth asked her for her name, slightly looking back with a curious look on her face. Tia realized that she didn't tell this cute little girl her name, which was a surprise since she liked little kids. With a small smile, Tia went back to Elizabeth, figuring that she should help her as much as she can since she was here with her. She stood over her with slightly observant brown eyes, her hands in her pockets as she looked down. "My name is Tia. Sorry that I haven't said it by now. She noticed the girl's tone of voice to have changed from scared to almost calm.... It wasn't how she normally heard a little girl to sound like in a situation as such. No matter, she simply shrugged it off with a smile and stood back up, looking towards the cave for a moment. She fidgeted with her toes for a moment, and without another word, Tia turned back around and kept going, her back facing Elizabeth once more. "Come now, if your parents begin to worry, then what will happen to you? I'm pretty sure that you don't want to get in trouble with your mom and papa don't you?" Tia asked as she kept walking.
Elizabeth nodded slowly. "Nice to meet you, Tia." She said, putting extra effort into the name. The name 'Tia' was oddly nostalgic to her, but this sort of nostalgia was painful. She had figured out that it was past-life memories, or something of a similar caliber. She just hoped that this teenager she had met wasn't the one that she was thinking of.
She gave a slight jog so that she could keep up with Tia, since the teenager had noticeably longer legs than her and appeared to be fitter. She slowed down when she was a little bit in front of her, going back to a walk. She got visibly tense and nervous at mention of her parents, rolling her sweaty hands over themselves. As she sweated, the blueness in her skin began to get more pronounced, like by sweating her life force was dripping away from her like a leaky tap.
"Didn't...Didn't I mention I live in an orphanage?" She whispered, though the sentence seemed to have been made haphazardly and in a rush. She was an idiot! She was too preoccupied with thinking about the teenager, and she hadn't even been planning out her backstory for the day!
Tia smiled a bit when Elizabeth responded to her, happy to know that a little girl such as Elizabeth didn't sense anything wrong with the teenager after this amount of time. She couldn't explain how, but Tia had noticed that any human that stayed close to her for a certain amount of time and beyond would begin to sense that something was wrong.... Most wouldn't know what the feeling would be caused by, but there were those who were particularly aware of how circumstances would go- those people would suspect something wrong with Tia. It was partially the reason why Tia couldn't stay around folks for too long, but other reasons would pop out more significantly than that particular one.
Tia sighed a little when she saw Elizabeth run a little bit ahead of her, smiling slightly as she slowed down beside her. She turned her head a little to see Elizabeth grow visibly nervous at the mentioning of her parents, making her wonder what the matter was. She was going to ask a question when Elizabeth turned to her, her face all blue and discolored. "Now what's wrong with you?" Tia asked with worry. She thought that Elizabeth was dealing with heart problems, and that was something she wasn't willing to deal with. She remembered seeing with a child that was asthmatic due to heart problems, and she remembered one time when the child was having difficulty breathing and her skin began getting blue. Thankfully, her mother noticed in time and gave her inhalers, which gave the child the assistance she needed to breathe again. If this was happening right now, Tia wouldn't know what to do all the way out of the forest... It would become disastrous for both her and Elizabeth.
Thankfully, she was only panicking about the statement about parents, though this didn't make Tia any less calm. She stopped walking when Elizabeth mentioned being in an orphanage, which didn't at all follow her previous story about being chased by boys and her parents being worried for her. Tia growled in her head as she turned herself around to face Elizabeth, a fang slightly showing when she pursed her lip upwards a little. She bent down to get at eye level with the girl, her eyes narrowing as she spoke to her.
"You're in a what? An orphanage? You didn't say anything about that when we first met." Tia said with a low voice. At this, Tia's demon tried to take the opportunity to make an even more persuasive influence, taking notice at the small spark in Tia's anger when she was just fibbed to. It whispered to Tia about other things she could be fibbing about, and that she couldn't be trusted, no matter how small and childish she was. Tia's eye pupils got slightly clouded as the demon whispered to her, making Tia bare a small fang at the girl.
"What else are you fibbing about? You better say something right now, or else something might happen that none of us will like.... Mostly me though," Tia said with a tilted head.
"Must you do that?" Tia asked annoyingly. With a stuck out tongue, Tia lifted her head in the warm air, slightly picking up the scent of an intruder.... And they were in her territory... If there was anything that Tia was aggressive for it was for the things that she claimed to be hers. Whether it was her territory, her hood, or more especially, her cave. She'd fought off wolves for this land, and anything else that thought they could come at her was going to get another thing coming.
She jumped off her cave outer-cropping to land on her feet, opening her mouth to flex her sharp hypodermic fangs. After a few seconds, she figured it would be better to be a human in the case it was a human coming her way, and backed away into her cave to change back to her human form. With a low growl, the half-demon stepped to the mouth of the cave, only to sense the intruder to be closer than she thought. Tia sniffed the air as she growled lower, muttering demonic phrases as she searched for the intruder.
Elizabeth was just beginning to drift off when she began to hear scuffling sounds. She faded in and out of sleep for a few moments, having missed the maraca sounds. She heard what the girl said to her demon, but mistook it for her malfunctioning telepathy voices (such a thing happened a lot; when she was alone, and hadn't used her telepathy for a while, her own thoughts fired themselves back at her). She only moved when she heard a slight streeeeetch...
She opened her eyes, and despite her cold skin, her fight or flight pulsed manically through her veins. She shuffled slightly to free up her hands, which she had been sitting on. She heard sniffing, but she could see the person's silhouette. She covered her eyes and forced herself to cry. "P-p-please, l-leave me alone..." she sobbed. Just as always, her acting was immaculate.
Tia growled when she heard crying, and quickly turned her gaze to her right; her eyes- which had quickly grew accustomed to the darkness- spotted a little girl immediately, which startled her at first. Where did she come from? How was she able to come here? Tia stopped her growling and slowly walked up to the crying girl, immediately feeling bad for how frightened she sounded.
"Aww don't cry little one.... Are you hurt? Are you lost?" Tia asked softly. She sat down in front of Elizabeth and crossed her legs as well, her face the most friendly she'd done since she left her old home. However, an other another shockwave of demonic energy pulsed through Tia's body, making her grunt a little as she closed her eyes. She hated it when the demon did that; she never knew what it wanted when it did that. She honestly thought it was a way to cause more discomfort, but she couldn't tell.
Elizabeth heard a growl. She cowered into herself. If it was an animal, it would be easy for her to make eye contact and force it up on top of the cave and then right back down, wrong side down. But instead of hearing four paws, she heard two feet. She glanced up slightly, caught sight of a human pair of feet, and then looked right back down at her hands. Shoot. This would be more difficult. Human deaths were always more difficult for her to pull off, and normally she didn't even do them...she just robbed them blind, but if they snapped out of her hold, that was then things accelerated.
She moved her hands away but kept her head down, hiding her eyes behind her fringe. She listened carefully to the voice; it was definitely female. She didn't have to worry about getting angry. She wiped her eyes. "S-s-some boys from my town chased me out here..." she blubbered, pulling her cardigan tighter around her. "C-can you help me?" She asked, not yet using her telepathy, seeing if the other girl, whom she judged to be around her age, would take the bait.
Tia huffed when she was told that the little girl was being chased by a couple of boys. She remembered when she was chased by boys as well, so she could relate rather easily. She looked down and tapped her fingers on her lap, wondering what she could do to cheer the little girl up. "Of course I'll help you. I've been chased by wolves before, so I can tell how much it sucks," Tia said with a small smile.
When Tia tapped the girl's head and asked her for her name, she felt another wave of energy pulse through her body- making her eyes slit a bit. The teenager cleared her throat and turned her head, breathing as slowly and as quietly as possible. What was going on? Why was her demon all of a sudden acting strange? These pulses weren't pulses of murderous intent thank God, but they still made her chest tighten and her teeth clench. This last one made her eyes change a little.... Was there something wrong? Something that her demon side could sense that Tia couldn't? Tia narrowed her eyes and shook it off once more, but kept her eyes out for any danger- having no idea that the danger was right in front of her.
Elizabeth muffled a smile by biting the corners of her lips. She played naïve, and lifted her head ever so slightly, still hiding her eyes. "W...wolves?" She asked slowly, voice pitch heightening in fear. "There are...wolves here?" She began to sniffle again. She went through what her thoughts should be for the character she had taken on: 'What was going on here? Who is this girl? Why is she here? Why did the boys chase me out here? Does she actually want to help me?' The thoughts were very alien to her - unbeknownst to her, when she was alive, she would have never thought thoughts like that, because she never would have ran away from anyone, and would have never not trusted anyone. However, when she thought thoughts that she thought to be unrealistic - 'Thank God this girl is here. I hope she'll help me home. Maybe my parents will invite her in for dinner.' - they seemed perfect to her.
She flinched at the touch and pulled into herself. "E-Elizabeth." She squeaked, voice still trembling. Out of the corner of her eye and through her hair, she noticed the girl tense. Shoot. Things needed to move, and quick. "I don't know my way back." She squeaked, very slowly getting to her feet. Here, she messed up. She flicked her fringe away from her eyes for a second, revealing the darkness for a moment before her fringe moved back and recovered them. She didn't realise her mistake. She held her hands behind her back and kept her eyes staring down at her feet, still behind her faint, faded gold fringe.
Tia didn't realize her mistake when she mentioned wolves until the girl mentioned it herself. She widened her eyes and cleared her throat, waving her hand dismissively and chuckled sheepishly. "D-did I say 'wolves'? I mean older guys.... Hehe... It's just a word I use to describe older men," Tia said with a nervous chuckle. She never meant to mention wolves toward this girl.... Nobody normal gets chased by wolves on a daily basis. She needed to be careful about this stuff.
The girl's voice made Tia feel sorry for her, for she didn't like it when little kids got scared and lost in the woods. Tia looked up when the girl got on her feet, and noticed the blackened eyes that she bore. Upon seeing that, Tia widened her eyes with an inward gasp, the rattling sounds in her head going off like fireworks. What was that? Were this girl's eyes pitch black? Even in the darkness of her cave she was able to tell the white from a normal person's eyes, and this girl had none.
Another pulse of demonic energy forced itself throughout her body, making Tia clench her teeth harder. Venom from her fangs began to flow out of her mouth, dripping onto her pants in little drops. Something was definitely not right, and the problem was that girl. Tia couldn't help but growl a little as she stood up herself, wondering how to deal with this inhuman intruder. "Well, let's go outside then. The sun can help you stay warm rather than staying in the cold cave," Tia said with a friendly voice.
Elizabeth noticed how the girl very quickly began to change what she said. She bit her lip. She didn't have to worry about the wolves, since they couldn't hurt her, but if wolves attacked them, the other girl would notice how the wolves would either be afraid of the black-eyed child, or would just entirely ignore them, and that would blow her cover, which she didn't even know had already been blown. However, she heard a slight dripping noise. Her eyes were drawn to the floor, where a drop of something that she guessed to be water fell down and hit against the floor with a resounding plop. She mistook it for a leak in the cave. She smiled and wiped her eyes again. "Yeah..." she said, moving outside, still keeping her eyes behind her fringe.
Tia narrowed her eyes when the girl walked past her, flexing her hands in her pockets as she watched the girl get closer to the sunlight. What did this intruder want? Was it an accident that she came here? No matter.... She had always treated intruders with the same behavior: with aggression and physical behavior. Why should this time be any different?
The demon in her spirit whispered things to her, somewhat ideas of how to get rid of her.... Killing her was the first thing that was suggested of course.... And Tia had actually considered it. This female sort of reminded of the winged lady that she encountered last night.... Not by behavior, but because of her supernatural nature. If this was true, then Tia wanted no part of it... So it was decided....
See what she was doing here, then kill her...
Tia let a bit of her tongue flicker like a snake as she slowly approached Elizabeth, her tail snaking out from behind her as she stalked the little girl. Her eye pupils narrowed as she got closer, her tail rattling and Tia saying something in a raspy hissing voice just before she launched herself at the girl to pin her down among the dry leaves. She gave a wide-mouthed hiss-roar before she spoke to her.
"Who are you?! Why are you here?" Tia demanded with a hissing voice.
Elizabeth thought that things were going so well...
But as soon as she heard that same, soft maraca sound, followed by a hiss, she realised that she had messed up somewhere. She felt herself thrown to the ground, and squeezed her eyes tightly shut. What could she do? 'What do you mean?' Could be something she could say. Or she could reveal herself; she was pretty sure she could take on an average girl. However, she began to put things together.
She eventually came to this: maraca, plus hiss, equals rattlesnake. She bit her lip at the roar, eyes still tightly shut. She needed to save herself now. She forced herself to start crying again. "What are you talking about? I told you..." she sobbed, rubbing her eyes yet keeping them shut.
Tia slammed her tail at the girl's response- she knew that she wasn't normal. "Be quiet! You aren't a normal little girl.... I've seen your eyes in te cave... You're a demon aren't you? No never mind.... It doesn't matter. You're aren't welcome here! Child or not, you're an intruder here! Now leave before I'll kill you right here and now!" Tia snarled as she wrapped her tail around Elizabeth's leg. She lifted her up and threw her to the side of her cave, slamming the girl's back against the rocky wall. The fact that the girl was an intruder here made Tia angry, and the fact that she wasn't a human made her demon angry- together, they both were a single pissed organism, which made Tia start doing defensive behavior that was from the strange demonic species her spirit was. She sld her tail on the ground repeatedly, snarling and flashing her fangs at Elizabeth, getting ready to strike her down at any given moment.
Elizabeth flinched at the demon girl's shouting. She felt something snake around her legs and moved her hands away a half second too late, as she went flying through the air. She crumbled into a ball on the cave floor, still sobbing quietly. Tia would start to hear her own voice in her head: "Come on, you don't actually think she's a demon, do you?" She would think she thought. "She's just a kid, and you just flung her against a wall! Just help her home, come on now."
Tia hissed when the girl curled up into a ball, her tail rattling loudly as she continued her territorial behavior, taking a couple of steps towards Elizabeth. Suddenly, Tia 'thought' of something concerning the girl, making her pause in her tracks. Flinging a girl against the wall? And she claimed to like kids! Tia gasped and blinked a few times, panting as she watched the 'poor' girl sob in her cave.
With these thoughts, Tia reeled in her tail and made herself calm down, much to the disapproval of her demon spirit. It sent a wave of murderous urges throughout Tia's body, making her eye pupils narrow and her body shiver. Tia didn't want to go through with what the demon made her feel, and closed her eyes as she shook her head with a straining hiss.
'No! She's just a little girl who's lost in the woods... If there's anyone that I won't kill it will be a small child,' Tia thought with concern. Tia wouldn't be able to deal with herself if she killed a little girl younger than her; if she did, then she'd be a more vicious monster than she already was.... Tia shook herself and did her hardest to suppress the urges she was experiencing, and continued once she was able to suppress herself enough.
The half-demon walked over to Elizabeth and couched down next to her, looking at the back of her neck as she tried to comfort her. "I'm so sorry Elizabeth... I don't know what came over me. I know the way back to the town, and if you'd like, I can help you keep the boys away... How about that?" Tia asked in a friendly way.
Elizabeth pulled herself into her tighter when she heard the rattling get louder as the demon got closer. She needed her telepathy to work - she didn't like her chances being faced to face with some sort of rattlesnake shifter, because she had never tried to control a snake. Likely because she had never even seen one in a picture since her death. She hid a gasp of relief as she finally heard the shaking sound slow and eventually, stop. She remained on guard for a single moment, listening very carefully. When Tia spoke to her, she shuffled away slightly, though found the cave wall on her left side. She turned her head ever so slightly to Tia, hiding her eyes. She began to take the girl in, then sniffed harshly.
She held back a gag. Slowly, she rolled back up onto her knees and forced herself to give a little smile. "...thank you," she whispered, holding tightly onto her hands in her lap. She sniffed again and bit her lip. "S-sorry, but..." she hesitated, taking a deep breath. "When was the last time you showered?"
Tia lowered her ears when the girl asked her about her smell. She was incredibly embarrassed, as she never really had any humans tell her about her scent, mainly since those that were ever this close to her were several seconds from death.... Nobody asks about someone's smell when they're dying right? Tia forced her smile to keep where it was, but on the inside, she was several seconds from caving in embarrassment, forcing out a chuckle as she backed away a bit. "Its been a couple of hours since I've been outside.... Tell me, how clean would you expect to be after being in the forest for half the day?" Tia asked with a small tilt in her head. "Once I get back to my place after taking you back to yours, I'll surely take a bath then."
The serpentine spirit in Tia began to get a bit irritated, as it noticed that Tia was pushing its influences back. And it was for some human girl?.... No... Not a human girl: it was a demon girl... It knew the difference, but it couldn't tell Tia otherwise.... She must've tricked her somehow...
How dare she?
It sent another wave of urges that were a bit stronger than what it had been doing initially, making a small 'urk' sound escape Tia's mouth. Tia closed her eyes and began to make stifled breaths, trying her hardest to not let her bodily reactions come forward. She wanted to help Elizabeth, but if she was going to do that, she needed to keep it together before she ended up slaughtering the poor girl. 'Keep calm.... Stop it! You won't let me do it ... Not to a little girl,' Tia thought with determination.
Elizabeth bit her tongue, feeling bad. Despite being dead, she still felt feelings, if you will. She just couldn't quite remember how to show them, unless she was just mimicking what she had seen. All of her actions, so far, were perfect replicas of something someone else had done. She had once gotten unlucky, as someone recognised how their child clasped their hands in front of their chest. She gave a tiny laugh through her guilt, which didn't sound right, just sounding melancholic. She waited a few moments, before seeming to get afraid. "Wait...what just happened before?" She asked, staring at the ground with wide eyes.
Normally, she would ignore anything creepy a target would do, because she just needed money. But she was genuinely afraid of what had happened. Something had wrapped around her leg...and then she was thrown. She had never, ever, ever felt something like it.
Tia opened an eye and looked to Elizabeth with a huff. She needed to get them both out of the cave and back to her home before she wouldn't be able to suppress her urges anymore, and they were getting harder and harder each time it hit her. Her eye pupil was still narrow and thin, but after a few more moments, it widened out to normal, which was a great relief to Tia. She heard something come out of Elizabeth- was it a song? Or a laugh? It sounded strange, but Tia didn't figure it her place to judge a little girl.
She was surprised to hear Elizabeth ask her question, about what had happened earlier.... She didn't know what happened? How is that so? Then Holly had a sudden thought in her head. 'Oh no! Did she get amnesia? No, she would've forgotten about me already.... Ooooh that's it! I'm taking her home,' Tia thought with a worried sigh. She got up and figured it best to not bring up something that might be harmful to her goal.... That meant she wasn't going to tell Elizabeth about her throwing her in the air... That wouldn't be good at all. "Nothing happened.... Now let's go before your parents begin to worry... It would be bad if they thought you were hurt in any way," Tia said as she walked out of her cave once more.
Elizabeth frowned when the strange teenager didn't repeat what had happened to her, rather, just flat out ignored her. "But..." she tried to protest, but decided that if something did happen, she certainly wasn't going to be told about it. She remembered something - the attack had followed the sound of a snake rattle. She then decided that if she even heard a rattle, the girl was dead. Or, robbed blind, at least. Maybe a mixture of both.
She slowly stood up and followed the teenager. She cleared her throat, head still tilted down. "What's your name?" She asked, holding her hands behind her back. Her voice had now become eerily calm and monotone. The same voice in Tia's head would begin to feed her thoughts about the girl; about how cute she was, about how she should help extra for what she did, and things along those lines.
Tia paused when Elizabeth asked her for her name, slightly looking back with a curious look on her face. Tia realized that she didn't tell this cute little girl her name, which was a surprise since she liked little kids. With a small smile, Tia went back to Elizabeth, figuring that she should help her as much as she can since she was here with her. She stood over her with slightly observant brown eyes, her hands in her pockets as she looked down. "My name is Tia. Sorry that I haven't said it by now. She noticed the girl's tone of voice to have changed from scared to almost calm.... It wasn't how she normally heard a little girl to sound like in a situation as such. No matter, she simply shrugged it off with a smile and stood back up, looking towards the cave for a moment. She fidgeted with her toes for a moment, and without another word, Tia turned back around and kept going, her back facing Elizabeth once more. "Come now, if your parents begin to worry, then what will happen to you? I'm pretty sure that you don't want to get in trouble with your mom and papa don't you?" Tia asked as she kept walking.
Elizabeth nodded slowly. "Nice to meet you, Tia." She said, putting extra effort into the name. The name 'Tia' was oddly nostalgic to her, but this sort of nostalgia was painful. She had figured out that it was past-life memories, or something of a similar caliber. She just hoped that this teenager she had met wasn't the one that she was thinking of.
She gave a slight jog so that she could keep up with Tia, since the teenager had noticeably longer legs than her and appeared to be fitter. She slowed down when she was a little bit in front of her, going back to a walk. She got visibly tense and nervous at mention of her parents, rolling her sweaty hands over themselves. As she sweated, the blueness in her skin began to get more pronounced, like by sweating her life force was dripping away from her like a leaky tap.
"Didn't...Didn't I mention I live in an orphanage?" She whispered, though the sentence seemed to have been made haphazardly and in a rush. She was an idiot! She was too preoccupied with thinking about the teenager, and she hadn't even been planning out her backstory for the day!
Tia smiled a bit when Elizabeth responded to her, happy to know that a little girl such as Elizabeth didn't sense anything wrong with the teenager after this amount of time. She couldn't explain how, but Tia had noticed that any human that stayed close to her for a certain amount of time and beyond would begin to sense that something was wrong.... Most wouldn't know what the feeling would be caused by, but there were those who were particularly aware of how circumstances would go- those people would suspect something wrong with Tia. It was partially the reason why Tia couldn't stay around folks for too long, but other reasons would pop out more significantly than that particular one.
Tia sighed a little when she saw Elizabeth run a little bit ahead of her, smiling slightly as she slowed down beside her. She turned her head a little to see Elizabeth grow visibly nervous at the mentioning of her parents, making her wonder what the matter was. She was going to ask a question when Elizabeth turned to her, her face all blue and discolored. "Now what's wrong with you?" Tia asked with worry. She thought that Elizabeth was dealing with heart problems, and that was something she wasn't willing to deal with. She remembered seeing with a child that was asthmatic due to heart problems, and she remembered one time when the child was having difficulty breathing and her skin began getting blue. Thankfully, her mother noticed in time and gave her inhalers, which gave the child the assistance she needed to breathe again. If this was happening right now, Tia wouldn't know what to do all the way out of the forest... It would become disastrous for both her and Elizabeth.
Thankfully, she was only panicking about the statement about parents, though this didn't make Tia any less calm. She stopped walking when Elizabeth mentioned being in an orphanage, which didn't at all follow her previous story about being chased by boys and her parents being worried for her. Tia growled in her head as she turned herself around to face Elizabeth, a fang slightly showing when she pursed her lip upwards a little. She bent down to get at eye level with the girl, her eyes narrowing as she spoke to her.
"You're in a what? An orphanage? You didn't say anything about that when we first met." Tia said with a low voice. At this, Tia's demon tried to take the opportunity to make an even more persuasive influence, taking notice at the small spark in Tia's anger when she was just fibbed to. It whispered to Tia about other things she could be fibbing about, and that she couldn't be trusted, no matter how small and childish she was. Tia's eye pupils got slightly clouded as the demon whispered to her, making Tia bare a small fang at the girl.
"What else are you fibbing about? You better say something right now, or else something might happen that none of us will like.... Mostly me though," Tia said with a tilted head.
Elizabeth flinched at Tia's sudden switch in tone. She glanced at the girl through her overgrown fringe, looking from the ground to the girl flick-flick-flick. She held her hands behind her back. "I-I-I didn't want to!" She spluttered, thinking things up on the spot. "P-people think I'm some disowned delinquent wh-when they hear I don't have parents! I-I-I didn't think you'd care if, if, if I told you the truth!" She lied, acting still flawless. She lifted her hands and started to cry into them. When she risked another look at Tia, she saw a tiny pointed tooth peering just over the girls lip.
Elizabeth stumbled back, though still kept her eyes hidden behind her fringe. "What...what's that, in your mouth?" She spluttered, pointing at the tooth with a shaking hand. This girl wasn't a girl. Things pieced together in her head; when she was thrown against the wall, the maraca sounds, the fang, and the growing feeling of uneasiness that kept growing and growing in her gut...
She stumbled backwards a few steps. Frantic, she started to beam thoughts into Tia's head. 'She deserves to know the truth!' 'Just tell her, I'm sure she'll understand.' 'As long as you don't hurt her, she can't be angry at you!' 'If you hurt her now she'll go to the police. Do you want to go to jail?'
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