The Good Ship (Flighter and Oit)

Chrysaorus smiled back at Walter and continued to ride the rushing Kolliah that lept from building to building. It was an urge of hers to look down to see how her kingdom was doing through the hard times. Of course, what she saw had utterly disgusted her, and sen her into a minor fit of rage, masked by her usual stoicness.


“This whole thing is... Quickly killing off everything I had worked so hard to create.” She murmured, squinting down on the plants with her heterochromatic eyes.


To Kolliah's disdain, the human-shaped plants stretched up to the building Kolliah had stopped upon and binder her legs. It would have been insanely easy for her to escape, with her Goddess status, but the people might be the Escherisan citizens, and she dare not take the risk of obliterating them from her world. Instead, she pulled lightly and attempted to nudge the bodies away with her head. A futile effort.


Then came Jiirki, or his voice. Kolliah's head raised immediately into a growl. He was up to these whole shenanigans, of course. But more and more stuff were revealed as he spoke.


“You— you were the one who took away Walter's memories?!” Her thick brows furrowed.


“And you... You're ruining my kingdom... You're ruining everything. ” Chrysaorus stood up from Kolliah and hopped down onto the roof. “Show yourself! Now!”


--


Eventually, Airii felt as if her mind was let go. The voice that was in her mind from before had gone. Thankfully. She wouldn't have to push away the pain of a headache anymore, and she'd catch up with Drianne and Eirii in no time. She was serious, and she knew what she had to do.


Drianne and Eirii had been brainwashed like she had. If she somehow knocked them out then dealt with them later on... She'd get them back to normal. So that's just what she did. She sprinted out of the castle, followed the disturbing path of blood, until she found Drianne and Eirii in the marketplace.
 
Walter hopped down from Kolliah as well, searching around for Jiirki. Of course he wasn't there. He wouldn't waste his time appearing for a goddess simply because she demanded it. Jiirki, after all, was not stupid.


"I fear that I'm all booked up at the moment. We'll have to have this meeting some other time." The monkey-man giggled. More plants grew at a horribly fast rate, surrounding them. More plant people joined in trying to hold Kolliah in place. Jiirki, meanwhile, met up with the girls, giving them both a fancy little bow and a greeting.


"Hello, hello, little girls, little girls ~ It seems that Airii has betrayed us and must be put down. She is not one of us. She is the worst person, the absolute worst person for trying to ruin our fun, and just for that, she deserves death. Death and nothing more." He grinned and danced around them, grabbing hold of their heads for a final time, a final twisting of their perception.


"It's okay to kill her, and it's very important, since I ordered you to do it. My orders are very important, girls -- And that's because I'm your father, you see. You don't need Airii when you have each other as sisters. You don't need anyone but me. Yes, you love your father, you are loyal, yes? Best friend and daddy. So important. So very, very important."


He spotted Airii and quickly, he finished up his command.


"Oh deary, dear. Kill her, my little children. Kill that bully, that mean old Airii."
 
“I fear that I'm all booked up at the moment. We'll have to have this meeting some other time.”


“Bullshit! Complete and utter— Bullshit!!” Chrysaorus blurted out rather loudly. She collapsed down onto the roof. By then her rage had gone over it's boiling point. Her usually pale, doll-like skin had taken an unnaturally red hue. And that fiery rage that burned through her was expressed in a series of banging her slim hands on the roof. The impacts made on the roof were so hard, that it could be heard from yards and beards away, and it caused Chrysaorus' hand to bruise and bleed under the stress.


“You just... You just can't DO this!” She stopped banging on the roof to bite her lip. Tears flowed down from her tightly shut eyes. Her whole body trembled. “You can't...” Chrysaorus yipped, now signifying that she was crying, crying so deeply for this. For her citizens. For Escherisa. For Rouphoria.


Such a happening had such a negative toll on Chrysaorus. Rarely had she ever cried, even more so in public. She was just a sniveling mess.


Kolliah looked down sadly on Chrysaorus, finding it quite a harsh thing for Chrysaorus to witness. It was just as sad to Chrysaorus as it was for her, herself. And she couldn't do anything about it now that she was being covered all over by what she thought were Chrysaorus' citizens. She just stood there, being covered by the plant people, not being able to move at all.


--


Airii slid into the marketplace opening, convinced that Drianne and Eirii had just been around the corner. Her eyes brightened when she saw them, but then she was reminded of their condition and her face tightened. They were possessed.


Though... What was that behind them?


Airii squinted. She drew just a bit closer to view them more, as a stand had been blocking her sight. She gasped when she saw it— the same monkey person with a disheartening grin that she saw before totally going to kill others without a plausible reason why. Plausible for her, that is. Her body shook with fear, and she was tempted to turn back and run, but it had Drianne and Eirii. She couldn't just leave them be as they mindlessly catered to that monkey's wants and needs. A wave of courageousness passed over Airii, and she drew her sword.


“I don't care how I'm doing it, but, I'm going to take back my sister and Drianne!” She declared. She ran forward at the two with her sword in her hands.


Eirii and Drianne turned to Airii, who was running towards them rapidly. Drianne tilted her head, almost melancholically, and exhaled softly. “We have to kill her. Distract her, Eirii, then I'll sneak up and choke her.”


“Alright! For Papa!” Eirii imitated Airii in charging forward, and blocked off Airii's sword which was pointed with the back towards her. So her intent wasn't to kill them, but to disable them from movement? Eirii smiled. “You're a fool, Airii, for abandoning us!”


Airii growled, a glare pointed in Jiirki's direction. She pushed Eirii's sword away and swung around her legs.


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Walter felt the pain coming off of Chrysaorus like a hurricane. Pain and anger -- No, not anger but unhindered fury. Even when he was not that fond of the queen, he couldn't help but feel sorry for her. He lowered himself so he may pat the woman on the back gently.


"Ah... Don't worry, your majesty, we'll be sure to stop Jiirki and undo all the damage he's already done." He nodded to confirm this, though she may not even see it. Though how could he even fulfill that promise when they couldn't even do it in Concordia? There was just no way mere mortals could stop a god -- Even Kolliah was having trouble with --


And then a plant person threw him off the roof.


"SHIT!!" Was all Walter could say at that point.


~


Jiirki greeted Airii with an even wider grin, especially when she glared at him. He let out a mad cackle, a vicious, nasty laugh in the girl's direction. He rubbed his hands together and Todd, who had momentarily finished his rampage and was covered in blood, howled.


"Are you sure you don't want to join our family, little girl, little girl? It's such a pleasant one, and as long as you are with me, you'll be safe and happy ~" Jiirki offered Airii one final time, "I mean really, thinking for yourself is just so unsafe these days. It's better to be led with a nice, firm hand. Isn't that right, Drianne and Eirii?"


Todd moved closer to the girls, jaws drooling.
 
Chrysaorus yelped again. She brought her bleeding hand to her wet face, rubbing the crust and tears out. Her teeth remained clenched under all of the hair that flew out and masked her face. She accepted the pat on her back, but she didn't feel too much better about the situation, of course.


“Right, like everything's going to be fixed... I highly doubt that...” She said inbetween sniffles. She took a deep breath to calm herself for a bit. She looked up at Walter for a split second, to get a look at that sympathetic face of his, when a plant had grabbed him and tossed him somewhere else. Chrysaorus quickly stood up and watched him move further and further away from her. She looked over at the plants binding Kolliah.


“Kolliah, destroy them. We need to save the lives that are still alive.”


“But Chry--”


“I don't care if they were previously my citizens, or are some kind of trick made by this Jiirki person, just stop him now!”


Kolliah looked over at Chrysaorus melancholically with the one eye that hadn't been covered by the plants. If that's what she had wanted, then so be it. Kolliah set her whole body aflame, burning away the plant people into mere dust. In the efforts of going along with Chrysaorus' will, she lept off and charged after Walter.


--


Airii had got a clean hit on Eirii's leg with the back of the sword and as a result she got Eirii onto her feet. When she turned again towards the monkey man who was up to all of this, she gave him a look of disgust and backed away once more. That grin of his was just plain creepy and nightmare-inducing... Not as much as the bloody wolf that came afterwards. Her body tensed.


“You're going to sick Todd on me if I don't just give into you? What kind of sick twisted being are you?!” Airii squawked. She knew she wouldn't be able to take it on, but, maybe if she got to higher ground...


Could it climb, though? It probably could. It was faster than her and that she knew.


She stuck her hand under her dress and pulled out a small silver locket, which she held tightly for good luck. She hoped the next option she chose was the correct one.


Airii turned around, and decided to use her lightweightedness to scale the marketplace stands in little to no time. From there, she ran as far away as she could. She needed to get someone or something that would help her get the girls back, and also Todd back somehow.
 
Walt could hear the wind whistling between his ears as he fell from goodness-knows how high. Wouldn't that be pathetic, this way of dying? Walter, now that he could remember, knew that if he were to die, he wanted it to be of old age. He wanted to live a long and good - and pleasant - life, and really, falling to his death was not that at all. What a terribly shitty way to die, hm?


Though it was just before he hit the ground that Jiirki caught him with the help of his plants.


"Long way down, yes, Wally-ally-ally?" Jiirki jeered at Walt, who, with a yelp, wrestled himself out of the plants' grips and fell to the ground, which made Jiirki let out a screeching laughter. The second Walter got up and drew his sword, Jiirki stopped and sneered.


"You still think that little dingy thing can hurt a god, silly-billy? Oh, you're a cute one." The monkey-man giggled, earning himself a glare from Walter, "Well, I did get you to come down here, but now my little ex-'best-friend' is getting away... And we do indeed need her back, don't we? Oh Todd ~ !"





Todd perked up a bit, awaiting the order, snorting and huffing, impatient about receiving a command.


"Bring Airii to me. Or kill her. Either one is fine."


Todd then immediately took off, his launch causing the ground to shake a little and dust to fly up everywhere.
 
Kolliah sprinted through the marketplace alley as fast as she could to catch up with Walter who had been thrown into the air. Before she had managed to get a good distance towards where he had fallen, a girlish shriek rang from behind her, causing her to come to a screeching halt. She raised her head and tried to locate the origin of the sound as well as where it had come from, and from doing so she had found out that it was from Airii, who was running along the marketplace stalls to try and out-run whatever was chasing her. It seemed as if death were just around the corner for the little girl.


Kolliah gave a little whine. If she had been able to save both at the same time she would have, but she had been spanning several other regions in Rouphoria and couldn't just send another down to assist her. So instead of going the longer distance, she turned back around to go to Airii's aid, and rescue her quickly before she was caught. She did so efficiently and effectively, reaching her in a little less than half a minute.


“Airii, quickly, I'll protect you but we need to get to Walter!”


Airii slowed down, trying to catch her breath from running across firm planks of wood one after one. She looked up at the large celestial fox being. Her eyes widened.


“Kolliah? ... Um...”


She was surprised. She didn't know that Kolliah had looked like that... But the way she addressed her and how she knew her name gave it away. She gulped, looking back nervously to see if Todd was tailing them, and threw herself up onto Kolliah's back. As soon as she had a firm grip on her, Kolliah set off, but at a speed Airii wouldn't be able to get used to.
 
Todd did not let up his chase when Kolliah got involved. This only made him far more determined -- And Kolliah's fox form looked quite appetizing to the wolf-monster anyway. He barreled through vines and plant people in order to keep up with the speeding bullet of a goddess with his prey clinging desperately to her back. They won't get away. Not from him.


~


Walter was trying everything he could to hurt and drive back Jiirki -- Not that the monkey-man was making it very easy for him. Every swipe, every slash, was pushed back, dodged, parried by nothing (or perhaps it was invisible?). Jiirki was laughing at him. It was all he did, all he could do, it seemed, besides avoid every blow Walt could attempt.


And then Jiirki, in a sudden and unexpected move of his own, grabbed hold of Walter's head with his two hands. Walter screamed, feeling a sudden pain go through him before he blacked out. Jiirki dropped his limp body onto the stony ground, grinning his wicked grin.


"One less problem for me, one more problem for them," He whispered to himself, "Yee hee hee ~"


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Airii kept her eyes shut for a good amount of time while riding on Kolliah. There was only one instance of her opening them, which was when she looked back to see if Todd was still chasing after them.


He was, not surprisingly. She held on even tighter to Kolliah's fur and, without breaking her speech, shouted, “Kolliah, he's still at it!”


“I know. Stand behind me, I'll take care of it.”


Kolliah came to a screeching halt, spinning around to face Todd. She let Airii off behind her, stood infront of her, and waited for the werewolf to draw closer to her. She couldn't very well save Walter with a werewolf on her tail...
 
Todd, slobbering and snarling at Kolliah, bolting at her like a rocket in her direction, slammed into the goddess with all his might, roaring, letting out that horrible noise that felt more bear-like than wolf-like. He was ready to dig his claws into her fox flesh and fur. He was ready to rip her apart with his yellowing fangs, mix her blood with his thick saliva. His blue eyes glowed, burned with a hatred unmatched by any other creature in the universe.


Back with Jiirki and Walter, the monkey-man had left the feeble mortal alone. There was no need to deal with him anymore. Jiirki had already left his little present.


Most gods would flinch at the thought of manipulating someone who's lost their mind -- But not Jiirki. He thrived on insanity. He reveled in the twists and turns it brought. He giggled at how his brothers and sisters could never fully grasp how to deal with a broken humanoid of all species, all shapes and sizes. No, but Jiirki understood. He understood perfectly, and messing with the insane was a favorite pastime of his. In fact, it was usually he who broke people in the first place.


So Jiirki left Walter there, unconscious on the street, and went after Kolliah and Airii, turning into a hawk and seeking them out from above.
 
She couldn't see Todd.


It was like she was peering into a dense fog or smog, one that masked that which was inside. And that was Todd. She couldn't see Todd in that wolfish exterior, and he had been gone from his own conscience. If Kolliah had the liberty of knowing whatever had activated Todd's lycanthropy, she would fix it. But for now she had another objective, and that was protecting the little girl from behind her who had desperately attempted to save someone as she had attempted to save Escherisa.


Todd had slammed into her and knocked her onto her back and roared wildly with no sign of letting up the assault. Kolliah shot daggers at him through her eyes with such a disdain. She'd have to take him down and get him inactive somehow. She let him have his moment, this one moment of knocking her down, but she wouldn't let it last more than it had right now. She took action.


Her eyes flashed a golden color for an instant and, as a result, Todd had been launched into the air and off of her fox body by an otherworldlish force. Kolliah got back up onto her feet, morphed back into her humanoid form, and froze him in the air as he was in a circle of space that negated movement. It was only preemptive. When she was done with this, she flew up towards him, and peered into his mind-- his memories-- to figure out the cause of his early transformation.


Airii watched everything occur infront of her while not taking action as Kolliah had vowed. She had been a little worried when Kolliah was pushed down by the wolf, and a little on-edge, but remembered that Kolliah was a god and she would be fine. Even if that.... Physical? body was hurt, she would probably still be okay. Gods didn't die, couldn't die.... Right?


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Through Todd's memories was the nature of his transformation revealed to Kolliah. The monkey bite, how sick he became, and how that sickness eventually led to a forced transformation. Todd, of course, was silent only for a moment before the howling protests came, and he clawed at Kolliah, trying to get her away from him.


Jiirki swooped down and ended up landing on Airii's shoulder. He screeched in the girl's ear in an attempt to scare her. Oh what fun this was, he thought. How deliciously entertaining, indeed! That beak of his was wide, stretched with that monkey-like grin of his. The plant people were coming. A new wave. Another wave. Good, good, yes.


The plants invading the ground were smoking away, turning the ground into rusted metal. The second phase, yes.


((Why can't I type aauuugh ;___ ;) )
 
[What's up? I know we haven't spoken for a while


But I was thinking 'bout you and it kinda made me smile


So many things to say and I'll put 'em in a letter


Thought it might be easier the words might come out better]


She should've known. As the culprit of all the past events that have snowballed to lead up to now, it was Jiirki, the god that had somehow moved into her world and cause a ruckus. He cursed Todd and caused him to to turn into a wolf, but, before this he had sent Walter, previously an amnesiac, down onto her world while the whole Abessus deal was around. Forget the troubles Chrysaorus had done to try and fix it, he possessed a group of girls to cunningly murder all of the maids and servants, without them having an inch of a clue as to what happened and why it did.


And with this, the chaos escalated to a boiling point, resulting in the death of Escherisa's citizens.


Kolliah stood frozen among it all, floating near the wolf beast suspended in air. If only she could fix things... The situation seemed too terrible. She had to start fresh, a clean whiteboard to write upon. She would be much less lenient on otherworldly influence. Things would go her way, for once.


She just needed to get the problem out of the way. She needed to bring everything to a standstill, then she could do a whole world wipe.


“Abbessus... Come out hunny, please.”


The pseudo-god arrived to Kolliah's side, hands hung in his pockets, looking nonchalant.


“I need you to send back that god of chaos there to his world, can you do that?”


Abbessus looked toward the bird perched upon the girl's shoulder. Giving Kolliah a shaky nod, not very confident, Abessus floated down to make an attempt to take care of it...


Airii shrieked, caught off guard, slipping on her feet and waving wildly around her face and shoulders to try and scare the bird away from her. She fell onto her rump but disregarded the pain and got up to continue shooing Jiirki away.


[Why does it feel so good but hurt so bad


Whoa-oh-oh-oh]
 
Todd saw the new creature come from nowhere, and the smallest bit of recognition glinted in his blue, orb-like eyes. That creature did something. He had forgotten what, but it was a thing that made him hold resentment towards it. Todd roared angrily at it, his focus now shifting furiously onto Abessus. If only he could move. There was much struggling, but the werewolf could not move, nor break free from the magical force holding him.


Jiirki, in the meantime, was sneering at Abbessus, his beak widening. He leaped off of the shrieking Airii and fluttered down until he turned back into his grinning self.


"No one likes being corrected, I suppose," He giggled out through his clenched teeth, smiling all the way, "But I am no god of chaos. You mistake me for my sister. I, Jiirki, am the god of change."





And from the metallic, rusted ground came metallic and rusted people, much like the plant people -- Though those were far easier to tear apart. They were by no means robots. They looked nothing like robots. They were more akin to pieces of modern art. Metal, thrown on top of metal, until they eventually resembled a human form. The metal people surrounded everyone, their movements releasing creaks and shrieks and groans as the metal, which would normally not be moved is such a way, bent and folded to the will of the active metal men and women, who were making the smallest of movements as they stared down their enemies.


"So you're Abbessus?" Jiirki addressed the creature, "So cute, so weak, so helpless. Unable to stop my might. Unable to stop anything."
 
((My thousandth post yaaaay, and on my RPNiversary (I think I'm like 5 minutes late psh) ~ I wanted to do something grrrrrreat [©TtT] but instead here's a flashback because I remember not telling you about Chry


The next few posts will finish these flashbackz))


"Hey, Abbessus, what do you think? Isn't she a cutie?"


Kolliah and Abbessus were located within Kolliah's domain. Unlike in the current time, it had seemed as if some of the growing plants and algae that littered the stone rock engravings were diminished, and the celestial air wasn't as strong. This time was in the beginning phases of Kolliah's world, Rouphoria, as named by the humans she had placed upon the land. Great progress was made. Civilizations were established, everyone prospered, there were little casualties as the humans stayed within their lands and out of real danger...


Kolliah had desired to speed up the developing process. She created something that she would hope would unify the humans better, a being that would fit in like any other. This being was Chrysaorus. She was child-like. Fair skin, long shiny silver hair that fell down to her feet. Not much else could be observed besides the crescent moon tattoo on the left part of her chest. There were no habiliments attached to her.


Chrysaorus was hung up as if her arms were tied to the ceiling, with her arms raised and pinned over her head and the rest of her body just being weighed down by gravity. She was not moving at all, in fact, it looked as if she were sleeping. Kolliah stroked her hand across the girl's face once, then turned to the incomplete mock-god standing next to her.


"Well?"


The mask over Abbessus' face obscured any expression he would have been giving... Though he was grinning obnoxiously. "Yes, sure. Let's call her that. A cutie. She will definitely be interesting."


His speech was followed by a chuckle and a laugh, that brought his sketchiness to Kolliah's attention. She shrugged it off, though, and continued to admire her new creature until the two had decided to send her down to the world.


Kolliah had her doubts that things would go as smoothly as she thought.


-


Chrysaorus' respective gold and green eyes slowly opened. Her first action was to look around her surroundings. Knowledge seemed to be new for her, she didn't know what to think of where she was. Curiocity was a priority in this situation, but when she tried to step forward to analyze the weird structures around her, she couldn't.


Her arms and legs were lodged in the trunk of a tree. One of the vast amount of unidentifiable pillars around her.


She made an attempt to pull herself loose. No avail. She wailed-- not like she knew any language-- to see if anything could help her get out. Nothing came within the next five minutes so she had wailed again.


There was a little boy. Brown hair, quite fair in skin tone but scrawny, covered in dirt. Chrysaorus didn't recognize these traits but she had noticed the boy's presence and became exhilarated seeing the being move towards her.


"Woah... Hey, you're stuck in a tree? You shouldn't get stuck in trees, um..."


The boy fumbled. He was undoubtedly nervous, seeing such a pretty -unclothed- female that you would probably only see in fables. He wasn't thinking much, so instead of running to tell someone he ran up to the body in the tree and made his best attempt to pull the girl out with his bare hands, yanking on the tree bark that wrapped around her arms and legs. After quite the effort, he had managed to yank Chrysaorus out of there, but


ended up pulling himself back as well. As such, he fell to the floor on his bum and sucked his teeth.


"Owwie... That hurt... Are you okay?"


The boy looked to her in question. Chrysaorus couldn't understand his gibberish. She stood up, though not easily, and stared down at the boy that had freed her from the tree.


~~~~~


Abbessus dropped down to the ground, showing no signs of concern regarding Jiirki and his remarks against him. He shifted his hands onto his hips and arched back, making it look as if he was relaxing.


"You know, you have two choices," he began, "You could continue this and I could expel you... Or you will gladly surrender and return to where you once came."


Abbessus tilted his head at him. He made it look like he was demanding an answer there. In truth he was afraid, and worried, but sure to pull it off.


Kolliah noticed something about Todd. Instead of showing that rage as being a werewolf outspread... It was targeted to Abbessus now. Remembering what Abbessus had done previously, she came to the conclusion that Todd was still in there, still showing anger for her creation. "Todd? Todd, you remember Abbessus?" She asked. She turned and pondered more. She was thinking of the next scenario.
 
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