Bracelets for the soul

    Cyrus's eyes snapped open wide as the Hedgehog placed a hand on his chest, staring as they suddenly took on a rather flirtatious. "H-Hedgehog what the hell are you doing?" he grunted quietly, gaping up at them wide-eyed as they straddled his waist. The already lingering redness from the alcohol and aggravation how spread across his cheeks and up to his ears as they sat him down. Swallowing, he glanced to the side, chuckling a bit. "D-Don't tell me what to do y-ya damn virgin..." he teased, his face still bright red as he paused. "...There's way better people in there to be flirting with than me," he laughed and glanced up at them, veritably flustered and momentarily distracted. Lettuce's outburst would've normally garnered some sort of smarmy reaction but it wasn't until another party joined back in that he fully registered what she'd been shouting about.



    Cyrus glanced up at his soulmate, who seemed a lot more... calm despite his current grovelling. Frankly, it wasn't the man's odd behavior or tendencies that put him off, but rather this strong inclination towards violence that did the job of putting him off instead. He tilted his head, someone conflicted as he watched the pathetic display before grumbling, "Y-Yeah seriously. I really just want to go inside. Fuck this." Aberdeen's current technique was sparking up an idea. Maybe one that could further distract Alti.

    And that's when the provocations fired back up again. Well why don't I just eat shit, huh. His hand went through the motion of holding the wine glass, realizing just now that it had been taken and tossed away.



    Cyrus sat up quickly, trying to writhe around and force the Hedgehog off before giving up once the lighteheaded-ness set in again. He'd seen it enough times before to have an idea of what was going on with the kid. Hell, he'd experienced it himself to an extent just the night before. "Hey, hey Lettuce. Alraada? I need you to calm down, alright? Come on. No more fighting. No more of this violence shit, yeah? Let's all just, go inside. We'll go separate ways, Alti and I'll go sit with those scientists or something..." His face held nothing but exhaustion at this point. "But I need you to calm down. I dunno what exactly is going through your mind right now, but whatever it is isn't here. 'Kay?"

The smoke surrounding Aberdeen's head quickly shifted from pink to pure black.  They got up from Cyrus' lap and turned towards Vale, their flirtatious attitude completely gone. They began stepping forward towards Vale, no longer paying attention to anyone else. "I suggest you all go inside. I think Vale and I need to talk." They growled, coldly.

Aberdeen stood in front of Vale, cracking their knuckles and neck. "Hey, friend. How about you chill out before someone DOES get hurt." The black smoke was still wafting around their face. "Lets not do anything we'd regret, buddy."

Aberdeen cracked their neck, placing their hands in their pockets as they continued to stare them down, the black smoke wafting around still. "I'm sure it's just as much a coincidence as you being able to get roundhouse kicked and coming out completely unharmed." They spat coldly. "Don't give me that bullshit, Vale. If you keep this behavior up, SOMEONE is going to get injured. And if you hurt somebody..well...."

They took their hands out of their pockets and shrugged "You're gonna have a bad time. Cuz if your actions cause anyone here to get hurt, you are really not gonna like what happens next." They walked up to Vale, their chest nearly touching his own as they looked up at the figure. "Capiche?" They turned away from Vale and stepped off of the fallen tree. "Lets all just go inside now, okay? Wouldn't want the wind to end up hurting somebody."

Alraada's expression hardened with pure anger and disgust once again, towards this person who she almost no longer saw as Alti.
"I'll make you wish you weren't born ,k- " she was about to say the name of somebody she knew was dead.

She was about to attack again, but cyrus has stopped her.
She swallowed hard and shook in her place.
"You're right...they've all been dead for a while now..." She muttered, nearly inaudibly.
"Sorry, I let my emotions run away with me...I'm sorry about this, you must be really--" she was cut off by a loud thumping sound.


"Vale...?"
She whispered, visibly in shock.
"Holy hell, Vale, we nee--" she found herself being cut off again by the two scientists who had run outside.
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"What the heck is you guys' problem?!" Tyreithillis yelled out to the test subjects before her.
"You could've trapped the people in that building in with that tree junk! Everybody's been evacuated but you all, and we're leaving too!" She commanded.
Elenara stepped forward.
"If anybody is hurt, we can take you to the hospital. But please, be aware of the trouble you have all caused. I feel like a pre-school teacher who cannot leave their students unsupervised for more than a minute." She said, with a glare at no one in particular.
"If you have anything in there you need to get, please go through the back door and collect it. We will be showing you all to your rooms in a hotel, with regular beds, and there you will stay until we deem to safe and nessecary for you to leave."

((The date is not entirely called off yet, bit it is extremely likely. Someone has to make an extremely good case to the scientists to convince the,test subjects to be allowed to stay there))

Alti furrowed his brows in frustration. The man didn't exactly have to be savvy in the ways of dating to know that this one- his first one, and probably his last- was utter bullshit. They didn't even complete half of the tasks given. He wasn't about to argue a case for nothing. Instead, he bared his claws and dragged a portal open from behind him.

"Not happening." he said coldly, rubbing his sore arms as he stared at the two ladies. "Ya'll go ahead. I'm gonna take a breather." And with that, he stepped backward into the portal, the wails of lost souls now audible in the distance as the mortal entered. "Great date, you two!" he sarcastically directed at Elanara and Ty, putting up two peace signs at them before turning back to Alraada and Vale, the gesture changing into two middle fingers with a flick of the wrist as the portal finally closed.

Vale almost started laughing at that, but stopped himself. He was completely done with this situation. At the moment, he saw no reason for these people to ever want to resolve the issues that had formed between them. As he's stated earlier, it took two to make up. Clearly no one cared to besides him, and after Alti's current actions he'd decided to take back his previous statement.

He could never be friends with low life scum like that, who dragged others into battles they didn't belong to. No, people like that were foolish. Alti was a lost cause. Had Aberdeen not been here, he'd have rid the world of him in an instant. A waste of resources and space on this miserable planet.

His usually happy outlook current crumbling to pieces, he descended from the trunk and brushed past Aberdeen. "You're defending one of the worst people I've come across," He muttered as he faced away from them. "I can understand not wanting to take my side in this, but that does not mean the others side is immediately the correct choice. Perhaps you should rethink what you're doing here." He looked over his shoulder. "Or maybe not. Maybe you're fine with allowing things to be wrong and awful. I don't know you after all." 

Vale shrugged at the two scientists. "Yeah, the tree thing was weird. Came out of nowhere. Seems no one was hurt, so that's good." 
Vale narrowed his eye as the man vanished, giving an immature gesture. So he was right. Portals. There was always the possibility the user could have developed other skills as well, so it was best for him not to dismiss the power so soon. The black flecks had yet to be explained. "Asshole," He muttered, turning away from the portal. He looked at Alraada for a moment, but his stare was pretty dead at this point. He was done with this. "I need to be alone." He stated. "I'll go back to the hotel soon. I can't be around people right now."

With no further explanation, he journeyed away from the group and into the city, wandering for awhile until he found a deserted alley way and vanishing into it. He leaned heavily against the wall and slid to the floor, coughing roughly as his limbs moved in an unnatural fashion. Debris littered the floor around him. Bits of paper and bottles and other various trash. As his limbs continued to act of their own accord, one of the glass bottles flung itself into the air and shattered against the brick wall nearby. Vale thrust his head backwards in frustration, but the bricks he'd intended to slam into crumbled and fell before his head even touched them. He slumped completely onto the alleyway floor, hearing the music of some club as his head entered some shitty bathroom. He breathed heavily as black oozed out of his mask, more pieces of debris rising from the ground and throwing themselves in odd directions. He closed his eye and tried to block out the sounds of drunken men dancing and girls hollering through the bathroom door. He was spinning. The world was still and he was spiraling.

It was fine. He was fine.

Everything was perfectly fine.