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"clear the abyss?" a raspy voice called out. "that sounds like hell."
"uh-!?" dominiel jumped at the sound of the new voice, hugging the note to her chest and sharply turning around.
a certain darkly dressed girl sitting on top of a huge pink ball grinned back. "hey. i'm the grim reaper. you have three days left to live."
sighing, dominiel turned and began to walk away.
"wh- hey! is this how you treat your new teammate!?" she popped in front her with a scowl, blocking her way. her pink ball had shrunk in size, and was now shaking erratically near her head.
"...teammate? so, the heir of covenant asked you to help out the student council president as well?"
she snorted. "don't call them by their full titles, that sounds so dry. but yup! totes!"
dear nixied, ras needs to work on getting new friends. dominiel couldn't help but internally scoff at the familiar sight of her supposed help. she crumpled up the note and shoved it into a pocket in her coat. "well, it's only ten floors. i'm not sure of your skills, but if the heir trusts you enough to ask for your aid, then surely you'll be of help."
"oh yah, i'm so strong! stronger than diche herself~" she giggled, her pink ball now balancing on top of her head. "why, time could be the only thing that could defeat me!"
dominiel tilted her head to the side. "time?"
"time." she deadpanned. "i was almost done completing a plan! if only time wasn't against me, i would've been able to help those two, and myself! but, nooo, time just *had* to be my enemy!"
"ah, i don't understand the full story, but that sounds rather awful. i'm sorry."
"bah, no time to dwell on the past, no matter how sour i still am about it! my name's tenebria! though certain people call me theirs." she winked.
"..." dominiel sighed. "we're not doing this every time."
"even after aaaaall this time, you're still so tight!"
"we've known each other for a month through pairing up for favors that you, oh so conveniently, also seem to have, tenebria. i don't think that's a reasonable amount of time for people to become friends."
"oh please, what could you know about friends, miss sexless nun!?"
"..."
she could hear tenebria frantically scramble about a few feet away. "hey! come baaack, you're not being a team playeeeeeerrr!!!"
clasping her hands in a prayer, she softly murmured: "may my lord nixied follow me, unto now and forever. may my lord nixied grant me mercy and show me the northern lights once more-"
"hey, you wanna ride my balls?"
"...what." dominiel turned to look beside her.
tenebria had caught up with her, her pink ball glowing dangerously in her hand. "what 'what'? unless you wanna ride the same one together? i don't wanna walk the whole way!"
...and may my lord nixied please reserve any sanity i may have left from this trip.
"drink. it'll help!"
dominiel managed a sip, before turning her head away from the vial and throwing up blood. "uhugh..."
"that's disgusting. just because you're poisoned doesn't give you an excuse to act like a dying rat, ya know." tenebria said sympathetically, pulling the vial back.
"it's your fault..." dominiel grimaced, spitting out more blood.
"you stood in front of me when i was attacking!" she chirped back. "it's your fault that you took the whole brute of that nightmare." the pink ball that had caused said nightmare was deflating (sulking?) several feet away from the two.
dominiel exhaled, feeling warmer than ever. nixied, she hated this feeling. poison was incredibly delicate, and she admired people that worked with it. she did not, however, appreciate when said people mishandled that huge part of their skills and turned it on their allies. (admittedly, said allyship being flimsy, but, unimportant.) there was a ringing pain in the back of her mind, the inside of her mouth tasted foul, (shockingly, blood doesn't taste good. how do vampires drink this stuff?), and her stomach felt like it was eating itself. her body felt heavy on her bones, her skin was crawling all over and making her itch, her throat felt dry, and the blue liquid in the vial tenebria was offering her, despite the insistence, certainly wasn't helping with any of it.
"i told you i was stronger than diche! your fault for not believing me." tenebria grinned and sipped the vial herself. "ah! tasty, right? don'tcha love the taste of rats!"
"i can't even be bothered to be disgusted." she sighed, before grabbing the vial from tenebria.
"oh i'm serious! there was this teal looking bunny thing that was selling stuff, so-"
dominiel violently choking on the liquid soundly shut tenebria up. she hacked up something and spat it out. "euagck! tell that bunny to mix their shit properly! ugh, i think i nearly swallowed an eye...!"
"oh c'mon, don't let a good eye to waste!" tenebria scooped up the spat-out something and popped it into her own mouth.
"pervert." dominiel shuddered in disgust.
tenebria chewed thoughtfully. "debatable. ya better finish that drink?"
dominiel sighed, before taking another sip of the disgusting liquid. it was lukewarm.
"eek, weren't you just complaining about that? who knew miss nun was a masochist!"
"why are you here, tenebria."
"eh?" tenebria tilted her head, swallowing. "i said that little goddess boy asked me to help as well! yeesh, i can't believe you forgot already."
"no, no, i mean-" she sighed. "why are you here. with me. here. we, ugh... we both know the heir didn't ask you. why would he? you're a bitch."
she let out an offended gasp. "you insult me!"
"i don't care if he didn't ask you, i need any help i can get, but just... why have you been claiming that we were asked by the same person to do the same favor? for the past month? what's your goal. what do you want from me."
"...huh, after all those nights, i'd think you like me a little more."
dominiel glared at her through a tired gaze.
"y'know what i think you need? sleep. sleep off the poison." she declared, snapping her fingers. the previously sulking pink ball sprang to life, hovering around the two eagerly.
"let's. ugh, let's not."
"let's yes." she grinned. the pink ball glowed brighter.
may my lord nixied please save me from her grasp.
eveything turned pink.
...and save me from her smile.
then it was dark.