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Somewhere in the dimension known as the Black and White, 5 swirling colors were having an animated discussion. Their features were grotesque, and rarely stayed consistent, with random blobs jutting out at odd angles. One was covered in shifting, bloodshot eyes, with purple pupils. Another was constantly leaking an odd blue goo. The next had a massive, gaping mouth, larger than someone sane might think possible, and pink fur everywhere. After that, a bright yellow beast with jagged horns, a terrible scent, and timepieces all over. The final, and, really, the only one that mattered, was a mass of green, writhing tentacles. Wiggly, The Lord in Black, Lord of Despair, and over all leader of the Lords in Black. He was currently busy arguing with his unnecessarily stubborn little brother. Blinky.
"Oh come ON Wiggly, you run all the summonings, and every single one is equally as boring." Blinky said with angry, narrowed eyes, "Every single time it's the same demand; giving up what they cherish most. All I'm saying is we should switch things up a bit, justtt a little." Wiggly's tentacles began to lash angrily, and just as he was about to say no immediately, Blinky, the disrespectful shit, began speaking again. "I know exactly what will happen if we ask for what they cherish most. It'll just be Stephanie and Peter arguing over who has to kill the other. I don't want to see that sappy-dappy bullshit!"
"And what exactly would you propose, Blinky?" Wiggly hissed, visibly seething. Blinky hesitated, realizing he was walking a very fine line. At just the perfect moment (for Blinky, anyway), Tinky interjected.
"I wanna hear him out! Maybe it'll be fun! Is it about Petey-pie? I sure hope so!" Tinky said in an excited voice, with a manic smile. The closest thing to a smile he could manage in his true form, anyway.
Confidence mostly regained with someone backing him, Blinky began to explain. "It's a simple idea, really. Instead of having them give up what they cherish most, they just have to kill one of their own. Two lovers desperately bargaining for the other's life has gotten..old. Sometimes simple is good." He finished with pride.
"That's a terrible idea." Pokey instantly dismissed. "There's no drama whatsoever, and it's terribly boring. No creativity." Blinky whirled around, snarling at him, only for Wiggly to interrupt.
"Calm yourself, Blinky. We're all..fwendy-wends, here." His tone said anything but. Blinky weighed his options for a moment, contemplating the merits of leaping at Wiggly to fight him. He decided against it, knowing he would ultimately lose and have his plans discarded either way. Instead, he turned to Nibbly.
"Nibbly. If you go along with it, you can eat the dead one's soul. You can have allll that tasty human life to yourself." Nibbly perked up at the mention of being fed, and murmured "Yum yum...." He always was easily swayed. Wiggly glared, tired of this pointless argument. He thought about arguing to win Nibbly's favor, but decided that he would never debase himself in such a way. Instead, he grit out a "Fine. It's only one summoning, and soon you'll see just how boring it will be." Before anyone got any ideas, he quickly added "I'm still leading the summoning though."
Tinky quite liked the idea of what would essentially be an all out brawl, even if it didn't particularly involve Peter. Nibbly was content with whatever got him the most food, and Wiggly was still pissed. Pokey, however, was arguably the least pleased with this arrangement out of anyone there.
"This is ridiculous!" He fumed. "It has no creativity whatsoever. No thought or care put into it at all! It's so anticlimactic to just have them kill one another after all of that exposition! You all are worse than I ever thought, especially you Wiggly. I never thought you would stoop so low, easily folding to-"
He was quickly interrupted by a mass of tentacles throwing themselves at him. In just a moment Pokey had been thrown a great distance by Wiggly. He managed to hold back an embarrassing shout of surprise, but still burned with shame. He wanted so badly to throw himself back at his brother and claw and tear his way to victory, but...that wouldn't end great for him. Pokey had attempted to fight Wiggly many, many times, even just for the sake of silencing his awful voice, and he never came close to winning. What good would it do? So he simply lurched on back, fuming all the while.
The other brothers merely watched, with all but Nibbly, who was totally indifferent, hoping to watch Pokey get pummeled. Blinky was hoping for that, anyway, Tinky just wanted to see a fight. To their disappointment, Wiggly, twitching with barely suppressed rage, put on his usual childish voice. He even managed to remove most of his anger from it.
"Now, then. Let's continue with this half-baked plan of yours. I lead the summoning, and rather than asking for what they cherish most, a much more reasonable plan, I tell them to kill one of their own." Wiggly said with finality, leaving no room for argument. They all felt the tug of the summoning by now, and chose to let themselves be carried away by it.