paixaorpg | Try not to step on the clone panels please? [Done]

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kovu,
priere

Try not to step on the clone panels please? [Done]

Character(s): Priere and Kovu
Content: So a lion and a nun enter the Netherworld...
Setting: See above
Time: Around noon
Warnings: ~~None yet except for possible massive lion snarking.~~ Violence against ~~fake memories~~ demons! 8Db

Well there went her good mood. Priere had really been looking forwards to heading to the newest floor. Hey, she needed something to do, and after the disappointment of failing to find the door in the last level, though being turned into an animal probably didn't help much, she was eager to find something in this one. And, she managed to get Kovu to join her... even if a certain someone didn't sound like he was excited about that fact. This had to change. It was a bit of an odd friendship at time, but she did enjoy his company.

But of course something had to come and ruin it.

She had no idea they were heading in the Netherworld. Oh, that fact wasn't new for her, she's been in the Netherworld, or the Dark World as they called it back home, a lot of times before to the point where it started to look less like the dangerous dimension it was supposed to be and more of a training ground. No, what bugged her was that it was supposed to be the Netherworld of that tiny Overlord, Laharl or something. She still remembered what the kid told her the first time they talked and as much as she just wanted to shrug it off, being told you had the same name and same nearly everything as another demon... just bugged her. Especially considering the other... "oddities" of this world. Nah, it was probably just a fluke, she wouldn't become a demon. So... why was it still bugging her in the back of her mind to go down there in the first place?

Meh, it was probably just due to that Urd woman. She really, really couldn't stand her. For some reason, nearly every time Urd came to talk to her, it was to nag about her doing something apparently wrong. Urgh, it was like having three Alouettes combined into one... nah scratch that, she'd rather hang out with the trio before Urd. Seriously? What was her problem? Couldn't she just mind her own business? Especially with the conversation a few minutes ago...

Argh! Just where the hell was that lion? If this was really a Netherworld, then there were plenty of demons just waiting to get their asses kicked in the name of mood betterment, and she couldn't get to them fast enough.

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Kovu took his time to get to the church, since there wasn't any real reason to be in a hurry. Why would he be, anyway? It was just another floor, and who knew if there was even anything interesting there? It was probably just a bunch of buildings and stuff like the main city anyway. He was also gonna have to tell Priere to do something to mask her scent sometime, if anyone wanted to track her that way it'd be a piece of cake. Then again, all the humans were like that. That "soap" stuff they liked so much made their scents stand out really badly.

"Hey," he said as he finally came to the door of the church, where he saw her waiting. Then he noticed how impatient she looked. "What's the rush?"

"There you are! Come on, let's go already!" Priere said, her usual smile returning to her face, dodging the question. Anyway, it was less about the rush and more about her lack of patience.

Fortunately, this time they could move in between floors easily. No offense to Kovu, but she didn't really feel like wasting time in the Pride Lands or elsewhere.

"Hope you're ready for things to get a bit messy, Kovu." Hey, if it really was the Netherworld, it was pretty much a given.

The paw Kovu had lifted to start going forward was put back down before he moved. "...Messy?" Messy how? He regarded Priere with a raised eyebrow, not sure what to make of the idea of thing "getting a bit messy." He shrugged though and started walking. Not like she was giving him a choice here...

"Well... if it is what I've heard it is, you can expect getting attacked by demons every once in a while," Priere stated, almost with a hint of enthusiasm in her voice that really shouldn't belong. "But we'll be fine, don't worry, it'll be a piece of cake!" Or... maybe not cake for Kovu... lions, probably don't eat cake. Piece of steak?

Well in any case, getting to the actual door was easier then expected. It only took a few minutes before they stood at the newest floor.

"Demons?" Kovu didn't want to inquire further. If he remembered right a bunch of the guys living with Simba were demons...and wasn't that girl Beryl he met when he got here one too?

Before he'd had time to think it all out, they were standing in a dark room, lit by flames up and down the sides.

"...Grim," he commented.

"Yeah, demons. Apparently, the next floor is a Netherworld, so it should have demons all over the place." With a little luck though, they wouldn't get swarmed the second they came in. Then again, there were plenty of demon back in the city... and they seemed "normal" so to speak.

"Apparently" was the wrong word to use here. It really was a Netherworld. She spent enough time in the one in her world to be able to recognized the atmosphere and the dark energies around them.

That and the whole 'fire in the dark throne room' was a rather dead giveaway.

"Okay... for a demon castle... there doesn't seem to be a lot of guards around."

"That's...a good thing, I'm guessing?" The place was reminding Kovu of the Outlands, which was less than desirable. "Why would you need guards in a place like this, anyway? Doesn't exactly look easy to get into."

There were only two doors in the place, at either end of the hall, and there was pretty much no way someone could get all the way to the massive chair at this side without easily getting knocked into those flames. If you were gonna put guards anywhere it'd be smarter to put them outside one of the doors.

"It's a throne room, there's always supposed to be guards. That's how it works," Priere shrugged off. Well, okay she more or less made that up on the spot, but hey, there were always guards present when she went in her Kingdom's Castle, so she couldn't be that far off.

And speak of the devil, someone-- something suddenly appeared in the room. She was about to reach for her baton, when she got a closer look to see... a penguin? "Errr... what?"

It didn't help that the moment the penguin spotted them, it flipped out. "Dood! Intruder, intruder alert! I'll let you pass if you promise not to beat me up, DOOOOOOD!"

... was this really the Netherworld?

"Really?" That...didn't make any sense. But lions didn't have throne rooms, they were always with their prides anyway, and even then the King could take care of himself without any guards. Simba sure didn't need all his lionesses to keep him safe.

The...blue...thing caught Kovu's attention quickly. He couldn't place the smell at all, but it was definitely sharp, and hurt his nose a little. "Tell me that's not one of the guards."

"I'm not a guard, there's, there's no guards here, dood. In fact, you didn't even see me, dood!"

And with that, the blue penguin sprinted out of the throne room as fast as his peg legs could. "Okay... what the hell was that all about?" Priere said, looking over Kovu with a look of complete bewilderment. "Should... we go after it?"

"Don't look at me," Kovu answered, more bewildered than she was. "I've never seen anything like that before. And why did it keep saying 'dood'?"

He watched the thing scamper off, and gave up on trying to muse just what it was supposed to be, or why it had even bother coming near them if it was just going to run away like that.

"I have no idea... I mean I've been to a different Netherworld than this before... I've never even heard of the word 'dood'... or blue penguins down there, ever!" Priere finally answered, mostly giving up on the whole situation. This was ridiculous, even by her standards.

With a final shrug, she started to walk away from the throne, intent on exploring some more. "Come on, there has to be something a bit more interesting further in. And with a little luck, everyone will be as wimpy as that demon, so we should be fine."

Then again, it was the Netherworld, she shouldn't get her hopes up.

"Lead the way," Kovu said, not even giving a thought to going first. This whole thing was her idea anyway, why should he be the one out in front?

The place smelled really nasty anyway...he couldn't imagine how much worse the next room was gonna be.

Subtlety was never Priere's strong point, so while it looked like she was trying to carefully make her way out of the room to avoid more demons... anyone could have noticed her. At the very least, she wasn't crying out sneaking noises.

Moving past the corridor, they finally managed to reach a busy room. She was about ready to reach for her weapon again... until she noticed that no one actually gave two damns about them. Oh well... "You know... I'm kinda getting disappointed a little bit here."

Looking around, she was a couple of shops that looked closed, a dimensional portal, and-- wait, was that--?

She just looked at the counter next to her, completely shocked.

"Could you be any louder?" Kovu was having no trouble keeping himself almost silent, even on the stone floors here. Retracting his claws was helping, but it really wasn't that hard...

He just about walked into her when she stopped though. "Hey, what the-?" He noticed she'd gone slack-jawed. "What? What is it?"

Priere had glared at him for that comment. Hey, she wasn't all that loud! It wasn't very fair anyway... she wasn't an animal, his hearing was probably superior to her and the demons, so it shouldn't matter in the first place.

However, at that moment, she didn't quite care about that. She was just staring at the store in front of her. "Ro-Rosen Queen? How is that possible?"

As if the shopkeeper thought this was an introduction, she immediately bowed to both of them. "Welcome to Rosen Queen, Netherworld division, how may I help you?"

"Rosen Queen? But how?" Priere asked, completely confused. "There's a store with the same name back in my world!"

As if on cue, the shopkeeper bowed back and began a long winded explanation that Kovu probably didn't understand much... though to be fair, most of it went over Priere's head. The only thing she did understand was that yes... this was the same store as she had in her world.

That didn't make any sense... this was a totally different place, it shouldn't be so.

And that meant that it was possible the kid did know her... after all, this meant their worlds were connected.

"Ahem... so you guys are gonna buy something or what?" said the shopkeeper... looking a bit annoyed at Priere's frozen face.

"...Huh?" All Kovu could do was stare in confusion. He didn't have any idea what was going on, or what Priere was talking about. What was Rosen Queen anyway?

It took Priere a few seconds...

... okay, a lot of seconds.

Maybe a minute?

... minutes?

"Okay, I'm done!" She said, suddenly going back to normal as if nothing happened before. That... had been weird, but right now, they had other things to take care of. Even though this place was a fake... it should be connected to other worlds with that gate over there.

Well, time to go see where they could go.

"Come on Kovu," she said, nearly dragging him to the gate. "We're getting out of this castle, it's getting really weird with all these penguins!"

The gatekeeper lazily greeted them without even looking up from her crossword puzzle. "The market or the graveyard for your date?" she asked.

"Uh...all right..." Kovu answered a bit nervously as Priere started to pull him along. What was this place, and why was she acting funny?

"Date? What's a 'date?'" The lion had never heard the term before. As to the gate itself...Kovu had given up wondering about big weird-looking lights a long time ago.

"Does this look like a date?" Priere snapped back, in total disbelief. Really... this Netherworld was looking less and less like the one she knew and more like... well, she wasn't quite sure, but everything was just odd around here.

Well now... the market was probably filled with demons, though, if they were like the ones around here, they shouldn't bother them much. There would probably be a lot less demons in a graveyard... probably more dangerous though. She should be fine, but Kovu.

Hey, speaking of Kovu... "What do you mean you don't know what a 'date' is? What about that lion girl? You've never been on a date with her?"

"No?" Not even knowing what it was supposed to be, Kovu couldn't be certain of his answer. He'd looked at the stars with Kiara before, but did that count? And they had done that thing with chasing birds away from Timon and Pumbaa before that...and they'd spent a lot of time together in the park since they came here to Paixao...

But he just regarded Priere skeptically. Why did anything like that matter to her, anyway? Or this demon girl who'd asked in the first place? It was none of their business.

Oh but Kovu, Priere was good at making things her business! "Oh come on, you know... a date. You know, where two people who like each other go out together and do--" well oops, she wasn't quite sure how to finish that train of thoughts. She had actually never gone on a date before, so she wasn't exactly the best one to ask... plus, she had a feeling that whatever humans did on dates didn't quite apply to lions and animals in general.

"-- stuff!" Yeah... that should be alright.

"We'll go to the market!" She finally said, a few seconds later, trying to hide her own embarrassment at failing to handle that properly. The gatekeeper shrugged and opened the gate Priere couldn't jump in fast enough.

"Weirdoes," the gatekeeper said before returning to her puzzle.

Kovu didn't dignify Priere's sad attempt at an "explanation" with an answer. He and Kiara did stuff together all the time, so what was supposed to make it special? Simba and Nala did too.

He shrugged when Priere told the girl they were going to the market. He didn't know what it was going to be like, but at least it was a word he recognized. He knew was a market was at least from being around the city, but he had no idea what kind of stuff this one was going to have. Everything around here was weird.

But he followed Priere silently, shaking his head.

Urgh... this was getting a bit annoying. Kovu really wasn't talking or doing anything except being there. Sure, she noticed that he had never really been talkative back in the Pride Lands... but this was worse. Why did she think this had been a good idea. "Maybe you could bring her next time," Priere finally said as she crossed the gate. "Looked like she was a bit nervous with the whole idea."

Well, it was time to stop mentioning her. Kovu would keep it up if he wanted to. Anyway, they had bigger fish to fry... like, WHY WHERE THEY IN THE MIDDLE OF A VOLCANO?!?.

"I thought she said this was supposed to be a market! There's lava everywhere!"

Looking out over the landscape gave Kovu different ideas about any sort of "next time."

"There's no way I'd bring Kiara to a place like this," he answered, wrinkling his nose at the smell of ash and smoke. The air was thick with it, and the heat was oppressive even for him. "It's worse than the Outlands." Though at least the smell was different.

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