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April Fools 2

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Get The Party Started


A green skinned young man with withered wings landed on a soft pink pillow, which stopped his fall and provided a pretty comfortable landing. He grabbed his black and white checked top hat and placing it over his bright green hair. His almond shaped and completely black eyes searched for a brown violin and the related bow, before he looked around. The young man found himself in an hexagonal shaped room. He barely noticed that the cushion he landed on had the same colour as the wrapping of the "present", which contained the pixie who had caused him to end up here. Near four other walls, there was another cushion. One was deep black, another was purple, one was golden and the last one was green. A large wooden door dominated the sixth wall, where no pillow lied.
The distant echoes of conversations filled the room and shortly after, someone fell down from the ceiling, landing on the purple pillow. Quite less elegant than he wanted to, he managed to get off the cushion he was on, smoothed his asymmetric tailcoat and walked over the the purple one. A clown emerged from it. It was a female clown, he realized when he noticed the white gypsy styled blouse and the purple underbust corset. Along with the ragged trousers and the red sash around her hips, this made her look like a pirate. Only the white face-paint with black lips, black crossed over the grey eyes, a red diamond on the right cheek, and blue dots on the left side of her face refused to fit.
The woman grabbed a black fedora and placed it on her also black hair, before trying to get off the cushion.
"Ahoy there", she greeted happily, once she had steady ground beneath her feet.
"I take it you were abducted by little blue men, too?", she asked with a bright smile.
"Yes", he laughed and hurried to add:
"But with such an impressive company as you, I really can't say I mind the involuntary interruption of the ordinary life. Allow me to introduce my-"
The arrival of another person interrupted him and both of them went over to the pitch-black cushion, where the newcomer had landed on. The young man believed to be the most lucky person on earth when he noticed it was another woman. His smiled faded only slightly when he noticed a cloven hoof and ram horns on her. but aside from those minor flaws, the young woman looked pretty to him. She had red and slightly curled hair and wore a simple, yet elegant orange dress. It gave the impression that she was on fire. This impression was amplified by the faint smell of smoke and sulfur emerging from her. Her yellow eyes flashed angrily towards the ceiling.
"That bastard", she hissed before she got up and noticed the other two people in the room.
"Haven't I seen you before?", she wondered and looked at the green man with pointy ears and pale withered wings on his back. He was probably some sort of fairy.
"If you did, you would surely not forget me", he claimed and was about to bow again when the both females looked up to the ceiling.
"What's that? A bat?", the clown pirate asked. The young man turned around and the trio watch the bat landing on the ground. But where it just had been, there now stood a woman, wearing an out-dated dress and a lot of gold jewelry. Despite their warm colour, her amber eyes rested coldly on the group. Her skin was almost as pale as the white make-up of the clown pirate and was even amplified by the crimson lips and the dark brown hair.
"A succubus? Vat a rrarre sight", she commented.
"Not quite. I'm a devil. But it's easy to see what you are, vampire", the horned woman replied. The pirate was sure the temperature in the room was dropping fast.
"While we are at introducing ourselves, how about we add names to the beautiful faces I see?", the green man suggested happily, ignoring the glares.
"What a wonderful idea", the pirate quickly agreed.
"I'm Lady Riddle, Captain of the Black Fedora Pirates", she said and earned the well known looks of disbelief.
"You look morre like a joke", the vampire answered coldly.
"Aye! It's amazing how much easier life can get when others constantly underestimate you", Lady Riddle gave back. The vampire showed a thin smile, which gave Lady Riddle the chills.
"Verry vell spoken, Captain."
"So who is next? I believe We shall have ladies first, so which one of you wants to be the next?", the young man asked.
"I believe courtesy demands age before beauty", the horned woman smiled sweetly and the vampire glanced at her with the lust to kill.
"I'm the Barroness, one of ze firrst-borrn childrren of ze night", she declared.
"Zat's all you have to know."
"My name is Lilin, a daughter of Satan himself", the devil said.
"A princess of hell then!", the green man exclaimed.
"I guess",  Lilin sighed and just waved her hand in a slightly dismissive way, as if her heritage would be nothing special at all. The young man cleared his throat and was about to introduce himself when another arrival interrupted him again. Again, someone landed on a pillow, this time on the green one. A black cat with a skeleton pattern on the fur and strange green eyes jumped onto the ground.
"Good news, Nera. You are not the only one foolish enough to trust a pixie", the cat announced. The baroness crossed her arms and Lady Riddle was sure she was growling with a very deep voice. Another woman, probably the one called Nera climbed off the cushion, her long dirty blond hair was loosely bound back and several streaks hung in her face. She was dressed in a dress of rough wool and it was impossible to tell if the brown colour was intended or the result of years crawling through dirt. She carried a bag wrapped around her shoulder.
"Looks like now we are complete", the pirate captain said and walked over to the newcomer.
"Ahoy! Before you ask, none of us has a clue where we are or why we were brought here. I'm Lady Riddle, nice to meet you", she greeted.
"I'm Nera...", the young woman answered, slightly confused.
"And this cat is -"
"Ghost, the best cat ever to walk any earth", the cat interrupted her. The pirate laughed.
"You're for sure the most self-confident cat", she grinned.
"Oh, please allow me to object", the green skinned young man said. "I know for sure that most cats are full of themselves. Ghost is simply one of the rare ones who can tell that everybody."
"A rare one? I am sure you mean 'The only talented one'", Ghost corrected with a purr.
"But of course!", the man corrected himself.
"Now, when our captain is not mistaken, allow me to introduce myself! I am Virgil Valerian, virtuous master of the violin, student of the  dark arts and -"
"So you're from the Otherworlde Academy, too, aren't you?", Lilin interrupted him and he glanced angrily at her before smiling brightly.
"I feel honoured, princess, that you have seen me and recall my humble presence", he exclaimed and performed and expansive bow. Lady Riddle rolled her eyes, though she had to admit, the bowing looked pretty elegant. Lilin sighed and lit a cigarette.
"Whatever... Just never call me that in school."
"You have my word! Just may I be so bold to ask which term you are in?"
Lilin eyed him before answering:
"I have no idea why you'd want to know that, but currently, I'm in the Grave Dormitory."
Probably only Lady Riddle noticed the short expression of worry which rushed over Virgil's face.
"Do you all know each other?", Nera asked carefully.
"We all just met. You didn't miss much. Those two just found out that they came from the same place and over there, we have the baroness. She is a vampire, so you might want to have some garlic around", Lady Riddle explained happily.
"So what happens next?", Ghost asked.
"Ve vill need to open zat doorr overr zerre, I believe", the baroness said.
The group went over to it. It looked heavy and massive, but there was no handle of any sort. Lady Riddle tried pushing it.
"It's too heavy, at least for me", she said.
"It looks pretty massive. It could take a while to burn it down", Lilin mused.
"Leave it to us", Ghost declared, but the baroness was faster. She didn't tore out the whole door, but instead pushed until with screams of pain, the hinges gave in and the door moved.
"Zerre. Prroblem solved. I don't know about you, but I'd like to leave zis place alrready", she said and stepped over the threshold. Lilin shrugged her shoulders and followed her, while Virgil did his best to keep up with her.
Lady Riddle stared at the door. She knew vampires had a lot of powers, but she still hadn't expected this.
"Let's go, captain", Ghost said and they followed the rest of the group.





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FloweringChaos's avatar
I like how they all interact with one another.  I feel like Aisuru and Speechless (the only two 'active' characters I have) would be much less interactive.