Narcotic Dollie

Shine City II: The Next Season

Nori is clearly this elegant creature.

It's Magnificent

XD

The Match Mark (Miakardia x Dollie)

She was close to the door when the demon cut her off, moving so quietly that he didn't make a single sound as he crouched low in front of the room's exit. "Make a noise, and your father dies," the creature hissed, and Lilith closed her mouth so fast that her teeth clicked together audibly. The beast unfurled slowly and brought itself up to it's full height, and the girl realized for the first time that it wasn't a demon, but a man. He was tall and dressed all in ebony with his face covered in a mas--Lilith stopped breathing when she realized what she was dealing with.

The Black Mask

Fear seized her completely now, her chest rising and falling quicker as she began to understand the gravity of her circumstances. Lilith would have much preferred the stranger be an actual demon rather than one of those assassins, at least the she might have had a chance to reason with him. But no one escaped an encounter with The Black Mask alive.

"Do you know who I am?" The man asked, his voice low and rumbling as his hands hovered over the daggers on his belt.

"Everyone knows who you are," Lilith replied just as quietly, taking a tentative step back even though she knew it was useless. She was a mouse caught in a viper's coils. Only one outcome that awaited her now. "Will you tell me who sent you?" Lilith asked him, a feeling of dread settling in the pit of her stomach as he watched her every movement.

Shine City II: The Next Season

@lovely complex


XD I was trying to set you up so Kyle can be all like, "Oh, I didn't know you needed a roommate so bad. I may know somebody..."

The Match Mark (Miakardia x Dollie)

Lilith was pulled from her slumber as an icy wind filled the room. 'I didn't think I opened the window,' she thought blearily, trying to blink the sleep from her eyes but not really succeeding. With a sigh, the girl rolled over and squinted over at the window. "Thank the Gods," Lilith sighed when she realized that it was closed. She began to close her eyes and started to shift a little so she could get comfortable enough to go back to sleep, but then the candle wavered, and her gaze was caught by something on the floor...

There were eyes staring back at her from beneath the windowsill.

Lilith sat up so fast she was overcome with a wave of vertigo, her heart hammering loud enough that she couldn't hear anything over the sound of it. The creature stared back at her, unearthly still and silent. Lilith started taking small, erratic breaths that did nothing to quell her fear and left her feeling light headed and dizzy. It was still dark enough in the room that she couldn't see what exactly was lurking in the darkness, but the seamstress' daughter was certain it must have sinister intentions.

Lilith flicked her gaze over to the bedroom door and then back towards the demon. Then she bolted, covers falling to the wayside as she dashed towards the door, opening her mouth in preparation for a scream...

Shine City II: The Next Season

Amity seems like a good shoulder to cry on. Nori would have been embarrassed forever if that's how she met her for the first time! ^.^

Shine City II: The Next Season

My post contains a gratuitous amount of dialogue and a gross over usage of italics and bold face. You have been warned!

Shine City II: The Next Season

Nori was minding her own business, adjusting the heat lamps over the 16th Century tulip she had been babying for the past two months, when something screamed in gibberish pierced the tranquillity of the flower shop. The blonde, terrified a sledgehammer wielding monster had come to make good on his murdering promise, flinched so violently she knocked the rare blossom off the table, causing it to shatter in a spectacular display. "Shit!" Nori cursed, bending down to scoop the little flower up as gently as possible. The just budding plant had been severed completely from it's stem, making it unsalvageable. The delicate flower had already had a buyer lined up and was so rare that it was worth a little more than the price of Nori's monthly rent. And now she was going to have to pay for it. Frustrated, Nori went to the front to see what made the noise, when she heard--

"She was good right? best piece of tail in Shine city right? bet she didnt ditch YOU on YOUR FIRST DATE RIGHT?!"

'Nick?' Sure enough, there the radio host was, still as handsome as she had remembered, standing in front of her store and drenched to the bone. 'Why is he here?' she questioned internally, her stomach suddenly filled with nervous butterflies. Nori then saw that there was someone else on the side walk with the radio host, but she couldn't make out his face from where she was standing. Whoever the brunette was, he reared back and head butted the ever loving shit out of Nick and was advancing on him quickly. Nori felt a surge of protectiveness wash over her and sprinted to the door, throwing it open to intervene when she heard a very familiar voice scream, "We just met yesterday!"

"Kyle?" She breathed, dumbfounded. Nick punched the American straight in the face and Kyle answered by kneeing the radio host in the stomach and then used both hands to deliver an uppercut while shrieking, "WE JUST HAD NACHOS!"

'Oh,' she realized numbly, 'They're talking about me.'

It was like a scene straight out of a young adult romance novel, the kind where the vampires are shiny and the werewolves all have perfect six pack abs. Where the two super hunks battle it out over some sulking, mouth breathing damsel to prove that they are somehow more deserving of her love because of their willingness to extract violence on her behalf.

But Nori was no damsel and she was not amused.

Ignoring the two men completely, Nori walked to the alley and started to undo the water hose they kept hooked up to tend the outside plants. Turning on the water and kinking the end to stop the flow momentarily, she marched back over to the two idiots and sprayed them both in the face. She continued to soak them for a good twenty seconds, until she was sure she got their attention. And then she continued for another twenty, just because it was extremely gratifying.

"Do I have your attention?" She asked them both levelly, dropping the hose and crossing her arms over her chest. In her rage she had forgotten her jacket inside and now was drenched from the rain, but she was so furious that she didn't even care. "Good. Nick," she paused, turning to face the radio host completely. "I get it, I did a shitty thing. Yes, I should have called to let you know I wasn't showing up, but I didn't. I'm sorry," she forced herself to meet his gaze head on, even though the look he was giving her made her heart ache. "You are one of the most sought after bachelors of this city, and I am just some girl who never went to college and is barely scraping by with two jobs. I'm so far behind on my rent that I'm about two weeks from being evicted. I got scared. I knew if I went on that date with you that there was a chance you were going to realize I don't have all my shit together and then you wouldn't want me anymore."

"But even though I did something awful, that doesn't mean you get to beat up anybody that might like me," she scowled, jerking her hand toward Kyle. "Jesus Christ, Nick, I just met this guy yesterday! Despite the reputation I have for being a huge slut, I don't actually go around throwing my cat at any man that gives me a second glance. I didn't realize you thought so lowly of me."

"And you," Nori growled, glaring at Kyle. "This is my place of business, my only real source of income. Do you know how much the club pays me?" The tattooed girl hissed, grinding her teeth together and flexing her fingers in fury. "Forty dollars a goddamn set. I will lose everything if I lose this job. And you decide to just have a good old fashioned street brawl in front of it? If the owners find out I was involved in any part of this they will fire me."

"You're both grown men," she told them in a quieter voice, her body sagging as the fight went out of her. "If you want to fight in the street like children that's fine just...," Nori hesitated, trying and failing to swallow the lump that was forming in her throat, "...just keep it away from me."

Nori turned and shut the water off to the hose, before walking into the shop as quickly as possible. She was five seconds away from crying and she didn't want to do it in front of either of them.

@Dynamo Frokane@BeastofDestiny

Brocklen Hall Asylum

@Song Book Huzzah, a fellow Chiara Bautista fan! Her moon and night sky stories are my favorite too, although the skeleton bird and the mermaids ones are good too. :D

Brocklen Hall Asylum

I am all over this!

The Match Mark (Miakardia x Dollie)

Oh my goodness, my post ended up being so long! I promise they won't all be like that, I was just setting the scene.