Tales of a Journey (Private!)

"Only if we get tea, kupo." Monty told Rhode as he walked past her into the house, his hair slightly puffier than normal.

Neli uttered, "Tea?" before following the moogle with Kinta on her back.

"Well, I suppose we all have some catching up to do - especially with disease, giant whales, and bloody battles." Ranma said, pulling Riri inside.

 

"Yeah yeah, I'll get some tea set up for you, and probably some snacks that i've been making my own recipe for!" Rhode grins asking one of the servants to get the food and drinks ready and sending it to her office. "Wow Rhode, you seem to be doing ok.." Audri smiled a bit suprised as Rhode rubbed her forehead, "Not really, everyone is just a bit freaked since there's supposively some huge wolf-like creature trying to get it's way into the house. I sent Tyki out to get rid of it but i haven't seen him or the wolf yet for the past two days.."

"Maybe he was murdered!" Scarlett chimed as Audri sweatdropped, "Err, right... Rhode, do you think you can help us out with a little dillema?" "Sure, what is it?" She tuned around walking backwards as Audri pulled her sleeve up showing the crawling virus that has reached probably up to her shoulder.

"Wholy Shit. What the... Is this that thing Tyki was telling me about?!" Rhode said a bit nerve wacked grabbing Audri's arm looking at it as Riri nodded and climbed onto Ranma's shoulder and playing with his new necklace, "It started back a few world's ago, we thought that Alice would know but we might need some more information about it, and thought you'd know something about this too..."

 

"Murdered? I don't think so. That crazy catgirl wouldn't forgive him if he got murdered." Ranma cackled as he got a cup for himself. Neli disappeared for a moment, and returned later without Kinta, and looked at the tea with interest.

Ranma shrugged and continued to talk. "Yeah, so, we think it might have something to do with that bottle of "Black Blood" Audri drank while we were still here."

 

"Hm, that's true.." Riri muttered refering back to Tyki not being able to get murdered as Rhode scowled, "I don't think so or us Noahs would of all died out some 300 years ago!" "So, what if Noahs can't get it then? And now that i think about it, what is in that stuff??" Audri asked as a servant came in leaving a tray of sweets and cookies with Riri before running back out muttering something.

"Black Blood is just a different type of wine that is combined with some type of oils, alcohals, and other various drugs of our own, it makes humans very high and intoxicated that they're hallucionations seem to affect them for a while but go away after a day or two.." She explained as Scarlett and Audri helped themselves to a cookie. "Neli, where's Kinta?" Riri blinked forgetting their knocked out friend as she put the tray down and got some tea for herself.

 

Neli pointed down the hall at the first door at the right, arm fully extended, and said, "There." She still didn't talk much.

"So. . . . . . If it's not that, then what? I mean, there's always the 'Demon Places a curse on you' version, but how many demons do we know?" Ranma asked Audri, spinning a cookie on his finger before flicking it into his mouth and swallowing it in one bite.

 

"We didn't even meet any demons!" Scarlet scowled as Riri nodded, "I'm not considered a demon so don't get any ideas.."

"Ah.. And for the demon thing? Oh, Tyki and Lizebeth did give me the results of those questions you asked if it could be passed by genes or whatever.. or if you had siblings or some type of close resemblance to someon...." Rhode went quiet as Audri munched on her cookie. "Audri, what are you hiding from us?"

 

". . . . . TO THE PITY CAKE!" Ranma declared, startling everyone - save for Neli, who was just moderately amused by him.

"You're an idiot, kupo. . . . " Monty muttered as he sipped his tea. "Getting into trouble before we knew you, Audri? I'm not surprised, kupo."

 

"Hey, I.... Um, er..... I don't remember anything about this!" Audri shouted clutching her head and falling backwards out of her chair.

Rhode and Scarlett glanced at her as Riri helped her up, "Audri, don't make us get the pity cake.." "No, it won't help!" Audri shook her head covering her mouth. "Ranma, hold her down. I'll go get the pity cake.." Rhode sighed as she left. "Noooooo!!!!" Audri ran towards the door trying to escape but Rhode locked it from the outside.

"Nononononono, i don't wanna go back, don't wanna go back to those torturous memories.." Audri whimpered as Riri ate another cookie and blurted out, "Anyone wanna play 7 minutes in heaven?" "Sounds fun but it'd be more fun with more guys." Scarlett called out too before they glanced at each other confused. "I want Kinttaaaa, not be locked in here with some people that are gunna make me confess my nightmares!!!" Audri whined out hitting the door with her fist before Riri glanced at Ranma and Monty, "What the hell is in that food?!"

 

"Kinta looked pretty tired, Kupo. He's not getting getting up until tomorrow at least." Monty told Audri, casting Stop on her. "And you're not going anywhere, kupo."

"Nice going, Monty. Oh, and I'm sure, fox-girl here would just LOOVE to make out with the moogle." Ranma snickered as he ate another cookie. Neli glared at them.

 

"Why does this always happen to me with you casting Stop on me, Monty?" Audri whined falling back on the ground staring up at the cealing.

"Oh please Ranma. As much as it does sound tempting, the kisses would be a little too furry for me!" Riri barked out swallowing another cookie as Scarlett sweatdrops, "You two should probably stop eating the cookies before you start wanting to have sex with each other in the closet."

"Why did you have to give them any ideas? Oh, and I found my idiot cousin & our so called 'pschycodic wolf'..." Rhode came in before Scarlett was talking, dragging in a bleeding and cut-up Tyki that was gripping onto the shirt of a short brunette haired boy who had his hands tied together with what looked like a bedsheet.
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". . . . Wow. I gotta say, looks like Tyki almost got his ass beat!" Ranma snickered as a frazzled and slightly cut up Ayla entered the room, and then turned to the boy. "And who the hell are you? Are you another one of those animal peeps?"

"Because you're such a spaz, kupo." Monty replied to the now-on-the-ground Audri.

 

"Well, not always.. Just when it involves people forcing me to do something much, kupo." Audri sighed as she closed her eyes getting dizzy from looking at the cealing.

The boy growled and barked, "Let me go, I just came here to drop some stuff off!!" Tyki glared at him and tossed him on the floor a few feet away from Audri, "Not on your life pipsqu-"
"Ace, is that you?" Scarlett said trotting over and looking down at the boy with a cookie in her hand. "You know him?" Rhode and Tyki sweatdropped as Scarlett grins, "He's a friend of my... boyfriend?" "What boyfriend?" The boy named Ace grinned up at Scarlett before rolling to the side from Scarlett stepping on his head with her shoes, "Hey, watch it!!"

"WaitWaitWaitWaitWAIT!!" Riri shouted pulling Audri up so she was sitting up and tossed the Ace kid on a chair, "Scarlett, please tell us what's going on and did you ever find any pity cake Rhode?"
"Naw, but these cookies are probably the 2nd best thing but they're still in the testing state.." Rhode grinned as Tyki helped Ayla heal herself up.

 

"And what the hell did you put in the cookies?" Ranma asked, growing angry.

"Your mother, kupo." The moogle commented calmly, before asking, "Since when did Scarlett have a boyfriend?"

Neli got up and began poking Ace in the head, as Ayla cocked her head and watched. "She. . . has no scent. What is she?"

 

"I think we wanted to call it another type of truth serum, but since it made people blurt out random sexual thoughts half of the time, we just call it sex serum.." Tyki snickered as Rhode went over to the wall and hit her head on the wall, "Why did I let him name it that..."

"H-hey, knock it off!" Ace growled slightly annoyed. "Well, whatever this is, these cookies are so fucking good!" Riri grinned eating another as Audri glanced at Ayla, "She's a.... machine i think."

"And to the boyfriend question, Scarlett has always chased the same guy but she was never ever to be with the guy her twisted sister stole from her!!" Ace hollared out laughing as Scarlett tried to punch Ace in the face but he ducked in time, "She's a sore looser since she's always got the short end of the stick for the last 200 years!!!"

 

"Another kind of truth serum? You guys are on crack. You know that?" Ranma grumbled as he drank some more tea.

"Not as much as your mother is, kupo."

"Wait. . . . did I just get shut down by a moogle?" The now-annoyed hume asked, before Neli commented back, "n00b."

 

"I think you did you bloody hume.." Audri giggled swaying a bit as Tyki sweatdrops, "And that's even worse than getting my ass handed to me by a psychodic kid!" "Nah, that's still worse Tyki.." Rhode laughed before hitting Ranma on the head, "I think you're the one on crack if you keep eating all our food!"

"Guys, shut up for a second, and why the hell are you here Ace?" Scarlett glared at the short mahogany colored haired boy. "To drop some stuff off, like i said earlier!" He shouted as she quickly ripped his hands from his bed sheet handcuffs and lied it on the floor in an odd design. He grabbed a peice of chalk from his pocket and drew a design on it and started chanting a spell.

Once he was finished, the spell took effect making the sheet & drawing glow, replacing it with a wooden trunk in its place. "Now, let's see here..." Ace opened up the trunk and leaned inside rumaging through all the stuff in there.

 

". . . The urge to push him inside is too great, but I'm afraid that if I do that the box would turn into a giant robot." Ranma muttered, peering around the side of the box. "Just what the hell kind of messenger are you?"

"One that looks like a Yang tribesman. . ." Ayla mumbled. She then turned her heartless into a green requiem and began batting at it for fun.

"Another tribe, Kupo?"

"Opposite of Yin, dumbass."

 

"Wrong about my tribe since we're a different species, right Scarlett?" Ace poked her head out slightly to look back at the flaming red head who was dousing herself in some tea. "Now that I think about it, you're not human but you don't seem to have a specific type of... race i can say.. So, what the hell are you?!" Riri whined clinging to Scarlett who just growled.

"Me and Scarlett come from a tribe that resembles the Seven Sins. Like Gluttony, Lust, Greed, Pride, Sloth, Wrath, and Envy. But the tribe was scattered when it first started that we could never keep together as well as many others thought. And with each child was born, a cycle was made of which child was named under a certain sin." Ace explained as he dove his head back into the box which started to echo outwards for all of them to hear.

"So what the hell is up with the whole animal-shifting-thingy then?" Audri asked rubbing her shoulder and popping a cookie into Riri's mouth. "Oh, that? The whole tribe is considered to be a bunch of shape shifters that can only 'shape' after things that involve their 'sin'!" Ace smiled as he started chucking stuff from out of the box. Various broken toys, a heartless or two, a ring of keys, books of all sorts, a golden lined box with a black ribbon around it. "Found it!" Ace shouted pulling out a quiver with a red hearted arrow.

 

"So I'm guessing you're wra- Oooh! Shiny ribbon!" Ayla cried gleefully and snatched the small box, before turning back to everyone. The neko noticed their weird looks and asked, "What? It's SHINY!"

Turning back to the boy, Ranma asked, "So. . . what's with the cupid's bow?"

 

"Yes, i'm the sin wrath.. This was Scarlett's sister's who was the sin lust and I just happened to find i-" Ace was cut off by Scarlett, "Must I ask why you visted that skank Ace ?"

"Well... I kinda went a bit crazy and- anyways! She left this to you in her will if you were alive and your soul wasn't eaten by her yet.." He explained as Riri sweatdropped, "You have some family issues Scarlett.. "