Tales of a Journey (Private!)

Audri got distracted by the sudden flash of light that she saw the newly formed creature standing with its cane. She skipped over to it before she got in its face and poked its nose. "Hokey Pokey Poke!"

"Uh, what is it supposed to be?" Andre asked raising his eyebrow at the creature before grabbing a hold of Kinta's hands, trying to twist the rings off, but to no avail of coming off, "Stupid rings! Come off already!" "Huh, wonder why they're stuck on you," Xenlo muttered as he grabbed one of Kinta's hands and tried to pull the ring off.

"It's adorable!" Riri and Scarlett squealed as Ace held both of them back before they tackled the creature and little Audri to the floor.

Rauxdi smiled patting Neli's head before her brother came over to her muttering something to her. "It's alright Xander. Neli knows what I am, and you're pretty much the same! Well, from a different person, but you get my point.." Rauxdi said as Xander sighed a little tired from all of this excitement.

 

"Sorry little Craftsman," Scarlett muttered as she help Riri on her feet. Audri got off of Cu Sith with tears welding up in her eyes, "I'm sowwee... Please don't get mad wif mee.."

Andre and Xander stopped as they looked down in defeat. Andre looked up scratching his neck in a sheepish way, "Sorry Kinta. I just really wanted to look at the rings on your hands.."

Rauxdi and Xander nodded as the Nobody girl explained, "We're Audri and Andre... well, in a sense that I don't remember how it all happened. I think if Andre explains later, you'll connect all the dots, possibly."

 

Audri ceased her crying as she watched the moogle and Cu Sith fighting with squeaking hammers. She looked at the entertaining battle before throwing herself into a series of laughing fits.

Riri and Scarlett started their own little betting pool while Andre and Xenlo just stood by confused. Xenlo found himself annoyed as he shouted at the two furry creatures, "What's wrong with you guys? I mean, is now really the time to be fighting?!"

"The old man is actually on to something!" Altessa appeared as she was now wearing a white sundress that was caked up in brown patches. The peacock cried out as it got in front of Altessa before making a type of hissing noise at her.
"Now now peacock, I'm just hear to talk, and let you know where to find Lizabeth's body~" Altessa snickered as Rauxdi had the color draining from her face as the woman spoke. "What.... what is she talking about?!" Rauxdi snapped as she looked at the others.

"Lizabeth's body? I know Lizzay was just taken, but what are you talking about?" Andre asked as Altessa looked at the demon with a grin on her face, "You don't know? Oh, for shame Kinta and Xenlo, you should of told them everything you found out once you found them~!"

 

Altessa stopped where she was before she frowned as she looked at them, "At least be reasonable!" "Right, so this is Altessa, and she has the possibly of killing of all if she starts picking us off one by one," Andre commented as the witch turned to him with a smile on her face.
"Well, thank you dear! But, not what I was looking for. Rauxdi, I know how much I wanted you take Lizabeth's body as your own, but you can't her body is already poisoned because of something Andre had done to Lizabeth long before~" Altessa said as the smile turned into a grin.

Rauxdi looked over at Andre with a pissed off look on her face, "What is she talking about?" Andre just shrugged as Riri got in between the others, "Calm down Raux!"
"I know, she's trying to pin us against each other!" Scarlett said as Ace tried to hold the nobody girl back.

"Where's mommy and Blood?" Audri piped up making Altessa look over at her, "Now, sweet Audri. They're both fine. Ask the two black hair twins since they found them after I... had fun with them." Audri started to whimper and cry as the peacock looked back at Audri in a pitiful way as he stood guard, wanting to comfort the crying child.

 

Altessa had a smirk crawl on her face as she held up her hand and shouted, "Reflectga!" The Stonega spell shot back and hit the peacock. The peacock let out a squawk before it hit the ground.

"Kinny!" The young Audri screamed as she saw what Altessa did. Audri made her way past Neli to get to the paralyzed bird on the ground. Altessa quickly made her escape through a portal beneath her feet before Kinta lashed out more spells against her.

"K-kinny... WAAAHHHHH!!!!!" Audri screamed and sobbed as she fell on her hands and knees crying over the peacock. Riri, Ace and Scarlett didn't move, not sure what to do now. Xander and Rauxdi looked down before they looked over at the Andre.
"We're going to go check on Rose and Blood. If what Altessa was saying is true, then Lizabeth's body might be there. Maybe there's a way to bring her back or not..." Rauxdi said as she looked over at the stunned demon as he watched the younger version of his twin cry over the bird.

 

Riri and Scarlett just shook her heads before Ace sweatdropped, "Uh, you didn't miss much but your brother made his baby girlfriend cry by almost killing her bird." "Yeah, usually not a good call," Riri whispered as Scarlett glared at them to shut up.

The peacock opened its eyes as it curled up onto its feet before shaking its feathers. Audri was still crying, but she came down to sniffling as she saw the bird was nuzzling its head against her cheek. "Kinny, you're ok," Audri said with a weak smile on her face as the bird let out a series of cooing.

"Are you glad that Kinny's better now Audri?" Xenlo asked the girl as she stood up with the peacock by her side. "No, no yet. I... I'm going to go find someone who can fix things and... maybe make the mean blue wadee go away..." Audri said as she started walking down the hallway with the peacock following her. "Let us come with-"

"NO!" Audri shouted as she looked back at them with tears running down her face. "I... I don't want any of you getting hurt anymoore.. I..." Audri let out a few sniffles as she tried to rub the tears from her face.

 

"This is getting bad, next thing we need is Altessa attacking us when we're not looking," Riri rolled her eyes as Xenlo looked at them, "Well, Rauxdi, Xander. I think we have a Lizabeth corpse to go look at? Lead the way I suppose?"

Rauxdi and Xander glanced at each other before nodding, "Of course. Shall we go on then?"

Audri looked at Kinta trying to put a brave face on before she nodded, "But Kinny's going with you guys. You need him more than me right nao. I'm pweety sure of that." Audri knelt down to the peacock stroking its head as it looked at her with big eyes.
"I'll be fine. The mooglie is going with me. I'll find her safely," Audri said as she talked to the peacock with a smile on her face.

The peacock closed its eyes and shook her head as she turned away from the blonde child before flying up to Monty in Kinta's ahdns. It picked the moogle up by the front of its shirt before flying back back to Audri and putting Monty down. "Good Kinny," Audri giggled as she got up to her feet looking at everyone smiling, "You guyz be safe!"

 

"Ok, sheesh! We're not that far away from where they are," Rauxdi stated as Xander stuck his tongue out at Ranma. "Don't get your panties in a bunch Ranma, not like we're on a tight schedule," Xenlo said patting the man on the back before following the boy Nobody.

"Toy soldiers? Ah, you must be talking about the "citizens" that live throughout here," Andre stated as he listed to Kinta's rant, "Hey Raux. Do you know where everyone is? I mean, it's usually lively around these parts!" Raux trotted back to them before she shook her head, "Just a month ago, Audri asked everyone to leave for the next month, about the same time that Altessa had appeared. The only ones that are left are me, Xander, Blood, and some of the animals that Audri had created from pet souls. Most of the animals are under Altessa's control except for Kinny since Audri modified him with anti-control enhancements."
Raux glanced back at the peacock as it flew over and landed on her shoulder. "E-easy Kinny!" Rauxdi said as the bird crawled its way to sit on her head.

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"Come on Monty, we gotta hurry!" Audri shouted as she was dashing down the hallway, tripping over her feet every once in a while as the hallway lighting started to darken the more they kept going.

 

"Maybe Altessa tricked her to make a body or something," Rauxdi shrugged as Andre crossed his arms before he took another cigarette from his pocket, "If that were true, then why is Altessa killing us off if she could of escaped by now?"

"I try not to worry, I already got enough on my plate when it comes to erasing things to existence," Xenlo said with a smile on his face as Xander looked back at him grinning, "Hey, remember when I ran away and interruptted that stupid tournament of yours Xenny?" "Yeah, shut up Xander," Xenlo said glaring into the Nobody's skull.

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Audri came a stop to a door at the end of the hallway. It was a door that was painted purple with a gold inscribed crest of something that looked like music notes and a top hat on the door. "Here's our stop!" Audri said cheerfully as she waved her hand and grabbed onto the door handle.

 

"I can see that the robot has been odd ever since I first saw her," Xenlo muttered as Xander knocked on the door. Blood opened the door with a head bandage and his arm in a sling, "Uh, I can't explain why there's a corpse in here." "Don't worry Blood, we know," Xander sighed as Xenlo walked past them to see a couple of beds lied out like an infirmary.

Rose was sitting by one of the beds with her arms bandaged up as well. Xenlo walked over and looked down seeing that Lizabeth was lying there, cold as stone and dead as a doornail. Her eyes were shut, she had cuts and burns all over her arms & legs. There was also a faint marking around her neck that looked like some type of pattern.

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Audri arched her eyebrow at the moogle before she opened the door. There was some piano music playing, but then the piano music was abruptly stopped by someone shouting and cursing on the inside.

"Miss... Miss Hatter?" Audri asked meeky as she walked into the dimly lit room. There was one spot light on a black piano in the middle of the room as someone with blonde hair sitting there as she was scribbling away on some music. She seem to be mumbling to herself that she didn't even notice the presence in the room.