The demon placed a hand upon Azura’s head and gazed at her for a moment. It was just so good to see her again and to hear her voice.
“I am glad your soul is back where it belongs,” Aku smiled. But as good as she looked on the outside, he couldn’t help but worry. With his hand still on her head, he leaned closer, his smile fading.
“Is it still there?” he asked quietly. “The thing on your soul?”
“No!” She said cheerfully. “After so long, I finally got to pry his hold on me, somehow…”
“It’s odd. I never think that I’d actually be… free, you know? After what I’ve been through. After what he put me in, all the torture, the taunts… I really- I had accepted that I was a goner. But now I’m here. In this cozy shack. With friends and you, visiting me.”
“I really thought I’d never be able to see anyone ever again.”
So the goo was gone?
“EXCELLENT!” Aku rejoiced, throwing his clawed hands into the air. But his joy was short-lived as he saw Azura lower her head. Once again that strange and unsettling feeling gripped his chest. What was it? Guilt?
The demon’s hands rested on his lap like two dead weights and his expression turned sorrowful.
“I deeply regret that I could not be of help to you, Azura,” he spoke, his head bowed in shame. The best he’d been able to do was stop himself from becoming another source of pain for her. A moment of silence passed before Aku’s horns perked up slightly as hope returned.
“But it seems that you have found a way to remove his mark.”
He doesn’t like rain ^^; Also I’ve decided that since I made myself a pretty cure I’m gonna have Aku be my “fairy partner” who can go from his usual form to his Nano form as shown here from Fusion Fall, now just so you know I’ve never played Fusion Fall, I have tried to but that was when I had an old computer that was really slow and had one too many viruses. But now that I have a new computer I might be able to actually play it if I ever get the chance, and I would also love to get the Aku Nano he’s just so cute X3
Casper’s face scrunched at the thought of it all, but she leaned her back against the tree she was speaking to, and tried to think of a place to properly start. “When I was a child I could hear things like this all the time.” Great, she figured that was too far back. “It wasn’t until I got older that emotion was compromised for understanding? I think?”
She crossed her legs underneath her, looking down at the desolate ground, shifting a finger around in the grains of sand. “Monsters. They’ve followed me for ages, but, only I can see them and hear them, despite them being real like you. My family and close friends think I’m sick, so, I’m here on a mental health vacation. It’s nice but, I’m only here because they won’t believe me.”
Well, that explained her lack of fear. As Casper leaned against the tree, she might once again see bits and pieces of visions. Some were from deep in the cosmos where a great darkness lurked, feeding on worlds and stars. Others were of fire and screams.
‘So you are happier around beings that would gladly destroy you than your own humankind? HAH!’ He gave a joyless laugh. Perhaps even this human would agree that her kind was trash.
‘Why do the humans in your world choose to be so woefully ignorant? When I still had my freedom, I was visible to all! Mortals cowered before me in fear!’
The demon slumped as a sigh slipped through his teeth. Did he really have to explain it? Did his other selves always have to make such a big deal over such insignificant things?
“I was implying that we could have both slept on the bed.”
“You fool.”
Oh, if that was the case than that would explain it.
“Is that what you were suggesting? Then why go all the trouble of stealing my bed in the first place, I was fine sleeping on my own and have always done it.”
There she was, alive and awake! In a streak of fluid darkness, the demon leaped from the doorway to the edge of her bed where he seated himself promptly.
“Through the front door. How else?” He raised his claws in a big shrug and smiled excitedly. “But who cares? YOU’RE ALIVE!”
That was what mattered most, after all.
“I guess I am. I mean, I spent some time as a floating soul, and only returned back to my body a few days ago. Mr. Pines took me in and let me rest here. Thoth healed me back to perfect health last night.”
Azura smiled. Aku was the least expected visitor that she would anticipate, but she was glad to see him again. Very glad. It’s been a long time since she had seen him, after all.
The demon placed a hand upon Azura’s head and gazed at her for a moment. It was just so good to see her again and to hear her voice.
“I am glad your soul is back where it belongs,” Aku smiled. But as good as she looked on the outside, he couldn’t help but worry. With his hand still on her head, he leaned closer, his smile fading.
“Is it still there?” he asked quietly. “The thing on your soul?”
“Imagine being trapped in a confined space, unable to move, speak or be heard. Now imagine that you have been forgotten in this tiny prison for years upon years with no hope for escape. As you yearn for freedom, you are fully conscious of every passing moment and you wonder if the endless passage of time will slowly drive you to madness.
The Shogun of Sorrow 