forum Monsters? These are my children -Ben (o/o with lisapickle)

Started November 05, 2019 by @chickenfrogman group

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Gabriel furrows his brow, following Sil. “Me? I scared her?”
Cage purses his lips. “Well. I mean, you were kinda looming above us like our doom or something.”

Silver sighed and pinched her nose, letting the releasing the barrier around Miki.

"SILVER." Miki yelled. "Don't DO that! Man, alive, you're scarier than he is sometimes! Do you know how creepy it is when you do that??"

"I was trying to keep him from realizing he had scared you!" Silver snapped back. "Now he'll feel awful!"

Cage pats Gabe’s shoulder. “Also, dude, you scared us both.”
Gabriel slowly disappears, standing still. “…sorry.” He whispers, his voice scratchy.
Kissa comes to the railing of the balcony, glaring down on them. “IM GONNA CALL BEN. YOU GUYS ARENT IN BED.”

Silver groaned and walked away from them, grabbing Gabe's invisible arm as she went by and hauling him with her. "Please do!" she called to Kissa. "We need some adult supervision before we kill each other."

Miki scoffed, offended. "Hey, HE was the one who scared us! And you made a big deal out of it and started yelling at me!"

Silver took a deep breath and kept walking. "I'm sleeping with you, Kissa. I don't want to be anywhere near her tonight."

Kissa groans. “What? I offered you to watch a movie with me, not share my freaking bed.” She whips out her phone, dialing Ben’s number and putting the phone to her ear.
Cage goes to tell her to watch her language, but sees her set the phone to her ear. “DONT CALL THEM DO. NOT. CALL. THEM.” He races up the stairs and she runs away from him.
“BEN! BENNNNNN!!!” She screams.

Gabriel’s eyes widen and he turns his head, watching them upstairs.
We’re all dead.

"WAIT NO." Silver shrieks, letting go of Gabriel and scrambling up the stairs. "Kissa, no, we have to call Vi!!! KISSA LEGIT YOU CAN'T CALL BEN WE'LL DIE."

Miki flopped over onto the floor, still beside the back door, and let out a long, dramatic groan. "Put on my tombstone that I was killed by vampires and screaming weirdos."

“bBEEEEEEEENNNN!!!!”Kissa shrieks, darting up into the attic, yanking the ladder up, shutting the hatch and sitting on it.
Cage screams underneath it. “KISSA!”
Gabriel sharply inhales, launching himself up, whacking his head on the ceiling and dashing towards the attic, the wind of his wings knocking over a few things. “Kissa, dont yell in there!”

"KISSA, YOU HAVE TO CALL–" Silver caught sight of Cage pounding on the bottom of the attic door and screamed at a new octave. "KISSA DON'T GO UP THERE REMEMBER GABE'S ANIMALS NO." She shoved Cage off the ladder and closed her eyes, feeling into the attic. With all her strength she gave Kissa a mighty push, hard enough to move her off the latch. Silver flung the door open and grabbed Kissa, intending to drag her back down. "SSHHHHHHH" she whispered, boxing them in with a silent barrier so the animals couldn't hear them. "You'll scare Gabe's friends!!"

Kissa gives one, hard kick, landing her foot in Silvers stomach. “THEYRE NOT IN BED. THEYRE CHASING ME.”
Cage climbs the ladder, reaching and grabbing one of Kissa’s ankles. “STOPPPPP.”
Gabriel lands at the bottom of the ladder, his wings sprawled across the floor behind him. “Get down.” He angrily whispers.

"No, no, no!" Silver cries, doubling over and gasping. "Kissa, seriously, come down and hang up! Ben will kill you and Gabe will kill you and goodness Vi will probably kill you too! Please!!!" Silver grabbed her again, using her powers to pull Kissa toward the ladder. Finally she was close enough and Silver stood up, shoving her down with all her strength. "Cage, pull her down!"

Kissa shrieks as Cage grabs her, yanking her down. He pries the phone from her hand, yelling sorry into it before hanging up.
Gabriel peers into the attic, which is quiet and dark, then turns to glare at Kiss, his face darkening.
Cage runs to his room. “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE NOW.”

Silver gasped for breath, gently feeling in the dark to make sure nothing in the attic had been disturbed before inching down the ladder and letting the door click shut above her. She clung to the ladder, resting her head on her arm, chest heaving. "I'm sorry, Gabe." she whispered, not even turning to look at him.

Gabe and Kiss both disappear, and only their faint and fading whispers are heard.
Cage pulls out his own phone, starting to text Vi, but his phone starts to ring with an incoming call from her. “KISSA SHES GONNA KILL US.”

Silver slid down to the floor and turned around, seeing on the empty hallway and hearing Cage call from his room. Oh, help.
She trudged to Cage's room and collapsed on Gabriel's bed. "Tell her I'm sorry and she can kill me first."

Cage, shaking, presses the green button and holds the phone to his ear.
“H- hey. Hi Vi. What’s up?”

”I told you not to call Ben. No- no, I told you not to even TEXT Ben. What on earth possessed you to do so??”

He gulps. “First- it was Kissa. Sec-“

”I don’t care who it was, you’re all getting in trouble. Stay on the couch downstairs till I get home and don’t any of you dare to get up.”

The line goes silent and he sets the phone on his bed. “Silver, we’re all gonna die.”

Silver sobbed a little weak, dry sob and gathered up Gabriel's pillow, pulling herself to her feet and trudging back out of the room. "Okay." she says, sighing heavily. She walked to the railing and swung her feet over, dropping to the floor below with a dull thump and threw herself onto the couch, face buried in Gabe's pillow.

Miki peeked an eye open. "Did you finish whatever madness you were doing up there?" she asked.

Cage walks down the stairs, holding his phone with shaky hands. “We have to all sit on the couch till Vi comes home to kill us.” He drearily states. “How’re we gonna find Gabe and Kiss though?” He flips onto the couch.

"Wait, what??" Miki yelps, sitting up. "Why is Violet gonna kill us?? What did you do??"

“Nothing!” Cage squeaks. “I tried to stop Kiss!” He glares around the room. “KISS YOU BETTER COME SIT ON THE COUCH.”

Miki got up and joined them on the couch. "What did Kissa do?"

“She called Ben. And boy is Vi mad.” He sighs. “She’s gonna kills us.”
Kissa and Gabriel flop onto the couch, both still invisible and silent.

Miki swallowed, silent for a few minutes. "Why would she call Ben?" she whispered in horror.

"Because I accidentally told her to!!" Silver yelled suddenly, jerking the pillow off her face. "Kissa was like 'Imma call Ben cuz y'all aint in bed' and instead of being a responsible adult and telling her no, I was an idiot and said 'yeah that's a great idea. Why don't you do that'." she smashed the pillow back onto her face and pressed herself into the back of the couch.

Cage is silent, and the minutes tick by much slower than before.
Silvers phone dings with a text from Ben, saying they’re on their way home.

Silver dug her phone out and glanced at it, then put it away and burrowed into the couch again with a mumbled "They're on their way."

Cage sinks deeper into the couch. He shivers a little and scoots to the side.
I prolly should’ve changed my clothes.

Twenty minutes silently pass and the headlights beam softly through the window as the car pulls up the driveway. Kissa glares at the ground, her and Gabriel still invisible.
The car doors audibly open and shut, and Ben and Vi exchange a few words before creaking the door open.
Cage bites his lip, jealousy of Kissa and Gabriel’s absence lingering on his mind.

Ben takes off his coat, hanging it, and turns to stare at the group for a moment, before shivering and heading to the thermostat to turn it up.
Violet hangs her coat up, sighing as she turns around. She looks over the miserable group, assuming Gabriel and Kissa are with them.
“Alright. Explain what happened please.” She sits in the winged backed chair beside the couch.