Alm and Roly topple over laughing their heads off at Allison's outburst. Alm sits up and bends their head down to Allisons level. The blue and black eyes shimmer in the light of the silver fire. "Hey hey! I got an idea." A wildness claims their gaze as they innocently, yet eerily asks, "Do you want a fire bath instead?" Roly sits up with them. "Yeah yeah! That's a great idea! You can get all squeaky clean! Even your bones will be polished of filth!" The twins looks at Allison with an abnormal ignorance to their words. Like they know that fire can burn people, but forgot that it can kill people. Alm pipes up again.
"Yeah! And your hair won't be dirty!"
"Cause it'll be gone!"
"And your nails won't get ruined!"
"Cause they'll be plucked off!"
"Yeah!! It's a perfect idea!"
"We promise it is!"
"Give it a shot!"
The Twins look at Allison with wide and glowing eyes while they continue to chitter and chatter about how great being consumed by fire would be.
"NO. HOW ABOUT THAT?" She Roared, getting angrier and angrier
The Twins, locked within their sudden mania, chuckle endearingly at Allison's rage. Their eyes remained wide and frenzied instead of squinting like one would do when laughing. Roly reaches out to her and picks her up between their thumb and forefinger by her black hair. They lift her to their yellow eye, pupil shrunken and shivering, and gives her a wide smile. Alm takes their own hands and places them above the fire. Instantly, it grew even larger, blazing haphazardly and gaining dangerous levels of heat. Roly holds her in front of it the fire as its unbearable heat was nearly made to a scalding level. The Twins chant incessantly:
"Fire Bath!"
"Fire Bath!!"
"FIRE BATH!!!"
"FIRE BATH!!!"
(Please anyone jump in I don't want to accidentally exclude characters from the discussion especially if they had already began talking and stuff.)
Allison was unfazed. It was super cold, compared to the Fires of Hell. Which were cold to the touch. So ironic, i guess.
"Oh, FiRe bAtH…" She mocked
(Sorry about the delayed response, I got caught up in school stuff)
Roly drops Allison into the fire and sees that she's unaffected by the flames. The Twins stare in awe at her apparent resistance to their fire and Roly squeals in joy.
"That's awesome!! I've never seen anyone resist out cleanse before!" Roly claps their hands in excitement. Alm is less than pleased. They're scowling and angered by this sight.
"That's so stupid! You mean to tell me that just because you're from another world you can just sit inside our fire? That's lame. You're lame. I bet you have no friends cause you're so lame. I bet you try and make yourself cooler than you actually are cause you're so dumb and lame and nobody likes you."
Alm starts getting more rude and cruel with their insults while Roly sits uncomfortably next to them.
"Alm. Don't be such a meanie. It's really cool that she can do that. Maybe she's a Star like us!"
Alm looks at Roly displeased and even more angry.
"No, dummy! She already said she was a demon! Which I bet is something so stupid and uncool and that everyone hates it. She's just some loser."
Roly gapes their mouth in horror at their twin. "Alm! What's wrong with you!? Why are you being so mean? Remember what Uncle Brutus told us!"
"Oh yeah? What did he tell us?"
"He told us! Um! Uh… I… don't remember."
"Yeah, dipstick we either forget or don't know. That's our thing."
"Well it's a dumb thing!"
The Twins get caught up in their argument as their mania fades and they ignore Allison who is still sitting in the fire nonchalantly.
(Nah.)
"It's cold…" She said, shivering.
(Are you okay? I started freaking out when you fell off and was worried if I hurt your feelings. Do you want to talk about it?)
(If you don't mind me asking, what happened DIP?)
Alm indignantly glares at Allison. "Shut up you stupid, smelly, lame demon loser! Burn up so I don't have to see your ugly face anymore!"
Roly, getting more distressed at their twins' cruelty, grabs Alm's braid and yanks it harshly to the ground. Alm's head collides with the ground and they yelp in pain. Interestingly, Roly exclaims as well. Both twins clutch their aching heads with Alm face down an the ground and Roly standing over them and hunched over.
"I coulda handled it myself, ya know?" Allison told Roly, sighing. She made the flames go away.
Seeing the distraught the two twins were evidently feeling, Vladimir, stood to his feet clutching his bow and whistling to Nival. They both walked a good distance away in hopes to save themselves from being crushed.
“Gentleman!” He barked, his voice used to ordering loud disorganized troops, carried easily across the short distance between him and the giants. “Let us handle our problems diplomatically, could we please stop hitting, insulting, and acting like children to solve our problems!”
Vladimir pointed to Nival, who was now eyeing Roly and Alm with nervous frightful brown eyes.
“Roly, you frightened Nival…and please apologize to your brother and Lady Allison. Then, we can move on and return to civil conversations.”
"I told you, no need to call me Lady." Allison stated
Prospero just vibed, tbh
(Do your characters not understand the concept of non-binary, or did you guys forget that both twins are non-binary?)
Roly looks down at Vladimir still rubbing their head and puffs out their cheeks in annoyance. "Listen hear Mr. King. You can't tell us what to do. The only people who can give us orders are Uncle Brutus and Aunt Mat. Anyone else is nothing but potential ash. Got it?" Roly puts their hands on their hips in defiance while their right eye glimmers a color not unlike the sun.
Meanwhile Alm groans on the ground. "You're such a dummy! What did you do that for!?"
Roly looks down at their twin. "Because you're being a butt!"
Alm sticks their tongue out at Roly, then looks at Nival. "I don't care about your stupid cow. It's just bone draped in meat."
Roly stares at their twin with pure and utter horror and betrayal. They're so stunned that they can't even talk.
Nival’s nostrils flared, and racking one hoof through the ground once, she turned her back and began to walk away ears lying flat and tail swooshing indignantly. Vladimir followed her, they seemed to be holding a conversation of their own, a conversation Nival seemed to win. Shaking her head, she took off, leaving the group far behind her in a madder of seconds. Vladimir plopped back down near the fire, shaking his head, lips moving in a silent argument. When he calmed down, he looked at Allison. “Forgive me, I will no longer call you lady. It’s just something people do in my world." His eye traveled back to Ral and Alm. "Where is your Uncle Brutus and your Aunt Mat? Can they be called? Are they the reason we are here?” After he asked his questions, he knew they were useless. The twins couldn’t remember a thing.
Roly snapped themself out of their trance as they watched Nival gallop away from the fire and into the darkness. They were about to take off after her until they realized that they can't leave without Alm, who obviously doesn't want to leave in their sour stupor. Roly concedes to sitting at the fire with their twin with sagging shoulders and a low frown. Alm flicks their forehead annoyed.
"Don't be like that, Rol. It'll come back. They always come back to people they like."
Roly perks up and looks at Alm with wide, wet eyes. 'Really?? You think she likes me? Like we're friends?"
Alm rolls their eyes. "No doofus, for the Small King." They point to Vladimir, making Roly drop their enthusiasm once again.
When Vladimir mentioned their Aunt and Uncle, The Twins perk up in surprise. Alm speaks up first.
"Where they are? Well Uncle Brutus would be… he would be… gosh darn, Rol, where would he be??"
Roly ponders momentarily before shrugging. Alm groans.
"He says it all the time! He says something like 'I'm off to… do… something. GAH! I DON'T KNOW!"
Roly looks up at the sky and flicks their head back and forth at each glittering star.
"We know where Aunt Mat is though. No matter how moldy or old our brains get, we always know where she is."
Alm looks at their twin as they speak and looks upward as well. Both of them look back and forth acroos the sky, inspecting it with great care. Then Roly springs themselves to their feet and begins shouting.
"There!! There!! There she is!"
Alm stands with them. They seem to be pointing at a very inconspicuous cluster of lights. It's a portion littered with stars, all gleaming identically. But they look at it with a big genuine smile on their face. "Yeah, that's her!" Alm listens to Vladimir's question and scoffs. "We can't bring Aunt Mat to you. She can't move, not one bit. We gotta wait until that happens. And Uncle Brutus, I don't know where he is, but I bet he's somewhere all right!"
Roly interjects. "And Uncle Brutus brings us to lots of places! He's probably why Alm and I are here. I dunno about everyone else. Do you guys know Uncle Brutus? Have you ever met him?"
Alm rolls their eyes. "Whoever met him is burned up and dead, silly."
"Oh." Roly giggles at the thought.
(I'm sorry if this is too much would you like for me to change the response to make it more digestible?)
(No, keep it. I liked it.)
Vladimir looked up into the sky, trying to see what the twins were pointing at. Realization dawned in his eyes and he looked back at Roly and Alm. “Your Aunt is a star…are you two stars as well?”
He looked back at the sky, the stares reflecting into his eyes made them seem white and made of glass. “You said you have to wait for the day when your aunt moves. What do you mean by that?”
For a long moment, he stayed as if made of stone, ice-blue eyes staring at the stars yet staring unseeingly as he was walking through a distant memory, his face was drawn as if in pain. Suddenly, he turned back to Roly and Alm. “Well?” He asked, pressing them for an answer. "What did you mean?" His voice was colder and his fists clenching his knees as if in anger.
"Yeah!" Roly chimes excitedly at his understanding. "Aunt Mat is a Star, just like us! But she's living on another Star because, um, she got really hurt a long time ago and needs to rest for a little. She can't come down here cause it could hurt her. While she's there on that Star, she makes the Beasts! They're sooo cool! And really fun to play with! The day she comes back is the day we…! Uh…. heh heh… uh, I forgot. Uncle Brutus will remind us, I'm sure. "
Alm scoffs at Roly. "Yeah, sure, just tell the Small King everything why not. It's not like he'll use this against us."
Roly looks at Alm with a blank expression with their mouth slightly agape. Then they laugh softly. "Well, that's if these guys know them." Roly looks at Vladimir with wide and slightly strained eyes. "You don't happen to be affiliated with a red knight, a green mage, and their little gross entourage of grotesque mishaps birthed by a falsly permissive world, yeah?" They offer a small yet tight smile. It was ingenuine and laced with something malicious. The sudden burst of mature language does not seem odd to either twin.
"Yare Yare, would they just shut up!" Allison roared
(sorry it was short, I couldn't think of anything else to type).
Vladimir shook his head. "No, I do not know any red knights, or green mages or their worlds."
He eyed the two twins closely, "I'm going to assume that when your Aunt awakes, you'll try and take over the world together as one big happy family? It's what I would do, or at least something someone I know would What are these Beasts? The Beasts your Aunt creates?"
He turned to Allison, "Forgive us, I am just trying to get to know everyone and maybe find a connection between us."
