Ghosts and stuff...again.

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

She had waited. Contamination of the city had made things difficult, had made it hard to regroup, and so she'd become weaker. Once she'd been purged of the filthy virus and had access to the city again, she remained at her place for several days. The monsters had become restless, and the arrival of their master satiated their wanderlust. It was just as well: Alessa had pent up aggression, and that could only be dealt with right with the creation of more, different monsters. To her irritation, many of them started to look a little like increasingly zombified versions of Sasami and Negi, two of the people constantly on her mind in the last few days. She'd kept them a secret for the moment though: she didn't need to give Sasami more reasons to be freaked out by her. Instead, she continued to increase her strength, and soon she was able to maintain her human appearance again.

Still, the monsters were numerous, and starting to attack each other. She would have to find a more permanent solution for her monsters, or at least have a new mission where she could kill things. Otherwise, she was going to land in hot water with the inhabitants of the ship. For the moment, Alessa wasn't going to think about it. New people had arrived on the ship and several different things had happened while she was in medbay.

Now she was simply wandering aimlessly for the moment, in older guise, unable to really pinpoint a feeling at the moment.

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[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Ruffnut too was restless. She felt the urge for action and had determined it was because she wasn't fighting with her brother as much as she used to. Well he wasn't around after all.

The Sensoriums were as good a place as any to hit stuff but it wasn't as much fun if they didn't hit back. Still she wasn't sure what else to do as she roamed the halls feeling her muscles tighten at every individual she passed.

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Alessa hadn't met all of the people on the ship, or at least had not seen some of the new people here. This scrawny girl for instance: she was new, and there was something that, despite her appearance, seemed almost larger than life in a way.

She stopped and turned to her. "Hello, we have not met. I am Alessa. Who are you?"

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Ruffnut heard the voice and it took a moment to register it was speaking to her, turning and giving a "Tough girl" hard stare, "I'm Ruffnut." She responded curtly sizing up this opponent...wait. No she wasn't an enemy, yet.

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

Alessa raised an eyebrow. "You're...not serious, are you? How can a nut be rough?"

Well, she supposed if you meant "nut" as in crazy person, but in other circumstances a crazy person would just be killed.

"Are you looking for something?"

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

"It's a tough name, scares away trolls." She explained for what felt like the hundredth time. People on this ship just didn't understand viking names.

"Yes!" she added and then quickly corrected herself, "I mean...I don't know what it is I'm just..." She grumbled and sighed in a frustrated manner. Communicating her feelings was difficult. Neigh impossible for someone like her.

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

"Trolls," Alessa repeated. She'd met a few, certainly, but had never seen them be afriad of names. Maybe these were a different type of troll?

Alessa lookled at the girl a long time. No, this wasn't one of the usual annoying humans, at least, not the ones that were all about living peaceable. She's noticed this sort of pent of feelin in herself, actually.

"You're restless," Alessa commented. "Almost like you're looking for a fight."

Whta else could someone dressed like that to be restless about?

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

"Yes!" Ruffnut answered almost too eagerly, "But like, we're not supposed to fight except in those magic rooms and those things won't fight back that hard." Though she had gotten herself tossed around in the Sensoriums it just didn't have the same feel.

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

"You're forgetting the City," Alessa said airily. "Stacy can't really detect fighting there, and as for what you could do to sharpen your skills, that all depends. If you can stand frightening things that usually make most humans go mad, I might be able to help there. It's been awhile since I've seen a human with decent fortitude, after all."

Without magic, anyway. Rose came to mind.

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

"She can't?" Ruffnut's lips curled into a smile, "Vikings are made of sterner stuff!" She declared "I can handle any unspeakable horror!"

Her scrawny body hid lanky muscles toned from Zetta's training just begging to be used.

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

"No," Alessa said, "or I would have possible been prevented from making my home. Well, they would have attempted, anyway."

Here, Alessa decided to dispense with the human guise. She reverted to her demon form: smaller, grayer skin, the scent of decay, rust and death upon her. "Are you sure about that? You can't just turn and walk away, if you really want to test yourself."

What did she sense from her? Something...something different, it reminded her of someone. Oh well.

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Her eyes went wide as the girl transformed, "What...how did you do that? Was that magic?" She peered curiously at her and recoiled at the scent.

[maguspuparum.livejournal.com]

Evangeline had a Discussion to have with Alessa. The little vampire was well aware that the strange monsters that could occasionally be found around the city were Alessa's minions, and she for the most part tolerated the creatures if they didn't bother her; Alessa was, after all, a friend, and friends, even evil friends, did not slaughter each others' minions without permission.

At least, that was, until she'd found one walking around with her apprentice's face. Evangeline honestly had no idea what the gesture actually meant but it made her feel undeniably possessive. She liked Alessa for their similarities, but being the same sort of creature implied a level of competition. Negi need only serve one master, even in image. And he definitely needed only one demon...

She was a capable scryer and Alessa was a unique presence on the ship; it did not take Evangeline long at all to track the girl down. The little vampire announced her presence dramatically, throwing the frozen and quite bodiless head of the lookalike down in front of Alessa.

"I believe this is yours."

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

Alessa looked down at the head of one of the aforementioned demons and shook her head, very clearly amused. She'd thought she kept most of those back at the factory, but she supposed that there were a few that could manage to poke their way out. The minion had none of the charm of the real thing anyway, slavering and grasping as her minions usually were, and she had an idea that Evangeline might not warm to the idea of a minion Negi.

Truthfully, it didn't thrill her either.

"So you took this one down, did you?" Alessa said, staring at the head a moment. "Just as well. These are far more vicious than I would have guessed. as for their genesis....I had a bit of a run in with your pupil and my acquaintance on the ship, which had a rather lasting effect on me. I suppose you might have notice the OTHER new addition."

[maguspuparum.livejournal.com]

"I didn't like its face." Evangeline said. There was a hint of a threat there... though she was perfectly prepared to wait until she had a full explanation to be angry or merely annoyed or amused or whatever she was going to be, she had always her inclination to push at those around her who had not yet proven themselves. Alessa was someone she was mostly prepared to take 'as she was' without such testing... but the incident had put her in enough of a mood to apply such adversarial practices.

"I didn't." Evangeline cared a good deal less about this unidentified acquaintance of Alessa's. "But it's obvious something passed between you and the boy for you to have created something like this. I want to know what."

Possessive indeed.

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

"Nor do I," Alessa said, clenching her teeth. No offense to Negi, but it was hardly her intention to have him as one of her zombie folk. It irritated her that this stupid virus thing from Stacy had caused this reaction. The more she thought about it, the more the remnants of her anger from that situation grew. "If I had known that this dirty living ship would start playing tricks like this, I would be making more trouble. I had hoped by now we'd have a ship, or at least a mission to participate in where I could resume my...activities. The lack of such compounded with this virus apparently caused a subconscious image of the last pertinent situation in the form of those monsters."

She sighed. "Which isn't helped by the fact that during that time, the boy aided in my attempt to keep Sasami from harm. Demons do NOT like owing people, particularly if they're human. Otherwise, I have no other intentions for the boy mage."

Well, right now anyway.

[lastofkuith.livejournal.com]

"I saw that thine monsters have gain a variety," Pirogoeth said, having recently been released from GLADOS. After being gone for far too long, she thought she'd see if she could check on Alessa. It had been...interesting, checking out her usual haunt in the city. "And something about thee being among the ill recently?"

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

"They are connected to me, and I to them," Alessa replied as if she always was Pirogoeth every day. Truthfully, it ad been awhile since she shared quarters with the girl: since her disappearance, Alessa had remained in the factory, looking over her minions, fortifying their stronghold. "As for that, it was rather embarrassing, and I've had to rethink my way of dealing with the ship. Stacy, it seems, is prone to grave error when it strikes her."

[lastofkuith.livejournal.com]

"The error in letting thee be sick, thus making the monsters more likely to be unruly?" Pirogoeth questioned, all to willing to act as if she was never gone.

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

"That's only part of it," Alessa said. "More specifically, when we haven't gone out fighting, I get restless, pent up. I was lucky that my anger didn't get out of control. I could very possibly have started to terrorize the crew. A bit has changed since the last time we spoke."

[lastofkuith.livejournal.com]

"That could be a problem. And it's to be expected," Pirogoeth said and paused thoughtfully. "Have thee a anyone who might help with that pent up energy?"

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

"One would think, but you know how most people on this ship either ignore you or think of you as the greatest threat. I've been on both sides, particularly because I have the appearance of a child."

She thought a moment. "Actually, I recently helped a rather interesting human train. That was...interesting. Certainly better than staying a.lone by myself, I admit."

[lastofkuith.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes that could be helpful. It means less fools are likely to bother thee," Pirogoeth said. "Usually if they can acknowledge the nonthreatening appearing one is a danger, they're less so." Not that there weren't exceptions.

"Training is a good way to release such things. I can help as well, if the other isn't enough."

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

"Maybe. It seems that in order to live on this ship peaceably, I must always lie about what I am, and that is something that is unacceptable on a ship where people are all varied to begin with. I am tired of even being scaled back. If anything, its taught me that I cannot deny it when I like now."

She nodded. "The human is not my pupil, but an Overlords'. I simply gave her a taste of the beings we fought previously."

[lastofkuith.livejournal.com]

"Have there been many with problems with the type of being thou art then?" Pirogoeth asked. Though, honestly, she wasn't too surprised. She suspected if Largo ever appeared, she'd have to knock him unconscious several times before he learned. "What dost thou mean thou cannot deny it when thee likes exactly?"

Pirogoeth nodded. "I see. Then I can help. Be it the monsters or thine self, I believe I can give thee a challenge without going overboard."

[demon-alessa.livejournal.com]

"Nothing I pay attention to anymore," Alessa said, shrugging. "The same sort. I've long since stopped trying to appease people now. So I've opted to ignore them. If they choose to fight me, they'll receive the pummeling of a life time."

Alessa smiled. "If you mean that, then name a place and time. I'll be ready."