In Which the Overlord Dislikes What He Sees [Open]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

In roaming the ship, out of an increased sense of irritation and impatience, Zetta had discovered someplace new to him.

Most of the murals and paintings and sculptures in the place, disturbing though they might be to a mortal mind, gave the Overlord no pause whatsoever. In his thousands of years, he had seen the death of worlds, the descent into madness of some truly great minds, the greatest depravities of the Netherworlds, and Mickey in a feather boa. These 'alarming' sculptures couldn't dare disturb the mental integrity of the Overlord! Hyaaa ha ha ha ha!

...What DID shock him, though, was the statues beneath a giant head-sculpture thing. Two of them, in fact: the first an obstinate Overlord, arms crossed and looking stubborn, his back to the second; the second a woman walking away, stoic despite tears.

"What the... What the HELL is THIS crap?!" Zetta demanded of the room in general and the cosmos at large.

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[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Because every time we're about to leave it shows off something interesting," Zetta pointed out. "Of course, everything about me is interesting, so it's not difficult when I'm around."

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Ruffnut rolled her eyes at their encouragement.

The statue continued to shift and change, Ruffnut tentatively reached out to touch it. "Weeeird. It's like liquid...but metal...but not hot."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Hit Girl rolled her eyes right back, sticking her tongue out at Ruffnut in a random moment of immaturity.

"Like liquid metal then," she said, staring at the statue. It then morphed into the person she hadn't seen since coming onto the ship: Kick Ass,

"Huh," she said. "Guess it would be nice to see him again."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

That wasn't encouragement, just a statement of fact. All of it!

Though the Overlord looked sidelong at Hit Girl. "And, since the ship seems to do weird things with time and space... if he did pop out of the pods tomorrow, what would you do?"

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Ruffnut just tilted her head looking at the scrawny guy with sticks.

"Is he supposed to be scary?" She asked confused. She was pretty sure she could have kicked his ass even before lightning powers and training.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Get him stronger," Hit Girl said. "He was always kind of a pussy anyway, but if it weren't for him I would have been killed. We have a war to fight, right? He'd need it."

She snickered. "Think of him like Hiccup Ruffnut...only nowhere near as smart or resourceful. He was a good guy though, definitely well meaning."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Pfft. Hit Girl talks like such a pragmatist, but Zetta would bet that deep down inside she'd be a lot more choked up than she cared to admit. Zetta, of course, is a bloody hypocrite.

"That's a hell of a thing for someone who hasn't managed to beat down a twelve-year-old kid, Ruffnut," Zetta said teasingly.

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Ruffnut snorted in defiance, "Pft, Hit Girl's no ordinary kid. She's like an awesome tiny monster." At least that was her justification for why she so rarely seemed to be able to beat Mindy in hand to hand.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Dude, I've been trained since I could walk," Hit Girl remarked. "Little girls my age don't do what I do, and most of them would be scared shitless of they knew about it. Sure, it means you don't get to enjoy crap like dolls and having a childhood, but who misses that? Little girls can play with Barbies: I had a score to settle with a mobster."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"It's a pity you weren't born a demon," Zetta said. "You'd have made a damn good one."

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Ruffnut bit back a uncharacteristically snarky remark about childhoods being over rated. She'd had a decent one as far as she was concerned.

And as if following er train of thought there was the statue once again shifting to become little kid Ruffnut riding a sheep through the fields of Birk, unaware that a rat sized Dragon was sneaking up on them.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Aww, its a cute lil' Ruffnut!" Hit girl said half mockingly. "And apparently there are baby dragons too?"

That was news to her. "Wish I could ride a sheep," she muttered darkly.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"What, did you think dragons just hatched fully-grown?" Zetta said. "And what the hell is so great about sheep? They stink and they're not even that good eatin'."

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

"Actually that's a Terrible Terror. That's as big as any of them get." But she also knew that was no reason to underestimate them. "And sheep are awesome...dumb as anything but still cool." She protested.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"What do they do?" Hit Girl asked, looking surprised. "I mean, Terrible Terror? They look like the cats of the dragon world."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Abruptly the statue shifted. Apparently it seemed inclined to show off scenes from childhood at the moment, because there's a Zetta that looks to be six years old or so (in other words, about 600 years old), standing in front of a powerful demon and regal demoness.

"Huh," Zetta said.

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

Ruffnut grunted acknowledging the shift, "The Terrible Terror sneaks into your house and wrecks the place looking for food to steal. It's claws and teeth are like knives and it has fire too." She explained with a fond smile remembering the last time one had latched onto her brother's face.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"So its like some kind of fucked up Wolverine," Hit Girl said, which actually was pretty scary.

"Hey, who are those guys?" Hit Girl asked about the two unknown demons.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Mom and Dad," Zetta said simply enough. Who knew that demons had the same terms as normal humans?

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

"I uh...see the resemblance?" Ruffnut offered hopefully. This was the first time she realized she had no real idea about Zetta's past while he knew most of her incredibly short story.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Not me," Hit Girl said truthfully. "Of course, I never knew that demons had parents to begin with. It'd help if you would mention them from time to time!"

Of course, the statue would shift and show a slightly off kilter picture of her mother. Hit Girl blinked, then shrugged.

"What kind of weird family reunion thing is this?" she said. "I don't know why its showing that, I never knew my mom."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Why should I mention them? They've been dead for something like twenty-five thousand years. What, did you think demons just appeared out of nowhere? How else would we get more demons except by having kids?" Then, as the statue shifted, he added, "It's weirder imagining YOU with a mom."

[ruffntumblenut.livejournal.com]

"How should we know how demons are made. I never met any demons back home and She didn't have any in her world." Ruff jerked a thumb at Mindy as if he wouldn't know who she meant.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. For all I know, some other demon juts makes more, or lays them from evil eggs or something," Hit Girl said.

She looked nonplussed, although she did feel a slight twinge at the comment. "Yeah, I guess it is huh?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"No, we're living beings too! And we're not birds! Why would you even think that?" Zetta was completely oblivious of that twinge. Hadn't meant a damn thing to him, after all.