Hinata is in the forest for her daily jog and solo training with her katanas. Violet walks into the woods and starts ringing a bell she got from the Magical Walmart, which causes Hinata to stop dead in her tracks and focus intensely on the sound of the ringing. Hinata’s hearing is similar to that of Luna’s in that it's extremely sensitive to volume and especially specific rhythm patterns. She growls while searching for the source, her clawed fingers gripping into her skin. Anything to ignore the pain. To ignore the lights. The bright, horribly painful lights from her past traumas. Her eyes flicker between crimson and her normal jade while attempting to resist its temptation.
As Violet gets closer to Hinata, she adds a phrase in some unknown language, a phrase that only causes Hinata even more pain and suffering. She screams in agony as her mind is overtaken by her BOSS mode, drenched in crimson. Looking up at the night sky, her eyes glow deep red and beams of light shoot upwards, as if she’s become a beacon. Violet is able to find her and smiles menacingly, knowing her plan was a success. “Follow me 4444.” Without a word, Hinata… or the person who used to be Hinata, follows. They head through the forest towards [The Kiss]’s house.
Weeks prior, a demon from Hell, the same one who targetted Luna with her own BOSS mode, captured Violet. Weeks of intense mental torture followed as her mind was weakened and inhibitions destroyed. To make matters worse, with a crown of thorns placed and attached to Violet’s head, she is unable to escape this. Only by destroying it will she be saved. For now though, a plan to murder a threat is in motion.
When they reach the treeline separating the forest cottage from the rest of the woods, Violet turns to Hinata and describes her command, “4444, your eyes will covered with vines alright? We can’t be showing off your crimson best around here! I want you to act as though I have you at knifepoint. When your sweet beloved Luna comes out of the house, you WILL give her a hug and stab her to death! Can you handle that?”
Hinata is completely unable to resist, so she accepts the specific command with a nod. Violet then wraps Hinata’s eyes as was directed and points her newly summoned knife at her neck. After that, she heads into her server and prepares the bait.
Krystal - So for reference, this is the SECOND FUCKING TIME Violet’s attempted to kill Luna. The very first time, she was controlled by a King of Hell in another World called “The Realms of the Gods”. She cursed Luna to silence for an entire day, then proceeded to attack our friends and kill Luna, but it was short-lived as one of the Goddesses there, Nammu, revived her after maybe 30 seconds. I don’t get it. Why is fucking VIOLET always the one to do this shit??? She’s not villain-coded??? Just fuckin weakminded I guess. Couldn’t be us, smh. That being said, I don’t even remember this fight.
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[Location Tag - Violet’s Discord Server - #general]
Violet? - OHHHHH LUNNNNNNNA!!! ITS TIME FOR FUN! COME OUTSIDE TO THE FRONT YARD! I HAVE A GIFT!
Luna - Fuck off. You must think I'm a fucking fool. I told you once before, you will NEVER beat me!
Violet? - Oh then I guess Hinata will have to die then! What a shame!
Luna - ...You're bluffing.
Violet? - Try me
Luna - You underestimate her power! She wouldn't die so easily!
Violet? - I have her at knife point as. we. speak. Try me!
Luna - ... Fine. BRING IT.
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Luna walks out and bellows while hyperveniltating, “RELEASE HER!”
"Now why would I do that!? That's no fun!" Violet says giggling and placing the knife even closer to Hinata's throat.
Krystal notices Luna’s breathing is off, so they swap in while Luna refocuses, "You have no reason to hurt her Violet." They stay put, sensing a trap.
"If you want her so badly... come and get her!" Violet challenges Krystal.
Krystal continues to survey and inspect the situation. Then, she grins, "Okay, then why does she have vines on her eyes?"
"So she can be blind in these last moments. Besides, if you somehow get the knife out of my hand, BOOM! I can summon thorns and kill her myself!”
Krystal calls Violet’s bluff, "Girl you have one hell of a bad tell. I can tell you're lying!”
"You wanna try!?" Violet summons thorns around the vine on Hinata's head which dig into her skin. They’re sharp enough to cause her to bleed but not do lasting damage. "Try me!"
Krystal groans, her voice sounding a lot deeper than usual, "You would rather murder a LUNA than use her for her intended power. You utter fucking idiot! But fine, have it your way." Krystal unsheathes Luna's broadsword and teleports behind Violet. She goes for a diagonal slash on her back. Violet reads the attack and dodges forward while also swapping Hinata in for the slash. Krystal ceases the strike on correctly predicting Violet’s cowardice. "Interesting. This will be good for our research." They have a smug grin on their face.
Violet sighs heavily, “you’re no fun! Fine, have your stupid sister!” Hinata gets released as she rushes to give Krystal a hug as was commanded previously. Her eyes are glowing deep, yet bright, crimson which causes Krystal to keep away from her recognizing the ploy.
Krystal growls at Violet, entering an offensive stance, "You gods damned idiot! You expect an ADMIN to not recognize when a LUNA is not under its own control?"
Violet smirks as she rushes to Krystal, trying to pin her down as chants the trigger phrase, "Fair fair, but let's try this!"
Thankfully, Krystal’s soul is separate from Luna’s, so the trigger phrase does not work. They are pinned to the ground, however. They sneer, “You’re an idiot!” They struggle to get out of the pin, but it’s not working.
"Oh then how about this?" Violet grabs Luna's collar, trying to cut it off her neck.
The collar appears to be made of some kind of incredibly resilient material, so it cannot be cut off. There also doesn’t seem to be any way to release it. Looking at the back of it, there are no visible clasps, “You fool! The collar cannot come off! Not while I’m here!”
Violet's eyes widen in shock that nothing she tries works, but behind that emotion, it almost looks like she’s relieved that it didn’t. She attempts to yell directly into Krystal's ears, "I... WHY! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST DIE ALREADY?!" Violet grips her head as the thorns grow a bit more into her head. She looks to Krystal with pure fury and attempts to strike her with a thorn whip.
While Violet grips her head, Krystal blips out of the pin and dodges the incoming whip strikes swiftly. They call out to Violet, continuing to challenge her, "you're gonna have to do better than that if you wanna beat us!" While recovering in her soul room, Luna notes the crown of thorns and finds the growth extremely interesting. Hinata is standing at attention and waiting for a command.
Violet? commands, "Hinata? Attack Luna now, give it everything you got."
Hinata does as commanded and attacks Krystal with everything she has on her person, including various cool rocks and leaves she found during her hike, her cellphone, and the twin katanas on her back. She throws all of them at Krystal and most miss aside from a single stone that strikes her on the head. Krystal groans and facepalms, "you don't even know how to control them? You gotta be a bit more precise in your wording!"
Violet takes the suggestion and repairs the command to Hinata, "Hinata, attack Luna with your twin katanas. Full power."
Hinata seems to be extremely tired, but she does as commanded, striking at Krystal with heavy, yet quick, strikes all over her body. Krystal blocks most of the strikes swiftly with her own blade, but a few of them land, which causes Krystal's body to bleed. Even so, she is taking all of the hits and watching Hinata tire herself out. "Once again. You challenged an ADMIN to a duel with one of my former subjects. If you expect me not to know how they tick, you're horribly mistaken!" Krystal continues.
Violet rolls her eyes in defiance, "you’re seriously no fun." Then, she quantum jumps behind Krystal and stabs her in the back with a sword she summoned. Krystal attempts to roll out of the way, but it fails. The strike makes purchase with her back. Hinata continues her rampage on Luna until she collapses on the ground. A couple tears flow from her eyes.
"Shit!" Krystal squeaks out before even their own mana is reduced, which forces Luna to be dispossessed. Luna coughs up blood and looks at Violet with violent contempt in her eyes, her own eyes threatening to turn red too.
Violet looks to Hinata and scoffs, "you're fucking weak, but whatever." She turns to Luna with a malicious grin and what seems to be tears in her eyes. Then, she prepares to plunge her sword into Luna to finish her off. She appears to want to strike the heart, but as she is on her stomach, that won’t work. Instead, she aims for the back of her neck, a place Luna was killed just 10 months prior in a duel to the death versus Cole and on the same day as she was murdered by Violet.
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[Location Tag - 'The Kiss' House Group Chat]
ALAIS - Critical HP Warning. Mana Reserves Low.
Cole - shit. where are you? last i saw you went into the front yard.
ALAIS - Front yard. Violet.
Chris - WHAT!?
ALAIS - Made Miss Hinata attack Miss Luna. HP critical. Near death!
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As Violet goes to perform her final attack, the stab to Luna's neck, Cole sprints out to the front yard and immediately shoots her in the arm to disarm her. Luna smiles slightly on feeling Cole's presence. "C-Called it," she says before fainting from blood loss. Violet gets hit and coils back in pain from the bullet before picking Luna up and using her as a meatshield. As Luna is critical, she is not much more than a furry bleeding ragdoll. Violet continues to stab Luna in the back repeatedly.
Cole shoots out Violet's kneecap. Turns out choosing the literal shortest person in the house as your meatshield exposes many parts of your own body. "STAND DOWN OR FACE FATAL ACTION!" he threatens.
Violet withstands the pain and pushes through before slicing Luna's throat and disappearing with a deafening cackle. Cole, recognizing the direness of the situation, rushes to heal both Hinata and Luna. It works, but they're still completely out of commission. He holsters his glock and brings both of them inside. They're placed on the couch. The two gay girls are sleeping next to each other.
"This will not happen again. I will make sure of it. That flowery fuck will not lay a finger on any of you as long as I am standing and functioning!" Cole says to the rest of the house, most of whom are shellshocked by that confrontation.
After some time passes, a bright purple orb of light seems to move from the collar around Luna's neck to a location near Hinata's right ear. The dim crimson glow in Hinata's eyes disappears and she has a soft smile on her face. The light orb returns to the collar.
"So what happened, Cole?" Chris asks quietly, his eyes flickering red.
Luna wakes up but instead of blue, her eyes are deeply glowing green, signalling ALAIS taking control. Its voice is extremely monotone and almost robotic though with an odd feminine quality, "thank you mister Cole. I have confirmed that Miss Luna is recovering her mana just fine. In fact, being next to Hinata has doubled its recovery rate. Thus, Miss Luna will pull through and won't need much longer to recover."
Cole nods, "not a problem. I'm just doing my job as a protector."
ALAIS nods and closes its eyes. Cole sits down in the middle of the room and sighs. Eventually both Luna and Hinata wake up next to each other and are both blushing profusely.
"Ah. Uh h-hey Lulu.. Sorry about all that happened back there, I wasn't able to control it," Hinata scratches the back of her neck sheepishly.
Luna smiles her usual bright smile, "it's okay. Uh just glad you're alright. Not gonna lie, I'm impressed with your sword skills."
Hinata is as red as an apple. "ahhhhhahah th-th-thank you.." Intrusive bottom thoughts invade her mind. She's definitely NOT a bottom though!
Cole sends Luna a telepathic message, "queers."
"Yeah~" Luna smirks.
"Whatcha smiling about?" Hinata asks and tilts their head. Luna sends her an ITEM message. On reading it, she chuckles, "Ah I see. Goddamn right we are!"
"Oh uh by the way Cole? Uhm, would it be okay if Hinata stayed here for a bit? She's a bit worried with Violet now in play and her ability to take control," Luna asks for Hinata.
Cole shrugs, "perfectly fine with me, that bitch is...something else."
"Thank you. Uh Luna, should I go get a bag?" Hinata asks.
Luna nods. "Yeah, I'll snap you there and back."
Hinata nods and disappears on Luna's snap. After a few moments, Hinata returns on another snap, this time with a blue canvas backpack of various clothes which gets sent to Luna's bedroom. It is at this moment that Hinata notices the massive sleeping albino crocodile and small nonferal fox watching. "Oh uh,, hello.. I'm Hinata, one of Luna's erm... friends??"
Chris waves from the couch. "Nice to meet ya, Hinata."
Hinata smiles awkwardly. She is not exactly used to socializing. Or being near multiple people. "It's nice to meet you too."
Krystal - As for what happened to Violet after this, she returned a few days later to attack us once more, summoning a strange fleshy plant beast and so many tendrils that it would make even the most hardcore anime fan quiver in horror. Luna and Hinata were finally able to team up alongside Spider and Cole to defeat Violet and remove the thorn crown atop her head, thus ending her reign of terror for the third time in the past year. Hopefully this is the last time we have to deal with this shit. I'm so done!