Supernova

Chapter Sixty Six - Animal Instincts

I hadn't initially questioned it or paid it any mind, but I now knew for certain: Raf had been a filthy liar when it came to knowing which parties were the good ones.

Demon most certainly knew which were the good ones. Or maybe his idea of a good time just heavily overlapped with mine. He continued to carry me most places, and he'd always tap his large black hands on my knees as I sat on his shoulders, trembling with excited cackling as we approached the entrance to whatever party we approached. You're going to love this, Princess. And I always did. Maybe I should have asked him from the start.

We went to one party where the floor was all warped and rippled, moving like waves on the shore, and the mandatory quirk drug at the entrance heavily altered one's ability to balance. I was immune to that drug and heavily enjoyed that party, crying so hard from laughing as I watched Demon, Elias, and Needles stumble and fall backwards and struggle even to crawl.

One of the best parties Demon took us to was being held out in the woods. As the only one of us who ran hot, Demon complained heavily the entire trek over, and this was one of the rare instances where he didn't carry me. I carried Elias on my back instead, if only to make better time across the snow. When we got to the edge of the woods, we met the same girl with the high ponytail that we'd met at the wing party, and once again we had two different tablets to stick on our skin. There were also a number of bins beside her which were filled with various fabrics. She noticed me eyeing them.

"Feel free to leave your clothes," she told us. Demon and Needles wasted no time. I looked at Elias, who gave me a small type of shrug, and reached for the buttons on his own shirt. "I'll keep an eye on them and return them when the party is finished."

Whatever, I guess. I stripped too, shoved my clothes into one of the baskets she handed out to us, and waited. The red tablet from the wing party was once again placed on our chests, and this time, a purple tablet was placed on the nape of our necks. Elias had to help me. It fizzled more ferociously than the green wing tablets had, and I was certain everyone had heard it this time. I was about to ask, when I heard Needles yelp, and fall to the forest floor. My eyes widened. Elias too, gasped and fell to the ground.

"What the fuck?" I said, my voice exasperated and terrified, finding Demon.

"Lighten up, Princess," he told me, placing his own tablet on his neck, wincing a bit as it fizzled. Demon didn't fall, but he did put himself on his hands and knees. "You're not scared, are you?"

Then I collapsed. Fear took me in a chokehold for a brief second, but once I realized I could still see, still think, I was viciously offended by my own body's disobedience. I couldn't see any of my body but heard rustling that was too close to suggest anything but my own scrambling. I returned to standing, which I knew I was doing on pure instinct alone, because I still couldn't see any of my own body, and realized that I was only about a foot or two off the forest floor. The girl from the entrance was looking down at me.

"Princess Stronghold!" She cooed at me, crouching down until she was close to my eyeline. She reached out towards me and patted my head. "How cute!"

"Fuck off!" I tried to yell at her, but instead it came out sounding like, "Reow!"

What.

The.

Fuck?

"My liege," I then heard Elias beam from somewhere to my left.

I demanded my body look, and when it obeyed, I saw a pale white snake slithering towards me. I perhaps would have been more taken off guard, but I immediately understood. I'd know those eyes anywhere. I let snake Elias climb his way onto the back of whatever I was and loop around my neck, which I could feel from his sensation alone was covered in some type of hair.