Rogues

Episode 2 | Poppy

She tripped through the portal and fell into the other world, her mind fuzzy with dizziness. She dropped into Bismuth's arms, allowing him to slowly lower her to the floor and lay her down.

Cerxy was a Geode Crystaline Ghoul. When two ghouls of the same element both come from very long lines of their pure blooded element and produce a second child, that child is born as a Crystaline Ghoul of the Crystal alternative of that element. Geode was the alternative for Earth. Crystaline Ghouls were very rare and very valuable. In an openable capsule at the end of their tails, which replaces the usual spaded end, they are able to grow a sample of their own crystal which separates off at the end of its growth. These crystals are very magical and, therefore, very expensive items so Crystaline Ghouls would often have been harvested for their crystals.

She was the youngest of the Hanbi line and her parents weren't the most ideal. Her father was a Council ghoul and she had no doubt in her mind that had planned to report her existence to them as soon as she had been old enough to start producing her geodes. But, after telling Bismuth of her fear, he'd used his hypnotic abilities to cause her parents to loose their memories of her completely. She'd stayed with him for a while after that and did all she could to avoid coming into contact with her parents.

A regular Air ghoul's hypnosis wouldn't have worked on a fellow ghoul, despite their persuasion abilities working just fine, but Bismuth was an exception due to him being an Air Infinity Ghoul.

As Cerxy's mind began to finally clear, she suddenly registered what had happen and she smirked at the thought of what Bismuth had done.

"What?" He asked, clearly noticing her expression.

She turned her head to face him, still smiling her sly smile, "If you'd wanted to hold me bridle style and all, you should have just asked."

Bismuth's cheeks flushed red and she giggled at his flustered reaction. She loved messing with him, mostly because she knew he would return it ten fold later. They had that sort of relationship where they could be fucking at any given time and still never feel the need to be anything more than friends with benefits. They just simply didn't feel like anything more to each other.

She stood up slowly, taking in her surrounding before shivering as a gust of cold air hit her. It was so much colder on Earth than she's expected and she sure hadn't dressed for it.

Bismuth wrapped his arms around her from behind, using his body heat to warm her as he pushed the chilled air away from the two of them. She smiled, relaxing into his touch.

"I take it no-one else has arrived yet?" She questioned, staring at the empty space around them.

He nodded, resting his chin on her head. She was only just shorter than him and she always found it funny when he tryed to look taller than he was. He breathed in her scent, allowing it to calm his nerves as the rush of adrenaline he'd gotten from running to the portal finally began to ware off. She held his arms that wrapped around her with one hand, smiling up at him gently as his breathing slowled and he started to finally relax.

Poppy glanced around at the small glass cases of necklaces and earing, occationionally taking them off the shelf to get a better look. Really, she was just doing anything she could to keep her mind off the band that had been playing for a while on the stage below.

If Ghost had Air or Multi ghouls, which she knew they did, then they would be able to recognize what they were from their auras. Air ghouls could see people's auras very clearly and Multi ghouls had inherited a slightly lesser version of that power. If any of them noticed her or the rest of the group that were still stood with Trudy Judy as ghouls, their cover would be blown and they would risk being put on the Clergy's radar. Which would, in turn, put them on the Council's radar aswell. They couldn't afford to let that happen.