House of the Nefarious

Chapter 7

That asshole spat fire at my curtains. I let out a startled shriek racing to yank the flaming material off the wall.

I violently stepped on it until the blaze died beneath my feet, leaving the beige fabric torn and looking like charcoal. I shot an angry glare at the fire breathing blob on the floor.

"Why did you think that was a good idea!" I yelled pointing an angry finger at the amphibian. "You freaking live in the water, you're not supposed to light curtains on fire!"

Sushi stared at me, blinking innocently and I narrowed my eyes. So that's what Jungkook meant when Fred came from a 'long line of warriors.'

The axolotl was emitting a soft orange glow and I picked him up off the ground.

"What? Are you part lantern too?"

He looked at me and I watched in fascination as his lips spread apart into an oddly cute smile and the orange light surrounding him had become green.

I used my index finger to rub his forehead. "You're a strange little thing huh? You pee on me, set my curtains on fire."

A knock sounded on the door and I wondered who it could be. I shuddered hoping Seokjin hadn't come to yell at me, he looked rather terrifying earlier and I made a note to myself not to get on his bad side.

To my surprise Taehyung was on the other side of the door. "Hey Seoyeon," he muttered sheepishly.

"Hi?"

"How's your arm doing?" he asked, gesturing to the bandage wrapped around my cut.

"It doesn't hurt that much, I'm surprised you actually used my name," I muttered dryly.

"I'm really sorry. Cat sith's usually aren't that aggressive and I was caught off guard. I was in charge of babysitting you and I let you get hurt."

"That is the most insincere apology I have ever heard."

"No! It is sincere, I'm really bad with this stuff," he stammered. "I'm just sorry, I really wanted my card back and it seemed funny at the time."

I recalled his obnoxious laughter and I made a move to grab his credit card out of my bag. It was stupid of me to step in like that, he's probably one of the most powerful entities down here and I'm just a human.

"It's fine, just take your credit card."

He eyed the golden rectangle in my outstretched palm. "Let me make it up to you, then I'll take it."

"You don't like me and I don't like you. I can't understand why you're so dead set on me forgiving you."

The blue-haired male sighed. "Listen human, I'm not willing to be in debt to others so your going to let me make it up to you hmm?"

There's the Taehyung from this morning.

"No," I glared. "Just go away and I'll forget about it."

"Nah how about I'll give you a stamp?"

"A what?"

"A stamp, it lets you have access to my powers once it would probably come in handy to a plebeian like you," he explained.

It did sound like a pretty good deal. Who knows if something else like the Cat sith might show up and try to eat me.

"Will you stop pestering me if I agree?"

"Yup," he said popping the p.

"Okay fine," I muttered, hoping I had made the right choice. 

"Great pass me your arm then."