Kira's Announcement

The Dragon's Head Tavern and Inn, Vorland, 1438 ATC

Ruari stepped out from her rented room with a sigh, wearing warm heavy robes and a hunched over back, since it helped her breathe easier. Her lungs had been giving her hell lately, burning and constricting throughout the past three days and giving her little sleep. Normally her foxtail mix helped relieve the pain, but all it did was make her sick to her stomach. She shuffled over to the bar, taking a seat near the middle. She laid her head on the counter and closed her eyes, focusing on not hyperventilating and passing out.

A swarm of dark magic began to form, spiraling around in a orb and slowly forming a youthful appearing girl wearing a simple blue blouse and black skirt. Her ebony hair was thick and long while the eyes were a clear crisp blue. As the black magic streams faded, Kira Kurai, a worker for the establishment, stood holding a leather school bag and held a rather blank expression on her face.

"Finally... Another day done."

The short, black eyed porcelain doll like demoness barmaid sighed more to herself and ends up kicking her shoes off her feet and walked over to the bar to see Ruari sitting at her usual spot at the bar with her head laid on the counter. A light gasp escaped Kira's lips, and she made her way over towards Ruari looked quite concerned. "Ruari..." Kira spoke out her name to grab her attention. Her skin color was a deathly pale, and her body... She could literally feel the Life Essence fluctuating in and out of her system. This of course was one of the Kurai demon's specialty... Because they fed off of essences to fuel their abilities daily. A normal Kurai demon would need to consume quite the amount of LE in order to live. But thankfully, because of Kira's Special ability unlike the rest, she could live without it.

Venser sat at a table in the corner, reclining lazily after having spent the last few days spending time with his family, and then a few more days asleep. He had awoken. Still unshaven and wearing his hood over his head and wrapped in a blanket, his eyes glazed over and red, and a stupid smug smile upon his lips. He waved to them and held up a joint. ''Wanna get high? It's... Trying to think about how to ring in the New Year soon.''

The islandic elf didn't move or speak, she simply groaned lightly and kept the side of her face squished against the counter, breathing quickly but not deeply. She wrapped her arms around her stomach tightly and curled in on herself. "This year just needs to end fast..."

"Few more weeks, yeah. Ah... I dunno like, time feels soooooo different when you can teleport everything just like that." Ven commented clapping his hands together. Kira looked to him, and then back to Ro.

"She's been like that since she came back from visiting her homeland." Venser commented blinking a few times and letting out a long sigh. "Because... I forgot... Yeah. But, let's drink or smoke away the pain, right? Just... Relax."

Kira tilted her head towards Venser again, seeming to literally and dangerously glare at him, but that honeslty was not her intent. "Sorry I cannot." Then she glanced towards the islandic elf... She was breathing fairly quickly, and her body was definitly going through hell by the way she gripped her stomach. So, Kira spoke lightly to give her the usual Option that she gives to anyone else. "From the way your Essence moves in and out of your body.. As a Kurai Demon... I can tell." She glanced down at nothing in particular then cleared her throat. "I can heal you forever... To where you will never suffer pain like this ever again... And live for all eternity, for a price. But.. Living for eternity can have it's curses..." She added in a sad tone. Kira in no shape or form was pushing for Ruari to get Eternal Life, because some feel like death is much sweeter.. And Kira understood this. But, Kira offered this to Ruari as a friend. "Would you like me to get you anything atleast? To try and ease the pain."

"I've heard of some demons making deals but I don't it's worth it. Some just do it for their own amusement, I know." Venser commented and raised the joint to his lips, inhaling noisily while he let the two converse about Rauri's current situation.

"I don't know if it's the best idea... Because sometimes that's life. We take what comes, the pain with it and we go on. When life knocks you down you gotta get knocked up!"

The burgundy haired islandic elf turned her head to glance over at Kira, and Venser's odd saying made Ro give a short laugh, and, after regaining some sort of breath, made a drinking gesture, giving no indication as to what drink.

Brea Rowland being the little chef that she was, carried out a tray of meat pies, little pockets filled with ground beef along with peas and carrots in gravy. They smelled savory, and their crust glistened with the butter she had just drizzled on. "Two silver for a meat pi-Oh, hello. How are you boss? How is your family?" She said to the smoking Venser stand in the corner. Quickly looking to Kira and Ruari, she looked back at him as she set the tray down and looked to a set of guards in the other corner who were all drinking and conversing with themselves, as well ad a few other random patrons who would mind their own business.

"Been a long couple of weeks, and they are good as ever. Went on plenty of adventures, had a lot of injuries tried some mead made with mad honey... Made a lot of coin... Really I can say it's all a quick blur. Like, a lot happened and here I am asking what the void happened right?"

"Not all demons from Coldwrought are the same, Venser." Kira said with a frown and then nodded towards Ruari and clapped her hands twice to summon a Shadow Tendril. "Get the usual foxtail, Please?" As the shadow tendril disappeared, a smile appeared on her face and she nodded to her fellow co-worker. "Hey Brea."

Ruari groaned and raised a shaky arm to cover her eyes. "Water..." She breathed out, looking feverish at the mention of 'foxtail'. "Just... Water."

Kira nods as she moves about the bar to fill a tall glass of cool water, and places it infront of Ruari. Then, she sits next to her with a slightly worried expression. She felt honestly bad that Ruari was going through this..."

The sandy haired barmaid looked around, everyone seemed different and glum, even a few patrons she sold the meat pies to. Instead of retreating to the kitchen, she broke open one of her meat pies, letting the steam escape before nibbling on it's edge. "Seems like I walked into some drama here... I'm just going to try to work where I can."

''I don't even know what's going on. Its one of those days where I can sit here and relax in ome of my favorite spots.'' The handsome bearded man said lifting his left hand up, trapping one of the meat pies in a green aura, pulling it over to him. "Mhm... Delicious."

Ruari leaned the arm covering her head on the counter, pushing herself up a bit before moving her other arm from her waist to grab the cup. She hurridly drank the water down and slammed the cup on the counter. "No shit." She huffed.

Brea showed no signs of it, but she internally winced at the harsh tones. "Sorry." She mumbled, continuing to eat her pie

"I know a lot of demons from Coldwrought... So weird like, yeah. But that's the beauty of this tavern... You see all kinds of beings here." The handsome bearded man mumbled putting his head bacon and exhaling smoke right up into the air.

The short pale demoness with long black hair sat with her legs neatly crossed and began to unbutton her uniform coat and hung it on the chair behind her. Kira's bare foot slightly rocking back and forth while she sat, then glanced up at Ruari as she slammed the glass down on the counter. She then would bring her bag onto her lap, unbucketed the latch and dug inside through the contents.

Ruari took a few deep breaths before crossing her arms on the counter and buring her arms in them. "... Sorry, it... It's not your fault.... Shouldn't have snapped..." She mumbled her apology. "Neither do I...Wierd lungs, I guess..."

The sandy haired barmaid shook her head. "It's alright. I can tell you're stressed. If you need to talk about it, I am always here." Brea poured herself a glass of mead and sipped on it, letting the honeyed taste sweeten her mouth.

''C'mon Rauri... What has ya troubled? What happened when you decided to stay with the crew of the Freeman's Paragon?'' Venser asked rising to his feet, stumbling a bit and muttering about how he dropped his weed. He wrapped his arms around Kira and Rauri as he listened for her response. His mark glowing greenish white and emitting steam.

A lone wanderer entered the tavern, alone this time. He dusted off his long black cloak as he looked around, once again there was only chatter upstairs. Once making it there himself, he looked to the other visitors and found himself a seat

"I. Don't. Know." She spat, her breathing making it hard for her to even speak a full sentence. "I... I just can't... breathe well... Four days, now..."

Brea looked at her lungs, then quickly looked away realizing how it might've looked lewd. "I'm sure there is a physician in the area that could give you a diagnosis." She said as she rushed over to help the new patron.

Ruari gave another quick, breathy laugh before looking up at Brea. "I doubt it, last guy I talked to thought my runes were the cause.... Like runes could kill me..."

The wanderer shrugged, even though he wasn't apart of the conversation himself. "Perhaps you were poisoned." He remarks bluntly.

"Like I was with the Mad Honey Mead! Even though apparentlyit's like, a novelty drink." Ven commented.

"Poisoned?" Ro asked, glancing over to the mysterious man. "I.... Oh..." Her pointed ears dropped in realization. She chuckled darkly, shaking her hanging head and running a hand through her messy hair. "Gods above, I'm an idiot. Thank you, sir."

"Have a revalation there?" Brea asked, raising her eyebrows from behind her mug.

The wandered smirked. "Unfortunately whoever poisoned you likely used a slow-working toxin to make your death long and painful, fortunately for you that means that you might be able to find an antidote before then. I do happen to know a good alchemist."

"Aha... Yeah, an extremely slow toxin, indeed. No, I think all I will require is a breathing aid, thank you." Ro huffed, her breathing not quite as labored as before. "I can't believe I forgot that..."

"If you say so, you have pretty underwhelming enemies then if that's the case." He chuckled.

Kira remained silent through this entire conversation. She WAS an antidote, but if a person did not want her Antidote she could not push them to take it... Like she had done in the past. She crossed her legs onto the bar seat and pulls out a black binded book.

"I never said that an enemy did this. Actually, it was a family member."

"Family?!" Brea excalimed, putting her mug down rather forcefully. "How could they?!"

''You should just let Kira help you love...'' Venser said blinking his red, glazed over lazy eyes as he ruffled Rauri's hair with one hand, leaning over Kira nuzzling her head gently as she read. He kissed her softly on the cheek, his unshaven face rubbing up against hers, a drop of blood from his forehead spilling onto the bar.

A light sigh escaped the short demoness's lips while she opened a book to read and eventually felt Venser in her bubble. Glancing up with those blue eyes she then glanced at the wound she gave him. Setting the book down, she dug through her bag once more, pulls out decent sized bandage and slaps it on him. You are making the bar counter unsanitary." She spoke with a risen brow.

"My father is a huge dick, if you couldn't already gather. Thought tattooing runes of power alongside Marilla the sea goddess would help me, even though the side effects were known to be rather... Unsavory. Maybe I shouldn't have gone back in the first place." Ruari scratched idly at the rather colorful tattoo of a peacock on her arm. "They're known to make people blind and deaf, they assume that it's some sort of holy thing when someone with them reaches that point. I wouldn't know the specifics, never being all that religious or anything."

''You are making the bar counter unsanitary, BOSS.'' Venser said sternly flattening the bandage on his forehead, letting out a very brief guffaw, waving her off and stretching out his legs. He flicked the roach at Kira and then jumped up, cackling madly and running down the hall.

Kira listened to Ruari and was about to make a comment when Venser spoke about her making the bar counter unsanitary, then flicked what was left of the joint at her and he walked away. She winced uncomfortably, jumped off the bar stool and kicked it hard back in pure anger. The sandy haired barmaid gave a disapproving look and sighed.

"Venser does as Venser does..."

"I am going to kill him!"

The short demoness growled. "Where did that bastard go?!" The short pale demoness shouted as the air began to grow cold and could hear him poof away.

"Alright..." Kira stomped down the hallway, ripped his the door off its hinges with inhuman strength. Spotting his large bed, she then pointed her finger towards it and yelled, "Venser if you want this room to survive I suggest you get your ass back here and face me!"

Venser's head peeked out from beneath his bed, wearing a green and red jester's hat with bells. ''I don't have time for this shit I have to pick my kids up from play school. Heyyyyy... That door is coming out of your pay!''

"I don't have time for this!" Kira stomped a foot down childishly, then clutched her hand in a tight fist. "Your dick made it so I don't have time!"

''Yeah I give you a good dicking... I mean, you enjoy me. Everyone does. Look love... Just relax, like me. Why so angry, Kira?"

A single raised eyebrow would then twitch as her anger began to rise, the shadows in the room began to squirm and as the electricity in her body stopped making her jolt, she then walked over towards the bed and grabbed his precious sheets. "It is because of your good dicking and these sheets is why I am Like this!" she points to her perfectly flat stomach, hidden within her blouse. "I cannot go back to the Mage Academy now because of your good dicking!"

"Oh crap. Uhhh... Why can't you go?" The bomb was about to drop and he knew what was coming. The handsome bearded man disappeared in a puff of thick red smoke and appeared atop his bed, his back against the board and watching Kira. Letting her speak.

Kira tilted her head in confusion as to what Venser was even doing right now. He was humping the bottom of the bed for some bloody reason. She simply went over to the bed, gripped the bed frame and lifted with no effort.

"Because I am pregant! Kurai women were used as breeders. Even though I'm one of the few breeds of Kurai demons left."

Venser said nothing and just stared at her blankly, letting out a sigh. "There is room at my villa up north... So..."

Kira simply let the drop bed hard onto the floor with a loud thunk and she kneeled down and faced him. Letting the barrel be close to her face, then reached to grip it tightly into her hands, but not enough to bend or dent it. "So, Venser... man up.. Your kid is going to develop in my stomach... And when she or he is born... he or she is going to be... A monster like I am." She could tell he was out of wack, but the short demoness was making this point very clear. "I... I don't know what else to say to you. I need a walk to... To think about where this is going. Where we are going."

Kira shook her head and walked out of the room in silence, leaving Venser to sigh and look down at his lap. In the corner Ninia manifested herself into physical form from the shadows and crossed her arms, stepping over to Ven and sitting down with him.

"Do you want to talk about this?" She asked as downstairs Kira went out into the cold as the door closed behind her.

"Maybe... Well, I had some shopping to do. So, maybe we can head out together Ninia and we can talk on the way?"

"Shopping? For supplies?"

"Yes. And gifts... Ahem. Gifts for the wives and kids and all and... Yeah. New Years is coming up and we are going to celebrate."