Glai and Will RP

And within an hour, The Eevee has stopped a little ways from a clearing, hidden from view. This clearing of course, houses the Ninetales den entrance.

"Have you found him?" Shay asks via telepathy, noticing that Amy has stopped moving for a moment.

"I think so..." Amy replies.

In an instant, the Absol appears behind her.
"Good. You are dismissed." she flatly says.

Glai nods staying with Ruby, looking over at Clair.

Amy just nods and scampers off.

Clair seems out of it...


Shay peeks inside the den, and, seeing no one inside, simply heads in to wait. As the Absol lies down, she shrinks... she shrinks, until her body appears as that of a younger version of herself.

20 or so minutes pass before the door can be heard opening. With the Ninetales being the Ninetales, it can't be felt beforehand. The Ninetales enters, missing her briefly as he turns into a smaller room to set a bag down. When he turns back and sees Shay, he stops, and blinks, tilting his head a bit. "Hello there. How'd you get in here?"

The little Absol squeaks as if startled, jumping and backing up.
"I-I'm sorry! I found the place and no one was using it... so I just thought..." ;;
She whimpers a bit and backs up towards the door. Though Shay was legitimately surprised with the Ninetales' inability to be detected... well, we all know that her current behavior is all just a charade.

He frowns a bit, before sitting and scratching his ear briefly. "No, no. Its fine. I don't mind visitors~"

"Oh... o-okay. Do you have any food...?" she shyly asks.

He nods.
"I do have a little bit, but uh...I don't give it away for free..."

"Oh..."
The little Absol frowns slightly, shuffling her paws in front of her.
"I... don't have any money. I'll just go find someplace else..."

"No, no. Don't worry. There is something else you can do instead." ^_^

"And... what is it?" she asks, looking up at him with an innocent expression.

"Come closer, please..." he says, leaning back a bit. "See here?" he asks, pointing around his nether regions. "I'm going to tell you to do some stuff and you're going to do it, okay?" ^_^

"Oh... um... that sounds easy enough..." she gently says, nodding and drawing closer to the Ninetales.

Once Shay is practically on top of him... that's when her expression contorts into a twisted grin.

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Though no one is close enough to hear it, the Ninetales' den becomes filled with panicked screams - his own, of course.
They die down after a few painstaking minutes, but... the silence does not indicate that all is well.

Still in her childlike form, Shay nonchalantly drags the fire-type outside, intentionally taking a path through which he'll get cut and scraped by branches, and hit his head against the occasional rock. He's unable to move of his own volition at this point - his paws are tied, his muzzle is wrapped shut, even his tails have been secured (and by secured, I actually mean severed) and the space between his legs is looking... unusually smooth. Smooth and severely burned...

"Hmm... how are you holding up? Not dead yet, I hope?" the little Absol says, retaining her gentle and sweet little tone of voice. She eyes the surrounding area...

Trees. She could impale him on the branches, leave him there to die...
Too risky. He could easily be found by a traveler and saved.

The ground? While it was not as easy to trap someone here as it was in the mud of the Great Marsh... there was such a thing as being buried alive, and that would ensure that none could hear him were his gag to fail.

The lake... the lake was deep enough. A few stones would be easy enough to tie to him. But... hmm...
Too long a walk.


The Absol mutters quietly to herself as she stops, sits down, and looks over at her prisoner.
"What's your opinion, hm? How do you think you should die?" she asks him, with a bit of a sigh.
Beat.
"... Oh, right. You can't talk. Silly me." ^_^

The Ninetales looks very unwell at this points. Though his eyes ask 'why?' due to the fact he doesn't know its Shay, or Ruby's 'grandmother'.

"Why? Is that what you want to know? I'll tell you why." she replies, her appearance starting to change. She's not transforming, but... rather... melting, in almost a grotesque manner, to look at.
The Absol is now a Riolu... a splitting image of Ruby. She waits for a moment to let him take this in, before reverting - in the same manner as before - to her natural form: cracked horn, hollow eyes with fiery pupils, scorched-looking fur and all.

"You hurt an innocent child. You hurt MY innocent child. And I know you, I can see you in your entirety, all your thoughts and all your memories... she wasn't the first. Not at all." the demonic Absol softly says. She rips his gag off all of a sudden, taking out a patch of skin and fur with it.

"I'll give you one chance. Convince me to let you live."

He yips sharply as she does this, before whining a bit. "Y...you've already t-taken everything from me...y-you've taken my tails...m-my devices...I c-can't do anything now..."
He stops to swallow.
"That's punishment enough... isn't it? Please... I d-don't want to die..."

Shay puts a paw under his chin and lifts his head so he'll make eye contact with her... she does so surprisingly gently.
"You know..."
The Absol pauses, then sighs sadly.
"... perhaps you're right." she tells him.

"...r-really?" he asks, his eyes lighting up a little.

Shay smiles in response. A kind smile.

"Of course not." she gently responds, gripping his head tight all of a sudden as she jerks her paws around.

A SNAP! echoes through the clearing... but no one's around to hear it.

And such is the Ninetales.

Well, Amy is, more or less. She's a bit aways, but within hearing range.

"Amy... I know you're there. Let's go home now, shall we?" the Absol asks, sounding as cheerful as ever. She looks normal again as she walks towards where the Eevee is.

She just nods, knowing Shay will see this before standing and heading for the house.