forum Monsters? These are my children -Ben (o/o with lisapickle)

Started November 05, 2019 by @chickenfrogman group

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Cage gasps. “I didn’t know they were always like that! Woooooooah. Where did they live? Are their teeth pointy for a reason? Oh oh are there more people with wings??”
He bounces over to Silver, his eyes big.

Silver shrugged. "Aside from biting people, I don't know. But Gabriel's tendency to bite is a natural thing about them. I think. It's so hard to get him to talk at all and Kissa usually avoids having legit conversations with me. I have no idea where they came from but I imagine there are more somewhere."
Miki glanced at the phone and saw it had a minute left. "My arms are already burning."

Cage stares in awe. “I’m gonna ask Kiss so many questions. This is amazing.”
The alarm goes off and Cage jumps. “Ah! Okay, my turn!”

"Please do. And if you get her to talk, tell me what she says." Silver said.
Miki handed the spoon and bowl to Cage and collapsed on the floor in front of the couch. "My arms will never be the same again."
Silver smiled down at her. "Yep. And you only have 55 minutes left to go."

Cage starts to stir. “Ugh, I’m already dying.”

Miki groaned from the floor. "Omo wait until you're at the four minute mark. That last minute is like an hour long."
"You do realize that odds of Ben having an ice cream machine around somewhere is pretty decent, right?"

Cage pauses stirring. “Actually I never thought of that. Where would he keep it? I don’t wanna kill my arms like Miki did.”

"Well THANKS." Miki yelled. "Why couldn't we think of this five minutes ago??"
"Text Vi and ask her if she knows if he has one. Or ask her to ask him." Silver said.

Cage picks up his phone, texting Violet.
“Sorry, Mik. Technically Silver thought of it.” He shrugs. “I don’t want to die today.”

Miki gave him a thumbs up. "It's okay. I got that covered already. I'll die, you finish the ice cream, deal?"

Violet walks down the stairs, waving. “I don’t know if he has an ice cream machine. He probably does. But I think he’s talking with Gabriel right now.”
Cage sighs. “You wanna stir?” He offers her the spoon. She takes it with a smile.
“Alright. Only for a little while though.”

Silver finished her lunch and carried her dishes to the sink. "Best mom ever." She said, passing Vi. "Don't let them keep you there forever."
"Cage!" Miki cried, jumping up. "Let's look in the garage and the attic just to be sure."

Cage nods. “Yes yes let’s go!” He runs up the stairs.
Violet sighs. “Oh goodness. This is hard.”

Miki raced up the stairs after him and pulled the ladder down that lead to the attic. "When was the last time we were up there?"

Silver tidied up the kitchen, hand wiping the counters while the dishes and things seemed to straighten themselves. "Yeah, it needs to be beat for at least an hour. I can take a turn when you're done."

Cage stares up. “Uhh, I haven’t been up here for a few months at least.” He climbs the ladder and peers into the attic. “Oooh, it’s not too bad. There’s a lot of blankets up here though.”

Violet continues to stir. “An hour? Goodness. Why did they think this was a good idea?”

Miki stood at the bottom and put her hands on her hips. "Are there spiders?"

Silver grinned. "I don't think whether or not this was a good idea ever factored into their planning."

Cage climbs the rest of the way up. “No, actually. It looks like somebody has been up here recently. OH MY WORD” he shoots back down the ladder, gasping for air. “DONT GO UP THERE.”

Violet chuckles. “Probably not.”

Miki almost screamed as he scrambled back down. She grabbed him, her face white. "What is it???" She asked. "Are there spiders???"

Silver finished cleaning the kitchen and grabbed a book before flopping on the couch. "Let me know when your arms are dead."

Cage, breathing heavily, shakes his head. “There’s a live raccoon. A LIVE ANIMAL. WHY. BEN I THOUGHT THIS HOUSE WAS SECURE!” He yells the last part down the stairs.

Violet goes to speak, but jumps at Cages voice. “Goodness, What is he talking about?”

"WHAT." Miki screams. "No way, Cage. Ben would never–" she climbed up the ladder to see for herself. "Cage, it's super dark up here. Are you sure…" her voice trailed away. "Why are there three bags of dog food up here?"

Silver closed her book and flew up to the balcony. "Yo. I thought you two were looking for an ice cream–"

"AAHHHH" Miki's shriek cut her off as Miki fell down the ladder. "THERE ARE LIKE FIFTY SQUIRRELS UP THERE."

Cage shrieks. “The house is INFESTED! IM CALLING THE POLICE!” He runs down the stairs to get as far away as possible, and Violet sets down the bowl, walking up the stairs.
“What is going on up here??”

Miki stumbled after him, snatching her phone off the counter. "ME TOO. TELL THEM TO SEND LIKE TEN PEOPLE."

Silver stood in the hallway beside the ladder, trying to sense what was in the attic. "Violet… I think…" she glanced down at Violet on the floor below. "There's something in the attic. I'm gonna find out what it is. Maybe stop those two–" she pointed toward Cage and Miki frantically dialing their phones. "From bringing all the law enforcement in Leon down on us." She turned back to the ladder, taking a deep breath to brace herself.

Violet bats a hand at Cage and Miki. “Stop, Stop. What is it? What’s up there?”

"CREATURES." Miki yelled. "LIVE. CREATURES. WITH EYES."

Silver rolled her eyes and slowly climbed the ladder, crouching on the floor at the top and looking around.
Slowly her sight adjusted and she saw the blankets. Briefly her mind flashed back to the conversation she had with Gabriel in the park, but then two little points of light blinked at her from a far corner and something scuttled along the rafters overhead.
Silver couldn't see them all but she could feel at least nine different living animals up there in the attic with her.

Violets eyes widen. “What? Are you sure? How’s they get in??” She climbs up the ladder behind Silver, peering into the attic. “Goodness, there are animals up here.”
Cage huffs. “I TOLD YOU! Also, why the blankets?”

A dawning realization slowly came over Silver's mind and she let out a little laugh. "Gabriel said… he took all the extra blankets…" She walked over to the wall and flipped on the light. One solitary light bulb shown from the ceiling but it was enough for them to see a pair of raccoons nesting in a pile of blankets, three squirrels perched on the rafters, and a family of robins hopping around the shelves.
"Oh Gabriel," Silver whispered, sinking down to sit on the floor.

Violet stares at the animals. “Did… did he let them in?” She heads back down the ladder, walking to the window and opening it, seeing Ben and Gabriel in the front yard. “Ben! I hate to interrupt, but we have a problem.”
He stares up at her, visibly confused. “Okay okay. I’ll be up in a few minutes.”
She nods and closes the window. “Well. This is odd.”

Silver propped her head in her hands and watched as the animals watched her. "Hey guys." She said cooingly. "Are y'all Gabriel's friends?"

Miki stood at the bottom of the stairs, not daring to go any closer to the attic. "How did they get in???" She cried. "Why are there so many of them???"

Ben opens the door, Gabriel following silently behind him, and heads up the stairs. "I swear, if this is Kiss again I'm-" He stares at the attic ladder. "what is this?"
Violet bites her lip, holding in a laugh. "Actually, umh, we found a few critters in the, uhm, attic."
Gabriel's eyes widen, while Ben looks visibly confused, and he (gabe) heads up the ladder quickly. Without noticing Silver, her sits cross-legged and clicks his tongue at them, offering some of the food, and most of them come, sitting on him and eating from his hands. He pets a few of them, calmly speaking in Latin though they pay no attention to his words.

Ben stares at Violet. "Animals. In my attic. But it's secure, there's not a way they could get in. How'd they get in??"
She covers her mouth, trying not to laugh, then answers. "I think Gabriel- I think Gabriel brought them in, Ben."
"What? why? Why would he want wild animals???" He runs his hands through his hair. "They're going back out."

Silver covered her mouth with her hands, trying to not move or make a sound, and watched Gabe talk to his animals. She didn't know how to let him know she was there without scaring him.

"PLEASE put them back out!" Miki called. "I can't sleep in a house with creatures in it. I might not even be able to sleep in here again even after we get them out." She shivered.