Well ahead of him Ricter tried to catch up, it wouldn't be too hard to match her speed once he got close but she began to spin flip and fly around in small loops at how excited she was. Smiling gleefully from ear to ear about what they had accomplished, "He did it! We did it! All we need now is to just get Vel to enchant the stone into his body and Luis will be back!" She'd say with an excited tone, but Ricter wouldn't answer, probably still thinking about the life he pretty much created, and Vee would notice this as she stopped flying around so wildly just to float down to his face. "Ricter? If your sword could resurrect someone, would you use it?" Her question seemed odd right now but as they slowed down he could understand what she was getting at, "Yeah...honestly I probably would." He knew the sensation of loosing friends before, plenty of fights where he wanted to save someone ended in chaos and one or more casualties. "Then is this any different?" She'd ask him right after, drawing his face to look at her as she repositioned once he looked down to the cat. He'd pause, thinking before sighing, "I guess you have a point, just it will take some time to cope with this, you know?" A bit of a reversal from how she was feeling, but this was fine and she would nod, after all it was a lot to take in, having such a power, "Mhm, I just hope you use it for good, and this, is a good thing your doing Ricter. Remember that."
He'd stay silent along the way home, but he would show that he understood with a simple nod of his head as they would begin walking now, being a bit more clamed down Vee would just wonder how Luis would react to all this. But she'd try to speak to him, having kept the ruby in her bag so he didn't hear any of the events of them just talking to one another, picking up the ruby she'd ask. "Luis? Are you alright?" Which the ruby responded, "Yeah, I think so...uh what happened to me?" Luis said, confusion in his tone as Vee would try to explain, "Well you fought the goblins and right as they knocked you out they tried to stuff you in a gem for their amusement. A bit later Ricter here rescued me and then managed to get your body back before they tried to eat you! We just managed to find your soul in this ruby not too long ago after fiding your body in some goblin camp." She'd say, fabricating a story but wither it was right or wrong to do this was up to anyone's view on morals for life and death. "Ooooh, well that fucking sucks, hey Vee! Tell that Ricter guy thanks, I'm honestly glad your okay and that he managed to save me and you too." the ruby said back to her as she smiled brightly. "Luis said thank you, Ricter."
For which Ricter's mind was still a big foggy but this kind of snapped him out of it, maybe she was right and that although this was an abuse of what he could do, if it was his sword he probably wouldn't have thought about it at all. He just wanted it to be his own skill, his own personal power to shape what happens, which was why he felt like this, but for now this thank you felt real and genuine so he'd treat it as such. "No problem Luis, I'm happy to help." The weasel would need more time to think about this alone, but for now he seemed more or less alright as they eventually made it to the house. Unlocking the door Vee would fly in, her brother was watching TV at the moment, enjoying a big bowl of popcorn as it looked like he liked the horror movie genre of movies. So her entrance scared him to high heaven as he yelled and looked back, "AUUUH!! W-wait Vee? What the hell sis, you scared the shit out of..-" He'd look through the door way was the sleeping form of his best friend as tears began to well up in his eyes, but before he could even say anything Vee would interject, "We found him Vel, but we need your help, his soul got trapped in this ruby and we need to place it back into him. Can you do this?" It would take some time too process this but Vel would simply clean up the popcorn and ask, "Close the door, lay him on the couch for me please." Which Ricter would happily do.
Luis’ body was placed down on a couch, unmoving except for the steady breathing that made him seem alive over all. It would seem Ricter did a very good job in re-creating how he looked as even Vel seemed to nto notice any mistake he may or may not have done. Deep down though this would obviously bring some mental problems later on for the weasel, maybe one day it could all be forgotten, however as he would step away Vel was already there, looking him over, fiddling with the stone that was given to him as he examined it. Wondering what he should do, or how he should go about this, he wasn’t good at this sorda thing, he’s never imprinted something as complicated as a soul into a living body and as it was explained to him he knew it would take some work. Of course it was told as a lie, that they had fought some small goblin encampment, managed to rescue him from his captors, all while ensuring the stone knew this as well, fabricating the truth no matter how much it would sting in the long run. But Ricter inwardly promised not to tell anyone, much less even talk about this again once it was over.
“Damn, I didn’t think they would attempt something like this, I’m surprised his body is still intact, but I guess thats all you huh? Dose Luis’ family know you found him?” Mulling over the story in his head but he was mostly just happy to see that Luis was actually here, alive, and seemingly alright. “No, Ricter and I ran strait here once we realized what happened, do you think you can help him? Make him normal?” The moogle would think for a bit, he didn’t know about this, he’s never tried a ritualthis complex before but he knew someone else who could, but at the risk of possible destruction. “Honestly I don’t know, but I know who can, Ricter carry him, I’ll text them now, bring them up stairs to the bed.” Nodding he would follow his advice, walking up towards the bedrooms upstairs and taking them to lay in a bead, still amazed that this was even possible, that he could create life in such a way and have it be someone that could have their own personality and features of being alive.
Sitting around the bed the trio would watch over them, simply staring as Vee would rest her paw on the cats head, rubbing gently, almost longingly, all the while Vel would come back after a moment and say "He's coming, give it maybe a couple minutes. Also thanks Ricter, I hope that upgrade I gave you came in handy." He'd mention as Ricter wouldn't even know what it was, still he'd simply say, "Yeah, it did, thanks a load Vel, I'm just glad we could find them." Which only made Vel smile more as he moved over to his cheek, on the opposite side of where he was kissed by Vee and he'd give him a kiss there which only made Vee look on with her mouth agape. "That's for finding Luis, I'll show you my personal reward later on~" He'd tease as Vee would look at the two with flames bubbling around her eyes, growling as loud as a tiger would. The two would look over, fear creeping in as they would separate for now, which for the weasel he would just rub his cheek, wondering how long this might take for him to get here.
After what felt like twenty minutes of waiting Vel would hear the door bell, volunteering to go open the door he'd be greeted by what seemed like a man in a white lab coat. His glasses had swirls in them and he wore a big beard on his face, brown like his hair but he was also a mix of human and being lapine thanks to the long ears on his head. “Mr. Dovan, I’m glad you made it, please come up stairs he’s still asleep.” The man would simply nod, walking with the moogle as everyone was already up stairs. He’d look over them, his glasses not showing his expression much but he would slowly stroke his beard, making light comments “Yes I think I can do this, it will not be too difficult, and not too worry I have no need to experiment with someones life.” For which Vel would fold his arms as he looked towards his boss. “Please don’t…last thing we need is for Ricter to try and clean up after something like that..” Which would make him worried but he knew his boss meant well, after all he wouldn’t have called him if he didn’t have faith in them.
Hugging the scientist Vee would seemingly appreciate the gesture, and knew that soon she'd have her friend back. “Thank you so much, I’m glad you were able to come on such short notice..” For which the man returned the hug but let go soon after, “Think nothing of it , if it is to help the sister and friend of my hard working employee then I’d be happy to assist. Now this ritual will take some time to do, I’ll need to take the bed room for the night as well, not for me but the rune will have to be quite large for it to be inscribed into the body instead of just on it.” Ricter would actually speak on this, seemingly more than happy to offer the room. “Thats fine, take as much space as you need, also I’m Ricter. Its a pleasure to meet you.” He’d smile, though it was hard to see it past all that facial hair he would nod with a smile back at him, “Like wise! Now everyone go get some rest, I’ll be done by the time morning rolls around.” His instructions were heard and heeded by everyone, of course this would mean Ricter would need to sleep somewhere else but he was content with sleeping on the couch. Well, that was before Vel snagged him by the collar.
“Ah auh ah~ Where do you think yoru going? Its reward time fuzzy.~”
“Vel leave him alone, he risked a lot doing this for me, I’d rather you not taint the night with trying to violate his innocence.”
“Innocence? You should have seen him at my job, all the dirty things he said, he even suggested we go off and do something naughty in the closest.” Vel would protest.
“I said no such thing!” Ricter would interject, his face fairly red right now as they began fighting again.
“Grrr…I said hands off! He’s my friend, if anything I should be the one to reward him!" Vee would say while tugging on the weasels sleeve, away from Vel but he wouldn't let go.
“Guh! Why can’t you learn to share, besides your rewards suck, what are you going to do anyways, bake him a cake?”
“Y-yeah, so? What's wrong with a cake?! Now let go!”
As you can imagine the weasel was being pulled back and forth between the two of them, typically the weasel always had a go with the flow personality, sometimes being seen as dull but now he would pull them both together holding them in his arms, “Can you guys stop please? Like- You’ve both given me a lot just for helping out, I don’t wana take your kindness and exploit it. Wither its cake or ‘cake’, any ways if your worried about Vel doing something we can all sleep together, that way you can yank his tail if he gets frisky. And maybe you can lay off the flirting as much, you know, to not make your sister spaz out, Alright?” His tone was like a scolding parent as he released the two of them, almost tempted to wag his finger at the two mooogles who seemed to not enjoy each others company but was fine with the weasel being around. Vee would speak up first, “Fine, I think I can work with that.." With Vel agreeing to the terms soon after “Guess I can stop flirting as much..” Which they both pouted and folded their arms as the weasel smirked and patted them both, “You guys are adorable, haha~”
Going down stairs to the living room now the plan was to stay up for as much as possible, but the rest of the night was pretty docile, they tried to stay up for a while, watching TV, thinking about what games they could play, but they eventually fell asleep. Vel sleeping on top of the weasels poofy fluffy tail, while Vee laid on top of his stomach, using it as a pillow in a way as they seemed like a nice time for a picture. However instead of the snap of a picture they would hear a loud BOOM ad their house rumbling, which instantly startled them all into waking up. "What was that?!" Vee would say as Vel knew this sound all too well, "Oh no...god damn it Mr Dovan!" Vel would growl as they groggily made their way upstairs, but in a rush, still tired but not enough to be slow about all this as Ricter was right behind the two. As they came to the door they would find it was blown off its hinges, and a smoke filled the room as Mr. Dovan was on the ground, his hair frizzled up and his face smudged black as he coughed. Vel would be hovering directly over him as he began ranting, "I told you no explosions! Why is the door blown off?! What did you do!" He'd question him, fearing that he blew up his friend.
Mr. Dovan would try to explain but get cut off by the angry moogle who was shaking him by his collar, mean while Ricter would wave away the smoke with his hand, looking into it as Vee would rush towards what was the bed section of the room. She seemed to spot something, and after a few moments she would be helping to carry along Luis, who was coughing and walking along on his own, looking back at them all. "Vel did y-you burn the casserole again?.." He'd joke as Vel would stop almost attacking his boss and look back, zooming forward to latch onto the cat as Vee was already hugging him. "Did you miss me? Doc says I was gone for a day, feels longer honestly." He'd say as the trio began to fall over, With hugs soon following Vee began to cry tears of joy, just deep down Ricter knew what he was. He didn’t know how to feel, he didn’t want to be responsible for creating life in a manner that seemed trivial and taking little effort, even if he tried to defy the notion of it by playing it every time he reversed the natural act of nature by healing others. But maybe there was a way to become something good, the smiles they all had, the tears they shared, all in love and happiness for one another being such close good friends, that was his reward. So maybe this wasn’t such a horrible thing, but he would never see himself as a deity or angle, he was just someone who wanted to make good friends and see them live long happy lives.
Looking over to Mr. Dovan as he got up and dusted himself off, even cleaning his glasses with a rag he would smile and say, "Well I think my work here is done, apologies for the door, the last part is always a tricky step and tends to lead to that. Luckily though he seems to be as good as new, will you be alright there son? You seem to be lost in a daze." The scientist would question as Ricter would smile back, shaking his head, "I'm fine, thank you again for your help, I'm glad your could make them so happy." Of course the man would simply walk over, patting the weasels shoulder, "No I think your the one they should thank, after all it takes a big man to do what you did...as we both know how much work was put into all this." He'd give a simple gaze, a knowing one, before placing back on his glasses and beginning to step through the door way which was still missing the door. Ricter was a bit stunned that he might know, but as he left with a wave he'd say "I'll let myself out, you all enjoy your day!" Soon he was out of the room, but as Ricter waved him good bye and turned around he was pounced by the cute brigade. Landing on the floor as he looked at all three of them, laughing and smiling in his direction, he had been thanked enough but this felt like not so much a horrible thing any more, and even if it was a white lie, this was something he could live with.
He'd stay silent along the way home, but he would show that he understood with a simple nod of his head as they would begin walking now, being a bit more clamed down Vee would just wonder how Luis would react to all this. But she'd try to speak to him, having kept the ruby in her bag so he didn't hear any of the events of them just talking to one another, picking up the ruby she'd ask. "Luis? Are you alright?" Which the ruby responded, "Yeah, I think so...uh what happened to me?" Luis said, confusion in his tone as Vee would try to explain, "Well you fought the goblins and right as they knocked you out they tried to stuff you in a gem for their amusement. A bit later Ricter here rescued me and then managed to get your body back before they tried to eat you! We just managed to find your soul in this ruby not too long ago after fiding your body in some goblin camp." She'd say, fabricating a story but wither it was right or wrong to do this was up to anyone's view on morals for life and death. "Ooooh, well that fucking sucks, hey Vee! Tell that Ricter guy thanks, I'm honestly glad your okay and that he managed to save me and you too." the ruby said back to her as she smiled brightly. "Luis said thank you, Ricter."
For which Ricter's mind was still a big foggy but this kind of snapped him out of it, maybe she was right and that although this was an abuse of what he could do, if it was his sword he probably wouldn't have thought about it at all. He just wanted it to be his own skill, his own personal power to shape what happens, which was why he felt like this, but for now this thank you felt real and genuine so he'd treat it as such. "No problem Luis, I'm happy to help." The weasel would need more time to think about this alone, but for now he seemed more or less alright as they eventually made it to the house. Unlocking the door Vee would fly in, her brother was watching TV at the moment, enjoying a big bowl of popcorn as it looked like he liked the horror movie genre of movies. So her entrance scared him to high heaven as he yelled and looked back, "AUUUH!! W-wait Vee? What the hell sis, you scared the shit out of..-" He'd look through the door way was the sleeping form of his best friend as tears began to well up in his eyes, but before he could even say anything Vee would interject, "We found him Vel, but we need your help, his soul got trapped in this ruby and we need to place it back into him. Can you do this?" It would take some time too process this but Vel would simply clean up the popcorn and ask, "Close the door, lay him on the couch for me please." Which Ricter would happily do.
Luis’ body was placed down on a couch, unmoving except for the steady breathing that made him seem alive over all. It would seem Ricter did a very good job in re-creating how he looked as even Vel seemed to nto notice any mistake he may or may not have done. Deep down though this would obviously bring some mental problems later on for the weasel, maybe one day it could all be forgotten, however as he would step away Vel was already there, looking him over, fiddling with the stone that was given to him as he examined it. Wondering what he should do, or how he should go about this, he wasn’t good at this sorda thing, he’s never imprinted something as complicated as a soul into a living body and as it was explained to him he knew it would take some work. Of course it was told as a lie, that they had fought some small goblin encampment, managed to rescue him from his captors, all while ensuring the stone knew this as well, fabricating the truth no matter how much it would sting in the long run. But Ricter inwardly promised not to tell anyone, much less even talk about this again once it was over.
“Damn, I didn’t think they would attempt something like this, I’m surprised his body is still intact, but I guess thats all you huh? Dose Luis’ family know you found him?” Mulling over the story in his head but he was mostly just happy to see that Luis was actually here, alive, and seemingly alright. “No, Ricter and I ran strait here once we realized what happened, do you think you can help him? Make him normal?” The moogle would think for a bit, he didn’t know about this, he’s never tried a ritualthis complex before but he knew someone else who could, but at the risk of possible destruction. “Honestly I don’t know, but I know who can, Ricter carry him, I’ll text them now, bring them up stairs to the bed.” Nodding he would follow his advice, walking up towards the bedrooms upstairs and taking them to lay in a bead, still amazed that this was even possible, that he could create life in such a way and have it be someone that could have their own personality and features of being alive.
Sitting around the bed the trio would watch over them, simply staring as Vee would rest her paw on the cats head, rubbing gently, almost longingly, all the while Vel would come back after a moment and say "He's coming, give it maybe a couple minutes. Also thanks Ricter, I hope that upgrade I gave you came in handy." He'd mention as Ricter wouldn't even know what it was, still he'd simply say, "Yeah, it did, thanks a load Vel, I'm just glad we could find them." Which only made Vel smile more as he moved over to his cheek, on the opposite side of where he was kissed by Vee and he'd give him a kiss there which only made Vee look on with her mouth agape. "That's for finding Luis, I'll show you my personal reward later on~" He'd tease as Vee would look at the two with flames bubbling around her eyes, growling as loud as a tiger would. The two would look over, fear creeping in as they would separate for now, which for the weasel he would just rub his cheek, wondering how long this might take for him to get here.
After what felt like twenty minutes of waiting Vel would hear the door bell, volunteering to go open the door he'd be greeted by what seemed like a man in a white lab coat. His glasses had swirls in them and he wore a big beard on his face, brown like his hair but he was also a mix of human and being lapine thanks to the long ears on his head. “Mr. Dovan, I’m glad you made it, please come up stairs he’s still asleep.” The man would simply nod, walking with the moogle as everyone was already up stairs. He’d look over them, his glasses not showing his expression much but he would slowly stroke his beard, making light comments “Yes I think I can do this, it will not be too difficult, and not too worry I have no need to experiment with someones life.” For which Vel would fold his arms as he looked towards his boss. “Please don’t…last thing we need is for Ricter to try and clean up after something like that..” Which would make him worried but he knew his boss meant well, after all he wouldn’t have called him if he didn’t have faith in them.
Hugging the scientist Vee would seemingly appreciate the gesture, and knew that soon she'd have her friend back. “Thank you so much, I’m glad you were able to come on such short notice..” For which the man returned the hug but let go soon after, “Think nothing of it , if it is to help the sister and friend of my hard working employee then I’d be happy to assist. Now this ritual will take some time to do, I’ll need to take the bed room for the night as well, not for me but the rune will have to be quite large for it to be inscribed into the body instead of just on it.” Ricter would actually speak on this, seemingly more than happy to offer the room. “Thats fine, take as much space as you need, also I’m Ricter. Its a pleasure to meet you.” He’d smile, though it was hard to see it past all that facial hair he would nod with a smile back at him, “Like wise! Now everyone go get some rest, I’ll be done by the time morning rolls around.” His instructions were heard and heeded by everyone, of course this would mean Ricter would need to sleep somewhere else but he was content with sleeping on the couch. Well, that was before Vel snagged him by the collar.
“Ah auh ah~ Where do you think yoru going? Its reward time fuzzy.~”
“Vel leave him alone, he risked a lot doing this for me, I’d rather you not taint the night with trying to violate his innocence.”
“Innocence? You should have seen him at my job, all the dirty things he said, he even suggested we go off and do something naughty in the closest.” Vel would protest.
“I said no such thing!” Ricter would interject, his face fairly red right now as they began fighting again.
“Grrr…I said hands off! He’s my friend, if anything I should be the one to reward him!" Vee would say while tugging on the weasels sleeve, away from Vel but he wouldn't let go.
“Guh! Why can’t you learn to share, besides your rewards suck, what are you going to do anyways, bake him a cake?”
“Y-yeah, so? What's wrong with a cake?! Now let go!”
As you can imagine the weasel was being pulled back and forth between the two of them, typically the weasel always had a go with the flow personality, sometimes being seen as dull but now he would pull them both together holding them in his arms, “Can you guys stop please? Like- You’ve both given me a lot just for helping out, I don’t wana take your kindness and exploit it. Wither its cake or ‘cake’, any ways if your worried about Vel doing something we can all sleep together, that way you can yank his tail if he gets frisky. And maybe you can lay off the flirting as much, you know, to not make your sister spaz out, Alright?” His tone was like a scolding parent as he released the two of them, almost tempted to wag his finger at the two mooogles who seemed to not enjoy each others company but was fine with the weasel being around. Vee would speak up first, “Fine, I think I can work with that.." With Vel agreeing to the terms soon after “Guess I can stop flirting as much..” Which they both pouted and folded their arms as the weasel smirked and patted them both, “You guys are adorable, haha~”
Going down stairs to the living room now the plan was to stay up for as much as possible, but the rest of the night was pretty docile, they tried to stay up for a while, watching TV, thinking about what games they could play, but they eventually fell asleep. Vel sleeping on top of the weasels poofy fluffy tail, while Vee laid on top of his stomach, using it as a pillow in a way as they seemed like a nice time for a picture. However instead of the snap of a picture they would hear a loud BOOM ad their house rumbling, which instantly startled them all into waking up. "What was that?!" Vee would say as Vel knew this sound all too well, "Oh no...god damn it Mr Dovan!" Vel would growl as they groggily made their way upstairs, but in a rush, still tired but not enough to be slow about all this as Ricter was right behind the two. As they came to the door they would find it was blown off its hinges, and a smoke filled the room as Mr. Dovan was on the ground, his hair frizzled up and his face smudged black as he coughed. Vel would be hovering directly over him as he began ranting, "I told you no explosions! Why is the door blown off?! What did you do!" He'd question him, fearing that he blew up his friend.
Mr. Dovan would try to explain but get cut off by the angry moogle who was shaking him by his collar, mean while Ricter would wave away the smoke with his hand, looking into it as Vee would rush towards what was the bed section of the room. She seemed to spot something, and after a few moments she would be helping to carry along Luis, who was coughing and walking along on his own, looking back at them all. "Vel did y-you burn the casserole again?.." He'd joke as Vel would stop almost attacking his boss and look back, zooming forward to latch onto the cat as Vee was already hugging him. "Did you miss me? Doc says I was gone for a day, feels longer honestly." He'd say as the trio began to fall over, With hugs soon following Vee began to cry tears of joy, just deep down Ricter knew what he was. He didn’t know how to feel, he didn’t want to be responsible for creating life in a manner that seemed trivial and taking little effort, even if he tried to defy the notion of it by playing it every time he reversed the natural act of nature by healing others. But maybe there was a way to become something good, the smiles they all had, the tears they shared, all in love and happiness for one another being such close good friends, that was his reward. So maybe this wasn’t such a horrible thing, but he would never see himself as a deity or angle, he was just someone who wanted to make good friends and see them live long happy lives.
Looking over to Mr. Dovan as he got up and dusted himself off, even cleaning his glasses with a rag he would smile and say, "Well I think my work here is done, apologies for the door, the last part is always a tricky step and tends to lead to that. Luckily though he seems to be as good as new, will you be alright there son? You seem to be lost in a daze." The scientist would question as Ricter would smile back, shaking his head, "I'm fine, thank you again for your help, I'm glad your could make them so happy." Of course the man would simply walk over, patting the weasels shoulder, "No I think your the one they should thank, after all it takes a big man to do what you did...as we both know how much work was put into all this." He'd give a simple gaze, a knowing one, before placing back on his glasses and beginning to step through the door way which was still missing the door. Ricter was a bit stunned that he might know, but as he left with a wave he'd say "I'll let myself out, you all enjoy your day!" Soon he was out of the room, but as Ricter waved him good bye and turned around he was pounced by the cute brigade. Landing on the floor as he looked at all three of them, laughing and smiling in his direction, he had been thanked enough but this felt like not so much a horrible thing any more, and even if it was a white lie, this was something he could live with.