Colosseum - Spectator Thread

[Guu]

Guu swiped up the blanket with a free arm. Carefully, she wrapped the towel around the green-skinned infant. Peering inside the child’s mind, she could feel a wave of content, reassuring her that the fabric was enough to satisfy. She held her loftily in her arms and rocked her back and forth. The baby cooed softly as the rocking motion calmed the infant.

“Wow Guu! You’re good at that!” Desco said impressed.

“It’s easy when you can read the baby’s mind to know what she needs.” She responded.

She continued to the rock the infant back and forth, the baby slowly drifted to sleep in her arms. The demon child watched in amazement.

“That’s amazing! Desco didn’t know Guu could read minds! Could Guu read Desco’s mind?” Her voice was frantic with excitement.

“Well, I know you had a flashback to your birth a minute ago.” She stated casually.

Desco recoiled in surprise and amazement. Yogsogoth instinctively recoiled as well, almost dropping some of their plushie horde.

“Woah! That’s so cool! Desco is impressed!”

Of course, the pink enigma left out the fact that she was intentionally invading her thoughts and hoped the young demon would assume it was accidental. She also didn’t mention that she only got bits and pieces of it. It’s really hard to focus when you have a crying baby in your arm.

“Guu and green baby reminds me a lot of Desco and daddy! Desco loves daddy so much!”

“Oh yeah, you went to see him the last time I saw you. How’d that visit go?”

“Desco had a lot of fun! And daddy got a lot of research done!”

That’s reassuring. The demon child sat next to pink princess who tilted over so she could get a better look at the baby’s face.

“What was Guu’s daddy like?”

The question took her off guard. While it would make sense for the question to come up considering the line of conversation, she somehow had not considered the possibility. However Desco was her best friend, she deserved to know.

“I was created as well.”

“Ooh in your daddy’s lab?”

Guu wished it was that simple.

“No. No. I was created by gods.”

“Ooh!” Desco cooed excitedly.

“You see, in my universe, there are three mindless gods that control of all of creation, my dad tricked them into creating me. He really just wanted a puppet to carry out his plans with, but I kind of ran off and did my own thing.”

“Wow!” Said Demon child. The pink one wasn’t sure if she even understood what she was saying.

“Anyways, yeah, I haven’t talked much with him since then. I was going to go see him at one point, but Omni took me before I could do that. Probably for the best, nothing good could have come from that!”

Before the child could respond, the princess stood up, holding the baby carefully in her arms.

“Anywho, there’s one or two more people I want to check in with at the tournament. You can tag along for that if you like. Though, after that, I say we head for Ambrosia. I want to get this baby safe and at home.”

Desco almost had whiplash from how quickly Guu changed subjects, she sat there confused for a moment before the princess offered a hand and helped her on her feet. The sentiment was kind of pointless considering the demon child could float, but she played along anyways.

“Anyways, let’s go.”

But before she could get two steps out from behind the stall, her eyes caught the sight of a magical news prompter. The latest headlines would glide along a colorful box. The latests story read in big blaring letters: “Local camelot village destroyed, authorities believe wizard involvement.” The implications suddenly hit her as she remembered the state one of her friends was in an hour or so before.

‘Gildarts, please tell me that wasn’t you.’ She thought, concerned.

Desco quickly approached from behind, curious at her friend’s sudden pause.

“Is something wrong with Guu?” She asked.

The princess quickly snapped out of it and turned to look at her.

“It’s all good. Let’s go.”