#I also got a sunburn today and am feeling very betrayed by The Body

[killaura]

googling mild road rash and it’s like. oh. did you mean guy in a motorcycle accident with half a face? a hip shaved down to the bone? literally no I did Not mean that

[huffle-dork]

Control (Part 1)

(Warning! This story will get darkkk, we got a little carried away, so read at your own risk! Warnings for gore, anxiety attacks and a general bad time)

Rolepay with TeFA and @jurassicraptorcat

Juri fought back tears as she hurried to find medical cream in her bathroom cupboard. Things had gone from ok to nightmarish last night and now Huffle was hurt. Juri didn’t know what had happened last night but from the destroyed bedroom to Huffle’s wounds she could only imagine.

Find the medical cream Juri grabbed it and hurried out of the bathroom. She refused to even glance at the destroyed bedroom as she passed by it. Entering Huffle’s room Juri spoke, “So I guess we should talk about last night.”

TeFA rubbed her skin where she swore she could still feel the rope entangled in her skin, her muscles, her bones… She shuddered at the thought of it. “This is my fault. I know I have anger issues, especially when it comes to protection, but that went too far. Heck she even betrayed my trust and took full control of me! She used her illusions and made her fully appear, and I just sat back and watched, unable to help. … Why am I like this…” TeFA sat and hugged her legs, and hid her face from the other two, unable to look at them without feeling terrible guilt.

Huffle groaned and bit back a pained whine. Her skin was covered in thick scabbed burns and she gritted her teeth. And she thought sunburns were bad, this wasn’t even close.

“Please TeFA,” Huffy croaked, “we all know who’s fault this is… I mean just look at me.” She laughs somewhat bitterly but mostly cuz she just laughs when things get uncomfortable. “Unreal has too much power over me and ya’ll almost got hurt…” She bites her lips to keep herself from crying but she feels the wetness behind her eyes.

“I’m just glad it’s me who has to suffer…not you guys.”

Juri hurries over when she hears Huffle groan and checks the scabs she can see. “Calm down guys, “Juri says, “guilt over the past isn’t gonna help us figure out what happened last night.” Unsure if Huffle needed help or not Juri set the cream down near her hand.

“I don’t know much about my ego anymore,” Juri admitted while pulling a blanket over TeFA, “She’s not-she’s not as aggressive as yours are.”

TeFA looks back up and feels tears well up in the back of her eyes, but then she remembers Anibase and shuts them back down. She then clutches the stupid butterfly that's been resting in her hand and slams it down into the ground. “I wish this couldn't have to happen to us.” TeFA mutters wetly. She looks up at Huffle especially. “First things first is that we need to heal you and quick.” She feels her heart beat quicker and she lets out a rushed sigh. “What more could we do to heal you?”

Huffle coughs slightly and sits up before stiffly reaching for the cream and applying it to her burning shoulders.

“You’re right Juri… guilt won’t help.” She takes a deep breath as she rubs, trying not to visibly wince.

“I don’t know how else. I mean we might have dark sides but we’re not super humans…. might just have to let these things heal on their own?” Huffle sighs and shifts so she can reach the hard to reach places, “maybe they’re just like giant sunburned patches and they’ll go away within a couple days,” she giggles nervously.

Filled with nervous, restless energy Juri begins to tidy up the room and fiddle with little knick knacks before setting them down just so. She glances around the room for something more to do with her hands and spots the few unused towels she had given Huffle and begins to fold them.

“You said Unreal and Anibase teamed up together right?” Juri asked, “What if they convinced mine to join them.”

TeFA looks back down at the floor and starts to visibly shake a little. “I guess I'm the only one that remembers the damages…” TeFA looks back up Juri. “They have, and- and-” TeFA suddenly felt her stomach churn and she stopped, her eyes bulging as she felt a longing to gag arise in her throat.

‘UmVtZW1iZXIgd2hhdCBJIHNhaWQgYWJvdXQgdGFsa2luZyBhYm91dCBtZSBpbiByIEUgYSBMIGxpZmUuLi4/IE9yIGRvIEkgbmVlZCB0byByZW1pbmQgeW91IGEgRyBhIEkgbi4uLj8h ((Remember what I said about talking about me in r E a L life...? Or do I need to remind you a G a I n...?!))’ TeFA heard Anibase’s voice in her head, and she quickly wrapped herself deeper in the blanket, trying to calm her panic attack. She felt so sick, and she struggled against the feeling.

‘Not now!!!’ was all TeFA thought as she curled herself even more, hiding herself more to the best of her ability. ‘They can't see you, don't make them worry.’

“TeFA?” Huffle asks as she sees her younger friend hide deeper, “you okay dear?” She doesn’t push her though and can tell this might be an attack so she bite her lip and addresses Juri, “I mean I’d be surprised if they all teamed up. Last time I remember unreal wanted to kill ouros. Well… unreal wants to kill a lot of things.” Huffle shrugs and leans back on the bed, “I dunno where she gets all that anger from but it’s certainly not from me!”

“That’s true,” Juri agrees, “And they both hold grudges…” Juri winces at that reminder. She sets down the towels she was folding to go and grab another blanket from the pile in the corner. Setting it on top of TeFA as the only form of comfort she knew how to provide.

“Do you need anything TeFA?” Juri asks while looking around for one specific object she knew was in there.

TeFA starts breathing in and out too loudly, and a bit quickly for that matter. She bursts out of her blanket and her arms start shaking and flailing themselves about. She almost screams.

“EARBUDS, HEADPHONES, ANYTHING!” TeFA wants to just knock herself out, end the pain she feels in her lower organs. It drives her insane: she so desperately wants to throw up, but she's insanely scared of that, so her mind and body are in a fight against one another right now. She needs to distract herself, listen to something, just get her mind off of it.

Huffle startles back then quickly grabs her backpack from the ground and digs through the contents. Sketchbooks, computer gadgets, markers, ah! Headphones! She quickly kneels down by TeFA and hands them to her, before lightly touching her hand.

“Hey sweetie, just breathe with me okay? Breathe in and out slowly… in for 8, hold for 4, out for 7… okay?” Huffle then demonstrates for TeFA to follow and moves her hand to follow the motion.

Juri scrambles to the other side of the room and grabs the object before slowly approaching TeFA and setting the stuffed dog lightly in her lap. She wasn’t good at dealing with these types of situations.

TeFA follows along with Huffle, and starts to feel the pounding in her chest subside little by little. She quickly plugs in the headphones into her phone (which was in her pocket) and turns on her SoundCloud app, looking for one of her Lofi Hip Hop Mixes. She clicks on volume 1 and lets her brain do a complete shutdown, and she closes her eyes and droops her head, almost to her lap, and lets the sound swirl in her head of gentle clinking and soft EDM. She slowly reaches for the dog and holds it close to her, and lets out a deep sigh. She was fine, for now, she just needed more time.

Huffle smiles and squeezes TeFA’s hand lightly. “There you go!” The older girl digs into her backpack again and pulls out a green bear with a big red neck scar and offers it to TeFA. “Anti bear isn’t so good with hugs but he is soft!” She grins then waves over to Juri go join them on the floor for their own little floor party.

“I also know what’ll make you feel better! Tell Anibase to fuck off,” Huffle laughs.

Juri quickly grabs all the blankets and drags them over sitting next to Huffle and TeFA. She raises an eyebrow at Huffle. “Are we really gonna tempt fate right now?” Juri asks with a pointed look down to Huffle’s burns.

TeFA laughs a bit as she hears Anibase let out a small growl. “She didn't really like that, haha.” She pulls off the headphones and grabs Antibear as well. “Oh!” she then reaches out behind her and grabs her own bag full of objects, and pulls out Nini, and brings all three of them together.

“Three stuffed animals and three friends!” TeFA giggles at her comment and smiles as she realizes she's calmed down, and no longer feels sick. She lets out a sigh and looks back up at her friends. “I love you both, I'm sorry that I had a little thing there.”

“Hey friends stick together no matter what!” Huffle grins and gives them both each a half hug, Then she leans back and sticks her tongue out slightly at Juri, “these little pests don’t scare me. I got you guys!”

Juri snorts and knocks her shoulder into theirs lightly. “And who here is supposed to be the adult?” She teases lightly, “And don’t worry TeFA. After what we woke up to from last night I think we all freaked out a little.”

TeFA laughs again and smiles. “Now let's just hope that we don't experience any more of these problems.” She hugs all three of the stuffed animals together, and then looks at the others. “So… we got any plans for today?” She ends with a sheepish chuckle.

“Mmmm” Huffle hums aloud, “I dunno! I’m up for anything. As long as there’s not a lot of arm moving,” she laughs with shimmying her shoulders slightly, giving a big grin. She then turns to Juri, “you’re the resident expert here, what’s there to do?”

Juri grinned, “Well we have hiking,exploring abandoned hotels and skating. Take your pick.” She pulls out her phone to check the weather just in case.

“Oh God, last time I went skating I nearly died, so I'm down for the first two.” TeFA recalls as she remembers she fell down the one time and her head slammed against the ground. That, was not fun.

“Am I the only one concerned that exploring abandoned hotels is an option?” Huffle laughs nervously, “but hm I hate hiking and I’m bad at skating…”

“How dare you be concerned about exploring abandoned hotels. I'll have you know that they are perfectly haunted thank you very much,” Juri teased. “Abandoned hotel it is.”

After stretching and standing Juri declared, “Hope you guys brought a good pair of shoes.”

TeFA pumped her hands into the air. “WHOO! This is gonna be so exciting!!!” She then looked into her bag to see if she grabbed her sneakers. “C’mon…” TeFA muttered as she put her entire arm in to reach the bottom. Then she felt her fingers grace her brown, rope-y laces and she pulled both her sneakers out! “There you are!” She then returned to her bag to find her socks.

“Please Juri,” Huffle teased, grabbing her blue pair of sneakers, “all my shoes are good!” She begins to tie them and get ready, hiding any wincing she may be doing by moving her arms too much. “Just to let ya’ll know I’m brave watching let’s plays but I’m a huge scaredy cat irl so don’t be mad if I cling to you when ghosts come get us…”

“It’s not that bad Huffy. Just some old buildings that nature’s taking back,” Juri reassured, “Although Briarwood…”

Juri tugged on her shoes and quickly shooed the others out the front door. “To adventure!” She yelled.

~~~

TeFA collapsed onto the floor as soon as she sat her sneakers aside. “As much as I look fit, according to people, and for how much I go to Disney World, I cannot handle walking and running out of worry something is there for that long.” She pushed herself up onto her elbows. “There are reasons why I'm an artist.” TeFA laughed.

Huffle collapsed on the bed as soon as she was near and groaned into the covers, “you said it Tef. I was not made for walking and now I crave deathhh” Huffle sprawled out on the covers and stared at the ceiling.

“There was a suspicious lack of ghosts though…”

Juri rolled her eyes playfully at the both of them. She was perfectly fine having done that walk a hundred times. “You guys...if this makes you tired I guess I can cross visiting the Erie canal off the list of things to do,” Juri commented

She toed off her shoes and sank to the floor next to TeFA feeling a bit sleepy. “Can always visit the Lockport caves though. Or the Locks,” Juri muttered.

“I'm sorry that I don't believe in a thing called ‘physical activity.’” TeFA said with a slight sarcastic tone. She patted Juri’s shoulder and with a grunt, sat up, crossing her legs. “Welp, I'm lacking a bed, but I do have a spare blanket in my bag. Should I just crash on the couch or something?”

Huffle laughed and rolled over on her stomach so she could flick Juri’s head playfully. “I’m pretty small I could fit in a couch easier if you want this bed TeFA!” She tries to get up but then flops back onto the mattress and buried her face in the covers, “orrrr on second thought. My body is failing me.” Huffle slowly reaches for anti bear without lifting her head and cuddles him to her chest.

Juri was already cocooning herself in the nest of blankets left on the floor from earlier with a huge yawn. “You can take my bed TeFA. It’s across the hall. Bed’s under the ‘blanket fort and the switch above the pillow turns on the purple twinkle lights for a night light’,” Juri said sleepily. She made grabby hands at InuYasha, the stuffed dog, who was just out of her reach.

As soon as TeFA hears purple she's pretty much out of the room, before quickly giving Juri InuYasha and grabbing her bag. “Night all!” she yells as she quickly dives into Juri’s room. Anytime she hears “purple,” she knows she’s gonna LOVE it.

TeFA enters her room and immediately falls in love. This screamed her aesthetic. She dived under the blanket fort without ruining its structural integrity and huddles in. She flicks the light on and immediately feels cozy. It reminded her of her stars that hung from the framework of her bed back home. Grabbing Nini, she prepared to fall asleep.

Huffle opens one eye to see Juri cuddle on the floor and puffs out a small laugh. She then curls up to the side of the bed and cuddles Anti closer, hoping and praying for a restful sleep so they could all continue having fun.

Unreal, of course, had other plans. It wasn’t long until Huffle was shoved into the back of her mind and Unreal took the stage. She staggered upwards and cracked her neck, letting her ink settle and fall. She then groans and sends a slightly soft kick to Juri’s shoulder.

“Hey, wake up Ouros! Got stuff to do.”

Ouros takes over Juri with little resistance but frowns at the blankets trapping her. Using a wiggling maneuver Ouros clambered out while trying to ignore Unreal groaning behind her.

“What's with the infernal groaning Unreal,” Ouros asked.

TeFA fell back into her dreamscape, face to face with a very, and unusually, happy Anibase. She looked down onto the child-like version of herself and glared. “You betrayed my trust and took full control of me! You conjured up such a large illusion to make it look like it was you there, but you weren't! And now you, you, you're teaming up with THEM?!” TeFA realized she had been shouting at the dream demon and quickly covered her mouth. “N-No, please don't-” but Anibase wagged her finger and giggled.

“T2ggZG9uJ3Qgd29ycnkuLi4gSSdtIGdvbm5hIG5lZWQgeW91IGEgTCBpIFYgZSB0b25pZ2h0LCB0byB0ZWFjaCBhIHZlcnkgc3BlY2lhbCBsZXNzb24gdG8gc29tZSBuZXcgZnJpZW5kcyBvZiBvdXJzLi4uIg== ((Oh don't worry... I'm gonna need you a L i V e tonight, to teach a very special lesson to some new friends of ours…))” Anibase teased, and crossed her arms. “SG9wZWZ1bGx5IHRoZXkgc2hvdWxkIGpvaW4gdXMgaW4gbyBVIHIgd29uZGVyZnVsIGRyZWFtc2NhcGUgc29vbi4uLg== ((Hopefully they should join us in o U r wonderful dreamscape soon…))”

Unreal adjusted the shirt Huffle was wearing to let her ink breathe before dropping her feet heavily to the floor.

“What’s with your whining?” Unreal teased back to Ouros as she stretched and let herself wake up to her body. “We gotta go meet the brat, so get up.”

Without waiting for Unreal, Ouros stood straight up and walked out of the room. TeFA was curled up on Juri’s bed frowning in her sleep. Kneeling next to her Ouros heaved a sigh and reached for TeFA’s mind.

She appeared next to Anibase with a groaning Juri collapsing next to her. “I made it,” She informed Anibase with a blank face.

Anibase jumped up and down with excitement. “WWF5IQ== ((Yay!))” Anibase then cocked her head. “V2hlcmUgaW4gSW5reSB0aG91Z2guLi4/IFdlIG5lZWQgaGVyIGhlcmUuLi4= ((Where is Inky though…? We need her here…”

TeFA’s eyes widened upon seeing Juri. “Oh no, no no no! You better not lay a finger on her Anibase!” Anibase just giggled in response.

“Tm8gcHJvbWlzZXMuLi4= ((No promises…))”

Unreal dropped her way in holding the form of Huffle up by her hoodie. She then tossed her next to Juri and dusted off her hands.

“Jeez you don’t wait for anyone do you?” She said, giving a pointed look to Ouros before lightly kicking Huffle’s arm. “Had a hard time getting this one to cooperate and show up here, so apologies or whatever.” She crosses her arms and glanced at Anibase.

“So what’s the plan pipsqueak?”

Ouros looked down at Juri and Huffle who were starting to get up and crossed her arms. Juri looked up and began scooting back straight into Huffle.

“Oh my god,” Juri whispered tugging desperately at Huffle’s arms, “Huffy what is going on?”