No Real Destination

[bandit]

Shinegami gave a contented sigh, leaning against the trunk of the tree and letting the sounds of nature swirl in her head. She loved these walks so much, when she could basically just reflect on life, even though she preferred not to, or merely be lackadaisical and not do a thing. And she normally chose the latter. Slowly she let her acidic green eyes slide close and breathed slowly, aware of everything around her. At the same time, she tried to paint a picture of it in her head. Trees, sunlight, tiny birds hidden amidst green bushes while the clouds slowly drifted in the sky, being as lazy as she was.

The demon went on like this for a few seconds until she gradually reopened her eyes, allowing them to adjust the sunlight, which wasn't that bright but she had seen nothing in the past few seconds. Once that was done, she smiled to herself and tucked a few strands of her hair back behind her ear, then brought her knees up to her chest. She wasn't wearing any shoes right now, since she decided the ground was so soft and smooth she didn't need them, so they were sitting together right beside her, while the rest of her body was covered in a light gray shirt and black pants. She was, however, wearing socks.

Slowly she looked around and smiled again before resting her head against the cool bark of the tree and staring up at the clouds, now trying to make shapes out of them, the smile fading away.

[Ven]

Ven was walking through the woods, a habit he had picked up simply through ossmosis. One when surronds one self in reptillian things, much like his mind, then one tends to take on actions of said object. When a peculiar smells grazed his ever functioning nostrils. His own. It wasn't nessarily his own smell, that was for sure, it was most definetly a scent belonging to someone else, however there was a distinct trace of himself lurking within the odor, something the could really only mean one thing. His favorite little demoness had shown up, something perfect for his plans.

"Why hello there." He said wandering over to her, his stride confident. as a rule of thumb no matter how bad his life seemed he could always be sure that Shinegami's would give him new confidence, something that despite the coldness behind it, he thuroughly enjoyed.

"I always seem to forget I'm not the only of my kind when I've been by myself for an extended period of time."

[bandit]

Shinegami jumped slightly, startled. Though she had been surprised, she didn't have to guess who it was. The scent, the voice alone was enough to give away the identity. Hearing what he had to say, she quickly nodded, though she didn't allow herself to process what his words meant before she did, Shinegami quickly ran the words over in her mind and nodded again, more slowly.

"I see." she murmured, though loud enough for only Ven to hear. Tentatively, she added, "I'm beginning to get this feeling you have this sick enjoyment in my thoroughly fu-" she stopped adruptly, unable to bring herself to say the word. It was, after all, daytime, and she couldn't stand even hearing a curse word during the day. Taking a few seconds to think about it, she decided there was no other word for her to use, and made up her mind to say nothing instead.

Remaining quiet and avoiding his gaze to be respectful, she directed her attention to her hand, examining the 'V' shaped mark in her palm as though she had never seen it before.

[Ven]

"Well despite how much you clearly resent those marks you seem to be doing fine. Now allow me to ask you a question. recently, have you....... expierienced anuything new? Scales? A tail? Venom production? The desire to eat mice? I want to know if the serum used in you was more powerfull than I assumed it was, in which case we could be in for a somewhat......serpentine surprise." He explained while questioning her, a grin plastered across his face. for some reason these walks always seemed to calm him down.

"Of course If I'm bieng updated I suppose I should now about your, *ahem* dietary habits?"

[bandit]

She shook her head, her eyes shifting slightly to glance at him before she looked back at her hand, gazing at the mark. "Except now I can't control water, I can only make it out of air..." she added, hoping she had given him at least a little information. Looking away from her hand and looking at him out of the corner of her eye, she added, "I still have those voices in my head, except Night talks more than Day now."

Biting her lip, she adjusted herself so that she was now sitting cross-legged against the tree, hands on her knees. "I'm not on a diet, though I haven't been eating as much as I should." she said quietly, still watching him but not looking at him completely.

[Ven]

"Well good I suppose." Ven stated.

"And it looks like you'll be needed again." He said calmly.

"You see as hard as it may be to believe people here don't take me seriously, and I see potential here. Everywhere else I've been I've been surrounded by demy god, jacked up demons, all that shit, now however I'm not. I can take over, we can take over, the entire school, I just need your cooperation, do I have it?" He asked calmly, assumeing he already knew the answer.

[bandit]

Shinegami turned to look at him and then got up, brushing the leaves off her pants as she tried to stall for her answer. She didn't want to help him, but, of course, she had no choice. Running a hand through he hair, she bit her lip and nodded. "Yes, Ven." she said, almost robotically. After all, she agreed to almost anything he said.

"So, what do you need me for?" she asked, looking at the ground now but paying attention to what he had to say.

{{Argh, crappy post. D:}}

[Ven]

"Well your not killing anyone if thats what you mean." He walked towards her, drapping an arm over her shoulder, and he began to walk towards the school, at his slow assured pace.

"You going to be more of an........object, a demonstration, you seem to forget that you are infact a living breathing demonstration of my power, after all." He laughed a little bit to himself.

"Remember how you used, to be? Only so high?" He said putting his free hand down near his waist, in an exageration of her original form.

"Anyway, you'll essentially just be there so I can show people what I can do, I mean afterall you've hardly been changed at all compared to what happened to me....I could of gone far farther."

[bandit]

She shifted uncomfortably as his arm draped around her shoulder, but said nothing as she matched his pace and followed him, listening carefully and taking in every word as though her life depended on everything he had. And, to her, that was just the case.

As he exaggerated her previous height, she said nothing, she only moaned slightly in annoyance. Even though it was too exaggerated, she was probably only a little bit taller than that before, but even so, she could tell he was being sarcastic about it. Shaking her head quickly to clear her thoughts about the matter, she continued to listen and gave him a bemused look.

"You're going to change me back and then turn me into this form again, or you're going to change me completely again?" she question, mostly confused but thinking she got at least half of it.

[Ven]

"Well let me explain the entire story." Ven said, stopping his slow walk.

"See it's something like this. I'm the new guy here, I haven't made any full power public displays yet. Nobody has seen me at full trength. I'm playing this one more with my mind as opposed to strength. I have been strategically setting people up. Love potions, things like that and what not. These are for the more powerfull people within the school. however for the vast populace of weaker students we'll need, well, something much more eye catching, that demonstrates power as opposed to simply impling it. However until i make my final moves towards school control I want to remain seen as.....slightly positive." He sighed a little bit.

"What do you think of a magic show?" He asked. he hadn't really planned on Shinegami's return and had been forming the plan only since he had seen her, but it seemed sturdy enough.

[bandit]

Shinegami stopped as soon as he did, and listened again. When he asked her a question, she bit her lip, looking away and thinking. Okay, so chances are she'd probably be involved in this 'magic show' so, well, of course she was going to say yes but not because of that. As a matter of fact, she was going to say yes for self-evident reasons.

Nodding, mostly to herself, she turned to Ven. "Okay, a magic show..." she answered, her eyes darting around as though she were looking for a way to escape this situation. A magic show. Great. She wondered if this meant Ven was going to change her in the show, or merely needed her and would explain more elsewhere.

But instead of dwelling on these question, she just waited for him to say something else.

[Ven]

"Good, the show of course won't be right away, we'll need certain other pieces of my plan to fall into place, namely disconnecting certain ties between the more powerfull people around campus. Which means that until the times comes you may have to be returned to your original shape, that is of course if yor okay with that?" Ven asked her again.

"I mean it wouldn't be very magival if people say you like this before the show." Ven said smiling. He already had everything planned out. He would disable the others before some kind of talent show that he would arrange. Then during this show before everyones eyes he would change Shinegami from her original "normal" form into Her current Viridis state.

"However upon returning to this shape certain aspects would be........enhanced."

[bandit]

She nodded, having no problem with returning back to old form. She personally liked the orignal form better, but then again she didn't mind being in this form all too much. And because she had pretty much just gotten here, people hadn't seen her in this form yet, so it would seem like magic when he changed her back.

"Yes, Ven. I think it's a good idea. But how would I be...'enhanced'?" she asked, her voice curious but holding slight fear at the outcome of his new plan. "And do you need my help disconnecting the ties?" she asked, hoping she sounded more helpful and interested than upset. She had no problem going back to her first state and then being changed back to this one, now she knew she'd be changed more.

[Ven]

"the only change my dear would be more powerfull abilities etming from mine. Nothing extreme, but more serpentine instincts, maybe the ability to get scales, things of that nature. Anyway." He placed his hands on her shoulders, and began to attempt to drain out the genes he had placed in her. It was really a draining, it was more like this: He had placed his fingers on her covered in sharp scales, which opened up a small connection to her blood stream by causeing her to bleed. he then placed a neutralizing chemical in the blood stream which, until he added a second dose of the the original transofrm chemical, would prevent it from working.

"There, a few minutes and you'll be the original Shinegami."

[bandit]

"Wha?" she asked, confused, realizing just now what he was doing. "Oh, okay then." she said, nodding as she stood still and waited for Ven to finish whatever he had planned to do. The inside of her body felt slightly weird, but it wasn't anything she couldn't handle. After all, with all the shit she's gone through in her life this was basically nothing, and besides, she'd be the old Shinegami in no time.

"I never really knew what you're powers were." Shinegami said, mostly at random as she waited to turn back into her original form.