towerofanimus | 01

Characters: Zero and anyone and everyone
Setting: His room (204), floors 3, 6, and 10, if you want any floors under 10 I didn't specify, I'm game, too.
Format: Prose to start, then I'll match commentors'.
Summary: Zero is new as well and wandering about!
Warnings: None for now I suppose.

Zero had woken up in a bed he didn't recognize. He naturally thought maybe his friends had dragged him to a hotel after he fell asleep walking again, and he thought that they could have chosen something much fancier than this, even on their limited budget. Then he thought where the heck were his friends even? And why had they put a collar on him? If this was a prank it was so far a really stupid one. Maybe the collar exploded and covered him in ink or sparkles or both if he tried to wrench it off, so he wisely let it be and started to go looking for them. Maybe he should have read those letters or gone and had some of that oatmeal or something--oh well, he was a busy man, here, he had no time for letters.

It soon became clear that where they were staying was definitely weird. He kept sniffing the air and walls and sometimes floor and it all definitely smelled weird, the sort of weird that made the fur on his tail do that floofy thing that was kind of embarrassing. But he continued on his way, padding through hallways and up stairs, calling out his friends names over and over, throwing out threats and tantrums if they didn't show up soon.

He idled for a bit on a floor that appeared to be an impressive library, trying to see what sort of caliber of romantic fiction they had available and getting sucked into the first chapter of one before remembering, oh right, need to find my jerk friends.

By the time he was on floor 6 he knew he was definitely in a very, very weird place. A floor with seemingly no end filled with a forest wasn't that normal, even by his world's standards. Not unheard of, but definitely not something you'd find in a hotel. He thought it was a possible place for his stupid friends to be hiding in, but he continued on up for a spell until he hit floor 10 and was boggled by the walls of water around him. He played around in there for awhile, getting a bit wet, before heading back down to floor 6 to explore the forest, the scent of animals and wrongness lingering even there, but no sign of his friends yet . . .

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Yes . . .

[He still looks really, really guarded, but he's not as angry as before.]

You really don't know what that is?

[She shakes her head.]

What is it?

What we are, dummy, like I said! Fox spirit things!

[Giving him such a look!!!]

I'm not a spirit.

Neither am I, I bleed too much. It's more of a classification thing, like how boring magicless things are mundane. How can you not know this--oh, were you raised by wolves?

[Wow that... Train of thought...]

What?

What to which bit?

All of it. I wasn't raised by wolves. I used to be a fox.

Ah, me, too! But for some reason I'm all human right now. I think it might be this gag collar. [He tugs on the collar for a bit.]

[SHE'S SO CONFUSED HELP HER???]

[NOW HE'S ALL SELF-CONSCIOUS BECAUSE SHE'S STARING AT HIM LIKE THAT.]

....Do I have something on my face?

No, I'm...

[Hnnnn identity crisis!!!! She's frowning down at her feet now.]

Do you think that's what I am?

Sure, with tails like that. Dunno why you have all of them out at once, though. Doesn't it get crowded? On your butt.

[Okay, she can't keep herself from laughing at that.]

I can't get rid of them.

[He finds himself giggling back, but then realizes he might be laughing with the enemy!! so he tries to clam up.]

Yeah, I have that problem, too. Aren't you afraid that that looks kind of braggy, though? Walking around with 9 tails like that, most kitsune usually keep one when doing normal business.

[She shrugs, frowning again.]

I've never met a kitsune before.

Oh . . . [He stares still a mite suspicious.] I guess I shouldn't be that suspicious, since I never heard of one till I was 13 either. [But as he says that he's still staring suspiciously.]

[She crosses her arms defensively.]

Then you shouldn't be looking at me that way.

Sorry but, you know, kitsune are a tricky bunch. [He tries not to eye her so suspiciously and does so by looking at her boobsssss--no wait her tails.] I dunno how you got so many tails if you had no idea what you are.

I've always had this many.

Really? You were born with nine tails? Your poor mom.

[ZERO. She is making such a face at him.]

I was born as a normal fox. I only gained my abilities later.

[He considers this for a moment then shakes his head.]

No, no, that's not right.

[WHY IS THIS SO CONFUSING.]

So I'm not like you, then.

I think you are, I think you're just confused or something. Got hit in the head recently or?

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