KuroTenshi

Divine Hijinks

Rikive sighed hearing the, by now, familiar cries of Parael in his infant form. She finished healing one of the poor witch girls that had accidentally been bitten by the lycan puppies. "There, all better." She smiled at the girl, picking her up to kiss her on the cheek and give her a tickle until she ceased whimpering and started laughing. Rikive set her down, casting a stern look to the three brothers, now sitting in the 'time out corner'.

They whimpered at her gaze and tried to hide their faces underneath each other.

Shaking her head, the demi-goddess patted the girl gently to send her off to play again with the others. She followed the cries of Parael until she found him being 'tortured' with brightly colored markers by the hands of two little Fae girls. "Girls!" She bellowed at the two of them, making them jump before they turned to look at her. "That is not nice!" She chastised them, crouching down and holding out her hand for the markers. "Give those to me, now."

The two girls pouted and sniffled as they handed over the markers. Rikive pointed over to the corner of stuffed animals. "Go. Sit there until I say so." She rose up to her feet to set the markers someplace no other child could reach them. The girls sat down and stubbornly refused to move, but Rikive would give them no more attention.

She picked up Parael from the ground and carried him over to the changing table to try and wipe off the colors with the cleaning wipes. "Their parents had better be arriving soon." She muttered to him, her patience beginning to run a little thin. If this is what it was like to have children, Rikive wasn't sure she was ready to be a mother just yet.

Maybe in a few hundred more years.

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Rikive gave the man a flat look at the insult, about to reply when the man on the left did so for her. She was mildly curious about what they were talking about, but thankfully whatever it was they were remembering; it was making them leave. Though they left behind the dripping box. Rikive made a face as she bent down and picked up the box by the handles to bring it inside.

Not knowing what to do with it, she carried it upstairs just so it was out of the way. She'd figure out what to do with it later. For now she had to look after the children downstairs.

She returned to the playroom when the phone in her back pocket vibrated again. It was beginning to annoy her because every time, the strange sensation of it vibrating made her jump in surprise. Growling she pulled out the phone, looking at it for some sign of how to switch it off. Giving up, she just tossed it onto a high shelf where it could buzz all it wanted without distracting her.

The children were all wide awake now, with a few exceptions, and they were already returning to their chaotic activities. Sighing she looked over at Parael while rolling up the sleeves of her blouse. "This has to repay my debt in full."

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Rikive's frown deepened. "Parael is...indisposed at the moment." She explained to them, glancing down again at the metal box. She had no idea what was going on. What in the world did Parael ask to be done? Another good question, just what kind of power did he have to ask for someone's severed head? She was just guessing that was a head inside of the box, it was the perfect size and shape for it and what better way to send a message to someone than with a head?

"He can't come to the door. Tell me what he owes thee and I will see if I can find thy payment." Maybe if she gave them some of her gold they would go away.

She felt the impact of small bodies against her feet and she looked down at the three puppies, jumping on her legs and begging for her attention. "Boys, not now." She bent down and picked up the bear one of them had in his mouth and tossed it far away from the door. They chased after it, tumbling over each other or tripping over their own feet in their mad dash to the toy. Some of the children were sitting up or standing now and she wanted to swear. She needed to make these men leave.

Rikive felt the phone in her pocket vibrate again, but she ignored it and kept her gaze on the two men.

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Rikive looked toward the window with a frown, not liking the looks of those men in the least. She looked at the puppies attacking the teddy bear, the squeaking and ruckus they were making starting to wake up the other children. Perfect. Two strange men were outside, she had an adult turned infant in front of her and the children were waking up from their naps.

After putting the phone in her pocket again she picked Parael back up, moving him away from the rough housing lycan puppies so they didn't accidentally hurt him. She sat him down in a high chair because there was no way she would be answering the door with him in her arms. She couldn't fight properly if she was worrying about dropping a fragile infant.

Running her hand through her hair she made her way to the door and cracked it open slightly. Her eyes looked between the two men then down at the metal box between them, dripping blood on the concrete stoop. Her stomach clenched. What in the Nine Worlds were these men here for? Was this some kind of warning for Parael? An act of intimidation?

"What doth thee want?" She asked them with a scowl, not hiding the fact that she didn't trust the sight of them for a moment.

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Rikive took the brightly colored phone from Parael when he stuck it in his mouth to chew on. Clearly he either didn't know how to work it or his mind was more infant like than she originally thought. She rubbed the saliva off on her shirt and stuck the device into the back pocket of her pants. The children were waking up and she looked around for some place to put Parael so he'd be out of the way.

She picked him up and carried him over to a corner filled with stuffed animals. She set him down there and pulled over a small bucket full of brightly colored shape blocks. Honestly she felt a bit ridiculous doing such a thing, but if the man had the mind of a baby, maybe the blocks would keep him entertained while she watched after the rest of the children.

"I just need thou to sit here while take care of the rest of the children." She explained to him.

The phone vibrated in her back pocket and she jumped before retrieving it from her pocket. "King of Assholes again?" She muttered when she saw the name on the screen. There were two buttons 'accept' or 'decline'. She had no idea what each button did, but 'King of Assholes' didn't sound like a very pleasant thing. She pushed the 'decline' button and blinked as the screen changed and a bunch of different decorated squares appeared on the screen. "It's...doing something different. What do I do?" She asked, holding it up for Parael to see.

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Rikive looked at the bag with interest when it started to vibrate on an outside pocket. She settled Parael on her lap and reached inside, easily pulling out the damned rectangle they had been hunting for. "Thou didn't remember this being in this pocket?" She said flatly down at the baby. She looked at the screen and saw a message that said 'Missed call' then a very unfortunate nickname underneath from said missed caller.

She didn't really care at the moment to know and studied the device with a deepen frown. 'Slide to unlock' was at the bottom of the screen. Unlock what? She already had the device in her hand. Rikive wasn't about to get into an argument with an object though and set the phone on the ground before sliding it a few inches across the carpet.

There, it should unlock now! Whatever it was that was locked away but she suspected she needed. Though she stared at the device and nothing happened. Except for the screen dimming and then growing black.

Her attention was drawn away by the children and she could hear them starting to wake up. She swore in Old Norse, not sure if she could handle looking all of those children at once. The puppies had been easy, there were just three of them and all she had to do was wave a toy around so they could chase it.

But the puppies and the other dozen or so children? "Never should have come to Midgard."

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Rikive had to stifle her laughter watching Parael crawl determinedly to the diaper bag. She pulled out her arm to let him find the rectangle in the mysterious depths of the bag. She got a little worried when he crawled inside and then more so when he sank in a bit deeper. She didn't know if it was possible for him to fall in and he hadn't started crying like he was in distress.

However she held her hands over him and watched carefully, ready to react if needed. So when she saw him start to disappear far to quickly her hands snapped forward to grab his legs before he was completely swallowed up. Keeping one hand on his ankle she reached in with her other hand to get under his chest and lift him back out.

She settled him against her chest and blew a stray piece of hair from her face. "No more of that." She told him, eyeing the bag with distrust. Parael may know his way around inside of it but she certainly didn't. If he fell in...She wasn't sure if she'd be able to pull him back out. She didn't know how the enchanted bag worked or how one was supposed to summon an object from it.

"There must be some other way to message Estelle's parents." She muttered, looking around the playroom as though the answer would reveal itself to her.

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Rikive sighed and got up to fetch the block, not sure what it was Parael was throwing it toward. Maybe his mind was more infant like than she thought? Children certainly loved throwing objects. As she retrieved the block her eyes landed on the bag Parael seemed to carry with him wherever he went.

Human's kept their belongings in bags, maybe his rectangle was inside of it? Also likely why he threw the block in this direction.

She picked up the bag and brought it back over, setting the block back in front of Parael. She opened the bag and frowned seeing nothing inside. "There's nothing in here." She muttered, reaching in to try one of the pockets along the interior to see if maybe it was in there. To her surprise, her hand went in deeper than she expected. "Aaah, enchanted bag." She wrapped her fingers around something, but it clearly wasn't the rectangle. An umbrella handle it felt like.

"No." She released it and continued to dig around. She felt cloth but not the rectangle. "No." Sighing Rikive stuck her hand in deeper. "What is this? It feels like a..." She trailed off and shut her eyes, let out a heavy breath through her nose as she tried to keep from laughing. She didn't know why Parael would have such a...thing, perhaps the man got lonely. She coughed to try and regain her composure and released the object. "Right, not the rectangle." She said, a grin on her lips and her voice shaking as she tried to keep from laughing.

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Rikive frowned over in Estelle's direction and got up on her knees so she could pick up Parael. She sat him back down so he was upright and picked up the 'Y' block to set back in front of him. She was willing to believe that was more than coincidental. "So the witch child did this?" She sighed out, running her hand over her face.

She held up her fingers and tried to make a rectangle shape. "The black rectangle, mortals use that for communicating long distances right? Can I use one to communicate with the girls parents? If she learned this from them, maybe they know how to reverse what she did." And hopefully before all of the children woke up. Three puppies weren't hard to look after but just getting all these children to sleep had been a rather frustrating ordeal.

She wasn't sure how well she would be able to care for all of them until their parents arrived to retrieve them.

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Rikive hung her head, wondering if she should take that 'yes' as a serious answer or just a coincidence. However there really was no evidence to suggest that Parael, adult Parael was anywhere in the house. There was a lot of evidence to make her believe that this baby was indeed Parael. One; she hadn't seen him get dropped off or anywhere in the play room. Two; she found him upstairs in Parael's bedroom, in his clothes holding his sword.

The sword.

The same one the witch child had been playing with.

Rikive lifted her head and narrowed her eyes, lips pursing together. Her eyes landed over at the snoozing Estelle and wanted to scowl. It was a ridiculous idea, surely. The girl had been shrinking things all morning, but to be able to turn a full grown man into a baby? She couldn't have been that skilled...could she?

The demigoddess gently took the 'Y' block from Parael and set it back on the ground. "Parael, were thou turned into a babe after touching thy sword?" She asked him with a frown.

The brief idea that this was all some kind of trick to mess with her entered her mind. If that was the case and Parael was off laughing his head off then she would punch his pretty head off his shoulders for making her the fool. Looking after her and letting her into his home or not, she did not like being made a fool of.

Sitting here and trying to have a serious conversation with a baby, she surely looked like a fool.