Let's get drunk! (private, M for mature)

11:03 PM
6/17

Alex walked back from the brewing room in the back of the Hideout. He was holding two cups of decaffeinated Mocha coffee with whipped cream and crown mixed in. He was more than happy to be entertaining a friend and guest tonight. He sat the mugs on the coffee table and tossed himself back on the couch. "Robin is fast asleep, it's passed the time when he goes to bed by now. He's been staying up late so many times this week he practically passed out at around seven. I'm glad to have you over, some times it is nice to just have a drink and to finally for the love of god not be fighting anyone at the moment." He picked up his mug and raised it. "Here's to getting drunk!"

Terra warmly smiled at Alex as he entered the room again. They had gone through a lot: killed a lot of people, some who Terra wasn't sure they should have. She had killed people. She was doing the right thing though. "It is wonderful to not be fighting anyone right now." Terra grabbed the mug Alex had brought for her. And raised it"To getting drunk!" Terra took a single hearty gulp then lowered her mug with an Aahhh. She wiped away the little bit of liquid she felt on her lip.

Alex took a large swig of his drink before he remembered it was still piping hot. He had to bring his hand over his mouth for a moment until it cooled down, drinking so fast when it was still hot made him laugh. Reminding him of how much he was really looking forward to this. "So Terra, I hardly know anything about you! Spill some beans, tell me. Why did you come to the academy? Something about a curse right?"

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    Terra giggle a little with Alex. "Well, that is the thing." Terra blew on her coffee and began blushing a bit as the alcohol started getting to her. She swivwled the coffee mixture around and her gaze drifted downwards. "I'm... Well... Where do I even begin. The story begins a couple thousand years ago. A little girl, who lived with a little community, in a little village wanted to learn about the world. When she met a woman from a far away land that told her about fantastical wonders." Terra stops to blow on the coffee and sip at it a bit.

    "One day the woman betrayed the girl's trust, and took everything from her; her time, her people's trust, friends, family, memories, her nam-." Terra's voice never got louder than a whisper, and midway through the sentence Terra started tearing up before the words got caught in her throat. "She took my name..." Terra took another large gulp then wiped her face off, and tried to compose herself.

Alexander was halfway through his mug already, he knew how to put back the alcohol but not how to handle it. Already he started feeling it's effects. He leaned to the side and put his hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry Terra, I didn't know it was like that or else I wouldn't have asked you to go through it again. I tell you what, you fill me in on anything else you'd like me to know about you and I'll tell you something about my past alright? It'l be worth it... Are you alright?"

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    Terra shook her head and smiled. "I'm alrighd, but I thing that for right now though I would rather not talk aboud the past. Tell me a little bit more bout yourself Mr. Alexander. " Terra drank more of the coffee. She placed her hands on her cheeks and her elvows on the table. She stared Alexander in the eyes awaiting the thing he was going to tell her. Her world was feeling a bit fuzzy since she wasn't really an alcohol drinker. She would listen to any story that Alex told her with intrest.

"Alright, well that is a tale that I'll need a bit more liquid courage in me to tell. One sec *Hic I'll be right back." Alex would leave to the other room and come back with a couple glasses, along with a bottle of bourbon and a bottle of cola. He would finish off his coffee quickly. Then pour himself a glass half filled with alcohol and half filled with cola. Leaving the other glass out for Terra to serve herself when she was ready. "Where do you want me to start?" He asked, sipping his drink. He made it really strong, but a few more drinks and it tasted just like candy. "The beginning, when I was living a normal brokhen life? The middle bit where my soul got corrupted by insanity? Or the end bit when I adopted a kid and settlerd down." He said, unintentionally slurring his speech a bit.

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    As Alex finished off his coffee and left out of the room, Terra followed his lead and downed the last of her coffee. She looked at the bottom of the mug for a moment right after Alex left, but after he came back her head lifted up and she noticed he came in with two more bottles. She  poured herrself a gkass also despite having already drowned her tears.

    "I dun want to pry, bud I wouldreally like to hear the story of how you and Robin med., met." Terra drank the sweet drink and got back into the position she was in earlier with her elvows on the table. This time she was slightly rocking back and forth.

"Well yah thee Terra. It's easiest to sta- to start at the end. So here I am, first city sawb. Sorry, saw. I just walhked into it. Kepft just walkin and walkin until I hit downtown. I had five dollars in my pockhet. No family, no friends tah count on." Another drink, hay it was tasting like candy! "But I was eghtheen so I knew I could rely on meh-self. I even fricken, saw a boy more downtrodden and low on his luck thhhan I was. So I saht next to the boy, keehp in miNd it's totally freezing out there is san fran right? I got worm cloths, he doesn't. I only hathd one bit a food in my pack, it was a granhola bar. So I offer it to him and the kid says, "We can split it." So I jsut bust out laughing you know!? This kid looked like he haden't eaten in days and here he was splitting a granola bar with fat old me. Sitckin around with him, we took care of eachother. We started up a little cart to get- to get thing's going. We sold newpapers and muffins, but the only thing anyone would like was our coffee you see. We moved home to home from state to state until I found a freind who gavem- who gave me some start up money to start up a buisness. So no we're here!"

Alex said waving his arms and spilling his drink on the carpet. "Oopths." He mumbled. "Sellin muffins and coffee for eight times what we pay tah make it."

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    Terra nodded every now and then to show she was paying attention which eventually turned into her just bobbling her head. As his story ended, and he spilled his drink Terra put a hand over her mouth and giggled a bit. She briskly made her way out of the room to get towels

    After taking a little longer than she should have Terra walked in with a radio that she had bought, so that she could play it whenever the café was empty. Her towelless hands sit a radio down onto the table. She pushed play and the disk inside spun for a bit, and Terra held her hand out while bowing slightly.

"Oh thanks Terra!" Alexander said bowing, before he matched that with a laugh of his own at how ridiculous it was. Music is always great, that will be nice when the shop is empty and me and Robin are just waiting for someone to come in. I got a gift for you too! Just you wait and see, when the times right I'll show it to ya. It's pretty awesome I worked hard on it." Some mood appropriate music started playing from the box.

Spoiler:

"Oh hey I know this song! Sing it with me Terra! So be suuuuuuure it's true..... When you say-" He tossed it onto Terra.

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     Terra pretended that she was holding an imaginary mic as she stood. She had heard this song play in the coffee shop many times. "~IIII love yooou. It's a siiinnn to tell a liiiieee.-" Terra started dancing a little bit as she was singing she turned the volume up a bit. She invited Alex to join her with a hand gesture. Terra was beginning to get absorbed into the music, and let it combined with the alcohol wash away her troubles. As Alex would start singing she would finish the drink she had poured for herself,

Fun Fact #87 of the universe. Everyone thinks they can sing when they are drunk.

When the song slowed down Alexander started doing the slow bit in a deep and bad impersonation of the black singers voice. "So you know it's true, when you say I love you baby- Hehhehehe!" As he dropped the invisible microphone. The song was short and soon the disk replaced it with something poppy and instrumental. "So how's the academy business comming along?" Said Alexander, pouring himself another drink.

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    Terra found her way back to her seat, and poured herself some more to drink. She looked at Alex and rubbed the back of her head. She had been to the academy a few times since she had first gotten here, but hadn't found anything useful. " Welb it turns out they only help demon scythes turn into death weapons. They apparently don't know how to help people who have been turned into weabens. They also don't know anything about the professor. oop." Terra's head bobbed back a little as she placed her hands over her mouth to keep herself from saying even more stuff that she hadn't planned on saying yet.

"Why do ya want to know abuot the weapons thingy ya got a freind who's a weapun? And is that proffessor b*** or b****** that p-person who took you name likea d***?" Alexander asked, leaning in a bit like he was haring some good gossip.

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    A more mellow song popped up as Terra scooted forward in her chair. "To tell you the truth I amb a weapon, and to stay like this I have to use some of the abilities I had before my name was stolen. Yes, the professor is the b- oh I can't say it- who took my name from me and made me the Terran Regalia." When Terra found herself about to curse she wimped out mid word and fanned in front of herself as if she was trying to swat away. she slowly was rocking to the music not quite realizing what she had said.

"So how old were yo- were you anyway when you got trapped for all that time? I didn't know you where a weapon, that's awesome!" Alex flailed his arms again and this time some of his drink spilled again. Luckily the towel from last time was still there and it absorbed it. This caused the Kishin egg to chuckle to himself. "What kind ah weeapon are you then? And for the proffesar didd she do somthing like, make you forget or steal your identety? Is that person a guy or a chick?"

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    "I was- hic- seventeen when she started, but I was held there for a year before she sealed me away. I am a sword made of rock, Yeah and the professor she did both. By taking away my memories she took my old name, and when she gave me this one it was all I had." Terra started hiccuping and giggled a little bit. "You wanna see it. My weapon form." Terra blushed a bit when she said that she hadn't shown it to anyone yet.

Alexander put down his glass, glad that his friend was not getting upset about the Professors crimes again. He was having a great time, and learning about one of his friends here in the process.

He stood up.

"Weapon form,
Weapon form,
Weapon form!" He chanted.

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    Terra whispered an unintelligible mantra to herself, and was transported to her soul room. The room was made of a dark gray stone, and in each of the room's four corners there was a mantle with brightly burning coals. In the middle of the room there was a larger mantle that was six and a half to seven feet in diameter with the true form of the Terran Regalia floating over it.

    When Terra appeared in the soul room she appeared on this mantle, and the fire danced around her. She imagined a plane behind her body slowly moving through her, and back in reality as she imagined the plane moving through parts of her body those parts turned into sand and remained floating in the air.

    The sand in the air would start spinning into a spear shaped vortex, knocking over a couple of nearby small furnishings. In Terra's soul room The Terran regalia started spinning in front of Terra, who responded by simply holding out  single hand and snatching the sword from the air. The vortex outside of Terra's soul room solidified into Terra's

Terran Regalia:

form. The sword stopped spinning and floated in the room.

"Whoa!" Alexander said impressed at the show he got while watching her transform. A lamp and a crappy book about mountain ranges (he did not care about it, but having it there made the placed look distinguished) Both fell over onto the floor. For a moment a tiny part of Alex wondered if he'd have to clean all that sand up before Terra turned into her true form. The sword form she was now in was huge, impractical, beautiful, and totally awesome. Then he realized that the sword was probably not going to gently float forever as Terra began to fall to the ground. Alex's hands shot out and grabbed Terra by the handle to keep her from crushing the coffee table.

He hefted her up with both arms, resting her over his shoulders. The position seemed right, but he grunted and positioned her in a slightly better place. "Wow that's incredible, I've never seen anyone do anything like that!" He looked into the blade, examining it. It was then he realized that the huge weapons gleam and shimmer actually made a sizable window into what seemed like a room. After peering into it he saw Terra inside then blushed. Looking away with a sizable blush he said. "Oh um... Sorry."

He wondered if the the two of them resonated. He knew a bit about soul wavelengths and weapons, you hardly lived in death city and not do a bit of research on the internet about what they are. He hoped that they would start that low level resonance soon so that she perhaps would not feel so heavy, but he feared the much more likely event that his warped, crazy, sinner Kishin soul would be far from a match for a seemingly squeaky clean woman like Terra. The idea of the weapon in his hands getting more heavy or even burning his hands seemed almost unbearable.

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    As Alex strained to manage to lift Terra she realized that because of her intoxication she wasn't completely floating. After a moment on her shoulder she went weightless. She wasn't very used to this form, despite this being the form she was sealed in for over a millenium, so she was still getting used to the sensations, and controlling her floating was still new to her. Terra could feel every particle, every grain, every point of this form and she hated how natural and comfortable she felt in it right now.

    Terra realized that her facade was apparent on the flat of her blade when she saw Alex make eye contact then suddenly looking away and apologizing. Terra vanished from the edge of the blade as a voice rang out from it. "This is the Terran Regalia a five hundred pound, six foot, unwieldly, granite sword. This is what I was sealed within." Terra, no longer being in a body had suddenly recovered from her earlier intoxication, and she was a little embarrassed that she had put herself in this situation.

Five hundred pounds? Holy crap I am strong, when did I get so strong? Thought Alex's drunk mind at first. "It's not... That unwieldy... Or, that bad." he said. Lifting her now much, much lighter form off of his shoulders and examining it from the pummel to the end. He would have swung it around once or twice, but he feared that he was so drunk he would somehow disembowel himself. He then said. "I can't even imagine being stuck like this for so long.... Are you alright Terra?" He said looking back into the blade.

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The blade had been held for the first time she could remember. The time she had spent sealed away seemed to be an extraordinarily long time ago. It wasn't pleasent, but she had faith that she could be changed back to herself and regain her memories. It was a faith that turned into desperation and a desperation that led her to her last lead, the Demon Weapon and Meister Academy. Terra was a bit quiet at first. "Yeah, I guess." she then spryed up a bit more and tried to seem more like her usual, positive self "But now that I have met a bunch of awesome people, learned to get my old body, and found a bunch o' leads I am definitely better." While she wasn't lying, Terra still held that loneliness in her heart. It was something that Alex could feel like a tangible force and Terra started to feel his loneliness almost like a connecting force.

Alex smiled and he was glad that despite all the hardships Terra had faced that she still had her positive outlook on life. It took a special person to be trapped like that for all those years and not go completely insane. So he respected that. The Kishen tightened his grip lightly on Terra to show this. His expression beaming with happiness. He emotionally felt her loneliness there, a part of his heart that had not felt right for.... A very long time reacted to it. He felt himself getting closer to Terra. The two's souls began to gently resonate. To Alexander, it felt blissful and right.

He asked. "I'm glad you found what you are after. So, what's the plan looking like now? Going to stay with the academy for a while more?"