Ending of a normal life. {Causper/Ophidia | ask to join}

Causper sighed. It had been how long since she graduated? Almost a year... she hadn't done much with it. A few gymnastics competitions, a bit of investigating into her mother's dissappearance. Nothing that led anywhere, just a lot of aimless wandering. maybe it was time to return home.

The weapon lay stretched out on an elegantly designed spiderweb strung out between trees, using it like a hammock high above the heads of passerby enjoying the park. She absentmindedly stroked the fur of a dog lying next to her, a ball still locked in its jaws.

Ophidia hadn't done any soul collecting in a long time. Things got pretty out of hand around the world, and she had better sense than to piss off the DWMA while she was still so weak. She couldn't hide forever though, and today she dusted off her old scythe and was ready to start killing again. Staying hidden in trees made it easy to get around this park without her form making her too obvious. She would have gone in to take a few people out, had she not seen the peculiar web up here. This she had to see...

"Hello there, lovely day, isn't it?~" Ophidia questioned, peeking at the web from the nearest tree. She tried to keep herself shrouded in the shadows, creating a rather creepy silhouette with bright yellow eyes. Probably not the best first impression, but it wasn't like being a blatant Kishin Egg was any better...

Causper looked up, squinting at the person calling to her from the tree. Obviously not a human.

"Unless you're here to ask me about the web, go the hell away. I'm not interested in fighting, nor am I obligated to, although I can defend myself if necessary."

Ophidia couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. "Come now, I didn't say anything about a fight. I was curious, love.~" She replied, even more curious now. This girl was very straight forward. It'd probably be a bit hard to get her to cooperate with anything Ophidia had to say. Whatever though. Worse came to worse and Ophidia would just leave her be.

Causper sighed and relaxed on the mesh webbing. Great. More busybodies. Why did no one ever think about how dangerous it would be to approach a woman on a spider web? Maybe next time she should hogtie them and hang them from a tree.

"Your Curiosity is unwelcome. I'm here to relax, not to get pestered by snotty nosed brats or wide eyed tourists that think this is some freakish form of art. If your curiosity is all that brought you here then I suggest you leave. "

"Hm... Nope. I think I'd like to find out more about you." Ophidia replied, brushing her short hair over her ears and wrapping her tail around her upper thigh. Her wings would fold against her back neatly, preventing her from lifting off the branch. When she finished, she'd carefully balance her way across the branch, poking at the web with her foot to test it's stability. "Will this thing hold me?" She inquired curiously.

Causper scowled and rolled to the side, frowning over her dog's ears. Just her luck, another busybody. Or perhaps a meister looking for a weapon. Either way, she didn't want them there. She felt vibrations as the stranger poked at a chain.

"It will, but only if I want it to. Which I don't. Stop poking at it or the chains will loosen and you'll get stuck. I'll leave you here till it rains if you end up hanging from your foot."

Ophidia sighed, stretching her wings carefully from her back, but trying to keep them hidden. She'd then step back onto the chain casually, however it'd feel as though a bird had landed on it. "No need to get me down if I fall. I can handle myself." She cooed, yawning.

Causper narrowed her eyes and sat up, peering at the woman. No human was that light. Not at that size. What was going on here?

"What the hell are you, who are you and why do you insist on bothering me? I told you I have no interest in fighting, whether you're a witch or a kishin or even one of those damn cats. Stay away from me or I'll find other ways to make your life miserable."

"And I told you that I don't either. I just wanted to talk with you. You seem interesting." Ophidia said with a disappointed sigh, slowly tip-toeing her way along the thin chain towards Causper. The closer she got, the easier it may become to take note of her less... human... features. Any sort of angle would reveal her wings, and her ears were a bit more obvious at point blank. Not to mention that her tail was harder to hide without a skirt or dress, even with it wrapped around her thigh.

Causper grew more visibly agitated as Ophidia approached, the chains she was stepping on becoming narrower and narrower with each step. They never snapped, even when they got too thin to logically hold the kishin egg's weight.

"I don't care what you want to talk about I told you to go away. Interesting or not I can drop you if you move another step."

Ophidia gave a grin. "Wanna make a bet then? Drop me. If you're right, and I fall, I'll leave you alone. Forever. If I somehow manage to stay up here, then I win and you've gotta have a conversation. Sound good? I won't jump for the tree or anything. I'll just stay perfectly still, right here." She replied, balancing herself very carefully on the line.

Causper grumbled as she stood up, glaring at Ophidia. Would this damn woman never leave.There was something different about this woman. Nothing Causper wanted to deal with though. She picked up her dog gently and dropped through the web, landing on her feet and placing the dog on the ground agian as she pulled out its leash.

Ophidia sighed, looking down at Causper. "You're so cruel. You know you won't just walk away, don't you?~" She teased, dropping off the net and trying to hook her scythe to it so that she could swing down in an attempt to soften the landing without her wings. Whether it worked or not really depended on the chains.

Causper ignored the stranger, walking along with Karma. The chains Ophidia tried to hook the scythe on broke and caused a ripple effect, all of the rest of the chains shattering as the kishin egg fell.

"I told you it would break. Go home already."

Ophidia stretched her wings suddenly, landing gently and without a sound anyways. When she was safe on the ground, they pulled back to her. "Don't really have one. Can I spend the night in your bed maybe?~" She teased, giving a slight giggle with it.

Causper shifted her stance as she turned, standing in a subtle combat stance.

"Sorry creep, i don't sleep with demons or criminals. Find someone else to bother or you won't be leaving here on two legs."

Ophidia grinned in a goofy manner, spreading her wings and stretching her tail. She shifted the scythe behind her casually. "I'm not a demon, lovely. Criminal is more subjective." She stated with a small laugh.

The weapon took a single step back, her combat stance more prominent now. What the hell was wrong with this woman?
"Criminals are still criminals, regardless of how small or how distant the crime."

Ophidia sighed. "You know, I'm not trying to pick a fight. I'll be on the defensive if you try, and it'd only get the poor innocent people around us hurt. Maybe even that little puppy..." She said, pouting. At this point, she was really only trying to avoid conflict.

"Collateral damage is kind of expected when a kishin egg shows up. Besides, Karma can take care of herself, she's not a lap dog."

This woman was a kishin egg right? She had openly admitted that she wasn't a demon so there was no other explination. Cats didn't have wings or spaded tail tips, and a witch... a witch would have done something by now, something magic. It had to be a kishin. Causper drew out a thick length of chainvbetween her palms.

Ophidia looked really disappointed. "You're very insistent on a fight, huh? Fine, but if I win, I'm taking you with me. You've grown on me, so try not to accidentally die, kay?~" She said, heaving the great blue scythe into a combat stance of her own. If it couldn't be avoided, she might as well knock the girl out and bring her along.

Causper showed no fear at the raised scythe, but she never really put her all into her fighting either. It was obvious she wasn't using her full potential from the start. Besides... what did she have to fight for to begin with? Her mother was never coming back, dad was dead and her aunt was a baby sitter she'd outgrown. She had Karma sure, but anyone could take care of her. It didn't have to be Causper.
At various times in the fight, Causper would see an opportunity to strike and refuse to take it, or strike at a time where it wouldn't be effective. She blocked or dodged the majority of Ophidia's attacks, not ahowing off as much as she would have in school years. It was, overall, an even fight until Causper started fumbling, losing the will to fight.

Ophidia noticed the lack of desire to fight in Causper's eyes. "What's wrong, dear? Do you wanna just give up now?~" She questioned, backing off a bit and holding a defensive stance. It didn't seem in this girl's personality to just give up like that. Perhaps something was troubling her?

Causper ignored Ophidia's questions lashing out at ther with metal chains. Whether she wanted to fight or nit was irrelevant. This monster had decided to bother her and had to be taught to leave people alone. Not that she had been putting much effort into it anyways. Maybe it would be better to just give up... it wasn't like she had a contract with the DWMA to follow. She had no meister either.

Causper sighed and relaxed. "I don't give up. I just don't enjoy fighting pointless battles."