Aristides was bad with pets. Well, perhaps that wasn't the right thing to say. Vivienne in the real world was fine with animals, as long as they weren't her responsibility. A lot of people in her life had suggested she get a cat or hamster or something to make up for her general lack of interest in socializing. And, sure, she liked having a friend's cat sit in her lap or to play with her younger brother's dogs. The problem with those suggestions was Vivienne just didn't like taking care of other living creatures. She barely managed to meet all her needs on a regular basis, who in their right mind would trust her with a pet?
Apparently TerraSphere would.
After the fight with Titanius--among all the MP, status afflictions, and a set of interesting looking battle claws--Aristides had noticed he had gained a strange looking egg as one of his loot drops. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth he'd set about hatching it. He wasn't sure what he had expected. Eggs hatched animals, so he had assumed it would be some kind of pet, and he was a little worried about that responsibility until he remembered it was a video game and, likely, whatever hatched wouldn't need daily food and water. It might even be cute. Then the egg had hatched.
What had come out of the egg was not what one might describe as "cute". He couldn't even classify it as "animal". It was a floating mass of tentacles and fog, not unlike a certain PTSD causing boss had been, and it moved in this creepy, slow manner where it always was a few steps behind him, even when he was sure that it could have caught up by now. Aristides wasn't sure if this was a prank by the game developer, or if this really was somebody's idea of "cute".
Either way, he was now the proud father of a levitating orb of tentacles and flesh.
Yay.
"Let's try this again. When I say "stay", what do you do?"
Beneath the towering trees of Astorea's grand forests, Aristides was standing face-to-metaphorical-face with the eldritch horror he had decided to name Reva, his hands outstretched palm-out to the strange creature like he were holding it at bay. His hand wasn't quite touching it, however, as Reva seemed to be insistent on being as close to touching him as possible without actually initiating contact. Reva didn't return any sort of sound or movement at Aristides command. He sighed.
"I will take that as you understand. Okay. Let's try this. Stay, Reva."
Lowering his hand, Aristides turned and walked a few feet away from where he'd left Reva, then turned his head expecting fully for it to be floating right behind him, rather than having stayed where he'd told it to. However to his confusion the creature...wasn't there at all. He blinked and turned around completely.
"Reva? Where did y--"
Kk k k kkk kkh kh kl k h.
"FUCK WHA--"
Aristides dropped right onto his ass, head jerking upwards to see that Reva had somehow levitated itself to be in front of him rather than behind, and the sickening voiceless noise it had made his legs give out without warning. With a weary groan he placed his face in his hands and shook his head. This was now the third time since he'd come out here that this had happened, and yet somehow, every time...
"...bad Reva. Bad, bad, bad creepy stupid monster."
