#darkiishu

Anti: Ah, what are you so worried about? You're so small they probably won't even see you.

Darkiishu: Anti, is this really the time to be making short jokes?

I did a thing for Halloween!

Darkiishu seems really cool, so I wanted to try sketching her with some plant friends! The tree is an enlarged orange tree and the bottom right hand corner holds a tiny cactus friend! Hope you like it!

Have a great night!!!

Phantom walks around and puts the end of his cane against Peevil’s chest and pushes her back an inch. “You need to calm down.”

Peevils flings a shard of glass at Phantom’s face, but the magician reacts fast enough that he can turn away and only suffers a small, thin scratch across his cheek. He fires a magical bolt from the end of his cane, and Peevils flies back several feet into Maiken who wraps Sharper in thorns and squeezes until the android cries out.

“Stop this or I’ll scrap this robot,” she demands as loudly as she can manage.

Phantom bares his teeth and glares at Mae. “He didn’t do anything, let him go! It’s that monster that needs to be detained!” he shouts, pointing at Peevils.

“I’d like to see you try,” she snaps back, throwing another shard at Phantom, but this time, Mare steps in the way. He puts up his arm to block the glass, and it sinks in deep. Peevils gasps. “Mare!”

He lowers his arm and grins through the pain. “Now that we’ve calmed down a little bit. Why don’t we discuss this without all the violence, okay?”

Peevils nods slowly, and Maiken releases Sharper who quickly runs to check on Mare’s arm. As the android tears off some of his own bandages to wrap around the wound, Phantom and Peevils share a weighted glare.

Peevils and Maiken arrive at the restaurant later the same day that Mare returns. When Sharper sees the girls at the front door, he yelps in fear and runs to find Phantom. The magician is teaching Mare how to play darts when Sharper stumbles in, bumping into one of the shop’s many glass cabinets and knocking a few vials off the shelves.

“Ph-phantom, we’ve got a problem! Big problem!” Sharper points nervously back towards the front of the restaurant. “P-Peevils, you know the scary lady, and h-her friend with the spikes, they’re here!”

Mare looks from Phantom to Sharper. “Who is this? Are they dangerous?”

Phantom curses under his breath. “This is the last thing we need right now.”

Sharper nods way too many times, practically vibrating with a nervous energy. “She’s going to be so mad…”

Phantom sighs and picks up his cane, headed for the door. “I’ll handle this.” He waltzes up to the door as Mare and Sharper follow behind him. Then Sharper realizes what’s about to happen and pulls Mare into another room despite the shadow’s obvious protests.

Phantom opens the door to the restaurant and smiles. “Hello, ladies.”

Peevils crosses her arms over her chest. “I don’t like to be kept waiting like this. Where’s Mare?”

“About that,” Phantom says, his smile becoming more and more forced. “He’s sick today. Yeah, something that Nate caught transferred to him, and we’re a bit worried that it might be going around. So I wouldn’t want you lovely ladies to catch it.”

Mare, in the other room, shoves Sharper off of him. “What the heck? What’s so bad that you won’t even let me see who it is?” He leaves the room and walks into the entryway where Phantom is still arguing with Peevils.

“Well, he doesn’t look sick to me,” she says, brushing past a very annoyed-looking Phantom. “Mare! What’s going on? Why are you avoiding me?”

Mare blinks a few times. “I’m sorry, who are you?”

Peevils and Maiken step into the Void that Dark has created in the Board Room and look around with little enthusiasm. “Well,” Peevils snarks, “quite the power move.” Her eyes roll over to Dark. “Hello, darling.”

Dark’s shell cracks. “Our Bim and Host are stuck in your mirror. How do you get them out?”

Peevils lazily glances towards where Anti is still stabbing the mirror. “Certainly not like that…” She waves her hand and the mirror appears in her palm. “I can get them out… but it’ll cost you.”

“What do you want?” he asks, grinding the words out through his clenched teeth.

She glances around at the others. They’re all watching her, amazed by her even, someone who can so effortlessly and safely ruffle Dark’s feathers. “I want her back,” she demands, her voice cracking just a little. “I want Celine back.”

Wilford winces, and Dark’s eyes go wide. “I can’t do that. I’m sorry.”

Peevils grips the mirror in her hand. “Yes, you can! I know you can, because you’re Darkiplier and you can do anything! That’s what you told me, isn’t it?” In her anger, she smashes the mirror onto the floor and grinds her heel into it, shattering it into pieces. “Well, good luck finding your little friends now!”

Several of the Egos shout in indignation, and Anti even hurls his knife at Peevils. But she catches the blade, sends it flying back at him, and flings several more shards of glass in Dark’s direction. Anti glitches out of the way of the blade, but Dark doesn’t fare as well. Several of the shards hit his chest and arms.

But then a vine of black thorns wraps around Peevils, holding her in place, and Maiken sighs. “Sorry about that. She’s been a little snappish since Celine… left.”

Doc goes to Dark’s side and tries to inspect the damage, but Dark shoves him away. “What have you done? How are we going to get them back?”

Peevils shakes her head, tears falling down her face. “I don’t know, and I don’t care. But now you know what it feels like to lose someone you care about!”

After about ten minutes of Anti repeatedly stabbing the mirror, cursing at it, and demanding that it “let him in,” Dark decides that he might as well call her. If she’ll answer, that is…

Peevils hears her phone ringing and ignores it. She curled up on her bed, feet and hands cold, head hurting like crazy. It’s been days since she’s been out of the house. Maiken wanders in after a few minutes because the phone doesn’t stop ringing, and she picks it up.

“It’s him.”

Peevils draws into a tighter ball. “Tell him to go jump off a cliff.”

Maiken answers the phone. “She says you should go jump off a cliff.”

Dark sighs. “I need her help.”

Maiken looks down at Peevils. “He says he’ll do it if you jump first.”

Peevils growls a little and drags her pillow over her head. Her next words are mumbled, so Maiken pulls the pillow out of her hands. “I said tell him I’m busy, that he should go on without me!”

Maiken sighs. “Dark, she says that she’ll be there in ten. See you then, boo.” She hangs up and tosses the phone at Peevils. “You need to get out of this room, even if it is to see that sour puss.”