#highertower

well this took fucking forever, but BEHOLD. HIGHERTOWER AND TEAM ARTIFACT ADVENTURE, TOGETHER, BUT THERE’S SOME GHOSTS AND SHIT. Ended up being longer than I meant but whatever. 1222 words

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The ground quaked before them, the house looming high above their heads. they were not welcome here. The house had been abandoned years ago after the family that owned it had been found brutally murdered;  the enchantments placed on it had kept any visitors away since. Theo had been researching it for quite a while, he’d heard a rumor that the house was merely a hiding place for an incredibly rare artifact, rather than being truly haunted. Unfortunately, Kore and Billy had heard him telling Yoru about it and insisted they come along as well. 

“You two wait outside and keep the door open, we don’t know what’s going to happen in there,” Theo said looking at Kore and Billy, who was hiding behind her. He really wished his daughter would dump this loser of an eel. 

“Why!?” Kore protested, staring him down “You said it’s not even haunted! I wanna come in too!” Theo sighed, pinching his brow “Kore… I said we don’t know if it’s haunted, and depending on the enchantments we may get trapped inside. Hence, making sure the door stays open”. Kore huffed but nodded. Billy breathed a sigh of relief, he had a poor track record with ghosts. Theo looked to Yoru who nodded and followed him inside. 

They crept into the house, the floorboards creaking below their feet. Mice skittered away from them, filling the room with tiny scraping sounds and squeaking. “Okay, we’re looking for a small black box, should have a small band of ruby running horizontally around the lower half. Silver clawed feet” Theo said to Yoru, scanning the room for where the artifact could be hidden. Yoru nodded searching the other half of the room. As they proceeded into the room, the trembling in the ground grew stronger. Theo chuckled “looks like someone really doesn’t want us here” he laughed, starting to dig through a desk looking for the box. “Uhhh Theo, best watch your feet there,” Yoru said, pointing. Cracks had begun to appear with each quake. “Ehhhh it’ll be fine” Theo said, waving her off. They pushed through the house continuing their search, ignoring the shaking and the cracks on the floor, the artifact was seemingly well hidden. 

“Ummmm Theooooooo!!” They heard Kore call from the main floor “Where are youuuuuu??” They could hear her banging around below them. Theo groaned, he really didn’t want to deal with that eel in this house “We’re upstairs!” he shouted back, going back to his search with 200% more grumbling. Kore and Billy burst into the room, red faced and out of breath. “So.” She said, as if it were a regular conversation “there ARE ghosts. They were just outside. We got away though!” She finished brightly, proud that she was able to fight off ghosts even without magic. “So you’re saying the ghosts came inside with you?” Theo asked, not bothering to look in her direction. “YUP!” She said, a smile plastered on her face, “They almost got Billy too! I had to shoo them away with a shovel!”. Theo stopped and stared at her. The opportunity to finally be rid of the eel had presented itself, and yet… she chose to save him. Why couldn’t he save himself?...And where did she get that shovel?! Kore saw him looking at the shovel in her hand and she smiled even brighter. “There’s a garden here too!”

Yoru laughed from the other room, leave it to Kore to find a garden at the house that wants to kill you. “Uhhhhh guyssss… they’re cominggggg” Billy whined, trying to hide behind Kore again, watching the ghosts appear from the walls and floor. They were laughing quietly, the sound melding together to form a cacophony of glee. It had been a while since the ghosts had had visitors, and they were excited to play. “Nyeh! Nyeh!” Kore brandished the shovel at them to no avail, Billy, in a fit of chivalry stepped in front of her. “I’ll protect you from these crappy ghosts, Kore!” He grabbed his magical pen and thrust his hand out in front of him, pen slipping from his fingers and tumbling to the floor. “Hah. Oh that’s bad” He giggled, being overtaken by the ghosts as Kore continued swinging the shovel around. “Oh for fucks sake” Theo sighed, giving up his search to assist Kore in chasing off the ghosts. Yoru flew in through the door, biting her lip and looking behind her often. “Oh what now?” Theo mumbled, lazily casting spells to banish the ghosts. “So the house is disappearing, any luck so far? There’s nothing in the rest of the house”. Theo ran to the door and looked down the stairs to assess how much time they had left. There was nothing. Absolutely nothing. Theo had expected that the house had begun to fall into the cracks, but instead there was a gaping void staring back at him. Yoru hadn’t been kidding, and there wasn’t much time left to get out by the look of it. He stomped back into the room, searching frantically for possible exits. His eyes fell on a window, and he ran to it, hoping that the world still existed outside of it. 

I hope this is from the right one, lol, took me so fucking long to get to

8. What do they like in bed?

BLANKETS. AND PILLOWS. AND SNACKS. AND MORE PILLOWS. AND MORE BLANKETS. Basically if they can’t turn their entire room into a blanket fort with what they’ve got, they’re not interested.

12. What first changes when it starts getting serious?

Billy starts visiting more, and trying to spend more time with Theo to get to know who he hopes will be his future father in law.

27. Why do their friends get annoyed with them?

This has taken me forever to get to, but why not answer instead of tackling all the haunted house posts! :D

2) who says “I love you” more? 

I feel like they both say it equally, and frequently because they’re two cute idiots in love and are happy to mention it.

6) who forgets their anniversary? 

Billy. Every year. Birthdays too. This boy doesn’t ever know what day it is, so I hope Kore doesn’t get upset when he misses every important date by a few days.

14) who usually starts/causes arguments between them? 

Yoru on:

Theo- He’s like....a functional dad, it’s pretty cool. Plus, he lets me join him on his artifact hunts and that’s awesome. He’s also up for clowning on my dad too, and that’s really a bonus.

Kore- Please. Please stop always being so nice, it’s weird. And stop following me around all the time, you’re going to get hurt and then Theo is going to get mad at me about it.

Billy on:

Theo: ehehe he’s always glarin’ at me for some reason, I think he saw me hold Kores hand that one time and now he just talks about BBQed eel all the time... eel is really good so I’m wondering when we’re finally going to have it for dinner.

Billy and Kore (ship name: Highertower)

another super old ask for drabbles that i’ve been putting off cause writing has been hard lately? YUP.

💚: my muse being carried by your muse. 

“Billlllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy” Kore whined, trying to shift him into a different position from where he was on her back “Why did you smoke the plants we found in the woods! I didn’t want to carry you! You’re heavy!” Billy giggled, remembering the neon orange plant he’d found and decided to smoke.

“heehehehehehe... did you see it though? it was so pretty. I thought it would be nice smoked too ehehehehehehehe” He nuzzled his face into Kores neck as she carried him.

“Next time bring it home to smoke! I don’t wanna carry you the whole way!” She pouted, sticking her lip out even though he couldn’t see it.

“kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay” billy sung from his place on her back, it was nice to be carried, he thought.

❤ : my muse being told “i love you” by your muse. (for some reason shows up as white/black on my computer)

“me? why?” Billy said confused, looking at the blushing Kore standing in front of him. She didn’t look like she would be able to elaborate, she’d turned a deep shade of crimson and was standing stock still, eyes and mouth seemingly sewn shut. He smiled at the sight of her, grabbing her face in his hands, he pressed his forehead against hers.