Buck Moon - Backdated to July 5th

[serpentinthegarden]

First one to make a comment about my new 'rack' will be labeled unoriginal.

[Crowley tilted his head at the screen, feeling the odd weight of the new set of antlers resting on his head. ]

What is this Midsummer Night's Dream? Should I strike a pose?

[Whether he should or not he did! And with an appropriately 'garden' type backdrop and sank into a soliloquy.]



I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.

[He snorted a laugh before holding up his hand upon which two different rings were battling it out for a place on his finger. An inexpensive black ring with a single white diamond sat beside a more expensive looking black ring encircled by white diamonds.]

Bizarre and damned annoying monster transformations aside I actually have one of those odd married persons questions. You have the wedding ring and the engagement ring... do you wear both? Pick one? I feel like I should set the first one aside, in a jewelry box or something, but it's kinda special. Not that the other one isn't! But the wedding ring hasn't been magically blessed like the smaller one. Opinions, go.

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[serpentinthegarden]

[ Crowley couldn't place the face but then he had been thoroughly distracted with the planning phase of things. He had seem so many people the faces had begun to blur together!

His head tilted and he smirked a, 'thanks.' ]

Tah. It's a strange new existence being married. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different.

I even feel like being silly.

[ Hinted the Shakespeare. ]

[spectacularlyhighking]

[Eliot nodded. This was actually making him miss Fen... and he wasn't even sure if they were even still married. He never understood Fillorian practices and, well, there wasn't a Fillory anymore so did they matter? Ugh.]

I've been there. Though my marriage was a little, uh, forced... I did feel somehow different afterwards. It's strange how just a few words and a ring can have that effect on you.

[serpentinthegarden]

Thought you said you were never engaged?

[ A sudden thought and he was nodding sagely. ]

A shotgun affair. You got some one into trouble?

[spectacularlyhighking]

[He laughed]

No, nothing like that.

[He paused. It felt like so long ago that this had happened. Of course, it had been years so he supposed it was a long time... so strange.]

To make a very long and confusing story short: We needed a god-killing knife from a knife maker and he would only give it to us if someone who could become High King of the land would marry his daughter. There was a blade that would only cut a High King and I was the lucky one it chose. I was married that night to a girl I'd just met... it was the first truly selfless thing I'd ever done in my life.

[serpentinthegarden]

Mmm... knife point wedding. It's the same thing really.

[ Only entirely different. ]

You were trying to kill a God?

[spectacularlyhighking]

Sort of. This time, at least. He thought of himself as a god. He was stronger than all of us put together... It was the only way we could think of to kill him before he killed us and ended up destroying two worlds.

[Why yes, he has killed and helped kill Gods. For most of them he just... wasn't in control of his own body. ]

[serpentinthegarden]

My side would have liked to do that...

[ He wasn't so keen on the idea. ]

This corruption must seem like nothing to a God-slayer.

[spectacularlyhighking]

Your side would have loved this guy. The Beast is what we called him. We killed him... then he made it back from the underworld and we killed him again.

[He chuckled, though there was a sadness to it. His eyes suddenly looked far too old for his face.]

While I'd prefer to avoid that moniker, if it's all the same... no, it doesn't seem like much. I've dealt with much scarier things and experienced the end of the world. [He paused, thinking.] I will admit some of the things we came across on the excursion last month were a surprise, though.

[serpentinthegarden]

Tenacious guy. Killing someone once is usually enough.

[ He had never killed a God before so he couldn't say if that was typical of them or not, but it sounded terrible. ]

We had killer rats, what did your lot have to deal with?

[spectacularlyhighking]

Incredibly. Devious and manipulative, too.

[He was still mourning Rupert. He didn't deserve to die because of his brother's mad manipulation...

He made a face at the question]

Giant insects... and a fog that made us doubt ourselves.

[serpentinthegarden]

[ Crowley made a face at the giant insects. ]

Sounds like a fun time.

[spectacularlyhighking]

I hope that was fucking sarcasm, otherwise there's something terribly wrong with you.

[serpentinthegarden]

[ A look. ]

It was sarcasm! Who actually likes giant bugs??

[spectacularlyhighking]

[Eliot raised an eyebrow at him, responding in a completely deadpan tone.]

I know a man who was in love with a sloth, had a sort-of daughter who was in love with a bear, my wife, my best friend, and her boy toy are werewolves, and there's a woman here who is literally part scorpion. I assume nothing.

[serpentinthegarden]

...... Fair point.

That would be an interesting family reunion.

[spectacularlyhighking]

Things in Fillory were never simple.

[He sighed, a bit of melancholy flitting through his eyes. But it was gone as quickly as it came, buried with the rest of his emotions.]

But it's gone now so I'm stuck with the relatively mundane magical world of Earth. [He paused.] Though there are still werewolves.

[serpentinthegarden]

Until some one decides the world needs to ends...

[ He grumbled in none too silent opposition to God's great plan. ]

And you ended up here. Things are not exactly normal in the Kingdom either.

[spectacularlyhighking]

[Thanks for the knife to the feelings, Crowley. He makes a face and reaches for his flask. He takes a deep sip (how much does that flask hold, seriously?) and looks grim.]

What if destroying a world is the only way to save the people in it? And the people of other worlds, for that matter...

[serpentinthegarden]

[ Crowley frowned thoughtfully but what he was seeing in his mind's eye was the destruction of Earth which seemed to be happening for no good reason whatsoever. ]

I don't see how destroying can save anything... Destroying is the opposite of saving.

[spectacularlyhighking]

[He took another swig from his flask, thankful he was using a bit of magic to make it bottomless like it was back home.]

We saved every living thing on the world. [He paused, swallowing. His voice was heavy with emotion.] Almost. The door to the underworld was being opened and the dead were flooding in. It was the only way to save everyone... And stop it from crossing through to other worlds. It... It was the only way. I tried to stop it from happening. I tried to find another way...

[Another swig from his flask. He lowered it, pressing it against his lips for a moment as the memories flitted through his mind. Rupert... The pain of his broken hands. Margo... Fen... He closed his eyes and saw the faces of his friends, wondered if he'd ever see them again.]

We created a new world for them. A world that will hopefully be free of all the bullshit of the other one.

[serpentinthegarden]

A zombie apocalypse? You destroyed a world to prevent a fucking zombie apocalypse?

[ That was it, he was done. The very last thing he needed to know was that the underworld could open up onto a world and cause it's destruction. ]

Well... don't go all scorched earth here. My new world building days are behind me, I'm just trying to keep this one from going to Hell.

[spectacularlyhighking]

No. Not corpses rising from the fucking grave. The actual dead. I saw it, myself. The doors to the underworld opened... Even Hades couldn't stop it. Our Hades, not this dumbass. It was a choice between saving the land or saving the people and the rest of the worlds Fillory connected to... Including Earth.

[He sighed. He didn't want to destroy Fillory.]

I hope we can keep this one safe. I've experienced the end of the world enough times, thank you.

[Yep. That was plural. He'll just keep the story about the moon for another time unless Crowley asks...]

[serpentinthegarden]

I was going to say... Our Hades doesn't really seem the pro-active type.

[ A concerned pout. ]

How exactly did they open the door to the underworld anyway? Its not like they give out keys. Usually the dead aren't as lively as that.

[spectacularlyhighking]

Most Gods aren't, in my experience.

[He sighs, taking another swig from his flask.]

Someone else killed all the guard-dogs that are supposed to keep it from happening. Then it just took the right spell... and someone on the other side organizing the dead to invade en masse.

[serpentinthegarden]

[ This was silently agreed with. Most Gods were too busy with their 'Great Plans'. ]

I don't see the point in all that. Why unleash an army of the dead. All they would do is destroy everything.

[ A beat. ]

Which you know, loss of your world and all... Tough break.