Haunted House? 6

Now wearing a shaking pouch around her waist, Aligra made her way back to the mermaid's quarters. She didn't feel like starting another tour, especially with this one. Ama at least fainted when things were too much for her, this little guy had enough energy to power ten power plants for New York City and showed no sign of blacking out.

"Case in point…" She mumbled when she came upon the two giants poking at Ama's out-cold body at the water's edge. No doubt she fainted… again. This time though, Aligra couldn't blame her. Aristol was intimidating, even for her. The mermaid was as tall as she was long. They never seemed to stop growing! Master in fact predicted that Tala, the smaller of the two, would reach Aristol's height by summer which meant she and some of the others would need to make their space bigger before then. What started as just a little slice of home grew every year to accommodate for them.

"Alright, I think I can guess what happened. Your turn is up so give her to me," she commanded, slithering over and snatching Ama up.

"But she fell asleep on us! That's no fair… we wanna see the mouse some more," the smaller pouted.

"Too bad. There are more people living here that I need to show her too. Don't worry, you'll see her again I'm sure."

"Might I ask who's next," Aristol asked, cocking an eye-brow.

"Fae," she said dryly.

"Hmph, the neko? Good thing she's part human or I bet she'd eat your little mouse girl."

Aligra snapped her tail. "That isn't even funny, Aristol. I think it'll go well. In fact earlier she was with Hellva, and she's quite fond of her now."

"It isn't funny to lie either Aligra."

"I'm not lying," she mumbled, leaving them to enter the mansion again.

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Ama's eyes slowly opened to a strange sight. Gone was the pond, and in its place was some sort of bizarre room, fit for a huntress. There was tall grass everywhere, but as her fingers rubbed against it she could feel that it was fake. Standing she saw that above there was living features in one corner. Bed, tables, and some lamps with reading materials. But the rest of the room… was like a wild safari! There were even trees growing all over the room! Literally pushing up through the floor.

"Aligra?" The mouse asked curiously.

"Boo!"

Squeaking she flipped around and fell on her rear as she gawked at the giantess behind her. Instead of Aligra it was some sort of cat-girl! The kind of thing she saw in animes she saw as a kid. She even had the generic pink cat ears and tail. Why was it almost always pink anyways? Especially since her hair was blonde. Shouldn't her fur be blonde to? At least her hazel eyes were normal and not some random color. Like orange… or some sort of disturbing red.

Hugging her own tail, Ama whimpered a bit as she backed into a blade of plastic grass. "N-Not f-funny. Where's A-Aligra?"

The neko shrugged while having a giggle fit. "I dunno, but she said you're my new playmate for the next hour! I've always wondered if the master would make a mousey for me. Wonder if you'll taste as good as the real mice I hunt for meals everyday?"

Ama paled. "Th-That's REALLY not funny. A-At all."

"Who said I was joking?"

"…"

"…"

"…ALIGRA!!"

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"Squeak! Let me go, please! I-I didn't mean to come inside. I was only following orders. Ch-Change me back and I'll… I'll… do anything!"

The naga sighed as she curled and uncurled her tail like a yo-yo. Held tightly at the tip was the neera boy begging endlessly to be freed. It was annoying… Seemed only when Ama squeaked it was cute. With this… rat though. It was starting to grate on her nerves. Any more of it and she might just crush him. If this was what it would be like to have men in the house (other than the master) then she'd prefer to bite their necks and throw them outside. They'd wake up with a good chunk of their memory missing and she wouldn't have to put up with this noise any longer.

"For the last time," she hissed, raising him to her snarling face, "I am not going to eat nor harm you boy! But your constant chatter is really starting to test my patience and if you continue to annoy me then…. Oh then I'll actually inflict physical harm onto you."
He squeaked once, then went silent. She watched his eyes trace over her. He even blushed a bit and she couldn't tell why. Her clothes weren't very revealing and her appearance was ghostly and she terrified him. So why did he blush?

"S-So… what's your name?" He asked much calmer than before and the only sign of lingering fear was his stutter. It made no sense where the sudden calm came from.
"You're weird…" She mumbled, tucking him in her hair so she could stand and slither towards the dining hall.

"This coming from a snake woman holding me hostage," he snorted back.

"This coming from the mouse."

"This coming from the ghost."

"This…" She paused then chuckled. "Alright, you win for now mouse. Tell me, why the sudden calm? And if you dare say, 'because it can only be a dream,' then don't talk to me."

"W-Well, I wanna say it is a dream, but it kinda feels all too real. It just dawned on me a few minutes ago that, this is kinda of my dream world so to say. Well, the races are there but not the placing."

Algira blinked. "You always wanted to be a puny mouse in the presence of a snake?"

"Eh heh… no, admittedly you're the only part that kind of lived up to the world I made up in my head. But I know one is e-"

"Mermaids, a neko, a harpy, another neera, a succubus, and a few more 'fantasy' creatures live in this house."

For the longest time he didn't make a sound. It was as she made it into the dining hall he squeaked up. "Y-You're kidding?"
"Yes…"

"R-Really?"

"Tch, hell no. Everything I just said is real here. I'd love to explain it to you, but I'm hungry and I want something to eat."
"Y-You don't mean…"

"Don't you dare even start again," she hissed. "I want an apple you dolt."

"O-Oh… s-sorry."

"Better be…" Slithering to a fruit bowl she pinched off a grape and gave it to him, then grabbed a sharp, crimson apple and took a bite. As she chewed she looked up to see him staring at her intently. Even though he was small, it was a little creepy. "I beg your pardon?"

He blushed again. "Ehm… n-nothing. Just, still amazed at how… big… you are."
She frowned. How he said didn't sound like a 'compliment' on her height compared to him. More along of the lines of something else.
"You're a perv," she growled, moving an arm over her chest. "I should toss you into the harpy's cage for even looking there for more than two seconds."
"Hey, I was just admiring your natural beauty is all…"

"You were ogling my breasts and you know it. Sigh, why aren't men as gentlemanly as the master?"

She heard him snort. "Yes, because all gentlemen murder several men just to help their plans for whatever the heck he's doing. And not only does he kill them he also yanks them from their families. I had one… I can only wonder how my mother, my father, and my sister will take the news of me missing. The first one he fried was a very kind man. He'd always bring his daughter to work on Monday. She loved visiting the station, but now a 'gentleman' –as you call it- has taken that joy from her. And the second-"

"I get it…" Aligra mumbled turning her head away, forgetting he was on top of it. She was trying to hold back tears, and the apple fell from her hand. She could feel him crawl to her forehead and look down.

"H-Hey! I didn't say YOU did anything. H-Huh?!" Aligra lifted him up by his tail and placed him on the ground before making a quick getaway. No matter how hard he ran there was no chance he could catch up to such a towering behemoth as she fled for the basement.

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Trevor grunted as he tripped on a piece of cereal carelessly left on the floor. Squeaking he sat up just in time to watch the naga's tail round the corner out of sight. Sighing he hit his fist on the floor and stood up. "The chief was right. I really need to know when to shut up. And did I really just trip… on cereal?! This is too much."

"Oh, so you're the reason the sweetest person in this house is crying into Mistrol's feather's. She clings to the bird as if she were a stuffed parrot. I haven't seen her this sad since the incident with Helva."

"Huh? SQUEAK!" He stumbled back, tripping again over the same bit of food as he gazed up… wayyyy up at the monstrous sized spider woman. She had the lower half of a black widow, and the upper half woman with pale, ghostly, transparent skin, glowing, venomous green eyes and long black hair with only drapes of white silk cloth covering the important areas. He remembered the internet slang for this kind of creature. The arachnid humanoid – dridder.

"So master has finally achieved turning men into us has he? Shame his first success is a boy with little care for what he says to others," she continued, glaring menacingly at his insignificant form. With the added glow of her eyes and that ghostly look he felt petrified and couldn't move!

"I-I didn't mean t-too… I just… It sl-sli-"

"Slipped out?" She finished for him, snatching him up in her fist so only his head stuck out. "Well, now because of the words you accidentally 'slipped out' Aligra is now constantly slipping out tears from her eyes. You are lucky the master is confined to the basement, or he'd have… a word… with you. Instead it seems I'll have to do it for him.

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