[Closed] Everything comes at a price.

[talkyourwayout]

Who: Louie, Spyro, Cliff, and Huey
Where: Throughout the school.
When: First Saturday in September (09/07)
What: Louie gets his khopesh back for a moment, and becomes determined to get it back for keeps. Three "top-levels" in the comments, one for each khopesh curse recipient.
Warnings: Quite likely blood loss!


Louie awoke late that day. Usually, he enjoyed few things more than sleeping in, but when he opened his eyes, he immediately wished he'd done so earlier - because he was looking at his golden khopesh. He gasped and hugged the weapon to his chest as he sat up... And was suddenly hit with the overwhelming urge to give his beloved treasure away.

"Okay, stupid magic school, you're not getting me this time," he muttered, and focused on getting ready to head down for... Wow, it would be lunch by now. But as he left his dorm and started to head through the currently-empty halls, the desire - the need - to give the khopesh away just grew and grew.

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SPYRO

[talkyourwayout]

He was going to go insane if he didn't give this thing to someone. It was all he could think about, as much as he was trying not to, to the point that when he spotted Spyro, he called out to his classmate.

"Spyro!" He rushed over, paused to catch his breath, then held out the khopesh. Boy, did he not want to do this, but... "Take this!"

[holdyourhorns]

Spyro is understandably caught off guard, peering back at the duck for a moment and exchanging a glance with Sparx. Not the oddest sort of side quests in his experience.

"Uh... sure I guess." Though instead of taking it himself, it's his dragonfly friend who hovers over to take it from Louie, grasping it with likely surprising ease. After all, grabbing things is one of the bug's typical duties.

... Though such objects usually aren't cursed. Sparx freezes in place with alarm and looks down at the khopesh. "Vrrm...?"

It's strange enough behavior to snatch Spyro's attention. "What's wrong buddy?"

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"Thanks," Louie sighs, though he doesn't sound very thankful.

The knowledge of the curse hits Louie at the same time it does Sparx, and he glances up at the dragonfly with concern. How much can a bug bleed out without dying, anyway? This doesn't seem good, and he shifts his gaze down to Spyro. "Uh. We might have a problem."

[holdyourhorns]

"Yeah, I'll say...!" the dragon snips back. And once Sparx presumably says something in their unintelligible insect tongue, he has all the more reason to look not-so-friendly at the moment.

"What's the big idea, running around with something cursed?"

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And that's exactly the moment where Louie realized how his desperation to unload the khopesh must have come across in light of this new information. Shoot. He's definitely panicking a little.

"No! Spyro, trust me, I didn't even know it was cursed! I mean, I knew it was weird that I wanted to get rid of it so badly, but I didn't know about- Ugh!"

[holdyourhorns]

Spyro maintains his glare at Louie, then once Sparx buzzes something else at him, lets up after a few moments with a smoky huff.

"... Tell me exactly what the curse is now that you know and maybe I'll give you the benefit of the doubt."

Sure he could ask Sparx, but all the better to see if his housemate is being truthful. Or else the dragon might consider having flame-grilled duck for dinner?

[talkyourwayout]

Even as the glare eases up, Louie flinches back. "Okay, just remember I didn't know this would happen. The curse works like this: If - when - your buddy there passes the khopesh on to someone else, it means he'll, uh. Well, he's going to lose a lot of blood, I guess, at a bad moment. But he won't die! He definitely will be okay! Please don't kill me!"

[holdyourhorns]

Sparx nods to Spyro in confirmation, that the duck is indeed telling the truth.

Which still doesn't sound pleasant despite the assurance. But it satisfies him just enough that he won't be seen assaulting a fellow student on this day and dipping dragonkind's reputation deeper than rock-bottom.

"I wouldn't go that far," he replies. "But you'll have to give me at least one good reason why Sparx shouldn't be keeping it as a souvenir now."

[talkyourwayout]

"I almost died to get that khopesh!" Louie pointed out honestly. "Back home, you know? It- It's important, okay?"

[holdyourhorns]

"So it really, really means a lot to you?"

Surprisingly enough, the answer actually seems to work like a compelling argument for Spyro considering certain escapades back in his own chain of worlds for magical trinkets with far less sentimental value.