I heard a knock on the door. Rising up out of bed, I moved my wings and tail to the side as a I rolled over to get out. I walk past my scattered tomes on the floor to the door. It is a large circular wooden door with a handle made of silver. Opening it I peer down to discover Valkyrai, a winged dark colored shadow imp, at my door and about waist high.
Valkyrai spoke, "Master, there are a few cops in Shadow Alley wanting to talk to you."
"Okay, I'll come tlak to them, go to them and tell them I'm getting dressed," I replied.
"Okay nakey-one." Valkyrai turns and walks away, back toward the shadow conduit nearby.
I announce," Clothing menu," and wave up my hand. Light bursts before my chest with several options for clothing; I pick a black loincloth with thought, one with silver trim, and it forms on my crotch. Walking away through my door, i turn left and proceed to the shadow conduit. It is at the end of the hall, Valkyrai has already left the hallway through it. I get to the end of the end of the rock tunnel hall and and look up at the shadow conduit opening. It is round with shadowy, misty edges coming out of the rock-face. I approach it and the opening writhes with a few tendrils of blackish, purple smoke like protrusions. Walking through the conduits opening, I walk down the black and purple lit tunnel towards the second opening, the exit.
Coming through the exit, I look around. I see a room with more shadow conduit openings. Above one is labeled Shadow Alley and I walk under the sign in the lit cavern. The cavern is lit with a smokeless black and blue fire in a raised pit at the center of the cave. I walk around the fire and through the conduit labeled with the Alley's name. The other conduits are labeled as well with Island, Mountain, Base (which is currently under construction by illusions and imps), and Neighborhood. Walking beneath the sign of Shadow Alley I see Valkyrai ahead of me in the next cavern, illuminated in blue and purple by the black and blue fire pit of that room. ThetaO is with him; That imp i always threaten to call ?O. ThetaO and Valkyrai walk towards me as i make it through the 10 foot tunnel. "Which ALley number is it?"
"The cops are in Alley one, walkey-one," says ThetaO while steepling his hands and fingers together, hunched over.
"Great, just great. I didn't think they'd find us so quickly, eldritch imps that you are," I huff. The shadow imp appearence is remarkedly odd. They walk on two digitigrade legs, have two large wings and a tail. This is normal enough. They stay black and purple, with black heads, I myself and black and purple in one tail mode. Like my Bijuu, they take on a form that is strange and weird. Small insectoid purple legs protude out from them when they morph. These legs coem from the chest down to their tail. Their hands disappear and they get small pincers where the hands were. The legs become tendrils that hang limply as they hover around. Their face begins shifting to have tentacles under the eyes on the mouth area, which in normal form they don't have a nose or mouth. This they do to scare people mainly, I tend to look upon that as simply an aspect of the eldritch life.
My bijuu takes some explanation, he is a madness dragon, a void dragon. The imps always try to evolve into Night or Void imps, my bijuu actually happens to be a void dragon. He is an annoyingly maddened nine tail bijuu, there are other bijuu i manage. I plan on granting some of the dragons out towards magic enhancement. They typically enahnce resistance to DYING from magic and other sources, as well enhancing magic itself to be more deadly. Currently, I can only three-tail mode, but I can hold one-tail mode all day.
"The weres in the Alley are scared I think," remarks Valkyrai with a look to me. "The liches are leaving with the vampires, the cops questioned the liches and asked if they were zombies."
"Krik," I say. (Krik is draconic expression for an exasperated "great".)
