?promise of particles?lloyd x FEM!reader?

All this over a Hammer?? :153:

Arin hummed, "I am really bad at spotting liars."

Yeah. You could agree with that.

"I- I know that.." Sora mumbled, causing Lloyd to shush at her, Hantro was speaking again.

"Hmm.. Might be fine for me to take a little vacation, then." And with that, she shut the video off, and Fedulian went back in.

Now you could talk, Lloyd turned to Sora. "Sorry, what were you saying?"

She flickered her gaze over to him. "I know where she was. That uhm.. that graffiti was something I made- I- I was young and bored." She laughed, grimacing a bit. "But uhm- we should go there.

Everyone kept off the building, rushing towards the graffitied wall, in hopes you would find Hantro.

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"It's your noodle graffiti! There!" Arin shouted, running towards a wall.

Sora scoffed, glaring at him. "Noodle?! That's obviously a cat."

You looked at both of them confused. "That looks like scribbles. I do not see anything there."

Lloyd pointed to the 2 red spots. "I think those are meatballs.. and the white is the noodles.. I think those two lines are chopsticks..?"

Grumbling, Sora walked up to the drawing. "These are eyes!" She stated, pointing at the spots. "And this is fur, and ears, and the lines are a mouth!"

...you still didn't see it.

Though you didn't have to worry about that anymore as the wall beside Lloyd opened, knocking him to the ground.

Holding in a laugh, you helped him up, only earning a minor glare.

Out of the wall appeared a pink Serpentiness, who looked utterly dumbfounded. "I- Ninja. What- what are you doing here?! I am just bringing this cart of uhm.. very legally aquired junk as part of a beautification project! Yup!"

You had to stop yourself from giggling at everyone raising their brow. The silence was so loud.

"..ah. it doesssn't look like you're buying that.." she looked down at an oil lamp in her hands. "Uhm-.. MAGIC ATTACK!"

Sliding your foot back into a stance, ready to fight, you watched as she threw the metal container towards Zane.

He frowned, allowing the lamp to hit into him, and clatter to the ground. "I sense no magical or outstanding properties to this."

Hantro opened her mouth, clearly panicking now. "Turnsss out that wasn't actually magical.. Sssorry, I'm kind of new at this looted ancient artifactsss game."

Putting your hands on your hips, you glanced her up and down. "Are you uh.. done trying to fight us..?"

"Did I even sssstart, really?" She offered, shrugging. "Look, I jussst find artifactss and ssssort of nag them. It'ss- it'sss not like I ssteal from actual people. Am I in trouble..?"

Lloyd shrugged. "I mean.. the law doesn't really exist anymore. We just kind of stop people from destroying the world nowadays. It's not like you're scamming people exactly.. he wanted that mallet for a reason."

"Mallet..? I can anssswer any quesstions you have about that. Rumor hass it that the mallet worksss with something called the Gong of Shattering." Now you were getting somewhere.

Stretching out her arm, Sora glanced up. "Gong of Shattering? Seems pretty ineffective if it just shatters.."

Hantro shook her head, tongue flicking out, probably from anxiety. "Ssupposedly.. sssomeone can hit the gong with that mallet and it releassess their dark energies. It iss a myth from the Wyldnessss."

"And we're just believing her..? Is she lying or not now?" Arin asked, glancing around.

You shrugged. "I mean, both her and her boyfriend have lied to us, so I wouldn't put it past her."

She opened her mouth in shock. "I- we're- we're not dating! I don't even see him as anything but a- a- friend!" If snakes could blush, you were sure her face would be cherry red. "I may lie, but I'm not right now!"

Raising a brow, you motioned for her to continue.

"This is just what I've heard. Apparently, everyone has some good inside of them. But if you're wearing a weird Wolf Mask and then hit the gong with the mallet, it shatters every last bit of goodness inside you."

Your gaze flickered to Lloyd, who was looking at you too. "..Wolf Mask..?"

Hantro nodded. "Weird, right? And once you shatter your goodness, you not only get stronger, apparently you can learn all kinds of evil things."

Stepping forward, Sora spoke up. "How do you know all of this? What evil things?"

"It's my job to learn information, not remember people'ss facess. It was probably at a bar or club, I have no idea." She explained. "Sssorry I can't help though. I'm as upsset as you are, that was sssome good merchandise. But it was ssaid they could learn fighting techniquesss, mystical powerss, all the sstuff your goodnessss wass holding you back from. If you believe in all that 'myssstical cursses' garbage."

Based on the fact you had the grandson of a god beside you, an 80-something-year old robot with a divine power source behind you, and 4 out of the 6 people in this conversation could literally magically change the world around them, you could say you believed in the mystical curse garbage.

She hissed, shrugging. "I really do have to be off. 'Dulian will start worrying about me."

"Right. Thank you so much for the information, Hantro. I hope you and Fedulian figure it out!" You smiled, seeing the obvious pining that you bet he had too. It reminded you of how stupid and you and Lloyd were for a while.

Nodding, she smiled. "Thanksss.. I mean- no! We're- I don't-" grumbling, she turned around, wheeling her cart behind her. "Bye."

Well. Looks like you had your work cut out for you... Whatever that was.

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God I'm starving and have an entire Spanish project due tomorrow that I haven't started 😭 hope you all are doing better than me

also ik we only see her once but I love Hantro so much she's so silly

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