PLEASE: DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS ! {Open}

[glory]

Why did everything bad have to happen to her?! It was like this whole disgusting dimension had it in for her, with the traffic and the skyscraping buildings and the exceptionally rude inhabitants. It just...wasn't...fair. All of these humans bustling along with absolutely no regard for what she was going through! Glory felt like stomping her foot, or doing something similarly childish, but figured that the sidewalk beneath her feet already had enough cracks in it without her adding a few more...so, she managed to restrain herself. Barely.

She honestly couldn't believe that by some horrible misfortune, she'd ended up stuck here again! It made her wanna...wanna...hurt something. Badly. With a self-pitying pout, the hell-goddess trailed aimlessly down the city streets, stumbling like a drunk as she tried to get her bearings. What was wrong with her? She was feeling all wobbly and weak. What did she need? Food? Glory cast a haughty glare over at a nearby hot-dog stand, felt a small tremor of disgust, and turned away. No, she didn't want this horrible human food. Who in their right mind would eat a dog anyway, let alone a hot one?

Putting a hand to her head, the woman in the red dress stopped and swayed a little. This...this whatever it was had to be resolved soon, before anyone discovered her weakness. Images flashed through her mind, memories of the last time she'd been imprisoned in this realm. She closed her eyes, trying to focus, to clear her mind at least long enough to...aha! Dark blue eyes flickered open once again as a wide, delighted smile played across her features. Of course! She'd almost forgotten...she knew what she needed to do.

Now all she needed was a nice unsuspecting idiot of a human being to help her out. Glory peered down the open street, squinting a little at where a crowd seemed to be converging in the distance. It seemed that there was something going on over there, some kind of attraction that had caught the humans' interest. It could've been a oddly shaped rock for all she knew; she wouldn't put it past these morons to be fascinated with something so simple. Still, she didn't really care to investigate the reason for their gathering. All that concerned her now was getting one of them on their own...

It would've been so easy to just zip right over there, but the hell-goddess reflected sullenly that this would probably attract some unwanted attention. She was forced to walk at a disgustingly normal speed as she approached the crowd, her expression blank save for a touch of boredom and disinterest. Her gaze flickered up to the gigantic sign situated above the converging crowd of people who moved past it: "Central Park Zoo". Huh. How nice for them. With a soft sniff of disdain, Glory made up her mind and followed the quickly forming line towards the little booth that stood between them and this...'zoo'. The rude man at the gate had actually tried to make her cough up some cash just to get in to this freakin' place! Yeah right. Even if she'd happened to have some money on her, which she didn't, she wouldn't have wasted it on some silly little outing like this. Unfortunately, the man had been rather...insistent on her paying. Glory just hated it when humans went and forced her hand! She hadn't wanted to slam his head into the cash register...although admittedly, it had been kind of fun. But now it seemed there was some kind of security force out looking for her, a very irritating little inconvenience that ruined what should have been a nice little adventure.

Things would probably get messy once the idiots actually managed to find her, but for now...she'd risk a taking a little look at these so-called "red pandas", and maybe find a way to fix her little problem along the way. Glory made her way over to the exhibit, forcing her way past several of the other onlookers until she came to the cage. What the hell were they all looking at? Frowning, she glanced up at the branches of the obnoxiously large tree growing with in the exhibit...and finally realized that it seemed to be home to a ball of fluffy ginger fur. With pointy ears. And a little black nose. Hmph. What was the big deal? It didn't look like a panda at all. The little creature was fast asleep, and the children that had crowded around its cage were quick to lose interest. Glory glowered at the little brats as they scampered away, leaving only herself...and two men who looked to be in their early twenties. The wavy-haired woman glanced at the pair out of the corner of her eye while feigning interest in the animal in the tree. The two seemed to think it would amusing to throw bits of popcorn into the exhibit, scattering it around the trunk of the tree and occasionally snickering at their own brilliance. How sickening. And they were making such a mess too...

She approached them slowly, noting in irritation that they seemed to be paying little attention to her. Smoothing her dress, she paused when she was almost directly behind them, and decided to make her move. "Excuse me," Glory drawled, running her hand lightly across the nearest man's back and offering him a sweet smile...before taking a fist full of his shirt and violently slamming him into the nearby 'Please Don't Feed the Animals' sign on the wall. "But CAN'T YOU READ?!"

Her victim yelled out in pain, while his friend immediately leaped away with wide eyes. "Whoa, lady, what are you on?" he choked out, but Glory only shot him a dark glare that dared him to come any closer, before returning her attention to the man she had pinned. "I'm sure the poor kitty-raccoon-rodent thing doesn't like you THROWING YOUR DISGUSTING JUNK FOOD ALL OVER ITS HOUSE! ...And to be honest, you're kind of pissing me off too! Oh, but don't worry!" Her voice suddenly dropped to a soothing coo as she reached up and lightly stroked the man's face. "I know how you can make it up to me..."

Her hands traveled up to his hair, and then without warning there was a sudden flash of light. The man screeched out in agony, but the hell-goddess remained undeterred as she clung to him, reveling in the sudden rush of power that came with sapping the sanity right out of a human mind. In seconds it was over, and she released the mortal with a satisfied grin. Much better. she reflected, feeling considerably refreshed now that her head had stopped spinning so much.

Glory watched idly as her unfortunate little friend stumbled out of the exhibit, practically spazzing on the spot and mumbling darkly to himself as he went. It was only now that she noticed that his friend was nowhere insight. The good-for-nothing rat must have run off at the first sign of trouble. She sighed, turned back to the cage, and leaned lightly against the safety bar. "Yet another 'touching' display of human solidarity..." were the only words she offered to the still-sleeping animal, before finally falling silent and reflecting on the utter hopelessness of the human race.