The idea of the Comfort Bears has caught on pretty well over the
past few years. Several children have been healed of psychological
wounds with their help and many Relievers get to spend time on Earth to
further the Word of Children. Quite a few have earned their angelic
status with what they have done.
You think the forces of Hell were going to take that calmly? Not
at all.
It was a group of Servitors of Dark Humor that got the idea. They
raided a few of the places the bears were being stored, stole a few and
filled the insides with concrete. As a bonus, they even got to torture
the Relievers that were inside the bears. Once the work was done, they
enclosed a little tag on the stuffed animals that read "Concrete
Cuddlys. Teaching children early on that life is hard." They even got
one of their Soldiers to deliver the modified bears to some children.
The media picked up on this pretty quickly. The demons of Dark
Humor managed to get a great laugh at the distraught looks of the
volunteer's faces. All in all, they thought a wonderful joke had been
played.
What they didn't count on was the punchline being their crucified,
eviscerated Vessels being dumped off at the local Tether to Dark
Humor. Servitors of Christopher may be fun loving and peaceful, but
that doesn't mean that they are pushovers.
While the clean up was being done on the whole mess, the Angel of
Nursery Schools had a flash of inspiration. She had seen crime being
brought to schools. Even the pre-schools she worked at were not safe
from violence by humans or demons. Since she couldn't legally carry a
gun because of her Role, her options at defense were rather limited.
She managed to take the bears that had been tampered with, got some
stuffing and called up a friend of hers that was a Servitor of Eli. The
next day, her invention was complete.
The Bears of Concrete (Hey; she thinks it's a nice name. You want
to argue with her?), like the Bears of Comfort, look no different than a
regular stuffed animal. But the owner can activate it with the
expenditure of one Essence. Then the teddy bear hardens to the point
that it becomes a powerful blunt weapon (Lawrence glares balefully when
the topic is brought up).
Most demons have learned to be cautious around nursery schools once
this weapon became public knowledge. It's very embarrassing (Almost
fatally so) to explain to your Prince that you sustained Trauma inducing
blunt force damage from a plush bear with a corduroy nose.
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