A/N: I finally rewrote this chapter 8D I was so uncomfortable with the one before so felt like improving it xD
I will also rewrite chapter two since really these two first chapters do bother me more than the others…
If you are reading this story for the first time and chapter 2 is not up yet means I´m rewriting it but it is not necessary to wait for it to come out so you can continue reading chapter 3 so don´t worry about it!
I apologize to the ones that read the two chapters before the rewrites but this had to be done to keep the story´s congruence so try and understand o3o
PowerPuff Girls R: Realities
Chapter 1: Incident
It was early in the morning when we had come to the school´s soccer field, for some unknown reason they felt like coming to play for a while before having to go straight to class… it´s kind of strange, all the things we have gone through and now to sit here watching them both play felt a bit unreal, like having some sort of feeling that we should be involved in something else instead of enjoying a nice normal day like this one… but I rather be doing nothing in particular and be enjoying these kind of days than being involved in something dangerous… However, ever since I woke up I´ve been feeling uneasy, perhaps that nightmare I had was the cause of it but I just can´t shake off this feeling of uneasiness I have…- I thought as I gazed at the unchanging blue sky, squinting my eyes for the sunlight slightly bothering my vision, it was kind of random when I had this periods of day dreaming about odd stuff and I could stay like this the whole day except for the sudden ball which had smacked me on the face and abruptly snapped me back to reality
"Hey Boomer, pass us the ball! " yelled Butch, can´t they say sorry or something?
"Why should I? " I asked while holding the ball looking back at him annoyed
"Huh? Go bitch at Brick dude, I didn´t hit you, it was him" said Butch giving me a sarcastic expression for what I looked at Brick who just shrugged the moment he stared back at me
"Regardless of who smacked you, why weren´t you paying attention? You could have dodged the ball or something" said Brick looking at me bored like, he was right about that…
"I just got distracted" I said right away trying to hide my uneasiness as much as I could
"Right, you were day dreaming weren´t you? You do that a lot" said Brick as he played with the ball by bouncing it on his head watching it carefully as to keep it from falling
"And what if I was…" I muttered slightly annoyed, they most of the time make fun of me for that
"It´s not that I care, but if you feel like telling us you can do so" said Brick as he held the ball still and looked at me "Though I don´t blame you for not doing so" as he said that we turned to see Butch who was already midway to the school
"Where do you think you are going you retard? " yelled Brick as he kicked the ball and so smacked him making him trip and fall flat on his face causing me to snicker at the sight of that "He sure likes to hit and run"
"Ah? " I murmured confused while looking at Brick
"He was the one who smacked you, you couldn´t seriously believe I was the one who did that, Butch can´t kick as hard as I do" said Brick looking at me annoyed then saw him walking towards Butch "Come on, are you going to stay there all day? Classes will start in a while"
"Ah! right" I said following him and saw how he dragged Butch from his hoodie
"You are really helpless you know" said Brick without turning to see me
"Uhmm… Brick, are we really going to school looking you know, like us? " I asked him looking curios at him
"Of course not, we´ll switch when we are in a less public place" said Brick as I noticed Butch trying to get up
"Bro, let go already! It´s not pleasant to be dragged through all the shit! " yelled Butch overly annoyed finally able to stand up and so right away attempted to clean the mud off his clothes
"It´s your fault for remaining out of it on the field" said Brick looking at him sarcastically
"Yeah whatever" said Butch rolling his eyes at Brick´s reply "But seriously Boomer, how come you didn´t see the ball about to hit you, though thinking twice it was fucking hilarious so I don´t find it that bad"
"Not as funny as seeing you fall flat on your face" I said smirking at him
"Yeah, yeah so, why were you not paying attention, did you fall asleep on one of your day dreams? " asked Butch while chuckling
"It´s nothing, really" I aid reluctant to tell, there´s no use on telling them about what I´ve been day dreaming… they will just laugh and well, explaining it will mean I´ll have to recall and explain that nightmare
"Dude, tell us already or I will keep bugging you until your stupidness disappears" said Butch frowning at me "Uh… maybe till I just get tired of it, we both know your stupidness is not planning on going anywhere any time soon"
"Haha, pretty funny" I said looking at him sarcastically
"Boomer, just tell us already and save us the trouble from having to unnecessarily press so you decide to speak" said Brick as we went into the boy´s changing room which was oddly empty
"Okay, I´ll explain, try not to laugh okay? It´s irritating" I said mainly looking at Butch
"But why always against me? Fine dude, I´ll try not to laugh at your story or whatever shit you are about to say" said Butch looking bored
"Anyway…" I murmured after some seconds Butch had kept silence "I´ve been having these awkward feelings… I don´t know if they mean something or not but ever since I woke up I just can´t help but feel that something bad is about to happen… I don´t know why, when or how… I just feel that way and I can´t shake it off"
"Is there anything else you are not telling us? " asked Brick as soon as I finished talking for what I sighed in resignation
"I had a nightmare" I said darting to Butch looking for a small chuckle that could discourage me from continuing but after seeing he didn´t do anything I resumed my explanation "In it I was in a basement at the bottom of the stairs, I couldn´t move though I could look around the place and there was this boy… a boy chained to a metal tube, it was kind of creepy cause he was covered in wounds and looked really exhausted but above all that… his eyes looked lifeless and I could just see his face as some sort of silhouette…" I said recalling what I could of the nightmare; I was honestly surprised that not even Butch was chuckling at what I was saying "He was splattered with blood too and so he looked slowly at me and started to talk to me, he was saying disturbing stuff but stopped as a man approached him holding a lighted cigarette, but what really left me terrified was that I had to watch how the man was beating him and burning the boy with it… after that I woke up but I don´t know, I just didn´t feel well since" when I finished explaining I looked at them expecting some sort of reaction but they stood there speechless
"I see" said Brick flatly while Butch looked between confused and shocked
"I understand bro" said Butch puzzling me, He rarely understood what I tried to say which made me curios on what he had to say about it
"Seriously? "
"I understand bro though you shouldn´t be drugging yourself, that will take away the remaining neurons you have" said Butch looking as he was pitying me or something, yeah as I thought, he didn´t take it seriously, he rarely does
"What? I´m not drugging myself! " I sad annoyed as I frowned at him
"Well then, it sounds to me you´ve been smoking, what better way to get such nightmares than smoking that shit" said Butch annoying me even more "If you are so bothered by it then just stop doing that dude" after he said that he switched to Kai and left without saying anything more
"I knew he wouldn´t take it seriously" I muttered to myself still annoyed
"Boomer, you act like you didn´t know him" said Brick catching my attention "Butch will always laugh at whatever you tell him regardless if he takes it seriously or not"
"I know that, I Know… but it irritates me that he makes fun of something as serious as that, it wasn´t at all funny" I said fuming
"He understood you just like he said before saying what he said but you know… you can´t expect that dude to cry or express some sort of concern as you apparently wish he did" said Brick
"Of course not, I don't want that, I just didn´t want him mocking me or joking about it as he did, nothing else but that"
"It´s a little bit more complicated, Butch laughs off whatever serious shit you may throw at him, not because he doesn´t care, he just believes that ´´it´s better to put on a brave face at whatever seems troubling´´ he keeps repeating that over and over" said Brick while sighing
"Huh? When did he say that? Or well, when did he start to believe that? " I asked confused
"Kai´s doing, if you compare Kai with Butch´s current behavior you´d see it does make sense" said Brick making me think about that
"I see the seriousness of your problem though you know I won´t cry or whatever either" said Brick as he leaned against the lockers
"I told you, I don´t care about that, I just didn´t want him to joke about it okay? " I said slightly annoyed
"Though well, it is confusing since he does the same whether he cares or couldn´t give a fuck about it" said Brick giving it little thought
"See? You can´t blame me then"
"But, after spending a fair amount of time with him I can fairly tell what stuff he does care of and what stuff he couldn´t give a shit of and Boomer, this is a ´´Does care´´ just to let you know" said Brick as he looked straight at me
"How do you know that? "
"Easy, besides stating he understood you in a serious tone, Kai didn´t talk to us and instead left right away, don´t bother with him seriously, it´s not worth it" said Brick
"I really wonder how you notice stuff like that" I said intrigued
"I don´t know, I guess that just comes from being me" Brick said shrugging, oh wow, how odd for him to be so arrogant huh…
"Aside of that, I do think your nightmare means something… I don´t know though it sounds like there´s something you are not noticing, something you are not seeing clearly judging from the poor vision you had of the boy you mentioned… something you should be trying to realize which is crucial but you are not even listening judging from the fact you were being spoken to but he kept silence and the cigarette might mean something dangerous is about to take place" said Brick leaving me speechless
"That is…" I murmured not being able to make a sentence since he spoke again
"Something else that occurs to me is the fact you couldn´t move, it may mean that whatever is about to happen is something you´ll be able to see but you won´t be able to interfere with and well the boy which was burned and beaten might be a sign that it won´t end good" said Brick as he looked at me
"Is that so… how do you know all that? " I asked curios
"I´m just assuming things, it doesn´t mean that what I just said is completely true" said Brick as he approached the door "So try and get over it, nothing good will come out of worrying" he said then turning into Ressee, he may be right though it doesn´t matter how much I try to ignore this I just can´t…
"Come on Boomer, you know your brothers will help you in any way they can if something were to happen" said Ressee beaming at me
"Brick and you are surely different I wonder how you two get along" I said to Ressee
"Oh? Brick is not that hard to get along with not as you may think, he is a nice guy deep within and I know he´s concerned for what you-ouch! " said Ressee while briefly wincing "Haha I think I just got mentally punched if that even makes sense" He said while smiling at me once more then motioning me to go to the hallway for what I switched to Haru in the way before anyone else could see me, classes went by really fast, I had been put in Kai´s classroom, well Haru of course… I wonder where Ressee´s classroom is he just disappeared suddenly after accompanying me to Haru´s classroom though well, Haru is not really a student here, he only has been given permission to watch the classes since he is considering moving to Townsville because of Kai and Ressee that live here and open his own flower shop however I might be the one having to be in charge of it since I can feel there´s not much time left before we fuse and so he disappears… I don´t know I just don´t feel is fair for Haru to disappear just so I can take over his body, not even if he says he doesn´t mind giving me it, I don´t really know what I would do if he died, I don´t want to think about it, I don´t want that day to come, I´ve been getting along with him for months now, him disappearing would be like a friend passing away and well that is what´s going to be… now that I think so, what would Butch and Brick think about Ressee and Kai passing away to take over their bodies?
"Psst" I heard someone utter though Haru did not turn to see
"…Psst! You deaf! " said a little louder making Haru turn to see Kai
"Butch asked me to tell you to stop thinking about that bullshit already or he would clear your place from every drug in it" said Kai suppressing a snicker, now I knew he was joking and well it did make me feel a bit better, Kai just has this special way to say the same Butch says but without sounding serious I don´t know, besides making me think about Haru´s relation to drugs… he must have said that before since Haru takes a lot of medicines…
Haru just smiled at him in response for what Kai went back to ignore the class by looking through the window, to think he will disappear soon as well is just…
"It´s better to put on a brave face to whatever seems troubling" murmured Kai as he looked at Haru sideways, it was clear he was speaking to me since he said it so low I could only listen unlike Haru, so Kai was the one who kept repeating that phrase… well I guess that had to be expected.
After school we went on direction of Ressee´s house, the other place we stayed in if it wasn´t Haru´s in Newsville, throughout the day the uneasiness kept fading since nothing out of the extraordinary happened until the clouds covered the sky darkening it enough as to make it seem it would obviously rain at any moment
"I wonder if the sky is worried as well" said Haru as he stopped walking and stared at the now gray sky
"Are you still going on with that? You should try and ease his concern by showing him everything is fine" said Ressee while smiling
"Boomer is not the only one distressed about this and I´m sure it´s because of me that he is being overly concerned" said Haru making both Kai and Ressee look at him puzzled
"Because of you? How does that work? " asked Kai
"I can feel something is off… I´ve affected Boomer´s behavior with my emotions several times before, just like I do whenever I pass a boost of evil energy enhancing his powers temporally, I keep affecting him negatively" said Haru while sighing
"Dude, don´t worry, it´s not just you, Boomer has his own stuff to worry for" said Kai "If what you said is true then try and ease him by getting rid of that uneasiness that troubles you" said Kai
"I guess so" said Haru still looking at the sky
"Hmm…" murmured Ressee while looking around "How about that? " he said pointing to an ice cream shop making me switch with Haru just after setting my sight on the shop
"You really go crazy for ice cream don´t you" said Ressee
"Yeah, to think this is what makes you happy" said Kai chuckling as I ran over to the shop followed by them, it is true I forget about everything else when there´s ice cream nearby
"Well, everyone has that something they are adore like cake in my case" said Ressee
"I kind of like cookies better, Misaki is able to bake such delicious ones, I wonder how he pulls that off, you won´t be satisfied for just a few and will always want more" said Kai
"That reminded me of my sister Mikie, she is learning how to bake cakes from mom, little siblings are quite something, aren´t they? " said Ressee while smiling
"They sure are" said Kai nodding happily in agreement at what Ressee had just said, after getting our ice creams we went back outside and resumed our way to Ressee´s house, they were ranting about Misaki and Mikie their younger siblings, it had been a while I had heard about them and it was kind of funny how they spoke of their siblings as if they were little pranksters yet it was obvious they loved them anyways, I joined the conversation adding some stuff about Brick and Butch that made both Ressee and Kai burst in uncontrollable laughter after I had finished telling the story, it felt so weird but nice to talk to these two instead of Brick and Butch once in a while, too bad they will be gone soon and I won´t see them again…
"Ah? Raindrops?" asked Ressee as he stretched an arm up to the sky trying to see if he was right
"Well, it was a given that it would rain sooner or later alright" said Kai also looking upwards then looking at the ground slowly filled with dark spots until I started to rain for real and we made a dash to wherever had a ceiling to take cover from the downpour and so after a while of running and eventually ending soaked, we reached a game center where we finally took a break from the running
"Oh wow seems we are drenched" said Ressee as he kept panting for air "I don´t really mind though" said smiling and chuckling
"What´s so funny?" I asked curios
"Haha well you two look seriously funny soaked like that" said Ressee while smiling in a relaxed yet cheerful way at us
"Ahhh, well that run under the rain wasn´t that bad, it was refreshing since it was clearly hot before the downpour though my clothes are wet as well as my hair" said Kai as he took off his hair band letting his hair down then squeezing it wringing the water from it or well some of it since it still looked sopping wet
"Haha you sure look different with your hair down and drenched" said Ressee laughing at Kai while I kept staring at the sky in wonder
"Boomer? Are you alright? " I heard Ressee say as he stepped aside of me
"Well, I think so… this day has been the same as other normal days but there´s just that persistent feeling of apprehension unwilling to leave"
"Come on Boomer, it´s fine, don´t dwell on it" said Ressee offering me one of his carefree smiles
"Yeah dude, don´t dwell on it better do something about it" said Kai standing on the opposite side
"Like what? " I asked willing to listen to a helpful idea
"I don´t know, what about not thinking about it that much? " asked Kai looking at me while grinning
"Really…" I said looking at him disappointed on his suggestion, I know thinking so such about it does nothing but I can´t help but think there is something that will happen in-
"Oh crap, what the heck is that? " asked Kai looking shocked at the same thing that caught my attention
"Looks like a huge one-eyed floating creature above the opposite side of the city" said Ressee looking intently at it
"Shall we go investigate? Though that is a monster so I don´t think of a reason to go and meddle into the girls territory" I said looking thoughtfully at the monster
"Are you kidding bro? I punch wherever and whenever I feel like it" said Butch clenching his fist looking eager for battle "Doesn´t matter if the flowerpuff are around, I haven´t had any action lately and I´m so fed up of waiting for some shit to happen so that you expect me to overlook this chance"
"Well, I guess it doesn´t really matter, for the looks of that thing, it´s possible those girls will not last long" said Brick
"Well then, let´s take care of that giant shit this once, I don´t care if we end helping those girls, I want to beat the crap out of something like that" said Butch sounding hungry for battle
"Well yeah" said Brick looking at the monster warily "But you are to follow whatever I say if it´s necessary you hear? That monster doesn´t appear to be the normal kind that appear in this area"
"Yeah, right, whatever…" said Butch rolling his eyes
"Butch, you are to do as I say, understand? " said Brick glaring at Butch, he meant business when he shot those glares…
"Yeah bro, but anyway…" said Butch walking out the game center then hovering into the air "See ya later, that monster is so yelling for me to beat the shit out of it!" yelled Butch as he propelled to the monster´s direction
"Retard" muttered Brick sighing irritated while he gave chase
Not the normal kind? Does it mean that thing could be what I was so uneasy about?