Chapter 1
My Past
I walk in the dark alley of Inkopolis with my stomach growling to remind me of my unkeen hunger. I walk around to find something to stop this hunger of mine and my vision became blurry as the thought of food is the only thing in my mind. I wobble around and I notice two male inklings approaching me. I look at them as they felt disgust at my appearance of a kid walking in the dark alley but most of all, my Octarians heritage appearing in some of my hair.
"Disgusting." He spoke, disgust.
I remain focus on something very important that catch my interest and ignore their insult. We pass by as they look away from an innocent kid and I stop at my track. I turn around to see them gone as they took a turn in an alley and I slowly pull out a wallet from my right hand. I grin at their foolishness and underestimate me.
"idiots.." I mutter.
I felt secure of my survival for today as I need it to stop my hunger from becoming worst. I walk in the dark alley with a grin in my face and stumbling from wall to wall to find a place to eat with this stolen money. This is my childhood, my way of life until I reach to the point of using force and violence to get what I wanted as stealing, wasn't viable anymore.
Years pass by, I manage to adapt to a new style as use two blade and my curse ink to create a rather, strange combination. I sat in the dark alley once more as I grew up from the naïve child I was once. I look at the red ink dripping from my hidden blade and having this color, made me more of an outcast to society. The red color was a rare and extinct color for Inklings and Octarians alike; I wasn't so thrill to produce such odd color. I slowly get up as a female Inkling found me and I hide my blade beneath my sleeves.
"So, you are this Klaus everyone has being talking about." She said.
"…"
I remain silent as I look at her with a serious face and I knew what she came here to do. She sigh at my silent and took out a gun to aim at me, everyone that come after me only want a challenge. I narrow my eyes at that thing and i need to prepare myself for combat, every day, for the rest of my life.
"Lets go you freak!" She yells with excitement.
She pulls the trigger of her gun to shoot a orange goo at me but I expect such action and dodge it by side stepping away from that spot. I immediately notice she is new to combat and I took advantage of this as I dash forward. The girl flinch with fear at my bold move to approach her and began to shoot wildly in order to stop my attempt, it fails. I easily dodge her bullet and grab her neck while I rotate her behind her. I pull my red coated blade under her soft, warm, neck of hers and my color thirst for the kill. The color drips in her neck which causes her to feel a slight pain and she knew the risk of attempting this challenge.
"Don't be afraid.." I spoke uninterested.
"Please, let me go. I-I was only joking, you see! Hahahaha?" The Inkling laugh it off.
I remain unmoving from her words and didn't feel any empathy for her as she could have done the same to me. I slash her throat as her body explodes with the color red and covering the entire alley with it. I began to chuckle at such addiction to seeing the color red being spread around and it only get better from now on. I look at her body, a sign I left for other to leave me alone, and began to speak my thoughts to her.
"Don't come here anymore, tell the others the same or else they will face the same fate as you did." I mutter.
I left this dark alley as I hear mumbling from the pile of red and ignore such nonsense. My warning didn't work as more and more challenger dares to test my skills which cause more visitors to face me, frequently. I reach my teen ages, still living and still facing life hardship like an outcast. I believe I was the best around this place and I never once being defeated by anyone, until those two appear. I began to scout from place to place to indulge my hunger and then, two strange looking female Inklings appear to me. One has light purple beanie with a yellow star and sunglasses covering her eyes. I could see two large squid hair reaching her hips and wearing a purple hoodie while underneath the jacket is a light-purple shirt. She also has black short with purple stripe and wearing light-purple and light-purple sneakers.
"Ah, we finally found you." The purple Inkling said with excitement.
I turn my gaze at the other Inkling looking at me with a dull expression and she wears a medical mask. She wears a light-green hat and with a plain light-green shirt. I see black short with green stripes and a pair of sneakers with the color being orange with light-green.
"It took quite a while to find the boy that's half-inkling, half-Octarian." The green Inkling spoke with lack of enthusiasm.
I glare at them as they look rather funny to be wearing such strange getup and strangely familiar, but I discard such useless though as I turn to them. The female purple Inkling look happy and overjoy with her find and while the other green Inkling look quite the opposite of his this one, uninteresting and bored.
"Who are you? What do you want from me?" I ask.
"Lately, your odd presence has cause rumor to be spread around Inkopolis, with many people thinking you as a threat to squid kind because of your other heritage." The green Inkling reply with no emotions.
I look at my hair as the cause of such rumor and my red ink across the back alley of Inkopolis. I grip my right hand into a fist at the people thinking me as a threat since I didn't wanted that, only survival.
"You are wrong; it was the stupid people that came to me in the first place. I only want to survive in this unfair and useless word." I protest
They look at me with no hint of understanding and talking with them is useless to explain. I pull my right blade hiding within my sleeve as I point at them so they can feel regret of fighting, but they felt no regrets.
"Someone has send us to check up on you and-"
I figure as much, I cut her words as I ran after the purple Inkling and try to punch her with my blade sticking out. Unexpectedly, she manages to dodge my quick blade work and the other Inkling began to raise her weapon to me. I didn't take a second as I jump back and her aim is already with me and I didn't have much a choice but to block her shoot. A green bullet bombards me as I use my red blade to block or repel if such option is available. My eyes widen as my blade quickly turn green and I grunt as I pull it back in my sleeve.
"Very nice, you are indeed different from any Inkling we had seeing or encounter." The female green Inkling spoke.
I glare at her comment about my ability and while I pull my other hidden blade from my left sleeve. I aim my focus on her and ignoring the incompetent and I raise my blade in the air. Suddenly, I felt a strong force pushing my blade away and I look up to see my blade cover in purple ink. I turn to the other girl as she pulls a rifle and was already aiming at me as I look at her with surprise. I was defeated so easily and I fall into my knees with anger dwelling inside of me. I grit my teeth at the humiliation of my easy defeat and I stare at them.
"You have two options."
I look at the pink Inkling smile at the recommendation and my two paths available to me. She raises her right hand as she shows me one of my first paths and I remain silent to listen.
"You could join us for the fight against the Octarians and we are currently are having a bit of trouble with them due to..umm.." She hesitates to speak further. "Well, due to reasons." She said smiling.
I began to think on her proposal as my eyes dart around at such possibility and I remain defensive about it.
"And if I refuse?" I ask.
The green Inkling steps forward as she point her gun at me and probably having bad news about it.
"You will be treated as an Octarians and kick out of Inkopolis forever." She spoke coldly.
I didn't enjoy that last path since Octarian dislike me quite a lot and I have to respect this two. They manage to beat me and with that, they have my respect. I get up as I have my answer and I pull away my blade to talk properly.
"Fine, I will fight for the Inkling like you say." I reply.
"Great! You can st-"
"But, in one condition." I stop her.
The Inklings look confuse by my condition as they blink and the purple Inklings took her approach.
"That depends stranger." The purple Inklings spoke.
"My name is Klaus, and my conditions are as follow, I will fight for you two and you two only. I will only listen to your command and no one else." I explain.
"You are a weird guy." The purple Inkling giggles.
I sigh as i didn't felt anything of this outcome and it was better than being kick out of Inkopolis. I glance at them once more as I became curious at their getup and how it hides their face.
"Now you understand, from now on, you will be call Agent 0 outside of Inkopolis and during mission to ensure your identity."
My train of thought is interrupted by the green Inklings sudden talk and I became puzzle by this nickname calling until it hit me.
"I see, you are hiding your identity like I thought, why is that? Who are you two anyways?" I ask.
The Inklings turn each other as the purple Inkling nod with a smile and the green one shaking her head with disappointment. I became cautious at them as the purple one removes her sunglasses and the green one removes her hat and medical mask to reveal something. They made a weird pose together and moving in synchronization with their hands.
"We are Callie and Marie." They spoke together.
I remain silent at their names as they still did that strange pose and they began to realize my silent. I tilt my head at such odd name and I can only faintly remember that, but nothing came to mind.
"Who?"
End
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