=The Beat Drop=
A few days, specifically three days later after Kthulhu's first match, he is now at Level 9, wearing Red-Check Shirt, a Safari Hat, and a pair of Black Seahorses, and occasionally joins his new friends, Verique and Yeran in Turf War matches, but still keeps an impressive solo record. He still acts the same; quiet, chill, collected, and somewhat deadpanned. He now works in Ammo Knights as a part timer for living in its basement.
After he got the Splat Roller, his reputation somehow rises a little for his skilful plays with it, as he swings it in more than creative and deceiving ways. This also happens right after he bought and used the Blaster, as he landed almost every shot directly at his opponents, making him a terror in the battlefield.
With this rise of popularity, however, Kthulhu is pretty much uncomfortable after the popularity rise. Everythime he is in the plaze, tons of squids approaches him either to get his autograph, invite him in turf war matches, or to just say how they like his strange playstyle. He dislikes this kind of attention he got, but inside, he appreciates the support and admiration he was given, he just doesn't show it in his deadpanned expression.
In this specific moment, we will see how Kthulhu's normal day, became something he didn't expect.
CRAANG! CRAA- The alarm clock was immediately smashed by Kthulhu's fist. This is the third time this week he smashed his own clock. He will be broke in a few days for paying for new clocks…
Kthulhu woke up in the basement of the Ammo Knights, he then goes to his daily routine; brush his teeth, get dress, and get out of the basement.
As he got out of the basement, he is greeted by his horseshoe crab guardian, Sheldon, "Good Mornin', Kthulhu!"
Morning, He signed back.
"Breakfast is ready, Kthulhu, made by none other than Crusty Sean himself!"
Again, huh? He and Sheldon always eat Crusty Sean's food, as far as he knew, Sheldon is not much of a cook.
"What else could it be?"
The two proceed on eating their morning breakfast; Kthulhu's eating Scwaffle, and Sheldon's eating Seanwich. As always, Sean's cooking is great.
"Hey, Kthulhu," Sheldon called, "Sorry to ask, but, how long have you not seen your sister?"
He froze at the name. Sister… He then pulls out his Index and Middle Finger, indicating he hasn't seen her in two years.
"Two years, eh?" Sheldon then looked at Kthulhu sadly, but his expression lightens up, and continued, "I apologize for telling you sooner, but would you believe me your sister is here in Inkopolis?"
He then glanced up at Sheldon, Where? He signed, his hands are so quick that Sheldon can't tell what he is trying to say, even if he doesn't know much about Inkling Sign Language.
"You mean 'where is she', correct?" Kthulhu nodded quickly, "Well, she is not here at the moment, as she is visiting your mother. When she will return, I have no idea, but you will have to wait and find out. I'll tell if she did."
Kthulhu considers himself lucky, as he is not ready to face her sister. He continues to eat his Scwaffle until it's gone down to his stomach. He thanks Sheldon for the food and information about his sister, then grabs his Roller, and heads out of the Ammo Knights and to the Tower where he goes into matches.
Let's just say, he did not win as many matches as he wanted and planned to win.
He only won thrice, and it is overwhelmed by five losses, thanks to crappy teammates who don't know how to shoot, use proper gear, not inking turf, and chargers who has god-awful aim.
He somehow kept his cool. He looked at his watch; it was 11:29AM. He decided to go for another match despite the losing streaking he is getting right now, before he goes for a break and go somewhere to eat.
He is in the Blue Team, and their opposing team's color is Orange. A typical color clash, he thought. His team consists of a Charger, two Shooters, and himself, the Roller. The match is about to begin in a few minutes, so the other Inklings decided to talk to each other before it begins. Meanwhile, he leans his back at the wall, waiting for the match to start.
A moment after he did, he is approached by an Inkling that looks like an adult, his an inch taller than Kthulhu, has spiky hair, tan complexion, and he is on his team. He is the other shooter, carrying a Custom Splattershot Jr. with him, wears Retro Gamer Jacket, Gold Hi-horses and Studio Headphones.
"'Sup, dude, having a salty mornin'?" the adult-looking Inkling asked, "The now-well-known Kthulhu seems to be droppin' down from the ranks."
He looked at him. He simply nodded. He is not really having a great time thanks to that.
"I figured. My name's Anthur, DJ here from the suburbs of Inkopolis. People call me DJ Anth4." He held out his fist to Kthulhu, inviting him in a fist bump.
He looked at it in a few moments, and bumps his own to Anthur's.
"It's nice to finally meet you, Kthulhu," Anthur said, "I've heard a lot of good things about you, lately, after you got yourself known here in Inkopolis. Your solo record sure is promising, and I hope that I can see you in action personally."
He nodded in acknowledgement.
"So, you're mute. Heh, I get that, I know someone who has the same conditions as yours. You can communicate with me with sign language, if you know how to sign."
I do He immediately signed.
"Then we will get along pretty well," He smiled, scratching his head, before he can continue to speak, Judd is heard reminding the players to be prepared in thirty seconds. He sighed, "'aight, looks like the match's startin'. Get yourself ready, and we shall see how you roll with that Roller." He then gets back in line, preparing for battle.
Thirty seconds passed, the two teams have been teleported away, teleported to Port Mackarel.
Thirty seconds has passed during the game, the Blue team looks like they are dominating. They have the center of the map under their control already, and the Orange team begins to go on defensive. The Blue team surprisingly struggled going on offensive, thanks to an Inkling Girl that equipped an E-Liter that seems to be taking the lead on the defensive position, yet they also struggle on going offensive thanks to the opposing team's relentless assault. This lasts for at least a minute.
The Blue Team's meets up, while the charger throws ton of bombs at the enemy to keep them at bay.
"Alright," Anthur said in a stoic and serious voice, "This won't get both teams anywhere at this rate. You, with the Dual Squelcher, you and the charger boy there must keep them at bay as long as possible, me and Kthulhu here will sneak up on the other team and take one or two of them out for the two of you to finish off the last three or two. I'll be signalling 'Booyah' if we succeed, if you see it, proceed to attack. This plan will be in effect now!"
The Squelcher Inkling nodded, as she goes to the charger to help keep the other team still in their positions.
"Let's do this, Kthulhu," he then looks at Kthulhu, "I wanna see how stealthy you are."
Kthulhu nodded, as he followed, as they go to the other side of the crate. As they are on the way behind the enemy lines, they meet up with two other of the opposing team mates. The one from the left carries a bamboozler, wears an Aloha Shirt, a Headband, and Red Sea-Slugs. While on the right wears a black bandanna with the skeleton jaw as the design, Black Leather Jacket, and Punk White Boots, that also carries a Jet Squelcher.
"Apparently they have the same idea," Anthur remarked, "And screw me sideways, they are also my big 'fans'."
"HEY! It's the DJ Idiot is here with the new squid!" the one from the left, in Kthulhu's point of view, yelled to his comrade, "We have a lucky catch here! Let's beat the bitch!"
Yeah, big fans Kthulhu signed sarcastically.
The one from the right threw a burst bomb at them. Kthulhu and Anthur backed away from the explosion radius, and charges forward, with Kthulhu inking the path for them. The one that yelled started charging up his Bamboozler. It took only a millisecond for it to charge, and proceeds shooting the charger, directly at Kthulhu. His left hand have let the roller go and leaned to the right, dodging the charger shot that also almost hit Anthur, while keeping his momentum and gets his left hand grip on the roller again. This surprised Anthur, and the two Inklings, but recovered quickly.
The Squelcher Inkling then starts firing shots at the two with the Bamboozler. He got some hits on him till the point that he can get splatted in one more hit of a fully charged bamboozler shot, or a burst bomb. The Bamboozler saw this opportunity, and he took it by directing the next shot at Kthulhu, who, as expected, dodged, while his left hand is not holding the roller, and instead hits Anthur in the foot, staggering him and loses his momentum.
The Squelcher boy then threw a burst bomb to finish the two.
Kthulhu quickly notices it as soon as it left his hand. What they don't know, is that he can lift his current roller with one hand without difficulty and with extreme force. He then, uses great force to swing the roller upwards, hitting the Burst Bomb by end of the roller, home running the Burst Bomb to space. He continues his charge with the surprised Anthur. He then throws a suction bomb behind them, making them back for it.
The second they turn, Kthulhu is already airborne; roller is raised, ready to roll. Kthulhu then swings his roller down at the Bamboozler, hitting his head first, splatting him in one-shot. The Squelcher boy is about to shoot him, but a Disruptor hits the Squelcher boy in the head, debuffing him entirely. Anthur then aims his Splattershot Jr. at the inkling, before firing it, though; he flashed his signature toothy grin, showing off his long left fang. The Squelcher got splatted.
"You are full of surprises, Kthulhu, I'll give you that," He looked at him, eyes filled with awe. Kthulhu, looked over his shoulder to see him, before looking away, pulling out a thumbs up. The two then proceeds to the end of the container in their squid forms.
"The two dunces were splatted?! For the love of-" The Inkling girl wearing Dark Urban Vest, Black Seahorses, and Camping Hat that has the E-Liter yelled, but got cut off, after she saw the two inklings she does not want to see. Anthur, then shouted, 'Booyah', as he throws the Disruptor at the E-Liter Inkling. She immediately backed off, and also barely dodged a charger shot from the Blue Team. As she desperately threw a Burst Bomb at her position and shoots out a quick shot behind her, and attempted to swim away in her squid form.
Kthulhu then threw a suction bomb ahead of her, and she briefly turned to human, shoots another quick shot to the side, and swam there, avoiding the Suction Bomb. The Charger boy in the Blue Team has arrived and started charging his shot to shoot at the E-Liter Inkling. Unfortunately, a teammate of hers has arrived as well via Super Jump, which has a Spatling, and deploys a splash wall behind her, preventing any shots to be landed behind it. He then proceeds on providing suppressive fire with his Splatling, while the E-Liter girl also starts firing shots as she retreats, splatting the Blue Team's charger in the process.
Kthulhu, then flings his Splat Roller once more, getting his special up once again. He then goes in front of the splash wall in a safe distance, whilst dodging shots from the splatlings and the E-Liter. He gets his Killer Wail up and deployed it down directly at them. The two opposing inklings quickly tried to escape out of the way of the Killer Wail attack.
A second later after he deployed the Killer Wail, it lets out an ear deafening screech in the direction its facing. They dodged it, but somehow he got two splats with it. He might've surprisingly hit the two inklings they have encountered earlier. Damn, what luck he got…
The two already escaped the area. He then proceeds to cover the area ink with the other two shooters.
"Nice job, there, Kthulhu," Anthur commented, as he smirked, with his signature long left fang shown, "You truly are full of surprises."
You too, an-tour He signed.
He chuckled after seeing what his hands gestured, "Alright, let's dominate this game."
Blue Team – 74.2
Orange Team – 17.5
The Blue Team cheered for their crushing victory, Kthulhu silently cheered for the Blue Team while keeping a neutral expression, satisfied in their victory. While on the other team, the E-Liter is scolding them, specifically the Squelcher and the Bamboozler, for their incompetence. The Blue Team got their reward from Judd.
As Anthur and Kthulhu waved goodbye to the two other of their team, they confront the Squelcher Boy and the Bamboozler, with glares formed in their eyes.
"You guys again, eh?" Anthur said to the two Inklings that are glaring at him, "What now, autographs?"
"There you go again, stealing the fucking spotlight once again!" The Bamboozler yelled at Anthur angrily, "You are becoming too reliant to this bitch Kthulhu here, and that is also why you guys win, you fuckin' bitches RELIED on HIM!"
Kthulhu shook his head. Déjà vu, he thought, reminding what Yeran had said to him afew days earlier.
"Salty? You would do the same anyway; except, you will make him do all the dirty work," Anthur playfully retorted as his signature fang showed up, "Especially how incompetent you really are, Yudius, can't aim for crap."
"Heh, coming from the worse sniper in history," Yudius retorted back, "You have already taken many shit away from me, thanks to you! Me and Terof are now teamless, FUCKIN' AGAIN! THANKS TO YOU!" He then glares at Kthulhu, who still keeps a neutral expression. "YOU! KTHULHU!"
Kthulhu then stared at him deadpanned.
"I challenge YOU to a one-v-three battle!"
Anthur stared at Kthulhu, anxiety plastered on his face. Kthulhu keeps his neutral expression, while contemplating on the challenge.
"You can't turn this challenge, Kthulhu! You'll be the one who will decide this wanker's and your own fate!" Yudius threatened, "Deny, and we'll throw all of you out of the city broken."
Kthulhu then stares at Anthur, who seemed to be in disbelief. He then stares back at Yudius, his espression is smug and mad. He then went to deep thought, contemplating. He doesn't have any way out of this predicament.
He has no other choice anyway, so he just simply nodded about that duel.
"Great, tomorrow morning, 9:00AM Sharp." Yudius, then motioned Terof to follow him as he walk away.
As they move out of earshot and sight, Anthur then shot an apologetic look at Kthulhu, feeling guilty, "I'm sorry I dragged you in my own mess. They have been blaming their faults at me since the beginning of my career as a DJ, probably because I always dominate them in every match."
Don't worry about it, he signed, I've been through worse than this. I'll handle this
"Hope you are right. Let me warn you, they will always play dirty, and they will be aggressive to any opponent, especially when they are targeting a lone player, even if it's outside or inside turf wars."
He simply nodded in acknowledgement. He has dealt with those kinds of guys before; he can take care of himself.
"Aside the events that happened earlier, I am impressed with your performance in that match, you are one sack full of surprises. You are real agile, dodging those bamboozler shots like a boss, and you have swung that roller upwards with only one hand and hit that homerun perfectly. That's not how usually Level 9 players play; you act like a high ranking player. Are you a smurf?"
Kthulhu gave him a quizzical look, and shook his head.
"Huh, thought you would deny, but anyway, how about we grab something to eat, my treat. You in?"
Kthulhu nodded, followed up with his stomach growling in agreement.
He chuckled lightly, "Your stomach seems to agree, eh? Alright, let's go get some grub."
And there, the two went off to find lunch, enjoying their times as new friends.
A/N - New story is up! Splatoon - Duel!
This will not gonna be a one-shot story like my first Splatoon Fic, this will be a six-chapter story (i've update this too many times lol), with a bonus chapter. This will be cross-posted to other websites.