Nightfall hung over the squids of Inkopolis as they all began going home after a day of battling. After about an hour, the only two squids left were Callie and Marie.
"...and then he kissed me!" Callie excitedly exclaimed. Marie giggled.
"One more thing Marie," Callie said to Marie just as they were packing up, "how did you beat me at those turf wars? You wear the same gear every time you battle, but I know you can't swim THAT fast!" Marie smirked.
"I meant this guy who can reroll abilities. Quick super jump isn't that good for a charger. Swim speed up however."
"WHO!" Callie yelled. "Is this guy cute? Did he kiss you? Do you like him?" Marie shook her head.
"He's a sea urchin." Marie told her. Callie made a weird face.
"Sea urchin? Why would you kiss a sea urchin?" Callie asked. "Is he that hot and sexy?"
"NO!" Marie yelled back.
"Um, excuse me girls, we're closing up in a bit." A jellyfish told them, poking his head through the door. They both smiled and nodded.
"Anyway, Inklings use him to reroll gear and order some too. They trade their super sea snails for rerollments on abilities." Marie told her. Callie stared, not ever hearing about this sea urchin. "What's his name?"
"Spyke."
"Ohh, he sounds pretty sexy!" Callie told her, thinking about what he might look like. Abs, muscles everywhere, and the most handsome look on his face. Drool dripped down her mouth as she dazed off.
"CALLIE!" Marie yelped at her, snapping her fingers. Callie jolted in her seat and began wiping up her drool. Marie rolled her eyes.
"Anyway, wanna go meet him?" Marie asked her. Callie bolted up from her seat and nodded furiously. "LET'S GO NOW!" Callie told her, yanking her up and racing out of the studio.
She ran to the middle of Inkopolis and stopped. "Uhhh, where is he?" Callie asked. Marie giggled and motioned her to follow.
"Hey Marie, do you smell blood?" Callie asked, sniffing the air. Marie sniffed to as they were going to the back alley. "Yeah. Where's it coming from?"
"There."
Callie pointed to a limped over sea urchin laying in a pile of blood bleeding from his belly. Marie gasped and ran over towards him. Callie followed.
"Is he okay?" Callie asked. Marie put her fingers on his wrist to check for the pulse. It was barely beating.
"C'mon! We need to take Spyke to the hospital!" Marie told Callie. Callie looked down at the nearly dead sea urchin. "THAT'S SPYKE!? I THOUGHT HE'D BE HANDSOME AND SUPER SEXY!"
"CALLIE!"
"Sorry. Anyway, the hospital is to far away! He would die by then! Take him to our house!" Callie told Marie. Marie looked down at Spyke and nodded. "Let's go!"
Callie lifted his legs and Marie lifted his arms and the two began jogging to their place.
"I'm sure we should've just called the ambulance or something." Callie told Marie.
"Whatever. It'll take too long for them to get here."
Spyke's eyes shot open as he became conscious again. He was in a king sized bed with a long white blood- stained bandage covering his belly. "Where am I? HELLO?" Spyke called out. He looked around the bed and saw a picture of the Squid Sisters as little squids.
Marie came rushing through the door with some water and sea cucumber salad. "CALLIE! HE'S AWAKE!" Marie placed the dish by Spyke. "Th-thanks love." Spyke told Marie and took a bite of salad before laying back down due to the pain in his stomach.
"You okay?" Marie asked, pushing her hand under him and helping him sit up. "F-fine love. Just a bit of pain, that's all." Spyke laid against the wall to reduce pressure off his stomach.
"Do you remember you did this to you?" Marie asked as Callie walked in, a huge piece of octo pie wedged into her jaw. Spyke thought back before he was attacked. No memories came of who he was attacked by.
"No love, I can't remember anything." Spyke told her, taking a sip of water. "All that I can remember is that a inkling approached me with the hood over their face and tentacles before I fell unconscious."
Marie sighed.
"So you're Spyke? I thought you'd be more muscular and sexy." Callie told Spyke. Spyke gave her his death stare.
"Well, I'll call the cops." Marie told everyone. She got up and walked downstairs.
"So, you reroll abilities?" Callie asked, pretending that she didn't just insult the sea urchin. "Can you reroll my clothes? Run speed up has no effect on rollers."
"No."
"WHAT? WHY NOT!" Callie complained.
"One super sea snail mate, or no deal." Spyke told her, holding his hand out. Callie sighed and reached into a sock drawer. She pulled out a super sea snail and shoved it to Spyke. He took the snail and rerolled her abilities. She got run speed up again.
"HEY! I wanted something different!" Callie yelled at the top of her lungs. Spyke smirked. "Sorry mate, but I randomly reroll them. I have no power of the rerollment."
Callie held up "the finger" and left, grabbing her super sea snail.
Marie was downstairs a still trying to dial 911.
"What's taking so long?" Callie asked.
"I can't get anyone's single! I tried everyone! Crusty Sean, Jelonzo, Annie, Sheldon, Gramps, NOBODY!" Marie yelled. She threw the phone on the table. "Maybe we should just go to the police and report an attempted murder."
Callie nodded. "Who's gonna stay with Spyke?"
"I'll do it. You go get the police while I stay with Spyke." Callie sighed and put on her jacket.
"See ya later!" Callie told to Marie and super jumped out the door.
"Uh, hey Marie?" Spyke asked. Marie laid next to him in bed as they were watching a movie. "Yeah Spyke?"
"Um, I need to go to the bathroom love." Spyke told her. Marie sighed. "It's that way, second room to the left."
"Um, I have a huge hole in my stomach, and it'll really hurt when I walk, soooo..."
Marie muttered a cuss word and helped Spyke to the bathroom. She waited next to him while he took a dunk (HA HAAA! IMAGINE SPYKE WITH A CONSTIPATED FACE! THAT JUST NOW CAME IN MY HEAD!) and helped him wash his hands.
"Hey Marie?" Spyke asked. "Why's it taking Callie so long to get back here?"
"The police are jellyfish mainly. Inklings can super jump while jellyfish need to ride police cars and helicopters."
"Oh. Thanks love."
NOW TO CALLIE AND THE POLICE!
"This is where you found the the nearly dead street urchin?" A jellyfish cop asked.
"SEA urchin. And yes." Callie answered him. She pointed to the dried blood on the ground. A jellyfish cop closely examined the dried bloodspot.
"From what I can tell, he's been laying there for an hour. Anymore time, he would've died." The cop pulled out a magnified glass.
"Wait, I found something!" The cop exclaimed. Callie and got closer to the bloodstain. "What?"
"Ink." He pulled out a small popsicle stick and scooped up the little portion of ink sitting in the stained concrete.
"C'mon, we'll test this back at the lab and maybe identify the the stabber." The jellyfish motioned Callie in the car and they drove off.
When they arrived, the cop immediately went to the lab and made Callie sit in the waiting room. Another inkling walks in covered in orange ink.
"LISTEN! MY CRAZY EX GIRLFRIEND IS TRYING TO SPLAT ME! YOU GOTTA HELP ME COP! SHE'LL FIND ME HERE!" The Inkling splurt out. The officer told him to wait next to Callie as he went to got get some reinforcements.
"OH! HEY CALLIE!" The Inkling said go Callie. She smiled. "CAN I GET AN AUTOGRAPH?" Callie nodded and signed a piece of paper for the inkling. The Inkling squealed than fainted.
"Callie, here please." The jellyfish cop told Callie. Callie walked over into the lab with the cop.
"I tested the ink, and it matches no body in Inkopolis." The cop told Callie. "BUT we found out something else. This is octopus ink."
Callie's heart sank hearing the word octopus. "Thank you officer! I need to go home now!" Callie told the cop and ran out the door. She super jumped 2 miles back home.
"MARIE!" Callie called from downstairs. Marie came out of the room and ran downstairs to greet Callie with Spyke limping behind.
"You're back!" Marie told Callie.
"YES! Anyway, I found out something! There was ink on the ground Spyke bled on and it turns out it's octopus ink!" Callie yelled at Marie. Marie gasped. "OCTOPUS INK!?"
"Yes! It must be an octopus that tried to kill Spyke!" Callie told Marie. Marie thought for a few seconds. "Why Spyke? Why not an inkling?"
Callie shrugged and raced upstairs. "C'mon! We're going to find out why!" Sounds of things being moved in a closet upstairs could be heard as Callie looked through it. She finally stopped and raced back downstairs and handed Marie a jacket and a hat.
"Cover up your tentacles! We're going to Octo Valley!" Callie told Marie.
Spyke finally made it downstairs. "What's going on?"