Waking up after a few hours, Eridan groaned and looked around his room. He couldn't remember quite when he had fallen asleep but he did know that the clock on his desk was flashing a time he couldn't quite believe. It was 4 am; he slept through the rest of the evening. He looked to what had woken him originally, the buzzing of his phone again. Sliding it open, his trollian had messages from 3 trolls. Since when was he even popular enough to get more than just Feferi to talk to him? He clicked on one and it was just one Feferi sent after he left with just a random Glub.

carcinoGeneticist [CG] began trolling caligulasAquarium [CA]

CG: HEY

CG: FISHBREATH ANSWER!

CG: ITS NOT EVEN 6 YET, YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY BE ASLEEP.

CG: OKAY FUCKER, SINCE YOU WON'T FUCKING ANSWER ME, WE'RE ALL GETTING TOGETHER AT FEFERI'S PLACE FOR SOME SORT OF GATHERING OR THING WITH EVERYONE. APPARENTLY SOME SORT OF PARTY WE ALL SHOULD HAVE HAD FOREVER AGO BUT WHO GIVES A DAMN. WE'RE ALL BEING DRAGGED TO GO.

CG: I BETTER FUCKING SEE YOU THERE FUCKFACE, I DON'T WANT TO BE THERE EITHER.

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Eridan just kinda looked at the messages from the mutant blood a moment before shrugging. There wasn't a time set in there, so maybe he could just get away with not knowing when. That was before he opened the last message box.

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TA: hey. ED.

TA: you there?

TA: gue22 KK told you about the party, riight?

TA: He keep2 forgettiing to tell the tiime.

TA: Be there by noon.

TA: FF 2aiid to be there or 2he'd 2pear you like a fii2h.

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Eridan groaned. So much for that attempt, stupid pissblood. Although, he couldn't help but feel a slight swell in his chest, he didn't think of it till no but he was sort of glad he had to go now. Looking around his room, he looked at his clock again and decided he slept far long enough so he got up and remade his bed before stripping his shirt off. Undoing his pants, Eridan slipped them off along with the rest of his clothes before setting them in the hamper to be washed later. Removing his glasses, he felt his way into the bathroom before turning on the hot water and snagging a towel from the cabinet. After the water was warm enough to his liking, he stepped in, glad to finally be in the water for a moment and clean.

With hands shoved into his hoodie pockets, Eridan sat slouched on the couch in the entertainment block of his hive, his eyes glancing to the clock a moment before sighing. It was 10 am now, but he didn't know what to do to pass his time. His hive was rather boring, he wasn't too into games and his camera needed to be repaired before he could go back into the photographing he got into. Grabbing his portable husktop, flipping it open and scrolling through to his favorite fanfiction site, Eridan decided to waist some time with the few he followed. There had been an update and he was fangirling inside for it. It was long, along with slight stops where the character had flashbacks that were almost as long as the normal story.

Before Eridan even noticed, he just finished the story and it was already 11. He got up, shut off the husktop and closed it before returning back to its home and dusting off. Eridan grabbed his phone and his headphones before he left the house and began to walk to Feferi's place. His hands were shoved in his pockets as he walked, his headphones in and blaring some sort of techno music that John the human had gotten him into. Skrillex it was called? Or something along those lines, Eridan didn't care, the beats and different sounds calmed him and made him relax more than anything else weirdly enough. The walk was short before he arrived at another hive, the fuchsia hive, or rather castle, was larger than Eridans own estate but that was more so because Feferi was queen now. He looked to his phone, having been early by about 20 minutes. As he walked into the hive, a few lowbloods were there, those he's never seen or met before but they seemed friendly enough. There was a jade blood, the blood color only known since the young male was bleeding from his arm and dabbing at the wound slightly, the other jade blood he knew right away however, as Kanaya Maryam.

"Hey. Uh, Kanaya right? W-who's this?" Eridan asked a bit curiously, since it was odd to see other trolls now that weren't from the game and he wondered a moment if Kanaya had actually gotten the mother grub to hatch and renew the trolls population. Kanaya looked up at Eridan and her eyes went a bit wide before her face flushed.

"Oh. Hello Eridan. It's A Pleasure To See You Again. This, However, Is Someone That Equius and Horuss Helped Me And Jade…Well….Create. We Managed To Get The Genes Correct Along With The Correct Functions Of A More Robotic But Natural Body." Kanaya spoke, the way her voice went has never changed and Eridan couldn't help but smile at it. He was however a bit shocked by her words and he nodded, like he understood so he looked back to the boy, he didn't seem much older than 8 sweeps old, but he couldn't be, so when Kanaya seen the confusion on his face, she continued.

"We Originally Wanted To Make Them Adults Like Us, But Then We Thought About It And After A Bit More Tweaking And The Correct Measurements Along With More Genetic Work, We Managed To Create So That Way These New Additions Would Be Able To Grow, However, Only When They Wish. He's Really Only A Sweep Old, However He Wanted To Be Older But Younger Than Us And He Aged Himself To This Age, About 7 And A Half Sweeps Now Is His Estimated Age." Kanaya went on and Eridan nodded again before he yawned and smiled to her, still barely waking up.

"W-well, that's kind of a good thing then, right? I mean, it's kind of cool though since he can bleed and all." Eridan replied slightly and Kanaya just smiled and nodded in return. The young male troll looked up at Eridan and there was one difference to tell this was not like a normal troll, the young creations eyes were not like his fellow jade bloods soft jade colored eyes, his eyes were steel silver. The hairs on Eridans arms rose slightly and he nodded to them both, before he walked ahead and noticing there were a few other like him, it seemed one with each of the other trolls and getting explained to everyone before one voice rang clear to the left.

"HEY FISHBREATH YOU ACTUALLY CAME. I SEEN YOU TALKING TO KANAYA I TAKE IT YOU FINALLY FUCKING REALIZED WHAT THIS REALLY IS HUH? THIS ISNT JUST A PARTY, THERES MUCH WE NEED TO FIND OUT ABOUT ALL THESE NEW TROLLS, AND A RESPONSIBILITY WE ALL HAVE TO TAKE PART IN. GO FIND SOLLUX AND FEFERI, THERES SOMETHING BOTH OF THEM NEED TO EXPLAIN TO YOU, THEY WOULDN'T TELL ME IN FULL." Karkat said, his voice still rose like he was shouting all the time and it wasn't like Eridan wasn't used to it by now, it's just been a long time since he last heard it. With a slight groan, Eridan made his way over to his lost love and someone he used to hate, his headphones now hanging loosely around his neck.