Ch.2

When Jade had found their campsite John had been slightly hopeful that someone else would also find them, and then they could all figure out how this happened and how to get back to where they were supposed to be, of course, knowing sburb, that could be anywhere.

That had been seven weeks ago, and there hadn't been any contact from anyone else from their session. John tried to contact Dave on pester chum, but that had been useless since day one, luckily it wasn't all bad. He had retained his god tier powers and often flew great distances to look for anyone else, but every time he had came back empty handed.

He probably shouldn't have gotten his hopes up right away, but he couldn't help it. He had to have something to believe in, right? He had been with Rose, Eridan, and Sollux since the beginning, he learned very quickly that both trolls didn't particularly like each other. Though he wasn't sure if it was because they were really rivals of some sort, or that was just troll nature to be spiteful.

He fondly remembered his conversations with Karkat, and how the angry troll had threatened to kill him, he described these conversations with Jade, but whenever she mentioned Karkat's name she often changed the subject or ran off.

Sollux had been remarkably funny, when John had started to talk with him, the four horned troll had a weird way of speaking. His lisp was unbelievingly obvious and his moods switched between sad, angry, and apologetic. Jade had told John that he was probably bipolar, but John believed in his gut that Sollux was just an amazing master of disguise, and a true jokester.

Which then lead to an unhealthy admiration of the troll. John couldn't remember the last time he was this obsessed with anything, probably when he had seen Ghost Rider for the first time.

Even with that he hadn't spoke to the troll that often, he was smart though from what he could tell, the troll tried using his psychic powers to control some bees in the surrounding area, but all he got was a hoard of them chasing after him.

Turns out Sollux was allergic to bee stings.

Jade and Rose had tended to his sting wounds and John had brought different plants to help with his predicament.

One of the plants had to be poisonous to troll skin, Sollux had a rash on his lower back and his face for a week, and constantly shouted that he was going to kill John for this, that was the most like Karkat he had ever seen from the troll.

The rash went away very slowly until one day Sollux had woken up and it was gone. John was certainly relieved and Jade, even Rose looked a little happier when Sollux's rash had dissapated. It was a scary thought to imagine if he had never gotten over it.

One time the troll had a headache and an earthquake soon followed, it took all Jade's soothing and John's funny jokes to fully calm him down to a more amicable state.

Eridan hadn't helped at all during that period.

He said "Let the troll die", which Jade thought was horrible, which was then bait for Eridan to say, "He deserves it", which then urged Jade to ask "Why?", then Eridan replied "Because he's stupid."

And then they fought.

The two of them fought a lot, but those other times they were just arguing, this time it was a full blown wrestling match, which Jade won.

But regardless of what happened between that time and now they were all still together.

John was flying around aimlessly, and was just about to head back to camp when something shiny caught his eye. Intrigued he floated down to get a closer look at the object in question.

He finally had landed when he had been close enough to distinctly see what the object was. He picked it up gingerly off the ground. His eyes widened when he finally could tell what it was.

A pair of crooked authentic Ben Stiller sunglasses.