As he was walking through the park, Eridan realized how gloomy everything seemed. There was no one occupying the park except a few others passing by and himself. It had been raining for the past week and everything was wet. But water never bothered Eridan. As a matter of fact he missed the ocean sometimes. He missed his home.
The rain began to grow stronger and he noticed that the other occupants of the park began to scurry away to shield themselves. Eridan lifted his head to the sky and let the constant drops of washed over his face. It was quite relaxing for him. This was probably the most relaxed he's ever been.
When he opened his eyes, he looked down the path to see that Gamzee, Tavros, Karkat, and John were walking up talking and not even caring about the rain.
Crap,crap,crap,crap,crap,crap,crap. Eridan began to panic. This was not suppose to happen! He didn't want to see anyone he knew!
"Crapcrapcrapcrap!" Eridan hid behind the nearest tree. But of course, it didn't work.
A hand grabbed him from the back of his jacket and pulled him into sight. There before him stood Gamzee with Karkat coming behind him. Eridan's breath quickened rapidly as they shared eye contact. Nonononononono!
"Well lookie what we motherfuckin have here. Lil' Eribro." Gamzee brung Eridan closer. "What's up ya little motherfucker." Eridan couldn't find any words to say. His terror of the slightly lower blood troll took over his entire body.
Gamzee shook him hard. "Not gonna answer? That takes a real motherfucker with BALLS not to answer me!"
"Jegus fucking christ Gamzee! You're wasting your fucking time on this shitwad." Karkat walked up and glared at the poor shaking sea dweller. Eridan looked from Karkat to Gamzee and back again. He felt as if his chest begin to tightly badly.
"Need help unscrewin your head motherfucker?" Gamzee cackled and pushed Eridan to the wet ground. He landed with a loud thud and had gravel stuck in his arms over cuts already there, violet blood silently staining the sleeves of his shirt.
"Guys stop it!" John called out. Both Gamzee and Karkat didn't listen. Karkat was going on about how much Eridan was useless with Gamzee digging his heel into the seadweller's side, with the occasional kick to the ribs. John ran in between the two and pushed them away from the bleeding seadweller.
"Stop it! You're hurting him!" He yelled.
"Oh come the fuck on John, it wouldn't even be important." Karkat rolled his eyes.
"If we...uh, stay much longer, we'll...uh, miss our movie." Tavros chimed in. Gamzee walked over to where Tavros was in his wheelchair and hugged him from behind.
"You're all up and right Tavrbo. We'll miss the motherfucking movie if we fuck up Eribro too long. Let's go!" He then began to wheel Tavros an himself happily away. Karkat pulling at John's arm.
"C'mon fuckass. The clown is right for once." John pulled away.
"I'll catch up with you guys!" he said. Karkat eyed his matesprit than glared at Eridan who was still shaking on the ground.
"Fine." He said and ran to go catch up.
John held out a hand to Eridan. He moved away from him, scared that John would hurt him too. Eridan's breathing had gotten quicker in short gasps of air.
"I won't hurt you Eridan. I promise I won't. Swear on my life."John said slowly and with a smile.
Eridan hesitated then let the human pick him up from the ground.
"Now isn't that better?" John beamed. Eridan mumbled an incoherent thank you and shifted on his feet.
"Sorry about that back there. I really don't have any excuses for why they were doing that." John sighed. "You're not hurt to bad are you?" Eridan shook his head.
"You sure?"
"Y-yeah I am."
"If you say so. Well if you need to something, just text me!"
"O-oh ok. T-thanks."
"No problem! I gotta go now before Karkat blows a gasket. See ya later Eridan!" The boy waved and ran down the path where his matesprit once was before.
After John left, Eridan stayed a little longer staring into nothing before trudging down the path with his hand holding his side.
The rain had turned into had downpour, and the water was starting to completely soak through his clothes. Eridan began to walk faster as thunder gurgled in the sky. It wasn't an easy task since he found it hard to breathe due to the recent attack.
When he looked up again, lighting was shooting across the sky.
"Dammit." Eridan stopped and coughed violently. He looked at his hand to see blood splatter against the pale grey skin. He frowned at made an attempt to keep moving but tripped on something and fell to the cold wet ground.
Eridan tried to get up but couldn't. His head was pounding and his vision began to blurry. The last thing he remembered was something approaching him and stopping right in front.