Here it is... the moment you've all been waiting for! There's actually some fluff in this chapter if you wanna call it that. Sorta cute. Yes, I can feel your joy radiating off of you. By the way... I'm a little high from watching Jimmy Urine hump a monitor and listening to "Masturbates" like 10,000 times. But you didn't come to hear about my sick pleasure from seeing the hottest man alive get off with a musical device. You wanted the story. Go on and read, I guess.
Warning: This chapter is less violent than normal. If you don't like it... then why are you reading a romance fanfic? Geez... oh, and if anyone thinks Ivan's going to die this chapter he isn't. Sorry.
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He had been through many towns and cities, all of which had been far better than his point of origin, but still he harbored a nagging longing to return.
And that he just couldn't figure out.
"It was horrible there..." he murmured to himself as he walked. "Just a bunch of bastards!"
He sifted through crudely formed memories and blurry days gone by in what was left of his mind.
The only good he could recall was cherry brainfreezies and a few conversations whose subjects were lost to him.
There was something different about the places he had visited... he never found anything like the places where he lived.
No Taco Hell, no 24/7... they didn't sell Icy Ham, Cherry Doom, or Frosty Peanut flavored anything ANYWHERE.
What was special about HIS so-called home that it had these and no where else did?
He couldn't even find Senor Salsa chips.
Now he didn't even have what he once thought was good in life.
But instead of finding coldness as he had thought he would from his deprivation, he was met with emptiness.
Ivan twitched, trying to hold on the the last vestiges of life.
"Help!" he called weakly, hearing the screams of whoever came in. It was probably Johnny; it wasn't a FEMALE voice for sure and Ivan doubted that there was anyone alive down here in the condition to be yelling at a horrible monster angrily.
Nny glared viciously at Ivan (who looked to be pretty close to death at this point) before turning his attention to what were once his head voices.
"What the fuck... how long have you all been human?!"
Eff smiled like the evil villain he was and began describing his some evil stuff as according to the Official Guidebook of Villainy.
"We have been human since you left on your vacation, dearest Johnny. Once you left the wall monster returned and brought us into the form of human children. He instructed us to bring him a man from which he could extract life for more power, not just for him but for us as repayment."
"You!" Johnny turned to the monster and rested his hands on their respective knife hilts. "YOU'RE the cause of all my voices?"
"Yesss," it hissed, it's hollow voice seeming to come from all around. "And YOU are the very reassson for my creation, Johnny."
"What?"
"If you weren't driven to insssanity I would have never had to be born into this God-forsssaken plane of exissstance and could have been sssomewhere better... you do remember, don't you? How you became completely and utterly insssa-"
Johnny leapt forward and stabbed the horrible beast in the eye with one knife and sent the other one crashing through the monster's teeth.
"YOU WILL REGRET THAT!"
Three tentacles shot forward. Johnny never replied and proceeded to hack off two of the tentacles from the wall monster's body, sending rank yellowish white blood spraying like from the tentacles in the fashion of a hose. The third attempted to pick Johnny up from around the waist, but his fear of being touched led both of his knifes into the sticky flesh.
The monster tried to dodge Johnny's next blows aimed for his... face thingy but couldn't avoid it.
His um... face thingy (what IS that?) was shredded.
He started to slow down from lack of blood and tore viciously at Nny, managing to put some decently deep gashes into his arms and his chest, but not before he saw the voices escaping out of the only exit.
The monster started to go after them.
Johnny noticed his distraction and, ignoring his bleeding, came at him blades twirling, and completely removed its head thingy.
The body crashed through a wall and landed in front of the poor man strapped in the skin removal chair.
"HOLY SHIT!" he squirmed and the various hooks stuck in him pulled at his skin.
Johnny strolled up to Ivan, still coiled in one of the creature's many tentacles.
"Y-you... saved me!"
"I spared Devi grieving the death of someone as useless as you. Get up."
He looked absently at his newly aquired wounds. Then his attention turned to the holes in his coat and shirt.
That really pissed him off.
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Todd, Gaz, and Sam walked into the Membrane household.
"Sam, you can stay in the spare room. Todd, you can keep Dib's old room."
"Y-you want me to stay in a dead boy's room?" Todd curled in on himself and stared up at her.
"Yes."
"Well... I... I guess I could..."
"Yeah, you could. Get in there, Dib's not gonna haunt you."
"But what about- what about going home?"
"Do you really want to go back there, Todd?"
"I love my parents!"
"Why?"
"I... I dunno."
"Just stay here, Todd. I'll introduce you two to my neighbor later. He stays up pretty late."
"Can you show me where the spare room is?" Sam asked.
"Oh. Right." Gaz pointed down a random hallway. "It's the last door that way."
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Johnny walked down passageway, Ivan stumbling feverishly behind him.
"Hurry up." spat Nny as Ivan tripped over a bloody, practically unrecognizable piece of flesh that was on the arm of a bastardly woman.
"R-right..."
The pair finally made it to the stairs and while Johnny climbed them as easily as he walked Ivan had a hard time on the uneven and rotting stairs. He eventually gave up and sat at the bottom forlornly.
Devi was standing near the door when Nny got to the top. She had heard the monster fall through the wall.
"Hey, where's Ivan?" she demanded.
"It's a little difficult to expla-" Johnny started to say before she screamed.
"Oh my God! You're bleeding!"
"Yeah, it's ok, I'm really more concerned about what caused it."
"Where are your bandaids? Do you even have any?! You need some."
She was clearly panicking. Before he could answer she continued.
"Stay here, Nny! Do not go ANYWHERE. I'll be right back. Don't move."
Devi rushed out the front door leaving Johnny dumbfounded and oozing blood all over the floor.
He sat down on the couch taking care to avoid contact with his cuts. A hard kick to the side of his TV turned it on.
The voices are loose... those stupid bastards... what the hell do they think they're doing?! I bet I'm going to have to be the one to go after them, too... HAH! I LOVE this commercial!
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A cashier watched stupidly as a woman rifled through the medical aisle.
Ok, bandaids, bandaids... gauze would work better. And some Bactine! Definitely some Bactine! What the hell was he doing down there, getting himself all cut up?
It suddenly occured to her that she was overreacting.
Get a hold of yourself, Devi! He probably wasn't even hurt that bad! He walked up the stairs just fine!
Then again he is completely insane.
Then again he's still a person and has nerves and feelings and likes Spaghetti-Os and movies.
She scooped up a couple rolls of gauze and a bottle of Bactine.
It seemed like it would do.
She approached the apparently braindead cashier and dropped the items in front of him.
"D'ya have a coupon?" he asked her, running a hand through his strange (and greasy) spiked purple hair. His nametag said "Tommy" with a backwards 'y'.
"No. Do you have coupons for these?"
"No."
"Then why'd you ask?!"
"I'm not completely sure. My boss says I should always ask."
"Ugh... you are such an- oh, whatever, just ring these up."
"Riiight."
Tommy took a hideously long amount of time for ringing up 3 items, but he finally finished and gave her the stuff in a little plastic baggie.
"See ya." he droned.
Devi ignored him and walked out the door.
The trip back to Johnny's decrepit home was mostly unneventful. She stepped on some gum and saw a kid with a pistol run by her screaming something about not knowing it was loaded.
She opened the door slowly and peeked in. Johnny was staring blankly at his TV, apparently not caring if he made a huge mess of his couch what with his injuries still bleeding after ten minutes.
A tentacle wrapped around the woman on the television screen. Much screaming and rape ensued.
In a moment Devi was right behind him.
His gaze became more focused as he watched her reflection on the television screen, regardless of the horrible rape occuring behind her translucent image.
"Hey."
"Hey. I got you some Bactine."
Devi held the bag out to him and he took it quickly watching not to accidently touch her hand.
"And gauze? What do you expect me to do, wrap myself up?'
"Yes."
"I'm not going to."
Her eye twitched in mild annoyance.
"And I'M not going to let you bleed to death in your living room."
She snatched the bag from his grasp.
"Take off your coat and shirt NOW."
He ignored her and another well placed kick to the TV changed the channel.
I told her I wasn't going to and I won't... he thought to himself. It wasn't that really cared if he was bandaged, just that he had already said that he wouldn't.
He felt her sit down beside him, very obviously attempting not to get sticky blood on herself.
Johnny shifted away from her.
She scooted closer to him and poured some Bactine onto the arm closer to her. He continued to be unresponsive to her and kept his other arm out of her reach.
"Don't be so childish, Nny..."
The old couch creaked as she leaned over him.
She managed to get some of the disinfectant onto his other arm and dumped the remnants of the bottle down the front of his shirt.
A distinctly uncomfortable look crossed Johnny's face at her being a few inches from him.
Devi sat back and crossed her arms. "Are you going to put on this gauze or do I need to do it for you?"
Johnny sent her a halfhearted glare.
"I don't need any... It'll stop bleeding soon."
"I'm not messing around, Johnny, I'm not going to sit here and let you bleed out in your living room."
"Do what you want, I'm gonna get a Brainfreezy."
He started to stand but Devi pinned him back into the filthy chair and rolled his sleeve back.
In reality, she was terrified and hoped that Johnny wouldn't try and kill her, but proceeded to wrap his arm in the first of many layers of gauze.
He squirmed and tried to keep away from her hands.
"Be still!"
"No!"
A miniature wrestling match later and both of Johnny's arms were covered in a satisfactory amount of bandages.
"Don't make me tear your shirt, Nny."
He frowned at this. Any more damage to it and it wouldn't be salvageable.
"But I like this shirt."
"Well... I like when you aren't bleeding all over the place."
"It's not like tearing my shirt would mean I would LET you. And I'd still have my coat."
"You'd be forced and your coat is able to be torn, too."
"But I have to... go."
"What could you possible HAVE to do, Nny? From what I gather you're here all day."
"There's a problem. With those fucking voices! They're people now!"
A confused stare broadcasted her opinion on his announcement.
"The styrofoam guys that you said were gone are people? How much blood have you lost?"
"Shit, Devi! There's more than just those two. If I can find Nailbunny he can explain it to us..."
Another look of confusion, this one also a little worried, graced Devi's face.
"Where would you find him?"
His eyes widened in paranoia. "Everywhere! He'd just show up when I was upset. The damned voices would just appear at the worst of fucking times. Then they stopped when I supposedly died. Of course, the universe basically rebooted itself if that actually happened, so..."
What he was saying was lost to Devi but she sat in silence anyway. He wasn't making sense. The real problem was that she wasn't sure if he was just being insane or if everything he said was true.
"AND JIMMY, THE STUPID BASTARD HE WAS, RAPED HER! HE RAPED THEM!"
"... um, Nny? I'm gonna go home. I'd appreciate it if you'd treat your cuts."
She stood and walked out the door leaving the little roll of gauze on the couch next to him.
A few more minutes of exhausting screaming, and Johnny was roughly covering the cuts across his torso with the white bandage.
It dawned on him that she DID care. She wasn't fearful of just being near him as she had been for so long after he attacked her. He was being viewed as a person, not a killer.
She saw past his black boots and funny haircut and knew him as much as someone could know a psychopath. She realized that he cared for her as well no matter how easily he was angered.
"Of course I care for her... I'd have to be stupid not to." he told himself irritably.
"That's good, Nny. Realizing how you feel is the first step to controlling yourself."
Johnny whirled around to see a strange little boy in a pink bunny suit.
"Nailbunny?!"
The boy nodded.
"She still loves you, ya know. I don't have time to talk about that, however. The others, with help from the wall monster, have basically drained Ivan's life and put it into themselves. They are much more powerful than I am since only fragments of his life energy went to me. There's no way to save Ivan (he should die by tomorrow), but you CAN stop them. As human adults they can be killed permanently. But they're still part of you and will try and trick you. I'll do my best to hold them off. Be careful, Johnny!"
Johnny was silent for a moment while trying to take in all that was said. "You'll be ok, right? I've kind of missed you talking to me."
"... just be careful, Nny. Kill them for me." Nailbunny faded from sight.
"I will." Johnny whispered to the empty room.
His first thought was to go and collect the better of the portable weapons from the basement and warn Devi. His second thought was"I really want a popsicle!".
So he went to get a popsicle. (A/N: I really wish I could forget major concerns that easily P )
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As Devi walked home it started to rain.
She snorted in irritation and continued her stride.
I really hope he ends up putting on that stupid gauze. He's so stubborn... Ivan's not near as- where IS Ivan?
She had totally forgotten about him in her panic.
But why had she panicked so?
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Todd and Sam had each gotten comfortable.
We likely all know what Dib's room looks like so I won't describe it's blueness to you all.
Sam's room, however, was terribly... yellow. And no one likes yellow. He decided he would buy some white paint for it. That was what he was accustomed to anyway.
It was a standard guest room, by the way. A double bed, a nightstand, an empty dresser...
He'd need to buy some clothes, too.
Gaz walked into Todd's room, already haven put on her coat and grabbed her baseball bat.
"We're going to the mall. You and Sam need something to wear and I may as well get a new baseball bat."
She pointed to the cracks running through it.
"O-oh... um, what happened to it?"
"I hit someone with it when they tried to grab me."
He gave her a regular Squee look of terror.
"We can meet my neighbor before we go. He's kinda creepy."
Gaz walked out to tell Sam they were leaving and soon the were all collected at the front door.
The group traveled the great distance of about 5 yards to the front yard of Gaz's neighbor when something caught Todd's attention.
He knew who lived here. Smoke billowed from the chimney though the outdoor heat was unbearable..
There was only one person who kept a fire going in their house year round.
But it was too late to stop the inevitable as the door swung open.
"What do you want?" The boy sounded like he had been asleep before they had come to his door.
Ever the polite one, Gaz growled, "Geez, I just thought you might want to meet the people staying at my house. Sam and Todd."
He noticed the Squee sized boy standing a short way behind her.
"Is that Todd Casil?"
"Yeah." Gaz look expectantly at Todd.
The aforementioned Todd's eyes widened. "P-please don't melt my face off my skull. I need it there."
"What're you doing over here? And you don't actually need all of your face."
"Me and Sam are staying at Gaz's house."
"Oh, so you're finally away from your horrible parents. We can hang out together again!"
Todd smiled mostly out of fear, remembering other times he had 'hung out' with Pepito. It usually ended up in something burning.
"Ya wanna come to the mall with us?" Sam offered politely.
Todd let out a tiny squee of terror.
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