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Gilbert's POV
"And then Birdie squirted maple syrup all over my hair, but then he felt all bad afterwards and helped me clean it out. A good thing too, do you know how hard it is to clean maple syrup out of your hair?"
As I finish my story, Francis and Antonio laugh, while 'Luddy' just stares at me with practically no expression as always. I don't even know why he had to join us today, something about making sure we didn't do anything too stupid. Of course we won't, the three of us were too awesome to be stupid.
The three of us (Francis Antonio and I) were having a hang out and drink night in Antonio's cabin, and Ludwig just had to join us (on second thought, he may have just come for the beer). Whatever, I guess I'll just ignore him and focus on the other more awesome people.
"So Antonio, how are you and your petit Lovino doing?" Francis asked. Out of the corner of my eye, I notice Ludwig straighten up even more than usual (how?) at the question. That's weird.
At the question, Antonio looks around, as if making sure no one else is listening in. Once he apparently feels comfortable enough, he leans in towards us and whispers (as much of a whisper as Toni can manage at least), "I probably shouldn't tell you this, but my little Lovi said that he loves me!"
Once again, I see Ludwig move out of the corner of my eye, this time balling up his fist. Why is he being so unawesomely tense today?
"Seriously? I was sure you were going to have to be the one to man up and say it first. He just up and told you he loves you? What'd you say back?" I respond to Toni excitedly; I was tired of listening to him constantly going on about ways to get with Lovino.
"Well actually," Antonio starts rubbing the back of his neck, and looks a little embarrassed. "He didn't really mean for me to hear him say it, and well… I haven't talked to him since he did; he ran off afterward and has been hiding since… but I'm going to look for him today, it happened yesterday, and I'm going to tell him I love him too~!" He sounded nervous at the beginning of his little speech, but he sounds just as happy-go-lucky as always by the end of it.
Surprisingly, the first person to respond to him wasn't Francis or I but rather Ludwig.
"Are you sure that's what he said?" Ludwig asks. Out of nowhere his voice seems even angrier than usual, and it sounds like he's almost daring Antonio to say yes. What the heck is going on? Last I checked, Ludwig was always extremely respectful towards Toni cause of the whole 'captain' thing. Now he's acting all badass and disrespectful. I would usually be thrilled that he wasn't being all boring and unawesome like usual, but I would rather him not get that way towards one of my best friends.
"Yeah… that's what he said…" Antonio was obviously as confused as I was, if not more so, and when I looked over at Francis I could tell he too had no clue what was going on.
"That's funny," Ludwig began, standing up and walking towards Toni, sounding like he didn't find it funny at all. His voice gets darker and angrier with every word he says. I'm starting to get a little freaked out, but Antonio stands his ground still looking nothing but confused. "Because that's exactly what he said to me yesterday, and he definitely meant for me to hear it."
Whoa whoa whoa what? Ludwig has a thing for Lovino too? When had that happened? I knew they were friends but… I didn't even know Ludwig was capable of lovey dovey feelings. And… whose side am I supposed to be on? Antonio is one of my best friends, but Ludwig is my brother.
"What are you talking about?" Antonio questions. He's still smiling, but I can tell that for once it's not a real smile; I can see the anger lurking beneath the surface of his eyes. "Are you trying to take my Lovi away from me?"
"I'm not taking him away, he's not yours."
"Mes chéris, calm down, arguing won't solve anything." Oh good, Francis will stop this before it escalates any further.
"You're right," Antonio begins with a smile. Thank God… "We are pirates after all, we should fight not talk." Never mind.
Francis and I both try to calm down the situation, but everything we do seems to make the two even angrier. After a few minutes of our failed attempts, Ludwig and Antonio push past us to go up on deck to fight. I follow behind them, although I'm pretty sure Francis stayed behind.
I try to follow quickly, but by the time I get to the top deck, the two have already drawn their weapons. They're now circling each other looking for an opening. Both of them are extremely strong fighters; I had always wanted to see them spar, but I couldn't let them actually fight. Both of them had extremely explosive tempers, and I have feeling that neither would hesitate to kill the other in the heat of the moment. I couldn't let that happen, since both sides were close to me.
However, I can't think of anything to do, getting between the two of them would be suicide.
As the two continue to circle, other crew members start to come on deck to see what's going on (I have a feeling that Francis had told everyone of the upcoming fight; he would always rather gossip than get involved).
I see Lovino walk up on deck, looking upset as if someone had just woke him up (Even though it is far past noon).
That's it! The whole reason they're fighting is because they are both in love with Lovino, and both think that he loves them back. He'll just have to stop the fight, and tell them what the truth is.
I start to weave through the still forming crowd to get to him.
Lovino's POV
I wake up to the sound of people running around, and all together making a racket. I groan and sit up. I had just gotten back from the damned closet (it had taken all night and most of the morning to switch back to me), and until a few minutes ago had been trying to catch up on the sleep I couldn't get squished up in that place.
I stand up out of bed once I realize I'm not going to be able to go back to sleep with all the noise happening. I had been so tired when I got back that I was still fully clothed, so I just got up and went to the door. Once I'm in the hallway, I wait until someone passes by, and then I stop them.
"What the hell's going on? What's with all this damn noise?"
"Apparently there's a fight starting on the top deck, everyone's going up to watch it." With that the man turns and continues towards the top deck.
Damn idiots. Who the hell is fighting and ruining my sleep? I decide to go up and see who it is; I'll beat them up myself (after they're already tired out from their own fight of course).
"Ve, fratello, can't we just go back to sleep? I'm tired and don't like to see people fight."
"It's too loud to go back to sleep, and besides, I want to see who's fighting."
"Fine." Feliciano sighs but quiets down. Based on how easily he gave in, I'm pretty sure he's pretty curious too.
When we get up on deck, we can't even see who is fighting; everyone else is too much taller than us. From what I can tell though, they haven't started actually fighting yet; they're just sizing each other up. As I'm trying to figure out a way to see the fight, I feel a hand grab my wrist and pull me back.
I would shriek or something, but pretty much no one on this ship has any sense of personal space, so I've gotten used to being randomly grabbed. I turn around to see who it is, and when I see that it's Gilbert, I give him a questioning look.
"I need your help." He states simply. His words surprise me; I would have thought he would be to 'awesome' to need anyone's help. I raise an eyebrow at him to tell him to go on. "That's Ludwig and Antonio about to start fighting." Why are Toni and the Potato fighting? "And they're apparently fighting over you. They both claim that you told them you love them." Oh… shit.
"Crap" I mutter out loud. I see Gilbert look curiously at me, obviously wondering what had happened between me and the two of them, but after a second, he shrugs and pulls me forward. He shoves through the crowd with me in tow, and once he gets us to the front, he pushes me forward a bit.
"Sort this out." He tells me. It's a command, but it also sounds pleading, he obviously doesn't want them to begin the fight.
"Fratello, this is all our fault!" Feli says, obviously feeling bad about the situation,
"I know, I know. I'm going to try to stop them."
I take a small step forward, and then gather my courage. Before I can lose my nerve, I take another step towards the two, who have yet to notice me.
"Stop fighting you bastards!" I shout as loud as I can. The two turn to me, shocked, and lower their swords slightly. "Why the hell are the two of you fighting?"
"Lovi, Ludwig told me you said you loved him and I couldn't just let him get away with lying about you."
"Lovino, I know you told me you love me, and yet Antonio was claiming that you had said the same thing to him. I know that you wouldn't do that, but he insisted on claiming otherwise."
The two glared at each other once they realize that they had both said essentially the same thing.
"Tell him" They say in unison, and then glare at each other.
"Well, I um… Antonio I do…" I don't even have to finish my sentence, as soon as I begin Antonio gives off a huge smile, while Ludwig's face falls.
All of a sudden, I feel Feli get extremely upset, and before I know it, he's in charge, and I feel like I've been thrown to a corner of our mind. I had known that technically if one of us had strong enough emotions we could force the other out of control, but it had never happened to us before.
"It's not like that. Luddy I love you." I hear Feli say. With that the looks are reversed, with Ludwig smiling (if not as much as Antonio was), and Antonio looking close to tears.
That's not right, Toni shouldn't be upset; I hate it when he's sad. I can feel the rush of anger come through me, and I use it to push Feli out of the way.
"No Antonio I love…" Then Feli's in charge again.
"Ludwig"
"Antonio"
"Lud-"
"An-"
Every time I get control of the body, Feli takes is back even faster that the time before. I do the same to him. After awhile, we are switching out too quickly to even move out lips, let alone make a sound. Eventually, we begin to feel our body writhe; I can see that Ludwig and Antonio have matching looks of worry on their faces.
The changing has gotten so quick that I can't even tell who's in charge when anymore, it's as if neither of us are. At this point, I don't think either of us wants to fight anymore, but we can't stop whatever's going on.
We feel hands hold us down, keeping us from moving. We can hear voices above us, but for some reason their words are unintelligible. We can also hear a loud high pitch scream coming from somewhere. All of a sudden we feel a sharp pain on our cheek, I think someone just smacked us, but while we can feel it, it does nothing to stop the insanity going on within our body.
The voices above us continue to talk, and there are a few more smacks. The turmoil is getting even worse. Somewhere along the way, the disorientation and insanity had turned into pain, and now it is all we can feel. We definitely aren't fighting now, in fact we are practically clinging to each other to try to stop the pain, but no matter what we do, it continues, the switching becoming faster and faster.
All of a sudden, we feel a sharp pain in our arm; however, we are too disoriented to be able to tell what it is. A moment later, we feel our body slowdown in its movements, and the chaos in our brains begins to slow also. We barely have time to let out a sigh of relief before we fall into a deep, peaceful oblivion.
AN: Dun dun dun….. So this chapter had a good bit of drama, as well as some development in the whole "love-triangle-square-circular-geometrical-shape of doom anomaly THING" (Credit to Stomei97 for giving it the best name ever) as well as some new developments of the curse! I hope what happened was at least semi understandable, but if not it will (hopefully) be explained in the next chapter.
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