It has been two hours since I got home from school; I was waiting in the living room for when Gamzee came back. Another hour passed and I was starting to get worried, I thought he might be at band practice but even with that he should have been home by now. It was finally eight in the afternoon when Gamzee walked in, but something wasn't right, he had his head down and his jacket was covered in dirt and…blood? I ran over to him, it definitely was blood "Gamz what happened to you! Are you okay?!" I asked starting to panic, he looked up at me and I backed away from what I saw. He had cuts all over his face, his nose was bleeding, both eyes were bruised and he had a gash on his lip. "Gamzee what happened?!" I nearly screamed, he just shook his head "I don't know…" Rufioh rushed out of his room, hand in his pocket (probably holding his gun) when he saw Gamzee's face his eyes widened "Shit man! What happened to you?" Gamzee booked back down, a low growl passed his lips "Cronus, that's what happened." Rufioh backed away "Cronus! Are you serious!?" he looked…afraid?
hOW? rUFIOH ISN'S AFARID OF ANYTHING?
Rufioh ran back into his room, then quickly came back out with a blade, "Rufioh..What are you doing?" he looked at me with a serious expression "Get him cleaned up, that Upper-class snob is not getting away with this." He pulled up his black sweat shirt, u looked away, I hated the scar he had. It has a long scar over his bicep that ran all the way up to his neck. He had gotten it when he fought Cronus, that's why he had gone to jail. Cronus w0as known to fight dirty and never get caught, he always blamed the person he was fighting and he had others to back up his bullshit lie. Cronus was the kind of guy who would bring a blade to a fist fight and get away with it. "Bro you can't! What if you go back to jail, what if you get killed?" I said practically begging him not to go "He has gotten away with so much shit before, not today not when he hurts your guy." "I can handle it myself Rufioh, I might have lost this time but I'll get him." Gamzee growled, he wasn't mad at Rufioh…but of himself for losing a fight. Gamzee might act like he won't hurt a fly but when shit gets serious he can be unmerciful and brutal. "No you can't. You are just a kid man; you got your whole life ahead of you. I'm old enough to know what shit is going to go down and I'm willing to fight." Rufioh said. Without another word he walked out slamming the door, I led Gamzee back to the couch "Just stay here I need to get those cuts cleaned up." I ran to the bathroom and looked in the cabinet; I got a wet towel and some Neosporin and walked back over to Gamzee. I started wiping the blood and smeared face paint off his face; he didn't look at me at all. "Cronus…when I found him, he was talking shit. Threatening to come here and take both you and your bro down. He didn't want to fight me because he knew what my pops would do…he should have thought of that when he gave me these." He growled as he pointed at the tree scars on his face. I froze and just looked at him. "c-Cronus did that to you?" I stuttered "Yeah, all because of Eridan too, he wanted to fight me but I didn't want to, Cronus saw and thought I was the one trying to beat Eridan. So he attacked me, Eridan went along and said that I was the one trying to attack him, then Cronus pulled out his blade…" he trailed off. "when Eridan mentioned him I knew shit was going to get real, that's why I gave you the blade…I know you can fight but if Cronus were to get to you, he wouldn't have played fair and pulled out his blade, so I gave you mine just in case." "But what about you? He could have killed you, you should have kept yours." He smirked and pulled out a small switch blade "Karkat gave it to me after lunch. I did give that motherfucker I few cuts before getting away." I stood up "I'm going." He looked at me confused "what?" "I've had it, I've heard so many cruel things Cronus has done but I won't stand for it, not when he hurt you and threatened to kill me and my bro." he stood up facing me "You can't be serious Tav, that motherfucker could kill you." "Does it look like I give a shit!" I nearly yelled to him "I am not going to stand here like a little kid while my bro is out there getting revenge for you. I'm going and you are coming with me. We are going to settle this once and for all." I looked at him, I don't know what face I had given him but he had looked surprised "Give me your keys; I'm taking your truck. You can either go with me or stay here till I get back." Gamzee nodded "No, I'm going with you, I would never live with myself if you got hurt." He grabbed my hand "We will stick together no matter what." I smiled "No matter what." Gamzee walked into my room, he grabbed his keys from the nightstand and walked back towards me "Let's go motherfucker." He said with an unsure smile. We ran out the door and quickly got into Gamzee's truck and drove off "So where is Cronus?" Gamzee kept his eyes on the road "At the abandoned baseball field near the old tracks. Does your bro even know where he drove off to?" I looked at the blade in my hand, I gripped it tightly "That's Cronus's hang out, of course Rufioh knows." Saying that made me sick to my stomach
wHAT IF rUFIOH IS ALREADY THERE,,,wHAT IF WE DIDN'T MAKE IT IN TIME AND THEY'RE ALREADY FIGHTING,,,wHAT IF THEY KILL HIM,,,NO, NO, NO, NO, NO,,,
I looked up barley realizing we were already crossing the tracks. Within a few minutes we were already driving up to the abandoned baseball field, when we drove up, I could faintly see four people already there, and one was easily recognizable with those red highlights. Gamzee quickly stopped the car and turned off the ignition. I put the blade in my pocket as Gamzee and I got out of the truck "Stay close to be Tav, and whatever you do don't show fear Cronus will take advantage of that." He took my hand and gripped tightly "Be careful." He whispers. We walked over to where I saw the four, but for some reason there were only three Cronus, Eridan, and Rufioh. Whoever the fourth guy was must have ran away, Cronus was nearly as tall as Gamzee. His black hair was jelled back like some 80's movie character; he had a white t-shirt stained in fresh blood (most likely when he fought Gamzee earlier.) he had cuts on both his arms from when Gamzee swung his blade at him. Behind him leaning on the fence was Eridan, just a few feet away from Cronus was Rufioh, who already had a few cuts and bruises. Eridan turned his gaze from Cronus to me and Gamzee, he glared at us with an intimidating smile "Well, well, well, look whose back for round two. And it looks like you brought your….Girlfriend." he said with a dark laugh at the last word. I could hear Gamzee growl as he reached into his pocket, Cronus looked at us. His gaze was like a starved rabid put bull staring at a fresh piece of meat "vwell isn't that adorable, Rufioh's backup is a beaten up clown and a nerd, oh how intimidating." He said with sarcasm, Rufioh turned around and looked at us "I TOLED YOU TO STAY HOME!" he yelled, I glared at him the one time I try to show some backbone and he wants me to run "I'm not going to let my brother die because of something that was my fault." I walked closer till Eridan ran over towards me, Gamzee quickly talked him down. Before I knew it Cronus threw a punch at Rufioh and they started fighting, Eridan head-butted Gamzee and took the advantage to get up, he kicked him on the side (oh that did it.) I ran over to Eridan and sucker punched him in the face, knocking off his glasses "Take me on my ass; you didn't even see that coming you little bitch." I growled at Eridan, he glared at me as he spat out blood "You hit like a bitch!" he growled back, before I knew it Eridan and I were fighting, trying to dodge every punch before I took a swing at him. With one last punch to the gut Eridan fell to the ground, he glared at me before pulling out a blade from his pocket "You think you're man enough to fight? Well come on lets fight!" he yelled before jumping up and swinging the blade towards me, but before I could pull mine out Gamzee grabbed Eridan from behind knocking him down. He tossed the blade out of reach as he pinned Eridan's arms behind his back, Eridan kept struggling but Gamzee tightened his grip with one hand "You do NOT mess with my man." He growled before elbowing Eridan in the head knocking him out. Gamzee looked up at me "You okay Tavbro?" "Yeah I'm fi-" before I could even finish my sentence I was knocked over by what felt like a minivan, I looked up and right on top of me stood Equius staring me down
sHIT WAS HE THE FOURTH GUY?! i WOULD BE BETTER OFF BEING KNOCKED OVER BY A MINIVAN!
Before I could pick myself up he punched me in the face "You better stay down if you know what's good for you Stray!" he snarled at me like an angry animal. "Equius get the fuck away from him!" Gamzee yelled as he got off of Eridan, Equius quickly pulls out his gun and points it at me. He glares over at Gamzee "One step and his brains will splatter all over this field Makara!" he nearly yelled clearly angry at Gamzee for betraying the Upperclassmen. Without thinking I kicked the gun out of his hand, he turned back to me completely forgetting about getting the gun, he jumps on me and wraps his hands around my neck, I struggled to breathe as I clawed and kicked, trying to defend myself. Everything started going black till I heard the gun go off, Equius fell on top of me while blood was dripping from the back of his head. Gamzee grabbed him and threw him off me like a rag-doll, "I'm really tired of your shit Equius!" he growled at the body; he turned back to me and helped me up, Gamzee was about to tell me something before we both heard a painful scream from the other side of the field. Gamzee looked up and I turned to see what was going on; Rufioh was on the ground, he had his hand covering his left arm that was covered in blood, Cronus was standing over him with his blade "You're not so tough after all Nitram." He laughed, that just made my blood boil. Without even thinking I got up and ran towards the two, when I got close enough I grabbed Gamzee's blade from my pocket and slashed it at Cronus. He moved away before I could even cut him "Oh look at the little kid trying to protect his big brother, oh isn't that adorable." Cronus said sarcastically "Just leave now kid wvhile you're still alive, this isn't your damn problem." I glared at him, "You hurt my friends, you hurt my brother, and you hurt my boyfriend. You've killed innocent people. Yeah it's my damn problem!" I yelled at him "Tav, don't." Rufioh weakly groaned from behind me, I never took my eyes off of Cronus "Gamzee get Rufioh in your truck now." I ordered "But Tav what if you…" "Now goddamit!"I nearly yelled, without another word Gamzee helped Rufioh up. I could hear him half dragging him back to the truck, I started to panic I did my best to hold back my fear
i HAVE TO DO THIS,,,fOR EVERYONE HE'S MADE SUFFER, FOR aRADIA, FOR rUFIOH,,,,FOR gAMZEE,,,
I lunged at him and he did the same, we wrestled eachother trying to swing blades at one another. He slashed his one more time getting my cheek, I fought back the pain as a lunged at him stabbing him in the gut, he let out a pain filled yell before he swung his blade one more time at me before falling to the ground. I fell to my knees, I barley heard Gamzee running back calling my name, I turned and looked at him, he looked at me with a surprised expression "….illed hi…ge…ital…" I couldn't make out the words he said but he looked like he was panicking , I was about to get up till I felt a sharp pain, I looked down and my shirt was torn and drenched in blood…but it wasn't Cronus's….everything started to become blurred, I fell to the ground…then everything went black.