I was... as you guys would put it, an insane inkling, you know like how I acted towards you guys from the beginning. It was just who I was, and everyone was freak out by me. So I was always left alone, unless I was playing Turf war or Rank Battles. Still, I was usually hanging out by myself pretty much all the time. I was just taking five, eating a sandwich in the back of the alleyways. A light pink Inkling ran past me. At first I thought nothing of it, but when I saw a group of squids chasing after her, I followed them.
"Hey, you were supposed to lose! Give us your money!" they shouted at her.
"I earned this money fair and square! Back off!" She shouted as she backed up into a wall.
They were about to attack her, so I stepped in.
"Hey! You guys wanna die? I suggest you leave before I make you into sushi " I pulled out my roller. It was just a typical roller.
"It's that crazy guy..." one of them whispered, "doesn't he eat squids?!"
"INKING RUN!" they ran off like the cowards they were. The girl looked terrified of me. So I walked towards her, she shook, as I got closer to her.
"You better scram..." I told her as I walked away. She ran off soon after, I looked back at her. I felt pretty happy, I guess.
The next day I was at my usual spot, and she was waiting there. She seemed to be looking for me.
"H-h-hello... umm so you umm saved m-me th-the other d-day..." she cautiously walked towards me.
"Yeah so I did," I answered taking a bit into my sandwich, "What of it?"
"I-I-I j-just wanted to s-say Thanks.."
"Okay, first take a deep breath, and calm down... It's not like I'm going to eat you..."
She took a seat next to me and took in a deep breath, and released it.
"You're not? But-"
"Just rumors, I like fish sandwiches. I'm not a cannibal."
"Oh, I'm sorry for running yesterday. I was just... scared..."
"Heh, you and everybody else..."
"No! But that's wrong! I should have at least thank you, properly!"
"Hey, no skin off my back... It's fine."
"No way, Come on, I insist!" She took my wrist and pulled me up to my feet.
I just followed her. She led me into Nana's bakery, and told me to pick out anything I wanted. It was kinda a shame. I wasn't a big fan of sweets. I saw her buying some fish-shaped buns, I mean a lot of them. They were about the size of her palm, and a golden yellow color.
"That's a lot of bread..." I muttered.
"This my friend isn't bread, it's only the best thing that ever existed!" she answered holding one to my face, "It's a rainbow mystery fish bun! Each color has it's own flavor, but to find out what color you got you have to take a bit."
"Errrr... okay..."
"Oh, did you find what you wanted?"
"Ummm look, I don't really like sweets..."
"Oh... really?... I see... Then how's about I share some of these with you?"
"But I don't like-" I sighed, "Fine..."
She dragged me to a drain grate. She turned into a squid and fell through. I followed her. She brought me to a place some where in the mountains. The area looked over Inkopolis and a bit of the forest. It was really pretty.
"Tah dah! My secret spot!" She beamed as she took a seat on the grass, "Come on, have a seat!"
I quietly sat down, and she handed me a bun. She stared at me eagerly. It was kinda awkward.
"... what?" I glared at her.
"Take a bite..." she smiled as I took a bite of it, "Oh, show me what color you got!"
"Pink... strawberry?"
"OH! Lucky, that's my favorite one!"
"Shocking..." I rolled my eyes.
"Hey, its not because of the color... I just like strawberry..."
Started thinking about this whole event; I mean no squid has ever acted this way towards me. I felt that I wanted to know why she is doing this. It felt too strange...
"Hey, what's the real reason you brought me here?" I asked bluntly.
"Huh? I wanted to pay you back... you know for saving me" She replied, "I mean I guess I understand why this seems weird... but please believe me! That is really all that I wanted to do!"
"It's hard to believe... I am pretty much insane... I could rip you apart or torture you..."
"Are you going to?"
"...maybe..." I sighed, "Look, maybe it's better for us not to do this..."
"Why?"
"Squids, will think wrongly of you, if you stay around me... They will think you're insane too."
"Are you worried about me?" she giggled, "So what if they think I'm insane. I know a friend when I find one."
"A friend? Me?"
"Yeah, you!"
"You have got to be joking..."
"I'm not! Look, can you just give me a chance?"
I stared at her. She looked back at me for a while. Then she crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes. I started to get up.
"I'll prove it to you then! I'll be your friend whether to want me to or not!" she pouted.
"...arrrgghhhh... you're sooo annoying..." I started walking away.
"Hey, come on! give me a chance!" she blocked my way, "I'm Pastelli... and you are?"
I glared at her and she pouted again.
"TELL. ME. YOUR. NAME." She ordered.
"Acrilic..." I muttered as I continued on my way.
She began following me. I dashed away from her and she chased after me. We ran around town until I hit a dead end. She was right behind me the whole time. I had enough of this, so I brought out my roller.
"tch, I didn't wanna do this, BUT YOU'RE ASKING FOR IT NOW! KYAA HAHAHHAHHAHHAHAH!"
"I don't wanna fight you!" she took a couple steps back, "But if it helps me be friends with you, then I don't have a choice..."
She pulled out a splash-o-matic, and took a fighting stance as I cackled as charged at her. She scrambled away and fired at me. She missed and swam away to get some distance. I rolled after her, she shot back at me the closer I got. She tossed a suction bomb in front of me to buy some time. She got away from me, or so I thought... She swam right at me holding her splash-o-matic at my face. I just bonked her on her head, but at the same time she got me too. We reappeared at the spawn point. I dashed at her again, and she stood her ground firing at me. She dodge me and hit my back a couple of times. I retaliated by swiping my roller at her. She narrowly evades and hides in her ink.
"Come out, Come out where ever you are... This isn't a fight you can win... KYA HAHAHAHAHHAH!" I was actually pretty tired, she looked just as tired.
"Maybe, it's not a winning fight... I won't let that stop me! I'll keep trying until the day we can be friends!" she charged at me.
We fought for hours, back and forth. I thought she would never give up. No matter how many I splatted her, she kept coming back.
I struck her with my roller sending her flying. She landed on her back as I held my roller above us. She closed her eyes as she waited for me to splat her. I sighed and held my hand out to her.
"Tch, you are really annoyingly stubborn..." I looked away from her, when she looked up at me, "Alright, you win..."
"I won? So we can be..." she took my hand and stood up.
"Yeah, friends, I still don't understand why... you are so determined on me though."
"Well, I don't really know, I just feel that I have to be friend with you... Call it instinct."
"Bullsquid..."
"Ugh, I don't know how to explain it... Just trust me, okay?"
"Whatever"
We sat there in silence until the sunset. She would wait for me everyday at my usual spot and drag me away to her spot. Slowly but, surely, we started to bond. Each day was so much fun and we just became closer and closer. I actually started taking a liking for those fish buns. Several years had pass and we started meeting up at her secret spot. It was our 5th anniversary of our friendship. It was just like old time, we were just eating fish bun and debating over which flavors were the best. However, what started out as normal suddenly turned into a horrible event.
As we were sitting around watching the sunset, some Octarians surrounded us. They started attacking us. I tried to protect Pastelli as much as I could, but in the end there was far to many of them.
"Pastelli, run! I'll hold them back!" I shouted at her.
"I'm not leaving you behind! I'm not going anywhere without you!" she argued.
"Now's not the time for arguing! Leave, you can go get help! You'll be safe... GO!"
She bit her lip, and took off. I was so relieved that she was going to be safe, that I let my guard down. An octarian knocked her unconscious. I ran over to her, ignoring the burning pain from the Octarian's inks, and I shielded her body for as long as I could.
They captured us and locked us in a cell together. Some sort of scientists examined us and they decided to experiment on me. They injected me with some sort of weird medicine, supposedly to make me stronger and strengthen my mind. The medicine made my tentacle spiky, but nothing else. The scientist examined me once more, and rejected me. They decide to chain me to a boulder and threw me into the sea. Luckily, I broke the chains in time, and hung on the cliff until a ship came by.
That's why I wear these shackles. They are all I have left of her... They are reminders of the vow I have made to make them all pay... for Pastelli... I may no longer be bound to a prison cell, but I am still bound to my promise to Pastelli.
Everyone had been listening the whole time to my story. Callie and Marie looked at each other. Octavio walked towards him.
"I do not know where or what they did to your friend. I wasn't in charge of the scientists. I had no idea that they were experimenting on Inklings," He bowed, "For that I apologized, on their behalf."
"No apologies can bring her back..." I rested my chin on my knees, "All the experimented squids probably died from the testing. It has been 4 long years since then. She is probably dead..."
"No! There is still hope! You can't give up on your girl!" Callie shouted.
"She's not my girl... She is just my best friend... She doesn't have to be my girl, it's her decision... not mine."
"Well, do you like her?"
"So what if I do? I want her to be happy, and if it is with another squid, so be it... Just as long as she is happy."
"You really are a good squid, aren't you?" Marie smiled.
"I never said I was evil..."
"She must be one lucky squid... It must be so nice, to be loved like that... It's like a true, love story..."
"You sound almost jealous, Callie..."
"Hmph, maybe... I am," She yawned, "It's just... so cute..."
She fell asleep leaning onto my side. Marie smiled but rolled her eyes at her cousin. She soon went back to sleep. I closed my eyes and gently wrapped my arm around her. Soon, I too, fell asleep.
-Author's Notes-
A bit of fluff here... So which pairings do you like so far? Do I need to fix anything? What do you like so far?
Oh I drew a picture of Acrilic and Pastelli see it on my devianart or tumblr. Look at it if you wanna. Thanks again for reading!
To one of the guest, they probably could be friends if they wanted to. I haven't played that game so I might not know a lot about him.