GDEZ Act II Part II
Indigo Thief
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I guess the hiatus from last year made it seem like much shorter time, but here's our Agrils-centered chapter. Enjoy!
[Status: Gamma/Location: LOBAF]
[Agrils' POV]
I opened my eyes to find myself flat on the ground. I looked around and saw that I was still on LOBAF. I could still see Margat's hive in the distance, despite the amount we traveled.
This world is in incredi8ly flat, aside from that one hill where Margat's hive sits.
I hopped onto my feet and looked around. Margat sat a few paces away, scribbling furiously in a journal.
I walked over and attempted to peek over her shoulder.
"What are you writing, Mar?"
She instantly closed it and and leapt up. "N-nothing! Nothing important!" She whipped around with a bewildered expression.
It caught me off guard and I fell backwards. I attempted to break my fall but I couldn't.
I fell flat on my ass before staring at the arm that didn't break my fall.
It was in a cast.
I looked at Margat. "What did you do?"
She looked down and shuffled a little. "You were clearly in pain and it looked like it hurt so i made you a cast so it could heal. I-im sorry..."
I frowned as I waved the cast- which she apparently fashioned from fucking cast iron of all shit- around. It wasn't comfortable, but if it helped... I mean my dual blades wouldn't be of much use with only one usable arm.
And it had to be my fucking left arm. My dominant arm. I mean I trained myself to be ambidextrous but I still preferred the left. Now I could only use my right for anything.
I stood and patted her on the head, trying to not make eye contact in case she was upset. "It's fine. It isn't practical for our current situ8tion, 8ut you had my 8est interests at heart. I just have to m8ke sure I don't hold you 8ack even more than usual."
She huffed. "You do not hold me back. If anything you help me out in situations where id probably die."
I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, yeah."
I turned my head and saw a purple wispy sprite floating towards us.
Ah. Of course. Her lusus.
If anyone had to experience the awkwardness in meeting your crush's parents... this is exactly what that felt like. No. More like that's what this WAS.
Not that I had a crush on her at all or anything.
Goatsprite caught up and smiled at us both. At least I think it was a smile. It was hard to tell with his goat mouth.
"Ah! Margat, I've caught up!" He turned to me. "Fancy meeting you, Agrils. Margat has told me much about you."
I suppressed a blush. I thought I saw Margat do the same but I quickly dismissed it. There was no way she'd blush about me. I was basically her best friend (though Riabel took the spot for me), so she had only told him about how great a friend I was.
...Obviously.
Goatsprite spoke again. "I forgot to explain a few crucial elements to your quests! And believe me, they are quite crucial to your success."
"Margat, as a Mage of Space, it is your duty to find and use ectobiology to create the frogs that will end up becoming a new universe!"
I nodded. Margat blinked. "I guess it would make sense that were making a new universe since new alternia was destroyed..."
Goatsprite continued. "You are supposed to meet up with the Knight in order to start the breeding, as it is customary for a Knight to assist the Hero of Space with the breeding of the Universe."
"Who's the Knight?" I asked.
He tapped his chin. "I believe you referred to her as... Eridia? Eridia Peixes. The Knight of Doom."
Oh HELL no.
"Ok8y here you go look at me I'm the fucking Knight now don't you dare m8ke her come over here," I babbled out, attempting to dissuade the Goatsprite from convincing Mar into getting her over there.
The sprite blinked. "No. You are a Thief. The Thief of Mind."
Margat rolled her eyes. "Agrils i know the two of you arent on the best terms but we need a knight and eridias our knight."
"Fuck."
She giggled. "My sentiments exactly, ag." She poked my nose.
God fucking dammit why did she have to be so fucking adorable all the damn time.
Suppressing a blush (again), I turned towards Goatsprite again. "Which frogs do we use? This pl8ce is crawling with them."
"Margat will know. She is, of course, destined to have all knowledge regarding space and creation."
Gr8.
I sat down and stared at Margat. She appeared to be thinking. Probably about her bullshit quest with frogs and we were supposed to get Eridia's help.
God I hated frogs for reason no troll could comprehend. I simply hated frogs. So fucking much. They were slimy and loud and obnoxious and
Fuck I'm starting to sound like Lupa.
Margat pulled me back up again. "Come on ag, we can do this whole breeding stuff together! Itll be fun i swears!" she gave me the cute eyes.
God fucking dammit Margat stop it with the cute eyes you know I can't resist the cute eyes fuuuuuuuuck.
"Only if you stop with the cute eyes. Freaking troll girls know my every god damn weakness." I sighed and began to follow her.
My sunglasses buzzed. Riabel had contacted me after hours of silence.
I wonder how she's doing?
excitableCyclone [EC] began trolling detectivesInferiority [DI]
EC: HEY AG
DI: Ah, Ria8el.
DI: I'm glad I heard from you.
DI: I've 8een worried sick.
EC: I WAS FINE
EC: FOR THE MOST PART
DI: Ah. Have the ogres 8egun an attack on your loc8tion?
EC: YEP
DI: Well, since I will not 8e a8le to reach your location until my final g8, I urge you to 8e careful.
EC: I WILL
EC: WJO ARE YOU WITH TN?
DI: I'm currently with Margat, adventuring on her planet.
EC: OOOOOOOOOOOH
EC: YOU TWO DONE YOUR SHIT YET?
DI: W-well.
DI: No!
DI: I have made no such flushed advances whatsoever on her.
EC: COME ON AG
EC: YOUR FLUSHWD CRUSH ON HER IS SO PAINFULLY OBVIOUS
DI: It is not!
EC: YES IT TS
DI: No it's not.
EC: YES UT US
DI: Ugh.
DI: She does not think so, in any case.
EC: BECAUSE SHES JUST A SFLUSTERED AS YOU
DI: That's a lie.
EC: NONITS NOT
DI: I do not wish to talk a8out my flushed feelings for now.
DI: Unless you wish to talk a8out your own.
EC: WHAT
EC: N-NO
EC: NO FLUSHED FEELINGS FOR ANYONE OVER HERE!
EC: STILL SINGLE AND NO CRUSH ON ANYBODY AT ALL AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
DI: I dou8t that 8ut you seem to 8e stu88orn at the moment.
DI: St8y s8fe Ria.
EC: I WILL AF
excitableCyclone [EC] ceased trolling detectivesInferiority [DI]
I attempted to cover my face, now flushed a deep indigo hue, with my sunglasses, to no avail. Margat turned and faced me, her eyebrow raised.
"You ok ag?" She came near me and put a hand on my shoulder. "You look hot..."
Realizing what she had said, she immediately flushed purple. "I-i mean you looked like you werent feeling good like with a fever or something i swear i didnt mean it like it sounded!"
Seeing her flustered eased at least a few of the doubts that she was partially interested in a flushed relationship.
Not that much, though. I still had it in my head that she wasn't looking for it, least of all with me.
I waved her off. "It doesn't matter. I know you didn't mean it like that." I sighed and kept walking.
Margat's glasses clouded up with a screen, which I assumed would be her contacting Eridia for the frog breeding. I sat and decided to message somebody while I waited.
detectivesInferiority [DI] began trolling fleetingFeline [FF]
DI: Uh...
DI: Hey.
FF: :3 oh hey agrils!
FF: :3 i havent purred from you in a while!
DI: Likewise. I guess I was looking for someone fun to help me pass the time and you were the first person who came fo mind.
FF: :3 awwwwwwww that's so sweet of you!
FF: :3 mels and i are busy exploring my planet!
FF: :3 it's actually purrty hot here. must be all the coffee.
DI: Wow, you got a hot planet?
DI: I got a dark pl8ce full of a 8unch of colored in lusii
DI: Not that I could spend a lot of time there. I got the shit 8eat out of me and then I jumped to Mar's planet.
FF: :3 oh so you're with mar?
FF: :3 i bet it's getting saucy
DI: No. Nope. I'm not doing this 8ullshit again.
DI: Stop right there Fliara.
FF: :3 aww you're no fun ag!
DI: And you know that she isn't interested.
FF: :3 liessssssss
FF: :3 i'm telling you she likes you!
DI: Lalalalalalalala I can't hear you.
FF: :3 yeah you can't you can see my words though
DI: 8luh.
DI: False.
FF: :3 true
DI: False.
FF: :3 true
DI: False.
FF: :3 true
DI: Gog dammit.
DI: I'm not doing this 8ullshit again.
FF: :3 you said that befurr
DI: I know.
FF: :3 so clearly you're still pawlerating it.
DI: That doesn't mean anything.
FF: :3 yes it does
DI: No it doesn't.
FF: :3 yes it does
DI: No it doesn't.
FF: :3 yes it does
DI: Oh my gog.
FF: :3 *ff imitates the grumpy troll* oh my gog
DI: Sigh.
DI: I think Mar is getting off of Trollian now.
DI: 8ye.
FF: :3 bye ag!
detectivesInferiority [DI] ceased trolling fleetingFeline [FF]
I sighed in frustration as Margat turned off Trollian on her glasses. She looked at me and laughed.
"Who were you talking to?"
I smirked and laughed a little with her. "Fliara. Had to think of someome fun and she was the first who c8me to mind."
"Youre not wrong." She giggled. "I was just telling eridia about what we have to do. Apparently her sprite told her about all of this and shes on her way now"
"Where is she?"
"From what she was telling me shes on your planet"
I blinked. "Oh hell no. Get her the fuck out of my hive."
She smirked. "And what if i dont?"
"Then I'll leave." I smirked back.
"Nonononono please dont" her eyes widened and she looked to be in a panic.
Stop. Being. Adorable. Margat I swear to gog. You're going to make me tease you even more.
...Even if she didn't like me back.
"Then get her out of my hive."
Margat began to look more upset. "Shes already on her way here and you know shes narcoleptic i cant do anything about it ag im sorry..."
I instinctively jumped up and attempted to make her less upset. It broke my heart to see her upset.
"Well if you can't control it then there isn't anything, I'm sorry for upsetting you."
That put her back in an okay mood.
Bam. Score one for the A-Man.
She shrugged. "Thanks... its ok..."
I stared out at her planet. I wondered where everyone was and how they were faring.
How was Ria? How was Fliara? How was Tylens? Drrakt? Britny? Heegus?
My mind then turned to our guardians. Who knew where they had gone? Gamzee might have entered with Drrakt, and Aradia was with Riabel...
But what about the ones who had gone away? Where were they? How were they faring?
I thought of Equius. I knew I despised him. But I knew that if it ever came to it... I couldn't kill him. He taught me everything I knew and was there for me for all of my early life; my first two sweeps were completely spent going on little "adventures" with him and Nepeta and Fliara.
I guess as I got older I started to see the traditional way of Alternian Society as the way I do now. I didn't like the ideas of supremacy. I wanted to be normal. Not strong. Not feared. I wanted to be liked.
When I think back on it, the whole ordeal might have been what started my personal self-loathing and identification as a cobalt blood. The day I came out to Equius about that...
I'd rather not think of how many cast iron casts that Mar had to make for me. I was stuck in bed for a while.
Stupid asshole thinks he's so damn cool with his STRONG punches and jumps and kicks and his gog damn light up sketchers.
SO WHAT IF HE IS.
I angrily ranted in my mind about my loathing for his attitude and how everyone seemed to like him, even if they didn't act like it.
As opposed to me where everyone clearly pretended to tolerate me and held intense feelings of hostility within.
Obviously.
I took the time to uncaptchalogue my husktop and work on Riabel's hive. Hers was still small, and we needed all the hives big so she could maneuver through the Medium easier. Meldia had sent everyone her "LOSAL Stock Exchange" and now all our grist was in one big incestuous slurry.
A bit too reminiscent of the Mother Grub on the old Alternia.
My glasses buzzed again. Riabel. I wondered what she wanted.
excitableCyclone [EC] began trolling detectivesInferiority [DI]
EC: AG
DI: Yes?
EC: I GOT A QUESTJON FOR YOU
DI: I'm listening.
EC: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY HIVE?
DI: I 8uilt it up using grist. We have quite a lot.
EC: I BARELY KILLED ANYHIG
DI: Well I was a8le to get my hands on some grist thanks to Meldia.
DI: She is a sneaky 8itch.
DI: She was a8le to set up a stock exch8nge that mixes all of everyone's grist into one incestuous slurry.
EC: SO YOY USED EVERYONE ELSES SHIT?
DI: Essentially.
EC: HAHA NICE AF
DI: Well I guess my thievery is getting better than it was 8efore.
DI: And my adventures with Margat are going smoothly.
EC: AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
EC: YOU TWO FUCKIN LOVE ESCH OTHER DONTCHA
DI: Please stop...
EC: OOOOOOH YOU FETTING FLUSTERED!
DI: Ria8el please stop this is m8king me unc8mforta8l8
EC: OKAY OKAY. I HAVE SOMEONE ELSE TO ASK THINGS TONANYWAY.
DI: Yes, well. I'll 8e seeing you.
excitableCyclone [EC] ceased trolling detectivesInferiority [DI]
Fucking hell Ria, can you not?
And Margat was back to being concerned over whether I was sick or not.
"I'm fine," I told her. "I was talking to Ria again."
"How is she?"
"She isn't dead. And she's at her hive. So there are a few pluses."
Margat laughed. "Well thats good at least."
"Yeah, I guess it is." I smiled a little and layed on my back, staring up at the dark sky on Margat's planet. It was a lot like mine, full of a bunch of animals with a black-as-night sky, yet hers had a ground that appeared as if the sky was bright and full of sun. It was... kind of soothing, really. It would be more so if there weren't fucking frogs everywhere.
Have I mentioned that I hate frogs? A lot?
I stared at the gate above us. Any minute now, Eridia would be dropping through. And so would a game of shitty one-upmanship.
One that I was going to win.
As if on cue, the gate above our heads turned black and resembled a skull-esque shape for a moment before someome fell from it.
And speak of the gog damned devil, it was Eridia.
She leapt up and dusted off her skirt, smiling widely at us. ")(ey Mar! )(ey AG!"
"Hey ed!" Margat hugged her. I waved.
"Hey Eridia." I stood again.
She eyed my cast warily. "W) (appened?"
I rolled my eyes. Not that she could see underneath my glasses. "Got into a fight with Equius when I entered. We 8roke each other's arms. An arm for an arm, I suppose."
She frowned. "You S)(ouldnt T)(row Your Arm Away Like T)(at.
"My arm will be perfectly fine."
Margat stopped her from speaking. "We all know why were here right?"
We both nodded.
"Good. Now lets get ectobreeding."
I looked at Eridia. She looked at me.
If Margat was willing to take charge, that was fine by me.