Chapter 29
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FlockPack - Alright, first you start on your blood color then spell your name up the hemospectrum and the color your land on is your new blood color for the game. If this is still confusing the PM me.
"Where is the clown," Nepeta asks as she sits in Kankri's lap, Kurloz glares at her, "the other one I mean."
"I think I may know," Karkat says, he is back in the outfit Kanaya made him since she hid everything else from him and he didn't feel like walking around naked. Karkat walks outside to see Sollux and Gamzee just standing outside with each other, they aren't talking but they are on guard.
"Hey," Karkat says and they both look back.
"H-hey bro," Gamzee says slowly, "how have ya been?"
"Better," he says, "why are you two fuctards out here instead of inside with the rest of us?" Sollux sighs and Gamzee just looks away, "ok what the fuck are you two keeping from me?"
"I am sorry," Gamzee says with purple tears streaming down his face, "I am so mother fucking sorry. It was my mother fucking fault you were caught and…" Karkat paps him.
"Shoosh," Karkat says with a warm smile that he only uses when he is dealing with grubs that are scared, "if I wanted to escape then I would have, did any of you fuck asses ever try to figure out why I would let myself get captured? Oh and Sollux, leader of the rebellion, really?"
"Thit," Sollux hisses, "I wath jutht trying to help. I thaved KN a few timeth thankth to me leading the rebellion, but you being the Thufferer, that was a thurprithe."
Karkat chuckles, "well fuck you too, and Gamzee fucking Makara, it is not your fault! And how the fuck did you get hurt," Karkat asks as he examines the scars on Gamzee's face.
"Lil Kanbro's matesprit," Karkat groans and face palms. He should have known that was her doing, he nods. Gamzee hugs Karkat and Karkat hugs back, "I am sorry."
Karkat knows Gamzee heard him talking a few seconds ago, "I forgive you," he says and kisses Gamzee's forehead then looks at Sollux. He holds out one arm, "get your ass over here."
Sollux walks close enough for Karkat to pull him into the hug, "you know you two are crazy," he says and Karkat pulls him into the hug.
"If we fucking weren't then we wouldn't be any fucking fun," they all laugh and stand in a circle, "meet me inside ok?" They nod and go inside. He frowns and walks away from the house to look at the rust blood girl.
"Hello Handmaiden," he says and she walks over.
"Karkat," she says on the brink of crying.
"So what was in the vile," Kankri asks as Sollux and Gamzee finally join them.
"A special poison that makes blood pump faster and the troll weaker," he explains, "I made it very STRONG, so it would work better agents the fuchsia blood." Feferi is still holding the egg but Vriska will not stop glaring at her.
"What," Feferi asks a little annoyed.
"Whore," she says, and Feferi growls at her. Everyone can see the spades flying around; Kankri quickly takes the egg and Nepeta to the other side of the room.
"Oh, I am not the one who is a thief!" She spits, "at least I got further than you in my relationship." Vriska gasps and is about to smack Feferi but Eridan and the Engineer grab her hand.
"At least he actually loves me," she spits and pulls away from the cold bloods, "he only did you so that he could protect us," she say and puts a hand on Kankri.
"Please don't drag me into this," he pleads with a frown.
"Paws off," Nepeta hisses and Vriska takes two steps back, "mure," Vriska walks back to where she started, "better." Nepeta is not letting anyone near her matesprit anymore, he is hers and that is how she is keeping it. She has had enough with sharing and looking at the duel colored egg makes her want one of her own, she knows Kankri will do it with her if she asks him correctly.
"Nepeta," Kankri says, "she is my mother remember, family is fine," he smiles at her and she frowns, "and if you act that way again I will do that to Equius."
"Fine," she pouts and Equius chuckles.
"What," Kankri asks and looks at him.
"My apologies Young One but you cannot take me on," he says with amusement in his voice.
Kankri hands the egg to Nepeta and stands up, "alright blue blood, fucking bring it on. Right now, come and try to kick me fucking ass," he challenges and throws his cloak to Darkleer.
"Equius I wouldn't," he warns his brother but Equius charges at him, which shocked everyone. Kurloz is about to pin him down but Kankri spins around him and elbows the taller troll in the back and Equius falls the floor and doesn't move.
"Stupid, you think I would challenge the Empress without knowing I could win?" Kankri scoff and Darkleer throw him his cloak and his clips it back on as he takes the egg back from Nepeta and sits next to her.
"Is he ok," she asks worried, everyone else is just surprised Kankri knocked him out.
"Just asleep," he says.
"Mother fucker," Kurloz says shocked and takes Equius to the spar room they share in the hive.
"Lil Kanbro got moves," Gamzee says and Kankri just chuckles.
"Thomeone learned a lot," Sollux mutters, "how the fuck?"
"It isn't like I had anything else to do," Kankri says and they nod. Kankri chuckles as he looks at the spades coming from Feferi and Vriska again, "oh, Eridan I think you have competition for mom's hate," he says and Vriska looks at Kankri smiling.
"Yes you finally said iiiiiiiit!" She says victoriously.
"Shit I thought you weren't listening," he mutters and everyone chuckles.
"Mothers always listen to their children, we learn their voices so we can pick it out form anywhere," Kanaya says, "I will make something for everyone to eat. Could someone get Karkat please?"
"I will," Vriska says and walks out the door then shrieks.
"What," Kankri runs over and is glad he gave to egg to Nepeta before he did or he would have dropped it at the sight of all the cherry blood. Karkat is dead; he is really dead this time. Someone stabbed him to death and left the crime scene before they noticed. Kankri looks at Karkat's white eyes as the cherry blood dripping from his mouth and pooling around his body. Kankri runs over to the body, he looks over it to make sure he is really dead, maybe Feferi can pull the same trick her predecessor did.
Tears swell up in Kankri's eyes as he screams and falls to his knees, he is just a child again. He doesn't need to be strong anymore, he can be a kid again, which means he can cry as much as he wants. The cherry tears stream down his face and won't stop as he chokes on sobs over his father's body. He lets out a blood curdling scream as everyone watches; no one wants to approach him. He doesn't have to hide anymore, he doesn't have to be a leader now, he can just be a kid and all he wants to do right now is cry his eyes out.
"Dad, no, you can't fucking die!" He screams, "We just got to see each other again, you can't die!"
Kanaya puts her hand on his shoulder and he starts to cry into her shoulder, she hugs him and comforts him. "Their, their sweetie," she says with jade tears running down her face, "it will be ok." She just got him back and now he is gone again. Her child is really gone this time.
Kankri pulls away from Kanaya and starts to search Karkat's body, "what are you doing," Vriska asks, Eridan is trying to comfort her and Feferi, who is blubbering her eyes right now. Vriska is not letting a single tear escape.
"Something," he says and looks for some kind of clue Karkat could have left him. Something to show what happen, his sickles are missing and it looks like he was killed before he got a chance to defend himself. Kankri opens Karkat's hand and a blue vile is in it, "bingo," he says and looks around for anything else. All he finds is a note that he hides.
"What did you find," Vriska asks and Kankri shows them.
"Impossible," Engineer says, "no one should have been able to recreate it," he says and goes to take it but Kankri jerks back.
"No," he growls, "you may have been his moirail but he was my dad, so this is mine now." Everyone gathers around the body, no one can really believe he is dead. Feferi is trying to extend his life even though Karkat is already dead. Gamzee is crying and Vriska is too but she isn't making any noise. Sollux is just looking at the body in disbelief that he is really gone and that this isn't really Karkat, this is just a troll that looks like him. He wants Karkat to come out from behind a tree laughing saying how good he got them. To be a dick and laugh at them for falling for something so stupid and fake.
"I will cu-kill whoever did this to him," Engineer swears and leaves.
"Hey," Kankri screams, he unclips the chain from his dad's neck and throws it at him. Kankri is a little confused when he sees a fuchsia ring on it but he doesn't say anything about it to Feferi, "save me a little action when you catch them," he nods and leaves. Karkat had more than one fuchsia ring from Feferi so he decided to keep one so they could work together easier and to show some sort of partnership to everyone.
Kanaya is crying again like she did when she thought he was dead the first time, Kurloz is paping her while Equius is trying to calm Nepeta down. At this point, Kankri is the only one not crying anymore. He walks into the hive and into his room that he used to share. He opens the note,
'Dear who ever finds this first (Kankri probably), if you are reading this then I really did die. Well, first of all fuck that I died for real this time. I am not going to come out of nowhere and save the day if you need saving. Sorry I fucking died and that I have really fucking left you guys. Please, for the love of Gog be safe. I don't want to see any of you in the other world for a long fucking time, if I do then I will kick your ass as soon as I see you.
I am glad this is finally a safe world for you son, be who you want to be. Be happy and for the love of fuck, please don't make any of the mistakes I did when I was there. Stop cussing too, that is my thing not yours. I have a feeling that you will be traveling a lot now so make sure that you check in on my mom every so often to make sure when it is her time that she isn't alone.
Everyone else, I know we just got to see each other again but I guess this is good bye for good. I don't want you all to be blubbering like wrigglers either, I lived a good fucking life so honor my last wish and stop fucking crying on me!'
Kankri looks out the window to see they are, he wonders how his dad knew that would happen and keeps reading.
'I forgive you all for everything, I don't hate anything any of you did to me and I hope you can forgive me like I am with you. Well, that is all I fucking got so, make sure you keep the equality thing going and stay safe.'
Karkat Vantas 3 (heart and diamond)
Kankri feels like he is going to cry when he reads how Karkat signed his name. Karkat is written in jade and Vantas is written in bright red like their blood. He hugs the note and looks at the vile a small note it tied to it. Kankri reads it.
'Hello Kankri, I hope you remember me because I am the one who killed Karkat Vantas. He was too much trouble for his own good, you want revenge? Come and find me then, you both raised me in the cave and I am great full to you three but Karkat should have died when he was supposed to be executed.
Handmaiden
P.S. That vile contains the same poison Karkat used so keep it safe. It will come in handy one day, there is always going to be a great evil here and now it is your job to calm it but from the shadows. '
Kankri crumbles the note up and grabs a small black leather bag and throw the notes in, spar tights, a sweater, and a few shirts. He also throws in money then grabs his sickles and sword that Vriska gave him. He drops his cloak and throws on a black one with red stitches around his horns. He puts on a black tee shirt with a red Cancer sign then writes a note of his own.
He looks outside to see everyone about to come in, he uses Karkat's red arrow to stick his note to the wall then quickly runs from the hive. He wishes he could ask someone to come with him but it would just be too much, he can find them later if he has to. He runs out the back door and quickly goes to the hive that Karkat said they would move into later but never got to.
"K-Kankitty," Nepeta sniffles, she wants her matesprit to comfort her and she wants to comfort him but he doesn't come out.
"Kankri," Darkleer says, he looks around.
"Um, guys," Gamzee says reading the note stuck to the portal, "Lil Kanbro isn't here anymore." He hands the note to Nepeta who starts to cry in Equius's arms, he reads it out loud.
"Dear everyone, I know I should be here and I am sorry that I am not. I will not be coming back; I will avenge my dad alone. I wanted to take you two with me but I can't put you guys through any more of my shit. The hemoscale shit started because of me and now it is up to Feferi to keep it going, I am counting on you.
I am going to travel around looking for the troll who killed my dad, I know who did it. Vriska, please be careful on the seas and don't look for me because you won't like what you find. Same for Nepeta and Darkleer, when you finally track me down I know you will not see me as the same person you were pale for or fell in love with.
Nepeta, I will love you furrever and ever but I can't ask you to do this with me anymore, you deserve better. So do you Darkleer, I hope you all have nice lives. And Grandma I love you, please me strong for us. I will be watching, 69. This will be the last time I will ever use the name dad gave me, from now on Kankri is dead, I am only the Signless.
3(heart) Signless Vantas (diamond) "
Nepeta is pissed, "WHAT?!" She shrieks and goes into Kankri's room, "that little…." She yanks the door open and they watch her come out with blue cloak that is outlined in olive on, "If he thinks he can leave meow that easily!"
"Wait for me," Darkleer says as he goes to chase after her but Equius stops him.
"Good luck," Equius says as Nepeta leaves to find her matesprit. Darkleer nods as the blue bloods sigh, "we should leave now," they both leave.
"They are right, we should be getting home," Feferi says.
"Well I don't know about you guys but I am going to hunt down my matesprit's son," Vriska says as she turns heels then leaves.
"Vriska, wait," Eridan runs after her to calm her down. Sollux looks out the open door to see Vriska kissing him nicely.
"Find me later fish fucker," she walks away and Sollux growls at Eridan.
"That was black, we are red," he yelps as Sollux chases him away, "I am sorry Sol!"
Gamzee sighs, "I guess we should be goin mother fucking home now," he looks at Kurloz who moves closer to Kanaya. Gamzee notices the egg has vanished for some reason, he really hopes it was Kankri that took it.
"If you don't mother fucking mind I am stayin here with her," Gamzee gives him a small smile and nods.
"Good luck, good by Ms. Kanaya," Gamzee leaves and closes the door.
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