Chapter 29: The Final Day: Part 3
"DAD! BEHIND US!" Marie screams in fear as she sees the tsunami getting closer and closer to the truck everyone's on, looking at the tidal wave behind her and the others. She whimpers, gritting her teeth and closing her eyes before the tsunami catches up to the truck Pacific's car is on.
However, just before it can cause any damage or injure everyone in the car, the sound of electricity is heard as Marie opens the eyes, looking confused at first until she sees an electrical shield of some kind of blocking the tsunami behind them. She raises an eyebrow, before Kalma takes her by surprise and shouts while pointing to the window.
"Marie, look!" The Squid Sister looks outside of the window Kalma's staring at, and is soon surprised as she sees the Great Zapfish flying in the sky around the city of Inkopolis, letting out a cry as it creates a shield of some kind from the disasters that protects the city from the dangers outside. Relieved, Marie lets out a sigh as she slumps onto her seat, and looks at Kalma next to her.
"What? Did you think the Great Zapfish wouldn't protect the city it lives in?" Kalma says and chuckles as he sees various excited inklings in their houses and apartments that the truck passes, and some minutes later, the truck parks near a gas station as everyone gets out of Pacific's car. What grabs their attention once they step outside, is that they don't feel any raindrops whatsoever, despite the clouds in the sky being a dark gray color and seeing distant lightning strikes outside of the city.
"Alright, let's refuel this car, and get to the plaza as fast as we can. I think you two should be hosting a news report when this rainstorm is over?" Pacific looks at the Squid Sisters, to which they nod in response to his question as he begins refueling the car. While doing that, Marie looks at Kalma, as her eyes flash a blue color for a second as she walks over to the inkling boy.
"Kalma?" Kalma feels Marie's hand touch his shoulder as he glances behind him to look at the Squid Sister.
"Yeah, Marie? Is something bothering you?" He notices her looking somewhat off, seeing her stare somewhat downward as she suddenly looks up at him with eyes that he has never seen before. Eyes with black pupils with blue irises around her.
"Could we both talk somewhere private, please?" Her voice has changed completely as well, now speaking in a foreign language that he somehow remembers and not the inkling language, which catches Kalma off guard as he just looks at her.
"S-sure thing, Marie." He says somewhat nervously as both he and Marie leave Pacific and the others alone and head behind the gas station, standing there and looking at each other intently.
"So what do you want to talk about, Marie?" Kalma nervously smiles at Marie as they both sit onto a nearby bench and look at the skies above them, seeing the electrical barrier blocking out the rain.
"Kalma, do you remember when Epsilon asked you if you knew someone by the name of Emily?" She looks at him, as Kalma responds with a sound an "mhm", to which Marie half-smiles and places her hand on the inkling boy's, grabbing his attention as he looks at her.
"I've been keeping a secret from my family for a very long time. It's complicated and ridiculous, to say the least, but... my soul has never been that of an inkling's to begin with." She looks at Kalma, who looks somewhat confused as he stares at her.
"Your soul? What do you mean it has never been an inkling's to begin with, Marie?" He asks curiously as the Squid Sister sighs somewhat depressingly and begins telling her story.
"I think you won't understand what I mean by that, but I'll tell you a story about how I am so different from inklings along with Callie..." She places her hand around Kalma's shoulder, and begins telling her story of Emily to him while the inkling boy listens intently.
"Long before I was born like this, I was a human girl going by the name of Emily. I was born on March 8th, 2000, and had a mental disorder that no one could understand when doctors found out about it. Day and night, I would have nightmares about this creature having a white, glowing grin and eyes on it as it chased me down until I woke up screaming and crying. However, as long as my mom and dad would hold me while I was sleeping, it would stop having nightmares until I slept by myself again, in which they would return." She pauses for a moment, as Kalma looks completely interested at her story and smiles at him.
"Heh, you at least understand me, Kalma. Because now comes the interesting part about how you out of all the inklings can understand the language I currently speak in, as well as remembering your own past life as well before you died." Kalma looks somewhat shocked as Marie caresses one of the inkling boy's cheeks and giggles before saying something that surprises Kalma.
"Yes, Kalma. You yourself were a human before you became an inkling like I am. Have you wondered why a name like Emily would come into your mind when you and I had our first kiss together?" She sees him looking at the sky, looking completely mind blown until he looks at her again with a baffled look on him as he proceeds to answer her question.
"Because you and I probably knew each other when we were humans?" He asks, to which Marie giggles and nods at him as he looks even more surprised as she responds to his answer.
"You're correct, Kalma. You and I knew each other long before we became like this, and I've always seen you treat Turf Wars as a casual sport unlike everyone else who plays it competitively, including Callie. Any reason as to why?" She looks interested at Kalma like he is interested in her story, as he answers her question.
"Well, to be honest, Turf Wars isn't really that interesting to me. I don't get, why inklings like getting splatted or splatting each other as it hurts. Like, a lot." He grins to himself, as Marie grins herself as they look at each other and blush a bit as they feel each other's hands on their shoulders.
"When you and I were humans, we both used to play a game called Splatoon together. This whole world we both are in? It's the very game itself that we both played together." She looks at Kalma, who looks completely dumbstruck at her as well as having his eyes wide open.
"Wow... Well, I'm going to be honest, that sounds completely far-fetched. But at the same time, I feel as though you're telling the truth. Like, I can't deny it, because I feel as though I remember everything you just said despite me not having experienced it. Maybe once this rainstorm is over, you and I could hang out at my place, and you can tell the rest of the story you wanted to tell?" He smiles at the Squid Sister as she smiles back and nods as they both get up from the bench they're on and walk back to where Pacific and the others are as Marie closes her and eyes changes her them back to the golden-esque irises and star-like pupils, seeing Callie and Epsilon sitting together in the car and looking at each other.
"Hey, should we surprise the two?" Kalma forms a smirk on him, as Marie chortles and nods with a sly smirk on her as well as they both sneak toward the two inside of the car and see Callie and Epsilon looking at each other intently until they both suddenly open the car door where the two are.
"GYAAH! What are you two doing!?" Callie pulls herself away from the octoling, much to Marie and Kalma forming wide grins on them as they see the Squid Sister blushing hard, looking somewhat angry but trying to hide away her smile.
"Hey, are you smiling despite being somewhat embarrassed, Callie?" The octoling boy asks with a sly tone in his voice, much to Callie chuckling quietly for a moment before responding to him in a somewhat angry voice, still having a hint of a smile on her that she fails to hide.
"N-no, I'm not! C-can we both get some privacy together!?" She chuckles while Marie and Kalma continue standing outside of the door, looking at the two until Callie shows an annoyed expression on her.
"Ok, I'm kind of serious now." She bluntly says as she closes the car door while Marie and Kalma just walk away from the car and proceed to enter the gas station, seeing Pacific paying for the fuel as he turns to look at the two.
"Don't worry you two, I'm coming in just a few seconds!" He smiles at the two as he takes out some coins while Marie and Kalma look around the shop to see if they can find some snacks to buy. They decide to buy two bags of chips covered in shrimp flavor, one for themselves and one for Callie and Epsilon as they walk to the counter and place about a 100 coins on it and soon leave after paying for the snacks.
Soon after Marie and Kalma enter Pacific's car, the latter gives Callie and Epsilon a bag of chips as Pacific begins driving to Inkopolis Plaza after starting the car whilst everyone looks somewhat excited while Epsilon just looks somewhat nervous.
Minutes pass, and soon enough, Pacific parks his car right outside the Squid Sisters' Studio as Callie immediately hops out, laughing in joy as she runs inside of the studio.
"Hey, dad..." Marie looks up at Pacific, as she hugs her father, sighing as she begins to form tears in her eyes.
"I'll miss you." She holds back from crying, as Pacific lightly chuckles and warmly smiles at his daughter as he hugs her back, patting her on the back.
"I'll miss you too, Marie. It was so nice to meet you and Callie again, and don't forget, that I love you and Callie with all my heart, alright? You both take care of each other now." The two continue hugging for a while, until Marie lets go of her father, streams of tears having fallen down her cheek as she exits Pacific's car.
"Oh, and one more thing, Marie?" She looks behind her, and sees her father writing down something and giving it to her as she looks surprised. Her father's phone number.
"Don't forget to call me if you miss me, alright? I have to go to work now, so take care of yourselves!" Marie chuckles lightly as she watches Pacific drive off to work, and feels Kalma touch her shoulder.
"Come on, Marie. Let's go meet up with Epsilon and Callie in the studio, shall we?" Kalma grabs her hand, and slowly begin walking toward the studio Epsilon and Callie are in.
However, just before they enter the studio, they hear the sound of the Great Zapfish wailing in pain as it lands on the tower, looking injured and hurt as they start seeing raindrops falling down again along with a distant tsunami in the horizon and signs of waterspouts and hurricanes. The barrier has been destroyed by the rainstorm.
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"QUICK, GET INSIDE!" Kalma screams as he and Marie rush inside of the studio, hearing the sound of a loud, booming thunderstorm right outside of the studio as the whole building goes dark for about 5 seconds before the lights turn back on.
"What's going on!? I thought the barrier was going to keep us safe!" Callie shouts as everyone sees water starting to flood the streets of Inkopolis along with seeing several waterspouts forming in the plaza.
"I thought so too! Apparently, the rainstorm is much more powerful than we've expected, and managed to seriously hurt the Great Zapfish and shatter the barrier! Callie, do you know when the rainstorm will end!?" Everyone begins frantically running up the stairs to where the Squid Sisters host their news show, and they soon hear the sound of glass shattering as water floods the studio room below them and see the water coming after them.
"I don't know, Marie! Remember, that I threw my phone at the highway because I was too foolish of myself!?" Marie instead takes out her Splatphone to check the time, and sure enough, only 1 more minute remains on the clock before the rainstorm ends. While running up the stairs, they see the Great Zapfish still trying to protect the city by barely managing to create a barrier of electricity where the apartment and studio is, and lets out a wail as smaller Zapfishes that Kalma rescued in Octo Valley come out of the sewer grate leading into to help.
And sure enough, one of the Zapfish flies to where the Squid Sisters, Epsilon and Kalma are, and with its powers combined with the other Zapfish, they create a barrier around Inkopolis City again, just in time before a thunderstorm would destroy the ceiling of the Inkopolis News Tower where the four are.
"Only a few more seconds, everyone! We can do this!" Kalma says, before he spots a tornado heading toward the News Tower, and widens his eyes in horror.
"Ummmm... nevermind, then! WE'RE GETTING SPLATTED!" He screams in horror along with the others as the tornado ruptures through the city streets, ready to destroy the Inkopolis News Tower until something suddenly happens that no one saw coming.
All of the clouds in the sky disappear as the tornado vanishes along with the rain, hurricanes and thunderstorms as Kalma, Marie, Callie and Epsilon look up, still somewhat nervous and scared until they look around, confused as to what happened with the disasters that struck them. And then, all of a sudden, Marie's phone starts beeping as she takes it out and sees that the clock has reached 0:00. They've survived the Rainstorm, and its 7 days.
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She forms a grin on her face, and lets out a heartfelt laugh as the skies above Inkopolis City return to normal along with the warm sun shining in the air, the tsunami that flooded the city soon goes away as well inside of Octo Valley as the group of friends inside of the tower hug each other as multiple inklings that were trapped inside of the apartments and houses step outside into Inkopolis Plaza, letting out cheers of joy while some are laughing and hugging each other from having survived the disaster that struck Inkopolis.
The Rainstorm is finally over.
Author's Note: And there you have it! The 3-part finale! I know this was a bit shorter than the other two parts, but I was starting to run out of ideas, so I had to end it here.
Don't go away yet or leaving a review saying this was a great story! We still got the aftermath to cover, as well as the upcoming Splatfest and ending! 3 more chapters, and then the Rainstorm is truly over, and I can take a break!
I kind of want the story to end at 32 chapters, because it sounds like a decent number to end on. But first, I got the Creepypasta's finale to work on first before I can start on the epilogue for this story. And it's going to be awesome in its own right. ;)
