By KnotgrassKola008. Disclaimer I do not own Nepeta, Chopper, Fluttershy, Gavin Free, Alex (ImmortalHD), Setosorcerer and Martin (bodil40). Nepeta belongs to Andrew Hussie, Chopper belongs to Eiichiro Oda, Fluttershy belongs to Hasbro, Gavin Free works at Rooster Teeth, Alex works at the Creatures and Seto and Martin do YouTube. I do not do this for financial gain.
Chapter 37: Stress.
Faith eyed one strand of her hair but smiled.
Dani stood next to her with a face of pure confusion, also eyeing her hair. It was in one large plait which reached her hips with a red tie in place.
Though her hair was in fact, a nice blue. Akuras shade of blue, like a blue pearl colour. It was odd to see such a change; her hair normally being a cherry-blossom pink shade. Though it somehow suited her either way and made her teal eyes only shine more.
"This is your punishment?" Dani asked, raising an eyebrow.
Faith turned to her with a shrug, "I did place my hair dye bottle where Akuras usually is. So the punishment would definitely be to have my hair dyed a different colour."
"It's kind of weird…" The athlete muttered, "you've always dyed your hair pink. It was your first rebellious age in school."
An odd snort came from Faith, "Rebellious act? You know just as well I that I did it because I felt prettier with pink hair."
"You were prettier either way. All the boys in the class wanted to date you…I think a few girls did as well." Dashy spoke and creased her brow. Trying to remember any details.
"So it's a giant tent?" A British voice spoke out, both turned to see the small group.
"It's a hermit house Gavin," His purple hooded friend explain, "from the info it was used by Greek monks to live in."
The blond made a sound, "so wait…they built this by themselves. It must have taken ages."
"Technically they carved into the stone. The limited tools they would have had meant it would have taken a long time. So I can understand your realisation. Then again these people were patient." Seto chuckled while Gavin nodded.
"I wanna make a stone fort…actually a pillow fort sounds better." The emerald-eyed Brit spoke aloud.
"I wanna make one to." Seto agreed with a bright smile and determination in his eyes.
"Pillow fort? What's a pillow fort?" Chopper asked, tugging on Gavins arm.
"You don't know, I would expect living in a castle for soon long would mean a pillow fort. It it's a great monument of impressive stature and size that…"
Gavin rambled onto the greatness of a pillow fort and Chopper listened with wonder. Seto smiled while listening as well, even nodding and adding bits in.
"Martin, hold still!"
Turning to the left, they saw the Bulgarian hold Nepeta on his shoulders. The cat-girl observing something in the walls and drawing it.
"This is harder than it looks!" Martin yelled trying to keep his balance.
"Purr-lease try, this is a golden moment in art." Nepeta chided.
"It's a fucking grasshopper!" Martin retorted.
"It's art!" the artist retorted. She was then sent straight into the wall and slid down it, a hiss of pain echoed from her but Martin somehow jumped underneath her. Cushioning her fall but only increasing pain for him.
Chopper scrambled over and quickly helped the two up as did Seto and Gavin.
"Hey your two buddies are up there." Dani point and Faith looked up. The Hermit houses were carved into large stone walls, being about twenty feet high. So seeing her two friends brawling while climbing the stony wall was almost made her have a heart attack.
"Oh god…" Faith whimpered.
Both holding onto the stony wall with one hand and only there feet. Though with their free hand, they were trying to hit each other. Hit each other off the wall and down to the floor.
"Get down from there!" Faith spoke up but her voice wouldn't reach.
"They look like some tough nuts to me. Just leave them, there not dumb enough to kill the other…maybe." Her rainbow-haired friend comforted or rather tried to.
"I hate it when this happens…" Faith muttered and pinched her nose.
"Do you want to go somewhere else?" Dashy whispered in her ear. Lifting her head, she turned towards Dani who thumbed towards a path nearby.
"I'm not ditching these guys." Faith sternly spoke.
"Woh. I didn't mean it like that," the athlete whispered, "I mean that your off and do you wanna go somewhere else to talk. It's really obvious that your unhappy."
The blue-haired woman wanted to argue but found no words. She did feel unhappy and did feel rather stressed already. Though the thought of ditching her friends was just horrible.
"Look, can we just talk somewhere private?" Dani whispered with a pleading look.
Faith shut her eyes and made some sort of odd noise.
"Fine. Just for you." Faith replied and a wide grin came on the girls face. Quickly grabbing her friends hand and held it tightly, the two went up and left the group. Faith felt her heart-strings get tugged.
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"You…you brought me here?!" Faith squawked.
Staring with her mouth wide open at the building in front of it. It was a large school building but with large green vines, shrubs and the building being more black than sliver. All the windows had been shattered and birds could even be heard from chirping inside. Butterflies were entering and exiting the building as they pleased, the smell of rotting leaves and fresh earth was strong in the air and her eyes could spot the abandoned classes inside.
More memories began to submerge from her mind.
"Yeah our old military school. Pegasus academy!" Dani yelled. She easily leapt over the rickety metal fence and marched towards the building.
Faith watched with tense fear before pulling herself over the metal fence and racing after her friend.
"Dashy we can't be here! Just because this bit of the building is abandoned doesn't mean the new building is!" Faith whimpered, "also my friends will be worried!"
"Relax Faithy, it's school vacation for the school. So there will be no one here except us. Anyway don't you want to see the memories we've made here." Dani explained. Faith followed after her friend, she did not want to break and enter into her old school.
Though…the thought of seeing this place felt tempting yet almost painful.
Though her friends had always put each other first; why shouldn't she?
A quizzical look came over her face and tilted her head side to side. She wouldn't be gone for long.
"I want to see the girls toilets first." Faith decided and a smirk came on Dani's face.
It was almost to easy entering the school, one window was just an open square and both easily entered (though there was broken grass everywhere). The room they entered was once one of the training rooms. Though it was empty and only its desks remained.
Large in size with stone floor, wooden desks with there metal school chairs and overhanging lights. Recollecting of learning fighting techniques and the many painful fights went on here. Faiths hand slid against a wooden desk and she felt dust gather on her fingers.
Exiting the room, they found themselves in a small corridor. Stairs on the left were covered in roots and rusty metal. The stairs themselves leading up to the girls and boys changing rooms. In front of the two were two doors.
A male toilets and female toilets.
The female toilets they quickly entered.
The girls toilets was small with grey walls and grey floors. There was barely any light except from the only door in the room. The sinks were rusty with dead insects in them and the toilets lids were stuck to the rims. A weird smell of rotting plants and sweat came to Faith head.
The toilet usually smelled of cleaning fluids when she was younger and blood. Blood from the girls getting injuries while training.
"Remember when I spray painted this?" Dani smirked and pointed to the wall.
Faith saw a large yellow thunderbolt with red and blue thunderbolts dotted around it. A smile came to her face.
"Yeah, the teachers went ballistic but let you go for beating another academy record in the school. I remember when you came in with your spray-cans." Faith chuckled and watched Dani began to scan the walls and tracing her hands over the art-work.
"Check it out, your butterflies are still here!"
Walking over, she leaned in to see three pink butterflies on the wall. The size of a small textbook and with red hearts on each wings.
"You always loved butterflies haven't you?" The runner snorted but a warm smile on her face.
"Says you," Faith replied, "You were obsessed with the wonder bolts. You still are and love all of the teammates."
Dani only smiled (a confident smile), "It's my dream. The best running team in the world, it must be so amazing. The training, the cool partner, the shows and tricks. Even in school they encouraged us to join a team. Well to be part of the army but…"
The teal-eyed female nodded, "Yeah…is it weird I've kind of had my best memories in this bathroom."
"Yeah. I mean you were kind of hated…" blurted out Dani. A dark look having come upon her friends face but the runner placed a hand on her friends shoulder.
"You weren't totally hated. Remember so many guys and girls were crushing on you." Dani comforted.
"No…they just wanted to laugh and point." A whimper leaving Faiths voice. As much as she wanted to say that she wanted to forgive them and be the better person, she could not. She tried to be kind and in the end it lead to pain.
"Hey, everyone was too stupid to see how truly amazing you were! I mean you did so much after leaving…the school…"
A deadly silence came between the two. Dani gulped in realisation at what she had said and Faith having pushed some of her hair to cover her face. Using her fingers to fiddle with her skirt and felling herself sweat.
"Hey do you still sing?"
Her head snapped up and with no words she nodded.
A grin came on her friends face, "Damn if only I brought my guitar. I really wanted to hear you sing again, your voice was really pretty."
Her cheeks stained red but she pushed herself a bit higher, "Do you still do parkour? I want to see you do some tricks again."
Dani nodded, "Well of course. I've been doing the best tricks which only very few people can pull off. I do need to train and practise to get into the wonder bolts after all."
"Although you use to be called Rainbow Crash after-"
"Ok! Ok! Of all the incidents you had to bring up. Why that?" Dani whined with anger yet desperateness to her tone.
"Sorry," Faith apologised but glimmered, "that was your biggest…mistake of all time."
The runner made a funny pouty face and turned away. Hearing Faith laugh made her grin happily and quickly go up to her friends face.
"So are you going to sing or not?" Dashy asked.
"Well…umm I haven't sung in a while…my voice might not be…ummm." Her cheeks stained red as she mumbled along.
"Have more…faith in yourself," Dani winked earning a snort from the blue-haired girl, "though seriously. You've always had the best voice and need more confidence to sing."
Faith just sighed, "alright…any requests?"
"We didn't start the fire by Billy Joel."
Faith raised an eyebrow, "really? I can sing it but I need a beat."
Dani exited the bathroom but came back in with two heavy looking sticks. Quickly she began a steady beat against the bathroom wall. Faith tapped her finger against one of the sinks.
Taking a deep breath in…she let her voice out.
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Prium watched the small group near the hermit houses. His eyes were continually kept on Gavin, watching the blond move about and smile.
He looked happier.
The hitman watched, clenching his side in continually pain. The swordsman had given him a painful wound, it was deep but thankfully had hit no vital organs. Though it still bleed and even though he had to be careful.
Cracked ribs, a deep wound and walking about like he wasn't in pain.
Baby-blue eyes stared down at his phone, an old small phone. Having the words T parents in capital letters at the top but no messages from them. Only he sent messages.
No message had been sent yet, his missed his deadline because of the green haired swordsman but he was sure that he was following him.
Prium needed to send a report.
Checking back on Gavin, he was still smiling. Though bags were still under his eyes and his movements were slow. He knew that he would have to confront his parents.
He still needed to send a message, he still needed to reveal things to Gavin (since he's so damn curious the little bugger).
Prium: Haven't yet. I'll do it by tomorrow and your son will be yours.
Checking on Gavin, he could only see his son.
It hurt worse than a sword slash to the side.
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"Damn! You've gotten like…twenty percent cooler!"
Faith stared at her friend who was sparkling in amazement. The blue-haired girl saw nothing cool about her voice, it surly hadn't gotten better. She hadn't practised since she was fifteen.
"Oh…umm thank you. Though I really haven't improved that much." Faith mumbled the last words. The runner heard those words.
"Are you kidding me! You've gotten ten times better!" Dani yelled and punched the side of the wall as a point (though holding her bruised hand).
Faith quickly blushed at the comment then froze, "Dani! We should go back my friends will be worried!"
Turning on her heel, she tried to leave but the rainbow-haired girl grabbed her wrist. She tried in effort to pull away but it no avail. Turning back but trying to show no anger on her face.
"Dashy what is it?!" Faith asked.
"Well I needed to asked something important but forgot until now. When are you going to see your dad?"
Another cold silence came between the two but it warmed up from Faith, "fine…I'll see him tomorrow. I'll knock on his door."
Dani smiled and ruffled her friends hair, "I promise this will be for the best."
"Umm…actually if I'm going to do it tomorrow then I want my friends not to. As much as I love them and stuff…I don't them to find out maybe. Can you help me?" Faith asked.
A thumbs up only came from Dani.
"Umm…ok I just want maybe a one hour distraction. Nothing suspicious and nothing too bad. I can slip away but if they notice tell them I went to the bathroom alright?" Faith asked.
"You can count on me!"
"Alright nothing too dangerous promise."
"Promise."
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I've been planning the Hungarian part for a while but this might be one of the more longer parts in my story. So Prium is fine and because of Zoro that the strawhat might possibly show up. This is basically showing Faith in more depth for this.
I am still a koala and my beta is I-forgot-Adam.