Chapter 5: To Find Answers
Mint quietly closed the door to their room and pushed their back against it.
T-That can't be right... I-I'm no Light Hero. I-I can't be.
The octoling breathed hard and their eyes watered.
"I can't do it..."
Akari had paced back and forth, her phone to her ear and a worried on her look.
"Please pick up. Please pick up. Please pick up!" She begged.
"Kari?" His scratchy voice echoed from the other side of the phone. "Why are you calling this late?"
Akari sounded distraught as she grabbed her dualies. "C-Chili... K-Kira is gone. She's gone and-and Mint is no-where to be seen."
"Kari, slow down, please!" He tried calming her down, which, wasn't his strong suit. "Please tell me slowly what's going on that's got your damned tentacles in a curl."
The poor octoling started packing her bag while talking to Chili. "Kira's not in bed. She's not anywhere here or at her house, I double checked."
"She's not there? Not even in the bed where we told her multiple times to stay?!"
"No! She's completely gone!"
Chili growled. "Where's Misery?"
"Remember? She left two days before Kira woke up."
"..."
"Were you seriously thinking she kidnapped Kira?!"
Chili stuttered a bit. "Fucking hell I have no idea! It just seemed like after all this bullshit it was a probable thing to think of!"
Akari sighed, grabbed her bag and dualies, and grabbed the phone. "I'll be at your place in a few minutes. We really need to talk about this more."
"Aight. I'll see ya in a bit."
The Octoling hung up and sighed heavily before locking her house up.
Kira, Mint... I pray to the Great Zapfish you're okay...
Kira sat up in her bed and saw Mint quietly crying on the bed.
"Mint, are you okay?" She asked.
"Kira... I-I can't believe I'm the Light Hero.."
The inkling raised a curious eyebrow. "Now how do you know this?"
"I...I heard Misery downstairs talking about the prophecy. S-She said I'm possibly the hero they need as well..."
Kira's eyes widened. "Huh... It's not entirely impossible that this has somehow linked all of us together. You, Me, and possibly Chili and Akari. But I can't quite put my tentacles on it."
Mint sat down on Kira's bed and picked up a book that Misery left in their room. "So where do we start looking?"
Kira grinned and nodded. "I think we need to start looking..."
The inkling pointed to a small green and blue blob on the map
"Right here. On this island."
Mint looked at her. "Wait. How do we get there without Chili and Akari?"
Kira pulled out her phone and pulled up a special contact Mint has never seen before. "I think I know just the guy who can help us."
A few button presses and Kira was able to connect with her friend.
"Heya bud. I need to ask a favor from you."
Akari had promptly arrived at Chili's house and not two knocks on the door later did Chili answer.
"Oi, you came here quick, Kari." He commented as he showed her inside.
"Told you I was worried." She replied.
She saw a young xeno girl on the couch ripping through the meat supreme pizza left over from their dinner.
"Kari!" She yelped and leapt onto Akari.
It was lucky of Akari to have such a moderate amount of strength to carry Julie, let alone handle a bear-hug from the little inkling.
"Hey there Julie, are you behaving for your brother?" The curly haired octoling asked with a smile.
"For the mosht part, I am!" She commented, having some sort of lisp. Akari gave her a tight hug and let her down. "It'sh rare to shee you here. Did something bad happen?" Her face turned to one of worry and Akari gladly hugged her.
"Shh... Don't worry your little head Julie. Chili and I will figure everything out."
"I hope sho. I wanna see Kiwa again."
Chili grabbed her from Akari and lead her to her room. "Okay little devil, get to bed. You have school in the morning."
Akari sat with her head low and sighed. "This is becoming such a problem. First, Kira is chosen for this ancient prophecy, for which she gets injured to great amounts, and now her happy ass decides to go missing again! Cod, once we find her I'm going to slap her!"
Chili turned his head to Akari. "I'll slap her with my golden dynamo." He went over to her and sat next to her.
"Cod, please bring them back to us..." She whispered under her breath.
Chili crossed his arms and scoffed. "Praying won't help us get them back. We need to look for them."
"Uh... About that.."
Chili gave her that look. That look you give someone when you think they've lost their fucking mind. "Let me guess: We have to travel to the metro again? Go see Misery in that fucking hell called NeoBright?"
"...Yep."
"FFFFFFFUCK!"
End of Chapter 5