2 vacations down, 1 to go
Review replies:
KRR: Wow Kayenta. Harsh. Too bad you're out of luck (insert shrug emoji here). They're probably fine :)
RosalinaWisteria: I forgot to write it down and lost track of it ^ ^' It's written now!
ninjachief: Np :D OCs are much easier to add in when I group them together, it gives them a bit more of a background. And yeah Morro would definitely give his to Lloyd.
Ebony: If you think this is bad you should see rideofthevalkyrjur and I's roleplays. Also yeah he's probably flown into a rage and killed a couple people at this point. :) Being a tyrant is much more fun.
Starry: Well you're not wrong. As for Charlie... we'll see ;)
Amber: Np :) And they have no idea where the girls are. They just think they're all in the city somewhere. Morro's castle, to be specific. But none of them are. :)
Windy: Written! I'll try to post it first because I like it huehue
Dreamcatchers: *sweats nervously* define "starve"
Blazemit: I mean a random janitor would probably just dump water on him and kill him
Chapter 16
"Wakey wakey prisoners!" Lloyd awoke to a loud voice and the sound of someone clapping their hands.
"I'm not asleep." Morro's indignant voice came from above him as Lloyd sleepily blinked his eyes open.
"Yeah, but your little buddy is." The blond boy looked up to see Claire standing over them with a basket and a jug of water. "Good morning, green bean." He ignored her comment, eyes fixing instead on the basket.
"What's that?"
"Well, since you've gone a whole 24 hours without trying to escape, I've decided to reward you by not letting you starve to death." The black-haired girl set the basket down, revealing that it was full of green apples. Lloyd instantly reached for one, but Claire pinned his hand to the ground with her foot.
"Ow!" He yelped, trying to pull his hand free.
"Listen to me first." She leaned towards him, transferring more of her weight onto his hand and causing him to whimper in pain, "Try to escape again, and you'll go twice as long without food. Capeesh?" He nodded quickly, and she stepped off his foot and started walking away. After a moment, she remembered the jug of water and set it down by the basket before leaving the room. The blond boy quickly reached for the apple again, wincing at the pain in his hand but ignoring it as he bit into the fruit. It was sour, but he was too hungry to care. Morro took one as well, and the two ate in silence for a few minutes. Once Lloyd had finished his apple, eating everything but the seeds and the stem, he reached for another.
"Don't eat too fast." Morro cautioned, putting a hand on his arm to stop him. "You'll make yourself sick."
"But I'm hungryyyy." She blond boy whined.
"It won't do you any good if you eat everything and then vomit it all up. Wait." The ghost hooked an arm around his waist and pulled him back, keeping him from reaching the basket. Lloyd sighed in defeat, staring glumly at the tanzilizing fruits.
"Can I at least get a drink?" he asked, gaze shifting to the jug of water. Morro loosened his grip.
"Sure." The green ninja crawled over to the jug and carefully brought it to his lips, being careful not to spill any. Once he finished drinking, he glanced over his shoulder at Morro, then snatched an apple and scrambled to his feet, sprinting to the other side of the room. The ghost rolled his eyes. "Lloyd, put that back."
"Uh-uh." Lloyd grinned, lifting it to his mouth to take a bite.
"Do you want to throw up?"
"I'm not gonna throw up, mom."
"I'm not your mom."
"You're acting like one!" The blond boy called in a singsong voice. Rolling his eyes again, Morro stood up and started walking towards him. Lloyd dodged to the side, running past him to the other side of the room.
"Do I really have to chase you?" The wind master put his hands on his hips.
"Yes."
"Alright then." Morro broke into a run towards him, and Lloyd yelped, running around the edge of the room. The ghost chased him around a few times before turning and cutting him off. The blond boy stopped short, but slipped on the tile floor and thudded to the ground on his back.
"Ow."
"I thought you ninja weren't supposed to be clumsy." Morro put his hands behind his back as he walked over, standing over him and grinning.
"Most ninja have better traction." The green ninja countered, crossing his arms over his chest.
"You're supposed to be able to fight in all sorts of environments. If you fell down and just lay there like that, you'd be dead or captured right now."
"Well, if I fell down in a battle, I would twist-" he stood back up and mimicked falling down again to demonstrate. "-to land in a crouch, then when you got close, I would kick my legs out from under you." He spun in slow motion, still in a crouch, and stopped with his leg against the side of Morro's. "Then, when you were on the ground, I would kick your head into the floor and pin you down." Lloyd relaxed his stance to sit on the floor. "Better?" The ghost nodded approvingly.
"But what if I jumped over your kick and you were thrown off balance?"
"Then…" The blond paused for a moment, thinking. "Then you'd try to either kick me and pin me down or tackle me, so I'd have to roll to the side and get to my feet, then we'd be even again."
"What if I anticipated your roll and kicked there instead?"
"Then I'd roll the other way."
"How would you know which way I was going to kick?"
"How would you know which way I was gonna roll?"
"Hmm, fair point." Morro sat down beside him. "There's really no way to figure out how that would end without sparring."
"Yeah, and that's not gonna work." Lloyd frowned. "I could go really easy on you."
"That would take the point out of it." The ghost dismissed the idea with a wave of his hand. Lloyd was silent for a few moments, then help up the slightly-bruised apple.
"Can I eat this now?"
"…fine."
TheDarknessReturn
"…quite like that. I'm not a solar panel." Bansha woke up to a quiet voice. Indigo? She lifted her head an inch, but flinched as a stab of pain went through her head and lowered it back to the ground. "Bansha? You awake?"
"Hm… yes." The ghost woman managed, not opening her eyes. "Head… hurts."
"You got clocked over the head. I'm not surprised." Another voice spoke, more quietly, and Indigo went back to talking to them. Bansha lay on the ground for a few minutes before the pain in her head subsided and she raised herself on her forearms, looking around. She was in a small, dark room with six cages. Two of them contained Indigo and another girl.
"What happened?" The blademistress asked, looking up at the other two. Indigo blinked.
"Uhh, someone knocked you out and I tried to beat them but I went… blind for a couple minutes or something and they locked us up here. And one of them has some kind of grudge against you, like Lloyd 2 has against our Morro. Except, she doesn't know you're a good guy. And she said something about making you pay. So watch out for her."
"Yes. Watch out for me." Bansha turned to see a teenage girl standing in the doorway of the room with her arms folded. Indigo pointed at her.
"Yep, that's her." The girl started at her for a few moments before saying,
"Well? Aren't you going to say anything?"
"Like what?" The ghost raised an eyebrow."
"Like, 'Ahh, the mayor's little brat. I shouldn't have let you live'. That's how you talk, isn't it?"
"No. And I've never seen you before in my life." Bansha shrugged.
"Don't lie to me!" The girl slammed her fist against the doorframe, causing a cloud of dust to come down from the ceiling. "Don't tell me you're trying to pull the same charade as your friend! I'm not stupid!" The blademistress glanced quizzically at Indigo, who shrugged.
"I told her the truth, that we're from another timeline."
"Which is nonsense!" The girl snapped.
"Maybe so, but it's true."
"Liar!"
"Calling me a liar won't make it any less true."
"Shut up!" The girl punched the doorway again. "You'll pay for what you've done, mark my words! I just haven't found something good enough yet!"
"And what exactly is it that I've done?" Bansha asked, raising one eyebrow.
"I don't have to tell you that!" The girl whirled around and stormed out of the room.
"That probably gives us… until tomorrow." The other girl remarked from her cage.
"Bansha, this is Charlie." Indigo gestured to the dark-haired girl, who waved. "She's gonna help us escape."
"How?"
"When one of them gets close to me, I can drain their energy and use it to break the bars of the cages. Charlie has a gun, so she can shoot them – non-lethally – so we can escape. And she knows the area, so she can get us to safety."
"Ah." Bansha nodded. "So you believe us, then?" She addressed the human girl.
"Yep. I've heard weirder." Charlie shrugged.
"Alright. Though, how will you ensure they get close enough for you to drain them?" The ghost woman asked, turning back to Indigo.
"I'll make a lot of noise and annoy them until they have to shut me up." Bansha nodded.
"Yes, you're good at that." Indigo rolled her eyes.
"Thanks. So, when should we do it?"
"Whenever they come back." Charlie replied. "You could try yelling and hitting things now, but they might not hear you."
"Yeah, it'd be just a waste of breath." Indigo leaned back against the back of the cage. "Bansha, you feeling better?"
"Yes."
"Good. You're gonna need to be able to run when we bust out of here."
They'll be fiiiiiiine
So I actually didn't write more than 1 chapter of this in advance because I like to alter the plot according to your feedback, but I did write 6-ish oneshots so I'll be posting those for the next week or so :D
Hope you all have had a good 2 weeks!
~FFF