(Let's keep going shall we? Ok? Ok then.)
Sick Day, Freedom Day
Roy's POV
"There has to be more to this book." I mutter quietly, flipping through the pages of the book again. It's late at night and this has been actually getting me tired and stressed out, this book might hold an answer to this Arrival Axel mentioned. But still, I'm having such a hard time finding something new I'm tearing out my hair over it.
I look to my page of notes and groan, tearing it up and throwing it into an almost overflowing trash bin.
HAVING TROUBLE ARE WE?!
I nearly fall out of my seat at the sound of the booming voice going through my mind
Oh for the love of- this is why I'm the one who talks to people! Not you!
DON'T YOU PIN THIS ON ME. THE ONLY REASON YOU EVER COME OUT OF YOUR HOLE IS BECAUSE I HAVE TO DRAG YOU OUT OF THERE YOU PATHETIC HERMIT.
I can't stand the sound of your yelling! AND NEITHER CAN MY FEELIIIIIHIHIHIIIIINGS!
I shake my head and hit it a few times, maybe me getting tired is just getting to me. Wait, didn't fireman Cthugha say something about someone not showing up yet?
Umm...e-excuse me?
WHAT IS IT? CAN'T YOU SEE WE'RE BUSY?
Calm down, he's probably just gonna ask who we are
Uhh, yeah...how did you know?
Picking through your head is like going through cobwebs full of information. But I'm pretty good at unwrangling them
HE'S JUST SAYING HE READ YOUR MIND. LITERALLY. I'M SURE YOU'RE THINKING, WHO'S THE HANDSOME CREATURE WITH A VELVETY SMOOTH AND GLORIOUS VOICE-
More like a bombshell combined with frog croaking
SHUT UP. AND HIS WHINY VOICED COUSIN ARE?
My voice isn't whiny!
I growl in frustration and hit my head again, "Stop fighting!" I hiss
HITTING YOURSELF ISN'T GOING TO HELP YOU KNOW. BUT TIME FOR PROPER INTRODUCTIONS. I AM TSATHOGGUA: THE SLEEPER OF N'KAI! WRITER OF THE LIBER IVONIS! W-
Keep your shirt on there cousin. Hzioulquoigmnzhah, nice to meet you there Roy Indigo.
I'm...Hzioulquoigmnzah? Is that it?
No it's- YOU PRONOUNCED MY NAME RIGHT?! YES! EAT SHIT TSATHGOGGUA YOU SHIT EATING SHIT!
I'm just going to block them out, I need to get back to work. Looking back at the book I flip through it again, and again, and again, and again. I sigh and rub my temples, it was fine the first few times looking through but now it's near impossible! What happened?!
"Roy?" A voice says a bit sleepily, I turn around and see Ruby with her sleep mask off with half-lidded and still tired eyes.
"Oh, uh, hey Ruby."
"What're you doing up so late? It's two thirty in the morning." She mumbles, I raise an eyebrow and look at the clock. Huh, so it is.
"I'm just...doing um, nothing! Yeah, yeah, yeah nothing." I lie laughing a bit nervously
"You're looking through the book, aren't you?" She asks sounding a bit more awake, I sadly nod and turn back around to the thing.
"There has to be something to help us out in here, I got through it well enough last time. Now it's next to impossible."
"Roy-"
"I just...gah! It's making me tear out my-" I cut myself off, a pair of arms softly wrapped around me.
"Roy, remember what Axel said: we just go about things as usual." Ruby says soothingly, "You're smart Roy. Just get some rest." She wraps her arms a bit tighter, resting her head ontop. My heart feels like it's about to explode, oh no...I'm getting hotter, stomach's feeling bad, I'm sick aren't I?
"I-I-I um...I think I'll take today off, actually." I stutter out a bit
"But, we're gonna be heading out with CFVY today. You alright?"
"I think I'm feeling sick, so I'll just lay down and see if it goes away."
"Ok then. You want me to stay and help you out?"
I slightly flinch, "Nononono you can go on ahead without me, I'll be fine Ruby. No worries."
"Oook then, let's get to bed now."
I nod and get up from the chair and hop into bed, quickly closing my eyes.
Just sleep off the sickness, not sure what it is but I'll be fine. Just hope I don't get Ruby sick too.
Four Hours Later
"Sure you'll be fine there Roy?" Uriah asks sounding have curious and half worried. I give a nod
"I'll be fine! No worries! Heh, no worries." I say a chuckle
"Are you sur-"
"I'M SURE SILAS. OK?" I add in, I think I sound a bit...panicked? The two look at one another and leave, only Axel in here now.
"Soooooo...can I know why you're sick?"
"I uh, don't really know."
He gives a wry little smile and comes closer, "You can tell me Roy, I'm your friend and your leader."
"Well...ok. I don't know why but, last night...early in the morning? Anyways. Ruby hugged me and, I felt hot, my heart beating a lot and my stomach churning. No idea what caused it."
Axel's eyes light up and he laughs a bit, "My dead little tinkering, golden eyed purplette. That there is love."
"What? Psssh! It's not like Ruby would like me!"
"Are you sure about that?"
"I'm pretty sure there Axel."
"Hmmm, I don't know. But it's your call." He says shrugging and heading out the door, "Get well Royboy." He adds before closing the door.
Weird. I don't feel sick.
I roll around in bed, trying to get comfy. I can't feel any comfiness...maybe it's the mattress?
There's a knock at the door before there's a voice, "Hey Roy?" It's Ruby
"Yeah?"
"Is it ok if I come in? Axel asked me to double check on you." She says a bit muffled by the door, Axel you jerk. "Hold on a minute." I unwrap the blanket out from me and hop down to the floor. Opening up the door showing the silver-eyed girl standing there.
The fever's coming back, upset stomach, rapid heartbeat
"Sooo...you ok?" She asks raising herself up and down on her tip toes a few times
"Hmmm, yeah. You?"
"I'm alright...are you blushing?"
My mind goes blank, oh no oh no oh no oh no. I think Axel's right, I turn away take a few deep breaths. Maybe he's onto something when he asked if I'm sure...I could ask.
"Hey uh, Ruby?"
"Hm?"
"You ever get that feeling of...butterflies in your stomach around someone? You feel like your heart is going to explode, all nervous, things like that?" I ask turning around to look at her, she takes a sharp breath and quickly nods.
"I-I have actually."
"Really? Well, you tell a sort of description for your person and I'll tell mine!"
"Ok give me a moment to think." She says happily, "The person is a boy, pretty smart, nice, kind of a dork, I'm not really sure on what to say to him." She says a bit shyly, rubbing her arm. "So who's your person?"
"Mine is uh...a girl. Funny, adorable, cheerful and energetic as can be, she's a dork herself...I think I like her." I say just as nervously
"Oh? Like as in a friend kind of way?"
"I thought about that way for a while, but it kind of grew into...love. You know?"
She giggles, "Yeah. The same with the guy I mentioned."
"Yeah, I love you Rub-" No! I cover up my mouth, Ruby's eyes are wide as saucer plates. Her cheeks flushed red
"I umm...love you too." She says shyly, smiling a bit. I uncover my mouth give a hug, she starts to hug back...and I rest my head against her.
"You wanna go with us now?" She asks letting go, I smile and nod
"I'm fine with it. And uh, think we'll be ok?"
"You know it!"
"All I needed to hear. So, what're we doing?"
"Just gonna go and get some new clothes."
I raise an eyebrow, "Why's that?"
"For our secret mission involving Torchwick and the White Fang! Remember?"
"Ohhhhh, ok. Yeah, sounds good!"
Well, I think I'll tell my mom and dad about this whenever I go back to Mantle.
Third Person POV, Frostpeak Prison
Even with six of his goons and Neopolitan with him, Torchwick felt a bit nervous. Mostly due to this Xipe Totec is just slipping jerky under a mask to eat.
Roman clears his throat, resting his arms on the table. "I came here on part of a...associate, of mine asking for your services." He spoke in a calm and professional tone. Xipe just stared on with an uninterested look to his eyes as he chewed on the jerky, chewing to help numb this hour's flare of a headache.
"I'm asking you to come along, possibly kill a number of people. Think you can handle it?"
Xipe kept chewing along, before he swallowed and gave a cough. "Could you get this mask off of my face? For a start."
Roman stared at him with caution, Ash told him to do as he's told. And listen to what Xipe has for a request, and make sure it's followed through...no matter how stupid it may be.
Times like these are where Roman Torchwick asks if there is some kind and loving supreme power watching over, then he says to himself: 'Nope. Not with the secretive jerks and friendly but sadistic sociopath employing me'. He makes a gesture to the closest goon, who comes over to Xipe and takes off the mask.
The Flayer smiles, right before biting into the goon's throat. Tearing it out like a rabid dog before grabbing the goon's gun, one down, two, three, four, five, and all six are down in a few moments just leaving him, little missy, and the ginger. Leading Xipe to giggle like a deranged little schoolgirl, only stopping to grunt in pain and clutch his head from a headache.
"I'm gonna need somethings!" He states happily, "Few thousand Lien's pay an hour, my weapon back from these Atlesan pigs." He stopped to grab at his prison jumpsuit, "Clothes would be nice...and my cookbook." He growled near the end
Torchwick kept cool and collected, glaring at him. "Of course. Anything else?"
"Hmmm...oh! I'm gonna need some guys," he pulls his thumb back towards the goons he just so recently killed, "Not these ones though because, they're uh, ya know. Dead."
Xipe went back to laughing away, more and more.
Oh, was this jarring for you reader? Because things may get worse, may not...but I'll still be watching them and relaying events to you.
I'm the only one who can see you.
(Well, I figured that I do something that probably makes people question why a mood shift. The answer my friends is simple: I like to do something like this.)