Chapter 7: And let the battles... BEGINS!

I kind of feel… horrible.

Yeah, sure, I was upset, but I was complaining about getting a free gun and basically a free upgrade…

NOT that this makes the weapon any better! But I could have ended up walking out empty handed

*Sigh* I was in the wrong. Even if it's still annoys me, slightly…

I'll probably apologize to Sheldon later on, he was only trying to help me out anyways. Also this splattershot… it kinda feels right in my hands?!

I don't know how to explain it or why but it's as if it fits me, and I've yet to use it…

Now, how about we solve that problem right now!

The gun swayed at Asters side as Kyounix and himself walked back into Inkopolis tower, and like the lobby it was packed a whole lot more than last night. Inklings were packed in the couches placed near the center and watching current games on the flat screens that hung above their heads

"Everybody looks like they're having a good 'ol time!" Kyounix nearly yelled out into the crowds of people, they got a couple stares but Aster just chuckled under his breath "They sure do, don't they?"

Aster and Kyounix kept observing until Asters noticed Ruzi at her station, he nudged Kyounix and started to jog over, waving at her, she smiled and waved back. In no time they were back to the same position as yesterday

"Hello Aster, Hello Kyounix, you two look like you're having a good time!" her voice was warm and sweet, it lifted Asters soul up a bit form the Sheldon incident "Hey Ruzi! Me and Kyounix actually just went out and got our weapons from Sheldon!" Aster unhooked his Splattershot from his waist and held it, showing her the ink gun

Kyounix also showed his Splattershot to her, it was more rectangular than the upgraded model "Heya Ruwzi!" Kyounix said as he also showed off his ink gun "Hello Kyounix…" her voice still sounded wandered out, her eyes observed the guns in front of her

Ruzi's eyes however stuck on Asters gun "You haven't fought in turf war before, have you Aster?" he nodded to Ruzi "Then… why did Sheldon give you a Splattershot?" Aster put the gun back down into his hands and looked down at it "I'm actually not too sure myself… he said I received it because I was eligible for some bonus event or something along those lines…" he sighed and looked away, still aggravated

"It's cool and all but I was expecting something else, I guess…" he clipped it back onto his waist but Ruzi still stared at it, noticing it was back in the proper place she looked away, specifically the ground "O- oh…" Aster looked at her, she looked as if she was thinking very hard on the subject

"I think it might be because Aster didn't bother him… but Sheldon's, SO, ADORABLE~" Of course it was Kyounix who had announced it aloud, hugging his gun as he said the words out loud, Aster and Ruzi both staring at him as if something wrong

The female Inkling started to laugh under her voice "No, no! I'm sure that's not the reason Kyounix! I doubt Sheldon's even into picking favorites! And either way, you're a pretty cool kid yourself Kyounix." Kyounix smiled at her and the situation dissipated quickly after "But on another note, it looks like you two are ready for Turf War?"

They nodded at Ruzi, with a high pitched grunt of excitement and one of a low pitched grunt of strength "Okay you two, the rooms the right of me? Those are the lobbies. Enter one and wait for more Inklings to join you. Once you hit 8 Inklings a round will begin! Form there…"

She smiled "I'm sure you two know what to do" Kyounix and Aster looked at each other, they nodded in understanding "Alright then, you ready Kyounix?" Kyounix jumped up "Of course! I can't wait to get into a battle! I'm just gonna go off what ya said and try as hard as I can!" Aster smiled at him

"Sorry for holding you guys up again, I'll be wishing you guys luck!" The Inklings started running off towards the room "You didn't hold us up at all, Thanks Ruzi" "Yeah, Thankz you Ruzi!" and then they were gone

Ruzi's face kept the smile for a second but turned to wonder after they left "A splattershot… as a starting weapon?" she talked under her voice "That doesn't make sense! The whole point is to give the new Inkling a basic feel of play! Any weapon wou-" there was a tapping on the desk, she had zoned out "Ahem~ Hello?" the voice was feminine

"H- Huh? Oh, I'm sorry! What can I help you with?"

Aster and Kyounix looked around the room as they entered the somewhat crapped quarters, they were met with a group of Inklings, facing them "Oh, Hiya guys!" the turned and looked as Kyounix and then turned around to a large board, returning back to them they laughed and walked side to talk to each other

"… Well that wasn't very nice" Kyounix puffed out his lips in disappointment

"Yeah, but something still felt off, what were they looking at over here?" Aster said as he walked up to the monitor and scanned if over with Kyounix next to him

From top to bottom names were laid out with their levels next to them, but as they gazed down the list they noticed they decreased until they finally came across their names "Aster, Kyounix, level…" Aster painfully chuckled "1. Were level 1"

"Hm. I guess that's not too surprising. We did just start anyways" Kyounix said with a shrug "Yeah, it also explains why those guys behind us were laughing" it took Kyounix a bit to understand what aster meant "… OH! Oh! I get it! … so was it a taunt?"

Aster turned his head and looked at them "Maybe…" he then looked back at the screen, above them were high levels, as in 16 and even 18's "Actually, at second look it was most likely that"

This time the both of them turned around, they looked upon the grouping "It seems like we might be going up against some pretty good players, Kyounix. Be ready for either a wipe out…" Aster smirked, knowing the battle wasn't go to be a walk in the park "Or one hard fight." Kyounix nodded, he felt ready

The doors leading to the outside sealed and a chime went off in the small room as the large words on the monitor lit up saying "BATTLE TIME!", soon everything was starting to fade into a white as the light rose up from under them

"Here we go, Kyounix…" the white completely filled Asters eyes "Here we come, Turf War!"

Turf War

Ink the most turf to win!

Salt spray Rig

The two didn't open their eyes, they couldn't until their bodies had fully transported to the location and they came up out of their spawn point like squids and then breathed into the air. Aster blinked as he laid his eyes upon the metallic landscape, the suns light only being blocked by his visor "Were here." His voice was solid and straight, as if he had done this one millions times before

"Wow! Talk about a view!" Kyounix said as he stared off into the ocean behind him, he jittered around and took better hold of his gun "Alright, alright, and alright! Let's go get'em!"

"Ready?" the speakers announced to both teams

Asters smirk widened "You can say that again" Aster whispered under his breath

"GO!" the whole team shot off the spawn, spraying the ground in front of them in a blur of automatic fire, coming to a fork they all started to split ways "Kyounix, I know this map! Follow my trail!" the shooting was actually quite loud and had to nearly be yelled over, Kyounix nodded and tagged behind

The two sprayed their way up to mid, covering the best they could "Okay, mid's up ahead, try to take it sl-" Aster couldn't finish before Kyounix burst forward "GO! GO G-" a laser fell over, right on his head and in mere seconds he was blown into a burst yellow ink

Aster sighed "Darn it Kyounix, were you in such a rush from anywa- ~SPLAT~ " Aster, in retreat swam straight back, running into an enemy from behind, their team was already in danger of losing the game

Aster respawned at nearly the same time as Kyounix "That's why we had to go!" Aster turned to him

"Kyounix! Just say something next time! Like: "Hey, watch out behind you" or "He's about to take our backs out!"" the inkling stood their staring at Aster for a while, he then looked up to the clouds in thought

"Oh… Yeah, I guess that works

They started to swim back to the fork, when they got their Aster stood up and jumped off the panel but told Kyounix to stay "Head to the other drop off, I think we had another team mate down there. If you can, help him take back bottom and me and this other squid will take top, okay?"

Kyounix looked a little worried at first but his face struck with determination in no time, he nodded "Got'cha, best of luck on your side, Ast!" he carried on in a singing tone as he ran off to his respected position

Aster started back on his way to middle as he thought over what Kyounix had said "Wait, did he call me Ast?" he however didn't have time to think it over much, he was back in the same position he was placed in before but this time he was the one in the snipers range of fire

"Woah, WOAH" their laser was already on him, he quickly ducked into the other direction, leaving himself trapped in a corner but out of view from the sniper

The laser smoothly flew along the ground in search for him and eventually drifted somewhere else ~Whew! That was close… way to close.~

Aster kept his position for only a few more seconds, the jumped back out into the middle and in an agile dash, sprayed the ground and started to swim though

The sniper instantaneously caught back onto him as if he had never left his spot to being with, causing him to stall his movements in fear of being splatted

~I have to figure out a way to take them down~ then it hit him, hiding behind some pipes he replenished his ink count and slid out in view, closer to the top of the map. Wasting no time he threw a duo of burst bombs to the snipers position

One clipped the bottom of the high platform while the other smashed into the wall next them "They both missed." He said aloud, filled with lingering dread

The sniper shot above and around, causing him to sink into the yellow globs of ink as they rippled around his feet, in instinct Aster tried to spray the ground under him but he couldn't "What?" he turned around "I'm out of Ink!"

The sniper now placed the shot right on his forehead, Aster closed his eyes, hoping to shield the blast or not feel the splat

"Come on then…" he whispered under his breath, nothing happened. Aster sat stood there for only a second more before he opened one of his eyes, looking at the sniper, they were ready to kill but didn't

"Huh? Why aren't you shooting" he was confused but realized that this was his chance "Oh well! Your lost!" quickly, Aster tried shooting at the ground again, and as he expected just enough ink was laid for him to jump out

In panic the sniper attempted to snap at him and failed, the shot would have been perfect. Aster quickly made it to the top and passed over the hill just in time before the sniper would have had the chance to splat him

"Woo! Talk about a rush!" Aster raised his gun into the sky "I think this is how you do it…" he took a deep breath and stared into the sky

"C'MON!" the echo waved through the whole course and in no time he got a reply

A round landing circle formed around him, in the distance the sound of a gun emerged, they were coming "Well here they come" Aster gripped his Splattershot a bit harder as they approached

Aster started a heavy fire at his enemy but nearly wasted all of his Ink, his aiming was sloppy and he missed every single shot "Wow! You really are new! And you're also dead squid!" the enemy said as they lunged out of the Ink to strike him

~SPLAT~ … but it wasn't Aster "Oh boy, you were about to be in quite the pickle there!" Aster looked around a barrier separating him and him savior, one of his teammates who was holding a roller on his shoulder

"Ey, by the way, Nice job capturing top solo, you might be a bit new to this but getting up here usually isn't too easy" Aster smiled at him but knowing the truth made him give off a fake chuckle

"Now let's get back to work" the roller wielder said turning around, the two of them covered the whole area in no time, people invaded every now and then but the roller was generally able to take them out without them seeing

"Aw jeez, here comes another one…" Aster swam off the tower top "Don't worry, I got this one"

The roller called after Aster but he didn't care, he felt like he had this one and would be able to take them on all by himself "Well lookie here…"

Asters gripped his splattershot "I won't mess up this time!" Yellow bullets came Asters way, he returned equal fire

His aim was off but it was enough to at least hit around the area of the inkling, he drifted around his opponents bullets, sliding to the left regardless of the danger of being stuck again

"Nice try" as he kept running he felt his leg bump something, looking down he noticed a splat bomb, he tried to jump away but it still clipped him, hard "But you're not that good yet"

His opponent jumped up in the air as the stream once again rained down only inches away, he watched as the droplets nearly hit his feat

He laid in his enemy's ink, until he remembered how his teammate saved him, even when it seemed like it was over in meme seconds…

The game was changed

Aster, using everything he had rolled himself backwards and over his head "Maybe I'm not…" the enemy didn't see it coming but didn't think much of it, they swam into the pool Aster laid in, ready to pounce on him again but Aster had other plans

"But you can mark my words and swear on all your swears…" he threw a burst bomb straight into the pool, the Inkling bobbed out from the sudden change, they shot at Aster while jumping back, their prideful mood changing

"That One day." Noticing the jump pattern he slung another burst bomb at their feet, they went flying even higher into the air, Aster swam up to his opponent and did slide on his ink

"That I'm gonna be!" his opponent stared at him, the anger in eyes had nothing on Asters will, and in a upward slash of Ink from his Gun… ~SPLAT~ Aster had splatted his first enemy.

"Ey! Nice form! That was a pretty sick splat, dude" the roller called out, being done with finishing the top.

Aster smiled at him "Come on! Let's finish this thing" the roller nodded and the two moved out together

They moved out to the middle entrance, Kyounix caught Asters eye, he was fighting someone "Hey! I'm gonna go down and help out my friend you got mid?" the roller gave him a thumbs up and Aster was off, heading to the lower part of the map

The last seconds were emerging and the battle Kyounix was facing had seemed to die down, the enemy was nowhere to be seen "Kyounix! You need help?" Aster called out "Nope! I'm good, I think they ran away!"

However the area Kyounix was standing was primarily yellow, his blue ink was only scattered around in small parts "Try to cover more of your are-" but suddenly Aster noticed a swimming formation, straight behind Kyounix

"Kyounix! Your Back!" but it was too late, Kyounix was splatted and taunted, the deciding moments were present as time counted down "Heh. You're not going to get away with that!"

Aster rocketed at the enemy but he only swam away, bobbing around while Aster covered his tracks "5…4…"

Aster used his burst bombs to try a counter but he just changed his directions "I said…"

"3…"

Asters speed didn't decrease but his agility did, he started landing in his own ink more consecutively as he chased his foe "You. Are. Not."

"2…"

He was grasp away, Aster had now blocked off all the paths with his burst bombs and if the yellow squid were to try and pain the ground he would be splatted down for sure "Going to get away with TH-"

"GAME!" The boy started to laugh at Aster, the 1 had gone so swiftly it was as if it wasn't counted at all. The splattershot was held only inches from his opponents face "Really? You actually thought you could catch up? You didn't even realize I was stalling you so my team could claim the rest of the top of the map! Honestly, how stupid are you?"

But he stopped ranting after he noticed Asters hand out, he looked down at it and back up at the Inkling "Ah… that's actually a really good strategy. Good Game dude"

The Inkling sat there, staring at Asters hand then back at him "Wait, what?!"

"Yeah, I know. I might not have made the best move but you sure did. It was a smart distraction and I fell for it. None the less, for this being my first game of turf war" Aster took in a deep breath and smiled "It was amazing. I might not be the best I can be yet, but you can bet that I'm gonna try."

The other Inkling just observed Aster, he didn't even grab his hand, he only studied the Inkling before they were all called to head back to their spawn in a super jump

"Whelp, that's are call." Aster said "Great battle today dude, I'll see you around. …And hey!" Aster started his super jump

"Maybe a rematch sometime?" and then he rocketed off back to spawn, meeting with the other parts of his team, the other boy finally got up and replied to everything that happened "One weird squid. One weird squid…" and he jumped back himself

As each team stood in their spawn a large holographic image came up of the whole map, a cat was standing in the middle, the map looked much bluer than Aster had expected, the roller had truly kept his ground!

The gauge waved up to a certain number and then stopped, suddenly! A teams color rocketed over and the match was set

39.6% to 57.9%

Blue Team WINS!

Everyone stood before the board, amazed. Kyounix grabbed onto Aster "Kyounix!" he kept nuzzling his head into his arm until he tossed up his gun and caught it, Aster tried it and funny enough did the same

"We did it!" Kyounix burst out, Aster nodded next to him "Yeah! I'm actually kinda shocked we did!" Aster and Kyounix just gazed at the score

"You guys did good, no, really good!" the roller pointed out as he entered the conversation "For your first games, each! Wooh! You guys are going places!" Asters dream now blazed alive along with Kyounix's

They had fought in their first turf war with many more to come

"Keep on now, Kyounix! This is just one of many!" Aster called out as he was asked if he would be in the next bout "Okie Dokie!" Kyounix said, and then he faded away, back into the match

His whole team faded away as the light raged from under him in his teams color, he took the sight in one more time "Now I know you got something harder than that…"

Asters made a first and held it towards that sky "So come on! Bring it on"

"Show me everything you've got!"

AN: And Hello! Yup! That's Right! Here is your true chapter 7 of Splatoon: Ink Activated! Now that its over I do need to talk about some things real quick. One, this chapter was supposed to be short, but I got rid of that and decided to give you all a nice chapter. Of course that is not for free and I'm sure you all will see the price and how it is being payed. Second! my Typing style should be changing but not too drastically, I do know how other fanfiction's are crafted compared to my paragraph full speeches, I am and will be trying to fix that. Third is something that I kinda already said but other chapters will be shorter. The shorter they are the easier they are to somewhat read and fix multiple errors and mistakes (They can also help with creativity). So with all that said don't forget to give a review, expect betters chapters in the future and that's about it!

Seeya guys next time!