Alright, here's the new chapter of 'Cake helps' though there won't be any cake today. No, I opted on something different so that it won't always be cake and sweets. You know what I mean when you read it.
Current place - Velder Inn
A few weeks passed since the attack that the gang made against the demons, they were successful in capturing back the area and the velder guards thanked them from the bottom of their hearts.
Things were a bit different with Add and Lu though, whenever he craved something sweet he would gesture Lu that he was going to Velder's peace, she in turn always asked if she could come with him. Now if you think a few months back he would just brush her off like a fly, but since she always went despite him saying no he started to agree. Even though he would rather be alone.
Today though... He couldn't leave his room. Not because he was forced by the others, but because he was feeling ill. That didn't stop him from perfecting another time formula that may or not get him back to his past.
"No, no, no. This is all wrong!" He yelled as he saw too many faulty calculations. "God... I need to rest, but I can't sleep..." He said in a impasse.
*Knock*Knock*
"Go away, you bastards!" He yelled loud enough so that anyone outside the door could hear.
"It's just me, Add." Said Chung opening the door for the esper to see.
"Close the door." He said while correcting the errors on his calculations.
"How are you feeling? You haven't left your room for two days now." He said concerned about him, after all, he was one of the very few people that he talked to.
"What do you think?" He said with some annoyance on his tone.
"Not so good, I presume." He said as he sat down on Add's bed. It was surprisingly tidy for someone that was ill.
"So did you come here to talk or did they called you to do something?" He asked, though he didn't really cared.
"Just talk. Elsword says that we shouldn't bother ourselves with you, I strongly disagree." He said as he was studying what did his table had, nothing much except some paper with scribbles and a pen. A little to the side was a small portrait that picked his interest.
"As long as they don't bother me I'm good. That's the only good thing that they can do anyways." He said somewhat cold to the rest of the gang, his pace with the calculations was going a bit slower though.
"I know you don't really mean all of them." He said with a gentle smile, he had a front row seat seeing Add saving both Elesis and Lu from certain death. That made his doubts about before clear. He says those horrible things despite having some light in his abyss.
"Whatever." He said tiredly, by this point he stopped typing. "I need a refill..." He said as he put his coffee mug on a dynamo, said weapon left the room to fill it up.
Velder Inn - Kitchen
Rena was making the gang's lunch, today would be a vegetarian dish with bean soup. Only the best ingredients that nature could provide.
"Hmm... Needs a little bit more spices." She said as she taste tested the soup. She got some spicy powder and grabbed a tint of its contents to the soup.
The dynamo that Add sent floated to her side and slightly bumped her.
"Hmm? Add wants a refill?" She asked the machine, though it only displayed the holographic message 'fill'. "Fine, It'll be done in a minute." She said as she took the mug and put the necessary contents needed for coffee.
While see was making it she took note of how the mug look like. A pure marble cup with the message saying 'Nº 1 Asshole', this was a gift that Elsword bought to him. She was somewhat surprised that he would use this mug.
"Alright, here you go. But he really should rest." She said as she put the warm mug on top of the dynamo and it started to move back until it stopped mid way to turn around. "Hmm?"
'Thank you' Was a holographic message that appeared before it disappeared in two seconds later. The weapon then resumed it's course back to its master.
"I think I overdid it with the spices a bit..." She said pretending she didn't saw anything at all, though she began humming cheerfully.
Velder Inn - Add's room
They just talked for a bit while Add kept typing, but his pace was decreased very fast. The once 16 words every 2 seconds began to fall to 3 words every 2 seconds.
"Add you should rest, you seem weaker than you were about 5 minutes ago." He said getting up to see the espers face. His eyes were black so he couldn't really tell if his eyes were red or not from exhaustion. Though other signs like his abnormal breathing and pained expression said pretty much that he was suffering a lot.
"I'm fine..." He said as he double tapped his screen to minimize for the time being. He then dropped both of his arms on the table while trying to stay awake.
"I can clearly see that you aren't. Why won't you just sleep?" He still insisted for him to sleep. Honestly he started to feel a bit of his pain even though he didn't display it.
"I can't sleep!" Add suddenly shouted at him as he grabbed his collar. "Don't you get it yet!? I've been avoiding sleep for a month now! I don't want to go to sleep!" He said with his wrath and annoyance clearly visible now to the paladin.
"W-why?" He asked somewhat scared of the exhausted and enraged esper.
"Let me ask you this. You remember seeing your father being possessed by the demons right?" He asked towards the prince, talking about his father was a touchy subject.
"Yes..." He said mildly depressed.
"Now imagine if he wasn't possessed but killed right in front of your eyes instead!" He said while gripping his teeth.
"A-add... I can't imagin... Wait." He said as he was looking at the picture on the stand, he finally connected the two dots together. "Did that happen to..." He said as he tried to understand the situation more clearly.
"Do you get the full picture now!? I can't take it anymore!" He said in a fit, he truly can't take another night of seeing his mother killed in front of him.
Chung then looked at his forehead and slightly touched it, it was burning up.
"Just for one day, go to sleep Add. Or I'll have to knock you out." He said as he knocked him only once, and that was when he went on a rampage. The others were ready to kill him.
"Leave me alone, just leave me alone." He said as he sat back down on his chair, he was too exhausted to even try and counterattack him.
Chung was hesitant, but complied with his wishes.
"I'll come back in an hour, by then please rest." He said gently to him, he really wanted the poor esper to get well. Even if he was being pushed away like this.
As he pushed the door, his dynamo entered with a fresh brew of coffee. He then closed the door and left the hallway with a sigh of concern.
Add's P.O.V
Coffee... I need this... I don't want to dream, don't want to have that nightmare again. Just a little longer... Please stay awake for a little longer...
I'm grateful that she made a strong one, maybe she isn't half bad after all? No, it was just a coincidence. Yes, just a coincidence.
I'm feeling a little bit awake now. I should be able to at the very least see outside the window.
There they were, practicing the field outside. The muscle brain and his sister, Elesis. Why do you try so hard for me to talk to the others? It makes no sense. No sense...
I can see the magician reading a book, no doubt about magic. At least she's not bickering like a bitch.
I can't see Ara or Eve, so they must be inside the Inn. Same with Rena as I can smell some food downstairs from here.
"Hey Add..." Who said that?
"Over here Add..." Where are you? I can hear you... On the window?
"Hello... Add..." M-mother? Is that you? B-but you're dead...
"Remember what I told you?" Don't repeat those words... Please...
"No matter what... I'll always lov-" She began saying those words as blood started to become visible.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" I yelled as I threw my coffee mug at the window. It shattered in pieces as my coffee flew away.
"AAAAAAAAARGH! MY FACE! IT BURNS!" Yelled the muscle brain in pain.
Third person view
Lu was walking through the hallway that connects to their room until she heard Add yell. She silently went near the door and put her ear on it and listened to a lot of crashing sounds.
"Shutupshutupshutupshutup! Get out of my head! You're dead! I couldn't save you! Stop talking to me! Stop looking at me! Disappear! Go away!" He kept yelling towards someone, but Lu doesn't know who he was talking to.
"Add?" She said as she slowly opened the door, the sight was somewhat terrifying. The room looked like it was completely destroyed by a squad of demons with burnt marks everywhere, probably because of the electricity that his weapons contained. Cracks of space and time left their mark on the room and Add's eyes were staring at her ominously, almost as if he wants to kill her.
"What did you hear!? How much do you know!? Tell me!" He yelled at her as he lunged at her, she sidestepped to the side and began running for her life. He had a killer intent in his eyes.
"Add! Get a hold of yourself!" She yelled as she ran through the hallway.
"Get back here!" He said in a delusional state, he wasn't seeing Lu properly, but his mother.
Lu then turned the corner, nearly escaping his Pulse bullet. Only problem was that it was a dead end.
"Add wake up! It's me!" She yelled trying to reach him, but he didn't even flinch. No, he kept pushing as he didn't care anymore if it was his mother or not. She would be like the other timelines he saw.
"You're like the others. Always from a different timeline. Always fucking with my head! ALWAYS GIVING ME FALSE HOPE!" He shouted towards the hallucination in front of him. He was prepared to attack her, the only thing he needed was getting closer to finish her.
"Add! Please don't kill me!" She yelled as she closed her eyes prepared for the attack. Only thing that she felt was that she was being grabbed on her shoulders. She slowly opened her eyes to see Add on his knees with his head hung.
"Why don't any of you see... That every time I see you... My heart just keeps being torn apart." He said as he rose his head with tears flowing down. "I want to save you, I do... But how can I save you when I can't even save myself!?" He shouted, the cold hard reality of Add's was physically felt at Lu.
Even though he never showed anything to the gang or her or anyone, he was always in pain. His heart ached so much that he needed something to cling to, something that motivated him to go on. He decided to try change his past for that reason, but fate likes to mess with him.
"Add..." She said seeing his tears flow to the floor. His past was worse than hers, she was successful on getting her rank back. But him... Was he ever successful in getting closer? Was he at least able to prevent something? Anything at all? She felt his overwhelming sadness and hugged him.
He let everything go and this went on and on... Until an hour later he sat with his back on the wall. Sleeping soundly with Lu patting his head.
"You went through so much, at least rest for a bit." She said as she calmed him. Chung barely saw them as he was heading towards Add's room.
"Why is Add here?" He asked as Lu kept calming him down.
"He... Got an hallucination. Can he sleep at your room for today? He kinda destroyed his." She asked as she kept a watchful eye on him.
"Sure." He instantly answered to her, he kept looking at him, sleeping like nothing ever happened. "At least he's asleep now, that's what counts." He said as he grabbed him by on shoulder and carried him to his place.
And that's a wrap. Sorry if it's kinda short, I kinda lost my vibe for writing at the end so my bad. Also I'm very sorry to say this, but I'm putting this story and 'Add's day off' on standby for now.
With the new stories and old stories to update, PLUS my little time that I can put on my fanfictions, It became somewhat difficult to write stuff. I also blame a bit on my lazyness, but we all blame that.
Once again, I'm sorry to do this. I'll update them only after everything is good to make a new chapter for them.