Me: Alright! I want to get these out either weekly or quicker than that!
Julie: Eighty Bucks she gets side tracked.
Me: I'll try my best! Try writing a fanfic, a fictionpress story, draw for deviantart and tumblr without having some things posted late! I'll try my best guys!
Julie: You can at least count her determination.
Spyke was drawing in his notebook when Strawberry came into the alley. "Hey Spyke." She spoke sadly. "Hey Strawberry, is something wrong?" Spyke asked her. He was curious why, he had been over to her house often since their ink battle, and her family seemed happy. "I can't have my blasters on me when I go outside. Not until I'm old enough to be in the regular ink battles." Strawberry admitted. "Huh? Why? Every other inkling can." Strawberry only sighed and sat beside Spyke. "Some big mean inklings came by our house two days ago, they gave my mom and dad a piece of paper saying that if I want to carry my blaster outside and on the streets, I need to be 13 years old. That's a long time from now! No more ink battles, and I can't protect you from the bullies." Strawberry told him. "Is it because you're half octoling?" Spyke asked her. She nodded her head in agreement. "My mom isn't bad. And I'm not either. It's not fair." Strawberry crossed her arms and mumbled. She wasn't happy at all. Having her blaster with her always made her feel a little safe, and she liked finding new parts for it and seeing what she could add to it. "Back before you saved me from the bullies, inklings thought I was bad and strange. There aren't any other sea urchins here so it's easy for me to be picked on. We both aren't like regular inklings." Spyke tried to cheer Strawberry up, but she still had a sad look on her face. Then, an idea came to him. "Hey! I know what could cheer you up! Follow me!" Spyke insisted. Strawberry smiled a little and stood up. "It's Adventure Time! Yay!" She cheered. Spyke just chuckled and led the way.
Strawberry was out of breath by the time Spyke let her rest. He had her jump and climb over things to get to an old dusty shack on top of an old apartment building. "Why does it have to be so far? I can't even jump in my kraken form to here!" She complained. Spyke just smiled proudly. "That's how you'll know no one can bother me up here! Come on!" Spyke grabbed Strawberry's hand and pulled her toward the shack.
They went inside and to Strawberry's surprise, the inside seemed to be bigger, and cleaner than she expected. "Welcome to my shack above the kingdom! This is the only other place you'll ever find me at!" Spyke said happily gesturing to the decorated walls.
From what Strawberry saw, he could've been living there. There was an old bunk bed, a small table with several tools, items, and a stale cake pop on it. The walls had drawn pictures, some with color, and colored lights plugged into an unknown electricity source. There was a single window that looked out to the city. It wasn't much to Strawberry, but it looked like a fun clubhouse. "It's cool. What do you do up here?" Strawberry asked him while inspecting the table. "Not much. Sleep, hide, and gather things. Like this!" Spyke picked something off of the ground and dumped it onto the table. It was a giant shell, with a small creature inside. It was blue with tiny eyes. "Whoa, what is this thing!" Strawberry marbled. "It's called a Super Sea Snail mate, I've heard that if you eat one it tastes awesome." Spyke said as he shook the snail. Strawberry gasped. "If you want to eat this poor thing, do it when I'm not around!" Strawberry told him. Spyke chuckled. "Oh! And check this thing out. I found it by that manhole near the tower!" Spyke said to Strawberry before diving under the bunk beds. "It better not be something gross!" Strawberry chimed as she waited to see what it was. "I think . . . here it is!" Spyke tossed the object to Strawberry who caught it. In her hands she saw a pair of goggles, they were almost like the octling kind. "Cool! My mom use to have something like this! Can I have it!?" Strawberry asked Spyke with joy. "Yeah! You'll look fresh with them on, and I can't wear them. My hair mate, it's too spiky." Strawberry squeaked with joy and twirled around. She then stopped herself and put the goggles on, but to her dismay, her long hair was causing the goggles to slip off. "My hair is too." She said sadly.
Spyke heard the sadness in her voice and he knew a way to fix her problem. He stood up and went back to the table. He picked up a green hair band and handed it to Strawberry. "Here, put your hair up and then try it." He suggested. Strawberry did what he said and tied her hair up. Her ponytail was rather big, and some of her hair still hung in her face. But she put on the goggles, and they fit perfectly. "It worked. What else do you have here?" Strawberry asked Spyke. Spyke smiled.
Strawberry sat at the dinner table, waiting for dinner to be served by her mother, but she hadn't noticed that both her mother Kellianna and her father Miso were talking to each other in private in the other room.
"Are you sure they weren't from little kids or teenagers? Will your mother even let me into the house?" Miso asked Kellianna. Kellianna just frowned and glared at the ground. "I don't know Miso. The voices sounded mature, older. Plus, the octarians are still on the edge with all of this still. The treaty we have with both is still fragile. If Strawberry is seen again as a threat or a danger, we could be evicted, imprisoned, maybe even under watch. I just don't know what to do Miso. If we end up having to move then, it could be to the countryside or octo valley." Kellianna told Miso. Miso sighed impatiently. "What I'm really worried about is Strawberry. How is this going to affect her? This is were she wants to live. She loves to have ink battles Kellianna, and this is the best place to do that. She's just too young to understand most of this. I don't want to overly shock her." Miso admitted. Kellianna gave Miso a small smile. "Hey, whatever happens, from those phone threats to anything, I'll standby with you." Kellianna reassured hope in Miso, which made him smile back at her.
"Mom! When's dinner gonna be ready!"
Kellianna and Miso walked into the kitchen as Strawberry shouted to them. "Just a second, I was just talking to your father. Who wants noodles!" Kellianna asked her family. Strawberry practically jumped for joy. "Me!" She bursted out. "I second that!" Miso added. Kelianna just smirked.
Kellianna served the noodles for dinner, and they digged in. Strawberry was being slightly messy with her food, and Kellianna kept on scolding her for her bad manners. "Strawberry, eat right. What has gotten into you today?" Kellianna asked her daughter. "Well, today Spyke showed me this shack he found. He has all sorts of things in it. A super sea snail, five zapfish plushies, tools, and this!" Strawberry pulled out her new goggles from her pocket and put them on. She blinked several times to show them off to her parents. Both Miso and Kellianna weren't glad to see them. "Strawberry take those off." Miso told Strawberry. "But, they're just goggles dad. They aren't hurting anyone. It's cool." Strawberry replied with disappointment. "Strawberry, did you where those in town today?" Kellianna asked her daughter. She nodded yes, and Kellianna gasped. "Take those things off and hide them!" Kellianna demanded. Strawberry flinched at the volume of her mother's voice. "I just wanted to look nice. I didn't mean for anything to be bad. I thought it would be cool to dress up like you mom." Strawberry argued pitifully, but obeyed her mother's order and took off the goggles. Miso, seeing how sad this has made Strawberry, let a long sigh out. "We're sorry Strawberry. Right now it's not a good time for you to dress up as an octoling soldier. Maybe in a few weeks we'll let you wear them again." Miso told her, but Strawberry just stared into her bowl of noodles. "Okay." She responded with. The rest of the dinner was silent, and Strawberry finished her food before her parents.
Strawberry stared out her bedroom window, it was late at night already, but she just couldn't go to sleep. In her hands were her goggles, the ones she was suppose to put away. Strawberry stared at them and remembered how upset it made her parents. She sighed and looked out for the stars. Strawberry held her stare even when her door opened. Her mother walked in. "Strawberry, what are you still doing up, it's late." Kellianna told her. Strawberry just sighed again. "Is this about the goggles?" Kellianna asked her. Strawberry answered her. "Octarians don't even hurt or try to steal for inklings anymore. Why can't I be myself with things I like outside? I don't like it mom." Kellianna sighed and walked into her room. She stood behind her daughter and placed a hand on her head. "I don't like it either Strawberry. But maybe one day everything and everyone will get along. Just promise me, when I tell you to go to sleep, you go to sleep." Kellianna then booped Strawberry's nose which made her giggle. "Okay." Strawberry then jumped back into her bed and pretended to sleep. Kellianna just grinned and left her daughter alone to sleep.
Three days have gone by since the fight over the goggles, and Strawberry was back to her normal self. Today it was raining, so Strawberry's parents, Miso and Kellianna let their daughter have her urchin friend over under the storm had past. Usually when Spyke comes over, he explores Strawberry's home for her toys, everyday objects that interests him, or just plays with Strawberry. Today, they were playing Hide the Shell. It's a game the two made up where one person hides a sea shell somewhere in an area, and the other or others have to search for it. If they can't find it and give up, the person who hid the shell will find the shell and then they start over.
Spyke loved the game, but was terrible at it. When he was suppose to hide the shell, Strawberry would always find it in under a minute, and when he goes to look for the shell, it takes him about twenty minutes of failing before giving up.
"Alright! Time to find the shell!" Strawberry started the round. Spyke ran from the hallway into the living room where Strawberry was. She was standing in the middle of the room with a big grin plastered onto her face. Spyke looked around the room and jumped to the space behind the couch. Nothing but dust. He then stood up and spun around. He spotted the entertainment center and dove for the cabinets underneath the tv. No shell, but there was a dvd player with several copies of movies with titles that sounded cliche but classic like "Attack of the Trees" Or "It Came From The Sky 2: Jellyfish Brainwash" Spyke didn't like the sound of them at all. "You givin' up yet?" Strawberry teased Spyke as she watched him run to check under the couch cushions. "No! Not yet." Spyke said with determination.
From the other room, Miso listened to the kids' conversations. He occasional burst out laughing at what they said to each other about the movies. Kellianna had joined him in the kitchen with a cup of coffee. "Seems like they're having fun." Kellianna said quietly. "Does Spyke know that our daughter plays tricks like hiding the shell in her hair?" Miso asked her. Kellianna just chuckled in reason. "She gets it from you, you did after all surprised me with a wedding proposal and a ring out of nowhere." She teased. "I hope Spyke learns about that family trait quick." Miso said before staring out the kitchen window. Then, out of nowhere, their doorbell rang. Kellianna jumped to her feet. Miso felt fear spread inside of him. Both of them knew that when someone rings the doorbell, it spells danger or emergency for this family. A knock is okay, nothing to worry about. A doorbell ring, it's panic time. "Miso, I'll get Strawberry and Spyke, go answer the door and stall until you know everything." Kellianna instructed Miso before sprinting into the other. Miso stood up and walked to the front door. He could hear Kellianna talking to the kids about playing with them and playing Hide The Shell in Strawberry's bedroom. In five seconds flat all three ran upstairs, Kellianna being the last one up before nodding to Miso to answer the door.
Miso was shocked. Not with horror, but surprised. Three of his good friends, his neighbors, were standing on his porch with their wives, and one police officer. "M-May I help you?" Miso hesitated. The officer only handed him a piece of paper and left. His neighbors however, were planted to the porch, as still as angry statues. "I'm sorry Miso, it's best if you just do it." "Yeah, it was nice knowing you, but I don't want to live by an octarian anymore. The stress, it's too much." "Good luck man, surprised that they finally caught up to ya." That's all his neighbors told him before leaving his property. Miso was stunned. 'Do what? Nice knowing you? Stress? Caught up?' Thoughts ran through Miso's head before closing the front door. He then read the piece of paper the officer gave him.
By order, complaint, and law, we will evict you from you home within two hours for breaking the treaty of Inkoplis, disturbance of the peace, theft, altering weaponry, and unauthorized construction.
This eviction process will be in affect within two hours. If the residents of this property aren't relocated within two hours, they will be arrested.
Miso dropped the piece of paper and was out of breath. "What did we do?" "Miso! Is everything alright?" Kellianna called to him from the top of the stairs. When she saw the piece of paper on the floor, she rushed down to pick it up, but Miso stopped her. "We need to pack our bags and gather our things. We have two hours to move out before we are arrested." Miso said bluntly, which shocked Kellianna. "But we've built a life here, a family, we can't just throw it all away just because of an eviction notice. We pay taxes, the bills on time! Why, why?!" Kellianna was in disbelief. "Well this city and the people here think that we are either a walking timebomb or terrorists! Go get Strawberry packed! I'll get our bags!" Miso was shaking violently now, he had a mix of anger, fear, and sadness stirring inside of him. "What about Spyke?" Kellianna asked him. "Take him with us. If he's been seen with us he's going to be a target. I don't want the little guy to get in trouble for the wrong things." Miso straightened himself out and walked upstairs with his wife. They held hands before separating into their own missions.
"Strawberry come on! We have to hurry! Spyke you too! Grab a bag and throw it into the backyard!" The household was thrown into a panic. Kellianna was packing eight bags. Four with clothes, two with important things in them, two for treasures. Strawberry was nearly on the brink of tears, but Spyke kept her level headed as they tossed the bags out. "Miso! Get Strawberry her blaster! We aren't leaving without at least a blaster for each of us!" Kellianna barked to Miso who was already doing so. He handed Strawberry her own blaster with the ink tank, gave Spyke one too, and put two aside for himself and Kelli. Strawberry was very jumpy while her parents panicked. "I'm sorry you have to be stuck with all of this." Strawberry tried to talk to Spyke to calm down, but it barely helped much. "It's alright. I know this is serious, but I get to go on a road trip with you and your family, kinda." Spyke responded, attempting to make Strawberry feel a little better. Strawberry almost smiled, but then, there was knocking at the front door. Miso went to go answer it, and was greeted with four police officers. One of them was holding a copy of the notice paper that Miso was given. "I'm sorry sir, you have yet to vacate the property. We have to take you into custody." One of the officers said. "P-Please just give us thirty more minutes! We just need to grab one more bag and head out of town! We will leave! Please?" Miso pleaded.
Both Spyke and Strawberry watched in fear as the officers forced themselves into the house. Miso surrendered and let the officers try to handcuff him. Then, as if by luck, Kellianna ran downstairs with her blaster ready to shoot. The officers saw her and reacted to it. "Put down the weapon Octoling!" One of them shouted at her. "No! I'm sick and tired of you inklings! Some Octolings and Octarians aren't as bad as you'd think! This is for trying to take my home away and trying to arrest my husband!" Kellianna pointed the blaster at one of the officers head. Strawberry gasped when she saw the add ons of the blaster. "Spyke get down!" Strawberry warned him. They both ducked in the knick of time. Kellianna pulled the trigger, and it sent a large ink bomb at the officer. It burst into a large amount of paint, slime, and ink and covered all of the officers. It pushed the officers backwards, two fell onto the front porch, and the other two were pushed to the walls.
Strawberry and Spyke both felt relief wash over them when Miso stood up and was free of handcuffs. Strawberry was filled with hope again and ran to her parents. She joined them in a hug, but the moment was ruined after the officer's radio went off. "Did you four arrest the octarians? Hello? Hello! We are sending back up, they'll be there in five minutes!" Happy moment ruined. "If we leave now they could still catch us. They'll send us to prison, and Strawberry, where would she go?" Kellianna realized. Miso gasped and then looked down at Strawberry, than to Spyke. "They could send her to Octo Valley, but she might not be wanted. IF they send her to prison, they'll break her. If she runs, she can make it," Miso worried. "if we stay behind and surrender, she can run and be free. She'll be spared." Miso whimpered. Kellianna started shaking her head no. "Our daughter! Out on the streets, all alone, no home, no family! Sure she'll be free but- but she'll be alone Miso. Something will get her killed if she's alone." Kellianna cried. Miso pointed to Spyke, and he whispered. "Spyke has been on the streets, alone. He can help her." Kellianna started to tear up as she realized what was to be done. "I want to live a normal life here though. But, if we stay, they can run. You better not bail Miso." Kellianna teased lightly before kneeling down to Strawberry height. From her pocket, Kellianna pulled out a bandana with blue hues over pink. She hugged Strawberry who was crying as well before handing her the bandana. "Strawberry, you need to run away from here. Run away with Spyke to wherever he hides at. Me adn your father are going to stop the bad guys so you can do that. Do you understand?" Kellianna told her. "Mommy, I love you and dad. I don't wanna leave." Strawberry cried. Kellianna sighed. She handed Strawberry the bandana. "This is my lucky bandana Strawberry. Your father gave it to me, and now, you have to keep it safe."
Miso was starting to cry too. But he didn't start bawling yet. He motioned for Spyke to come to him. Spyke did and looked up at Miso. "Now Spyke, after today, you two are going to have to stay be each other's side. Don't let her get into trouble, and keep her safe and well. Promise?" Miso told Spyke. Spyke gave him a weak smile. "Of course mate, you have my word." Spyke replied. Miso nodded his head and both him and Kelli stood at the doorway. They watched as Strawberry and Spyke ran out the back door. "Maybe, if we are lucky, we'll see Strawberry again." Miso said. "How about one last ink battle Miso? Our last team match. What do you say?" Kellianna asked Miso as sirens went off in the distance. "Sounds lovely my love." Miso said before giving her a small kiss.
Spyke opened the shack door, a bag of treats and whatever money he could find from pick pocketing. Strawberry was on the top bunk, she was falling in and out of a nap and when she heard the door open she sat up with a yawn. "I brought back food!" Spyke said victoriously. Strawberry smiled and got out of the bunk. Spyke placed the food out on the table and they both started to sort through it. "Chips, store sandwiches, cake pops, and tofu. Wow, you found a lot today! Any newspapers?" Strawberry was curious to see if there was any news about her parents. "No, but on the big tv in the plaza it said something about your house. But nothing about you or your mom and dad." Spyke answered her question, which slightly made her feel sad. It's been two weeks since the incident. Strawberry was already feeling homesick, and worst of all is the fact that she could be a fugitive now. "Let's just eat." Strawberry's tone sounded disappointed. Spyke noticed that. "Do you want the cake pops?" Spyke offered Strawberry. "No, I don't really feel that hungry. I'll just have a sandwich. Then a nap." Strawberry's mood didn't change. Spyke's mood darkened a little. 'I hope things get better soon. I hate seeing her like this.' Spyke thought as he bit into his sandwich. He then stuck out his tongue and peeled something off of it. "Ew, tomato." He said. He then looked to Strawberry who had climbed back into bed. She didn't even giggle from it.
Me: Now they are both urchins.
Julie: Cool.
Me: What's cool about it? I had to send two characters to prison! My heart hurts a little even.
PEACE OUT!