"Olive."
"Dimentio."
Dimentio wasn't very happy to see Olive, and Olive was unsure why. He seemed upset today, when he was usually cheerful.
"Meet Em," Dimentio said, signaling a hand to a person wearing a blue hooded cloak.
"Hey! I heard about y-"
"I actually need to talk to you about something, Dimentio."
Em clicked his tongue at Dimentio. "What did you do this time?"
"Me?! Why do you need to talk to me for?"
"I broke her heart because of you!"
"Ooooh, you're talking about that."
"You're nothing but a heartless, chaos-loving, harlequin!"
"Woah, Olive-"
"Don't 'woah Olive' me! I have wanted to tell you this for a while now! I just never had a reason to until today! You're just a heartless criminal! You should have just stayed in the Underwhere!"
Em held out his hand, and Olive's anger turned to tears. "Calm down, child. Do you want to make a scene? Didi just had a rough day today and-"
"Rough day? Rough day?! I just ruined someone's life!" Olive pointed at Dimentio.
Em looked at his hand. "Why did it get canceled out...?"
"Don't you point at me!" Dimentio pushed Olive's hand down. "I just had to steal a stamp from the queen! Ruining someone else's life isn't as bad as having your life ruined by the Elemental Master!"
"See? This is your problem! You only care about yourself!"
"Myself?! I ruined Puppetino's life! I cared more about her than I would of myself!"
"You ruined her life because you were being selfish!" Olive slapped his hands over his mouth. He regretted saying that. "Dimentio I-"
"Shut up," Dimentio said, his back facing Olive. "I know I made things rough between us. I know I made some mistakes."
"Dimentio-"
"But that's no excuse for you to be upset at me. I didn't even want you to know about Piper. I didn't even want you to know about Emerald. He just wanted to meet you." Dimentio wiped off his mask near his eye. "I didn't even want you to know that I was from a different world." He folded his arms, grabbing his arms on each side. He turned to face Olive slightly, only moving his head. "And I definitely didn't want you to know about my eye."
Olive had found out about Dimentio's Heterochromia from Olly. Olly told Olive about why Dimentio always hid his face behind a mask all the time because Olive wanted to know. Dimentio was still upset about that.
Olly had also helped Dimentio repair his mask. Dimentio may not have been friends with Piper anymore, but he still cared for her. The only thing he had left from his home world, the world of Sprites, was his iconic mask that was a gift from his forgotten friend.
Olive felt anger building up again. "I've done nothing but care for you, and you still believe you can treat me like trash?"
"I never said that."
"Well, that seems to be the way you're going. Every time somebody is nice to you, you push them away. You did it to Piper, Olly, me-"
"It would have been better for the both of us," Dimentio started, turning to face Olive, "if you had never been folded at all!"
"O-oh. See what I mean? This is exactly what I was talking about. It won't be long before you push Em away too." Olive grabbed his chest where his heart was. There was that pain again. His heart breaking. It felt too real to just be a feeling, no. It was real. "You'll just be alone, suffering, until you stop hurting people who care about you. You did it to Count Bleck too, stabbing him in the back after he had taken you under his wing."
"That's what I do, Olive. I hurt people. That's all I've ever been good for, and all I ever will be." Olive saw Dimentio clench his hands into fists. "Everytime I do something, I end up losing everything. You thought I meant to hurt Piper? Or Olly? Or Emerald?"
"Well, it sure does seem like it. You're heartless, selfish, and you bring nothing but chaos. And you enjoy it. Don't you?"
"I'll chaos your face!" Dimentio snapped, tackling Olive.
"You two, cut this out!" Em pulled Dimentio off of Olive.
"Let me go!" Dimentio kicked at Em. The hooded Sprite held out his hand, and Dimentio calmed down. He put the dimension master back on the ground.
"Wow, you're pathetic. You needed your little friend to calm down?"
"Shut up, Olive. You've already caused enough pain," Em said back.
"Who's this...Olive?"
"What the-?"
Olive was unlike himself. He was taller, like Olly was with a Big Men; squarish-proportions and all. Although he was taller than Olly, by a lot. His hair was long, white, and put into a low ponytail; his usually neat bangs were now messy. His blue eyes had slit pupils, and his smile bore fangs. His cowlick had turned to two horns, and his tail whipped from side to side. He crouched down to Dimentio's level.
"So, you're the person who's been ticking me off." He sounded unimpressed. Olive's voice was a slight bit deeper than it normally sounded. "Hm? Say, that eye..."
"Wh-who are you, and what did you do to Olive?!" Dimentio stuttered, moving away from the mutant.
He grabbed Dimentio by the face and brought him closer. He took off Dimentio's mask and tossed it aside. Em grabbed it before it shattered on the ground. He reached for Dimentio's eye.
"It looks like Oni!" He pulled it out, not seeming to cause Dimentio any pain. He tossed the magician aside. "No mind if I do."
"Didi? What did he just do?"
"That's my mother's!" Dimentio grabbed his arm.
"Oh, then she's an Oni."
"Give it back! I need it!"
"You know what? I think I'm going to eat it. I want to know who she is!"
"What...?!"
He popped the eye into his mouth and swallowed. "Aah...that's a fresh taste. Seems like she was a Fire Oni. Impressive."
Dimentio's jaw dropped open. "What the-"
"So, you mentioned an Olive person?"
"You-you just ate my eye?!"
"Yes, what about it? Did I hurt your 'feewiings?' Hahaha!"
"Who are you?" Em asked.
"I am-" His smile faded. "I am...I'm not sure who I am."
"Huh?"
"Tell me who Olive is!"
Dimentio flinched back. "He...he's you. I mean, you're supposed to be him."
"So that's who's memories these are! They must be blocking me from my own..." He smiled at Dimentio, showing him his fangs. "Say, you like deals, right?"
"I-I guess?"
"How about I make a deal with you? I'll give you your mother's eye back if you help me recover my memories!"
"Why would I want to do that?!"
"Make the deal, or I'll finish digesting it and you'll never be able to get it back."
"S-so?! Why would I make a deal with you?"
"Of course, since you're being stubborn...I can take your other eye too! Then you really won't be able to see! And since you won't be able to see, you can't pull off any tricks or magic spells! How's THAT for a deal? You help me recover my memories, or I'll make you permanently blind!"
"Fine! But give me back her eye first!" Dimentio held out his hand.
"Can you live through acid? If you want it back THAT badly, I can spit it out for you."
"Eugh!" Dimentio tucked his hands under his poncho.
"I knew you'd accept my deal! Nobody can resist my charm. Heheh." He coughed. "Ahh...ahah..." He fell to his knees. "I don't feel well..." He glared at Dimentio. "YOU! You did this to me!" Dimentio noticed he was holding his gut.
"Wh-huh?!"
"You-you did something to make me ill! It was that eye, wasn't it?!"
"I have no idea what you're talking about!"
He growled at Dimentio. "I don't know how, but you managed to do something to that eye to make me ill!" He slumped forwards, no longer looking at Dimentio. He started gagging.
"I-"
He returned to his normal size and style, and fell to the floor. Olive sat up after lying there for a moment.
"Oni Sprite," Em gasped. "I thought they had all died off when you destroyed our home."
"But, I folded Olive! How could he be an Oni Sprite?! I also thought is was demon, not Oni..."
"Oni's the Japanese word for demon, Didi."
"I...don't feel very well..." Olive managed. "And what just happened? Who was that?"
"You remember what happened?" Em asked. "That's odd, almost everyone forgets what happened after a transformation. Or is that just a cliche?"
"Why did he eat your eye, Dimentio?"
"I...don't know." Dimentio rubbed the empty socket where his mother's eye used to sit. "But it's gone now."
"I heard about an Oni Eater," Em inserted. "But they were just a myth. At least, I think they were...now I'm not so sure."
"He said something about locked memories," Olive said, getting off of the ground. "I wonder if I'm the problem."
"This doesn't make any sense!" Dimentio shouted, ripping out some strands of his white hair. "I folded you! You should be origami, not a Sprite!"
"The Fold of Life has something to do with emotions and feelings. Were you...thinking of somebody when you folded me?"
Dimentio lowered his arms slowly. He had. He was thinking of his mother's sacrifice. He didn't think that would have infected the creation process! Dimentio dropped the strands of hair and covered his face with his hands. Dimentio and Olive were both part Oni Sprite, which meant that Super DimentOlive was as well. That explained why they could take off their mouth.
At least, Dimentio was part Oni Sprite until Olive stole his eye.
"We have no time for this," Dimentio said, taking his hands off his face. "I want my mother's eye back, even if I have to tear it from your stomach!"
"Aah! Please don't do that!" Olive sighed heavily. "I feel like I'm going to throw up."
"That's odd, Oni Sprites are just in their Oni form. They have no human form." Em folded his arms. "I think Olive's a special type of Oni Sprite that's never been heard of before."
"Uhg," Dimentio sighed. "If Piper was still here, this would be so much eaisier! She loved to study this type of stuff!" Dimentio fixed his hat, as it was crooked. "I promised the Oni you I would help him, so I guess I have to help him now."
"You can't control it," Em pointed out. "And I don't think it was Didi's eye that made you sick. I think it was the uncontrolled power. It's too much for you. You'll have to stay calm, Olive. We don't want you transforming into him again." Em held out his hand. "I may have to weaken your emotions to do that, so just hold on-"
"I don't want you doing that!" Olive said. "I appeaciate your help, but I don't want you messing with my emotions!"
Em put his hand back down. "What do we do now, Didi?"
"We find a way to get my eye back."
Author note: In case if you were wondering, Em is short for Emerald. (Which means Didi is short for Didinoch, an Oni Sprite name.)
