Nogareru

Corruption of a Curse

It was so quiet and dark, my head felt like it was spinning. Then out of no where, a creepy, echoing voice said "You are impure Harlequin, I can help you become part of the one other perfect creatures in this Disgusting, Impure world," I couldn't move, I couldn't speak, I couldn't do anything at all. Is this what death is? Am I really dead? No, your just imagining this, wake up Harlequin. Get it together and think straight. To what seemed like an eternity I finally started to see a light. "harleq- y- re-" A muffled voice said from somewhere.

"har- quin-" "Don't try to listen to them Harlequin," The creepy echoing voice said. "Those impure humans are the enemy, they just want you to do their dirty work for them and then throw you out to die," I tried my best to not listen to the creepy voice but it only echo's through my head. "H- qui-" Muffled voices said in the background. "harlequi- Harlequin!!" I woke up in a panic and saw that Blaze and Willow were next to me. "Harlequin! Your Awake, Finally, God I thought you were going to die or something." Blaze said pacing back and forth.

"He passed out from exhaustion, he wasn't going to die, he just needs to rest." Willow said yelling at Blaze. I sat up and looked around to see that we were in a room with even rows of beds which looked like a small hospital room, which it probably was. "How- how long was I passed out for?" I asked looking over at them. "a while, like around like 20 or 30 minutes." Willow said. "We do have to actually leave though because there is a rule of visiting hours here, food is on the night stand right there, you should be good to go in the morning though." Blaze said as they both left the room.

"Hey, Harlequin was it?" a random voice said. I looked at the bed that was to the left of me and there was a girl sitting there. She had dark blue hair with a bun in the back so it looked like she had short hair, her face and arms were covered with big scratches and bruises. "Are you okay?!" I asked, surprised that she was even alive with that many injuries. "Besides the fact that I broke a few ribs, I'm actually perfectly fine, thanks for asking." she said with quit a happy tone for their current status. "What happened that made you end up like that?" "I got into a fight with Shonin." "I never go down without a good fight so I was able to hurt him a little bit before.." She said while gestured to what happened to their face.

There was an awkward pause "I'm Lemon," She said. "Is that-" "Please just don't ask, it's not my real name and I don't like talking about it." She said trying to itch her arm without hurting herself. There was once again another awkward pause. "Harlequin, I don't have any friends, and I'm actually not very good with socializing…" "Same here, I don't really have any friends." I said with an awkward smile as we both stared at each other. "You know, I could be your first friend, we both could have someone to really be able to rely on, since neither of us have friends and all.." I said with a smile.

"heh, that sounds like a good plan, sure!" Lemon giggled, then pointed to the nightstand next to me, "Also are you going to eat that? I'm actually pretty starving," I looked at the nightstand and there was a plate with food on it, "I mean we could spit it, im not that hungry." I said getting up and grabbing the plate to sit in the chair next to Lemon. "I wouldn't think there are any plates just sitting around so we would have to share off the same plate if that's fine." "It's alright, I just really need food right now, so thank you Harlequin."

I sat down and handed Lemon the biggest piece of food on the plate, which was pretty big, and she quickly started chomping away at it. I went to get a piece of hair out of my face but Lemon, surprisingly fast, grabbed my wrist and wouldn't let go. She rolled up my sleeve showing the bandaged up scratch, but something was wrong with it though I couldn't figure out what. "When did you get this scratch?" Lemon said with a serious tone. "When I was being captured, someone or something had scratched me." "I'm not sure how long I was knocked out for though." Lemons intense gaze at the bandages started to worry me.