365 days as a helpless puppet

Chapter 7

I spend the next month on the street again. I didn't need to eat to survive, but the hunger was still there. I hated my life. And I still couldn't escape her eyes. They were always on my mind. God damnit I hate this city. I wish I could burn it down with everyone in it. My genocidal thoughts stopped as a tall women stepped in front of me. She had a black umbrella with her a blond hair that was almost white. "Oh my! You poor boy, who left you out alone on the streets?" She said with a pitied tone in her voice. "oh screw off women!" I crammed at her and turned my head away. "You're Kunikuzushi, am I right?" Her tone of voice quickly changed into a serious tone. "W-what did you just say?" I quickly turned my head back to her in shock. How does this women know me? Did 'She' send her to kill me? "I'm a harbinger from the fatui, la Signora to be precise." She continued ignoring my question. "I can give you the home and power you truly deserve." She said reaching her hand out to me. "What do you say?" She asked, smiling at me strangely. I thought about it for a bit. Who were these fatui people? And why would they want someone like me? But at the same time, she said she could give me power. Does that mean that she could give me my powers back? I mean, I don't have anything to loose anyway. "I'm in." I said reaching out to her hand and pulling myself up. "Then we have a deal." She said. The woman brought me to a place far away from Inuzuma. We stopped at a big door of a...mansion? She knocked on it and two guards opened it from the inside. The place was pretty big. When we walked down the corridor, an older man walked twords us. "Aah! Signora! Long time no see." He had light blue hair, red eyes and a strange mask on his face. "We don't have time for that Dottore." She said to him annoyed. "Oh! Is this the subject?" The man said looking at me with a wide grin on his face. He creeped me out. "Yes. Is everything ready?" She asked him. I just stood there confused. What were they talking about? Subject? Ready? I didn't get it. "Kunikuzushi, please go with Dottore, he will help you unseele your powers." As told, I followed the strange guy down the corridor into a room. In that room was a big window through which you could look into another room, next to it a door with a danger sign on it. "Let me just get everything ready!" The blue haired man said to me and went out of the door for a minute. I took that minute to look around the room more. Dottore came back into the room and closed the door. "So, let's begin shall we?" He said to me with an unsettling smile. Well, there's no turning back now. "Let us work together from now on." He said, reaching his hand out for a handshake. I accepted. He guided me though the door with the warning sign and as I walked in he closed the door and I could hear a clicking sound which was him locking the door. I realized quickly that this was no ordinary room. The window looked like a mirror on the other side and everywhere were vents. Why so many vents? My question quickly got answered as a purple colored gas made its way into the room. "What the fuck?!" I tried not to breath it in, but soon realized that was impossible. My vision got blurry and I fell on my knees. Had I just made the biggest mistake in my life? Is this how everything is going to end? Then I saw her again. Her horrific look on her face. She didn't want to go away. Suddenly her place switched with a face that was rather familiar. My face. It was MY face which had that horrible look on its face. No...I'm not like her! Stop...make it stop. I grabbed my head as I began to have a headache. Our faces kept switching places in my head. Stop it. Please just stop it. I began crying. I couldn't take it anymore. "Let me out..." I silently whispered to myself. "Let me out." I began to get louder. "PLEASE JUST GET ME THE FUCK OUT!!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, charging at the door and trying to open it. "FUCK!!" I jelled, as I remember that that bastard locked it. I trembled back again and fell to the floor. "MAKE IT STOP!!!" The images were getting worse. It was her, then me, then Thoma, Gorou, Kazuha and...Tomo... "No...I-I'm sorry... I didn't mean to..." I started whining again, clenching my teeth in pain. "I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME!!" I started screaming again. "LET ME OUT!!!" At this point I was laying on the floor crying my eyes out. What I couldn't see though, were the little electric sparks forming around me. My sadness soon turned into regret which turned into wrath. "I SAID LET ME OUT!!!" I punched down on the floor, cracking it a little bit. Now it was my face again. "JUST STOP IT ALREADY!!" Was this my karma? Did I really deserved such a shitty life? The sparks were getting more powerful as my anger and pain increased. At this point I was purely screaming at the top of my lungs, when finally, I had enough. The glass of the window exploded and left only but a few shattered pieces on the fool. A strong electro power surrounded me as I walked closer to the brocken window and climbed out of it to face Dottore. "Hey, bitch! I asked you to let me out." I said to him in anger. "Heh, looks like it worked. I am a genius after all." He only said back to me with his creepy smile. But I've had enough. I grabbed him by his neck and started chocking him. "I- wouldn't do that If I were you." He said still smiling and hardly breathing. I let go of him and turned around to the shards from the window. I walked up to them and picked one up, took my long hair in one hand and cut it shot with one slash. "The name 'Kunikuzushi' no longer belongs to me." I said with a cold voice and looking back at him. "Great, from now on you'll be given the name 'Scaramouche'." He said standing up and dusting himself off. Scaramouche...I like that name.