Metal and Bone | A Rainbow Quest AU

Chapter 8 - A New Friend

[Sabre's POV]

I wake up, seeing a robot pig in front of my face.

"HOLY- JEEZ!" I yell, jolting up. I'm definitely awake now...

"What happened?" Orange asks, I hear him downstairs.

"Gerald scared me, I'm fine." I answer, sliding off the bed.

"Gerald, leave him alone!" Orange scolds the pig from downstairs, and Gerald heads down before I do.

When I get to the living room, Orange is holding Gerald and lecturing him about being careful with me. I laugh at my friend's antics, and Orange looks back at me. He sets the pig down as I climb onto the couch.

"Sorry he scared you." Orange says, joining me on the couch.

"It's fine. He didn't actually do anything, he was just in my face when I woke up." I say. Gerald glares at me from his spot of the floor next to us. "What? You did that, not me." I say to him.

"He's just grumpy 'cause he got in trouble." Orange says, laughing.

"Can I have food?" I ask. Orange looks at me, surprised.

"You still want food after yesterday? Or really, earlier this morning, cuz uh... that ended up happening at 2 AM." Orange says.

"Yeah." I say. "Besides, you fricken planned that to happen, technically that was your doing."

"Alright, alright." Orange says, getting up. "I'm only making you a little bit though, because I really think you need to start slowing down on how much you eat, you tiny vacuum."

"Aw, what? Why?" I ask, and Orange gives me a look of 'are you serious'... but doesn't really look all that serious himself.

"Do I really need to explain it?" Orange says, smiling.

"C'mon, I don't eat that much." I giggle.

"Oh really?" Orange says, clearly holding back laughter. "Does eight potatoes, a bowl of soup, five smoked fish, and two apples sound familiar to you?"

"There's no evidence, you have no proof!" I laugh.

"Because you ate all of it, ya silly!" Orange says, now also laughing.

Orange takes out two potatoes and puts them into the furnace, then walks back over to me.

"Okay, okay... I know you need to slow down a little because I've been reading more about humans since you got here." Orange says. "You're pretty close to being normal and healthy again, like you're supposed to, and I don't want you throwing that off by being a tiny vacuum when you don't need to."

"C'mon, I'll be fine." I say.

"Don't come crying to me when one of these days you can't fit in that hoodie anymore." Orange laughs.

"Hey, that won't happen!" I say, and Orange laughs harder. "This hoodie is oversized as heck, there's no way."

"Keep telling yourself that." Orange says.

Eventually, the potatoes finish, and Orange plays with Gerald as I eat. When I finish, I jump down from the couch and run over to them both of them.

"Okay, what are we doing today?" I ask my robot friend.

"I was thinking we'd check on the village, after the attack and all." Orange says.

"Oh, cool!" I say. "I was wondering how everyone was holding up after that. Speaking of that... I think I saw something just before the lightning hit everything."