Just A Monster (KP FIC)

20

Lanternsherk is a slacker waaaaaaaaa😭

I started my way down the wide corrider leading towards the caves. I wasn't sure why that was the direction I decided with first, the chances of finding something to eat there was rare and due to my body suddenly revolting towards digesting a slime creature I likely wouldn't find anything at all. I wish it'd been different, I wouldn't have minded eating slimepups for the rest of my miserable life, at least they had less of a conscious then other gootraxians had.

I was both exhausted and weak still, I had only been walking for a few seconds and I was suddenly limping through out the caves, stopping every now and then to hunch over like a helpless old lady and clutch onto the crystals for support. These stops were both mandatory and reliving though. Every time I did it was like lying down for a few moments, which I currently yearned for above all else, having the option to rest peacefully without being interrupted by my upset stomach or the complaints of Sprinklekit. My way of coping with such was thinking of the few times I HAD that opportunity. The two of us would get off of work at our respective times, mine being much earlier then theirs due to my trouble of keeping up with work hours. Those were the times I'd just flop right down on the ground or anywhere nearby before falling asleep almost instantly after. I've always wished things were that way again, it's a thought that constantly comes to mind and never leaves, yet I don't think I've made the necessary options that'd likely fulfill my wishes.

I let out a pained growl as I felt a festering pain increase through out my leg the more I move on, taking it as an indicator I needed ANOTHER moment to stop and regain the energy I had lost, which was barely anything at all considering the fact I was walking. I reached my paws out towards some of the rubble in front of me, feeling a small sense of panic as I had almost fell onto my side. My claws would eventually find their way impaled into the rocks though. I leaned onto it completely as I scanned my surroundings, almost positive that I'd be going back to the cafeteria hungry tonight. That couldn't be an option, if I went back I wouldn't be sure when I'd come back out. Not only because I felt I wouldn't have the energy to move a muscle if I managed to fall back asleep but because I was probably going to die if I didn't eat soon. I'll always have that thought one way or another though, I still wasn't used to the fact that I could go days without eating anything, I knew I could but it was a strange feeling. As I searched I noticed the corpse of a slimepup in the distance, it's mask untouched, it's throat slit, and from this distance it looked half eaten. Who the HELL would've killed this slimepup and just leave it here? Were they awaiting my starving presence to waltz into the caverns just so they could coincidentally place it there? I half expected that to be the answer.

It took it another few minutes, the silence engulfing the room and the short fur of the slimepup swaying with some wind that I couldn't quite depict the direction of. A shadowy figure emerged from the darkness on it's quads, pacing towards the corpse and clamping it's teeth around one of it's most intact limbs. I froze completely. I didn't know who this person was but I knew they were a gootraxian. Why was I so frightened? Who knows when the next time my hunger would drive me to do stupid things? Mostly everyone down here was so compassionate towards others, similar to Shade's compassion towards me. I knew they'd stop at nothing to assist me if they saw the state I was in, even if it wasn't as severe as the condition I was in when they found me. I didn't have to be foaming at the mouth, panting heavily, bleeding, and have blood shot red eyes for them to worry, how skinny I looked could be enough for them as it is. If this goo saw me I feel like I'd be putting their life at more risk then they were mine.

They noticed me anyway however, during the struggle of the corpse constantly slipping out of their maw and the multiple tantrums they threw whenever it did they caught me staring at the corner of their red and yellow pupils, making the presence of Panther known to me. I meant to call them out by their name before they grew pissed by the sight of me staring at them, they probably didn't even know who I was to have such a pissy attitude the moment they noticed me.