Candle: Splatoon Manga AU:

Chapter #4

2nd Person: 

"Forge?" You asked quietly, trying not to freeze or freak out. 

"Yes Y/N?" Forge asked normally. 

"Where exactly are we going?" You asked, nervously. 

"Doesn't matter, we're already here, Y/N." Forge replied and opened the door and let you enter. 

"I'll be outside if you need me." Forge said before closing the door on you, with you on the other side. 

And then she was gone.

The smaller room you entered had warm lighting, made for comfort. 

It was an office. 

"Take a seat." A familiar voice told you, and you sat down and saw the other person in the room. 

It was Army, standing nearby, looking at you. But not as deadly, just.. concerned? 

"Take a few deep breaths, alright?" Army told you, as he was grabbing some bandages. 

You nodded and proceeded to take some deep breaths, as Army was placing some simple bandages over your upper arm. 

"H-how'd you know?" You asked, wondering how he knew that your upper arm had been stinging and sore lately. 

"I heard from Sailor-W, not to mention that I noticed it while you were fighting.. or more likely just being a coward." Army responded a few seconds later, after putting some thought into what he was gonna say. 

"...I guess that's why they say "truth hurts" or something." You replied a few moments later, trying to recover from that verbal burn that Army just directed at you. 

"Correct." Army replied without hesitation. 

You just sort of sat there as Army finished placing the bandages. 

"Y/N, you seem to be having a rougher start than most at this school, was everything okay at home before you moved by yourself?" Army suddenly asked you, but you were still a bit sensitive about this topic, and just didn't want to talk about it at the moment. 

"I-It was fine.." You lied, but hid it well. (This will be more key later in the story btw) 

"Alright, just checking.. though, I think you should properly know.. to not cross me again, correct?" Army said, wanted confirmation. 

"I-I understand that.." You replied, you felt so sure, yet.. you had no idea what was to come. 

"Good, and I expect you to hold that promise." Army replied, waiting for another answer from you, but you just nodded instead. 

"I've finished, let me escort you back to your dorm." Army said as he put his hand on your shoulder. 

"o-oh, okay.." You replied, and then walked back to your dorm with Army behind you, to just make sure you got there without doing anything bad, or passing out. 

Army stared at you endlessly as you and Army both walked down the dark hallway, with thunder erupting on the outside. 

You were nervous just because of his presence.

He really does have a skill when it comes to intimidation. 

It felt like a pretty long time, or at least longer than it needed to be anyways. 

But finally you made it back to your dorm, and at last, finally you can escape Army's grasp, at least for now. 

You both said goodbye, or whatever counterpart you had, and you went inside and closed the door. 

You looked outside your window, there was still a lot of thunder outside. 

It almost was making you nervous. 

Was something gonna go wrong soon. 

And did you really learn your lesson? 

Now you are unsure. 

Let's relax, we have like 2 hours until we have to make it to the cafeteria for the evening meal anyways. 

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Keep your head up high, your almost there, you'll be fine, you'll be on time- 

Never mind, you are a minute late, but that won't stop you from running through the rest of campus to get there. 

WorstDormPlacementEver 

You see the doors from a distance, and run to it and open it.. you sighed with relief.. until you looked up and realized you missed dinner and you were an hour and 2 minutes late, and Army was waiting for you. (Time change threw you off, I swear-) 

"Greetings Y/N, I've been expecting you." Army said to you, my gosh, that intimating aura felt like walking on shattered glass barefoot. 

You felt frozen in place, helpless, vulnerable, and unsafe. Army makes you feel this way unfortunately. 

You weren't usually careless about anything, in fact, usually you were quite serious. Something happened to you, and it wasn't good. 

You decided to just nod, nodding in shame.

Finally, Army responded, "I think you already know what you did, correct?" 

You nodded. 

You felt terrible, something is wrong with you, wasn't it right? 

"Please come over to this table, Y/N." Army said suddenly as he motioned you to take a seat. 

He handed you the last plate of curry, that happened to be cold. 

You definitely were in trouble. 

While you were eating the curry, Army began to lecture you due to being late again. 

You felt terrible for not knowing any better, but you were just getting used to the routine from before. 

Army sighed, he would've wanted to give you some sort of punishment, but it was really due to natural causes, and you were still getting used to this school, so he left you out on a warning instead. 

2 words.. Thank Goodness! 

Though of course there was a catch.. and that's how you washed all 420 of the dirty plates. 

You were excused afterwards, but he didn't thank you at all.

And then you didn't feel that great inside after that..

Curfew begins in 12 minutes.. it takes at least 8 minutes to get across campus with the detour route, but it might make you feel better.

So.. why not..?

You headed outside, without an umbrella, coat, or boots..

You were freezing, and almost got some water on you, but you luckily missed the water, but only barely..

Around the end, you noticed a lot of mud nearby.. best to avoid it.. 

And there was a large gap between you, and the last shelter before you could make it back inside. 

You took a run for it.. 

...

But slipped. 

Almost..

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