I woke up to the feeling of someone looming over me. I pretended to shift in my sleep and grabbed a knife I kept under my pillow. In one swift motion, I pushed up and turned so I could push my "attacker" to the floor and land on them. I looked at who it was. Prince pain in the ass... of course.
"Get off me." he scoffed.
"Get off you!? What the fuck were you doing watching me sleep!?"
"The sorcerer wishes for you to wake. Something about some magic place that will conjure clothing, seems she wishes for you to join us." He muttered.
I got up and turned away to get dressed. His eyes widened. "You're just going to do that with me here!?"
"I don't give a fuck who you are, if you ain't gone then enjoy the show I guess... I don't give a fuck."
He scoffed and left, I could hear him yelling to Ava about how rude I am.
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I got changed into baggy jeans, a black tank top, and chunky boots before I grabbed a sweater, my phone, cigarettes, lighter, earbuds, wallet, etc, put it in my black canvas satchel, and fed thorn before walking out to a wheezing Ava.
"What's so funny..?"
"Did you really threaten to change in front of him?" she laughed
"I WANTED TO SEE!" leif yelled
"Pervert." I scoffed. "Anyways, Thorn is fed and has water so i'm ready," I said as I adjusted my tank top with my second pair of arms.
"Oh! I did not notice that." Rhys said as he stared at my arms.
"What?"
"Woahhh! She has 4 arm!?" Noi said excitedly.
"Yep, scorpions have 8 legs, In my case I however.. Have 2 legs and 4 arms." I explained to the younger male
"WOAH!" he said, his eyes sparkling.
"Anyways, let's go." I looked at Ava who was counting money. "Where did you get that?"
"Swear jar," she said as she put the money in her pockets before walking
"Leif, Rhys, you stay here!" Asch said.
I shrugged and followed Ava, my lower arms holding my sweater as my actual arms had their hands full as I struggled to light the fucking cigarette I had pulled from the pack.
"Jesus fucking Christ." I hissed as all I got were sparks. "Ava I need a lighter." I looked at her.
"Do I look like a smoke?" she asked.
"Well, you don't need to smoke to own a lighter. I need some sort of fucking fire so I can smoke!" I huffed.
"What's smoking..?" Noi asked.
"Something people shouldn't do."
"Why do you do it?"
"Because I've seen some shit people shouldn't see"
"Like..?"
I stayed quiet for a moment, not responding to his question. "Bad stuff... worse than solder boy over there has seen no doubt."
"Woah! Really!" he asked, amazed.
"Mhm..."
Asch walked over, flames emitting from his hand. I looked at him confused.
"Well? You said you needed fire. Be happy I'm doing anything after you attacked me."
I lit my cigarette and scoffed. "Reflex," I muttered and inhaled the bitter smoke before exhaling and watching the cloud form.
Noi started choking on the smoke, making me look at him confused.
"SHE'S KILLING NOI!" Leif yelled.
"N-no!" Ava said as she stood in front of me. "She's not! It's smoke."
"How do we know it's not poisonous," peirce said
"Technically it is, people die from this shit," I said and took another puff.
"Shut up Y/N!" Ava said
I scoffed and walked away, my tail coiled up, positioned off the ground.
We finally made it to the mall, Ava explained all about cigarettes on the way there.
"Here we are! The mall!" she said excitedly.
"I'm going to buy a lighter." I started walking away. She grabbed my hand. "At least take one of them with you..." she sighed.
"...prince pain the ass," I said. "With me
"What did you call me-" Before he could finish I grabbed him with one of my lower arms before dragging him away. i dropped my cigarette and stepped on it as we walked.
People stared at me of course, but I didn't care, I mean I'm a scorpion Hybrid who's had it rough all her life, I'm covered in scars so people are gonna whisper and talk about me like I can't hear them.
We got to my favourite store. "ED'S VAPES" I always wondered why a vape store is in the mall but I ain't complaining, The dude sells cigarettes and lighters at a low price for army vets.
I walked in.
"Ahh, there she is!" my army bud Corbin said as he walked over and hugged me.
Corbin was Ed's nephew, and since Ed had recently retired Corbin got the store.
"Corbie!" I smiled as I hugged him back.
"How's life been treating ya, hmm stinger?"
Stinger... a name I hadn't heard in ages. It was my calling in the army for obvious reasons.
"Good, good, ya know, PTSD and all that shit."
He nodded "I get that, so uhh who's the cosplayer?" he motioned to Asch.
"Ahh friend of Ava's, she told me to bring him since she got the other two."
"Damn, here I was thinking you had a man," he smirked. "May have ta change that, hmm?"
I laughed and hit his shoulder. "Fuck off ya pervert."
"Anything for you, stinger." he winked. "Anyways, what can I get ya?"
"Lighter, few packs of cigs."
"Classic stinger." he scoffed playfully.
As Corbin got my stuff I looked at Asch who was glaring at Corbin. I leaned in and whispered. "Behave... he could drop your ass before you even processed what happened."
He nodded slowly with a sigh. I payed for my stuff and said goodbye to Corbin before leaving.
"I don't like that guy," Asch said after we left.
"Not many do like him. Most are challenged by his presence." I chuckled and put my stuff in my bag. "Let's get back to Ava." i said as i started walking, got a bad feeling about something."
