Digital Love Triangle [TADC Pomni x Jax Fanfiction]

[-Chapter Two-]

Tagging along with Jax, Pomni tries to decipher why Jax was in her room, why he was acting differently. Why is he nicer?  

"There you are! Pomni, Jax, allow me to.." Caine glares at the two and narrows his top and lower floating jaw together, "...re-establish the rules of our.. ADVENTURE." He slowly floats closer to Jax and pokes his chest. *Boink!* 

"Yeah, yeah, ok.. sorry." Jax mutters mockingly.   

Caine clears his throat and floats upon the rest of everyone in the circus. As Caine yaps on, pomni looks up at Jax, who's beside her. Jax looks down at  her and smiles. Her mouth curved up in happiness, too!

Jax makes makes a mouth with one of his hands and gesticulates Caine's talking. He narrows his eyes down at Pomni and makes a stupid face; making Pomni giggle.

When Caine had finished re-establishing the rules of his adventure, he sets the main cast to be off in groups of two. Pomni and Jax chose each other within a heartbeat. 

Once everyone scurried off to the digital lake, Caine's desired adventuring spot, Caine pulls out a folding lawn chair to watch. 

"Bubble, my Caprisun?" Caine declares with his hand out and open. 

"Right on it, Boss!" Responds Bubble, his not very trusty but always convenient and loyal apprentice. The sentient bubble drops the succulent juice pouch into Caine's open palm. 

In the distance, Jax eavesdrops over the other working groups. He peers at Kinger and Gangle. "GAH- WHAT WAS THAT?" Kinger yells as a fish jerks at Gange's fishing pole. "Aw man, you scared it away!" Gangle whines.

Jax rolls his eyes and looks back at pomni. The corners of his mouth twitch into a smile. "Hey, Jester, catch anything?" He asks. "N-no.. but I am getting.... kinda hungry, "  Pomni responds. "Hungry?" Jax gleams .  He didn't tell Pomni, but he had gotten an idea - this idea in question would've made her mad, that is, if he told her before getting her desired snack - possibly after as well. "I got a little somethin' to take care of, peace." Jax throws a peace sign with his fingers in the air. 

"GOT ONE!" Ragatha shouts in excitement. "But, I feel bad for the guy, Zooble.. I gotta let him g-" she then got interrupted by the feeling of her catch being swooped out of her sewn hand. 

"Yoink!" Shouts, Jax.

Jax proudly drops the fish in front of Pomni. "Check it out." He crosses his arms as he towers over a sitting Pomni. 

"Hey, good catch! Was... that the thing you needed to do?" She asks and gives the flailing and flapping fish a glimpse of curiosity.  

"Got it for ya, now eat."  Jax's demeanor shifted to be like his usual, unlike how he's been acting lately towards Pomni. 

"H-how?" Pomni shudders and looks down and flinches at the squirming fish in the grass upon her. She hasn't known that the people of the digital circus had done something like this prior.

"It's digital, just take a bite." Jax responds. Pomni feels that Jax is playing some sort of trick on her. There's no way it's just that simple to take a bite out of a live, digital fish. Pomni reaches her hand towards the fish, but jerking her hand back in hesitation. "I-I can't!" She sputters and puts both hands on her chest. Jax rolls his eyes. "So this didn't really go according to plan, huh?" He asks wryly.  Pomni's eyelids twitch when she looks down at the digital fish, she gets caught off guard by the comedically loud sound of her stomach growling. "O-okay... thanks.." she whimpers and grabs the fish, slowly, steadily, bringing it to her quivering mouth. She opens her mouth and lays the top layer of her teeth on top of the fish's head, sinking her teeth in. To her surprise, the fish didn't have any bone, blood, not even any intestines, it felt as if she was biting into a raw fish, but also a fried, filet of fish at the same time. After enjoying her meal, Pomni licks her lips and even her gloves. She whipes her hands on her clothes and looks up at Jax. "Thanks.." she sighs in releif.    

"You really think I would make you eat something bad? Why wouldn't you trust a trickster like me?" Jax asks and giggles softly.

Minutes later...

"This is boring." Jax whines.  He kicks a pebble into the lake and collapses to the ground. Pomni, allready sitting on the ground crawls up to and lays beside him.  The two blush in unisent.

Jax turns his face to Pomni's. "Oh I know that red from anywhere!" He jabs Pomni with his elbow, "Is there... aheh.. something you wanna... tell me?" Jax giggles. Pomni, embarrassed and flustered,  "N-NO!" Pomni squeals and pulls her hat above her eyes, sitting herself in the fetal position.  "D'aww" Jax jeers. Jax looks behind himself, "Shoot'" He sighs, "looks like we're all going in." Jax continues. He tugs on Pomni's arm and drags her upward, she's still blushing. Jax saunters to the entrance of the circus tent when Caine halts him. "How did you not hear me? When I yell, you for you to get up immediately and go back in. I MEAN I YELL FOR YOU TO GET UP IMMEDIATELY AND GO. BACK. IN!" Caine yells, charging up a kick. He swings his foot back and kicks Jax into the circus, cartoonishly pelting him in the air and crudely sliding the rabbit across the floor. "You forgot this." He adds, gently sitting pomni on top of Jax's back and even adjusting her hat to its correct spot. Caine clears himself of the area by magically producing a gust of a sparkly and dramatic smoke cloud., going somewhere else in the circus. 

Jax strains his neck trying to look above him. He looks at Pomni, who's allready getting herself off of Jax.  "I'm sorry- I didn't hurt your back, did I?" Pomni asks, sheepishly.

"You're alright.." Jax groans in pain. She extends her hand to pull Jax up. "Don't even try that, Jester, you're too small for these muscles." Jax says with his face smashed into the floor, lifting his profoundly skinny arms; frail in appearance. Pomni giggles, "Can I at least try?" 

Pomni ends up dragging Jax, his face still against the floor. "Where are you taking me?" He asks, "You'll see.." Pomni giggles.