The Breathing Treasure (Merome)

Soul

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Ian knocked several times on the old wooden door, thoroughly  annoyed.

"They told me to knock, but I knocked so many damned times! This is crap, i'm busting it open,"

He punched the wall, and it cracked through several layers of wood and iron. Punching again, he created a hole, suited for him to squeeze through.

Going in head first, he hastily climbed through the hole, hoping that Jerome won't scold him for it.

Walking around, he found nobody.

"This is crap,"

Holding up a piece of budder, he found a phone.

"This is Jerome's, he must be here,"

Walking to the bedroom and pushing the door open, he gasped.

All he saw. Was Jerome and some stranger cuddling. And Adam and Jason on the floor on top of each other.

He began laughing uncontrollably, not caring that they would wake up.

Jerome stirred, covering his ears with his paws, and placing the covers over his head.

Adam threw a pillow at Ian, which landed square in his face. Ian kept on laughing, running over to Adam.

"Sky, dood, look at where you are!" Tears appeared at the corner of his eye.

Adam looked down, screaming and jumping away.

"JASON,"

Jason rubbed his head in annoyance.

"Why are you up so damn early?"

"Its, 8 am dood," Ian said, wiping away the tears.

"Biggums!" Mitch shouted, hugging him tightly.

The event from the previous night lingered in his mind. Jerome sat up, laughing along with friends. Smiling, he then got up and went to the bathroom for a quick shower.

Mitch looked at him go, confused.

"Any leads to why they want this guy?" Adam asked, pointing at Mitch.

"Actually, I do. And I want to try out an experiment with him," Ian said. "You see, they call him a 'breathing' treasure, though I am not sure why. They said he is the most powerful one currently, and will be used to dominate the world,"

"I don't want my world to smell like squids," Adam said, scrunching up his nose.

Jason walked over to his computer, typing vigorously.

"Anyways, I wanna see his power, and they said that this dood over here..." Ian said, patting his shoulder. "... is possessed by the spirit of Soul, the man who commanded the squids back then and captured us, the new Powers of the world."

"If Soul is summoned, he will make a contract with someone, and then we could have a chance to fight equally with the squids,"

"No..."

Ian and Adam turned to Jason. His tear stained face was red and messy, hair drooping over his face.

"I don't want anyone to be like me..." he said within gasps of air, dropping to his knees.

"Jason, like this, we can't eve-"

"SHUT UP!!"

Everyone froze.

His normally brown eyes glowed a shiny red.

Jerome walked out from the bathroom, going up to Jason. Pulling out his paws, he wrapped around him.

"Jason... we all felt the same... even Mitch..."

Jason lifted his head, looking at Jerome.

"Inside Mitch is that man. He was the beginning. But he felt it as well. When in his body, Soul felt it..."

Jason was struck with realisation.

"He would be like us too.."

Jason wiped away his tears, whimpering.

"Do what you want..."