Part 12

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"Kiiiiiiilllllll meeeeeeeeeee!" You said as you fell very slowly to the ground. Hiro held his hand toward you, waiting for you to grab it.

"Rough day?"

"You have no idea. I have to go on a stupid date today."

"Oh, with soul?" His look was a mixture of surprise and sadness.

"Yeah, I really don't wanna go!"

"Then don't."

"I wish it was that simple."

"Abracadabra! Wish granted! It is, just say you forgot or something like that."

"It's not that I can't not go, it's that I require something from that date, you know?"

"No, I'm completely lost. And here I was trying to save the day but my plans were thwarted by the very thing that called them into existence!"

"Don't be over dramatic! Also one more thing."

"What?"

"You're open!" You aim a fake out blow to the head with your dominant hand, and with your other, you strike his rib cage. But not before he catches your fist.

"I have taught you well grasshopper."

ΘΔΘtime skipΘΔΘ

Soul showed up on his bike in front of your house.

"Come on, I wanna get there as soon as possible!" He said with a smile.

"K, but where exactly is 'there'?"

"You'll see."

"Okay," you said skeptically.

You shortly arrived at your destination. It was a picnic in the middle of the forest.

"So, you like? It took me forever to haul everything here all by myself."

"It's blanket and a basket, it couldn't have been that difficult."

"The picnic isn't what I was talking about." He walked to a really odd pile of leaves that you disregarded as a hiding place for a spy or an ambush. To your surprise, he pulled away the leaves and twigs to reveal a piano.

"Wow, that is-"

"Cool?"

"Yeah, cool."

"Let's eat before ants come."

"Good idea."

You ate and talked. You mostly talked about the others, their strengths and weaknesses, their personalities, their victories and their defeats. You collected a lot of information, mostly about Soul, but that was to be expected.

"So, enough about me, I don't know anything about you. Tell me about yourself."

"Well there's not much to tell, I'm pretty ordinary."

"You have cat ears and a tail. Tell me about that."

"Well, do you remember the tails of that great war that with all of the different humanoid species?"

"Yeah, my mom used to tell it to me before bed."

"Really? How did she tell it?"

"Once upon a time, there were five kingdoms, the kingdom of weapons, the kingdom of humans, the kingdom of witches, the kingdom of the neko, and the kingdom of shinigami. They were at peace until the kingdom of witches attacked the kingdom of weapons, trying to take over the world, claiming that they were superior, and should be the ones to rule. The shinigami later joined the battle against the witches, then the neko, long allied with the witches, waged war against the weapons. War was everywhere, the only safe haven was the kingdom of humans, but the kingdom of humans was not safe for long. Cruelty and the lust for power overtook the neko people, as it had the witches, and they struck the kingdom of humans, completely unprovoked. The humans joined the war, turning the tide in favor of the weapons and shinigami using their innovative thinking. They took down the witches, but the neko refused to surrender. They were left with no choice but to use a powerful combination of weapons and shinigami power that was designed by the humans. They hit the kingdom of the neko, hard. Then the neko finally surrendered ending the war."

"Yeah, that's one way to tell the story."

"What do you mean? That's THE story."

"It only tells one side of the story. Here's how it really went down. The neko didn't just ruthlessly attack the humans without provocation. They had reason to believe that they were experimenting on people to create a weapon far more powerful than anything needed to be, a super weapon that could wipe out entire kingdoms. And guess what? The neko were right! Luckily things got desperate enough that the humans had to use the much weaker prototype and lost all of their research. Not only that, the humans persecuted all of the neko within their borders, citizens of the kingdom of humans were persecuted because they had cat ears and tails, even those who wanted nothing but peace! They were the cruel and ruthless ones."

"Cool down, it's just a bedtime story."

"But it isn't."

"What?"

"It happened, a couple of centuries ago. I was there."

Random young Justice book promo

"Oh, I'm so sorry, but how?"

"I'm a neko."

"Oh, yeah, you have a lifespan tenfold that of a human or weapon."

"Yeah, the war took my father. He was a doctor for the kingdom of humans, he would go from battlefield to battlefield treating the wounded soldiers. He hid his ears and tail well but was ratted out by my aunt, she hated us, she hated all of the neko. She told the king of my father and then went after me. My mom protected me. She had to kill her own sister so that her daughter would live."

"I'm so sorry."

"It's fine. We should use that piano. It would be a waist of effort if we didn't." You quickly changed the subject.

"Yeah, what do you wanna play."

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