Inkling life (1): The start of a change

Chapter 13: The meeting

Chrissy has been walking around the dome of Inkoctos for around an hour with Slappy's company in silence, merely exploring. After that, they both sat around the water fountain, looking at their reflection in the water. Chrissy was looking at her beautiful purple tentacles that were decorated with that purple flower from her mom, which was shining into the water. It made her smile to think that a person who gave her the chance to live again will talk to her again, even if it is for a short period of time

"It's time for you to go soon Chrissy" Slappy reminded her, as he noticed she was lost in her reflection

"Okay..." Chrissy signed, anxious about her meeting

"Don't worry about your safety, if something happens we will notice right away!" He informed her, hoping to bring back her smile again

Chrissy was about to start talking again when, by surprise, Slappy stood up a little and quickly reached out to her and hugged her

"Just follow the path I showed you earlier on my phone and everything will be alright!" He happily told her as they both stood up and started walking towards the staircase that leads to the outside

"Good luck" Slappy whispered to her, as she started going upstairs, which made her look back at Inkcotos, filling her up with excitement

Chrissy slowly went up the long staircase that previously felt sort when she first went down from them. She finally reached back to the outside world and started to follow the directions that she read from Slappy's phone, which lead to the right allay facing the Inkopolis Tower. During her walk, obviously while hiding her tentacles under the cap Slappy gave her earlier this morning, she was shocked even more by how the inklings weren't bothered that much about their environment: tossing empty cups and trash on the ground and not into a trash can and insulting each other a lot, she simply couldn't understand their behavior. Time passed really fast since, after 15 minutes of walking that seemed to have lasted 5 minutes, she was there, facing the allay that Slappy told her to go to.

"There I am..." She whispered to herself, trying to fill herself with confidence

Chrissy started walking into the alley and quickly felt the wind vanishing from around her since the buildings around the alley were blocking it. As she started to go deeper into the walkway, she noticed the cameras that Jenny mentioned, which made her feel safer than she was before. As she was avoiding the trash laying on the ground and the nasty water puddles, she saw Spyke,  sitting at the end of the alley, eating something that she could not identify. Her steps were getting quicker and quicker until she finally was able to recognize his face: purple round eyes and his strange haircut, it was really him. Without noticing, she was already standing a meter away from him, so she decided to stop.

"Spyke?" She asked the urchin, thinking it was a good way to start a conversation

"You know how I look" Spyke signed

When she heard her voice, her smile reappears and she started crying, running down towards him

"I missed you!" She sobbed

"Me too, am glad you are safe," He told her, showing for one of the first time a smile on his face

Sadly, it quickly vanished as he started whispering to her

"But we got no time, don't be too loud or your friends will hear you," He told her bluntly and emotionless

"Why?" She whispered to him, worried

"You've got some work to do, I will have to shoot the cameras okay?" He asked her in a very low voice

"Okay..." She whispered back, putting her trust in him

Spyke stood up and brought Chrissy with him out of the range of both of the cameras in the alley

"Only you as to know this," He told her as he trowed two burst bombs, which blocked the view of Slappy and Jenny. During the rest of their meeting, Slappy and Jenny are on their way, extremely worried for Chrissy.

"sadly the Inkling government is on my back pretty hard, they most likely will catch us talking soon" He informed her, hoping that she would understand him

"What should we do then?" She asked him, knowing he had a plan

"Someone you know is in prison under the Inkling government surveillance, you will be sent there, this hidden base is hidden under the basement in the storage facility of the brand new Arowana Mall, a giant inkling shopping mall in town, from there just wait for your friends or me to come to rescue you okay?" he tried to explain to her, as he saw someone approaching them from behind Chrissy

"Wait for what? I don't think I followed you there" She told him, hoping for a deeper explanation

"Am sorry Chrissy..." He started to whisper even lower to her "I love you, everything will be fine"

Chrissy didn't have the time to open her mouth to speak as someone from behind her grabbed her with extreme force and turned her around. It was an inkling male who was holding a gun, which he used to shoot a bullet right into Chrissy's right leg. The bullet was made to make the foe fall asleep. From the moment it entered her she already felt she was losing consciousness, as the same inkling male grabbed her into his arm, preventing her from even thinking of escaping

"I did as you asked Malcom" Spyke rudely informed him

Malcom finished attaching Chrissy around a rope before speaking to Tony.

"Thank you for proving your loyalty to Cuddlefish, he will be very pleased about this" He answered him with a smirk, as he was now looking at Chrissy

"Now about you..." he whispered to Chrissy, who could still understand the voices around her

Malcom was slowly sliding his hand on Chrissy's arm, going up from her hand to her neck to then reach for under her shirt when Spyke tried to stop him. As he was about to grab his hand, Malcom stopped sliding his hand on Chrissy to point his gun toward him

"What do you think you're doing? You just won our trust don't ruin it! She is coming with me!" He screamed at him

from this moment Chrissy was unable to understand the voices around her, the last thing she felt is Malcom's hand sliding into her shirt and then down to her skirt as he was carrying her on his back. Did he rape her? She was perplexed as a tear, and a water droplet fell from her eye and her purple flower onto the dirty ground of the allay...