Absolute (Mangle x Shadow Bonnie)

Chapter 2- Old Midnight

So much for letting good things happen to you at almost past curfew.

Shadow Bonnie waited patiently for her overlord to return at midnight just like he said. The storage room shuddered under the night's weather like windchimes. Everywhere she moved, she felt being wrapped around a chilling warm blanket of a midnight blue. She waited all night long for him to come, for almost six hours straight. The wait made her eyes and ears twitch. Her fingers grew antsy and her mind raced with thoughts the longer Golden took. When is he going to get here? What's taking so long? How much longer does she have to stay with her brother? As much as she was on pins and needles, Shab knew that she couldn't question her master's whereabouts the moment he arrives. Or else it's another ear plucked off from her head. And as much as she hated waiting, she didn't wanted to be remembered as the rabbit who had her head guillotined off. The thoughts at least submersed her to become distracted, but only could she hold herself until she broke. Earlier on, Shaf suggested to create a fortress of pillows and blankets that swiveled together to warm them from the harsh cold. She was reluctant into following his redundant ways of doing things, but at least it made perfect sense in the end. It was time consuming, but at least it was enough to entertain them for a few hours. Her brother was knocked out from the cold, him saying that it was an 'instinct' he lived with. You could see his whole body cradled and was dug deep under the many layers of blankets, sleeping quietly.

A little too quietly.

Shab, however, understood why he would be so tired since she had that weird 'instinct' as well and let him sleep. But she was no weakling. 'Sleep was for the weak' was her random motive, so she ended up being the watchdog until Golden arrives. Now, she kinda regretted saying that.

"You tense, Shab?" the bunny's brother yawned, groggily rubbing his eyes when he emerged out of the soft cocoon.

To much of her surprise, Shadow Bonnie thought that he was all knocked out right next to her. Her nervous toe tapping must have kept him awake this whole time.

The gray bunny surrendered and looked away. "Just concerned, nothing else really."

Shab wasn't going to defend herself this time because her restlessness got the best of her mind. In a way, they were still considered 'young' (they technically were still old too) and they weren't used to staying up this late. Especially Shab. She's always has been the first to be asleep compared to your bedtime. The purple bear agreed with her, saying that he had the same feeling. But it didn't make his mind go backwards and sideways like hers did. and then the room went silent after that. Crickets chirped to help the silence by singing their sacred moonsong at night, but between the two shadows, it was dead silent.

"Guess that argument was worth it all, huh?" Shab snorted out loud, trying to break those awkward feelings.

Shaf had the same response, a little cackle under his breath, trying not to chortle out loud. Most arguments that Shaf and Shab were like zero percent important, and they were pretty petty. If it was anything meaningful, then it does take forever to digest gum. "Well-pffffff, yeah! I mean, if we haven't argued, I think Golden would have still thrown us under his bus of frustration anyways!" The bear lost himself, trying to hide his hearty laughter by smushing his face into a pillow. Shab jumped up from the sudden boom of laughter coming out of her brother. Wow, he really lost it, she regarded. It was a rare thing to see any of them die or lose themselves from laughing (unless you're a psycho), since it isn't really allowed when the shadows' master is around or when he is close to them. Something about it being 'unnatural in nature" or whatever.

"Oh, it's too much, I can't breathe-!" Shaf's words broke, holding his stomach in from the numbness of laughing so hard. Maybe Shab didn't laugh as hard or warm as her brother did, but a smile did crack on the corner of her mouth.

"Well, at least we finally got what we wanted in the end of all stupidity." The female jackrabbit scratched her ear with her long, wide foot. "No more making dummies out of cardboard or metal like its an arts and crafts assignment."

"Pffffffffffffffff-or having splinters in your mouth from ripping pieces from it!!" the shadow bear exclaimed, calming down from his laughter. "Honestly, I think I would have went insane living in this box prison if we haven't argued."

"Or I would have already snapped your neck into sevens already." Shab puffed with sarchasm.

"At least I'll be remembered as the purple bear who was officially done."

"Well, I was already 'officially done' when I threw you around like a boomerang."

"........Does this imply that I hit you in the back of your head when you weren't looking?!" Shaf cocked an eyebrow.

"HA! As if!" Shab sneered back, sticking out her emetic, radioactive green-looking toungue at him.

Her ear twitched. The ghost rabbit whipped her head in the center of the darkness. Her lop ears looked that were pulled of where she was looking and nothing in the world mattered. Shaf perked up when he saw her in that condition. That torpefied, immobile, makes-you-want-to-jump-off-a-cliff condition. He wasn't going to lie, it scared him a bit to see her like since he isn't used to someone looking so still. Was it something that just rabbits can do? Or is it anybody with good hearing? The electric thoughts on his brain would just fly and infest his mind with so many questions. And then her eyes. He felt the piercing gaze coming from her slit-serpent white irises, feeling the tension clot inside his throat. Without warning, the rabbit floated away from him and began to walk deeper in the shade.

"Where are you going?"

Shab groaned in displeasure. She knew that her 'brother' didn't have great hearing skills like she did. Everytime when she even heard a pin drop, she has to explain everything for herself to him. On the light side, she doesn't have to explain the air when she felt being watched all the time.

"Can't you feel it? He's here." she softly scowled, her aggressive demeanor turning on like a light switch.

The shadow bear frowned and his eyes darted around, daring not to look at his sister's bloodcurling glare, or else he would turn into stone. Having nothing better to do, he melts back into his comfortable blanket cocoon into a wisp of familiar dark purple smoke and slowly disintegrates into the bed out of thin air. I don't see how could he be sleeping at a time like this, the gray rabbit thought, well, no matter. As long as he's doing it for a good reason, I should probably let him hibernate until a vulture just swoops around and get rip his carcass open or something. Shab was in the middle of figuring out where that familiar noise was, just to make sure that the crickets weren't deceiving her perky ears. A yellow flicker of fur shot out in front out the corner of her eyes behind of fallen boxes.

"You're back......."

"So, I see you two amend again."

You lead them to their quest. I'll take care of the rest. Take them there, and I'll give them their own share. Each one has a destiny, one will go separately and the other restfully. For both they will conquer and suffer. For which one will make it, that's up for you to decide. Let me take care of this, for I SHALL guide.