Cruel World (NAJ pj x fresh/paperfresh)

Chapter 15 - Explaining to Ink

Time to find out.

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Fresh POV

Suddenly my vision blacked out, I turned as a finger tapped my shoulder.

"You are really getting on my nerves lady," I growled at Gia, she wore a white dress with a white flower in her hair as normal. She had pale skin and sky blue eyes, with white hair but her face looked as young as ever.

"Why?" She asked softly.

"You did this in front of a teacher! Are you crazy?" I shouted, she just sighed.

"Besides that, I need to warn you," She said softly, I just stood there, inviting her to continue. "Dark is Dark Gia, my sister. If she's there then she'll try to destroy this universe, you need to be prepared to fight for everyone."

"If she tries anything I will kill her, I'm done with supernatural junk," I growled.

Gia looked thoughtful, "You may actually be able to do it."

"Eh?" I was seriously confused.

"You have the powers of both life and death, plus soul power. You could actually kill her," Gia looked very deep in thought. "But you may have to join the crew again to do it."

"No way lady!" I shouted, she looked at me in confusion. "There's no way I'm becoming Shooter again."

"Do you want to protect your bro?" She asked sternly.

I faceplanted, "You do not play the 'bro' card okay?" 

"Either way, talk with your sisters about the monsters okay?" Gia said sternly, I just sighed and nodded. "But now we have to worry about your teacher, I vote that you just tell him."

"WHAT?!" I screeched.

"You have 15 minutes to start talking in the real world before I stop most of your illusions." She waved goodbye.

"You are so goddamn-" My vision returned to normal. "Annoying," I groaned and faceplanted. This wasn't good at all.

"Fresh!" Ink suddenly hugged me, I turned to him. "Who were you talking to?" Ink whispered, I froze. I talked in the real world again, and that only seemed to happen when I talked with Gia.

"Um..." I trailed off, how do I explain this? "I'm gonna tell you something that you probably won't believe, but I swear that it's the truth. Do you trust me?"

Ink nodded, "You took a bullet for me, so why not?"

I took a deep breath, "I've technically died before," Nice one! Perfect start! I internally screamed at myself. "I know what it's like to dust, but I'm not dead because I made a deal with two gods. The only payment was that I protect people with my power and that they could change my physical form. So I now have to deal with that, but I still get scars. I just hide it all with illusions, not letting anyone worry about me," I looked at Ink and saw him completely gobsmacked. "I probably sound crazy, so I don't blame you if you don't believe me."

"When you were, whatever," Ink shifted a little, uncomfortable. "you said something about you being Shooter, you meant Galaxy Shooter right?" I nodded. 

I felt my magic start to fade, "My magic isn't doing so hot, so I'm gonna have to stop my illusions. You alright with that?"

Ink nodded, "I wanna see the true Fresh," He smiled warmly at me. I returned it and started to remove my illusions. I always hid my scars, my ears and tail, my wings, and my scales. I had sword slashes crisscrossing my body from the League, plus a few bullet wounds. I had cracks all along my bones from when I was killed the first time, I had every bone in my body broken but my head which was instead cracked. I had snow white wings, ears, and tail, along with red scales dotting my body, they only were on my wings and bones.

"Well, this is the 'true Fresh'." I joked softly as Ink inspected me. He looked so sad as he looked at my soul.

"What happened?" Ink said softly as he touched the spot next to my missing ribs. I flinched slightly at the touch.

"Ask your kid, I told him, just substitute nearly killed with was. I didn't really explain the whole god thing to him," I said softly.

"Who did this to you?" Ink asked, I sighed. He wasn't gonna let this go.

"A man looking for money," I said.

"Who killed you the first time?" Ink asked softly.

"A drunk stepfather who then overdosed," Ink was touching my wings when I answered.

"How?" Ink asked, he was trying to understand.

"Breaking every bone in my body," I said, and Ink suddenly started to hug me.

"I'm so sorry, you shouldn't have had to go through that," Ink was trying to comfort me. "You deserved so much better, you're such a kind kid." Ink started to cry a little as I hugged back.

"It's already done, and it helped me to see that being kind is better than being mean," I said softly.

Ink sniffed and looked back at me, "You helped me get better while I was trying to help you, unfair!" Ink fake pouted and I laughed, Ink was funny. "We better head back in, they're still gonna do classes since you beat up all of those shooters."

I groaned, it was time for PE. "I kinda regret that now, it's time for pointless exercise," Ink chuckled as I put back on my shirt.

"You might wanna get a new shirt," Ink suggested as I looked at my shirt, it was soaked through with blood.

"One good thing about PE, I've got spare shirts in there," I groaned as I got up, still sore from my wounds. I put back on my illusions and put away my wings and such.

"You sure you'll be alright? You were hurt pretty bad," Ink looked really worried.

"As long as I don't have to lift up a lot I'm sure I'll be fine," I reassured him. Ink summoned a roll of bandages out of no-where. He started to wrap my wrist in bandages, "What are you doing?"

"If you have PE next, then Error will know that you got hurt. He most likely saw, but anyway it's just your wrists," Ink explained as he did my other one.

I smiled at Ink, "Thank you."

Ink shook his head, "It's the least that I could do, you did take a bullet for me."

I smiled and waved as I prepared to teleport, "See you later Mr. Ink!" I teleported and stumbled a little from the magic use. "No more magic today," I said to myself as I got changed. This has most indefinitely been an eventful day, maybe it would calm down.

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Word count: 1080

That's what you think Fresh! The day is gonna get more interesting, a lot more. This is kinda a step down from the last chapter, but I don't feel like writing 2000+ words again for one chapter. Specially after the other one. Anyway, this loving cool cat's gone!

:3  <3