My Crazy Years

How they all came together

Forget the rubber boots! That garden needed to be weeded out now!

The weekend was finally there, and you wanted to make use of it to the fullest especially after the results of the test came in. Some failed, others managed to do pretty well. What a surprise! You fortunately managed to score a five and avoid the start of the semester with a complete disaster. Still, that didn't help easing your fears. Instead, it only scared you more. When Monomon and Pale King offered to help you out, you thanked them from the bottom of her heart. You were going to need all the help you could get.

Now, as Friday afternoon rolled around, you were head deep in the bushes of roses, naked fingers wrapped around a thistle, spines digging into your skin. You pulled the weed harder and harder, but it refused to give in. The bees were flying around you, doing their job and throwing amused glances your way every time you cussed out the rebellious plant. Finally, after 5 minutes of struggle, you won!

"I showed the stupid plant who's boss!" you yelled holding the thistle in your hands, right above your head, ignoring the bits of dirt and soil falling on your face from its roots.

Everyone looked at you, worried about your sanity. Did the heat and sun get to you?

You tossed the thistle aside and went back to work. You didn't even realize how much you missed to be in a garden surrounded by plants. Actually, you didn't feel homesick at all. Maybe because the little ones kept you busy most of the time. Those babies were truly a handful. They fell in love with the cat bed you bought for them, and now refused to sleep anywhere else. However, it wasn't big enough to fit all of them at once, so there was a rotation system in place. White Lady was overjoyed to see the little ones so happy and also pleased to see you so attached to them. She hoped that this level of love would make up for the pain they had been put through back in Hallownest. Pale King shared her feelings, even more when he went to the basement to see the others, the first vessels.

Just like their siblings, they took well to their change of surroundings, but maybe that was because he had brought void as well. However, he was relieved and happy to have been able to bring them along. To just leave them in Hallownest which was doomed to be destroyed, was too painful for him. How long ago it seemed now, the time when James first showed up.

Back then, he was at war with the Radiance, her infection causing countless casualties to his subjects. When James found them, the King thought he was on the Old Light's side. To make matters worse, against his better judgement and the needs of his kingdom, he became attached to the vessels. They were his children after all! To sacrifice them once more, to abandon them in the Abyss, it became too much for him. He called for Grimm, praying that the Nightmare may offer the solution of his bane. Little did he know, there was a greater danger ahead. One that not even the Radiance could escape from.

There was a plan to build a new mall. James tried to stop it, but he could barely help himself from punching the one responsible for the project in the face. He hated nothing more than spoiled idiots with money that thought they knew everything, and they had the impression that everyone had to kiss the ground they walked on. James tried to be reasonable. He presented all the points and reasons why the project will fail. Of course, his arguments fell on deaf ears. Still, he believed in diplomacy. He wanted to have faith in humanity. He went to every office he could think of, requested all the necessary and unnecessary documents, ownership, history pf the land, everything. His work was all in vain, laughed at and thrown out the window. Yes, that... that man simply took the folder containing days of research and simply threw it out the window, calling them worthless waste of paper. That was the last straw for James.

"Fine! You want war? I'll give you one!" James yelled as he slammed the door of his office.

He went to lawyer after lawyer, yet none wanted to help him, despite the arguments, despite the more than generous pay. That idiot bribed everyone to keep their mouths shut and close their eyes promising great profits in return. Having to admit defeat, James went to the site, determined to at least save whatever he could. To say he was surprised at his discovery was to undermine his reaction... and his fears.