The Seven of Humanity

Ash Grimm

"ASH!"         

"Crap..."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        I turned to see a crying Mercy. When she stopped in front of me, her body and white blonde hair quivered and shook in sadness. Her blue eyes widened and were teary.                        

I sighed. 'Of course she would be the one to notice...'. I looked at her, already tired.

"I'll be fine, I'm a pretty tough girl, you don't have to be so paranoid." 

"I know! But you are practically my big sister and...I'LL MISS YOU!!!!!" 

Caught in another fit of sadness, her small frame put me in a surprisingly bone-crushing hug. 

'Yeesh how the hell is she so small and yet so strong?' Sighing again, I awkwardly pat her back, while some bystanders stared. I glared and flipped them off, the pricks stiffened like a pole was shoved up their ass and turned away.

"You are way too damn emotional".

Pushing off, she glanced at me and glared.

"I'm worried my friend will get killed! I mean you are going in to the army!" Mercy huffed out.

"I know, I know. But things will work out. I promise not to do anything stupid, well Rina made me promise anyways." Rina may be short and small like Mercy, but is still a little intimidating.

Mercy sniffed and slouched when she saw the silver bus.

"Looks like my bus Merc. Tell everyone I will miss them and I will come back." 

Turning, I walk on bus and cringe as a screeching 'bye' was yelled back. I took a seat near the back, thankfully the bus was big, but fairly vacant. For some reason, all the seats had a weird, old 70's thin carpet design stretched over them.

I leaned back and closed my eyes and took a deep breath. 'I'm almost there, I just hope the others won't be too pissed... Wait, who's yelling?' I turned and saw the rest of my friends running up to say bye and screaming my name. 'Shit, Mercy I could somewhat handle, but with everybody else in the group...'. I smiled sadly at them.

I left earlier than I said on purpose. I knew that my friends would either beg me not to go (i.e. Mercy) or give a teary goodbye (i.e. everyone else). Of course Mercy probably tried to stop me from going and saw that my house was empty. Which would explain why they caught up. It's not like they did anything wrong, it's just... so hard to say bye. Turning I saw the sobbing drama queen of our group meeting with the others.

'Leave it to Mercy to be the one to find out that I left early. At least she isn't... Really? Again?' I facepalmed.

Mags and Dex were attempting to awaken Mercy who fainted... again. It's not like she has an obsession with me. It's just...well... that girl has some serious issues. When V said she was going to a convention out of town one time, Mercy spent hours being sulky about it. Yeah, the girl's got some real hardcore attachment issues.

Then I saw the others waving. Well the Psycho/Morbid/Serial Killer twins were awkwardly waving/smiling creepily at me. Weirdos. Rina was smiling sadly and so was V, granted they looked a little pissed, but mostly sad. I smiled, and waved back.