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A rivalry

I couldn't help it.. it's about how Half-rim and Emperor are rivals. Edging and Gloves  doesn't approve of it but they still have it.

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*Ring ring*

"Hm?" Prince grabbed his phone, "Straps? She never calls me"

"Prince!"
"Yes?"
"I-it's about Emperor and Half-rim"
"Brother and my friend? What happened to them"
"Emperor almost.."
"Almost what?"
"Killed him"

*Beep*

Prince was shaking. His eyes wided when he heard it. He didn't know his brother could do that. Almost kill a friend of his? He never thought he could even hurt someone! He had a positive view of Emperor. A loving brother who wanted the best for him. Prince wanted to be like him. But now, he doesn't. He heard what happened and now, have seen his true colours. He called Straps again.

*Ring ring*

"O-oh, Prince!"
"Where are you guys?"
"In the hospital, I know you can make it there"
"I'll ask N-pacer"
"Ok!"

*Beep*

He sighed. He walked to N-pacer's room. She was there reading a book.  He slowly opened the door and walked into the room. N-pacer noticed him and gently placed her book down.

"Prince, you seem a little off, are you okay?" N-pacer asked.

"I need you to take me to the Hospital, please?"

"Why?"

"Emperor-" He was cut off.

"Ok let's go."

N-pacer got up and grabbed Prince's wrist. She and Prince calmly walked downstairs and when they were outside, ran as fast as they could. The hospital was far away. As they ran, they could hear inklings and octolings. They were saying how worried and scared they were. That the king himself was that powerful. To almost kill someone with only his bare hands. They could hear the whispers and gasps when the two passed them. After a while, they finally made it. They had to catch their breath. Once they did, Clip-ons burst through the door. The cold wind from inside brought goosebumps to Prince's skin as it hit his face, not being able to adjust to the cold wind in time. Clip-ons looked like she was panicking. She grabbed N-pacer's and Prince's hand and rushed them to the room. The elevators were broken so they had to run up the stairs. When they reached the floor, Prince was a mess of sweat and panting.

"Prince are you okay?" N-pacer asked.

"Y-yep," He coughed out.

They walked to the room. It was mostly quiet. It was so quiet, you can hear the faint breathing of everyone. Then, they heard sobbing. Prince looked around. The room was so clean. The walls were a bright white, almost like clean teeth. The floor was made out of brown wooden planks. Next to the door was some hand sanitiser and a poster saying you should use it. Two light brown sofas was seen near the bed. They looked soft and comfortable to sit on. One with Straps sitting on it and the other with Gloves on it. The other side of the wall had a TV on it. A table was below it to support it while it played a show. The bed was coloured white and light blue. Resting on the bed was an inkling, that inkling being Half-rim. He had bandages on his arms and head. His glasses were on a smaller table next to him, so we're some flowers. His hair was down and he looked like he was sleeping peacefully. Straps noticed the three and stood up.

"What happened?" N-pacer asked.

"Emperor beaten up Half-rim" Straps explained, "Oh yeah, Eging is in the bathroom"

Prince sat down next to Gloves. He noticed something about him was not okay. Gloves was covering his face. Was he the one sobbing? He listened closely. Yep, he was.

"G-gloves? What happened?" Prince asked quietly.

"It's my fault" He mumbled.

"Huh?" Prince said.

"I-if I stopped it in time," Gloves stuttered, "t-this lame t-thing would n-never happen"

The door suddenly open. An octoling walked in. She looked like a nurse. 

"Excuse me, visiting time is over" She said "Only two people could stay"

"Can I stay?" Prince ask.

"Prince, Eging and Gloves are gonna stay" Straps said.

"But, I want to stay too!" Prince pleaded.

"Sorry"

N-pacer dragged him out of the room like a mom dragging her child out of the toy store. As he was getting dragged, Eging gave him a  high five him. Clip-ons and Straps waited for Eging. They told him what happen and the two left. Eging entered the room. He was curious on why Gloves was sobbing but he brushed it off. He sat down and took out his phone. He was browsing around the inkernet.

"H-hey, I have a *hic* question" Gloves stuttered, surprising Eging  "h-how did you *hic* become friends with Rim if you were with Emp?"

"Hm?" He said, "oh, he doesn't know about it"

"Huh?"

"Usually what happens is that after he beats him up, I'll stay behind to 'make him suffer more' but really I just help him"

"Why don't you stop him then?" He stood up 

"... I had a lot of respect for him, I used to have a crush on him. I was still rebellious, but something about him made me do everything he told me to do. It looked like he was liking me back but I was scared if he found out I wanted him to stop beating up Half-rim, he would be disappointed in me and  stop liking me," Eging sighed. 

"You said 'used', who do you have now?" Gloves asked

"Well, the cinnamon roll, aka Prince" Eging said with a smile,

"Why did you help him though?" 

"I guess I felt bad for him, I was used to like a 'good job' or something that people would say after a fight but he was usually beaten so badly he couldn't talk. I only helped him because of that I needed him to at least say something."

"Oh.. It'a night time already"

"Wanna get a seanwich?" 

"Well, sure." 

-Time skip-

"Ah, that was some cool seanwiches" Gloves said.

"Well, time for you to sleep!" Eging said.

"But, aren't you sleeping?"

"Nah, rebellious- zzzzzz-"

"Heh, good night guys, good night Half-rim.."

-Time skip-

" Can you guys be quiet? I'm trying to sleep-" Gloves yawned

"Oh, ok" Half-rim said as he started to fall back to sleep.

"Wait, Half-rim? You're AWAKE?!"

"I just fainted, that's it,"

Gloves got up and hugged Half-rim. He tried to keep a poker face but he did smile a bit. Eging pulled out his phone and toke a picture.  He sent it to Clip-ons and she said she, Straps and Prince are coming. He looked back at them and Half-Rim is trying to push Gloves away but because his arms were injured, he was struggling. 

"Gloves, stop" Half-rim muttered, "y-you're acting like him"

"Huh? What do you mean"

"Gloves, he meant Emperor" Eging said 

Suddenly, the door busted open. Prince, Straps and Clip-ons arrived. 

-Time skip-

"Half-rim?" Prince asked.

"Yes Prince?" 

"How did the whole thing happen?"

"..."

-to be continued-