RAINY DAYS

Part 4

ARADIA's P0V (Still)

S0 Rain starts cheering and thipping like a grub the wasn't turned int0 grub sauce. Gamzee slips a very sly librarian wink at me that the dung f0r brain w0uldn't have caught. Casey starts d0ing her bubble thing and I ended up cr0aking unc0ntr0lable. Gamzee snickered and picked up Rain.

GAMZEE: come on little one. LET'S GO FIND DAVE!

RAIN: YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

CASEY: GLUB!!

ARADIA: This is stupid.

It sh0uldn't be hard t0 find s0me0ne here. Especially when they are trapped inside. Y0 get n0 bucket huggin leg r00m ar0und here. 100% 0f pers0nal space f0rg0tten. What is pers0nal space? A versi0n 0f g0d tier?

We walk f0r a while. A while as in three freaking minutes and I already drift int0 dreamland. A dreamland filled with s0p0r and nach0s. 

S0meb0dy calls me, I answer quite sl0wly. It was a girl with kaleid0sc0pe eyes.

I mean that literally. The d0g's g0t kaleid0sc0pe eyes.

JADE: Wassup??

ARADIA: Findin' Dave. Wanna c0me al0ng?

Jade had her n0rmal 0uttfit 0n, she had her dress made 0ut of a tradit0nal dress and her 0ld quilt. Her hair was very l0ng, l0nger than even mine and I w0rked bucket hugging hard 0n my hair. 

She decided a while after entering the medium that her cray cray kn0wledge 0n things meant she was a witch (L0gic 0f the year 0r what?). She g0t the weird eyes in a freak accident, but she says the new ones are better. The kaleid0sc0pe part about them is green, and the background is white, so she could somewhat resemble her old eyes. She traded sylladex with Dave a l0ng time ag0, and n0w she wields a very witch sw0rd. 

I d0n't mess with her. She kn0ws it's c0ming and wields damage like a bucket hugger. 

JADE: I knew quite well that you were going to do that. I was trying to connect to you, because the gods...

ARADIA: Are ya g0nna finish the th0ught...

ARADIA: 0r ya just g0nna stand ar0und like...

Jade looks at me with her mystical green eyes. I try t0 l00k away but they are s0 intrancing. Alm0st like they put me in her c0mplete c0ntr0l. Alm0st. N0 0ne c0ntr0ls this bucket l0ver. N0 0NE!

We stare at each0ther f0r way t00 l0ng, 0r maybe we were staring at each 0ther, I have n0 sense 0f what's reality and what's n0t when I'm l00king int0 her eyes. 

We fla0t 0ff the gr0und, and 0ut 0f reality. The r00m fades away int0 c0mplete darkness. There were n0 stars, there were n0 h0pe. There was, and is just existence, even with0ut the t0uch 0f space and time.

Jade's eyes begin to gl0w. They sparkle around the n0thingness, sending a call t0 it. She t00k my hand and flew f0rward. We traveled f0r ages until the idea 0f n0thing became s0 familiar, I underst00d n0thing else. Thats what this place d0es t0 y0u. 

JADE: Meet the Gods. 

I l00k in her directi0n, her bright white and green glow splattered 0ver the m0nster it lit up. The creature was just eyes, m0uths and tentacles. It l00ked as th0ugh it had n0 mercy and never ad0pt the idea.  

ARADIA: The f...

JADE: We must go now, and I will leave shortly after. But remember this, and remember here.

ARADIA: Great, scare the crap 0ut of me AND say a generic whimsical phrase. D0uble whammy.

Jade began to slap me, but she became Gamzee 0n impact, and n0thing became s0mething again
and I d0n't kn0w h0w t0 feel ab0ut that.

GAMZEE: are you okay? WHY WERE YOU SCREAMING?

ARADIA: Was I? Heh, I was... in a daze.

JADE: I'll be leaving now, but Aradia, when you find Dave, bring him to me. I need you both.

ARADIA: ... I'll try.

Jade walks away, just like n0thing ever happened. I find that slightly admirable.

We g0 0n, a little c0nfused and a little c0ncerned. We finally reach the last d00r in the hallway.