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MineGames (RP)
Forum-Index → Roleplay → MineGames (RP)An embarrassed flush appears on her face as she realizes that Tenacity had seen everything. If only she didn't need to be in alliance with him! It was just her luck that Tenacity managed to see everything! With a sigh, she leaves the wonderful buffet sitting in front of her and slides into the wall next to Tenacity.
"You saw nothing" she says to him without looking at him.
"How scary! Don't hurt us oh great one" she says as she scratches behind Frank's ears.
"Considering that I didn't get much sleep last night, yes, I did." Akane yawned and stretched her legs before sitting up and rolling her neck to keep the kinks out. When she had finished she turned to Leaf and held a hand out to her, with a smile Leaf took it and Akane helped her up. The two head to the buffet as well. At first glance, Akane looked average all around aside a bit of chub here and there along with some bags under her eyes, but otherwise normal. A longer look, however, revealed that despite her chub she had a bit of muscle from farming labor.
Leaf on the other hand was a bit taller with a smaller build than Akane.
Coraline was at the buffet as well, carefully picking through the food for anything she could actually consume.
The house was quiet, much quieter than normal. Kayda opens up the door, expecting her little sister to be waiting for her like she usually does. Desperate to chat with Kayda about her day. Instead she finds a terrifying sight. Her parents stand over her sister, who was desperately trying to activate her powers. She was pale and frail, a side effect of her sickness. She manages to make them fly across the room with her energy powers, which gives Kayda enough time to step in.
"Why are you doing this!?" Kayda demands, bravely standing between her parents and sister.
"Money is tight kiddo, this is for the best- for all of us" her father responds. He tried to move Kayda aside, but she didn't allow it. She instead, fought him. The fight was long and brutal, Kayda tried to fight off her parents, desperate to distract them long enough to give her sister time to escape. But her powers were weak, and she was obviously outnumbered. She ended up falling unconscious, being too weak and injured to continue on.
Kayda woke up in a hospital bed. The nurses were the ones to inform Kayda on what happened. Her neighbors heard the fight and tried to stop it. But they came too late, the deed was done, her sister was already dead.
The memory seems to disappear from her mind and in replace, is one from Tenacity.
Her free hand resting at her side twitched, itching to pull her trusty Splat Dualies, ink up the whole train in Cyan and jump in the ink in her squid form. Oly lots of training restrained this strong urge, that, and there would be plenty of time to do that later.
A cry pierced the darkness, the silence splitting. A young boy stood in front of a mirror, clawing at his hand. His fingertips were grey, and something laid on the desktop in front of the mirror. Something that was flaking apart, dropping bits of rust. Tenacity had been fixing an object in his room, reaching for the iron took he needed to finish putting a knob back on the dresser. But the iron had corroded, and the boy's hand had started to change. The door burst open, two figures entering the room. They whispered, comforting words drifting through the air. Then, all went dark.
The boy, a few years older now, sat at the edge of a body of water, staring at the water, and at a fish he held in his right hand. A hand that was nearly entirely grey. Staring at the fish, he let out a cough, clearing his throat. He didn't have a fever, he knew he wasn't sick. Then, the dead fish started to change. Flesh started to decay, melting away to reveal the fragile, nearly invisible ribs of the fish. A shudder, a cry, and the fish sat on the bank next to where he had been sitting. A man rushed over, talk and fair. Tenacity pointed at the fish, spewing words that were hardly understandable. His father understood, though. Beckoning to a woman reading a book, the man quickly and quietly explained what had happened to her. She looked at Tenacity, shock in her eyes.
Two days had passed. His parents held luggage for him. He did not understand, until he spotted a third. His aunt, genetic sister to his father, sat with them. His parents smiled, beckoned him towards them. His aunt sighed, grumbled. "Tenacity, you'll be staying with Nance for a while." The next few minutes flashed by. A large house appeared before Tenacity, Nance walking inside and grabbing a bottle. "Where am I sleeping?" Nance turned sharply. "Get this straight, kid. I don't care where you stay, as long as you don't get in the way of what I do. Set up in the attic for all I care. I'll give you cash to get food for yourself and that's it. You provide for yourself, and you get to stay." Tenacity felt shocked. Grabbing his luggage, two bags, he started to explore. He found stairs that led to a small room, and started to unpack. One bag held a cot, completely disassembled. The other bag held clothed. Quickly, Tenacity set up the cot, then shoved his second bag underneath it. A call from outside the room alerted him to something. "I'm leaving, enjoy your room. If anything's missing or destroyed when I get back, you're out! Get it? Out!" The front door slammed. Tenacity bit the inside of his cheek. The bottle had alcohol in it, he doubted Nance would remember if something was missing when she came back. If she came back, that was. Hurrying down the stairs, Tenacity found a stockpile of money. Only a few bills were taken, fear welling up in the boy. He ran back to his room, counting out what he had nabbed. Enough to get by, but only by barely.
Nance did not come back until the night of the next day.
"I'm sorry you had to go through that" she whispers. Returning her gaze to the ground so that she wouldn't have to meet his eyes. She wasn't ready to see what was probably pain in his gaze. That's what she told herself at least. She may be strong enough to share this vulnerable side of her, but she wasn't strong enough to openly show how much this was really affecting her.