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I blink my eyes open. When did I close them? Something's wrong. I can feel it. Everything felt strange. I blinked. And blinked again. And realized I'm surrounded by darkness. What? I look around me and see planets and cartoony looking stars. What the fuck. Am I in space or am I hallucinating!?
I reach my hand to touch my face. It felt...weird. The texture is not the same, and my face is rounder. I look at my hand. These were mine? I wiggled my little fingers, oh shit it IS mine. I was stunned. I tried to stand up, but there's nothing for me to stand on. what is going on!!?!, I freaked out instantly.
As I was flailing my limbs helplessly in space, I felt a presence behind me, hesitantly I turned around and was met with a really tall...they wear something To what it seems like a nightcap...creature with oval shaped eyes, and a wide smile. It glows with variety of colors. I was stunned, mostly fear but I was really amazed. Now that I think about it....they looked oddly familiar..
They were speaking to each other. I have no idea what they're talking about, and they seem to pick up on that, well most of them. As they talked I kept staring at them, trying to figure out why they're so familiar, it was soon cut short when the one with a orange colored features faced me.
I felt uncomfortable at their gaze. They all smiled politely, happily,and kindly as one them reached out their hand for me to... grab..? Climb on..? I don't know. Their eyes made a upside down 'U'. It sent a shiver down my spine.
I decided swam my way closer to their hand, and after some really awkward swimming in the air, I finally grabbed on their hand. They started to move towards who knows where, they're so fast but if you see them from other point of view they look slow, I hold their hand tighter.
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I was met with a..what it seems to be a floating..castle!? What!????, Im in awe at what I am seeing. This doesn't make any sense, none of this make sense, what is going on? I look at these nightcap wearing creatures and their expression didn't change. But I can sense that my reaction were hilarious for them. I blushed and looked away in embarrassment.
I looked back at the castle. It looks so familiar. Everything is so familiar it's unsettling...the castle looks like the archive house in TOH..it even have the same symbols,the same structure, I think I'm going crazy.
We enter the building, and was greeted by the other cloaks wearing creatures, they enter with elegance, with me in one of their hand sitting awkwardly. They began talking among themselves. I tried to understand, but I couldn't, if I'm correct this... THIS IS THE ARCHIVES FROM TOH!??!? I let out a squeak of surprised and my eyes widen. Some of them turned to look at me and I shrunk from the attention. They turn their attention away from me and I let out a breath of relief.
I felt like I'm going down, I float a few feet above their hand, I freaked out and began flailing my arms,I looked at the hand I'm sitting at slowly going lower to the floor. It felt weird. I tried to say something, but nothing came out. Huh guess I can't talk yet. I finally touch their hand again and I get off their hand and looked at my surroundings, all of them looked down on me, I visibly shrunk and let out a whimper. They let out an amused giggle. And I want to crawl to a hole and die.
They took off their cloaks,and nightcaps off and I immediately looked at their appearance. One, the second tallest had grey hair,their skin in greyish orange,and their face was half covered with orange, their eyes are red and orange. I'll call them Jupiter
Two, the third tallest had brown yellowish hair,their skin in whiteish brown their face was half covered with yellow, their eyes are yellow and white. I'll call them Saturn
Three, the fourth tallest has light blue hair, their skin in dark blue,their face was half covered with blue, their eyes are grey. I'll call them Uranus
Four, the fifth tallest has dark blue hair, their skin in darker blue,their face was half covered with a lighter blue, their eyes are dark blue and white. I'll call them Neptune
Five, the one who carried me, the tallest of all, has yellow hair, their skin in the yellow,half of their face was covered with orange,their eyes are yellow and orange. I'll call them Sun
Six, the shortest of all, has grey hair, their skin in blue, half of their face was covered with blueish gray,their eyes are white and gray. I'll call them moon
They let out an chuckle, I must've made a stupid face while observing. I looked away in embarrassment, then... "Small one?" I jolted, and look back at them trying to find out who said it. "Ah so it understands..saturn was worried it was another failed attempt" Neptune said with a hint of amusement and relief. "Neptune stop scaring the youngest, they don't even know where they are" Saturn scolds, and Neptune gracefully ignores them.
Sun turns towards me "Welcome small one, to the home of the archivists" they said with a unsettling smile, it sent a shiver down my spine. That feeling ends when moon speaks up "wait, it can understand with this language only?" I look at moon. They started to talk to each other, I literally don't understand, it seems like they tried to talk to me using their own language and clearly it didn't work.
"I think we should teach them how to understand the language of the archivists" Uranus suggests followed by murmurs of agreement, "but who's going to do that?" Uranus finished, most of them looked at Jupiter and sun. "What? Oh...oh stars No way I'm not going to teach the youngest!, sun should be the one who will teach it!" Jupiter protests, Saturn narrowed their eyes "Don't call them an it!" They crossed their arms, Sun chuckles, "I have things to do Jupiter, as the second oldest you should be taking care of small one, it is one of your responsibility" sun stated calmly, Jupiter looked ready to protest but was cut off when I started to stand up.
"What are they doing?" Moon asks. Ngl they look really fun I wonder if they would play with me. I walk towards jupiter "Should we give them a name?" Saturn asks. "Eclipse." Sun says, "their name is eclipse, fascinating isn't it?" Sun looks at moon teasingly and moon rolled their eyes. I keep walking towards jupiter, ignoring the scowl on their face as I keep taking a step towards them.
"You better take care of the youngest right Jupiter, because me,sun and Uranus are gonna go, there's a collection call....on my day off." Saturn adds the last bit with a sigh. "A collection call?" Uranus said surprised, "shall we go?" Sun asks. As the three of them leave I turn to Jupiter, "What is it eclipse" they said tiredly. I pointed to my mouth and made a speaking motion my my hand. "Now??" Jupiter asks surprised, I nod.
"Fine,whatever follow me" Jupiter murmurs went to a room with a ridiculously tall door. I smell....pizza? On the other side of the room, I look towards where the smell came from and saw moon with a plate of...bagels?? They eat pizza bagels?? No wonder the collector likes it. Moon noticed my look of concentration "it's pizza bagels" I look at him then back at the food. Moon makes a face, "oooh no, these are mine eclipse, get your own" I deflated and look at him with teary eyes. Moon sighs frustrated "Whatever" moon shoves the pizza bagel in my hand, 2x bigger than my hand. I looked at it in awe and began to nibble on it. "Don't you ever ask for food from me again." Moon spat and take their tray of pizza bagels to another room.
I struggle to open the door to where Jupiter is in, it's so big it's ridiculous and my hands are full of a giant pizza bagel. Jupiter noticed and opened it for me letting me inside. Jupiter looked at the bagel, then back at my face. I don't know what he sees but he sighs tiredly again, he snaps his finger and I saw particles fly away from my face, I sneezed.
"Come on eclipse, you have to learn" Jupiter said as they turned their back on me and picks up a scroll. They then sit down on a chair, I quickly followed, I was struggling,I haven't learn how to float yet. Thankfully Jupiter saw my struggle and levitate me, I was surprised at first and almost let go of my pizza bagel, I let out a squeak of surprise. Jupiter opens the scroll as I slowly swam my way to the chair. When I arrive, the chair shrunk to my size. Cool, I let out a giggle. I put the bagel in the table and started to lick my hand, I mean only a monster wipe their hand before licking what's left in their hand. Jupiter called me for my attention and started to teach me their language.
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I started to understand bits about the language, I'm a fast learner even though I am really interested, it's really boring, make some sentences, say it, struggling to recite the 47 alphabets, it took alot of tries, make another sentence, try to say it, and Jupiter talks to me with their own language after I know how to make sentences.
"this is soooo boringgggg" I whined, Jupiter makes a face at me "you wanted to learn it now, who's fault was that?" I groaned and eat the last remaining of my pizza bagels, "aw...I ate it all" I said quietly. "Eclipse, pay attention you still have a lot to learn." Jupiter said sternly. I sighed "But I already made progresssssss I want a breakkk..." I whined again. Jupiter sighed then roll and seal the scrolls. "Fine.." Jupiter then put the scroll back to it's original place, I jumped out of the chair. Big mistake. I don't know how to float and the chair is really, really high. I fell face first. I heard a chuckle, assuming it was Jupiter. I stayed in that position for a while. I finally got up and started to walk towards the door.
"Jupiterrrrr!!!! Please help me open the door!!!!" I called out to them, they looked surprised for a moment and make their way to the door. "Jupiter do you think you can play with me?? Pleaseeeeeeee?" I tug on his robe. Jupiter opened the door letting me walk out first "I can't eclipse, I...have something else to do" wow. What an obvious lie, whatever. I'm just gonna play along. "Aw.... alright" I looked down and deflated. Then perked up "Oh what about teaching me to float? Pleaseeeeeeee teach me how to float please please!" Man, what is wrong with me, I don't know why I started to act really childish. Huh guess that's the perks of having the body of a newborn star child.
Jupiter shook their head in amusement, "alright eclipse,I will next time. You can ask moon to play with you" I consider it for a moment and nods "hmm...alright!!" I skip my way to search for moon. It took a while, "mooonnnn!!!" I yelled, it was hard to look for someone in a place like this, so Im counting on the vibrations.
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Got them. I quickly made my way towards a really large door with a moon symbol on the front. Huh, is that their room? Whatever, I knock on the door. "Moon!!! Can you play with me pleaseeee????" I stood there for a moment, and the door opens to see moon with a scowl on their face, I lit up "what is it the youngest." I ignore the venom on their voice, "let's play together! Jupiter said we should!" Moon rolled their eyes "doesn't mean I would, go bother Neptune" they slammed the door on my face. Haha rude. "Rudeee!!!!" I yelled at their door.
When I left, the realization hits me. I'm not me anymore. I'm the collector. This world is not real. My cats probably didn't exist. The feeling of dread crept over me and my face shifted to a look of horror. I'm not me. Everything is fiction. I'm not real. all of this isn't real. I'm not human anymore. I'm the fucking collector. Is this all a dream? But...I like it here. I would be able to meet Luz,Eda, hooty, heck I'm going to see a TITAN. But I heard the collector got trapped for Hundreds of years..and oh boy I don't want that, especially since I have CLAUSTROPHOBIA. And I don't have patience at all. And...oh gosh I'm gonna be trapped,I'm gonna be betrayed,I'm gonna be lonely,I'm gonna be used. I mean...it's similar to my old life but I don't wanna feel that again. Im scared. I don't know anything about the archivists, just that they're jerks. But they don't seem like jerks...well except moon and Jupiter.
I run a finger through my hair. They didn't exist yet, I have to wait. Use your acting skills and act as the collector. A dumb,gullible,childish god. I sighed and continue walking down the main hall. I walked past a large door, I paused, I hear muffled talking. It's their language. I only heard a few words 'New planet' 'titles' 'archive them?' 'would be done in 6 mortal years' 'should we?' new planet??? Wait, is it the planet where the titan is? 6 years huh...that would mean..in 3 years. Wow. This is exciting!
I ran away from the door, looking for Jupiter, running is really hard when you're tiny in a gigantic building. Thankfully the collector has alot of stamina.
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I've been running for a while now, I still can't find jupiter, I sigh and sit down leaning on a wall. Hoping for someone just found me and help.
After sitting there, I started to feel hopeless, untill I see a shadow looming over me. I looked up, it was Jupiter. I perked up. "Jupiter!" I exclaimed. Jupiter shakes their head "what do I do with you.." they sighed. I giggled, "Hey Jupiter do I have a room yet!?" I asked excitedly as I get up from the floor. "No, not yet. Also, sun saw you getting lost and running around helplessly,and wanted me to teach you how to use your powers now," Jupiter said, playfully. I chuckled embarrassed. Wait a minute. How can sun know? They're not even near.
I looked up at Jupiter, "Carry me" I demands. Jupiter rolled their eyes And held out their hand. I jumped in, I was like holding a single bead to them, I made myself comfortable. Jupiter lifts their hand up, I feel the wind pressure that made me lay face first in their hand,my limbs spread out like a starfish.
Jupiter chuckles. And started to walk. I lift my head up, and fix my position. Now I just sit with my legs Infront of me, and my hand behind my back.
When we arrived, I was put in a room full of spells, I can't see it but somehow I can sense it. There's a lot of scrolls,artifacts,and murals of the archivists. Can't wait till I get my own murals and artifacts. I looked around and saw more star, and celestial themed decorations. I was put on a platform. I didn't even realized it, wow, Jupiter stands beside me.
"Remember to focus Eclipse, after the training your title will be given to you" Jupiter says. I nod, "so...what now?" I asked. "Hold out your hand" I did what I was told, ngl I was excited about this cause magic learning??? Who wouldn't be excited??, I already see how powerful collector is and I was hoping I could be just as powerful as them.
"Now focus your energy on the tip of your finger, close your eyes to help" Jupiter instructed. I closed my eyes and try to feel the energy that my body have, I close it tighter as I try to deliver most of my energies to my fingers. "Think about the light, the sun surrounding your finger" says Jupiter, I close my eyes tighter and imagined,
A lightbulb, a latern, Neon lights, candles, fire, the Sun. I feel sudden warmness on the tip of my fingers, I hesitantly open one eye and..."congrats, you did it" Jupiter said proudly. I open both my eyes and stare at the circle of lights that floats right above my finger tips. I smiled widely "I did it! I did it!" I exclaimed, and the light gets brighter. Jupiter watched in interest. "Huh..your powers are based on your emotions, interesting" Jupiter mused. I closed my hand and unexpectedly the lights merged making a bigger one floating on top of the palm of my hand "Woah!" I automatically opened my hand again. I look at Jupiter brightly and they just smiled fondly at me. "We're not done yet." Jupiter said as he picked up a scroll. I felt like exploding in excitement. The lights grows even brighter.
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I learned that floating is hard, I only got it a couple of times and it's not even good! The collector has no problem with floating. I can't just made myself a disgrace again.
"This is so harddd" I whined, falling to the floor for the 42th time, "stop complaining it won't get you anywhere" Jupiter says. I groaned.
Transforming things to my desire is harder. I have to look at the stuff I'm about to transform closely, taking their every details, and also think about what I'm about to turn it into, I have to remember the details, and their sizes.
"Eclipse! What is THAT!?" Jupiter pointed at the deformed ear. I giggled gleefully "it's an ear!" Jupiter crunches their nose, "you're supposed to turn the glass shards to a Crystal ball!" Jupiter says exasperated. They looked at the ear again, "it doesn't even have any holes!" Jupiter cried.
I sighed. I'm now laying on my bed, it has toys, plushies, warm blankets that has star patterns on it. The bed is a master bed, well, for me that is. For them it's just a really small crib. the windows beside my bed are huge, I can see the stars, and other planets. It's beautiful but also scary. Ah..cosmic horror..other than that, I can see comets from the window. There's scrolls full of spells,and a sphere. I remember when I find out I earned my title.
"Ah, eclipse I have now been informed, you are quite a fast learner, you are also observant, and very smart for a newborn star child. I must say, I am impressed." Sun mused. I stood there, shifting a bit when I felt their gaze on me. "Your strength are average, as well as your speed, but your mind are not, I see that you have interest with spells, it reminds me of someone" sun turns their gaze at Moon who rolled their eyes, sun chuckles "surely Jupiter have informed you that you will be getting your title when you finish your training yeah?" I nod.
"Very good, i have been watching you eclipse, you fit between 2 titles, the collector, and the observer." Sun sighs "I guess eclipse really is a mix of sun and moon" he says jokingly, Uranus chuckled as well and Jupiter. "We have decided, it is rare, a mix of two planets, it was unexpected I must say, your existence in an enigma" sun says. "Since we couldn't decide which title would fit you more, we think it's better if you get them both" sun says in amusement, Uranus,Saturn,and Jupiter laughs softly. I was speechless.
Huh...I could maybe get used to this.
Chapter 2
Summary:
It is coming.
Notes:
Sorry if this is bad!! I try my best :(
Also I'm sleep deprived so there's gonna be some mistakes there and I'm too tired to fix it.
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I wake up and rise from my bed, I looked out the window to see everything the same,darkness,planets,and stars. Bro I really wanna stay in this bed forever. I don't wanna get up im tired, I've been training, and learning the languages, Eat, they keep telling me that us archivists doesn't need to eat but moon and I protests against it, goes to my room and repeat. It's tiring but If I want to be as powerful as the collector, I'll have to do all the routine that he's supposed to do. Because I'm not me. I'm the collector. Or the observer, whatever. I really got to leave my old habits if I don't want to ruin the canon personality of the collector. I slap both of my cheeks, c'mon you're the greatest actor, you have 2 awards for that, don't mess this up.
I force myself to get out of bed with a sigh, I look at my plushies and pick a star shaped plush. I bury my face in it then throw it away. For some reason my plushies smells great and it calms me down. I open my bedroom door, and step out. I look around the hall to see if there's someone around. Nope. I began to float a few inch in the air, I'm starting to get used to flying it's fun but I have to remind myself, I'm flying, not walking so I don't fall.
I went to the main hall to look for moon because I was supposed to be teached how to collect and archive.
As I levitate sleepily It suddenly got dark, cuz it's weird. It can't get dark in here, I look up. Oh. It was Saturn. I cocked my head to the side, "Eclipse, Moon called you to the collection room." Saturn crossed their arm "fix your face, you look awful" I blinked owlishly and rub my eyes. Then looked at them again "I don't know how to teleport yet, can you take me there please?" I asked. Saturn uncrossed their arms "Alright" they said. They held out their hand and I climb on it. "Hold tight" they warned, and I hold tighter on their hand. I feel sudden nausea and my throat closed. I gagged and slowly opened my eyes to see that we're Infront of a large door. I steadily jumped out of their hand and slowly floats down. "Thanks!" I cupped my face and yelled. Saturn chuckles softly and teleports away.
I knocked on the door. Knock knock. Silence. Knock knock. Silence. "OPEN THE DOOR!!!!!" I screeched and started to punch the door. It doesn't do any damage. But it was pretty loud. The door slowly opens and was met with a scowling moon on the other side. I giggled and walk in the room.
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"Aim at their conscious, the owner of the body, the brain" moon Said impatiently as the Chained a mix of wolf and bear demon started to struggle frantically. "please stop! No! Please! Don't do this!" It begs with tears continue to escape their eyes. I just stare at it waiting for the right time. Struggle.
Left.
Up.
Right.
Left.
Down.
Up.
Now.
I point directly at its forehead. Its face shifted from a look of pure horror to a blank look. It dropped on the floor.the chains fades away. No more struggles. It just stays there unmoving. I lifted my hand and it floats up, and stands. It moves at my command.
Like a puppet.
I look at moon grinning sadistically "This is fun!" Moon just smirked and nods approvingly. "You're enjoying this a little too much." Moon said "but, you did well for the second try." Moon said as they pat my head. I tried not to flinch, and then slowly leaning in to the touch. Moon let go, much to my displeasure.
Moon pointed to the wall full of puppets "pick a spot and hang it there" I nod and made the puppets float to an empty spot between a rock-like eagle, and an imp mixed with kangaroo beast. I look at moon. And decided to ask the question I've been dying to know. "Moon? Can archivists make curses?" I asked with curiosity. Moon closed their eyes and nods. "Yes we can. The collectors can, which is me, you, and Uranus" bingo. I perked up "Can you teach me?? Please please pleaseeeee!!!" I tug on their robes while jumping in place. Moon shakes their head, "no, just wait till you're grown up" moon said looking down at me. I looked down and sighed "fine..." Moon then walks out and I followed them.
Fishing information is surprisingly easy here. Now, the grand huntsman is moon. The one who make the owl beast curse is moon. Interesting...the observer...sun..yeah I have to watch out, they're watching my every move. I guess the way the collector finds out that king has been 'conspiracing' against him is how sun sees us all??? Just pull their hood down to cover their eyes and just see?? Interesting! I pull my hood to cover my eyes and then closed it.
I see..I can't see shit. Things are changing every second,I see Jupiter,then flash to another room and so on. As I try to focus it stopped, I opened my eyes and..saw suns eye staring directly at me. I shriek and pull my hood back up. What the fuck!? I look around trying to see a pair of eyes. Man sun is really scary, I shudder. I heard a faint chuckle. I'm guessing it's sun. Oh man that's eerie as fuck yeah no way I'm not doing that again. I hurriedly go to the library.
I knock the door hoping someone is there to open it for me. All this strength thing is not my specialty at all. I knock again. Silence..... Knock knock. Silence.. I sigh and began pushing the door. It was hard, all the door here are ridiculously heavy and the size didn't help at all. It slowly creaks open. And I squeeze my way in. Yeah I'm not opening all of it up. I dust off my clothes and looked around.
I went to the center of the room and touched the big orb. I make a few patterns and the image changed to the planet, earth. But it's not finished yet. This is gonna get boring, I've been living here for 2 years (for the collector) I'm basically 2 years old now. Wow happy birthday to me I guess. I let go of the ball.
I hummed a song as I made my way out of the library, it's a shame I can't have my own crystal ball because sun said 'im too young' and I have to 'wait till you're grown' now I have to go to the library if I wanted to see in a crystal ball, which is really far from my room. And it's such a bother. Though I'm really excited for meeting the titans, I wonder how fluffy they are, and by looking at king poofed up in that one scene, I'm getting more excited than ever.
I wonder how big the titans are, the babies are probably almost as big as me...wow that's totally not terrifying at all if I'm thinking of the fully grown one! Nope! I'm not scared of big things. It's their own fault for being so freakishly big. And kings dad have to die for the boiling isles existence, so...do I kill him first so I don't get trapped? I stopped in my tracks and put a finger on my chin. Nah our magic doesn't work on titans, it's a shame though even if they're probably fluffy as hell they cancelled out our magic. Yeah now I understand why my 'siblings' get rid of them. I wonder if it's a canon event that I have to get trapped. I shudder. Yeah no I'm preventing that. What I know is a canon event is, kings dad is supposed to be dead,and I have to meet...philip..ew. yeah I'll kill him first, but like where's the fun in that? I let out a sinister giggle and continue walking.
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"Collector live long, we watch things past,to preserve, to observe we must amass, what flies....blblbl" I trailed off with blowing a raspberry, Uranus frowned. "Don't do that eclipse, remember this creed. It is important" I sigh I took a deep breath. "Collectors live long, we watch things past, to preserve, to observe we must amass..what flies....what..swims.? Be it pre..dator or prey..?" I sigh dramatically "I give up this is harddd" I whined. Uranus shook their head "c'mon eclipse, I'll let you eat more mortal food" Uranus bribed. I pretends to lit up "really???" I asked hopefully, Uranus nods. "Alright.. collectors live long, we watch things past, to preserve, to observe, we must amass, what flies, what swims...be it predator or..prey..uh..seal them up so..they never fade..uh" I paused, "..but should..they meddle with our..uh..affairs...um... we'll.. clean the planetandscorchtheair!" I finished proudly. Uranus nods satisfied "alright you're pretty close, come on let's go ask moon"
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Today I learned the collector is spoiled. Like..????? I thought they'd be more...neglectful..but they're pretty decent..I think the collector didn't like them it's because they won't play with him...and maybe the training,and the routines too and also waiting, I mean like everyone here told me to wait till I'm grown,he probably didn't like that, he just wants to play. Call me a nerd but I like to learn. What a shame I'm gonna leave them. Ugh canon events.
I fell face first on my bed. And begin planning. When I meet the titans... I'll play with them ofc, I'm gonna act like the collector in the show, naive, gullible,stupid child. I'm gonna keep asking around to play, pretend to not know what birth and death is, pretend to be oblivious and reckless. Okay..if I was the titan and I saw my children dissapear...I would keep them somewhere safe, including a child god who seems oblivious of the world around them..if they dissapears and the said child god is the only one left looking extremely guilty...I would blame the child out of anger. And then trap them. Yeah I think that's what the titan would do..hm..if the titan never trap the child god. The mirror wouldn't exist....hm... I grinned wolfishly. Got it. I'm a fuckin genius.
I jumped on my bed like a trampoline, I decided to act like a child for a while. I jumped off my bed and landed on my pile of plushies. I giggled gleefully and begin to snuggle on them. Its so comfortable. My eyelids are drooping. And I instantly fell asleep cuddling with my plushies.
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I wake up with an eerie feeling of being watched. It must be sun...I get off the pile of plushies and move to my bed, and lay down staring at the ceiling. I miss Susie. Her voice, her eyes, her eyes. Her eyes. It's so...cute, her eyes are painted in gold. I miss her. If she find out where I am, would she find me?. She's so smart, I love her. I need her comfort. I really need it.
The observer...the collector...the obliterator...and the preserver. These titles are given to the archivists. Sun is the observer. Moon is the collector. Jupiter is the obliterator. Saturn is the preserver. Uranus is the collector. Neptune is the obliterator. Me, Ea- no, Eclipse is the collector AND the Observer. This is my life now.
It's only a matter of time till the canon starts. And I can't wait at all. I drift off to sleep again.
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"Come on eclipse." Sun said encouraging. "Uh...what rhymes with place?" I murmurs. "Hm...demise? Yes!"
I sigh "this place, will be your demise, you're fate is sealed,for thousands of years by!!" I cackle hysterically. Sun just watched, "rhymes doesn't seem like your speciality, it's kind of ironic actually." they eyed my sun side of my face and I frowned. Wait. "Did you just rhymed?" sun just chuckles. Ominous fuck.
After a lot of practicing to rhyme. I started to get bored FAST. Sun being my teacher is probably the most boring thing to exist, I pity Jupiter. I honestly see no point in rhyming. They should just..I don't know teach me how to see using that hood trick. Or other observer things do.. rhyming is boring!
This is getting annoying. I groaned. "What is the point of rhyming!?" I yelled exasperated. Sun laughs "nothing actually" they said calmly. I look at them like they just grow 39 heads. "what." I said in disbelief. So they're just fucking with me!? Sun just laughs harder,I blushed in embarrassment. "What!?" I yelled.
So. I learned that sun is a two faced bastard. I mean I am too. literally. But that doesn't matter. I pick up a plushie, I needed to test my strength. I buried my face in my plushies mumbling multiple sorrys and started to poke it. Sending it flying to the other side of the room. Wow. It hits the wall and it exploded. Many of The cottons and beautiful star dusts covered the air and slowly reach the floor. That's one big mess. I don't feel like cleaning, maybe later.
I flopped down on my bed and watch the stars from my window. Beautiful.
As I watch the scenery. I forgot something. I hurriedly got up and look for a mirror. As I look at myself I started to style my hair. I look just like the collector but has fluffier and longer hair. I could be mistaken as a girl, that's funny. I decided to keep it like that it'll be fun and funny. Watching them be embarrassed for misgendering me hah! Wait..do I have a gender? Does collector have a gender? Well.. collector is a boy..right? I look at my reflection intently. With the longer hair I look like a girl..and short hair I look like a boy....fuck it I'm both. I grinned and poofed the mirror away. Gender are stupid in my opinion.
I started to practice flying around my room. Literally bouncing from walls to walls. The door slammed open and I flinched, and automatically looked at the door in fear. "Eclipse! Stop being so loud everyone's having a meeting!" Moon yelled. I hid my flinch. "Eek! Sorry!!" I exclaimed, with a huff moon slammed the door closed again. My heart is beating fast. Really fast. Man that was terrible. When was the last time I felt that type of fear? Probably in my old life. I tried to calm myself down taking a deep breath. Kinda funny considering that I'm in space.
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"Okay little star, go eat that planet!" I make the bunny point to a ball designed like the moon. "No! I will eat you instead!" the star plushie started to attack the bunny. I make sound effects as they keep fighting with my magic. Suddenly a large mirror appear in my room. I yelped and the magic dissapears making the plushies and every toys fall to the ground. The mirror showed sun,Uranus,Jupiter,and Saturn. They had their cloaks on, their face are covered, and a large symbol represents their planets replaced their faces, just like the first time I met them.
I pull myself together. "Hey!!!!" I faked enthusiasm, "we need to talk to you" they all said in sync, my mask didn't falter but it sent a shiver down my spine. "Alright, what is it? Are you guys gonna let me explore now? Ooh oh! Im gonna have my own planet!?" I said jumping excitedly in place. "Something like that" Uranus speaks. "You will have your first mission." Saturn said. "It's time to let those titles of yours to use." Jupiter said. "Don't disappoint us eclipse." Sun said. I paused and nods "I'll try my best." I said. "We need you to observe" sun said again. "Collect the creatures" Uranus said. "And preserve them to me" Saturn said. I nod excitedly. oh my stars. THE TITANS AHHHHH I'm gonna meet them!!! "Okay! I won't let you down!" I said with a bright smile. The mirror dissapears. I started to bounce on the walls again.
This is gonna be fun!
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A Year go by and I have finally mastered some spells, and most of collectors magic. Its fun to be as powerful as the silly guy from your favorite show, but other than that I'm gonna meet the titans. I practiced summoning things,creating things,making portals, flying and everything else. I must say I'm a master at it now, haha. Not really, I just have a really high ego, but it doesn't matter. I remember when I first tried to make a grimwalker. Ugh. I visibly shudder. That was disgusting.
I snap my fingers and a star shaped mirror appeared Infront of me. I look at myself--the collector in the mirror,my hair got longer, it reaches my knees. I brushed my hair with my fingers and even considered braiding it. Wait..I wonder if the collector bleed... curiosity got the better of me and a small star popped out of existence then cut through my skin, it bleeds...black and purple?? Why does it look like it have glitters?? Is my blood supposed to imitate space? Wow this is interesting. I did something unbelievably gross. And licked it. And immediately spits it out. It taste like death. I mean it made sense. If a star die, a star child is born and also if a star child is born, one of the archivists have to die to make the energy to the star to make a star child. It's a cycle. I found that out when I ask sun about moon.
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"Sun?" I ask looking down, sun looks at me, "what is it eclipse?" Sun asks. "Why doesn't moon like me?" I ask somberly. I didn't like it when someone hate me, and importantly when I didn't do anything other than existing. Sun sighs "well... they're just upset. Do not fret, they'll adjust to you" sun says. "Why? Why are they upset? What did I do?" I ask fidgeting at the hem of my oversized sleeves. "You didn't do anything eclipse. You see, the archivists live through a cycle. We're never meant to be more than 8." Sun says. They didn't get a response, so they continued "you see, to make things, you have to destroy something, and you need energy to do so." I looked down at the floor. to destroy....make..energy.. "does..that mean there's other archivists before...." I trailed off, realization hits me. My eyes widen. How many of them die!? I thought they're immortal!?
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It was weird as hell. They're all suicidal?! I mean, it's not like they CHOSE to die, they had to make another one if one failed too many times.i scoffed. I dont understand gods at all. Whatever, Anyways! I'm preparing for my first 'mission' or 'finally having fun' as I call it.
I teleports to suns room, as I was about to knock/punch the door till it becomes dust, the door slowly opens. It was annoying. "Can I go now??? Sun please!!! Is it now?" I ask spinning in the air as I float right in their face. "Please!! I mastered every spells that I'm supposed to do! I won't dissapoint I swea--" sun chuckles. What why are they laughing!?, I flushed. "W-why are you laughing!?" I stuttered. Sun smiles fondly "don't worry eclipse, it's just that it's interesting to see someone this excited" I look at him weirdly "what?" Sun chuckles softly "others usually acted nervous, or doubtful. But you're different." They paused "come on now let's get ready" they quickly changed the topic and walks down the hall, with me following behind them.
"Sun, if I suddenly went missing would you guys look for me?" I ask. Sun looks away, their cloak covering their face. "Of course, we'll do anything in our powers to find you." They replied. Man. That sounds totally convincing.. though I can't tell if they mean it or not. Play it off. "Hehe! That's really sweet of you, I knew I could count on my lovely siblings!" I twirled in the air. "Sun! When I'm finally old and big like you, would I be apart of the council too?" I asked sun. Sun looks at me and nods "yeah, same as everybody else, remember eclipse..if anything happens when you're on your mission,gather as much information as you can and immediately flee from there, we'll take care of the rest." Sun says seriously. I look at them surprised, sun knows me-- no, the collector is gonna be in trouble!? Yet they didn't even bother to search for him!? This is ridiculous! I felt furious. But I forced a proud smile. "Pfft-- like someone could harm a lil guy like me" I said with confidence clear in my tone. Sun stays silent.
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I really REALLY hope my plan would work out I don't know how life works, but everytime I'm confident with my plan it failed, and everytime I doubted about it,my plan works, so I'll do just that. It's scary how It'll affect canon in every way possible and I don't want that, predictable is fun.
We met Jupiter,Uranus,and Saturn. I sat in suns hand as we make our way to the planet. This is gonna be so fun!! I was basically vibrating in excitement.
I look around me, space is really dark and cold...I wonder if I can create a meteor and crash a random planet...can I make my OWN planet?? I wonder if I can make myself explode...would I create a supernova or just star dusts? Is that a star cluster!??! What type of planet is that??? What does titans taste like??..many questions filled my head. I held out my palm and a small blue star appear, I hover my other hand on top of it and started to expand it. It popped to blue glitters before I could make it bigger. I groaned dramatically and just lay down like a starfish in suns hand. I'm BORED.
"Are we there yet!?" I yelled at them. "Patience eclipse" Saturn says firmly. I groaned and let my mind wonder again. Would it really work?? I don't know..I hope I can prevent my imprisonment. I shook my head. No. Stop thinking about it, it's future me problem. "Fall with me..come on fall with me into the lalalalalalalaa..." I mumbled I can feel their gaze at the back of my skull so I turned to look at them "When are we there!??" I said irritated. Jupiter glared at me "patience." Jupiter said with a booming voice. I flinched, my eyes widen, I quickly recover and I scoffed and look forwards again. Choosing the wise choice to stay quiet.
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I saw a floating marble with very noticable black dots moving around in the distance...I look at my- the collectors siblings "what is that??" I asked sun, Uranus looks at me "that's the planet" they said. I perked up and starts vibrating with excitement again. "Really?? Oh stars! I'm really gonna do it!! What the-- sun faster! Faster faster faster!!" I tried to stand up and embarrassingly failed, as they were moving so fast I have to practically merge some of my cells with sun so I wouldn't fly off. Sun just smiles completely unbothered.
I look at the nearby planet, "sun! Remember this! When I'm big and become part of the council I'll toss what planet I want!!" I said with a bright smile. Sun just chuckles softly, "sure you will.." I grinned "and- and- once I arrived I will rule the world! these itty-bitty mortals won't know what's coming ahaha!!" I said with a deranged smile. Jupiter sighs, "they're just like the moons.." Jupiter mumbled. Uranus shook their head "remember your mission eclipse." I rolled my eyes, "whatever..you just don't know how to have any fun.." I grumbled. Jupiters comment will stay in the back of my head forever.
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When we're finally getting close, I felt like I'm gonna explode. "We're here we're here!" I squeal. Sun held out their hand, "go on eclipse" they said. I immediately jumped off with an excited laugh. "Wooo!!" I said while spreading my limbs and closed my eyes tight.
Closer
Closer
Closer
Closer
Closer
Why does it take so lo--
SPLASH!
Oh my god. It's Cold . It's Warm..? It's Hot. run. run. run. In panic I quickly swam up to the surface. The waves crashed down on me, it's hot. It's boiling. Get me out of here-- I made a choked sound as i got dragged by the boiling waves.
The second I opened my eyes I felt disgusting. My clothes are wet, and I'm laying on SAND so it makes a weird texture. There's even steam coming from me. Darn it. I spun around and the water and the Sand flew in all directions. I weakly walked towards a rock to sit. But I tripped. Yes. I tripped. And fell towards the rock. My head collided with it and it makes a loud crack. But it wasn't mine.
"OW!" I yelped. I slowly lay down facing the sky, I felt pain, hah that's funny. I closed my eyes and giggled, pain felt funny and good. Welp I guess Im still a masochist even in a new life. I opened my eyes again, ah the sky is purple. Weird. I just realized I'm only 3 years old...and in mortal years I'm like near 7 years old..that's confusing..huh there's barely any clouds..I slowly got up with a grunt. I held my head and giggled at the tingly feeling it gave me. I looked around me, hm..the trees are so big! What the...I slowly got up to my feet and walks towards one of the trees, this is really scary...I float up to see how big it is.
As I'm finally above the tree, it took really long and I considered giving up 3 times, but at least it's worth it. Woah..I take in the scenery. The trees looks like a pine tree with a beautiful peach color, the mountains are HUGE like really REALLY huge.. damn I miss the archivists already..Focus darn it! I need to find a titan. I heard muffled talking, fuck it's the titans. I quickly got above the spot where I landed and just dropped. I landed with a grunt, I giggled weakly.
Okay I'm getting anxious. each step they took, the ground shook. It's scary. I wonder if I can have a concussion. is that possible? I don't know and I don't want to test it. They're getting closer.
Silence...
What. Why'd they stop? Oh. Well it makes sense. "What is that?" I tried to hide my flinch from their booming voice. Why are they so loud!? I groaned and slowly sat up. I look around and was met with a giant titan feet. Ew. I look up and froze. They're fucking big. Okay my neck feels like it's about to snap. I put on my mask "Helloooo!!!!" I chirped with a bright smile. They kept glaring down at me, "what is your purpose of being here." Holy shit is that kings dad!?. Despite my shock, I managed to put on a confused look, "huh? Whatcha mean?" I said while slowly getting on my feet. "What are you?" I ask cluelessly. The titans shared glances with eachother in confusion, and wariness.
"Woah you guys are big..." I said slowly floating to kings dad eye level. They seemed shocked about the fact I can fly,
"What is your name" he demands. I look at him dead in the eye, then smiles "hi! I'm the collector, wanna be friends!?" Nailed it. i think. Kings dad seemed surprised by my mood change, "I am Lord, I am the king of the titans" lord said gruffly. Bro really thought I'll be intimidated by saying that he's a leader of the giant titans. It works.
"Cool! So You guys are titans? Why are you guys so big? Why is your skull on the outside? Why do you only have 3 fingers? Claws? Why dont you have a mouth? Why do--" I got cut off with a sigh coming from lord, and the grumblings from other titans. I heard noises coming from the nearby bushes. I slowly float towards the bushes and was met with the most cutest thing I have ever seen in my entire life.
"Is that a baby titan!?" I squeal and my skin started to glow. For some reason when I feel intense emotions it does that. "Tee! S-Stay away!" One of the babies shrieked while aiming a stick with a not very sharp rock tied on the tip at me. "You guys are cute!! I'm the collector! Wanna be friends?? We can play games together!" I said while jumping in place,Nailed it hah I'm good at this. I can hear murmurs coming from behind me. Assuming it's the adult titans.
One of the baby titans
Walks up to me eye-smiling "Hello! I'm Saiya! Sure let's play!" One of them walks towards me "hello! I'm Muca! Can I join too?" Another one approached me "I'm Gira, and I too wish to join.." The one with the 'spear' slowly lower their 'spear' and mumbled something, "hm? What was that?" I tilted my head to the side. "I said I'm Decik!" Decik snaps "..and I wanted to come too..it's not like I want to play with you, I just wanted to keep an eye on you." Decik grumbled and we giggled. "Sure! Come on let's play...hm.." I put a hand to my chin "..tag! Let's play tag!" I Exclaimed, Saiya claps her hands?...claws?..Paws? "I'm it!" She suddenly taps my hand and they all scattered. "H-hey! I wasn't ready!" I pouts, but then laughs and chases them anyway. It was nice feeling like a kid again.
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"Yeah! My siblings were the best! They're always looking out for me from the stars!" i said proudly. We're sitting in a circle under a tree with me leaning against it. "Do you guys have any siblings too?" I asks them. Saiya eye-smiles "yeah, I have 2 brothers! They're still babies and they didn't know how to talk yet.. they're really small and adorable!" Saiya said with a fond look in her eyes. "Well...Im going to have a sibling, they didn't hatch yet though.." Gira said. "Huh? Why didn't they hatch?" I asks her cluelessly, Decik rolled his eyes "Dum dum we have to wait till they come out" I tilted my head to the side "what are they coming out of?" Decik narrowed his eyes "their shell. Collector, didn't you come out of a shell too?" Decik said crossing his arms. I shrugged "Well...I just popped into existence.." I mumbled. Decik looks at me weirdly "tch, that's impossible" he spats "uh..yeah? I'm the living proof of it" I frowned. Muca cuts in "collector, well..we didn't just 'popped into existence' like you did, we come from an egg, that will hatch when we're ready to come out" Muca said patiently trying her best to explain "that doesn't make any sense.." I grumbled. I really don't understand how eggs work.
"huh..it's getting dark already.." I murmurs looking at the moon slowly rising and the sky shifted to a darker shade of purple. The kids eyes widen "oh no! I promised my dad I'll be back before the moon rises!" Gira exclaimed, quickly standing up. "Me too!" Muca said. "Wait-- can I come too? I don't really have a place to stay..." I admitted sheepishly. Decik,Gira, and Muca shared unsure glances, Saiya beams "of course! Come on!" She grabs my hand and dragged me with her. The others following behind.
As I was dragged by Saiya, I let my mind wander. Why are there so many titans? Shouldn't there be only 6 or more titans? not hundreds? Hm...King is really slow to hatch and I still haven't come up on a theory why. But it doesn't make sense, why are there so many of them? But...the archivist said it was 6 years...but it is weird that they mentioned 'mortal years' though. this is hurting my brain, are they doing it on purpose? Are they making a fool of me!? The only thing I could think of is that they know I'm listening..but..why? Is this suns doing? I sighed. Sun really likes to make me look like a fool.
"Collector? Are you okay?" Muca asks, breaking me out of my thoughts "uh- yeah of course, why?" I splutters. "Because we're here.." she answered, I look towards me and saw the biggest cave I have ever seen in my life. "Come on! You have to meet my brothers" Saiya said excited. "But wait-" Gira cuts in and we all turn to look at her, "we have to tell my dad about the collector" Gira finished, I look at her questioningly, Decik noticed my look of confusion "Her dad is the king of the titans" he answered. What. What do you mean. I seriously thought-- oh wait i mean it's impossible for king to NOT have siblings..right..? Saiya pats my back, I tried to hide my flinch. "don't think too hard, you're making a face" Saiya said amused, I blinked. Twice. "oh- uhm- yeah sure c-come on, let's meet your dad" I stuttered embarrassed.
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"Oh stars above" I breathes out. I say while looking at lord, he's so freakishly big it's really annoying, hell I'm not even as big as the holes in his nose! What even is life anymore?? "Uhm- hi..sir I would like to- uh- stay here for a while because I don'texactlyhaveaplacetostayisthatalrightwithyou?" I blurted out awkwardly while looking anywhere but lord. I can hear The other titans around him laughs.
I can also feel my face heated up. I hate my life, stop laughing bro just answer me, answer me already, answer me! "I-i don't mean any harm...I pinky promise.." I added nervously while grinning awkwardly. Nailed it, I said the pinky thing.
Lord unfortunately find this amusing, and I want to die. Again. If I am dead though, what if it's all a dream? What if I sleep like for real I will wake up from my dream? Am I dead? Wait- no I'm not supposed to be lost in thought in a situation like this. Focus Eclipse! Darn it! I saw Gira gestures her dad to come closer to her, as he does what he's told Gira started to whisper in his ear.
Lord straighten his back and I felt his gaze on me. I offered a bright smile, and Gira looked at her dad with hope shining in her eyes. Lord gave a small sigh "well..the kids and my daughter seems to like you.." he mumbled thoughtfully "of course, you're welcomed here collector." He finished with an eye-smile. There were multiple murmurs from the other titans as Giras eyes shines brightly and started running towards me, me on the other hand, grinned widely. Gira grabbed my hand and dragged me out of the room yelling multiple 'thank yous' behind her.
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"Oh my gosh! Really??" Saiya said surprised, "oh my goodness, we can play so much games together! We can have a sleepover! And- and-" Saiya rambles, I smiles "and tell multiple stories!" We both finished, Saiya looks at me wide eyed and gasped dramatically, I give her a shit eating grin "Jinx!" I exclaimed with a giggle. "Stop being stupid" Decik grumbled, his tone playful. Gira elbowed Saiya "Saiya," Gira said as Saiya let out a breath "the moon is already high up in the sky, let's all go back to the cave" Gira continued. Muca nods "come on" Muca gestures for us to follow her.
I look around the dark forest surrounding us, I really miss trees,the ground,and everything in general. Space is scary but beautiful. I haven't realized how much I missed breathing in oxygen. I really liked the titans, they're fluffy and fun. Oh. Unfortunate. Their fate is sealed. My smile dropped slowly. Oh it'll hurt. I know it will. I shouldn't have become so attached to them. But I can't help it. I always get attached and everytime I do, they left me hurting. I got used to it after a while. But I wonder, can I still feel emotions? I feel..numb and hollow. haha. I chuckled dryly. Hollow mind. Can't wait for that to happen. I look at the baby titans chatting amongst themselves.
I'll have fun while it lasted. I smiled softly at them.
Notes:
Sorry if this seems rushed. I tried.
Oh and also, I have a headcanon that every titans have their own little 'weh' thing king does. I also headcanon kings dad said 'Wah' and I feel happy at the thought
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Since I don't exactly need sleep, I just stay awake as I am being cuddled by Saiya,Muca,and Gira. Decik hugs my leg, when he realized what he's doing he quickly rolled away from me, it's hilarious but I was supposed to be quiet. Though The collector were right, they are very welcoming. And cuddling with them is my favorite thing to exist. Like?? Who wouldn't want to cuddle with such fluffy titans? Not to mention their foods. Oh. My. Stars. they were delicious as fuck, no wonder the baby titans were almost bigger than me. they eat tons of shit. I wonder how they taste like. I'm curious. I look at the sleeping baby titans. I'm hungry. I slightly shook my head, no don't. Don't. Don't. Resists. Oh stars...what is wrong with me. I sighed and continue looking at the roof of the nest. Why am I feeling so depressed? I have comfort and I'm in my comfort show.
All this pretending is mentally exhausting. I don't like socializing at all, But..I have to, I can't just ruin his character..Eh? My eyes are stinging, what? Ow my heart aches, I feel something wet rolling from my cheek and onto my ear. Am I crying? Oh. It's been a while since I've cried,but why? Why am I crying? This doesn't make sense. Why am I crying for no reason at all? I heard a strangled sob. Who's that? Oh, it's me. I feel something shifting beside me. Oh it's the baby titans, fuck fuck stop. Stop crying. Stop it. I look away and wipe my eyes with my nightcap carefully, please stop. Stop it. This is stupid. I'm stupid. Why am I crying!? Stop there's nothing to cry for. Nothing. Nothing is wrong. You're being dramatic. Stop. Calm the fuck down dammit.
"..Collector?" I heard a tired mumble, I'm gonna assume it's Muca. I didn't answer, I carefully turned my head to the side and my nightcap pressed against the nest then turned my head back facing the ceiling, well, the direction. I did that so my nightcap looks sideways. And it looks like I've been sleeping and they don't see my face. They can't see me like this.
Silence....
Please, please go back to sleep whoever you are. Please. Go back to sleep. I mentally prayed as I bit my tounge. Hard. I can taste the disgusting blood. But who cares. I can feel sudden warmth from my side, don't. Don't hug me. Don't. Dont hug me when I'm like this. Please. No. I have to leave Before i get worse. I slowly and trying very carefully to not wake up the other sleeping baby titans while waking up. Oh wait, I can teleport. But eh...it's makes a silly sound and that'll wake them up, I look to my left, Muca, and Saiya. I look to my right, Decik and Gira. I mentally prayed to the stars and began wiggling out of the nest.
Please. Please. I slowly wiggled like a worm off the nest and fell to the hard and dirty floor. I warily looked back at the baby titans, please none of you wake up, I slowly crawled my way to the entrance of the cave.
When I finally arrived outside of the cave I immediately ran off, trying to find the nearest river. Hope there is one nearby though. Wait, I feel watched. I look at the night sky. I squint my eyes, and rapidly look at every single stars.
Silence...
Nope. It's not sun. But who? I blinked my tears away as I carefully looked around the trees surrounding me. I pull down my nightcap and opened my eyes, I blinked and the scene changes rapidly. Above the trees. Blink. The trees behind me. Blink. The trees Infront of me. Blink. The bushes behind the trees. Blink. I pull my nightcap back up. And paused, wait, why am I freaking out? Whoever it is they can't do shit to me hah! I relaxed and continue walking forward, I mean like I don't wanna forget my path, I'm easily lost and Im very forgetful.
Hm...maybe I should go back to where I landed. Ow! Why is my heart hurting?! Gosh, I need a distraction. I look at the stars, let's have fun. I giggled and pointed a finger to one of them. I started to slowly moved my finger to the side, and it moves! (I ignore my heart aching painfully). I giggled gleefully and started to Organize other stars in a line. This is fun! Wait what? Oo! Is that a shooting star? What if I.... I pointed my index finger at it expecting it to stop, but nooo, it hurts. I grimaced and pull back my hand. Ouch. Wait a minute, this magic felt familiar for some reason....what is it...oh shit. Fuck, it's Moon, oh are they angry that I moved the stars? Oh my-- I can't believe I actually fell for that stupid shooting star trap! I laughed (i ignored how it sounded incredibly forced and strained)
Hm..maybe I should go back, I rubbed my eyes with my sleeves furiously, I really need to wash my face cuz I know I look like shit right now. Oh wait, yeah the whole reason I left is to wash my face, I covered my face with both of my hands and groaned in stress. I really wish I could just...I don't know, summon water? Is that possible? I dont Think so. I sighed, And continue walking forward hoping that I can find a river soon.
I hear splashing. Good, I pull my nightcap down and closed my eyes, I pressed the sides of my nightcap to hear better, I opened my eyes and..bingo, found a river. I pull my nightcap back in its place, I summon a small yellow star that floats just an inch from the ground so I can feel my own energy and didn't get lost. I quickly walked in the direction of the river.
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That was refreshing, I smiled. i am currently walking back to the cave, but a thought came over me. Does titan trappers exist yet? Does that mean they see me as god!? I need to find them, but Im gonna look suspicious. Hmm.... grimwalker? Nah.. illusion? Maybe, but they can cancel out my magic and when the illusion dissapears I will be put in a bad spot. I'll do it soon, they're going to work for me whether they like it or not. And besides they played an important role in this little plan of trying to avoid being sealed away. I've seen disturbing stuff in this life and maybe the worshippers won't be too bad.
I saw the ground slowly brightens, weird. Wait a minute, I look at the sky in with wide eyes. Shit it's morning already!? Oh no! I closed my eyes and spun around and began to think about the cave, every details of it. I opened my eyes and Im back at the entrance again, I let out a breath of relief as I see that every titans babies are still asleep.
I stealthily float back to the nest where my titan friends are and slowly landed with my feet, got on my knees, slowly put 2 of my hands so I can lean forward, and slowly lower my body till I can feel like I'm laying down. All while being very anxious of making any noise. I just lie there. Hoping they wake up soon so they can wake me up and then eat! I smile excitedly at the thought of eating again.
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Boring! When are they waking up!? Ugh! I sat up accidentally pushing Muca and Gira that are hugging my arms, they both let out a 'Geh' and 'Wuh' it's adorable, but that's not the point. I shook them awake "wake upppp" I whispered. Decik slowly stirred awake and grumbled while glaring at me tiredly "ssshut urppp" he slurred then closed his eyes again "it's too early.." mumbled a very tired Saiya, Gira slowly sat up and rub her eyes. Gira then looks around the cave, "...No one woke up yet" she deadpans, I shrugged "come on let's go and eat" I whispered while smiling widely. Gira sends me a exasperated glare "how many times should we tell you collector, we have to wait for the hunters to come FOR food" she said slowly getting irritated "they'll wake us up when they're done" she mumbled and slowly lays back down. I rolled my eyes "fineeeee" I whispered and lazily floats out of the cave.
It's interesting to know that they don't need to eat when they're big. It's weird though I am very confused, one of them doesn't have any meat, they only have skeletons. And they're still moving! Thats...is that how titans will be when they grow old? Like, where did the meat and organs go? Did they just...I don't know, fall off? Ugh..this is the most horrible thing to think about. But I can't help it, I have so many questions in my head, and some of them doesn't even have answers! Do they need food to grow big? Ohhh is that why king is smaller than collector? These baby titans eat a lot, and they're the same size as me!
Wait, I need to find the titan trappers! But I need a cloak. Hm....how can I get one? Did they even give me my cloak yet? Oh yeah, they did! I snap my fingers and my cloak popped up, I hugged it then started to make it grow bigger and taller. I need to disguise myself. I put it on, and started to float really high till the fabric doesn't touch the ground just so that the trappers will think that this is a grown archivist, And I miss being tall.
Ugh I just realized how difficult it is to wear a cloak, this is stupid but this is a matter of life and death. For me that is.
I snap my fingers and a round mirror appear Infront of me. I saw my symbol, its literally a moon but with those weird sunrays around it. Uh oh this wouldn't work. I got out of my cloak, and it lamely dropped to the ground. Moon wouldn't mind right? I can sense sun looking at me, oh they better enjoy the show. I laughed and started to snap my fingers, a few seconds later a huge cloak appear and slowly dropped to the ground.
I pointed a finger at it and lifted it up till it doesn't reach the ground anymore. It's ridiculous about how tall moon is than me. I shrugged and walks in the cloak and floats really high up till I can get to the top. Woah, everything is so small. I can even imagine how they see me, I'm small as fuck! This is so cool, I'm so tall. Wait, focus! Ugh, this is stupid.
Im still now sure if they exist yet though...but there had been suspiciously small buff titans roaming around the other time. as I was about to move forward, I feel buzzing shot throughout my entire body and then the cloak just poofed away. I was blinded by the sudden light and fell down face first.i clutched my head and groaned loudly in annoyance.
I stood up, snapped my fingers and a small blue star with a moon symbol on it appears. I took it In my hands harshly "you know what!? Fine! Sharing is caring my ass! Why won't you let me have some fun!? Just let me borrow some of your stuff oh my stars!" I yelled at it, I paused to glare at the sky. "Anyways, I will be borrowing your little cult for a while" I said sweetly. I pull back my hand,clapped twice and the star started to fly towards the sky with such unbelievable speed you would've thought it dissapears into thin air. Moon better get that message or I'm coming there and tell that to their face myself.
"Haha....what a great day." I wheezed hysterically. I snapped my fingers aggressively and my cloak appears. I started to make it taller and bigger, and wear it quickly. I'm not gonna waste time anymore. Once I'm inside I quickly look for the titan trappers.
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Where are they???? I've been floating for what it felt like forever now. I've been tracking moons faint blessing for a while and everytime I'm close to it, it vanished and I suddenly felt it somewhere else. This is getting annoying. I hear rustling, i pull my nightcap down and closed my eyes, I opened them again and saw 3 small titans... they're jacked as fuck damnnn...wait..fuck it's the titans trappers! I quickly pull my nightcap back up. "I know you're there" I made sure there's no emotions in my tone.
I hear footsteps from behind me. "It's the Grand huntsman!" One of them whispered surprised. Oh my worries suddenly dissapears, They're dumb as hell. I hear one of them gulped. Good. I slowly turn towards them, "give this to your leader." I snapped my fingers and a scroll with my symbol as the seal appears in midair.
They shared glances with eachother and One of them nervously walked forward and slowly took the scroll. I nods. I turn around and dissapears.
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Now that's done, they will do their job. And if they don't, I'll curse them eternal pain and suffering even if their time has come to an end.
This is exciting. Okay I have to go back, I got off my cloak and it vanished to little sparkles. I closed my eyes and began to think about the cave, I opened them and was met with an almost empty cave. I immediately panicked. They're gone already!? But- this isn't right! They're not supposed to be gone this early! Oh this plan is rui-- "there you are!" I jumped and stick to the ceiling like a startled cat. I look below me, oh it's Gira. Phew. I let out a breath of relief, and floats down slowly.
"Oh..it's you" I paused "where is everyone?" I asked her. "Well the hunters arrived,, come on." She began to walk away gesturing me to follow her, "where did you go anyway?" She looks back, I shrugged "I was practicing my magic and climb some trees" Gira chuckles "yeah you look like it" I stopped in my tracks and look at my clothes. Oh it's dirty as hell, not only that, there's some sparkles left there from the cloak. I grimaced. I don't feel like cleaning it yet, maybe later.
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"Yikes, my dude" Muca said eyeing my clothes and my messed up hair. Decik snorted, "You look like you just fell off a cliff!" He laughs. I blushed and looks away "Whatever.." I grumbled. "Where's the food, I'm starving!" I immediately beamed, Saiya grabs my arm "Come on! Muca picked a good spot for us!" She started to drag me with her, the other following close behind. I wonder if she will ever stop dragging me.
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"And you're sure you little titans won't fall off?" I ask them with uncertainty. Saiya shrugs "well i fell once, and I'm still alive" Muca hissed through her teeth "yeah just barely. Ugh I can't get that image out of my head" Muca said in disgust. The baby titans shuddered, i wonder...I slowly walked to the edge of the cliff, I flinched when some claws grabbed my hand and pull me away. I look behind me with wide eyes "Don't you even think about it" Gira Hisses, there's some concern in her eyes and it makes me feel all...warm? I really should get used to someone worrying about me.
"Come on! The food is getting cold" Muca claps her paws gaining our attention. Gira let go, gave me a pointed look and walks towards Muca. I followed close behind "hey are we having another one of those weird worm looking fish?...beast? Yum! Those are the best!!" I said smiling widely. Saiya stared at me in disbelief "how could you say that?" She said.
We all sat down our legs crossed. Muca looks at me weirdly "Yeah, how could you say that? They're like--" she makes a gesture, "So-- slimy! They melt in your mouth!" Muca cried. I giggled "and that's why it's good!" I look down at the food, and frowned. "Hey where's the meat? It's all fruit!" I said accusingly, The baby titans minus Muca turned to stare at the pile of fruits. "What the--!?" Decik exclaimed "where's the meat!? We can't grow with stupid fruits!" Decik glares at Muca, who is frowning, "I don't know...the hunters said all the animals started reduced one by one" she said, I felt my heart dropped to my ass. "So we have to eat fruits for the time being." Muca Finished with a sigh.
Everything seems to spin around for me, it's coming, it's soon. It's soon. War? It's coming, I know This plan would work. I'm not going to be doomed centuries of false imprisonment. Oh stars it's only been a few days! It's coming so soon. Oh and I'm already attached to them, I shouldn't have. But, it'll be fun. Yeah it'll be fun! I'm sure it'll be fun! it'll be fu-- I felt a paw on my shoulder "collector?" I flinched at the sudden touch and immediately looks to my left. Gira. She looks so much like king. But She's way fluffier. Huh? Wait, what am i-
"Uh- yeah?" I asked her trying to break the silence. Gira looks at me with worry. And it makes my stomach turn. I don't like getting worried about. "Let's just eat" she says. We all started to eat the fruits in uncomfortable silence for me that is. Saiya seems like she's saying something, along with others, but I can't hear them. the sound of the wind whooshing,the waves crashing down upon the beaches is the only thing that can be heard. The fruit tastes bitter.
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Once we're done eating I excused myself and left.
I arrived in a cave and make a large rock as a stool and a hole as table on the wall, I snap my finger and books appears. I really need to learn biology again, if I need a grimwalker I need to understand biology. I really HATE biology. I really should've never skip that class, because I really REALLY need to know Human Biology. Hah, He won't tell a difference. A human like appearances is a good thing, I wouldn't want to understand my biology if I was other entity. Ugh that'll be disgusting. Anyways, I snap my finger again and a blue transparent rectangle appear beside me. I started to open the books and prays to the stars I'm able to understand this on my own fast. I grabbed the rectangle, expand it and started to hover it above the book. I flipped the pages and pressed the words from the rectangles perspective to copy and save it. It's like highlighting but more and less messy.
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Woah that passes like a blur. I look at the rectangle, oh, it's so full of words. How many have I read? I look to my right and I've already read 3 out of 4 books. Ugh, I grabbed the rectangle and angle it directly into my skull. Please don't hurt please work I have no idea what I'm doing but I hope I'm doing it right. I pressed the edge of the rectangle to my forehead, and slowly trying to absorb it. If taking a plants energy out of my magic would give ME Energy that is trapped in my magic, means that this would work just fine..right.?
I sighed and started to absorb it faster as my head slowly started to hurt from the informations. It's working! Yes! Ow ow! It hurts! Oh-- stars, ugh this is gonna give me a headache for days! Woah everything is spinning. I dropped the rectangle. My legs trembled
and I fell down the floor. I slowly lowers my body and lay face up on the floor. Vision blurry, mind spinning with overload informations, and my body somehow feeling 10x lighter than Normal. Ugh...I really should sleep..my eyelids slowly started to drop. I really should've slept last night.
A weird dream about the human anatomy is not a dream I was expecting. But Im glad I didn't forget.
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I slowly opened my eyes. Oh-- my head fucking hurts. I hissed through my teeth, and slowly sat up. I look at my hair, and it is a huge mess. I should really clean myself now, I'll do it later. Hmmm.. I lazily got up and walked towards the entrance of the cave. Wait. Oh yeah I almost forgot. I closed my eyes, opened them again and I was met with a cave with little stone guardians around them. It's really cute. But that's not what I was going to do.
I took a peek inside the cave, and was met with a ridiculous amount of eggs. It's impossible, it's only been 6 years, how are there so many already!? Ugh there's titans here, I have to make this quick. I slowly got closer to the nearest egg. I double tapped the egg and a small purple crescent moon appear on it, then it dissapears. Good. I look around me, okay they didn't notice yet. I hope they don't though, I closed my eyes and when I opened them again I was Infront of the river where the baby titans usually took a bath in.
I took my nightcap off and just jumped in the river. Yes, with my clothes. That's what I always do.
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"Why are you like this?" Decik looks at me with hopelessness as I am swimming with clothes and SHOES on. "What? *Gasps dramatically* You want to see my figure?" I said giving a teasing smirk, Saiya laughs and splashes me with water. Decik looks at me with disgust "W-What!? What is wrong with you!?" He yelled, his fur poofing just a bit. I just laughed, as I am trying my best not to get drowned by Gira,Saiya,and Decik.
Once we're done, we all got out of the river and I spun around, making all the water in my clothes flew in every direction practically getting some of them wet. Ignoring the protests Decik and Muca yelled at me.
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I scrub my clothes while in the water. They doesn't have any soap which is very uncomfortable, I still can't get used to living without modern things. And I wear clothes while taking a bath, because it feels...WRONG to yk...i know this is my body now but, this isn't my-MY body. well atleast some of the dirt is gone though. I put my head in the water and scrub my hair. I find it amazing that I don't need to breathe at all, but I still do cause old habits die hard you know? I got my head out of the water and slowly walks my way to the edge.
I smack my hands together and closed my eyes, I can feel my clothes getting dry. I sat on a rock,clapped twice and a light purple brush with many white moon accessories appear in my right hand. I look at my hair in hope this won't be too long, I grabbed my hair and started to brush it. The longest 6 minutes of my life.
When I'm finally done, I let out a breath of relief, and the brush dissapears with a silly sound. It cheered me up. A tiny bit. Like a piece of rice bit. I stood up, and I actually felt more refreshed than ever. Hm. And I feel colder, I like this feeling. I closed my eyes and opened them again Im Infront of the cave where we usually sleep in, only to see that nothing is there. There's no titans. Only the nest, I tried not to freak out and instead find them. But...where? I still don't know how to sense mortals, and that's really REALLY frustrating.
I felt like I'm about to cry. But that's not happening now, I have to find them. "Stars please, I don't want To have a breakdown right now" I whispered tiredly to myself. I run a finger through my hair. This has been a stressful day.
I decided to just stay in the nest, I need a rest. This is so stressful. I really need a break from all this. I lazily walks in and dropped on the nest where the titans were. As I was about to close my eyes and finally rest. I remember something that made me wanting deaths embrace more than ever. "My fucking night cap! ughhhhh" I groaned loudly. I pull my hair and kicked my feet in frustration, and started to sob quietly. I hate this. I stopped pulling my hair and my feet also stopped. I let out a long tired suffering sigh, and just tell myself 'ill do it later' and closed my eyes. I want to remember a dream.
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"Collector?" I heard a soft whisper. "Collector wake up" I felt a paw shaking my arm. I grumbled and slowly opened my eyes. "Come on you have to wake up" came another soft whisper. "Wake up you idiot!" I raspy voice yelled, okay that's Decik for sure. I am ANNOYED. But I have to do this. I slowly sat up and rubs my eyes "whatt??" I yawned. I blinked a few times trying to adjust my vision.
"We need help with something" said Gira. I looked at her and got off the nest to stretch "what is it?" I asks her. "Well...we were wondering if you ever saw Nao anywhere...Saiya is starting to freak out" Gira said with a worried look. I look at her in Confusion "..No" I said slowly "why? Did something... happened?" I ask hesitantly. The baby titans looks at eachother in panic "w-well..He went missing.." Muca Said voice shaky. My heart sank. "A-and My mother too..." Muca said getting teared up. Fuck. It's coming. "Yeah...we were wondering if you perhaps know where they are..or if you've seen them anywhere.." Gira said.
"No..I haven't seen them, I was asleep the whole day.." I said, trying to stay calm. I put on a confused mask. "..is that why Saiya isn't here?" Decik glares at me "Duh!" He rolled his eyes. I think I have to tell them this. I have to. "..I think it's those titan trappers that the adults keep talking about" the baby titans looks at me in shock, "...What's that?" Muca said hesitantly "f-from what I heard, it's a group of titan killers..." The baby titans looks traumatized. Poor them, that's funny. Decik Curled his paws into a fist "you're saying Mucas mother, Saiyas brother and MY cousin are Killed!?" Decik yelled in rage, he looks hurt. I look at them with pity. They started to cry. I want to cry too, but I can't. They do it for me instead. It's kind of funny actually.
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"...should we tell Saiya about this..?" I asks Muca once she stopped crying. Gira ran off to tell her father and Decik walks out after almost beating me to pulp saying 'you don't know what you're talking about' repeatedly. So it's just me and Muca standing in awkward silence. Muca shook her head and sat down "I'll tell her later." She mumbled. Her eyes look dull. So....empty, like mine. "...hey maybe you can stay with Saiya, or Decik for the time being.." I suggested weakly. My tounge is as heavy as a fucking planet.
Silence...
This is so fucking awkward. I don't know how to comfort people.
"Everything is gonna be fine" I know it won't. They're doomed to die, it's a lie. She doesn't seem to hear me as she keeps hugging her leg while staring off to space. I sighed, "well..I'm gonna go find Saiya..Stay here" I said while stiffly walking out of the cave.
Once I'm out I immediately screamed in my hand. Because what the fuck was I doing!? That was awful! I'm so embarrassed. You know what, they don't matter. They don't matter at all. No. They're doomed to die. No matter what I will do. This is a canon event it's not like I can just convince the other archivists to change their mind, no, I'm not fucking Steven universe. Besides they're probably gonna manipulate me, gaslight me or deflecting every questions. But...that made me wonder, why does they sent their youngest here? It's like....oh.
Oh.
OH.
Ouch.
Can't say I didn't predict that, I have a lot of theories on why i got sent instead of the professional ones like Uranus. Guess the second theory is right after all. The only thing they see about me is a pawn. I won't fall for their trick. No. I WONT. But...what if I ended up being wrong? I mean...my prediction are correct most of the time, and I have a very good intuition. But still, what if they're just actually giving me a mission instead of just a plan to get me framed? They know about my intelligence, heck sun is always creepy about it! Fuck.
Okay I know I have a huge target on my back right now, because there is NO way that the titans never met the archivists before. Lord KNOWS something is off. Because I see the titan trappers, they're small as fuck even though they're bigger than me in my original height. I have a feeling lord knows they can't just take a life of a full grown titan. And now he's suspicious of me. He probably knows I'm apart of the archivists, ugh why can't I remember theories about the collectors backstory when I needed it!? This isn't good. I need materials ASAP.
I closed my eyes, sensing my energy, it's faint. What? You know what it doesn't matter. I opened my eyes, and I am Infront of the cave I use to study in. I walk through the Vines covering half of the cave and immediately sneezes when I enter. It's full of dust, whatever, I'm not gonna question why there's suddenly vines covering it. this doesn't matter, none of this Matter. I walk towards my stack of books and sat down. I push the biology books to the floor. This doesn't matter. None of this matter. I snapped my finger and a scroll with a titan egg as the seal appear in front of me. I need to put this somewhere else, I can't just put this in my mindscape, it got in the way of my thinking. Maybe later. I sighed and put it beside me for now.
I clapped twice and a stack of books appears Infront of me, almost taking all the space and 7 scroll with a Eclipse symbol as the seal. I blinked and a blue and purple rectangles appear beside me. I need to work. Im not good under pressure, but I have to suck it up if I want this to work. With a sigh I immediately grabbed a book and hover the rectangles above it.
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"What is this?" I ask the newly existed grimwalker copy of me. It just babbles something, this is annoying, I slapped it and it suddenly melts. Ugh! I'll try again. I said looking at the leftover materials.
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"What is this?" I touched it's shoulder. Its eyes move! Yes! Progress! "El....bow..." It weakly mutter. AND it can talk! Fascinating. I need to write this down. A green rectangle appears besides me and I started to write with my finger on it. Oops, almost forgot. I made the ground suck it back. Its too stupid to know it's going to die.
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"Hm...what is this?" I touched its arm. Its eyes moves to look at my hand, "My..Arm.." it says, this is GREAT progress! "And..what is this?" I ask touching its shoulder "My..shoulder" I nod encouragingly while furiously taking notes at everything. "And....what is this?" I ask touching its neck. It suddenly stops, and suddenly it looks like a zombie, with its mouth wide open and its eyes wide. Well, atleast it's something. The grounds suddenly pulls it in. It tries to scream.
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This is getting frustrating. This is the 9th grimwalker. "What is this?" I said getting bored, "My..Arm" it replied. I moved my hands and touched its shoulder "what is this?" I ask. The grimwalker looks at my arm "my shoulder" oh! "What is this?" I said slowly having hope. "My leg" it replied with no problem at all. Okay. "What is this?" I ask. "My forehead" it replies. "Stand up" I commands, the grimwalker slowly got on its feet. And stands, this can't be real. It legs wobbles just a bit and then....it stands normally! finally! "Oh! That's good!" I praised it, it gives a tiny smile.
"Walk" I commands it again. And it walks! This is gre-- it immediately fell. Oh. I look at it blankly. It looks up at me with fear. "I thought you would be better than the other ones." I said in dissapointment "well...too bad." I shrugged as the ground started to suck the grimwalker back. It started to panic and frantically tried to grab onto something. And it screams died down.
This is stupid. But I can't give up just yet.
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Questions after questions after questions. Please. Work just this once.
"Walk" I commands. It did what it's told, good. "Run around this cave twice" It looks at me for a while before doing what it's told. Ugh, I really don't wanna get my hopes up. "Jump 3 times" it did. Without falling or tripping on air. Okay I think this might work. "What is your name?" I ask. It put on a thinking pose "The collector" it answers. "What is your second secret name?" I ask. It put another thinking pose and and put its hand on its hips "the observer" it answers. I smiled satisfied "very good...no one actually made it far other than you" I gave it a bright smile, and it smiles back. Even though it looks confused.
"Come on" I gesture it to follow me. And it did, "you won't remember this happening." I said. The grimwalker looks confused before it faints.
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It woke up, finally. "Oh my Stars! You're awake!" I said hugging it, it yelped "wha-?" It said confused "come on! Let's go play" I said looking at it dead in the eye then started to grab it by the hand. "..Who are you?" It ask hesitantly trying to pull away from my grip. I paused and look at it "you...you don't remember..me..?" It shakes its head "i- I'm your twin! You really don't remember..me?" I said getting teary eyed. It widened its eyes "Oh-- uh- yeah o-ofcourse I remember!" It splutters. I beamed "ah! Okay then! Come on let's go play with my friends" I dragged it out of the cave.
"Heyyyy you know, you shouldn't cut your hair...because where's the fun in that?" I grinned "let them stay confused! They won't tell a difference between us" I laughed, the grimwalker looks uncomfortable. Who cares? None. "Y-yeah sure, that's fun" it replied. Boring. "Hey! you're still as boring as ever are you" I scoff "I thought fainting will make you change some of your personality" I look at it "booo! That's why you wont have any friends!" I pushed it playfully. It stumbles back "oh yeah! I almost forgot something" I snap my finger and a small yellow star appears, I gave it to it "this will guide you back, you will meet my friends! I have to do something first" I immediately left, ignoring how the word 'friend' left a bitter taste in my mouth.
Once I made sure I'm out of its sight, I sigh, okay now I hope this stupid grimwalker won't mess up because it will blow my cover.
Now...let's just see how all of this goes.
Notes:
I'm actually so nervous rn this is so boring to me. And its long too. I'm super sorry
Oh and yes. I always think you have to be smart to have magic, and I absolutely dislike how stupid collector is LMAOOO sorry
Oh and also here's an art of eclipse. https://www.tumblr.com/luvuuuuu11111/747915622339510272/lmao-i-drew-eclipse?source=share
Chapter 5
Summary:
New trauma added
(Oh and === means changing POV)
Notes:
I get mean when I'm nervous like a bad dog
(I love mitski)
Pssst...here's an art.
https://www.tumblr.com/luvuuuuu11111/748280577967505408/realization-ft-moon-jupiter-and-saturn?source=share
Chapter Text
Stupid grimwalker with its stupid lopsided lungs. When I first let it go into the wilderness, it fucked up instantly. Why? Oh ho ho it immediately got beaten up by Decik because it asks where's the other titans! I swear I planted a memory of the titans dissapearing in its stupid little brain. I ask myself 'hey why won't i just make a new one?' NO. The ingredients are GONE. The materials are GONE. The books are GONE. The fucking scrolls are GONE. why you may ask?? HAHA it's Saturn! stupid fucking Saturn! So now I'm stuck with a stupid grimwalker with a slightly misplaced lungs!
I swear to the stars I will eat it alive. But it's pretty good at gaslighting people into thinking its eyes are always magenta, But no, unfortunately its important in its own way. That's kinda corny. I chuckled humorlessly. BUT staying in the cave, the entrance fully covered in vines and haven't felt the sunlight in DAYS is actually pretty good! Yep, what do I do in the cave you may ask? Stalking AND decorating. How can I stalk? I don't have my nightcap no more. It went missing. Wellllllll I just discovered a solution! With my hair! It's gross but literally who cares right???? I let out a laugh.
I sighed and frowned. what's happening to me? I shook my head, no! This isn't the time to be all depressed. "UGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" I groaned loudly. "Cool, cool, I'm actually gonna start crying right now" I said with a smile. Why is everything unfocused!? "ARGH! who cares!?" I growled. I sat down on my bed, I tried to replicate it by using my shitty memories of the collectors bed from the show. I lay down on it, and started to cover my face with my hair.
"--ag!!" I Heard when I opened my eyes again, "its not fair! You're cheating you're definitely cheating!" The copy pouts, Gira chuckles "nope, you're just bad at it" Gira said smugly before running away "you can't catch mee!!" She singsongs away. The copy-- you know what, I'm giving it a name. Hm... collector. I'll be observer. Brilliant. Collector Laughs before chasing after her.
Wait... where's the others? I felt dread and worry pools on my stomach. Ughh I shouldn't have slept to get rid of these eye bags, now collector just instantly lost Muca, Decik AND Saiya.
They're gone?
They're gone..?
They're gone.
Wait, Why do I care so much? They don't matter. I sniffles. This is stupid..
I REALLY want canon to start, Because like...I have to wait THOUSANDS of years. I want to meet the main characters! I can't wait for centuries! You know what!? Fine I'll leave this cave and go outside. I got up from my bed, snapping my finger to make my hair fixed and walked to the entrance. Right when I was about to get rid of the vines, I paused. Wait, this will blow my cover.
If I get out maybe other creatures will see me and snitch on me, or a titan passed by and saw me OR the baby titans will saw me and will began questioning! If they see me they will question on why there's 2 of me, it's bad because I never mentioned to any titan I have a twin. Maybe I could...but that's too late, I can't just call my cop-- collector here, it will make it like its gonna have a secret mission to commit genocide on the titans. Which is true...partly.
"Everything is so confusing" I murmurs. I walk back to my bed and cover my eyes with my hair again.
"--rincess of the titans!" I heard Gira exclaimed. The collector looks confused "but..you ARE a princess" it said, Gira rolled her eyes "I know!" She puts her paws on her hips, Collector chuckles, "Alright! I can be a...hm...a knight!" The collector strike a pose. "My humble, amazing,and loyal knight" Gira said dramatically "will you promise to protect me till the end of time?" Gira put her paws on her chest. The collector grinned "I pinky promise oh princess of the titans!" Gira stuck out...on what supposed to be her pinkie? And the collector did the same. Their pinkie intertwined with eachother and they both laughed happily.
I never cringed this hard in my entire life.
It's cute but...no. just no. This is embarrassing.
"Hey collector?" I heard Gira, the collector turns to look at her "what is it?" It asks. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" She asks. Ouch, kinda funny. The collector shrugs "I...don't know, I haven't decided yet.." it paused "what about you?" It asks back, Gira eye-smiles "I would be the next ruler when I'm big..I'm going to rule the titans for hundreds of years! I'm gonna be the first queen" she says with pride. What? "My family ruled the titans for almost 7 hundred years now.." what. "He said i will be next when he..." She stopped "A-Anyways, tell me about your siblings" she said trying to change the topic, the collector seems oblivious "uhm... they're nice..sometimes, they're really powerful! If it weren't for them, I wouldn't have met you guys!" it answers happily. Yuck. Compliments.
Gira chuckles softly "do you think I could meet them?" She asks, collector nods. "Of course! I'll take you to them right now if you want" The collector said. I hate that fucking grimwalker. "Really?" She says surprised, collector giggled "yeah!" Gira looks excited, but then she suddenly falters. "Maybe tomorrow..? Because my dad told me to go back early right now.." she said upset. Collectors smile slowly fell from its face. "Oh..sure, can we meet up here?" It says hopeful, "of course!" Gira hugs collector. "See you tomorrow!" She let go of the hug and ran off. "By--"
I push my hair from my face with a whine. Now I have to wait for that--- uh.. collector to come back.
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"Oh my lovable twin.." I said sweetly,circling it "what were you thinking of inviting her to my secret hiding spot!?" I raised my voice as I grip its shoulder, making it tensed up. I soften my voice "i already told you we're playing hide and seek" i sighed "you're soooo boringgggg...I miss the old you.." I whined and looked away. "But-" "someone who ASKS for PERMISSION!" I interrupt it.
"But- i-i didn't know! I'm sorry" it weakly replied "Nobody likes a cheater, let alone a LIAR" I said glaring at it. Okay maybe I'm being a hypocrite but... This is necessary. "But I'm not a liar!" It denied. I sighed "well...as you know I am the BETTER twin, you're the bad one." I said "aaanddd... because I'm better, I have a gift for your uselessness!" I hugged it. I ignored how it flinched.
I snap my finger and 2 baby titan skull appears in my hand, "Ta-Daaaaa!!!" I exclaimed. The collector stared at it in shock, realization then horror "..wh-" "Come on! Wear it" I said picking up a skull and shoved it in its hand. I picked up the other one and wear it in my head, I felt sick. But this is necessary. "Look at me! I'm a titan, RAAAH" I tried to imitate a titans roar, "come on! Put it on" I put my hand on my hips.
Its hands shook as it stiffly puts it on and stays silent "sooooo.....do you like the gift??" I said holding its hand, it nodded numbly. I beamed, "ah! Of course you would, I'm the BEST at gifts" I said puffing out my chest. I opened my arms inviting it for a hug, "bring it in for the best twin in the history of twins!" It stiffly walks towards me and hugged me. When its about to push me away, I frowned and hug it tighter making it Yelp "Siblings and friends are supposed to hug eachother. Don't. Push. Me. Away." I said lowering my voice. The copy oblige.
I kind of feel bad, but it's necessary.
I can't believe I just did that.
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"Hey... observer, I just dig the hole..like you asked me to do" it says. I hum and continue reading my books. "Y-" it cuts itself off and just sighed. Is it really expecting a thank you?? No. That hole will be its grave when it falls apart.
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"Observer? Can we play?" It asks. "No" I replied bluntly. "Please! Just this once! We never played with each othe--" It begs, I slam my books down and it immediately silenced collector. I sent a glare at it "can't you see I'm busy!?" I yelled. I sighed "Go play with the titans. Or by yourself I don't care!" I said harshly. I think it left.
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"Lovable twin!!!!!" I singsongs, observer looks at me "what is it?" It asks. "Why do you hate me!? We're siblings we're supposed to love each other!" I said getting teary eyed. It splutters "but- you said you have something to do-- and- and- you said you were too busy! S-so I didn't wanna bother you! I'm sorry!!" its hand began to shake "admit it! You hate me! Well you know what!? I hate you too!" I yelled and left. Ignoring its pleas.
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I hugged the collector "let's destroy everything on our path!" I cackle manically. Despite the confusion, The collector joins in on the laughter. "I hate you!" I said cheerily. The collector stops laughing.
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"Hmm.... collector? I thought you went out to get me some food" I said with a smile. It smiles back. It looks SO fake. "Well...I tried, but the titans told me I have to finish my food" it said quietly. "Is that so?" I walks towards it "are you really this selfish? I gave everything for you to survive, and this is how you repay me?" I sighed "you're fucking useless." I look away.
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"Collector!!!" I hugged it. "I love you SOOO much! You're the best twin I've ever ask for!" I said cooing it. It looks VERY uncomfortable, but hesitantly hugged back, "Have I told you how much I love you?" I looked at its eyes, with wide and innocent eyes.
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"Can we please play together?" It asks "please! We can play tag! We can play Marbles! We can play so many games together!" I hum, "how about... NO!" I said harshly "never EVER bother me ever again. Can't you see what I'm doing?! I'm trying to get us back to the stars!" Lie. And lie. "But it's gotta be boring! Studying all day, researching all da--"
SLAP
"Don't you ever say that again."
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"Whatcha doing?" It looks at my board with curiosity "this, my dearest" I paused "is the place where I put EVERY thought I have in my brain" I said crossing my arms with a Smile. It got closer and began to closely investigate the board "what is this red stuff?" It asks "this, is how I connect my thoughts, Like.." I pointed to a crappy drawing of a archivist "this Cloak person is connected to..." I followed the red string connected to it, its eyes following my finger "..this!" I pointed to another crappy drawing of a supernova. "Then! Its connected to..." I followed the red string connected to a small drawing of me "..this! Pretty cool eh?" I said proudly. The grimwalker hums "this is so...BORING!" It said immediately taking a crayon out of nowhere and began scribbling on the board. "what are you doing!?" I cried as it continues trying to...make a ribbon out of the strings!? "Hey! Stop it!" I pushed it away, it landed on the ground with a 'oomph' as I stare at the board in horror.
The board now have a alot of drawings of the stars, doodles and random lines. I immediately forgot almost everything.
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I started to notice there's atleast 5 titans left now. I can feel myself go cold.
"Collector!" I called out, "yes observer?" It walks towards me, I give a cheeky smile "wanna play a game?" Collector beamed "of course!!! Uh...let's play tag! Jenga! Marbles! Ohhh we can pla--" I cut off its ramblings "let's play hide and seek!" I exclaimed. It looks surprised for a bit before nodding excitedly "oh! Hide and seek! I love that game!" It said jumping in place. "Okay..you hide and I'll seek, since I'm the BEST at this game, you go out there and see if a titan wants to help you!" I said lifting a chin up. "Hmph! I'll win.." it replied smugly. I turned around "okay! One...." It immediately got out of the cave, somehow slipping through the Vines. Eh that doesn't matter. "Two...." The footsteps are starting to dissapear.
I sighed, good its finally gone. I sat down And started to wonder, what the fuck does Gira means by 7 hundred years!? It's only been 6 in mortal years..oh. OH. I'm a fucking idiot..so that means..a year in space..is 300 years in here!? Does that mean this planet is 600+ years old? That doesn't make any sense! Fine whatever. Ugh. That explains A LOT on why there's so many titans. wait, does that mean I'm basically 300 years? Oh wow I'm old. Too bad I'm still a newborn.
I should probably ask for a new nightcap. I snap my finger and a small yellow star appears, with a faint sun symbol in the center. I took it in my hands "hey..sun, uh...can I have another nightcap? I lost it.." I said sheepishly. ".. please?" I add quietly. I let go of the star, tap the center and it flies off. Now I have to wait.
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I lost track of time. I really need to take A peek outside and maybe keep an eye on the grimwalker. I got off the floor and walk towards the bed and immediately fell face first. Making sure my hair covers my eye.
I opened my eyes again and was met with the grimwalker calling out Giras name. Oh, its waiting for her. Too bad. Im positive she's dead. Well.. seeing someone suffering is kind of fun.
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"Gira?" I called out, I tried to tell her that I need her help with hide and seek! Well... because observer have a power to see everything, which is unfair on my end.. BUT i remember when he told me titans cancelled out his magic so if I get a help from a titan he can't see me! Which means, I have a higher chance at winning!
Hm...maybe she's at the cave...I took a look around one last time before going to the direction of the cave where most of the baby titans usually is.
Where did the other titans go? Is it...no, no he wouldn't do stuff like that...I think, he's a good person! He took care of me and...
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....and gave me company...I think, doesn't matter! I love him. He's my twin. And.."siblings are supposed to love eachother" I murmurs, reciting what he told me days ago.
This is weird...I arrived at the cave to see nothing, nothing at all. Only an empty cave...and bones. Wait. BONES!? Without thinking I immediately ran off to find her dad. The king of the titans. Lord.
Where did they go!? He wouldn't right? They're his friends! He told me they're his friends! He wouldn't take them! He wouldn't! He wouldn't make them dissapear! It's not fair! He couldn't have taken them! He wouldn't. He couldn't! He just told me the titans cancelled out his magic and that's it! Is he... afraid of them? He's friends with them! Why would he be afraid if he's friends with the titans? Wait...the bones! His 'gift'! He took their bones! And maybe he IS afraid of the titans! He make them dissapear because he's scared, because they cancelled out his star magic! This isn't FAIR! HE'S A LIAR! A LIAR! AND NOBODY LIKES A LIAR!
I went to the last hill to look for a giant titan roaming around somehow there's water and it's HOT, but... there's no titans roaming around! Where did they go!? Where did he take them!? I turned around and was met with..."LORD!" I exclaimed, relief washed over me as I quickly got closer to him "Lord! The baby titans went missing! I didn't know where they are! I tried to look for them and they weren't there! I wanted to play hide and seek with them do you..." I trailed off when we make eye contact. The fury in his eyes. It sent a shiver down my spine.
"What did you do?" His booming voice growled as he looks down at me. Small. Pathetic. And useless. "I-i swear I had nothing to do with this! It's my sibling!" I yelled. In fear I took a step back "please! You have to believe me! I-I just wanted to play!" My voice cracks.
"You know nothing of the world around you. You are a CHILD. You know NOTHING of morality. And YOUR hand holds the responsibility of the dissapearance of my entire species. My family." Multiple unfamiliar symbols started to surround me.
What is that symbol!? "W-what is happening!?" I chokes out as the symbol surrounding me started to stick to me, the air pressure increases. It's getting hard to breathe. Lord took out an...orb??? What is THAT!? I let out a grunt of frustration as I try to move, just a single MOVE. WHY CAN'T I MOVE!? I made a choked sound at my attempt to speak. ANYTHING. WHY CANT I SPEAK!?
"This is my world and I won't let you ruin it any longer. My child will be hidden by the likes of you, till my dying breath I will not let you roam around freely."
The orb started to suck me in..SUCK ME IN!? It dragged my leg, I tried to speak. Another chokes sound at my attempt at speaking again. Why can't I move!? "I-" I choked out. The orb started to surround me and flattens. Is it trying to crush me!? It HURTS IT HURTS IT HURTS-- I can't feel anything! What is he doing!? I look at my leg. That's not my leg! My leg isn't black and look like tha-- I can feel my arm getting CRUSHED. my body. My Head. Then..
Nothing.
I opened my eyes and..I'm in an orb!? Why can't I feel!? I can't feel anything! I started to pound on the orb in panic, I yelled, at anything. Anyone. But it fell on deaf ears. I'm alone. I can't feel myself hitting on the orb. My prison. "LET ME OUT!" I screeched.
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I stared wide eyed. Frozen. And absolutely flabbergasted. Oh my god that could've been me. Lord picks up the mirror and SHOVED it in his skull. Multiple blue blood trickled down his forehead. The hill they stand on started to collapse, as lord goes into the boiling sea and lay down. Ouch that might've hurt. His arm fully extended to his side and his leg fully extended, the other leg bent.
Lord let out a sigh of relief, and he closed his eyes.
What the fuck was that. This is some live leak bullshit.
I stood up from my bed and get rid of my hair from my eyes.
"What the fuck was that"
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Well...if you ask what he is feeling after that...what he'll reply to you is: strangely calm
Which is weird because he's now feeling extreme guilt but won't ever EVER admit it.
He took a shuddering breath and walks out of the cave, good thing the cave he chose is on a high place or the cave will probably drown by now. He looks around him and found the corpse. Gir-- Kings dad corpse. Ugh it's gonna take YEARS for it to decompose. He is impatient, and is angry. But He doesn't know who or what he's angry at.
He feels a lot of eyes looking at him, he look at the sky with a grin and of course. It's sun, and maybe the others too. He also waved at the sky to maybe piss off some of them.
His chest feels heavy. But he doesn't care, the grimwalker meant NOTHING to him. The titans meant NOTHING to him. they don't matter at all. Atleast that's what he told himself.
He summons a small yellow star and immediately grabbed it, "Sun? Yeah I know you can see me and you know I already did my job, whatever, can you pick me up pleaseeeee?" His voice is sickeningly sweet after committing false imprisonment,fraud,theft, kidnapping, framing, and...is cloning a crime?
Not that he cares or anything, infact, he felt a lot better after finding out he did those.
...Okay maybe a tiny bit of guilt.
It doesn't matter right? Everything's fine. Now all he does is wait till sun or the other to come pick him up, And maybe get a new mission.
He sighed, he knows damn well bottling up all his emotions, and stress will come back tenfold. He can't distract himself forever.
But He doesn't care! None of it matter anyways. He laughed weakly.
He let out a small sigh and took a seat near the cave, waiting. Which for your information, is annoying and BORING. but he have to suck it up. Time will pass anyways.
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after hours of identity crisis, he can feel a really powerful energy, and he immediately knew who. It's the archivist.
He looked up "Uranus!" He exclaimed. He quickly got up and stands politely. Uranus sighs "come on eclipse" they held out their hand, inviting him to sit on it. And he did.
"Hey did I do good?" He asked Uranus as they made their way back to to the archive house. Uranus nods "you did great" they replied, he smiles brightly "am I gonna have another mission? This is actually pretty fun!" He lays down at their hand, Uranus hums "we'll see.." they answered. He mentally insults Uranus for being Awkward.
His smile dropped "Hey Uranus...why do you guys take the titans away?" He asks them "...you already knew why" they replied. He frowned "...no, no I don't." He says, Uranus stays silent "..but should they meddle with our affairs.." they trailed off, he looked away ".. we'll clean the planet and scorch the air... whatever." He grumbled. He KNOWS he shouldn't show vulnerability, he just doesn't care.
They both made their way back in uncomfortable silence.
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"Oh You're here" grumbled Moon. Saturn immediately grabbed him and tried to hug him, which is literally CRUSHING him against their chest "Oh stars! You're alright!" They said in relief "Are you okay? Did the titans do something to your core? Are your powers weakened? Do you need me to lend you some?" They said as they frantically inspect him.
He's in shock, he definitely didn't expect this at all, But he quickly recovered "well..not really-" he says shyly, "you're right Saturn, his powers are weakened" Jupiter said from behind, Saturn turns to look at them in shock "so the titans did do something to him" Moon noted. Saturn looks at him with wide eyes "This is Awful! Come on Eclipse let's fix you up" they said holding him in their hand delicately and walks away.
When they're gone, moon,Jupiter, and Neptune share a glance with eachother. Moon crossed their arms "they're insane." Their tone monotone followed by nods of agreement by the others. Jupiter then looks at moon curiously "I have a question for you,moon" Moon turns to look at jupiter and raised a brow "what is it?" They asked, "I'm just curious on why you didn't inform Eclipse about leaving that planet, perhaps you know about the possibility on what would happen to our youngest if he didn't figure it out on his own." They said with an edge on their tone that made Moon tensed up "I... sincerely apologize" they said with a low voice. Jupiter shook their head "we'll have a talk about your behavior for these past years" they said. Jupiter turns to look at Neptune, who stood there awkwardly since the beginning. "Inform Sun about Eclipses Arrival" Neptune nods before teleporting away.
Jupiter looks at moon and walks away with Moon following shamefully behind.
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Saturn brought him into the preserver room and put him on the table.
"Come on, you like mortal foods right? Here you go" Saturn said after summoning a small Saturn shaped cookie made out of their energy. Eclipse nervously grabbed one and ate it, he immediately widen his eyes after swallowing it, He suddenly felt a lot stronger and more energetic than before. "Wow, this is good! Thanks Saturn" he says with a impossibly wide smile, Saturn smiles back "it's fine eclipse, so, tell me, What did you collect?" They sat down on a chair.
He took a glance around and realized he's in a table instead of a chair "well...I got this" he snap his finger and a scroll with a egg symbol appears. Saturn gasped softly "a titan egg" they breathed out. his nervousness washed away by pride "mhm! And this" 2 baby titan skull appears besides him, Saturn smiles "delightful! Eclipse, this is great news!" They grabbed the scroll and the skulls. "Fascinating...a titan egg and their skull...I can't wait to study it" Eclipse widen his eyes "wait- are you gonna crack it?" He yelled.
Saturn looks at him "well..how else am I gonna study it?" They raised a brow. Eclipse flushed "uh- i- well.." he stuttered, plan failed abort abort abort abort. "I...wanna be friends with it when it hatches.." he admitted quietly, Saturn sighs "no, that's not possible" they said opening the scroll and a titan egg appears in their hand "the titans are dangerous beasts" a pillow appears on the table "the titans were an accident, they're not supposed to exist" they placed the egg on top of the pillow "it's up to us, the archivists to take care of their mistakes and all their creations that are no longer needed" they finished swiftly changing the topic, He looks at Saturn curiously, he knows they're trying to change the topic, but curiosity got the better of him "who's 'they'?" He questions as saturn grabs a jar "The makers, I'm surprised Sun didn't tell you about them" they murmurs the last bit.
Before he could say another word They both hear the door opening gaining both of their attention. Saturn frowns "speak of the devil.." they Mumbled "how many times do I have to tell you all to knock before entering my workplace!?" They said frustrated. "Ah..I apologize Saturn" Sun says calmly before turning to eclipse with a smile "but I'm here for him" Eclipse tensed up and look at Saturn nervously, Saturn gave a reassuring nod.
Eclipse hesitantly floats towards sun, he mentally cursed himself for not putting up his mask. Sun held out their hand and he stands on it, sun then turns around and left the preserver room.
"So...what do you need me for?" He questions as they walk down the large hall "let's talk...I must say, your performance was brilliant. Though I don't appreciate being treated like a fool" They said with an unreadable expression. "I..I'm sorry, I won't do it again" he says looking away, he doesn't know what he's apologizing for he just felt like he have to. Sun gave a small smile "Very well, tell me Everything that has happened during your mission" they said calmly.
Eclipse shifted "well...I made friends with the titans aandd....i got titan eggs for Saturn" he took a glance at Sun "...and I made a grimwalker" he said slowly "but you probably already know that" he added awkwardly. "What is your purpose on making a grimwalker hm?" "I... needed to test something" he replied. He can feel them observing his every move, it sent a shiver down his spine.
"And what is it?" They pressed. They know they're close to getting their answer. "I..I thought you guys are using me as a scapegoat..and using a mission as an excuse so I made one to see you guys reaction" he blurted out. Sun stays silent. Only their footsteps can be heard in the hallways. The silence is slowly killing him.
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Sun bursted out laughing. Eclipse flushed "W-What!?" His voice cracked. They kept laughing, eclipse frowned and crossed his arms, shifting in place as he tried his best to distract himself from this embarrassing situation.
Sun stops laughing with a small sigh "Don't be ridiculous.." They shook their head with a smile "we would never do that to our little one" they said softly. Eclipse felt angry, because he knows damn well they did that to the collector in canon. He put on his mask and widened his eyes "so... you're not actually tricking me?" He says carefully.
"Of course not, what makes you think otherwise?" Sun stared at him. Eclipse took a moment to process everything "well..." He doesn't know what to say, he doesn't know if sun is lying or not, they're one of the hardest to read, he doesn't know, and it annoys him to death.
Sun chuckling snaps him out of his spiraling thoughts "let me tell you something.." they said "you and moon actually had the same mission, we told them to bring you back first because I realized how dangerous the titans are" they told him, he listens intently "I assumed they didn't inform you about it because of how late you are" they sighed.
"Are you..saying moon tried to get rid of me?" He said slowly. Sun nods. He doesn't know what to feel, he's just-- confused and so so angry. On why moon Hates him this much to even try to get rid of him. His hands curled into a fist. Sun seems calm, its like they're planned all of this, they expected his reactions, everything. He looked away in discomfort.
"We're here" sun says. Eclipse forced himself to relax and look forward seeing his room. "I'll have a talk with moon, stay here alright?" They said, He nods before numbly opens the door and closed it.
He looked at his room, it's the same as before, but less messy. The cottons and dusts from a year ago are cleaned and the toys are all sorted out, The books are stacked neatly in the bookshelf, and his bed are fixed. He sighs at the familiar place and floats into the bed and fell face first. He doesn't care. None of it matters, he need to sleep. He lets out a long suffering sigh and closed his eyes. he missed her
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He opened his eyes, he didn't feel like waking up.
Notes:
Sorry it's short. I tried. Sorry it's getting boring too btw
Chapter 7
Summary:
Lore and punishment???
Chapter Text
He's currently in the library with 3 reasons.
1: he wants company.
2: he wants to keep an eye on the titan planet to see if demons and witches started existing.
3: Sun told him to.
Since Jupiter seems so have always be found in the library, he (finally) doesn't feel lonely when he entered a room.
Just as he was taking a quick look at the planet with the giant crystal ball in the library, he asked Jupiter on why it's so massive and they replied 'it used to be a marble that sun and I used to play with until sun discovered they can see things in it' which surprised him because that used to be a MARBLE!? you know what, he better have Suns genetics because he want to be tall, heck he's not even as big as their toes! The height differences here is ridiculous-- wait focus!
Anyways he noticed something unusual "uhh...Jupiter?" He called out. "What is it?" They said from the other side of the room.
"Why is the water boiling? Like-- I know it's already boiling because of my arrival but, it's not THIS bad because it's been raining almost for eternity!" He asks.
"Oh, Sun did it. Something about wanting to eliminate any creatures that's possibly going to exist with the boiling thing and the acid rain" they kept their eyes on the book.
He look at the crystal ball in shock. He realized another thing. "Why is the water higher?" He frowned "did sun do this?"
"It was Moon. Oh and eclipse I'm sure you've noticed I've been trying to read here, please be a good little sibling and do not distract me" they said flipping a page.
He looked away with a grunt and got off the platform. He looked at Jupiter warily before wandering through the library (haha that rhymes I think)
"Uh uh where do you think you're going?" He flinched at the voice, he hate that tone so much. He looked back to Jupiter "well...I need to find something" he frowned "you remember the last time you wander the library alone?" They glared. He looked down in shame "...can you atleast tell me the history of the archivists? ...Or else" his tone low. Jupiter raised a brow "Or else what?" They challenged.
"Uh- I'll run away and then you'll be in trouble because sun told you to take care of me!" He shot back with a smug smile. Jupiters glare deepens, and Eclipse is freaking out on the inside. They put down their book "You dare to threaten me?" They said harshly, eclipse almost flinched.
He didn't falter, instead he kept glaring back at them. The silence between them is suffocating for him.
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Jupiter bursted out laughing and eclipse let out a small breath of relief. "What is with old people doing this stuff.." he grumbled. "It's actually fun, come on eclipse I'll gladly told you our story.." they patted the table, signaling him to be there. He teleports to the table, slightly surprising Jupiter. "Ah, I was waiting for you to ask me to pick you up." They said in dissapointment "they grow up so fast" they said with a smile. He rolled his eyes "Whatever, come on! I wanna know the history about y- us!" He said impatiently.
Jupiter definitely noticed the slip up, though they didn't care. "Do you need me to make this a poem?" They asked, Eclipse scowled "No!" He shouted.they laughed "alright alright" they said softly.
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"It all began with the Makers having nowhere to put their creation. Throwing it will only be a waste. So...they decided to make..the archivists.
The first archivist was Sun and Moon--"
"Woah wait a minute, MOON?" he said inredicilously. Jupiter shakes their head "it's a... different moon"
"Moving on, Sun probably won't tell you because they'll say it doesn't matter anymore. But, I do remember them saying that they Made me using...Moon. they didn't tell me why.
As expected, They didn't like me at first. They wanted me to be just like them, they told me to act like them, how to speak like them, and how to work like them. But I'm Lucky enough that they didn't tell me to sacrifice my core.
They then realized they can make a new archivists on their own. They started to make lots, and lots of archivists using their own energy just to make a Moon. I recall They made 291 Moons, and all of those were thrown out. Sun is extremely stubborn, It took me and Saturn almost an eternity to stop that nonsense and just accept Moon won't come back.
Saturn helped to organize the archive house, and Jobs. Then...the fourth official Archivist came, it's Uranus. I see potential in them and convinced Sun to keep them. And I am correct! Uranus became a Collector. And it makes me proud at how much of a good job Uranus and Saturn did.
Neptune...Ah, Neptune Already proved themselves to be a great Obliterator. Even Sun decided they could stay without any of us to convince them. They both even have a great relationship with eachother.... somehow.
Then the former sixth archivists, Mars, unfortunately they failed to do their task as a obliterator for showing mercy to a planet full of powerful demons. So... because of their Failure, Sun makes a rule. A cruel Rule. 'whoever failed to do their tasks, their core shall be taken at once'
Much to my sadness, Mars is gone, and Mercury is born. Mercury becomes a great Preserver, them and Saturn always sticks together wherever they go, but one day...Mercury just... vanished. Nobody knows where they went, Saturn was devastated at the news. Ever since that incident Sun has been staying in their room often, Keeping an eye on everything.
As you could guess, As Sun founds out about that news, they make another one. Saturn reasonably didn't handle it well.
Sun Made a mistake, which is very rare. They made 2 instead of one.
Venus And Our moon arrived and Saturn was Cruel to them. Sun was overjoyed. Sun started to baby Moon, And Saturn refuses to Accept Venus in their preserver room. Sun then moved Venus into the collector jobs with Moon because they've been pretty close with eachother. You can say that they're technically 'twins' Moon always insisted on going on missions together.
Saturn started to get used to Venus around, and actually being decent around them. No threats, No glaring, and no snarky remarks. It was progress.
Unfortunately, Venus failed a mission because the planet Moon And Venus were on started to Slowly turning into dusts. Venus didn't collect anything because they gave it to moon.
Venus gave their core to a star and...You arrived." They finished with a sigh.
He's speechless. His mouth agape while looking a Jupiter with wide eyes. He tried to process everything they just told him.
"Wow" is the only word managed to got out of his mouth after whatever they told him.
"Yeah, Wow" they chuckles humorlessly.
"So....do you think Moon doesn't like me because of the same reason Saturn doesn't like...uh..Venus?" He asks carefully.
"It may be a possibility" They replied.
"Wait, no one is an Observer?" He asks
"No,how about I call Sun for you? I'm gonna be given a mission soon and I must prepare" they said standing up.
He's just glad, because he cannot handle the awkwardness any longer.
"Okay..thanks for telling me Jupiter" he smiles. They sadly smiles back.
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He walked towards Moons room to work their relationship up.
He took a deep 'breath' and began to knock on it.
Knock
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Weird.... they're usually in their room, and it's their day off too. Where would they be? He walks off from their room.
He can hear footsteps coming from behind him. He turned around, and someone crash onto him. He almost fell over.
"Wha-?" His voice muffled by the fabric in his face. Is someone giving him a hug?
"I'm Sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry" he hears someone mumbled as they hug him tighter making it hard for him to move. "Fow wa?" He tried to speak. "please forgive m-" he heard a wail. What is happening? Someone hugging him out of nowhere and started to cry? They kept wailing as they hug him tighter. Then, they went limp. Then vanished.
He's beyond confused. And concerned. Who is that? He pull his nightcap to cover his eyes and started to frantically looks at every single place existing in the archive house.
Something caught his attention, a sob to be exact.
"-ow now, do not cry." Sun tries to comfort....Moon? They're the one who hugged them!?
"You can wander the galaxies, as the form of a star. It's not gonna be that bad" he says gently.
Moons lip trembled as a strangled sob escape their lips. Huh?
Sun looks at my direction, it made him jump at how easy they are to spot him. Suddenly His eyes felt like they're on FIRE. He gasped and closed his eyes and put his hands on his eyes.
He didn't get to hear how the conversation went.
And also A wailing little star that passes outside the large window next to him.
Notes:
Sorry it's getting bad y'all, we're getting close to getting to know a familiar character I swear. Also I'm sick but I promise I'll write longer chapters I swear
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He's been going back and forth. First someone will find him in his room, next someone will find him in the center of the library, staring intently at the crystal ball.
Unknowingly to eclipse, Sun noticed how he take massive interest at the titan planet, because of their natural curiosity as an observer, they also started to pay attention to the planet.
But! He's officially gotten a mural and a painting! Yayy!!!! It's kind of like the show but...instead of 'him' being small and all of his limbs spreads out on the
Corner of the drawing, 'he's' actually positioned near suns head!
He sometimes kind of forgot that he's not a girl anymore, and that he's in a new body, so everytime he looks at his reflection he got spooked. He missed being a girl, and his long hair is the only feminine thing about him so he's never gonna cut it ever.
He wanted to braid it like sun, but he doesn't know how. He only knows how to tie it into a ponytail but he doesn't want anyone to complain about his hair being 'inappropriate' or 'ridiculous' or 'a mess'! Saturn always blab about how his hair should be taken care of. Heck they even compare him to Neptune! Their hair looks so nice! It's basically the most perfect hair he's ever seen! Maybe that's why Sun likes them More.
Elegance is not for him at all. He always moves stiffly, which is weird because he's very flexible. Sun tries to teach him a dance after they found out about it (which is creepy) but...since he's not as tall as them, it's...kind of awkward.
Atleast he learned how to change sizes now!
He picks up the old bunny plushie and smiled, he snuggle it and throw it in the air. The rabbit falls painfully slow. That's when he realized that he's actually in space and not on earth. He grumbled before using a force to make it land on his hand faster. Welp, there goes that mood I guess.
Boredom is a crime and He wanted a mission now.
He flopped onto the bed and stare at the ceiling. He wondered what happened with moon, he haven't seen them in a long time and the last interaction they have with eachother is when they bawl their eyes out and apologizing. He have a few theories.
1: Sun says something to moon and then they apologizes to him. Then Sun tells them they can wander the galaxies to cheer themselves up as a small star as a disguise.
2: 'wander the galaxies as the form of a star' can have 2 meanings. It's either moon is...cursed? Which means...that moon is no longer an archivists and is now a star that wander the galaxies??
He realized how ridiculous his theories is, considering that so little info he got. As far as he know none of his theory could be right! There's a high chance of it. He sighs. He wanted to know, he knows he can't just ask sun about it, it's gonna be wayyy to awkward man. And he's still angry at sun for burning his eyes.
....
"Uranus! Why is my puppet very...fleshy?" He questions looking at the white and yellow lion with puppet features except that they're not turning into wood, its still...their flesh, when it mouths moves he can see the flesh, the gums of their teeth, SPLITTING. He's just glad that they don't bleed anymore or there would be puddles of blood covering half of the floor of the collection room by now.
Uranus stares at His creation "what the stars.." they whispered. They looks at him "what does it do that?" He shouted getting disgusted "well...the puppets designs are based of your personality and mentality." They said "aandd???" He says impatiently "it means you're...quite not in the right mind if it resulted into...that." they said with a smile. He raised a brow "are you saying I'm crazy?" He shouted offended, Uranus smiled "aren't we all" they turned around. He wanted to kill them.
"This is gross! How do I fix this? I don't want this to be my puppet design!" He whined. "I want it to be cute! Colorful! Anything other than gory!" He shook his fists.
"Ah, pity. You should talk to sun about this" they said twisting and turning the limbs of a puppet, chuckling as they did so.
"Whatever...ugh, this is gross" he whined.
"Quit your whining Mo- Eclipse and place the puppet in that corner" they pointed to a half empty shelf.
"Gross...." He groaned as the puppet vanished then reappears on the shelf.
Uranus sighs "you still have a lot of collecting to do." They said sternly. "You could take a break, but Right when you're finished, take your new puppets to Saturn"
He sighs.
his eyes widen as his eyes landed on something familiar.
"Is that a maggot...dove?" His eyes locked onto it.
"Hm? Yeah, its been here for half a century because Saturn said it gives them an uneasy feeling." They looks at him. "You seem to take an interest in it, why don't you take it?" They said amused.
He reached out to grab it and began inspecting. "This is weird...does it need oxygen?" He asked.
"Well, its a mortal of course they need oxygen."
"Will it die if I de-transform it?"
"Yes, Run along now." They waved him away.
He didn't realize he's out of the room till he can hear the door sliding down from behind him. He turned around, offended. He blew a raspberry at the door before teleporting back to his room.
He put the puppet in the corner, he frowns at its face before making it face the corner. He smiles satisfied, but he still have that uncomfortable feeling.
He always Wondered if Moon already got the owl beast. Do they turn every beast into a curse? He wanted to find one and...because of curiosity, this weirdly thick and big Dove tube will be his little lab rat.
Wait, can he curse a bug demon? That's what those are right? A bug demon? Or...a Dove demon? Whatever, it doesn't matter. What matters is if he can curse a demon this will be awesome.
He looks at the puppet tube Dove with a wolfish grin "alrighty thing, you've earned the position to be my lab rat! Or..lab Dove!" He laughs.
He picks it up from behind "you know what that means?" He singsongs "not only that you will be cursed and cursed and cursed repeatedly! You're also gonna be a practice thing for my spells! Isn't that exciting?" He grabs its beak and move it up and down as if it's speaking "yep, I'm so excited to suffer!" He says with a bad mickey mouse impression.
"That's the spirit! Now let's see if I stole any scrolls in here.." he put it down before walk towards his shelf. He paused now that he realized something "wait..I have to de-transform you for it to work...eh fine I'll make a tiny atmosphere just for you" he makes circling motions with his hand.
He took a deep breath and can feel the air enter him. He exhales then turns to look at the dove. "Would you look at that,I did it! I really thought I would fail and make it too big just like how I failed to make a small black hole.." he murmurs the last part.
He stares at the Dove...Maggot. he shudders, it's disgusting to think that its a maggot. The most grossest thing with the most majestic thing is...uh... whatever. It doesn't matter, what matters is how to de-transform it. He lightly tapped on the crescent moon symbol on its forehead. Nothing happens. He snaps his finger. Nothing.
He's getting frustrated. He lightly punches the crescent symbol and the thing shines. He closed his eyes.
He opens them again when he hears a terrified screech.
And then he got tackled to the ground.
He screams as he can feel his skin and clothes getting ripped apart. It doesn't hurt but it makes his things dirty.
It lifted him In the air before slamming him to the ground.
He tried to shove its face away only for it to stab onto his skin deeper and more aggressively.
"Enough!" He yelled before lifting the Dove thing in the air with a faint blue light surrounding it. He laughs triumphally at the sight of the panicking beast trying to resist his magic. "You..*huff* can't do *huff* shit now you *huff* filthy beast!" His voice turns raspy. He coughed and cleared his throat.
He looked at himself and saw his...blood. everywhere. The floor, in his hand, in his body. It's his blood. It's HIS blood. Oh stars. He looks at his hands. Scars. Scars and blood. Everywhere. He feel lightheaded and his ears rings. It came out of him. It's his blood. On his skin. It's all his. This cut open flesh. This blood. It's HIS. He felt like his chest is being squeezed in a strong grip, his body freezing and he felt his...blood go cold. He wanted to throw up. He swallowed the lump in his throat and focus on the weirdly calm maggot Dove floating in the air. His body trembling.
He cursed himself before glaring at the Dove. "What are YOU looking at!?" He yelled. It just.... looking at him with an unreadable expression (he doesn't want to read it) he scowled before summoning a large cage and put it in it.
"This will teach you a lesson." He says glaring at the do-- Maggot.
He clapped his hand together and he felt way lighter. He changed his clothes with a new one and fix his skin. He let out a exhausted sigh and a disgusted shudder. He's still a little shaken up by the sudden attack but forced himself to calm down.
The maggot growled as it's fur stand up. He finds it amusing. Ah, He missed being in control, he missed being feared, and he missed being powerful. He giggled.
"How about I named you? Hm...how about.. maggot!" He gives a cheeky smile. Maggot hisses. He nods "maggot it is!" Another hiss.
...
"Maggot! Time to eat your daily jelly" he singsongs as he slid a plate of star jellies onto the cage. Maggot cautiously reached out to it and slurped it. He coos, ignoring its screeches and pecking.
...
Maggot curled on the corner of its cage, sleeping Peacefully. He wonders if maggot got fatter because of the jellies.
...
He placed an extremely tiny panama hat on it. "Look at you! You look so professional!" He coos. It gave a glare as a reply.
...
"Be a good little Monster and stay here alright? Don't drag the cage outside the atmosphere and kill yourself again!" He called out before leaving the room.
He chuckled before walking in the main hall, heading towards the library.
As he walked to the center, he started to think about the grimwalker, he wondered what happened to it.
He touched the crystal ball and the image of the titans corpse started to appear.
He smiled as he saw that his guts started to form an island and turned into grass. He doesn't question how they can make life even when they're dead, he only focuses on the little thing moving around, to what he guessed is a...stonesleeper? And... volcanos? Is the hecktace-whatever period happened now!? He's only been here for a what it felt like...a few days! Is his calculation wrong about these timelines?
This is so frustrating. He doesn't like being wrong. He is a prodigy in a past life, he can't just throw it away. He WILL figure it out himself.
He scoffed and teleports back to his room.
He looks at maggots cage seeing it sleeping safe and sound. But...the weird thing is.. "What the fuck happened to your face!?" He stares at..Maggot. its face CHANGED into something more..human like. It's disturbing, "Ugh! You look awful! I'm not keeping you here!" He whined. Maggot woke up and starts hissing.
"I'm putting you on the titan island!" He yelled before lifting a finger and pointing it at it. It jumps before disappearing in a sparkles of pink and blue.
"Bleh! Gross! I shouldn't have kept it if I found out it will turn into THAT." he grumbled.
...
Somewhere else, maggot opened its eyes to a feeling of bones and the smell of rotting flesh. Maggot hummed before making itself comfortable and began nibbling on the rotting flesh with a satisfied smile.
...
The past few days pass like a blur. He doesn't remember what happened, but the only thing he's focusing is how the titan planet have witches and demons civilization.
At first he's shocked, but then realized how much things he have to turn into a puppet that he found out he actually DOING something for all this time. He lost track of time a long time ago, but the only thing matters is waiting for a certain witch hunters to enter the Demon realm.
He 'convinced' Sun to have a few days off to go to the titan planet and have fun, and they suspiciously agreed that easily.
At first he's been wary at every little thing Sun has done, But it doesn't matter now isn't it? What matters is having Fun and looking at history.
Notes:
Oh and maggot us based on that one episode of hooty trying to find out what type of demon is king. On the board, you can see that ugly ahh thing with a hat and a human face, that's maggot.
You may be wondering "how did it turn into THAT?" well, it's the star jellies.
Chapter 9: NOT A CHAP!!!
Chapter Text
Js wanna say smth:
"The archivists doesn't like the collector"
It's because he was too focused on playing and never does their job, so the others trick him into playing hide and seek as a cover up for a mission. Oh and moon still hates them. And probably almost all of the archivist hates them.
In this AU he actually does his job AND being playful at the same time, so they kept him and actually tells them its a mission. Moon still hates him. And other are decent around him.
"The titans have a war with the archivists"
Yeah, it's because of moon finding out that they can actually trap one of them so they had a war. Both Archivists and titans were wiped out.
But in this AU sun knows it's not the real one so they don't start any war, but instead of a boiling rain, they let out their anger at the planet by making it rain acid and the sun much hotter and the water higher. Basically natural disasters.
"The wailing star is an archivist theory"
I LOVE that theory sm I just HAVE to put it in my fic.
"Who's Susie?"
His lover in his past life.
"Why does every archivists have two toned skin shaped like a crescent moon? I pictured them looking like the collector"
Yes, because sun wanted to make a Moon but it creates other planets instead. That's why they have the same markings because they're SUPPOSED to be moon. Sun is the only one on the right. And everyone else is on the left.
"Is this fic a coping mechanism?"
Yes.
Thanks for reading y'all it actually meant a lot to me. Every time I see a notif I IMMEDIATELY screams. A comment kudos, compliments and anything meant the world to me u have no idea.
(The next chapter will come out soon)
Chapter 10
Summary:
No way
Notes:
Also a little theory I have. In the show collector is more powerful there because even if they're trapped, his magic keeps developing. So when he got out they immediately let all of his magic out without even knowing how dangerous it becomes.
And in here he's a little weaker because his magic still didn't developed well enough.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
It was a normal puppet turning day for Eclipse. He does his job with an impossibly bright smile and did it with ease and peace.
Which concerns some of the others.
But no one wants to confront him about it, though they just gave him weird looks or an amused smile.
"Cheerful today?" Uranus said with a smile. Eclipse turned to look at them and nods "yep! I'm going to have my day off soon! I can't wait! I just need to finish all of this first." He said as he taps the forehead of each creatures absentmindedly. Uranus playfully rolled their eyes "you aren't giving me some, and your doing it too fast, their screams are the best do you know that?" They let out a small evil giggle.
"Whatever" he mutter before he felt his finger isn't touching anything. He automatically snaps his attention back, "hey-! Oh, I'm done..I'm done! Bye Uranus!" He said jumping in place before sprinting out of the room.
Uranus watched in amusement as he left the collection room. "See you soon little one" they replied even though they know he can't hear them. He chuckled "ah, Moons." They mumbled with a fond smile. It soon dropped when a certain Star enters the room with a friendly smile. They groaned "please normalize knocking." They said through gritted teeth and crossed their arms, "let me guess, Another mission?" They grumbled.
Sun smiles wider.
Uranus sighs in stress.
...
Eclipse opens the entrance of the preserver room carefully. He knows Saturn is inside and is focusing because of how many puppets he sent and he doesn't want to bother.
He looks to his left to find Saturn, indeed is extremely busy with how many jars, needles, and floating Limbs and organs in a jar is floating in mid air. He really wants to sit down on the table and watch Saturn preserve and study things, but...he came here for a different reason.
He walked towards the shelf full of jars, weirdly thick books, and advanced spells and curses. Wait, did that eyeball just move? He almost got distracted if he didn't trip and fall because he slipped on his feet.
He scoffs before continuing looking for a certain egg.
...
"The planets...where...where..where is it..hm..A..B...C...D..E..Egg.. Elbows..Ears..wait." he mumbled. He slaps his forehead "Stars I just missed the egg part of the shelf" he says in embarrassment before turning around.
He hummed a song he remembered from his fuzzy and blurry memories. Even though they just sounds like multiple songs playing at once, he doesn't know.
He perked up "There it is!" He hastily grabbed the jar, almost dropping it in the process. "Hm, I wonder why you got put suspiciously on the shelf that are almost the same height as me." He wonders out loud. He shrugged. "It doesn't matter" he waved it off.
He focused on the egg and widen his eyes. He smiles "aww! You're already forming! You're gonna hatch soon, I can't wait!" He squeals looking at the sleeping infant titan.
He puts it back with a soft smile. That little titan definitely cheered him up more than ever. And he's just glad Saturn didn't crack it after nonstop begging that brutally bruised his pride and ego.
His eye twitches at the memory.
He let out a forced chuckle and walks out the preserver room. Ignoring how shame and guilt pools in his stomach as he remembers the grimwalker and the titans, he shook his head and made his way to Suns room. He really wants the day off.
...
"Oh come on sun, you can take me there yeah? It's gonna take YEARS for me to go there myself!" He yelled exasperated. He hates yelling at the top of his lungs everytime he wanted to speak to an archivists. But he have to suck it up because life fucking sucks and he craved deaths embrace even in his past life. Okay we're getting off topic.
"Don't question it Little one" they said softly "I'm sure Neptune will be thrilled to take you there" they said. "Hah?" Shouted Neptune peeking from the door. "wh- Come on! You know what- whatever..I'm gonna go there myself." he murmurs before stomping out of the room. Ignoring he just walked past a hurt Neptune. And ignoring suns murmurs of "you're almost perfect" as he leaves.
Neptune frowns and sniffed.
...
He goes into his room and locks it. He knows it doesn't do much because even a lock wouldn't be able to hold their strength. But old habits die hard.
He stands in the middle of the room and make a circling motions with his hand leaving a trail of blue and pink. When he's done he pulls back his arms as images started to form in the circle.
The image of a forest appears.
He hummed before turning around and taps his hair. His hair transforms from white to black. He looks at his clothes and wonders, he's not good with history, and it's one of his LEAST favorite thing other than biology.
The only clothes he can think of is...Philip when he's still a child. although his memories are fuzzy, one of the things he remembers is that it's...red and white, and he have some sort of... overalls? that one was ripped off. The thing he can't figure it out is...is his pants rolled up or just short? Or it's one of these pants he's still wearing? Is his sleeves rolled up or just short? Is it really red and white? Or...green?
He decided to go with Blue and grey.
He shook his head as he taps on his clothes lightly. His clothes was replaced with a grey buttoned shirt with puffy sleeves, ashy blue overalls which on the left side is torn. As well as his usual dark blue shoes, except his pom poms are gone. He skin tone changed from yellow and blue, to a tan-ish skin. He lifted his hand to feel his ears. He can turn it pointy, or just use an excuse saying it was a birth defect.
Or...
He smiles cheekily. He could act like a human. Maybe he wants to have a little fun, maybe he can trick everyone to think he has a birth defect. Maybe he can make people there to be suspicious of him. Maybe they can figure them out themselves. But...what does he get in this? Fun. Seeing them oh so proud of themselves when they found out he's not actually a witch nor a demon. When he's actually a human Child from the stars.
No. He's not human anymore.
No need for questioning his identity now. He exhales, and looks at the portal with determination. And He walks in. Ignoring how guilt pools in his stomach that made his movement stiff and tense as he moves.
He went through the portal and looks above him, he saw how the suns light from above, the sky is a yellow and green shade, the tall magenta pine trees surrounding him, creating a soft color in the forests. He loves purple. But He wanted green colored trees.
He took a deep breath before closing the portal behind him and walks away. He missed the ground, he missed walking on land and he missed walking on dirt. But it doesn't matter. What matters is finding a place to stay before a wild beast starts to attack him.
He exhales, and rely on his institution to find a cave or maybe a random place to stay. As he tries his best to distract himself from any unwanted memories that may appears if he starts to think.
...
His intuition leads him to the market of bonesborough. As much excitement he actually feels on the inside, it was quickly replaced by dissapointment. He frowned sadly before turning around to go back to the forest. He need shelter before anything else.
He hummed songs as he looks at every thing around him. He found a trail. He hesitates before changing his mind to follow his brain instead of intuition.
Little did he know, that trail leads him to a future house of the owl lady.
He didn't though, he keeps walking forward, in hope of seeing any signs of a cave. Even if he himself doesn't know what it is.
...
He actually managed to find one. And he is much more relieved than anything. He immediately makes the stones to be shelf and table shaped in the corner. Yes, he's recreating his old workplace when the titans are still alive.
He's just kind of upset there's gonna be no vines covering the entrance. It would be nice.
......
...Oh yeah, he realized he can actually make a vine to cover it himself. he feels stupid. He pointed his finger to the entrance and green thick and spikey vines started to slowly fully covers the entrance. And now darkness is the only thing he can see, despite the fact his eyes glow in the dark. He doesn't have night vision. I mean, he can but it's creepy.
He blinks and a lantern appears on the stone table. lanterns somehow hangs on the roof of the cave, and it brightens up the room. Even if it doesn't fully bright,he can see. And that's what matters.
He blinks again, and a flash of a dark blue bed with grey periwinkle crescent moon patterned blanket appears in his vision before it appears right Infront of him. He moved it to a corner and summoned a brown cabinet right next to it. He then put a lantern on top of it. He opens the drawers and put small colorful star gliders in it. Maybe it could be useful.
Look, he doesn't want to overly decorate it but. He summons a rug with his symbol in the middle of the cave. The eyes kind of freaks him out at how happy it looks. So he got rid of it.
"Much better" he says putting his arms on his hips as he looks at the cave, proud of his work. He then summons a closet right on the other side of the cave. When he lay on the bed, when he turns, he can face the wall, and if he turns again he can see his closet on the other side. It's nice.
He wanted to relax, but he needed food. He wants it...he craved food. He's hungry. Archivists doesn't need to eat, but he felt so unbearably hungry. He could even consider eating himself right now.
He took a glance at his arm.
He shook his head.
He walks out of the cave and summons a star sticker, he then placed it on the entrance. He sighs for what it felt like the thousand times and walks away. He needs money.
...
After asking for directions to a wandering witch and committing petty theft to lost witches in the forest, he now have 2 bags of snails. He thinks that's enough, such unfortunate people being robbed by a little kid. He chuckles. He put the bags in his pocket before whistling a tune as he walks to the direction of bonesborough market.
...
He walks around the marketplace, knowing people are staring at him and starts to make assumptions of him being a homeless child based on his dirty attire and messed up hair. He wants sweets.
He got greeted by a few citizens as he enters too, two little kids playing with plants and illusions as they pretend it was an enemy. It was cute. He must admit being treated with basic decency feels weird but...nice. he's still not used to being treated like a normal being instead of a burden.
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"Ma'am, how much is the cooled fire bee honey?" He asks the shop owner. The shop owner looks down on him and smiles "it's seven snails kid" the woman said with a gruff voice. He nods before pulling out a bag, and grabbed seven snails. While being aware the lady is staring in interest. He then put the bag back to his pockets and put the snails on the counter with an innocent smile.
"Here it is ma'am" he says, and take the jar of the fire bee honey. Just as he was about to leave.. "hey kid, ya can't just go around eating honey all day, here how about some bread to go with? Two for six snails, pretty cheap ey?" The lady smirks, putting two loaf of bread on the counter.
He turned around and beams. "That'll be great!" He then pulls out the bag and grab six snails. He then put it on the counter and grab the bread. The woman grinned and grabbed a bag. She gave it to him. "Thanks" he replied and grabbed it, then puts his jar of honey and two loafs of bread in it. He turned around and left.
He goes on a crowded place and quietly teleport his bag back to his cave before splitting away from the crowd. Something caught his eyes. The bonesborough library. He is kind of curious. He shrugged before walking into the library.
...
He grabs a book about demons. He looks at the cover before finding a table to sit in. He flipped a page.
Bug: Bug-type demons possess characteristics that are commonly associated with real-world bugs such as worms, insects, arachnids, and so on. They possess an instinct for communication through dance: or a demon outside this category, dance communication is very difficult and can lead to unwanted insults. bug-type demons possess magic, but only to a limited extent.
On the top corner of the page has an image that shocks him. "Maggot!?" He shouted. He hears shushing and he felt his cheeks heat up. He inhales and looks back at the maggot picture. He smiles. Still as ugly as ever, and it still have the hat! Apparently it's one of the first bug demon to exist! Ah, he's so proud. He wiped a small tear from his eyes before flipping to another page. But he still wondered if he accidentally merged its hat with its DNA because most of its kind have a hat now.
Though he frowned at the inaccuracies that they come from a decomposing titan. They're from another world. He shudders. Creepy..
Biped: Biped demons, as their name suggests, walk on two legs and, like witches, have a sac of magic bile attached to their heart through which they can utilize magic with spell circles. Appearance-wise, members of this type can range from animalistic to looking near-identical to witches.
He scoffs before Flipping another page.
Beast: Beast demons are usually animal-like in appearance and behavior, though there are examples of Beast demons that possess the same sentience and intelligence as humans and witches, as well as the ability to speak. One such example is the Snaggleback. only a blood sample can unequivocally confirm whether a demon belongs to this category.
He hummed. And closed the book. Suddenly becomes uninterested. He placed the book on the table and yawned. He wonders if there's books about titans.
He stood up and walks to a shelf, searching for any book starting with 'ti' while mumbling. He perked up.
He pulled out a thick book that creates a cloud of dusts making him cough and took a step back. He opened his eyes and wiped the cover with a grimace. His grey clothes getting dirty on the process.
He walks back towards the table and opened it.
Titans are a near-extinct colossal species hailing from the ancient past of the demon realm.
He tried to get the memories of the titans from his head. He frowned.
Titans are incredibly powerful creatures with near-omnipotent magic, and are widely considered among the most powerful beings in the Demon Realm. Their mere blood is powerful enough to pierce through realms, their roar capable of shattering objects and rupturing eardrums
He remembers when Decik basically roared at the grimwalker multiple times he had to heal it almost every day. He chuckled.
A certain deceased Titan's magic was so potent that it allowed for all witches and demons to evolve biology allowing them to use magic too.
He looks up from his book, seeing witches looking at books and little kids running around. He turned to look through the window to see witches and bipeds chatting amongst themselves peacefully. The trees, the lands, grass, and creatures. He find it hard to believe that it only takes a single decomposing corpse of a titan to create all of this. He wants to idolize the titan, if only they didn't fight back to the archivists. And nearly trapped him.
They're still cool though.
Very little information has been revealed about the titans, as their existence is all but lost to the Demon Realm. What is known is that titan magic is incredibly potent, and the effects of their magic influenced all life that inhabit the Demon Realm. their blood is a highly potent power source for all sorts of magical devices.
He flipped a page.
Titans reproduce through eggs, which are extremely minuscule compared to a fully grown adult.
Huh...the rest of the book are..eatened? Gross! He immediately closed the book and stack it on top of the book he read before.
He wants to read more, but...it's getting dark. He sighed, stood up and grabbed the books. Placing it in its original place before leaving.
He needs a cloak. He needs to go back to the market. And so he did.
...
He entered a clothing store and spoke to the owner who is a scrawny old man.
"Are there any hooded cloak here sir?" He asks. The owner looks around. Eclipse took the time to think to himself, should he save up? The owner then smiled lifting up a long yellow hooded cloak. "Twelve snails" he says placing the neatly folded cloak on the counter with a pleasant smile. He grabbed it and started to inspect it. "Hm...alright" he says.
And he bolted right out the door.
The man called out.
He ran through the market, bumped into many people but still doesn't stop.
Fortunately for the old man, a long brown haired witch saw the commotion happened Infront of her and helped the old man.
Unfortunately for eclipse, he's being chased by a skilled witch.
He goes into the crowd and dissapears. Going completely unnoticed. And let out a sigh of relief. He summons a bag and when his cloak was halfway in his bag, he heard clicking sound of a shoe. A really fast sounding shoe. Following his intuition, he didn't look back, he immediately ran.
Running through a crowd is hard. Trying not to Step on someones leg, something, and probably small children is challenging. Especially since he can feel the witch right on his tail.
He sprints through the marketplace, barely dodging spells that were thrown at him. His feet hit the ground rhytimically as he continued to run as fast as he could.
The witch glares at him with glowing yellow eyes carving holes in the back of his skull.
He goes into an alley, almost at the entrance of bonesborough and cursed himself for doing so. He doesn't know why he even ran to a dead end. The only thing he can do now that the witch is still behind him is. Teleporting. He closed his eyes and opened them again, seeing the entrance of his cave. He let out a huge sigh of relief.
The vines opened itself, letting him walk in and he immediately collapsed on the bed. His hand still shaking. He chuckled at the feeling of adrenaline and fear. He love that feeling.
Evelyn is pissed off. First, she came to the human realm and she got hunted and almost got burned by humans. And the second she comes back, she saw her Fathers store being robbed.
She chased after the little brat, it being weirdly fast couldn't possibly be a witch. She tried to cast spells that slow it down, but it kept dodging it. She's having a terrible day. And maybe beating up some thief would make her feel better. So she kept going.
It ran to a dead end,and she smirked. She burst into the alley with a loud yell, preparing her staff only to find... Nothing. "What?" She muttered.
"Where did they..?" She trailed off, searching every corner in the alley with a confused frown.
How did it escape? It's a dead end. The thing is too small for it to climb on to the walls, and there's no trace of any spell in there.
She checked every inch in this alley, and didn't sense any invisibility spells in it. It just...dissapear. It can't be teleportation, it didn't have any staff for it.
She groaned, and pinched the bridge of her nose. She let out a tired sigh, ashamed of not being to help her father.
She walks out the alley.
...
"So, did you catch the thief?" Her father questions, Evelyn looks away "no...they got away, I'm sorry" she says quietly. Her father smiled sympathetically and pats her shoulder "it's alright love, you did your best. Now eat your food" Evelyn smiles softly. Her dad took a seat Infront of her as they started to eat in silence.
When they finished their food, she helped her father to clean the dishes. Said goodbye and be careful. She then goes back to her house.
She got to her room, and dropped any human loots she brought from the human realm. Which is a graphite pencil, a...thing called candy crane? Is it cane or crane? She shrugged. She put the candy crane(?) at the corner of her room.
She let out a sigh, as she walks towards the board. Her staff transforms into a little red bird. The bird flew and landed on her shoulder, then looked at the board curiously. Evelyn smiles "alrighty Flapjack, time to hit they hay cause tomorrow we're going to the USA. Heard they're pretty famous" flapjack chirped before flying off to his nest. Evelyn soften her gaze.
She hangs her cloak, took off her shoes, and lay on her bed. She yawned before going to sleep. Curious on what loots she will find in that famous place in the human realm.
Eclipse stared at the ceiling of his cave. He can't believe he just stole from an old man. He is ashamed, but...he have to do it. He want to save up until a human started to appear there. He is kind of surprised on people first assumption of him is a beast. Probably because of his hair that covers his everything from behind. Well...he would too.
But it doesn't matter, he is curious on what Caleb will look like in person. Oh and Philip. He can't wait to absolutely beat the shit out of him.
He sighed, he still feel exhausted...for some reason. He closed his eyes and let sleep overtook him.
He hated doing terrible things. But he himself doesn't realize he's always doing terrible things.
Notes:
Sorry it's getting boring I swear we're close!!
"Kid belos use suspenders not overalls!!!" Memory problems. Eclipse have memory problems.
Chapter 11
Notes:
Survived an attempt somehow. Anyways here's a chapter to celebrate despite my annoyance to me somehow staying alive!!!
Still a lil disoriented so there'll be multiple grammar mistakes.
Edit: here's an art of eclipse with his cloak
https://www.tumblr.com/luvuuuuu11111/750264576480870400?source=share
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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"Are you serious?" Jupiter said flatly.
"Why wouldn't I!? Moon is gone!" Uranus shouted with a scowl.
"Uranus, Moon has been tasked with a mission by Sun, they'll be back soon." They waved it off.
"I didn't sense his energy anywhere! Jupiter just listen to me!" They growled. Jupiter looks at them wide eyed before letting out a small sigh.
"Sun did something to them." Uranus grumbled. Jupiter raised a brow "quit overreacting Uranus you yourself know they won't." They glared and that only angers Uranus more "oh I'm overreacting?! How are you so sure about that? What, because you guys promised to stop cloning Moons? Or you forgot what they did to Mercury!? Do you remember how long ago that promise was made!?" they paused before glaring at Jupiter.
"Now Tell. Me. What. They. Do. To. The. Other. 291 Moons. Jupiter" they said through gritted teeth. "And dont get me started on eclipses existence isn't an excuse to make another one." They seethed. Jupiter whipped their head to look at Uranus with an unreadable expression. They looked away, their hood covers their face "I'll have a talk with them." They said, tone monotone before turning around and left.
Uranus put both of their hand in their face and screamed. This is exactly like the mercury situation.
Somewhere on the archive house, Saturn suddenly felt sad. And cries as they stitched a mutilated heart.
...
Eclipse should've expected this.
He was walking around the marketplace wanting to buy food and clothes, and the next thing he knows his money is stolen. The amount of despair he felt when he reach to his pockets only to find it empty is undescribable. He mentally cursed whoever stole from him will die a miserable death.
Not to mention the acid rain is getting annoying to him. Sure it doesn't affect him but it melts his cave and his clothes. And now he wastes energy to make a protection spell bigger than the cave and bigger than him. He's aware of the people staring at him as he walked in the markets, some with awe and some with disbelief. He finds it amusing how weak they are And how powerful he is.
His hair covers his face everytime he goes onto the woods to look for free food. Just to scare people and they don't bother him and other creatures too. And that only led him being chased by beast hunters. He manages to get away from them but everytime that he goes into the woods admiring flowers, there's always beast hunters right on his ass.
He got a bounty now. Apparently he's described as a beast with really thick black fur that covers his entire body, glowing red and yellow eyes that shines in the dark, it also says that he can change sizes. Huh. Weird because he doesn't remember changing sizes everytime he go out. He's actually proud that he got his first ever bounty and find it hilarious thinking that they can kill him.
How does he know that? Well...he got nosy when shopping.
Oh and also the fact that the one who chased him the other day is Evelyn. The Evelyn. oh stars he just met Evelyn and his first impression is thieving.
That happens in a week. And he is overwhelmed.
He felt like lying. And so he did.
...
He walks up to a random witch "h-hello ma'am..have you seen m-my twin? He looks like me b-but he has white hair..he went missing..." he fidgets with his hair, the woman looks at him with pity. "I apologize, I don't seem to recall seeing a white haired kid..." The women said gently, eclipse deflated "oh..okay, sorry for bothering you" he walks away.
He does this to every witches he met, he never once in his life he's going to speak to a non-human-like beings.
"Your ears look weird"
He whipped behind him seeing a little biped looking at his ear curiously. He put his hand to cover his ears "it's a birth defect" he lies automatically. He heard a small gasp from behind him "you're a human!" The little witch squealed pointing at his ears. The people who are around them started to turn their attention to him. He flushed "no I'm not!" He shouted.
"A human?" "How did it get here?" "What's a human doing here?" "Humans look weird" "Humans are real!?" "I thought that was a witch!" "What's a human?"
Murmurs are the only thing filled his ears. He wanted to run away, the attention is too much for him and he had a rough week. Don't get him wrong, he loves attention and like it when everyone is focusing on him instead of anything else, but he's currently overwhelmed by emotions and having peoples attention while he's vulnerable is uncomfortable and overwhelming.
More kids arrived from behind his and tried to touch his ears. He wanted the ground to eat him whole.
His body moved on its own and he ran.
He cursed himself for showing vulnerability to multiple...beings..now they see him as a weak human.
Just as planned.
...
He repaired his cave, which took a long time, weirdly. He finally comes to the realization that his powers are weakened, and he remembers what Jupiter told him.
"Your powers are based on your emotions, interesting"
Their words echoes in his mind. He's been depressed,tired and anxious about all this and if he put two and two together....
If he's depressed his powers turn weak, and when he's happy his powers are stronger.
He finds that stupid. So all he have to do is find a reason to be happy but what? Well...he can start thinking of....
......
......
......
...of what? He sat on his bed. The first time he existed! His first experience with the Archivists, his first training and when he earned his title. He smiled a little. Okay that was progress, but what else? Oh, the time where he got his first mission! He remembers how excited he is. He chuckled.
He lay down on his bed, staring up the ceiling with a blank expression. Is that only his happy memories? That's pretty lame. He really needs Saturns energy cookie thing right now.
He summons a small orange star with a Saturn symbol in the middle and grabbed it.
...
Saturn closed the jar and levitate it to a shelf. They looked at Eclipses puppets, they are glad that they didn't have a shell, but instead with their own meat, it's easier to split their skin and look at their insides.
Before they could think again a small orange star appears Infront of them. They tapped it. "Hey, Saturn It's an emergency.." the star got Saturns full attention "well...my powers are weakened and I was wondering if you could...uh...give me those cookies" a sheepish voice. Saturn shook their head and grabbed the star gently. A transparent bag with a purple ribbon sealed the planet shaped cookies inside appear in their other hand, then they pressed the bag against the star.
The bag slowly faded, and the symbol on the star changes from a Saturn to an eclipse and a bag. They tapped the star and it flew off. They sighed "I really need a day off after this" they muttered.
...
"Are you sureeee I can't just time travel?" He groaned as he took a bite out of the cookie.
"Wha- no! It is forbidden Eclipse, know better!" A voice shouted from the small star he was holding.
"But Uranussss whyyy?" He dragged the word with a sigh.
"I-it doesn't matter! Quiet before I tell Jupiter about the population on that titan planet" they threatened.
He pouts "Booo... you're boring! This is why--" before he could finish his sentence the star dissapears with a pop. How dare Uranus hang up on him!?
Just as he was about to tear his hair out In Frustration, he heard a scream outside. He smiled and turned curious. He felt like laughing at unfortunate people being chased by beasts or fairies.
He quickly covered his face with his hair, and look around.
He noticed something that he last expected. And his heart dropped to his ass the moment he took a single glance. He knew he should've predict the arrival.
The blonde hair, hooked nose, pale skin, and a skinny build. Similiar to the appearance of a grimwalker soldier in the future. His awe and shock doesn't let him talk. But there's only one sentence he could muster.
"Holy shit is that Caleb."
Slowly, An eerie smile creeped its way to his face.
Notes:
Sorry for the short chapter.
Anyways here's a:
Fun fact!
1: the original idea was that Eclipse never made a grimwalker, let him get trapped and absolutely having a breakdown.
2: the original idea is too dark,too problematic, and too Unhinged.
3: Eclipse have depression, bipolar, and NPD, BPD, and autism!!
4: I failed to do a handstand so my head hits the floor. Now this fic exist.
Chapter 12: Er...
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Uh so my left eye got stabbed. So.... there's a high chance it'll be infected cuz I'm not allowed to go to the hospital and ALSO there's a high chance of me dying.
Abusive parent honest reaction: 😂
...anyways NEXT CHAPTER IS GONNA BE RELEASED SOON JUST WAIT IM NOT ABANDONING THIS
Chapter 13: HEAKLPMEW
Summary:
(July) I fucking hate my fucking life not only that my stupid fucking ass of a phone kept glitching and clicking random things, sure a one time thing to log me OUT OF MY FUCKING AO3 ACCOUNT is bearable and I actually do not care BUT this ass dissapointing technology certainly crossed the line 21 log outs ago and made the AO3 web fucking think that this is a borrowed account and It will activate for 2 WEEKS. I'm genuinely going insane right now and I cannot handle this, my mental health is down the drain the moment the voices in my head starts controlling my body and the hallucinations are almost solid. Goodbye sanity hope we'll meet again which I highly doubtful about.
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Edit (2 days after): I was fighting tooth and nail w my phone when I wrote that y'all. Atleast I can decently write without my phone going crazy, glitching and clicking random things on itself when it almost restarted my phone. Unfortunately the app that I can open sometimes without the glitching for some reason is AO3. Which is...weird. probably because I open it often. I miss watching TikTok and YouTube.
Oh, and my eye are infact, infected. I'm having a fever rn but like THAT'S gonna stop me lmao. And uh, this fic will be on Hiatus. For a while till I can fix my phone on my own. (I'm so glad I know how so I can write this) It's close to finish y'all so I'll make a comeback maybe the next 3 or 4 months. See ya!
Chapter 14
Summary:
I'm loosing what's left of my sanity inside my brain. Writing this at 2 am and sleep deprived AND exhausted as fuck is not helping with my health at all and I have no idea how I survived this long.
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Please read chapter 13.
Chapter 15
Notes:
I have decided to write the story in AO3 instead of the usual. because I'm impatient.
A short chapter to keep you guys occupied while I'm gone for a bit.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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"So have you found what you're looking for?" Caleb asks his girlfriend--she doesn't know it yet--after cleaning twigs and dirt from his hair and clothes. His girlfriend snorts in amusement as Flapjack chirps something into her ears, making her pout, but he can still see mirth in her eyes.
"Nope, the traps I placed around here are empty it's annoying really." She grumbled as she helped a small...bird? From the trap and swallowing it. Wait what. "Y-you just--.."he trailed off, looking at Evelyn in a mix of disbelief,Horror, and a grain of salt amount of awe.
She glanced at him and smirks "Well, can't waste good food" she said as she swayed her hair, his mouth stayed agape but-- he has seen worse. Come on Caleb pull it together!
He finally shook out of his shock and look at Evelyn with curiosity "What are you looking for anyway?" He asks. Evelyn frowned "well, there's a new shapeshifting beast going around in town terrorizing the boiling isles, my dad is a victim to it and many more too" she growled, showing off her fangs "and they pay a huge bounty on 'em! When I capture it, I can finally get revenge on my father and its victim and also get the money...what do you humans call them again?" She looked thoughtful before snapping her fingers "Oh yeah! Killing two birds in one stone"
He grimaced "uh- is there something I can do to help..?" He asks hesitantly,, damn it he doesn't even know what he could do to help! This place has many magical creatures- heck there's even portals and potions! Many dangerous beasts that are way more dangerous than a bear in the human realm, he can feel something in him wither and die in embarrassment.
Evelyn as if sensing his distress, snorts, making him blush in embarrassment "well..." She trailed off "..you can help me set another trap, there's many sighting of that beast in this part of the forest so I assumed it lives around here" she said.
Caleb blinked "and you're sure this creature isn't dangerous?" He asks.
"Nope, based on what my mama told me, that creatures never fight back" she smirks "Ha, Even that creature knows not to mess with a clawthrone"
He chuckled "The creature's pretty smart huh"
She opened her mouth, but before any word came out they both hear rustlings and whines making them both freeze up. Evelyns mouth turns into a grin as she quickly composed herself and grabbed Caleb's wrist to drag him along with her. Caleb awkwardly tried to keep up with her speed.
They both arrived at the source of the noise and hid behind one of the trees. Caleb desperately tried to catch his breath, Evelyn narrowed her eyes as she dispell any illusion surrounding the trap she set up.
"HOOT! OW! OW! IT HURT! HELP! HOOT!" A high pitched cry can be heard. Evelyn splutters "Wha- hooty?!" She shouted and quickly ran to the house demon.
So, that is hooty, a weird bug owl who stays at Evelyns door. Annoying as hooty is, he's actually kind of nice to be around.
"EVELYN!!!!!" hooty cries As he slumped to the ground "IM SO GLAD YOU'RE HERE!" he cries in relief.
Evelyn frowned as he helps hooty out of the bear trap "What are you doing here!?" She shouted. Hootys--neck? Body?-- was pierced by the bear trap, somehow got caught leaving a puddle of blood under him.
Evelyn--she's so strong--split the bear trap in two, with hootys scream following after she pulls out the spikes out of the sides of his body. Hooty passed out, with his beak open making his tounge sticks out. If Caleb didn't know better, he would've thought hooty is dead.
"Ah, shit- C'mon Caleb let's go back!" She said watching hootys body slowly started to slide away from them leaving a trail of blood.
Evelyn curses under he breath and grabs hooty, stopping him from unconsciously dragging his wounds and carries hooty on her hips. Evelyn throws flapjack that already transformed into a staff onto Caleb who catches it "Go! To the owl house!" She shouted and sprints away.
Caleb looked at the staff and starts to sit on it awkwardly "uh- fly!" When nothing happens he starts to panics "How does Evelyn do this? Asce-" he screams as Flapjack starts to shoot towards the sky, he hugs the staff tightly, and he swears his heart is about to burst out of his chest.
He doesn't get a second to breathe before flapjack started to dash forward or wherever! He can't see because of the wind with how fast flapjack goes.
"--this is why you should just stay home! Stop being an idiot hooty!" She shouted as she watches hootys wounds started to close up.
Hooty looks down in shame "but..it's sooo lonely hereee hoot!"
Caleb snaps his fingers "Wait--" hooty and Evelyn looks at him "--maybe hooty can guard this house in case of intruders or thief's or beasts!" He exclaimed.
Evelyn brightens "Not bad for a human" she nodded ignoring Calebs offended stare.
Hooty slumps into her lap "BUT I DONT KNOW HOW TO FIGHT!" he cries, feeling evelyns hand smooth down his feathers.
Evelyn rolled her eyes "it's not that hard, just squeeze or charge towards a tree until it breaks," she stops petting him, making hooty opens his eyes to look at her "if you're strong enough maybe you can even go through the ground"
Caleb nodded "yeah, you can sneak up on them, like-- attack from below" he encourages.
Hootys eyes started to water and shines, like literally, there's stars in them "REALLY!? ALRIGHT EVELYN, CALEB, I WONT LET YOU DOWN! HOOT!" He declares and retract himself to the door and slams it close.
Caleb watches in amusement and Evelyn snorts "a house guarding demon huh.." he took a glance at Evelyn with a teasing smile. She playfully punches his skinny arms.
Eclipse is not having a good time.
Sure this might be good for him because you know, exercising. But, Something felt off about the bread he stole.
Or it's just the beast hunters currently chasing after him through the forest.
He doesn't know what's up with these beast hunters, did they think he's a wild beast or something? Because if they did, that's just stupid. He doesn't want to hurt them because it will worsen the situation, but it's tempting. Good thing he have decent self control because they'll get sucked by a blackhole the moment they started to throw their nets at him. Which is his first encounter with them.
He hid behind a tree and quickly teleports to his cave, and the moment he appear with his bed Infront of him, he collapses. No matter how annoying it is to get chased, it's fun because of adrenaline, he's getting kind of worried if he would go as far to play with his luck just to feel.
He sighs, how will he met Caleb? What if he accidentally ran into Caleb? Or worse Evelyn! Yeah no, he would like to keep his head, thanks because regenerating it would be a hassle.
He sat on his bed, munching on the bread he just stole and smiles in satisfaction. He starts to think about what would happen if he kills Philip. He mumbled out torture methods.
He blinked, then out of nowhere, his bread that he just munched on is whole. What the fuck. He looks at the moonlight peeking through the vines and noticed that it's lower than before. What.
He opens his palm and he can feel something buzzing on his head, what? Why are they calling him? He summons a star and calls Uranus back.
"Hello-?" He asks.
"Dear youngest, have you been taught of space and time manipulation?" They asks sweetly.
He felt chills "Uh-" yes yes sun did "-No?"
It was silent.
"Don't treat me like a fool, you asked me about it seconds ago" they said.
Its true that he said that but, it was weeks ago "where are you going with this?spit it out" he frowned.
"Dear youngest, did you traveled back in time?" They asked.
"No, this is stupid" he responded.
And just like that, the star dissapears. Man what an ass. Anyways, back to brooding, what if he prevents Caleb's murder? Wait no, if he did prevents it his knowledge of the future will be useless.
What if he kills Philip? Probably the same and Luz probably won't have her character development.
He'll make sure everything went like canon. He'll make sure of it, but first, he need to have Caleb to pity him. And he'll unknowingly watch his performance, if he manages to trick Evelyn then everything will be much easier.
Now...he needs to prepare a script.
Notes:
Bakudeku slime. I'm entering my MHA and NARUTO phase and I need to kill someone because of this brainworm. I need it OUT.
Chapter 16: UPDATE!!!!
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I know it's not what you guys wanted but, my depression got worse. I also have schizophrenia and it's getting worse. My country is kinda falling apart and I have writer's block. I am sincerely sorry for the dissapointment, i AM continuing this series I promise. I'm NEVER abandoning this, it's so fun to make for me.
Anyways here some art to see eclipses disguise:
https://www.tumblr.com/luvuuuuu11111/760973358813855744/art-dump-the-last-pic-is-my-siocsasuke?source=share
Chapter 17
Summary:
You haven't learned, have you eclipse?
Notes:
no way a NEW CHAPTER???? SORRY ITS RUSHED I FINAL GOT OUT OF MY WRITING BLOCK TEMPORARILY AND YOU CAN TELL..
SHOUT-OUT TO THAT ONE PERSON WHO KEEPS COMMENTING AND THAT'S WHEN I REALIZED THATS HOW I NEED MOTIVATION SO I CONCLUDE;
WRITE=COMMENT=MOTIVATION=WRITE AND REPEAT.
WARNING: Torture, blood, and eclipse.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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Eclipse stared as a small beast fell to the ground after he pierced a small yellow cartoony star through the heart, he stares curiously as it slowly dies.
No matter how cruel it is, he needs to test something. He got closer to the dead beast, crouches and hover a hand above it.
He closed his eyes and rewind. The beast started to twitch and after a few seconds it screams in pure agony.
'ah,' he thinks 'uranus is right, their screams are the best' he chuckled.
He pulled his hand back as he watches the beast. Its eyes wild and unseeing, it's entire body twitches and it kept on screaming.
"Shhh you're gonna alert the beast hunters and the last thing I needed is a clawthrone finding me" he whispered as if it could hear him.
He stood up, dusting off his yellow robe and gave one last look to the beast. The beast stopped screaming but its mouth still wide open, roughly gasping for air.
it stares at him, terror clear in its eyes and the shaking got more violently. Still laying spasming on the dirt.
He's not sure what expression he's making but it seemed to terrify it. He clasped his hands and the beast flinched so violently that it slightly moves an inch away.
"well, thanks for being my test subject! I appreciate it" He says.
He turns and walks away, leaving it.
He wonders if it worked on bigger beasts too.
Oh yeah, he needs more bread and some vegetables. He have some leftover snails anyway so it's alright.
He quickly teleports to the market, surprising little kids around, some of the adults didn't even give him a glance.
He didn't mind, he made his way to his usual place and also did some thinking. Now that he knows how to revive a living thing, can he do it on humans? beasts here are wild and stupid until emperor belos existence.
Witches have their own mind and their body are more used at magic since they can teleport which literally rearranging their atoms to a different area, meaning, unlike beasts, it will work like a charm on witches. Not sure about humans though.
Maybe less painful on witches? Hm, maybe he should do some testing. Maybe it'll be useful for something.
"Kid are ya gonna pay for these or not?" He heard a irritated voice, he looks up "ah, I apologize" he said as he pulls out the required amount of snails then left.
He holds the bread and stares at it. He wonders what it's made out of.
He took a bite, the bread still whole as some older witches stares at him oddly. He didn't mind.
What if he kills Caleb before Philip can? He chuckles, that's stupid. He started to think that he's slowly loosing his mind with how slow time is. Maybe he should get back with the archivists? Time goes so fast there it's basically the same as time travel.
Eh, maybe later, months here is basically just 2 or 3 hours there. He should probably track down the owl house.
Eh, mayyybe later though he wonder how fairies taste like though. Fairy hunt!
And maybe check on his grimwalker copy, oh yeah he forgot about that thing. He smiles, his eyes glinted as it curves up.
Great, now he's kind of curious. If he wants to check maybe he should find a way to get to the in-between. One of the way to get there is to die, he just have to remember how Liz--Luz got there when meeting with her mom or something. Oh he loved a good challenge, maybe he could-
"Hey, Caleb right? The human?"
He thought he almost break his neck by how fast he whipped his head towards the source of the voice.
"come home early and don't die!" Evelyn calls from the couch. Caleb opens the door "I'll be careful" he replied.
Caleb made his way to the market while counting on how much snails he has. Caleb hummed, enough for a simple stew for Evelyn.
When he arrives, some of the bipeds greets him, witches also greets him. He likes how nice they are. One of the biped comes up to him.
"Hey, Caleb right? The human?" They asks. Caleb let out a friendly smile "yeah, that's me" he replied.
The biped hummed "can you help me with something? I promise it won't take long" they says, Caleb raised a brow "Well..what is it?" The biped beams "I heard you can sculpt nicely and you worked for the clawthrone ladies!" The biped reaches on their bag "and I was just wondering if there's something..off about this" the biped pulls out a palismen.
Caleb gently grabs it and began to inspect "well...the leg is too long on the left and the right one is too thick, it would be difficult for it to walk properly" he turns it around "one of the eye is too small which would results making it half blind" he says and gave it back to the biped.
The biped smiled "oh! Thank you so much!" The biped then turns around and left. Caleb's chest felt warm, they're so nice.
Caleb went to a vegetable stall, he picks up vegetables that he sees as edible to him, well- if it's being sold here as in the demon realm...then why would it be dangerous to eat for them? He gave the required snails to the owner and left.
While he walks away be felt something tugging at his pants. Caleb turns, and sees a long black haired child with a yellow cloak. Then before Caleb could say anything, the child dragged him off--how is a child this strong!?--to a more secluded area.
Caleb tensed, and took a step back "wha--" the child cuts him off by shushing him and whisper-shouted "are you really a human!?" Caleb blinked and narrowed his eyes, nodding hesitantly.
The child gripped his wrist making Caleb winces "Are you serious!? I- i- i thought I'm the only one!" The child shouts. Wait what. "Wait what?" He finally says.
The child looks hysterical "if you're here- does that mean that you- you have a way to get back to the human realm!?" The child shouted.
Caleb splutters "wait- hold on, you're a human!? How long have you been here!?" He exclaimed, he can't help but feel concerned for the kid, the kid barely looks 9 and have to live on his own on a different world! Where everything could kill a child like him.
The child frowned "I've been here for like- I don't know! 2 years?" The kid shook his head "doesn't matter!" Yes it does "you work for the clawthrone ladies right? One of them sells human stuff so that means she have the key back to the world, and If she manages to get to the human realm and then sells the stuff to the demon realm, means she knows how to get back!" The kid rambles.
Meanwhile, Caleb stares at the kid Infront of him, he can't believe there's someone younger than him, manages to get stuck in a dangerous world like the boiling isles. Unlike the kid, he has someone to be with and be kept safe while the kid Infront of him.. doesn't.
He looks a the childs dirty face, the childs dirty attire and the dirty cloak. The kid looks 9 and survived the demon realm all on his own, he can't imagine the panic, fear and confusion the kid felt when he first got here. 2 years ago. He was around 7. A child.
Oh lord, his twin is lost somewhere in the boiling isles.
"--Please! Help me please!" the child begged. Caleb's heart ache at the sight. He vaguely can see someone taking the kids place.
Caleb nods "yes, I'll help you" the child beamed and there's so much relief visible in his eyes and posture it made Calebs heart ache even more.
Then the child perks up again "Thank you so much! I'm...Enzo!" He grins. What a bright kid, Caleb thought. Caleb smiled "I'm Caleb, and I've been here for only a few months," he brushes off his clothes "do you have a place to stay?" He asked.
The child--Enzo nodded "yep! I've been living in a cave for a while...kinda stinks" he grumbles. Caleb then have an idea "how about you stay with us? I mean- Me and Evelyn clawthrone" he suggested, the child gave a bright grin as if he just saw a treasure right Infront of him "Do I!? Yes!! Let's meet up here again okay? I have to go gather my stuff" He exclaimed and put his hand Infront of him, his pinky aiming towards him.
"Pinky promise?" Enzo said eagerly.
Caleb smiles and intertwined their pinky together.
"Pinky promise." He said firmly.
Holy shit Eclipse cannot believe it's happening right now. He spoke to Caleb and doesn't freak out! The relief he felt when Caleb believes his story is like drinking cold water during a hot day.
The hysteric he felt is just him channeling all the frustration of time being so slow on display but with different lines.
He looks around his cave, what a drag. he made his skin bruised up, clothes dirty and makes himself stinky just for all this. Eclipse claps his hand and the clothes he wears changed into a more cleaner one.
He made the bed disappears, and everything in it. The books, scrolls and star gliders is kept in his mindscape.
He summons a bag and put his food, dirty clothes and some tools and books. To make it believable of course. Oh, don't forget weapons. He summons a metal pipe.
Perfect.
Oh wait he forgot the dried blood.
He swipes on it and there it is, now it's believable. He stares at his hand, it looks calloused enough...right? Is his skin too soft? They might get suspicious and maybe he should make his hands calloused and his skin harder.
Oh stars he can't believe he's gonna live with Caleb! Ah, he's getting off track, anyways...maybe he should, yeah.
He made his skin harder and there's a lot of scars, bruises all over his body especially his back. Putting some random potions on his bag just in case they ask too much question.
Eclipse bounces on his feet and immediately teleports to the entrance of bonesborough. He pull up his cloak and He walks in, carefully went back to the place where they promised to meet up.
There, eclipse just sits down and take a small nap.
Now Caleb feels really guilty for inviting a stranger to Evelyns house, but he's sure she'll probably understand..he hope so.
"HOOT! CALEBS BACK!" hooty went up to his face "PASSWORD PLEASE!" he says cheekily. Caleb chuckles "Hello hooty" he says simply.
"Hooty! Let him in!" Evelyn called from the inside. Hooty whines dramatically and opens the door, letting Caleb to walk inside.
Once he's in, Evelyn glanced at him "So, did something chaotic happened?" She teases. Caleb rubs his neck nervously, when he did that Evelyns gaze started get slightly concerned "okay seriously, what happened when you're out" she says flatly.
Caleb sighs and started to look around the room "Evelyn can we...talk?" He says awkwardly. Evelyn frowned "..Alright" she patted a spot on the couch for him to sit on.
"Well, what is it?" She asked. Caleb took a deep breath "Well, when I was out to buy some vegetables- which is here" he put the bag Infront of them both "anyways, when I was buying these I met... another human" Evelyns eyes widen "Another human!?" She shouted and Caleb winces.
Evelyn run a hand through her hair "How!? I made sure nobody came through the portal with me!" She stated, she locks eyes with Caleb. Caleb tensed "that's the thing! I don't know how he got here" he responded "He says that he's been here for 2 years!" He explained.
Evelyn frowned and eyes Caleb expectantly, Caleb then continued "He's a child Evelyn. He's here, alone on the boiling isles searching for his twin, and he's 9" he stressed. Evelyn gasped softly "and he's been here for 2 years?" She hisses, Caleb nods grimly.
Caleb took another deep breath "and..I told him that I could help him" he said slowly "And...I was hoping if you have a spare room?" He finished nervously.
Evelyn stares at Caleb before it clicks "are you..."
'Okay Caleb you got this' He took a deep breath.
(AN: I'm NOT writing allat)
Evelyn stood up "Are you even SURE that it's a human!?" She shouted. Caleb tensed "there are many beast that's able to shapeshift Caleb, including the ones I've been hunting!" She continues.
Caleb also stood up "Evelyn! I'm sure" his voice wavered, uncertain, then he realizes that; he just believes he kid—if it is a kid. He listened to the kids story, he then reminded himself that this is not the same as the human realm, everything that the human realm thinks as fairy tales are real in the demon realm.
But...he can't help but know that everything the kid does is genuine, but he thinks again, the relief could be that Caleb believes his fake story.
The round ears....it could be fake, or not. The kid have so many scars, Caleb doesn't know how to feel about that.
But he knows, he knows that this kid is a human. It could be the shapeshifting beast that Evelyn is hunting, but...even with the thought of that feels...wrong.
His heart aches of not helping him—it—him. Something tugs at him saying that it is the shapeshifting beast but at the same time something also tugs at him that it's not.
Evelyn narrowed her eyes, no doubt she knows that Caleb had a battle within himself "we can't risk it Caleb" she said firmly.
"But-" he tried, there's a sinking feeling in his gut. Evelyn frowned "there's too many trickster beasts roaming around, it's dangerous"
Caleb looks up at Evelyns gaze "I know that kid is not a beast Evelyn please" even in his own ears, he sounded lame.
"No, he won't be staying" she said sternly and that's that— she turns around and left.
Guilt pools in his stomach 'im sorry Enzo' he thinks, one part of his mind can't help but think that, maybe Evelyn is right..He's new here after all...
What does he know?
Notes:
Never let your hopes up.
Chapter 18: When it rains
Summary:
It's raining, you know what that means.
Notes:
Hey....waves awkwardly...so...I'm not dead!!! Hooray!!!!! Hah...you guys are happy to see me right?? Heheh...
Can you tell this is a filler post? I swear I'm working on it I have SO many ideas in my mind I'm actually writing lots of it I cannot wait bro!!!!
Also I love svsss. I love Shang qinghua.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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It's raining acid again.
It's one of his most hated change in this place.
Many witches and bipeds are left homeless. Some even die from it.
Boiling isles? More like burning isles.
It takes a lot of magic just for the acid rain not to destroy any of their stuff. He means, well, he can just coat his cave with his own magic but he doesn't want more attention on himself than he already has.
Which is stupid on his part.
He ran through the acid rain, coating himself in his magic, as faint as possible to protect his clothes and his cloak.
The alleyway he slept in is destroyed.
He doesn't care who owned it.
When a drop of the acid fell onto the bricks of it, the magic activated. It burns his back.
It burns, so much.
It hurts.
But, now is not the time.
What he should be focusing? His fucking cave.
He stumbled, the dirt merged onto the puddle of acid, splashing it on his legs and his shoes, it doesn't hurt but the thought of it being acid, sent shivers and never failed to make him shudder and even flinch away from it.
It's common sense that acid is deadly. But he's no longer a mortal. He's a celestial being, a powerful being, an untouchable, ancient being. Not human. No it wouldn't hurt you stop shuddering. Stop screaming. It won't hurt you.
Eclipse is just stupid to forget.
The smell of smoke and the sound of the acid dripping and sizzling, keep making his heart—does he have a heart?—race.
Barely any trees in the boiling isles because of the acid rain. When it rains, it burns.
Most beasts stay underground when it happens.
How fortunate that acid rains rarely happens.
The vines dissapeared. There's spots on the roof of his cave. Fucking hell. He forgot to protect it. Oh my stars he's gonna pull out his hair out and kill someone.
Now he's going to move and he's going to have to fucking store his stuff in his mindscape which would make his head heavier and have fucking headaches that he'll have to endure until he found a different cave which if he's even lucky enough to find a non-hole-roofed cave or even a cave without a hole on the ground where wild beasts live in. He does not want to make more enemies towards those beasts. Four is enough thanks and they're a pain in the ass.
What a day.
It fucking rain acid today, everyone's day turned into a bad day automatically anyways.
No, he doesn't smell any burned flesh. Nope.
He gagged.
"Is that acid!? It rained acid here!?" Caleb shouts. Evelyn sighed heavily and nods "it happens sometimes, it usually lasts for atleast a few hours before it left." She said.
Caleb still couldn't grasp on the fact that it's raining acid. The temperature turns really really hot he noticed, his body tensed at every sizzling sounds he hears from outside.
"What about the trees? The animals?" Caleb asked, taking a glance out the window.
....
"..they burn away" Evelyn said quietly.
"...oh" yeah 'oh' Caleb.
"HOOT!! EVELYN ITS SO HOT OUTSIDE!! IM BURNING!!!!!!" Hooty cried and smashed his way in through the window—he's getting strong—and shook off those glass shards from himself.
Evelyns eyes softened "alright, come on Caleb you're getting hot too right?"
Caleb blinks then nods "ah, yeah" he wiped a sweat from his temple with his sweaty arms. Oh my god.
Evelyn snorted at the horrified look from the human. She's sweating too.
Hooty is panting, his tounge out as he whined and groaned. His feathers are getting wet.
Everyone take a bath after acid rains anyways. It's one of the only thing that lift up everyone's spirits after the rain.
Somewhere, a man panicked when it rained. His clothes wet from sweat and he's been moving from cave to cave and all left with a hole on the roof of it.
He settled on under the deep cave on the side of a mountain.
Somewhere, eclipse is fighting hand to hand with a beast for a tunnel to stay in.
Notes:
Also have u guys heard the song 'play my way'??? Some part of it is actually SO fitting for future chapters.
'now watch him fall apart'
'now watch him gush and bleed'
'he had a beating heart that ended with a little scream!'
Heh....I know what you guys are thinking when you read that. I promise you it's not what u think.
'could you help me find my friend?'
'is he there?'
'or is he there?'
'i can't find him anywhere!'
I Know you guys already know what I'm referring to lmao
Anyways a little update; my life got worse!!! My life is falling apart and I'm doing everything I can to keep my sanity intact!! Infact I'm trying my hardest and I can feel it slipping away day by day.
Oh wow that was too much my bad gng.
Anyways I hope it's SOMEWHAT enjoyable, see you guys later on the new chapter!!!
Chapter 19: not a chspter
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sorry for not posting chapters to those who is interested in this 😭😭😭
i enlisted in the military 💔