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the-fifth-rascal · 6 months ago

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TW: Death, blood.

Lunch almost seemed to go by in a blur. Kaveh and Dehya were just yapping about some random-ass stuff. Makeup, gossip, more gossip, SIMS, and god knows what. He was just tuning everything out as they dug into the nuts, as his mind went to the blazing red glow he saw Dehya emit. Didn’t Kaveh say that he could see others in the color of the element they wield? If Dehya was red…does that mean she could be…what element was red again? Fire? Mauvika? Pyro! She had a vision too? And fire powers no less.

That was crazy. He was crazy. But all genuises are just a little bit crazy, aren't they? He could be onto something! If if one of the first people he'd met at this school already has a vision, then how many potential or recruited vision wielders exist already? And why hadn’t he heard of them before that very day?

His stress was clearly getting to him. Again, Tighnari was a very self aware person. He knew that he was overthinking everything. But overthinking is what kept his ancestors alive. And it'll probably be the one thing to keep him alive too.

Before he knew it, he was sitting at math class. Zoning out. Again. What a shocker. The thing that made him realise that he was zoning out was the multiple notifications that went blaring in his pocket. Not just vibrating, blaring. And it wasn't just his phone too.

Multiple phones were frantically ringing across the classroom. As teachers are bound too, the math teachers forehead creased into a frown.

“Haven't I told you all MULTIPLE times that phones must be silent during class hours?! Kids these days.” He shook his head in blatant disapproval. That was until the infernal noise echoed from his pocket. His eyes widened as he muttered ‘I could've sworn I muted it….’ under his breath. He whipped it out and scrolled through the alert, his face flashing with multiple emotions all at once. Fear, concern, confusion, horror, and even more confusion.

At that, the others in the class simultaneously took out their own phones. Tighnari followed suit as well, scrolling through the news. If it was so bad it had cause an alert, then it'd be better if he knew what it was for. A tornado? A kidnapping? Who knows.

He just hoped it wouldn’t be worse than any of that.

‘Multiple sources from all over Sumeru city are reporting a large strange creature of an unknown and unrecognized species harming and terrorizing citizens. This is not a drill, keep all citizens out of harms way and evacuate the premises to the nearest indoors.’

‘It has been reported that it was heading to the Sumeru Akademiya. What is this strange thing? What are its motives? Around 13 people have been slaughtered by it and 43 injured. More information of the Steambird app.’

And below it all was a blurry image of the creature. Blood stained its teeth red and mangled human flesh wrapped around his claws. It was also kinda..brown and furry. With a white mask. Tighnari didn’t get nightmares from stuff he see’s often. But if anything ever would, it’d be whatever this is.

Naturally, as all children would do in this situation, they started cheering. “NO SCHOOL!” someone cheered, slamming their desk triumphantly. Another kid immediately whipped out their phone. “Guys, group selfie! Apocalypse edition!” “Can we go home now?” someone whined. The entire situation was so frustrating it almost made Tighnari want to pull his brain out of his nose. The teacher, meanwhile, looked like he was having a stroke. “WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE! SAVE YOURSELVES!” he hollered, before sprinting out through the doorWAY. He could hear the sound of him tripping over his own shoelace in the hallway.

Tighnari rushed outside to help him, and others followed suit only to create chaos in the hallways. It wasn’t just them either. Everyone poured out of their respective classes, screaming and running and locking themselves in closets and lockers. It wasn’t long until he found Kaveh doing the same. He promptly tapped him on the shoulder, which made the blond jump half a foot into the air.

“We should escape.” Tighnari whispered “if what the monster or whatever?”

“Monster?! There’s a monster?! What do you mean?! I was just freaking out because everyone else was.” he replied, which made tighnari slap his forehead. He grabbed his hand and attempted to drag him towards the exit.

Then the wall beside him cracked.

It started as a thin line, but the concrete quickly splintered, fractures racing outward like the concrete was fragile as glass. Tighnari’s ears twitched, almost immediately picking up the sounds of heavy thuds behind the wall which made him grip Kaveh’s hand even tighter and pick up the pace.

Poor Kaveh was just blindly letting Tighnari heaven him around like a sack of potatoes, bumping into every nook and cranny as his friend carelessly dragged him around. He could've sworn he heard the sound of something rough slamming against the wall, making debris crumble fron the ceiling. Was this monster thing really legit? Damn.

They managed to reach the bathroom, latching the door of it behind them and heaving sighs of relief. “You use your phone to check Teyvatgram, celestiachat, and akashatube. But not the news?! When there's an alert no less.”

“I got my phone confiscated dumbass.” Kaveh hissed pacing around the bathroom. “Monster?…that seems like it's made up. It's been ATLEAST 500 years since those things went extinct. What could it be, a science experiment that went rogue? An alien from outspace? Rakshasas from hell??”

“The only theory that makes sense here are the science experiment one.” Tighnari replied, walking beside Kaveh. “Isn't it strange?”

Kaveh looked at Tighnari with a single raised eyebrow. His fists were clenched tightly and his eyes lowered into slits as his lips pressed into a thin line. “I just said that, didn't I?”

“It's not just the monster thing. I still don't understand, why is all of this weird stuff happening now? Just because an evil entity might try and destroy Teyvat as we know it, how would the archons know that if they're dead or in hiding? And what's so special about now?” He sighed “I'm overthinking. I hate this.” Groaning, he put his face in his hands, his breathing slightly ragged.

With a look of concern, Kaveh casually wrapped his hand around Tighnari's shoulder. “How about we both head home? It's not like the teachers are gonna teach in all this chaos.”

Scepticiam crossed Tighnari’s face. He was one who rarely cut class. Even when he was sick, he'd find some way to work around it. He even had multiple boxes of surgical face masks that doctors use at home. But there was a minimal chance of classes still going on, especially seeing how his math teacher had panicked.

“Alright…” he murmured, the slight hint of his unconvinced thoughts lingering in his speech. “let's get out of here.”

They both walked towards the door, but a sudden crash through the door sent them reeling backwards from the force of the impact. And it wasn't through the doorWAY, it was through the door. Like, straight through it. The noise of the concrete smashing with the impact was so loud Tighnari had to practically shove his hands into his ears.

When the dust cleared, Tighnari and Kaveh found themselves frozen in their spots, unable to move. Before them, was….a pikmin! No it wasn't, it was obviously the monster from the news. And the monster from the news, had a blood stained, metal, AXE.

Tighnari and Kaveh were glued to their spots, blood running cold. The monstrous creature breaths were heavy, huffing and panting, catching it's breath. It reeked of all things trash, and it's murky for was just disgusting. But it was also ten times the size of both Nari and Kaveh conbined.

They were done for.

Or so they thought.

The minute the monster raised its axe, a blur of blazing red whizzed past them, clocking the thing on the side of its head with a force so strong it toppled over. It let out a roar from the bottom of its throat and flailed around blindly, a deep burn smoking out of the side of his head.

The thing that burned the monster landed on the ground, panting at the sudden exertion of energy, both Tighnari and Kaveh recognising her instantly. That brazen aura. That deep-brown hair.

“What are you both just standing around for losers?!?” Dehya exclaimed ”get out of here!”

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She didn't need to tell them twice. They were out like cardigans on a July, with the creature and Dehya hot on their heels. Luckily for them, only one of them managed to catch up. “So what'd you do to get that monster pissed off?” Dehya asked, sprinting beside the two as they screamed like toddlers.

“WE—DIDN’T—DO—ANYTHING!” Tighnari huffed and puffed with every minute he sprinted, fear taking over his relief of the confirmation of his saneness. Or non-craziness? Whatever.

“YOU—COOL—FIRE—POWERS!” Kaveh gasped out extatically, unable to hide the exuberant gleam of admiration in his eyes. Dehya smirked at Kavehs’ excitement and Tighnari’s frustration as she pulled the two into an abandoned room. Before flicking the power switch of it on, the room was so dark Tighnari could barely see his hands in the front of his face. Just BLACKKKK BLACK AS IT CAN BE 다가가면 갈수록 깊어지는

“Kaveh for the love of god stop singing alien stage you don’t even know Korean.” tighnari groaned, while Dehya just looked confused at the boys sudden outburst before erupting into peals of laughter. When she slapped her knee, that was when he suddenly noticed the boxing gloves on Dehya’s hands that were now a mush of burnt fabric and charcoal.

“Why do you know Korean Kaveh?” “I don’t know Korean, but I know depression. Which means I know Alien stage.” he comments more proudly than he should’ve, earning eye rolls from the others. “Back to the matter at hand,” Tighnari interrupted, silencing the other two as he took in his surroundings. Training mats, an assortment of balls (heh, balls.) and other sporting goods, it should’ve been obvious to them at first glance. But Tighnari’s head was just plain cloudy. Cloudy with a chance of panic. What, did you think he was gonna say meatballs?

Dehya and Kaveh were silent, just staring at Tighnari blankly like they were both sharing a singular braincell. The sudden focus on the boy made him suddenly uncomfortable for some reason. “What are you two looking at me for?!” he demanded nervously, biting down on his lip. “We’re waiting for your plan.” Dehya claimed like it was the most obvious thing ever as Kaveh vigorously nodded his head in agreement.

Tighnari’s face contorted into one of shock as his posture suddenly stiffened, mouth agape in a silent gasp, motioning towards Dehya “Aren’t you the one who has the cool fire powers!? And you saved us, so you should be the one having the plan!”

Now it was Dehya’s turn for the shock, her eyebrows raising high on her forehead as she let out a scoff “I know you have powers too! Don’t even try hiding it you two.” “We weren’t exactly subtle.” Kaveh admitted defeatedly, his shoulders slumping as his face fell.

“You think I didn’t know that?!” TIghnari argued, massaging his forehead exasperatedly. “But we barely know how to use them!” an awkward silence hung in the air, everyone just stealing glances at each other, hoping someone would say something to get themselves out of the debacle. Luckily, Kaveh opened his mouth “Lets just do what we were gonna do before.” he shrugged “go home.”

Tighnari and Dehya looked at him like he was the stupidest person in the room, until the realization hit them both simuntaneously. “Hey…he’s right!” Dehya said “This isn’t our problem to deal with. Lets just walk all the way home and ditch this shithole. Sticking around here is either a death wish or just plain useless. I bet the monster’s gone already.”

“I hate to admit it, but she’s right.” Tighnari concured, his mind going back to all the damage the strange monster had caused, glancing at the cracked crevices of the ceiling “I still don’t like the idea of skipping, but it seems unlikely that anyone would try to take class at this rate.”

“Great!” Kaveh hollered, practically leaping across the polished floors of the gym to get to the doorway. “Then lets go..” the minute before Kaveh could finish his sentence, the door he was about to open and walk through was ripped of its hinges and THROWN at him. Kaveh didn’t have time to react as he was immediately thrown backwards with the sheer force of the door, and was knocked out instantly, stars and darkness clouding his vision as his body throbbed with a sudden surge of pain.

The monster’s roar ripped through the air like a thunderclap, making Tighnari’s ears ring as debris rained down from the ceiling. His heart pounded wildly as he stumbled toward Kaveh. “Kaveh… Kaveh, don’t pass out!” he urged, shoving the broken door off his friend with trembling hands. Relief washed over him when he saw Kaveh’s chest still rising and falling. But he DID sport a massive ugly looking bruise on his forehead that Kaveh would be more horrified at than the possibility of a concussion.

Dehya immediately came forward, fists blazing and a confident determination burning in her eyes “Hey ugly!” she mocked, nervous sweat dripping of her forehead, her brain repeating the words why am I doing this why am I doing this oh i’m so dead in her head like a mantra. But she still held her own. The fire blasts that shot out of her own fists had managed to do quite a bit of damage, but it wasn’t enough power. It wouldn’t be enough to take it down. It wouldn’t be enough.

She started getting exhausted, her chest aching and the fire starting to sear her skin just the slightest. What was she to so now? She couldn’t die now! That would be incredibly embarrassing, and Tighnari would probably faint at the sight of blood anyways. So that meant he’s dead too.

But before she could give up all hope as the monster raised his weapon, ready for the kill, with a whizz and a thwack, something bright and red struck the monster square between its eyes. which made his grip on the blood stained axe tighten as he was knocked backwards. A bright ball bounced off of his head and simply fell to the ground with a tinier bounce.

Dehya turned to see Tighnari gripping a dodgeball as tight as he could, the fear obvious in his eyes but a determined resolve within him arose. “Wow—” he stuttered, letting out a laugh “Why am I doing this? I must be crazy.”

The monster crushed the ball under his heavy foot, deflating it, before charging at the boy. But he reacted quickly, moving out of the way, which left nothing between him and the wall, crashing straight through. While the monster was in a state of distortment, Tighnari turned his attention to the boy splayed on the floor, groaning. He helped him up as he rubbed the new formed purple bruise on his head.

“Mmmmmmhhgg—” he groaned “mwwha—what happennt?” He shook his head and blinked woozily, trying to get back to his senses. “A door slammed into you.” Tighnari replied simply. Kaveh massaged his head and analysed his surroundings, before picking up a baseball bat. “That isn't gonna do shit.” the other boy commented snidely. “And dodgeballs are?!” Kaveh exclaimed astoundedly. “It was meant for a distraction.” Tighnari shot back as the monster was slowly rising up to its feet, huffing and puffing in rage.

Kaveh raised his bat and hit the monster with his bat, but it snapped in half. Looking at the half snapped bat, he giggled sheepishly as it turned to face him, being so close that he could smell the devoured rotting corpses from its breath.

He instantaneously recoiled backwards and held his hands out in front of himself in defence, screaming as the monster raised its axe. Without a second thought, Tighnari rushed forward and pushed him out of the way.

The floor was painted red. Blood seeped through the cracks of the wooden floor as the boy fell to his knees, only hearing the sound of screams all around him. A searing pain shot through his abdomen, so blinding it forced the air from his lungs. The metallic taste of blood filled his mouth as he tried to breathe, his vision blurring at the edges. Screaming, screaming, and screaming. But none of it was comprehendable.

Ah…it hurts….

This really….sucks…

Is this what dying feels like?….

The blood pounded in his ears as he choked on the blood that came up from his abdomen, unable to bring himself to look at the weapon wedged in between his as he fell to his knees, unfelt tears running down his face. His body was in so much pain, yet it somehow felt numb.

Why isn’t…anyone…helping me? Kaveh…Dehya….

Other people make it look so easy…..

Is this really how it feels…?

And that, dear diary, was the story of how the fifteen year old, Tighnari Valukshuna, had met his demise.

The end.

@smileything I'm sorry in advance