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endlessvoiq · 2 years ago

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A Taste of a Bitter Past

(1233 words, CW for : a bit of fighting kind of but honestly there isnt much to warn about here)

Vini sat on a large wooden box, waiting for his groupmates to return.

As far as they were concerned, Ket, Kory, and Malcom were off getting some work done. Sure, Vini was technically supposed to be getting something else done as well, but they'd completely forgotten what it was, and either way, they weren't sure if he had really understood in the first place.

The nybble tapped the box a bit, boredly glancing around. They took off their hat, spinning it around in their hand and smiling to themself. As they spun the hat, however, it eventually flew out of their hand, landing a good distance away. "Ah- hey! Get back here, hat!" Vini yelled, hopping off the box and snickering as they ran to get their hat.

Before Vini could grab their hat, however, they bumped into someone. "Wuah-" they stepped back, looking up to see who it was.

A blue scareware stood above them. He had a cloak covering most of his seemingly scrawny body, and two small scars on his mouth. On the scareware's back, a spear was, and in his hand, Vini's hat. Vini blinked.

"uh, hi. Can I please have my hat back?" Vini asked. The scareware just stared at them for a moment.

"...ah, my apologies, this is yours?" the scareware hissed in response, his slight annoyance going unnoticed by the nybble.

"Yeah! That's why I said it's my hat."

The scareware grumbled, "well, I suppose I could return it. Sorry for your…inconvenience," he then handed the hat back to Vini.

"Oh, nice!-" Vini put their hat back on, "-thank you!" They called, now turning away to walk off.

"Hey- wait!" the scareware called out. Vini stopped, turning back around.

"Huh?"

"I just happen to…I'm looking for someone. Three someones. I don't know if you know them, but I may as well ask…" The scareware trailed off.

"Oh, I can't be sure I'll know them, but I can try to tell you if I do!" Vini puffed out their non-existent chest, surprisingly causing the blue scareware to laugh a bit.

"Hah! Thank you, little nybble. Now…I'm looking for this one real well-dressed malware, a holly gruel with a spear, and an espacibell, and, er, that last one might have some paint stains on him…do you happen to know any of them?" the scareware tilted his head, staring down at Vini.

Vini didn't have to think at all before responding, "oh! Those sound like my groupmates! Are you looking for them? Ket, Kory, Malcom?" Vini stared up with an unaware eye as the scareware stepped back.

"...your groupmates?" The scareware murmured with dismay. Vini blinked.

"Is…something wrong?" The nybble stepped forward, glancing to the side as they noticed a familiar figure running over, to the scareware's unknowing. The scareware seemed to notice Vini looking, snapping around just as Ket stabbed her spear into one of the scareware's horns, breaking a chunk of it off. The scareware yelped in pain before Ket shoved him away, standing in front of Vini and pointing her spear at the scareware.

"Stay the HELL AWAY from Vini!" Ket bellowed, glaring at the scareware. Vini flinched. They'd never heard Ket sound so angry before.

The scareware stared at Ket, at first in shock, which then shifted to anger as the scareware stood up. "You REPLACED ME!" He hissed, his voice edged with a betrayed tone that made Vini feel slightly bad for the stranger.

Ket only scoffed in response, "replaced? Yeah, right! You gave up your position in this group the moment your spear took a life," she spat in an irate disgust. Vini stepped back in a bit of fear, suddenly being pulled further away by Kory. Vini hadn't even noticed him and Malcom had arrived with the commotion going on.

"It was an accident!-" the scareware had started to yell, silenced mid-sentence by Ket whacking her spear against the scareware's head.

"You know damn well it wasn't an accident, you RAT! We SAW you standing over their body!" Ket growled as the scareware staggered back.

"I just- I want forgiveness! I'm sorry!" The scareware cried out, jumping away from Ket's spear as she slashed at him.

Ket gripped her spear, glaring at the scareware with unbridled hatred. "After what you've done? If you think we're going to forgive you after you killed our groupmate, our friend, you can shove that thought RIGHT UP YOUR-"

Vini was unable to listen more as they were suddenly picked up by Malcom and pulled away. They tried to turn to focus on what Ket was saying, but the vicious yelling, despite its volume, was difficult to understand as Malcom ran further and further away. He only stopped once the two had reached the soccer field behind the apartments, placing Vini down behind the wall and sitting nearby. Vini shuddered a bit, looking up at Malcom in confusion. The malware was shaking.

"...Malcom?"

Malcom hesitated, taking off his monocle and wiping his eye before looking at Vini. "Yes?" He responded after a moment, his voice hardly more than a shaky whisper.

Vini thought for a moment. So many questions were running through their head, so many things they wanted to say. "What's…why…?"

Malcom sighed, sitting up straighter, "...you shouldn't have been dragged into this."

Vini stared up at their groupmate. "What?"

"You- no, not you, the others- I told them they should've told you what's happened in the past. I saw you overhear the conversation Kory and Ket had a while back."

Vini flinched. They remembered it still : Kory and Ket had been talking- possibly even arguing- about some sort of important thing. They hadn't noticed Vini. Malcom had been off to the side, making tea. Vini hadn't paid much attention to that. He did not know Malcom had seen him.

Malcom noticed Vini flinch, and shook his hands, "y-you're not in trouble, though, no! No, it's fine. You'd have found out about the past eventually. I wanted to, but Ket…no, the both of them refused to."

Vini blinked, thinking, "...did that scareware really…?"

Malcom looked at the ground, a glint of sorrow in his eye, "yes. Yes, he did…an old friend of ours. It was an older friend of ours. Spectre, he used to- oh, uh, that's the scareware's name, Spectre- he…used to be in our group, as well, before…"

"...before it all happened," Vini murmured. Malcom only nodded in response. The nybble looked down at the ground. If the thoughts in their head were running before, then damn it, they were sprinting now. Vini's mind felt so cluttered with thoughts and thoughts and questions with no answers as of now.

Malcom sighed, looking down at Vini, "...please don't ask the others about this. Or, well, uh, Kory might be fine, but…" Malcom hesitated. "...Ket's still angry. She's been angry for so long- it's fine for her to be upset about it, of course, this is a terrible situation, I just- I just don't want her to snap at you. You don't deserve to have that anger taken out on you. You were never involved in this."

Vini only listened as Malcom spoke. When he'd finished, Vini took off their hat, staring at the three ribbons on it. "Is…she ever gonna stop being angry?"

Malcom blinked, and frowned, "...I don't know."

"I hope so."

"...yeah," Malcom looked off, back toward the alleys. "I hope so, too."

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WOOO, STUFF!! Also, a few things I'd like to say : 1, sorry for just vanishing off the face of the earth on this account for a while lmao, I've had this and the final pre-written story done for a while now, just couldn't find the motivation to set up and post them. 2, sorry for never actually designing Ket, Kory, and Malcom!! To clarify them, Ket's the holly gruel, Kory's an espacibell, and Malcom. he's the malware. But yeah, I'll post the final pre-written thing soon, hope whoever reads this enjoyed doing so!!

#databrawl #fanfiction #end.lessv #databrawl ocs #Spectre (DB OC)#Vini (DB OC)#Ket (DB OC)#Kory (DB OC)#Malcom (DB OC)#fandom writing

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q-uzi · 2 months ago

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