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hqmillioncorn · 6 months

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The fires of love will never die

Babycorn looked over to where Cherrypit was still holding onto the fishing rod. They had been asked to fish out a very specific fish out from the ocean. From the drawing she had been shown of it Babycorn already decided she wanted NOTHING to do with it. She looked over to Cherrypit again. He looked back and waved back at her with a big dopey smile. He was having fun. Babycorn couldn't understand it. How could anyone ever stand to even be near a fish? So slimy and wet and so very violent!! And the way they would just stare at her...Creepy...

Lalapril 4/4: Coast young babycorn visits the beach with her friiiiiiends!!! and learns about the ocean :) but uh oh watch out

“Woaaahhh…”

Babycorn watched as the ocean water slid on the sand, closer, then farther. Then it came close again and then it went away again. Over and over. The question of why it was doing that rang in her head over and over, as many times as the tide came in.

She was so entranced by the ocean that she wasn’t even paying attention to the time.

Allie carried the last of their supplies onto their dinghy. Thankfully they had gone through most of everything they brought so this timen Babycorn wouldn’t have to spend the entire ride clinging onto one of their heads. “Looks like we’re all set to go!” Allie addressed the rest of the team. Since it had been a relatively small island gathering only four of them, including her, had been assigned to cater it.

“It’s about time!” Her twin sister Annie slowly made her way over to the boat. She was hunched over, rubbing at her sore back. “My back is killing meee!”

“You’re the one who said you wanted to come.” Allie reminded her.

“Hmph.” Annie rolled her eyes and straightened her back, “I was only worried that something would go wrong! You did agree to come here with Babycorn.” There was no need for her to mention that Babycorn had only been helping them for less than a month at this point. This job wasn’t anything too important but Annie couldn’t bear to think what would happen if they got any negative reception at this point.

“I thought she could use the experience!”

There was something about Allie’s nonchalant attitude that was making Annie’s back pain even worse. “I’m sure she could have gotten experience back at our actual restaurant .” Why was Allie even bringing Babycorn on jobs when she wasn’t even considered an employee at all?

All it was good for was giving Annie a headache.

The question seemed to fly over Allie’s head, as instead of answering it she was busy looking over to where Centella was standing still, watching over Babycorn who was standing even stiller than she was.

“Hold that thought.” Allie gestured at her sister and walked over to see what was going on.

“H-Huh?! You can’t just ignore me!!”

Allie turned around but kept walking towards Centella and Babycorn, “I’ll be right back I promise!” She flashed her twin a thumbs-up and turned back around.

It was true Allie had a bad habit of getting distracted mid-conversation but in her defense she had a remarkable memory and was able to pick a conversation back up right away.

Not that it still didn’t annoy Annie at points. “Sure! I guess!” She threw her hands up in desperation and brought them back down immediately. “I’ll just be over here! The only person that cares about our job!”

Annie could only manage minding her own business for a total of three minutes before grumbling to herself and following Allie to see what in the hell the others were up to.

When Allie got there she noticed that Allie was hunched over alongside Babycorn, both of them were looking at something in the sand.

It also looked like they were talking about something. Considering everything she knew about Babycorn it was probably something involving food or her new friend she made by the docks a few days ago.

Centella was still standing in the same spot, staring at the waves in front of her. At first she had just been making sure Babycorn wasn't going to get carried off by the ocean but after Allie had shown up her attention switched to staring at the horizon. Something about it made her just a little homesick.

Centella noticed Annie from the corner of her eye. She was looking as grumpy as ever, but as everyone who worked with her knew, that was just sorta what she looked like. Deep down she was actually really sweet but it wasn’t she went around advertising or anything. “H-Hi Annie! Is everything ready to go?” With all that in mind, Centella still couldn’t help but be nervous around her.

“Yeah.” Straight and to the point, that was how Annie usually was. “We can leave once Babycorn and Allie are done with whatever it is they’re doing.”

Centella’s ears perked up in excitement. She knew the answer to this one! “Oh it won’t be long then! Babycorn found a little tide pool and Allie is teaching her about it!” It was another way of saying ‘stopping Babycorn from potentially getting herself hurt from touching something she shouldn’t.’

Annie groaned, “Really? Isn’t this something she could teach her back in Limsa?”

“Well it's like my brother always says; Hands-on experience is the best kind!”

“Your brother? You mean the Chocobo racer?” Annie asked.

“The very same!” Centella briefly wondered for a moment if K’achow ever talked about her with his friends. “He always told me that he learned how to work with Chocobos from helping a Chocobo farmer with helping take care of them.” It also didn’t hurt that he also got paid to do it.

“Guess so…” Annie couldn’t help but feel that there was a difference between the two but for whatever reason she couldn’t come up with anything. Even though she was so sure. This train of thought did bring her to another question she had been ruminating on for a while.

“So Centella?” Annie’s voice turned into a hushed tone. Allie wasn’t very attentive but it was better to be safe than sorry. “Can I ask you something?”

Centella turned to look at Annie “Hmm?” She wondered what else Annie had to ask from her. Hopefully it wasn’t for an autograph from her brother, she’d had enough of his fans showing up to her work for one lifetime.

“What do you know about Babycorn?”

“...Huh?” Centella mindlessly twirled the end of her braids around her finger. “What do you mean?”

Annie sighed in desperation. “I mean what do you know about her! Think about it! We all know things about each other! I mean not whole life stories but we know at least some things! Like how you’re related to some hot-shot chocobo racer and M’yusa has a boyfriend back home where she lives!” Most of the time when they found out something among each other was after work, during times like this. “But think about it…We don’t know anything about Babycorn! Don’t you find that a little bit suspicious?”

Centella was a little too surprised to answer immediately.

Once she was able to gather her thoughts and feelings, she was just confused. “Suspicious? Of Babycorn? You’re not serious are you?” There was nothing about Babycorn that set off any red flags about her. She had never given them a reason to.

Annie however, thought differently. “Of course I’m serious!”

Centella could have sworn that the waves of the ocean picked up in intensity just then. It must have been her imagination.

“We just happened to find her rummaging through our things after one of the busiest days of the year?” Annie continued, “It just seems too good to be true. There has to be something up…”

Centella didn’t know what to say to that. Especially when she knew that Babycorn loved Annie with her whole heart. Something that Babycorn had told her one morning when Centella was helping her brush her hair.

It made sense, it had been Annie who had given Babycorn the first peace offering between all of them. It had been Annie who was the first that hadn’t scared her.

The sound of the ocean’s waves calmed. “I think…she’s just a scared kid. It happens right? Maybe something happened to her family and she just doesn’t want to talk about it.” Centella shrugged, it made the most sense to her. “Babycorn will tell us about herself when she wants to. I don’t think it's a good idea to push it…”

“...That so?”

Evidently it really wasn’t what Annie wanted to hear but she decided to accept it for now.

There was a heavy tension between the two. Centella wanted to say something to ease Annie’s feelings but she was cut off by a sudden loud scream coming from the beach.

“Allie?!” Annie took off running towards her sister with Centella following closely behind her.

When both of them reached the other two girls they were met by a confusing sight. Babycorn was lying on the ground, completely knocked out and Allie was kneeling right next to her. As weird as the situation was, it got even weirder when Centella noticed that Allie didn’t look all too worried.

Instead she just looked really confused.

Centella knelt down next to Allie and placed her hand on Babycorn’s forehead, there was a noticeable bump on it. The kind that could only happen from something hitting her square in the face. “Did something happen?” Had it happened while she and Annie were talking?

Annie looked at her sister and then at Babycorn. “Weird. There aren’t any stairs here for her to fall from.” Usually that’s what happened when Babycorn hurt herself. “Did she trip on a seashell or something?”

Allie shook her head. While that did sound like something Babycorn would do, that wasn’t the case this time.

There was an odd moment that Centella took note of. Allie seemed to be trying to hold in laughter. “Right. I…uhm…I pointed at a fish swimming near us and the next thing I knew it jumped out of the water and hit her square in the face like-! WACK!” Allie smacked herself in the forehead to demonstrate what had happened.

“...Owwie…” Allie instantly regretted doing that. If her hand had hurt that much it made sense that a Wahoo hitting Babycorn on the forehead would be enough to just knock her out. Babycorn was pretty small.

As soon as Annie heard what had happened she burst out laughing. “Attacked by a fish?! And here I thought Babycorn loved eating. If she really did-she would have caught that thing in her mouth.”

“Don’t say that!!” Allie protested, “I’ve been teaching her this entire time that she can’t put everything in her mouth!”

“Oh yeah.” Centella wondered out loud. “That’s a problem right? Since she keeps putting our cleaning supplies in her mouth.” Bars of soap with teeth marks on them had started to become commonplace ever since Babycorn started living with them.

“That’s more than a problem I think…” Allie sighed.

Deciding that they were done here and Annie wasn’t going to stop laughing any time soon she carefully picked Babycorn up from the sand and carried her up. “Well I guess our time here is up.”

“About time!” Annie cheered, it was getting late and the earlier they got back home the more time she would have to clean up whatever mess the others back home probably needed help with.

It was the weekend after all and they were probably getting more customers than usual.

As soon as they all turned to leave, Annie thought she heard something. “Huh?” She quickly turned around and as soon as she did another fish flew out from the ocean, hitting directly in the face.

“AHHHHFFT!” Annie fell back into the sand but unlike Babycorn she wasn’t knocked out in the slightest. Before either Allie or Centella could ask Annie if she was alright, she sat right back up in a rage.

“YOUUUUUUU!!” Annie threw her shoes off and started to walk right into the ocean, her uniform be damned. “COME BACK HERE AND SMACK ME AGAIN YOU COWARD!”

“Are you yelling at the fish?” Allie asked, “I don’t think fish have ears to hear you yell?”

“Do they not? Blooming told me that fish gills are kind of like their ears.” Centella moved her hands around her neck to mimic the movement of gills.

“Oh really?” Allie was surprised to learn that. “You’ll have to tell Babycorn that when she wakes up! Since I didn’t teach her that!”

“THEY WHAT?!”

Centella and Allie were both aback by the sudden addition of Babycorn’s voice to the conversation. Her hair was even more frizzled out than usual and with the sudden shaking she was doing she looked a lot more like a small dog than a teenage girl. “Those things can come out of the w-w-w-water?!” There were very large tears coming out from the corners of her eyes.

If ‘fish’ could be on land too then what was stopping them from attacking her again?!?!

Allie gave Babycorn a reassuring pat on the back, trying to calm her down. “No, no, it’s okay! Fish can’t do anything to hurt you! You’re way too big and strong for that!”

“Don’t lie to the girl Allie.”

By now Annie had given up on finding the fish that had left her with a mark to match Babycorn’s. “Besides she didn’t say anything about fish walking on land-just that they can hear with their ears. That they have. Apparently.”

“B-B-But if they can hear me that means they can get meeeeee!!” Babycorn continued to only hear what scared her the most and grabbed onto Allie’s dress with a tight grip.

Centella thought she noticed a small shadow running past them. It was trying so hard to keep himself hidden that most of them gladly played along for now. At least when Babycorn was paying attention to them.

Allie gently ran her hand across the top of Babycorn’s ruffled head. It sort of resembled the feathers of a Chocobo, but she kept that thought to herself. “No fish will ever get you as long as I’m here!” Pretty bold claim but Allie was willing to say pretty much anything if it helped Babycorn feel better.

Babycorn sniffled. “You promise?”

“I promise!”

#lalapril #lalapril 2024 #Babycorn #Centella #Allie #Annie #and then allie DIES #fun fact i could annie and allies names apart cause of the L's in allies name she takes the biggest L #this story takes place on the isles of umbra in my head but idk who would throw a party there #so i just decided to not mention it but fun fact yay!#annie just has a very short fuse but she means well mean girl #until she doesnt whooppssieee #centella gets kachow fans almost everyday at the resturant and she refuses to serve them #they come because they want to date him so theyre like Can we get your brothers number :plead:

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