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Ejini walks through the door, closes it behind him, grabs a chair, and sits down facing Zanka with a face mixed with good news and worries.
“Doc told me that you're healing more quickly than expected she said it should be around 1 more week, then you should be fine.” Enjin looked over in the room, but it was basic as usual, although the air lingered in something.
Enjin sat up, walked over to Zanka, set a hand on his shoulder, and didn't speak, just sat there in silence that could cut through butter.
“I’ll let you be yo,u still have a decent amount of poison in your system… do you have any questions the doc hasn't really told ya much?” Enijin let his hand fall, and he sat on the bed with a groan from the last mission and how long it was.
“...Can our enemies be good people at times?” Zanka said while he sat up from his chair and sat next to Enjin.
“Well thats a bit of a hard question to put into words, but… even our enemies have souls, ls, and they are people, people who just chose a different path than we did. We might find their ways cruel, but they still have human emotions like us.” Enjin gave a smirk and sighed, and looked over at Zanka.
“Did you fall in love with a chick that works with the raiders or something? I won't judge you. u I have fallen in love with many of our enemies before its just human to feel attraction or to notice someone's looks, ya know.”
“What of course I didn't, and also, how have you not gotten in trouble with the boss with your love affairs with our enemies?” Zanka turned his head over to Eniji in a mix of confusion, but at the same time, he wasn't surprised.
“Well, he knew,w but I just said it was for information, but he kind of knew it wasn't, but at that time he really didn't care that much, so if you're good at your job, then you shouldn't have a problem,” Enjin says while sitting there taking a cigarette out and lighting it.
“...Thats all you can leave now im going on a walk.” Zanka sat up, grabbed his staff, and walked out the door, closing it behind him.
The environment of HQ had always been a mix of chaos and trash, but it was home, and he had already gotten used to that years ago. Zanka stopped at one of the windows in the hall as the sun shone brightly across the place,e shining parts of the HQ that even made a place like this look comforting to many who haven't even stepped in yet.
After some time, Zanak heard a voice from the recovery room, and he layback down on the bed. After 20 minutes of walking, he had realized that he was still injured and still weak as hell.
“Well, that was one hell of a way to tell im still weak.” Zanka grabbed his side and slowly moved to rest himself on the backboard.
He looked over and asaw notebook on his nightstand. He grabbed it and opened it, which was full of notes and drawings from the team and what they had done when he was stuck in recovery and drama, or funny moments he missed.
A small smile appeared on his face as he flipped through the pages for a couple of hours until he hit an empty page. By the time he hit it, the sun was setting, and everyone was heading back to their rooms from dinner.
After a couple of hours, he was in and out of falling asleep, and finally fell asleep, a small click from the window as Jabber opened it, holding a glass vase and a bunch of lilies of the valley flowers. He sets them down, walks over and fills up the vase with water, sets it down on the nightstand, and puts the flowers inside and fluffs them out with some small filler plants.
Jabber walks over there and slowly pushes the hair out of Zanka's face as he looks at him. He let his fingers trace down to his shoulder and let his hand fall to Zanka’s hand and trace the ring on his finger. He slowly grabs his hand and leaves a small cut on Zanka's arm, and licks the blood off his jinki.
“You always look so pretty with red on you, Zan-ta. The day you get stronger, and we fight is the day I will be most excited for, until next time you beat mupp~.”
He walked to the window, opened it again,n closed it behind him,im locked it, and ran off into the night.
The morning sun rose,se and so did Zan. He slowly got up and rested his back on the backboard of his bed using the pillows as extra comfort. He hissed as the pain of the thin cut across his forearm still had blood on if but mostly dry.
“That dam jabber must have been here, I swear that man is the craziest person iv meet.” Zanka looks over and sees the flowers in a vase on the nightstand. The flowers looked fresh and delicate,e but knowing jabber, er they probably had some type of poison to them.
“I’ll keep them there, ere but I'll pass on touching them, knowing that maniac there probably poisons.” But Zaka's face on its own did form a small smile, but he had slowly snapped out of it and sighed.
He sighed, hugged his legs, and sat there in silence, and then he raised his hand to look at the ring on his ring finger.
“Why would he give me one of his rings? Is it his jinki? Is it important to him?”
Zanka rubbed the ring and let it spin off his finger since it was a little bigger than his size. Hehe would wear it.
“Well, if he visited last night, then I guess he wants me to keep the ring, maybe I should give him something, maybe he’ll stop fucking stabbing me.”
Zanka looks around for something that he could give, and he remembered the tassel earring, so he could give him.
“Thats the best I could give is the earring.” He grabs the earring the gets up and cleans it, and he finds a small box and leaves a note, Jabber knows to grab it.
A couple of hours latter Riyo knocks and walks in and leans against the wall, she was already, and she had a mischievous look on her.
“Soooo I talked to doc, and you can go on a small mission with us its just a small robbery from this merchant,” Riyo said while walking over with his uniform folded up,p and she threw it on the spare chair.
“We have 30 minutes, so be ready by then, or we will leave ya behind. I’ll leave to give you privacy." Riyo walks out the door and closes it with a click.
Zaka smiles and quickly gets uup gets dressed, fixes his hair, grabs his staff, and walks out the door and walks out to the front area where his teammates are.
He looked around for who was on this mission for a basic mission; it seemed like there were too many people and also too many cleaners, but he didn't question it. He saw Ryio, Enjin, Rudo, and some helpers.
They hop in their cars, and the sound of people talking and music blasting as they made it to the area, they got out of the car, and they split into 3 groups as they looked for the robbers after they talked to the merchant who had been robbed.
As Zanak’s team was walking around, a group of small raiders popped up and started attacking them. At first, the fight was normal, but over time, more and more people came that weren't the number of people that were there.
“Can we get some fucking back up? They keep coming, and it will be faster if we get more people.”
After 5 minutes, he started getting pissed off,f and after a while, one of the raiders yelled at him that he was weak and how the hell he even got onto the cleaners.
At that moment, Janka snapped and threw his staff, and he went around the raider's neck, pinning them to the cement ground. Janka walked over, ripped out the staff, and started to speedily hit the raider with it.
“O god no please !!” The raider screamed as they kept getting hit, turning black and hitting the walls.
“Stop!!!” The raiders' screams made crackles in the air as the cries died out from the throat dying out.
The staff slammed to the ground as Zanka took a breath and looked the raider in the eyes.
The other cleansers look in shock and a mix of confusion at the same time as Enjin runs over and grabs him to drag him away before he kills the person.
The person looked like a mix of bloodied meat while screaming and crying with a hissing sound in it. Blood was scattered across the pavement and the walls. As they slowly crawled away from him with their arms, their legs looked like noodles in their baggy pants.
“Let go of me, I need to finish this!” Zaka said while tearing his hand away from Enijin and going back to hit again.
Zankagots fell out of his grasp and turned around to the cleaners. His body was covered in blood,d likely running on adrenaline. His face was dirty, and tears from anger and mixed emotions boiled over while gripping his staff.
“Shut the fuck up, dam it all of you, all of you, youdon'tunderstandd!” Zanka screamed and gripped his staff, blood slowly falling from his hand, and tears cleaning the dirt off his face.
He walked over to the raider that was still trying to crawl away. Right when he lifted his staff, he fell to the ground,d and his body went limp. A small cut on his left started spilling blood, and Jabber appeared and picked him up. Amanholee appeared behind him, and jabber walked in with Zanka limp in his arms as the man hole dispensed into nothing.
“ZANKA! ZANKA!”
Shouting not from the cleaners but from the sky?
Zaka’s body quickly went up in a panic, a gasp of air as he grabbed the sheets, as a cold sweat ran down his body. He looked around multiple cleaners looked around him as he still had blurry vision.
“What happened?” Zanka mumbled as Rudo helped him prop up with the pillows.
“We were about to start our mission, but you passed out right before we left for the vehicle. You started to develop a cold sweat, and you started having a panic attach so we put you back here before it got worse. Enjin says while giving him a cup of water.
Zanka grabs the cup of water and takes a sip, and sets it down on the side and stares at the flowers on the nightstand.
After some time, the cleaners leave, and Zanka sits in the room. Hehe slowly grabs the choker and contacts jabber.
“We need to talk now…” Zanka says and sets the choker in his lap.
“Looks like zan-tan wants to talk to me, you going to beat me up when I get there or something~."
The moon sets in, and a small knock is heard as the window opens, and jabber slides in and stands a couple of feet away from him.
“You wanted to talk zan-tan~” Jabber says and skips over to Zanka.
“Why the hell do you keep breaking into my room! And why did you bring me these flowers, and why the hell did you give me the ring? Why just why your so dam confusing, Jabbaer!” Zanka yells, his hands grip the sheets as tears fall down his face.
“Why the hell do I admire you? Whydo I think about you all the fucking time every time you beat me, hm!”
“What fucking poison did you make for me to want for fucking valdashio? I'm supposed to be your to be my rival!” Zanak threw his pillow and shoved his staff on the floor boards, trapping Jabber Zanka's body over jabbers and the tears falling on his face.
“You dam poison manic what the fuck did you do to me uh, uh!” Zanka swings at Jabber and hits him in the face as jabber just sits there smiling.
“Why the fuck are you smiling?” Zanak gets off of him and backs away, and keeps his staff near him.
“Aww, zan-tan im just enjoying our fight,t is that so criminal.l~.”
Jabber has sat up on his knees with his nose bleeding, his head leaning slowly, dripping down his face, falling on the ground. With a smirk of pleasure and pain.
“Fucking masochist,” Zan, ka says out of breath as he's still weak from the poison.
“Says the sadist here.” Jababer teases and kicks his feet like a little girl.
Zanka sighs and sits down on the bed,d and jabber gets up and sits down next to him, messing with him.
Jabber pokes at Zanka's cheek, grabs Zanka’s hand, and looks at the ring that he still keeps on.
“Aww, zan-tan kept his ring on you don't hate me that much, do you.~”
Zanka punches jabber in the si, de and jabber smiles and lays his head down on Zanka’s lap. Looking back up at him, his Blue eyes were dual but still full of life and fight.
“What are you even doing?” Zanka says while dabbing his eyes from crying.
“What can I not rest my head. Jabber responds and grabs Zanka’hand s and sees a cut from the fight that had happened a couple of minutes ago, and he kissed Zanka’s knuckle and gave a smirk.
“Don't even try with me ill beat your ass until next Tuesday,y Jabb,r,” Zanak said and flicked Jabbers forehead.
“Promise~” jabber teased as he held Zanka’s hand and enclosed his hand with Zanka’s.
Zanka pushed Jabber on the floor and set his crossed legs while looking down at him with an eye roll as usual.
“I did promise you I would beat your ass, hm~” Zanka said in a more snarky tone back to his original self.
“Looks like someone is back to normal and snarky as usual, Mr. Bad Attitude.~.”
Jabber pulls Zanka down and lands on him, of course, pissed, choked out Jabber.
“Harder Mr Attitude Bad ~” Jabber smirks and leans more forward, and moves a little piece of hair out of Zanka’s face.
“Yeah im done with you. Get out.” Zanka gets up and takes a couple of steps away.
“Fineeee so mean, but I guess I'll go until next time zan-tan.” Jabber got up and walked over to the window and stood there, leaning against the window frame, looking at Zanka as the soft moonlight showed him.
“Wait, stand there, hold still.” Zanka grabs the small box and walks over,r opens it, holding his tassel earring.
He steps close and stabs it in jabbers right ear, and he made his ear bleed, and blood started to fall. Zanak quickly grabbed a napkin and cleaned the blood.
“Since you gave me your ring, I thought it would be respectful to give you my earring.”
Jabber hugged Zanak and held him there and moved his face to Zanka’s neck and bit his neck and let go and backed off with blood on his mouth, and he licked his lips.
“Shit, that hurt! At least give me a dam warning!” Zanka hit the back of Jabbers head in disappointment and also amusement.
“Until next time,ime Zan-tan~.”
Jabber jumped out the window,d locked it, and ran into the night.
“...That was something.” Zanak twisted the ring in circles and walked over to the bathroom,m and started to clean up the bite on his neck. It was beep, it wasn't full force, but it was there.
“At least a warning would be more helpful,” he said with an eye roll, washed off the blood, and covered it with his jacket.
Zanka walked out and lay down on the bed, nd looked out the window, and saw the moon. It was a full moon, and its light was beautiful, soft but strong. It brought light when its know to be dark, bringing hope to see.
“This is going to be very complicated, ed but I'll get used to it…. at least one day.”
The morning rose, so did Zanka. He got dressed and decided he would go on a nice walk outside of HQ to the nearby city.
He walked past many shops and found nothing,g but while he was there, he did find a nice quiet place where it seemed no one had touched it was quiet and also…. Smelled like trash, but that's not shocking.
“Well, I guess that was some nice air, but they are probably going to freak out when they realize I left without telling anyone.”
“Hey, have you seen Zanka? He's not in the recovery room?” Rudo said, walking into the dining area.
“Hmhn, what do you mean?” Guita said while stuffing a piece of toast in her mouth.
“Did he run off or something? Enijn is going to pissssed.” Riyo said while holding her plate.
“..... What do you mean he’s gone?” Enjin said while poking his head through the door while smoking a cigarette.
“He’s probably gone to grab some fresh air hell be fine,” Tamsy said while walking past Rudo and sitting down in a seat.
The sun shone through the window and helped people see and to help guide them when they needed it most. Maybe the sun and the moon aren't so different from each other in this world.