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The Sand crunched under their boots as they started to move. Circling one another, looking for an opening to strike. The sun is burning down on them in the desert heat like it was cooking them alive but nobody gave it any mind. This will be over soon enough.
The taller one, brunet scattered with Scars, sighed. None of them wanted this. Throwing the shorter man, dirty blond hair with bound wings, a sad and tired smile “Just kill me, you deserve it after all you did for me” The look on the face of the shorter was one of disbelieve and pain as the voices of their dead friends echoed in their minds, demanding a real fight.
“No, you know I couldn’t, not after everything we went through together. Remember what we promised? That we would win this together?!” Tears start bubbling out of the shorter man. In a comforting manner, the taller one stepped closer until he was close enough to cup his partners face, who unconsciously melted into the touch, rubbing his thumb over his cheek in a comforting manner and swiping the spilling tears away.
“I know, I know” The taller man sighed “But you know, only one can survive.” Trying to get his tears under control the shorter man stepped back. The cry for blood invades his mind, the world is against them. All they ever wanted was to be together, laugh together, die together. Still, they couldn’t even have that. Going back into a fighting stance, fists up and ready to strike as the Taller mirrored him, flashing a smile.
The battle was a brutal one, fists against fists till death. The winged man managed to get in a few good hits as the taller kept running into the sharp thorns of the cacti, seemingly missing all of his punches. In the light of the sunset and the starting cool of the night the shorter of the two lovers, almost glowing in the fading light, rose with bloodied hand. Dead-looking eyes stared down at the corpse that used to be his beloved.
It was quiet. Like in a trance, he stumbled forward till he stood at the cliff and jumped.
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Oh man, Grian just wanted to calm down after a long day at work and now only cringe romances were broadcast on TV. He starts scrolling on his phone not paying any attention to the drama that he was just watching, he just hated romantic dramas! They were just so unrealistic and like the title says unnecessary dramatic.
A sigh leaves his mouth as he puts his phone down and walks over to the fridge in search of something to eat. Sadly only ketchup and leftover noodles from the day before staring at him, man he really has to go shopping. Defeated he takes the plate with the noodles and warms them up in the microwave, adding a bit of ketchup and voila.
The booming voice of the TV Moderator suddenly replaced the bad drama that he just watched “Sorry for the disturbance, but it seems that two of the biggest Villains started to team up” Well if that doesn’t sound interesting. He makes his way back to the TV only to see a picture, seemingly from a security camera, of Xelqua and Hotguy, two quite dangerous Villains, fighting back to back against some Heroes. Under The picture stands in bold letters: “Hotguy teams up with Xelqua?”
“Wait, what?” Grian stares in disbelief as the TV Moderator talks about how the Villain Xelqua teamed up with Hotguy and apparently changed his persona to match. How on earth did they come to that conclusion? Well, Xelqua did change his costume recently and if you squint you may be able to see similarities, and if he thought about it he did fight more frequently together with Hotguy lately. Still, it's all bullshit, Grian would know as he is the Villain Xelqua himself.
“We will now start referring to the Villain Xelqua as Cuteguy” Wait, Wait, Wait a second. WHAT WAS THAT? Start referring to him as “Cuteguy” Who came up with that crap? Doesn't he have a say in this, it is literally HIS Name.
Grian continued to dumbfounded watch as the TV Moderator starts about some other new Hero or so, Grian wasn't listening. Cuteguy really? Was he the sidekick of Hotguy or what? Only Minor Villains or Sidekicks get their Names from the Hero Cooperation. Why was he being downgraded to a Sidekick? He was a full-on Major Villain!!!
He almost didn’t catch his phone vibrating, he got a message from Mumbo. He probably also saw the News.
>Dude did you see the news, you got demoted to a Sidekick<
Grian sighed this was all too much for him, first a stressful and frustrating day grading his students' exams, and now this...