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The small girl woke up slowly, her head rested on the soft pillows of the nest instead of the lap from hours previous. Foggy pushed herself up, her bones ached from her- well- everything. The injury she had before was bad enough- but now with what seemingly is void consuming her limbs it definitely didn’t feel great.
She looked around, the nest empty yet again. She pushes herself up and immediately gets hit with blood rushing to her head, forcing her to fall onto her knees. The room spun as her body seemingly fought to keep her down, her body’s exhaustion like a weighted blanket pulling her back down.
“Shit..” she whispered to herself, “It’s gotten worse-” she looked down at her stomach, the wound seemed like it had healed, she could convince everyone her injury had finally healed, she’d believe it herself if she didn’t feel a rib stabbing at her lung
But still she treaded on, making herself stumble to the door and towards the main room, the walls were filled with books, some signed some empty yearning for purpose, some out for the few to see.
And a familiar smell tickled her nose, a mix of void and.. Something chocolatey?? With another one with a dash of honey and something spicy- or maybe more savory? It was comforting..
Whatever it was.
Fogs peered into the main room, no sign of p3nnie or mess. She sighed as she took out her comm, a purple ds electronic with silly stickers and chain dangling from it, and pulled up “bep bop buddy” she started typing, the sound of her fingers tapping on her screen filled the room
“Hey p3nnie? Where’d yo-”
Her comm clatter to the floor, the child suddenly pulled downward into a hole in the floor, her bottom half swallowed by the darkness below. Though she could still feel her legs squirming to find something solid to stand on, she found nothing.
Foggy clawed at the floor, digging her hands into the grooves to no aval. Tears pricked her eyes as her stomach began to scream at her, her body burning with pain. A cry of pain took over her just enough for her hands to slip as she felt the air in her lungs pushed out her lungs going on fire as her rib went farther. All she could do was release a blood curdling scream as she fell into the unknown, away from the only familiarity she’s known.at least for a while-
The hole sealed behind her, not a trace left of this incident says her communicator, it’s chain’s charm now crushed upon impact.
“Foggy?” a slightly mechanic voice rang, P3nnie walking to the library her steps stopping cold looming over the damaged ds.
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Air rushed past foggy as she found herself falling, the air in her lungs being stolen.
Her vision was consumed by the swirling black that seemed to want to swallow her whole. Only when her feet landed on something solid was he given the liberty back to breath, even with her crippled lungs, she went straight to her knees when she landed.
“Mhmmm” a voice rang from the void, it had an accent to it, but she couldn’t quite place it.
Foggy prang up, wildly looking around, it was like standing in the mind of space, but all the stars had burned out.
Like if she were to take one more step she’d fall where no one could find her.
“Wha- who’s there-” She tried to stand tall, trying to locate this voice to no avail.
“Never thought you’d be so gullible- so naive- and yet..” the voice mocked, slowly trailing off
“I’m not naive-” She protested, whipping around to see anything other than this black abyss
“Really?” the voice laughed, amusement dripping like honey from the mysterious voice
“I mean I knew you already questioned their love but damn- you really are desperate"
Foggy finally saw the figure, but it wasn’t..
As if she was looking in a fucked up mirror, she saw a older her, darker brown hair a red eye with a black scalera and the other blue, she was hard to focus on, a cloak conseling most of it’s figure, besides a circulate on her head of clear and black crystals.
Foggy was too stunned to speak, shaking slightly her mouth trying but failing to make words
The figure straighten and smile, mockingly as she turned away and seemed to disappear into the void
“Foggy.”
She turned around her eyes lighting up, Felix standing just off, she sprinted..
“FELIX!”
But felix stop her and push her away
"Foggy, why do you still cling on to everyone?"
“What- I-” she stuttered
“they don't care. you. are. Alone.”
She step back slowly backing up until her back hit something solid, turning around to see her sister-
“Calli-”
“You're not my sister. You're just some bug that clung to me. I don't care about you and I never will."
Pushing fogs away, onto the ground, her lungs starting to collapse fighting to get air into her lungs, until she felt a kick to her side sending her skidding
"I should've finished Cas' job of killing you. You don't deserve to be alive."
She curled into her stomach trying not to cough up her insides, trying to keep herself alive
“Atticus- why” and cough ripped her words from her mouth
“Don’t you see?” the voice rang out again
“They don’t care. They don’t love you”
“NO-” she cried out of defiance of the other, they love her- they- they-
The other’s smile faltered
“Why’d you keep him from me” Echo’s voice. Foggy’s head spun around, Eli staring daggers at foggy with creus by them
“I- no- I didn’t Echo please” foggy’s voice starting to shake, but it didn’t matter what she said as Eli turned and ran away
“Unkle..” Foggy stumbled to him, clinging to his knees like a pathetic child.
Creus silently kicked her off his leg and turned away slightly. This figure twitches and glitch like two people melding into one another, a man with a twisted smile, white lab coat, blue hair, and a potion looks at fogs. Her lungs tightened and her eyes widened scooting back, her heart racing-
“No no no no no no no no Please no Creus no no please no- no-”
The two combine and Creus look over his shoulder eye cold and harsh, he turned away completely, leaving her alone walking away
as foggy’s eyes brimmed with tears trying to steady her breathing. Foggy pushed herself up onto her legs, barely standing. Out of the corner of her eye P3nnie.
She faced P3nnie, open armed waiting for a hug, tears started to stream as she threw her arms around the robot and started to cry. P3nnie hugged back for a second before pulling away sightly
“Are you sure it wasn't your fault? I've tested it with User Cas and they don't seem to attack unprovoked…”
“What no no p3nnie please believ-”
She was cut off, Cassius had grabbed her shoulder, shoving her away from p3nnie
“P3nnie!”
“Oh little firefly, why do you call out for your family? They don’t care for you, no one does. You are all alone.”
Cass shoved her to the ground, throwing a familiar book as well- a coloring book. The older’s eyes stared down, pity was all their eyes held. Cassius walked away past p3nnie, and she turned to follow Cass
“P3nnie please” foggy stood and threw herself at p3nnie,
“Please don’t disappear to-” the robot stay still for a moment, it’s form glitching into someone so familiar yet something within the child screamed at her to run. The figure almost seemed like a human version of p3nnie.
Too distracted by the similarity and the melding of the two, she didn’t notice the bottle in its hand. Only when this blend of p3nnie and momma lifted a broken bottle in the air did foggy snap out of it, flinching into a similar position, hands protecting her face crumbled onto the floor.
Familiar? Why is this familiar?
But the bottle never hit, foggy slowly looked up, no sign of p3nnie, but instead her-
“I’m so sorry little one-” the other fog said, empathy woven carefully into her voice.
Foggy didn’t look at her, she just slowly stood facing away from the other, her eyes met someone new
“Papa-” she whispered, her hand hovering where the shell rested in her pocket.
Kairos faces away from her, but their eyes look at his child and their similar eyes, their eyes don’t hide coldness, or even pity. But the same look kairos would give their enemies-
"It's a shame I didn't get to pop that totem we gave you myself." Kairos turned and walked away, not wavering in his stance or glancing back at his ‘child’
Foggy just stood their shoulders shaking racked with sobs, a ginger hand rested on her shoulder
“Don’t worry child.. I’ll take care of you..” she said her voice offering a sort of comfort
Even if clearly false, her other hand with snake like slyness reached for the blasted shell
“Legacy will take care of you,” her hand grasping the shell
“NO-” Foggy screamed, grabbing the shell turning into a sort of tug a war for the shell
“LET GO-” Legacy shrilled
“NO- i WON’T LET YOU TAKE WHAT I HAVE LEFT OF MY FAMILY-” she cried, her grip unwavering
“NO WONDER THEY ALL WANT TO GET RID OF YOU” Legacy snapped, manipulating the void at foggy’s feet to spike up, throwing her across the room.
Until she crashed into a wall of void, her head taking the brunt of the impact, she crumpled to the ground, her body giving out as her head started to spin. Her vision blurring and her lungs heaving.
Legacy tsk’d her tongue as she pocketed the shell, casually walking to the dismantled child heels clicking as she strode. Her brow furrowed in disgust, crouching down to foggy’s level, her hand cupping her cheek.
“Always the fool..”
Legacy’s hand moved from her cheek to her forehead, her hands radiating red, as warped vines climbed up her arms to encircling foggy’s head.
All foggy could feel was the white hot pain shooting through her skull, to her lungs to her mind- What could a child do?
But scream
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